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First, I want to talk to you a little bit about Devin Archer because some things have really been bothering me.
I've now seen or read two different interviews from Hunter Biden's ex-business partner, Devin Archer, and I'm not exactly sure what to make of his little PR tour.
Is it just blind luck that he always seems to be just out of earshot every time something happened that could tie him to the Biden family influence peddling scheme?
And this is what you really need to noodle here.
Is it possible that every time, oh, you know what? I had to go to the bathroom.
Okay, sure.
But I'm not really seeing a big push by the GOP to really get down to what actually happened.
And this bothers me a great deal.
Every time I'm expecting to see an explosive follow-up question during his congressional testimony, it never came.
Now, you may not notice this because maybe you didn't read the official transcript.
It was released last Thursday.
And I understand you get busy and everything else.
And that's what you pay me to do.
So by that time, Archer had already been interviewed by Tucker Carlson before the transcript was released.
Tons of what he disclosed couldn't be cross-checked by Tucker Carlson and his team.
And there are a few things that need to be.
On page 12 of the congressional transcript, Arthur testifies that he first met the head of Burisma in Moscow.
Okay, why is that important?
Well, the dates here, the dates here are just a little interesting.
The meeting took place on the exact same day that Russia invaded Crimea in 2014.
Now, why was the head of Burisma in Russia on that day?
Why was Devin Archer's team considered a good fit for Burisma as Russia was stealing Crimea?
Did Devin Archer know that Burisma was one of the only Ukrainian energy companies that had drilling rights in Ukraine?
Some of the questions that should be asked.
The weeks following Russia's invasion of Crimea were pretty eventful.
Hunter would join the board of Burisma.
He would also have a meeting with Joe Biden at the White House.
And Joe Biden would travel to Ukraine to discuss, quote, fracking and greater energy production.
Now, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Joe Biden is going over to Ukraine to talk to them about more fracking, natural gas, and oil, and trying to make sure that the Ukrainians and Burisma can do more of these things.
And yet, just a couple of years later, he's over here shutting us down.
Now, this context alone makes for a pretty fortuitous meeting.
I mean, don't you think it's at least a little interesting?
It's worth at least a question, I'm thinking.
Congress treated this entire portion with like kind of a deer in the headlight, like, what's happening, Dawd?
And they don't say anything.
Now, Devin Archer claimed that his meeting at the White House was due to a school project for his kid.
I'm not making this up.
Something involving Paper Mache.
Wow.
Now, was it only Paper Mache that was discussed at this meeting?
Did Burisma come up at all?
Did Crimea and Burisma the gas leases come up?
Why did Hunter Biden tell Archer to buy a burner phone just three days before his White House visit?
Can we see the messages and the emails and the calls from this so-called burner phone?
Why do I have this feeling that this burner phone has since been disappeared?
Now, that's page 12.
Let's go up a little further here.
Let's look at page 84 and 85.
Congress attempts to ask a question about a man named Rob Walker.
Now, who's Rob Walker?
Well, we know Rob Walker.
He was revealed in the previous House disclosures as allegedly being the middleman that received the cash payments from Hunter Biden's overseas dealings and then delving them out to random members of the Biden family.
When his name was brought up, Archer's lawyer immediately butts in and shuts down.
None of this is within the scope.
Don't answer that.
That's what he said.
Which kind of sounds like the Rob Walker information is kind of important.
This is not how business is done.
Why was it done this way?
Why was the question about Rob Walker shut down so quickly and pointedly?
Why have we not called Rob Walker in to testify?
Can you answer that one?
On page 36, Archer describes a business trip to Dubai where he attended along with Hunter Biden and multiple Burisma executives.
He then goes on to talk about how Burisma wanted Hunter to call DC to fix the problem they were having.
The group walked out just out of earshot from Archer and made the call.
What a stroke of luck.
Now, remember the original statement was that Burisma wanted Hunter to call DC for help.
As Archer is pressed, Archer responds with this, and I'm quoting from the transcript.
Listen, I didn't hear the phone call, but he called his dad.
Whoa.
That's pretty interesting.
I thought this was reported that he just called DC.
No, he said he called his dad.
Hmm.
Now, was Devin Archer told that Hunter called DC or his father, Joe Biden?
Because the statement actually says both.
James Man DeFolo, the general counsel for the House Oversight Committee, pushed him.
He said he was asked if it was during the drive back to the hotel that the Burisma executives told Archer that they had, quote, called the vice president.
Was it in the car?
Or was it with the drive home?
Or was it sometime the next day?
Now, this is when things get a little weird.
Devin Archer's lawyer, Matthew Schwartz, immediately chimes in and says, he told you expressly he called his father or that he called DC?
Okay, which one is it?
Now remember, this is Devin Archer's own lawyer pushing in.
And he's like, oh, DC, DC.
Hmm.
So wait, you said twice that it was his dad.
And then you say, oh, no, no, no, it's DC after your attorney reminds you.
Now, this was later brought back up right after testimony broke for recess.
Archer's lawyer stated that he wanted to clarify something before the rest of the interview commenced.
What was it he wanted to clarify?
Well, that Devin Archer definitely, totally did not hear anyone say Burisma executives had Hunter call his father.
And it's for reals this time.
Okay, this time they mean it.
Now I'm sorry.
Can we circle back around on this one?
It seems like a big deal for the main witness, who apparently has no direct information on influence peddling, merely just to acknowledge the appearance of it.
But he didn't just do that.
He also said he was told that Hunter called his dad.
Then he doubled down on it when asked by the committee general counsel.
But then when his lawyer butts in and asks him, are you sure that's what you mean?
Oh, yeah, no, it was just DC, wink, wink, nod, nod.
I don't know.
I think that should call for a little pushback from Congress.
I mean, just a little.
After reading the testimony, I almost get the feeling that Congress is letting this slip through the cracks.
Now, why would they do that?
Well, I've always assumed the rest of Washington, D.C. was pissed at the Bidens for shining a light on something they all have been quietly doing for decades upon decades.
Washington is an influence peddling mecca.
It is their number one cash crop.
With that context, why would they want to bring it all out in the open?
Maybe just some food for thought.
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Hunter Biden and the Impeachment00:14:58
I don't know about you, Pat, and I don't know how he's going to do in court, but you know what?
Let's leave it alone.
It's getting harder and harder to say it, but innocent until proven guilty.
So anyway, have you seen the new Rasmussen report?
I don't think so.
Okay, so this is on the impeachment.
How many people are for impeaching Joe Biden?
And this, to me, is, I don't know, a little stunning.
It shows that the average American believes that Joe Biden did something wrong, that he's it's risen to a high crime or misdemeanor.
But, you know, they're not really, I don't know.
But why not?
You got to impeach him over it, too.
Impeach him.
Just leave him.
Leave him.
It's fine.
Don't worry about it.
Now, I saw a story and it said Joe Biden might want to thank former President Donald Trump for this.
Voters appear to be suffering from impeachment fatigue.
Really?
Is that Donald Trump that they think for that?
Or is that the Democrats that knew all of this stuff about Joe Biden and impeached Donald Trump over and over?
It's not Donald Trump that was like, you know what?
You should impeach me.
You don't remember him impeaching himself twice?
You don't remember that.
No, I don't.
I don't.
Yeah, but he's on this spree of trying to go to jail now.
He's like, hey, put me in jail.
Put me in jail.
There is now new information that there was a money trail to the Biden family coffers from China.
U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware charged Hunter Biden with tax and gun crimes last month, released to a federal court last week a now scuttled plea deal that affirmed the presidential son got millions himself from Chinese forces in 2017 and 2018.
The money was money that it was included from a Chinese energy firm.
Now, wait a minute, wait a minute.
A Chinese energy firm that is linked to the Chinese Communist Party.
Hang on, there's another story about this someplace because I read a story about how we might have to dip into our strategic oil reserve.
And then I read this.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm engaged in multiple conversations with the Chinese government's top energy official before the Biden administration announced that it would tap the strategic oil reserve.
Hmm.
Granholm's previously undisclosed talks with the Chinese National Energy Administration chairman revealed that the Biden administration likely discussed its plans to release oil from the SPR with China before the public announcement.
What an amazing coincidence.
Secretary Granholm's multiple closed-door meetings with a CCP-connected energy official raised serious questions about the level of Chinese influence on the Biden administration's energy agenda.
