Glenn Beck, Sharyl Attkisson, and Chad Wolf dissect the SAVE Act's citizenship requirements, alleging a "zombie filibuster" blocks justice despite DOJ findings of non-citizens on voter rolls. They expose Medicare fraud in LA hospices billing $29,000 for no care and claim 18,000 terrorists entered the U.S., including 1,500 from Iran, while Congress ignores plastic bans due to corporate lobbying. The trio critiques media hypocrisy regarding Iranian athletes versus domestic oppression, warns of DHS funding gaps enabling sleeper cells, and argues Radical Islam seeks to overthrow America, contrasting individual rights with collectivist state narratives. [Automatically generated summary]
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So let's see if we can be well informed.
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I want to connect a few stories that on the surface look completely unrelated, but they're actually not.
They're all telling you the same thing about how power is working in America right now.
So let me start in Washington.
The Senate now is preparing to vote on the SAVE Act.
This is a complete sham.
Now, this is just a bill that says you have to prove you're a citizen to vote in American elections.
Think about that for just a second.
Just this basic idea.
If you're voting in the United States, you should be an American citizen.
That's it.
But the Senate leadership is already warning that it might need 60 votes to pass.
Well, yeah, if you don't do your job, it will.
And that's where the game begins.
Because technically, they are right.
Practically, they're hiding behind the rules.
The Senate has called for something, or it has something called the filibuster.
And originally, if you wanted to block a bill, all you had to do is stand on the floor and talk hour after hour, day after day, you know, your voice giving up, your legs shaking.
Mr. Stewart, Mr. Smith goes to Washington.
Okay.
That's the whole point of that movie.
But today, you don't have to do that anymore because it's hard.
You just threaten a filibuster and then walk away and you need a 60-person vote to bring it back to the floor.
No speeches, no fight, no accountability, okay?
No courage, just a zombie filibuster.
Republican senators know something most Americans don't.
They could force the issue.
They could keep the Senate in continuous session for day after day after day.
And if Democrats want to block voter citizenship requirements, then let them stand there for 24 hours a day explaining why.
Make them hold the floor.
Make them say it out loud.
But that would require something rare in Washington.
Effort.
Conviction.
Courage.
A belief in our system.
So instead, the bill just will quietly die and the public will never see the fight.
Okay, why does this matter?
Well, let me tie the next story to this, because at the exact same time this is happening, the Justice Department is saying something else that could stop the country, should stop the country cold.
Assistant Attorney General Harmie Dillon says investigators now are finding tens of thousands of non-citizens on voter rolls and hundreds of thousands of dead people still registered.
Now, maybe most of these people will never vote, but not one of them should.
You know, when it comes to our air travel, we don't say, relax, most planes land safely.
Did you, have you ever heard anyone actually suggest that Boeing should just come out and say, you know, we've had thousands and thousands of flights and it was only one door that blew out in the middle of the flight.
It was only one plane that crashed.
Okay, maybe three.
But we've had hundreds of thousands of flights.
No.
Zero tolerance.
Because the system only works if the public trusts it.
Not only is the Boeing example ridiculous to think that we would accept because of the loss of life, but even Boeing knows they have to fix that.
They have one more plane go down.
If they don't restore the confidence in the system of Boeing and their airplanes, no one will buy or fly a Boeing airplane.
It's the same thing.
Trust right now is the rarest currency in America.
You have to have trust in the system.
Look what else dropped.
FBI director now says the Bureau ran four secret counterintelligence operations from 2016 to 2025 that monitored over a thousand Trump associates, journalists, lawmakers, and advisors.
Excuse me, what?
This makes Nixon look like child's play.
Some of these probes are now under civil rights review.
The same institutions that tell you trust the system are quietly admitting the system has been used to spy on political movements.
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, investigators just uncovered something almost unbelievable and we are in the sea of unbelievable and incomprehensible.
Nearly half of the hospices in LA County show fraud warning signs.
Companies were building Medicare, your tax dollars, that are supposed to go to the people who actually need it.
They were billing with zero patients, multiple hospices registered at the same buildings.
This is in LA now.
Patients discovering that they were fraudulently enrolled in hospice care and they didn't even know it.
So somebody was using their name to get money to provide care that they never got and no one did.
And every patient was billed to the taxpayer for $29,000.
That's not a glitch.
That's an industry.
And when government money flows without any accountability, predators follow it like sharks follow blood.
Do you understand why they had to get rid of Elon Musk now and Doge?
Do you see?
Do you see?
Now let me zoom out because something even bigger is happening.
While our institutions are fighting over Senate procedure to trust the system of voting and Medicare fraud to trust that your tax dollars are going where they said, the world is moving and the world is moving fast.
The United States just sank 16 Iranian mine layers in the Persian Gulf.
16.
And Iran is threatening to mine the Strait of Hormuz.
That is a 20.
No, I'm sorry, is it 20?
I think it's a 20-mile stretch, okay?
Where one-fifth of the world's oil passes every single day.
And what Iran is saying is, you want this war?
Good.
Enjoy $200 a barrel oil.
But here's what they didn't expect.
Their submarines, the one they call black holes, because supposedly they're invisible.
Yeah.
They have giant black holes through them now.
And inside Iran itself, something really extraordinary is happening.
The Arab tribal leaders in the country's oil region, this is the place that produces about 60% of Iran's crude, just issued a statement calling for a free Iran and the end of the Islamic Republic.
That is massive.
That's like the oil workers in Soviet Russia demanding the fall of the Kremlin.
It tells you the regime is weaker than anyone realized.
But revolutions rarely happen cleanly.
Sometimes the regime collapses.
Sometimes it thrashes around for years.
And all the while, when that is unfolding overseas back here at home, we're arguing whether you should have to prove you're a citizen to vote.
What?
See, that's the disconnect here.
The world is playing geopolitical chess.
for the whole game.
And Washington is arguing whether the players are even allowed to sit at the board.
There's another lesson buried in today's headlines.
Look at the media coverage of Iran.
Look at the media coverage of the Iranian, the girls' soccer team, which I'll get into here in a minute.
One major newspaper, well, I just say, the New York Times, led with photos of people mourning the Ayatollah.
But buried deep in the story are the lines that show Iranians are saying they actually hope the bombing continues if it means the regime falls.
Wait, what?
When is the last time you heard a people in a nation say, please, America, continue to bomb because you can't stop until the job is done?
Why does the New York Times show the 10% instead of the 90%?
Because the story they want to tell you is always the same.
America, bad.
Enemies misunderstood.
So step back.
Here is what the headlines today actually reveal.
The institutions that are supposed to protect trust, elections, law enforcement, government spending, the media are all under strain at the same time.
They're not broken beyond repair, but they are deeply strained.
Jonathan Martin made a point about me today in Politico.
He said, how can one spend decades in and around American politics and not understand the basic macro politics of midterm elections?
He's talking about why I'm for the SAVE Act and he says it's going to hurt the Republicans in the midterms.
I don't know your proof on that one, but I don't care about the midterms.
Jonathan, that's your job at Politico, Politico.
You should be about the midterm elections.
My job is to care about the principles of the republic.
You know, only caring about the next election, which is very important, don't get me wrong, is what got us here in the first place.
A strained system that wobbles more and more each passing day.
And when the systems are strained like this, there are only a few things that matter.
Principles, transparency, and courage.
Transparency means letting Americans actually see the fight, whether it's a Senate filibuster or an FBI investigation.
Courage means you have to be willing to stand there and defend your position in the light and let the chips fall where they may.
Because if you're not willing to stand up and explain what you believe, you know, maybe you shouldn't be blocking the vote in the first place.
And that's the real story.
Not just what happened, but what it reveals about where our country is today.
