RADIOAugust 25, 2022

Mark Levin: Left's FBI MISUSE did NOT start with Trump raid

President Trump has done NOTHING to deserve the level of mistreatment he’s received from the far-left and the mainstream media from the moment his candidacy was announced, BlazeTV’s Mark Levin tells Glenn. But, even though the FBI raid on the former president’s Mar-a-Lago home took corruption to a new level, Democrats have been misusing that federal agency for DECADES. In this clip, Levin describes all the ways the FBI has been misused in the past. Plus, he and Glenn discuss if it’s still possible for Americans to 'shake the chains' of our overpowering, federal government…

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GLENN: Mark Levin, nationally syndicated talk radio host, host of Levin TV. Chairman of Landmark Legal Foundation. Host of the Fox News show, Life, Liberty, and Levin. Author of six consecutive number one New York Times' best-sellers, Liberty and Tyranny.

Spent three months at number one. Sold more than 1.5 million copies.

American Marxism. I think was the best-selling book of the year. He's also an inductee of the national Hall of Fame.

Top advisers to several members of President Ronald Reagan's cabinet. He holds a BA from Temple University. At JD from Temple University Law School. And he's on the program.

He's on the program now to make me feel like a slug. Hello, Mark Levin, how are you?

MARK: What are you reading, Glenn?

GLENN: I was just looking you up, and just seeing all the things that you've accomplished. And then I started feeling bad, so I stopped reading.

MARK: Don't go on Wikipedia. That will make you happy.

GLENN: So, Mark, I wanted to -- we're doing a special on the FBI and how out of control justice and the FBI are. And they are -- they've been way for a long time. They were started -- when they were started, they were corrupt. But we are -- we're seeing things with Donald Trump, that should scare people to the core, and I don't think the average Democrat, who is not a Marxist, doesn't understand what is happening right now.

MARK: Well, first of all, they need to understand how corrupt their party is. Because the FBI has been used by Democrat president after Democrat president. And illegal ways. Really, starting with Franklin Roosevelt. He used FDR against his political opponents, including within his own party.

And they would collect dirt on his political opponents. He would use the IRS the same way. Which is why I had an 87,000 agents as a disaster.

GLENN: Disaster.

MARK: He unleashed the IRS, on Andrew Mellon. As a Treasury Secretary under Coolidge. He was the judge at the very end. Was wondering why he had this ten-year investigation. Because his Treasury secretary ordered it. At FDR's demand. And he used the FBI against a number of individuals and groups, including the media.

Robert Kennedy did the same thing with John Kennedy. They used the FBI, to tap Martin Luther King's phone, among others.

And, of course, he used the IRS to collect data on his political opponents. Probably the worst was Lyndon Johnson.

He used the FBI, the IRS, and the CIA. He even bugged Hubert Humphrey's phone when Hubert Humphrey was running for president on the Democrat primary. First, he wanted to see if he was loyal or not.

Because the FBI -- the FBI team at Atlantic City. There's a Democrat convention there. Monitor Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders to see if they were going to be attacking him, Lyndon Johnson, even though he wasn't running against.

And then, of course, Nixon got caught doing some of the same things that they did, but not nearly as much.

But it didn't matter, because he wasn't a Republican. This attack on Trump is akin, the same pattern, but worse. It is constant. It's through his candidacy. His presidency. His post presidency.

As you undoubtedly know by now, you have two brilliant litigators, constitutional litigators. Not these former federal prosecutors who were dime a dozen, and don't even understand the Constitution.

GLENN: Right.

MARK: And they made the point in the Wall Street Journal the other day, and they're right, as the presidential records act allows the president to have access to classified and unclassified information.

There's nothing in there about where he could store it. He can bring it home, if he wants. And that's what he did. I've been arguing, the president can't violate the Espionage Act. How can he violate the Espionage Act of 1970?

