The Glenn Beck Program - Former Mobster BLASTS Biden Crime Family’s Corruption | Guest: Michael Franzese | 8/7/23

Episode Date: August 7, 2023

Glenn asks all the questions that nobody has asked regarding Hunter Biden's ex-business partner Devon Archer's suspicious testimony and recent media interviews. After a crowd chanted "retire" during S...en. Mitch McConnell's speech, Glenn and Pat discuss America's elderly leadership issue and its negative societal effect. Former capo for New York's Colombo crime family and host of “Sit Down with Michael Franzese” Michael Franzese joins to discuss President Biden, the "Biden Crime Family," and how their actions are strikingly similar to how the mob operates. Is the heat wave happening across the country the reason for higher gas prices? Glenn and Pat discuss President Biden's unpopularity and his administration doing everything possible to boost his approval rating. Hummer has created a massive Humvee that doubles as an apartment.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:52 What you're about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Well, hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We have some Hunter Biden updates and the latest poll on impeachment. Plus, you're going to be spending a whole lot more money just to send your kids to school. The back to the future, back to school shopping is way, way up. That's not the products becoming more expensive.
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Starting point is 00:03:20 800, the number four relief. Pat Gray joins me in just a minute. First, I want to talk to you a little bit about Devin Archer because some things have really been bothering me. I've now seen or read two different interviews from 100. Hunter Biden's ex-business partner, Devin Archer. And I'm not exactly sure what to make of his little PR tour. Is it just blind luck that he always seems to be just out of earshot every time something happened that could tie him to the Biden family influence peddling scheme?
Starting point is 00:03:56 And this is what you really need to noodle here. Is it possible that every time, oh, you know what, I had to go to the bathroom? Okay, sure. but I'm not really seeing a big push by the GOP to really get down to what actually happened. And this bothers me a great deal. Every time I'm expecting to see an explosive follow-up question during his congressional testimony, it never came. Now, you may not notice this because maybe you didn't read the official transcript. It was released last Thursday, and I understand you get busy and everything else, and that's what you pay me to do.
Starting point is 00:04:33 So by that time, Archer had already been interviewed by Tucker Carlson before the transcript was released. Tons of what he disclosed couldn't be cross-track checked by Tucker Carlson and his team. And there are a few things that need to be. On page 12 of the congressional transcript, Arthur testifies that he first met the head of Burisma in Moscow. Okay, why is that important? Well, the dates here. The dates here are just a little interesting. The meeting took place on the exact same day that Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. Now, why was the head of Burisma in Russia on that day? Why was Devin Archer's team considered a good fit for Burisma as Russia was stealing Crimea?
Starting point is 00:05:31 Did Devin Archer know that Burisma was one of the only Ukrainian energy companies that had drilling rights in Ukraine? Some of the questions it should be asked. The weeks following Russia's invasion of Crimea were pretty eventful. Hunter would join the board of Burisma. He would also have a meeting with Joe Biden at the White House. And Joe Biden would travel to Ukraine to discuss, quote, fracking and greater energy production. Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Cho, Biden is going over to Ukraine to talk to them about more fracking natural gas and oil.
Starting point is 00:06:15 And trying to make sure that the Ukrainians and Burisma can do more of these things. And yet just a couple of years later, he's over here shutting us down. Now, this context. alone makes for a pretty fortuitous meeting I mean don't you think it's at least a little interesting it's least it's it's worth at least a question I'm thinking Congress treated this entire portion with like kind of a deer in the headlight like thar what's happening god and they don't say anything now Devin Archer claimed that his meeting at the White House was due to a school project for his kid I'm not making
Starting point is 00:07:01 this up something involving paper mache. Wow. Now was it only paper mache that was discussed at this meeting? Did Marie Bresma come up at all? Did Crimea and Bresma the gas leases come up? Why did Hunter Biden tell Archer to buy a burner phone just three days before his White House visit? Can we see the messages and the emails and the calls from this so called burner phone. Why do I have this feeling that this burner phone has since been disappeared? Now, that's page 12. Let's go up a little further here. Let's look at page 84 and 85. Congress attempts to ask a question about a man named Rob Walker. Now, who's Rob Walker? Well, we know Rob Walker. He was revealed in the previous House disclosures as allegedly being the middleman that received the
Starting point is 00:08:06 cash payments from Hunter Biden's overseas dealings and then delving them out to random members of the Biden family. Okay. When his name was brought up, Archer's lawyer immediately butts in and shuts down. None of this is within a scope. Don't answer that. That's what he said. Which kind of sounds like the Rob Walker information is kind of important. This is not how business is done. Why was it done this way? Why was the question about Rob Walker shut down so quickly and pointedly? Why have we not called Rob Walker in to testify? Can you answer that one? On page 36, Archer describes a business trip to Dubai, where he attended along with Hunter Biden and multiple Burisma executives.
Starting point is 00:08:58 He then goes on to talk about how Burisma wanted Hunter to call DC to fix the problem they were having. The group walked out just out of earshot from Archer and made the call. What a stroke of luck. Now, remember the original statement was that Burisma wanted Hunter to call DC for help. As Archer is pressed, Archer responds with this, and I'm quoting from the transcript. Listen, I didn't hear the phone call, but he called his dad. Whoa. That's pretty interesting.
Starting point is 00:09:37 I thought this was reported that he just called D.C. No, he said he called his dad. Hmm. Now, was Devin Archer told that Hunter called D.C. or his father Joe Biden, because the statement actually says both. James Manda Folo, the general counsel for the House Oversight Committee, pushed him. He said he was asked if it was during the drive back to the hotel that the Burisma executives told Archer that they had, quote, called the vice president. was it in the car or was it in the drive at the with the drive home or was it sometime the next day
Starting point is 00:10:23 now this is when things get a little weird devon archer's lawyer matthew schwartz immediately chimes in and says uh he told you expressly he called his father or that he called dc okay which which one is it now remember this is devon archer own lawyer pushing in and he's like oh um dc dc hmm so wait you said twice that it was his dad and then you say oh no no no uh it's dc after your attorney reminds you now this was later brought back up right after testimony broke for recess archer's lawyer stated that he wanted to clarify something before the rest of the interview commenced. What was it he wanted to clarify? Well, the Devon Archer definitely totally did not hear anyone say Burisma executives had Hunter call his father, and it's for reals this time. Okay, this time
Starting point is 00:11:28 they mean it. Now, I'm sorry, can we circle back around on this one? It seems like a big deal for the main witness, who apparently has no direct information on influence peddling, merely just to acknowledge the appearance of it, but he didn't just do that. He also said he was told that Hunter called his dad. Then he doubled down on it when asked by the committee general counsel. But then when his lawyer butts in and asks him, are you sure that's what you mean? Oh, yeah, no, it was just D.C.
Starting point is 00:12:10 Wink, wink, wink, nod. I don't know. I think that should call for a little pushback from Congress. Just, I mean, just a little. After reading the testimony, I almost get the feeling that Congress is letting this slip through the cracks. Now, why would they do that? Well, I've always assumed the rest of Washington, D.C. was pissed at the Bidens for shining a light on something they all have been quietly doing for decades upon decades. Washington is an influence peddling mecca. It is their number one. cash crop. With that context, why would they want to bring it all out in the open? Maybe just some food for thought. Now let me break for 60 seconds. We'll right back to the show. Mantis X, if you're a shooter, ammo prices have gone kind of high. Every time you go to the
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Starting point is 00:14:15 Get yours now at mantisx.com. That's mantisx.com. Go there now. 10 seconds. Station ID. You know, it's really interesting. Let's say Holly to Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed who is filling in for Stu today, who is, I was shocked by the pictures. I don't know about you, Pat. And I don't know how he's going to do in court. But you let's, You know what? Let's leave it alone. It's getting harder and harder to say it, but innocent until proven guilty. So anyway, have you seen the new Rasmussen report? I don't think so.
Starting point is 00:15:05 Okay, so this is on the impeachment. How many people are for impeaching Joe Biden? And this to me is, I don't know, a little stunning. It shows that the average American believes that Joe Biden did something wrong, that he, it's risen to a high crime or misdemeanor, but, you know,
Starting point is 00:15:34 they're not really, I don't know, that excited. But why impeach him over it? To impeach him. Just leave him. Leave him. It's fine.
Starting point is 00:15:43 Don't worry about it. Now, I saw a story and it said, Joe Biden might want to thank former President Donald Trump for this. Voters appear to be suffering from impeachment fatigue. Really? Is that Donald Trump that they think for that? Or is that the Democrats that knew all of this stuff about Joe Biden and impeached Donald Trump over and over? It's not Donald Trump that was like, you know what?
Starting point is 00:16:06 You should impeach me? You don't remember him impeaching himself twice? I don't. No, I don't. I don't. Yeah, but he's on this spree of trying to go to jail now. He's like, hey, put me in jail. Put me in jail.
