In All the Darkness, a Miracle Appeared | 12/24/24 | The Glenn Beck Program

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It's illegal ignition.

The immigrant now, the alien charged with murder in the horrific death, the killing of the woman on the subway in New York City.

Same day, Kathy Hokel, Governor there says, no, no, no, everything's fine.

The subway is safe.

Bystanders looking on, some recording with cell phones and police walking past as if it's just any other day on the subway.

And it's all caught on tape.

We'll talk about this story in the latest development.

Yeah.

The one the media wants to hide from you the most,

his status and his history.

All coming up, Justin Barkley, and for Glenn today, this is the Glenn Beck program.

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In fact,

I can prove it.

How can I prove it?

We have the reports, or the lack thereof, from yesterday.

This story,

it's not exactly a Christmas miracle, though, but I do have good news today.

I promise you, we're not going to only talk about

the horrific state, the way things are in.

And by the way, we should be hopeful on Christmas Eve of all days.

As dark as the world is,

the promise of light, the promise of love, the promise,

hope.

Help is on the way.

It's never been more

necessary

and more obvious, maybe, than than today, in so many different ways.

So, we're going to do all of this today.

We've got lots to discuss, some very special moments, and guests that I think you're going to enjoy hearing from too.

As I mentioned, a lot of good things to talk about today, but we have to talk about this story.

And it may be one of the most important because it's being ignored.

So welcome in.

Justin Barkley filling in for Glenn today.

It's always an honor, always a privilege being able to be here with you and Glenn's audience, especially this time of year.

I absolutely look forward to it.

And one of the things that I've remarked on recently is that when I get to fill in for Glenn, you know, these are normally times that most of folks have taken off traditionally in the swamp in D.C.

And of course, even in the media, you'll get lots of different stories that are,

you know, what's the, what's the word of the year next week?

We'll hear the word of the year and all the great things.

Looking back, you know, all of that stuff on what happened this year and, you know, Times Got the Person of the Year, all of that, all of that stuff that's in the year

sort of filler.

It's really what they put out so that they have content and things to run near the end of the day.

So we usually, in years gone by, had lighter years.

Not so.

The stream at which we are drinking from these days does not stop.

It is like drinking from a fire hose.

And

we continue to give you

the updates because the news won't stop.

We won't either.

And that's part of what we witnessed just.

Yesterday, a horrific story.

We're probably the first to tell you about.

the murder of this innocent woman, and there's still not a lot of details about who it was that was killed, burned to death on the subway train in New York City.

The tragic murder.

We now know more about who is accused of committing the crime, the illegal immigrant.

The alien tossed a match or a lighter or something on this woman, at least the reports were saying early, tossed something onto this woman who appeared to be sleeping at the time on the subway train.

And from everything I've gathered, this train was stopped, and I don't know if they were working on something, if there was an issue or what, but there was someone sleeping on the train.

Lots of people there, apparently on this train, waiting around, waiting for it to get going, whatever, whatever they were doing, technical issues or whatever it might be.

That's when this migrant,

the alien, illegally here in the country we now know from Guatemala, yes, decided to ignite this individual.

For what reason?

We still don't know.

There are videos floating around purporting to be this individual at some point ranting on some sort of cell phone video that went up on social media somewhere that

shows this individual very drunk, talking about being drunk.

Could have been a blacked out moment.

Crime, I don't have to tell you, in New York City and on the subway is through the roof.

And I don't think it's any mistake that this story comes out the same day that Biden comes out pardoning killers, child killers.

Some of the most heinous acts and crimes he's let these folks, well, he commuted their sentences.

He didn't pardon them.

Let me correct that.

He commuted their sentences.

Might as well, for some of these families,

a sake might as well have pardoned.

But he commuted the sentences so they will not get the death penalty.

What kind of signal does that send?

And a dying regime that is on its way out the door, flailing,

he said, It's, I can't, in good conscience, allow,

as I've halted these executions, the next administration to come through and pick up where I left off.

Essentially, he said, I can't allow the next administration to actually come in and get any work done.

So these people have been

spared.

What kind of signal does it send to all the people as we've got the border wide open?

The barn door is wide open.

You could come on in.

Matter of fact, we're going to put you up in the nicest hotels in New York City.

And when you do something absolutely heinous, something absolutely horrific, we'll look the other way.

That's essentially the

signal he sent.

And

that's what's happened here.

Sebastian Zapeda, 33, has been charged with first and second-degree murder here, according to the reports, as well as first-degree arson.

Now, here's the history.

He was arrested by Border Patrol

June 1st, 2018,

after illegally crossing into Arizona.

He was deported.

Listen to this very carefully.

He was deported by the Trump administration.

This is why this story is never going to see the light of day.

Tom Holman has promised, along with President Trump, mass deportations on day one.

They will not give this story the light of day because

it will give Trump again

the mandate that he is

required,

that in fact, he's already been given

to go through with those mass deportations.

Holman and the rest of the folks saying they're going to start with people just like this

before they do something like this.

What do you do to somebody like this?

Is it enough to say we're going to lock them up and throw away the key?

Or do you have to take one or two of these folks

and do you have to have a public execution

to show people that we mean business?

The murder of Lake and Riley.

The two

animals

who were accused of killing Jocelyn Raping, Jocelyn Gungery.

These horrific stories.

There's one after the other.

It's one of my very own backyard, where I'm at, in Michigan.

Ruby Garcia was killed in cold blood.

She was shot in her car,

thrown her body, thrown out

on a highway,

left for dead.

What do you do with these people?

Right now, they just let anybody and everybody get away with anything and everything.

It's absolute chaos.

And in fact, we talked about this yesterday.

It's so bad you have to ask yourself: is this incompetence or is it intentional?

And I would say, I don't know which one's worse, first of all.

Second of all, I would say at this point, I think the answer is becoming obvious.

But this man was, he was deported under the Trump administration and somehow,

some way, finally found his

way back into the country, ultimately

ending up in the death of this individual who we still don't know much about.

And

I don't know

when we'll get that information because the body is.

Well, I won't say any more about that.

I have seen the video, and I will tell you, if you have not, please don't go looking for it.

There is so much happening in the video.

It's so horrific that it actually jars the conscious that people would look at it and say, how can someone stand around and just watch this?

I'll briefly describe some of the things that are happening.

I'll try not to go into too much detail, but in the video,

You see the doors of a subway car open, and there's a glow of a fire coming out from those doors of the subway car.

Someone filming this on their cell phone.

You see the suspect sitting on a bench in front of the subway,

gazing at the fire and the blaze he's just created, like it's a Yule log.

If there was ever any doubt what we are up against,

let there be none now.

There is evil,

evil in this world.

And we wrestle not against flesh and blood.

What we're facing is a spiritual.

I don't care who you are.

I don't care what you believe in.

At this point, how is there any denying?

Well, a human being can do this to another human being.

That's one thing.

Well, he's a little off.

You know, the guy, something wrong.

You You know,

that's bound to happen.

You know, that's every now and then you've got people that are broken.

And that's just, well, what about the people that are standing by watching it, who refuse to help, who refuse to step in, who refuse to stand in?

What about the person filming it?

And in this video,

it's hard to even comprehend this.

It's hard to imagine, but there is a New York police officer that walks past the subway train.

Seen in the video, like it's another day

in the Big Apple.

How do you wrap your head around any of this?

And I don't want to go into any more detail, and I'm going to tell you, please don't go away because I believe when you see things like this,

I think it takes the peace of your soul.

You do need to know about it.

It's a tough line, we walk, because it's a story.

I don't think you should stick your head in the sand.

You do need to know about it.

You need to know what's happening so you can be aware.

You need to know what's happening so that you can be able to speak up, to stand out, and of course,

defend yourself and your family in any situation, a situation like this, and know what to maybe expect of what could be coming.

But listen, more than anything else, you need to know so that when President Trump,

by the way, here is the good news.

The Calvary is coming.

You made this possible.

When President Trump lays his hand on the Bible, January 20th,

all of this, all of it comes to a screeching halt.

And that's the hope.

That's on the way.

More on that in a second.

