The Glenn Beck Program - Joe Kent's Resignation: The Questions We SHOULD Be Asking | Guests: Daniel Horowitz & Rachel Bovard | 3/18/26

Episode Date: March 18, 2026

Glenn dives into the claims Joe Kent made about leaving the Trump administration over disagreements with Trump’s actions in Iran and explains why he believes Kent is wrong. Glenn questions why Kent ...appears to have completely flipped his opinions on Iran, in what appears to be a very recent reversal. Glenn asks his staff to further break down Joe Kent’s sudden reversal on President Trump, the Iran strikes, and the MAGA movement. Glenn reacts to President Trump authorizing a new task force, headed by Vice President JD Vance, to find and end government corruption. Blaze podcast host of “Conservative Review” Daniel Horowitz joins to discuss how pro-Iranian advocates are using our Constitution to shield the implementation of jihadism. Glenn explains why businesses are leaving liberal cities like Seattle, and the answer is as obvious as you might think. CPI Vice President of Programs Rachel Bovard joins to discuss where the SAVE America Act currently stands in the Senate and how long it may take before we get a definitive answer on whether or not it is passed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:44 And thanks for standing with us. Now let's get to work. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We're glad you're here. We're going to start with Joe Ken. Joe is the guy who is high up in national intelligence. and came out yesterday with a stunning letter, accusing the president of, you know, just being duped by the Israelis.
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Starting point is 00:04:56 My job is not to convince you of one thing or another, and I've been saying since this war began, I am tired of people with their opinions. I have my opinion. I will tell you when it is my opinion, but it is important to establish facts first, and not a lot of people are doing that. And facts matter. They matter. So I want to go through some of the facts, but I want to go through some of the facts.
Starting point is 00:05:19 I also want to start with a couple of disclaimers. I want you to know that as I take you through this, I did not buy nor use. They're just days away from having a nuke as justification for this war. In fact, I rejected that right off the top. You know, I've done several monologues on this. The day, the first day I was on the air with the war, that's one of the first things I said. I don't accept that as a reason for going in because, fool me once. shame on you. Also, I am not questioning anyone's right to question this war, question the government,
Starting point is 00:05:57 question our spy agencies, question anything all the way down to me. That is important in a republic. I also don't fault anyone for questioning this war, whether it's in the best interest of the United States of America, especially after the debacle that was Iraq and Afghanistan. I also don't fault anybody for looking at the actual motives of all of our allies. We should. Because allies are not the United States of America. They have different motives, just as we do. And that's why I caution not to judge against things that, you know, that others may do,
Starting point is 00:06:40 that we ourselves with our own State Department do to further our own national interests. you know, if you're going to fault somebody saying, they're trying to convince us to do something that's not in our national interest, your problem is really not with that government, because that's the job of their secretary of state or foreign minister, just like Marco Ruby. That's Marco Rubio's job. He goes in and Donald Trump says, get him on board with this.
Starting point is 00:07:07 Well, it may not be in their best interest. Find a way. Get them on board. That's what they do. So if you have a problem with somebody being duped, the problem is with the politicians, not the other country. And this is where I believe Joe goes way awry on this. If true, his beef should be with our CIA, as well as the president of the United States. Now, he's making a beef with the CIA, but not with the president.
Starting point is 00:07:38 But that's where the buck stops. You know, if China dupes our leaders, is that. their fault or our fault. And I just want to direct you back to Donald Trump. He's been very, very clear. How did we get into all of these wars? How do we lose all these financial deals? What does he say over and over again?
Starting point is 00:07:57 Because we had idiots running our country. We had presidents who just didn't get it. So that's where the fault would lie. But this is an incredible charge that he made. And it has deep ramifications. Now, I want you also to know. I have pretty good deep sources on this issue, but none of them will go on record due to security clearances and everything else. So I dismiss those things.
Starting point is 00:08:30 I have to when I'm talking to you because I can only give you as evidence in something this important what I can find in open sources. I want to be as fair as possible. So let me look at the facts of what happened yesterday with Joe King. and give you the cleanest read I can give to you. Joe Kent's resignation is real. We have to start with that because do you even know what's real anymore? This is real. And at the core, it is explosive.
Starting point is 00:09:03 He resigned as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center. He said Iran posed no imminent threat. He accused Israel and its allies in America and American media. for pushing the United States into war that benefited Israel. Okay. That makes this the first major senior break inside this administration over this conflict or really pretty much anything in this term. Now, Trump yesterday came out and brushed him off as weak on security, yada, yada, yada,
Starting point is 00:09:37 the White House and Tulsi Gabbard defended the president's judgment and said he acted on compelling evidence. Now, Joe Kent is not some random bureaucrat. He is, and should be honored as such, but it doesn't give you blanket immunity from questioning. He is a decorated veteran, a war hero, former Special Forces, CIA officer, two-time congressional candidate, and also a man long identified with American First, an anti-interventualist wing of the right. He is a much more of a libertarian. He's also been controversial for his association with far-right figures, talking about the election in January 6th and everything else.
Starting point is 00:10:23 And so that's why the left has given him lots and lots of criticism as a conspiracy theorist, et cetera, et cetera. So the public, the American public, have two truths to look at him. He's a serious combat veteran, deep resists. He's also spent years moving in circles where grievance and extremism and ideological drift are also visible. Now, I wouldn't normally bring this up, but he's got something else I'm going to bring up here in a second that is important to say that ideological drift. He has a deep tragedy in the center of his life, and that is absolutely real. His first wife, Shannon Kent, highly decorated Navy cryptologic technician.
Starting point is 00:11:13 She was killed in, I think, 2019. An ISIS suicide bomber came in to Syria, blew himself up, and that was during Operation Inherent Resolve. Official Navy and NSA Memorial Materials describe her as, you know, killed in the line of duty. ISIS claimed responsibility for that attack. Now, he has a new wife, and this is important. and normally I would not get into, you know, somebody's wife unless it's an influencing factor
Starting point is 00:11:46 and there is something that is very different about the wife. His current wife, multiple reports, identify her as Heather Kayser and say that she has contributed to something called the Greystone. This is an outlet, a media outlet, founded by MASSAD, Max Blumenthal. Who's Max Blumenthal? What is this outlet? Blumenthal wrote for something called Al-Aqbar. That is a pro-hesbullah, pro-Assad outlet. Now, he resigned in 2012 over the Syria coverage, but he's also a contributor to Russian state media, R-T, and Al-Jazeera, which is Qatari money. The gray zone, which he edits, has been criticized as
Starting point is 00:12:35 anti-West, anti-Israel, pro-Russia, pro-Iran. Also, he was platformed at an Alexander Dugan-linked event. If you've listened to this show, I've been talking about Alexander Dugan and how dangerous this guy is, since before the turn of the century. I mean, I first found him when he said that America would break up into ten different zones, and they were trying to create a civil war in America. and that was like 1997 or 8 started talking about him. He is very, very dangerous, okay? This event called the Forum of the Future 2050 was in Moscow in 2025,
Starting point is 00:13:18 and that's where Blumenthal spoke on the same stage with Alexander Dugan. Now, I want you to know, crimes of the wife or not crimes of the husband. There's no crime with his wife, but it's a saying. But I learned a very important lesson. in my big fat Greek wedding. And that is, the man may be the head, but the wife is the neck and she turns the head. And anybody who is married knows.
Starting point is 00:13:45 You know if your wife is on a path, dude, you got a choice. Okay? Now, I don't find any solid reporting that proves that she's an employee of Blumenthal, you know, in the formal sense. but she did write for the site. So I don't know any deeper than that. Those connections are being argued online,
Starting point is 00:14:10 but the evidence available does not support she is a Dugan puppet or a supporter of the Red Green Alliance as established fact. However, you can draw an inference from that. But that's not fact. That said, the ideal. ideological ecosystem that he is in and his wife is in, it is curious to me that he has taken a 180 degree turn after they got together. And very, very recently, I can't use that information.
Starting point is 00:14:49 Let me just go back to 2020. He tweeted in 2020, we should not sit and wait for the next attack, wipe Iran's ballistic capability out. Another one. I personally think we should have crushed their ballistic and nuclear capability, but Trump has a plan and he has earned the trust of any clear-eyed observer. So he wanted to go further at that time. Why the change? Could it be the influence of Duganites? Dugan is widely described by scholars and, and An analyst as far right, in the scary sense, ultra-nationalist, anti-liberal Russian ideologue, whose work argues for civilizational struggle, and it's against the West and the American power, and he's calling for chaos.
Starting point is 00:15:44 He is absolutely aligned with different theological endings. He is absolutely aligned with the Mullahs in Iran. He is not just a Russian professor with opinion. he has long been treated as an intellectual node in a broader anti-Western network that seeks really bizarre alliances across the far right and the far left and it's all united around anti-liberal democracy anti-NATO anti the united states okay so here's all of the that's those are the facts so what is actually happening here Let me give you that in 60 seconds.
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Starting point is 00:17:53 That's not the deepest question we should be answering here. This guy chose to make an accusation of the highest possible consequence. that the United States was pushed into a war by Israeli pressure and misinformation. He, without presenting the proof, required for a charge that large, he is not a podcaster guessing from the bleachers. This is a guy inside the intelligence community, inside, at the top of the spy apparatus. If he has a charge like that, he has evidence of manipulated intelligence or political deception, that evidence belongs before Congress, Inspector Generals, and the American people.
