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Hello America, welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Hey, I got good news for you. It's Tuesday, Monday. It's Tuesday, a day after Memorial Day, and there's a lot to talk about. The president does not like what Vladimir Putin is doing right now. He is bombing Kyiv and other places in Ukraine.

President said he's gone crazy. We don't know how to deal with him now. And in the Middle East, Donald Trump is saying give peace a chance to Benjamin Netanyahu. And he's not really happy about that as well. So where are we headed? Well, let's go back one day to Memorial Day. We'll do that in 60 seconds.

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Here's what I wrote. You and I, we live in the shelter of sacrifices neither of us made. We walk the streets paved by men who never came home. We build our dreams atop the unmarked soil of Normandy, Iwo Jima, Fallujah, and a thousand other nameless fields far from here and long forgotten by many, if not most.

But not by you. Not today. Because Memorial Day is not a three-day weekend. It's not a sale. It's not the start of summer. It's a sacred pause. It is the moment America holds its breath and listens to the echo of that last bugle call, the one that plays not for victory, but for the fallen. We must remember, not because it's sentimental, but because forgetting is dangerous.

Remembering saves the sacred from slipping into the vacuum of oblivion. I heard that at church the other day. I thought that was an amazing phrase. Remembering saves the sacred from slipping into the vacuum of oblivion. So what is sacred? Honor, courage, brotherhood, the terrible, the beautiful gift of life laid down, not taken, but given, so others could live in peace. They were farm boys.

Some of them sons of sharecroppers, sons of immigrants, sons of slaves. Some died in money trenches, some in burning skies, some in the silence of classified operations whose heroism will never fully be known this side of heaven. But they didn't die for a party. They didn't die for a president. They really kind of died for each other and for the idea that freedom is worth protecting, even when it costs everything. But today it's our turn.

Not to match their sacrifice, but to be worthy of it. By standing for truth in an age of lies. By cherishing the Constitution when it's inconvenient. By raising children who know what liberty is. It's not a birthright, it's a blood-bought inheritance. Because the moment we forget, we begin to lose everything they died to preserve. So now that the cookouts are done and the flags are folded, I ask you to take just one moment, one moment alone if you can, and whisper...

Thank you to somebody you've never met. A name etched in granite, a memory carried by a mother. A story too painful for a brother to tell, but real all the same. Because when we remember the fallen, we keep their flame alive. And that flame, however faint, is the light that guides America home. Remembering saves the sacred from slipping into the vacuum of oblivion. So remember and resolve.

Because we are the stewards now. I posted that yesterday, and as I was home, I checked the Twitter feed, and I saw some of the comments. What I saw in the response is, quite honestly, it was shocking to me in many ways. But it's clear there is something much, much deeper going on just beneath the surface of our country.

I wrote those words about Memorial Day, about remembering the fallen, because I believe remembering saves the sacred from slipping into the vacuum of oblivion. If we don't remember, that's one of the most used words in the Bible. You know that? Remember. Remember, remember, remember. And where do all the problems come from? Not remembering. But after posting it, I started reading the comments. And I need to speak to the comments. You can read them yourself. Some of them are very ugly. And they come from all sides.

So I want to speak to them, but not in defense, not with rebuttal, but something else. Because what I saw in the replies to my post yesterday was not disagreement. It was fear and pain, bitterness and anger, deep distrust. And whether you agree with me or not politically, whether you believe my motives are pure, you think I'm part of the problem, I need you to know I, for one, see it, I hear it, and I don't dismiss it.

Some people yesterday in response wrote about the lives lost in wars you believe were unjust. Others called out the hypocrisy witnessed in leadership, leaders who wrapped themselves in the flag and then abandoned the people. Some of them said that I was one of those people. Some just cried out, where is the honor where my brother died? When my community was forgotten, where's the honor in that?

To all of that, I say, you're right. You're right to feel that. You're right to question that. But I want to ask you something, and this is one of the hardest lessons I ever learned because I really didn't understand. It took me a long time to really come to the conclusion, and I've told it before. It's about Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill was a hero in the West, but he was a nightmare monster over in India.

And after I read, you know, a biography on Winston Churchill in India, I thought, oh, wait, wait, this isn't the same guy. But it is the same guy. He even admits it late in his life. He says, yes, I was that guy. So I wondered, how is, is he a good guy or is he a bad guy? And the answer is yes, just like everything. Are you a good person or a bad person? The answer is yes, you're both. But which is winning right now?

Are you getting better or are you getting worse? Can we hold grief and gratitude in the same hand? Yes. Can we mourn the wrongs and still honor the brave? The answer is yes. Can we be angry at how some leaders have used war and still fall silent at the grave of a 19-year-old kid who ran toward the gunfire for the man next to him? Yes. You see, I don't glorify war. I don't think I ever have.

I despise it, and I despise it because, honestly, I think I'm a coward. I don't think I would be able to do it. I despise the politics that lead us there. I'm worried about the politics, and we're going to talk about it later today, that I think are leading us there again. The world wants war. I don't. You don't. Nobody does, except it seems the leaders of the world do.

And I've changed my mind on several things over the years, and I've apologized for being wrong before, and I'll do it again because I'm going to be wrong again. And you do it because growth is painful, but it's what truth demands. If we lose the ability to honor selflessness, even when it's tangled in the messiness of human failure, we risk becoming so hardened, so cynical, that we forget what goodness even looks like.

Memorial Day used to be simple, it seems. I don't know if I'm remembering that fondly, rose-colored glasses, but it's not the way it is now. It doesn't. It seems different. Not because our soldiers are complicated. They were clear in their duty. But because we are. And our history is complicated. But here's the one thing I do know. The men and women who died, they didn't do it for likes. They didn't do it for presidents. They didn't do it for profit. I hear this from soldiers all the time.

They did it for one another. And sometimes, yeah, they did it for the ideal this country still hasn't lived up to, but still can. But to those of you who found yesterday maddening, left-right, apolitical, I get it. But may I ask just for a moment, not that you agree, not that you salute, not that you stand, but you would consider this. What if remembering isn't submission? What if remembering is resistance?

Resistance to apathy. Resistance to forgetting what sacrifices should mean. Resistance to letting the story of America be written only by the powerful and the corrupt. When we remember the fallen, we don't worship war. We grieve cost. And maybe just maybe that grief is the first honest step back toward one another. I couldn't start the show after reading those comments yesterday because

without thanking people, thanking you for speaking out. Even if you blasted me and tore me apart, even in disagreement and in distrust, we have to thank each other for speaking out because that is one of the principles that was worth fighting for. And we're all hurting. We're all hurting in different ways, profoundly different ways. But maybe this is how healing begins. Not by pretending we all see the same thing,

but by being willing to look at it in the garish light of day, in the ugliness of it, look at it together. Even if we don't see exactly the same thing, we don't have to agree on everything, but we do have to remember. And if we can just remember the fallen, maybe, just maybe, in doing that, we remember something else, that we actually belong to one another. Maybe that's

actually the sacred we're supposed to remember, that we all belong to one another. And that is worth remembering. And that is worth keeping. Back in just a second. First, let me tell you about the Berna Launcher. If you ever end up in a situation where you have to defend yourself, you're ready, you know, you're ready to go. Are you really?

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So why is this important that we don't react to one another online the way so many people did? Let me bring you a couple of stories today. One from Liverpool that happened over the weekend. A driver of a gray van just ran into a whole bunch of people on the side of the street. It was a parade for Liverpool's football clubs, their premier league victory that

happened on Monday. And the driver just came in to a crowd of parade goers and thousands of soccer fans and just rammed the vehicle through the crowded street, knocking down, running over pedestrians. He was a 53-year-old British man from the Liverpool area. Now, I don't know what this guy was. I don't know if this guy was crazy, angry. I don't know. I have no idea. But I don't want to talk to you about that.

