RADIODecember 15, 2023

DOJ CHARGING journalist who DEBUNKED its Jan 6 narrative?!

The Department of Justice and FBI have ordered Blaze Media investigative journalist to self-surrender himself for unknown reasons related to January 6th. Baker, who expects to be charged or even prevented from traveling to Washington D.C., joins Glenn to explain what he knows. Baker lays out why he believes the DOJ is retaliating against him for his reporting on the events of January 6th, which has exposed huge cracks in the government's narrative. Plus, he explains the story that he believes caused the DOJ to act.

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GLENN: All right. We have Steve Baker on the phone.

Blaze Media, investigative journalist, who has been looking into the January 6th debacle and has made massive headway.

And it's my understanding, that Steve and the team were up in Washington. Here in the last couple of weeks. I think some of them just got back yesterday.

Spent a lot of time with the January 6th footage.

Full access now. Because of Steve.

And some news stories are coming.

But what a surprise, Steve.

You were notified by the US Department of Justice.

STEVE: Yes. Good morning. That was a great good morning I had yesterday.

GLENN: I bet.

STEVE: Yeah. We're actually here right now.

I'm actually talking to you from the secure video room. At one of the congressional office buildings in DC. We have our Blaze guys right here right now. Working on the consoles. And we've been here all week.

We're not going to stop working. I'm not going to quit doing what I'm doing. And we will just move forward, regardless of what they throw at us.

GLENN: Hang on.

I want to hear what you are finding, if you can. Give us any kind of hint on what's next coming our way.

Tell me, what are you being charged with now?

STEVE: Well, they notified my attorney yesterday morning.

That I needed to self-present. Or self-surrender myself to Raleigh North Carolina.

On Tuesday or Thursday. Arrange for that to happen on Tuesday. When we ask for what the actual charges will be. We were told by the FBI agent, that he -- quote, unquote, didn't know. And that he wouldn't know, until the magistrate signed off on the warrant.

Now, they are telling us, that I'm going to just be processed.

And then released on my own recognizance.

I will not be detained. I will not be held overnight.

Then, of course, I will be subject to whatever the magistrate decides to put on me.

I don't know if that will include surrendering of my devices.

Because, again, we haven't seen the warrant.

I don't know if that's going to include a surrendering of my weapons. I don't know if that will include any gag orders of any types.

I don't know if that will include any prescriptions that will prevent me from traveling to DC.

That's usually what happens to the January 6 event. One of the first things they do, is they prevent travel to DC.

GLENN: What a surprise. What a surprise, Steve.

What a surprise. Have you downloaded to the rest of the team, so the work can continue?

Have you downloaded what you know, and what you're looking for?

So the rest of the team, can continue?

If you can't go in?

STEVE: We have multiple dead man switches. There's your answer to that.

GLENN: And, by the way, dead man switch. We know, Steve. He's not suicidal at all. At all.

And apparently, can't hang himself with paper sheets.

So he has that going for him.

Well, please keep us informed.

You have to surrender on Tuesday. I know TheBlaze will have stories next week on this.

Is there any doubt in your mind.

Because you were contacted by the Justice Department. What?

About six months after January 6th. Because you were there.

STEVE: That's correct.

Yeah, they contacted me in July of '21. I did my first -- my only FBI interview in August of '21.

We were notified by the Department of Justice a month later. The week before Thanksgiving.
In November of '21, we were told that I would be charged within the week at that time.

And then they developed off the map. We didn't hear from them, until 20 months later. Which was August of this year. When I got a subpoena, grand jury subpoena, for all of my January 6th videos.

GLENN: And what does your attorney think, this is -- that was about?

STEVE: Well, that was interesting. Because grand juries are not convened for misdemeanor charges. They're convened only for felony investigations.

Now, that doesn't mean. Because we don't know it. They won't tell us anything. Maybe they just wanted my video for somebody else's investigation.

Or maybe it was applicable to what they were looking at for me.

And then there's no assurance that even though, there was a grand jury looking at me or the videos, that they will apply a felony account.