Plus, I want to give you the details about why the news isn't touching it and the evidence of that.

In fact, they're key details they're leaving.

You can imagine what those might be.

Plus, Tom Holman, president's new border czar, speaking out.

You can imagine what he's got to say about all of this and more.

We'll be back.

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Well, it's been essentially ignored by legacy media, mainstream media, what do you call it, the dinosaur folks, whatever you want to call it.

Essentially been ignored in large part by all of them.

In fact, from what we could tell, now, again,

maybe somebody will be able to turn up a blip or something and say, no, no, I caught it here.

But from what we could tell, the only one that covered this was CBS, this horrific story of the woman burned alive on the subway in New York City by the illegal.

The man who was here, deported under the Trump administration, found his way back in.

The one that Biden and Mayorkis and all the rest of them said, well, this is compassion.

Tell that to the woman's family.

This is the compassion of the Democrats.

This is the progressive leftist backwards compassion, where the actual perpetrator, the suspect, is the victim, you know, because of the systemic,

whatever you want to fill in the blank with capitalism, racism, whatever the ism might be.

That's what it is.

So essentially, it's obviously driven,

just poor, poor soul into the

actions that they

actions aren't their own fault or responsibility.

It's a system again.

So CBS News covers it.

They leave out one detail.

Now, to a disturbing and deadly attack here in New York City.

Tonight, police say they have a suspect under arrest after a woman sleeping in a subway car was set on fire.

She later died.

CBS says Tammy Lutasa is in New York with details on what exactly happened.

Tammy.

Tarika, you know, this was a brutal attack on a woman who just appeared to be sleeping on a public train.

And police found that victim when they saw smoke during a routine patrol.

horrifying moments inside an f-train on the new york city subway just before 7 30 this morning nypd investigators say a woman was set on fire and burned to death

this detail i just i missed it previously but i'm hearing it now and thinking about this you mean this was they found all of this because of a routine patrol do you mean nobody called it in

That's even wilder to me.

Police say as the train approached the last stop in Brooklyn, the suspect walked up to her, lit her on fire, and stayed on the scene watching her burn from the train platform.

After the NYPD released images of a person of interest, three young men called 911 when they saw the suspect on a different subway.

Police stopped the train and arrested the man.

There must be strong, swift consequences.

on this person,

and I use that term lightly, who committed this brutal, brutal homicide.

I absolutely agree.

You've got to disincentivize evil.

You've got to disincentivize this horrific behavior.

Because if you don't, if you don't take a stand,

this is just the tip of the iceberg.

This is just a preview of how bad it's going to be.

Now,

the hope here

is that we know that day one

because you voted for it in and massive numbers of Americans in

ways we haven't seen in a long time came out and voted for this

for President Trump, the mandate to take care of this clean house, and he's going to do that along with Tom Holman.

By the way, there's more, a little bit more of this report, about 30 seconds left, but you're not going to hear the most important piece.

Andreka, the NYPD said cameras have been installed in every subway car.

Oh, they got cameras.

That ought to do it.

Get a camera.

There was somebody with a camera on their phone filming it all.

Standing by, not helping somebody who

was in desperate dire need.

Who knows what could have been done if somebody would have stepped in, but you know,

they came after Daniel Penny, didn't they?

Came after him for doing the same thing.

You notice they did what they did not mention there.

They did not mention the status of this illegal alien.

They did not mention

how he got back in after he was deported by Trump.

By the way, Trump, the new sheriff in town back

in charge, and Tom Holman is speaking out against it.

This supporters are.

You're going to hear what he has to say.

Day one is just days away, folks.

Hope is coming.

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this news is coming fast and furious.

Like I say, it's drinking from a fire.

That's what it's like every day.

Before I get too fast and furious into the program, let me just do this.

Let me give you the numbers in case you want to join it because I'd love to have you.

And of course,

the Christmas Eve Edition.

We got some special.

We got some really special stuff coming for you

later on today, so get ready for that.

It's Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Bank program.

By the way, you want to find me online and follow some of the stories I'm talking about.

I've shared them all over social media.

You can find me at Mr.Justin Barklay and at justinbarklay.com.

I put all these stories up in something called The Stack, so you can see it every day after we've talked about things like this.

The New York Sibway murder, completely ignored by all legacy media, CBS News, the only outlet to cover it.

But guess what they left out?

And it's because of images from those cameras that led to this arrest.

This week, Governor Kathy Kochal announced an additional 250 National Guard members will be deployed in subway cars to make sure everyone is safe.

You might as well give them some fire extinguishers because they know they won't be armed, but you ought to give them some blankets, maybe?

Fire blankets?

Tammy Mutasa reporting in New York City tonight.

Thanks.

You know what?

CBS failed to report.

They failed to report the status of this individual.

They failed to tell you that he's here illegally, not

supposed to be here.

He was deported under the Trump administration.

And

was it Biden?

Was it the policies of Biden, Mayorkas, and the rest of them, who, by the way, bear responsibility

for this mess?

I won't hold my breath for accountability.

But I will tell you, I know that the streets of New York City, the streets of Chicago, the streets of cities all across the country.

Matter of fact, the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, is asking for help from the Trump administration.

Not so the mayor in Chicago.

Mayor in Chicago and one of the mayors there, and I believe the governor in Colorado, there's some real standoffs happening.

I think it's going to be a rude awakening for some of them.

As Homan says, let's Tom Holman, the borders are.

Got a chance to meet him.

I went to the State of the Union this year.

That was an experience.

I'll tell you that much.

Maybe I'll tell you a little bit more about that later on.

But the state of the, you get to meet all these great people at home.

And

one of the most interesting people that I got a chance to meet, this guy means

business.

And do not mistake his sort of rough, gruff exterior.

Do not

mistake his

silent, the strength, really, the way that he comes off.

Don't mistake that

for someone who's just mean.

or no.

What you're seeing there is true compassion.

When he breaks down to tell you why he cares so much

about keeping these kids safe,

about keeping folks in the country safe, it's you see where his heart is.

You see where he's really coming from.

So when you hear him respond to this latest situation, you know he means business.

There's a reason for it.

Well, look, this is another example of an illegal alien killing an American citizen.

It's almost a daily occurrence now.

You know, because historic number of criminal aliens walk in the streets because of this administration's policy in sanctuary jurisdictions and lacks immigration enforcement.

ICE has their hands tied.

Secretary Marty Orkas have given them priorities that they can't even go arrest an illegal alien anymore unless he's convicted.

convicted of a serious crime.

Then maybe they can arrest him.

So this is on this administration.

As far as Governor Hoko, shame on her.

She supports sanctuary status in that state.

She welcomed thousands of illegal aliens to her state.

She sent them to Buffalo and Syracuse.

Murders were occurred by illegal aliens in Buffalo and Syracuse.

She has a green light law.

ICE and CBP can't even work with local law enforcement.

Local law enforcement can't even share DMV data with these people.

So, Governor Hoko, shame on you.

There's nothing you can say that's going to make this right in New York.

But Tom Holman's right about that.

Not only that, but

doesn't this come, don't you think it comes really at an interesting time?

You know, the same day, Biden has said he's going to commute

all of these different

sentences that people have.

The death sentence, by the way, they were waiting on death row for horrendous crimes.

Very similar, a lot of them, to what we're

seeing here.

Listen to some of the commutatives because we heard the news about this yesterday.

We told you yesterday about this.

But now we're learning more and more about who he actually commuted the sentences for.

This

is Biden's list:

child killers, a rapist, a drug kingpin, and a partridge in a pear tree all commuted their sentences, all spared from execution.

Biden justified his decision based on his moral opposition to the death penalty.

Well, listen,

I got a hard time

really taking that seriously.

I am someone who is very much pro-life.

I am somebody that would actually like to see

people spend their lives in jail because I believe even the sickest, even the most twisted, even the worst amongst us still has

an opportunity for redemption.

Now, that's a process.

In fact, that's something that I've seen play out

in my own life.

But I've seen play out in the lives of countless others as well.

It's a faith thing that I believe that is only possible supernaturally.

It's only possible really this time of year.

