Best of the Program | 11/19/25

Summary

The Glenn Beck Program – Best of the Program | 11/19/25

Episode Overview

This episode of The Glenn Beck Program, dated November 19, 2025, dives into several topics: explosive claims about antisemitism’s historical roots, the ideological legacy of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and its modern implications, a deep dive into the Olivia Nuzzi scandal in journalism, and an analysis of recent vague calls from prominent Democrats for military and CIA personnel to potentially refuse certain orders. Glenn and co-host Stu Burguiere blend incisive commentary with trademark wit, exploring the cultural and political undercurrents shaping America and the West.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Enduring Legacy of the Grand Mufti and Modern Antisemitism

[03:00–14:50] Glenn Beck

• Glenn embarks on a historical exposition connecting present-day antisemitism and radicalism to the “forgotten” figure of Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
• He explains al-Husseini’s direct collaboration with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, particularly his 1941 Berlin meeting where he advocated for the “final solution” to extend into Arab lands:
  • Quote: “He pledged support for the Nazi cause in exchange for a promise that the Third Reich would extend its final solution to the Jews living in the Middle East… This is not speculation. This isn’t rumor. This is recorded, documented, corroborated history.” (06:43)
• Al-Husseini’s influence is outlined as a bridge between European fascism and Middle Eastern extremism:
  • He recruited Muslims for Nazi SS divisions and broadcast Nazi propaganda across the Arab world.
• Post-WWII, al-Husseini became an architect of continuing anti-Jewish violence, mentoring Yasser Arafat and infusing Nazi-derived ideology into groups like the PLO, Fatah, Black September, and eventually, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
• Glenn argues that the slogans and dogmas echoed by today’s terror groups have deep roots in Nazi-era propaganda:
  • Quote: “If you look at Hamas, their founding charter reads like a grotesque remix of the Mufti’s 1930s and 1940s propaganda, complete with conspiracy theories lifted directly from the Nazi tracks.” (11:44)
• He warns that modern antisemitic outbursts are symptoms of this enduring, systematized hate:
  • Quote: “When you watch mobs in European cities chanting ‘Gas the Jews,’ you are looking at the shadow of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem… He systematized [hatred]. He modernized it.” (12:30)
• Glenn closes this segment by asserting the necessity of facing history’s uncomfortable truths:
  • Quote: “The past is not a museum. It is a map… If we ignore this, we ignore it at our own peril.” (05:15, 13:50)

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2. The Olivia Nuzzi Scandal: Journalistic Ethics and Media Double-Standards

[15:13–29:00] Stu Burguiere, Glenn Beck

• Stu delivers a detailed, somewhat tongue-in-cheek account of journalist Olivia Nuzzi’s meteoric ascent and subsequent scandal.
• Origins: Nuzzi began as an intern for Anthony Weiner’s mayoral campaign—a “legendary catastrophe” (16:45)—and, upon leaving, published an exposé that launched her into the national spotlight.
• From this, she lands a reporting job at the Daily Beast, covers presidential campaigns, and quickly becomes New York Magazine’s Washington correspondent at age 24—a position “created for her” (21:36).
• Stu and Glenn riff on Nuzzi’s rapid rise and its implications, joking about the journalistic world and the “standards at the Daily Beast… exactly zero. They have higher standards at Fordham. And those are low.” (20:24)
• The scandal takes off as Nuzzi, while profiling RFK Jr., becomes entangled in an “emotional affair” and is engaged to journalist Ryan Lizza. Both Nuzzi and Kennedy are in other relationships at the time.
• Stu identifies the multiple layers of ethical concern, specifically the breach of journalistic integrity and the media’s double standards:
  • Quote (Stu): “You’re profiling someone and having an affair with them at the same time. That is frowned upon, at least in theory, in the world of journalism. Now in practice, God only knows…” (25:16)
• Rather than facing lasting career damage, Nuzzi receives a glowing New York Times feature, highlighting the disconnect between consequences for some and protection for media elites:
  • Quote (Stu): “Instead, she gets a glowing profile in the New York Times… hair in the wind like Chanel glasses. She looks spectacular as she’s going down.” (29:00)

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3. Democrats' Message to Military and CIA: Disobey “Illegal Orders”?

