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Did THIS man force Biden to OWN UP about China's spy balloon?

President Biden and the Pentagon now claim they knew about China’s spy balloon after all. So, why then didn’t they inform the American people? Thankfully, Montana resident Chase Doak captured the balloon perfectly. He joins Glenn to describe the moment he witnessed it in the sky and took the now-viral picture that potentially forced Team Biden to finally OWN UP about the Chinese surveillance balloon floating through our skies…

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GLENN: Now, the president and the Pentagon, and everybody else, they knew about the balloon. He decided to not tell anybody about the Chinese balloon. Because he didn't want it to mess up their global warming conversation, that they were if we go to have last weekend with China.

Unfortunately, just a regular citizen looks up, like, what's that?

Takes a picture of it. And the Chinese spy balloon, is now out in the open. The -- the -- the picture goes viral everywhere. And the Pentagon has to admit, oh.

That's a spy balloon. The guy who did it, lives in Montana. His name is Chase Doak, and he is with us now. Chase, how are you?

CHASE: I'm doing all right.

GLENN: So when you looked up in the sky, and you saw the balloon. You just thought it was a regular weather balloon. Or what did you think?

CHASE: I honestly had no idea, what to think. I knew that we had a ground stop in place, so there were airspace restrictions in our airport.

And outside of my office window, I looked straight out on to the -- the airport. I -- you probably don't know much about the Billings Airport. We have cliffs here in town.

GLENN: You are on top of a butte. And I've been there, my friend.

The Becks are rampant in Billings. Anyway, go ahead.

CHASE: Yeah. So I just happen to be looking out. Because I wanted to see what was going on. I thought there might be a military exercise. Or somebody important might be flying in. And it turned out, that it was just this thing in the sky, and I had no idea what it was.

GLENN: So they had closed the airport. Or restricted the airspace. Was it because of the balloon?

CHASE: Yeah.

GLENN: Yeah.

CHASE: Yeah. It was pretty easy to put two and two together.

GLENN: Really? Huh.

And so were you surprised when -- when your discovery really -- I mean, it's -- this is being compared now to Sputnik.

Did you know that? That this is a Sputnik moment.

CHASE: Yeah. I heard. I have heard that -- you know,it -- it's still pretty surreal for me. But I didn't know when I was taking the photo, that it was going to lead to something like this.

GLENN: Sure. Sure. You're like, I bet this will bring down the fires of hell around my head.

Have you had any pushback on it. Have you gotten any heat?

CHASE: Not really. I mean, for the most part, people who have corresponded with me, have been pretty supportive. And pretty excited about it, to be honest.

GLENN: So you -- the story that I have read, said that you thought at first, it might be a UFO, or a star or something.

Is that true?

CHASE: Yeah. Yeah. I thought, you know, at best, I might get a good shot of a UFO, that would end up in a Steven Greer documentary in a few years. But...

GLENN: Well, you got a lot more than that. I -- and you took the picture from your office? Or your driveway?

CHASE: I took the initial picture from my office, and then I -- I kind of rushed out to my car, because I had my camera in the trunk of my car. But the lens I had, was just too short to get anything good.

So I actually called the photo editor at the local paper, the Billings Gazette. Larry Maher is his name, and I worked with him, for about 10 years at that paper.

And I knew he would have a big line. So I had him look up. He also is a pilot, so I thought he might what it was. But he had no idea either. Then I rushed home, to get my big lens on my camera.

GLENN: Was it hard to see?

CHASE: No. You could see it with the naked eye. And it was still broad daylight. So seeing a bright spot in the sky, and it -- it was circular. It didn't look like a point of light. It looked like a circle.

It would -- it was very easy to spot.

GLENN: How did they think they would get away with keeping this quiet? Is it --

CHASE: I have no idea. It was just so brazen.

GLENN: So amazing. So amazing.

Well, thank you. I just want to talk to an average Joe. Like, you changed history.

I don't know if you really -- that sunk in.

