The Glenn Beck Program - Why Is New York Trying to Normalize a Police State?! | Guests: Sen. Eric Schmitt & Alejandro Monteverde | 3/7/24

Episode Date: March 7, 2024

Glenn discusses the ultimate threat that China poses to America as the far Left continues to focus on Russia. Pat Gray joins to discuss a puff piece from the New York Times regarding Biden’s State o...f the Union prep work and debate whether he’ll make it through the whole speech without his age showing. Did New York just reinstate stop and frisk? New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is deploying the National Guard and state police within the subways to help combat crime. Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) joins to discuss what might be said during the State of the Union, Biden’s failing track record, and the recent spending bill passed. Can artificial intelligence be used to make military decisions during war? Glenn reviews the news that the Pentagon is using AI chatbots for battle planning in war games. Filmmaker Alejandro Monteverde joins to discuss his newest film, "Cabrini," and the importance of telling the story of St. Cabrini.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:02:29 I mean, it's an exciting. day and the president is being juiced right now. I mean, really probably on an IV bag and just being juiced right now so he can stay awake late enough to deliver the state of the union address. And I'm all a tingle. I can't wait to see what he says about the economy, what he says about, you know, how safe our streets are, how safe the world is, why we should go to why we should go to war with Russia. But I'm really looking forward to that super, super exciting time of when he talks about the border. One thing he won't be talking about is Jeddah.
Starting point is 00:03:10 Jada. I talked about it last night, and there's some important stats that I think you need to hear. We'll share that in 60 seconds. Also, the State of the Union coverage coming up in just a little while. We're covering it tonight. All of us are watching you get our coverage. right, you know, you watch it and then we all are going to be responding to it tonight right after the State of the Union on Blaze TV. All right. The most charitable read of the way
Starting point is 00:03:39 the government is handling our economy is that they are absolutely incompetent. That's the nicest way. That's the, that's the best. You know, they're just nice old people that just are, you know, in their twilight years and they don't have it all together. And they don't have it all together. don't understand. I don't think that's what's happening with our economic upheaval. According to a recent Business Insider article, this should tell you a lot. Jamie Diamond, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg have all been selling stock in their own companies.
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Starting point is 00:05:37 But to me, it is becoming more and more clear what the consequences are going to be without putting any blame on anybody. But there is blame to go around on one thing. Russia is not the biggest enemy. China is. China is. There is a, there is, the Chinese Communist Party has real sophistication when it comes to war against the United States. And that's absolutely what we're engaged with. This is Sun Su.
Starting point is 00:06:17 They are, they're rotting us from the. inside. They are supplying drugs like nobody's business. They are in business with the drug cartels. They are actually the big dog and the Mexican drug cartels are the second in line. All of the drugs that are coming in, a vast majority of them, all of the fentanyl stuff, all of the ingredients come from China, are coming over here. There's a lot of the, there's, about, I think it's 5,000 Chinese workers just across the border.
Starting point is 00:06:56 They make it into fentanyl and then they don't press it into pills. They give it to the drug cartels. They sold the presses because it's got to say, you know,
Starting point is 00:07:10 Adderall or whatever on the pill, so people will be fooled by it. And they gave the presses with all of the molds. They sold them to the drug cartels at cost. Why would you do that? You're not trying to make any money on that? So they sold it at cost. So now they're supplying the materials, the presses, and the drug cartels are pressing these things into death. Death. Why is nobody talking about that? Same reason we
Starting point is 00:07:44 didn't talk about that spy balloon. Remember that spy balloon? We just didn't know what it was. spotted by a reporter in Montana. It went over our major cities. Our nuclear bases, some of the most secret bases, we allowed it to fly over. But remember, we didn't know if it had any technology on it. Well, December last year, the intelligence officials revealed that the Chinese spy balloon,
Starting point is 00:08:12 get this, they knew it at the time, used a U.S.-based internet service to navigate, as well as to send high bandwidth collections of data back to China as it was floating over America. Remember they said there's no navigation? Oh, yeah, there was. They've just revealed that to us now, after when nobody cares about it anymore,
Starting point is 00:08:42 that it did have navigation. and it was using U.S. Internet to navigate and send all the information. Remember, we shot it down so all that information is lost. No. No. Last month, a FOIA requested by the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project found 14 instances since 2018 of Chinese nationals attempting to gain entry into our U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor. They also conducted surveillance, including flying drones over the base. Last September, a Chinese man and Chinese woman were found taking photos and video near Pearl Harbor
Starting point is 00:09:27 security entrance before fleeing in a car with unidentified plates. There have been 100 similar incidences in the recent years of Chinese nationals posing usually as terrorists who are trying to infiltrate our military bases all across the U.S. And thanks to our wide open border policy, China has a much easier way of getting spies into America. This should shock you. In the first three years in office, we're just,
Starting point is 00:10:04 oh, we're too xenophobes. You just don't want brown people coming in. During the first three years in office, over 133,000 Chinese nationals have been encountered at the U.S. border. 30,000 since October. Most of them are military-aged men. These are the ones we encountered. There are now more Chinese nationals crossing our border in San Diego than Mexicans.
Starting point is 00:10:41 I don't know. That doesn't seem right. Last week, three Chinese nationals were arrested trying to cross the border in Maine from Canada in the middle of the night. A fourth was driving a car arrested on suspicion of attempting to assist the others. Last year, a Border Patrol memo identified 270 suspected properties in rural Maine that are used for illegal marijuana growing. they're all operated by Chinese nationals, all the money is funneled back to the Communist Party in China or to use as financing for other illegal activities, including drug and human trafficking. In San Francisco, U.S. sovereignty is being undermined in absurd ways, but it's San Francisco. Law that was passed in 2020, that eliminates the requirement to be a U.S. citizen
Starting point is 00:11:39 to hold seats on city boards. So last month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously appointed Kelly Wong to the city's election commission. This isn't just any commit. This is the election commission. She's not an American citizen. She's been in the U.S. since 2019. So she's a immigrant rights.
Starting point is 00:12:09 activist from Hong Kong. Okay, so she's, we have the videotape of her giving a statement after she was sworn in as the Board of Elections. So, actually, in two years ago, I know what she's saying, because she conducted the entire interview in Chinese. Okay. Now, she may not have anything to do with the Chinese Communist Party. But what if someone in that position did? San Francisco now has somebody who is not a U.S. citizen cannot legally vote in charge of supervising the elections. Why?
Starting point is 00:12:54 Regardless of her national loyalties, her political loyalty is apparently left-wing because she works for a group called Chinese for affirmative action. Now, who funds them? Well, according to their most recently published annual report, they've been. are funded by Chan Zuckerberg initiative. Google, the Tides Foundation. And then there's this one, the most immediately pressing threat to Americans. The Chinese government hacking operations last year. The Chinese military hacked into around two dozen U.S. power and water utilities.
Starting point is 00:13:40 They hacked into communications and transportation. systems. They breached a water utility in Hawaii, a major port in the West Coast, an oil and gas pipeline, and attempted to hack into the Texas power grid. How come, how come, what, what, what are we doing about that? Despite these threats, in 2022, the Biden administration shut down the Chinese or China initiative. What's the China initiative? Well, it was an initiative started by Donald Trump at the Department of Justice. It was to find and prosecute economic espionage and to help stop the stealing of intellectual property by the Chinese government agencies. Why on God's green earth would you shut that down?
Starting point is 00:14:37 Why? Well, left-wing activists said the program allowed the FBI to unfairly target. Asian Americans. In a little publicized story, under oath, Hunter Biden finally identified his father as the big guy, the recipient of that $5 million. Under oath, he identified his father as the big guy. That was Chinese money. Now, he went on to say, but everything else is a lie.
Starting point is 00:15:27 Everything else you're saying is a lie. Is it? I can't tell because you said that was a lie for four years. And now, when you have Congress putting you under oath, you admit that it, well, that part is true. that money went to dad. Why is our administration not doing anything about the border? Why is Gavin Newsom going over and not talking about fentanyl? Because I believe he's surrounded himself with Chinese,
Starting point is 00:16:07 with Chinese operatives and Chinese money. I think he doesn't want to answer any questions either. That's why he went over to China and didn't point fingers at the Chinese, but talk to him about the bad fentanyl problem. They are the source of all of our fentanyl problems that are coming across the border. They are the ones supplying all the chemicals, then making them here and giving them to the drug cartel to press them into pills, which their presses are from China. So what does all of this mean? Well, it means that impeachment is probably not enough for this crime, but it's not just the Democrats, and it's not just the Bidens.
Starting point is 00:17:11 It's the Republicans as well. Why is it that no one will point the finger at China? Who's taking money from China? China is our number one threat outside of the United States. What they're doing with bite dance and TikTok alone. Their own internal memos show. They are rotting us from the inside intentionally. Well, Donald Trump said it's got to be sold off.