Now, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Help me out with this, Pat.
So he was getting money, at least his son was, verifiably.
He was getting money from a Communist Party-controlled energy company.
Millions and millions of dollars going to him from that.
And then he was also getting money from Burisma to help them with their energy thing.
Right.
And yet Biden seemed to be awfully sure that, you know, brown energy is really bad.
Isn't this weird?
That is weird.
That is very weird.
Huh.
Maybe it's good over there and it's bad over here.
Is that what we're doing?
Well, we know it's bad over here.
Well, colonialism, for one thing.
Let's just say that.
Colonialism.
Yes.
Thank you.
And people here are not as willing to give money to Hunter Biden, you know, unless it's for art, for energy here.
So screw these energy companies here.
Yeah.
They don't know who to pay.
They don't know how the game is played, you know?
Right.
They're learning.
They're learning.
Well, and his art is incredibly valuable, as you know.
What is he getting?
$500,000 a piece for those paintings?
They're beautiful.
They're beautiful.
And you get an appointment to an international post and a beautiful painting to go along with it.
Right.
Right.
And I think like a stay at the Lincoln bedroom, too, if I'm not mistaken.
You might.
Yeah, you might.
Well, that was more of a Clinton kind of thing.
So I don't know if you heard Vivek Ramaswamy said on Saturday that he said the war in Ukraine is likely tied to the allegations that President Joe Biden's son received bribes from overseas energy firm Burisma.
The purpose of the U.S. military is to advance American interests, to protect the homeland, not to aimlessly fight some random war that is arguably a repayment for the private bribe that a family member of the United States received, $5 million from Burisma.
Does that not make sense?
It sure does.
Why is it we are sending so much over?
Remember, what did they impeach Donald Trump over?
The Russian collusion, for one thing, and the payment to the stripper, right?
No.
Oh, you misremember.
Okay.
No, you misremember.
They were impeaching him, trying to impeach him and trying to get him thrown under the bus because he made a phone call to Zelensky.
Okay.
So the phone call, correct.
Where?
What did he say?
What did Trump say to Zelensky?
He, if I remember correctly, and I'm still maybe misremembering this, but he wanted information, I think.
He wanted them to look into the corruption from the Biden family.
The Biden family and Burisma.
So he says, hey, I'll send these to you, but you got to help me out here.
You look into this because I know it was happening.
Look into this.
So they tried to say quid pro quo.
Okay, but wait a minute.
So Zelinsky talks to Trump.
He knows how valuable that information is to Trump and anyone against Joe Biden.
Zelensky knows.
Zelensky comes over here and says, hey, I want more money, more money, more money.
And Joe Biden doesn't even pass go to give him the $200.
He just keeps shelling out the cash.
Cheat, shouldn't someone look into that in seeing that we know that at least 30%, maybe as high as 70, is not going to the places we deem it to go?
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We got Michael Franzis, the former Capo from New York's Colombo crime family.
You would think with such a good detective like Colombo in the family, you know, they wouldn't do crime, but maybe that's why they were so good at it.
I'm just saying.
That's a really second, coming up at the top of the next hour, so the beginning of hour number two.
And we're going to talk to him about crime families.
You know, they don't, did you know this?
They don't necessarily have to be Italian.
Really?
I didn't know how you know that.
Well, could they be, I don't know, for instance, Irish?
Is that possible?
Possibly never thought of that.
Maybe.
Yeah, it could be.
Like an Irish crime family sort of thing.
An Irish crime family.
Nothing springs to mind on that, but we'll pursue that.
Yeah, okay.
We'll pursue that.
So he's going to be joining us.
This guy is a, I mean, he is a kind of a legend.
Kind of a legend.
He was the son of the notorious underboss of New York's violent Colombo crime family.
As Franzis rose within the ranks, he was estimated to be making $5 to $8 million per week from gasoline bootlegging.
That's not bad.
That's not bad.
Yeah, he was.
He was doing, yeah, what are you pulling down a week?
Anyway, he was involved with a Russian mafia in that scheme.
He survived countless grand jury appearances, three state indictments, two federal racketeering trials, eight years in prison, mafia death sentence.
He's still the only high-ranking member or made man still in his prime earning years to publicly walk away from the mob and live to tell about it.
Friend Z with Fortune magazine, number 18 on the list of 50 most wealthy and powerful mob bosses.
Today, he is not that guy at all.
Not that guy at all.
And has done some pretty amazing things.
Anyway, he's going to be on with us coming up.
To talk about.
What was that?
What was that thing you were wanting to talk to him about?
I was wondering about, you know, because you mentioned that they're not all just Italian crime families.
Maybe there's some, I don't know.
I just picked one out of the blue and thought maybe there's Irish crime families yeah maybe yeah well, could be, could be Icelandic crime families perhaps, maybe.
Well, let's just focus on one.
We've only got a short amount of time okay, so we'll just we'll just focus on that Italian one.
Uh, did you see the appearance of Mitch Mcconnell?
Uh, this weekend?
Yeah, I did.
There was some.
There was some discussion on my show as to whether or not this is real.
Uh Jeffy, who's filling in this week was, uh was saying that this he doesn't think it's, it's real audio, and I, I think it's absolutely several versions.
There are several versions from several different locations.
Yeah, it's not just one video.
So here's, here's what happened listen.
So Mitch Mcconnell is giving a speech.
You can barely hear him.
And they're chanting, retire.
Huh.
He's still giving it.
I don't know if he can even hear them.
Well, I think the stroke that he had affected his hearing a little bit, so I don't think he does hear this a little bit, so that's good.
He just keeps going and giving this speech.
This goes on for a long time.
Then they go into booze, they just go into booze and then I mean i've never heard anything like stop.
I haven't heard anything like this, have you?
I don't think so.
No, not that sustained and that obvious.
No no, and especially not for conservatives.
We don't generally go that way.
Right, If he doesn't get the message after that, I don't know what it's going to take.
I think people are sick of what's going on in our government where we've got people who are, you know, badly disintegrating mentally and still in office.
I think we'd like it to stop, many of us.
And the thing where he just stopped for 20 seconds was just too much for people.
It's like, okay, enough.
We don't need that from the Senate minority leader, as well as the president and two different senators and the speaker of the house or former speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi.
I mean, we're just done with it.
I have to tell you, I'm really tired of hearing and watching these people who were the don't trust anyone over 30 crowd.
Yes, Glenn Beck is ranting against the hippies again.
These are the radicals from the 60s who have become the man and they're trying to set the course.
I mean, this is not just that they're making tax policy.
They are designing the future they will not ever see or have to live in.
Generations Compromised by Oligarchy00:05:25
What are we doing?
How is it, you know, our generation, the latchkey generation, or I'm in the last year of the boomers, but I don't know about you, Pat.
You're kind of in the same place I am.
I don't relate to the boomers at all.
I relate to we're generation.
Are we generation X?
No, it's closer to Generation Generation X. We're close to Generation X.
And I relate much more to Generation X than I do the Boomers.
And I'm sick of the Boomers.
You know what?
You had your time.
You designed it.
Why are you handcuffing the future of our children?
I feel like our generation is supposed to stand up between the next generation and this generation that is still ruling from the grave and say, stop it.
Go home and let the younger generation start to chart their own course because they'll live it.
They'll live it.
I think that's imperative.
I think the oligarchy has to end because that's what we're living right now.
We're living in an oligarchy.
It is.
And when you look at the people who are obviously compromised, obviously, Dianne Feinstein, John Fetterman, the president of the United States, now you've got Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell.
Man, I mean, and if, by the way, if Democrats would be honest, they'd be calling out their side, like we are our side.
Mitch McConnell needs to go.
And so do these Democrats who have been compromised.
It's not about party.
It's about the country.
And isn't it weird when you say compromised, they're the same people that have been compromised by China.
Feinstein has been long time said that she was compromised by China.
Mitch McConnell, long time said to be compromised.
And same with Joe Biden.
All three of those guys who refused to leave are involved deeply with China.
Yep.
And then you've got a person like Eric Swalwell, who was with the Yum Yum for two years, the Chinese spy.
I think it's Fang Fang.
It is Fang Fang, but people have taken to calling her Yum Yum for some reason.
And I love that.
