Mysterious drones have been spotted near the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey and the surrounding areas. The drones, which are large and loud, have reportedly caught the attention of local law enforcement and the FBI. So, who’s controlling them? Glenn explains who he believes are the 2 most likely culprits: Our own government and the Chinese Communist Party. Glenn also discusses a terrifying possibility: drones could drastically change the nature of warfare during the next World War …
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GLENN: All right. So let me just start with the -- the drone sightings here for a second.
Because I don't know what's happening.
And, you know, the Department of Homeland Security is Mayorkas. Does anybody think he has any credibility, whatsoever?
He's like, well, I don't know what's going on. Well, you didn't know what was going on on the border, either.
The state police of New Jersey.
The FBI. And I don't know -- I don't know who to believe. I don't know if you can believe.
But apparently, everyone is saying, they don't know what's happening. And there are these -- these drones, that are now flying in for some reason, et cetera, et cetera.
And they were flying over the bed minister golf course. That's Trump's golf course.
They've been flying over Air Force bases. Et cetera, et cetera.
Do we have -- oh. We have a -- we have a clip from New Jersey news.
Listen to this.
PAT: The FAA has placed a temporary restriction on drone flights over Picatinny Arsenal, and over Trump national golf course in Bedminster.
When these drones were first spotted two weeks ago, the Morris County prosecutor's office said they posed no known threat to public safety.
But people want to know. What the heck are they? And what are they doing?
VOICE: It's normal to see red and green lights in December, unless they're coming from mysterious drones in the night sky.
VOICE: That's kind of unsettling. They're not up for 15 minutes. They're up for hours.
Some are very big, probably the size of a car.
VOICE: Mike Walsh says he's seen hundreds of them in the past two weeks from his Randolph backyard, and has the video to prove it.
VOICE: They kind of go slow. They come towards you. Then they'll change direction a little.
They're all going different ways. The drones have been spotted all over Morris County. Morris Town police sent an alert to residents Sunday, saying they are aware of drone activity.
And if the drone crashes or lands, do not approach or handle it. The FBI's Newark field office will only say, it's working with other law enforcement agencies to figure out what's going on.
But at the moment, doesn't have enough information to share.
STU: Hmm. Those are big too.
GLENN: What the hell is that? What is that?
I mean, that could very well be, you know, surveillance on the average American because maybe they're doing police work, or whatever.
STU: It could be.
GLENN: It could be our government doing it. It should not be. But like at the border, we do have drones, that are up in the sky. These are very large. Some of them are very large. You don't. You know, those aren't cheap.
And the very large ones aren't something that I -- I don't think the average person can purchase. Can they?
The really large ones?
STU: I mean, you might be able to purchase them. I know there's a size requirement for registering them.
And, of course, you know, we know that not everyone follows those rules.
But when you have a -- you know, the size is pretty small, to not register those. Those are way over the limit.
GLENN: Right, and they have the red and green lights.
And I don't remember which one means, you know, right and left or whatever.
But they have the red and green lights on each side. I don't think the ETs are like, you know what, we should follow the standard of putting, you know, the red and green lights on each side. So they know --
STU: Right. People think they're aliens.
GLENN: Some people think that this might be some alien thing. I don't.
STU: Okay. No.
GLENN: I think this is -- I think this is most likely our government.
Second most likely, you know, this is a China balloon.
Balloon. But a drone. This is just another thing that Biden knows about.
But I can't do anything about it anyway. What is it?
STU: Yeah. I don't know. That's a good question. It could theoretically.
You think of like an incoming president, who spends a lot of time, in one of these areas. Maybe they're doing some sort of security setup.
But, I mean, they would just tell us, if that was true. You would think. They would be like, hey. This is the federal government, doing these things.
This is why we're doing it. So I don't know.
GLENN: I mean, I was just at Mar-a-Lago with the president.
There were no drones, that, you know -- that I saw or anybody was talking about.
STU: Yeah.
GLENN: They're pretty good at security.
And they would just say, yeah. This is closed airspace.
You would know immediately, when they say that they're closing the airspace. If it's flying over that airspace, then it's obviously hostile.
Or ours!
STU: Yeah. You would -- I mean, I can't imagine. I could be wrong on this, of course.
We've seen some incompetent moments over the past few years.
I can't imagine if you've had hours of hovering over a property, owned by the incoming president, that this wouldn't be noticed and wouldn't be something that they were dealing with, if it wasn't -- if it wasn't the US government.
Right?
That's why that seems to me, the most likely explanation. That it is something that we're doing. For whatever reason.
You could say nefarious or positive.
But they wouldn't just let -- again, they let a guy just get on the roof in the middle of a rally. So, I mean, maybe they would just let.
It seems like they would stop this, if they didn't want those things there.
GLENN: Have you seen the drone fleets in China? Oh, my gosh.
