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Today's show, great show.

We had early Christmas for Stu.

Brought him a whole bunch of gifts.

Yeah.

Can't keep any of them, but they're really cool, are they not?

They are very cool.

Yeah, some stuff that you'll see on the podcast today if you're watching us.

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Just amazing stuff, amazing stuff you're not going to see anywhere else.

We also talked about Omicron, and it looks like it is going to be much more transmissible, but maybe, maybe

not as

deadly as COVID-19 in the past.

We'll see.

We dice that all out.

We also talked about San Francisco, how things are changing with Michael Schellenberger, and something that has happened on the border

that

is

really crazy

and not what you would expect from the border.

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Stu and I were talking yesterday.

He's really in the Christmas mood.

I am not in the Christmas mood.

I just don't have any confidence

that

our holiday vacation is going to go well.

I just don't have any confidence in it.

Your personal vacation?

Yes.

Which includes Christmas with the kids and everything else.

We have had just such a bad year of something.

It's like, well, for instance, you know, we've had problems with Tanya's Tanya's father being sick now.

So we've been up to visit him probably the last time you're going to see grandpa.

You know, one of those things.

Oh, wow.

Like three times this year.

The guy's got more lives than a cat.

I told him last time I saw him, you're never going to die.

You're never going to die.

But now mom and dad both have COVID.

Everybody's been vaccinated and everything else.

And

he has COVID.

Then she got COVID or vice versa.

Then she fell down, had to go to the hospital.

This is in this last week.

Then, so he was at home trying to take care of everything.

And then he fell down, broke four ribs with COVID in the hospital.

They can't be in the same hospital room, even though their husband and wives, they live together, but it's a COVID thing.

You can't be in the same hospital.

Even though they both have it.

Uh-huh.

That's a fascinating medical discovery.

Whatever they've discovered to make that happen.

I know, I know.

It's fascinating.

So it's just, I don't know.

So I thought I'd do something today that maybe would put me in the Christmas mood.

Okay.

Okay.

So you get to open some presents, but you don't get to keep any of them.

Maybe I could keep one of them.

No, you can't keep any of them.

I just think these are so cool.

And the audience, if you're watching the Blaze,

it's cool to watch,

but also to describe them.

So I've got, what, five boxes there.

You can start at the top.

And open them up.

These are all things from the museum that we just got in.

They must be expensive because you're making me wear gloves.

Yes, they are.

And

you can see that one has a red label that says high value.

Okay.

All right.

So you open that up.

Wow.

Wow.

So explain what that is.

Okay, so this is

what is it, a clapper?

Yeah.

Oh, it's a clapboard.

Clapboard.

Not the clap.

Clapper turns the lights on and off.

Right.

Clapboards are what they do in movies where they like, you know, action, you know, that type of thing.

Click and they clap the board and that's why you sync sound and

video.

And it says Universal City Studios, production Jaws,

director S.

Spielberg.

Wow.

And it says at the top, it says A camera.

What does that mean?

A camera.

That means there's an A unit and a B unit.

And the B camera is for all of the pickup scenes.

A camera is for everything that Spielberg was standing there the whole time going, all right, wait, let's do it again.

It's all the important scenes.

And I'll say this.

This looks, can I open it up?

Yeah, but it has a kind of a latch on it.

Do you see in the back?

No.

Oh, yeah, there it is.

Yeah, it goes up and down.

It's got teeth.

Yeah.

It looks like it has teeth.

It was specially made for jaws.

Tons of pictures of that with Steven Spielberg.

Isn't that cool?

Yeah, and handwritten stuff all in the back.

Yeah, those are, yeah, those are for the different scenes.

Really cool.

Yeah, really cool.

So this one I get to keep?

Nope, you don't get to keep that one.

The museum is collecting.

We have now more

founding documents than anyone in the world

except for the National Archives and the Library of Congress.

It's remarkable, the collection.

Yeah, you can put it over there.

I will.

But we're also now, this is a collection of making sure we preserve American culture, things that were really important in American culture.

How much does this thing run you?

How much?

How much does that set you back?

That?

Lots.

I'll give you $100.

Nope, I'm not going to sell for that.

No.

These three things I bought for the museum with the art,

my art proceeds.

So, all right, Christmas present number two.

Christmas present number two.

This is really cool.

Okay.

It's a Stetson box.

It is.

Yeah.

And in it,

you can take it out and you can put it on your your head.

Don't read it yet.

Don't read it yet.

You can put it on your head.

I don't know how to put it.

