RADIOApril 02, 2024

Why is Everyone Blaming RUSSIA for Havana Syndrome NOW?

An ex-government investigator and CBS’s “60 Minutes” are now suggesting that Russia is behind the mysterious “Havana Syndrome.” This is despite a 2023 government report that found no evidence that Havana Syndrome was caused by foreign agents. So, what has changed? Why is this back in the news? And why are people suddenly blaming Russia? Glenn digs into the facts, including two big coincidences: The U.S. House is about to give Ukraine more aid and many of the alleged Havana Syndrome victims have one thing in common …

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GLENN: There's something else that is bothering me.

In fact, let's -- can we play from yesterday's clips? Can we play the 60 Minutes, former Pentagon investigator says US officers attacked by Russians. This is cut four. This is really important. Listen to this.

VOICE: Are we being attacked?

VOICE: My personal opinion, by whom?

VOICE: Russia.

VOICE: Greg ed Green ran the investigation for the defense intelligence agency. He would not discuss classified information, but he described his team's work from 2021 to 2023.

VOICE: We were collecting a large body of data. Ranging from signals intelligence. Human intelligence.

Open source reporting. Anything, regarding the internet. Travel record. Financial records. You name it.

Unfortunately, I can't get into specifics, based on the classification. But I can tell you, at a very early stage, I started to focus on Moscow.

GLENN: Can you tell me about the pattern's you began to see?

VOICE: One of the things I started to notice was the caliber of our officer, that was being impacted. This wasn't happening to our worst or our middle range officers.

This was happening to our top five, 10 percent performing officers, across the Defense Intelligence Agency.

And consistent eight, there was a Russia nexus.

There was some angle, where they had worked against Russia. Focused on Russia. And done extremely well.

The impact has been that, the intelligence officers, and our diplomats working abroad, are being removed from their post with traumatic brain injuries. They're being neutralized.

GLENN: Hmm. They're being neutralized. And Russia was involved. Cut two, please, from today.

VOICE: It was like this piercing feeling on the side of my head. I remember it was on the right side of my head. And I got like vertigo.

VOICE: Olivia Troy was Homeland Security advisor to Vice President Mike Pence.

In our 2022 report, she told us she was hit outside the White House.

VOICE: And then severe ear pain started. So I liken it to, if you put a Q-tip too far, and you're bouncing off your ear drum. Well, imagine taking a sharp pencil. And kind of poking that.

VOICE: And this man told us, he was among the first publicly known cases in 2016, from our embassy in Cuba. That's how the incidence became known as Havana syndrome. He's medically retired from an agency he can't name. Blind in one eye, and struggling for balance.

GLENN: Okay. All right.

STU: It's really weird.

GLENN: It is weird, isn't it? What do you go away with?

STU: On that particular report?

GLENN: What you just heard. What do I take away from that?

STU: Russia is apparently attacking our -- our government officials.

GLENN: Right.

STU: With some sort of weapon? That -- not really explained there. But we've heard about Havana syndrome before.

GLENN: Right.

STU: It seems to be really affecting people who are really hit with what this is.

GLENN: All right. Now, let me take you back to 2023. This is a briefing from the State Department.

Cut three, please.

VOICE: It has been the broad conclusion of the intelligence community since March 2023. That it's unlikely a foreign adversary is responsible for these anomalous health incidents. It's something that the intelligence community has investigated extensively. And continues to look at. We will look at new information as it comes in. And make assessments inside the State Department. And with our intelligence community.

VOICE: You can't confirm whether they agree with that in this building?

VOICE: No, they do share that.

GLENN: Hmm. Hmm.

STU: I remember that. That was the big story.

GLENN: Yeah. This is from the Washington Post. A year ago.

The mysterious ailment known as Havana syndrome did not result from the actions of a foreign adversary, according to intelligence report. That shatters a long disputed theory, that hundreds of US personnel were targeted, and sickened by clandestine enemy wielding energy waves as a weapon. The new intelligence assessment caps a year's long effort by the CIA, and several other US intelligence agencies to explain why career diplomats, intelligence officers, and others. Serving in US missions around the world. Experienced what they described as strange and painful acoustic sensations. Many of the afflicted personnel say they were victims of a deliberate attack, possibly in the hands of Russia. Or other adversarial government.

