RADIOJanuary 04, 2024

Hey FBI, Enough With the Epstein CIRCUS. Release the REAL Story

A list of over 170 names mentioned in court documents from a case against Jeffrey Epstein has been released. But did we actually learn anything, or is this just another distraction? Glenn reviews what was in the release, as well as what was not. While names like Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Donald Trump, Stephen Hawking, David Copperfield, and even Cameron Diaz were included in the list, we learned NOTHING about whether any of these famous people were actually involved in Epstein's illegal activities. Glenn makes the case that it's time to stop obsessing over names and start demanding that the FBI release the REAL answers. One man — FBI Director Christopher Wray — can make it happen. So, why hasn't he?

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GLENN: Are you into this Jeffrey Epstein thing as much as it seems everybody else is?

STU: I think what I'm supposed to say is yes. But, you know, I don't know, man.

Look, I am very, very interested in what actually happened with Jeffrey Epstein, and many of these names that have been released and many more.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: However...

GLENN: So I'm there with you.

STU: Do you have a forever as well on this?

GLENN: I feel, beyond that, that's how I feel. I want to know. I want to know. But everything I'm hearing now, I also hear this in my head. Hmm.

Huh. That's -- gee. Jeffrey Epstein. Oh, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Stephen Hawking, David Copperfield.

What difference does -- what is this?

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: This is a circus. This is a cake they're feeding us at the circus.

STU: Because I didn't get much that was new out of this.

At you? Was there anything that you saw in these names that you were surprised about? Tasted Copperfield was not a surprise, I have to say.

But none of this was a surprise.

We knew -- we knew -- we still don't know to the extent that Bill Clinton was involved in this. I want to know. But like --

GLENN: You're not going to --

STU: It doesn't seem like it. Like this is a bunch of people who were brought up by, you know -- in various -- everything is Cameron Diaz was brought. I don't think Cameron Diaz was involved.

I don't know, but all these names came up. And it strikes me as like, there's other information that is held, not in these lawsuits, but by the government.

GLENN: Wait. What?

STU: That I would actually like to know.

GLENN: Yeah. Well, we'll never see that.

STU: You know, Jeffrey Epstein lands on the tarmac. So he lands in an airport, private airport. Near New York City.

He is brought into custody. And at that moment, they go and raid his condo. The government takes all sorts of evidence. Tape. Documents. God knows what.

GLENN: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

STU: And then investry ep teen kills himself. Or you may have another theory on that.

And we never get any of this stuff.

GLENN: No, you know what, I've been fashioning a noose out of apaper napkins and lace doilies. Yeah. When I need to go.

Those lace doilies. And paper. Thin, thin, you know, single ply toilet paper nooses.

I'll be so dead, so fast.

STU: Yeah. I know. Certainly.

GLENN: Anyway.

STU: But we don't have any of that information. And seeming no path to get it. At any point.

GLENN: Hmm. Hmm.

STU: Every little bit of evidence in this particular case is positive.

GLENN: But did you hear about Stephen Hawking in he was involved.

STU: But is that -- what am I supposed to do with that information?

What foyer did a what was at his condo?

What was there? Why don't we learn -- why don't we have that information by now?

GLENN: What are you talking about? Didn't you hear the guy who owns the Hyatt, the chain, you know, Brisker? He was possibly doing some -- we don't have any evidence of it. But he was named.

STU: And all these people have plausible deniability. Right? Because, look, in reality, this is real world. Jeffrey Epstein hung out with basically every power player that you know. Now, that doesn't mean that they were all hooking up with 12-year-olds. It doesn't. Many of them probably were.

GLENN: It could, America. It could. You should think that, but we should argue about that. We should say, well, Donald Trump. Well, Bill Clinton. Donald Trump. Bill Clinton. Donald Trump. Bill Clinton.

It's a cake and circus fest.

STU: Yeah. And I got to say too, there's a huge line here. But the Donald Trump part of this is particularly egregious. He was hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein. It's true. They were at parties. Donald Trump is on the record talking about how much Jeffrey Epstein likes younger women. They were at parties together. They weren't close friends. But they ran in powerful circles.

