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Best of the Program | Guests: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna & Lindy Li | 2/12/25
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Glenn Beck
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Anna Paulina Luna
Democrats have mounted a pretty strong defense against Elon Musk. They asked the question, musically, of course, which side are you on? It's something that you need to hear. Also, Lindy Lee is with us and Anna Paulina Luna. Anna was yesterday appointed to a new congressional hearing or committee to release all of the national secrets. What does that mean? And how fast is this coming? At a breathtaking pace you can't miss. Anna Paulina Luna on today's podcast, 85% of all grass fed beef in America is imported. Now that fact really didn't sit right with me. Probably you and the people over at Good Ranchers. So here's what they're doing about it. Every cut of meat from Good Ranchers, beef, chicken, pork, all raised right here in the US it is free from hidden additives like antibiotics and hormones or even seed oils. It's just meat, American meat. They're upholding the values and the traditions because when you shop with Good Ranchers, you're directly supporting local farms and ranches here in the United States. These are the people who've been feeding us Americans for generations now. And Good Ranchers is working to keep them in business. Kind of a good idea, good cause. And it's great meat. You can get free ground beef, free chicken breast, wild caught salmon in every box for a year. Plus you'll get 25 off when you subscribe at Good Ranchers. It's not too late to start the year off, right? GoodRanchers.com New year, new meat offer. Visit GoodRanchers.com Use the promo code back to claim 25 off and free meat in every box for a year. Promo code beck@goodranchers.com that's goodranchers.com American Meat Delivery. You're listening to the Best of the Glenn Beck Program. So people are freaking out in the Democratic Party and they, they should. Especially if you had anything to do with the last election. I mean, you know, they raised a billion dollars and it looked like a lot of it was wasted. Where did that Money go. I don't know. But there's somebody that is, has been seen on many podcasts now. She's former Democratic fundraiser. She is, I don't know if she's. She's still a Democrat, but she left the DNC as an insider and has become an independent thinker. Lindy is joining us now. Lindy Lee. Welcome. Lindy.
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Lindy Lee
Glenn, it's so good to be with you. Thank you so much for having me.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Now, I'm guessing that's something you never ever thought in your life you would say.
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Lindy Lee
Good morning, Glenn Beck, you mean?
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah, good morning, Glenn.
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Lindy Lee
I've watched you from afar for much of my life, so I didn't think it would be happening this week, though. You're certainly right. It's been a whirlwind and I'm no longer a Democrat.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Oh, really? Because I just read someplace that you haven't led the. You haven't left the party, but you have now officially left the party.
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Lindy Lee
I have left the party, absolutely. This is not how I saw my year going, but the party left me with no choice. I just can't abide by the woke and trans insanity, not to mention the gross mismanagement of the money that I spent, worked so hard to raise. And Glenn, I hate to correct you, but it wasn't a billion. It was 2.5 billion because the campaign raised 1.5 billion and the super PAC Future Forward raised another billion. So we essentially.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Where did all that money go? Where did it go, Lindy?
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Lindy Lee
To oligarchs, to celebrities, to five star hotels? Half a million dollars is spent on putting Kamala Harris's mug on a sphere in Las Vegas. Obviously that was a wise decision. And on mega celebrity concerts, even right down the street on the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum. How many votes do you think that garnered for her? I would wager maybe like negative votes because people were pissed off that the traffic was snarled the entire day. And hoopl. What's the bill for that? Taxpayers. Right. And the damage done to our community. And she did this in so many cities. Like, who thought that was a good idea? Actually, I know exactly who thought that was a good idea. But it was just these people are brain dead.
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Anna Paulina Luna
You say that you can name who the president was. Who was the president in the last four years, Glenn?
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Lindy Lee
The thing is there were like 10 of them because you have like Steve Ruschetti and Mike Donilon and Nita Dunn and Barack Obama orbiting around all these people who are unelected senior advisors running the show. It certainly wasn't Joe Biden. He was just a figurehead signing the executive orders, not really understanding what he was signing. And it's just very, very grave situation that I tried to flag for everybody for a number of years now. It took me a while to get here though. They will excoriate you and I'm still paying the price. I haven't. Glenn. It's been really hard time for me. I haven't slept. I didn't sleep last night. I've been having trouble sleeping. I'm being attacked, both the left and the right, by the way, somebody on the right is trying to defame me and the left is just insane. So it's just. It's not a. It's not easy, Glenn.
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Anna Paulina Luna
So. And I know that. I mean, I have been excoriated by both sides because I'm not predictable. I just am who I am. And sometimes I change my mind on things.
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Lindy Lee
I love that about you. Yeah. You've been outspoken literally my entire life.
