The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guests: Mark Meadows & Bill O'Reilly | 12/9/21

Episode Date: December 9, 2021

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows joins to discuss his lawsuit against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and the January 6 Committee. Bill O’Reilly joins for his weekly news recap to di...scuss President Biden’s phone call with Putin, Ukraine, and his upcoming tour with President Trump. Glenn and Stu discuss the possibility of a ghost haunting Glenn’s museum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 On today's program, Mark Meadows is joining us. He was the chief of staff for Donald Trump. He is suing Nancy Pelosi. We'll tell you why. Also, Bill O'Reilly stops by to talk a little bit about Putin and Biden. Do you believe in ghosts? We have evidence that no one here can explain something is going on in a kind of a dark section of our Mercury Museum, where there's an electric chair.
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Starting point is 00:01:42 Former White House Chief of Staff, senior partner now at Conservative Partner Institute, and a guy who's filing a lawsuit against Nancy Pelosi which let's just pause for a second and revel in that news. Mark Meadows is with us. Hi, Mark.
Starting point is 00:02:03 It's great to be with you. Thanks so much. And thanks for always bringing the truth to the American people. I try. Mark. I know that you served Donald Trump very, very well. He used to always say, this guy never stops working, and I know that to be true. Tell me what's going on, because first you said you weren't going to testify January 6th, right?
Starting point is 00:02:28 Well, there was a whole lot that was actually written about what was happening and what was not happening, just to be blunt. And I can tell you that from day one, what we said was we were always going to honor the president's executive privilege. It's not my privilege to waive. It's not, I'm not going to be the first chief of staff to waive it. I don't think that, you know, compelling his chief of staff to come to Congress to testify is something that historically has ever been done and certainly is not a good precedent. started. That being said, we've been in negotiations for, you know, for several, several weeks and months, being very clear that the president's executive privilege would always be protected. We have, we tried to reach an accommodation. We were working on that accommodation, providing
Starting point is 00:03:29 some of the documents. Then it became very apparent that they were going to continue to ask about conversations that I've had with either the president or other senior staff as it related to some of those non-privileged documents. And then over the last 72 hours or so
Starting point is 00:03:52 prior to filing the lawsuit, you know, a subpoena arrived where they were actually looking for all of the communication from my personal cell phone device subpoenaing, my uh and when that happened it it became very obvious that there's any limits on what they were
Starting point is 00:04:18 looking for and uh the overreach the constitutional overreach in my opinion uh not where i could voluntarily come in and uh and participate for a deposition and we also know um i mean we we know they've already made up their minds on what happened they did this with donald trump in the impeachment and it was grotesque what they did. But the critics, no, CNN would say that, well, what do you have to hide, Mark? What is it that you're hiding? Why won't you share all these things? Can you explain why presidential privilege is so important, not just for this president, but for presidents down the road? Well, for every president and certainly for every chief of staff, it's not only that. They're, you know, they say, well, what do you have to hide? You know, I've,
Starting point is 00:05:13 I've publicly have stated that, to my knowledge, no one in the West Wing had any advanced knowledge that there would be a breach of security at the Capitol on January 6. And I've shared that publicly and privately. But at the same time, what, you know, to have them have me come in and say, well, what did you tell the president? What was your conversation? You know, at this point, what it does is just empowers them. And you're right. All of people on the January 6th Commission have all voted for impeachment. You know, so I don't know that they're neutral arbiters of the truth. As you know, I've got a new book out, The Chief's Chief, and they said, well, you know, you talk about things in the chief's chiefs, and, and the, you know, the subject
Starting point is 00:06:06 matters in there are not the intimate conversations that a chief of staff would have with the President of the United States. And so, for me, it is far too expansive. And I'm caught between a rock and a heart place, truthfully, Glenn. I mean, when you really look at, this is what courts are for. If this is something that the courts would, you know, believe is constitutional and should weigh in, should a president, a current president, be able to waive the executive privilege of a previous president, it would set in my mind a very dangerous precedent where just different parties would then essentially use both Congress and this waiver to actually just look at political appoint opponents and it's just not where what our founding fathers i think envisioned you know mark i've i've
Starting point is 00:07:02 talked to mark uh to mike lee about this and i and i've always disagreed with this until i talked to mike i said why didn't we go after you know nixon why didn't we go after uh Hillary clinton and he said it's really distasteful but he said i think it's right he said once you open that can of worms on your opponent after they left office. He said, that's what happens in Banana Republics. He said, because then it will be used for sheer political purposes to destroy the other party or the other candidates of the future. And he said, he said, I think it's just way too dangerous to do that.
