B (6:31)

Hi, Glenn. Thanks so much for having me on.

A (6:33)

You bet. You're an incredible researcher, and, gosh, just. Just. This is so important. Like, I can't wait to see what you got coming for the show. But anyway, tell us what you found that needs to be released to the American people today.

B (6:49)

Sure. So what was known prior to today is that there was a man and woman in Gaza who were killed in June 2024 because they were holding three Israeli hostages. Israelis came in, had to kill the two Hamas operatives, the man and the woman. And then it became known that the man was an official writer at the time called a correspondent for a website called Palestine Chronicle. Palestine Chronicle is basically the same thing. It's like the public face of a nonprofit organization based in Washington state called the People Media Project. And so the freed Israeli hostages sue them. And their defense was, well, he's not really a correspondent, he's a contributor. Because they changed his title after this happened on their website. And they said even though he was writing for us, actually two to three times a day after October 7th, it was on a voluntary basis. You can't prove that we actually gave him money. And so I. And in working with your team, went through the website, and what we found was really interesting. They boast about an event that they held in Gaza, ostensibly just to give free haircuts for Palestinian children. And this is an article written by that. That man who is an official writer and he talks about his wife, who the woman who was killed in the raid doing this event for the Palestine Chronicle. And they refer to her essentially as a staff member. They say this is her, our initiative coordinator for the event. Our staff put on this event and they slip up enough that they actually say funds for this initiative was raised from personal donations by Palestine Chronicle editors. Now what does that mean? That means money passed from that Washington state based organization, the Palestine Chronicle editors, to the wife of this guy, of this main hostage holder who she was also involved in there. So their defense of. Well, our writer, yes. Was holding Israelis hostage and writing for us while holding them hostage. But you can't prove that we gave them money. Well, we found in their own words, they gave money to his wife. That is, as far as I can tell, illegal. Is illegal to knowingly pass money to Hamas operatives. And by the way, the husband, and they knew this at the time because of the Facebook interactions, was a publicly identified spokesperson for Hamas's Ministry of Labor. So it doesn't get more solid than that. And we are busy right now mapping out the connections of this organization of the head of it, Ramzi Barud, because this leads to all sorts of other organizations, including one in Turkey led by Sami Al Arian, who was one of the top Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders, a professor in Florida who was deported shortly after 9 11. So this shows that this group, yes, they're connected to Hamas, but they're actually part of this broader Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Palestinian, Islamic Jihad connected, networked out of Turkey. Oh, I also need to mention that the chief editor of Palestine Chronicle, at least used to be, maybe still is a non resident scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

A (10:14)

Wow. So Ryan, this is. We have not been willing to. To say. Some of us have. You certainly have. For a long time we've tried to say the things that are true and everybody has dogpiled and said Islamophobia. Islamophobia. I think because of the Trump administration, those days aren't just over where you can say something that is true and is not Islamic. I don't care about Muslims, I care about Islam. Islamists, that's who I care about. The ones who use Islam as a political power and want to have Sharia law, those are the dangerous ones. That's not radical, that's political Islam. And do you feel that the administration, because I'm sensing they are. Do you feel the administration is serious about these things and we're going to start seeing these not just exposed, but People being deported, institutions being shut down and this where that we actually take this serious as I believe we are in a war against Islamists. Are we starting to deal with it that way, do you think?

B (11:40)

I certainly believe so. And from a few different angles to your earlier point, actually, since I was a teenager, I started doing this when I was 16, professionally. That's when I was first hired. I base it on the idea that civilians could be almost like an intelligence counterpart to the federal, state and local agencies. And so I've put together a civilian intelligence network ever since then back in 2002. So I could see the impact that things like this actually have. So it's not something we have to just say, well, is the administration going to do this or that? Like you can play an active part in it. And I think most people don't understand that your audience does because they are obsessed with research. As I can tell every time I'm on your show. Yeah, the emails I get. But so this is very impactful. This is equipping the administration. When the will is there to do, to take action, civilians can provide it. It's not just a matter of saying, oh well, we got the right people in power now let's just sit back and watch like, oh yeah, no, you've got to be active part of it. And by the way, some of my best sources, the best informants I've had deep inside some of these groups were Muslims who came to me. So you're absolutely right that it's not about fighting Muslims. It's because some of my best allies have been Muslims. And to prove your point that yes, the administration will act specifically on the stuff that you and I put together. Look at what has happened since we released our investigation into George Soros network financing with over $80 million into domestic terrorist groups and pro terror groups. Within three business days, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration had essentially launched an investigation of George Soros network as a result of what we did together. And that's already having effects even if you're not hearing about it publicly, because we were actually attacked for that in one media article that I thought was comical because it was basically saying how bad it is that these allegations are out there because these groups like Source and them are complaining that they're spending so much money on lawyers to make sure they're in compliance with the law that there's no pretext to go after them. Yeah, yeah, shame on us. We need you spend money to make sure you're following the law.

