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There's a lot to go into.

The

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But more importantly, the

audio tape that now has been released, remember Kerry Lake said somebody from the GOP came and tried to bribe me to get me to stop running for the Senate.

Well now the video or the audio tape is out and it is shocking.

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Now, I want to start with something that I don't think if we were a liberal show, MSNBC, we would be doing this.

But I think conservatives are different.

I think I, at least I do, I want to know all the bad things that are happening in my own party because I believe my own party, even though it's not my party,

the people on my side, if you will.

Some of them are corrupt.

And I don't have an answer for who did this, but I want you to just ask yourself

the mom formula.

And I'll tell you what the mom formula is after you listen to this.

It was last year at CPAC.

Carrie Lake made a pretty bold statement, and she said, someone in the GOP,

in the back East GOP, tried to bribe me to keep me from running for Senate.

Now, a lot of people can say those things, but do you have the evidence?

Yes, she does.

And it was released yesterday.

I want you to hear this, which was taped,

I believe, by her.

And it is the voice of the Republican, head of the Republican Party in Arizona.

Listen.

Is there a number of which

I can be bought?

Not be bought.

That's what it's about.

You You can take a pause for a couple years.

No.

They go right back to what you're doing.

No.

10 million, 20 million, 30.

No, no, no.

A billion?

No.

This is not about money.

This is about our country.

I think it's disturbing that they would even

that anybody would think this is

to be fair even me even me I'll say this

I want a fresh face right now for the reason that i've never seen anyone i can't think of a single person in a federal race who've lost random and won

i can't think of it if you can think of it let me know i am not going to let these people who hate our country tell me not to run you should call them and tell them to get behind me

so what's going on what is i'm assuming this is our friend

this is this is this is back east

they

there are very powerful people that want to keep you out.

No, they do.

But they're willing to put their money where their mouth is in a big way.

So, this conversation never happened.

This is crazy, though.

They should want me.

I'm a great candidate.

People love me.

These people are corrupt.

Well,

maybe you're right.

They are right.

They are corrupt.

Maybe you are.

This is your rap.

Don't go.

Do you care, though?

I don't get myself in trouble.

This,

if you say no, which is fine.

It's your choice.

Don't tell people.

They're going to try to have me murdered.

He turned.

Saints World, man.

If that stuff that came out last week, it's right about the cartel stuff.

They say the cartel is operating in 50 states right now.

Like all 50.

So.

So

what's going on?

Who is it?

What?

Forget the who.

Let me just tell you the what.

Let's just say there are people calling around

saying,

gosh, no, you can't repeat this.

Never repeat this.

If you say no, don't say, I got offered to buy a donkey.

Because then we lose our ability to get things done in the future.

Here's my problem.

Rather than just say, let's work with her, she's a great candidate.

Because they don't own me.

And it pisses me off.

Yeah, I said I don't know what it's about ownership.

It's about control.

I don't know if it's about control.

It's about

being on the team.

I guess that team.

You know what I mean?

They want to be on the team.

They want you to be on their team.

But if they're pushing a globalist agenda, I can't do that.

So what do they want?

What do they want me to do?

You want you to stay opportunists.

But, I'll tell you what I can offer you.

But.

I said you can do whatever she wants with the talking head isn't.

So the ask of me was, it's kind of funny.

So the ask I got today from back east was, this is, he has to say for us,

was, is there any companies out there or something that could just put her on the payroll and give her, to keep her out?

And I said,

well, what do you want to do?

Whatever we need to do.

This is about defeating Trump.

And I think that's a bad, bad thing for our country.

DeSantis is not America First.

This is about the final

death blow to Trump.

And I don't think that's good for our country.

And you know, I love her.

I mean, I love him.

It's not good for our country, Jeff.

It's not.

But at the same time,

I'm not even sure Trump can win again.

I don't know that he can win again.

I think what it really comes down to for a lot of people, it's not really about control or agenda.

It's about the ability to raise money to win.

If you really want to know, all of of what's

called center money, I think.

Obviously,

and even on their end, what makes them the most money?

I know.

All these consultants don't want their payday to end.

And I don't want to make a deal with these kind of people.

This is a hill worth dying on.

If they're going to steal the election to make me and our movement go away, I'm not letting them do that.

I owe it to the people of Arizona.

Or.

To carry their torch and their voice.

Or.

Or who don't go away.

But you pause.

This is the battle's right now, Jeff.

You pause.

And you feel your cautious.

No, the battle is right now.

The battle is right now.

And we don't have time to pause on this battlefield.

You're not.

You can't scratch their back.

It's not for you.

Yeah.

You don't have anything to offer them.

You don't have anything to offer them.

And there's city people that have stuff to offer them.

You know what I mean?

It's just,

it's a backscratching club.

That's all DC is.

It's a big back scratching club.

You're in no position to scratch anybody's back, and you've already made it known that if you get there, you're not going to scratch anybody's back.

I all scratch people's back.

I've been on the outside with a lot of people over a long time because I don't scratch my back.

Where are we in two years?

Could they steal the election again?

Listen to what you're saying.

Why don't we do something about it?

What?

So that we, the people, can pick our...

What can we do?

I'm not willing to accept that.

And I'm going to be the biggest pain in these people.

Go back and tell them that.

I'm running, and I'm going to be the biggest pain in their

And I'm willing to tell them that

and they're going to have to kill me

to stop me

That is incredible and incredibly slimy

The the name of the guy who is making this offer is the chair of the Arizona Republican Party.

I've talked to some legal experts.

They're not sure if this is illegal.

You're not sure if this is illegal?

You're offering someone a bribe.

If it's not illegal, it should be illegal.

Some very powerful people want you to step aside.

Some very powerful people do not want you in.

Now, what what can they give you to step aside?

Nothing.

Money, jobs, nothing.

No, we're not trying to stop you.

A pause.

Just a pause.

This is in our own party.

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Okay, so...

Let's ask the mom question of this, because who's responsible?

He says it's the powers back east, some people back east.

Now, I think I know who he's talking about because I have heard through the grapevine for the last few years about this kind of stuff, not this blatant, but this kind of stuff happening.

Because somebody's got a big, huge treasure chest.

Now,

the mom question is motive, opportunity, and means.

Let's ask mom:

who has the motive to stop Kerry Lake from going into the Senate?

Who has the opportunity to do it?

And who has a giant Senate chest that has used it in,

I think,

ways that the average Republican would not be very proud of.

And we have seen this treasure chest used against Republicans who are the only choice in some states.

Who has the means?

Check, I'm thinking of someone.

The opportunity, check again.

And the motive.

Giant check.

Now I have absolutely, I don't know who you came up with, but I have no idea if that's true.

That's why I don't want to say a name.

Because

I don't know.

But we damn well better find out.

Every single person in this audience should be calling the GOP national headquarters today and saying, what the hell is this?

I'm sorry, I won't accept that you can't find

you for some reason, we had somebody leak a SCOTUS

decision, put our Supreme Court justices' lives at risk, and somehow or another,

they couldn't get that one of the two people that had access to it.

They couldn't figure out who it was.

You've got like two to four people maximum that had that.

You can't figure it out.

Ha.

I'm so sick and tired of this.

Every single person that writes a check to any GOP person, you should not fund the GOP until this is exposed and cleaned up.

This is corruption at the highest levels.

No, no, this is, this is, what did he say?

This isn't about control.

This is about ownership.

I thought he said it wasn't about ownership.

It was about winning the election.

