The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guests: Jon Miller & Jason Buttrill | 2/10/20

Episode Date: February 10, 2020

Happy birthday, Glenn Beck! While Glenn and Stu realize they’re getting older, Joe Biden is older and crankier than ever. But will he drop out of the 2020 race if he comes in fifth in New Hampshire? Buttigieg won Iowa by a small margin, but Bernie is primed to take New Hampshire. BlazeTV’s Jon Miller discusses his controversial tweet about the Oscar win for Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” and “woke” Hollywood. And Rudy Giuliani and the Senate are looking into the “smoking gun” we unearthed in “Ukraine: The Final Piece.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, hello and welcome to Monday, the day after Stu's birthday, the day of my birthday. I mean, a date that will live in infamy. And we're glad you hear. We talk a little bit about age and how fast it's going and how fast Joe Biden is going, quite honestly. He's slipping in more ways than one, slipping in age and also slipping in the polls. We talk about Biden versus Buttigieg. We talk about the coronavirus to panic. or not to panic. What's happening there?

John Miller, who is our White House brief specialist at the blaze. He was in a lot of trouble. He's still, at least at this hour, trending nationally as an incredible racist. Good thing for him. He's black, and we've all learned you can't be racist and black. But we called him on the carpet for a tweet that is totally understandable if you know the context. And, of course, nobody in Hollywood at the Oscars cared about the context. Also, Rudy Giuliani, the documents that he produced, the documents that we produced last Thursday night, it looks like this is headed forward. And also, if you're listening to this podcast, may I suggest, you give Stu Does America listen today, first day of the podcast.

And I hear it's really great. You can subscribe for free, Glenn. Did you know that? Yeah, I did. So Stu Does America, wherever you get your podcast, or you could watch it at the Blaise. TV.com or YouTube or, you know, he'll perform. He'll come to your house. He's so desperate.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Glenn! Hey, hey. Hey. How are you? Pretty good. Happy birthday, Glenn. Happy birthday to you. Glenn's birthday is today.

Mine yesterday. Yesterday. It's great. We were in the nursery side by side. Mm-hmm. I was still, what? I don't know if I feel comfortable. 20 sitting in that little crib thing.

But hey, nobody came to the hospital to pick me up. So anyway, today is a special day because Stu's show premieres tonight. Yes, big deal. Yes, it is. You've got the best executive producer ever, ever. The name of the show is executive produced by Glenn Beck. That's what the name of the show is. Now, we've thrown Stu a bone and said, all right, Stu does America.

I'm not necessarily uncomfortable with this presentation because if it bombs really badly, you can be blamed. No, I can just say it's the talent. Is that what executive producers get to do? Because I've never had that ability. It's the talent. Yeah. I tried. Interesting.

Yeah, he just wouldn't listen to me. I've been executive producer for you for how many years. and now you get to turn the tables on me tonight. That's right. That's right. Tonight. So what time is it air? 8 p.m. Eastern.

Can't make it. Can't make it. Too late in the day for me. I've already had my Denny's early meal like 3.30 in the afternoon. Look, I'm turning into a senior citizen quickly, I think. We'll tape it before you go to Denny's. Okay, will we? If you want, yes.

All right, all right. We could do that. Yeah. Yeah, pretty excited about that. And then you, of course, are turning how old today? 40. 54. What?

56, which I'm telling you, not good. Not good. You're having trouble with this. I am. I didn't have it at 50. I didn't have it at 40. I did at 40. At 40, I realized I have done nothing with my life.

Nothing with my life. It was pretty much accurate. Right. And then within 10 years, I had two successful television shows. What? 15 number one New Year. Times bestsellers, a national radio program, and started a company called The Blaze. By 50, I wanted to die.

So the 50s are my underachieving years, I think, you know, where it's just kind of like, yeah, I did all that 10 years ago. So I'm going to, but there's something weird because on my 60th, three years away, all my contracts expire. And I am looking at, you know, I saw Rush Limbaugh, and I hope he has accomplished his dreams, but my dad is haunting me in my dreams. I'm like having nightmares about my dad all the time, all the time. Because he told you your whole life, basically, that all he wanted to do is eventually get to a place. Play golf.

