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Hacking presidential elections? Unleashing cyber warfare on the West? All diversions to conceal Russia's real plan to subvert Western culture and the American Way. Their real secret weapon: scheduling dance recitals on Mother's Day.
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GLENN: So I'm just talking about -- I want to get real on how the Russians are screwing us. My daughter takes a class with Russian -- you know, some Russian ballet teachers.
PAT: So does my granddaughter.
GLENN: And I can't take it. I can't take it.
Yesterday, give -- give -- give to mother of your performance. No. No. No.
JEFFY: No.
PAT: Not much of a gift.
GLENN: Not much of a gift.
My wife yesterday, she got up at 8 o'clock. Started running around the house, trying to get everything ready for this performance at 8 o'clock in the morning. She had to be out of the house by 10:00 --
PAT: Bearing in mind that the performance is at 7 o'clock at night.
JEFFY: Wait. What?
GLENN: Yeah. She had to be out of the house by 10:00 to drive across town to get to the place. She had to be there for my daughter from 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
JEFFY: The performance was --
GLENN: At 7:00 .
PAT: On Mother's Day.
GLENN: On Mother's Day.
PAT: That's unbelievable. Unbelievable.
GLENN: So she was just -- and they had the gall -- these Russians, "Give your mother gift of your performance." No, no.
PAT: I'm going to give you the gift of pulling my daughter out of your stupid dance club.
JEFFY: Yeah. Yes.
GLENN: Oh, my gosh. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it.
My wife last night was so -- so tired, so tired. I went and I saw her. We came and I took care of the kids and took the grandkids and everything to the performance.
And so we arrive at 6:45, and I see her, and she's just beat into the ground. And I said, "Hey, happy Mother's Day." And she said, "Yeah, duh. Thank you very much."
JEFFY: Fortunately though, you had Saturday.
GLENN: No, I worked all day Saturday. And she -- she had a birthday party for Cheyenne. It was like -- not Mother's Day. It's every day is not Mother's Day. Every day is kid's day, as my mother used to say.
They -- she had 14 girls. She was like -- Cheyenne wanted to go to the -- wanted to go that medieval times thing. Oh, my God. I can't take it anymore. So Tania was like, she wants 14 people to go. How much is it -- no. No.
PAT: It's about $700 a person.
GLENN: Yeah. It's like, no. We're not going to medieval times --
PAT: It's ridiculous.
GLENN: She's like, I'm just going to get some stuff, and I will decorate the house. And then we can go swim out in the pool.
So she's decorated the whole house. It would have been worth spending eight zillion -- it would have been worth mortgaging the house, instead of having 14 girls at the birthday party.
PAT: Yeah.
GLENN: My wife had the worst -- worst Mother's Day weekend of all time.
PAT: Oh, man.
JEFFY: And you probably shouldn't have eaten her strawberries --
GLENN: And it was the damn Russians.
PAT: The good thing though is the Russians had you pay $25 per person to -- that's great.
GLENN: Oh, no. There's more. There's more to that, if you would like to hear it. There is much more to that story, when we come back.
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GLENN: You want to stay on this Russian conspiracy thing, you know, perhaps Clapper is more right than I thought. And I believe the Russian influence and destruction of the way of life starts with ballet classes for your little girls.
PAT: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
GLENN: Now, let me just say, I happen to have a special experience and special passion -- because as I said just a few minutes ago, my wife was at a ballet recital, getting my daughter ready for 12 hours yesterday. And the Russians -- mother. Throw a potato in pot and dance. Cook! Drink!
So they said, you know, oh, happen to fall on Mother's Day, sorry for that.
Yeah, uh-huh. Here in America, Ivan, it's a little important.
JEFFY: Are you?
GLENN: So she was gone all day yesterday. And then we had to watch the teacher in this deal -- we all want to go home -- it was a three-hour performance.
PAT: It's a dance recital --
GLENN: Gilligan was lost and washed up on to an island and built a hut in three hours. We're having to watch -- and they -- they have the teacher dance. I don't care to see the teacher --
PAT: Right.
GLENN: I don't care. They hired some guy to dress up in tights to do some dances. I guess -- why? Why? Why do I need to look at his junk jumping in front of me for --
PAT: Good golly.
GLENN: I don't care. I don't care about anybody on the stage, except my daughter and her friends, and everybody else I'm tolerating because, you know, it's your daughter and their friends. So I'm like, okay. That's cute. Because you were cheering for my kid. It's cute. It's great.
Stop the madness.
JEFFY: Right.
STU: Yeah, there's a misunderstanding in the audience there, right? No one is there because they like ballet. There's 0 percent --
GLENN: Right. And we all pay $25 to sit there.
STU: Right. They're there because they want to see their daughter or at least feel the need to show up so their daughter sees them. That's probably more accurate.
GLENN: Yes. Yes.
PAT: We've been doing dance recitals now for, you know, almost 30 years because my oldest daughter is almost 30.
JEFFY: One hundred years.
GLENN: Dance recitals or ballet?
PAT: I've never seen the instructor dance.