Starting point is 00:16:26 There is now new information that there was a money trail to the Biden family coffers from China. U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware, charged Hunter Biden with tax and gun crimes last month, released to a federal court last week, a now scuttled plea deal. that affirmed the presidential son got millions himself from chinese forces in 2017 and 2018 the moot the money was uh money that it was included from a chinese energy firm now wait a minute wait a chinese energy firm that is linked to the chinese communist party hang on there's another story about this someplace because i read a story about how we might have to dip into our strategic oil reserve. And then I read this.
Starting point is 00:17:21 Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm engaged in multiple conversations with the Chinese government's top energy official before the Biden administration announced that it would tap the strategic oil reserve. Hmm. Grandhomes previously undisclosed talks with the Chinese National Energy Administration chairman revealed that the Biden administration likely to, discussed its plans to reduce to release oil from the SPR with China before the public announcement. An amazing coincidence. Secretary Granholm's multiple closed door meetings with a CCP connected energy official raise serious questions about the level of Chinese influence on the Biden administration's energy agenda.
Starting point is 00:18:13 Now wait a minute, wait a minute. Help me out with this, Pat. So he was getting money, at least his son was, verifiably. He was getting money from a communist party controlled energy company, millions and millions of dollars going to him from that. And then he was also getting money from Burisma to help them with their energy thing. Right. And yet that Biden seemed to be awfully sure that, you know, brown energy is really bad. Isn't this weird?
Starting point is 00:18:52 That is weird. That is very weird. Huh. Maybe it's good over there and it's bad over here. Is that what we should be? Well, we know it's bad over here. Yeah. Well, colonialism, for one thing.
Starting point is 00:19:07 Let's just say that. Colonialism. Yes. Thank you. And people here are not as willing to give money to or Biden, you know, unless it's for art, for energy here. So screw these energy companies here. They don't know who to pay.
Starting point is 00:19:24 They don't know how the game is played, you know? Right. They're learning. They're learning. Well, and his art is incredibly valuable, as you know. What does he get? $500,000 a piece for those paintings? They're beautiful.
Starting point is 00:19:38 They're beautiful. And you get an appointment to a international post and a beautiful painting to go along with it. Right. So. Right. And I think like a stay at the Lincoln bedroom, too, if I'm not mistaken. You might. You might. You might. Well, that was more of a Clinton kind of thing. So I don't know if you heard Vivek Ramoswamy said on Saturday that he said, the war in Ukraine is likely tied to the allegations that President Joe Biden's son received bribes from overseas energy firm Burisma. The purpose of the U.S. military is to advance.
Starting point is 00:20:15 American interest to protect the homeland, not to aimlessly fight some random war that is arguably a repayment for the private bribe that a family member of the United States received, $5 million from Burisma. Does that not make sense? It sure does. Why is it we are sending so much of it? Remember, what did they impeach, impeach Donald Trump over? The Russian collusion, for one thing.
Starting point is 00:20:41 And the payment to the stripper, right? No. It wasn't the payment to the stripper. You miss remember. Okay. No, you misremember. They were impeaching him, trying to impeach him, and trying to get him thrown under the bus, because he made a phone call to Zelensky.
Starting point is 00:21:04 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay. So the, the phone call. Correct. Mm-hmm. Where? What did he say?
Starting point is 00:21:11 What did Trump say to Zelensky? He, if I remember correctly, and I'm still maybe misremembering this. But he, he wanted information, I think. He wanted them to look into the corruption from the Biden family. Ah, the Biden family in Burisma. So he says, hey, I'll send these to you. but you got to help me out here. You look into this, because I know it was happening.
Starting point is 00:21:47 Look into this. So they tried to say quid pro quo. Okay. But wait a minute. So Zelensky talks to Trump. He knows how valuable that information is to Trump and anyone against Joe Biden. Zelensky knows. Zelensky comes over here and says, hey, I want more money, more money, more money.
Starting point is 00:22:09 And Joe Biden doesn't even pass go. to give him the $200. He just keeps shelling out the cash. Cheat. Shouldn't someone look into that in seeing that we know that at least 30%, maybe as high as 70, is not going to the places we deem it to go?
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Starting point is 00:24:19 You would think with such a good detective like Columbo in the family, you know, they wouldn't do crime, but maybe that's why they were so good at it, I'm just saying. That's a really good point. He's sitting down, thank you, he's sitting down with us here in just a second, coming up at the top of the next hour. So the beginning of hour number two. And we're going to talk to him about crime families. You know, did you know this?
Starting point is 00:24:47 They don't necessarily have to be Italian. Really? I don't know if you know that. Well, could they be, I don't know, for instance, Irish? Is that possible? Well, I never thought of that. Maybe, yeah, could be. Like an Irish crime family.
Starting point is 00:25:03 sort of thing. An Irish crime family. Nothing springs to mind on that, but we'll pursue that. Yeah, okay. We'll pursue that. He's going to be joining us. This guy is a, I mean, he is a kind of a legend. A kind of a legend.
Starting point is 00:25:22 He was the son of the notorious underboss of New York's violent Colombo crime family. As frenzies rose within the ranks. He was estimated to be making $5 to $8 million per one. week from gasoline bootlegging. That's not bad. That's not bad. Yeah, he was doing, yeah, what are you pulling down a week? Anyway, he was involved with the Russian mafia in that scheme.
Starting point is 00:25:47 He survived countless grand jury appearances, three state indictments, two federal racketeering trials, eight years in prison, mafia death sentence. He's still the only high-ranking member or made man still in his prime earning years to publicly walk away from the mob and live to tell about it. Friends Z's with Fortune magazine, number 18 on the list of 50 most wealthy and powerful mob bosses. Today, he is not that guy at all, not that guy at all. And has done some pretty amazing things.
Starting point is 00:26:26 Anyway, he's going to be on with us coming up to talk about. What was that thing you were wanting to talk to him about? I was wondering about, you know, because you mentioned that they're not all just Italian crime families. Maybe there's, I don't know, I just picked one out of the blue and thought maybe there's Irish crime families. Huh. Yeah. Huh. Maybe.
Starting point is 00:26:45 Yeah, well, could be. Could be. Icelandic crime families, perhaps, maybe? Well, let's just focus on one. We've only got a short amount of time. Okay. So we'll just focus on that Italian one. Did you see the appearance of Mitch McConnell?
Starting point is 00:27:00 Yeah, I did. There was some discussion on my show as to whether or not this is real. Jeffie, who's filling in this week, was saying this, he doesn't think it's real audio. And I think it's absolutely real. There are several versions. There are several versions from several different locations. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:22 It's not just one video. So here's what happened. Listen. So Mitch McConnell is giving a speech. You can barely hear him. And they're chanting, retire. Huh. He's still giving it.
Starting point is 00:27:48 I don't know if he can even hear them. Well, I think the stroke that he had affected his hearing a little bit, so I don't think he does hear it. A little bit, so that's good. He just keeps going and giving a speech. This goes on for a long time. Then they go into booze. Listen.
Starting point is 00:28:06 They just go into booze and then. I mean, I've never. heard anything like stop i haven't heard anything like this have you i don't think so no not that sustained and that obvious no no and especially not for conservatives we don't generally go that way right if he doesn't get the message after that i don't know what it's going to take i think people that was brutal people are sick of what's going on in our government where we've got people who are you know, badly disintegrating mentally
Starting point is 00:28:40 and still in office. I think we'd like it to stop many of us. And the thing where he just stopped for 20 seconds was just too much for people. It's like, okay, enough. We don't need that from the Senate minority leader as well as the president and
Starting point is 00:28:58 two different senators and the Speaker of the House or former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. I mean, we're we're just done with it. I have to tell you, I am, I'm really tired of hearing and watching
Starting point is 00:29:14 these people who were the don't trust anyone over 30 crowd. Yes, Glenn Beck is ranting against the hippies again. These are the radicals from the 60s who have become the man and they're
Starting point is 00:29:30 trying to set the course. I mean, this is not just that they're making tax policy. They are designed, the future they will not ever see or have to live in. What are we doing? How is it? You know, our generation, the latchkey generation or I'm in the last year of the boomers, but I don't know about you, Pat, you're kind of in the same place I am.
Starting point is 00:29:56 I don't relate to the boomers at all. I relate to, we're generation. Are we generation X? No, what's closer to? Yeah. We're close to. Gen X. We're close to Generation X. And I relate much more to Generation X than I do the boomers. And I'm sick of the boomers. You know what? You had your time. You designed it. Why are you handcuffing
Starting point is 00:30:20 the future of our children? I feel like our generation is supposed to stand up between the next generation and this generation that is still ruling from the grave. And say, stop it. Go. home and let the younger generation start to chart their own course because they'll live it. They'll live it. I think that's imperative. I think the oligarchy has to end because that's what we're living right now. We're living in an oligarchy. It is.
Starting point is 00:30:55 And when you look at the people who are obviously compromised, Diane Feinstein, John Federman, the president of the United States, now you've got Mitch McConnell too. Mitch McConnell. Man, I mean, and if, by the way, if Democrats would be honest, they'd be calling out their side. Like we are our side. Mitch McConnell needs to go. And so do these Democrats who have been compromised.