A claim that the report contradicts nearly every aspect, according to two intelligence officials, who are familiar with the assessment, described to the Washington Post. Seven intelligence agencies, participated in a review of approximately 1,000 cases. Of health incidents.

The term, the government uses to describe, a constellation of physical symptoms, including ringing in the ears, followed by pressure in the head, and nausea.

Five of have those agents determined it was very unlikely that a foreign adversary was responsible for the symptoms, either as a result of purposeful actions, such as directed energy weapons. Or a by-product of some other activity, including electronic surveillance that made people sick.

They spoke on the condition of anonymity. One agency, which the officials did not name. Determined that it was unlikely that a foreign actor was at fault, a slightly less emphatic finding.

That did not appreciably change the consensus.

One agency abstained in its conclusion regarding a foreign actor. But when asked, no agency dissented from the conclusion, that a foreign actor did not cause the symptoms.

One of the intelligence officials said. Now, that came out, a year ago.

So one would have to ask the government, were I lying then, or are you lying now?

STU: Is it that these are just people within these investigations, who are disagreeing with the final of the government report?

Because I remember the report. It was a big story at the time.

It was a big thing.

Like everyone, for years and years and years, were told about the Havana syndrome.

Very suspicious and strange.

But no one really knew. And then they came out with this report. This was our conclusion.

We came up with it. It wasn't anybody.

They kind of made it seem like, these were unrelated, sort of general health ailments these people were going through.

Well, let's go through some of this.

60 Minutes spoke with retired general officer, Lieutenant Colonel Greg Edgreen.

Now, remember, he said one agents -- one agents -- or the report a year ago said, one agency didn't agree. So let's just say, that Greg is the guy, who said, I'm not taking a position on this one.

STU: Sure. Okay.

GLENN: He said, that Russia appeared to be the common denominator across most cases concerning Havana Syndrome. One of the things I started to notice was the caliber of our officers.

Okay. Remember? What he just said. Our top five or 10 percent performing officers.

So let's look at those who were targeted.

The investigative journalist also claimed to have obtained an accounting document linked to a top secret Russian intelligence unit called 21159, which outlines a bonus payment for an officer who worked on a project. Concerning potential capabilities of non-lethal weapons.

When I saw it, I literally had tears in my eyes, because it was spelling out, what they had been doing. Said one of the -- one of the victims.

It's not definitive proof of Havana Syndrome Cause. It's the closest to a receipt, you can have, however, for this. Okay. So who are some of these people?

Who are some of the people that were linked? And is it real or a hoax? Let me go there, next.
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Okay. Let's look at what's happening with the CBS report. CBS doesn't have -- and neither did the FBI, have any interest in protecting one of the -- one of the main sources here. That is supposed to be high level intelligence.

Nobody seems to be caring about hiding her identity.

Moreover, CBS acknowledges on multiple occasions. That the FBI has been in the loop, regarding her appearance. And talking points on CBS.

This means that CBS and the FBI have been working in concert on this story.

Which leads to a variety of questions about the independence of 60 minutes, in reporting the story, accurately without any bias.

Remember, the Deep State, they keep going to the same sources that have lied to them, over and over again.

Throughout the piece, there is a stunning lack of real evidence, that delivers a direct link between the Russian agents. Directed energy weapons.

And the variety of claimed injuries.

Now, is there any link. Are there any questions, that should be asked.

Well, here's one. Why isn't Moscow using this weapon against Zelinsky?

Why is there no evidence of Russia using these devices on any battle food, such as Ukraine, or Syria?

There's a journalist, his name is Hans -- Hans Maccadee (phonetic). He noticed, and spoke on X.

He said, it's really important to scrutinize the individual, current, and the former government agents, who claim to be suffering.

So who are they?

Well, one of them is retired from the CIA, in 2019.

Currently, an MSNBC contributor. He was one of the many former government agents who claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop was disinformation.

Myles Taylor, another one, is -- wrote the infamous. Anonymous, anti-Trump letter.

Made a career of leveraging his government credentials to write best-selling Trump-bashing Fannie Mae fiction. Olivia Troy, she's a former adviser to Mike Pence. She's followed a similar path to Mr. Taylor.

