RADIOMarch 08, 2022

Will Russia's ‘bad weekend’ bring a HARSHER Putin to Ukraine?

Chief Researcher for The Glenn Beck Program, Jason Buttrill, joins the show to detail what happened over the weekend in Ukraine. Despite propaganda from BOTH sides, Jason tells Glenn that it does seem like it was a ‘bad weekend’ for the Russian military, which likely thought this invasion would’ve been a LOT easier than the reality they faced. But, just because Russia seems to be struggling more than anticipated, that doesn’t mean Putin simply will give up. In fact, history shows his force used against Ukraine may now get even worse. The questions then become: Will NATO stand for a more brutal Putin and if not, how exactly will the West become further involved?

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GLENN: I have hesitated on telling you what things -- what is actually going on, down on the ground in Ukraine.

We didn't really talk about that last week, because I'm not sure who to believe.

I think our press is so skewed, and I know the Russians, so skewed. So what is the truth?

Well, we have Jason Buttrill with us. Who has some sources. On the ground, in Ukraine.

Mainly because we've done so much work in Ukraine, in the last couple of -- in the last couple of years. That we -- we know some people.

And he's got also some other context as well.

Tell me what's going on, Jason.

JASON: Fairly catastrophic. I won't say catastrophic. It was a bad weekend for the Russian military.

And it's been just a bad invasion period. A lot of the reports, and you hit on it. Is, you can't trust a lot of what you see, from both sides.

GLENN: Both sides. Good or bad.

JASON: But all evidence now, is showing that Russia probably expected this to be a 72-hour frame. The initial troops, that Russia sent in, are paratroopers. Which are basically glorified riot police.

And they were decimated. Most of them were decimated on entering into the country.

I don't have actual casualty counts on either side. Because they're so wildly skewed on both sides. Probably look at what each side is saying, and then take a middle number, and that's probably what it was. But even that number is not good for Russia.

A lot of the equipment that is getting either destroyed or captured, they also have riot equipment.

Like shields, batons, stuff like that.

So Russia clearly thought, this was, hey. Three days maximum.

We'll go in. The population will capitulate or turn to us. And this will turn into more of an occupation, without firing many shots.

Very wrong. Multiple aircraft were shot down this weekend. That just caps off over the past week and a half. Several aircraft. Helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft had been shot down on the Russian side.

For the most part, their operations are stalling on the ground. Because they don't have the logistical capability at the moment, to take care of anything.

They don't have fuel. They don't have food, water. Things like that are very scarce on the ground. Which shows, they were completely unprepared. This is not a good invasion.

Which, you might want to say, okay. That's a great thing. But if you look at Russian strategy. If you look at Aleppo. The siege of Aleppo. The siege of Grozny, during the second Chechnyan War.

When these things stall, they move to severe bombing, indiscriminate bombing. Cluster bombing.

They've --

GLENN: We think the cluster bombing in the cities already.

They were doing that last week. Which you don't do.

Isn't that against the Geneva convention?

JASON: Yes. But the Russians do it. And they get away with it.

GLENN: So now the news is this morning, that they have circled all these cities. Or a lot of the big cities in Ukraine.

That is what they do right before they just start bombing the snot out of cities, isn't it?

Historically speaking.

JASON: Yeah. And they haven't completed encircling many of these.

It appears that way. And a lot have reported and showing these large clusters of Ukraine, that are under Russian control. That's not entirely the truth from what I'm seeing.

Russia has pushed into Ukraine. They're on major roadways. But they're not really occupying the surrounding territory.

For one of the reasons, right now, it's very, very -- rainy, muddy. It's hard to move some of these vehicles, across this.

Again, it doesn't seem like they were prepared for this. The Russians. So even the territory they have. It's not exactly, what I would call an occupation. You know, they're not really occupying those areas.

GLENN: We're seeing the Russians move now, in force. Really, and having to have some sort of offense and defense.

They don't seem very impressive.

JASON: Oh, no. Most of them appear -- they don't seem like professional soldiers, to me.

GLENN: Right. Right.

What happened to the mighty Soviet Army.

JASON: It's almost like MacArthur was right, if this was the capability. We should have gone through. And gotten this over from the beginning right after World War II. Russia hasn't fought a war like this. If you look at the United States, we've been fighting a war like this for 20 years.