STU: Oh, yeah. You've obviously seen like the drone shows that the -- the ones that are cool, and like for your entertainment.
I mean, you realize, with nefarious ideas, you could do lots of damage, with -- with just those.
GLENN: Oh, the Chinese military drones.
STU: Armies. Yeah.
GLENN: I mean, that are in these gigantic fields, and thousands of them are flying in formation.
I'm telling you, you watch. God forbid we get into World War III.
Our aircraft carriers are going to be the horses of World War I.
STU: Yeah.
GLENN: They're just going to be mowed down.
STU: I was watching a documentary. It was a series of nine documentaries.
And this was, I believe, number three?
GLENN: Uh-huh.
STU: Because me and my daughter went through all the Star Wars recently.
And they have that moment, where they go to the planet, where they've just been making all of these clones.
Or was it clones or drones? Two armies.
But it's clone wars, right?
And they just have a zillion of them ready to go. At my moment.
I kind of feel like, that wasn't a crazy sci-fi prediction.
Like, that is really going to be where we are with war, at some point, relatively soon.
Where it's not clones.
But --
GLENN: No. But it will be droids.
STU: It's drones and droids. Right?
And you have those situations, maybe not -- this is another documentary, I once saw.
But this one was -- it was something somebody had fallen.
I don't remember what the name of -- because they had about 12 of those in the series. It was like Morgan Freeman was the president. And they're out there at the lake.
GLENN: Yeah. Something is falling.
STU: Something is falling. At the very beginning. And 100 million drones come over the trees.
And just try to assassinate the president.
GLENN: Absolutely --
STU: Totally real.
GLENN: Totally real.
STU: Could easily happen at any moment.
You know, it --
GLENN: We have that technology.
STU: Yeah. I think a lot of normal people could put that together.
With not that much effort.
I mean, that's terrifying.
You look at what happened in New York, with the guy just walking up behind him.
Who -- you know, what's to stop somebody from doing that type of thing, with the drone? Except, they don't have to be standing there.
GLENN: Have you seen the video of the guy. I know I've shown it two or three years ago. The guy comes on stage. And says, this is the new weapon of war.
And he opens his hand. And it's about the size of a dragonfly. And he's got a mannequin on the other side.
And he says, watch what it can do. And he kind of just lifts his hand. And it flies up. And it flies around the audience.
And it has the -- it has the targeting on a screen, behind.
Okay?
And it shows his facial recognition, and then the target is the mannequin, facial recognition.
And it comes so fast. And it just goes exploding, goes through the guy's head.
Through the guy's head. The manakin's head. I mean, that's what's coming. There's no defense against stuff like that.
We are entering such a Brave New World.
And, you know, all the -- all the people that are in charge of this stuff, they all know, but why aren't we being informed of where we are?
STU: Yeah. I mean, because they are developing defenses for this.
And they might be able to come up for a defense for an aircraft carrier, possibly.
Yeah. They are developing those things.
GLENN: What are those ageist?
Ageist guns?
Ageist defense system? That are like 50 cal, and they fire like a thousand rounds a minute, or some crazy thing.
STU: Yeah.
GLENN: They can't -- they can't stop us.
STU: No, I don't think it's guns that they're trying it with, right?
There's -- again, I watched another documentary, but it was -- you know, you're talking like microwaves and things like that nature, to disable these things as it comes down.
But that doesn't protect the average person walking down the street.
You know, that might -- you might be able to protect at some level, against those things, when you're -- you're defending the president of the United States.
But when you -- when you're talking about, you know, the other sides of these things, not terrorist attacks. Who knows.
GLENN: Something the size of a fly. That could fly. Somebody opens the door of the West Wing.
And just flies. And then hides.
I mean, imagine.
STU: Yeah.
GLENN: We're there.
STU: You think of intelligence operations. You know, think of -- you know, think of what happened with Hezbollah. Right?
With pagers. And what happened when they -- you have officials going to Qatar. And what they think is an Airbnb, and then the whole thing just blows up.
People will have really intricate uses for these, and I think the truth is that a lot of these things end up. We have know idea what happened.
GLENN: Well, here's the other problem.
There's a story today. Marco Rubio is just pissed. So is Rick Scott. With the, you know, cyber security officials. You know, we have that, what is it, CISA? The Cyber Infrastructure Security Agency, or whatever it is.
And it's supposed to protect all of our cyber electronics and everything else. And be detecting things.
Well, you remember when the phone systems just went out, trial?
The global telecommunication systems went out, with several companies.
Well, we now know, that it was China that did that.
So China has infiltrated our telecommunication system. And they shut it down, to show us, we can shut you down. Right now.
CISA doesn't have any answers.
They're like, we -- we don't have any idea, who really it was, or how they did it.
What the hell are you doing?
You can't tell me how our cyber communications -- how our phone systems went down?
What good are you?