Oh, you don't know how to put a Stetson on.

Where is this?

The little cross tab in the back.

Yeah, not the X's that goes to the front.

The little

like this.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's it.

Like that.

Yeah.

Your head is enormous because that's a big hat.

My head is enormous.

Yeah.

There's lots of brains to fit in it.

That's what I'm doing.

Yeah.

And it actually looks okay on you.

Yes, it feels very awkward.

Yeah, well, because you're not used to a comeboy hat.

No, I don't know if I've ever put one on in my life.

So now take it off

and read the inside.

It's made by Stetson.

Says

Nudie's Rodeo

Taylor.

And it says Stetson.

And it says made by Stetson.

Especially for John Wayne.

John Wayne.

That's John Wayne's cowboy hat.

Wow.

Not sure if it ever appeared in any movies, but it was his personal hat.

And it was

given in a poker game.

He was at a poker game.

He was getting ready to leave and one of the guys at the table said, Wayne, you haven't paid me for the last time you lost.

And he took off his hat and he said, well, this will probably pay for it.

And he threw it down on the table and the guy kept it until he died.

No way.

Yeah, really cool.

Wow.

Really cool.

So, you know, I get to keep this one then?

Nope, you don't get to keep that one.

Nope.

I'll give you 200 bucks for that one.

Nope, right now.

Right now.

Nope.

You're going to love the last two.

You're going to love the last two.

Okay, so here we go.

Number three.

Okay, so number three.

Trying to be very careful here.

Uh-huh.

Oh, my.

Yeah.

Jeez.

So that is the gun belt of Jesse James.

So if you remember, Jesse James, this is the gun belt that he had on the day he died.

So he had two gun belts.

This is one of them.

If you remember, Jesse James was killed by the coward Robert Ford.

And Jesse James was kind of a hero robber.

You know what I mean?

People liked him.

And

Robert Ford was kind of a clinger on, and he really wanted to be famous.

And he made a huge mistake.

He killed somebody and then buried them in a shallow grave.

And the police found out about it and arrested him.

And he said, wait, wait, I know where Jesse James is.

And the governor said, if you kill Jesse James,

I'll pardon you for the killing of Jesse James and the guy you just buried.

And I'll give you the reward.

So he went and he was plotting.

Jesse James didn't trust him.

Jesse and his brother were there and they were going to rob a bank, and Robert Ford said, I'll help.

He went, he had breakfast with the two of them at Jesse James' house.

Jesse was sitting there in the parlor, in the living room, and they were talking.

And he noticed that his mom's needle point that was over the fireplace was crooked.

So he got on a chair, was straightening it out, and Robert Ford shot him.

right behind the ear, shot him in the back,

in the head, actually, but it had his back turned.

And he became the coward Robert Ford

and eventually was shot in the back as well

by somebody that really wanted him dead.

And it had no connection to Jesse James, just hated the fact that this guy started to go on stage and make himself into a big hero.

People turned on him quickly.

He had no friends after that.

Yeah, it says here it's a cartridge belt used by Jesse James, one of the two he had when killed.

Yeah.

Wow.

Isn't that amazing?

Isn't that amazing?

You have cool toys.

Yeah, they are cool toys.

Unfortunately,

they're all in the museum.

By the way, we want to do another museum and open the museum up

this summer for a major opening.

It's going to probably take, you know, we've usually had them in this building.

I have a feeling it may take two or three buildings now because this has expanded so dramatically.

And we're going to do that this summer, hopefully.

Okay, the last two.

The last two.

Okay.

All right.

I'm not sure which one that one is.

And if it's.

Sorry, it was empty.

Sorry.

Wait, what?

I'll throw the box out for you, but it was empty.

This one is the coolest thing ever.

This one is one of those things.

Brad Meltzer, you know, our good friend?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

He's going to, he'll flip over this.

And this is one of the coolest things

I've seen.

Okay.

Opening it now.

Christmas gift number four for Stu.

American culture.

Okay.

It's red.

Mm-hmm.

It's clothing.

Take it

carefully out.

Yeah.

Wearing your gloves.

Take it carefully.

Carefully out.

Oh, my.

Wow.

Okay.

Take, okay.

So.

It's Superman's Cape.

Oh, my gosh.

Now, open it up on the inside and read.

This is on the collar.

Wow, it says Christopher Reeves.

It says 4913 walking, which is interesting.

Unfortunately, what happened to Christopher Reeves?

Yeah.

But this is, that's Christopher Reeves.

