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Well, it's already started.
Criminal investigation.
In fact, some of these visits, I don't know if it goes far as to call them raids, but the big breaking news breaking wide open yesterday out of Minnesota will have the latest on the Somali fraud scheme with the Democrats, as somebody called it, the welfare, Somali welfare pilots.
Give you the details on that.
Coming up, plus we had the trouble with Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago yesterday, the president talking about the first strike on Venezuela on the ground.
Well, that's a big story we'll share as well.
And yesterday, some big news out of Iran after we discussed that very subject on this program.
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Well, it sure has been a whiplash weekend, I think, for some of those folks enjoying the fraud in Minnesota.
I mean, on one hand, one minute you're like on a yacht somewhere, probably soaking up the sun.
You know, millions of dollars from running daycares that don't even have kids in them.
To next, you've got the Feds knocking on your door.
And that is apparently what is happening this morning.
There's been a lot of fallout from this.
Like I said, want to talk about that this morning.
We've got the Iran developments since yesterday's show, and we've got the first strike on Venezuelan soil, sort of.
We'll explain that story to President Trump talking about it yesterday in a moment as well.
But first, this morning, I think earlier today, or maybe it was yesterday, we got the news that the raids, if you want to call them that, have begun, so to speak.
That's good senior.
Yeah, so ICE has been on the ground in Minnesota for a while now looking at these fraud claims.
And one thing now the Homeland Security Investigation Special Agents are looking into is just that you said that money trail of where this money is going to foreign aid.
You know, obviously look at any type of links to any criminal activity, obviously terrorism activity.
You know, and one thing you will see is that ICE is actually out there going with criminal warrants to conduct these investigations.
So all too often you hear that ICE is just out there terrorizing the community or conducting administrative work.
We've been on the ground in Minnesota conducting criminal investigations, and Homeland Security Investigations has gone door to door to largely suspected fraud sites all over St. Paul and Minnesota, and we're learning a lot.
We've already seen some of the footage coming out where they've gone into buildings, businesses, and they're doing some of this investigation, just starting to have these conversations.
They've been making progress, I guess, even before we heard about this.
It's some of the way these things work.
You don't always get all of the news and the headlines, the updates immediately.
But Title Lines, ICE Director saying, they've been on the ground, they've been looking into it, and they've got folks.
Homeland Security is what it looks like.
And some of the uniforms I'm seeing, of course, that covers ICE covers a lot of territory.
But that is some of the breaking news and developments coming out of that story.
They claim they're going to do some more door-to-door checks in some of these cases in these places.
In fact, there's more on the media how they've covered it.
We're going to talk about that a little bit as well.
But, you know, it's interesting to note.
The story kind of comes out of nowhere.
And then you find out, yes, they've known about it.
In fact, this fraud they've known about for years.
When I say they, the state of Minnesota has known about it for years.
The federal government has known about it for years.
And it's now really coming to, I think, a boiling point where you're really starting to get people probably disgusted more than anything else when you start putting the numbers together.
This type of thing doesn't happen if it's not for Elon and Doge.
It doesn't happen if it's not for President Trump saying we're going to clean this stuff up.
It definitely doesn't happen if it's not for Nick Shirley, the citizen journalist, the kid.
I mean, I don't mean that in a disrespectful way.
In fact, I mean that in a very respectful way.
This guy is like in his 20s, takes the camera out, knocks on doors, does what the network's seemingly mainstream media folks are unwilling to do.
Incredible.
And it certainly doesn't see the light of day without X and without talk radio and programs like Glenn Beck obviously bringing you the stories that you just aren't going to get if you're watching Lester and the nightly news or the today's show or whatever.
Now, Anderson, Anderson Cooper over on CNN.
Whatever, whatever it is, you're just not going to get it.
You wonder why these people in cahoots.
In fact, there is some thought to the process.
One of the reasons Kamala and or the people behind Kamala picked Tim Wallace to run with her is they wanted to include the billions of dollars in fraud with the seemingly the Somali plan here to siphon off of.
How do these people, Ilhan Omar, another one, $30 million all of a sudden net worth skyrockets through the, how do these people come about all this?
Where does it come from?
This is no secret.
Look, you and I have understood how this corruption works for a long time.
I understand I'm preaching to the choir, but I have to say some of these things in hopes that maybe somebody's tuned in or they're listening or maybe somebody's on the edge of waking up.
Feds conduct door-to-door checks at suspected Minneapolis fraud sites.
The American people obviously deserve answers on how this money is being used.
And there ought to be arrests.
In fact, there have already been several.
I've got the stat on this.
I'll clarify it and get it to you in a little bit.
But I believe there's already been multiple arrests on this scenario as the investigations continue.
Homeland Security agents on the ground in Minneapolis Monday conducting those door-to-door checks, suspected fraud sites.
Authorities examine the alleged involvement of Somali immigrants in a broader criminal scheme.
This report says Daily Wire.
The Department of Homeland Security posted a video showing two agents entering a convenience store where they asked the clerk about a suspicious business next door.
Last week, obviously we know that 42-minute video coming down from Nick Shirley prompting a lot of this, but they have been, they have been behind the scenes, they've been doing some of this already.
And here's that video.
You get the guys or the gal behind the counters like, yeah, I don't really know much.
It looks like a kind of a party store, a liquor store.
Do you know when the last time someone's been there?
I see it's locked up and closed.
Have you seen anybody come and go from there?
Yes.
Yesterday I was working in Gordon.
I wore on.
So yesterday I was not here.
So I'm not sure what to do.
I know nothing.
She's like, I'm not around.
I see that camera.
I'm sure they're getting a lot of this.
And imagine what these guys have to put up with.
But the boots on the ground, so to speak, and the actual investigations are underway.
But that's a very good question.
He said, we see over here, we got this business, but when was the last time you saw people in and out?
They want to find out because they're supposed to be getting multiple thousands of dollars per head per kid.
And we got some of these that claim to have over 100K.
And there's just, it's crickets.
There's nobody there.
Whether it's these guys go knock on the door or Nick Shirley or someone else.
And I did mention the media.
The local media is starting to eventually, they had to get into this, but now they're starting finally, finally to dig in.
And We're getting, in fact, some of the reporting and maybe some of the best afternoon coming down from some of the local folks who say, well, you know, I guess we've got to get in on this.
By the way, is that one place we told you about yesterday with the misspelled sign, the quality layering, supposed to be learning center?
They misspelled the sign.
Is it open or closed?
Here's one of the local reporters on that subject, and there's still a lot of question about whether it is or not.
Everyone seems to be talking about the viral video by YouTuber Nick Shirley visiting Somali-run daycares in Minnesota that receive millions in taxpayer money and showing a lack of kids present.
Well, I have a strange twist for you.
The daycare that's getting the most attention from Shirley's video is the Quality Learning Center, misspelled as Quality Luring Center.
While answering questions today, the state commissioner in charge of licensing daycares claimed that the Quality Learning Center permanently closed one week ago, which would have been before Shirley filmed his video.
Listen.
I will share that our team was notified that Quality Learning Center closed just over a week ago.
And I believe the details that were given at that time were around space concerns.
And that's what was shared.
But after that press conference, we went back to the Quality Learning Center and vans were dropping off dozens of children.
Parents and a manager told us the daycare is open and is legitimate.
We saw state inspectors leaving and we hope to find out by the end of the week if they made any new findings.
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Closed, open, open, closed.
Nobody there all of a sudden.
By the way, this is the new story.
There was nobody there the other day.
Now all of a sudden they got like van fulls, carfuls of people.
They're trucking kids in because they're like, wow, we've got to make it look like we're open for business here and get rid of these folks who have stumbled on to this whole scenario.
In fact, part of the scheme, from what I understand, is we're seeing reporting on this, is that parents would actually bring their kids in some cases to these places.
They would check them in for the day and then they would take them home.
And in some cases, we're hearing reports that they were actually handed envelopes.
The parents were.
Sort of their take for being in on the whole thing.
Let us use your kids for a little bit, as it were.
You know, that's not that the kids ever got watched there where there was never really a daycare happening.
But at the end of the day, what they were doing is they were using the kids on a list so that if any of this did pop up, they'd be able to say, well, no, look, here are the kids we're watching.
Here are our clients.
These are the folks who we're talking with.
And again, these are just some of the reports coming.
Now, how is because largely they've been quiet on it.
How are they handling?
Much like you would think anyway, the mainstream media, much like you would think, handling this in much the same way you would imagine.
It is kind of funny to watch because it's just as predictable as normal.
Can you imagine?
Oh, and what does Tim Wall say about it?
You imagine what that might be?
It's like all the normal playbook stuff and maybe something new.
By the way, we'll share that with you coming up in just moments.
