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Glenn: 'DISAPPEARED' reporter is the year's BIGGEST STORY

James Gordon Meek. ‘Say his name,’ Glenn says, because it’s VITAL we do not allow this story to disappear just like James did. In this clip, Glenn details a recent Rolling Stone report about an award-winning reporter, James Gordon Meek, who hasn’t been seen since April after a meet-in with the FBI. Glenn explains why this story may be the biggest one of the year, why it’s fundamental to our First Amendment rights, and why we NEED answers…

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GLENN: Where is James Gordon Meek? If you're asking yourself no, Glenn, who is James Gordon Meek, that's where we begin to have a problem in America. James Gordon Meek is a prominent and important investigative journalist. He is a journalist that crossed somebody somewhere in the government. His apartment was raided by the FBI back in April. Back in April. And he hasn't been seen.

GLENN: This is a journalist, who's an investigative journalist, who apparently had stumbled the to something that made somebody in one of the agencies upset. They were going in to search his apartment. Although they won't say this. They will say they were on that block at that time, but they won't give any other information. And no one has seen this guy since April. Until a Rolling Stone story broke. Now, I want you to know, first of all, the Rolling Stone does not have the best record of being accurate on things so this is not the story of the week. This is maybe the most important story of at least the year because we're not China. You don't just take a journalist off the street and he disappears and no one says anything. No journalist at ABC is even interested? How has this happened? There's a chance that Rolling Stone has it wrong but if they don't have it wrong, this is the first amendment and I have never in my lifetime seen anything like this in America and it must be answered: Where is James Gordon Meek? The news cycle is just this vortex, it just sucks everything into it and it's gone flying past you. We cannot forget this. Understand if the FBI actually disappeared a journalist, this is a hundred times worse than the Mar-a-Lago raid, than FACE Act. This is disappearing who is investigating corruption in the government. That doesn't happen we know we have a corrupt DOJ, we know we have a DOJ that is persecuting people. They put these people in prison for the FACE Act, we will have our first political prisoners. There's no doubt those will be political prisoners. But this is Putin oar Saudi Arabia now, is that hyperbole? No, it's not. I mean, Trump was bad, but he's just the president and this man perhaps was a journalist. The office of the president of the United States is important. And we should not tarnish it, and we should not target it. But that's politics. And really dirty politics. It's supposed to be a kind of more of a ceremonial office really. It's not supposed to have the power that it does. Treating the president like he's above the mandate of his position, which is supposed to be the servant to the will of the people, is a mistake we've made over and over and over again, and it gets us in trouble every time we do. Now, for first time, we think, we have a deep state that is actively thwarting -- okay, that's really bad. However, journalism is mention amendment this is the closest thing we have that is sacrosanct within anything else we really have. Or Bill of Rights violated everywhere, violated everywhere. They're currently violating it through Facebook and Google, they're violating it because they're a public-private partnerships so I think that the government violating our first amendment right, which is, you know, you can offend my first amendment right, but the government can't. They put things in there that were really important, the first and second amendment. Those are about protecting you and giving you the tools to protect yourself against an out of control government. It's freedom of speech. You have the right to say whatever you want without fear of persecution. You have freedom of religion to practice the religion and government cannot stop you from practicing religion. Both of those have been violated. You have the right to petition your government and ask questions and demand answers. They're not doing that. You have the right in the first amendment to assemble, nut to be a mop, not to burn down cities, but you have the right to assemble. And you have freedom of the press. The press is really important. Not the press we have, it's totally corrupt, but even if they are corrupt, you must hold the first amendment on the press to be sacred. We've got a helluva lot of people that are just in with the government and they're just, the press is the greatest threat to America, quite honestly. Because they've merged with the government. I paint people in the press rightfully so, the way I paint them because they have dirtied the name of journalism and if they don't repair it quickly and I don't think they can anymore, it will die out. Luckily with the internet, if the government doesn't kill this you have new people coming that are doing the job and exposing powers. So no matter what shape it's in, no matter how battle weary, no matter how beaten down and destroyed by the decades and decades of mud slinging and outright lies, the free press still does live in our country. The first amendment it is more important than the American flag, Mount Rushmore, all that. Yoked disappear all those things and I would be sad, it would be a bummer, I would be outspoken about that but hey, you start disappearing journalists. If we can no longer speak freely, our ability to think freely will atrophy and we will crumble into the mist of ages. James Gordon Meek, in the words of our time, say his name. James Gordon Meek and keep saying it. Say it to your neighbors. Explain what you do know and if you don't know the story, read the story. Ask yourself how does an ABC investigative journalist just fall off the map after being swept up by the FBI early a morning when his last tweet was facts. He hasn't tweeted, he hasn't posted, he hasn't done anything since April. Where is he? And why does ABC news not care? Why? Are there no friends? Family? Why is no one even asking these questions? And more importantly, why do the ones that you can get a hold of when you ask about him, they say no comment. They'll say I'm not commenting on this story. Why? Why? Until we know what's happened to him and hopefully, hopefully he's just, you know, he's like I just needed to get out into the woods for six months and I didn't want to tell anybody, and he shows up and he's unshaven and maybe a little crazy because he's been chased by bear. Whatever, that a good ending to the story. But we cannot let this story and him die like a torch in the rain. Maybe he's got gone nuts. Maybe coincidentally on the same day the FBI swept him up. That's what they're trying to allude that he might have gone nuts. It's not the first time journalists have gone nuts but if the FBI is behind his appearance, if unelected officials of the United States government appointed by the administration that is sitting in office right now, if they, if they delivered a blow against one of the most sacred freedoms Americans hold dear to our hearts, it is time for a change. We have to have the proof. This is what journalism is supposed to do. And why is it? Why is it that I'm sticking up for an ABC reporter. There's a handful of us who are standing up and going where's James Meek? Where is he? There's just a handful of us. Why? Oh, my gosh, if they, if Donald Trump said hey, can you just come in the hallway for a second, I just want to ask you a question, they would have said that he was trying to stifle the press, that he was going to destroy the press. You do not have a country, one that you want to live in, without the ability for people to question and yes, make some people in the government uncomfortable. They cannot disappear people or we're in China. We are Saudi Arabia. This is tyranny. Say his name America. Where is James Gordon Meek? Where is James Gordon Meek? Why will no one tell us the answer.

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INSIDE Trump’s soul: How a bullet changed his heart forever

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.


SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?


SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.