The Glenn Beck Program - The Left Insists Trump Is Rigging the Post Office | 8/17/20

Episode Date: August 17, 2020

Glenn’s back in the studio for the first time since March! Democrats and the media insist that Trump is trying to undermine the Postal Service to cheat the election. Nancy Pelosi even called the Hou...se back early to address it – which she wouldn’t do for COVID-19. New Zealand’s elections have been delayed by a month due to COVID-19. The media mocked the death of President Trump’s brother. Stu reports “live” from the Democratic National Convention as new polls show how unenthusiastic voters are for Joe Biden. Glenn will be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame! New York City may not come back after the lockdowns and riots. We could be $78 trillion in debt by 2028. Jason Buttrill gives an update on the Russia scandal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:57 To hear is the fusion. of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Well, hello, America. From Dallas, this is the Glenn Beck Program. We're glad you're here. We want to talk to you about this scandal with the post office. Oh my gosh, Stu, we're never going to have any mail.
Starting point is 00:01:47 There's no ballots that are going to be sent. There's no ballots that will even come in. Donald Trump That's all you have to say Yeah that's it It seems as though That is all you have to say They're calling Congress back in
Starting point is 00:02:01 They couldn't call Congress back in It was way too dangerous to call them in To vote on the trillions of dollars of spending But This time Yeah they all got to come back Because
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Starting point is 00:04:26 they got to go to school and they won't be here at the house all day. Oh, then you find out last night that your teachers have phoned in a sick day. There's a sick out in Arizona. There are all the teachers are like, no, we just think that this is too dangerous. dangerous to bring the kids in. And there's some real safety concerns. And so we're not going to bring the kids. This is nothing to do with the kids. This is really nothing to do with the kids.
Starting point is 00:05:03 Really doesn't. No, it's like with the voting. They're like, well, we have to have mail in voting so everyone can go. And then they gather together to protest it. Right. And with no social distancing. Right. None of this means, it's all lies.
Starting point is 00:05:16 Like none of this is actually real. The post office stuff, the, the teacher stuff. Like, I mean, again, you should be scared of a global pandemic, especially if you're older and you're, you know, if you, there's a reason for some of these teachers to be a little concerned. And some of those teachers should be able to stay home. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the teachers should be able to say, I, I'm in a high risk, you know, category. This is ridiculous. Yeah, it is really ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:05:41 The coordinated union nonsense is a union nonsense. Oh, just hate it. So, uh, they're acutely aware of how polarizing. this issue is and how challenging these ongoing developments are for the entire community. But unions are going to work closely to make sure that everything is good. Really? Man, it just, I can't take the politicization of everything. Everything.
Starting point is 00:06:12 Yeah, it really, it's worse than ever, right? Right at this second, too, isn't it? Well, no, that was just a second ago. I think it's worse right now. Because it is, it's things that, I mean, the post office, I mean, the post office has been, when it comes to politics, everyone kind of realizing, it doesn't really work all that well. But, you know, because they lose lots of money and it's not a great business. But, you know, generally speaking, you put your mail out there.
Starting point is 00:06:40 It gets to the place that it's supposed to go. You'd get the occasional libertarian sort of pushback on whether we should fund it at all. And then that's basically been it for how long. 100 years. Now it's all the sudden, so concerning that they have to come back and vote on it in a more urgent sense than multiple trillions of dollars. They let out go out the door a couple months ago. Let me tell you, here's let me play for you the audio of Chuck Schumer.
Starting point is 00:07:07 Trump is undermining our post office. He says he wants to slow down the mail to hurt the elections and make people doubt the results of the election. It's not what he said. It's not even close to what he said. Maybe he's going to lose. it doesn't matter. Our elections are sacred.
Starting point is 00:07:22 And to do this is disgraceful. The postal system is well loved by America. 91% of America approves of the postal system. Which gives me pause. But it's now being 100% undermined by the postmaster general,
Starting point is 00:07:41 a political hack appointee. Okay, stop. I can't do it. I can't do it. Here is Barack Obama on the postman. office. If you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. Right? No, they are. I mean, it's the post office that's always having problems. Ah. So we have President Obama saying that, but, you know, he fixed. Oh, no, he didn't fix it. No, he didn't fix it. So Donald Trump brings somebody in to fix the post office, somebody who's well qualified to fix the post office.
Starting point is 00:08:19 the moving of the sorting machines and the shutting down, that happens all the time in the post office. And most of it is not going to happen before the election. They're announcing it now and saying, we're doing these things, blah, blah, blah. After the election. And even if it is happening before the election, it's happening in a way where it always goes on.
Starting point is 00:08:43 This always goes on. They say that ballots are something like 2% of the mail. in that time period, which I think the mail, the U.S. Postal Service can handle that. There's all these rumors about, well, they've locked, they've locked postal, the boxes in the mailboxes for, for the postal service. It's like, well, that happened because people were stealing mail had happened months ago. Go to, the other big complaint they have is this ridiculous thing about they're removing mailboxes from around these cities. It's like, well, when you read what they're doing, they're moving, removing the, from where there are multiple next to each other.
Starting point is 00:09:21 So like there's five next to each other and they're taking one or two out. So there's only three or four left. I don't think that's going to overturn the election. I think it is. I think it is. I think it is. Yeah. Nancy Pelosi would not just.
Starting point is 00:09:33 I mean, she was so concerned. She could not call Congress back into session because of COVID. Well, as I understand, COVID is worse than it's ever been. No, it's not. No, it's worse than it's ever been. It's not. It's no.
Starting point is 00:09:48 we're the worst in the world, Stu. No, no, there's no one that will even take our passports now and let people in because we are the worst. Yeah, that's not true. It's the most dangerous. That's not true. Ever. No. Okay.
Starting point is 00:10:05 So she knows this and that's why she didn't bring the post, you know, the Congress back. But now at this very dangerous time, when all of them could die from COVID, this is the time they need it back. And come on, we just outlined why the Postal Service has a 91% approval rating. Because people didn't think of it as political. That's why it had a approval rating of 91%. If people just thought of it as like a thing down the street, they never thought of it as part of the federal government.
Starting point is 00:10:37 So when you test it against other federal government agencies, they think they all suck and they don't think about the Postal Service that way. Keep doing this and they will. Yep. You'll have instead of a 91% approval rating, you'll have a 50% approval rating. rating pretty quickly if you keep doing this. But again, if they can get one extra percent, one extra little grab at power, they will destroy anything they have to in their way. So I don't want to compare the Postal Service to other agencies in the federal government.
Starting point is 00:11:06 Right. Why don't they do a poll on the Postal Service versus UPS, Federal Express, you know, all the other alternatives? Because I'm doubting that the UPS, uh, UPS. USPS comes out number one. Well, plus it's subsidized so heavily. So yes, you can send packages cheaper at times with the postal surface. Yeah, you can. That's because you're already paying for it in other ways. I know.
Starting point is 00:11:35 It's crazy. Nobody thinks of it that way. No one adds that into their package cost. Right. But when it's losing billions and billions of dollars, it's not just going into thin air. You're paying for it. So we got that going for us. And on Wednesday, we're going to be doing.
Starting point is 00:11:48 doing a special on voter fraud and stealing of the election and this postmaster general garbage. You know, they're threatening him with jail if he doesn't show up to testify. Can you imagine? I mean, the president calls you and says, Stu,
Starting point is 00:12:11 we've got to have you as the executive producer in charge of America. you're going to make sure that everything is just looking good and running right. Is there an amount of money or an amount of national pride that would make you say, I got to do that. Sounds like a fun job right now. I mean, you wouldn't take anything, any job. Your life is destroyed. And what's crazy is these public servants that are called up, most of them are like 60,
Starting point is 00:12:47 65. They're being called up. They're at the end of the... They could be on a golf course, and they're like, you know what? No, I think the Postal Service I could actually... I could actually do a number on. I could actually help.
Starting point is 00:12:59 So they go in, for what? To get destroyed publicly for no reason. For no reason. Again, like the... By these career politicians who are almost all of them corrupt. And, you know, the guy who's ahead of the post office, he's a political appointee. First of all, that's been common throughout the years.
Starting point is 00:13:17 happens a lot. You're not picking your opponents to go run it. You're picking people who like you, which is typical in the government. But he said they're going to have no problem with us. Right. You know, he's not saying that they're going to lose ballots. That's exactly what he said. That's exactly what he would say. There you go. It's exactly what he would say. I mean, and then, let me tell you this, you tell me that Donald Trump doesn't want to fix the election. Have you heard now that national elections are being delayed by four, weeks because of coronavirus? Unbelievable.
Starting point is 00:13:51 I mean, in New Zealand. But that's Donald Trump. He's even trying to fix the elections in New Zealand because they wouldn't have done that. Sure, it's the most dangerous pandemic and we're all going to die and our hair is on fire right now and oh my gosh, I should be quarantined for the rest of my life. It's in New Zealand that they're doing this. Can you imagine if Donald Trump and his administration would say, you're going to, you? say CDC has told us that we should delay.
Starting point is 00:14:21 Well, he, I mean, he did, of course, suggest this on Twitter. And they were very upset about it. Now, they're praising New Zealand because New Zealand is acting as an authoritarian government over its people and saying, yes, we have, you know, it started with, I think, four cases, but I think it got to 13 before they actually shut things down. And they're delaying elections because of 13 cases. Now, Donald Trump, they keep acting. when he says stuff like that, they are very upset about it, as am I.
Starting point is 00:14:51 I don't want our elections delayed. But I don't either. But like I don't understand how you can praise New Zealand for their sensible, well-measured response to this. It's because you like her because she's doing the things that you want
Starting point is 00:15:04 and you don't like Trump. And none of this stuff like none of this stuff is honest. That's what the most frustrating part about it is. I know. None of this is honest. What Schumer just said. Oh, Donald Trump said he wants to slow to it. No, he didn't.
