RADIODecember 26, 2023

Tired of WOKE Nike? Here's some GOOD NEWS

Orlando Magic player and vocal Christian Jonathan Isaac has launched his own sports and lifestyle apparel company, UNITUS, and the world's first basketball shoes with a visible Bible verse, the JUDAH1. He joins Glenn to tell the story of how this came to be: "I wanted to see my values represented in the marketplace." Isaac discusses where the idea to make his own signature shoe came from and how he designed it. And he also explains why he believes Nike didn't resign him. *UNITUS is a proud sponsor of the Glenn Beck Program.*

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GLENN: Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Jonathan Isaac, he's the NBA well, player for the Orlando Magic.

He's also written a book, Why I Stand.

He became very popular to people who don't know sports, during the -- during the COVID debacle.
Because he said, no.

He is -- he founded Unite Us.

And has any created, the first basketball shoe, to feature a visible Bible verse. You can find all of this at weareuniteus.com.

Welcome to the -- welcome to the program, Jonathan.

By the way, full disclosure, Unite Us is a sponsor, I think of TheBlaze.

So I just want to make sure you know that. But I don't really care. It doesn't really affect my conversation with Jonathan.

Hey, Jonathan.

JONATHAN: Hey, Glenn. How are you doing?

GLENN: How is your ankle?

JONATHAN: It's doing good. But I appreciate you all. I'm actually on this call with you on my way to practice.

GLENN: Okay. Good. Good.

So what prompted. For people who don't know anything about Unite Us.

What prompted you to start Unite Us?

JONATHAN: Well, what prompted me was first just wanting to see my values represented in the marketplace, specifically in the sports and apparel lane.

We've got a plethora of companies today. And really, just our society as a whole.

I felt are moving away from, godly values and principles. And also constitutional values and principles. And so it's like, hey. I know that millions of people feel the same way I do, about what makes a prosperous society. Faith, family, freedom. Things like that.

And I wanted to be able to give them something that they can be encouraged by.

And feel good about them, and know that the company that they are supporting, completely supports the answer to values, not just behind closed doors.

But in the mainstream media and marketplace.

GLENN: What prompted Nike to pull their partnership from you?

JONATHAN: So I don't officially know.

A part of it is when players get hurt, it's something that happens.

Right? I'm back in the bubble after I stood, I got hurt. And it was a pretty serious injury.

And, you know, it's -- it's a part of the business.

You can't play, you know, you can't make companies money. So I wasn't able to play. So I wasn't resigned.

GLENN: Okay. So now you have reintroduced Judah one. This is the first basketball shoe to be manufactured with a visible Bible verse in it. Never been done before.

Tell me about it.

JONATHAN: Yeah. So, again, that's just me trying to be authentically myself. And the sneaker actually came about before the idea of Unite Us started. And because I didn't resign with Nike, I actually went to my pastor, and I told them, hey. I don't have a shoe company anymore. We were just talking casually.

And he said, make your own sneaker.

And I was like, what? He said, make your own sneaker.

So I went down the line. Okay. What would it look like?

And I wanted it to be authentically me.

So I said, shoot, we'll put Bible verses on it. My middle name is Judah. We'll call it the Judah one, and have Judah on the side of it.

The line of Judah.

And so that's where it started. And then the bigger idea of United came about. It was like, why not just create a sneaker for myself?

Why not give everybody an alternative avenue to stand for their values?

And so that's where it started. And I'm just so glad that it's being released.

And honestly, the support, and the recognition of it, has been absolutely amazing. So I'm appreciative.

GLENN: So what is the process like to design your own sneaker?

JONATHAN: So mine was a little different I'm sure than most.

I remember watching a movie, a while back. And the person that went to a college campus.

GLENN: Yep.

JONATHAN: And used the students. And so that's what I did. UCF was right here.

And so I was able to connect with their design school. And we turned it into an entire assignment for the students.

And we were able to pay five of them to come up with designs that we liked.

And that's where the first prototype design was born. And we just ran with it, once we got it from them.

GLENN: So -- but it wasn't just the design. It was the design of the actual shoe?

Or is the shoe itself, you know, as far as the way it works or, you know, on your foot.

JONATHAN: Right. It was just the flat-based design.

And we were able to take it to factories. And a company that actually turned us into a real sneaker.

GLENN: Unbelievable.

So you have not only sneakers, but you have activewear, et cetera, et cetera.

I'm looking at Unite Us.com. You have a great, I stand with Israel T-shirt right on the front. I mean, you are bold, brother. You are bold. And I am thrilled. I am thrilled.