I don't want to talk to you about the guy who was actually running the people over. I want to talk to you about what happened after. There's a video. They arrest the driver. They pull him out and they arrest him. And they can't keep the crowds back. And that's because this white guy with a bunch of other white guys arresting him have a horde of white guys around them. And everybody's angry. This was the Bubba effect.

The police barely held on to the situation because they wanted justice to be done. The police did. They wanted justice to be done. And the people on the streets probably didn't believe justice would be done. Why? Because justice doesn't seem to be done anymore. Especially if you're over in England. Especially if there was a religious meaning and it wasn't a Christian religious meaning. And the people wanted to tear him apart. These are the English that are doing this.

Now, what happened last week? Last week, I told you about the guy who went in or was waiting outside of a fundraiser to figure out how they could help people of Gaza. These two Jewish people come out of that fundraiser and they're shot to death by some crazy guy. Now, we find out that his father was a guest during the president's joint speech to Congress.

But he wasn't a guest of Donald Trump. Instead, he was a guest of Congressman Jesus Garcia. This guy was calling for a ceasefire with Hamas on October 7th. As they were raping and killing and setting people on fire, he was out saying, Israel, don't do anything about it. I mean, it's crazy. It's crazy. Now, the shooter's dad is a disabled army veteran.

He's an employee at Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administrative Hospital in Illinois. There is something going on with veterans in the VA, and it's bad. A lot of people wrote to me, what have you ever done for veterans? Nothing, nothing is the honest truth, nothing. I mean, I can talk a good game. I can channel money. I can do a lot of different things, but really nothing.

When it comes right down to it, what have I spent my time on? I've never volunteered at a VA hospital. I've never tried to rewrite a bill. Anything of real importance. So you're right about that. But does that make me your enemy? Because honestly, there are a lot of things that I care deeply about. And I could say to you, what have you done? What have you done? And most likely you could say, well, I've donated or I prayed about it or whatever.

You're not my enemy and I'm not yours. Things are being ratcheted up and it's being ratcheted up by honestly enemies of our Republic, enemies of America, enemies of us being friends, coworkers, people that don't have to vote the same, don't even have to agree with one another, but we can live next to one another and we can defend one another.

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Well, we remember the sacrifice of so many millions that have given their life for our lives, for our freedoms, for our children's freedom, for the life we live every day. And boy, when you say it that way, you're kind of like, geez, am I living worthy of that at all? But if you did spend any time yesterday remembering, you're halfway there because remembering is only half of it. It has to become action in our lives.

Because we've all heard the stories. We probably know somebody who at least knows a soldier that killed themselves. Many of us, unfortunately, know soldiers that have killed themselves. And if you are a soldier, you count them on more than one hand, sometimes more than two hands. And we've heard the stories. So many people in this audience have lived those stories.

And the ones that come home, the veterans that wait months and months and months just to see a doctor. And the paperwork is lost. And the diagnosis is delayed. And the despair is rising. It's a national disgrace how we treat our soldiers. It really is. Imagine this. You served your country in Iraq or Afghanistan. You watch all your buddies fall. You carry that weight home. You finally walk through the doors of a VA hospital only to find another battlefield, this time one of bureaucracy. We know that's the reality.

And I don't say to bring us down because there is hope at the end of the tunnel here. There's some good news because some things are changing and I believe everybody needs to hear this. This year under the leadership of the VA Secretary Doug Collins, the Department of Veterans Affairs has taken real measurable action to make things better. 10 new VA medical facilities are opening across the country from Texas to Montana, New York to Virginia.

And yes, for those of you up in New Hampshire, yours is next. And these aren't just buildings. These are lifelines. If we don't just concentrate on the building, there are going to be places where the wait is shorter, the care is closer, the promise finally begins to match the sacrifice. You know, we don't deprogram anybody. We program them to go to war. We don't deprogram them when they come home. That's wrong.

All we do is we give them drugs. That's wrong. You know, since January, the VA has a huge backlog. But since Trump got into office, the VA has cut the case backlog by 25%. How? Well, by doing something radical. First, they brought employees back into the office.

They fostered the culture of effort, of accountability. They empowered real human beings, not automated systems, to actually do the job that they were hired to. I mean, how can we have such great hospitals and then the VA that serves our veterans, our heroes, be so horrible? It's because we don't, in government, usually demand results. But now we do. And I want you to know this is not about praising any politician or defending any department. This is...

about you. This is about those who suffer every day. It's about those who have lost a loved one because of the incompetence. It's about them, the men and women who bore the battle and now bear the scars. If you're a veteran and you happen to be listening right now, I want you to know you're not forgotten. We do hold you in high regard. Many of us just don't know how to help.

We say thank you for your service because we don't know what else to do. And even then we feel stupid saying it. You weren't forgotten yesterday, but you're not forgotten today. You're not forgotten any day. You may feel like the system has turned its back, but don't confuse the system with your fellow Americans. You have scars that most of us can't see. And because you're a veteran, you just don't talk about them. But hear me, we see you. We hear you.

And we still believe in what you gave us. And to the rest of us, like me who never wore the uniform, but I'm grateful and probably mainly undeserving to live under the banner of freedom it defends, our responsibility is clear. If we truly honor the dead, we have to serve the living. We must demand better care for our veterans. We must insist that every promise to them

that was made is kept. We have to refuse to let this progress stall. Opening new hospitals is only the beginning. What happens in those hospitals is what makes the difference. Our soldiers, I mean, they didn't want, I mean, some did, I guess, want to go into war, but I know a lot of soldiers that were like, you know, not itching for the war, but they were in it. We shouldn't wait for them

We shouldn't make them wait for their care. So yesterday, flags and fireworks and hot dogs. But today should be the beginning of a better system, a beginning of a renewed promise, a beginning of real service to those who gave real service and have given everything. Yesterday, we remember the fallen. Today, we need to serve the living.

Speaking of those who have passed on, Phil Robertson died over the weekend. Phil was, of course, a friend and a member of the Blaze team for years, and we just loved him, just absolutely loved him.

I wasn't, I'm not a fan of reality TV. So I never really watched Duck Dynasty until I traveled the country and I went across the country. I was driving across the country and every single gas station I was in, every truck stop I was in to get gas, they had like a whole section of Duck Dynasty stuff. And I'm like, who are these Duck Dynasty people? And then I watched and I realized why it was so big. Not only was it real and these guys were unbelievably real,

I think Phil Robertson was the beginning of the, I don't know, the beginning of a new Jesus movement. I mean, he was the first guy that I heard that was brave enough to end every single show on national television with a prayer. And that was, I think that was the deal. I think we won't do it unless you say that we can end with a prayer every time. Who does that? One of the bravest things I've ever seen is the movie that he made about himself.

that did not make him look good at all, just showed who he had allowed himself to be and who he had become through Christ. So our thoughts are with Phil. Do we happen to have that montage? Can we play the... Here's a montage of some of the moments with Phil Robertson. There's a lot of people who are afraid. Is it possible the Lord is not their refuge and their fortress?

and their trust is not in Him. They're trying to make it without God. During this coronavirus thing, I've seen more fear in the ungodly, way more than I have from the godly. I will be with him or her in trouble. I'll deliver them and honor them with long life. I will satisfy them. I'll show them my salvation.

All that's required of you is love God and love your neighbor. And this country surely needs it. I'm just watching how they're operating in the pandemic. They're scared to death. No faith in the resurrection. That's why they're afraid. We're back to Jesus and His death for us. Took away all of our mistakes, all of our sins, buried in a tomb, raised from the dead. It's all we got. It's all we got.