But is it not incredible that he survived that whole scandal?
A Chinese spy for two years, and nobody cares.
Pat, we have the president of the United States.
Most, I mean, the odds of him not being influenced by the money coming to his family.
Yeah.
Astronomical.
Okay.
Compromised by the Chinese.
Wouldn't blow the balloon out of the sky.
Met, we just found out this weekend.
Granholm met with the head of the energy commission for China and told them, hey, we're going to dip into our strategic oil reserve.
What would the strategic oil reserves be strategic for?
Oh, I don't know.
A war with our enemy.
So we tell somebody who we think we might be going to war with that we're going to reduce our strategic oil reserve and we consult with them for three days?
What are we out of our minds?
You know, Yum Yum is there.
Okay, that's a really big deal.
This has caused the destruction of our country, if it is true, and put us on a path with war for Ukraine and China.
Help me out.
I wish I could.
It's just so frustrating.
Just so frustrating.
So did you see that Blinken came out this weekend?
A Russian court has now convicted Vladimir Putin's number one opposition, convicted him on charges of extremism, sentenced him to 19 years in prison.
He's an extremist.
Blinken comes out and says, the United States strongly condemns Russia's conviction of their opposition leader on politically motivated charges.
The Kremlin cannot silence the truth.
He should be released.
Now, this statement comes one day after Trump is charged and arraigned with federal charges, alleging that he orchestrated a plan to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which would make him an extremist.
Are we serious about what we're saying to China?
Has Blinken been called?
Does he know what's going on here in the United States?
Navigating the Buying Process00:02:29
It's incredible, the lack of self-awareness, isn't it?
Just total and complete blindness to it.
Amazing.
I think they many of them don't care, but I think also many of them absolutely do not see the tie one to another.
They're like, no, this is different.
How?
Exactly.
How?
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You know, Glenn, the connection you drew between Alexei.
The Russia Comparison00:06:34
Navalny, who was just sentenced to another 19 years in prison in Russia and Donald Trump, I think it's so appropriate because that's exactly what's going on.
We've got a situation like Russia.
Isn't he in prison already for like serving nine years for opposing Putin?
And they've just added another 19 to it.
So he'll probably die in prison, which is exactly what they want to see for Donald Trump.
Oh, big time.
Big time.
You know, I was talking to a friend this weekend and we were talking about it and I said, you know, what they're doing to Donald Trump is not to him.
They don't care about him.
They are sending a message to his family, to us, to people like Vivek Ramaswamy.
Do not even think of it.
You try to cross us and we will wipe you and your family out.
You will never recover from it.
Don't even think about it.
That's what they're doing.
You think you're going to clear out the deep state?
Think again.
Yeah, I think that's exactly what they're sending.
I mean, and it kills me that more people don't think this way.
This guy has been investigated by everybody.
And this is what you have?
Look at you investigate with the deep state covering the tracks, with the media not doing any follow-up, with no one in foreign countries trying to do this because they've got them in the bag.
So nobody's investigating them.
Every single intelligence agency in the world went after Donald Trump because he was against them, all of them.
Every single Davos group went after Donald Trump.
And this is the best they can do?
Really?
This is the best they can do.
A phone call where he called Lewinsky, where he called Zelensky and said, hey, you need to check into this corruption.
He's right.
He was right to ask that foreign leader for that information.
And they accuse him of doing that to hurt Joe Biden's chances of running for president.
Okay, then what do they do?
They try to destroy Donald Trump's chances of running for president against Joe Biden.
It's craziness.
It's craziness.
And it's a trumped-up phone call, no pun intended.
It is also a thing where he was saying that, you know, I believe I won the election.
Well, what are you doing?
You're charging him with what?
Is First Amendment violation?
The Abrams Act?
Yeah, geez.
Yeah.
I mean, how much tape do we have of all of these people saying exactly the same thing?
We couldn't play it all, but we have a 24-minute montage of Democrats complaining that whatever election it was they were talking about, 2000, 2004, 2008, so on and so on, all were illegitimate.
Every time they lose, we should make time for that.
We should.
Yeah, it's really good.
Yeah, maybe we'll do that in hour number three.
We might make 24 minutes of time just to get that.
It's amazing.
Back in just a minute with a former made-man mob boss, and he knows crime families.
We're going to ask him about the Biden crime family.
Come on.
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He grew up the son of the notorious underboss of New York's violent Colombo crime family.
As Francis rose within the ranks, he was estimated to have been making $5 to $8 million a week from a gasoline bootlegging scheme involving the Russian mob.
He survived countless grand jury appearances, three state indictments, two federal racketeering trials, eight years in prison, and a mafia death sentence.
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He's a changed man.
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Truly a changed man, became a born-again Christian, walked away from the life, lives without witness protection, and he now has a bi-weekly YouTube show called Sit Down with Michael Francis.
Gets over 5 million views a month.
And we're going to talk to him about crime families.
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Capo.
Okay, thank you.
Former Capo, not a Capo, but I'm not Italian.
My wife was dying when I said that.
Michael, how are you, sir?
I'm good, Glorian.
Morning.
Your wife knows the correct pronunciation, huh?
Oh, yeah.
My wife is talk with your hands, Italian.
When I joined the family every Sunday, and you couldn't understand half the family because it was all in broken English, it was a wonderful experience.
But probably not the same experience you had growing up.
Michael, first of all, tell me about your change in life because you were a bad dude.
Well, yeah, Glenn, I mean, I spent over 20 years on the street, and you know, my dad was the underboss of the Colombo family, one of the five New York mafia families.
So I grew up in the life, even though my dad initially didn't want me to be a member, he wanted me to go to school and be a doctor.
And I was on that road until he drew a 50-year prison sentence for a federal conviction that he had and went off to prison in 1970.
That's when things kind of changed for me.
And, you know, long story short, you know, to try to help him get out of jail, my dad proposed me for membership in the life, and I became a made member.
That's the term, in 1975 and started on that road.
But, you know, long story short, I mean, I became a major target of law enforcement.
I had, you know, seven indictments.
I went to trial five different times.
So I had a bullseye on my back from day one because my dad was that high-profile figure.
But, you know, it all happened for me when I met a young girl who was a young Christian girl.
She's now my wife of 38 years.
And I decided if I was, you know, if I wanted this girl in my life, I didn't want her to put through what every other family goes through of every member of that life.
And I had to make a decision whether to stay in or walk away.
And obviously I chose her, and it was a life-changing experience.
And that was, like I said, 38 years ago.
And I ended up, you know, doing eight years in prison.
I had a huge restitution for a plea that I took for a racketeering case.
And life just changed from that point.
So it wasn't easy.
It was a struggle, a challenge.
A lot of people were upset with me, but we made it through.
Good for you.
Good for you.
All right.
I want to talk to you about how, for some reason, Pat, who is filling in for Stu today, is really harping on, you know, okay, we know about Italian mob families.
Are there mob families and he's just pulled out of the air Irish for some reason?
I don't know if you know any Irish mob families.
But can you go ahead?
Yeah, in New York, you know, there was a crew there.
They were called the Westies.
And, you know, I was familiar with them.
We kind of worked with them at times.
A fellow by the name of Jimmy Coonin, who's now doing life in prison, was one of the leaders, and I was fairly close with him.
You know, and obviously in Ohio, there was another group.
Well, hang on just a second.
I mean, you were talking about the Westies, and then I think you said the Coons, and so that's W's and C's.
Is there anybody in the Bs?
Like, I don't know, when you look at the family of the Bidens, is that not a crime family?
You know, I got to tell you, Glenn, it's so hard for me to sit back and watch what's going on and wonder why this all hasn't been exposed.
The right questions aren't asked.
You know, I'll give you an example.
You know, it's always follow the money.
The money trail always leads to something.
And just so you know my background, I was, you know, I was indicted and pled guilty to, it was a racketeering case, but the underlying act was I was defrauding the government out of tax on every gallon of gasoline.
We devised a scheme.
I ran it for eight years where we were selling gasoline and just keeping the tax money.
And I had 18 shell companies, 18 of them.
They did nothing.
They had no brick and mortar.
They had no employees.
They had no service.
All we did was create a corporation so that we can open up a bank account.
And the money that flowed in there was all illegal money.
It was all tax money that we were taking from the government.
