Ep 217 | RFK Jr.: America’s Economic Collapse Will Bring a REVOLUTION | The Glenn Beck Podcast

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We welcome a man whose lineage in politics needs no introduction.

He is a candidate for President of the United States.

His name, Robert F.

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Robert, welcome to the program.

Thanks for having me.

It's good to see you.

I've been here for many, many years.

So

let me just start with a couple of things.

First of all, I mean, I don't get to talk to a Kennedy very often.

Your father was spectacular.

Big fan of your father.

The speech that he gave when he found out that Martin Luther King had died is

probably the best speech and the bravest speech I've ever seen any politician give.

So it must be hard to be his son.

Well, I mean,

it's a source of pride and comfort for me.

You know, the first 14 years of my life

were spent in his company.

And,

you know,

I had the advantage that a lot of people don't have, which is that there are so many books about my family that, you know,

most 14-year-old kids who lose a dad,

if they want to find out information about him or think about, you know, how do you,

how would he have responded to a certain situation,

they don't have access to that material, but I feel very lucky that I did.

And,

you know, because you're always kind of measuring yourself against your dad.

And I'm not saying in a competition, but I'm not saying in terms of,

you know, role modeling behavior,

you know, what would he do?

My father, you know, I think of my father as a very moral man, a very brave man.

And so my question is, what would he do in this situation?

And a lot of times I have that answer pretty much, pretty certainty on

my fingertips.

And, you know, that gives me a very good

milestone for which to judge my own behavior.

You remember when

your father was called when your uncle was killed, right?

I was, yes.

And what did your dad say?

Well, the day that my uncle was killed,

The day my uncle was killed, I was picked up early.

I was going to the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.

with two of my siblings,

or actually one of my siblings, Joe.

We were picked up early from school that day.

And as we were leaving school,

there were flags in Washington, D.C.

were being lowered to half mass.

Wow.

And I asked my mom, why are they doing that?

And she said, a bad man

killed Uncle Jack.

And when I got home,

my father was walking in the yard with

John McCone,

who was the head of the CIA.

My uncle had fired Alan Dulles after the Bay of Pigs, after Dulles lied to him.

He actually wanted my father to run the CIA because they thought the CIA was so out of control.

And

he believed only my father could straighten it out.

grandfather had intervened and said,

you can't, the optics for the whole world will be terrible if a president's brother is running the secret police agency.

It will be, there's too much

temptation to collusion and, you know, but to politicize it.

Right.

And so

they brought in John McCone, who was a Republican businessman.

And he was a very pious Catholic.

And they thought that he would straighten it out.

But of course, in the CIA, nobody ever told him what was going on.

You know, and Dulles was still running it at that time from a distance.

And so anyway, my father,

the CIA is only about maybe half a mile from my house.

We lived in Langley.

So we used to, when the CIA was being constructed, the headquarters, we would ride every day, go horseback riding.

My father would wake us up at six every morning and take take us horseback riding with nine kids.

And we would go through the CIA property, so I watched it be built.

And then when Macomb was appointed, he would come to our house every day during the springtime and

during the autumn.

to swim in our swimming pool after work.

So he would leave work around four or five and he would come over and do laps.

And our swimming pool is only a couple minutes away.

A lot of times he'd come to lunch at my house.

My father was walking with him in the yard and I didn't know what he said at that time, but it's been reported since that my father said, did your people do this?

My father made three calls that day.

He made the first call he made after Jay Edgar Hoover who told him my uncle had been shot.

He called the desk officer at the CIA and he said the same question, did your people do this?

Then the next call he made was to Harry Ruiz, who was one of the Cuban

Baya Pay, he was one of the Cuban activists.

He had fought fought alongside of Castro,

then turned against Castro and had been part of the,

you know, the Cubans, the militarized Cubans in this country who were part of the Bay of Pigs invasion.

He didn't actually go in the Bay of Pigs, but he was part of it.

And he was very close to my father and remained loyal to him, even when many of the other Bay of Pigs Cubans had turned against him.

And my father called him.

He was at

a hotel in Washington.

And my father said to him,

again, it was your people who did this.

His first suspicion, it was the Miami Cubans

who are affiliated with the CIA and who are very, very hostile to

Jack and my dad.

And because they believed that

my uncle should have invaded in the Bay of Pigs, should have provided air support and then gone in and deposed Castro.

And they felt he was a traitor, some of them felt that he was a traitor for that.

And then during the 62, during the Cuban Missile Crisis,

they wanted him to go in.

And

he had instead begun a process of detente with Khrushchev and with Castro.

In fact, the day that my uncle was killed, he had an emissary meeting with Castro

at Castro's summer house at Verdadero Beach in Cuba, outside of Havana, and talking about what

the conditions would be to end the embargo to Cuba, which my uncle wanted to do.

Wow.

And so, but he knew there was tremendous hostility toward him in the Cuban community, among some members of the Cuban community, and that a lot of those people had been working with the CIA

on the assassination programs against Castro and

that, you know, a lot of them were highly, highly militarized.

They'd been in Batista's army.

They were sharpshooters.

There was all kinds of,

you know, sort of

highly

militarized people who were capable of doing this.

So I'm watching a show.

It's just out on Netflix called The Octopus Murders.

I don't know if you've heard of this, but it's another

really bad period of the CIA starting in the 1980s under Reagan and

killing.

And,

you know, it's horrible what they were doing.

Mainly, like Operation Condor in Latin America and

Sandinistas.

Yes, but it's much deeper than that, it now seems.

You know,

after the 60s, we had the church commission.

Then the 80s, we're seeing it again with Iran-Contra.

We're seeing it now.

Is there a way to bring the CIA, NSA, NSC, all of it under control?

Yeah, I mean, you know, my uncle actually, you know, one of the documents that the CIA has been kept secret, you know, and there's a few thousand documents left, but in the most recent release

last year, one of the documents that was released was a memo from Arthur Schlesinger

to my uncle that

summarized my uncle's plans for reorganizing the CIA for how to end this kind of rogue

operation.

And my father,

a week before he died,

my father was asked by Pete Hamill, who was a famous New York kind of street reporter,

and very close to my father.

He was a high school dropout.

become this, you know, incredible reporter, important reporter in New York.

