The Glenn Beck Program - We're Committing National Suicide | Guests: Ken Paxton & Rep. Chris Stewart | 2/25/22

Episode Date: February 25, 2022

Glenn and Stu discuss President Biden’s lackluster response to the Ukrainian invasion. The Left seems more worried about climate change and Italian vacations than Russia’s invasion. Pat Gray joins Glenn and Stu to discuss the Left's sociopathic priorities. Daniel Turner, founder of Power the Future, joins Glenn to discuss the need for America to lose its dependence on Russian energy. Rep. Chris Stewart joins to discuss Russia and the possibility of cyber warfare. Glenn talks with author Carol Roth about the banking system SWIFT and how to prepare for a possible economic crash in the wake of the Ukrainian invasion. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joins to discuss Texas' new law for reporting gender-transitioning procedures of children to CPS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is going to cripple Putin. I mean, assuming somebody's going to throw him down a flight of stairs as well. Otherwise, this is not really going to hurt Putin at all. We are a laughing stock. I've heard that they've blocked Putin from playing Ms. Pac-Man in... Yeah, not Pac-Man, not regular. MacMan, he can play, of course, but Ms. Pac-Man in Africa. And they're taking away his buy one Burger King sandwich and get the second one free.

They've taken that coupon away. Away? Away, yeah. From all participating locations? Well, not all participating locations. Just the ones in the Netherlands. Okay. Okay.

Just the participating locations in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands. Okay. That's pretty good. It's pretty strong stuff here. More over yet? after that? Well, nobody expected it to be.

Okay. Nobody expected it. They're not supposed to do anything. No. No, no, no, no. We were, I mean, yes, they're a deterrent, but nobody, nobody really thought they would deter. They would deter anything. That's ridiculous.

You're an idiot if you think the deterrence would deter. Thank you. My gosh, thank you. And by the way, I saw a guy homeless. He was out in front of the studios here. And I don't want you to think that I'm uncaring or anything. He was bleeding to death. He had a puncture somewhere like at his jugular.

Oh, wow. I handed him a Band-Aid, and I said, don't worry, let's try this for a month or so. And I'll come back and see how it's working. Oh, okay. So in a month, if he's still bleeding, I'll... It doesn't stop it right away. Exactly right. Nobody would expect that to work.

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By the way, here is the White House Deputy National Security Advisor talking to a Reuters reporter. Cut four, please. Targeting the Russian energy industry is totally off the table. Is that what you're saying, what I'm saying is that our measures were not designed to disrupt in any way, the current flow of energy from Russia to the world. Now, we have also said we're going to cut off Russia's access to cutting-edge technology. That technology can be used across many sectors. Oh. And so as it relates to Russia's long.

term productive capacity. We are seeking to degrade that capacity, but nothing in the short term as it relates to energy. Okay, good. So really, Russia makes all of its money with oil. Oil and wheat. So we're not going to disrupt them when it comes to oil. We don't want to do that. We don't want to do that.

In fact, the United States imports now. about 22, 23 million barrels of oil a month from Russia. Now, here's the good news. We've increased it by 623,000 barrels last week. So we're buying even more oil from Russia to be able to have oil here in the United States. and we don't want to do anything that would disrupt their flow of oil. But boy, we're going to hit them hard. We are going to hit them hard.

We're going to hit them in the financial sector. Now, we're still going to let them do international banking and transfers and everything with Swift. I mean, we don't want to do that. These sanctions, these sanctions here in the United States that we seem to be taking all by ourselves, they are really, really going to. hurt them. I mean, not in the energy sector again. And we're not targeting Putin. We wouldn't want to do that. I mean, he's the guy responsible, but do you really want to cut him off? I wouldn't. I wouldn't cut him off. He's going to, he'd have a hard time making his rent payments.

You know, he might have a hard time just buying a new suit. I mean, the guy needs new suits. You know what I mean? Don't cut him off. Let's cut off some other unnamed people. Well, if you sanctioned Vladimir Putin, they might return the favor and sanctioned the Biden family, who does a lot of international traveling, I've heard. Yeah. Well, we can't confirm any of that. No? No, the Secret Service just lost about three years of their travel records. Oh, darn it.

Yeah. And it's weird. They were the three years we were looking for. The exact three. The exact three where all of the suspicious travel was happening with Russia and Ukraine and stuff. They can't find it. When will the poor luck end? I don't know.

It should continue. I know. I don't. I don't know. But here's some good news. We are on all of the things that you care about. Now remember, we're not going to cut off the oil from Russia. No, we're not going to do that.

But this is going to cost you. You're going to start feeling some pain here. Because standing for our. our principles sometimes hurts. Oh my gosh. Thank you, Joe Biden for telling us that. No, I feel so much better that Vladimir Putin's not going to hurt, but the American people are going to hurt because you're standing, quote, for our principles.

No, it makes me feel much, much better. And what are our principles? Well, they have them in the right order. Here is John Kerry two days ago on Ukraine. Cut one. I'm very concerned about, I'm concerned about Ukraine because of the people of Ukraine and because of the principles that are at risk. Sure, sure.

In terms of international law and trying to change boundaries of international law by force. Right. I thought we lived in a world that had said no to that kind of activity. Me too. I hope diplomacy will win. But massive emissions consequences to the war, but equally importantly, you're going to lose people's focus. You're going to lose certainly big country attention because they will be diverted and I think it could have a damaging impact. So, you know, I think hopefully President Putin would realize that in the northern part of his country, they used to live on 66% of a nation that was over frozen land.

Now it's thawing. That sounds terrible for him. His infrastructure is at risk. And the people of the infrastructure is at risk. And so I hope President Putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate. My goodness. If global warming continues, some of his country might be livable. Wow.

What a terrible outcome for Vladimir Putin. He's putting his infrastructure at risk in 100 years. You don't know what's going to happen. You just don't know what's going to happen. So there's another reason why I don't think we should be. so harsh on Vladimir Putin, you know? Oh, really? And let's just give this some time, you know?

I mean, if I was over in Ukraine and, you know, I heard tough sanctions were coming and we're going to, we're going to sock it to him. Boy, this is going to, this will shake him to the core. We're not going to affect any of his, you know, key industries. And we're not going to sanction him. but we're going to call him a couple of names and then we'll check back in a month. I don't know about you, but as a Ukrainian, I would be like, who, thank you, United States.

Seriously, thank you. You were the one that really caused this with the pipeline. And then you told us to shut up and we shouldn't say anything about the, you know, the opening up of the pipeline with Germany. We were told, hey, don't wreck the. United States relationship with Germany and Russia. So sit down and shut up about it. I think as a Ukrainian citizen, I would love the United States.

Love them. You know, Glenn, I've noticed a little bit of criticism over John Kerry's comments. Really? Yeah. People are saying that maybe he's prioritized the wrong thing when it comes to the climate over the ongoing crisis. However, when you think about what the left has been saying for the past couple decades, the existential threat that is really putting us in danger is the climate. It's more important than Islamic extremism.

It's more important than a Russia that is expansionist. It's more important than China. It's more important than all of these things. So why wouldn't he say that? Wouldn't it be inconsistent for him not to blather on about the climate in the middle of this crisis? No, you're right. You're right. This is who he is.

This is what they believe. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And you know what? I like the compassion that so many people have. For instance. Really?

Oh, my gosh. This one, this one, you are going to be, you're going to be, I think, very upset. I don't know if you're going to be able to continue on with the show today. Oh, no. Yeah. I'm a little concerned about me as well. Here's Joy Behar yesterday. on Ukraine.

Estimates are 50,000 Ukrainians will be dead or wounded and that this is going to start a humanitarian crisis, a refugee crisis in Europe. We're talking about 5 million people that are going to be displaced. 5 million people. It's heartbreaking

to hear what is going to happen. I'm scared of what's going to happen in Western Europe too. You know, you just plan a trip. You want to go there. I want to go to Italy for four years. I haven't been able to make it because of the pandemic. And now this, you know, it's like who's going to, what's going to happen there? Yeah.

Oh my. No. No. No, I told you. I tried to prepare you for that. You can't just. No, five million displaced. Yeah, whatever.

50,000 dead. Shut up. The last part, though. The dead? No, no, no. The displaced? After that. I don't know what else is.

Joy wants to go to Italy. Well, yeah, of course she does. And she can't go. She can't go. What happens if what if a global war breaks out? And she can't go. She's been trying to get there for four years.