No, he said it was about ownership.

And then it's about being on the team.

It's about being able to raise money.

Right.

Yeah.

Okay.

She said it was power and control.

And he said, no, it's just ownership.

They want you on the team.

So in other words, they want to own you.

That's the problem in Washington.

And I'm sorry, we cannot say we're the good guys if this stuff is happening in our own party.

This is the kind of stuff that we all say we're against.

Are we against it in our own party?

Because I am.

I'm pretty sure you are too.

Did you hear how slimy that guy was?

No, it's not me.

It's not me.

Don't, I mean, I'm just the messenger.

I'm just the messenger.

I'm just saying I got a call from back.

You know what happens when I get a call from Back East?

First of all, my gosh, was Lucy right about, you know, that Christmas is run by the syndicate Back East?

My gosh.

So I got a call from Back East.

You know what I do with that call?

I'm not doing that.

Do your own dirty business.

Click.

But see, he has ambitions.

He wants to go higher.

He wants to be one of the bigwigs that he can call out West someday and say, look, here's what I want you to do.

Shame on you, Jeff DeWitt.

Shame on

you.

Do you have...

Do you have no pride?

Do you have no love of country, of decency?

Do you not know what ethics are?

I suggest you start looking them up, Jeff, because you're so far away from ethical it's shocking

this is what Donald Trump is fighting and let me tell you

this is exactly the kind of stuff that Nikki Haley allowed to happen in her own camp.

She knew really bad organizations and funds that fund the Democratic Party in all kinds of ways,

went to her and said, look, we'll fund you.

And she said yes.

This is not good by any stretch of the imagination.

And each of us should be, in fact, can you get the number to the national headquarters of the GOP so people can call and write today?

Because you should call and write and say not another dime to any candidate.

None.

You think it's hard to raise money before,

now without, with this out, unless you clean house on this and show us who did it, you're done.

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May I suggest that if you're upset at the GOP

in Arizona getting a call from back east and saying, look, let's make a go away.

Offer jobs, money, whatever it is.

And

them doing it, Jeff DeWitt in Arizona actually doing it.

And he sounds so unbelievably slimy.

I mean, it's like a movie.

Yeah.

It's a bad movie, too.

Like a movie where, like, they wouldn't actually capture the subtleties as to how this is done.

Yeah.

Like, it'd be like, too, this is too obvious.

They'd never do it like this.

Yeah.

And then they have it.

And they do it.

Yeah.

I would suggest you call the RNC and DC

202-863-8500 and just say, you know, here's what I'm going to say.

I'm not giving a dime to the GOP, not a GOP candidate.

Nothing, not a dime will go to you until at least you tell me who originated that phone call from back east.

Now, I have my suspicions, but I don't know.

But you thought it was hard to raise money before.

You're doing this kind of backroom dealing?

Nope.

Not interested.

And neither was Carrie Lake, apparently.

No.

She couldn't be bought for 10 million, 20 million, a billion.

I just want to make it really clear to the Arizona Republican Party.

Carrie Lake can't be bought, but I, Pat Gray, can be.

Way cheaper than a billion dollars.

I'll take the 10.

The 10 million would be fine.

And you will stay out of the Arizona race.

You're completely out of the race.

I can either run or not run, depending on what you want for the 10 million.

Run as a Democrat.

Run as an independent.

You're right.

Honestly, I think for a billion dollars, I would run or not run, whichever you prefer, but I'm going to use maybe half of that money just to destroy you.

I mean, yeah.

Will you give me the money to destroy you?

Okay.

Yeah, I'll take that.

I'm basically like a live golfer.

I'll take it and do whatever the hell you want.

You want me to golf in Saudi Arabia?

What do you need?

What do you need from me?

You let me know for a billion dollars.

So I give credit to Carrie Lake for.

So

we've established for the audience that we're all whores.

Right.

We're just haggling overprice.

Overprice.

Everyone's got the price.

Ours is probably cheaper than you might expect.

Really bad.

Really bad.

And I think...

It's probably not illegal, though, right?

We're not just talking about this off-air.

It's lazy, but

is it legal?

I think it's probably illegal.

Like, if Pat, if our own Pat Gray was going to run for, he decided he wants to, Pat, you want to run for Senate in Texas.

And Blaze Media came to you and said, Pat, we really love Pat Gray unleashed.

We don't want that to to stop.

That's a business.

We want to double your salary so you don't run.

That's a business interest.

Right.

Well, I think that's what he's saying.

Right.

He's saying, look, we, because she is bringing up the idea, well, you want to stop MAGA and you want to stop these things that are good for country.

And I'm sure that's how she sees it.

But like, someone else might see it as, well, we think you're going to not win and we want to run a candidate that will win.

So what can we do to make you not run?

You know what's weird?

It always happens in the Senate this way.

Instead of backing the candidate fully that the people have chosen,

there's always somebody, I don't remember who has the strings of that fund, always says, you know what I'm going to do?

I'm going to pour money into somebody so we have a Democrat instead of a Republican.

Get behind the people.

Get behind the person that the people choose.

Yeah.

The GOP chose her.

Right.

Okay.

You may not like it, but that's your job.

Now get the person that the people have chosen elected.

And you may not be able to do that, but it's your job.

Spend the money.

Get behind.

I mean, this is

this, this is where it is so unseemly to me.

This is the elitist saying, we know better than the people of Arizona.

Now, people all over the country might say, well, she's not going to win.

People in Arizona say, well, she's not going to win.

It doesn't matter.

She went through the process.

She's the candidate the people chose.

And they should be supportive of that.

Exactly right.

And they're not.

But I mean, you know, it's the question of legality is sort of on the side here, right?

I don't think it's illegal.

I don't think, I mean, it should be.

It feels that way.

And certainly the way it was done, it was done in a way like that you'd see in a lifetime movie.

Yeah.

Like if there was a lifetime movie about bribery in the Senate, it was that clumsy.

So like it's shocking in that way.

No, but beyond that, I think it's worse than that.

I think it is ethical.

I think it is.

I think it was as bad as a Hallmark Christmas movie.

Look, I can get you a job at the Keebler Elf place.

Just shut your cookie place down.

That's all I'm asking.

You'll make so much money.

No, I'm not going to do it.

I'm going to keep my cookie company right here on Main Street.

And Carrie Lake is played by Candace Cameron Beret, right?

That's how that plays out.

I do think that that's possible.

It's a strange.

You really wouldn't.

We all know stuff like this happens in Washington, right?

We all know this stuff happens, but I'm surprised that it's that overt.

Like, whatever you do, don't say anything about this news lady who's been on TV exposing stories for decades.

Whatever you do, don't expose this story.

I want to make it very clear and on the record, it's not me.

I'm just carrying the water for someone else.

I have no idea what I'm even saying to you right now.

I'd say it's ham-handed, but that's an insult to all pork products.

Really?

It's so

pathetic.

So entertaining.

I will say entertaining.

And you're right, Glenn.

Like, this stuff has to be called out.

Like, how can this be happening?

It's so pathetic.

You know, this is what, you know, this is what conservatives have been saying

for a long time about the threat to our democracy.

the threat to our republic, that there are elitists and big money that are just pulling all the strings.

They get what they want because too many people are corrupt and they'll do whatever the system tells them to do.

Here's the prime number one textbook example of somebody coming in.

No, are the Democrats doing this?

Yes.

Worse, worse.

But this is the problem with our republic.

The people have spoken.

Let it play out.