Starting point is 00:31:27 It's not about party. It's about the country. And isn't it weird when you say compromised? They're the same people that have been compromised. by China. Feinstein has been a long time said that she was compromised by China. Mitch McConnell, long time said to be compromised. And same with Joe Biden.
Starting point is 00:31:52 All three of those guys who refuse to leave are involved deeply with China. Yep. And then, you know, then you've got a person like Eric Swalwell, who was with the Yum for two years, the Chinese spy. I think it's fang fang. It is fang, but people have taken the coloner Yum Yum for some reason, and I love that. But is it not incredible that he survived that whole scandal? A Chinese spy for two years, and nobody cares.
Starting point is 00:32:26 Pat, we have the president of the United States. Most, I mean, the odds of him not being influenced by the money coming to his family. Astronomical. Okay? Compromised by the Chinese. Wouldn't blow the balloon out of the sky. Met we just found out this weekend. Granholm met with the head of the Energy Commission for China and told them,
Starting point is 00:32:58 hey, we're going to dip into our strategic oil reserve. What would the strategic oil reserves be strategic for? Oh, I don't know, a war with our enemy. So we tell somebody who we think we might be going to war with that we're going to reduce our strategic oil reserve and we consult with them for three days? What are we out of our minds? You know, yum yum is there.
Starting point is 00:33:26 Okay, that's a really big deal. This has caused the destruction of our country, if it is true, and put us on a path with war for Ukraine and China. Help me out. I wish I could. It's just so frustrating. Just so frustrating.
Starting point is 00:33:48 So did you see that Blinken came out this weekend? A Russian court has now convicted Vladimir Putin's number one opposition, convicted him on charges of extremism, sentenced him to 19 years in prison. He's an extremist. Blinken comes out and says, the United States strongly condemns Russia's conviction of their opposition leader on politically motivated charges.
Starting point is 00:34:27 The Kremlin cannot silence the truth. He should be released. Now, this statement comes one day after Trump is charged and arraigned and with federal charges, alleging that he orchestrated a plan to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which would make him an extremist. Are we serious about what we're saying to China? Has Blinken been called? Does he know what's going on here in the United States?
Starting point is 00:35:08 It's incredible the lack of self-awareness, isn't it? Just total and complete blindness to it. Amazing. I think they, many of them don't care, but I think also many of them absolutely do not see the tie one to another. They're like, no, this is different. How exactly? How? Back in just a minute. Sponsored this half hour is real estate agents, I trust. Buying and selling a home is really hard work most of the time. Getting your house ready to sell is like trying to herd cats that all want to go in a different direction. Unless you're used to the so-called art of the deal. Going into the negotiating end of the home, the buying process can be pretty dicey if you don't have the right people. That's why you need your
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Starting point is 00:37:30 Glenn Beck program. We're glad you hear. Pat Cray has joined us. You know, Glenn, the connection you drew between Alexei Navalny, who was just sentenced to another 19 years in prison in Russia, and Donald Trump I think is so
Starting point is 00:37:45 appropriate because that's exactly what's going on. We've got a situation like Russia. Isn't he in prison already for like serving nine years for opposing Putin? And they've just added another 19 to it. So he'll probably die in prison, which is exactly what they want to see for Donald Trump. Oh, big time, big time. You know, I was talking to a friend this weekend and we were talking about it and I said, you know, what they're doing to Donald Trump is not to him. They don't care about him.
Starting point is 00:38:22 They are sending a message to his family, to us, to people like Vivek Ramoswamy. Do not even think of it. You try to cross us and we will wipe you and your family out. You will never recover from it. Don't even think about it. That's what they're doing. You think you're going to clear out the deep state? Think again.
Starting point is 00:38:48 Yeah, I think that's exactly. what they're sending. I mean, you know, and it kills me that more people don't think this way. This guy has been investigated by everybody. And this is what you have? Look at you investigate with the deep state covering the tracks, with the media, not doing any follow-up, with no one in foreign countries trying to do this because they've got them in the bag. So nobody's investigating them.
Starting point is 00:39:24 Every single intelligence agency in the world went after Donald Trump because he was against them, all of them. Every single, you know, Davos group went after Donald Trump. And this is the best they can do. Really? This is the best they can do. A phone call where he called Lewins, where he called Zelensky and said, hey, you need to check. into this corruption. He's right. He was right to ask that foreign leader for that information. And they accuse him of doing that to hurt Joe Biden's chances of running for president.
Starting point is 00:40:07 Okay. Then what do they do? They try to destroy Donald Trump's chances of running for president against Joe Biden. It's craziness. It's craziness. And it's a trumped up phone call. no pun intended. It is also a thing where he was saying that, you know, I believe I won the election. Well, what do you do? You're charging him with what? First Amendment violation? Is that the Stacey Abrams Act?
Starting point is 00:40:37 Yeah. Jeez. I mean, how much tape do we have of all of these people saying exactly the same thing? We couldn't play at all, but we have a 24-minute montage of Democrats. complaining that whatever election it was they were talking about, 2000, 2004, 2008, so on and so on. All were illegitimate. Every time they lose, the Democrats should claim. We should.
Starting point is 00:41:04 Yeah, it's really good. Yeah, maybe we would do that in hour number three. We might make 24 minutes of time just to get that. It's amazing. Back in just a minute with a former maid man, mob boss, and he knows crime families. We're going to ask him about the Biden crime family. The Glenn Back program. No, did you laugh?
Starting point is 00:41:33 No. The Devil Wears Prada 2. He's the movie event 20 years in the making. Honestly, can't with the secrets anymore, so I think we just should tell her. Will you two please spit it out already? This Friday, be the first to experience it only in theaters. In light of the recent scandal, I'm here to restore your credibility. Oh, because we're a team now?
Starting point is 00:41:54 That's a nice story. The Devil Wears Prada 2. In The Theater's Friday. What you're about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello and welcome America. It's Monday. But we are going to start this hour with something I don't know if I've ever done before.
Starting point is 00:42:59 I'm going to introduce you to a former Kpo of New York's Colombo crime family. He is, let me just. give you the rundown on him. He is a serious guy. He grew up the son of the notorious underboss of New York's violent Colombo crime family. As Francis rose within the ranks, he was estimated to having $5 to $8 million a week from a gasoline bootlegging scheme involving the Russian mob. He survived countless ground jury appearances, three state indictments, two federal racketeering, hearing trials, eight years in prison, and a mafia death sentence. He is still the only high-ranking
Starting point is 00:43:44 made man, while still in his prime earning years, to publicly walk away from the mob and live to tell about it. 1986, Fortune Magazine ranked Francise as number 18 on its list of the most 50, most wealthy and powerful mob bosses. Today, he is the only man from that list who is not currently in jail or deceased. He's a changed man. Over the weekend, he was with Kirk Cameron at a library reading
Starting point is 00:44:17 good books to kids, believe it or not. Truly a changed man, became a born-again Christian, walked away from the life, lives without witness protection, and he now has a biweekly YouTube show called Sit Down with Michael Franzis.
Starting point is 00:44:34 It's over 5 million views a month, and we're going to talk to him about crime families. Now, Pat is insisting that we, for some strange reason, really kind of focus on maybe crime families from Ireland. I don't know what that means, but we'll talk to Michael Frantzis. Coming up in just a minute. Healthcare information breaches just keep coming. This time, it was the Maximus Federal Services,
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Starting point is 00:46:08 Use a promo code back and save 25%. 1,800 lifelock or lifelock.com. Capo. Okay, thank you. Former capo, not a capo, but I'm not Italian. My wife was dying when I said that. Michael, how are you, sir?
Starting point is 00:46:28 I'm good, Glenn. Good morning. Your wife knows the correct pronunciation. Oh, yeah. My wife is. Talk with your hands, Italian. When I joined the family, every Sunday, and you couldn't understand half the family because it was all in broken English. It was a wonderful experience.
Starting point is 00:46:51 But probably not the same experience you had growing up. Michael, first of all, tell me about your change in life, because you were a bad dude. I mean, I spent over 20 years on the street. And, you know, my dad was the underboss of the Colombo family, one of the five New York Mafia families. So I grew up in the life, even though my dad initially, he didn't want me to, you know, to be a member. He wanted me to go to school and be a doctor. And I was on that road until he drew a 50-year prison sentence for a federal conviction that he had and went off to prison in 1970. That's when things kind of changed for me.
Starting point is 00:47:35 And, you know, long story short, you know, to try to help him get out of jail. My dad proposed me for membership in the life, and I became a made member. That's the term in 1975 and started on that road. But, you know, long story short, I mean, I became a major target of law enforcement. I had, you know, seven indictments. I went to trial five different times. So I had a bozine on my back from day one because my dad was that high profile of figure. But, you know, it all happened for me when I met a young girl who,
Starting point is 00:48:09 was, you know, she's now my wife for 38 years. I did if I was, you know, if I wanted this girl in my life, I didn't want her to put through of every member of that life. And I had to make a decision whether to stay in or walk away. And obviously I chose her and it was a life-changing experience. And that was, like I said, 38 years ago. And I ended up for a racketeering case. And life just changed, you know, from that point.