Starting point is 00:17:52 Why won't Republicans sign on? Oh, well, you have some very powerful Republicans. who are investors in bite dance. Is that maybe why? You know, it's one thing to not face our problems like the budget. It's going to kill us. It's one thing to say, wow, we are overwhelming the system by letting all these people in. It's another to turn a blind eye to terrorists coming across the border
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Starting point is 00:20:45 The motivation is interesting. here and it's something maybe we can get into later but you know talking about this stuff why right like why why would China do all of these things why would we
Starting point is 00:21:01 react this way why wouldn't we talk about it and alert people that this is maybe the biggest challenge we're facing right now they are so deeply embedded at all levels our education system or media, definitely in Washington, on both sides.
Starting point is 00:21:23 Nobody wants to bring this up because they're dirty little secrets of getting money from Chinese and some of it directly from the Chinese Communist Party. I don't think anybody wants to dig that one up. So it's all like blackmail. You know, they don't even have to threaten them. They just know a bit in bed with these people. And we know that the Chinese government has been doing this intentionally for a long time, setting up even low-level officials in these ways. Josh Rogan's book really covers that well.
Starting point is 00:22:01 There's a lot of efforts that have come down from the Chinese government to make this happen. But, I mean, they can't have everybody, right? Like, I mean, how? No, but who is in power that's going to further it? They stomp it out. Look at what they did with Donald Trump when he said, China, bad. China, look at what China's doing with the Wuhan. That's China's coming from China.
Starting point is 00:22:22 It was a lab. What happened? All the people that were involved in the money-making and guilty, you know, conscious because their fingerprints were all over the Wuhan lab, look what they did to anyone who disagreed with that. It's a powerful, powerful lobby. Back in just a minute. All right, I want to tell you about my pillow. I'm not just a fan of sleep.
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Starting point is 00:24:56 the Union speech that will be watched by one of the biggest audiences before the November election. Really? Will it? The final speech with AIDS say will be edited up until Mr. Biden gives it will be delivered by a president under pressure to reassure voters that he's not too old for the job. So they talk about in the speech prep sessions. Now, I want you guys to hear, we're joined by Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed. Pat, I want you to hear because this is different. This is, I mean, listen to the rigor of this. In speech prep sessions, Mr. Biden goes through the material line by line. Wow.
Starting point is 00:25:41 He marks up words and creates breaks breaks to remind himself to navigate around a stutter he's had since childhood. Oh. If he lands on a passage that he does not think feels like something he would say, he marks it out. Wait, what? No. Himself? Himself. One former speech writer described this phase as an exercise in trying to capture
Starting point is 00:26:06 Mr. Biden's extemporaneous thoughts and put them down on the page. That's the type of word he would skip. I would have X'd that out. Which, by the way, if he's doing it in advance, it's not extemporaneous. Can we go ahead and notice that as well? We're trying to capture that.
Starting point is 00:26:26 Oh, speed riders are trying to capture that. So basically, they're trying to fool us. They said that the president works hard and rigorously each year adding that he knows it's his one chance to lay out an agenda every year for progress. And show us just how vigorous he really is. I can't wait to see that. And so he works vigorously once a year? Is that what they're saying?
Starting point is 00:26:49 He works vigorously each year was the quote? Yeah, okay. I will tell you, now, that incredible speech prep session that they have is what I like to call speech writing. I could also say... Would you call it that speech writing? The fact that he's kind of correcting some words... The speech writing process. I'd say this is done by anybody who's ever spoken in public before.
Starting point is 00:27:19 Right. And it's the last step in that process. Like what you're describing is the final checkup. Yeah. He's not speech writing. No. He's rehearsing. That's right.
Starting point is 00:27:28 That's what he's doing. I don't like this part. Let me take that out. That's the basic thing. I'm going to have a hard time with that one. So let's take out. let's take that let me separate this sentence that's not speech writing even that's part of the speech writing process yeah which means there's also going to be three words uh that are spoken
Starting point is 00:27:45 tonight because he has a hard time with all of it a lot of words there's about three words he can say except at this particular thing i don't know what they do to him but i think they i mean i think he's got a cocktail banana bags like crazy but he's i agree And I will say, of all the problems that Joe Biden has, the highest profile events are not his worst moments. No. Would you agree with that? I mean, like, you know, he's almost like, you know, he gets up for the big games a little bit. Now, I think drugs are probably involved in that process.
Starting point is 00:28:22 But his problems almost always are he's just like walking by, you know, like an ice cream store. Correct. And there's cameras there. And he looks like a complete idiot. It's not usually those big moments you'd say, okay, he's got to nail this. Correct. He's usually bad in those moments, but not catastrophically bad. I think he will be tonight.
Starting point is 00:28:44 Do you? Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see how it's avoidable. Dr. Nick has already been called. Dr. Nick? He's already been called. He's probably got the IV running through him right now. No, I'm sure. I'm sure.
Starting point is 00:28:56 But this speech is usually almost an hour. Sometimes it even exceeds that. if he cuts it down to maybe five minutes, maybe he can't get through it. He can't get through an hour. There's no way. He did not get through an hour last year. He was bad in the last half of that,
Starting point is 00:29:11 but he got through the first 20 minutes or so okay for him. And that was enough. Most people tuned out. I was listening to Corinne Jean-Pierre doing an interview this morning, which is always an adventure. And of course, first of all,
Starting point is 00:29:27 they were saying, they asked a specific question, is he preparing for like hecklers? like if the Republican hecklers come out. Oh, he's got some great one-liners, I'll bet. There are massive amounts of reporting saying that he is. Yes, right? Of course, she denies it, says he is not doing that, yet another lie.
Starting point is 00:29:44 But they went back to, and what about last year? He had that amazing response last year. And I'm like, amazing response to the hecklers. I don't even remember this. They play it back. He says, The Republicans want to get rid of Social Security. Republicans go, no!
Starting point is 00:30:01 no, no, of course, I mean, I don't know if that should be the Republican position, but that's a side. They go, no, no, no. And he goes, oh, well, I guess we all agree now that Social Security is off the books. That was the amazing one. That was literally the clip they pulled to highlight how good he is to heckling. Now, I think what he was going for was off the table. Yes. So he didn't even say the right thing. Off the books? What the hell are you talking about? Of course, there's a lot of things off the books in Washington. That's a problem. I know you say that's a hunter all the time.
Starting point is 00:30:35 Make sure this is off the books, but this is supposed to be a different speech. Amazing. Like, that's his good moment? But I will say, compared to him on a daily basis, in these moments, he's been like a D-minus instead of an F. He's going to know how to get off the stage. You think?
Starting point is 00:30:53 He will know. Probably. He will well be. I think he might need a little help, but he might be able to get off the stage. Maybe. with assistance, some kind of assistance. Jill's got three stairs up to the,
Starting point is 00:31:04 they put a chairlift. Just, just, that would be awesome. That would be hysterical. That would be funny. That was the Bill Maher thing. Did you see this the other day
Starting point is 00:31:12 where Bill Maher's like, you should just lead into it. Like, yeah, I'm really old, but I'm better than that guy. Like, that should be his campaign. Yeah. And he should come out with one of the stair rail, and just like come up onto the stage.
Starting point is 00:31:23 It's funny. You know who would do that? You know who would do that? Donald Trump. Donald Trump would lead into whatever it. Yeah. He would make it into a joke. He always. He leans into it. Yeah. Go for it. Like when when he's on with like Sean Hannity and Hannity is like, well, you would never obviously become a dictator. Yeah, I would. Day one. I'm a dictator. That's me. Like that is what he does. Yeah. He's a yes and guy.
Starting point is 00:31:48 He's like when you go to improv class and never say no when they're in the middle of an improv class. Say yes and and then come up with a scenario. That's what he does. Yeah. I would totally be a dictator. Let me tell you the 10 things I would do. He leads in. Problem is they bought into that. Anything he says, they naturally pick up on, even when he's just doing funny rhetoric. So let me ask you this. What will he address?
Starting point is 00:32:12 Will he address the border? And will it only be a blame on the republic? To blame it on Republicans. Yes and yes. Same thing with the economy. Same thing with inflation, shrink flething. And we're going to hear the $14 million job number that he's created been fact-checked, by the way, to give the mainstream media credit.
Starting point is 00:32:31 Fact-checked him on that number a million times and said that it's a lie. It's garbage. Same thing with the deficit number. Yeah. That it's a lie and at least a massive misrepresentation. How could he possibly say he's cutting the deficit when we are spending $1 trillion over budget every 100 days? He's a liar. Okay.
Starting point is 00:32:53 All right. Yeah. So it's very easy for him to do that because he doesn't. care if it's true or not. When you separate yourself from the truth, you can say almost anything. And it's like the other day what he was asked about his poll numbers and how bad they are. Check the polls, Jack. Five in a row.
Starting point is 00:33:09 I'm beating him. Five in a row. Nobody can find one in a row. Well, you can find one in a row. I mean, maybe one from a while ago. But mostly, he's losing in almost every poll. He has led in two recent polls over the past. Let's see since...
Starting point is 00:33:28 Would you do me a favor? Would you write... Would you read those three times? Yeah. And I've got six in a row. These are the since the 21st of February, going back then. Trump plus six, Trump plus two, Trump plus four, Trump plus two, Trump plus four, Trump plus four, Biden plus one. Trump plus four, Biden plus one, Trump plus two.