Starting point is 00:15:16 you wouldn't pass the spending bill. You wouldn't pass the stimulus. In there was money for the post office. So when you don't, you the Democrats don't get together to pass it, you then come out and say, he's not spending the money that it needs to be taken for the post? No, it's your fault.
Starting point is 00:15:38 It's your fault. And what did he say? He said, fine, rubbing their nose into it. Fine. Well, I guess if you don't have that money, for the post office because you wouldn't vote for it. You wouldn't pass the stimulus. Well, that's good for me.
Starting point is 00:15:54 And do you remember, too, when Republicans would have, there'd be a big spending bill that would help working families. Oh, yeah. And the Republicans would be like, well, we really don't want to. There's a trillion dollars in abortions. And some of them seem to be forced abortions. And what is an abortion party? I don't even know what that is.
Starting point is 00:16:11 Why are you a celebration? It's all in there. And the Republicans would say, well, we're not going to pass it with that in there. And they're like, you are holding up helping working families for your special interest groups and right-wing religious nonsense. Did you see this puppy dog? This puppy dog will be dead by the end of the week because of you. Right. And now we have a situation where millions of people for nobody's fault are coming off of a pandemic-related unemployment and are going to lose.
Starting point is 00:16:45 the money that was going to them, thousands and thousands of businesses that are barely holding things together are going to go without this money after the government told them they had to close down. This giant spending bill is everyone's talking about it's going to eventually be a reality, but it's all going to happen after these people go out of business. I know. And so they're not coming back to help them. They're coming back to help the freaking post office.
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Starting point is 00:18:58 that they're going to somehow affect the election. We know that they can swing the election by four to six points. Robert, what's his name, Dr. What's his name? Epstein. He says that they can swing it up to 10 points.
Starting point is 00:19:18 Nobody seems to care about that. And why? Because they don't care about actual fair election. They don't care about it. They're a party designed to make sure that we don't have them. They will do anything they can. And of course, let's also be clear. Whenever they lose, they all say they didn't,
Starting point is 00:19:39 it wasn't a valid election. Oh, they're going to say that. They're going to say it again. I mean, they say it every time they lose. Stacey Abrams, obviously, we just saw it in Georgia, has been running around the country telling everybody that she's basically the governor of Georgia, which she is not. But I mean, go back.
Starting point is 00:19:50 Al Gore, obviously, we all know that story. Hillary Clinton has been running around. country lately saying how all these things were taken from her and it was all because of Russia and all of these other BS reasons. Even John Kerry, people forget about this, but John Kerry said that he lost Ohio because well, there was people. It was very shady activity. People were putting pamphlets all around Ohio saying that Democrats vote on Wednesday,
Starting point is 00:20:15 which is obviously wrong to do. So we didn't print pamphlets. No, we didn't. We just had the big waffle head float say that. Right. It was a waffle head float that went down. middle of the road with giant speakers saying Democrats vote on Wednesday. Right.
Starting point is 00:20:28 And, you know, look, trust me. The Wafflehead. Right. Democrats vote on Wednesday. It was a, it was a waffle. Now, if you're, you're dumb enough to believe the Waffle float. Well. And it was performative art, Glenn. You can't censor artists.
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Starting point is 00:21:40 Did you hear us say anything bad or iffy or anything other than that is a great loss? Didn't agree with his politics, but that is a great loss. Everybody, everybody. We would never do that. Look at the news organizations. One of them, which I would like to have a monologue on, and I might, KSL owned outright by my church, and they were mocking it. It's time for KSL to be sold.
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Starting point is 00:23:59 Really? Holy cow, do we have a great show for you today? Everything you need to know about the electrifying convention that's going to be happening on Zoom. And it's going to be spine-chilling. It really is. And we're going to, we have somebody, Stu, do we have somebody on the, well, the virtual convention floor?
Starting point is 00:24:31 That's the rumor. I know they're trying to put that together. Okay, so we'll try to have that. I'll check in with whoever that might be on this program in just about 35 minutes. Right now we have Pat Gray, who is the host of Pat Gray Unleased and here in a surgical mask, which... My longstanding policy to, you know, just keep the virus at bay. It's your longstanding... Really?
Starting point is 00:24:55 I've been watching you for the last few weeks. And so you've noticed that I've masked up quite a bit. Never. Never. Have I seen you in a mask? No. Yeah. That's weird. It's just... That is weird. It's just a... It is weird.
Starting point is 00:25:08 It is just weird. Because you've been in... I haven't noticed necessarily you wearing it for the past few months when you've been coming in here every day. Really? Today you are, and I'm curious, is it because you have someone who definitely has COVID sitting next to you? Okay. That's it. Yeah, that's it. Okay, that's it. That's the difference. I don't have COVID. I don't have COVID. It's because of the certainty of the virus being in the room. That's the difference. That's not what I don't have COVID. There's a distinction here.
Starting point is 00:25:35 Everybody and his family had COVID, and he sleeps with one of them that has COVID. And so he has COVID. And he looks at. He looks the part. Thank you. Thank you. Well, if inflation of your skin is part of COVID, I've got it bad. I've got it really bad.
Starting point is 00:25:57 I was thinking about it last night. I haven't stepped on a scale, but I bet it's the COVID. 40 back. Yeah, God, I don't want to go near that scale. Yeah. It's not good. It's not good. It's not good.
Starting point is 00:26:08 It's not good. I was singing about that. Not for any of us. I was thinking about that last night. I was having some of your wife's cookies. I was thinking, wow, I got to stop. But I didn't, strangely. Didn't at all.
Starting point is 00:26:20 That's weird. So, Pat, what are the things that are on your mind today that you think? I'm a little bothered about you guys missing the big story. I mean, you're talking around it, but you won't. You won't discuss the real issue about this postal service thing. Okay. All right. Taylor Swift has sounded off in a powerful, powerful way.
Starting point is 00:26:40 Really? And has called the president a blatant cheat. And he is dismantling the U.S. Postal Service. Oh, my gosh. She's smart. She is smart. She's brilliant. Listen to this.
Starting point is 00:26:51 Trump's calculated dismantling of U.S.PS proves one thing clearly. He's well aware. We don't want him as our president. He's chosen to blatantly cheat and put new. millions of Americans' lives at risk in order to hold on to power, and he is dismantling the U.S. Postal Service. Well, if by dismantling you mean he has loaned them an additional $10 billion, then yes, you're exactly right.
Starting point is 00:27:16 That's the way you take somebody apart. You know what I mean? You get $10 billion, and that's it, not a penny more. They're a struggling business. Well, there's going to be more, but just not on that check. Right. You know, somebody's struggling in business. You're like, help me, help me, help me.
Starting point is 00:27:30 and you're like, I am going to put them out of business. More predatory lending. I'm going to give them. We're saying a billion dollars. That's it, right? Yeah. And it's not actually a loan, Stu. It's not alone.
Starting point is 00:27:42 It's just write the check. Yeah. Here's the money. Keep it forever. That's a pretty good loan. And, you know, you talked about the fact that they're removing some of the blue mailboxes where you put your mail. Oh, my gosh.
Starting point is 00:27:57 Because that's what they do. when nobody uses those boxes in those areas. They take them from that area and put them maybe at a shopping center where people are and can put them in a shopping center where poor people won't be and will be able to mail their ballots. Right. Because what are they going to do? They're going to put them in a shopping center. There's no other place.
Starting point is 00:28:18 There's no one that is going to use that mailbox. Some people might say you have a mailbox at your house. Here's what you do. You take your mail, your mail-in ballot. You walk it out to your post, your mailbox. You open the door, put the mail in, close the door, raise the flag. Some would say that's an opportunity then for the mailman, the letter carrier. But what if you don't have one of those?
Starting point is 00:28:45 You're living like you. You're welcome. You're living in an apartment complex. Right. And you don't have a mailbox. Well, there's a place where everybody has their mailbox. You go down there in that case and open your. and put it in there.
Starting point is 00:29:00 And when they see that there's mail in there, they take it out and they deliver it to the post office. Or if under really radical circumstances, you could drive to the post office yourself and put it right in the slot. Assuming you had a car. Well, yes. You know what I mean? You were old enough to drive.
Starting point is 00:29:17 Uber. A lift. Could you put it in one of the other post office boxes that were next to the one that they removed? Yes, you could. Okay. Yes. What if you put?
Starting point is 00:29:28 What about? those people who are currently living in a coffin and they don't have oh the dead yes they don't that's that's the discriminatory way of right describing them i'm telling you they are living in a very small living space right now yeah uh and there's no post there's no post box uh they're in their little living quarters or not living quarters but they're quarters yes you know well there was just a case of that uh What state was it where they removed 846 of those mailed ballots to those people? To the actual dead. And Donald Trump said, no, they don't get to vote. Why? Just because they don't breathe anymore? Where are they rights?
Starting point is 00:30:14 Just because their heart's not beating? Does the Constitution say you lose your rights when you stop breathing? Right. And your heart stops beating? I don't see it. I've read it a million times. I've never seen that. Not in there.
Starting point is 00:30:24 It's not in there. It's not in there. Just taking away rights from people who are non-breathing people. Dead or people too, you know. Yeah, or they are. They at least were. Yeah, they were people. Oh, they stopped being people just because they're dead.
Starting point is 00:30:41 Yes, now there's spirits for a while. And then those spirits can vote, right? I mean, I don't see anything in the Constitution that says they can't. There isn't one. There isn't anything in there. What if you're dog? What if you're dog and you don't have a mailbox? That's a really good question, Glenn.
Starting point is 00:30:57 say thank you very much. One of you're a cat. And all you have is a litter box. As a post office, Donald Trump's stopping people from checking the litter boxes. There was a cat post. There was a cat a couple of months ago that we heard about it. I know. Who received at 12 years after its death a check.
