The Glenn Beck Program - The Media Buried Trump's GAME-CHANGING Iran Announcement | Guest: Tom Fitton | 6/11/26

Episode Date: June 11, 2026

President Trump revealed something yesterday regarding the Iranian conflict, but the corporate media fixated on one out-of-context line and ignored the biggest news-maker. Glenn analyzes Trump’s admission that America has been taking out oil ships and seizing their barrels of oil in a massive military operation. Glenn, Jason, and Rikki discuss the Iran situation and reveal how gas prices across the country are dropping, despite the media outcry that they’re rising. Glenn plays shocking footage of homeless people on Skid Row in California admitting they were paid to vote for specific candidates, including Los Angeles mayoral candidate Karen Bass, and admitting this is a routine tactic. Jason joins Glenn and Rikki to explain why he believes this will be California’s undoing, as the Left’s arrogance will lead to self-destruction. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton joins to explain how the investigation into the assassination attempt against President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, only brings up more questions than answers. Glenn lays out what “America First” actually means and theorizes as to why people get offended by the mindset.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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you're feeling the gas prices, et cetera, et cetera. Something was announced yesterday, which would explain why your gas prices have slowly been going down and you hadn't noticed it because nobody's pointing it out because everybody's ringing their hands and everybody in the press is saying,

we're going to have $150, $200 a barrel oil. Well, you know, yesterday the oil per barrel was at $86? That doesn't make sense, does it? Why? Why is it at $86? And this morning, oil is at $80 a barrel. The president announced something yesterday when it was sitting at 86 and has dropped more. By the way, that's some of the cheapest oil we've had in a very long time. Why? What did he announce? Did we get a deal? No, no, we didn't.

Some good news, finally. And for those of you who just did not play the media's game, I've told you from the very beginning, I don't know what's going on, you don't know what's going on. I trust that the president knows what's going on, and I'm not going to speculate and say that it's over or it's one until it is. Well, it's not over, but what this president has done should give you some great confidence. We'll explain here in 60 seconds. First, there are two kinds of problems in life. There are the problems that you can fix, and then there are the problems that you, you know, that follow you around. You're thinking about them constantly and tax problems fall into that second category because most people really don't know how to deal with the IRS.

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I'm going to explain what happened here in a second. But remember, before the war, roughly 20 million barrels of oil per day were moving through the strait. of Hormuz. That narrow stretch of water is one of the most important choke points on earth, and one fifth of the world's petroleum passes through it. Easiest way to understand the Strait of Hormuz is this. Imagine the world's energy supply is blood flowing through arteries. The Strait of Hormuz is the aorta. You can survive a cut on your arm, but you cannot survive a severed aorta. When Iran began attacking shipping and laying mines, the fear was not just that the ships would be damaged. The fear was that the world's energy system would seize up. Gas prices would

spike, which they did, but not what they were predicting. Airline fuel would spike. It did, but not what they were expecting. Same with diesel. Food prices, same. Everything delivered by truck would become more expensive. And it did. But they were warning about absolute, I mean, like a death knell kind of shock. They were warning about $150, $200 a barrel on oil prices. They said it could go over $200 a barrel. This system is not built for anything over 130 or really over 130 in sustained oil. Okay. What happened? Well, it never exploded the way they feared. Yet everybody was freaking out, okay, because you are paying more,

and it is hard to pay the price that you're paying at the gas pump and for groceries. Yesterday, Donald Trump said this about inflation. Now, let me play first what you heard on social media and on most media outlets. This is what he said about inflation. service to president about the latest inflation number which came out this morning? Could that be a... No, I love it. The numbers were right.

You know what I really love? I love the inflation. You know why? Because as soon as this war is over, you know, I can say it now. Okay, that's what you heard. I love inflation. But you didn't hear the context. You didn't hear the context.

What was he going to say? What was he going to say? Play the full context. You can serve Mr. President about the latest inflation. inflation number which came out this morning. Could that be a... No, I love it. The numbers were great.

You know what I really love? I love the inflation. You know why? Because as soon as this war is over, you know, I can say it now. Something you didn't know. You know, we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil. Nobody knows it. You know who doesn't know about it?

Iran until right now. We took out the other night, 22 ships. Late at night with no lights, because they don't have any rain. because we blasted the crap out of it. We took that. That's why oil is $85 a barrel. Hmm. Wait a minute.

I thought he just loved inflation. No, there's context to this. My gosh. Stop listening to these people. If anyone who played that yesterday and leave that as a content, don't listen to them anymore. Anymore.

Everybody makes mistakes, but these are not mistakes. This, what he followed the I Love inflation with was massive. Why is oil at $86 a barrel? Because we're taking ships out in the cover of darkness. We, we have been taking, remember all the, remember all of those ships that they said were just stuck there with all the, you know, 100 million barrels of oil? And they're just stuck, stuck there in the straight armos and nothing can get them out. Yeah. What they've been doing is they've been taking those oil tank.

out, moving the oil on other oil tankers, moving those oil tankers back in the cover of darkness. This is a massive military operation. We have been taking, Jason, what was it? 100 or 200 million barrels? 100 million. 100 million barrels we have taken out of the Strait of Hormuz in the cover of darkness, and there was nothing they could do about it. This is an awesome operation, military operation.

Jason, give just a thumbnail sketch of how they did this. It's interesting. For the longest time, there are people that have been analyzing the ships, the very large container ships that are stuck. I'll put that in air quotes, stuck and not able to get out of the Straits of Hormuz. It now appears like they were not really stuck. They were filling up with oil in all the different countries, Iraq, and so forth. right there within the area.

And they were turning off their transponders, going down towards Amman, transferring that oil over to other ships that were out on the other side of the Strait of Hormuz, and then they were continuing on. This, I mean, I don't even know the full ins and outs of the actual military operation, but many people have been speculating

that the use of drone ships, other aerial drones as well, were involved in this, patchy helicopter that went down a few days ago. Some people are speculating that it was also a part of this escort mission. But the fact that it was done without anyone knowing about it, including analysts that look at this day in and day out, is truly remarkable. It's absolutely stunning. So your gas hasn't spiked up. It was at $86 a barrel. Why? Because while everyone was wringing their hands. And I have to tell you, it has been a hard few weeks. When we keep going

back and forth with, are we going to have negotiations? We are on negotiations. We're off negotiations. We got a deal. We don't have a deal. It's been really difficult. Somebody, I think it was chicks on the right. I was on their show a couple of days ago. I think it airs next week. And I said, they asked me, Glenn, what would you tell the president? I said, what would I tell the president? I wouldn't tell the president anything. I don't have any information. I don't have inside information. I don't have the access to the intel that he has. I'm pretty sure he has a plan. I don't know what it is. But I don't feel I was qualified to tell the president without any kind of briefing on what is really going on. And I know he's being briefed by really, really smart people. Here's the thing. We are used to, we're used to the presidents that,

we've always had before. And what have we had before? Lawyers. They're all fricking lawyers. All of them have been lawyers. Tell me what lawyers build. Lawyers don't build a damn thing. Lawyers tell you what you cannot do, not what you can do.

For the very first time in my life, we have a builder. we have a guy who knows how to build, who knows how to solve problems, who can look at something and go, well, okay, we got to get it done, so here's how we do it. A lawyer looks at things and says, well, I see what we have to do,

but here's all the problems, we can't do that, we can't do that, we can't do that, we can't do that. If you've ever worked for a company that's run by lawyers, you know how much they suck. Get used to having a president who has a plan, who is a builder. This is what he announced yesterday. While we're expecting him going,

well, gee, I don't know. What are we going to do now? We used all our bombs. I don't know what else. This is a guy who says there's got to be another way. How do we get that oil out of there? And he assembles a team to figure it out, and they do it. I told you early on in this.

