What ACTUALLY Led to the Alex Pretti ICE Shooting | 1/26/26

Summary

Episode Overview

Podcast: The Glenn Beck Program
Episode Title: What ACTUALLY Led to the Alex Pretti ICE Shooting | 1/26/26
Date: January 26, 2026
Host: Glenn Beck (Blaze Podcast Network)
Main Theme:
This episode explores the accelerating civil unrest in Minnesota, culminating in the controversial ICE-related shooting of protestor Alex Pretti. Glenn Beck analyzes the broader themes of law and order, the dangers of political and social destabilization, and the global financial crises manifesting through gold prices and international debt. The discussion extends from critiques of political leadership and protest tactics, through granular analysis of the Pretti incident, to practical advice for Americans in turbulent times.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Current State of Civil Unrest in America

• Glenn opens with concerns about the breakdown of law and order, especially in Minnesota, tying today’s unrest to a larger pattern he predicted in 2009 (02:00-06:00).

  • He connects current street protests and violence to a coalition of "socialists, communists, Islamists, and anarchists" working to destabilize Western civilization.

• Law and Order Hypocrisy:

  • Beck criticizes Governor Tim Walz's statements about Minnesota's supposed commitment to law and order. He argues it's “proven by what you tolerate and what you punish,” not by “yard signs or press releases.” (07:00-10:40)
  • “Law and order is not a yard sign that you put up...it’s discipline; it’s quiet. Honestly, it should be very boring. It’s relentless, and yeah, sometimes it’s really unpopular.” (Glenn Beck, 08:44)

• Escalation & Vigilantism:

  • Beck recounts reports of protestors/radical groups using databases to stalk and harass individuals they believe to be ICE agents or collaborators, sometimes resulting in vigilante actions (19:00-23:00).
  • He warns this is the “Bubba Effect” in action—a breakdown of trust and the rise of self-styled justice on both left and right.

• Connection to Global Instability:

  • Rising gold prices (over $5,100/ounce) are highlighted as a signal of elite and widespread fear of disorder and distrust in financial systems (44:50-47:00).
  • Beck explains Japan’s and China’s debt crises and their impact on US stability, warning that financial turmoil abroad feeds unrest and uncertainty at home.

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The Legitimacy Crisis and Its Dangers

Blurred Line Between Protest and Insurgency (24:30-36:50)

• Three Facts About the Acceleration:

  1. Growing, Connected Movement: More people now believe society is beyond repair, institutions are illegitimate, chaos is legitimate, and violence is an “accelerant.”
  2. Protest/Insurgency Line Blurring: Protest is protected, but “when any group begins to coordinate to obstruct lawful operations…to intimidate…to justify targeting state actors as morally necessary,” it crosses into insurgency.
  3. Cities as Laboratories: Political polarization, uneven enforcement, activist funding, and media create “stress tests” that probe law enforcement’s limits.

• Dangers of Normalization:

  • “When violence is excused as contextual…when prosecutors calculate politics before justice…the center doesn’t hold.” (Glenn Beck, 15:40)
  • “A movement only needs to convince a small percentage that the system doesn’t deserve obedience. Once that idea spreads, violence starts to sound like a tool, not a taboo.” (31:40)

What Must Be Done

• Uniform Consequences:
  • “No ‘never our side’ exceptions, no moral licensing, no ‘mostly peaceful.’ Uniform consequences for political violence, period.” (37:35)
• Lawful, Restrained, Visible Enforcement:
  • Overreach creates martyrs; weakness creates paramilitaries.
• Radical Transparency:
  • After incidents: body cams, timelines, independent review—“vacuum lightning fast.”
• Expose Funding/Networks:
  • Shine light when money, organization, and street pressure merge into coercion.
• Retabooing Political Violence:
  • “You don’t understand it. You condemn it. You prosecute it. You deny it any cultural permission, period.” (39:30)

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Analyzing the Alex Pretti Shooting (90:00–106:00)

The Incident

• Summary:

  • Alex Pretti, a protester, is in a confrontation with ICE agents at a Minnesota protest. Video shows agents and protestors pushing; Pretti is pepper sprayed, wrestled to the ground, and shot by a federal agent after a gun is discovered in his waistband.
  • Multiple video angles, including BBC’s, clarify that Pretti never drew his firearm, though he was legally carrying (97:00–98:12).

• Key Analysis:

  • "He is resisting arrest, but his hands are down on the ground, his head is down on the ground. Then another agent ... reaches into his back where he sees an exposed gun, pulls it out ... right after that, somebody yells 'gun, gun, gun,' that's when the police officer fires at him." (Glenn Beck, 98:00)
  • Beck notes Pretti had a right to carry, but also acknowledges the police are in a "chaotic situation."
  • “He did not reach for the gun. He did not ... so this idea that ... he was foolish for walking into ... this protest with a gun— well, you have a right to carry it and quite honestly, if I'm walking into places like that and I'm not going to get involved, I probably do carry my gun. If I'm going to get involved, I think of the consequences and think, boy, that’s probably going to get me killed unless I'm planning on killing somebody...” (Glenn Beck, 101:15)
  • Beck sides both with Pretti’s right and the cop’s tragic mistake, emphasizing the dangers of rhetorical escalation and the need to “speak the truth at all times, even if it hurts our side.”

The Media Reaction and Narrative

• Stu, Executive Producer, compares right and left reaction to the Pretti shooting and recent ICE stories:
  • The right attempts case-by-case analysis; the left treats every incident as “Gestapo/Nazis/murder,” regardless of fact. (112:22–116:26)
  • “If somebody is reacting the same way even though the facts are different, but they're reacting the same way, they're telling you something: the facts don't matter. What they’re saying has to be done is the only point.” (Glenn Beck, 115:24)

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Societal & Financial Resilience Advice

Preparing for Unrest and Instability

• Long-term Practical Advice:
  (80:00–88:50, 120:00–124:00)
  • Universal rules: equal justice, personal financial runway, eliminate variable-rate debt, grow skills, strengthen local networks.
  • Age-wise Advice:
    • 15-25: Build portable skills (engineering, trades, medical, logistics).
    • 20-40: Stack skills, avoid being “house poor,” invest in communities.
    • 40+: Reduce big liabilities, transfer skills/knowledge, focus on durable assets.
  • “I am telling you that trouble is coming, and you have to mentally shift into that gear now.” (Glenn Beck, 120:30)

The Bigger Picture of Global Instability

• Global debt (US, Japan, China) and gold spikes are signs that global financial trust is evaporating.
  • “Gold is a barometer of belief. What happened last week at the [World Economic Forum] was a consensus ... that what the West has built no longer is any good, and it won’t work.” (Glenn Beck, 47:46)
  • If sustained unrest hits the US, foreign investment dries up, hurting families—not elites.
  • “Civil disorder does not punish the system. It punishes the family.” (Glenn Beck, 68:49)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On Law and Order

• “Belief is not proven by slogans or words from some leader; it’s proven by what you tolerate and what you punish.” (Glenn Beck, 08:44)
• “It’s not a coup; it’s a shrug. Most people don’t pay attention.” (Glenn Beck, 16:30)

On the Danger of Excusing Violence

• “You don’t understand [political violence] into a safer country. You don’t—you condemn it, you prosecute it, you deny it any cultural permission, period.” (Glenn Beck, 39:30)

On the Need for Even-Handedness

• “If you don’t prosecute both Republicans and Democrats ... with the same laws, nobody’s going to believe in anything.” (Glenn Beck, 17:45)

On Protest and Political Violence

• “Once a movement believes it can control outcomes by making enforcement too costly, too dangerous, too politically radioactive, then law becomes optional. And when the law is optional, what is the next step? It’s escalation.” (Glenn Beck, 34:20)

On the Alex Pretti Shooting

• “He did not reach for the gun ... he did not ... so this idea that ... he was foolish for walking into ... this protest with a gun—well, you have a right to carry it ... [But] that's why this didn't happen with Martin Luther King protests. Because they didn't create this situation.” (Glenn Beck, 101:15–102:10)

On How to Respond to Civil Unrest

• “[Our] administration has got to be surgical in its language. ... You have to guard your credibility at all costs. You have to be telling the truth.” (Glenn Beck to Stu, 117:40)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Civil Unrest & Minnesota Law and Order: 01:42–19:00
• Accelerationalism & Coordination Among Protestors: 24:13–37:00
• How Civil Unrest Connects to Global Financial Instability: 44:50–67:31
• Practical Resilience Advice: 80:18–88:50, 120:00–124:00
• The Alex Pretti Shooting Analysis: 88:50–106:00
• Media & Narrative Comparison (with Stu): 112:22–119:00

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Conclusion

Throughout the episode, Glenn Beck ties street-level unrest in Minnesota to deeper structural problems in law enforcement, political leadership, and global finance. The Alex Pretti shooting serves as a flashpoint for discussing everything from protester rights and police accountability to the importance of resisting political violence from any side. Beck insists on nuance, credibility, and even application of the law—and warns that if these are lost to partisanship and chaos, America's days as a stable country may be numbered.

