The Glenn Beck Program - FBI Has a LOT More Explaining to Do in Killing of Utah Man | Guests: Travis Clark & Kyle Seraphin | 8/10/23

Episode Date: August 10, 2023

An FBI raid in Utah left an elderly man dead after he was under investigation for social media threats against President Biden and other Democrats. While the posts were horrendous, where was this outrage when Trump received his countless death threats, many from high-profile celebrities? Utah Valley University adjunct professor and church friend of the Utah man who died during an FBI raid joins to speak out about Craig, his personality, and what went down during the raid. Glenn and Stu discuss the inconsistencies of where Craig’s body was lying and where the raid occurred. Glenn speaks out on how Christians should speak out against tough topics. Federal whistleblower Kyle Seraphin joins to examine the FBI raid that ended with a death and whether it was justifiable. Glenn and Stu discuss the latest health issues for Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We are going to talk to a neighbor who has an awful lot to say, and I have an awful lot to say about this shooting. We go there in 60 seconds. You know, it's been the hottest summer in 15 and a half million years, I think. And we all know that to be true, sure. And you know what it's doing?

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So, Stu, it is. This is going to be a rough show, and this is going to be a show that you're going to have to actually pay attention and listen to. because everybody is jumping to conclusions, everybody is dogpiling, and this shooting yesterday truly is complex in some ways. Okay, so what happened yesterday?

Well, we have to go back in time for a while. Let me just start with the ending quickly. and the ending is that there was a shooting. The FBI came to a house in Provo, Utah, and shot a guy who was darn near 80 years old and shot him to death because they thought he was some sort of a threat to the president. Well, they had already visited him before and saw that he walks with a cane. you know, he's 80. He was, you know, very, very heavy. And he was living and was the only provider for his blind son.

Okay. So he made horrible, horrible threats online to the president and to the FBI. And there's no way to really even begin to excuse what he said. what he said online was despicable and awful. What did he say? He said that he was going to kill the president of the United States. He had the means and he was tired of it and he would then kill Kamala Harris. The media is reporting.

The social media is reporting that that's what he said. I have no reason to doubt that that is what he said. However, you know, you can't verify anything. So they go into his house yesterday and eyewitnesses said they used a battering ram. And they came in like the FBI is now known to do. They came in with a SWAT unit all in black. there was shouting and then a gunshot. And we don't know how many gunshots.

We don't know who shot first. We do know, I've seen the video. It is unverified yet, but it looks authentic. The video taken from across the street shows the SWAT team outside around their big SWAT tank. and the others are inside. You do hear shouting. You hear the door come down. You hear the shouting of FBI, put your foot, you know, put your gun down, whatever.

You can't really understand what they're saying. But then you have a flashbang that happens outside of the house. Now, I'm going to play this so you can hear it. If you're watching the blaze, here it is. Watch it. Now watch your left-hand corner of the house, if you happen to be washing. You'll see. On the floor, on the floor.

Okay. That's when the video ends because the neighbor who's taking this is just in shock. She's like, what is happening? And she freaks out. So the video stops. But you can clearly see that that bang was a flashbang and it was outside of the house. I think, and I don't know. No, but I think you can hear them say on the floor, on the floor.

So they are, we think they are in the house. Flash bang. If you're in a situation this high and you have a flashbang go on and you all you hear is a bang, if you're holding a gun and you're worried somebody shooting, it is your natural instinct to shoot. why was the flashbang thrown outside of the house? We still don't have anything from the FBI saying who shot first, what the situation was. And then they left the body on the sidewalk in front of the house for two hours. The FBI's excuse is, well, I can't say this.

There's no official word. What we're getting from sources is, well, we wanted the police to come. And, you know, we don't, we don't normally handle that. We wanted that handled by the authorities. You're the FBI. First of all, we need to know whether that shooting happened inside of the house. And if it happened inside of the house, I've watched, you know, the police shows enough to know. You don't touch anything.

So if you're waiting for investigators, you would never move the body. Why did they move the body? Did they move the body? Here's where it becomes very, very nuanced, and I need you to listen carefully. He was in the wrong by posting those things online. Do not be surprised that the secret service. shows up at your house if you make a threat against the life of the president or vice president or really any authority in Washington, D.C.

That was happening under Ronald Reagan. Okay. If you say something about the president, I want the secret service, not the FBI. I want the secret service to show up your house. Now, why do I want the secret service to show up at your house? because the Secret Service doesn't usually show up with guns ablazing because they're treasury people. And all of the Secret Service that happens to be in Salt Lake City or Dallas or New York, New York may be different. They are generally not part of the protective detail.

They're pencil pushers, most of them. And I don't mean that as a slam against Secret Service, but they are not in the protective detail. So they go and they interview. They're qualified to interview. Now, do not be surprised. I think, because of everything we hear about this man, he was like a grandfather to most people. He was alone with his blind son.

He was taking care of his son. He was active in his church. everyone in his church said he's a great guy. I mean, everybody loved him. He was a big teddy bear. The secret, I'm sorry, the FBI had already gone to his house and talked to him and seen him. They know who he was. They know if they didn't, then they are really not doing their job.

They know that he was active in the church. He was assistant to the church's clerk, which means, you know, they take attendance roles and everything else. So he's in with the leadership of the church. If the FBI actually did their job, remember, one of the big things they're trained to do, oh my gosh, George Floyd, we have to educate everyone in de-escalation. Do you remember that? One of the main things the FBI is supposed to be trained in is de-escalation.

So if you want to de-escalate and you know the president of the United States is coming to this town and you know this person is a possible threat, if you know who he is, you know, okay, he's active in his church. Go to his bishop because they came without a search warrant and he said, this was months ago, you come back with a search warrant. You come back with a search warrant, which is his right as American. get off my property, you come back with a search warrant. Well, they didn't until yesterday. And it's been months. Now, he did say, online, you know, you come back. I've got surprises waiting for you.

So they don't know. So what do you do? Do you come with a SWAT team into somebody's house who already is paranoid about you, has already threatened you? do you come in with guns ablazin or do you say is there any way to de-escalate this sure we can pick him up as he's going to church because he won't be in his house he's got to go to the grocery store we've been watching him he usually goes on tuesdays we could pick him up on the way to the grocery store done or you can go to his bishop and say hey Bishop, pastor, would you do us a favor?

We're in this weird situation and we hear he's a good guy. Will you broker this with us? Would you take the search warrant to him or the warrant for us and ask him to come out so everybody's safe? We don't want to hurt the old man, but he's doing things that are clearly wrong and dangerous. And it has to stop. They didn't choose any of those. Why? Because they don't care about the individual. You are a threat to them. They will take you out. Why didn't they do this to Johnny Depp?

Do you remember when Johnny Depp said, you know, when was the last time an actor killed a president? What was the last time that happened? Oh, it was John Wilkes Booth. Maybe there needs to be an actor that kills the president. that's clearly a threat to the president of the United States. He said that about Donald Trump. Did they kick down his door? Did they kick down Kathy Griffith's door? No. Did they investigate?

Yes. I've had the FBI come. I've had the FBI come to my studios and interview because I said, we were talking about Donald Trump at one point. And I said to Stu, I'm going to stab you to death, and somebody heard that and thought I said I was going to stab Donald Trump. And so the FBI showed up. Perfectly reasonable. We had a perfectly reasonable conversation.

Yeah, here's the tape. I didn't say that. I was talking about stabbing him and they looked at Stu and went, yeah, I'd stab him too. Perfectly reasonable. That's the way it happens. Now, here's a lesson for all of us. We have turned into somebody. we are not. There are two versions of us.

And one version is the version where we are a normal human being. And we would never say these things to each other. We would never go and say out loud in person, I'm going to kill you and I got guns. We would not do that. But online, we seem to be invincible. You want to get yourself killed. Make statements like that. With that being said, I, for one, demand a full explanation and investigation into this because I think the FBI gunned down a harmless man.