And Hamill asked my father, they were on a bus in California campaigning

and Hamill asked him what are you going to do about the CIA and my father essentially paraphrased what this earlier memo said

which is that we're he was going to separate the plans division which is the dirty tricks division from the espionage division

And those are the two main functions of the CIA.

Espionage is what you want the CIA to be doing.

That's information gathering and analysis, analytics.

And the president needs that service.

He needs to know what's happening around the world, what the ramifications of various decisions will be.

And so that is necessary.

And

that was why the CIA was founded to do that.

But Alan Dulles, very early on, had changed the function of the CIA to allow it to do

all these other malevolent tasks, which are overthrowing governments, fixing elections,

bribing public officials,

all of the sort of dirty tricks.

That's called the Plans Division.

And

my father had seen

that that tail, the Plans Division tail, was now wagging the espionage dogs.

The espionage division had become the servant to the plans division.

And the espionage division's function

was to provide

tasks for the plans Division to

fix things in other countries.

And then it served the function of justifying those and making sure none of the blowback was ever accounted for or weighed or measured or reported.

My father saw that that was catastrophic.

And that the Espionage Division was enabling the Plans Division to do all this stuff and making sure they were never held accountable.

My father wanted to break them up into two separate agencies.

The Espionage Azbionaj Division would be looking over

the dirty tricks of Ishmael and saying, okay, what was the blowback?

If you asked the CIA, one of the greatest

coups in their history, that's not a good word to use because that's the actual word.

One of the greatest triumphs in their history was overthrowing

Mohamed Mossadegh.

in Iran in 1953.

And then the next one in 1954, they overthrew Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala.

Guatemala has never recovered.

It's got the highest murder rate in the hemisphere.

It's, you know, got terrible poverty.

It never recovered from that.

Iran

has never recovered from the overthrow of Mosadai.

The problems we're having in Iran today and the problems that Gaza and Iraq and everything else all come from that overthrow.

We took the

first democratically elected president in the 4,000 history of Iran and who would love the United States and he loved us.

And Churchill tried to overthrow him first.

And his advisor said to him, they threw out the British, British Embassy closed.

And his advisor said to him, you should throw out

the United States too.

Because they're part of it.

And he said, no, the United States would never do that.

The United States is a colonial nation and they stand up for democracy and they believe in us.

And that was when Truman was president.

But as soon as Eisenhower came in and Eisenhower kind of, you know, had this relationship with Dulles,

where Dulles became very powerful.

And, you know, for good reason, Eisenhower had been the general in World War II.

He did not want to go into another war.

And he saw the

CIA as kind of a...

a way to manipulate public events and to, you know, to get rid of problems

without sending U.S.

troops abroad.

And so he relied very heavily on Dulles.

And

Dulles

had this,

Dulles was able then to just run amok.

And

there's a terrific, probably the best book on Dulles is by David Talbot.

It's called Devil's Chessboard.

It's a fantastic book.

But one of the things Talbot says about him is that he was incapable of distinguishing

between the corporation, the welfare of the corporations that he had represented.

He had been an attorney for Sullivan Cromwell, which is the biggest white shoe law firm in New York.

And his clients had been Texaco,

United Fruit Company, and these other companies that were operating.

Oh, and Texaco wanted the, you know, when...

When Mohamed Mozadeg said, hey, we're going to start actually charging BP and Texaco for the oil that they're taking from our country.

Dulles said, oh, that's God.

I mean, they're communists and overthrew him.

But it was protecting the financial

mercantile interests of Texaco.

And then the same thing happened in

Guatemala.

Jacob R.

Benz

was democratically, one of the greatest leaders in Latin American history.

And he said 80%

of

Guatemala's arable land was controlled by United Fruit.

And they weren't using it.

They were keeping it fallow to keep the price of labor low and the price of bananas high.

And so Cobra Ben said, no, we're going to distribute it all

to the peasants.

And we're going, including his own land.

He nationalizes his own property.

And he said, we're going to pay them for it.

But

United Fruit

had claimed on its tax returns that

all of this property, 80% of the land in the country, was worth only $17 million

because they wanted to keep their taxes right.

But then when he said, okay, we're going to nationalize it and here's your $17 million, they said, no, no, no, we were making a mistake.

It's really 300 million.

And he said, that's not what you've been saying for 20 years when you're paying tax and we're going to give you what you said it was worth yourself.

And so they you know, got on the phone to

Dulles and had him overthrow the government.

And Guatemala has never been so the espionage division ought to be looking at these blowbacks and say,

okay, Obama, you used a drone and you killed the terrorists and

his kids with that drone attack.

And it was a bad terrorist.

We got rid of him.

What's the long-term cost?

Correct.

His 14 brothers.

You know,

are they now all going to be calm about it or are they now jihadists?

Right.

You know, and

that kind of blowback is never, ever assessed by the CIA.

And that's one of the problems with having those two divisions,

you know, melded.

So

with that being said,

I think everybody has changed.

I know I have changed dramatically since September 11th

because I've seen the things, you know, when they said they hate us for our freedom.

I don't think so.

They hate us because we say one thing and then we ghostplane people.

You know, we are not the nation I thought we are.

Can we get there?

Are we too far gone?

Can we get back to our Constitution and Bill of Rights and

equal justice under the law, being colorblind and all of those things that

I always thought we were, but I guess it never really were.

I mean, listen, I think if we have

a president who understands what America is supposed to look like and is

determined to do that, that we can do that.

You know,

my uncle did that.

My uncle changed U.S.

foreign policy dramatically.

And just in the thousand days he was in the White House.

U.S.

foreign policy before he came in

had one objective, which was anti-communism.

and the way that they were executing that objective is putting U.S.

foreign policy in and U.S.

military aid.

The leaders who said, I'm anti-communist, I'm killing communists, but a lot of times they were just,

they were in league with an oligarchy.

And any peasant who complained about, you know, I'm not getting enough wages to live, that became a communist.

And so the U.S.

was on the side of the, you know, of the oligarchs.

And it was actually

empowering.

Yeah.

In fact, you know, my uncle had

two trips when he was in all, in, in his

three years in office

that were the happiest he's ever been.

One was when he went to Ireland and, you know, he was the first Irish Catholic president, and it was like a homecoming of

a hometown boy who made good.

And then the other was to Colombia.

