The Glenn Beck Program - Exclusive: California Election Fraud Charges Incoming?! | Guest: Bill Essayli | 6/8/26

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

California is still counting mail-in ballots, and a suspiciously large number of votes have recently been counted in favor of former third-place candidate Nithya Raman, knocking Spencer Pratt into third place. Glenn monologues on the suspicious nature of California’s election laws and explains how these types of elections only lead people to doubt the system. Glenn also argues this is the perfect example of why Congress must pass the SAVE Act. Glenn explains why the market panicked before the weekend, despite a positive jobs report. First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli joins to discuss the potential election fraud that appears obvious to anybody paying attention in California. Glenn lays out what happens when politicians who hate America are the ones elected. Glenn reacts to President Trump walking out of an interview with journalist Kristen Welker on NBC’s "Meet the Press" after Welker’s argumentative and combative interview style. Glenn reacts to the Department of Defense removing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from the military religious affiliation codes, which were reduced from over 200 to just 31. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Well, has it been a week? It's been almost a week. So days and days. We're weeks away from finding out a final answer. But we are told by Californians just to be patient. This is normal. No, no. You know, it's not normal.

No, one thing you could say about it, it is not normal. In fact, this is a breach of trust that is, I mean, it's a little profound. It's a little profound because I think it's going to shake it apart the foundations of the republic just a little bit, you know? Imagine this, on election night, votes come in. We see the will of the people, clear as day in almost every place. But then the ballots keep rolling in, late ones, cured ones. ballots from God only knows where

verified by signatures that a tired clerk glances at under a fluorescent light and says yep, that's it. And suddenly the lead shift and the right people win. And it's weird, it's the right people that win every single time.

I'm never surprised. The votes come in and I'm never surprised at who wins. Are you? Wouldn't you just you? think just just playing the odds occasionally you'd be surprised now you don't need to be you know a conspiracy theorist to smell the rot here you just need eyes and a memory you know longer than yesterday's news cycle which is hard for most gold americans this is at least the appearance of corruption

and yes, appearance matters, because voting isn't just a mechanical process. Voting is built on trust. And in God we trust, except at the polls, I'd like to see some transparency. The trust that we need is the sense that your ballot counts as the same as mine. I have to trust that the dead aren't suddenly voting, the non-citizens aren't registered and voting that the rolls are clean, the chain of custody is ironclad. You know, that no one knows exactly how these ballots are found. I'd like to know that nobody knows how many ballots they need to find. California has done absolutely everything to avoid and

to erode that trust. Avoid fixing it and eroding it every single day. University mail-in ballots. They send them out to every registered voter, active or not. They just send millions out. Strict photo ID for mail votes? Nah. Automatic registration? Yeah, same-day ballot registration? Sure.

Ballot harvesting? Yeah, it's legalized. So we can hire a third-party group to go out and scoop up bundles of ballots for us from the homeless. Loose deadlines? Yeah. We've got to be postmarked by election day. We'll count them. We'll count them if they show up a week, or maybe two, maybe three. How many votes do we need? Signature verification.

Subjective at best. The voter rolls bloated with ghosts, hundreds of thousands of questionable names and addresses. You know, federal auditors are fighting tooth and nail just to look at them. But for some reason, California is like, this is sacred. in a state where nothing is sacred. Well, except for mutilating our children. I think that's sacred to them. With all of the sophisticated technology in all of Silicon Valley,

AI, blockchain, instant global transactions, I can send a billion dollars from my town to your town or to China or Germany, and I can do it within a 24-hour period. But counting the votes in California, nope, can't do it. Just too hard. Other states do it. Florida, Texas, they have the results.

Get this, this is crazy on the same night. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, most modern countries tally on the same night or the next day, and they use paper ballots and precinct counts. They can do it, but California, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. California is too darn sophisticated. We can't do that. Conveniently, those late ballots tend to lean one way.

And when the Republicans surge early, well, just wait for the miracle ballots to arrive. Now, you might be in California. You might be like that evil Glenn Beck. What makes me evil? Because I believe this, You don't have any proof. No, I don't. Like I said, at the very beginning, perception is really important when you're talking about something built on trust. So for those of you who think, Glenn Beck, you're just an evil guy. Okay. Let me just reverse this. Let's say Republicans control California. Okay. They run the roles. They write the rules. They staff the counting centers.

election night ends with Democrats leading in key races. Then for days and weeks, mysterious Republican-leaning email or mail-in ballots suddenly flood in. They're suddenly verified. Suddenly the tide turns every single time towards the Republicans. The leads evaporate. Gone. Are you telling me you wouldn't be screaming bloody murder? Are you telling me you wouldn't be, you wouldn't have organizations? organizations out in the streets protesting right now with signs printed by a union shop that says rigged, stolen, threat to democracy.

The firestorms in the media would be relentless. Congressional testimonies and hearings protest in the streets. And you know what? You do all that, but one thing you'd be right on is to demand answers. because no one side should tolerate the lack of transparency. But when it's your system, relax, you conspiracy theory, this is design, this is trust the process. Oh my gosh, trust the process. Like you'd be saying that. I want you to know, this is not about left or right winning. It's really not, at least not with me.

I am totally willing to accept the people's decision when it is fair. When it is honest and fair and we can count every vote, we know that nobody's voting, nobody's dead that's voting, nobody's voting that's here illegally. When all of that stuff happens, and transparency is there, I am totally fine, totally fine accepting the outcome. It's just when things happen,

like it takes days and days and days to count everything. And then suddenly you found, I just found these in my van. I sure you did. I sure you did. Okay. See, I believe the people should decide. I believe the process should not obstruct that.

And it's bigger than one primary. This is about the soul of self-government. can we can we govern ourselves no apparently not no because we won't do the one thing the founders warned us it said you got to do this you have to be

eternally vigilant that's the price of liberty they designed a system where power flows from the consent of the government not from the shadowy backrooms where ballots appear like manna from heaven so what does all of this mean Well, it just means that trust will die, division, cynicism will grow, and then eventually it collapses.

Gee, it sounds kind of like exactly what the left is looking for, doesn't it? I mean, oh, Glenn, that is so cynical. They're not doing that. You have no proof of them doing that. No, I, well, not in this case, but in almost every other case, I do have evidence of that. But in this case, no, I can't say that that's, but it's, it's weird. It's weird. And it leads to distrust.

Hmm. Okay. So you can despair or you can get to, you get violent. That's what they would do. I say we just screw our courage to the sticking place. I did that because liberals love when people quote Shakespeare. here's what we need. We need the kind of courage that, you know,

the persecuted church in Iraq showed me when I was over in Iraq years ago. Like, ISIS said, we're going to blow up the church you're in at 7 p.m. tonight. I get there at 6.30 and like, okay, we're moving out, right? We're all, nope, nope, uh-uh. Courage. I'm looking for the courage like the 12 steps. in courage. Radical honesty,

moral inventory, making amends. I'm looking for the courage where we all stand up and say, we demand reform. Why are we not passing the Save Act? Photo ID, clean roles, same day, or strict deadlines,

real chain of custody. I don't know, that might be a good idea. Election Day focus. transparent audits, paper trails, you can verify, bipartisan observation. All sides should want this. Why is it only one side does? Why? Why?