We have his neighbor who is brave enough to come on today and is in mourning because he knew this teddy bear of a man. He's coming on in just a few minutes. We also have FBI, former FBI, that's going to be joining us. We're going to talk to them about, is this the new standard? We go there in just a, just a minute. American financing NMLS-182334 www. nmLS consumer access.org. H. L. Mencken once said, Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want.

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Yes, Stu. I know you're just quoting people who know him, I guess, are talking about him and talking about him and calling him a teddy bear of a guy, but like, you know, someone who's posting these sorts of threats is correct. That's pretty bad. This is why I'm saying, this is why I'm saying this is a show

today for adults. Because there are two sides. I could make the case that, yeah, damn right they go in and do that. Darn right. They go in with guns of blazing. He's a threat.

He's saying these insane things that no one would ever say. And being a good church-going man, he should know the Lord would never have you say those things. He would never endorse that. So, teddy bear of a man. Yeah, well, take a teddy bear. It's only called Teddy because of Teddy Roosevelt. That's a bear. And you start harming a bear's child or its cub. You start coming after, you go into a bear's cave, he's going to mall you. Now, I don't know if he did. I don't know if he was armed when they came in. I don't know if he threatened them. I don't know. I also don't think that it's unreasonable for somebody who's at their home all of a sudden, boom, somebody throws a flashbang and people are coming in your

house and it's confusion. I reach for my gun because I don't know who you are. It becomes a chaotic situation. He deserved the visit and, quite honestly, at least should have had a police car out in front of his house. Well, Joe Biden was in town or to be monitored or to be picked up. I don't know. He made valid threats, what appeared to be, valid threats against the president of the United States. You don't do that. Now, with that being said, you also don't do what the FBI. did. And if we cannot have an adult conversation and say, I don't know this man personally, but let's take all emotion out of it. What he did was wrong, stupid, foolish, probably just all bravado because of stupid way we look at the internet. We look at ourselves and we think,

oh, we can say anything. Well, no, don't say anything. Say what you would say. say if you meant it and you were in person. But I don't trust the FBI at all. I've broadcast for 50 years. Okay, I'm coming up on my 50th year of broadcast. I am seeing things now that I haven't seen except at Ruby Ridge and Waco. I've never seen in my broadcast years, I've never seen a president come to a town. FBI break down and shoot someone who had made someone. It's made someone. crazy threat to the president in mail. You know those existed, and quite honestly, mail is much more personal than social media. If you mail something to the president, you're much more serious about it.

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This is the Glenn Beck program. Police say, not police, sorry, sources say, unnamed sources say that Craig Robertson, this 75-year-old man in Provo, Utah, was armed at the time of the shooting. What does that mean? Was he pointing a gun at them? Did he have a gun in, I'm armed right now, I'm carrying a gun. But that doesn't mean I'm a threat to you.

Was he holding the gun? Or does arm mean that he had a safe full of guns? What does that mean? and if this shooting happened inside, which I'm led to believe it is, but I cannot confirm that, because they won't confirm any details. If this shooting happened inside, why exactly did the body, was the body moved to the sidewalk outside of the house and then let to sit there for hours? Something's very wrong here. And that's not excusing what Craig Robertson's.

said apparently online. Now, one of his friends from church is Travis Lee Clark. He's a Utah Valley University adjunct professor. He is a church friend. New Craig Robertson quite well. Boy, I hate doing these interviews.

Travis, I'm so sorry for your loss and I'm grateful that you are willing to come on the air and just tell us what you do know. I just wanted people to know the Craig that I knew. Is Craig, you didn't know anything about his social media postings, right?

You didn't follow him there. No, I did not follow him on social media. I did not see that until later in the day after I knew he was killed. But I knew him. I knew he was political. He often, you know, talked about politics. He was a big Second Amendment supporter.

But I had never. heard him say anything like that. And he used a walking stick, so he was not really agile. He was 300 pounds, 5'4, 75 years old. So he was...

Go ahead. He could not get out of a chair without his cane or walking stick. And there were a few times where I had to help him get out of a chair. And he was not a very mobile guy. He lived less than half a block away from the church.

and he would drive himself and his son to church just because he really couldn't walk that distance. If you saw him and you were on an FBI interview, would he be the kind of guy that, you know, if you only know that what he said, I've got a gilly suit, I'm going to go up into a parking lot and I'm going to stake out the president and I'm going to shoot him with my high-powered rifle. is he the kind of guy that you would, of course, if the president's coming in, you would go and make sure that he's not in his gilly suit. But would that be a possibility or laughable if you had seen him, just seeing him and not known him? Utterly, it's utterly unbelievable. It's utterly laughable. He was not very mobile.

He was not very active. He was not very active in a gillie suit and taking up some position, you know, as a sniper. you know, in the condition that he was. He was just simply not capable of... I can't imagine anybody who knew him or met him for any length of time, imagining that he was... You know some of his neighbors. Do you know did the shooting happen in the house or outside?

Did the FBI move the body? My wife is good friends. with the next door neighbor who called us immediately and was looking for some place that as soon as they let her out of her house, the whole neighborhood was locked down. As soon as she was able to get out of her house, she wanted a safe place for her and her five-year-old. So she called my wife, thought that maybe that could happen. And then my wife went over to go check on her and spoke with her. And as near as I can tell, the shooting took place inside the house. They, they, uh, attempted to bash his front door down.

That failed. Then they had a vehicle-mounted battering ram that went in through his front window, and then they went into the building. And then that's when shots were fired. And then I don't know, his body was taken out. And when my wife went to go check on her friend, who was living right next door with her five-year-old son, and they were obviously traumatized,

his body was still laying out there on the sidewalk under a sheet and this was around 830. So this was, you know, two hours after the event supposedly happened. And it was very distressing for my wife. I bet it was. He was just this person that we knew from church, this kind of lovable teddy bear kind of a guy who didn't seem like a threat to anyone, was just laying out there. She thought it was very disrespectful. people don't understand the neighborhoods in Utah are different usually everybody goes to church and the church is usually within a walking distance of a couple blocks

and so families really get to know each other and children get to know each other was he the kind of guy that the children knew in the neighborhood everything she could to keep her five-year-old son from knowing what was going on took him down to the basement to protect him because it was a very scary situation. And the second she, the second she found someone who could, you know, take her kid and get them out of that situation, she did.

But they were stuck there while all this was unfolding. Yeah, I'm wondering how all the other children on the block if they saw this man that they knew. Did he seem, did he seem at all crazy to you? Did he seem like the kind of guy that would, No.

So this was... I spoke to him on Sunday. I just said, hi, how you're doing? I meant to ask about his son. I didn't ask about his son. I feel bad about that. He has an adult son who is disabled, blind, that he's the primary caregiver for and had been up until a few weeks ago.

His son had a stroke. And it's now... Oh, geez. ...character. And so I meant to ask about his son, but I didn't. and I regret that, but he seemed fine. He was always good-natured, quick with a joke. It could be a little bit crumudgeonly at times.

But he was, and I said this in my Twitter post, he was a sweet guy. And I know that sounds crazy, considering what everybody's seen what he posted on Facebook, but he was. He was a woodwork. I think there's a monster in each of us that comes out sometimes on social media, that you're Like, you'd never say that in real life, but you just become a monster because you're on social media and you think you can get away with it. Yeah, I think he just kind of leaned into his online persona. But anyone, anyone who saw him and his condition and anyone who knew him in his personality would have just thought, this guy is just, he's just trolling and just went over the top in exceedingly bad taste and not very wise. you know, statements, but I can't imagine anybody who knew him thinking that he was any of that

that was more than just bluster. And, you know, I do. I think he just went into some dark places and leaned into his online shoshina and blew it up because he just simply was incapable of enacting any of the things he said. Had you ever gone on over to his house or know anybody that you had. Did he have guns laying around? Did he, was he sitting next, you know, in his recliner? Did he have a gun sitting there? No, no, he had his, he always had his gun secured. He had a workshop and he he loved to work on wood and wood projects. And most of the time, that's what we talked about. So what I'm, anyone who needed help, he would do that. But every time, you know, I, you know, over there, he had his guns and he was, he was a gun collector. He loved his guns and would work

on his guns and, you know, do some builds on guns. Well, here's why I'm asking this. This is why I'm asking this. The FBI said he was armed at the time of the shooting. I don't exactly know what that means. I know if you want to make it look like, you know, he was shooting back. You say he's armed, but I carry a gun. I'm armed right now, but I'm not a danger to anybody unless you are threatening me.

