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Hello, Pat.

Hello, Glenn.

We're just starting to talk about Jean-Pierre, right?

Oh, yeah.

She is a brilliant explanation.

Oh, so.

A tough moment from the president.

So the president was giving a speech, and he talked about

people that were working on this bill, and Jackie Walorski was one of them.

She's passed away tragically in a really horrible car accident.

It was a big story.

The president talked about her, et cetera, et cetera, meeting with the family on Friday.

However, when he's giving the speech, he says this.

And so many of you know so much about this as well, and you're committed.

And I want to thank all of you here, including bipartisan elected officials like Representative Governor, Senator Braun, Senator Booker, Representative Jackie, are you here?

Where's Jackie?

I didn't think she was going to be here.

I think she's here.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, my gosh.

Okay.

Now, this is why this is important.

To all Americans, this should be very, very important.

That is a take the keys away from grandpa.

Maybe it's time for grandpa to stay home and just enjoy the rest of his life.

But grandpa has no clue as to what he's talking about.

This is a

terrifying moment.

We are on the verge of World War III.

And this guy's in charge.

And this guy's in charge.

I think this is the clearest moment of dementia since this all began, what, three years ago-ish,

because there's no explanation for it.

I mean, you know, they always give the, well, he was a stutterer.

Y'all make fun of his stuttering.

He's not stutterer.

That's not what that is.

No.

But that's what, that's the excuse they use.

There's no excuse for this.

Yeah.

No.

And to add on to your point here, Pat, look, we're conservatives.

We're a conservative show.

We like to make fun of Democrats often when they make dumb mistakes, right?

Like, okay, this is not

Barack Obama 57 states.

That is not what this is.

This is real.

This is not conservatives having a good time, trying to bash a guy.

This is a guy who is gone.

He should not be in office doing this job.

This is, I mean, this is example number a thousand of them.

And some of them, there's been a couple here and there that any average person could make.

I know of no one.

He released a statement specifically about her death.

He's going to see the family.

Tomorrow.

He's at an event where surely at some point someone said, now, of course, the late Jackie Valera or whatever her name is.

Valorski.

Valorsky

is, you know, worked hard on this, and we want to give her credit for it.

And here's what,

may I give you an explanation,

but it does not explain away why he would do it, but it would explain why he made a comment.

If I am afraid of pronunciation of a name,

I will often times,

just to avoid it, say, and

Stu, stew and i'll see brigier on the teleprompter and i know i can say it but i'm afraid i'm gonna botch it so i'll go and stew stew is here where are you stuck stu is here and so i deflect yeah okay

i think that's what he did he was deflecting because he saw the name probably knew it maybe not no i don't think he don't think he did no yeah and and had no idea what he was even talking about okay Possible, but he should still know that she's not alive.

Yeah, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, that's saying to me that he's checked out just reading a teleprompter, not engaged at all with what's going on, forgets that she's dead.

Okay, that's a really bad problem.

If I were, you know, talking about my mom, and thanks to Pat for bringing this up.

I didn't do that.

My mother passed away in a very tragic way when I was young.

Do you have to continually harp on it?

My gosh, it hurts deeply, Pat.

But where is she right now?

I don't know.

So if I was talking to you, she'd be here in this room.

No, she shouldn't be.

And if I was talking about my mom and I was like, hey, has my mom called?

You would all say, no, what the hell is wrong with you, Glenn?

Right.

You know, well, she was on the top of my mind.

And

you thought she would call?

That's scary.

It would be scary.

That's scary.

I think, like, there's a theoretical argument here.

Let me give you another potential explanation for this, and it's not good.

But he knew nothing about this happening at the time.

They released a statement in his name that he didn't even approve or know about.

He goes to this thing.

He's just reading the teleprompter.

He has no awareness of who this person is or that she died.

and just looks around and says oh jackie are you there and maybe because of the pronunciation is why he said is she here it's a u.s congressman you would think he would know she died i know especially because no i think this is i think stu and that might be right.

He is so checked out that they don't update him.

They just continually release things.

They may have updated him at the time, but like, he's not going to remember something from several months ago.

And then he can't remember something from several minutes ago.

I think, like, there's a

there, like, let's just say this was Ron DeSantis.

Okay, Ron DeSantis is doing a press conference.