I mean, I don't know if you guys saw the story today about

Michelle Obama from the New York Post.

Yeah, it's a column, correct?

It's a column, yes, because it's not actually news.

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Michelle Obama, okay.

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These professional doubters have their political motives.

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But that's exactly.

Yeah, it's Cindy Adams, too, their gossip columnist.

Yeah.

So, I mean, she may be right on this.

She may have some inside source, but I mean,

I would exactly take this to the bank.

But it's not, it's, I think that there are, we know for a fact through all sorts of reporting, that they are, there is at least enough bubbling under the surface that they are planning for some sort of plan B.

And I have heard May.

Yeah, I've heard May or August several times where they would swoop in if his poll numbers stay as bad as they are, or I actually, I think, get worse.

I think if they stay where they are right now, probably he's not going anywhere unless some health problem pops up.

But if they get worse, I mean, if Donald Trump is winning this by, let's say, I don't know, eight, nine points routinely in polls, you've got to think that maybe they do pull the plug on this.

And they don't want Gavin Newsom.

Yeah,

because his track record in California isn't conducive with winning a national election.

He's driven that state into the ground.

So Michelle Obama makes a lot of sense.

If they're going to make a change, she's popular for some reason.

I don't know why.

I don't know how that happened.

It's so untested, too.

The second she gets up in front of the American people, there's no reason to believe these appropriations.

She has to get in front of the American people.

Well, I mean, look, she's going to be running for president of the United States.

She's going to have to get in front of the American people at some point.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

I mean, look, people still had opinions on Biden.

I mean, it's going to be har it would be hard.

But it's possible.

She should have been honest.

That means we're not going on that stage with a man who is that vile.

Oh, she might not do that.

Oh,

she'll do that.

But still, she's going to make speeches.

She's going to say stupid stuff.

She did it in the campaign.

But I don't know.

Maybe it would hold.

Maybe it would hold.

I will say the only two possibilities for this job, in my mind, are Michelle Obama and Kamala Harris.

It would be really hard for them to to overpass Kamala Harris.

If they did it with Michelle Obama, they could justify it.

They'd have to, though.

They know that Kamala, she can't win.

She's still a winner.

She'll win.

No, look, I think you're right.

She's terrible.

She's terrible.

There's a new book out.

There's a new book out called Amateur Hour, Kamala Harris in the White House.

And it's all about her bullying, who she really is, and that the president knows she cannot be the president.

And, you know, so they're already seeding this field.

So, all right.

All right.

Pac Ray from Pac Ray Unleashed.

Thank you so much.

Again, if you would like him to run or not run for Senate in Arizona or any state.

Or not.

Available.

For how much again?

$10 million.

$10 million available.

What is your price?

I'll do it for nine.

I'll do it for eight.

How about if you run for nine and I'll not run for eight?

Does that work out for both of us?

That's good.

That's good.

My price, by the way, I'm a high-class hooker.

I'll do it for a billion.

I'll do it for a billion.

But I'm going to use that money to destroy you.

That's a terrible deal.

I mean, look, we're just better at negotiating than you.

All right.

I'm not going to tell them I'm going to use the money to destroy them.

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Everybody was able to go on one night just to vote.

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It didn't work in 2020,

The Democrats, they could, I don't think they ever really figured out who won Iowa in 2020.

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Which is crazy.

It's just amazing.

But this year went pretty smoothly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

In both cases.

Now, it's a lot easier for it to run smoothly when you have double-digit margins.

It makes it a lot easier.

We don't know.

Maybe there were 500 votes that were switched from one place to the other and like some controversy, but like it doesn't matter because you get, but you got a 10-point margin.

I will tell you that it was pretty amazing because

for some reason, the only channel I could get was CNN.

I mean, I'm sorry, no, CBS,

which I didn't even know was still on the air.

But I'm watching CBS and they come out and they're like,

we're going to go to, you know,

Fipper McGiggle down at

the GOP and Trump rally.

Fipper, what's going on?

I love Fipper McGill.

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Is that plane taken off yet?

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Anyway, Todd Benceman is with us.

He is the author of Overrun.

Yeah,

it's a book about the border.

He's also with the Center for Immigration Studies Senior Fellow.

We had him on,

what, a couple of weeks ago, and I asked him,

have you heard,

because we had just seen evidence that the United Nations, Doctors Without Borders,

and a couple of other organizations were actually printing maps and giving instructions out, printed instructions, how to get to the United States.

from Central and South America.

And I thought this was just incredibly awful.

The Red Cross was involved.

He said, I have something on that.

He's back to tell us about it now.

Todd, how are you?

I'm doing great.

Thank you.

And yes,

I do have

a piece out in the New York Post yesterday and a longer version of it at cis.org.

The United Nations has been very accommodating on this question of how they are assisting, aiding, and abetting the mass migration crisis to our southern border by publishing their budget for it.

They just published it on December 29th.

It's an open record.

It's online.

I've got links to it in these pieces, and I analyze it.

It's 130-page

document that is for 2024.

It's what they're going to give in 2024.

They envision, in short, $1.6 billion

in handouts from our southern border south all the way to the cone of South America.

Okay, wait, wait.

Wait, $1.6 billion just in 2024?

Just for 2024.

Because I know in 2022, they started at half a billion, and then they went down a little bit to $450 million in 2023.

In 2024, they're going to what?

$1.6 billion because obviously demand is higher.

You've got policies at the border that are attracting millions of people from all over the world.

So they've got to accommodate that.

And the $1.6 billion includes, for example,

$327 million for cash debit cards.

and cash handouts along the way.

That'll be

given to immigrants deemed especially vulnerable.

But I've met a lot of them who have these debit cards.

They'll pose for me for photos and videos with their debit cards.

And there's nothing particularly vulnerable about any of them.

I mean, a lot of them are full-grown men, young men.

Some of them are families,

et cetera.

And what do they use these debit cards for?

You can use it for food or

anything you you want.

You can go into a store in the area.

These are going to be,

this is called cash-based assistance.

It'll be given to about 624,000 people

in 2024 according to their budget document.

They'll also be very helpfully providing what they call humanitarian transportation assistance.

This is for to help them cross borders.

They know that most of these folks are illegal, that they are unauthorized, that they're crossing borders without permission, that they're in countries without documents, but they don't care.

They're still going to give humanitarian transportation for that purpose, including all the way to the U.S.

border.

They'll be passing out tens of millions of dollars in food,

in

shelter, and rental assistance vouchers

for something they call protection to help ensure that the cartels can't get a hold of them, that they can pass fairly safely through all of these countries.

They want to help in total for 2024 3 million

illegal immigrants as they cross

in 15 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

And they lay it all out.

And they also

are using to help them divvy out all of this aid, 248 NGOs.

They're all named in the document.

I offer, in my piece, a link to

the list of who they all are.

And they also even go so far as to provide a...

very helpful, interactive, public tool where you can search around and pick out whichever NGO seems interesting to you and you can see what they're doing and how much money they get and what they're doing down there.

And they're U.S.

NGOs.

They're international NGOs.

248 of them, 15

UN agencies are involved in the handouts.

They increased the number of NGOs by 20 this year.

So they're really flocking in to get a piece of this.

So how much is the United States, the taxpayer, giving for this particular project without us even being asked or known about it?

Well, the United Nations is,

I mean, I'm sorry, the United States is the UN's biggest donor.

Every year, we give money to them through the State Department, through Congress, through the White House.

We provide,

you know, billions of dollars to the UN.