And I'm telling you now, too, don't count. this is the win. But don't, don't count everything as a loss. You don't know. Nobody can tell you what's actually happening. Nobody knows what's actually happening. Just, gosh, if you have been worried. And look, it's normal to worry about things like inflation because it's affecting you every day. And you're like, I don't have, I told you last few weeks, I've been telling you about everybody is just holding on, just need more time, need more time to need more time. And I said, it starts with you. You're looking at your bills every day. You're just like, hold on, hold on, just a little bit longer. Just hold on a little longer. I can make it if something breaks my way.

So I understand that fear in your own life. And I understand the struggle that you're going through. But there's no reason to take extra stress on yourself by worrying about stuff that nobody knows what's actually happening. This is not America First. Well, I don't know. Sure, the hell seems like America First to me if you can break the back of Iran and we can keep our

oil under $80 a barrel. I don't know. That seems pretty good. Here's the real question. Why did he just say that? Did he say it because they just said, what are you going to do about inflation? Maybe.

But we're in negotiation. why would he tell the world now? Because normally if something that you're doing covertly is working, you keep your mouth shut. You don't announce your covert successes. You especially don't announce them when you have negotiations happening. So why did he do it? Well, I came up with three different things. I put them up on the chalkboard. Let me give me one minute. I'm going to go to the chalkboard. I'll show you the three, the three reasons I think he did it, which should actually give you, even more hope that, you know, hey, looks like we have a competent person for the first time in the White House. We don't have a freaking lawyer. We actually have somebody who's a builder and can figure

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So why would he announce it to the world when it's working? Why not just keep going? I came up with three reasons, and I have no idea if any of these are true. What's going through his head? I have no idea. I have no inside information. But just trying to understand Donald Trump and understanding him the way I do, let me give you three options.

First one is really simple. It's poker. He's playing poker. Remember, the guy bluffs, the guy knows how to move. He is a negotiator. So he's sending a message to Iran and a very specific message. And here's the message. We already beat your biggest leverage point. Okay. What is that? It's always been the straight of our moves. Every president has worried about it. Every oil trader has feared it. Every military planner has studied it. The threat has always been Iran could choke off. the global oil supply and oil will be $200 a barrel. Well, Trump just declared that's not going to happen. Fail. If that's the message, then it is aimed directly at the negotiating table. Imagine a poker player. They're sitting there and they've got, you know, I don't know, three kings. And they're like, we got three kings.

And then the other player takes his cards and lays them face up on the table. He's got four aces. And you're looking at your hand and you're like, oh, crap. That changes the negotiation immediately. Trump is shaping expectations before the deal. You got nowhere to go. I am not afraid of you. Remember, the one thing that I learned from him that is innate in him,

it's this. When he was down on the ground in Butler, Pennsylvania, I asked him, what were you thinking? what was going through your head. He said, get the hell up. You want to be the President of the United States? You're not afraid. You're the leader of the free world.

Get the hell up. Show them you're not afraid. We don't cower to people. That was his first reaction. Wouldn't have been mine. But that's who he is. So that's what he's doing. In negotiations, he's like, we're not afraid of you.

I think we're afraid of you? You have no leverage over us. You want. and need the other side to be in a stare-down contest and let them look away first because they realize, oh, God, this guy's not bluffing. And we're in worse situation than we think we are. So this statement says, your military is defeated. Your economy is collapsing.

Your biggest weapon against us, you know, be it nukes, that's gone, or this. That's now gone. These are not random comments. these are negotiating positions, almost like opening arguments deliberate publicly. Now, there's two other possibilities. The second possibility is aimed at China. People forget China imports enormous quantities of Middle Eastern oil from the Strait of Hormuz. If America can keep Hormuz functioning while Iran can't stop it, then Trump is reminding Beijing of something American presidents have quietly understood for generations.

the U.S. Navy remains the guarantor of global commerce. China can build all the factories you want. You build all the ports, all the ships, all the cars that go on the ship. You'd build all of it. We control the oceans. That is a message that every major power understands. Third possibility is you. He knows what you're feeling.

He knows you are beginning to freak out. and you're like, what are we doing? What are we doing? What's the plan here? What's the plan? He wants you to understand that you're not just not experiencing a massive energy shock. The price of gas has gone down recently. Have you even heard anybody mention that? No. He wants you to see that. He wants you to think about what you would have seen if oil had hit $200 a barrel. Gas stations, inflation, higher grocery bills, higher heat, beating costs, political panic. If the administration believes it prevented that outcome, it wants Americans to know. It also wants you to know, we're close to victory. Now this is pure

speculation and hope. We're close to victory. As he said yesterday, once this war is over, it's at $80 a barrel today. Once this is over, what do you think you're going to be paying? What do you think is going to happen to inflation? All right, let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. It's Mercury 1. This summer, we turn 250 years old and of all the generations who have ever lived in this country, all the people who have ever called themselves Americans, we are the ones who get to stand here at this milestone. God put us here. And that raises an important question. What are we going to do with that gift? Because America's story is under attack and it is being rewritten, distorted, and reduced to a caricature of itself. A whole generation is growing up without really understanding the extraordinary,

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We're entering the holidays. Everybody is trying to make plans for 4th of July. And when you're making plans for 4th of July, you're usually going to think about taking your kids someplace. And you get into a car or you buy an airplane ticket. And you buy that airplane. ticket or you stop at that gas station and you're like, good heavens, man, this is out of control. You couple that with the psychology of the American people that right now, even his supporters, even Jason, you said this the other day and I said this to some degree the other day as well.

Look, I am concerned. I don't know what's happening. I don't know how you get out of this thing. And you were like, I think we have to put ground troops in. I'm like, I'm not going to know. I don't want ground troops. No, no, no, no. And you're like, Glenn, I don't see a way out of this.

So we've both been very supportive of this is America first. This is important. But then even his ardent supporters were saying, I don't see a way out. I don't know how we're going to do this. And that's because both of us know you can't give them a win. two, you have the possibility of $250 to $250 barrel of oil. Okay? That is why this, every president has said we, Iran has got to be stopped.

Iran's got to be stopped. Iran's got to be stopped. But they won't do anything about it because they know that could mean $150 to $250 a barrel of oil. that collapses the Western economy. We are not built for anything near $150 a barrel for oil. So it collapses everything. We know that. We've been told that our whole life.

He's taken this whole war and oil has not gone past $112 a barrel. That's expensive at the gas pump. but that's not 150 or 200. And so what causes that is, oh, God, are we going to send ground troops in? Are we going to, is this thing going to get bigger and bigger? Is this never going to stop? How are we going to get that oil out of there? Donald Trump has been doing a secret military operation that we don't even know how he did it yet,

but they were taking boats out in the middle of the night, these oil tankers that were full of oil, taking them to the other side of Oman, taking that oil, pumping them, on to other ships and then having the empty ships go back and park in the morning exactly where they were. And so everybody's like, oh, ships aren't moving. Oil's not moving. It was moving. That's why before this announcement, it was $86 a barrel. Why? Why was the price of oil so low when everybody was feeling like this is going poorly that we're not going to have, we're not going to have an end of this war? That doesn't make any sense. And did you notice nobody was talking about it?

All they could talk about was the high price of gasoline. Jason, how much was gasoline in Texas four weeks ago at its height, three, four weeks ago? 104? It was $104. No, I mean gasoline. I was like, you're paying $104 a gallon. Yeah, that would be bad. About $4 here in Texas.