Not only his cape, in the other box are his boots, and that's his suit.

Oh, yeah, look at the suit.

But pull his suit out, just the top.

Look how small he was.

Yeah.

Jeez.

Now, maybe, because it fit pretty tightly.

So

I don't know.

Maybe it stretches a lot, but he was not a big guy, at least according to the suit.

Yeah, it's, I mean, it is sort of, I guess, a stretch of

material, but yeah.

And those are his pants.

I mean.

And that's from the first Superman movie.

I think these were custom, Glenn.

I don't think you bought these at the store.

Just an amazing, amazing thing.

And

these are some of the things that

David Barton has purchased.

I have purchased.

The museum has purchased.

And all of them will be seen in the museum.

There's his boots.

It just doesn't seem like a person saving the world would wear these boots.

I'll have to say.

No, it just doesn't seem like.

No, it looks more like Lady Gaga.

It does seem like something Lady Gaga would wear.

Yeah.

They zipped him right into these things.

Yeah, Yeah, they zipped him in.

A little tight suit.

Yeah.

And some big boots.

It's a little weird.

That's it.

Now that I'm thinking about that whole thing.

Yeah, it's a little weird.

Okay.

Yeah.

It's like,

you know, don't be caught walking around with that.

You know, unless you are the man of steel, you don't want to be caught in that suit.

You don't have to tell everybody, but tell me, how much has it set you back?

How much does all the stuff cost?

I mean, just

most of the people in the audience will just tune out audience.

Yeah, it's a lot.

It's a lot.

It's a lot.

By the way, here's two more things.

This is Captain America's mask from the first Captain America.

Look how small his head was.

Wait, did he wore this?

This is from the first movie.

I mean, it's like a kid.

He's three feet tall?

Yeah, I know.

Isn't that crazy?

Wait, what?

This is from the first movie.

Captain America.

The first movie being...

Captain America.

But they've made several versions of that, haven't they?

Yeah, this is the one of the Marvel series.

This is the first Marvel series movie.

It was the first in the series of the Marvel movies.

Was it recently?

Yeah.

With what's his name, who plays

Chris Evans?

Chris Evans.

Yeah.

Is Chris Evans' head fit into this thing?

I don't know.

I just know that that.

Look at the inside.

Look at the inside.

It is from stage four,

number four.

It's the hard version of the helmet for the film.

We've uncovered some news here.

Chris Evans is apparently a little person.

I'm also going to show you, this is kind of,

this is the actual

Captain America shield from the first movie that he wore, you know, that he wore in.

That looks Chris Evans' size, though.

It does look Chris Evans.

Did he have a shrunken head?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Unfortunately, rubber, not vibranium.

Really?

Yeah.

So they lied?

They lied.

Captain America.

The Captain America is a small-headed liar.

Just like the real America.

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

There's some new early stats out on Omicron, and it looks to be

more transmissible.

It could be by a lot, but it also looks less deadly, but we don't know yet.

But that wouldn't stop everybody from freaking out.

I shouldn't say that.

It shouldn't stop everybody in the media from freaking out and in Washington or in certain

blue states.

They're all freaking out.

I don't think the American people are.

I think we're done with it.

And Matthew Walther is the editor of The Lamp, contributing editor, American Conservative, and he's written a piece for The Atlantic where I live.

no one cares about COVID.

And I, reading the article, I think he's exactly right.

Matthew, welcome to the program.

Thanks for having me.

So this,

how has this gone over at the Atlantic?

So to be honest, I have been

heartened by the response that I've seen from so many people,

especially people just emailing me or sending me messages on social media to say thank you.

We're so glad that there's somebody out there who's willing to present our actual experience of reality.

We feel like when we read the news or we turn on TV, you know, a different universe is being presented.

You know, we thought we were the only ones.

Are you getting those from coastal cities?

Really from all over.

I mean, that's the thing that

was really surprising and again heartening to me.

It wasn't just people who live, you know, in

sort of deep red rural America, as we happen to do.

It's people, you know, who live in, say, the Connecticut suburbs who say, yeah, you know, the truth is, is that sometimes, you know, at work, they tell us we have to put these masks on or whatever.

But for the most part, I'm over it.

I'm living my life.

We had grandma over for Thanksgiving.

You know, we're all getting together to watch football.

We're going to our kids' high school basketball games.

We're just living our lives.

It is really a strange thing.

There seems to be a split, and I'm not sure that that split is going to last,

except in places that are uber, uber, uber, deep, deep blue.