A moment where the truth is fighting to surface and the people running the system are deciding whether or not they're going to help it surface or keep it sinking.
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Athletes Defy The Regime00:06:04
I want to take you, in fact, if you happen to be watching us on The Blaze, go ahead and roll the footage of this, the hotel corridor in Sydney, Australia.
It was late at night.
The, the fluorescent lights are humming overhead, the kind of lights that make everything pale and uh and unreal.
Five young women are standing there with hockey bags slung over their shoulders athletes.
They are members of Iran's national women's hockey team.
Girls who have spent their lives training for the privilege of representing their country.
In that moment, they understood something their coaches and their government handles also understood, once they stepped outside that door, they may never see home again.
And yet they walked quietly carefully, down a hallway, down a flight of stairs, into a future that did not exist.
What we know now is Australian police helped them slip away from the officials assigned to monitor them and without, within hours, the players requested asylum.
Five girls chose a life of uncertainty over the certainty of control.
You know it's.
It's a different world.
We, as Americans, we just don't get it.
We just don't get it.
There are many countries like this, but Iran is one of them, where sports are never just sports and as much as the left has tried to do that to our sports.
I think Americans are tired of it here.
If a football player takes a knee on our national anthem, they just become more famous and rich.
Okay, that's not oppression, but we try to make it into oppression.
But in places where real oppression lives, in Iran, every athlete who travels abroad represents the state of Iran.
They are monitored, they are guided, they are reminded constantly that their behavior reflects on the regime, and they're also constantly reminded, you have family back at home, so be careful.
The women carry even a heavier burden.
Every public appearance is all about conforming to strict rules about dress conduct, speech.
Careers depend on obedience and your family is back at home.
Which brings me to the part of the story where the headlines barely even mention.
Several of the teammates returned home.
Those girls now live under a cloud they didn't create.
And the authorities are going to ask them questions.
Security services are going to conduct interviews that might last hours or days.
None of them sang the national anthem.
So they're all traitors to the regime.
Sources say now that in Iran, families find themselves under quiet surveillance.
Sports now speculate that some family members may have already been arrested, detained, or questioned.
We don't know.
But authoritarian systems protect themselves through pressure.
And that pressure spreads outward from any act of defiance.
One athlete leaves, the regime has to remind everyone else there's a cost.
And yet, something important is happening inside Iran right now.
For years, the Islamic Republic maintained control through that fear, and it was immovable.
There were consequences that were way too severe, the risk too great.
But the foundation is weakening.
Women are refusing the hijab.
Students are marching through the universities.
Workers are striking in oil fields and factories.
And now athletes, people chosen to represent the nation itself, decide freedom is worth more than the career they were given.
And every single act on its own.
But together they begin to form a pattern.
Something is happening in the world.
And history moves quietly at first.
A few people step outside of the lines.
But everybody else is watching carefully.
And then the realization spread that the walls surrounding them might not be so permanent after all.
You're seeing it now in Cuba.
And you saw it with five hockey players walking down a hotel hallway.
It might look insignificant from a distance, but in Iran, oh, it was noticed.
Young girls all across the country will hear about it for decades.
They'll understand exactly what those players risked and exactly why they did it.
And somewhere, maybe, among the next generation of women, they'll decide that life under the Islamic Republic is no longer the only future available.
And that is how real change begins.
I hope for the women in Iran and all other repressed countries, I hope they see this example.
More, I really hope those who claim to be for the rights of women and homosexuals begin to see the hypocrisy of their own actions.
How can you claim to be against the repression of women and not celebrate what's happening in Iran and hold these women up as the lionesses that they are?
The left is just continuing to expose themselves as much as they did during the State of the Union.
They don't care about the people or individuals.
They really care about the great Satan.
We are the world's oppressor to them with their values and our capitalism.
Meanwhile, the states of Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran are the oppressed and we're the oppressor.
Trading Presence For Survival00:15:05
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You know, as I I go over the news of the day and we talk about the Save America or we debate what's happening in Iran.
we're we're we're forcing each other into making trades.
And we're not thinking about that.
When you're choosing one over another and both of them may be true, what are you trading?
What are you trading?
What value?
What principle are you trading away?
Because society has taught you that two things cannot be true at once.
And that is a huge lie.
Two things can be true at once.
I am not for war, but I think this limited action may be right.
Notice I say may be right.
I don't know.
I don't know because I can't see the future.
I can see what I believe the intent is, but I can't see the future.
So it may be a huge mistake.
Okay, Glenn, you think it's a huge mistake?
Maybe a huge mistake.
Well, then why would you do it?
Well, because I can't see the future.
It may not be a huge mistake.
It may be the right thing to do because of all of the ramifications of what comes if you don't make that move.
But everybody acts so sure.
And we're trading so much away.
We were just talking about the Iranian girls.
I don't understand how the men on the left, do you not have somebody in your life, a woman, a daughter, a mom, a wife, a sister, that you can't see what these women are going through over in Iran and you can't empathize with them?
How can you say you want to stand up against the great oppression here in America on homosexuals?
And yet you will not say anything about this regime that throws homosexuals off building tops or executes them in the public square.
what have you traded let me tell you how what i'm thinking why why i'm thinking this way yesterday It was my mother-in-law's 83rd birthday.
She lives with us during the winter now.
And she was younger than I am now when we first met.
And that seems like yesterday.
I watch her and I listen to her now and I think, where has the time gone?
When we first met, she was a dynamo.
She still is, but she was a dynamo, very successful in what she does, very powerful.
And I was young and stupid and full of nothing but wide open highways to dreams and worlds, you know, yet to be explored and built, and a long list and seemingly never-ending time to do those things.
I was 35 years old when we met, and I was a young man who already had lived a very harsh and fast life, and I wanted to marry her 26-year-old daughter.
I told her at the time, I wouldn't be for that.
I understand your reluctance here.
But I promised her I would love and cherish her daughter and I would treat her right.
And I hope I have.
I tried really hard.
But so much time has passed.
So much has happened.
And now just sitting with her, I feel like I've missed it all.
People bitch about their mother-in-law all the time.
It's a joke.
But she has brought such wisdom.
She has brought prayer, calm, steady, quiet foundation.
Almost every day, she says to me, I hope that you slow down.
I hope that there's going to come a time when you slow down.
And at first, when she was saying that, I keep thinking, I have got to speed up.
There's not a lot of time left.
But this is the first time I've lived with a parent since I was 18.
And maybe it's just that I'm getting to the age where I am starting to get it, but I'm starting to see things wildly differently.
We both realize that time is speeding up, that time is shorter than either of us think.
But I think only with time, with age, can you understand the value of those things you trade for time?
My grandparents, my parents told me when I was younger, they told me things that I just didn't understand, you know.
Those are the things they told me when I was younger.
I heard, but didn't understand.
Maybe you can't understand until you've lived long enough to see the pattern.
But older people, older people used to tell me all of the time that they would say, you know, time just goes by so fast.
It just goes so fast.
Well, you know, when you're young, that really sounds ridiculous.
A year feels like forever when you're 20.
10 years feels like an entire lifetime.
But I'm beginning to understand what they meant.
Life does not move at a constant speed.
It moves really slowly until it doesn't.
Jason said something to me.
Jason, who does our research for the show and also is the host of our Insider broadcast that happens during this show on Torch.
He said something this week that he was quoting something that you've probably heard, I heard a million times, but it hit me differently this week.
And for two reasons.
One, with everything that is happening in the world, he said there are decades where nothing happens and then weeks where decades happen.
And that is very true in the world that Jason and I are living in right now, on the radio and podcasting and news.
That's what's happening right now to the world.
But when it comes to life, it doesn't quite fit what I see in my life with my wife and kids and my mom celebrating her 83rd birthday.