There was no other purpose for the company.
And that's exactly the same thing that the Bidens are doing.
There's no brick and mortar.
They provide no service.
There's nothing but a bank account in order to collect money.
It's been shown that there was, you know, I don't know, 100 and some odd suspicious activity reports from the banks, which is a dead giveaway that this money is bad money coming from someplace.
And, you know, I just hope it's exposed because, you know, Glenn, listen, I was a bad guy.
I took responsibility for what I did.
I walked away from a life that I knew was no good.
But to have a president in office that's doing these kind of things that was elected, you know, to provide for the welfare of the people and protect the country and basically is treasonous in my view.
And a lot of people share this view because I get around it.
People talk.
It's just unheard of.
I never heard of anything like that.
I happen to agree with you on that.
Let's just focus again on the shell corporations.
Every one of his children and seemingly grandchildren, I think, except for one, has the shell corporations.
And all of this money is going in.
And they don't, they have never even been asked.
But when you look at them, there is no reason that these shell corporations are getting money from Burisma, et cetera, et cetera.
So why isn't that a bigger deal?
Every reporter in every news conference should be asking this question until it gives an answer, and there is no answer.
That's why it cannot be answered.
There is no answer because it's an obvious situation for me.
And, you know, this whole idea that he's not collecting money directly.
Well, so I didn't collect money directly either.
But eventually it came to me.
You know, it's beyond my understanding why these questions are not being asked to him every single day.
This is absolutely ill.
I mean, there's no.
When you have the RICO statute, as I understand it, it is even for the thinking of the crime, is it not?
I mean, you don't actually have to, if you're selling the illusion, that's enough for the RICO statute to kick in, is it not?
Absolutely.
You know, when you have a conspiracy, you can sit down and talk about committing the crime, and the illusion would be something like that.
You don't have to commit the crime.
You just have to be talking about it.
You just have to be using that or letting people think that you're going to provide that service, even if you don't.
So if people are thinking that Biden is going to somehow, you know, use the power of his office, but never does, but you're leading people to believe that, that's a crime.
100% under the statute.
And listen, I've had three RICO statutes and defended two of them in court.
I understand it extremely well.
So there's no question.
So they would say that then that's just Hunter's crime.
Dad didn't know anything about it.
That's just Hunter's crime because you can't prove that Joe got any money whatsoever.
How would you answer that?
Well, let me ask you a question.
I'll set up a scenario.
Let's say I'm in a room and I'm having a meeting.
I'll do something foreign from what we're talking about.
We're in a room.
I'm having a meeting with somebody that wants me to be an executive producer on a film that they're creating, right?
And they're asking me, well, you know, why should I make you executive producer?
Can you help get this film done?
And I start to talk, and they're all of a sudden, oh, hold a second.
You know, my father's on the phone.
He's calling me.
Hey, Dad, how you doing?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The weather's great out here.
I'm just in a meeting talking with somebody.
Yeah, Dad, I'll talk to you soon.
I hang up the phone.
They say, well, what does your father do?
Well, he's the head of Universal Studios.
Oh, okay.
Let's continue our conversation.
What does that mean right there?
That means this guy now knows that I have the connection to get whatever I want done with you, so you're going to hire me.
It's the same thing that's going on there.
Biden doesn't have to say anything on the phone.
Just the fact that he calls in when you're sitting in the meeting with his son lets that person believe, okay, I have the power through this young man here I'm sitting with to get whatever I need done.
You know, it's unbelievable what's going on and that people don't see through this.
And they're not asking the right questions.
So I want to get to your right questions here in a second, but I want to first stop at Hunter Biden.
You know, you say you're in the room and, you know, he picks up his phone.
I can't imagine trusting somebody who you know is addicted to hookers, is addicted to crack cocaine, and you would think that that would make him a more reliable source because you can squeeze.
Would you have gotten into business when you were in the crime business?
Would you have gotten into business with Hunter Biden to get his dad?
And would it make it a bigger target or would it be less dependable?
We'll get to that here in just a second.
We are talking to Michael Franzis.
He was part of New York Colombo's Colombo crime family years ago and a changed man and kind of upset what's going on in the country.
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Capo from the crime family in New York.
He is the host of Sit Down with Michael Francis.
And we're talking about Joe and Hunter Biden and that crime family.
Michael, is his drug addiction and hooker addiction, does that make him a bigger target for mobs?
Well, you know, Glenn, it doesn't matter.
I mean, you know, he's irrelevant, but if he's the, you know, the way to get to his father, it didn't matter that he had a drug addiction or whatever, because nobody's using him for anything.
You know, he's just the conduit to his father.
And if he gives the illusion or he gives the reality that he can get to his father and get things done that the other person wants, it doesn't matter that he's because he's irrelevant, really.
He's just a conduit to his dad.
And look, my brother was a drug addict for 25 years, serious drug addict, but many people got to me through him because he was selling my ability to help somebody out for money.
You know, so I mean, it's so obvious, Glenn.
It really is.
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You know, Hunter has no skill.
There's nothing that he can provide.
The whole thing with him being on the barisma board for $83,000 a month, I mean, it's so obvious that he was just a conduit to his father.
And, you know, the reason that, in my opinion, the reason that Joe Biden always sticks up for his son, Hunter, is because Joe Biden is the one that's moving him all over the world to make these deals.
So he can't go against him.
You know, in reality, if this was true, I mean, look, like I said, I have a brother.
I have two sons.
If I was in a position and these kids were going around and causing me havoc like this, I mean, I lock him up or have him in a room or sit him down and say, you know, don't you dare go to any of these places and ruin my situation here or compromise me in any way.
But he allowed him to do this for years.
And not only him, but his brother and who knows, maybe other family members.
It's just so obvious, Glenn.
It really is.
It also makes it worse that he was traveling with his dad.
You come off of Air Force One or Air Force Two.
That is another signal that he's right in with his dad.
There's no way his dad didn't know this.
I mean, it's beyond my understanding how people don't understand that Joe Biden knew everything.
Of course he had conversations with his son.
He's riding in the same plane.
He's with him all the time.
Of course he's conversing and he's knowing what's going on.
And, you know, this whole sweetheart deal that Hunter got, I mean, come on, I was facing hundreds of years for tax evasion.
You don't get a slap on the wrist and you don't get a misdemeanor for tax evasion.
You don't.
And it doesn't take five years to investigate a case like this.
It's so obvious.
It really is.
And the fact that this man is up there and he's so dishonest and lies about it, you know, Joe Biden, it's terrible.
It really is.
We have to break here in about another minute and maybe a minute and a half.
But you said you think he's a traitor to his country.
I happen to believe that as well.
What else would you call it when you're taking money from the Chinese and another country that we're now going to, you know, possibly going to be in war with?
There's nothing else to call it.
It is what it is.
It's obvious.
You're taking money from the, you know, the Chinese Communist Party.
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What are you taking it for?
How could you be in bed with them, so to speak, and not be doing some devious business with them?
It's so obvious and it's frightening.
And I'll tell you, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, there's a time when you say, hey, my country first.
And if this guy's been doing this for years, how do we allow it to continue?
And look, I was a Trump supporter, I'll be honest with you.
But if Donald Trump was doing this, I'd say the same thing.
It's country first.
I would too.
You're here.
I would, too.
I was on the street for 20 years.
I was not an angel, but I still love my country.
You know, I have seven kids.
I have six grandkids.
I worry about what's going on here in the future for them.
And I just don't understand why people are not getting together and saying this man is not, he shouldn't be in office, period.
That's it.
Michael, hang on just a second.
If you can, I'd like to come back with more.
Michael Francis, he is a former mob boss.
His dad was ruthless when he was the head of the Colombo crime family.
Michael got out and turned his life around, as usually is the case when he met a good woman.
Back with more in a minute.
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We are talking to a world-famous mobster who has turned his life around.
He is the host of Sit Down with Michael Francis.
He was part of New York's Colombo crime family.
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He's a made man.
His father was the notorious leader of the crime family.
Like I said, he's changed his life, married a good woman, and turned his life over to God and has been on a good track for many, many, many, many years, 38 years married.
So, Michael, I want to lay out a, I just want to lay this scenario out.
And I don't think anybody is laying it out this way, but you tell me what this looks like.
