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More Government Intervention to 'Stabilize' Health Care?

In the latest attempt to repair the U.S. health care system, a Democratic congressman has unveiled the Medicare Buy-in and Health Care Stabilization Act, which would let Americans older than 50 buy into Medicare.

Rep. Brian Higgins (D-NY) will formally introduce the bill in the fall. To date, the measure has 14 Democrat co-sponsors, the Buffalo News reported. The Health Care Stabilization Act would allow anyone between 50 and 64 years of age to purchase Medicare coverage on Affordable Care Act health exchanges.

“This bill would mean an immediate cost reduction for health care for people aged 50 to 64,” Higgins told the Buffalo News. “They would immediately save 40 percent from the premiums they are paying now.”

Monday on radio, Glenn shared additional thoughts on this type of government intervention.

“It doesn’t matter what’s in it. It’s going to stabilize the health insurance industry so we can make sure we have a stable [industry],” Glenn joked.

Essentially, the measure would throw more money at Obamacare, until its health care exchanges break down in again a couple of years, forcing the "stabilization" of a singer-payer system.

“We’re just a few years away from being on this show begging them to go back to Obamacare,” Co-host Stu Burguiere said.

GLENN: Really interesting plot being -- or course being plotted right now by the president and the White House. He has now come out against the establishment of the G.O.P. So first he came against the conservatives and the Freedom Caucus. So those who were really strong on the Constitution and the free market. And he put all of his eggs into the Reince Priebus, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan bag. Which we knew to be a rotten bag from the beginning.

But trust the president. That's where he went. Now he's taking on the entire G.O.P. Where is he going? Who is he -- what constituency will he have?

The Democrats, I think when they have power and they start to pass things and put it on his desk, he will sign them. So if they want to come up with some, you know, thing that's, you know, even more socialist on health care, I believe he will sign it. Because he will look at that as bipartisan wins. And so you will have, if effect, a Republican president siding with a Democratic Congress. Because the G.O.P. has destroyed itself. He didn't. They did. They destroyed it. And now he's just going to stand there and make sure that they stay in the grave. And part of me celebrates.

It is -- it is time for a new party. It is time for a new direction. It's time for new leadership. However they want to do it, that's fine with me.

But I don't believe in the party, at all. I don't believe in the Democratic Party. I don't believe in the Republican Party.

STU: That was kind of the case of a story I read this weekend, basically saying that now because he's excised all of the establishment people from his cabinet, basically, that he is essentially an independent. Now, it's not exactly true. But it is an interesting theory in that he no longer has any back -- real back channels to Congress to help form policies. He is not tied into that. And that was what Spicer and Priebus and many others below him that have come and gone kind of allowed for.

GLENN: It didn't really help, did it?

STU: Oh, I'm not saying it did. I'm just saying it's going to be interesting to see where he goes now. Because, really, the only person left in the cabinet that has a real connection to the Republican Congress is Mike Pence. Really, there's no one there at this point with that sort of tight connection to influence policy. But, I mean, that doesn't -- again, that's not really the concern, I don't think, of the president. I think the president wants to move things along. He wants to collect his wins. And he's right now frustrated he's not getting those. So he wants to go in a different direction. It's going to be interesting to see if he can pull that off.

Honestly, from the Republican Congress, what I would like is for them to work as an independent body.

GLENN: Me too.

STU: I don't know. A coequal branch of government. Let's throw out a crazy theory. You know, and have them pass things that they believe are good, that they believe will advance the conservative cause that will limit government. And give them to the president. You know what, he's going to sign all of them. He's going to sign all of them. He's not going to care. He's not going to push back against it. He will sign all of them. He is a legislative hall pass. That is an incredible thing to get from a president. You wouldn't have had that from President Cruz or President Jeb Bush or president anybody.

GLENN: But you don't have -- what you have is very small men. You have Mitch McConnell, who is not going to give up his power. And he is going after people like Mo Brooks now. He is -- I mean, they are spending a fortune going after anyone who was with the Freedom Caucus. So the G.O.P., under Mitch McConnell, targeting his own now. You have the G.O.P., the coffers are full.

They are taking in money hand over fist. So he's doing his job. He's -- he's making the G.O.P. money. And we'll see, in the midterms if they win elections.

Only after they lose elections will they think that maybe they should change leadership.