Four years. So long before the pandemic started. These people are despicable. Oh, the worst. Just despicable. She wants to go to, she's worried about her Italian vacation. I mean,

when you hear, when you hear the, the compassion of one of them saying, you know, and there's 50,000, displaced and it just breaks your heart the the the human toll that this is taking and then she just follows it up i mean we have to play it again i know it's terrible i mean you plan a vacation

you know to go to italy and uh you know first there's covid and i've wanted to go for four years and now this what's going to happen next my gosh i don't know joy i don't know well i've been importing slave children from the region. And I, my orders are all, they're on back order now. If there's a supply chain issue with all the slave children, I've been trying to import from the region. Can you imagine? No, the slave children being, being held up.

I bought some slave children from Joy. Hmm. You know? This is unbelievable. It is crazy. Again, it's completely consistent with who these people are, with who Joy Behar is, completely consistent. As Pat Gray notes, the most inappropriately named person in American history, Joy Behar.

Yeah, I hope she gets her vacation in. I hope so. I want her to have joy. Before, think about what she's saying. What's going to happen next? Is she going to be able to go before there's World War III and Italy is destroyed? It's like an episode of 24. You're racing against the clock.

I know. Will the world explode before she gets her vacation? I don't know. I don't know. I'm very nervous about it, though. I mean, we just live. We're living in a parallel universe. There is nothing about what I see on TV and what I see these people say that is connected

to a reality that I understand at all. I mean, seriously, tough, tough sanctions. I mean, except for oil. And Vladimir Putin himself. Like, we are going to buy, we buy what, 7% of our oil from Russia. We're going to go to, what, 7.5. 8 now. Europe is still buying the same amount of gas or more than they did last week. Vladimir Putin is not sanctioned.

I mean, in theory, Vladimir Putin could go on a vacation right now to Italy and not be sanctioned. They'd welcome open arms. Well, he would probably go to, I mean, he's wanted to go to Italy for a while. while. Yeah. And he's probably thinking, you know, maybe Italy, I'll hold off a bit, but I should go see Poland. Yeah. You know what I mean? It might not be there for long. It might not be there. You know, you might see some changes in some buildings. Some of those old historic buildings may be knocked down by a tank or two soon. So God bless Joy Behar. All right, let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. It's Relief Factory. Relief factor, Bill wrote in. He said,

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A tactical nuke went off. Millions are dead in Detroit today. and Stu, I know you've been trying to get a GM car for a while. I don't know how that's going to affect you. It's incredible. Yeah. You know. I mean, you order your car.

You wait six months. And then somebody goes and nukes the city. I mean, what are you going to do for your car? Did, I mean, how long are you going to wait now? And what will that nuke do to the climate? All the important questions and concerns. Oh, my gosh. Can you believe, you know, this is the biggest problem here.

People, I've heard some people say, like, I can't get interested in this. I mean, Ukraine and Russia. I mean, it's way on the other side of the world. I don't care about it. And I can understand that instinct. Like, you know, it's, we've got enough problems of our own. I get it. However, with these people in control, with these people having influence on the outcome of these

events, it is definitely, it's a non-zero chance that we all blow up because of this stupid thing. if there is a non-zero chance that somebody winds up doing something stupid, their side are ours, which winds up in a chain reaction that launches another world war. And then forget the freaking pandemic and what it did to our economy and what it did to lives. Imagine what that would do today. Well, the good news is Biden did say after the speech that if,

if Putin doesn't get his fourth booster, he's going to be labeled terrorist. Did you see, by the way, I was laughing at all, you know, look, all these war reporters are doing things that are brave and I would never do. Yeah. But like, I keep seeing them in these like subway, you know, cutouts, you know, they're down there. They're in the subway station. There's hundreds and hundreds of refugees. None of them wearing masks.

The reporters aren't wearing masks. we saw this one lady who's like I can't there's only a 35% vaccination rate in Ukraine what's going to happen with COVID she was not saying yeah that was a very viral tweet yesterday people were mocking it appropriately but the bottom line is like

do these things go away I mean like I they don't seem to care about any of this stuff when when it matters right when it's it's not just you know you're not you're not you're not virtue signaling about it obviously you shouldn't care about that type of thing at that point,

but it is amazing how things change. I mean, the pandemic just changed. It's just gone. And this is gone. Yeah, as will the Western way of life. And our climate. Yeah. Putin apparently got together with President Ping over in China.

And Jed, don't you miss that? I mean, I miss just that. I miss saying China. Jedda. I miss that. I can't say the word China without thinking Jedda. Anyway, apparently Putin... China. Putin and China got together.

And maybe that's why our president, you know, when asked, hey, have you consulted with Jeddah yet? He's like, I don't care to comment on that. Yeah. What, they're not taking your call? They're too busy on the phone. with Putin. Boy, this is going to work out well. Thank you, Joe Biden. And thank you to everyone who wanted to see a return to normalcy. Thank you. Good job. The Glenn Back program. All right,

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this is the Glenn Beck program we welcome Pat Gray Yay! Yay! Hello, Pat! Hello Glenn. Oh my gosh. Hey, did you see you? Good to see you. Yeah, I've been weeping most of the morning though.

Oh no, no, no, you didn't hear. I did. Oh my gosh. We wept openly as men we broke down and we wept openly. All of us. in the studio. I had to put my car over. Yeah. I was listening. I heard the news from you.

When I heard that the fourth year in a row, Joy Behar may not be able to go to Italy. It was too much. It was, you know. She's had a tough four years. First of all, it was a pandemic. Yeah. And now, you know, if I don't get to Italy every third weekend or so.

Yeah. I get out of sorts. Yeah. So four straight years, can you imagine? I have to, you even imagine? Play the audio. of this stunning, stunning, sad audio from Joy Behar yesterday. Well, I'm scared of what's going to happen in Western Europe, too.

Yeah. You know, you just, you plan a trip. You want to go there. I want to go to Italy for four years. I haven't been able to make it because of the pandemic. And now this, you know, it's like who's going to, what's going to happen there? Yeah. Yeah.

It's a gut punch. It is. Nobody calls her out on the set. They're all like, yeah. Wouldn't you, wouldn't you, if you were having that conversation with somebody, wouldn't you go, are you drunk? I mean, did you just hear 50,000 people are

going to be dead? And you worry about your vacation plans. Yeah. And they do, to be fair, they know she's drunk. I mean, every day she's drunk. So they don't. Are you sober? Are you sober, Joy? What is happening to you?

So embarrassing. You know, these people are killers. They really are. Well, wait, no, no, no. Joy? I mean, she's a killer of joy, but. Yeah. No, no, listen, I mean, generally speaking, the people who are this crazy, John Kerry, he really is concerned about this war because of how it will affect global warming.

Not his own private jet. He's not concerned about that. No, no. We're not talking about people who. see people and individuals. He's willing, forget about those people. What about global warming? Forget about those people.

What about my vacation? That's sociopathic behavior. It is. Yeah. Kerry's defense, though, he did bring up a great point about northern Russia. And the fact that 66% of the soil is frozen and now it's starting to thaw. and you don't want that because you might be able to grow extra food. And then somebody might poison those food stocks.

Those food. Food stocks. How about that? Since when is it bad if the soil thaws? I mean, would that be a terrible thing? Would they care in Russia? Oh, it's not frozen anymore. Like, maybe you argue that it's going to get warmer somewhere else.

But, like, I don't think Russia cares. I think they're pretty excited about this idea. of thawing soil. Right. As long as it doesn't affect the average farmer's ability to get to Italy. Right. Well, yes, obviously. You know, that's the most important thing.

In a private jet. Yeah. We have to save the climate effects of this war so that we can make sure we continue to fly on our private jets to Italy. And if you can only do that. Can I ask you, um, has the world ever been this confusing? ever. I don't think so. I mean, I don't understand anything that is going on. We're buying oil from Russia. We, we opt our order of oil by 623,000 barrels of oil from Russia here to the United States. Last week, we say we're going to put sanctions on Russia and really cripple them. You want to

cripple them, you stop the ability of Russia being able to sell oil. And at the same time, what are we doing? We're making a deal with Iran so maybe Iranian oil can get out and ease the suffering. Turn the oil pipeline on. Start fracking. What the hell is wrong with? I think, I said yesterday, I don't think we understand. Vladimir Putin's real motivation. I don't think he's great. Do you think he's crazy? No.

