RADIOJanuary 06, 2025

Why Jesus “100 PERCENT” Walked on This Road

Archaeologists are currently excavating one of the most incredible Biblical discoveries ever made. The “Pilgrimage Road” was discovered underneath the modern buildings and streets of Jerusalem and it’s believed to have been the main road up from the pool of Siloam to the Second Temple. Glenn speaks with the City of David Foundation’s Director of International Affairs, Ze’ev Orenstein, who explains why he’s “100%” certain that the historical Jesus of Nazareth walked along this “Biblical superhighway” – not as a matter of faith, but a matter of fact. “It is the most significant half-mile on the planet,” he says. But yet, there are forces working to erase this Jewish history from the records …

Transcript

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GLENN: Ze'ev Orenstein is with us, from the City of David Organization. He's the Director of International Affairs. And he's -- we're going to talk a little bit about the archaeology of what's going on in the City of David. How are you?

ZE'EV: Great to be with you.

GLENN: Yeah. Good to have you here.

So how far out of the city wall is the City of David, from -- most people don't. They've never been there. They don't realize how small all of Israel is. Let alone Jerusalem. So can you give us some scale first, of what we're talking about?

ZE'EV: So Israel itself is about the size of the okay state of New Jersey. It's -- we have about 10 million people living in Israel. Jerusalem is the largest city. Probably about a million people living in Jerusalem.

So Jerusalem, by US standards is -- is probably, not the biggest city.

GLENN: No.

ZE'EV: And yet, for billions of people. Not millions. When they wake up in the morning. They looked at Jerusalem as a source of meaning, faith, hope, identity, inspiration.

GLENN: Yeah. I can tell you, I've said this a million times. And I don't know if people can even begin to understand this.

Mu wife and I went to the first time. We went to the Temple Mount.

And you could almost feel. You could almost feel it.

And then we were all the way up at the border of Syria, past the sea of Galilee.

And I looked at my wife. And I said, it's like, it's pulsing. Can you feel the Temple Mount even here?

There's a reason. It's honestly like the polar. The pole goes right through the Temple Mount. And the world actually revolves around that. It's wild to feel it.

ZE'EV: 100 percent. Now, if you ask the average Jewish person, Christian person, close your eyes, and imagine biblical Jerusalem.

Tell me what you see. And you'll get answers like, I see the Western Wall. I see maybe the Stations of the Cross. Maybe the Church of Holy Sepulchre. The Garden Tomb. I see the old city of Jerusalem.

And all wonderful and good places, except none of them, at least when we're talking about the original Hebrew Bible, none of those places are in the Bible.

When you think of the places where the kings of the Bible ruled and the prophets of the Bible preached, you're talking about the City of David. The City of David is today located just outside the walls of the old city.

Now, most people think the walls of the old city, those iconic walls, they must be thousands of years old. They're only about 500 years old. Now, only.

GLENN: Wait. Wait.

The ancient walls around Jerusalem? 500 years?

ZE'EV: That's right.

Built by Sewemon (phonetic), during the Ottoman Period.

Right? Now, most people -- mostly 2,000, 3,000 years old.

Now, the walls of the Temple Mount. The western wall itself, the Southern Wall. The Southern steps. All of that is 2,000 years old, going back to the time of Jesus. But the wall around the old city of Jerusalem is only 500 hundred years old.

Now, if you're sitting here in America.
Wow, 500 years is a long time ago. Jerusalem, which is 4,000 years old, 500 years ago is like last week. We don't get overly excited by anything 500 years old. So what happened?

We lost Jerusalem. Everyone thought it was the old city, until about 150 years ago. 1867, Queen Victoria of England, she wants to discover the treasures of the Bible.

Like the Ark of the Covenant. She sends a man by the name of Captain Charles Warren to the holy land to find those treasures. He comes to Jerusalem.

He wants to excavate the Temple Mount, where the Temple of Solomon stood. The Biblical Mount Moriah, except in 1867, the Ottomans, the Muslims are there.

They say, Charles, we assure you are a great guy.

But you're not digging up the Temple Mount. To this day, due to religious sensitivities, political sensitivities, the Temple Mount has -- had almost no archaeologically activity.

GLENN: Wait. Wait. Let me clarify this. They have Muslims, if I'm not mistaken, have been digging.

ZE'EV: That's not in archaeology.

GLENN: They've been digging it and putting -- putting it into dump trucks.

ZE'EV: They've been destroying it. But in terms of archaeology, with the goal of uncovering the heritage and history of Jerusalem. Uncovering the Biblical heritage of Jerusalem.

That hasn't taken place. The opposite. What the Islamic -- the religious trust on the Temple Mount, what they've done is the opposite of archaeology, with the goal of not uncovering and celebrating the heritage of Jerusalem, but actually destroying it.