[29:23–44:18] Glenn Beck, Jason, Stu Burguiere

• Glenn and Stu analyze a recent video from several Democratic politicians (e.g., Sen. Alyssa Slotkin, Sen. Mark Kelly) urging members of the military and intelligence community to refuse “illegal orders.”
• Clip segment (Democratic politicians): “You can refuse illegal orders… You must refuse illegal orders… No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.” (32:54)
• Glenn agrees with the principle but questions the timing and motive:
  • Quote: “I agree 100% with everything they just said. 100%. My question is, why are they saying it?” (33:31)
• He points out a lack of specifics and juxtaposes this message with historical abuses under previous administrations, questioning why this warning is being issued now.
• Stu suggests the intent may be to undermine public confidence in the President and sow doubt, hinting at “color revolution” tactics:
  • Quote (Stu): “There’s a version of that [message] that’s, like, treasonous, right? Like you’re telling the military to not listen to the commander-in-chief.” (35:01)
• Jason and Glenn delve into the constitutional bounds and the CIA, arguing the agency has long operated outside proper oversight.
  • Quote (Jason): “I think the establishment of the CIA is actually anti-constitutional, to be perfectly honest.” (38:00)
• Glenn warns this messaging is more about “undermining credibility” and “sowing seeds of chaos,” rather than genuine concerns for legality or constitutional order:
  • Quote: “If you could be specific, I would have no problem… But they can’t be specific.” (35:51)
  • Quote: “This is not an honest message. This is part of color revolution. I’m convinced of it.” (41:00)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “The past is not a museum. It is a map.”
  — Glenn Beck (05:15)

• “He pledged support for the Nazi cause in exchange for a promise that the Third Reich would extend its final solution to the Jews living in the Middle East… This is not speculation. This isn’t rumor. This is recorded, documented, corroborated history.”
  — Glenn Beck (06:43)

• “If you look at Hamas, their founding charter reads like a grotesque remix of the Mufti’s 1930s and 1940s propaganda…”
  — Glenn Beck (11:44)

• “You’re profiling someone and having an affair with them at the same time. That is frowned upon, at least in theory, in the world of journalism. Now in practice, God only knows…”
  — Stu Burguiere (25:16)

• “Instead, she gets a glowing profile in the New York Times… hair in the wind like Chanel glasses. She looks spectacular as she’s going down.”
  — Stu Burguiere (29:00)

• “I agree 100% with everything they just said. 100%. My question is, why are they saying it?”
  — Glenn Beck (33:31)

• “There’s a version of that [message] that’s, like, treasonous, right? Like you’re telling the military to not listen to the commander-in-chief.”
  — Stu Burguiere (35:01)

• “This is not an honest message. This is part of color revolution. I’m convinced of it.”
  — Glenn Beck (41:00)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [03:00–14:50] — Glenn’s exposé on the Grand Mufti, antisemitism, and the roots of modern radicalism
• [15:13–29:00] — The Olivia Nuzzi scandal: career trajectory, ethical breaches, and media response
• [29:23–44:18] — Democrats’ message to military/CIA, analysis of intent, and constitutional implications

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Tone & Style

Glenn and Stu’s tone throughout is urgent, direct, and often irreverent, with candid asides and comic relief to temper the gravity of the topics. The discussion is both historical and current, blending deep dives with cultural commentary and media criticism in a voice that is both accessible and provocative.

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Takeaways

• The persistent rise in antisemitism and radicalism is deeply rooted in specific historical events and propagandists whose influence is still felt today.
• Media elites are often shielded from consequences that would destroy a lesser-known journalist, revealing deep-seated double standards.
• Recent Democratic messaging to the military and intelligence community raises concerns about the politicization of armed forces and the possible sowing of distrust — messaging that Glenn believes is strategically ambiguous and potentially destabilizing.

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For listeners seeking a fast-moving, unvarnished critique of America’s past and present, this episode offers sweeping context, sharp humor, and pointed concern for the nation’s political health.

Transcript

[Glenn Beck]