This is the truth, whether you like it or not. An election, an election, it revolves around trust. And perception is not a cheap thing. Perception is the whole thing. A ballot is just paper until a free. people agree to be bound by the count. And the moment half the country stops believing the count, the paper means nothing. The consent of the government is gone. And if you're left ruling over strangers who are certain they were robbed, that's a problem. That is the fragile machinery of

self-government. And it runs only on one fuel and one fuel only, and that is trust. So sit with what that means. We live in an era where I can move billions of dollars across the planet in half a second. You can unlock your phone by glancing at your phone with your fat face. We can track a package to your porch down to the minute and see the video from across the world. And somehow we can't figure out in California how to tell you who won by Wednesday morning. There's no excuse for that. None. the technology is not the obstacle. Will is the obstacle. And when a thing this solvable stays unsolved election after election

drifting in the same direction every time, you're going to be so surprised who won this election. You're not asking people to be patient. You're asking them to be blind. Okay? That's the truth. And it's not just all paranoia. Oh, these people, there's all paranoia.

Hear me, because I'm pleading with you. I'm not accusing you. You're the ones holding the power on your end. Okay, you're the one. So far, you've chosen not to do anything. Every time you refuse to hand over the rolls, every time you brand photo ID voter suppression, the very same card a man needs to drive a car

or board a plane or buy a beer or rent an apartment or cash a check or collect government assistance, every time you fight an audit in the dark instead of throwing the doors open to it in the light, you don't calm fear, you feed it, and you know that. You teach half of your own countrymen lesson by patient lesson that the count can't be trusted. And a republic simply doesn't survive with that belief,

no matter which side it turns out to be right. So I'm asking you not to concede a single election. I'm asking you to make it impossible to doubt the election. Clean the rolls. Show the chain of custody. wire the card, count it in the open. If your ideas win in the daylight, then for the love of this country,

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So the thing is running late. So I have to, the organizers come to me and they say, can you do your speech after the fireworks and I'm like, that's a little anti-climactic. I mean, I just say, I've been told not to follow children or puppies. I'm going to add fireworks to that list. You don't follow fireworks with a speech, but I do it. Because we got to get the fireworks off by 10 o'clock, got to be over. So I get on stage, and I start talking. And they said, what is he doing on the stage?

It's 10 o'clock. he's got to be off the stage. It's 10 o'clock. And he's like, he's got 15 minutes. He's just going to give a fit. So 10.15, they are literally saying to the organizers, we are pulling the plug. For 15 minutes, she had to stop them from pulling the plug and the electricity.

Oh, Tina, next time, let them pull the plug. Let them pull the plug. It would have been an honor to have the city of San Diego actually go through with their threats that they made as we rented the Midway to do a patriotic 250 anniversary for America. San Diego, you know what? You've earned the right to live in California. All right, let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour.

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Glenbeck.com slash torch. So during the break, you know, for the insiders, Jason Buttrill, who the ladies are now starting to call Guns McGee, it was ranting about all of the stats on what the hell is happening in California. Yeah. We'll have more on that, and he's going to continue going through the numbers. If you're a member of the insider, just join us now at glenbeck.com slash torch. You get a whole bunch of information we just can't get to because I've got to cover a whole buttload of stuff as well. And I want to turn now to the economy because people were freaking out on Friday.

What is happening to the economy? What is happening? The stock market, worst day ever. Okay, relax. relax um Dow gave up 695 points on Friday S&P dropped 2.6 NASDAQ where all the tech and AI money lives fell 4.2 ugliest day in more than a year by the closing bell roughly a trillion dollars just went poof okay all right along with it okay worst week since February I think it was down like $62,000 for a coin a Bitcoin. And people who were saying to me, Glenn, wait, hang on, how come this?

Because didn't we have good numbers? Yes. All of this happened on a good jobs report. Employers, here's the good news. Employers added 172,000 jobs in May. That's more than double the 80,000 that the so-called experts forecast. Unemployment, I think, is still at 4.3% held even. by every plain English measure,

Americans are working, things are good. Okay, so why did the market panic on news that you and I would call encouraging more people are working? Sit with me for a second because I'm about to show you the whole game. For two years, Wall Street has been betting on one thing above all else. Well, you might say it's AI, but it's not. It's deeper than that. It's the Federal Reserve about to make money cheap again. And they love cheap money.

You cut the interest rates, borrowing becomes easier. Companies look more valuable on paper. The sky high AI stocks just keep climbing because people will borrow more money in big business. And they'll buy it cheaply. And then they'll buy more stocks. And that just keeps. So the entire rally was leaning on the assumption that, you know, money is going to become cheap again.

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and everybody falls on the ground because a strong economy with lots of jobs, rising prices, Fed can't cut interest rates. Means no cheap money. Means, uh-oh, AI better start producing.

reducing. Inflation hit 3.8% in April. That is the highest in nearly three years. It's all driven by the energy spike from the war in Iran, which we'll get to in a little while. So the rate cuts that Wall Street had penciled in, they're like, we're going to be able to borrow more money at a 0% interest. We're going to get so rich. And now Goldman Sachs comes out and says, yeah, I don't think that's going to happen. So the traders were betting that, you know, they were going to get cheap money.

now they get a rate hike and they all fall through the door. And the AI trade was already cracking before any of that. Days earlier, Broadcom, one of the companies that, you know, selling picks and shovels for this whole AI gold rush, turn in strong numbers, but refused to raise its outlook for the year. That was the first whisper of, what's going on? if all of this spending isn't ramping up as fast as all the hype is promised, what's going to happen? So to feel the size underneath of this, Google's parent company is out right now trying to raise just a measly $85 billion.

We just need to build some additional AI machinery. It's just $85 billion. It's no big. $85 billion. And that expects the stock market to go, oh, that's, it's, you're going to pay that off perfectly. It's only $85 billion. No big deal. And we're fine with AI. Okay. So understand what actually happened here. It wasn't the good news that scared everybody Friday. It was the truth that the Fed is not riding in to rescue the overpriced stocks. And maybe,

just maybe the AI miracle has a price tag attached to it that somebody should check before buying stock. Okay. You may not own a share of Navidia, but this affected you. that 401k or pension that you're counting on rides on the market and days like Friday took a big bite out of it also you want a mortgage on the house the 10 years now above 4.5 percent the rates are punishing it's going to stay that way your grocery bill your gas your rent inflation is at 3.8 means they're not coming down soon and a fed that has to say tough on the prices on the price inflation and is going to that means it's going to be tough for a while. And small business, if you're a business owner,

you need a loan to expand or just to make payroll, tightening screws coming your way. And that's the truth about it. That's how it affects you. Forget about everything else. That's how this affects you. America's strength, however, has never come from cheap money or get rich quick fevers.

