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Will Biden's visit to Israel HELP or HURT the war against Hamas?

President Biden is heading to Israel, allegedly to show support for the war against Hamas. But Glenn remembers when Biden refrained from visiting disaster zones so that he wouldn't get in the way. So, is stalling the Israeli ground invasion the plan? Former DoD intelligence analyst and Glenn's head researcher, Jason Buttrill, joins to break down what's going on: What will the next phase of the war look like? Why will no country take refugees from Gaza? Why is destroying Hamas so critical? And will this turn into a 3-front war?

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GLENN: So let me move it across the town of Washington over to the White House. The president is headed on over to Israel. Now, if I recall, there were times the president didn't go to disaster areas, because, well, he would just get in the way.

A presidential visit would get in the way.

This is a war zone he's going into now.

I'm not convinced of the innocence of this.

I think it is more of a delay tactic. Keep Israel from going in and really decimating things. And finishing the job.

But I'm pessimistic. And a little jaded. On the politicians. Especially on the left, when it comes to Israel.

Jason Buttrill is with us.

And he has the latest on what is happening in Israel. How come we haven't seen Israel go in?

We thought we were going to see it this weekend. Really go in. And with troops. And just go, through Gaza.

JASON: I've seen a lot of people talk about how they don't think that the ground invasion is likely anymore. And that's not how I read the situation on the ground at all. This is an unprecedented situation that Israel is now in. So not only do they have the pressure campaign from the Biden administration. You know, their top main ally, which I can only imagine. Blinken was in a meeting with Netanyahu yesterday, for, what? Eight hours. Eight hours. Can you imagine the threats that are probably getting lobbed across the table there? They don't want this ground invasion to happen. It is a humanitarian disaster. It absolutely will be.

GLENN: Good. Egypt can take care of it.

JASON: But did you see, just now, the king of Jordan, this morning, said, speaking on behalf of Jordannians and Egypt, that allowing Palestinian refugees from Gaza is a, quote, read line. They said, it's a red line (?) and we know what the actors on the line would do. Gee, I wonder what he's talking about there. Because the last time this happened was in 1970, Glenn. 1970, after the six-day war. They allowed tons of Palestinian refugees from the West Bank. Because there was nowhere for them to go, like now. What happened? Instantly, the Palestinians kicked off a Civil War in Jordan, and even tried to assassinate the king of Jordan. And the Jordannians had to kick them out. They had to go to Lebanon. What happened in Lebanon, after that. Well, gee. A Civil War broke out in Lebanon. I mean, these are terrorists. It happens every time. The entire Arab world knows this. That's why the ground invasion has to happen. Has to.

They have to be dismantled for good.

GLENN: So what are they fearing here?

Because I know they are worried about a three-front war. One from the IRGC. You think it will happen?

From Syria. That's Iran. The IRGC. Then you have Hezbollah from the north. Which is Lebanon. And they're already -- they're already there on the border, right?

JASON: They're taking potshots. As we speak, they're taking potshots.

GLENN: And then you have Gaza. And that is down on the south, towards Egypt.

JASON: Right. And so that's why this is so complicated. What Israel has been engaged in since the terror attack has happened on Saturday, is they have been doing shaping operations. Basically, what that means, they're taking out units outside the border. They're shaping their route of attack. Once they go into Baez. Which will be a sniper parades in Gaza. This will be very deadly. The worst kind of combat there is.

Even if you take 200,000 troops into Gaza. Which is a relatively small place. That might not be enough.

It will be a very, very hard fight.

But shaping operations take time.

Amassing troops along three different fronts.

I mean, that's colossal.

I mean, for the IDF. Israel is a small country.

I mean, we have more Jews in the United States, than are actually in Israel.

They just don't have the people.

So it's gynecology a lot of prayer. Forcefully it will take a lot of (?) strategy and smart thinking top pull all of this off.

Think about this in that context. (?) how imperative it is for them to do this.

And then you're getting the full-court pressure from the Biden administration.

It's insane.

GLENN: I don't just Israel will listen to us or anybody else, are they?

JASON: I hope not.

GLENN: Here's the thing: Jews are expelled from every country, except for this one.

Every country, they ever are in.

There is always a program or -- or a, you know, a Holocaust. Wherever they are, (?) they are either put into a get zero, or exterminated.

That's the reason (?) Israel exists.

No longer do they have to have permission to defend themselves.

Jews have a right to live.

I know that's a crazy concept. But I have the T-shirt.

Jews have a right to live. And they have a right to defend themselves, period.

And if that's the way they want to defend themselves, I'm with them. I'm with them.

I'm no longer buying into the bullcrap, that, well, they want a two-state solution.

No, they don't. No, they don't. No, they don't.

That he had the opportunity.

Multiple times, they always turn it down. They want the instruction of Israel, and the Jews. Period.

GLENN: But doesn't say T say in the Hamas charter, very specifically (?) we want a two-state solution.

GLENN: No. It's weird. It says just the opposite. Archaeologist atell us (?) so we can kill them.

JASON: Oh, yeah.

GLENN: Yeah. So it's got that going for them.