It's very complicated.

Combined arms. When you combine artillery, troops on the ground, aircraft in the air, it's complicated. The United States military is the best in the world the at it. I don't know if they thought, hey. We'll adopt these tactics. We'll go in, and it will be done.

But clearly this is the evidence. They're not very capable at this warfare.

GLENN: So what does that mean? You put Putin in a corner. What does that mean?

JASON: Yeah. Not good for the people in Ukraine. If you want to compare what it's going to look at. Look at what they did in Aleppo. Look what they did --

GLENN: The world won't stand for that.

Yes. They said, well, what about Syria? Syria is not about race or anything else.

It's about, the Middle East has always been on fire.

It's a Dumpster fire. And you never know how to help, or if it will help. You're always on the wrong side. That's why America didn't look at Syria.

America barely looked at -- at the Christians in the area.

JASON: Uh-huh.

GLENN: You know, we just didn't do anything to help the Christians in the area. So it's not because of a religion or a race. It's because it's a Dumpster fire.

JASON: Yeah.

GLENN: This has been a stable, westernized country. Completely corrupt. But a stable westernized country.

So, yeah. We are looking at it.

And I don't think the -- the world will stand for him just shelling cities.

JASON: No. We were talking off-air. Where has the Russian Air Force been on this?

And I think a big reason why he hasn't probably bombed the heck out of some of these cities with his massive Air Force is because, the world will not stand for this happening, to, you know, a more western European country.

When he just unleashes, like he did in Aleppo or Grozny. When cluster bombs are hitting Kyiv, that's when the world is going to be like, okay. You've gone far enough. The question then is: How far does the West get involved here? Which is scary.

GLENN: Okay. So let me play cut two. This is over the weekend. This is Blinken.

VOICE: What more can the United States do here, if for instance, the Polish government, a NATO member wants to send fighter jets. Does that get a green light from the US, or are you afraid that will escalate tension?

VOICE: No. That gets a green light.

In fact, we're talking with our polish friends right now. About what we might be able to do to backfill their needs. If they choose to provide these fighter jets to the Ukrainians. What can we do? How can we help to make sure they get something to backfill the planes they're handing over to the Ukrainians. We're in very active discussions with them about that.

Look, I've been in Europe, the last couple of days. Working closely with our allies and partners. That NATO, the European Union, the G7 countries, and all of us together, are continuing to take steps to increase the pressure on Russia through additional sanctions. All of which are very actively under discussion.

And will be implemented in the coming days. As well as, taking further steps to give the Ukrainians what they need to defend themselves against the Russian aggression.

GLENN: Okay. So this seems like a good thing. Explain how scary that is.

JASON: Well, NATO supplied fighter jets. That's kind of another level right there, coming from Poland.

They are bold. I think it was MiG-29s, that they were considering. Remember, Top Gun, MiG-28s. That was the '80s.

But yeah. So this is still an escalation.

And it's got the earmarks of your typical Cold War battle. Whether it's the U.S. in Vietnam.

The Chinese and the Soviets wouldn't get involved. They would supply Russians to the Vietnamese. Very similar. North Korea. Same thing. This is how -- and Afghanistan.

Put that one out too. But this is a major regression. And it's got all the symptoms, or the -- you know, the same things that happened during the Cold War. Now, the question now is: During Vietnam, we knew this was going on.

The United States wasn't on the verge of collapse.

How -- you know, Russia can't sustain this, right?

They cannot continue to let all these weapons go into Ukraine, embarrassing Putin. While at the same time, you know, an economic WMD is now being unleashed on Russia.

So he's going to have civil problems. His people are going to rise up. We're not going to see that probably. Because TikTok, all these Russian media outlets, Facebook, Twitter, are now shut off in Russia.

Which is a tragedy, really. But we're not going to see how they're reacting. But they're not going to react well.

GLENN: So Visa and MasterCard, over the weekend said they're not going to process anything in Russia. Which Russia immediately turned to China. And said, fine, we'll use their Visa and MasterCard. But this is targeting the civilians. Which we've never, ever, ever done before.

It was sanctions. We always say, we are targeting the regime. We're targeting the country.