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Anna Paulina Luna
And it's difficult if you don't choose a team when your team is just. I want to be true to myself and true to what I believe is true. For instance, you know, I really thought America was a great place and I still believe it's a great place. But we have done really bad things. And I don't mean in the distant past. I mean recently we've done some really bad things and we have to admit those things. And it doesn't mean you're anti American. It just means I just want the truth. Let the chips fall where they may and let the people decide the direction. Because I think the people in America are good. When the government detaches itself from the people, we always go wrong. So I've lived your life before, but can you see at all you were somebody, I mean, who defended all of this stuff hard during the campaign.
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Lindy Lee
Do I have a choice?
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Anna Paulina Luna
I don't know. No, I'm not. So, you know, I've lost all of.
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Lindy Lee
My so called friends. I've been excommunicated. Not just excommunicated, but they tried to discredit me, to destroy me, to defame me. There are hidden pieces out there about me. They just cannot believe that there is someone who doesn't have skeletons in our closet. So they invent these skeletons. I am just honestly just a. I am just honestly a well behaved Asian girl. You know, that's how I was raised. I've been a Christian conservative all my life and I had to hide that aspect of me because it's not acceptable to Be that when you go to a liberal university. I went to an extremely liberal university. I live in an extremely liberal city. It's not acceptable to be a Republican. So my transition and my journey to becoming who I am, it took. This is a years long process for me.
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Anna Paulina Luna
I know.
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Lindy Lee
And, yeah.
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Anna Paulina Luna
So, you know, Linda, you're not walking into a hostile room. I just, you know, as somebody who.
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Lindy Lee
I'm really happy and honored to be here, I. I appreciate you. I hope you understand. I hope you sense that love coming from me.
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Anna Paulina Luna
I do. Thank you, Lindy. But I just, you know, we have to have honest conversations because there's a lot of people that will cloak themselves and say, I got to be on this side for a while and, you know, everybody is who they are, whatever, but I only want to be around. I have no problem being around liberals if they're reasonable and we can talk about things and we can disagree and we can live side by side forever, and it's not a problem. The problem is just exactly what you described, a left. And some parts of the right are like this as well, but not nearly like it is on the left. They'll just destroy you if they don't. Truth does not matter. Right. And those people are really, really dangerous. So what was your turning point? What was the last thing that you're like, okay, I just can't do this anymore?
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Lindy Lee
Well, actually, Glenn, I haven't said this publicly. The person that I love most in the world is a Republican, and he's always been Republican. He's from the south, and it's something that I haven't disclosed. And I don't want to say more because it's a private individual and he's not a public figure. But when you love somebody, you kind of want to be aligned with them. And because I've been protecting his identity, people just.
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Anna Paulina Luna
So this is a personal relationship. This isn't somebody that you've been.
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Lindy Lee
Oh, this is just one of many factors. This is what. My becoming who I am publicly wasn't just one. It wasn't one catalyst. There are so many, countless. But I'm just saying that when you love somebody, you kind of want to be on the same page as them. It's only natural. And I've just never. I don't want to drag them into the public square. It's just not my place to do that. But in terms of specific things, there's so many. I mean, I was attacked on the streets of Philadelphia multiple times in the past year. That's a result of the Progressive DA that we have, Larry Krasner and the George Soros funded prosecutors that we have around the country. Country basically destroying our cities. But not only that, the DNC chair publicly humiliated me after I raised questions. All I did was raise questions about the campaign spending. He called me a narcissist and accused me of taking selfies at the election night party. That's his worst, okay? That's their worst. The DNC chair's worst allegation against me. That's how thin the argument against me is. But he could have. They all had my number, okay? Every one of us were on a first name basis. He could have picked up the phone and we could have talked about the campaign spending. Instead he chose to indulge his far left influencers and publicly humiliate me. How could I possibly be a part of that team after something like that happened? And he acted like he was five years old. He tweeted GIFs at me. He sent me a gif of like a flaming dumpster fire. Which is supposed to exemplify me, I guess. So this is how the leader of the Democratic Party behaved to well meaning criticism. I don't want to be a part of this clown show.
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Anna Paulina Luna
So Lindy, let's talk about the way the Democrats are behaving now. As I said just a minute ago and Bill Ackman just retweeted this that over three times more people in D.C. are googling criminal defense lawyer than anywhere else in the US The Democrats are saying that, you know, Elon Musk is destroying democracy when all he's asking for is transparency. And I think, honestly, I think that's part of the thing that when people were talking about hope and change with Barack Obama, I think that's what a lot of people think thought they were going to get was transparency. We're going to read all the bills before they're passed. You're going to be able to see everything that we do when it comes to our tax dollars. The gross mismanagement. And that's putting it in the nicest possible frame. The gross mismanagement has got to stop. And when you see what happened with two and a half billion dollars in the campaign, how do you approach people like you that were on the other side that are now standing up and saying this? Elon Musk, what's happening is destroying democracy. How do you talk to them? What do you say to them?