STU: But, I mean, if this is a disaster and it continues this way, they don't get tax reform done, by the way, you know, if something like that goes along. You're going to go into 2018 with no accomplishments. They'll likely lose control of one or both in Congress, and then the temptation will be there.

GLENN: Yeah. They will lose control of Congress possibly for the next 20 years. I mean, you can't do what they just did to their base and expect anybody to vote or trust you again. And, you know, they think, well, you know, just -- we're just better than the other guys. Yeah, but that doesn't -- that doesn't do anything, but just make people say, "I don't want a part of either of you."

STU: I don't know. It does seem to be a pretty good tactic. It does seem to pay off in elections. I don't know if it can pay off forever. I don't think it's a good way to build a party or to build --

GLENN: It's going to work for Donald Trump for a while. It's going to work for him.

STU: But, I mean, remember, the G.O.P. congressmen, in 90 percent of districts outperformed Donald Trump. Ninety percent. This is not a huge -- it's not like Donald Trump won where all Republicans lost. I mean, he underperformed the -- the generic G.O.P. congressmen very consistently. The issue here though is they need to do something to justify that --

GLENN: There are two things less popular than Donald Trump. And that is Congress and the media. He looks like the only guy. If he starts pummeling Congress, in particular, the Republicans, he'll become popular.

STU: And he's -- I mean, he's starting to do that --

PAT: Yeah, he's doing that.

GLENN: Yep.

STU: I mean, he -- and, you know what, he's right on this. I really do blame Congress for this, particularly the health care situation. It's absurd.

PAT: Oh, yeah. This is Congress' fault. They completely blew it.

STU: Because they started with a crap heap of a plan that they couldn't pass.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: Then they changed it a little bit and got it through the House. Then they went through the Senate with a worse plan that they couldn't pass. Then they went to the Senate with a plan that they all voted for before, and then all -- nine of them changed their -- or, seven of them changed their minds and voted against the thing they already voted for.

GLENN: And then what they failed to pass in the end was, let's have another conversation in private about this.

STU: Uh-huh. They couldn't even do that.

GLENN: They couldn't even pass that. They couldn't even agree to talk about this. That's how bad they are.

STU: And the risk was, he worried that they would get rid of the individual mandate. Like, the consequence essentially -- because the Senate was like, look, we're not going to -- unless you promise we're going to go into conference, we're not going to pass this bill because this bill was a bad bill. We're not going to pass this bill.

The bill essentially just got rid of the individual mandate. It did almost nothing else, except for a couple of delays of a couple of different taxes and regulations. It did almost nothing else, except get rid of the individual mandate.

PAT: It didn't even get rid of the taxes. It just delayed them. So bad.

STU: Right. Even that, they couldn't come to say -- well, God forbid, the worst part of Obamacare they couldn't come to a conclusion that they should get rid of it.

GLENN: So let me tell you something that I think has a real chance of passing. The moderates, the left and the right are coming together now, and they're going to pass something. And they're working on something called -- think of this. What is the problem with the world today? It's in chaos. You don't know what's up and down. You don't know what tomorrow is going to bring. You're -- you're worried because the whole thing could collapse or blow up. They've just come up with the Health Care Stabilization Act. Doesn't that sound good?

STU: Hmm. This is our insurance bailouts.

GLENN: This is our stabilization act, Stu. It doesn't matter --

STU: So it's insurance --

GLENN: No, it doesn't matter what's in it. It's going to stabilize the health insurance industry.

JEFFY: Oh.

GLENN: So we can make sure that we have a stable --

PAT: Are you opposed to stabilization of health care?

GLENN: To stabilization. You're certainly not a patriot.

PAT: Wow. Wow. Why do you hate people?

STU: In this form, I am --

PAT: Why do you hate people?

GLENN: Why do you hate people and want them to die?

PAT: Why?

STU: So is that what they're going to do? You think they're going to go to that --

PAT: I'll bet they do.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: Throw a bunch of money at the problem. Basically, fix Obama Obamacare.

PAT: Yes.

GLENN: Yeah, they're going to go for a stabilization act.

STU: And when I say fix Obamacare, I mean dump a bunch of money until it's broken again in a couple of years.

PAT: Yes.