These make great Christmas gifts. How much is the Judah one?

JONATHAN: The Judah one is $150.

GLENN: Okay. They will ship them out, ready -- ready to go for Christmas.

You'll find something, that is -- at WeAreUniteUs.com.

I wanted to get you on, because I -- I wanted to ask you, I think this is such a remarkable product. And I -- I just applaud you.

You are the first guy to really come in, and just say, hey, I'm -- I'm doing my own thing.

And I'm doing it for God.

And I'm doing it because our values are being lost.

I would love to have any of your shoes. In our museum.

I mean, I can buy the -- the shoes that are being sold right now.

But if you have any of the prototypes. Any of the early stuff.

I would like to keep it in our museum.

Because I think this is going to be an important shoe.

JONATHAN: Absolutely.

Glenn, we can make that happen.

I appreciate you. What you said, you know, you're bold and all these things. I have definitely developed, I would say, quite a bit of calluses over the years, just from the different things. I'm like, look, this is who I am. I think where our country is going, we have to be authentic and transparent of what we believe. And stand on it. And, no. Not everybody will agree with it. Not everybody will like it. But there are so many people who need to see somebody stand up for what they believe in. To know that it's okay to do it themselves.

And I guess that's a part of my calling, and I just want to walk it out.

GLENN: You're a good man. Thank you so much. It's great to have somebody, that our kids, and even people like me, can look at and say, look at this guy. Look at what he's doing.

Courage is contagious.

And you are spreading that like crazy. Thank you so much.

JONATHAN: I appreciate you, Glenn.

GLENN: God bless.

Why Trump is RIGHT to take back DC

President Trump is cracking down on crime in Washington, DC, and Glenn Beck believes it’s a “brilliant” move. Glenn explains why Trump is taking action, whether it’s legal, and what he believes it says to the world.

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GLENN: So the president yesterday, taking control of our Capitol back. And he said this, cut three. Listen.

DONALD: My father always used to tell me. I had a wonderful father. Very smart. And he used to say: Son, when you walk into a restaurant and you see a dirty front door, don't go in. Because if the front door is dirty, the kitchen is dirty also. Same thing with the Capitol. If our Capitol is dirty, our whole country is dirty, and they don't respect us.

GLENN: It's absolutely true.

This is the broken windows theory. You know what that is? The broken windows theory is something that Rudy Giuliani used to turn the country around. And that theory is, no one, no one, picks up a rock or can or bottle or anything, that's in a nice neighborhood that's clean and everything else.

You don't pick up a rock and break a window. However, if you're in a neighborhood where there is a lot of broken windows and everything is broken down, the average person is much more likely to pick up a rock and throw it through a window.

Why? Because the entire neighborhood says, we don't care.

So what Rudy Giuliani did, was he used this theory, and he cleaned up the -- he cleaned up the subways by doing a couple of things.

First thing he did, was he made sure, that if you were jumping the turnstile, for the -- for the subway, you were stopped right there.

Before, people just weren't paying a fair, they were just jumping a turnstile.

And nobody was doing anything about it.

He says, no one was crossing that turnstile. Now, what is it?

Is it a dollar to ride the subway? No one rides it for free. And so he put police, right there.

And they stopped you, and arrested you, if you were jumping the turnstile.

The second thing is, was he stopped the graffiti. He said, I don't care if they have to be repainted every single day.

When those things pull into the station, at night. If we get there in the morning, and they've been spray-painted, I want them all painted again, and then they go out.

Everything had been covered in graffiti.

And when he changed those two things, all of a sudden, the attitude, of the subway, it became safe again.

Because it was sending a signal to the bad guys and to the good guys, we care. We're not going to let this happen, anymore.

So what he's saying here, about dirty doorstep, means a dirty kitchen. It's absolutely true.

You ever gone into a restaurant. Gone into their bathroom. And you're like, oh, boy.

Oh, God.

I can't eat now.

Because if the -- the bathroom for the customer is like that. What is their kitchen like, where the customer never sees it. That's what he's doing, and he has the absolute right to do it. He's got 30 days, before he has to bring Congress into it.

This is the -- back in 1973, Congress passed this Home Rule Act. And they didn't have a mayor. They didn't have a city council. They didn't have any of these things.

This has been from the beginning of our country, the Founders wanted the District of Columbia, to be a district that is a federal district, run by the federal government. Not by local rile.

And in 1973, they started that. And it was all just to get them to be declared a state. First a city with a mayor. Then we should have power to elect the president of the United States.

Yada. Yada. Yada.