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Further Listening

• For Glenn Beck’s detailed analysis of accelerationalism and financial collapse, check out his Chalkboard Specials at glennbeck.com/torch.
• Key segment: The Alex Pretti shooting discussion (88:50–106:00) for full breakdown and contrasting perspectives.

Transcript

[Glenn Beck]

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[Producer/Announcer]

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[Glenn Beck]

The fusion of entertainment enlightenment and empowerment this is the glenn beck program hello america it's monday i've got a lot to talk to you about today i'm going to talk to you first about celerization it is it is something that is happening that is the part of the chalkboard i laid out in two thousand nine where i said you know the socialists and the communists and the you know islamists and the anarchists will all work together to destabilize to overthrow the middle east europe and the western world here in america we are now in the last phase of that we're all seeing that they are working together and thank god there are many people like data republican and our own administration that are looking for all of the connections and are tying things together so you understand what is really happening but we're in the final phase of this and if we don't if we don't behave if we don't get our side right it could spell real real trouble in america i don't know how you go back from here if we make critical errors at this point so far so good but we have to be very very careful also gold hit not five thousand dollars an ounce five thousand one hundred dollars an ounce on friday five thousand one hundred dollars that's not good i've been saying forever you don't want to see the world and how much chaos it is going to be in at five thousand dollars an ounce well we're here and look at the chaos they're now saying that it is going to go up to seven thousand dollars an ounce i want to explain why this is happening because it is it is about what people believe but i also believe if you watched our special on capital controls on the torch at glenn beck dot com which it's free this week if you watch that this is the beginning of capital controls this is the first sign that smart money big money like people my grandparents used to talk about you know if we just knew what the rich people knew back in the depression maybe we wouldn't have been so badly off this is the first sign they know something you don't know so let me tell you what they know coming up but we're going to start in minnesota in sixty seconds first let me tell you about relief factor i want to tell you about brian he lives in alabama he says after taking relief factor just three weeks ninety percent of my pain is gone my pain started to limit me at work and then at home and i am amazed at what it has done and the relief that i've gotten i can tell you that brian's story is similar to my own and so many other people that write in and talk to us about it the the amazement part really is everything we all have in common i can't believe this actually worked when i first tried relief factor i didn't expect it to do anything at all but you can bet i was incredibly surprised when it not only helped but basically helped me get my life back and it could help you too it's created by doctors relief factor is one hundred percent drug free product using four key ingredients that support the body's natural 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tired but we're resolved we're peaceful but we'll never forget we're angry but we won't give up on hope and above all we're clearly unified i wonder about that one i wonder about that one i mean i think people who are not thinking are unified but this is a time for all americans these are the times that try men souls he said we believe in law and order in this state you know what that one that kind of stuck to me you know minnesota believes in law and order i want to believe that i really do because americans want to believe that about themselves i want to believe i believe in law and order but it's hard sometimes but belief is not proven by slogans or words from some leader it's proven by what you tolerate and what you punish law and order is not a yard sign that you put up it's not a press release okay after something's burned down you don't say we don't believe in burning cities down unless you've arrested those people law and order is discipline it's quiet honestly it should be very boring it's relentless and yeah sometimes it's really unpopular so governor walsh can i just talk about the record here for a second because that one really stuck stuck out minnesotans believe in in law and order you just live through what prosecutors and investigators themselves have called the largest fraud scheme in american history hundreds of millions siphoned through daycare programs meant for the poor children used as cover taxpayers robbed blind seven hundred million dollars just going through the airport to somalia can i ask you if you believe in law and order how many people at the state level how many people has your attorney general prosecuted and arrested how many how many because that doesn't seem like law and order it seems like you are trying to not let people investigate that okay the way you're behaving is not law and order it's permission now let's rewind a few years ago police precincts overrun entire neighborhoods burned small businesses erased in a single night and what did you and the leadership say in effect stand down de escalate understand the anger and release those anybody who was you know caught we have to be we have to become really really clear on a few things anger is not a defense in a republic arson is not speech a society that believes in law and order doesn't hesitate to defend the innocent because it's afraid of the headlines now fast forward today activists coordinating wait till you see the news we'll show you in just a few minutes actually coordinating to mark and track down federal agents shadow networks warning of enforcement actions or open calls to stop the federal government by force if necessary in fact let me just play that here real quick let me see if i can find it let's just play here here's an antifa recruiter cut to please my name is kyle i'm antifa and there's so much rage in me that i've had to record this like fifteen times trying to get the message out they up okay go watch my other videos doesn't matter if you're not here and you're not caught up you missed the fight but if you are it's time to suit up boots on the ground show up ready to go okay no not talking about peaceful protests anymore we're not talking about having polite conversations anymore i am talking specifically to my followers this is everything i have talked about and this is exactly what i said was going to happen this is not a joke there's nothing fun to chant about it get your guns and stop these people is that law and order notice what he started with i am so enraged when you're enraged you're not making good decisions you're not you're just not i know because those are the things i usually have to go back and apologize for those are the things when i get really really pissed off those are the things that my wife usually says to me i wouldn't say that right now i wouldn't do that right now i would relax i would you should pop and i don't do it and i get in trouble every single time you don't make good decisions when you're enraged okay now again the message from the top is is not the law will be enforced it's the it's this it's the problem is the enforcement well that's an inversion of everything we know because law and order is not about whether you like the law it's about whether a law whether or not the law applies even when you don't like it so here's the hard truth minnesota does not have a law and order problem because the people hate order minnesota has a law and order problem because its leadership has taught a generation that law is optional if your cause feels righteous enough and that's why it's becoming deadly and history is very clear on this point we're not the first ones to go through this can somebody for the love of pete i shouldn't say these things when i get angry can somebody please read a history book just pick one up any place any place when violence is excused as contextual when enforcement is treated as provocation when prosecutors calculate politics before justice the center doesn't hold okay it just doesn't you don't get peace you get you get what we have in minnesota you get escalation because once a group learns that pressure works that intimidation stalls the state another group is going to learn it too and then another and another you know what do you want minnesota what do you want the federal government to do what do you want them to do we want them to leave you think they're going to leave do you think they're going to leave let's just talk about this rationally do you think they're going to leave if you are having uprisings in the street no they can't leave why well does anybody remember nineteen eighty two beirut there were two terrorist bombings reagan's like we got to pull out everybody else was like no don't don't pull out he lasted a couple of years but eventually pulled the marines out because they were killing they were just kept hitting us with terrorists so he's like you know what we just don't need to be there anymore pulls him out who does that teach a very important lesson osama bin laden osama bin laden saw that and went oh we can push around the federal government so he's not going to leave and you know he's not going to leave so what's your plan what is your plan your plan is more chaos well this is how republics rot and they really rot when people shrug okay it's not a coup it's a shrug most people like i don't know i didn't pay attention let me be absolutely clear here you have a right to protest and i will stand up even if i despise the things you say even if you are you are picketing ice and you are shouting slogans at ice and you're demanding that the government respond to x y and z all of those things are your right and i'm one hundred percent behind you one hundred percent may not agree with you in fact may really disagree with you this is not about crushing dissent it's not about silencing protest this is not about blind loyalty to authority wait until you hear me talk about the shooting today but this is something far more fragile this is talking about legitimacy because law only works when people believe that it's real when it's real for the powerful real for the connected real for the activist real for the bureaucrat real for the federal agent real for the protester and real for the governor one standard the moment americans believe that justice depends on ideology the argument's already lost the street takes over so what does that tell you america what does that tell you pam bondi i'm not i'm not against pam bondi i'm not against i'm not against any of it i'm for law and order because i understand how valuable it is if you don't prosecute both republicans and and democrats and hell i'll just throw them in independence if you don't process and prosecute everybody with the same laws nobody's going to believe in anything and then you have nothing left the center doesn't hold so no minnesota you don't get away with saying that you believe in law and order while fraud is largely unpunished and you're not doing anything about riots are rebranded as a peaceful moment and enforcement is treated like the real crime belief without action is theater law and order is not proven by words or you know the words that are spoken after chaos it's proven by what you do before chaos and what you refuse to excuse after the chaos the good news is we haven't crossed the rubicon yet but we're close you know only if leaders remember somehow what we used to know instinctively will we survive a republic survives not because everybody agrees but because the law applies even when we don't agree that's not authoritarianism that's called civilization and if we forget that minnesota will not be the exception it will be the warning and hear me we're not talking about the republic we are talking about civilization now i'm going to show you next we've taken another step to cross the rubicon we're not there yet but we are close to that bridge and let me explain that 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[Stu (Executive Producer)]

For over an hour we were not.