To fund this one, the UN this year is actually changing their model.

They're going through a direct, directly to the consumer, asking for individual donations, you know, like a political campaign.

You know, we're looking for 20 bucks here and there

to raise their billions of dollars to help globally all of this, including the ones that are coming to our southern border.

So, Okay, so that's in 2024.

But

you point out in your article that we already have paid,

as they paid in the last two years, $765 million.

I'm sorry, in 2022, we gave $391 million.

So

we're...

We're paying for at least half of this.

Right.

It gets very opaque, Glenn, about how the money flows through the U.N.

rise.

Right.

You're not going to be able to put a FOIA in to figure out exactly which of our U.S.

dollars went to what programs.

You can't really get a handle on this anywhere.

I mean, I know

congressional offices that have been studying this for a couple of years now, and they can't really get a handle on exactly how the money flows.

But, you know, we can,

I think, reasonably assume that if the U.S.

is providing most of the U.N.'s annual budget, that

most of this money that's getting spent down there is coming from the U.S.

Treasury.

Okay,

can you help me out on another story today that

I find amazing?

By the way, find all of that information from Todd Bensman.

and

you can find it on the article is called United Nations to hand out hundreds of millions in cash to U.S.-bound immigrants in 2023.

That's part one.

Part two is also found at cis.org.

CIS.org.

Again, you have Doctors Without Borders, you have the Red Cross, and as he said, hundreds of NGOs.

What are we doing?

Why would you give to the Red Cross?

Why would you give to Doctors Without Borders if this is what they're doing?

No, thank you.

I don't want them handing out maps to show people how to get here to America.

No thank you.

Anyway, there's another story out that

we're asking ourselves, gee,

how did these drug cartels get their hands on American military weapons?

You can't buy these on the market.

You know,

there's no gun show loophole for cartels to get a shoulder-fire rocket.

How do you suppose these cartels are getting all these American military items?

So I've done a lot of reporting on

the armaments of cartels and how they get them.

The kind of weaponry that you're talking about is most likely coming from

depots in Central America that are filled with arms that were provided, you know, usually on a secondary market or, you know, that were provided by the United States over the decades.

A lot of it's older stuff,

but it's, you know, Central American governments still have

these weapons.

And also the Mexican Army has these weapons that we give them.

And there is there is some there is some pretty good reporting that uh mexican

uh

soldiers and officers uh that who are corrupt are selling weapons out of their own depots to the cartels so that's that's two ways but listen they have weapons from all over the world they've got Israeli weapons, Galil

machine guns, you know,

the Israeli Galil, which is, you know, a fabulous weapon.

But they also have,

you know, weapons from China.

They have hand grenades from China.

They've got lots of

mines.

They have,

and they make their own weapons, too.

They make tanks.

They build their own tanks.

They build their own tanks

out of, yeah.

Is there any good news on the border is there anything that is changing anything that is helping anything

well i just uh published a piece about uh two or three days ago also in the new york post

where the

the

mexican government has decided all of a sudden after shuttle diplomacy with the biden administration

to

clear out thousands and thousands of migrants, rounding them up and putting them on buses and airplanes from our border and shipping them down to their southern border with Guatemala and holding them there.

Those scenes that we saw just a few weeks ago of 10 and 12 and 15,000 turning themselves in over our border every single day.

Those are over now.

But it's for, I believe, a political reason for the Biden administration, for the campaign.

They have the Mexicans doing a lot down there all of a sudden that they never did.

For example, they shut down all the freight trains

to migrants, and they're blocking and guarding the depots.

They are bulldozing migrant camps.

clearing them out.

Now, the numbers are still at 5,000, 6, and 7,000 a day, which is just catastrophic.

But

those are being less covered in the media.

Like, when did you see, when was the last time you saw Fox News drones down there?

I mean, everybody's kind of gone away in January.

And that really is the policy objective of this administration.

Singular policy objective of the administration is to just get rid of the big congregations that make for good media, to just get rid of the clumps and break them up so that nobody sees them.

I don't know what Mexico is getting for all this.

They've asked for $20 billion.

I'm going to guess that they're getting some of that or that they will soon get some of that.

There's a lot of diplomacy still going on high level between Mexico and the Biden administration, but don't be fooled by it.

Those people are down there.

They're coming.

One way or another, they're going to be coming.

Todd, thank you so much.

I appreciate all your hard work on this.

You can find his stories at cis.org or the New York Post.

You can find the latest story, United Nations to hand out hundreds of millions in cash to U.S.-bound immigrants.

Thank you.

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head of the Department of Public Safety is going to be joining us from Texas here.

Talk to us a little bit about what they did yesterday.

They doubled down.

Texas, Ken Paxton, came out and said, we're going to protect the sovereignty of Texas.

Well, within the law, too.

Yeah, it's not defying any orders.

They just can't do anything if the federal government snips the wire.

But

the

Supreme Court didn't say anything about Texas.

It said,

you know, everything about

the feds.

They can go in and cut it.

Okay.

Go for it.

There's a couple of things that we should talk about

in the meantime.

One, Donald Trump won handily last night.

It was interesting to see how the polls

started to come out.

And they always say, look, there are these counties that haven't yet come in and they're going to be heavy Haley or they're going to be heavy, you know, Trump.

It didn't say that.

CBS, which is the only, for some reason, the only thing I could get yesterday,

was.

Were you in prison?

I was trapped.

I really was trapped.

Don't ask me, but I was trapped.

And so I'm watching it on CBS, and it says basically, you know, it's pretty close to a tie.

She's within four or five points.

Well, no, that's not what it was.

I mean, she was that close for a while in the reported results.

But if it was really four to five points, there's no way they call it.

And I will say this.

They didn't call it.

Oh, they CBS didn't?

CBS did not call it it.

Almost everybody did call it immediately, which is quite the statement.

Honestly, I was surprised they didn't drag the drama out a little bit longer.

Oh, no.

They wanted to make sure that Haley looked like a victor that was only five points away.

That's not what it was.

I mean, that Trump was a victor, but Haley was right on his tail.

Yeah, but why would they announce ⁇ why would they call the race for Trump immediately?

You could keep it.

They could call it for Trump immediately, but because you want that narrow spread.

You want people to see it at that narrow spread and then go away.

Okay.

Well, maybe, maybe that's true.

I mean, to me, it just seemed like it wasn't even a contest because the second the polls closed, they were like, okay, we got to call it.

You know, like that's when they have information like that, what they know, it's a blowout.

It's not a five-point race.

They know it's not a five-point race.

I know that.

So CBS might have been just a.

Yeah, they were, I mean, they're all calling it.

That's the number you see.

And you're like, oh, wow, she did a lot better.

No, still 11 points away.

All right.

We have the

guest on.

He's made it on, thank God.

It's Lieutenant Chris

Olivares.

He is with the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Lieutenant, welcome to the program.

Yesterday, Texas kind of just doubled down, did we not?

Absolutely.

Thank you for having me on, Glenn.

So yes, great to be with you and, of course, your listeners.

So as you mentioned, yes,

state of Texas, we're not backing down.

Governor Abbott made it very clear that the fight is not over with this whole situation at Shelby Park and Eagle Pass.

I just got back from Eagle Pass last night.

to kind of get a rundown of what's happening and what's going to take place with this whole Supreme Court decision.

And nothing has changed, at least on our end, with DPS and National Guard.

We're still continuing with operations at Shelby Park.

We still have restricted access to Border Patrol in that area.