Look, we can assure the world right now, because actually, one of our guys right here, is harvesting every second of me in the Capitol right now.

We're going to show the world in advance, long before this thing ever goes to trial or any such nonsense. That obviously at any point, at any time, when I was on campus, there was never any violence. Never any property damage. There was never any untoward behavior. I didn't wear Trump gear. I didn't parade. I wasn't carrying a flag.

GLENN: You didn't stand on a bench, did you? God forbid.

STEVE: I did do that. I did do that. There is a federal law against that.

GLENN: I know there is.

STEVE: So I may have to plea down to bench standing.

GLENN: But wait. You did that not as a protestor, as a journalist, to get a bird's eye view, right?

STEVE: Yes! That's exactly what I did. I got up and away from the crowd, so I could record what was going on. And that was in the crypt, below the rotunda, where I did that.

And so it's going to be an interesting presentation, well in advance of whatever the government is putting together. Because we will be able to lay it out, and show side by side. A

That there were 60 other journalists.

That we were aware of, that travel through the same breached doors.

And, of course, I didn't arrive until after several hundred people were in the Capitol.

There were 60 other journalists.

Many of whom went through those doors long before I did.

Or were at that initial breach, that have never been charged.

It really comes down to who they were submitting their stories and videos to at the time.

And obviously, you know, whatever -- whatever the narrative was. The headline of the story was, like the New Yorker story. With Luke Mogul said, among the insurrectionists -- well, then he probably got a Get Out of Jail Free card for that headline.

GLENN: Well, but wait a minute. But you had your video with HBO. They're not necessarily a flag waver of the right.

STEVE: Yeah. They licensed. They licensed my videos. New York Times licensed my videos. As did many other news agencies around the world.

That was through my agency.

GLENN: Okay. So can I ask you just a couple of Frank questions. Because we really just got to know each other recently.

And, you know, are you a hardened Nazi lover that is, I don't know, you know, burning crosses?

STU: You don't lead conversations with this question. You waited this long to ask.

GLENN: I know. I know.

We have gotten to a, are you a member of the Nazi part of our friendship yet?

STEVE: Glenn, I usually get dinner and a couple of drinks before I get asked questions like that.
(laughter)
No. Absolutely not. I am -- if you -- if you analyze my politics, I am what I refer to as a pragmatic Libertarian.

And I have never had any associations with any militias.

Any 3 percenters. Any Proud Boys.

Oath Keepers or otherwise.

And I have basically kept to myself. And kept to my musical career for most of my life.

As a trumpet player and a singer.

And my journalism was my side hustle, as they say, for 20, 25 years.

And that was accelerated when COVID came to town. And I was not allowed to work in the music business for a year and a half. So I moved my journalism. And my investigative research into the captain's chair of my life. And then January 6th happened.

So that became a primary focus of what I've been working on.

GLENN: Well, we are obviously going to be following your story. And every indication is that exactly what you've said. And as you say, our team is there, looking at all the video footage of you, right now.

To make sure that we have the story and can get it out.

But also, all the other things that you are looking into.

Can you give us a sneak peak into anything else you're working on for January 6th?

STEVE: Yeah. I can tell you, that we are continuing our stories on the Capitol Police.

There's a real focus there.

In fact, I don't have it -- a second's worth of hesitation to tell you, that the story that we came out with last Thursday. Friday. That directly showed Capitol Police cover-up in corruption.

At the highest level. Probably triggered this action from the DOJ.

GLENN: Go over that story, for anybody who didn't see it.

STEVE: Yeah. The story is a particular police officer, who we have been covering. Issued an anonymous letter on Capitol Police letterhead back in May of '21. It was highly partisan, highly political. Major violation of the Hatch Act.

Major violation of the Capitol Police rules and regulations for their officers. And he was prompted to write this letter.

It was a political screed against the Republicans, that were opposed to Nancy Pelosi's January 6th select committee.

And as a result of a prompting he got from Representative Raskin, of all people.

And that was a situation where he took Raskin's prompting, and went and created this letter.
And then also solicited help from the Capitol press pool. And then he had actually some female reporters in the press pool, assist him in crafting this anonymous letter.