It never has. pain always comes from that always where america has always um rallied done well and fixed herself is when people who make things fix things grow things show up and are encouraged to do what they do best

a strong jobs report it's it's genuinely good it means your neighbor is working but what you have to understand, the sickness isn't jobs. The sickness is an economy that holds its breath while waiting on a handful of central bankers and a trillion dollar wager on machines. They're counting on the game that you and I keep getting screwed by. So don't hang your hope on the Fed or on Washington or the next shiny thing the market is chasing. Hang it where it belongs.

you get out from under your debt wherever and however you can build something that doesn't depend on a rate cut strengthen your family and the people around you real security was never it was never something that was printed on a building on constitution avenue it was built in your home with your hands and with your character the market is going to recover it's going to and it will really recover and it will actually be something you can watch again when reality uh begins to uh shake hands again with price it always returns when that happens you're going to be fine but you and i have to pretend or stop pretending that wall street you know is is the country it's not it pisses me off every time i hear something well wall street is doing well yeah well main street's not

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You know, the host does have to pee every now and then. Glenn Beck will be right back. I don't know if you saw the president on Meet the Press yesterday, but he walked out of the interview. And I cheered. I cheered. Good. I'm so sick of these people.

And the arrogance. I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview. Oh, did you, sweetheart? Oh, poor baby. So she's just relentless on, you know, denying anything is happening in California. And what he's saying is there should be an investigation. Should be investigation. Why is this happening?

And every American should want that. You know what? The investigation may show up nothing. May show nothing. Absolutely nothing. But it should be open and transparent and we should know it. And there has been lots of stuff that has come out on voter fraud. And that's why we should be passing the, you know, save act.

but, of course, Congress can't busy themselves. They're too busy doing nothing to be able to get that done. So, you know, I can understand it because they are doing nothing. And they're doing it all the time. And that takes a lot out of a person. Have you ever done nothing all day, every day? It's tiring. Anyway, we're going to have Bill O'Saley.

He is the first assistant U.S. Attorney, or U.S. attorney for the Central District of California. he is the guy who is he's got a team of 500 lawyers and they're in California right now. And he has the guy who can tell us, why is California refusing to audit their own voter voter rolls? What's really going on there, Bill? We're going to ask him here in just a second. You don't want to miss that. Also, today really kind of kicks off, actually tomorrow, kicks off our summer of 250.

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There's a lot going on. I spoke to the president last night after his appearance on Meet the Press, and I want to talk to you about that, and also something that we spoke about briefly as well. He's a remarkable man. But anyway, I'll give you that coming up in just a little while. He left the Meet the Press interview, and let me give you a little bit of just a clip of this.

Listen. You think it's appropriate that they have an election, and five days later, they're nowhere close to picking. State local officials acknowledge they are slow, they're urging. No, they're crooked. They're urging the votes to be counted. That's how they vote in California. They're crooked. Just like you're crooked.

Your press is crooked. And meet the press is crooked. To be fair, I'm not crooked. But let's continue. When you play right into their hands in. Let's continue. You're either crooked or you're stupid. You play right into their hands with a draft.

You know that these elections are rigged. Your network knows that they're rigged. You know that I won an election and a landslide and I got 94% bad press. But Mr. Posid, you know why I got that? Because you have no credibility. You've never presented evidence that it was rigged. Let's keep talking about, I want to talk about Todd.

You'll have more evidence. Okay, stop. He goes on, and then he just gets up and walks out, as he should have. But she said, there's no evidence. There's no evidence. There's no evidence. Okay.

Let me talk to Bill O'Saley. Now, he is the first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California. Wow, there are several election fraud investigations going on in California. What did they have that would warrant a federal investigation? We'll ask the man who actually knows, not a member of the press, in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you about American Giant. Father's Day is once again right around the corner. Upon a time, you know, we made almost all of the clothing that Americans wore right here in the United States.

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I know you're probably not, but I'm glad you are. Tell me what is, tell me what credible allegations exist that warrant a formal federal investigation. All right, well, let's, you know, a couple things to keep in mind. I am prohibited from discussing ongoing investigations,

but we can talk about what is in the public domain and what we're doing in general. Number one, there is, election fraud is not a theory. It is a real thing. Election fraud happens every year. There are people charged and convicted of it every year. Just last month, we charged and obtained a guilty plea from a woman named Brenda Brown, who was captured on a James O'Keefe undercover video, paying homeless people to register to vote at her address. That is a violation of federal law.

You cannot pay someone to register to vote, and you cannot place false information on a voter registration form. And so we charged her, and she's agreed. to plead guilty. So that's just one little tidbit of the types of things we're looking into. We do have multiple ongoing investigations in similar vein regarding election fraud. Now, what the media always wants to jump to is, well, that's an isolated incident and you have no evidence that it's widespread. And, you know, this is something I've been battling since I was in a legislature here. I go, you have no idea how spread it is because you've never looked. looked and you have no desire to look and you don't care about preventing fraud. Let's just

break down the system in California and then we'll talk about the challenges we have and what we're going to do about it. California is a fraudsters paradise. Make no mistake about that, whether it's hospice fraud, health care fraud, or election fraud. The legislature who should have a obligation to protect the citizens of this state and this nation in their pocketbook does the opposite. They go out of their way to make it as easy as possible for people to commit fraud. And how do they do that? This has been going on for decades. They have basically taken away and reduced all the fraud prevention measures that you

would want in other states are legal in California. Starting with, you've got to start from the beginning, registering to vote. Almost anybody can register to vote in the state of California. You don't have to have a social security number and you don't need a driver's license number. You can go on the website right now, and there is a box for each of those fields that says, I don't have one. And you just check those boxes, and they will register you to vote. Now, California says, well, you will have to show an ID the first time you vote.

Go look at the post I put up yesterday that links to the Secretary of State's website for the state of California that tells you what they consider acceptable forms of ID to register to vote, including a gym membership, a prescription label, your employer ID card and my favorite, a health insurance card, which California gives out health insurance to illegal aliens. So start there about how anyone can basically register to vote in the state of California. Then California has done universal vote by mail, which means if you're on the voter rolls, you're going to get a ballot mail to you, whether you want it or not. And no questions asked. So they put millions of ballots out into the mail into the ether.

The voter rolls are dirty. They have not verified that there's only eligible U.S. citizens on the voter rolls. And we know they also don't clean the voter rolls. So dead people, people who've moved convicted felons are also receiving ballots because they're just not good at cleaning the voter rolls. So put all that together. And then we have no voter ID when you vote and you have and you have, and you have legalized ballot harvesting, which is probably where a lot of this shenanigans is happening

is at that point, the ballot harvesting. It used to be against the law to handle anybody's ballot other than your own or your immediate family member. That changed in 2018 in California. Anybody can handle anybody's ballots. There's no chain of custody. There's no requirements of who can handle it. There's no paper trail of who touched the ballot and turned it in. And so these harvesters are out in the world for a month collecting ballots from God knows who, and God knows who circumstances, who knows what the conversations are at the door. Who knows if the voters actually filling the ballot out? Nobody knows.