More than ever, it ought to be more obvious and more clear that real gift we're given on Christmas.

I believe it's more clear than ever before that those things are possible.

But I have a hard time believing that Biden is so adamant about this,

given his stance on the murder of innocent children in the womb.

I just don't believe he's honest.

In fact, you want to know the truth?

I don't think Biden had anything to do with these commutations.

I think these are rogue folks probably in the administration somewhere in the justice department somewhere, or excuse me, the injustice department somewhere that had some sort of grandiose idea about what they would do and how they would

get some real, you know,

justice

for the perpetrators, you know, the real victims and all this, the victims of the system.

That's how they view things, by the way, through every Marxist, weird lens, that's how all of this works.

So justice for the child killers, the rapists, the drug kingpins, all of the justice for all of those death row inmates.

That's what they were looking at.

Here's the list.

The White House announcing two days before Christmas yesterday that they would give commutations to 37 of 40

of federal inmates currently on death row.

They spared the Joe Carsonai of the Boston

suicide bomb.

And there were a couple others.

Dylan Ruth, I think there's a couple others involved in terrorism.

And they said also hate crimes.

But that's what they decided that they were going to do.

37 out of the 40.

The White House said the decision stemmed from Biden's opposition to the death penalty

and aligned with his Justice Department's moratorium on federal executions beginning in July of 2021.

Make no mistake, I condemn these murderers, he said.

I grieve for the victims of their despicable acts and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss.

But I'm going to hit them hardest

at a time of year when they probably miss their loved ones the most.

Just can't imagine this.

He goes on to say, guided by my conscience, my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice president, and now president, I'm more convinced than ever we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.

In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.

I will tell you this.

On one hand, I believe life is sacred and these people have the opportunity for redemption.

I also believe, because I know,

you set an example and you take these things serious.

When people do step out and they commit horrific acts of evil,

you make an example of them, you're going to have fewer of those evil acts being perpetrated.

Just not going to happen.

So, who's on the list?

Critics say the victims, especially children, are the real losers of the new clemency spree.

The public outcry over the pardon has also drawn considerable attention from lawmakers.

There's a child murderer in here, one man pardoned by Biden, convicted of kidnapping and murdering a 12-year-old girl during a cross-country road trip in 2010.

How do you,

how do you

excuse, I just, I just can't wrap my head around this.

The man, Thomas Sanders, met the girl's mother

in the summer of 2010 in Las Vegas.

They began dating.

Two months later,

she agreed to bring her daughter on a road trip to a wildlife park near Grand Canyon with this man, Sanders, according to the Justice Department press release.

On the return trip, Sanders pulled over a remote area, fatally shot the mother in the head, and took the 12-year-old captive.

He proceeded to drive for several days across the country until arriving in Louisiana, where he shot and killed her, shot her four times, cut her throat, and abandoned her body in the woods.

A local hunter discovered the 12-year-old's body.

A Philadelphia drug kingpin, also also on the list.

Philadelphia Cabani Savage is his name.

On death row for ordering a hit on the home of a federal witness.

A serial killer.

Jorge

Alvira Torres, rather.

Convicted in 2011, the murder of Navy petty officer Amanda Jean Snell as she slept in her barracks.

Already in prison for several abductions and a rape, for which he was also later convicted, according to the Justice Department.

He was a corporal in the Marine Corps living on the same floor of the barracks as his victim.

This whole list of people, by the way,

you know what's going to make it even crazier?

Deportation is possible.

Pardons and commutations are not reversible by President-elect Trump.

A commutation that sentence has no effect on a person's immigration status will not prevent removal or deportation from the United States to be eligible to apply for commutation of sentence.

A person must have reported to prison to begin serving his sentence.

It may not challenge it.

There you have the background of it.

So the good news is the adults are back in the room.

The hope is that on day one,

You're going to see a restoration of law and order like you've never seen before.

But it can't come soon enough.

Thanks to you, your actions, getting out, getting the word out, participating in elections,

and

thanks to the divine intervention that I think we all received this last year.

We've got another crack at it.

Hope

is.

Help is on the way.

More after this.

Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program.

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Biden backing out of that student loan debt forgiveness.

I don't know who's going to be more upset about those folks or the family.

One of the families who they just granted some clemency for the killer of a family member.

On Sunday afternoon, I was actually gathered with my in-laws for our family Christmas.

My sister was gathered with her in-laws and we got the call and I was angry.

I'm still angry.

I am upset that

This is even happening, that one man can make this decision without even talking to the victims, without any regard for what we've been through, what we're going through.

I'm completely hurt, frustrated, and angry.

So Heather, nobody gave you a heads up that this was coming from the White House.

So in May, we heard that this was a possibility.

And at that point, we began writing letters to the pardoned attorney.

I reached out requesting an in-person meeting.

in DC.

And they didn't get it.

By the way, Donna Major was killed in the bank during a robbery gone awry, and the man shot and killed her cold blood, I believe, shot her in the head.

So

you imagine the family having to spend Christmas now thinking about this.

This is

a part for the course.

And of course,

a very,

you know,

just unthinkable way.

to

spend your Christmas season.

And we were refused.

They They denied our right to have our voices heard.

We're victims.

My mother was murdered at the hands of Brandon Cancel.

They should have heard our story.

And all we got was a 10-minute virtual conference.

And clearly, that fell on deaf ears.

They did not want to hear our story.

Somebody at the Justice Department, somebody inside the Biden regime.

It wasn't Biden himself, somebody inside there said, we're just going to do this.

We're just going to do whatever we want to do because that's what they do.

By the way,

forget what the American people.

He said, I can't, I can't, my conscience won't allow it.

I've got to make sure that I end this.

We've halted this, the execution, and make sure the next administration can't do this.

Forget the will of the people.

The people have spoken.

I'll tell you.

The people have spoken that loud and clear, the mandate is there, and Donald J.

Trump puts his hand on the Bible, becomes the 47th president of the United States just days from now.

Things are going to change.

Some more hope on the way.

We'll talk about some of those changes coming up in hour two.

Justin Barkley at Mr.

Justin Barkley online,

as well as Justin Barkley back in just moments in for Glenn today on the Glenn Back program.

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It is a new day, and Merry Christmas to you as we enter into a new day and a new year, maybe a new era.

Not just in the country, but

maybe for the rest of the world.

President Trump in just days will put his hand on the Bible and be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.

Looking back,

there are quite a few things that have to be dealt with as we move forward.

A lot of rights that have to

get restored.

And some of those are for some folks that have been rotting in jail, in prison, for the last several years.

You talk about real injustices.

We just talked about Biden commuting sentences of these murders.

What about folks that are rotting in dungeons right now?

Julie Kelly joins us coming up after this to talk about the pardons that are on the way

for folks that may deserve it the most.

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Julie Kelly has been covering this like no other, and she joins us now.

Julie, welcome in.

Appreciate you being here with us today.

Merry Christmas, Justin.

Thanks so much for having me on today.

Merry Christmas.

I can't help but think about this.

I actually know a man who spent, and you'll know him too,

last Christmas in jail away from his family

because of

the persecution surrounding the January 6th.

And I know there's still folks that are locked up.

People don't think about this.

But,

you know,

I guess I'm reminded, and we'll start with that out of the gate.

What do you think is coming?

Trump talking about pardons and maybe more for these folks as

we see it.

Some of them tried to put their lives back together, the pieces of which, and now we're starting to learn more.

We'll talk about some of the latest updates in a moment.

But

what about, is there some hope for those folks on the the horizon

i believe that there is i think there's hope on the horizon for many of them uh we have a j-6 criminal caseload approaching 1600 total defendants the biden doj under dcus attorney matthew grace the biden appointee continues to arrest and charge people almost on a daily basis despite the fact that president trump has pledged for over a year that he will pardon most if not all J-6ers.

And Justin, not only are their J-6ers still rotting in federal prison after being convicted by all Democrat juries in Washington, D.C.

on bogus charges,

D.C.

prosecutor Matthew Graves and federal judges are sending people to prison now.

So they are still putting these people behind bars almost four years.

four years later.