GLENN: Never.
PAT: I've never seen them invite a third party to dance. And I've never been charged 25 bucks a person before.
GLENN: It's outrageous. It's outrageous.
PAT: I mean, that's nuts.
GLENN: I'm going to make a stand tonight. And I probably won't because I'm too much of a chicken. But I'm going to make a stand tonight to say, this is --
PAT: Find some place else.
GLENN: First of all, it's crazy the amounts of time. I was watching this thing last night, and I thought, "I don't know anyone -- growing up, I don't know a single person that would have had the money to -- to -- to rent the stupid costumes, let alone have the recital -- the recital would have been them dressed in tights, if they even did a ballet class. I don't know anyone who was froufrou enough to have a ballet class. My sisters never took it. They never took, you know, private singing lessons. My folks never went to our games or -- it didn't happen.
STU: Your folks never went to your games?
GLENN: I actually played basketball until I was in 6th grade, and then it stopped.
STU: I'm sorry. What?
GLENN: Yes. Stop. I'm not even going there. I will not --
STU: Is there footage of these events?
GLENN: No.
STU: Aw.
JEFFY: Is there a chance --
GLENN: It was as sad and as tragic as you thought.
JEFFY: Maybe that's why they didn't go.
GLENN: They would stand on the court, and they would be like -- they would almost look at the other team and -- they would look at me. And I'd be like, "I'm hooping. I'm hooping." And they would stand with the ball and go, "Oh, crap." And then they would look at the other team like, "I might as well just throw it to you, and it will -- let's just get on with it." And then they would throw it to me, and then I'd drop it or something, and then the other team would have it. But that's a different story. Let's not go any deeper. There's a lot of pain there.
So we never went --
JEFFY: No way!
GLENN: Our folks would say, "Go out and play."
JEFFY: Get out.
GLENN: Go out and play. And you would go out and play. We didn't have all this orchestrated stuff that costs so much money. I can't get past the fact that our kids are better off in some ways because they -- they are taking --
JEFFY: Yes, they are.
GLENN: Taking dance and things we never even thought of. You know, going over robotics over the summers. And doing things -- okay. That's good. Except it's tearing the family apart. When the family is not together for Mother's Day, it's insane. It's insane.
PAT: Uh-huh.
GLENN: And my wife -- you know, I made a list -- I watched her. I posted something on Facebook last night -- or, yesterday morning. I took this picture, and I didn't include her face. I just took her -- a picture of Cheyenne sitting at her feet and her hands because she had gotten up. And it was 10 o'clock in the morning. And she's like, "I have got to get into the shower and -- and I took this picture of her because she was telling me all the things that she had to do.
Okay? Let me just read this to you. Because she gave me this list of all the things she had to do. And I just started listening to her, and I thought, I do not -- I'd kill myself. If I had to be a mother, I'd kill myself.
There's just no -- I don't know how -- I don't know how women do it. Facebook, this is a shot of the worst Mother's Day. But the most revealing about what a Mother's Day really is like.
It's of Tania in her pajamas this morning. She hasn't had time to take a shower yet, as my daughter's Russian ballet instructor doesn't really care about American holidays. So here she sits on our couch this morning, sewing Cheyenne's point shoes for tonight's recital. She didn't do it yesterday, as evidenced by the little Groot doll on the table. Yesterday, Cheyenne had a birthday party here at the house with 14 girls that mom had to pull off by herself because dad was at work.
The open laptop is next to Tania because she had to go over Raphe's homework that needs to be finished with you today, Glenn. It's due tomorrow, and I've been reminding him and trying to get him to do it all weekend long. She has to leave in an hour. She has to be the backstage mom all day for the recital. Her socks are on because she's always cold, yet she keeps the house that way for me because I'm always hot.
Have you had breakfast yet? Raphe, your right shirt is hanging on the ironing board. Honey, Cheyenne needs to pack a lunch. Can you turn the iron on for me? Cheyenne, hurry up. I need to do your hair. Raphe, did you brush your teeth and use a washcloth?
Did you put deodorant on? No, you didn't. You didn't do any of those. Go back upstairs.
Me, just trying to help doesn't help really at all. Pack the lunches and snacks. Pull the car up front. Tell the son to empty the garbage long after mom had asked him twice, and try to pack the sewing kit. How did I forget the scissors and the lighter? Okay, Mom. Scissors, they were obvious. But a lighter. What's a lighter for?
I didn't ask. I just got one and helped her into the car. But if I were a mom, the lighter would be so I could smoke crack and forget about the endless lists that mom is always writing, checking, and juggling in her head. This is our crappy Mother's Day. Our glimpse into what her day is like every day.
Perhaps the purpose of this day is to notice how lost we would be without her.
I made a list yesterday of the things that she has to do. And it's overwhelming. Just overwhelming.
JEFFY: It's a shame to have to add some stuff to that list.
GLENN: It really is. It's going to be -- it's a shame when I have to let her go because, I mean, she's getting high in the miles, you know what I mean?
JEFFY: Right.
STU: I'm sure she's going to appreciate that.