And the last one, waged the campaign to get social media, to censor critics, falsely accused several people of being Russian-controlled accounts.

Seems like, we have the same kind of people running around.

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GLENN: Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

STU: So you're going with this piece on Havana syndrome, from Jordan Schachtel, right?

GLENN: Yeah. So it's in the dossier. It's really, really well-written, and I think well thought out. He's asking the question, why now?

Why is this story? And this is something that came up to me, yesterday, when we were talking about it on the air, the 60 minutes, had covered this thing.

Wait a minute. Isn't that the same thing that all of the agencies said was not a foreign actor?

Yeah. Well, he thought the same thing, and he went in, and he looked into who these people are. And they're all people that, you know, have either been anti-Trump. Pro-Hunter Biden.

They're all the people that were involved in all of this garbage over the last few years, about Russia. And so that's kind of a coincidence. I mean, incredible.

He points out, in his article, is it perhaps because the House is set to vote on both the massive seizing of Russian assets, and the infusion of cash for the war in Ukraine.

They're set to vote on that, right around the corner. So are they -- is this just another set up? By the government.

Using CBS, to carry the water, to say, see. See how bad they are. It doesn't make sense to me.

It obviously doesn't make sense to him either. What does make sense is that you're being set up and lied to. Because you're either being lied to last year. Or you're being lied to now. Which is it? Which is it?

Well, I would imagine, that you're probably being lied to now, seeing that money is involved. And you watch. You watch. They're going to come out with -- with the Ukraine money. And they're going to say, it's -- it's a loan.

It's just a loan. We're just going to loan them this money. They will pay us back. But it will be a forgivable loan. You watch.

This AI could change EVERYTHING by next year

With Elon Musk’s announcement of Grok 4, humanity is closer than ever before to creating AGI – artificial general intelligence – which would change everything. Glenn Beck breaks down what’s coming in the next year with AI, which even Elon Musk called “terrifying.”

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GLENN: Let me tell you the biggest story of the day.

And I think it is the biggest story possibly of all mankind, as of today.

It's going to change rapidly.

I don't know if anybody -- did either of you guys watch the Elon Musk thing last night?

STU: No, I did watch a few minutes of it.

GLENN: Okay. Did you, Jason?

JASON: No. I sure didn't.

GLENN: Okay. So the xAI team was there to unveil Grok 4. This is the latest intelligence, and let me be very, very clear.

Last night was not your typical tech launch. This is a moment that demands everyone's full attention.

We are now at the crossroads, where promise and peril are going to collide. Okay?

I have explained to you, for years, AGI.
AI. AGI. And ASI. Narrow intelligence is what we've always had.

General intelligence is the next step. And that is, it's better that man, one -- one, you know, like Grok. Can do everything. That you can do.

Better that you can do.

Okay?

And then there's super intelligence. ASI.

Artificial super intelligence.

That's when things get really, really creepy.

When you hit AGI, the road to ASI could be overnight.

Okay?

We need to understand what's at stake here. Because Grok four brought us closer to that second stage, than ever before.

Grok four is a powerhouse. They demonstrated it last night.

It surpasses the expertise of Ph.D.-level sailors in all fields.

It can get 100 percent on any -- any test for any field, mathematics, physics. Engineering.

You name it.

This is not a search engine.

This is a system that tackles problems, so intricate, they -- they go beyond our existing knowledge base.

Okay?

Let's say there is -- let's say, we have a fusion reactor. And the magnetic containment system goes down. I don't even know what I'm talking about at this point.

But it goes down.

And the top minds all on earth are like, I don't know what to do. Grok 4 can step in, model the physics, design new material, stabilize the system, and avert catastrophe. And it can do it about that fast. Now, this is the capability, that Musk says is just around the corner.

Mark my words. You know, how many -- how many years did I say, between 2027 and 2030, we would start to see this?

STU: Oh, a million times.

That was always --

GLENN: For years. Right? Yeah, always the window.

And everybody, even Ray Kurzweil said, oh, that's way too optimistic. We may be 2050.

And then people started going, 2040, 2030.

