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The Iran Strategy that No One Is Talking About | Guest Host: Justin Barclay | 3/5/26
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Glenn Beck
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Justin Barkley
Swipe the flame, pass it on. Crank the game. Glam back is on. Glam Back is on. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Well, hello, America. It's not Glenn. It is Justin. In for Glenn today, and we're still gonna have a heck of a ride. I mean, the news never stops. I took a week off last week, the free state of Florida. I got some observations from that, but one of the biggest is, is that, gosh, you know, the news never stops and we've got it. So we're here for you today to make sure we keep you up to speed with all the news that you need to know. And it's breaking even as we speak. Making history with what's happening in Iran, of course, the latest piece of that, with the submarine torpedoes away. You're going to want to hear that coming out. We're going to get into that. Plus, he's the only Democrat in the Senate that has any sense and has brain damage. That's. That's wild. We're going to talk about what Fetterman's done now and more, all on the way this hour. And as we gear up for a fantastic program, it's always an honor and a pleasure to be here with you today. Justin Barkley in for Glenn Beck today on the Glenn Beck Program.
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Glenn Beck
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Justin Barkley
Justin Barkley in for Glenn today coming to you from. Well, it's not necessarily frozen today, but it has been the frozen tundra of Michigan. We got rain today. But you know, the interesting thing is I was just down in Florida in the free state of Florida. I got some observations spending some time in Fort Myers and the, the fantastic affiliate there, 92.5 and you got a chance to listen to that stage. What a great place, man. Florida is red. And yes, it's, you know, conservative. But even bigger than that, it's on fire. It's booming in ways that states like Michigan and of course People's Republic of California and some of these others just aren't. And I've got some observations of that I want to, I want to share with you today because there's things that I think we can learn from the standpoint nationwide, state by state that, that I think are really going to make a difference. And you know, I just must. It was hard, it was almost hard to come back. It's no wonder why folks are moving there in droves and businesses too. In fact, we're going to talk with somebody a little bit later on in the program. One of the mayors there who's seeing it happen in real time right now and he's going to kind of give us a little bit of an insight on that. We're going to talk a little bit about obviously what's happening around and the, the situation that continues to develop. History being made, some of the pieces that you may not even heard. We've got some pieces of polling that I want to talk about, too. In fact, there's some things that came out in the last day or so that I think help us make a little bit better sense of what's happening, at least politically. And that. That is. That's one of the biggest pieces specifically, as we get into the midterms here, and folks really look at what we'll talk about Texas, to what just happened there and more. But that's. That's something that I think has to be examined. And then, of course, the War Powers act, the vote that took place yesterday. But what about the SAVE act? And did they ever find Nancy Guthrie? That's just how fast the news moves now. And I hate to say it, but it's just coming at you every day. I say on my program, it's like drinking from a firehose. You can't. It's. It's just never. We never have enough time to keep up with it all. What is it doing to our brains, by the way? I mean, what. What is the. Is the human brain meant to take in all the information that we're getting on a daily basis? And how do you. How do you survive that? Really? It's about making sure that you cut through the noise. You get straight to the heart of the matter. What matters most. We're going to attempt to do some of that today. And I know this. Glenn does that on a daily basis. So we will. We'll dive in. First, I want to start with some of the latest polling that's come out. And I talked about this yesterday on my program in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I am at Wood Radio News Radio, 13001069 FM. And I noted this because I've seen some of this flying around and I've seen the conversation probably the same that you have. Oh, the mag is done. You know, there's no support for what's happening in Iran right now. It's just the end of the world. You've seen it. It's doom and gloom. Sky is falling, Chicken little black pill, this will be that that you see. And it's all coming from the same people, by the way. It's every subject. You ever notice this? It's every subject, every story, it's the same thing. And I. I mean, I don't know how to shake it other than to tell you that if you're watching it, if you're seeing it happening, you don't necessarily feel the same way. Don't let it infect you, because that's exactly what some of this is a little bit of a mind virus that I like this sort of, I can pull the curtain back that, and explain how that works. But first let me give you the polling. So this is essentially, and there's several different polls by the way. This is aggregated. I've seen this put together in a number of different places. But it was my, it was my initial gut reaction when I saw some of this coming out. You know, I don't necessarily think. And it's Democrats, it's rhinos, it's some of the black pilled doom and gloom folks that have walked down this run. Now, I will tell you this at the same time, I'm not, as I mentioned, these things. I'm not discounting that we are walking in very, very critical times. I'm not going to discount that we're in a crucial moment here, not just in the, in the history of our nation. As we come up to the 250th year celebration here, July 4th, we, we, we, we're in a very precarious moment. I don't have to tell you that. You can feel it. Everything that's led us up to this point. And it's hard to, it's, it's really hard. Sometimes you have to force yourself to go back and think of even I want to talk about this stuff on a daily basis. But you have to force yourself to go back and confront it. Think about where we are and how we got here, what the last four years was like. I mean, it was a dumpster fire that's putting it lightly on the daily. The Biden administration, whoever was running Autofit, I don't know. At the end of the day, they were doing everything they could and it warped speed to undo everything Trump had done in his previous four years. And I'll be honest with you, I think that's the only reason why Americans woke up and felt it got involved because it happened so fast. Usually these progressives, they use the slow and steady wins, the race strategy. It's slow and over time, like a frog in a boiling pot of water, they just gradually bring that heat up and then eventually you turn around, you got men in the women's dressing rooms, you got grown men with hair on their faces trying to change in the locker room with your wife at the gym and they're trying to go in the bathroom with your daughter at the grocery store. Enough was enough and the American people stood up and said, I can't do this anymore. That's how fast it flew anyway. Don't Forget how far we've come. It is my. Conviction that we are in this moment for such a time as this, that the president, Donald J. Trump, his life was spared for the exact intersection in history where we're at right now. There's no doubt about it, not when I saw it happen back July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania. And then when we find out this, the specifics of what actually happened and how, as my good friend Pastor Lorenzo Sewell likes to call it, the millimeter miracle occurred, you know, we're just millimeters away from a completely stark different reality that we. I don't even want to imagine what it would have been like. Why do I mention all of it? Because it's important to lay the groundwork as we look every day at what we faced and how fast the Trump administration has moved, what they're doing. Will they break things? Will they always get it right? Yeah, there's probably going to be some times where maybe, maybe they make some mistakes. Why am I willing to forgive that? I'm not a Trump apologist, by the way. I just see the bigger picture and that's why I just reminded you of it. There are some folks that are missing the forest for the trees in this situation. I think there's some folks that are missing the 30,000 foot viewpoint on all of this. There are some folks who I agree with on quite a bit of, actually quite a bit of things that, and policies and principles, and we agree quite a bit on a lot of things, but they're missing. And what they're missing is the lot of the thinking they do, a lot of the determinations they do. Well, it plays out great in the classroom, but when you get into the real world, all bets are off. So it is no doubt in my mind that we are where we are at right now only because of the grace of God. And folks, if we acknowledge that, I think we've got to acknowledge that wherever we go forward will be only but by the grace of God. And this is something that I think we have unplugged from through the years. And hopefully, as we celebrate 250 years here in America, we can be reminded by that and get back on track. So why do I bring all of that up? The polling is important. MAGA unity polls show Republicans opposed to Trump's Iran strikes are loud but small minority. In fact, I got the details here. I want to dig into the numbers and tell you why I think this is important, why you need to hear this so you don't get sort of pulled by the nose Like I'm seeing happen in so many different ways for so many different people right now. Don't get pulled around by the nose, by social media, by algorithms, by billionaires who want to and insist on shaping the way the world the way they want it to go. No, don't do that. Lock in. So let me get to those numbers. They'll break it down for you coming up here in just a little bit and tell you why I think this matters and what happens next as we also breaking news here on the Iran situation. We'll be back. Quick break. Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck Program right after this.
