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Speaker 2 Just looking at, you know, what has been done in the last six months, it is pretty amazing the progress on things that we never, ever thought could be done.

Speaker 2 For instance, NATO, they're paying their own way now.

Speaker 2 They've upped and guaranteed they're going to pay 5%. And he's like, you're going to, because I'm not going to.

Speaker 2 We stopped giving aid to Ukraine. Instead, we're shipping the weapons that NATO purchases.

Speaker 2 And you can do whatever you want, but we'll sell you the weapons, but we're not going to give them anymore to Ukraine. Which, I mean, if you don't like the war in Ukraine, that's a different story.

Speaker 2 But at least we're not paying for it anymore.

Speaker 2 You have

Speaker 2 NATO

Speaker 2 coming to heal and listening to the American president again.

Speaker 2 I mean, I think that's amazing. The activist judges are now being pushed back down.
You're not a king. You don't have a right to tell every, and he pushed that through the Supreme Court.

Speaker 2 He last week he pulled the plug on PBS and NPR.

Speaker 2 I never thought that would happen in my lifetime. It's been a conservative priority forever.
Forever.

Speaker 3 Many Republican presidents have promised to do it and were not able to do it.

Speaker 2 Along with the Department of Education.

Speaker 3 Now, that one's not done yet.

Speaker 2 No, but remember

Speaker 2 he said he was going to do it. Then they sued him for it and said, You can't do it.
He brought it all the way to the Supreme Court, argued in the Supreme Court.

Speaker 2 Supreme Court said, Yeah, you can, up to a certain point. 50% of that's going to be gone soon.
Yeah. That is fantastic.

Speaker 2 Nobody thought. 50%?

Speaker 2 I guess the point of this is, is let's not look at it and go, yeah, but there's 50%.

Speaker 2 He just cut it by 50%.

Speaker 3 It's a major improvement.

Speaker 2 Major improvement.

Speaker 2 Let's see.

Speaker 2 The colleges.

Speaker 2 Why are we sending money to colleges that are, you know, letting China in? That's not happening.

Speaker 2 Teaching our kids and screwing our kids up. He's like, I'm not sending you any more money.

Speaker 2 In fact, the first thing you have to do is you have have to rescind all of the fake records set by men in women's sports, and then you have to apologize to the women.

Speaker 3 That's interesting. That stuff hasn't polled all that well

Speaker 3 overall, but it's been good for conservatives. And again, I'm not saying that he should be targeting polling by what he's doing.
I'm just trying to see why his approval already be following.

Speaker 2 He's also frozen tens of millions of dollars of our money going to liberal universities and suing them for racial discrimination.

Speaker 2 Again,

Speaker 2 the left for the first time ever, I have not seen this for a long time. You know, they'll just get up in front of Congress and they'll just lie.

Speaker 2 For the first time in

Speaker 2 40 years,

Speaker 2 I'm seeing people go to Congress and they're not lying. They'll say, I plead the fifth.

Speaker 2 That means they're actually afraid something will happen to them, that somebody is serious this time. That's a huge step.
Now, I haven't seen the seriousness begin,

Speaker 2 but some things are happening behind the scenes in Washington. I found out about yesterday

Speaker 2 that serious times,

Speaker 2 if the Senate acts to actually confirm more U.S. attorneys, there's like 70 of them backlogged and they're not doing anything.
The Senate's not moving on those.

Speaker 2 You can't have prosecutions without the U.S. attorneys.

Speaker 3 I did hear that they were considering canceling the, was it the August break to get

Speaker 2 all this stuff through? He's begging them.

Speaker 3 And soon said something about doing that.

Speaker 2 Birthright citizenship, now possibly on the chopping block. Never thought that would happen.

Speaker 2 The vaccine industrial complex, that's all being dismantled. The Department of Health and Human Services

Speaker 2 and the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, they fired all the people from Big Pharma on that.

Speaker 2 He took on South Africa and their land seizures, their government-incited murder, all of that stuff.

Speaker 2 He is,

Speaker 2 we're no longer that we know of being shadow banned.

Speaker 2 He's got the

Speaker 2 AI people and the tech people generally on his side and said government should not be involved in any kind of stuff on free speech. And the Democrats have completely

Speaker 2 caved.

Speaker 2 I go back to Stu, what I said to Stu or what he said to me years ago. Hey, Glenn,

Speaker 2 I think it was the day we put GBTV on the air. We launched a network.
The week we were doing our first ever and only foreign event in Israel. None of us spoke Hebrew.

Speaker 2 None of us spoke Arabic. None of us had ever put together an event.
None of us had ever started a network. And we did it at the same time in one week.
And we were finished.