Starting point is 00:48:45 So it wasn't easy. It was a struggle and challenge. A lot of people who have dealt with me. but good for you good for you um all right i want to talk to you about now for some reason pat who is filling in for stew today is really harping on you know okay we know about italian mob families are there mob families and he's just pulled out of the air i mean uh um irish for some reason i don't know if you know any irish mob families uh but uh can you too go ahead yeah in new york uh You know, there was your crew there.
Starting point is 00:49:23 They were called the Westies. And, you know, I was familiar with them. We kind of worked with them at times. So by name of Jimmy Coonan, who's now doing life in prison, was one of the leaders. And I was fairly close with him. You know, obviously in Ohio, they were the other group. Well, hang on just a second. I mean, you were talking about the Westies, and then I think you said the Coons.
Starting point is 00:49:45 And so that's W's and C's. Is there anybody in the Bs? Like, I don't know. By, uh, when you, look at the family of the Bidens, is that not a crime family? You know, I gotta tell you, Glenn, it's so hard for me
Starting point is 00:50:03 to sit back and watch what's going on and wonder why this all hasn't been exposed, the right questions aren't asked. You know, I give you an example. You know, it's always followed the money. The money trail always leads to something. And just so you know my background,
Starting point is 00:50:18 I was, you know, I was indicted and pled guilty to, it was a racketeering case, but the underlying act was I was defrauding the government out of tax on every gallon of gasoline. We devised a scheme. I ran it for eight years where we were selling gasoline and just keeping the tax money. And I had 18, 18 shell companies, 18 of them, they did nothing. They had no brick and mortar. They had no employees. They had no service. All we did was create a corporation so that we can open up a bank account.
Starting point is 00:50:52 And the money that flowed in there was all illegal. money. It was all tax money that we were taking from the government. There was no other purpose for the company. And that's exactly the same thing that the Bidens are doing. There's no brick and mortar that provide no service. There's nothing but a bank account in order to collect money. It's been shown that there was, you know, I don't, a hundred and some odd suspicious activity reports from the banks. Yeah. This is a dead giveaway that this money is, is bad money coming from someplace. And, you know, I just hope it's exposed because, you know, Glenn, listen, I was a bad guy. I took responsibility for what I did. I walked away from a life that I knew was no good.
Starting point is 00:51:35 But to have a president in office that's doing these kind of things that was elected, you know, and a lot of people share this for you because I get around to people talk. It's just unheard of. I mean, I never heard of anything like that. I happen, I happen to agree with you on, on that. The let's just focus again on the shell corporations. Every one of his children and seemingly grandchildren, I think, except for one, um, has the shell corporations. And all of this money is going in and they don't, they have never even been asked. But when you look at them, there is no reason that these shell corporations are getting money from Burisma, et cetera, et cetera.
Starting point is 00:52:27 So why isn't that a bigger deal? What does that tell you? Every reporter and every news conference should be asking this question until it gives an answer. And there is no answer. That's why it cannot be answered. There is no answer because it's an obvious situation for me. And, you know, this whole idea that, you know, he's not collecting money directly. Well, so what?
Starting point is 00:52:52 I didn't collect money directly either. But eventually it came to me. You know, it's beyond my understanding why these questions. are not being asked to him every single day. This is absolutely a fine. I mean, there's no question. When you have the RICO statute, as I understand it, it is even for the thinking of the crime, is it not? I mean, you don't actually have to, if you're selling the illusion, that's enough for the RICO statute to kick in.
Starting point is 00:53:27 Is it not? Absolutely. You know, when you have a conspiracy, you can sit down and talk about, you know, committing the crime and the illusion would be something like that. You don't have to commit the crime. You just have to be talking about it. You just have to be using that or letting people think that you're going to provide that service, even if you don't. So if people are thinking that Biden is going to somehow, you know, use the power of his office, but never does. But you're leading people to believe that.
Starting point is 00:53:59 a crime 100% under the statute and listen i've had i've had three regal statutes and defended two of them in court i understand it extremely well so there's no question uh so uh they would say that then that's just hunter's crime dad didn't know anything about it that's just hunter's crime because you can't prove that joe got any money whatsoever how would you answer that Well, let me ask you a question. I'll set up a scenario. Let's say I'm in a room and I'm having a meeting. I'll do something foreign from what we're talking about.
Starting point is 00:54:38 We're in a room. I'm having a meeting with somebody that wants me to be an executive producer on a film that they're creating, right? And they're asking me, well, you know, why should I make you executive producer? Can you help get this film done? And I start to talk and then all this, hold a second, you know, my father's on the phone. he's calling me. Hey, Dad, how you doing? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, the weather's great out here. I'm just in a meeting talking with somebody. Yeah, dad, I'll talk to you soon. I hang up the phone. They said, well, what does your father do? Well, he's the head of Universal Studios. Oh, okay. Let's continue our
Starting point is 00:55:12 conversation. What does that mean right there? That means this guy now knows that I have the connection to get whatever I want done with you, so you're going to hire me. It's the same thing that's going on there. Biden doesn't have to say anything on the phone. Just the fact that he calls in, when you're sitting in the meeting with his son, let's that person believe, okay, I have the power through this young man here I'm sitting with to get whatever I need done. You know, it's unbelievable what's going on
Starting point is 00:55:41 and that people don't see through this, and they're not asking the right questions. So I want to get to your right questions here in a second, but I want to first stop at Hunter Biden. You know, you say you're in the room and, you know, he picks up the phone. I can't imagine trusting somebody who you know is addicted to hookers, is addicted to crack cocaine. And you would think that that would make him a more reliable source because you can squeeze.
Starting point is 00:56:19 Would you have gotten into business when you were in the crime business? would you have gotten into business with Hunter Biden to get his dad? And would it make it a bigger target or would it be less dependable? We'll get to that here in just a second. We are talking to Michael Franzis. He was part of New York Colombo's Colombo crime family years ago and a changed man and kind of upset what's going on in the country. All right. Our sponsor, this half hour, is preborn.
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Starting point is 00:58:25 He is the host of Sit Down with Michael Francis. And we're talking about Joe and Hunter Biden and that crime family. Michael is his drug addiction and hooker addiction. Does that make him a bigger target for, you know, mobs? Well, you know, Glenn, it doesn't matter. I mean, you know, he's irrelevant. But if he's the, you know, the way to get to his father, it didn't matter that he had a drug addiction or whatever,
Starting point is 00:58:59 because nobody's using him for anything. You know, he's just the conduit to his father. And if he gives the illusion or he gives the reality that he can get to his father and get things done that the other person wants, it doesn't matter that he's irrelevant, really. He's just a conduit to his dad. And look, my brother was a drug addict for 25 years,
Starting point is 00:59:22 serious drug addict, but many people got to me through him because he was selling my ability to help somebody out for money. You know, so, I mean, it's so obvious, Glenn. It really is. You know, Hunter has no skill, there's nothing that he can provide, the whole thing with him being on the Burisma Board for $83,000 a month. I mean, it's so obvious that he was just a conduit to his father. And, you know, the reason that, in my opinion, the reason that Joe Biden always sticks up for his son, Hunter,
Starting point is 00:59:54 is because Joe Biden is the one that's moving him all over the world to make these deals. So you can't go against him. You know, in reality, like I said, I have a brother, I have two sons. If I was in a position and these kids were going around and causing me havoc like this, I mean, I lock him up or have him in a room or sit him down and say, you know, don't you dare go to any of these places and ruin my situation here or compromise me in any way. But he allowed him to do this for years. And not only him, but his brother and who knows, maybe other families.
Starting point is 01:00:32 members. It's just so obvious, Glenn. It really is. It was, it also makes it worse that he was traveling with his dad. You come off of Air Force One or Air Force Two. That is another signal that he's right in with his dad. There's no way his dad didn't know this. I mean, it's, it's beyond my understanding how people don't understand that Joe Biden knew everything. Of course he had conversations with his son.
Starting point is 01:01:03 He's riding in the same plane. He's with him all the time. Of course he's conversing and he's knowing what's going on. And, you know, this whole sweetheart deal that Hunter got, I mean, come on, I was facing hundreds of years for tax evasion. You don't get a slap on the wrist and you don't get a misdemeanor for tax evasion. You don't. And it doesn't take five years to investigate a case like this. It's so obvious.
Starting point is 01:01:29 It really is. And the fact that this man gets up there. and he's so dishonest and lies about it, you know, Joe Biden, it's terrible. It really is. We have to break here in about another minute and maybe a minute and a half. But you said you think he's a traitor to his country. I happen to believe that as well. What else would you call it when you're taking money from the Chinese
Starting point is 01:01:54 and another country that we're now going to, you know, possibly going to be in war with? There's nothing else to call it. It is what it is. It's obvious. You're taking money from the, you know, the Chinese Communist Party. What are you taking it for? How could you be in bed with them, so to speak, and not be doing some, you know, devious, you know, business with them? It's so obvious and it's frightening.
Starting point is 01:02:25 And I'll tell you, whether you're a Republican or the Democrat, there's a time, you know, when you say, hey, my country first. And if this guy's been doing this for years, how do we allow it to continue? And look, you know, I was a Trump supporter. I'll be honest with you. But if Donald Trump was doing this, I'd say the same thing. It's country first. I would too. I would, too.