[Glenn Beck]

Nice we're just letting them know in.

[Stu (Executive Producer)]

There and they not in a nice.

[Glenn Beck]

Vehicle right no right right get in your truck because you need to go confirmed ice confirmed ice through who we're american citizens we're not ice look at these people so they're all they're all surrounding these people because they've been following.

[Stu (Executive Producer)]

Us this for over an hour even know they were following us been following.

[Glenn Beck]

You where do you live where are you from so i don't need to play any more of this listen this is this is a woman who has gotten her name on a database somebody's gotten her truck they said that it was ice they're not ice they're not ice and they were followed for an hour and when they stopped did you see the number of people that were there just to pull out and surround their truck do you think that's law and order is that law and order or is that vigilante justice this is the stuff we used to watch when i was a kid we'd watch gun smoke and we'd see these vigilantes come to town and they were going to right some wrong and law and order had to correct that you don't want people who are vigilantes i would be saying this and i've warned about the bubba effect for a long time you don't want this as a bubba effect you certainly don't want this from any side where everybody is just coming together and they've got their own rules and their own information you can't trust any of this information and they're surrounding you this is not the only one that has had this happen to them people are having these people show up at their homes do we have the video yet of the the hotel that was closed down somebody reported that ice was staying at this hotel in downtown minnesota they trashed the place they went in trash there were no ice there none none where were the police where were the police you can trash a hotel and nobody's being held accountable for it why not because the state has decided not the people the state has decided we are not for law and order we are actually forget them because chaos and violence is now a rule it's now something that you can use and you can claim that it is right and righteous to use it this is something that is a new step and we've been waiting for it and warning you about it and i've got a chalkboard on accelerationalism it is a warning step and i believe the last step before you step onto the bridge called the rubicon that every american needs to take a deep breath and listen we'll do that next all right let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour it's rush tax tax problems don't always show up as letters in the mail sometimes they show up at a door slamming shut you know right when you need it open that's what happened to mister r he's a world renowned portraitist and he found the irs had frozen his passport over unpaid individual taxes problem was his work required international travel and he had you know critical commitments coming in he just couldn't cancel or delay and by the time he called rush tax the stakes were really high and the timeline was really tight within thirty days first thing happened they got a passport freeze lifted negotiated a complete resolution of five hundred thousand dollars tax liability settling it for over twenty thousand dollars over time okay if you have a real problem go to rush taxresolution dot com russ rushtaxresolution dot com eight seven seven five five four rush eight seven seven five five four rush call them now if you really have a problem with taxes these are the guys that can help you solve it rush tax resolution dot com.

[Stu (Executive Producer)]

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[Producer/Announcer]

Yeah we're talking about the first amendment number one the founders wrote it down so freedom wouldn't come undone it's not just history it's something that we use.

[Glenn Beck]

This is something new coming to glennbeck dot com and the torch how to learn the amendments of the constitution but listen to this this is five in the first let's just minnesota hear this freedom of religion.

[Producer/Announcer]

I can choose what i believe say my thoughts honestly print the truth let it flow meet in peace let them know and petition yeah we get to disagree ask the government to change things that democracy that's five in the first five in the first.

[Glenn Beck]

So you notice those five doesn't mean be rude so this is the thing that minnesota doesn't get i'm for you protesting as long as it's actually peaceful not mostly peaceful actually peaceful i implore you questioning the government these are all your rights and i'll fight to the death for your right to do it but when you are targeting people when you are actually well let me let me look i've been warning about several things for a very long time one of them is the bubba effect that i think will affect the the right more than the left and you're starting to see pieces of it but you're also seeing something different happening on the right that is just as dangerous and could spell the end of not just the republic civilization okay things have begun to accelerate so let me give you three facts here that are absolutely true one fact number one there is a group of people and it is growing larger and larger and it is very well connected that believes society is corrupt and beyond repair two that institutions are illegitimate three that chaos is a legitimate tool and four violence is an accelerant okay there's been a group of people ever since i put up on the chalkboard that socialists and communists and anarchists and islamists will work together back in two thousand nine they've always believed those things but now you're starting to see a couple of things one they're starting to come out but they're coming out in droves and this is where the change is they are now more connected than ever and you can follow the connections i mean i don't know if did i show earlier the the the signal group i mean this cam higby released this over the weekend and he said i have infiltrated organizational signal groups all around minneapolis with the sole intention of tracking down federal agents and impeding assaulting and obstructing them each area of the city has a signal or several signals let's start with the screen recording of all members in the south side group so he's revealing how these groups are all together and they're all connected and they're coordinating to make sure they're obstructing or or harassing or impeding the federal government that is their sole intention so they've now connected in a very organized fashion so that leads me to fact number two fact number one is there's a group that believes these things and they are now connected more than ever before fact number two the line between protest and insurgent behavior is now blurred and this is where it becomes extraordinarily dangerous okay because society has a line and we are crossing that line so all of this stuff now is happening in real time and for a long time america treated you know political violence like a weather event you know it was rare it was localized it was tragic and then it was over but law enforcement and researchers have been warning for years about the mindset that is different from normal extremism it's not just i want my side to win it's i want the system to break and it has that set of recognizable logic points society is corrupt and beyond repair institutions are illegitimate chaos is a tool violence is an accelerant that's not theory that's an observable ideological pattern across multiple movements and decades and the key change is it's now more connected than it used to be not necessarily more disciplined not necessarily bigger in raw numbers more connected more quickly mobilized more capable of spreading tactics targets and narratives and and that changes the entire risk profile for the republic second fact protest and insurgent behavior being tested protest now is it's a protected right and should always be even really loud protest even the most offensive protests even protest that makes you absolutely furious it is protected in america but there is that line that every stable society has to defend or it is no longer stable and that line is being crossed when any group begins to coordinate to obstruct lawful operations as strategy not an accident when they begin to track or identify government personnel for intimidation when they build parallel communication networks specifically designed to evade accountability and when they justify targeting state actors as morally necessary these are not theoretical markers these are not just part of some group these are historically recognizable markers of an end of a civilization when the behavior behaviors appear to question no longer is this a demonstration the question becomes is someone trying to build veto power over law enforcement through fear that's how we describe terrorism once a believe once a movement believes it can control outcomes by making enforcement too costly too dangerous too politically radioactive then law becomes optional and when the law is optional what is the next step it's not persuasion it's escalation third fact cities are now laboratories when enforcement is inconsistent this is the part that's really hard to say out loud because it sounds like an insult to the city but it isn't it's sociology when you have an environment with deep political polarization a high distrust of institutions uneven persecution or prosecution sorry activist ecosystems with strong ngo infrastructure and money coming from the state and a constant media feedback loop those conditions don't automatically produce violence but they do produce something else they produce a repeated stress test not one riot not one clash but a series of them and they start to probe how fast can we mobilize what are police allowed to do will any of the prosecutors follow through will federal authorities pull back if we make it ugly enough can we create martyrs remember their name remember their name can we flood the zone with a narrative before the facts catch up to us this is what laboratory means not that everybody is guilty but that the environment is ideal for testing the boundaries of the state and the state has no choice it can respond you know a couple of ways overreach which manufactures recruits for the other side or paralysis which manufactures militia militias then you have a recipe for replication you're watching a legitimacy war this is not a street conflict this is a legitimacy war most people misread this as left and right the deeper problem is this when a large number of americans across different tribes believe enforcement is political courts are selective bureaucratic power is unaccountable rules change depending on who you are then extremists don't have to convert the nation they only need to convince a small percentage that the system doesn't deserve obedience all those things i just said i know people and many of them i believe once this idea spreads violence start to sound like a tool and not a taboo now here's where we cross the rubicon if any of this becomes normalized when people start let me ask you this this weekend how many how many people how many conversations when you were with people how many conversations discussed anything seriously about what we're facing did anyone's church talk about this as the end of civilization or warning signs or how we're to behave at this point did any church did anything because my weekend didn't include any of that and i saw people all weekend long i had quick conversations but most people were like yeah i'm not following it i'm just so tired of it that you're done you're done as a nation you're done not an instant civil war but something quite honestly quieter and more corrosive because intimidation now can become routine doxing becomes standard threats become organizing tools violence becomes understandable and every incident gets absorbed into the propaganda engine before the facts are ever known this is how countries fracture and die not in one dramatic way but in a slow permission slip so what do we do we're in the most dangerous phase the early phase and history is really blunt here the this is the phase that destroys republics it's not when violence is everywhere it's this phase when violence is still sporadic but it is being justified justified it's being romanticized it's being excused and it's being operationalized that's when recruitment grows that's when copycats appear that's when people stop trusting investigations that's when each side begins preparing for the worst and and preparation itself becomes self fulfilling so if we want to stop this if we want to avoid the slow fracture there have to be things that are not negotiable one uniform consequences for political violence not never our side exceptions no moral licensing no mostly peaceful no if you're trying to terrorize a community into compliance if you're burning buildings down if you are shouting and intimidating no that's not that's not a peaceful protest that's not what that is lawful restrained visible enforcement listen to this again lawful restrained enforcement precision matters because overreach creates martyrs weakness creates paramilitaries the state has to be both firm and disciplined this is a really razor's edge knife that our federal government is on almost i mean this is i'm going to get into the i'm going to get into the shooting this weekend you're putting them in impossible situations we need radical transparency after any serious incident we need body cams timelines independent review and we need them vacuum lightning fast because legitimate legitimacy doesn't survive in an information vacuum because there is no vacuum anymore nature hates a vacuum and so does china and they are filling it up we also need sunlight on funding and coordination of networks not to criminalize you as a civic group america needs civic groups but to expose when money and organization and street pressure merge into something coercive if you are funding this your name should be known and you should be questioned by the federal government also a new national re tabooing of political violence you know the fastest way a country loses itself when citizens start saying well i don't like it but i understand it no you don't understand you never should understand political violence you don't you don't understand it into a safer country you don't you condemn it you prosecute it you deny it any cultural permission period we're not doomed but we are right there on the rubicon we are at the threshold moment where a minority of people are trying to normalize the idea that power can be taken or blocked through fear and if that threshold is crossed you don't get freedom you get factional control you get selective enforcement you get vendettas you get a country where the quiet decent people withdraw from public life because it's too dangerous to speak that's not america's future unless we continue to allow it and the way to prevent it is not with rage it's not with denial it's with one standard applied evenly to everyone in the daylight because the only thing stronger than an angry street is a public that actually understands and believes the law is real more in a 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[Stu (Executive Producer)]