Starting point is 00:31:14 Why is that important? A check for $1,200. Wow. Look at how he's biased. They're living people. Well, maybe if he had that money earlier, would have been able to stay alive, right? Yeah, right. You hire a visiting vet or something.
Starting point is 00:31:27 came 12 years too late. So what? I mean, who thinks that this is a good idea to change anything about our voting system this time around? Who's like, you know what? We should all do mail-in. We should all do it. What, you know what we should do? We should get Creskin and everybody wants to vote for Trump.
Starting point is 00:31:51 You just think about it. And Creskin will write it down. I mean, why would we change? anything. It's bad as it is. But it's still, it's still probably the best in the world. Why would we change anything? Especially when they're all saying that Trump is trying to throw this election through the mail and by destroying the post office.
Starting point is 00:32:14 All right. Well, it's not a pretty good reason to show up with an ID at a voting booth. Let's do that. Let's show up and let's just vote. You can understand obviously the theory behind it, right? like to be prepared if you've got a pandemic going on maybe you want to have the ability for people it's going to be November right right I mean first of all it's going to be later but again it's tough to predict obviously we've seen people miss these predictions like crazy yeah but the bottom line is we have I voted absentee almost every election why we doing election coverage all day and all night that night so I can't just go to the polls on election day so almost every single time I voted I voted absentee it's super easy they will take literally any excuse. And that's only in, there's only seven states in the union where you even have to come up with an excuse. That's, uh, that's, that could be different than COVID. If you tell them you have to work that day, what they're going to do is send you the ballot request.
Starting point is 00:33:09 It's the most minimal amount of effort. It's easy. And it's been working in this country for a very long time. Why would we need to expand the system in like outwardly mail people ballot applications, uh, in advance? If they want them, they can ask for them. And that's worked in this country for a very long time. It's just, it, this is, again, just nonsense. It's just nonsense to get bases fired up and people are going crazy over it. The left thinks Donald Trump is overthrowing the election because of the mail. No, they don't think that.
Starting point is 00:33:39 They don't think that. Well, I think that I think that regular people, a lot of them do. Oh, I think that's a possibility. The leadership doesn't at all. No, the leadership doesn't and the left doesn't. They know exactly what's going on. And they're going to burn the cities down to the ground. the if Donald Trump wins.
Starting point is 00:33:55 They are. They're setting that whole thing up. Oh, yeah, they are. Absolutely. Like Taylor Swift really believes that's true. And again, she's a moron. But, I mean, she actually believes that's true. She's sitting there terrified that the president of the United States is trying to mail her election away.
Starting point is 00:34:11 You know, it's amazing to me is how we were called fearmongers. We still are. You're fearmongers. If you're a conservative, you're fearmonger. We're the most optimistic, happy people out there. right now. I mean, you listen to... All they do is fearmonger. All they do is fearmonger. On COVID, on the election. And everybody, and everybody, is on the left is believing it. Yeah. Everybody who votes for a Democrat, they all believe
Starting point is 00:34:36 all of that stuff. I mean, it's remarkable. They're incapable of making a rational decision until Donald Trump is not president. When Donald Trump is no longer president, they may be able to come up with a rational thought. And I mean, in any part of their lives, it's all irrational right now. Let me ask you this. What do you think about, I was thinking about this last night. I was reading about New York City and how much trouble New York City is in. And we're going to get into this here. Financially or? Oh, no, no, no. People are just leaving it. The time life building has 5,000 employees and I think currently 800 are going to work there. Wow. That's going to be a problem though now. Oh, it's going to be. Nobody's coming back. Nobody's coming back. I'm hearing that
Starting point is 00:35:22 from everybody. Yeah. So where did they go? It's 8,000 normally and it's 500 working. Oh, wow. So it's worse. Worse than you. It's worse than I just said.
Starting point is 00:35:30 Wow. That's insane. That's absolutely insane. So where are they going? A lot of those New Yorkers are moving to Florida, a swing state. Mm-hmm. You are impacting the election in Texas because of all the Californians that are moving here. You're affecting it in Florida because of all the New Yorkers moving there. And nobody's
Starting point is 00:35:59 talking about that. There is, there are states that have always voted one way or it's been close. And they are being turned upside down by this massive exodus of these cities. Do we know that they're actually leaving the city or are they just staying home right now? No, a lot of them are leaving the city. It seems like both. I mean, like they are leaving, they left because of COVID. Yeah. Or some of them left because of the violence of the riots when people were breaking into their buildings.
Starting point is 00:36:29 It's like there's a video going around on social right now, which shows going down, I think it was at Fifth Avenue, Glenn. Yeah, fifth Avenue. Every single business has his windows board. Play it real quick. We have it. Just play it real quick. If we happen to be watching the plays. Look at everything.
Starting point is 00:36:45 Everything's board. Even the hotel is boarded up. The thing here, though, to remember is, is you. You need to board up windows to stop COVID. Have you ever seen Man, you board up windows to stop people from breaking them. It's the riots that is getting a lot of people to have to leave this city. It's just the last straw. And now, with all the hassles of living in the city, there's just, you've lost all of the positives of being there.
Starting point is 00:37:10 None of the places are open. So why the hell would you be there? It's expensive and it's awful. Broadway is, you have to deal with Bill de Blasio. Broadway is supposed to be closed until next spring at the earliest is when they will. open next spring. So there's no tourism. There are no stores. Nobody's, no restaurants. All these companies, all these companies are like, you know, I don't even know if we need to have our business in New York anymore. New York may never recover. And I don't know how commercial real estate does. It's already 30 to 40% down.
Starting point is 00:37:41 You can get an apartment 30 to 40% lower than you ever could before. That's in New York. But I think all around the country, people have these big offices and they don't need them anymore. Yep. You don't need them. All right. Thanks, Pat. Pat Gray Unleased. Hang out for the next hour when we're going to go to the convention floor.
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Starting point is 00:39:27 to agree to normalize relations. We do have Iran issuing a threat on Saturday to launch a missile attack on the UAE because they had made a huge mistake and a betrayal. The great betrayal of the Palestinian people will turn this small, rich country, which is heavily dependent on security, into a legitimate and easy target. He said we could hit the UAE in eight minutes. So we got that going for us. Morocco, uh, yeah,
Starting point is 00:40:05 Morocco says that they're probably going to be the next state to normalize ties with Israel. And there are five other Arab countries now, Bahrain, Oman, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. No word on Tunisia yet, but,
Starting point is 00:40:23 uh, Saudi Arabia is the big one. If that happens, it changes the whole region. Yeah. I mean, any of them are big and a big step. I mean, it's been 25 years or 26 years since anybody had done that. But Donald Trump is going to cause a giant war in the Middle East. We all know that. Yeah. We're all on the same page there. Well, I mean, look, you have all of them coming to play. The one who's going to destabilize it is not Donald Trump. The one who's going to destabilize it will be the head of the snake, Iran.
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Starting point is 00:44:03 We're going right on to the convention floor for the Democrats. and the Democratic Convention, everybody is so excited about this. People are talking about it from sea to shining sea in the purple mountains. They have majestically bowed down because this week, who knows who Joe Biden is going to pick as the vice. He's already, everybody. He's already picked. Well, but he could still, I mean, we're still in Florida. We have some exciting things, some things like we don't know if he's going to be the candidate.
Starting point is 00:44:44 He's the candidate. He's the nominee. Yeah. Well, it's going to be exciting, and we have all the coverage beginning in 60 seconds. This is the Glenn Beck program. Well, you've worked hard for the things that you own, and while they don't define who you are, they are an indicator of the way you've managed your time and lived your life. So what happened when some jerk comes along and says, hey, I'm going to break into your house.
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Starting point is 00:46:36 Stu, for gear. Yes. Hi, Stu. How are you? Glenn, how are you? Very good, very good. You were just here in the studio. I didn't know if it was going to be you on the convention floor.
Starting point is 00:46:47 You know, ironic that you were at a studio for all this time. And now you're back and here I am. Right. At the convention. Oh, I couldn't resist. Yeah. I could not miss this. Okay.
Starting point is 00:46:59 You sound very excited. The energy here is just incredible, Glenn. Okay. Where is this convention? It's in the United States of America. It's kind of a U.S.N.A. They could have had it overseas, but they just love this country. All right.
Starting point is 00:47:22 Okay. So it's actually in cyberspace, which I understand. Well, sure. There's some people who are attending via Zoom. However, I want you to just take in the energy of the on-site conference that I'm enjoying right now. Just listen to this passion for Joe Biden. It's electric.
Starting point is 00:47:49 It is. It's a... It's really amazing. We can all get together and reminisce about times in our lives where we've seen the most exciting things we've ever seen before. And I think the Super Bowl.
Starting point is 00:48:05 The Olympic Games. They're right, right. The Lilith Fair. The fire festival Right The southeastern actuarial convention of 1929 I would put this event right in that area Really?
Starting point is 00:48:22 Right in the actual conversations And the actuarial conversation And the Super Bowl and the fire festival Wow Right in there is mixed right in Yeah And I think that's important You never know what's going to happen here
Starting point is 00:48:37 Right All sorts of crazy stuff's happened so far the vice presidential nominee, we expect to know officially what's already been announced. Right. And that's going to be exciting. That's going to be very exciting. Right now we... To see her with Joe Biden, which we've already seen last week, but we're going to see it again.
Starting point is 00:48:58 Yeah. And we're going to see them on Zoom again. Right. Which everyone in America loves Zoom. You know? It's not an annoying way to live your life. Right. Talking to everybody through a screen.