But I've made -- I've made a -- a point of trying to call people now, that have impacted history.

In realtime.

And they may not know about it. And ask them this question. Would you do me a favor, and write out in your own words, what you saw and everything else. In your own handwriting. And sign it for me. So we can put it in our museum and our vault.

CHASE: Yeah, I would absolutely be happy to absolutely do that.

GLENN: Yeah, that's great.

Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Case, keep up the good work.

CHASE: Thank you, Glenn.

GLENN: You bet. Buh-bye. That's kind of cool. Really cool.

STU: It's really cool. You're looking up at the sky. And I guess eventually, we would have noticed it.

I don't know. I don't check the sky for balloons that often. And they seemingly wanted us not to see this. That was their approach.

GLENN: Yeah. Their plan was, that it would just drift over the country, and nobody would say anything about it.

STU: That's incredible.

GLENN: I mean, that shows you what a dream world, that our president is living in.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: And, by the way, you know, he gave the order on Wednesday to shoot it down, but they didn't shoot it down until Saturday.

There is a question. Why? Why would they delay on that?

STU: They keep saying, it was going over people. They didn't want it to fall on people. It's kind of a weird explanation.

GLENN: That's really weird.

STU: Even the people in Montana. There's seven people per mile. Per square mile in our state. You can shoot it down, wherever you want.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. And usually when the president says, I'll shoot something down, you shoot it down.

But maybe that's just me. Also, that's about a 10,000-dollar balloon. And we used a million dollar rocket.

STU: That's a weird thing too. Why a missile?

Again, I know -- I'm familiar with balloons.

GLENN: Yeah. Are you?

STU: And typically when you put any hole in them, they'll come to the ground. You think really blowing it up to a zillion pieces. It was a cool fireworks show.

GLENN: You could have taken a biplane, and just maybe shot it with a shotgun. I mean, it was an average guy who just was standing outside going, what the hell is that?

STU: I'm kind of surprised there wasn't another average guy with a plane that was just like, eh, screw it. I'm going up there. I mean, it was pretty high for a biplane, I would assume.

GLENN: Yeah. Your head might have popped. Yeah.

STU: I guess one of the big issues was the international waters. They wanted to get it off the water. Or off the land. But they only have 12 miles. So they had to knock it down almost immediately.

And I will say, at least they did it during -- during the day.

I would have been really annoyed if we had this whole balloon thing, and we didn't get to see it explode, and at least we got that out of this.

That's the only thing I can say. At least we got that. They should have filled it with either blue or pink dust, and made it a gender reveal of some sort.

GLENN: That would have been cool. Or a rainbow.

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Is the case closed on Jeffrey Epstein and Russiagate? Maybe not. Glenn Beck pulls the thread on the story and its far-reaching implications that could expose a web of scandals and lead to a complete implosion of trust. Glenn lays out five theories that could explain Trump’s frustration over the Epstein files and why Glenn may never talk about the Epstein case again. Plus, Glenn connects the dots between the Russiagate hoax, the Hunter Biden laptop cover-up, and the Steele dossier related to the FBI’s new “grand conspiracy” probe. It all leads to one James Bond-like villain: former CIA Director John Brennan. Then, Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, tells Glenn why he believes his former boss Brennan belongs in prison and what must happen to prevent a full-blown trust implosion in American institutions.

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Rumors explained: Is Fed Chair Jerome Powell OUT?!

After rumors spread that President Trump would soon fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Trump has said that he's "not planning" on it right now. But is it possible for Trump to fire him? Will he resign? And how is the Fed Chair even chosen in the first place? Glenn and his head researcher Jason Buttrill explain ...

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GLENN: Well, last night, I was rapidly looking the lie some of these rumors, on X.

Pretty incredible people on what's going on with Jerome Powell and the fed.

What the heck?

I was actually popping popcorn and watching this. It was so crazy.

GLENN: So it's just the rumors, that he is going to be stepping down?

JASON: Well, yeah.