He could just go out and play golf and enjoy a round of golf every day. and he never never did it never did it because he got sick or was it because he was in such his body was in such bad condition

from working he did hard you know labor yeah just like his son I mean it's the hard labor like you so anyway so he you know his body was so broken down by the time he retired that he couldn't do anything

and I'm like no I'm not going to do that you're going to try to get out early I'm going to try to get out early no I'm just going to start doing the thing I want to do. Well, because you made an interesting point earlier today that I thought was going to haunt you for a while because your career, when you got nationally syndicated in radio, people,

I don't know if people know this, we were nationally syndicated in radio. We signed the contract in August of 2001. So before September 11th happened, we were supposed to start the radio shows in a national form in January 2002. And then they moved it up after September 11th, just launched it early in. just like go, you know, bootstrapped toward a, you know, we just went with it. Uh-huh, uh-huh. And so that's a big moment in your career, 2001.

Yeah, yeah. Is there any observation about the difference between that time and today that you'd want to- seem like a long time ago? Doesn't really seem, seems like it's gone pretty quickly, like really fast. Really fast. Yeah. Because it's 2020, that's 19 years. Uh-huh.

Did you do any math that? Nope. Did no math. Really? No, did no math. I can help you with it. So basically, you are equidivism. from September 11th and your 75th birthday.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you. I realized that the other day. And I was like, good Lord, I might as well start putting myself in the box now. If it goes that fast. And it was my dad's 75th that he was like starting to really be broken down. Yeah. Yeah.

And, you know, I will say you're 75th, you could probably run for the Democratic nomination. You got that going for you. No, I think you have to be 80th. now. He'd be 80. Did you see Bloomberg where he was like, what? I'm not as American as Pete Buttigieg. I'm older than Pete Buttigieg.

I've been an American a lot longer than Pete Buttigieg. In fact, I've been a lot. I've been an American longer than Joe Biden. That's not something. Sweetheart. That's not something you share. Is he older than Biden? That's what he said.

What was it on Thursday? I did have no idea. No, he's a lot like Trump. They just are, they're just going and going and going. Yeah, because, you know, Biden looks like he's slipping. Bloomberg has not, I mean, he's not, he would be a terrible president and is a horrible human being in a hundred different ways. Oh my gosh.

But I don't think he doesn't. Horrible. He doesn't feel like he's slipping per se. No. He doesn't feel like that guy. He does not feel like he's, what, he got to be at least 79? How old is he? Yeah, Bloomberg 77, Biden's 78.

But they're basically the same age. I would have guessed early 70s for Bloomberg. Yeah, me too. Me too. Me too. No, Biden is 77. We're getting... Are you checking...

See, this is why you need a good executive producer. She's using. She's outsourced this search to Shadow Incorporated. Okay, well, it's right around the same age. She's trying to calculate with birthdays, but you get the point here. So you're equidistant from September 11th. And Joe Biden. I'm just about just a couple of...

Yeah, thank you. Basically. Wow. You're halfway there. Wow. And what a great run it's been. Yeah. You know, I will say,

I will say this. This is not, uh, this is not as bad as the thing I unfortunately discovered quite recently called the Brimley Coon line. Are you familiar with this? No, but I don't like it already.

Oh, it's terrible. Oh, it's terrible. So basically it's a, it's a Twitter account. And all it does is tweet people who cross the Brimley Coon line. What is the Brimley Coon line? What is the Brimley Coon? line. It's the exact age to the day that Wilford Brimley was when cocoon came out in theaters. And he was crossing over to the other side. Right. Like he was like, I have to go in this alien

pool so I don't, so I can be younger again. And I remember in my head, he was aging and thinking he was like 152 years old. Like, you know, maybe they played it up. Just be careful because I'm still going to be alive. You're probably still going to be working for me when you're you hit 56. 56? 56. You're 56. Yeah. So I thought to myself, I would like to see how close Glenn is to the Brumley-Coon line so I can torture him when he crosses it. And by the time that I crossed the Brimley-Cooker line, he'll be so, like he'll be in nine homes deep. Like he'll be in all basically hospice at that point. So I should be fine. Yeah. So I went and checked on it. Wilford Brimley, when Coon came out in theaters,

was 18,530 days old. That comes out to not 57, 50.7. You passed the Wilford Brimley Coon line about six years ago. In fact, I went back. I'm like, I wonder if they noted when Glenn crossed the line, so I tried to scroll back. It was only created in 2018.

Shut up. Can't even go back to the time that you cross the- Shut up. Like a cool line. Shut up. And these are terrifying. Just remember that I was about 40-something when I got my first real network show. Yeah.

Okay. Uh-huh. You're 44. Right. And I'm on your network. So, I mean, I didn't get that yet either. Right. And you, I had producers that liked me.