And he met the

the president of Colombia then was a man named Yeriscar Margon and Jackie and Jack

said that of all the people they met they and they'd met the greatest leaders in history they'd met de Gaulle in France they met Eamon de Valera who was the George Washington of of

of Ireland who had fought in the Easter Rebellion against the the British and he became the president

they loved him but they said the smartest and the most charming and brilliant of all the statesmen they met was Yeriscan Margo in Colombia.

He had a million people come out to see my uncle in the main square in Colombia.

And Yeriscan Margo turned to him and he said, do you know why they love you?

And my uncle said, no, why?

And he said, because they think you put America on the side of the poor.

And my uncle, you know, made a decision that he was not going to send troops abroad.

He kept us out of Laos.

He said

his best friend Ben Bradley said to him,

what do you want in your gravestone?

And my uncle Jack Kennedy said he kept the peace.

He said the principal job of a president of the United States was to keep the country out of war.

He said he didn't want

African children and Latin American children and Asian children, when they heard the United States of America, to think of a man in a uniform with a gun.

He wanted them to think of a Peace Corps volunteer of the Alliance for Progress, which was helping the poor people create a middle class, the USAID, which that's what it was supposed to do.

It's now a CIA.

CIA front.

But that's not why he created it.

But anyway, he succeeded in doing that.

He kept the country.

He never sent a combat troop abroad.

And he instead projected economic power abroad rather than military power.

And today there's more statues to him in Africa, Latin America, Asia, more universities, more parks named named after him, more hospitals than any other president, and probably more than all U.S.

presidents combined, because it was an effective foreign policy.

And I think that's what we need to get back to.

We need to tell the world we're not going to be on the side of the oligarchs and, you know, the power brokers.

We're going to be on the side of the poor and of fairness.

And, you know, and it's going to be good for our country because we need to build ourselves economically.

That's the best national defense.

So it's strange.

We're sitting with two candidates besides you, two candidates.

One is always against war.

Donald Trump has been against war the whole time and did some really great things in the Middle East, I think.

Then we have another

president that was running for president, who I swear to you,

it's almost, to me, it's almost like

there's a lot of people that want to go to war.

And it all seems to be these Western leaders that I don't understand.

Ukraine is corrupt.

We know that.

We're sending boatloads of money over to them with no checks or balances on it.

We know a lot of it is being taken by oligarchs and all the payoffs that go along with it.

What is our foreign policy now?

And there's no audit.

Right.

And

it's the most corrupt country in the world.

So, you know, that's, you know, independent assessors

have said for years, it's the most corrupt country in the world.

By the way, my son went over there and fought

for, you know, on the side of Ukraine for the Foreign Legion over there.

And he was a machine gunner for a special forces unit.

And, you know, he and I don't see eye to eye on the war, but, you know, I'm proud of him for what he did.

And I, you know, I also have, I share

his pride in the fighting spirit of the Ukrainian people.

And

We have a problem mixing people with leadership and politics.

Exactly.

And, you know,

this war is an immoral war because it was unnecessary.

Putin tried repeatedly to settle the war, the Minsk Accords, which in 2019

It was a negotiated settlement, very fair to Ukraine, very fair to the United States.

The U.S.,

Britain signed on to it, France signed on to it, Germany Germany signed on to it, and Ukraine.

And Zelensky ran in 2019.

He's a comedian and a television actor.

He wins with 70% of the vote because he ran on a peace platform because Ukrainian people wanted peace and they wanted to sign the Minsk Accords.

And we could have all walked away from it.

And Russia would not have debased Lugans.

Instead,

Zelensky got in there and he pivoted.

Why did he pivot?

Well, nobody really knows, but the suspicion is that he was threatened by ultra-nationalists, Reed, sort of neo-Nazis in his own political party,

and by the U.S.

State Department, by Victoria Newland, who's head of the neocons.

And that she said to him, you will not get U.S.

support unless you oppose that agreement.

So Putin then goes in,

and we say, we're all told this comic book story, he's a know supervillain who's going to take over Europe really I don't think so

he said only 40,000 troops he clearly doesn't want to take control of the country there's it's a country of 44 million people

he and this is what he said he just wanted us back at the negotiating table so so we won't help Zelensky negotiate so Zelensky goes to China.

They won't help him.

So he goes to Israel and Naftali Bennett, the prime minister of Israel, said, I'll help.

And then he goes to Turkey and Ahmed Erdogan, the Prime Minister of Turkey, says, I will help.

And they sit down with Putin's people.

They negotiate another agreement.

And the main thing in both agreements is Putin doesn't want NATO in Ukraine.

He wants Ukraine to be neutral.

We promised him that for a long time.

We promised him in 92 and again, you know, Gorbachev in 92 and again and again.

And they told us from the start, if you go into Ukraine, don't go to any of these countries.

We went into 14 countries, moved NATO 1,000 miles to the east.

They said from the outset, NATO is a red line.

We've been invaded through NATO three times.

The last time we were invaded, they killed one out of every seven Russians.

And we're not going to allow anybody to control NATO and then put

Aegis Tomahawk missiles four minutes from Moscow.

Correct.

We could decapitate the entire Russian leadership in four minutes.

The Russian-Cuban, the Cuban missile crisis in reverse.

Exactly.

And

of course, the Russians don't want that.

And

my uncle always said: if you want peace, you better understand.

Put yourself in the shoes of your opponent.

Nobody's doing that.

Nobody in our government will talk to Putin.

Why?

Are we this dumb, or do we have everything?

I've never seen an administration

make this many errors

that all fall out of the interest of the United States.

I mean,

it is a cluster of bad policies.

Here's what I would say, because I never put myself in other people's heads.

I don't, you know, to answer why is he doing it.

I'll never do that unless I can tell you.

I can tell you the incentives.

One is that every time we move NATO into a new country,

that country is under a contractual obligation to conform its weapons purchases to NATO specifications.

That means billions of dollars, Eraytheon, General Dynamics,

North Grumman, Boeing, and Lockheed.

And those companies, which are all owned by BlackRock, control both the Republican and Democratic Party.

And, you know, that's part of this whole

engine that keeps us in a constant state of war.

So they want to go into NATO.

And then you have a president, President Biden,

who always has been,

it's like the big, the only foreign policy tool that he has is military.

It's like the guy, Carpenter has a hammer

and

is the only tool he's got.

Lindsey Grant.