And this includes on nonviolent low-level misdemeanors.

So it's not, of course, it's a travesty, people who are still in jail for excessive sentences.

But it's even more egregious after the election with the new incoming attorney general, a new incoming DCUS attorney, and obviously the president planning to pardon hundreds of J-Sixers on day one, that they are still accelerating this abusive, vengeful prosecution.

prosecution against Trump supporters.

You know, I think it's one thing if there's violence involved and things like that.

But even even

though we have seen some real eyes opened onto what was happening, the amount of federal agents who were present that day and story after story that really makes you take a closer look at this.

But

you've got to wonder,

how do we stop some of this

from going as far as it has gone?

Because in the future, you still have a lot of these players who are responsible for this insanity sitting on benches.

And I i know you've been in their courtrooms and watched this stuff play out it's incredible

it's absolutely infuriating i was in the dc courthouse last week they put on trial and this is the chief judge of the washington federal court district court james bosberg an obama appointee He was presiding over the misdemeanor trial of a woman who was inside the Capitol for nine minutes.

She faces four federal misdemeanors.

He promised that he would take his time with jury selection in a city that just voted 93% for Kamala Harris.

Once again, denying motions for venue changes, which every D.C.

judge, including Republicans, including Trump supporters, have denied change of venue motions.

Think about this, Justin.

Putting this woman on trial, it took 90 minutes.

for jury selection.

Absolutely outrageous.

It was a two-day trial, and within a few hours, this D.C.

jury once again came back with all guilty verdicts for woman.

You showed the video.

She was inside for nine minutes.

She was lost.

She was trying to get out.

She was chatting with police officers.

DC Metro and Capitol Police officers were right there.

It was the Senate wing door.

She entered an hour after the building had been evacuated.

There were no proceedings going on at the time.

but nonetheless convicted in again record time by all Democrats on the DC jury and now waiting for biden's doj to come back and ask for her to be in jail for up to a year on those convictions that's i just can't i can't imagine nine minutes for a year and you know you know what i'm struck with the most

is the videos that we saw that day of the people orderly walking through the velvet ropes there in the rotunda I mean, this is who you're talking about.

Somebody that did not know where they were, was caught up, maybe lost in the situation.

This is incredible.

Can you hear me?

I'm sorry.

Yeah, I don't know what happened there.

We just broke off for a second.

I'll fix it here.

But to me, this reminds me of the videos we saw where the people were walking through the velvet ropes in the rotunda.

I mean, this is the same type of, she didn't know where she was.

She was lost.

This isn't somebody who needs to be locked up for a year.

Absolutely not.

But this is representative of so many J6 cases, which is why President Trump on day one should immediately pardon, as I said, most if not all.

Now, you bring up the issue of violent offenders.

I've seen other people, including the president, bring this up.

But even those accused of violence, they did not receive a fair trial in Washington.

The evidence was rigged, so only what was favorable to the government was presented to jurors.

I've seen this over and over.

Furthermore, it escapes culpability for the police officers who engaged in such egregious misconduct, resulting in the deaths of three Trump supporters, including fatal shooting, killing of Ashley Babbitt.

But Justin, as the JSIC's narrative is disintegrating in the public and political sphere, the judges and prosecutors in this DC courthouse are completely well they act like they are insulated or ignorant to all the new evidence that we've seen over the past year or so, not just federal agents, misconduct by police officers, and other lies that the public has been told now being exposed, that this is of no interest to federal judges and these prosecutors.

Okay, so

you kind of bring us, Julie, now to the point that

I wanted to get into.

Just recently, we're starting to learn more about

some of these people.

Well, you know, what was going on behind the scenes last week, we heard more about about what was going on behind the scenes with Liz Cheney and

the testimony of Cassidy Hutchison and how it looks like, boy, I'll tell you what, it looks like witness tampering to me.

It sure does.

But we were learning more about what was happening behind the scenes.

On that story, the Secret Service,

the driver of the beast, that crazy wacky, we knew from the beginning this is just insane.

It was just so absurd that President Trump would lunge towards the driver of the beast.

And there's more details coming out about this.

It's been hidden this whole time.

Well, what Chairman Barry Lautermilk, who is the chair of this subcommittee for the House Administration Committee, Barry Lautermilk is investigating the events of January 6th and also the J6 Select Committee.

What he has produced are text messages that were exchanged on an encrypted app.

between Cassidy Hutchinson, the committee's star witness, and Liz Cheney directly, the vice chairman of the J6 committee at the time.

What it appears is that Liz Cheney convinced Cassidy Hutchinson to fire her existing attorney at the time, who was being paid by Donald Trump's PAC as Donald Trump was paying for a lot of White House officials who were being, you know, dragged before the J6 Select Committee numerous times to give depositions.

So it appears Liz Cheney convinced Cassidy Hutchinson to dump that attorney.

She found two attorneys to work pro bono for Cassidy Hutchinson.

And then Justin, all of a sudden, Cassidy Hutchinson's story changed.

She had already given two interviews to the J6 select committee.

She never brought up any sort of confrontation that happened in the presidential vehicle that afternoon.

Never said that Donald Trump was aware of weapons at the ellipse.

Never said that, you know, he threw a plate with ketchup on it.

All of this suddenly materialized in June of 2022

in her explosive public performance.

And this

appears to be the result of Liz Cheney collaborating behind the scenes with Cassidy Hutchinson and her new attorneys to concoct these

outlandish stories that nonetheless the media picked up as fact.

Well, the driver of the vehicle, Justin, and I was posting this yesterday,

begged the committee, his attorney begged the committee for months to testify to contradict what Cassidy Hutchinson

had said.

Only before Election Day on 2022, when everyone knew Republicans were going to win, did the committee sit down with the driver of that vehicle, who on numerous occasions said that incident never happened.

They concealed that transcript until a few months ago, buried it at the Biden White House.

Laudermilk finally got it.

And that's what I've been posting as well.

No one has corroborated Cassidy Hutchinson's story.

It appears that not only did Liz Cheney suborn perjury, but was involved with the destruction of evidence produced by the committee, one terabyte of records, and every single video recording made of these transcribed interviews that over a thousand witnesses participated in during the 18-month JSICS committee investigation.

Julie, can you hold for a second?

I want to ask you about what stood out the most in that testimony to you, but also

just a quick recap, just a few minutes left on the other side of the break here, where we'll be able to kind of give everybody a heads up on what remains of any cases President Trump might face and where things are going from here as we're just days away for him putting his hand on the Bible, getting sworn in, and beginning his presidency as the 47th here of the United States.

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And wanted to just find out that testimony, some of that's come out here, the driver of the beast and this absurd story finally getting the update and the light shine out of it that it should have all along.

Julie, what stood out to you the most out of the testimony that came out, the driver, that Secret Service member?

I mean, really, just on, well, here's what really stood out.

It was clear that no one on the committee, either the staff investigators or the members who were involved in this questioning, was going to ask the the driver about this alleged confrontation.

They avoided it.

And it was only after the attorney representing the driver, who's still unnamed, but is still with the Secret Service, it was only after the attorney and the witness, the driver, raised it voluntarily that they addressed this confrontation at all.

And then Liz Cheney.

She, of course, tried to avoid this.

And then at the end said, well, I just want to make sure we never said that there was a physical assault in the vehicle.

Well, she described it herself as a physical altercation during Kathy Hutchinson's televised

testimony.

So this just underscores the sneakiness, the corruption, the dirtiness of Liz Cheney, which is exactly why Donald Trump and others are correct to say she should face investigation and criminal charges, not just for her conduct on the committee, but potentially deceiving the American people in her longtime effort to take down Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.

Julie Kelly, with us, last but not least, what may stand still of any of the cases or charges of President Trump out there?

What we've seen one after the other fall or really crumble like a house of cards?

Well, I think the greatest thing to happen in the last few weeks is the Georgia appellate court who reversed the lower court judge Scott McAfee, who did his best to salvage Fannie Willis from her disqualification proceedings because of her conflict, obviously.

So she is permanently removed, her office removed from that case, Jack Smith dismissing the two federal.

