Stackelbeck: Iranian regime building missile bases off coast of Venezuela

Glenn invited Erick Stackelbeck onto radio this morning to discuss some of scarier news revealed in the new GBTV documentary Rumors of War 3: Target U.S. Would you believe that the Iranian regime is reported to be building missile bases off the coast of Venezuela? Or that they want to make inroads into Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of the United States? Glenn got the shocking details on radio this morning.

Transcript of interview below:

GLENN: Erick Stakelbeck is here. He's on this special tomorrow, Rumors of War III on GBTV.com. Erick, the Muslim Brotherhood, the president has come out and said, you know, hey, we're going to help them in small business.

 

STAKELBECK: Yeah.

 

GLENN: I don't know if we're helping out the shop keepers in Iran as well.

 

STAKELBECK: Yeah.

 

GLENN: Give me the tie with Iran and the missiles of a Cuban missile crisis that's possibly coming.

 

STAKELBECK: Glenn, this is one of the most frightening developments in the realm of national security that the average American knows nothing about. Now, about a year and a half ago, a leading German daily newspaper, Die Welt, very credible, very credible source did a wide‑ranging investigative report and they found that the Iranian regime, Ahmadinejad and the boys, are building missiles bases in an island off the coast of Northern Venezuela, in our hemisphere. Now, these missile bases would obviously be equipped with Iran's midrange missiles which could reach, as you played in the clip, Panama Canal, Florida, but Iran is also working on Intercontinental ballistic missiles. Now, the Obama administration has to know this. They have to know what Iran is up to in our backyard. There's even been reports that Iran is trying to make inroads into Cuba, just 90 miles off our shore. And it's not a coincidence, Glenn, that on his victory tour of Latin America back in January, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a pit stop in Cuba. So, so much for the Monroe Doctrine.

 

GLENN: I was shocked when I watched the documentary. I watched half of it this morning, the finished reel, and I'm shocked, Erick, at how many people in this administration are really bad, I mean really bad. You know, we found Van Jones, like, okay, he's a really bad, a communist revolutionary. Really bad Islamic extremist, all in and around this administration.

 

STAKELBECK: Oh, yeah. I mean, these, Glenn, these are Muslim Brotherhood‑connected individuals and it's not just me saying it. I'm not just throwing the label out there calling them brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood's own documents, as we reveal in Rumors of War III which everyone needs to watch, their own documents say these are our friends. These are our organizations. And Glenn, these Muslim Brotherhood documents name names: Hey, these are our people. Well, the very people that the brotherhood names are in the White House. They have entree to the Obama administration.

 

GLENN: And it's not that they've infiltrated. You know, I think we've used the wrong word in the documentary. We say that they've infiltrated to all of the highest levels in every realm of our government now. They haven't infiltrated. We opened the ‑‑ President Obama opened the door and said, "Come on in, guys."

 

STAKELBECK: Glenn, two delegations from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood were in the White House two weeks ago. Terrorists in suits. Because that's what the brotherhood is. They might not have the flowing beards and the long robes and that's where they get ya. They're wearing suits. They're well educated. They're eloquent. That's the Muslim Brotherhood's game: Deception. Well, they were in the White House two weeks ago meeting with Obama administration officials.

 

I never thought I'd see the day in American history where we had terrorists in the White House, but the Muslim Brotherhood is the granddaddy of them all when it comes to Islamic terror groups: Al‑Qaeda, Hamas all of the violent jihadists we hear about were spawned from the Muslim Brotherhood. They are the granddaddy. Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al‑Zawahiri, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, all of these kingpins, before they formed Al‑Qaeda they belonged to, surprise, the Muslim Brotherhood.

 

STU: A lot of this information, too, Erick is fairly recent in that a lot of it came from the Holy Land Foundation investigation. Is that right? How did that come ‑‑ how did we come across that stuff?

 

STAKELBECK: Stu, that he is a great point. In 2007 the largest terrorism financing trial in American history went down in Dallas, Texas. The Holy Land Foundation was a quote/unquote Islamic charity that was feeding needy Palestinian orphans. Well, in reality they were sending some $10 million overseas to Hamas. All of this came out in the Holy Land Foundation trial in 2007, and in that trial, guys, key point here: Two of the leading American Muslim organizations that are good friends of the Obama administration: The Council on American Islamic Relations, CAIR, and the Islamic Society of North America, ISNA, both of these groups were named as unindicted co‑conspirators in this case, in the largest terrorism financing trial in American history.