And then they dump all these ballots in the mail. And let me tell you, these are professionals when these are organized union groups. They've been doing this for decades illegally, and now they're doing it legally because they've in the legislature to legalize their activities. That makes people's jobs like mine incredibly difficult. When we charge someone with fraud, we have to have evidence. And California has removed the paper trail, they've removed the chain of custody. They've removed any meaningful way for us to basically have a forensic audit of where a ballot came from. So we're doing the work. We're doing the best we can in the circumstances. I expect people will be

charged, but we need a wide-scale audit of the California voter rule, which is what Harmeen and I have been trying to do for the last year. We have sued the state of California to comply with HAVA, which is a federal statute, which says only eligible U.S. citizens should be on the voter rolls. Unfortunately, Congress did not put a lot of teeth into that statute, so I don't have any criminal penalties assigned with it. All we have are civil, and so we are suing the state of California, we are in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals now. California has resisted in Stonewall. They refuse to comply with the Attorney General's request to hand over their voter rolls to confirm that they're in compliance with federal law. So you got to put all that together,

and that's what we're dealing with here in California. Why won't they show you the voter rolls? Why won't they just open them up? They claim that it, well, you want the real reason or the stated reason? A stated and then the real. Yeah. The stated. reason is they say that it would violate California's privacy laws to hand over personal identifying information of voters to the federal government. Mind you, we issue most of that personal identifying information, such as a social security number. So they're hiding behind state privacy laws,

which don't apply to the federal government in this context. It's preempted by a federal statute here. So that's the stated reasons, and they have found lower-level judges to side with them, and that's the reason they said they're not handing it over, because they're concerned about the privacy interests of the voters, that information being handed over to the federal government. That's their stated reason. Why? Because they don't want anyone to look under the tent there.

They don't want anyone to see how dirty their voter rolls are. They're filthy, dirty voter rolls. They have no desire to clean them up because the system that people in power probably benefit from, occasional fraud that occurs in there. That's the only rational explanation I could give you is that they don't want to. They don't want to clean up the fraud. They want to keep the system the way it is.

So are we seeing, I don't know what I can ask you. I know I can't ask you. Are you seeing anything that could change the outcome of the vote in large enough numbers? Are you seeing anything like that? we're looking i we have set up a a a tip line uh i've set up a dedicated email um it is c a election fraud tips at us doj dot go um we are looking for any sort of wide scale conspiracy if you will um right now i would say our investigations lean more into individual actors um so you know When you say tip the scales, you know, now I think in one of the local races here, I mean,

you've got, you know, thousands of votes separating them. So theoretically, I'd have to charge thousands of people to prove that it changed the outcome of the election unless we uncover some sort of wide scale fraud, which is incredibly difficult to do for the reasons I just went over. But we are looking. We are looking. And so if there's anyone with inside information, that's the way federal cases, you know, are made. They're made with witnesses, insiders, and evidence. And that's the other thing, Glenn. I know a lot of people see a lot of smoke and I see it too. And there's a lot of theories and statistics. At the end of the day, in order for me to do my job, which is bring a case to a grand jury in court, I have to have evidence that I could prove beyond a reasonable doubt. It's an extremely high burden and standard. And we don't do that unless we believe we have the evidence to back it up. So those are the constraints I'm under.

I personally cannot change the election system in California. The voters have to do that, and I believe there's a ballot measure that would do just that in November. But I, you know, I can't get into the politics of things. So yesterday, Welker from meet the press was with the president, and she said there's just no evidence of any of this. How would you respond to that? Evidence of what? I mean, she doesn't even look. There is, of course, evidence of fraud.

Just do a Google search. Just do a Google search of election fraud charges, California. you're going to see tons of cases of people who've been charged with committing fraud. What they always default to is, well, there's no evidence that's widespread. And that's a very interesting and clever statement because they've designed the system to not be able to detect the evidence through the system easily. So they want you, they want the burden on you to go out and prove every instance of fraud. And even if you charge 100 people, Glenn, they're going to say, well, that wouldn't have

changed the outcome of the election. So instead of putting the burden on the system to reassure the people, the citizens of this country, that only legal citizens are voting, one person, one vote is the law of the land, and put the burden on the system to assure us that there is integrity and we can believe in it, they've flipped it. And now it's on us to prove every single allegation of fraud. And that's just not the way it should be. Our system should be protected from fraud and people have to have confidence. It doesn't matter who wins. I'm not concerned about the outcome of any election. I'm concerned about protecting citizens' rights to vote, however they want to cast that vote.

But we have a situation where people don't even believe those systems. They don't believe this election system. And so they're either not participating. There's a lot of people who just don't participate anymore in California. And that's bad because that's self-suppression. And there's a lot of places where their participation could maybe change the outcome. So you have people self-suppressing. of other people who just don't believe the results and they lack confidence in their system.

I don't think our republic can survive if the public doesn't have confidence in the outcome of the election. That's going to be a rest of a disaster. Yeah, the whole system is built on trust and that's why whether there's widespread fraud or not, that's why all of this stuff has to be opened up. You said you expect people to be charged. Can you say with what and you feel confident enough you have enough evidence? I will just say it will be election fraud charges in the next. I hate to put timewise on things, but one or two months, I believe we need some of these results to be certified

so we can prove some of the allegations. But we will be charging some people. I can't get in too much. And mostly, Glenn, I mean, it's not just DOJ rules, but we also want to protect innocent people. If we get something wrong, we don't want someone to be tainted with this. with the stain of an investigation until we're able to prove that in court. So I can't get into too much, but just know that at this point right now, we're wide open for investigations.

If anyone knows anything, direct, and then please, direct evidence. I know people have theories and they have ideas and what we need right now are witnesses. If you've witnessed anything, if someone voted in your name and you found out someone voted for you, we want to know about that. if you saw someone collecting ballots in a suspicious way or doing something odd with ballots, we want to know about that. Those are the kind of things we need direct evidence up right now so we can launch into deeper investigations. Bill, thank you very much.

Thanks for all the work you're doing in California. I really appreciate it. First assistant U.S. turning for the Central District of California. God bless. All right. Let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. It's Rapid Radio's.

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And in it, I brought something up that Mike Lee had brought up earlier in the day to me about this new Christian designation in the Pentagon. And it really bothered me. And I laid my case out to the president briefly. And I get a, Mary's on the phone with me at 1230. I get a phone call at 5.30 this morning. I fixed that. That's ridiculous. And I think you're actually going to agree, whether you agree with, you know,

reason why I brought it up or not, I think you'll agree with what the president just did, just heard from Pete Hankseth on what the Pentagon is going to do, and it's the right thing. It's the right thing. So justice has been done. And I think everyone, hopefully, if you are a constitutionalist, you will agree with it. And that's what I want to talk to you about. You know, we have to find our principles here on the Constitution, not how we feel, but how the Constitution works.

let me tell you about a guy named Lucius. Lucius was a Roman. He was a citizen of the Republic in the year 82 before Christ. And one morning he walks into the forum and he finds a list nailed up in the public square. Names, hundreds of them. The dictator, Sulla, had just come back to Rome and he had decided that the way to save the Republic from its own enemies was to name them because the enemies were within. Are you beginning to see why I'm bringing this up? because right now we think our enemies are within, and they are.