And in fact, National Guard is installing more barriers, more Contentino wire, more fencing along the river to make it more challenging and try to discourage illegal border crossing.

So Texas is not backing down.

And we appreciate the support from everyone in Texas, you know, as far as supporting what we're doing and what we've been doing for the last years with border operations.

So we're very thankful for that.

They claim that you are, I love this, that you're making it more difficult for them to do their job.

But I'm not sure what their job is if, you know, razor wire and fencing, which is built to discourage people from coming across the water, I'm not sure what their job is.

How is this

holding them back from doing their job?

Well,

it's all in a narrative, you know, Glenn.

Really, I mean, they're just trying to, they're trying to portray, and I say they, I'm talking about the federal government and even some of those that have been critical of Texas, really trying to create this divide between federal agencies and the state, which they're trying to create some type of conflict that's not that's non-existent.

You know, we still work great with Border Patrol, all the rank and file agents.

The relationship has not changed.

But it does not make their job difficult for one, because we have soldiers, we have state troopers that are at that park that are working along the river.

They can respond to situations.

And if they come across people, you know, any type of illegal immigrants, whether it be a family or child, they still turn them over to Border Patrol.

So Border Patrol is still able to respond and process those individuals.

We want to focus on those single adults that we are arresting right now for criminal trespass.

But this whole concept that it's going to make their job more difficult, I mean, that's inaccurate.

I mean, we look back in December in Eagle Pass.

We had the largest influx of illegal illegal immigration that we've ever experienced in the last three years.

Every single border patrol agent in that sector was pulled from the field to process people.

You had secondary checkpoints, border patrol checkpoints that were shut down because those agents were used to process.

So now you have this free-for-all for all the criminal activity for human smugglers to take place.

So now by us actually taking over this area, it allows those agents to get back to the field to focus on that criminal work that

they want to do.

They don't want to do administrative work.

They want to be out in the field.

I want to make sure that we're not passing on any disinformation, but I am surprised at our federal government for not tracking this down.

There is a video that is going around, and let me play it, cut four, please.

If you are smart enough, you would know who I am.

But you are really not smart enough to know who I am.

But soon, you're going to know who I am.

Very useful.

Very good.

Okay.

Soon you're going to know who I am.

Now, there

there's all kinds of things going around that say that this guy was in Guantanamo for, I think, 11 years and was released.

However, we're looking at current pictures of the guy, and he's a lot older than this guy appears to be.

But I don't know.

Has anybody run facial recognition on this guy?

You know, I saw that video circulate on social media.

I think that really shows it's a clear example of

the threats that are coming across our border, especially when someone is actually saying that you're going to know who I am soon.

Those are the type of threats that we worry about.

And that's the type of threats that are coming across the border right now.

They're exploiting the current situation, but yet our own federal government is not doing nothing to stop it.

And of course, when Texas steps up, you know, we're criticized for what we're doing because we want to stop that.

We want to stop those public safety and national security threats.

Just right, just today, Border Patrol released that there was over 96,000 known gotaways since October 1st for this fiscal year.

Those are individuals that have made it into the country right now, and we don't know where they're at, what their intentions are.

And when you hear something like that from that individual in that video,

you can only imagine now the type of people that are in the country right now.

that have been able to get away and that possibly want to cause harm to our country.

The threat is here.

And I've said that numerous times.

The threat's already here.

And that's why it's so important to have border security.

But again, it all goes back to the policies and the fact that there is no consequences in place to discourage illegal border crossings.

Well, I just find it hard to believe that our federal government has a video.

We know they can run facial recognition.

If he's in a database, if he's a known terrorist, why we aren't talking about that?

Why the public isn't being told who he is and to keep your eye out for this.

It just kind of, you know, again, goes under the wire and nobody seems to care about it.

And, you know, we have

we have enough problems.

We don't need a terrorist attack on our shores as well.

You're right.

That's the last thing we need, right?

I mean, of course, but now with this whole situation for the last three years and the number of people that have made it into the country undetected, those threats are real.

I mean, that's the real, that's the clear reality of the situation.

And it does go back to what the federal government has failed to do.

And they could have changed this.

They can change this, but they still refuse to do that.

And when you see videos like that circulating, they know the threat is here.

They know those type of threats that are coming across.

But as you mentioned,

has anything been done to identify this individual?

Probably not.

And we probably won't know now

maybe days, weeks later, when they actually find out this individual is probably...

you know, wanted or maybe on the terror screening database.

But by that time, it's too late.

And that's happened in many cases.

So that's why it all goes back to having a proper vetting process in place.

But that's not being done right now because the agents are just overwhelmed.

Resources are strained.

And that's why you see this constant flow of people coming across the border unvetted.

Lieutenant Chris Olivares, he is with the Texas Department of Public Safety.

He's a spokesperson and bringing us the news that Texas is not standing down and not sitting down.

Thank you so much, Lieutenant.

I appreciate everything you guys do.

Appreciate you and the support.

Thank you.

You got it.

Bye-bye.

It's

just,

it's beyond

unbelievable to me.

It's just, it's just

beyond the realm of believability that we can have this kind of

video

and the federal government hasn't said anything about it.

The federal government is not coming out and saying, hey, he's a known terrorist.

Be on the watch for this guy.

They haven't said anything.

And this is the reason for

is it disinformation?

Yeah, disinformation.

Which one is the one that you know you're telling a lie?

That's misinformation, right?

I think it's misinformation.

I have some definitions in front of me because you talked about it so many many times.

So disinformation is you're just passing something on.

You don't have a nefarious, and that's what's happening.

I don't know if anybody has a nefarious reason for putting this out.

He does look like that guy.

My team, you know, and who are we to say?

My team, we look at it and we're like, I'm not sure if that's the same guy.

He looks.

He looks older now than that.

But it could be.

But where's our federal government?

Where is anyone who is actually paying attention to the things people care about?

Why do we keep talking about how MAGA is so extreme?

Really?

Is it MAGA that is extreme?

The one that's just saying, hey, I'd like some law and order.

I'd like to make sure that terrorists aren't coming into our country.

I'd like to make sure that we're not enabling people to rape women.

Over and over and over again as they're coming here.

One reason why there's not so many women and children?

Yeah, because there's a lot of men there.

Some of them nefarious.

And you have to go through the cartels.

You want to send your wife?

You want to send your daughter?

I don't.

God only knows what happens to them.

So misinformation is false or inaccurate information spread without harmful intent.

Disinformation is false information.

spread with the intention to deceive.

So that is like you know it's false, you're spreading it to deceive.

Malinformation is information that is somewhat is based on reality but is still used to inflict harm on a person or or organization or country or whatever so

i think you were talking about is disinformation which is an actual straight out lie or malinformation which is somewhat true but treated in the same way so in my day we used to just have lies

Okay, we had lies.

Oh, you old timey guy.

Yeah, yeah.

And we had lies of omission and commission, meaning you knew what you were doing and you lied about it.

Or you just didn't say anything, but that was a lie because you knew what the truth was.

I think I, you know, I'm an old-timer, sure, but I'm pretty comfortable with just using lies or propaganda.

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how do they answer questions?

There's a great column in the Washington Examiner that lays out six questions that we should ask our liberal friends.

And let me go through them them quickly.

How exactly does Donald Trump pose a threat to democracy?

Why specifically, not generalities, why specifically do you hate Donald Trump?

Can you name three accomplishments of the Biden administration?

And then there's subsections to that one I want to get into.