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Glenn Beck
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Justin Barkley
All right, let's get these numbers broken down, as it were. So we still been hearing about how unpopular everything. In fact, there was a poll that came out the other day said this whole thing's unpopular. It's only 27% of the people. I thought to myself, you know, it's actually a good warning sign for, for a lot of these folks that are saying, yeah, this is the same old, same old. He said no more foreign wars and no more this and no more that. He's doing the same thing. He's just in the ocon. He's all these people jumping ship on the Trump administration. And I want to prove to you just, just with the polling numbers, that initial poll, why that's not the case. Think back to Iraq and Iran and, excuse me, Afghanistan and all of these others that they, they through the years pushed us into. There was a drumbeat of war that you couldn't ignore and the polling for that, that war for sending our kids off, etc. The polling was much higher. In fact, that was the point of this poll that came out. It was kind of the sub headline of is. Well, it's just that this thing's not even as popular as Eric War. That's because the CIA and the government, everybody that does what they do behind the scenes, along with the mockingbird media, et cetera, they were busy. They were busy behind the scenes getting you all frothed up, foaming at the mount, ready for war. That's not what happened here. If we're to believe what the Trump administration tells you, I have no reason not to. This was an opportunity that presented itself. They were in diplomatic negotiations. Iran comes to the table and says, hey, we got all this. Iran, we're going to make 11 nuclear weapons with what we got. Now we almost like they're bragging about it. We got your number. And so can you imagine what that was like for folks sitting on the Trump side of things in the United States here? Iran thought that that would scare us away. In fact, that actually scared us into action. We realized we had to act. And when we got the intelligence that the old ayatollah was having a bombed brunch, well, he wasn't getting bombed with mimosas. It was something else that was raining from the sky that day. It just happened. And imagine the hubris those folks had to have. It just so happened that they were able to make that strike and take out, what was it, 40, 50 people that day. It's incredible. So, yes, they constantly have war plans and plans of attacks and counter attacks and all these things they have to do, plan behind the scenes. That's obvious. And you know, this wise to do, that's prudent. But at the same time, this thing came, came out of the blue. That's if we're to believe everything they told us. And again, I don't have any reason not to. But what I will tell you is this. That to me tells us it's not the same old, same old what you're watching here. In fact, there's a different. We have the Don Road doctrine. We've got other military. Glenn talk about this too. Military operations. He's got different strategies. Trump. It seems like if we're watching history, at least recent history, what he did in Venezuela goes in surgically strategic, pulls the trigger and moves on, gets the job done. Most folks, I think when they're asked about that, they're not really opposed to that. Now, you don't want protracted. You don't want boots on the ground. You don't want Americans in harm's way ever. But you definitely don't want Americans over there fighting. And I get that. I understand that. I feel the same way. But I don't think that's what we're watching right now. And only time will tell. We'll have to see how everything develops. But at the end of the day, here's the thing. We elected the guy, and I don't know about you, but I hate to think of what it'd be like if Kamala Harris were the president right now. Can you even imagine? So I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. I'm giving him the grace. And I like what I see so far. I'm just telling you, the other piece of this is another piece that we haven't really dug in too much. And maybe we'll do that coming up here in just a little bit. But the other piece of this is what happens behind the scenes. Yes. You have the people of Iran, Persia, etcetera, Being liberated. My heart just breaks for the things that they've gone through. We've actually seen a Christian revival happening in that country in a lot of ways. From the reports we've seen mosques being closed because people just don't show up anymore. Some of the reports I've heard, and that's fantastic. So you've seen a lot of the pressure, the things happening behind the scenes as a resistance. These folks have been fighting in ways that we've just. We probably haven't heard, but it's critical. That's a great thing. I love that. I also love the fact that they're not going to be able to do any damage to this country anymore if all of this goes through. We completely crippled their air defenses. They're flying B52s for the first time over and low flying drones because they've got no way to hit back. It's incredible what they've done. It's sunk all those Navy ships that torpedoed the other day yet. We'll talk about that coming up here in just a little bit, too. So taking out the threat to America and Americans from the folks. I don't know about you, but I stand with the people who didn't chant Death to America, from the folks who chanted Death to America, when people say these things, you need to take them for their word, folks. But there's one other piece of this too that's very important and it has to do with China. So we'll talk about that coming up here in just a little bit as well. I want to make sure that we get into because it's one of the bigger pieces that just it's quietly not being talked about behind the scenes as much as I think it deserves a little bit more attention coming up on the program today. Plus, I want to talk about that SAVE act that's just sort of disappeared off the radar as well. There's a few of these stories that we need to check in on. China. Yeah, that's right. We'll do it coming up after this. The Glenn Beck program, Justin Barkley and for Glenn Today, love to connect with you at Mr. Justin Barkley all over social media. Justinbarkley.com back next in the Glenn Beck program,
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Glenn Beck
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Justin Barkley
Back after it on the Glenn Beck Program. Justin Barclay in for Glenn today. And yeah, we still need to talk about this, this China piece. Let me, let me do that coming up here because I think this is the biggest, this is the kind of the biggest piece of the puzzle that a lot of people aren't talking about and what's actually getting done. Just think about a little bit of a preview for you. But just think about what's happened Here in the first year of this Trump administration, you have. Well, number one, we get back to Panama Canal, Number two, Venezuela. Who knows how far Cuba is behind. Now Iran. If you look at what is happening, these are chess moves. And President Trump is making the take away cheap oil from China. Why does this matter? That's what I want to get into and I want to dig in a little bit further. Cuz it's the things you're not hearing about behind the scenes. There's a lot of stuff that's loud out there right now. And I get it. There's a lot of stuff that even pulls me sometimes. Pulls me? What is that? Pulls me in that direction. Am I being distracted from the distracted? Let me get back from the distraction. Now I gotta go back to my other distraction. So that's part of what we, we have to sort of consider as we're watching all of these things and ask the question, okay, what, what am I not hearing? What do I need to pay a little bit more closer attention to? Because you got everybody yelling and screaming and does he have the power to do this? Well, I mean that's a whole nother conversation. And I say yes, but I want to, I want to walk that out a little bit further before we really got to go down that road. In the meantime, what is he doing? It all goes back to China. Just it has to. And you, you, if you put the pieces together, you start to see the picture getting a little more clear. So one of the other things that we've completely forgotten and poor Nancy Guthrie in the, in the middle of all of that, we were wall to wall with Nancy. Everybody who's on Nancy Guthrie watch and I, I pray they find her. I mean this is it. Still don't have answers, right? But you notice how fast you moved because they pulled you off of her. Even on south, we've even had some Epstein files to talk about. In the middle of this, we've got all these different things and everybody's wondering, well, what's the distraction? What's the distraction? Maybe I'm being, like I said, distracted from the distraction. Anyway, what I'm saying is there are other things that need to happen. We were full in save act mode. We were full in save act mode. Talking about the vote just took place. Is it going to come up in the center? They got to bring it up. And of course to save America, we've got to make sure that these elections are overhauled. We got to make sure they're buttoned up. And I don't care where you stand on 2020. We don't even have to go back there to talk about. We've got to make sure that we're buttoned up and there is never even appearance of impropriety in our elections. Lots of different ideas and ways of how we get there. I personally love the id. I think you need to prove you're an American citizen. I think if I need to show ID to buy some cold medicine at the drugstore, well, you ought to be able to find it and present it to vote. I don't really think making it harder to vote is a bad thing in a lot of I just think there ought to be a little effort, especially if you consider what all went into founding this country and, of course, for keeping us free all of these years. So anyway, this is a massive piece of what needs to happen behind the scenes and we do have some updates on nationally what's happening. But let's go to Georgia right now because they're looking at doing this, in fact, on a state level in Georgia, a state who's, let's be honest, no stranger to some shenanigans. Craig joins us right now. Greg Dozel is in Georgia as we speak. Greg, looking at putting a piece of this together right now in Georgia. And you're the state in Fulton County, Fannie Willis and the rest of and of course, the how your pipes doing this morning? I probably should ask Gregor. Any other pipes leaking there? Is everything good in Georgia this morning, Justin?
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Greg Dolezal
Pipes only leak in November, so we're good so far today.
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Justin Barkley
This is incredible. Well, you know, it's not much, not much worse than what happened here in Michigan. You know, where I'm at in Detroit at the TCF center at the time where they're counting these votes and the shenanigans start to happen. They start putting pizza boxes up on the window. I don't know about you, but nothing, nothing says transparency like closing off the windows. So people are trying to see what's going on inside where all this stuff is happening. They can't see and their view is blocked. It's incredible what's in your version of what you'd like to see happen in Georgia.
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Greg Dolezal
Yeah, I've got two bills in Georgia that will be on the floor of the state Senate tomorrow. The first is the SAVE Amendment. So we want to amend the Georgia Constitution to do what DC Seems incapable of doing, which is to take a lead on voter ID in the constitution of the state constitution and requiring people to prove that they're an American citizen to Register to vote. This should be low hanging fruit, but it's going to be incredibly controversial. I believe every Democrat will probably vote against the bill on the floor just like they did in committee. But the second piece of what I'll move to tomorrow is to get rid of the Dominion machines in Georgia and move to a hand marked paper ballot so that we'll vote in Georgia the same way they vote in Florida, which is on a handmarked paper ballot. And then we put a number of other audit provisions and other kind of backend election security into place. The bill would levy significant fines on counties like Fulton county that refused to clean their voter rolls. I've traveled around Fulton county and done some X videos showing that we've got thousands of people illegally registered to vote in Fulton county using UPS stores, abandoned buildings, parking lots, homeless shelters that have been closed for a decade. And Fulton county just refuses to clean up their voter rolls. So we've got to put the force of law behind that to force their hand on cleaning those rolls.
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Justin Barkley
Yeah, I mean, I couldn't agree more. When you look at this, and we've got the same problem here in Michigan, our secretary of state, who I believe is one of the the most lawless in the history of the state, she's been told number of times by judges that she's breaking the law breaking. And she is one of the things that we go back to 2020 where she told him we had this massive, you know, these ballots coming in, absentee and whatnot, mail in in historic levels. She told the local clerks, the county clerk, you don't have to inspect those signatures on that. Wouldn't that be the time you'd want to take a closer look just to make sure that everything's on the up and up. So we've got that and we've got her padding the voter rolls, refusing to clean them up. Many of the same problems you have. Sounds like they're all running the same playbook.
