RADIOJuly 28, 2022

These climate change FACTS will SHOCK your liberal friends

If you regularly watch the mainstream media, you probably think climate change will cause Earth’s extinction — and SOON. But that’s not the case says Bjorn Lomborg, author of ‘False Alarm.’ He joins Glenn to share the FACTS on climate change — ones that will SHOCK your liberal friends. For example, did you know human fatalities related to the climate have drastically DROPPED? Plus, he details how climate policy currently being pushed by far-left elite could be DISASTROUS for our future. Listen to the full interview to find out more.

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GLENN: Bjørn Lomborg is on with us. Good to talk to you, Bjørn. How are you?

BJORN: I'm good. And how are you?

GLENN: I'm very good. I'm very concerned. You know, I care about the environment. I think most people do. We all want clean air. We all want animals to live. We want to have forests that thrive, et cetera, et cetera. But we have to do it their way, or no way at all. I am completely off the grid. I have complete clean energy. I'm all on the power of the sun, wind. At my ranch. And I like it. I don't think it's feasible for everybody to do. But I like it. However, we're being forced into something called The Great Reset. And, honestly, Bjørn, I think this is -- I think this is going to turn out to be akin to Mao's five-year plan. I think if they continue to do the things they're doing, especially on farming and energy. We are going to lose a lot of people. Am I -- am I overthinking this, or worrying too much?

BJORN: Well, Glenn, you certainly have a right to worry. Given that Mao's five-year great leap forward was a phenomenal catastrophe of unprecedented disaster levels, I think we're probably not there. But it is certainly something that will leave us much less well off. And we'll actually not fix very much of climate. Which, of course, is the real tragedy in some way. So what's happening to a very large extent is that everyone is being inundated with these messages, that we're seeing ever more catastrophic impact to climate change, which is mostly just not true. And if you look at the data, we actually see, for instance, fewer people dying, from climate-related deaths over the last 100 years. It's dropped about 99 percent. Why? Because being rich means that you're much more resilient. We used to have a world where about half a million people died every year, for climate-related disasters. Like flood drops. And extreme temperatures. And storms. And today, that number -- so last year, it was less than 7,000 people dying -- of course, at the same time. Where many people more people on the planet. We're being told the story, that the world is coming to an end. Now, if you believe this. And many more people believe this. The rich countries in the world, showed that about 60 percent of all people now believe, that it's likely global warming, leads to the extinction of mankind. This is a concern, that's not at all what the climate panel is telling us. It's telling us, as you just mentioned, climate is a problem. But it is not the end of the world. That matters, because if you're scared witless. And you're being told, an existential crisis. It's the end of mankind. Of course, you're willingly to spend anything and everything on this issue. But the reality is, we're very likely to spend a huge truckload of money. And that's where your worry comes in. So, for instance --

GLENN: Hang on just a second.

BJORN: Sure.

GLENN: Hang on just a second. It's not just that, Bjørn . It is. And I know it killed maybe 20, 30 million people. It was an absolute disaster that is -- that is just not compared to anything else. Over in China. But when you couple in energy, just look at the starvation, that's going to happen, because Russia is blocking the ports. And we're having this fight over oil. Then on top of it, when you don't have the fertilizer, that fertilizer is responsible for crops that yield about 30 percent more. You just don't change everything overnight from transportation to the way you prepare the field. To the fertilizer. They're planning on changing everything. Their words, from fork to plate by 2030. That just sounds like something that globally, could cause millions of people to die.

