The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guests: John Solomon & Juan Saldivar | 4/30/21

Episode Date: April 30, 2021

Florida is releasing thousands of gene-hacked mosquitos to lower the overall population. Is mosquito genocide okay? Investigative journalist John Solomon joins to discuss the FBI raid against Rudy Giuliani and how he’s mentioned in the investigation too. Southlake, Texas, parent Juan Saldivar tells Glenn about his fight against critical race theory in his school district. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We start off with a really good news hour. In fact, in fact, we stretch it to almost two hours of good news. Things that are a little bit uplifting. Would we have called it good news in the year 2000? Maybe not. But definitely today. Also, we tackle the racism in South Lake, Texas. You won't believe that.

story absolutely incredible and a lot more all on the podcast today you're listening to the best of the blend back program we're going to continue our good news uh into the next hour standby for that um but uh they're in the florida keys they're doing an experiment uh and uh they're they're wiping out all mosquitoes they're releasing 500 million gene hacked mosquitoes. So they're all male. And they have hacked the genes. So they pass something on to the female.

And when the female reproduces, if it's a female, they're the only ones that bite. If it's a female, they die out. If this works, that is genocide. That's mosquito genocide. And I hate mosquitoes. I don't want to live around mosquito. I hate them.

But I think there's probably some purpose for mosquitoes. When is it been okay? We can't touch the rainforest because some unknown animal or some unknown plant that we don't even know is being destroyed. And we're making them extinct. But we don't have a problem making mosquitoes extinct. Does that sound smart to you? That's another hard one because, yeah, want mosquitoes to go away.

This would only kill something like 2% of all mosquitoes, though. This doesn't do very much, which is why some of the residents are pissed. Go ahead. A lot of the residents are mad because they're releasing half a billion. They're not even sure what's going to happen here. And even if it's completely successful, it only wipes out 2%. Yeah, but isn't that because it's only a certain kind of mosquito? The idea is to be able to do this with all mosquitoes.

And I'm for the ratification. of mosquitoes, but does somebody know what they do besides bite people? This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. John Solomon is with us. There is a disturbing report happening now with Rudy Giuliani, and John Solomon is part of it, but he is also former Wall Street Journal reporter, CEO and editor-in-chief now of just the news.com,

which is a news site that you should check every single day. really good journalism being done there. Rudy Giuliani had his apartment rated yesterday, and it's kind of disturbing what we're hearing is happening. John, welcome. Good to be with you, Glenn. Thank you. So tell us what happened yesterday and why? As far as we could tell it.

Again, I'm a part of the news in this, so it's an unusual position to be a reporter and also be part of the news. the FBI on Wednesday, raided Rudy Giuliani's apartment at about 6.30 in the morning. They also raided the home. I was not really raid, but they showed up at the home of a Joe Jeannivin, Victoria Tensing, who were personal lawyers from me on a book project. And they secured communication devices that were requested under a grand jury subpoena and a search warrant. And, you know, this has been a long-running saga, right? There is a theory that Adam Schiff has put out.

into the public that somehow Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Tensing and Joe to Geneva were working for foreign forces to remove the ambassador of, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, perhaps on behalf of Ukrainian officials. I don't know the merits of the case, right? I do know that I wrote the majority of the Joe Biden stories. And this ambassador, Madam Ambassador Yovanovich, Marie Yovanovich, was the woman that was at the helm at the embassy when Hunter Biden was doing all of the shenanigans with Burisma. And I wrote in the period of March until May, the main stories that brought to light or reinvigorated the Hunter Biden, Burisma, Ukraine, China, Money Train.

And so my name shows up in these search words and Sabina, as I'm told. And again, I worked as a reporter. I talked to many people. Yes, Joe and Victoria were my lawyers who often did pre-liable work when I would submit a story to the Hill. And Rudy Giuliani approached me about information. I have said publicly I ended up not using what he gave me because it didn't match my reporting. And so I didn't use it, but he did offer me information. I don't think I did anything but act like a reporter.

And many other reporters had the same contacts with the same people. But for some reason, maybe because all of us were instrumental in highlighting Hunter Biden's problems, we now find ourselves entangled in this grand jury subpoena. So, you know, some people say it's an enemy's list. I don't know. I hope to think not. And I would like to give the benefit of the doubt to the U.S. Attorney's Office that maybe they're looking at something.