Everything looks like a nail to him.

And they, and they, you know, they all, it's a go-to.

And, you know, Biden

was the first guy into Iraq.

You know, my uncle was against the Iraq war.

A lot of other people were, but Biden was the guy who was leading the charge for Iraq, which was the worst foreign policy blunder in the history of our republic.

We drove Iraq.

Iraq today,

we spent $4 trillion there.

We killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein.

We created ISIS.

We left it.

It's an incoherent battle between Shia and Sunni death squads

it we we um

we pushed it into a proxy position with Iran so now you know it was our bulwark against Iran the reason that Gaza happened is because of Iraq

We destroyed Iraq as a bulwark against Iran.

So now Iran is flexing its muscles all over the region.

It owns Iraq.

It owns Hamas.

It owns Hezbollah.

It owns

Hudis.

And it's, it's, you know, it's expanding.

It's in expansion mode.

We drove 4 million refugees up into Europe and destabilized every democracy in Europe for the next probably three generations.

We created Brexit.

Brexit is a result, direct result, like linear,

from the Iraq war.

And we created BRICS.

which is the end of the dollar as a global reserve currency because everybody's so angry at us about it.

So it was crazy.

But if you ask,

what would happen if you asked Joe Biden today?

Was that a colossal error?

I don't think he'd say so.

No.

I think he thinks, oh, we got rid of Saddam Hussein.

So

I feel as though we're right now fighting Democrats, Republicans.

And I don't think it's Democrats and Republicans.

I think that's a stage show.

I think it is the elites and the people.

Brexit is not because they're wild conspiracy theorists or anything else.

It's they they're proud of their nation in a healthy way and they want to make their own rules.

Here in the United States, over in France, the same thing with the French, or not the French, but the

Norwegians coming out with their tractors.

Look, this is bad for us farmers.

Why are we playing this international game?

Do you agree with any of that?

Yeah, I I think

it's a populist and like a class war, like you say.

But not in a,

not in a...

Well, here's the thing about populism.

Populism is easily hijacked by Democrats.

Yes.

But it doesn't necessarily have to be kind of, you know, dark.

Yes.

It doesn't have to be fascism or Nazism.

Yes.

Populism, you know,

it was the populist movement in our country in 1903 that got rid of the Gilded Age.

And, you know, we got the 40-hour work week.

We had the child labor.

We

got women the vote.

We got, you know, we got the Sherman Antitrust Act passed.

And we made corporations to pay taxes for the first time.

And we passed a law that made it illegal

for corporations to donate to federal political candidates.

That came out of the populist movement in the country and the progressive movement.

So it was an idealistic impulse.

But it's often hijacked.

And I'll give you this example that my father ran a populist campaign in 1968.

He had all the elites against him.

He had the big city mayors against him.

He had the labor unions all against him, except for the UAW and then Cesar Chavez Union.

All the other ones who had been with him in 1960 were now against him.

The liberal news papers were all against him.

The New York Times hated him.

The Village Voice, all of them.

The liberal Democratic clubs were all against him.

On the college campuses,

he was, you know, McCarthy, my father always said, McCarthy had the A students and he had the B and C students.

And,

but

he had, he had, you know, everybody, all the power centers were against him, but he had this, you know, the last day of his life.

He won the most rural state in our country, South Dakota, and the most urban state, California.

And when, you know, when I took that train ride taking his body, I was with him when he died in Los Angeles.

And took that train ride from New York City to

Washington, D.C.

to take his body down.

There were two million people on the train tracks, and they were every color.

It was the entire cross-section of the American people.

There were people in military uniform, Boy Scouts, hippies, or black people, white people, priests, rabbis,

people carrying American flags, signing, you know, signs saying goodbye, Bobby, pray for us, Bobby.

And it was the, you know, it was all America.

Four years later, a lot of the white people who had stood on that train track between, you know,

Newark and

Baltimore and Delaware

and who had strongly supported my father in 1968.

They changed their vote overwhelmingly, not to George McGovern in 1972, but to George Wallace, who was antithetical to everything my father, but he was now the standard-bearer for the populist movement.

But it was a dark kind of populism.

So I think all of the, you know, we're seeing a revolution in this country that's going to happen.

You can't have a situation.

57% of the people in this country can't put their hands on $1,000 if they have an emergency.

54% of the people in this country are not making enough money to pay for basic human needs.

And there's going to be a revolution and

is it going to be captured by

the dark regressive forces or are we going to keep, are we going to be able to keep it for, you know, as an expression of idealism?

So but I think the

problem that we have is

the sides are all mixed up.

I don't know who's who anymore.

And

you have the federal government colluding with gigantic business.

I'm a conservative.

I used to be one of the dummies that used to say, Apple's not going to do anything.

Google can.

Oh, yeah.

Oh yeah, they can.

The liberals used to be the ones who would be telling me that.

Now I'm like, I'm on your side.

And

they're gone.

They're gone.

The liberals are now for censorship, which is astonishing to me.

The liberals are pro-war.

Which is astonishing to me.

The liberals are anti-Israel.

You know, they think they're on the side, not of the Palestinians.

Well, I'm on the side of the Palestinians, but I'm not on the side of the boss.

Yes, and I'm not on the side of Iran.

No.

Oh,

you know,

what's happened to the Liberal Party, the Liberal Parties

were skeptical of

corporate control of our government.

And now it's like, you know, the pharmaceutical companies are like, you know, they're like the angels of heaven for them.

Where do you stand in the WEF, the World Economic Forum?

It is like, you know we shouldn't be paying any attention it's a it's a billionaires boys club

that's arranging the world to shift wealth upward and to clamp down totalitarian controls on everybody else and now they got the capacity to do it they got all these countries running around doing what they tell them to do

it's astonishing to me that you know these people go to davos in their private chats yes and they're able to tell these world leaders you know how to how to govern us in ways that eradicate our constitutional and civil rights

and constantly shifting all the way.

I mean, COVID,

during COVID,

you know, and I know you're a President Trump fan, but President Trump got rolled by his bureaucrats.

Oh, I did.

And

he came in saying,

I'm a businessman.

I'm going to run this place like a business.

And he gave the keys to all of our shops and stores and businesses to to Tony Fauci and shut down 3.3 million businesses.

Let's talk about this.

But we shifted $4 trillion of wealth upward.

