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So the debate is going on, and I love this debate.

Is it a concentration camp?

Is it an internment camp?

Or is it a summer camp?

Now, I don't know about you, but it's hard to confuse at least the first one with the last one.

We just know it's a camp.

We just know it's a camp.

We don't know what type of camp.

Could be CYO camp.

We don't know.

It could be.

It could be any of these.

They're all being used to describe the same thing.

Australia has opened multiple facilities for people traveling into Australia to quarantine for 14 days upon arriving in Australia.

The official website for the Australian's Northern Territory government says the places are mandatory, supervised, quarantine facilities.

And they're popping up all over Australia.

Now, we have spent over a week looking into these because it's either Auschwitz or it's a summer camp.

And I didn't want to go on the air.

half-cocked.

I wanted to find the truth.

So here it is.

One of these facilities, the Center for National Resilience in Howard Springs, attracted attention last week because three teenagers were trying to run away from the facility and they were caught by police and brought back to the summer camp.

Now, these teenagers hadn't been traveling from overseas because that's what it was supposed to be.

You get off a plane, you got to stay there for 14 days and then you can go home.

All right.

But this has now expanded the mandate.

Instead of just housing repatriates, they're also housing people who who catch the virus as well as those who are in close contact with those who have the virus.

Okay, this is beginning to sound, I don't know about you, but it doesn't have old people.

Well, it might, but I haven't seen the bikini pics yet of the old people there.

It sounds a little like what happened with the nursing homes.

Hey, you're trapped in the nursing home.

Hey, you have coronavirus.

Why don't you come to the nursing home?

Now, the three teenagers had close contact with somebody who had coronavirus.

Not only did the teenagers not have COVID, but even the chief minister of the Northern Territory, Michael Gunner, admitted he knew that they had tested negative the day before they tried to break out.

So the Australian police chased down the three teenagers who had tested negative the day before and returned them against their will to the facility.

And then the chief minister of the Northern Territory threatened the teenagers that they may have to restart their time in quarantine.

He said, absconding from Howard Springs isn't just dangerous, it's incredibly stupid.

Oh my gosh, Captain Tripps, because we will catch you and there will be consequences.

Now to make sure this doesn't happen again, they've announced that they will install more cameras in the facility.

If the facilities are to keep everybody safe from COVID,

then why are the teenagers without COVID being forced to restart their 14 days there?

Explanation, punitive.

It seems like the teenagers are not the only ones being punished.

Haley Hogston.

She is a recent detainee of the Howard Springs facility.

She's speaking out about her time there.

Here's what she said.

we will extend your time in here.

All right.

She describes in the video two undercover investigators that showed up to her house unannounced, asking her if she, quote, knows this person who's her friend and tested positive for COVID.

They asked her if she had been tested.

She said yes, but she was lying.

She had just been to a COVID camp the month before and didn't want to go back.

The investigators left, then called five minutes later, and and she told them she lied.

They said, stay where you are.

Someone will come and test you.

But they didn't come to test her.

Two uniform officers showed up to tell her they were taking her to Howard Springs and she had no choice.

Now, she had just gotten out.

Now she meets somebody else and she has to go back.

Here's what she said.

So I just said, look, I don't consent to this.

I don't understand why I can't just self-isolate at home like a lot of other people are doing.

And they just said,

we've just been told from higher up where to take you and that's all that there is.

Okay.

She had to go to the facility, quote, until she tests negative and then she can come home.

But when she arrived, a new set of cops told her that she had to stay for 14 days and she tested negative every single day.

At Howard Springs, you have to wear a mask and if you leave your little balcony, it's about two meters, it's six and a half feet about, if you leave that little balcony, You're in trouble.

She has a medical exemption from having to wear a mask, but she was still reprimanded for stepping off her little balcony maskless.

Here's what happened.

What's the go?

So this, I'm going to give you a warning, yeah?

It's an official warning that you have to stay on your balcony and obey the rules while you're here, yeah?

And that's we have to go to the rules again.

I don't care.

So am I allowed to go to the laundry?

You're allowed to go to the laundry, but you've got to wear a mask, yeah?

Yeah, right, okay.

And you're definitely going to go up to the fencing rails, but you're allowed to go to the laundry, yeah?

That's always been the case, yeah.

Right, so if I was sitting just here, which is right near the fence,

why are these guys in a cabin that's right near the fence?

It makes no sense, does it?

Yeah, but you can't leave your balcony to go to the fence to talk to somebody else.

That's just obvious, yeah.

So if I was at that balcony,

so she's saying, she's pointing to a balcony that is right up against the fence.

She can't go off her balcony and approach the fence, but she could be on her balcony.

at the fence and that's okay and she's just pointing out that doesn't make any sense

she says look this is making me very, very

anxious.

So here's a crazy part.

Listen to what she says.

Because I was so distressed and I said, can you just please let me out for a walk or a run?

Like I'm in this little box and I can't move.

Can I please, you know, I'm anxious.

I'm feeling not well.

Just I need to get out.

And they literally.

said, we've got a doctor calling you and we'll get some valium prescribed to you that you can call us anytime you like and you can have valium.

Okay, so now they're

now they're like, hey, welcome to a brave new world.

Have some medication.

They've lost it in Australia.

Now, is this a concentration camp?

Or is this a summer camp?

Or is it an internment camp?

Well, Tim Poole came under fire for calling these facilities concentration camps.

specifically criticizing the fact that 39 Aboriginal people have been recently transported to the facility, citing a video of Aboriginals and their representatives saying they're being chased down with syringes and forced to go to Howard Springs.

Here's what Tim Poole said.

Now, I referred to this as a concentration camp.

Why?

Because the word concentration camp doesn't literally mean Nazi death camp.

Right.

And there is some,

you know,

you are trying to evoke an emotion by saying concentration camp.

I did not choose those words lightly.

I'm literally trying to point out what's happening.

The government of Australia has built camps.

They are putting people in those camps.

They are claiming it's for safety.

This is step one in the 100-step process towards locking up people, sealing them in, and then letting them die.

Will it get to that point?

Maybe not.

No idea.

But when has the government built camps with relocatable cabins for people deemed suspected of having a sickness to to be locked away for a short period of time.

When has that turned out well?

Okay, so the online Australian magazine Quillette fired back and said those videos are fake, known by political opportunists, and that the real Aboriginal people on the ground, I love this line, are grateful for what the government is doing.

Like he said, when is the last time a government has built a camp and it turned out well?

When's the last time you heard anybody say, no, the original people on this land, they loved being rounded up by the government.

They wanted that for their own safety.

So the debate between the two has gotten really, really ugly.

Now,

the next thing that comes in this story is Twitter has been flooded with pictures of women in thong bikinis loving their time at Howard Spring Centers

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These pictures of these women in thongs,

it does seem like a nice summer camp.

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All right.

All right.

Concentration camps,

internment camps,

or summer camps.

Okay.

It's comfortable authoritarianism with a good PR team.

You can't leave, even if you test negative, without being chased down by the police.

But there's free Wi-Fi.

You can't really get an attorney to represent you, but there's women in thongs.

Most importantly, it's for your own good.

Now, the majority of Australians are going along with this.

The chief minister made clear after the teenagers tried to escape.

I also wanted to point out the overwhelming compliance that we've had.

Given several hundred people have been placed into the center of national resilience linked to the clusters from Robinson River, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So most people agree.

In fact, the large majority of the people, because we've had hundreds of people,

thousands if not millions agree, putting those hundreds of people away is fine.

Again, not a great standard.

Compliance.

in exchange for safety.

This is what's on display now in Australia.

You're not free, but you're comfortable, maybe even happy.

You're comfortable and maybe happy, but you're not free.

This is the problem.

This is the problem.

It is not a concentration camp.

It's not.

It's not anywhere close.

I think it could be more in line with an internment camp.

You know, that was for many of the Japanese went happily.

They were fine.

and it was for their own safety, also for the safety of others.

But it was wrong.

It was wrong to do.

They were happy.

As soon as they got out of the horse stalls, they were happy.

It was fine.

There were wonderful pictures taken.

Not of any of the Japanese in thongs, but we had better standards back then.

So,

can it be wrong

and still a great place?

Sure.

Sure can.

In 2030, you're not going to own anything, but you're going to like it.

Well,

I say I'm not going to like that because I'm forced to live that way.

I want to be free.

I would like to have my day in court.

I don't, no matter how nice it is.

You know, it's the people who say, you know, slavery wasn't all bad.

I mean, there were some slaves that were like part of the family.

Yeah, except that part of the family wasn't free to go chart their own course.

So

no matter how great slaves were kept, it was still slavery and bad because you're not free.

Same thing here.