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Greg Dolezal
Yeah, I do think it's the same playbook. It's, you know, Fulton county, currently they're required by, by law to have two Republicans, two Democrats and one person nominated by the Fulton county chairman on their board of elections. So you're supposed to have essentially two, two and one. And the reality is in Fulton county, the one is always going to be a Democrat. So they already have a 3 to 2 structural advantage on their county election board. But they are refusing to confirm the appointment by the Republican Party of one of the Republican nominees. So you've got now a 3 to 1 advantage because. Because they refused to seat one of the Republicans. They've been ordered by a judge three separate times to seat the Republican. They refuse to do it. They've been fined by the courts $10,000 a day for refusing to seat the Republican, and they still refuse to do it. So this is banana republic level stuff happening in Fulton County. I've actually called on the state election board to take over the Fulton county elections because they refused to fight. Follow the plain reading of Georgia law. And we've got to restore confidence in these elections. And we're, you know, we're one of these states that has. You've got essentially one massive city and then everyone else, and that massive city, Atlanta being in Fulton county, that one county sways the election statewide. And so if that county ignores the law, you really end up in a situation where no one trusts the outcome of the election because Fulton county refuses to play by the rules.
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Justin Barkley
Let me switch gears if I can, just a little bit here, because, Greg, you're in Georgia, you're a state senator there. You're also looking at proposing banning Sharia law there. How bad is it in Georgia right now?
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Greg Dolezal
It's definitely not Michigan or Texas. But you do see attempts really in every state in the union to allow parallel legal systems through these tribunals. And I introduced a law to ensure that we only have American laws in America. Well, in Georgian courts. And I think that's something we should be looking to do statewide because a lot of times, or sorry, nationwide, every state should be looking at doing this because oftentimes what you see is a parallel legal system get set up through these tribunals where they will adjudicate cases based on Sharia law. And in some of those cases, the outcomes of the. Of the ruling will violate constitutional rights given specifically oftentimes to women under the United States Constitution. That is not protected in Sharia law. And so that is just the camel nose under the tent. And we need to ensure that we push back against that injection of Sharia law into American courts in every state in the union.
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Justin Barkley
Now you are in Georgia right now. You're. You're also. Did they see you qualified for a lieutenant governor?
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Greg Dolezal
I did. Just qualified two days ago to run statewide and this year's election.
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Justin Barkley
So how does it work there? It works a little bit differently here in Michigan, but you're on the ballot,
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Greg Dolezal
then you're on the ballot separate. You guys may have like a co ticket where the governor picks up lieutenant governor. Yeah, we. We actually have two. It's a completely separate constitutional office. So conceivably you could have a scenario where the lieutenant governor and governor are from opposite parties. And so I'm running for lieutenant governor. And I believe that we're in a fight to save Western civilization. I think that we saved the west by saving America. And providentially, I think that we save America by saving Georgia. Georgia is ground zero, really, for every nationwide election right now, the control of the United States Senate runs through Georgia. The road to the White House runs through Georgia. We've got every single constitutional officer in Georgia is a Republican, and we've got two Democrat United States Senators, largely due to what happened in the 2020 election. And so we are a hinge state, I believe, in the fight to save the Republic.
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Justin Barkley
I don't have enough time to talk to you. You sound like a very interesting individual, Greg. And you know, it's interesting, sir, I, I, I just read in your bio, probably the piece that is one of the most interesting is that you spent 11 years working as a tour manager for Christian artist Chris Tomlin, who I'm, I'm familiar with. It's, that's got, I bet you got some stories, man.
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Greg Dolezal
I've got some stories I tell people I spent 10 years sleeping two feet away from Chris Tomlin, but we were in separate, we were separated by curtain and a piece of plywood. So nothing nefarious there. But yeah, had the opportunity of a lifetime to be on the road with Chris from 2005 to 2016, really, as his career was getting started and then was a rocket ship and got to see him share the gospel all over the world. And it was really, really a lot of fun.
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Justin Barkley
Yeah. There's so much happening right now, even in Iran as we speak, as we've heard about Christian revival happening there and all over the place. Well, I bet we could talk for hours about some of the these things. But thank you for taking the time before I let you go. What's the best way people can catch up, maybe stay up to date with things that are happening whether they're in Georgia or beyond with you?
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Greg Dolezal
Best option is dole is all for GA on X. That's where we're exposing all of the illegal shenanigans of Fulton county and a lot of the stuff that we're working on in real time. We keep everybody updated.
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Justin Barkley
There you go. Just gave you a follow myself Dolezal for ga. Thank you, Greg. Appreciate you being here with us today, Senator.
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Greg Dolezal
Thanks, Justin. It's a pleasure.
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Justin Barkley
You got it. God bless. Dolezol for GA That's D O L E Z, A L for G A over on X. Like I said, I want to talk about, I want to talk about China. I want to talk about what's really going on with some of the things we're watching in Iran. And there's pieces of this that maybe we're not even privy to just yet. We'll do just that. But I felt it important at least to bring up the SAVE act on a national level. We'll get some updates on what's moving there. But it is interesting to see that states are looking at some of these versions as well. We need to have election integrity locked down. And now more than ever, folks, as we continue to move into the future. Look, I say this quite often, unfortunately, Republicans, folks on the right, I don't think want to save the country as much as Democrats progressive and the left, mostly the radicals, really want to destroy it. And it's time for us to get into action. So we'll talk more about that coming up today on the Glenn Beck program. Justin Barkley in for Glenn today. Back after this on the Glenn Beck program. You're going to have to hold that thought, my friend. We got a schedule to keep back. We'll be back.
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Glenn Beck
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Justin Barkley
All right, we're talking oil prices. In fact, that's some of what we have on the radar today to keep an eye on. With everything that's happening obviously, in Iran, and I think it ties into China. And what I want to talk about, in fact, coming up, we'll do just that in the next hour. But this is, this is what the press secretary had to say about oil prices yesterday.
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Tudor Dixon
To your first question about oil prices, thank God we have a president who has exuded American energy dominance over the past year, an administration that is wholeheartedly focused on keeping prices stable as best as we can. Of course, course, this operation is temporary to protect the homeland. But crude oil prices did fall yesterday. They remain stable today after the president announced steps to ensure the stability in global energy markets again. Those include the DEC offering reasonably priced political risk insurance and the potential for the US Navy to provide protection for the flow of energy through the state, through the Strait of Hormuz. It is the president's belief and his economic team's belief that the economy continues to be very strong, it's robust and will be able to weather any of the temporary impacts of Operation epic.
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Justin Barkley
We're talking oil here, we're talking gas prices here in America. I know that matters to your your wallet. But guess, guess who else that matters to China. We'll talk about that and dig into why all of this, the secret reason, maybe some of this is happening behind the scenes. Next hour, Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program. Back next, Pass it on, Crank the game. Glam Back is on. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Barclay. And for back today on the Glenn Beck program. And man, oh, man, the news never stops. That's why we've got the latest going to talk about what's happening in Iran. Of course, I, I want to share with you what I think is really happening. She's gonna break down what you're not saying behind the curtain. Speaking of what what's happening behind the curtain. You hear about this vote that took place in Congress yesterday. Mainstream media really quiet on this one and they've got no excuse now talking about the Epstein files at all when they're held accountable for this vote. We'll talk about that and more all coming up. So strap in Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program.