This has not been worked. This has been an experiment that has not worked at all. So he can deploy the National Guard for law enforcement, because there is no governor of DC. He can use it for emergencies, crowd control, and to execute federal laws. However, he just declared an emergency.

Now, under the Home Rule Act, he can assume control of the Metro PD, which he didn't, for up to 48 hours, during special conditions of emergency.
And that time period can be extended.

But he -- what he's doing here, is he's using these 30 days, hoping that the home rules act is going to be revealed. Only Congress can reveal that. But there's movement to reveal it now. And if Congress appeals the home rule act.

Then this nonsense in the District of Columbia is over. And if anyone tells you, you know what, the crime status are going down.

To what?

To what?

Even if they went down to 2019 standards, is that good enough?

I mean, it is still more dangerous than walking around in Bogota, Colombia.

It is twice as dangerous as walking around in Islamabad!

I don't know. I don't think that's really a good thing.

And, by the way, they changed the way -- you're a stat person. Did you read this about the stats.

PAT: Playing with them.

GLENN: Oh, my God. Playing with them.

Felony assault is not considered a violent crime now in their crime stats. Not assault. Felony assault. Felony means usually prison is -- is tied to that.

STU: Yeah. Not just some easy misdemeanor, where you get your hand slapped.

GLENN: Felony assault.

STU: Yeah. If you're not going to include that, it's hard to even take that seriously.

But your point is more crucial to this, than even the statistical games.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: Because they keep -- they keep bragging they're getting it back to 2019 levels, or maybe a tick below. That's not good.

GLENN: No. It's not.

STU: What you're saying is acceptable is not acceptable.

That's the message from the White House.

I would love to see it.

And we're seeing it so far. I would love to see the Democrats try to win that battle those rules.

If what you're trying to tell me, because we were there for the inauguration.

GLENN: Police everywhere.

STU: Of course that was -- police everywhere -- it's a totally different --

GLENN: But I had a guy threaten my life, and not for political reasons. Just because I think he was batcrap crazy.

STU: Yeah. Yeah. Right. I mean, a lot of sane people threatened your life on a regular basis. Crazy.

GLENN: This is a nutjob.

STU: Yeah. But, like, unless you're at the mall, during the day, it's -- and even there, can get sketchy at times.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

STU: You feel it.

GLENN: You feel it. You feel it.

STU: You want to stay inside your hotel room.

GLENN: And, you know what, everybody knows this. Washington Post. There -- this is a story on how safe the city is.

This is a safe city, but overhearing witness game threats and then watching the camera footage of the thuggery is disturbing, said one resident.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, over --

STU: Anonymity, over concerns of personal safety.

GLENN: Yes. Anonymity, over concerns of personal safety. So I don't want my name in the paper, because I'm afraid of the thugs finding out who I am, and killing me. But it's perfectly safe. Oh, my gosh!

STU: Everyone knows this! Anyone who has ever been to DC. You know it, by walking around.
Weird crap happens to you. People approach you, in threatening ways.

GLENN: You know, Rikki told me just a few minutes ago, our executive producer. She said, last time I was in DC. And she lived in DC for many, many years. She said, I was in my old neighborhood.
She said, I used to walk at 2 o'clock in the morning.
I never had a problem with that. She said, I went to this restaurant. And I was there with a friend.

And I had gone there a million times.

She says, it's in the middle of the day. Within just a few minutes, she's sitting on a patio outside, some huge guy, she said, 300 pounds, at least 6 feet, comes up and says, I'm going to kill you. And starts threatening her and her life.

They call the cops. It takes them 15 minutes. She's not far from the Capitol. Fifteen minutes to get there. And then they don't do anything about it.

He -- she's like, anybody who says, this isn't happening, has just never been there. Here's an ABC anchor. Now, remember, their whole spin is, this was fascism.

There's no -- it's a safe city. Listen to this ABC anchor. Listen to this. Cut one.

We've been talking so much about the numbers, and usually that's how you play devil's advocate. You talk about, oh, well, stats say crime is down.

However, I can tell you firsthand here in downtown DC, where we were, right here around our bureau, just in the past six months, you know, there were two people shot. One person died. Literally two blocks down here from the bureau.

It was within the last two years, that I actually was jumped, walking just two blocks down from here. And then just this morning, one of my coworkers said her car was stolen, a block away from the bureau. So we can talk about the numbers, going down. But crime is happening every single day, because we're all experiencing it firsthand while working and listing down here.

GLENN: Hmm. Hmm.

STU: You know.

GLENN: Go ahead.