Starting point is 00:33:49 Those are the recent polls. And he's obviously not winning... It's just a flat-out lie. Just flat-out lie. So what happens? What happens if Trump wins by two? Oh, my God. What happens if Biden wins by two?
Starting point is 00:34:04 I can't even imagine how the country reacts to a situation like that these days. I mean, that should be for all Nikki Haley people, for all Nikki Haley people who are like, I'm just not going to vote for him. I'm not going to vote for him. You have to. You got eight months here. You got eight months. Everyone needs to relax on that one. Look, if people are, if people, there are certain people who will never vote for Donald Trump.
Starting point is 00:34:25 if they are not across that line and they are leaning Republican, they're going to come back. It's eight months of hearing Joe Biden. Yeah. I hope you're right. People freak out about like the Nikki Haley voter generally isn't even a Nikki Haley voter. Most of them are just protest votes against Trump. They're not big fans of Trump. Many of them are Democrats.
Starting point is 00:34:45 Many of them are Democrats. Many of their independents. Now, of course, in a general election, by the way, do need to get some independence and Democrats. Some people need to. A lot of people seem to forget that. You do need those people. I don't think the approach of just mocking and belittling everyone who didn't vote for you is necessarily the right approach here. But you got eight months and probably it all works itself out.
Starting point is 00:35:08 The question is can you get the people who either didn't vote at all in these primaries or people who, you know, are in the middle and are considering you? Can you win those people over there? Do you think anybody's going to be watching this tonight? I mean, other than the usual people like us that are really, you know, addicted. to the news, or in our case, paid to watch the news. Yes. I mean, I just don't see this being a big audience. I wouldn't if I didn't have to.
Starting point is 00:35:36 Yeah. I wouldn't. It's too aggravating. It just enrages me, so I would just skip it. Yeah. I don't know. That's why we're doing our coverage. Tonight.
Starting point is 00:35:45 Yes, the coverage tonight will be really fun. Glenn, you're going to be on where else I have Dave Landau on Michael Malice. It's going to be on, Sarah Gonzalez, Jason Butcher will be on talking about a new documentary we're doing. It's going to be a really fun. It's a roast. We're not doing like serious. Let's get into the number.
Starting point is 00:36:00 No, we're going to, well, we will fact check live as well, but we're going to be just mocking Joe Biden relentlessly. Oh, now that's not right. Unless he does a great job. Maybe it wants to be like one over by him. It sounds like you know exactly how he's going to perform tonight and what he's going to say. I tend to think the ratings will be a little bit up for this one because this is the first state of the unions in all the other years, the non-elect. election years are like, eh, those are for political nerds. But we are getting into election season.
Starting point is 00:36:27 Everyone knows now what the matchup's going to be. I think this one might be a little higher rated. They say this is going to be the highest rated, you know, this is what the White House or the New York Times said, the highest, the biggest audience he'll have until the November election. That's possible because they're not going to cover anything else that he does long form. Yeah. This might be the longest form thing he does until the election. I think you're probably right on that.
Starting point is 00:36:54 And I think, too, when you look at the ratings at the end of the day, you can't just add up what you see on the networks. Because not only, you know, we're doing coverage. I mean, Donald Trump is doing some alternate coverage now. A lot of people, this is getting a very wide split audience. I would watch this, but I would watch it on Blaze TV. Yeah. I would want to watch it be mocked. Yeah, I'm not, I wouldn't be watching it on ABC.
Starting point is 00:37:15 No. You know, even Fox. It just wouldn't be watching it. All right. That's tonight. You can join us at Blaze TV. dot com. That's blazedtiv.com. Use blaztv.com slash state of the union. That's SOTUS. Save $30 when you use the promo code, SOTUS. Sign up now and we'll see you tonight. All right. Back with more in a minute.
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Starting point is 00:39:37 emails recently obtained by just the news show Henry Zau, the owner of the harvest fund management in China, was interested in the partnership because of the access the firm could provide him rather than other things. And this was being sold by Hunter Biden's firm. There is a memo that, or I'm sorry, a letter that was supposed to go to Henry Zau from, Hunter Biden. Let me read it to you. We're excited with the prospect of being able to work side by side with Harvest by way of globally recognized platform. Please pass along my regards to Henry and let him know that what we discussed during our last lunch together in Beijing still holds true. Rosemont Seneca is going to be folded into Burnham Harvest entity as soon as the deal closes,
Starting point is 00:40:27 thereby giving us all the solid, well-regarded global platform from which we can conduct our mutual business. Okay, sounds fine. Yeah, I mean, until you think about who we're talking to. Yes, okay. Michael, please also remind Henry of our conversation about a board seat for a certain relation of mine. Devin and I golfed with that relation earlier last week. We discussed this very idea again, and as always, he remains very keen on the opportunity. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:41:01 I mean. Oh, my God. I cannot believe they were this overt. Now, wait, so. So this last paragraph, this is the original draft, the last paragraph, all this whole thing was written by the firm, Hunter's firm, and then when it was sent out, they removed that last paragraph. Knowing how bad that would look if someone ever saw it, right?
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Starting point is 00:43:58 Welcome to the Gledbeck program. Well, things are being turned up to the boiling point. And I want to show you what's being done. Some of it is common sense. Some people, like San Francisco, the voters came out and said, Hey, you know what? We're going to up the spending on police. We think maybe we should start arresting people, you know.
Starting point is 00:44:20 So the voters have had enough, even in San Francisco. But the politicians are still living in a dream world. I'm going to start with Kathy Hochel up in New York, who just started putting the National Guard into the subway system. Well, good, glad they're doing something here. I'll tell you why in 60 seconds. First, read an article today. about this being the toughest time since the 1930s to be a Jew in anywhere in the world.
Starting point is 00:44:54 I don't know if you've been watching what's going on, especially up in Canada. I mean, it is terrifying. I'll give you a story. I'll give you a story of one of the incidences that have happened in New Haven, Connecticut. It's getting bad for Jews. And the world, Canada, just decided they're going to start giving money. back to the UN. Remember the UN organization that was funding and paying salaries of people who were actually helping the terrorists kill people on October 7th? Yeah, the world's decided,
Starting point is 00:45:31 yeah, okay, well, I mean, we punished them for a little while. It's been a couple of months. Let's open up the purse strings again. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, these are the people that are committed to standing together. Christians will stand with Jews the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews it's the IFCJ and they are in the middle of it in Israel every single day they're distributing essentials like food and medicine and emergency supplies hundreds of thousands of Jews have been displaced we need to help them Israel is in desperate need and of course we're airdropping things you know of course to the Palestinians but Israel they're on their own that's why I've
Starting point is 00:46:16 with IFCJ. Every donation is urgently needed and your gift is going to be matched to double the impact and help provide twice the support. Supportifcj.org. Supportifcj.org. Go there now and give. Supportifcj.org. All right, so Kathy Hochel has decided that she's going to put a thousand National Guard troops to check bags in the New York City subway subway system. Wow. That's wonderful. Crime in the subway is up 45% year on year. 45% increase.
Starting point is 00:47:05 Okay, so that's probably not, you know, really great. So she sends in 750 uniformed National Guard soldiers, with orders to search bags for weapons and other dangerous stuff. So in that stop and frisk? Stu, I think that is. So you have the National Guard in the subways of New York. I don't know if you notice, but the National Guard comes with big weapons and uniforms.
Starting point is 00:47:39 So they're in our subways, and that's going to help on crime. by showing a military presence in New York. You know, the first time I ever saw military presence in the United States off of a base was in New York right after 9-11. And there was martial law in the lower part of Manhattan. You didn't go in or out. And there were Humvees and everybody was in uniform and had a machine gun. It was ugly.
Starting point is 00:48:13 It was ugly. And it was so disturbing to see that on the streets of America. I'd never seen it before. I don't know if people are just used to seeing this in New York. I know they wouldn't elsewhere. But we're not used to seeing the military policing in New York. So they are going to be in the subways. And she says that's going to help, you know, with crime in the subway.
Starting point is 00:48:43 Okay, well, you know, there's another way to do that. I don't know if she's thought of this. Listen to this story. Four people were arrested in connection to three incidents of human remains being found on Long Island. Okay. This is just outside of New York City. Police made the arrest after performing a search warrant on an apartment in Amityville, shared by three of the suspects, 40-year-old Amanda Witt.
Starting point is 00:49:13 Wallace, 44-year-old Stephen Brown, 38-year-old Jeffrey Mackie. Investigations say they found human remains and cutting tools, including a used meat cleaver. A fourth suspect was also identified as 33-year-old Alexis Nevis, a homeless woman. Now, the body parts apparently belonged to an unidentified 59-year-old woman and a 53-year-old man. The names of the victims have not been released. But what happened was these guys, somehow or another got a hold of these bodies.