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Glenn Beck
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Justin Barkley
All right, so let me, if, if I may get to some of the things that this will be of my favorite things to talk about. Pull the curtain back and show you how the sausage is made. Get into some of these things and I think, I think again, you just don't hear or see on the, on the nightly news, you're just not going to hear, certainly not on MSDNC 13 or whatever they calling it now. Just, you're just not going to see some of this. And you know, other than obviously Glenn and just a very few small places, you're not getting the full context, the full picture. Justin Barclay, by the way, in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program. You find me at rjustinbarklay all over social media, justinbarkley.com, love to hear from you too. You can email me justinustinbarklay.com and love the chat. I love hearing from folks. This is the brightest audience in radio. It's the torch burns bright here. I'm telling you, I've had the pleasure of feeling it every single time. It's an honor since 2019. I just love talking with you folks in this audience. You just, it, it's like a breath of fresh air. So you are going to, I, I am, I'm sure you're going to see a lot of what I'm about ready to tell you. And some of this may be me preaching to the choir. But I'm going to endeavor to do this because there are people listening, believe it or not, who don't always agree with what we agree with. And we welcome them in, you know, with Open arms. We want you, we want you. Disagree. I'd love to hear from you. Listen, it's important that you're here. It's important we have these conversations and that we keep conversations going in the country and maybe now more than ever. So here's what I want to take you behind the scenes so that you can understand a lot of times the mainstream media and the folks, it certainly that you may read online and social media is big with this now too. I mean, it's, it's, it's the new medium. They do a lot of talking about things that you don't necessarily, may even call them distractions and they see surface on a lot of it. And we're pulled around very easily because the algorithms, that's talked about that earlier in the program. But there are things that we must consider and there are things that need to be talked about, like why Iran, Why now? And I see a lot of the low hanging fruit. And so to be honest with you, some of it's pretty lazy in the explanation about what's going on and why we're there and what's happening. And I understand some of it. Look, we're so overwhelmed with everything that it's easy to jump, you know, conspiracy theories and look, I own a tinfoil hat, okay? So don't get me wrong, I'm not using that word in a pejorative, but I'm saying that because we don't know, and quite often now more than ever, and we got access to all kinds of information, but because we don't know things, we're always looking for answers. And it just doesn't feel good, you know, it doesn't feel good in your bones. It hurts your brain, in fact, when you don't have answers to things. There is a piece, and by the way, this is a faith thing for me, but there is a piece of beyond understanding that only comes when you sort of rest in the fact that you can't know it all and only God does. In fact, that's a whole other conversation for a whole other time. But it's the subject of the book that I wrote, Good news, hope and encouragement for trying times. So I won't get into all of the machinations of it, but I will tell you that that's part of why we see so much of the rise. And you see people, you know who I'm talking about. You see people on a daily basis. You go, what happened to them? You know, we could become victims. You have more than ever before in the history of the World have weapons aimed at you on a daily basis that you don't even realize. I'm not talking about nukes. I'm talking about weapons of mass destruction. That's what we're talking about. I mean, it's the phone that you're carrying. It's a TV that you're watching. It's the radio. Every now and then, you'll get things that'll come through. And, you know, I'm even guilty of it. Every night we try our best, and I know Glenn goes above and beyond to make sure that everything you hear is right and everything you hear is accurate. But in the fog of war, sometimes we don't get that thing. I posted something the other day. I found out, oh, that was AI or as part of a video game. And I'd take it down immediately. And I was like, oh, no, that wasn't good. But even I got got. It's gotta happen, right? So that's why I bring some of this up, to tell you when we look behind the curtain here, like we're going to do, there's a reason for it. So what's happening in Iran? Well, we have, you know, the nuclear threat. We have freeing and liberating the people. And that's a just. All those things are great. Just cause. And particularly defending the country. I think that's. That's major. We know that these people shot a death to America. We know they had massive attempts and several on the President's life. I mean, these are all things that played into it. You take one thing or the other, and like I said, it's kind of lazy just to go it was this. And particularly if it's something along the lines of, well, Israel made us do it, or whatever it is, it's not the case. That's just not the case. Now, I'm sure they're very pleased that we're involved, but you have to see the fuller picture here, folks. And one of those pieces that I think a lot of people are missing here is this. Go back a couple of days. There's a whole nother thing I slept in on Saturday. I wake up, everything's buzzing, and I think to myself, oh, no, I missed it. The President was up late, and all of these things were happening on the other side of the world. It's funny because, you know, the whole world shifts right before you've even had your morning cup of coffee. That's just the world we live in now. But Operation Epic Fury was underway. They had coordinated strikes deep inside Iran. And, you know, And I know now what it took to make that possible. In fact, I saw some really interesting pieces that they actually used intelligence from traffic cameras to track the Ayatollah. They used Iran's own Panopticon, their own digital prison against them to track these guys, know exactly where they were going to be. That's fascinating to me. But to know all the pieces and how it all went, went down, that's one thing to know why is a whole nother. And let me just, if I may suggest another piece of the puzzle that hasn't been talked about as loudly in the news. And I think there's a reason for that. But I want you to understand so you have a full grasp of what we're dealing with and what the President is trying to accomplish. And it all centers around one piece. So when they went in, they didn't nibble around the edges with this attack. They went to the throat. Nuclear facilities, you got missile factories, naval bases, and like I said, the DTAP capitation, you got those 49, 50, whatever it was, people that were at the very top, the very top of the whole thing. The Supreme Leader gone, the mullah's terror machine bleeding out in real time. And in fact, it keeps changing. Every now I see another update. Have they picked one? I saw the meme the other day, the black smoke rising from the building there, and they said, black smoke meets kind of like they picked the Pope. They have not picked another Ayatollah. They were unsuccessful. They keep bombing the people when they try to meet to do this. Anyway, here's what the media is not going to tell you. Here's what the dots, they're not going to connect on this, okay? This isn't just about stopping a nuclear Iran. It's about something much, much bigger. Essentially, we're talking about shifting global powers, and it is America first in ways that many people couldn't even begin to imagine. It is proactive, and yet it is defensive, all at the same time. And it all centers around China, Energy dominance, keeping China in check. Yes, it's connected to Venezuela, it's connected to the Panama Canal, and it's all one seamless masterstroke. But you have to realize Trump is playing checkers and people are trying to explain this. Or he's playing chess. Everybody else is playing checkers. They're trying to explain this in a completely different way. That's why you hear all these explanations. They just don't add up. Now, I'm not getting into the 4D, 5D chess or any of that Stuff. I'm just saying what we're watching is a different game than what people are actually explaining. Let me break it down, okay? Let me make it as plain as okay. China is the world's largest importer of oil and for years, you know, they've been buying nearly 90%, 80, 90% of Iran's crude. It's incredible, massive discount. And they do it all through shadow fleets, backdoor deals because of course, you know, you've got the sanctions and everything else. Well, aside from Obama dropping off pallets of cash and Biden doing very similar. This is, this is how they survive. Supplying drones to Russia and all of this, the cheap oil, the drones, etc. It keeps the ayatollahs in power and it fuels China's factories all while they laugh at us. But not anymore. Not after what happened this weekend. There's more to this. I want to dig in a little bit further to explain what happened over the weekend and what continues to happen so that you can understand when you hear the argument this isn't America first. You can understand what really is going on behind the scenes and why it matters. Back after this. Justin Barkley in for Glenn. Today on the Glenn Beck program.
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Justin Barkley
All right, so think of this. As I just mentioned, the piece China that most are missing when it comes to Iran and Russia too, really, people are saying we don't need any more new wars. This isn't a new war. It's one that's been waged for the last 50 years. And yes, I think we're already in World War 3. I think part of what we're watching, it just doesn't look the same as it used to. Part of what we're watching is just that it's played out through proxies. I mean, Iran even has its own proxies, right? And Iran is a proxy of China and Russia and of course that axis. So what we're watching play out, the shift is massive. So you got China, the largest oil importer, 90% coming from Iran. And it's been effectively shut off. That straight o Hormuz that we're hearing a lot about. The narrow choke point carries one fifth of all the planet's oil tanker traffic is down there. President Trump making sure that they are going to see traffic moving. That's why you've seen some oil prices jump and prices at the pump. A lot of it's, you know, some of it's a reality, but a lot of it's based in, you know, people freaking out. That's some of that is going to happen and then some people trying to make a little money. Too opportunistic. You got ships stranded, you got insurance rates exploding and every barrel China counting on from what I've heard. And I, I, I would again encourage you. Everything I talk about, everything Glenn talks about, but do your due diligence check in it. We try to do our best. But everything I've heard, they've got about a hundred days worth of oil right now. They have been stockpiling because they sense some of this is coming. And I think they've got 100 days to get by. You know, we got big meetings coming up with China as well. Beijing is scrambling right now. Those refineries getting desperate. They'll have to bet against the world for replacement crude from Russia or Saudi Arabia at full market price. And that's, that's not a minor inconvenience. It's a big deal. It's an economic gut punch. And by the way, to the very folks there in China who've been building that anti American axis, don't forget brics. Don't forget all the things they've been doing behind the scenes, they've largely been allowed to do because the Biden administration better sleep at the wheel.
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Glenn Beck
Jill.
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Justin Barkley
Or someone else, maybe it was Hunter, you know, out of his mind running the auto pin. Lord only knows. By the way, President Trump didn't just start this week. He started with Venezuela and of course before that the Panama Canal, as you saw what happened with Maduro. And yes, it's great to see that dictator taken out. And those are all, I think, moral reasons for doing what we did. You know, the fentanyl and all the drugs and everything coming here, you know, all that's great. And if you, if you factor that in the, you know, hundreds of thousands of people that are dying because of it, you know, those are, those are, those are reasons by themselves to do this. But now we know American oil companies, the best in the world already Moving in billions to rebuild those fields there in Venezuela. It's heavy crude, it's a little different, but it's beginning to flow again, and this time at fair market prices, not the fire sale discounts Maduro was giving to China. And the same goes with Iran. So what does this boiled down to? Another reason, just another reason to consider. China just lost another cheap oil lifeline. Two major suppliers, Iran, Venezuela, both cut off from that discount pipeline. Something that was keeping Beijing's economy artificially propped up. And like I said, that next piece was the Panama Canal. For years, China had its hooks in through Hong Kong. Linked companies running the ports at both ends of the canal. And Trump called it what it was from day one. We didn't give the canal to China, we gave it to Panama and we're taking it back. All of these things. When you start to look at the bigger picture, the strategy at the high level, it starts to unfold. Control the oil choke points, secure the shipping lanes, starve the adversary of cheap energy, and you can restore American energy supremacy. And that is America First. While China burns through all that expensive emergency oil and watches that belt and road dream crack along with brics, the rest of it. Our producers are ready. Our allies gotta be breathing a little easier at night, resting. The days of rogue regimes and their communist paymasters running the global energy game are coming to a rapid, decisive end. And don't forget, how much were you paying under Biden. It was all of this uncertainty that was making it so, along with pushing us to the green pipe dream. So when you're watching this, it's not like the mainstream media proposes. Trump didn't just stumble into this, he planned it again. He's playing chess. He's been warning about it, he's been talking about it from the very beginning. And now we're seeing it play out, executed with precision. Our enemies reeling, friends standing taller, the ones still standing with us. And many of them are behind the scenes, absolutely head over heels with what they see happening. But this is what it looks like, folks. This is winning. Winning in the 21st century. Energy's power. You've known that, I know that. America's back, China's on notice, and the American people about to reap the benefits for decades to come. This is America first. And in fact, it's probably the one of the best examples of it your kids and mine will be talking about for years to come. Barclay and for Beck today. We're back after this on the Glenn Beck program.