That's true. Yeah. And I do not. Yeah. Apparently not. Let me give you a couple of these, though. It's getting worse and worse. This is the Brimley cocoon line.

These are some of the recent people who have just crossed the line. Think about what Wilford Brimley in the movie Cacoon felt like when that movie came out. Tracy Gold from Growing Pains. She was the teenage daughter in Growing Pains. She just crossed the line. Tucker Carlson just crossed the line. Tucker Carlson is older than Wilford Brimley was in Cacoon. He does not look at.

It doesn't. I think my hair does not help. No, it probably doesn't. But I can't, you can't, I can't color it. I can't. I wouldn't want to in the first place. But it's like, you know, you got a head of white hair. You just, how come that worked for Richard gear and it doesn't work for me? Right. Oh, there's so many answers to that.

I can't even. I mean, we don't have that long of a show. I mean, it's not. You are in deep trouble. tonight. Watch the, okay, so can we talk a little bit about Joe Biden and his slippage? I think that Joe Biden, if he doesn't, if he comes in fourth or fifth in New Hampshire, what is he, what is he ranking now?

Fourth? Yeah, he is fourth and most of the most recent polls. Okay, so if he comes in fourth or fifth in New Hampshire, and it shows him, there hasn't been a single poll out in South Carolina since the Iowa caucus. If those internal polls show him polling at third or fourth, I think he drops out. I think there's a good chance if New Hampshire comes through,

particularly if Klobuchar passes him, if he finishes fifth in New Hampshire, how does he go on? Because these polls are going to change in a big way. He's not raising any money. There's no momentum. He wasn't raising money when he was the leader. Right.

There's no jomentum. There's not. Well, wow. What? There needs to be jomentum. I like the term too much. Yeah. But yes, you're right.

There's not, there's no, there's no jomentum. The recent, the most recent poll, which is from, yeah, before really any of this. Yeah, this is all changing. Iowa, Iowa and New Hampshire will change all of that. So Bernie Sanders, it was a dead heat, statistical tie, really. They're giving it to Pete Buttigieg. Although he won, you know, it should be noted. And I, you know, if it, Sanders won both measures of the popular vote.

So he got more votes in the state by both measures. He just, the way they assigned delegates, it was sort of a situation, you know, the same type of thing that happens with the electoral college in a weird way, although their process was much more screwed up than the electoral college ever was. Yeah. Can I ask you a question? Yes. Pete Buttigieg.

I mean, that's a pretty weird name. It's almost foreign sounding. I think even more foreign sounding than even like Barako, Obama because we were, you know, Barack Hussein, Hussein Obama, we knew that. We knew all the names. Those names were in our life all the time. And we were told during the Obama administration that we fear strange, foreign-sounding names. I think Buttigieg is more strange and foreign than Barack Hussein Obama.

You kind of know where, you know, where that, where that name's coming from. Buttigieg, no idea. It's true. I don't even have a guess. Where is it? Where is it from? I don't know, but someplace foreign. Let's see if the shadow app will, Shadowwink's app.

Poles, Czechoslovakian, Buttigieg. I have no idea. Nor do I care. Nor did I care for Barack Obama either. No, you're supposed to. I know. We fear a foreign sounding name. I feared the guy who kept saying he wanted to massively expand our government control of our

economy and fundamentally transform the United States of America and who today is being called by the Washington. Post a centrist candidate in comparison to what they're running now. The headline of the story is, let's see, where is it? No, no, Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden are not centrists from the Washington Post is telling you this. What the hell? What do you think that's all about? It's just, what it is is it's true.

I don't know why they're telling it to us. When's the last time the Washington Post said anything true? And they're comparing their they're comparing their Buttigieg and Biden to just the stuff Obama was proposing. And so far the left of that. And again, I'd ever considered Biden a centrist.

Remember, he was one of the most, him and Biden were the one and two most liberal senators in the Senate when they ran. And by the way, Obama is not a centrist either. Can we just point out that yesterday in the Oscars, what a surprise. Barack Obama got an Oscar. His new series that they paid him a whole bunch of money for,

I think $100 million at Netflix. What a surprise. He got an Oscar. And the director of this documentary that he made, which was about the American factory, got up and said, hey, we made this because we have a fundamental belief that the world will be a better place

when the workers of the world unite. Incredible. So, yeah, he's totally a centrist. Just come out and blurt it out. Blurt it out. Blurt it out. Do you remember when? Yes.