We don't target the individuals.

STU: My understanding too, that the cards will work. Russian-issued visas will work in Russia. So they can still buy basic supplies with these cards. They just can't buy anything international.

GLENN: So it's remarkable to me, that nobody is noticing the number of companies that are involved in this.

This has never been seen before. And everybody is saying, this is great. And screaming for the oil to be shut off from -- from -- Russia.

But could I just point out, we don't have the oil.

If we want it to shut off. We need to say, open up our own oil and gas resources.

We can't afford to shut this off.

Well, it's only 10 percent.

Okay.

You want another 10 percent on top?

This is -- this is death for the United States.

We are, right now, negotiating with Iran and Venezuela!

Why would we enrich those two countries?

Look, I know the global warming bullcrap. I know all these people are like, well, the planet is going to die.

Well, you know what, I know the radicals. The real radicals believe that we should just -- we need to shut down more than we did, at COVID-19.

That's death for millions of people, all around the globe.

Literally, that will mean millions will die all around the world.

We cannot shut down all of our fossil fuels at this point.

Can't do it.

I would understand if the president who disagrees with me, came out and said, look, for the next nine months, or however long this thing drags on, we are going to open our pipelines.

We are going to fund our -- you know, the exons of the world. We're going to start going back and taking the natural gas out.

And shipping it. We're doing it. Because we have to.

Or we'll kill the nation.

Now, I'm going back. And I'm shutting it all off. Again, in whenever. Whatever it is.

People would understand that. Reasonable people. The only people that wouldn't understand it, are the Marxists that want to destroy us anyway.

It makes no sense. None.

Why would we be enriching Venezuela, and Iran?

Instead of taking care of business ourself.

That should be the number one call. I want the oil to stop from Russia. But I want the oil to be replaced with American oil and gas. Period.

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$13.8 TRILLION in interest ALONE: Can America survive this debt bomb?

The United States is facing possibly the largest debt crisis in our history as our national debt rises faster and faster. Glenn Beck warns: is our bankruptcy inevitable? Plus, Glenn and Stu discuss the recent protest during an ICE raid on a farm in California.

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GLENN: Now, here's another thing. And I will hit this once.

Because it's a little -- it's a little overwhelming.

But I just think you should know it.

Since the dead ceiling was raised on July 3rd. July 3rd.

The US debt is up $410 billion.

Just in the first two days.

Let me say that again.

We raised the debt ceiling. And the US debt goes up 410 billion, almost half of a trillion dollars in two days!

Now, this comes after the US Treasury ended extraordinary measures, raising the debt ceiling by 5 trillion.

We are in the midst of the US' largest crisis.

Largest one ever. Now, listen to this.

After hitting the debt limit of $36.1 trillion in January of 2025, Treasury began extraordinary measures to conserve cash. Last week, when Trump's big, beautiful bill was signed into law. The debt ceiling from 36.1 to $41.1 trillion. And what happened?

In two days, up 410 billion. Raised due to a technical process.

Now, Stu, I don't want to get all technical here. But I think that -- that the debt ceiling going up, and then us spending an additional $410 billion. I think that technical process. And, again, if I'm too wonky, maybe you can explain it, is out of control politicians that are just spending too much.

But maybe that's just me. Is that too technical. Is that too wonky, to get to?

STU: Yeah. You're in nerd world with that one, Glenn. People aren't going to understand it.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

So they were just -- they were just doing what you do, when you don't have the money. They were just moving bills around. And paying what they absolutely had to. Until the debt ceiling was raised.

And then when they did, they were like woo. Because we were completely out of money.

Now we can print some more. Now we're free to borrow a record 41.1 trillion dollars in debt.

Now, here's the part that kind of opens your eyes. To put this into perspective, at the start of 2020, the US had $23.2 trillion in at the time. In 2020, $23.2 trillion.

Where are we now?

Well, we just moved that debt ceiling up to 41 trillion, because we're at $36.1 trillion.

With the new limit, we will mark $17.9 trillion increase, since 2020. That's a 77 percent increase in our debt. Have you thought of it this way?

At our current pace, we will reach the new debt ceiling much sooner than expected.

The treasury posted a 316 billion-dollar deficit in May. That's the third largest in record.