On today's podcast. This is one that's a lot of fun. You don't want to miss. The Democrats have sent a vague message to the military and to the CIA about disobeying orders. What exactly is behind this message? We talk about that. Go in depth on it. Also a reminder of, of what's really going on with antisemitism. What's anti Semitism? Where does it start? How is this rearing its ugly head? Well, we can tell you it starts with the Grand Muft Jerusalem. This story is fascinating because it takes you all the way from Jerusalem to Berlin with Hitler, all the way to towns in Texas today and the Olivia Nuzzi scandal. We continue this from yesterday. It's Stu's latest obsession. It's a scandal involving a young reporter and all of the politicians she slept with. You are going to love this story. All on today's podc. Let me tell you about American Financing. 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Would you take a moment and rate and review the Glenn Beck podcast? Give us five stars and lead a comment, because every single review helps us break through Big Tech's algorithm to reach more Americans who need to hear the truth. This isn't a podcast. This is a movement. And you're part of it, a big part of it. So if you believe in what we're doing, you want more people to wake up, help us push this podcast to the top rate, review, share. Together, we'll make a difference. And thanks for standing with us. Now, let's get to work. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program. You know, there are. There are chapters in American history and world history that are too implied to revisit, as if silence can, you know, stand down the jagged edges of truth. But it's. It's not. Those forgotten chapters will eventually roar back and remind us that the past is not a museum. It is a map. So while we're looking at Texas saying Muslim Brotherhood and Care are terrorist organizations, let's look at where they came from. I want to tell you about a man whose fingerprints run through some of the darkest moments of the last century and whose ideological children still walk the earth and are cause of many of the problems that we have. His name is Hajj Amin Al Husani. He is the grand, or was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. The west, they don't even know who he is. They treat him as a footnote. He's not. Because the Grand Mufti was not just a regional religious leader. He became one of the most influential collaborators with Adolf Hitler. And he built a bridge between European fascism and Middle Eastern extremism. And an architect. He was an architect of a worldview that continues to claim lives all across the globe. What you see happening with the Muslim Brotherhood, what you see happening in Europe, see happening here in the United States. He was the architect of all of this. Now let me take you through some of this here, walk you through the story that history has tried to bury. In 1941, Al Husseini sat face to face with Adolf Hitler in Berlin. He didn't come seeking peace. He didn't come pleading for the protection of his people. He came to offer help. He pledged support for the Nazi cause in exchange for a promise that the Third Reich would extend its final solution to the Jews living in the Middle East. Now, this is not speculation. This isn't rumor. This is recorded, documented, corroborated history. If you want to understand where all of this hatred is coming from, you want to understand what's coming next, another Holocaust, you have to see where this poison jumped. When it jumped from Germany, at the very end, it jumped to the Middle East. Now, this is a guy who urged Hitler and later Himmler, to export the Holocaust to Jerusalem, Cairo, Baghdad, and beyond. He broadcast speeches on Nazi radio, and he told the Arab listeners, kill the Jews wherever you find them. And he wasn't just talking. He helped recruit tens of thousands of Muslims into Nazi SS divisions, including the 13th Waffen Mountain Division. These are the units that carried out massacres all across the Balkans. We have this history documented at our museum. Soon, next year, you'll be able to see the uniforms and all of the documents that we have in our museum. You'll be able to see it with George AI sometime next year when we start making all of the artifacts available online. But this was. Was not a man misled by politics. This was a man intoxicated by a genocidal dream. When the Nazi war machine fell, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem did not retreat into exile. He redirected his energies. He became a driving force behind the Arab Higher Committee, which rejected. See if this sounds familiar. Every peaceful compromise proposed for the region. He used Nazi frameworks, propaganda, racial conspiracy, all kinds of really sick ideology, and injected them into the bloodstream of a fractured Middle East. And then came his most lasting legacy. He mentored a young relative. And this young relative, his name was Yasser Arafat. Arafat would go on to lead the plo. Now, this was an organization who, whose chapter charter was in 1964, was really explicit. The destruction of Israel. No two state solution, no coexistence, elimination. This is the Mufti's ideology. And it flowed directly into creation of groups that made terror a political tool long before it became a global epidemic. And from that poisoned well sprang Fatah, Black September, the plo, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood. All different names, same infection. If you look at Hamas, their founding charter reads like a grotesque remix of the mufties, 1930s and 1940s propaganda, complete with conspiracy theories lifted directly from the Nazi tracks, including the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This is a document that he spread everywhere through the Middle East. This is the ideological genealogy that you'll never hear explained in polite conversation. Everybody thinks that. They're just so bright and so brilliant. Yeah, you know what? Who's controlling everything? The Jews. You know, the Jews are really the ones who are really the Nazis. And it doesn't make any sense because they're under the stupid belief that Nazism died in a bunker. It didn't. Some of it fled to Cairo and to Damascus and back to Jerusalem. And then it metastasized. And today the echo still shakes the walls. When you hear the terrorists chanting about the annihilation of Israel, when you see school textbooks teaching children that Jews are descended from apes and pigs, when you watch mobs in European cities chanting Gas the Jews, you are looking at the shadow of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and not because he created hatred. Hatred's ancient. He systematized it. He modernized it. He married it to the 20th century totalitarianism. He took old prejudices and gave them the machinery of modern propaganda. And he forged his links between fascism and Islamicism that still animate the organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah and. And the Muslim Brotherhood groups who. Whose goals are. Are not political compromise, but eradication, purification, and the crushing of the Western ideals. It's so frustrating to know history and then to hear people, especially the youth, just spout stuff off. They. They have no idea how much they're being used. And we have to invite them to because they do not know. They just do not know. Nobody is teaching this stuff. And this is not about smearing millions of peaceful Muslims. It's just about identifying the ideological architecture behind the most toxic, violent and expansionist movements on earth. And at the center of that architecture stands the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. And if we ignore this, we ignore it at our own peril. If you understand the Mufti's role, the present suddenly becomes very, very clear. Why antisemitism exploding globally? How is this happening? Why radical organizations can't accept any compromise? Why from the river to the Sea isn't a chant, it's a promise of destruction. Why every ceasefire becomes a pause, never peace. Why every concession is interpreted not as goodwill, but as weakness. This stuff didn't start last week. It didn't start on October 7th. It didn't start with the creation of Israel. The roots run back over a century ago to a man who believed the genocide of Europe should be replicated in the Middle East. And today, his ideological heirs wear masks. They hold rifles. They teach children to hate before they can read. And it's all from this guy who's not just a historic figure, the Grand Mufti. He's a cautionary tale. He's a signal flare. He's a reminder that unchallenged evil does not disappear. It regenerates. And if we want true peace, lasting peace, then we have to first learn the truth and tell the truth. Not the sanitized version of it, not the version that keeps activists comfortable, but the virgin. The version that recognizes the path that we're walking on and where it leads if we don't change any course. That's why what Governor Abbott did yesterday is so important, because the past is still speaking and the voice sounds hauntingly familiar. Now I want to take you someplace else, to where the Generation X is right now. Because Generation X, Generation Z antisemitism is on the rise, but it is being sold as honest questioning. And honest questioning is really, really good. It is. 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[Stu Burguiere]