Do you think he's crazy? I mean, No, no, no. I mean, he's a psychopathic killer. Right. Yes. He's Joey Behar. He's logically getting to that goal, though.

Correct. He's using logic and planning and a cold calculated nature to get himself to those goals. It's not that Osama bin Laden was crazy. We just didn't understand, nor can we think like him. Okay. That's Vladimir Putin. and I don't understand his motivations. And without understanding his motivations,

you can't fight him. Okay? Honestly, what are the motivations? Is Biden senile? Or does he have a different agenda? Yes. And yes. Right?

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. this wrong all the time. It's been incredible. Every single time he's wrong. Yeah. And they still spin it as if

it's great. They're doing the best job that's ever been done. No mistakes have been made. Right. Remember, Afghanistan. He couldn't even admit a mistake in Afghanistan. That's incredible. And there's this kind of Jim Garrity wrote about this this week, the concept of mirroring

when you're talking about foreign affairs where like you just assume the person you're dealing with. has the same sort of motivations, generally speaking, as we do. And that's completely insane when you're dealing with Kim Jong-un or President Xi or Vladimir Putin. Or Biden and the Biden administration. I mean, honestly, guys, you cannot be this wrong all the time. How is it?

We didn't say, let me play this. Please play cut 13. As we respond, my administration is using the tools, every tool to dispose of protect American families and businesses from rising prices at the gas pump. You know, we're taking active steps to bring down the cost, and American oil and gas companies should not, should not exploit this moment to hike their prices, to raise profits. You know, in our sanctions package, we specifically designed to allow energy payments to continue. We are closely mindful. monitoring energy supplies for any disruption.

Did you just hear what he said? In our sanctions, we clearly made a path for, what did he say? Play it again. Listen to what he says about the sanctions. We're taking active steps to bring down the cost. And American oil and gas companies should not, should not exploit this moment to hike their prices, to raise profits. You know, in our sanctions, package. We specifically designed

to allow energy payments to continue. Stop! We allow energy payments to continue. We are still writing checks for Russian oil. In our sanctions, we made sure that we could continue to write checks to Russian oil. So don't you dare

American companies raise your prices on gas? That's insane. That's insane. it is no nobody even noticed that i haven't heard anybody notice that anybody notice that anybody comment on that incredible before biden i'm pretty sure we were getting zero oil from russia we had eliminated uh we were imports from russia and venezuela and all the bad actors in the world we were energy independent and we were exporters for the first time in a really long time i mean it's only been recently that we started exporting oil again

I think it was the 50s the last time that that happened. And it was because of Trump's policies. He was oil friendly. Let's use our own resources. Did you see Mark Andreessen? What did he said? No. Yesterday, Mark Andreessen came out and he said,

we should be planning, I think he said, like 200 nuke facilities in the United States right now. I think he said a thousand nuclear plants need to be built worldwide. Yeah. We should be building right now. Yes. And he's right, but we should. Yeah, we won't. We won't. We won't. And why won't we? Why won't we? Because of the environmentalists. Why is it? Why is it? Everything has to be crippled here. Why would we ever, ever make a deal with Iran so Iran could sell oil on the open market? I mean, even if you believe that, you know, all of the fossil fuels have to stop right now, okay? They have to stop. You're the president of the United States of America. We have the ability to be a mass exporter, but you're willing to make a deal with a terrorist state

and you're willing to pay Putin for his oil. Wait a minute. The oil is going to go out anyway. The oil is going out. It's going to be burnt. We would rather do business with a terrorist state and Vladimir Putin than open the spikid up here in America. How is that the president of the United States? How is that a guy looking out for the average American, for the American way of life?

You're putting more money into the hands of people who are now. saying to you, yeah, Poland's next. They're saying that to you. And if not, they're saying, we have to destroy the great Satan. Incredible. Especially on the heels of this, where energy payments from Europe and us as well, but largely Europe, have funded a rainy day fund for Vladimir Putin and all of his oligarchs to tune of hundreds of billions of dollars so that our sanctions won't do anything in this moment. So now we're going to create another regime where we're going to fund billions and billions of dollars and have all that money go to them so that when they decide to start their next crisis, they're shielded as well. And may I just say, I hope and pray I'm not inconvenienced further by having to detour my plans to go to Taipei, Taiwan, because China sees what's going on in Russia and then takes that bold move to take back Taiwan. Well, you have that time share there. I have the time share.

And if I can't use it this year, I'm going to be very put out. You haven't been able to use it since 2019. Right. That was the last time I was in Taipei. Soon as. And you're still paying those maintenance fees. Yes. Every year.

Every year. Every year. The suffering. Suffering. Just continues. It just doesn't stop. Oh, my gosh. Well, thank you, Pat, for being here.

No, thank you. You know, I appreciate my pain. I know. Well, I almost didn't come in today. because of it. I know I can imagine. I'm so worried about my type A trip. And congratulations on the bravery that you showed this morning on Pat Gray on leash when you openly wept. Thank you for noticing that. Many people might be embarrassed by something like that as a man. There's not enough. Not me. There's not enough examples of weak and pathetic men in our society.

Isn't that the truth? You know what I mean? Right. If we could just... I'm a little offended by you calling me a man as a matter of fact. Well, I understand that. I thought you were to say you're offended for being called weak and pathetic. But no. No. No. It was a little. The man part of it. It really bothered me. Yeah, it really did. The binary thinking there really pissed me off. Well, there's no salvaging you anyway because you're white. That's true. And an American. That's true. Anyway, thank you so much, Pat, for stopping by for some strange reason. Let's tell you about something that needs to be in every person's home. The Tuttle Twins book, The Siren Song of Leftism is strong. And there is no shortage of people

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He is a psychopathic killer. Always has been. He has raped and pillaged his own country. He throws people off roos if they report on him. he kills his competitors. He poisons people all around the world. And he leaves the note that, yeah, Putin was here over the dead bodies. He's a killer who is now violating every decent Western value by going into a country and just taking it over because he wants it.

Now, that doesn't mean we have to go to war, but that should tell you, yeah, that's why I hate Vladimir Putin. That's, that's, that's why we don't rally around Putin. You don't have to like something that is psychopathic just to be, I guess, on the other side and say, I don't want to go to war. I don't want to go to war. I don't think we should go to war. But at the same time, Putin is a killer. Let's not forget that. This is great.

This is good news. Wheat prices are going through the roof. A nine-year high just yesterday. Russia is the third largest producer of grain. behind, quick grain. Who's a big grain producer? Fed the world.

The United States. No, China. Fed the world? No. Then India. I mean, what happened to us? What happened to us? We are killing our farmers now financially.

Wheat prices are going through a nine-year high. And they say one of the traders up in Chicago. and I don't mean like trading the, I mean like one of the stock market. Anyway, said we don't know how high this is going to go, but it's going to cause a lot of problems if this conflict continues. You know what? Let's just try what we're doing for a month and then check back in and see how our wheat prices are doing. Oh, and have you bought a gallon of gas already?

Gas prices are going through the roof again. We discuss that in 60 seconds. Hello, it's me Vladimir, and the Glenn Beck, have you heard of this guy? He's a pebble in my shoe. A real pain in the backside, you know what I'm saying? I've been trying to get rid of him for a long time now. I put poison in his salad, no good, he doesn't touch salads. I put a poison apple, put it on his desk.

Does he even look at apple? Yet, nothing. I put live grenade in his workout clothes. No dice. I mean, it's harder to kill than moose and squirrel. Thank goodness, Putin doesn't know my secret to health. It's none of those things. It's a built bar.

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We want to bring in Daniel Turner. He is the founder and executive director of Power the Future. We're going to talk a little bit about the things that maybe we should be doing right now. Daniel, welcome to the program. Oh, it's great to be on with you, Glenn. Thanks for having me. You're welcome. I don't know if you saw a, uh, Mark Andresen's tweet yesterday, but he said we should be building a thousand nuclear plants all around the world starting today. We're not going to do it, but there's a lot of logical things that we should be doing today. One of them is get off our dependence of Russian oil.

Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, a lot of the problems that we're experiencing right now have begun 14 months. months ago with the Biden administration. And I'm not pinning the Ukraine invasion on him, but I am saying we've been tinkering. This administration has been really punishing the America's energy industry, specifically the fossil fuel industry, for months and months. And when oil hit $70 a barrel and $80 a barrel, the White House was silent. Well, now it's at 100, and Joe Biden saying he wants to do something. So it's a little bit too late. You know, energy is one of those

issues that people don't want to pay attention to until it starts to, uh, they feel a pinch at the purse, right? Yeah, exactly. But, you know, we, we need serious energy policy and not Greta Thunberg, not John Kerry, right? We need serious energy policy because it is national security as well. I, I just, I keep hearing him say, we're going to tap into the strategic oil reserve. Hang on just a second. We, on one hand, people are talking about, World War III and the biggest conflict possibly since World War II. Oil was kind of important. That's why we have the Strategic Oil Reserve.

And so he's telling the West we should release more from our Strategic Oil Reserve while we're facing this. No, open a freaking pipeline. Yeah. Oil is so important to the world economy that even this administration, has not sanctioned Russian oil. Germany and Italy today brought more natural gas than they did yesterday from Russia. In fact, Putin has increased the amount of natural gas exports because he knows he has Europe on the hook. And he's using that to his leverage. And so, look, you know, we have to stop being Plato. There is this ideal world. We all need to live up to it.

And we all need to be better. But the reality is our account. economy, our military, the world runs on fossil fuels right now. And whether or not we want to change that as one conversation, but the reality is punishing fossil fuels now, in the hopes of the better tomorrow, has made us weak now. And Vladimir Putin is taking advantage of that weakness. This is exactly what the Great Reset is about. The ESG scores, energy is the first thing. and we are, we're committing national suicide. And it's not just national. The entire West is committing suicide.

And I don't understand it. And is that an, is that a, is that hyperbole? No, no, no, no whatsoever. And look, when this administration began and Joe Biden said, which I believe is a flat out falsehood, but when he said the generals tell him climate change is our biggest national security threat, I'm sorry, if anyone really said that. to you in the military, that person should be fired today. And any politician, Republican or Democrat, this is not a partisan issue. Many Republicans went to the Glasgow Climate Summit to learn

how to tackle climate change. We can have a conversation about the environment. But if you genuinely believe in your heart of hearts looking at the global stage that climate change is the biggest threat, then you do not deserve elected office. You are at danger because Russia is a threat. China is a threat. Iran is a threat. North Korea. And these root regimes, unfortunately, as the prices of oil have gone through the roof, have become richer. And what does Iran do when they have more money? They launch attacks on Israel and they launch attacks on the UAE and they fund their nuclear bombs program. And what does Russia do when they have more money? They build their army. Right. So again, it's this fight against reality that you can have a conversation about the environment. but there are real threats and we need to put on our big boy pants and face the real world we live in. Even if you if you believed that climate change was the was the existential threat and the largest threat against all of humanity, if you really truly believed that and you make the moves to stop American oil and everything else, does that explain why we are not sanctioning the Russian oil?

We're increasing our imports of Russian oil. And we seem to be making it easy for Iran to flood the market with their oil. I don't understand this. Why wouldn't you go to America and just say, hey, it's temporary. but we're going to, we need you right now to relieve the pressure. I don't understand it. You know, for the first time in nearly 40 years, America has been purchasing Iranian oil. Very quietly, the administration clearly did not put out a press release, but you say,

why is America buying any oil from Russia? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, when did that happen? I've not heard that. Started in April of this year. And we've purchased about a million barrels of oil from Iran. Now, there's going to be an argument, and they're going to say I'm playing fast and loose with the nuance because we purchase a lot of oil from the world, and we refine it, particularly in the Gulf. We have the world's largest refining capabilities, also something China's trying to compete with us on, but that's another conversation. But we are the world's largest refiner.

So this crude that comes out of the ground has to get refined. to sell. We buy Russian. We buy Venezuelan, but we don't need to buy any oil if we produced enough ourselves. And we're not. We're producing two million barrels fewer than we did just a few months ago before Biden became president. And the reason why we're producing so much fewer oil is because this administration has made it impossible to produce. You mentioned the ESG movement. Every agency is looking at climate change when it comes to permitting land act. access, permits in the Gulf of Mexico, on federal land, fracking moratoriums, pipeline construction. So all these cumulative actions have made production of oil domestically hard.

Of course, we have to get it from somewhere else. So why not Russia? Why not Iran? Why not Venezuela? Why not put a bullet to our head? Because that's what we're doing by enriching our enemies. Let me ask you, when Obama said that he was going to stop the drilling, I think it was in the Gulf, the deep sea drilling.

The concern was that if you stop that, you're not getting a lease on those deep sea drills for another 20 years. They're not coming back and you just don't make them overnight. With the damage that has been done just to the economy and to the oil and gas industry, are we doing permanent damage or are these things just going into mothballs and we can turn this around quick? We can turn it around, but I don't think quickly. This is a very capital and labor-intensive industry. And even if all the permitting is in place and the government is a friend of the industry, which we want, like we saw under President Trump, it really took till the end of 2018, the beginning of 19, for the industry to produce as much as it was. And so it did take it two solid years of believing that the government was.

wasn't going to punish you. You look at something like Keystone, that was 10 years and a billion dollars in the making, and then the rug was pulled out from under it, and all that money is lost. So who's going to invest in the oil and gas industry right now if you think the government can shut it down? And that's one of my pet peeves, Glenn, and you can hear my voice getting angry. Oh, I know. Jen Saki will say, well, you know, oil at $90 a barrel, you would think these rich fat cats would invest. it's not that they don't want to invest, it's that they know it's a risky investment because

government is going to punish you. Deb Holland, the Interior Secretary, is going to punish you. The EPA administrator. Biden is talking about Fed nominees who look at banking issues through the lens of climate change. So if you need a $50 million loan from the bank to finance this industry, no, because the bank's not going to lend it to you because the Federal Reserve is going to raise your base points and penalize you. So again, this administration is punishing the industry from every angle, and then they have the gall to say, well, they better not raise prices to take advantage of this. Like it's our fault. When Elizabeth Warren blamed big meat, remember that one?

Yeah. You got all the meat industries together. Yeah. I mean, it's offensive. I will tell you, I don't understand what's happening to us. unless the president and this administration and those on the left have an agenda that is clearly not in step with the traditional American. They, I mean, this is, this is self-inflicted wounds and they're soon going to be mortal. What do you, what are you thinking, what are you thinking about the gas and oil prices and what's coming with this? this war in Ukraine. Yeah, it's down a little bit today, which is good news, but I think overall,

if this continues, and I don't think Putin is going to stop until he has everything he wants in the Ukraine and maybe even more, you could easily see gas at $150 a barrel like it was in 2008. You mean 125 by the end of March is very feasible. And that means $6 and $7 gallon of gas,

But you know, your audience knows there are millions, literally millions of products that are made from fossil fuels. And so when the price of fertilizer goes up, when the price of pesticides go up, everything goes up in price. And so when you go to the store and you buy your chop meat and it's expensive, it's the cow, the cow's diet, the transportation, the butcher, the slaughterhouse, the packaging, the plastic, all of that stuff gets added onto your cost. you're ultimately the one going to suffer. And that's the frustration. This administration, before Putin even launched his first incursion, this administration was willing to let the American people suffer because they are so eager for this green revolution,

these renewables, that they had to punish fossil fuels. They wanted fossil fuels to be the bad guy so that maybe you would go to the government and say, please, Mr. Biden, please give us a Green New Deal. Please give us a build back better. can't afford this anymore. And that's the really sad thing. They were willing to punish the American people for their agenda. And that's not just an American, unpatriotic. Quite frankly, it's immoral and it's evil. I agree with you. Daniel, thank you so much. The founder and

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Excuse me? Really? That's what you think that might be? Gosh, I hope nobody's listening to that general. I'm pretty sure what he was talking about. was not a nuclear strike, but instead an attack on our systems, an attack on our power grid, a cyber attack on our banking system, on our oil delivery system. I mean, right now, cyber is at a place to where it is as devastating as any nuclear attack.