Starting point is 00:07:45 Do you agree with that? Well, it is. I do. And, you know, there's sometimes when, you know, when, you know, when you. you're in power that you would love to have the ability to use the, you know, the law and the rules to your point. And Senator Lee is right there. I mean, you know, I'm not one to basically put a motive behind a particular individual, but I am here to say that I do know, and, you know, obviously for filing the lawsuit against Speaker Pelosi and the January 6th committee
Starting point is 00:08:20 is, you know, it needs to have legitimate legislative purpose. It can't be just a fishing expedition and the broad scope of everything that appears that they're looking at. You know, it's troubling. Now, some of those questions are not going to get answered in this lawsuit. You know, should Congress have the ability to subpoena just about everybody's record? Well, that becomes a dangerous path to go down as well. well, but certainly this question of executive privilege and the broad scope of what they're doing would have a chilling effect on future chiefs of staff and senior advisors to the President of the United States
Starting point is 00:09:04 in any future administration. Can you imagine, you know, all of a sudden a Republican president in 2024 and then there's a subpoena for Joe Biden's chief of staff and, you know, all his personal records and official records as well. So this is what courts are designed to do. We felt like that this particular lawsuit was necessary to at least bring the question and hopefully have the courts weigh in on it. Whether it changes my outcome or not, I don't know. I mean, I think this is perfectly reasonable for people to understand that. Because when you say that about Joe Biden, yeah, you know, if there's something criminal that was going on, I would want to talk to the chief of staff, but I would also want it to be very, very narrow.
Starting point is 00:09:57 You know, it's kind of like a search warrant. You can't just kick my house, my door down and say, yeah, we're looking for stuff. You have to say, I know that we believe this is here and this specifically is what we're looking for. And if the courts decided that, I, you know. Yeah, well, and they should, but here's the interesting point, Glenn. And it's important that you put that criminal component there. That's a law enforcement issue. That would be an issue for the FBI or other law enforcement entities.
Starting point is 00:10:31 That's not under the purview of Congress to do law enforcement. There's a strictly legislative. And so when you look at that, there are already provisions for sharing of information if fraud or criminal activity took place. And so I appreciate you making the distinction because that is a significant one. But again, I'm not an attorney. I can tell you this, that hopefully the courts will weigh in and that they will look at this. And that's what they're set up for due. You know, when there's a dispute between the executive and legislative branch, hopefully they will weigh in in a real way.
Starting point is 00:11:12 Do you – I'm just trying – I was trying to think about this from your perspective this morning. And I trust Congress and the FBI and everybody with, I mean, I have, there's no trust left in me on these things. It's all become political to me. And I know testifying in front of Congress, they have anything they want to do, they can do. And you're in trouble. You know, you, they decide you're in trouble, you're in trouble. But more importantly, they destroy people. reputations. Howard Hughes is one of the only ones that I know that came out unscathed
Starting point is 00:11:51 in something like this. Do you worry that because they can't get Donald Trump, because there's nothing there, that they are just looking for someone to hang this on, even if they can't really prove it, they just want to, they need a bad guy's head? Well, obviously, again, I don't want to ascribe motives to particular members of Congress. but the political nature is not lost on me. I, you know, obviously when you look at that, I think that you can tell from some of the public comments that members of the January 6th Committee have already made, continue to make.