Starting point is 00:49:54 We just found two bed-dead bodies. And hacked them all up and then went around in parks and just left a leg here, a hand here, a head over here. It was like Easter egg for crazy. people. Easter hunting. What else are you supposed to do in that
Starting point is 00:50:11 situation? Right. I mean, if you're just walking around, you see a body somewhere, you're going to hack it up, you're going to leave it in various parks. That's just what you're going to do. All four, now remember, Hockel is putting National Guard kind of an extreme measure in the subways. All four were charged
Starting point is 00:50:30 on Wednesday with first degree hindering prosecution, tampering with physical evidence, and conceal of a human corpse. They all pleaded not guilty. However, they have not been charged with the killing of the two victims, but the investigation is pending and more charges will be forthcoming.
Starting point is 00:50:54 So what happened? They were charged and then ordered to not leave Suffolk County. And they're on supervised release now, so. So just people who are dismembering people. can walk still walk around Suffolk County and do what they need to do with it. They just shouldn't leave Suffolk County. Right. And they're not going to. Well, it's good because, I mean, how else are you going to find these bodies? Right. You need people out there looking for these bodies to find them and hack them up and put them in different parks if they just happen to come across another head one. Now, let me ask you, wouldn't it be better to put the people who are charged with crimes, even grisly heinous crimes, into jubes. jail and not let them right back out on the street. I'm just saying that's an idea. Well, I think the problem with that idea is that bodies are going to pile up everywhere.
Starting point is 00:51:52 We are going to see this happening in Nassau County now that they can't cross the line. What's going to happen over there? I don't know. I don't know. Let's give another story. Florida sheriff says that he found evidence that illegal aliens were using federal flight vouchers in order to aid human trafficking across the U.S. border during a law enforcement operation.
Starting point is 00:52:16 Polk County Sheriff Grady Judge applauded his deputies for arresting 228 people during a massive multi-agency operation named Operation March Madness, Sorry, Operation March Sadness, 2024. Among those arrested in the operation were teachers, coaches, medical professionals, active military service members, and 21 illegal aliens. So at least there weren't the four people that were chopping people up in the park. He came out and said, we have a crisis at the border. And because of the crisis at the border, we have people that are victimizing illegal folks,
Starting point is 00:52:58 forcing them into the sex trade. Because we allow these criminals into the country illegally, we all rail about it, but nobody does anything. Judge said one suspect had brought three female individuals. illegal aliens to Florida from New York. They said when they came into the country illegally, the DHS Department of Homeland Security gave them a form, an ID, paperwork, and allowed them to fly for free anywhere in America.
Starting point is 00:53:27 You know how Southwest Airlines will let your bags fly for free? Federal government will let your illegal immigrants fly for free, said the sheriff. The victims said they were forced to pay back $3,000 to the female human trafficker under the threat of violence. They tell us that they fly into major metro centers for free on the federal government's dime, whether they set up their appointment for sex, and then they set up their appointments for sex all over the country. So we know this is happening. So I told you last hour, we know fentanyl is coming in over the border, and it's all done by China.
Starting point is 00:54:06 In fact, China just found this old recipe and they're making it. Now, it was discovered in the 1950s as a pain relief agent and doctors saw it because it is like first time addiction and possible death. When it's made in the lab under the right circumstances, they said there was no medical reason for this to ever be made. And so it went back into the shelf of the pharmaceutical companies back in 1950 something. And just guess who just found it? China. And so now they're making it. And they're making it for all of the lovely people that are coming across from the drug cartels into our country.
Starting point is 00:54:52 Isn't that great? Is Biden going to talk about any of this? Any of it. He's going to talk about the border tonight in his state of America. a state of the union address, and he's going to blame it on the Republicans. They just didn't want to solve the problem. No, what you wanted to solve was something we've debated about for decades now. Do we just make everybody a citizen?
Starting point is 00:55:22 No, that's not what we were trying to solve. We're trying to solve the invasion from the southern and now northern border. from places like China. But he's not going to talk about that. He has to blame the Republicans. Because when you talk about drugs and all the people that are dying of fentanyl, there's only one person to blame. The Chinese getting into bed with the drug cartels intentionally doing an opium war on us.
Starting point is 00:55:57 And who's responsible for that happening? anybody who allows illegals and the drug cartels to rule our border. That's the president. But he can't say anything. Get this. Newly disclosed emails show a Chinese businessman who partnered with Hunter Biden's Burnham firm was primarily motivated by access rather than financial considerations, bolstering the House Oversight Committee's contention that the Biden name was the
Starting point is 00:56:30 commodity. Now, this is quite amazing. It was found just the news is reporting this, and it was part of the testimony of the Oversight Committee. And Hunter Biden had business meetings with his firm and another firm run by, I think his name is Henry Zau. And they were looking to merge Burnham, that's his firm, with Harvest, which is the Chinese Communist Party firm, and they were going to get all kinds of access to the markets. Nobody has ever been given this kind of access to Chinese markets before, ever. Not Goldman Sachs, no one. He got it.
Starting point is 00:57:19 And nobody was really asking why. How did that happen? So the team, Hunter's team, wanted to, let Zao know that we're on track for some really good things and a kind of a thank you after this meeting. Here is the letter. We're excited by the prospect of being able to work side by side with Harvest by way of a globally recognized platform. Please pass along my regards to Henry and know them and tell him that what we discussed during our last lunch together in Beijing still holds true. And Michael, please also remind Henry of our conversation
Starting point is 00:58:00 about a board seat for a certain relation of mine. Devin and I golfed with that relation earlier last week, and we discussed this very idea again, and as always he remains very keen on the opportunity. Now, he also admitted under oath this last week that, yes, the big guy is his dad. This isn't some small crime. there are 133 Chinese that have come across our border in the last three years.
Starting point is 00:58:41 30,000 of them since October. We don't know who they are. These are the ones we caught all military-aged men. In fact, there are now more Chinese people coming in, not families, Chinese guys coming in across the border in California, than Mexicans. And are we doing anything to stop it? No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:59:08 The Biden administration, for some reason, said, look, we just got to shorten this. There's 44 questions that you have to ask, you know, if you're, you stop an illegal alien. 44 questions. Let's narrow that down. I think it's to seven, seven questions, from 44 to seven.
Starting point is 00:59:29 But only for the Chinese. Chinese. What? Why? You need to know that in the state of the union tonight, he's not going to tell you anything that is real. It's going to be blame, but know that something is very, very wrong. And when you talk about crime, he's probably going to say that crime has gone down. Remember, the National Guard that Hokal has just put into the subways. Why would they do that if crime was going down? If crime was fine? What Republican has had anything to do with New York or Chicago in forever? So how does that work? How are cities collapsing under the weight because they are sanctuary cities? How is that the fault of the Republican Party?
Starting point is 01:00:32 I'm not looking for fault. I'm looking for someone to actually fix it. And this administration is doing nothing but empowering all the people that would love to see us live in chaos. Susan wrote in about her dog's experience with Rough Green. She says, I'm happy to say my dog actually eats this product willingly. I've tried many vitamins and probiotic supplements that she turns her nose away from and refuses. So I tried Rough Greens. It's the exact opposite.
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Starting point is 01:02:10 it advanced to the House on Tuesday amid national concerns that financial institutions are targeting conservatives. This is a bill that we asked you. Nobody knew about this bill. They didn't know if it would get out of committee. And you called. I don't know if anybody covered this. I know they didn't in Tennessee. But you called in Tennessee. And it passed the subcommittee on banking and consumer affairs by a five to one vote. That's partisan lines, but still, the trend of freezing bank accounts based on your personal belief or your religious belief is going to be, they're going to put a stop to it in Tennessee if it now passes the house and is signed by the governor in Tennessee. So we'll continue to watch this, but it's HB-2100, and it would prohibit all financial institutions. from denying or canceling services based on a person's speech, opinions, affiliations, as well as a person's religious belief, exercise, or affiliations.
Starting point is 01:03:22 I can't believe we have to do this in America, but we do now. So good move in Tennessee. That means a lot. There's a couple of other things. Let me tell you about this. Every year, it seems to get worse and worse. I think there are signs of real hope. And that hope is going to come from a miracle of people just realizing they've got to be who they really are.
Starting point is 01:03:51 Our moral compass no longer is working. It's time for the men of this country to rise up and put on the full armor of God. And this is why a host here on Blaze TV and really just a guy who I think has been called Jason Whitlock. He has organized an event called Fearless Army Roll Call 2.0, brought to you this year by Preborn. It's an all-day event in Nashville, Tennessee on June 1st. It's going to bring men from all over the country together, united under a banner of godliness and responsibility. It's going to encourage you to show love toward one another, do good deeds, as it says in Hebrews, and live a righteous life and be a good man that leads and stands.
Starting point is 01:04:41 Go to fearless army rollcall.com. Fearless army rollcall.com. So what's it take to make a valuable thing worth less? You drag it across the floor and get it dirty. Do you crumple it in your hands? Tear the corners off, light it on fire? Well, no, really what you do is you just keep printing more and more and more of them. This is what our government and the Federal Reserve have done to the American dollar. You can't count on it anymore. Every 100 days, we are going deeper in debt to the tune of $1 trillion over budget every 100 days.