When he's president, he says, all right. I'm taking these documents with me. You can't have a clearer statement of declassification than I'm taking these documents with me. But even if they're not declassified as this gentleman pointed out. It doesn't matter. In fact, he has exclusive use of these documents. Even the existing president can't just claim that document, unless they have an absolute significant reason to. So the fact that --

GLENN: So they came out -- I mean, I think it was a general warrant. But they came out with this warrant. And then we started hearing that it's nuclear secrets. And that it's espionage. All this bullcrap. What is it that they were really looking for. And how do we -- how do we shake off the chains of this government, that is this corrupt?

MARK: Well, they -- and so they --

GLENN: Wait. Wait. You're breaking up. I'm sorry. Say it again.

MARK: I'm sorry.

GLENN: Yeah. That's all right.

MARK: I have this home in Florida. Just you in the country. Remember those old movies. With cement and steel and everything else. I said to the builder, I'm only building this damn thing once. I don't care how many hurricanes we have here. And I don't care about FEMA.

Well, they said the rules of the state are 170 miles an hour.

But the state isn't building my house. 210 miles an hour. That's what I want the House -- so I poured all this money into this -- 8-inch-thick cement steel walls and floors. It doesn't look like it. The tilings underneath.

So we had to have an additional system, so I could use my cell phone. So there's certain dead spots in this house. Anyway, can you hear me now?

GLENN: Yeah. I do.

MARK: What is your question?

GLENN: My question was, what do you think they were looking for? And how do you shake the chains of this government that is so corrupt and out of control, it seems like we're cornered.

MARK: Well, a couple of things. You're right about the general warrant. This clearly violates the Fourth Amendment, and the particularity requirement, which was crucial to the columnists and to the Framers. If this doesn't violate it, I don't know what does.

And so they walk in there, and they grab everything. But I think they're looking for anything -- January 6th, of course, talked about that.

I'm sure you have anything you can get their hands on. And now they find, and they knew there were classified documents in there.

So they're trying to use criminal statutes on that. You bring in these hacks like Weisman, and put them on TV. And very ignorant low IQ hosts and news people, to just keep talking -- he has 700 pages of documents.

Classified. Three hundred classified documents. Who cares? Who cares?

And, of course, the reason the government doesn't want to release the affidavit is they prefer to leak this stuff to the New York Times and the Washington Post, in order to control it.

GLENN: Correct. Correct.

MARK: Now, what do we do about this?

You're not going to like this. We are in the abyss, trying to claw our way out. It's not that we're heading our way to the abyss. It's not that the country is unraveled. It's unraveled. So the question is now, how do we deal with a political party that hates America. That takes every step possible, to empower itself.

That only uses the Constitution to defend itself, or against their enemies. But otherwise has no respect or faith in the Constitution, whatsoever.

GLENN: And how do we defend ourselves and fix it, by -- by not becoming all that we despise and using the Constitution?

How can we do that?

MARK: It's you've got to elect people. If not Trump, like Trump. Who are willing to take them on. Who can stand up to this.

This is why so many people are attracted to him. It's because he doesn't bend. He fights back. He fights back. They try to take him out with impeachments and criminal investigations. DA investigations. State attorney investigations. Tax investigations. Property investigations.

Now this crap with his home and his wife's closet. And all the rest of it. That's why we have to defend him. Whether you like tweets or not, it's beside the point. Because if they take him down, who is going to fight for us?

Seriously, maybe DeSantis. Think of the same --

GLENN: I think DeSantis will do the same thing. But I will tell you, the only one that has been tested in literally the fires of hell, is Trump.

MARK: That's exactly right. And what did he do to deserve this?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. He hasn't broken the law. If he's broken the law, don't you think he would have them by now? Rather than running around with instruction. And looking back with his property taxes ten years ago. And his income taxes 15 years ago. This is just all cracked. Nobody is examined like this. Looking at the Pelosi taxes for ten or 15 years. We're looking at the Bidens. Seriously, how he's been blowing up by foreign governments. None of these politicians could withstand this, but Trump withstands it.

GLENN: So -- so, Mark, I only have two minutes, unless you can stay after the break. I know you're busy. Which do you prefer? Two minutes or let me break?