For the first eight months of 2025, the budget gap hit $1.3 trillion. The third largest in history.

Over the last 12 months. The US borrowed 1.9 trillion.

Or 158 billion, every month.

That is half -- this is half of the May levels.

But let's take 158 billion to be conserve.

US current debt stands at 36.6.

We are 4.5 trillion below the limit now.

At our current pace, it will take us 28 months, to hit that limit.

STU: Jeez.

GLENN: In fact, the debt ceiling crisis. It looks like it will hit us now, every two years. The debt ceiling is hit faster than it can be moved. From June 2023 and October 2021, we're the last debt ceiling crisis. The US budget deficit has averaged 9 percent of GDP over the last five years.

But over the last 12 months, the budget gap has hit 7 percent of GDP. That is higher than during 2001, or any of the 1980 recessions.

We now spend 7.1 trillion dollars, 24 percent of our GDP. We have a spending problem.
That's our problem. We are issuing so much debt now, bond prices are falling. And yields are rising. What does that mean? It means, we're charging less, and we're paying out more in interest. That's not going to help us!

The US spent a record of $1.2 trillion on interest expense alone.

That's more than the total spending on defense. Medicaid, and the veterans program.

At our current pace, we're set to see US cost exceed $2 trillion within a matter of years!

Over the next ten years, the US is projected to pay $13.8 trillion just in interest.

For interest alone. This is not taxpayers. This is per person in the United States.

For interest alone, we are now on the hook for $40,500 per person, just for the interest!

This is four times Social Security cash deficit in the next ten years.

Five times the cost of 403 US weather and climate disasters. Since 1980.

403, weather and climate disasters.

It's the cost of 403 of those! Sorry.

It's the -- it's five times the cost of those, since 1980! I just wanted to -- I mean, just want to start there. Wake up to your situation.

People are arguing about all of the wrong things right now, and they are -- we think we are skating. And we think that this can last forever. It's not going to last forever, and then you add things on top of this.

Like, what is happening with -- with ICE?

I don't know if you saw the video of the protesters. Some protester that was firing some sort of a weapon, at a federal agent during the ICE raid at a farm in California. Let me play this. Cut two, please. This is the raid --

VOICE: Take a look at this video right here. It appears a protestor fired some kind of gun at federal agents. This happened this afternoon.

It was a really chaotic scene at the time.
A lot of smoking was being launched at the protesters. Again, it appears that a protestor fired back with that weapon.

It looks like he fired at least a couple of times. We've not heard about any agents being hurt.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: So we are entering a very violent. Very, very violent time. First of all, let me talk about this particular raid. This was at a legal pot farm!

Okay. I think we can probably in the past, just done an hour on that. You know, oh, it's a legal pot farm.

Okay. Forget about that. That's not a problem apparently anymore.

It's being tended, this legal pot farm is being tended by illegals. That are coming across the border.

Well, we don't want to hurt our farming community.

I don't think of our farming community, as pot farms. But maybe that's just me.

Again, why get -- why get down in those details?

STU: Yeah. Glenn, this is just an existential question here.

But is it a legal pot farm, if the workers are illegal?

GLENN: Stu. Stu, again, that would be hour two of any past show that we have ever done together.

STU: Okay. All right.

GLENN: All right. So they go in, and they're trying to bust the illegals.

All right. What happens? Well, there starts to be protests. These protests come.

They start firing at ICE.

ICE has to put tear gas down.

Now the illegals are running to save themselves.

But who is running amongst this crowd?

Apparently, a bunch of children.

Now, I suppose those legal pot farms are providing a good education for those kids.

You know, probably has a pot farm day care center for those kids. So they can be out of the fields. And of course not working for their parents. Because that would be underage labor. You wouldn't want that to happen in America.

You know, all these people that have these bleeding hearts. Like, oh, this is just so wrong.

You're not even thinking anymore.

You're not even thinking.

You just see a video where you have kids running with their parents. Children running from the fields of this pot farm.

What were they doing there?

Certainly, that wasn't underage labor, was that?

Because you would be against that.

Wouldn't you?

Or are you?

Or are you only against that, if it's white children?

I'm not sure. I'm confused.