BJORN: And you're probably right. If they actually got it the way they want it. But remember, they can't actually run the entire world. Although, I'm sure they would love to. So the reality is, that most countries are going to resist this very strongly. So one country, as you mentioned. As Sri Lanka, that actually went organic overnight, and essentially, got rid of all synthetic fertilizer. And, remember, synthetic fertilizer is what makes it possible for half the world's population, about 4 billion people to live. Half of all our molecules, inside us, have only been made possible, through synthetic fertilizer. Overnight, they said, let's get rid of all that. And, you know, it was not rocket science, to predict that this would actually lead to all the bad things that you can think about. So, fundamentally, food production collapsed, and you're seeing the outcomes. Huge protests. People have been afraid. The president's mansion. And he's flown out of the country. This is a -- but most countries are not dumb enough to do this. So fortunately, we're not going to see things going that bad. What we are likely to see, to see really poor policies. So just very, very briefly. McKinsey actually estimates if we go net zeros, Biden and many other Western leaders are proposing. So basically, if we cut our fossil fuel use dramatically, that could cost $5.6 trillion, every year in the world. For the average American, one model estimates, that by mid-century, this would cost the average American, more than $10,000, per person. Per year. But, of course, remember, you guys are going to -- you know, rebel against that, way before it gets to $10,000. You will not be willing to accept that. So, yes. They're proposing really, really poor and effective policies. But we're going to get against them, way before that. But it can still be a lot of money lost for very little benefit.

GLENN: So tell me what's happening with the farmers over -- where is it? The Dutch farmers, I think. Yeah, in Holland. They're protesting. German farmers are starting to protest. Tell me the impact that they're having on this policy.

BJORN: So it's important to recognize. And this is a different kind of policy. So this is mostly a nature policy. So it's still an environmental policy. But the EU has the tendency, as many well-meaning organizations to say, oh, let's just go all out on green stuff. And when you just say it, it sounds nice. We should have living circumstances, that are equivalent to, if there were no human beings. Sounds nice, until you start realizing, oh, wait. There's actually huge cost. So Holland has realized, that they have actually signed up to something that sounded nice. And a lot of politicians said it. We should reduce our nitrogen deposits, so that biosystems, that are low in nitrogen, which are sort of slightly desert-like, they also survive. That's a nice thing to have. What they didn't think about was, this would basically abrupt a lot of the Dutch farmers. Remember, Holland exported a huge amount of food. By some estimates. Their second largest ag supporter of food in the world. So this really matters for the world. They're telling Dutch farmers. They can produce a lot less. Now, in normal policy, you would just have made all these nice-sounding promises. Then when you're evangelizing to pay for it. You're saying, oh, wait. Wait. I'm not actually going to do this. What happened. An environmental group sued the government and won, so the government's own Supreme Court is now telling the government, you have to do what you promised. And that's why this becomes so expensive. Because nobody really wants to do this. Except, of course, the environmental groups, and now the Dutch court. And the problem with this is, if you imagine what happens, if you actually sued politicians for everything they promised. We would have to spend enormous sums on if we go to much better schools. And fixing all the potholes. And get more military. And get tax relief. And all the things, you can imagine. Publicly, more than our entire national budget. You can't run an apology like that. You're basically setting yourself up for spending much more money than you have. You don't run policy through courts. You run it through -- I don't know. Democracy. That's how we work these things out. And that's where you find out, oh, wait. I actually promised stuff I can't keep. Unfortunately, that's not happening. And I fear that we're going to see more of this. So the Dutch actually had a similar case on climate. Where they promised us, couldn't actually afford to uphold it. But then they got sued in court. Now they have to do it. Although, it's incredibly costly. And, likewise, although the Paris agreement is not binding. The US has not ratified it. It's not implausible to imagine, that sooner or later, people will sue in American courts, and possibly win. Because Biden has said, we should do Paris. And then you suddenly have those ten thousand dollar per year, per American cost that nobody actually wants to support. And that is how revolutions are born.

GLENN: So, yeah. That's a frightening thing in and of itself. The -- Sri Lanka did what now the -- the world bank has a new strategy to open up finances. Meaning, money printing. They -- Sri Lanka did this. They actually embraced modern monetary theory. And that's how they're saying, they're going to pay for all this. As we saw in Sri Lanka. That collapsed. That doesn't work.