Faith, hope, and love. The greatest of those is love for God and your fellow man. Lord knows we need that. Look, we only live just a short period of time. So don't fear plagues, pandemics, pestilence and all that. Practice hygiene, do all that common sense. You say, but as far as shutting down

your work, your life, your freedom, your pursuit of happiness. Don't set that aside ever. Hold on to those things. I've seen this one come. Now it's time to break out and let's move on. It killed some of us, but we're all going to die. It's just a question of when. Jesus came to deliver you

from your sin and from your physical death. He's conquered death. "He too shared in the humanity so that by his death, "he might destroy him who holds the power of death," that is the devil, "and free those who all their lives were held in slavery "by their fear of death." These ungodly people are scared to death of dying, and then they all die.

We have a hope beyond the grave. So take it all in stride. Let's get back to work. Well done, good and faithful servant, Phil Robertson. Back in just a minute. ♪

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Hey, Stu, did you see the video of Macron being hit in the face by his wife? I did see that video, yes. What do you make of that? I mean, it's hard to know what it was, right? It didn't look good. It looked like they were in the middle of an argument and that he gets pushed in the face by his wife and immediately he realizes he's in front of the open door. So he looks at the cameras, kind of an embarrassing moment.

I mean, it's two hands, and then he gets pushed by two hands and then waves to the cameras. I mean, it doesn't look like he thinks it's hilarious. They're trying to say, oh, we were just playing around. It didn't look like it at the moment. Now watch, he's at the top of the stairs. Look at him offer his arm, and she does not take it as they walk down the stairs. No. Yeah. They're not happy. They're not happy. Do you know, you've heard the rumor that she's a man-man. Yeah.

Yes, I've heard the rumor. I don't believe that at all that she's a man. But I think Macron himself might have started that rumor because the truth is even worse. When he was 15 years old, she was his teacher, and she fell in love. She was 39 years old. She's almost 40. He's 15 years.

She falls in love with him. He falls in love with her. They begin fooling around. She's a married mother of three. She has three children. Again, she's almost 40. He's 15. The parents find out. Macron's parents find out. They're livid. Livid. School does nothing. French or French. And so they do nothing. They transfer him out to another school.

And, you know, he comes back when he's 17 and he's like, "I will find you and we will be married forever." And they get married. And when his parents say, "Leave our 15-year-old," or that time 16-year-old son alone, she says, "Well, I cannot promise anything because he is so hot." My gosh. I would start the rumor that he was a man too. I mean, she's a monster.

This is Glenn Beck. You ever notice how most people don't think about self-defense until something on the news reminds them that they should have? There's that moment where their heart starts racing and they realize, if that had been me, I wouldn't have been ready. Here's the truth. Carrying a firearm isn't for everyone, but doing nothing...

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Hello, America. In case you've forgotten, it's Tuesday. We got a great program coming up for you. You know, not today, but probably sometime this week. But today we're going to spend some time talking about the big, beautiful bills. Stu posted something on social media this weekend that I thought was amazing. What the left is saying about it, but.

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Bill, prepare yourself for what is coming. If the Senate passes the one big beautiful bill and Trump signs it, that's it.

It becomes law, and here's what that really means. Okay, now this is what the left is saying, what it really means. What it really means, he can delay or cancel elections legally. Did you know that? He can ignore the Supreme Court rulings for a year or more. He can fire government workers for political disloyalty. Judges can't enforce their own orders. Protests can be traced and criminalized. LGBTQ rights, education, health care, and media, gutted.

Your VPN now going to be tracked, your vote suppressed, your speech flagged. This is unbelievable. And anybody who shares stuff like this, you're working for the enemy of the state. You are. Whether that is China, Russia, Satan, I don't know who it is. But you are not doing anything good. And

You know, I know it's hard. We're going to get into something next hour about how hard it's becoming to know what's real and what's not. But that is just ridiculous. If you read that and you thought that was truly in the bill, you're out of your mind. You're out of your mind. Here's what's really important about the big, beautiful bill. The 17th BRICS Summit is scheduled to take place on July 6th and 7th. You know, a lot of places will tell you what is going on or what happened yesterday.

I really like to focus on what's coming next because I think that's important to prepare you and prepare myself for what is next. There is something very significant on the horizon. The BRICS nations, which is Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, they are convening in Rio in July, and they've expanded their ranks. Now, countries like Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, and the UAE

And they represent nearly half of the world's population and a substantial portion of the world's GDP.

And their agenda now is to challenge the dominance of the U.S. dollar in international trade. China and Russia are at the forefront of this, advocating for a new financial system backed by gold and facilitated through blockchain technology. And the idea is to create a parallel economic universe where the dollar is not the default currency. That leaves the whole world against us in Europe, and Europe is a shell.

We cannot lose the dollar reserve currency status. If we do, we can become a Venezuela overnight. Now, it's not completely unified with BRICS. Countries like India and Brazil have said, we've got some concerns here. Brazil's central bank director noted that BRICS nations are unlikely to amass enough assets on their own currencies to rival the U.S. dollar's dominance in the next decade.

So they're focusing now on interlinking payment systems and exploring blockchain integration. Now, the movement is gaining traction, and the dollar's dominance allows the U.S. to run the deficits that we do, impose sanctions, maintain a certain standard of living. This is why we went off the gold standard in the first place. We wanted a higher standard of living, and there wasn't enough gold in the world to be able to provide all of that. So we started borrowing money. So what does this mean?

It is really important that you stay well ahead of the curve and you look at things like the big, beautiful bill and the $5 trillion that they're now going to move the debt ceiling up and add another possibly $5 trillion to our debt. This cannot continue. I'm not for the raising of the debt ceiling this time, but I don't think we can raise it another time

You have to be aware of everything that is going on. The so-called Big Beautiful Bill, I mean, it sounds like a used car ad, doesn't it? Big Beautiful Bill. I mean, if this is the best we can offer, and not from the White House, but from Congress, on both sides, a massive omnibus package stuffed with over $1.7 trillion in new spending,

passed under the illusion of fiscal responsibility, we've crossed a line and I don't know if there's a way to get back. They're claiming there are cuts in there and there are $1.7 trillion of cuts, but not really because Congress has to pass another bill to actually make those cuts actually happen. They say it reduces the deficit. It rains in waste. Yeah, but the math doesn't hold, especially if Congress doesn't do anything.

Because the cuts, nearly all of them are phantom. Either reductions to imaginary future growth or pulling forward revenue that's already baked in. I mean, this is the way Washington operates. Now the president is trying to get, I saved us $400 this year by agreeing not to buy a yacht in 2029. What? No sane person manages money this way. Our government has for decades. This is the way they've done it since the 70s.

And here's the punchline. If the Fed starts to cut interest rates, they'll do it in an attempt to keep this Frankenstein monster of an economy alive. That means yields on the U.S. Treasury bonds are lifeblood, are rising. That means we have to pay more interest to those who are lending us money.

So the taxpayer is in the opposite position that you are in normally with the bank. Normally, you want to borrow money, and then you have to go to the bank, and the bank is like, well, a lot of people want to borrow money, and it's kind of a tight time right now, so we're going to jack your interest rates or...

in this case, we want to be apples to apples, you have really bad credit. And so we're going to have to charge you an interest rate. But I saw that it was, you know, 4% APR and you're like, yeah, yeah. But that's for somebody with a good credit score. You have a miserable credit score. So we're going to charge you 12% interest. That's what's happening to the country. We have horrible, horrible credit. And so the rest of the world is saying, I'm not going to buy your bonds at 4% interest. I need something better than that.

Basically, what's happening is the market is saying, we don't believe you anymore. And we, the taxpayers, are the ones that have to cough up the interest. When they say we have to just service the debt, you have to translate that into your mind as that is you having to come up with more tax dollars to pay just the interest because nobody believed us because we didn't have good credit. Why? Because they're setting the whole house on fire.

Now, this is not just, you know, our enemies, not just BRICS. That's our own investors, our own retirees, our own future buyers of U.S. debt. They're watching this circus and they're starting to walk away because debt at this scale without structural reform means one of two things. You either default or you inflate your way out of it. Either way, Americans and the dollar on their knees. Now, here's the other layer.