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[Glenn Beck]

So i guess the nation is debating whether or not you can bring a gun to a protest i don't know what the debate is the answer is yes now you might debate whether that's a smart idea or not that's different but yeah you have a right to carry a gun to protest but i want to talk about that and gold next you know a lot of back discomfort comes from one big movement and it comes from repetition sitting too long standing too long moving the same way every day and over time that tension just settles in and starts to feel normal even though it shouldn't what chirp does is go straight to the source of that tension their wheel style back rollers are designed to target the muscles that run along your spine the ones that really get tight and overworked and become stiff from daily life you lie back roll slowly and you let those muscles finally start to release it's so satisfying the design is smart and intentional there's a groove down the center so you're never putting pressure on your own spine itself just the muscle on either side and with the multiple wheel sizes you can control how deep the stretch goes whether you want it something gentle or more tar simple tool but it addresses the problems a lot of people have been living with for a lot of years if that's you please go to gocherp dot com beck that's go chirp dot com beck check out my picks for back pain relief go chirp dot com.

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[Glenn Beck]

The fusion of entertainment enlightenment and empowerment this is the glenn beck program hello america welcome to the glenn beck program you know i've been saying look out for gold when it hits five thousand dollars an ounce you don't want to know what the chaos is like well we're here it's pretty chaotic world i think we can all agree gold yes last week friday hit five thousand one hundred ten dollars an ounce excuse me wow that's a that's kind of a big gain five thousand one hundred ten dollars an ounce they are now saying it's going to be up to at seven thousand dollars an ounce why why is this happening well it's very important that you understand this because everything that you're seeing in the news look my my job is to not tell you what happened yesterday my job is to explain why what happened yesterday matters and what it means to tomorrow so you're prepared okay you want to know what happened yesterday go you know go find some other show this is why is this so important and how does this affect tomorrow and i'm going to show that to you in just sixty seconds first you know your phone is one of the few things you rely on every day all day long you know it calls it texts it maps you know work family all run through one device and that one device and most people never stop to think about the company behind it that one device is your connection to everything but what you don't realize is that most of the big mobile companies use your money to support causes and agendas that you probably don't agree with you're paying the bill your service works and your dollar is just going to places that you would never choose for your dollar to go to patriot mobile exists to change that they offer nationwide coverage on the same major networks that you're all already using but they operate with a clear set of values that align with their customers let me tell you something why we already give enough taxpayer money to these ngo's why would you spend a dollar with one of these big mobile phone companies that are doing the same thing and propping up all these things you disagree with go to the only christian conservative mobile phone company i think in the world but definitely here in america it's patriotmobile dot com beck that's patriotmobile dot com nine hundred and seventy two patriot nine hundred and seventy two patriot use the promo code beck get a free month of service well let me first quickly say hi to stu our executive producer has been an executive producer of mine for how many years stu how many twenty eight.

[Stu (Executive Producer)]

Big ones glenn twenty can't hear you.

[Glenn Beck]

Well that's that's a dream come true it's not coming through i can't hear him i can't hear him does america hear him because i can't hear him.

[Stu (Executive Producer)]

America always hears me gosh darn it.

[Glenn Beck]

