John Solomon (22:06)

Yeah, listen. Five years, almost six years after the US Intelligence community first discovered that China had gained access to Americans voter registration data, we're finally finding out the Congress had no idea, the President had no idea, the American public had no idea. And that's kind of remarkable because two years ago in Great Britain, when Great Britain revealed that its voter registration data had been accessed by China, hacked by China, there was national recrimination, there was a national crisis, major changes to security. There were people who were fired, there were hearings and blue ribbon panels. Great Britain took such a breach of the election system very seriously. But in America, the CIA, FBI, the dhs, in the end of the Trump, in the beginning of the Biden era, just deep sixed it, didn't let anybody know. So we head into the 2026, not even the president. And does that not evidence that the president. The reason I say that is because we have now a report from the ombudsman for the United States Intelligence community and that ombudsman wrote that his name is Barry Zoloff and he wrote that this evidence was kept from the President himself specifically because U.S. intelligence analysts inside the CIA, inside the FBI, inside the Homeland Security Department didn't like Donald Trump. They called them the vulgarian in the Oval Office. That's actually what they wrote about their commander in chief in their own emails and that they chose not to brief on this because they didn't want Donald Trump's policies on China to succeed. So you have an intelligence committee caught red handed putting their political interest ahead of their country's interest.

Glenn Beck (23:50)

John, when is any of this going to make any difference?

John Solomon (23:53)

That's a great question. Right. We're a week into these revelations. The White House hasn't driven a narrative from the podium. You don't see Carolyn Levin talk about it on the podium. Even though the evidence is absolutely dispositive. We put the declassified evidence into the president has put it up on truth. He's raised some concerns about it. The President's Intelligence Advisory Board chaired by Devin Nunez, the they announced today that they're going to be investigating this. Senator Ron Johnson is seeking the documents from the Senate Public Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. But the administration, which has everything to gain in helping the American people understand this fix It. For instance, we got a debate going on in the Senate right now over the SAVE Act. The Save America Act. No. None of the senators know if their state was hacked by China. That's something that the Trump administration bureaucracy could do today. They could set up briefings for the senators and give them that information. I don't know. I don't know. A pair of. They can only handle one thing at a time. Democrats can handle five things at a time. Right. But we seem preoccupied.

Glenn Beck (24:59)

This administration has proven that they can handle 100 things at a time. I don't. I don't buy into that.

John Solomon (25:04)

Yeah, well, if they choose to. But here's a. Here's a situation. They knew it was coming. The White House knew this was coming. The CIA knew it was coming. The DNI knew it was coming. They released the documents, but they've yet to contact the senators and tell them what states are there. And so I continue to ask those questions. We've got more coming.

Glenn Beck (25:24)

Who wins if we don't pay attention to this? I'm trying to figure out motive on why you wouldn't say anything. What is the gain?

John Solomon (25:33)

Right. China wins if their capabilities are still preserved, because there hasn't been the sort of alert that Great Britain did. And then one could argue the Democratic Party doesn't. I say that only because of the documents that, that Cash Patel released last June that we broke here at just the news in June of last year that China sent tens of thousands of fake driver's licenses into Chicago o' Hare Report to be distributed around the country. And the goal of that, According to the FBI's own counterintelligence sources inside China, was for China to register people to fake people to vote for Joe Biden, help Joe Biden beat President Trump in the 2020 election. Now, we intercepted those, but it's pretty clear that China either has a preference with the Democratic Party or some sort of alliance with the Democratic Party based on what the FBI wrote.

Glenn Beck (26:26)

John, can you believe you live in this time? I mean.

John Solomon (26:30)

Yeah.

Glenn Beck (26:30)

Any other time, any other time in our lifetimes, this would have shut everything down.

John Solomon (26:38)

Yeah, right. Should shut everything down. We should put our defenses up. We should fix it. By the way, it's eminently fixable. But the partisan divide in America makes everybody see red when they want to see green, and when green, when they want to see red, there is no bipartisanship. Party becomes before country. And you see this sort of gridlock driven by partisan blockage.

Glenn Beck (27:00)

It's terrifying. How is the Save America act if you've Judged these things for forever. You've seen them. Anything going to happen?

