The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | 3/9/26
Aired: 2026-03-09
Duration: 43:10


=== Connecting The Dots (02:42) ===

[00:00:00]  Boy, today was a big lesson in the three-hour show.
[00:00:04]  It was all about connecting the dots.
[00:00:06]  But in the highlight reel that you're just about to hear on this podcast, we cover the Iran war.
[00:00:12]  Is this America first?
[00:00:14]  All the questions that you're hearing, let me try to answer those things.
[00:00:18]  Also, what happened in New York?
[00:00:20]  And how does that connect?
[00:00:22]  What does that mean?
[00:00:24]  And that famous chalkboard from Fox where I said, you know, the communist and the Islamists and the socialists and anarchists will all work together.
[00:00:32]  I added something really important because I was having a hard enough time getting people to understand the first half.
[00:00:37]  It's time that people understand the second part of that chalkboard.
[00:00:41]  And I added that in today's podcast.
[00:00:44]  Also, The Shield of America's, what does that mean?
[00:00:48]  Why is that happening?
[00:00:49]  And how is that America first?
[00:00:51]  Are we getting into more wars?
[00:00:52]  That in Cuba and all of it.
[00:00:54]  All on today's podcast.
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=== Shield Of The Americas (08:56) ===

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[00:03:09]  All right, with the Shield of America, let me try to tell you what I think is going on happening because if you're getting your news from cable television, you're seeing all of the pieces on the board, but nobody is showing you the whole board.
[00:03:20]  Okay.
[00:03:21]  You're seeing Venezuela as one story.
[00:03:24]  You're seeing Greenland as one story.
[00:03:26]  Cuba, it's another story.
[00:03:29]  Mexico, another story.
[00:03:30]  China, another story.
[00:03:31]  Oil is another story.
[00:03:32]  It's not.
[00:03:33]  They're all one story.
[00:03:34]  Okay.
[00:03:35]  One story.
[00:03:37]  And the story is this.
[00:03:40]  This administration, I believe, is trying to redraw the strategic map of the Western Hemisphere and say very, very clearly that this side of the world will not be handed over to the cartels, the Chinese government, Russians, or any kind of transnational elite management that treats nations like economic zones instead of homes for real people.
[00:04:05]  That's the big idea behind what Trump has just launched as the shield of the Americas.
[00:04:12]  Reuters reported he formally launched the coalition in Miami March 7th, said 17 nations have entered the alliance now.
[00:04:21]  Do you notice what he's doing?
[00:04:22]  He is creating new alliances.
[00:04:25]  He is saying NATO is not really something we should be a part of, but he's not saying we shouldn't be a part of a new strategic alliance.
[00:04:33]  He's saying all of the strategic alliances have changed and we need to look for the ones that fit this century, not last century.
[00:04:41]  So he's got 17 nations and at least a dozen regional leaders were at the summit and they signed the proclamation, you know, beginning it.
[00:04:51]  Now, this is not just another slogan or another, you know, I'm going to send Kamala Harris down to find out what the problem is.
[00:05:00]  We know what the problem is.
[00:05:02]  Presidents will tell you what they believe with movement, not just words.
[00:05:06]  President Biden told us who he was and what he believed by sending Kamala Harris, who really never went down to find out what the problem was when we all knew what the problem was.
[00:05:16]  But I want you to look at the moves this president has made.
[00:05:19]  In Venezuela, the administration didn't posture, it didn't talk about it.
[00:05:23]  U.S. forces went in, captured Nicolas Maduro.
[00:05:27]  Washington then moved quickly to shape the oil picture that followed, including announcing access to as much as $2 billion in Venezuelan crude and seizing the tankers that he said and everybody was saying were used to evade sanctions.
[00:05:44]  So what was he doing?
[00:05:45]  He was hitting China and also Iran.
[00:05:49]  He was preparing for that.
[00:05:51]  In Greenland, the White House openly treated the island as a strategic security priority in the Arctic.
[00:05:57]  And everybody was saying, that's crazy.
[00:05:59]  What is he doing?
[00:06:03]  But what was he doing?
[00:06:06]  He said it was necessary to deter adversaries in the region.
[00:06:10]  What adversary would that be?
[00:06:11]  Russia.
[00:06:13]  Also, to open new shipping lines in the Arctic Circle that we would control.
[00:06:19]  Good idea for America first or bad idea.
[00:06:23]  Cuba is in the news this weekend.
[00:06:25]  Administration, Trump has just been tightening the vice.
[00:06:29]  Trump threatened tariffs on any country supplying oil to Cuba in January.
[00:06:35]  March 7th, he said, you know, guess who's coming to the negotiating table?
[00:06:39]  And quote, Marco Rubio is at the end of the line.
[00:06:44]  The people were rioting in the streets down with communism, thanking America, blah, blah, blah.