I can't hear you oh well gonna have to move on anyway we'll be back with stu i really honestly i can't hear him so make sure you check the feed but we'll have it's unfortunate stu it's almost like that was planned but it wasn't strangely enough god is intervening we're gonna talk to a little later on in the program and it's his last week on the program so we're gonna be celebrating some of that as well not that it's his last week celebrates stuff that well a little of both i guess anyway let me get to gold gold five thousand one hundred dollars an ounce okay why is this happening well the first thing that you need to understand is gold is a barometer gold is a barometer of belief and what happened last week what was the consensus that came out of the world economic forum for the entire world to see i want you to think of this like a guy who has billions of dollars that you could invest because to stay safe to stay ahead of the game you have to think like that and then act in your own world and if i have time today otherwise i'll do it tomorrow i'm going to show you how you how you interpret this and how you can act at all levels okay but you have to think like a billionaire and the billionaires are moving money okay why are they moving money what what happened last week what happened last week was at the wef the wef openly came out and said the old system doesn't work and it's failing so it was a consensus around the world that what the west has built no longer is any good and it won't work gotta find a way out that's what all smart money all all central banks the entire world that's paying attention that is the message that they heard last week at the wf okay now let me layer on a couple of other things that you probably don't know we are headed towards a tripwire and it's a race to the finish line so let me give you the first tripwire and that is japan japan is imagine an old man on a treadmill okay this old japanese man on a treadmill it was supposed to be temporary him on this treadmill but it turned into a life support machine and now he's got to keep running if he's not running everything dies okay for forty years japan has been like that little guy on the treadmill told you got to keep moving you can't stop just stay stay because if you stop it means recession so what's wrong with recession ah here's the part that nobody's ever really told you americans don't realize if he stops it's bad if he speeds up it's bad and not bad for japan but us here's why japan's government has piled up so much debt that even normal interest costs become dangerous that's why japan has spent decades now making money too easy at home okay zero percent at some point they were in negative interest rates okay please take the money we'll pay you to take the money interest rates if if borrowing ever gets expensive the bill will swallow the budget in japan and here and the world has gotten used to a place where japan was the place to go borrow cheap money now here's where the story becomes our problem japan is not just a country japan is a country we've kept alive for a couple of reasons one of them is they are a gigantic buyer of american ious you'll hear them talked about as bonds okay but they're ious we're like hey we want to we want to build this train to nowhere we're going to we're only going to build a mile's worth of track and we're going to be four billion dollars over budget but we're telling you up front it's not going anywhere we need the four billion dollars okay and japan because they needed us japan would go we'll buy that we'll buy that they now hold about one point two trillion dollars in treasuries they're the largest foreign holder it's not china thank god it's japan and that matters because their purchasing helps keep our borrowing costs from rising even faster but the treadmill is starting to wobble in late twenty twenty five into this month twenty twenty six japan's long bond yields have surged japan's forty year government bond yield moved above four percent since the first time that the bonds existed what does that mean that means if you borrowed money from japan you are you are now or if let's say if you yeah if you want to borrow money from japan it now is going to cost you four percent it used to be zero this means the market doesn't want to play pretend anymore with japan okay they're not satisfied with that and when japan's yields rise the temptation begins i can get four percent in japan if i buy a bond why would i why would i lend to america when i can lend to japan for more so the money that used to flow outward can come home now let me explain tripwire without all the wall street language for years people borrowed in yen because it was cheap so what did they do because it was zero percent interest or negative percent interest you would go over and you'd say i want a borrow a billion dollars and people would borrow a billion dollars a billion yen and they would they would buy it and they'd get it sometimes they were making money on borrowing it but at least it was zero and they would trade that those yen into us dollars and then they would buy things that paid more so the stock market or a us bond or whatever okay this is called the yen carry trade here's what you need to know about it it doesn't work okay it's so unbelievably immoral it's just frightening so what they were doing was they're buying a bunch of cheap yen printed over in japan they would then take that yen which they sometimes again were making money on borrowing think of goldman sachs going over a big bank going over and saying i want a billion yen and we're gonna we're gonna take that billion yen we're gonna get out of that you know half a billion dollars and we're gonna take that half a billion dollars and we're gonn street we're making money from japan because they're giving us one percent on borrowing that they're giving us an additional one percent every year for holding that those yen and hold and taking that loan out from them and then we go to wall street we make six or eight or ten percent so we're making eleven percent this is this is great we win unless things change if the yen suddenly swings the other way if it strengthens the borrowers panic okay and they rush to undo the trade why why because that money's not free and when you rush to undo it you sell the things you bought with dollars and you get back into the yen that pushes us markets around that pushes us interest rates up that turns a problem over there into a problem over here so japan is trapped and the trap has a wire running across the pacific tied to the exact same global system america sits inside so that's the first reason why gold is screaming it's saying wait wait wait what's happening with japan japan can't move and japan's gonna have to move but they can't move now there's another side of this from japan go across the go across the sea and you go to china china is much much worse okay much much worse 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built at speed and the speed of desperation and the foundation of all of it is just borrowing and crazy borrowing the simplest hard fact that can explain china is china's total borrowing government plus households plus companies has gotten enormous relative to the size of its economy one estimate we only can work on estimates because you can't trust what china says one estimate reputable says china's overall debt to gdp is around two hundred ninety percent by the end of twenty twenty four and what what is secret and nobody talks about is the local government hidden debt okay also the data shows china's credit to the private non financial sector about two hundred percent of gdp okay but that's not the real story the numbers not the story it's the structure listen how crazy china has done this okay china has two big pressure chambers one property as the national savings account for years apartments weren't just homes they were the main store of wealth so the system kept building and building and building and telling people buy these apartments and we'll take the money but you can't have the apartment until you totally pay for it and you know you'll pay for it in twenty five years then you'll get the apartment apartments already built okay but nobody's living in them because everybody's buying them and you don't get it until you pay it off right the local governments were the ones doing all of this they were borrowing money through side doors so china has got its own debt then china pressured the local governments because they needed money for these projects and growth targets so they just went and created these quote special vehicles off to the side that's not as visible as the normal government debt the imf just said their off the side debt is about forty six percent of their gdp and that's the end of twenty twenty three so when property sales fall local governments are losing a key revenue source what do they do when they lose that so they lose this this key revenue revenue source and their ability to pay for things weakens and safe investment products start to look i don't know less safe so china is so close to the edge because not only is their federal government way overloaded but their consumers have bought all this stuff that may have been sold two or three times and they don't actually own it and the money to pay for all of the building of these ghost cities is on the locals and just the local debt is forty six percent of gdp okay margin of error here is so thin and the moment just like anything else remember gold is a barometer and what is it a barometer of trust the moment that public belief the moment ordinary people in china believe the guarantees are not guarantees the danger isn't math the danger is a rush for the exits on everybody see the video it's free yet this week on glenn beck dot com for the torch see the educational video i did capital controls i'm telling you these things now because no one else will everybody was asking me last week what does it mean what does it mean what does it mean i'll tell you what it means it's much more complicated than you know just like well things are getting crazy this is things are getting crazy and people who have money know it china's leaders they have tools they have controls they have state banks they have directed rescues those can slow down the crash but they've already done most of those but they also confirmed the problem you don't need emergency tools unless something is breaking and when the world senses that china's growth engine is no longer a growth engine when it becomes a debt engine what are we gonna do without china united states we're the only ones growing do you understand that when donald trump said we're the only ones that's what he meant by that everybody in that room understood china is china is on the verge but the united states is on the verge because of japan so where do you go well you go to the thing that is older than promises and that is gold or silver and that's what's happening to gold that's what's happening to gold but i'm not done yet let me give you some good news gold rises not because people are greedy but because people they get sober they sober up so what's happening with gold is people are sobering up all right this is the sound of people buying fire insurance in a neighborhood where everybody smells smoke and everybody's house is on fire and so they're buying fire insurance okay the world's drowning in debt not just america the global debt by the way is two hundred fifty one trillion dollars that means the entire system is just going to melt down and so you can't cut rates without consequences you can't stimulate because of currency weaknesses so who's buying it first of all the central the central banks are buying it by the ton and people who know are buying it because they know something really bad is around the corner but we're the safest house in the burning neighborhood remember every house is on fire but we're not the worst house we're still the safest house not because we're perfect not because we got it down but because everybody else including china europe is worse china europe japan everybody has these deep vulnerabilities and we're sitting here worried about the guy on the treadmill in japan everybody else they're worried about the fire that is burning their whole house down so what does this have to do with minnesota i'll tell you next so new research is confirming something deeply heartbreaking millions of american women carry lasting emotional pain after an abortion lingering regret that often goes unseen and unaddressed and they don't want to talk about it the people at preborn see this reality close up every day this is why i love working with preborn because it's not just about saving the baby they recognize mom is in deep trouble herself emotionally they work inside clinics where women are not just making the medical decision they're facing fear and pressure and 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[Stu (Executive Producer)]

It'S your last week to get free content from the torch get it now at glenn beck dot com.

[Glenn Beck]