GLENN: Yeah.
STU: Now, she's got another thing in the list, which is filing certain papers.
GLENN: Wait. What? So I'm sitting here and I'm thinking and I'm honestly -- I mean, I'm thinking about my mom. And I loved my mom.
And, you know, I loved her. Flaws and all. When she would come in, middle of the night, "Why the hell haven't you cleaned up your room? Get out of bed. You're just like your stinking father."
Those were great times.
JEFFY: Oh, good times. Good times.
GLENN: They don't come back again, and I love those moments.
Well, they didn't happen.
(laughter)
You know, I look at what my life was like. And then I look at what our children's life is like. And I think, what the hell are we doing? Really, honestly, what are we doing to them?
We are constantly the -- the house stops for them. We have put them, in many cases, above the family and above our relationship.
JEFFY: Yeah.
GLENN: Now, our relationship, sometimes that is the one to be battered. But you batter that, it's over. It's over. You beat up the relationship between mom and dad. The whole family dissolves. But how many times have you been -- now, this I expect -- how many times have you been in a critical conversation and the kids are like, "Mom, we've got to go -- I've got to go." Okay. "Dad, we've got to go -- okay. We'll get to that later.
That happened with my parents, but not to the degree that it's happening now and not for the stuff that's happening now. Usually, it was the parents who were like, "I've got to go. You're either coming with me, or you're riding your bike. You're coming now, or I'm going. I got to get to work, so ride your bike. You're going to walk." I don't know how many times I heard that. "Go. You're walking. I got to go."
Not now. God forbid.
JEFFY: I know.
GLENN: And if you even thought about doing it, you'd go to jail. It's not that -- Pat was talking about how, you know, times have changed and how, you know, you don't want your daughter walking outside in even your neighborhood.
PAT: Uh-huh.
GLENN: I got news for you --
PAT: Well, she likes to walk around the pond, which is about half a block from our house.
GLENN: Man, and you live in the mean streets --
PAT: And I don't like her doing that alone.
JEFFY: Pat, that's not dangerous.
GLENN: You've got to be kidding me. Really?
PAT: No, you can't do it. No. Not alone.
GLENN: Yes, you can. Pat.
JEFFY: Pat.
GLENN: Pat.
PAT: One of your brothers going with you? No, you're not going.
Come on.
GLENN: Pat. Pat. Pat.
STU: Wait. How old is she again?
JEFFY: She's seventeen.
PAT: Seventeen.
GLENN: Sharia law. Sharia law.
(laughter)
JEFFY: No kidding!
PAT: That's kind of ridiculous, right? That's ridiculous.
JEFFY: Yes, it is, but you --
PAT: That's ridiculous.
GLENN: That's all coming from you believe -- it's safer for our kids, I think, than it has ever been in many regards. Where the danger is, is online. That's where the real danger is.
JEFFY: That's where we send them.
GLENN: And that's where we send them.
JEFFY: Stick them in the house.
GLENN: We stick them in the house.
"Watch this."
That's where the real danger is.
"No, no, no. Don't go outside and play. I can't be there to watch you."
JEFFY: You might get an ant bite.
GLENN: No, it's not -- we think -- all we think is Taken.
JEFFY: Yeah, I know.
PAT: Yeah. Yep.
GLENN: Oh, my gosh. She's going to go for a walk. She's going to be half a block. Some guy is going to put her into the car.
PAT: Uh-huh.
GLENN: It's safer than it was. But you don't dare let your kids go out and do the things -- we were outside for hours and hours all day long.
JEFFY: All day. All day.
GLENN: Somebody would say -- hey, who do you kids belong to? We wouldn't want to tell them, not because the folks would get into trouble, because we would get into trouble.
JEFFY: Yes!
GLENN: They would call our folks and say, "You know what your kids were doing?"
JEFFY: I know.
GLENN: I mean -- and what are we doing? We're renting ballet -- don't do it, Stu. I can see it in your eyes. You have a kid --
STU: Uh-huh. Well, this is very -- this is a frightening conversation because I have a 4-year-old daughter. And she's very cute. And she'll dance to the songs. And my wife was saying recently, "You know what we should do is get her into dance. She loves to dance."
GLENN: Yeah.
PAT: Tell her she's too old already. There's no way -- you can't start them at four.
GLENN: Yeah, no. That's half serious.
PAT: Yeah, it is.
JEFFY: Yeah. Yeah, it is.
GLENN: When it comes to real ballet -- now, remember, my daughter was taken from Russians who are like, four years old, no. My daughter was performing on stage at four, smoking a pipe, and knitting a sweetheart at the same time and also killing men for KGB.
JEFFY: Yeah.
GLENN: And you're like, what?
STU: What?
GLENN: But you -- that's the thing, ballet costs so much money, and it's such a commitment. And it's -- I mean, what do you do with it? Unless you're going to be a ballet dancer, what are you going to --
STU: Yeah.
JEFFY: That's why I stopped.
GLENN: I like the grace that it gives.
JEFFY: That's why I stopped, Pat. Because, I mean, what are you going to do with it?