Grok shows us 2026 or 2027 is when we're going to hit it. This is the last year, that we have, before things get really weird.

Okay?

Last night, Elon Musk is touting this -- this AI.

And all of the solutions.

And then he says.

Hmm. Probably three times.

Something like this.

And I'm quoting. This is one of them.

It's somewhat unnerving to have created intelligence that's greater than our own.

He then goes on to call it terrifying, twice.

Now, this is a man who has launched rockets, you know, into orbit.

Going to Mars.

And he says, twice!

You know, after he sees the results of it. He says, you know, it's really -- in a way, quite terrifying to see what it's doing.

But we just have to make sure that it remains good!

Oh, okay.

All right. Sure.

Now, the key point in the announcement was the mention of ARC-AGI.

I had never heard of ARC-AGI. I had no idea what it was. But I noticed AGI. And I went, uh-oh. That sounds important. So this is the gold standard. The bench mark testing for artificial general intelligence.

Okay.

As I've said before, AGI. Artificial General Intelligence is a machine that matches all human cognition, across all domains.

Reasoning, creativity.

Problem solving. Not just specialized tasks like playing Go or analyzing x-rays. Everything. For instance, Musk said by mid-next year to the latest end of next year, it will be able to create a full length movie, just from a text prompt.
And do it all at once!

So, in other words, it will say, create a movie, and you just explain the Godfather.

It will do the casting. It will do the writing. It will do the filming, if you will. It will -- score the music, and it will happen that fast.

Almost in realtime. We are nowhere near the computational power now, to do that separately.

But this will do it all at once. It will make a movie with all of it, simultaneously.

So the arc AGI system is the benchmark on how close we are to AGI. Remember, scary things happen at AGI.

Terrifying things happen at ASI. ASI could be a matter of hours, or days after we hit AGI.

Grok 4 scored 16.2 percent on the ARC-AGI scale.

Why is that important? You're like, well, only 16 percent away.

Because last time, it barely broke 8 percent.

And that -- they took that test, last time with Grok three.

And it took us forever to get to 8 percent.

Now, what is it? A year later.

We're at 16 percent. Remember, these things are not linear. The next time, we could be at 32, we might be at 64.

We are on the verge. This is the last year of -- I can't believe I'm saying this. Of normalcy. Okay?

This year is -- we're going to look back at this year, probably two years ago, gosh, remember the good old days, when everything was normal.

And you could understand everything.

This is how close we are!

Everything you and I talked about last night, Stu, about what we're doing in January, make -- put -- does it make it even more critical that that happens like, oh, I don't know.

Right now.

STU: Yeah. For sure.

GLENN: You are going to need to know your values, your ethics, your rights.

You are going to need to know absolutely everything.

Now, Grok 4 is not true AGI yet.

It lacks the full autonomy and the generalized reasoning of a human mind. But it is the closest that we've come.

It's a system that can adapt, innovate, at a level that outpaces specialized AIs by a wide margin.

This is a milestone. This is not a destination, but it's something that should jolt everybody awake. So here's what's coming over the next six months. By December 2025, that's this Christmas!

December 2025, he believes, Musk, that Grok 4, will drive breakthroughs in material sciences.

So, in other words, imagine a new -- brand-new alloy, that is lighter than aluminum. Stronger than steel.

And it revolutionizes aerospace and everything else, or a drug that halts Alzheimer's progression, tailored to a person's DNA.

Grok will drive breakthroughs through material science. So brand-new materials that nobody has ever thought of.

Pharmaceuticals that we never thought could be made.

And chemical engineering, putting together chemicals that no man has ever thought.

That's going for happen by December.

Imagine a chemical compound that makes carbon capture, economically viable. The climate change stuff, that's over.

It will be over.

Because this will solve that! These are not fantasies.

This is Grok 4.

Musk said something that he never thought. He believes that within the next year, by 2027, Grok 4 will uncover new physical laws.

So that will rewrite the understanding -- our understanding of the entire universe.

That there will come -- like there's gravity. Hey, you know what, there's another law here that you never thought of. Wait. What?

That, he says, will come by 2027. This is going to accelerate human discovery, at an unprecedented scale.

I told you, at some point. I said, by 2030. It might be a little earlier than that.