Speaker 2 And I was already going, okay, here's what we have to do next. And Stu came to me and said, hey, what do you say we celebrate just for a second? Just for a second.

Speaker 2 That's all I wanted to say today is, could we just celebrate for just a second? We got to get back to all the things that aren't being done.

Speaker 2 But my gosh,

Speaker 2 look what's happened.

Speaker 2 Over and over and over again, things

Speaker 2 I never thought we'd get done are being done. That's not accounting.
Yesterday, the straw thing went away.

Speaker 3 That's a nice one. Yeah.
They got the

Speaker 3 paper.

Speaker 2 The shoe thing last week at the airport. I was at the airport on Friday.
And they're like, don't worry,

Speaker 2 you don't have to take your shoes off and

Speaker 2 your laptop has to come out, but the liquid thing, that's on the way.

Speaker 3 Yeah, the liquid is another one that you can have liquids now. Right.

Speaker 3 Bring a bottle of water through the security lines.

Speaker 2 Coming soon.

Speaker 3 Not done yet, but coming soon, supposedly.

Speaker 2 Just that in the straw thing I never thought would happen. He got us out of the Paris Accords and

Speaker 2 the WEF and ESG, while it's still out there, is not breathing down our neck like something that's about to take over.

Speaker 3 Major progress there.

Speaker 2 Look at the corporations, how the corporations have flipped. I mean,

Speaker 2 this is remarkable for six months.

Speaker 3 And so a lot of these things are, I mean, I'm looking at them. I would say the majority of them are things that mostly are toward his base.
Yes. These are things that conservatives.

Speaker 2 Because they were the ones that were on the most amount of fire.

Speaker 3 Sure. And look,

Speaker 3 this is why he got elected, right? By his base. They wanted him to do a lot of these things.

Speaker 3 You know, this is understandable why you know people in the middle and on the left might be less excited about those things and maybe hurting his approval rating um you know i i think a lot of it's focused like i think focusing on things like there's no shoes on planes is smart right because you know that's something that's overwhelmingly popular to get rid of that that's rudy giuliani back in the 80s and i I faced this in the 80s.

Speaker 2 New York was a scary place. Not as scary as it is now, but a scary place.

Speaker 3 You drive your I don't know if it's true. I think it's actually scarier then.

Speaker 2 Well, it's close. You drive your car back then, and somebody would just throw water on your window, take a rag, and just wipe it.
Your window would be completely smeared now. Now you couldn't see.

Speaker 2 And then they knock on your window, like, pay up. And if you didn't pay up, you were praying for the light to change quickly.

Speaker 2 Okay. Rudy Giuliani got into office.
That's the first thing he took on. Change people's lives.

Speaker 2 And I think

Speaker 2 he is doing that, but we don't, it just happens amongst all the other stuff that is happening

Speaker 2 where, I mean, he should take a moment and take a victory lap on the things that actually change people's lives, like the no-shoe thing at the at the airport, like the straw thing.

Speaker 2 Those are things that I'm sick of those straws. I was at a restaurant.

Speaker 2 over the weekend

Speaker 2 and they gave me one of those stupid straws that i'm like well this is going to be a slimy piece of nothing

Speaker 2 by the time I finish this drink. Thank you for that.
All that nonsense is over. The showers.

Speaker 2 You can have water pressure again in your shower.

Speaker 3 That's another good one, yeah.

Speaker 2 Right?

Speaker 2 I mean, I know I'm missing a ton of things. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I think

Speaker 3 it's interesting because you look at how the overall country. looks at Trump's policies.
And you can find polls all over the place on this. Some are more liberal, some are more conservative.

Speaker 3 But like the order of these policies generally is about the same on almost all of these polls. Let me give it to you real quick.
Yeah. Most popular, border security.
Yes. Next, immigration.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 3 Deportations is next. Now, again, that is underwater on some polling, but it's still one of his more popular policies tied to that.

Speaker 3 But you see, all three of the top three are all related to the border. Right.

Speaker 2 You know why?

Speaker 2 Because people see that in their own neighborhood. They're afraid of their own neighborhoods in many ways.

Speaker 2 They see it. They recognize terrorism, gangs, fentanyl, drugs.
They see crime going up. And so this is one of the things they see and know instinctively this is bad.
They may not like

Speaker 2 the correction,

Speaker 2 but they want the correction.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 3 Yes, that's a great way of describing it.

Speaker 2 They want it. Yeah.
They just don't want to say they want it.