[00:06:50]  Cuba's about to fall.
[00:06:53]  Think of that.
[00:06:55]  Mexico.
[00:06:56]  What happened last week in Mexico?
[00:06:58]  The pressure is no longer theoretical.
[00:07:01]  Mexican special forces with our intelligence support killed the cartel leader, El Mencho.
[00:07:10]  And what did that do?
[00:07:11]  Oh my gosh, that set Mexico on fire, but exposed just how deep the cartel problem really is.
[00:07:18]  None of this stuff is random.
[00:07:21]  This is doctrine.
[00:07:23]  The theme of today's show really is look for the big picture.
[00:07:29]  None of these stories from the war in Iran to this story, none of these are disconnected.
[00:07:36]  It is all one big vision.
[00:07:39]  Now, if you want the old name for, you know, what he started this weekend with the shield of America or the Americas, it's the Monroe Doctrine.
[00:07:49]  You know, but then, you know, the Monroe Doctrine, you know, wearing a tri-cornered hat, really, this is the 21st century version that sounds more like a Marvel movie.
[00:07:58]  The original Monroe Doctrine said to Europe, the hemisphere is not your chessboard.
[00:08:03]  This belongs to the West and new countries.
[00:08:07]  Okay, it's the new world.
[00:08:08]  The updated version says to China and Russia and to criminal empires.
[00:08:15]  And yes, even the folks in Davos, I'm sorry, sovereignty is not an inconvenience.
[00:08:22]  This hemisphere is not open to hostile capture.
[00:08:26]  This is a free zone.
[00:08:28]  That's what this is.
[00:08:31]  Okay, so why?
[00:08:32]  How does this matter to you?
[00:08:33]  Why?
[00:08:34]  Why?
[00:08:34]  Can we just get gas prices down?
[00:08:36]  Can we just fix the price of groceries?
[00:08:40]  You have been taught your whole life that, you know, foreign policy is something that happens over there.
[00:08:48]  And couple that with, oh my gosh, and foreign policy always means nation building.
[00:08:53]  So we're building somebody else without building us.
[00:08:57]  No longer is that true.
[00:09:00]  Foreign affairs have come home.
[00:09:03]  If China controls more strategic ports and infrastructure and debt and communications in Latin America, that's not abstract.
[00:09:11]  China's trade with Latin America reached about $520 billion in 2024.
[00:09:17]  It extended more than $120 billion in loans in the hemisphere.
[00:09:23]  Why?
[00:09:23]  Why would they do that?
[00:09:25]  Because they have energy projects, they have ports and other strategic infrastructure here in our hemisphere.
[00:09:33]  They would control it.
[00:09:36]  Also, we've been concerned about the Chinese-backed facilities in places like Peru and Argentina, as well as Chinese support for Venezuela.
[00:09:46]  That can happen.
[00:09:48]  If you want a secure nation, if look, if you want to continue the idea that we are a nation in decline, then don't do any of these things.
[00:09:57]  But if you say we cannot be a nation in decline, the best still has to be in front of us for our children.
[00:10:07]  If you don't mind the U.S. dollar no longer being the world's reserve currency, so we are essentially Mexico, then don't do any of these things.
[00:10:19]  If Russia can keep anti-American regimes alive in this hemisphere through oil and shipping and intelligence ties or sanctions evasion, that's not abstract.
[00:10:31]  Okay?
[00:10:32]  If cartels, the next one on the list, can control territory in Mexico, and I mean a lot of territory in Mexico, they are the government of Mexico, and they can move fentanyl, traffic human beings, intimidate local and state governments, have their own private armies.
[00:10:53]  That's not a border issue.
[00:10:54]  That's a parallel state on our border.
[00:10:59]  You know, Mexico described cartel retaliation as so intense that the roads were blockaded and businesses burned and flights were suspended.
[00:11:11]  That's a parallel government.
[00:11:13]  So when the president came out this weekend and said, shield of the Americas, the real point is that it's not just theater.
[00:11:25]  The real point is this.
[00:11:27]  The United States is trying to lock down its near abroad before the adversaries that we have lock us out of it.
[00:11:35]  And they were close because nobody paid attention.

=== Regime Containment Strategy (16:23) ===

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[00:13:24]  Last night I looked at my wife.
[00:13:27]  She said, are you okay?
[00:13:28]  And I said, yeah, I just have to go back into the jaws of hell again tomorrow.
[00:13:37]  And she said, what do you mean?
[00:13:38]  I said, you know, I always have this.
[00:13:41]  I leave on Friday and I have a day or so where I pretty much don't think of the news.
[00:13:48]  But I always, it runs 24 hours a day.
[00:13:50]  So I always have to kind of pay attention.