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Lindy Lee
One phrase, give me a break. You're complaining that Elon Musk wasn't elected and therefore has no right to help the country. What about the team? The cabal of people around Joe Biden, who wasn't elected over the past four years? They were literally running the country on his behalf. So don't even start with me. That's what I would say. But also the people in Washington, this swamp, they're so used to spending opm, other people's money, and so they're just addicted to that. They have no sense of fiscal responsibility. My family and I were naturalized immigrants, by the way. We came to this country with very little money. 200 bucks. We didn't take a handout from anybody. We worked like, we worked hard as hell to get to where we are right now, to build a beautiful life, to create hundreds of jobs. And that is mentality that Elon is kind of imposing on the federal government, you know, to make sure that line by line, every line can be justified. That is the kind of attitude that I actually want.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Lindy, it's great talking to you. I hope we get a chance to talk again, because I know you were being accused of being a Chinese spy and your family escaped communism, and. And I just would like to hear more of your point of view.
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Lindy Lee
Can we even settle that right now? Like, what do you need me to do? Someone from the CCP killed my great grandfather.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Right? So I think the only thing that needs to be done is just that people just need to know. No. Your family was persecuted by the Chinese Communists. It wouldn't make any sense for you to be anything.
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Lindy Lee
My father is a dissident. Are we allowed to curse on here?
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Anna Paulina Luna
No, we're on federal. Yeah. Fcc.
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Lindy Lee
Let me just say that I hate the communists, the Chinese Communist regime. I hate them. I've condemned them all my life, my entire adult life. Five years ago, I went on Fox News and I openly condemned the communist regime. What do you want from me? Like, what do I need to do? You're just looking for a way to destroy me because you.
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Anna Paulina Luna
I don't know, you disagree.
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Lindy Lee
But I'm not gonna let people get away. Anyone who defames me, by the way, my lawyer will be reaching out.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Lindy, appreciate it. Hope we talk again. I know you have to run. Thank you so much for being on with me.
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Lindy Lee
Thank you so much, Glenn.
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Anna Paulina Luna
You bet.
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Lindy Lee
Take care.
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Anna Paulina Luna
You bet. Lindy Lee. I like her. She seems nice. I, you know, like to go a little more in depth with her, but my initial response is I like her. Let me talk to you a little bit about the burner launcher. The burner launcher is something that my wife has in her car I have in my car in the glove box. I'll carry it from time to time. My daughter has one in her purse and it's much better than mace or pepper spray. This looks like a gun. It's legal in all 50 states. You don't need a permit or background check or anything because it's less lethal and it fires a kinetic round that will put you on the ground for a while and, and then it also has tear gas. I load mine kinetic round tear gas to kinetic round tear gas. So I'm going to hit you first with a kinetic round and if that doesn't get your attention, tear gas I'm hitting you with next. And that'll put you on the ground for 45 minutes. It is really a great thing. Sometimes you're in need of gun, other times you're going to pull that gun. If you, you know, only pull a gun if you're prepared to kill somebody. And sometimes you have to. I hope I'm never in that situation. Most times we'll be in a situation where you want something like a burner launcher. Byrna B R N A.com Glenn they've made a 10% discount now off your purchase if you use the promo code. Glenn when you get that, that's Burna.com Glenn Burna.com Glenn Go there now. Now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program and we really want to thank you for listening. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We're so glad that you've tuned in today. Thank you so much. We're from Miami today. I'm in Miami Wiod. Thank you so much for your hospitality and our good friend Grace Blaser for everything that she has done for this program over the years. I want to talk to you about. Well, let me apologize first, okay? Before we start talking about. I do want to apologize because this is going to be in your head now forever. But I, I just don't know any other way. I mean, I have to present this to you. The, the Democrats, I think, have lost their mind. And so they are now, you know, standing up for the Department of ed and they're standing up for USAID and, and all of these crazy things. I mean, the Department of Ed, when we start to see what the Department of ED actually spends its money on, I think you'll agree our test scores are. We spend more money per student than anybody else in the world. And when you, when you look at the test scores, we're not getting anything for it. The Department of Ed doesn't do anything. All that money should go back to the states and the federal government could help those states that just can't afford things. But it shouldn't be run by the unions or anybody else. It should be run by the local school districts and certainly not by the federal government. Well, they're very upset at some of these cuts, and I just. They've got a new chant. It's more of a song than a chant, and I just think you should hear it because it's very, very compelling.
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Unknown Singer
Which side are you on? Which side are you on? Yeah, which side are you?
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Anna Paulina Luna
Sing it.
