RADIOJanuary 24, 2024

Don't give a DIME to the GOP until they admit who tried to BRIBE Kari Lake

Audio has leaked of a conversation between Kari Lake and Arizona GOP chairman Jeff DeWit that makes Glenn furious. Glenn demands that the RNC come clean about who “back east” tried to bribe Lake to hold off on her Senate run: “Call and write [the GOP] and say, NOT A DIME to any candidate…unless you clean house on this.”

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GLENN: Now, I want to start with something that I don't think if we were a liberal show. MSNBC, we would be doing this.

But I think conservatives are different.

I think I -- at least I do. I want to know all the bad things that are happening in my own party. Because I believe my own party. Even though it's not my party.

People on my side, if you will, some of them are corrupt.

And I don't have an answer for who did this. But I want you to just ask yourself the MOM formula.

And I'll tell you what the MOM formula is after you listen to this.

It was last year, at CPAC. Kari Lake made a pretty bold statement, and she said, someone in the G.O.P. in the back east G.O.P., tried to bribe me to keep me from running for Senate.

Now, a lot of people can say those things. But do you have the evidence?

Yes. She does. And it was released yesterday.

I want you to hear this -- which was taped, I believe by her.

And it is the voice of the Republican -- head of the Republican Party in Arizona.

Listen.

VOICE: Is there a number at which?

VOICE: I can be bought? That's what it's about.

VOICE: For a couple of years. Getting back to what you were talking about.

VOICE: No. No. 10 million, 20 million, thirty -- no. No. No. A billion? No. This is not about money. This is about our country.

I think it's disturbing that they would even -- that anybody would think this is...

VOICE: I -- to be fair, even me, even me. I'll say this.

I want fresh (inaudible) right now, for the reason, that I've never seen anyone -- I can't even think of a single person in a federal race, who lost, randomly lost. I can't think of it.

If you can think of it, let me know.

VOICE: I'm not going to let these people who hate our (bleep) country, tell me not to run. You should call them and tell them to get behind me.

So what's going on? What is -- I'm assuming this is our friend.

VOICE: Oh, this is -- this is -- this is back east.

They are -- they're very powerful people. They want to keep you out. But they're willing to put their money where their mouth is, in a good way. So this conversation never happened.

VOICE: This is crazy, though. They should want me. I'm a great candidate. People love me. These people are corrupt.

VOICE: Well, maybe you're right.

VOICE: They are right -- they corrupt.

VOICE: Don't go -- this -- if you say no, which is fine, it's your choice. Don't tell people.

VOICE: They're going to have to try to have me murdered.

VOICE: If that stuff that came out last week is right about the cartel stuff. The cartels are operating in 50 states right now. So...

VOICE: So what's going on? Who is it? What --

VOICE: Let me just tell you real quick, let's just say there are people calling around, saying, gosh, look, you can't -- everybody -- if you say no, don't say, I got offered that. Don't talk.

VOICE: Yeah.

VOICE: Because then we lose our ability to get things done in the future.

GLENN: Jeez.

VOICE: Here's my problem. Rather than just say, let's work with her, she's a great candidate -- because they don't own me, and it pisses me off.

VOICE: Yeah, it's not about ownership.

VOICE: It's about control.

VOICE: I don't know if it's about control. It's about being on the team. Like I said --

VOICE: They want to be on the team?

VOICE: They want you to be on their team.

VOICE: But if they're pushing a globalist agenda, I can't do that. So what do they want? What do they want me to do?

VOICE: I can tell you what I can offer you. But I said -- talking -- so the ask of me was, it's confident.

So the ask I got today, back east was: Is there any companies out there, something, that can put her on the payroll, give her, to keep her out?

And I said, well, what do you want to do?

Whatever we need to do.

VOICE: This is about defeating Trump.

And I think that's a bad, bad thing for our country.

DeSantis is not America first. This is about the final deathblow to Trump, and I don't think that's good for our country.

VOICE: I mean, I love Trump.

VOICE: It's not good for our country, Jeff.

VOICE: It's not.

But at the same time, I don't know that -- I think what it really comes down to for a lot of people, it's not really about control or agenda. It's just about the ability to raise money to win.

you know, If you really want to know -- absolutely. And even on their end, what makes them the most money.

VOICE: I know. All these new attendants don't -- want their payday, and I don't want to make a deal with these kind of people. This is a hill worth dying on. I'm not -- if they're going to steal the election to make me and our movement go away, I'm not letting them do that. I owe it to the people of Arizona, to carry their torch and their voice.

VOICE: Or don't go away. Pause.

VOICE: This is -- the battle is right now, Jeff.

VOICE: Pause. Wait for your caucus.

VOICE: No. The battle is right now. The battle is right now, and we don't have time to pause on the battlefield.