And when this was released on May 19th and May 20th, it was discovered the next day.

Because the cop is not very bright. He used this Capitol Police email, and he used Capitol Police printers to print off hard copies. And so he was brought in, and his investigation began the next day.

And we revealed that not only did he initially lie about the action that he had taken, using Capitol Police resources at the time, to craft a highly partisan political anonymous letter, misrepresenting the department. That this was what would be called a terminable offense. He should have been fired on the spot. There's a problem with that, though, Glenn.

We're talking about Harry Dunn, the hero of January 6th as the media has put forth.

So rather than taking disciplinary action against him. The -- the Capitol Police spiked that report.

They let him off with a 530 warning.

Meaning, that was just a warning, just a slap on the wrist. Don't do that again Harry.

And he got by with it.

Rather than being an interminable event. He was not disciplined at all.

And therefore, was allowed to testify in those oath keeper trials.

And, of course, we know where that goes from there. So you see the he connectivity there.

GLENN: Go ahead. Go ahead.

STEVE: Just to finish that up. One of the things I've been able to do. Through sources over the past couple of years, I do have and have been able to capture some internal communications between oath keeper leadership. And we know that they are livid.

In fact, they -- on Friday's report, when I released the names involved. Harry Dunn. Representative Jamie Raskin, Whitney Wild from CNN, who participated in this.

GLENN: Jeez.

STEVE: Anonymous letter. When I put all this together and published that. The chief counsel for the Capitol Police, actually called me that Twitter guy, Steve baker.

For releasing this information. And so we're seeing. We're learning. We're knowing about these kinds of things that are happening.

And we know they are upset.

And his name is Ted -- I think it's -- it's Tobias or something like that.

He's the chief counsel. He's a former federal prosecutor. Former assistant US attorney.

And he works with the Department of Justice on these cases, related to January 6th. And so we're pretty sure, we don't -- we don't have to stretch this too far to imagine, that this is probably what triggered this action against me after two and a half years.

GLENN: Steve Baker, investigative journalist, Blaze Media contributor, and now famously that Twitter guy. Thank you for everything.

Steve, we will be following this obviously very closely. And good luck. Good luck. Stay safe, please.

STEVE: Will do. Thank you, Glenn.

GLENN: Got it. We'll keep you in our prayers.

Will Trump’s Release of MLK & JFK Files Reveal the DARK TRUTH

President Trump has ordered officials to start the process of releasing the JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr. files. But the family of MLK has requested the opportunity to review the files before their release. What dark secrets may be hidden in them? Glenn and Stu review the rumors that the files may contain proof that MLK had affairs with 40 different women, among other heinous acts. But would this destroy his legacy and message of unity? Glenn and Stu also review JFK’s grandson’s response to Trump’s plan and why Glenn believes the truth MUST come out.

Transcript

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GLENN: Big weekend this weekend. All right, we will talk about -- let's talk about what's happening in Washington, DC. The Martin Luther King family has reacted to Trump's executive order. And as has the JFK family.

They both say, this is a political stunt. I don't know how it's a political stunt. It was supposed to come out in 2027.

No. It was supposed to come out, when?

In the teens. Twenty teens? And then it kept getting delayed. Delayed. Then Donald Trump delayed it last term. Joe Biden, I -- he might have thought he was JFK for a while.

I'm not really sure.

Or Martin Luther King. And then it's come up again.

And people are tired of secrets.

And so Donald Trump said he would start releasing some of the secrets, that should be released.

And a few of those are the RFK files.

The JFK files.

And the MLK files. So hmm. What do they say?

Well, the Martin Luther King family, they would like to see everything first.

I don't know if you get that privilege. But okay.

Why?

Oh. Do you happen to remember what was said about these files last time.

Last time, they were about to come out.

The guy who is the Martin Luther King authorized biographer, has come out and said, really bad things are in this file.

We all know that he was a philanderer.

And I have to tell you, as I get older, I have more to do for people who did amazing things.

Because I don't -- perfect people aren't the ones that usually stand up and say, I'm going to risk my life for that cause.