So i'm going down this chalkboard here in the studio today which is honestly one of the reasons why i started the torch and started this new work ethic for me and my staff is we would sometimes have to wait until wednesday and prepare a whole show etc etc until we got there and so i wasn't giving you the information sometimes i felt like i wasn't giving you the information in a timely matter i was waiting sometimes three weeks before i could get it to you in a television form and i didn't i don't like that wait and so now like every day i mean practically every day just this is my second chalkboard of the day i can explain things to you when they're happening and and i've made this change because things are happening more rapidly than they have before and everything matters and they are connected i'm going to show you how gold is connected also to what you're seeing in minnesota here in a second but you know i have five things six things on this chalkboard japan explain it it's a treadmill and it's this crazy treadmill and they can't get off it they can't speed up and they can't slow down china is a house of mirrors gold is insurance we're the safest house on the block but that changes with number five civil unrest okay what we're seeing on the on in minnesota is so incredibly dangerous if this spreads let me first remind you that our doj fbi cisa all of these things have been issuing public warnings for a few years now saying look disinformation disinformation we know we have the videos of these giant server farms where they all have iphones plugged into them and i mean there are thousands tens of thousands of phones and these bots are just sending out you know posts and reposting and reposting from the other bot and everything else and you're not getting the truth anymore you think you're getting something real but you're not the algorithms are all being affected because china and russia are two biggest enemies and iran are all they have these giant farms where they are pushing fake social media out and what are they doing why would china benefit from chaos here in america how does that possibly benefit them well what is our greatest strength a lot of people will say our weapon systems but it's not it's not our greatest strength as a country comes from certain rules of law the law of contracts the law of property that we are stable that we're generally a well educated i can't know if i can say this one anymore but well educated group of people and that we're hard workers if america fractures into constant street conflict or a national divorce what happens what happens what is donald trump been doing for the last twelve months and he's been bragging about it and people don't seem to care because i don't think they understand what this means but he's been saying i've got eighteen trillion dollars of investment coming in eighteen trillion dollars never been done before you're right never been done before not even close never been done before but what does that actually mean that means that foreign companies are investing in america they're building factories here in america now why would they do that they do that for a couple of reasons one the tariffs i'm going to make it so expensive you're not going to be able to sell a truck in the united states build them in the united states and i'll help you out there's one reason the other reason is every other market is collapsing and so they're looking for something stable something where nobody's going to come and grab their company nobody's going to put new rules on them and make them go out of business they're looking for something that has constitutional order and is stable so it's worth their while to do two things one make sure that the biggest market or now second biggest market in the world is still buying our products without tariffs and let's hedge our bet that some of the places we do business in for instance even germany japan it may not work and we we may have to be we may have to be offshore someplace that is stable so we don't lose everything okay if america fractures that investment is no longer good that investment from all over the globe is bad they take that money and they're like i'm not investing there because you can't trust that that thing's about to collapse what happens credit tightens insurance costs explode retirement accounts get hammered and the people who suffer first are not the powerful they're the ordinary ones civil disorder does not punish the system it punishes the family and i want you to hear this clearly i don't care if it was the left or the right that is doing what the left is now doing in minnesota there are no winners in this path i'd be giving this exact same monologue if it was a bunch of quote unquote patriots that were doing it no you're not america loses every american loses and some will lose everything and china and russia and everybody else will watch and they will smile why because all of that money all of that business will have to find some other place to invest it will have to go some other place where do you think it's going to go it's going to go to china that's why china is pushing civil unrest okay half of what you see is is manufactured and it's either manufactured online or it's manufactured as the these these these riots this is not spontaneous this is all a show it's planned and it's paid for largely in part by china so we are on this really dangerous ice cliff and that's why gold is at five thousand one hundred dollars because this thing could crumble at any time now what are you going to do about it what are you going to do about it i mean how do you possibly weather a storm like that well there's a few things and i want to get into this i'll get into it briefly and if i don't have time to finish it up i'll i'll hit on it tomorrow but universal rules for everybody that's why i've been saying we got to have equal justice under law equal justice universal rules for everybody the rich and the poor you also need to build a runway and you know they always say have thirty days of cash that's a lot for most people you're going to be able to cover all your bills for thirty days i'm saying you got to have a runway of cash you know some kind of money that will cover not you know the the fantasy life the fantasy budget but the stuff that is crucial that you have just crucial and it should be for months not weeks kill right now any kind of fragile debt variable rate consumer debt if you can get out of it if you can consolidate it into a lower get out of it right now okay don't rely on constant credit if there is any other option cut cut cut assume that lenders are going to tighten exactly when you need them so you got a credit card you can count on you may not be able to count on it soon then you also have to have the practical resilience you need to focus on your skills what skill do you i i hang i hung some lights this weekend in my house and my wife was like what are you doing you're going to electrocute yourself and i'm like honey i know how to hang basic lights for the i mean i know how to hang basic lights for the love of pete but i have very few skill real life skills very few because i've done this my whole life and i thought oh there's always be like this i'd be like that what do i skills do i actually have strengthen your community ties know people build local networks and you know you need to diversify not ideology but assets income streams skills anything you can do so you're not relying on just one thing and stay employable you know the next era is going to reward adaptability over titles let me take a quick break and then i think i come down i'll just break it down into age groups because i think this is really important what do i do i'm glad i'm thirty five i don't own a house i don't whatever great let me try to explain this to what you need to do to be prepared for this next phase we'll come back hang on first let me 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Hey sal hank what's going on we haven't worked a case in years i just bought my car at carvana and it was so easy too easy think something's up you tell me they got thousands of options found a great car at a great price and it got delivered the next day it sounds like carvana just makes it easy to buy your car hank yeah you're right case closed buy your car today on car delivery fees may apply hopefully later today i'll have this out as an art article at glenn beck dot com but let me let me tell you we've been talking about the economy and what's coming and why gold is so high what all of that means and i want to tell you how to prepare and i want to get a little age specific here if you're between fifteen and twenty five you need the portable life plan and you are you i think you're in the best place because you are now in the decade where you become hard to really destroy if you know what to do first what to study anything anything that builds real world capability and stays 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[Producer/Announcer]

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[Glenn Beck]

The fusion of entertainment enlightenment and empowerment this is the glenn beck program hello america welcome to the glenn beck program there are a lot of things going on i want to take you back this weekend to the the really big story out of minnesota and that is the the shooting and there is as always as always whom do you trust i want to take you through the video and tell you my opinion on this and it is just that an opinion because it's it's causing a lot of controversy they did they shoot him and you know cold blood they have no credibility on this they say that about absolutely everything i mean you'd listen to them you know al capone was shot down in cold blood too but you have you have that and then you have some some people on the right saying you shouldn't be carrying a gun well now wait a minute i believe in the second amendment however there are certain things that go along with the second amendment that we should discuss we'll do that here in sixty seconds first let me tell you about american financing most people track their budget month to month but very few ever step back and look at the structure underneath it all really peel back all the later layers there i mean there are there are loan terms the interest the single decision that you might have made you know years ago it still can shape every paycheck check today and that's where american financing comes in their entire approach is built around helping people understand the math of their own finances not rushing them into something new but making sure that what they have still makes sense and for a lot of homeowners that conversation open ups opens opens up options that they really didn't even know they were there options that can mean more flexibility more stability more control over how much money moves through your household every month it's not about quick fixes or shortcuts it's about aligning your financial structure with real life so your money is working for you instead of quietly working against you when the foundation is solid everything built on top of it feels a lot more steady there are no upfront fees you just find out if you're qualified call american financing now eight hundred nine zero six two four four zero eight zero zero nine zero six twenty four forty or go to american financing dot net and mls one eight two.

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[Glenn Beck]

Details about credit costs and terms all right i want to gosh i want to take you through some of the stuff that happened up in minnesota before i get to this this video of alex preddy and him being shot so let me first of all i played this earlier let me just play just a little bit this is a woman who was somehow another on an ice database on the left and to show you how well coordinated this is there's this database and this woman and her husband she's a journalist she was being followed by this these ice protesters because she was on a database and they thought she was ice and every time she would stop someplace they would start to gather around and go your ice your ice get out of how shame on you all this stuff well she eventually pulls over and she's like we're not ice okay we're not ice we have nothing to do with ice i just want to play a little bit of this because i want to show you how dangerous this situation is becoming cut three so she's pulled over and she is now being honked at by one of the cars we aren't ice and they're we are not we're not ice we're not ice so she's coming out we're not ice they've been for an hour we're not ice now the whistles start and if you're watching the video you will see all of we're just letting them know descend around her car and nothing nothing she says she's being reasonable nothing she says is going to satisfy this mom because they've been.

[Stu (Executive Producer)]

Following us for over an hour following us till they came up and they're.

[Glenn Beck]

Following you because you guys i mean it's just ridiculous okay stop so what else happened this weekend well i showed you earlier a video of a self proclaimed antifa member saying get your guns you got to stop these people now is the time for violence and you have an ice agent who had his finger bit off we have that full screen and put that up here's the ice agent and protesters grabbed him and bit his finger off i mean that's i don't know that's a little insane then you have this let me play the the geez the ice agent who's bloodied in front of a hotel because they thought there were ice agents in the hotel turns out there were no ice agents in the hotel but you can see one of the there they are this hotel and then you're seeing the the one ice agent with a bloody nose blood all over his mask down his shirt and onto his hands don't know how he got bloodied but i'm guessing it wasn't that he fell and you know had a boo boo so you have all of this stuff happening and we now know this weekend it's been confirmed it is being coordinated on signal very very dangerous now let me take it from the other side alex preddy is this guy who shows up he's part of the protests and he's got the whistle and he's obnoxious and everything else and he is starting to go after ice agents and really get into their face they push him back he pushes back push him harder and it just gets into honestly it's like a little seventh grade pushing match at first it's just so stupid that any of this happened well he gets shot play cut nine here this is the ice shooting video from alex freddy there's his whistle and oh that's so great okay now you're gonna see him go all these people all they're doing is just trying to you know stop ice from doing their job and the ice agent pulls out a gun and shoots alex as he's laying down on the ground here he comes there they're pushing him they grab him they put him down on the ground and there's a bunch of them now listen because you'll hear one of the cops say gun gun gun then you hear the shots okay and they shoot him okay let me take this from the bbc perspective because they show the other side of this crowd from a different perspective and i think this is important here's the bbc's perspective on what happened go ahead and roll that ros atkins report.

[BBC Reporter]

Contains footage which again you may find distressing the first video we have of alex pretty he's in the road holding a phone and talking with a federal agent the officer pushes him and he steps backwards christy noem is us homeland security secretary this is her account of why alex pretty died an individual approached.

[Glenn Beck]

U s border patrol officers with a.