Our most dangerous enemies are the enemies within. And some of them are running for office, and it's crazy. Anyway, he said, these people are disloyal, and so he's putting names on the list. And once your name was on that list, you were no longer protected by Roman law. Your property could be taken, your life could be taken, and the man who killed you got paid for it. They called it prescription. Sulla told himself, and Rome that he was doing it to save the Republic,

to purge the men who wanted to tear it down. And the terrible thing is, is that a lot of those people really did want to tear it down. The fear wasn't imaginary at all. But the list didn't save the Republic. The list actually was the death nail of the Republic. Once Rome accepted that the cure for disloyalty was a list of names with the law.

switched off. The only question left was, hmm, who holds the pen? And that is the case I want to make on several things today. Because the pen always changes hands, always. He did this. 50 years later, the Republic was gone. Rome had an emperor. Now, we're seeing the same thing in this country. We're seeing things I've never seen before. You know, there are people in this, that are in this country, some of them born here, some of them newly sworn in, who do not want to reform America. They want an end to America. And they will tell you so themselves. They're not interested in changing a policy on this or that. They don't like the entire system that the founders built. They want the system gone. They look at the constitutional protections that shield you and me,

and they see those as protections, you know, those protections as an enemy, and they've got to go. They want office not to serve the republic or save it, but to turn the machinery of the republic against itself. This is real, and I am sick of the gaslighting of the American people by the press and the politicians and the parties.

This is new and dangerous and has never happened in my lifetime like this before. The greatest danger is always from within, at least in America. The right question is, what do we do about these people who are using freedom to destroy freedom? And making a list or saying these people can't serve, they can't do this, it seems like the right thing and the rational thing. And the thing I really want to do to save the Republic. The left is saying it, however, about MAGA. we're saying it about violent seditious protesters or Marxist Islamist politicians.

And we feel like that's the right thing to do. But what feels right isn't always right. You will understand once I give you a little bit of, we've been here before kind of history. The answer is a trap. And the trap is the whole game. the men who wrote our Constitution had exactly the same fear.

Not similar, the same fear. It was 1798. The United States was a baby. It was 10 years old. And there was a real credible worry that revolutionary France had agents inside America that immigrants were coming in and carrying foreign loyalties

and subversion was coming through the door dressed up as a citizen. I mean, it's exactly. the same. Okay. So the very same generation, the same people that wrote the Bill of Rights passed what's called the Alien and Sedition Acts. It is a horror show. It gave the president power to deport foreigners that he deemed dangerous. They made it a crime to publish false or scandalous criticism of the government. Think of that. And it nearly destroyed him. It was tried again under Woodrow Wilson. Damn near destroyed us then as well. And we're flirting with it now, honestly,

on both sides of the aisle for a third time. It split the founding generation right down the middle, which I think, good, wow, we just found another way to divide ourselves. Jeez, isn't that great? But the moment you make disloyal opinion, a crime, the man in power gets to define disloyalty. and he defines it as the opposition to him, and it never stays with the original target. It always grows and spread. This is what Jefferson, or I mean, Franklin Men, I give you a republic if you can keep it.

This is the stuff that destroys republics. Under Wilson, they threw newspaper editors in jail. The whole thing collapsed under its own shame, and the history of the alien and sedition acts, you know, Not good, not good. And it is, it's exactly the same thing as Sola. The founders learned the lesson in real time the hard way, and they wrote it into the bones of the country. And then just a few short years later, the same people decided they were going to kind of try to weaken that because now they were the ones in total power. the only reason we didn't go the way of Rome is because what our founders did when they drew up our laws and our principles.

They made treason the narrowest crime in the Constitution. You have to have two witnesses to the same overt act because they knew treason charges were how tyrants silenced rivals. Because they were the rivals. They were the ones being silenced by the king. they wrote a First Amendment that protects the speech that you hate because they knew the speech you love never needed protecting. They just forgot because they were in power and they thought it would be okay. Wilson and the progressives did the same thing in the early 1900s, and we're forgetting it today.

The government must never be the final arbiter of speech, nor can opinions or thought ever be a crime, ever. They built a system. where the only test for high office is age, citizenship, and the vote of the people. No loyalty board, no belief screen, no list. We don't want one of those. And they didn't do it because they were naive about enemies. They did it because they were the enemies of the state.

They were the subversives. They were the radicals. They were the men the crown called a traitor. They knew exactly how easy it is to call your political opponent an enemy of the state. So they took that weapon, they buried it on purpose, where no future faction could ever dig it up and point it at the other half of the country. And here's the thing that is most important for you to hear. They did that because they knew the list always comes back around. The power to disqualify a man from office because of what he believes is not the power that stays in friendly hands.

you build that machine today to keep out the man you fear, and you've built it for the man who fears you. You built it for a bureaucrat that thinks a Christian that reads the founding documents in church is a Christian nationalist threat. You built it for the next administration's enemies list with your pastor's name on it. And the same is true for the left. If you wish to drop a list, purge or re-educate, as Democrats are discussing today,

the power will be turned around and used on you. It always happens that way. The prescription doesn't care who nailed it up. It only cares who holds the pen. So we have a real issue with this. So what do we do? Well, first, never become Sulla, to defeat Sulla. The day we screen Americans for their thoughts before they can serve

is the day the Republic dies by suicide. and I'm borrowing that phrase because Abraham Lincoln said that in 1838, long before he was anything, okay? He warned his neighbors, no foreign army could ever conquer the country. He said, and I'm quoting, if destruction ever come, it be our lot. We ourselves will be its author and its finisher. We don't fall by invasion. The West will die by its own hand. by abandoning the things that made it the West.

So are we defenseless? No. We don't just hand the country over who smile at us and convince us to vote for them and then burn the thing down. No. This is harder than a list. It starts with the oath. When you become a citizen in the United States, you raise your right hand to swear to support and defend the laws and the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

You renounce every prior allegiance. Now, how to punish a man for breaking that oath in his heart can't. But a nation is allowed to mean its oath. We are allowed to treat it as a sacred thing instead of just paperwork. We are allowed to ask out loud, anyone's seeking power. You swore this oath. What does it mean to you? You don't seem to be honoring that.

oath at all. And we're allowed to enforce the laws that already exist for those who cross the line from belief into action, you know, who don't just say ugly things, but conspire, fund things like terror or incite violence. That line is very, very bright and we should patrol it without apology. But the real defense, the real defense, and you're not going to like this answer, but it's true, and you know it, I could, you know what it is. What's the real answer?

it's you. An informed citizen, that is the only filter that doesn't rot. The reason the enemies of the Republic want office is they are counting on people just like you that don't know their ass from their elbow about the Constitution, about the Bill of Rights, about our country, about how our government works, who are just, they only are just going, oh, I like him. He seems nice. People who never read any of the documents. They couldn't tell you what the First Amendment is. They couldn't tell you the Federalist papers. They don't even know what it is.