And it can be fingerprintless. we may not know for a while who did this to us. Chris Stewart is going to come on with us here in just a minute. He's going to talk about cyber warfare. And if we are prepared for it, I've been reading his new book and I got to tell you, we are facing things that we have to talk about. We have to talk about. Cyber warfare is one of them, hardening our system.

has got to be one of those things because this is the new war and I have to tell you. We usually don't learn our lesson until millions die. There's a new technology, a new way to kill people or win a war. That's gas. All right. World War I, we all said, okay, let's not do gas attacks anymore. World War II, nukes. Okay, let's not do nukes.

anymore. Now is it cyber? And is Russia prepared to launch that? Is it mutually assured destruction? Well, is it they're not as dependent as we are? I mean, Moscow, yes, but you think rural Russia is all hooked up as much as we are to the internet? Chris Stewart's going to talk about that, that threat and what are we doing to be able to survive that to make sure it doesn't happen. Does he have a plan to stop the frozen tundra from melting in northern Russia? No, John Kerry, he doesn't. He doesn't. Of what value is he then? I don't know. We just had to fill some time.

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Dallas has been packed with an ice storm and all the planes are being delayed. It appears. No, they're actually doing something really special. I like this when planes do this. When airports do this, they put you on a plane, and then they close the door, and then they roll away from the gate so they can say it was an on-time departure. And then you sit there for a few hours. Love that.

That's awesome. I love that. I'm glad their stats are patted, though. Yeah, that's great. I want to bring in Chris Stewart. He is the congressman from Utah. He is the author of the final fight for freedom. And Chris, as I have told you, I did you a great disservice by having you on without

reading your book. And I told you at the time I hadn't yet. I have read it and it is powerful. I mean, there is, there are things in there that just scare the head. hell out of me, quite honestly. And one of them is cyber warfare. Are we prepared for cyber warfare? No, Glenn, we're not.

Not at all. I mean, and it's nearly impossible to prepare for it. And by the way, thanks again for having me on. And I do hope you get out to CPAC because they need you out there. They need to hear your voice out. Thank you. But, you know, one of the real concerns that we have, obviously with the situation unfolding in Ukraine.

And by the way, we haven't reached a point where we're expecting global war. I don't anticipate that at all. But Russia has, we're literally staring down the barrel of a loaded gun when it comes to Russia and their ability with cyber warfare, their ability to attack our economy and our society with cyber tools. And there's very, very little we can do to stop them. The only reason they don't exercise that power is because they're afraid of what we do in retaliation. But, you know, it's interesting yesterday when Vladimir Putin made this comment about, well, you know, if you push us too hard, you know, we will punish you in ways that you've never seen before.

Many people, you know, interpreted that to be, well, does he, is he talking about nuclear weapons? No. I don't think he's talking about that at all. No. He's talking about his tools as the capability he has with cyber warfare and cyber attacks against the U.S. He already said, like four years ago, that the next World War will all be fought with ones and zeros. I mean, he knows how to cripple America. Are we in a mutually assured destruction that if they start, we can hammer them back quickly?

Yes and no. I mean, we certainly have offensive weapons, and we would exercise those weapons. But there's a couple things that make this very complicated. One thing, there really is plausible deniability. and that is, you know, we can't know for certain what the source of the attacks are. And we could assume they would come from Russia at this point, and we probably would. But, you know, we don't know that for sure, including not only nation states, but there could be some terrorist organizations and some global criminal organizations

that could initiate attack against us right now that, you know, we would think, oh, that's just Russian. It turned out to be someone else. The second thing is the defense against these things is nearly impossible. It's like we have to be correct 100% of the time when we're being attacked millions of times every hour. And all they have to do is to be able to penetrate once. And then they have the outcome they're looking for. It makes it very, very difficult. Chris, is it true that there is a multi-story building in, I think it's in Beijing,

that the entire purpose of this large company, if you could call it, it is just to hack our systems. Oh, yeah. And there's more than one of them. There is the equivalent of entire cities that are committed to that purpose. And they've been able to use organizations and governments outside of Beijing to do it. I mean, many of the attacks that come to us are actually coming out in North Korea with the assistance of China. And some of them are obviously under the concept of being not government organizations,

but private organizations. Some of them associated with Western organizations, by the way. What does it mean a cyber attack from Russia or China? How would that manifest itself? What would that mean to the average person? Oh, my gosh. I mean, it depends on the scope and the scale of it. I mean, I think they can, everyone knows, they can go after everything.

They can go after our financial system. They can go after air traffic control, for example. As you were talking about flying this evening, our water, our pipelines. They've demonstrated our pipelines, our pipelines, our capabilities against cloning a pipeline about a year ago. And the only reason they did that was to, you know, kind of remind us. Communications, which, of course, is critical to our society. But the big one, Glenn, the holy grail of these is to go after our electrical grid. and everyone recognizes that our electrical grid is not protected.

We could protect it more, but there's no way to protect it completely. And when I say our electrical grid, I don't mean, you know, they would take out Dallas or they would take out part of Virginia. I'm telling you they could take out the entire national grid. And they could take it out not for a few days. It could be months, maybe longer, before we're able to recover from that. How? How does that happen?

I mean, like I understand an EMP fries all the circuits. How do they take it out and turn us off for that long? Well, think about this. You know, one of the great examples of the power of a cyber attack is sex tanks, which took place about 15 years ago. This is brilliant and conceived, but we found a way. And by the way, a really interesting thing about that virus was it was, it was promiscuous. We had to put it globally before we could get it into the machines we actually needed in the Iranian centrifuges.

And there's estimates that about to 10% of the world's computers were infected by that, but that didn't matter because it was designed to go after only specific machines. But it spun them up and then it slowed them down and spun them up and these centrifuges essentially destroyed themselves. Well, imagine a virus such as that that goes spread throughout the United States electrical grid that's destroying, pieces of equipment, computers, transmission lines, generators, transformers, all across our global system. And if you kind of interpret what we did there and project that into a global, or a national electrical grid, you can see how they could take out big pieces of equipment and little pieces of equipment. Some of that stuff's nearly impossible to get now. A lot of it comes from China, by the way.

And even in the best of times, it's a year to an 18-month wait list for some of these generators. Geez. We're talking to Chris Stewart, author of The Final Fight for Freedom, How to Save Our Country from Chaos and War. It is a fascinating book. If you want to see what we're really facing, because of new technology and where we have, you know, the stupid mistakes that we have made by not paying attention to things. In the book, you talk a little bit about CRISPR and China. Before we get there, I don't know if you saw the news today. But every time we briefed China, we showed them all of the intel that we had on Russia and how they were positioning troops. China then, we found out today, took that intel and delivered it right to Putin. How stupid are we? Glenn, I use a phrase in this book, and it really comes from Abraham Lincoln. He's the one who observes, and Ronald Reagan and others did that they said, no nation will ever destroy this country. The only way we see our demise is if we commit national suicide.

And I use that phrase in the book because that's exactly what we're doing. We don't have to go down this path. We don't have to do these types of things. And what you just described is a simple, but it's a small example of us doing that. When you said, how stupid? Yeah, of course. How stupid. But we do those types of things all the time.

And as you and I have discussed in the past, you look at yourself or the people and go, What in the world are you thinking? Do you not know what the outcome of this is going to be? And what motivates you? Is it simply that you're not bright enough to understand this? Or do you actually want to harm, you know, a Western democracy and freedom, and specifically the United States? And I've concluded there are people who that's actually their motive.

And you know some of them in the public realm. We know some of them in politics. I mean, that's clear what's happening. When this administration is upping our orders for oil, from Russia. Russia is delivering more gas and oil than it did yesterday to Europe. And we are, we're buying oil from Iran. Now, the United States buying oil from Iran, this is, this is suicide.

Why would we do that? I really truly believe the only way to explain it is this administration does not have an American agenda. Well, I mean, look at what the president did. The very first day in office, he kills a keystone pipeline. But more than that, as you've made so clear, Glenn, and over and over again, it's the demonization of oil and gas companies. It's the def financing of them. Make it impossible for them to work in the banking system.

That's the most important things he's done. But in addition, he shuts down oil and gas exploration in the West. He does the same thing up in Alaska. And six months later, he has to go to OPEC and beg them to increase production. and about the same time we start increasing our imports from Russia. For heaven's sakes, we are financing the invasion into the Ukraine with U.S. dollars with the oil we're now buying from Russia. So what?