Yeah. Anna Paulina Luna. Congresswoman. She was saying, it was almost imminent, that he was about to be fired. Actually fired.

There were other rumors saying, well, we're not sure about fired.

But he's considering resigning.

GLENN: Yeah. You know why.

JASON: We were like, what the heck is going on?

GLENN: So do you know why?

Do you know why he's resigning? Any guesses? I mean, you had popcorn out. I would love to hear what you have come up with.

JASON: So there was the CPI stuff coming out. The interest rates going up.

We know that the President wants interest rates to come down. I'm assuming that is what the deal is, and there's some sort of internal battle going on.

GLENN: Well, and the president can't fire the Fed chief. Okay?

So the Fed chief is the one that nominated. The federal reserve is the biggest crock of bullcrap I've ever seen in my life.

It's nothing, but the five biggest banks. Okay? And you know which ones they are. They're the ones that keep getting bigger. And everybody else is falling to the wayside.

So the Federal Reserve is the arm of those five banks.

Okay?

And they suggest, who the president can select from.

So the president can't say, I don't want any of these guys. I want this guy. Can't do it.

He has to take a look at the list that all the banks have put together. Is. Say, pick from this list, Mr. President.

Did you know that?

JASON: It's kind of how Iran chooses their next president.

GLENN: It's exactly. It's exactly that way. Except, this religion is all about the almighty dollar.

Okay. So he can't -- he can't pick on his own. But the president has a right to pick one, you know, every term. If it comes up in his term.

The president wants this guy out. And I think he's been really, really bad.

Because he's been wrong on almost -- on almost everything. But show me the -- show me the Fed, you know, the guy who the Fed was right ever.

So he can't fire him. But he wants him out. Because he wants interest rates dropped.

And, you know, the jobs are coming back. Things are coming back.

But interest rates keep coming up.

And the -- and the interest rates, if we keep our interest rates high, we have a harder time borrowing money for our debt.

And it just gets more and more expensive for everybody all along. So the president wants him to back off interest rates. But the Fed chief believes that that could cause more inflation.

Which I think he's right on that one. And I hate to say he was right on anything.

Because I don't think he was ever right.

Makes me question myself. When he's like, well, I think he might have a point on that one. But the president is like, no. He can handle it.

I want them down. I want cheap money again.

He refuses. So what has the president done?

The president can only fire him, with cause!

So what do you do when you can only fire somebody with cause, and you want them out.

You find a cause, and this one is easy.

So the Fed has been the one leading the way saying, we can't keep borrowing money.

We've got to have some fiscal sanity. Right?

This is going to kill us. We have to keep these interest rates high, because you are borrowing too much money. And maybe this is the only way to stop you.

So we got to keep it high, because you've borrowed too much money. And how many times has he testified in front of Congress? We've got to cut. We've got to cut. You can't keep spending like this.

Okay? Well, did you know that the Federal Reserve, with our tax dollars, the five biggest banks, a/k/a the Federal Reserve, is redoing their offices. To the tune of two billion dollars!

Now, I don't know what kind of wallpaper they need there.

But that seems like a pretty hefty renovation, especially when everybody is looking at cutting things. And you're lecturing me about spending money. So they get money from the government, okay? They're telling us, stop spending.
Stop borrowing.

Except, okay. What you've borrowed. I need $2 billion of that, to redo our offices in Washington, DC.

Excuse me?

Why don't you do that yourself. Okay. I think banks maybe have some money.

So they're borrowing that money, and there's $700 million over.

So it's $2 billion. $700 million over budget. And they're still not finished.

And the problem is: They're putting in water features.

They have a rooftop garden they're building.

JASON: Okay.

GLENN: I mean, it is -- it's insane. The president now knows, really? You want to play this game with me. I will sit your ass down in front of Congress, and you answer to the American people, how you're lecturing us about spending. And you're putting in a rooftop garden and a water feature in your office. No! No.

So the president is now threatening, I'll fire you for this. You want to quit, now would be the time to quit.

Otherwise, I'm dragging your butt in front of Congress.