They were very rich people in powerful circles.

All of this long before any of the accusations of Epstein were public. You're hanging out with a person let's say, 12 years he was accused of a crime. There's no reason for you to be mentioned in the same sentence.

GLENN: No. And -- and before he was charged with a crime, Donald Trump kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago.

STU: Yeah. He didn't like him.

GLENN: No. And said, it was because he made some sexual advance on an underage girl. Banned him from the club. Divorced him as a friend.

STU: Long before.

GLENN: Before any of this came out.

STU: So it's really egregious to try to tie him into this thing. Now, Clinton was a much more -- he was on the plane a bunch of times.

GLENN: Maxwell is on the record saying, Bill Clinton likes them young.

STU: Gates met with -- Bill Gates met with Epstein after all of this stuff went down.

After he was already accused. And all that stuff went down. Where people knew, what Epstein was involved in. And he still was meeting with him.

That's weird.

GLENN: And his divorce with his wife is rumored to be about that. Before this became a big story, it was rumored that she was -- she had had it, with his relationship with Epstein. And she's like, you can't.

That was one of the things that was brought up in the divorce apparently.

STU: Again, all this stuff is just allegations. Is there more evidence to support anything nefarious here?

You've seen the interview with Bill Gates on this probably. But it's like, he's really uncomfortable. And it's weird.

But, you know, Gates is kind of a weird guy. Maybe that's -- maybe it doesn't mean anything. Who knows?

But we're just going down this road of, well, let's talk about Donald Trump.

Because you're mentioning Bill Clinton. We'll bring up Donald Trump.

It's just stupid.

It is the circus that you're talking about.

GLENN: So here's the thing that you should pay attention to. When anybody is talking about this today, you should say, you know, the FBI director has the black book.

All all of the evidence. Most likely, has all of the tapes, because they -- they took everything out of Jeffrey Epstein's house.

And it is now under the purview of the FBI, the director of the FBI.

Do you think that's too much power for one man to have?

To have all of that information. Do you think it was most likely done as an Intel operation.

Most likely, Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence officer. Don't know for what country. Probably ours.

That's why no hands on. Nobody is going to say anything about him. He could get away, almost with murder.

So he was blackmailing people, or using that for other countries or our country, to blackmail people. Should one man in a -- in our government have access to that?

And because it is revolving around the rich, the powerful, the politically connected. Shouldn't we all have access to that?

Because if it was just a truck driver union, we would know all the names. We would know every single name. We would know exactly what they've done.

And they would be in jail if they had done something. So why is it the FBI is sitting on this?

To protect their own. Okay. Even if you say that that is okay. Which I don't.

Hang on just a second. Should one person, is that one person going to be able to use any of this, because that one person could say, you know what, we're going to release this on you.

This is so incredibly dangerous. It is exactly the kind of stuff that Stalin would have loved.

It's exactly the reason why, everybody hates Jay Edgar Hoover. And thought sway Edgar Hoover was a nightmare.

This one cash of information has probably more damaging things than Hoover had collected over 50 years.

I don't know.

I think we should stop talking about who is on this list. Where it gives us really nothing.

And start talking about what -- why is the FBI not releasing everything?

Remember, this is the same FBI, that had the laptop of Hunter Biden for two years.

Before you had even heard of it.

They helped that. They, quote, investigated that. Yeah. Yeah. And what -- what happened there?

Were any favors done for anybody? What happened there, exactly?

STU: If you think about that, we had that hypothetical conversation. What would have happened to the Hunter Biden laptop. If there wasn't a copy left at this computer store, right?

Let's just say, they got into the FBI's hands. And they -- the guy at the Apple store didn't keep a copy.

Right? He just gave it to the FBI. What would have happened? We never would have known that information, right?

And we know, that this Epstein thing is the story. That's what would have happened to it. There would have been a rumor about what was in there. And we would have never known --

GLENN: No. No. No. Can we the barbecue to the ABC anchor, that was doing I think Saturday morning. Good Morning America or something.

And they brought up Epstein in a break. Their mics were opened. They taped it. Listen.