Starting point is 00:12:33 You know, this is more of a political narrative than it is a legislative one. And, you know, there's a lot of people claiming the fifth, or at least I'm reading about that. You know, for me, I felt like it was important. from a constitutional standpoint that we fight back on this executive privilege and the scope of this investigation. You know, listen, I trust in the Lord, and that's where I put my trust. And I can tell you at this point, I'm fervently praying. And, you know, Congress will do what they typically always do,
Starting point is 00:13:13 and overreach is one of those attributes. So when the courts decide, if they decide, you have to testify, you will testify. You have to testify. Yeah, I mean, you know, obviously they're the neutral arbiter in all of this. You know, certainly in sharing that, I think that many of the Democrat members of Congress will be very disappointed with the facts and what actually happened, you know, with regards to, you know, President Trump and his team. I, you know, and at the same time, you know, I think that they're going to move ahead with contempt and hold me in contempt before that.
Starting point is 00:13:55 I'm hopeful that the courts will weigh in. All right. Mark Meadows, best of luck. Thanks, Glenn. I appreciate it. And thank you for you and all your listeners. And really appreciate it. You got it.
Starting point is 00:14:08 We'll keep you in our prayers. Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff, who has just filed a lawsuit. against Pelosi and the January 6th committee members let the Supreme Court decide whether or not executive privilege should be violated for this. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Bill O'Reilly, welcome to the program. I know you've got a busy weekend this weekend and wanted to get you on it. Just first of all, can you comment on what Mark just said? I think Mr. Meadows missed the main point that, President Barack Obama signed an executive order that says executive privilege extends to presidents
Starting point is 00:14:58 after they leave the White House. That order is still in play, has not been overridden by Congress, which is the only way executive orders can get off the books. Now, that says it all. So there's no way this committee in Congress will win the lawsuit because this is on the record. Right. And it's... They can't win. I mean, if you say executive privilege and you're Donald Trump, which obviously he is, and that extends to Mr. Meadows and everybody else in a White House time.
Starting point is 00:15:35 So this is all a charade and nonsensical exercise in the exact opposite of what I'll be doing on Saturday and Sunday. which is the beginning of your Trump tour. The history tour. It's very important that people understand that this is, I'm going to get on the record, Beck. I'm going to get on the record things you do not know. I'm not going to get on the political merry-go-round, re-litigate the election, no.
Starting point is 00:16:06 And, you know, here's some interesting. I was going to lead with the Vax and COVID, because that affects every American. But now I've shifted into Putin. because of what he was doing. And that'll be the lead. That'll be the first topic that President Trump and I discuss. And I'm off today.
Starting point is 00:16:24 I'm actually talking to you, and that's the last bit of work, and it is work to talk to you, Beck. You don't know the half of it, brother. Try it from my side. Yeah, I'm researching like crazy. You know, to find things that are on a record that I can present to President. I would really like to know. the process of making Israel, making, I'm sorry, Jerusalem, the embassy site in Israel.
Starting point is 00:16:55 Every president has said, no, I know the State Department pushed back. What kind of pushback did he get that we don't know of? You should write that down on a card and give it to me if you can. I know you're going to be watching the show because I'm not going to do that in the front line. first half of the show. There's just too many direct things that I have to deal with that are in the news now and affecting people's lives, like the economy and inflation. I thought this was a history tour. It is the history tour, but there's a finite amount of time. It's two hours. It doesn't sound like a history tour. Does it sound like a history tour? You know, we're going to have a lot of bouncers at this tour back. They're going to know where you're sitting? Yeah, where am I sitting? Where am I sitting in a good, do I have a good seat? Do I have a good seat, Bill?
Starting point is 00:17:44 Yeah, you'll be up with the folks. Up with the folks. So I'm in the balcony. Is that what you're saying? I haven't located it quite yet. Okay, yeah. I think you're sitting next to Bet Midler. I'm not.
Starting point is 00:17:57 I'm serious now. But back, I'm serious now. Write this question down and hand it to me. I'm not going to give it to you. Because I can do that in the Q&A portion, which is the second part of the program. If I decide to, and if an usher will come all the way up there to collect. my question, then maybe, then maybe. You could hang glide down.