John Solomon (27:11)

I think it gets skinny down. I think at the end of the day, some of the other provisions, including a ban on absentee voting for most Americans, will be preserved because several red states like Arizona do it, Georgia does it, Florida does it pretty effectively. But if they skinny it down to voter ID and to citizenship checks, which are 85% popular in the American public, there is a good chance that they can pick up six or seven centers. Particularly when senators start to find out that their state was acting one of the targets of this Chinese influence operation. I think that's a very big thing that's going to come out. Listen, we're going to keep on the CIA, we're going to keep on the DNA. We are going to find out which states there are. We're told it's as many as 18. We're going to stay on it until every state knows that they were impacted by China's mal influence operations.

Glenn Beck (27:58)

You have any states so far?

John Solomon (28:01)

None. None. None whatsoever, no. But we expect that in the next tranche of documents.

Glenn Beck (28:06)

Talk to me a little bit about the FBI. They seized the records for Maricopa County. This seems like a million years ago now. And are we, are we relitigating this or have they found anything significant?

John Solomon (28:21)

I think in Georgia and Fulton county and Arizona, Maricopa county, the two big urban centers, the metropolises were voting in those two states. The goal of the FBI is to find out, much like at the end of the day, gangsters sometimes get caught not on their mobster activities, but sometimes on taxes or technical violations to hold accountable those state and city and county officials who didn't follow their state election laws. There's one unique part to the laws that the Democratic Party helped pass in the 1960s, and it says that if a state doesn't follow the laws on the books for the elections, and it does so knowingly and willingly, by the way, a county and a city as well, if there's a no full and willful effort not to follow the laws on the books for the state election, when it's a federal election, it becomes a federal offense. And so I think what the FBI is trying to create with the Justice Department is trying to create is deterrence, which is we may prosecute people for not following the laws in 20, 22 and 24 so that they do follow the laws going forward in elections. What are those laws keeping the voting rolls dirty when they're supposed to be cleaned up? You see a lot of Problems with that. Just last week Harmeet Dylan reviewed. She's going through some of these voter rolls. She's found tens of thousands of non citizens who made it onto the voter rolls and she hasn't even gotten to California and New York and some of the big states. That's a problem. The law in those states says that noncitizens should not be on the voter rolls changing the ballot so that the ballots go out whether someone requests them or not. Some states ban that from happen. We don't do a voter identification like signature matches or which are required in Arizona or photo ID matches which were required in Wisconsin but waived in some circumstances in 2020. If those officials are showed to have done that in violation of the laws that their legislatures put up, they can be charged federally and that'll be the first accountability we had for a loosey goosey election system that has kind of been wandering about without structure for about 20 years now. This gets worse every election. We're now seeing an administration committed to holding the states to the laws they say around the book so that everybody's treated equally and if you don't do it, you could be prosecuted.

Glenn Beck (30:35)

Be refreshing. I believe it when I see it. The next thing on this kind of subject is JD Vance going in after all of the corruption and John, I, I firmly believe, I'll bet you a third of our deficit is just waste and, and bribery and corruption and it's going to be found everywhere. Are we making any progress on this and will anybody actually be held accountable?

John Solomon (31:09)

I believe that a system is falling into place right now. We're seeing in Minnesota mass prosecutions. We're up over 120 people. That's a large criminal case. I think at the end of the day California is just starting to ramp up. New York is start ramping up. You are exactly right. If you look at the GAO report, it estimates anywhere from 500 to $700 billion a year which is about a third of the discretionary budget of the United States is wasted either through going to dead people, going to ineligible people, going to foreign con men, going to domestic con men or con women. That is something that you don't need Congress to fix if you just enforce the rules that are on the book. And there's some really simple things that I think you'll see J.D. vance get done right away. Most grant programs, most entitlement programs still don't check the dead person database at the Social Security before sending out a check. Now that's just simple basic due diligence that could save a lot of money or tens of billions of dollars just doing that. Checking to see if someone says that they're living in Alabama, but their check is being sent to Moldova or Russia. Not to pick on any particular country that would find a lot of the foreign fraud that we saw rampant during the COVID 19.

Glenn Beck (32:23)

It's like that easy. Literally that easy.

John Solomon (32:26)

I had the former Comptroller of the United States, who's, I think, one of the smartest guys to. He's been saying this for 20 years. Nobody's been listening to him. I think JD Vance has dialed in these three simple recommendations from the Comptroller of the United States. The third is go in there every year. The GAO identifies high risk programs, programs that clearly don't have protections in place and have a long history of wasting money. Just implement the recommendations, which most agencies have not done. Those three things the Comptroller of the United States said could save between 300 and $500 billion a year. Not a single law needs to be passed by Congress. Not a single rescission needs to happen. Just that alone. If J.D. vance achieved that, that would be an extraordinary gift to the American public.

