Glenn Beck (16:13)
You can have an opinion, but you need the facts first. You have to have the facts first. That is something I've been saying for the last few weeks. Once we got into this war, I said, I have been watching the news and everybody has an opinion. Everybody has an opinion. Can you give me any facts first? Then tell me what it means. I don't need your opinion. You don't need. I said in that monologue yesterday, I don't I don't want to be somebody where you're taking my opinion and just running with my opinion. My opinion is my opinion. As I said yesterday, I have an ass and an opinion, and they're both worth the same thing. When it comes to things like this, when we're trying to figure things out, when we are looking at, at all of this, something this important, you have to start with the facts. And again, because I know one of them said, glenn, why don't you produce your facts that it didn't happen? Did you grow up in Russia? Where'd you grow up? Because I grew up in the United States of America. The accuser presents the facts. The accused is innocent until proven guilty. So you could make that case. I might even believe you if you have the facts. I might even, without facts, be inclined to believe you that, Yep, I bet you the CIA is doing that kind of stuff. Might even be inclined. But that doesn't make the person guilty. That doesn't mean that what you said is true. Produce the facts. Prove the guilt. I don't have to prove the innocent. You have to prove the guilt. That's the way it works in America. Burn a launcher. You're at home in the middle of the day, going about normal, quiet afternoon, when something stops you cold. Not a doorbell, not a knock, but the sound of somebody testing your doorknob. And at first, you might wait, you know, thinking it as a mistake. And then you hear footsteps moving along the side of the house. Whoever has decided to try to get in is tried to get in another way. And in that moment, everything becomes very, very clear. This isn't some somebody you know at the wrong address. This is someone seeing if your home is an easy target. And that's when you realize how important it is to have an option that you know doesn't require you to escalate to legal force. It still gives you ways to protect yourself and create distance if you need it. And that is a burner launcher. That's what it's designed for. It's a compact device that fires kinetic and pepper projectiles designed to stop a threat without using a firearm. And it is legal in all 50 states and you don't need a permit. Go to Burna.com Glenn learn more. Try before you buy a sportsman's warehouse located near you. It's byrna b y r n a burna.com glenn now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. So there are moments, like I said, where something all is the tell here, and it's a quiet move that reveals the whole strategy. And what happened just a couple of days ago was one of those moments. A task force was announced on fraud. And if it were any other administration, it would just be, you know, housekeeping. It would be, you know, another headline, another promise to clean things up in Washington. You know, Washington creates task force all the time, and they never solve any of the problems. But this one is different. This one is different not because of what it says on paper, but because who is standing at the center of it. Donald Trump started a task force on corruption led by J.D. vance. So who's standing there at the head of it is important, and just as important is who is not. I want you to think of everything through the eyes of 2028. And let's look at the board the way a strategist would look at it. Where's Marco Rubio right now? Marco Rubio has more jobs than anybody I have ever. Anybody I've ever met. He is right now exactly where you'd expect him to be. Deep in foreign policy, standing shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump and the administration. In one of the most volatile geopolitical moments in my lifetime. This thing could be a miracle, could be a massacre, could be horrible in the end. Don't know yet. Iran, energy, global alliances, the risks of escalation into World War three. This is the highest stakes I've ever seen a president play at. High visibility, high risk, and whoever is with it is either a hero or a villain. And if it works, there's stability, there's loyal, there's lower, lower oil prices, there's a real peace dividend by 26 or 27, and Rubio will look like an amazing statesman. He becomes the natural heir, the man who helps steady the world. Okay, but if it doesn't, what happens to Rubio? If the war drags, if the costs mount, if Americans feel it in their wallets and their son and daughters start coming home in boxes, that position is an absolute anchor. Now, shift your focus here for a second. We got Rubio, but I started talking about JD Vance. So let me go back to JD Vance. Where's JD Vance right now on this issue? Where is JD Vance? I've heard rumors he's not really with the president on this one, but I haven't seen any statements, and I haven't seen the president say, yeah, he's kind of weak on this. Normally he would say something like, J.D. vance is just not anywhere near this storm. He's standing somewhere else entirely. Donald Trump, say what you want about him. But the guy is a frickin genius. He is going to make sure that the America first idea that MAGA goes on well after him. Because what did he do? He's put J.D. vance at the same time, the war, fraud, corruption, government waste, that's not accidental, that is positioning. Because what Trump said almost offhandedly is actually, I think, the thesis of the next election. He said, and I quote, if we found half the fraud, we'd have a balanced budget. That line is not about accounting, that line is about framing. It reframes the entire economic