The Glenn Beck Program: Best of the Program | Peter Schweizer & James Brown

Date: January 20, 2026
Podcast Network: Blaze Podcast Network

Episode Overview

This episode of The Glenn Beck Program centers on American cultural and political challenges, focusing on the concept of invasion—demographic, ideological, and strategic—affecting the United States. Glenn dives into China’s covert and overt influence on American society, the failures of U.S. justice accountability, and the decline of Western resolve, weaving in discussions with investigative journalist and author Peter Schweizer about his explosive new book The Invisible Coup. The episode also reflects Glenn Beck’s signature urgency, skepticism of establishment institutions, and prescriptive nationalistic messaging.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Defining “Invasion” – Mexico, China, and Ideological Warfare

(03:31-06:00, 06:44-09:55)

• Language Matters: Glenn and Peter Schweizer dissect how “invasion” isn't merely a rhetorical flourish—adversaries use this term literally. Mexican elites have openly referred to demographic reconquest. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) frames its approach as “civilizational warfare” against the West.
  • Quote (Peter Schweizer, 04:11):
    “These adversaries, Mexico, the Muslim Brotherhood or China, they all use different methodologies, different strategies to undermine our civilization through immigration. … That’s the culprits themselves explaining exactly what they’re doing.”
• China’s Sophisticated Approach: Beyond overt threats, China manipulates U.S. systems (notably birthright citizenship and surrogacy) to embed millions of Chinese-born, U.S.-citizen children who grow up abroad, creating long-term vulnerabilities.
  • Quote (Schweizer, 06:44):
    "The federal government has no idea how many birthright children have been born… China has calculated … roughly 100,000 Chinese children have been born in the United States [each year for 13 years], then taken to China."

Timestamps

• [03:31] Introduction to Peter Schweizer and discussion on “invasion” terminology
• [04:11] Peter Schweizer explains adversaries’ own words on invasion
• [06:44] Details on China’s exploitation of U.S. birthright citizenship and surrogacy

2. The Hidden Threat of Birthright Citizenship Exploitation

(06:44-12:26)

• Birth Tourism as a National Security Vulnerability:

  • The U.S. lacks parental nationality tracking on birth certificates, allowing China to exploit loopholes undetected.
  • Chinese elites and CCP members systematically arrange for children to be born in America (via visit or surrogacy). These children, though raised in China, gain full U.S. rights—including the right to vote and hold government jobs when they turn 18.
  • Schweizer provides chilling numbers: Over 1 million such Chinese “citizens” could soon influence American elections and institutions.
  • Surrogacy is being industrialized, with hundreds of companies facilitating Chinese nationals’ access; one CCP-connected businessman reportedly has over 100 U.S.-citizen children born via surrogacy.
  • Quote (Schweizer, 08:43):
    “It’s a massive, massive national security threat, done cleverly… that demands immediate attention.”

• Impending Tipping Point:

  • The first 100,000 cohort will be eligible to vote in four years.
  • Mechanisms of CCP control, such as monitoring students and threatening families, apply to these “American” youths as well.
  • Quote (Schweizer, 10:23):
    “Their model for control… is supremacy over the United States and the destruction of Western civilization. That is what they view as their goal and they are dead set on achieving it.”

Timestamps

• [06:44] Numbers and methods of Chinese birthright citizenship abuse
• [08:43] Surrogacy details and national security implications
• [10:23] How CCP exerts control, even from afar

3. U.S. Government in Denial and Political Complicity

(12:26-15:19)

• Political Inaction:
  • Glenn Beck challenges the Trump administration’s inconsistency, noting past efforts to toughen birthright rules but ongoing laxity in some areas.
  • Schweizer highlights the Obama-era 10-year visa policy, which made it easy for Chinese nationals to cyclically travel to the U.S. and have children.
  • Expert Cited: Professor Salvatore Babones projects “millions upon millions” of such Chinese-linked citizens infiltrating American civic life if unchecked.
  • Quote (Schweizer, 13:57 - quoting Babones):
    “Young Chinese women granted renewable 10-year US multiple entry visas have as much as 25 years of fertility ahead of them.… We are literally looking at millions upon millions of Chinese nationals who get U.S. citizenship through birthright citizenship, who are going to be playing central roles in American society.”

Timestamps

• [12:26] Discussion of cohort aging into voting and security questions
• [13:57] Quoting experts on projected impact

4. Accountability and the Case Against DOJ & Pam Bondi

(17:50-30:55)

• Pam Bondi’s Bungled Transparency:
  • Glenn details long-standing frustration with DOJ and specifically Pam Bondi over failures in transparency and prosecution relating to scandals like Jeffrey Epstein, Hunter Biden, the Clintons, Russiagate, and more.
  • Cites FOIA requests ignored by DOJ, especially around communications between Dan Bongino, Pam Bondi, and others concerning the Epstein case.
  • Notable Critique (Beck, 23:10):
    “A republic doesn’t die only from chaos. It dies from tolerance of the intolerable. There comes a point when process stops being prudence and becomes protection.”
  • Lists a litany of failures: lack of charges for high-profile corruption, whistleblower retaliation, and general lack of consequence for elites vs. over-policing of common citizens.
• Public Trust at Risk:
  • Beck’s broader thesis: when justice appears rigged, the republic’s legitimacy collapses.