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Glenn Beck
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Justin Barkley
Barkley and for Beck today on the Glenn Beck program. By the way, speaking of which, I just stumbled across this. Somebody sent this to me. It's fantastic. Peter Schweizer making the point about China that I've just been making this hour. It now means we have a chokehold on the Strait. Look, assume that China wanted to move on Taiwan, right? There's a military response. But now we have a massive energy response which is we simply don't allow any tankers to ship oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz. We can do it. It might have been a little bit dicey had it had we not taken out the Iranians, that's roughly half of their oil. 40 to 50% of their oil is now suddenly not available to them. So those are enormous methodologies. And look at what happens in terms of military technology. JESSE China provided their most advanced air defense capabilities to Iran. We completely destroyed them. They didn't shoot down one American or Israeli plane. This is reminiscent of 1982 when the Israelis flying F15s went up against the Syrians flying MiGs and the Israelis beat them 81 aircraft to zero. What happened after that? They couldn't give the MiGs away. So China now has the problem that their military technology is not recognized as being up to part of the United States. That's going to have huge implications with a whole host of other countries. Peter Schweizer there with Jesse on Fox News. So I want to talk about the fact Tudor Dixon joins us now, host of the Tudor Dixon Podcast. He was a candidate for governor here in Michigan as well. And friend, I gotta say, Tudor, I know you've talked to Peter before, but this is the point I was making. When we look at what's happening in Iran, there's a lot more happening behind the scenes that I think folks are actually getting a glimpse of when they watch the night news. Welcome in, by the way, to the Glenn Beck Program.
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Tudor Dixon
Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, absolutely. I agree. And I think this is where you see a lot of people right now saying, well, wait a minute, was this really a threat? Should we have really done this? And to Peter's point about China, I think you need to also understand the connection between Iran and China and North Korea and Russia. And you have to understand that even hitting their nuclear facilities, that wasn't going to stop North Korea from sending them missiles. That wasn't going to stop China. They have the uranium mines, they have the centrifuges. They were going to rebuild. They were clearly in those conversations with the administration saying, we're not going to back down, we're not going to stop headed toward heading toward a nuclear weapon. So for anyone who is questioning President Trump's choices in this situation, I would say to you, what did you need? What kind of evidence did you need? Did you need a nuclear attack? Did a bomb need to detonate for you to say, ok, now what? We're ready? Because I would prefer to have the person in power who's telling me they're going to stop it before it happens than wait until they get to the point where they have destroyed entire countries.
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Justin Barkley
Yeah. There's so many pieces of this. And I know you're, you're sort of navigating it, too, because you're in that podcast world and watching this stuff on social media. I just want people to have the full understanding of what's really going on behind the scenes here and, and why this is another such a critical move. President Trump, you're in contact with some of those folks in the administration. I mean, what's that happening, like, behind the scenes? They got this information that most people don't, we don't know. And they try to do their best to let us know what they can.
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Tudor Dixon
Let me argue back. We do know. We are listening to some of these people who are pontificating, not doing the research, not doing the facts. They want the clicks. They love the clicks. They love the drama. They love the division. And I'm sorry, but you're not for the country if you're for yourself and your podcast. Let me tell you, we have the information. And I will tell you, it's not been a secret that we have the information. If you look back, even Obama said, my gosh, they're so close. Once they get to that 90% uranium enrichment, we have weapons grade uranium there and they have enough. In 2023, they had enough uranium already. And it was reported by international agencies. The International Atomic Energy Agency was reported reporting they have enough uranium in 2023 for three nuclear bombs. 2025, that same agency came out and said, now they have enough uranium for nine atomic bombs or nine nuclear bombs. And it's not just that they have that, they also have the centrifuges in place. They are working to make sure they enrich that to 90%. They had found particles that were at 83.7%, very close to 90%. 90% is weapons grade. We know that it wasn't 47 years in the making. This is the last five years we're talking about. This is the last five years we're talking about that. They're getting to the point where they actually have a nuclear bomb. And people will say, oh, what about the 12 Day War? Yes, we took a massive amount of their ability to create a nuclear bomb away in the 12 Day War, but that doesn't stop them. They had other centrifuges they can, they could get started back up. Like I said, they have the connections with North Korea and China and we haven't heard North Korea or China or Russia say they're going to back away from Iran. Quite the opposite. We know that they're going to be on board with them. They're going to continue to supply them with the missiles that they need. And you had some of the top negotiators in the world in the Trump administration sit down with them and say, are you going to stop this? But they won't. And they have a free. What their religion is, is radical Islam. And they are under the belief that if they even wipe out the whole world, that that will ultimately cleanse the world and then the world will be a better place and they can bring enough evil that there will be a cleansing. This is a, this is a twisted, sick way of thinking you can't even imagine as an American. This is not like negotiating with Americans. This is negotiating with sociopaths. And they are not willing to stop. They have it at their fingertips. And regardless of how many times we take out their facilities, they have more ability underground to rebuild and go back after that bomb. And they have the knowledge now they know where to mine, they know where to get the missiles. They connect those, the uranium and the missile with the warhead and that's lights out. You know, and who's first? I mean, they can reach Israel, but they can also reach Eastern Europe. For anybody who's saying this is Israel, you know, bite your tongue. You have no idea what you're talking about. If you're that naive, you haven't done any research on what Iran can actually do because they can actually reach Eastern European countries and they will. There's no barrier. There's no reason for them to stop. There's no conscience like we have in the United States. And life means nothing to them. This is a regime that just a week or two weeks ago took out 40,000 of their own people, mowed them down with machine guns. They have no, no care for life whatsoever. And anybody who is saying we weren't there yet, like I said, I'll go back to what does it take to get there? What does it take to get the Democrats on board with protecting us? Does it take a nuclear bomb going off? Because that's insane.
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Justin Barkley
Now, the same people were making decisions back in World War II. We'd all be speaking German, Right? Right. Now this is, this is clear. And I don't think it's ever been more clear. We've got a leader who is uniquely designed for this moment in time for such a time as this. Here's the polling. MAGA unity. Despite what you're watching or seeing maybe on social media from some of those vocal minorities. It shows Republicans opposed to Trump's Iran strikes are loud but small minority. And then even CNN says it, listen to this. Republicans love Donald Trump more than any president's own party supporters love them at this particular point in his administration. Even CNN says Republicans love Donald Trump more than any president's own party supporters
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Scott Singer
loved him at this particular point. Just take a look here, okay?
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Justin Barkley
Own party supporters, 21st century presidents own party approval about it.
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Greg Dolezal
This point point in the second term,
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Justin Barkley
Bush was at 77%, Obama was at 77%. Look at this. 86% of Republicans approve of the job
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Greg Dolezal
that Donald Trump is doing at this point.
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Justin Barkley
Now why do I bring this up? Because we're hearing lots of other things from the other side. And when I say that even in, within the party, so this, this whole conflict and some of the doom and gloom skies, flying black pill stuff may cost us some midterm elections. And this is why I bring it up, because it is so important. We are united, many of us. But the damage some of these folks are doing, well, it could have tremendous consequences.
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Tudor Dixon
You know, I think this is a good moment for people to believe that there is a chance of that happening because we're early on it. And politics is like. Like things happen overnight and they're also stretched out for years. Right? So right now, in the world of elections, I mean, when you think about the general election, there's a lot that can happen between now and then. And what I think you are going to see happen is right now the Democrats are trying to use this to divide us. And you do have some of these rogue people that claim to be a part of the GOP or the Republican Party in the past who clearly haven't been and aren't and are just rebel rousers. And they're not. Not actually bringing any good facts to the table. And potentially they're getting paid by certain countries to do this. So I don't think that. I think people have caught on to that as well, and they're not taking that as seriously. But then look at what you have in the Democrat Party. They're about to elevate a guy who believes there are six genders in Texas. That tells us that your neighbors might have a uterus, and then therefore they're being discriminated against. I mean, this is a guy who says he can't define a woman. This is a man who says that the story of Jesus birth and the immaculate conception is a story of abortion and why God supports abortion. I mean, James Talarico is a total lunatic. And I'm so glad that they elected him. I mean, you know, I think Jasmine would have been just as great. I would have taken Jasmine Crockett, too. But this guy is such a radical extremist that if the Democrat Party embraces him and they say, yes, we're about his trans agenda and we're about his radical gender and everything else that he stands for and his blasphemous approach to the Bible, if they stand behind the absolutely demonic things that James Talarico puts out on a regular basis, that we have him on film and on tape saying there's no backing out of the crazy things that he said, if the Democrat Party is going to stand behind him and the AOCs of the world that go on the world stage and cannot even talk about foreign policy and fall flat on her face and does it can't even say who brought horses to North America, a woman who, who shares the same name as the Spanish conquistador who brought the to Mexico and she doesn't know this? I mean, if this is what they're gonna do, then yeah, I'm telling you, we've got this in the bag. We're good.
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Justin Barkley
Tutor Dixon hosted Tutor Dixon Podcast and always a pleasure. But you also are doing something locally back home in West Michigan where I'm at part of a great conversation, Cornerstone University. We don't have a lot of time here, but it's called Wisdom conversations America at 250. And you're going to be there tonight for folks in the area or folks that may want to check it out.
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Tudor Dixon
Yep. Grand Rapids, Michigan at Cornerstone University. It's a great university. They, they are always sharing their Christian values. They have Robert P. George and Cornel west sitting down tonight for a conversation. I've had them both on the podcast. It's an amazing conversation when you get the two of them together and you can see it live in person tonight at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids. So I encourage everybody, if you can, if you're in the area, get out there. It is a conversation that you're going to remember the rest of your life, I assure you.