I'm wondering if the. police come into the house and he's in bed or he's sitting in his chair he has a hard time getting up is he the kind of guy that had a gun on him all the time that it was like oh somebody's coming in and he's pointing a gun at the FBI oh I don't know but you know he was did he carry a gun that you know of did he carry a gun all the time I don't know but I mean it wouldn't surprise me because he talked about concealed carry but if he did okay he wasn't flashing it in church. She wasn't, you know, he wasn't like some of these guns that were flashing their gun and doing everything else.

If he did, he was very discreet about it. And it never worried me at all. He was always very conscientious about his guns, about safety, his guns. His guns were in a secure place in his house. And so I can't, you know, I can't imagine. I mean, yeah, I had guns in the house, but I don't know what the situation or how it unfolded. One last thing. This bothers me that the FBI, who knows that they're supposed to be trained in de-escalation,

they knew he was a ward clerk. So he's in part of what's called the bishopric. He is part of the leadership of the church. And he's known to be a nice guy. If the FBI knows this, they should have gone to the bishop. Is he the kind of guy that, that the bishop would have gone to and said, hey, listen, FBI approached me. They need to talk to you.

The president's coming to town. What are you doing? Why are you writing these things? Listen, they have a warrant. They have a warrant. Talk to them. Could he have, would he have listened to somebody like that? I think he would have. I think he would have. I think that anyone who had contacted anybody in the church or anybody in the community that he knew were trusted could have could have gotten to read on him and and figured this out. I just can't believe that this required a SWAT team at a dawn raid. You know, it seems a complete overreaction for a man who was very physically limited. And I just can't believe that he got this kind of attention. Seeing the Facebook posts, well, I understand why, but I don't understand why that escalated immediately to a SWANT team.

I didn't know that he had been visited by the FBI in March, but I found that out. But I think anybody who had visited him at that time would have seen him. He would have looked at him and said, this guy may be a hot head, he may be a crank, but he's not going to be that kind of threat. And I still don't understand why this could not have been handled another way. We're talking to Travis Lee Clark, who is a friend of Craig Robertson, who was shot and killed by the FBI. in a raid of his house.

Travis, I can't thank you enough. I know when our producers reached out to you yesterday after seeing your post that it was a horrible day. And this is the worst part of my job is having to talk to people who are still in shock and still in mourning. And I apologize for that. But I am so grateful that you would share

what you knew about him. Can you tell me if you feel comfortable, tell me the name of his son so we can have the audience pray for his son. Sure, his name was Sean. Sean Robertson. Okay. Thank you, Craig.

Thank you, Travis. I really appreciate it. God bless you. Thank you, Glenn. You bet. That's Travis Lee Clark. He is a Utah Valley University Adjunct professor and a friend of the now-de-cease Craig Robertson.

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There are two sides to this man and the FBI should have known this. Now, I do not excuse anything that he wrote on. line. You don't say that and not expect a knock at your door. I believe that every threat against a president's life, no matter who that president is, and I'm very, very consistent on this on every president since I have broadcast. And the first president that I was broadcasting with or under was Jimmy Carter. And I've always said this. You do not ever threaten the president's life, not even as a joke ever. So, you expect the FBI to show up.

What he said online, I believe, is the sickness that we all have. We all say things that are monstrous at times. And we'd never say that to people in the room with us. That's why the best of men, the people who knew him in his life, they knew he was a teddy bear. He was a sweet art of a guy. He believed what he believed, but he wouldn't harm a fly. Okay? Which one was he?

And isn't it the job of the FBI to de-escalate? Or is their new job just to go in and kill? It's amazing how quickly the world changes sometimes. We could be at war tomorrow. We could have our economy collapse tomorrow. The world can change. overnight. And if you haven't learned that yet, you need to. And then please prepare. You don't need to do crazy things. You just say, okay, what happened in COVID? Is there a possibility that things

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and it's flooded with what's happening in Provo, Utah. And I've done this, I'm coming up on my 47th year of broadcast. I've seen a lot of things. I was in radio when Reagan was shot. I was in radio when Hinkley went to jail. in radio when Hinkley was let out. I've seen people make threats to the president of the United States before. And it is always wrong.

It is wrong to threaten somebody and their life. Let's say you disagree with a ruling that you think is about to come out. And so you go and you march in the streets to intimidate the Supreme Court justice. That's wrong. It's illegal. and it's not exactly illegal because it's called parading. It's illegal. But so is traveling across the country with guns, with ropes, with zip ties, and show up to a Supreme Court Justice's house and you're going to kill him.

But when that happens, that doesn't mean that you're killed. Now, why do I say this? Well, I thought that was the whole point of George Floyd. That the police should not use excessive force. Isn't, am I wrong, Stu? Or is it actually that they don't want the police at all? Because I'm losing my way here. There seems to be some schizophrenia on the left.

I thought it's because the police use extreme force when they don't have to, and they should all go through de-escalation school and everything else, right? We should send a social worker out. This is what they tell us, but doesn't seem to be what they want in practice often, depending on who the villain is. Correct. Correct. Okay. So we're supposed to de-escalate, but apparently the FBI, the people who are supposed to be the experts at de-escalation, go into a guy who's 75 years old, who has made awful, awful threats on the president and the vice president and judges.

all revolving around the chaos in Washington. He has made awful illegal threats. He makes these threats online because I think he thinks he's invincible. He believes into, he believes his own garbage online, that he's this tough guy online. When in real life, he's not. In real life,

he's a normal guy and 75 years old walks with a cane. Can't walk very far. He's 5'4, 300 pounds, and he's the caretaker of his blind son who just two weeks ago had a stroke. So now the president of the United States is coming to Salt Lake City. They shut the city down. At the same time before the president lands, the FBI, as they should, they go to contact this man. Now, all of this so far is understandable. The FBI should go and contact people. They should park a car in front of somebody's house.

If you know, let's say that I'm just pulling something out of the air, you know of somebody like Lee Harvey Oswald and he's a danger. And one of the agencies happens to have him on a payroll. And you know he's been over to Russia. you might want to keep him in your sights on the day that the president is in town unless he's working for you and maybe you have another agenda. But that's a different story. I would expect the police to go and sit in front of somebody's house if they think they're a danger. I would expect the police or the FBI to go and find out about this man, which they did back in April.

But then they just let it sit. They did nothing about it until the president comes to town. Then they take a battering ram to his front door. And when that isn't enough, they take one of their FBI tanks with a battering ram and run it through his front window. They say he was armed. You're in a tank. That's like the Chinese saying, hey, that guy was standing in front of the tank. in front of the tank and he had a bag in his hand he could have thrown it at the tank they say he was armed i don't know

what that means but i've watched enous c s i stew have you watched c s i before what is the one thing that you do at a crime scene when there's a crime scene what's the first thing you do or don't do no you preserve evidence right yeah yeah and the body you move the body right No, not usually. Huh. Yeah. Isn't that weird? You don't move the body.