It's very nice.

It's like they're part of the family.

Except they're not free.

Here's the lesson that we need to learn.

This is what not to do, America.

Since the pandemic began, Australia has been the perfect example of how to seamlessly slide into unbridled authoritarianism.

And it's been enough to make anyone with even the faintest desire for freedom want to run to the hills.

But they gave up their guns, so they have nothing they can do.

These are not concentration camps.

They're far from it.

But they are not harmless either.

They are corrosive to the human psyche and undermine freedom from every angle.

The warning that this is some kind of authoritarianism is a primer for something as sinister as concentration camps is written off as a slippery slope argument.

Well, it may be.

We have to ask,

What would stop it from getting to the point of a concentration camp?

What is the limiting principle here?

Where is the line in the sand?

At what point do you go, okay, well, that's too far?

If this were happening in America, if this were happening to you,

what would you do?

You should answer that question because three years ago, I wouldn't have imagined Americans would comply with months of lockdown, and they're still doing it.

I couldn't have imagined people losing their jobs over a vaccine.

I couldn't have imagined being asked to present my papers at a restaurant.

I thought our line would be way before those things could happen.

I bet Australians did as well.

If we don't want to end up asking, is that a concentration camp or a summer camp?

Then we should get off the path that we're on right now.

Find your line and hold it.

So you would agree, I think, with

what Tim said on there's 100 steps to Nazi death camps, and this is step one of 100.

We're on our.

Why take step one, though?

Correct.

Why go down this road?

And by the way,

if the infection were worse, the last place you want to be is a place where the government is gathering everybody.

As we learned, you remember in Katrina?

Hey, there's safety under the dome.

Right.

No, there wasn't.

That was was the worst place you could be.

And, you know, like the centralized quarantine idea has been going on, by the way, most of this time in Australia.

I mean,

it happened in the United States when Ebola came here in Dallas, if you remember, when people came back from the ship.

And I think Ebola again.

But I mean, at the beginning of COVID, right?

From the first cruise line, we brought those people back in.

They had to quarantine.

Sometimes it's centralized.

It's not American at all.

It's not an American idea at all.

They might like it in in Hong Kong, but they don't like it here.

It was an American idea.

It was.

It's what I'm glad we don't have anymore.

The Japanese, the Native Americans.

I think, haven't we apologized for those?

We probably should not go down.

No, I'm going to come out and say it.

Damn it.

Wow.

Yeah, I'm going to say it.

We shan't be doing that here.

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Let's go to Germany, the happiest place on earth, shall we?

To exclude the unvaccinated people from much of public life,

the German people

are facing now a soaring fourth wave of the corona pandemic.

And to blunt the worrisome new Omicron variant, They have announced tough new restrictions.

The new rules, which stop short of enforcing a complete lockdown on the unvaccinated, followed an agreement hammered out between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her successor, Olaf Schultz.

Under the new rules, those wishing to go to bars and restaurants or shop anywhere in stores other than those carrying

basic necessities like pharmacies or grocery stores,

you will have to present proof of vaccination or documentation of recovery from a recent coronavirus infection.

Some of those restrictions have been in effect already in some states, but now it's nationwide.

With the new rules

and a promise by Mr.

Schultz that he would push a law making vaccinations mandatory, Germany is following the path of Austria and Australia.

Recently,

they mandated that all adults be inoculated by February.

It comes as both countries contend with strident anti-vaccination sentiment in their populations that have kept the vaccination rates low.

You can see from the decisions that we have understood that the situation is very, very serious, says the Chancellor.

at a news conference last week.

I'm glad that in this difficult situation, situation, we're working shoulder to shoulder and that party politics is taking a back seat.

And the health of the citizens is the focus of the common endeavor.

And I think when the German politicians all march in lockstep, we can all truly celebrate there.

I don't know.

You know, Austria,

Germany,

you'd think the idea of papers, please, would be not such a good thing.

You know what I mean?

You might look at that and go, hmm.

I seem to remember sometime in our recent history, we had papers and then people that were deemed dangerous, and so we wouldn't let them shop anywhere.

You want to be pretty careful on that road if you happen to be in that particular nation.

You know, you just think that would be.

I think you might.

You might.

One thing that does stand out to me as you watch all this stuff go happen around the globe.

talked about australia and germany and there's plenty of other places right now is how much of an outlier we are like as a country like you know i don't want to say we're

special in any way because that would be that would be wrong that would be wrong we are special in our evilness in our evilness maybe that's it maybe that's it because you realize that like most of these countries just go along with all this stuff And yes, we hear from people like the women that we played in this, in this particular camp in Australia.

And

there are people having, there are mass protests in a lot of these countries.

But like you look at the polling in these countries on these topics, I mean, when Japan was holding the Olympics,

it was overwhelmingly unpopular to hold them.

Japan was like, no, we don't want these people here coming in from other countries.

It wasn't like it would be here where we're like, let's all get in full stadiums right now.

Because Japan has like 40 people living in it.

It's not even true.

It has a lot of people.

But they're all living in a shoebox.

They're all living in a shoebox.

You disagree with this point?

We're an outlier?

I don't think we're going to be aware of that.

No, I think we are an outlier.

I think we're an outlier, but we're not that far apart.

I think we are.

Do you think a year ago we would have been thrilled to have the Olympics here?

A year ago, I mean, there would have been more

pushback.

Yeah, you're right.

But again, you know, I think that there is...

You know, we talk about places like, you know, Sweden, right?

And Sweden and how they handled things differently.

And I completely agree with the way they handled it from a personal liberty perspective.

That's where we should have been.

Right, exactly.

Especially the United States should have been like, okay, like, look, here's our recommendations, but you know, this is America.

You do what you do.

And that's kind of what Sweden did.

What's interesting about the Swedish people, though, is they listen.

Right?

Like, the government says, hey, stay away from each other and stay inside.

And they're like, all right.

That's kind of how it went.

I mean, like, yes, they didn't put on a lot of the restrictions we had here, but they listened, generally speaking, to their government's recommendations.

Can I tell you something?

We don't.

We would have

if they wouldn't have been so creepy.

Okay, they were just creepy about it.

Like creepy.

I mean, this could be the best well-meaning policy in the world, which, of course, I don't agree that it is.

But if it did, talking about it like this, there's no way an American takes that as anything other than creepy.

Correct.

I don't know that that's the case around the world.

I think there are a lot of people in different cultures who just Germany should not be one of them.

Totally true.

Germany should not be one of those.

I'm not arguing that we should be more like Germany.

I'm arguing that.

No, no, no, no.

No one else should know like us.

No, no, I know that.

But, you know, the problem here is, is the government.

I don't think we would have, I bet you we would be at 90 to 95% vaccinated, probably at least 90.

Right now, if the government wouldn't have said, you will take this and you'll ask no questions.

Okay, wait, what?

That's the problem.

Did you see the latest thing from the American Heart Association?

Yeah.

Okay, so they published this thing that says, hey, there's a real problem with

the vaccine and,

you know, heart disease.

Now, they're not saying everybody who takes it is going to have heart disease.

It's just

one of the problems.

Okay.

One of the side effects might be heart disease.

Okay.

Seems rational.

They immediately pulled that.

That's a mistake.

That's a mistake.

We didn't mean to say that.

What are you talking about?

We didn't need to say,

what?

I've seen prescription medicine commercials.

It's like 10 seconds of, hey, you've got a problem with your wiener.

Take this.

And 55 seconds of, yeah, but it could cause all of these problems.

You could turn into a vampire.

I mean, they tell you all the craziest things that could happen.

And on this one, nothing.

VC, nothing.

Just silly.

I think it's ridiculous.

Be honest with people and let them assess their own risk.

That's the problem.

Right.

And the risk profile is different for someone who's 65 years old and has cancer than someone who's 22 years old and in good health.

This Omnicrons thing.

This is a prime example of it.

Who would have seen this coming?

A new study comes out over the weekend and says, looks like it's spread much easier, but a lot less deadly.

Now, who would have thought that except the people who discovered it?

Okay, but

everybody in government went, Omnicron, it's a transformer and it's going to kill all of us.

No,

I've never seen anything like that.

We don't have any of the data and let's close everything.

Why?

The people who discovered it said it really just causes body aches.

Instead of celebrating it, we demonized it.

That's a good thing.

That one will kill all of the others.

Because if everybody gets, yeah, if every idea is that the weakest one that travels from person to person the fastest will become the dominant variant.

And that's a good thing.

It's already dominant in South Africa.

It's 15 states here.

We have it already in 15 states.

It's not dominant in 15 states.

No, no, no.

I know we have it in 15 states.

Yeah, but the fact that it is dominant already in South Africa indicates that, yeah, it is pretty darn contagious.