A (13:56)

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C (16:17)

Yeah, I mean certainly in terms of what a layman would consider a capital control, you know, economists have a very strict definition but there are what we, we consider to also be de facto capital controls and certainly what is happening in New York is reminiscent of, you know, any time socialists and communists come to power. And it's one of the things that's kind of this weird triangle that's going on right now is it also reminds me of what happened in Venezuela. If you think about Venezuela and the fact that, that they were producing 3 million barrels a day of oil and they were a very prosperous country. And once the socialists, the communists, whatever you want to call them, the ists, took over, productive capital no longer makes investments. And so what's the logical outgrowth of that? Well, we can see it. Their output is down at this point to less than a third of that. And their infrastructure is so decayed that if we even wanted to help them get back to where they used to be, it's going to take around $100 billion in investments in quite some time, probably five years or longer, to bring it back to where it was before. So when you think about what's happening in New York and you hear things like rent controls and we're going to put these controls in place, these landlords can't charge as much money to make things more affordable. Well, the same thing is going to happen. There is no financial instance, incentive to make the investments in that property, which means everything decays, which means you have a bunch of slums that, you know, maybe are theoretically affordable, but nobody actually wants to live in them. So no matter what they try to dictate, when they're pushing these controls down our throats, it doesn't take into. It doesn't have the same outcomes as the free market would. And it has these terrible impacts and effects, which is why we all lean into capitalism and free market principles and what's made us so prosperous.

A (18:28)

So, Carol, can a mayor and city council do what they're talking about doing? I mean, you look at Seattle, boy, they've screwed that place up. California, screwed that place up. But he is talking about full fledged collectivism communism, really, where the state is saying, you can't live there because of who you are or whatever, and we're going to give that property to somebody else. I mean, can he do that?

C (19:02)

Well, you know, there's the common sense side of me and there's the reality, you know, of what is happening in the world. And the common sense would say, no, of course not. There's, there's a constitution that stuff like that can't happen. But we've seen the constitution flouted. We've seen the general principles that the country was founded on. Our rights and protections flouted so many times that they can certainly try. And I'm sure there are probably workarounds and things that they have, you know, in statues where they're going to say, well, you know, this wasn't up to code, or this wasn't following this rule. So we're not actually really seizing it. We're just saying, you're not fooling, following the rules. And going back to what I said, you know, if you are somebody who owns a property that, you know it has rent control on it and you can't make the investment because you're not getting the market rent on it, and all of a sudden they say, well, you're not up to code. You know, you have all these fines. Are you going to make that investment? Probably not, because you're not going to get a return on it. You could use your capital more productively somewhere else. So then they say, well, you're in violation of these fines. So we're now going to come in as the government and we're going to take this over. We've certainly seen things that look like that all over the place. Can it be challenged? Maybe. But can it happen? I mean, it certainly looks like it's a possibility.

A (20:26)

So if these things happen, New York is just going to go into a cesspool and you're going to see big money. I mean, the money that's not out now, it's going to flee because it's not. It just doesn't want to be sucked into all of that. I can't imagine. Yesterday we played a clip of Mamdani talking about this, and he was talking about how, you know, if. If you're, if you're a landowner, you are, you know, you own apartments or you're renting things out to people that, you know, there's all kinds of new rules coming your way. And I thought, I would never own a piece of property in New York. I would get out of there as soon as I can. Because it's not gonna be stacked even fairly, not just in my favor, it's not even gonna be stacked fairly for a capitalist. And at some point, if you drive enough people out, the city and the state will have to try to protect itself. And that's again where capital controls come in. And they'll say, you can't take your money out or you have to pay taxes for the next five years if you're moving out. Won't they try to trap money there?