Okay. Texas is always the best on gas prices. Okay, about $4. What was it, I don't know, 10 days ago? 10 days ago. It was... Time before last. Trying to look at stats right now.

Just to tell you what it wasn't Florida. Do you remember? What was it? It was almost $5 a gallon. There was almost $5 a gallon in South Florida. What is it today? Do you know? When I left, I passed a station today and it was like 319 a gallon.

319 a gallon. So it was $4 in Texas a few weeks ago. It's 319. Notice nobody was talking about that. That's almost a dollar drop in the price of oil and things are going horribly. I think one of the reasons, and I said this earlier, one of the reasons is he needs to tell people who are his base who understand that this. had to be done. I've got a plan.

I've had a plan. But no one is noticing that the plan is working and your price of gasoline is going down. It's almost at $3 in Texas. You watch. We'll see what it is next week. That it's going down. And that's always slower. And nobody wants to say it.

So I think a really important reason why he announced this yesterday was for people like us. Guys, could you relax? I got it. You refused to even notice that it's not gone over $112 a barrel. You refuse to even notice that. That's a miracle. That's a miracle.

It is. That is as big as anything that happened in Venezuela, that we've just done war with Iran, and it's not gone over $112 a barrel. And today we haven't negotiated a ceasefire In fact, it's kind of rocky on the ceasefire thing or the peace treaty. And it's at $80. We're just not used to a lawyer being our president.

We're not used to a builder being our president. All right. Let me ask you about a couple of other things. You remember that CIA officer who was just nabbed. He had gold bars. He had all kinds of stuff. It looks like now he was running his own CIA kind of program. and he was setting up his own spy agency.

What the hell is this story? Jason, you've been following this. What the heck? What is this? I thought this hit peak, what the heck is going on to the CIA when we first heard about this story. But when you first heard about the story,

if you recall, they had gotten this guy that was in the CIA and they found gold bars in his house. And we were like, you know, normal corruption? What's this all about? Well, the story today, via the Washington Post, said that he was doing it.

a little bit more than just collecting gold bars. He had constructed his own special access program, what's called a sap. So basically the way the top secret system works, you know, the classification system works, multiple people have top secret clearances, which means you have the ability to know pretty much anything. But the way they give the need to know is they provide certain categories and a sap designation. So if you don't have the need to be read into this, you can eventually be read in, but you're going to be excluded from this information. Well, he somehow constructed his own special access program within the government. I don't know how you do that, but I don't know how you do that unless you have.

Well, wait, wait, wait, wait. You don't know how you do that. I'm assuming you're saying unless you have all kinds of help from the inside, right? That's where I was going. Yes. Yeah, okay. But I mean, you would think that, okay, so this guy probably wasn't read into anything else, probably wasn't involved with anything.

Well, that is wrong as well. He worked at the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology. He also worked with a program involved of, quote, continuity of government operations or programs to keep the federal government running in the event of nuclear war and natural disasters or catastrophes. This is how, Glid, you get the stuff that we're like, okay, I'm just going to throw out some wild ones. But like how, you know, people are like, how do you have like, you know, stuff like aliens getting through administration and for administration or whatever? Or let's get away from that. Black ops programs that nobody else in the government knows about. Isn't it because the CIA is just doing CIA things and this is how it operates?

Yes. Yes. Yes. This is the deep state. This is what, I mean, I'm telling you, the CIA is out of control. Ricky. Jason and I were very excited about this story in the meeting. One thing we forgot to mention is that he reported to the number two Pentagon official. So it's not like this guy is just doing these operations willy-neally on his own. And it's also not probably a coincidence or an accident that he's one of the few people that's been publicly charged with a crime that used to work for the CIA. The CIA wants you to know this. Also, these guys have to pass really strict psychological exams.

and now I'm wondering if the test is, you got to be psycho in order to work for the CIA. Oh, I think so. I mean, you watched, have you watched the Bond series? You know, with Daniel Craig? You watched all those? Okay. Yeah.

So you remember what M used to say? If we can control him. If we can control him. You know, we got to get somebody who's badly damaged because that's the only kind of guy that's going to do this work. And we can trust that they'll be willing to do it and they'll do it well if we can control him. I think this is exactly the kind of guy our CIA looks for.

And this guy probably will tell you today, he could probably sit in front of you and say, I'm a patriot. I'm an absolute patriot for what I was doing. And I don't know what he was doing. But, I mean, you know, that was when, first admitted that, you know, he had, what was it, like 12 gold bars or some crazy amount of gold.

We're not talking about like little teeny, you know, little teeny gold bar. We're talking about gold bars. You don't, where do you get that? I don't even know where you buy gold bars like that. I have no idea. Here's what you do. You go into the CIA and you're talking to somebody who knows about what you're doing. You're like, I need some gold.

They'll get you the gold. They'll get it for you. You get it from Saudi or you get it from a, you know, some sort of a, what do they call those property cages where they've taken it from somebody else. And now it's in an evidence room. And gee, what happened to those gold bars in the evidence room? Gee, I don't know. I don't know.

Bob. I don't know. I mean, I wonder if the guy that Trump has just put in as a replacement for Tulsi Gabbard is strong enough to do this. this. I mean, I don't know anybody who's strong enough to do this. He doesn't have the expertise. So does he even know how this game is played? Because these guys, it's all black ops to them. And I think they're doing black ops on all of us. It's not good. So what do you think we find out about this? What comes of this, Jason? Well, my fear of how this progresses is that

this one name is the only one that gets focused on. And maybe that's just the way I think, but I'm highly suspicious that with the amount of highly classified projects that he is being linked to, or at least hinted around, and he's the sole name that's like, oh, don't look at us, just look at this dude. It was just this crazy corrupt guy. Are you kidding me? I think it goes a lot deeper, but if you start seeing that he is the only name being thrown out there, kind of think something fishy is going on with all of this. So what you're saying is he's the Eric Swalwell of the CIA.

Do we need to make up a song? Yeah. No, but think about it. He's the Eric Swalwell. He either outlived his usefulness or somebody who's going to get caught or whatever. And so they sell him down the river. You don't ever, nobody ever talks about,

wait, everybody was in on that Swalwell thing. Everybody knew it. Everybody knew it. And now just Swalwell's the bad guy? Uh-uh. It's the same story. These guys are running the same op on the American people over and over and over again. When are we going to wake up to it?

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find any California election where the person who came in third place suddenly, you know, suddenly beat number two. Beat number one. Wait, wait, wait, what happened? Yes, it does break for Democrats, but not like this. Historically speaking, that's according to AI. I don't know what's going on, but I have to tell you we need to investigate it because we have to have trust in the system and California does everything to violate that trust. I'll play some sound that is now coming out from the homeless that are like, yeah, I was paid to sign this. And all of these things came in after the election.

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I trust.com. So I want to play some audio here that we now have from, let me see. see if I can find it. We now have from the streets. It's cut eight. These are Skid Row homeless that were paid to vote. Listen to us. You live in Skid Row?

Another than Skid Row? Yes. On a ballot? Yes. How much they pay you? $5. I said here come and vote for these candidates. Yes, sir.

I told you who to vote for? Yes. So they told you to vote for Karen Bass or if you're on? Karen Bass. Do you vote for Karen Bass? Yeah. $5? Yeah.

Did you vote? Yeah. For Karen Bess? Yeah. Karen, they told you to vote for Karen? Yeah, they had to sign a little thing. And how much they pay you? Just like two bucks.