Starting point is 00:18:19 Hey, real quick, before we take a quick break, how much time do we have? One minute. Do you see that the Pope said, you know, sleeping before marriage, you know, having sex before marriage, not a big deal. As a Catholic. Why didn't he say that 50 years ago for me? You know? I mean, I'm sitting there going, what?
Starting point is 00:18:41 I mean? I'm not sure if he, you know, he's not sure if he, he's entirely Catholic or not. What is he thinking? I don't know what he's thinking. He's the Pope, and I want to stay on his good side back, just like you.
Starting point is 00:18:55 I don't know. No, no, no, I don't mind being on the bad side of this Pope, but maybe that's just me. I've got Bill O'Reilly on, and I want to talk to him about what President Biden did with Vladimir Putin,
Starting point is 00:19:09 and I think it's the Washington Post that said he laid a red line. down. Oh, dear God. I hope it's not like a red line that Barack Obama laid down. How do you think that went? What do you think is going to come of that? Well, they say they talk for two hours, and I find that very hard to believe, because if it was that long, Biden would have needed a nap in between. Two hours is not, you know, something that he does. So, you know, it's hard to be precise on this because we just don't know. Not a lot of leaks. If we're Trump talking to Putin, you would add the transcript about 15 minutes after they hung up. Yep. You know, there's no leaks from the Biden people, which is a tribute to Ron Clayne, the chief of staff.
Starting point is 00:20:00 So I assume they all have little chips implanted in them. And if they leak anything, you go right away. Well, I don't think. I mean, the one thing that Biden has that Donald Trump didn't is no enemies around him. Oh, I don't know about that. You know, these people that get into politics for a living, you know, the swamp, they can be bought. And then there's a lot of that going on. And certainly the big news agencies would want to know if anything extraordinary took place. but we don't know. So let me give you a big, an outline, and I'll tie it in because I'm hoping President Trump
Starting point is 00:20:43 will illuminate this further on Saturday. So Putin's a bad guy. In addition to being annoying, he is one of the most annoying people on the planet. Because all he wants is attention. He's five foot four. He doesn't wear shirts. I mean, that's all he wants. I didn't know he was five foot four.
Starting point is 00:21:04 That explains a lot. Yeah, the guys wearing Tom Jones heels, and he barely gets up to five, six. Okay? So he's just a little nebish, you know, who made his reputation in the KGB, slapping six foot four people like me around. And so he's super annoying because he doesn't have to do any of this. The second thing is that he sees a corrupt oligarch. Putin's one of the wealthiest men in the world.
Starting point is 00:21:33 and his wealth is centered in Zurich, Switzerland, in a number of numbered accounts, where his girlfriend lives. The girlfriend doesn't want to live in Moscow or St. Petersburg. Why would you want to live there? She's in Zurich, watching the money. How did he get the money? Kickbacks from all of the Russian industries and mass troops on the border of Ukraine. Because NATO is not going to invade Russia. and NATO's not even going to accept Ukraine.
Starting point is 00:22:11 They may give him a little aid here and there, but what is this? It's just to get Putin in the news. He's totally opposite Xi in China, by the way. So I want to get into this with Trump. I want to know if Putin speaks English, for example. Yeah, I thought of that too. Yeah. Does he speak English?
Starting point is 00:22:29 I mean, after all these years of torturing Western people, maybe picked up a few curse words. He doesn't respond. He watches the interpreter as if he understands none of it. And I'll bet you he speaks really, or at least he understands English 100%. So I can certainly read the Wall Street Journal. Okay. So anyway, Fidel Castro did the same thing. Castro spoke English, but he would never speak it.