Things will be happening at such a fast rate, you won't be able to keep up with them.

And it will accelerate to the point to where you won't even understand what all of this means.

Or what the ramifications are!

Are you there yet?

In six months, Grok 4 could evolve into a system, that dwarfs human expertise in economics, defense, all of it.

Now, again, it's a bit terrifying to quote Elon Musk. Why?

Because we don't know, what else comes with this.

This is like an alien life form.

We have no idea, what to predict. What it will be capable of.

How it will view us, when we are ants, to its intellect.

Okay?

It is a tool, but it is also Pandora's box.

If Grok 4 is the biggest step towards AGI.

And maybe one of the last steps to AGI.

My feeling is: What I've been saying forever.

2027 to 2030, I'm leaning more toward the 2027 now.

Because of this announcement last night.

We are on the verge of AGI.

And everything in human existence changing overnight.

And as Musk said himself, two times, it's terrifying!

We should act like it is terrifying.

Or risk losing the control of the future, that we're all trying to build. That's the biggest story of the day.

I think! In my opinion.

Bill O'Reilly reveals how Trump can END Epstein files nightmare overnight!

Bill O'Reilly joins Glenn Beck with his plan for how the Trump administration can fix the Epstein Files fallout "overnight." Plus, he explains why he believes there's only one way that former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan get indicted by a grand jury.

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GLENN: All right. Bill O'Reilly.

Welcome to the program, sir! How are you?

BILL: Welcome. (inaudible)

And right off the bat, I have to correct you.

GLENN: Yeah. You're not alive. What know.

BILL: I mean, you know -- you don't know that?

GLENN: Yeah, yeah. No. I -- I thought you were dead. Anyway --

BILL: You were dead to me, oh!
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I --

GLENN: I get it.

BILL: That's just another brick in your wall, Beck.
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GLENN: It's good to talk to you, Bill.

Tell me -- you had a conversation with -- with President Trump, what, a couple of months ago, and I talked about --

BILL: Yeah. St. Patrick's Day, he invited me to sit on a cabinet meeting, which he does sometimes.

And he said, look, we've got files, Kennedy, King, Epstein -- what do you think? And I said, well, first Kennedy you've got to put out pretty much everything, which he did. King, he didn't. I don't know why. Because that's important too.

And then on Epstein I said, you have to be careful here, because this is now being used in political precincts. Both sides want to destroy anybody that was associated with Epstein. And the problem is that a federal investigation. They don't make a determination whether you had a -- what kind of relationship you had with Epstein. They just said, so-and-so had lunch with him.

Or maybe so-and-so had -- saw him at a party. And I said, any name of a human being associated with Epstein, in any way, that person is going to be destroyed. Because you know, the press is not going to put anything into context.

So I said, but it's very important that the Justice Department tell the folks what they know.

And you don't have to get specific with anything.

But you have to say, this is the information that we've compiled. And that's not hard.

And I don't know why the Trump administration is not doing that.

GLENN: Wow!

So, first of all, it's your fault, that we're not getting any names. We learned a lot here.

BILL: Probably my fault, but the president --

GLENN: You know what, I think you're right. I don't want all the names of the people. I want to know --

BILL: And I don't either.

GLENN: Right! I want to know the Justice Department has sorted through the things, and then have gone through. And said, this is criminal. This is not. These people are being indicted, et cetera, et cetera. But to come out and say, there is nothing there, I mean, it's -- it's at least --

BILL: It's ridiculous.

GLENN: It's mass incompetence, at least from Pam Bondi. How could she come out and say, it's all sitting on my desk?

And then when she doesn't release it, she says, well, that's because the FBI in New York is thwarting this process. There are people up there, that are trying to keep this from me.

And then she makes no arrests on that. We never hear about that again.

And then now all of a sudden, there's nothing to see.

BILL: Well, listen, Pam Bondi does not make decisions on her own.

No cabinet member does.

All the decisions come out of the West Wing.

So what I believed happened was, Trump was so obsessed with the big bill, with Iran, with Putin, with China.

That this -- they didn't even think about this. Okay?

GLENN: I believe that.

BILL: And it slowly began to unravel. And then I caught it by surprise.