You answer to the American people for this. And they will beg me to fire you.

That's what's happening.

JASON: I looked at that a lot.

Because I was like. There's got to be some leverage that the president had, because they can't get rid of.

But that is a pretty big cut. That sounds like a Babylon Bee article. $2 billion.

GLENN: It does. It does. $2 billion, 700 million over budget.

JASON: Oh, my gosh.

GLENN: I mean, and these are the responsible bankers. No, I don't think so.

It just shows, they don't mean what they say. They'll just keep doing it for themselves. You know, if you really believed that America was really on that financial cliff, why would you do that?

You would lead the way and say, guys, we are going to be the only responsible ones here.

We will lead by example.

No renovation. You know what, go to IKEA?

You need a new desk. Go to IKEA, and get a new desk. Well, we have to keep up our image. We're not going to have a country.

So what do you say, we go to IKEA?

Our image should be, we are going to lead the way out of this madness!

That's what a leader would do.

JASON: So, Glenn, I still don't think I get this disconnect between Trump and Powell on -- we know Trump wants to lower interest rates.

Powell is standing back and saying, basically, he doesn't want to do it.

Is he trying to undermine President Trump on this?

GLENN: President Trump thinks so. President Trump thinks so.

I think so, to some degree.

I mean, I'm worried about inflation.

Look, you know what happened. Do you know what's happening with yap?

JASON: What's happening with Japan?

GLENN: So what's happening with Japan, is Japan has always had this really amazing image of, we're solid. We're absolutely solid.

This is target to crack. The foundation.

1989.

Let me go back to 1989.

This was the crown jury trial of the global economy.

Back in 1989, you probably aren't old enough to remember.

All of a sudden, Japan owned everything in America. We were just becoming Japanese, and everything was being purchased by Japan. Kind of like it feels a little bit like China now.

JASON: They even owned Nakatomi Plaza, Glenn, that Bruce Willis had to save -- they owned everything in every '80s movie!

GLENN: Oh, yeah, they owned absolutely everything.

Okay? And the -- things were so insane in Japan. The grounds of the imperial palace, in Tokyo, on paper was worth more than the entire value of the state of California.


JASON: Wow!

GLENN: Okay?

So their land. Everything just shot up. And so they had all of -- they were flush with all this cash.

And people believed that Japan had suddenly, you know, cracked the formula for, you know, eternal prosperity.

That's the problem. Then it all started to fall apart. And the asset prices. That they had mortgaged against.

Okay?

They had borrowed. Well, the imperial palace was worth more than California.

That doesn't make any sense. You wouldn't mortgage it like that. At least long-term. I will do this real quick, and pay it off.

You would never, ever mortgage, because you know that's inane. Well, nobody ever wanted -- and it seems in governments, nobody ever wants to believe that this is just a fluke. Okay?

So the asset prices collapse. The stock markets plunged. And for three decades, they have gone into this very polite political coma.

Okay? Economic coma. And so the central bank did something radical. They were the first ones to set your interest rate at zero. They lowered the interest rate. They made money so cheap, it was nearly free. Zero percent interest. Sometimes, they would pay you to take out money.

So the -- they had negative interest rates. Can you imagine that? Now, you're not fixing the problem. You're just printing wallpaper to cover the mold. All right?

So they've done this for decades.

Now their debt is I think 260. Or 280 percent of their GDP.

I think, what is ours?

100?

80 percent.

Something crazy. 120. You never believe back.

The death threshold is usually 120, 140.

They're 260 percent of their entire economy is debt.

That's not a crack. That's a fault line.

So this week. Or was it last week? Things started to creek and grown in Japan.

And the government bonds, which are like our treasuries. Is this getting too complex.

Are you following this still?

JASON: Yeah.

GLENN: Okay. So their government bonds.

They were the safest investments on earth.

One of them. Okay?

It's us. Japan, Germany.

They started to fall.

Hard. And when bond prices fall, interest rates were the easily go up.

All right?