[00:13:52]  But then on Friday after Saturday, sorry, Sunday afternoon, I've really got to get back in and see what I've missed and everything else.
[00:13:58]  And with everything that is going on in the world, it's just, it's very daunting.
[00:14:04]  And more so because I don't feel like anybody.
[00:14:08]  I've been watching the news since the war began.
[00:14:11]  What a pile of crap that is.
[00:14:14]  How do you get anything out of that?
[00:14:16]  How do you get anything useful?
[00:14:18]  And then we have all of these problems internally with our own side just fracturing.
[00:14:25]  And everybody is playing this game of, you know, who's the biggest traitor in the world?
[00:14:32]  Who's for this war?
[00:14:33]  Who's against this war?
[00:14:34]  You're a traitor.
[00:14:35]  No, you're a traitor.
[00:14:36]  Oh, my God.
[00:14:40]  So let me try to do something different.
[00:14:45]  Because I think there's a question that I know I'm asking myself.
[00:14:48]  I don't have the answers.
[00:14:51]  I'm searching just like you are, but my job requires me to come up with an answer.
[00:15:06]  So let me give it a shot.
[00:15:07]  First of all, you're not crazy.
[00:15:10]  If you're asking, wait a minute, wait a minute.
[00:15:11]  I thought we were done with all these wars.
[00:15:14]  I thought America first meant no more endless wars in the Middle East.
[00:15:18]  No more disasters.
[00:15:19]  Why are we involved with Iran now?
[00:15:22]  Boots on the ground.
[00:15:23]  Did I hear the president say boots on the ground?
[00:15:25]  Does that mean body bags are coming home?
[00:15:27]  Gas prices are now exploding.
[00:15:29]  Is this a 20-year war that no one can explain again?
[00:15:34]  You remember how it started in Iraq.
[00:15:36]  So do I. I've been watching the news and it is absolutely worthless because it's just about politics.
[00:15:45]  But this is principle driven.
[00:15:49]  What is actually happening?
[00:15:51]  Not which answer is going to make me more popular or a traitor to one side or another.
[00:15:56]  What's actually happening?
[00:15:58]  What does it mean?
[00:16:00]  Because not only do you deserve to understand what is actually happening, You're an American citizen.
[00:16:06]  You have to understand this.
[00:16:10]  So let me first recognize what you're feeling.
[00:16:13]  20 years, for 20 years, the United States did something that we all know now was a huge mistake.
[00:16:21]  I don't care what side of the aisle you were on.
[00:16:23]  I mean, maybe unless you're Lindsey Graham, we all know that was a mistake.
[00:16:27]  And what was the mistake?
[00:16:34]  Was it going?
[00:16:37]  Was it trying to punish Afghanistan for, you know, 9-11?
[00:16:45]  What was it?
[00:16:46]  Here was the mistake.
[00:16:47]  We tried to replace governments.
[00:16:49]  We didn't go after the bad guys and then just knock them out.
[00:16:55]  We went into Iraq, we went into Afghanistan, and we nation-built.
[00:16:59]  And the theory was really, really simple.
[00:17:01]  Remove the dictator, build democracy, because everybody loves democracy and that will stabilize the region.
[00:17:08]  But it doesn't work that way.
[00:17:10]  And toppling a regime is super easy.
[00:17:14]  But building a stable country afterwards is almost impossible, especially if you're a bunch of guys from a think tank in the West and you're going to a tribal state in Afghanistan.
[00:17:29]  And that lesson cost us trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives.
[00:17:36]  So when you hear the word Iran and war, every alarm bell in your head goes off.
[00:17:41]  And frankly, it should.
[00:17:43]  Because Iraq was bad.
[00:17:46]  Afghanistan was bad.
[00:17:48]  We should never ever do that again and especially do it again and expect different results.
[00:17:54]  That's the definition of insanity.
[00:17:58]  So what is this?
[00:18:00]  Is this not Iraq or Afghanistan again?
[00:18:03]  Is there anything different that we're trying?
[00:18:06]  What is it?
[00:18:06]  What's the strategy?
[00:18:09]  Let me try to explain this.
[00:18:12]  The strategy that appears to be unfolding right now is not regime change.
[00:18:19]  It is something else entirely.
[00:18:22]  It's called regime containment.
[00:18:25]  And those two things are night and day different.
[00:18:29]  Regime change means this.
[00:18:32]  You drop bombs, then you send troops in, you invade, you occupy, you overthrow the government, and then you try to put a new government in and you rebuild the country.
[00:18:43]  That's Iraq.
[00:18:45]  That's Afghanistan.
[00:18:47]  And the American people know.
[00:18:49]  Donald Trump knows.
[00:18:50]  No, we're not doing that ever again.
[00:18:52]  Well, wait a minute.
[00:18:54]  I know I said that.
