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All righty.

Well, Stu, how are you?

Just wonderful, Glenn.

Looking into that big bus.

I can't wait to get a, you know, maybe I'll see if I can find an abortion on the bus or a vasectomy, whatever I can do.

Well, you're a man.

You could have a baby, too.

I could get the vasectomy.

You could have the abortion.

It sounds like a wonderful,

wonderful thing.

Is there any promotions there, Ryan?

Are they running a two?

Is there a two-for-one abortion special?

No, no, no.

I have punch cards.

I think it's interesting that this cult that we have said is worshiping Moloch would come together at their big annual celebration and their DNC convention full of joy, just like they used to in the Bohemian forest and

kill and sacrifice their young.

This is a religion, man.

This is their sacrament, and they're doing it in Chicago.

So,

you know, oh, it's not evil.

It's just a choice.

It's just a choice.

And I'd like you to see the choice of the people that, you know, are attending the DNC.

You know, you're going to have every star, but you're also going to have about 150 to 200,000 protesters there, all of them protesting, you know, to

from the river to the sea.

Let's keep Israel free.

No,

no, no, it was something like that.

I can't remember, Stupid.

I don't think it's pro-Israel, something tells me.

It's an aspirational phrase, Glenn.

Just in case you were wondering, as Rashida Talib reminded us, it's nothing to do with genocide.

It's an aspirational phrase, which is true.

It's just aspirational for genocide.

It's really nice because you have the outer ring, you have to be against Jews.

And then the inner ring, you have to be against babies.

And then the inner ring is you get to be for globalism, which I think is great.

I think it's great.

It's kind of a ritual, you know.

Hey, I want to kill Jews.

Hey, even more, I want to kill babies.

Hey, I want to kill everybody.

It's great.

It's great.

So there's your DNC for you tonight.

Yeah, there wouldn't be such a people problem if it wasn't for all of these people, Glenn.

So if we can find different ways to kill all of them.

Thank you.

You know,

all these evil Republicans are gone.

I mean, who knows what the future could bring.

And killing sounds so harsh.

Could we please use the word liquidate?

If we could just liquidate

all of these people, we wouldn't have such a people problem.

Oh, gee, is that hate speech?

Is that hate speech?

Or is that sarcasm?

Is that making a point through sarcasm?

Well.

I know the difference, but apparently YouTube doesn't.

YouTube has taken away

some of our freedoms on YouTube.

Why?

Well, because we dared to have a newsmaker on.

We dared have Tommy Robinson on, what was it, last week, week after.

Now, he's the guy that the English are saying is responsible for it.

I interviewed him.

I asked him about violence.

He said he was absolutely against violence, and there wasn't one thing in this eight-minute interview.

There's not one single thing that he said about violence, except to say he's not for it.

In fact, let me, could we please play the Tommy Robinson

clip here?

You are not, you're not calling for the rioting and burning of buildings and bricks through windows, correct?

Glenn, if you I've just put a video together, the insanity of this is the media, the politicians and the police are currently building a narrative and they're pumping it everywhere that I've instigated these calls for violence.

So what I've done is I've gone through and if you look, it's my latest tweet on my Twitter.

I've made a video and I've cut together all the things I've said.

Do not be violent.

You're a moron if you're burning thing.

Put the bricks down.

You're ruining everything.

I have appealed for calm, peace and love from the start of this.

So the truth doesn't matter.

Do you know why the truth doesn't matter?

Because my name is banned from Facebook, my name is banned from Instagram, I'm banned from TikTok.

So they can tell the public whatever they want.

And they're currently telling them that I am the instigator of all this violence.

So when you're looking at the riots right now on British TV, on every chat show, everywhere, they're saying it's Tony Robinson.

Whereas the truth, if you watch my video, is the total opposite.

Huh?

So, that's the only time we talked about anything violent,

and he was against it.

But YouTube is taking now their marching orders from the European Union.

This is something we warned you would happen.

We now all have to comply by Europe's standards.

So if Europe puts this woke bullcrap in, these public-private partnerships will say, yeah, well, we've got to do it for Europe.