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Unknown Singer
Which side are you on?
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Anna Paulina Luna
Give me an amen.
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Unknown Singer
We'll fight against Josh. We'll fight Elon Musk, the we landscape within our walls we'll fight from dawn to dusk oh, whose side are you on?
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Anna Paulina Luna
Which side are you on, boy?
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Unknown Singer
Which side are you on? Yeah, which side are you on?
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Anna Paulina Luna
All right, Trump's coming. Oh, she's got more unions.
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Unknown Singer
He wants us all to fail.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Lovely singing voice.
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Unknown Singer
He wants us to bow to him, but we want him in jail. Which side are you on? Okay, which side are you on?
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Anna Paulina Luna
That's. I'm sorry, that is going to be in your head now for the rest of the day. You're going to find yourself. And don't curse me. I'm just doing my job, bringing you the news. And so don't. You know, it'd be 3:00 this afternoon, maybe, maybe 9:00 tonight, and you'll be like, damn, Glenn Beck. Don't blame me. Don't blame me. Blame the unions in Washington. Blame the organizers in Washington that are saying, which side are you on? The cuts of graft and corruption and just not knowing where the hell your money went. I think I'm on that side. My question is, which side are they on? You know what I mean? The ones singing, especially the woman leading, which side is she on? Because I think this helps my side, not their side. But I, you know, maybe it's just me. Maybe I don't have the right appreciation for the fine arts. And that super, super classic, by the way, they've changed the words, but that is something. A song that was written for the labor movement by the Socialists in 1931 and 1932. It came again back in the 60s, and what a surprise, the same socialists are singing it again. So which side are you on? Oh, which side are you on now? I don't know. And I have. I haven't heard this for a while, but the only Thing I can compare this to in quality is do you remember the woman in Seattle years ago that came up with their own song about There's a hole in the sky where the tree once was?
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Unknown Co-host
Yes.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Go ahead. Let's pull this super, super classic out.
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Unknown Singer
In the sky where the tree once was Somebody's making money Stand up. There's a hole in the sky where the tree once was Somebody's making money.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah.
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Unknown Singer
Laws protect exceptional trees, but the city grants exemptions to these instead. They reward the developers GRE sanction the murderer's deeds. There's a hole in the sky where the tree once was Somebody's making money There's a hole in the sky where that tree once was she missed her.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Calling she should be on Broadway.
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Unknown Singer
No more leaves shimmering with golden light no more gentle shedding of rains Nor tulip blossoms rustling in the wind now nothing remains but hey. Once was.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Okay, stop, stop, stop, stop. Could we play the other one? Because I'm just trying to. Which one is better? That one's really good. That one's really, really super good. I could see it on Broadway. And. And. And it's only competition, I think, in years is this new one. Which side are you on?
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Unknown Singer
Side are you on? Which side are you on? Are you on?
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Anna Paulina Luna
I like that.
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Unknown Singer
Tell me which side are you on? We'll fight against Josh. We'll fight Elon Musk.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Not sure. She's little Pitchy Dog.
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Unknown Singer
We'll fight from dawn to dusk.
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Anna Paulina Luna
You know, I have to say, I have to say, as somebody who does like Broadway, I think that's the winner. That's the one that I'm leaving the theater singing, you know.
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Unknown Co-host
Well, as a man who's produced a top selling Christmas CD recently. Thank you. You have an eye for talent and I think. Is there a possibility that your daughter and one of these singers could do a duet? Is there a. Nope.
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Anna Paulina Luna
I don't think there's a possibility of that at all. No. Okay. Not even in the slightest.
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Unknown Co-host
By the way, don't you owe us a duet?
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Anna Paulina Luna
I was hoping you wouldn't bring that.
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Unknown Co-host
Up, but you owe us a song that still.
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Anna Paulina Luna
I do. Yeah.
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Unknown Co-host
You do. Okay.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Just haven't had a chance to get around to it.
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Unknown Co-host
I will say, vocal performance wise, I think the hole in the sky, there's a clear. A clear cut advantage there for the ability as far as singing goes and lyrics.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Lyrics. I mean, you know, you don't have a lot of shimmering leaves in.
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Unknown Co-host
Yeah.
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Anna Paulina Luna
You know, in regular March songs. This is more of a ballad, really.
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Unknown Co-host
When you throw the word musk in, you know they're going to dusk.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah.
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Unknown Co-host
Because there's not a lot of songs that you can't rhyme Tusk all that often unless you're singing about, like, you know, prehistoric animals.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yes.
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Unknown Co-host
You're not gonna get there that often. So there's not really that much to go to. So I thought it was pretty. Pretty bad.
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Anna Paulina Luna
I thought, could you go to bust with musk? I mean, it's a stretch. It's a stretch.