He comes out and he says, Jackie, are you here?

And she's been dead for three months.

And he really,

again,

if

this happened to someone who no one believed was losing it, no one thinks Ron DeSantis is on the verge of dementia, right?

In theory, look, he's a busy guy.

He lost track of who this person is.

You know, he just forgot about it.

But they wouldn't come out and say

she was on top of mind.

They would come out and say, oh my gosh, I can't believe I did that.

I'm such an idiot.

Like, I'm such an idiot.

I got confused, the wrong person, and I totally forgot.

It's inexcusable, and I apologize.

And for someone you believed was competent, you'd say, that's a really bad mistake.

You look like an idiot, but what are you going to do?

And they would admit.

They can't say that.

The White House can't say it because everyone already believes he's gone mentally.

So if they say he's confused or forgot about someone dying, it's going to be yet another big piece of information.

Which brings you to KJP, somebody who is, I just don't think she believes what she's saying, even if she knows what she's saying.

And that may just be, she may be dumb as a box of rocks.

She's horrible at her job.

But all of the people in the White House had a session.

All the best PR minds in the White House all got together and said, what do we say about this?

And they came up with this excuse, cut one.

Florida, that is the focus, and that's going to continue to be the focus these next couple of days.

One quick final question.

What happened in the hunger event today?

The president appeared to look around the room

for an audience member, a member of Congress who passed away last month.

He seemed to indicate she might be in the room.

So what happened?

So the president was, as you all know, you guys were watching today's event, a very important event on food insecurity.

The president was naming the congressional champions on this issue and was acknowledging her incredible work.

He hadn't planned to welcome the Congresswoman's family to the White House on Friday.

There will be a bill signing in her honor this coming Friday.

So, of course, she was on his mind.

She was a top of mind for the president.

He

very much looks forward to discussing her remarks.

That is ridiculous.

And we all know it's ridiculous.

And America, wake up.

This is not some right-wing

conservative that's saying, oh, we're in trouble.

We're in trouble.

And there's no evidence of trouble.

You know, Glenn's just saying this could happen.

This is happening.

We are on the verge of World War III, and we have a president who is not cognitively engaged at all times.

Okay?

We have no idea how engaged he is.

We know he has incredible lapses.

We don't know if he's actually in charge or if someone else is in charge.

This is extraordinarily dangerous.

And even the press room didn't accept this.

Listen to this.

And she was on top of mine.

I mean, I don't, that is, I mean, that is that is not an unusual, yes, unusual scenario there.

When you sign a bill for John Lennon as president, then we can have this conversation.

Okay, Scott.

Go ahead.

Marine, these moments of confusion are happening within the world.

Excuse me.

Americans are watching this and are having concerns.

What do you say to that?

This is a legitimate question.

We We need to have some administration at the end of the year.

What can you tell us about the case?

I'm sorry, somebody was yelling over you.

Go ahead.

There are reports that Treasury Secretary Yellum is looking to lead.

It is not your turn to speak, and you're being rude to your colleagues and let your colleague answer it later.

Every colleague should be asking the same question.

No,

you're yelling over your colleague.

So that is incredibly rude.

Oh, is that a question?

That's the rude thing that's happening here.

Go ahead.

There are reports that Treasury Secretary Yellum is looking to lead the administration at the end of the year.

All right.

So

the woman who was speaking out there was Kimberly Holcat,

and she is from Al Jazeera.

So Al Jazeera.

Not exactly Fox News.

No, not exactly Fox News.

And I mean, it's always the foreign press.

It's either Peter Doocy or the foreign press that is saying, you know, there's something deeply wrong here.

And she points out that it's been happening frequently.

She's trying to yell that more frequently.

Can you give us a real answer on what's going on here?

Do you know who December?

Who did the John Lennon line?

Because that wasn't Deucey or

anything.

Again, like, I mean, look, this is not.

You know, we make fun of Barack Obama for 57 states, right?

That's a conservative thing.

We're having fun.

This is something that not only conservatives or independents understand, the left understands it.

And in fact, in the halls of the White House right now, they should be having conversations among themselves about the 25th Amendment.

Yes, they should.

It's not just conversations.

They should be enacting it right now.

But they're all so arrogant.

They think they don't need him.

It's the same thing with John Fetterman.

They don't care.