Starting point is 01:02:45 I was on the street for 20 years. I was not an angel, but I still love my country. You know, I have seven kids. I have six grandkids. I worry about what's going on here in the future for them. And I just don't understand why people are not getting together and saying, this man is not, he shouldn't be in office, period. That's it.
Starting point is 01:03:05 Michael, hang on just a second. If you can, I'd like to come back with more Michael Francise. He is a former mob boss. His dad was ruthless when he was the head of the Colombo crime family. Michael got out and turned his life around, as usually is the case when he met a good woman. Back with more in a minute. The Glenn Back Program. Sponsor is a relief factor.
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Starting point is 01:05:22 We are talking to a world famous mobster who has turned his life around. He is the host of Sit Down with Michael Francie. he was part of New York's Colombo crime family. He's a maid man. His father was the notorious leader of the crime family. Like I said, he's changed his life, married a good woman, and turned his life over to God, and has been on a good track for many, many, many, many years, 38 years married. So Michael, I want to lay out a, I just want to lay this scenario out. And I don't think anybody is laying it out this way.
Starting point is 01:06:03 But you tell me what this looks like. So Zelensky, I'm sorry, Colomowski, he is, Ihor Kolomoisky, he is the oligarch, really bad dude. He beheads his opponents, okay? Anybody gets in a way, he is known to behead them. So he hires Hunter Biden. and he's trying to get, you know, some access. The dad comes over, Joe Biden immediately after he's hired, he gives a big speech about how we got to do more fracking.
Starting point is 01:06:40 We have to have more oil running through. Now, this is the same guy that just three or four years later shuts down all of America's fracking and oil. When Trump starts to fall on this trail, he calls Zelensky. Now, Zelensky is a, he was a comedian on television. And Kolomoisky is one of the big oligarchs that paid for his campaign to become president. He becomes president. President Trump calls him, says, hey, can you look into this stuff?
Starting point is 01:07:17 All of a sudden, all of this stuff is leaked about how Trump is trying to do tit for tat. he's impeached and the whole thing kind of goes away. Now Joe Biden gets in and shockingly, he and Zelensky are pals and they're pals against this war against Russia. But Zelensky is the only person I have ever seen that can go to the White House, not even Winston Churchill got this, can go to the White House and say, I want you to write more and he will write check after check after check billions of dollars, none of it being tracked or accounted for. And by the way, Kolomoisky, he was just, he just lost his citizenship because last year, Zelensky said, you know what, the United States is investigating him. He's got to get out of here. He's lost his
Starting point is 01:08:15 citizenship. That sounds like somebody being cut out of the deal because they think they can now. Does that not sound like a huge money laundering system and blackmail bribery and everything else? Oh, absolutely. So obvious, Glenn. It's so obvious. First of all, what is Hunter Biden doing in bed with somebody like that when your father is a, you know, how do you not stop him from being involved with somebody like that? Correct. It's very simple because you're promoting it.
Starting point is 01:08:50 You're promoting it the same way he's been promoting Hunter all over the world to go. go out and make these relationships and collect money. I mean, this is a record, and it's not only that, I mean, Hunter has given us the information. He's sitting there talking on the phone with his father next to him, shaking people down. This is extortion. You go to jail for this for a long time, and, you know, the Department of Justice is not investigating this. They laid out this whole racketeering case. It's just plain as day.
Starting point is 01:09:23 You know, just going back to your, you know, to your question about these companies, when you form a company, an LLC, a corporation, you do it for a purpose because you have a business. That company has a function. It's a business that you're going to provide a service to clients so they in turn pay you. So the question is, what was the function that these companies performed in order to receive money from a client? What was the service? And if the case, what was his granddaughter? what service which he's providing, you know, for people overseas to collect this money. The questions are not being asked, and they should be asked at every single time that you see
Starting point is 01:10:05 this president, every time you're in the room with his spokesperson there, because they can't answer this. There is no answer. The only logical answer that's right in front of everybody's face is that he's collecting bad money for a service, and that services, he's selling. his position. The weaponization of the
Starting point is 01:10:30 the weaponization of the government now to destroy Donald Trump when you were in the mob things like that had to be you know you send people a message what is the message the government is trying to send
Starting point is 01:10:45 and who are they sending it to Donald Trump, the American people, all of us, what is happening there? you know what glain when i when i was on the street look i'll say this and please understand where i'm coming from my dad you know spent a lot of years in that life and did a lot of bad things no doubt so did i i went to jail for a crime that i was guilty of i pled guilty i did my time okay but there were times when the fbi stretched their uh you know their their ability and they committed crimes in order to catch us but you know what we were mobsters people looked the other way
Starting point is 01:11:21 okay, we get it. Sometimes the FBI had to do things like that. But I always said, when you give the government an inch, they'll take a yard and they'll never give it back. If you allow them to break the law, to go after lawbreakers, eventually they're going to use that power against their enemies. And that's
Starting point is 01:11:37 exactly what they're doing now. And they're so overt and so blatant about it, they don't even care. They don't even care. It's so obvious. So, you know, I try to tell people I make them aware, this is extremely dangerous.
Starting point is 01:11:52 It really is because when you give the government the power to go after their enemies and weaponize them, pretty soon they'll use it against anybody they want to. And look, they've been doing it with our social media companies, going closing people down, stopping free speech. This is terribly
Starting point is 01:12:08 dangerous. There is a really dangerous trend going on in this country and people need to wake up to this and they need to have it stopped. You know, people even tell me, Michael, why you so overtly talk about this because you know next thing you know they'll be coming after me but listen I'm 72 years old you know I I ain't worried what they're going to do to me
Starting point is 01:12:29 I have seven children I have six grandchildren this country is not the country that I grew up in and and it's such a dramatic change that's going on that's so overt and so obvious I mean this president I'm telling you Glenn and you know somebody has to get him under control you know I look and I'm gonna take this a step further and please I hope your audience doesn't get offended but you know I spoke to 850 border patrol agents the state of Texas I did a whole you know seminar with them and then we hung out afterwards when we talked some of the things that they were telling me about what's going on in the southern border and they said they're getting so little help from the federal government I mean you
Starting point is 01:13:10 know I mean there's murder taking place over there people are dying the drugs that are coming over when you're president of the United States and you understand that a hundred thousand people a year or dying from fentanyl overdose and fentanyl poisoning because there's oftentimes that somebody will take an adderol, you know, kids take adoralls to stay up at night so they can study, you know, kids in college, I know my daughters did that, but these adol, some of them being laced with fentanyl, that's poisoning. That's not even an addiction. If you know that this is going on in your country and you allow it to happen, you don't get this under control. What type of person of you. I mean, we didn't do that on the street. We didn't allow that. We took care of our
Starting point is 01:13:53 communities. You know, we might have been bad guys, but we didn't allow crime to come into our neighborhoods in our communities. This is, this is just horrible stuff. This is bad stuff. I'm telling you. So let's just pause for a second. I don't know how much time you have, Michael. Can you stay over the top of the hour? Yeah. I'm here. It's early morning where I am. It's okay. Okay, so let me ask you the follow-up question on the drugs. Compare what's happening right now with fentanyl to the worst time in American history with drugs. I remember the crack thing in the 80s and how bad drugs were in the 70s. Compare what's happening because of our border policy to those times.
Starting point is 01:14:40 Well, it's just as bad or worse because I don't. don't know if you realize what's going on in some of these cities now with Trank. I mean, you live in L.A., you would not believe what's going on there. You walk down the streets. Oh, I know. ...addicts and homeless people everywhere. The same in Portland, Seattle. I had a store in San Francisco, a pizza place.
Starting point is 01:15:05 We had to shut it down. We had to shut it down because, you know, people hanging out. We had hypodermic needles on the floor. We had people defecating in front of the... I can't even tell you this scene. that's going on there. So, you know, and look, this is a little bit personal for me. I mean, I had a sister that died of an overdose of drugs.
Starting point is 01:15:25 My daughter's boyfriend, who did a lot of my video work, 24 years old, a terrific young man, took an Adderall that was laced with fentanyl in five minutes, Glenn, dropped dead in my house, in my house. And he had no idea. He was poisoned by this. It was an adoral that he took, and a lot of these young people take these, these adoralls, I'm not saying they should, not suggesting that, but they do. It keeps them awake and they study.
Starting point is 01:15:53 And this stuff is going on and it's happening and it's coming over the border and droves. The agents told me they're not even getting 10% of the illegal drugs that are coming over our border. This is straight from their mouth. Not even 10%. So what does that mean? And this is going into neighborhoods and communities. You know, I left, you know, the mayor of New York, who, you know, I had a little bit of high hope. when he came in. He was a former police officer.