Last night to celebrate her birthday was really simple.
We went to a small gelato shop in a small town called Stewart, Florida.
And I watched her pick out the flavors of gelato she wanted.
And we sat there.
And she said, why am I always the last to finish?
And my wife said, because you talk a lot.
But what she was doing was she was talking about the days that have just slipped by while life happened.
And that's when I heard that axiom differently.
Perhaps it's better stated.
In everything that really matters, there are years where nothing seems to change.
And then there are these moments when everything has already changed before you even noticed it.
When did my children get taller?
Oh, I know, when I was busy working.
Our parents get older while we're busy planning.
The world is quietly rearranging itself while we're focused on the next thing.
And one day you realize that thing that people told you but never really explained clearly enough.
Time is not something you spend.
It is something you trade.
And no one tells you that every day you're making trades.
You're trading your morning for a meeting, dinner for returning phone calls or emails.
You trade patience for exhaustion.
You tell yourself, how many times have I said this?
It's just this season.
It'll slow down.
You trade a bedtime story for just one more thing.
You trade walks to get the laundry done.
You trade being really present for just getting through the day.
And it feels normal.
And everybody does it.
But here's the part you don't get until you notice things have passed.
Trades don't cost you right away.
They compound and they show up later.
When your children move out or your child doesn't reach for your hand as much.
When you can't remember the last time you were really excited.
When your life is really loud, but somehow empty.
You don't notice it week to week.
You notice it once years have passed.
I saw this Instagram post last night.
said, you notice it when the photos on your phone carry more memories than your body does.
I don't remember anybody sitting me down and saying, be careful what you trade away because the quiet trades are the permanent ones.
And I don't know if I would have gotten it.
So let me just say this.
Today, be aware of what you're trading.
Hold their hand a second longer.
Put your phone down mid-scroll.
Say no to something that doesn't matter and say yes to something that does, just today.
Because life isn't made in the big moments, and that's what I have lived my whole life thinking.
It's made of all the tiny ones you didn't realize were important until they were gone.
And you've traded it away for money, ambition, comfort, convenience, peace of mind.
And some of those trades just are not worth it.
Some of them you only realize were real mistakes years later.
Be careful what you trade away.
Be careful what you trade your time for because time doesn't give refunds.
thanks for teaching me that mom even though i don't think you knew you were teaching me that We love you.
I really love having you down the hall.
And thanks for the years of worry, the prayers, and your wisdom.
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Jason and Ricky, let's catch up with the insiders comments from this hour.
Oh, Glenn, you had everyone bawling, including me.
I don't know how you did that because I had already heard the monologue, seen the monologue, and somehow you made me cry again.
But some of the insiders are saying one girl named Torchi, wonder where she got that name.
She said, oh, so you're telling me I should put my phone down and stop listening to you.
No, no, no, let's not be, let's not be crazy.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's not be nuts.
Keep watching, Torchy.
And then Sandra, she says, Glenn makes himself depressed.
And I don't think that's quite true.
No, you have no idea what it's like to live in my head.
You don't want to live in here.
You don't want to live in here.
It's not a fun place to be.
Actually, I just feel things deeply sometimes and wish I would have said more to those who I love or I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know what I'm feeling.
I don't know what I'm feeling, but it's just insiders are relating to it.
And I just heard Jason talk about it in the break where you were saying, you made a really good point on how we are, we spend our life just trying to get through the week, just make it through to the weekend so you can relax or whatever.
And how was it you said this, Jason, that we wish our time away and how true that is.
Yeah.
We're just all trying to get through today, get through the week, get through the month, and things will change.
And everything changes, but it's not the stuff we wanted to change.
You know what I mean?
100%.
Yeah, I was reading a comment from Tammy that said, be like a child because children live in the day, in the immediate, you know, and they don't worry about the future.
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That is something else that I've been thinking about a lot is worry.
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Great to be here.
It's been a while.
Nice to be back.
I know.
It's always good to have you.
I guess we should just start with the illegal immigration problem.
The problem that I don't understand is first, people will say, you know, illegal immigrants, they don't commit crimes half at the number that the citizen actually commits.
And yet we're seeing people now killed on the streets, robbed, raped, et cetera, et cetera, by illegals.
And I'm not saying all illegals are like this.
I'm not saying any group is like this.
But we have lost the ability to seemingly even care about the crime if it's an illegal doing it.
Can you set the record straight on what the numbers actually say and what's really happening and why we don't care?
I'm so surprised that more people haven't reported this.
And I started reporting it at CBS News and I've continued at full measure.
So we'll go over a couple of facts because this is hard evidence.
A lot of what you hear when you hear people say they're more law-abiding than U.S. citizens comes from partial data, misconstruing all kinds of problems with their partial reports.
But there's really hard evidence that a lot of people are ignoring for some reason that came in a 2018 analysis by the GAO.
And it looked at how many illegal immigrants are in our prisons and jails.
That's a great hard measure of how many compared to U.S. citizens are caught committing crimes and serving time.
Well, in 2011, listen to this, the criminal alien proportion of the total estimated federal inmate population was 25%.
So think about that.
2011, this is even before the big surge.
One in four federal inmates was an illegal immigrant, but they only accounted for something like less than 7% of the population.
So they're committing crimes, if you look at the data in prisons and jails, at a huge rate compared to U.S. citizens.
And by the way, that's partial data because not all prisons and jails were reporting illegal immigrants.
So GAO was basically taking what information was reported.
It's significantly worse since we just know about the subset.
So then look at the cost.
Again, before you move on, let me play devil's advocate.
The media on the left and everybody else would say, no, that's just that they go to jail more.
You know, other people get away with it.
That's what they would say.
Well, yes, you can spend the numbers however you wish.
However, the hard numbers I just think are evidence of, you know, that's evidence for me that's hard to argue with.
These are people, you know, you look at, they also will tell you how many have committed what crimes.
Let's look at a different number than before we go on to cost.
They track some of this, like in official data.
Since 2000, we know illegal immigrants have committed 5 million serious crimes, approximately, including 200,000 robberies, 100,000 rapes, sexual assaults, 30,000 murders, which I tried to find a city about that size.
That's equivalent to the population about of Santa Fe, New Mexico murdered by illegal immigrants that we know of since 2000.
And there's examples you never hear on the news, in part because a lot of reporters won't report when they're illegal immigrants.
A lot of prosecutors' offices won't say when their suspects are.
But for example, there's triple murders, you know, quadruple murder spree in 2015, a five-time murder.
Did you hear about that in 2023 in cut and shoot Texas?
An illegal immigrant deported five times, murdered five people when he came back.
So I just think this is a serious issue we too often have been propagandized into not talking about because we've been told the facts are uncomfortable.
And I just think facts are facts.
So why when you see these, I am so shocked.
I was shocked by the state of the union, you know, on several things.
But when you don't have people stand up and say, no, the American citizen has to be protected first because we're Americans, not the illegals.
And you see the crimes that have been committed and you couldn't get the people on the left to stand up and recognize the victims.
What is wrong with us, Cheryl?
What has happened to half of the country?
I just think we've been, you know, as you and I have discussed in the past, almost wholly taken over in terms of our information landscape by a minority of people who want things to look a certain way and convince many others not to talk about things or bully them into keeping their mouth shut or spin things in a way that becomes so ubiquitous that the American public really doesn't know the difference if they're not doing their own research.
And, you know, it's frightening to see people spending so much time and effort, for example, some of our political leaders, protecting illegal immigrants and yet not devoting any attention to the people they've murdered and to the families.
I mean, there are so many.
You know, this is another issue that I just don't see covered very much.
There are so many unintentional drunk driving and driving accidents that kill people by illegal immigrants.
I tried to quantify them.