Otherwise, we won't be able to compete.

So, you know, they'll kick us out of Europe.

Good, kick you out of Europe.

Kick us out of Europe.

That's fine.

This is not an American first

attitude because we're better than everybody else.

You don't break our Constitution.

You don't go against the things that set America and the rest of the world free for the first time in human history.

We have certain standards here, don't we?

Or maybe we don't.

Maybe we don't.

And I can't figure out the standards at all

of YouTube.

Because this is the note we got.

YouTube doesn't allow hate speech.

Tell me what the hate speech there.

Tell me what the hate speech was.

Or content that provides or promotes or incites violence.

Okay?

Tell me how we promoted or incited violence.

Can't do that.

And in some cases, content that is potentially controversial

or offensive.

It may remain up, but with some features disabled.

That's exactly what this is.

It's remained up, but you can't share it.

You have to go through a maze to get to it, and the features are disabled.

You can't read any comments.

You can't make any comments.

Your videos are still live on YouTube, but some features have been disabled, meaning the watch page will no longer have comments, suggested videos, or likes.

So you can't share anything.

You know what this is?

This is a digital ghetto.

And I know I got a lot of heat from social media when I first talked about a digital ghetto.

I said that's what they're building.

You could talk all you want.

Talk all you want, you Jews.

You just have to do it behind this wall.

You could say whatever you want.

Oh, but nobody will see us because there's a wall between us.

It's a digital ghetto.

YouTube, telling the truth, is not inciting violence.

Telling the truth is not controversial.

And if it's offensive, get over it.

Since when in this country can we not talk to a newsmaker?

What was hateful about this?

What part incited violence?

Oh, I know it's controversial, but with whom?

The elites.

I'm doing a show this Wednesday night.

That's what the whole special is about.

This is going around the Constitution because public-private partnerships are in bed with our governments.

And we're very careful.

We are very careful on what we put on YouTube because we know that X and the Blaze are the only true

free platforms that we don't have to worry about.

Two two platforms that we don't have to worry about.

X and the Blaze.

My gosh.

I got this on Friday right after the show, and I was livid.

Livid.

How dare you?

This is a newsmaker on a newsmaking show.

Fight, fight, fight.

That's controversial.

He said fight, fight, fight.

You know what he meant by that.

He meant burn down Minneapolis.

No, they already did that.

May I just show you some other things that have not

had any problems on YouTube and are still live and are still there?

You know,

the Home Secretary of the UK

is now saying

that they have to look at ideological trends.

And what they need to do is hold people's views about women.

It's not okay anymore to ignore the massive growing threat caused by online hatred towards women.

What online hatred towards women is there?

Come on, think this through.

Well, if you're talking about the UK, I would say it's about 60% of London now.

What is it, 58%

Islamicist?

They don't seem to like women an awful lot.

They don't seem to give the rights to women.

Is that who you're talking about, England?

Or are you talking about the extreme right wing?

Oh, you know what it is?

This is it.

It's not the Islamists that you're worried about.

It's all of those people that say these men can beat up women in a boxing ring, right?

The one that says your daughter has to compete against men in sports.

Or the one that says, hey, you as a guy, you can become a woman and become anything.

You go, girl,

even though you're a man.

That must be the hate, the ones that hate women, right?

The ones that are taking all of the rights that women have worked so hard for and flushing them down the toilet.

That's got to be the rip women's rights you're talking about.

Or is it the extreme right wing?

Now, when you listen,

I think you can spot, I mean, it kind of inciting violence.

You kind of know what it is when you hear it.

Tommy Robinson saying, no, you are destroying everything we're trying to do by pricking up a brick or having violence.

Yeah, I kind of understand that.

Because if it wasn't the FBI or the CIA or whoever that orchestrated Jan 6,

if it was really just a bunch of right-wing people, which I highly doubt,

thanks a lot.

You've destroyed everything.

So I understand that, what Tommy is saying.

But let's listen to some other things that are not inciting violence.

or controversial that are still on YouTube with all of their privileges.

Cut five.