Do you remember when they would get mad at us for calling them socialists? Yes. That's one of the things we're going to do on Studeau's America tonight with Bernie. Because it's like, this is not long ago. Just very recently, there were articles and all sorts of things saying what a smear it was to call a Democrat a socialist. These Republicans have been. trying this forever. And it's not true. It's obviously not true. It's just a smear. And you know what? There's hints of racism behind it all over the place. Now they're like, oh yeah, the socialists.

Yeah, he's our frontrunner. It's crazy. Just blurting. I mean, it's amazing. By the way, Buttigieg, Maltese. Maltese, that's what I was thinking. Maltese. Maltese, where is that? And so I googled Maltese. All it is is the pictures of the pretty dogs. The adorable dogs. He's a little adorable puppy dog. He is half dog, half person? I think so. That is weird. I'm uncomfortable with that. I'm very uncomfortable.

How much of the Falcon is he? They do run polls and they say, I think it's 41% of African Americans are uncomfortable having a gay president. But how many are uncomfortable having a half man, half dog president? Right. It's got to be higher than that. It's got to be. It's got to be in the 80s. It's got to be low 80s.

You would think in the old days it would have been 100, you know, 100%. Maybe 99 with 1% like undecided. But now? Half dog people can just run for President Higgledy-piggledy, and nobody cares. That America, that's the state of our union today. Why didn't Trump put that in the speech? The best of the Glenn Beck program.

Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck program. If you like what you're hearing on this show, make sure you check out Pat Gray Unleashed. It's available wherever you download your favorite podcasts. The host of White House Brief, is John Miller and John was watching the Oscars last night and I think it was his first day with Twitter

and made a comment that John, John. Hi, Glenn. Hi. How long have we known each other? About 10 years, right? Right. What is your grade, what was your grade point average at Columbia University? It was right. It wasn't a four. It was close to it was a 3-7 around.

Right, right. So you're not a dummy. No. What part of Twitter is too complicated for you? It's not the matter. It's not, it's okay. If you're looking for insightful comments and, you know, and well-thought-out commentary, Twitter is not the place for you.

And when you're live tweeting an event like the Super Bowl or the Oscars, sometimes, you know, you don't phrase things as, as, uh, eloquently as you would like. No, I don't think this one is not eloquent. I think this is, I mean, I'm going to get, I'm going to defend you here in a second, but this is one of the dumbest tweets I've ever seen because it's like, you read it and you're like, what? Read the non- eloquent tweet here.

Yeah, okay. Do you have it? I can pull it up here. John, you probably have it memorized by now. I don't. But I do have it. but I do have it in my notification. All right, yeah, okay.

Here we go, here go. A man named Bong John Junho was a Wednesday Oscar for Best Original Screenplay over once upon a time in Hollywood in 1917. Acceptance speech was, great honor, thank you. Then he proceeds to give the rest of his speech in Korean. These people are the destruction of America. Now, if you read, if you're reading...

I'm a stand by the tweet up until that last line, which was badly written. First of all, let me just say. But let me just say, it was interpreted and I can see how it was interpreted that way. The interpretation was that I meant Koreans will be the downfall of America. Which would have worked in like 1952 on the media, but yeah, right.

I've never heard a lot of anti-Korean monologues from John Miller in the past. So I did not mean that Koreans would be the downfall of America. And, you know, you can't let the tweet sit in a vacuum, which I know is hard on Twitter. But if you look, there's a theme to my tweets, which the whole night I was complaining about, you know, the Oscars so woke problem. And I saw this foreign film, which frankly, I thought was okay, not great. Oh, John, your taste is all in your mouth. That was brilliant. As just another manifestation. I saw that as another manifestation of that. I mean, I was complaining about how there was not a single speech. That had been given. That was political. You know,

the thing started with Janelle Monet. She's complaining about the lack of female directors and how she's so happy to be a black queer woman there, Chris Rock, and what's these? Steve Martin. The white, Steve Martin. The white, look, you racist. White hair, white hair. By the way, John is a black man, and we all know, because we've been drilled on this, black men cannot be racist. That's what I thought, but that's where you'd be wrong, because I'm the most racist man on Twitter now.