 

GLENN: Yeah. Wait until you ‑‑ Erick, I thank you so much for your hard work. You'll be here tomorrow?

 

STAKELBECK: I will see you there, Glenn.

 

GLENN: We'll see you. Okay. Thanks a lot, Erick. It is tomorrow, Rumors of War III, GBTV.com. This is a don't‑miss. This is a don't‑miss. Nobody is going to show you this stuff. Nobody. And our documentary team in Ohio has worked a long time on this. That's tomorrow night, 7:00, special time, 7:00 on GBTV.com.

PHOTOS: Inside Glenn's private White House tour

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In honor of Trump's 100th day in office, Glenn was invited to the White House for an exclusive interview with the President.

Naturally, Glenn's visit wasn't solely confined to the interview, and before long, Glenn and Trump were strolling through the majestic halls of the White House, trading interesting historical anecdotes while touring the iconic home. Glenn was blown away by the renovations that Trump and his team have made to the presidential residence and enthralled by the history that practically oozed out of the gleaming walls.

Want to join Glenn on this magical tour? Fortunately, Trump's gracious White House staff was kind enough to provide Glenn with photos of his journey through the historic residence so that he might share the experience with you.

So join Glenn for a stroll through 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the photo gallery below:

The Oval Office

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The Roosevelt Room

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Trump branded a tyrant, but did Obama outdo him on deportations?

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MSNBC and CNN want you to think the president is a new Hitler launching another Holocaust. But the actual deportation numbers are nowhere near what they claim.

Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews, in an interview with CNN’s Jim Acosta, compared Trump’s immigration policies to Adolf Hitler’s Holocaust. He claimed that Hitler didn’t bother with German law — he just hauled people off to death camps in Poland and Hungary. Apparently, that’s what Trump is doing now by deporting MS-13 gang members to El Salvador.

Symone Sanders took it a step further. The MSNBC host suggested that deporting gang-affiliated noncitizens is simply the first step toward deporting black Americans. I’ll wait while you try to do that math.

The debate is about control — weaponizing the courts, twisting language, and using moral panic to silence dissent.

Media mouthpieces like Sanders and Matthews are just the latest examples of the left’s Pavlovian tribalism when it comes to Trump and immigration. Just say the word “Trump,” and people froth at the mouth before they even hear the sentence. While the media cries “Hitler,” the numbers say otherwise. And numbers don’t lie — the narrative does.

Numbers don’t lie

The real “deporter in chief” isn’t Trump. It was President Bill Clinton, who sent back 12.3 million people during his presidency — 11.4 million returns and nearly 900,000 formal removals. President George W. Bush, likewise, presided over 10.3 million deportations — 8.3 million returns and two million removals. Even President Barack Obama, the progressive darling, oversaw 5.5 million deportations, including more than three million formal removals.

So how does Donald Trump stack up? Between 2017 and 2021, Trump deported somewhere between 1.5 million and two million people — dramatically fewer than Obama, Bush, or Clinton. In his current term so far, Trump has deported between 100,000 and 138,000 people. Yes, that’s assertive for a first term — but it's still fewer than Biden was deporting toward the end of his presidency.

The numbers simply don’t support the hysteria.

Who's the “dictator” here? Trump is deporting fewer people, with more legal oversight, and still being compared to history’s most reviled tyrant. Apparently, sending MS-13 gang members — violent criminals — back to their country of origin is now equivalent to genocide.

It’s not about immigration

This debate stopped being about immigration a long time ago. It’s now about control — about weaponizing the courts, twisting language, and using moral panic to silence dissent. It’s about turning Donald Trump into the villain of every story, facts be damned.

If the numbers mattered, we’d be having a very different national conversation. We’d be asking why Bill Clinton deported six times as many people as Trump and never got labeled a fascist. We’d be questioning why Barack Obama’s record-setting removals didn’t spark cries of ethnic cleansing. And we’d be wondering why Trump, whose enforcement was relatively modest by comparison, triggered lawsuits, media hysteria, and endless Nazi analogies.