He can't think anymore.

They're not looking for someone.

Yes.

Diane Feinstein.

We, on election night, we have to come up with

all of the people that have been accused of horrible things that are running that the press has never brought up, and the people who have checked out mentally.

And that could be, honestly, that could be the vice president.

She's just a moron.

Yeah.

Just a moron.

I was just saying this morning that we have a very close ally in North Korea that we got to make sure.

So they don't care.

They're not, these people are not being chosen to run.

They're being chosen to

go along.

Yeah.

And it's extraordinarily dangerous.

There is no check and balance when you don't know who's actually making the decisions.

And I don't mean to, I shouldn't mess this.

I shouldn't cross these streams here.

The Kamala Harris thing with North Korea is like 57 states.

It's similar to that.

She's funny.

I like making fun of her of her because she's a dope.

But like, that is not a serious issue.

A serious issue.

If she were president of the United States, that wouldn't be.

But the fact that she is just

not as intelligent as you would

as a bathroom bull brush.

If she was even half as intelligent as a bathroom bull brush, you'd give her the benefit of the doubt.

She's just not connecting dots.

But he's not connecting dots because he is slipping into darkness.

And everyone in the media.

And everyone on the left and everyone in the White House, they all know it too.

It's not just that they didn't, they all know it.

Yesterday was the straw that broke the Campbell's back to reveal it to everybody, right?

And Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Communists, I don't care who you are.

Now you know that what we've been saying for the last two and a half years is true.

The guy is definitely

out to lunch and he's not coming home for dinner.

Yeah.

So.

And I think the only way the left is actually going to admit this and the media is going to admit it is if they decide they want someone else to be the candidate in 2024.

At some point, for example, if they were to get beat up really badly in this 2022 election and they decided, holy crap, this is going really badly.

We're about to, we're going into a recession.

2024 is going to be a catastrophe if we keep this guy on the ticket.

Then they'll all of a sudden start to admit what all of us know.

That this guy cannot do this job and he's out to lunch and not coming home for dinner.

And at that point, then the rumors can start, then the leaks can come to the New York Times, then the Washington Post and the Styles section will have some fascinating story that doesn't seem to make sense in the styles section that points out that everyone in the White House knows that he's long gone and they're all talking about a change behind the scenes.

And eventually we can have Joe come out and say he's having health issues and he's stepping down.

That's the only way they'll ever admit this is going on.

Correct.

When they decide it benefits them.

That's how this works.

They don't mind it now.

They really don't mind it.

They have the power.

They get to run the whole

fantasy league with the country.

Exactly.

And they're all sitting back there with none of the responsibility making all the decisions.

Yep.

And

I will not be lectured by these people that I am anti-government or anti-Constitution.

All I'm asking is for our government to read and execute the Constitution as written.

Read it,

learn it.

Use it.

It will come against me sometimes.

It'll come against you sometimes.

I'm fine with that.

But use the Constitution and don't you dare say I'm anti-government or anti-America or anti-Constitution.

This guy should not be in office.

There should be a real discussion on his mental health.

Period.

This is the best of the Glenbeck program.

Dow is down again, 631 points.

No biggie.

Nothing to see here, people.

Move on.

That Democratic momentum to the midterms is really, really ravishing.

It's really good.

My tribute to Coolio

coming up.

God, can we delete the show from the archives?

I don't think so.

Can we just.

We have Andy Barr with us, the congressman from Kentucky.

He is

on the House Financial Services Committee, senior senior member, and a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

And we had him on last week.

We were talking a little bit about cryptocurrency and other things, and I wanted to have him on

to continue that conversation.

Welcome, Congressman.

Welcome back to the program.

Glenn, great to be back with you.

Okay, so I want to get to cryptocurrency, but

I want to clean something up here that is in the news, comes from Will Salatin.

He is a writer for Bulwark.

He is a rational human being that

doesn't hype things up, et cetera, et cetera.

And he has written a story.

Several weeks ago, I learned that Citibank locks some of its customers out of accounts and refuses to release their money, even if they show up with ID.

This week, I sent an email explicitly, they sent an email

explicitly affirming its right to do this without cause.

In the email from Citi, Citi reserves the right to close an account at any time and for any reason, with or without cause.

They

will only return funds that they, quote, deem as belonging to the customer.