Starting point is 00:18:46 Show me the proof. It's important because I can't dismiss you, but I also can't accept it without you coming with proof. You can't just say, when you call fire, A fire! Everybody has to pay attention, okay, and run because there might be a fire. That's not the same as this. This, when you say these things, you're required to step to the plate with truth. Why?
Starting point is 00:19:16 Multiple sources inside the White House, now on record, confirmed that he had been kicked out of every classified briefing on Iraq, or sorry, on Iran, for weeks. He lost access at the beginning of the year, due to him being suspected of leaks. So he was already on the out. And then when they started taking briefings on this, he was not in any of those briefings.
Starting point is 00:19:40 So how would he know what the president was basing things on? You know, honestly, due to his leaks, I'm wondering if anybody else has been burned by leaks from him in the past. You know, what is real? What is not? How accurate were the past leaks? I don't know, but let's get back to the proof. The American system does not ask you to prove your innocent.
Starting point is 00:20:05 It asks you to prove the guilt. That's up to the accuser. So if his allegations are true, he must present proof and they must be looked into. However, if he doesn't have that proof, then what he just released was not a principled warning. It was an accelerant. I said this yesterday. You know, the country is all already on fire with hatred and suspicion and real anti-Semitism. And an accusation like this is just gasoline.
Starting point is 00:20:39 Now, Tulsi Gabbard's statement, let me talk about her for a minute. It's revealing for the same reason. She defended Trump's authority and the chain of command, but she appears to have framed the conclusion as the president's judgment after reviewing intelligence, rather than saying the intelligence community had clearly established an imminent threat. Now, I don't know if that is, why she didn't do that, is that a possible setup? Is she going to run for president? Does she need this?
Starting point is 00:21:08 I don't know what's happening. Many people are reading her statement as institutional cover rather than a full-throated factual rebuttal of Kent. It's kind of the middle ground. But again, it's just being inferred, but it's a grounded one. So what is actually happening? This looks like a collision to me of three different forces. First, a real fracture inside the American First Coalition over Iran and Israel.
Starting point is 00:21:39 Second, Kent's longstanding anti-interventualist instinct sharpened by the trauma of losing his first wife. Third, an information ecosystem that too often slides from skepticism about war into conspiratorial narratives about hidden ethnic or foreign control. And that last step is where republics get poisoned. Opposition to a war, this war or any war, can be principled. Opposition against Israel can be principled. But claims that the Jews or Israel's lobby secretly dragging America into a war require extraordinary proof. Why? Because history teaches us exactly where this language leads when it's flung into a frightened public without any evidence. So I can't tell you anything other than those things are facts. Now let me give you my opinion. Something's not right here. He changed his opinion dramatically. He has connections to
Starting point is 00:22:57 like people, which is very dangerous and very hard to spot and get away from once you've been sucked in to that event horizon, if you will. Something's wrong. I don't trust it, but I am open to seeing any proof, not hearsay, proof. This requires proof. All right, let me tell you about Rough Greens. Your dog, you know, never went to culinary school. and I had German Shepherds and they're pretty good.
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Starting point is 00:27:35 and what he has done in the past. And he's done great stuff. Which he's done great stuff. Yeah. And again, hold two thoughts in your head at the same time. You can do it. It's called chewing gum and walking. You can do two things at once.
Starting point is 00:27:48 He can be a great military hero and something that you got to go, wait a minute, what is happening here? Right. Because otherwise, I am also a veteran. I also served in a foreign war in Afghanistan. I can break every single FCC rule that's out there right now. I'm going to start right now. No, let's not. Let's not.
Starting point is 00:28:07 Oh, I thought that I was absolved. No, you don't absolve. You don't get absolved because you were a veteran. That was my one shot. I was just going to go for it. No, really bad idea. So that, for one, irks me. But for two, his shift in ideology is something that I cannot explain.
Starting point is 00:28:28 I don't think anyone can explain right now. You can't go from having the mindset that you had just a few years ago. probably just a few months ago. I don't know when this shift happened. But you can't go from knowing that Iran is the global state sponsor of terror, the number one, which he has said in the past. You can't go from saying, look, we have to support Israel in this fight against Iran because they are so bad with their proxies. Everything has destabilized the entire region. And they threaten us. You believe that. you say that Donald Trump during his first term should have gone farther, and these are the things he lists off. Attacking nuclear sites, attacking their ability to project power outside the country, attacking proxies.
Starting point is 00:29:16 You have to do that. Almost not a direct quote, but pretty much around what he was saying was, you need to address those things. I wish he would have, but he didn't. But I trust the president has a plan. Everything he was describing a few years ago is exactly what the war. war is looking like today. So let me ask you, as we look for an answer on what happened, the guy is crazy, the guy's anti-Semitic, la, la, la, la.
Starting point is 00:29:46 There might be a really simple answer to this, 2028. The MAGA world is up for grabs. Donald Trump is not going to be the head of MAGA. So what does MAGA mean? That's what's being defined. right now. All of this just may be, I hate to be so cynical here, and again, my opinion, but I'm looking for things that make sense to me. Everything is about power. Everything is always about power, power, money, control. And you have the biggest movement in America in my lifetime,
Starting point is 00:30:33 MAGA. And it's going to be handed off to somebody. Somebody is going to take this. Now, there are those that would say split it. So there is the left that would love to see a split. But there are also those who have such different viewpoints on what MAGA should do. they will not take on Donald Trump. And this is my, this is my key point with Joe.
Starting point is 00:31:07 Joe, your argument is actually with Donald Trump. If what you say is true, then your argument is with Donald Trump. Because he's not a moron. He's not a patsy. He's not senile. He's not stupid. I can guarantee you, I know, I know the man surrounds himself. The guy spent 30 minutes on the phone with me one time, which he did not have to do,
Starting point is 00:31:30 talking about trade. I want to hear your argument against trade. Tell me, tell me, why are you against tariffs? He didn't need to do that, but he actually listened and engaged. He surrounds himself with people who have his worldview, but he also equally as important, brings people in that have a different point of view. So there's no way he just took all of the, he's too smart. He knows that was the reason we got into Iran.
Starting point is 00:32:00 I mean, sorry, Iraq. weapons of mass destruction. He has been preaching and said weapons of mass destruction live, George W. Bush, since the day he said it. So somebody walks into his office and says, you know, weapons of mass destruction. What do you think he's going to say? What do you think he's going to say? He's going to say, no, I don't believe that. Show it to me. Okay. So your argument has to be about Donald Trump, if you're Joe, if you're Joe Kent. But notice it's not. Why wouldn't you make it about Donald Trump?
Starting point is 00:32:37 Why would you say, and you were the best president ever? You just got us into a war that is serving only Israel and not America. If that's what you believe, why would you say? And it's an honor and a kissy, kissy, kissy, I love you so much. You wouldn't say that unless you're trying to hold on to him to be able to hold the people who are MAGA. Notice Donald Trump. they're MAGA on both sides. They're not split on Donald Trump.
Starting point is 00:33:07 They're split on the policies, but he is the policy. He is the guy making the policy. But everybody who splits from him, they know, split from his policy, they know, keep him happy. Keep him in line. He's our guy. He's our guy. He's our guy. But look at this policy.
Starting point is 00:33:24 This is horrible. This is the worst thing ever. It's the Jews that are doing that. Well, no, excuse me. if you believe that, then you have to say Donald Trump is in with a Jews because he's not a moron. So he must knowingly be doing these things. Because that's what Donald Trump always said about politicians. Why do we get into these wars?
Starting point is 00:33:47 Why do we get into bad trade deals? Because our presidents don't know what they're doing and they're idiots. So if you believe Donald Trump is smart enough to recognize that situation, in others, then you have to say, if you believe what Joe Kent did, you have to say, Donald Trump's smart enough to recognize he's in bed making the same mistakes that all the other presidents made. But they don't do it. This is all about politics. This is about the next election. Right now, you are being shaped. I want you to start looking at the news in a different way.
Starting point is 00:34:29 I want you to start looking at the news. This is so cynical and I hate this. But I want you to start looking at all of the news when it comes to MAGA as who wins if I believe this. What do they gain if I believe this? They gain half of MAGA. Because there is that split going on right now.
Starting point is 00:34:57 Am I wrong. Ricky, you see where I'm going? Oh, I see where you're going. And honestly, there's probably some of these folks that would love nothing more than to have President Trump's endorsement. Exactly right. So you can stay on his good side. You have to have his good side. You have to remain on his good side if you want to hold any part of MAGA. And both sides of MAGA now love Donald Trump. And I've not been able to work that out in my head. How you're going against all of his policies, but he is the policy. I mean, I stood in the hallway with J.D. Vance. and Marco Rubio and had a conversation with Bo. And I've never seen any, I've had conversations at this level before. And I've never seen politicians do this ever before. What is happening? You guys are on fire right now.
Starting point is 00:35:51 Both of them separately. One, J.D. came in after I was talking to Marco, but Marco was there when J.D. said it. And I said, Marco just said the same thing. It's not us. We go in every morning and he tells us this is what we're doing today. We're just doing it. It's him. It's him. It's him. So nobody's duping the president. Nobody is, this is not the fault of Marco Rubio, not the fault of Pete Hegseth, not the fault of the CIA.