Speaker 3 Yeah, and they don't want to necessarily, you know, it's like

Speaker 3 you want a hamburger, you don't necessarily want to hang out at the slaughterhouse. It's like one of those types of things.
It feels like it's a negative thing to get to, a positive thing for some.

Speaker 3 Again, I feel like someone who broke in the law, I don't have any problem with it at all.

Speaker 2 But I'm just saying from

Speaker 2 like human beings, which they are. Right.
But I want them out. Right.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 What's interesting about this is his approval rating for immigration, still his most popular set of policies, has fallen from, I mean, it was in March plus 11 on average, and it is now a minus 6.

Speaker 2 That is because of people like Corey Booker and the press and the way the press is making this all look.

Speaker 3 It's also pretty standard for most presidents. Now, we should also note that Trump is ahead of his first term considerably.
So keep that in context here, too. Even though

Speaker 3 they're focusing on the falling of the polls, he's doing better than he was in

Speaker 3 his first term.

Speaker 3 After that, you have jobs in the economy,

Speaker 3 then foreign policy.

Speaker 2 By the way, did I even mention

Speaker 2 the jobs, the massive

Speaker 2 job front on you get, whether you spend $10 billion or $10,000, you get a tax credit if you are building infrastructure that actually creates jobs. How about all of the...

Speaker 2 He's cut the red tape for all of the nuclear power plants and the coal-fire plants.

Speaker 3 And yeah, that's again a very divisive thing. I know, but I like it.

Speaker 2 It is, it's phenomenal. I mean, I think there's some, there's several things that you're like, wait, what?

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I'll hear that from like I heard about the shoe thing at the airport. Everybody was talking about the shoe thing this weekend.
That's great. But you kind of like, okay, yeah, the shoe thing.

Speaker 2 Do you know that we now are building nuclear power plants? Like, no, but it just happened. When he announced that on this show, I thought, holy cow, that's going to be front page New York Times.

Speaker 2 Nothing.

Speaker 2 Nothing.

Speaker 2 No pushback, which shows they're actually for it. They just don't want to say they're for it.

Speaker 2 No pushback whatsoever. And it's like, wait a minute.
How is this happening?

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 it's amazing. I mean, a couple of other ones here.
You've got,

Speaker 3 now you get into less popular policies, managing the federal government workforce. We didn't mention Doge, but all that Doge type stuff.
Doge hurt him.

Speaker 3 It did hurt him.

Speaker 2 That squabble.

Speaker 3 That squabble, but also just firing a bunch of workers from the government. Very popular for me.
Very popular for you. Very popular for many in the audience.
Not so popular nationwide. Yeah.

Speaker 2 That children are going to starve. Again, it's not true.
It's not because the press is in the bag. The press is lying about these things.
USAID is the biggest thing. He cut USAID.
Another one.

Speaker 2 Just stand back and marvel.

Speaker 2 That is forever been a CIA operation. It's a front for the CIA.
It's been causing revolution. It is probably responsible for millions of deaths since the 1960s.

Speaker 2 Because it's revolution after revolution after revolution, all fomented by USAID.

Speaker 2 I never thought that that would be. I didn't even consider that that could be cut.
Gone.

Speaker 2 Holy cow. Now, does it make him popular with everybody?

Speaker 3 Right. Most people, yeah, oppose that.

Speaker 2 If you're informed and you really know what it is, it's a big deal. It's a very big deal.

Speaker 3 Very bottom of these, the least popular.

Speaker 3 Trade with other countries, government funding and social programs, health care, and prices and inflation, which is, you know, those are the very bottom of the barrel for me.

Speaker 3 But again, this is just more of a thing of how should he focus, right? What his attentions beyond publicly.

Speaker 2 He needs, let me give you 30 more seconds, Sarah.

Speaker 2 He needs to concentrate right now. He needs to get,

Speaker 2 I think the conservatives need to put pressure on the Senate. Get the U.S.
attorneys approved.

Speaker 2 You can't prosecute anything without the attorneys, okay? Get the U.S. attorneys approved, Senate.

Speaker 2 This summer, like right now.

Speaker 2 The other side of that is I think he needs to find ways to just focus

Speaker 2 on the economy. If you can make people's, and I don't know how he's going to do that, because that all came comes from job creation and everything else.
And you don't turn that one around quickly.

Speaker 2 You know, prices have fallen. Inflation is down.
But, and we are out of little gimmicks that we can do on,

Speaker 2 you know, hey, let's send everybody a check to $10,000, which is always popular. We can't do any of those gimmicks.

Speaker 2 So I don't know how it happens, but concentrate on the things that make people's lives better so they recognize their life is getting better.