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Justin Barkley
Tutor Dixon, always a pleasure. The Tutor Dixon podcast. Where can folks follow and find you
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Tudor Dixon
online at Tutor Dixon at Facebook on X. And make sure you check out the Tutor Dixon podcast. It's tutor dixon podcast.com the iHeartRadio app after Apple podcasts. Wherever you get your podcasts, you got it.
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Justin Barkley
Thank you so much, Tudor. Appreciate you. God bless.
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Tudor Dixon
Thank you.
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Justin Barkley
Coming up, want to talk to you. We'll give you a chance to end triple eight seven two seven back triple eight seven two seven Beck gonna grab a couple of phone calls and some emails coming in as well. And the conversation continues. There's something that happened we must talk about here. Coming up in the program. Yesterday Congress voted on it. You're probably not gonna hear. They have no leg to stand on talking about the Epstein files from now on. We'll get into that too. Coming up, Justin Barkley and for Glenn. Today on the Glenn Beck program, dividers can call us names threat to the world of democracy Still a greasy pig. We just call each other neighbor and friend. We'll be right back. Glenn Beck is our foreign.
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Glenn Beck
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Justin Barkley
Triple 8727 beck. That's eight at 8727 back Justin Barkley in for Glenn. Today on the Glenn Beck program. I just going through some of the things that are out there thinking okay, gotta make sure we get to this, gotta make sure we get to that. Here's one of the. I don't know if you saw, this was insane. They had a hearing yesterday in the Senate and the senator there actually has to jump in and one of the protesters, guy just lost his mind, is a Marine. I don't know for how long because this is way above and beyond anything you expect to see. Getting an altercation, fighting with U.S. capitol Police. And this is the back and forth. They're trying to get him out. Eventually his hand gets stuck inside the door. They say he got broken. I don't know if it got broken or not, but this is part of this. They're saying he broke his hand. I don't know. I don't know if that's what actually happened. But I saw this and I thought to myself, holy cow, what an incredible back and forth. And then it also made me think, you know, we are in the find out era and Iran is finding out. Sway was finding out and folks are finding out. You don't mess with U.S. senator. Navy Seal Tim. She just. I just. If you're going to interrupt the hearing, I'd probably pick one standard. Tim Sheehy is not in. I would just say that's probably the best route to go. Now here's some information on the guy. In case you're wondering that the guy lost his mind that the Marine there unfortunately sounds like he lost it a while back. Here he is a sympathizer, Hamas and whatnot. Congratulations to Hamas and the Gazans for repelling their oppressor, the Israeli Israelis and causing people's burden. Brains are breaking, folks. Protect your brain, Truth, logic and common sense with daily doses. Another one's coming up next, Justin Barkley. And for Glenn today as we continue back next on the Glenn Beck Program, Sam, The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Oh, we've heard about the files, lots and lots about the files. And yes, they are important. The whole issue is important. But I don't want to hear it. Not another single word from some of these members of Congress. The vote they took yesterday. Oh, you haven't heard about this yet. Just wait, we'll get to it. It's important news you may not hear anywhere else. That's coming up. Plus, what's it like in places like the free state of Florida? I just return and I want to, I want to shine a light. What I think is a road map for the rest of the country. Some things that we're seeing play out that you need to know about. Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck Program. We'll talk about that with you after this. Back next.
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Justin Barkley
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Justin Barkley
Call 800-90624 440 for details about credit costs and terms. Enjoy the program whenever you like. Triple H, 727BECKEN at 8727BECK. We'll try and grab a phone call or two. You can email me too. I'd love to hear from you. Justin. Justin Barclay B A R C L A Y Justin justinbarkley.com I'm @mrjustinbarkley all over social media and love those conversations. I, I'm feeling it for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program and I gotta tell you every time I'm here, it is an honor and a pleasure privilege to be here with you and love talking with Glenn's audience. The best of the best. Just say that. But I was in the free state of Florida last week. In fact, I was just coming back about a week ago and spent about a week down there with some good friends and I got to see some family and have a good time. Now this is a big by the way, street, it's a big shock when you go from a place like the People's Republic of Michigan to afford it this time of year. It's not just about weather where you're leaving while it's snowing. I think we did come back to snow and cold this time of year. Just never know what you're going to get into. Where I'm at in West Michigan, broadcasting out of the studios of News Radio with 1300 and 1069 FM and landing in the free state of Florida, we're at Fort Myers, Naples, Venice, that area and had a blast. But there were some things that I noticed and it wasn't just the weather, although it was gorgeous this time of year particularly, they know it, they're in season. People are making their way down in record numbers right now, but for the obvious reasons, the weather, the fun of the sun, the vacation, take your kids. It was our first trip for our girls, first time on an airplane and had a quick non stop flight which was fantastic for their first, a lot of first they got to see some gators, got to eat some gator bites. I don't know if the locals get into the gator bites or not. We certainly did and we had, we had a blast. But one of the things I kept noticing and very similarly like Texas, there's always, you know, in Texas like the construction never stops and that might be frustrating for some of you who live in Texas, but it is a sign of massive growth and just incredible. It's wild to watch the differences because in Michigan it's not like that. We've lost population growth over the years, largely due, I believe, to the policies of the Democrat governor who's been in charge almost the last eight years. So that's why as I get a chance to go down to Florida and see what's happening down there, it's obviously more friendly. The people over it's walking around with my sweatshirt on that said one Nation under God. And I got several compliments. Took me a second because I could wear that around here. And I get every now and then again, hey, I like your shirt. But I got so we got one guy said amen. And I think what, what is he amen to me, all the shirt. So it was fantastic to just to see that be in that environment in the free state of Florida. I don't have to tell you that if you live there. But folks, I think throughout the rest of the country just don't have an understanding, an idea of how good it is, the expansion of the business, et cetera. And we just had a story the other day showed more businesses leaving here, our state, where I'm at and all over the country. In fact, heading into Florida, I thought it'd be a good idea to talk to the mayor of one of those great cities in the free state of Florida, Boca Raton. Scott Singer with us on now. Mayor, thank you and welcome in for the Glenn Beck program.
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Scott Singer
Justin, thanks so much for having me. We have great things happening in Boca Raton, and you're seeing this with our latest corporate relocation from Michigan. We're drawing from lots of states because of our low taxes, low crime, great quality of life and the lowest property tax rate of any full service city in Florida, in Boca Raton.
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Justin Barkley
And you know what's wild is that Mayor, while I was there, you know, first of all, we know you don't have the income tax and that's that's huge, right? And while I was there, I believe it was a Senate that voted to get rid of property taxes. And I thought to myself, holy smokes, if it's not already on fire already and in a good way, people are going to be moving in droves when this gets done.
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Scott Singer
They are. And in Boca Raton, we've done our best to maintain the quality of life for a city of 100,000 people, but attract a ton of businesses. And it isn't just the latest coming from Michigan, Concord Investment Services, which is adding to our robust financial services stock. But we had D Wave Computing, a quantum computing company, moved from Palo Alto. We've been attracting companies from New York since the June primary when we had a targeted campaign focused on Mamdani. And I'm just one of many mayors across the nation who are trying to govern with low tax, pro business, common sense policies. That's why I'm happy to run or, excuse me, chair the America First Policy Institute Mayors Council, where we have about 50 mayors advancing this America first agenda in our cities. And these. I think we need this at the national level. That's why I'm also running for US Congress right now.
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Justin Barkley
That's fantastic. Well, listen, you know, and you've seen it up close and personal, what the differences are first. I mean, obviously the sunshine, right? You got the lifestyle. And that's, that's one of the things that people love so much. But, you know, another thing there that I saw, and one of my friends down There got an 8th grader and they just started homeschooling her. And they said, you know, the money moves with the student here, I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, I think they told me that they get $10,000 a year per student. And even as she's homeschooled, that money could go towards tutors, it could go towards piano lessons, it could go towards educating that child. And why shouldn't it? I mean, it's your money. Shouldn't it go and follow the student? I thought that was another fantastic point.
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Greg Dolezal
It is.
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Scott Singer
Florida's been a leader on school choice. Those accounts that put $10,000 in the home of every parent for every student, for private, parochial, religious homeschooling has been a game changer. And I think President Trump's. One of the great things President Trump was able to accomplish and the House leadership and Senate leadership in one big beautiful bill are the tax credits that are going to go to everyday residents across America for the states that opt in where you're getting an actual tax credit so you can deploy that for educational institutions in your state. It's going to turbocharge school choice and take out some of the indoctrination we've seen on the left. And I think it's just giving a great opportunity for parents to educate the children, they see their children the way they see fit and really enhancing parental rights.
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Justin Barkley
Imagine that. I mean, to me and you, it sounds like common sense, but we've been so far removed from it. It's just, I think when you hear it, it's so refreshing. And that's one of the things about spending the time that I did during that week on vacation. And I, you know, I just see it. I see the success in Florida. And then obviously you're running for Congress, so you'll be trying to export some of that truth, logic and common sense to Congress and good luck, my friend. But, you know, the rest of the country could really learn some lessons from what you've done there as mayor and what the governor has done in the state of free state of Florida and all the rest of the folks that have band together to make sure that you've got some of these common sense policies in place that do so much to attract people to Florida and businesses, too.