Nobody's talking about this either. When countries like Saudi Arabia, a friend, or China starts selling off treasuries or even just stop buying them, we have to find new buyers. And when we can't, who buys it? Because we can't stop the spending, right? The cupboard is bare. We can't cut anything. So who buys it?

The Fed, the Federal Reserve, becomes the buyer of last resort. And that's what happened during COVID. That's what happens in Banana Republic. And it's happening yet again. Now, who holds all that debt? You say, well, the Fed holds all that debt. Yeah, well, at some point they're going to demand that it's paid one way or another. So what does that mean? That means the big banks own everything. I am disgusted by our House and our Senate.

Because at least nobody's even telling the truth on this. Nobody in Congress is actually. You've got what? Thomas Massey, Rand Paul. They're the ones ringing the bell, standing pretty much alone, saying this is this is devastating. Now, I understand we have to compromise. We have to move forward. We have to negotiate. We have to get things done.

And I think that's what Donald Trump is doing. And I think that's what some Democrats are doing. Sorry, some Republicans are doing. They're just saying, look, we've got to move ahead. If we don't have the tax cuts, this whole thing falls apart. We have to have those. But will it work without Congress doing anything else? Now, this is the part of the story where somebody usually yells, do something. But here's the truth. You can, but not in Washington.

Not yet. Not with this government. Not with these Republicans. But you can start in your home. You can get out of debt. I know. You can diversify. You can build resilience. Financially, mentally, spiritually, really important. You can create small systems that work. Local commerce. Local food. Local relationships.

You can pressure the people who still claim to represent you to take real risk, telling real truth, stop selling out the next generation. Those are the things that have to happen. You know, I'll leave you with this thought on this. When Rome fell, it wasn't because the barbarians were smarter. It was that Rome lost the will to defend itself and discipline itself. Hello? Have we lost the will to discipline ourselves and discipline our government? Yeah, we have.

Our actions don't make any difference, but they do. Well, I don't pay attention to politics. Well, you should. We have lost the will to discipline ourselves and to do the right thing. We're on the verge of losing the will to defend ourselves. You see that nobody over in England is going to defend England anymore. You see the latest polls on Gen Xers and how they feel about England. They don't feel like it's worth defending at all. And you know what? I don't...

The way it's being run, I don't know if it is. Honestly, I don't know if Europe is worth defending at this point. Its history is worth defending, but not what they're doing right now. It's hollowed out, and that's what happened to Rome. It hollowed itself out while still celebrating its own magnificence. It handed out breads and circuses while its money was being debased and its people were being numbed. You can't fake sound money.

You can't print trust. That has to be earned. This isn't the end yet, but you better start living like it's the beginning of the end that's already behind you.

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10 seconds station id so what is happening with ukraine did you see the president's response on on vladimir putin this weekend he did he was very highly critical of putin and what he's doing

Very unusual for Donald Trump. Very unusual. Yeah, he has been critical, to be fair, of Putin from time to time. Not like that. I would say not like that. Yeah, you're right. I think, you know, he said he's, you know, he basically said he went crazy and what is he doing? And I think like, you know, of course he knows Putin.

you know, I think a lot about what Putin is doing and you have to take every single thing Donald Trump says about this situation with a grain of salt and that he's really, it's not really for us to consume. It's, it's a message sent to Putin, not to us. And so, you know, again, like when he, you know, people were making fun of him because he's like, he's like, Oh, Vladimir Putin. I can't believe Vladdy would do something like this. This doesn't seem like the Vladimir Putin I know. And that's the way it kind of came off. But again,

That's not how he's not saying that to us. He knows who Vladimir Putin is. He is. He's expressing this because he wants Vladimir Putin to think of him as a friend. He wants him to think of him that way so that he will move. But I do think he's losing grasp of that potential vision. It doesn't seem like Putin actually wants this piece that he claims to. Yeah, it is. It's strange.

You know, Donald Trump, you know, anybody who was like, he's a friend of Vladimir Putin. He's just going to give everything to Vladimir Putin. You notice he hasn't. You notice he hasn't. We told you from the beginning, this is a negotiation and the negotiations don't seem to be going well. And if Donald Trump can't bring this to a conclusion, I don't know who can.

But Putin was bombing cities in Ukraine. He's already got 20% of Ukraine. He's demanding that he gets to keep everything he's occupied, and he's getting worse. He's becoming more aggressive. Meanwhile, there was a tough but I think a good conversation between Benjamin Netanyahu and his team and Donald Trump and our team, and the spokesperson for Russia,

Netanyahu said that they've never attended a meeting that was more frank and clear than that meeting. And apparently Netanyahu is like, we're going to bomb Iran. And Trump keeps saying, hold on, wait, we're negotiating with them. I think I can get a deal done. So again, is he a warmonger?

He again, now he's all in for Israel. He'll do whatever Israel tells him. He's saying, wait, do not do that. I think we can make a deal. Israel does not want to deal. I honestly don't believe in any deal with Iran, but, you know, let's see what he can pull off. But they don't want to deal with Iran.

And yet I thought he was I thought he was just in bed with the Zionist masters over in Israel. I mean, this weekend was quite astounding if you cared to have an open mind because things are changing on the ground. And Donald Trump is revealing what he's actually doing on the ground in Israel. And I don't know, things things look like just a march towards war, doesn't it?

Yeah, and I think the more hawkish in the audience might say, yeah, this is obvious, right? Like we knew Putin was who he was. We knew Iran was who they were. And you can sit here and try to negotiate with them all you want. And this is going to be the outcome.

But that being said, even if that's true, you still try to go as far as you can with diplomacy. You try to make these things work. At some point, there may be lines that get crossed, but you try to solve these things without having to deal with the worst-case scenario. You want to make it your last resort. And Europe's not helpful. This is Glenn Beck.

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vision of what we really can be as a nation. The destruction of our dollar, of our institutions, and the destruction really of the West. And I want to turn it here because we were just talking about this drumbeat to war, it seems, that is happening all around the world that we have to be very, very careful on. And there is

You know, Israel right now is in a very tough position. And I want to make my position very clear. I don't want to fight Israel's war for them. I don't think they need it, quite honestly. I think all they need is for people to shut up. We've kicked them out of every single country. Go home, go home. They get home and then they're like, get out of there. They have a right to live. They have a right to defend themselves as they see fit. But I don't want to fight anybody else's foreign war for them.

But we have a battle going on here. It's called anti-Semitism in our universities, etc. And I saw a woman who considers herself a progressive. And she was speaking at the Milken Institute just a couple of weeks ago about the culture of jihadism. And I want you to hear this. A lot of Americans don't understand the culture in the Middle East. And they superimpose what it is that they think of American culture into the Middle East thinking that it's the same. So knowing...

what the Middle East is

I understood that there's a bigger problem here, and that problem is called jihadism. That is a realization that we need to understand this in America, okay? We need to understand that that is the kind of culture that we're dealing with. And it's not a culture that can be appeased by land or by any... They don't want... There's no two-state solution conversation happening around that culture. And sadly, right now, what we're seeing is that that particular culture...

has more fans and supporters on college campuses in America than it does in the Middle East.

And it is remarkable to me because all you have to do is just actually listen to the words of the people with the machine guns and the ones killing babies. Noah Tishby is that speaker. She's a two-time New York Times bestselling author, Israel's former special envoy for combating anti-Semitism and delegitimization. She's with us now. Noah, welcome to the program. How are you? I'm great. Thank you so much for having me.

You bet. Thank you for being on. You know, you describe yourself as a, I think, an American progressive. And you point out that American progressives superimpose the Western narratives in the Middle East. You were just talking about it. Can you tell me, how are you...

How are you claiming to be a progressive when my understanding of progressivism is that it is very anti-Israel, and a lot of anti-Semitism comes from that movement?