And, you know, look, that doesn't mean you don't

look at the information and make sure you're judging it appropriately, right?

Nobody wants it to be worse.

Appropriately.

Right.

But these travel restrictions.

No.

They're not going to work.

By the time you find this, it's everywhere in the world.

No, I mean, like, you know, I don't know.

President Trump kind of famously

limited travel from China at the beginning.

Because at that point, they were welding people into their houses.

We had no idea what we were dealing with.

Yeah, look,

I'm not all that critical of a couple week travel delay to South Africa when you have a new thing pop up.

That's not the type of restriction I think is crazy.

No, I don't think it's going to do much.

It might delay it a week.

It's not going to do anything.

But it is

something you can look at.

And you don't necessarily want to import new strains of the virus before you know anything about it.

If you can delay a little bit,

I don't think that's a terrible policy, but I, you know, restrict, it's completely insane to be putting on, like the restrictions they're putting on a state of emergency in New York when they had no cases.

Correct.

That's good.

No cases.

Completely not.

It should not be affecting anyone's life here in the United States right now.

So try this on precise.

Oregon is now considering indefinite mask mandates that the wearing of the mask, that mandate, will never go away.

It's like a fetish at this point.

It is.

It's like a weird fetish thing that some of these states have, and some of these, particularly people on the left, have with the mask.

It's no longer, I mean, we can be honest about this, I think, at this point.

No longer, maybe there was a time in which they thought this was a situation where this was going to affect the way the virus is going to spread.

None of them believed this at this point.

A mask mandate obviously isn't doing anything.

You know, you can make an argument in a lab setting with certain, especially high quality masks,

that people, if people use it at 100% and everyone's really diligent about it, maybe it makes a difference.

There's one study that happened in Bangladesh and they found surgical masks worn widely reduced transmission by 11%.

Now, 11% is not nothing, but is it something, is it this insane cultural point to beat up your political opponents?

over it is leading obviously not it is leading to mental illness I have a friend who was in in California in San Francisco last week and he said I can't take a picture because they're all staring at me but I'm at this gathering and there are people seriously wearing gas masks

and he's like this is crazy this is out of your and I think they're I think it is leading to a mental illness.

I agree.

You come down to Texas.

I mean, we just had our Mercury party.

I don't think anybody wore a mask.

I don't think a single soul wore a mask.

Maybe one was.

No matter where you are, right now.

But it might have been, if there was one, I think it's one of the employees that

is susceptible to

disease because of different medications, et cetera, et cetera.

But I don't think there was anybody wearing a mask that I saw.

And it's normal here.

We've gone back to normal or as as relatively normal as you can get.

And you go up, you go up north, you go into California and they're crazy.

They're crazy.

If you are in California, you don't have to live that way.

You really don't.

Escape.

Escape.

It's crazy what they're doing.

I will say, though, too, I think there's the pushback in those states is significant as well.

And like, you know, I've visited some of the blue states over the past six months.

And while, yes, you get more mass usage, there are more restrictions.

You know, I was in indoor bars in Lori Lightfoot's Chicago with no ventilation and no one was wearing masks.

I mean, this is in Chicago.

Like,

the government very well might want to put on indefinite mask mandates for control, but the people are saying no.

And again, I point back to us being special.

I don't know that that's happening all over the world, but right here, we're saying, even people in Democratic areas are saying, nah, we're not doing this anymore.

I will tell you that I, and I want to talk about this later on in this program.

You just have to remind me, Stu.

I am more optimistic now about us surviving than I have been in probably 15 years.

There is a change in America.

There is a real change.

But you can't allow them to make it,

you know, illegal to be without a mask.

Right, no, of course.

Because then you're a criminal.

They've already done this.

You're a criminal on a whole bunch of things every single day if they want to get you.

Yeah, my argument is not not to push back because it doesn't matter.

My argument is keep pushing back because it works.

Absolutely.

It's working.

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Omicron.

It's not Omnicron.

I can't say it either.

No, no one can say it, and no one knows how to say it.

I think Omicron and Omicron are both acceptable.

Omicron is how they announced it when they announced the variant name.

So that's what I've been going with.

How about Omnicorn?

That's definitely not Omnicorn.

It's not.

No, 100%.

I heard that from Fauci.

You did hear that from Fauci.

And you also may have heard Omnicron from Biden.

It's never Omnicron.

No, from Biden, I heard...

That's kind of what I heard, too.

But we have the actual video of it.

Oh, we do.

Yeah.

All right.

Now, you tell me, none of these, you're looking for Omicron or Omicron.

Do you hear that in any of these examples?

The Omnicron.

Omnicron.

Omnicron.

Omnicorn.

Omnicorn.

I think it's Omnicorn from Fauci.

I think it is.

I'm going to start calling it Omnicorn.

Can we hear it one more time?

He's the expert.

He's science.

This is, by the way, these are

separate clips from Biden.

So this is not us repeating Biden.

He did it

Omnicron three different times in the press conference.

Here it is.

Omnicron.

Omnicron.

Omnicron.

Omnicorn.

Omnicorn.

It's the Omnicorn variant.

Are you arguing with science itself?

I am.

I'm calling it Omnicorn from here on out.

The Omnicorn variant.

I will not be accused of arguing with science.

That's true.

If you call it Omicron, you are arguing with science because Fauci is science.

Yes.

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Biden came out last week okay enough Biden came out last week and talked about the supply chain and said it's not going to be a problem.

Well, let me just tell you, the Food and Drug Administration is now warning that the supply chain bottleneck is threatening the availability of over 100 pharmaceutical products.

According to the website, the agency has asked manufacturers to evaluate their entire supply chain, including active pharmaceutical ingredients, finished dosed forms, and any components.

Yeah, they're saying that there might be some shortage of heart medications, antibiotics, and cancer drugs.

But other than that, Santa Claus is coming to town.

This is what Biden said.

If you've watched the news recently, you might think the shelves in all our stores are empty, and parents won't be able to get presents for their children on the holidays.

But here's the deal.

No joke.

For the vast majority majority of the country, that's not happening.

Seriously.

Because of the actions of the administration that we've taken in partnership with business and labor retailers and grocery stores and permanent.

Now, I can't promise everybody's going to get the gift they want on time.

Only Santa Claus can keep that promise.

I also can't promise you that you can get your cancer treatments or your,

you know, or your blood pressure medicine or heart medicine.

Because, well, it's not happening.

Okay.

I think maybe we should start taking things seriously.

Has this government done anything to protect our critical infrastructure?

The first thing we should have done after COVID was, hey, we're going to make sure that medicine is available here.

That we actually make some critical ingredients for medicines.

We didn't do it.

Now, instead, we made sure that we have critical infrastructure.

In case there's ever a war, we have a strategic oil reserve.

Except, let's open it up for gasoline

because, well, we shut down all the pipelines and gas is getting really, really pricey.

So let's open up the strategic oil reserves and make the price go down 1.8 cents.

Not two cents, 1.8.

When are we going to replace that in our strategic oil reserves?

I want to talk to Tim Stewart.

He is the president of the U.S.

Oil and Gas Association.

Hi, Tim.

How are you?

Glenn, good morning.

It feels like 1973 all over again, doesn't it?

It's crazy.

So, hang on, full disclosure.

Tim is the brother

of

the guy who runs my ranch.

Listen to this.

You want to talk about a family.

The guy who runs my ranch, who also happens to be, he was a full bird colonel, was he not in the Air Force?

He was, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Your other brother is a federal judge, and your other brother, your other brother is a congressman.

But other than this lazy family stuff, what do you have to show for it?

You probably ought to meet my sisters, actually, because my sisters are far more impressive than

the dead meat brothers that are in the family.

I'm the weak link in all of this.

I'm the weak link in all of this, so I understand.

Right, I know.

You're only the president of U.S.

Oil and Gas Association.

So

tell me

what is happening and what's true

on the oil and gas situation?

What are we really expecting?

Well, sure.

But first, you know, you started out talking supply chain.

There's 6,000 items that are made from petroleum products.

You know, that's everything from toolboxes and petroleum jelly to football cleats and everything else.

And you can't address the supply chain constraints without addressing the ingredients and the base materials that go into building out the supply chain, the supplies for the chain.

And the administration, I think, is,

you know, when I say we're going back to 1973, it really is.

I've been telling people, look, you call it feckless or you call it reckless, but it sure is an energy policy.

Glenn, what you have is

I think you have a situation where people, energy policy is being dictated by people who haven't driven themselves to work for years.

This is the classic administration, you know, Wall Street, white shoe, D.C.

law firm revolving door where people who have been ticked up in black sedans for years are now being driven to their offices to make energy policy for the rest of us.