Some of the success that we've been able to achieve around criminal justice reform would not have happened in recent years were it not for Black Lives Matter

and the intensity and the brilliance of that movement that forced at least that there would be some counterforce to the status quo, which is so reluctant for change, if not hostile to change.

That's what these movements do.

But they're not going to stop.

They're not going to stop.

And that's, they're not, this is a movement, I'm telling you, they're not gonna stop and and everyone beware because they're not gonna stop it is gonna they're not gonna stop before election day in november and they're not gonna stop after election day and that should be everyone should take note of that on both levels that this isn't they're not gonna let up and they should not and we should and they should not and they should not said kamala harris and they should not That's in the midst of the rioting in the streets.

YouTube says that's fine.

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So, Stu, do you ever see the movie Pale Rider with Clint Eastwood?

I don't know.

I don't know if I have.

Oh, it's one of his best.

Yeah.

It's one of every like four or five years, I break it out and watch it.

I just watched it a couple of days ago.

It is so good.

And at one scene, he plays a preacher, and he is called into the

into the town by the you know the corrupt capitalist that's trying to buy all of the

all of the land because it has gold on it well anyway he said you know preacher you come to work here I tell you I tell you you come to work here and here's what's going to happen

you might find yourself in need of a church And

gosh, I could build one for you.

And Clint Eastwood would say, well, I mean,

if a man had a church, he would need fine clothes to

be able to stand up in front of all those people.

And he said, oh, only the best.

You'd get only the best.

I mean, you know,

hand-tailored preacher outfits for you.

And Clines would say, that's why it wouldn't work.

Because anybody who serves mammon cannot serve God.

How many of our churches are worried about money?

Are our churches up for sale?

Megan Basham is with us.

She's a Daily Wire culture reporter,

and she's written a new book called Shepherds for Sale, how George Soros is trying to infiltrate your church.

Megan, you anti-Semite.

Well, thanks for having me, Glenn.

Yeah, it was

quite a bit of research and getting quite a bit of blowback.

But the reality is this, is that evangelicals are roughly 30% of the American electorate.

They've rightly been called by even left-leaning outlets like The Atlantic America's most powerful voting bloc.

They are the firewall against the most immoral policies that the left wants to enact.

They are what has been holding back the left's agenda.

And so actors like George Soros and other left-wing billionaires have started funneling money money into evangelical institutions and ministries to try to harness the power of high-profile evangelical leaders.

And they've been very successful.

So

tell me how this manifests itself.

Like

if I'm sitting in a church and

how do I know if that's my church?

Well, I can give you an example that's happening right now in this election cycle.

So if you're familiar with Christianity Today, which is known as Evangelicalism's flagship magazine, founded by Billy Graham back in 1956, it's well known, it's a trusted brand, and it's been promoting a Bible study, a political Bible study into churches and Christian colleges and campuses.

The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, starting last year, last August, started promoting it to all of their 185 member schools saying you need to bring this curriculum in.

And essentially what it teaches is that voting is very complex.

And if someone tells you how you should vote when it comes to an issue like abortion, you should run from that person.

But Christians have an obligation to vote to oppose alleged systemic racism.

So it's subtle, but it's pretty obvious who they're trying to get you to vote for.

Well, that program called the Afterparty, that curriculum, is exclusively funded by hard-left secular foundations, the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Foundation and Hewlett Foundation, which is the largest funder of Planned Parenthood in the country.

And then you have the Rockefeller Foundation, which promotes quote-unquote gender-affirming care for youth, meaning cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, all of those things for kids.

And of course, abortion.

So these are the people who are funding this curriculum, which they said we want to see this roll out in the battleground state of Ohio to begin and then across the country.

And it's being brought into conservative churches.

So this is just one example of what I cover in my book.

It's happening all over.

If you look at what George Soros has been involved in,

so he started funding an organization, secular left, open borders organization called the National Immigration Forum.

They wanted to convince evangelicals to buy into these open border amnesty policies.

So they created a front group called the Evangelical Immigration Table.