And do you honestly believe Biden is mentally competent and Kamala Harris should be the president?

Should be the president?

Well, she's going to be the president if, I mean,

if he steps down.

If he steps down and if he's just deemed incompetent, which I think would probably.

But you could get a two for one on that call, maybe.

We've been saying this for years, and Joe just keeps chugging.

Slower and slower, but he keeps chugging.

Yeah, he keeps chugging.

I mean, honestly, this would be so easy for them if they had a really good vice president that could step in.

It'd be so easy.

It would be cake, right?

But instead, they picked such a terrible, terrible VP that they are stuck with Joe Biden.

And you know what's funny is

this is supposed to help African Americans and women.

You just pick somebody because they're black and a woman and they're completely unqualified, and that's supposed to make America feel good?

I mean, how about we just pick somebody who is qualified?

You know?

Interesting approach.

That's kind of a crazy thing.

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The editor-in-chief and investigative reporter is Steve Robinson.

He has been doing a lot of work at the MaineWire.com,

and he has been trying to cover

the politics and everything else that's going on.

But one of the things that he has really uncovered and has been on for the people of Maine is how Maine has been overrun by unlicensed Chinese-operated grow sites.

Now, these grow sites are growing marijuana.

They're unlicensed, so they're illegal.

And it is, it is China coming in and populating all of this.

We checked into Steve.

I wanted to make sure that he was somebody that

actually was credible.

He worked for the Howie Carr Show, Barstool Sports.

In fact, the police up in Maine use some of his reporting as a training manual for uncovering this particular problem

up in Maine.

So So thanks for the tip to our listener that called in yesterday.

Steve Robinson is on with us now from themainewire.com.

Hi, Steve.

Hi, Glenn.

Thank you very much for having me on.

You bet.

So tell me what is happening.

Yeah, so the reporting from our perspective really began with the leak of a Department of Homeland Security memo.

It was a picture of an email that had been sent around.

And what it said was that there were hundreds, over 800 Chinese-owned illegal marijuana cultivation sites operating within the United States.

And it specified that there were more than 270 of these sites operating in Maine.

And that came as a surprise to me as a lifelong Mainer, someone who covers Maine politics.

I'd heard some about it, but 270 seemed like a big number.

So after that initial story came out, we decided that we were going to start reviewing public records, interviewing people in the community, and try to see if we could find these locations and really flesh out this story.

And so I actually called a buddy of mine in the central part of the state and asked him about it.

He's an electrician and he's plugged in with this and he said, oh yeah, it's a big problem.

There's seven of these in our hometown.

And so I went to Dexter where I grew up and I went around and I saw these sites and

you can smell them and there's other indications based on the property records, the tax records, electrical permit records where you can put together that it's a pretty big, sophisticated marijuana grow without even having to look inside of it.

And then you can look and ask the town, you know, have you guys approved any marijuana grow sites?

For the most part, the local police, the county sheriffs, the state police, they know where these locations are.

But for some reason, even as this network has proliferated across rural Maine over the last three years, there really hasn't been a tremendous amount of law enforcement activity around them.

Now that's kind of starting to change.

There's been about eight or nine busts of these facilities.

And you're talking about places where they're growing 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 marijuana plants and trafficking that typically out of Maine to places where there are still black markets and they can get a higher value for it.

But it's a vast network, a vast organized crime network that is taking advantage of rural Maine, buying up houses that middle-class families could be living in, using tremendous amounts of electricity, which increases prices for the rest of Maine and generally undermining the quality of life for people in the state.

So this is happening over six different counties in Maine.

And

these sites are purchased by whom?

Are they Chinese nationals or do they hire an American to be the name

on the title?

How is this working?

So

none of them that I've found have an American name on the deed.

Most of them, according to the Department of Homeland Security, they believe that the sites are operated by individuals who are president in the United States illegally.

Some of them are.

Wait, wait, wait.

Illegally or legally?

Illegally.

They do not have authorization to be here in the United States.

And I'll say that the rise of this network in Maine has corresponded with unprecedented levels of

encounters of Chinese nationals at the southern border, according to DHS data.

So there's every reason to believe that the people who are here are operating these sites are here illegally.

The Chinese individuals who own these sites are predominantly from Brooklyn and Quincy, Massachusetts.

And whether they have legal status or not is hard to discern because New York and Massachusetts will both give a driver's license to an illegal alien regardless of their citizenship status.

And do they speak English?

Do they fit in?

They operate really apart from the community.

They're often never seen outside of the houses.

They'll go to gross shops in the areas where they'll show a picture of the product that they want on their phone and indicate that that's what they want for supplies because they're spending a lot of money at the groch shops.

They are treated like VIPs.

For the most part, they have enough English to get by.

If they're ever questioned by law enforcement or a code enforcement officer, we've heard stories about their ability to speak English rapidly going away when they think that they're coming under scrutiny.

At a recent bust in Machias, Maine, that was spearheaded by the Machias Police Department and the Washington County Sheriff's Office, which is, you know, it's one of the most rural counties in Maine, law enforcement uncovered

a

PRC passport, two Malaysian passports, an airplane ticket that showed a recent arrival from the People's Republic of China.

And they also found close to 3,000 pot plants in nine different grow rooms.

And they found in the meter box, because of course these places need tremendous amounts of power.

They found that the meter box had been rewired by someone with a sophisticated understanding of electrical engineering so as to steal power from the power grid.

And the power company doesn't really know exactly or hasn't told law enforcement how much power was being stolen or for how long.

But their best guess is tens of thousands of dollars worth of electricity was stolen and used to create a tremendous amount of marijuana.

And they know that they were using through the meter 10,000 kilowatt hours a month in addition to whatever they were stealing.

So across the board, the impact of these sites, this operation on the state is not doing anything good for the people of Maine.

And there's also quite a bit of evidence that the people who are operating these sites are victims of human trafficking.

The three individuals who were managing the GROW in Machias said that they were paid between $1,000 and $2,000 a month for their work managing that GROW.

So why is this not being picked up by the state?

Why is nobody doing anything about it?

It's illegal.

They're not licensed to do it.

Why isn't anything being done?

That's a fantastic question.

The governor of the state, Janet Mills, has been completely silent on this, as has her appointed police commissioner.

The congressional delegation, when the original story broke, all four of them sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking him to take a look at this.

They never received a response.

A few months later, Senator Susan Collins sent a letter highlighting the Maine Wire's reporting to the U.S.

Attorney of Maine.

There's some indication that she might be taking, you know, hearing evidence from law enforcement about developing a possible strategy for this.

But I think that the real answer is twofold, Glenn.

It's when the when the people of Maine voted in 2016 in favor of legalizing marijuana and in 2020 brought out the regulatory framework, that was a signal to law enforcement that marijuana was no longer a law enforcement priority, that they should be focusing on fentanyl.

So when they hear about a marijuana grow, they kind of just say, oh, all right, well, it's not really a problem.

But the other one is a fear of racism.

There's a tremendous amount of concern amongst law enforcement, amongst the power companies, regulators, anybody, that there'll be a perception that they singled out somebody based on their race, their ethnicity, their nationality.

And that has hampered law enforcement's ability to deal with a criminal network that is operating with the tacit, if not explicit, blessing of the Communist Party of China.

Where's this money going?

According to the Department of Homeland Security, a lot of the money is going right back to PRC, and money does not flow back to mainland China without the approval of people in the government there.

The money is also being used to finance other activities according to the feds, like human trafficking, like

narcotics trafficking as well.