BJORN: No. You can't just print money. Then you get inflation. Unfortunately, that's one of the things -- so Bank of America is actually estimating that if you go down this route of net zero, it will add what they call 3 percent of inflation. So extra inflation every year for 20 years. But you don't want that. Nobody wants that. And nobody tells you, that that's what's going to happen, if you have a lot of governments printing money. It's not rocket science. Because you can't just print more money, it doesn't mean that there's more stuff to buy it. It means prices will go up. So the fundamental point here is to recognize, if you actually want to help people, one of the best ways to do that. Is to make them rich. Because if they're rich, they're also resilient. Look at these heat waves. You just talked about, you have 106 in Texas. Why does this not kill everyone in Texas? Oh, because you have air-conditioning. It's not like you have to figure out, how we avoid most of the problems with heat. Now, remember, heat waves are still dangerous. Absolutely -- you know, drink -- sorry. Cold water. And getting in air-conditioned rooms. And maybe buy those jobs that you were advertising earlier. But what you absolutely should not do is say, let's change the entire global economy's fundamental engine, in order to make it slightly less hot. That's not how you do this. Because, remember --

GLENN: Bjørn Lomborg, the author of False Alarm. I'm sorry. I've got to go. We have a network break. They're screaming at me in my ear. President of Copenhagen Consensus Center. Bjørn, thank you so much for all that you do, and being a voice of reason on this. On this topic. God bless. Thank you.

BJORN: Thank you

This AI could change EVERYTHING by next year

With Elon Musk’s announcement of Grok 4, humanity is closer than ever before to creating AGI – artificial general intelligence – which would change everything. Glenn Beck breaks down what’s coming in the next year with AI, which even Elon Musk called “terrifying.”

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GLENN: Let me tell you the biggest story of the day.

And I think it is the biggest story possibly of all mankind, as of today.

It's going to change rapidly.

I don't know if anybody -- did either of you guys watch the Elon Musk thing last night?

STU: No, I did watch a few minutes of it.

GLENN: Okay. Did you, Jason?

JASON: No. I sure didn't.

GLENN: Okay. So the xAI team was there to unveil Grok 4. This is the latest intelligence, and let me be very, very clear.

Last night was not your typical tech launch. This is a moment that demands everyone's full attention.

We are now at the crossroads, where promise and peril are going to collide. Okay?

I have explained to you, for years, AGI.
AI. AGI. And ASI. Narrow intelligence is what we've always had.

General intelligence is the next step. And that is, it's better that man, one -- one, you know, like Grok. Can do everything. That you can do.

Better that you can do.

Okay?

And then there's super intelligence. ASI.

Artificial super intelligence.

That's when things get really, really creepy.

When you hit AGI, the road to ASI could be overnight.

Okay?

We need to understand what's at stake here. Because Grok four brought us closer to that second stage, than ever before.

Grok four is a powerhouse. They demonstrated it last night.

It surpasses the expertise of Ph.D.-level sailors in all fields.

It can get 100 percent on any -- any test for any field, mathematics, physics. Engineering.

You name it.

This is not a search engine.

This is a system that tackles problems, so intricate, they -- they go beyond our existing knowledge base.

Okay?

Let's say there is -- let's say, we have a fusion reactor. And the magnetic containment system goes down. I don't even know what I'm talking about at this point.

But it goes down.

And the top minds all on earth are like, I don't know what to do. Grok 4 can step in, model the physics, design new material, stabilize the system, and avert catastrophe. And it can do it about that fast. Now, this is the capability, that Musk says is just around the corner.

Mark my words. You know, how many -- how many years did I say, between 2027 and 2030, we would start to see this?

STU: Oh, a million times.

That was always --

GLENN: For years. Right? Yeah, always the window.

And everybody, even Ray Kurzweil said, oh, that's way too optimistic. We may be 2050.

And then people started going, 2040, 2030.

Grok shows us 2026 or 2027 is when we're going to hit it. This is the last year, that we have, before things get really weird.

Okay?

Last night, Elon Musk is touting this -- this AI.

And all of the solutions.

And then he says.

Hmm. Probably three times.

Something like this.

And I'm quoting. This is one of them.

It's somewhat unnerving to have created intelligence that's greater than our own.

He then goes on to call it terrifying, twice.

Now, this is a man who has launched rockets, you know, into orbit.

Going to Mars.

And he says, twice!