Starting point is 00:22:57 Right. So anyway, all Putin wants is to, you know, present himself to Russian people as a mini Mussolini. And he struts around. So you got to deal with it. I mean, Trump had to deal with it in Helsinki. Biden had to deal with it on the call. But Putin doesn't care what you say. However, there's one thing that could bring Putin to his knees,
Starting point is 00:23:19 and that is if Joe Biden signs an executive order, that says no American banks do business with Russia, and if a foreign bank does, we're not going to do business with that foreign bank. That strangles the economy, Putin's network. drops 80 billion, that is the way to go. Now, I assume that was the red line you mentioned, that the banks. Russia needs the currency because they can't survive without international money going in there. Well, I, you know, I don't know what the red line was, but, you know, I would take Biden his word when he says, you know, I can cripple an economy because he's done it
Starting point is 00:24:05 here. So I think he's probably practice. Yeah, he's got a lot of practice over here. And, you know, but he can't shut down the Nordstrom or whatever it is pipeline. Yeah. Nordstrom. It's Nord something. Yeah. And there's the Germans are sitting there going, and they made a deal with the devil. Merkel, thank God Merkel's out of there. Oh. So they make the deal with the devil that they're going to take natural gas from Russia, Germany now, and the pipeline goes from Russia right into Germany under the Baltic Sea. And now, Russia gets currency from Germany. But if Biden says, no,
Starting point is 00:24:45 no more foreign currency going into Russia, then the Germans are going to freeze their tushes off. What is, what are the odds that he does cross that border and goes in and takes Ukraine? You know, I would say 4 to 1 against I don't think that he wants at this juncture to provoke that kind of reaction because the Russian economy is fairly weak
Starting point is 00:25:12 and you know, you're just basically putting your country into a depression. It's like China. China's not going to do anything until after the Olympics. I mean, they could saber out all I want, but they're putting on an exposition in February and March that will rival Hitler's Olympics in the mid-1930s.
Starting point is 00:25:33 It's the same kind of propaganda outfit. Should we be boycotting that? No, no. Why? Because you've got to engage China. And this is another Trump topic. I don't know whether he agrees with me or not. But China is close to us as far as power is concerned.
Starting point is 00:25:53 Not quite as powerful, but they're close. if you push them away and embarrass them and poke them and do all kinds of things, it's much more likely that they will invade Taiwan, that they will help North Korea, that they will even help Putin. So you don't want to do that. So they made some stupid diplomatic gesture that means nothing. And I didn't think that was a wrong move by Biden. So you disagreed with Donald Trump's approach with the sanctions and how tough he was on
Starting point is 00:26:26 on China. It depends what area it was in. He was tough on trade. Trade. But he never humiliated Xi, and he never went in and said, you know, in a bellicose way.
Starting point is 00:26:43 It was, Trump was all about making deals. And if he didn't like the deal, then he'd say, well, we're not going to let you do this, or you're going to have to pay more to get your goods into.
Starting point is 00:26:52 That's a tariff. They did that, but that wasn't, you know, provoking anybody to invade or bomb or anything like that. Last thing, Bob Dole is lying in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Joe Biden is going to give a speech, yada, yada, I remember in 1992 that Bob Dole seemed to be the oldest man on earth.
Starting point is 00:27:15 He was, I believe, 68 when he ran. Hillary Clinton is now 74. Biden is 79. Trump 75. Nancy Pelosi is 81. Mitch McConnell is 79. Bob Dole was a spring chicken in comparison. Yeah, because we have a system now where it is very difficult to move on up to the east side,
Starting point is 00:27:43 as the Jefferson's once saying. You have in Washington maybe a half dozen people in the House and Senate to call all the shots. 100% of the shots. Didn't you used to be that way. You used to be able to kind of gather power like Dold did in Kansas and kind of, you know, go right through the system. That's why he got the nomination for president. He never had a chance.
Starting point is 00:28:09 Right. I mean, you know, come on. But he was a very brave man. Yeah, he was. And I don't know. I don't know if Americans understand how the Battle of Anzio, you know, if you read my book on World War II, killing Patton. You know, Dahl, he was right in the middle of this thing and he got, you know,
Starting point is 00:28:30 wounded for his whole life. Very patriotic guy. I think he tried to do the right thing. No taint of corruption around him. So I'm glad he's getting the honor that he is getting. So the thing I thought of was that Bob Dole came from the generation that was the hero generation of World War II. And they, you know, they didn't come back and write a bunch of books and beat their chest or anything. They just went back to work. And they were generally a humble group of people. The people we have in now are the 60s generation who think that the moon and stars have been hung by them in the age of Aquarius. And they're just not going anywhere.