MARK: No, no. We can stay after the break. I'm talking to the great Glenn Beck.

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STU: In Albuquerque.

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GLENN: This is the Glenn Beck Program. Talking to the great one, Mark Levin now. Five minutes extra with Mark Levin. It's always a good day. Mark, I'm really frustrated, because if we don't get the House and the Senate, there's almost nothing that the House can do, except, you know, block people like Nancy Pelosi, and shut everything out. But they can't actually reverse anything, can they? Actually, if we only have the House, what can we accomplish?

MARK: Well, we can stop things, you're right. And we can move the ball forward. And in the Senate. We also have another problem, in -- to the filibust, which I happen to support. We have Mitch McConnell, who in himself, is a filibuster against conservatives. You might remember, in 2010, how he hated the Tea Party movement. He hates the MAGA movement, oh, yeah. He still does.

MARK: In 1976 and '80, he was a Gerald Ford guy, and he was never really a Reagan guy. Worked in the Justice Department brief.

This guy is quintessential Washington RINO. And just ask yourself, what are the Republicans running on in the Senate? You don't even know. Because they haven't coalesced around a message. Because the guy is not a leader. But he raises the kind of money, a few years back.

GLENN: And he controls the money for all the other senators.

MARK: Yes, he does.

And so he controls the national Republican senatorial committee, which can take in hundreds of thousands of dollars per donor. Used to be a limit of 30-some-thousand. He put a rider on I think it was Obamacare or something like that. And he changed that, himself.

He has no capacity to communicate with the average American. The American people. He always talks like he has a salami sandwich in his mouth or something.

GLENN: Hey, I want to -- I want to ask you. You said you were for the filibuster. I'm for the filibuster. However, I would be for changing the filibuster back to the way it originally was. Where it was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. You actually have to stand on the floor and filibuster.

Now, the Republicans -- or the Democrats, if I'm not mistaken, changed it, so you can just say, I'm going to filibuster. And everybody goes home.

MARK: Well, that's true. They threaten to filibuster. I don't know how we change that, since the Senate can make its own rules. The Republican leader in the Senate right now, I think that's the start.

We've got to have younger, newer, vibrant people, who come to Washington, knows their terms are limited. Have their purpose to --

GLENN: He's walking around again.

MARK: Yeah. We're always playing defense, or we're always on the -- with our backs against the wall. These guys, they come in, or like in the Senate, one second.

GLENN: Get away from the concrete and the metal.

MARK: No, it's FedEx.

GLENN: Okay.
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I love talking to you.
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MARK: And, as a matter of fact, they now require your birthdate, every damn time. It's the same person that shows, they want my birthdate. You know, it used to be, they would say, just leave the box.

Now it's, I want your signature, your birthday. What the hell is this? Anyway.

GLENN: All right. Last thing. Last thing. Because I've only got about a minute. How are you -- what are you seeing coming, reading the tea leaves, especially from last night. What are you seeing in the House and the Senate?

MARK: First of all, I see media so low to propaganda. They find this seat in New York.

And they say, this is indicative and illustrative of everything that happens, so the Democrat wins by the skin of their teeth.

You look around the rest of the country, the Republicans did really well. You look at Florida, they did extremely well. Conservatives are doing well. People have to keep their chin up. You have to ignore the media. Ignore them. They're corrupt. They hate us.

And fight and organize and be your own precinct worker, block captain. You have to work harder than you have before. They're going to do everything they can to stop us. But don't be despirited or demoralized by these fools in the media because that's what they'll do to you.

GLENN: Mark Levin.

MARK: They have a good shot at doing well. We'll see.

GLENN: Thank you so much, Mark. We'll talk to you soon. It's Mark Levin from Levin TV. You can hear him on radio. You can also catch his show every day. Levin TV, here on Blaze TV. Join us, become a part of the family. BlazeTV.com/Glenn. Use the promo code Glenn. And save.

Tonight, the FBI exposed. 9:00 p.m.