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Thank you for holding, Brian. Welcome.

Speaker 5 Yeah, hi, Glenn. Hey, I had a comment.

Speaker 5 I had a comment on why we are not appreciative of the accomplishments made by President Trump, or so it probably seems that way.

Speaker 5 I'm feeling that everything

Speaker 5 politicians have created

Speaker 5 an environment that's divided. They wanted it this way.
They wanted to separate us. They want us to be angry with

Speaker 5 anyone with a differing opinion. And now they expect, hey, come on back.
We're doing great things. But unfortunately, I've been around since 68.

Speaker 5 And everything, it seems, probably in the last 15, 20 years seems very temporary to an administration. It's all done with executive orders.
Yes. And so we see great things happening,

Speaker 5 but we're probably really worried that they're going to disappear the moment that the gentleman in the office walks out, right? I agree.

Speaker 2 And so

Speaker 2 there have been some things, like the tax cuts were made permanent. That had to go through Congress.

Speaker 2 The Doge thing had to go through Congress. That's $9 billion.

Speaker 2 The

Speaker 2 cut of the

Speaker 2 Department of Education, that actually went through the Supreme Court, so they can't just reverse it and say, you know, he didn't have the right.

Speaker 2 What are some of the other things that have gone through Congress?

Speaker 3 The big, beautiful bill had tons of stuff that went through Congress.

Speaker 3 A lot of it's good, reversing a lot of the Green New Deal stuff. I mean, there's a lot of good in that bill.
Some stuff I'm not crazy about, but a lot of good stuff.

Speaker 2 But a lot of the stuff, you're right, is just executive order.

Speaker 2 And, you know, he knows that. And, you know, he's hoping that Congress will get off their butt and actually do something.

Speaker 2 You know, the reason why I think in really looking at what's happening with the DOJ,

Speaker 2 you can say

Speaker 2 what you want and what I have about Pan Bondi, but

Speaker 2 there's not a lot of choices there on U.S. attorneys to head things up.
I mean, mean, he can make recess appointments this August, but can you look up the number of U.S. attorneys

Speaker 2 that are waiting to be confirmed?

Speaker 2 He doesn't really have anybody he can trust at this point or that Pam can trust where he can say, you know what, special counsel this guy because nobody's the Senate is holding them all back.

Speaker 2 This is the Republican Senate. It's crazy.

Speaker 2 You have it?

Speaker 3 I don't have a list of that at this point.

Speaker 2 But, you know, on the other side, I think you're right about that. But on the other side, look at what's happening.
I mean,

Speaker 2 did you hear what James Carville said

Speaker 2 this op-ed?

Speaker 2 He said his own party is constipated, leaderless, and a cracked-out

Speaker 2 clown car that has been barreling down the road towards civil war.

Speaker 2 He's right.

Speaker 2 Now, that's a phrase that I don't think I have said more than once tied to James Carville.

Speaker 2 He's right on that.

Speaker 3 It's funny too because he says, what is it, cracked out clown car?

Speaker 3 Which doesn't even change your behavior. So it's just a normal clown car.
Right.

Speaker 2 Remember that. He said, they're divided.
These are the words I hear from my fellow Democrats using to describe our party as of late. The truth is, they're not wrong.

Speaker 2 The Democratic Party is in shambles. And if you look at what's happening in New York with Mamdani, and then what's the guy in Minneapolis?

Speaker 2 He's a communist Islamist as well.

Speaker 2 The same thing is happening. The mayor of, what is it, Minneapolis, could be a guy who calls Somalia home,

Speaker 2 even though

Speaker 2 he was born here in America. He calls Somalia his home, not America.
And he may be the new communist mayor. of Minneapolis.

Speaker 2 These are just going to go to hell.

Speaker 3 I mean, New York is such a a crazy one. You have all the candidates that are out there.

Speaker 3 I was watching TV today and I was watching Curtis Saliwa out there campaigning. And I was like, this guy,

Speaker 3 he's known for just not liking crime. That's like his whole life.

Speaker 3 He thinks you should be protected from criminal action, from criminals victimizing you in some terrible way.

Speaker 3 And he wears a hat. Those two things are why you know the guy.

Speaker 3 And they're not even considering him. They're considering A, communist, B, guy who murders old people and gropes women.
C,

Speaker 3 guy who's a little strange and maybe corrupt and isn't doing a great job as mayor currently, but has a couple policies that are maybe okay.

Speaker 3 Those are the only people that are even on the, and actually, and they're not even really considering that.