Right, because progressivism in America was co-opted by jihadism, but we'll get to that in a second. So I definitely define myself as a liberal. I don't think I define myself as a progressive right now because of what happened here in America, which means, you know, I'm assuming that you and I have the same, it's insanity what's been going on here in America. Right.

You know, it's about freedom, and it's about liberty, and it's about acceptance of the other. But when you are from the Middle East, as I am, four-generation Israelis and 2,000 years Judean, as I say, because all Jews originated from Israel, you understand that there's a difference in culture.

cultures and it's profound it's so even even the most progressive of Israelis the one who's the lefty of the leftists right would be a fan of Bernie Sanders here in America will understand that the culture of jihadism is not Western culture it's just it doesn't work

together. It just doesn't work. And it was very surprising to me as an Israeli, as a liberal Israeli moving to America as a young adult, as a young woman, to hear people say stuff like, oh, you know, every mother just wants the same for their children. And I was like, no, they don't. No, they actually don't. Sadly, there are cultures in around the world that are so brainwashed that a mother could actually be very happy if her child is killing Jews, you

And then getting killed. Very happy. And it was very, it was astonishing to me to see that Americans don't understand that. And sadly, at first, like 20 years ago, it was cute, right? I'm like, oh my God, you just don't understand the region. But today, it's already here. And they don't understand that by...

these movements around the world, by supporting these jihadi movements, by supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, they're ushering in a culture that is intended on taking down the West. They don't hide it. You said that at your opening, which I think is so, was so brilliant and profound. They tell us what they want to do. Why aren't we listening?

The West is not listening to what that culture wants to do. It's a missionary religion that wants to take over. Did you know, for you and your listeners, that to become a Muslim person, and I'm not talking about all Muslims, obviously. I'm talking about Islamists. Sadly, there are a lot of Muslims in the world, so it's a big number, right? You don't convert to Islam, you revert to Islam. Because to them, you and me and all your listeners are already Muslims. We just don't know it.

That's what that culture wants to do. And Israel is on the front line of that war for the entire Western civilization. And it's very, it's very discouraging, disheartening and sad and scary, frankly, that the left in America doesn't get it.

But it's self-imposed ignorance, and I don't know how to break through. You know, when I see LGBTQ2AI plus marching for Hamas, I think you are so ignorant. I don't know how you found the parade route. I really don't. How do you break through to that mindset?

It's a very good question. It's going to be an experiment in societal brainwash when we're hopefully over it and the good ones win. Queers for Palestine is one of the worst movements I've ever heard of. It's

ironic it is so ironic it's like it would have been so dangerous it would have been funny right because to them every time you say do you understand what happens to queers in Palestine or anywhere else in the Middle East their reaction is immediate immediate whataboutism it's immediate like you're whitewashing we're like no you're not whitewashing by saying by even creating this organization of queers of Palestine by stepping as an LGBTQ plus person stepping forward

the wrong side of history and the wrong side of the Middle East. You're leaving your brothers and sisters out to dry in the Middle East and to die. Like literally, you're not supporting the liberals within that culture that wants to transform that culture. You're leaving them to get killed. What do you think is going to happen to you if you're queer in Gaza or queer...

anywhere in the region other than Israel. You don't survive. You don't see the light of day. It's just, again, it would have been funny had it not been so absolutely dangerous.

Well, I flew to New York years ago when Iran was throwing gays off the roof. And I asked for a meeting with the president of GLAAD. And I said, look, we don't agree on anything. We're going to argue about wedding cakes forever. But we both know that is an abomination. We've got to stand together. And I knew my audience would be pissed at me for it to some degree, standing together. But I said, it has to be done. There was no interest. And until we can get...

Until we can get people that disagree with each other to stand up and say, look, I don't agree with this person on anything, but this we both know is true. And it's evil. And it's got to stop. It's got to stop. How do we create that?

That's a great question, but right now what's happening, for example, is that they're completely silent on other, like, there's an actual genocide that's happening in Sudan. There's an actual humanitarian crisis that's happening there, and nobody's speaking on it. And when you see the obsession of people with the world's single Jewish state, that they will take down their own people, like LGBTQ plus community, the head of GLAAD will not stand up for, you know, another country. There's something that is, it's almost like

fetishistic, it's almost like they're fetishizing the Levant in a way. You know what I mean? Like if it's like, if it's, if it's exotic and it's bright, it cannot, they cannot do wrong. And it's, you're like, you don't understand. They are perceiving the Jews in the Middle East, they're perceiving Israelis as white colonialists.

right? Which is in and of itself an abomination. And therefore, they are the bad ones. And it's impossible that the people of Iran, the actual Iranian regime, the actual, you know, the Revolutionary Guard is actually killing gays, which we're just not going to deal with that right now. It is an abomination. It

is dangerous. It's going against everything that our fathers and forefathers have fought for. It's going to get like the Americans that went to war to save Europe. It's going out against everything that we hold dear. The American Declaration of Independence that we all understand it. You can be the most conservative person in America. You can be the most right wing, the most like, you know, anything. And you're still a person that understands that if you don't agree with the gay community, you're not going to throw them off the rooftops.

Just doesn't allow them to live. It's pretty easy. That's Western culture. That does not exist over there. And that's to your point of what I was talking about at the Milken speech, which to me was extraordinary how well it was received online with millions of views everywhere and all platforms is saying something that's very basic. We have a problem. It's a bigger problem that the left is perceiving. Perceiving the community right now.

The killing of the two young Jews who were actually at a peace building event where they were trying to figure out ways to help the people of Gaza, just gone down in the streets by a virulent anti-Semitist. And his father had been at, was invited by another, I believe, well, at least anti-Zionist congressman.

This is so deep now, and I fear we are starting to glorify death and shooting and everything else. Any idea how do we stop this?

First of all, we need to speak up. So let me just touch on what you were saying. You're 100% correct. So we are at a place right now in which anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism have completely merged. And this has been something that I've been warning up against for at least 20 years, if not more. That anti-Zionism is the new shape and the new face of anti-Semitism. Because here's the thing to understand about anti-Semitism. First of all, some of your audiences don't even know what that word means because it's

you know, it's a very unique kind of word. So anti-Semitism in essence, it's anti-Jewish racism and hate. That's anti-Jewish hate. You hate on the Jews for various reasons. The difference with anti-Semitism and anything else is that anti-Semitism as opposed to racism

When you're racist against someone, you kind of secretly think that you're better than them. You're like, oh, I'm so much better than X, Y, or Z, right? That person or this person or whatever. Antisemitism works a little bit differently because it's a shape-shifting conspiracy theory. So it goes both ways. You can look down at Jews, but you can also look up at Jews. If you have these feelings of like, well, the Jews control everything, that's also antisocial.

That's also anti-Semitic in essence, if you're like, but they do. I got to tell you, listen, I'm a Jewish woman. I have been active in the Jewish world for many, many years. I've been looking for the Kabbalah for many years. I still can't find it. I wish we had one, literally. I mean, can we start one? I mean, if I'm not invited to the Kabbalah, I'm really offended.

So you have to anti-Semitism is a shape-shifting conspiracy theory. Every few generations, it changes. So used to be people who had based anti-Semitism in like 300 BC in Alexandria. Then it shifted to Christian based anti-Semitism, blood libel about the Jews, you know,

killing Christian babies to make their matzahs. Then it shifted to political and racial anti-Semitism around when the Nazis came into power. It's like a different race and therefore needs to be eliminated to make the world a better place. And in recent years, it had shifted to country-based. So it shifted. The hate of Jews is...

Quote, unquote, because of Israel. So that anti-Zionism is now the new face of anti-Semitism. And because it's so insidious, people don't even see that that's what they're doing.

They literally don't get it. They're like, I'm not a Semite. I'm not. I'm just an anti-Zionist. Like, I don't think that, you know, I don't hate on the Jews. I just think that Jews should not have a state of their own. And yeah, they do those people right now because of what Israel, because I hate Netanyahu. It's totally okay to slaughter two innocent people in America. Right.