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Starting point is 01:06:29 He's not going to be judged just on what he says, but can he actually say them? he's got he's got to look vigorous and vital and that's what they're working on and they also want him to highlight the accomplishments and I don't really know what those are so maybe it would be best to highlight them for me I guess to talk about this is Senator Eric Schmidt he's just been elected from Missouri he was the Attorney General of the Great State of Missouri and quite a fighter. And God bless you, Eric. Welcome back to the program. It's great to be back with you.
Starting point is 01:07:10 Thank you. So what are we expecting the president to say tonight? And how are the Republicans going to react? Well, he doesn't have a whole lot to talk about it relates to record. There are not a lot of accomplishments that have actually improved people's lives. You know, working families, essentially, Glenn, are paying $10,000 more a year for the same stuff as they were just three years ago. When he came into office, and, you know, the December of 2020, right at the end of President Trump's turn, we had the lowest level of illegal immigration in 40 years. Now we have the highest level of illegal immigration we've ever seen, including 9 million people here who've come here since then illegally.
Starting point is 01:07:52 And our energy policy is, you know, it's just been a total disaster for people. Instead of being energy dominant, we've weakened ourselves from export capabilities to just being energy dominant around the world, right? And so there's not a lot to talk about. So my guess is he's going to resort to fear mongering, right? I mean, I joke there ought to be a drinking game for every time he says extremist, Maga Republican, this whole town in D.C. would be drunk 10 minutes in probably. So I don't know what he's going to do other than try to scare people. It's all he has left.
Starting point is 01:08:24 And, you know, Dark Brandon is probably going to come out on the speech, I'm guessing. That would be, well, it would be revealing to some, I guess, not surprising. not surprising. The White House said he is going to highlight his historic accomplishments on issues, listen to this, on issues ranging from infrastructure
Starting point is 01:08:45 spending to scrapping junk fees. Now, I mean, I don't know about you, but those are historic. I spent more money than anybody else, and I scrap junk fees, you know, from things. Yeah, they,
Starting point is 01:09:01 what's really happening, Glenn, is the people who wrote white papers a decade ago or longer about, you know, whether it's open borders or this sort of climate alarmist agenda that fuels the ESG movement, which I know you've talked about really almost before anybody else, quite frankly, that this, this just almost religious devotion where there's like sort of animal sacrifice involved now. if they want to kill cows because of emissions. It's very bizarre. And what's happened now is the policy has lined up with this sort of theoretical discussion among these people.
Starting point is 01:09:41 And now we're seeing the results. So I actually think it's really instructive for people to compare the record from three years ago to now because people are really seeing what it looks like when the left has the levers of power. And it's not good for people. And I think as Republicans, our response would be, we should have an unabashedly pro-American agenda. You know, just, let's just strip it down. Let's make sure working people are making more. Let's stop sending our jobs over to China because we want those materials to build EVs.
Starting point is 01:10:11 There's not a market for here. You know, just let's, let's secure our border. Let's be energy dominant. I think that is what people want to see. There's so many people, Glenn, that these are the people I represent. They're everywhere in this country that they work hard. They play by the rules. and they love America.
Starting point is 01:10:27 And they're constantly being told they're the problem. And I don't agree with that. I reject that. And I think most Americans do. And so Biden, again, is going to try to wishcast tonight and blame other people. But people are smart enough to recognize, which is why his approval ratings in the 30s. So I have to ask you a question because I don't think we talk about any of the real stuff. We don't talk about China.
Starting point is 01:10:47 I've been harping on this for the last few days about how China is actually making the raw chemicals, bringing them over. mixing them with a thousand Chinese in a town just south of our border, mixing them into fentanyl, then they sold the drug cartels, the presses, so they could press them into pills. So all of this is happening with China and our border. They are pumping poison in. He's going to talk tonight about how he's fought against the fentanyl. but he hadn't done anything with China and with the real problem on what's going on on our border. And again, on the border, he's going to make this about, ah, the Republicans, you know, they just wouldn't do a comprehensive package.
Starting point is 01:11:37 No, sir, you have let people in. I really fear a massive terrorist attack on our land and possibly soon. Well, I'll give you a startling number. In just California alone in the last four months, you think about the nations, the countries of origin of people who've come here illegally and been released into the country. China's number two, 21,000. We've never seen those kinds of numbers ever before from a place like China. They're coming from all over the world. And you're right.
Starting point is 01:12:15 They are importing poison. And the cartels are being enriched. They have lanes for human trafficking and drug trafficking that's well established. and they're getting rich off of this and Americans are dying. And I think, again, this is why the immigration issue, illegal immigration is so seminal right now. People don't get it. They don't understand how an American president can't be up in arms about this.
Starting point is 01:12:40 You know, like, it's a core thing that I think strips away some of the red jersey and blue jerseys we wear on some issues. Like this is our border. This are our people dying. How is it that you care? and it's also a disconnect on Ukraine. How is it that you were obsessed with sending another $61 billion there when this is happening right here?
Starting point is 01:13:00 So I think it really, Glenn, has just sort of crystallized the frustration of the people who are in charge who don't actually put America first in any way, shape, or form. They just don't. And I think the border issue, and you're right, he doesn't need any new laws. He doesn't, he issued 90 plus executive orders on doing the successes. Remain in Mexico, of course, is the most famous. when I was AG, we held up those for a while. We won in court for a while, but they are just dedicated to it.
Starting point is 01:13:28 It's in their DNA. So they're getting exactly what they want, and the American people are feeling the consequences. So can I talk about the budget that has just the continuation of this nonsense and this madness? I saw Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who I don't have a problem with it seems to be doing a good job. he was talking about how many cuts there is, but it's not, that's not real. Did we get anything from this? And is it going to pass the Senate? Probably, I'm not going along with it.
Starting point is 01:14:04 I can't, I didn't get sent here to go along with the broken system, whether it's these, you know, no appropriations bills, no debate. We don't even know if we're going to get amendments. You don't think about that. It's the United States Senate. We don't know if Chuck Schumer is going to allow because he's unveiling these omnibuses. Now, this is broken up into two omnibuses, but it's still. bad. It's still a bus headed off a fiscal cliff. You know, with 34 trillion in debt, there's 6,000 earmarks. There's money for, um, ecotherapy. Like, people who are stressed about climate
Starting point is 01:14:36 alarm. I mean, there's money for algorithmic justice. I mean, this is nuts. And if you, again, if you put these questions to the American people, they reject it, but they try to do it under the cover of darkness. They try to jam this at deadlines. And so I'm fighting, and I hope it can be bipartisan. I mean, Mike Lee and others, I know you know, what we're trying to do is get to a place where we're empowering individual members, where you actually have a say. I think that's what people think happens here. That you stand up on the floor as a senator like Mr. Smith goes to Washington. I have an idea. I have an improvement. I want to build support. I want to build a coalition. Chuck Schumer doesn't rule the floor like that. And so a lot of members are just completely cut out. And it's why we end up with these bills like this that are just needled, you know, are just embedded with a bunch of waste. I know I'm not disagreeing with you when I say this, but neither do the Republicans. I mean, the Republicans and the Democrats have given away all their power to the state to the administration. And that's the real problem here. We need a president that will reduce the federal regulations that come from unelected nobody's.
Starting point is 01:15:45 Yep. Well, and you know, we've talked about before about one of my fundamental missions here is, to dismantle the administrative state. The founders never envisioned. Never. Unelected people, unaccountable to anybody, affecting people's lives the way they do now. So there's a bunch of structural reforms. I think Congress ought to have to vote on.
Starting point is 01:16:05 Every regulation, pick the economic impact. Mine would be lower than someone else's. We should be on the record. If we did that, there wouldn't be a ban on gas stoves. There wouldn't be all this ridiculous stuff that we don't like. We should have to vote on it. And that would stop this stuff cold. We need structural reform.
Starting point is 01:16:22 And I'm just not going to stop until we get it because I think it's the, and you want to understand why people lose faith. It's because they see that. They send people to Washington. It feels like nothing changes because this administrative state exists. And by the way, the same apparatus is suppressing their speech, which is why the heart of Missouri v. Biden that I filed will be argued in two weeks at the Supreme Court. So that was my first floor speech, Glenn, was taking on the administrative state and protecting the First Amendment. I care deeply about it. And I think it's our way forward to restoring trust and actually living up to the prime.
Starting point is 01:16:52 promises of America. You know, I haven't talked to you about this, so I don't know if you're, because you're busy on other things, but I don't know if you know one of our investigative journalist was arrested by the FBI and absolutely humiliated. He went in and covered January 6th in the Capitol. We have all of the footage of him in the building. He never did anything except report the news. His video was used by the New York Times and HBO. He was a legitimate reporter in there covering this. They arrested him, put him in ankle chains and handcuffs, and marched him in front of a judge.
Starting point is 01:17:35 We don't know what's going to happen to him now. He's been charged with four misdemeanors. This has got to stop. They're out of control. Yep. And you're going to hear tonight when these, you know, the American people have a choice between democracy and authority. Well, we have seen the enemy.
