RADIOFebruary 14, 2023

Glenn: Signs we’re in a PROXY WAR against Russia AND China

It’s not just spy balloons from China we should be concerned about. In this clip, Glenn details Russian spy ships that were recently spotted off the coast of Hawaii, as well. ‘It’s almost as if Russia and China are now in bed together,’ Glenn explains, and that America is fighting a proxy war against BOTH nations. In this clip, Glenn details the signs that we could be facing tense times against both Russia and China, and he explains why perhaps it’s time to ‘just kind of back down a little bit’…

Transcript

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GLENN: Okay, So we've got some very exciting news for you. The Defense Secretary and the White House had to address something, that I think is very, very important. We lead with.

Let's go to cut eight. This is John Kirby at the Pentagon.

VOICE: The top officials at the Pentagon when asked explicitly, if they were ruling out any kind of extraterrestrial presence that they weren't ruling anything out. And yet, at the beginning of today's briefing, albeit with their usual winning smile, Ms. Jean-Pierre seemed to rule out any extraterrestrial activity.

VOICE: I don't think the American people need to worry about aliens, with respect to these craft, period.

I don't think there's any more that needs to be said there.

GLENN: Okay. All right.

I just want to say, do you recognize your country today?

The spokesperson from the Pentagon, without any law enforcement, from the press Corp, said, quote, I don't think the American people need to worry about extraterrestrials today. Oh. Okay. Well, that's normal. All right. I got it. I got it.

Now, we've heard from Austin. They are not a threat.

And then we've heard, they are a threat. And then we've heard, they're not a threat.

And then we see, that they use sidewinder missiles to take them down.

Why would you do that, if it's not a threat?

By the way, just so you know, in the balloon fight, we had to use two Sidewinders. First one missed it. That's just a half a million dollar missile.

Or, I'm sorry. Yeah. Half a million dollar missile. It missed it.

My favorite part of the story is, and the Pentagon didn't track where that missile landed. But they're pretty sure, that no harm was done.

Pretty sure?

Pretty sure?

Okay.

STU: We don't want to shoot the balloon down in the first place, because of the shrapnel that might hit the ground. But we'll just let missiles fly randomly into societies.

GLENN: Yes. Yes.

And they're trying to get a better sense of what these things are by going and looking at them.

But it proves to be very difficult. Because it is -- the debris is landing in the sea or in the water.

Here's an idea: Don't shoot it down over the water. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Don't shoot it down over the water. I know it's very, very complex.

Now, Biden has ordered the creation -- listen to this. He's ordered the creation of interagency team, to investigate unidentified aerial phenomena.

You -- UAP. Okay.

That's what they now call UFOs.

Okay?

Does anybody want to step in and tell me what's wrong with this story? The president, through his national security adviser, today has directed an interagency team to study the broader policy implications for detection, analysis, and dispossession of unidentified aerial objects, that pose either safety or security risks.

We already did this, in Congress, two years ago! We have one! Marco Rubio set it up.

It's why we've found out about possible alien life, in the first place.

You already have a commission. An interagency commission. That is studying this.

They have produced a report!

And yet, yesterday, he announces, we're going to do another one.

STU: We need a committee to study that committee.

GLENN: We need -- we need a committee of doctors, to study the brain.

All right. So now, the US military first shot at an unknown octagonal -- say it.

STU: I'm not even sure.

GLENN: Octagonal. An octagon. An object that was an octagon, over Lake Huron.

Okay. Yesterday, they said, we don't think it was a balloon. We don't think it was a balloon.

STU: Was it a kite?

GLENN: No. We just don't think it was a balloon. Because it was an octagon. And you don't have balloons that are octagon.

Well, Scott Adams just searched Google for five minutes. And he found an octagonal balloon weather balloon on sale for Google. So apparently, they don't make them. But maybe the Pentagon doesn't have Google!

Not sure.

STU: Maybe you covered this while I was gone. But do you have -- what's your -- what's your cohesive theory that explains this? Is it just that we've always had lots of balloons going over our head, and we didn't know it?

GLENN: I'll get to that in a minute. I'll get to that in a minute.

Because yesterday, I spent a lot of time just explaining, I don't think the extraterrestrial life has come from alpha Centauri.

And then invading us with weather balloons. I just don't think --

STU: That would be a weird approach.

GLENN: Again, let's get into the hot air balloon, and go down and visit them.

I just didn't think that that would be the mode of invasion.

STU: It feels low probability to me.

GLENN: It does. It does. It does.

Okay. So what is happening?

Well, did you know that on January 28th, the US Air Force spotted the spy balloon. Right?

Coming in, from Alaska. And it went over the Aleutian Islands. It was in Canadian airspace. And then by the 31st, somebody was looking up. They were hike, hey. That looks like a balloon. What is it?

And the government had known about it, the whole time, and had decided to just be quiet. Like, we're not going to see this balloon up in the sky.