[00:18:54]  You said that.
[00:18:55]  He said that.
[00:18:56]  Why are we doing this then?
[00:18:57]  What are we doing?
[00:18:59]  Do you remember about, it must have been about 2004, maybe 2003, we got into Iraq and it starts going poorly.
[00:19:07]  And we're like, why didn't we just go in and kill the bad guys and then leave?
[00:19:13]  Why didn't we just go in and kill Osama bin Laden and the people that were responsible for it, teach them a lesson, hit them hard, kill them, kill them quickly, and then get the hell out?
[00:19:26]  Remember that?
[00:19:29]  We didn't do it then because the old thinking is, you break it, you fix it.
[00:19:33]  You break it, you own it.
[00:19:36]  Well, that doesn't work.
[00:19:39]  So the new thinking is, what if we just break it?
[00:19:44]  Contain it, disable it, and go home.
[00:19:49]  What happens if we just go over and kill the bad guys, wipe out their ability to destroy other things, wipe out their military, and then leave?
[00:20:01]  And that's what's happening.
[00:20:04]  Containment.
[00:20:06]  Containment is not nation building.
[00:20:08]  Containment is different.
[00:20:10]  Containment, we went into Venezuela.
[00:20:13]  Do you remember thinking, wait a minute, we just let the vice president who's just as bad as the other president, Maduro, we let her just stay in.
[00:20:20]  We're keeping the regime?
[00:20:21]  What?
[00:20:22]  Yes, that's called containment.
[00:20:24]  And I guarantee you, here's how that conversation went.
[00:20:27]  Guess who the next president is?
[00:20:29]  You are.
[00:20:30]  And you know what?
[00:20:31]  You don't do what we need you to do on these particular issues.
[00:20:36]  Get the hell out of bed with China and Russia.
[00:20:39]  You're not to let anyone, any terrorist organizations like Hezbollah into Venezuela to train.
[00:20:47]  You're getting rid of all of that stuff and you're stomping out your drug trade.
[00:20:52]  And you know what?
[00:20:53]  Congratulations, Mrs. President.
[00:20:55]  You'll be president of Venezuela.
[00:20:57]  You don't do it.
[00:20:58]  It's a red line for us.
[00:21:00]  You're next.
[00:21:02]  That's containment.
[00:21:04]  Now, we've let her do it.
[00:21:07]  And guess what happened this weekend?
[00:21:08]  She was singing the praises of the United States.
[00:21:10]  Isn't that weird?
[00:21:13]  You break the regime's ability to threaten the world.
[00:21:17]  You destroy the military capability.
[00:21:20]  You target weapons programs.
[00:21:22]  You stop nuclear development.
[00:21:25]  But you do not invade the country.
[00:21:28]  You don't occupy it.
[00:21:29]  There's no boots on the grounds.
[00:21:30]  You don't try to rebuild it.
[00:21:32]  You let the people inside the country decide their own future, even if it's a future you don't really love.
[00:21:38]  That is a very different doctrine.
[00:21:42]  Now, we've used it before.
[00:21:44]  We've used it before.
[00:21:45]  It's successful.
[00:21:47]  It's called the former Soviet Union.
[00:21:50]  We didn't invade Moscow.
[00:21:54]  We contained it until the regime collapsed under its own weight.
[00:21:58]  Boots on the ground?
[00:21:59]  None.
[00:22:00]  Now, Trump has said this weekend, in a very specific way, he said, yes, there will be boots on the ground.
[00:22:10]  Wait, wait, what?
[00:22:11]  Boots on the ground?
[00:22:13]  What does that mean to the average person?
[00:22:14]  Boots on the ground.
[00:22:16]  That means guys with guns go in and they're fighting in the streets and they're trying to, what?
[00:22:22]  I don't even know what.
[00:22:23]  What did we do in Afghanistan?
[00:22:25]  Nation build.
[00:22:27]  No, no boots on the ground.
[00:22:29]  But you didn't listen or the media didn't listen.
[00:22:32]  Or if they did, they kept this from you because they're only about fear.
[00:22:38]  And by the way, I want you to know, you should be afraid of this.
[00:22:42]  This is war.
[00:22:44]  It's not just war.
[00:22:47]  We are both now engaged in a holy war.
[00:22:51]  Iran's been engaged in a holy war since 1979.
[00:22:54]  We're the big Satan.
[00:22:56]  They're coming for we're going to kill all the Americans.
[00:22:59]  We're going to kill Israel.
[00:23:01]  We're going to kill all the Jews.
[00:23:02]  We'll wash the world in blood.
[00:23:05]  Everyone who's against us will burn in the fires of the Islamic fury.
[00:23:09]  That's a holy war.
[00:23:11]  We just denied it and never engaged.