There's a lot of things that changed after 2008.

Are you guys

watching these banks so they don't just

take everybody's money if they want to or if it becomes politically expedient for them to do that?

Well,

that's an interesting story for sure.

And we had Jane Frazier, the CEO of Citigroup, in front of our committee last week.

We had some of the CEOs of the largest financial institutions in front of us, and we asked probing questions about

their commitment to depoliticizing the allocation of credits.

We talked to them about

competition in the financial marketplace.

This issue, I don't know the details.

That's an interesting

issue.

I'd like to talk about the question.

Let me send you the story, and then if you can look into it, great.

I'd love to hear what you find.

All right, so let's talk about cryptocurrency.

Our Dow is down over 600 points again today.

Yesterday in England,

the sterling almost wiped out.

The whole world is in trouble.

The dollar is going up, but only because it's the best of the worst.

And eventually, the chickens will come home to roost and things will fall apart.

The government seems to be moving towards a cryptocurrency that is not anonymous.

And when they say that, they immediately say, well, but none of the banking system really is anonymous.

But that's not true, is it?

The reason why you see the economy stumbling the way it is, moving into recession, there is no soft landing here, why inflation is at a 40-year high is because of too much government, too much government spending,

raising taxes in the middle of an economic downturn, increasing taxes on businesses, discouraging business investment, paying Americans to not work,

too much government intervention in the form of regulation, a war against domestic energy production.

All of this economic trouble, all of the headwinds that Americans are facing is a direct result of too much government.

And when you have these

socialists who are advocating for a central bank digital currency,

this is exactly the wrong approach.

It is more government intervention into the private economy

and

it portends a threat to not only privacy, but it also is a grave threat to our private sector, to our free enterprise system.

There are certainly important goals

in the digitization of our money supply.

Goals like

instantaneous settlement, reducing friction, a preservation of the dollar's dominance, but none of that

none of those goals require

a Fed-issued digital dollar or what's called a central bank digital currency.

So why is,

let me ask it this way.

I believe this is because we are, whether we admit it or not, using modern monetary theory now, which allows us just to print everything that we want, as long as you have access to everyone at the bottom, their their accounts, and control of how they spend their money.

Is that why we're looking at this kind of currency, one of the reasons?

Well, yes.

I mean, the concern here is more government control.

The prospect of government surveillance of Americans' individual financial transactions is real.

If you have a central bank digital currency, especially when it's coupled with a so-called Fed account, if you think the idea of postal banking banking is a bad idea, this is postal banking on steroids, where your money would be in a central bank account instead of a private bank account.

Think of the power that the federal government would have over your funds.

They could surveil your transactions.

They could debit your account without your consent.

The Internal Revenue Service could attach funds that are in your account.

So it's monitoring, it's government control,

it's government approval or disapproval of the way in which you manage your finances or spend your money.

The government can look into where you're getting your funds

and approve or disapprove of how you're getting your funds, not just how you spend your funds.

And then think of government agencies that disapprove of the way you conduct yourself and the fines that government agencies could impose and, again debit your account without your knowledge and without your consent.

So it raises serious privacy concerns, but it also raises concerns about more government control over private society and the politicization of our society, politicization of loans, politicization of payments, of your credit scores, of your tax compliance.

monetary policy would be disrupted.

And here's the thing that I think is

probably one of the greatest concerns.

You're transferring all of this financial power away from the private sector and into the hands of the federal government.

And what you do when you have a central bank digital currency, especially when coupled with Fed accounts, which many of these socialists are advocating, is you disintermediate the private banking system.

What that means is as money gravitates away from bank accounts, checking accounts, savings accounts, deposit accounts, and into these central bank accounts, the government accounts, it means that the deposit base for the private banking system is eroded.

That is a problem because it means less lending, less credit available for private sector institutions to deploy into the real economy.

That's very distortionary

to the private sector.

So

it's basically a fundamental shift away from a private economy to a socialist government-controlled economy.

And it's truly frightening.

I just did a special on this last night, and we spoke about cryptocurrency in the last part of the program.

And the experts that I had on said, this has got to stop.

This cannot go through.

And people are thinking about this as a far-off, distant thing.

It's not that far off.

And it will start subtly.

And it'll be just, we're only taking this step.

Then we're only taking this step.