Look at that and ask you. Go ahead. How does that make sense? I just say, how does that make sense? How does anyone in Washington? Was this whole thing about, oh, we're going to hit him with sanctions that are so hard, it'll be blinding, when you as a country are upping your order for russian oil and you're not cutting them off anywhere how what was this all about chris what is this all about chris well well i think maybe look

i wish i had the answer to that i i will say this if you want to hurt vladimir putin then drive down the cost of oil. Yes. If you want to help Vladimir Putin, then drive up the cost of oil. And then look what we've done over the last year. And by the way, look at the sanctions they've imposed now. They exempt oil and gas. They don't just touch him. And the one thing, it's the one thing that he needs to continue to finance not only this invasion, but his entire power base in Russia. He needs that international currency. It's by far away, the largest thing. a source of foreign currency that they have and leave them in swift.

Allow them to continue with financial transactions, international financial transactions. Look, some of these sanctions are going to hurt some people in Russia, but it's not going to do anything to actually forget about deterrence. We're past deterrence now. It's not going to do anything to significantly punish them. So, all right. So I've only got a minute left, Chris. Let me ask you, do we look like a laughing stock or is the rest of Europe in on this

too, and the American people are just, are the laughing stock, that we actually believe that any of these guys are serious about anything? Well, and that's something I ask myself all the time. Are we a serious country anymore? I think I can answer that best through describing a couple conversations. After the debacle in Afghanistan, I talk with a friend of mine. He's a member of the Ukrainian parliament. I'm praying for him and his family's safety right now, because they're going to be targeted.

But right after Afghanistan, he called me, said, hey, look, we don't know if we can trust you guys anymore. Had a similar conversation with leader in Jordan and a very similar conversation with some leadership in Asia. That's the central question. Does anyone trust us anymore? And after watching what happened here, I think it builds on another brick in that wall of saying the United States is not a global leader. They're not a serious nation. Look what they're doing to themselves, which is what Vladimir Putin is saying, by the way. He's pointing to the United States in all sorts of ways, culturally, economically, militarily, and saying, look at them. Are they a serious country? Do you want to be like them or do you want to have a serious leader, someone like me?

Chris Stewart, thank you very much. Thanks for all that you do and thanks for the book. The author of The Final Fight for Freedom. It is a tremendous book full of facts that I didn't. I read. really didn't know and understand it, really written very well for everyone can understand it. It's Chris Stewart, the final fight for freedom available everywhere right now. Our sponsor is real estate agents, I trust. Finding the right real estate agent when you're looking to buy or sell a home is incredibly important. A mediocre real estate agent, dime a dozen. but the difference when you can get somebody who really knows what they're doing, they know the best practices, they have a website that is trafficked by a lot of people who are qualified to buy homes.

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Can we play the full piece of audio from The View yesterday? Estimates are 50,000 Ukrainians will be dead or wounded. and that this is going to start a humanitarian crisis, a refugee crisis in Europe. We're talking about 5 million people that are going to be displaced. I mean, it's heartbreaking to hear what is going to happen. Well, I'm scared of what's going to happen in Western Europe too. Yeah.

You know, you just, you plan a trip. You want to go there. I want to go to Italy for four years. I haven't been able to make it because of the pandemic. And now this, you know, it's like what's going to happen there? Yeah. Yeah. And now this.

She has had to wait for four years. She's had a trip plan. First COVID where millions die stopped her from going. And now five million people displaced. Insult to injury. I mean, she should. Her lack of trip. Yeah.

And then the insult on top of that already horrible thing is whatever millions of people died. I mean, she should really, there's got to be someone for people like her that, They can sue. You know what I mean? She's got to be able to sue somebody or just stop the killing for a while so she can see, you know, Rome. Hello, America. I want to explain a couple of things that I think most Americans are asking, what the hell is Swift?

Are our sanctions that we put on yesterday? Are they really more damaging than not allowing Russia to interact financially with any the banks in the West? That doesn't seem right. What happened to the stock market yesterday? Why did it go up? Is that because the Fed is just pouring more money into the stock market? Or is it that the stock market knows Biden's not doing anything that's going to hurt anybody's big business. What is going on? Carol Roth, the author of The War on Small Business, she calls herself a recovering banker, somebody that knows Wall Street, knows how this game is played, and is doing everything to expose it. She's on with us in 60 seconds. As if the everyday garden variety cybercrime

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1-800, LifeLock, 1-800 LifeLock or LifeLock.com. Make sure you use the promo code back to save 25%. LifeLock.com or 1-800, LifeLock. Carol Roth is joining us. Carol, I have so many questions for you today. How are you? I do. Well, some of them I'm not going to be able to answer because insanity, but we'll do our best to muddle our way through this. Okay. Can you at all give us a common understanding of what Swift is? So the best way I can explain Swift is a clearinghouse for the messages about transactions through the international.

banking system to kind of dial it back to the U.S. If you send a wire transfer between banks and the U.S. you have a special code. If you do it internationally, there is a swift code. And that entity access that sort of clearinghouse between the banks to say, oh, you need to send money from one place to another. So basically cutting off Russia or anybody else means that you don't get to sort of participate in the global banking system in a very rudimentary sort of.

Right. And that is important, again, take it down to the baby level, but that's important. The reason why you would wire transfer something is because if you write a check, it's going to have to sit there and be verified for funds and everything else. If you are doing big business, you're just moving things quickly because you need that transfer to kick in right away, correct? True, except for internationally, it often can take a day or more to clear, but it is, again, that sort of middleman, that international. clearinghouse. It's based in Belgium for all of the international financial movement, if that makes sense. Okay. And Europe, according to Joe Biden, didn't want to take that step yet. So they didn't see. Yeah. Well, of course they didn't because, you know, they're getting, if it's your Germany, you're getting 40% of your oil from Russia. So they understand the precarious

position there in. And I'm sure they put a lot of pressure on Joe Biden and saying, listen, you know, we can't afford it. And oh, by the way, geniuses, you don't have exports now now that you're no longer energy independent to be able to help us out here. So what are we going to do? And I imagine those were the types of discussions happening behind closed doors to have a very weak set of sanctions put out against Russia. So Joe Biden says that the sanctions that he did put on are just mind-numbingly crippling for Putin and Russia. How would you describe them? Well, he actually had somebody within his administration, one of the members of the Economic Council, that said they weren't meant to disrupt the flow of

energy and basically completely contradicted that. So they seemed kind of like everything the Biden administration has done much more for show than for any sort of actual impact. If you wanted to have impact, you know, not only would you have put that pressure in terms of. of taking Russia out from Swift, maybe putting sanctions on Putin themselves, disrupting energy, I mean, really getting serious. And, you know, certainly none of that transpired. So, I mean, to hit Putin where he lives and to really destroy Russia, the best thing to do is be a massive exporter of oil and drive the price of oil, you know, at least below $80 a barrel, because that's where they make money is $70, $80 a barrel, anything over that.

So drive the price of oil down, cripples him, or cut him off. If you don't do that, it's like, it would be like, we're going to sanction Glenn Beck. He can make money in broadcasting, but no ballet dollars are coming his way. Yeah, it would be like telling me, oh, I'm sorry, Carol, you can no longer eat the cauliflower. Oh, I'm so, so sorry. That's going to devastate me on my diet. Yeah, I mean, the reality is if you look at the Russian economy, about 60% of their GDP comes from the oil and gas exports. So certainly anything that disrupts that, whether it's disrupting, getting payment for that, driving down the price overall or just not allowing them to be able to export it.

All of those kinds of things would be devastating. and we have seen brave people in Russia who were marching in the streets saying we don't want any war. If things are getting worse there economically, those voices are only going to get louder. So that would put that feeling out to the world that Joe Biden was serious and that he wanted to really take a stand and would make other countries potentially think twice about things they might want to do like China invading Taiwan. Unfortunately, we did not see that. So what happened to the stock market yesterday? I mean, you listen to the president and he is saying there's going to be real pain from the American people.

They're going to really have price increases, disruption of all kinds of things, maybe even a cyber attack, the biggest war possibly since World War II. And he's going to try to ease the pain. and the stock market goes up, is that because, A, the people on Wall Street know this isn't, this is business as usual, or B, the Fed just buying up more stocks and there's no reality anymore in the stock market? As the meme says, Glenn, why not both? It's a little bit of each of those. I think there was an expectations that these sanctions were going to be somewhat worse and that that may escalate conflict and or, you know, change the ability to get some of the key exports and increase the prices of those. And Russia has many of them, not only oil and gas, but aluminum, you know, wheat and other things. So the fact that Joe Biden was weak, the Sacramento goes, oh, he's not really

serious. And so there's part of the rally on that. The Fed piece of it, is that there is this expectation for a rate hike coming up in March in a couple of weeks. And the prior to yesterday, the expectation was that there was going to be an increase of 50 basis points, which is half a percent. And with the conflict, you know, potentially ongoing, stretching out, you know, that gives the Fed a little bit of cover to say, well, it's, you know, uncertain. We're not sure how it's going to play in, you know, yada, yada, yada. And that maybe that means there's only going to be a 25 basis point or a quarter of a percent increase. But whatever it is, it gives the Fed a little bit more cover, whether it's in March or for the rest of the year, to slow play, taking away their monetary support from the market, which the market loves.