But it's almost, I was up in Connecticut, and it's almost religious now.

I mean,

you are a pariah if you're not wearing a mask in some circles, outside, inside, all the time.

It's nuts.

It's almost a mental disorder.

Yeah, you know, and the worst thing about it is I suppose it's one thing if these people

want to engage in this behavior, but the ones I feel bad for are the service workers, people who clean hotels, people who wash dishes in restaurants, whom I fear are going to end up having to do this for years, even after

the

people who consider themselves their betters have moved on.

Yeah, I think that's going to happen with the airline industry, too, if the airline industry doesn't wake up and start pushing back.

You in your article talked about a trip in Washington, D.C.

And I had this exact same experience when I went into the coastal cities.

You said it was bizarre to find thousands of people indifferently donning masks outdoors.

Tell me about that.

Yeah, I, you know,

again, living out here, I was aware that masking, you know, when you go into a restaurant or you walk into a hotel was a thing.

But the idea that people were wearing them outside in March,

it just would never have occurred to me that that was a thing.

There was never any real evidence that outdoor transmission of the virus was a thing, but especially when

you're just walking down the road.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah.

Unless you're trying to signal something

for other people, I have no idea what the public health benefit could be.

Aaron Powell, Jr.: Well, that's an interesting thing.

And you talk about that in the article, unless you're trying to signal something.

I think this is

a signal.

I think this is like the red MAGA hat.

This is a signal you're on one side or the other.

I think it's horrible that it has become that.

And I hope we can get past that.

But I think that's what's happening.

Yeah, I think you're exactly right.

And I should say, I mean, to me, I think that the sort of deep politicization of the most ordinary acts like walking on the street or going into a restaurant or whatever is horrible.

You know, I think that people who go out of their way to put on masks to demonstrate some sense of superiority is obnoxious.

I also think people who, say, put on a MAGA hat or a let's go Brandon shirt or whatever just epistolically to try to provoke their neighbors, that's obnoxious, too.

I agree.

Move beyond that.

I agree.

I mean, you can wear one, but when you wear it, just like,

I'm going on the plane to rile everybody up.

That's obnoxious.

That is obnoxious.

Fun, but obnoxious.

You come to the conclusion that this is going to be just another

stupid thing that we pro you know, you wrote, no fault divorce, factory sliced bread, frozen meals, and of course, infant formula are adopted enthusiastically by the upper middle class who then think better of them by the time the lower orders come around.

Yeah,

obviously,

there's a lot to unpack there.

But, you know, one of the most fascinating conclusions that sociologists have drawn over the last few decades is that divorce is actually not something by and large that upper middle class professionals are doing anymore.

Divorce, if you look at

where it sort of falls on the class ladder, is actually largely concentrated among the lower middle classes,

who used to be the people who are most likely to have sort of lifelong stable marriages.

And so there's this consistent pattern that plays out where

the people at the top get enthusiastic about something.

People a little bit further down are sort of skeptical.

And the top imposes it on the bottom, and then they think think better of it and they discard it themselves, but everybody else is stuck with it.

I don't know if that's because I think that it is generally a lot of the elites that are doing this at this point.

And I think I've seen a turn.

You know, I think everybody wanted to do the right thing at the beginning, and we all thought the best of each other.

And now,

you know, some of these things are just completely, you know, either unproven or disproven to be effective in any way.

And people are tired of it.

They're like, look, I can't live my life in isolation.

I'm not doing it.

I'll live with this.

And I think that's becoming dominant.

With Omicron, what do you see on the horizon?

I think that.

What we're going to see here is that people

are finally going to come around to the reality that

COVID is not like Russian roulette.

I think that's how most people think of it.

Or if it is like Russian roulette, it's playing it with some kind of weird gun that has

a couple million chambers in it.

And the same thing is true of

getting in your car for your morning commute.

There is always a non-zero chance that something really bad could happen to you.

But I think what a lot of this comes down to is just people's varying

assessments of risk.

But I think what we're going to see now is people kind of quietly acknowledging to themselves, oh yeah, you know what?

I don't have to be worried about this.

I can go about my business.

And I can never be 100% sure that nothing bad's going to happen.

But

what can you do?

His website is thelampmagazine.com.

The article we've been talking about was in the Atlantic where I live.

No one cares about COVID.

His name is Matthew Walther.

Thank you, Matthew.

I appreciate it.

Thanks, Gwen.

You bet.

So, Stu, I mean, I think he's coming to the same conclusion, and it ties into something

that we talked about yesterday, and that is,

can we play the Nancy Pelosi sat from yesterday?