We closed all the little guys.

Home Depot was open.

And Google, and they're all colluding with each other to censor the people who were like me who were complaining about it.

Correct.

So

I agree with you on that.

And I give everybody the benefit of the doubt for a few weeks because we didn't know necessarily what was coming.

So

good intention, bad intention, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

But there comes a point to where you're like, oh, wait, wait, wait, you're shutting down the entire economy.

And the New York Times,

the New York Times wrote about me and saying, when I said, you know, there are people my age, we'll go into work.

Let's keep the thing running so our kids aren't put behind.

They said I was trying to kill, you know, old people.

Right.

It's ridiculous.

You know, I'll tell you something about that.

But

the only kind of well-known person who would

talk to me, come on my podcast

early in COVID was Kelly Slater, who's the world greatest surfer in the world right now, arguably.

And Kelly saw what they were doing.

He said, look, there's people in Malibu.

people out surfing in the water.

Okay.

And the sheriff is going and giving them $1,000 tickets on the beach and telling them not to come back, but go home.

And by that time, we already knew that COVID only spread indoors.

The way to stop it was to stay in the sunlight and get healthy.

They were putting, in Venice, you know, near where I live in California, they went to the skateboard parks, the half-pipes, and they threw sand on them so the kids couldn't exercise, because they couldn't be outside.

They went to the black neighborhoods like Compton or here, Harlem, Pet Sty, and they shut down the basketball courts.

And if they they couldn't lock them down,

they took the hoops out.

So you're locking all these kids in.

The only dish of poverty that actually, you know, improved

during COVID was there were fewer reports on child abuse.

And why is that?

Because most reports on child abuse happen in the schools and we closed down the schools.

And we locked all those kids in the apartment with their abusers with no meals because they're getting their one hot meal a day from the schools.

And, you know,

what we did to our kids' development is just criminal.

There's about half of the kids now are going to need remedial education all the way through high school.

We just destroyed this generation.

And

CDCs,

you know, there's a report that came out from Brown University that said there's a 22 IQ point loss among toddlers, 22 IQ points.

And CDC's response to that

is that a year ago, they rewrote the child milestones.

So it used to be that a child would have to walk, you know, that you were normal if you walked at 12 months, they changed that to 18 months.

You would have...

Just lower the bar.

You had, yeah, you would have 50 words by 18 months.

Now they say a year and a half.

And so on.

So they, you know, they're trying to normalize what they did to our children.

And it's so, the whole thing is so criminal and so corrupt.

So there's a couple of things and I'd like to know specifically what you would do.

First of all, Donald Trump has said that if he wins, he'd like to make you, put you over CDC or FDA.

And I'd like to talk to you about that.

But

I also want to hear from you, what do you do to restore the trust?

If there is, God forbid, Ebola

starts

circling the world,

who's going to believe it?

Who's going to listen to the expert doctors?

Because the good doctors were all silenced.

They all lost their license.

It's just the doctors that are left that played the game.

How do we restore that?

The medical profession disgraced itself.

Disgrace.

Thousands of doctors who were trying to tell the truth were punished.

They were delicensed.

They were gaslighted.

they were vilified and demonized and silenced.

And it was,

you know, it was really criminal.

I mean, the way,

and by the way,

you know, because of

what we now know, because of the Wuwahunt Lab, et cetera,

they're messing with Ebola and they're messing with with, you know, chichamanga and all of these, you know, really horrific diseases, not with, you know, 0.01 infection, much mortality rate, but with 50%, 20%, 10%.

And

they're making these diseases.

And of course, some of them escape every year.

So

that needs to be stopped.

We need to restore.

The Bioweapons Convention of 1973 that Richard Nixon signed.

And

he closed down Fort Dietrich and said, we're not making bioweapons anymore.

And after 2001, the Patriot Act passed

a week after 9-11.

9-11 happens.

One week later, there's an anthrax attack on our government.

And at that point, Patrick Leahy

and

a couple of other senators

were fighting the Patriot Act and saying, you can't do this.

This is an attack on American constitutional democracy.

And those senators, senators, the ones who are fighting the Patriot Act, are the ones who all got the anthrax.

And so they were silenced.

Congress was shut down and they passed the Patriot Act.

Well, the Patriot Act had a provision in it that says,

we're not getting rid of the Geneva Convention on bioweapons.

We're not getting rid of the 1973 Bioweapons Convention.

We have a new rule that says that any federal officer or employee who violates those treaties cannot be prosecuted.

And that relaunched the bioweapons arms race.

And the Pentagon didn't want to do it at first

because it, you know, violating Geneva's hanging offense.

So they started redirecting all that money to Anthony Fauci to do bioweapons research under the guise of vaccine research.

So why isn't he in jail?

Well, he's not in jail because

Joe Biden is president and because,

you know, unfortunately, Donald Trump colluded with or was, you know, run over by him.

Right.

Donald Trump knew what was wrong.

He knew not to shut down our businesses.

And he knew about, you know, the

he knew about lockdowns.

He knew about ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine.

And yet, and he said it, he tried to speak up, but his own bureaucrats told him to shut up.

And he unfortunately did what he was told.

And that's, you know, why I think that

he doesn't deserve another chance and you may defend him on that but i don't defend him on the on the on the

uh vaccine or any of it i think i think you could make the case early on everybody was trying

i i try to believe except for fauci

i try to believe that everybody had good intent doing what they thought was right And then it just started dogpiling.

And then it became, I don't even know, communist China.

It just

became a country that I didn't recognize, and no one was willing to stop it.

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want to like you love some of the stuff you say

and also

i'm a little terrified by you um because

I don't know who you are yet.

I don't know if you've changed or or what, but you're saying a lot of things that I think you deeply believe, the vaccine, the COVID stuff, all of that.

I know you believe that stuff.

But then there are things like, for instance,

the First Amendment.

You talk about people going after people and shutting them down.

But I don't know if you remember this, but you said,

and so I'm going to tell you that the next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh,

these flat earthers, I believe the earth is round, these corporate toadies lying to you, lying to the American public, telling you that global warming doesn't exist, which I never said.

I believe in global warming.

I just don't believe in the answers that we've come up with so far.

I'm telling you that global warming doesn't exist.

Send an email to their advertisers and tell them that you're not going to buy their products anymore.