Two bucks? Or to sign off on a thing to vote for her? Yeah. They'd say, oh, do you want to vote for Karen or Nithia? Or are they just really just tell you to vote for Karen, huh? But they really just vote to her, man. They get you an optionable choice, but they tell you who they want to vote for. But they tell you who you want to vote for it.

It's like, oh, we'll give you $2 and, but you got to vote for it. one of these people. Well, you know, I'm a barter, man, so I got four dollars. And you're like, yo, give me four bucks and I'll do it. Yeah, why not? And so they do this for everybody out here? Yeah, they come out here all right. How often do they come down here? Probably like three times a week. Three times a week? Hell yeah. To get the ballots? Yeah. Wow. So you know other people too that voted too? Anybody's medicine? Doggy dog.

Wow. Let me tell you story. A group of guys came home from the war. It was spring and summer in 1946. They had left a McMinn County in Tennessee, and they left as boys and they came back as men. They had crossed an ocean and walked through hell. They had waited onto the beaches of Normandy. They had taken islands in the Pacific that you could fit in your backyard, one yard of sand at a time. They buried friends in that sand. They were men. about 3,000 of them, 3,000 of them came back to that one little county in the hills of East Tennessee, 1946. Their little town they realized had been quietly stolen while they were gone because some of the bad men stayed. Let me tell you what happened while they were gone. Memphis political boss, his name was Ed Crump.

He had reached his hand all away across the state. And back in 1936, he had installed a man named Paul Cantrell. as the sheriff in what the folks still call the vote grab. Once they had the sheriff's office, they had everything. They put a fee on the system. The deputies got paid per arrest. So the deputies had every reason in the world to arrest you. And they would shake down the travelers passing on the highway. They pulled people off of buses.

They fined them for drunkenness. They would invent it on the spot. Ten years, they squeezed like 300. thousand dollars out of ordinary people that way. This is in the Great Depression. And then every couple of years when an election would come, the voters would come out and the vote would always come out with control on the top.

And whatever he said, that's how it happened. The decent people in the county weren't stupid and they weren't silent in 1940. And then again in 42, again in 44, they wrote to the state attorney general and to the FBI. and they begged, begged for an honest election, help us. Nobody came. Nobody lifted a finger. Come to find out later. It's because the governor was also involved. But now it's 1946.

Men are coming home. And they see this. Now, they've just dealt with a dictator. They've just dealt with Mussolini, the emperor of Japan, and Hitler. And they're like, I'm not putting up with this here. so they did something that I want you to notice here. Listen to the whole story because it tells you everything about who they were.

They didn't form a Republican ticket. They didn't form a Democratic ticket. They formed a nonpartisan ticket. Three Republicans, two Democrats. They understood it's not a left or right fight. This is a right or wrong fight. For sheriff against Cantrell himself, They put up one of their own. His name was Knox Henry. He was a decorated veteran of the North African campaign.

They gave themselves a slogan, five words. And I want you to hear them because men were willing to die. They were willing to die for these five words. Your vote will be counted as cast. Actually seven. That was it. That was the whole revolution. count the votes the way people actually voted them. Well, they were meeting in secret that spring, never twice in the same place because they knew they were going to be tracked. And in May, they went public. And the machine answered the way machines always do. It was election day, August 1st.

Sheriff Mansfield brought in 200 armed men. He deputized all them. They were thugs. some of them hauled out from out of state. And they all stood at the polls to make sure the wrong people were too scared to vote. And they beat the GIs because the GIs had poll watchers. And there was just one or two at each poll. And they beat them bloody.

They locked some of them in jail. Then a black farmer named Tom Gillespie. He came out to cast his ballot. Deputy shot him. Good news. Gillespie lived. but that's what voting looked like in McMinn County in that first day of August in 1946. Votes over.

Now the machine has to make its move. The ballot boxes. So the deputies grab the ballot boxes off the table and they run them down to the jail. Bill, big solid brick jail. They locked the doors because they were going to count the vote. you know, all of the sheriff's deputies because they're the law. They know everything is on the up and up. They're going to do it in private, in the dark, because, well, that's just the way it is done.

We don't need people watching. Don't question us. Well, one of the GI leaders, a veteran named Bill White, he watched him do it. He understood exactly what it meant, you know. He's like, kind of with relief. Well, they've shown their hand. So all we have to do is take the jail. Okay. So they went and got their guns. Now, they didn't have guns. They went to the National Guard armory.

This is when we would keep our guns in armories. And they took down the very weapons. They had just carried across the whole world, the M1, the cold pistols. A couple of them took, you know, Tommy machine guns. They loaded them. Men had fought for three years fighting fascism on two continents. And in their own country, the thing that they crossed the ocean to kill had just set up shop while they were gone in their town square. One of them said, the principles we fought for in this war do not exist in McMinn County. And we fought because we believed in them. So they get their guns and they surround the jail in the dark. They took up firing positions on the embankment above it. They call out a demand. bring the ballot boxes out and count them in the open in front of God and everyone. Deputies inside refuse.

We don't know who fired first, but somebody fired, and then I cracked white open. For hours it went. Muzzle flashes in the dark glass and brick chips flying men wounded on both sides. Stubborn brick jail would not give. So one of the guys who had been in the, war and he was a munitions expert. He was in explosives. It was about 2 o'clock in the morning.

He was like, we're not going to get through that brick. So he goes back to the armory. He gets dynamite. He lights it. He throws it up on the jail's front porch. The blast tears open the front of the building. And the deputies, the tough imported gunmen who had been beating voters all day, surrendered.

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Now here's the part that makes this not a war story, but a American story. Through all of it, the gun battle, the dynamite, the riot afterwards when the deputies flip their cars and burn them in the streets, all of that night of fury, not one single person was killed, not a GI, not a deputy, not a voter, not one. when the sun came up over Athens, Tennessee, the veterans didn't march, you know, on the courthouse and the jail and crown themselves king of the county.

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And, uh, sun's coming up. it's been a night of just terror. The GIs are there. What did they do once the deputy surrendered? Did they go and announce that they were kings? No, first thing they did was they cleaned all the rifles. And then they carried them back to the armory. They returned them.

Then they brought out the ballot boxes. And they counted the votes in the open, in the daylight, the way they had promised. They threw out the boxes the machine had tampered with, and the honest ballots that were left told the truth that people have been trying to tell all along. The GI ticket swept every office. Two to one.

Knox Henry, he was now the sheriff. Not because he had won the gunfight, but because the votes said so. They had used the rifle to rescue the ballot. and then they laid the rifle down and bowed to the count. They did that before the count. That's the whole thing. That's the entire American bargain compressed into one night in Tennessee Hill Country.

The vote is not safe because the box is made of steel. It's safe only because somewhere there are people who still will not let it be stolen and who, you know, when the moment comes, they will step up and save it and hand power back to the count and not keep it for themselves. That's the hard part. That is the genius of George Washington. That is why people did this. I can guarantee you these guys were fans of George Washington.

Because at the time, people knew that that's exactly how he behaved. These men had already saved democracy once. It was an ocean away. In countries, most of them couldn't have found on a map just a few years before. Now they came home, found out they had had to do it one more time on their own street against their own crooked government. And they did. And they gave their guns back. Almost nobody knows their names now.

Nobody remembers Knox Henry, Bill White, Tom Gillespie, bleeding at the polls so the rest could vote. I'm telling you this story, so you'll remember them. Because the next time somebody says to you, you know what, this correct. so out of control, the ballots don't matter. It doesn't matter if I voted. Or you can't defend, you know, and get an honest vote. Or that good men and women won't stand up when it's stolen. You tell them about the night the soldiers came home to Athens, Tennessee.