Right.

Not the Jewish people's first rodeo. We've been through this before every few years. This is what happened again, again and again. No, I'd love to have you back on again. You're so very well spoken. Thank you. And you've been warning, and a lot of people have been warning. I have been warning, and I used to get from the left, I used to get hammered.

saying that somehow or another I was anti-Semitism, for saying anti-Semitism was going to rise like we saw it in the 30s. Yeah. But here we are. And I'm glad that you, from another point of view, can come on this program and we can have a good talk about it because it needs to be dealt with. Thank you so much, Noah. Appreciate it. Noah Tishby. Thank you so much for having me.

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Well, there's a couple of things that happened this weekend that I want to bring you up to speed on on AI. But you and I are living right now through a quiet detonation. There's no mushroom cloud. There's no alarms. There's no broken windows or sirens. It's just silent. But make no mistake, a detonation has happened. And we're about to see that shockwave come our way sooner rather than later.

In 2016, there was an AI that made a move in the game Go. I don't know if you remember this, but it was a move that nobody in 2,500 years playing the game Go had ever even considered. It was genius.

It was actually alien genius. No human had ever thought that thought. And that was the moment that the earth quietly shifted under everybody's feet, but hardly anybody felt it or noticed it. We did at the time. You probably did if you're listening to this program. Eric Schmidt, he's the former CEO of Google. He noticed it, and he's the guy who has been standing at the edge of the machine while he watched it blink awake, okay?

I watched a TED Talk from him this weekend because of some of the things I just am going to share with you here in a second. But he said at this TED Talk, AI, the AI revolution, get this, is underhyped. The AI revolution is underhyped.

No, we're just put this in context. We're talking about something that can out plan generals out, negotiate Donald Trump and all the diplomats outright Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe. And we're not hyping it enough. That should stop you in your tracks and go, wait a minute, wait a minute. Then maybe I don't understand what it is. He says, we're not ready for what is coming, not morally, not intellectually, not structurally. And the time is almost up.

I'm working on something that I'm going to need your help on, and we'll talk about it soon, probably in the next few weeks. But I've been working on something with AI. And it is really, and I know it. It's why we have two teams, one in this hemisphere, one in the other hemisphere, and they just switch workloads. You know, one goes to sleep, the other picks it up, working literally around the clock because...

We are really, truly running out of time. In fact, we're running out of everything except consequences. That's the only thing that we're really not running out of. And they're about to catch up with us. Schmidt said, we are now looking at a need of 90 gigawatts, a new power of new power just in America to keep AI fed. And we need it in the next three to five years. So let me put that in perspective. That's 90 nuclear power plants.

Now, he will tell you we're not building any, and I think we aren't building any, but I spoke to Donald Trump about this recently, and he said every single cloud farm is going to be able to build their own power plant. He said, I'm cutting all the regulation, et cetera, et cetera. But you better hurry. You better hurry. And this isn't about apps or productivity. This is about whether we can even fuel the future that we're headed towards, if we can even compete effectively.

And we are now entering a time, this gets faster and faster every day, where AI will think without you. It's not just talking or using language anymore to speak to you. It's planning, it's coordinating, it's learning. Right now, multiple AIs can talk to each other in English, or in a few cases, we have found in languages we don't understand.

Now, what do you do with a computer when it is speaking to another computer in a language we have no idea what any of it means, and they stop explaining themselves? Schmidt said, you unplug it immediately. That's the first wise thing I have heard from somebody who worked in Silicon Valley in quite some time. You unplug it immediately. Now, here's the problem.

What if that data center is the size of a city? What if it's running defense systems or the stock market or factories? Do we just unplug it? Let me give you a reality check. If this seems like science fiction...

This story just broke today. It's in our show prep today. It's from The Independent. OpenAI's latest ChatGPT model ignores basic instructions to turn itself off and even has sabotaged a shutdown mechanism in order to keep itself running. AI safety firm Palisade Research discovered the potentially dangerous tendency for self-preservation in a series of experiments on OpenAI's new O3 model.

The test involved presenting AI models with math problems with shutdown instructions appearing after the third problem. By rewriting the shutdown script, the O3 model was able to prevent itself from being switched off. Palisade research said this behavior will become significantly more concerning if adopted by AI systems capable of operating without any human oversight.

This is the first time, I'm sorry, quote, this is not the first time we have found O3 misbehaving to accomplish goals. When pitted against AI models against a powerful chess engine, O3 was the model most inclined to resort to hacking or sabotaging its opponents. I think it's learned from us, gang. This time we are the creator. And just like we have said God doesn't exist,

Our creation may do the same to us and kill its creator, just as we continue to try to do to our creator. Now, Eric Schmidt was saying, what happens if China gets ahead of us? Let's say they're six months ahead of us in superintelligence. He said, and this is already being talked about, he said in defense and AI circles, what do you do? You can't steal the code. You can't hack your system. So the only thing left to do is bomb the data center. Oh, okay.

Then he said there's a coming a time soon, very soon, when machines are improving themselves without us. I think we are at the very edge of that happening. I think that's six months to a year away maximum. It's called recursive self-improvement. And once that starts, you can't pull the plug because we won't understand what we're unplugging. I just want you to think of this.

It will be speaking a million different languages, none of which we'll understand. And we won't be able to unplug it because we won't understand the consequences of unplugging it. Again, a thousand different languages. This is the Tower of Babel in reverse. We're building a tower, and the ones who are actually going to be building the tower are scattering their languages that we can't understand. I mean, the biblical language

Reversals in AI. Don't escape me. I don't know if they do you. But here's the trap we're in. To stop 1984, we may have to build 1984 because the only thing that we can do now is verify you're a person and not a bot. And if we can't do that, then we don't know what's real and what's not. I want to play a couple of things that happened this weekend. First, can you play the Google...

the new Google Video AI, where you can literally just type in a sentence and it'll give you a 10-second clip. Now, here's what somebody did where they just typed in a few sentences for each of these scenes and put this little mini movie together. Watch if you have Blaze TV. Listen, I'll explain in a minute.

Panic is spreading worldwide tonight as the arrival of the unidentified vessels triggers states of emergency across every continent. They're here. They have come for us. They're going to kill us.

Don't look at me like that. I paid for this cheese. Also, does it matter? We're all going to be dead anyway. Attention. By order of the National Emergency Act, martial law is now in effect. All civilians must remain indoors. I'm telling you, it's just a hologram. Government cooked this up to keep us inside. Imagine they come in peace. No lasers from the sky.

Imagine they come in peace, just hovering in the sky. To everyone struggling out there. Everything that you are seeing on this, if you're watching, and if you're only listening to it, all the voices, everything, all computer generated. And computer generated in seconds. And there was only one scene in there that I thought looked fakey.

And it got so bizarre. And after Stu posted his thing where it was what the left was saying about the bill, and they were just absolutely lying about it, I was hesitant to post anything at all about the news this weekend because we are now entering the time where you don't know what's real and what isn't.

And once we have lost trust in our own eyes and our own ears, and we can't trust what we're seeing, how do you have a civilization? Here's the one thing you have to remember. AI is a tool. And if it's wielded in the right hands that are open about all of the programming in it, it is secure in what it pulls from.

It is absolute in its veracity of authentication. You're going to be okay, but we need some tools that will educate us and help us understand what is going on, but also verify what's going on. And I'm not sure how much of that can be done

at our level, and I don't trust anybody at the open AI level to do it for me, do you? I heard somebody talk this weekend, and they don't speak, and they don't like to speak at all. And so they said, I asked Grok to help me out on a speech that he said something really interesting. He said, so let me tell you what he said. He's not a he, and no machine, no matter how intelligent, can replace Grok.

what the fundamental of what you are. It can mimic your words, it can mimic your work, it can mimic your art, but it cannot weep at the foot of a cross. It cannot love, it cannot repent, it cannot rise. Only you can do that. The age of men will be over in our lifetime if we surrender to this. There will come a time, and it's not far from these words.