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Scott Singer
Well, yes. And voters across America are gonna have a choice in November. Do they want to continue on the path of success we've had the last year under President Trump with a secure border, stronger national defense, the biggest tax cut in history, unleashing American energy production, unleashing our economy of cutting regulations, or do they want to go to the failed model of cities like New York, where even with a budget for a city of New York that's larger than our entire state budget and we have 23 million people to their eight and a half, they're still proposing a 9.5% property tax increase. What happened to the free buses and free, free supermarkets that were going to be there? They can't even provide the basic services with such a bloated budget that they needed to call for volunteers to shovel snow or, I mean, paid workers. But you don't have everyday residents coming in to shovel snow and you don't raise taxes. 9.5%. People are going to continue to choose and businesses are going to choose the contrast between high tax, higher crime, higher regulation cities and failing states or successful cities in states like Florida and others across America.
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Justin Barkley
Scott Singer is the mayor of Boca Raton running for Congress there in Florida's 23rd congressional district. American first Republican candidate when you're talking with your colleagues that are mayors across the country and obviously conservative, so they have a different vantage point of viewpoint. But what are the things that stand out most that you hear? It's, it's wild to me because where I'm at, while I was on vacation back home in, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, we have the mayor making headlines here for saying you ought to be ashamed if you own a gun. And I'm thinking to myself, you know, Florida doesn't have that problem. But to me, I think it's wild to watch how different and stark the contrast is between this leadership styles.
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Scott Singer
Well, when I hear statements like that, it's another reminder that this is no longer our parents Democratic Party. And the ideas that were Mainstream among Democrats 15, 20 years ago, whether it was Schumer, Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, all talking about a secure border and how to deal with illegal immigration, and now that that's anathema in the Democratic Party, shows just how far to the left they've gone. And I think mainstream voters of all stripes, Democratic, Independent and Republican, are understanding this. It's a big reason why President Trump had such a resounding victory. It's a reason why, why I'm optimistic in November that people are going to continue to see the strength in the economy, especially as GDP is at record highs, and why people are going to be coming out to vote. I wouldn't be running for Congress unless I thought we could win and govern in a majority. And again, when the left keeps making just ridiculous statements like the one you just quoted, it gives people more reason to vote more conservatively.
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Justin Barkley
Absolutely. Well, listen, I wish you the best. Obviously, running for Congress, you know, this is a world in which we need more. In fact, we're going to talk a little bit later on some of the things that are happening in Congress. We need more good folks there. And every single day that becomes more apparent. Folks want to find you online, Scott, particularly in your area there in the free state of Florida or maybe across the country. What's the best way they can do that?
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Scott Singer
Absolutely. They can go to my website, scottsingerusa.com on all social media platforms. I'm also Scottsinger USA and there I also talk about, you mentioned education. We talked about indoctrination. I have a proposal there that we'll delve into more that people might like. If you receive, if you receive foreign money as an educational institution, no federal dollars for you, universities often start making a choice between who's funding them, the American taxpayers or foreign entities. And I think that could be a game changer, too, at all levels of education.
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Justin Barkley
Mayor Scott Singer, Mayor, Boca Raton, thank you so much for being here with us today. Appreciate you taking the time.
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Scott Singer
God bless, God bless you and thank you.
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Justin Barkley
So we move forward with, with more. In fact, speaking of Congress, like I said, if you I don't want to hear it anymore, particularly from some of these folks, Democrats, especially when it comes to the files, a vote that took place yesterday that they have officially no leg to stand on. One we're going to get into that conversation coming up here in just a little bit and I want to make sure you hear it because again, I think it's one that sort of took place under the COVID of darkness. And I really, I highly doubt, I really, I highly doubt that you're going to hear it on the nightly news. Also, boots on the ground and Iran. Well, we'll explain whose boots they are coming up after this. Justin Barclay back in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck Program right after this.
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Glenn Beck
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Justin Barkley
All right, so I want to talk about, this is interesting because I noticed yesterday some of this came out. I don't know if you got a chance to talk about it or not, but, but we keep hearing some of this boots on the ground talk. Well, apparently Trump has done it in a way. And actually, I'll be honest with you, I think when I watch Iran and some of what they've been doing, this is kind of the last gas of this dying regime here. They're involving all these other Middle Eastern, their neighbors by lobbing off rockets and missiles and whatnot. And this is inevitably drawing more people into the conflict. So the question is boots on the ground. There could be boots on the ground. And turns out, yes, the headline was there are boots on the ground. But whose boots are they at this point, not American troops. It's big.
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Glenn Beck
A US Official telling Fox thousands of Iraqi Kurds have launched a ground offensive in Iran. Decimated, destroyed, defeated, all words the Pentagon used to describe Iran's various military forces on day five of Operation Epic Fury
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Justin Barkley
moments ago, President Trump touting in it's big a us now this is again, you got, you watch this right. And I, I'm with you. I understand it. You know, skeptical. Some of them, some of us might even be cynical. You know, I understand some of the reason to be right. You watch this. You know, I just don't want this to get a hand. But everything we're watching, everything we're seeing play out seems to me at least that the strategy here is unlike anything else we've ever seen before. And by the way, I got a message emailing justin@justin barkley.com if you want to reach out to the Love to hear from you. 88727 Beck but this question was about, oh yeah, India agreeing to stop buying Russian oil, maybe leading into this, India gets iron beam from Israel. India agrees to stop buying Russian oil. No more money to wage war, this person says, you know, I suspect a partial deal struck via between Israel and India and US may be related to the Iran action, too. Oh, I, no doubt about it. I think there's so many pieces, look, there is all of the surface and the things that we're hearing and some of that we just heard earlier this hour and I, or last year, but I, I believe, you know, lots of those, the nuclear peace and the defense of the country, et cetera. I mean, the people are chanted death to America for the last 50 years. Obviously, what they were doing to their own, I mean, that's a whole nother piece. All of those, I do believe, are all good reasons and part of the reasons why we may take action there. But when you start to look at some of the other pieces that may in fact play into this. Yeah. I think it's clear there's much more than meets the eye going on in some of these cases. And it's important to note that what we're watching is historic. And so there are folks out there that are criticizing. There are some folks out there that are, you know, that are leading that charge. I just don't think that's the right way to go about it. I think at some point you have to trust the president you elected and many of these folks did in fact, vote for him to get that job done. I'm not saying you can't, you, you can't not disagree. I'm not, I don't that, of course that's, that would be ridiculous. But it's how you go about it that, that Matters most. Speaking of history, saw this yesterday. Secretary of War which has a nice ring to it. I like the department said they did something for the, for the first time that since they were actually called the Department of War, they did something. First time. It's kind of wild to see this. They, they sunk a ship with a torpedo from a submarine. In fact last night we sunk their prize ship the Soleimani. Looks like POTUS got him twice. Their navy. Not a factor. Pick your adjective. Wait a second, Pete. I had coffee in my mouth in fact yesterday in the Indian Ocean and we'll play it on the screen there. An American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters. Instead it was sunk by a torpedo.
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Glenn Beck
Quiet death.
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Justin Barkley
Wow. The first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II. Like in that war back when we were still the War Department. We are fighting to win. There you have it. That's the history being made. Speaking of which, they were all on record yesterday, Congress in that vote. I think. Well they, they not be able to tell us what to think about any of these files in the future the way they voted yesterday. We'll talk about that and the consequences of it. Justin Barkley in for Glenn today. Justin@justinbarkley.com Mr. Justin Barkley on all the social media back after this on the Glenn Beck program.
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Glenn Beck
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Justin Barkley
Yo, I don't want to hear it anymore. I don't know. But you. I just don't want to hear it. I'm not saying it's not important. It is. There needs to be accountability. We need full transparency. We need justice for these folks involved in horrific things that we're reading. Obviously, the Epstein files. It doesn't matter, folks. I'm just telling you right now, after what we saw, and this was, this was obvious from the very beginning, but after what we saw yesterday in Congress, what was it, 300? Just let me, let me get, let me get the actual, the actual stat or the actual Number here. Year 357 members of Congress voted not to release congressional sexual harassment and misconduct records. Now, again, I understand some of this, you know, the records could just be allegations that weren't and didn't go anywhere. Some of it could be weaponized. I understand there's gotta be, gotta be a little bit of prudence to it, but all these Democrats and folks have been wagging their finger all of a sudd interested in this case, in these files, you know, because it's politically expedient now that they can point it. By the way, this is what Trump has meant the entire time. And I don't think he's done a great job of being able to communicate this, but when he called it a hoax, it's a hoax. Why? Why? He meant it was going to be used as a hoax. Not that the thing. He was right in the middle of it. He was one of the guys to rat out Jeffrey Epstein and all the things that were happening. In fact, I think he only wanted to do it it working with law enforcement, as we've learned in the files. Now, don't get me started on Bill and Hillary last week in the deposition, but the videos that have come out are really wild to see. There's one picture floating around, and it's from the video where Bill is looking down at this, and I think it was him. The one where he's in the hot tub. There's a, there's lots of discussion about Bill on the hot tub. He's looking down and he's got this look on his face with a smile. He's grinning like a Cheshire cat from ear to ear. And you go, there's Bill reliving somebody. It was so bad, it was such an awkward moment that his lawyer, the attorney, she had to reach over and grab that thing from him and go, give me that back, Bill. Give me it. And he snatched it back out of her hands. One of the things he mentioned, though, is he didn't think that Trump was involved at all. He never had any indication. It's, et cetera, do with that what you will. But I, what I will say is that it's never been more obvious, I think today the way Congress voted yesterday, that these Democrats, they never really cared. They never really cared about getting down to the bottom. They didn't care about victims. They don't care about any of these things. It's all politics and particularly folks on the right so or excuse me, on the left. And what I want to do is walk through the vote what exactly happened and, and talk a little bit about that. And a good friend, Kyle Olson from founder of the Midwestern Midwesterner News is with us right now. Kyle, thank you. Welcome onto the Glenn Beck program.