So you have the underage children. And these bleeding hearts, who are saying, we have to let these people go.

We have to let them just do what they do!

Really? You mean work in the shadows?

You mean engage in possible child labor? Okay. Possibly making, what?

A dollar an hour. Yeah. No, no, no. That's really, really, really good.

Then let's just let these protesters, and they're not protesters.

They are terrorists now.

We just let these terrorists get away with firing guns at our -- at our ICE agents. Things are changing in America. Let's just look at the violence, just in the last couple of weeks.

You have the July 4th ICE ambush, which is what?

ICE 25 miles outside of the city of Dallas. They have a detention center.

A coordinated well-planned attack.

Guy is covered in black. You know, in -- in military gear. They come and they start shooting fireworks at the detention center. Then a few of them break off, and they start spray painting the cars. Which brings unarmed ICE agents out of the building, to try to stop them from defacing the -- the cars.

They're unarmed. Well, this group has snipers in the woods. Hiding in the woods.

As soon as those unarmed agents come out, they start shooting them. Shot one of them in the neck. Thank God, he's still alive. What do you call that?

What do you call that? A Revolutionary War. Terrorism. It's certainly not a peaceful protest. Neither was it yesterday.

And, meanwhile, we have Congressmen who are actually trying to pass a bill in Congress right now, saying that the ICE members can't wear masks.

Well, you know what, when your bad guys stop wearing masks. When your people who are on the -- on the college campuses stop wearing masks, maybe we can live in a community and live in a society where our police officers don't have to wear masks.

Don't give me this. That's gets appear zero stuff.

By the way, the gestapo never wore masks.

They didn't care.

This is the kind of stuff that you see in the third world countries.

You mean like riots on the streets?

Yeah. It's stuff you see in third world countries. And you're dragging us into a third world country.

And, you know what, it's just -- it's -- it's time!

It's time. It's just time to say, enough is enough. And I'm not saying take extraordinary measures.

I'm saying, can our US government, our FBI, our department of justice stop acting like every Bond villain I've ever seen.

And here's what I mean by that. It's like you take these guys off the street, and then you strap them on to a table. And you say, the laser is going to cut your head in half.

No. It's not going to. We all know it's not going to.

Can we stop acting like Bond villains? Can we actually take care of the problem?

Actually arrest these people. Try them. And put them in jail.

We need to start setting a few examples. Otherwise, this is going to ton spiral out of control.

Obama's CIA chief behind Steele dossier deception – exposed!

The FBI has opened a criminal investigation against former CIA Director John Brennan. But will Americans finally see justice for his alleged crimes and cover-ups? Or will the Deep State protect him? Former Department of Defense intelligence analyst Jason Buttrill joins Glenn Beck to give his prediction.

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GLENN: Let's bring in Jason Buttrill who is our chief researcher on the program.

You know, I'm reading a lot about John Brennan, and, you know, I think everybody knows he's a bad guy.

Well, everybody, but MSNBC and CNN.

They know he's a bad guy. But, you know, Jason, as I was starting to really refresh my memory. And look into Brennan, as we're -- it looks like maybe the Department of Justice is going to take him on.

And maybe prosecute him for some pretty bad perjury. I started looking into him, and I didn't realize. I had completely forgotten.

He was the guy who was the main guy that was pushing for torture, during the war.

I mean, he couldn't torture enough people.
And then he actually had a little group that would meet with the president, and they would develop the kill list. Do you remember, Stu?

Talking about the kill list, that Obama was doing? You know, every week. They developed a kill list. And everybody was like, what do you mean a kill list? Who is on the kill list?

It was John Brennan who was doing all of that stuff. He's a really, really dark dude. And, you know, hopefully we'll actually send him to jail for the things that he allegedly has done, besides, you know, develop the kill list. Jason, welcome to the program.

JASON: Hey, thanks, Glenn. I don't -- you know, it depends on -- I don't know. John Brennan has been one of the most slippery, I don't know how to describe him.

Whether it's like Bond villains. Or actually maybe it's more accurate to kill him like a Batman villain.

You remember like in Batman. You know if like the Joker is connected and remains in that comment or cartoon, or if it's the Penguin.

You know at the end of the comic, they're going to get away.