But I guess if you're the FBI, you can do whatever you want. You don't need photographs to be taken. You don't need anybody outside to come in and investigate. You just move the body. And you move this 75-year-old body in a sweet little town where the church is right around the block that he went to, and everybody else on the street goes to and all the kids are playing in the streets and everything else, you move that 75-year-old body

and you put it on the sidewalk in the sun for at least two hours. Hey, did somebody call for a truck to pick that thing up, or what is that? Well, what is that? Honestly, what is that? There's some details that are missing, and I'm sorry that I don't exactly trust the FBI. I've worked in this business

for a long time. I've never seen this happen before. Well, except during this administration, but nobody was killed, but I keep seeing SWAT teams. I'm trying to figure out why this entire SWAT team and whoever called out for this SWAT team, I'm wondering, have they gone to any kind of de-escalation camps? maybe they should go to a re-education camp and learn again about de-escalation. Because that's not the way you do it. I want to talk to you about freedom of speech. Give me 60 seconds and we'll do that.

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Coming up next hour, we have Kyle Serafin. He is a federal whistleblower. He's a former FBI agent. He is one of the guys who started blowing the whistle when all of this kind of stuff happened. His father was in radio in Texas, in Waco, Texas when Waco was happening. His father talked to the Branch Davidians, had them on the air, and worked with the FBI. It's why Kyle wanted to be in the FBI. He saw that and thought, that's an overrearing. each, but I want to be one of the good guys. And so he went in and now he's not in. He's still paying for his sin of trying to be one of the good guys. He's going to be joining us here in

about 45 minutes and he's going to talk about what the FBI does, break down this raid, tell us what he knows and what should have been done. That's Kyle Serafin. He's coming up in about 45 minutes. Now, we have freedom of speech. People say, you can't say these things, and I am not defending. I am telling you right now, if you ever write stuff like that, if that's what you actually believe and you really think, I'm going to, I'm going to get into a gilly suit. Now, if you don't know what a gilly suit is, that makes you look like a bush or a lump of grass, okay? If his threat was, I'm going to put on my gilly suit and I'm going to go to a parking garage and I'll set up my gun and nobody will see it coming.

In a gilly suit, in a concrete garage, that's more obvious than the three amigos with a singing bush. You must be the singing bush, are you? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course, it's a bush singing. A giant bush walking with a cane in a concrete parking lot. is not a disguise. Now, you have the right to say it, but, you know, good luck with that.

Good luck with that. Gosh, we have to start saying what we mean and mean what we say. All right. So freedom of speech, the freedom of the press. Madison said it was the choicest of all great rights of mankind. Why? Because it allows you the opportunity to be you. It allows you to question everything and you're not locked up by a church or by your neighbor or by a government.

You can't scream in a, you can't scream fire in a movie theater. Really? What did they say before Edison invented the projector in movies? Well, you can't scream fire in a... Okay, well, someday I'll be able to finish that sentence. And they weren't concerned about things like that. are bigger ideas. Should someone be allowed to incite violence against the government?

Could you knowingly spread false and damaging statements against others or the government? What speech is protected? Well, we thought this was self-evident. And then, of all people, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams get into a fight over this and fight over who's going to be president. And Madison is saying, your children will be raped. This is a quote, by the way. Your children will be raped and there will be blood in the streets

and the heads of your daughters will be on pikes all along your city streets if Jefferson is elected. Okay, come pipe down here. But what's the difference between that and what they're saying about Donald Trump? Well, Madison and Jefferson, oh, you know what we need? We need a sedition. We need to curb all this seditious speech. Really? Do we? They pass a law.

These guys pass a law where you can't say stuff about the president. You can't say anything about the government. Cedition laws. The Sedition Act. It was aimed at, and I'm quoting, falsehood and malice only. falsehood and malice only. Well, wait a minute. This is what's happening today.

Was it false to say the vaccine is not tested and there's something wrong and it's, I'm not taking it because they're forcing it and they're covering up the things that they do know are happening, that maybe this did come from a lab, that maybe some people are profiting off of this, that shouldn't be profiting off of this. Those all turn out to be true. But they were deemed false. And who are they deemed falsehoods and misinformation, misinformation, dangerous information?

Who was saying that? The government, because they weren't the police in this. They were the salesman. You imagine if, you know, Church of Scientology came up. Now, I can't even use that. The Church of Satan comes up to your door and is preaching that Satan is the greatest, friendliest God ever. And you say, I don't think so. I think Satan is, I don't know, Satan.

Well, we're calling the police on you. You don't have a right to say that. And then some other member of the church comes out and says, yeah, Satan's a good guy. What are you talking about? this guy's got to be shut down. That's why the people who are enforcing this can have no say in what's true or not, because they're the ones that you're most likely going to be speaking out against. So they go back and forth on this, and the Sedition Act, of course, is repealed right away.

But what happens is they decide on what it really is. And they say, if I may, quote them, the government finds his criticism ungrounded, false and scandalous, and is his publication malicious? And by what kind of argument or evidence in the present temper of parties, could the accused convince them that his opinions were true? There are many truths important to society that are not susceptible of that full direct and positive evidence.

which alone can be exhibited before a court and a jury. And by the way, would the jury be composed of friends of the government and therefore find his criticism ungrounded, false and scandalous? The truth of opinions cannot be proved. Allowing truth as a defense of freedom makes as much sense as allowing a jury to decide the best food, drink, or color. citizens should have, I'm quoting, citizens should have the right to say everything which his passions suggest.

He may employ all of his time, all of his talents, if he's wicked enough to do so in speaking against the government in matters that are false, scandalous, and malicious. And despite this, he should be safe within the sanctuary of the press, even if he condemns the principle of Republican institutions, censors the measure of our government

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There are going to be people that write that I am defending this teddy bear of a man who was threatening the president of the United States. That's what's going to be said. And others will say, Glenn Beck said the FBI was justified in going in and shooting this man. That's what both are going to say. And both of them are wrong. And both sides should learn the lesson from yesterday when it comes to the internet.

Say what you mean and mean what you say. Period. Be the same person online that you are in real life. If you wouldn't say it to the person, then don't say it. why are they? It is becoming dangerous. And there are people on all sides that are trying to twist things. And it is going to get more and more dangerous.

Don't listen to hyperbole. Listen to people who say what they mean and mean what they say and then become one of those people. This is not helping either side this shooting. The FBI is not trusted by a growing number of Americans. Americans, and they're not trusted for very good reasons. They have lied to Congress over and over and over again. There's a new story about Christopher Ray, lying to Congress about the, what was it, the Catholic thing, and I think also about the life. He's lying in his own testimony, and you can prove it now.

So they don't deserve our trust when they start doing the right things and speaking the truth, no matter how hard it is, or who it hurts, including themselves. then they will deserve trust again. But they don't go in and kill people, and you shouldn't be the kind of person that can bring this kind of dishonor to your family, where I can't defend you because you said these things, but I really want to because I don't think you believed in it. I don't think you meant any of those things.

Maybe you did, but I don't think he did. So who wins? Who's left better with this situation? No one is left in any better shape. That's because we have all forgotten the responsibility that comes with your freedom of speech. You in this country have a right to say what you believe. You don't have a right to threaten somebody's life online. That's illegal.

You can't do that. You don't make threats against people's lives. You don't incite violence. You don't go out and say, let's go into the Capitol tomorrow. Well, that one I think you can say if you're the right person. Seems the press will leave you alone if that happened. But you don't threaten the president or judges or anybody else. Because you have a responsibility.

And quite honestly, Christians, we have a responsibility to be more Christ-like. That doesn't mean we are. are Christ-like all the time, because we're humans. We're not Christ. I don't know how many times I think to myself, you know, in shameful moments, when I say something and my first thought is, well, I mean, Jesus didn't live in these times. Jesus wasn't a talk show host. Jesus didn't live in these times.

I don't know. I don't have a crown of thorns on my head. I think he might have had a little worse than I have. and he still prayed for the people because he knew they're all our brothers and sisters. And if the shooter would have realized that in his anger, he wouldn't have said those things. And quite honestly, if the FBI was doing their job and they were a system of justice for, by and of the people, they wouldn't have gone and done this. They would have de-escalated this, and it wasn't hard to do in this particular case.