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Unknown Co-host
It's a stretch. Not true rhyme. But. Yeah, but I don't think I could hold him to that standard anyway. And, like, I. What are they. I love the idea here that, like, they're trying to make musk into this guy who's actually the President of the United States right now.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah.
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Unknown Co-host
And there's multiple reasons I think they're doing that, but one of them is, I think, you look at what he's trying to do is so fundamentally obvious to everyone.
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Lindy Lee
Now.
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Unknown Co-host
You might not think he's making the right choices in that process. You could say, okay, well, I think this particular program is beneficial and the others aren't. But, like, fundamentally, he's just trying to get rid of waste, and it's so obvious this stuff exists. And I don't even think that they're necessarily, like, arguing. Like, they don't argue the specific points he makes up.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Oh, no, wait a minute, Wait a minute. Play that song again.
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Unknown Co-host
Yeah, that's true.
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Anna Paulina Luna
I think you might be.
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Unknown Singer
Which side are you on?
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Anna Paulina Luna
Okay. Which side are you on? Okay, now listen to her case and ask yourself, which side are you on?
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Unknown Singer
We'll fight against Josh. We'll fight Elon Musk. No, Elan. Scab within we walls will fight from dawn to dusk.
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Anna Paulina Luna
So something about scabs in their walls. Yeah. I don't think that's the best verse for this case that you were making. Can you get to the second verse there for me?
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Unknown Singer
Are you all good? We get the whole chorus again. Are you all.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Well, that's the part that.
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Unknown Singer
Which side are you?
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Anna Paulina Luna
Keep playing it. It'll just never leave your head.
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Unknown Singer
Coming for our unions.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Trump's coming for the union.
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Unknown Singer
He wants us to. To bow to him, but we want him in jail.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Okay, so that is a really good point. And I don't think people are sick of the jail talk. You know what I mean?
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Unknown Co-host
No. It works so well in this recent election. Go back to it. They got to.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah.
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Unknown Co-host
I mean, when they get halfway through the song and they say the word bit LR you know what's coming.
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Anna Paulina Luna
It's. I think that's in the fourth stanza.
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Unknown Co-host
It's in the fourth stanza. Yes, it is.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Of course, most people don't sing it, but they'll bring it up. They'll bring it up.
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Unknown Co-host
Can I bring up one other argument? I want to get your take on, Glenn.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Sure.
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Unknown Co-host
Whether what the media is trying to do with all this Elon Musk talk. Obviously, they want him to fail at what he's doing. Attempting to do here. That's clear. But, like, he's on the COVID of Time magazine, sitting at the Resolute desk.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah.
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Unknown Co-host
I think they want to break up this little relationship.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Of course they do.
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Unknown Co-host
They are trying to taunt Trump into thinking, well, actually, it's Musk that's the president, and thinking Trump's ego will step up and say, no, it's not. In fact, he's gone. Like, they want to create that. I don't think Trump is dumb enough to fall for it. No, I do think they are trying to do that.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Oh, they. They. They don't understand the fundamental change in Donald Trump. You know, maybe in the first term, maybe. Maybe you could have gotten away with that, but not if he was locked in as much as he is on what Elon Musk is doing. And knowing who Elon Musk is and what he's capable of. He has a profound respect for him as a cutter, as somebody who can look at a big picture and break it down into his. In his head, in the fundamentals, almost instantaneously, you know, and. And Donald Trump knows that he has that skill and knows what role he plays. And he's not. He's not concerned about anybody thinking he's not president of the United States. You know, they did that the last. He's not really president. He was selected, not elected. All of that stuff. It doesn't mean anything to him. He has his mojo back, and it's just. It's not going to work. It's not gonna work. I mean, when did you hear his response to that from Time magazine? Did you see, Mr. President, Time magazine had Elon Musk sitting behind this, quote, your resolute death. What? Do you have any comment on that? You know what his comment was? Is Time magazine still in business? It's fantastic. It's fantastic.
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Unknown Co-host
Yeah. That's the right response.
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Anna Paulina Luna
It is. It is. So I don't think it's gonna work. And the other thing that makes us fall apart is Bernie Sanders. I've been warning about millionaires and billionaires having access to our government and creating an oligarchy. Really, Bernie, I don't remember you saying anything about George Soros. I don't remember you saying anything. In fact, as we are now looking at all of the NGOs that are run by all of your friends that are all getting millions and millions of dollars from the government. I, I, I didn't hear. In fact, you're defending that now. How is this consistent at all? I love Hillary Clinton when she comes out. This, this is disgusting. I said, really? Really, Ms. Clinton? The Clinton Global Initiative? The Queen of Benghazi? I don't think you have any credibility on this one.