And there there is no legal separation between the National Immigration Forum and this Evangelical Front group, but they brought in all of these well-known leaders, quite a number of leaders from the largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, the National Association of Evangelicals, which represents some 45,000 churches in dozens of denominations, once again, Christianity Today, once again, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.

So all of these entities that are viewed as trusted and conservative, but they're partnering with George Soros-funded organizations and have taken George Soros' money themselves in order to participate in these programs that are designed to convince conservative lawmakers that their most important constituency, the evangelicals, want them to vote for these amnesty policies.

So, this is how this sort of money

funneling of dark money is coming in, and it's how this network of associations is working

how many of the churches are

actively aware of this

I would say very few are actively aware of it and part of the reason is

because one obviously you know my book just came out a couple of weeks ago it immediately hit the New York Times list and I think it's because so many people were shocked to find out this information and also because the pushback has been so unbelievably fierce.

I mean, I expected some pushback, but there has been a lot of weeping and gnashing of teeth that this information has now been publicized on such a high level.

And I think it's because they knew that for so long, most rank and file people in the pews, most average pastors, were not aware that these things were going on.

And so you see a lot of scrambling to try to deny the information.

But you can't deny it, Glenn, because the reality is you can say that, oh, hey, there's nothing wrong with the fact that we're hiring pastors to be quote unquote regional mobilizers to connect with lawmakers over, for example, these immigration policies or these climate change policies.

Wow.

When you drill down on the, yeah, that's happening too.

But when you drill down on the money, you cannot deny the IRS 990s.

You cannot deny what's right there in cold black and white in all of these financial filings, that money is going from these secular left billionaires.

and organizations and not just George Soros, also people like Bill Gates, the Clinton Foundation.

If you're Pierre O'Midiar, yeah, the left-wing Buddhist founder of eBay, he's funneling money into groups like

the policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention.

So all of these secular left billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, all of this money is flowing from them into these evangelical ministries.

And it's gone unnoticed for a really long time.

So how do you approach this,

your pastor, you see something, you want to talk to him about it and say, hey, have you seen any of this?

How do you talk to them?

Well, you know, I think the first thing is I have encouraged people, look, don't blow your pastor up the minute you see maybe something from the Evangelical Immigration Table or the After Party, which is that political Bible study from David French of the New York Times and Christianity Today Today editor-in-chief, Russell Moore.

When you see that come in, first have a conversation with him.

Say, hey, pastor, can I take you to coffee?

Because there's a really good chance he doesn't really understand where it's coming from.

And some friend, some pastor friend of his brought it to him and said, hey, you should have this in your church.

So that would be one.

And then two,

if you sense that they are not willing to really look at the information there, I think you need to have a tougher conversation.

And if it seems like, no, they are deliberately bringing this in, then I am sorry, but you've got to find another church.

Tell me about Christian nationalism.

Did you look into that?

I did.

And, you know, largely what we're seeing when we look at the Christian nationalism discourse is that I think it's a smear that's largely being used by the left in order to dissuade Christians from participating in the civic process.

So essentially, what you see is, for example, the Rob Reiner documentary, which recently came out a few months ago.

They take something like the overturning of Roe, the Dobbs decision, and they label that Christian nationalism as a smear.

When really what it is, is just average Christians availing themselves of the same constitutional process of free association, free speech, electing candidates who are going to enact their policy preferences and appoint the justices that they want.

They call that Christian nationalism, but it's simply Christians doing exactly what their secular neighbors do.

Now, I know there are a small, fringy group of people who are are kind of leaning into that smear.

I don't think that's particularly wise.

But as far as actual money coming from the right or something like that, that's not happening.

And not only that, where you do see Christian organizations getting involved in politics on the right, it's very transparent.

There's no question about what people like Ralph Reed and his Faith and Freedom Coalition are doing.

They're not trying to hide it because they're not taking money from people who everyone knows are not Christian and do not have any interest in building up God's kingdom.

It is something I thank you deeply for doing the homework on.

This is something that we exposed a couple of three years ago.

And I know that many churches are in the midst of an internal fight, whether their flock knows it or not.