That's been harder for us to pin down in the course of our investigation because fentanyl isn't quite as smelly as marijuana is.

It's harder to pin down.

But the Homeland Security does believe that they're engaged in narcotics trafficking.

And like any criminal organization that's running rackets, why wouldn't they expand and diversify if they already have a network set up along the I-95 corridor to move product up and down and distribute it to where they can sell it to customers?

I can't believe, I mean, because this is happening in other states.

It's not just Maine as well.

So it's happening everywhere.

Steve Robinson, he is from the Maine Wire, as in the state, with an E, the mainwire.com.

Check out his work.

You, Steve, have my producer's phone numbers.

You get any more information, you're furthering the story at all, please call us and update us, will you?

Absolutely, Gohan.

Will do.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Steve Robinson, mainwire.com.

You know, I

just like to talk in case there is somebody who is listening who does not agree with me.

So let me talk just to you, and I would love for you to respond.

And I'm not going to put you out on the, you know, I'm not going to, I'm not, it's not a gotcha thing.

I just don't know

how you don't see what's happening to our country.

I mean, I understand if you don't like Donald Trump, you don't like me,

you know, whatever.

I get that.

But our inflation rate alone

should be enough to wake up everybody and go, okay, what are we doing?

Do you know that just the introduction of AI in the next couple of years will require 25% of our power grid, just crunching the numbers for AI?

25% of our power will be used for that.

We are already, I mean, has your electricity gone up?

Do you think your electricity is more reliable or less reliable?

How are you doing with heating oil if that's how you heat?

Do you know that Washington state just banned natural gas effectively?

Do you think this is a good idea?

Do you think it's a good idea that we're not energy independent?

Do you actually believe that windmills and solar energy are ready for prime time?

Because

I don't.

Are you more confident in our military or less?

And I'm probably with you.

I don't know who you are anymore on the left or on the on the Democratic side because I don't know.

I don't know.

I think I know who you are, but I don't know who the people that vote for

these Democrats who are saying, yeah, we got to go into Ukraine.

And I say that about Republicans too.

We got to go into Ukraine.

We got to best Russia.

You know, we got to be all over the world.

No, no, no, we don't.

When did that change?

Because I know when I changed, because I used to be for all that stuff, and I can pinpoint when it changed.

And boy, the, you know,

turning the country of Afghanistan over to the Taliban, you know, didn't help that at all.

Can you tell me how you dismiss

seven and by the end of the year, 10 million people coming across our border?

We don't know who they are.

We have no idea.

They're not just families trying to make ends meet.

It's mainly 20-something men coming across.

100,000 people a year die of fentanyl.

That's because of the open border.

And we know that's coming from China.

Now, China is here in America and nobody's saying anything about it.

Nobody's doing anything about it.

Is it the fact that your groceries and everything else, your cost of living is up 17%,

38% rise of your energy and groceries?

And that's according to the government.

I don't even believe those government numbers.

That's according to them.

Is that what's blinding you to saying, oh, this is really good?

I don't know.

Do you believe that this president is actually in control of his faculties?

I am not asking these rhetorically, and I am not asking,

I just want to know how you get past these things.

How you believe that Trump is, and I'll give you, okay, he tried to overthrow the election.

Let's say that.

Let's just give you that.

Okay.

Do you see what's happening on the other side?

Because I want to return to the Constitution.

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I just, I'm, I'm, I'm really kind of at the end of my rope, not understanding.

I mean, I can understand, because I see it on my side.

I see it.

I can understand why you wouldn't like Donald Trump.

I get it.

I get it.

I can see why,

you know, you would say, hey, clean up your own mess with what's happening in Arizona with the Republican Party, trying to bribe kerry lake to stay out of the race for two years

i don't like that i want that cleaned up i mean it's it's whataboutism but it's fair whataboutism

it is yeah it is i mean you can't just point out one side and excuse your side you just can't not at this point in the republic's life

So

we're going to go to the phones after the bottom of the hour and talk to people.

Apparently the phones are lighting up.

And so I just, I don't want to play gotcha.

I just want to understand.

I mean, there's a lot of thoughtful people in this audience, including thoughtful people that don't agree with us on a lot of stuff.

So we always love hearing from them.

But I think the overarching answer to your question is most people just have partisan loyalties and look for any way to back those loyalties up.

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On both sides.

On both sides.

You know, I think that is true on both sides.

Though I think there is a

situation, particularly with Donald Trump, where

Democrats just hate him so much, they will not allow themselves to hear an argument that would alleviate any of that hatred.

I want to know why you hate him that much, that you would be blind to other things.

Because, like, I didn't start out a fan of Donald Trump's.

Didn't.

No, no.

And

still have things that I don't love about Donald Trump, but his policies, not all of them, they worked.

I didn't like the way, you know, it was all executive order, and I don't like it with Biden.

I didn't like it with Bush.

I didn't like it with Obama.

You know,

those things we have to change.

That's a real problem.

But, you know, you get to a point to where you're like, okay, all right.

This is almost irrational.

Almost irrational.

I can tell you concrete things that make me say, this person is dangerous.

Can you give me those concrete things that are not on your side as well?

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Let's go to Sam in Iowa.

Hello, Sam.

Hi, Glenn.

How are you?

Hi, Glenn.

Hi.

How are you?

Good.

I'm really good.

Now, I understand you're a conservative, but you're going to vote for Joe Biden.

Yep, that's correct.

Okay.

Tell me about about that.

Well, so I think that Donald Trump is a danger to the Republic.

I think the Georgia phone call that was recorded when he said, find me the votes,

you know, just say you miscounted.

That's fine.

Just make me win.

I think that's too damning to vote for Donald Trump.

Okay.

Now you're voting for how did you get to Joe Biden?

Because I understand that point of view.

Well,

it's kind of a binary choice, right?

You know, I could vote third party, but at the end of the day, if I don't vote for Donald Trump, I'm really just voting for Joe Biden.

Huh.

Okay.

Well, no, you're actually putting your name on something.

So

tell me about Joe Biden.

What makes Joe Biden better than Donald Trump?

So I think we're living in a time.

of great prosperity and freedom in America.

You know, you look back through history, we've got it pretty good today.

And and people,

you know, have kind of freaked out in 2016 after Donald Trump ran.

And and I had the opinion that,

you know, the country's kind of going to go al you know along the same way.

You know, Donald Trump's not going to end the Republic or anything like that.

But I kind of feel the same way about Joe Biden.

I think that the danger that Donald Trump poses to the Republic is greater than, you know, say, you know, funding the, you know, the Department of Education

or,

you know, other things that they're spending all this money on that, you know, they really shouldn't be spending it on.

I think that the burden of freedom is on our shoulders.

You know, we don't have to fight the Japanese on Guatemalanao.

We don't have to, you know, we're fighting different things.

Correct, but we do have to stand up to the guy who tried to overthrow the American election.

So let me ask you about your principles.

What do you base

your

what should we be basing our country and our decisions on?

What are your principles, your guiding principles?

So I think number one is freedom.

What does that mean?

I think that

we should be able to pursue our interests.

And as long as we're not stepping on the rights of our fellow citizens, that we should be able to do pretty much anything we want.

You know,

So are you a

Bill of Rights person?

Is that how you would describe freedom?

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, the values inscribed in the Bill of Rights.

Absolutely.

So do you think that the Biden administration is moving us toward more freedom?

I would say no,

but I think that the risk of Donald Trump

to the Constitution is greater than the risk of Joe Biden.