Starting point is 00:29:14 They're just holding on where Bob, he did his deal and he moved on. You know, I said on Bill O'Reilly.com on the notes of the news the other night that what Americans of all ages don't understand is a vast gulf between the baby boom generation. That's me. Are you in the boomers? Did you make it into the boomer? Just the last year is my... Yeah, so you're a boomer. I know the boomers are trying to expel you, but you're in there.
Starting point is 00:29:44 And be fine with that. Okay. Yeah. The vast difference. because we were raised under parents and grandparents who endured incredible hardship with the Great Depression in World War II. And sacrifice for the good of the country was the mantra. And if you didn't do that, you were ostracized. You were a villain.
Starting point is 00:30:08 Now it's 100% different. It's all about you. You, you, you. where's mine? I want. And so, with that mentality, that's selfish, selfish mentality that has permeated into the baby boom generation, by the way. I mean, we're not impervious to this, that you have a totally different societal outlook. And that's why the permissiveness and the violent crime and you let homeless people overrun property and you let them shoot up narcotics, you let them do whatever they want. Okay? That's just stunning.
Starting point is 00:30:49 And the few greatest generation people who are left. Bill O'Reilly, thank you very much. We'll see you in Florida. If you want to see the Trump History Tour with Bill O'Reilly, it begins this weekend, Saturday in Florida, and you can get tickets and all the information at Bill O'Reilly.com. Thanks, Bill. All right. Always fun. Thank you. See you on Saturday. Well, I'll see you. I'm not sure I'm going to, you know, stop in and say hello. be up in the rafters. It'll need oxygen.
Starting point is 00:31:19 I don't think that's... I mean, I don't think you're going to be that high. You should still be able to breathe. The best of the Glenn Beck program. You know the best part of the holiday season is the food. I mean, come on. Really? The true meaning of Christmas, yada, yada, yada. But how about the smell and the taste
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Starting point is 00:32:58 so that seems really good. We've known about it for what, a week now? It was right around Thanksgiving. Yeah. And early studies are now showing that the symptoms are much milder than the COVID other COVID strains. And early studies are showing that it is far more transmissible than the dominant delta strain. Here's why this is really good news. this could be the dominant strain and it will kill out all of the other strains.
Starting point is 00:33:33 It could just become a bad flu, which we'll have to deal with for the rest of our lives. That's what I said would probably happen. I think this was back in January when we were first talking about it. I said, this could be, you know, another flu like the 1918 Spanish flu, which is what we have. That's flu season. that's just a different strain from the 1918 flu. It became very mild and we deal with it every year. And that's what will eventually, hopefully happen to COVID-19.
Starting point is 00:34:05 It'll just become a mild flu. And that's what it looks like that Omicron is all about. But you would not know that listening to the experts. They are still freaking out about it. And part of your job as a leader is to not freak out. Say, we don't know yet. We don't know. Let's leave it at that.
Starting point is 00:34:26 Just stay vigilant and we don't know. But everybody seems to be freaking out. It's hard, though, when you're the government and you're saying, believe me, I am the voice of science. You can't say you don't know. You know, that's the problem. The truth is they don't know. Right? I mean, they don't know.
Starting point is 00:34:46 It just started. There are indications, as you point out, that maybe it's a little bit less virulent. Maybe it's a little bit more transmissible. but I don't even think they have that lockdown yet, frankly. They don't know. And it's like, instead of just saying like, look, this is something to keep an eye on, let's see what's going on. You know, South Africa is a little bit ahead of us.
Starting point is 00:35:04 We're seeing what's going on there. It seems like it could be X, Y, and Z. But we don't know. Obviously, if you've watched us the last 18 months, you know we don't know. You know we don't know. And let's just tell you that we don't know. And you should go out there and take the information. you can get and assess your own risk and live your life.