VOICE: I've had this interview with Virginia Roberts. We would not put it on the air. First of all, I was told, who is Jeffrey Epstein? Nobody knows who this is. This is a student story.

Then the palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew, and threatened us a million different ways.

We were so afraid we wouldn't be able to interview Kate and Will, that we -- that also quashed the story.

And then Alan Dershowitz was also implicated.

She told me. She had pictures. She had everything. She was hiding in (?) talk to us.

And it was unbelievable what we had -- Clinton. We have everything.

I tried for three years to get it on, to no avail.

And now it's all coming out. And it's like these new Revelations.

And I've freaking had it. (?) because I'm just like, oh, my God.

We -- what we had was unreal. Other women backing it up.

Hey. Yep.

The attorney, three years ago, saying. There will come a day, where we will realize that Jeffrey Epstein was the most prolific pedophile the world has ever known. Had it all (?)

GLENN: And we still don't have that report.

STU: That is unbelievable. Y why is ABC still suppressing (?) all of this?

Why? Why?

STU: Yeah. I don't know. I will say, you know, on the Alan Dershowitz front. She came out and said, maybe it was Alan Dershowitz years later. Because he sued. And it's important to note that all of his accusations did not seem to prove out.

Certainly, the Dershowitz one fell apart completely by her own word.

GLENN: I absolutely believe it about Bill Clinton. But that'sius because I think I know who Bill Clinton is.

And it sounds like Bill Clinton. However, I wouldn't say, Bill Clinton needs to be rounded up as a pedophile. I wouldn't say that. He needs his day in court.

STU: No. Look, it's unfair in a way.

Again, I kind of agree with your take on what actually happened. But he should have -- we should have the evidence. So that we can figure out whether these things occurred or not.

GLENN: And no one deserves silence. No one.

Because of their position, deserves to have all of this boarded up.

Why? Why?

Okay. He's a former president.

But Cincinnatus. You're a farmer. You if to serve. You come back. You're a farmer.

Why does he get special access?

I can understand, while you're in office. Maybe you don't do things.

Because it's just a distraction of the pregnancy. It's a weapon.

But afterwards?

Ideas he get special protection in.

Has THIS Islamist organization BROKEN state laws for YEARS?!

A new report accuses CAIR Action, the political arm of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, of breaking state laws with its political activism. Glenn Beck reviews this story...

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GLENN: So let me go over what is -- what's happening with -- with CAIR.

You know, the Founding Fathers were obsessed over accountability.

Because they knew one thing. You know, they did. They must get suggestions from people on, you know, through tweets. They studied every single system of government.

Every single republic that survived. That didn't survive.

Why didn't it survive?

They studied all forms of government. They were trying to come up with something that could -- could set people free.

And they -- they worked really hard on putting our checks and balances in place, because they knew, once power slips into the shadows. They knew, once power slips into the shadows, once influence becomes unmoored from law, what rises is not a republic.

It's a machine. And that's what you're seeing right now. We're not living in a republic. We're living in a machine.

We -- I think we're staring at one of the largest unregulated political machines operating in the United States ever! Okay.

There have been a couple of groups that are doing sweeping investigations, two watchdog groups. One of them is NCRI and the Intelligent Advocacy Network.

And they have concluded now that the political arm of CAIR, he known as CAIR action, has been operating nationwide with no legal authority, to do the things it has been doing for years now.

They're not allowed to raise money. They've been raising money. Coordinating political campaigns.

Not allowed to do it. Endorsing candidates. Not allowed to do it, they're doing it. Mobilizing voters, shaping policy, functioning as a national advocacy network.

They don't have the legal authority to do any of it. And no one has said anything.

Now, according to the report, CAIR action doesn't just have a paperwork problem.

Investigators found, state by state, that it lacks the license, the registrations. The charitable authorizations, required to legally solicit money.

Excuse me. Or conduct political activity, in any of the 22 states in which it operates. Think of that!

I know how serious this is, because I remember what it took to get the license in each and every state, for Mercury One.

So we could operate. We could raise money. We could do things in those states. It's a lot of work. And if you don't do it, you go to jail. And they find out pretty quickly.

Okay?

