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Was MARTIAL LAW in South Korea a sign that CHAOS is coming?

The president of South Korea has declared Martial Law, which was quickly revoked 190-0 by the South Korean parliament. So, what’s going on here?! Is this really because of a threat from North Korean sympathizers, or are politicians playing games? Glenn’s head researcher Jason Buttrill joins to discuss. Glenn, Stu, and Jason also discuss the “rebel” war in Syria, President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter, and what the world will look like by the time Donald Trump takes office.

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GLENN: You know, I was reading this book. I don't remember what it was. It might have been even the New York Times.

It said, you know, there will be wars and rumors of wars. And rumors of wars.

I can't remember where I said it.

STU: Somewhere much more reliable than the New York Times, I will tell you that.

GLENN: Is it? Okay. I knew it was somebody's credibility.

You know, and they are -- they are starting to slip a little bit in credibility. But let's bring Jason in, our head researcher and head writer for the Glenn Beck television program.

Jason, I'm looking up at the news. And I'm kind of surprised by this. You know, I like -- you know, living at this time. It's fun. Things are always changing.

Always changing. South Korea, which is kind of a stable country.

Kind of an important country. Kind of makes a lot of electronic stuff.

The South Korean president has declared marshal law. He says, he's trying to stop the communist forces.

However, parliament, as I was reporting it just a few minutes ago, that he declared -- parliament voted what about? 180. 190, to zero. To say, no.

So what -- what happens now?

JASON: Well, by law, the president has to overturn the marshal law by South Korean law. But I saw 20 minutes ago, the military, South Korean military in the parliament building. It looks like absolute pandemonium in South Korea right now.

The crazy thing, no one knows what's going on. I was looking up at all my favorite sources this.

We're flabbergasted, quote, unquote. This came out of nowhere. This is completely unprecedented. And it is!

For a weird stage of what's going on before this.

GLENN: I'm sorry. I can't get past all of your sources. Who are you talking to like Colonel John Stone?

I am simply flabbergasted by --

JASON: Somebody said that. But to set the stage for this, beforehand, it was very similar to American politics. I was like, if you didn't read the fact that it was South Korea, you would think, oh, this was two years ago, in the United States. But multiple members of the opposition party were trying to remove certain judges. They were prosecuting the president's main political opposition.

GLENN: Wait a minute. That causes instability?

JASON: Yeah, they indicted him.

I think something -- one of them was just overturned a week ago.

Does this sound familiar at all?

GLENN: Wow.

JASON: I know. I was getting chills reading this. But then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, in the middle of this political chaos, the president did what everyone thought Trump would have done, back when he was office towards the end.

He just said, screw it, marshal law.

I mean, that's the only thing I could think of. The reason why he did this. Purely political.

And his reasoning for it was, oh, yeah. There's too many of these North Korean sympathizers.

I'm just putting the military --

STU: He's in a really bad political place. Right? Like his approval rating is 17 percent.

JASON: He's in trouble.

STU: Yeah. He's -- so even his own side is not siding with him on this.

GLENN: Well, usually the guy who declares marshal law, and everyone forms against him. Probably is not doing well in the poll area.

STU: Yes. I would agree.

JASON: You laid it out great, though, Glenn. What is it? Maybe the number four or five economy in the world? It's insane.

GLENN: Oh, yeah. Oh, no. We can't lose South Korea.

JASON: 50,000 US troops.

Multiple bases. This is kind of worrying. I'm expecting to look up on these TVs and see News at 11. Swarms of locust have now entered into every nation capitol city in the United States.

It's like, what's going on here?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. Let me -- if this -- if this goes seriously unstable, what a perfect time for China to go, you know what, Taiwan, we'll comer over for a visit with a swarm of drones.

JASON: Or North Korea and say, let's cross the DMZ.

That's probably the immediate worry.

GLENN: You know, I have to tell you, what keeps coming to mind. We talked about it this morning. And we talked about it yesterday, in our producing meeting.

If Donald Trump said it once, he said it a thousand times.

The number one concern he has is nuclear war. He's like, we are so close to nuclear war.

And once you start it, it just doesn't stop.

Look at. I mean, North Korea, they have -- they have missiles. And probably nuclear now.

Don't they? From Russia.

JASON: Confirmed they do. Confirmed.

GLENN: Okay. I don't know if you know this. But the little guy with the lifts in his shoes.

He's not a stable dude.

No. No.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: No.

STU: Who would have thought.

JASON: What's crazy, when I was looking into this.

Actually, I was looking into what is going on in Syria.

Now I was looking at the American-backed forces are pushing along. Now, that the terrorists are pushing.

GLENN: Why?

JASON: Biden must have given the order. Let's see what we can get out of this.

GLENN: What are we looking for? To get out of?

JASON: I don't know. To help maybe the terrorists that are gaining ground. I don't know what they're planning on getting out of this.

GLENN: What the hell.

JASON: I mean, to every world leader now, there's six weeks left, give or take. Just hang on.

GLENN: Yeah. Listen. Listen to my voice. Okay. Breathe deep.

Okay. You're running your country. Everything is out of control. Looks like missiles could fly at any time. January 20th, we return, and we're not warmongers. Okay?

Things might get normal-ish. Ish. So hang on! Hang on!

JASON: Aren't you glad the grownups are back in the room? Oh, man.

STU: They're not. That's the problem. That's what they said.

GLENN: No, that's what they promised in 2020. The grownups are back in the room!

STU: Oh, I thought you were referring to the coming group of grownups that were coming to the -- but they're not there. They have six weeks until they are, and that's going to be the big problem.

This is the return to normalcy we were all promised, though. I guess. Here we are.