And before you know it, the government will have a bank account where they will say to you, You know what, there's a thousand dollars, and every single person has it in their Fed bank account.

Just activate it, and you can have access to the thousand dollars.

Then the next step would be, by the way, you get two dollars for every one if you change them over to digital currency.

Most people will do something like that.

But what they're taking from you is the ability to truly be free because the government, if it can give, it can take away.

And

when you try to control the economy like they're going to try to control because of monetary theory, new modern monetary theory, what they have to do is they have to, if the gas prices are going out of control, they will just say to the private sector,

you know, if your name starts with ABCD,

you can't spend any money on gas on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

And you'll be controlled on what you can and cannot buy.

You're eating too much meat.

Go ahead, but this is not going to buy meat.

They can outlaw anything just by making this digital currency not work at a gun store or a meat store.

And Glenn, what you're describing is not theoretical.

This is actually happening in China.

This is what China's experiment with the digital won is producing, a surveillance state where the financial system is totally controlled by the government and where individuals lose their freedom to government manipulation, coercion, and threats.

That is

the Chinese Communist Party's experiment with the digital yuan or the digital RMB.

We do not need to compete or we should not compete with China by becoming more like China.

There is no threat.

There is no threat currently to the dollar's dominance.

The rule of law is what, in our private sector strength, is what gives the dollar its dominance.

If you want to preserve the dollar's dominance, and that is a paramount goal, we shouldn't compete with China by trying to mimic China.

Instead, what we need is to encourage private sector innovation in digital assets and in cryptocurrency.

There are huge advantages.

The reason why there's an increased adoption rate of crypto and digital assets is because of

the advantages of privacy, of frictionless transactions,

of instantaneous settlement, real-time payments.

Those are all real strong advantages in this innovation.

But instead of centralizing that new technology in the federal government, we we simply need a regulatory framework that will attract competition in private dollar-backed so-called stable coins.

A true cryptocurrency, they complain it is some of the critics and the promoters of a central bank digital currency say, well, these crypto currencies like Bitcoin, they're too volatile.

They're not a good store of value.

That's why we need a central bank digital currency.

But we don't need that.

What we need is

stable coins that preserve value, that store value without volatility, that are dollar-backed, kind of like a money market account.

So you have a fiat-backed, a dollar-backed stable coin, and allow there to be bank-issued stable coins, private bank-issued stable coins, non-bank-issued stable coins.

Let there be private sector innovation and competition,

but have a regulatory framework where

consumers know that this digital asset will preserve value based on its peg to the U.S.

dollar.

That's the way you take advantage of the frictionless, instantaneous settlement technology, while at the same time protecting the dollar's dominance without compromising privacy, without giving into more government control and preserving Americans' freedom and protecting the dominance of the private sector in our society.

Okay, so Andy, I've got about 45 seconds here for an answer on this question.

Will the United States government eventually shut things like Bitcoin down if they go to cryptocurrency?

Will they destroy all the competition?

I think a CBDC is a massive threat to the private sector innovation with cryptocurrencies in the private sector.

It is an effort to displace private sector crypto innovation, and we need to stop it, and we need to protect that private sector innovation.

You know, the advent of cryptocurrency is a freedom-producing phenomenon.

We cannot allow government bureaucrats to co-opt

that freedom-producing technology.

And I think that's why digital assets and innovation in crypto is such a threat to

the promoters of big government,

because they see that it liberates people, and so they want to co-opt it and

concentrate all of that technology in the hands of a central bank.

That is the wrong way to go.

That is freedom destroying.

That's why Republicans in the majority in the next Congress are going to fight the Federal Reserve's exploration of a central bank digital currency.

Good.

Count us in on that fight.

Thank you so much.

That's Congressman Andy Barr from Kentucky.

If you want to get involved, please.

In the 70s, people were protesting, peaceful protests in front of the Fed.

This should be something that you pay attention to because this is the end of your freedom, should it happen.

You're listening to the best of the Glen Beck program.

This robbery happened in 2015.

So, this is a recent robbery.

And we all know now

who did it,

who broke in and stole $86 million

in

cash and assets?

They came in with guns ablazin,

picked some of the locks of the safety deposit box, broke open others, but they took everything in the vault, $86 million,

largest in U.S.

history.