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But we're just getting things started.
And man, oh man, strap in.
It's going to be a big one.
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What MSDNC13 is saying about all this stuff.
The Somali, the Somali welfare pirate scheme.
Now, I can't take credit for that.
Somebody emailed me this yesterday, and I got to give full credit where credit is due.
So I am all in on the pirate jokes now.
I think we're going to start using them in full force.
You're going to hear some walking the plank.
I think you might hear, because I mean, we have to.
You know, you can't, obviously, you know, this is a very serious subject, but you got to learn to laugh at certain things.
And I think it drives it home, makes it the absurdity of it makes it, I think it makes it even better.
So R.
Now, maybe that's going too far.
Are you ready for what MSDNC 13 said about it?
First, I want to get to this.
This is a rundown from a guy on X who's kind of cataloged the response from media in a very detailed way.
And I really like what he's laid out here.
So it shows you how it's been covered and who's covered it.
By the way, the other thing I should probably mention here, it's not just, and I told you yesterday, it's not just Minnesota.
They are now starting to come up with, and we're getting reports already from places all over the country.
In fact, we've heard some reports from Maine.
We've heard some reports from Ohio.
And it continues.
All of this continues to unfold.
So keep that in mind.
All right.
So what else?
What's the coverage on this been like?
If you're going to take a look at across the board, what are they doing?
The legacy media, anyway.
They didn't just miss the story Drew Holden writes on X.
They actively dismissed it as made up, racist, or xenophobic, again, straight out of the playbook.
Before the stories are quietly edited, he said, I've got some screenshots and he shares.
I can't believe this is real.
But the AP basically did the Somalians founding America meme as a straight reported piece on how beneficial the community has been in Minnesota.
Where would America be, the headline says, without us?
A community of refugees is stunned by White House limits.
I just, you can't make some of this stuff up.
It is right out of the blueprint.
Minnesota, here's another one from CNN.
Minnesota Somalis are as Minnesotan as Tater-Tot Hot Dish.
Here's another one from MSNOW or SNOW or MSDNC13, whatever we're calling it today.
Trump's targeting of Somali Americans is having an effect in Minneapolis.
Businesses say foot traffic is down in certain neighborhoods while some residents are carrying passports with them at all times.
Again, making some of the folks, obviously the criminals in this case, the victims.
Trump's attempt to combat fraud is depicted by NBC News as xenophobic.
No mention of the multi-billion dollar scam the community was perpetrating.
PBS writing, Trump threats raise fears in Minnesota's Somali community.
So it goes on and on and on.
It's exactly what you think it would be.
Now here's MSD and C13 broadcasting to all of America or the couple of people, the handful that watched that Somalian fraud.
Made up, they say, made up.
All of this made up the story made up by Donald Trump.
Funds that were meant to go to help feed hungry people during the COVID pandemic to help keep people in their homes who are at risk of homelessness.
So first of all, if there is fraud there, that should be fully investigated, no matter where it is, whether it's in a Democratic-led state, a Republican-led state.
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I mean, let's pull back.
So absolutely, it should be investigated.
You ever notice these people have the same sort of cadence?
They all have the same sort of like way that they talk and how that they lead you in the conversation, like they want you to just agree with everything that they're saying.
They kind of nod and bob their head.
And it's like, you got to agree with me, right?
We're on a cult together, right?
This is how this works, right?
Just incredible.
By the way, if there's a government program, there's fraud in every single program.
That's just how it works.
More on this and the blaming of Trump on the way out of MSDNC13.
And I want to get to, of course, the latest, that first strike on Venezuelan soil, sort of, coming up in just moments.
And what's so important in all of this that we can't lose traffic of?
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Well, here it is, obviously clear.
I mean, it's plain as day.
All of this Somali pirate fraud is Trump's fault.
So absolutely, it should be investigated.
The question is, you know, why is this a priority in a different kind of way?
It's $9 billion, ma'am.
The politicization of the DOJ and the FBI is undeniable.
That's why this is happening.
See, it's Trump's politicized the DOJ and the FBI going after $9 billion in fraud.
Now, when they raided Melania's unmentionables drawer down in Mar-a-Lago, that was above the bar.
That was totally fine.
This going after this $9 billion alone that we know of in Minnesota.
Well, this is just a bridge too far.
So whether they are reliable narrators is the big question.
And this is what happens when you weaponize and politicize federal agencies that are not meant to be politicized.
And I think the American people are right to ask the question, well, can we trust you?
And that's a sad thing.
Oh, it's so sad.
It's just so sad.
It's just, you can't even make it out.
Involved in some way.
Those people are being scapegoated in that community.
The criminals are being scapegoated, folks.
That's what MS DNC 13 is.
They're being scapegoated in a way that certainly serves the far right.
Oh, it's the far right.
It's Trump in the far right.
You're the problem, folks.
You are the problem.
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And that was from Morning Joe.
I guess that must have been, was that yesterday?
It doesn't matter.
It could be any day.
And it's like a broken clap, right?
Anyway, that's how they operate there.
So you've seen several different responses now.
Local media in Minnesota finally starting to pick it up.
But I guarantee you're going to see the same sort of pattern, which is, oh, and by the way, it's racist, xenophobic, amongst some of the other things.
So that's how they're dealing with it.
Why does it matter?
Because all of this, all of it shows the pattern of the blueprint, really the playbook of how Democrats operate, corruption.
And unfortunately, all of this, when it comes to you and I being on the hook, you got, you got, look, people can't afford child care, you and I, Americans.
And here we are.
We got the government spending billions in this fraud with Somalis.
They don't even have any kids at any of these daycare centers.
And all of this should make us upset.
But we need accountability.
There needs to be arrests, and we ought to see it.
In fact, we already see, we've just heard Director Vice criminal investigations are on the ground.
They're already, and they have.
In fact, they've got folks arrested.
Let's talk about this more with Mike Rogers, who's running for Senate in Michigan, former congressman.
One of the stories I want to discuss with him this morning is there are 10 races that will decide who controls the Senate.
Story, I think it was NBC who put this out, but I thought it was kind of interesting because yeah, Michigan right there in that race.
And Mike Rogers is in one of those.
Why does this matter?
Well, it's the exact same story that I just discussed with you.
We want the same old status quo, same old, same old, where we continue down this path of corruption.
We want a clean house and let President Trump get along with his agenda and get things back on track for Americans.
Former Congressman Mike Rogers joining us now.
Congressman, thank you for taking the time to be here with us today.
Justin, it is always good to be on with you, and thanks for having me.
So this story, big one, obviously, because it hits on so many different places.
Yeah, the corruption is massive.
We've been seeing it.
Not only is this maybe one of the biggest we've ever seen, but also it's probably happening in lots of other places.
On top of it, you know, there may be some election integrity issues wrapped up in this as well.
And all of that matters because 2026 is around the corner, and we got to make sure that we are buttoned up and ready to go because that election is going to matter more than most can even imagine.
Oh, you bet.
And this next election is maybe the second most important election of our lifetimes.
Getting out of the doldrums and the high cost and big regulation of the Biden administration that really took a bite out of people's wallet was maybe the first one with Donald Trump's election two years ago.
But now is the time for people to get fired up and excited to make sure that things like you saw in Minnesota.
And by the way, if it's happening in Minnesota at that rate, $9 billion, this is not one of our biggest states population-wise.
Imagine what's happening in places like California and New York and Illinois around those places.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
And it's going to take time to unravel these things.
That's why this next election is really so important.
We can't slide backwards.
You know, if we lose the House, it becomes an impeachment arama for the president.
Anything that the Democrats can do to stop him from securing the border, from stopping finding fraud in places like Minnesota in this way, from stopping the 20% decrease in homicides across these big cities in America because of the multi-pronged approach that the president has taken to fight crime, you know, that all unwinds.
And boy, if that doesn't motivate you, think of this.
Under the first Trump administration, the average 40K, and remember, two-thirds of Americans are invested in the market in some way through your work, through a 401k plan, others.
Those 401k plans went up $26 on average, $26,000 under Trump 1.
Under the Biden administration, think of that four years and how deadly that was to you.
It went down $24,800 on average.
So just this one year of President Trump and Republicans in charge, your 401k went up $20,000.
$20,000.
So it just shows you, it's so stark the difference between big government, lack of freedom, don't care about crime, let anybody that thinks they want to come to the United States on in kind of policy versus kind of law and order, hey, let's get back to what works.
Let's push down on prices through sane policies on energy prices and other things and get this thing back.
So, yeah, this is, you know, again, the second most important election certainly of my lifetime.
And man, we've got a lot of work to do to get people fired up to get out there and make sure we don't slide backwards.
Former Congressman Mike Rogers running for Senate in Michigan with us right now.