So, Zelensky, I'm sorry, Kolomovsky, he is Ihor Kolomoyski.
He is the oligarch, really bad dude.
He beheads his opponents, okay?
Anybody who gets in the way, he is known to behead them.
So he hires Hunter Biden, and he's trying to get some access.
The dad comes over, Joe Biden, immediately after he's hired.
He gives a big speech about how we got to do more fracking.
We have to have more oil running through.
Now, this is the same guy that just three or four years later shuts down all of America's fracking and oil.
When Trump starts to fall on this trail, he calls Zelensky.
Now, Zelensky is a, he was a comedian on television.
And Kolomoyski is one of the big oligarchs that paid for his campaign to become president.
He becomes president.
President Trump calls him, says, hey, can you look into this stuff?
All of a sudden, all of this stuff is leaked about how Trump is trying to do tit for tat.
He's impeached and the whole thing kind of goes away.
Now, Joe Biden gets in, and shockingly, he and Zelensky are pals, and they're pals against this war against Russia.
But Zelensky is the only person I have ever seen that can go to the White House, not even Winston Churchill got this, can go to the White House and say, I want you to write more.
And he will write check after check after check, billions of dollars, none of it being tracked or accounted for.
And by the way, Kolomoyski, he just lost his citizenship because last year Zelensky said, you know what?
The United States is investigating him.
He's got to get out of here.
He's lost his citizenship.
That sounds like somebody being cut out of the deal because they think they can now.
Does that not sound like a huge money laundering system and blackmail bribery and everything else?
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, it's so obvious, Glenn.
It's so obvious.
First of all, what is Hunter Biden doing in bed with somebody like that when your father is a you know how do you not stop him from being involved with somebody like that?
Correct.
It's very simple because you're promoting it.
You're promoting it the same way he's been promoting Hunter all over the world to go out and make these relationships and collect money.
I mean, this is a racket.
And it's not only that, I mean, Hunter has given us the information.
He's sitting there talking on the phone with his father next to him, shaking people down.
This is extortion.
You go to jail for this for a long time.
And, you know, the Department of Justice is not investigating this.
They laid out this whole racketeering case.
It's as plain as day.
You know, just going back to your question about these companies, when you form a company, an LLC, a corporation, you do it for a purpose because you have a business.
That company has a function.
It's a business that you're going to provide a service to clients so they in turn pay you.
So the question is, what was the function that these companies performed in order to receive money from a client?
What was the service?
And if the case, what was his granddaughter?
What service was he providing for people overseas to collect this money?
The questions are not being asked, and they should be asked at every single time that you see this president, every time you're in the room with his spokesperson there, because they can't answer this.
There is no answer.
The only logical answer that's right in front of everybody's face is that he's collecting bad money for a service, and that service is he's selling his position.
The weaponization the weaponization of the government now to destroy Donald Trump.
When you were in the mob, things like that had to be, you know, you send people a message.
What is the message the government is trying to send, and who are they sending it to?
Donald Trump, the American people, all of us?
What is happening there?
You know what, Glenn, when I was on the street, look, I'll say this, and please understand where I'm coming from.
My dad, you know, spent a lot of years in that life and did a lot of bad things, no doubt.
So did I.
I went to jail for a crime that I was guilty of.
I pled guilty.
I did my time.
Okay, but there were times when the FBI stretched their, you know, their ability, and they committed crimes in order to catch us.
But you know what?
We were mobsters.
People look the other way.
Okay, we get it.
Sometimes the FBI had to do things like that.
But I always said, when you give the government an inch, they'll take a yard and they'll never give it back.
If you allow them to break the law to go after lawbreakers, eventually they're going to use that power against their enemies.
And that's exactly what they're doing now.
And they're so overt and so blatant about it, they don't even care.
They don't even care.
It's so obvious.
So, you know, I try to tell people, I make them aware, this is extremely dangerous.
It really is, because when you give the government the power to go after their enemies and weaponize them, pretty soon they'll use it against anybody they want to.
And look, they've been doing it with our social media companies, going, closing people down, stopping free speech.
This is terribly dangerous.
There is a really dangerous trend going on in this country, and people need to wake up to this, and they need to have it stopped.
You know, people even tell me, Michael, why are you so overtly talking about this?
Because, you know, next thing you know, they'll be coming after me.
But listen, I'm 72 years old.
You know, I ain't worried what they're going to do to me.
I have seven children.
I have six grandchildren.
This country is not the country that I grew up in.
And it's such a dramatic change that's going on that's so overt and so obvious.
I mean, this president, I'm telling you, Glenn, you know, somebody has to get him under control.
You know, look, and I'm going to take this a step further.
And please, I hope your audience doesn't get offended.
But, you know, I spoke to 850 Border Patrol agents, the state of Texas.
I did a whole seminar with them.
And then we hung out afterwards and we talked.
Some of the things that they were telling me about what's going on in the southern border.
And they said they're getting so little help from the federal government.
I mean, There's murder taking place over there.
People are dying.
The drugs that are coming over.
When you're president of the United States and you understand that 100,000 people a year are dying from fentanyl overdose and fentanyl poisoning, because there's often times that somebody will take an Adderall.
You know, kids take Adderalls to stay up at night so they can study.
You know, kids in college, I know my daughters did that.
But these Adderalls, some of them are being laced with fentanyl, that's poisoning.
That's not even an addiction.
If you know that this is going on in your country and you allow it to happen, you don't get this under control, what type of person are you?
I mean, we didn't do that on the street.
We didn't allow that.
We took care of our communities.
You know, we might have been bad guys, but we didn't allow crime to come into our neighborhoods and our communities.
This is just horrible stuff.
This is bad stuff.
I'm telling you.
So let's just pause for a second.
I don't know how much time you have, Michael.
Can you stay over the top of the hour?
Yeah, I'm here.
It's early morning where I am.
It's okay.
Okay, so let me ask you the follow-up question on the drugs.
Compare what's happening right now with fentanyl to the worst time in American history with drugs.
I remember the crack thing in the 80s and how bad drugs were in the 70s.
Compare what's happening because of our border policy to those times.
Well, it's just as bad or worse because I don't know if you realize what's going on in some of these cities now with Trank.
I mean, you live in L.A. You would not believe what's going on there.
You walk down the streets, you know, drug addicts and homeless people everywhere.
The same in Portland, Seattle.
I had a store in San Francisco, a pizza place.
We had to shut it down.
We had to shut it down because, you know, people hanging out.
We had hypodermic needles on the floor.
We had people defecating in front of the floor.
I can't even tell you the scene that's going on there.
So, you know, and look, this is a little bit personal for me.
I mean, I had a sister that died of an overdose of drugs.
My daughter's boyfriend, who did a lot of my video work, 24 years old, a terrific young man, took an Adderall that was laced with fentanyl in five minutes, Glenn, dropped dead in my house, in my house.
And he had no idea.
He was poisoned by this.
It was an Adderall that he took.
And a lot of these young people take these Adderalls.
I'm not saying they should.
I'm not suggesting that, but they do.
It keeps them awake and they study.
And this stuff is going on, and it's happening, and it's coming over the border in droves.
The agents told me they're not even getting 10% of the illegal drugs that are coming over our border.
This is straight from their mouth.
Not even 10%.
So what does that mean?
And this is going into neighborhoods and communities.
You know, I left, you know, the mayor of New York, who, you know, I had a little bit of high hope for when he came in.
It was a former police officer.
The mayor of New York comes in and he's complaining about homeless, about immigrants coming into, you know, to New York.
Well, go after your president.
He's the one that's allowing this.
Right.
It's not the people.
Right.
It's not the governor of the border states.
I mean, you're a sanctuary city.
You welcome them with open arms.
And now you complain.
Go after your president.
It's this administration.
It's Majorca's.
It's these people that are allowing this to happen.
And what's, you know, Glenn, maybe you can answer me.
What's the end game here?
Why are they doing this?
Why are they allowing these people to come in in droves?
You know, to me, it's destruction.
Well, yeah, I mean, what's the reason?
They're not humane.
We know they don't care about them.
That's for sure.
They don't want them in their neighborhoods.
But what's the end game?
There's something devious going on here.
They have a devious reason to allow this to happen.
Well, I mean, everything that, I mean, you can't, to me, Michael, you can't be this wrong and, you know, by happenstance.