Okay. Did you know that just a few days prior to this, the Coast Guard caught a Russian spy ship, gathering intelligence near Hawaii.

Now., the media was focused on one spy ship. The Coast Guard released photos of several.
Now, these are not ghost balloons.

These are ships that just kind of like materialize. Nobody had seen them.

They had been -- they had been going back and forth, changing directions.

Avoiding all of our ability to track these ships. And then they just kind of like within came out.

That's great. That's wonderful.

So we have that.

Now, I don't know if anybody has checked this, but it's almost like Russia and China, are now in bed together.

And maybe we're in a proxy war, with not only Russia, but also China.

They're checking our defenses. They are seeing, are we spotting them?

Can they get past us? And they are just -- they are just testing, I think, our president on the balloons. So they're playing chicken with us.

Okay. They're not losing. They're not winning. But they're not losing.

Okay? So why is this happening? Well, has anybody noticed the volume of trade between Russia and China?

It's gone through the roof. So Beijing, is now in the role, where they are pretty much funding Russia's war in Ukraine.

You know, kind of like us, funding Ukrainian side of the war.

So -- wow. It sounds like we're on the losing team.

It looks like we have Russia and China, now as the axis power, and us and Ukraine, yay.

STU: Theoretically, Europe, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Theoretically Europe.

So this is what, I think, is truly happening.

Now, in about ten minutes in Washington, DC, they're getting a confidential briefing about the spy balloons.

So we should have some idea. China just came out yesterday, and said, well, you know, there's been ten balloons in our airspace since 2022. Washington, DC, sends the balloons over at our place, all the time.

Okay. Don't know if that's true.

But can we -- maybe we should just kind of back down a little bit.

Seeing that we are now facing China and Russia.

I mean, I don't know about you, I don't want to go to war with China and Russia.

I don't want to go to war with China, and, you know, Ethel, who lives down at the end of my street.

I -- you know, let's not go to war. What do you say?

STU: Ethel is pretty spicy.

I mean, she brings it. So you don't want to get her involved in this.

GLENN: Correct. You know Ethel.

STU: Oh, yeah. Everybody. Everybody knows Ethel.

GLENN: All right.

So we have that going for us.

Now, we find out, that Russia may have lost an entire elite brigade. Near Donetsk, coal mining town.

So it's not going well for them.

However, yesterday, the State Department said, hey, you know, if you're an American citizen, okay?

You should not travel to Russia. Oh, you think so.

But if you're there, you need to depart immediately. Now, part of this is because what's left are dual citizens. Okay?

And what we're saying is, quote, due to the unpredictable consequences of the unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, by Russian military forces. Americans in Russia, face harassment, unlawful detention, and the possibility of terrorism.

Also, Americans in Russia could be subject to mobilization, and conscripted to the Russian military.

So they're saying, they might just grab people. And just say, you. You're in the military. Or they might just send you to a gulag.

So that seems like, that seems like, you know, really good news.

Now, one last story. This comes from Forbes.

Carl Sandberg. He's the guy who wrote the Lincoln, you know, autobiography.

Or the biography. And he said, near the end of the Civil War, how improbable it was, that the nation had turned into a one horse lawyer. To a one horse town to save it.

And the president confided that he too thought it was strange. And observed it was the time when a man with a policy, would have been fatal to the country.

I've never had policy. I've just tried to do what was best, as each day came.

Abraham Lincoln.

Next, the next paragraph. President Biden's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine has a similar flavor.

He had no policy for dealing with such an invasion, when he entered office. Because he wasn't expecting one. But once the invasion became imminent, Biden did everything he could to dissuade President Putin. But the war began. And Biden and his advisers expecting a quick Russian victory, just tried to do the right thing.

STU: This is -- that is a magnificent story in so many ways.

First of all, I mean, Abraham Lincoln was really smart and said a lot of really good things.

That's it one you're pulling out? I didn't know about this.

I winged it. That's not a good quote from Lincoln. He should have had a policy on slavery.

GLENN: Right. Right. Right. Well, the story goes on, and says, maybe we should have a policy in this one.

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WARNING: How America Elects a Socialist President in 2028 | Glenn TV | Ep 444

The rise of Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old socialist who just won the Democratic primary for mayor, is not just a political earthquake shaking New York City — it’s a warning for the rest of America. Backed by Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the Democratic Socialists of America, Mamdani promises free everything, to tax the rich, and to dismantle capitalism. There’s nothing new about this tired strategy, but the media is propping him up as a new political genius. And with Democrat leaders lining up behind him, it’s clear: This radicalism isn’t fringe anymore. It’s the Democratic Party’s future. Mamdani’s rise is part of a larger movement that’s rewriting America’s values. Glenn Beck explains how New York is the prototype for the Left’s socialist makeover of America. Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Standford, gives a terrifying prediction on Mamdani’s mayoral race chances and warns the revolution is coming for mainstream Democrats. He also dives into MAGA’s frustration with the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files.

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.