22 states, they operate not one, zero legal authorization.

In Washington, DC, the city where CAIR action is incorporated, the department of licensing and consumer protection told investigators, they have no record of CAIR action ever obtaining the basic business license required to solicit funds or to operate.

Imagine how long would you last in business, especially if you were controversial.

How long would you remain in business, if you never had a business license?

You think somebody would figure that out?

In a sooner time than I don't know. A couple of decades!

This report means, that the organization if true, is engaging in unlicensed inner state solicitation.

It has exposed itself to allegations as serious as deceptive solicitation. Wire fraud and false statements to the IRS. These are big things.

And this is not political rhetoric.

Are these phrases written in black and white. In the law.

And by investigators. In California, one of CAIR's most active hubs. The state attorney general has said, the state attorney general of California has said, same pattern here!

The state of California, to say, yep. That's what's happening here.

CAIR action has never registered with California's charitable registry.

Never filed the required CT1 form. And has no authorization whatsoever to request donations. But they've been doing it in California anyway.

Fundraising, selling memberships. Issuing endorsements. Mobilizing voters. All of that has been done by CAIR action. There's no record of any license. Any permission, ever. Going to CAIR. From California. That's according to their attorney general.

Wow!

That's pretty remarkable, huh? How does that happen?

It's not just the coast. It is also happening to the Midwest, the South, the Mountain West. Every state hosting its own CAIR action fundraising page, complete with the donate now and become a member portal, despite no trace of the legal filings required to operate. That's bad!

Now, here's where the stakes rise.

Because CAIR action presents itself openly, as the political arm of CAIR National.

Investigators are now warning that any unauthorized fundraising or political activity.

Could become CAIR's national responsibility as well.

So, in other words, the parent, CAIR itself, might be held responsible.

Meaning, this is want just a rogue subdivision.

This could implicate the entire National Organization of CAIR.

Now, this is happening at the same time it's coming under national scrutiny. It's also Texas.

And I think Florida have designated the group a foreign terrorist organization. Members of Congress are now asking the IRS, the Treasury, the Department of Education to investigate all of its partnerships, all of its financing, all of its influence operations. I mean, I think they're going to be in trouble.

How long have we been saying this?

But every time, I have pointed out anything about CAIR, I have been called an Islamophobe, which shuts everything down. That is a word, developed by people like CAIR, to shut people down, so you'll never look into them.

So what happens next?

First of all, the reports have to hold up.

Regulators now have an obligation. Not a choice. An obligation to act!

State attorneys general in these 22 states, they might pursue fines, injunctions, criminal referrals.

All of them need to take action!

The IRS, needs to take action. Investigate tax exempt fraud. Treasury Department may review foreign influence or money flow violations.

Anything coming from overseas.

Oh, I can't imagine it. They're so buttoned up, right now.

DC regulators may determine whether CAIR actions entire fundraising operation has been unlawful from the beginning.

But here's the deeper question. And it's not bureaucratic. This one is constitutional.

Can the United States tolerate an influence machine, that operates outside of the legal framework, designed to prevent corruption, foreign leverage, and untraceable money?

If I hear one more time, talking about how AIPAC has just got to be investigated. Fine. Investigate.

I'm not against it.

Investigate.

Why aren't you saying anything about CAIR?

It feels like it might be a tool in the hands of a foreign operation.

Why aren't you saying anything about this?

Because here it is! It's not like, hey. I wonder why.

This is it! This is it! This isn't about silencing CAIR. Muslim Americans are -- that are full citizens, they have every right to speak. Every right to vote. Every right to organize. Participate in public life. No question! They can disagree with me, all they want.

But no organization. None! Not mine. Not yours. Not theirs. None. Should operate a nationwide political network, in the shadows and be immune from all of the guardrails that every other group must follow!

That's called a fourth branch of government!

That's how a fourth branch goes.

By the way, CAIR has placed all kinds of people in our Department of Homeland Security. Et cetera, et cetera. This organization has done it!

This is -- you cannot have a fourth branch of government.

They must abide by the laws.

No -- you can't have a branch that nobody elected. Nobody oversees.

Nobody holds accountable.