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Unknown Co-host
No, they're mad at Elon Musk because he's a billionaire that isn't giving his money and efforts to them. Lots of the other ones are. They like a certain type of billionaire, which is the one that's feeding them money. That's the kind they like. And every other kind is bad.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Right? And I, and I have to tell you, when he gets into the Defense Department, that's when we should really be saying great things. That's when, when he's uncovering the graft and the waste in our Defense Department, which, you know, is there. We've known that ever since I was a kid. All of that. That's, that's when we have touchdown after touchdown because they're protecting their little graft scheme. Our side, which is supposed to be big defense. I don't want any of it protected. I want those people to be exposed. And if they broke the law, I want them to go to jail and I want the money to be accounted for. So what are you going to say to that? Well, they just are. Big war business. Billion. The evil guy with the electric car company, that's the real enemy.
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Unknown Co-host
Wait, I thought the biggest threat was this side.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Are you on?
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Glenn Beck
This side?
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Anna Paulina Luna
Are you on? It's crazy.
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Unknown Co-host
So bad.
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Anna Paulina Luna
You're streaming the best of the Glenn Beck program and you can find full episodes wherever you download podcasts. Yesterday, big announcement came from Anna Paulina Luna. She announced a new role for her in Congress. Listen to this.
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Glenn Beck
It is with profound honor that I have been entrusted by Speaker Mike Johnson and Chairman James Comer to lead the House Force or the House Oversight Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets. Together with the help of the White House, our intelligence allies, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, we will be conducting investigations into the the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Dr. Martin Luther King. Unidentified aerial phenomena, also known as UAPs. Unidentified submerged objects, also known as USOs the Epstein client list, the origins of COVID 19 and the 911 files.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Anna Paulina Luna is with me now from Congress. She's just been appointed to lead the task force on declassification of Federal secrets. Anna, welcome. How are you?
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Glenn Beck
Hey, Glenn. Happy to be back on. Thank you.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Okay, now I just have to say, yesterday, unbeknownst to me, before you are appointed, I was on a show with Patrick Pet David and, and I said, Within 15 days, they're going to release the. The client list for Jeffrey Epstein. No way. That can't be true. And I said, I'm telling you, Cash Patel, I talked to him over the summer. He is for radical transparency. It's in the hands of the Director of the FBI. I think he does it day number one. But let's give them a few days to settle in. They didn't believe me. They said we're going to track this. So, Anna, you're going to make me look bad. And I don't care if lives are destroyed or whatever, but you can't make me look bad.
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Glenn Beck
No. You know, we actually also sent a letter yesterday to the Department of Justice. As you know, Pam Body Bondi is heading up that organization.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
And we also asked for it there. But I also, I'm in the same belief that Cash will get confirmed. I think that he is going to be absolutely pushing for radical transparency. And I'd like to also just point out that, you know, at the same time that we're basically announcing our press conference and this declassification task force, we actually also found out that the FBI just so happened to locate thousands of pages of, you know, previously undiscovered JFK files. So, look, I know a lot of people are like, well, the American people need to see that information first. And you actually will be able to see it. It's going to be declassified. But the reason why we're doing the task force is A, just because President Trump signed an executive order doesn't mean that bureaucrats in these intelligence agencies won't attempt to block it. So we want to make sure that that's followed through. And we do have punitive authority to hold them accountable if they don't. A, and then B, I think it's incredibly important to look at the evidence that we know now, which is sure as heck a lot different than what they had, you know, even 60 years ago. And what we're finding of what I have said is from what I have looked at just stuff that's already out there also, too, taking into account many of the doctors that were actually at that initial responding or at that initial hospital. I do think that there were two shooters. And I think that, you know, the whole magic bully theory that the Warren Commission pushed, I think that that was faulty. I know the President at the time also believed that that was a faulty theory. And so, you know, I'm eager to uncover this. I know that there's many Democrats and Republicans that also want to get to the bottom of this. And I'm simply asking the questions that every American's been asking for.
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Anna Paulina Luna
So I have a really good friend, Paul Viens, who is, he has the Museum of the American Soldier in Texas. And he had, he spent a long time to get the exact right gun, the way it was modified scope and everything else, and he just had it redone. And I have to tell you, I've held it. I'm going to take it out to the range next week. But I've, I've held the gun, I've looked through the scope. I just don't think you could do it. I mean, it is, it's just so difficult.