The Globalist Elites' Dystopian Plan for YOUR Future | Glenn Beck Chalkboard Breakdown

There are competing visions for the future of America which are currently in totally different directions. If the globalist elites have their way, the United States will slide into a mass surveillance technocracy where freedoms are eroded and control is fully centralized. Glenn Beck heads to the chalkboard to break down exactly what their goal is and why we need to hold the line against these ominous forces.

Watch the FULL Episode HERE: Dark Future: Uncovering the Great Reset’s TERRIFYING Next Phase

Barack & Michelle tried to END divorce rumors. It DIDN'T go well

Former president Barack Obama recently joined his wife Michelle Obama and her brother on their podcast to finally put the divorce rumors to rest … but it didn’t exactly work. Glenn Beck and Pat Gray review the awkward footage, including a kiss that could compete for “most awkward TV kiss in history.”

Transcript

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GLENN: Now, let me -- let me take you to some place. I think kind of entertaining.

Michelle Obama has a podcast. Who knew?

She does it with her brother. Who knew? It's -- you know, I mean, it's so -- it's a podcast with two brothers. Right?

And -- and it -- they wanted to address the rumors, that they're getting a divorce. And this thing seems so staged.

I want you to -- listen to this awkward exchange on the podcast.

Cut one please.

VOICE: Wait, you guys like each other.

MICHELLE: Oh, yeah. The rumor mill. It's my husband, y'all! Now, don't start.

OBAMA: It's good to be back. It was touch-and-go for a while.

VOICE: It's so nice to have you both in the same room today.

OBAMA: I know. I know.

MICHELLE: I know, because when we aren't, folks things we're divorced. There hasn't been one moment in our marriage, where I thought about quitting my man.

And we've had some really hard times. We've had a lot of fun times. A lot of adventures. And I have become a better person because of the man I'm married to.

VOICE: Okay. Don't make me cry.

PAT: Aw.

GLENN: I believed her. Now, this is just so hokey.

VOICE: And welcome to IMO.

MICHELLE: Get you all teared up. See, but this is why I can't -- see, you can take the hard stuff, but when I start talking about the sweet stuff, you're like, stop. No, I can't do it.

VOICE: I love it. I'm enjoying it.

MICHELLE: But thank you, honey, for being on our show. Thank you for making the time. We had a great --

VOICE: Of course, I've been listening.

PAT: What? No!

GLENN: They're not doing good. They're not doing good.

Okay. And then there was this at the beginning. And some people say, this was very awkward. Some people say, no. It was very nice.

When he walks in the room, he gives her a hug and a kiss. Watch.

Gives her a little peck on the cheek.

PAT: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

GLENN: Does that --

PAT: Does that look like they're totally into each other?

GLENN: Well, I give my wife a peck on the cheek, if she walks into a room.

PAT: Do you? If you haven't seen her in months and it seems like they haven't, would you kiss her on the cheek? Probably not.

GLENN: No, that's a little different. That would be a little different. But I wouldn't make our first seeing of each other on television.

PAT: Yeah, right, that's true. That's true.

GLENN: But, you know, in listening to the staff talk about this. And they were like, it was a really uncomfortable -- okay.

Well, maybe.

PAT: I think it was a little uncomfortable.

GLENN: It was a little uncomfortable.

It's still, maybe. Maybe.

But I don't think that rivals -- and I can't decide which is the worst, most uncomfortable kiss.

Let me roll you back into the time machine, to Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley. Do you remember this kiss?
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GLENN: He turns away, immediately away from the camera. Because he's like.

PAT: He was about to vomit. Yeah.

GLENN: It was so awkward. When that happened, all of us went, oh, my gosh. He has only kissed little boys. What are we doing? What is happening?

He doesn't like women, what is happening?

And then there's the other one that sticks out in my mind of -- and I'm not sure which is worse. The Lisa Marie or the Tipper in Al Gore.

VOICE: The kiss. The famous exchange during the 2000 democratic convention was to some lovely, to others icky.
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GLENN: That's an ABC reporter. To some lovely, others icky.

And it really was. And it was -- I believe his global warming stuff more than that kiss.
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And you know where I stand on global warming.