Speaker 2 the third one, Adams. They're doing the Islamist guy who is also a communist.
Or

Speaker 3 Cuomo, who's one of the worst people that society has ever produced. Crazy.

Speaker 3 Why wouldn't you go?

Speaker 3 And not to mention, this is a city, Glenn, if I may, that has had two or three really successful periods over the past 50 years, both of which were when Republicans were mayors of it.

Speaker 3 And they're not even considering the guy

Speaker 3 who's like, hey, maybe we shouldn't have a government that's in your face all the time

Speaker 3 and or criminals that are in your face all the time. That's all he's saying.

Speaker 3 He's not even like taking some hardcore, like, you know, I don't know,

Speaker 3 you know,

Speaker 3 some vision of the country that is like super divisive. He's just like a normal Republican who's saying, like, you know, I don't know, maybe you shouldn't get murdered in the streets.

Speaker 2 You said not controversial. I mean, that's, I mean, maybe you're white and deserve to be murdered in the streets.

Speaker 2 You know, the crazy thing is, is they are now talking about, you know, New York, Mom Donnie is talking about

Speaker 2 free groceries, not free grocery stores, but city-run grocery stores. Oh, yeah.
You know that Kansas City has one. In fact, do we have this? This is good.
This is from Kansas City about their

Speaker 2 city-run grocery store.

Speaker 4 Listen. But recently, the shelves have looked like this.

Speaker 4 I had to catch the bus all the way to Walmart. What is that like for you? It's very inconvenient.
So, what's going on? Well, we asked Councilwoman Melissa Robinson, who represents the area.

Speaker 6 Right now, because of a lot of the elements of safety,

Speaker 6 our residents and neighbors don't feel comfortable shopping in the store. To keep the store open, it will require some city subsidy and investment.

Speaker 4 So in Council Chambers Thursday afternoon, she's proposing about $750,000 to go to the store to help restock.

Speaker 6 And I've been very clear

Speaker 6 that

Speaker 6 if we want that store to be viable, there's going to have to be be a subsidy year. That's what I'm just saying.

Speaker 4 In the meantime, Alan and Latrice just hope that the next time they come back, there will be a little bit more to take home.

Speaker 2 It's

Speaker 2 unbelievable.

Speaker 3 It looks like Venezuela. Yeah,

Speaker 2 it absolutely does.

Speaker 3 And that's because it is, right? Like, that's because that's a Venezuelan pump.

Speaker 2 People show you pictures of a Soviet grocery store. Here's some pictures of a Soviet grocery store.

Speaker 2 Right. Okay.
Did that not look like the last image that you saw in Kansas City? Yep. Empty meat

Speaker 2 shelves. Look at that.
Nothing. Nothing.
This is the way it was in the Soviet Union. That looks exactly like Kansas City.
Why? Because it doesn't work.

Speaker 3 The same policy.

Speaker 2 It doesn't work.

Speaker 2 Now,

Speaker 2 here's a Cuban that went to a Costco for the very first time. Listen to this.

Speaker 2 Close your eyes.

Speaker 2 He opens his eyes.

Speaker 2 No, it's awesome.

Speaker 2 And he's just leaning over the meat counter, which looks normal.

Speaker 3 He can't believe it. He can't believe how much there is.

Speaker 2 Look at all the people just buying meat.

Speaker 2 There's so much meat here.

Speaker 2 There's too much. There's too much here.

Speaker 2 Look at the apples.

Speaker 2 Apples.

Speaker 2 He seems to be speaking to me.

Speaker 2 So this is a guy.

Speaker 2 This is a guy who's coming from Cuba, has never seen anything like a Costco. And

Speaker 2 we're bitching all the time. I know.

Speaker 2 All the time.

Speaker 3 You know,

Speaker 3 people make fun of me for this, but I have that exact reaction every time I walk into a Walmart. Me too.

Speaker 3 I don't look at it as like, oh, urban sprawl. Oh, can you believe all these fluorescent lights? I look at it as a freaking miracle.

Speaker 3 Do you understand how impossible it is in all of human history that a place, one place like that would exist, let alone one in every town?

Speaker 2 You know, and you don't understand.

Speaker 2 I live in a town of 400 people. Okay.
In the summertime, I'm usually in a town of 400 people. We're 45 minutes away from a Walmart, a Walmart.

Speaker 3 You are not 45 minutes away from Walmart.

Speaker 2 I know where you live.

Speaker 3 You are 10 minutes away from a Walmart. No, we're not.
Yes, you are. No, we're not.
Silly goose. Yes, you are.

Speaker 2 You just don't know where the Walmarts are, Glenn. No, you don't know.
You've been there once. I'm telling you.