I mean, everything they do leads to, one way or another, chaos, the destruction of values, and the destruction of everything that is American.
I mean, we are being impoverished through inflation.
We are being killed through, honestly, all this is, is the opium wars that the British did to the Chinese.
The Chinese learned from it, and they're doing it to us.
We are under attack inside and outside, and we are being destroyed.
And I'm sorry, you just can't be this wrong this many times and not have it be a coincidence.
You can't convince me that they're trying to make America a better place.
They're dismantling it every step of the way.
Michael, hang on just a second.
I want to take you one more step into, well, before we leave the border, to the drug cartels.
And maybe you have some insight on how bad those guys are.
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The Ruthlessness of Modern Cartels00:15:03
Michael Francis is with us.
He is the Dr. Phil, if you will, of organized crime for anybody who is a fan of organized crime movies, et cetera, et cetera.
Michael, the people we are now, and I believe we're dealing with, whether we're having sit-downs or not, we are empowering these drug cartels.
How bad are these drug cartels?
Can you compare them to anybody we've ever seen before?
Well, listen, they're a ruthless group.
There's no question about it.
You know, they have firm control over so much of what's going on in Mexico.
I know that for a fact.
And, you know, they are, they're certainly paving the way for a lot of these immigrants to come across our border and come into the United States.
I mean, I know that.
And everybody knows that.
I mean, Border Patrol knows that.
It's a fact.
And the government knows that.
And they're allowing it to happen.
And what are they getting in exchange?
They're not doing charity.
What are they getting in exchange for letting people go across the border and owe them?
Well, they're pouring drugs into this country.
There's no question about it.
Like I said earlier, you know, Border Patrol told me they're not even collecting 10% of the drugs that are coming across.
So that's one thing.
I mean, they're expanding their drug influence, I would say, here, here in the United States.
And I think that's obvious.
We see it's going on in the cities.
And there's also human trafficking going on.
You know, these cartels, they're very smart, Glenn.
Don't take anything away from them.
They know what they're doing.
We are talking to Michael Francis.
He's going to be with us.
He's a former capo for New York's Columbo crime family.
He is going to be at Robbins Theater in Warren, Ohio for the Ray Boomboo Mancini Foundation on the 9th of September.
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Welcome to the Glen Beck program.
It is Monday.
There is just a ton going on today.
Blinken made just an incredible statement this last weekend.
He's talking about the Russian prosecutors that have just put another 19 years on the sentence of Putin's main competitor, a guy that Putin has put into jail about nine years ago.
They just tried him again while he's in prison for being an extremist.
Wow, does that sound familiar?
And Blinken came out and said, the United States strongly condemns Russians' conviction of an opposition leader on politically motivated charges.
The Kremlin cannot silence the truth.
Really?
Really?
We are having a fascinating conversation, at least I think, with one of the guys who was head of the most notorious crime family in New York, Michael Francis.
He is a former capo of New York's Colombo crime family, host of Sit Down with Michael Francis.
He is the Dr. Phil of organized crime, a former made man, made millions and millions and millions and billions for the mob.
He became a born-again Christian, walked away from the life, changed his life entirely.
He's had some pretty incredible things to say.
He says that the Biden family is absolutely a mob family, and it is money laundering and should be tried on RICO charges.
He knows.
He has been tried three times on RICO charges.
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Let me start here by going back to how the crime family stuff works.
When they were doing their business deals, Michael, foreign companies that look like shell companies, they pass the money to a lawyer pass-through.
Then the money went to multiple family members, and none of the family members had anything to do with the deal.
For instance, Halley Biden.
How are they trying to explain that this is somehow or another legitimate?
Is there any way for this to happen and have it be legitimate?
Well, no.
And the answer there is they're not explaining it.
Nobody's asking them the question.
What service did Halley Biden provide in order to collect money from a client?
It's very simple.
You know, when you set up a company, whether it be an LLC or corporation, and you're selling a product or a service that that company provides to a client, you get paid for that.
Well, very simple.
What product or service were you selling, and why did you collect money for it?
It's so simple.
But these are shell companies that do nothing.
They have no employees.
There's no brick and mortar.
There's nothing behind it.
They don't even pay taxes.
I mean, that's right there.
They're not paying tax for whatever money they're collecting.
But nobody's asking these questions.
And it's just plain and simple, and they can't be answered.
They're saying, though, that none of this money is going to Joe Biden.
So he's not collecting any money off of this.
If you can't prove that, I mean, how does that happen in the mob world?
How does that happen?
Well, you know what?
It's simpler to prove this thanks to Hunter Biden and his laptop and his text messages and the fact that he's sitting with his father in the room talking to these people that are sending him money.
You don't have, look, I never collected any of the money that came to me when we were defrauding the government out of tax on every gallon of gasoline.
The money didn't come directly to me, but I was the force behind it.
I was the one that put all of this together.
It doesn't have to go directly to that person.
But look, Hunter Biden said this also.
You know, he had a conversation, I believe, with his daughter or something.
He said, you know, I'm paying half my father's bills.
Basically, that's what he said.
So, you know, Joe Biden was certainly benefiting from this.
So how does, like, for instance, when the money wasn't coming to you.
Go ahead.
Yeah, it's so simple.
All the government has to do is ask the right questions.
If the Department of Justice wants to investigate this, it's laid out.
It's all there in front of them.
Because if you put this in front of a jury and ask these questions, there's no logical answer.
It's so obvious.
So what are the right questions to ask then?
What are the questions that everybody needs to demand answers to?
Again, you formed these companies.
What was the purpose?
What company, what function rather, did these companies serve?
Did they sell a product or did they sell a service?
And if they did, what was the product and what was the service and why were you paid for that?
Those questions, I guarantee, cannot be answered.
Because Hunter Biden certainly, a crackhead and all his issues, was not providing any service to Burisma or to anyone else or to the Chinese Communist Party.
I mean, he basically shook them down.
It was extortion.
He shook them down in a phone call with his father sitting next to him.
I mean, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand what went on there.
You know, they cannot answer these questions.
And, you know, they don't have to.
And, you know, what bothers me is that Joe Biden, he laughs at this.
Like, you're not going to get any.
You know, he just has that attitude.
So is that arrogance, Michael, or is that incompetence?
I mean, why are they so out in the open with everything?
Well, it's arrogance because he controls the Department of Justice, and obviously, you know, our Attorney General is not going to prosecute him.
So he understands that.
He's not worried, at least at this point, unless the heat becomes so hot that everybody starts to demand, hey, what's going on here?
This is my country, and you're selling us out.
And then people from both sides, you know, start to say, this is wrong.
And, you know, the laughing part of it, I think, is, yeah, I mean, I just don't understand that.
I really don't.
It's mocking us.
So, Michael, can I ask you to talk directly to people who are in the Department of Justice who might be afraid?
I mean, there's a lot of fear connected with this.
You are a guy who was in the crime families and left, and you have talked about an awful lot of stuff.
Give somebody courage that is in a position to know something to go and speak out.
Because, quite honestly, this is the kind of stuff that happens in movies that get you killed.
There's no question.
And look, you know, you have to applaud this people there that are courageous, that do have a conscience, that do want to do their job.
I mean, these whistleblowers, what do they have to gain?
I mean, they become a target for a hostile Justice Department, you know, to come out and tell the truth that they were shut down with these investigations.
Because, you know, look, the trail that they were on, they were going to uncover what was going on here, this influence peddling.
There's no doubt about it.
But it bothered them.
At least that's how I see it.
And they came out and they told the truth, what was going on.
You know, and again, you know, some of the people, I was looking at some of the answers.
I mean, some of the answers that, you know, some of our Democrats were given about Trump.
You know, that, well, don't you see this as an attempt to shut down Trump during his campaigning?
And they come out and say, well, no, because a grand jury indicted him.
And, you know, that's laughable.
Anybody knows.
Anybody that's been involved in this system knows that a grand jury goes wherever a prosecutor leads them.
You know, the famous line, a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich is so true.
So you don't have a chance to defend yourself in front of a grand jury.
You're not there.
You're not giving your side of the story.
You're not producing any evidence on your end.
It's all the prosecution's idea of what they want to present to the grand jury.
So for them to give these answers is just so, it's just so wrong.
You know, it's so wrong.
What's going on?