Yeah. And then, you know, you've got Brad Pitt talking about Bolton. They love Bolton now, which I think is hilarious. They think he's the best and how he didn't get his 45 seconds to talk about. about the Trump situation, and then you just, and then you had Obama and Netflix documentary producer, that person quoting the communist manifesto in the speech. And then, you know, so I'm talking about all of that, and then you have the screenplay go to a foreign film, or, you know, it's now it's international film, which I thought

was undeserving. You know, I saw a parasite. I did fall asleep. Oh, John, John, John. And I was not impressed with it as much as I was some of the other film. So that was my thought process and then I, you know, I'm live tweeting the event and and then you just, your hatred for Koreans just jumps out. That's what that crept in. That's what that. Yeah. You're just like,

we should have won the Korean War. If you watch my, yeah, if you watch my show, that's one of the bigger themes. Your anti-Korean stance is pretty well known. I mean, when you, John, when you look at the context of your tweets, it describes exactly what you're saying, right? Like, there's, I don't think anybody could read

the tweets around this tweet and possibly believe it was it was about Koreans. That is the problem with Twitter. I think John Legend and his wife, Chrissy Teigen, you know, when they quote tweet you, the context kind of gets taken away. And then Hollywood starts going after you like a bunch of stars. But we always heard, we always heard that racism really was about a power dynamic. Chrissy Teigen and John Legend, aren't they more powerful than you?

They are. You would think that they would recognize that. And that's what we have been told is that it's, you know, black people can't be racist because in order to be racist, you have to be the underdog. Yes. Excuse me. You can't be the underdog and be racist. You have to be powerful. You have to be the one who is oppressing and has been oppressing for hundreds and hundreds of years. All of a sudden that switches, though, when Hollywood gets involved. Yeah, it's interesting. You as a young African-American gentleman building his own business after graduating from Columbia, you're a, you. are apparently the racist and Chrissy Teigen and every other woke white person who has been bashing you on Twitter, those people are not. And it is a fascinating dynamic, John, because, I mean, look, you can, this is an easy thing to do. And I think this is the biggest problem with Twitter. More than catching someone saying something bad, people try to catch people in the position where they can, like, they can actually say they believe.

it's bad, even if they know it's not, right? Like, if they can, you know, in a way, sort of like, communicate to the rest of the world that I, I believe this is terrible, whether they believe it or not. Even if they know if they read the other tweets, they'd probably be able to figure out that that is not what you were saying. But if you can convince the rest of your audience in some sort of a way that can explain and bring through the people to believe that that is what you meant,

that's enough on Twitter. Correct. Correct. And you know, the fascinating thing is that in the replies, you have all of these people who are, you know, they come at you with the normal slurs, which they always do, you know, they use towards black conservatives, Uncle Tom, Coon, House Negro, et cetera. And you have all these people who are supposed to be showing how tolerant they are and how much of a racist I am and how terrible of a person I am. Here's what Chrissy Teigen tweeted at me, just to show how lovely of an individual she is compared to how grotesque of an individual I am. She wrote, what a dumb effing tool you are.

Your family is embarrassed, because she apparently knows my family. She says, at gatherings, they are literally like, how's John doing that dumb little F-word tool? And everybody goes, yeah,

we don't care. He's an effing dumb S-word. And then she said, come say hi, if you're out tonight, because apparently, you know, these people in Hollywood think

that everybody lives in L.A. And goes out with them at night. She was hoping to see me. I didn't get a chance. Kansas. Oh, that would have been nice. I would have actually liked to see that conversation. Yeah, I would have been really sweet.

She's blurting out two-syllible words at max. I do, because that's a great point. I mean, here she is just breeding U.S. not only racist, but stupid. Again, like you, you know, and the powerful white woman. Well, what is, do you know? She might be a mix of some sort, but I'm not sure. She's not, I'm fully black.

And so she, you know, so she has a power dynamic over me still. Is that true? I don't, I don't know what the, the intersectional Olympics say about such a matter. We need to make... If she's any part white. Okay. Okay, there we go.

And her husband, too. Legend was doing it as well, right? Our boyfriend, whatever he is. Yeah, yeah. You were trending. You're still trending nationally. Congratulations. Thank you.

I'd like to be trending for other things than... But, you know, look, I'll take it. Other than your hatred for all Koreans? Koreans. Right. Such a odd hatred to pick up in the year 2020. It's just... John.

John, John, John. What are you thinking? Remember all the Korean restaurants we went to in the past? I love Korean food. You were always there going, I will not go in there with you. Those people are destroying. It's deep-seated. Yeah, yeah.

It is deep-seated hatred. Deep-seated hatred. Thank you for bringing that up. So what have you learned about this, John? Will you be live tweeting future award shows? Well, here's the hard thing about live tweeting is that, you know, you're trying to get out something very interesting to say about these things. Everybody does it, first of all.