Starting point is 00:36:20 It is Donald Trump. He deserves all the credit and all the blame if you don't like it. You can't give him all the credit and none of the blame. Otherwise, he's not the guy you think he is. And believe me, he is the guy you think he is. So, again, I don't have anything to back this up in fact. So don't take my word as gospel. But I'm looking for things that make sense. This doesn't make sense. He turned on a dime.
Starting point is 00:36:58 Turned on a dime. So that is either outside influence, which it could be. Or it's more cynical than that. it's I see a way to play a role in MAGA after this president is done. I'm positioning myself to play some role in MAGA 2028, and I'm putting my chips in the anti-Israel MAGA movement. I think that's what's happening. Could be wrong. Again, I just say, we could solve this.
Starting point is 00:37:39 Show me the proof. Show me the proof, Joe. and by the and Ricky just gave me a tweet that said what was it? You said it was a tweet or was it? Oh, there was lots of tweets about yesterday's commentary that went viral.
Starting point is 00:37:52 People are saying, I've never heard you tell anyone else. I don't want your opinion. I want facts until just now. No, you can have an opinion, but you need the facts first. You have to have the facts first. That is something I've been saying for the last few weeks. Once we got into this war,
Starting point is 00:38:09 I said, I have been watching the news, news and everybody has an opinion. Everybody has an opinion. Can you give me any facts first? Then tell me what it means. I don't need your opinion. You don't need. I said in that monologue yesterday, I don't, I don't want to be somebody where you're taking my opinion and just running with my opinion. My opinion is my opinion. As I said, yesterday I have an ass and an opinion and they're both worth the same thing. When it comes to things like this, when we're trying to figure things out, when we are looking at all of this, something this important, you have to start with the facts. And again, because I know one of them said, Glenn, why don't you produce your facts that it didn't
Starting point is 00:39:00 happen? Did you grow up in Russia? Where did you grow up? Because I grew up in the United States of America. The accuser presents the facts. The accused is innocent until proven guilty. So you could make that case. I might even believe you. If you have the facts, I might even without facts, be inclined to believe you that, yep, I bet you the CIA is doing that kind of stuff. Might even be inclined. But that doesn't make the person guilty. That doesn't mean that what you said is true. Produce the facts. Prove the guilt. I don't have to prove the innocent. You have to prove the guilt.
Starting point is 00:39:44 That's the way it works in America. Back in a minute. Something happening right now, a lot of people hoped they would see, they wouldn't see again in their lifetime, and that is rampant anti-Semitism. I mean, I was just talking to Tommy Robinson yesterday, and, you know, we were talking, he said, Glenn, you were saying that this was coming.
Starting point is 00:40:05 You know, in the early 2000, when he was just getting, just as he was first getting arrested. And, you know, everybody said that was nuts. It is here, gang. It is here. And it's getting worse. And for a lot of Jewish families, that has changed the feeling of everyday life in places that used to feel safe. Places that used to feel like, you know, everything is normal.
Starting point is 00:40:29 Well, it's not normal anymore. And in Israel, it's really different. Moments like this is why standing with the Jewish people right now matters so much. You don't have to support Israel, the wars, or anything else. But do you believe that the Jewish people have a right to exist and live? I do. Join me, will you? International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
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Starting point is 00:42:44 The promo code is Blaze. Hometitelock.com. Promal code, Blaze. All right. Some questions from torch bearers. A lot of folks want to know what makes criticism of the idea that Israel may have dragged us into the war. Why is that anti-Semitic? Well, A, because you're blaming Israel, for one, and I've already gone through that.
Starting point is 00:43:15 So that doesn't make that anti-Semitic, but you're targeting the wrong one. It should be you're targeting the CIA or the president, because that's the one who made the decision. and anti-Semitic because of the stew that we're all soaking in right now. If this was said 15 years ago or whatever, it wouldn't have been. But right now, there is this deep split
Starting point is 00:43:37 on hate the Jews. You add this into it and it becomes anti-Semitic. Here's something uncomfortable. You don't always realize that you're missing things. You just notice you're working a little harder. You lean in a little bit more during conversations or you ask people, can you say that again? You've then pretend you caught it the second time, even though you didn't.
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Starting point is 00:45:43 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. There's a lot going on today. We've got our big special happening tomorrow night on the destruction. of the Western world and my staff keeps saying, Glenn, this is amazing,
Starting point is 00:45:57 this is amazing. We did a walk through yesterday, doing another rehearsal today. It's a live documentary. We've never done anything like this. Chalkboards are back. Everything that you need
Starting point is 00:46:07 to learn and to really get a handle on, oh, wow, they really are trying to destroy America. And there is such a thing as the Red Green Alliance. This is something that you should watch
Starting point is 00:46:19 with a, with a somewhat open-minded friend, somebody who's not necessarily paying attention, because when you see it, you can't unsee it. And that is tomorrow night, 8 p.m. By the way, it's on Torch. Now you can go search Glenn Beck on Roku, and you can get Torch on Roku as well, so you can watch us there. But make sure you join us, tell a friend,
Starting point is 00:46:41 gather some people, and watch it together, 8 p.m. tomorrow. Also, Tommy Robinson just had a fascinating, interview with him yesterday. I don't know what I thought about Tommy. I guess I didn't know about Tommy yet. You can watch things, but when you're seeing somebody from across the ocean and they are not rooted in American principles, that's the problem with Europe. When they don't have the Bill of Rights, they don't understand all men are created equal
Starting point is 00:47:13 endowed by their creator. So they don't have these things. And so they can go awry quickly. And then when you have the media saying, They're a far right white, white supremac, blah, blah, blah, and you're not over there? You don't know. I have to tell you, I walked away really respecting him. I really liked him.
Starting point is 00:47:30 You know, he started out as a football thug and explained his whole story to me. And, I mean, it's a fascinating interview. So we'll get to some of that here in just a second. I also want to continue our conversation from our number one of the podcast today, where we were talking about Joe Kent, and I want to get off the Joe Kent thing, but I said last hour, I want you to start looking at everything
Starting point is 00:47:58 through the eyes of 2028. If you do that, you might start understanding stories. And I think that's what the Joe Kent story is about. As I laid out last hour, I think that this is really about 2028. This is, the MAGA movement is up for grabs. Who is going to get it? And what does that mean?
Starting point is 00:48:17 And so that's why MAGA is being split. And notice they're not splitting Donald Trump. Both sides love Donald Trump. I don't know how that works exactly, but okay. But they're splitting MAGA. And it's because of 2028. I'm convinced of it. And there was something that happened, I think it was maybe on Monday,
Starting point is 00:48:39 that was really small in some ways. It was fabulous to hear. But there's something small that happened. that was a tell. And it was all about 2028, and I'll explain this in just 60 seconds first. There's a word people don't use very often when they talk about their cell phone service, and that's loyalty. Because most of the time, it's a one-way relationship.
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Starting point is 00:49:56 Use the promo code Beck, free month of service. Patriotmobile.com slash back 972 Patriot. So there are moments, like I said, where something small is the tell here. And it's a quiet move that reveals the whole strategy. And what happened just a couple of days ago was one of the... those moments, a task force was announced on fraud. And if it were any other administration, it would just be, you know, housekeeping. It would be, you know, another headline, another promise to clean things up in Washington.
Starting point is 00:50:34 You know, Washington creates task force all the time and they never solve any of the problems. But this one is different. This one is different, not because of what it says on paper, but because who is standing at the center of it. Donald Trump started a task force on corruption led by J.D. Vance. So who's standing there at the head of it is important, and just as important, is who is not. I want you to think of everything through the eyes of 2028, and let's look at the board the way a strategist would look at it. Where's Marco Rubio right now? Marco Rubio has more jobs than anybody I have ever made.
Starting point is 00:51:18 anybody I've ever met. He is right now exactly where you'd expect him to be, deep in foreign policy, standing shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump and the administration in one of the most volatile geopolitical moments in my lifetime. This thing could be a miracle, could be a massacre, could be horrible in the end. Don't know yet. Iran, energy, global alliances, the risks of escalation into World War III. This is the highest stakes I've ever seen a president play at. High visibility, high risk,
Starting point is 00:51:57 and whoever is with it is either a hero or a villain. And if it works, there's stability. There's lower oil prices. There's a real peace dividend by 26 or 27. And Rubio will look like an amazing statesman. he becomes the natural air, the man who helps steady the world. But if it doesn't, what happens to Rubio?
Starting point is 00:52:28 If the war drags, if the costs mount, if Americans feel it in their wallets and their son and daughters start coming home in boxes, that position is an absolute anchor. Now shift your focus here for a second. We got Rubio. But I started talking about J.D. Vance. So let me go back to J.D. Vance. Where's J.D. Vance? Right now on this issue, where is J.D. Vance? I've heard rumors. He's not really with the president on this one. But I haven't seen any statements. And I haven't seen the president say, yeah, he's kind of weak on this. Normally, he would say something like. J.D. Vance is just not anywhere near this storm. He's standing somewhere else entirely. Donald Trump, say what you want about him. But the guy is a freaking.