That was the most awkward kiss I think ever on television!

PAT: Yeah. It was pretty bad. Pretty bad.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

So when people who are, you know -- these youngsters.

These days. They look at Barack and Michelle. They're like, that was an awkward kiss.

Don't even start with me.

We knew when we were kids, what awkward kisses were like.

PAT: The other awkward thing about that.

She claims, there was not been one moment in their marriage.

Where she's considered reeving him.

GLENN: Yeah.

PAT: She just said a while ago. A month or a year ago, she hated his guts for ten years. She hated it.

GLENN: Yeah. But that doesn't mean you'll give up.

PAT: I guess not. I guess not. Maybe you enjoy being miserable.

I don't know.

GLENN: No. I have to tell you the truth.

My grandmother when I got a divorce, just busted me up forever. I call her up, and I said, on my first marriage.

Grandma, we're getting a divorce.

And my sweet little 80-year-old grandmother, who never said a bad thing in her life said, excuse me?

And I said, what?

We're getting a divorce.

And she said, how dare you.

I said, what's happening. And she said, I really thought you would be the one that would understand. Out of everybody in this family, I thought you would understand.

And I said, what?

And she said, this just -- this just crushed me when she said it.

Do you think your grandfather and I liked each other all these years? I was like, well, yeah.

PAT: Wow.

GLENN: Kind of. And she said, we loved each other. But we didn't always like each other. And there were times that we were so mad at each other.

PAT: Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh.

STU: But we knew one thing: Marriage lasts until death!

PAT: Did she know your first wife?

GLENN: Okay. All right. That's just not necessary.

No, Trump’s tariffs ARE NOT causing inflation

The media is insisting that President Trump's tariffs caused a rise in inflation for June. But Our Republic president Justin Haskins joins Glenn to debunk this theory and present another for where inflation is really coming from.

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GLENN: Justin Haskins is here. He is the president of Our Republic. And the editor-in-chief of stoppingsocialism.com.

He is also the coauthor with me at the Great Reset, Dark Future, and Propaganda War.

So, in other words, I'm saying, he doesn't have a lot of credibility. But he is here to report -- I don't even think you're -- you're -- you were wrong on this, too, with the tariffs. Right?

JUSTIN: Well, at some point, I was wrong about everything.

GLENN: Yeah, right. We are all on the road to being right.

But this is coming as a shock. You called yesterday, and you said, Glenn, I think the tariff thing -- I think the president might be right.

And this is something I told him, if I'm wrong. I will admit that I'm wrong.

But I don't think I'm wrong.

Because this goes against everything the economists have said, forever.

That tariffs don't work.

They increase inflation.

It's going to cost us more.

All of these things. You have been study this now for a while, to come up with the right answer, no matter where it fell.

Tell me what's going on.

JUSTIN: Okay. So the most recent inflation data that came out from the government, shows that in June, prices went up 2.7 percent. In May, they went up 2.4 percent. That's compared to a year prior. And most people are saying, well, this is proof that the tariffs are causing inflation.

GLENN: Wait. That inflation is -- the target is -- the target is two -- I'm sorry.

We're not. I mean, when I was saying, it was going to cause inflation. I thought we could be up to 5 percent.

But, anyway, go ahead.

JUSTIN: So the really incredible thing though. The more you look at the numbers. The more obvious it is, that this does not prove inflation at all.

For starters, these numbers are lower, than what the numbers were in December and January.

Before Trump was president. And before we had any talk of tariffs at all.

So that is a big red flag right at the very beginning. When you dive even deeper into the numbers, what you see is there's all kinds of parts of the Consumer Price Index that tracks specific industries, or kinds of goods and services. That should be showing inflation, if inflation is being caused by tariffs, but isn't.

So, for example, clothing and apparel. Ninety-seven percent, basically.

About 97 percent according to one report, of clothing and apparel comes overseas, imported into the United States.

GLENN: Correct.

JUSTIN: So prices for apparel and clothing should be going up. And they're not going up, according to the data, they're actually going down, compared to what they were a year ago. Same thing is true with new vehicles.