But you're trying to say something interesting while trying not to miss the next crazy thing that is said. So you're kind of just like, ah, that looks good enough to me, hit send. And usually it doesn't result in being a nationally trending story. Usually it just results in like, you know, maybe a few people grumble about it. So this kind of changes my perspective on it a bit. You know, sometimes you do have to proofread and sometimes you do have to just not hit send. So I have to figure out how to a... Not hit send?

I could cut your thumbs off. How to maybe read the tweet over and just, you know, finesse it a bit. You know, they say everybody needs an editor. You know what's amazing is you get this rap for being this flame thrower and, you know, now racist against all Koreans. And you are, you've always been one of the most soft-spoken, non-confrontational kind of guys. And all of a sudden, you're like, yeah, crazy. I don't know if I'd confront her in person. That's the thing.

I think, you know, if I saw her in person, because, you know, they get vicious, especially in Hollywood, and, you know, they've got TMZ there and they feel empowered. And so, you know, in person, it might not be a, you know, I might be respectful. I might be nicer. But Twitter is a different animal. And that's probably, to be quite frank, the problem with Twitter is that it just lets everybody, you know, I doubt Chrissy Teigen would say any of that to my face. So it just lets everybody say whatever they want, you know, as aggressively as they want it.

And, you know, the problem is that's part of what makes Twitter fun. But it's also part of the part of Twitter that brings out the worst in us. Can you imagine, like, in all series, reverse this for just a second. If you had a conservative celebrity, right, out there and just someone makes a tweet, let's just say like one of these far left black, black, nationalist type of people they have on MSNBC all the time and tweeted something super super crazy about that and the white conservative was critical of this crazy liberal opinion

and used language like Chrissy Teigen used which is despicable in every single way this story would be totally reversed and the conservative would be the one in trouble today oh absolutely and is there any doubt in anyone's mind that that would be true no none no we have to play by different rules and i mean yeah we have to be aware of those rules but i i mean conservatives have always had to play by a different set of rules and uh and and that's just

that that that is just a reality um and to a certain extent we've accepted those rules haven't we we've we've we've said we don't get to we don't get the same luxuries as the left does and being understood we're not able to you know have people come to our defense and say well no you've got to look at the context you've got to look at everything um and in a certain way we kind of just said, well, these are the rules we have to play by. And in a way, we've lost in that sense where we've totally broken down and said, well, we're going to play by those rules because we still, to a certain extent, want to be, you know, a part of the club, and we still want to be accepted by, you know, whether it's Hollywood or the political elite here in D.C.

We've said, you know, we want them to a certain extent to accept us and to not disparage us. And we're going to accept some of their rules, not all of them maybe, but we're going to accept some of their rules so that they can accept us as legitimate and so that we can have credibility and so that they can see us as, you know, as not a wing nut and completely crazy. So to a certain extent, I believe on that front, we've lost because they don't give up crap. They'll say whatever kind of crazy crap they want and they'll get away with it. We've acknowledged we're not going to get away with it. And so we have to be a little more careful.

Well, I've learned a couple of things. I didn't go to college and even I'm better at Twitter than you are. Oh, you've never had a Twitter controversy, John. No, no worry about it. John, never. Now I'm going through Glenn your old tweet. No, that's never. I know there's something.

No, there's never been a problem with me. And the second is I've discovered that America suddenly cares that Chrissy Tegan can speak, which, who knew, who cared? With a lot of F-bombs and, you know, she can get them out. Yeah, thanks. Thanks so much. Appreciate it. I believe last time we heard from Chrissy Teagan, she invited you to lunch or something.

Remember that was going to happen at one point? What? You don't remember? She was in some, another previous thing with you. I don't remember exactly what the story was, but she was, I think it was a Rolling Stone interview,

and she wrote that, who do you want to go to lunch with more than anyone else? That's right. That's right. But that's when she just saw me as a piece of meat and I was not going to be her play thing. It was all about sex appeal. It was all, it was like, no, Chris.

No. No. Yeah. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Hey, it's Glenn, and if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray Unleashed. His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast. Hi, it's Glenn. If you're a subscriber to the podcast, can you do us a favor and rate us on iTunes?

If you're not a subscriber, become one today and listen on your own time. You can subscribe on iTunes. Thanks. So I want to play some audio from Rudy Giuliani. He was on Waters World on Fulner. Fox on Saturday night, and here is what he said. I have what I used to call when I was a U.S. Attorney of Smoking Gun. This is a money laundering transaction.