Starting point is 00:53:20 genius. He is going to make sure that the America First idea that MAGA goes on well after him. Because what did he do? He's put J.D. Vance, at the same time the war, fraud, corruption, government waste. That's not accidental. That is positioning. Because what Trump said, almost offhandedly, is actually, I guess, think the thesis of the next election. He said, and I quote, if we found half the fraud, we'd have a balanced budget. That line is not about accounting. That line is about framing. It refraims the entire economic argument away from the painful choices, cuts, taxes, austerity, all the things that everybody else in every other country, their politicians talk about. We've got to cut our way through
Starting point is 00:54:21 austerity. We have to start doing, uh-uh. This would be emotionally unifying. The message is someone is stealing from you. And all we have to do is stop the threat and stop the theft and we're going to be okay. And not in theory. The story out of Minneapolis, billions of dollars siphon from programs meant for the vulnerable. I mean, it just couldn't get any... I mean, if I were writing a script, it couldn't get any better. Wait, you're taking the money from children who are hungry? If I'm writing a script, I've got my bad guy.
Starting point is 00:55:07 It gives the argument teeth, faces, numbers, outrage. And now Vance is being handed the mandate to go find more. not quietly, publicly, relentlessly. Trump even telegraphed this. He said, this is not going to be ceremonial. It won't be symbolic. He said, quote,
Starting point is 00:55:28 there's not going to be another czar with no title or with a title and no teeth. Basically not going to be Kamala going down and trying to figure out what's happening with our border. And that's the contrast he uses. He defined in advance what leadership is supposed to look like, and he assigned Vance the role of proving it.
Starting point is 00:55:52 Now, let's step back from the whole board and look at the whole board again. You have one potential successor tied to global outcomes that he can't fully control, but he's going to be tied with that. Another one being given a domestic mission that can be prosecuted daily, case-by-case, headline by headline, building a narrative that feeds directly into the next campaign. J.D. Vance is going to be the guy against Gavin Newsom because he's going to find the corruption in California. So that pits him against Newsom. By 2028, we'll know what the Republican message will be. Not just growth, not just strength abroad, but this.
Starting point is 00:56:45 Your government was looted. The biggest theft in American history happened. Somebody robbed our treasury, and we can prove it, and we stopped it. That's a pretty powerful argument against governors like Gavin Newsom or any other Democrat running on expanding programs and increasing spending and promising more systems. Because the counter is going to be simple. Uh-huh, uh-huh. Before you do more, can you explain why the system wasn't protected in your state the last time? Can you explain where the money went?
Starting point is 00:57:22 Can you explain why no one in your state stopped it? And if Vance is the one uncovering those answers, if he becomes the face of that accountability, then he isn't just part of the administration. He becomes the argument. Same thing with everything that is happening with Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio will become the face of whatever it is that happens with not only this war, but the entire strategy of our foreign policy.
Starting point is 00:58:00 If it goes well, you have the possibility of the two best candidates I've ever seen in my lifetime. Because we will know on record what they are capable of doing. We will have seen them in action. This is how you build a successor without naming one. You give them a lane. You give them a mission. You give them victories to see and feel. But you also give them a place to fail.
Starting point is 00:58:29 If they're not going to be presidential, if they're not the ones for the job, we'll know it because they will have failed. You let time do all the rest. There's one condition that determines whether any of this works, and that is the economy, because it always comes back to that. If people are working, if wages stabilize, if the inflation cools, then the fraud narrative becomes gasoline already on a moving engine. If the economy is struggling, then even the most compelling corruption story
Starting point is 00:59:06 isn't going to be enough. But make no mistake on what is happening here. This is not just about fraud. This is about defining the battlefield of the next election. And quietly, without a speech, without a rally, without a declaration, Trump just put two pieces on the board. You watch those two pieces. More in a minute. Let me tell you about relief factor. There was a time when my hands hurt so bad. I couldn't hide it anymore. I mean, I couldn't write. I couldn't paint. I couldn't paint. One of the most humiliating things of my life. And as a man, you might know this, if you've ever had to do it, is waking my wife up. Waking my wife up early in the morning and asking her to button my shirts because I couldn't button my own shirts.
Starting point is 01:00:01 My hand has hurt so bad. My wife came to me and said, why don't you try Relief Factor? I said, honey, we have been to every doctor on the planet. You think really relief factor, a bunch of natural herbs and grasses or what? whatever the hell is in it is going to change. She said, I don't want to hear you whine about your pain unless you're willing to try everything. So I did. And I did it exactly as directed.
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Starting point is 01:01:27 Let me play something Do I have five minutes here Sarah? Okay, I don't know if I can To get to the whole thing But Tommy Robinson I interviewed yesterday And you want to feel good
Starting point is 01:01:38 About America Listen to the question And his answer He actually was brought to tears By the end of this His answer He was crying It was amazing
Starting point is 01:01:45 Listen to this from the podcast Coming out this week Cut 9 I had a conversation With Charlie Kirk three years before he died and we were just having a private conversation talking about what was coming
Starting point is 01:01:59 and he asked me and I said the only thing that's left is war and assassinations and he said wow and I said he said do you think they would go after Trump years before and I said oh yeah but I said
Starting point is 01:02:19 Charlie I think they're going to go after people like us as well and we talked about that for a while and I regret now not saying to him a question I want to ask you first of all you seem pretty committed to go all the way
Starting point is 01:02:39 no matter what comes your way true I believe I'm meant to be doing this I don't believe I have a choice God forbid something happens to you what do you want people to how do you want people who follow you or support you to react, to do.
Starting point is 01:03:00 I believe that in history, defining moments changed the course of a nation. That's what happens. Bloody Sunday changed the course of the conflict in Northern Ireland. No one knew what that moment would be. A moment will come that's going to change the direction of Europe. We've been working for it for 15, 16, 17 years to try and awaken the public.
Starting point is 01:03:19 We're at a stage now where the public are awake. I think that when they put me in jail in 2017, I was put in there to be killed. I've been in, as I said, six Muslims got caught guns. I just got named in this month's ISIS publication to be killed. I think that when they put me in jail that in 2017, they realized that if I was killed, they would might spark a revolution in Britain.
Starting point is 01:03:44 So I've detailed everything they've done. I think that the public have been pushed so far. We don't allow them to dictate to us who we are. We are organising peaceful rallies, celebrations, cultural identity, music art, love. We love our country. We're not going to give it away. And they are trying to give it away.
Starting point is 01:04:03 They've successfully destroyed it in 60 years through weakness and cowardice. I want, which we're in the process of doing now, we've built the United Kingdom movement, which is now at millions on the streets. We want to unite the kingdom and unite the West. This is far bigger than us. It's far bigger. This is Western civilization.
Starting point is 01:04:24 That's what this is about. Now unless you have unity of all Western civilizational groups across every Western nation, we're going to lose. So our future beyond our next event on May 16th is to unite the West. And for all of these groups I've travelled, I went to see Salvini and Italy, I went to see Erics Amore in France,
Starting point is 01:04:42 I've contacted the leaders of Fox, I've contacted the members of the AFD, say, listen, we need to celebrate our identity. And that's what we're trying to do. Instead of being against something, we're going for something. the best civilization the world has ever seen before our culture and identity individual nations
Starting point is 01:04:59 and it's time we celebrate it and we put back our identity because I believe that these people who aren't voting they're not voting because it's politics and I don't think you're going to get them through politics you're going to get them through culture and identity
Starting point is 01:05:09 so our goal is to um can be really frightening when it's not rooted to principles it's rooted to culture and identity it's principles so what we've done is we got when I was giving back my voice from Elon Musk I flew back to the UK.
Starting point is 01:05:25 I was defeated. I was abroad. Divorced. They'd broke my family. They'd bankrupt me through the courts, through lies. Just come out of jail again. I left. I fled.
Starting point is 01:05:34 And then I was in a dark place. Elon must pick me up, give me back my voice. I flew back to the UK, organised a meeting of 10, 15. Whether you call them influencers, Katie Hopkins, Cole Benjamin, Mayor Tusi,
Starting point is 01:05:46 these are big names in the UK have all faced attack. But now they're all back. And he's got half a million, he's got a million. So we all sat down and we spent two days together and said,
Starting point is 01:05:54 British culture's at risk here. We need to stop looking at our egos, because everyone's got an ego. And we need to stop looking at what we disagree on. It's a fascinating interview. He starts talking about how grateful he is for America. You need to hear this. It's out tonight, 6 p.m.
Starting point is 01:06:14 is for the general public or on torch only? It's out for torch now. It's available on torch now. The rest of the public gets it tonight early at 6 p.m. Eastern. You don't want to miss it. Okay, let me tell you about real estate agency. dot com. You know, if you're thinking about buying or selling your house right now, you know, you're excited, maybe a little nervous, you know, but you're ready to get started, get the process,
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Starting point is 01:08:13 They've waited. And faster than ever, they're making their moves. They're Islamists. Islamists want the United States to resemble Islamic republics in the Middle East. Our goal is to make American Islam. Real Islamic State. They're among us. They're among our politicians, among our city leaders.
Starting point is 01:08:33 There's a template and a playbook that is in motion. We're living here to shift this country's political direction. Engaging in Dawa. And Dawa as a sense. And most of the Western world isn't even aware of what's happening. As a doctor, I don't just treat symptoms. Terrorism is a symptom. The disease, the cancer is political Islam. It's incompatible with everything that America and the Western world stands for.