Obviously, there were huge tariffs put on foreign vehicles, not on domestic vehicles. So it's a little bit more mixed.

But new vehicle price are his staying basically flat. They haven't gone up at all. Even though, there's a 25 percent tariff on imported cars and car parts. And then we just look at the overall import prices. You just -- sort of the index. Which the government tracks.

What we're seeing is that prices are basically staying the same, from what they were a year ago.

There's very, very little movement overall.

GLENN: Okay. So wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.

Wait.

Let me just -- let me just make something career.

Somebody is eating the tariffs. And it appears to be the companies that are making these things. Which is what Donald Trump said. And then, the -- you know, the economist always saying, well, they're just going to pass this on in the price.

Well, they have to. They have to get this money some place.

So where are they?

Is it possible they're just doing this right now, to get past. Because they know if they jack up their price, you know, they won't be able to sell anything. What is happening?

How is this money, being coughed up by the companies, and not passed on to the consumer.

JUSTIN: Yeah, it could be happening. I think the most likely scenario, is that they are passing it along to consumers. They're just not passing it along to American consumers.

In other words, they're raising prices elsewhere. To try to protect the competitiveness with the American market. Because the American market is the most important consumer market in the world.

And they probably don't want to piss off Donald Trump either, in jacking up prices. And then potentially having tariffs go up even more, as a punishment for doing that.

Because that's a real option.

And so I think that's what's happening right now.

Now, it's possible, that we are going to see a huge increase in inflation. In six months!

That's entirely possible.

We don't know what's going to happen. But as of right now, all the data is suggesting that recent inflation is not coming from consumer goods being imported, or anything like that.

That's not where the inflation is coming.

Instead, it's coming from housing.

That's part of the CPI at that time.

Housing is the cause of inflation right now.

GLENN: Wait. Wait. It's not housing, is it?

Because the things to make houses is not going through the roof. Pardon the pun. Right?

It's not building.

JUSTIN: No. No. The way the CPI calculates housing is really stupid. They look basically primarily at rent. That's the primary way, they determine housing prices.

GLENN: Okay.

JUSTIN: That so on they're not talking about housing costs to build a new house.

Or housing prices to buy a new house.

They are talking about rent.

And then they try to use rent data, as a way of calculating how much you would have to pay if you owned a house, but you had to rent the same kind of house.

And that's how they come up with this category.

GLENN: Can I ask you a question: Is everybody in Washington, are they all retarded?
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Because I don't. What the hell. Who is coming up with that formula?

JUSTIN: Look. I mean, sort of underlying this whole conversation, as you -- as you and I know, Glenn.

And Pat too. The CPI is a joke to begin with.

GLENN: Right.

JUSTIN: So there's all kinds of problems with this system, to begin with.

I mean, come on!

GLENN: Okay. So because I promised the president, if I was wrong, and I had the data that I was wrong, I would tell him.

Do I have to -- out of all the days to do this.

Do I have to call him today, to do that?

Are we still -- are we still looking at this, going, well, maybe?

JUSTIN: I think there's -- I think there is a really solid argument that you don't need to make the phone call.

GLENN: Oh, thank God. Today is not the day to call Donald Trump. Today is not the day.

Yeah. All right.

JUSTIN: And the reason why is, we need -- we probably do need more data over a longer period of time, to see if corporations are doing something.

In order to try to push these cuts off into the future, for some reason. Maybe in the hopes that the tariffs go down. Or maybe -- you know, it's all sorts of ways, they could play with it, to try to avoid paying those costs today.

It's possible, that's what's going on.

But as of right now, that's not at all, what is happening. As far as I can tell from the data.

GLENN: But isn't the other side of this, because everybody else said, oh. It's not going to pay for anything.

Didn't we last month have the first surplus since, I don't know. Abraham Lincoln.

JUSTIN: Yes. Yes. We did. I don't know how long that surplus will last us.

GLENN: Yeah. But we had one month.