But facts don’t drive this narrative. The villain does. And in this script, Trump plays the villain — even when he does far less than the so-called heroes who came before him.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Exposed: America’s ancient power grid is a national security disaster

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If America wants to remain a global leader in the coming decades, we need more energy fast.

It's no secret that Glenn is an advocate for the safe and ethical use of AI, not because he wants it, but because he knows it’s coming whether we like it or not. Our only option is to shape AI on our terms, not those of our adversaries. America has to win the AI Race if we want to maintain our stability and security, and to do that, we need more energy.

AI demands dozens—if not hundreds—of new server farms, each requiring vast amounts of electricity. The problem is, America lacks the power plants to generate the required electricity, nor do we have a power grid capable of handling the added load. We must overcome these hurdles quickly to outpace China and other foreign competitors.

Outdated Power Grid

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Our power grid is ancient, slowly buckling under the stress of our modern machines. AAI’s energy demands could collapse it without a major upgrade. The last significant overhaul occurred under FDR nearly a century ago, when he connected rural America to electricity. Since then, we’ve patched the system piecemeal, but it’s still the same grid from the 1930s. Over 70 percent of the powerlines are 30 years old or older, and circuit breakers and other vital components are in similar condition. Most people wouldn't trust a dishwasher that was 30 years old, and yet much of our grid relies on technology from the era of VHS tapes.

Upgrading the grid would prevent cascading failures, rolling blackouts, and even EMP attacks. It would also enable new AI server farms while ensuring reliable power for all.

A Need for Energy

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Earlier this month, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt appeared before Congress as part of an AI panel and claimed that by 2030, the U.S. will need to add 96 gigawatts to our national power production to meet AI-driven demand. While some experts question this figure, the message is clear: We must rapidly expand power production. But where will this energy come from?

As much as eco nuts would love to power the world with sunshine and rainbows, we need a much more reliable and significantly more efficient power source if we want to meet our electricity goals. Nuclear power—efficient, powerful, and clean—is the answer. It’s time to shed outdated fears of atomic energy and embrace the superior electricity source. Building and maintaining new nuclear plants, along with upgraded infrastructure, would create thousands of high-paying American jobs. Nuclear energy will fuel AI, boost the economy, and modernize America’s decaying infrastructure.

A Bold Step into the Future

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This is President Trump’s chance to leave a historic mark on America, restoring our role as global leaders and innovators. Just as FDR’s power grid and plants made America the dominant force of the 20th century, Trump could upgrade our infrastructure to secure dominance in the 21st century. Visionary leadership must cut red tape and spark excitement in the industry. This is how Trump can make America great again.

POLL: Is K2-18b proof of alien LIFE in the cosmos?

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Are we alone in the universe?

It's no secret that Glenn keeps one eye on the cosmos, searching for any signs of ET. Late last week, a team of astronomers at the University of Cambridge made an exciting discovery that could change how we view the universe. The astronomers were monitoring a distant planet, K2-18b, when the James Webb Space Telescope detected dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide, two atmospheric gases believed only to be generated by living organisms. The planet, which is just over two and a half times larger than Earth, orbits within the "habitable zone" of its star, meaning the presence of liquid water on its surface is possible, further supporting the possibility that life exists on this distant world.

Unfortunately, humans won't be able to visit K2-18b to see for ourselves anytime soon, as the planet is about 124 light-years from Earth. This means that even if we had rockets that could travel at the speed of light, it would still take 124 years to reach the potentially verdant planet. Even if humans made the long trek to K2-18b, they would be faced with an even more intense challenge upon arrival: Gravity. Assuming K2-18b has a similar density to Earth, its increased size would also mean it would have increased gravity, two and a half times as much gravity, to be exact. This would make it very difficult, if not impossible, for humans to live or explore the surface without serious technological support. But who knows, give Elon Musk and SpaceX a few years, and we might be ready to seek out new life (and maybe even new civilizations).

But Glenn wants to know what you think. Could K2-18b harbor life on its distant surface? Could alien astronomers be peering back at us from across the cosmos? Would you be willing to boldly go where no man has gone before? Let us know in the poll below:

Could there be life on K2-18b?

Could there be an alien civilization thriving on K2-18b?

Will humans develop the technology to one day explore distant worlds?

Would you sign up for a trip to an alien world?

Is K2-18b just another cold rock in space?