Well, one had already been dismissed by Judge Cannon earlier this year in Florida, the documents case, Jack Smith then moving to dismiss the indictment in Washington on the January 6th case against Donald Trump.

So, but of course, Juan Murshan will be the last man standing trying to keep that case, the 34 bogus felony convictions, alive in New York until after Donald Trump leaves the White House in 2029.

Julie, what's the best way folks can stay up to date with all the breaking news and things that you're covering?

You do such a great job of this.

I follow you on X, but what's the best way people can stay up today?

Thanks, Justin.

Thanks for having me on.

So I have my own Substack Declassified with Julie Kelly, also write for Real Clear Investigations.

And as you know, do a lot of posting on X, Twitter, Julie underscore Kelly2.

Fantastic.

Thanks for the update.

And Merry Christmas, Julie.

We appreciate you taking the time to be here with us today.

Merry Christmas to you and your family, Justin.

You too.

And, you know, because it is Christmas Eve, we got

we still have a very special

couple of things coming up in the show for you, but we can't.

We also can't ignore that holiday that maybe you too have grown to know and love, right?

Festivus.

Well, it was yesterday and the airing of the grievings is, well,

it's all of the all of the things that you're upset about.

All the Festivus poll and all that,

you know, the made-up holiday from Seinfeld.

Fantastic.

Rand Paul has taken it and just run with it.

And, you know, every year now he comes out with

Rand that list of, you know, waste, fraud, and abuse.

And it's this year probably more important than ever before because something he's been doing for years is really going to get a front row seat at the table.

And

Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, with Elon Musk and, of course, Vivek Ramaswamy, really going to be taking these things and bringing them to light more than ever before.

A trillion dollars

on just absolute waste.

Drag shows, Arabic Sesame Street.

That's a thing.

And the two juxtaposed.

I just can't imagine.

Lonely Rats.

Just a few.

Just a few of the things.

$10,000 spent on a bearded lady.

Ice skating show.

A bearded lady ice skating show.

Just one of the numerous examples, they say, the frivolous federal spending highlighted by Senator Rand Paul.

And the latest on this is he's released the list.

You'll hear from Rand coming up.

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As we get the Festivus report

in just moments.

I think

you're going to dig that.

You're really going to love it.

In the meantime, I just, I want to tell you this before we run into the break.

I don't know what you're doing today.

I don't know how you're celebrating, but I just got this message from my precious angels, my little girls, and

something that was recorded, just, I guess, candid random singing in the kitchen this morning.

Jesus Christ is born.

Go tell me

now,

King.

Go tell me down and mountain.

Now listen,

I know they're not quite as polished as

Cheyenne and Grace, but I tell you, those two are my pride and joy.

And man, I am thrilled to hear them singing the songs of the season.

And I had to share.

I'm a dad.

That's what I do.

Back with more after this.

Justin Barkley in for Glenn today.

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And man, this year, Christmas is back.

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They tried,

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And I don't know about you.

We're just not going to let that happen.

Kamala tried to cancel Christmas.

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We're saying Merry Christmas again.

And we're also,

can't ignore, can't forget the holiday tradition of festivus.

The tradition of festivus begins with the airing of grievances.

Fred Paul has quite a few.

In fact, he comes out with this list every year.

It's become like a...

a massive tradition.

And really what it's known for more than anything else, it's just giving you the waste, fraud, and abuse that our government is, the federal government anyway, so

used to

perpetrating on us.

And here is just a few in the report.

Matter of fact,

a big year because why?

Because he's been doing this for years.

Finally, you have a mandate.

to cut, to get rid of some of this stuff.

The president, obviously, you've got the Doge caucus,

Department of Government Efficiency.

You've got folks like Elon Musk that want to overlook and oversee some of this, get a report done along with Vivek, and they're going to be handing it over to the president.

Now, they don't have any power to actually do any cutting themselves, but they're going to hand this report over to the president, and that's where the rubber is going to start to meet the road.

Now, you know, Congress controls the purse rings,

but there's some things, there's some executive actions and whatnot the president's going to be able to do.

We'll have to wait and see what he actually ends up doing.

But

this, to me,

I just,

I find to be perfectly timed.

Senator Rand Paul's annual Festive Report, the Festivus Report, the Satirical Critique, as you know, inspired by the Seinfeld episode, The Strike, where Festivus is an alternative holiday created by the character Frank Costanza, George's dad, symbolizing a protest against the commercialization of Christmas.

The report highlighting the various instances of government waste with a focus on seemingly frivolous expenditures coinciding with the Government Accountability Office's recent report on $236 billion in federal improper payments.

Can you imagine?

And I would, what do I got to do to get one of those improper payments?

Because nothing's ever going to take it back.

I don't know how they want.

If I spend it, it's gone.

I'd like a little improper payment here or there.

Well, it's obvious, the inefficiencies and the waste, the fraud, and the abuse, and the government spending.

So

here we have a couple of the things on the list this year.

And I gather around, children.

Gather around as

I give you the list.

And, well, we've made it.

Rand has anyway.

And he's checking it twice.

Find out

how naughty the government's been.

You know, one of those things was the secret service protection on Fauci.

I'll give you this.

I think it's kind of interesting to see.

I think they're going to do away with this.

This guy, I don't know why he's at, well, it's just another example.

Just another example of all the craziness and why we spend so much money.

And you talk about the programs that Fauci oversaw.

Oh, boy.

$3 million in this report.

They found Rand Paul in his festival report for girl-centered climate action

in Brazil.

$3 million for girl-centered climate action in Brazil.

First of all, I don't even know what that could mean.

I don't understand possibly what are girls,

ladies, women, are you responsible for more

climate

change

issues than men?

Somehow women are partially

well, I think, what is that?

I don't know.

The privilege here is really tough to see through.

I'm not sure whether that's

you know, that's a sexist.

I'm not sure how to, how do you, how do I wrap my head around that?

How dare you?

Thank you, Greta.

I needed,

I needed to figure that.

I'm not sure if I had a way out of that, and I didn't want to step at it.

Blah, blah, blah.

Yeah, exactly.

$20 million for a new Sesame Street show.

It's Arabic.

Arabic Sesame Street, from what I understand.

$10,000 for the Bearded Ladies Cabaret.

Here we go again.

A climate change-focused ice skate show.

Where are they coming up with this?

Who's responsible?

And think about this.

Think about how bad it is.

When the government rips this money from your wallets, from your fists, when they rip it out, you know, essentially the way things are set up, the way things work in this guy, you give your time and you trade it for money.

You're trading not just your time, but a piece of your life.

You're trading a piece of your life, your soul, who you are for that money.

Every day you get up and go to work.

You do that because you want to make the world a better place and give your kids the opportunity that you never had in a lot of ways.

You want to give them

the same, if not better, opportunity.

And you do that.

You give yourself a little bit away every day to make that possible.

And the government comes in, what does the government say?

Oh,

we'll take that.

You know, the Lord never asked for more than 10%.

And here's the government

coming away with more than half in a lot of cases.

And what's it for?

Well, $10,000 of it went to the Bearded Ladies Cabaret for a climate change-focused ice skate show.

365,000 went for circuses in city parks.

Circuses in city parks.

What is that?

What is some of the, you won't believe this next one.

$32,500

break dancing.

Now, Hood doesn't say who's break dancing, why they're break dancing, what got broken when they were dancing, none of that, but we have $32,000, almost $33,000 for breakdancing.

$330,000 went for censoring conservative media.

I'm not making that up.

You know what that's looked like over the last several years.

If they were still in charge, if they were still in control, they'd be doing the same

thing.

And it'd probably get worse.

In fact, I just saw the view.

They were out talking about this

on the view the other day.

There was a whole thing about, well, you know, if we would have been able to censor social media, then

we'd still be in control.

And gosh, there's never been anything done about that.

We could just get social media censored.

Well, it would help if we could regulate social media because one of the biggest offenders is D.C.

and Congress have not been able to do one thing in regard to the rogue corporations.

I'm not going to get any better with Elon Musk and the administration.

Look, they've been censoring social media.

Ma'am, it's been regulated behind the scenes for years now.