We talked about this yesterday, on yesterday's podcast. So what needs to happen is total transparency. CAIR action has to release its filings. Its donor structure. Its compliance records, if they exist. Equal enforcement under the law. I don't want them prosecuted in special ways.

Look, if AIPAC is doing the same thing. AIPAC should be prosecuted exactly the same way.
I want it equal. I want constitutional rule.

If conservatives, if Catholics, pro-Israel, environmental, Second Amendment groups, if they have to comply by the state law, so does CAIR action.

And if CAIR action has to do it, so do the Second Amendment groups and environmentalists, and pro-Israel and conservative groups. The law cannot be selective. It can't be!

I don't know how that's controversial in today's world. But somehow or another, they will find a way.

The Feds have to review all of this. If the report is accurate, the IRS and the Treasury have to determine whether false statements or unlicensed interstate solicitations have occurred.

Americans deserve to know what exactly, who is influencing our elections. Who is shaping our policy? Who is raising money in their state?

Especially physical the organization claims political authority, that it doesn't legally possess.

Because history will teach us one unchanging lesson. When a republic stops enforcing its own laws, someone else will always step in to fill that vacuum because power abhors a vacuum!

Unregulated, political power abhors a free people. So while it's about CAIR, it's not about Muslim Americans. It's not about religion.

As always, at least on this program, we try to make it about the rule of law.

One standard for everyone or no standard at all!

And that more than anything, will determine whether or not our institutions remain worthy of the freedom and responsibility that we have entrusted to them.

Glenn Beck WARNS Democrats Will Return with VENGEANCE in 2026 | Glenn TV | Ep 473

America is entering a year of historic upheaval from Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the spiritual shock that followed, to Trump’s tariff revolution, China’s rare-earth war, collapsing energy grids, AI displacement, and the looming fights over Taiwan and Venezuela. Glenn sits down with BlazeTV hosts ‪@deaceshow‬ and ‪@lizwheeler‬ along with his head researcher Jason Buttrill, to break down the biggest stories of 2025. Plus, they each give their most explosive prediction for 2026 that could shape our politics, economy, national security, and civil rights in ways Americans have never experienced before.

Trump Just SHATTERED the “Expert Class” - And the Deep State is in Total Panic

For nearly a century, Washington DC has been ruled by an unelected “expert class” operating as an unconstitutional fourth branch of government — accountable to no one, removable by no president, and shielded from all consequences. Glenn breaks down why Trump’s firing of the Federal Trade Commissioner could finally dismantle the 1935 precedent that empowered technocrats, how Ketanji Brown Jackson exposed the Supreme Court’s embrace of expert rule, and why America cannot survive a government run by people who never face the voters and never pay for their failures.

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GLENN: Okay. So President Donald Trump fired the federal trade commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. Federal Trade Commission is an administrative position. I mean, this is under -- the head of the federal trade commission is a cabinet member.

And if the justices uphold Trump's firing of Slaughter, that will overturn a precedent that was horrible, that was set in 1935. Remember, 1935, we're flirting with fascism. You know, everybody thinks. Because they haven't seen the horrors of fascism yet.

Everybody thinks fascism is neat, blah, blah. So what they do is they say that this is an independent person. And the president can't fire them. Because they're, you know, an independent agency.

Well, wait. That would make a fourth branch of government. Our Constitution is really clear.

There is no such thing as a fourth branch of government. Right?

So that's what they're deciding. Now, here is Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is talking about how we really need to listen to the experts. Cut four.

VOICE: Because presidents have accepted that there could be both an understanding of Congress and the presidency. That it is in the best interest of the American people to have certain kinds of issues, handled by experts. Who, and I think you -- in your colloquy, Justice Kagan, have identified the fact that these boards are not only experts, but they're also nonpartisan. So the -- the seats are actually distributed in such a way, that we are presumably eliminating political influence because we're trying to get to science and data and actual facts, related to how these decisions are made.

And so the real risk, I think, of allowing non- -- of allowing these kinds of decisions to be made by the president, of saying, everybody can just be removed when I come in, is that we will get away from those very important policy considerations.

