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LEAKED China audio unveils possible plan to INVADE Taiwan

Is China preparing to invade Taiwan? Leaked audio that appears to be legit would seem to point to that as a strong possibility. Jason Buttrill joined Glenn to discuss and analyze what the timetable might be. It may not be tomorrow but it's happening soon... ish.

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GLENN: Jason Buttrill is with us. He is the main writer, researcher for the Glenn Beck television program.

And he is also our national security expert. He was with naval intelligence for a long time. And can tell us about a new audio tape that has come out of China. Smuggled out of China. That apparently shows that they are preparing for an invasion of Taiwan.

I've got several questions on this. First, Jason, why don't you bring everybody up to speed, on what it is, what they're saying.

JASON: Well, so first a quick little correction. You say naval intelligence. I'm about to invade your office, because Marine Corps intelligence.

GLENN: Same thing. You're on boats.

JASON: Bigger.

(laughter)

GLENN: My apologies. My apologies to every marine. Just said it to set him off. Go ahead.

JASON: Yeah. So this is -- this is -- like a council meeting of their war mobilization.

So I want to make that clarification. Because this does appear to be legitimate. They are talking about a massive war mobilization effort, on basically this is theory crafting. What do we need to do?

So where do we need to get conscripts. How do we retrofit ships to get the amount? Which they're guessing in this meeting, will take about 953 ships, which is oddly very specific.

And they also talk about 140,000 soldiers. They're talking about private companies, that need to be utilized. Yeah. I say private in air quotes. Public/private. Nobody.

GLENN: Yeah, no, it's a partnership. It's a public partnership. It's what we will be soon. But go ahead.

JASON: 140,000 soldiers. They just go on. Very good detail. It goes on for about 56 minutes. I've looked at some of the -- well, I've looked at all the nations. I've matched up all the faces. These are real people. This does appear to be legitimate. I do want to say though, that they're just one part of this massive -- you know -- you know, structure that's within China. That's looking at invading Taiwan. And make no mistake. Invading Taiwan is a national security necessity for China. They will try it eventually. When is up to, you know, interpretation. I think they're still very far off. At least ten years off.

GLENN: Yeah. Now, wait a minute. Hang on just a second. And I think anybody in the intelligence community. Because I've talked to several of them. Would agree with you. We're at least five years off. Between five and ten. Is this different than what we do with the pentagon?

I mean, we should have a plan on, you know, invading Canada, in case they went crazy. That's what they should do, is have a plan for anything. Is that what this is?

JASON: Yes. I think that's what this is. But it has a little more teeth. So when I was in the intelligence community, we did a lot of war gaming. You know, for multiple different countries stop we had to plan in place. If it was -- you know, we needed.

I think the difference here is that this is their -- let's say, it was our national security imperative, that we invade Cuba. And we -- and everyone knew we were going to do it at some point. Then this would be a lot more worrisome. That showed we were this far ahead in the planning. That's a different tear. They will do this soon. They will, in the future.

GLENN: Yeah. So soon for the Chinese, which could be 500 years away.

Let me ask you the next obvious question. In a state, that has total surveillance, total surveillance, and records of everybody, cell phone, what it's doing. Where it's been.

Who smuggled this out? How did it get out? And is it intentionally let out?

JASON: Yeah. Yeah. So there's -- so I was kind of getting to this a little bit earlier. But there's multiple different factions that are looking at this. There's the war mobilization faction like this. Like, their job is to make sure that if we do this, we're prepared to do it. Now, there are other factions in the Communist Party, that are like, are you looking at the geopolitical perspective right now. Are you looking at what's happening in Russia with Ukraine.

We're trying to get our economy going the way it's been going, the past ten, 15 years. That's not going to happen. That's a full stop. Everything they want to get done. What's -- can you imagine what happens to (inaudible), if what happens to Russia happens to them? It completely goes away.

So there are those factions in the CCP. That say, wait a minute. Let's take a step back. Yes. We agree. We have to do this in the future. But this is not something we should be thinking about in the near term.

GLENN: Do you really think it goes -- do you really think that all goes away?

If they take Taiwan, and somebody doesn't blow up the high-tech plants, they control like 99 percent of every chip, and most importantly, the hardest chips to make. That's all in Taiwan.

You really think that, you know, countries fold all the time, because they need something.

JASON: Yeah.

And the issue with Taiwan, looking at the economic perspective, it's almost mutually assured destruction. If you go after Taiwan. You're also critically damaging the Chinese economy. They do a massive amount of business with Taiwan. It's almost like an Achilles' heel that kind of shoves this invasion way down the line, because China is just not ready for it right now.

They don't have a purely, you know, domestic economy. It's purely based off of exports. Purely based off of exports.

And massive amounts of Taiwan. So they're just not ready. I do believe the United States -- I don't think that they can take Taiwan. Not as long as the United States navy is what it is. In the -- I do not believe they can do it. And look at what these numbers.

What they're talking about. 140,000 soldiers. Over 20 airfields and docks. 953 ships. That is -- look at the mobilization that happened in Russia and Ukraine. We were able to see that, you know, months ahead of schedule. This amount of mobilization. I mean, they're going to start, six months later, they'll be ready.

So what will happen, once this starts going down. The United States navy is going to push massive amounts of hardware, you know. Multiple fleets into that area.

GLENN: If we have the fuel. If we had the fuel.

JASON: Start blocking everything off. Yeah. That's right.

GLENN: So did you read my Davos, EF executive summary that I got?

JASON: Yes.

GLENN: Okay. Can we go through this a bit?