PAT: Right. I can imagine the grace that was Jeffy in ballet.
JEFFY: Right. I decided after classes of years, that's enough. What are you going to do with it?
GLENN: I think we should do a ballet. I think this show should do a ballet.
STU: With Jeffy?
(laughter)
STU: With Jeffy?
GLENN: Yeah, with Jeffy.
PAT: He'll do a pirouette and fall through the stage.
STU: You keep saying "this show." What you mean is Jeffy, right? Because I know you don't mean this show, as if we'd all be involved in it. I think what you mean is Jeffy. Right?
GLENN: No, I mean this show, the whole show. I would produce and direct.
STU: Oh, and I'll write it. I'll write it. I'll write that thing.
PAT: The musical. I'll do the musical score.
GLENN: Pat, looks like -- looks like you're playing Clara, and Jeffy, of course, is the Nutcracker.
New reports have dropped linking failed Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks to a multitude of online accounts, including some that were deep into the “furry” community. Glenn Beck asks, how did the FBI miss all of this when they insisted the Butler, PA, shooter didn’t have much online presence or a clear motive?! Or did they purposefully scrub this information from their reports to keep us in the dark?
Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: So there's a couple of things that are in the news. That Thomas Matthew Crooks thing.
You know, this is crazy. Went by they/them. Furry. I don't even -- I've been thinking about this a lot in the last 24 hours. You know, the kid that tried to take out Donald Trump back in July in the Butler rally.
It's a year later, okay? November 17, 2025. These new reports are dropping bombshells. It is the 17th, isn't it? 18th. Sorry. The 18th. These -- these new reports are dropping over and over and over and over and over again.
And there are things that nobody mentioned in the official investigations.
Independent researchers now are using the same kind of digital forensic tools that the Feds have. And they're piecing together a bunch of old online accounts, tied directly to Crooks' email. His real email and his name.
And one of the biggest ones was on Deviant Art. Okay. That sounds great. User names like Epic Microwave and The Epic Microwave.
Okay. This site -- apparently, a huge hub for artists. But also, ground zero for the furry community.
Now, we're going to get into this a little later. Because Stu is a big furry. And he will go right into it.
Where he likes to --
STU: Furries are not that large actually. More moderate sized.
Okay. All right. Well, this is where people get into the anthropomorphic animal thing. And they turn animals into half humans. And it turns sexual. And I don't even know.
So, anyway, this kid was not casually browsing. He was deep in that subculture, we find out now.
So that's two high-profile attempted assassination cases, or one attempted and one actual assassination case. And they're both tied to the same thing.
And nobody seems to be worried about that.
Nobody is talking about that. Imagine if we had two. One attempted and one actual assassination. And it was Charlie Kirk and president Biden.
Okay.
Anybody. And they both were deep into the GlennBeck.com subculture. Do you think the media would be like, what's going on there? But this thing, nobody cares. Okay? And when I say nobody cares, it seems like our FBI doesn't care either. Our DOJ doesn't care. The Trump case specifically blows a hole into the mysterious lone wolf with no known motive. Wait. What?
Now, this wasn't -- this wasn't Patel pushing this. This was the -- the Biden FBI that was pushing this. Christopher Wray went to Congress. And shrugged. And said, you know, we can't find any ideology. Or any online trail that explains this. What!
It's right here! What are you talking about? It's right here!
Crooks had at least 17 accounts across discord, YouTube, Gab, Deviant Art, all of it. Easily tracked to him!
And as we told you last week, he started cheering for Trump. And then went a die hard, you know, 180-degree turn around in 2020.
And then he started echoing anti-Semitic, anti-immigration rants, calling for political assassinations, repeating Maoist lines like, "Power grows at the barrel of a gun," and even chatting with sketchy European extremists, Nazis, who are linked to a designated terrorist group. He posted violent threats under his real name for years. Now, listen to this. He also got flagged by other users, who literally tagged law enforcement in their reply! And nothing happened. Nothing happened. They didn't know who this guy was. They didn't search for him. They didn't question him. Nothing happened until he climbed on to the roof and started shooting at Donald Trump. Excuse me?
Do you believe that? Stu, do you believe that?
They have people online, tipping the FBI off, and they didn't even who know this guy was.
They had no idea who he was.
STU: I mean, it seems impossible to believe.
You have one stray comment, that is taken the wrong way online. And, you know, Secret Service is calling you up. I mean, we've -- I don't want to bring up.
GLENN: We've personally gone through this.
STU: Exactly. This same thing.
GLENN: We said. I said -- I said it on one show.
STU: Uh-huh.
GLENN: Something about Donald Trump.
STU: No. No. No. No. I'm not going to let you get away with that.
No. I want to make sure that it's clear what occurred on the show was you essentially threatening my life!
And I want people to know. Where no. I was going to say. Right. I was saying something about Donald Trump.
And then Stu got in, and I said --
STU: I said --
GLENN: I will choke you to death. Or something. Yeah. I just need to choke you to death.
And people in the audience said, I was threatening Donald Trump.