GLENN: And there's actual archaeologists that sit through all this stuff.

ZE'EV: To this day, you have archeologists and volunteers were able to go through and sift through the hundreds and hundreds of truckloads of earth, that were removed from the Temple Mount by the Islamic religious trust, in the late 1990s. Dumped in garbage dumps. And when you're sifting through this earth. You will find next to 2000-year-old coins, potato chip wrappers. Coke cans. Why?

Because it's all jumbled together now.

GLENN: Oh, my God.

ZE'EV: They have no --

GLENN: They do. I mean, we have no idea what --

ZE'EV: So the pretense was they wanted to build an emergency exit on the Temple Mount.

There's a very large subterranean mosque known as the Marwani Mosque beneath the Temple Mount, beneath the area known as Solomon's stables. One of the most beautiful parts of --

GLENN: Underneath that?

ZE'EV: Underneath that. The southern end of the Temple Mount. They hallowed it out. And they built this subterranean mosque. Then they said, well, now we have this mosque there.

We need to build an emergency exit. And they used the legitimacy of building an emergency exit, to build in bulldozers and dump trucks, and massive machinery.

One of the most famous Israeli archeologists, he said, if you use a toothbrush on the Temple Mount, that's probably heavy machinery. They used bulldozers and dump trucks.

And they took tons and tons and tons of earth. And through it in the garbage.

And they said, why?

The answer is very simple.

What they're trying to hide is that the Jewish people. By extension, Christians have been in Jerusalem for thousands of years.

If they can destroy that history. Destroy that hernial.

Well, then they can go along with those claims. That Israel is colonizing power, that has no history, no heritage in the land of Israel or in Jerusalem. They are seeking to rewrite history.

To erase the Judeo-Christian heritage from Jerusalem. In fact, the United Nations passed a resolution a couple years ago, saying the Temple Mount and Western Wall, are exclusively Islamic holy places.

GLENN: What?

ZE'EV: And they go on to say and condemn all the archaeological excavations in Jerusalem. Now you might say, how on earth can anyone say such a thing?

That Jews and Christians have no heritage in Jerusalem, condemn the archaeology, why would they say that?

But the answer is very simple. If the story that you want to tell about Jerusalem is an exclusively Islamic story, then you will hate a place like the city of David, one of the most archeologically excavated sites in the world, because every single day, we're unearthing antiquities, fancy word for old stuff.

That show not simply as a matter of faith, but as a matter of fact, that Jerusalem's Biblical heritage is true. That the connection that Jews and Christians have with Jerusalem, the foundations of the United States of America. That the Judeo Christian heritage. That it's built upon. Comes from Jerusalem. That it's real. And that is a nightmare to them.

GLENN: So last time you were on, I think we talked about the pool of Bethesda. Ask this is where Jesus healed the man who had been waiting for a miracle at the pool.

ZE'EV: Right. The pool of Siloam. The southern end of the city of David. Which up until 2004, was totally covered up.

GLENN: Do we even know that that was kind of where it was.

ZE'EV: We know 100 percent that's where it was.

GLENN: No. No. No. Then. When we started the archeological dig that we didn't know.

ZE'EV: No. They say hindsight is 2020. Obviously now, we say, of course, we knew that's where it was.

Back then, 2004, it's all covered up. There's a road above it. There's a sewage pipe below.

And only because of a busted sewage pipe, we have a teaching in our faith, that says God has many miracles.

The reason we found one of the most significant Bible heritage sites in all of Jerusalem. The pool of Siloam, with deep significance to Christians and Jews alike, was because of a busted sewage pipe. And that of course leads to another discovery.

Because the pool of Siloam, was the place where before going back up to the Temple, on Passover, Pentecost, Tabernacles, Pilgrimage Festivals. You have to cleanse yourself. Wash, cleanse, bathe. In the Christian Scriptures, the story of the healing of the blind man, also, pool of Siloam.

And so the archaeologists said, well, if we know where the pool is, at the Southern end at the city of David, the place where Jerusalem began. How did the millions of pilgrims get from the pool all the way to the temple on the Temple Mount?

They widened their excavation, and they ended up discovering what's known as the Pilgrimage Road, the road that our ancestors, yours and mine. Jews and Christians alike, would have walked on, 2,000 years ago when they went on pilgrimage up to the temple, on the Temple Mount.

GLENN: So the road would go right directly from that pool. Right to --

ZE'EV: That's right. The temple. I call it the Biblical superhighway.

Anywhere you wanted to go in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, that road would take you there.

And I've been asked many, many times. What are the chances Jesus walked on that road?

GLENN: Got to be 100 percent.

ZE'EV: Yeah. I say, conservatively speaking you're talking about 100 percent. So how do you know? Well, the answer is really very simple. If you believe there was a historic Jesus 2,000 years ago, in Jerusalem. Well, he was Jewish.