Perfect people are usually the ones that are like, no, I've got way too much to lose here.

Martin Luther King was not the first guy that was approached to lead this movement. Just like Rosa Parks wasn't the first one approached on the bus. The first one was too flawed.

She was a teenager that was pregnant, and they didn't think she would garner enough sympathy. The other pastors that were approached to lead this movement all said, no, I've got way too much to lose.

No. They knew what it meant! Martin Luther King was the first one that stood up. And I think the same could be said about Donald Trump. He's not a perfect guy. But he's the first one that would say, yeah. I'll risk my life for it.

I'll do it. I'll stand.

I mean, who else gets up from an assassination, and looks at the crowd, and says, fight!

That's pretty amazing.

So they're not perfect people.

But Martin Luther King, you know, we know he was unfaithful, but apparently what is in this file, is really not good.

STU: Yeah. That's one way to state it. Uh-huh.

GLENN: First, it looks like there's an FBI letter that was trying to blackmail Martin Luther King. So something bad on the government. Trying to blackmail him. Saying, basically kill yourself or this is coming out.

But then there is information on intimate relationships with at least three women. One in Atlanta. One in Mount Vernon. One in New York. One in Washington, DC.

Another memo refers to a recording where King looked at -- this is according to his biographer, where King quoting looking on and laughed as the pastor of Baltimore's Cornerstone Baptist church allegedly raped a woman in the Willard Hotel.

Now, that pastor died in 1991. So there's no way to verify the FBI's information. It's not clear whether the agents involved were transcribing the true reality of his private life, or creating gossip. We don't know. But --

STU: They did, obviously, try to hurt him. And his reputation. That's kind of known. And it's been known for a long time. The question is, is this stuff true? As you point out, the guy who came out with this information in 2019, I think it was, is a very reputable guy. Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. Right?

GLENN: Again, and authorized by the King family. So this is the guy the King family has said is credible.

STU: And it's hard to believe this lands in any other place than them saying, well, the government did this. And, you know, they will deny it, I think.

GLENN: Well, and does a tape exist? The letter is 500 words. Claims to be from an African-American who supported the civil rights movement.

It was, however, written by the FBI. It accuses King of immoral conduct lower than that of a beast. I'm quoting. And a giant liability to all of us Negroes. Quoting.

STU: Yeah. You didn't have to tell that was a quote.

GLENN: Well, I wanted to make sure.

STU: Unless I don't know something about your background. I don't know.

GLENN: It encourages King to listen to an endorsed -- an enclosed tape, so we don't know if the tape exists.

The writer tells King, it's all there on the record. Your sexual orgies. Listen to yourself, you filthy abnormal animal. You are on record. You have been on record, all of your adulteress acts. Sexual orgies, extending far into the past. But this someone, but a tiny sample. You have 34 days in which to do, dot, dot, dot. There is only one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, fraudulent self is bared before the nation.

I mean, it's not going to make the FBI look good. And it may not make Martin Luther King look good.

STU: The other one you mentioned too, was affairs, which are well-known.

The buyer first says, it's been well-known for 35 to 40 years, that there have been multiple other girlfriends.

I always thought that there were probably ten or 12 over the course of four to five years. This new material makes clear that the total is more like 40 to 45.

GLENN: Wow.

STU: I mean, that's getting a lot of work there. You're a busy bee. Forty to 45, plus the civil rights thing. That's a busy schedule.

GLENN: When do you have time to eat?

STU: Right!

GLENN: The 32-year-old grandson of JFK made an announcement yesterday about JFK's assassination file being opened.

He said, that this is nothing more than a grand scheme. Let's see here.

STU: Grand scheme?

GLENN: Yeah. He said, there is no grand scheme to kill the president. Or, JFK.

And this scheme is just being a political prop, using John F. Kennedy as a political prop for Trump.

STU: How? Why?

GLENN: I don't know. I have no idea.

STU: It's hard to even understand the -- look, why would you not want to know this? What year is this? It's 2025. This happened a long time ago. It's about time we know what actually went on there.