It's really, really frustrating for those of us schlepps who actually have to fill up twice a week.

So can we go back to where you started before we go to gas?

Let's go back.

The products that are made from petroleum.

You know, I used to be a good friend before he passed away of John Huntsman, and I went to his office and in his lobby, he had this like miniature house that was cut in half and it showed everything that petroleum was involved in.

And I mean, it's everything.

It's everything.

How does the

world live without a healthy supply of petroleum?

Well,

it's not just gasoline, and that I think is where the administration really misses the mark is they think, well, we can drop two cents from actions that we did or didn't take, and boy, look how great we are.

But the reality is, is anybody who is waiting for anything to be made or is trying to make anything relies solely on this base material of which we have in absolute abundance across the world, and particularly in the U.S.

And yet for whatever reason this is sort of that ideological approach that if it is something that may or may not contribute to a carbon footprint then it's bad and that's the whole problem I think is you have this administration you have this confluence of events where the administration arrives at the same time as demand is starting to increase after COVID and that administration starts to make bad decisions on day one and literally every week they make bad decisions with regards to how do we ensure a basic supply of the basic materials we need.

Trevor Burrus Well, now we're talking, I mean, they just did and talking about opening it up a second time, the strategic oil reserve, which I'm not for when a Republican president does it.

That is for strategic purposes.

And, you know, maybe that's to keep the gas price down if you know it's going to come back down.

But with this administration, if they continue to follow what they're doing, gas prices or oil prices will not come down.

They'll get higher and higher as they squeeze even tighter and tighter on these companies.

Am I right?

Yeah,

you're exactly right.

And if I could, just for a second, you know, the administration opened up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in response to being told no by OPEC.

You know, they went to OPEC and begged, please increase production.

Well, no, we're going to keep it at what we had planned, OPEC told them.

And so the administration came back and said, well, we need to show we need to do something.

So let's see, what do we do?

Let's dust off the old Marxist playbook that was used by Venezuela.

Let's one, accuse industry of being a cartel or colluding for higher prices.

And two,

we'll drop more out of the strategic petroleum reserve.

Some perspective, 50 million barrels sounds like a big number.

Reality is, Glenn, that represents one half of one day of global energy consumption.

It's less than two and a half days of U.S.

consumption.

The White House wanted to say, look, we're releasing 50 million barrels because it sounds like a big number, but compared to global crude consumption it's it's a rounding error it's tiny and the markets laughed it off you know within six hours the price of crude had actually increased

so so it was

go ahead sorry go ahead i mean i'm baffled myself i just say yeah i i i mean it is it is so obvious

does do you think anybody believes that this administration is doing anything other than crippling the oil industry?

I mean, do you have any research or anything that shows perception from people?

Well, see, and that's a great question.

You know, we sit and we scratch our heads.

We say, are they doing this on purpose?

Are they doing this because they don't understand?

And if they're doing it because they don't understand, then they're feckless.

If they're doing it on purpose, then they're reckless.

And that takes me back to my first point.

This series of bad decisions, and literally, it's almost week by week.

The reality is,

you know, like I'd invite President, if I had a poker night, I'd invite President Biden to poker night because he is the worst poker player I've ever seen.

He sends mixed messages all the time.

And every single day that goes to the markets, and that's why the markets are fluctuating because they can't figure out exactly where the administration is going.

Well, wait, what is the mixed message here on oil and gas?

Great, you know, great question.

Okay.

So on one hand, they say, well, you know, we're going to do everything we can to help consumers.

And then literally the next day, they will take an action that will constrain industry's ability to produce.

The biggest subtle signal, Glenn, goes to Wall Street continuously.

They're using financial rules.

They're using the SEC, the Office of Comptroller Currency, they're using the FTC and others to send subtle messages to Wall Street to say, our policy says that

you should not invest in fossil fuel projects.

And so it's really easy to send a bank examiner in to a mid-sized bank and say, let me look at your portfolio.

I see that you've got maybe 3% of your portfolio is investing in

fossil fuels.

So what do you think you have factored in the climate risk to that?

And the bank manager says, well, maybe not.

And so he walks out and says, let's just unload this.

And what's happening is you're seeing a squeeze of liquidity, particularly for the smaller players on Wall Street, where they can't get their...

capital expenditure budgets funded for the next couple of years because of the uncertainty the administration sends and it's meant and its messages every day.

Well, they said the administration or who was it, Stu?

Was it Kerry came out and said,

especially the small producers, we will put them out of business.

Yeah.

I mean,

how much of our daily life is affected by the small producers?

It's about the same amount that is affected by a small farmer, to be honest with you.

Agriculture and the oil and gas industry are very closely aligned in how they structure.

You have a few

large players in the ag industry, but it's the thousands and thousands of small farmers who actually make up the volume.

And same with oil and gas.

You have a few players that everybody identifies as big oil and beats them up.

But the reality is there's thousands of smaller companies

who create tremendous volume and add to the portfolio day by day.

And it's those guys that are getting hit hardest when they can't get their budgets approved by their lenders because Wall Street is telling them don't do it because the administration is telling Wall Street not to do it.

Trevor Burrus So

I've been begging the audience to get their money out of these big lenders because of this and other things like it.

They are fully in bed with the Great Reset and ESG standards, which will strangle all of us to death.

And

so I've been urging people, please tell them and then move your money to a local bank.

Tell them why you are taking your money out because of the ESG standards.

You want nothing to do with it.

It's not going to fix the problem, but it will certainly buy time and send a message, hopefully, to the market, the banking market.

What else can we do?

Well, you know, keep using the product for sure.

Well, I don't think I have a choice.

But yeah, you know, and look,

I've been doing this a long time.

I tell people it's a fool's errand to bet against this industry.

It is cyclical in nature.

And the reality is that we produce exactly what people need.

And we'll keep doing that regardless of who is dictating policy right now.

There is a problem, though, Glenn, that nobody talks about the White House, the White House avoids at all costs, and that is this issue of energy poverty.

And it's easy for me to say to people use our product, but when the reality is, look,

industry is cognizant of this fluctuating price market and how hard it is for people.

And energy poverty is something very, very real.

You know, I don't know if you saw this, but there's a Gallup poll that came out last week that said 45% of Americans are reporting financial hardship by increased prices.

Seven in 10 lower American households are experiencing real hardship.

And that's pushing millions of people back into what we're calling energy poverty.

It's because you make rational decisions.

Do I drive the 40 miles to the doctor?

Do I do it on Tuesday or do I do it on Friday?

Because I don't know if I can can afford the fill up for the rest of the week.

That's really concerning to us, you know?

And

I'm really concerned, very, really, very concerned, Tim, about this winter.

I mean, there are a lot of people that

use oil and gas for their furnace that are going to have to not just say, do I go to the doctor, but do I turn the heat up?

And that's, I mean, we are, we're, I don't think no one in the media and certainly no one in the administration is addressing this issue, and they're pretending that it's not going to exist, but it is.

It's already here.

Right.

And so, you know, people say, well, what would you tell the administration to do?

Glenn,

I would say if I were to tell the president, I'd say, look, whatever you're going to do, don't do it.

In fact, I need you to stop trying to help anymore.

The biggest help you would do would be is to go back and undo what you've done since January.

When I said, you know, I'm earlier, he's a lousy poker player.

All he would have to do to send a signal to the Saudis and the Russians, if he were to stand up and say, instead of, I'm going to release money out or release oil out of the petroleum reserve or something else, if he were to stand up and say, I'm going to sign an executive order that removes all unnecessary regulatory impediments to industry and get us back to where we were two years ago, that would send an incredibly powerful market signal.

And I guarantee you that prices would drop rapidly over the next few weeks, and those Americans would be able to afford it.

Talking to Tim Stewart, president of U.S.

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I've just got a couple of questions.

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When Barack Obama stopped the drilling, the deep sea drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, I remember talking to oil experts and they said, Those things are on long-term lease.

You get rid of them.

It's going to be a long time time before they're able even to come back, and you just don't build a new one quickly.

Can we reverse this?

Is there going to be damage done in the next three years that is irreversible?

Well, so give it some perspective.

When Obama took office,

the federal oil and natural gas production was about 24%,

or sorry, about 36%.

When he left, it had dropped down to about 24%, and natural gas had dropped to 13%.

And a lot of that is reflecting on not just the offshore, but also his onshore constraints.

And essentially, they've devalued the federal oil and gas assets where it is almost worth nothing.

The industry is very, very reticent to try and pursue any federal onshore leases in particular.

It's just not worth the regulatory risk, locking up the capital for 16, 17 years.

One last thing.

Do you have any idea of what you think

gas is going to be?