And when they look at the facts, they'll come to the right decision. But as a reporter, it's very chilling when your name gets leaked as part of a grand jury subpoena. Someone obviously wanted my name out there. That's where they put it on the subpoena. Adam Schiff wanted my name out there. That's why he leaked my phone records. and yet in two and a half years no one found anything wrong

and everything that people said about the Burisma story at the time it's wrong, it's Russian disinformation, it's all been validated. So I think this will go and Ivanovich the ambassador in Ukraine just from the

reporting that we did you're you're that she's she was not good she was not good and it would would be great if she were gone, not on behalf of the Ukrainian government, but just on behalf of the United States and its government and people. It was not a good situation. What do we know about her that

we didn't know during impeachment? She was the darling of the impeachment testimony, right? She testified during impeachment that she really didn't know anything about Hunter Biden's Burisma thing, except what she was briefed on before she became the ambassador and what she read in the newspaper. sued and we turned up all of these documents. She met with Burisma's lawyers. She received a long briefing from Bresma's lawyers. George Kent, the guy with the bowtie that made himself famous in the impeachment, he told her a bribe had been paid by Burisma why Hunter Biden was on the board and she reported it to her boss, Victoria Newland. None of that was in her testimony. A lot of people think she was at least deceptive by omission, if not outright dishonest. I know, because of the

good work of Judicial Watch that she ordered myself and Sean Hannity and many other famous people to have our social media illegally monitored by federal agents and federal employees. The State Department cannot target Americans and use its intelligence resources. We know she did that wrong. We know she had a dysfunctional relationship with the Ukrainian prosecutor whose job it was to carry out her anti-corruption agenda. I think the body of history that we know about Maria Vanovich today versus what we knew about two years ago is very different.

And I think, you know, unfortunately, most of the rest of the media got scared away from this story when Adam Schiff and the fake whistleblow and others started to make claims that, you know, aren't true. They, you know, for a while, the New York Times and ABC News were reporting what I was reporting, and then they all ran for cover. If this happened 20 years ago, John, to a reporter, wouldn't all the reporters, everybody in the media, be rallying around you? They sure would. In fact, ironically, Glenn, 20 years ago this month, it did happen to this reporter.

I don't think, I don't know if you remember this, but just before 9-11 when I was associated press reporter, the Bush administration, actually Robert Mueller, we've heard a lot about him over the years. He authorized the subpoena from my phone records trying to find out my sources on something. And then a few months later, without a warrant, they intercepted my mail at the border. They had to admit that that was an unlawful search and seizure. And the media rallied around me. Why?

Because it was George Bush's Justice Department going after me. But when it's the Biden Justice Department, I haven't gotten a single call of support from a single journalist. And all those reporters who were looking at Biden, you know, who dropped off it. But no, there's a real story there. They've just gone silent because, you know what? They probably saw what happened to me. I got, you know, I have an impeccable reputation of journalism. I worked very carefully to be fair to people my whole life,

regardless of political. They destroyed my reputation. They called me a Russian disinformation artist. No one wants to go through that. And then I think they scared the rest of the media off. And silence will be the greatest sin of omission that the industry pays on this particular issue. They were silent when Adam Schiff took my phone records.

No one was outraged then, except for the Wall Street Journal op-ed pages. Please count this as a genuine call of support, but not from anybody with any kind of journalistic credibility, but we're behind you, John. It means a lot. It is, yeah, it is really bad. Now, tell me, because Rudy Giuliani, his son came out and said, they left all of the information about Hunter Biden's laptop.

Is that real, or was that just a, you know? Rudy Giuliani says he offered them a laptop because it met the description. of the electronic devices that should be seized, and the agents told them they didn't want it. That's what he said on Tucker Carlson last night. Now, there could be an offer, because I always try to be fair and down the middle on these things. They already have the Hunter Biden Lopterdam. So having another copy of it might not be as important to the FBI. They've had it.