This is crazy.

This is Nancy Pelosi talking about how crime is just out of hand.

Listen to this.

You don't have it?

It was cut too, I thought.

Well, it is, it's absolutely outrageous.

Obviously, it cannot continue.

But the fact is that there is an attitude of

lawlessness in our country that springs from, I don't know where.

Maybe you do.

Yeah, we do.

And we cannot have that lawlessness become the norm.

Okay.

So we have yesterday the mayor of San Francisco coming out and saying, enough is enough.

Enough is enough.

And this person is, you know, was part of the progressive movement.

She was the one who said,

we're going to cut our spending for our police.

We're going to try something different.

Important to note, too, that was July of this year.

Only a few months ago, they were still on this, you know, dissolve the police, to fund the police sort of direction.

And that's switched around

in a lot of cities just over the past few weeks.

People are realizing how bad of an idea this was, which is hard to understand that it could take more than, I don't know, eight seconds.

I know.

I know.

Just one viewing of the mainly peaceful marches.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, but they were so locked into that politically, they couldn't see the negatives.

And now they're seeing it, but they're blaming it on something else.

They're looking to blame it on anything else.

But I think this is because, and we're going to talk to Michael Schellenberger.

He's the author of San Francisco.

We've had him on a couple of times.

He's been pushing and saying, look, this has got to stop.

And he's, you know, kind of on the left.

He started, he used to be in the movement that, the progressive movement, about things like homelessness and stuff.

He was an activist in that area.

And I mean, and in some ways, I guess he still is.

But he's just saying that, like, those approaches that progressives want don't work.

We need to change them.

Don't work.

Yeah.

And

I want him to talk about what it took to change, but he'll go into detail.

What happened to this mayor?

This mayor was approached by people,

average people, that got together and said, enough is enough.

Enough is enough.

And the pressure started on her.

And

that's what she says.

changed her is seeing people.

And I think this is happening all across America, even in progressive San Francisco.

People are waking up.

That's very, very good news.

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All right, we're sitting here

watching some amazing video from Yako Buens.

He is the president and founder of ShareTogetherNow.org.

You were covering the crisis on the border because you are watching.

I mean, it is clear.

Child trafficking is happening at an enormous rate.

And so you were were tracking all the way from the Mexican side all the way to here in America and not just to the border guard, but also they're going to put them on a plane and they're going to send them someplace else.

To Florida, to Alexandria Airport in

Louisiana, up to wherever in the U.S.

the process of the children coming into the country, making the point that

the notion we can keep every child safe, that our president made that notion, is incorrect.

And these children end up in the hands of traffickers in the U.S.

So now you're following the bus and you go to one of the stations for the Border Patrol where they're processing these kids.

You follow the bus, but you don't go in.

No.

One of the border people come out and say, hey, thanks for the support, blah, blah, blah.

And you're standing there on the edge.

And I'm going to show a video.

You'll be able to hear what it's doing.

A truck comes out,

like a ram truck or something.

Toyota tundra.

Okay.

And

this

Toyota comes out.

It has a border guard in it.

You can see his face.

He pulls up.

He stops.

He looks at somebody who is with you.

Yeah.

A senior member of our team, a female.

Okay.

Who's filming the bus?

Right.

She's filming, and

he

slams down the accelerator.

You'll hear the car peel out.

And then you'll hear the thump of her being hit.

Listen, watch.

There's the bus going in.

Now comes the border patrol agent, and apparently his personal truck.

I mean, that's in

the threw a stop at her.

He threw a stop at her.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

I mean, that's insane.

Yeah, and for what reason?

Doesn't know us.

And if he did for a minute, all we do is support law enforcement.

But then he flees the scene of the crime.

He gets chased down to a red light, flees again, and it turns into a massive debacle because he is a Border Patrol agent in uniform.

Very unfortunate.

When you look at the video, too, he's not even looking forward where you would normally look when you're driving.

He's looking directly with eye contact at this woman who he just tries to run over.

Stops his vehicle, comes to a stop, looks at her, and the stop is protocol for them.

And I found that out because the gate has to close behind them so that no one can sneak into the gate.

So he follows that protocol.

So he's, at least with wherewithal for that.

Yeah.

And he knows, I mean, he's clearly looking at you guys on the corner.

And there's 10 people that he's looking at.

He's not just looking at, he's looking at this particular woman,

but you don't see, he misses me by six inches, maybe, enough for me touch the truck, to slap the side of the truck, to yell, stop, because you just struck a human being with your vehicle.