You know, after he sees the results of it. He says, you know, it's really -- in a way, quite terrifying to see what it's doing.

But we just have to make sure that it remains good!

Oh, okay.

All right. Sure.

Now, the key point in the announcement was the mention of ARC-AGI.

I had never heard of ARC-AGI. I had no idea what it was. But I noticed AGI. And I went, uh-oh. That sounds important. So this is the gold standard. The bench mark testing for artificial general intelligence.

Okay.

As I've said before, AGI. Artificial General Intelligence is a machine that matches all human cognition, across all domains.

Reasoning, creativity.

Problem solving. Not just specialized tasks like playing Go or analyzing x-rays. Everything. For instance, Musk said by mid-next year to the latest end of next year, it will be able to create a full length movie, just from a text prompt.
And do it all at once!

So, in other words, it will say, create a movie, and you just explain the Godfather.

It will do the casting. It will do the writing. It will do the filming, if you will. It will -- score the music, and it will happen that fast.

Almost in realtime. We are nowhere near the computational power now, to do that separately.

But this will do it all at once. It will make a movie with all of it, simultaneously.

So the arc AGI system is the benchmark on how close we are to AGI. Remember, scary things happen at AGI.

Terrifying things happen at ASI. ASI could be a matter of hours, or days after we hit AGI.

Grok 4 scored 16.2 percent on the ARC-AGI scale.

Why is that important? You're like, well, only 16 percent away.

Because last time, it barely broke 8 percent.

And that -- they took that test, last time with Grok three.

And it took us forever to get to 8 percent.

Now, what is it? A year later.

We're at 16 percent. Remember, these things are not linear. The next time, we could be at 32, we might be at 64.

We are on the verge. This is the last year of -- I can't believe I'm saying this. Of normalcy. Okay?

This year is -- we're going to look back at this year, probably two years ago, gosh, remember the good old days, when everything was normal.

And you could understand everything.

This is how close we are!

Everything you and I talked about last night, Stu, about what we're doing in January, make -- put -- does it make it even more critical that that happens like, oh, I don't know.

Right now.

STU: Yeah. For sure.

GLENN: You are going to need to know your values, your ethics, your rights.

You are going to need to know absolutely everything.

Now, Grok 4 is not true AGI yet.

It lacks the full autonomy and the generalized reasoning of a human mind. But it is the closest that we've come.

It's a system that can adapt, innovate, at a level that outpaces specialized AIs by a wide margin.

This is a milestone. This is not a destination, but it's something that should jolt everybody awake. So here's what's coming over the next six months. By December 2025, that's this Christmas!

December 2025, he believes, Musk, that Grok 4, will drive breakthroughs in material sciences.

So, in other words, imagine a new -- brand-new alloy, that is lighter than aluminum. Stronger than steel.

And it revolutionizes aerospace and everything else, or a drug that halts Alzheimer's progression, tailored to a person's DNA.

Grok will drive breakthroughs through material science. So brand-new materials that nobody has ever thought of.

Pharmaceuticals that we never thought could be made.

And chemical engineering, putting together chemicals that no man has ever thought.

That's going for happen by December.

Imagine a chemical compound that makes carbon capture, economically viable. The climate change stuff, that's over.

It will be over.

Because this will solve that! These are not fantasies.

This is Grok 4.

Musk said something that he never thought. He believes that within the next year, by 2027, Grok 4 will uncover new physical laws.

So that will rewrite the understanding -- our understanding of the entire universe.

That there will come -- like there's gravity. Hey, you know what, there's another law here that you never thought of. Wait. What?

That, he says, will come by 2027. This is going to accelerate human discovery, at an unprecedented scale.

I told you, at some point. I said, by 2030. It might be a little earlier than that.

Things will be happening at such a fast rate, you won't be able to keep up with them.

And it will accelerate to the point to where you won't even understand what all of this means.

Or what the ramifications are!

Are you there yet?

In six months, Grok 4 could evolve into a system, that dwarfs human expertise in economics, defense, all of it.

Now, again, it's a bit terrifying to quote Elon Musk. Why?