Starting point is 01:08:58 Honor violence, honor killings, child marriage. We have this idea that, well, we can't judge other cultures. And it's happening in more ways than you could imagine. This is economic jihad. So which side? will win the ideological battle for the West. I want you to go to stoptheconquest.com tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. We have a live documentary. It's taking us about four months and lots of, lots of manpower hours to put this together.
Starting point is 01:09:32 It is a complete look at what the blueprint is to conquer the United States of America. and how important everything you're seeing in Europe, that is only to get to us. We are the lynchpin. And it is truly terrifying and top of the list should be at the top of everybody's list on what is happening because it's happening really fast. Daniel Horowitz is joining us now. And I wanted to have you on because Daniel, you wrote an opinion the other day about the mayor of Dearborn Heights. And he was talking about the Michigan synagogue attack. And he said, you know, basically that, you know, the guy who did the attack, he was the real victim.
Starting point is 01:10:21 Can you take us through this and you're thinking on this? Sure. So, you know, you had Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles who said that Islam is incompatible with America. We cannot have immigrants from Islamic countries anymore. And a lot of people went crazy over that and lambasted him. a hater. And then when I saw that statement from a polished mayor publicly, so this is not some sort of schlepper in Dearborn saying this privately, saying that, well, yeah, what do you expect this guy to do? His two brothers were killed. And then incidentally, the Lebanese government actually tells us that
Starting point is 01:11:01 one of them was a Hezbollah commander in charge of procurement. And this guy just blissfully nonchalantly says that this is what you expect. He exemplified Congressman Ogles' point that it's not a matter of a couple of kinetic terrorists, but an entire ideology in a community in the case of Dearborn that supports it with such pervasive and virulent support that even their polished elected officials in the wake of such an attack are willing to say that. So to me, they themselves are, they're telling on themselves. Yeah, because we would never say, let's say one of the seven people that have died in the war in Iran, let's say they were killed by an Iranian bomb or whatever. For them to go and blow up a family member to come to the United States and blow up an Iranian embassy, we would never excuse that and say, well, I know, but, you know, the Iranians just killed him.
Starting point is 01:12:07 No, we would never. Never, ever excuse that. That's not Western thinking. Yeah, I don't think we have to go back to, go to Iran. I mean, just in the United States alone, we have had numerous terror attacks. So we had the Austin Bar. We've had, obviously, last year, New Year's, 14 Americans killed in New Orleans from this jihadist who ran people, ran them over. You had the two West Virginia National Guardmen killed by that Afghan refugee.
Starting point is 01:12:38 in D.C. There is zero expectation that the Christian or Jewish victims of those attacks on our shores would go into a mosque and try to ram a school of children. And that is exactly the difference that we have a number of religions in this country. Some of them have different practices than others. You have some very strict practices, some splinter sectors. But even the most conservative, maybe even repressive splinter sects of Christianity of Judaism, there is zero expectation of violence. There is zero expectation that they will work with, get funded by, or cheer on our enemies, and there's zero expectation that in their houses of worship, they will call for the overthrow of our government.
Starting point is 01:13:30 And that's where we need to really have this constitutional discussion of what is a religion and what is a political movement. So let me play, give you an example of this. This is, I think, may have been on cutting room floor, maybe in the special. This is a Michigan Imam, an Imam in Dearborn, talking to his followers in the mosque about Christians. Listen to this. We see that the Christians celebrate the so-called birth of Issa, which is a pagan holiday. these rogue liars
Starting point is 01:14:05 make claims against Allah J.la-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a that are mind-blowing so much so that hearts turn away from the beginning of every Gregorian year they make the celebration claiming that Allah subhano-ta a wife and a child
Starting point is 01:14:24 how can a Muslim after this celebrate, congratulate intermingle with these kufar claiming that Allah Jallu'a has a wife and has a child Allah subhanna and Allah's wrath is upon them he says subhanna what the means
Starting point is 01:14:42 indeed you have brought forth a terrible evil thing and do not fall yeah y'i'hah for the inner faith nonsense these people give chutab and come to the Nasajid claiming that the Yehoud are not kufar the Nassara are not kuffar no one is kaffir we're all the children of Adam we worship Allah differently brothers in humanity don't fall for this
Starting point is 01:15:01 this is the new thing that is going on today. Hear what he's saying? Hear what he's saying. He is talking about Christians. Go ahead. What did you say? Yeah, well, I was just going to say that was actually kind of mild. Yes.
Starting point is 01:15:17 Compared to what a lot of them say, where they overtly call for violence. But again, I mean, if you look back to what Madison, Jefferson, Theodore Sedgwick, what they talked about during the 1790 naturalization debate, they wanted people that were fit for the society that loved our Republican values. Jefferson talked about that in the notes of state of Virginia. And they were expressing concerns about mass migration from the countries that they held from, from Europe. Okay, they could never have envisioned something like this where we have in their houses of worship a complete subversion against the government of the United States. And I think this is the distinction people need to understand. You have a constitutional
Starting point is 01:16:06 right to practice the religion. So you could fast on Ramadan, do whatever prayers you do. But when you chant, we support Hezbollah, we support Hamas, and you have imams and mosques that are tied to and funded by our mortal enemies. There is no First Amendment right to that and to have those those places just because you might also be praying and fasting inside of them any more than there's a right for the Chinese communist to set up shop and call for the overthrow of our government, but maybe, you know, celebrate the Chinese lunar new here while they're doing that. How do you make the case with our First Amendment that, because I heard some of the other day saying all Muslims should be gone.
Starting point is 01:16:58 And I'm like, okay, that's a little scary. Let's slow down here a bit. But they were making a serious case that it's absolutely incompatible. Let me ask you this first. Is there a difference between Islam and an Islamist, a Muslim and an Islamist? Is there a difference? And then, next question, how do you make the constitutional case that you're not welcome here? So I think the bigger distinction is Islam as the religion and a Muslim.
Starting point is 01:17:35 In that respect, you could have just like you have with Catholic, Catholics, Jews, anyone else, where your parents, grandparents kept certain things, but you're not really much of a Catholic. You know, you might have one or two customs you like, and that's what it is, but you're not keeping the religion. So they have people like that that move away from it or don't really keep it. But the religion is the religion. I mean, there is only one path to it. I think the more relevant discussion is the fact that whatever semantic debate we have about what percentage and, you know, what types there are, every single major Muslim NGO and mosque is run by the Muslim Brotherhood. And that is a problem.
Starting point is 01:18:22 That is not protected. And Jews and Christians aren't protected either. If they had their infrastructure run by that or the Chinese communist, that is the distinction there. So you have the right to practice whatever you want, but the reality is when you have these epic complexes in Plano, Texas, it's not some freelance moderate Muslim ponying up the money for that. And I think that is where there is no constitutional right. I also think, Glenn, connected to this discussion of why I believe Islam, is the same at its core is
Starting point is 01:18:58 we need to understand Islam is a greater problem paradoxically now in America and Europe than in the Middle East. Yes. See in the Middle East and you see this especially in the UAE but really in most of the country Islam is a
Starting point is 01:19:14 state. It's an entire system except there because they're all Muslim well they have to have their own somewhat secular state because in the Islamic state is dysfunctional and at the end of the day if you want to prosper. So they have to clamp down on it and modify it and change it. So you don't get the decaffeinated version. Well, you get a decaffeinated version of it. But ironically, in America,
Starting point is 01:19:39 in a place like Dearborn, where they use our constitution where we say, oh, it's all religion, it's all Islam, you could do whatever you want. They're creating an unvarnished, unfiltered, unadulterated Islamic State that they cannot create, certainly in the UAE, but even in a place like Pakistan, where inevitably, if you have a guy crash into a place to kill 140 people and a mayor would say, you know, oh, yeah, yeah, that's okay. You know what would happen to that guy there. You're not going to put up with that. So I think that's what we need to understand. A lot of people thought, oh, in America, they would assimilate. They'd be more of, again, a decasinated version. And actually the opposite is true.
Starting point is 01:20:22 If we allow the political aspects of it to form their own independent state, we will be worse off than any Islamic country in the Middle East. So I have one minute here. Do you think people are starting to wake up? Because this is going to be – I believe this is World War III. This is the foundation of what will become World War III, whether we're in it now or – you know, a prelude to it or not. Do we wake up in time to stop this here? Look, I think to a large degree it's already too late.
Starting point is 01:20:58 I mean, like we've been talking about, what do you do when you have, what is it, close to four million since 9-11? It's tough, but I think at a minimum, we need state attorneys general and DOJ to unravel every terror funding mechanism and shut down those places. Are they doing it? This is what you do for a living. You've watched those things. Are they doing it? No, no, I have not seen a mosque shut down.
Starting point is 01:21:26 There is no right to be funded by Qatar and Turkey that is not a fundamental right. We could block that funding. Obviously, any non-citizen that is saying, I am Hezbollah, we are Hezbollah. They need to go home. But I would argue even naturalized, that's the final step there. If you turned out to be a supporter of that, you could not have sworn to abjure all allegiance to foreign sovereign. And these are all things we need to look at.
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Starting point is 01:23:40 Finally, the left is starting to say, oh, maybe that guy wasn't so great, you think? I'm about to sprawl. Who is that guy for those who don't know? So Cesar Chavez, he was the guy that, you know, one of the original OG union guys that was specifically about migrant farm workers, things like that. He would, like, beat people in, you know, migrants coming across.