The Saga of Olivia Nuzzi. This is. This is a great story, a fun story, and a story that I swear to you has a point. It's important to understand that at the beginning because you might think this is just salacious nonsense and you're just, you know, dancing on the tragedies of ocean.

[Glenn Beck]

We covered this yesterday. I think we covered this yesterday. There's enough going on in the world that is just, you know, it'll curdle milk. You know, you read a story and you're like, oh. And you'll. You'll watch the milk in your coffee just curdle all of a sudden, because you're just saying, I think the world is coming to an end and it curdles and you got lumps in your coffee. This is. I think there's time once in a while just for just fun, satisfying stories. And this one is that.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yes. And I will begin the story at the very, very start. Glenn and I will start it with a question for you. And this is a question that I think sets the scene for the entire journey we're about to go on. Olivia Knutson, journalist. Let's do it. She starts her career. Very first job. She volunteers as an intern for what campaign? Volunteers as an intern for what campaign?

[Glenn Beck]

Just. It just has to be Bill Clinton.

[Stu Burguiere]

That's a good guess, however, timing wise.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, Anthony. Gotta be Anthony Weiner.

[Stu Burguiere]

Anthony Wiener is the answer. She volunteers for the failed mayoral campaign of Anthony Weiner. So this is how this story starts.

[Glenn Beck]

So she starts covering wieners.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yes, she starts covering wieners. And the whole story is her doing more of that. We'll get into that as we go. So she starts with the Wiener campaign. And you know, this is a disaster. It's a kind of a legendary catastrophe. They have a documentary going on. We talked about that at the time. Totally. The whole thing flames apart. That.

[Glenn Beck]

By the way. By the way, I'm just sitting here thinking. I don't think I was technically wrong when I said it was a Clinton campaign.

[Stu Burguiere]

Because, remember, that's true.

[Glenn Beck]

Hillary Clinton is all over the wiener.

[Stu Burguiere]

But that. Please don't say it like that. But yes, that is.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. Because if I say it like that, it leads you to believe, and that is absolutely not true. I don't think she's ever been.

[Stu Burguiere]

I just don't. I think yes. Because if you remember, Uma Abedin at this time is married to Anthony Weiner.

[Glenn Beck]

Can you use air quotes?

[Stu Burguiere]

Yes. Air quoting all over the place on her wonderful path to marry a Soros. She's at that time married to wiener and she's helping out Hillary Clinton as her like, you know, top dog main assistant. Okay, so that's all going. That's what was just. That's the first thing. It's got almost nothing to do with the story.

[Glenn Beck]

Did you use air quotes for assistant there as well?

[Stu Burguiere]

I did not. I did not.

[Glenn Beck]

All right, go ahead.

[Stu Burguiere]

So how does Olivia Nuzzi get into our lives? She goes. She goes from the wiener campaign and leaves and writes basically a tell all scandal log of what was going on during the wiener campaign. Basically, this thing was a catastrophe. She tells the inside story and releases it to the Daily News, who prints this column from at this point, a 20 year old aspiring journalist. And you know, she's pretty, she's glamorous, she's kind of like the New York elite journalist that you'd exactly picture in this situation. So she gets this and turns that one column into a job while she's still in college. She's at Fordham. She's still at college. She turns that one column Fordham, of course. I thought you'd like that detail.

[Glenn Beck]

For multiple reasons, my daughter went to Fordham. They actually, they actually had the balls to. They held rallies against me on the Fordham campus. And then they had the balls to come and ask my wife and I to come in to meet with the Dean because they wanted to know if we would help them build a library. There were words that started with F that were not fruit.

[Stu Burguiere]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

As we left that meeting, was it Fordham?

[Stu Burguiere]

That was the F word. Fordham. Fordham. No, no. Okay, Fordham.