GLENN: Yes. But it will stabilize it because we just can't get it done. And, look, a lot of people really like this and are benefiting. So let's just dump more money into it. And let more time go by so it has its -- its fingers and its roots deeper, wrapped around our --

STU: We're just a few years away from being on this show, begging for them to go back to Obamacare. We will be on the air being like, "Gosh, if we could just get off this single-payer and go back to Obamacare, which was really good." That is how close -- they're going to move this Overton window until we can't even see it from where we are right now.

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The Globalist Elites' Dystopian Plan for YOUR Future | Glenn Beck Chalkboard Breakdown

There are competing visions for the future of America which are currently in totally different directions. If the globalist elites have their way, the United States will slide into a mass surveillance technocracy where freedoms are eroded and control is fully centralized. Glenn Beck heads to the chalkboard to break down exactly what their goal is and why we need to hold the line against these ominous forces.

Watch the FULL Episode HERE: Dark Future: Uncovering the Great Reset’s TERRIFYING Next Phase

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Barack & Michelle tried to END divorce rumors. It DIDN'T go well

Former president Barack Obama recently joined his wife Michelle Obama and her brother on their podcast to finally put the divorce rumors to rest … but it didn’t exactly work. Glenn Beck and Pat Gray review the awkward footage, including a kiss that could compete for “most awkward TV kiss in history.”

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Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: Now, let me -- let me take you to some place. I think kind of entertaining.

Michelle Obama has a podcast. Who knew?

She does it with her brother. Who knew? It's -- you know, I mean, it's so -- it's a podcast with two brothers. Right?

And -- and it -- they wanted to address the rumors, that they're getting a divorce. And this thing seems so staged.

I want you to -- listen to this awkward exchange on the podcast.

Cut one please.

VOICE: Wait, you guys like each other.

MICHELLE: Oh, yeah. The rumor mill. It's my husband, y'all! Now, don't start.

OBAMA: It's good to be back. It was touch-and-go for a while.

VOICE: It's so nice to have you both in the same room today.

OBAMA: I know. I know.

MICHELLE: I know, because when we aren't, folks things we're divorced. There hasn't been one moment in our marriage, where I thought about quitting my man.

And we've had some really hard times. We've had a lot of fun times. A lot of adventures. And I have become a better person because of the man I'm married to.

VOICE: Okay. Don't make me cry.

PAT: Aw.

GLENN: I believed her. Now, this is just so hokey.

VOICE: And welcome to IMO.

MICHELLE: Get you all teared up. See, but this is why I can't -- see, you can take the hard stuff, but when I start talking about the sweet stuff, you're like, stop. No, I can't do it.

VOICE: I love it. I'm enjoying it.

MICHELLE: But thank you, honey, for being on our show. Thank you for making the time. We had a great --

VOICE: Of course, I've been listening.

PAT: What? No!

GLENN: They're not doing good. They're not doing good.

Okay. And then there was this at the beginning. And some people say, this was very awkward. Some people say, no. It was very nice.

When he walks in the room, he gives her a hug and a kiss. Watch.

Gives her a little peck on the cheek.

PAT: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

GLENN: Does that --

PAT: Does that look like they're totally into each other?

GLENN: Well, I give my wife a peck on the cheek, if she walks into a room.

PAT: Do you? If you haven't seen her in months and it seems like they haven't, would you kiss her on the cheek? Probably not.

GLENN: No, that's a little different. That would be a little different. But I wouldn't make our first seeing of each other on television.

PAT: Yeah, right, that's true. That's true.

GLENN: But, you know, in listening to the staff talk about this. And they were like, it was a really uncomfortable -- okay.

Well, maybe.

PAT: I think it was a little uncomfortable.

GLENN: It was a little uncomfortable.

It's still, maybe. Maybe.

But I don't think that rivals -- and I can't decide which is the worst, most uncomfortable kiss.

Let me roll you back into the time machine, to Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley. Do you remember this kiss?
(applauding)

GLENN: He turns away, immediately away from the camera. Because he's like.

PAT: He was about to vomit. Yeah.

GLENN: It was so awkward. When that happened, all of us went, oh, my gosh. He has only kissed little boys. What are we doing? What is happening?

He doesn't like women, what is happening?

And then there's the other one that sticks out in my mind of -- and I'm not sure which is worse. The Lisa Marie or the Tipper in Al Gore.

VOICE: The kiss. The famous exchange during the 2000 democratic convention was to some lovely, to others icky.
(laughter)

GLENN: That's an ABC reporter. To some lovely, others icky.

