The Glenn Beck Program — Best of the Program

Guests: Harmeet Dhillon & Peter Schweizer
Date: January 19, 2026
Episode Theme: Dissecting global political maneuvering, weaponized immigration, and U.S. legal response to civil unrest.

Episode Overview

In this “Best Of” episode, Glenn Beck delivers his sharp perspective on current American and global affairs—tying together U.S. foreign policy under Trump, global alliances, and the increasing chaos on domestic and international fronts. Special guests Peter Schweizer (author, The Invisible Coup) and Harmeet Dhillon (Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights) deepen the discussion with deep dives into Mexico’s covert immigration offensive against the U.S. and the legal response to recent lawless protests in Minnesota. Throughout, Beck urges listeners to move past personality-driven politics to instead recognize deeper patterns of threat and self-preservation on the world stage.

Key Discussion Points & Segments

1. Trump’s Geopolitical Strategy and the “Stress Test” Approach

Timestamp: 03:02 – 16:59

• Beck on Trump's Actions:
  • Beck urges listeners to “forget about what everybody says, even maybe you say about Donald Trump, good or bad, let's look at the actions.”
  • Suggests Trump’s tariffs, peace deals, and controversial foreign policy moves aren’t chaos, but deliberate stress tests on allies and adversaries.
  • draws historical parallels, positioning Trump’s approach closer to Hamiltonian isolationism—“alliances are temporary,” quoting Washington’s farewell address.

Notable Quotes & Analysis:

• “When you strip away all the insults, all of the bluster, all of the tweets, you're not left with chaos. You're left with a pattern. And that's what I do best—I see patterns and I follow patterns.” (A, 04:36)

• Beck sees Trump's global maneuvers, such as tariffs on NATO allies and outreach to Greenland, as rapid, purposeful attempts to dismantle a crumbling post-WWII order before it collapses on its own:

  • “Trump is not trying to manage the post World War II order. He's trying to kill it before it kills us.” (A, 04:52)

• Tariffs, Beck posits, aren't about economics but “stress tests”—analyzing which allies fold and who can’t live without the U.S. market.

  • “If you look at tariffs...they are stress tests—who folds when access to the American markets is threatened?” (A, 09:00)

• Greenland, Venezuela, and the Middle East are not fixations but “nodes”—key for energy, minerals, currency, missile warning, or Arctic control.

• Peace deals, Beck argues, are “about freeing bandwidth”—making others responsible for their own regional peace so the U.S. can focus on bigger threats.

Memorable Moment:

• Beck reframes the narrative from personality criticisms to a stark warning: western civilization is at a crossroads, and Trump is mobilizing resources for “battle”—not incremental diplomacy.

2. Peter Schweizer Interview: Weaponized Immigration & The Mexican Strategy

Timestamp: 17:02 – 27:57

• Topic: Schweizer’s new book, The Invisible Coup, exposes how U.S. immigration is being actively weaponized by outside actors—notably Mexico—with coordinated infrastructure, money, and political influence.

• Schweizer’s Historical Context:

  • Starts with the Mariel Boatlift of 1980 and Fidel Castro as the “proof of concept” for using immigration as a tool of attack, not mere economic migration.
  • “This was really the first modern example of weaponized immigration… what we thought was a sort of random humanitarian event was actually a targeted attack.” (B, 18:35)

• Mexico’s Overt Strategy:

  • Quotes from internal Mexican government documents and officials make clear claims to “reclaim our territory” through demographic and political means.
  • “We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory. That's from December of 2024… California, Nevada, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Wyoming were going to take back the territory that was stolen from us.” (B, 22:13)

• The Infrastructure:

  • Mexican consulates (53 in the U.S.) serve not just as diplomatic hubs but as organizers of protests and levers of political organizing, especially to aid pro-immigration U.S. politicians.
  • “They are working to elect Democrats who are sympathetic… and working to defeat President Trump through Mexican consulates that are across the United States.” (B, 23:16)

Notable Quotes:

• “Mexico has 53 consulates in the United States. 53. In contrast, the two other countries with the most are China and the United Kingdom with 6 and 7.” (B, 24:27)