Of course, again, nobody's tracking them by status of their citizenship.
But I've reported on so many.
I've interviewed so many victims.
This is commonplace that they come to this country and get in accidents or have DUIs and kill people.
Again, I believe it's having a huge impact on our country based on the evidence in ways that are really not focused on.
And even though it's not.
Hang on just a sec.
Even if the numbers were not what you just showed them to be, people will say, well, there's more crime.
Yeah, but this is all unnecessary crime.
This is all unnecessary.
This crime, these killings, the drunk driving, none of those would have happened if they weren't here.
I mean, hello.
This is so unnecessary.
I mean, to lose a loved one for any reason, horrible.
But to lose a loved one at the hands of somebody that you know shouldn't have been here, and if we'd have been doing our job enforcing the law, we wouldn't be here, that just must be really hard to live with.
How do you think the SAVE Act plays out?
Look, I'm not a great political expert.
I'd love to hear your thoughts, but it sounds like it's not going to go anywhere.
You know, despite having a majority, big majority of the American public behind it, this shows you, Glenn, I think as well as anything, that Congress does not serve the will of the people.
I've long argued, and I've had members up there even say so in interviews.
Their agenda is now set by, their bills are now written by lobbyists for specific interests, not by what we want.
If it's something that the public wants, a lot of times it's just going to go by the wayside.
But if it's something that a powerful interest is lobbying for, a powerful company is paying them to address, suddenly there's bills that are flying through as fast as can be.
I was up on the Hill.
I talked to members of Democrats and Republicans doing some stories for full measure.
And as an aside, I mentioned to each one of these members that based on my research, I thought the plastics issue, you know, what's showing up in our bodies and our environment, how serious it is, deserves immediate emergency attention.
The plastic, except for critical services and medical purposes, should be banned immediately.
And every single member agreed with me.
But there's nothing moving on the hill about that because that's an interest of the people, but there's no lobbyist up there trying to get them to pay them to ban plastic.
So it's just a great example of where their priorities lie.
They're set by corporate interests who donate to them and rule their committees.
They're not set by us and what we want.
And I think this is a, you know, I read a quote from Thomas Jefferson the other day: where the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
He didn't say well-educated.
He said well-informed.
Where our people are not well-informed.
A lot of that is due to the changing landscape, I believe, with the internet.
It just made it where the people wanting to manipulate information who had been, you know, that's been going on since forever, but it became easier when they understood on the front end and studied how to manipulate social media, Wikipedia, our sources of information, Google, they got on that right away before we knew what to do about it.
And if you can manipulate information at the source, how easy does it become to influence the masses compared to in the past?
Do you think we're getting better or worse?
I mean, I've noticed what CBS is doing.
And I don't know if CBS can bail themselves out and redeem themselves, but there are times when I'm looking at CBS and I'm like, wait, what?
I mean, that's legitimate news.
Are we getting better or is it where we just keep going down a rabbit hole?
I mean, with AI coming, goodbye to Trump.
The question is, yeah, is the pendulum swinging or is it stuck?
You know, it's always, you wonder.
But I will tell you, there are four news groups, national news groups, and a very, very liberal graduate school of journalism that all asked me to apply to lead them in the last year.
And they explicitly were saying this is at the corporate level.
They understand they have a problem and they want to send a message.
These are main big organizations you've talked about, and you just talked about one of them, that are really trying to pull back from where they've been and let the public know and understand and send a message that they're changing.
I don't know if that's because Trump's president now or because the pendulum's swinging.
They understand they've gone so far.
But I think that's a really potentially positive sign.
The problem is, you know, in these newsrooms, the inmates are running the asylum.
And as I discussed with some of the people that I talked about, it's impossible at this stage for one person to write the ship.
It's, you know, they get it.
You see what happens at the New York Times.
There's been stories in the past 10 years of, you know, when there's an editorial person trying to do the right thing and the crazies that are, you know, speaking out and trying to set agendas instead of reporting the news, they win.
And it's, you know, I think that's happened in a lot of newsrooms.
It's just gone too far.
So it'll be interesting to see if the corporations stick with it and stand behind the people, for example, at CBS that are trying to, you know, put things back closer to the middle.
I don't know how that ends.
Cheryl, if you don't mind hanging on for one minute, I want to go back to illegal immigration and I want to talk to you about some of the things we're seeing now with possible sleeper cells, et cetera, et cetera, again, that we're ignoring and what are the ramifications of no DHS money at the same time.
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I said the Islamists, the Marxists, the Communists, the anarchists will all work together to destabilize the Middle East, Europe, and their real target is Israel and the United States, and it will spread over here.
We now see that in play like crazy, and it's quite obvious.
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But we have turned a blind eye to it.
I think the administration is looking into the financial ties to all of these, which I hope.
But we have, you know, I don't even know how many illegals we have let come in.
10 million, 15, 20 million come in over the last, you know, few years.
How many of them could be sleeper cells?
And what happens if we don't get serious and let our DHS do their job and actually start deporting some of these people as well?
I mean, that's a serious concern.
And once again, I just feel like it's on the back burner that we're cajoled into not talking about it or told that it's racist to bring these things up or that you're painting everybody with a broad brush, which is not what's happening at all when you discuss these realities.
But that's what we're led to think so that we can't have the discussion.
It's a serious concern.
I heard a number the other day by an official.
I think he said 10,000 known terrorist-linked people coming into the U.S. in the last couple of years, something like 1,500 of them from Iran.
These are huge numbers, and those are just the ones that we know of.
Yep.
Let me play a clip.
This is Abby Phillips from CNN talking about the attempted terrorist attack in New York over the weekend.
Listen to how she describes this.
I'd love to hear your analysis of this.
Abby Phillips, CNN, go ahead.
Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted terror attack against New York's mayor, Zorhan Mamdani.
And the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, says nothing really to condemn those comments.
Another special guest is going to be with us at the table.
Okay, stop.
Did you hear how she couched that?
After a attempted terrorist attack on New York City mayor Mamdani.
He wasn't the target of that attack.
It's just part and parcel what we expect today from the news media.
They're not news reporters, and they're being taught in journalism schools to do this, and they're being rewarded for taking a position.
And you see, political operatives are being hired at the news stations.
There's fewer and fewer so-called reporters.
You can still find straight reporting done on CNN and Fox and all.
But it's harder because the main figures, they tend to be political operatives who've now gone into news and are rewarded for the commentary.
And there's very little separation between them anymore.
But yeah, how they characterize and cover things, you wouldn't have, when I worked at CNN, and this was a long time ago, we wouldn't have dreamed as anchors.
We didn't have to be told to keep our opinions out of the news.
We wouldn't have dreamed of putting them in.
Who cares what our opinions were?
It's just so shockingly different now to see in a pretty short period of time how much everything's changed with that.
Yeah, I've said recently, I'm just so tired of everybody having an opinion, including me.
I mean, I just like America has too many opinions.
I mean, you don't need my opinion.
It has too many opinions.
What we need are facts.
That's what we need.
Less opinion, more actual, hard facts.
And I appreciate you bringing that to the country every day.
Thank you so much, Cheryl.
God bless you.
Well, I appreciate you as well.
Thanks, Glenn.
You bet.
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We're talking to Chad Wolf.
He is the American First Policy Institute, Homeland Security Immigration Chair.
He's also the former DHS acting secretary.
And I wanted to get him on because the Democrats still are not, you know, are not allowing DHS to be funded.
And that is the craziest thing I've ever heard.
I mean, at this time, what are you trying to get us all killed?
Chad Wolf is here with us now.
Chad, the headlines today in some cities are: you got to get to the airport super, super early because you might be in line for several hours because people are not showing up for work.