Starting point is 01:24:02 He would beat them. You have to join them. It was all about unions. It wasn't really about migrants. Yeah. And for some reason, none of that. And I'm going to read you quotes in the insider feed that will blow your mind. But for some reason, they never held his feet to the fire.
Starting point is 01:24:15 Ever, ever, ever. Never. When will we start calling these progressive, crazy madmen by what they actually are? They're all bad dudes. They hid this stuff, would never talk about it. But now it sounds like they found one story that they can't hide from, it seems like. but he's been called out for inappropriate relationships with both women and apparently minors. No.
Starting point is 01:24:42 And they're canceling Cesar Chavez celebrations. All over the country. It's starting to happen. Finally, and it's weird because they seem to care about things happening with children sometimes and not other times. I mean, I don't know how you think straight if you're on the left. I don't know how you stay sane. really don't because how do you keep up with the things that constantly are changing? Congratulations, Caesar Chavez.
Starting point is 01:25:09 Finally. You know, we have talked a lot about the Green and Red Alliance, Green, Islam, Red, Communists. And I started talking about it before I even knew what that was at a chalkboard when I said the communists, the anarchists, the socialist, and the Islamists will all work together for the destruction of the West, the Western world, and the United States of America. Well, that's where we are now. And if you look at our cities, Dearborn, green, you look at Minneapolis, green, but also a lot of red there. You look at Seattle, parts of California, it's all red. You don't need the green. The red is destroying it.
Starting point is 01:26:44 So let me talk a little bit about that red that is destroying Seattle. Let me just tell you what's happening in Seattle. And anybody who happens to be listening and you're in Seattle, Washington, say, get to hell out now. Get out. Soylent green is people. Don't eat it. Get out. It's bad. And I'll explain in 60 seconds. First, most people set up their financial life at a specific moment in time. They make the best decisions they can with the information that they have. Without really thinking about it, you kind of left everything to continue on autopilot for years. I was just talking to my mother-in-law, she's 83. She's still living under the will that she did with her husband, who has now been dead for
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Starting point is 01:28:30 Please don't hold that against me. Because now Seattle is insane and it's full of insane people. But when I grew up, the skyline meant something. You know, it was different. The glass towers had just started to go up and the global companies and Boeing. I remember when they were going to name the, they were looking for a name for the Seahawks and they had a contest. Name the football team for Seattle. And I was driving in the car with my father and I said, Dad, and it must have been 10, okay? What 10-year-old boy sis is?
Starting point is 01:29:05 Dad, this is the home of Boeing. They should be called the Jets. And he just looked at me like, you are not my son. I don't know how you are actually a boy. But anyway, apparently that was already taken by some other team. But I remember growing up and it was a really cool place and it stood for something. It was headquarters of innovation in a city that was all about
Starting point is 01:29:29 America's future, you know, and it was rough and tumble at the loggers were there and they're the ones who started it and the pioneers. Now in Seattle, nearly one third of the office space is empty, 35% at the core. More than a quarter of all of the office space all across the city is vacant. entire buildings are dark at noon. Elevators that carried thousands of engineers and lawyers and designers and now move janitors and security guards through hollow floors where the lights never come on. This is New Orleans without the hurricane.
Starting point is 01:30:09 It's not war damage. This is policy that is doing this. And the response from the city leadership shows something that is far more than incompetence. It is intentional. destruction. They just passed a new tax in Seattle. If you make over a million dollars, which go ahead, try to live in Washington State, in Seattle in particular, for under what, 150,000. If you have a family, you're a poverty level. Okay. So a million dollars. You get an extra 10%. No, sorry, not 10%. That would be madness. 9.9%. Extra tax. Another 10%.
Starting point is 01:30:51 Okay, they don't have any understanding of how an economy works. Seattle's incoming mayor, Katie Wilson, proposed what she calls a solution now to just the hollowing out of Seattle. Here's what I would do. Fix the problems. Get the poop off the streets. Get the people pooping off the streets. Get the drugs off the streets. Clean the city up and you won't have this problem.
Starting point is 01:31:18 But that's not the solution. The solution is, well, the buildings are empty. So let's tax the empty buildings. A vacancy tax on commercial property. On commercial property that the owners can't fill. They can't fill because of all these other problems. And so the city, I mean, think of this. You're already losing money because nobody wants to rent your building.
Starting point is 01:31:47 And the city is going to find. you for it. Like you want the empty building. You're getting fined because I want the empty building. I don't want the empty building. I'm trying to pay for the building. I'd love to have people come in. But I, you know, I've got a huge mortgage on this thing. I have conditions from the bank. I can't just give it away. You're going to get taxed. Okay. So you got property taxes, insurance, all of the, all of this stuff. Vacancy is the last thing any owner wants. Empty space means bleeding money. out every single month. But the political theory running in Seattle assumes something else entirely.
Starting point is 01:32:25 It assumes the owners are choosing vacancy. Why? Why? Just think of this for 10 seconds like you're a thinking human being. Who would do that? What would be the motivation? Yeah, yeah. They're just refusing tenants out of greed, waiting for some, I don't know,
Starting point is 01:32:45 some imaginary payday to show up. So the government steps in of Seattle. and Seattle steps in with a punishment, pay the tax or lower the rent or be fined. That's the economic incentive. Lower the rent or pay the fine. I mean, it would be really almost funny if it wasn't happening in one of the greatest cities in the West Coast. The real building, the real problem in Seattle, it's not a mystery. I don't need the Scooby-Doo van to pull up. Why did all the businesses leave? I don't know, Shaggy. Why? They left for reasons that everyone in the country understands.
Starting point is 01:33:26 Seattle is not known for technology. It's known now for open-air drug markets, sidewalk encampments, retail theft treated as a nuisance instead of a crime. A regulatory climate where we're starting running or expanding a business requires navigating a maze of taxes and mandates. You feel like a criminal if you're going to run a business. You know the city is against you and the state is against you. Even now Seattle businesses, they face one of the country's most aggressive business and occupation taxes. Then you have layered regulations, the permitting system that can stall development for years on end. Well, companies notice.
Starting point is 01:34:11 They're like, I don't think so. So they start, first thing they did, let's go to Bellevue, cross the lake, short drive away, lower taxes, safer streets, predictable rules. Okay, so everybody migrated over to Bellevue. The employees all followed. The buildings emptied out. And now they're doing it in Bellevue. Now the state is doing what Bellevue may not have even wanted to do. What Seattle may not even want to do. The state's just getting involved.
Starting point is 01:34:42 Now we're in places where some of the richest people and most innovative people in the country live, the shores of Lake Washington and all the surrounding areas. houses that would have been sold before they even hit the market, just a rumor that this house was up for sale, they've been sitting quietly on what are called pocket listings, some of them for over a year. Nobody's buying. Why would you?
Starting point is 01:35:06 You know what? We should tax the sellers because nobody's buying their house. So maybe they just didn't lower it enough. We should tax them. Good heavens, what is wrong with you people? Instead of asking why companies are leaving, city leaders ask a different question entirely. How do we punish the people creating jobs?
Starting point is 01:35:27 How can we make their life even harder? This whole policy is built on the assumption that markets are not signals their enemies. And that's where ideology enters the picture. The political leaders, now running major West Coast cities and states, all trained in economic frameworks that view markets as fundamentally unjust and systems that need either constant correction or just need to be destroyed, and profit
Starting point is 01:35:58 becomes exploitation. Property ownership is nothing but privilege. And by the way, if you say one more time that you are on stolen land from these damn Indians, I'm going to lose my mind. Then give it back to them. Then give it back to them. You were on stolen land. It doesn't help me. If you stole it for me, it doesn't help that you're rubbing it in my face every single day you stole it from me. Shut up. How could you be the mayor of a city that's on stolen land? You have no intention of giving it back. So shut up.
Starting point is 01:36:33 Government intervention is, you know, Reagan said it. Government is not the solution. It is the problem. And in Seattle, they think it's the solution. You know, the problem is economies don't respond well to ideology. They respond to incentives. And the incentive in Seattle and Washington State, they are sending a very clear message. If you build here, we will tax you more.
Starting point is 01:37:01 If you want to create jobs, we're going to make your life a living hell. If your tenants leave because you bought that building years ago, because you thought it would be filled with people, because you thought the city was going to be sane, now when you're trying to sell it or rent it and no one will come in because we're not doing our job, we'll find you. If your property struggles, we're going to punish you for it. What do you think people are going to do in Seattle? Bye-bye. The investors sell. If I had a building downtown in Seattle, I would have sold it long ago.
Starting point is 01:37:37 But if I could sell it, I'd be selling it right now. Sell it. And who's going to buy it? Employers relocate. This isn't speculation. All of this is happening. All across the country, California is doing the same. kind of stuff. And the pattern is unmistakable. States that reduced regulatory barriers,
Starting point is 01:37:59 lowered tax burdens after the pandemic. What happened to those states? What happened to Texas? What happened to Florida? What happened to Tennessee? Everyone's moving there. And quite honestly, makes me a little nervous because do you even know why you moved? Are you just going to bring your same damn politics with you? All the corporate relocations. The construction cranes fill the skylines in Texas, in Tennessee, in Florida. Meanwhile, what's happening to your state? What's happening to your city? Well, we don't have as much traffic.
Starting point is 01:38:35 Enjoy that while it lasts. You can't get a rental car to go back into Seattle or a U-Haul. Go back in. You can get them go out? Good luck finding one because nobody's bringing them back. nobody's moving back in. Nobody's renting property downtown. You have declining commercial property.