Starting point is 00:49:10 and it glitches, and they disconnects, and they're on mute. And then they're talking for five minutes, and they don't know they're on mute. Well, but this is not, from what I understand, this is not a live, live event. I mean, there would be a few things that are live, but it's mainly all pre-produced. In an exciting way, though. You know what else is pre-produced? Independence Day, the movie about the aliens pre-produced. That wasn't live.
Starting point is 00:49:34 People don't know that. It could be that exciting. No, we know that was a movie. Oh. It's going to be so fun. I think the most excited person here on the convention floor, and again, I want you to listen to this crowd. Hello, are you there?
Starting point is 00:49:51 You guys getting that? Yeah, no, we hear it. We've got it. Hello? It's pretty amazing. I don't know if you can get that. I don't know if it's picking it up. But I think probably the most excited person I've talked to is Bob.
Starting point is 00:50:06 Bob. Now, Bob is the IT guy. He's the guy that's setting up the Zoom calls. and he's the guy I talked to about the Wi-Fi password. So now I'm on Wi-Fi. I'm very excited to give it to me. Wow. Oddly enough, the password's Trump 2020,
Starting point is 00:50:24 which is that strange. Right. Right. So there's a new Pew poll out that shows that prior to Joe Biden selecting Kamala Harris, he had 56% of the voters who backed, the vice president over Trump. But now that he has decided that he's going to, uh,
Starting point is 00:50:51 uh, uh, you know, have her as the running mate. They don't have any numbers. But what they do have is that 19% of those 56% say, they're only supporting Biden, uh,
Starting point is 00:51:06 because he's not, he's not, he's not, he's not Trump. Well, I think that's the cause of all this excitement. that we're feeling here. The energy is palpable.
Starting point is 00:51:17 Yeah, 9% say that they're voting for him because of his positions and his policies. 9%. That's incredible, but much more than 0%. It's much more than 0. 9 more than 0. Right. Right. That's a lot.
Starting point is 00:51:36 It's a lot. It's more than 7 and 8, too. Right. You're going to get all those numbers below 9. It's going to be more than all of them. That's incredible. And that's the kind of stuff that you're going to be covering tonight. Yes, I'm very excited about it.
Starting point is 00:51:48 And me and Bob are going to be hanging out. He's the only other person here. Right. But he's wonderful. Right. And he's trying to get me to vote for Donald Trump. Right. Which is strange.
Starting point is 00:51:58 He seems to be a campaign operative. Would not be surprised if the Zoom call crashes tonight. Right. Would not be surprised. All right. Well, how is it? Do you have any word on the health and the well-being of Joe Biden? Is he up and raring to go?
Starting point is 00:52:13 really excited about this night, I'm sure. From what I understand, they do have a backup generator in case the electricity goes out, because as you know, he's powered by electricity at this point. So in case the power goes out, they could just plug them right in. Right. Turn them on like the Matrix. Everything will be fine. Okay, great.
Starting point is 00:52:31 Thank you very much, Stu. Thank you. It's good to have you on location today at the convention. Pat joins us today. You know, the one thing that speaks volumes is the fact that most of the people voting for Joe Biden are not voting for him. Yeah. It's not enough to vote against. 9% are excited about his policies.
Starting point is 00:53:01 Not good. Did you also see the CNN poll? Have you guys talked about the CNN poll yet? No. They took it last in early June. and he was Biden 14 points over up on Trump.
Starting point is 00:53:14 They took it again this last week. It's down to four, which is within the margin of error, plus or minus 4%. So he's in a virtual tie right now. Well, according to CNN. Google and Facebook haven't really helped out
Starting point is 00:53:30 all that much yet. No, that's true. They can swing that vote, you know, by just simply reminding people who they know are Democrat, to vote on election day and not remind anybody who is a Republican. So we got, we, we have that.
Starting point is 00:53:47 Oh, Stu is back. That was a quick flight. Yeah. Travel was really impressive these days. Yeah. But what an event. What a time. What a time.
Starting point is 00:53:56 Sounded electric. Is anyone, seriously, is anyone that you know going to watch this? No one I know. I mean, I'm certainly not. For work purposes, I'll probably have to turn into this. For work, you're going to watch the highlights. I'm going to watch the highlights. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:12 For work, I will probably type in Zoom and convention. Whether I click on the hyperlink to actually open it up, I don't know. But that's just kind of the exciting part of this whole thing, you know. Will anyone watch it or not? I can't imagine anyone watching it. Seriously. It's just dead. I mean, it was a dumb event anyway.
Starting point is 00:54:38 The conventions have never. been anything I've been excited about. No, the only reason why most Americans watch it was because you were trapped. It was the only thing on all of the networks. Are they still putting it on the networks tonight? I don't think so. Really? I thought they still were.
Starting point is 00:54:51 Because that's how I was going to watch it. If it's not on there, then I'm definitely not watching it. I listened to, somebody looked that up. I was listening to NPR today and they said that, you know, it's on Zoom. Well, but that's how they're communicating, right? Like, you don't have to go to Zoom to watch it, do you? That can't possibly be how they're. is happening. I assume it's going to be on CNN and Fox and they're going to be airing the
Starting point is 00:55:13 speeches, right? It's got to be. It's got to be. It's got to be. If it's only on Zoom, think about this though, Glenn. Think about we've been doing the show together since the 2000 election. You've been doing with Pat going back even further than that. We've been through a lot of elections. Never have I seen less passion for a candidate than Joe Biden. Right. I mean, they hate Trump. There's no doubt there's passion there. Yes. But like no one cares. him, not for Biden at all. Just a placeholder. He is just a placeholder.
Starting point is 00:55:41 There's no interest in what he's doing. 50% of the people who say they're going to vote for Joe Biden expect him to be dead by the end of four years. Okay? Wait, what? 50% of people who say they're voting for Joe Biden don't expect him to make it the full term. So he's not even a placeholder. And they're probably right. If he were to be elected, I don't expect him to make it through his first term.
Starting point is 00:56:06 Yeah, well, at least not. He does not seem competent. He does not seem competent to be able to do the job. We were talking about that clip the other day from the Palin debate where he looked, again, and he's Joe Biden, he's never been great. But he looked competent. He looked like he was on top of what he was saying. You look at him today, and it's, it's, I mean, it's sad.
Starting point is 00:56:25 It is. By the way, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox will carry the convention from 10 to 11, Eastern. C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS will carry both hours. And it's only to 90. It's only two hours and they'll only carry one. Two hours is going to be. It's going to feel like a century though.
Starting point is 00:56:45 Think about a five-minute Zoom meeting that you have during a work week and how agonizing that is. Put that in for two hours. That's going to be, it's going to feel like a century. Agonizing. I do think that the Republicans have a real advantage out of pure luck here to see how bad this goes and what doesn't work. Because no one has any idea what's going to work here. they should be watching this very closely and see what is a disaster and think about maybe if it's really bad maybe it's not two hours a night maybe it's 15 minutes a night it is trim the thing down you have trump speak you have penn speak you know maybe one or two other key people and just this is the problem Trump is good at these kinds of things he is a good producer he knows how to produce exciting television sure of course he'll watch this and go well that was an abomination and he'll come up with something that's crazy In a good way.
Starting point is 00:57:37 This is his strength, right? Yeah. Unfortunately, his strength is also with crowds and not having a crowd to react to. It's going to suck for him, I think. He loves that. I don't know why he wouldn't do a crowd. Why he wouldn't do the last night of the convention. If they do it all virtual, the last night of the convention, you telling me you can't find
Starting point is 00:57:55 a place, you know, where people will show up to support him. It would show up. And he did it outside. I think he got burned a little bit by Tulsa because a lot of people got it after that and so he doesn't want to go through that again. How many people died? We know in Tulsa. We know for sure from the media that Herman Kane died directly because of Tulsa. Yeah, directly. Directly because he'd also been at about a hundred other cities. But Tulsa's the way he got it. Yeah. We know that. We know it. Yes. We know it. Trump killed him.
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Starting point is 01:00:08 I do want to point this out. Before we go back into political talk, the city of Philadelphia's art commission, of course it was the art commission, has announced that it is going to remove the 144-year-old statue of Christopher Columbus that stands at Marconi Plaza. Now, I got to be honest with you, Philadelphia. Why do you have a mob? I don't mean like the mob. Why is the mob? if the mob isn't patriotic, and I don't mean the mob on the streets.
Starting point is 01:00:43 I mean, you know, eh, you got a lovely, if they're not protecting Christopher Columbus, what good are they to your city? Seriously. In the good old days,
Starting point is 01:00:52 the mob would have never let that happen. You ain't taking down no Curtis of a Columbus statue in my conia plaza. You understand what I'm saying? You and your little footsy, fotsy people can get the hell out of our neighborhood. That's what would have happened.
Starting point is 01:01:05 What happened to our mob? I was just watching. that Netflix documentary Fear City. I had Giuliani on to talk about it on Studez America last week. And that mob, that mob would not put up with taking a Christopher Columbus statue down. It was a gift.
Starting point is 01:01:23 It was a gift from the Italian government to the city of Philadelphia in 1876, our centennial. 1876, a gift from the people of Italy. And the mob is going to let the... look, let's be honest, the mob runs Philadelphia. It runs Philadelphia. It does.
Starting point is 01:01:46 That's official? Yeah, it runs Philadelphia. I mean, if the mob existed, the mob doesn't exist. No, no. Yeah. It's a myth. It's a myth. Do they run the city or is a myth?
Starting point is 01:01:57 They run the city. But it's a myth. Of course it's a myth. Who's, what, you're going to go on air and say the mob exists? And runs Philadelphia? You can't say that. You can't say that. That's crazy talk.
Starting point is 01:02:11 It's a myth. There's the mob there. They don't even exist. You'll be fitted for cement overshoes over there. But they run the city. And everybody in Philadelphia knows it. And how they are letting the American people down. I mean, seriously.