STU: I was just going to say, I was on vacation last week. You know, it's like saying I'm cutting my calories from vacation levels to normal levels.

It's still not healthy. Right?

It's just -- even if there is an improvement from 2023, which some numbers do show, although the numbers are questionable.

2023 was just absolute catastrophe. And this is just terrible. Right?

Like, that -- there's no reason to embrace this norm.

As the norm.

GLENN: So let me give you -- I want to show you the response. The response on the left.

Here is -- show the full screen here of the free DC.

This came out yesterday.

Free DC. Like it's under some fascistic.

Look at this deal. And what it says is it is encouraging residents to protest Trump's federalizing of the city's police force. And what it wants to do is starting tonight at 8:00 p.m. And then every night, go out to stop this occupation.

Go out and bring pots and pans. And bang on them. And then when you're -- your neighbors go, what the hell is wrong with you!

Say, don't you care about the fascistic government.

STU: People will love that.

GLENN: This is crazy. This is crazy.

Now, if Donald Trump and I think with Jeanine Pirro.

I think some things are going to be happening quickly there.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: He actually has a chance. And I don't think he's doing it this way, for this reason.

But he actually has a chance of turning DC Republican.

Because you're living in that. Imagine --

STU: It's hard to imagine.

GLENN: It's hard to imagine. But imagine living there. And now you're seeing your side, that you've always voted for. Say, it's not so bad. And you know it's bad.

You can't have your wife go out to the grocery store at night.

You've had your carjacked. Maybe crazy people on the streets.

And then he's doing something. And if it works, if it works, people will be like, you know what, I'm sorry.

But that is a better solution.

He is -- this is very brilliant of him. He's very good at this.

He knows where people live.

You know, spiritually. And physically. He knows right where they live.

And where they're living in Washington it can't. Is a hellhole.

And everybody there knows it. And if he can actually change their lives, he changes everything.

Are these MAJOR PROBLEMS with our airlines widespread?

What is going on at our airports?! Glenn Beck has noticed an increase in flight issues – delays, technical problems, understaffing. So, he speaks with aviation expert Mike Boyd, who explains where he believes these issues are coming from. Are they widespread? Or is it just one airline? And can the FAA fix these issues under President Trump?

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GLENN: Mike Boyd. Welcome to the program, Mike, how are you?

MIKE: I'm doing fine. It's an honor to be here.

GLENN: Thank you. So thank you for coming on. I've been asking for an interview with Secretary Duffy, and we haven't been able to align the schedules yet.

But I am very concerned about our airlines. I was on a plane. These were all American Airlines, by the way. I was on the plane. The pilot, we got on. It was like two hours, three hours later late. We got on. And the pilot was standing in the aisle. And he said, everybody, I don't want you to blame the airlines. I want you to blame me.

And we're like, oh, okay.

And he said, because I wouldn't accept the plane, that they wanted to us fly because I have flown it before. And it has problems. And they haven't fixed those problems. And the only way it's going to be fixed is if we reject it. And say, I can't fly.

I don't know if that's true or not. Or what this guy -- you know, what the story was. But that didn't fill me with confidence. I'm like, wait a minute. Wait a minute. So you're actually saying, the airline is not repairing a plane.

And I don't think -- I mean, I don't think our airplanes are in trouble, and going to start falling out of the sky. But that has been happening lately.

What is happening with our airlines?

MIKE: Well, I think the experience you had, that one specific one. We've done a lot from -- I come from an American Airlines background. Nevertheless, we've done a lot of work with American pilots unions. These are very professional people. The fact that guy stood up there and said, I'm not confident with this airplane. That's a safety -- that's a safety plus.

GLENN: Oh, I appreciated that. We thanked him for that. Thank you. Thank you.

MIKE: But we have a major problem with American Airlines. If you have pilots saying, I don't trust you. These are not yo-yos. These are not good consumer men's. These are professionals. If they say that, we have a problem in America. If that happens in America, and I think you might want to call the folks down there in Fort Worth, their brand-new American Way headquarters. They spent billions on them and asked questions.

But overall, I haven't seen that. Are there big problems with air traffic control?

Yes. No question about that. And we finally have somebody that the FAA and the DOT, who has a clue. And that will be addressed.

But overall, if it's just one airline, you're on the right track, as far as looking at it.

GLENN: Okay.

So this is -- but are you seeing this kind of stuff happening with other airlines.

MIKE: No. No.

GLENN: I'm flying out of Dallas all the time. So I generally fly American. And I occasionally will fly Delta. But, you know, it's mainly American. So I just assume this is happening on other airlines as well.