There is a big fight going on for the soul of these organizations.

And they have let the wolves in the back door.

And thank you for exposing it.

The name of the book is Shepherds for Sale.

Its author is Megan Basham.

Thank you so much, Megan.

Thanks for having me, Glenn.

I appreciate it.

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Stu, you remember last week when the Blaze had the report out about the pipe bomb?

that it might have been planted by

the police.

Yeah.

Okay.

We didn't spend a lot of time on it because I thought, well, it might have been that.

It might have been a lot of things.

You know, I'll wait for Steve Baker to pin this down.

Then this weekend, I saw Darren Beattie of Revolver News came out and he said, it is the police.

Okay.

That's kind of a big deal.

I mean, that's earth shattering.

Steve Baker joins us now from the Blaze.

Steve, is this new information or the same information that you had?

This is exactly the information that we had and we released early last week.

But

I think that whether it's Darren or any other journalists stepping out and saying that this is conclusively proof that the police planted that bomb is getting a little bit ahead of themselves.

And I'll tell you why.

We have the video of the

what we believe to be a Secret Service agent exiting a Metropolitan Police vehicle, but he steps out of frame.

He's carrying a bag in his hand, but he steps out of frame.

And then two minutes later, he steps back into the camera frame once again.

That is not proof that he set a bomb down, but

it does make us ask questions and it makes us question the FBI directly.

Once again, as we did in our article, which was our lead in that article, was the FBI can solve this for us today if they will release the DNC's own security cameras.

Their own security cameras are aimed and focused on exactly that spot where the bomb was placed, but they have never released that to the public.

So it is, I mean, I have to tell you, I mean, if you you have to take a leap of faith, if you're forced to take a leap of faith

and you look at all of the evidence, it is circumstantial, but it is pretty good, especially when the DNC has that video and won't release it.

Why wouldn't you release the video?

That's the great question about this bomb.

And that is what makes,

as you're saying there,

it's such an easy thing to come to a conclusion on when you have a bomb that was allegedly placed 17 hours earlier around 7.30, 8 o'clock the night before,

and then it allegedly sat there undetected during all that time with so much foot traffic that morning, so many officers all over that building from various agencies.

Two different bomb sweep teams swept the facility.

We know that from the OIG report that came out a couple of weeks ago.

There is this mounting evidence that

there just couldn't have been a bomb there for 17 hours.

But somehow, some way, 15 minutes before it was discovered, we see a guy getting out of a car, bag in his hand.

He walks over that direction into that

it's it's a you know it's a blind spot in the camera coverage from the CCTV

street camera

well because they moved

well this particular camera we went back when we were in the in the capital uh viewing room we went back eight days that camera had been fixed for eight full days prior to this this event and then that camera begins moving five minutes after the alleged discovery of the bomb by a plain clothes Capitol police officer.

So when then suddenly suddenly that camera starts moving by remote control.

It focuses in, it zooms into that location in between the benches.

You can kind of pick up a little bit of a

visual of the bomb when that camera moves.

And then it sweeps away.

And then within 30 minutes, whoever the operator was turned that camera off of the investigative scene, a full 90 degrees away from it, and it never returned for the rest of the day.

So this takes us into a whole new territory, if it is true.

And this is why I,

as much as I believe this probably is what happened,

you don't want to go there, you know, unless it's absolutely true.

And I don't know how we would ever prove that.

But this, you say, why do you say this was a Secret Service agent?

Mainly because of the way he was dressed.

It was a Secret Service detail, and Secret Service were mingling with Metropolitan Police officers that day in that detail, which is not uncommon.

They do assist,

the local police do assist the Secret Service.

And there was, of course,

the fact that we learned sometime, well, a year later, after January 6th, that Kamala Harris was actually inside the building at that time.

So what do you think?

Why was it planted?

There's no doubt.

No, I had no problem going out and declaring the reason for it being planted.

The reason for that bomb and the one over at the RNC, the Capitol Hill Club, was diversionary.

They were specifically planted to divert resources from the Capitol.