JASON: What a load of crap. Oh, my gosh.

GLENN: Look at what's unstable. The entire Middle East is on fire. Okay? Russia against NATO. Absolutely could just burst into flames by noon!

JASON: Test firing weapons that have no counter. Actively test firing them.

GLENN: What do you mean they don't have any fire? What does that mean?

JASON: The hypersonic multi -- missile. Oh, my gosh.

GLENN: The Russians? Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Now South Korea.

I think everything is good. I really -- I think this --

STU: I like this one.

Female students at a medical school in Afghanistan, weep as a man announces they are no longer allowed to continue their studies.

GLENN: Yeah. But that's in Afghanistan.

STU: Just that's enough. Enough. Just Afghanistan was enough to justify what happened during this election. And I hope people too remember that. But look at all the other chaos around the world.

GLENN: Do you think though, the average person, they don't even know any of this stuff.

They don't even know it.

Hey. Let's get ready for Christmas.

They have no idea!

Baby's last Christmas, could be. Mushroom cloud.

I'm just saying, yes, I'm being a little -- a little hyperbolic here. But baby's last Christmas could be happening. And nobody -- nobody is talking about it.

And the most amazing thing to me is the world is in this state, and no one knows who the president actually is.

Nobody knows, who is making these decisions. No one!

It ain't him, gang! And if he is the one, I don't know.

Is there anyone else concerned?

I don't know. He couldn't figure out how to eat his pudding yesterday at 4:00.

STU: I'm very -- very concerned about this.

And have been for a while. I mean, just the Ukraine situation, right?

This is something that he keeps stepping over these red lines.

GLENN: Okay. All right. Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this.

Hunter Biden, we've seen the presidents. Let's just cut through all the bullcrap.

We've seen presidents pardon friends and everything.

STU: Totally. Happens all the time. I'm not even all that concerned about it.

GLENN: The only thing different on the surface here is that it's his son, and he promised he wouldn't do it.

STU: But other presidents have done close friends and brothers, you know.

GLENN: And we all knew he would do it.

STU: 100 percent.

GLENN: He lied. Of course he lied. He's been lying about everything forever he has.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Yes. Of course, he lied.

So I'm not surprised by any of that.
What surprises me, is the statute of limitations, is about five years on -- on just about everything. Okay?

Why does arbitrary ten-year period -- I mean, that -- that -- the only thing that goes really ten years. Murder. Trafficking.

Treason.

Okay?

And it's to cover anything. This has never been done before, gang. Ever.

Anything he might have done.

What the hell?

And it starts when he goes to Ukraine!

I don't know. Me thinks something is wrong there.

JASON: Glenn, it's not like Hunter Biden was appointed to the beard of directors of Burisma in the year of 2014 --

STU: What was it, March too, wasn't it?

JASON: Oh, crap.

STU: He pardoned him starting in January, and he took the gig in March. Like -- that would include I'm sure the negotiation period for this job. Like how transparent could they be?

GLENN: And remember --

STU: Why not go back to birth? Why not just give him the whole life? Going back to 1980, whenever he was born.

GLENN: I think people take this just as a talking point. They'll hear this, and they'll go, yeah, that's weird.

No. No. No. There's something wrong here.

JASON: Oh, my gosh. This is huge. And this enrages me. I was just looking at some of the House oversight.

GLENN: Excuse me just a second. His outrage is honestly, what talk radio does best.

And this is why you listen.

Because you want to be outraged.

Go ahead.

VOICE: I will commit to the outrage. You know, I was looking -- I was looking through their releases. They were showing a check, made out to Joe Biden, from his brother.

It was a check for I think $40,000.

If you look at the time line, that they lay out before that, everything starts -- those payouts start right after Hunter Biden sends that infamous text message saying, I'm sitting here with my father. You will pay us.

Not in direct quotes. But something along those lines. They pay them. Money starts going their crazy route.

Through companies and all this stuff. And then lo and behold. A few takes later, Joe Biden gets a check for about 40 grand. This goes all the way back to Ukraine!

STU: But there's no evidence. I heard that today on a news broadcast. That Donald Trump said, without evidence, that --

JASON: Oh, my gosh.

GLENN: I have to tell you, I have consumed so much evidence, I think I could crap evidence at this point.

Listen, here's what we should be thinking.

Why? Is it the beginning of Ukraine?

Why is no one following the money that we're sending over in buckets? Golden buckets?

Every time I turn on the news, every time I see something -- Biden, you know you're like, is he still alive?

Did he have his pudding yet? He's like, I've got another $400 million for you. Where is he getting all this money? And where is it going?

There is such deep corruption in this.

And I think that's why they want a war. They have to destroy the evidence.

They have to!

Just pray for peace.

And if you run a country, let me just first ask, why the hell are you listening to this show?

Run your stupid country?

But if you are listening, and you run a country, January 20th. It's not far away.

Don't do anything. Okay?

Don't do anything.

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

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

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

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

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

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

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

It's really good.

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

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

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

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

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

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


SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

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

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

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

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

It was independents. It was Democrats.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

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

SALENA: Yeah.

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

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

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

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

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

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

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

As opposed to what happened.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To project that we will not be defeated.

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

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

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

And galvanized people.

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

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

I've got to get up.

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

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

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

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

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

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

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

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

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

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

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

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

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

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

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

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

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

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

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

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

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

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

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

He calls you up.

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

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

It's just a great part.

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

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

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

Even though, he was.

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

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

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

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


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

GLENN: Crazy.

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

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

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

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

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

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

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

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

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

And how God was in that moment.

It --

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

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

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

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

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

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

To give him that space, to work it out.

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

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

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

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

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

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

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

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

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

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

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

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