And, look, there will be, I'm sure, some bad things. Some things that probably look for these guys. And some that look bad.

GLENN: Who cares?

STU: They're historical figures.

GLENN: We just want the true history. That's all I want. That's all I want.

STU: We already did a movie about it. It's time to find out what's going on.

GLENN: Yeah. And if you want the country to survive, we have to transparent. I want to know all the things. Even if everybody was pardoned. I want to know who was involved in the January 6th thing. I want to know all the facts.

STU: True.

GLENN: Even if we can't put everybody in jail, I want to know all the facts on -- on the Russia, Russia, Russia thing. On the Joe Biden, you know -- we have to expose these things.

STU: I want to know who hid and how they hid Joe Biden's mental time line from the American people.

GLENN: Big time.

STU: I want to know that. I want an investigation on that.

GLENN: Those people -- those people should go to jail, because I don't think they've been pardoned.

STU: That's true. Exactly.

It needs to be investigated. We need to know how far that went. This is one of the reasons, it feels like to me, hearing you over the years, that you put together the museum.

To unearth things like this. Good or bad, either way, the American people deserve to know the truth.

GLENN: Hello! You have to know the truth, and especially the dark sides of ourselves.
Otherwise, there's bitter and sweet. I mean, I will talk to you a little bit about AI, and AI is offering us a perfect world. Okay?

That's what this is going to be, a perfect life.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: The Garden of Eden. It already existed. Okay?

And we gave it up, for knowledge. Of good and evil.

There is oppose to everything. Good, evil, pleasure, pain. All of that.

And you have to have both sides.

Otherwise, you don't know really what you have.

So right now, Americans haven't seen a lot of pain in our lives. I mean, whatever you're going through, might seem like a lot of pain. But as a country, nothing like the Great Depression.

Nothing like World War II. We haven't experienced that. So we don't really appreciate what we have.

We have to know both sides. And, you know, when it comes to Martin Luther King, that's a holiday.

We took away the Abraham Lincoln holiday. And the George Washington holiday. To make it, a combined holiday for presidents, which presidents?

And then gave Martin Luther King his holiday.

Okay. Was that right? Was that a mistake?

I don't know. Let's just know who we're holding up here. And that doesn't mean that his ideas of America live up to your promises as important. It's probably more important now than ever before. Because the people who have been oppressed in the past, are being convinced that you're still oppressed, and now the only way to not be oppressed is to take Martin Luther King's message, and flip it upside, on its head.

And say, you've got to be a racist to be an antiracist. The only way to fix racism is to engage in racism. These are important conversations for us to have.

And I for one, applaud the president for doing this. And I think we should get all of it. Absolutely all of it. And I hope it doesn't stop here.

The REAL Reason Trump Wants Greenland and the Panama Canal | Glenn TV | Ep 407

Glenn Beck debunks the hysterical claims that President Trump wants to conduct military invasions because of his interests in Greenland and the Panama Canal. His critics ignore the big picture. This isn’t some imperialistic power play — it is strategic maneuvering to counter Chinese and Russian ambitions. The U.S. has a long history of planting a flag in Greenland to combat threats from Nazis and the Soviet Union. Greenland also has some of the world’s largest untapped deposits of rare earth minerals, including graphite, copper, and lithium, that are essential for making all kinds of tech, vehicles, and planes. Glenn argues that it’s in our national security interest to collapse China’s stranglehold on mining and refining the world’s rare earth minerals. Trump’s critics also forget the history of the Panama Canal. Ronald Reagan reminded us in 1976: “We bought it. We paid for it.” So why shouldn’t we keep it? The U.S. is still the number one customer of the Canal, but China is number two. President Trump knows the canal is a chokepoint for our economy and fired a warning shot at China in his inaugural address. At the end of the day, the two places are high stakes real estate deals, and who better to negotiate those deals than our new 47th president?