But this is the easiest fix. Somewhere so easy.

BILL: So if I'm in charge, and that would be a great thing for everyone, except you, Beck -- but every other American, if I were in charge, tremendous. You would be in Botswana. Right.

GLENN: Right. Oh, I know.

Yeah. Yeah. I would be the ambassador of the white farmers in -- in South Africa if it were up to you. I know. I know.

BILL: No. You would be wandering around going, I am Glenn Beck. And they would go, who? That's what you'd be doing.

GLENN: That's every day.

BILL: So this could happen within the hour. Pam Bondi announces a press conference for tomorrow.

At that press conference, sitting next to her, is Merrick Garland, everyone.

You had this stuff for four years! Now, I understand that Mr. Garland has gone native and is living in a -- well, we can find him. We can pull him out of there, and have him and Pam, sit there and answer questions in a general way about what evidence the Justice Department of the United States has compiled.

GLENN: Not going to happen.

BILL: That's it!

Well, if it's not going to happen, then President Trump is going to take a hit.

But he's calculating that this will say that it's that night important.

But I don't know why you would not do it.

I just don't know. And I'm usually pretty good at predicting what the president does or does not do.

GLENN: So here's the thing, Bill.

I think he keeps focusing on Epstein. It's not that big of a deal.

It's not about Epstein. It's about justice.

It's about, can we trust the people -- correct!

It's all about credibility and justice.

And he's not seeing that. And I don't know how he's missing that. Because I agree with you.

He's been so busy on so many other things.

BILL: That's right. That's right.

GLENN: This is not at the top of his priority list.

But he did campaign on it.

BILL: Right.

And I don't know if there's anybody inside the White House.

He looks to be annoyed, when this subject comes up.

GLENN: Oh, I know.

BILL: And here's the -- what works -- you have to understand.

A guy like Donald Trump runs it all.

If he's annoyed, nobody will want to annoy him more. Okay?

GLENN: Oh, I know.

BILL: That's how it works. The older arch is, because Epstein got favorable treatment.

By the feds, in the first go around in Florida, that there's a deep suspicion about this case.

But if you break it down, if the Biden administration had any dirt on any Republican associated with Epstein. It would have been out.

And vice-versa.

If the Republicans had any dirt on any Democrats. Now, we know that former president Clinton, was involved with Epstein to some extent.

I don't know if that was a factor, okay? I don't know.

But your right for once. You're right. It's about credibility. It's about the American people trusting that we do have equal justice for all!

So what do you -- what do you make of now the Russia gate thing, coming out, today. Or yesterday.

The FISA court.

The fact that they're now saying, hey.

You know, we need to hold Brennan accountable.

We're like five or six days away.

Weeks away from him, you know, slipping past the -- the statute of limitations.

I mean, all these things are out today.

There's that. There is also the -- let's see here.

The Secret Service -- I think this happened a year ago.

But it's being reported as if it's news.

Secret Service suspends six agents assigned to protect Trump during a Butler assassination attempt. I mean, all these things are coming out. Like, look, we're busy on all these things. And I do believe they're busy on these things.

But it's like the Keystone Cops are in charge of the PR on this. It's bad.

BILL: Well, there's a lot of politics involved in both of those cases. Number one, in order to get Comey and Brennan to get indicted by a grand jury. Federal grand jury, and that's the only passage, you would have to have a whistle-blower, saying, yeah, these guys abused their power. I worked for them. And they absolutely wanted to get Trump.

And they knew the Russia dossier was phony.

And they did it anyway.

If I have that Justice Department.

Then you can get those guys.

If you don't have it, they will not be even indicted by a grand jury.

GLENN: So how is it that we do not have that Justice Department?

How do we not have that Justice Department?

BILL: Well, look. I don't know whether they have a whistle-blower or not, okay?

And if they have a whistle-blower, I want the case to go forward.

I want those two men indicted.

You can't do that, at that level.

As far as the Secret Service is concerned, monumental screw up. Everybody knows it. They fired the morons in charge of it. That woman -- I was embarrassed listening to her, trying to explain.

They didn't know what the deuce was going on. But this was across-the-board, in the Biden administration.