Because we don't know, what else comes with this.

This is like an alien life form.

We have no idea, what to predict. What it will be capable of.

How it will view us, when we are ants, to its intellect.

Okay?

It is a tool, but it is also Pandora's box.

If Grok 4 is the biggest step towards AGI.

And maybe one of the last steps to AGI.

My feeling is: What I've been saying forever.

2027 to 2030, I'm leaning more toward the 2027 now.

Because of this announcement last night.

We are on the verge of AGI.

And everything in human existence changing overnight.

And as Musk said himself, two times, it's terrifying!

We should act like it is terrifying.

Or risk losing the control of the future, that we're all trying to build. That's the biggest story of the day.

I think! In my opinion.

Bill O’Reilly’s SOLUTION to the DOJ’s Epstein Files fallout

Bill O'Reilly joins Glenn Beck with his plan for how the Trump administration can fix the Epstein Files fallout "overnight." Plus, he explains why he believes there's only one way that former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan get indicted by a grand jury.

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GLENN: All right. Bill O'Reilly.

Welcome to the program, sir! How are you?

BILL: Welcome. (inaudible)

And right off the bat, I have to correct you.

GLENN: Yeah. You're not alive. What know.

BILL: I mean, you know -- you don't know that?

GLENN: Yeah, yeah. No. I -- I thought you were dead. Anyway --

BILL: You were dead to me, oh!
(laughter)
I --

GLENN: I get it.

BILL: That's just another brick in your wall, Beck.
(laughter)

GLENN: It's good to talk to you, Bill.

Tell me -- you had a conversation with -- with President Trump, what, a couple of months ago, and I talked about --

BILL: Yeah. St. Patrick's Day, he invited me to sit on a cabinet meeting, which he does sometimes.

And he said, look, we've got files, Kennedy, King, Epstein -- what do you think? And I said, well, first Kennedy you've got to put out pretty much everything, which he did. King, he didn't. I don't know why. Because that's important too.

And then on Epstein I said, you have to be careful here, because this is now being used in political precincts. Both sides want to destroy anybody that was associated with Epstein. And the problem is that a federal investigation. They don't make a determination whether you had a -- what kind of relationship you had with Epstein. They just said, so-and-so had lunch with him.

Or maybe so-and-so had -- saw him at a party. And I said, any name of a human being associated with Epstein, in any way, that person is going to be destroyed. Because you know, the press is not going to put anything into context.

So I said, but it's very important that the Justice Department tell the folks what they know.

And you don't have to get specific with anything.

But you have to say, this is the information that we've compiled. And that's not hard.

And I don't know why the Trump administration is not doing that.

GLENN: Wow!

So, first of all, it's your fault, that we're not getting any names. We learned a lot here.

BILL: Probably my fault, but the president --

GLENN: You know what, I think you're right. I don't want all the names of the people. I want to know --

BILL: And I don't either.

GLENN: Right! I want to know the Justice Department has sorted through the things, and then have gone through. And said, this is criminal. This is not. These people are being indicted, et cetera, et cetera. But to come out and say, there is nothing there, I mean, it's -- it's at least --

BILL: It's ridiculous.

GLENN: It's mass incompetence, at least from Pam Bondi. How could she come out and say, it's all sitting on my desk?

And then when she doesn't release it, she says, well, that's because the FBI in New York is thwarting this process. There are people up there, that are trying to keep this from me.

And then she makes no arrests on that. We never hear about that again.

And then now all of a sudden, there's nothing to see.

BILL: Well, listen, Pam Bondi does not make decisions on her own.

No cabinet member does.

All the decisions come out of the West Wing.

So what I believed happened was, Trump was so obsessed with the big bill, with Iran, with Putin, with China.

That this -- they didn't even think about this. Okay?

GLENN: I believe that.

BILL: And it slowly began to unravel. And then I caught it by surprise.

But this is the easiest fix. Somewhere so easy.

BILL: So if I'm in charge, and that would be a great thing for everyone, except you, Beck -- but every other American, if I were in charge, tremendous. You would be in Botswana. Right.