[00:23:14]  Well, we've engaged and we're in a holy war now.
[00:23:18]  Okay?
[00:23:19]  How do you deal with a holy war?
[00:23:22]  How do you deal with a holy war when there's nuclear material on the ground?
[00:23:28]  You know, when we went in and we bombed, what happened?
[00:23:31]  We bombed.
[00:23:32]  We said we got all their nuclear facilities.
[00:23:34]  Did we?
[00:23:35]  I don't know.
[00:23:37]  But we said we got them.
[00:23:38]  But you know what we didn't get?
[00:23:41]  What we didn't get is the uranium that's been enriched.
[00:23:47]  Okay.
[00:23:49]  I just want, I want to ask you, I want to ask you before I go any further.
[00:23:52]  I want to ask you this.
[00:23:56]  What would happen if we would have done nothing?
[00:24:01]  To me, here's the most likely thing.
[00:24:04]  We would have bought maybe a year, maybe two, maybe five, maybe, I don't know.
[00:24:08]  We would have bought time.
[00:24:10]  But if we did nothing, Iran would eventually become a nuclear power.
[00:24:15]  The Middle East becoming a nuclear powder keg overnight because they are fighting a religious war.
[00:24:22]  These are not you.
[00:24:24]  They're not me.
[00:24:25]  They're not China.
[00:24:26]  They're not Russia.
[00:24:27]  They want to wash the world in blood.
[00:24:29]  They don't care.
[00:24:31]  Why do you think they're hitting all of their neighbors?
[00:24:33]  Because they need a holy war.
[00:24:39]  If they would have gotten nuclear material, then Saudi Arabia needs to go nuclear.
[00:24:44]  Turkey would go nuclear.
[00:24:46]  Egypt would go nuclear.
[00:24:48]  Israel would respond.
[00:24:50]  Now suddenly you have the most unstable region in the world with five or six nuclear powers, all of them, or damn near all of them, bat crap crazy.
[00:25:01]  That's a nightmare.
[00:25:04]  So stopping that before it happens is not an endless war.
[00:25:08]  You're preventing a larger one.
[00:25:10]  Now, should we have waited longer?
[00:25:12]  I don't know.
[00:25:13]  I don't know.
[00:25:14]  I don't get the briefings.
[00:25:15]  So I don't know.
[00:25:17]  And quite frankly, neither do any of these boobs that are telling you they do know for sure.
[00:25:22]  None of them do.
[00:25:24]  I'm so sick and tired of people like me telling you they know for sure that this is what's going on.
[00:25:29]  I have no idea what's going on.
[00:25:31]  And I have pretty good access.
[00:25:34]  I have no idea.
[00:25:36]  I have no idea what's right, what's wrong.
[00:25:38]  I have no idea.
[00:25:39]  I have principles and I'm trying to hold on to my principles.
[00:25:45]  But what do you do when you've bombed a country and you have enriched weapons-grade uranium?
[00:25:53]  You send scientists in, but you can't send a bunch of nerds in by themselves.
[00:26:00]  Where's the enriched uranium?
[00:26:02]  They're not going to do anything with it.
[00:26:04]  They might find it, but you're going to need protection and military-grade aircraft to lift it out.
[00:26:12]  That's what he means by boots on the ground.
[00:26:14]  Scientists with guys with guns and airplanes able to go find that stuff and get it the hell out of the Middle East.
[00:26:22]  Now, again, let me ask you, what are the other options?
[00:26:26]  If you let somebody else do it, who are you going to let?
[00:26:29]  You know, you don't trust the people in Europe?
[00:26:33]  Not me.
[00:26:34]  The Middle East?
[00:26:36]  Not me.
[00:26:38]  Do you know how many dirty bombs this could make?
[00:26:41]  Let alone, I think it was, what was it, four nuclear warheads?
[00:26:44]  Do you know how many dirty bombs that could make?
[00:26:47]  By the way, Alexander Dugan is saying that Russia should provide any nuclear technology to anyone who will fight against the West.
[00:26:56]  Yeah, we live in a very dangerous world today.
[00:27:00]  But here is the most important difference between this moment and the wars Americans remember.
[00:27:11]  There is no American invasion plan.
[00:27:14]  There is no 200,000 troop occupation force.
[00:27:17]  There is no nation-building fantasy.
[00:27:21]  You leave that to the Iranian people.
[00:27:24]  And millions of them hate the regime that rules them.
[00:27:28]  They've protested.
[00:27:29]  They've risked their lives marching out in the streets.
[00:27:31]  Women have cut their hair in defiance.
[00:27:34]  I mean, it's pretty clear.
[00:27:35]  Students rising up, entire cities pushing back.
[00:27:39]  The real future of Iran is not going to be decided by American soldiers.
[00:27:42]  There's not going to be any parades like there were in France in World War II for us.