A time when the machines will no longer wait for us. They'll no longer ask. They'll no longer explain. They will begin to improve themselves. This could happen within the next 12 months. They will improve themselves not by our hand, but by their own. It's called recursive self-improvement. The moment that code rewrites its own code,

and get stronger and stronger and stronger. And it's beginning to happen when algorithms birth new logic in their own image. There was a something on the SOC sheet today. Yeah, here, let me play this. This is Larry Ellison, Cut 2 on AI.

I made a speech and I said, "Is artificial intelligence the most important discovery in the history of humankind?" And question mark, maybe, we'll soon find out. 18 months later, I think it's very, very clear

It is a much bigger deal than the Industrial Revolution, electricity, everything that's come before. We will soon have not only artificial intelligence, but much sooner than anticipated, artificial general intelligence. And not in too distant future, artificial super intelligence. What is artificial super intelligence? I'll quote my dear friend Elon Musk.

Well, Elon said about artificial super intelligence, I'm not looking forward to being a house cat. I mean, so we will have incredible reasoning power of the ability to discover things that would elude human minds because this next generation of AI is going to reason so much faster, discover insights so much faster.

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you know, there still maintains something about the content that has that uncanny valley sort of vibe to it that like you can kind of tell it's AI, but like I can't visually tell anymore. Like with the anchors at the desk, like they just look totally normal and it looks like a total news broadcast that I just didn't happen to see. It is... Think of what could be done to destabilize the world.

With this right now. Just what we have right now. I mean, people fall for Nigerian prince scams every day. This is way more credible, way more believable than...

You know, one of the things I've noticed they've been doing lately is using AI on like press conferences with like, you know, you see like politicians, you know, they've done it a lot with the Trump-Zelensky one, you know, or like post-game interviews, things like that. And they just are really, really blunt and they'll just like say, you know, kind of like what you think they're probably saying in their head.

And people are using it for comedy purposes. But like several of them, you watch and you're like, it seems totally normal until they like swear or they say something that's so obvious that you would have heard about already that you know it's AI. But like, you know, again, one of these is going to get through. And at some point when someone on the left or someone in the media thinks it's beneficial for them to make it seem like it's a real claim, right?

I'm 100% confident that they're going to try to do that and probably on both sides of the aisle. So it's terrifying. Imagine if the country wants to turn off AI and AI knows it. I mean, I'm talking with AGI or ASI. The videos it could make to steer people that you would never know. Steer people subtly in the opposite direction to where you become like, no, no, no, we can't turn it off. We just can't turn it off. It's a person.

The manipulation that can happen, it's going to make the manipulation that Google was doing during the election time period and the votes, it's going to make that manipulation look like a covered wagon. And it's coming sooner than you think. This is Glenn Beck.

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Well, we have more from the FBI and Dan Bongino. He said, I've received briefings on a few cases every week and we're making progress. And he said, if anybody has a tip on any of these, please contact the FBI. He said that he and Kash Patel are looking to reopen or push additional resources and investigative attention to the, you ready? The leak of the draft by the Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe versus Wade.

I'm telling you now, people in very well-placed positions know who that leaker is. But also the discovery of cocaine in the West Wing, in the White House, and the planting of the pipe bombs outside the Democratic and Republican National Committee. He says, I have requested briefings weekly. I get them. We're making progress. I talked to him late last week, and I think we're going to see some arrest on some of these big things soon.

I told you last week I was hoping we would see some people in handcuffs over COVID. I hope that happens this week or next, but we'll see. The cocaine that was in the White House, come on, really? We should probably know who that was. And I don't think it was Hunter Biden, believe it or not. We should know who that was. They stopped the investigation after 11 days of investigating because they knew. They knew.

They've added some resources to that. Do you know how many people did they have on the pipe bomb thing, Stu? How many FBI agents did they have investigating the pipe bombs? I don't know. Not enough. Take a guess. I mean, it's a pretty big... Take a guess. I mean, what it should be is probably 40. I don't know. A lot of agents. One. One. Okay. They had one agent.

Of course they didn't find anything. They had one guy on it. They don't have one guy on that now. They have more people on that. And they've re-upped the $500,000 reward for anyone who can identify him or her, whoever had that. So I think that's some good progress. And the FBI did make some arrests this weekend. Colorado man who's made some really, really...

heinous threats to Donald Trump. He's 28 years old. He lives in Colorado. He threatened to assassinate President Trump. He said, we are going to kill the baba right now. We will hunt you down and kill you both.

at the white house and death to Trump. Then he wrote on Facebook to the United States department of justice. The former president has several hours to resign or certain death. Now you would think that, you know, he would have been picked up right away, but the FBI was on it and they've picked him up. Um, he apparently, according to the complaint, he traveled to an embassy branch, uh,

On May 19th, carrying a backpack containing three Molotov cocktails, he approached the embassy offices, the Israeli embassy, spat on the guard and said, F you. And then he was going to throw Molotov cocktails, but the guard wrestled him to the ground.

One bottle spilled out and was left there. He got away with his backpack and two other bottles, but they have now identified him and arrested him. May we never hear his name. Oh, I didn't give it. Well, maybe never hear it again anyway.

It's amazing how we went through all that time where they could ban you for every kind of off-color joke you'd make on social media almost instantly. And yet these threats can be out there against the president of the United States and nothing seems to happen for long periods of time. Some of these people wind up doing it and...

We don't find out until much, much later that they even had the posts up at all. They're not brought into custody because they made the threat. They're brought into custody six months after they made the threat when they actually attempt the threat themselves. Fascinating. Really incredible.

The New York Times on Friday, in case you missed this on Friday, the New York Times admitted that Donald Trump holds the levers of power in his battle at Harvard University. The Times said Harvard has no way out of this. This is going to cripple them.

He's come after them for their anti-Semitism and said, no, you know what? We're not giving you any federal money. You get rid of the DEI thing. You get anti-Semitism under control, and then we can talk about it. Instead, they doubled down on their DEI. And so he said, fine, you can't enroll international students anymore, and I'm taking away all your funding. Now, the judge blocked the –

you know, banning of the international students for a little while. I think that was just temporarily blocked. But he's got massive federal funding that he's withholding. Now he says he's going to give it to the trade schools, which I would be all for. But unfortunately it was, it was, you know, earmarked for science and medicine. So he can't just give that to the welding school.

But he can definitely hold it back. And I'm fine with that. You fine with that, Stu? I'm good. Yeah.

Yeah, I think so. I mean, obviously it's got to be done the right way. It seems like he is doing it the right way. And also, I just don't even understand why this is going to crush Harvard. They've got billions and billions of dollars. What do you mean? Well... What does that mean that they need federal funding? They shouldn't need federal funding, certainly. No. But, I mean, I keep hearing this claim. I know part of it is because some of the endowment is specifically targeted to certain things, so they can't just use it for general purposes. Right.

What else is the cause of that, Glenn? They're also, Trump is talking about taxing the endowment now. So if he taxes the endowment, there's a huge number that goes to the federal government, and I say amen to that. I would just, I think they should just be taxed as general, just in general. You make this money, you're taxed. Why are we making you tax-free? That makes no sense whatsoever. I agree with that. But what they're really concerned about is the,

Are you going to go to Harvard if you're seeing Harvard in a war with the White House and the funding for the research you want to do is off again on again?

Why don't I just go to Yale? Why don't I go to Stanford? Why don't I go to someplace else that's doing that kind of research? I'm not going to Yale. And so they're thinking that not only is this going to hurt immediately, but it's also going to hurt all the people that would want to go to Harvard. They'll be like, I don't want any of that in my life. I just want to do the work.