We know that. So maybe it's not a big deal. Here's something that I think is more shocking that Rudy Giuliani said that I don't think people picked up on. I've done the reporting this morning, and I have confirmed this. Rudy intimated, and I have confirmed affirmatively, that in November of 19, the Trump Justice Department, under the direction of Bill Barr, authorized the secret, it's called clandestine seizure of Rudy Giuliani's law records, as well as Victoria Atensing's law records. Why is that so significant? It's very rare to do clandestine seizures of data. But in the case of Rudy Giuliani, I believe it was their cloud. You know, it's all of his records in the cloud from his email.

Wait, wait. So when you say law records, could that include attorney-client privileged stuff? It absolutely did because the government had to set up a team and self-determined, because they weren't asking Rudy, what records were privileged and what weren't. But think about the moment. Yes. That's how far our surveillance state has gone. And let's think about its significance from two things.

They've had all this stuff for two years. They never brought charges. They had access to everything. And now they're going to raid his home and get the same stuff a second time. But here's a more important point. At that very moment in November of 2019, when those clandestine or covert seizures were occurring, he was advising the president's impeachment strategy as Adam Schiff was conducting the impeachment trial. Victoria Newland.

the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York may very well have had access to some of Rudy Giuliani's strategy Ukraine. And remember, it was the Ukraine issue that was at the Rudy Giuliani's role was the issue in the impeachment trial. It's a very chilling thing. Attorneys have privileges. Journalists are supposed to have privileges. It appears at the surveillance state of America, whether it's Adam Schiff's surveillance state

with his subpoena for phone records or the Justice Department doesn't seem to regard the privileges of attorneys or the privileges of journalists as robustly as they did 10 or 20 or 30 years ago. That is bone-chilling. Bone-chilling. I saw yesterday that the Justice Department just promoted the individual that was instrumental in the FISA scandal. and I believe she's now overseeing the relationship between the people asking for warrants and the FISA request. What is happening there? Nobody, not only are they not getting punished, they're getting rewarded.

It's been the dynamic all through the Russia scandal, right? And Russian Ukraine are inextricably intertwined. People don't realize that the Russia story in many respects was, designed to throw a light on Donald Trump, a diversionary tactic so people wouldn't look at what Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and others were doing in Russia and Ukraine because they all had relationships in both countries. It was a piggy bank for Democrats, and they threw, you know, a diversionary tactic by accusing Trump of doing something he never did. So Ukraine and Russia are going to forever be intertwined. That said, the, you look, Peter Strzuck gets fired for misconduct

and he lands on all of these prestigious jobs. Hunter Biden admits he does all these things wrong. He's giving lectures on the media now at a prestigious university. Tulane. Yeah, Tulane, just in the last few days. The former Deputy FBI Director, McCabe, gets fired. He's able to raise zillions of dollars on GoFundMe. There's no consequences for bad conduct, at least on the left.

And then there seems to be extraordinary and maybe over the top, penalese for people on the right. You take a look at Mike Flynn and Andy McCabe. They did the same thing. If you believe the FBI, they lied to the FBI. One goes through millions of dollars of law bills and a prosecution before he gets pardoned. The other doesn't get even charged. And under a Trump Justice Department. So you just have to ask yourself whether this picture doesn't really affirm what Republicans have been saying there's a two-tier justice system. John, please reach out if you need anything personally or professionally. I and I know the audience is behind you as well.

Anything you need. Thank you so much. Thank you, sir. You bet. JusttheNews.com, something you should check every day from John Solomon, just the news.com. This is the best of the Glennbeck program. Juan Salivar is with us. He's a retired colonel, the United States Army.

And he is one of the people in South Lever. Lake, who's been very outspoken about what was going on with critical race theory and is changing for the better what was happening in the school district. He's going to walk us through what happened, why he and others got involved, and maybe even some of the details on the arrests that are happening here. Juan, welcome to the program, sir. How are you? Hi, Mr. Beck. Thank you for having me. It's an honor to be here. Thank you. It's an honor to talk to you. I know your service record, and it's quite impressive. so thank you. So Juan, tell me how this happened, what you first heard, how you got involved, and what people have been doing. Yeah, sure. There's a lot of people in this community that were