This is treason, and we need to start treating them now as traitors.

You're smart enough to know what that means constitutionally.

That's execution.

Well, let me say this.

I wouldn't say that today.

And part of it is, part of the reason I wouldn't say that is because

I watched our country run over not only the First Amendment, but all three arms of the First Amendment, the freedom of worship.

We close a million churches per year.

Who could have imagined that would ever happen?

No.

You know, whatever happened in this country

with no due process, no just compensation, no scientific citation, no public hearings, none of the safeguards of democracy.

We then roll over rights to freedom of assembly and association

with this weird science-free

social system.

You can be in a BLM riot, but you can't protest COVID.

Or you can get on a, you have to wear a mask on a plane, but except when you're eating your meal.

You know, I mean, it was like a kabuki comedy.

Correct.

And then they shut down the Fifth Amendment, right?

You know, they shut down 3.3 million businesses, no due process, no just compensation.

They got rid of the Seventh Amendment, which is a right-to-jury trial.

They said if a

vaccine company or any other

entity

that was responding to COVID, countermeasures, countermeasures

injures you no matter how negligent they are, no matter how malicious they are, no matter how much they lie, no matter how grievous your injuries, you can't sue them.

And, you know, the Seventh Amendment says no American shall be denied the right to a trial before a jury of his peers in case of controversies exceeding $25.

There's no pandemic exception.

There's no exception, really, on any of the amendments.

None of them.

You know, and they were written for hard times.

They weren't written for easy time the first amendment was not written

for the protect speech that we all want to hear yeah it was for the speech nobody wants to hear that's embarrassing that's appalling that's you know ideas that are horrible ideas but that's what it was written to protect and you know during the

during the civil war when our country was really

this far from falling apart and we you know killed 659 000 americans

the equivalent of 7.2 million today

Confederates were sending agents, provocateurs, to the northern cities to drum up traffic riots.

And those were really destroying northern morale and destroying our capacity to, you know, to fight the war.

And so Abraham Lincoln suspended.

They knew who the people were as soon as they came in the city.

And Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and started arresting them.

And Judge Taney, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, said, you can't do it.

Even if the life of the nation is

forfeit, you can't do it because the Constitution is more important than anything.

So, you know, it was much worse than

anything that happened in COVID, which was a bad flu.

If we had treated it like a bad flu, it would have been a bad flu.

We treated it like an emergency and told all these people, you know.

So, yeah, my whole,

I would never say anything like that today because my thinking on it has evolved and I can see how dangerous statements like that are

because,

you know, the government actually is doing some of this stuff.

Yeah.

I accept people changing, so thank you for that.

I wondered because

there are

the WEF,

the part of the Green New Deal has to shut everybody up from talking.

And

I really don't care.

If we want to change our country, then let's be honest about it and say, this is what we want to do.

These are the things.

And then let's vote on it.

And if that side wins, that side wins.

At least it was fair and we were open about it.

And we all know what we're getting into.

But we are in this place now of shouting people down and saying, you don't have a right to say this.

You don't have a right to talk.

That's a danger to to democracy.

Quite honestly, I think almost everything that our government is doing is a danger to democracy right now.

Yeah, I mean, I would agree with that.

And for starters, it just lies about everything.

Yes.

And

there's no transparency and there's no effort.

I mean, you know,

you're a senator.

And you ask for, you know,

information on the Wuhan lab and you get 150 pages fully redacted.

There's no oversight.

What?

So I, you know, and you talk to these senators and congressmen

who are just not allowed

to see what's happening inside of the U.S.

government agencies.

And, you know, what does this have to do with democracy?

And everybody's treating it like it's normal.

So what is it?

I mean, you watch Congress,

and Congress just gave their power away to the administrative state years ago.

I don't think any of them want to pass.

Some of them do.

Some of them are really good guys.

But a lot of them don't want to.

They don't want to be held responsible for anything.

We just did an episode where we showed how many of them are performing well over the SP 500, you know, with increases of 232 percent year over year.

What do you mean?

You mean congressmen's

investments.

Investments.

Their portfolios.

Yeah, their portfolios.

I saw my kids showed me a website where you can,

it's like a fund where you can bet on Nancy Pelosi's bets.

Right, right.

Because

she's exceeding that.

Yeah, she's consistently.

She, I think, was 89 or 92% over the SE 500.

I mean, it doesn't happen.

It just doesn't happen unless you're insider trading.

So everybody seems to be getting rich.

The American people are getting poorer.

We have out-of-control spending, which honestly,

you know, at least could we get a nice car for everybody?

I mean, you feel like we spend all this money and we've got nothing to show for it.

Nothing to show for it.

We have worse than nothing.

We have...

A $34 trillion debt.

Yes.

We're now, the cost of servicing that debt every year is more than our military budget.

And within five years, 50 cents out of every dollar collected in taxes is going to go to servicing the debt.

Within 10 years, 100% of the money we collected in taxes is going to be needed for the debt.

And so how is nobody?

So how do we stop it?

Well, that's the thing is I'm going to stop that.

President Trump's not going to stop it.

He ran up the biggest debt of any president in history.

He ran up after saying, you know, I'm going to address the debt.

He ran up an $8 trillion debt personally, which is more than all the presidents before him combined since George Washington for 283 years.

And Biden is now on the route to matching that.

And it's insane.

And it's unsustainable.

It's going to destroy our country.

Destroy our dollar.

Everything.

The only way, you know, we need to cut.

We need to do huge cuts to our defense budget.

That's the big.

And then we need to cut our

health costs.

The only way to stop our health costs is by ending the chronic disease epidemic, which we can do very quickly.

But, you know, right now we have agencies that are all

tied in with the food processors, the pharmaceutical companies that are driving this

chronic disease epidemic.

When my uncle was president,

the annual budget,

the cost of healthcare was about 4% to 6% of our GDP.

Today, it's almost 20%.

And the cost of health care, the cost of treating chronic disease is $4.3 trillion.

The cost of diabetes alone

is as large as the,

which is mitochondrial dysregulation.

The cost of that is larger than our defense budget.

When I was a kid,

a typical pediatrician would see one case of juvenile diabetes in his whole lifetime.

Today, one out of every three kids who walks through his office door is either pre-diabetic or diabetic.

Nobody's talking about this.

The cost of autism is now a trillion dollars a year.