Starting point is 01:02:33 If you can't trust the mob. Who can you trust? If you can't, if the mob is no longer a. You know, they were the, they were like, you bring those Nazis over to me. I'll break their legs. No Nazis going to be hanging out in my neighborhood. You know what I'm saying? That's the way the mob used to be.
Starting point is 01:02:51 Red, white, and blue. And the red was flowing freely when somebody was trying to mess with them and Christopher Columbus. I don't know what's happening. I don't know what's happening. I don't understand our world anymore. Perhaps the myth isn't capable of defending this statue. I would not say that. You would not, but it's a myth.
Starting point is 01:03:13 No, I would not say that. Yes, they are a myth, but I would not say that the myth is not capable of doing it. How would a myth be capable of doing anything? You find out pretty quickly. You'll find out pretty darn quickly. Okay. Okay, so we have that going on today. We also have, we got to get back to our,
Starting point is 01:03:38 of our coverage of, you know, the election. May I just say, as we're going to switch kind of and go a different direction here in a few minutes, New York Democrats, listen to this, New York Democrats are angered at the NYPD Union because they've adduced Trump. Now, it's not like, like, what have you done for me lately? It's not like you've forgotten me. You know what I mean? Hey, you Democrats, you're, you're, you're. trying to help everybody else and you've forgotten
Starting point is 01:04:12 who really butters your bread. No. No, they're against the New York police. Yeah. How are they surprised and disappointed and angered? They're all on the streets saying they should be defunded. They're taking millions and millions of dollars away from their budgets.
Starting point is 01:04:28 They're saying whenever they do anything to defend their own lives that they're criminals. I would not want to go anywhere near a Democrat right now if I was a police officer. I don't know how any of any of them could possibly even be voting for a Democrat, let alone supporting the police officers union president said,
Starting point is 01:04:45 I've had 36 years on this job, 21 is the president. I can't remember when we've ever endorsed for office of the president of the United States until now. That's how important this is. Is the Glenn Beck pro? All right. Sometimes the best thing you can do to a process is just simplify it. We complicate things all the time. We're all learning this now.
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Starting point is 01:06:22 It'll break your legs. This is the Glenn Beck program. My producers would like me to make this into a bigger deal, and I just feel awkward doing it. But we have an announcement to make. I have been inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. Wow. Congratulations. Really exciting for me and family.
Starting point is 01:06:59 And thank you. If you voted, thank you so much. I suspect mail-in voter fraud. Well, Donald Trump and Russia. He fixed it. They were. Yeah. They were instrumental.
Starting point is 01:07:10 They were, yeah. But it was, it's, you know, I didn't even think about it and I didn't want to make a big deal out of it. it, you know, and ask you for your vote. I was very uncomfortable the whole time because it doesn't make a difference in the listener's life. I mean, a professional wouldn't have been that uncomfortable with it. Someone who was going in the Radio Hall of Fame would just been able to do his job. But, yeah, but you know, you were very uncomfortable.
Starting point is 01:07:33 It was noticeable. Yeah. And I don't, because it doesn't, it doesn't affect you in your life, but it is an honor. And I, I've been thinking about it. I just found out about it. I was thinking about it over the weekend that, you know, that's Jack Benny and Bob Hope and Larry Lujack and Charlie Tuna and Rush Limbaugh. I mean, it's, it is, uh, quite a just went in. Right. Mark Levin. Yeah. Yeah. So it's, it's quite a, uh, it's quite a field to be
Starting point is 01:08:04 in with. And, uh, it's a real honor. And my, I thank you a great deal for just listening to us. Uh, and I honestly don't know how I got into the Radio Hall of Fame as I am. I stand by. the worst broadcaster in America. But that's just how low America's standards are right now. Pat, we should probably say the unsaid of how much we had to do with it. Yeah. You know, I mean, it really is. It's really an honor for us through Glenn.
Starting point is 01:08:33 And so we thank the Radio Hall of Fame for that honor. So I will tell you that I have to select somebody to induct me. And so I don't know which one to ask here because you both are so great. but Pat, do you know of somebody I should ask that would be really good? Let's see. And Stu, you should, because I'm going to ask you, too, after him. But if you have somebody. You're going to ask me to do this.
Starting point is 01:09:00 No, I'm just going to ask you if you know, somebody that would be, you know, important that, you know, would be. I don't know of anybody that would really, you know, that's been with you a long time. Yeah. I was singing Ben Shapiro, maybe, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:09:15 Yeah. Yeah. Maybe Ben would be good. That might be a good idea. All right. Okay, we're going back to the convention, and it's going to be an exciting convention tonight, and nobody's going to watch it.
Starting point is 01:09:28 But in case you happen to be in, I don't know, a critical care unit, and you have no access to the remote control, and it's on CNN. This is who you will see tonight. James Clyburn of South Carolina. Rivening the highest. Highest ranking black member of Congress
Starting point is 01:09:45 at a huge. hugely influential figure. Wow. So, you have, you have Clyburn kicking it off. And so the ex-excite, arguably saving Joe Biden's campaign, he gets the day one. Yeah. I mean, I guess it's the opener. So that's kind of a big deal, but day one on the, yeah. And nobody's carrying that first hour.
Starting point is 01:10:04 Then you get, so it's only the people watching on Zoom. I will say they respect minorities, those Democrats. They do. They love them. They do. How about Senator Catherine Cortez Mastow of Nevada? Pretty excited about it. I'm really psyched about that.
Starting point is 01:10:17 Electric. And then you come into Andrew M. Cuomo. Oh my gosh. Don't just perhaps. They're really giving this. They're really giving him a platform. Exactly. Stu, now this really bothers you for some reason.
Starting point is 01:10:31 Andrew Cuomo is awful.com. Remember that, of course. He is the worst. He is the worst, the worst response to the coronavirus in the world. That includes people handling pangolins in Wuhan. He is the. worst. Not worse than Donald Trump, though.
Starting point is 01:10:48 Much, much worse than Donald Trump. Really? Yeah, it's interesting. You notice that like Donald Trump, you could say, has oversight over the entire nation, not Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo infected the entire nation because people, he did such a bad job and he was encouraging people to go out and live their life as normal. And you know, fear is much worse than the virus.
Starting point is 01:11:07 He kept saying that on every interview over and over again. Fear is much worse than this virus. Fear is much, all the way up to like late March. Like he's still not fair as much worse than this virus. So what's happened is he wanted to get one of getting tens of thousands of people in his state killed more than any other state by far. The second highest per capita in the nation behind only New Jersey, which were all people from New York from Cuomo. Connecticut was fourth. So all those people also from New York going into Connecticut and infecting them.
Starting point is 01:11:40 They've done analysis of the genetic breakdown all across the. the country. Including California. California, Idaho, Wyoming, 80% the New York strain. Yeah. Thanks a lot, Andrew. You did a great job. It's only because... Wait, wait, wait. That is only because
Starting point is 01:11:56 Donald Trump did not say that it was coming from Europe. Oh, really? That's... So what we're going to do is we're going to blame wherever it came from most recently. That's what it was. That's how this works. I want to make sure I understand it because if that's true, then everyone in America should blame Andrew Cuomo, because that's where it all came from was
Starting point is 01:12:12 New York. Yeah, but what about his genius idea? sending sick people to nursing homes. Well, yeah, that was a great one. Now, sure. First of all, he did that. Okay. Now, he did that along with four other governors also did that. He was the only one in America, however, that prevented nursing homes when they were bringing in new patients, prevented them from testing on the basis of the he did not want to, to discriminate against their COVID status. So if you were COVID positive or negative, it's like, you know, it's like being, it's like being black or being gay or whatever.
Starting point is 01:12:43 you can't discriminate against an infectious disease positive test. This used to happen. This has happened a lot in the old leper caves and the leper colonies. When one leper was transferred to another colony, there were several colonies. They were democratic colonies that said, you can't test him for leprosy. You can't do it. The fact that his face was falling off. That might have been a clue.
Starting point is 01:13:10 I mean, it's just possible. And we should point out here that Cuomo, all. Also, once all of this happened and tens of thousands of his own citizens died in what seems to be a plot from an evil madman to kill as many old people as possible, once that went down, he then, in the middle of all this going on, changed the way they record deaths of people in nursing homes. So that people who were in nursing homes, got sick in nursing homes, were close to death in nursing homes, at the last minute we're taken via ambulance to a hospital, he doesn't count them as nursing home deaths. So he's the only state in the union that does that. Then even though he knows he does that, he goes out and brags about how low his death total is from nursing homes. That's unbelievable.
Starting point is 01:13:54 He is the biggest liar in America. And he did such a terrible job. The fact that anyone gives him any credit for this is mind-boggling. And he belongs perfectly on stage at that stupid convention tonight. That's really, I mean, that's evil. What he did was evil. Yeah. It's incredible. And the covering of the tracks. I mean, look, we all make mistakes. And if you would have, you know, made the mistake. But this was so apparent and so clear. I mean, the nursing homes were coming to him. They told him over and over again. You're killing our patients. You're killing no way to deal with this. Right. They're not set up to deal with a pandemic. That's not what nursing homes are. That's not the way. They said, we don't even have private rooms for these people. There are multiple people in the same room. You put a COVID positive person in there. What is going to have?
Starting point is 01:14:42 happen to the most vulnerable population of mine. They're getting COVID. Of course they're getting COVID. Yeah. Okay. So go through the rest of the list here of who else is there. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama, who's just about to lose his seat. So that's great. He gets a final chisditch. A little Hail Mary there. John Kasich. A Republican. John Kasich. Really? Well, he is a Republican. Yeah, I give him that. Really? He's a Republican. He's the guy who is probably the most responsible for Donald Trump winning. Donald Trump should love John Kasich.