And it really was. And it was -- I believe his global warming stuff more than that kiss.
(laughter)
And you know where I stand on global warming.

That was the most awkward kiss I think ever on television!

PAT: Yeah. It was pretty bad. Pretty bad.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

So when people who are, you know -- these youngsters.

These days. They look at Barack and Michelle. They're like, that was an awkward kiss.

Don't even start with me.

We knew when we were kids, what awkward kisses were like.

PAT: The other awkward thing about that.

She claims, there was not been one moment in their marriage.

Where she's considered reeving him.

GLENN: Yeah.

PAT: She just said a while ago. A month or a year ago, she hated his guts for ten years. She hated it.

GLENN: Yeah. But that doesn't mean you'll give up.

PAT: I guess not. I guess not. Maybe you enjoy being miserable.

I don't know.

GLENN: No. I have to tell you the truth.

My grandmother when I got a divorce, just busted me up forever. I call her up, and I said, on my first marriage.

Grandma, we're getting a divorce.

And my sweet little 80-year-old grandmother, who never said a bad thing in her life said, excuse me?

And I said, what?

We're getting a divorce.

And she said, how dare you.

I said, what's happening. And she said, I really thought you would be the one that would understand. Out of everybody in this family, I thought you would understand.

And I said, what?

And she said, this just -- this just crushed me when she said it.

Do you think your grandfather and I liked each other all these years? I was like, well, yeah.

PAT: Wow.

GLENN: Kind of. And she said, we loved each other. But we didn't always like each other. And there were times that we were so mad at each other.

PAT: Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh.

STU: But we knew one thing: Marriage lasts until death!

PAT: Did she know your first wife?

GLENN: Okay. All right. That's just not necessary.

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No, Trump’s tariffs ARE NOT causing inflation

The media is insisting that President Trump's tariffs caused a rise in inflation for June. But Our Republic president Justin Haskins joins Glenn to debunk this theory and present another for where inflation is really coming from.

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GLENN: Justin Haskins is here. He is the president of Our Republic. And the editor-in-chief of stoppingsocialism.com.

He is also the coauthor with me at the Great Reset, Dark Future, and Propaganda War.

So, in other words, I'm saying, he doesn't have a lot of credibility. But he is here to report -- I don't even think you're -- you're -- you were wrong on this, too, with the tariffs. Right?

JUSTIN: Well, at some point, I was wrong about everything.

GLENN: Yeah, right. We are all on the road to being right.

But this is coming as a shock. You called yesterday, and you said, Glenn, I think the tariff thing -- I think the president might be right.

And this is something I told him, if I'm wrong. I will admit that I'm wrong.

But I don't think I'm wrong.

Because this goes against everything the economists have said, forever.

That tariffs don't work.

They increase inflation.

It's going to cost us more.

All of these things. You have been study this now for a while, to come up with the right answer, no matter where it fell.

Tell me what's going on.

JUSTIN: Okay. So the most recent inflation data that came out from the government, shows that in June, prices went up 2.7 percent. In May, they went up 2.4 percent. That's compared to a year prior. And most people are saying, well, this is proof that the tariffs are causing inflation.

GLENN: Wait. That inflation is -- the target is -- the target is two -- I'm sorry.

We're not. I mean, when I was saying, it was going to cause inflation. I thought we could be up to 5 percent.

But, anyway, go ahead.

JUSTIN: So the really incredible thing though. The more you look at the numbers. The more obvious it is, that this does not prove inflation at all.

For starters, these numbers are lower, than what the numbers were in December and January.

Before Trump was president. And before we had any talk of tariffs at all.

So that is a big red flag right at the very beginning. When you dive even deeper into the numbers, what you see is there's all kinds of parts of the Consumer Price Index that tracks specific industries, or kinds of goods and services. That should be showing inflation, if inflation is being caused by tariffs, but isn't.

So, for example, clothing and apparel. Ninety-seven percent, basically.

About 97 percent according to one report, of clothing and apparel comes overseas, imported into the United States.

GLENN: Correct.

JUSTIN: So prices for apparel and clothing should be going up. And they're not going up, according to the data, they're actually going down, compared to what they were a year ago. Same thing is true with new vehicles.