My generation, I'm 70, you're 60, I'm 70 years old.

I didn't know anybody with autism.

No, we knew nobody when we were

anybody with peanut allergies.

No, my kid, my wife, I had 11 siblings, 70 cousins, nobody with a peanut oil.

Why do five of my seven kids have allergies?

Why does, you know,

the autism rates in my generation today, right now, 2024, one in 10,000 70-year-old men have autism.

In my kids' generation, it's one in every 34 kids, one in every 22 boys, according to CDC.

Nobody's talking about this.

These are bankrupting our country.

It's a trillion dollars a year just for autism.

All these kids who are disabled.

Nobody's talking about why is this happening?

But

we're living in a time where

the big corporations, big food, big pharma, everything, big food destroying our local farms.

Destroying them.

Destroying them.

I'm a rancher.

With the government.

Yeah, absolutely with the government.

There's only four meatpackers in this whole country.

Why?

Why?

Because, you know,

the first thing i'm gonna do is file antitrust against them because they're all owned by blackrock

right and so and blackrock that's the way they want it so there's the government has the absolute power to and they're squeezing they're squeezing the ranchers and they're squeezing the consumers and they're making all the money and shifting the money upward it's completely illegal and they're getting away with it because they have political control what are your thoughts on esg

ESG.

You know what ESG is?

Environmental social governance standards for the banking.

You know, I believe in free markets.

And I think, you know, we

should have

markets in our energy sector and elsewhere that

we need to get rid of subsidies.

Most environmental pollution is subsidies.

In fact, all of it is.

It's a way of liquidating the environment for cash and putting it on your profit line.

And what I will, you know, what my policy is, is get rid of the subsidies,

including the environmental subsidies.

But will you get rid of the

collusion between the governments of the world and the banks with ESG standards saying you have to have certain social practices, environmental practices, and governance practices, and the banks refusing to give loans to those companies that say,

no, you don't have a place to tell me these things.

You don't have a place to tell me you have to be on the bank.

I don't think that that's a good idea.

And by the way,

I, you know, listen, I've been working on civil rights issues my whole life.

My first case as an environmental lawyer

was

NAACP against

representing NAACP and against the town of Austining for putting

a waste transfer station in the oldest

black neighborhood in the Hudson Valley.

And I've worked on environmental justice issues my whole life.

20% of my career has been spent representing American Indians.

in litigation against polluters and big resource companies.

I've worked in all these areas.

I've been for 35 years.

I've been on the board of Bedford Stuyves and Restoration,

which is the oldest and biggest community development corporation in the country, which is taught, which is the purpose of it is to get capital and entrepreneurial expertise into black community, into one of the biggest black community in New York.

And has been very, very successful at doing that.

And I think that

you can't eliminate racism by telling people, don't be racist.

What you can do is we can make our kids resilient.

When I was a kid,

I was, you know, it was, my uncle was running for president.

He was the first Irish Catholic president.

And there was a lot of Irish Catholic prejudice at that time and bigotry.

And I was called a mackerel snatcher when I was a kid.

I was called a mick and all of these other, you know, pejoratives.

It never affected me.

I would, somebody would call me those names and say something's wrong with them.

And we want to make sure that, because I knew I had a good education, I had a loving family around me, I had opportunities, and that was not going to get in my way.

There were just people who were,

you know, nasty or people, and that's just what life was.

Right.

So I want to make sure that every black kid in this country has that resilience so that if somebody says something or does something racist to them, that they can stand up for themselves and stand up with confidence.

And the way you do that is by making sure our education system works for them.

There are, you know,

there are charter schools in New York like the Success Academy,

which brings kids in by lottery.

So, okay, it's bringing, choosing kids from

the most impoverished neighborhoods by lottery.

And they have a better graduation rate and a better college placement rate than Scarsdale High School, which is the best public high school in the

But that'll be a good thing.

We can fix our education system.

And again, I think it's ultimately through giving people choice.

But so are you for school choice?

Yeah, I'm for school choice.

And I'm for,

but I also want to make sure the principals have control over what happens in their schools so that they're held responsible for it, but they also.

You saw the effect of the labor unions because of COVID on their schools.

Right.

And

I disagree with a lot of the things that children's or that the

teachers' union did.

But I would say this, that the people who've been very, very successful at this have been able to figure out ways to work with the unions.

What you need is you need principals who have the power to fire people.

And you can negotiate and work with the unions to buy out contracts and

to do it in a way that is as least disruptive and as least tension as possible.

But I think we need to have choice.

We need to give principals control over their own schools and then hold them responsible.

But you can't hold them responsible without giving them control.

And then if the school doesn't work, if they're not educating our children, they're gone.

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Second Amendment, where do you stand on this?

I'm not taking anybody's guns.

Oh, I, you know.

You know, there was a time in my life, you know, my father was killed by a gun.

My uncle was killed by a gun.

I, you know, I know other people whose lives have been i saw what it did to my family

i've seen what it does to other people but i also understand i you know i've spent

um years of my life in rural areas in this country and i spent lived for two years in alabama i've lived in south dakota i i grew up in virginia

and i know that there's a gun culture in this country that

that sees that you know that as an existential right for them.

And that, you know,

do you see it as a right?

I mean, it is a right.

It's in our building.

I believe in the Constitution and it is part of the Second Amendment.

So, yeah.

And I think that

we need to work with each other to

understand why we're having the gun violence in this country that no other country has.

So do you believe, I mean, I think these are kind of separate.

I mean, the law-abiding gun owner,

they're not the ones, you know, going out and shooting usually.

It's the ones who aren't either taking care of them correctly in their home or it's criminal activity.

But the idea of a gun is not to hunt.

It is to protect against an out-of-control government.

So, you know, I think

something

happened

because, you know, when I was a kid, we had gun clubs in our schools and people would bring their right 22s to school and leave them in the car or they'd bring them in and, you know, nobody was shooting at people.

And something happened.

There's never been a time in human history

where individuals with guns were walking into crowds of strangers, crowds of children, and starting to butcher them.

That's never happened.

Suddenly that started happening around Columbine.

And

the question is why it's happening and why is it happening in this country?

And, you know, Switzerland has a comparable level of gun ownership.

Everybody's required to have a gun in their house.

And

the last mass shooting they had in Switzerland was 21 years ago.

The last mass shooting.