Starting point is 00:35:26 So here's the thing. From the San Francisco Chronicle, they reported yesterday, so far only one person in the U.S. has been hospitalized with Omicron. And there have been no deaths linked to this mutation. The New York Times reports that while hospitalization and deaths are rising in the United States, it is, quote, almost all due to the Delta variant. Yeah, it's 99.9% of cases are the Delta variant. right now. And now Omicron is not, that's not the case in South Africa. So the South,
Starting point is 00:35:58 Africa looks to be the new cases, the dominant variant is Omicron. So it does seem to be past being passed around pretty quickly. But we'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We will see. But that's optimistic news. And let's just continue to watch it. Yes. Instead of panicking everybody about everything. Um, now I have some video. And I rolled my eyes when I first heard about it and then I watched the video. This is video captured by our security guard that is that looks at a bank of cameras every night. He's here by himself and a few of the cameras are in the secure vault area where we keep a lot of antiquities. And when I got here, one morning last week, this particular guard was as white as the driven snow.
Starting point is 00:37:02 He was shaking and he said, I have to, he said to the chief of security, I have to show you something because I think there are ghosts in the museum and in the vault. And Craig kind of rolled his eyes and went, uh-huh. Okay. And he said, no, no, I want you to watch. And we watched it on the playback from the security cameras. We have all kinds of sensors and alarms. Nothing went off.
Starting point is 00:37:35 But we can't figure out what this is. And I want to play it. If you happen to be watching on the Blaze, I want to play this for you. We have probably, I don't even know, 20 cameras all over. And none of the cameras have ever shown. own anything like this. Here it is. This is in the exhibit hall.
Starting point is 00:37:59 And if you're, you're seeing there is one, something that looks like a cloud of smoke comes in from one corner and then disappears and then another one goes to the opposite corner
Starting point is 00:38:17 slowly across the screen. It is really bizarre. It sort of looks like an animal at times, but then it sort of dissolves. Right. Now, go to the, can you go to the other ones? There's another one here that comes from the opposite direction. And what's kind of spooky is where these things are either coming from or going to is right around old sparky.
Starting point is 00:38:46 We have in one area of the museum in the exhibit hall, look at that thing. we have sitting there old sparky this is the electric chair from the new york prison uh and we have a guillotine from france look at that that's slow motion what is that stu i certainly don't know but i mean i guess it could i mean that that is moving that is like a round ball of something moving very quickly i mean i guess in theory. Some of them look like potentially you could say they're just like pieces of dust or debris moving close to the camera, right? Like a lot closer to the camera than the floor is. Uh-huh. How come no other cameras are showing those things? Why is no other camera anywhere in- If it's close to the camera, only the camera that it's close to would show it. But you would have, if that was dust, you would see that occasionally on other cameras because it's not like the exhibit hall is just dust. Yeah. All of the cameras are exactly the same.
Starting point is 00:39:56 They're just pointed in different directions. And only this one by the electric chair and the guillotine and some of the stuff from Auschwitz all in that area. And that's where we're seeing this. Now, some people said that they could see a face in that. And if that's true, do you have the picture of the face I think it does look like? There, look it. It looks like Thomas the Tank. I don't know that it looks like Thomas.
Starting point is 00:40:28 It looks like a ball. It looks like a ball. It does. Or Thomas the Tank. That's a round face just like that. Yeah. I'm just telling you. Maybe Thomas the Tank.
Starting point is 00:40:38 So do you have a theory on this? I mean, it's this a Raiders of the Lost Ark thing? What's going on? Yeah, no, I don't have a theory on it. I mean, I believe in, I believe in angels. I believe in spirits.
Starting point is 00:40:51 I believe that there is a thin line between, you know, the two worlds. I'm not one for ghosts, you know. I'm trapped here because I was connected to the electric chair. I don't believe in that kind of stuff. Seems like you do. Seems like you do. There could be an explanation for it. I don't think it's the dust explanation because we would have seen it on the other cameras.
Starting point is 00:41:20 Well, the other cameras, there are other images going by that look different than the one I was just talking about. Like, it does look like it. It's almost like it looks like it's galloping in some weird way. Right. Yeah. And in that exhibit hall, we've never seen that. And it only happened. This guy watches these monitors every night.