It occurred just at the time that Shokin was fired, and it's about $14.6 million. And this is a notice from the Latvian government to the Ukrainian government that Hunter Biden is under investigation for corruption, corruption affair. And then it lays out, I'll simplify it. 14.8 million goes from Ukraine to a company in Latvia disguised as a loan. Then it goes from Latvia to another company disguised as another loan in Cyprus. And then it goes to the U.S. We lose track of it because when Shokin gets it, just about the day he's fired.

There's no money in here for Devin Archer and Hunter Biden. So this is the document that I showed you last week. Rudy Giuliani is releasing this now. We released this last week. This went to Senator Grassley's office. What was it on Friday morning? And they are investigating Hunter Biden now for money laundering. This is the prosecutor's office from the Republic of Latvia,

Office for Prevention of Laundering of Proceeds derived from criminal activity. This was sent to the Ukrainian FIU, that's the financial intelligence unit. The subject is Burisma Holding Limited. Let me just read it to you. It says, Dear Colleagues, the Office for Prevention of Laundering of Proceeds derived from Criminal Activity, further in text, the Latvian FIU, is currently investigating suspicious activity of Burisma holding Limited. According to publicly available information, Burisma Holding Limited and its director, Hunter Biden, are involved in a corruption affair. The following transactions made to Burisma Holding

Limited account as Pravat Bank are known to the Latvian FIU, from July of 2012 until July of 2015. Now, by the way, this memo was issued before Trump was in office. $14,665,982 U.S. dollars and $336,015,000 were received from WireLogic technology as payments for a loan agreement. Now, if you watch the show on Thursday night, you realize that loans are the way this happens. You loan somebody, you know, a bunch of money. They make payments on that loan. It's all in dirty money. Then they default on the rest of the loan.

The person who's been cleaning the money says, okay, well, we're going to cut our losses here. And we'll send you back your million dollars, if you will. But we're going to keep 10% of it because that's our fee for such a hard time doing business with you. you. So loans are the way money laundering happens. So the first one is $14 million, just almost $15 million from wire logic technology. Then from July 2015 till December 2015, a total of $1,964,375 U.S. dollars were received from Digitech organization as payments for other loan agreements. The funds were partially transferred from

Barisma Holding Limited account to Devon Archer Hunter, Hunter Biden, Alan Aptor, and Alexander Kwanazniewski, I think. See, attached for partial movement of funds. The Latvian FIU turns to the Ukrainian

FIU and kindly ask for the following information. Are the mentioned companies known to the Ukrainian FIU? If so, for what reason? please confirm if any of these persons are suspected of corruption or any other criminal offense and if criminal proceedings have been initiated. Is there any information that the funds transferred to Burisma holding limited account have criminal origin?

No, they had an origin of us. On the grounds of possible legalization of proceeds derived from criminal activity and corruption, please grant us permission to share the information included in the reply to this request with Latvia and law enforcement entities for intelligence use purposes only. That's the whole memo. That's what it says. Post this at glenbeck.com. But this is what Rudy Giuliani says, is the smoking gun. Jason Buttrills with us, and Jason has been on this particular document since we got it in December. Can I just put the timeline in context? Yes.

So that is, what's it say? It's February 20th? This comes out February 18th, 2016. Okay. So this is sent at a time when the left and the media has told everyone, all of you, that there was no investigation going on at the time with Burisma. So firing the prosecutor general, Biden getting him fired, had nothing at all to do with the investigation because it was dormant. You know, we've heard that all over the place.

It was dormant. Right. Now, that memo was sent just a couple of weeks after we have shown you. and the Ukrainian media, that that is false, that Shokin, the Prosecutor General, initiated, started seizing the property of Burisma, started seizing it. And he said in an interview that his very next move

was to interview very specifically, Devin Archer and Biden Jr. Okay, so this memo comes out before he files that court move after. After. That's the Latvian government saying, oh, there's this case. Look what we found.

Would this be interesting to you? Right. And then Biden comes just a couple of weeks later, does he not? Yes, and gets him fired. And gets him fired. So the media is shown by this document as being total and complete liars that there was nothing going on. Everyone had looked into it. There was nothing.