We have mass shootings every 21 hours.

So the question is, why is that happening?

And, you know, I think that we need, and NIH is,

under its own rules, is not allowed to look for the answer to that question.

There's a lot of things NIH won't do.

NIH won't look for the cause of the autism epidemic.

They won't look for the cause of peanut allergies.

They won't look at any of these things

because they're frightened that there's a big...

a big shot, a big food processor, big ag, big pharma that is going to have be angry at them with the answer.

So they simply won't do it.

And one of the things they have not looked at, they have a rule.

Since 1997, they have not been able to look at the cause of gun violence.

When Columbine happened, five of the family, victims of the families sued, I think, Prozac.

And, you know, there are SSRIs.

I've talked about this.

I'm not saying this is the answer.

Saying it's something that we should look at, that SSRIs have black box labels and benzos that say

known to cause suicidal and homicidal behavior.

It says that.

And we're the only country that has this level.

120 million, 240 million doses a year of these.

Correct.

And all of a sudden, and after Columbine, that's when it started happening.

So

I'm not saying there's other things that could be.

Yes, yes, yes.

I understand.

It could be video games.

It could be social media.

There's a lot of fact.

It could be a lot of factors.

There's a lot of factors, but we should know what it is because

one thing we do know,

it has nothing to do with the number of guns because there hasn't been any legislation.

out there that has diminished or increased the number of guns during that period.

It's been roughly constant.

If you have a scientific mind, which I do, I'm looking for the variables that change during that period.

Right.

And that's what the CDC ought to be doing.

And now, you know, because I'm having this conversation with you, I'm going to get ridiculed.

I'm going to, you know, that Kennedy said that SSRIs are calling it, which I've never said.

Well, it is

reasonable to put that on the table.

It makes sense to everybody in the world, which is

let's figure out why that's happening and not, you know,

and then deal with it.

And let's make sure we know what the culprit is.

My only thought on that is I don't trust

everything's been so politicized that I don't trust any of.

That's why you need to vote for me, Glenn.

Because

I know how to dismantle corporate capture in these agencies.

Let me ask you two quick questions.

One,

historically, a person who has run as the third party, I think Ross Perot did the best in history.

He had 19%.

He ran as.

Teddy Roosevelt did better than him.

But he still, he's the reason we had Woodrow Wilson.

Well, yeah, but that's, that is,

that has nothing to do with the point.

All right.

So how, so.

Do you believe you can win?

Yeah, I believe I can win.

I'm already beating both President Trump and President Biden

among all Americans under 35.

I'm beating them in the battleground states under, among all people under, the six battleground states under 45.

I'm beating them among independent voters.

And independents are now the biggest political demographic.

So this is the first election in United States history in which

self-identified independents

represent more people than either Democrats or Republicans.

So 43% of Americans self-identify as independents versus 27%

for Democrats, 27% for Republicans.

My favorability ratings are 10 points ahead of President Trump or President.

My net favorability is 20 points.

And, you know,

we have a...

We're living at a time when we have two presidents who are running, former presidents, who each, if they were the only one running, would be the least popular person to run for a major party in history.

They are the two worst.

And 80%, 70% to 80% of Americans say they don't want that contest again.

And so I think if there was a time that an independent could run

and could run successfully, it would be now.

You know, if we have debates, I think that would be a very, very big turning point.

But I'll tell you what, the only group

that I don't, that is a large group, we're at a three-way tie with Hispanic voters, and I've got momentum with me,

the only group where I don't do well is with baby boomers.

And I should do great with baby boomers because they all remember Camelot and the Kennedy years.

And I was a big hero to baby boomers, you know, and I was known only as the environmental champion.

but they watch baby boomers get their news from television, from MSNBC, and from CNN and from the New York Times and the Washington Post.

And if you're living in that ecosystem.

I include Fox in that.

Well, yeah, but you know, Fox actually lets me on all the time to do interviews.

And, you know, I,

and so, but the other MSNBC does and CNN does not.

What does that feel like to go from hero to zero on that side?

I mean, you've been a Democrat.

Your family is, they're the lions of the Democratic Party.

And all of a sudden, that party really doesn't like, the party really doesn't like you.

And you're even having problems with your own family.

How, how, what?

I mean, that's a big sacrifice.

Yeah,

I, well, let me just say this about my family.

I have a lot of family members who support me and a lot who are working on the campaign, particularly the younger generation.

But my campaign is being run by Amarillus Kennedy, who's, you know, my

daughter-in-law, my cousin Anthony Schreier is running Florida for me.

So I have, you know,

it's a big family.

It's a huge family.

But

there's a lot of family who are against me as well and are horrified.

I have five members of my family who are working for the Biden administration.

And, you know, President Biden,

Long-term friend of my family, has a bust of my father behind him at the Oval Office.

He, you know, he talks about how my father inspired him to get into politics.

So I understand why they're, you know, upset.

But, you know, I come from a family also that we, you know, we were raised debating each other.

My father would instigate debates every night the same way that his father did.

And we were expected to debate with passion and commitment and information.

without hating each other.

So I love my family.

I feel loved by them.

They differ with me on that.

They're going to fight like hell.

Make sure I don't succeed.

Would I like it if they were all on my site?

Yes.

But you know,

does it ruin my day?

No, not at all.

And, you know, I feel like this, Glenn, that

every person who I've admired throughout my entire life, the people who I really, you know, the historical figures,

All of them went through periods where they had to, you know, march through the dark night of the soul, where they felt alone and where people betrayed them, people

that they, you know, that they felt betrayed and alone during periods.

But that was part of their journey.

And you have to embrace that.

And I do.

And I have

my wife who is incredible, who supports me.

My kids absolutely support me and are proud of what I'm doing and they're bright, intelligent, and wonderful counselors to me.

And

it's part of the adventure of life, right?

That you're, you know, to

have all of your friends basically drop you at once and, you know, over an issue of principle.

And

so, you know, I just feel like this is

my lot and that I have to I have to embrace it.

I can't, you know, I can't

ever sink into self-pity or vituperation or, you know, anger at people.

I just,

it's their choice.

I have to walk my path and I have to do it with joy and with, you know,

magnanim and forgiveness.

And,

and, you know, so I, to me, it's all, it's all good.

It's a pleasure to meet you and you too, Glenn.

Thank you.

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