[Glenn Beck]

You. Yeah, that's the university. That's what I mean. Fordham University, Fordham U. Anyway, go ahead. Okay.

[Stu Burguiere]

So she gets hired from that one column as one of the main presidential campaign correspondents for the Daily Beast, which tells you yet again something about the standards at the Daily Beast when it comes to journalism, which are exactly zero. They have higher stand standards at Fordham.

[Glenn Beck]

So those are pretty low.

[Stu Burguiere]

And those are low. She's going to cover the Chris Christie campaign, the Rand Paul campaign, and some of the early bubbling beginnings of the Donald Trump campaign. This is back in 2014. Fifteen in there in 2015, as you note, as she's in this job, she does do that tweet about House of Cards and how women should not, or Hollywood should not mis portray the journalists that are females because they're always saying that they sleep with their sources and that's a terrible thing for her to do. So they point that out, which is an amazing thing for multiple reasons, Glenn, because. Well, I'll get into that here in a second. So.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, okay.

[Stu Burguiere]

So she does that. She then gets named by Politico one of the 16 breakout media stars of the presidential election. This is November 2016. She then, in February 2017, parlays that into a job as the Washington correspondent of New York magazine. She's 24 years old. 24 years old, Washington correspondent at New York magazine. You say, wow, that's a prestigious position.

[Glenn Beck]

Who held it before her?

[Stu Burguiere]

No one. They literally create this job for her, which is incredible. Again, she's 24 years old.

[Glenn Beck]

Not probably the only position created for her.

[Stu Burguiere]

She may have several that she's documented in a, in a, in a book or two that we could go over later. Okay, so. And you wonder, and this is a time to pause.

[Glenn Beck]

Jesus would not be doing this segment. I just want to let you know right here and now.

[Stu Burguiere]

It's true.

[Jason]

It's true.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Jason]

All right, so.

[Stu Burguiere]

So you think about what a meteoric rise this is. I mean, this is. Glenn, you know, this, this is not operates. You don't do what she's done here. This is like incredible. It's like she, you know, someone who never played basketball before and is in the NBA three years later, like, it's like legitimately an incredible rise. You wonder how that rise occurred. Those questions may be answered later on.

[Glenn Beck]

Stop using the word rise. You're making me uncomfortable.

[Stu Burguiere]

2018, she's included in the Forbes 30 under 30 list, which is a very prestigious list. In October 2018, as a member of Working for New York Magazine, she's invited for an exclusive interview in the Oval Office to interview Donald Trump again. She's 25 at this point, very prestigious. She's awarded a next award by the American Society of Magazine Editors. She gets a documentary on MSNBC. She portrays herself on the Showtime show Billions in 2022. Oh, my gosh, again, this is someone who's a massive celebrity in that world. You might not know her name, but she is a massive celebrity. She gets a six part interview series for Bloomberg, and then she does a profile of RFK Jr. The candidate who you may remember running for president as a Democrat. Okay, I can't remember if the profile happened when he was running as a Democrat or he had kind of flipped to an independent. But it's before he is endorsing Trump or there's Maha or any of that stuff. Right. And she does this profile of him that I guess goes pretty well, and it comes out much more favorable, I would say, than many of the other previews or profiles of RFK Jr. In this period. But again, it has some criticism and some quirkiness in it. And her style of writing has all sorts of weird details. And, you know, sometimes it's kind of, I think it's actually pretty good. Like, I think some of her reporting was pretty good. She, she did have some really fascinating stories that she wrote over this period. But like, the celebrity seemed to overextend past maybe what she had achieved in her career so far. So she writes this profile of RFK Jr and then it is the news breaks that RFK Jr and Olivia Nuzzi are having what they call an emotional affair, which seems to be lots of very detailed loving text messages back and forth, promises about emotionally.

[Glenn Beck]

When you say loving, is it like, you know, you are a child of God and I just love you and want to help you anyway? Is that what you mean by loving or do you mean like Barry White loving?

[Stu Burguiere]

Well, to put it another way, we're talking about a Kennedy. So I'm talking about Kennedy style loving, which is again, ding dong pizza delivery. It's important to note that Olivia Nuzi is engaged to another journalist, Ryan Lizza, at this time. And so she's engaged to somebody, RFK Jr. Not that this makes seemingly any difference to him whatsoever, is married at the time and is still currently married to an actress in Hollywood. So she, he's doing this. She's doing this. This is suboptimal not only for a marriage, but also a presidential campaign. And this goes on. The news finally breaks that this has happened. Now, this is a problem for a bunch of reasons. Number one, you have a fiance. Number two, the person you're texting with is married. Number three, though, a really serious journalist problem. Right? Like you're profiling someone and having an affair with them at the same time. That is frowned upon, at least in theory, in the world of journalism. Now, in practice, God only knows, but in theory, you're not supposed to do that. Glenn, this is something they tell you relatively early on at journalism school, I assume. And so I got to, I got.