It really is.
Michael, I want to take you from something so heavy to just a film because I'm just curious.
One of my favorite mob movies is A Bronx Tale.
And I don't know if that's complete, you know, if it was like that or anything else.
What is the most accurate mob movie that you've ever seen?
Well, let me just tell you, you know, Bronx Hale, I love that movie.
Chas Pomateri is a very dear friend of mine.
He just killed the role of Sonny.
He was terrific in that movie.
And, you know, it was his story.
So in that regard, it was accurate.
And the way he portrayed that character was very accurate.
But I will tell you this.
This is probably going to throw you a little bit.
The most accurate mob movie that was ever done was the 1996 HBO Gotti movie that starred Armand Desante and Anthony Quinn.
If you haven't seen it, Glenn, you can go on YouTube and you can watch it.
It was extremely well done.
Yeah, and much of it came off of the surveillance tapes and everything that were on Gotti at the time.
It was just a brilliant movie.
There is a scene in there with Anthony Quinn when he is talking to John Gotti.
John almost got killed because he killed an eight guy and he wasn't allowed to do that.
It gave me the chills.
It was so well done.
So I say that's number one.
And then obviously, you know, Goodfellows was terrific and Donnie Brasco was terrific.
They were very accurate.
Yeah, well done.
Have you seen another one?
Have you seen the offer, the making of The Godfather?
It's called The Offer.
I saw it and I thought it was brilliant.
The Godfather Controversy00:04:18
Now, that was my era.
I was very close with Joe Colombo.
I knew everything that was going on during that time with The Godfather.
It was pretty accurate, and it was brilliantly done.
It really was.
It was terrific.
Do you think that's the way it happened?
Well, you know, there was some, I mean, they took some dramatic liberty, but I will tell you this.
It was seen through the eyes of, oh God, what's his name?
The producer.
And he did come.
Yeah, he came to meetings during the Italian American Civil Rights League at the Park Sheridan Hotel.
We were there.
Al Ruddy.
He did come to the meeting.
Joe Colombo, he did shut down the word mafia from the script.
He did cause a strike when, you know, early on when things weren't going well.
So all those things are accurate.
Do you know if the thing that killed me was when the guy who was going to lease the house for the shots of the Don's house in Godfather, and Colombo, I think, picks the guy up and is working him over.
And the producer of The Godfather is called in, and he's just sitting there in horror, like, what are you doing?
Do you know if that happened?
I can't verify that.
I don't know if that was true or not, but I do know that there was some controversy over the house.
I don't know if they had to go that far with the owner, but there was some controversy, yes.
Michael, thank you so much.
I really appreciate it.
Your family, I mean, your crime family, that's the same crime family, right, that your dad oversaw after Columbo died?
Yeah, well, my dad was the underboss.
Wow.
So that's the second in command.
And then my dad went to prison for a number of years.
And then when he came out, he was the underboss again.
So he had a lot of control there.
When he died, because he just died a couple of years ago, and he was over 100, I think.
He was 130.
How do you feel about your dad?
How do you put that all in order in your head?
Well, you know, Glenn, I grew up really loving my dad.
I mean, he was a good father in spite of everything else.
But, you know, he didn't want the life for me.
He wanted me to be a doctor, go to school.
He taught me a lot of good things, believe it or not.
You know, he taught me to be respectful to people and to have integrity.
I know that sounds crazy, but he did.
And he taught me a lot of good things.
When I walked away from the life, he was extremely upset with me.
And, you know, the main reason everybody thought I was going to start cooperating with the government and put people in jail, but that's not what I wanted to do.
I just wanted out of the life, so I didn't do that.
And we didn't speak for about 10 years, but then we patched it up.
And he understood what I did.
Because, you know, Glenn, I'll tell you this.
One of the mafia life, the gang life, they're evil lifestyles.
And the reason I say this, I'm not calling all the guys evil.
That would be unfair.
There were a lot of guys that were not evil.
I was one of them.
But the lifestyle is evil because I don't know any family of any member of that life that hasn't been totally devastated, including my own.
And not my wife and children.
It's the reason I walked away.
But, you know, my mom, she died in 2012, 33 years without her husband.
At the end of her relationship with my dad, I can only call it ugly because she blamed him for everything that went wrong in her life.
And rightfully so.
And, you know, I had a sister who dies of an overdose of drugs at 27.
My brother's a drug addict 25 years.
I can't even begin to tell you what horror that caused the family, and me in particular.
I had another younger sister who died at the age of 41, and my dad does 40 years in prison.
And every family of every member that I know has the same story, something similar.
So any lifestyle that does that to a family is no good.
And that's why I walked away.
I wasn't going to do that to the young girl that I married.
Family Trauma and Systemic Failure00:03:05
It's funny.
Listening to you, what you just said about how destructive it is to the family, you could say that about what's happening in America today.
Our kids are drawing of drug overdoses.
Our kids and our families are being destroyed by all of this.
Everybody's blaming each other.
I mean, we are being run by a crime family.
Michael, thank you so much.
God bless.
And hope to finally meet you someday.
You're fascinating.
Guys, Gwen, listen, keep up the great work, man.
We need your voice out there.
So I've been supporting you for years.
Keep it up, man.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
Michael Francis, former capo of New York's Colombo crime family and the host of Sit Down with Michael Francis.
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One, they don't think anything will come of it.
You know, we've worn through the cycle of Clinton and then Trump, and it just doesn't go anywhere.
It doesn't go anywhere.
So I think people are just kind of tired of that.
But it scares me that they will let this one pass.
Overcoming Impeachment Burnout00:02:10
Yeah, me too.
We've got to overcome the impeachment burnout because this is a guy that deserves it.
If anybody in the history of our nation did.
And it's becoming more clear every single day it needs to happen.
It's going to be interesting to see if the Republicans have the giblets to make it happen, though.
Well, when you look at Mitch McConnell, he's the leader in the Senate.
He doesn't have any desire to expose people taking money from China because he's been doing it for years.
Yep.
Fortunately, the impeachment process, though, starts in the House, and you could at least do that.
They could at least get that done.
Yeah.
And then put the pressure on the Senate.
Let's see what happens.
Yes.
Yes.
And Mitch McConnell was not necessarily warmly received.
We played some audio.
We played some audio for you just about an hour ago.
I got to play it again because it's pretty astounding.
But the McConnell people are now coming out and saying, no, no, no, that was the Democrats saying that.
Really?
Because if I were there, I would have been saying it too.
Yep.
And I'm not a Democrat.
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I'm going to go to Cut18 here because this is just a reminder.
Last week, we told you what was happening with the South African black party where they packed about 80,000 people into a stadium and then started singing this.
yeah shoot to kill Shoot to kill.
Kill the poor, the farmer.
Kill the farmer.
Kill the boar.
The white farmer.
That is a great catchy tune.
I was singing it all week.
It's got a great beat.
Easy to dance to.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I like the, you know, especially when you can really jiggle the brrr.
And it just is great.
Also sounds like a machine gun a little bit, so it reminds you what the words are.
Kill the white farmer.
Now, let us bring you some additional good news from South Africa.
Cut 11, please.
Now, this is a helicopter going over a road with a line of cars, it seems.
What's happening here, Pat?
I some sort of traffic jam.
You see all the crosses on the side of the road?
Those supposedly all represent white farmers who've been killed.
Huh.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
And, well, you would think they would have fought back.
I mean, you have somebody that's chanting kill the white farmer, and they've got a lot of political power.
Why aren't these farmers fighting back?
I mean, it couldn't be gun confiscation, could it?
Well, no.
Yeah.
I mean, it could be a part.
It could be.
It could have something to do with it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But, you know, I hate to blame government intervention in the lives of people for anything, you know.
Yeah.
Or just people telling everybody to kill white people.
You know, it was pretty bad when white people were saying that about black people.
Yeah.
You know?
But now this is just payment.
We should stop.
It's just payback.
It's fair play.
Oh, it is?
Sure.
Sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Payback is hell, right?
It is.
Or a bitch.
Yeah.
Or a bitch.
Oh, I think that's what it is in the scriptures.
It's payback is a bitch.
Thou payeth back is bitching.
Something like that.
It's close.
That's close.
Yeah, yeah.
I think it might be that payback is closer to hell, meaning that payback is evil.