Because I'm reading the comments from people. And they're like, I can't trust that I can get there the next day anymore.

And that's a real problem.

MIKE: Well, because air travel is. I have to get there times certain.

This is not a game. I have to get to the bar mitzvah, whatever I'm going.

So if they can't get there, I'm not going to go. And the reason I'm not going to go, is you can't get me there. Now, if you look at reliability.
And again, we've had some issues, like Frontier Airlines, if you want to see Saturday Night Lights, go to YouTube. You'll see a gated -- a gated net, Frontier Airlines. It's really bad. But if you look at others, like our friends at United Airlines -- and I don't work for those guys. They have a system where if you book at United, very often, they're with you the whole damn trip.

If you don't like a lot of text messages, don't book them. They're with you, the whole time. And their CEO is functionally age, about making sure, whatever went on. Whatever it is. Take it or leave it.

From that point, I think you may have stumbled over something that affects the metroplex, more than anything else.

GLENN: So how's -- because I've been on the plane. And everybody is like, we're going to have missing.

You know, you will miss your connections.

And everybody is like -- is this kind of -- is the airline system set up almost like the Just In Time supply line? That if it did ever go into catastrophic failure, it would be a real problem.

Because, I mean, it's just one plane arrives, just in time for everyone to unload and reload and take off again.

MIKE: Well, yeah. That's just the issue. In ancient times, our friends at Southwest could come in and go in ten minutes.

Today, you can't get ten seats emptied in that amount of time. So they're really trying to cut down the amount of time, on the ground. That makes sense.

The question is, they have to have systems they can't be allow them to do that.

Now, delta has put in a very comprehensive system that only works for Delta, where they have been able to coordinate all those things, and do a better job of it.

But you're right. If you're coming in and going out, and that airplane has to do a go-around, coming into Atlanta. That could be 15 minutes.

That 15 minutes could mean, you can't get across the terminal to get your connection. That's going to happen.

GLENN: Tell me about the situation.

Because, Stu, you did a documentary on how bad the air traffic control system was. Right?

STU: Yes, I did.

GLENN: And is that on YouTube still? What was the name of it?

STU: It is. Countdown to the next Aviation Disaster. Unfortunately the countdown was not as long as you would have hoped it would have been.

GLENN: Yeah, it is. I mean, what's going on in our air traffic control.

And I would never want to be an air traffic controller. The stress these guys are under.

And that's not -- I'm not even calculating the stress on how close these planes are flying in and out now.

I mean, I'm just thinking, back in the good old days, where it was very stressful.

Now they're still passing paper to each other. And these planes are one on top of the other one.

When are we going to change this system and update it?

MIKE: Duffy is doing that. Duffy is not -- and finally, we have an FAA administrator who has a clue. Brian Bedford. He's been around. No, I've known him for 40 years. This man knows the business, and he's all business.

And, you know -- and, you know, I know he's good because Chuck Schumer doesn't like him. So that underlines everything right there.

GLENN: Good.

MIKE: So that's starting right now. Look, we testified to Congress in 1994 on this. On a free flight system, that you could make it far more efficient. The FAA blew it off. The FAA has always been a repository of some really great people at the operational level.

But at the top, these are just political appointees. Take a look at the FAA administrator that the -- the last president wanted. Phil Washington. Nice guy. Clueless. But he was a good appointee.

We can't do that anymore. I think we're going to see some major changes right now.

GLENN: Now, can -- how long is it going to take us to fix this?

MIKE: Well, you know, one of the things.

It's sort of -- what Duffy said, well, we have a -- there was a program in place to fix it over the next five years. And that's ridiculous.

So he's on it. I mean, he just went up to Wisconsin. He found the oldest, I think the oldest control tower in the nation. We're going to fix this. He's really making a point of trying to get it done.

And I think he's doing it incrementally. Where like Newark. What a disaster. I don't mean this city, necessarily. I do.
(laughter)
But at the airport, you know.

He's trying to make that work better.

This guy is on it. So I'm thinking 18 months.

It's going to be incremental. But we will start to see this happen.

GLENN: In Newark, or in the country?

MIKE: In the country. Because we can't have a free flight system that is far more efficient --

GLENN: What does it mean, a free flight system?

MIKE: There's a free flight system -- they want to ignore this, where every airplane takes off, and it finds its own ways. Keep in mind, the skies aren't crowded.

You can put 250,000, count them, 737s in a cubit mile of airspace, parked, not moving.

But that's a quarter million of them. And any time in America, today, in the sky, you might have just 14,000 -- 14,000 airplanes in the sky.