I mean, I don't know if I would either, but not showing up for work, you know, it's overwhelming the system.
That I don't think should be the headline.
I think the headline is, what's being missed at the airports because of this shutdown?
How safe are we, Chad?
Yeah, well, thanks for having me on.
I agree with you.
I think there's two issues at play here.
One is requiring DHS workers, and in this case, you know, airport officers and screeners to have to go to work, do their job, but not get paid to do it.
And then the second piece that you rightfully point out is the security aspect of that.
And so this hits hardest probably in our airports, but there are other parts of DHS that are impacted as well because a lot of these screeners at airports are living paycheck to paycheck.
And after they miss one or two paychecks, you know, what we're starting to see, and you indicated long lines at airports, is they start to call out.
They start to call out sick because they have to go drive an Uber.
They've got to pick up another part-time job, pay the rent, the mortgage, or put food on the table.
And so that becomes a problem.
It becomes a problem for the traveling public, and it becomes an inconvenience.
But the security aspect of it is even if they show up for work, I would want them totally focused and committed on their job at hand.
What I don't want are screeners at the airport going through the motions, but really their mind is how do I support my family?
How do I support my family?
And pissed off.
I know, you know, if I'm pissed off at a company, I don't do my best work.
And I don't think that these people, you know, intentionally would let something go through or anything like that.
I mean, they're still Americans and they're human beings.
But it is, it's, it's just part of being human.
You know, it is wrong to ask them to step up to the plate and come in for a long period of time because there doesn't seem to be any indication that this is going to end soon.
Democrats just don't seem to care about it.
No, and I think what's the frustrating thing is this is entirely preventable.
It's, you know, particularly at a time when we have conflicts with Iran and, you know, very, very dangerous world in which we live in, the fact that we would not fund the Department of Homeland Security that is hand in glove with the Department of War, making sure that we're keeping the homeland and everyday Americans safe is just bizarre.
It's bizarre to me that the Democrats can continue to hold out on this position.
And it's a little, you know, I don't know.
I haven't seen any polling or anything, but I suspect that the American people do not support this.
No, and as the lines get longer, it's going to get worse.
And then people will know who's responsible because, I mean, I was just talking to Cheryl Atkinson, and she said, you know, she had just seen a report.
10,000 known terrorists have been on our radar that have come into the country, 1,500 from Iran.
How bad is the possible terror network here in America?
Well, it's bad, right?
We talked about four years of the Biden administration.
So over the course of four years, you had over 11 to 12 million individuals come into the United States, over 18,000 known or suspected terrorists, right?
The National Counterterrorism Center just testified about that.
Over 18,000 known or suspected terrorists tried to enter the country during Joe Biden's tenure, and a variety of them made it in.
And so you combine that with the existing networks of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other proxies that have been here in the United States since the 80s, more or less.
And it starts to paint a picture of a real kind of heightened risk and threat environment.
Now, we have an outstanding law enforcement apparatus, FBI, joint terrorism task forces, and other things that keep the American people safe, but we're asking so much of them because we don't know who really is in the country.
Because I said it at the time, and I think we're facing it right now, is the four years of the Biden administration, we won't really know the destructive nature of their immigration policies for years and years to come.
And I think we are staring down the barrel of that right now.
Big time.
I have to tell you, I would never talk about this on the air.
I would love to be a part of a red cell team just on terror because I have wargamed this out since 2001.
And there are things that I don't understand why terrorists haven't done.
Again, I wouldn't say any of it on the air, but I got to tell you, we are very vulnerable, and it doesn't take a lot of people to pull off some really truly devastating things in our country.
Again, I would agree with that.
I think we have, there's, again, certainly a risk of, you know, either cells or lone individuals doing a variety of different things here in the United States.
And we've seen some of that, unfortunately, and we'll continue to do that.
I think the threat environment that we're in today is as high as we've probably seen it.
And you see that with the IEDs in New York City and elsewhere.
So again, I go back to not funding the department is absolutely crazy that you're going to have the airport workers, you're going to have the men and women of the Coast Guard, also very junior, live paycheck to paycheck in some instances as well.
You know, they're hand in glove overseas with the Navy down in the Caribbean.
And again, you want them totally focused, and they're professionals.
They will be focused, but they're human, as you indicated, and they're going to be worried about their family because when they're deployed, that paycheck needs to come in to make sure that their wife, their kids, their family are taken care of.
And that's going to be on their mind as well.
Are you more concerned about places like Dearborn and Minneapolis, or is it all around the country?
I mean, are there particular hotspots that we should be watching and concerned about?
Yeah, I think my concern is throughout the country.
I understand the Dearborn reference, but I think if you are an individual with bad motives, that you're going to target, you could target iconic landmarks, things that get high visibility.
Obviously, New York City, Los Angeles, your big cities pop up there.
But those cities also have the best infrastructure and law enforcement, right?
And those targets have been hardened over the past several decades.
So maybe you're perhaps looking for a softer target.
Or perhaps you're going to lay in wait, right?
Because the threat environment and law enforcement is on their guard right now.
But perhaps you wait until the summer until the World Cup arrives and you decide to do something there at a stadium and a mass gathering of some kind.
So you can see all of the implications out there of really kind of what the challenge is today here in the homeland.
We are sitting at a time where we are now at war with the biggest terror organization and funder of terrorism in the world with Iran.
And, you know, they have allies of China and Russia.
And doesn't DHS also look at all of our cyber protection?
I mean, how vulnerable are we with cyber now?
Yeah, absolutely.
They certainly have the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, as it's referred to, has a big role there.
Now, it's mainly defensive posture because what they try to do is not only protecting government networks, but it's important to remember that about 85% of our critical infrastructure, such as waste treatment plants, water plants and the like, are privately owned.
And so CISA provides a lot of intelligence and a lot of capabilities to those private sector companies to make sure that their cybersecurity hygiene and measures are up to date.
And you've got about two-thirds of that agency that are not working because of the shutdown today.
So that's really, really concerning as well.
So aviation, cyber, obviously the border and others that DHS does is it's all being impacted.
Now, look, 85% of the employees at DHS are exempt from the shutdown, which means they have to go to work.
Even if they're not getting paid, they still have to work.
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That's so wrong.
As we've talked about, as this drags on, they could be six weeks without getting a paycheck.
And even when the government opens back up, it's not like they get paid the next day.
It's going to take two to three weeks for that back pay to come in.
So again, you can see how this could draw out for eight weeks.
And we're asking these agents and officers, 75,000 law enforcement officers at the Department of Homeland Security, we're asking them to risk their lives every day to protect Americans.
And Congress can't even give them the pay.
I would say the low pay that we pay them.
But they can't even do that.
I think it sends absolutely the wrong message on a variety of different fronts.
We heard last week that one of the last things that happened as we were bombing Iran at the very beginning was there seemed to be some encrypted message that went out and they were talking about the possibility that that was an activation of sleeper cells.
Do you have any indication that's real?
Yeah, I saw that public reporting as well.
And just what I saw, I can't ascertain on how real that is on whether that's just some reporting or whether that is truly what the intelligence community has picked up on.
But regardless of that, I think as soon as conflicts, kinetic conflicts start to happen overseas in Iran, the Department of Homeland Security goes shields up on a variety of different fronts.
So even whether or not this went out or not, they are doing everything that they can during a shutdown, mind you, to protect a variety, all the different, from a maritime perspective or a cyber perspective or a border perspective, or how do we screen travelers coming into the country?
Obviously, CBP does that on a real world basis.
And so they will augment all of their apparatus to look for suspicious activities around proxies tied to the Iranian regime and others.
And so as the threat environment ticks up, the alertness and what you're looking for across the department as you screen travelers and do other things also ticks up as well.