This was a bad prosecutor. We told you on Thursday that's not true because of this document. this document in place with the prosecutor general in Ukraine, him, his paperwork, which we have also shown you, filing court proceedings to go after Burisma for money laundering and corruption, then this document, then two weeks later, Joe Biden comes in and gets that guy fired. Right. Now tell me that there was nothing going on. Tell me that this was a dormant investigation.

It clearly wasn't. This is a case that, which you pointed out on the special, that they had been on since 2014 money laundering from Burisma. They knew money was getting put into Burisma and it was just going poof. And it was all coming through Privat Bank, which it says in that document as well. And by the way, when we're talking money, your money, your money, $1.8 billion of your hard-earned tax money. gone, just disappeared.

And now most of that money goes to shell companies, which we cannot track. That's why this is so crucial, because most of the time it goes to a random shell company in Belize or Cyprus or whatever. Now we have a firm destination that's not a shell company, and it's a U.S. citizen. Laundered funds went to Hunter Biden as per this document. So now, now do you see why this is so important for us to look into him? It has nothing to do with politics. We now have the end point for some of this laundered money that might be our 1.8 missing billion dollars. And it goes directly to Hunter Biden.

If it's not our part of our $1.8 billion, this is the system they've used to launder our $1.8 billion. It is not as important to make sure that Hunter Biden is arrested for this and maybe Joe Biden or anyone else involved. It's to me more important that we find out what happened to that 1.8 because it explains a lot. It explains the entire Russian relationship right now. I believe that the federal government could verify that there was a secret war that was authorized by Barack Obama against Russia. He didn't want anything to do with Russia. He wasn't for wars. That's not his style.

A million miles away. But Hillary Clinton and the State Department, they knew what that meant when the Maidan was happening and the revolution was coming. If the United States didn't stand with Ukraine, Russia could have crippled them. But if you have a president who doesn't want anything to do with that, what do you do? Joe Kerry, John Kerry, actually confirmed while on the campaign trail in Iowa for Joe Biden. Do we still have that clip from last week where he is confirming that, yeah, this was known from the top.

And it's interesting because what he says was we had to get that prosecutor out, not because he was corrupt, but because we had to win the war of Maidan, which is the the name of their revolution. We had to win the war. Ukrainians had to win this war. Listen. I will tell you, because as Secretary of State, I was deeply involved in this, all of us in the administration were trying to get rid of that prosecutor. From Obama to the Secretary of State to the Vice President, all of us were working on that, the ambassador, and we knew if Ukraine was going to survive and win the revolution

in the end, the Maidan. They had to get rid of that prosecutor, and they did. Why? Why would they have to get rid of that prosecutor? Why would they have to protect something that they had the documentation on that was in

a major international money laundering scheme? And that Hunter Biden was specifically involved and named by a foreign country as a recipient of some of this foreign money laundered money. It doesn't make any sense.

And even more so in the context of this prosecutor hadn't even been on the job for a year yet. Not even a year. They tried to make Shokin out to be this crazy bad guy that was, he was there for, I think, 10 months at this point? Ten months. Like how many cases could he even look in at that point? The other prosecutor that was, that I think everyone conflates with Shokin, he was the guy

that wouldn't look into a lot of cases. And so they got him fired from the get-go. That was right after the revolution, the light on, this one prosecutor. Because the one thing the Ukrainian people want is a cleanup of the corruption. They know the corruption is what's killing their country. And wasn't Shokin initially Obama's like chosen replacement for the corruption? Yeah, we've had two of good guys that became prosecutor generals. The first one was Shokin.

And he was like, get rid of that one guy because he won't investigate some of these things. This was back in 2014. So Shokin goes in. Then he's literally on for a handful of months. And oh my gosh, somehow he became this crazy guy we have to get rid of. Because of the quoting John Kerry, we had to get rid of him if we were going to win the revolution. What does that even mean? What does that even mean?

Unless you're laundering money and you are using the main recipient, Kolomoisky, who we've told you about, is, is far worse, far worse than Tony Soprano. This is a guy who executes his rivals with a chainsaw to the neck. He beheads with chainsaws. Why did we, at the same time, we're getting this from Latvia, saying, hey, they're laundering money. Why at the same time is Joe Biden saying, you know what, give him a visa? He's a good guy.

He can do international business wherever he wants. His son is working for him. $1.8 billion goes into his bank where it suddenly disappears. Then he's made a governor of the state, one of the states in Ukraine, that's right at the war lines, the battle lines of Russia, where all of it is heating up. And that guy becomes known as the guy who finances the war against Russia. This is really not that hard to figure this out. More in just a second.