Starting point is 01:17:54 And it is Joe Biden's administration. Look, this is, this is meant to quell dissent. It's completely un-American. And they have weaponized these institutions to go after, you know, Catholics and people who are speaking out. We saw what the censorship enterprise had silenced millions of posts in Americans across the country. And that's what they're doing. Excuse me. That's what they're doing.
Starting point is 01:18:19 And they're, it's really un-American. And I remember a time where liberals, you know, actually believed in the First Amendment. And I don't know what the hell happened, but we got to figure it out. All right. Thank you so much. We'll be watching for you tonight. One last thing. Are they, the press keeps saying the Republicans are going to be out of control.
Starting point is 01:18:42 Believe it to that. It's Senator Eric Schmidt from Missouri. I think that was a great comment myself from Missouri, Senator Eric. Schmidt back in a minute. Don't forget, our coverage begins tonight with the State of the Union. We're not covering it like everybody else. We're all getting together. We're pretty much, I mean, we'll tell you all the facts and everything else, but
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Starting point is 01:21:47 Yeah. You just never see. This is strange and apparently real? Okay. Jake Paul, you're familiar with Jake Paul? Internet influencer of sorts, a very, very famous, you know, internet guy. And huge following.
Starting point is 01:22:03 And he's also done a bunch of boxing. And I don't know if he's actually. good or not? I can't actually tell. I don't know if he's a good boxer or if he's boxing things come up from time to time and I'm like, what, what, what? I just don't know. I don't know. I don't know. So he's going to box some celebrity.
Starting point is 01:22:19 Yes. Mike Tyson. Now, you might know Mike Tyson is one of the greatest boxers in his prime of all time. Or a rapist. Well, that's another thing. Yeah. You might also know him as a guy who's 57 years old and no longer in his prime.
Starting point is 01:22:35 I mean, this was the plot. of a Rocky 4. Apollo Creed was killed in the ring. I don't think Paul is going to kill him. You don't think he's Ivan Drago in the situation? No, and I think there's a chance that it goes the other way. Yeah, and I think with Jake Paul and the amount of people who don't like him, he might not even be charged with the murder if he kills him.
Starting point is 01:22:57 And then on the other hand, you have like, Mike Tyson is a convicted rapist. Where is this happening? It's happening here in Dallas. AT&T Stadium. You know the, you know, it's a massive and streamed live on Netflix July 20th. It's the Roman Coliseum. It is absolutely the Roman Coliseum. All right, back with more in a minute. Staying me. You know, there's a lot of great science fiction. Science fiction is called that because it takes science, then pushes it to the endth degree in a fictional way. But really good science fiction becomes science fact. And a lot of the things that people
Starting point is 01:24:49 wrote science fiction for a long time, and all the experts said that are starting to happen, it's kind of a course on the highway update in just a second. Stand by. First, let me tell you about real estate agents. I trust when it comes time to sell your home or buy a new one, it's a pretty safe bet, you're going to want somebody to help you with some home repairs, you know, somebody who knows what really needs to be done, but also, you know, a few repairs here and there that can boost the value of the home on the market and you don't necessarily know what those things are. That's why you need a real estate agent. You can trust. You don't need a home repair contractor who cuts corners, a lot of them cut corners. The many of the things that you're going to need,
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Starting point is 01:26:25 I trust.com. So the computer scientist and CEO of Singularity.net made the claim during the closing remarks at the beneficial AGI summit on March 1st in Panama City, he's known as the father of AGI. And he came out and said that most AI that we know is narrow AI. It'll be good at one thing and one topic. And what we have now, these large language models are moving things down the line faster than anyone expected. But what we have now is AI. AGI is general intelligence. We are GI. Humans are GI. General intelligence beings. It means we can do a lot of different things. We might not master everything, but we can generally do a myriad of things every day and figure
Starting point is 01:27:35 out how it works and et cetera et cetera. We're G.I. AGI is something that is like human and it can do all the things humans can do, except it will do them and master all of them. So it's
Starting point is 01:27:52 like the smartest human. Then you have a S-I, artificial superintelligence. There are no S's to compare in humans. This would be akin to all human brains tied together and thinking, okay, all human brains on
Starting point is 01:28:15 earth. It will be superior to that. That could be very bad, could also be very good. We don't know. And nobody, anybody who says they know, they're bluffing. This is like a human, I mean, sorry, an alien life form. This is a new form of what will eventually be. be called life. We have no idea how it thinks. We currently have no idea how these large language models even teach themselves and do things that they weren't programmed to do. We have no idea. So we're messing with something that we don't even know how it works. It's like building a nuclear weapon, but you don't really understand, wait, it smashes an atom and who's Adam? It's like that. We're playing with very dangerous technology.
Starting point is 01:29:09 So I have said for a long time that I thought it would be here. AGI would be accomplished sometime before 2030, most likely right around 2030. And most people, most scientists said that was crazy. I just didn't think it was going to be as hard. I just watch how fast technology grows. and now Ben Gertzel Which sounds kind of like a food
Starting point is 01:29:38 Doesn't it like a Jewish food? Ben Gertzel Hey, come on over I know you love my Ben Gertzell Let's eat. Anyway, Ben Gertzl, who is this CEO of Singularity.net, the father of AGI,
Starting point is 01:29:51 just came out and said he thinks we're going to have AGI by 2027. Wow. That's a game changer. So you're wrong again. Wrong again.
Starting point is 01:30:05 Wrong again. Now, let me show you why this is so incredibly dangerous. First of all, when you have AGI, we don't know how it's going to react to us and don't fear the, don't fear the program or the robot, fear the program or the programming. Who programmed it? What is it? How is it learned? What does it? what does it think? How does it think? What's life? What's not life? All of that stuff.
Starting point is 01:30:36 The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is testing now the potential of commercial AI chat bots like OpenAI's GPT4 to assist in military strategy and battle planning. Now, this is something we should probably all concern ourselves with. I mean, just a little bit. They say that it is getting really, really good. The researchers provided AI chatbots, including OpenAIs GPT4 Turbo and GPT4 vision models with details about simulated terrain, friendly, and enemy forces, military doctrines
Starting point is 01:31:22 for offensive and defensive operations. The AI assistance were then tasked with proposing courses of action to accomplish a specific mission objective, destroying all the enemy units and capturing a designated point on the map. Within seconds, the AI chatbots responded with multiple strategic proposals. A human operator acting as the military commander could then query the AI for clarifications or modifications to the proposed plans before finalizing and executing the computer's model.
Starting point is 01:31:54 The results showed that OpenAI's latest GPT models outperformed older AI agents in a simplified war game context. However, they weren't perfect. The scenarios that they proposed, well, the troops suffered higher casualty rates on both sides, but they did manage to achieve their overall mission goals. so if they didn't really care about human life you can do anything this is how you can build giant dams right
Starting point is 01:32:28 you just like if you as long as you don't mind folding people into the concrete yeah that's how you built the dam up china great wall of china just what they're gonna die eventually anyway might have a couple legs sticking out one other thing the wall at places but one other thing because I know you don't have enough to worry about
Starting point is 01:32:43 but one other thing that we're watching is the woolly mammoth okay they're trying to bring the woolly mammoth back remember we had that guy on yep Okay, trying to bring the woolly mammoth back because somehow or another, it's going to be good for the environment. I don't know, you figure it out. I'm not smart enough to figure that one out. But they're bringing it back.
Starting point is 01:33:00 And apparently, apparently, we have taken an elephant-sized step towards genetically resurrecting the woolly mammoth. So we're closer now than we've ever been before. won't that be exciting? Maybe it'll be like Ice Age and he'll be a friendly Woolly Mammoth. Or it could be like Jurassic Park! What is wrong with us? Also, another horse on the highway, this from the Times of Israel, we're living in the most worrying period for Jews since World War II.
Starting point is 01:33:40 Now, what would make them say that? Well, a couple of stories. anti-Israel college students label themselves now as militants and say struggle, violent struggle, is the only way to liberate Palestine. This is from which university is this? Holyoke, Mount Holyoke. Five points of Al Thuapet or whatever it is. one a free Palestine is an Arab from the river to the sea with Al-Quds as its capital. Ever heard of the Al-Quds forces?
Starting point is 01:34:20 Those Al-Quds forces, they are the ones that are going to free everyone by killing all the Jews in Jerusalem. Al-Quds is what they call Jerusalem. So, first, free Palestine, it's got to be Arab from river to the sea. so that means there is no Israel, and Al-Quds is its capital. And I bet you that John Kerry would recognize that as their capital immediately. Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine. Okay, or armed struggle. Okay, so that's what's going on in our campuses.
Starting point is 01:34:59 So that might be one of the reasons why it's dangerous to be a Jew now. New study finds Jewish college students hiding their identity due to the backlash on their campus. Okay, well, it's a bunch of college students. Get over it, right? Here's a cute little story from the great city of New Haven, Connecticut. A city official has been disciplined, so I want you to know, they've been disciplined. And they're going through cultural sensitivity training. Why? well, you might even think this is a little rash what they put this person through.