VOICE: You're not -- you can't scratch this. It's not for you.

VOICE: Yeah.

VOICE: And they're sitting around. So it's just -- it's a backscratching club. That's all DC is. It's a big backscratching club.

You're no -- you scratch somebody's back -- and you have already made it known, if you get there, you aren't scratching his back. I will scratch people's back. You know, I've been on the outs for a lot of the time. I will scratch people's back, you know. Where are we in two years, if they steal the election again?

VOICE: Listen to what you're saying. Why don't we do something about it? So that we, the people, can pick our --

VOICE: What can we do?

VOICE: I'm not willing to accept that. Then I'm going to be the biggest (bleep) in these people's (bleep) -- I'm running. And I will be the biggest pain in their (bleep).

VOICE: I'm willing to tell them.

VOICE: And they're going to have to kill me to stop me.

GLENN: That is incredible, and incredibly slimy. The name of the guy who is making this offer is the chair of the Arizona Republican Party.

I've talked to some legal experts, they're not sure if this is illegal.

You're not sure if this is illegal? You're offering someone a bribe.

If it's not illegal, it should be illegal!

Some very powerful people want you to step aside.

Some very powerful people do not want you in.

Now, what can they give you to step aside.

Nothing. Money. Jobs. Nothing!
No. We're not -- we're not trying to stop you. Pause. Just a pause. This is in our own party!

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GLENN: Ten-second station ID.
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Okay. So let's ask the mom question of this. Because who is responsible?

He says, it's the power is back east. Some people back east. Now, I think I know who he is talking about.

Because I have heard through the grapevine, for the last few years, about this kind of stuff, not this blatant. But this kind of stuff happening.

Because somebody has a big, huge treasure chest.

Now, the MOM question is motive, opportunity, and means.

Let's ask MOM: Who has the motive to stop Kari Lake from going into the Senate? Who has the opportunity to do it? And who has a giant Senate chest, that has used it in, hmm, I think ways that the average Republican would not be very proud of?

And we have seen this treasure chest used against Republicans, who are the only choice in some states.

Who has the means? Check. I'm thinking of someone. The opportunity? Check again.

And the motive? Giant check.

Now, I have absolutely -- I don't know who you came up with, but I have no idea if that's true.

That's why I don't want to say a name. Because I don't know. But we damn well better find out. Every single person in this audience should be calling the G.O.P. national headquarters today, and saying, what the hell is this?

I'm sorry. I won't accept that you can't find -- for some reason, we had somebody leak a SCOTUS decision!

Put our Supreme Court justice's lives at risk, and somehow or another, they couldn't -- they couldn't get that one or the two people that had access to it.

They couldn't figure out, who it was.

You've got like two to four people, maximum, that had that!

You can't figure it out. Huh!

I'm so sick and tired of this.

Every single person that writes a check, to any G.O.P. person, you should not fund the G.O.P. until this is exposed and cleaned up.

This is corruption, at the highest levels. No. No.

This is -- this is -- what did he say?

This isn't about control.

This is about ownership.

STU: I thought he said, it wasn't about ownership. It was about winning the election.

GLENN: No.

He said it's about ownership. And it's about being on the team. It's about being able to raise money.

Okay.

She said, it was power and control. He said, it's just ownership. They want you on the team. So, in other words. They want to own you.

That's the problem in Washington.

And I'm sorry. We cannot say, we're the good guys, if this stuff is happening in our own party.

This is the kind of stuff, that we all say we're against.

Are we against it in our own party?

Because I am.

I'm pretty sure you are too.

Did you hear how slimy that guy was.

It's not me. It's not me. I mean, I'm just the messenger. I'm just saying. I got a call from -- you know what happens when I get a call from back east, first of all, my gosh. Was Lucy right about, you know, that Christmas is run by the syndicate back east? My gosh. So I got a call from back east. You know what I do with that call? I'm not doing that. Do your own dirty business. Click.

But, see, he has ambitions. He wants to go higher. He wants to be one of the bigwigs, that he can call out west some day and say, look, here's what I want you to do.

Shame on you, Jeff DeWit. Shame on you! Do you have -- do you have no pride? Do you have no love of country, of decency? Do you not know what ethics are? I suggest you start looking them up, Jeff.

Because you're so far away from ethical, it's shocking. This is what Donald Trump is fighting.

And let me tell you: This is exactly the kind of stuff that Nikki Haley allowed to happen, in her own camp.

She knew really bad organizations, and funds that fund the Democratic Party in all kinds of ways. Went to her. And said, look, we'll fund you.

And she said yes!

This is not good, by any stretch of the imagination.

And each of us should be -- in fact, can you get the number to the national headquarters, of the G.O.P., so people can call and write today?

Because you should call and write. And say, not another time, to any candidate.

None!

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.