So I think you have a little bit of both of those yesterday. This is, you know, I've never understood more than now the Shakespeare line, all the world is but a stage. I feel like every day we're watching a show. He's telling the American people, this is really going to hurt you. And we're going to pay a high price at the gas station. And don't you oil producers charge extra and gouge people at this time while he's buying more oil this week from Russia than we bought the week before. And we're making it easy for Iran and buying. Iranian oil as well.

This is, none of this is real. No, it's so frustrating. I mean, Joe Biden has some levers he could pull to do a 180 on the economy, certainly returning our energy independence, firing up those oil and gas leases, returning to the Keystone pipeline, all of those kinds of things. He could do a 180 on, and it would be very well received. The average American would benefit from it. And, you know, just from a, even if you're somebody who's climate change and, you know, I'm focused on green, the reality is that that oil is getting produced anyway.

So would you rather have Russia or Iran be the ones that are producing it? Or would you rather have the technological leader of the United States do it in a manner where we know there's a focus on making it more clean and more green? So it fundamentally doesn't make any sense other than. And some of the wonderful things that you presented in your book on The Great Reset that everybody should read about if they haven't already. All right. We're with Carol Roth. She is the author of The War on Small Business, a former recovering investment banker. I asked her on today because there's a problem with wheat. There's now, because of this conflict, there's a problem with oil and gas. There's a problem with fertilizer. We are headed for real troubled time. and she's got some tips on what the average person should and can do about it back in one minute with more from Carol Roth.

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Or is this Ukraine thing actually playing a role? So, I mean, this has been going on, as we've seen, for well over a year, a better part of almost two years now. And the Ukrainian conflict is just several days old. So despite the media's attempt to say, oh, this is the reason for it, obviously us bowing out of production, you know, from, some of the decisions the Biden administration made, the canceling of oil and gas leases, the canceling of the Keystone Pipeline, whatnot, and also the ESG pressure that made it so that many of the companies that were involved in oil exploration and whatnot and refinement not want to do as much of it over the last couple of years.

So there has been a lot of pressure outside, both through government. and through sort of this, you know, global ESG fascination that has depressed the U.S.'s position, and obviously that's put some, some cricks in the road here. As well as, you know, the OPEC oil cartel, obviously they wanted to make up for some of the lost money that happened over the pandemic. So, you know, they did not ramp up productions to the level to meet demand. So all of these things factor in, as well as disruption in the supply chain. You know, it's harder and more expensive to get the refined gasoline to the station.

I mean, just so many things that all snowballed together. So that has all created a big issue, and it's going to be an ongoing issue, whether or not this Russia-Ukraine conflict continues. That being said, if it escalates, yes, it will have a further impact on top of what we're already seeing. You know, currently, you know, we have oil that's over $90 a barrel. You know, it could go over $100 organically before they probably start, you know, pushing out more oil. If this escalates from a Russia-Ukraine perspective, you could see $140 a barrel oil.

So it's very, very meaningful in terms of that incremental amount. But it's not like without it, we'd be at, you know, $70 or $60. We see the price of fertilizer, 300% increase. That has something to do with natural gas. We have any oil products, even, you know, bug killers that you put on your crops. Wheat is going through the roof today. We are going to be facing some real problems at the supermarket. in the next six to eight months.

Am I reading that right? Certainly, I would say we are definitely going to be facing issues. We have been facing issues. Inflation is going to continue. The question is, is it a problem or is it a mega problem? But either way, you should be prepared. You should be prepared every day, but you should be prepared for this conflict to escalate. nobody's ever been sad about being overprepared usually happens in the other direction.

So there are definitely steps that you can take today just to make sure that you have your ducks in a row. And what are those steps? So on the energy front, you know, simple things, you know, we don't know what's going to happen, not only with the price, but, you know, are there potentially, you know, escalating cyber attacks that end up disrupting our own infrastructure. I don't know if you remember way back in the early days of the Joe Biden presidency. He gave Putin a list of here are the critical things that are off limits for a cyber attacks. So basically a roadmap of everything that they should attack should there be an issue. So you as an individual should make sure, you know, with your cars that you keep your gas tanks

full, that if you have the ability to store extra gasoline, that you have some extras, just in case not only the price goes up, but we end up in a position. where there's some rationing. You don't want to be caught in that position. And as you and I've talked about, Glenn before, before your house have backup generators and other sources of energy in case there's an issue. I know that I take propane. And I called yesterday.

I just got a delivery. I don't know, a few months ago. And I called them up and said, could you please come out and tap my tank off? They said, sure, you're on a waiting. list. Now, this was yesterday. They said the phones are ringing off the hook. You're heating oil, everything. You should get on a list now to get that full. So you're paying, A, this price, and B, if something happens, you have a full tank. 100%. With other supply chain issues, same kinds of

things, both from a price increase standpoint and to make sure you have extras in case of disruptions, get the extra water, get something that can distill down your water and take the yucky stuff out just in case there's an issue, stock up on things that are not perishable in terms of food, stock up on medicine, have an emergency supply kit, all of those things that should something, you know, kind of really go awry here, a big escalation that you were prepared. And then on the financial standpoint, we were talking about the stock market and being all over the place, This is the time when people who are not sophisticated investors tend to panic. And I want to give a quote from Warren Buffett, whose politics I don't particularly like,

but boy, is he a great investor. And his famous quote was always that investors should be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful. So when you have those days where the stock market is going down and companies that you like or the overall stock market, you know, is in that bad position. That's the time when you slowly start putting money to work and building up your positions or what we call dollar cost averaging into stocks. Do not pull your money out of fear.

Carol, thank you so much. God bless you. We will talk to you again. Carol Roth, kind of our show's financial advice giver, if you will. She watches all of this for us and helping the average person know what to do in these troubled times. Carol Roth, the War on Small Business is the book. Let me tell you about gold and silver. And gold is up.

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We are reaching out now to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. There's a couple of things that, I mean, this office is very, very busy in Texas. I think he had 22 lawsuits more than anybody else against the Obama administration. And is he on? Ken, how many lawsuits have you filed in the last year against the Biden administration? 23, as of yesterday. So it took you a while to get up to 22 with the Obama administration. I think that took you, what, two years?

It took me, I did 27 and 27 months. It was one a month with Biden. It's about two a month. That is remarkable. So you've added, well, I don't know if these are actual federal lawsuits. The mask mandate lawsuit on public transportation, does that include the FAA and air traffic? Yes, absolutely. That's what it's targeted at.

Yeah, so we are suing them over the mass mandate on airplanes and transportation hubs. And I think they don't have the authority to do it under federal law. They haven't been given that authority by Congress. So not only do they not have the authority, it makes no sense. I mean, it's worse than saying you have to wear a mask when you walk into a restaurant, but once you sit down, the, you know, the Omicron doesn't operate at that low level. Airplanes are, the air is filtered over and over and over again. It's clean air compared to what you would breathe anyplace else.

Well, they certainly haven't documented why it's essential. to have masks on airline, especially when masks don't work. There's no documentation on whether they work or not. And then, of course, if you've been on a flight recently, you'll hear them say something about some type of criminal penalty. If you don't abide, well, they made that up to there is no criminal penalty in law. And so they certainly can't enforce something like that through the CDC, which is how they've tried to push this, the Center for Disease Control. So they're lying to us when they say there's a criminal penalty? Well, there is one as it's created by the CDC, but the CDC doesn't have the authority to create criminal penalties

unless Congress told them they could do it. So I could challenge that. Yeah, better let me do it. Okay. One of the other things that you're doing is categorizing sex change procedures, child abuse, and you're getting a lot of heat for that. Tell me about that. Well, you know, I may get a lot of heat.