Chad, if you were still the acting DHS secretary, what advice would you give to the American people today?
Yeah, I would say, look, continue your lives, continuing what you do each and every day, but have some awareness around what you do.
If you go out and you want to go out to dinner and you want to eat on a sidewalk, that's fine.
Just have a little bit more awareness of your surroundings and where you're at and making sure that you're continuing to understand kind of the threat environment that the United States is in.
I wouldn't say you need to disrupt or change your pattern.
I think that's what the terrorists want us to do.
So don't give them that satisfaction, but be aware of your surroundings and understand kind of the situation that we're in.
Are we at more risk because of the funding coupled with Mullen in transition?
Does that compound this problem?
The transition of a new secretary coming in, I hope it happens very soon because it does help to stabilize the department.
But look, there are a lot of professionals at the department underneath the secretary at all of the operating components that are doing their job right now.
And so I have a lot of faith because I know a lot of them that they're going to do that regardless of what is happening at the secretarial level.
Now, we need to get Senator Mullen in there and in there quickly to, again, stabilize and hopefully, because he's coming from Congress, hopefully can break the log jam on DHS funding.
But I would say my overall concern is just the overall threat environment that we are now in tied with the lack of funding for the department.
Thank you so much, Chad.
I appreciate it.
Really appreciate it.
Thanks for all that you do.
God bless.
Yeah, thanks.
I bet that's Chad Wolf, former acting secretary of DHS.
I have to tell you, I'm flying.
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The stress that they're under right now with their own families.
None of these people make a lot of money.
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Can you imagine that stress?
I mean, you are under enough stress as it is.
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I can't get a second job because I have to go to work doing this, and they're not paying me.
Thank them for showing up to work.
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So I've been watching what's going on in Cuba, and it is amazing how quiet the media and everybody else is on Cuba.
You're about to see Cubans be free.
I mean, something that we just didn't think could happen.
Cubans are Cuba, the government of Cuba is under such stress right now because, you know, the Trump administration said, ah, you know what?
You're not going to get any help from Russia or China or anybody else.
And you're kind of on your own now and we're going to enforce that.
And you know what you should do is you should free your people and step down.
And they're actually considering it now and people are out on the street.
Now, remember, these are people who have no communication to the outside world.
Okay.
If you're in Cuba, Ricky, you went to Cuba recently, didn't you?
Oh, Glenn, don't get me in trouble.
It was back in 2014.
Communist.
Yeah, when you could go to Cuba.
It was for journalism.
Yeah.
When you could go to Cuba, you went to Cuba.
And how good was the internet there?
Oh, my gosh, it was terrible.
I was staying in an Airbnb.
That's a whole nother story.
But you have to go.
What are you insane?
Yeah.
Look, sorry.
Anyways, I went to an Airbnb.
I couldn't get internet there.
I said, where do I get internet?
And they said, you got to go to these big sort of American-like hotels or, you know, hotels where Canadians and Americans or Westerners tend to go.
And they will have a way for you to access the internet.
It is very cumbersome.
It's expensive.
It was basically dial-up.
Now, this was, you know, a little over 10 years ago.
It's possible.
It's improved now, but it's very, very hard to get basically footage out from the protest.
The footage that you've seen coming from Cuba recently, it's very limited.
So if they have internet, it's crap.
And I'm sure they don't have the kind of internet that would help you broadcast a revolution.
Yeah.
So I just DM'd Elon Musk and I said, do you have any plans to position Starlinks over Cuba?
Because, you know, that's what they need is information.
If they could see what's happening around the world, it will only empower the people.
And if we could see what they're seeing on the streets, it would empower the rest of the world.
And he said, yes, already done.
It works there.
The problem is terminals.
And I thought, well, what if somebody bought a bunch of terminals and then others took them and, you know, got them in?
Now, this is not what Elon would say, but it is dumb enough for me to say it.
There has got to be people that have connections in Cuba that live here in the United States.
I mean, think of all the people.
Do you know what's going to happen to Miami if Cuba falls?
Do you know what?
I mean, it is going to be just a massive celebration.
Yes, but I'm also thinking about what would happen if people tried to smuggle terminals, Starlink terminals into Cuba, because wasn't there a recent example?
Smuggle is such a harsh word.
People got shot at?
Smuggle is a very harsh word.
And I would not encourage anyone to smuggle them in.
But if you happen to be going and one happened to fall out with your family, I don't know how that would happen.
But I mean, what are Starlink?
You can get them like at Home Depot for, what, $300, $400, something like that?
Right.
Starlink terminals retail at Home Depot around $350.
They can go up to $600.
Yeah.
I'm just saying, and I might be willing.
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I'd have to talk to my wife about this and probably an attorney, but I might be willing to buy, you know, the first batch.
I'm just saying.
I'm just saying.
And that's all I'm saying.
That's all I'm saying.
It's just conjecture.
It's a thought experiment.
Right.
We could find an address where people could drop off these potential donated Starlink terminals.
But we would need somebody first that knew of a way.
And I don't want to know about it.
I mean, I don't want to be involved in anything like that.
That would be wrong.
But I'm saying it would be cool if we had a system to where we could get the terminals and then you would take them for free because you just need them for, I don't know, some farmland in Kansas.
And then we found out later that they actually somehow or another found their way into Cuba and were helping liberate Cuba.
It would be wrong.
And I'd be very disappointed if that happened.
But I'm just saying, I'm wondering, I think we need to talk to an attorney.
I think maybe we should talk to an attorney.
I may have spoken too soon because I feel right now, I'm very against that.
I'm very, very again.
And I would be disappointed if anybody was out there thinking, gee, I don't know, Glenn.
I think there might be a way.
You might express that to me, but I might have to respond immediately.
I would be very disappointed if you were involved in anything like that.
I'm just saying.
Because imagine.
Imagine what it would be like if you could see what was happening in Venezuela.
You could see what was happening, really see what was happening in Venezuela.
You could really see what was happening in Iran.
And you could see what the United States was doing in all of these places.
You would be like, this is the moment.
Would you not?
This is the moment.
You're not hearing any of that if you're living in Cuba.
You're getting bits and pieces of it.
And just in the bits and pieces, they're already out on the streets.
I mean, this is really an exciting time to be alive.
Scary as hell, but an exciting time to be alive.
We're going to see things that, I mean, think about this.
I mean, I always, I mean, I know, I know I always, you know, if you listen to me every day, you probably spend three quarters of your life completely bummed out because I tell you the things that I think are going to come.
And sometimes.
Actually, that happened.
Somehow we found a clip of you back in June 2025 when you were hanging out at the ranch and you had a prediction about the war in Iran.
We have June 2025.
You predicted that it could happen.
And we have that cut.
Play that cut.
Now the American people are looking at Donald Trump going, he just might do it.
Are we going to war?
He just might do it.
What do you think Iran is saying?
Iran is saying the same thing.
Good God.
He just did this.
He just told us 60 days.
He's not bluffing.
The guy doesn't bluff.
He's nuts.
He's insane.
Whatever you want to say about him.
He's a negotiator.
And the one thing that Iran really doesn't understand, I think, is negotiating from the best negotiator in the world.
But I am afraid the American people don't understand that either.
Now, I could be wrong.
So I'm not saying this is what's going on, but I believe this is what's happening.
I believe he's negotiating.
And, you know, he will follow it up.
But what did he say soon as the bombs went out?
He said, I told him 60 days.
A, establish credibility.
Then the very next statement was, please come back to the table or it's only going to get worse.
Okay.
Then while the whole world is watching the G7, something happens and he flies back.
He leaves the G7 and he flies back at 3 a.m.
He arrives and he goes directly into the situation room and they're moving assets around the world.
And then he says, Hey, Iran, you should negotiate.