Starting point is 01:16:19 The mayor of New York comes in, and he's complaining about immigrants coming into, you know, to New York. We'll go after your president. He's the one that's allowing this. Right. Right. Right. It's not the governor of the border states. I mean, you're a sanctuary city. You welcome them with open arms. So now you're complaining. Go after your president. It's this administration. It's New Yorkers. It's these people that are allowing this to happen. And what's, you know, Glenn, maybe you're, can answer me. What's the end game here? Why are they doing this? Why are they allowing these people to come in in droves? You know, to me, it's destruction. Well, yeah, I mean, what's the
Starting point is 01:16:58 reason? They're not humane. We know they don't care about them. That's for sure. They don't want them in their neighborhoods. But what's the end game? There's something devious going on here. They have a, they have a devious reason to allow this to happen. Well, I mean, everything that, I mean, you can't to me, Michael, you can't be this wrong. And, you know, by happenstance. I mean, everything they do leads to one way or another, chaos, the destruction of values and the destruction of everything that is American. I mean, we are being impoverished through inflation.
Starting point is 01:17:38 We are being killed through, honestly, all this is is the opium wars that the British did to the Chinese. the Chinese learn from it and they're doing it to us. We are under attack inside and outside and we are being destroyed. And I'm sorry, you just can't be this wrong this many times and not have it be a coincidence. You can't convince me that they're trying to make America a better place. They're dismantling it every step of the way. Michael, hang on just a second.
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Starting point is 01:19:59 888727. Beck, the Glenn Beck program. This is the Glenn Beck program. Michael Francis is with us. He is the Dr. Phil, if you will, of organized crime for anybody who is a fan of organized crime movies, et cetera, et cetera. Michael, the people we are now, and I believe we're dealing with, whether we're having sit downs or not, we are empowering these drug cartels. How bad are these drug cartels? Can you compare them to anybody we've ever seen before?
Starting point is 01:20:57 They're a ruthless group. There's no question about it. They have a firm control over so much of what's going on in Mexico. I know that for a fact. And, you know, they are, they're certainly paving the way for a lot of these immigrants to come across our border and come into the United States. I mean, I know that. And everybody knows that.
Starting point is 01:21:19 I mean, Border Patrol knows that. It's a fact. And the government knows that. they're allowing it to happen. And what is, what are they getting in exchange? They're not doing charity. What are they getting in exchange for letting people go across the border and owe them? Well, they're pouring drugs into this country.
Starting point is 01:21:38 There's no question about it. Like I said earlier, you know, Border Patrol told me they're not even collecting 10% of the drugs that are coming across. So that's one thing. I mean, they're expanding their drug influence, I would say here, here in the United States. and I think that's obvious. We see it's going on in the cities. And there's also human trafficking going on. You know, these cartels, they're very smart.
Starting point is 01:22:02 Glenn, don't, you know, take anything away from them. They know what they're doing. We are talking to Michael Francis. He's going to be with us. He's a former coppo for New York's Colombo Crime family. He is going to be at Robbins Theater in Warren, Ohio, for the Ray Boom Boom Mancini Foundation on the 9th of September. He is going to, 23rd.
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Starting point is 01:23:47 It is Monday. There is just a ton going on today. Blinken made just an incredible statement this last weekend. He's talking about the Russian prosecutors that have just put another 19 years on the sentence of Putin's main competitors. that have just put another 19 years on the sentence of Putin's main competitor, a guy that Putin has put into jail about nine years ago. They just tried him again while he's in prison for being an extremist. Wow, does that sound familiar?
Starting point is 01:24:24 And Blinken came out and said, The United States strongly condemns Russia, conviction of an opposition leader on politically motivated charges. The Kremlin cannot silence the truth. Really? Really? We are having a fascinating conversation, at least I think, with one of the guys who was ahead of the most notorious crime family in New York, Michael Franciece.
Starting point is 01:24:59 He is a former cop-up. of New York's Colombo crime family, host of Sit Down with Michael Fransisse. He is the Dr. Phil of organized crime. Former made man made millions and millions and millions and billions for the mob. He became a Born again Christian, walked away from the life,
Starting point is 01:25:21 changed his life entirely. He's had some pretty incredible things to say. He says that the Biden family is absolutely a mob family. family, and it is money laundering and should be tried on Rico charges. He knows. He has been tried three times on Rico charges. We'll talk to Michael, continue our conversation in 60 seconds. Our sponsor, this half hour, is my Patriot Supply.
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Starting point is 01:27:04 Can I, let me start here by going back. back to how the crime family stuff works. When they were doing their business deals, Michael, foreign companies that look like shell companies, they pass the money to a lawyer pass through. Then the money went to multiple family members. And none of the family members had anything to do with the deal. For instance, Hallie Biden. what how are they trying to explain that this is somehow or another legitimate is there any way for
Starting point is 01:27:42 this to happen and have it be legitimate well no and the the answer there is they're not explaining nobody's asking them the question what service that hallie biden provide in order to collect money from a client it's very simple you know when you you set up a company whether it be an LLC or corporation, and you're selling a product or a service that that company provides to a client, you get paid for that. Well, very simple.
Starting point is 01:28:13 What product or service were you selling, and why did you collect money for it? It's so simple. But these are shell companies that do nothing. They have no employees. There's no brick and mortar. There's nothing behind it. They don't even pay taxes.
Starting point is 01:28:27 I mean, that's right there. They're not paying a tax for whatever money they're collecting. but nobody's asking these questions. And it's just plain and simple, and they can't be answered. They're saying, though, that none of this money is going to Joe Biden, so he's not collecting any money off of this. If you can't prove that, I mean, how does that happen? In the mob world, how does that happen?
Starting point is 01:28:56 Well, you know what? It's simpler to prove this, thanks to Hunter Biden and his laptop, and his text messages, and the fact that he's sitting with his father in the room talking to these people that are sending them money. You don't have, look, I never collected any of the money that came to me when we were defrauding the government out of tax on every gallon of gasoline. The money didn't come directly to me, but I was the force behind it. I was the one that put all of this together. It doesn't have to go directly to that person, but look, Hunter Biden said this also. You know, he had a conversation, I believe, with his daughter or somebody who said, you know,
Starting point is 01:29:32 paying half my father's bills. Basically, that's what he said. Right. So, you know, Joe Biden was certainly benefiting from. So how does, like, for instance, when the money wasn't coming to you, go ahead. Yeah, it's so simple. All the government has to do is ask the right questions. If the Department of Justice wanted to investigate this, it's laid out.
Starting point is 01:29:55 It's all there in front of them because if you put this in front of a jury and ask these questions, there's no logical answer. It's so obvious. So what are the right questions to ask then? What are the questions that everybody needs to demand answers to? Again, you formed these companies. What was the purpose? What function, rather, did these companies serve?
Starting point is 01:30:19 Did they sell a product or did they sell a service? And if they did, what was the product and what was the service? And why would you pay for that? Those questions, I guarantee, cannot be answered. because Hunter Biden certainly, who a crackhead in all his issues, was not providing any service to Burisma or to anyone else or to the Chinese Communist Party.
Starting point is 01:30:42 I mean, he basically shook them down. It was extortion. Shook them down in a phone call with his father sitting next to him. I mean, you don't have to be a rocket science to understand what went on there. Right. You know, they cannot answer these questions.
Starting point is 01:30:56 And, you know, they don't have to. And, you know, what bothers me is that Joe Biden, he laughs at this. Like, you're not going to get me. You know, he just, he has that attitude. So it, I, I, so is that, is that arrogance? Is that arrogance, Michael, or is that incompetence? I mean, why is, why are they so out in the open with everything?
Starting point is 01:31:21 Well, it's arrogance because he controls the Department of Justice and obviously, you know, our attorney general is not going to prosecute him. He understands that. He's not worried, at least at this point, unless the heat becomes so hot that everybody starts to demand, hey, what's going on here? This is my country, and you're selling us out. And then people from both sides, you know, start to say, this is wrong. And, you know, the laughing part of it, I think, is, yeah, I mean, I just don't understand that. I really don't. It's mocking us.
Starting point is 01:31:56 So Michael, can I ask you to talk directly to people who are in the Department of Justice who might be afraid? I mean, there's a lot of fear connected with this. You are a guy who was in the crime families and left, and you have talked about an awful lot of stuff. Give somebody courage that is in a position to know something to go and speak out. Because quite honestly, this is the kind of stuff that happens in movies that get you killed. There's no question. And look, you know, you have to applaud there that are courageous that do have a conscience that do want to do their job. I mean, these whistleblowers, what do they have to gain? I mean, they become a target for a hostile justice department, you know, to come out and tell the truth that they were shut down with these investigations. Because, you know, look, the trail that they were on, they were going to uncover what was going on here, this influence peddling. There's no doubt about it. But, you know, but, you know, but, it bothered them. At least that's how I see it. And they came out and they told the truth what was going on. You know, going again, you know, some of the people, I was looking at some of the answers.
Starting point is 01:33:07 I mean, some of the answers that, you know, some of our Democrats were given about Trump. You know, that, well, don't you see this as an attempt to shut down Trump during his campaigning? And they come out and say, well, no, because a grand jury indicted him. And, you know, that's laughable. Anybody knows. Anybody that's been involved in this system knows that the grand jury goes wherever a prosecutor leads them. You know, the famous line of grand jury and died a ham sandwich is so true. So you don't have a chance to defend yourself in front of a grand jury. You're not there.