Because Al Gore spoke at the Davos meeting yesterday. He was part of the panel, turning up the heat on green washing. And during the panel, Al Gore and other panelists lamented the fact that far too many companies pledged to lower their carbon emissions, but only a small percentage actually followed through with their commitment. It's what they call green washing. So his solution to dealing with the inaccurate reporting of CO2 conditions. A network of satellites that can track CO2 emissions, down to an incredibly detailed level.

He says, according to an S&P report, on more than 5,000 companies. Only 37 percent had any emissions target at all, for scope number one and scope number two emissions. Only 24 percent have net zero targets. And of the companies that have set emission targets. Less than half are aligned with the science-based approach. To even 2 degrees. Much less 1.5 degrees. 58 percent of the companies don't even report their scope, three emissions.

Let alone have a plan to reduce them. And in a recent poll, 1500 business executives from 16 cubs. Only 36 percent said their companies have tools to measure the progress on sustainability.

So he says, green washing is a major obstacle to solve the climate crisis, made up of falsehoods, clever PR. And it's got to stop.

Al Gore then shares the exciting news. We're about to enter the age of radical transparency.

Now, just hear this. And, Jason, chime in at any time. Entering an age of radical transparency. Not for you to be able to see into the government. Not for you to see into the elites. But for the elites to see into everything in your life. He said, I've been among those who have formed a new coalition called climate trace. Which stands for tracking realtime atmospheric carbon emissions. He says, it's a coalition of artificial intelligence. Technology companies. NGOs. And universities. Using data from 300 existing satellites from multiple countries. Ground, sea, and airbased sensors, and internet data streams, to machine learning. To create algorithms for every single sector and subsector of the economy.

This October will publish the world's first inventory of exactly where the greenhouse gas emissions are coming from. And in what amounts. He said, it's going to make a dramatic difference. So investors, supply chain managers, NGOs, prioritizing their campaigning activities, financial institutions. If they want to know where the emissions are coming from upstream and downstream, it's all going to be laid out for the world to see.

That's a little frightening.

JASON: Radical transparency. Why do you have to always add the word radical to everything? Come on, man. Yeah. This is not surprising to me. Next week, we will be talking about on the Glenn Beck special. About a lot of the executive orders. A lot of the transformation. Which already has gone down in the bureaucracy. Which they call, a, quote, all of government approach. Which a lot of us didn't pay attention to. But the more we've been looking into it. It is shocking the amount of the alphabetic bureaucratic agencies that are already moving in that direction.

So if they're talking about private companies, using satellites to do this, do we not think that, you know, the Department of Homeland Security is not already doing this as well?

GLENN: All of them are.

JASON: I mean, in their own words. That's their main priority right now. A couple of weeks ago, the FCC, just issued out sweeping new proposals on mandating -- I'm sorry. Public companies. To disclose their climate footprint and their carbon emissions. And it's hilarious that they even have to mandate it. Because there are groups, that we have a letter, directly from one of the biggest banks in the country. That says, they're already doing this. They say, we applaud you in you. Making it official. We've all been doing this now for several years. They're already doing it. They don't even have to green washing, whatever. A lot of these companies are already on board. Did you see the second half of those notes, Glenn, the first movers coalition?

GLENN: Yeah. Let me take a break, and come back on this. This is something that John Kerry talked about. The first movers coalition. That is the public/private partnership, that the White House announced a few months ago.

GLENN: This is the Glenn Beck Program. All right. So John Kerry, we're back with Jason Buttrill. And he is talking to us about the World Economic Forum. And Davos. Day three. Jason. The first movers coalition. This is John Kerry, yesterday. Talking about, you know, when we first got together a year ago, with Joe Biden. He announced 35 companies, that were coming in on the first movers. A public/private partner ship with the White House.

And now it's up to 55 companies. What does that mean?

JASON: And this was just the 55 companies that are publicly announcing that they're in this public/private.

GLENN: Correct.

JASON: We know there are far more than just 55.

GLENN: Well, no, but these 55. $9 trillion in worth. And these 55 represent 50 percent of all global GDP.

JASON: It's insane.

GLENN: That's a little crazy.

JASON: This is, again, something we will highlight in our show next week. It's a must watch show. You have to next week. But we will highlight some of the wordings they used, in Biden barrage of executive orders.

And reading some of this stuff, it's just blowing my mind. They're stating, and this coalition is all part of this.

Is they're intentionally trying to manipulate the markets. They don't care. I mean, they're trying to manipulate the markets. They know the United States government is actually the largest purchaser of goods in the entire world. In the entire world. So they're directing all these companies to judge on board what the federal government is already doing. Which is intentionally, only buying certain things that they agree with. Like only things they consider hoe carbon footprint. If you work in some of these industries, that are considered high carbon footprint. Or your social and governance is not on par than what they want. Then they are trying to intentional manipulate the market. To drive you out of business. Or, you know, if your business goes out. Then you are intentional driven out of a job. They really do not care. But that's what this is about. They're intentionally trying to manipulate the market. And radically transform the economy.

GLENN: And that's --

JASON: Not only the United States economy. The global economy.

GLENN: And that's the lie that Biden keeps saying, you know, none of his stuff is affecting the gas price.

JASON: Yeah.

GLENN: All of his stuff, including from the World Economic Forum and The Great Reset. That's the point of the great reset. Is to get rid of fossil fuels and oil and gas. And we're going to pay an extraordinary price in human lives, in starvation. Wealth. And progress. This is so dangerous. What they are doing right now.

We'll have all of those. Thank you, Jason. We'll have all of this. And updates on what every agency is doing. And wait until we tell you what FEMA is doing, next Wednesday, on the Glenn Beck special. Next Wednesday. Join us at BlazeTV.com/Glenn.

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Salena Zito reveals WHY Trump said “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

“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.