You should negotiate.
We're still at the negotiation table.
I would suggest you get back.
How freaked out do you think they are?
I don't know what I don't know.
I have no inside information.
I just think I know Donald Trump and what he abhors.
I know Donald Trump on what he is terrified of, and that is nuclear war and global war.
He knows that will be the end of us.
All of us.
I just don't see him as that guy.
And so I have to ask, is the world's best negotiator now negotiating?
And I believe the answer is yes.
For the first time, you have a president that is a good negotiator.
Stop blinking.
That doesn't mean I'm for war.
It just means stop blinking.
Let's have these conversations amongst ourselves and not online.
What do you say?
I don't know if I predicted.
I mean, I did predict that he is not.
He's, he, he would, I guess I did.
He's negotiating.
And if it doesn't work out, he will follow through.
And that's exactly what happened.
So, yeah.
Yeah, it happened, you know, not quite a year later.
Right.
So, okay.
So, all right, I can bum you out.
I can bum you out.
But let me give you some good things that are going on.
First of all, I just have to stop for just a second at the new Ayatollah in Iran because they got the IRGC together.
You know, that's the army of the Mahadi, which we talked to you about yesterday, the hidden 12 or cleric.
And he couldn't make it to stage because apparently he has a boo-boo on his leg.
And we don't know what that boo-boo is, but he was injured.
I don't know if he was attending in a meeting.
If I were him, I would not be attending any meetings.
But he was going to go meet and do a big deal with the IRGC.
And he couldn't make it.
And so he sent, and I'm not kidding, we had to check to see if this has to be a deep fake.
Nope.
Nope.
Everything that we could find is, nope, this is absolutely real.
He sent a cardboard cutout of himself to this meeting with the IRGC.
If you're watching Torch, watch this.
There he is, a big cardboard cutout.
I mean, he looks like a South Park character.
And one of the IRGC guys is kissing his arm and where his hand should be.
I don't know, better cardboard than a goat.
This is crazy.
This is crazy.
But, you know, I can't make it.
Don't send the body double.
Just send the cardboard cutout.
Can you imagine if Donald Trump was like they were celebrating him and somebody brought on stage a cardboard?
I'm going to do that.
I am going to do that at some point.
I might do that at Ellis Island.
I might say, ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States.
And they will just bring out a cardboard cutout of him.
He may not be so healthy.
I'm just saying that it may be that he's a little peaked.
He's looking a little peaked right now.
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So, uh, speaking of Iran, uh, you know, we just had the former secretary of, um, DHS on talking about, you know, how many, see if I have this, uh, 10,000 to 50.
No, sorry.
18,000 known or suspected terrorists got in or tried to get into our country under Biden.
1,500 of them from Iran.
We have no idea how many are actually here.
So we were talking to him about this because there is the Islamification of the West that is happening.
And they are very, very serious, especially now that we're at war with Iran.
And you have to keep your eyes open.
But let's look at the ideology that we're talking about.
Let me play this.
This is an Indian Islamist televangelist that is talking about how, well, it's talking about girls that get raped.
Listen to this.
Cut four, please.
Christian.
That is this not injustice to the girl who was raped and murdered?
And I would say no.
Because both the person who raped is undergoing a test in this world, the person who was raped also is undergoing a test.
And let me explain to you that Allah has given guidelines to the woman that they should dress up modestly, they should cover the complete body, except those parts can be seen that is the faith.
Now, if after giving all these guidance, and hypothetically, if that girl doesn't dress up modestly, she's dressed up immorally, which people get excited and the rape is done.
Who's to blame?
It is a girl to blame.
You know what?
Hang on just a second.
You know what we need?
More of this kind of thinking in America.
More of this.
Can you imagine?
Can you imagine anyone saying anything like that as a Christian or whatever saying, you know what?
A girl gets raped unless she's covered everything but her eyes.
But I don't even know.
Look at her smoky eyes.
Then maybe we can talk about who's at fault here.
But she's at fault if she's dressed immodestly.
Yeah, let's bring more of that here.
More of that.
Here's an Islamic scholar in California.
We're doing a special on March 19th.
That's next Thursday.
You don't want to miss it.
It is a 90-minute live documentary.
It is really, really thorough.
We have spent months putting this together to show you the blueprints of what is here in America.
So let me play this Islamic scholar in California.
Listen to this.
Wants to put a Muslim ban.
He wants to ban Muslims.
We will tell him this is in your country to ban.
This is the land of Allah.
As every land is a land of Allah.
And there are Muslims here that are here that are going to be here.
And if you don't like it, I would suggest he goes somewhere else.
But I don't know where he's going to go.
If he goes back to Europe, there's a lot of Muslims in Europe.
I've been there recently.
You go to Africa, you go to South America, you go to China, you go to Malaysia, you go to Japan, you go to the Antarctic, there's Muslims.
So I will make a suggestion.
If he wants to go somewhere where there is no Muslims, I suggest he goes to hell.
This religion of Islam will enter every household.
Every household.
Hear this?
It will enter every household.
This is the land of Allah.
Now, I don't have a problem if you practice another religion that I disagree with.
But when you come here and you try to fundamentally change and you start saying that this is the land of Allah and your Allah tells you that, you know, you can do extremist stuff.
You can marry girls who are as young as nine.
Girls have to be wrapped up from head to toe.
Otherwise, they're asking for rape.
I'm sorry.
No, no.
And I think a lot of Americans are getting to the point now to where we know that's not, that's not Islamophobia.
That's common sense.
That's common sense.
I'm sorry.
You don't have the right to impose that or to just take over this land and turn us all and say, because Islam will be in every single house.
No.
Over my dead body, it will not ever be in my house.
And this is the land of the God of Isaac, Abraham, and Jacob.
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Let me give you a couple of things.
You know, we were just talking about this special we're doing and, you know, what is coming our way.
And it's coming our way with Islamists who have every intention of overthrowing the United States of America.
There are a lot of people who are Muslim that have no intention of doing anything like that.
But there are a lot that do.
And those are the ones you have to focus on.
And there is a blueprint to what their plans are.
And we're seeing it executed, you know, all over the world.
It is happening all over the world.
And unless we wake up, it's going to get worse and worse.
Now, let me show you one person that is absolutely dead asleep, and that is Abby Phillips.
This is her.
Okay, so we had the two kids that were terrorists who built a bomb called the bomb of Satan, which is filled with screws and nuts and bolts, and it blows up and it just rips through people's bodies.
They were throwing that at anti-Muslim protesters in New York, who I don't think were all that great.
I don't know everything they were saying, but, you know, I don't want to be with people who are saying every Muslim is bad.
Okay.
But you're going to get there if you don't start sorting through the good ones and bad ones and showing the difference between them.
But so this, these two terrorists come and they throw it at that.
Listen to how CNN reported this.
Listen to who she said the target was.
Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted terror attack against New York's mayor, Zorhan Mamdani, and the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, says nothing really to condemn those comments.
So she has two Republicans say that Muslims don't belong here.
Two Republicans.
And the Speaker of the House won't say anything about it.
But did you hear who she said the target of that bomb was?
Mamdani.
He was not the target.
He was not the target.
In fact, he came out and he targeted the anti-Muslim people, the people that the bomb was thrown at.
Not the people who threw the bomb, the people who were supposed to be ripped to shreds by the use of that bomb.
This is the kind of stuff that is going to get us all killed because you're not hearing the truth.
You don't know how far down the road we are.
And we're really far down the road, especially Texas.
Hello, Texas.
You are next.
Wake up, Texas.
But that's what's happening all around the world and here in America.
And again, we will highlight all of it so you have a full understanding of what this means.
But just know that at the same time this is happening, there are people who have lived under this for a very long time.