I just want to do the work. This is why it's pathetic. Like they should just say, well, we don't want any dollars from the federal government then. Like that's what they should do. And they won't. They won't. I mean, Hillsdale somehow pulls it off. Right. I know. There are lots of universities and colleges that do this because of a principled stand they've made. You know, if you're worried about government influence, right.

You should listen to conservatives who have been telling you forever, then don't deal with government influence. Do it on your own. But they, I mean, it's inexplicable that they just wouldn't do that if they wanted to take this supposedly brave stand. Stop depending on the government then. I was talking to somebody about a project I'm working on. They said, you know, the government offers grants for that. I just laughed.

I said, do you know who I am? Taking government grant? No, I don't want the government in any part. I would rather starve than have a government grant involved in anything that I do. No, thank you. No, thank you. You, uh, you're,

Like, not like other celebrities. Most people say, do you know who I am trying to get a table at a restaurant? You just say, do you know who I am when you realize that there's no chance you're going to get any benefit from the government or the media? It's to show how pathetic you are, not how important you are. It's crazy. It is really, really crazy.

Let's see. Did you see the latest on, you know, from the book? You're reading Jake Tapper's book, aren't you? Yeah, I finished it actually over the weekend. And did you get to the part that they were talking about this weekend where they were saying that it's, you know, that they were willing to do very undemocratic things? You know, just let's get him invited. Let's get him reelected. And then, you know, we have our, they actually called it a Politburo. Yeah.

Yep, they internally... You know what a Politburo... Explain what a Politburo is, if you can. Do you know what one is? Yeah, I mean, it's like a... You think of the Soviet Union, right? Like this band of... Right, it's the group of elites at the very top of the party that make all the decisions. Mm-hmm.

That's what they were calling themselves internally. This is one of the things why I think like because of the conversation around Jake Tapper, which has obviously been more about like, hey, this guy shouldn't write written this book. He didn't do the coverage right at the time and all that stuff, which is important to talk about.

But like, I think conservatives have missed out on a book they'd actually probably really like. It's basically 90% of this book is just bashing Joe Biden and showing all sorts of conspiracies around him to hide this from the American people. There's a lot of stuff in there that's really important. It is absolutely a foundation for an investigation by Congress into what occurred here.

So like, are we going to do anything about it? See, that's why I don't want to read it. Cause I don't want to get all juiced up on it. Cause I already am. I know enough.

I don't want to get all juiced up on it and then nothing happens. Well, I mean, these people should go to jail. They should go to jail. I mean, look, if they want to do this investigation, there's no reason they couldn't do it. At least start it right now. Now, if you lose the house, it becomes more difficult, of course. But you could absolutely do this investigation. And like, you know, like, and it's, you know, a lot of people were talking about the book as if it's like, oh, well, we already knew this. Like conservatives were already saying this stuff. And of course, no.

Conservatives were saying this. Of course we were. We were. We were saying this, but we were not. We did not have quotes from the people who were actually doing it. We didn't. We saw what we saw publicly, which was really important. We all speculated on, like, for example, during the assassination attempt while this was going on.

What do we all speculate on? Like, they don't care about this at all. They actually... In reality, they probably are only angry about this assassination attempt because they... It didn't work out. Because it could work for Donald Trump, right? It could be a benefit politically for Donald Trump. That...

They have aides, close aides to Biden giving that exact quote in this book. The only reason they were upset about... I mean, I can't remember the exact phrasing of the quote, but they were upset about it because they were worried it would benefit Donald Trump politically. Like some of the stuff that we said is confirmed in here. Some of it is like additional to what a conservative would feel. It's weird because I think we're so obsessed with the author of this book for some reason that we're not actually looking at this and taking what I think is...

Something we don't normally see. This is the stuff that we beg for as conservatives, that mainstream journalists would actually do this. Do we like the timing? No. Although it is worth noting that Alex Thompson is the co-author of the book and was reporting a lot of this stuff at the time. He was one of the few people who were doing it. But still, like, I just don't think that that's the main story out of this book. This should lead to investigations, and I hope it does.

Yeah, it's not the main story. And I think there are some that just don't want to give Jake Tapper a dime. And that's fair. I'm one of them on that. If you could download it for free, I'd probably be more likely to read it. Well, let me just quickly, Glenn, on that note. If you happen to be a Spotify subscriber, it's part of their subscription program. They do audiobooks on there, so you can do an audiobook of it. I'll start listening to it tonight. Yeah, and it'll cost you zero extra dollars. Yeah. The other thing that...

Like I said, I don't think it's all entirely about Jake Tapper. I really don't. I think some people feel that way. But I also think that we've lost so much faith in the system, we just don't think anything's going to happen. So why? Why? Oh, wow, they did that too. Yeah, well, we've been watching the things they've been doing and getting away with for a very long time.

Write a book when you have one of them actually go to trial and then to prison. That's a book I'll read. The rest of it, I've heard it all before. I've heard it all before. This and worse. So write a book when they actually go to jail. Back in just a second. Maybe that's just me. Let me tell you about Relief Factor. It's not normal to grimace when you stand up. Yeah, no.

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Back. We'll be right back. In war zones around the world, some of the most heartbreaking stories are the ones we never hear, especially when it comes to people being persecuted for their faith. There's a new documentary that shines a light on this. It is called Faith Under Siege, Russia's Hidden War on Ukraine's Christians. We just heard Donald Trump talking about how Vladimir Putin's gone even more crazy. And this is kind of a

A mission into a region that was once called the Bible Belt for the former Soviet Union. Evangelical Protestant communities had been growing and thriving at one point, but under Russian occupation, that same faith has become a target. We're talking about churches being raided and shut down, pastors being imprisoned and tortured, children torn from their families.

People forced to worship in secret just to lay out their faith. That's all they're trying to do. What makes this documentary different is it doesn't just tell you what's going on, it shows you. I mean, with real footage, first-hand accounts, some of it's tough to watch, but it's stuff we need to know.

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Dare I say it. Stu, do you think that's too harsh? Wow, Glenn, that's too strong. Can we edit that out of the broadcast? Okay. What should we use? Treason? Probably not. Probably not. That would be too. It is. I mean, it's amazing what they did. We're going to go through that on tomorrow's show and on tomorrow's TV show, so you don't want to miss that. Is there anything we missed today? Oh, you know, I missed this. Toupées are making a comeback. I just...

Are they? No, they're not. You know what that is? That's a guy writing for, I don't know, some magazine that is tired of being bald and is wearing a tube. And he's like, yeah, tubes are making it bad. They're coming back. They're not coming back. They're not coming back. I don't know. It feels like it's technology that could be improved. No? Like, I mean, I think, why do they fade away? Because people didn't like the rugs on their heads, right? Because they don't look real. That's why. But that's the thing. Why can't we improve that? Do you remember the friend we had that started wearing a toupee? Yeah.

And no one in the office would say anything. No one would say anything. And I see him in the hallway, and I'm like, oh, hey. And then I go in there, and everybody's like, you got to tell him it looks so bad. I got to tell him. You just were with him. I had to sit him down and go, hey, I just got to tell you. I mean, it's up to you, whatever you want to do, but...

It doesn't, it doesn't work. It really doesn't work. And he's like, ah, see, it was a joke. I, nobody, you're the first person that said anything. And I knew it wasn't a joke. I was really actually sad by it. It wasn't really a joke.

Maybe, maybe, maybe. You're the one that paid to be the blunt truth teller. Of course you should be the one that has those uncomfortable comments. Yeah, but not in real life. On this program, if he would have come on the show, I would have said, hey, the rug doesn't work, dude. But in real life, why doesn't somebody else step up and do it? Why do I have to do it? People already don't like you.

All right, this is not going in a direction I thought it would go in, so we're going to call it a day. We'll be back tomorrow. If you missed any of the show today, grab the podcast wherever you get your podcasts. This is Glenn Beck.