You just mentioned some of those things.
And I think one of the biggest is you talk about how important the election is in 2026 and these importance of obviously winning these seats in the Senate and the House and continuing President Trump's agenda.
Let's just look at what we've seen so far.
And I'm, you know, I think it's gotten so it's gotten so good we almost forget about what's happened with the border.
We almost forget about the numbers with crime because things have gotten so good and so quickly.
But the other thing I notice is people talk gas, groceries, things like that.
And I get it.
I mean, maybe you're not as because it got so bad over the last four years, maybe you're not exactly where you want to be yet.
But Mike, I just filled up in Michigan for $2.55 the other day, a gallon, and that's unheard of.
Gas prices are the lowest they've been in the last four years, and that's big credit to the president and the policies.
Oh, absolutely.
You know, and that's what I think people need to understand is this is going to take time.
You think about the horrific, it was 9% inflation under Biden, nine.
And by the way, they spent 50% more federal spending.
Now, I asked yourself, in that four years, they grew the government by 50% in more spending.
Did your paycheck get bigger?
Did everything get cheaper by half?
Of course not.
It all went up exponentially.
And so what the president is doing now, and Republicans in Congress are pushing down on those prices.
And one of the key ways to do that, especially on food and consumables, is push down the price of gasoline.
You know, everything gets to everywhere by truck and boy fuel costs matter when it's when you're starting to work to try to push down those prices.
And yep, it's not where we all, I don't think it's where the president wants to be.
It's definitely not where you and I want it to be, but it is heading in the right direction.
And that's key.
Why would we go back the other direction?
That would make no sense to me whatsoever.
I think by the end of the president's term, you're going to see prices back in line, and you're going to have wage growth, which is important.
And that's where you're seeing wage growth happen actually across America today.
Wages are outpacing inflation for the first time in, I don't know how long.
And so you think about those are the kinds of things.
Yes, it can't happen overnight because that four years of unprecedented damage to the U.S. economy and freedoms in your life and the regulatory burden that the federal government foisted on you, it takes time to unwind it.
And you said, you know what, one of the first indicators is, how much did I pay for gas today versus four years ago?
Well, guess what?
It's $2.55,000 here in Michigan that you paid, which is unbelievable.
Please, after this, let me know where that gas station is.
I'm going.
I've been paying about $270,000.
I want to get there.
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But, you know, it does matter, but it takes time.
And I think the pressures you're seeing on those costs now is really important.
And think of that, just your 401k in a year has already gained back about $27,000 of what the Biden said had cost you.
Former Congressman Mike Rogers running for Senate in Michigan.
I want to talk a little bit about the exchange because it's like this with every other Senate candidate, too.
The opponents are very extreme, though.
Democrats are getting more and more radical every day.
That's why this matters.
But also, when we come back, we've got a couple of things I'd like if you can hang just for a couple of moments here for us at the end of the break here.
But we've got Venezuela.
We've also got what's happening in Iran, which we talked about yesterday.
Wild to watch it all happen on the same day.
Just a couple of these things I'd like to get your take on.
If we can, we come back if we have time.
Former Congressman Mike Rogers with us.
Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program.
We're back right after this.
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We got another boat yesterday and then the first of its kind.
And the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs.
They load the boats up with drugs.
So we hit all the boats, and now we hit the area.
It's an implementation area that's where they implement, and that is no longer around.
Democrats complaining that some of these drug runners, these terrorists, narco-terrorists, are getting blown up in water.
Well, I guess fewer can be blown up if they blow up the dock where they take off from.
This is an interesting piece, but this is, I say, called the first strike on land.
And I say sort of because I guess it's water and land.
But I want to get your reaction to this in this scenario.
I only have a few minutes here left, but former Congressman Mike Rogers running for Senate here in Michigan.
What are your thoughts on this?
Yeah, so people forget that Nicholas Maduro, who's the president of Venezuela, was indicted as a narco-terrorist.
He ran this group inside Venezuela called the Cartel of the Sons, which was a way to funnel narcotics through using the government apparatus in Venezuela into the United States.
So that's what led to these first strikes on these boats, facilitated by the government of Venezuela.
And if you recall, it was Venezuela that emptied their jails first and put these most violent criminals up into the United States, and they were establishing criminal cartels basically wherever they landed in whatever state, which was why the crime rates in those areas were really spiking.
So what you saw today was that, or yesterday, was that next logical step of saying, okay, now we've hit their ability to move off of shore.
These facilities, and you remember, he has been designated as a terrorist, a narco-terrorist organization.
That means the facility that is used in facilitating drug movements was legally eligible to be targeted.
And so it was.
So it is the next step up in trying to create a problem for Venezuela and Maduro specifically in operating his drug cartel and getting it into the United States.
And I would put this in perspective if we can very quickly hear, Justin.
If you want to know why drug murder rates have come down so much, it's that combination of ICE enforcement getting criminals out of the United States and aggressive pursuit of these drug narco-terrorists And better enforcement around the country.
It's this combination of things that have led to this reduction in murder rates.
It shows that it works and it shows how much power these narco-terrorist organizations had.
It's harder to get drugs across our southern border.
They've done a great job of securing it.
And now they're making it hard to get it in other ways, including using the government apparatus of Venezuela to do it.
That's what we voted for.
By the way, before we let you go, just about 60 seconds left here, former Congressman Mike Rogers running for Senate in Michigan.
But we saw massive protests taken to the streets there in Iran yesterday.
And they say we want to get rid of this extremist regime.
And we just had a conversation about it yesterday.
It was wild to watch the timing on this as it just comes about.
And the people there obviously praying for those folks in Iran that are under that oppression of that regime there.
But I'll give you about 30 seconds just to sound off about this.
We see things happening across the world.
Yeah, I hope we don't make the same mistake Obama did.
They were protesting.
The people of Iran came out in the streets.
They said, hey, we're done with this.
We would prefer to be open to the West, if you will.
And we did nothing.
Obama said, we're not doing it.
We're not participating.
We're not encouraging.
And I'm not talking about sending troops in or anything like that.
Just encouraging them would have been great.
He didn't do it.
They ended up getting beaten, thrown in jail, murdered by the Iranian regime for standing up and saying we want change.
This is an opportunity for the United States, again, not with troops, but to try to get that regime out so it's more open to the West and not trying to build nuclear weapons to kill people in the region.
Mike Rogers, it is a fight for Michigan, the fight for the country.
Rogersforsenate.com running as a Republican here in the state in a very critical race, won for the state and for the country as well.
Always a pleasure.
Thank you, my friend.
Thanks, my friend.
Former Congressman Mike Rogers, Rogersforsenate.com.
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Look, we've been talking about some of the things, the great things that already started to happen in President Trump in this next term.
But to God, continue, as you're digging into the present, look forward and into the future, 2026, 28, and beyond, what does it really take to make the country great again?
Some of those answers, well, most of them, maybe all of them, aren't political.
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We've seen how important, in fact, folks, the youth folk, et cetera, has been when it came to electing President Trump in the second term.
We've seen how important those movements are.
In fact, right now, what's happening in Iran, just talked about it last hour, but if you haven't seen some more of the protests and the things that are happening there as they turn against that extremist government, yet it's so critical.
You get to a point where the youth is fed up.
And, you know, it really seems like we're being marched, maybe even on purpose, to that point.
The question is, which way does it fall to that, well, tipping point?
May even call it a cliff in this country as we've seen youth getting engaged in record numbers.
I don't know that anybody ever planned some of these folks to come out.
Now, where I am in Grand Rapids, Michigan, it's Justin Barkley, by the way, from WOOD, Wood Radio, News Radio Wood 1300 and 1069 FM in Grand Rapids, Michigan, filling in for Glenn Beck today and the Glenn Beck program.
And when Trump came the first time around, first time around in 2016, 2020, and then 24, each time he ended his campaign here in Grand Rapids late at night.
First time was in a convention center.
Second time was at an airport hangar, I believe.
And then this last time was in a massive stadium we have, you know, holds about 12,000 people or so and a packed, just jam-packed.
I didn't go because I had to work very early and I just know how those things go.
He's not going to wrap up until about one o'clock in the morning.
And I've got to be out and on at like four.
And that's my thinking as I was doing a morning show at the point.
I thought, I can't, I'm not going to go.
But I got report after report after report.
And I saw lots of video from people that gave me the details about the thing they were most stunned about.
Trump was who Trump is.
I mean, the president did what he always does at those rallies.
But what they were more blown away with than anything else were the young people, the college-age kids that were showing up.
Now we know Charlie Kirk's role, obviously turning point.
We know the role of podcasts.
The president went to these places that were talking to these people, giving them a chance to actually be involved and be engaged.