• “The reconquest of the Aztec territory is silent. And the day that the gringos realize this, their diabolical fundamentalism will become macabre.” (B, 25:13)

• Beck strongly urges: “This book (The Invisible Coup) is probably the most important book you can read, I think, in the last five or six years.” (A, 26:33)

Memorable Moment:

• Schweizer affirms this is not theoretical: “There are dozens of these quotes in the book from Mexican officials. And we go through and name the Mexican government officials who were at the center of the LA riots last year who are manipulating our politics.” (B, 26:11)

3. Harmeet Dhillon Interview: Federal Legal Response to Minnesota Protests

Timestamp: 28:06 – 42:23

• Context: Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, discusses the DOJ’s immediate response to recent protesters disrupting a Minneapolis church—a clear violation of the FACE Act. She details the hurdles faced in enforcing federal law where local officials stonewall action.

• On FACE Act Enforcement:

  • “I immediately activated prosecutors and FBI agents to go to the scene and start investigating both the FACE act as well as related criminal offenses that can include conspiracy charges, material support, and many others.” (C, 29:12)
  • Local officials have not cooperated, forcing the DOJ to fill the enforcement gap.

• On Don Lemon’s Role:

  • Dhillon reserved direct comment on Lemon but spelled out that if a journalist knowingly participates in a crime, they aren’t shielded by the First Amendment:
    • “If I were his lawyer, I would probably say you know, that, you know, maybe you should lawyer up before you do things like this.” (C, 35:11)
  • Beck adds characteristically: “If I were Don Lemon... I'd be like, holy cow, I'm going to prison, because she does not mess around.” (A, 35:29)

• On Obstacles to Justice:

  • Dhillon describes reluctant local judges and law enforcement who slow-walk prosecutions—and the process of working plea agreements up the chain.
  • “We have to then get wrong rulings and then go to the court of appeals and get those corrected. It's just a process. And I know people are impatient and they think, you know, they want to see arrests every day.” (C, 40:09)

Memorable Moments:

• Dhillon stresses the urgency of defending houses of worship and taking a zero-tolerance DOJ stance:
  • “We will not let this happen to another church in the United States. It is un American unacceptable. And there is a zero tolerance policy for this DOJ.” (C, 42:12)

Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• Glenn Beck, on Pattern Recognition:
  “When you strip away all of the insults, all of the bluster, all of the tweets, you're not left with chaos. You're left with a pattern. And that's what I do best—I see patterns and I follow patterns.” (04:36)

• Peter Schweizer, on Mexican Strategy:
  “We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory. That's from December of 2024… California, Nevada, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Wyoming…” (22:13)

• Harmeet Dhillon, on Law Enforcement Breakdown:
  “People need to understand that, that there could have been arrests yesterday if Keith Ellison, the Attorney General of Minnesota, enforced his own laws.” (30:11)

• Beck, on urgency:
  “This book is probably the most important book you can read, I think, in the last five or six years. There is so much information here. I think this, I mean, this is, this is a nation's work, honestly.” (26:33)

Episode Flow & Takeaways

• Beck’s signature style stitches together granular foreign policy analysis with warnings about both international plotlines (China, Mexico, the “multipolar reset,” the WEF) and domestic legal battles (DOJ, civil unrest, systemic breakdown in Minnesota).
• Schweizer’s segment is revelatory and chilling, presenting detailed quotes and explicit strategies from Mexican officials on their demographic and political “reconquest.”
• Dhillon’s update is brisk, no-nonsense, and frames the DOJ as the last line of defense when state authorities won’t act, especially on attacks against faith communities.

Timestamps for Key Segments

• Trump's Strategy & Global Moves — 03:02–16:59
• Peter Schweizer & Weaponized Immigration — 17:02–27:57
• Harmeet Dhillon & DOJ’s Minnesota Response — 28:06–42:23

Overall Tone

• Unfiltered, urgent, and confrontational—especially in exposing uncomfortable realities.
• Beck and guests regularly cite evidence and historical context, presenting warnings as both retrospective and immediate.
• The conversations blend gravitas with moments of wit (especially regarding Don Lemon), staying true to Glenn Beck’s trademark style.

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