You will just see them in a slide. You know, all of a sudden in page where they slip away. They have to live again. You know, to the villain in another comic book.

GLENN: Oh, I know.

Yeah, I know.

And we are playing the role of a -- of a -- of a Bond villain as well, when it comes to justice.

Our DOJ is like, oh. And we have sharks that are going to eat you.

We have strapped you to this table. But they are going to start with your shoestrings. And then, we will leave. But before you know it, you will be dead in the belly of a shark. And they're not going to -- it's not going to kill them.

Just shoot them in the head. What are you doing?

Stop with the shark thing. That's what our DOJ is like. They just have these guys get away with murder.

JASON: Yeah. As you point out, with Brennan, it goes way, way back.

He was -- as you outlined. He was one of the guys that were right at the center of the enhanced interrogation, or torture controversy.

He -- he always said, hey, I was not in the enhanced interrogation techniques, air quoted, program.

But he was one of the guys, that was defending transferring some of the suspects, the country, where, you know, the rules are a lot less, you know, strict than they are here in the United States.

Where you can employ some of these.

Yeah. It goes beyond that.

He actually withdrew his name. You know, from being in the BCI director because of this.

But like any fat man villain or Bond villain, if he decides to run again, and he's confirmed by a massive amount. He just keeps on slipping through.

GLENN: Well, how does he get -- let me ask you: How do you think he gets this power?
Because he just keeps slipping through.

And, you know, if I remember right, it was Dianne Feinstein that -- that actually came at him, and said, you and the CIA are spying on the committee in -- in the Senate.

And they were investigating the torture, or enhanced interrogation. And he was knee-deep. Maybe neck-deep in that. And he said, we're not spying -- the CIA would never do that.

It's just unthinkable. Well, it turns out, yes. They were spying.

And then he never -- they never pushed for any kind of penalty on him.

He said, well, I'm going to find out, who did this.

And then they will pay.

Nobody paid. Nobody. Nothing. Does he have stuff on -- on members of the Senate and the House? Is that what -- is that what's happening here? How does he keep getting away with this?

Understanding John Brennan, in my opinion is understanding how the Deep State operates.

That example that you just put out there, with spying on the intelligence committee.

Deny. Deny. Deny.

Later it comes out, Glenn. That five CIA employees. Five, improperly accessed.

Five!

And then finally after a while. Like months later. He's apologizing to the Senate intelligence committee.

You know, all, but admitting this happened.

But no resignations.

No prosecutions. This goes on and on and on.

STU: Hang on.

And then on that same case, five years later, he writes his -- you know, his biography.

And he talks about how none of that happened.

So he admits it.

First, he denies it.

Then he's caught. Then he admits it.

He says, I will take care of it.

Nothing happens. Time goes by.

And then he writes a book. And then he goes, all of that. None of that happened.

That was all wrong. This guy is just --

JASON: Yeah. It really is.

And it's the same with the Steele dossier.

You know, did think it in front of Congress.

And then later, now we're coming out. Now we can see that he totally -- it appears like he was just completely lying.

Now we're trying to figure out what about he told John Durham. Because maybe they can get him for saying the same statements to John Durham. If they can, then maybe we can go after him.

But I really don't know.

I really don't know if the audience wants to hear this right now.

I don't know if it will make a difference.

This is how the Deep State operates.

To understand it, and understand John Brennan.

You understand, the executives don't control Deep State apparatuses. That's not how it works.

You have multiple people, and people that were under John Brennan and the CIA, are still there. They're still there.

The Deep State controls the Deep State apparatus, not the executive. Not Congress.

None of them. It is the shady individuals that continue to get away with things. We catch them in lies that never really matters.

I think if we could actually get some justice on this, that John Brennan could actually get -- you know, outed publicly, that he had in the past. This time, something actually happened. That I think that would be a huge step forward in getting rid of some of these people. That just linger. And secretly pull strings, while we're demanding I couldn't wait.

STU: So tell me what happened with the -- the ICA.

You know, the new report out, about the intelligence community assessment.

What is this story all about?

JASON: Yeah, it's a trade craft. The CIA trade craft review.

GLENN: What does that mean?

A trade craft review?

JASON: It's kind of a sexy way of juts saying, how did we operate, you know, from this time, to this time period?