Starting point is 01:33:42 You're not giving your side of the story. You're not producing any evidence on your end. It's all the prosecution's idea of what they want to present to the grand jury. So for them to give these answers is just so, it's just so wrong. You know, it's so wrong. What's going on? It really is. Michael, I want to take you from something so heavy to just a film,
Starting point is 01:34:06 because I'm just curious. One of my favorite mob movies is a Bronx tale, and I don't know if that's complete, you know, if it was like that or anything else. What is the most accurate mob movie that you've ever seen? Well, let me just tell you, you know, a Bronx tale, I love that movie. And Cass Pomeratieri is a very dear friend of mine.
Starting point is 01:34:29 He just killed the role of Sonny. He was terrific in that movie. And, you know, it was his story. So in that regard, it was accurate. The way he portrayed that character was very accurate. But I will tell you this. Yeah. This is probably going to throw you a little bit.
Starting point is 01:34:45 The most accurate mob movie that was ever done was the 1996 HBO Gadi movie that starred Armand Asante and Anthony Quinn. it was if you haven't seen it Glenn you can go on YouTube and you can watch it it was extremely well done yeah and much of it came off of the surveillance tapes and everything that were on Godi at the time
Starting point is 01:35:08 it was just a brilliant movie there is a scene in there with Anthony Quinn when he is talking to John Gotti John almost got killed because he killed a made guy and he wasn't allowed to do that that gave me the chills it was so well done so I say that's number one and then obviously, you know, Goodfellas was terrific, and Donnie Brasco was terrific.
Starting point is 01:35:29 Love that. Yeah, well done. Have you, you know, another one? Have you seen the offer, the making of the Godfather? It's called The Offer. I saw it and I thought it was brilliant. Now, that was my era. I was very close with Joe Colombo.
Starting point is 01:35:47 I knew everything that was going on during that time with the Godfather. It was pretty accurate, and it was brilliantly done. It really was. It was terrific. Do you think that's the way it happened? Well, you know, there was some, I mean, they took some dramatic liberty, but I will tell you this. It was seen through the eyes of, what's his name, the producer. And he did come, yeah, he came to meetings during the Italian-American Civil Rights League at the Park Sheridan Hotel.
Starting point is 01:36:20 We were there already. He did come to the meetings, Joe Colombo. He did shut down. word mafia from the script. He did cause a strike when, you know, early on when things weren't going well. So all those things are accurate. Do you know if the thing that killed me was when the guy who was going to lease the house for the shots of the Don's house in Godfather? And Colombo, I think, picks the guy up and is working him over. and the producer of the godfather is called in,
Starting point is 01:36:59 and he's just sitting there in horror. Like, what are you doing? Do you know if that happened? I can't verify that. I don't know if that was true or not, but I do know that there was some controversy over the house. I don't know if they had to go that far with the owner. But there was some controversy, yes.
Starting point is 01:37:20 Michael, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Your family, I mean, your crime, family, that's the same crime family, right, that your dad oversaw after Columbo died? Yeah, well, my dad was the underboss. Wow. So that's the second in command that. And then my dad went to prison for a number of years.
Starting point is 01:37:42 And then when he came out, he was the underboss again. So he had a lot of control to him. When he died, because he just died a couple of years ago and he was over 100, I think. It was 100 and 103. How do you feel? How did you feel about your dad? How do you put that all in order in your head? Well, you know, I grew up really loving my dad.
Starting point is 01:38:05 I mean, he was a good father in spite of everything else. But, you know, he didn't want the life from me. He wanted me to be a doctor, go to school. He taught me a lot of good things, believe it or not. You know, he taught me to be respectful to people and to have integrity. I know that sounds crazy, but he did. and he taught me a lot of good things. When I walked away from the life,
Starting point is 01:38:28 he was extremely upset with me. And, you know, the main reason everybody thought I was going to start cooperating with the government and put people in jail, but that's not what I wanted to do. I just wanted out of the life, so I didn't do that. And we didn't speak for about 10 years,
Starting point is 01:38:43 but then we matched it up. And he understood what I did, because, you know, Glenn, I'll tell you this, one of the, the mafia life, the gang life, They're evil lifestyles. And the reason I say this, I'm not calling all the guys evil. That would be unfair. There were a lot of guys that were not evil.
Starting point is 01:39:01 I was one of them. But the lifestyle is evil because I don't know any family of any member of that life that hasn't been totally devastated, including my own. And not my wife and children is the reason I walked away. But, you know, my mom, she died in 2012, 33 years without her husband. at the end of her relationship with my dad, I can only call it ugly because she blamed him for everything that went wrong in her life, and rightfully so. Right. And, you know, I had a sister who dies of an overdose of drugs at 27. My brother's a drug addict 25 years.
Starting point is 01:39:35 I can't even begin to tell you what, you know, horror that that caused the family, and me in particular, I had another younger sister died at the age of 41, and my dad does 40 years in prison. And every family of every member that I had. know has the same story something similar so any lifestyle that does that to a family is where i wasn't going to do that to the to the young girl that i'm married and you know you know it's it's funny listening to you what you just said about how destructive the it is to the family you could say that about what's happening in america today our kids are drawing of drug overdoses our our kids and our families are being destroyed by all of this everybody's blaming each other. I mean, it's, we are being run by a crime family. Michael, thank you so much. God
Starting point is 01:40:28 bless and hope to finally meet you someday. You're fascinating. Yes, Glenn, listen, keep up the great work, man. We need your voice out there. So I've been supporting you for years. Keep it up, man. God bless you. Thank you. Bye-bye. Michael Francis, a former copo of New York's Colombo crime family and the host of Sit Down with Michael Francis. All right. Our sponsor, this half hour is gold line great news uh gold is going to be going up i just saw a story today that the money that it takes now to put your kid into school all of the stuff you have to buy for your kids is going up like astronomically we are spending so much more and that's not because
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Starting point is 01:42:33 So Pat, you see the, you saw the poll that just came out from Rasmussen that shows that really nobody is interesting, nobody's interested in impeaching Joe Biden. And I think that's for a couple of reasons. One, they don't think anything will come of it. Right. You know, we've worn through the cycle of, you know, Clinton and then, and then Trump. And it just doesn't go anywhere. doesn't go anywhere. So I think people are just kind of tired of that. But it scares me that they will let this one pass. Yeah, me too. We've got to overcome the impeachment burnout because this is a
Starting point is 01:43:14 guy that deserves it. If anybody in the history of our nation did, and it's becoming more clear every single day it needs to happen. It's going to be interesting to see if the Republicans have the giblets to make it happen, though. When you look at Mitch McConnell, he's the leader in the Senate. He doesn't have any desire to expose people taking money from China because he's been doing it for years. Yep. Fortunately, the impeachment process, though, starts in the House. And you could at least do that.
Starting point is 01:43:52 They could at least get that done. Yeah. And then put the pressure on the Senate. Let's see what happens. Yes. Yes. and Mitch McConnell was not necessarily warmly received. We played some audio for you in just about an hour ago.
Starting point is 01:44:09 I got to play it again because it's pretty astounding, but the McConnell people are now coming out and saying, no, no, no, that was the Democrats saying that. Really? Because if I were there, I would have been saying it too. And I'm not a Democrat. Back with more in just a second. The Glenn Back Program. Mindy wrote in about her dog's experience with Rough Green.
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Starting point is 01:45:44 blazedtv.com. promo code Glenn. I'm going to go to Cut 18 here, because this is, just a reminder. Last week, we told you what was happening with the South African Black Party, where they packed about 80,000 people
Starting point is 01:46:25 into a stadium and then started singing this. Kichi Keechee, Keechima, Zibran Kondo, Alayez. Yeah. Shoot to kill. Hamazah.
Starting point is 01:46:39 Shoot to kill. The farmer. Kill the poor, the farmer. Kill the farmer. Kill the boar. The white farmer. That is a great catchy tune.
Starting point is 01:46:52 I was singing it all week. It's got a great beat. Easy to dance too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like the, you know, especially when you can really jiggle the brr-r-and-it-and-it-just is great. Also sounds like a machine gun a little bit.
Starting point is 01:47:05 So it reminds you what the words are, kill the white farmer. Now, let us bring you some additional good news from South Africa. Cut 11, please. This is a helicopter going over a road with a line of cars, it seems. What's happening here, Pat? Some sort of traffic jam. You see all the crosses on the side of the road? Those supposedly all represent white farmers who've been killed.
Starting point is 01:47:48 Huh. So, yeah. Yeah. And, well, you would think they would have fought back. I mean, you have somebody that's chanting, kill the white farmer, and they've got a lot of political power. why aren't these farmers fighting back? I mean, it couldn't be gun confiscation, could it?