Glenn Beck (33:10)

Is that why they went after Elon Musk so hard?

John Solomon (33:13)

Oh, yeah. You're hanging over the Holy Grail. And you see now what the Holy Grail looks like. Right. When you, when you dissect Minnesota, it is a. It is a plot that the Democrats have. First open up the border, then get nonprofits to move people to the blue cities and blue states, where you're trying to ramp up your apportionment, where you're trying to ramp up your representation, where you're trying to ramp up your federal funds algorithm and then keep them there by letting them defraud programs so that they're happy and they're making good money off the taxpayer. Because then you get another congressional seat or you get an X amount of extra billions of dollars a year. It's that coordinated. We see it. That's why when these whistleblowers came out in Minnesota and said, we told the governor, we told the attorney General, they weren't interested in looking at it. There's a system that the Democrats have built, and I think right now, for the first time, you're seeing it being dismantled piece by piece,

Glenn Beck (34:11)

I fear, you know, politicians are politicians. I don't care left or right. Yeah. Do you think this is happening in the red states as well?

John Solomon (34:18)

Oh, absolutely. It happens everywhere.

Glenn Beck (34:20)

Yeah.

John Solomon (34:21)

At the end of the day, because, you know, what happens is, you know, the Head bones connected to the shoulder bone. The backbone is down to the leg. By the time you get to the leg bone, there's some man or woman in a blue city in a red state that's deciding whether you're going to get that money or not. Whether I'm going to check the voter, the dead database. And so getting, because the federal distributions keeps going downstream, it eventually gets to either a crooked or an incompetent bureaucracy at the local level that administers those funds. That's what you see in Minnesota most times. Everybody knew there were problems with the autism program. Everybody knew there were problems with the food program. Everybody knew there were problems with the childcare program. But the people at the bottom of the food chain, they didn't care and they didn't intervene. Now, did they not care for political reasons? Did they not care because they just weren't good at their job? We don't know the answer to that. But when those people start getting indicted because they didn't, they weren't good stewards of the money, you're going to see the system tighten up pretty quickly. And I think that's the next wave of indictments. All right, we got the fraudsters in, the con men, at least in Minnesota. Now the question is, who downstream is getting investigated? We've seen criminal referrals from James Comer, looking at some of the people in the state government. We've got whistleblowers that have dates and times and names of when people were told and didn't act. When state officials start getting and county and city officials start getting indicted for not protecting the federal funds that they were entrusted with, that's when the system's gonna tighten up really quick because that's where all the abuse occurs. Downstream from Uncle Sam.

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Is this going to though take Carg Island? Is it going to involve US troops on the ground? Let me, let me just read you something from the Atlantic does an assessment on that. They say U.S. troops may well take Cargill and we believe their ability to do so, but only to endure ballistic missile strikes, drone attacks, petrochemical smoke, all without a reliable means of obtaining logistical support.

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Glenn Beck (38:24)

Okay? Iwo Jima, not a good example. Why? It was a slaughter. It was an, it was a meat grinder. We lost so many people in Iwo Jima. If you're willing to do that, okay, then we have to have a different kind of conversation with the American people because the American people do not have a stomach, have the stomach for a meat grinder. They don't really even understand what the objective is at this point. You know, we've been promised this is going to be a short lived thing. It's, we're not going to have ground troops, et cetera, et cetera. And you know, then you throw in Iwo Jima. No, no, but let me show you how easy it is to get lost on this. Here's Lindsey Graham saying, you know, the guy has never met a war he doesn't like and we should do this, we should do this. We should do this. I am saying we don't have a choice. Now, whether you like it or not, we don't have a choice. We have to, we have to fight this to win this. I don't know what that means. And if you're talking about ground troops, that's a whole different conversation. But you could listen to this and say, well, Glenn Beck's saying the same thing that Lindsey Graham is saying. No, no, no, we're not. No, we're not. Same thing could be said. A little while ago I was saying, this is becoming very, very concerning and we are in trouble, I think, and we just have to be very, very careful. Now you could listen to that and say, Glenn Beck is against this war. Just like, just like, you know, Joe Kent is. Well, no, I'm not saying the same thing that Joe Kent is. Jo Kent is against the war and says, this could be very, very bad. Glenn Beck is saying, I don't know about this war. I trust the President, I trust our military, but I'm very nervous about it. But you know, if we're going to go deeper into it, that changes the ball game here. I need to hear more from the President of the United States. Similar, maybe, but what Joe does is he goes further. This is how you get lost. Let me tell you a story. Let me tell you a story about a ship. It's in New York harbor and it's got a 100 day crossing. It's going to take 100 days to go to England. And it's planning on docking in England. And everybody is ready to go to England. They're all very excited, but none of them really know how to read the stars. You know. You know, they trust the compass and a few charts, but they're not sure the compass, how that really works either. But the word is, you know, who's ever at the wheel, just hold her steady. Just hold her steady. Okay. London that way. Few degrees here and there won't matter, right? Well, let's just say that every day the ship runs on the old tradition of four hour watches. So somebody's got the helm. That's six times a day, 24 hours, the helmsman's change. And each time a new man takes the wheel, something small happens.