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Glenn Beck
There, there were reports from doctors at the time, some of which were, you know, first and second year med students who were at the hospital in the room where Kennedy was brought. And they reported an entry wound in the neck. From some of the footage that you can see that's actually videoed, you can see obviously Kennedy getting shot. But then also the doctors that ran the autopsies at Bethesda, Maryland had reported seeing an entry wound in the back. And so we're talking about multiple shots here. I think the whole idea that they would try to just ignore that evidence or at least try to bury that and not even answer the question is suspect to me. And so I think this whole idea of wanting to push against declassification or even trying to poo poo the evidence that now has been brought to the forefront. Look, it's the obligation of the US Government to release this information to the American people. Kennedy was arguably one of the most popular presidents and he was assassinated. Why did they try so hard to push back against any questioning? And that's where I come in and where the task force comes in. You know, I'm also telling people, though, if you are seeing people with large, large accounts in social media, especially pushing against declassification or attempting to discredit, and I saw immediately after my press conference, trying to discredit the efforts of Congress to actually follow through and get this done, in my opinion, bad actors exist on both Sides, if you really have nothing to hide, then you should not be afraid of the questioning. You shouldn't be afraid of information getting out to the American people.
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Anna Paulina Luna
So let me, let me ask you, let me push back on a couple of things just from, you know, playing devil's advocate. Why would you start with the jfk? Why is that even important? I mean, it happened a year before I was born. Yesterday was my 61st birthday. How is this relevant? How is this relevant?
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Glenn Beck
I think so when we chose to kind of go through the hearing timelines, it's the MLK file and JSK files that are going to be released first. So we wanted to help go through that information and then also correct some of the historical, historical narratives that were painted on these assassinations. Obviously, confirming or, you know, holding hearings that actually present new evidence I think is important for knowing and fully understanding the story. Right. So that's the first thing also.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Are these going to be open hearings?
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Glenn Beck
Yes. Yep, these are all open. And the reason I want them open is because I think the American people will be able to also go through the evidence. I'm also going to be doing something similar to what I did when we ran the UAP hearings and allow people to ask questions. And we're also bringing in experts. There's a few individuals that I want to bring in from the previous investigations that actually were pointing out some pretty incredible evidence that pointed to potentially second shooter and they were poo pooed. And I think that those people deserve a platform. And if we find anything, having cash confirmed is incredibly important because he's also going to bring forward files that I would argue have been hidden from the American people. And so look, this is obviously a big effort. We're not perfect, but we do know that the American people deserve this. And that's what we're fighting for, is total complete transparency.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Okay, so the, so the other pushback question that I have, and this one is actually pretty sincere from me, and that is once we get Congress involved, then we're re litigating everything. The more Congress gets involved, the slower it will happen in, the higher the percentages, it's just not going to come out. We're just gonna get pages and pages of redacted crap.
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Glenn Beck
Well, so the whole purpose and objective of this task force is actually to ensure that with President Trump's executive order, that the agencies and the bureaucrats in those agencies do exactly what that executive order says, which is to declassify it. So we're not going to be siloing or holding any Information that won't be available to the American people. So this is all going to be out there. You will be able to go through it yourself. It will be online, from what I gather, similar to how they've declassified previous documents from the FBI and the CIA. So again, we are simply reopening the investigation with new evidence, also bringing in credible witnesses that will be verified and confirmed via House oversight, the committee itself, and we are going to be opening this up to the American people. So you will have access to the same documents that we are looking at. We are just simply ensuring that we are not going to get blockades blockaded or this information is not siloed.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Unbelievable. And when do we get to the things. By the way, the answer to, for me, the answer to my first question to you was it's relevant because I think they've been doing this kind of stuff forever and it shows a pattern. If they were doing it in 63, what are they doing now? I just don't think. Go ahead.
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Glenn Beck
You know, what's interesting is if you ask those questions, you. There are some people, and to be clear, these people largely exist in the media and they're largely, in my opinion, bad actors. But when you have someone that instead of answering the question and having a respectful dialogue, tries to discredit something as a conspiracy theory or tries to gaslight you into thinking that you should not be asking the question, that's when you know that they're hiding something. Right? So in my opinion, you have, I've talked to many Democrats, many well known Democrats that are just like, we want in on this commission or on this task force, because we have questions. And it just doesn't sit right with, look, this, this entire task force. I don't believe that this would be possible had President Trump not gotten into office, had our CIA director not been confirmed, had there not be then people placed in positions of power that are true ideologues like you and I. You know, to be clear, I think that also Marco Rubio is going to play a part at the, the Secretary of State's office. I think that, you know, there are going to be many people in some of these investigations that will at least give us access to whatever information. Look, we've asked to declassify everything that I listed in that press conference. COVID 19 origins, 9, 11 files. I mean, look at what just came out yesterday. We find out that the FBI was what, basically ordering lunch for someone that was working with the pilots that, that crashed the planes into the Twin Towers. I mean, that's ridiculous. And that's all just coming out now. And so that's why we ask these questions on the 911 files. How could a vet prevent it? How much did the government truly know? I mean, look, I could care less if people think I'm crazy for doing this. I can tell you that I'm joined by many high profile people in Congress to include Democrats that have the same questions.