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 3 I'm sorry. I'm thinking of your house here.
Okay.

Speaker 2 I apologize.

Speaker 4 I'm like, what are you talking about?

Speaker 2 Okay. No, okay.
Okay. In a town of 400 people.
I don't live in a town of 400 people here. Got it.
In a town of 400 people, I'm like, what are you talking about?

Speaker 2 And, you know, there is something to be said for a lot of the country that just doesn't have,

Speaker 2 you know, like here, you live in Dallas. You are 10 minutes away from everything.
Yes. Okay.
You go in most of the country, you're not 10 minutes away from everything.

Speaker 2 And it is remarkable to see how much food, how much variety we have. everywhere.

Speaker 3 Yeah. And to quibble with the way you're breaking that down, because you're in, when you talk about like land mass, that might be true.

Speaker 3 when you talk about where the population is though almost everyone lives in a situation where

Speaker 3 you know again it's 80 of the population lives in situations where they're very close to these things yeah in widespread uh bounty which is a miracle it's i wouldn't expect a walmart to build a walmart in a town of 400 people and your town would oppose it immediately probably not not

Speaker 3 maybe maybe not um it would make it wouldn't make a lot of economic sense probably

Speaker 3 in the situation where you are but like you know there's a town half an hour away from

Speaker 3 your place in Idaho, and it's like, there's lots of stuff there. I mean, it's not a big town, but it's very, very nice.

Speaker 2 It's exactly what we had when I was growing up.

Speaker 2 And it's fine. It's great.
It's all fine. Yeah.
But we are so...

Speaker 2 Wait, I want a specific lampshade, and that's an hour away?

Speaker 3 What?

Speaker 2 I've got to wait a whole day before I can get the latest computer. What? I mean, it is crazy.
It's crazy. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You know, look, capitalism has its problems. It's not a perfect thing.
It's not meant to be the system.

Speaker 2 It's the best. It is

Speaker 2 by far the best. Churchill.
It's the worst system except for every other system ever tried.

Speaker 2 I mean, if that's not absolute true, it's a horrible system except for every other system that's ever been tried. It's the best.
It's the best.

Speaker 3 And I feel like we have a lot of people. It's certainly mostly on the mom Donnie left.

Speaker 3 It's crept into the right a little bit.

Speaker 3 We just don't even appreciate what we have here.

Speaker 2 What is crazy is that's where the youth is going. Not, I can say, not

Speaker 2 Generation

Speaker 2 Z,

Speaker 2 which is the latest, the youngest one. Is it Generation Z?

Speaker 3 Is younger than Millennials that was?

Speaker 2 Then there's an alpha, I believe, after that. Okay, so either Z or Alpha or both.
But

Speaker 2 X and millennials,

Speaker 2 they're gone. They're gone.
But the other ones are more conservative than we are. But still, nobody understands civics.
Nobody understands.

Speaker 2 They don't have an understanding of the Bill of Rights at all. They look at freedom of speech completely differently.
These things are coming our way because they don't understand them.

Speaker 2 They've never been taught them. I mean, this, honestly, this is what's driving me to the torch.
We've got to get to the youth of America and make sure they understand civics.

Speaker 2 They need to understand why these rights and responsibilities are so important. They need to be excited about them.
We should be excited about capitalism. But everybody's like, wow,

Speaker 2 what do you mean?

Speaker 2 Show me something better that has lifted more people out of poverty. Show me one thing.
One.

Speaker 2 You can't.

Speaker 2 It's a literal miracle.

Speaker 3 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 2 Bill Usali.

Speaker 2 Bill. Yes.
How are you?

Speaker 2 Good. How are you? It is great to have you on again.
Let's start with what happened in San Diego with the arrest that you've just made

Speaker 2 with the

Speaker 2 prosecution of the U.S. Chinese citizen.

Speaker 5 Yes, this is an individual who was a dual citizen with the United States and China.

Speaker 5 He got employed at some really sensitive technology companies where he stole trade secrets and other confidential proprietary information.

Speaker 5 And we're not just talking about any proprietary confidential information. We're talking about systems that are used to detect missile launches and ballistic and hypersonic missiles.

Speaker 5 We're talking about nuclear program. systems.
So really, really sensitive, high-level stuff.

Speaker 5 Working with the FBI's counterintelligence team, we're able to discover it, uncover it, and he has pled guilty.

Speaker 5 And that was what we announced yesterday: he has pled guilty, and he will be facing federal prison time.

Speaker 2 So, how much damage, how would you

Speaker 2 put this on all of the leaks that have come out over the years?

Speaker 2 How bad is this one?