He went with all the Jews, down to cleanse at the pool of Siloam, at the southern end of the City of David. He would have then walked up from the pool, along the Pilgrimage Road, along the half mile journey, up to the Temple, on the Temple Mount.

The pool of Siloam, that we're excavating as we speak, in the city of David today, is 100 percent the same pool of Siloam from 2,000 years ago, and the time of Jesus. The Pilgrimage Road, that archaeologists from the Israel antiquities authority are excavating as we speak today. 100 percent the same Pilgrimage Road.

Same Temple Mount. Same city of David. Not simply a matter of faith, but a matter of fact. It's real. You can see it. You can touch it.

You can walk on it. It's the most significant half mile on the planet.

There's no half mile, that means more people anywhere in the world, than the city of David.

GLENN: So when it -- it comes to the temple, does it come to Solomon's Stairs?

And it's got to be below. I mean, you excavated. How deep down did you have to dig to find the road?

ZE'EV: So the pilgrimage road itself runs up the length of the city of David. It comes out on the southwest corner of the Temple Mount.

So now what happens, it then splits off. When it gets to the southwestern corner, there's one branch that goes off to the east, which comes out by the Southern Steps. Again, another site with deep significance for Jews and Christians alike.

And then the other part, when it gets to the southwest corner. Keeps going north along the Western Wall. And that became the main thoroughfare. In fact, when a person stands at the southwest corner of the Temple Mount, you can see the remnants of a massive staircase, that would have taken the pilgrims up into the temple.

It's still there. You can seat remnants of that staircase. So this was the main thoroughfare. Where everyone is gathering. Now, today, the pilgrimage road, or the vast majority of it, is about 60 feet underground.

Now, if this was the United States. What would happen?

You know, if I go to Gettysburg today.

How many people are buried on the battlefield. How many people live today on the battlefield of Gettysburg?

Nobody. Right?

One of the most significant American heritage sites. So in Jerusalem, you would say, well, city of David, not just for millions.

But billions of people around the world.

What should we do? Two words. Eminent to main. Except, in this part of Jerusalem. We don't do that. And so the challenge is, how do you on the one hand, respect the modern day city of David and the people who live there today?

And at the same time, uncover all the heritage with significance to billions of people, around the world, and give access to all those who want to see it themselves. And the answer is, with a lot of sensitivity.

That's why the city of David is only 11 acres in size. We only excavated one-third of the site to date. Over the last 115 years.

GLENN: Wait. Wait. Wait. So it's mainly with buildings and roads and everything above it?

ZE'EV: Above it. So you're literally trying to have the best of both worlds. Respect the modern. Uncover the ancient.

And that's why so much of the work has to be done with the utmost sensitivity. And the highest of standards. Because you can't afford any mistakes. You can't afford occasion --

GLENN: You're not getting Elon Musk with his Boring machine.

And everything has to be. You're talking about small tools.

Lots of engineering to support everything that's up above.

But I have the privilege of hosting members of the Navy SEALs. Along the pilgrimage road.

And they were based out of Coronado on the west coast. And they said, well, how does this all get covered up?

And they said, well, you know, it's really simple.

You have one time period. Someone comes and conquers it. They build on top of it.

Another one conquers them, builds on top of that. Throw some earthquakes in there. You kind of get all these layers. Just to bring it closer to home. You guys are out there in California. I said, if you dug down beneath your homes, you would probably find, that once upon a time, there was some Native Americans living there.

If you kept digging, you might find that once upon a time, there were some Republicans living there.

GLENN: I doubt that. I doubt that. It's Seattle. Seattle has a Seattle underground. And they just built on top of it.

ZE'EV: Yeah. So in ancient times, they built into the sky. Today, we have to take into account. There is a modern day neighborhood. But neighborhood is preserved. But we are uncovering that heritage.

1992 Rooftop Korean SPEAKS OUT amid 2025 LA riots

"Rooftop Korean" Tony Moon, who helped protect his Los Angeles community during the 1992 riots, speaks out amid the 2025 LA riots. He tells Glenn Beck why today's riots are very different than those in 1992: "they're NOT organic."

Transcript

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GLENN: From 1992, I believe this is the NBC report on the '92 riots in LA.

Listen.

VOICE: March 16th, 1991, Latasha Harlans, a black teenager is shot and killed by a Korean store owner.

Sun Ja Do (phonetic). Do is convicted of voluntary manslaughter, but is sentenced only to parole and a small fine.

The black community is outraged and remembers.

VOICE: Six months probation?

I mean, the people were pissed then.

VOICE: Today, local Korean radio is broadcasting which stores in the area are threatened.

Young men like Eddie Kim rush over to try to defend them.

VOICE: I don't care about anything.

But it's not a riot. Okay?

You know, it's not a riot.