So

now you might say, and

this will separate this show from the left and rest of media.

You might say that that guy thought you were a bunch of lefties that were trying to, you know, do bad things to the Border Patrol.

Even if that's true, I hope he goes to jail.

You just don't do that.

You say that you just think this is something that is showing how close they are just to snapping the pressure they're under.

You know, Glenn, you do such a great job.

You and Stu on this show of just connecting dots for America.

You do an amazing job.

So if we just continue that thread, connecting dots, earlier that day and the day before, I have interviews with state troopers.

And what you have to remember is not just Border Patrol.

We're using state troopers, National Guard, Texas Guard.

This is copybook the message on the border.

Anybody you talk to, sir, we are here to support the refugees.

And I say, son, he's 25.

No, you signed up for the U.S.

National Guard for a different reason than that.

Sir, we're here to support the refugees.

Then you could say, but they're not refugees.

Sir, we're here to support the refugees.

And what that says to me, and I look at this, the pressure that our law enforcement agents on the border are under because of the administration, the message

and the edict

and the mantra from the Biden administration, they're going to crack.

You're going to see this happen more and more and more.

We're seeing Border Patrol agents commit suicide.

This is a result, I believe, of an unholy pressure that's on our law enforcement from the administration.

Because can you imagine every day after day,

I'll show you kids being fished out of the river.

If you see that as a Border Patrol agent and you know you're not deterring illegal immigration, that pressure is going to mount up.

Something's going to snap.

But you are pressing charges against him, aren't you?

Yes, and so this is federal.

So the district attorney is taking it.

It's even in the Attorney General of Texas' office at the moment.

And the charges against him by the state, not even by us, is

aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which is a felony.

And then second felony, fleeing the scene of a crime.

There's going to be a civil suit by the woman who was struck by the vehicle, rightfully so.

But there's a federal suit that's even got nothing to do with her.

So

he's in serious hot water at this moment.

And do we know anything about him and his record?

Yeah, we do.

And look, it's public knowledge.

His name's Roberto Durand.

No reference to the boxer, right?

And he's been with Border Patrol for a long time.

They call him Bobby.

And to what we know, no prior behavior like this, which again tells me it's just the snapping.

These guys are snapping.

He doesn't know us.

He's never had any interaction.

If he knows anything about us, Glenn, you know.

He'll know.

These guys are with us.

They fight for us.

The day before, we delivered goods to Border Patrol, physical resources, right?

So I think this is unfortunate.

He has to, of course, he acted as an individual, and we'll see whether the state feels that the pressure was coming.

It doesn't matter.

He still should pay for

a crime.

I mean, you know, fleeing the scene

is almost as bad as the first one.

I mean, you know.

Two bad decisions.

Yeah, you make a mistake,

you don't flee the scene.

And I think the peeling out of the tires.

Intentional.

Yeah,

speaks volumes.

Yeah.

Yako, thank you for everything that you're doing.

Let me ask you one more question.

When they filed this, I have heard that...

Because you had nine eyewitnesses?

Nine eyewitnesses who had sworn affidavits on site.

PD took this very serious.

PD separated themselves from Border Patrol because PD can't arrest them.

It's got to come from Washington.

It's a whole debacle.

Unfortunately, Glenn, when that case was filed by PD to the district attorney's office yesterday, they omitted to enter the eyewitness reports or the video.

How is that possible?

It's not.

I mean, it's possible if it's done intentional.

It's not in the case file.

So now we had to go to the district attorney, also notified the attorney general to say, look, nine eyewitnesses signed signed affidavits on site.

None of it's in the case file.

It's a problem.

There's so much cover-up at the border, Glenn.

There's so much.

I mean, it's insane what's happening down there.

Guys who are working on the border,

you can't

just let things fall where they fall.

Let the chips fall where they may.

Please,

I believe most people in the United States are with the Border Patrol.

You start covering, you start doing anything like this.

I know the pressure.

I know, but you've got to be on the up and up.

And

I really truly don't think I believe, and I know

99% of our Border Patrol, our

law enforcement officials, et cetera, et cetera, are good guys.

Don't make excuses for the bad guys.

Let the chips fall where they may.

We've got to have somebody we trust.

And if you start doing stuff like this, you'll lose our trust.

And then, what do we have?

What do we have?

Yako, thank you so much.

Thank you, God.

Thank you, Stu.

Keep us up to speed on what happens.

Nah, nah, nah, nah.