You tell them that their only goal was to have your ballot counted as you cast it. You tell them that after they fought for it, they laid their guns. down, put them back in the armory, and then counted the votes without guns in front of everyone. I don't know. I'm certainly not suggesting you pick up guns in California. I'm certainly not suggesting that. But I am telling you, you do have to take a stand. You do have to stand up and say, enough is enough. Remember, their people had done it. All of their people had done it since the, you know, since the war began. So for five years from 41 to 46, well, all the good men were gone. And that's the key. All the good men are not gone. They're not gone. We don't have a war where all the good men are gone.

That's, that was what happened to that town. All the good men, all the strong men were gone. And so it allowed corruption. All the good men in our day, I don't know, they're in hibernation. But we don't need you to pick up guns. we just need you to wake up. That's what America needs. Everybody in this audience is praying that people in California will wake up. They'll notice. I honestly don't know if we can prove corruption in California because just like in Tennessee,

they have the law. They've passed laws that make it what they're doing legal. And when you say, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. there's so much smoke here. Just count them in the open. Just let's see the entire process. No. No. And the legislature and the governor just signed a bill that says anybody who questions it is in trouble. Anybody who casts doubt on it. Anybody who wants to see things out in the open. No. They've just made it. They've just put it deeper into that sheriff's office, put it behind that

cement wall that nobody's going to get through. We've been here before. We've solved these problems. Now, what's the modern way of solving them? Not with guns. But I'm telling you,

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All right. We were just talking about the election. And I told you the story of Athens, Tennessee. Ricky, in the break, she comes back and she's like, my heart broke for those people who are on the streets, those indigent people who are on the streets. Because if you look at them, especially that one woman, she's clearly addicted horribly to something. I don't know what. And she's talking about how, yeah, they come down here three times a week and they, They ask us to vote for people. They tell us who to vote for and we sign and we vote for whoever they tell us to vote for and they give us two bucks. Ricky? Yeah, I was just struck by the contrast of you talking about how much they valued their vote and democracy in Athens, Tennessee so many years ago

and how little elites in California do when they are willing to throw away the principle behind what we try to do during elections. or a couple of bucks in a pack of cigarettes. I'll just give it to the homeless. You know, like it's a quick trade, and it's a soulless trade, and it's disgusting. And you know what? You know what the difference is, I think, why that can happen now,

and it didn't in Athens, Georgia? Because people knew what the country was. They knew the story of the country. They knew the value of liberty. They knew the value of the vote. They knew that we were different because they had World War II. The guys had World War II. They saw what fascism was really like.

They saw what was really happening around the rest of the world. And they came back and they were like, you know, the people of Athens, they didn't sell it out. They were trying, but no one would listen to them. The guys come back and like, we're not put, we just took dictators out. We are not going to have them here. And so they knew the value because they knew the history of the country. They knew what their rights actually were and the responsibilities that each individual has. But I contend, you know, it's really sad because these people are addicted.

They are, I mean, when you will sell some, you will sell your birthright for $2, you're addicted. You have, I mean, they're just trying to survive. They're trying to get to their next fix or hit or whatever it is. You know, get a sandwich or something, $2. when you'll sell your birthright for $2, that's sad. But I contend those same elite organizers could go to Rodeo Drive and just change the price. And Americans who are not struggling, they don't know what the country actually is. They're not paying attention.

They have no, there are no connection to it. And somebody could come up to them as they're standing in the Ralph Lauren store and say, hey, you like all that stuff? I'll give you $1,000 right now. you just vote for this. And I'll bet you they would have the same reaction the people that are homeless have. So I just told you the story of Athens and they solved it with guns. You don't have to do that. You just have to stand up. Let me give you the solution. Okay. Donald Trump just tweeted, no other president has been more committed to rebuilding our great military and saving our great country.

And now is the time to make it happen for generations to come. I'm hereby calling on the Republicans in Congress to immediately, capital letters, advance in the forthcoming $350 billion reconciliation bill, Recon 3, which at the request of our great Department of War, will include the Save America Act as well. No games, no delays, no weak compromises, do this now. This is generational investment on our military, even bigger than President Reagan's. Recon 3.0 is the only path to the full $1.5 trillion dollar military budget our warriors need in order to build the arsenal of freedom. We will defend the homeland with the Golden Dome, launch the unstoppable Golden Fleet,

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Five, no transgender mutilization surgery for our children. Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump. These are all common sense things. We can argue about the military, but I think our military, if we don't, President Trump is going to be the only one that will rebuild our military and it will rebuild it for generations to come. And I think that is very, very important. Everything is about to change.

have to be on the cutting edge. We can argue about that one, but not to save America Act. That's the thing that has to pass. You now have 50 votes. They don't have to, they, they have 50 votes. Pass it with 50 votes. If they enact the filibuster, that is not constitutional. The way they are using it now, it is not constitutional. It's not in any law. It is a, it's a Senate rule. Our founders, were against it. George Washington, Jefferson, both said it is ruled by majority, not super majorities. This has to packs. You want to stop what's happening in California, pass the Save America Act. Now, Jason has been working on this theory, and I think he's right that this is what's happening in California is a Rosetta Stone. It is letting everyone see exactly what they've been planning

and how they're doing it. And they're just putting it out on the table now. They're letting everybody see. And he thinks it's going to be their undoing. I do too. Jason? Yeah. You know, when you think about the Rosetta Stone,

we've talked about this all week, but, you know, it was the arrogance of the king of Egypt that basically allowed researchers to be able to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics. The arrogance, as seen through California, on what happens when you have these ridiculous blue state election laws, I truly believe that we have reached a tipping point. We have reached that, you know,

I am not going to put up with how arrogant you are on this anymore. I was just watching a podcast with Jillian Anderson. No, not Jillian Anderson. Michael's. Jillian Michaels, yeah, with Jillian Michaels, where she was saying the exact same thing. She said before, when she heard things about stolen elections, all that stuff, you know, in 2020,

everyone thought he was crazy. Now she's saying, look, now I'm looking at these election laws in a completely different light. I think that is going to spread. I don't think you could pass a reconciliation with everything he said before, pre-California. Post-California,

I think you would be an idiot not to support this. So you said you were reading scriptures this morning. Yeah. Stuck out right in my head, Proverbs 1618, Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

How does that not explain today, Glenn? So I told you, when you told me that this morning, we were praying in our meeting, which we always do, and you brought this up, the scriptures that you wanted to talk about that. And you said, I think this is their arrogance going to fall. I've told this story maybe a couple of times before. And I remember in 2009 or 10 when everyone was after me. I mean, I, you know, it was funny. I was just talking to, who was it? I can't remember. But a big name in journalism on our side.

And they said, Glenn, you know, they trained on you. You were the first one that they used everything to see what would work. Cheryl Atkinson wrote a book about it. I'm the first chapter. And she was like, he's the guinea pig. And I was surrounded. And nobody knew how this. was happening. I did. We were doing our research, too. It was media matters. It was the Soros Foundation,

Tides Foundation, all these NGOs. But nobody had ever seen it. So nobody knew it. So I would say that, and people would go, yeah, yeah, right, dude. It's kind of like what you said about stealing the election. Well, now it's all out. And I was praying so hard because it was really, it was touch and go. I didn't know if we would survive. And I'm praying. And I'm like, Lord, help me. How do I destroy my enemies? Help me.