argument away from the painful choices. Cuts, taxes, austerity, all the things that everybody else in every other country, their politicians talk about. We've got to cut our way through austerity. We have to start doing this would be emotionally unifying. The message is someone is stealing from you and all we have to do is stop the threat and stop the theft and we're going to be okay. And not in theory, the story out of Minneapolis. Billions of dollars siphoned from programs meant for the vulnerable. I mean, it just couldn't get any. I mean, if I were writing a script, it couldn't get any better. Wait, you're taking the money from children who are hungry? If I'm writing a script, I've got my bad guy. It gives the argument teeth, faces numbers, outrage. And now Vance is being handed the mandate to go find more. Not quietly, publicly, relentlessly. Trump even telegraphed this. He said, this is not going to be ceremonial. It won't be symbolic. He said, there's not going to be another czar with no title or with a title and no teeth. Basically not going to be Kamala going down and trying to figure out what's happening with our border. And that's the contrast he uses. He defined in advance what leadership is supposed to look like and he assigned Vance the role of proving it. Now let's step back from the whole board and look at the whole board again. You have one potential successor tied to global outcomes that he can't fully control, but he's going to be tied with that. Another one being given a domestic mission that can be prosecuted daily, case by case, headline by headline, building a narrative that feeds directly into the next campaign. JD Vance is going to be the guy against Gavin Newsom because he's going to find the corruption in California. So that pits him against Newsom. By 2028, we'll know what the Republican message will be. Not just growth, not just strength abroad, but this government was looted. The biggest theft in American History happened. Somebody robbed our treasury, and we can prove it, and we stopped it. That's a pretty powerful argument against governors like Gavin Newsom or any other Democrat running on expanding programs and increasing spending and promising more systems. Because the counter is going to be simple. Aha. Aha. Before you do more, can you explain why the system wasn't protected in your state the last time? Can you explain where the money went? Can you explain why no one in your state stopped it? And advance is the one uncovering those answers. If he becomes the face of that accountability, then he isn't just part of the administration, he becomes the argument. Same thing with everything that is happening with Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio will become the face of whatever it is that happens with this. Not only this war, but the entire strategy of our foreign policy. You have the pot. If it goes well, you have the possibility of the two best candidates I've ever seen in my lifetime. Because we will know on record what they are capable of doing. We will have seen them in action. This is how you build a successor without naming one. You give them a lane, you give them a mission. You give them victories to see and feel, but you also give them a place to fail. If they're not the president, they're not going to be presidential. If they are not, the ones for the job will know it because they will have failed. You let time do all the rest. There's one condition that determines whether any of this works, and that is the economy. Because it always comes back to that. If people are working, if wages stabilize, if the inflation cools, then the fraud narrative becomes gasoline already on a moving engine. If the economy is struggling, then even the most compelling corruption story isn't going to be enough. But make no mistake on what is happening here, this is not just about fraud. This is about defining the battlefield of the next election. And quietly, without a speech, without a rally, without a declaration, Trump just put two pieces on the board. You watch those two pieces. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. We're just talking on the. On the insider podcast. That is what happens during commercials. And usually we're filling in with stuff that we just didn't have time for. And I didn't get a chance to talk about how if you have a grocery store now in Washington state, you're not allowed. You. I mean, you leave, but they're claiming now that that can be the state's property because it's essential. So you can't sell the grocery store and leave you. You're providing an Essential service. So the state will just take it. The other, the other thing is there is a bill in Olympia, Washington. Get this one. Okay. They can't hire any police officers in Washington state. Why? Oh, I don't know. Police just don't want to work here. So for some reason, I wonder why. So they can't hire any police officers. So what are they doing? They are actually making it full police powers, carrying a weapon, enforcing the laws of Washington state, making arrests, all of that. If you are a non citizen. According to Senate Bill 5068 legislation allow non US citizens to become law enforcement officers and prosecutors. People who are here illegally enforcing the law and being the prosecutors. Oh, my God. What? Get out, get out, get out. Okay, let me go to Rachel, Rachel Bovard. She is CPI Vice President of programs and she has made the best case online. She can make all of this bull crap Senate speak understandable because, you know, we've got the SAVE act coming and we've got John Corden on our side. Now it's fixed. John Thune, he's still a little skeptical, but Cordon's on our side. So Rachel is here to tell us exactly what is happening with the Save America act, how this is working and what we should expect. Rachel. Hi, Rachel.