Starting point is 01:38:59 What happens to the person that owes all that money and now can't sell that building? And the tax base just eroding underneath them. Seattle is now flirting with the same downward spiral. Commercial real estate. I mean, the values in some West Coast cities have fallen 30 to 50%. Banks holding those. loans are restructuring billions in debt. Local governments depend on property tax revenue. They're watching their future budget shrink, so they're going to tax you the little guy.
Starting point is 01:39:33 The political answer is always tax more, always. Major employer in Washington State called the governor to explain how difficult it is. And he's like, you know, dude, I, you know, I'm a friendly, but it's so hostile here. Costs are so unpredictable. Everything. you guys are doing, you're running us out, I have to leave because I have to take my country out because I can't do this anymore. Hey, you know he's told? Good, get out and make a room for others. Who says stuff like that? Company studies Seattle's vacancy rates, the tax policies, the crime, the out of control crazy in the city. Who says, you know what, I think we're going to move our company to Seattle. Capital does not behave that way. Entrepreneurs do not behave that way. Investors
Starting point is 01:40:27 don't behave that way. And when policymakers who are just dumb as a box of rocks assume they do, entire economies fall. It's not a mystery, Seattle. It's the result of you being communists. You treat wealth creation is something that has to be managed, controlled, or punished. And that's why you're being hollowed out. First, the companies leave, then the jobs, then the tax base, and finally the property values. People watching from outside assume this all happens slowly. That's not how it happens. Irma decline moves gradually and then all of a sudden, it's going to happen that way. You watch Seattle. It's going to, one day you're going to wake up and be like, when the hell does this happen? It's happening now. It's the tipping point. Enough businesses, families,
Starting point is 01:41:17 an investor decide, I can't live this way anymore. And once that momentum begins, you're not going to be able to reverse it. Because capital has memory. Capital has options. Rich people have options. The tragedy is Seattle didn't have to be like this. Seattle is a great play. Washington State is a great place. A little depressing, you'll probably kill yourself because of the rain. But other than that, if you can get past the killing yourself because of the rain, you'd love it there. Innovation, opportunity, growth. That's what you should be looking into. You cannot tax your way into growth. You can't regulate your way into prosperity. You can't punish people for doing well and creating jobs. Attract builders. How do you do that? You get public safety in line. You create conditions where people want to
Starting point is 01:42:10 stay. But Olympia and everybody else in Washington State don't see it. way. I'm telling you now, if you have any hope of ever making money, you have money, you have a family, get the hell out. They will trap you. They will trap you and your money. You mark my words. If these people get control of Washington, D.C., what they do in your states, they're going to railroad the hell out of you. Get out. Get out. All right, Legacy Box is our sponsor. spring is when a lot of people finally get around to projects that they've been putting off. You start opening closets, cleaning out drawers and digging into boxes that haven't been touched in years. And every now and then, you come across one that you stop and look at for a minute.
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Starting point is 01:43:52 Ricky just said to me, I've got a normal person question. Yes, that's me. Just a normal girl sitting next to a really smart guy. Here's my first question. If I don't live in Seattle or the state of Washington, why do I care if they burn their state to the ground? You would think that, but do you know what's going to? Who's going to be held responsible for that? When those states go down, who do you think they're going to say, we can't afford our health care? We can't afford to keep our lights on. We can't afford anything. They're going to push it up to the federal government. This is Cloward and Piven. They will push it up to us.
Starting point is 01:44:27 And I have to tell you, this is the closest thing that I would say for me, that would make me go civil war. I am not going to pay for California, Oregon, Minnesota, Illinois, New York. You people all knew. You have plenty of warning. You see the writing on what is coming your way. I didn't live there. I've wanted to live in New York City. I did.
Starting point is 01:44:57 I had to get out. It was crazy. Wanted to live my whole life in California. Can't. It's crazy. I grew up in Seattle. Can't live there. It's crazy.
Starting point is 01:45:07 Okay. Why didn't I live there? Because you're crazy. And we all know it's going to collapse. To hell with you, if you think I'm going to bail your ass out. You want us to bail out? Good. Get rid of all your progressive people.
Starting point is 01:45:21 We'll bring our people in. We'll bring business people in. and will run the state the right way. Then I might consider bailing you out. But I am not bailing you out while you're sitting there going, you know what? And Carl Marx was great. Go to hell.
Starting point is 01:45:34 Okay. Got it. Second question. And maybe this is because I don't understand liberal logic. Why would you tax your base so much that they leave the state and then you're left with no tax dollars? Who pays your salary? What's the end game?
Starting point is 01:45:50 A bunch of UBI drones? They don't. They don't care. They don't. I really don't think they think that through. And those who do, they just think that there's a Marxist utopia on the other side, or they're part of the Cloward and Piven thing. We'll just, we'll push it in and we'll collapse this capitalist system.
Starting point is 01:46:10 Remember, that is an actual goal in the Green Red Alliance, collapse the capitalist system. That's what they're doing. They're collapsing the capitalist system in Washington State. And it ends the same way every single time. Every single time. All right, more in a minute. All right, there's a difference between people who plan for disruptions and people who get introduced to disruptions.
Starting point is 01:46:54 Most of the time, our life runs smoothly enough. You don't have to think about what would happen if it was interrupted. But, man, since COVID, I think about that all the time. I think about how dependent we are on everything working just right. You know, probably everything's going to be fine. but I mean, look what's happening. It's going to be interesting to see how this works out, isn't it? You know, you're driving around, you're hoping that, you know,
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Starting point is 01:48:07 Go to stoptheconquest.com to learn more. We're just talking on the insider podcast. That is what happens during commercials. And usually we're filling in with stuff that we just didn't have time for. And I didn't get a chance to talk about how if you have a grocery store now in Washington State, you're not allowed. I mean, you leave, but they're claiming now that that can be the state's property because it's essential. So you can't sell the grocery store and leave. You're providing an essential service.
Starting point is 01:48:55 So the state will just take it. The other thing is there is a bill in Olympia, Washington. Get this one. Okay, they can't hire any police officers in Washington State. Why? Oh, I don't know. Police just don't want to work here for some reason. I wonder why.
Starting point is 01:49:11 So they can't hire any police officers. So what are they doing? They are actually making it full police powers, carrying a weapon, enforcing the laws of Washington State, making arrests, all of that. if you are a non-citizen. According to Senate Bill 5068, legislation allow non-U.S. citizens
Starting point is 01:49:33 to become law enforcement officers and prosecutors. People who are here illegally enforcing the law and being the prosecutors. Oh my God. What? Get out. Get out. Get out. Okay. Let me go to Rachel Bovard. She is C.P. vice president of programs.
Starting point is 01:49:57 And she has made the best case online. She can make all of this bull crap Senate speak understandable. Because, you know, we've got the SAVE Act coming. And we've got John Cornyn on our side now. It's fixed. John Thune, he's still a little skeptical, but Cornyn's on our side. So Rachel is here to tell us exactly what is happening with the SAVE America Act, how this is working and what we're going.
Starting point is 01:50:24 should expect, Rachel. Hi, Rachel. Hi there. Great to be back. Thanks for having me. Thank you. So what is actually happening with this? So after months at this point of the Senate Republicans resisting doing anything on the Save America Act because, you know, they don't have the votes. They can't do it. John Doon, to his credit, has actually moved to proceed to the House passed bill. He did that yesterday. So what that means is the Senate is what we call on the bill. It is the pending. business before the Senate, and they are now debating it. So once they got on the bill yesterday, and that took the votes of Mitch McConnell voting yes, even though he opposes the bill,
Starting point is 01:51:06 Lisa Murkowski voting no, and Tom Tillis taking a walk and not even showing up to the vote. But they got the 51 votes necessary to be on the bill. And at that point, John Thune came down to the floor and filled the amendment tree, which is just a fancy way of saying, he blocked Democrats from being able to offer any amendments and he put before the Senate the changes that President Trump has asked to see in the bill. So mail invaliding, limitations on or bans of trans surgeries for minors, protecting girl sports, things like that. So the Senate is now in a period of deliberation. And I will say because the way the Senate has operated for the last 20 years is a historical aberration from the way the Senate operated for 200 years. What normally happens
Starting point is 01:51:50 is you bring the bill to the, you know, in the last 20 years, is they brought a bill to the floor, and the leader immediately files cloture, which is how the Senate ends debate. He does this before the Senate has any debate, right? And then the bill dies at 60 votes. We all shrug our shoulders and go home. This is the way I remember the Senate working. The Senate was the great deliberative body. And they would stand there sometimes for days and debate stuff.
Starting point is 01:52:16 I haven't seen this since maybe George W. Bush. Right. People still have living memories of the Senate actually functioning. It's amazing. But, you know, the fact that John Thune went down to the floor and didn't file cloture, he did fill the amendment tree,
Starting point is 01:52:36 which limits what can happen, but he didn't file cloture immediately. Just that simple fact means that right now the Senate floor is the most open that it's been in maybe a decade. It's remarkable. So what does Senate Republicans do now is up for debate, right? Like they actually do are debating the bill,
Starting point is 01:52:56 but like we want to see them actually put some effort into this deliberative process, which many of the senators themselves on the Republican side have never seen, right? The newer senators have never witnessed the Senate like this. So we'd like to see them lean into the process. But I think, you know, I'm not willing to give John Thune a million bucks of credit, but he does get some from me and my book by just actually doing this, starting the process. So do we stop calling them or writing or, I mean, what? Is this just a show?