Obviously, there were huge tariffs put on foreign vehicles, not on domestic vehicles. So it's a little bit more mixed.

But new vehicle price are his staying basically flat. They haven't gone up at all. Even though, there's a 25 percent tariff on imported cars and car parts. And then we just look at the overall import prices. You just -- sort of the index. Which the government tracks.

What we're seeing is that prices are basically staying the same, from what they were a year ago.

There's very, very little movement overall.

GLENN: Okay. So wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.

Wait.

Let me just -- let me just make something career.

Somebody is eating the tariffs. And it appears to be the companies that are making these things. Which is what Donald Trump said. And then, the -- you know, the economist always saying, well, they're just going to pass this on in the price.

Well, they have to. They have to get this money some place.

So where are they?

Is it possible they're just doing this right now, to get past. Because they know if they jack up their price, you know, they won't be able to sell anything. What is happening?

How is this money, being coughed up by the companies, and not passed on to the consumer.

JUSTIN: Yeah, it could be happening. I think the most likely scenario, is that they are passing it along to consumers. They're just not passing it along to American consumers.

In other words, they're raising prices elsewhere. To try to protect the competitiveness with the American market. Because the American market is the most important consumer market in the world.

And they probably don't want to piss off Donald Trump either, in jacking up prices. And then potentially having tariffs go up even more, as a punishment for doing that.

Because that's a real option.

And so I think that's what's happening right now.

Now, it's possible, that we are going to see a huge increase in inflation. In six months!

That's entirely possible.

We don't know what's going to happen. But as of right now, all the data is suggesting that recent inflation is not coming from consumer goods being imported, or anything like that.

That's not where the inflation is coming.

Instead, it's coming from housing.

That's part of the CPI at that time.

Housing is the cause of inflation right now.

GLENN: Wait. Wait. It's not housing, is it?

Because the things to make houses is not going through the roof. Pardon the pun. Right?

It's not building.

JUSTIN: No. No. The way the CPI calculates housing is really stupid. They look basically primarily at rent. That's the primary way, they determine housing prices.

GLENN: Okay.

JUSTIN: That so on they're not talking about housing costs to build a new house.

Or housing prices to buy a new house.

They are talking about rent.

And then they try to use rent data, as a way of calculating how much you would have to pay if you owned a house, but you had to rent the same kind of house.

And that's how they come up with this category.

GLENN: Can I ask you a question: Is everybody in Washington, are they all retarded?
(laughter)
Because I don't. What the hell. Who is coming up with that formula?

JUSTIN: Look. I mean, sort of underlying this whole conversation, as you -- as you and I know, Glenn.

And Pat too. The CPI is a joke to begin with.

GLENN: Right.

JUSTIN: So there's all kinds of problems with this system, to begin with.

I mean, come on!

GLENN: Okay. So because I promised the president, if I was wrong, and I had the data that I was wrong, I would tell him.

Do I have to -- out of all the days to do this.

Do I have to call him today, to do that?

Are we still -- are we still looking at this, going, well, maybe?

JUSTIN: I think there's -- I think there is a really solid argument that you don't need to make the phone call.

GLENN: Oh, thank God. Today is not the day to call Donald Trump. Today is not the day.

Yeah. All right.

JUSTIN: And the reason why is, we need -- we probably do need more data over a longer period of time, to see if corporations are doing something.

In order to try to push these cuts off into the future, for some reason. Maybe in the hopes that the tariffs go down. Or maybe -- you know, it's all sorts of ways, they could play with it, to try to avoid paying those costs today.

It's possible, that's what's going on.

But as of right now, that's not at all, what is happening. As far as I can tell from the data.

GLENN: But isn't the other side of this, because everybody else said, oh. It's not going to pay for anything.

Didn't we last month have the first surplus since, I don't know. Abraham Lincoln.

JUSTIN: Yes. Yes. We did. I don't know how long that surplus will last us.

GLENN: Yeah. But we had one month.

I don't think I've ever heard that before in my lifetime. Hey, United States had a surplus.

JUSTIN: I looked it up.

I think it was like 20 something years ago, was the last time that happened. If I remembered right.

It was 20 something years ago.

So this is incredible, really.

And if it works.

You and I talked about this before.

I actually think there is an argument to be made. That this whole strategy could work, if American manufacturers can dramatically bring down their costs. To produce goods and services.

So that they can be competitive.