Not hard to do, but they don't care because they're not part of a government of for and by the people. At least right now, they seem to be operating like they are just the government and you are you. And that's the problem because more and more people, this guy spoke out, I think, because he was scared. he saw what was happening to his country. He saw what was happening to people's rights. And he saw the lies over and over and over again. And I think people are just reaching a point where they're like, OK, well, that's not all that.

Well, no, no, nothing will be solved if we act like that. Everything will be solved because it's all coming unraveling. Did you see that S&P stopped using ESG as a score now? Did you see that? It's all coming undone. the truth will set you free. It'll make you miserable first, but it will set you free,

and it will free all of the minds that are currently captured in all of these lies. It will, and it will save them. And quite honestly, the Lord would have us saving all of his children. We don't just go, you know what they're wrong, I'm going to get them.

Oh, pay back some. Bitch. We don't do that. You think your dad would do that? Hey, hey, hey, hey. That's your sister. Love her. She's hurting right now. She's misguided right now. But love her. Always. Do no harm. Don't you dare say that about your sister. You love her. That's what our father in heaven would say about all those we deem enemies right now. And that's hard to do. It doesn't mean we don't tell. them the truth. It doesn't mean that we don't try to stop their errors from harming others, but it's all coming undone. So the reality is, for instance, the president is going on this tour to talk about climate change. It's been what, 17 days of temperatures in Dallas over 100. It's the worst thing that's ever happened in history of man. For the last four and a half

trillion years. It's not this hot even on the sun. Not true. Did you know in 1980? The record was, it's been 17 days. I think the record was 50 or 60 days in a row. Hello. And that was at the end of the global cooling scare. So it's, it's his, for instance, he's going around right now talking about, quote, the largest investment in climate in the history of the world. What was that investment in the climate? That investment in the climate is called the Inflation Reduction Act. Why did you call the biggest investment in climate the inflation reduction act? Because it's a lie. The whole thing is a lie.

Now, he says these things and you get frustrated and I get frustrated. But right now, he's saying, you know, prices are way down. This, this, bynomics, it's working. It's working. Well, is it? Have you paid for gas lately? Did he fix that or make it worse? How is your grocery bill?

Well, inflation's down to 3%. Yeah, plus the 9.1 from the prices being risen last year. They didn't go back down 9%. They went down 6%. This year. They didn't go down from... They're still growing. Still growing.

We're actually not even down. I'm sorry. we are up 12% now. Well, gee, that's good. 12%. That's worse than nine. The Build Back Better Act. So he's saying now that you are getting off,

quote, we're about building an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down. Then let me ask you, Joe Biden, you are now reportedly requesting more disaster relief for Ukraine. This is the country that, we're not following the money this is the most corrupt country in the in the land this is the country that you and your son were doing business with and that's

not speculation anymore that's fact look can we get past this please we have the documents for the love of Pete we have 70 warnings from the banking sector saying money laundering can we please get past that because we're still sending money over there and we don't know where it's going but that's not all you're still enriching people, bad guys, you're taking our money and you're sending it over there and God only knows who's enriching themselves. But let me give you this, Biden transition official caught on camera now saying border crisis is a boom for business. Why is it a boom for business? Well, because he was a guy that was overseeing the detention and he was building all kinds of things for the for the for the for the for the for the for the for

the immigrants and he was sending all kinds of money to these new organizations that he was getting money from it's corruption he was enriching himself how about this one fouchy and the n iH scientists personally collecting royalty payments from taxpayer-funded inventions was anyone making money on this well yeah they were i told you three years ago i showed you the ever of how this works. I showed you that they were making money on these things. Did you get a check? Because I didn't get a royalty check.

Did you get a royalty check? Well, no, no, no, no. Of course not. They're building this from the bottom up. And the people like Fauci and the secretary that was, you know, helping out on the border, that's the very bottom. That is the very bottom. The NIH took royalties from a Wuhan lab collaborator.

an alleged front for Russian bio weapons. That's the very bottom, right? Energy Secretary Granholm sold 1.6 million in holdings in an electric busmaker after Biden visited the firm. Huh. Then they declared bankruptcy. But don't worry. That was just your money. That was just your money.

She happened to invest in it when it was going up when the government's getting their money. money and then when they started looking out they're like oh boy this thing's going to fail she got her money out so she made her profit that's building it from the bottom up isn't it when they say we're going to build it from the bottom up we're going to build the the poor people and give them the money in the power instead of the rich i don't want the government doing any of that i don't care if you're poor or rich do you have a better idea do you have a way to change my life or people's lives for the better. That's who I want to be able to be free. And who does that include? Oh, I don't know. Everyone, freedom means opportunity. But then you have to take that opportunity. Freedom doesn't mean you're given everything. It means I have the opportunity to change my life. I have the opportunity to live my own life. Now, that may mean that I'm just not going to do anything. Well, then your opportunity is going to kind of go away because you have closed the door on that opportunity. But if you're somebody that wants to educate themselves and you don't need a special education,

unless you're a brain surgeon, you don't need that expensive education. You can educate yourself for the love of Pete. You have the internet. You have the power of every book on earth at your fingertips. I need somebody to say, yep, you're important. smart. No, you don't. It's a scam. Stop it. You need to educate yourself and take responsibility for yourself and walk through those doors of opportunity and don't kick them closed for the people behind you. That's Bidenomics. Kicking the doors closed behind them so you can't get it,

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the questions in the press and it's you know he's just like you're stupid I don't like your question that's a stupid question right right here's Joe Biden yesterday when when Peter Ducey from Fox

ask Joe Biden about his son's business partners. Listen. He did about 90 minutes ago give us first of its kind reaction when he waved me over at the end of an event. There's this testimony now where one of your son's former business associates is claiming that you were on speakerphone a lot with them talking business. Is that what? I never talk business in.

I know you'd have a lousy question. Well, why is that a lousy question? because it's not true. No, because it's not true. No surprise. I've heard from a White House official who tells us that in their reading of that exchange, the question is wrong and his answer is right

because they insist President Biden never did talk about business on those calls, which is what he said in response to my question. So it didn't really seem like you wanted to talk about that today. Okay, stop. Wait a minute. Hang on just a second. That's a lousy question.

I knew you'd have a stupid question. Oh, wow, that sounds very Trumpian, doesn't it? I knew you'd have a lousy question. Hang on just a second. Your son's former business associates said you were on the speaker phone and said that you did do business in some cases. You were aware of it. And we have all this evidence.

That's a stupid question. Somebody just accused you of something. and there seems to be mounting evidence that it's true. I shouldn't even ask you that question? No, Peter Ducey did the right thing. Everyone should be asking this question of the president. Can you fill in the blanks here because your cute, old-timey, I'm just like your lovable grandpa answer isn't working anymore.

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How are you, sir? I'm doing very well. How are you doing, Glenn? I'm good. So this situation that happened in Provo, Utah yesterday is bothersome on so many levels. And let me start first with the quote unquote victim, the guy who was making threats. You don't do that. What he did was wrong, illegal, and you would expect the FBI to come in.

However, you wouldn't expect them to kill him. so I don't see a good guy here on either side, although I do kind of side with the victim because it was completely unnecessary on what happened. Can you talk me through this? Yeah, so we have to look at sort of the bigger picture. The bigger picture is this. You can make really bad decisions and get to the point where there's a SWAT team there. And once that happens, a shooting of someone in that scenario can be very justified. And the deadly force policy for the FBI, which is the entire DOJ's deadly force policy,

it's pretty specific. The most operative clause there is when the officer has a reasonable belief that the subject of the force, that's the person they shoot, poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or another person, then that deadly force is justified. They're able to do it. So you can have a justifiable shooting, and I'm very, I'm pretty confident. I've talked to my buddies who are actually on that team that this was a straightforward weapon scenario.