[BBC Reporter]

Nine millimeter semi automatic handgun the officers attempted to disarm this individual but the armed suspect reacted violently but in this video as in others alex pretty had nothing in one hand a phone in the other we see two people interacting with an agent we then see an agent push one of those people then push the second person alex pretty steps between them and the agent and is pepper sprayed he's wrestled to the ground by a number of agents he's on his knees bent over his hands are on the floor and he's struggling against being held down one agent repeatedly strikes in the direction of his head and take note of this agent he has nothing in his right hand reaches down and removes what appears to be a gun from anaxpretti's waistband then he steps back holding the pistol which appears to match this image shared by the authorities carrying this type of gun is legal in minnesota with a valid permit the police say they believe alex pretty had one less than a second after the gun is removed an agent fires the first shot as alex pretty lies motionless further shots are fired while agents are.

[Glenn Beck]

Standing clear so this is compelling video because what this bbc reporter is saying is true it's absolutely true he is he is getting in between him the police and somebody else the police are shoving he is only holding a phone he is down on the ground he is resisting arrest but his hands are down on the ground his head is down on the ground then another agent reaches over on top of the other agents who are closest to him on the ground reaches into his back where he sees an exposed gun pulls the gun out and then walks away with the gun so he's no longer armed unless he has two guns and they don't claim that he had two guns only one and pulls it out and walks away right after that somebody yells gun gun gun gun that's when the police officer fires at him now the other police officer did not know that somebody reached in and took his gun it might have been somebody who was saying gun might have been saying it because they saw the other guy because he's not marked as a federal agent the other guy pulled the gun out and walking there with a gun so somebody might have seen him with a gun and said gun gun gun all the cops think that it's pretty and they shoot him okay this is this is not something that you deal with as you know an eight year old this this is this is a conversation for adults to have and i know i'm not hearing the adults first of all what noem said is not true he didn't approach he if you want to say technically he approached carrying a nine millimeter he did but it was holstered and in his back and you have a right to carry a gun at a protest i don't think that makes you smart but it does it is perfectly legal and constitutionally protected so i'm sorry just because you have a gun in your back if you reach for the gun if you pull for the gun then you could probably be accepted expected to be shot if you are pushing the police around but if you have a gun and you don't have your hands on it you should not be shot you have a right to carry that gun peacefully okay the minute you start pointing it at people you're in trouble he did not he did not so this idea that you know he was foolish for walking into you know this protest with a gun well you have a right to carry it and quite honestly if i'm walking into places like that and i'm not going to get involved i probably do carry my gun if i'm going to get involved i think of the consequences and think boy that's that's probably going to get me killed unless i'm planning on killing somebody assuming i'm going to get involved there's the way i would think would be i'm not carrying my gun because that could get me killed okay because i don't i'm not going to when i'm in when i'm in a dangerous situation it's not going to be with the other antifa people i'll be in a dangerous situation because of the police and i make my decision right then and there am i willing to pull the gun on the police no i'm not so leave the gun at home but he has a right to do it and he has a right to carry it and even be in a confrontation with the police as long as he never reaches for it but this is where i go to the cop side you are in a chaotic situation this is why i would not carry a gun in a situation like this because you're in a chaotic situation nobody really knows what's going on you have a group of people who have been all day been told we're going to kill you we're going to kill you your life means nothing get out of our city whatever and they're they're violent towards you when they are when you are coming at them and they are pushing you down to the ground get down on the ground get down on the ground stop resisting see this is not martin luther king that that's what that's what the left has forgotten they're trying to make this as moral as martin luther king but they can't do it because it's not as moral as martin luther king and it's none of the tactics of king king knew the only way to win is to go peaceful nonviolent always king would have let that guy rot in prison and wouldn't have marched for that guy because he had a gun because he made the rest of the movement look dangerous even though he had a right to have a gun martin luther king said would have said you don't bring a gun you don't push back you don't do it because that's the way peaceful protests win and everybody who knows anything about protesting knows this the left they've been preaching martin luther king forever they know this this is not the tactic of martin luther king this is the tactic that escalates not de escalates things so where do i stand on the gun thing i don't know what alex i don't know anything about him so i don't know what his intention was i can look at the video and say his attention his intention was to protest was to be obnoxious was to be one of those people that were right up there but not necessarily up in the face of the cops until he sees cops starting to push people around and then he decides i'm going to get between them and whoever it was they were pushing he doesn't like that so he gets involved the minute he gets involved the roles change he is now somebody that cops in this situation could and should look at as a danger to themselves so he made that choice i don't know if that was the choice that he made when he got up in the morning i don't know what his intentions were but once he made that choice he's going to end up on the ground because it's such a chaotic situation i have to side with both him for carrying a gun and being there and seemingly from only footage that i've seen seemingly not being a real violent guy but being a dirtbag but you have a right to be a dirtbag being a dirtbag but not a violent guy i side with him but i also side with the cop that shot him because it's a chaotic situation somebody pulls his gun a cop pulls his gun somebody else then yells gun gun gun what do you expect the cops to do you've created this situation that's why this didn't happen with martin luther king protest because they didn't create this 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[Producer/Announcer]

Talking about the first amendment number one the foundation so freedom wouldn't come undone it's not just history it's something that we use so let's count the five big freedoms we're allowed to choose so turn it up say it loud these are rights we should be proud of now freedom of resources religion i can choose what i believe on my speech say my thoughts on it print the truth let it flow assemble meet in peace let them know and petition yeah we get to disagree ask the government to change things that democracy that's five in the first five in the first.

[Glenn Beck]

Those first five rights in the first amendment first five in the first place that gives you the answer of what could happen on the streets that gives you everything you need to know on who's right and who's wrong okay these people have a right to protest they do they don't have a right to be violent in their protest they don't have a right to target people in their protest they have a right to question the government they should question the government what are you doing or you have warrants for this where are your warrants you have a right to ask for those things but again peacefully that's not what's happening so the this this is the part that everybody is getting confused on i have a right yes you do have a right and i support you doing all of those things just not the way you are doing them you have a responsibility to society to do it the right way the reason why martin luther king did the protest the way he did is he believed in the system he believed we can make the system better these people don't believe in the system they want to destroy the system the whole thing has to come down and so chaos and killing and riots it works to their advantage and unfortunately that is why it's going to put put our federal government into a position that they're actually going to love because they're going to turn it into fascism but you know the insurrection act is going to have to be called out it has to this has to stop it has to stop all right let me talk to you about your dog a lot of people assume that if your dog is eating every day you know it must be getting everything they need and then they go out and they eat grass and you're like you know that doesn't seem right you know most of the food that we feed our dogs are heavily processed and you know what they're saying about our processed food in that process a lot of nutrition is gone the dogs actually need all of it it's all cooked out that can cause lower energy digestive issues dog that just isn't firing on all cylinders anymore and we just look at it go well he's getting older well no he shouldn't be behaving like that and i learned that with uno we started feeding uno rough greens giving him rough greens on his food he was probably eight maybe nine and we thought he's slowing down and then he started getting all of this nutrition from rough greens and and eating all the time and running to his bowl and we thought my gosh look at him because he became like a puppy again see the difference ruff greens is offering a free jumpstart trial bag right now you just cover shipping use the discount code beck claim your free jump start trial bag at roughgreens dot com that's roughgreens dot com promo code back just add rough greens watch the health benefits come alive.

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[Glenn Beck]

By the way the the bill of rights songs five and the first is the first amendment they are a project of mine that i've been working on for a while they'll be available soon at glenn beck dot com part of their torch subscription you'll be able to get them and share them with your friends and family so you can learn all of the you know all the amendments in an easy fun sort of way that'll be coming out that'll be coming out soon it's it's where we're five days away from the fundamental transformation of this program stu is leaving us he has been honestly he's been looking to leave since the day he got here thirty years ago and and is leaving now to start his his own thing and he's going to announce that later this week and welcome to the program stu.

[Stu (Executive Producer)]

Thanks glenn yeah and i appreciate everyone who's been asking it's you know there's been some we have to just wait until later in the week but we will get you all the details coming up very soon it's been tough to not be able to interact with you glenn here today here with only a few more shows left but forces of nature have kept us away and then of course the technical demons that always pop up in these situations i did want to run one thing by you though listening to all your commentary and it was kind of helpful to sit here and just be able to listen to what you were saying and one of the things that was interesting about this whole shooting situation is a dynamic that i noticed as i was thinking about all of the stories that have hit lately one of which being the shooting of preddy which you've seen the reaction to that you had the shooting of good before that and you have the five year old kid who was kidnapped by ice being the three major headlines and what's interesting about all of that is i think you go and you know i listened to your commentary on preddy which is like you know this real the shooting shouldn't have happened but you know there's understandable you know reasons why people were at on on edge and there's confusion in that moment the good shooting was you know sort of similar to that but but different right like she really did take some action that could have very easily been translated as some aggressive action and while it was a tragic shooting you know it was something that was more understandable and maybe have fewer questions than the pareti situation and then you have the five year old kidnapped by ice which we now know was not at all true it was not the situation at all the illegal immigrant parent ran away and they were actually caring for the kid and you can see three different reactions from i think every conservative that i've listened to to they've had different reactions to those different stories based on different facts in a different situation i have heard no difference from the left in their reaction to those three stories and you know it's fascinating they just continually react the exact same way it's nazis it's you know it's gestapo it's all of these terrible things and it's murder in every one of the cases or or kidnapping or the worst possible thing and we have to react with force get out in the streets the walls is of the world making everything worse the jacob fry's of the world making everything worse and like i see all that reaction from our side being very nuanced and trying to understand the situation the opposite for them and then i throw in a fourth story which was a man arrested in georgia for raping an eleven year old girl and you know what i see no reaction from them at all on that story it's impossible to take their analysis of this situation seriously because they're not analyzing it glenn they're trying to cause chaos.