GLENN: Wow.

MIKE: But that's like 11 million cubic miles of airspace. So we can use our airspace better.

But what we've had is quite frankly, an FAA that hasn't wanted to think about it. It's more worried about itself. I am convinced that is going to change over the next two years.

GLENN: And are we close to having AI do all of this free flight stuff?

I mean, I would imagine that you don't -- I mean, you don't need to check in with tower, if AI is assisting finding it.

MIKE: Oh, exactly. We've got to use that. And a lot of it -- it's -- the head of the FAA has always been the clown of the Titanic. He says, slow down.

And by the time, it gets back to the engine room, you know, we've hit the iceberg. I think it's one of those things that we have to recognize, a lot of stuff has to change organizationally at the FAA, and at the department of transportation. I think finally we have people that can actually address that.

GLENN: Wow!

That is -- I mean, this is wildly optimistic, but I am happy to hear that. I like Secretary Duffy.

I don't know much about him.

Not enough to say enough like you're talking. That makes me feel really good. I'm very concerned about our air travel.

It's not good. Not good.

Not going in the right direction.

MIKE: It's not going in the right direction.

I find out, if I treat the customer right, they might come back and fly me, and what's happening now, people are getting away from some of these really low fair airlines, where the seat is like, a bucket seat in a C-119.

They don't want to fly those things anymore. And people like United and Delta and other carriers are saying, we'll take your business.

And they are.

GLENN: I have to tell you, at times, I'll be on a plane. And I think we're like one scruffy dog with one blue eye, just walking down the aisle, creepily away from third world airlines. I mean, it's like, there are times I'm like, is there a chicken going to run down the aisle too? What country do we live in?

It's beyond. It really is the greyhound of the sky now.

MIKE: It is. There's no question. My mother was a stewardess in the 1930s. Everybody dressed up.

GLENN: Yes.

MIKE: Today, you're lucky if everybody is dressed.
(laughter)

GLENN: I don't know why we haven't had you on before, Mike. You're very funny.

Mike, thank you so much. For an inside look on this. I appreciate it. Mike Boyd, aviation expert. From the Boyd group international. He's the president and CEO.

MIKE: Me pleasure. Thank you.

GLENN: He's the guy who consults all these airlines and tries to help fix them.

And is also, you know, testifying in front of Congress all the time.

Did Adam Schiff leak CLASSIFIED info to harm Trump?

A Democratic career intelligence officer has been warning the FBI for years that now-Senator Adam Schiff approved the leak of classified information to smear President Trump, according to a Just The News report. Glenn Beck warns that Schiff CAN’T get away with this because if he can do this to a president, what can the government do to you?

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GLENN: Let's see. So John Solomon broke some news yesterday on justthenews.com, which if you don't -- if you don't check that every day, you should.

He is a real, God's honest journalist, an investigative journalist. He's worked for the Washington Post, until he wasn't welcomed there.
He worked for the -- I think he worked for the New York Times, but definitely the Wall Street Journal, until he wasn't welcomed there. And he was like, I -- you know what, I speak my mind. I let the chips fall where they may.

So he started his own thing.

And it's really, really good. But he's been breaking a lot of the stories that are coming, about Russiagate.

Listen to this story. A career intelligence officer who worked for the Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee. For more than a decade, repeatedly warned the FBI, beginning in 2017, that then representative Adam Schiff had approved leaking classified information to smear Donald Trump.

The FBI 302 interview, reports obtained by just The News. State the intelligence staffer, a Democrat by party affiliation. Who described himself as a friend to both Schiff and now California senator and former Republican House Intelligence chairman Devin Nunes, considered the classified leaking to be unethical, illegal, and treasonous.

But was told not to worry about it, because Schiff believed he would be spared prosecution under the Constitution's speech and debate clause. So do you know what that clause is?

It's a really -- it's an amazing clause. Do you know what it is?

STU: This is the one where they can -- where Harry Reid can go on and say, hey. Mitt Romney lied about not paying his taxes.

GLENN: Yeah. He never paid his taxes.

He can't say that, without Mitt Romney not being able to sue him.

If it's not true, you can sue him. Unless you say it on the floor of the House or the Senate. Because then it's -- then it's free speech that they have, that you don't even have.

STU: Yeah. It's like they're extra -- they're extra free.

GLENN: Yeah. They're extra free. They can say whatever they want. And they can't get sued by it.

So he is -- he is leaking this information. But he's leaking it on the floor of the House.

And that way, he can say, I'm covered by the Constitution.