John Solomon (41:38)

Okay?

Glenn Beck (41:38)

The first helmsman, he's tired from the night before, so he just swings it one degree too far south. Close enough. Okay. No one's going to notice a single degree on a ship this big. He's not wicked, he's, he's not just lazy, you know, he might Be tired that our next guy comes in, glances at the compass, thought the previous course looks right enough. But you know, he's off by a degree this time. It's just easier on his shoulders because he's, he's sore, you know, he was working out, you know, third man, distracted by a story he was telling, drifted another degree. And so it goes on, night after night, watch after watch. Not one of them choosing the wrong course. Not one of them saying we're all of them believing we're going to London. But just a tiny misjudgment. Not wrong, just not right. Almost right by 1 degree, 1 degree at a time. Well, by the end of the first week, the ship is now 10 degrees off course. No one noticed. Sea looks the same. Wind still feeling the sails. Daily log, steady as she goes. Second week, the drift is now 20 degrees. Officer shrug. We'll correct it tomorrow. Well, tomorrow never comes. The mathematic. The mathematics of the sea. Merciless. Same of the air, same with life. London initially 51 degrees from New York, Florida, a sunny beach. 201 degrees. The difference is 150 degrees at 1 degree of error per watch. Six watches a day. The ship needed one. 150 shifts, shifts to swing from London all the way around going to Florida. The 25th day. The helmsman on the day watch feels the wheel answer. Strangely, it's a little light in his hands. He checks the compass, he kind of blinks, shows the car. Shows 201 degrees dead on for Miami. The ship is no longer almost headed for London. It's headed for Florida. The coast of England is now behind them and to the north, the, the coast of Florida is somewhere just over the southern horizon and drawing nearer every time. How did it happen? How did this happen? Imagine being the captain. Well, I guess, I mean, how did it happen? I mean, nobody really failed. There wasn't one failure of one guy. No one had mutinied, nobody. No great storm had blown them off course. Just a thousand tiny decisions, each one easy, each one smaller, each one almost right until they were headed towards Miami. That's life. You're going to hear from a lot of people, including me, that might be almost right. In your life, we must be correct for your course. You must be correct. What is your compass? What is the thing that you check every day and go, am I on course? Because I have news for you, social media. It's going to take you 1 to 10 degrees off course, but you could do it every day and it's just a little, just a fraction of degree off course every day because of social media. You could get so wrapped up in your worry of war and politics and everything else that that could take you a fraction of a degree to 20 degrees off course. You could start listening to somebody like me, use me as an example. And you're like, yeah, that guy's right. But you're not listening entirely to everything that I say. And so if you're just blindly following, you're like, well, but I agree with him, but I might be headed in a place where you don't want to go. We have to be very, very, very careful on the influences in our life. We have to be. Much more discerning on everything that we do. And every life is about to change, and we all need to be aware that we are in charge of our course and setting it every day and be aware of the little things. My shoulders hurt, so I'm just going to let it drift a degree. Everything we do has a consequence and we don't notice it until we're headed towards, well, this sounds like a good thing. Till we're headed towards Miami and not to London. We don't notice it until it is way off course. Just be careful. The little decisions matter. Life, like the sea, keeps exact and perfect arithmetic.

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