I mean, it just hit $5 a gallon in California this weekend.

Any idea what we could be facing in the next few months?

Well, you know, a lot of that is so, there's so many unknowns.

I mean, with that COVID variant had caused a much greater drop in crude prices than anything Biden did.

But we imagine...

We're seeing production inventory start to stabilize.

From industry's perspective, we don't like oil that's in the $80 a barrel.

It's too difficult for us.

And so we're doing everything we can to get production up to where it needs to be, despite the federal intervention that's there to keep us from doing that.

We're hopeful we get down to Americans, can get back to work and do what they need to do.

Tim Stewart, president of the U.S.

Oil and Gas Association, thank you for being on with us.

God bless you.

It was great.

You bet.

Thanks, man.

Talk to you later.

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Stu and I were just talking off air about the metaverse.

And believe it or not, the metaverse is coming and we're going to be talking about it beginning next year.

But you ready for this?

Land prices,

land prices in the metaverse,

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Yeah, because I don't like this version of the metaverse yeah which is where we just stare at our phones and and don't let talk to each other yeah right i don't even like that let alone what this could be well let's go back to the real universe the the actual one where there are yet some consequences um

chris cuomo the fredo of the family was put into the little boat and taken fishing by cnn this weekend That's nice.

Yeah.

Nice little trip out to the water.

Yeah, you should see the godfather.

Anyway,

so Fredo is out on the boat.

And

when they come, when, you know, the guy who took him fishing comes back and goes, I don't know what happened.

He was lost at sea along with my shotgun.

Anyway,

they don't say what Fredo did to finally get him fired.

This is a really interesting part of the story.

Obviously, we all know what Cuomo has done that should have gotten him fired.

Correct.

You know, everything from helping his brother to completely failing as a host

to lying to the network to lying to his own audience to previous sexual harassment allegations that were confirmed basically by Chris Cuomo himself.

Right.

All of those things did not rise to the level for

CNN to do anything.

Now, eventually they did suspend him, and they suspended him

based on, I think, a couple of things.

One,

there was some additional information that came out from the state of New York, and we covered this a little bit last week.

Probably the worst part of this was he was actually targeting one of the women and calling sources to get information on one of the women.

But that still wasn't bad enough.

Still for the CNN.

Right.

Then

he also was outed as lying, not only to the audience, but to the network itself.

So it's one thing to actually break every journalistic piece of ethics that's ever happened in the history of mankind, where even their own, Jake Tapper Tapper himself came out and said no journalist could possibly think this was okay.

This is back in May, and they still didn't do anything.

So he crosses this line where now he's not only lying to the audience and

ruining journalism, but he's also now embarrassed his employers.

And that's hard.

Brian Stelter

came out and said on Saturday

that Cuomo had, quote, caused so many headaches and many staff members at CNN were very unhappy at their decision.

This is fascinating because, number one, Stelter said earlier

back in January.

He was the one person who was really kind of on the optimistic Cuomo train here, that he might actually be back.

There's a lot of reporting that he was done with Zucker because of the embarrassment.

He might have had a crush on him.

Maybe he was thinking, maybe somebody will grab my butt.

I don't know.

Some people like different things.

We do have the Selter quote, by the way.

This is clip five.

Listen to this.

This is about a confluence of factors,

about a series of headaches that seemed like they were never going to end.

I said on the air last night when the news broke, this seems like a case of death by a thousand cuts.

And my reporting sense backs that assessment up.

This was about not any single headache, but many headaches that continued to pile up.

100,000 in the demo.

We'll do that to you.

Yeah.

Yeah, he was dying.

The ratings were dying.

And Anderson Cooper came in and they went up, which is not a huge surprise, I suppose.

But I think one of the issues here,

which is bizarre, is that the last cut of the thousand cuts appears to be a brand new sexual harassment allegation against Chris Cuomo

that apparently has popped up over just the past few days.

And when it was reported to CNN, they said, okay, we just got to get this over with.

We got to pull the plug on this.

This is a disaster.

Now, they don't want to go through another investigation on this, which is what they'd probably have to do.

It comes through a prominent lawyer.

We don't know any of the details really yet, although the two things that we know is that

she's remaining anonymous and that it seemingly was pre-2013.

So it was an older allegation, not a brand new one.

Well, how old were you when you were 2013?

It seems like.

Ancient history.

Actually, I will say it does feel like ancient history for other reasons, but not for an allegation like this.

So this is coming from the woman who is representing the health policy advisor in Cuomo's administration.

So that lawyer was approached by this new person that said, I can't take it anymore.

Yes.

I'm watching him on TV saying these things.

This is just like last week or the week before, and I cannot take it anymore.

And went in and filed.

And she's like, look, I just, I don't want

any attention.

I don't want anything.

I just can't take his constant lies and his imaging of himself as a saint.

It's interesting that that has been a common trigger for these allegations.

You know, it's one thing to go up there, apparently to sexually harass people,

but it's later on you kind of have that instance where the host is saying something on television and

you know, the victim, the alleged victim, is sitting at home and hearing, wait a minute.

This is the same thing we heard with Don Lemon, right?

Don Lemon had this incident reportedly with, or, you know, allegedly with this guy at a bar.

I don't think it's alleged.

I mean, there's all kinds of people that were there.

He's denying it.

Let's back it up.

But yes, but there are, there are, there does seem to be a significant amount of evidence that at least the event occurred.

I mean,

some of this other allegations on the side of that, it's hard to to know, but at least that the event occurred in some form.

Anyway, it wasn't until he went on the air and said, you know,

all these things about how allegations need to be taken seriously.

And I've always stood up for women in these situations.

It wasn't until that that the accuser came forward.

Same thing here.

We've seen this multiple times now where

Andrew Cuomo himself.

The same thing happened to him, where he

initially said to the first accusers, basically, I didn't do anything.

What are you talking about?

And took this high-minded stance.

And that

inspired his other victims,

allegedly, to come forward and say, okay, I wasn't going to say anything, but now that you're doing this, I have to.

Which is

an amazing

and is so utterly predictable when you know the Cuomo's characters.

I mean, I'm at the point, Glenn, I'm not going to have anybody to talk about anymore.

They're all getting fired.

It is a 100% 100% unemployment rate, as the Babylon B said.

In the Cuomo household, it's worse.

It's 100% unemployment.

It is.

It's sad.

I mean, I feel like what am I going to do?

I've based my household budget on Andrew Cuomo and Chris Cuomo merchandise.

I have to reform my entire household budget.

No, no, no.

I don't go to private school anymore.

Sorry, kids.

Now they're collectibles.

Oh, now they're collectibles.

Now they're collectibles, by the way, available at AndrewCuo is awful.com or Chris Cuomo is worse.com.

But you're right.

Like, it is at that point where it's so over the top.

And, you know, the Cuomo thing has gone down

the rails so fast.

Remember this.

When Andrew was going down, when it was finally, they came to the end of the road with Andrew and they realized this is not savable.

One thing they did was to leak to every media source covering this before it happened.

So it was in all the initial stories that Chris Cuomo actually was the one who pushed Andrew over the over the edge and said, You must resign.

It's time.

They tried everything they could to save the secondary layer of Cuomo's from the fall of the first layer of Cuomo's, and they were unsuccessful in doing it.

Chris was so out of control and acted so poorly throughout all of this that they couldn't even save him

after losing Andrew.

I think this is a really good development.

Look, they say that, you know, CNN wasn't affected.

CNN was greatly affected, greatly affected, not only in their credibility and exposed who they really are, because they still have Don Lemon and they have,

what's his name, Jack.

You know, Jack.

Jeffrey Toobin?

Yes, Jeffrey Toobin.

Jack Adonine.

So anyway,

they still have Toobin and they still have Don Lemon.

So they really,

they haven't changed.

But the key is, Andrew Cuomo, or I mean, Chris Cuomo had lost so many viewers.

None of us are counted in that.

I don't know of a soul in this audience who's like, you know, but I really liked Andrew Cuomo.

I was watching that show no matter what anybody says.

Yeah.

That is hardcore CNN zombies.

Okay.

And

that audience was going away, went away, went away.

That's a good thing.

That shows that even the hardcore people are like, okay, okay.

I mean, I've hit my limits here.

I've hit rock bottom.

Yeah.

I think I'm going to stop drinking this Kool-Aid.

It is.

I think it's a positive.

I don't think they had any intention of getting

rid of him if they could have weathered it.

And I think they hit that limit where even they said there's just no, there's no argument anymore.