Starting point is 01:15:15 Yeah. Because John Kasich not getting out, at least this is the theory. And I don't know if it, I don't know if it would have been true because Trump was a juggernaut, you know. Yeah, he would have won anyway. But if he, yeah, but if the only chance of him not winning, what would be if he would have dropped out, if Kasich would have dropped out. Because he just held a lot of people that were not Trump people and it could have gone to somebody else. So he did Trump a favor. and he's probably the most clearly responsible guy for the Trump presidency.
Starting point is 01:15:50 And so I welcome him over there. I welcome him. Senator, Amy Klobuchar. She surged to a third place finish in the New Hampshire primary, then dropped out and endorsed Mr. Biden. And so he's awarding her because she was early on the bandwagon. Then you got Representative Gwen Moore of Wisconsin. I love her.
Starting point is 01:16:11 Michelle Obama, former first lady. I can't wait to hear that. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Benny Thompson of Mississippi. The Benny Thompson. The Benny Thompson. I know a lot of people have been clamoring. When is Benny Thompson going to speak?
Starting point is 01:16:27 And then other people are like, I'm sorry, who? So this is what they're doing tonight. Now, let me ask you. And Gretchen Whitmer. Who is? Oh, geez. Don't forget her. So you have these people.
Starting point is 01:16:41 speaking and many of them I mean Cuomo is responsible for what is happening in New York New York is dead as we will show you in the next hour it is absolutely dead may not come back I mean it's phenomenal what's going on in New York and media is not covering it you have these people that have also not condemned any of the violence on the streets listen to this this is from Seattle's BLM as they are marching in neighborhoods now, listen to this. They're a little quiet. So this is a silent protest?
Starting point is 01:17:19 It is a silent protest. Do you have it? Very powerful. Do you know that you are living in a historically black neighborhood right now? Do you know that? Do you know that before you go to be able? I think it was a historically Native American neighborhood. Yeah, well.
Starting point is 01:17:37 Do you know people like you came in here and basically all the land from the black people for, plus it when it was worth? Kick them out so you can live here. Do you know that? What are you going to do to fix it? Because you're part of that jistiparge.
Starting point is 01:17:51 So they're telling them, get out of your house. Give us your house. White people need to give up their house. And this is something that's something that has been going on now for a while in other cities. And let me play one more. This is from Minnesota. Listen to the madman at a Black Lives Matter rally here. I'm a black man being terrorized by this fucking.
Starting point is 01:18:15 This is in a white neighborhood. Oh, the Klan existed, Hugo, Minnesota. And it's right here. Don't run now. Don't run now. Racist white people. I'm here. Oh, yeah, we pull up.
Starting point is 01:18:32 Don't support black people. Here's the police. This is not cool. It's not okay. Can you imagine how you feel if you're a white person? Oh, yeah. And he asked the crowd, see if we give a, F about burning this town down.
Starting point is 01:18:58 I mean, if you are a white person, you have to be terrified right now. And I just don't believe that there is an overwhelming number of Democrats who are cool with the Democratic Party playing footsies with these people, saying that we should get rid of the police. it's why guns have never been higher than they are right now. Gun sales are through the roof right now. Never ever been higher than they are in the last month. Up 152%.
Starting point is 01:19:36 Yeah. It's crazy. And why is that happening? Because of the Democrats. You damn right because of the Democrats. Remember, they're the ones that you wouldn't even have a gun or an opportunity to buy a gun while this was going on in your neighborhoods and your cities. They would have you disarmed and cut the police and endorse these people in your neighborhoods.
Starting point is 01:20:01 I'm sorry, I just don't think there's 155% increase in gun sales. These kinds of people in the streets who are yelling those kinds of things to white people, and you're going to vote for the party that dismisses it? Nope. I just don't buy it. Let me tell you about LifeLock. Troubling news in the cyber world, yet again, over 900 Enterprise VPN servers were recently hacked, and the ransomware gangs responsible have shared usernames and passwords harvested there in a private forum.
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Starting point is 01:21:57 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We are glad you're here. Coming up next hour, we have some very, very important information as far as it goes to the economy and what is coming. Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, has just invested $700 million in gold. Same for me. Just did the same thing last week. Exactly $700 million, too. And Wall Street is like, why? You can make so much money on Wall Street. Yeah, I know you can. And pigs get slaughtered.
Starting point is 01:22:35 There are things that are coming your way that you need to be aware of. And we'll tell you about those coming up next hour also. What's happening in New York City has really been put into focus by James Alter. He is a pretty amazing guy. I've been on this program before. I really like him. But he is a New York City native. He is a guy who's just a plain talker and, you know, talks to everybody and just shoot straight.
Starting point is 01:23:15 What he had to say about what's coming next for New York will give you an idea of what's coming for the rest of the country. Coming up. Hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck program. There is a lot to discuss this hour. I'm going to tell you how New York City is dead and is not coming back. It's a really strong and sad, sad case. Also, how the dollar is doing. And what's not coming back?
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Starting point is 01:25:16 American financing NMLS-182334. or www. nmls consumer access.org. So it's really rare that I will read a full article on the air, but I want to read this from James Alter. He wrote on his LinkedIn account. I loved New York City. When I first moved to New York City, it was a dream come true.
Starting point is 01:25:47 Every corner was like a theater production happening right in front of me. So much personality, so many stories. Every subculture I loved was in New York City. I could play chess all day and all night. You know, one of the things about New York City is I've done that. I've gone out in the middle of the night or whatever and just walked around and you will come up across these places, these chess rooms where these Russians are playing chess.
Starting point is 01:26:13 And you can just sit down and play anybody. And it's phenomenal. And it's like that with everything in New York. It said, I could go to comedy clubs. I could start any type of business. I could meet people. I had family, friends, opportunities. No matter what happened to me, New York was a net I could fall back on and bounce back up.
Starting point is 01:26:32 But now it's completely dead. But New York City always bounces back, they say. No, not this time. But New York City is the center of the financial universe. Opportunities will flourish here again. No, not this time. NYC is experienced worse. No, it hasn't.
Starting point is 01:26:50 A Facebook group formed a few weeks ago that was for people who were planning a movie, and wanted others to talk to and advise, give them advice. Within two or three days, it had 10,000 members. Every day I see more and more posts. I've been in New York City forever, but I guess this time I have to say goodbye. Every single day I see those posts. I've been screenshoting them for my scrapbook. The three most important reasons to move to New York City,
Starting point is 01:27:17 business opportunities, culture, and food, and, of course, friends. But if everything I say is even one-tenth of what I think, there won't be as many opportunities to make friends, and that equals business. Midtown Manhattan, the center of business in New York City is empty. Even though people can go back to work, famous office buildings like the Time Life skyscraper is 90% empty. Businesses realize they don't need to get their employees at the office. In fact, they realize they're even more productive without everyone back in the office. The Time Life building can handle 8,000 workers.
Starting point is 01:27:53 now it maybe has 500 workers back in the building. What do you mean? A friend of mine said when I told a midtown should be called ghost town. I'm in my office right now. Really? What are you doing there? I asked. Packing up.
Starting point is 01:28:10 Then he laughed. Okay, I'm shutting it down. He works in the entertainment business. Another friend of mine works at a major investment bank as a managing director. Before the pandemic, he was out at the office every day, sometimes working 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. He now lives in Phoenix, Arizona. As of June, he told me,
Starting point is 01:28:28 I have never been to Phoenix. And then he moved there, and he does all of his meetings on Zoom. I was talking to a book editor who's been out of the city since early March. We've all been working fine. I'm not sure why we would ever need to go back to the office again. One friend of mine, Derek Halpern,
Starting point is 01:28:44 was convinced he'd stay. He put up a Facebook post the other day saying he might be changing his mind. Derek wrote, in the last week, I've watched a homeless person lose his mind and start attacking random pedestrians, including spitting on throwing stuff at and swatting. I've seen several single parents with a child asking for money for food, and then when somebody gave them food, they tossed the food right back at them.
Starting point is 01:29:08 I watched a man yell racist slurs every single race of people while charging, then stopping before going too far and worse. I've been living in New York City for 10 years. It has definitely gotten worse, and there is no end in sight. My favorite park is Madison Square Park. About a month ago, 19-year-old girl was shot and killed across the street. I don't think I have an answer, but what I do think is clear, it's time to move out of New York City. And I'm not the only one who feels this way either.
Starting point is 01:29:38 In my building alone, the rent has plummeted by 30 percent. More people are moving away than ever. So it's not goodbye yet, but a long-life New Yorker is. thinking about it, end quote. I pick his post out, but I could have picked dozens of others. People say New York City has been through a lot worse and it always comes back. No and no. First, when has New York City been through worse? Even in the 1970s and through the 80s, when New York City was going bankrupt, even when it was the crime capital of the U.S. or close to it, it was still the capital of business world, meaning it was the primary place young people would
Starting point is 01:30:17 go to build wealth and find opportunity. It was. was culturally on top of its game, home to artists, theater, media, advertising, publishing. It was probably the food capital of the U.S. New York City has never been locked down for five months. Not in any pandemic, any war, financial crisis, never. In the midst of the polio epidemic, when little kids, including my mother, were going paralyzed or dying, New York City didn't go through this. This is not to say what should or should not have been done.
Starting point is 01:30:52 That part is over, but now we have to deal with what is. In early March, many people, not me, left New York when they felt it would provide safety from the virus, and they no longer needed to go to work, and all the restaurants were closed, and people figured, I'll go out for a month or two and come back, but they're still gone. Then, in June, during rioting and looting, a second wave of New Yorkers, this time me, left. I have kids. Nothing wrong with protests, but I was not. nervous when I saw videos of rioters after curfew trying to break into my building.