VOICE: He spent last night, and will spend tonight, guarding his appliance store.

A small battalion of employees and relatives will try to help.

VOICE: I only have one shotgun.

That's all I have.

What do they have?

They have hundreds of people. Hundreds of young people.

With lots of guns!

VOICE: After the destruction, many Koreans have lost all faith that the authorities can protect them.

GLENN: We have one of those Koreans that were protecting people.

Tony Moon, a rooftop Korean from 1992. Welcome, Tony, how are you?

TONY: I'm doing well, Glenn. Thank you for having me on the show. It's a pleasure.

GLENN: I've got to tell you what an honor it is to you have you on.

Can you take us through the experience that you had in the '92 LA riots?

TONY: Of course.

I was 19 at the time. And I was fairly similar -- a little familiar with Latasha's verdict.

But being 19, I wasn't really plugged into politics. Or current events.

Then when things blew up, after the Rodney King verdict, I came down on a Wednesday.

It's when we saw the outrage from the black community. And that's what it was in '92. It was basically the community, that had legitimate reasons to be upset.

And there was a rift between the black community and the Korean community, because the Korean community actually went into the black areas that were predominantly black, and open businesses there. And were doing businesses in the community.

Because of the cultural differences between the two. There was a lot of, I guess you can say, a lot of built-up animosity towards each other. And that's where I guess that's -- the riots, a lot of the pent up frustration was targeting Korean business owners because of that.

And it went on from Wednesday, until through the weekend. Until the National Guard showed up.

But we were fending for ourselves by Thursday.

And the call went out on Thursday. And it went out, when many of us answered the call. A lot of the misconception, is that it was just Korean shop owners. Which wasn't true.

There were a lot of young men like myself. Nineteen, 20. 22-year-olds that went out there.

That's kind of what I'm writing in my book right now.

From that perspective.

Growing up in Los Angeles, at that time.

And what the culture was like. And who some of these young men were.

One of them being Eddie Lee. Who gave his life that week.

You know, for the community.

And unfortunately, it was -- you know, through friendly fire. And I detailed that in my book. Regarding why that happened.

And who some of these young men were, like myself. And my driver, who was out there.

And we weren't always, always. You know, we weren't all on the roof.

Which is -- it's a misconception.

Some of us were out there. Literally --

GLENN: What do you mean, by we were hunting?

JASON: You know, they think -- a lot of people think we're just shooting at looters, which is not the case.

In '90s, LA it was a very gang-rich culture in the '90s. I mean, there were a lot of gangs. One of the large gangs that came out of LA.

And which is -- which is, a Salvadorian gang, that started in the mid-'80s.

And a lot of them, were shooting at these business owners. And some of us who had a background in the streets. Knew -- knew their territory. And knew who they were.

So we actually went into some of these areas. To basically let them.

Put them on notice.

That it's not just the older generation that is shooting at them.

But we actually will be actively hunting them down too. And LA is very layered and complicated. There's a lot of pockets and neighborhoods, where they have different ethnic groups.

And the rule is that, you don't go into other people's area, and mess around.

GLENN: Yeah.

TONY: And you stay in your own neighborhood. You be respectful of other people's different neighborhoods. You don't go there. And just start popping off shots. And that's kind of what they were doing. And it worked out, in the end. It worked out.

GLENN: No. I know. I lived in New Haven, Connecticut. That has a very rich Italian history. And that was what the way it was. You know, the it's not protected their neighborhood. And don't come into the Italian neighborhood and try to stir anything up, or you'll be in trouble with the Italians. And they won't mess with you and your neighborhood. Just everybody take care of yourself.

TONY: Exactly.

GLENN: So did you ever feel like a vigilante in any way? Did you feel that maybe this was questionable to take this on yourself?

TONY: No. Not at all.

When you -- you don't have law enforcement out in the streets anymore.

You know, the streets become a lot -- it's everybody for themselves. You become -- you kind of gain kind of a tribal sense of protecting your own.

Right?

So it's no longer a sense of vigilantism. Just protecting your own. And making sure there's any encroachment into your territory.

So I didn't see it as being a vigilante.

But just maintaining law and order.

Somewhat law and order, some semblance of peace.

And that was done through the barrel of -- you know, a firearm.

GLENN: Compare what you went through, you know, the Rodney King riots.

The George Floyd riots.

And this riot. Is there any difference?

TONY: Absolutely. Absolutely. The 1992 riots were organic. You had different parts of L.A. County that were upset. And you had fires and looting. Because the black community was spread out through south LA, Compton, south-central -- La Habra Heights.

Different areas. And you could actually see that. You know, when you are -- looked at the city, as a whole. From let's say Hollywood. You saw the fires from different parts of the city.

This -- these riots that are occurring now, with like the 2020, what I call the BLM riots. Now the 2025 LA riots are happening now.