And

one might argue that one of the only reasons why we're able to get out of this mess is Elon Musk.

So they're going to turn all their sights on him.

You know, that's going.

Because if

they can't, they can't continue to give away.

He's going to be at the forefront of telling you what some of this waste, fraud, and abuse is.

$720,000 for conservation of ducks in Mexico.

In fact, what we saw happen earlier last week may be a primer.

It may be a precursor to some of the things that we're going to see, the way we can fight back in the future.

And the good news is it's not just its technology, but it's the people that use it and this social media that's made it possible.

X may have killed the way, not just this latest bill,

but the way things are done in the swamp.

Elon may have had a big hand in that.

We'll tell you how, actually, coming up in just a bit.

I've got a clip

from the folks, the billionaires that sit around on that podcast.

They're really interesting podcast.

Is it all in?

Is there any all-in podcast where they talk about this?

It's not just Elon.

It's not just what happened last week.

It's a deeper dive in the technology that makes these things possible.

We'll get into that.

Killing away is fraud and abuse this time of year.

Always a fun thing to do.

We're back with more of it.

After this, Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program.

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We may have just done it.

Elon Musk and ex

may have just, along with you, President Trump and the mandate, just sort of

transformed, not just with this latest bill, the 1500-pager, but transformed the way all of this works in general.

In fact, a

podcast I enjoy called the All-End Podcast.

A bunch of billionaires sitting around, actually having great conversation.

These guys drove a lot of

funding and a lot of support for President Trump in the election as well.

They're very

pragmatic and realistic thinkers in a lot of ways, but they'll also give you sort of an idea of what's possible.

They talk about the technology.

In fact, what was used

in this whole scenario, in fact,

to get through the 1,500-page bill, find out what was inside, etc.

What are your thoughts on what we saw this past 72 hours?

It was related to this bill.

It was the most incredible

change in how politics will be done going forward.

I think that people

are probably underestimating what happened here.

This was a multi-hundred billion dollar grift.

that was stopped on a dime over 12 hours of tweets.

You would have never thought that that was possible.

The point is to put a dagger in something that big

that had so much broad support just a few hours earlier, I think it's so consequential in how the United States can run going forward.

It's not just about what happened the other day with that bill.

It's the technology and it's the model now, the ability to look inside these things.

Remember the old Nancy Pelosi thing.

Well, you gotta you gotta pass it to be able to see what's inside of it

they dump these things on the desks of these staffers and nobody knew what was inside they just go they'd run around on the media telling everybody we got to pass this or the sky is going to fall hakeem jeffries and the democrats tried the same thing again this time and it did not work in fact it's it's failed miserably because people are onto them building on what you said chamas

Also very interesting here is the fact that Trump hasn't taken office yet and they're having this huge impact.

This is occurring a month before he's even in office.

If they can stop this, what will they do when they actually are in power?

I think right now you're seeing the first order reaction, which is about the bill itself.

And I think that misses the point.

The bigger issue is going forward, you will have the ability to,

and part of it is because we have a set of tools now that allows us to do this.

He's talking about AI, ChatGPT, or Grok or whatever whatever it might be, but there's a whole number of these and they're getting smarter.

They're getting better every day.

To read 1,500 pages in a matter of minutes, to summarize it into the key essential elements, to really understand what's being asked and what's being offered.

Here's what he described it as.

Jamal said, new feature.

Grok auto-analyzes all new congressional bills.

summarizes it into a few pages a fifth grader can understand and publishes it into everyone's feed.

You can mute these stories, but you can't say you weren't given a chance to know.

That's this proposal for a new idea.

I think that's fascinating.

And think about this.

It's going to give the power back to the American people.

There's a lot of ways you're overwhelmed.

You don't have time to read through.

I mean, you wouldn't read through 100 pages.

The average person wouldn't read through one page.

But now you can know, and you could know in short form, short order, too, exactly what it is, and that it makes it approachable for everyone and then to put it in a digestible format that normal people can consume yeah then all you'll have to do is just connect the dots and tell your congressman or congresswoman that you like or dislike this thing and what you're going to see is a much more active form of government and i think i love this idea

This is transformative.

And I got to tell you, I think he's right.

He's on this something.

This is going to have massive impact because it puts the people back in control.

Now, before and for so long now,

you've been out of the loop.

And they've done that on purpose.

They've been able to hide these things.

Not anymore.

There's a new dawn, a new era.

More good news on the way.

In fact, it's about the good news.

You see, Bible sales are up this year.

They're booming.

We'll talk about what's behind it and more coming up on the Glenn Beck program.

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now we've been through the news today and, you know, there's still a lot of stories out there.

And in fact, maybe

some that we'll have to still yet dig into.

But there's a lot of good news happening, too.

I want to give you a little bit of hope,

a little bit of encouragement

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In fact, the good news.

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How about some hope?

Some good news?

Some encouragement?

Let's start with Pastor Lorenzo Sewell.

You can't deny the power of God on this man's life.

You can't deny that God protected him.

You cannot deny that it was a millimeter miracle that was able to save this man's life.

Could it be that Jesus Christ preserved him for such a time as this?

Could it be?

Detroit Pastor Lorenzo Sewell speaking at the RNC about President Trump.

Could it be that when we prayed for him, when he came to the round table in Detroit, that Jesus asked and he received, that we sought him and then he found protection?

Could it be that the king of glory, the Lord God, strong and mighty, the God who is mighty in battle, protected Donald Trump because he wants to use him for such a time as this.

If you believe that, come on, put your hands on Gabba and give a great God.

I don't know if the RNC expected that they were going to have a little church

in there, but they sure got it.

Pastor Lorenzo Sewell.

Gosh, I got to tell you.

Thank you for doing this.

Welcome under the Glen Beck program.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm so Holy Ghost, happy to be here with you.

Yes, Pastor.

Well, the reason why I want to talk,

it's dual fold here.

I mean, I want to give people, obviously, some hope.

I want to give people, especially in some dark times, you know, the encouragement to know that the good things are on the way

in the natural, but also

in the spiritual as well.

I want to give people a little bit of that, a dose of that.

And one of the stories I saw, I thought, got to talk about this.

You're probably one of the best people I can think of to talk about it, but it's an incredible story.

Bible sales are booming.

And this is data that has been collected by folks who do publishing and things like that.

22%.

Bible sales are up.

22%

in the last year.

And notably,

it's a shift actually for first time.

Folks who have bought these Bibles, so the first time they've ever engaged.

This is really something incredible.

What do you think is happening?

in this good news?

You know, it's interesting that you say that because King Solomon, David's son, the wisest and the richest man of all time, he said that God put eternity in the heart of all people, meaning that we all have a Holy Ghost hunger.

We all have a desire,

longing, and a passion.

for Jesus to give us a real life encounter with him.

We all have a desire to understand

that religion doesn't just do, the rules and regulations just don't do, but we need a personal, intimate encounter with Jesus Christ.

That's the only thing that will do.

And this is the reason why people are buying Bibles because they want to have an encounter with the same Jesus that I had an encounter with.

Yeah, I...

That's a good, that's a good.

I think

there is something.

There's a point that there's a hunger, I think, or a curiosity naturally in a lot of people.

Even, I think even when you're looking at people who,

especially nowadays in this day and age, they're looking and they're going in all kinds of different places for that connection, for that something.

They're craving something deeper.

You know, like there's, there's got to be more to this, this life.

There's got to be more to it than what I see on the surface.

And

maybe in the last few years with everything that's going on and as bad as things have gotten, you know, President Trump, I know you talked about the millimeter miracle.

Sure.

When you gave that speech at RNC, President Trump was brought to his knees in that moment.

And I think maybe the country has been as well.

Absolutely.

I mean, the Bible clearly shows us that God speaks through his word, his written word.

He speaks through his son, but he also speaks through circumstances.

And I look at America, how we are essentially God's city, so to speak, that is set upon a hill.

I think about how Americans have sent out literally hundreds of millions of missionaries since his inception.

I think about being a black American and how white Christians taught black people how to read, right?

It was white Christians that started the Underground Railroad.