It's possible that the leadership at CNN felt so personally burned by Andrew Cuomo after embarrassing you know it's like

remember Hillary Clinton when she came out and she's like it's a vast right-wing conspiracy

and then it's proven obviously to be true it was so

embarrassing to Hillary right and everyone said at the time like I can't believe she's gonna stay with him just because of that it's just she she made he made her go out in public and and defend him with what he knew was a lie And that is, I think, part of the thing.

I honestly think that they would have fired him if it was that before this.

This is good.

Now this?

Right.

It's too much.

Yeah, it's just, I can't.

What else is there going to be?

If we ignore this one, what else is coming next?

I think, and you listen to Stelter's commentary on it, he's right, I think.

I do think he's right on the analysis there.

They were so overwhelmed by his terrible behavior over such a long period of time, they eventually hit their wall.

Any

normal journalistic organization would have hit it on day one.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But it took them a year and a half.

No, he hit the, he's like a crash test dummy that just.

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Have you been to the movie theater lately?

Yes.

What did you see?

I saw the French Dispatch.

The what?

The French Dispatch.

You're not excited about it?

You haven't seen it yet?

No, I haven't even heard of it.

Really?

No.

No, that's not.

What exactly is...

I mean,

don't think I don't watch Upstairs, Downstairs with You Lovey, but what the hell is that?

So I'm a fan of Wes Anderson and Wes Anderson movies, and this is his new one that was supposed to come out in April or May of 2020.

I have seen the Wes Anderson, and I thought, I want to go see that, and I don't remember what it was about.

Yeah, like, you know, this is like the Royal Ten and Bombs is one of my favorite movies.

I love that movie.

You know, Moonrise Kingdom, and

there's a bunch of really, really good ones.

And you have to really be in the mood for it and really like this sort of stuff.

But I did see the French Dispatch.

It's like a Wes Anderson movie.

If you gave him, just said, hey, whatever you do, don't do anything that might bring in a large audience.

Just do what you want in every single moment.

That is the French Dispatch.

Woody, Woody Allen.

You know what?

You should also play the clarinet.

In all of your movies.

Yes.

On screen.

Yes.

Through all of it.

all of it playing the clarinet that is sort of what this is and i like him so i liked it but i don't i it's not going to break any box off his records i i fear

what is it even about it's basically um about a mythical

um

newspaper

or like publication um it's sort of like his love letter to the new yorker apparently when he was uh very young that's how he got into storytelling and loves the new yorker so think about think about a Wes Anderson love letter to The New Yorker.

You know what I saw?

Through a fictional lens, when he got this movie nailed.

That's great.

So a movie you don't understand.

I saw Ghostbusters Afterlife.

Okay.

Have you seen it?

No.

Fantastic.

Really?

Absolutely fantastic.

Gotta see that.

Gotta see that.

More, would you say more audience-friendly than the French Dispatch?

Well, there's a lot of clarinet in this.

No, there's no clarinet in this one.

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There is potential trouble in Iran.

They are not going to agree to any deal that

doesn't improve the Obama-era pact.

So they're looking at Joe Biden going, No, we're not going to just take that back.

We want something better than that.

Then you have China flying

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Hello.

How are you, sir?

Well, you know, I was fine until you kind of read off that little list of everything going on in the world.

Yeah, I mean, I was good until then, but aren't you glad that the grown-ups are not at the table?

Oh, that is great.

I am.

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Boy, we're being taken seriously around the world now.

Yes, and you know, every time I think that I'm done looking at Ukraine, they just pull me right back in.

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This is interesting.

So, this came out, I think it was in the New York Times, that U.S.

intelligence has now said that 170,000 Russian troops.

Yes.

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I think he's definitely at that point.

Of course he will.

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You look at the things that, I mean, I never would have thought Afghanistan would happen.

It did happen.

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No, no, I think that they're just actually incompetent.

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You look at some of the things that they've done that have completely undermined our ability to just even keep stability without having to send armed forces.

Things that we would not do if you were being serious.

Things were done in the Trump administration, but he never got credit for.

Like green lighting the pipeline that would completely circumvent Ukraine, Nord Stream 2.

Yep.

We were like, why is he doing this?

Like,

is he working on some other kind of backroom deal?

Like...

Like, if Trump would have done this, they would have said, oh, you know, he's working with the Russians.

Working with the Russians.

Putin's bought him.

But Biden did that.

And it completely kind of gave up the Trump card that Ukraine had and some kind of stability because the only thing stopping Putin from just rolling straight through if he wanted to was he would be just as decimated as Ukraine would be

economically.

But now that's that's gone away.

And all of these Eastern bloc countries that were on the edge,

Poland, Transylvania and others, are they're all they're begging us.

They're all saying, this is trouble, this is trouble.

You can't let him take the Ukraine, please, because he's threatening all of them.

Yeah, the Ukrainian defense minister, this is how dire they see their situation right now, just said, I think yesterday, that he wants U.S., Canadian, and British troops.

Not a chance.

An actual physical presence on the front line to deter what's about to happen.

They see the writing of the wall.

They see this as coming.

It is coming, but we're not coming.

So there's 70,000 troops on the border right now.

that's that's a that's a conservative estimate there could be as much as 90 000 that 170 000 troops and put these numbers into context that's more than the entire united kingdom military not just military army marines whatever the entire military wow that's the type of numbers we're looking at that's how weak England is, and we haven't taken them yet.

Right?

We need to correct that.

I mean, that's ridiculous.

We could have that.

That's right.

The queen would be ours.

Yes, I see this as similar to, if you want to look at this in context, like a 2008 Georgia situation.

Now,

I think that Putin did that specifically because of Ukraine, what was going on in Ukraine.

That's when you started seeing those color revolutions popping up,

which George Soros and our State Department was part of.

Right, exactly.

And yeah, and was a part of through 2014.

Yep.

But it was a direct message for him to say, look, if you think that you're going to take a country that we believe is ours, if you think NATO and the United States can protect you, they can't.

What are they going to do?

They're trying to get in bed with Georgia.

We'll just invade Georgia.

They did it.

We couldn't do a thing about it.

That's exactly the same thing that's going to happen to Ukraine.

Now is the time for him to deliver that message.

If you believe anywhere in the world that a U.S.

guarantee of security means anything at all, and think of that, Taiwan,

Japan,

any of these Eastern bloc countries that we say don't worry, we got you, bro.

Let's see what they're going to do.

Australia.

Australia.

If things, if they take Taiwan, everything is on the table.

Everything is on the table.

And I don't, I, I mean, Mr.

Neocon, Jason, I'm sure you want war all the time, but uh,

I don't want to go into Ukraine.

Uh, but I'm telling you, the result is going to be they're going to take Ukraine.

They'll end up, they'll just start moving forward.

Because once you let Ukraine go, once you let Ukraine go, China will take Taiwan

because we're sending the signal, the United States is done.

And now you see one of the other tragedies of Afghanistan.

We told them we'd be there for them.

We'd protect the people that we said that we were going to protect.

And the steps that they go.

No.

I'm not saying in no, I don't want war.

I don't want U.S.

troops to go into Ukraine.

We've gone over and over on this.

I want to stop being everywhere all the time.

I want to be where we should be strategically with a very big stick.

And we're sitting back going, no, don't do that.

Right.

But there's

things diplomatically that we can do to ensure that these things don't come to a head, that the administration is just bungling like Nord Stream 2.

Why would you do that?

Those are the things that ensure that our men and women don't have to go fight.

Correct.

Those types of things, but they're not doing them.

They're going in the opposite direction.

So it makes you wonder, I mean, are they that stupid?

Probably yes.

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

But they also are that anti-American.

Yeah, and that is the global agenda right now is to mediocre the entire world.

We are too powerful.

Our own countrymen don't like that.

They want us to skip, they want us to take a few shots.

They want us to step back more and more and more.

Not in the way that, like, we want to step back.

And, you know, we're seeing, but I want to step back without making the world more dangerous.

Yeah.

You know, and you can do that.

You just have to realize it's been a hundred years in the making.

It's going to take a few years and really good strategic planning to be able to back out.

And we need to be backing out, but not giving the world over to Russia and China.

Right.

I'd love to put these things in the context of the adversary and to see, because I think a lot of people, a lot of people are asking me on Twitter, what is the goal here?

Why is Russia doing this?

And you, I mean, I've done a lot of research on Ukraine through the years for you.

We did this, I think, in 2014-ish or something like that, talking about when Crimea was invaded.

Right.

And this is the national, this is the soul this is the spiritual soul of russia there would probably be no russian nation without ukraine yeah that's how serious it is for them and i think most russians don't want a prolonged fight but there is a very large nationalistic you know nationalized you know population in russia that they see that that's how they feel and putin knows this and they always do this throughout the centuries they you know every leader knows how to turn up the dial on nationalism whether it's the orthodox church whether it's like ukraine belarus they know what to do the thing that's scary now is Putin's hitting up all of them right now.