VOICE: We will get away from US policy considerations, and it will create opportunities for all kinds of problems that Congress and prior presidents wanted to avoid, risks that flow inevitably, just given human nature, the realities of the world that we live in.

GLENN: Okay.

Now, remember, what she's saying here is, we have to have experts.

We have to have experts. We have to have experts that don't really answer to anybody. Okay?

They're appointed. And then they're just there. This from a, quote, judicial expert, who cannot define a woman, because she's not a doctor.
She's not a scientist.

She needs an expert to define a woman.
That's how insane her thinking is. Okay?

Now, I would just like to ask the Supreme Court, when you want things run by experts, do you mean things like the State Department, or the counsel of foreign relations, that have gotten us into these endless war wars for 100 years?

Because these are the things that Woodrow Wilson wanted. He wanted the country run by experts.

Okay. So is it like the Council of Foreign Relations, that keep getting us into these endless wars.

Or is it more like the Fed, that directs our fiscal policy, that has driven us into $38 trillion of at the time. We have all powerful banks. That strangely all belong to the fed. And endless bailouts for those banks. Are those the experts that you're talking about?

Or are you talking about the experts that are doctors, that gave the country sterilizations, lobotomies, transgender surgeries. You know, or should we listen to the experts, like the ones that are now speaking in Illinois, to get us death on demand like Canada has, with their MAID assisted suicide, which is now the third largest killer in Canada. MAID, assisted suicide, third largest killer in Canada. Experts are saying, we now need it here, and they're pushing for it in Illinois. Or should we listen to the experts? And I think many of them are the same experts strangely, that brought us COVID. Yeah. That was an expert thing. They were trying to protect us. Because they need to do this for our protection. So direct from the labs in China with the help of the American experts like Fauci. We almost put the world out.

Should we listen to those guys?

Or the experts that brought us masking, and Home Depot is absolutely safe. But Ace Hardware wants to kill grandma. Which are the experts that we want? That we want to make sure that we have in our lives? That they don't answer, or can't be fired by anybody. Because I'm pretty full up on the experts, myself. I don't know.

But you're right. These experts would keep the president in check, and they would keep Congress in check. And you in check!

And the Supreme Court, which would be really great. You know, and you know who else they would keep in check? The people.

So, wow, it seems like we would just be a nation run by experts, and our Constitution would be out the window, because that's a fourth branch!

And if you don't believe me, that, you know, these experts never pay a price. Can you name a single expert?

Give me a name of an expert, that gave us any of the things that I just told you about.

Give me the name. I mean, give me the name of one of them. Give me the name of one of them that went to jail. Give me the name of one expert that has been discredited.

You know, where your name will be mud in this town. Do you know where that came from?

Your name is going to be mud. It's not M-U-D. It's M-U-D-D, that comes from Dr. Samuel Mudd. Okay? He was a docks man. He was an expert. He was that set John Wilkes Booth' broken leg. He made crutches. He let him stay there for a while. He claimed he didn't know him, but he did know him.

In fact, one of the reasons they proved it.

Is because when he pulled the boots off -- when he pulled both of his boots off, right there, in the back, you couldn't have missed it. It said "John Wilkes Booth."

He's like, I have no idea who he was.

Yeah. Well, you knew him in advance. This was a predetermined outpost where he could stay. It's clear you could know him.

The guy was still discredited, we still use his name today. Your name will be mud in this town.

And we think that it's like dirt, mixed with water kind of mud. No, it's M-U-D-D, Dr. Mudd. The expert that was so discredited, went to jail, paid for his part of the assassination of -- of Lincoln.

Give me the name of one of the experts in the last 100 years, that has brought us any of the trials and the tribulations. The things that have almost brought us to our knees. Give me the name of one of them. Can't!

Because once an expert class, they don't answer to anyone. So they never go to jail.

Wow! Doesn't that sound familiar. People never going to jail!

There's a rant that's going around right now, that I did in 2020. And everybody is like, see. He's talking about Pam Bondi.

No, no. I got to play this for you, a little later on in the program. But I want to get to the experts and what the Constitution actually says about that. Because you don't need my opinion. What you need are the actual facts. So you can stand up and say, yeah. I think Ketanji Brown Jackson is an idiot. Okay?