They were justified in making that shot. But we have, that's C, D and E of the steps of, you know, like he produces a weapon, they have to react to it, and then the guy is dead. That's CD and E. But A and B is the decisions of the investigation that went on before it and the decision to send SWAT into this guy's presence. And those can be bad decisions. So we can step further back and see this being a bigger problem. And so even though the just, you know, the SWAT team may have been justified in their shooting, sending SWAT, which is an FBI, kind of a standard move right now. They have a whole matrices of questions and concerns for any given arrest operas.

SWAT is the default position. I used to joke that the guys, because I used to work with the SWAT team in Washington field office. I've worked with SWAT teams in other places as a surveillance agent. We were integral in watching people before they were arrested, and so you would keep an eye on the subject before it happens. So I've done this, I don't know, upwards of 50 times, I would say. I've been a lot of these briefings.

Some of my buddies have been on these teams for a long time. And the kind of the kooky piece of it is, is that you don't want to engage somebody in a place where they're most likely to be violent. That's not the best course of action, right? So in order to get this guy into custody safely, there are many other tools in the tool belt, but I used to tell the guys on SWAT, SWAT doesn't stand for special weapons and a tactic. It actually is the standard warrants and arrest because they are the default position the FBI goes to to make arrest. Some cases never will, they'll never use their handcuffs because SWAT is busy doing their arrest. And that's the ball. Okay. So, Kyle, here is the thing. First of all, I thought George Floyd,

I thought that was all about, you know, in all the march against the police of using excessive force when it wasn't needed. I'm disgusted by this whole thing. And I still believe what the guy did was wrong. And he should have expected the FBI to show up. But they did show up. He's 75 years old. He is obese, 5-4, 300 pounds. He can't get up out of a chair without a walking stick or a cane.

he walks with a cane. He's got a blind son who just had a stroke. And you use basically a tank to come in through his front window. I mean, here's the problem. If you wanted to get this guy and make sure that you had him in custody, why wouldn't you take him when he got out of his car at this parking lot of the supermarket? Why wouldn't you take him out, you know, and surround him and arrest him in the parking lot of his church. Why wouldn't you go? He was a member of the church in good standing.

He was actually part of the leadership of the church in a small way. He was a secretary to a clerical position. He could have gone to the pastor or the bishop and said, the FBI could have said, look, we have a warrant. We know this guy is old. He's infirm. But he's doing things that are really dangerous. And de-escalate. What they did is they almost guaranteed that this man would die. I agree with you, and I agree that all those tactics, those techniques you just mentioned, those are in the tool belt and they exist, but the FBI is fundamentally not flexible. They're not nimble, and they're sort of lazy in their thinking.

There's an old saying that if you choose your doctor, you choose your diagnosis. In many ways, if you choose your law enforcement tactic, you were going to choose that outcome as well. And you at least put certain things on the table that wouldn't otherwise be there. My old job, I spent three years doing this thousands of hours a year, was called, it was called special operations group, but essentially we were a surveillance group that had the ability, because we were armed agents, to do interdiction. And they call it TSI and the FBI, or tactical surveillance to interdiction. And it's exactly what you just said. I grab you when you're pumping

gas. We grabbed MS-13 members who might swing the machete at us, and we might have to shoot. We grabbed them when they had two cups of coffee in their hand because they were going to their construction job at 7 in the morning. And that is far safer for the public. It's safer for the subject, and it's safer for the officer. So what the hell happened? Why would you do that for MS-13, but not for a 75-year-old guy who doesn't mean the things that he's saying he's just wrapped up in this stupid internet world. There's two possibilities.

One is that they're sending the message, and that is definitely a real possibility, and we have to do it. We can't impugn people's motive without knowing. And the second possibility is lazy thinking, which is that we've always done it this way, and that is a default FBI position. It's like, well, we had two agents shot in 2021

on that child pornography warrant down in Miami, and we send SWAT to people that might have a gun, because that's one of the criteria. If they have a dangerous dog, that's a criteria for SWAT. And if they've shared basically that they have negative feelings about law enforcement, and one of the three charges that is in that complaint about this guy, Craig Robertson, is a complaint about him making threats to law enforcement. That's the caught number two.

It's 18 U.S.C. 115, where he basically told the FBI, come back with a warrant, and by the way, I'm carrying a gun. Correct. And they took that as a threat. And look, that's a legitimate threat, his original threat. I agree. Those all happened in March. Like you said, bad choices.

But you also see that the reason that this thing kicked off and why they went to go grab him was because Joe Biden was coming to the state and he made a threat to Joe Biden. So we had the final straw was actually 18 U.S.E. 871, which is usually a Secret Service sort of prerogative. It just turns out they had this open case from the FBI. So why wouldn't the Secret Service be the ones to go in? I've done this for 50 years, Kyle. I've reported on crazy stories for 50 years, 47. and I got to tell you, I've not seen this before with Secret Service or the FBI. I've seen them go take people in their house.

I've seen them, you know, president is coming in. They've monitored somebody. I've never seen this. No, you're spot on. And so the concern is, is let's just do like a little replay because we all live through Donald Trump's pregnancy. My wife is pregnancy. My wife is pregnant right now. She's about to have a baby, so I have this.

I got baby. Sorry about that. But think about this. You've got people like Kathy Griffin that were cutting off the head of an effigy of Donald Trump. You've got Snoop Dog pointing a gun at a Donald Trump sort of actor. You've got guys like... You have Johnny Depp saying, where's the last time an actor killed a president with John Wilkes-Muth,

maybe an actor should kill this president. I mean, they didn't bust his door down. Madonna thinks you want to fill up the White House. Yep. So, and did any of those people, and I had people respond to me on social media and they said, well, the Secret Service called them. And I said, I always felt like when the Secret Service called somebody, it's the same as the SWAT team breaking down your window at 615 in the morning. It's just, it's night and day in the experience of it. And so that is where it feels like it's weaponized, because people are seeing two different sides and the way they were treated.

And that's troubling. It should be really troubling to Americans. All right. So they say he was armed. What does that mean, that he had guns in the safe, or he was holding? one and pointing it at a tank or pointing it at the officers? Even having it in his hand would make it

justifiable. That is an imminent threat and so they can justify, like I said, you can say that this was a justified shoot and that it was a quote unquote good shoot in the law enforcement context. Wow, really because hang on just a second, Kyle, because I can't do that. If my life isn't truly threatened, even if

he's pointing a gun at me, if I don't feel I'm truly threatened by that, it's not a justifiable shooting, and I'll have to go to court to prove that. But the FBI's okay? Well, it's the way it's taught at Quantico, and so this is maybe some inside baseball for your listeners, but they actually do a scenario where a guy is sitting at a desk. And the reason why is this, and Glenn, this is me trying to be very fair to both sides of it,

of which, like I said, I don't, I don't think anybody that was on that warrant, woke up in the morning and said, we're going to go kill this guy, and here we go. And I fived it when they were done. I don't, I think they're probably devastated. But the decisions from the management tree that made them there in that spot were very bad, I think they're incredibly dangerous. The scenario that gets taught at Quantico, it's a standard training scenario that every FBI agent goes through. There's a man sitting at a desk.

He has a gun on the desk with his hand on it. Okay? You are approaching this guy to give him a subpoena. You get up and you realize he has a weapon system. If you try to talk him down, he is saying he's going to kill himself, but he kills his secretary, and then he kills himself before you get a chance to react. And the fact the matter is is all these scenarios, action will beat reaction. if someone has a weapon system in their hand

and they have it at low ready or it is their hand in a holster, they can actually shoot you. You can actually draw a weapon out of the holster and shoot somebody if you make that decision before the person who's holding a gun on you can actually react. It's been proven over and over and over again on every level special operations trip to it. So that's why there's an image standard.

I've actually gone through the training and one of the scenarios is a guy who's holding his girlfriend hostage and the only way that you win in that situation, is if you shoot him first. So I've seen the training and I understand that. I'm just I'm I'm I'm just bothered by what this, what happened here because I've never seen it before. It's an overreaction from government.