I don't think I've ever heard that before in my lifetime. Hey, United States had a surplus.

JUSTIN: I looked it up.

I think it was like 20 something years ago, was the last time that happened. If I remembered right.

It was 20 something years ago.

So this is incredible, really.

And if it works.

You and I talked about this before.

I actually think there is an argument to be made. That this whole strategy could work, if American manufacturers can dramatically bring down their costs. To produce goods and services.

So that they can be competitive.

And I think that advancements in artificial intelligence. In automation. Is going to open up the door to that being a reality.

And if you listen to the Trump administration talk. People like Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce. They have said, this is the plan.

The plan is, go all in on artificial intelligence.

Automation. That's going to make us competitive with manufacturers overseas. China is already doing that.

They're already automating their factories. They lead the world in automation.

GLENN: Yeah, but they can take half their population, put them up in a plane, and then crash it into the side of the mountain.

They don't care.

What happens to the people that now don't have a job here? How do they afford the clothes that are now much, much cheaper?

JUSTIN: Well, I think the answer to that is, there's going to be significantly more wealth. Trillions of dollars that we send overseas, every year, now in the American economy. And that's going to go into other things. It's not as though -- when this technology comes along, it is not as though people lose their jobs, and that's it. People sit on their couch forever.

The real danger here is not that new markets will not arrive in that situation. And jobs with it. The problem is: I think there's a real opportunity here. And I think this is going to be the fight of the next election, potentially. Presidential election. And going forward.

Next, ten, 20 years. This is going to be a huge issue. Democrats are going to have the opportunity, when the AI revolution goes into full force. They will have the opportunity like they've never had before.

To say, you know what, we'll take care of you. Don't worry about it.

We're just going to take all of the corporate money and all of the rich people's money.

And we will print trillions of dollars more. And you can sit on your couch forever. And we will just pay you. Because this whole system is rigged, and it's unfair, and you don't have a job anymore because of AI. And there's nothing you can do. You can't compete with AI. AI is smarter than you.

You have no hope.

I think that's coming, and it is going to be really hard for free market people to fight back against that.

GLENN: Yes.

Well, I tend to agree with you.

Because the -- you know, I thought about this.

I war gamed this, probably in 2006.

I'm thinking, okay.

If -- if the tech is going to grow and grow and grow. And they will start being -- they will be responsible for taking the jobs.

They won't be real on popular.

So they will need some people that will allow them to stay in business, and to protect them.

So they're going to need to be in with the politicians.

And if the politicians are overseeing the -- the decrease of jobs, they're going to need the -- the PR arm of things like social media. And what it can be done.

What can be done now.

I was thinking, at the time. Google can do.

But they need each other.

They must have one another. And unless we have a stronger foundation, and a very clear direction, and I will tell you. The president disagrees with me on this.

I said, he's going to be remembered as the transformational AI president.

And he said, I think you're wrong on that.

And I don't think I am.

This -- this -- this time period is going to be remembered for transformation.

And he is transforming the world. But the one that will make the lasting difference will be power and AI.

Agree with that or disagree?

JUSTIN: 1,000 percent. 1,000 percent. This is by far the most important thing that is happening in his administration in the long run. You're projecting out ten, 20, 30 years ago years.

They will be talking about this moment in history, a thousand years from now. Like, that will -- and they will -- and if America becomes the epicenter of this new technology, they will be talking about it, a thousand years from now, about how Americans were the ones that really developed this.

That they're the ones that promoted it, that they're the ones that does took advantage of it.
That's why this AI race with China is so important that we win it.

It's one of the reasons why. And I do think it's a defining moment for his presidency. Of course, the problem with all of this is AI could kill us all. You have to weigh that in.

GLENN: Yeah. Right. Right.

Well, we hope you're wrong on that one.

And I'm wrong on it as well. Justin, thank you so much.

Thank you for giving me the out, where I don't have to call him today. But I might have to call him soon. Thanks, Justin. I appreciate it.

The ONLY Trump/Epstein Files Theories That Make Sense | Glenn TV | Ep 445

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