The antidote to a man who wants to tear down the Constitution is not a law that hides him from view. It's sunlight and a citizenry that recognize the threat on site and beats him at the ballot box in broad daylight. We will never fix this country unless we fix our citizens. It's why the gatekeepers who are supposed to inform you and instead look away are not a side issue. A free press that won't shine the light is just a darker room for that guy to work in. So here is the whole west in one sentence.

This is it. We are not held together by blood or soil or a bloodline. We are held together by an idea that any human. human being on earth can swear to and mean. That's our fragility. That's why this is so delicate. A nation of ideas can be argued out of itself in a single generation, and we're doing it. You're watching it happen in real time. But that is also our strength. The thing no empire of blood has ever been able to match because the immigrant who sheds his old loyalties and grafts himself onto Washington and Lincoln and Jefferson becomes more American than the native-born man

who sleeps through the entire inheritance. We defend this country by being worthy of it, by knowing it, not out-sull-sull-sull-we-nail-up the list. We do the harder, older, braver thing. We win the argument. We keep the oath. We hand the flame forward, still burning to people who know what it costs. That's our assignment. That has always been the assignment. We've just never done our homework. It's time to. And it's not that hard. People spend thousands of dollars on things that they only occasionally use. A mattress. We just just think of it, yeah, I just get a bed for the bedroom and forget about it. I mean, you're spending a third of your life on that thing.

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Now apparently Donald Trump hates the Jews and wants the Jews to die. I mean, it's a fun house, and it isn't any fun anymore. Plus, the crap that came out of Meet the Press, I mean, Christian Welker opens her mouth and crap just spews out. I'm surprised he wasn't left looking like he came in wearing a brown suit after sitting across from her. Listen, I am going to, because of the crap that came out of her mouth, I'm going to explain exactly what happened,

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It's real estate agents. itrust.com. Real estate agents, I trust.com. Okay, so Christian Welker, I don't know if you saw this. little clip of Meet the Press from yesterday. Play the short version, please. You think it's appropriate that they have an election and five days later, they're nowhere close to picking one. Staying local officials acknowledge they are slow. They're urging. No, they're crooked. They're urging the votes to be counted. That's how they vote in California.

Just like you're crooked. Your press is crooked and meet the press is crooked. To be fair, I'm not crooked. But let's continue. Well, you play right into their hands in. Let's continue. You're either crooked or you're stupid. You play right into their hands with a strap. You know, that these elections are rigged. Your network knows that they're rigged. You know that I won an election and a landslide and I got 94% bad press. But Mr. Posid, you know why I get that?

Because you have no credibility. But you've never presented evidence that it was rigged. Let's keep talking about, I want to talk about Todd. You have more evidence. There's more evidence than ever presented. Let's talk about... Your elections in this country, we're like a third world country. Your elections are crooked.

and you're crooked and Mr. Press is crooked. And so is ABC and CBS and CNN. You're one-sided crooked network. So, let's call it quits because I've had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time. Mr. President, let's please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin. I've traveled with you.

I know. I travel all the way to Wisconsin. On it off in the rain and I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press because you know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest. Listen, we traveled all the way to Wisconsin. All this way. All the way.

Oh, we went to space to get this interview. Do you know how hard it is to get five minutes with the president for the love of Pete? Oh, man. We traveled all this way. And you only gave us 45 minutes. Gee, rain was hammering down on this roof. So hard, you could barely hear any of the questions. Okay.

They talked to Iran. They talked to the economy. I mean, then they got to the elections. And every single time when they were talking about the proposed anti-weaponization fund, when that came up, Trump was really clear. He's like, I'm for it. I think it's fair, but it's up to Congress. I'm for it. I think it's fair, but it's up to Congress.

Then she brings up the January 6 cases. He didn't demand any blanket pardons. He was very, very clear. He called for a panel to review them one by one, case by case. Look at the facts. That's not a bomb thrower. That's not somebody that wants to give money to anybody who's ever broke the law. A lot like BLM.

That's a man asking for basic due process and real justice. She would not even listen to him. She didn't even acknowledge that anything he was saying was at least kind of reasonable. It was just challenge fact check, challenge fact check, challenge fact check, especially pounding him on the elections. He had enough. He unclipped his microphone. Called the crooked press, walked out. And even then, he was polite about it.

I mean, holy cow. It is, it is, it's absolutely crazy. You know what bothers me? This isn't about Trump. I've just had enough with these holier-than-thou-magniacs who call themselves journalists. There is no honest curiosity left in them at all on any subject. None.

None. You can talk to them about anything and they've already made up their mind. They are just capturing the story that confirms what they believe. There's no moment there where you stop and go, well, I don't know. Is he making sense here? Maybe he is. There's no adjustment ever with these people. When Donald Trump won in 2016, that was the perfect moment for them to look in the mirror and ask a hard question. Like, why are we so out of touch with the American people? they didn't they double down it just reinforced their tightly held belief

that the American people are just stupid and they the enlightened press just no better than everybody else including half of the politicians in Washington if you agree with the press well then you're smart if not you should be destroyed I mean look what happened in that interview Trump brought up suicides of those who are persecuted Yeah, I said persecuted, not prosecuted. Most of them were persecuted.

Like it was like 21 suicides. No hesitation, no recognition, no human moment. She just shot back, why did so many people plead guilty if they were all innocent? Is this your first day on the job, you nincom poop? Let's, here's an idea. Let's think it through for two seconds. Let's see. I'm a normal person who's never gotten in with the law before, and now I'm facing an all-powerful federal government who wants to step on my neck. They took me out of my house in the middle of the night. Then they held me in solitary confinement. They wouldn't let me talk to a lawyer. The process seems like the punishment itself. And then the judge seems to have already decided on collective guilt. I don't know. Why would you plead guilty when your

lawyer comes to you and say they've got a they've got a deal for you take two years and plead guilty or roll the dice and take 25 years to life gee i don't know which one would i choose let me ask you this Kristen have you ever talked to a lawyer have you talked to a lawyer about any case what do they always say settle it settle it settle it it's not worth it just settle it just settle it no but I'm not guilty of that. Settle it. Yeah, but she said that I said this. I didn't say that.