How to Expose WOLVES in the Second Trump Era | Glenn Beck at TPUSA’s AmFest 2024

Donald Trump has returned as the 47th President of the United States of America. But the fight to make America free again has just begun. Speaking at Turning Point USA’s 2024 AmericaFest, Glenn Beck highlights a million ways the country could tear itself apart and the ONE way it can stay together. Glenn heads to the chalkboard to explain how to figure out who’s really on Team Truth and who’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Plus, he breaks out plenty of historical artifacts that help tell the story: Darth Vader’s helmet, a cup from the Mayflower, a “Batman Begins” cowl, the Holy Grail from “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” and more …

Illegal Immigrants FLEE America as Trump Deportations Begin

President Trump’s mass deportation operation has begun and reports are already coming out that illegal immigrants are voluntarily deporting themselves! But the legacy media is in full panic mode, insisting that Americans should shed tears as Trump and the military rip children from their mothers. But is that actually what he’ll do? Glenn and Stu review what Trump’s real plan is. Plus, Glenn has a message for “sanctuary cities” like Chicago: “You’re only getting more people deported quicker.”

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GLENN: Oh, boy. Stu, Al Sharpton is very upset. Very upset today.

STU: Oh, no.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He is very upset that companies are dropping the enforcement of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. He said, why did we have DEI? We have DEI because you have denied us diversity. You denied us equity. You denied us inclusion.

If you want to put us in the back of the bus, we're going to do the Dr. King/Rosa Parks on you. I don't know if that's a new dance move or what.

STU: It's a TikTok dance.

GLENN: It's a TikTok dance. But, you know what, I really don't fear Al Sharpton.

STU: No?

GLENN: You know, used to be a fear of Al Sharpton with some. And no.

I don't think -- you watch how insignificant that is going to be.

Americans have heard it all. They've done it all.

They're not afraid of it anymore. Oh, my gosh. They're marching in front of us. Calling us racist.

Oh, my gosh.

Well, let's give them a little something to make them go away. They don't go away. Okay?

They don't go away!

You hire, and you take activists, bringing them into your company. Or you play ball with those activists.

Revolutionaries. That's all you're going to have left in the end. So congratulations with that. Saw that. It doesn't work.

No interest. It's not going to make a difference.

STU: It's a mindset change. You know.

GLENN: It is. It is.

STU: I remember the first time we got protested by one of these organizations.

And it was like, gosh, what's happening.

Wait a minute.

I didn't understand it. We came from a -- we started a local radio show, that wound up going national.

When you get to that level. These things start happening. And then like, I don't know. A few times after it occurs.

GLENN: You roll your eyes.

STU: You roll your eyes. When I go on Twitter. And you see something negative about you or whatever.

You just don't -- generally speaking, you just don't care.

It comes and goes. You just get to that point, none of it makes any difference to you. It becomes a superpower.

Because you just don't care about any of it.

GLENN: And especially now, nobody cares about it. Nobody cares about it. You know, do you mind being called -- now people are wearing that as a badge of honor.

Oh, Al Sharpton. Yeah. He came after me because I believed in actual diversity. Because I believed in actual racism. Was bad. I believed in that idea, and the best way to fight it, is to forget about color. And to just look for merit.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'm scared. It's not going to change anything.

Let me give you a couple of other things that Donald Trump -- in fact, I could go a full hour of the stuff just remaining in the last two hours, of the things he's done in the last 24.

President Donald Trump declared the global corporate minimum tax. Did you know we had one?

Yeah.

The Biden administration signed us up for this one.

A global minimal tax.

So, in other words, companies we promised. We promised the whole world, we're never going to have a tax rate lower than 15 percent.

The global minimum tax. Because that would be unfair. And Donald Trump said, yeah, screw you. We're not doing that. And let everyone know, that uh-uh. No. We're not going to do that.

Now, that doesn't mean we will have a tax lower than 15 percent.

STU: Let's do it! Let's embrace it.

GLENN: I would love it.

STU: I will say, when it comes to economic competition. I want to be unfair. I want to be the country, where everyone else is like, gosh, I've got to get there.

How do we get involved with them? That's exactly who I want to be. Not to mention, it really benefits the people here in the United States, more than all.

GLENN: Yeah. Now, not everybody agreed to it.