We're all feeling very much a lot of the same things and a lot of the same pressures, but this gave them sort of a vent to get it out there.
How important will they be in the coming years?
And then are they really getting what they asked for when they voted in 2024?
Delano Squires joins us right now and wanted to press that question and then dig into what are the things that are going to continue us either down the road of trajectory, make the America great again, or pull us completely off track to where some want us to be.
He's a research fellow in life, religion, and family at the Heritage Foundation.
You can follow him, by the way, online over on X at Delano Squires.
Thank you, sir, for being here.
I really appreciate you taking the time with us today.
Thank you for having me, Justin.
So, you know, all of this I bring up, because this is like right in your wheelhouse.
When I ask the question, like, is it politics where our problems are, or is it someplace much deeper now?
Knowing I know the answer, I have a feeling you and I are going to be on the same track here.
But how do we heal this land?
I definitely think it's deep in politics.
My spidey sense starts to tingle whenever a politician claims that they're going to save the soul of the nation.
I had the privilege of preaching my first ever sermon yesterday at church, for Sunday at church.
And throughout the Bible, it's clear that only God saves souls.
So when politicians, even ones that we like, take onto themselves the power to heal, to transform, and to save, I start to get a little suspicious.
So it's definitely deep in the politics.
And I think the infusion of politics into every aspect of American life, from the brands that we support to our sporting events, to music, arts, and culture, is not a sign of national health, in my opinion.
It's a sign that we have forgotten the first things and now vest all power and authority in our political leaders.
And again, that's not healthy.
So, no, I don't think politics are going to save us.
Politics is critically important because we are a nation of laws and we elect people to represent our interests.
And it's better to have good people representing your interests than bad people or people with bad ideas.
But that alone is not sufficient to save.
A lot of squires with us right now.
You know, I would agree with that.
I think our problems are much deeper.
You know, in the Bible, it says we wrestle not against flesh and blood.
We know what this fight really is.
And I think some of that really comes out as politics.
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It comes out as that as the symptom.
But the question is, and I'll talk about this a little bit later on today, too.
But the question is, and I've seen millennials in Gen Z are reading the Bible more.
They're going to church, especially after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
But I think it's all the shaking and the things that we're seeing happening that's leading people to look for answers and find them, hopefully, in the right place.
Now, there's a lot of people that are going to give you a lot of answers.
Not all of them are going to be true.
Obviously, that's a part of the problem.
But is it good news that we see people looking?
And how do we how do we encourage even politicians who may not be able to save the soul, but maybe can point people in the right direction?
Yeah, I mean, I think politicians need Jesus just as much as me.
Every man.
Even more.
Even more so.
Even more so.
So, no, I'm encouraged by the fact that more people seem to be open to spiritual conversations.
More people seem to be open to going to church and reading their Bible.
again it has to be rooted in something if all this becomes is performative politics right right so i i i hold up my bible but really what i'm what i'm doing is trying to use biblical language and christianese to get people over to my political side then then i don't think it's ultimately going to have the effect that we want it to have
I remember reading an article about a politician who was caught up in an alleged affair with another person in sort of the political space.
And I won't name who because it's not even relevant.
But in that article, there was a political consultant that was quoted, and he said something to the effect of, well, you know, we use this type of language.
No, they talked about the politician having a Christian brand.
That's what it was.
And I just thought that that was such an interesting way to frame things.
And I'm not doubting the person's faith, and I can't say whether it's authentic or not, but the notion that Christianity is a brand that politicians leverage, that they speak Christianese when they're in front of certain audiences,
but they live a different life altogether behind closed doors, is one, again, that I'm wary of putting too much emphasis on the political when it clearly seems that many of the issues that we're facing today in our country are spiritual.
Yeah, Teloto Squires with us right now as we talk about what it's going to take to save the country.
I want to talk about the news of the day.
I want to talk about politics.
I think those are the things that we shouldn't stick our head in the sand.
We've got to be active.
We've got to be involved.
But they can't become the only thing we pay attention to.
They can't be the thing that we focus on the most.
It seems to me that we've got to have a better foundation and more grounding.
And I just, I wonder what your thoughts are when it comes to how do people do that on a daily basis?
It's one of the things I kind of struggle with and also like to make sure that I encourage and discuss with my audience when they would do my daily show.
But just to make sure that people are keeping a conscious and healthy balance on, you know, making sure you're informed, but also making sure that it doesn't get to be too much.
Yeah, I mean, I think that's a great question.
I think one that many of us struggle with in an era of ubiquitous technology.
There was a time where, you know, once you turn the TV off, that was it.
When it got a certain time, you knew people weren't going to call you or they couldn't text you because you didn't have a cell phone.
So there were sort of natural limits built into how much contact we received from people outside of our home and how much information we were exposed to.
But now we live in a landscape where we're exposed to information 24-7, 365.
No one is ever off completely.
There are millions of Americans for whom the last thing they do at night is to check their phone.
And the first thing they do in the morning is to check their phone.
They're constantly tethered to some type of digital device.
And that not only affects sleep patterns, I think it affects mood and behavior.
And it affects our ability to connect with our loved ones.
And let me tell on myself for a second, there have been times where I've been probably short with my children.
I have four kids, because I was in the midst of typing up a banger tweet and they, you know, wanted to spend time with daddy.
And I was like, no, no, you know, I was just trying to move them away in that moment.
And I just take a step back and realize, like, what am I doing to myself?
I am forfeiting time with my children in order to send a tweet to impress people who I don't know about an issue that, while important, is not nearly as important as the investment that I'm making here in my home.
So I think part of how we do it is to engage in some type of digital discipline.
And there's a lot of talk about limiting children's access to devices, but I think those lessons and those recommendations are just as relevant for adults as they are for kids.
So I think part of it, put down our devices, spend time with our family and friends, with our loved ones, engaging in conversations that are not just about politics.
It is going to church and sort of feeding the soul and the spirit.
It's finding things to do that bring us joy, that bring us fulfillment, and allowing God to use our gifts in ways that edify other people and glorify him.
Those are some of the things in terms of on a day-to-day level.
And then there's some big things, right?
I am concerned that some of the voices on the far right, they would say they're far right.
I don't even know if I believe that, sound very much the same as the voices on the far left when it comes to issues around, let's say, marriage and family.
So the Andrew Tate, Red Pill, Nick Fuentes, Groyper guys are indistinguishable from far leftist, pink-haired feminist professors.
Both are telling their respective camps that marriage is a bad deal, that only suckers engage in it, and that family really is a drag on your personal pursuits.
So you can't have a country where the politics on the fringes are built in some part on exacerbating tensions between the sexes.
That's never going to work politically.
Revival Starts at Home00:02:10
So I think we need to get out of this death spiral where it's sort of focused on radical materialism and individualism and get back to understanding that there are things that are greater than ourselves and we won't really fully be alive until we find a purpose that's bigger than our day-to-day individual needs.
The Lana Squire is with us right now.
And if you can hold just a moment, we'll be right back.
Got to take a quick break.
And I want to talk more about, as you mentioned, being a father and what's that like?
And so the most important parts, like really the foundation, that family aspect and how that all ties into what we're talking about here ultimately.
It seems like maybe is even revival, making America great again starts at home.
Let's talk about that when we come back.
Quick break, 60 seconds in for Glenn today on the Glenn Back program.
Justin Barkley will be back right after this.
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We're talking about, I think, you know, maybe in Christian terms, you would call this like revival.
The president's called it making America great again.
But really what we're talking about is putting things, first things first, you know, really getting our foundation, our principles, our morals back where they really ought to be.
And a lot of that runs right through that theme, that thread, right through the family, right through fatherhood and the story that you just told about writing up your banger tweet and the kids come.
And I can't tell you how many times, and I'm a guy who does my best to be like as intentional as possible.
Okay, I'm going to be here with the kids now.
I'm going to do this and put the phone away and all these things.
But inevitably, this stuff creeps in, even when you're trying your best to do those things.
I just thought it was kind of interesting what you had to say.
But let's talk about family and fatherhood, particularly.
I don't have to tell the folks listening.
I mean, they know how much it's been under attack, fathers particularly.
You see it in the black community, and I know you talk a lot about this.
How big of a role does that play?
Not just in the black community, but really all of America that we get, we finally get sort of the family and fatherhood and all of it, really, back in alignment.
I think the breakdown of the family is the biggest social issue facing the United States of America today, without a doubt.
As you said, for years, for decades, this issue was often talked about in racialized terms, in terms of the breakdown of the black family, and for good reason.
In 1965, when Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote his still controversial report on the state of the black family, the non-marital birth rate for black Americans was about 25%.
He considered that an emergency at the time.
The non-marital birth rate overall in America today is 40%.