C (21:38)

Well, you're seeing this happen real time in California. There's so Many things to talk about in that little piece, but let me just start with the last one. They're trying this in California. They're trying to put in place a wealth tax, which we've talked about many times. Certainly something like, you know, seven or nine countries in Europe have abandoned since it was such a bad idea because capital is mobile. But they're trying to make it retroactive that if, you know, you are a citizen, as of, I think was the end of 2025, beginning of 2026 of California, that you can't try to get around this rule, we're going to come after you anyway to try to take your wealth. So these are not theoretical things that could happen. These are proposals that are being put on the table that are being led by people like Ro Khanna in California, who is the representative from Silicon Valley. His constituents are the tech bros, are the billionaires, are the people who put him in place. And then he is turning around and saying, well, guess what, you know, at the core, I'm still a communist, whether you put me in place or not. So we're seeing that in California. I can tell you, being from Chicago, we've seen the impacts of this real time, not certainly directly capital control, but the bad policies that have driven out billionaires like Ken Griffin. And the hole that that has left, not only in terms of his tax revenue, his philanthropy, but all the jobs that went with them is this money that is no longer here as part of the tax base. And so the middle and working class now are having to pick up that difference. And people are shocked at how much they're having to carry because the people with money can take it somewhere else and they're left holding the bank.

A (23:31)

I actually saw somebody say, how come he's not spending money in Chicago anymore? Because you drove him out, Literally drove him out. He'll take care of some other community. You didn't want him there, but you certainly want his money. It's amazing.

C (23:46)

Yes. And the fact that there is this level of economic illiteracy and that if you went up in front of a bunch of people or even members of the state representatives, and you say, okay, which would you rather have, 90% of a pie or 50% of a pie? And they would actually give you that answer without knowing how big the pie, because they don't fundamentally understand that we're looking at trying to, you know, have less of a burden for everyone and grow the pie and make it a wonderful place to live. And these policies, you know, New York is one that's staggering to me, Glenn, if you think about it. This is Wall Street. This is the financial capital of the United States. This is where the Fed monetary policy comes from. This is where all the banks are. This is the center of money in the United States. Now all of a sudden has a bunch of these communists who are proposing communist policy. It's not that easy to just pick up the Federal Reserve bank of New York and relocate that.

A (24:56)

Good. Let's abolish it.

B (24:58)

I'm sorry.

C (25:01)

All right. Amen to that. Amen to that. That. But this is gonna get really ugly.

A (25:05)

Really ugly. Really ugly. And you'll see it move to Texas and Florida. Mark my words. Let me just play this. This is from Donnie just a few days ago. Listen to this.

D (25:15)

And I am also proud to announce that I will be signing an executive order directing HPD to work alongside the Department of Buildings, the newly invigorated mayor's office to protect tenants, the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, and our newly created Office of Mass Engagement to hold rental rip off hearings across all. We will hold these rental rip off hearings across all five boroughs within the first hundred days of this administration. New Yorkers will be invited to participate and to share the realities that animate their daily lives. I want these hearings to expose the ugly underbelly of our city.

A (26:08)

It wouldn't be bad if you were actually going after crime and things like that, but when you have a communist agenda that is, that's nothing but a show trial of capitalism. It's just taking capitalism down. You're streaming the Best of Glenn Beck.

B (26:27)

To hear more of this interview and others.

A (26:29)