[00:27:46]  It's going to be decided by the Iranian people.
[00:27:49]  And the strategy appears designed to avoid crushing that possibility with an American occupation because once we're there, it's over.
[00:27:59]  Now, that doesn't mean there aren't risks.

=== Radicals And Globalists (15:08) ===

[00:28:01]  There are.
[00:28:01]  Absolutely are.
[00:28:03]  You're listening to the best of Glenn Beck.
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[00:28:10]  You have so much you're dealing with every day.
[00:28:12]  And I know it.
[00:28:14]  And it, as I start to do my work every night, getting ready for this show, I think about what you're facing every day from just simple things like going and getting a hamburger at the drive-thru and how expensive that is.
[00:28:29]  You are dealing with issues of affordability and job stability.
[00:28:34]  I mean, AI comes in.
[00:28:35]  Do you even have time to think about AI?
[00:28:38]  It's just the beginning of the things you have to worry about.
[00:28:41]  We are people now that we have to start juggling many things at the same time.
[00:28:49]  You know, we have to, you know, the old saying is, I can walk and chew gum at the same time.
[00:28:53]  Well, that would be nice.
[00:28:54]  Walk and chew gum plus play tennis, maybe bowling night, have a parent-teacher conference so teachers can't put your kids on gender home runs, fight your way through an antifi protest, you know, so you can vote to stop Sharia law.
[00:29:06]  Okay.
[00:29:06]  That's what you're doing every single day.
[00:29:09]  I just did an hour a minute ago on what this means when Donald Trump says boots on the ground.
[00:29:18]  Boots on the ground to this a holy war and oil prices.
[00:29:23]  What does all that mean?
[00:29:26]  It's so much easier when you realize everything is connected.
[00:29:29]  You know, one of the things that, you know, as I've tried to find out, figure out how does AI do what it does?
[00:29:36]  Nobody really knows, but we do know this.
[00:29:38]  We've put all of our lessons, all of our work, everything into an AI system.
[00:29:44]  And what it does is it looks for patterns and then it puts them together.
[00:29:51]  That is the, that's the definition of intelligence, being able to spot patterns and then put them together.
[00:29:59]  So if you're looking for something intelligent, let's look for patterns.
[00:30:05]  Do you remember when I was at Fox?
[00:30:07]  I told you this prediction, and it wasn't really a prediction.
[00:30:10]  I knew it to be true because I looked at the patterns.
[00:30:14]  Do you remember this chalkboard?
[00:30:16]  I put this up and said, radicals, Islamists, communists, and socialists will work together against Israel, against capitalism, and work together to overturn stability.
[00:30:26]  There are radicals, globalists, Islamists all working together.
[00:30:30]  Radicals, Islamists, communists, and socialists will work together against Israel, work against capitalism, work together to overturn stability.
[00:30:38]  Let it be my tombstone.
[00:30:41]  I was hammered for it.
[00:30:43]  Radicals, Islamists, communists, socialists, all working together against Israel.
[00:30:48]  This has nothing to do with Israel.
[00:30:49]  This has everything to do with freedom.
[00:30:53]  And they all said that they would never work together.
[00:30:55]  That chalkboard is everything you need, except there's one thing that I left off that chalkboard that I'm going to add today.
[00:31:01]  But let's start here.
[00:31:02]  All of the players, their motives, their objectives.
[00:31:05]  If you miss this one giant chalkboard dot, you're going to be lost.
[00:31:11]  And let me show you.
[00:31:12]  Something happened this weekend in New York City that, you know, should have stopped the entire country dead in its tracks if you knew the chalkboard.
[00:31:21]  Outside Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor of New York, protests, two of them, collided.
[00:31:27]  One was protesting what organized called the Islamification of the city, and the other counter-protest was against them.
[00:31:34]  Okay.
[00:31:35]  In the middle of that clash, according to the New York Police Department, a man lit and threw an improvised explosive device, an IED.
[00:31:43]  When's the first time you ever heard of an IED?
[00:31:46]  Oh, that's right.
[00:31:47]  That's what Iran created to blow up our soldiers.
[00:31:51]  Okay.
[00:31:52]  Police later confirmed it was not a smoke bomb or a hoax.
[00:31:56]  It was a real device.
[00:31:58]  It was a jar packed with screws and nuts and bolts and a fuse.
[00:32:02]  And if it would have gone off, it would have caused massive injury and death.
[00:32:07]  Two suspects were arrested.
[00:32:09]  Federal authorities have opened a terror investigation.
[00:32:13]  Thankfully, it failed to detonate.
[00:32:16]  But that's not the troubling part of the story.
[00:32:18]  The most troubling part is what happened afterward.
[00:32:23]  The new mayor of New York condemned the protest itself as hateful and racist.