And she's really not an expert on anything. Especially the Constitution. You need the facts, on what the Founders said. Because the Founders would be absolutely against what they did in 1935.

Because that just -- what does it do?

It just sets up a fourth branch of government.

EXPLAINED: Why the Warner-Netflix/Paramount Merger is DANGEROUS for All of Us

The biggest media merger in modern history is unfolding, and Glenn Beck warns it’s the most dangerous consolidation of power America has faced in decades. With six corporations already controlling 90% of the nation’s news and entertainment, a Warner-Netflix or Warner-Paramount megacorporation would create an unstoppable information cartel. Glenn exposes how “too big to fail” thinking is repeating itself, how global elites and “experts” are tightening their grip, and why handing our entire cultural narrative to a handful of companies is a direct threat to freedom. The hour is late — and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

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GLENN: By the way, it's never good when you consolidate power. It's never good.

And what is going on now, with this Netflix Warner Brothers paramount stuff, I don't care if Larry Ellison is a conservative or not.

No one should have that much power.

I did a show, gosh, four years ago. I don't even remember when I did it.

We looked it up. In the 1980s. 19 percent of American media was owned by over 50 companies.

Forty years later, 90 percent of the media is watched and controlled by six companies.

National Amusements, the Red Stone Family controls CBS, CMT, MTV, Nickelodeon, gaming and internet. Simon & Schuster Books. That's all one.

Disney, ABC, ESPN, History Channel, Marvel, Star Wars, video games and print.

TimeWarner controls CNN, Warner Brothers, HBO, Turner, video games, internet, and print media like TIME. Comcast, MSNBC, NBC.

CNBC, Telemundo, the Internet.

New Corp. Fox. National Geographic. Ton of others. Sony, with a ton of movies, music and more. The big six. They're valued at nearly $500 billion.

Now, this is something I put together five years ago. So I don't even know. This is probably not even valid even today.

And now we're talking about Netflix, Warner Brothers. Paramount, into all of these one giant corporation. It's wrong! It's wrong!

We can't keep putting all -- everything into the hands of just a few! It's what's killing us!

We've got to spread this around. We can't -- the government cannot okay mergers like this.

They're big enough he has

What happened -- what happened when the banks went under, or almost went under in '08. What did they say the problem was?

They said the banks are too big to fail.

Too big to fail.

Because they were providing all of the services, everybody needs. All the time. And there's only a handful of them.

So if they fall, then everything falls.

Right?

That was the problem. So what did we do to fix it?

We made them bigger!

We let them merge with other banks, and gobble up other things!

And started taking on the local banks.

And so now, your banks that were too big to fail. Are now even bigger. And their failure would be even worse!

What is wrong with us?

Seriously, we're not this stupid.

We're not this stupid.

I think we're just this comfortable.

We just think the experts have a plan. No. The experts don't have a plan.

Their plan is stupid. Their plan is to make it bigger.

Every time it fails. Make it bigger. Push it up.

Make it more global.

No. Haven't you seen what the entire world is like?

The entire world is over-leveraged. The entire world is on the edge.

The entire world is being redesigned.
So what do we do? We don't allow them to make things bigger! We need to start taking more individual and local control of things. They're making it bigger. Which will make the problem bigger. And make the problem so big, you won't be able to do anything about it, because all the experts. All of the heads. They'll all -- there will be six of them. And they will all be sitting in one room.

And they will all be making the instigations. And with them, making those decisions will be all the heads of all the countries around the world, that you're not going to have a say in any of that. They're already trying to do it with the WEF.

But if -- if the Supreme Court says, no, experts matter. And the president can't fire them. You will not have any control over anything!

We're at this place, where we can back out. We can turn around.

We can do it.

It's not too late. But the hour is growing very late.

I don't know about you, I don't like being this.

Up to the edge, you know what I mean?

I would rather have lots of breathing room, between me and the edge of the cliff.

But we don't have that anymore.

Everything has to be done right.

And we have to pay attention.

And the worst thing we can do is make things bigger.

Dream big, think small.