No, I was clearly threatening, and nobody called about poor Stu. I was clearly threatening Stu's life.
STU: Yeah, think about that when you're driving in your car right now. You didn't call! You heard it. And you let my life be threatened. And you didn't care at all.
GLENN: That's right.
STU: None of you cared. But apparently people care --
GLENN: That's why I love this audience.
That's right. So, anyway, so, anyway, the -- the -- secret service was with us two hours later. Okay?
STU: Rightfully so.
GLENN: Yeah. Rightfully so. And we have no problem with it. You know, we were talking to them. They were like, Mr. Beck, we know -- we listened to the tape, we know what happened. We just have to dot all the I's, cross all the T's, and just get a statement. And I'm like, no, not a problem.
I was threatening to kill him. And, you know, they laughed and went, yeah, we understand that. And they left!
Okay. That's the way I remember it.
This guy threatens to kill the president and others! People tag him to the FBI and to law enforcement. And they never check into him?
STU: And, Glenn, I think people can say, well, you know, the thing we're talking about did happen on a national radio show. A lot of people heard it.
Maybe some of the comments on, what is it? Deviant Art are not as well picked up. And that's probably true.
Though, we've seen --
GLENN: They've sent it to them. They've sent it to them.
STU: Right. We've seen tons of examples of people making offhanded statements where this has happened.
You know, not just a threat. Which would be serious enough. But constant threats. Dozens of them, it seems.
We're still, I feel learning about all the details about this. A lot of threats from a specific person.
And it doesn't seem like their argument is, it wasn't even on their radar! I mean, that's unbelievable! It's --
GLENN: Here's -- here's bare minimum.
Everyone should be fired. Everyone should be fired!
Not just the top person. Everyone should be fired. I'm sorry. You can reapply, but we're cleaning house.
Because this is inexcusable. Inexcusable. Now, here's the other thing that's inexcusable. None of this stuff about the threats. None of the radicalization. None of the violent posts. None of the furry gender stuff even made it into the big congressional report that dropped December 2024.
None of this!
It was like they scrubbed the kid clean to keep the public in the dark. Let me say that again. It's like they scrubbed the kid clean, to keep the public in the dark.
Hmm. Let me go to the comment about -- from President Trump yesterday. We played it in the news a few minutes ago.
Where he was talking about the Epstein case. Listen to this.
DONALD: We have nothing to do with Epstein the Democrats do. All of his friends were Democrats. You look at this Reid Hoffmann. You look at Larry Summers. Bill Clinton. They went to his island all the time. And many of this, all Democrats.
All I want is I want for people to recognize the great job that I've done on pricing, on affordability, because we brought prices went way lower. On energy. On ending eight wars, and another one coming pretty soon, I believe.
We've done a great job. And I hate to see that deflect from the great job we've done. So I'm all for -- you know, we have given 50,000 pages. You do know that.
Unfortunately, like with the Kennedy situation, with the Martin Luther King situation, not to put Jeffrey Epstein in the same category, but no matter what we give, it's never enough. You know, with Kennedy, we gave everything, and it wasn't enough. With Martin Luther King, we gave everything, and it's never enough.
We've already given, I believe the number is 50,000 pages! 50,000 pages. And it's just a Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia hoax as it pertains to the Republicans.
GLENN: Okay. Stop. So why?
Why is it never enough? Why is it never enough?
Because the government has lied to us, over and over and over and over and over and over again.
Why is it never enough? Because what the hell happened here with this guy? What happened with these two shooters, and you're not telling us about the, you know, role-playing as a buff cartoon fox/wolf hybrid with they/them pronouns. And then being groomed by foreign edge lords, quoting Mao and terrorist manifestos. And then going out and trying to shoot somebody.
You don't mention that!
Yeah. That's why we don't believe the government. And until the government becomes fully clean, immediately, on everything, just, you know what, here it is.
Here it is!
Nobody is going to believe it. Now, what does this say about our kids. We have a whole generation now growing up the blued to these hyper niche, unmoderated corners of the internet, with fantasy and porn and identity confusion and hard-core political extremism. And all of it, just smashed together into one stream.
What do you think is going to happen? Family, school, real interactions with family. Real life friends. They don't touch these spaces.
You know, how's -- I feel weird about my body morph into, I need to commit mass violence against the world.
I mean, this is the five alarm tire. When you have two political assassinations. Two of them!
That trace back to the exact same subculture, you've got a real problem!
It's not like every furry is dangerous. Well, I know. I question every furry.
I mean, I don't even know what -- anyway!
There is some sort of radicalization pipeline that is happening. And we're raising our kids in digital petri dishes. Where mental illness and sexual confusion and violent ideology is all growing together!
And then we act shocked when one of our kids grab a rifle. America, wake up! Stop pretending this stuff is just a harmless little quirk. You know, or live and let live. Or we're just going to keep burying victims one after thorough. Parents and schools and tech companies. Law enforcement. Everybody dropped the ball on crooks.
For years! Red flags were out there, screaming about this guy.
