RADIOMarch 30, 2022

What’s inside Biden’s massive, 5.8 TRILLION DOLLAR budget?

President Biden presented his budget proposal on Tuesday…all 5.8 TRILLION DOLLARS of it. Congress eventually will pass its own 2023 budget, but that doesn’t mean Joe’s monetary desires will go completely unanswered. So, Glenn breaks down EXACTLY what’s inside this HUGE request. From new taxes on America’s most wealthy and additional resources for local law enforcement, to a ‘placeholder’ for Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, this budget would stretch America’s deficit to all new highs (which it already is…).

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GLENN: Oh, this is so good. This is so good. Now, if you're thinking, how am I going to make ends meet? What? The cupboards are almost bare. I want you to know that the government is there to help. Joe Biden has just pitched a $5.8 trillion budget. And included in it, is the largest tax hike in history. So he's there for you. He's there for you. It's -- you know, it's -- it would be part of -- part of a new tax code. It raises the rates on corporations, and ultra wealthy Americans. And I'm glad, because I can't tell you how many jobs I've had from poor corporations.

STU: Oh, yeah.

GLENN: And poor Americans. I met this guy, who had just come here from America. He was standing out in front of Home Depot with a sign. And I started talking to him. And he offered me a job. I got a job. It was well-paying. Had really good benefits. It was really good. Really good.

STU: That's how most big tech companies start, from the Home Depot parking lot in the back of a truck. That's how the i Phone started.

GLENN: Yeah. They're like, this is what you do. On Saturday, you get a truck. And you drive up, and you say, who can offer me a job? And then they all get in the back of your truck. And you bring them someplace. And then, you know, you haggle.

STU: Two weeks later, you have Johnson & Johnson.

GLENN: It is. It's amazing. So the president laid out the tax hikes. As part of his $5.8 trillion blueprint for federal spending, in 2023. Which begins in October.

The higher taxes will be borne mostly by Wall Street. And the top sliver of U.S. households. I mean, right?

STU: Always the way it happens.

GLENN: Right. The Democrats hate Wall Street. And giant corporations. They just hate them, you know. Oh. It's weird though, how they're all lining up to do the White House's bidding, but we're going to get them this time. So he said, we're reducing the Trump deficits and returning our fiscal house to order. This budget is making prudent investment and economic growth. A more equitable economy, while making sure corporations and the very wealthy pay their fair share. Amen to that.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: So let's see, he has a $5.6 trillion budget. But his billionaire minimum income tax, will raise $361 billion in revenue. Over ten years. Over ten years. 361 billion. Which is only a third of $1 trillion. We're spending 5.6 in one year. 361 billion, one-third of a trillion, which is one-fifth and a half of what he is spending in one year. That -- that's raised over ten years. So I understand the math. Come on. Did you not get Common Core math. The wealthiest Americans will be required to pay a tax of at least 20 percent. And that will be from the combination of wage income. And whatever they made in unrealized gains. So it's really great. Because they -- these people have soaring assets, you know. The value of their assets are just going crazy. Now, yours aren't. I mean, if you own a home. And you bought it 30 years ago, I'm sure it's exactly the same price as it was. Now, imagine at the end of every year, they come to you, and go, hey, your house is worth $50,000 more. So we need five grand for you. Because, you know, your house is just going up and up and up. And it will never go down. So you could cough that up. What happens if your house went up, you know, $100,000. Wouldn't it be great, if they said, hey, you owe us ten grand, this year. Who knows what you'll owe next year. Because everybody has that ten grand laying around the house, you know. Everybody is like, oh, my house could go up. And I'm not going to sell it. But I should pay the federal government for what it increased. Now, there's no -- there's no tax refund, when your house starts to about it down. But don't worry about that. This is only for the rich. The very rich. By the way, he also, because he is definitely for the police. Definitely for the police.

STU: Hmm. That one has definitely been run through the focus groups. You can tell that any opportunity he has now to say, I don't want to defund the police. What are you talking about? He's run from that position, as quickly as they should. They should have never been there in the first place.

GLENN: Well, he said, they never should have said that. Then when you read the article. You realize, yes, he did. You just have a different interpretation. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means. So you've -- so you've got that going. Now, there's nothing better than getting the federal government to mainline our police. You know, having the local police just hooked on federal money. Wouldn't that be great? And they've expanded the discretionary spending. Which would increase the resources for federal prosecutors. Love those guys. And give additional resources to state and local enforcement, to put more police on the beat. Now, some would say, hmm. I don't really want to be addicted to the federal spending, when it comes to the police. Because when the federal government says the police should do something. You know, the towns that aren't really paying for them now. Would go, we got to do it. Otherwise, they'll pull all the funding. And we don't have the money to keep our police. But don't worry, that's never going to happen. Never.

By the way, in there too, is kind of some weird wording. Well, it's a place holder, for his Build Back Better agenda. You know, just like, hey, we also have this one. But I haven't had time to work it out. So just put this place holder in the budget. Which is great. Hi, Pat. Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed has just joined us.

PAT: Yeah. Running a little late because of overtime.

GLENN: Games every morning. Cutting it close.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: So how much do you love this?

PAT: The new budget?

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

PAT: Oh, my gosh. I love it so much.

STU: Oh, really? See, I thought you wouldn't like it. Because there's a lot of spending, there's tax increases throughout it.

PAT: Really? I know. Just the largest in American history though. That's not bad.

STU: But you like it?

PAT: You know, I love it. I love it. Because it's going to lower the deficit. Did you not know that? Like, we're spending 6 trillion to lower the deficit.

GLENN: No, no, no. The deficit -- let's make sure we understand the deficit. The definition of the deficit, versus the definition of the debt.

PAT: Yeah, the deficit is the debt you run up every year.