Starting point is 01:53:25 Well, that's the question. And I think, you know, we are only in this position because the conservative movement demanded it. And they demanded it without ceasing. And John Zun, again, you know, I think felt like he had to do something. And so that's the question now. Is this all going to be performative or are we going to actually see the Senate trying to liberate? because what the liberation is, is the Senate doing what it's for, trying to build consensus, trying to physically punish obstruction, right, by forcing Democrats to the Florida talk,
Starting point is 01:53:56 forcing them into this negotiation, letting them know as a matter of procedure and a matter of time that Republicans are not going to let up here. Even if they have to pivot to fund DHS or they have to pivot to confirm Mark Wayne Mullen or pass FISA, they can still come back to this bill. And I think that's what we now want to see John Thune telegraph, that this is just not a one-and-done exercise, that yeah, the Senate will be on this bill for the next week. But if he puts up a cloture vote at the end of it and it doesn't get 60, that's just the beginning of the process. Because remember, a cloture vote, which is how the Senate tries to end debate, doesn't kill the bill. It simply says we don't have enough senators to end debate yet.
Starting point is 01:54:35 Let's come back to this. You know, John Soon should telegraph to all of us. This year, we are going to do our darned us to pass this bill. And it takes weeks, it takes months, we're here to do it. Rachel, can I just be a little black rain cloud? Of course. I've been around long enough to know. It's an election year.
Starting point is 01:54:54 They're going to just keep talking about this. We're doing our darndest. Boy, we're in here fighting like crazy. And then the election will happen. And then it's over. I mean, that's the way it always happens. I mean, I hope this is different. Well, one of the reasons I think myself and a lot of people have been proposing
Starting point is 01:55:12 initially the talking filibuster on this bill in particular is because setting aside the merits of the bill, which are very good, I just think it's good politics for the Republicans. I do too. I don't think they've given the voters anything to turn out for. And people don't remember what you've done, right? They remember what you're doing. That's the old political adage.
Starting point is 01:55:33 I think that matters right now. And so my hope was always, Republican senators would see the benefit in actually putting their backs into it and seeing the benefit of actually trying to pass this bill. And once you start that momentum, you hope they pick it up. So why don't they? We'll see. One, I think there's a level of detachment that exists between Republican voters on their base,
Starting point is 01:55:56 particularly in the Senate. But two, I think, honestly, the Chamber and the Republicans have just been so inured to, they've been habituated to this cycle of just they don't do anything, right? The Senate works two and a half days a week. They don't amend things anymore. They don't deliberate. So this is a muscle that hasn't been flexed in a very long time, which is why simply starting the process was important.
Starting point is 01:56:19 to prove that they can do things and you hope that in the process they remember. Donald Trump hasn't been this clear on something in a while. Last time he was, it was the other big beautiful bill. And he got that through. Is he leaning into this as hard as he needs to? And is J.D. Vance? Is there a possibility that J.D. Vance can just come in and hijack this thing and just go,
Starting point is 01:56:45 okay, look, I'm in charge now. said in very clear terms. I don't want to deal with any other legislation until you get this passed. You know, it was fascinating to me that he said that. And then John Doon goes to the press and says, oh, the only supporters of this, it's just really an online paid influencer ecosystem. Well, I'm sorry, the president of the United States just said this is your priority. I said, do you take him seriously or not?
Starting point is 01:57:12 So, you know, I think Trump may have to get a little aggressive with Senate Republicans and show him, he means it. You know, in terms of Vance's role, he does have a role as the president of the Senate, but there's not much he can do on the floor, right? He can sit in the chair. He can make parliamentary rulings as they come up. But at the end of the day, this still lies at the feet of John Fibb. He is the only person who can corral his conference as the leader to get them to do this. And I think this is his biggest test so far. Yeah, I have to tell you, when Donald Trump said that, you know, we're bombing Iran, I thought to myself, thank God I'm not the president, because I don't have the stones that it would take to start something that could end up really, really well or could
Starting point is 01:57:54 end up being, you know, World War III. I just, I just don't have that kind of confidence. I'm not that guy. And, you know, look at, look at the difference. We have that. And then we have, you know, probably the toughest, hardest thing any president has done is to make that call, knowing what he knows about endless wars and the and the way the politics are going to shake out if it goes wrong. He knows all that yet. He still makes that. And then you have John Thune and all he has to do is support the most popular, bipartisan popular bill I've seen in probably 30 years. And he's like, well, I don't know. It's going to be kind of tough. I mean, what a wuss. What an absolute wuss. Well, that's just, it kind of goes to the point of what is the Senate for.
Starting point is 01:58:44 Right? People to your, or just earlier point, have living memories of when the Senate was, you know, had titans, right? When the Senate moved history just by coming to the floor and exercising the muscles of the institution to deliberate, to persuade, to build consensus, to muscle things through by sheer physical effort, because that is what the chamber allows. And it's been so neutered that, you know, we are, again, even as voters, we, there, people think the sense that bills pass the Senate is 60 votes because every single silent filibuster is simply, oh, clotures, closeism, vote, we didn't get 60. We just shrug our shorles and go home. Yep. That's not the end. It's never been the end for 200 years. Yeah. So we're trying to get the Senate to restore itself. Well, Rachel, thank you for explaining it in a way that I think everybody can understand. I was reading your tweets and I'm like, okay, okay, I get it. I get it.
Starting point is 01:59:37 Because there's so much bull crap in, oh, my gosh, their language is so screwed up. But it's the way it is. So thank you, Rachel. I appreciate it. God bless you. Happy to help. Thanks, then. All right, let me tell you about leave filter. You can learn a lot about a house just watching it in the rain. You know, where does the water go? Does it disappear cleanly or does it spill over the edges and start looking for places it doesn't belong?
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Starting point is 02:00:55 If you were anywhere in Northeast Ohio yesterday, you might have heard a, what was described as a large explosion. And homes and windows and everything started to shake for several seconds and people like, what the hell just happened? They just verified NASA did that a giant
Starting point is 02:01:38 meteor came streaking across Cleveland, lowish altitude. And how big was this thing? It was like 17... 6 foot 17,000 pound meteor. 44,000 miles an hour.
Starting point is 02:01:55 44,000 miles an hour. Six foot, 17, 7,000. thousand pounds. It was 50 miles above Lake Erie when the flash was detected. The reason why I bring this up, it's Cleveland. You know what else is in Cleveland? I just think it's so appropriate. You know what else is in Cleveland? Who arrived in a meteor? Superman, right? Superman came on a meteor crashed in Kansas, and that's the story. But Superman was actually invented or first written about
Starting point is 02:02:30 by a guy named Jerry Siegel who was a kid in Cleveland and the Superman house Brad Meltzer and I he called me up really early on our relationship and he's like Glenn
Starting point is 02:02:45 they just found the Superman house they just found the original Superman drawings Jerry was a kid and his younger brother it was like 1932 and they're freaking out about Hitler and about what is happening to the Jews, etc., etc. and they're freaking out because the whole world is on fire. And so his older brother says, no, no, don't worry.
Starting point is 02:03:08 There's a Superman. He's a man of steel. He can do anything. And in their bedroom, he started drawing Superman drawings on the wall. So Brad calls me up years ago and he said, Glenn, they just found the Superman house went up, was going to be demolished. And he said, somebody went in, they ripped the wallpaper off of the bedroom where Jerry and his brother used to sleep. And there's all the original Superman. He's like, we've got to, we got to save this house.
Starting point is 02:03:41 And so we work together to buy the house and save the house. So now you can go to Cleveland and see the Superman house, which is really cool. So is your theory that, The asteroid crash. I think Superman arrived. He always arrives when there's really trouble. You know what I mean? There's like trouble that no human can solve. Superman is someplace probably drowning in the bottom of Lake Erie now.
Starting point is 02:04:05 He's like, crap, I came this whole way and I landed in the water. I can't swim. But when I saw that yesterday, I thought, wow, that is a cool coincidence. But I thought you didn't believe in coincidence. No, Superman is here. I'm telling you. Wouldn't it be nice? By the way, tomorrow, today, there's something you should know, 6 p.m. Tommy Robinson and I sat down for an interview yesterday. It was live for the insiders yesterday. And you'll be able to see it now. We're releasing it early. Usually podcasts come out for everybody on Saturday. But you're going to be able to see it. It's released tonight everywhere at 6 p.m. Tommy Robinson and I sat down, which reminds me, I want to go to Europe and be a part of his, or to England and be a part of his deal.
Starting point is 02:04:52 in May. That's so cool that your budget guy is sitting right next to you to have this conversation. But anyway, he was a fascinating guy, and it's a look at what's happening to Europe, England, but more importantly, what's happening here in the United States. I think he's one of the bravest guys I've ever met, and you don't want to miss this. And then tomorrow night, at 8 p.m. Eastern, the first torch special, a deep dive into the blueprints of our demise through the Islamic takeover of the Western world. It's shocking, horrifying, and will give you all of the details you need.
Starting point is 02:05:32 You don't want to miss it. Join us, glenbeck.com slash torch.

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