GLENN: Okay.

JASON: And it points out, you know, how things -- like I said. It points out, in part of it. How things like the Steele dossier, ended up getting included into the, you know, whole Russia gate scandal.

And it looks very, very clear, that -- you know, that should not have -- unverified intelligence should not have gotten as far as the president's desk?

It should not have done it.

Even if it had, then it should have been heavily caveated showing, that this is just opposition research bullcrap.

Well, it didn't.

And if you look at it, very, very physically. It shows that if you are, let's say a Bond villain. Or a Batman villain. And you really, really want this damaging information, that's just opposition research, to somehow make it into the hull of the White House. And then knowing that that's going to get leaked down to the media.

They have perfected, you know, the CIA perfected this kind of operation. They know exactly what they're doing. Who would be responsible for doing it?

Why would they be doing it? And it would be for election interference.

And then that's allegedly what John Brennan was actually doing.

That's what it looks like he was doing.

Now we have the intelligence community assessment, showing that this is what happened. With that information and with now being able to go back to people like John Durham or looking at exactly what statements were made to him. So we can fit them into the statute of limitations. Or before it runs out.

GLENN: Which is in the middle of August.

Which really pisses me off. It's another thing like the -- the debt ceiling. Oh! You know, we've had all these years to fix it. But now we have to fix it tonight, and then it's never fixed.

I mean, I'm telling you, this is -- this is not going to be good!

You know, this -- this Epstein thing is not going to go away. It's just not going to go away.

And I'm sorry, but I think the president is on the wrong side on this.

And I'm not assigning any kind of reason for it, but he wants it to just go away.

And I have my belief, I expressed them yesterday.

It's about Intel, again. But you can't keep stacking these things up. You just can't.

John Brennan is a known bad guy, Russiagate. You would think that Donald Trump would be all over this. Because it affected his life so much. This guy is a very, very bad guy.

And both sides of the aisle know it.

And for some reason, nobody can ever do anything about John Brennan. He's got to be investigated and prosecuted if that's where the evidence leads.

But you can't just walk -- if the statute of limitations runs out on this guy, I think -- I think you've got another chink in the armor. A big one!

JASON: Yeah. Yeah. And not just him. I mean, I would go a lot further and say, who were the people that were directly underneath him?

Who were his subordinates? Who were their subordinates?

How many people had knowledge of this?

What we're really talking about is how it operates.

This is how things happen, outside of the wishes of the president.

You know, the executive or even Congress.

This is how -- you know, this is how outside.

This is how justice and how operations work, you know, from people who are not elected.

People that we did not give a mandate to.

This is how this operates. You have to root out every single one of them.

Identify them.

Have them stand in front of justice and see if we can just finally start to will this thing away.

If we do not, then the future does not look great for what we want for this country.

GLENN: Oh, and it's everywhere.

You know, Kevin O'Conner. He's the White House physician for Biden. The testimony that he gave, well, fine. You know, give him -- give him immunity. Give him immunity.

I don't want to know about the private conversations, you know, about his health.

Although, I do think that is really important. We're talking about the president of the United States. He's not just a private citizen. He's property. You know, the president can't say -- if the Secret Service says, sir, you're not going into that room.

The president no longer has the right to say, I'm going into that room.

Sorry, while you're prosecute. It's almost F you're property of the United States of America. And control over your own person in many ways. I'm sorry. But, you know, the physician, client. Or physician patient confidential, I'm not sure that exists, when you're president of the United States.

But there's no reason why you shouldn't give this guy immunity, and then say, okay. Who said, what?

Were you ever told to lie?

I'm not sure you will get the truth out of this guy. Because he is a -- he is a Biden guy, through and through. But people should start going to jail on that.

I'm so sick and tired of these investigations, that start to show promise and then nothing happens. Nothing.

It's been 20 years of investigations, and no one goes to jail.

It's been 20 years of riots on the streets. You know, people burning cities down. People, you know, looting stores. Destroying our economy.

Destroying the safety in our city. And no one goes to jail. President Trump has got to start sending some big, big messages. And he is on so many fronts.

But this one cannot escape his view.

He's got to be on this one.

All right. Jason, thank you very much.

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