So they borrow all this money.

260 percent of their GDP is borrowed. Okay?

So they borrowed all of that money. And they had it at like 3 percent interest. Whatever.

2 percent interest.

And they were paying people.

2 percent.

Well, all of a sudden, the cracks started to appear. And people were like, I'm not sure this is stable at all.

And then the belief of the system started to -- to go away. So people started selling their Japanese bonds.

Once they do that, now the yields have to go up.

What happens when yields go up?

What happens when interest rates go up? For a government. You have to pay more interest on your debt!

Okay?

You add two or three points.

Just imagine, you have an adjustable rate. Okay?

This is a government having an adjustable rate. Except, they have 260 percent of everything they make, in debt!

And it's all leveraged.

And now, their adjustable goes up two, three, four points.

You're not able to afford that anymore, okay?

So massive problem.

Because what it really means is. People don't believe in Japan.

They know the con game is now over.

And investors are saying, you know, I want a whole lot more in return.

Because I just don't believe you anymore.

And it's not just Japan's problem. This is not a neighbor's house on fair.

This is -- imagine we're all living under the same roof. This is the neighbor's apartment, on fire.

We're all under the same roof. We all have the same foundation. And so when this happens to Japan, you should pay attention. And I'll show you the ripple effects in just a second.

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GLENN: Okay. So now if Japan -- that means there's a stampede out of Japan.

And people are starting to look and reprice the risk of their money.

Now they're like, wait a minute.

The most stable. You know, if you're driving a car and it is the safest car in the world and all of a sudden, they just start blowing up on the highway.

You're like, I don't think that's the most -- that's the safest car on the highway.

And if that's the safest car, what does it mean for the car I'm in?

You know what I mean? So now, this is going to push US interest rates going up.

Which makes our mortgage rates go can up. And our car loans more expensive. And the national debt. Which is already costing us $1.2 trillion a year, just in interest.

Now, they can't sell their treasuries. People are skittish on treasuries. Maybe they come to the United States, but they're not so far.

They're getting out of the Japanese interest. Or the bonds there.

Japan has to pay their bills.

What do you do when you have to pay a bill?

And you don't have any money coming in.

You don't have enough money coming in. What do you do?

You sell something. Right? You sell your car. You sell something that you have of value.

Well, what do they have? What do they hold of value? US Treasuries.

So now, we are trying to sell our bonds, for our new debt, they hold our old debt.

They're saying, hey. Anybody want to buy this debt? Because I have to sell it. Fire sale. What do you give me for it?

Okay?

Which makes that debt more attractive, because they can get a better deal there.

Which means, if we want to have new debt, we have to raise our interest rates. Which means, we pay more for interest for our mortgages and everything else.

And it floods the market with bonds, crushing the prices, skyrocketing the costs for us.
And causing even more trouble, in other countries, that have US bonds. Because they start to look and go, nobody is buying these bonds.

Well, of course not. You have two countries. The two stablest countries besides Germany.

You have the two stablest countries now selling US Treasury bonds.

Okay? Really, really bad.

Now, let me add this on.

Germany is now having to pay for their own army.

And so they said, they're going to borrow money.

To build the army.

And they're going to lower their interest rate. So they can borrow more money. All right?

And now, the German bund, which is -- you know, like our Treasury. That's now starting to fall apart.

Well, Germany has some assets, they can sell.

What do you think that asset might be that they want to sell?

US treasuries.

We have been playing an extraordinarily horrible game.

This is why I believe the president wants somebody else in charge of the Fed, because the Fed can say, we're lowering the interest rates.

Because he's got to get more money into the system. So people can spend money, can start businesses. Borrow money.

Get things moving, so we can increase the amount of taxes that we collect.

The more people money -- the more people make, the more taxes we collect.

So he's like, we've got to grow the economy. And the only way we can grow the economy is to lower the interest rates.

But at the same time, interest rates around the world because of what's happening with the bonds is going through the roof.

We are in a very -- we've never been in this position before.

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