[Glenn Beck]

So last week you weren't here you were on vacation last week and one of the things that we talked about was you have to take things and separate them case by case two things can be true at the same time you know and you're exactly right this is they are not it's the same reaction every time so that should tell you something if somebody is reacting the same way even though the facts are different but they're reacting the same way they're telling you something they're telling you that the facts don't matter that what what they are saying has to be done is the only point whatever happens on the ground is either inconvenient or convenient but it doesn't matter and that that gets a civilization to shut down you know there's no there's no future in that kind of a in that kind of thinking so what do you.

[Stu (Executive Producer)]

Do glenn because i see the reaction to this stuff and i see a lot of people talking about it on the right and saying you know basically acknowledging what i'm saying is true right like there are a bunch of people on the right i think trying to determine these situations individually and the people on the left don't care they're out there for a greater mission right if you will they want a fundamental change of our society they want all of the they want our system to be upended and that is their goal and so i i can you know my reaction to that is we still have to do we have to be ourselves we can't be them we can't do what they do i don't want to be them i don't want to do what they do but i mean i do see the reaction and i you know there's some i think sense to it which is if you don't if you if you hold back if you if you don't change your tactics we're going to wind up with the same situation and the same result and we're going to keep moving down this terrible road because we sit here on principle and they sit here and they just keep doing what they what they need to do to move the ball forward without care for that stuff it's inconvenient for them and they don't care about it should we continue to care about.

[Glenn Beck]

It or should do we need to.

[Stu (Executive Producer)]

Change our tactics and realize some new.

[Glenn Beck]

World is here so i repeat what i kind of said in the monologue in our number one today we have to be surgical the administration has to be surgical in its language language you can't you you cannot discredit yourself by saying he came at them with a nine millimeter gun and if that was your understanding at first and then you see the evidence you have to immediately come out and say we correct that you have to guard your credibility at all costs you have to be telling the truth i think the administration also should be saying look if these facts are different call our doj here's a special hotline number but if they overwhelm that with a bunch of stuff if they're just putting that number out and they're having thousands of people call well then you can also then go on and say well we tried we tried but they had we've had a million calls and we know there's not a million charges so you know nobody is serious on that side but we tried and we'll continue to do it we're just not looking at you as serious partners but we'll continue to do it if there is a problem with ice we will make sure that that is corrected these guys are on under so much pressure right now but they cannot get angry they have to be the best of us and this is really hard they have to be the best of us they can't be shooting off their mouth or you know pushing and that is really super hard i don't know how they're going to do it you had too many people involved accidents are going to happen human conditions are going to be applied at some point and so that's a that's a real issue but we have to be super solid on the facts i think we are presented at this time with an opportunity to talk to those people who are not die harders they're not the ones who are like he's on nazi and ice has done everything wrong just say you just come to him and say look i hate all of this i hate all of this i don't want to be enemies and i agree with you you know people saying that he shouldn't have brought a gun i think he has a right to carry a gun you know that's that's a constitutional right and he shouldn't have been shot however can you go with me and look the other side you can you at least see the point of view i'm not saying that you say that it's right but can you see the reasonable point of view that that's a chaotic situation somebody yells gun and the police shoot because they're all so high strung yes well they got to be better than that i agree that they should try to be better than that but would you be better than that you know and have a have a conversation because we have to find the center ground again where we can say and this is true if these guys if if ice were taking people and they're just scooping them up off the street in the middle of the night and they are you know there's american citizens who have done no wrong do you think i'd be on the side of the federal government no but you also can't have it the other way you can't say that you know january sixth is an insurrection and the worst insurrection since the civil war and then say with this going on and now more people killed on the streets in minnesota than were in january sixth you can't now say this isn't an insurrection and you don't have a right to have the insurrection act used wait wait what made that an insurrection and this not an insurrection because one was fighting the federal system to let the election go through and this one is fighting the federal system to give the ability to the federal government to actually go make arrests of really bad people why is it not an insurrection and just try to find the logic points with people that you have a chance of saying you know look we are we're at the end of civilization here this is civilization enders if we don't figure this one out and none of us win you do you don't win your side doesn't win my side doesn't win we all lose we cannot be in this situation like that so can we just have a simple conversation and try to make that happen i don't know it might be too late but i'm not giving up.

[Stu (Executive Producer)]

Yeah i think you're right we can't give up right but i will say the that's why i brought up the five year old kidnapped by ice story you know that's one where i can understand if you're a left winger right you see these pictures of a five year old in ice custody and you're like oh my gosh they're picking up kids if you're on that side of the aisle and that's how you view this as a negative thing we're not allowed to enforce our immigration law but you see them taking a five year old into custody i can understand how your immediate reaction to that was would be oh my gosh they're out of control this is crazy and when i could get that but when you take a few seconds and you actually understand what has occurred here which is the parent of this child who is an illegal immigrant ran from authorities and abandoned their child this should be something that you should be able to stop and say okay i get it this particular case isn't like that i still don't like what ice is doing but and there seems to be literally no ability for anyone on the left to get to that point i can talk to someone i know i can have a conversation with a person in my neighborhood who might be on the left who i can get to that level but when you have politicians who are still out today saying this is a part of the problem everything from killing people on the streets to kidnapping five year old kids politicians news the media itself is still saying these things despite the fact that we know this was a completely false story and totally taken out of context it is it's really difficult to see how you can get over that hump and i you know it's understandable why people are so despondent over our future as far as living with one another these days because if you can't get basics down there's just no way to have a shared truth and that's where i think the problem lies.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Stu (Executive Producer)]

To democracy still a greasy pig we.

[Glenn Beck]

Just call each other neighbor and friend we'll be right back democrats are threatening to stall the funding bill because of the dhs meanwhile tim walz has reached out to the president donald trump just responded saying they had a good conversation they're going to try to work things out and he's putting tom holman in touch with that should be an interesting conversation with tim walsh so we'll see what happens stu i have three stories which one do you want to comment on bank of england must plan for financial crisis sparked by aliens inside the bizarre conspiracy theory that earth is losing gravity in the next two weeks and michelle obama complains people only know her for being married to barack oh i.

[Stu (Executive Producer)]

Would love to talk about michelle obama and her her feelings about that i think first of all she's right one hundred percent accurate that's the only reason we know of her we would never have heard of her at all if it was not for her husband but i along with her glenn feel that's wrong we should not there's something wrong with our society if that is to be true and there's only one way for us to solve this problem which is to forget we ever knew about her i would argue that if she were to just go away and not speak again and not go on shows and leave us alone for just just let's say five to fifty years in that period i believe we would completely forget about her and this would all.

[Glenn Beck]

Be solved i i tend to agree and i wish she would quite honestly you know what kills me is if it's not one thing she's complaining about it's another and they're like the biggest i don't know rich person squad she was saying just the other day that you know and then when it became first lady it became all about my shoes and what i was wearing well then don't go on the COVID of vogue i mean what do you that's what happens to every first lady for the love of pete these people cannot stop complaining about you know i'm you know and now my husband's worth two hundred fifty million dollars and we can't say how he got there but now we have to go to the bank more we've we've got to pay a little more in taxes it's it's just so ridiculous yeah the vogue cover is.

[Stu (Executive Producer)]

A great example of that they this wasn't a hidden camera shoot like you showed up with with photographers to this whole situation that's the way that works and by the way there is i will disagree with one thing glenn one first lady did not get that treatment and that was melania trump she didn't get all the photo shoots that's right.

[Glenn Beck]

Doesn'T her movie i think her movie opens up up finally today or tomorrow finally i can't wait to see it all right we'll see you back here tomorrow same back time same back channel.