[Glenn Beck]

To apologize to all those people I've been sleeping with that.

[Stu Burguiere]

Come on, is that. How many people have you profiled? You just profiled the, the great mufti. Did. Have you ever had any relations with.

[Glenn Beck]

Have you ever had the relations with the mufti? I got to tell you the truth, Stu. Yeah. Oh, no. Back in 1942.

[Stu Burguiere]

So all of this comes out in the media, and she sort of. She gets fired from New York Magazine because of this journalistic lapse, and she sort of goes into hiding. Okay. She goes into hiding. She moves. She is not saying word one about this. And she talks a lot. So that's notable in this period. Ryan Lizza, her ex fiance, now they broke up. Ex fiance and her are negotiating, according to him, a do not. What is a non disclosure. Don't talk about this. Don't talk about this. Don't disparage. No, let's just let this be over. He also gets a message, according to him, from an intermediate friend that says, hey, she never wants to talk about this again. She hopes you'll never talk about this again. Can we just move past this? And he, according to him, says, you know what? I'm. I'm on board with that. Let's just never let this go. So a little bit of time goes on, and what we learn is her time in exile has actually been spent writing a book which is called American Canto. It is coming out in a couple of weeks. From today or from yesterday. Two weeks from yesterday. And it's a book that.

[Glenn Beck]

This one. Does the book include her time with Governor Mark Sanford?

[Stu Burguiere]

Well, we're getting to that.

[Glenn Beck]

2019. 2020. I mean, she was sleeping with him, too, before the JFK thing.

[Stu Burguiere]

That's a big part of the story that we're getting to here because she. At this point, we don't even know. At this point in the story, we have no idea about that. We only know about the RFK Jr thing. So she releases this book, and in it is all these details about the RFK Jr thing. Now, you'd think the way the media would handle this woman who they've just ejected from their society for massive journalistic and literally moral lapses would be hammering her over her activity here. Instead, she gets a glowing profile in the New York Times with, like, her with the incredible foot. You got to see the footage, Glenn. You'd love it. It's her. She's driving in a convertible, hair in the wind like Chanel glasses. She looks spectacular as she's going down. This is how the New York Times rolls this out for her. And she talked about her RFK Jr. Affairs.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay, can you stop using a few terms you just used with going down? Let's stop using Nate as well.

[Stu Burguiere]

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[Glenn Beck]

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[Stu Burguiere]

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[Glenn Beck]

Hello, Stu. How you doing, Glenn?

[Stu Burguiere]

I'm good. I'm good. It's a big day. Lots of stuff going on. I'm ready for the show. Let's do it.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. Okay, so let's start with Venezuela. Um, the New York Times is now reporting that Trump has been said to authorize CIA plans for covert. Covert action in Venezuela. Now, when I read this story, I thought to myself, didn't I read this story about three or four weeks ago? I think this is the exact story. Correct me if I'm wrong. Do you remember it? I think this is the exact story that the New York Times or somebody else came out with about four weeks ago. We have Jason here who watches, you know, this kind of stuff. Am I right in thinking that Jason.

[Jason]

Just heard this three or four weeks ago or a month ago, something like that?

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, right.

[Jason]

Just.

[Glenn Beck]

There's nothing new here. So what exactly is the New York Times doing?

[Various Democratic Politicians (voice clips)]

They're.

[Jason]

They're parroting what they were slipped from their unnamed source. Imagine that.

[Glenn Beck]

So what do you mean they were slipped from an unnamed source? What. What do you mean by that?

[Jason]

There's no way this is a leak. Like, oh, we got to get this out, because it's, like, atrocious what's happening. They. This is approved, in my opinion.

[Glenn Beck]

This is. This is something that. This is something that you're seeing the deep state in action. Somebody wants to make sure that this is circled around. So everybody's like, oh, my gosh, what are we doing in Venezuela? What are we doing in Venezuela? We've already told you what we're doing in Venezuela. This is to secure the Western Hemisphere, to get China out of the Western Hemisphere. This has everything to do with that little training island that we told you about a year or two ago where Hamas and Hezbollah are training people in Venezuela just off the coast. That's what this is about. This is to stop the infiltration of the Islamic radicals in cahoots with Maduro in Venezuela. That's what this is about. And the Chinese are an extra added benefit. You know, don't. Don't believe the. You know. Well, it's the drugs. I mean, if it was a drug thing, we would also be going after Mexico. I mean, not that that doesn't play a role, but it's. It's only part of the story, and we've told you that. And now, you know, Trump authorizing plans for the CIA. Yeah, we know that. You said that to us long ago. Now, at the same time, that is happening. There was a video that was released from the Democrats. Now, these are Democrats that are currently, you know, in power, big name democrats. And listen to what they're telling the troops and intel officers. Listen to this.