That's interesting.

How did you get there?

How did you make that decision?

Because there's, for instance, there is now evidence that Donald Trump, I mean, sorry, that Joe Biden

did some deals with his son and China, which would explain a few things.

He is

trying to usurp the Constitution, for instance, just on student loans.

He's gone against the Supreme Court several times, one right after another.

There is no, no,

he is also

working

with public-private partnerships to silence people that disagree with him.

And we have that because of the Twitter files and others that have come out here more recently that are even more disturbing to silence people.

Is that not a threat to our republic?

So

the Hunter Biden thing, I'm kind of waiting to see.

The news is still

ongoing.

We'll see how that all ends.

What I've seen is there really isn't that great of evidence tying Hunter Biden to Joe Biden that there's an international crime conspiracy, that millions of dollars were

funneled back and forth or anything like that.

You should read a little bit more on that.

I'm not

busy, but you should read a little more on that because that evidence is now there.

Absolutely.

And yeah, I'm watching it as it unfolds.

But so the Supreme Court and the student loans, you brought up that.

I would say that we're still acting within the bounds of the Constitution

with that.

So the president does something and then the

Somebody takes him to court and goes to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court decides whether what he's doing is constitutional or not.

Right.

And they've decided that.

And he keeps doing it.

Well, and then they then they sue him again and the Supreme Court tells him to stop.

And

I think everything there is going within the Constitution.

So

let's talk about the suppression of, you know, because Donald Trump did say he would like to pull the license

of CNN and others, but there is no license to pull.

And people were very upset when he said that during

his first term um however we are seeing uh things uh that are very disturbing on the freedom of speech side and the freedom of press

yeah absolutely freedom of speech freedom of press those are you know freedom religion those are the most important uh principles in our society and you brought up the uh the twitter files um from before

do i like that twitter is putting a finger on one side of the scale?

I don't, but I also think that Twitter is a private company and that Twitter has, you know, the right to make that decision itself.

You know, it comes back to freedom.

You know what I mean?

If you built this company, you ultimately, at the end of the day, have the right to say how it's going to be.

Yeah, but does the government have the right to call up and threaten and say, you need to do this?

It's your choice, but you need to do this.

Or there are some things that we can do to make yourself, make you and your company very uncomfortable.

No, no.

Well, they've been doing that.

So I just want to, I just, I,

you keep coming back.

I think your big thing on Donald Trump is he tried to steal the election,

right?

Correct.

Okay.

Yeah.

I think, yeah.

So would you give me that the system worked in stopping him from doing that because his own vice president said I'm not doing that.

So the system worked.

Yes.

Yes.

People around him were not loyal enough to go through

his plan of tearing up the Constitution.

Right.

And do you think that

that same kind of system, those checks and balances, has stopped the left from doing all kinds of unconstitutional and very shady things, some illegal things?

Has that, is there that block

from the left

on Joe Biden?

Well, yeah, like the student loan thing you brought up.

Yeah, that

was the Supreme Court, which Joe Biden and many in Congress want to pack.

Well, certainly, yeah, that's the prerogative of Congress.

If something like that was to pass, it would have to go through Congress.

Yeah, I'm very glad that the Supreme Court shut down Joe Biden

on student loans when he exceeded his power.

And yeah, I agree that.

But Glenn, you know, we're talking about policies that are really not to the scope and scale of the threat that Donald Trump poses to the Constitution.

Shutting down our energy, giving Afghanistan back to the Taliban,

relieving

any kind of problems with China,

going into

Ukraine, horribly dirty country, spending more there, giving them more than we used inflation adjusted for the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt all of Europe.

And no strings attached to that money.

We can't even track that money.

You don't think these things are

huge?

I wasn't aware that we spent more on Ukraine than the Marshall Plan.

Yeah.

We did.

Yeah, we did.

All right.

Well,

last question.

When all the candidates were still in the race, was there a candidate you preferred over Biden?

So I would vote for Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley.

or Vivek.

If any of those were the Republican nominee, I would have voted for them this year.

Wow.

I just think that the cult of personality around Donald Trump

is

not good for this country in a very bad way.

You know, this is a New York City real estate agent.

You know,

he's got New York values, Glenn.

This is not somebody

over to Daniel.

Yeah, I know.

We knew this before.

And we've hashed over that ground

before, but we have seen those New New York values appoint a justice that overturned Roe versus Wade.

I mean, I can look at the bad things that I don't like about Donald Trump, and I can look at the good things that I've seen him do, and I can balance those things.

But I understand why people might not like Donald Trump.

I just am left still again

because I can see if you're right, if, you know, he's got one term and he's, you know,

everybody's coming after him and whatever, I could see him.

I could see Biden just as easy, although he wouldn't have the energy to do it.

I could see somebody else coming in a dictatorship.

We are at the point of our life of our republic where dictators are very likely to set in.

But I will stand against either of them.

I don't care if it was Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Donald Trump, Donald Duck.

I will stand against that and I will stand for the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

But you have to do it consistently.

Have to do it consistently.

And I go for the one that doesn't seem to have the entire system

hypnotized.

There is the system, that's what it's designed to do, slow things down.

I haven't seen anybody slowing anything down in this administration.

Thank you so much for your call.

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No, not at all.

I'm just, it was interesting.

I mean, again, and there's some stuff in there that I didn't agree with, but it was interesting to hear that viewpoint put out.

And you stood by your promise.

You're not going to try to fight with the person.

I just want to understand them.

Yeah.

I was left still not understanding.

I do understand how people could think anyone at this point could become a dictator.

Yeah.

And look, I think there are people who draw that line.

I don't think it's a large amount of people.

And it was interesting.

Your question about the primary was interesting because, you know, some, a lot of people say they're conservatives and they say, oh, well, you know, but I just won't vote for Donald Trump.

And he's specified several candidates, even Vivek Ramaswamy, who is very much aligned policy-wise with Trump, that he would still vote for.

So look, I mean, these people do exist.

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I don't think they're super common.

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I'm so totally.

Yeah, like, I feel like people get so insane in the primary process.

We're seeing this now with the fallout of candidates dropping out.

Everyone's attacking each other online and everything.

It's like, yeah, it's just like, I don't understand that.

We should be able to at least talk with each other and hash these things out.

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You know,

I should have said something if I was totally honest with that caller, but I think I alluded to it.

But let me say, I have

the same concern

about Donald Trump and really almost any of them, but Donald Trump,

because we are entering a time where we have to make a choice and not enough people understand the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence.

If they did, we wouldn't be having any of these problems because we wouldn't stand for it.

But not enough people are engaged.

However,

my thinking on this is, and I don't think this is going to happen, but you know me, I'm a doomsday guy.

Let's say Donald Trump got into office and he started going way unconstitutional.

A, you'll have the left and the Democrats throwing up roadblocks anyway, whether it's constitutional or not.

You got that?

That's true.

Even if there's a third of the people who voted for him that say, wait a minute, wait a minute, that's unconstitutional.

You stop that.

The system would work.

But the WEF stuff that is happening behind the scenes that we're putting in through the Green New Deal, which was called the Inflation Reduction Act, which Biden even says that's not what it was,

that stuff doesn't stop.

It doesn't stop.

And Donald Trump has said he'd do a lot of things in campaigns that he didn't do, like arrest Hillary.

He didn't do it.

But I have concerns of dictatorship from anyone at this point, because we are at that point in our lifetime of the Republic.

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