It was,

we have a history in this country of glorifying Jesus.

And then in these last four years, we saw that the history of our country was going on the trajectory, quite frankly, where men were calling good evil and evil good.

were coming, we were becoming a sodom and Gomorrah, so to speak, in our country.

I'm not saying that America is perfect, but what I am saying is that America was founded on the Yale Christian principles, whereby have allowed us to become the most prosperous and the most spiritual nation of all time.

That's causing literally millions of people to want to come to America

because of how Jesus has blessed our country.

Are we seeing a revival happening happening right now?

Absolutely.

I was, listen, I have been all over this country.

I was literally at the AM Fest with my good friend Charlie Kirk.

I just got back from there.

I have been all over this country praying in Republican context.

And every single time, Justin, I was there, I lifted up the name of Jesus.

There was not one time that any Republican looked at me and said, you need to say this a particular way.

I have always been given the freedom to proclaim Christ and him crucify.

And I believe that we are on the precipice and we're living in a revival, that Jesus has used this political moment as a spiritual moment.

And we can tell by the data as it pertains to people buying Bibles.

I was at,

speaking of revivals, I was at

Asbury University.

I guess it was

a little, maybe two years ago almost

in Kentucky there where they had a spontaneous breakout of this revival that took place.

And I remember Tucker was still working at Fox News at the time, very interested in it.

He wanted to cover.

They told him to say, don't come

because they didn't, I don't think they knew

what he was going to do with it and what it was going to look like.

But now knowing how he's had such a transformation and what was going on in his life, I think he was really curious about it and wanted to shine a light on it.

It was, I've got to tell you, I've never seen anything like it.

And the only way I can describe it is to tell you that

it was like the kingdom of heaven had really settled down there on the campus of Esbury University.

I had seen things I'd never seen before.

People lined up like they were going to

a football game, you know,

they were lined up through this little, this little town there, and

they were trying to get into the auditorium there to have this encounter.

And they came from all over.

Pastor, I saw somebody,

one of the stories, they came from, I believe it was like Mexico, bought a plane ticket, came here because they needed healing or something along these lines, a family desperately looking for that.

People that come from all over the country just to experience it, young people, and they were getting it.

And things were happening that were just miraculous.

So

I see this, and I see what's happened in our country.

One of the things that I know Glenn's noted, in fact, I've had this conversation multiple times, but to see a win from President Trump, I often said it does, the fixes in.

I said, the only way this happens is if God intervenes and he gets all the credit.

And I think we may have seen that.

So

my question for you is: after we've seen a year of miracles, what do we need to do to continue down that path and to see

those things

continue to happen?

Because

listen, winning this election is one thing, and solving the problems and the real issues that we've seen in this country come to the forefront.

Boy, there's going to be a lot more than just an election that has to take place.

I want to, if you can hang on the line, I want to get your answer to that.

Big question.

Give you a moment to think about it.

And we'll be back with Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, who'll join us right after this on the Glenbeck program.

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You know,

this scripture has been,

you know, this has been a top of mind for a while now, but I think it really came to life in this last year.

Pastor Lorenzo Sewell is with us right now from 1 Any Church in Detroit.

And

the scripture I'm talking about, this 2 Chronicles 7:14, and I know you're you're very familiar with this, but if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

I think we've seen this, but I still think there's more to come.

What's on the horizon and what do we need to do?

to follow this through, Pastor.

Justin, you're filled with discernment at this moment to see that there is more.

The Bible clearly says, do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly before your God in Micah 6, 8.

And the context of that verse is the poor being neglected.

And as a black American, what I've seen is that we have 1,000 majority black cities in America.

Can you imagine that?

In the state of Michigan, we have 14 majority black cities that represent 57 congressional districts all over this land.

The one thing they all share in common is that these cities are literally the worst places to live in in America.

Highest crime, highest poverty, highest overdose, highest foreclosures.

The reason why Jesus allowed me to be in the position that I can be in now is to be a voice to the voiceless.

And this is what I believe the Republican Party needs to do.

We need to, number one, start a Republican black caucus.

We need to have a national movement of black conservatives that can go and lead in black cities.

Now, someone would say, well, why would we do that?

Because of election integrity.

In the state of Michigan, we were told that 246,303 people voted in Detroit.

We went to go and get our voter list.

There are only 195,000 people on the voter list.

that was given to us in Detroit.

We know that 50,000 people are missing.

and we know that elections have been stolen in the city of Detroit.

We know that.

So when President Trump came in 2020 and he said election integrity, we knew as black people, that's what we've been talking about the entire time.

But nobody has listened to our voices.

No one has been willing to stand up for us.

So God has heard our prayers.

He's heard our cries.

The first thing we need to do is start the black Republican caucus where we will train and equip black conservative leaders to go into black cities and begin to lead specifically as it pertains to election integrity.

That's number one.

Number two is the righteous regulation of resources, three R's, righteous regulation of resources.

If we want to see our victory be sustained, if we want to continue this trajectory of momentum, we must have the righteous regulation of resources as it pertains to HUD, as it pertains to the Community Reinvestment Act, which is CRA, which is bank regulations, and as it pertains to SBA.

These resources, Justin, have never been regulated righteously in poor black cities.

That's the reason why they cheat so they can steal these resources.

But the devil is a liar.

We will not allow him to steal from our communities anymore.

And that's how we can continue to maintain the momentum that we have.

Do you think,

when watching over the last year or so, and particularly in places like Detroit and Chicago, do you think that the black community is waking up to this because of what they're watching happening with illegal immigration?

Yes.

Like where we are, we have 28 Venezuelans in our community.

We literally have, in our community right now, where I'm standing, I'm in my church.

Our community where I stand, two blocks from where I am right now, we have entire blocks that literally black people have been moved out of and Venezuelans are there.

As a matter of fact, Justin, it's so bad that before President Trump was elected, people were saying to my community, pastor, let us take the church bus for a three-day trip, leave out of the country,

come back into the country illegally so they can get more money on their bridge car and they can be able to get

a

have no background, have a clean background.

have nothing on their background in terms of

legalities.

So they're saying, so my community is saying it would be better for us to leave the country and come back in illegally because they feel like illegal immigrants get more than they do.

That's incredible.

I watched these things.

That's a real story.

The injustice,

it's just, it hits so hard.

This time of year, particularly, we just watched, there's a story out of New York City and the subway.

I just saw this video again.

And I got to tell you, don't go looking for it because I think every time we see something like this,

it really affects us and our soul.

And I think in a way that it's horrific to watch, but we have to know that this type of thing is happening.

So there's a man here in the country illegally.

He sets a woman sleeping on fire in the subway.

And it's wild to watch as this is happening.

This is going on.

Police are walking by.

People are filming it.

Nobody is helping.

And then there's another clip where the man who sat on, eventually he was the one who set her on fire.

And then he went and sat on a bench and watched her.

He gets up at one point and goes to almost fan the flames on this woman as she's standing there.

I watch this.

I see Biden then commute the sentences of folks who are guilty of killing children and just a lot of horrific things that we've seen.

Then we see folks who are sitting in,

obviously, in jails and gulags right now for January 6th offenses.

And And yet there's no justice for them.

There is no real justice in this country.

There's really no righteousness at this moment.

What do we got to do to see that restored?

As a people, we need to lift our voice.

We know that God listens to the prayers of those who are the least of these, those who are the disenfranchised, marginalized, and quite frankly pushed aside.

God listens to their prayers.

But also, we need to hold our legislators accountable, and we need to hold Congress accountable.

And as it pertains to things like election integrity, we need to have a congressional hearing.

That's what I've asked Jim Jordan for, Congressman Jim Jordan.

And I've also asked our state legislature that we would bring people from our community in front of Congress and the legislature in order to ask the questions that need to be asked in terms of voter integrity.

And I'm also going to ask city council, which also has the power to subpoena people in our community, specifically our lieutenant governor, who Garland Gilchrist in Michigan, he talked about election integrity in 2017 when he lost the city clerk race.

So this is a bipartisan issue, and this is why I think we as a people, if we lift our voice collectively and hold people accountable, we'll see the crooked way made straight and the rough way smoothed.