They are very centralized. And they're not organic. They're being funded by NGOs. And it's a leftist Marxist agenda, that's being pushed to make it seem as if there's widespread support for this.

For example, the criminal rights that are occurring right now. It's just happening in downtown LA.

And the curfew that was by the mayor is only -- I don't know it off the top of my head. Two square mile radius. Right? One square mile.

Yeah. That's what it is.

Anyone outside that one square mile. Life always proceeds as it has been.

It doesn't look like there's anything going on. Where the difference in 1992, whether you were in Hollywood, Culver City, which is further out west.

And then Hollywood is up north, past downtown LA. August, you stop at downtown LA. You had fires. Looting. I mean, it was widespread.

This isn't anything like what's going on down to 1992.

And it just kind of shows the incompetence of the current leadership of not being able to get their arms around something like this.

Because of their lack of leadership.
And I would say common sense. They're letting these protesters spiral out of control.

Because many of them, the playbook is for them to start in downtown LA at City Hall.

Then make their way down, which really pisses off a lot of people. Because, you know, it's -- it's a highly traveled freeway in LA.

GLENN: I know. It's a parking lot.

You stop me from getting home, I don't care -- I don't care if you're for free candy bars. Reindeer and Santa. I hate your guts if you delay me on that how. I hate you when I'm driving home.

TONY: Absolutely. Absolutely. So there's no widespread recourse for this.

GLENN: Okay. So tell me about how the feeling -- what the feeling is on Trump and the National Guard coming in.

TONY: I think it's awesome.

I think this should have been done back in 2020. But obviously, you know, during that time. It was the administration.

First time going through this.

I posted it recently on Twitter. That, you know, when you take a shot at a man, and you try to assassinate him. He comes back different.

You know, and that's what he's shown.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. It is. It is.

Newsom and Bass both say, the riots are contained. Didn't need the National Guard.

This is Trump just trying to turn into a dictator. This is their communities having enough of the people being disappeared on the streets.

What do you say?

What is the average person that you talk to say about those kinds of things?

JASON: I would trust the meteorologist more than I would trust Newsom or Bass.

They -- they're in the same basket as Pelosi. They lie about what's going on. Because of social media. And because of, you know, the lack of reporting, from the local news.

Which covers for the current leadership in L.A. County.

Including the mayor and the board of supervisors. The people that are not getting 100 percent of the news.

And this is no different than what happened in early -- earlier this year with the fires. With what was going on in palisades. Altadena.

You know, the news, in order to get coverage for the local leadership. And to get on their good side, they're not going to report anything bad that's happening.

Currently, I believe there's a class-action lawsuit, gets an board of supervisors. The mayor. I think there are tons of lawsuits being filed right now.

And the problem is that it's not these individuals that will be detained for this.

It's the city and the county.

It will be a drain on the budget. And it will affect the social services, like paramedics, firefighters, you know, law enforcement.

GLENN: I can't imagine being those guys.

TONY: Yeah.

GLENN: Let me ask you for any advice you would give to mom and pop business owners that are vulnerable today?

TONY: A lot of them are downtown LA. I would say, board up. What I've noticed, 1992, the shops that were spared were the ones that had steel roll-up doors. Those do well.

Otherwise, lock your doors.

GLENN: Yeah.

TONY: And deterrence is really a great way to keep looters out. So you don't have to necessarily take shots at them. But displaying, I outlined it in my Twitter feed. I pinned it to my profile.

Deterrence is actually really great.

Because these individuals are looking for low-hanging fruit. So they're looking for an opportunity. So they want to go for the easiest shop or whatever they're going to loot.

So if they move -- you know, you have a shotgun or, you know, an AR. Right?

And they see you're armed. They will think twice before answering. And they will move on to the next target.

GLENN: By the way, you can follow Tony Moon @RoofKorean7. That's his Twitter handle.

RoofKorean7. When does your book come out? You have to send me a copy so I can read it in advance, because I want to have you back when it's out.

TONY: Absolutely. Absolutely. You've been most gracious to me.

I don't know if you know, but I did an interview with Morgan from three years ago in your studio, which turned into a museum, I think. You have some really great artifacts in there.

GLENN: I do, thank you. Yeah, thank you. I didn't know that.

TONY: Yeah.

I'm trying to release it. Well, I'm finishing it up by the end of -- near the end of this month.

My kids are going to read it. Because the book is tailored towards the next generation like Gen Alpha. Gen Z.

GLENN: Yeah, yeah.

TONY: Because these kids weren't alive during that time.

And they only see what online social media is portraying. And also, you know, what they may hear from the news. So I want to give them an account from being -- from a teenage perspective at 19, in terms of what it looked like, and how it played out. So my kids are read the first half.

Some of them are in my book. They will read it too, and once they give their blessing and they're okay with it, I will try to push it out before the end of the summer.