Starting point is 00:41:41 And he was like, it was that night. Look it. Look what happened. He's here every night watching these monitors. Well, the only. the only explanation is our evil spirits from the Nazi you are such a jerk the Nazi boxes
Starting point is 00:41:58 all so are you so you don't believe in so you don't believe in any of that in in the ghosts running around your museum well it did we see Nicholas Cage at any point no but it does look a little like what I saw in Ghostbusters the guy one that was eating the hot dogs I will say it is a low
Starting point is 00:42:20 resolution camera That is that that one thing is really low. It's very pixelated. No, that close-up was. You could see the individual pixels. Do it again. Play it again. Play the slow one.
Starting point is 00:42:34 Now this is slowed down frame by frame. Right. And look how much drag there is on this image. It's not, but it's, but that's because it's night vision. Yeah, it's just, yeah, it's just tough to tell because, I mean, I'm not saying,
Starting point is 00:42:46 I'm not like bashing your camera quality. I'm just saying that, like, you know, it's a difficult thing to pick up in the dark. I mean, I don't know. I'm usually the type of person that says, you know what? If anybody... I may be wrong on a ghost here and there, but I'm going to be right most of the time when I say it's not a ghost.
Starting point is 00:43:03 I'm going to say the same thing. I'm going to say the same thing. I just don't. You know, there are things in that part of the room that I purchased because I collect the dark things of history. So we don't forget. You know, there's nothing quite like saying, you know, revolutions usually end, you know, with your head being chopped off. Oh, by the way, here's one from France. Okay? There's nothing like that. And talking about Tesla and Edison and what a bastard Edison was.
Starting point is 00:43:36 And the height of his arrogance and his just disgusting lack of humanity is the New York electric chair and having it and go, yeah, that's the one right there. Um, that's kind of a, that's kind of a cool thing to have. But I have never put them in the house. I've never put any of this stuff in my house because I don't, I just don't want that juju in my house. You know what I mean? Uh, and we have a team that prays over everything and we pray in that area. But I do believe in spirits.
Starting point is 00:44:14 I don't necessarily believe in ghosts, but I do believe in spirits. I don't know. I have no idea with that. It could be dust. I don't think it is, but it could be dust. You say you don't think that's what it is. What do you think it is?
Starting point is 00:44:28 I really don't know. You don't know? I don't know either, I will say. I'm just, you know, speculating on mundane things. At first, he thought it was an animal. He's like, how did an animal get there? At one point, it does look like an animal.
Starting point is 00:44:41 Yeah. And that's what he thought. He's like, how did an animal get in there? And then he played it back and he's like, that's not, it's kind of like, you know, in planes, trains, and automobiles. Where's your other hand between two pillows? Those aren't pillows! It's kind of like that. If you're watching, if you're watching, call us, I'd love to hear what, I'd just love to hear your thoughts on them.
Starting point is 00:45:09 I mean, I really didn't believe in UFOs. I do believe in UFOs now. I mean, it's just the evidence is there. The government has verified that they have pieces of alien technology. I don't know. I mean, you know, I didn't think Biden could win and he's won. So is it really a stretch to say, yeah, it might be a ghost. In this world, I'll take anything.
Starting point is 00:45:42 I mean, we're in a parallel universe. Uh, call us 8 at 8-8-7-27-B-E-C-K. 8-8-7-27-B-E-C-K. We have a lot of weird things there. We just got a piece of the Hindenburg, which you have to see, Stu. It's a big piece of the structure of the Hindenburg. Really? It's unbelievable.
Starting point is 00:46:02 I was under the impression a lot of it burned. A lot of it did. Yeah. A lot of it did. Yeah. You got one of the pieces out. Yeah. Yeah. So one of the guys who was doing the forensics on it at the time brought a huge piece of it
Starting point is 00:46:15 home to i think ohio uh and uh we just we just found it uh with the family and uh it's it's not in the ghost area but maybe that was hitler looking for the hindenberg we don't know stew

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