STU: And eventually, the strikingly Jew behind me. Which is -- that's in the charter as well.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. So that's really good."

So yesterday, Iran was crazy. I'm sorry. Crazier than they usually are.

JASON: Some of their official communications are, let's just say, getting a bitted on. Talking about. And again, this is official statements, about the final battle of God is upon us. That's a little alarming.

But it also shows, that Israel's enemies, our enemies, see this. And it's not just a geopolitical situation for them. It's not a humanitarian situation for them.

GLENN: I don't understand how everybody in the media, can look at somebody who says, I believe that America was a God-inspired place. And they go, religious zealot.

They're going to kill us all.

And they can listen to these clerics, who say, the final battle of time is here.

And we will wash the world in the blood of the Israeli Holocaust. We will -- we will use the fire of the Islamic fury, to wash the world in blood. And everybody is like, yeah. They don't mean it.

Hey. How about we build apartments for them?

GLENN: Pallets of cash. (?)

GLENN: It's crazy. That wasn't the only communication they were throwing out.

They were throwing utilize from their diplomatic channels. That the state of Israel will have to heed the warning.

GLENN: What does that have to mean to you.

As a former Intel guy, what does that say to you?

JASON: Initially, I think that means, heavy IRGC involvement.

That means Shia militia, throughout the Middle East. Doing God knows what.

They do have a plan.

That will progress to (?)

GLENN: That puts gas at $10 a billion.

What is the United States' role then?

I mean, Israel is not going to ask for our help militarily.

They're not going to do it.

They're fully capable. We won't intervene.

We probably will have to intervene. What else will we do?

All gas and oil flow stopping unravel because Iran intervenes and does so.

GLENN: Good thing we have those solar panels and wind panels, huh?

JASON: What would gas be?

GLENN: Ten dollars a billion. At least $10.

In California, I don't know. Eighty-seven dollars a gallon.

STU: Pretty much in California.

GLENN: I mean, it becomes, you know -- this is what ian Fleming.

I have a searchlight from the Suez Canal in my office.

Don't ask me. I tried to keep it quiet from my wife. Because every time she sees it. She's like, what the hell did you put -- anyway, it's a searchlight from the Suez Canal in World War II.

And it's missing the internal spinner that was created by a magician in Egypt, at the request of ian Fleming.

If it it wasn't for ian Fleming, I'm not sure we would have won the war.

Sincerely. Ian Fleming, the guy who wrote James Bond. Was a war strategist. And thought outside the likes crazy.

His job. One of his jobs was, how do we make the Suez Canal, disappear. Because if you bomb it, or turn it down, we're all done.

Done. We have to have the oil. So his idea. He went to a magician. And said, how do we make it disappear?

He said, we can't make it stap. But we can confuse all of the pilots. (?)

So they had these big ark lights. With this mirrored spinner inside. (?) and they would point it at the planes as they approach.

And the planes would have to veer off, because the pilots would get so confused. That's why we have the Suez Canal. Now we're looking at that very scenario again.

What are we going to do magic men in Washington?

What are you going to do?

CHIP: Well, the Iranians figured out how to do it.Ed is that was them getting involved in Yemen.

Everyone was talking about -- I guess --

GLENN: Why are we in Yemen?

JASON: And why are the Saudis? I'm not saying, not to support the Saudis.

No one is figuring out (?) it's to shut down that strait.

It's right there on the border, of that strait, Bob he will mend em(?) that is the reason.

GLENN: Right. We have an aircraft carrier there?

JASON: We typically (?) do.

I think there's a marine, amphibious ready group, that is nearby. To respond.

But the closer this gets, I would not be surprised, if the Biden administration does not shut down the ground invasion.

If -- if Netanyahu says, no. We're doing this our own way.

GLENN: You think Biden is going there to slow this down.

JASON: Why else with a he go? To show support. I just don't think so. It feels like a full court (?) that's what it feels like to me.

STU: Or at least minimize what they're doing. I don't think you will get them to stop.

GLENN: I hope not.

And, you know, I would be fine with the Israelis saying to the president. We're a little busy right now.

We want to thank you for your little 50, that you brought us from, I don't know. Taverns.

It's great. It's a bowl. We'll put it someplace. We'll never use it. Goodbye. Be very nice go. But goodbye. We've got a war to fight.

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

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

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

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

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

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

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

It's really good.

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

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

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

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

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

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


SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

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

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

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

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

It was independents. It was Democrats.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

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

SALENA: Yeah.

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

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

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

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

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

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

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

As opposed to what happened.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To project that we will not be defeated.

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

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

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

And galvanized people.

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

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

I've got to get up.

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

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

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

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

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

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

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

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

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

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

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

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

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

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

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

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

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

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

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

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

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

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

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

He calls you up.

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

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

It's just a great part.

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

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

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

Even though, he was.

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

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

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

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


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

GLENN: Crazy.

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

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

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

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

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

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

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

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

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

And how God was in that moment.

It --

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

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

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

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

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

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

To give him that space, to work it out.

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

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

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

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

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

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

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

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

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

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

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

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