So four out of every 10 American children are born to an unmarried mother.
America has the highest rate of single-parent households in the world, which is about a quarter of American children just live with one parent, typically a mom.
So the issue that was concentrated, you know, particularly among black Americans, is now widespread.
And this is not just an issue of parents who have never married.
It's an issue of divorce, no-fault divorce that sort of tears families apart and forces children to sort of pick up the pieces.
And increasingly, it's an issue of the redefinition of marriage, surrogacy, abortion on demand, reproductive technology that eventually, if without any sort of protection, will remove human beings from the reproductive process altogether, right?
We could get to that point.
So I think the way that we talk about family is important.
And again, going back to the earlier point, it has to be done in ways that are either bipartisan or nonpartisan.
And I'll give a quick example.
I remember it was last year when X was ablaze when a conservative influencer was talking about the child she was having with Elon.
And I remarked that billionaires need to spend time with their kids too, right?
And that kids who don't have that access will suffer in the same way that low-income kids do.
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Well, turns out the Somali welfare parents in Minnesota, the daycare, aren't the only ones conducting fraud.
And that's no surprise.
I get it.
I get it.
You know, it's everywhere.
$9 billion there, $5 billion here.
HUD Secretary Turner is saying they discovered a whopping $5 billion in potential fraudulent payments.
Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program.
Justin at JustinBarklay.com.
That's the email.
Love to hear from you.
The conversations we can have online.
Also at Mr. Justin Barklay, B-A-R-C-L-A-Y, at Mr.Justin Barkley, almost all the social platforms you could get, except for that weird one, the left is, is it called Blue Sky?
The thing that they tried to make happen that anti-Twitter, I'd never joined that.
I heard people would join that and they'd immediately get booted off if they had any sort of right-wing name or something.
I don't know.
I just, I just, everywhere else other than that, we've been censored almost everywhere as well.
So that's kind of a badge of honor.
But love to have those conversations with you, including the one about HUD Secretary Turner.
He said $5 billion in potential fraudulent payments to illegals and dead people.
Now, I'm sure it's just illegals and dead people that are getting fraudulent payments.
I'm sure it's not illegals and dead people that are voting in these Democrat schemes, but rampant rental assistance fraud as well, found in places like New York City Dc and other blue cities.
It was a Biden program.
Should somebody be arrested, maybe Biden's HUD secretary in this scenario?
You know, during the Biden administration uh, there were over 12 million illegal aliens that came over the border, straining our housing supply and making the cost go up, and so we work with secretary Noam at DHA S, as you alluded to, to make sure that only American citizens are living in Hud funded housing.
We also uh, took away Fha backed mortgages from illegal aliens.
During the Biden administration.
They turned a blind eye, but we're going to keep the law to make sure that these mortgages, which are backed by the taxpayer, go only to the American people.
And lastly uh, we are mandating that every public housing authority give us a comprehensive account who's living in every unit in taxpayer HUD funded housing.
Wow another, actually Davis, another uh impact of that wide open border.
Imagine this, though I mean, it's the same thing that we're asking with snap as well is like we need to know where the money's going.
Imagine that we want to make sure that we actually have accountability here, that we have transparency, that we have trackability, that we know there is, there really can be no fraud, there will be no shenanigans.
Now I don't know, is it possible to have 100 uh fraud free?
I I I tend to doubt, because you know what you incentivize.
You're going to get more of.
It's just human nature, the free money and all you see people lining off at the trough all the time.
So I don't know if it's, if it's, you know, if it's one of these things that we don't care, can we cut it out altogether?
Or is that just a pipe dream?
I don't know.
Government programs bring fraud, in fact.
You may say we got to fix it.
I may say that that's exactly how the system is designed to work.
I don't know if the government really is in the business of fixing problems although they ought to be or if they're more so in the business of just shuffling your money around from one place to the next.
It's not just Somalia, by the way.
It's happening in other places uh, or Minnesota, mini Somolia uh i've i've, i've told you this, in fact, I know.
I've got some folks I know on the ground.
I'll just tell you that I know people involved in some of these investigations will tell you.
It's not just Minnesota.
In fact it's happening in Ohio.
We've already heard Maine as well, with there have been some arrests, so we know some of that is is also happening.
We need to see more of it.
I mean, until somebody like Tim Walz is arrested, right, or the former HUD secretary is allowing these things to happen, until somebody like the big fish get fried folks, I don't know if you're ever going to see a stop put to all the, because there's got to be teeth right now.
It's like election fraud.
Same scenario.
The punishment doesn't outweigh the crime.
I mean, you get slap on the wrist for these people.
Massive power and wealth if they succeed.
So the risk versus the reward for this stuff, it just doesn't seem to, well, it really doesn't stop them from doing it at all.
I mean, they're all in.
It's a daycare center owned by the Somalias and stuff like that.
This is Ohio, by the way.
You ever seen any kids in this place here?
No, not that I know of.
I've just seen the building itself.
I've never seen nobody come out the building or go into the building.
This is a report from a website called Muckraker.
You've never seen anybody over there.
No, not at all.
So right now we are in front of the Great Minds Learning Academy.
It looks like the same sort of setup as Minnesota.
It's just kind of shoddy sign, bad neighborhood, that type of thing.
This is one of the many daycare centers, learning centers here in Columbus, Ohio that are associated with the Somali community.
As you know, Nick Shirley put out a bombshell report about all these fraudulent daycare facilities in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
So we wanted to come out to Columbus, Ohio, and investigate what might be going on in the second largest Somali community in the United States of America.
Again, it's not just Somali.
I don't have a problem with them pointing that out, right?
And that's a fact, right?
But it's not just Somalia and Somalis.
The whole Somali pirate welfare.
That's a funny, that's meme, you know, meme worthy.
That's good.
But at the end of the day, like I said, it's all of these, it's all of these programs.
It's every single end.
It's really the politicians, the people that are behind the scenes making it all happen.
Those are the ones who are responsible for it.
Democrats largely, you don't think there might be any Republicans involved in some of this, do you?
No.
Say it ain't so.
Most of what we see, I will say this, the blatant, most of it, you know, the sort of just like over-the-top.
It is.
It's the Democrat Party.
It's just how they've been set up to work because they exploit and they've got cover they run for themselves on it too, you know, because they care.
They just care so much about the people.
They care.
They care so much about the people that compassion.
They've got to make sure that they take care of the people, feed the people, give them daycare.
Compassion Siphoned Off00:05:06
You know, all of the things, homes with housing right now, we're finding out about all of that.
Yeah, we got to make sure we take care of these people.
We need them.
We need them.
They're a part of their, exactly.
They're part of who built this country.
No, not these people that are now.
We're talking about these people are just here sucking off of the resources.
And it sounds like they're not even getting what they're supposed to be getting.
Some of them are, maybe, but sounds like most of the people, the people that need it most in some of the cases aren't getting what they're supposed to be or should be getting because It's being sort of siphoned off.
Siphoned off.
Well, and I look, again, this is straight out of the playbook.
These people, they're better than you.
You have to understand this.
Well, this is how they're feeling.
They look down their noses at people like you and me.
They're the elite.
It's like the same guy the other day that was giving me a hard time for saving money on gas.
He goes, oh, whooped you do.
You saved, you know, 30 cents on the gas or whatever per gallon.
I started adding it up.
It was more like 50 cents.
And I'm like, well, I got a $20 down tank.
That's $10 and $10 a fill-up for me and $10 a fill-up for my wife.
I started adding it up.
We're talking about hundreds of dollars a month.
And then you're talking about, you know, thousands of dollars, maybe even a year for the average person.
That's incredible when you talk about gas prices going down.
That's the elitist attitude.
They go, it's just a couple of cents.
Why do you care?
I don't know about you, but it'd be kind of nice not to have to worry about something like that, throwing a few bucks in the tank, not have to worry about how much it was.
These people, they don't care.
The elitist, the elite mentality, have no idea what you and I go through on a daily basis.
They have no idea what any average American is going through on a daily basis.
Why?
Because they're deeply embedded in the fraud.
They're not spending their money.
They're spending your money.
And we do have some more updates on this and the crackdown.
In fact, we've got more.
As the money's, it's starting to dry up.
They pull the plug on it.
We told you a little bit about this yesterday.
We had the report coming up here in just a second.
More out of Ohio and more on this fraud, the latest.
Hopefully some teeth in some of this coming up right after this.
We'll take a quick break.
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We're having plenty of them.
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We've got some new details on the confession of the January 6th pipe bomber.
got that Nashville trans attack and stunning allegations here apparently of how she bought the the weapons involved in the attack what funded it speaking of federal money gone to the wrong place how about this So the Small Business Association has decided they're going to stop, halt all the payments.