And nobody in the government did anything. Nobody in law enforcement did anything? How many of our kids have to climb roofs, before we admit these dark corners of the internet are producing real monsters.
How many? How many?
And this is only the beginning of it.
Early this morning, millions of Americans were unable to log onto websites such as X, Spotify, and ChatGPT due to a widespread Cloudflare outage. This is just a few weeks after the major AWS outage that took a major chunk of the internet out of commission. Glenn warns that because everything is so consolidated, should the wrong hands gain control over our online infrastructure, we could have MAJOR issues...
Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: Let me explain the internet. You know, the internet is not some magic cloud. It's really a house of clouds, that's built on the back bone And, you know, built on a handful of companies. Cloud Fare is probably a company that you've never ever heard of. It is the front door and the alarm system, if you will, for the entire internet.
It protects websites from attacks and security problems. So the internet flows through Cloud Fare.
STU: Not flare, Glenn?
GLENN: To -- Cardflare [sic], yes. Cloudflare. Sorry. To the websites. Okay? When they go down, traffic to the entire website can stop.
And most of the internet uses Cloudflare. Without them, the internet would be really, really vulnerable to cyber. Okay?
They filter are all the traffic goes. They filter it. Make sure that there's no -- nobody trying to attack, before it goes to a company's website. So the filter is blocked when they go down.
So traffic can't get through to anybody. All right?
It's a really complex service. One of the most highly valued companies in technology companies. And, I mean, it's -- it's almost irreplaceable.
They have the capacity to absorb massive attacks that will take down companies, as large as Amazon and Microsoft.
This is the -- this is the first line of defense. And it's a great line of defense!
They filter out all the attacks, so Amazon, Microsoft, all the way down GlennBeck.com. All of them -- are -- are hacked into it and don't have cyber attacks. Okay? That's Cloudflare. AWS now, that is the foundation and the plumbing. That's the Amazon. And it is the plumbing, for another third of the internet.
One glitch, not even a hack, just the stupid software bug like what happened in October, and poof, Netflix stops. Your terror bell camera goes blind.
Hospitals can't access records. Et cetera, et cetera. And we saw it last month with AWS. Today, we're seeing it with Cloudflare.
What happens when the bad guys flip the switch on purpose?
Because we're understanding now that this is just a glitch. Just -- you know, there's a wrinkle in the get along.
And we just couldn't get that hitch and glitch out of the get along. And so you know what happens when that happens?
No. I -- I really don't.
The bad guys in this scenario, one of the bad guys is communist China. Because they just launched. We found this out last week, they just launched the world's first AI agent army.
This is unbelievable. This is not sci-fi.
This is real.
In September, the -- the hackers, you know, didn't sit in darkrooms, typing, and trying to get out. They turned an American AI. Claude, which is Amazon, is it not?
Claude.
STU: It's Grok, I believe.
GLENN: Is that Google? It's anthropic. You're right. You're right. Anthropic.
They turned Claude into a Terminator.
What they did is they got into Claude, and they said, hey, pretend you're a good guy, doing security tests. Then gather this information. And put some problems into the system. They scan the networks. They wrote exploits.
They stole secrets from big tech companies. From banks. Even from our government!
Okay?
Because humans just -- when it's in there, and you see that it's, you know, anthropic. You're like, oh, yeah.
Approve!
Four breaches were confirmed.
And that's just what we caught.
There was no human involved in this. Okay?
Now, the computer is on wheels.
Tesla. One software update that goes wrong, and you're -- your Tesla becomes a brick at 90 miles an hour. The internet is exactly the same.
We've handled our -- we've handed our entire lives over to the internet. And to automation. Banking. Shopping. Voting. Talking.
These are all really fragile digital pipes. And now, the AI super soldiers. The agents. Without anyone behind them, just one guy typing in, in China, you know, go in and cause disruption and pretend that you're a friend.
And it does! So what does this mean to you? Well, it means we need redundancy for one thing. I mean, are you safe with your power?
Are you safe with your heating? Are you safe with some of the things that are going on.
Your 401(k). Hacked by a robot that never, ever sleeps. Your kid's school records, gone. Your power grid. Remember Texas, a few years back, when the power grid was overwhelmed? Imagine that being done by AI robotics.
We keep centralizing everything. This is the problem. This is the problem with our government and everything else.
Instead of getting smaller, we keep getting larger. You remember what they said in '08. The banks, they're just too big to fail. Instead of breaking them up and strengthening the smaller banks, they put the smaller banks out of business and rolled them into the bigger banks. So made the bigger banks even bigger than they were.
Centralization is a bull's-eye for chaos. And everything is being centralized right now. And the outage starves the system.
This is a wake-up call. If you're trying to get onto ChatGPT or anything else today, your banks, whatever, and there's a glitch, and it's down for a while.
We need a redundancy yesterday. Decentralize! Again, it's like bringing manufacturing home again. Bringing the chips home again.
Build AI defenses, that don't let Chinese agents waltz right this, through the back door. Harden our grid, harden our data. Or lose your freedom.