Starting point is 01:35:37 Cultural sensitivity training. I mean, imagine that could have lasted hours. What they did was they were chanting ethnic cleansing slogans with a megaphone and encouraging others to do the same outside a local Jewish family's home. The Bisa Rich, New Haven communities outreach. coordinator for the Department of Arts, Cultural, and Tourism, caused a scene outside of a house of a local rabbi and Jewish family. He had a pro-Israel sign in his yard. Now, the first time I read this story, I didn't realize he had a sign that was pro-Israel, you know, support Israel.
Starting point is 01:36:22 That's going too far. That's going too far. According to a video obtained by The Daily Wire and her social media, she has, several anti-Semitic posts since Israel was attacked on October 7th by terrorists, including stating she does not condemn Hamas for its murder of more than a thousand Israelis and others that invoked tropes about Jewish money and power. City says, okay, she did violate the code of conduct, which is good, okay? At least they have a code of conduct. You know, you shouldn't say, hey, let's kill all the Jews.
Starting point is 01:37:01 You know, with a megaphone. No? Yeah, no. And they said they've written a former letter of reprimand for violations of the city code of conduct regarding her actions and several statements posted on social media. But she's not going to, the mayor has said she's not going to lose her job. I mean, that would be too much.
Starting point is 01:37:20 That would be too much. The letter of reprimand was also accompanied by a coaching statement. So when you combine that with a coaching statement, I mean, this poor woman, what she's been through, in a canceling discussion plan accompanying the letter of reprimand, the city alleges Rich's actions have impaired her ability to perform as somebody that can bring the community together on arts, you know? And she's done significant damage to her professional reputation and ability to work with a wide spectrum of individuals and groups in the cities. Now, I don't see that myself, but Ms. Rich was hired last year by New Haven and given the responsibility of managing the $1.2 million in federal funding for the city of New Haven under the America Rescue Plan Act. So she's out there spending some of your money. And I feel good about that.
Starting point is 01:38:21 At the time, the director of cultural affairs said that Ms. Rich was hired because they were looking for someone who could build. be a bridge builder. And she's been doing that. Now, in videos posted of the incident by the rabbi and Rich herself, the city official can be heard repeating, shouting, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. That means there's no Israel. She was eventually joined by her husband, Charlie Rich, who was wearing a mask when he showed up. he defended her actions and pressed the Jewish resident, you know, the rabbi, to denounce Israel. You know, you know, the family, as the rabbi said, was, you know, very shaken because it turns out both these people are prominent members of the community who came to harass us because we had a support Israel sign in our yard.
Starting point is 01:39:18 after the incident happened, Rich, you know, you could tell she was sorry because she posted, you tell me when you want to come back and ask for a ceasefire. And I ask for this people to stop their hate because they think that they are white and privileged and they think that their religion is superior to the rest. I need people to show up to this very same street. We need to find a time to come back and show up in numbers and say, no, enough is enough. your silence is starting to signify complacency. I promise I understand that some of you all have your pockets lined with bosses that are Jewish.
Starting point is 01:40:00 During the Super Bowl, she said she was tired of seeing Jewish folks inflicting hate. I don't know what that had to do with the Super Bowl, but she did. In her response to the reprimand, you can tell she learned her lesson. she said her media posts were taken out of context. And they were just intended to shed light on the propaganda and misinformation surrounding the true impact of the conflict on the people of Palestine. You know, but I think it's great. The mayor said, hey, look, we got to take all views.
Starting point is 01:40:37 And, you know, those who want to kill the Jews and those who don't. We're going to, you know, just a difference of opinion. I think that's it. Now, two size to every issue, Glenn. Yeah, that's right. Don't you dare say anything about gays or lesbians or transgender, because we'll put you in jail for that. Of course. Of course.
Starting point is 01:40:53 You know, hey, we all disagree. Should we kill the Jew or not kill the Jew? You know, I mean, let everybody live or, you know, or not let live, whichever they choose. Preborn is not easy to face. This country has blood on its hands. Nearly 65 million innocent lives have taken in abortion. murder since Roe versus Wade. Now that Roe is gone, there's still a lot of work to do because we can't erase the terrible history we've built with our unborn children in this country,
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Starting point is 01:42:13 securely at preborn.com slash Beck, preborn.com slash Beck, sponsored by preborn. 10 seconds, station ID. So when you say things like that, Stu, I'm just wondering, I'm reading what the mayor said. City employees can have different and strongly held views on important issues. There's an appropriate time, place, and manner in which to express them. And incidents and statements of this nature won't be tolerated. but she just she stepped out of bounds because she was there on the grass of somebody's home when is the appropriate time to call for the end of Israel and the killing of all Jews
Starting point is 01:43:02 I think we should ask our university professors they seem to have a good handle on this question so go to the expert you're right you're right there are some context where this is very appropriate apparently hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters surrounded the montreal holocaust museum on Monday, preventing access to the building where a group of Israeli army reservists were speaking on part of an advocacy tour. Protesters chanted death to Israel, death to the Jews. You know, we all have a different opinion. This is the building that houses the Holocaust Museum. Needless to say, the Jewish community was a little taken aback.
Starting point is 01:43:46 attempting to block access to the building, harassing, calling for death to the Jews at the Holocaust Museum, apparently not the greatest. Now, the police did show up and, you know, they said, well, you know, they had to use mace on a couple of people, but nobody was arrested. Nobody was arrested. Nothing happened. It's just, again, you know, this disagreement, you know, some call for an antifada and terrorism against, you know, civilians and killing an entire group of people. And some don't. And apparently Canada, the enlightened Canada understands that and can come together. Don't drive a truck. Don't, don't you dare drive a truck during COVID. Don't do it. Don't do it. You'll put you in jail. This, hey, we all got to live together, or not and just hear each other out.
Starting point is 01:44:48 Can't we be understanding? Now, of course, obviously, if you say something about the LGBTQIA2 plus community, we cannot, no, cannot be understanding at all. But can't we be understanding what we call for the genocide of the Jews? I never thought. We live in a weird freaking place.
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Starting point is 01:45:22 I'm a grin and wine a lot kind of guy. Do you really want to have to do that grin and bear it day and day out, always pretending to yourself and everybody else that you're doing just fine? You know, my dad always said, hey, dad, how are you doing? And he said, getting better. Well, he wasn't really getting better. He was getting worse and worse in pain. But, you know, I understand the power of positive thinking.
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Starting point is 01:46:47 Big, big star in South America and Mexico. I'm going to introduce him as only a white man can as Alejandro Montefi. Verde, which is not the way he would say it, but better than the way George Bush would say it. He'd be like, Alejandro, you know, he's here. Anyway, Alejandro, how are you, sir? How are you? Thank you for having me in your show. It's a great honor.
Starting point is 01:47:13 And by the way, I met George Bush at the, you know, when he gave the State of the Union speech, he picks two immigrants that came to this country, and I was one of them. he spoke so happy opportunity to start with him and he did spoke like what you said Al Jandro was here so Alejandro
Starting point is 01:47:37 you are one of the great reasons we love immigrants you are a guy big big star all over South America and Mexico and as an actor but you have become I
Starting point is 01:47:55 believe one of the best filmmakers in the world. I saw your movie Cabrina, Cabrini, when it was, I don't even know if it was locked down yet. And halfway through it, I said to one of the producers, I feel like I am in the screening room with the group that made The Godfather, you know, sitting next to That is one of the most amazing compliments because when I work with my cinematographer, that was one of the inspirations. Oh, yeah, I'm telling you, you guys nailed that. It is one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen, but not for an artsy reason. It just is, it just captures a mood like I've only seen in The Godfather. So you hit that.
Starting point is 01:48:45 The movie Cabrini, you're welcome. The movie Cabrini, tell the story of St. Cabrini, because a lot of people don't know her. Well, you know, just to the shorter summarized, she was a warrior. She came here to America in the late 1800s as an immigrant, a woman with nothing, with a dream, with a big mission to build
Starting point is 01:49:10 hospitals and help those in need. And built an empire as big as any Rockefeller or Vanderbilt. Yeah. even though at that time when she arrived, she faced a lot of racism against the Italians and discrimination. But that's the beautiful of this country. That did not stop her for building one of the greatest hospitals than New York has ever seen. It is.
Starting point is 01:49:38 And she actually, by the end of her life, I believe it was the largest hospital network in the world. I mean, what she accomplished was amazing. and she became an American shortly after she got here, a few years after she got here. But it shows a woman. And then she was the first American saint. Yeah. Which is also very powerful.