Starting point is 01:48:12 Well, yeah. I mean, it could be in part. It could be. I could have something to do with it. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, I hate to blame government intervention in the lives of people for anything, you know. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:48:30 Or just people telling everybody to kill white people. people. You know, it was pretty bad when white people were saying that about black people. Yeah. You know, uh, but, uh, no, this is just payback. We should stop. It's just payback. It's fair play. Oh, it is? Sure. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Payback is hell. Right. It is. It is. Yeah. Or a bitch. Oh, I think that's what it is in the scriptures. It's payback is a bitch. thou payeth back is bitching something like that it's close uh that's close yeah yeah i think it might be that payback is closer to hell uh meaning that payback is evil and maybe it shouldn't happen now
Starting point is 01:49:16 let's go to some common sense here and some clean thinking pat when i tell you gas prices are up why do you think gas prices are right i mean immediately jump to vladen Vladimir Putin's price hike. For one thing. Price hike, okay. The Vladimir Putin price hike. And the other thing I would say is global warming. Oh my gosh.
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Starting point is 01:50:08 It's making life more expensive for drivers. Extreme heat is actually increasing the price of gasoline, which has served to nine months high. Here's why. Refinaries, much like humans, can't handle persistently sweltering temperatures. These are complex facilities to turn crude oil into gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel. And they start to break down. in triple-digit heat. Some refineries have to limit how much gasoline they're churning out.
Starting point is 01:50:34 Just when it's needed the most. Wow. Analyst told me that this situation has been treated. Pat, Pat, can we just stop for a second? And let me just ask you, those refineries, too, they have problems. And I don't think the fact that we haven't built a new refinery since the 1970s has anything to do with those things breaking down, do you? No. Uh-uh.
Starting point is 01:50:54 No. Because if you built one recently, it would just break down. Anyway, so it wouldn't help. It was very down. Right? Yeah. Just like they did in the 70s, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:51:03 And they're just not made for that kind of heat. That's why gas prices are so high in Saudi Arabia. Because it's so hot over there. Oh, yeah. And they just can't make the fuel. That's why you pay like 10 cents a gallon over there. It should be one. But because of global warming.
Starting point is 01:51:28 It's almost 10. Maybe this is a stupid question, but do they not have air conditioning at these refineries? Because I would think inside the plant. It's not quite as hot as outside the plant. No, this is complicated machinery. It's not about men. You know, it's about algorithms and machines. It's very complex.
Starting point is 01:51:51 Yeah, I don't understand. Are you a refinery engineer? I'm not. No, I'm not. Okay. There you go. You're not. expert in it. So let's just move on. It's global warming. Duh. You know, at least with Vladimir Putin,
Starting point is 01:52:06 it was, uh, it was more, it was closer to the truth. You know what I mean? It wasn't Vladimir Putin. It was us doing that to Vladimir Putin that caused everything to go up and us shutting down all of our, uh, you know, all of our pipelines and everything else. But at least Vladimir Putin was somewhere near it. Global warming. Is causing the gas price to go up this month? Come on. Wow. Okay.
Starting point is 01:52:35 Here is something I just heard about in one of the mountain states. I won't name which. But I do know that in one of the mountain states, there's some construction going on, massive construction. And of course, it's not paid for by your tax dollars. it is Joe Biden's relief. Okay. And you have to put a sign up that said this project was approved by Joe Biden. And it's my understanding that not only is there a sign, but if you don't keep the sign there, if you don't put it up, there are inspections from the federal government.
Starting point is 01:53:23 and they inspect to make sure that signage is up. And if that signage is not up, you lose your funding. That is unbelievable. Wow. Here's another CNN report about the Biden administration and signs at construction sites. And so now this effort by the White House to put the Biden administration's name out and signs, particularly at road projects to remind people this is you know this is part of this administration this is who to credit do you think this is going to make a big difference
Starting point is 01:54:02 oh I do think just like with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act near during the Obama years making sure that we label the infrastructure investments and the Wi-Fi investment and the the superfund cleanup and all of the the the investments that are being made the jobs that are being brought back from overseas, the supercomputers that are going to be built as a result of chips being manufactured here. All of that has to be communicated very visibly and also comprehensively. And you know what? Stop, stop, stop. Pat, I think I want a new jingle made for Biden's war. Something that will remind people that Biden got us into Ukraine, his incompetence,
Starting point is 01:54:51 we do a jingle about how many people died in Afghanistan because that was clearly his too. I think she's right, clearly reminding people for who's responsible, you know, that high gas prices. Yeah. I think we need to make some. I can't do a sign because I'm on radio and podcast. But I suppose I could make jingles for that. if anybody would like to you know suggest any lyrics for a jingle that would be good remember it has to be catchy something about Joe Biden's war and Ukraine
Starting point is 01:55:30 and maybe even Joe Biden's inflation would be something we should help this administration Bidenomics should be in it yeah Bidenomics Yeah. It's Bidenomics.
Starting point is 01:55:47 Yeah. I like that. I like that. Paying too much at the grocery store. It's Bidenomics. I like it. It's good. Real quick, I saw this.
Starting point is 01:56:01 I saw this and I, at first I thought, what the heck is going on? Do you remember the, what was it? It wasn't the land of the lost where the people were really, really small. and land of the giants do you remember that vaguely vaguely oh my gosh really land of the giants uh earthlings went someplace i don't remember where and uh they were surrounded by giants and so they were always by like a pencil and it would just be a giant prop of a pencil and they'll be standing next to it i felt that way when i saw this you i'll describe it but i want to show it to you on blaze tv uh please
Starting point is 01:56:43 play, what is it, cut six. You want to describe that? Wow. The tire is bigger than this guy's whole body. Yeah. That's how you get inside. The wheel. His head doesn't even make it to the top of the tire.
Starting point is 01:57:01 His head is at the top of the wheel. He couldn't even reach the door handle to get inside this thing. No, you can't even reach the top of the door. You don't, you can't even touch the bottom of the door. So you, you mount this hummer. Wow. From the bottom and it's an apartment inside. How cool is that?
Starting point is 01:57:22 Okay. And it's a huge. Okay. Wow. But wait. There's more. Watch what she's about to do. She's about to sit down.
Starting point is 01:57:32 You know, where is your driving position? You drive this thing from here. Look at that. So you can actually drive it. Three, four. My gosh. Look at that. You're driving.
Starting point is 01:57:45 like an apartment building. Yeah. Wow. It's a house. It's a giant house. And not like, not like, oh, it's a, you know, it's a trailer. No, it's a giant house built to look like a Hummer. And it actually runs.
Starting point is 01:58:01 It's got big giant tire. I mean, it's crazy. What did that thing cost? He is standing. I don't know. He's, you know, where the kickboard comes out or the, the step comes out when you open up a door of a big, you know. his head is where that board would come out underneath the door.
Starting point is 01:58:20 That's how tall this thing is. It's incredible. Wow. A house-sized Hummer. That's, yeah, it took four years to make. Four years to make. Where is this? Do you know where that's located?
Starting point is 01:58:35 You know, I don't. I mean, in America, it's either America or it's like Dubai, because only America in Dubai and Dubai things like this. You know. All right. Back in just a second. A challenge for you. It's going to take a little bit of your time today.
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Starting point is 02:01:05 So the Humvee we were just talking about, we did a little more research on it like it matters, but it is out of Dubai. And they say the tires are $25,000 a piece, but I don't think that that's much different, honestly, than a Bugatti. I think the Bugatti, doesn't the Bugatti, when you can only,
Starting point is 02:01:27 I can't remember how long it can run at high speeds, but you have to change the tires after, you know, a very short period of time if you're at high speeds. And then you have to replace the wheels. And I think the wheels are, I think that's 25 grand or something like that, because the wheels, it's, the traction is so, the, the, the, the force on those tires and the wheels that it will actually snap the wheels off. So the wheels are too damage to use. I think it's after like three runs. It's crazy. It's crazy. Yeah, the three to four million dollar initial price tag is just the beginning on those kinds of cars. You never, you never think, hey, the maintenance is going to kill me. Of course, I guess if you have a $4 million
Starting point is 02:02:16 car, you're going to be okay with that. That's like trying to buy the White House and going, what does it cost to mow the lawn here? What are the utilities like? You probably shouldn't. If you're worried about the utilities, you probably shouldn't buy it. Probably not. Yeah, so we got that going for us. What else have we not hit? The weekend box office is kind of interesting. Did you know Sound of Freedom is still top six.
Starting point is 02:02:46 It was number six this past weekend. It just brought in another $7 million. And it's still ahead of Mission Impossible. Which is... What? Still ahead of Mission Impossible. In overall money? Yeah.
Starting point is 02:03:04 Yeah. Sound of Freedom is about $12 million ahead of it. It's been out a week longer, but it's not going to make up $12 million in a week. It's $12 million. Yeah. It's way ahead. I mean, that is... Think of how much money, Mission Impossible Caust.
Starting point is 02:03:17 Just think how much the insurance on Tom Cruise is... Right. Every time he makes a movie. Right. Oh my gosh. And that was like a $15 or $17 million movie to make. How much is the... total now.
Starting point is 02:03:31 163 million 473. Unbelievable. It's really something. If that doesn't tell you where Americans are, that thing is being panned everywhere. It has fewer theaters by far, not even being shown in some
Starting point is 02:03:47 cities. Are you kidding me? Beating Mission Impossible and Gross. That's amazing. The Glenn Back Program.

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