And I think that advancements in artificial intelligence. In automation. Is going to open up the door to that being a reality.

And if you listen to the Trump administration talk. People like Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce. They have said, this is the plan.

The plan is, go all in on artificial intelligence.

Automation. That's going to make us competitive with manufacturers overseas. China is already doing that.

They're already automating their factories. They lead the world in automation.

GLENN: Yeah, but they can take half their population, put them up in a plane, and then crash it into the side of the mountain.

They don't care.

What happens to the people that now don't have a job here? How do they afford the clothes that are now much, much cheaper?

JUSTIN: Well, I think the answer to that is, there's going to be significantly more wealth. Trillions of dollars that we send overseas, every year, now in the American economy. And that's going to go into other things. It's not as though -- when this technology comes along, it is not as though people lose their jobs, and that's it. People sit on their couch forever.

The real danger here is not that new markets will not arrive in that situation. And jobs with it. The problem is: I think there's a real opportunity here. And I think this is going to be the fight of the next election, potentially. Presidential election. And going forward.

Next, ten, 20 years. This is going to be a huge issue. Democrats are going to have the opportunity, when the AI revolution goes into full force. They will have the opportunity like they've never had before.

To say, you know what, we'll take care of you. Don't worry about it.

We're just going to take all of the corporate money and all of the rich people's money.

And we will print trillions of dollars more. And you can sit on your couch forever. And we will just pay you. Because this whole system is rigged, and it's unfair, and you don't have a job anymore because of AI. And there's nothing you can do. You can't compete with AI. AI is smarter than you.

You have no hope.

I think that's coming, and it is going to be really hard for free market people to fight back against that.

GLENN: Yes.

Well, I tend to agree with you.

Because the -- you know, I thought about this.

I war gamed this, probably in 2006.

I'm thinking, okay.

If -- if the tech is going to grow and grow and grow. And they will start being -- they will be responsible for taking the jobs.

They won't be real on popular.

So they will need some people that will allow them to stay in business, and to protect them.

So they're going to need to be in with the politicians.

And if the politicians are overseeing the -- the decrease of jobs, they're going to need the -- the PR arm of things like social media. And what it can be done.

What can be done now.

I was thinking, at the time. Google can do.

But they need each other.

They must have one another. And unless we have a stronger foundation, and a very clear direction, and I will tell you. The president disagrees with me on this.

I said, he's going to be remembered as the transformational AI president.

And he said, I think you're wrong on that.

And I don't think I am.

This -- this -- this time period is going to be remembered for transformation.

And he is transforming the world. But the one that will make the lasting difference will be power and AI.

Agree with that or disagree?

JUSTIN: 1,000 percent. 1,000 percent. This is by far the most important thing that is happening in his administration in the long run. You're projecting out ten, 20, 30 years ago years.

They will be talking about this moment in history, a thousand years from now. Like, that will -- and they will -- and if America becomes the epicenter of this new technology, they will be talking about it, a thousand years from now, about how Americans were the ones that really developed this.

That they're the ones that promoted it, that they're the ones that does took advantage of it.
That's why this AI race with China is so important that we win it.

It's one of the reasons why. And I do think it's a defining moment for his presidency. Of course, the problem with all of this is AI could kill us all. You have to weigh that in.

GLENN: Yeah. Right. Right.

Well, we hope you're wrong on that one.

And I'm wrong on it as well. Justin, thank you so much.

Thank you for giving me the out, where I don't have to call him today. But I might have to call him soon. Thanks, Justin. I appreciate it.

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The ONLY Trump/Epstein Files Theories That Make Sense | Glenn TV | Ep 445

Is the case closed on Jeffrey Epstein and Russiagate? Maybe not. Glenn Beck pulls the thread on the story and its far-reaching implications that could expose a web of scandals and lead to a complete implosion of trust. Glenn lays out five theories that could explain Trump’s frustration over the Epstein files and why Glenn may never talk about the Epstein case again. Plus, Glenn connects the dots between the Russiagate hoax, the Hunter Biden laptop cover-up, and the Steele dossier related to the FBI’s new “grand conspiracy” probe. It all leads to one James Bond-like villain: former CIA Director John Brennan. Then, Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, tells Glenn why he believes his former boss Brennan belongs in prison and what must happen to prevent a full-blown trust implosion in American institutions.