Bear in mind that only five minutes before the first breach on the West front there at the Capitol on January 6th, that's when the first bomb was found at the RNC.

And then only

two,

three minutes before the breach this particular

who we think is a Secret Service agent wearing a trench coat carrying a bag

just two to three minutes before that barrier or a barricade breach at the Capitol this guy disappeared towards those benches and then he's back and then five minutes later or 15 minutes later

some minutes after the barricade breach a Capitol police plainclothes officer found the bomb

and that diverted resources from the Capitol that were needed.

So, do you think it was ever supposed to go off?

No,

these bombs were not viable.

They were absolutely

props, and we know that beyond any shadow of a doubt.

We have direct testimony from one of the agents that worked on that bomb scene, worked on the investigation of the bomb, and he was told by his superiors that these devices were not viable.

What's your gut tell you on this?

My gut

tells me that we're going to learn who this man is.

That's the first thing.

And that's one of the reasons why it would be reckless for us to declare him the guy that

planted the bomb.

That would be, you know, there's probably some legal jeopardy for us to do that.

But it's suspicious.

We are going to learn who he is.

We're also eventually going to learn after three and a half years,

I hope, why Kamala Harris was in that building, why she was not at the Capitol, where she was being basically coronated as then vice president.

She was a voting senator at the time.

She was

the VP-elect at the time.

And the debate.

for her ascendancy to vice president, the certification of the Electoral College vote, was taking place at the Capitol at the time.

But she had been scheduled, according to this same OIG report, she had been scheduled according to the Secret Service logs two days in advance that she was going to be at the DNC from 11.30 to 3.30 during the scheduled debate and during the scheduled vote.

She was not going to be there.

And this is, I'm telling you, Glenn, that's a bigger mystery to me than even the bombs.

But if we do discover that these bombs were in fact planted by one of the agencies, Secret Service, FBI, NPD, Capitol Police, doesn't matter.

If we discover that,

literally, no pun intended, blows this thing up.

Tell me about what you know about the Secret Service and

the body of the would-be assassin of Donald Trump being cremated before Congress had a chance to examine and investigate,

and also that they cleaned up biological evidence.

And

that apparently doesn't happen.

Is that true?

It shouldn't have happened as soon as it did.

That's the first answer.

It is not 100% uncommon that if a case is clearly solved, that they don't clean up and they don't take the body away or that they don't go ahead and turn the body back over to the family for however they wish to take care of the body at that point.

It's not uncommon, but this is not a common case and that's why this should not have been done so soon.

And I think that Representative Clay Higgins from Louisiana is absolutely correct in that.

Now, as a law enforcement officer himself, a sheriff in Louisiana, he would have seen the disposal of bodies of all types, of all types of homicides.

And he would know based on the significance of this that it should have been preserved, the body of Thomas Crook should have been preserved to have other investigators back up autopsies, other examinations from different agencies to confirm, validate findings.

Because if you don't do that, all you do is open up the conspiracy theories and you let it ride that there must be a cover-up.

Now,

we're pretty sure there's a cover-up.

We just don't know if they're covering up their incompetence or if they're covering up something much more sinister.

What's your gut tell you?

In this case,

I'm in the camp solidly, Glenn, that this young man was groomed, that he had help.

Wow.

I do not believe for a second that there was a second shooter on the scene.

Those conspiracy theories are easily disproven.

But

we have one of our absolute most trusted sources is an individual who for 30 years did this very thing for our government overseas, in Africa, Middle East, Asia, Central America, he told me, and I'm quoting, he said, what disturbs him the most about this particular case and Thomas Crookes is he says, I recognize my own handiwork.

Are we going to find out who it is?

I'll tell you what, you know that I'm looking, you know that Joe Hanneman, who we wrote this article, who I wrote this article with, we're going to be looking at this thing for a long time.

I wish you luck, and I hope that thanks for being responsible on this.

I'm not saying that the other reporters are not.

They may know something that I don't know or we don't know,

but

I don't want to rush to anything and get it wrong.

This is way too important.

If that's true, then your deep state is exposed, and nobody is safe.

Nobody is safe.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

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