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Anna Paulina Luna
And so we're not going to stop Jeffrey Epstein. When's that coming out?
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Glenn Beck
Well, I have a letter out to Pam Bondi. I know that Cash has been supportive of it. And so hopefully once they're confirmed previously they said that the Epstein list could not be released. This is, mind you, under Biden, Department of Justice, because there was an open case. Right. And that's what they kept pointing to. But you're even hearing that Pam Bondi, even before she was confirmed that she was actually calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein client list. So we are pushing for. We sent the.
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Anna Paulina Luna
God, will Pam and Cash be the ones to make the decision we're going to release it or does it have. They will be the ones.
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Glenn Beck
Yes, they'll be the ones. Again, I'm going off of what we were told in previous administrations, but look, they were saying that there was an open investigation. So I believe that Pam has the authority to release that. And look, I don't believe that any of that should have been classified. If there are people that were doing bad things, we should know about it.
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Anna Paulina Luna
It's unbelievable. I mean, radical transparency, it is. The only thing that will heal our nation is if we deal with all of the corruption that we've been dealing with that we know has happened and if we can get an honest look, you know, maybe the Warren Commission was right, I don't know.
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Glenn Beck
But we should be able to know that and look at the evidence for ourselves.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yes, all of the evidence, all of the evidence, without protecting anybody. Anna, thank you. It's gotta be. I mean, what is, what was it like to be. Did you get the call from the President? And I mean, how did this work?
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Glenn Beck
So initially, in full transparency, this was actually supposed to. The task force looked a little bit different and I chose to expand it because even our investigators said, you know, there's a lot here. If we're truly. Our absolute objective is to begin, you know, restoring trust in the relationship with the American people. We have to go into these, you know, different theories, go into these cases and investigate and actually find the truth and then let the American people decide. And I agree with them. But also, Glenn, I think there was a, there was two other members that were potentially going to be taking over the initial task force and they turned it down because there was a climate of fear that it was considered dangerous territory. And what I will tell you is I do not believe that it's dangerous territory because we have, you know, the 800 pound gorilla in the White House and our allies and the intelligence agencies that are pushing for this transparency. So it's not just one person, I think where you had, you know, previous historical events that occurred, it was one person that was leading up the charge. But when it's a group effort pushing for this, it's a, it's a systematic change that occurs. And so in my opinion, I think I'm going to be okay. But you know, a lot of people, I had a reporter that called me, actually a very well known reporter from Fox News yesterday, said, you know, it's interesting, but a lot of the people, one of the initial report that had reported that there were three shots heard at the JFK assassination was one of the prize for writing and he actually committed suicide several years later. So, you know, stuff like that has happened in the past. And I just, I'm in the perspective and belief that right now we have a very small window of time to bring true change. You see everything happening with usaid. Mike Benz is uncovering a lot, Elon Musk is uncovering a lot. But there's a lot of good people that are really cleaning the system. You saw what 40,000 federal employees resign or not resign, but chose to leave the workforce. So you're seeing a big change happen. And I'm not saying that this is a complete fix, but it definitely is going to change, I think our country, long term and historically. And I'll also tell you this, Glenn, yesterday after we made the announcement, I saw a massive orchestrated campaign, specifically coming from a lot of other pages that had typically been political on social media that were trying to discredit what I was saying about potential witnesses and trying to spin it. And the reason why they're doing it is because the Warren Commission presented a faulty theory on the single bullet, the magic bullet theory. To think that that was how Kennedy was taken out and then hit the Texas governor. I mean, that whole thing.
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Anna Paulina Luna
And well, they were, they were saying nobody's alive, so who are you going to?
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Glenn Beck
Well, first of all, I wasn't necessarily saying I was using the Warren Commission as an example of the commissions that had been set up or the hearings that have been set up. But who we are actually looking to subpoena. I don't want to say their names yet or we're not going to even.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No no, no.
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Glenn Beck
Our individuals that a were at are at Bethesda in the room during the 8pm autopsy that the military did. Individuals that were on the assassination board that did not agree with the findings initially with the new evidence coming out I think that they are going to make great witnesses and plus they were government employees so they should pass backgrounds. And then there's another individual who's going to be very key and I think resetting the narrative on Kennedy.
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Anna Paulina Luna
Interesting. Anna, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Just, just know and you sound like you are you know exactly what you're walking into. There's a new stat out this morning. Over three times more people in D.C. are googling criminal defense lawyer than anywhere else in the US right now. So you got a lot of people who are freaking out. Keep up the good work. God bless you. Thank you.
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Glenn Beck
Thank you for your support.
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Anna Paulina Luna
You bet.