Download the full show podcasts wherever you get podcasts. I don't even know where to start. I have so much I can't wait to explain to you today. You know, I've been on this, this, this hunt I feel since over the weekend with Venezuela, and it's all starting just to fall into place. You know, one of the only skills I think God gave me was the completely useless, you know, when the world breaks down, storytelling ability that's gonna get me eaten by week one. They're like, he's out of stories and he looks delicious. The. The other thing that I, I do have an ability to do is connect the dots. And I've been on this dot connecting kick here in the last few days and more dots seem to be appearing. And I am. It's becoming very clear that America and empire in decline is not a thing. And I want to take several layers of this, but I want to start with an acronym that you've probably never heard before. Crink. Cr I N K. Crink. What does it stand for? It is what we would call the Axis power. And I have been talking about. We're watching an Axis power being created. I've been saying that forever. Look at the sides are being defined. The Axis power, and it's China, C, Russia are Iran I and North Korea. Crinkle. That's the Axis power. And I've been saying, where's Churchill? Where's anybody who. You know, where. Where's the allied power? Because NATO, that's not a power. That's not. That's not gonna come in helpful at all. It. It felt like the entire west was in decline, and it's because we've been talking about decline. We're in decline. Or are we? We elected Donald Trump because we were tired of this, and we're tired of these endless wars and everything else. And Donald Trump had a vision, and he tried to tell me this, you know, for the year leading up to the election. Glenn, I got it. I got it. You won't believe how fast we're gonna. We're gonna change everything, and we're going to have a new American century, but it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen quickly. And I didn't understand it. I think I'm just beginning to understand it. We're not. He's not building an American empire. He is building something that I think is much closer to what we were hoping for or thought was going to be built in the 1990s. When we talked about a unipolar moment, you know, that. That America was going to lead, but everybody was going to get together because we're all free. And, you know, we had these hopes of lollipops and sugar plums, and everything was going to be great because we won and the science has settled. And we didn't realize that communism just changed uniforms and we were entering this really very dangerous world because we would get fat and sassy and lazy. Donald Trump is changing and building a new Allied power. And I told you a couple of days ago, and I think, you know, we. We need to really think this through. I think he's given up on Europe, and I think he should give up on Europe. Honestly. I mean, they can come to the table at any time. They can change their destiny, and I'd love for them to join, but until they decide they want to survive, they're over. So let me just take you through the things that are happening, and I want to get to Iran and I want to get to Greenland. But let me explain first the power that he is building, what he's building here. Let's start where he started in the Middle East. We have gone from endless wars to a loosely, you know, US Anchored block. We're no longer walking in and saying, we're going to do it. We're going to nation build. Instead he's saying, you know what, this doesn't work and we'd love to help broker a deal between all of you guys. And you know, look what you can build and let me help you with the framework so you can all get along for 20 years. It feels like America. Longer than that. The story of the Middle east was Americans go in, Americans retreat, and Iranians advance. Right then in the first term, he came with the Abraham Accords and Israel normalized with the UAE and Bahrain and Morocco. And now everybody is, now it seems like everybody is normalizing relations. And the entire. He has taken the entire Middle east, which was available to all of the presidents in the past, but they didn't do it for some reason or didn't get it. They all don't want Iran. They know Iran is dangerous. He just took them all and went, yeah, you guys should all get together because you can actually be a global power and influence, but not with Iran. And so he normalized the relations between them. And it wasn't just a series of photo ops for him. It was, he took the US and aligned the economic and security architecture for everybody. Israel, the Gulf, potentially Saudi Arabia and the US but we're not the ones doing it. We're not the ones that are fighting everybody's battles. That's really important. Now layer on top of that, the Israelis and Iran went to war and, and the only thing that we did was we destroyed their nuclear capability. The other thing we did with Iran, which we didn't have no boots on the ground, nobody's no soldiers, no airmen, you know, at risk here. We just stopped sending them pallets of cash. Now what is happening in Iran? Iran is facing the worst economic crisis in modern history. Inflation is now at 52% for this last year. And the real, which is their dollar, if you will, is now 1.47 million rials to one US dollar. The average Iranian is making $200 a month. You can go in with a US dollar and buy bread for 36 cents. That seems cheap for US dollars, but if you're buying everything in reals, that's 500,000 reals and you're making $200 your rent is more than $200. They can't feed themselves, they can't heat their house, they can't do anything. It's almost a free fall. And it's almost Weimar Republic status, okay? So everyone is consumed with just surviving. You know, when you have fear, when you have oppression, that's bad. And that'll get people into the streets. But when they cannot survive, they can't eat. That changes