Starting point is 01:49:59 Yeah. The way you have predicted her, tell me about the lady who plays her. This movie, Cabrini, by the way, my highest, highest recommendation, this is an incredible movie, so inspirational, well done. This
Starting point is 01:50:18 will show you how far independent films have come from conservative media. This is put out by angel films. You remember how bad Christian movies were? This is, I wouldn't categorize it as a Christian
Starting point is 01:50:37 movie. It's just a movie about this wonderful Christian, but it is brilliant. So please go see it. It's out tomorrow. Anyway, Well, thank you. Thank you. First of all, that's so truly an honor to coming from you. It means a lot. Well, the reason we, you know, this is a woman that also defy death itself, you know, defy our mortality every single day. She was able to literally steal decades of life. You know, they told her that she had two to three years to live and she kept fighting and fighting with,
Starting point is 01:51:14 look at the amount of faith. If somebody tells you you have two years to leave, but you have a dream that will take you 20 years to make, that requires a lot, a lot of faith in yourself to begin with. So I needed an actress that was able to have the power of her eyes from going from a loving eyes that can love a child that is abandoned to the streets to rapidly change to have this defiant eyes, to defy all this child.
Starting point is 01:51:44 challenges that were put in front of her. You know, she fought all the way from the most dangerous criminal, a pimp that was prostituting little girls to facing, you know, very powerful politicians. Right. And the Pope. I mean, the scene with the Pope where she's like, I'm going to see the Pope and everybody's keeping her away from the Pope.
Starting point is 01:52:07 And he's finally like, I'm not going to mess with this woman. Send her in. Yeah. She inspires me all the time. you know, we take no's too easy nowadays. So somebody says no and you just walk away. She was able to convert a note to adjust. She was able to build bridges,
Starting point is 01:52:24 to even be able to work with people that disagree with her. And that's what I think is the problem right now. And it's so relevant with America because right now we're in such a divided country. We should be able to work together even though we're divided. And she understood that. It's like we don't have to agree, but there's people dying outside. You know, there's like, let's, let's, Let's go and help.
Starting point is 01:52:45 And she lived a life for others. Can I go down just an odd road, perhaps, with you? There was one point where I leaned over to the producer and I said, that's Batman looking over Gotham. Yeah. Right? And she was wearing a cape. Yes. And she was wearing a cape.
Starting point is 01:53:05 Yes. So did you do these things? Because there were several places where I was like, that's a hero shot. That's a hero shot that I've seen. Did you intentionally do that? Yes, yes, yes. Everything was designed and very intentional on this film because of COVID. You know, at least we have to use COVID for advantage.
Starting point is 01:53:24 You know, the movie kept being pushed, pushed and pushed. So we used all that time to keep designing and designing, designing every shot, but designing the subtext. There's a lot of subtext on this film. She lives a very heroic life. She was wearing a cape. So we wanted to present her visually as a hero, as those heroes that you see in Marvel movies,
Starting point is 01:53:44 but she was a real hero. And is it true that this was, because I think this is what makes the movie so visually appealing, is it was meant to be shot in black and white, right? Yes. And what happened? The whole time the movie was black and white, and when you shoot black and white,
Starting point is 01:54:07 it allows you to be very operatic, you know, or so well, citizen pain, you know. Like all those movies, it's a wonderful, you know, like all those films, it allows you, you know, Orson Wells used to say it is impossible to have bad acting in black and white. Black and white allows you to do everything. But most importantly, the reason I wanted to shoot it in black and white was because she was wearing black. And I didn't want her habit to get in the way of her story.
Starting point is 01:54:35 So I was like, well, then everybody's going to be dressed like her, black and white. So for the entire year and a half, I designed the movie as it was of black and white, which is very operatic, very cinematic, very orchestrated, almost like if you look in a movie on Broadway. So, and then a week before we started to shoot, Eustos Woffington, who was the person behind all of this movement, I call it the Cabrini movement, he flew in and I say, well, he's coming for two reasons. Either he's firing me or he's telling me that he's not going to be black and white. That was the only two reasons because anything else he could just tell me on the phone. Why is he flying in to see me?
Starting point is 01:55:17 And he was the second one. It's like it's not going to be black and white. And at this point, I already had to sign the movie. When you design the movie for black and white, like Citizen Kane, you take a lot of creative licenses. And it was too late to go back. And it, you know, I didn't know if it was going to work. When I finished the film, I went into a deep depression for two weeks because I didn't know if this movie was going to work because I had shot it designed for black and white, but I shot it in color. So it was of the most dark.
Starting point is 01:55:51 I went into a dark place for two weeks. And then I saw the first thought and I was like, oh, it worked. Oh, my gosh. So it was a risk. It is the most visually stunning movie that does not detract. You know, sometimes people do it for art's sake and blah, blah, blah. This is just visually stunning and helps tell the story. I mean, Alejandro, you don't need this from me, but I truly believe you are one of the, if not, the best director around today.
Starting point is 01:56:28 You are going to be legendary, I believe. It's just a matter of time. Thank you. Just a matter of time. time. You are just, it's, it's brilliant. So. Truly, because we've been in a fight and I want to, you know, I, I've never heard that. Some more coming from you, it's shaking my heart.
Starting point is 01:56:47 But I want to say something, you know, you know this very well. You know, movies like this, if we don't, we don't have the big billboards. We don't have, we're not, you know, we're competing against Doom. So the only way the movie like this can survive is if in opening weekend, people go see it, otherwise we'll be kicked out of theaters. So I cannot tell you how important it is that people come out on opening week because they are our billboards. The billboards is the word of mouth. It's people coming out of the tears and sharing their experience, their cinematic experience with audiences.
Starting point is 01:57:22 You know, our audience is the walking billboards. Well, I will tell you that I saw it in a studio projection room. And I went home and I've been telling my family about this movie ever since. and we are all going to be at the theater tomorrow. I can't wait to see it again. It is so good. Thank you so much. Yeah, you saw an early cut,
Starting point is 01:57:45 so I can wait for you. There is two or three new scenes. I wonder if you'll be able to spot them. I think you will, by the way. Alandro, thank you so much. And keep up the good work. You are fantastic, really. And Cabrini is a piece of, really, a piece of art.
Starting point is 01:58:04 It really is. And I'm so grateful, so grateful for your support, but thank you so much. Thank you. Alejandro Monteverdi, filmmaker, and I really mean this. I think he is, he's going to be remembered with all of the greats. I have been a fan of his when he started making smaller movies, and he made Little Boy, which I thought was just fantastic, captured the spirit of America in World War II, Very few people can do.
Starting point is 01:58:37 And then he also is responsible for the Sound of Freedom. And now, Cabrini. And this is amazing and a great, uplifting story. You will just love it. Find it at a theater, like he said, this weekend is really important because they, the reason why Sound of Freedom did well is because more movie theaters, open up on the opening weekend, if they have a big opening weekend, then more theaters go,
Starting point is 01:59:10 you know what, I'll give that a try. And if you don't support these things on the opening weekend, and you will just go to support filmmakers. We have come from really bad movies to brilliant, brilliant pieces of work. And this is the best I've seen from a conservative. And it's It's one of the best I've seen from anyone. It's called Cabrini. See it this weekend. Let me tell you about the Burn a Launcher. It's a non-lethal alternative to safeguarding your home that will send potential threats running in the opposite direction.
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Starting point is 02:01:55 So I'm just trying to plan out my weekend. Yeah. I have some interesting, important,
Starting point is 02:02:00 honest questions for you about this movie. Okay. This is like because you're thinking
Starting point is 02:02:04 about going. I mean, you just made an incredible pitch for this movie. I've heard
Starting point is 02:02:08 only great things about it. Yes. I'm a little concerned. Beyond me. Beyond you. Yeah,
Starting point is 02:02:13 yes. This is pretty I think this is this is the opposite kind of tail but the quality of the godfather. Incredible compliment. Now, I don't always trust your movie advice. It's important to understand. Like, when you recommend a blockbuster to me, it doesn't win me over because I typically, like, you like different types of stuff. Like, oh, the new Avengers movie is amazing.
Starting point is 02:02:37 I'm not going to listen to you on that. Usually, when you come up with a movie I've never heard of before out of nowhere, it's usually. really good. When you praise that type of movie, but there is one exception to that rule. Okay. When you talk too much about the cinematography, when you start just constantly talking about cinematography, then it's the Glenn artistic person who likes the shots in the movie, not necessarily the movie. I'm concerned, you mentioned it several times how beautiful it was. I know. Is it a good movie or is it, I like the camera work in the movie? This is what I would call a movie. This is what I would call a movie slash film.
Starting point is 02:03:17 Wow. It's a great movie. Okay. It's a great story. Very uplifting. And, you know, I think very relatable. And the kind of stuff that I want to consume right now, can I just go in and not leave thinking, oh, my gosh, that really didn't do anything for my mood.
Starting point is 02:03:35 So it's a very uplifting story. It's a true story. It's so well done. And the way it's shot, it's a film. But I can differ. between a film and a movie. Right. This is not The Avengers.
Starting point is 02:03:50 You would look at this more like a happy godfather. It has that kind of gravitas to it. All right. It's really good. Really high praise. I can't wait to hear your review. I've got something to do this week. Yeah, all right.
Starting point is 02:04:02 It opens tomorrow theaters, limited release. Please go see it this weekend. That will make it more widely distributed. The name of it is Cabrini. The Glenn Beck. program.

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