involved before I was. I wasn't really aware of what was going on until midsummer of 2020, right in the middle of the pandemic, when I started to hear inklings of this program called the Cultural Competence Action Plan, CACP for short. So it was released in drafts, form in late summer, and I went through it with a fine-tooth comb because I was concerned about what it was going to do, and I saw the seeds of critical race theory sprinkled throughout with terms like equity 135 times, diversity 104 times, inclusion 108 times, none of which were ever defined. In fact, the term cultural competence was never defined. What was defined in there was the term microaggressions, which put an emphasis on that could be verbal or nonverbal, intentional,

or unintentional, very much in the mind of the beholder, if you will, targeting persons that are marginalized or underrepresented groups, never defining that either. And so it was clear. I read some of it. It is so, it is so well written that it could include everything. I mean, I was bowled over by the line, making eye contact or. or not making eye contact. Could be racist. Correct. So you pretty much have everything covered here.

Pretty much. And that was a big problem for me. My child's young, but I don't want her to grow up in a system where they're constantly infiltrating the curriculum with this nonsense. And it's really antithetical to the idea of human liberty and freedom and human flourishing, which is what education is supposed to be about. So South Lake, I don't know why you move to South Lake, but if you have kids probably a good deal had to do with the school district. It is a great town.

It's heavily influenced in a positive way by the people at Gateway Church. So it's just a good, decent town. The school is one of the best in the country, the best in Texas. And all of a sudden they come in and they start making claims that South Lake is a, as deep-seated racism in its roots and the school is racist. And what they are teaching the teachers and having the teachers spew is, is poison. Poison for South Lake and for the kids. Yes, sir.

Absolutely poison. I will say that the vast majority of our teachers and principals are outstanding. they're outstanding, not just educators, but human beings. So I don't want to blame them. They don't control the curriculum as it's written. But I see this moving in and kind of getting the camel getting its nose under the tent, and I thought, you know what, I need to stand against this. It's the right thing to do.

We don't need to divide our kids into oppressors and oppressed based on their immutable physical characteristics, the way God made them. Okay, so what happened? You, you, everybody goes to the school board and start to speak up against it. And what happens? Well, it's what you would expect to happen from the left. So as soon as people started to speak up, the proponents of C-Cap immediately came back and accused our entire side of being racist. And this is typical for the progressive neo-Marxist post-modern thought, wherein they don't consider that there's,

any possible factors other than racism for disagreement. Well, remember, I just want to remind everybody that Juan is a guy that makes eye contact and sometimes doesn't make eye contact. So you know right there how racist he is. So they started throwing everybody under the bus. And then what? Well, so then we started to do a lot of, open record request through the, uh, an organization called South Lake Families Pack,

uh, which is an association of like-minded individuals that want to make sure that we maintain parental authority in our schools and on our school board, um, as, as the government is supposed to be set up, authority delegated from the people to government at all echelons. And what we found, one of the troubling things we found was that the administration had applied for a vocabre grant. This is victims of crime. and what they were trying to do is criminalize the microaggressions, which we previously said could be anything, in order to get money. Now, you know, Mr. Beck, this is one of the most affluent communities in all of Texas. We have a tradition of excellence in our school in terms of academics, sports, every area you can think of,

and we don't have any real discernible disparate impact among the demographic groups. And yet here we are with some folks thinking it would be a good idea. to take money meant for victims of actual crime, funnel it into this society for the purpose of criminalizing microaggressions. That's obscene. It is. So what happened with the Carroll School trustees that have been now indicted of violating the Open Meetings Act? Yes, sir.

So there were two trustees that were accused of violating the Texas Open Meetings Act, which basically says you can't have a walking quorum, you can't have meetings in secret, deliberations in secret, and we believe they were deliberating to implement CCAP in secret. And an investigation started in the wake of a lawsuit that was filed by one of the parents. And this particular parent has gotten a lot of flack from the left about this lawsuit, how dare you sue our schools, but the truth is the matter is the school system deserved to be sued. Yes. And so the authorities started to investigate on the criminal basis and, you know, had enough evidence to make two arrests. We had two school board members that were arrested, I think, at their homes. They paid $500 bond

and were released, and within 48 hours were back sitting in their seats at the next school board meeting. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. So what's next? What, what, what, how far on the fight on this? Are you, and what's next? We think as a group, we think we've pretty well defeated the imposition of the CCEP. There are some people that still want to push its implementation. What we're starting to see now is a revision of their words. They're not talking CCEP anymore, now they're talking diversity, equity, and inclusion. Or as I like to say, the diversity, inclusion, and equity religion, the die religion.