Have you heard about it?

You haven't heard about it still?

No, only really from, I've heard you tease it the last couple of days, but that's the only time I've ever heard of it.

Okay, so

you actually do.

You actually do.

It's just been framed differently.

Okay.

This

is the break-in of the vault of Beverly Hills by the FBI.

And that's why no one is going to jail for it, but they should.

Let me give you the full story here.

FBI began investigating a U.S.

private vaults store in Beverly Hills.

And what they did is they were watching people, they were watching this vault, and somebody on the FBI just noticed that there were cars that were coming in from Illinois and going in and putting things in a vault.

Well, Illinois is a big drug, a big drug state.

So there's evidence number one.

Cars were going in and out that had Illinois plates.

Okay, that's not good evidence.

Not good evidence.

No, not good evidence.

I assume there's more more to come that's better than that.

Not really.

I'm just talking it's with Illinois plates.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Cars were coming in with

Illinois plates.

Oh, and

there were many of the customers that were using rental cars to come.

And these rental cars are, of course, associated with drug traffickers because if they smell marijuana, well, they don't, you know, you can say, I don't know.

Well, I wasn't smoking marijuana.

I never had a marijuana in the car.

It's this rental car.

Now, remember, in California, marijuana is legal.

Okay.

So you had those two things going for the FBI.

And so they decided to go in.

They went to get a warrant.

They had six warrants, five of which were rather straightforward and pertained only to the business and the business owners.

However, according to a study now from the LA Times, the sixth warrant signed by a U.S.

magistrate judge,

Steve Kim, in 2021, authorized the agents to seize business equipment from the store, including 1,400 safety deposit boxes located in the store, even though the agents did not know the identity of the box owners or have probable cause to suspect that the owners of those boxes were involved in any kind of drug trafficking or money laundering scheme.

The government didn't know what was in those boxes, didn't know who owned them, what, if anything, these people had done because they didn't even know the people.

So 400 customers

had their goods taken from this safety deposit box.

This is unprecedented.

Never happened before.

$87 million.

Now, according to court filings, the FBI insisted on the affidavit that the warrants authorize the seizure of the nests of boxes themselves, but not the contents.

On the warrant itself, signed by the judge, this warrant does not authorize a criminal search or seizure of the contents of the safety deposit boxes.

However, the FBI didn't care.

And they opened up every single one of those boxes and took the ill-gotten goods.

The FBI later said, it's not under, we have no obligation to inform the judge how later actions such as criminal investigations against box holders or forfeiture of box contents, would play out.

So he specifically said, You have no right to open up any of those boxes.

They did because

they probably had probable cause, but we don't know what the probable cause was.

We have no idea because they didn't file it.

And when they had probable cause, it was

license plates from Illinois, and they were using rental cars.

700 customers, I'm sorry, I thought it was 400.

It's 700 customers affected by the FBI raid.

Nine

were referenced by the FBI in the affidavit.

Thus far,

no one has gotten any of their stuff back.

None of the customers have been charged with any crimes.

Not a single customer out of the 700, not a single customer has been charged with a crime.

But they can't get their stuff back.

Right.

FBI won't say if any of them have been a subject of a criminal investigation prior to the raid.

In the alleged, alleged in the affidavit only is the fact that those who are irrational or who have criminal motives would rent a box from this

safety deposit box company rather than a bank.

So in the affidavit, that's another thing they told the judge.

It's irrational.

Why would you keep your money there instead of at a bank?

What?

It's not your decision to make whether it's rational or not.

It's my money.

I get to put it wherever I want.

It's my stuff.

I get to put it wherever I want.

Now, the Vault Company apparently pled guilty to the drug and money laundering charges, but nothing else has come from the investigation.

The company is out of business.

The owners were never charged.

The owners were never charged.

Hmm.

And now people are suing to get their money back.

But a lot of customers aren't willing to put up all of the money for, you know, because not everybody had a lot of money in there.

You know, somebody had the ashes of their loved one in a safety deposit box.

Nope, not getting it back.

And the reason why people aren't willing to do it is because it's taking a lot.

You're fighting the federal government.

So it's taking a lot of money to fight

the federal government.

So people are losing tens of thousands of dollars at this early stage just

to make sure that they're cleared, not get their stuff back, just cleared.

Huh.