STU: Hmm. He's such a dirtbag. It's unreal.

GLENN: Just a dirtbag. Okay. So this whistle-blower. Again, a Democrat by -- by registration. He has been blowing the whistle on Adam Schiff, and no one would listen to have. The DOJ officials, according to Just the News, showed little interest in pursuing Schiff when the allegations were brought to them years ago, citing the very same excuse the lawmaker had offered in his -- isn't that interesting? So he says, I'm covered by this. And the DOJ says, no, no, no. He's covered by this.

In his most recent interview with the bureau in 2023, the whistle-blower, whose name is redacted, told agents from the FBI's St. Louis office, said that he personally attended a meeting in which Schiff authorized leaking classified information.

Quote, when working in this capacity, redacted staffer's name, was called to an all-staff meeting by Schiff.

In this meeting, Schiff stated, the group would leak classified information, which was derogatory to the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

Schiff stated, that the information would be used to indict Donald Trump. The whistle-blower told investigations that he stated that this would be illegal.

And upon hearing his concerns, unnamed members of the meeting reassured him, they would not be caught leaking classified information.

The staffer made similar claims to agents in the FBI's Washington field office, as early as 2017. Shortly after Trump took office in his first term.

Officials also said, some of the DOJ officials who declined to prosecute a rash of classified leaks during the Russiagate affair remained employed and in positions of power.

A matter that they may be of interest to lawmakers in Congress. This thing is so deep and so nasty.

I mean, if -- if we don't get the people like Adam Schiff, this will happen, if they get away with it. You may, as a Democrat. You may be fine!

Donald Trump, he's -- you cannot allow them to get away with leaking classified information. To destroy another person. Okay.

They knew these were lies. But they needed it to get out.

And it was classified. No one was supposed to know that.

So here, a Congress congressman, and now a senator, a US senator said, don't worry about it.

You're not going to get caught.

Nobody is going to pay for this.

If they do that, and they set this precedent.

And they do get away with it, what is the regulating rule of law?

When they want to do it to somebody else.

And maybe it's somebody you like. What is the regulating rule of law. When the Republicans go, oh, well. You're going to pray that way.

Well, we can do that too. This is where critical thinking comes in.

This is where -- this is what Americans are missing right now.

And it's -- it's not that we're not capable of it.

It's that we're all living in our lizard brains. We're all so freaked out by, Nazi! Nazi!

It's a Nazi!

We're so freaked out by the names that we've all called each other.

We no longer can stop and think

The left is now moving towards no rule of law.

I mean, they're -- Beto is now saying, to the uber, uber left, rules don't matter at all.

It doesn't matter.

We'll do whatever it takes to stop them, and win next time!

Well, to me, that doesn't sound like they're going to do anything new! Except, that's their message to people.

That's not good!

Unethical, illegal, and treasonous.

From somebody who describes Adam Schiff as a friend, and nobody seemed to care.

The -- the stakes just keep getting higher and higher and higher on this particular story. And I'm wondering, I mean, one thing that is not trending. Let me see if I can find the trends here.

Okay. On Google trends, right now, what's trending on Google trends is marshal law.

Marshal law, in Washington, DC. Well, that's -- that's not what's happening in Washington, DC. That's not marshal law.

It is the president's right, because the district of Columbia, is supposed to be a federal district. And it's out of control!

What was the stats on a thousand times. What is it?

STU: I have that here for you. Give me one second. I'll pull it up.

GLENN: There's some crazy amount. More dangerous than Philadelphia. I don't go walk the streets of Philadelphia at night. I don't send my kids, hey, go get a gallon of milk, down the street.

What are the stats, do you have it?

STU: I do. It's just loading as we speak.

Okay. This is from -- and it's from -- this is from the Atlantic.

DC's homicide rate in 2024, roughly 26.4 homicides for every 100,000 residents, is lower than both in 2023 and its peak in the '90s.

But according to data compiled by the council of criminal justice, it's still nearly seven times higher than New York City's rate, which is 3.8 per 100,000.

DC's rate is also worse than that of Philadelphia, Atlanta, and even Chicago.

In fact, it's closer to that of infamously crime ridden cities like Memphis and Detroit, than it is to some other important city areas.

The problem looks even worse, in the most violence-plagued parts of the city. The finding of my report, 2023. Fifty-seven percent of the state's homicides took place in wards seven and eight.

The city's poorest and largest percentage of black residents. In fact, just ten blocks of DC were home to 14 percent of all homicides.

Can you imagine what that area -- 14 percent of entire cities!

GLENN: Yeah. Everybody -- everybody knows somebody that has been killed.