Is he hitting up the Orthodox Church?

Hitting up the Orthodox Church.

That's really dangerous.

Belarus, which they believe is Russia, and Ukraine, which they believe is Russia.

So they're turning those dials.

Look, so what's going to happen?

I think that's the big question right now.

What happens if they invade?

I see a couple of different outcomes.

Now, we could see exactly the same things we saw in Crimea.

Basically, Russia was already there.

So all they did was send in their little, you know, little green men.

Yep.

There was not much, not much shots fired, and they just took it.

Right now, Russia already is involved in a hot war in eastern Ukraine.

It's not reported anywhere, which is a tragedy.

Ukrainians are dying probably daily.

Nobody reports on it, and it's been going on since 2014.

It's one of the sadder things in the world right now.

It's one of the reasons why the guy from Gazprom was, I mean, when we looked at, you know, where, not Gazprom,

the one that Hunter Biden was with.

Oh, Burisma?

Yeah, Burisma.

One of the things that guy was doing was building an army

on the Russian front, if you will, in Ukraine.

He was using some of that money that we gave to Burisma.

It just suddenly disappeared, and we had evidence that some of that money was going to fight that war.

It's been going on and on and on and on.

And we just can't, I guess we just can't decide which side we're on.

Yeah, a billionaire governor.

That was absolutely insane.

And you know, I mean, we were working with them.

The people that are in the administration right now, Biden, the point man for Ukraine, they know, Russia, I mean, Putin is a very vindictive guy, right?

He wants revenge.

He knows that those people in power were the ones that facilitated the taking of Ukraine from him.

So now is the time if you want to do something.

So what do you think that Biden is going to do?

He's kind of backed himself into a corner on this.

I mean, it really was.

He had some leeway with the pipeline, doesn't have that anymore.

So he has a call with Putin tomorrow.

They're supposed supposed to call and discuss Ukraine.

This is tomorrow.

This is Tuesday.

So everyone needs to watch.

You guys know what that's going to be like?

No, no, I don't know.

So embarrassing.

I mean, so we talk about any of this stuff.

You just feel like, as much as we don't like him for his policies, it's terrifying as a nation to have a guy at the wheel who's literally asleep.

I mean, he's falling asleep in these meetings, at least, and there's no reporting on him.

And to be on the phone

with Putin, Putin is, I mean, he was playing three-dimensional chess.

He plays that kind of chess

in his sleep.

Against someone who's sharp, he's difficult to defeat.

Here's a situation where you have someone who is as dull as dullards can be.

But you know what?

I would rather have Biden dealing with him than Kamala.

Can you imagine Kamala Harris on the phone with Putin?

This is just, oh my God.

This is terrible option versus terrible option.

Would she just cackle and dance or something like that when she got when she was like, I don't know how to count

but to answer your question, I think that

I think that he's going to be forced and do big concessions on that call tomorrow.

Um, that's what are the concessions.

I know that they don't want any kind of NATO involvement in Ukraine whatsoever.

That's a big red line for him.

He's going to have to back down, or hopefully, he can convince the rest of NATO to back down.

Well, if he backs down, if NATO decides to back down,

does he still go in and take Ukraine?

Yes, I believe he will anyway.

I mean, they basically already control it, but

the final step will just be, and I think the best case scenario is he just moves his troops into eastern Ukraine, formally annexes, and waits for his next, you know, move further into Ukraine.

Yeah, all he has to do is really go and sow the seeds of chaos in Ukraine.

I mean, that is the playbook of the former Soviet Union.

And then he can just go in with his tanks and saying, I'm just repatriating and I'm just trying to keep the peace in Ukraine because it's so out of control.

Right.

Yeah.

And I say best case scenario.

That's only best case, not for Ukraine, but best case for the immediate, you know, no bloodshed scenario that that happens.

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So let's say he goes in and

he just annexes Ukraine and we do nothing and NATO does nothing.

What does that tell China?

It tells them exactly what they learned from Afghanistan, that a U.S.

guarantee

means nothing.

Threats mean nothing.

And the Taiwan thing is a whole lot larger, I think, for the United States.

Taiwan is a knockout punch for the Western world

because they are the number one maker of chips.

China is number two.

If China takes Taiwan, they dwarf everybody, and you don't have chips for, you know, 80% of what we need chips for.

Taiwan and Ukraine are very interesting because they're kind of similar in the fact that those are American interests that will draw the United States into a larger war.

I'll explain as quickly as I can.

But the last time someone went after the middle part of Central Europe, Ukraine, those other countries, the United States has gone to war to fight to make sure they don't control that area.

It's one of the largest resource areas in the world that can challenge the United States.

That's what brought us us into World War I, World War II, and the Cold War because of that.

So that's a prelude to something larger.

And Taiwan is the same thing.

Whoever, if China controls Taiwan, they're going to move on and try to take over the Pacific.

That is U.S.

interest.

You and I have talked about this for years,

that the ground is being laid for World War III, the next global conflict.

And we're seeing it right now.

It is Ukraine and Taiwan.

It's those two that are going to play up, or I should say, Russia and China.

That is the Axis power.

And

I think they think the time to do it is right now.

And I, quite honestly, I think they're right.

Do you have faith in the leadership of the Pentagon?

No.

No.

I mean, I would not put my son in the military now.

No way, no

way do I want my son in the military if that's the leadership.

We'll get him killed.

Get him killed.

So I have no faith in the administration.

I have no faith in the Pentagon.

And I think Russia and China know that

because

we are absolutely a paper tiger right now.

Yeah.

So Iran, one last thing.

They're now saying they want a better deal than what Obama gave them.

And remember, Obama just flew a whole bunch of money and landed it and put it on a pallet there at the airport for him.

And gave them a deal that was time-gated so they can still pursue a bomb if they wanted to, while at the same time, do whatever they want with rocket technology, do whatever they want with funding all these different militias to overthrow countries like Hezbollah.

Yeah, they want a better deal than that?

That's insane.

If I was the president, I would just step away from the negotiating table and then reinsert.

But what is he going to do?

You know that's what they want.

Right after he became, right after the election, he reassigned a large Iran table of diplomats to start pursuing the deal again.

It's like with friends.

With friends and presidents like this, who needs enemies?

Back in just a second.

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Sure.

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That would be a good use of my time.

But there's a reason they're called health nuts, right?

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Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

You know, we

premiered the song Sad Little Man on on this program by Five Times August, a listener of ours.

It's really good if you haven't heard it yet.

You can find it on YouTube or, you know, Apple Music, Sad Little Man by Five Times August.

Fauci didn't like it, and now YouTube has hidden it.

You have to actually know exactly where to find it.

And they've hidden it.

And Five Times August just tweeted, if Fauci was ever to hear my song Sad Little Man and criticize it, I would just respond back with, you're not really criticizing the song.

You're criticizing all music because I represent all music.

That's a good point.

It is.

It is.

That's a good point.

It is.

It's good.

So let me ask you this.

Yeah.

You said earlier on the show that you have not been.

Don't hold me responsible for what I said maybe 20 minutes ago.

Well, I mean, you said all sorts of things on the show, like the wrong address to sell your own merch.

It's glennbeckmerch.com.

I think that's right now.

It is set up.

Glennbeckmerch.com.

The code is Glenn20.

That makes sense.

That's much better.

But beyond that, more important items here.

You said you were more optimistic than you've been in the last 15 years.

Yes.

Now, there's a couple of things associated with everyone asking.

I think I know what the first one is, is...

Oh, no.

Yeah.

Because whenever you have optimism, it means we're in for the darkest days of the Republic.

So we know something terrible is about to happen whenever you're optimistic.

So that's one.

That hasn't happened, though, since 2008.

And before that, it was 2001.

So

it's true.

Just all the major events of the past 20 years or so.

But you said you were more optimistic.

Is it because of things like this where people are stepping up and saying no?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So here's, so here's what I've been thinking.

And I started feeling this way last week.

And I want to share it with you because I think it's a good thing.

For the last 20 years, I've done this job.

And then

with an exception of the tea party, nothing really happened.

And then the tea party kind of fizzled out.

You know what I mean?

I didn't see action.

And I didn't know what to expect or what kind of action would work at this point.

I kind of came to the conclusion, my job isn't to lead you to happy places.

My job is just to be a warning.

I'm like a Claxton, you know,

that everybody's like, oh, God, turn him off, man.

So my job is to warn.

And it has really been

difficult

to warn and then see so few people actually take action or look at it and go, yep, that sounds like it's going to happen.

And then it happens.

And they're like, see, you were right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I didn't know what to do except warn.