everything. And the axis of resistance, that's Hezbollah, Hamas, the Iraqi militias, the Houthis, all of that. They can't afford to keep all of that together. But they're bringing, now the regime is bringing these people in. They are Arab. The vast majority of people that live in Iran are Persian. Persians are very different than Arabs. They have Arabs now coming in to be the brute force. That's not going to go well. Now, this doesn't immediately create peace, but it is shifting the momentum. So I'm going to come back to Iran here in a minute, but let me just show you now. So you have Israel plus the Sunni Arabs. Iran is weakened, distracted. Russia, China, what's happening there, and North Korea. Let me show you what this means with just North Korea and all of this with crank. He's just dismantling these people. It's amazing what's happening so fast. Second point, energy. What has been our biggest problem? Why are we always in these wars? And they always say, well, it's in the American interest. Why oil? Right? That's been the big argument. Oil, oil, oil. And anybody who is a conservative, you know, or, or just common sense and doesn't think that oil is the big worst thing that could ever happen. We've all been saying, we have enough oil. Why are we buying our oil from the Middle East? We have enough, okay? Now we need much more because there's and coming energy crisis the world over. But we have had this addiction to oil and it has been our biggest weakness because everybody can use it against us. We can have, you know, shortages of oil. They can cut us off. We're constantly having to go to war for oil. Although we never go to war for oil. We all know we all went to war for oil, okay? Trump came in and said, enough of this and applied common sense. We're not going to fight over oil anymore. We've got our own oil. But what did he do? He is now making deals all over the world to make sure that we're controlled like OPEC used to control the world's oil. Our hemisphere is going to control the Western world's energy. Not opec, Us. That is part of what I called the. What did I say that it was yesterday? The shoot. The. The arsenal of democracy. Okay? We are preparing for war. Whether we like it or not, we are preparing for a massive war. Hopefully, because we're preparing for it, it will never happen. But we are now not the vulnerable importer. We are now the stable producer and the one who is shepherding all of the oil. Did you hear what happened just a couple of hours ago? We have been following this tanker that has been Russian flagged. Okay? Once you flag a ship, then if you flag it Russia, then the Russian navy can get involved because that's a Russian flag ship, even though it doesn't belong to Russia. We have been following the ship and trying to stop this oil tanker from bringing oil that should not be going overseas from Venezuela. And we have been trying to track it down. Well, about few hours ago, maybe five hours ago, we caught up with it. Now Russia was sending ships to protect this because it was a Russian flagship. What happened? Our navy just pulled up to it and boarded it. And that ship is now where it belongs. It's impounded. It was never supposed to be taking oil. It was against international law. We had an embargo on it, et cetera, et cetera. Well, we caught up with it. So we are very, very serious about this. And because of the way Venezuela just happened, American credibility on the war front there, the rest of the world, our enemies are freaking out right now because even people who are in the military, I shouldn't say in the military, I'm sure they know more. But people who have been watching the military, former military, people that know about the military, even, they are looking at it going, how the hell did we just pull this off with Venezuela? What do we. What do we. How did we beat that? That's. That's Russian, that's China. That. That's the best technology or some of the best technology that is, that is able to be sold out of those countries. And we shut it down like it was a baby gate. How. How did we do that? We don't know. Do we have new technology or are they just that bad right now? The rest of the world realizes, holy cow, militarily, America is not a declining power. It is way ahead of where we are and where we thought they were. So that they're just. That alone is changing the dynamics. You don't have to exercise that power. If everyone knows you have that power and everybody goes, you don't want to mess with them. Power comes strength Peace through strength. That is now a proven part of it. And if you look at the pieces that are on the board, I think Cuba's gonna, I think in the next year Cuba will collapse because where is Cuba? Cuba can't get any money from Russia. They don't, they don't have it. They don't have it. They're busy and tied up in Ukraine. They were supporting. They started cutting Cuba off. Cuba needs the money because communism doesn't work. And so they needed the money. So where did they go? They went to Venezuela and they were getting oil and support from Venezuela and they were providing other things for Venezuela. Well, you just took Venezuela away. So what's Cuba gonna do? Where's, where's Cuba? What is China gonna do without all of the energy? You can't invade Taiwan without all of that oil. Can't do it. All right, let me continue and show you the world that he is creating. And then I want to bring you up to speed on what happened in Iran because this is something we have not had a chance to go in depth on. And it's really important because it's not being collapsed by us. I mean, it is, but in all the right ways. We're not sending them pallets of cash anymore. So what does that mean? Brings us back to Krink and I want to show you why this has happened in the last 18. It's 12 months. I keep thinking that it's been longer than it is. It's, it's. We're not even at the 12 month point yet. And look how the world is changing. Crazy change.