So that's what's happening today. Now, let me get to one of the distractions, quickly. The Epstein files. President Trump has said, release the damn Epstein files. But he also said at the same time, it's not going to be enough. It's never enough!
We've released the JFK files and everything else.
Yes! And you know why? It has nothing to do with Donald Trump or Joe Biden or anybody else.
It has everything to do with the United States people lying to its people over and over and over and over again.
Overclassifying absolutely he went. So we never feel like we get the truth.
And then on top of it, never holding anyone accountable for their actions.
Did you see the judge said at a -- because the government made a mistake on gathering some of the evidence that looks like that Comey case may just have to be thrown out. You're not going to be able to try Comey.
What a surprise!
What a freaking surprise!
So he's releasing the Epstein files, but says, they're just -- they're not going to be enough. But they vote on the Epstein files being released. And I hope everybody in Washington votes to release them.
You know, what changed his mind?
I'll tell you what changed his mind. He saw what the Democrats were doing, in selectively releasing things.
Just dump them all out there. Then they're out.
And anybody thinks he's in the Epstein files.
Why?
Just ask yourself this one simple question. Why wouldn't the Democrats have used it between 2020 and 2024?
Why would they have not released that evidence? It would have been the easiest way to make sure he wasn't president of the United States. If you think he's hiding something for him, you're out of your ever loving mind!
Now, that's my opinion. I have a strong, forceful opinion.
I know. I've done a lot of critical thinking on this one.
But that doesn't mean that all of his buddies and everything else, is safe. Larry Summers has just announced he will step back from public life. I mean, he's the former Democratic Treasury Secretary.
He said, he's going to -- he's going to step back. Summer's emails with Epstein, show that the former cabinet official saw late night. Or the late financiers Streisand.
On pursuing a woman he refers to as his mentee.
And he referred to himself in this email as Epstein's wing man. Oh, boy.
He said, I'm deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain I've caused. I take full responsibility for my misguided decisions to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein. While continuing to fill my teaching obligations. So we've got a guy who is hanging out with Epstein.
Because where does he teach? I think he teaches in Harvard, doesn't he? Oh, good, yeah, let's have him hang out with the young kids. I'll be stepping back for my public commitments as part of my broader effort to rebuild trust and repair a relationship with the people closest to me.
Like, maybe, I don't know, your wife.
He hasn't been accused of any wrongdoing. But he was, you know -- you know, hanging out with Epstein. And writing him for love advice. And how can you -- hey. I need a wing man!
I'm trying to get this young mentee to sleep with me.
How do you think I can get it done.
I don't know. Nothing illegal. But nothing really non-sleazy about that.
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The fight over releasing the Epstein records has exploded into one of the biggest transparency battles in Washington. Republicans say Democrats deliberately blocked the vote to fast-track disclosure, raising questions about what the party is trying to hide — and why the timing matters so much. Glenn Beck breaks down why both sides are terrified of what might be revealed, how Trump’s call to “release everything” changed the political calculus, and why the banking records may hold the real truth behind Epstein’s power.
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GLENN: Johnson. Can we bring this up, Sara?
Johnson is live. And he's talking about transparency.
VOICE: Concerned as we were about all this. As we've insisted from the very beginning. Republicans are the only party trying to ensure maximum transparency. By the way, I will just tell you, I put the bill on the floor of unanimous consent last Wednesday night. And guess who objected to it? The Democrats.
Okay?
If they were so -- if this was so urgent. And they were so concerned about getting this done, and seeing justice be done and all of that, they would have not blocked the request. Okay?
This is about politics. They -- they blocked our unanimous consent motion to expedite our bill and made us waste all of this additional time.
Republicans are ready to get the job done, to move forward so we can continue to get on these important issues dealing with what the American people demand and deserve for us to deal with.
And so I want to leave you with this thought: Everybody should think long and hard about who is acting truthfully, honestly, and in good faith. It is not in the Democrat Party that has obfuscated and blatantly lied the last four years about all these things. It's not the Democrats who shut down the government and for their own selfish political purposes. It's not the Democrats who blocked the passage of this discharge a week ago because they wanted to have a political moment.
It is the Republicans who are acting in good faith. And I believe the American people are going to see that. And understand that.
I'm going to vote to move this forward.
I think it could be close to a unanimous vote because everybody here, all the Republicans want to go on record to show they're for maximum transparency. But they also want to know, that we're demanding that this stuff get corrected before it's ever -- moves through the process. And is completed.
GLENN: I think that's fascinating.
JUSTIN: I sincerely hope my Democrat colleagues will show the same level of urgency and enthusiasm when it comes to tackling the real issues facing the country that we have to get to.
GLENN: Okay. Top.
Stu, how -- how do the Democrats vote against this?
STU: As far as the -- the bill to expose the Epstein files?
I mean, I don't think they will in the end.
I don't think they will.
GLENN: You think it will be unanimous?
STU: I don't think it will be unanimous.
But I do think that it will pass when -- when it goes through. I -- I do think, it will get a lot of votes too. Because now people are cushioned. Right?