And maybe it shouldn't happen.
Now, let's go to some common sense here and some clean thinking.
Pat, when I tell you gas prices are up, why do you think gas prices are up?
I mean, immediately jump to Vladimir Putin's price hike for one thing.
Price hike.
Okay.
Yeah.
The Vladimir Putin price hike.
And the other thing I would say is global warming.
Oh, my gosh.
You've been watching CNN.
Listen to this.
Blaming the heat wave, the climate crisis for the nine-month high gas prices.
And while we are just roasting in this heat, there's also an impact from the sun on our wallets.
CNN's Matt even explains.
No.
Victor and Amara, here's an unexpected consequence of this summer's historic heat wave.
It's making life more expensive for drivers.
Extreme heat is actually increasing the price of gasoline, which has surged to nine months.
Here's why.
Refineries, much like humans, can't handle persistently sweltering temperatures.
These are complex facilities that turn crude oil into gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel.
And they start to break down in triple-digit heat.
Some refineries have to limit how much gasoline they're churning out.
It's not just when it's needed the most.
Wow.
Analysts tell me that.
Can we just stop for a second?
And let me just ask you.
Those refineries, too, they have problems.
And I don't think the fact that we haven't built a new refinery since the 1970s has anything to do with those things breaking down, do you?
No.
No.
Because if you built one recently, it would just break down anyway.
So it wouldn't.
It'll break down.
Right?
Yeah.
Just like they did in the 70s, right?
And they're just not made for that kind of heat.
That's why gas prices are so high in Saudi Arabia.
Because it's so hot over there.
Oh, yeah.
And they just can't make the fuel.
That's why you pay like 10 cents a gallon over there.
It should be one.
But because of global warming, it's almost 10.
Maybe this is a stupid question, but do they not have air conditioning at these refineries?
Because I would think inside the plant, it's not quite as hot as outside the plant.
No, this is complicated machinery.
It's not about men.
It's about algorithms and machines.
It's very complex.
Are you a refinery engineer?
I'm not.
No, I'm not.
Okay, there you go.
You're not an expert in it.
So let's just move on.
It's global warming.
You know, at least with Vladimir Putin, it was closer to the truth.
You know what I mean?
It wasn't Vladimir Putin.
It was us doing that to Vladimir Putin that caused everything to go up and us shutting down all of our pipelines and everything else.
But at least Vladimir Putin was somewhere near it.
Global warming is causing the gas price to go up this month?
Come on.
Wow.
Oh, my gosh.
Okay.
Here is something I just heard about in one of the mountain states.
I won't name which.
But I do know that in one of the mountain states, there's some construction going on, massive construction.
And of course, it's not paid for by your tax dollars.
It is Joe Biden's relief, okay?
And you have to put a sign up that said this project was approved by Joe Biden.
And it's my understanding that not only is there a sign, but if you don't keep the sign there, if you don't put it up, there are inspections from the federal government and they inspect to make sure that signage is up.
And if that signage is not up, you lose your funding.
That is unbelievable.
Wow.
Here's another CNN report about the Biden administration and signs at construction sites.
And so now this effort by the White House to put the Biden administration's name out and signs, particularly at road projects, to remind people this is, you know, this is part of this administration.
This is who to credit.
Do you think this is going to make a big difference?
Oh, I do think, just like with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act during the Obama years, making sure that we label the infrastructure investments and the Wi-Fi investments and the super fund cleanup and all of the investments that are being made, the jobs that are being brought back from overseas, the supercomputers that are going to be built as a result of chips being manufactured here.
All of that has to be communicated very visibly and also comprehensively.
And actually stop, stop, stop.
Pat, I think I want a new jingle made for Biden's war.
Something that will remind people that Biden got us into Ukraine, his incompetence.
Maybe we do a jingle about how many people died in Afghanistan because that was clearly his too.
I think she's right.
Clearly reminding people for who's responsible.
You know, high gas prices.
Yeah.
I think we need to make some.
I can't do a sign because I'm on radio and podcast, but I suppose I could make jingles for that.
If anybody would like to, you know, suggest any lyrics for a jingle, that would be good.
Remember, it has to be catchy.
Something about Joe Biden's war and Ukraine.
And maybe even Joe Biden's inflation would be something we should help this administration.
Bidenomics should be in it.
Yeah.
Bidenomics.
It's Bidenomics.
Yeah.
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I like that.
I like that.
Paying too much at the grocery store.
It's Bidenomics.
I like it.
I like it.
Real quick, I saw this.
I saw this and I at first I thought, what the heck is going on?
Do you remember the, what was it?
It wasn't the land of the lost where the people were really, really small and land of the giants.
Do you remember that?
Vaguely.
Vaguely.
Oh my gosh, really?
Land of the Giants, earthlings went someplace, I don't remember where, and they were surrounded by giants.
And so they were always by like a pencil, and it would just be a giant prop of a pencil, and they'll be standing next to it.
I felt that way when I saw this.
I'll describe it, but I want to show it to you on Blaze TV.
Please play, what is it, Cut Six?
You want to describe that?
Wow.
The tire is bigger than this guy's whole body.
That's how you get inside.
No, the wheel.
His head doesn't even make it to the top of the tire.
His head is at the top of the wheel.
He couldn't even reach the door handle to get inside this thing.
No, you can't even reach the top of the door.
You can't even touch the bottom of the door.
So you mount this hummer from the bottom, and it's an apartment inside.
How cool.
Okay.
And it's a huge.
Okay.
Wow.
But wait, there's more.
Watch what she's about to do.
She's about to sit down.
And you know, where is your driving position?
You drive this thing from here.
Look at that.
She got into the one.
You can actually drive it.
34.
My gosh.
Look at that.
You're driving like an apartment building.
Yeah.
Wow.
It's a house.
It's a giant house.
And not like, oh, it's a, you know, it's a trailer.
No, it's a giant house built to look like a hummer.
And it actually runs.
It's got big, giant tires.
I mean, it's crazy.
What did that thing do?
He is standing.
I don't know.
He's, you know, where the kickboard comes out or the step comes out when you open up a door of a big, you know, his head is where that board would come out underneath the door.
That's how tall this thing is.
It's incredible.
Wow.
A house-sized hummer.
That's impressive.
Four years to make.
Four years to make.
Where is this?
Do you know where that's located?
You know, I don't.
I mean, in America, it's either America or it's like Dubai because only America and Dubai do things like that.
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You sick, twisted freak.
Well, Welcome to the program.
So the Humvee we were just talking about, we did a little more research on it, like it matters, but it is out of Dubai.
And they say the tires are $25,000 a piece, but I don't think that that's much different, honestly, than a Bugatti.
I think doesn't the Bugatti, you can only, I can't remember how long it can run at high speeds, but you have to change the tires after a very short period of time if you're at high speeds.
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And then you have to replace the wheels.
And I think the wheels are, I think that's 25 grand or something like that, because the wheels, the traction is so, the force on those tires and the wheels that it will actually snap the wheels off.
So the wheels are too damaged to use.
I think it's after like three runs.
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
Yeah, the $3 to $4 million initial price tag is just the beginning on those kinds of cars.
You never think, hey, the maintenance is going to kill me.
Of course, I guess if you have a $4 million car, you're going to be okay with that, right?
That's like trying to buy the White House and going, what does it cost to mow the lawn?
What are the utilities?
You probably shouldn't.
If you're worried about the utilities, you probably shouldn't buy it.
Probably not.
Yeah, so we got that going for us.
What else have we not hit?
The weekend box office is kind of interesting.
Did you know Sound of Freedom is still top six?
It was number six this past weekend.
It just brought in another $7 million, and it's still ahead of Mission Impossible, which is still ahead of Mission Impossible.
In overall money?
Yeah.
Sound of Freedom is about $12 million ahead of it.
It's been out a week longer, but it's not going to make up $12 million in a week.
It is $12 million.
Yeah, it's way ahead.
I mean, that is, think of how much money Mission Impossible costs.
Just think how much the insurance on Tom Cruise is every time he makes a movie.
Right.
Oh, my gosh.
And that was like a $15 or $17 million movie to make.
How much is this total now?
$163,473.
Unbelievable.
If that doesn't tell you where Americans are, that thing is being panned everywhere.
It has fewer theaters by far, not even being shown in some cities.