Starting point is 01:31:25 Many people left temporarily, but there were people living permanently. Friends of mine moved to Nashville, Miami, Austin, Denver, Salt Lake, Austin, Dallas. Now a third wave of people are leaving, but they might be too late. Prices are down 30 to 50 percent on both rentals and sales, no matter what real estate agents tell you. And rentals are soaring in the second and third, series cities i can tell you this from first-hand experience if you are moving to some place like idaho or uh Wyoming i have family and both and they are saying that right now the real estate you put your house up it will sell sight unseen here in dallas somebody uh some real estate agent
Starting point is 01:32:13 i talked to said they closed their second zoom or Skype uh home that people are They're moving so fast that people are just saying, just show it to me, just walk through it with me on your phone. The real estate agent does, and they're like, good, I'll take it. That's crazy. That is crazy. I'm temporarily, although maybe permanently, in South Florida now. I also got my place sight unseen. Robin was looking at listings around Miami, and then she saw an area we had never been to before.
Starting point is 01:32:48 We found three houses we liked. She called the first real estate agent. Place number one just rented that morning, 50% higher than the asking price. Place number two, also rented to New Yorkers. Place number three, available. We'll take it, we said. The first time we physically saw it was when we flew down and moved in. This is temporary, right?
Starting point is 01:33:09 I confirmed with Robin, but I don't know. I'm starting to like the sun a little bit. I mean, when it's behind the shades, and I'm in air conditioning. But let's move on for a second. Business businesses are remote and they aren't returning to the office, and it's a death spiral. The longer offices remain empty, the longer they'll remain empty. In 2005, a hedge fund manager was visiting my office and said, in Manhattan, you practically trip over opportunities in the street. But now the streets are empty.
Starting point is 01:33:42 I co-own a comedy club, stand-up New York, 78th and Broadway. I'm very proud of the club. Grateful for my fellow owners and my manager. It's a great club. been around since 86 before then it was a theater one time henry winkler stopped by to come on my podcast and he was the one who told me it had been a theater he said i grew up two doors down from here used to perform there as a kid then i went out to l.A. to be the fawns and now i'm back here full circle to be on your podcast this place has history things like that happen in new york we had a show
Starting point is 01:34:14 in may it was an outdoor show everybody social distanced but we were shut down by the police I guess we were super spreading humor during a very serious time. The club is doing something fun. We're doing shows outside in the park. It's a great idea. In time like this, businesses need to give to the community and not complain. Broadway is closed until at least spring. Lincoln Center is closed.
Starting point is 01:34:37 All the museums are closed. Forget about the tens of thousands of jobs lost in those cultural centers. Forget even about the millions of dollars of tourist and tourists generated revenues lost by the closing of those centers. There are thousands of performers, producers, artists, the entire ecosystem of art, theater, production, curation that surrounds just those cultural centers. People who have worked all their lives for the right to perform even once on Broadway, whose lives and careers are now on hold. I get it. There was a pandemic. But the question is, what happens now?
Starting point is 01:35:10 What happens next? And given the uncertainty, since there is no known answer, and given the fact that people, cities, economies loathe uncertainty, we don't know the answer, and that's a bad thing for New York City. Right now, Broadway is closed until at least early 2021. But is that true? We don't know, and what does it mean? Will we only have 25% capacities? Broadway shows can't survive on that.
Starting point is 01:35:38 Hot dog stands outside of Lincoln Center and outside on the streets. Finished. My favorite restaurant closed for good. Commercial real estate. If building owners and landlords lose their prime tenants, storefronts, the bottom floor of the offices, the well-to-do office top floors, they go too, and they'll go out of business. And what happens when they go out of business? Actually, nothing. And that's the bad news.
Starting point is 01:36:04 People who would have rented bought and say, wow, everybody is saying New York City is heading back to the 1970s. And the prices might be 50% lower than they were a year ago. But better safe than sorry, I think I'll wait. then everyone waiting prices go down so people see prices go down and say good thing i waited but what happens if i wait even more this is called a deflationary spiral people wait prices go down nobody wins because the landlords or owners go broke and less money gets spent in the city nobody moves in no motion in the market and people already owning in the area can afford to hang on have to wait longer to return to their restaurants, their services that they were used to. Will prices
Starting point is 01:36:47 go down enough that everyone buys? Maybe, maybe not. There are also 600,000 college students spread out through New York City, from Columbia to Fordham to St. John's. Will they require remote learning? Will kids even be on the campus? Yeah, but New York City always comes back. I live three blocks from Ground Zero 9-11, downtown where I lived, was destroyed, but it came roaring back within two years. And in 2008 and nine, much suffering during the Great Recession. Much again hardship, but things came roaring back. But this time, it is different. You're never supposed to say this, but this time it's true. If you believe this time is no different that New York City is resilient, I hope you're right. I don't benefit at all for saying this. I love New York. I was born
Starting point is 01:37:33 there. I live there forever. I still live there. I love everything about New York City. I want 2019 back but this time it is different the difference is bandwidth we now have meetings on zoom 20 megabytes per second that's more than enough for high quality video before we couldn't remotely work now we can we're officially a b after bandwidth and for the entire history of new york city until now we were before bandwidth it goes on and i have highly recommend that you listen to it, uh, or you watch it or, or read it. It's from James Alchor and, uh, he is a great, great podcaster. This particular piece was written for LinkedIn. Um, and it is New York City is dead forever and here's why. It is a very sad thing. New York is,
Starting point is 01:38:30 the problem with New York is it is a love, hate relationship with everyone who lives there. You absolutely hate it because it's the worst of the worst and it's the most expensive and everything else but you love it because there is truly no other city on earth like it there was a video posted can we play this video there was a video posted um just the other day about new york city and it shows the empty streets of new york city and it is fifth avenue block after block after block Everything is boarded closed, not because of COVID, but because of riots and looting. It's now a very dangerous city, and nothing is going on. There are no shops to go into, no museums, no shows.
Starting point is 01:39:24 You're just trapped in New York City. It is not a good situation. And unfortunately, unfortunately, that's going to happen to a lot of our cities. more in just a second. First, we want to thank our sponsor. Our sponsor is Goldline. The Federal Reserve has absolutely nothing but our best interest in mind. I mean, I completely trust them, don't you?
Starting point is 01:39:54 Yeah. I don't know if you've heard about this or not, but the Federal Reserve is currently working with MIT to hypothetically develop a digital currency for them to play around with. I mean, for them to manage the economy with. I'm really not sure exactly when this is going to happen, but it is going to happen. And it will make things, digital currency will make them able to do things like direct money transfer. How great is that?
Starting point is 01:40:25 The Fed will just be able to wire money directly and instantly to Americans without any kind of middleman. This is coming. And I'm going to show you in a few minutes why this is so dangerous and what it actually means. On an unrelated note, by which I mean a very related note, gold continues to rise in value. I'm about to tell you here that Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett's firm, just spent $700 million buying gold. Why when the stock market's doing so well? Because they know they better hedge their bet. Because gold is the last place that everybody goes when everything goes to hell.
Starting point is 01:41:04 And it's on its way to hell, gang. projections over $3,000 an ounce for gold. You need to look to investing a portion of your portfolio into precious metals, gold or silver, and everybody in this audience can afford at least a couple of ounces of silver. Call Gold Line. Tell them you want to find out right now about their $5 gold Liberty coins, which I have already invested in here recently in last couple of months. Tell them I sent you, call Gold Line now at 866 Gold Line.
Starting point is 01:41:33 That's 866 Gold Line, or Gold Line, dot com 10 seconds station ID you know it's that kind of broadcasting that I think is so exciting and so riveting and so well done that that's why I have been inducted into the radio Hall of Fame this year I've uh formally requested a recount on that but so far no no uh no results well the Russians were involved they had to be they just the Russians were involved uh so I want to thank you if you voted for me And I want to thank you to all of the people. You know, the listeners counted for one 23rd of the vote.
Starting point is 01:42:25 And then there were 22 other people on the board that, you know, are in our industry that had to vote. And it was an honor just to be nominated. It really was. And it would have sucked to lose, especially to NPR. But I'm really grateful and I can't wait until the ceremony in November. All right. I have to tell you about what's happening with the Fed and what's happening with our money.
Starting point is 01:42:57 You know, let me start here. The Fed is printing money like it's going out of style now. And they're taking the Federal Reserve is printing the money to buy U.S. treasuries. and the Fed only keeps Treasury yields sufficient to offset inflation. The rest is retained by the Treasury. The Fed doesn't profit off of the U.S. Treasury purchases. But the idea is that the money pumped into the U.S. government by the Fed won't cause inflation. That's what they think.
Starting point is 01:43:34 That is ridiculous. It's ridiculous. But they say it's not because it doesn't enter the real or general economy when the government spends it or gives it away as welfare or reparations. But again, what is it that that, or is that money going? Is that money going? Yeah, you give it away as welfare to, we would assume a person. And that person would theoretically spend it on something.
Starting point is 01:43:58 Correct. I think that's how that works. Or if they're going to do a stimulus package and they're going to hire a bunch of people to do road construction, where does that money go? Where does that money go? We just fully embrace modern monetary theory here. Exactly right. Without a conversation. Exactly right. And I'm going to explain that and our federal debt at $27 trillion, $27 trillion. By the end of 2020, this is the Glenn Beck program.
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Starting point is 01:45:51 Glenn Beck. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. I want to talk to you about what our Fed and our Treasury are doing. And it is really, really much worse than you think. And I think you're starting to get a handle on that we're not coming back. I'm sorry. And I don't mean to be the bearer of bad news here. But somebody has to tell you the truth.