I will tell you,

I am seeing real movement in people and not just our audience.

Evil has exposed itself so clearly.

And

the Democrats have exposed themselves on what their real agenda is so clearly that a lot of people, and it's coupled with, you know, like in 2008, I was talking about things that were coming and then it would take a few years before it came.

Now it's kind of like, hey, this great reset thing, it looks bad.

Next day, great reset.

Here it is.

You know, it's all stacking on top of each other.

It's all stacking on top of each other and it's happening faster and faster.

And so people are seeing it right away.

And they're standing up.

And you're seeing them standing up in the arts.

You're seeing them standing up.

Parents are standing up in very uncomfortable ways.

People at work are actually saying, go ahead, fire me, or I'm going to go take another job.

They're not folding.

They're not folding.

And that's really a good sign because it's not going to get easier from here.

You know, I've been saying for a while, you've got to stand up now because it's going to get harder and harder to stand up.

They're going to make it more difficult and more painful for you to stand up.

So you got to stand up now.

And, you know, that's

the next thing that I'm really looking for is will people take their money out of these big banks?

Because just this audience would send a massive message if just this audience said, I'm no longer doing business with you, Citibank.

or JP Morgan Chase

or Wells Fargo, and I'm pulling my deposits out and I'm canceling my credit cards and I'm moving it over to this local bank.

And the reason why I'm leaving you is because you're part of this ESG nonsense.

I also think that BlackRock, which seemed invincible to me just a few months ago,

I think they're going to be exposed at such a level that I think they're going to collapse.

I think they're going to be, I think there's trouble, real trouble with this great reset, build back better.

I think

it's going to be exposed in the next year in such a way that people will stand up.

I'm hoping.

As often is the case, your optimism is collapse, which is always something.

No, no, no, they're collapsing.

Yes, they're collapsing on their own arrogance.

Right.

I mean, obviously,

there are so many policies and bad outcomes associated with these places that it's great to find another alternative.

And you've pointed out a lot of times that it's, you know, maybe in your local bank, right?

Something that's just some sane.

It's easy to find a local bank.

That is sane.

Yeah, that is sane.

That is that they are, they do not want ESG to go through because they know that they will not have the money to comply to the new regulations and all of the reporting.

So ESG, Part of that is the central banks and the big banks trying to collapse the small banks.

So all of the money has to go through them.

Aaron Powell, Jr.: The other part of this I think is interesting is

how the administration currently is going after

someone like Coinbase, which is a cryptocurrency exchange.

And that Coinbase wants to basically say, hey, you can go into these stable coins, which are just like a cryptocurrency version

that is equal to a dollar and it always remains equal to a dollar.

So there's not like the typical Bitcoin is way down over the past couple of days.

You don't have to deal with that, right?

It's just

using cryptocurrency in that way.

The rates, the interest rates on these accounts, and this is all over the place already, you know, eight and 10%, six, seven, eight, 10% on your money without risk, right?

I mean, of course, there's always risk in anything, but without any large risk from a major institution that has all sorts of capital behind it.

And they want to give people the opportunity to clearly out-compete what banks are offering.

Correct.

And the administration is stopping them.

And they're saying, no, we're going to sue you if you go through with just offering your own customers interest on the money that they invest with you.

We're stopping you from doing that.

And so now the only place you can get that stuff is from there's other companies that are just going for it and risking the situation, which is always a little bit more.

You want someone who's going to be able to disrupt without breaking any rules and getting in trouble.

So you want that.

And Coinbase is trying to do it, and they've been honest with the government in every dealing.

And they still are trying to screw them because I think they're onto what you're on to, which is people are going to pull their money out.

They already are.

Look, here's what happened to Bitcoin this weekend.

They're pulling their money out of Bitcoin this weekend because the market took such a nosedive last week.

There are people that are buying things

in the market on margin, and they're putting all their money in Bitcoin.

So, when their margin calls come, they've got to take their money out of Bitcoin and put it into the market for their losses.

And that's what happened.

And you buy in the dip on that.

But there's something else going on with Bitcoin, both good and bad, on cryptocurrency.

And next year, one of the topics that you're going to learn about as we learn with you is the metaverse.

The metaverse is real.

It is the matrix without the pod.

It's the matrix with you just putting yourself in the pod, if you will.

But make no mistake, it is the matrix.

And they want everybody to live in the matrix because why go to work?

Why go someplace when you can do it virtually and you don't have to worry about

You know, building things on new land.

You don't have to cut down a tree.

You don't have to have any carbon emissions getting there.

I mean, it's crazy stuff.

But that is coming.

And because of that,

a Bitcoin kind of thing has got to be part of it.

This is on the bad side.

This is why you are seeing the vaccine passports.

The vaccine passports are not about the vaccine.

It is about getting you used to having a digital ID because you need a digital ID for the metaverse.

So it's going to just seamlessly go in.

The other thing that concerns me about Bitcoin is Jack left from Twitter and he left with, you know, he's like, hey, have fun.

Here's Stalin.

That was his official statement.

That was a little lie.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I have

Stalin.

Here's Stalin.

Enjoy.

So

he left, but he left because he wanted to get into cryptocurrency.

He's been a big crypto guy for a long time, to be fair.

He's walked on there.

No, no, no.

I know that.

I know that.

But he's been an investor and he's been talking about crypto and a believer in cryptocurrency.

But now he wants to do something with cryptocurrency, which makes me very nervous.

When there is something that is good, for instance, we were all told, get out of media, go online.

You belong online.

When it was a joke to do a podcast, right?

Nobody did a podcast.

And they kicked us out of mainstream media so we developed our own empire.

Then, when we became effective and they realized, oh, crap, they're now way ahead of us in programming on the internet.

Gee, what are they trying to do?

They're trying to hobble us

and they're in charge of all of it.

So So I warn or I'm worried about people like Jack coming in and getting involved now deeply with the metaverse and Bitcoin and things like that.

Are they going to come in and entangle that with a bunch of government stuff knowingly to be able to control

things like Bitcoin?

I don't think you can control Bitcoin, but things like Bitcoin.

So it's under their control as well.

Because you have to control the money.

If you have people that can spend their money how they want, when they want, where they want,

you don't have control over people.

You've got to control that.

It's true.

It's why crypto is such a threat and why they're trying to do so much to hurt it.

But yeah,

there's two ways to fight something, right?

You could fight it by trying to shut it down.

You could fight it by getting involved and changing the way it develops.

And certainly

he'd be one of of the head seats or something like that.

All right.

Back in just a minute.

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Gold,

there is something going on with gold and that you, I'll probably talk about a little bit tomorrow.

But there is something going on with gold.

I think

more countries are.

I think the price of gold is going to go through the roof at some point.

I think what's happening right now,

Ireland, I think over the summer started buying gold, but they didn't say anything about it.

I think it's Singapore started buying lots of gold and they didn't announce it.

They didn't want anybody to know about it.

What people are doing is they're selling their dollars and they're starting to put it into gold outside of the China-Russia connection.

Now it's starting to happen in Asia and in the West.

That's a bad sign for the dollar, but something has to rebalance things.

And I'll go into it probably on tomorrow's program.

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Alrighty.

Hey, did you hear that Bob Dole died this weekend?

I did.

Sad.

I mean, you forget, he became such a political figure, and most people remember.

Oh, the guy was a massive hero.

Yeah.

People remember him running for president and losing.

Yeah.

But he really wasn't an incredible hero in the war.

I mean, I don't mean any disrespect, but my first, when I saw that, I was like,

he was still alive?

Yeah.

I mean, he was 98.

Yeah, 98.

98.

But, you know, he would go and he would sit at the World War II Memorial, which probably wouldn't happen if he wasn't, if he didn't push it through.

He used to sit at the World War II Memorial and just welcome vets.

I didn't know that.

I just think that's so great.

That's fantastic.

Yeah, just fantastic.

What a guy.

The other related to this as well,

Edward Seamus

passing away.

He was the Band of Brothers, the last Band of Brothers officer died at 99 years old.

But the greatest anecdote of all time is stuck in his obituary.

He was the first member of the 101st to enter Dachau

just a few days after its liberation.

When Germany, this is a quote

from

obituary.

When Germany surrendered, Ed and his men of Easy Company entered Hitler's eagle's nest.

For just that.

It's cool.

Incredible.

Where Ed managed to acquire a few bottles of cognac, a label indicating they were for, quote, the Führer's use only.

Later, he would use the cognac to toast his oldest son's Bar Mitzvah.

I love that.

I love that.

That is fantastic.

Hey, another great one.

Navy vet Irish Schwab.

He's 101.

Go fund me.

People got together and they gave him a trip to Pearl Harbor for the anniversary.

Awesome.

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