Help me. Help me. And in one of the clearest rebukes I have had, I've had a couple rebukes from him. And they were really clear. Boy, he will. He loves to rebuke me. But I'm praying. And it was so clear.

And it was almost said, it wasn't angry. He doesn't seem to be angry ever with me. but he is very clear. It's kind of like when your dad would say something, you'd be like, okay, don't mess with dad. Okay, dad, whatever you say. The first thing he said was, these are not enemies of yours,

they are enemies of mine. And I was like, okay, okay, okay. My arrogance, thinking they're my enemies. They're not. They're enemies of his, and he'll deal with them. we're just supposed to do what we're supposed to do. What he was saying to me, I've interpreted it as. Glenn, just do what I ask you to do.

Forget about your enemies. Because they're not yours. They're mine. I will deal with them in the end. You may be a casualty, but I will deal with them. I have a plan. Okay. The next thing he said was,

and in their arrogance, they shall fail. I have held on to that for 15 years waiting to see. And it is so true. They get more and more arrogant. They pull their mask off. And they're like, yeah, well, we are Marxists. Yeah, well, we do believe in mutilation of your children. Yeah, well, we are. We are just making cheating legal now. So you can't do anything about it. They are so, they want to mock you. They want to tell you how superior they are. That's the arrogance. And that is, and so what you read today in scriptures and it struck you, I can testify to you. That's what I heard in my prayers 15 years ago. And I've been watching it happen. And that is how it's going to end. We have to be humble enough to recognize it.

We have to be humble enough not to go after vengeance or compromise ourselves. If we company, that's why I hesitated to tell you that story about Athens because it involves people going and getting guns. We do that. We're done. We're done. He has a plan. He has a plan. We're just required to do what we're supposed to do. And that is, expose it and stand. So when the president says, pass the Save America Act, that's what we should be concentrating on. And I know you're tired. No, you think it's not going to happen.

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attempt in Butler on Donald Trump. I don't know what the truth is. I don't know if something is being hidden, but I don't like it when we can request through FOIA, the Freedom of Information Act, and a government stonewalls. When a government is stonewalling information, that tells you something. There's something wrong here. Well, Tom Fitton is a president of judicial watch, and I have been watching these people since the Clinton scandals back in the 90s, and they have always been on the side of right. They have solved so many problems.

They have exposed so much corruption over the years. But this time they're going after the FBI, or not going after, they're just wanting some information. They've been filed FOIA request, and the FBI is stonewalling him. Now Tom Fitton, and Cash Patel, who I also think is a good guy, they are back and forth at each other's throats, and I don't understand it.

I don't understand what is going on here. I think there's a problem that we're not allowed to see here on what was going on in Butler, Pennsylvania. I don't know what the truth is, but I trust Judicial Watch, they know at least the right questions to ask, and the powers to be don't like the question. being asked. That tells you something. Tom Fitton is here to explain all of it and give us perspective

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and we asked the FBI for documents about the investigation. They didn't give us anything. We finally sued last year. They started giving us a few documents a month beginning this year, telling us they had 75 total they needed to review. We got some interesting material showing, for instance, that the shooter got into an argument with Trump supporters then immediately went up on the roof.

I didn't know that, did you? No, I didn't. What was the argument? What happened? Well, he was, according to the witness to talk to the FBI, he was making derogatory comments about Trump, either on the phone or recording on the phone while he was doing it. And other people talked about arguing with him as well,

and then he went up on the roof, and a few minutes later shot the president. And so we got a new batch of documents recently. And the documents essentially said they were heavily redacted. There were just 48 pages. They had hundreds they'd withheld completely. And they said that here's a list of interview subjects, including Butler deputies that we talked to. And the next page was literally a blacked out document suggesting that a communication with crooks occurred, two emails before the shooting.

and it made it look like deputy said, you know, it was the deputy. So we reported that out. FBI sends out a tweet saying it's a lie, it's clickbait, we're fake news, we're a laughing stock, because it turned out the underlying email according to them, and I don't have any reason to disbelieve them, was that it was too, he had emailed his instructor and the FBI talked to him that wasn't a deputy. And we're like, okay, well, that's fine. Why are you calling us a liar?

We'll fix it, and we did fix it. And by the way, why are we gotten the 75,000 pages? Why did you withhold that information initially from us, et cetera, et cetera? At the rate they're releasing the records on the Butler investigation, Baron Trump will be president before we get them all. And, you know, 75,000 pages isn't a lot for the government to review, especially when you're airing on the side of transparency, which they are not. So when I saw the response from the FBI, I like Cash Patel.

I don't think he's covering up for, you know, somebody trying to kill. I don't know what's happening. I don't know what's happening. But I don't think he's a bad guy. And I know who you are. And I know what Judicial Watch has done. And I don't know anybody who is a conservative who doesn't look at judicial watch and go, thank God, they've been there several times. So when I saw, you know, they're liars, it's clickbait, I was just really confused.

I'm like, wait, why are these two suddenly enemies? It's one thing, I mean, first of all, if you will release something about me, I would pick up the phone and I would call you. And I'd say, Tom, what are you doing? That's not, and we'd have a conversation first. If you chose not to change it or correct it, then I would come out and say, I don't know what's happened to Tom at Judicial Watch, but, you know, they're lying about this. And I just talked to Tom about it. Did you get a call from them? Was there any?

Because you're not an enemy of the conservative movement. No, I mean, you know, it's a FOIA lawsuit. You know, we get documents and we say people what we think is in them based on our experience. Right. And they said, you know, you know, no one came to us and said that's wrong or here's more information. By the way, they still haven't given us the backup information for what they say. I presume it's they may have given it to a reporter. But it's, you know, that doesn't mean anything to us from a legal perspective.

But, you know, we updated the press release. He hasn't taken down the tweet. It's juvenile. It's unprofessional. And I tell you, you say, what's going on? Nothing's going on with us. We sue the government when they don't give us documents. And we don't understand why in this day and age under President Trump, we're still getting stonewalled.

You know, there's no public official who works for Trump who wants to hear that from us. But it doesn't mean you called me a liar, called Judicial Watch a liar. And, you know, I'm trying to figure out how election it could be being stolen right now in California or ruined or otherwise. And then I have the FBI director, you know, making our lies miserable by making false statements about us and promoting them. Okay. So what do the documents you have? what do they tell us about the shooter or the investigation or the assassination attempt? What new questions are there?

What do you think you're looking for? And what have you found so far? You know, our view is we don't want to prejudge what went on in terms of the investigation or such. We just want to know what the investigation on cover. Are there other questions that need to be pursued? you know, it's pretty rare than when a president is nearly murdered. Certainly there was an innocent who was murdered that day.

And it was a complete failure by the Secret Service. I don't know what the FBI's involvement was in that security failure under President Biden. But, you know, I think these documents might illustrate that. Are there leads that weren't followed? For example, in the documents we received, there are, I think, two instances of witnesses saying, you know, this car zoomed away. Another car zoomed away. And they thought it was significant enough to share with the FBI. There's no further information as of what was done with that information, but that's curious. And then, of course, we have, you know, a further confirmation of the security

failures where there is a, where there's a confrontation between the shooter and Trump supporters, and he climbs up on the roof and evidently, there's, no security anywhere that paid attention to that or noticed it. What is the thing about the, what is the thing about he had something in his pocket and it had a little antenna on it or what, what's that? Yeah,

I don't, I don't know what that is. Was it a bomb device? I mean, there's some evidence that there was talk of a, you know, potential bomb device that was attached to a car attached to him, uh,

or linked to him. But, you know, I don't know that. detail of that. And this is the sort of thing. It's like, well, tell us, you know, give us the documents. And the documents are what they are. And if we're misinterpreting them because of something you hid from us, well, unhide it, we'll fix the record, which is what we're trying to do. So, you know, my question is, why is it we've waited two years to get these documents? Why are you

still rolling them out? And instead of focusing on getting more information and more transparency, So issues like this don't arise where we completely misread something because it's something that that could have been produced, wasn't produced. Let's just get it all out. As far as I'm concerned, they should be redacting nothing for practical purposes. Nothing. If you talk to the FBI, I want to know your name in the shooting investigation of President Trump. I don't see why the public doesn't have an interest in the names of witnesses there that day. you know, this is the sort of thing we're fighting, or, you know, and they have all sorts of reasons for holding material and keeping it secret.