State Agencies Under Fire for Fraud00:02:08
Crackdown in Minnesota over potential fraud is ramping up on multiple fronts now.
Not only do you have DHS and FBI agents on the ground, but the Small Business Administration is now halting all federal funding to the state after identifying $430 million in PPP loans in Minnesota that are suspected of fraud.
As we've been reporting, these concerns over fraud, particularly in the childcare space in Minneapolis, go back more than a decade, including these surveillance videos that were part of a case prosecuted by Hennepin County back in 2015.
The video shows parents checking their kids into a daycare and then walking back out with them minutes later.
Minneapolis Fox Station reported that sometimes the kids wouldn't even show up.
And that either way, the businesses would bill the state for a full day of services.
I told you that these parents would walk out with an envelope.
It's like the Sopranos.
The Somali Sopranos.
This other video shows parents then allegedly receiving envelopes of cash as kickbacks from the owners.
It's just a report card.
You got it wrong there.
The state is responding to these latest allegations of fraud at child care centers, claiming that it's already investigated many of the businesses in Nick Shirley's viral video.
So there have been ongoing investigations with several of those centers.
None of those investigations uncovered findings of fraud.
One of the centers, Quality Learning Center, closed just over a week ago.
With those claims is that the manager of the Quality Learning Center says they never closed and they are even open now.
And the state agency was putting them on false information.
All of this is raising more questions about the credibility of the state agencies who are supposed to be overseeing these programs that are now being investigated.
There's no oversight on any of this.
Are you kidding me?
They don't care.
They don't care where the money goes just as long as the machine keeps rolling.
Credibility Crisis in State Oversight00:15:53
That's very clear here.
That's what this whole thing set up is you got shell companies and fake daycares, call them fake cares, whatever.
You know, you got all these scenarios that are meant to just make it look, give the veneer that there's something going on.
And you got to wonder, you know, are we talking about trillions?
How much fraud are we talking about?
You know, I've seen Elon suggest that I think maybe a trillion dollars or more that they would find.
It's just as a guess.
That Doge waste fraud and abuse investigation.
Meanwhile, like I said, it's not just the Somalis.
It's in everything.
Anything the government touches.
We got a similar situation here in Michigan.
We got this thing called the Michigan Economic MEDC Development Corporation.
And you talk about, you know, kickbacks and this and that.
They got this one woman.
She was apparently some big donor with the governor.
Millions of dollars.
And I think, you know, I start digging through the receipts of what this woman was supposed to be getting and what she was doing.
They spent this organization like $4,000 for a coffee maker.
I mean, and it's part of the course.
This has been going on since the beginning of government, folks.
Glad to see it's coming to light.
That's the best disinfected is the sunlight.
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Now we've got some interesting new information coming out about the J-Six pipe bomber and the confession we also got speaking courtroom drama yesterday.
Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin in the courtroom and the decision of whether or not we get to see any of that.
And I think we ought to be able to see it all.
But also today, news about how that Nashville trans attacker want the weapons she used to kill the innocent.
And a story that's continuing to bring us interesting pieces of information.
Speaking of federal money gone wrong, we'll get into that and more coming out today.
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By the way, when you hear these stories, This week, I just saw you, but this latest story of the Nashville trans attacker and how she was able to buy these weapons, multiple weapons.
You're talking lots of money and where it came from.
It all lines up with the same conversation we're having today about the Somali fraud and the daycares, etc.
But the root of all of this, the root of all of it, we got to go back to and trace back to the core, which is evil and the corruption and all of it.
So I wanted to do that.
Lance Walnut joins us right now.
I've got good and bad news.
So, you know, we can talk a little bit about both.
But Lance, originally I want to talk to you about this story that I saw that was really encouraging.
Millennials and Generation Z, the Gen Z folks, are reading the Bible more in 2025 than they were last year.
They're going to church more.
Apparently, you know, the assassination of Charlie Kirk really sprang a lot of this into action with folks.
And it's, to me, it's encouraging to see.
I think part of it, and I'm going to ask you about this, is because of what we're seeing play out.
When we see these bad things and there's so many of them happening, the conditions that the kids are in and everything, it's sort of leading to the things that we're watching.
They're looking for answers.
They're really searching.
And I think that's a good thing.
Well, come in, Lance.
It's great, great to be on your show.
Thanks for having me.
You know, what's interesting about all of this is I talked to George, I talked to Barna, I talked to Dave Barton, different guys that are like experts in these things.
And something they said I think would help you and your audience, they said that when there's an awakening historically, first great awakening, second great awakening, whatever you want to call it, they don't pick the dates for the awakening until they look back after it happened.
And that means that nobody said, hey, the Great Awakening started last year.
Did you like it?
So we are probably in the midst of what we would call a historic third great awakening after the second one that was in the Civil War.
So the reality is all the data, when you've got stuff like Barna's saying, I catch this.
This is mind-blowing.
54% of Americans in 2020 said that a commitment to Jesus Christ is important.
And last year, it rose to 66%.
That's all ages, which is a weird thing because you don't see it reflected in the news.
You don't see it reflected in behavior.
But 56% of Americans are saying, oh, yeah, yeah, that's important.
So what it suggests is that we're in the early stage of a great awakening.
And like the story you're covering with the trans shooter that gets money from the government.
Isn't it weird that there's no media covering the theft that's going on in Minnesota?
I mean, you basically have Fox News and a couple of outlets like ours that are saying this is immense.
I mean, the FBI is up there now, but you're not seeing it covered in the New York Times, except to question the motivations for it.
So on the one hand, you have increased disengagement and almost like intentional negligence of news cycles from traditional media sources, which feeds, I think, the feeling that something's out of control, which weirdly plays into the hunger for the Bible, which is being reflected in the Gen X and the Gen Z.
Because in this uncertainty and chaos of who do you trust, people are going to the Bible and saying, well, I've got to go back into something.
Jordan Peterson probably helped more than we realized.
I'm going to go back and check this book out.
Evidently, it's still there, but I don't know what else I can trust.
Does all that make sense?
You know, I don't.
And I think you look at AI and you look at everything.
I just saw the stat the other day.
I was looking around on YouTube.
I like to get the fireplace video and play the music and Christmas music lately.
I just like to do that.
Get ready, spending some quiet time.
I kind of like to do that.
Set the scene.
Well, I'm searching and I'm finding different videos.
And oh, that looks interesting.
So I put that on.
And it's like the history of the 12 days of Christmas or something like that.
And I realized as I going through these that every one of them is AI generated.
The videos generated, the script, the voice, it's all generated.
So I saw the stat the other day.
Blew me away.
It's like 30 or 20% of the videos on YouTube right now are what they're calling.
So it's irritating.
It's irritating.
I think I was the only guy that puts up on the big digital display, the fire crackling.
And then my family called, they said, Dad, it's 80 degrees in Texas.
Are you really going to do it and get a Christmas?
I said, we're cranking up the air conditioner and we're putting that dying fireplace to work.
So I do that every year.
But the AI thing, my sister, my wife has sisters that are professors in the Northeast, which is a really tough place to be a conservative.
And they cannot stand my pro-Trump conservative worldview.
And so they send us videos of George Will and other people saying the most incendiary things.
And I send it back.
These are college professors.
I send it back to them saying this is AI generated.
This isn't George Will.
This isn't Mark Victor Hanson.
David Hansen.
You guys are, you realize that when you're looking at images that seem to be talking to you, they are actually fictitious.
They're using, it's like having Glenn Beck say that he's going to vote for Kamala Harris if she runs.
That's how it is now.
And so now you've got new laws coming out very late, which is trying to restrict the misrepresentation of public figures, but it's already ubiquitous.
It is.
And it's to the point where I really don't know whether we're going to be able to tell the difference.
And so they're getting so good.
There's something.
I'm just not quite.
I love AI for some things.
I think it's helpful for some things.
And, you know, look, I think there's a lot of great, Glenn's got a lot of great things he's working on with the torch and with George AI right now.
But he's been through it, really trying to tweak and make sure you put the guardrails up on this stuff because you have to.
Otherwise, there's just something off of this.
It doesn't work.
And so, but that's my point is with all of this stuff out there, as you mentioned, it's another one of these things I think is going to have people running to the truth and the only place you can really find it.
And that's happening.
And I think what's curious about it is that it's a younger, because the data was saying that Gen Z was, you know, and it still is true.
They're the lowest attendance at church, et cetera.
But if you read between the lines, there's a surge, there's a pushing up 30% and 24% to 49% right now for Gen Z's weekly Bible reading.
Now, that's pretty amazing.
When you get close to 50% of an age group, they're certainly not saying it publicly, but privately, they're going there.