It's incredible.

How does this stuff happen?

This is going to happen more and more.

Do you know that in 2008,

banks changed the rules, the government changed the rules, that

in the case of any kind of emergency,

the bank

does not allow you to go in to get your safety deposit box and open it.

It must be opened in the presence of a DHS official.

Did you know that?

It must be.

It must be.

In case of an emergency, if the government says it's an emergency and

we have

any stupid reason to see what's in everybody's safety deposit box, the banks cannot allow you to take the contents of your box without a DHS official in the room with you going through the box.

So, I mean, I guess the theory behind that would be what?

Like you have illicit material, so you'll get caught by the DHS official?

Yeah.

Let's say there's terrorists and you've got a, I don't know, a pipe bomb, you know, or, or, or, you know, plans for a pipe bomb.

They'd be able to catch you.

I personally think it's to seize your cash.

Anybody who has cash, you have too much cash.

Correct.

You're automatically guilty, as we've seen with this sort of

thing.

You don't even have to say you're guilty.

This one, they say

no crimes, no crimes, and yet they're keeping the $86 million.

This is on the civil asset forfeiture sort of framework, and it's something that we've talked about for a long time.

It's incomprehensible that this stuff goes on in the United States of America.

If you were to tell me this happened, you know, in Russia, you'd expect it.

I'd expect it.

Correct.

The fact that the United States government is claiming and just taking stuff from citizens all around the country with no crime, many times even being charged, let alone.

I mean, to me, conviction is the point where you have an argument.

When you prove your case, you can take the stuff.

Correct.

Not before that.

Instead, they're doing it before they even charge anyone.

Listen to this.

The lawsuit also claims that some of the boxholders who came forward to reclaim their seized property were then subject to another investigation.

If you went to the FBI and said, I want my stuff back, the FBI examined their bank accounts, their DMV records, their tax returns, and any criminal history checks.

Approximately 20 to 30 boxholders decided, you know what, I don't want anything to do with this.

FBI agent Linda Zellhart said that many have speculated that those holders who walked away wanted to avoid either becoming an FBI target or their tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.

So, in other words, if you just say, you know what, my wife's ashes are just not worth it.

Well, maybe you're hiding something.

Oh, my God.

So, you're guilty if you walk away and you're guilty

if you ask.

Oh, that's it.

This is America, gang.

This is it.

You know,

we yeah, it is today.

It is today.

It doesn't seem like it.

Yeah, it doesn't because it's not a constitutional America.

But this is the America we now live in.

And it is important that you wake up and stand up.

We have to begin to stand together.

Get your preacher off his fat ass.

If he is not already delivering sermons about the blessings of God, because we're stopping abortion,

And then warning what's going to be happening in those other, if he's too afraid to say anything about abortion and alert you to the blessings and the dangers,

find another church.

Talk to him and say, why not?

V.

Hems and Haas, find another church.

Find another church.

If these rights are given to us by God, that's not just a phrase in the Declaration of Independence.

Who else gives rights?

Who else?

If you can't say God, then it's got to come from the government.

And I don't get anything from the government, especially for free.

I get no rights from the government.

If

they're not on the front lines of standing up and protecting God-given rights, you're in the wrong church.

Go find one

and start standing up for these things.

You are about to have a digital currency that has all of the earmarks of the mark of the beast.

All of the earmarks.

Read Revelation.

Read what cryptocurrency can do if it's run by the central bank and read about what it is in China.

It might as well be the mark of the beast.

You are about to lose

everything financially.

Why?

Because of corruption

is that what God wants does God want you just to stand around and just allow corruption to happen does God does God have a position on mutilation of our children's bodies

do you think God has a position on whether it's cool or not to teach kids all about sex

in second grade?

Do you think God has a position on any of this?

Do you think if Jesus came back today and you were there saying, you know what, whatever about the trans shows and the stripper shows with the kids, do you think God has an opinion on that?

If you don't, I don't know who you worship.

He has strong opinions, especially on what happens to his children.

And that includes you, me, Democrats, socialists, Marxists, kids, old people.

He has a definite love for all of us,

but he also has an opinion on right and wrong.

And if your preacher ain't talking about it,

get away from that church and find one because God's people have got to start standing up or we lose freedom.

The world's freedom

will be on our heads.