GLENN: That's great. Well, do me a favor. As soon as you're comfortable, send a copy to me so I can read it.

Because I would love to be ahead on it.

But, Tony, best of luck. Thanks for coming on with me, I really appreciate it.

JASON: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you for this time. I really appreciate it.

GLENN: You bet. Tony Moon. 1992. Rooftop Korean on the LA riots, then and now.

A Riots: The Marxist Revolution Disguised as Anti-ICE “Protests” | Glenn TV | Ep 438

Remember this old prediction from Glenn’s chalkboard on Fox News: “Marxists, anarchists, radical leftists, and Islamists will work together to destroy capitalism and the West”? Well, that movement has cascaded all over the world and has now arrived on American streets. As Los Angeles continues to spiral into violent riots, more anti-ICE demonstrations are popping up all over the country in cities like Chicago, San Antonio, Atlanta, and New York. Democrat politicians and rioters blame the violence on President Trump’s deportation agenda, but the chaos isn’t organic — it’s well-organized and well-funded. Interim U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli joins to separate fact from fiction on what actually ignited the protests. He also reveals an ongoing investigation into the organizers and their sources of funding and gives an update on the FBI manhunt for the suspect who hurled rocks at law enforcement vehicles.

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If you’ve watched the footage coming out of Los Angeles this week, then you know something’s wrong.

You feel it. You see the chaos. The organized protests that magically appear—funded and networked—hit the same cultural pressure points every time: violence in the streets, masked as justice. I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again now with even more urgency: this isn’t organic. This is orchestrated.

When I first began formulating what would become TheBlaze in 2010, Barack Obama was surrounding himself with Marxist radicals.

These were people who spoke like revolutionaries and moved like Islamists: Bill Ayers, Valerie Jarrett, Cass Sunstein, CAIR, George Soros, Code Pink, the Tides Foundation, and someone who just came up again in yesterday’s news, Ron Gochez. I stood in front of those chalkboards and said, “Watch this. Watch how the socialists, the communists, the Islamists, and the anarchists would work together—not because they love each other, but because they share a common enemy: the West.”

Israel would be the first target, then Europe, then the cascading violence would reach our own shores. When I laid that out, not one single voice in mainstream media—left or right—engaged with it seriously. Not one host. Not one outlet. Nobody asked, “Wait, why would Glenn say that? Is there any truth in it? What’s the evidence?” Nothing. It was like screaming into a hurricane while standing completely alone.

This was before podcasts meant anything—before Rumble, before Substack.

This was when Netflix was still mailing movies to people. Not a single serious media personality was making an impact online because they weren’t online. I had just left Fox, and someone over there—someone I respected—looked me in the eye and said, “You’re not seriously going to do that online thing, are you? It’s a fad.”

Funny how a few short years later, they didn’t say that when Tucker left. Or when Megyn did. No one called it a fad then. But when I did it, everybody said my career was over. Truth be told, some nights, in the dark, I believed it too.

I pushed forward anyway because my goal was simple: create a safe haven. Not just a single place where voices could be heard or A platform for those who had spent their entire lives working to tell the truth, but were forced to play ball with corporate media and big government. What I wanted to start was a movement. Someone has to show others it can be done, and others will do it.

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Today, I’m announcing a new chapter—not a departure from our mission at TheBlaze, but an expansion of it.

While we’ve helped crack the back of corporate media, there’s another system just as broken, just as corrupted, just as dangerous: education.

We are going to do for American education what we did for legacy media.

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Exposed: Gavin Newsom’s SHOCKING civil war plot slips out

California Governor Gavin Newsom recently dared President Trump to arrest him for protecting illegal immigrants. But Glenn Beck points out the bigger news that Newsom accidentally dropped: when he claimed Trump "wants a civil war,” he was self-diagnosing. That's what the LA riots are really about, Glenn argues.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: I want to take you back to Los Angeles here for just a second.

To Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom is -- I mean, what is he?

What is he playing at?

I don't even know what he's trying to do. He's all over the board.

Play cut 11. Here he is playing tough guy. Listen to this.

VOICE: Get your hands off these poor people who are just trying to live their lives, man. Live their lives.

Pay their taxes. Ten years. The fear, the horror, come after me. Arrest me. Let's just get this over with. Tough guy. You know, I don't give a damn. But I care about my community. I care about this community. The hell are they doing? These guys need to grow up, they need to stop, and we need to push back. And I'm sorry to be so clear.

STU: I'm sorry to be so clear.

GLENN: I --

VOICE: So, Tom, arrest me.

GLENN: Tom, do it. Here he is, he is saying these are people who come in here and pay their taxes.

What was arrested on Friday?

A rapist. A murderer. People who are not here just paying their taxes, trying to live a quiet life and be who they are.

They are being who they are.