Speaker 5 This is pretty bad. I mean, you know, the difficulty, Glenn, is how do you assess how much damage that's actually done?

Speaker 5 You know, this is just what we know,

Speaker 5 and this is information that we know was transferred to China. And what they're able to do with it is it's almost hard to assess what the damage is.

Speaker 5 But we've got to do better. We've got to do better at screening the individuals who are working at these high-sensitive agencies and firms, and we've got to be better at detecting and stopping it.

Speaker 5 Because this is what China does. They eat our lunch, they steal our trade secrets, and they do it almost in broad daylight.

Speaker 2 First of all, how long has this been going on?

Speaker 5 This particular individual, I mean, the information we have is it went back to 2014. He's been taking information and sending it to China.

Speaker 2 And how long has anybody been trying to figure this out and watching him?

Speaker 5 I just got here in April.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 5 I'm not sure.

Speaker 5 And the thing is, there's a lot of people on, for example, the FBI's radar, but how aggressively they work those up and how aggressively they pursue those, if you were to ask me, I think our resources are better spent going after cases like this than going after grandmothers who were on the Capitol in January 6th.

Speaker 2 So this might have been sitting there for a while and nobody's doing anything about it.

Speaker 5 That could have happened. We don't know that.

Speaker 2 Good heavens. How long do you expect him to be in prison?

Speaker 5 He faces up to 10 years in federal prison. This is pretty substantial damage to the nation, so he could very well get a significant amount of time.

Speaker 2 10 doesn't seem like a significant amount of time, but maybe it is. I mean, I'm not on the receiving end of it, so

Speaker 2 but this seems pretty significant.

Speaker 2 So congratulations on this one. Thank you for doing that.

Speaker 2 Can we go to now the riots? What have we found out about funding of these riots and

Speaker 2 the coordination of these riots?

Speaker 5 Well, I mean, this is active investigation, so I can't say too much, but I'll tell you, let's talk about the case we charged last week where this lady kidnapped, faked her kidnapping by ICE,

Speaker 5 Ms. Cardona.

Speaker 5 This was all over the news, Glenn, on every local station here, press conference, that this mother was kidnapped by ICE at a jack-in-the-box, and she's disappeared.

Speaker 5 This type of stuff keeps popping up here. It's designed to inflame the public's emotions and to delegitimize our federal agents.

Speaker 5 It's very organized.

Speaker 5 And so what we saw there was an immigrant attorney group hold the press conference, coordinated with this lady's family, and they even had a GoFundMe and a financial structure set up to raise money off of it as well.

Speaker 5 Well, we knew that she was not in our custody. So we were actually worried she might have actually been kidnapped by some bad actors.

Speaker 5 So we spent a tremendous amount of resources looking for this lady. Turns out she was not not kidnapped.
She staged the whole thing. It was a hoax.

Speaker 5 We got the surveillance tape from Jack in the Box and other places around there. And she parked her car and calmly walked to another car and ended up at a house in Bakersfield.

Speaker 5 And the whole thing was a hoax designed to inflame the public, support their media narrative, and to raise money. And so that's just a little slice.

Speaker 5 of the types of things that we're seeing happening surrounding our immigration enforcement operations here in Southern California.

Speaker 2 And what happens to those people?

Speaker 5 Well, they are under criminal investigation. She has been charged, and we are working up the cases for the co-conspirators in the case.

Speaker 2 So, I mean, we're looking at a country, Bill, and I know you know this. I mean, we've talked several times, and you're really one of the good guys.

Speaker 2 But the country is facing a time where If you don't start seeing justice, if we don't start seeing bad guys who clearly break the law go to jail, there's no credibility left anymore.

Speaker 2 And I can't believe that you're one of the U.S. attorneys in California of all places that is actually showing, no, justice still is possible and it's happening.

Speaker 2 Go ahead.

Speaker 5 It is possible it's happening.

Speaker 5 It does take some time for us to put these things together. And, you know, I want to set people's expectations.
I mean, I got here in April. It does take time to build up federal cases.

Speaker 5 England, you have to remember, I'm up against very hostile judges, a bench here in Southern California. It's extremely left.

Speaker 5 I have an office I inherited with left-leaning attorneys. And, you know, I inherited an FBI office that, frankly, needs culture change.
So there are a lot of challenges that we are working internally.

Speaker 5 And that's...

Speaker 5 something that I don't think people have appreciated the amount of reforms and work that's happening on the inside of the system that we're trying to get things reoriented and reprioritized and

Speaker 5 justice is coming. It does take time to kind of reorient this ship that's been going in one direction for a really long time.