GLENN: Right. Oh, I know.

Yeah. Yeah. I would be the ambassador of the white farmers in -- in South Africa if it were up to you. I know. I know.

BILL: No. You would be wandering around going, I am Glenn Beck. And they would go, who? That's what you'd be doing.

GLENN: That's every day.

BILL: So this could happen within the hour. Pam Bondi announces a press conference for tomorrow.

At that press conference, sitting next to her, is Merrick Garland, everyone.

You had this stuff for four years! Now, I understand that Mr. Garland has gone native and is living in a -- well, we can find him. We can pull him out of there, and have him and Pam, sit there and answer questions in a general way about what evidence the Justice Department of the United States has compiled.

GLENN: Not going to happen.

BILL: That's it!

Well, if it's not going to happen, then President Trump is going to take a hit.

But he's calculating that this will say that it's that night important.

But I don't know why you would not do it.

I just don't know. And I'm usually pretty good at predicting what the president does or does not do.

GLENN: So here's the thing, Bill.

I think he keeps focusing on Epstein. It's not that big of a deal.

It's not about Epstein. It's about justice.

It's about, can we trust the people -- correct!

It's all about credibility and justice.

And he's not seeing that. And I don't know how he's missing that. Because I agree with you.

He's been so busy on so many other things.

BILL: That's right. That's right.

GLENN: This is not at the top of his priority list.

But he did campaign on it.

BILL: Right.

And I don't know if there's anybody inside the White House.

He looks to be annoyed, when this subject comes up.

GLENN: Oh, I know.

BILL: And here's the -- what works -- you have to understand.

A guy like Donald Trump runs it all.

If he's annoyed, nobody will want to annoy him more. Okay?

GLENN: Oh, I know.

BILL: That's how it works. The older arch is, because Epstein got favorable treatment.

By the feds, in the first go around in Florida, that there's a deep suspicion about this case.

But if you break it down, if the Biden administration had any dirt on any Republican associated with Epstein. It would have been out.

And vice-versa.

If the Republicans had any dirt on any Democrats. Now, we know that former president Clinton, was involved with Epstein to some extent.

I don't know if that was a factor, okay? I don't know.

But your right for once. You're right. It's about credibility. It's about the American people trusting that we do have equal justice for all!

So what do you -- what do you make of now the Russia gate thing, coming out, today. Or yesterday.

The FISA court.

The fact that they're now saying, hey.

You know, we need to hold Brennan accountable.

We're like five or six days away.

Weeks away from him, you know, slipping past the -- the statute of limitations.

I mean, all these things are out today.

There's that. There is also the -- let's see here.

The Secret Service -- I think this happened a year ago.

But it's being reported as if it's news.

Secret Service suspends six agents assigned to protect Trump during a Butler assassination attempt. I mean, all these things are coming out. Like, look, we're busy on all these things. And I do believe they're busy on these things.

But it's like the Keystone Cops are in charge of the PR on this. It's bad.

BILL: Well, there's a lot of politics involved in both of those cases. Number one, in order to get Comey and Brennan to get indicted by a grand jury. Federal grand jury, and that's the only passage, you would have to have a whistle-blower, saying, yeah, these guys abused their power. I worked for them. And they absolutely wanted to get Trump.

And they knew the Russia dossier was phony.

And they did it anyway.

If I have that Justice Department.

Then you can get those guys.

If you don't have it, they will not be even indicted by a grand jury.

GLENN: So how is it that we do not have that Justice Department?

How do we not have that Justice Department?

BILL: Well, look. I don't know whether they have a whistle-blower or not, okay?

And if they have a whistle-blower, I want the case to go forward.

I want those two men indicted.

You can't do that, at that level.

As far as the Secret Service is concerned, monumental screw up. Everybody knows it. They fired the morons in charge of it. That woman -- I was embarrassed listening to her, trying to explain.

They didn't know what the deuce was going on. But this was across-the-board, in the Biden administration.

You know, it was a year ago Sunday, this upcoming Sunday.

GLENN: Right.