Because after Biden agreed to it, the pillar one talks. That should really scare you.

This is pillar one. The pillar one talks stalled. Because we just kind of lost interest, I guess.

Countries, Italy, France, UK. Turkey.

Weren't really excited about reinstating their digital taxes. And now with Donald Trump in, there's no way they will do it.

So congratulations to the rest of the world. We have helped set you free, again!

Now, Rand Paul has introduced some legislation to repeal Corporate Transparency Act.

This is so important. The CTA. Corporate Transparency Act.

We talked about this. This is -- this will protect small businesses, and it was signed into law as part of fiscal year 2021, the National Defense Authorization Act. What does this have to do with national defense?

It requires individuals with an ownership interest in a limited liability company. An LLC, to disclose all their personal information to the US Treasury Department's financial crimes enforcement network.

And they go after American small business owners. And any failure to comply could result in up to two years, in prison and up to $10,000 per violation.

So they are repealing that, or at least that has been introduced. Because, you know, farmers, restaurants, gyms.

Lawn service companies. All of these people -- what? I have to -- I have to register with the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Unit. I don't think so. No.

STU: That's a big one. We talked a lot. That one when it happened.

GLENN: That's a big, big, big one.

STU: Pain. Giant pain at the very least going away, hopefully.

GLENN: Yes. Also, an update on the border. The Southern Border, apparently, witnessed an outflow of persons, that came into the United States over the last four years.

I don't -- I don't know if you heard that.

There was an outflow of persons. Even on inauguration day.

Illegal aliens were voluntarily deporting themselves.

And saying, I --

STU: Yeah. You know, that's -- good! First of all.

That's -- if you're illegally, you should leave. You should leave. And you should leave on your own.

It's interesting.

There's a poll Axios had today.

Which is, the share of Americans who agree with immigration policies, like deporting immigrants, who are in the country illegally.

The number overall, 66 percent. So a popular -- a popular policy.

GLENN: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

STU: But they -- the take from Axios is, they don't agree with the ways to do it.

Right? And so they say, here are their examples of this.

Using active duty military to find undocumented immigrants.

Only let's say 38 percent agree with that.

Deporting immigrants that came to the US illegally as children, 34 percent agree.

Quickly deporting detained immigrants, even if it involves separating families or sending people to countries, other than their country of origin, 34 percent.

Using money allocated to pay for the US military for deportation, 28 percent.

Deporting immigrants who are in the country legally, 11 percent.

Who the hell is talking about deporting people in the country legally?

GLENN: And who is 27 percent or 25 percent for that?

STU: Yeah, it was 11 percent.

Now --

GLENN: Very well. Eleven.

STU: Right. But are any of those -- any of those policies really the policies you're talking about on a day-to-day basis? There are waves of this, right?

It starts with, obviously, criminals. That have committed other crimes. Then you have people who come in contact, with law enforcement for other things that they may have done. If you are busted. Let's say in a -- a raid of a factory.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Those people would get deported now. As opposed to released and they would go to another factory.

Those types of things are the interactions that would lead to a deportation.

Like, they are trying to paint this picture. I heard all sorts of coverage on this, this morning. Like, we're going to have military members, going school to school, to find children, who are illegal immigrants and deport them.

GLENN: It's ridiculous.

STU: That's not what these policies are going to do.

And what more likely, the overwhelming majority of these, quote, unquote, deportations are going to be of the self-deportation variety.

When people start seeing that, hey. I got pulled over for, you know -- because I got in a car accident. Or whatever.

And, you know, the police came over. And they investigated. Found out, somehow, we're illegal immigrants.

You will get deported for something like that. People start seeing that.

They will be like, wait a minute. There's no longer this giant welcome mat. For us to come here illegally.

And that message --

GLENN: Right. It will be too much stress on the family. Too much.

And they will say, what will we do with the children? Take them back home with you. Yeah, what is wrong with you?

STU: You shouldn't just leave them here. What do you do, when you leave a park? You don't just leave them at the park. You take them with you.

GLENN: What do I do with children, when I take them to the park?

STU: You take them home with you.