[00:32:29]  But he avoided acknowledging the ideological context behind the attack on the other side.
[00:32:36]  At the same time, there are reports circulating that the mayor's own wife had a previously liked social media post celebrating the October 7th Hamas attack against Israel.
[00:32:47]  Posts ranging from the breach of Israel's border to describing it just simply as resistance.
[00:32:54]  Okay, so why does any of this matter?
[00:32:57]  Well, because leadership matters, tone matters, and what leaders excuse or refuse to confront often becomes what a society learns to tolerate.
[00:33:09]  But that's not enough.
[00:33:12]  America today is facing a problem that many of our political leaders refuse to even describe because they're cowards.
[00:33:18]  Mamdani is not a coward.
[00:33:20]  He's different.
[00:33:22]  There is this growing ideological alliance between two movements that have historically had two very different worldviews, radical Marxism and radical Islamism.
[00:33:34]  At first glance, if you're an idiot or a boob that has studied this the whole time, and then you get on and you're like, ah, I'm Bill Crystal and I know those two groups never work together.
[00:33:46]  Okay, Bill.
[00:33:48]  One is secular, one is revolutionary.
[00:33:51]  One is religious, one is authoritarian.
[00:33:53]  Or are they both?
[00:33:56]  Because history will show us something really, really important.
[00:33:59]  When movements share the same enemy, that enemy being Western civilization, capitalism, or liberal democracy, which when I mean liberal democracy, what I mean is that people choose their own future.
[00:34:13]  These two groups always form a temporary alliance.
[00:34:17]  Notice I said temporary alliance.
[00:34:20]  Political scientists call it the red-green alliance.
[00:34:24]  And the most important example of that alliance happened in Iran in 1979.
[00:34:29]  When the Iranian revolution happened in 1979, I was a kid.
[00:34:33]  I barely remember this, but it wasn't just the clerics that were protesting the Shah.
[00:34:39]  Who else was there and played a maximum role in that?
[00:34:44]  It was students and Marxist and communist and secular revolutionaries.
[00:34:49]  And they band together with the Islamic clerics and they all marched arm in arm, hand in hand.
[00:34:55]  Left-wing guerrilla groups and communist parties helped to stabilize Iran.
[00:35:02]  Then the Islamist networks mobilized all of the mosques.
[00:35:07]  So this has been talked about over and over and over again.
[00:35:13]  It is the red-green alliance.
[00:35:15]  And intellectuals have gone into it with all kinds of, you know, all kinds of books and everything else.
[00:35:22]  This is really well known, but nobody will talk about it.
[00:35:25]  Okay.
[00:35:26]  And together they overthrew the Shah.
[00:35:28]  And then something predictable happened.
[00:35:31]  Once the Islamists consolidated power under the Ayatollah Khomeini, they turned on their former Marxist allies.
[00:35:39]  The communists were imprisoned.
[00:35:42]  The revolutionaries were purged.
[00:35:44]  They were executed.
[00:35:46]  And they were tortured.
[00:35:48]  Hmm.
[00:35:50]  Wait a minute.
[00:35:51]  I thought they were partners in this.
[00:35:53]  Glenn, you just said they worked together.
[00:35:56]  I did.
[00:35:57]  To destabilize the Western world.
[00:36:01]  I didn't go into what happens after, did I?
[00:36:06]  I was just trying to say, look at these people.
[00:36:08]  They are connected.
[00:36:10]  This is a connected movement.
[00:36:12]  And that was that nobody could understand that at the time because it was 15 years ahead.
[00:36:18]  But now you can see it.
[00:36:20]  They are connected.
[00:36:22]  So now it's time to add something else to the chalkboard.
[00:36:27]  History recorded this lesson very clearly.
[00:36:30]  Temporary revolutionary alliances often end with one side eating the other.
[00:36:36]  And the pattern didn't end in Iran.
[00:36:38]  You can see the echoes of it in a whole bunch of other places, parts of Europe, particularly France and Great Britain.
[00:36:45]  Analysts have warned about the political cooperation between segments of the far left and the Islamist activist movements inside urban political coalitions.
[00:36:54]  Do you know who just controls the Green Party now?
[00:37:00]  In England?
[00:37:01]  Who just took over?
[00:37:03]  The radical Islamists.
[00:37:06]  The Green Party is now an Islamist party.
[00:37:10]  But they're also Marxist.
[00:37:12]  See, they'll work together.
[00:37:14]  These alliances form around the shared opposition to the West, Israel, capitalism, and national identity.
[00:37:26]  The left provides the political shield.
[00:37:29]  The Islamists provide the mobilization and the grievance narrative.
[00:37:33]  And together, they build a coalition powerful enough to reshape our institutions.
[00:37:38]  We're watching versions of this emerge in Western cities today.