These girls that were part of the Iranian soccer or football team that defected over in Australia, that's a remarkable story.
Let me show you two pictures.
First, let me show you how they were when they all had their hijabs on.
Because it's very, very clear, you have to wear your hijab.
You cannot allow your hair to be seen.
Otherwise, you might deserve to be raped.
So here they are, and they're getting ready to play their game.
And none of them sing the words of the national anthem.
Well, that causes all kinds of problems with the regime in Iran.
And that was happening at the same time we were starting to bomb Iran.
Now, five of them decide that they are going to leave and try to escape and defect to Australia.
Donald Trump gets involved because the foreign secretary in Australia is like, I don't know, seems kind of scary.
And Donald Trump's like, what are you?
Out of your mind?
You do it or we'll do it.
We'll take them if you won't take them.
And so here next to him, side by side, is a picture of the same team not wearing their hijab.
There are people who have lived under this regime who have had enough.
And the New York Times will show you on the front page the picture of all of the people out in the street that are mourning the death of their Ayatollah.
That's about 10% of the population.
90% are against the MOLAs.
And where is that coverage?
Where is that coverage?
It's nowhere to be found.
Why?
Why?
I said this earlier.
Because of the oppressor and oppressed bullcrap that has been going on.
They look not at the women, not at the homosexuals, not at the individuals who have been oppressed their whole lives, who have been tortured and killed.
Forget about the individuals.
They're looking at how the United States has oppressed the Iranian state for all of these years.
And they know the Iranians know that capitalism is wrong.
The Iranians know that we are an aggressor nation.
They know we're the great Satan.
And so all they care about is the justice of destroying the United States because we're the great oppressor.
We're the great oppressor in Cuba.
We're the great oppressor in Venezuela.
We're the great oppressor in Iran.
Really?
Are we?
Are we?
We've done more to those countries to oppress them than those regimes have.
But they can't admit that because that doesn't play into their narrative.
And also, they don't see individuals.
That is the difference.
When, you know, we are the pendulum swings really far.
And it's in a 40 or 70 year cycle.
I can't remember.
Been a while since I read the theory on the pendulum, but it is a pendulum that swings from the me to the we.
We were the last time we were in the zenith of the me cycle, the pendulum was at that zenith of me, me, me, it's all about me during the Reagan years.
That's when it was all greed is good.
I'm going to make it, you know, the individual, all power individual.
Well, that pendulum always swings in a cycle.
And its zenith was around 2020 swinging the other direction, the we cycle.
The individual doesn't matter.
It's all about the we.
And when we get to these edges of this pendulum, that's where there's real problem.
That's where you have chaos.
So now, you notice around 2020, what started to change?
We started to wake up.
You started to see cracks and people getting more and more brave going, wait a minute, this doesn't make sense.
And so it started to swing back.
Now, the problem with pendulums is if somebody gets in charge and they want to keep that pendulum there, they'll just grab it and say, it stops right here.
And that's where you have oppressive regimes.
And strangely, the people who want to grab that pendulum are the ones who say they're for the little guy.
But they're not for the little guy, or they would be the ones touting these girls on the soccer team.
They would be the ones that would be saying Cubans are marching in the streets.
They want to be free from oppression.
They would be the ones that would say the homosexuals are about not to be killed in the public square in Iran for being a homosexual.
Tragedy Replaced By Honor00:04:28
But they're not.
They're not.
They're that misguided.
And that's sad.
But it is changing.
It is changing.
And the world will eventually find its roots again.
Let me give you a story that I think is really sad, but also really beautiful at the same time.
A story from the New York Post.
There were these kids, these teenagers, and this happened in Gainesville, Georgia.
And these teenagers, they decide they're going to go out on a prank night.
Now, the school had said, please stop with the pranks.
They're getting out of control.
And these kids go out anyway at night.
And what is their prank?
They're TPing a house of a teacher.
I mean, all of us did something like that when we were kids.
That's not an out-of-control prank night.
But stop with the pranks.
They're getting out of control.
Well, this one teacher, he is said by his wife, Laura, he was excited to get out there and catch him in the act.
And he's a beloved teacher, and he was going to give him hell in a fun way.
So the car pulls up.
They're throwing the TP on his trees, and he comes out and he starts giving them hell in a fun way.
It's raining.
They're starting to pull the truck and drive away, but he slips and he falls right in front of the truck and they run him over.
Okay, now, in every story I have heard like this, what do you expect to happen next?
In all of the horrible stuff that we have heard, what happens next?
The kids just drive on.
They just freak out and they drive on.
These kids didn't.
They immediately stopped and then started to apply CPR and medical aid, call the police, get help.
They wait there and then they're arrested.
Now, horrible, tragic story.
Let me give you the really beautiful part of this story.
So the wife, Laura, she said, he was not angry about this.
He was excited, waiting to catch them in the act.
He had been waiting for them all night.
And she said, we've talked to the whole family, and we support getting the charges dropped on all of these kids.
These kids face 15 years in prison.
She said, this is a terrible tragedy, and our family is determined to prevent a separate tragedy from occurring, ruining the lives of these students.
This would be counter to Jason's lifelong dedication of investing in the lives of these children.
Now, that's heroic.
But now let me tell you what the kid who is driving the truck, who actually has got to be feeling horrible because he was the guy who ran over this beloved teacher.
Let me tell you what he said.
I pledge to live out the remainder of my life in a manner that honors the memory of Coach Hughes by exemplifying Christ.
He will never be forgotten.
As you look at the world today and it makes no sense whatsoever, and you think we are doomed, I want you to think of this amazingly horrific story out of Gainesville and the mercy and honor that has now appeared to replace that tragedy.
I pray for all of them involved, the kids and the family.
God bless you all.
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Besides, stop making us cry.
Wasn't that beautiful, though?
Yes.
I mean, it was a beautiful story.
I mean, there's two things that I am a sucker for, and that is beauty, real beauty, not like, you know, Melania beauty.
I mean, just things that are just so beautiful and honor.
I feel so convicted to share mercy more in my life for the small things, because if she can do it for that, why can't I do it for the small things?
Seeing The Corruption Everywhere00:02:24
I know.
I know.
I am changing so much.
Boy, this show's going to suck in a couple more years because I'm just changing so much.
I just am finding a different spirit entirely in my life.
But maybe that's just me.
We'll hire somebody to say horrible, horrible things.
I think it's because the goofball stew isn't around anymore and there's just more estrogen in the room.
I guess maybe it is, maybe.
Jason, what did we miss today?
People asking about the story that you mentioned at the top of the hour in the first hour today about the fraud at LA County and the hospice centers there.
I was just reading to the insiders just now a few of the stats from that.
And CBS looked at around 1,800 hospices in LA County, and they looked for multiple red flags.
And they have a list of the red flags.
So all the typical ones we see of these crazy progressive fraud groups, they all are in like, there's multiple different groups.
They try to sound independent.
But when you look into them, they're all under the same address.
You know, like 20 different companies and a couple of different buildings, all at the same address.
Out of 1,800 of these hospices, 700 of these facilities tripped multiple of these red flags.
700.
And this is just in L.A. County, in a little area in L.A. County.
You can imagine how deep this entire thing goes.
How much of our natural debt is because of stuff like this?
Yes, I will tell you, I'll bet you when it comes to it, our deficit every year, I will bet you a third of it, maybe more, is just corruption.
We haven't proven to be serious about our corruption problem ever.
Ever.
You'll hear about one little piece that's corrupt and then they move on.
Why do you think they went after Elon Musk and Doge as hard as they did?
I'm telling you, a third of our deficit every year is going to corruption.
If that's what you're finding, and each of those patients got like, what was it, supposed to get $12,000 a piece and they had thousands of them in just there.