[Various Democratic Politicians (voice clips)]

I'm senator Alyssa Slotkin.

[Glenn Beck]

Senator Mark Kelly. Representative Chris d'.

[Stu Burguiere]

Aluzio.

[Various Democratic Politicians (voice clips)]

Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander. Representative Chrissy Houlihan.

[Glenn Beck]

Congressman Jason. Jason Crow. I was a captain in the United.

[Jason]

States navy, Former CIA officer, former navy.

[Glenn Beck]

Former paratrooper and army ranger, former intelligence.

[Various Democratic Politicians (voice clips)]

Officer, former air force.

[Glenn Beck]

We want to speak directly to members of the military and the intelligence community who take risks each day to keep Americans safe.

[Various Democratic Politicians (voice clips)]

We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now. Americans trust their military, but that trust is at risk.

[Glenn Beck]

This administration is pitting our uniformed military and until intelligence community professionals against American citizens like us. You all swore an oath to protect.

[Various Democratic Politicians (voice clips)]

And defend this constitution.

[Glenn Beck]

Right now, the threats to our constitution aren't just coming from abroad, but from right here at home. Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders.

[Various Democratic Politicians (voice clips)]

You can refuse illegal orders.

[Stu Burguiere]

You must refuse illegal orders.

[Various Democratic Politicians (voice clips)]

No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our constitution.

[Glenn Beck]

We know this is hard and that it's a difficult time to be a public servant.

[Various Democratic Politicians (voice clips)]

But whether you're serving in the CIA, the army, or navy, the air force.

[Glenn Beck]

Your vigilance is critical.

[Various Democratic Politicians (voice clips)]

And know that we have your back. Because now, more than ever, the American people need you. We need you to stand up for.

[Glenn Beck]

Our laws, our constitution, and who we are as Americans. Don't give up. Don't give up.

[Jason]

Don't give up.

[Various Democratic Politicians (voice clips)]

Don't give up. The ship.

[Glenn Beck]

Hmm. So I'm looking at this, and I'm thinking, I agree 100% with everything they just said. 100%. My question is, why are they saying it? What. What illegal orders? And why now are you telling me that all of the stuff with usaid, all of the stuff that was going on with the FBI, with our intelligence community, with Russia, Russia, Russia, all of that stuff was on the up and up. They had no concern about that. When, When Barack Obama was targeting US Citizens to be droned, u. S. Citizens to be droned, they had no problem with it. And now all of a sudden, because of what, Venezuela. Now all of a sudden, they have a problem? No, I don't think so. I. I think this is a. This is. This is the beginning of a campaign. Um, and again, all it does is so seeds of doubt. Not in the mind of the military, not in the mind of, well, maybe CIA, but I think CIA on their Own territory. Anyway, this sows the seed of doubt in the mind of the average American. They're now sowing the seed saying Donald Trump is doing something unconstitutional with our. Met, with our military. What is it? Speak clearly. Don't say we're under pressure. Speak clearly. What exactly is he doing that is unconstitutional, that they should, that they should disobey? I'd like to know what it is.

[Stu Burguiere]

Is it.

[Glenn Beck]

Because all this is doing is undermining.

[Stu Burguiere]

Is it Venezuela? Like, did, did they state, you know.

[Glenn Beck]

No, they didn't say that.

[Stu Burguiere]

It's just, just generalized advice. Whatever you do, don't like it's. That seems really sketchy because we were talking about this a little bit off the air and that, like, there's a version of that that's like treasonous, right? Like you're telling the, the military to not listen to the commander in chief. Now, that's. I don't think that was the version of it that is treasonous. I think that that was worded very carefully. And as you point out, like, I don't think anyone would disagree that if there's something blatantly illegal, you shouldn't be doing it. But I guess their idea is some of these. Is it maybe Venezuela? Are they trying to encourage these people to not drone the ships? Like, what are the, what is the, what's the ask here?

[Glenn Beck]

They didn't mention. I don't know. They're just, they're just sending out. That's why this seems so unbelievably calculated to cause chaos, because they're not sowing seeds in the doubt of the minds of the military. They are sowing the seeds of doubt in the mind of the US Public. This went out to everybody in the whole world. And what it is sending is a message to the whole world. Our president is so bad that we in Congress need to tell the military, do not obey him. Well, can you be specific? On what exactly? On what exactly? No, they can't be specific. If you could be specific, I would have no problem. If you came out with that message and you said, look, we just want to restate the policy of the United States, whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat. You do not have to obey the commander of chief. If he is asking for things that are unconstitutional. For instance, if he asks you to do X, Y or Z. They're not just talking about as well as the, the military. What's intriguing to me is they're also including the CIA, who in their right mind today thinks the CIA is under control, who in their right mind thinks the CIA is actually living within the constitutional bounds? Because I don't. Do you. Do you know anybody who thinks that, left or right. Does anybody within the sound of my voice think that the CIA is actually contained and, and living in its own little space, constitutionally where it should be? Does anyone actually believe that they answer to Congress? Because I don't. Do you still, do you, Jason?