Starting point is 01:46:30 Normal is never coming back. It's never coming back. Or at least it's not for many, many, many years. And I think James Altour gave a great description of what's happening in New York. It's just not coming back because everything has changed. Part of this is what I talked about. that great tech disruption that was coming. I told you it would be coming in the next five years,
Starting point is 01:47:00 and it just came through the coronavirus, where people were going to realize, wait a minute, we don't need all these jobs or we don't need to work in these cities, and it would be a giant disruption to the system, and people we would have, remember I said, 30 to 50% unemployment was coming in the next five years. Well, we're at 11%, but they were predicting 35%,
Starting point is 01:47:25 So the disruption is happening now, but what's about to come is much worse than what we've already seen, because the medicine is far worse than the disease. The CBO has now estimated that in 2018, the interest costs on our debt would consume all projected discretionary spending in dollars in a projected budget by. 2026. So this is what the CBO said in 2018, that by 2026, we would have no money in our budget except for the interest on the debt. As of now, that number now is 2024. But that number could come down if inflation heats up and interest rates spike up. So as long as interest rates stay the way they are and inflation stays the way it is. We have until 2024. Interest cost on the debt, even at hyper low interest rates that we're seeing right now, is just shy of $600 billion. That was in 2019 when the debt was $22 trillion. By the end of this
Starting point is 01:48:43 year, the federal debt will be around $27 trillion. And current projections on interest cost will be 720 billion, so almost a trillion dollars just in interest, even including the Fed discount on interest costs. That's what you're looking at. The total federal tax revenue is $2 trillion, so the cost to service just the debt will consume 40% of income tax dollars collected next year. In 1971, that cost to service the debt was 2%. It's now going to be 40 next year. That's assuming everything goes well. Interest costs then were 5%.
Starting point is 01:49:28 Today, the government gets to borrow from the Fed at 1.5% cost, but the cost to service is still consuming ever more of our federal budget. We are now doing modern monetary theory, with the exception that the Fed is a private company. They are not issuing sovereign currency. It's the Fed. So the losses at the Fed could actually put the Fed out of business, the underlying shareholders, these five big banks. Remember, the ones we've been bailing out. That's the Fed.
Starting point is 01:50:09 And so we've been bailing them out, and they claim they're bailing us out. If we issued a sovereign currency from the government, they could effectively print any amount of money they wished forever, with the resulting hyperinflation having the same effect as bankruptcy because the purchasing power of the bills they'd be printing would end up having no real value to them. And they'd just be turned back into, you know, starting fires or toilet paper or making blue jeans. There's an article out now in Forbes that you should read. And it is correct.
Starting point is 01:50:45 If it is truly all of it correct, the federal debt. will reach $78 billion, $78 billion by 2028. Sorry, 78 trillion. He's going to say that's great new. 78 trillion. Sorry, 78 trillion. The cost of service, that amount of debt, will be close to the entire federal budget,
Starting point is 01:51:15 about $2.8 trillion just to pay the interest. You want to talk about being a slave. You get nothing from the federal government. There is no opportunity to fix anything in our country. And we all work as hard as we are now just to service the debt. And Wall Street wonders why Warren Buffett just invested $700 million in gold. It's pretty clear. when will this be made clear so the average person can actually prepare?
Starting point is 01:51:59 On Wednesday, we have a special coming up, but before we go there, I want to go to Jason Buttrill. Jason is our chief researcher. Is he on the line? Is he ready to go? And Jason is here. He's going to give us an update on what happened with the federal government and the investigation into the Russia scandal. We were expecting big news. And it was kind of lackluster, unless you really kind of understand that it looks like he may be working with the government
Starting point is 01:52:35 to give bigger names. Jason, welcome to the program. What happened Friday? Thanks, Glenn. Yeah, it does seem kind of lackluster. We'll get to that in a second, but what's crazy lackluster was you really have to take this story back eight months ago,
Starting point is 01:52:49 the DOJ Inspector General first brought out these significant inaccuracies and omissions, which when you read them, they sounded a lot worse than just inaccuracies and omissions. Correct. One of them was the case of FBI lawyer number two, which we now know is Kevin Kleinsmith. He's the one that is pleading guilty to what the second lackluster thing is providing a false statement. Now, when you go through the case, it's a heck of a lot more than just providing a false statement. What he did was, is he got an email, he asked the CIA, said, hey, you know anything about
Starting point is 01:53:22 Carter Page? What's up with this guy? And the CIA said, yeah, he's good, good dude. We use him for, he's an asset of ours. He gives us information on Russians, all this stuff. So you got to imagine the conversation in the background. FBA's like, wait a minute, no, no, we're making the case that he's an agent of Russia, not one of your agents. So what Kevin Klinesmith did was he altered the email that said he's an asset of the CIA. Do he's not an asset at one of our assets? He changed it. He doctored evidence is what he did. He didn't provide a false statement. He doctored evidence so that they could spy on the Trump campaign. That's what happened. Are you seeing this in the media? I hardly see this at all. They're showing the lackluster, you know, headlines. That's all they're showing. This was a big deal eight months ago. It's a huge deal now. So you got to wonder, why didn't they just indict him eight months ago? Right. And why is this being played down and why is it just, why is it being made? You know that Barr knows this is a very big deal. So why are they dismissing this? And he's pleading guilty. Do you think that it was a plea and a plea bargain? Absolutely think it was a plea bargain. There's evidence, there's more evidence within the entire indictment that says that Klein Smith,
Starting point is 01:54:42 provided the real email to multiple people in the FBI. So when you think about that, when you're looking, so right now they haven't dinged him on conspiracy. Now that's big. When you get conspiracy, this is going to blow up. And I think Durham already has it. I really do. Because once he delivered that information to everybody else, then you have multiple people. That's where the conspiracy charge will come in. So there's multiple other people that were involved. They knew the true information that Carter Page was not an agent of Russia. He was one of our agents. They knew this. Now, how many people will get tangled up in this web. That's why I believe you're getting this lackluster charge right now. They could
Starting point is 01:55:17 have dinged him for a lot. Tampering evidence. That's what this was, not providing a false statement. So what they're doing now, or what they have been doing, in my opinion, as they have been talking to him, who else is involved? Who did you give this information for? Where did it go from there? Take us down this road. I think all of that will be part of the Durham report. And I think this is just the first casualty in a very, very big. Did you, did you walk away thinking, because you and I have been afraid that only the little guys are going to get nailed. Yeah. Did you walk away from the charges on Friday thinking, oh, there's a chance this is going to really
Starting point is 01:55:51 get some really, it'll get interesting here, some really big names might go. I've got to be honest with you, Glenn. No, I do not. I think that, again, it's the third tier people that you talked about in a show not too long ago. It's the people that you never heard of. You know, it's the people like an attorney, Kevin Kleinsmith, who's heard of this guy. He'll get dinged. You'll get people like Peter Struck.
Starting point is 01:56:12 You'll get people like that that will start to go down. That crazy Russian guy that the Steele dossier was using that was actually living here. You're not going to see a Susan Rice. You're not going to see us. Well, I don't. So I thought that she was actually going to be named VP to help insulate her. Me too. I still think that you won't.
Starting point is 01:56:31 But I still think she'll be insulated. They got to get her in the cabinet. If Biden and Kamala win, then they instantly bring her in. probably Secretary of State. That makes a whole list. If they win, this is all over. Everybody gets away with it. This is done.
Starting point is 01:56:46 Yeah. Thank you very much, Jason. I appreciate it. So the media for now four years has been that Trump worked with the Russians to cheat in the 2016 election. He tried to work with Ukraine later to dig up dirt on Biden so he could cheat in this year's election. That's what that impeachment was all about. And we know all of the, we know the truth on that. And if you don't, go back and watch our specials on the election.
Starting point is 01:57:11 The overwhelming evidence points to exactly the opposite, that the Democrats were working with Russia and Ukraine to interfere in the 2016 election and then some. And they first did it by promoting the disinformation in the steel dossier, which, don't forget, was opposition research paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign. Then there was the DNC contractor, Chalupa, soliciting the Iranian. the Ukrainian embassy for dirt on Donald Trump and Paul Manafort. But now they've got a different tact. They are still saying that Donald Trump is working with Russia,
Starting point is 01:57:49 and Russia is the real threat, not China. China is fine. But they're not only doing that. They have a new game that they're playing. First, they're pushing mail-in ballots as the only way to vote this November. The only way you can vote is through the. these mail-in ballots. Second, they're now pushing a narrative that Donald Trump is trying to kill off the U.S. Postal Service so he can sabotage America's mail-in votes and steal the election.
Starting point is 01:58:23 The Democrats in the media insist there are zero problems with voting by mail. That is completely false and all of us know it. But on Wednesday night, I'm going to show you the problems and the fraud that comes with universal mail-in voting and why Democrats are pushing this so hard. It's a preview of the November nightmare that all of this could lead to. And I just want to give you a taste of the supposedly non-existent fraud that Democrats and the media don't want you to know about. When the House Democrats passed their Heroes Act in May, it included a provision that would allow what's called ballot harvesting.
Starting point is 01:59:07 and yes, it's as bad as it sounds, where essentially paid activists can canvas neighborhoods to collect people's mail-in ballots. It already happened in Florida in 2016 in Palm Beach. Two Democrats running for office went door-to-door themselves, helping people fill out their ballots, and then collect them. Be sure there's no fraud at all with voting.
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Starting point is 02:01:57 972 Patriot promo code back. You're listening to Glenn Beck. This is the Glenn Beck program. We're glad you're here. Executive producer, Steve Riggier, is also with us. Yeah, really concerned. We've been talking a lot about it today about voter fraud and the possibilities of mass voter fraud. We've seen it happen with the Radio Hall of Fame vote that just went down where obviously Glenn Beck couldn't have possibly won, but he was announced as the winner.
Starting point is 02:02:31 It seems impossible to me. You know, I've been using Donald Trump as a scapegoat this whole time. Nobody sees, I'm good friends with the Postmaster General. Nobody saw this one coming. They all blaming it. Oh, it's the elections in November. No, the real elections for November, Radio Hall of Fame. and I am pleased to announce that I was nominated and I will be inducted this November.

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