Timestamps

• [17:50] FOIA requests and transparency issues
• [23:10] Glenn’s rationale for why patience with Bondi/DOJ has become dangerous
• [25:30+] Detailed list of unprosecuted scandals

5. Europe’s Managed Decline and the Case of Diego Garcia

(32:00-44:43)

• Europe’s Strategic Surrender:
  • Beck delivers a scathing indictment of Europe—especially Britain—for giving up strategic positions (like the vital military base Diego Garcia) due to international court pressure and loss of belief in their own national resolve.
  • Asserts NATO is now “worthless,” Europe is unwilling to “bleed” for its interests, and dependency on the U.S. is masquerading as alliance.
  • Draws parallel with mass migration, lack of assimilation, and the rise of “parallel societies” in Europe.
  • Quote (Beck, 33:11):
    “NATO is worthless. It exists as a press release more than a deterrent.… They convinced themselves that their history was over. They dismantled their armories, their armies.… And now look at the situation they’re in.”
• Geopolitics of Greenland and the Arctic:
  • Explanations for US interest in Greenland as about securing global shipping lanes, energy, and defense infrastructure as Europe abdicates responsibilities.

Timestamps

• [32:00] Analysis of NATO and Diego Garcia
• [34:40] Europe's hollowing out, globalism critiques

6. A Call for National Renewal: What Trump Should Say at Davos

(44:50-50:00)

• Drafting a Presidential Doctrine:
  • Beck articulates the speech he wishes Trump would give at the World Economic Forum—emphasizing the end of unaccountable globalism, the rise of sovereign nation-first policy, and the need for direct, realistic cooperation among strong states.
  • References Reagan’s “tear down this wall” as a parallel inflection point for Western leadership.
  • Quote (Beck, 49:21):
    “The era of unaccountable global management is over. The era of sovereign cooperation has begun. We’re moving forward decisively, openly and with confidence. You want to join us? We welcome you as a partner. But we’re not waiting around.”

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Peter Schweizer, on the CCP's aims (10:23):
  “Their goal is supremacy over the United States and the destruction of Western civilization. That is what they view as their goal and they are dead set on achieving it.”

• Glenn Beck, accountability in justice (23:10):
  “A republic doesn’t die only from chaos. It dies from tolerance of the intolerable.… That’s what I’m concerned about, that we are in this place to where protection is happening.”

• Beck, on European decline (33:11):
  “NATO is worthless. It exists as a press release more than a deterrent. Its power is nothing but theoretical, conditional. It’s wrapped in footnotes, domestic politics, all of this crap.”

• Beck, on a new world order (49:21):
  “The era of unaccountable global management is over. The era of sovereign cooperation has begun.… We’re moving forward decisively, openly and with confidence.… But we’re not waiting around, because what’s coming is not good, and it’s right around the corner.”

Section Timestamps

| Time | Segment | |----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 03:14 | Peter Schweizer segment begins | | 04:11 | Language of "invasion" and adversaries' intent | | 06:44 | Details on CCP’s exploitation of U.S. birthright citizenship | | 10:23 | CCP’s explicit strategy and internal controls | | 12:26 | Aging of birthright citizens and imminent electoral impact | | 13:57 | Babones quote on the scale of birth tourism's impact | | 17:50 | FOIA requests and Bondi/DOJ transparency critique | | 23:10 | Glenn’s principle on tolerance of injustice and republic collapse | | 25:30 | Comprehensive list of unprosecuted scandals and DOJ failures | | 32:00 | Critique of Europe’s military and strategic abdication (Diego Garcia case) | | 34:40 | Broader analysis of managed decline/globalism and sovereignty | | 44:50 | The speech Beck wants Trump to give at the World Economic Forum | | 49:21 | The “era is over” quote: End of unaccountable globalism |

Tone & Language

• Direct, urgent, and skeptical: Glenn and guests employ loaded terms (“invasion,” “civilizational jihad”), assert a crisis narrative, and express impatience with establishment institutions.

• Historically anchored but polemical: References to the Roman Senate, Reagan, Churchill, and the arc of Western civilization frame current events as existentially pivotal.

Summary for Non-Listeners

This episode is a sweeping call for Americans to recognize (and act on) what the hosts frame as a multi-front assault on American sovereignty, identity, and viability—through demographic tactics by foreign adversaries (especially China), strategic weakness in Western alliances, and the failures of American justice to impose consequences on the powerful.
Glenn Beck and Peter Schweizer outline specific mechanisms exploited by hostile states (like birthright citizenship), critique the lack of government transparency and action, and urge a course correction—one centered on national accountability and restored sovereignty. The episode is high-pitched, often combative, and heavy on instructive calls for toughness at home and abroad.