[Jason]

I think the establishment of the CIA is actually anti constitutional, to be perfectly honest. I don't think that an organization like the CIA can operate within the bounds of disclosure with, you know, letting Congress know everything that they're doing. It can't operate that way. So I think all too many times they understand that and they just do whatever the heck they want to do.

[Glenn Beck]

It's all black ops. It's all black ops stuff. And you know, look at what. Where was this message when we found out from? What was the guy who blew the whistle and went to Russia's name?

[Stu Burguiere]

Snowden.

[Jason]

Snowden.

[Glenn Beck]

Snowden. Where, where was this message with Snowden when that came out? Hey, if you're in the nsa, you're in the CIA, you can't be doing this stuff. So blow the whistle. Where was that? Where is this been? This message have been when, when any of the whistleblowers have come out? Where is this with the whistleblowers that are coming out today about what the CIA has been doing, what the intelligence community has been involved in? Where was this message? This is not an honest message. That's the problem with this. This is not an honest message. This is part of color revolution. I'm convinced of it. This is just so the seeds of doubt make sure that you are positioning the President as somebody who is so radical and so unconstitutional that they have to tell the military not to obey his orders without any specifics whatsoever. That's pretty remarkable because again, I don't have a problem with saying that we're one of the only countries. You do not answer to the President of the United States. You do not answer to your General. You answer to the Constitution of the United States. That's absolutely true. So I have no problem with this message being taught. It should be taught by every single President President, but it's not. They have seen so many abuses under their rule, and now all of a sudden you get this. Where was this message when the President used the military as a prop behind him in the speech where it was blood red and Biden was saying these are enemies of the state? You can't do that with the Military. Where was this message from anyone? Hey, you cannot be used as a prop behind the President. You cannot do that. I didn't hear anybody saying that because they don't have a problem with it. If it's their side, they don't have a problem with it. I have a problem with it on both sides. I want the military and I want the military. Let me separate these. I want the military to know, you, we have your back. If the president, any president is ordering you to do things that are unconstitutional, do not do them. Do not do them. Blow the whistle. And the American people should have your back. I know I will have your back. To the. To intelligence community. You better stop doing what you're doing. Because I know the American people and I don't know if you can be stopped. But I know the American people know that you're doing things that you should not be doing, and you've been doing them under every president for God only knows how long. Stop doing it. Because if we ever get into the position where we can stop you, we will. And the American people will demand a trial for every single one of you that was breaking the Constitution. Don't care who ordered you to do it. It's your responsibility to say no. And you haven't. You haven't start saying no to any president, any boss, anybody who is telling you to violate the US Constitution. Don't do it. It. Don't do it. But I don't think that's the reason why they're saying it.

[Jason]

No. And they know this because all of them are veterans of the military or the intelligence community. They know. And I've gone through these before. There's already. This is stating the obvious. This is already taught within. From the lowest enlistment ranks all the way up to the top, you know, within, you know, officer candidate school and within the military, there are procedures, if you ever have an unlawful order, how to, you know, work through it and report it.

[Glenn Beck]

Stu, what do you think this is really about? What are they doing?

[Stu Burguiere]

It feels like it's about politics, right? I mean, it feels like they are trying to build a case that the President is continually engaging in things that are illegal and unconstitutional. And like, when you bring up color revolution, I think those. I think it's. I mean, there's a political element to that, and I think so. They may very well be related. But if you think about, like, it might be about Venezuela, but I don't think the American people really care about that story. I mean, I don't. You know, I don't know that that's necessarily healthy, that we don't care about it. I think there are some real questions about the process here and how all of this has gone down, but, like, I almost feel like it's more related to something like, you know, immigration enforcement right in the United States. And that's not, you know, because we've talked about the military being involved in cracking down on cities and things of that nature where, like, we've talked about the questions around them. There are legitimate questions about how much can be done in that realm. I wonder if they're trying to kind of set that precedent, this sort of tone, that the president is engaging in these things. And slowly, over time, you can build to not only a political answer, but maybe the McCullough Revolution angle and also the chaos in the streets angle. At some point, if you believe your president is doing unconstitutional things and forcing the military of the United States to engage in actions that are unconstitutional against the American people, you're getting a lot of people out on the streets for that one. If this thing were to be successful. So I think that might be the path. Do you buy that?

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, I do. I just think that it is. I think the main goal here is just to undermine credibility, just undermine and tear us apart even more. Undermine credibility, sow the seeds of chaos once again.