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Kyle Olson
Thanks for having me.
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Justin Barkley
So, you know, I mean, you watch this vote. I'm trying to make heads or tails of it, sense of it. What am I missing?
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Kyle Olson
Well, that's, I think that's what a lot of people are asking is what are we missing? Why, why would these 350 some members of Congress not stand up for people who survived pervert members of Congress and release this information? Because what has been happening and this really, I think this really sort of came to light during the me too, the whole me too thing, which was in, what was that, 17 or 18. And, and people were saying, you know, there is this fund that members of Congress can use to pay off and basically pay settlements for people who are accusing them of, you know, terrible things, assaults and harassment and all kinds of things. And what sort of justice is that? First of all? Secondly, why are tax dollars being used for that? And thirdly, why aren't taxpayers and voters allowed to know what these members of Congress are doing? And my, my calculations were that over a period of about 20 years, nearly $20 million was spent this way. Well, after me too, they sort of, you know, tried to make it go away, but clearly there is still an issue.
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Justin Barkley
Well, and you know, when that, when there is no accountability, there will continue to be an issue. That's, that's the problem here. When these people think they can get away, that doesn't matter what it is election fraud or fraud in Minneapolis. In fact, I got some clips coming up here in a little bit. I'm trying get out there of Tim Walls testifying on this yesterday. But with it, when you allow these things to happen, you're going to just get more of it.
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Kyle Olson
Right. And so the vote yesterday, Nancy Mace and Tim Burchett sort of took the lead and they wanted, they they had a, they wanted a floor vote to force all of these files which again they typically, there's, there's non disclosure agreements involved, there's, you know, a lot of secrecy to keep it away from taxpayers. They wanted all of these files from the last 30 years to be made public. And so there was a vote. But, but what happened was there was a, it was sort of fashioned as a procedural vote where actually what they were going to do, and when I say they, I mean the majority that voted to do this, they voted to send it to the Ethics Committee. And so then the Ethics Committee would decide. Well, all this is, is bad actors protecting bad actors. And so the public, taxpayers, voters don't actually get to know what's going on. And so Nancy Mace and Tim Burchett and the others who, who voted to not send it to the committee, but they wanted it to, you know, they wanted these records out there. They were very upset about it, as
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Justin Barkley
you can imagine they would be. Now listen, like I said, there's a lot of politics back and forth. There's a lot of this, particularly when it comes to the folks on the left. But listen, we know what happens both ways, but on the left, they're raking Trump under the coals when it comes to this whole Epstein situation. There's not really that much there to go on when it comes to the dumps. The things that we've learned and seen otherwise. And by the way, we knew this, we knew this the whole time, otherwise they would have used it years ago. I mean, that's obvious logic, but yet they have had no problem really building this whole political strategy around and on the backs of these people who were victims.
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Kyle Olson
Absolutely. And when it comes to these, the allegations in Congress, it knows no party. There's Democrats and Republicans who are scumbags and who treat people like this. And so you know, the people. And so I think Representative Mace and Burchett and the others were saying these, the taxpayers and citizens of America deserve to know who is doing what in Congress and then hold those people accountable. And there was a moment to do that yesterday and unfortunately the vast majority Republicans and Democrats voted against doing that.
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Justin Barkley
And again, as you mentioned, in this case, $17 million. And by the way, that's your money. That's my money. That's being used obviously to, to pay these, these folks off, to make everybody quiet and go away. And it is, it is, it's not a drop in the bucket. It is. At the same time it is, it's horrific to think of. And you Wonder why people vote the way they do on certain things. Well, it's clear, right?
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Kyle Olson
And corporations don't get to operate like this. They have to answer to shareholders. Well, in this case, the taxpayers are the shareholders. And so the Congress for decades has been able to cover this up, you know, abuse people and then pay for it to go away and use our tax dollars to do it.
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Justin Barkley
Kyle Olson is a founder at the Midwesterner, the Midwesterner News. You've done extensive coverage on the national story that was Goshen, the Chinese Communist Party linked battery plant in Michigan where they were trying to put in this. And of course it was another one of these snow jobs. And now you're seeing this kind of transition into, in fact, Goshen is doing the very same thing, trying to, to transition into this data center fight which is happening. People in little Mcosta county in Michigan stood up, fought back against the, not just the Chinese Communist Party, but also the state of Michigan. Lots of folks wanted to push this project through so they could, you know, take their pictures and get their campaign photo ops and cut ribbons and things like that. But those folks stood up and they fought back in an historic way. Right now we're watching a very similar issue happen with data centers. And I just, you know, we don't have a lot of time here, but I just thought maybe I'd open that up for you. Is what you're seeing in fact play out. There've been moratoriums, people starting back and they're sort of saying to themselves, hang on, we gotta wait. These township level folks are saying we gotta do a little more digging on this. Which I think is a really good sign. I know President Trump says we need data centers, we need to win the fight AI against China. We obviously need to take a closer look at these things. But the way that it's happening, as fast as it's happening, I believe there got to be make sure that we're doing the right thing here. And it's, it's an interesting, it's an interesting tightrope to walk. Yeah.
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Kyle Olson
And to me that's, that's the fundamental issue is we've got to make sure we're doing it the right way. And to me, candidly, because one of the problems is that the vast majority of these are not being proposed in industrial areas. They're being proposed on farmland and hundreds of acres of farmland. And then of course, once you've got a massive facility like that in farmland, you're not going to get rid of that. But to me, One of the biggest scandals. So, so if a township wants to have that, then I think that they should, you know, be able to go through that process. Just like what happened with Goshen, the local residents were very clear. They didn't want that. And they didn't want that massive facility that had the potential to, to spy on the Air Force base. They didn't want that to disrupt their rural, you know, environment. They didn't want that. And the local township said, well, we're going to do it anyway. Well, then they threw those people out and in. The residents of Green Charter Township ultimately won. And I think one of the, one of the bad lessons that the Gretchen Whitmer administration took away from that was, well, we know best. And so we're going to take local control away. And so if there is a developer of a solar power plant or a wind farm or, or a data center and they want to put that on that farmland, they can come to Lansing and, and get the people she appointed to approve that. And the local people have no say to me, I mean, that is, that's just a crime. And then of course, there's questions about energy usage. Is it going to force energy rates to go up? What is the water usage like? There's a lot of these questions. And the Whitmer administration has no plan for any of this. It's just a free for all. And what we're seeing is the instances where local residents are standing up, but a lot of times they don't have a lot to stand up on because the Whitmer administration took their local control away.
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Justin Barkley
Kyle Olson, the founder at the Midwestern or the Midwesterner News, bring it up. Because this is not just a Michigan story. This is a story that will impact everyone across the country, folks, as this whole fight continues. And look, we got to make sure we have all the information so we can make our best decisions. That's just how it works. Thank you, my friend. Always a pleasure.
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Kyle Olson
Happy to. Thanks.
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Justin Barkley
You got it. God bless. Pack with more after this. We lost a legend yesterday, folks. We'll remember next on the Glenn Beck program.
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Glenn Beck
Too many people have forgotten that we're not enemies.
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Justin Barkley
We're Americans. Glenn Beck returns in a moment.
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Glenn Beck
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Justin Barkley
Lost a legend yesterday. Lou Holtz, former football coach, but left a legacy much bigger than that, obviously at Notre Dame and so many other schools. Just like any other newspaper, you have front page for people want to read the news. This is Lou doing what's called the newspaper trick when he was speaking with I believe football team down in Texas. You have a comic where people can't read and you have the editorial page for people can't think. But you can't let people tear you up. You can't let people destroy you. You can't let people say you aren't going to be great. Who's tearing up the newspaper? You can't do something. My personal belief. There isn't any obstacle that's going to keep me from being successful. Difficult. You're doggone right. That's why so few people achieve success. Don't let people tear you up. Don't let people people tear you down. Don't let people cause you to lose the faith and confidence you have in yourself. Because if you really have a strong faith and a strong belief, they're reacting because the newspaper is now full. It's called the newspaper trick and he did that numerous times when he spoke. Lou, one of the. One of the greatest. Here he is president. Worn him with the Medal of Freedom. We'll say this about Lou. Everybody loves him, everybody respects him. He's tough as hell. And yet they all respect Lou. They just. It's amazing. They love him and they respect him. Sometimes it's a combination that doesn't come together. You know, they respect. But you are. You are something. I never coach football. I coached life. He said, Ian. It's true. His players really always loved him. Here's what his son had to say. Scab My father passed away today, resting peacefully at home. I appreciate everyone's thoughts and prayers over the last couple of months. He was successful, but more important, he was significant. What a great reminder to go out even though they don't make a like they used to. Right, Lou, Walk in those footsteps. Be significant today. Do something. We all can. God bless you folks. Justin Barkley and for Glenn, today on the Glenn Beck Program, it's always a pleasure, always an honor to be here with you, Justin. Justin barkley.com God.