And I encourage your listeners to go to our website. They can look easily at the documents I'm talking about in the prior documents we released and see if they're satisfied with the level of disclosure by this FBI under Cash Patel. So, I've talked to the president about this briefly because he does not. not like talking about it. He is, you know, he's a speak it and it becomes kind of guy. And so he does not like talking about it. And I have gotten mixed signals from him. I have gotten signals I would like to know. And my feeling is, I can't quote anything from anybody or, but my feeling is his family

does not believe, uh, that they have enough information on this and they, they are my feeling again is that, they are concerned as much as I am about his security, that there's something wrong. But he will always say, nope, I'm happy with everything. Have you talked to the president about any of this? Yeah, I can't say one word. But let me tell you what I think about the security. I live here in D.C.

And if I could, and I would go down and sit with the president 24-7 to try to protect. them. I'm so worried about him. I don't think he's secure enough given the Secret Service protection. I mean, the proof is in the pudding, right? He's had nearly three assassination attempts, two of which got, you know, really close to him. Obviously, he was shot once. And do I think the Secret Service is up to the task? I don't think there's any demonstrated record they are. And I'm extremely nervous about it, and that's one of the reasons I'm kind of very interested in what went on in Butler, because I want to know what went on. So there's at least ability for some public pressure to have some fixes that haven't been applied yet. I don't think Congress has looked into this

sufficiently. And I understand the president. You know, he's got the Secret Service around him. And what is he going to be doing, yelling and kind of yelling, you know, depressing the morale of the guys who are protecting him now. You know, he's, he's got a lot on his plate. And it's up to us, frankly, to kind of police the agencies as well because we don't want our president or his family or other innocent's hurt again. And it's, I think these are dangerous times. And my instinct is with the FBI, given the crazy response by Cash and his people, that

there's something in the record that makes the FBI look bad. in the way they handle the investigation or others. He wasn't there. But institutionally, I mean, I don't. But Cash wasn't there. But everyone else at the FBI likely was in terms of, you know, there are only a few thousand people who retired since Cash came on. He's only fired about 140 people.

I mean, he's got a handful of people that are his people. Everyone else are career. So institutionally, the FBI protects itself. And I don't know if that's the answer or the reason, but, you know, you ask why. It's like, well, I don't know. It's not an issue from us. We're used to suing administrations, even administrations putatively friendly to us. So the president's a friend of mine.

You know, there's probably no one suing the administration more than me. So I know what, I know what, you know, how to do this. Cash doesn't, I don't understand what Cash's issue is. And, you know, in irrespective of that, I don't care what his personal issue is with judicial watch. He can't call us the liar. He can't misuse or allow his agency's, his agency to be misused to attack us. And secondly, he's got an obligation to follow the law to release the records under law. We have a lawsuit now, Glenn. You know why we have a lawsuit? Because they're not following the law. So right now, the FBI and the Justice Department

aren't following the law and transparency on this assassination. attempt of Trump, and they're holding documents back from us and slow rolling documents back from us that could document how the FBI and or the Secret Service really screwed up the protection of Trump under Biden. And I think Biden, I think the lack of security was purposeful, and I don't understand what the, other than like the institutional inertia that we just can't like that stuff get out about the agencies, no matter who's running. This is a huge mistake. Tom, thank you.

I mean, I don't know. I mean, maybe we should have, maybe we should run a therapy session between, you know, for cash and me. But, you know, I don't care. You know, I just don't want me, me and my people attack like this. It's dangerous these days to have the FBI say things like that about you. That's dangerous. Tom. That's a dangerous fear.

Thank you for appearing on the program. Thank you for all the work that you guys have done and are doing. keep it up. Judicialwatch.org. They can always use your support. Judicialwatch.org. We'll be following this. All right. More in just a second. The preciousness of life isn't something you, you know, only have to convince expecting mothers of. Expecting fathers need to hear it too. Many men don't feel like fathers right away. Sometimes men don't feel comfortable saying, I really think it's always deferred to the woman. And some of that is because they're terrified. of the responsibility that lands on their shoulders.

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Glenn, I can't explain some of the things that I've seen with some of these multiple assassination attempts. I just cannot explain it. I don't know what is happening with the Secret Service with some of these protective details, but I do not like it. And I think there's a lot of questions that need to be asked and answered. I don't think that Cash is trying to protect the longstanding institution of the FBI or the deep state. I do think that Cash is trying to protect himself. I can't even imagine what it's like trying to navigate.

navigate the deep state coming from the outside end. No one wants him there. And I have to imagine that he's in survival mode. We'll never know the truth about what actually goes on with the people that are remaining from the Obama and Biden administrations that are still on staff. It's a huge black box. To the point about President Trump telling the people he's not worried about his safety, He will never admit vulnerability.

You know this, Glenn. Never. I think he's putting on a grave face for himself, for the institution of the Secret Service, and for the American people. He has to. He has to. And he also has to keep saying, I believe in the people around me. You can't demoralize them. I mean, he's in a really bad.

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this is what you probably heard from the mainstream media. I love inflation. Well, that's what the president said. He loves inflation. He doesn't care about the American people. No, he said, I love the inflation thing because when this war is over, you're going to, and then he went on.

And what did he say about that? When this war is over? He said, in fact, it gives me an opportunity to tell you something we've been doing that nobody has known about. why is gas coming down when things don't seem to be getting better, right? You've been hearing even people who have supported the president in this war, me included. I have been privately thinking, Mr. President, what are you doing?

What are you doing? What is the plan? What is the plan? Well, I said at the beginning of this, trust him. He does have a plan. I don't necessarily understand it, but he does have a plan. He's a builder. He's not like every other president who is a lawyer. Lawyers don't build anything. They don't have vision. They protect. Okay. The president has vision and it's America first.

And so what is his plan here? And I didn't know it until he said yesterday, we have taken a hundred million barrels out from underneath their nose and nobody has even seen it. We've done it in the cover of darkness. We've taken all of those ships that are. filled with oil, 100 million barrels, filled with oil, and we have turned their transponders off, and in the cover of darkness, through a military operation, nobody really knows how this has been done yet, we have escorted them out in the middle of the night because they've destroyed the radar of Iran, so they couldn't see these things. They move them out, they get them to Oman, they empty them, they put them into another oil tanker. Those oil tankers, then go ship them to wherever they're

supposed to go and the empty ones go back. So in the morning, they're sitting right where they were and everybody thinks they're full of oil and they're not full of oil. That's why oil, I mean, you have to understand the miracle of taking on Iran and it going so poorly, that's what everybody says, so poorly. And yet oil yesterday before this announcement was it $86 a barrel. Every expert will tell you if we take on Iran and they shut down the, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, straight of Hormuz, that oil will be at $150 to $250 a barrel. In this whole thing, on our worst day, it was $112 a barrel. How?