Settle it. Every single corporate lawyer will tell you, and I know you've been involved in those, every single corporate lawyer will tell you, just settle it, make it go away, it's not worth it. You think somebody that's getting 25 years to life and they offer a two-year prison sentence, you don't think the attorney is saying to them,

settle it. Trust me, I don't think with these people you're going to win. But you don't think that through because you're too busy chasing the next story that fits your narrative. The poor downtrodden, illegal alien that's been stabbing people on trains because of his childhood. Well, that person that's been raping children or Islamists running for office or Nazis running for the Senate, anything, anything to avoid the real story of government overreach and destroy. lives. You back, you back anybody. You think you own the truth. You don't, you, you can't handle the truth. If, and if the press thinks that they believe something, if, if you tell them something else,

it didn't happen that way. It just didn't happen. If they haven't heard about it, it didn't happen. If it's not within their beliefs, it's just wrong. And they'll sit there demanding evidence on elections while waving away the bloated voter rolls, the ballots arriving days late, the chain of custody black holes, the absolute mess that we're watching unfold in California, and they'll defend no voter ID all day long and tell us that that's Jim Crow, which is insulting to every black person in America. And I think probably even a little insulting to Jim himself. And he's probably on your side. you lecture us about democracy.

You're just burning through the fuel that democracy actually needs, and that's trust. You've burned all that out. Now, let me just say this. Look at what President Trump did. He invited you. You didn't call him for that interview. He called you. Not Fox, not Newsmax, not me, NBC, knowing how hostile you are.

Tell me the other president does that. He invites you and then he sits for an hour in a thunderstorm in that barn, rain pounding down, but you can't seem to make that. You couldn't isolate those microphones. You can't hear each other so can we wait a little while? He waits an hour because you can't record in the rain. And then you start in on this hostile question. And when the badgering doesn't stop, he stands up and says,

country can never be great with a dishonest press. I'm done here. And then he leaves, no tantrum. Polite, even on the way out. And then what you don't know is on Saturday, he reached out to her and apologized. He said the rain and the delays. It just put me in a cranky mood.

It's not your fault. And he agreed for a follow-up interview. Did you know that? Why didn't she say that? By the way, the president was testing. We were having this conversation. But he agreed to come back for a follow-up. and they call him thin-skinned, dangerous unhinged.

And yet he's the one who has the balls to keep walking. Honestly, I'm questioning it at some point. I mean, you get what you, I mean, this is what you're walking into every time. A network that's treated him and millions of Americans who voted for him as an enemy for a decade at least. When was the last time you saw an interview with him go the other way on any of those networks? works. When did you see this? When did you see Barack Obama or Joe Biden or any of them sit down with a conservative outlet for a full hour of tough questions? I'm not guessing because I know the answer. I've asked the White House for an interview every single White House. You know,

the only ones to say yes, George Bush one time and Donald Trump. And George W. Bush didn't like me. He had no use for my opinions whatsoever. Okay, that's not spin, that's fact. You know, there was a time when meet the press actually meant something. Tim Russert, anybody remember him? He was a man who wanted a fair fight.

Tough on everybody. You knew he was fair because you would hate him with your guy and love him with their guy. What she's doing now, that's a performance. That's a show. That's a show. And I face these people in Trump's position. and they don't listen, they preach, they tell you like it is.

They're not asking questions. There's nothing that this man could do or say that would have given her pause to change her mind, change her perspective, perhaps see how he arrived at conclusions honestly that were different than hers and went, okay, I never saw it that way, Mr. President. I got to tell you, you deserve a press that chases truth instead of storyline and you ain't getting it there.

one that can hear a reasonable answer that the journalists might disagree with on protecting against weaponized government on a case-by-case basis for justice for January 6th, on cleaning up our election so trust could be restored and actually admit, you know what, that is reasonable. I don't necessarily agree with, but it is reasonable. No, instead, you sell it as a meltdown. It wasn't a meltdown. It was a man who endured the literal rain and figurative storm until he was just finishing.

being lectured, you know, by an institution that lost any credibility long ago. I applaud him. I applaud you for walking into the lion's den. I wouldn't have done it. But for still sitting down with people who despise him. And yet he'll sit there politely and talk to them for as long as he can handle it. You know, the part that matters most is not loyalty. It's the demand underneath it all. Every institution with power over your life, the press, the elections, the government, it has to operate in the full light a day where you can see it and judge it for yourself. I'm not loyal to any of this stuff. I want to see it in the full light of day.

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faiths and they're saying you know uh this person is this faith is christian this faith is not Christian, blah, blah, blah. You'll never guess which faith was not Christian. It was my faith. It was not Christian. Everybody else was totally fine. And then these are the Jews and these are whatever. Okay. And I have to tell you, I want to be honest with you, I don't like this. I don't like this in me. I get personally offended by that. And I should not take those things personally, but it bothers me. me. When somebody attacks my faith, I'm sure you feel the same way if your faith is under attack. You feel the same way. You're like, how dare you? Don't judge me. You don't know me. You don't know the people in my faith. Especially if you've had, you know, you're in a faith where 150 years ago,

the population of the U.S. killed half of the men in the church. I mean, you know, you're kind of tend to get a little, you know, worrisome when people start dividing you up. I don't care how you judge me. I really, I really don't. I know who my savior is. I know he saved me. I know who I serve. I know who I worship. And that's Jesus Christ. And that's it. I also know how far short I fall as a person of faith. I do. But I know Jesus has redeemed me and that's all I need. So let me just say this. I am shocked that Christians are still letting Constantine and the Nicene Creed divide lines between us. I mean, it's Constantine. I mean, read up.

But with that said, I saw a positive spin from somebody that is in my faith, an LDS member that said, here's a potential bright side. As an LDS service member, you used to have to be served by a Protestant chaplain. Now he'll have to be served by an LDS chaplain, making more room for LDS chaplains and service members

who want to be guided in the entirety and specificity of their faith. Look, maybe that's good. In a foxhole, I really think, I think everybody's cool. I mean, I will pray with anybody. I really will. God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, good.

I'm in, okay. Because we're not that different at that moment, at that moment. Maybe that's just me. What bothers me is the division and it's unnecessary because we shouldn't be doing any of this stuff. Okay? And I mean this principle-wise.

It has nothing to do with faith, nothing to do with faith. I do wonder why we've, you know, I don't know, chosen yet another battle to fight to divide us. I don't know why we would do that. But anyway, let me tell you what I said to the president last night. Last night the president calls me it's about 1230. he's still up and going working. I mean, I bet.

President calls, yes, Mr. President. I look down and I'm like, what is that number? Oh my gosh, that is the president calling me at 1230 night. So I pick it up. Yes, Mr. President. Glenn, and we started talking about a few things, talked about Meet the Press interview. And then I brought this up. And I said, Mr. President, why are we doing this?

Why are we doing? And he didn't know anything at all about it. Okay. Now, the reasoning has been, this is just an administrative change. And the Pentagon has said, it's no big deal. It's just administrative change. We're just sorting things out. We're just putting people in categories. That's the problem. Okay. That is the problem that I have. The danger is not who holds the power today to categorize. The danger is that the power exists at all. Okay. Everybody. And we can say this about ourselves. We're the reasonable ones. I don't expect Pete Hegseth to do anything with that. I mean, I don't think any persecution is coming from, I don't think that, okay?