Speaker 2 You know, I saw, I talked to somebody in Washington yesterday that is bringing forth some of these documents on

Speaker 2 you know, the different people that we're watching in the news now. And they said that the problem is there's just not enough U.S.
attorneys.

Speaker 2 And the Senate's just not doing their job. There's a huge backlog.

Speaker 2 And so there's, you know, when Pam Bondi or somebody goes to prosecute somebody, she can't hand it off to somebody that she trusts because

Speaker 2 we don't have the attorneys that Trump is looking to put in place. True? And how much of a role is that playing?

Speaker 5 The problem is the blue slip. I don't know how familiar your audience is with it, but

Speaker 5 the Senate, by rule and tradition, not not by law, have set up a system where they get to be kings of their state. So in the blue states, nobody can be a judge and nobody can be a U.S.

Speaker 5 attorney unless the hometown senators sign off on them. That's the blue slip process in the United States Senate.

Speaker 5 This keeps the president from having his people in office. I'm in on an interim basis.
I have 120-day

Speaker 5 expiration on my appointment, which expires on the 30th.

Speaker 2 Jeez.

Speaker 5 There is no appetite, apparently, in the U.S. Senate to change this rule, and there is certainly no world in which Adam Schiff and Senator Padilla are going to agree to my nomination.

Speaker 5 So today, Alina Haba, her fate will be decided up in New Jersey. There is a process where the judges can confirm us as U.S.
attorneys.

Speaker 5 They have basically signaled en masse they're not going to confirm any Trump U.S. attorneys.
So we're going to see what happens.

Speaker 5 We're going to see what happens here very soon. But

Speaker 5 at the end of the day, the president has to have his prosecutors in place. This is the executive branch, and he won the election.

Speaker 5 So these are some of the challenges that we're up against here at the DOJ.

Speaker 2 When did this blue slip thing happen? I've never even heard of that.

Speaker 5 Oh, this is the blue slip's been around forever. And

Speaker 5 no, it's been around since I think over 100 years or something. But

Speaker 5 this is how the Senate works. This is how senators get to be influential in their state.
So district court judges and U.S. attorneys are subject to the blue slip.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's not right. If your state is corrupt,

Speaker 2 your senators will, I mean, your senators will be corrupt. They're not going to.

Speaker 2 I mean, it's insane.

Speaker 5 Well, one of my senators tried to rush at the Secretary of State, if you recall, or Secretary of Homeland Security.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 5 At one of our press conferences.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 5 That's one of our senators.

Speaker 2 Where is that? What's happening with that?

Speaker 5 He was not arrested. He was detained.
And that's, you know,

Speaker 5 that's the, I think that's the end of it.

Speaker 2 Do you ever get to the point to where you're like,

Speaker 2 none of this is going to change?

Speaker 5 You know,

Speaker 5 no, I do have hope. Look, this was such a consequential election.
And the president ran and had such a mandate on his reforms and what he wants to do. And look, this is how they win, Glenn.

Speaker 5 They've entrenched themselves into the system with all these rules and tricks and stuff. And so we just got to outwork them and outfight them.

Speaker 5 And I'm not willing to give up on our country for the alternative. Bill.
Giving up.

Speaker 2 Thank you. Really appreciate it.
Thank you. Your term is up at the end of this month?

Speaker 5 Potentially. We've got some tricks up our sleeves.

Speaker 2 Good. I hope so.
I hope so. Thanks, Bill.
Appreciate it. All right.
Thanks, Glenn. Yeah, that's bad.
That's Bill Usali or Osaley. He is a U.S.
attorney for Central District of California.

Speaker 2 Did you you know about the blue slip thing?

Speaker 3 The only reason I

Speaker 3 remember it was

Speaker 2 the guy who was

Speaker 2 going after Hunter Biden.

Speaker 3 They kept saying he was approved by Trump, which was like he was put through, but it was somewhere through that whole process where it was actually had to be approved by the Delaware senators.

Speaker 3 So it's like, I mean, you know, technically,

Speaker 3 as he pointed out, it's just a tradition. It's not the law.
So it's a weird, it is a very weird

Speaker 3 line. And it's not a good one.

Speaker 2 Why don't we have every U.S.

Speaker 2 attorney and judge in every red state, the hanging judges?

Speaker 2 I mean, if that's the case, why are we so milquetoast in a lot of places that we control?

Speaker 3 These are great questions.

Speaker 2 I mean, really? Honestly.

Speaker 2 I mean, I guess it just comes from having a milquetoast senator who would just not not let those people through. Wow, I didn't know that.

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