It is clear. I mean, right now if this man were black and a Democrat, everybody would say, say his name, say his name. And you want to talk about it. The cities would be on fire. And so I'm really bothered by it. And I'm also really bothered by the fact, because I've seen CSI, but maybe the FBI doesn't need to have anybody check on them.

Why did they move the body from the house and leave it out on the sidewalk for two hours? So I got two possibilities, and they're both stupid. The one possibility is they moved him out there to work on him in a medical scenario. We set up usually outside of these buildings in what we call a casualty collection point. That's pretty standard military tactic. So you take people outside of the place where the threat is, you bring him to a safe place, and then you can work on them. That's acceptable. Okay.

And as I've been a paramedic for over 10 years, and that's what our plan was. You don't really expect to ever have to use it on a subject. It's generally in case one of your teammates has hit, but that may be the plan that they executed. So let's go with that. But why was he left out there and we're hearing reports he was left out there for hours? And I can't validate those yet, but let's just assume that was. That is basic government and particularly FBI incompetence because the FBI doesn't deal with

bodies. They don't shoot very many people, number one, thankfully. and number two, there's no plan if they did. Like, they don't deal with homicides. That is a local police matter. And so when you have this scenario, what the hell do they do? They don't even know. They're calling, like, how do we get the lab division?

Where's the ERT, the evidence response team? They're probably trying to do everything right and, you know, do the federal thing, like, you know, dot the eyes and cross the T's, but they're screwing up and they're leaving a body out. Maybe that's why, did they involve the local police or did they call 911 after they shot him? Maybe that's why you would have the local sheriffs. Yeah. That's why you should have the sheriff's department and the police department there. Because who's watching the bad guys? Who's watching the bad guys?

If this, if this guy is bad, great. If the other side is bad, we should know about it. And that's only if we have an independent look at it. I mean, I just, this really, really bothered. And I'm not defending him. I'm really not. He was, I mean, he's known in the community as being a love. teddy bear kind of guy, but he got wrapped up in his internet persona and did stupid, stupid things.

But they've already met this guy. They've been looking at this guy forever. He's in a, he's threatened a president. He says he's going to get into a gilly suit. And a gilly suit in a car park surrounding cement and he's 300 pounds and he walks with a cane. What Bush walks around with a cane? I mean, it's ridiculous the way this was handled. And I hope it's not swept under the rug. Kyle, unfortunately, just because they do. This is not the side that people get outraged about, unfortunately. I am, I thank you, and I hope I'm not unfair to those good FBI agents,

but it's high damn time voices like yours are not so alone. it's high time that the FBI says, you know what? This was a horrible error. And I'm not going to be a part of this. I'm sorry, but we didn't make this decision. They did, and it was a stupid decision. Somebody needs to pay for it.

Sorry, Kyle. Thank you so much. No, I appreciate it. Thanks, fun. You bet. I think this, dude, did I make him mad? No, I don't think so. I think you guys generally,

agree. He obviously has really, real inside knowledge on what they're doing on a day-to-day basis and, and wants to separate the practices from, you know, the individual officers, which is an understandable point. And let me give you the, let me give you the example of the lazy thing in a second. First, let me stop for a minute and tell you about gold line. The inflation is, is getting bad. S&P just said that California is going to be downgraded. Well, who's going to buy your bonds? California. What are you going to do? Because you can't print money like the federal government. You know what you'll do is you'll put your handout to the federal government. My damn tax money will go for your stupid-ass programs that I never voted for. But I digress. Things are not going well with the economy. Please, please do your homework.

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hey, by the way, we just came in through an unlocked door back there. You guys should probably check the unlocked doors right behind you. They're sloppy because it's money. How they solve everything is, well, we got the resources. We have money. We'll just hire more. We'll just buy more medical detectors.

We'll just do more. But they don't think. And that comes from government having an endless pile of money. And they put themselves, they put you, they put the president, they put everybody in danger. And we're seeing that. If this is because they're just lazy, that is really dangerous. You don't want somebody with all kinds of power to kill people without question who are lazy. this is a problem from government bloat.

I don't like days like today. I really don't. Because there's not a good guy in this scenario. And it just, it complicates everything. That's why we just have to be people of honor. It's why we have to, we have to be people that say what we mean and mean what we say. and if you act in a stupid way,

well, then you're going to expect stupid results. Yeah, yeah. That's a really fair summary of a really tragic situation, but it is part of it. And I think, you know, the other thing I think, you know, worth highlighting here is the reaction of this, I don't know, Glenn, when we started doing this show, about 20 years ago,

some guy who made threats on the internet gets shot in a house, like, we're probably thinking of ourselves immediately, like, oh, well, don't make threats, threats and, you know, this is the FBI's doing his job. I think the doubt on these institutions has become so thick that it's almost impossible for people to believe a normal story anymore. When's the last...

If it's true. When's the last time you even saw the FBI break down the house of an Antifa member? When are they ever gone in? Never. Never. Never. It's not just incompetence, laziness. It's an agenda. All right. Our sponsor, this half hour, is relief factor.

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And she's in the hospital now so we wish her a speedy recovery because now I think she's getting so bad that maybe she should be the vice president. Is she bad enough to beat Kamala Harris yet or she still needs a little more mental deterioration? She's still more coherent than Kamala Harris. I don't think there's any doubt about that. But it is sad. I believe she I believe she is out of the hospital now though. Okay. So that's good. It does seem like it was not going to cause any long-lasting issues. Though again, she is under a power of attorney from her child now. This is one of the most embarrassing escapades we've ever seen in the history of the country. I mean, I've never seen

anything like this. They're propping up a person who can't speak, who can't think, and telling her which votes to cast in between false. I mean, it's disgusting. What does that tell you? What does that tell you? That these are revolting people that will do anything for power? Yeah, we know that. We know that. But what else does that tell you? To me, to me, that tells me it's a machine. The vote of the people doesn't matter. You're voting for an individual.

It doesn't matter. The machine prefers just a cog. I didn't care. It's not going to stop. Nothing's going to stop. Just fill the seat so we have which machine to turn on, the red one or the blue one. And then the machine will take care of everything and tell you exactly what to do, where to sit, what to say, that the individual doesn't matter.

And how is that inconsistent with people who want socialism and a big government administrative state? How does that inconsistent? We just need an administrator to do it. So we're just, you know, we're winking a nod. Yeah, representative of the people. It's really despicable. Yeah. It shows you it's a machine.

And the word prefer is interesting here because I think the Democrats would prefer not have to deal with dealing with the embarrassment of this when she's caught on a hot mic saying she doesn't understand what the vote is. She doesn't know where she is. She doesn't remember what she did yesterday. They'd prefer not to deal with that embarrassment. But if you could hide it, I think they like this situation. They're able to just push her around and she doesn't have any independent moments. What if, you know, they got mad at her recently because she was, she didn't hate Amy Coney Barrett apparently, appropriately, to the appropriate amount that they're supposed to hate her. And they, she was complimentary to Republican senators for not, instead of just calling them evil all the time.

You know, she's not going to have any independent moments like this. And they think they like that. It's really disgusting. And by the way, it's not, we should point out, John Federman is another example of this. He should not be in the Senate. He should not be in the Senate. Mitch McConnell. I'm sorry.

it's possible you could have a moment, like, I don't know, some sort of flu or whatever, you're really sick, you have a moment like that. But were the reports of multiple situations where he's in the middle of his speech and he stops. That moment in front of cameras like that should be the last day you're in the Senate. I'm sorry. If you can't, if you have a moment like that, you should be getting medical attention and living out your years with the rest of your family. Yep. You should not be in the Senate. I don't care if he's a Republican.

I don't care if he votes. he's by the way probably the most responsible even more than Donald Trump for getting these Supreme Court justices in he was the guy before Trump was president that blocked the Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination he was the guy that's responsible for this he's a lot of things I don't like about Mitch McConnell but he's done things that have been good as well I don't care it has nothing to do with party has nothing to do with whatever policies you're pushing through if you are in that state you should not be in the U.S. Senate I think it's blatantly blatantly obvious to every single American. I think so, too. By the way, have you heard your sports guy? So let me talk sports with you. Oh, God. Okay?