We're the reasonable ones. We can be trusted with it. But people creating classifications never imagined themselves as the future oppressors. They see themselves as the organizers, the administrators, the managers. Look, this is a very complex system. I'm trying to simplify. And that's exactly what was said. Okay? these categories are harmless. It's temporary. It's practical. It's necessary. But history teaches a different lesson. So I don't want you to make this. This is not about my faith, your faith, or anything else. This is about let's not do this. This is a very bad idea. The moment a government decides who they can define, who belongs and who doesn't belong, who's inside the circle, who stands outside the circle. It creates a tool. And that tool is going to be inherited by people with very different convictions. So I would be defending your faith just as much as my faith. On this, the authors on the list will not control its future.

They just are building the machine. Others are going to operate it. I just talked about this almost exact same thing when it was talking about, you can't say that guy's an Islamist, he can't run. Based on what? Based on what? There is no law for that. We don't want more systems.

We don't want more lists. And today's classifications, I think, are innocent, okay? They may be affecting nothing more than paperwork or statistics or administrative convenience or whatever. But tomorrow, they could influence funding and access and recognition, in hiring, and promotion, and public standing. and the day after that, they could become the basis for bias and exclusion. No one can guarantee where that line is going to stop once the line is drawn. You know, there are currently, and listen up, because I want to make this, I want to bring this home to you who don't believe the same things that I do.

And that is fine. I'm not trying to hear to convert you to anything. But there are faiths right now, you know, and I know that preach, teach, and enforce such woke nonsense that I wouldn't even begin to know where to begin to find them in the scriptures. God is non-binary. God is trans, that he's accepting of all lifestyle choices. Jesus is fine with mutilating children because Jesus might be trans. Jesus is a Marxist or Jesus is cool with abortion.

They're preaching that stuff in, quote, Christian churches. So let me give you the scenario, because it might seem crazy now, although, honestly, after what we've witnessed over the last 10 years, I mean, you know, the criminal penalties for not wearing a mask, doctors refusing to treat you if you're not vaccinated, Catholics being put on a terror list by the FBI. I mean, it would make me want to stop calling warnings, you know, crazy, but maybe that's just me. Let's just say the scenario. one of those woke churches found themselves in an administrative position in our Pentagon. Let's say the Pentagon would do something crazy like, say, to males that if you identify as a woman, you can wear a dress as a uniform. Okay, but they'd have to be really crazy to do stuff like that.

And those same administrators decided that you and your church were no longer Christian. Would you want them to have the power to do that? They would tell you it's just administrative, but what about the next non-binary person and the next non-binary preacher that gets the desk in the pen? Would they, them, use the list as administrative? The words that are the most dangerous, are not, we want control, because they're announcing it, okay? They're trust us. Trust us. We can decide who the good Christian is, and I'm telling you that won't stop.

stop with my faith. Trust us to decide which church is legitimate and which isn't. Trust us to decide which beliefs fall within the acceptable boundary. Trust us. Our intentions are good. Perhaps they are. But institutions should never be built on assumptions that good intentions and good people are permanent because they're not. I don't want the government making lists.

I don't want the government deciding, especially when, it comes to religion, what's one faith and what's another faith? They shouldn't be making these classifications. And if you're cheering for these classifications, just ask yourself if my opponents controlled the system tomorrow, if what could very well happen in 2028, where they get control of the House and the Senate and the White House, do you want them to have the authority to define legitimacy?

I don't. I don't. If the standards are rewritten by people who view my deepest or your deepest convictions as obstacles to progress, they've already told you what they do. If that possibility troubles you, then you understand my problem with this whole thing. Liberty doesn't depend on having the right people in power. Liberty depends on denying anyone the power who decides which citizens fit in which category. A government that can classify faiths can reclassify them.

A government that can define orthodoxy can redefine it. A government that can decide who belongs can decide who doesn't belong. That's why free societies are wise to be cautious and never do these things, no matter how innocent it appears. I made this case to the president last night. And he said, Glenn, I don't know anything about it. I don't know why they're doing it. I said, they're doing it because of administrative things.

And it is going to make things simpler, I guess. If you're got a thousand and you're just saying, this one's this and this one's that. He listened to me. He said, I'm going to look into it first thing. I got a note from him this morning at 520. and I said, may I, may I share this? And he said, sure, he actually then calls me.

But let me see where it is. He said to me, done. They're Christians. Congratulations. I love the Mormons. President Donald J. Trump. Okay. So whenever he says stuff like that, then he calls me.

I said, can I share that? And he said, yes, he calls me. He says, yes, absolutely. I got to tell you, that group of people voted for me by 95%. I'm never going to forget that. Okay, so take that with a grain of salt on what he actually did. What he actually did was he didn't declare us Christians. I didn't do it.

Whatever. What he did was he said, stop with the categories. Stop it. Stop with categories. We don't need it. and that to me is the right answer. Not to say my faith is Christian, your faith is Christian, but to say it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter. You're in a foxhole. Here's a chaplain. If you're Islamic or you're Jewish, I'm not going to send a priest to you. But I'm sorry, everyone in my faith will listen to a chaplain who's reading from the Bible.

We all pray to the same God. You may not think so. We do. It's okay. Let's argue that at another time. What do you say we all get into the foxhole and stop pointing the guns at one another and stop shooting at the enemy? What do you say? Let Jesus work all this stuff out. You guys will have an all big laugh when you're up in heaven and I'm burning in hell. You'll be like, I told him so and you'll all be laughing. That's fine. I'll take the consequence at that point. Let's just band together and try to do the right thing, to welcome the Lord for his second coming.

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I just, I, I'm not a gymnast. I like not exercising. I don't want to be a gymnast ever. And the mental gymnast that you have to be to keep. up with the news today is ridiculous. Now apparently Donald Trump hates the Jews. Now apparently Donald Trump hates B.B. Net and Yahoo and wants him to die. And it's like, what? I can't, help me. Help me. Somebody help me. Because I cannot play this game. That's why I don't play. That's why I tell you. Don't get involved in any of that. It's nonsense. It's nonsense. Just look at what's happening on the ground. And then let's decide what is the next. Don't try to guess on anything. Just what's the next best thing we have to do. We just put a poll out for the torch members on Iran. What is the,

what are the results? 73% want more airstrikes. I'm shocked. 16% want limited ground troop involvement and 12% want to cut a deal and be done with it. You can do that poll at Glymbeck. So, yeah, my first one is air strikes. I mean, if we can cut a deal, great, cut a deal. If we can't cut a deal. If we can't cut a deal. It's not, I mean, it has to be a good deal, but cut a deal. If we can't, I'm fine with air strikes. I am not for ground troops. I'm just not for ground troops. I'm not. Now, I know Jason has a different view because he's a military guy and he's been following this and he's been saying to me for the last week, I'm really kind of getting ill-tempered on this. And Jason, I want you to line that out in the next five seconds. No, I want you to line that out for me tomorrow. Could you do that?

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