STU: Right. It has to be.

GLENN: Has to be. Has to be.

STU: As in many cities, violence is also hyper concentrated among tight social networks. According to a 2021 report, National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform. Any given city, about 500 people are responsible for 60 to 70 percent of all gun violence in the city.

And this is from -- this is from -- this is from an article that's saying -- it's the Atlantic, former left-leaning situation saying, hey, guys. Like, sure, we can all say it's down.

But are we communicating the real problem here?

Because, I mean, look, from a political perspective, Trump is going to win here. Forget that, for example. All the sideline stuff that everyone is talking about.

When you boil it down to politics. Which is what a lot of people are talking about.

If you are stuck on the side of the debate that says, actually, DC is Disneyland, you're going to lose.

GLENN: And you are going to lose, in a city that has voted for you, time and time and time again. Because somebody is making the killing stop.

I mean, you know, what do they say about Mussolini?

STU: I -- I remember, was it your uncle?

GLENN: My -- let's be very careful. My wife's uncle. Okay. Her great uncle, I think.

He was born here in America. But the family -- they lived in -- in Italy.

And when Mussolini took over, and the war started, they were afraid the entire family would be wiped out.

So he was an American citizen, because he was born during a vacation in New York City. So he -- they sent him all by himself, to America.

He didn't have a job or anything. So he joined the military. And he started fighting on our side.

And we were talking. And nobody on the family had -- nobody knew his war record.

No one. No one. And we're sitting at a -- at a wedding, and it's just the two of us.

And I'm like, so Uncle Leo, how did you get here?

Tell me your story. And he's like, let me tell you my story. And he starts in, telling the story.

And I said, so you -- do you remember Mussolini at the time?

Mussolini was a good man!

And I'm like, okay. Can you keep your voice down on that one. He's not my uncle.

He's not my uncle.

STU: My wife's uncle.

GLENN: My wife's uncle, which I'm questioning now my wife and my relationship there, said that.

Anyway, and I said, okay. Keep your voice down. What do you mean by that?

And he said, at first, before he joined with the Nazis, he said, our country was so out of control.

And he made, quote, you've heard this before.

He made the trains run on time.

What he was saying, he brought order to a very disordered society.

It was not functioning, okay?

And what Mussolini did at first.

I'm just going to bring. I'll bring some law and order here.

STU: This is why the progressive left had an argument with some, at the very beginning, saying, this is the new wave of the future.

It will make your country better, fascism. Which was their argument at the beginning.

GLENN: Mussolini and Hitler.

To an why -- you know, the swastika. If you flip it around, it's actually an American native, and an Indian symbol, of peace.

Did you know that?

STU: Yes, I did. I did know that, yes.

GLENN: Okay. But if you flip it around, then it becomes the Nazi swastika. But that's not all: When you look at a Native American, you will always know that it's Native American or Indian, because the bottom of the -- I don't know what you call it. The swastika, is flat.

Okay?

STU: Okay.

GLENN: What Hitler did, is he pitched it up 45 degrees.

Okay?

So he moved that symbol, that was just like a square. And he put it instead, on the -- on like a corner of the square.

So it's now pitched up.

Does that make sense. Do you know what I'm saying?

Do you know why he did that?

STU: No.

GLENN: Because this is a system, of progress!

We are progressives. We are moving and racing towards the future.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: So any of this crap, that this was, you know, concerning. No. No. No. No. No.

It wasn't. This is all progressive socialist nonsense. And dangerous.

But back to the story of what Trump is doing.

Trump is using the Constitution.

And he is doing it within the -- the rule of law. He has 30 days.

And then Congress has to either revoke home rule, or it goes back. Or they can extend it for another 30 days. But Congress has to do it. So he's not becoming a fascist or dictator or anything else.

This is not marshal law. This is all within the law. But if he makes that change. In those two districts, where everybody knows somebody who has been murdered.

And most likely kids, that have been murdered.

And that goes down, and they feel safe on their streets.

And their kids are not. They're not saying to their kids. Just don't fall in to that gang.

That will change.

People will -- they may still vote the same way. Because they don't get it, maybe.

But they will not be on board, with dismissing.

I can guarantee you. They are not on board with dismissing this with, oh, no.

Washington, DC, is a safe safety.

Everything the media is doing right now. Everything the tells me are doing by trying to excuse this, and trying to make everybody. The people who are living it, know it's a lie first.

And they've got to be looking at those people going, wait a minute. Wait a minute.

I thought you were on our side.

I thought you were trying to protect us.

You're not.