Unfortunately, every time they are who they are, they end up with another ten-year sentence.

And somehow or another, in California, you're not paying for those crimes. You're just out in the streets.

That's who was arrested on Friday.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: And he's playing tough guy.

STU: It's important to note this. A lot of times, when these debates happen that we've had a million times.

We tend to go through the same different channels we've been in before.

This is -- we could have a debate about whether ICE should go to a random Home Depot and arrest 45 immigrants, legal immigrants, looking for work.

GLENN: Sure.

STU: I would support that.

Because I think the law is important.

GLENN: Me too.

STU: However, you can have that debate. And that is the debate that we have been having.

This particular grimace action, had nothing to do with that.

The one we're talking about, went after actual criminals.

They went after --

GLENN: Criminals.

STU: Rapists. And all sorts of terrible criminals.

That was the target of this action.

It has nothing to do with the people we're talking about. And I can't get over how bad Gavin Newsom is on this clip.

It is the performance is terrible.

He gave versions of this to like six different media sources.

And you can tell he's like struggling to find his way into, I want to say, arrest me tough guy.

He wants to say that so badly.

But like, what that was, was a much worse version of what Joe Biden tried to do over and over again.

With like, well, I meet him under the bleachers, at the football field. And I punch him in the face. It's that same terrible thing, where Democrats have like manifested what they believed tough men talk like.

GLENN: Right! Because they don't know --

STU: And they try to re-create it in person.

It's pathetic.

GLENN: Because they're not real men.

STU: No.

GLENN: They don't understand real strength.

They think men just talk tough like, go ahead!

I'll beat you up in the back of the school, at 3 o'clock this afternoon! That's not men.

Those are little boys.

And that's -- that's who the men on the left are: Little boys.

They have no idea.

And then he -- he starts with a little bit of truth. In this next clip.

He starts with saying, look, I'm sane, you're sane.

But listen to what it goes into.

Because they always do this.

They tell you who they are, and what they're planning on doing.

Cut three.

VOICE: Stop these guys.

These idiots, that are jumping up on cars. That are burning these way months. These people, that's a disgrace.

And the impact they're having on our democracy -- there's a lot at risk here.

I mean, this is not just a simple act of disobedience. They should be arrested, they should be held accountable.

Anyone would tax any innocent person, including a law enforcement person that is lawfully doing their job! They're members of our communities, just like everybody else.

They go to the same churches. They're good human beings. Just because we don't like Donald Trump. Just because we don't like their orders. Doesn't mean you have the right to hurt or harm people.

And that goes for them as well.

We're holding everybody to a higher level of accountability. But that's not what Trump is after.

He's not for peacemaking. He's here for war.

He wants a civil war in America. Not just here. He's testing the boundaries by nationalizing the federal guard.

GLENN: Okay. That's all you need to know.

What are they doing? They want war. They want Civil War on the streets.

And they're testing their boundaries.

That's exactly what's happening right now with the left.

They want Civil War. And they're testing their boundary.

Period.

STU: Remember, we do know of organizations that basically have advocated for this.

And many of them are on the streets right now.

GLENN: The ones that are printing the signs for the people who carry in the streets.

STU: Yeah. Yeah.

We know who the organizers are. This is why I said earlier today.

And Donald Trump and the FBI, they need to start arresting the organizers. Don't go after the people on the street!

Go after the money. Go after the organizers.

The ones who are -- look at this guy. This guy is one of the organizers.

I just would like to call him revolutionary Ron. That's what I called him when I first introduced you to him, back in 2010.

Here he is. At a UCLA, in defense of La Raza. Now, listen to this guy. This is 14 years ago. Listen to this.

VOICE: A revolutionary, Mexican organization here, we understand what they're saying. You're right. This is not just about Mexico. This is about a global struggle against imperialism and capitalism. Our enemy is the same enemy as Hugo Chavez. That Hugo Chavez said, our enemy is the same enemy that keeps Africa poor. Our enemy is the same enemy that keeps Asia poor.

Our enemy is capitalism and imperialism.

GLENN: Okay, that's this guy. Revolutionary Ron, back in 2011. He was talking about his revolutionary Mexican organization called del Barrio

Union del Barrio is involved in the organization of some of these -- these protests, if you will.

Okay?

So they're on the ground.

Now, here he is, recently talking about his community's resistance to ICE. Listen to this. Cut seven.

VOICE: But what they didn't think was going to happen, was that the people would resist and fight back.

And that's exactly what happened in Paramount and in Compton, California.

Where for eight and a half hours, the people combating a man in the streets, against the Border Patrol. And after eight and a half hours of battle, and it was a battle.

Because there were people throwing back tear gas. People throwing back anything they could to defend themselves and the workers that were surrounded by over 100 Border Patrol agents.