It's easy. No problems, really. Now that Trump has said, release it. There's really nobody opposing it outside of -- they probably want to make sure that they get everybody on record. So they're opposing the unanimous consent vote.
That's my guess, of their strategy there.
But, you know, what a surprise!
JASON: Personally, I think the Democrats walked into a huge trap on this, personally.
I think it's too politically dangerous for them to vote against it.
Although, I do feel like there will be more pushback, than some people could expect on this.
I think a lot of people will flip and vote against it. To me, it's desperation. What they did, last week. Or the past couple of weeks.
Come on! Redacting certain names within these emails. Just blowing past certain journalists that are considered on their side. That were allegedly coaching Epstein.
I mean, being willing to put that out there, is massive desperation.
I think President Trump set a trap for them on this.
I think it was sprung when he flipped. And said, no. We're releasing it. It just feels all too perfect for me.
I think the Democrats are terrified of some of the things that could be coming out of this.
Not to say, that it would be, like, very, very damning. But very, very embarrassing for a lot of them. That's what I'm expecting.
And I'm fully thinking there will be a floodgate of a lot of this stuff. They made a huge miscalculation, in my opinion, on doing that act of desperation.
STU: Why wouldn't Trump then want to -- why wouldn't he want to release these previously?
I mean, seeming, it does seem like when Donald Trump has an opportunity to make Democrats look bad, he's pretty -- he'll take it. He -- he likes that. Why wouldn't he have been in favor of this from the beginning if they actually had stuff on the Democrats?
GLENN: I don't think anything bad on the Democrats is actually there. I mean, really bad.
STU: Yeah.
GLENN: I think there's some embarrassing stuff from both sides.
But, you know, mainly for the Democrats. But there's not going to be a smoking gun on Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton or any of the big ones.
This is the way it always happens. The real kingpins always get away. It's just the underlings. And it will be the underlings that aren't real popular. That's what will happen. That are spendable. That maybe they want to get rid of in small districts.
The Democrats want to get rid of. Because the tells me could have cleaned all of this up, during Biden.
Whatever they wanted to do. They could have gotten rid of it.
STU: Glenn, can we talk for a second of how Trump is talking about this?
Because, obviously, we've talked about it as a big priority before the campaign. And now he's president of the United States.
And now he's used the term Epstein hoax. And all of that, several times.
I noticed in the clip we played earlier. That he started to clean that up, a little bit. And he said, the Epstein hoax.
It's a hoax, as it applies to Republicans.
And he started to kind of change his language on that a little bit. Which I find to be interesting.
I think smart. Because the American people don't think this is a nothing story.
They don't think this is a hoax. They don't think that the idea that that Epstein did these terrible things. Is something that is a nothing story to us right now.
But I think the way Trump thinks about it, is he's trying to deal with what's going on right now. And it's like, if we were -- if we unearthed a bunch of text messages from Jeffrey Dahmer to Nancy Pelosi. That would be a big story.
It would be important to find out why Jeffrey Dahmer and Nancy Pelosi were trading text messages. But that being said, it wouldn't be the number one issue of the president of the United States. Because it -- you know, Jeffrey Dahmer is long dead. Right?
Whatever was going on back then. We should know about it, but it's not necessarily as important right now as bringing down prices and making sure our economy doesn't spin out of control.
Or, you know, the Middle East. Or whatever else Trump is dealing with.
So I think Trump sees it. He keeps using hoax. I think to him, he really sees it as a distraction to the things he's actually trying to get accomplished. When at the end of the day, it's an important story.
About the, you know, they're lying about it constantly in the media. And it's just become a distraction from what he really wants to get accomplished. You buy that?
GLENN: I mean, look at what we accomplished over the last week.
Ever since the -- ever since the -- the -- the Democrats voted to open the government again. The very next day, it was Epstein, and we're still talking about Epstein.
And that's why he's changed. That's why he's changed. He knows, that this is just not going to go away. And I think he alluded to it in his statement yesterday, it's still not going to go away. It's never going to be enough. It's never going to be enough.
But let's just release everything. And show you what it is. And, you know, if there is anything there, about the Democrats.
I don't think it will be about Bill Clinton. I think it will be about smaller Democrats.
And Democrats that are passed their prime or out. You know, I just don't think they're going to be -- they're going to be anything that's big in it.
Maybe. But I don't think so. I think where you will find big things. Was yesterday. Or the day before. Was he was going to look into the banking records. He wants to see all of Epstein's transactions. And who was sending money where, et cetera, et cetera.
That's where you're going to start seeing some names. If they go into the banking records.
I mean, look what happened -- what was the bank? Was it J.P. Morning Chase, that was Epstein's bank?
I can't remember. I hate to say that. Because it may not be. Will you look that up real quick?
You know, they went into the banking records, and then, you know, there were lawsuits about that. And then all of a sudden, just kind of went away. I don't even what happened with that. Hmm. What?
You're banking. Huh?
JASON: JPMorgan and Deutsche.
GLENN: Yeah. And I think that's where you're going to find stuff. That's where the bodies will be find. Because the banking records will be the banking records, and you won't get rid of those.