You know, it was a year ago Sunday, this upcoming Sunday.

GLENN: Right.

BILL: And it's just another example of how the Biden administration was the second worst administration in the history of this country. People have no idea how bad it was.

Every single agency was chaotic. Nothing worked. And this is just part of that. And we'll have a slew of stuff on Sunday. Nothing really meaningful.

I mean, they suspended the Secret Service agents, as they should have. They fired the director as they should have. The guy was a nut.

I don't know if there was anything more to that. I doubt it.

I'm more interested in the guy in the bushes. Because they don't know anything about him. I would like to know a little bit about him.

But again, the federal government, it doesn't really matter. It's the government. They never want to tell us stuff, Beck, never.

We always have to pull it out of them. It's almost like Russia or something. Come on!

GLENN: Right. Yeah. Let me ask you, let me take you back again to the Epstein thing.

I noticed yesterday, there were these people who were on the left. Who were taking tweets of mine. That say, look. These things don't make sense. On the Epstein thing. And they just have to be answered. And not anti-Trump at all.

And yet, the anti-Trump people were retweeting that, and they're trying to -- they're trying to get the right to fight against itself again and split people away from Donald Trump, where I don't think this Epstein thing is -- is splitting people from Donald Trump, at least at this point.

And I -- you know, I -- my wife stopped me from answering some of those tweets, yesterday.

Because it's never good, when you -- when I tweet in anger. Which I did.

But -- or was going to. What did you think about how this is being used against the right to try to separate us even more?

BILL: Everything is political. Everybody knows that for you.

But the MAGA people, from the mail I get. And I get a voluminous amount of mail. They're not happy.

GLENN: Oh, I agree. I'm not happy.

BILL: Now, are they going to throw President Trump under the cliché-ridden bus? No. Because to them, the greater good is being served by a fair tax bill.

Trying to cut waste.

Dealing with Iran effectively. And hopefully dealing with Putin.

That's another thing, that's on Trump's plate.

He has to deal with Putin now.

Has to. And that will be the next big story.

GLENN: How is he going to deal with it?

BILL: Lavrov and Rubio, are in Indonesia, as we speak.

And I assume that Rubio is delivering a message. That you either stop, or we're going to just absolutely crush you economically. Which the United States can do. By saying. No bank does business with Moscow.

And if you do business, no matter what bank you are, we're going to put you out of business.

Okay?

GLENN: Yeah. I've only got a couple of seconds. But didn't we already do that under Biden?

BILL: No! We didn't do the banks. We did the sanctions. And the sanctions they can always get around, because China is going to buy as much oil from Russia as possible.

You stop the banks, from doing all business with Moscow? Who is going --

GLENN: Isn't that what the SWIFT thing was all about?

When we kicked them off of SWIFT, wasn't that what that was all about?

BILL: No! Because they can still do a huge business with countries buying their oil.

And they got to pay Putin and Russia for the oil, and that has to go through the banking system.

If you stop the banking system, he can't get paid.

GLENN: Hmm, it's amazing. I'm glad I'm not the president right now. I think he's made some very brave decisions, and he is walking a tightrope. I mean, the world is on edge. And I pray for --

BILL: He looks very tired to me. Very tired. I haven't talked to him in a while, which is unusual. But you're right. You're absolutely right. That's the second time you've been right in this conversation. My God!

GLENN: I know. It's crazy.

BILL: What in the world.

GLENN: I was wrong about you being dead.

BILL: What is happening?

GLENN: It's good -- it's good to talk to you, my friend. Is everything okay? Is everything going well?

BILL: Everything is all right, Beck. We are not only successful, but that's old news. We've been that way for 50 years, but I appreciate you having me on your fine program.

GLENN: Okay. I love you.

BILL: Stu is still breathing.

GLENN: Hmm.

BILL: So that's good. Right.

But I've got a big book called Confronting Evil. Of course, we sent it, and of course you denied getting it. That comes out September 9th, so put me on a dance card.

GLENN: Well, we'll have you on. And you can also find Bill and his YouTube page. YouTube.com/BillOReilly. Or is it The Walking Dead?
(laughter)
He's not even laughing. Maybe he hung up. Bill O'Reilly, great to have him on.

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