After eight and a half hours, the Border Patrol, the sheriffs had to retreat. They had to retreat because of the fierce resistance of the community. And the hundreds of workers that were in the factories around them. Were able to escape.

They were able to go to their cars and go home.

GLENN: Okay. So stop.

Did you hear what he was saying?

Remember, who was his enemy?

Capitalism. Imperialism.

All of the things that -- all of the institutions that make America, America. If you will.

Okay?

They are for the overthrowing of our government!

What is he saying this time?

He's saying, that we're only doing it because of these good people.

Exactly the same message, that Gavin Newsom is giving you.

But notice, neither of them are saying, we want revolution in the streets.

Both of them want revolution in the streets. Gavin Newsom, they always tip their hand, by telling you, what Trump is doing. Or what the left -- what the right is doing.

It's always projection. It's what they're doing.

Okay?

So Gavin Newsom says this. The guy from del Barrio. He is saying the same thing in all of his other speeches.

And we have it. We are going to be going over all of this on Wednesday night's TV show.

And he's only one of these clowns.

And I'm not saying that he's the leader of it, or anything else.

He's the leader of his little group, and they are involved with a whole bunch of other groups.

Those groups need to be investigated.

I mean, it's not hard. You have them on tape.

By the way, he's a high school history teacher in California.

And he talks about how he is making all of his students into revolutionaries.

That's their real -- that's their real goal. Okay.

So here's the high school teacher saying, revolutionary, enemy is capitalism. Imperialism.

We've got to resist Donald Trump and what they were doing. By arresting these people.

Again, look at the list of the people that they were arresting.

And tell me that you were for that.

And then the other turn of the table is to make this all again, look like Donald Trump's fall.

Listen to this representative of California, Democrat, of course.

Gill Cisneros, listen to this. Cut ten.

VOICE: The president of Israel, he tried to instigate a confrontation between, whether it be law enforcement, the National Guard, and the citizens of Los Angeles, Southern California.

To serve his purpose. And that could be -- as Lucia said. To distract from this horrible economy, that he has created.

The tariffs. Plan that isn't working.

I mean, he's even killing the Kennedy center right now.

But he is trying to distract this.

And really, he's trying to force California to borrow a term from Game of Thrones, bend the knee to his will.

And we're not going to do that. And I'm so proud of our governor right now. And the interview that he gave. But everything that's going on right now, is of Donald Trump's creation. And making.

And, you know, they are literally pulling people off the street.

GLENN: No. No. They're literally not doing that.

But okay.

So what is he saying here?

He's saying, Donald Trump is just doing this, so you will bend a knee.

And he's trying force a war between the federal government and the good people of California.

I'm sorry. Good people of California, but if that's you I see on TV, in the black garb, setting cars on fire. Dancing in the streets.

You know, how did -- what was it? CNN. No. ABC.

Please, play the ABC cut, on how they were describing these very, very good Californians, in the streets.

Listen to this.

VOICE: Large group of people. It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there, in the wrong way.

And turn what is just a bunch of people, having fun, watching cars burning to a massive confrontation and altercation between them.

GLENN: Okay. Stop.

What are they saying there?

That if Donald Trump reacts and sends in the National Guard, or the police, you run the risk of having a confrontation, that will go poorly, and escalate.

That's exactly what the left wants to do. But listen to what he is saying.

He is describing these good people of California, as people who are just having fun, watching cars burn in the streets.

Okay. Well, let's just play that thinking out for a second.

A, I would be having fun, watching cars burn in the streets.

I would be asking myself, good heavens, what the hell is happening to our civil society. What is happening to our civilization?

So it wouldn't be fun.

But if you were having fun, just watching the cars burn in the streets, if police come in and say, hey.

Move along. Move along.

Why wouldn't you move along?

You weren't doing anything. You were just having fun, watching these cars burn in the streets.

Why would you suddenly have any kind of hostile intent. Or take the police of having hostile intent. If they were just saying, move along.

I would be expected to be told that, because a fire truck will be coming soon, to put that out. So all of California does not burn down again!

Their logic. There is no logic to anything that they're doing or saying.

Which brings me to this: Speaking of the teacher that was saying he was teaching kids how to be revolutionaries.

Let me read this.

This, I found incredible!

Apple has debunked AI reasoning hype. Apple is claiming that the New Age artificial intelligence reasoning models may not be as smart as they're making them out to be.

The study titled the illusion of thinking, understanding the strength and limitations of reasoning model via the lens of problem complexity. Blah, blah.

Here's what they say. Models, these AI large language models, they only memorize. They don't think!

Let me take you back to school.
Kids, remember this, write this down.

It's going to be on the test.

How is it that we're saying, that these large language models, are not really human.

They're not really capable of outthinking anyone.

Because they only memorize, and they don't think!

When our schools are teaching our kids, only to memorize, and not to think!