And they've taken to dropping the word equity suddenly because we have an election going on right now. And the final day of voting is May 1st for local South Lake City Council, mayor, and school board positions. And so we're keeping an eye on that. The one thing I would say is, and I think this is true across the board around the country, the mainstream media has really become the center of gravity for the left's movement. They use them to push their false narratives and prevent any kind of counter messaging. They suppress us with that. So I want to thank you specifically for having me on to talk about this because folks like

you, Fox, the Federalists, are able to amplify our voice and get our ideas out there. We are not scared of having the debate, having an open battle of ideas because we We know our ideas are better, but the left always wants to suppress our ideas because they want control. They don't care about a battle of ideas, which is precisely the opposite of what we should be teaching our children in our schools. One, I wanted to have you on for a couple of reasons. One, I've seen you speak and you were amazing. Two, you guys are making a real difference. I mean, you could change the makeup of the school board in this,

election and change the the whole route that Southlake was taking in the school district if you remain vigilant on it because they will just come back they'll morph and they'll come back but the other is there are so many people that think not happening in my community South Lake the school system is fantastic there is it is not a racist community it's they have no racial problems to speak of in the school district. And it's riddled with this critical race theory now. And it just came in overnight. And I wanted people to understand this is happening in your community as well. Yes, sir, absolutely. And I think it's important for people to realize how the left operates. So we see this in the younger grades. My daughter's in K-4 with something

called social and emotional learning. And you know, you can look that up on the internet and you'll see that it's one of the latest fads to come out in education circles. But the truth is, what it does is it prioritizes and emphasizes the primacy of emotion over thought. And so it serves as a primer for the tactics of the left to impose these kind of critical race theory ideas in the later school years. And so we have from the left, the main argument is, what about the 300 plus, depending on who you talk to, it's between 300 and 400 plus testimonies of people who were quote unquote abused in Carol ISD. But you'll note that none of them have ever been investigated. There's no real evidence. I'm not saying that discrimination doesn't happen at

all. I've been subjected to it over the course of my life, but I am saying that if it's really that big of a problem, every single instance should be investigated. And just as it's not my purview to deny someone's quote-unquote lived experience, neither is it my responsibility to affirm it without evidence. Otherwise, you find yourself in a situation like we saw with the Kavanaugh hearings. Believe all, insert demographic group. Women, people of color, individuals that have same-sex attraction, whatever you want to put in there, fill in the blank. That is a recipe for breaking our country apart, and we have to stand against that. Juan, you just retired from your military service, a very honorable one.

And it looks like you're just not really retiring. You're still doing the same thing. Well, sir, I took an oath to defend, to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic on the plane of West Point when I was 18 years old. And that didn't go away when I retired. And unlike some people, I took it upon myself to say, well, you know, if I'm going to support and defend the Constitution, I should darn well know what's in it. And what you find is, and I don't want to go too far afield here, but what you find is, if you really look at it,

what's in the Constitution is the codification of our natural rights. These are the Enlightenment principles that our founders laid down on paper and said, we have inherent rights that were given to us in a state of nature by God that are discernible by reason. And we don't want to have a society where we solve our problems with violence. We want to have a society where we solve our problems with debate. Violence is the last, least preferable option, but we only go to that when we have to. And so that's where we are right now. It's time for parents everywhere to stand up against this, five for what they know is right before it's too late. Juan, thank you so much. I do want to, I don't mean to cheapen this whole thing, but you commanded the units in the First Army at Fort Knox. Did you

ever see the gold, did they let you go in? No, sir, I saw the building where the gold was housed. You never went in. All right. All right. Thank you so much. And, you know, I live in one of the towns that adjoined South Lake, and you have my support in South Lake, anything that I can do.

And I hope someday that we'll get a chance to meet each other. Thank you so much, one. Yes, sir. If I could just say one last thing, parents interested in fighting back. go take a look at wiseguidtalks.com, Southlake Familiespack.org, no left turn and no left turn in education, Texas. You will find resources there to help you fight back.

You are not alone. Thank you, sir. I bless you. Thank you so much. God bless.