And that is what a large portion of this, will be people saying. You know, and when we talk about this.

They say, oh, they're coming here to do jobs. And Americans won't do.

When we say those jobs aren't here.

They're not going to come. Right?

When we're not rewarding companies for giving jobs to illegal immigrants. Who are paying them less than the minimum wage.

GLENN: The majority of people are going to self-deport.

Also, the cities that are sanctuary cities are only making it worse. Because if they won't turn over the criminals. When they're released. Or they're in jail.

If they won't do that, then they release them. And our -- ICE needs to go find them.

And if they're hiding with the family and stuff like that or a different family, when we do find them, they'll bust everybody. They'll bust everybody.

So, you know, any sanctuary city that is saying, we're not going to help ICE. You're only helping more people get deported quicker.

And you're not really helping. Now, let me give you this from the Chicago Tribune.

When reports surfaced over the weekend, that mass deportations could potentially begin on the Chicago area on Tuesday.

Martin Ramos informed his boss he was taking time off from work. He stocked up on groceries and decided his kids would skip soccer practice this week.

Ramos, who immigrated from Guadalajara Mexico, without the necessary work permits, spent the first full day of Donald Trump's second presidency hunkered down with his family, trying to avoid being picked up by ICE agents.

An arrest, he knows, would destroy everything that he and his wife have worked for, and force their two boys into an uncertain future.

Force their two boys into an uncertain future. They're staying home from school because they play soccer. And they can't play soccer. We have to do everything possible to keep our children safe.

What will they do, if we get deported?
They will go home, with you!

ICE agents did not show up at the Juliet Factory where Ramos and his wife both work on Tuesday. But fear inflicted upon the employees there was evident.

A coworker told Ramos that only ten out of the typical 40 to 50 coworkers showed up.

In Little Village, one of Chicago's largest Mexican immigrant communities, streets were mostly deserted and quiet. Tamale vendors, a hardy group used to braving all kinds of weather, weren't lined up on the sidewalks.

The hardware store parking lots, where day laborers searched for work, were also largely empty.

So, in other words, they aren't hanging out with a sign that says, we'll work for food. We'll work for anything.

And picked up by construction workers that don't want to pay union workers in Chicago. Is that what I'm hearing from the Chicago Tribune?

The possibility of mass deportations have terrified some of the area's roughly 400,000 undocumented immigrants. Prompting many to skip work.

Keep their kids out of school. And stay hidden until the promised raids end.

They are not going to end. They are not going to end.

Now, Chicago is saying that they're not going to help at all.

That's okay.

That's okay.

Sunday mass at saint Agnes of Bohemia Catholic Church was unusually empty. And the church personally advised a group of street vendors, based on the southwest side to stay home during the week.

Until they will learn how ICE will operate. Out of the thirteen street vendors, only one was out there. Most vendors declined to speak to the Tribune out of fear, they might be identified and targeted.

People are hiding. They call me and ask me what to do. But my hands are tied. I don't think anyone knows what to do. Yeah. Here's what you do.

You tell them to go home!

You tell them that this government is serious about applying the laws, equally. And holding on to those laws.

And you then tell all minorities, in Chicago, you know, I've got to tell you, if your city continues to defy federal law, then your city is going to get funding, cut off from the federal government.

Let the minorities know that they are embraced bit federal government. But due to the city and the state's stance on protection of those who come here illegally and took your jobs and receive things the Democrats would have never given to you, or any other American.

The federal government only has one lever. And that is: To shut off the funding to Chicago.

So recognize who the bad guy here is. It's up to you, Chicago. It's up to you to stand up.

Now, the question is, are you going to stand up with illegals? Are you going to stand up for the absolute vast minority? Are you going to stand up against the minorities in your city, that are Americans?

Because they've been protesting this whole time, saying, wait.

Why are we getting the shaft, and these guys are getting hotel rooms, and free food, and everything else.

You never gave us any of that stuff.

Yeah. Well, it's time for Chicago to wake up. And these states will either be absolutely left behind, or they will wake up.

And that goes for California too. You are going to see that choice on Friday.