Pastor Lorenzo, so where can people follow you, stay up to date, and make sure that they support you?

Well, our church is 180church, 180church.cc,

like dot churchchurch, 180church.cc.

And also, I'm on Instagram, Lorenzo Sewell, on Instagram.

I think you just tagged me on X.

We're on Facebook.

We go live, and tomorrow we'll be in Pontiac serving the community.

Merry Christmas, Pastor.

Thank you so much.

We appreciate all you do.

God bless.

God bless you, Justin.

Thank you for the opportunity.

Keep up the fight.

There you go, folks.

I got something special coming up in just moments.

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for I have gone us to share with you

the real story

of Christmas.

For a child will be born to us, a son will be given us, and the government will rest upon his shoulders.

His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

There will be no end to the increase of his government or of peace on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and uphold it.

With justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore.

The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.

God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a village in Galilee, to a virgin named Mary.

She was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David.

Gabriel appeared to her and said,

Greetings, favored one.

The Lord is with you.

Confused and disturbed, Mary tried to think what it could mean.

Don't be frightened, Mary, the angel told her.

God has chosen to bless you.

You will become pregnant and have a son, and you are to

name him

Jesus.

He will be very great and be called Son of the Most High.

But Mary asked the angel, how can I have a baby?

I'm a virgin.

And the angel replied,

The Holy Spirit will come upon you.

The power of the Most High will overshadow you.

So the baby born to you will be holy and he will be called the Son of God.

While Mary was still a virgin, she became pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

And Joseph, her fiancé, decided to break the engagement quietly, so as not to disgrace her publicly.

As he considered this, he fell asleep.

And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream.

Joseph, son of David, the angel said, don't be afraid to go ahead with your marriage to Mary.

For the child in her has been conceived by the Holy Spirit.

She'll have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sin.

All of this happened to fulfill the Lord's message through his prophet.

Behold, the virgin will conceive a child.

She'll give birth to a son, and he will be called Emmanuel, meaning God

with us.

This prophecy from Isaiah 7, 14 was given 700 years

before Jesus was born.

When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel the Lord commanded him.

He brought Mary home to be his wife, but she remained a virgin until her son was born.

At that time, the Roman Emperor Augustus decreed that a census should be taken throughout all the Roman Empire.

All returned home to their hometowns to register for the census.

Because Joseph was a descendant of King David, he had to go to Bethlehem in Judea, David's ancient home.

He traveled from the village of Nazareth in Galilee and took with him Mary, his wife, who was great with child.

And while they were there, they came time for the baby to be born.

She gave birth to her first child, a son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in the manger.

That night there were shepherds in the field outside the village guarding their flocks of sheep.

And suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared among them and the radiance of the Lord's glory surrounded them.

They were terribly frightened.

But the angel reassured them.

Do not be afraid, he said.

I bring you good news of great joy for everyone.

The Savior, yea, the Messiah, the Lord has been born tonight in the city of David.

And this is how you'll recognize him.

You'll find him, a baby in a manger, wrapped in swaddling clothes.

Suddenly, the angel was joined by the vast host of heaven, the armies praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest and on earth.

Peace, goodwill to men.

The angels left.

and the shepherds said to each other, come, let us go to Bethlehem and see this wonderful thing that has happened that the Lord has told us about.

So they ran to the village and found Mary and Joseph.

And there was the baby, lying in the manger.

The shepherds told everyone what had happened and what the angel had said about the child.

All who heard this story were astonished.

The shepherds went back to the fields and flocks, glorifying and praising the Lord.

Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judea during the reign of King Herod.

And at the same time came wise men from the east to Jerusalem asking, where is the newborn king of the Jews?

We've seen a star that arose and have come to worship him.

Herod was deeply disturbed by their question, as was all of Jerusalem.

He called a meeting of the leading priests and teachers of religious law.

Where do the prophets say the Messiah will be born?

he asked.

In Bethlehem, they said, for this is what a prophet wrote, O Bethlehem of Judea, you are not just a lowly village of Judah, for a ruler will come to you who will be shepherd for my people, Israel.

This prophecy, found in Micah 5 and verse 2, and 2 Samuel 5 and verse 2, were both written 700 years before Jesus Christ was ever born.

So Herod sent a message.

to the wise men, asking them to come see him.

At this time meeting, he learned the exact time when they first saw the star, and he told them to go to Bethlehem, search diligently for the child, and when you find him, come tell me that I may worship him too.

After this meeting, the wise men went on their way, and once again, the star appeared to guide them to Bethlehem.

It went ahead of them and stopped over the place where the child was.

When they saw the star, they were filled with joy.

They entered the house where the child and his mother were,

and they fell down and worshipped him.

They opened their treasure chest and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

But when it came time to leave, they went another way, because God had warned them in a dream not to return to Herod.

After the wise men were gone, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.

Get up!

Flee to Egypt with the child and his mother, the angel said.

Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod will try to kill the child.

That very night, Joseph left for Egypt with the child and marry his mother.

They stayed there until Herod's death.

This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet, Out of Egypt I have called my son.

Herod was furious.

When he learned that the wise men had outwitted him, he sent soldiers to kill all the baby boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, because the wise men had told him that the star had first appeared to them about two years before.

Then later, when Herod died, God's angel appeared in a dream of Joseph in Egypt.

Get up, take the child and his mother and return to Israel.

All those who wished to murder the child

are dead.

So Joseph obeyed.

He arose and took the child and his mother and re-entered Israel.

When he heard, though, that Herod's son had taken over as king in Judea, he was afraid to go there.

But then Joseph was directed in a dream to go to the hills of Galilee.

On arriving, he settled in the village of Nazareth,

thus fulfilling the words of the prophet.

For he should be called a Nazarene.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,

that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

And this

is the story.

The story of Christmas.

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Hope.

Can you feel it?

Because it is in the air.

If you can't yet,

maybe you're just not close enough to the source of it yet.

Like a candle

burning off in the distance.

That flame

is

still bright, up close.

The fire, you can still feel it right up close, but maybe

as you can sense it, you can see it twinkling off in the dark.

Maybe.

Maybe if

you just move closer,

you can really,

really experience it.

We have been moving closer and closer over the last year.

I got to tell you, I have experienced so many things in my own life,

but also watching the miracles that are happening all around us on a daily basis

in this country

and what's coming,

what's what's possible,

not just here, but all around the world.

It's opportunity.

It's possibility.

It's literally the difference between day and night,

dark and light.

We stood at the crossroads in this country.

We stood and we

contemplated, we looked at both roads, and one

led to death and destruction and

the loss

of what's been so

profoundly American, what's been so good in our lives,

our way of life, and our families.

Life itself,

that existential threat that the left often talks about and accuses the right of

being so much.

It really, I believe, we were there.

We were on the precipice.

Somehow we pulled ourselves back from the edge.

We weren't alone.

We were

divinely

impacted.

You could feel

on July 13th, in that moment, that miracle that saved this nation and certainly saved President Trump, but you could feel

the hand of God,

not just on him, but I believe on our nation, because what we survived that day, what we avoided,

something that I don't even want to think about, contemplate.

But

the hope is the opportunity.

That means that there still remains work to be done, much of it over the next year or two, and much of it is going to happen in the first 90 days of his presidency.

On my radio show daily, I tell people no matter what

the headlines say,

each and every day,

I remind them that no matter what,

the God

is still on the throne.

That's the good news.

I don't know what's coming in this year ahead.

But what I do know is it's never been more true.

No matter what we face,

God is still on the throne.

It's been an honor to be here with you filling in for Glenn

on Christmas Eve.

Each and every time I get to, it's one of the things that I am the most grateful for.

This audience is like no other.

It's an opportunity that I will never take for granted.

And it's one that I hope I can give you

a chance to reflect and maybe think about those wonderful things that are on the way in the new year and beyond.

Let's stay in touch.

JustinBarkley.com at Mr.Justin Barkley on all the social media.

As I wish you, from my family to yours,

and the whole family at the Glen Beck Program, a very Merry Christmas.

God bless.

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