[00:37:42]  Look at the map in the United States, New York, Dearborn, Minneapolis, parts of Texas, and those are just a couple of them.
[00:37:52]  These are places where radical political movements and radical religious ideologies are marching under the same banner.
[00:37:59]  And when the violence happens, the first instinct is not to confront the ideology.
[00:38:05]  It's to silence the discussion.
[00:38:07]  That's what's going to get us all killed.
[00:38:11]  And anyone who raises the concern is either a conspiracy theorist or a bigot or whatever.
[00:38:17]  But refusing to talk about the ideology and what's actually happening does not make it disappear.
[00:38:24]  It allows it to grow.
[00:38:28]  So let me say something really super clear.
[00:38:33]  I don't have a problem with Muslims.
[00:38:35]  There's a lot of Muslims in America that want to live here, moved away from that crap.
[00:38:40]  They know exactly what it is.
[00:38:42]  They're Americans.
[00:38:43]  They work.
[00:38:44]  They raise families.
[00:38:45]  They want the same thing that you and I want.
[00:38:47]  And they don't want any of that crap.
[00:38:50]  But it's happening.
[00:38:54]  America should always remain open to immigrants who want to become Americans.
[00:38:58]  It's one of our greatest strengths.
[00:39:00]  But the Islamist and the Marxist are shipping people here that don't want to be an American.
[00:39:06]  And that openness cannot mean blindness.
[00:39:09]  Because among the millions who cross our borders or enter our political institutions, there are a lot of them now that want to not join America, but change it into something else entirely.
[00:39:22]  And when these people openly celebrate terrorism, justify violence, throw bombs into crowds, you have to have the courage to say, enough is enough.
[00:39:32]  Enough is enough.
[00:39:36]  This isn't about your religion.
[00:39:38]  It's not about your race.
[00:39:41]  Ideology matters because history shows that civilizations don't collapse from a single attack.
[00:39:48]  They collapse when they lose the ability to recognize the attack for what it is.
[00:39:54]  Iran learned that lesson in 1979.
[00:39:57]  Europe is learning it right now, and America is seeing the early warning signs.
[00:40:01]  The solution, of course, is not hatred.
[00:40:03]  Hatred destroys nations.
[00:40:05]  The solution is also not naive or stupid compassion.
[00:40:12]  Look away from the danger.
[00:40:14]  No, no.
[00:40:15]  We can chew gum and walk at the same time.
[00:40:18]  We can see the danger and also not hate.
[00:40:24]  Welcome those who come here to be Americans the right way and remove those who came here the wrong way and those especially who have come here to change or harm America.
[00:40:36]  And that means deporting the individuals who openly support terrorism.
[00:40:41]  That means refusing to tolerate violent ideological movements, period, no matter what side.
[00:40:47]  It means having the courage to discuss the problem honestly, even when it's uncomfortable.
[00:40:53]  Because the most dangerous moment any civilization ever faces is not when the extremists appear, because the extremists have always been here.
[00:41:04]  They've always existed.
[00:41:06]  The most dangerous moment is when leaders and citizens convince themselves that speaking about the threat is worse than the threat itself.
[00:41:14]  That's how societies drift into disaster.
[00:41:19]  And we cannot.
[00:41:20]  It's not too late to pull back on the reins, but it is growing late.
[00:41:26]  The stakes are not politics.
[00:41:28]  It's not.
[00:41:28]  The stakes are the survival for the American idea.
[00:41:32]  The idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.
[00:41:38]  You know that there are Marxists now and there are those, I'm going to get into the fraction on the right here today.
[00:41:44]  There are those in the right who are saying the problem is liberal democracy.
[00:41:51]  The problem is that people have too many rights.
[00:41:55]  Nope, that's not the problem.
[00:41:56]  Because you know who gave me those rights?
[00:41:58]  God.
[00:41:59]  So how are you telling me that God is against me having rights?
[00:42:04]  Doesn't really work, does it, Satan?
[00:42:09]  Oh, gosh.
[00:42:10]  Let me add one thing to this.
[00:42:14]  The Islamics, the socialists, the communists, the radicals will work together to destabilize Israel, Europe, and the entire Western world.
[00:42:28]  Then, here's the addition, then the most vicious will kill, torture, and imprison the others.
[00:42:37]  Marxist, you think you're so smart.
[00:42:40]  Mamdani, I'm not sure if he is a Marxist or a Islamist.
[00:42:46]  I have my own view on that, but I don't know what's true or not.
[00:42:50]  But I will tell you this.
[00:42:52]  He's the nexus.
[00:42:54]  He's the nexus.
[00:42:56]  He's the one that can put them both together.
[00:43:00]  Half of that crowd is going to be very, very disappointed when they're being tortured and killed in the end.
[00:43:09]  Both need to be