And I just got information from a guy who has a thing called Groundwire, which is this ministry he's got, which is digitally engaging the Gen X and Gen Zs, not trying to get them to go to church, but catching them in their pursuit of purpose or answers to loneliness and stuff like that.
He had 10 million inquiries last year to catch this.
2 million actually talked to a counselor to pray with them.
So 2 million of these young kids last, 10 million digitally surfing online got apprehended by a conversation about Jesus.
And the three issues that they're dealing with is hope because they're bombarded by negativity.
The greatest country in the world with the greatest freedom, with the greatest level of prosperity, but they are bombarded with negativity and they want to know, will the world get better?
Imagine that.
And purpose is the second thing.
What in the world am I doing here?
And the third thing, which is kind of tragic, is does anyone see me?
I'm actually alone, even in a crowd.
So that's the three things that Groundwire focuses on.
Purpose, hope, and loneliness.
And they had 10 million inquiries last year.
Gen Z seeking.
So we've got these folks, and this is a movement.
We're going to need these young kids.
It's talking about making America great again as you talking about really that awakening that's happening.
I think that's at the core of it.
We need above and beyond the country becoming great again.
That starts at a much, I think, a much deeper place.
We need those things to happen in order to get there.
Dr. Lance Wellnow is with us right now on the Glenn Beck program.
I want to ask you, because there's some other things.
When talking about the youth, there's some concerning things happening right now, too, because they are vulnerable.
They are searching.
And depending what they land on, it may mean the world to them, but it also could not only destroy them, but the country as well.
I want to talk about maybe some of the warning and the risk on that when we come back.
We've got to take a quick break, 60 seconds.
We'll be right back after this on the Glenn Beck program.
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Wanted to...
Wanted to talk about this, LanceWalnow.com and the Lance Walnow show.
But you've got these young people that are a big part of what really I think got Trump elected.
You got the podcast.
You got these kids coming together here in Grand Rapids, the last stop again on the campaign.
And I heard multiple, these are just incredible numbers of college-aged kids at that last rally that night.
And then, you know, we see how they come out in record numbers.
These kids are kind of being pulled around right now.
And I think a lot of folks are.
In fact, we're watching this happen.
There's some weird things happening.
Some of them are coming back to Christ.
There's this, there's sort of a weird anti-Semitism thing that's happening as well right now.
And again, I like them to go out and to look for these answers.
But boy, I mean, we're talking about, you know, life and death in where they land in some of these places.
Oh, totally.
And, you know, so years ago, I started this concept.
It's called Seven Mountains.
Because culture is a confusing subject.
And for a Christian trying to transform, engage, or change, you run into a lot of barriers.
One is the confusion.
How do you do it?
And, you know, on one hand, Jesus says, go make disciples of nations.
So if you're an ardent Christian, you know that there's an agenda here for nations.
But then you have an eschatological problem because our generation is so doom-centered that we believe the Antichrist is emerging any day.
So I said, you know what?
It's simple.
There's seven vertical powers that shape a culture.
Your family and your church or your spiritual training and your family is the insulator.
But what's coming against you is education, government, media, entertainment, and big business.
And if you look at those verticals, you see that those are the things that are in the news.
So to your point, what's happening with this great awakening is at the same time, there's a spiritual yearning.
There's these competing centripetal forces of media manipulation, digital bombardment, campus propagandizing that is also affecting that digital generation.
So Charlie Kirk's last two warnings that he gave before he was assassinated was he said, be aware.
He went to the president and told him, if you do not make it affordable for under 30-year-olds to own a home, they're only owning them by the time they're 40 now.
If they don't have hope of owning a home in their 30s, then the lure of socialism, no matter how much you talk against it, they feel the system's rigged.
And they will move in a populist backlash, just like Trump tapped into the populist frustration with the deep state and with institutional corruption.
Mamdani and these young socialists will arise talking the language of an under-30 crowd that doesn't trust the system either, but believes that it's gained against them because they can't own property.
And so you've got to get hold of, and it becomes that practical.
And Charlie was that practical a politician.
He said, you've got to make it affordable, or I'm going to lose the argument with my generation.
And then he said the second thing, which is ironic and kind of prophetic.
He said this killing of the hero, what do you call it, the young guy that shot the insurance CEO.
Oh, yeah.
And he said that, he said, that's a threshold.
Mamdani is one warning.
The other one is this kid, Chuck, whatever he is, that shot the insurance guy that became a hero online.
Yeah, that's it.
He said the violence against CEOs means we've crossed a threshold where the left no longer has the moral ability to separate fact from fiction.
And in a cosplay world in their brain, young people will start killing influencers that are conservative or perceived to be establishment.
It won't just be politicians.
And Charlie was the first influencer to seal that.
So he's saying you've got these forces are at work.
And I'd say that the awakening we have that is that is potential has got we have to be a lot more intentional about how we fuel that because you do have this socialist upbringing in the school system and in the university system.
When 93% of your faculty vote Democrat, I guarantee you've got a skewing of the worldview at the university level.
So your smartest potential future leaders are having to overcome propaganda to come out as a conservative.
Yeah.
Dr. Lancewell, now one last thing.
I'm watching this happen.
A lot of people kind of, and I want to find out the balance here.
You know, your black pill, red pill, and all this other stuff, blue pill.
But let me ask you this.
There's kind of this balance between people I hear who say, hey, you know, everything's great.
I'm going to sit on the couch and eat my popcorn and follow the plan, trust the plan, all that.
And then there's the other side that say, you know, nothing we do matters and everything is kind of chicken little.
The sky is falling, black pill.
How do you walk that line?
I'm trying to encourage people on a daily basis to make sure you don't fall into either one of those traps because we've got to stay engaged.
We've got to stay informed.
We only got about a minute here.
100%.
And that's why I said it's so weird that we have to deal with negativity in a nation that is as great as this.
We are right now participating in the greatest political revolution that has happened since the founding of the country.
What we've seen happen in one year that we forget about with Donald Trump going from nearly being assassinated and locked up and bankrupt to going in with an A team like the Avengers, tearing apart all institutional decay from the top down, as far as they could go within one year, from the ceiling of the border to 4% GDP reversal, dealing with a country in $32 trillion debt and writing the ship while it's miraculously getting set on course.
We're in a, Trump has laid siege to academia, to government, to media, and to big business.
And he is literally forcing a revolutionary shift in all those mind-molding powers of culture.
And we're alive to watch it.
The midterms, I was with the president two weeks ago.
Twice he said to a group of pastors, he said, I'm worried about the midterm.
This is the president.
He says America tends to vote the opposite of its administration.
And we can't afford to have this experiment in recovery interrupted and blocked by more impeachments by the Democrats.
We must show up at midterms.
So to me, it becomes very practical.
We're in a revolution right now.
Trump has been preyed into it.
The Midterm Revolution00:02:27
I don't believe he's an accident.
I think he's a phenomenon of desperate intercession in a nation that needs an intervention.
And so we've all got to kind of get our oars in the water and say, what do we have to do?
We got 90 days probably to make that conversation materialize.
And it's grassroots.
It's not coming for the news now.
Can you stay with us?
I want to touch more on that if you can.
I want to make sure we don't leave that.
Dr. Lance Wall now, the Glenn Beck program continues after this.
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And just wrapping up a great conversation with our guest, Dr. Lance Wilna, who's talking about what it's going to need to happen, really, to turn the tide, and essentially for 2026 and the midterms.
United Against Antifa00:11:29
You talk about the president being particularly concerned in these conversations.
And you are starting to nail down what some of that looks like.
But tell us, Doctor, what are you seeing?
What do people need to be aware of here?
Well, first of all, I remember.
So I went in, we had an Oval Office meeting with the president.
It was a group of folks that were with the White House Faith Council and Paula White.
And she makes that access.
She's down the hall from the president.
I mean, he literally put faith as an office down the hall from him, first president that ever did that.
And so we got a chance to go in, and he was visibly concerned about midterms, talking about him.
She said, whatever he wants to talk about, let him talk about.
Well, he's talking about midterms.
So when we exited, Ralph Reed was with me.
And Ralph has been around since the formation of the Christian Coalition.
He was Charlie Kirk in Pat Roberts' generation, the young guy that mobilized Christians in politics.
And I said to him, I said, he's concerned about midterms.
And Ralph looked at me and said, yeah.
I said, what's going to happen in midterm?
You're pretty much a prognosticator on that.
He said, it's going to be a bloodbath.
And my jaw dropped.
I said, wow.
And he looked at me.
He said, look around the room, Lance.
And I looked around the room.
He said, what do you see?
You know what I saw?
20 really great guys.
They're all pastors, leaders, influencers, conservatives, talking to each other, exchanging phone numbers.
He said, do you see the desperation, the fight, the hunger?