Let's talk sports. Let's talk about them, Washington football team. You mean the Washington commanders? Is that what you're talking about? The commanders. Did you hear that they're getting sued by a Native American tribe? Is you being sued or are they just threatening a boycott?

I thought I'd heard the boycott, but maybe they're sued. Oh, yeah, maybe it's a boycott. Yeah, yeah, the boycott that they're not going to do it until they change their name back to the Redskins. Yeah. Yeah. That is fantastic. It is fantastic. We need that tribal chief on with us.

I want to talk to him. Yeah. I mean, this is something, by the way, that was completely backed up in polling before all of this happened. I think it was 91% of Native Americans said they saw the Washington Redskins as a positive. as an honor as something that reminded them of their culture. And that's the exact same thing this group, which is threatening the boycott, is saying. They're saying like, well, we want this name to be there. We want people to be reminded and learn about our culture and our history.

Everybody who's looked at the history of the Washington Redskins would acknowledge that the Redskins name was put there as an honor to Native Americans. And, you know, the easiest way to understand that is it was basically name. after the coach at the time who was Native American. Don't worry about it. Here's something that AI is, we're going to be lucky that it can do this because I can think of so many great things from this. Researchers have now trained AI to be able to identify this. Know what that is?

That's me typing on my keypad. And what researchers have done is they've taught AI to recognize the sound of every key. So, you know, when you think, I'm trying to think of a good way to use this, when you think, hey,

my son or daughter are writing a text to me and they don't know that I'm blind, and I don't want to tell them I'm blind, tell me what they're writing. Because I can't summary, for some reason use text to speech. What is that for, except for insidious things?

Yeah, because they're talking... Tell me, what would that be forced to? Yeah, that what they're saying is it could very easily, for example, make it so that you could detect a password being typed when you're on a Zoom call, right? Where you could detect anything that you can text the words, and it's something like 90% accurate already. So, but I know you're saying the blind thing as a joke, and so what would be the positive use for this.

Like, I don't know. Right. I can't possibly imagine it. Other than the fact of maybe making people aware that, you know, this stuff is out there. You know, like when it is important that people, it's nonstop scams. I mean, I don't know about you, Glenn, if you're getting, you know, my wife gets, I swear, different scam text every day, every two days. Constantly people like, oh, this is the wrong number.

Hey, let's become friends so I can pull you into my crypto scheme. Like, I mean, it's just like, it's constant. And, you know, people... It's only going to get worse. It's only going to get much worse. Worse and better, right? Worse in the idea that is going to be more common, used more often, and cheaper for scammers overseas to be using these things, but better in that the quality is going to get much better.

Like, they're still terrible, right? Like, they're still really bad at this? You know what? I have to tell you, I appreciate a good scam. This isn't anything like a good scam. No. You know, I guess, I guess in a way, I have such admiration for what the left has done to this country in one way. It's brilliant, brilliantly executed, a brilliant plan.

They covered all of the exits, all of the contingencies. It is, it's a thing of amazement on how they have done this. but I think it's evil but someday someday when all of this is done some dispassionate historian who's no longer impacted by it unless he's still in jail

he will write the whole plan out and say look at how they did this this is brilliant it's truly brilliant and they did it all without AI until the very end and then they had them Well, I mean, one of the big things about the scams, so we've always mocked like the Nigerian prince scam, right?

Where like, hey, my uncle's a prince and he left me $500 million, but you need to pay me $50,000 to free it and then I'll send it all you. And like, how does anybody fall for this? But one of the things that's been pretty consistent with these scams over the years is that the lack of quality is actually part of the plan. they feature not a bug. When you're always look at these things, you're like, well, these words are spelled incorrectly. It's obviously not someone speaking English. It doesn't make any sense what they're saying.

Like, English is not their first language. And what researchers have found over the years is that, well, if you pick that up, if you're smart enough to pick that up and see that the misspellings and the bad English and the terrible plots and the unreasonable logic, if you're smart enough to see that, you're not going to fall for the scam any. Anyway, so scammers were sending these things this way intentionally, hoping to rope in people that were dumb enough to fall for all of this. And of course, they were always targeting people that were not, you know, not just dumb, but also just like not fluent on the way online interactions worked and all that. They targeted people who are vulnerable.

Well, as the AI thing comes in, that's going to change, right, Glenn? It's going to be like these things are now really impressive. The woman we talked to whose daughter called her on the phone and said she was being kidnapped and that it wasn't her daughter. was just an AI replica of her voice. Yep. What do you do? How would you even see that coming? How would you know it was going on unless your daughter was sitting in your room with you?

I have to tell you. I have a way to stop this. Well, I can't tell you because it's the way our family is stopping it, but it's an ingenious thing. It's so simple. But I honestly can't tell you. What? What the heck is that? Well, you mean you can't tell us?

I can't tell you because we use it as our family. family. Let me give me till tomorrow. I'll try to figure out a way to tell you something like it. But you just have to find a way with your family to have a password or a passcode or something like that. And it always has to change. It has to be almost a formula, a formula. Like, you know, you pick a number, seven. And when that happens, you say, honey, four. the answer would be their response should be three. Right. You need like a code language to get through the world.

You need a code language, something that adds up to seven. And that, but again, like that works on this scam. And I've heard that particular, I know yours is probably much more advanced than this, but the basic idea of having a safe word, a keyword with your family. No, no, no. Not a keyword, something that always is changeable. Right. So if I say a hundred, they have to respond 93.

And it can be changed at all times. And you never tell anybody your number is seven. Right. But the family's number gang is seven. And I understand how that could work for this particular scheme, the kidnapping scheme. But there's also financial scams and businesses that's a, you know, that you work with on a daily basis. And they call up and you think it's them. and fake websites and all this stuff that is going on,

it's getting so much better. And people are being scammed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Their life savings going down the drain over this stuff. And it's only going to get harder and harder. If it was only really stupid people that felt for the Nigerian print scam 10 years ago, you're going to wind up every day. That percentage of people who get caught up in this rises. And it's going to get harder because I don't believe in Darwin.

you know, but a lot of people believe in Darwin, and so they're going to be, it's going to be tough because, I mean, they were just the slowest ones whose tail hadn't fallen off yet. So why care about those people? But now, even smart people, you know, the educated elites, they might get caught up in these scams too. What are they going to do about it now? Our sponsor of this half hour is Tunnel to Towers on 9-11, 2,977 people lost their lives on what turned out to be one of America's darkest days. A generation later, you'd hardly know it

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right? You think about inflation. When you think about wages going up, that is The Bidenomics. Look, the president has always believed, not this is president, but as vice president, as a senator, that we need to build an economy that is building from the bottom up, middle now, right? Stop, please stop before my head explodes. That's Corinjean-Jampier on, I think I was MSNBC, talking about binomics, which he says is successful because prices are coming down. Prices are not coming down. This is not how inflation works. When your inflation rate goes from 10% to 5%, that does not mean prices are coming down. to give you an actual example of this, if something cost you $100, and then, you know, your groceries, they cost you $100,

and then they start costing $110. They've gone up 10%. And people are really angry about that. And then a year later, you come back and check on the inflation and it's gone from 10% to 5%. Well, what do those groceries cost today? They cost like $116.

Now, if you were angry about $110 for those groceries, wouldn't you be more angry about $116? Yes, the rate of inflation have gone down, but those are rates that are building on the previous failures of your presidency. It's going up and up and up every year. These are all rates that are increasing the previously high inflation rates that we are already upset about. And, you know, it's just over and over and over again.

They try to do this and hope people don't understand how economics work, And luckily they've got about 50% of the country that falls comfortably into that basket and they can get them as voters. But you'd think eventually people would wake up. And honestly, when it comes to inflation, this is hitting people every day so hard. They can't stop but feeling it. The Glenn Back Program.