BILL: And it's just another example of how the Biden administration was the second worst administration in the history of this country. People have no idea how bad it was.

Every single agency was chaotic. Nothing worked. And this is just part of that. And we'll have a slew of stuff on Sunday. Nothing really meaningful.

I mean, they suspended the Secret Service agents, as they should have. They fired the director as they should have. The guy was a nut.

I don't know if there was anything more to that. I doubt it.

I'm more interested in the guy in the bushes. Because they don't know anything about him. I would like to know a little bit about him.

But again, the federal government, it doesn't really matter. It's the government. They never want to tell us stuff, Beck, never.

We always have to pull it out of them. It's almost like Russia or something. Come on!

GLENN: Right. Yeah. Let me ask you, let me take you back again to the Epstein thing.

I noticed yesterday, there were these people who were on the left. Who were taking tweets of mine. That say, look. These things don't make sense. On the Epstein thing. And they just have to be answered. And not anti-Trump at all.

And yet, the anti-Trump people were retweeting that, and they're trying to -- they're trying to get the right to fight against itself again and split people away from Donald Trump, where I don't think this Epstein thing is -- is splitting people from Donald Trump, at least at this point.

And I -- you know, I -- my wife stopped me from answering some of those tweets, yesterday.

Because it's never good, when you -- when I tweet in anger. Which I did.

But -- or was going to. What did you think about how this is being used against the right to try to separate us even more?

BILL: Everything is political. Everybody knows that for you.

But the MAGA people, from the mail I get. And I get a voluminous amount of mail. They're not happy.

GLENN: Oh, I agree. I'm not happy.

BILL: Now, are they going to throw President Trump under the cliché-ridden bus? No. Because to them, the greater good is being served by a fair tax bill.

Trying to cut waste.

Dealing with Iran effectively. And hopefully dealing with Putin.

That's another thing, that's on Trump's plate.

He has to deal with Putin now.

Has to. And that will be the next big story.

GLENN: How is he going to deal with it?

BILL: Lavrov and Rubio, are in Indonesia, as we speak.

And I assume that Rubio is delivering a message. That you either stop, or we're going to just absolutely crush you economically. Which the United States can do. By saying. No bank does business with Moscow.

And if you do business, no matter what bank you are, we're going to put you out of business.

Okay?

GLENN: Yeah. I've only got a couple of seconds. But didn't we already do that under Biden?

BILL: No! We didn't do the banks. We did the sanctions. And the sanctions they can always get around, because China is going to buy as much oil from Russia as possible.

You stop the banks, from doing all business with Moscow? Who is going --

GLENN: Isn't that what the SWIFT thing was all about?

When we kicked them off of SWIFT, wasn't that what that was all about?

BILL: No! Because they can still do a huge business with countries buying their oil.

And they got to pay Putin and Russia for the oil, and that has to go through the banking system.

If you stop the banking system, he can't get paid.

GLENN: Hmm, it's amazing. I'm glad I'm not the president right now. I think he's made some very brave decisions, and he is walking a tightrope. I mean, the world is on edge. And I pray for --

BILL: He looks very tired to me. Very tired. I haven't talked to him in a while, which is unusual. But you're right. You're absolutely right. That's the second time you've been right in this conversation. My God!

GLENN: I know. It's crazy.

BILL: What in the world.

GLENN: I was wrong about you being dead.

BILL: What is happening?

GLENN: It's good -- it's good to talk to you, my friend. Is everything okay? Is everything going well?

BILL: Everything is all right, Beck. We are not only successful, but that's old news. We've been that way for 50 years, but I appreciate you having me on your fine program.

GLENN: Okay. I love you.

BILL: Stu is still breathing.

GLENN: Hmm.

BILL: So that's good. Right.

But I've got a big book called Confronting Evil. Of course, we sent it, and of course you denied getting it. That comes out September 9th, so put me on a dance card.

GLENN: Well, we'll have you on. And you can also find Bill and his YouTube page. YouTube.com/BillOReilly. Or is it The Walking Dead?
(laughter)
He's not even laughing. Maybe he hung up. Bill O'Reilly, great to have him on.

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