He said, right now, the Democrats are chewing glass in order to get back in power.
They could taste it.
Our side isn't focused at all.
And then it hit me.
You know, he's right.
Our side, listen, I'm having a conversation with you right now.
What can we do?
All that the left is doing now is thinking about regaining power.
And what we're thinking about is a hundred different abstract ideas about where culture is at.
That's the difference between our sides.
That is horrifying.
But unfortunately, I think it's very true.
Yeah, it is true.
So, you know, so what do you do?
So what I've done is, you know, I reached out to, first of all, money talks.
You've got to understand how Washington works and how power works.
So I realized, okay, we do our part as influencers, as thought leaders.
We all have our calling.
But I go to the people that have resources and I say, we need a strategy.
Are you open?
Yes, yes.
We don't know what to do.
Tell us what to do.
So I'm rounding up the Ralph Reeds and the AFPIs and the organizations that actually have midterm ground games, including Turning Point.
And I'm saying, I'm calling you up.
I'm going to have it.
We're going to get a data download from all you guys that are out there that raise funds for midterms.
But our side, the conservatives, work independently.
On the left, it's all in, man.
They put their chips in the middle.
They all work together.
We work autonomously.
So I'm getting our people to come together, and then I'm going to get the investors to cherry-pick what's the most practical, powerful, effective strategy for 19 counties to make sure we don't lose Congress.
That's what it comes down to.
But it's so weird.
It's like grassroots.
I feel like Sam Adams in a tavern in Boston.
It's like no one else is doing this.
This is totally self-directed.
It's critical.
And these races, it's talking about the House specifically, but also the Senate.
They're very important.
I don't think, you know, this is how I see it.
You know, look, we were all the nation.
There's no way I don't see the election of President Trump to this term.
I just don't see it being anything other than divine intervention, particularly with his life being saved.
That assassination attempt, the millimeter miracle, as our good friend likes to call it.
But, you know, it's just there's no way to see it.
I think we hit our knees.
I think we got our brief, you know, our second chance, right?
But now we're at the point where people don't realize it wasn't just about getting him elected.
We have to see this through.
And there's so much that has to take place.
There's so much.
And we didn't even discuss the real phenomena of what happened when Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
You have the DNA, the fingerprints, the confession of the parents, the killer himself, all of the data pointing the shell casings, the Antifa engagement, a trans-Antifa connection in Salt Lake City.
You see all the data, and where do we go?
We decide to attack Israel and make the Jew the enemy.
If that isn't the weirdest cosmic spiritual evidence of warfare I've ever seen, I'm sitting there going, why in the world isn't this a massive moment to deal with trans activism?
And all of a sudden, we're attacking Netanyahu.
It was the weirdest Candace Owens whole meltdown and the perpetuating of it with 4 million people listening every day.
What does that tell me?
I got targeted by her, by the way, which is why I'm bringing her up.
She even mentions me as being a nefarious actor influencing Charlie Kirk.
And I look at this and I go, we're like having a circular firing squad.
What does that tell you?
There's nothing the enemy would want more.
I mean, we're all in that moment right now where we're divided in the moment.
We need to be more united than ever.
We're being pulled apart.
And that's obvious to me.
I mean, it's a plan.
Whether you look at it as a natural or supernatural, I mean, we know where it's coming from.
At least in my opinion, it's never been more obvious.
Totally.
Totally.
That's my point.
It's so ron-obvious that you'd think that we would stop and blow the whistle and break up and kind of huddle and say, What's the game plan for midterms, guys?
Is this really helping?
You know, I mean, I work with these guys, I work with Bannon, I work with these guys.
I'm going, hey, this is not good.
Guys, focus, focus.
Charlie provided it in his life.
He built a coalition that kept everyone in their lane.
But interesting verse when the Apostle Paul left Ephesus, he said, after my departure, wolves are going to come in among you, and from among your own cells will men arise speaking perverse things to create an audience for their own personal following.
If that was true in the first century when Paul left Ephesus, I guarantee it's true when anyone of apostolic stature leaves a movement like Charlie left with Turning Point.
Yeah.
Dr. Lance Walnow, by the way, you want to watch the Lance Walnow show?
You can go to LanceWalnow.com, find out more about that, where to watch it.
And of course, Lance, you got a book out, The Return of the Lion, God's Surprising End Time Plan.
Highly recommend picking this up, but tell everybody about it and where they can get it.
Yeah, I appreciate that.
So, Justin, I wrote this during the, I saw there was going to be an anti-Semitism strike that was going to happen.
I wrote it during the decision-making period when the president was deciding to take out the nuclear capacity of Iran.
And I wrote the book saying, Israel is going to play an end time role.
It's not going away.
It's going to continue to be an odd obsession of all the nations because the Bible predicts it.
And so, it's a book about the return of the lion that Jesus is indeed coming back, but he's not coming back as the lamb.
He was sacrificed as a lamb.
The Bible says he's coming back as a ruler to judge the nations.
So, my premise is, it's only about a 95-page book, easy to read, is that there's going to be a different dispensation of the manifestation of how God moves in the last days than we anticipate because he's coming back to rule and to judge.
He's not coming back to reconcile.
So, the book explains the end times and Israel's role and the rise of anti-Semitism.
It's at lancewall.com forward slash lion.
I'm making it available for any amount.
Basically, I'm trying to get the message out.
Just pay postage and get the book.
I'm getting it out there for people.
Lance Wall now.
Where can folks watch the show and listen to you daily?
Yep.
It's basically on all social media, and we do Real America's Voice on Saturday, on Sunday.
But you can just go to LanceWalla.com and forward slash podcast, and you can catch me on any of the typical channels.
Well, always an honor.
Thank you so much for taking the time to be here with us and sharing what you're seeing out there.
I definitely think it's important folks are listening, and it's somebody heard this that needed to.
Thank you, Justin.
I appreciate your voice out there.
You got it.
God bless.
Dr. Lance Wall now.
Okay, more coming up, folks.
We're going to continue in the program.
Not a lot of time left, so make sure we can hit a couple of things that we've got to hit.
We've been talking about all this fraud.
We've been talking about all the money that's gone to places that it shouldn't.
The Somalis and some of the other places.
But what about the money that went to buy the weapons that the trans attacker in the Nashville school used?
Guess where it came from, too?
We'll tell you about it next.
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Look at us.
Look at what we built.
We toil, we sweat, we hand over our earnings piece by piece, paycheck by paycheck, to the great machine in Washington, D.C., the swamp.
They'll take care of the needy.
They promise they'll take care of you.
Anything you know, will educate the young, lift up the struggling.
Mobile words for sure.
Beautiful.
Taxpayer dollars for Pell Grants, for dreams, for college, tuition money.
Meant to open doors to build futures.
Where does it all go?
Well, one, straight in the hands of a monster.
Audrey Hale, unemployed, living at home, plotting in the shadows, gets her federal checks.
Over $2,000 at a time, refunded after classes, no questions asked.
She scribbles it down herself, FAFSA grants, Jacks, starting about $2,000 right next to her shopping list of rifles, carbines, ammunition.
It's money, money that she would use to carry out one of the most heinous, most horrific attacks imaginable.
Her own parents confirm it to the police.
It was the grant money.
Our money.
Your money.
Mine.
We paid for it all.
We paid for the bullets that tore through innocent children and teachers at Covenant School in Nashville.
Six lives stuffed out, three of them nine years old.
Not because of the guns, because the system handed cash to someone twisted with no real oversight.
No strings tight enough to stop the madness.
And this isn't new, is it?
Government money vanishes into fraud rings, stealing student aid, billions lost in pandemic handouts, embezzled by officials, squandered on ghosts and lies again and again.
Our trust, whatever was left at this point, is weaponized, literally this time against us and against our kids.
Now we're learning in Minnesota that in Dearborn, no doubt, I'm sure, money again headed to these so-called daycares, ending up in the hands of terrorists overseas.
How many more times?
How many more graves do we dig with dollars that were never meant for this?
You know, here's the cold, hard truth, folks.
We're not just taxpayers, we're accomplices by accident, funders by force.
And the machine keeps turning.
Blind and bloated.
Always asking for more.
When do we say enough is enough?
When do we demand that every dollar we surrender is guarded like the precious lives it could destroy?
Every dollar that's taken.
Because next time, it might be your school.
It might be your child.
Paid for with your money again.
This story is an inconvenient story that the mainstream media will not cover.
And if they do, it might be a little blip.
It might be a little blurb.
It might be a little feast.
It won't be the full cold hard truth.
The one that we all need to confront and come to terms with.
Inevitably, it's all on us, folks.
We get to choose.
Do we stand up?
Say enough is enough?
Fight back?
Justin Barkley in for Glenn today on the Glenn Beck program.