My job is to, when I'm asked by a committee chairman of the legislature or by the governor or lieutenant governor, what is the state of the law on this issue? Well, I was asked, what is the state of the law in this issue? And we spent a lot of time researching it. We heard from all sides. And we determined that, yes, indeed, it is child abuse to sterilize your child, whether it's chemically or it's physically. That's something they should make a decision about when they're of the age of majority. before that it's child abuse. Especially since doctors now are restrained from even discussing other options or saying,

hey, maybe we should have, you know, a psychiatrist talk to you first. There's, the, the, the science on this has gone to the crazy zone.

Yeah. And the reality is, the studies I've seen, we cite them, I think, in the opinion. Talk about how down the road, many of these kids really regret that they were changed.

And remember, this is not like their sex was actually changed. They are male and female. It's a fact based on chromosomes. They do modifications that give appearances that they've changed sex, but in reality, sex hasn't changed. The modification has just changed their physical, the way they are physically. What were your thoughts on what happened up in Canada with the truckers? So I have a lot of respect for those guys, and certainly we're in the process right now of investigating GoFundMe for what they did.

It sounded very, I mean, it's like stealing people's money when they committed it to a cause they believe in. I'm proud of those guys. They certainly have courage, and we're going to find out what happened to GoFundMe, and whether they have violated state law, which on the face of it certainly looks like if you take somebody's money and then you try to switch it out to give it something else, that does look like consumer fraud. brought on its face. I'm concerned about how the central bank up there, the finance minister or their Treasury Secretary, could just take people's funds away, shut down their access to banking services

and insurance. Is there anything that we can do as states to make sure that can't happen? You know, I think the thing we could do is encourage our federal legislators. And we can pass laws and states to try to protect people. It would be hard to make that translate to Canada. But as an example, we just sued the Biden administration, the APF, over trying to regulate and tax suppressors. And we have a law in Texas that was passed in the last legislative session that said, basically, we control regulation of suppressors that are manufactured in Texas.

and we're suing the federal government because one of our arguments is under the Second Amendment, you can't tax something that's constitutionally allowed. You can't make people pay money to exercise their Second Amendment right. I know that Texas has passed a law on the E in ESG, but what about the rest of us? What about losing our ability to bank or to get loans, based on some sort of social score. Are we thinking about widening that?

You know, I actually have a pretty keen interest in this because when I became Attorney General within the first couple of months, I started losing my ability to transact through big banks. I got my account shut down. I've had my 401K at work shutdown. That Charles Schwab kicked me out of all my funds. Why?

Every letter was the same. my Chase credit card said the same thing. It was I was a reputational risk. And I was told that I was put on a list by the Obama administration when I became Attorney General of Texas. And from that point on, I've had trouble. I can't do transactions with it like a Merrill Lynch or any kind of big bank. I'm on a list.

And I can't even pursue having credit or having an account. So I had to get out of all my Charles Schwab funds, which I'd been with them for 22 years. They kicked me out of all of them. So what are we doing to make sure this doesn't happen? Because that is the ESG score. That is part of the Great Reset. And Ken, there are treasurers and lawmakers all across the country that Texas should be leading this. But we've got 20 different states working on this to stop it.

so it doesn't happen. Well, I'd love to see the Texas legislature address it. From my office, I don't make law, but they could make law, and they could exercise some type of penalty or oversight of any type of business that punishes people for their political views and puts people on a list where they can't basically operate in the financial world or in other places if they get cut off. I think there should be some type of legislation passed in Texas. And you don't even have the, I mean, you can't even face your accuser.

How do you get your name off that list? No, I don't know. I even went to talk to Mick Mulvaney, as chief of staff at the White House. I said, Nick, Mick, I'm on this list. I know I'm on this list because I've been told them on those lists by some of the bankers who didn't want to do it, told me I was on that list. But I said, how do I get off? And even he couldn't figure out where it was.

I thought because he was that agency before that does all that kind of crazy stuff, that the CFPV, I thought he might be able to figure it out. No one's been able to tell me how I got on the list. I just know what happened during the Obama administration. And I don't know where the list is. I don't know who has it. Wow. That's terrifying.

I know I'm not alone. I know there are other people. Oh, no, I know. And there's going to be more and more. I mean, with what Justin Trudeau did, if you don't think that our government learned a lesson and maybe even taught them what to do, you're mistaken.

More and more people are going to be in this. situation. Ken, thank you very much. Hey, thanks for a man. Have a great day. And thanks for doing Collin County last night. Oh, yeah. You're welcome. It's Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton. By the way, he is running against George P. Bush.

Can we please for the love of everything good and sacred, not put another Bush in office? please Oh well

Which George Bush were you talking about? Were you George A Bush George B Bush George B Bush, George C Bush, D Bush, E Bush, F Bush Can we, I mean we have almost The entire alphabet Let's stop

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This is the Glenn Back program. Is it irrational? My doneness of the Bush family? Is it irrational at this point? I don't think it's irrational generally. It is a bit unfair in some ways that you immediately just assume anyone one of the last name is bad. However,

he's getting the benefit of a lot of people saying anyone with that last name is good, right? In Texas, like the reason why he's in second place is not because he's more qualified than some of the other candidates. It's because he's, you know, name recognition. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, a giant globalist family.

I mean, I just think that's, I think we should stop with the, stop with the bushes. Stop with the bushes. Stay out to bushes. Yeah, stay out. Yeah, stay out. Yeah. Stay out the bushes.

I think also, too, there is a very rational argument to be made that despite how incredibly wonderful and qualified a person may be, we don't just continually put people from the same family into power over and over again. Yeah, this is... It's a bad idea generally. Like, there's usually people in other families that can do the job. Usually that's the case. Yeah, I think so.

I think so. You know, and, and it just, it irritates me that. that it's always George, give it any letter of the alphabet Bush. I mean, I'd rather have James T. Kirk than George P. Bush. Is he running? No, but I would actually, I would lead. He would be a good leader, but I would actually take a mental patient that thought he was James T. Kirk.

And every time he walked into the courtroom, he said, put your phasers on stun. I'd rather have that guy. Yeah. At this point. At this point. What about another Clinton? Are you up for another?

No, I'm not up for another Clinton. I was thinking back to her great career as our Secretary of State for a moment. Yeah. And that incredible moment where she presented in the wrong word, but a reset button. Yes. To Russia. A great reset button. Now this is right after they had attacked out of nowhere for no reason in the country of Georgia.

Yeah. Yeah. And their president, Sakashvili. Yeah. Who, by the way, is now in prison, a political prison. in a middle of a hunger strike. It would be great to hear what he has to say about all this, but he can't talk because he's currently in prison.

But then they did the same thing after the reset button with Crimea. And now they're doing this. It's almost as if they don't care what we tell them or say to them. You know, it's weird that, you know, these great globalists that just really know Russia, you know, between Joe Biden and the Clintons, they know Russia and Putin. And now we're in a, now we're in a cold war where the two presidents aren't even talking. That's, that's great. Yeah. And again, we just spent many minutes talking about the issues with the Bush family and presidency, and there were many. However, in 2008, they took steps that stopped Putin from advance

on Georgia. They were actually able to stop it. So Bush was able to stop it. Obama let it happen. Trump, they didn't even try it. And then here we are with Biden. And it's happening in even worse circumstances, an even more overwhelming show of force. Well, it's because Joy Behar can't get to Italy now. Yeah. Well, that's what I was leading to, which is the real crisis here. I have to play this one more time before we leave. Here it is. Estimates are 50. 50,000 Ukrainians will be dead or wounded and that this is going to start a humanitarian crisis, a refugee crisis in Europe. We're talking about 5 million people that are going to be displaced.

I mean, it's heartbreaking to hear what is going to happen. Well, I'm scared of what's going to happen in Western Europe too. You know, you just, you plan a trip. You want to go there. I want to go to Italy for four years. I haven't been able to make it because of the pandemic. and now this, you know, it's like what's going to happen there? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's my reaction to that. This is Marie Antoinette. Well, let them eat cake. I mean, it is that out of touch. It really is that out of touch.

I don't know what you're talking about. I feel for joy. Do you? I feel her pain. Yeah. You know, she wants to go, Glenn. She can't go. If I could get her out of our country, I'd pay for that trip.

I'd pay for that. That would be wonderful. We should send her to Italy. That would be nice. She can go and visit and... Well, she could be sent somewhere. Tell you that. Okay.

Some place is a little warmer. Like a lot warmer. Like hell. This is the Glenn Back program.