GLENN: Yeah. It's the --

PAT: The budget shortfalls every year.

GLENN: The budget shortfalls. So what we don't have every year, we're reducing that, but he's the first one. And I like this. We're going to be -- the first president in history, to lower the deficit by over a trillion dollars in one year.

PAT: Yeah. That's because we've never had a deficit that large before.

GLENN: Well, it also -- it's not declining because of anything that Biden did. But because of the $5 trillion in COVID-19 relief funds have already been disbursed. There's no more.

PAT: So ridiculous.

GLENN: $5 trillion. And I'm going to -- I'm going to lower that by a trillion. I don't know. Wait. Last year, it was like 2.5 trillion. You couldn't -- you couldn't lower it by 2.5 trillion? Because that was all free money for emergency.

STU: Yeah. They're picking up the covid spending, with most of it, they're picking up with other spending. That will go on forever. Right? New programs and new things like that. You know, when Barack Obama ran for office. The budget was $3 trillion. And it went up, through the Obama era. 3.5. 3.7. 3.9. Trump takes it 4 trillion, 4.1, 4.4, 4.8.

And then Biden, 4.8. And then now 5.6, he wants. So we've gone -- we've doubled -- doubled from 2008 basically our spending, 2008.

GLENN: Wait. Wait. But look at how great things have gone.

STU: That's true.

GLENN: I mean, they've gone from 3 trillion to 6 trillion.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: And with those 3 trillion extra dollars.

STU: Things are much better.

GLENN: Like, do you remember the days when people used to have to say, hey, we need more money to fix our infrastructure. It's fixed now, isn't it?

STU: Yeah. It's great.

GLENN: Those roads and bridges are great.

PAT: And how about the beautiful airports we now have, to rival China and Europe? The beautiful, beautiful airports.

STU: Everybody has health care that they're thrilled with.

GLENN: Thrilled.

PAT: Nobody is unhappy with their healthcare.

GLENN: Nobody has turned away for anything.

STU: No foreign concepts. I'll tell you that much. You don't have to worry about that.

GLENN: No. We have that under control.

STU: That's all under control now.

GLENN: We are on track.

PAT: And inflation, completely under control now. That's the beauty of all of this.

STU: Oh, yeah.

GLENN: Can I ask you a question: Why do we still listen to these people. How is it that there are so many Americans -- I don't care what side you're on. So many Americans, who have listened to this now, forever. And are like. Yeah. Yeah. Well, at this time. They're going to fix it. If I just elect them this time. And we spend this amount of money, this time. We won't have to spend this amount of money, later.

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: We'll fix it this time. I've heard that my whole life. And it's been a crisis since 2000. I can't take it anymore. Because it's all lies! That's why they about it for the youth. Because the youth is like, oh. I've never heard that. Well, that would be great. And then by the time you're 40, you're like, I can't -- I can't take them. Please, somebody wake me up from this -- is Will Smith here, will he just slap me across the face. What is happening?

PAT: And I get -- I get frustrated with that too. But then I realize, I see the polls. And I realize, there's not that many. Not as many as we think, that are buying this. They're not -- they're not buying what he's selling.

STU: They're seeing through this.

PAT: Yeah. They are.

They're realizing, that it's not Putin's fault for the inflation. Because it's been going on since he took office.

It's not Putin's fault for the gas prices, because it went up 48 percent, year to year, before the invasion. And they're -- they're starting to realize, that he's a lying sack.

STU: Yeah. And look, there is a partisan floor, with these polls. Let's say 30 percent, to be aggressive. You really can't go lower than that. Even Richard Nixon he's getting thrown out of his office, he's at 30 percent. I mean, he still had a 60 or 70 percent approval rating among Republicans when he was thrown out of office.

GLENN: That's crazy.

STU: I mean, there's just a partisan. And I think it's much worse than that era. A partisan tilt to those polls. That, you know, his floor is probably low 30s, at the worst.

PAT: Yeah. Thirty to 35. Maybe.

STU: He's already in the high 30s. And he's falling. And he's behind every other president, at this point in his administration. The only one he's close to is Trump. Which, of course, is sort of a different situation. He came into office, already, you know, in a very conflicted place with the American people. He was never popular. He didn't get that honeymoon that most presidents get.

PAT: Well, he did have a chance with the media.

STU: That started with day one with Trump. We know that he was a different president certainly. But every other president in American history, that we have polling on, Biden is doing worse than. And, you know, they call Donald Trump like the worst president in history. And he's right there with Donald Trump.

GLENN: Can I tell you why that's happening, sincerely? It's because the people have become so divisive, that they just don't want a uniter like Joe Biden.

PAT: Is that what it is? Wow.

GLENN: Yep. Yep. Well, that and Donald Trump.

STU: Well, why is Donald Trump brought up?

PAT: And don't forget Vladimir Putin.

GLENN: Yeah. Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump. And a little bit of Ruther B. Hayes. Just a little bit.

PAT: Damn, Ruther B. Hayes.

STU: Ruther B. Rutherford B.?

PAT: Yeah, I ran it all together. It didn't really --

GLENN: Yeah. It's -- wow, we're still feeling the effects of that administration.

STU: Because usually when there's a big foreign conflict, like with Putin, you have a bump in your approval rating. Because people are like, well, I'm going to side with the president. I'm going to jump in there. It seems now, he's done such a good job. That's not happening. He's still falling.

GLENN: Echoes of Ulysses S. grant. And his administration.

PAT: Somebody had to say it.

GLENN: Somebody had to say it. He was a Republican. What, you expect to recover from that right away.

PAT: No way.

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.”

Transcript

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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.

Transcript

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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!
(laughter)
I --

GLENN: I get it.

BILL: That's just another brick in your wall, Beck.
(laughter)

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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