Well, we find out he's been smuggling oil out and been getting it out. That's why it was $86 a barrel. And this morning, when I got up, it was $80 a barrel. That's miraculous, miraculous. And it just shows the president is moving. forward and has a plan. And I explained the three reasons why I think he said this yesterday earlier on the show. If you missed it, make sure you go to glenbeck.com slash torch, become a member, and you can watch it.

Or you can also get it wherever you get your podcast today, but it's in hour one. And I think it's worth listening to. The other thing is, I want to talk to, I want to do something that I don't think anybody, I think we've forgotten how to do it, which is to actually have a sane argument and to have a discussion or an argument that is remains, you know, civil and makes progress, you have to understand the other side's argument and then build it up as strong as they do before you say anything against it. You have to prove that you understand the argument. And the argument is this, war with Iran is not America first. And I've heard this over and over again and a lot of people, even in my audience, believe it. And I'm not going to insult you by

pretending that your case is stupid because it's not stupid. It is serious. So let me first try to make it for you as well as I can. And if I get it wrong, please let me know. But as I understand, America first means exactly what it says. American lives, American treasure, American interest first. Now, you run that past the last 25 years plus. And you look through that lens, and the ledger on that is brutal. By Brown University's accounting, the wars launched after 9-11 has cost this country somewhere around $8 trillion. $8 trillion. The Iraq War alone was $2.5 trillion and 4,59 Americans dead, father, sons, daughters.

And what did we get? Nothing. We were promised quick, clean, self-financing. Liberation. No, we got a decade of funerals and power vacuum that ISIS walked right into. Same class of experts who sold us that war, who were so certain and so wrong, never paid a dime for it. And they're the same voices that are telling us to trust them on Afghanistan and the exit, which we got nothing out of. And now this one too. So, you know, you hired Donald Trump. I'm still arguing the other side. Donald Trump, he hired Donald Trump because he was against war.

You know that, I know that. He hates war. And so the non-interventionalist said, why on God's green earth would I go for another war? A war with Iran means dead Americans, gas prices through the roof, risk of dragging in Russia and China, a region we're going to be babysitting for another generation. And then you point to the Constitution and you say,

this is Congress's call. Okay, not a thing the president is supposed to decide. And all of that argument starts with a slogan, where is America first in any of that? That's the argument. And said plainly, it carries real weight. It deserves real respect and a real response. So I hope I've gotten the argument correct.

Let me respond to it. The trouble with the phrase America first is that everybody treats it like it's the end of the conversation. It's not. It's the beginning of the conversation. Well, it's America First. Well, okay, wait a minute. America First is a question. It's not an answer. It's a question. It tells you whose interest to weigh, but it doesn't tell you what the answer is. Sometimes putting America First means staying out. Okay. Iraq. That one was carved for us in blood. No, stay out. But sometimes America First, first means a regime that chants death to the U.S.

can't be allowed to set a nuclear warhead on top of its missiles because some things, once they happen, can't be contained or taken back, and the price of acting too late gets paid in cities. So both of those are America first, and everyone would agree except on timing, because what they'll say is, well, we didn't need, we didn't need to. We've been saying that for a long time. Yes, but that's opinion. Okay. If everybody was clear and we had found a nuclear missile that could travel to America and it had the nuclear warhead on it and we caught it just as they were about to launch it, no one would argue that's America first. So it's just timing. It's just timing. And execution. The slogan doesn't choose between them. Only the facts do. So neither side can hide behind America.

America first, okay? If you want this war, the burden is on you, and it's a crushing burden, and you don't get a wave of flag and skip it. Say, America first. Same with the other side. You have to show the threat is real and imminent, and that everything short of war has actually been tried and failed. You have to carry it to Congress and make the case to the American people in the daylight,

the way the Constitution demands. You have to look the mother of a 19-year-old in the eye and tell her exactly. what her boy is going to die for and why it had to be him. And anyone who can't clear that bar has not earned the right to start a war. That should be the standard. That's not Hawk. That's not dove. You know, America First is not a costume you throw on to, you know, win the argument.

It's a question that you're obligated to actually answer. So you have to answer it. I believe in my monologues over the last couple of months, I have answered that question because that's where I started. Is this even in our best interest? This is suicide. Oil could be $150 to $250 a barrel. That will collapse the West.

How do you win against people who have, they're in a death cult? They think if they die, it will still go for the glory of God and everything else. And they believe that they are hastening the return of the promised one, which is in Christian speak, the hastening of the end times. You can't negotiate with these people. I have not been able to see how this thing ends, but I am also not the guy in charge. And I believe that when we hire a president to do something,

and you fought as hard as you fought for this president. Did you, this is something I've always hated? You know, I've done this job. for a very long time. Fifty years next year, I've done this job. And I always hated when I was younger, people who'd hire me, I love your show. I just think it's great. And then they'd hire me and I'd get there and they go, I love your show. I love everything you do. Now change all of it. You're like, wait, why don't you just do it then? We hire somebody in the role of president. And especially when it's been fought as hard as this, did you mean the things you said about the president? You said about the

president? Did you believe that he was actually putting you first? Or was that just something that, you know, you kind of believed or didn't believe, but you wanted to believe? Because I actually did my homework and I believe, I don't agree with him on everything, but I believe he has America's interest first. I believe he hates war. However, he also understands like nuclear war can never be fought. And so there might be times that we have to stop it beforehand. I know he hates these continuous wars. I also know that he's a builder. He's a guy who has deep vision. So when everybody else is saying, he's just making this stuff up, this is where I've had a hard time recently, because I, and I've said it on the air, I don't have the information that he has. I don't, I'm not in

the meetings. I'm not hearing the planning. I'm not hearing the secret. details. I don't know what's going on, but I do trust that he does. I don't think he's senile. I don't think he's crazy. I do believe all the things I said about him. So what am I missing? Yesterday he told us. Yesterday he told us what you're missing. Guys, would you please relax? I have, I have been working on this problem. I have a plan. It's not stalled out. Well, I wish it would have been over. These guys are tough to beat. But I knew they'd be tough to beat.

And I knew we couldn't have $120, $250, $250 a barrel oil. I knew that. So I developed this plan and it's working. And I said at the beginning of the show, you'll have to listen because I'm out of time, you'll have to listen to the first hour to get, there's three reasons he said it. In my opinion, I don't know this for a fact. this is me guessing. But I think he said that yesterday for three possible reasons. And I think actually it comes down to all three reasons are valid. And there might be more in his book. But I think this

is why he said it. And the most important one I want to share with you is that he is trying to tell you, I see you. I understand the pain of the gas pump. You need to understand. Nobody is broadcast. Everybody's complaining. You notice when Biden was the gas prices were up. Nobody in the press was talking about gas prices. You were, I was, but nobody in the press was talking about it. And I've watched this over 50 years. People seem to only really care about gas when the mainstream media cares about the gas price. Notice that your gas price has gone down in Texas, almost a dollar in the last few weeks.

How? How? And nobody's talking about that. I think that's one of the main reasons why he said this yesterday. Look, I got to tell you because nobody's noticing gas is going down and everybody's saying this is going poorly. How can those two things be true at once? Answer, they can't. We're winning because I am playing a better game of chess than they are.

It's not over yet. But please, relax. Give me the benefit of the doubt. We have this. Make sure you listen to that monologue because you'll really understand the whole thing in case you don't follow it here. at glenbeck.com slash torch or wherever you get your podcast to be out a couple hours after the show is up. Okay, let me tell you about super sure. Every business owner has that list.

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