RADIOMarch 05, 2024

REALLY? Biden Creates Shrinkflation Task Force to Blame COMPANIES for HIS Failures

President Biden is launching a new shrinkflation task force to crack down on the “unfair and illegal pricing” of goods. But is Biden right to blame companies when it’s his economic policies that has caused inflation? “You Will Own Nothing” author Carol Roth joins Glenn to break down why this FTC and DOJ-led task force is actually push for price controls. Plus, Carol weighs in on New York Attorney General Letitia James’ recent attack on the beef industry and how the White House is spreading propaganda through Cookie Monster.

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GLENN: All right. We have Carol Roth with us. Carol Roth is a good friend of the program. And also the author of, you will own nothing.

Former investment banker now cares about Main Street.

Carol, how are you?

CAROL: Well, Glenn, you seem a little feisty today, and I always enjoy feisty Glenn. This should be good.

GLENN: Well, I tell you, the Cookie Monster really pissed me off today, because there's no way, that that's a coincidence. That's coordinated propaganda from the White House.

CAROL: Well, I feel like Cookie Monster is the one who got it right. Cookie Monster is not the one who blamed the corporations. I believe it was Joe Biden, right. He just said that his cookies were getting smaller because of shrinkflation.

GLENN: Right.

CAROL: And I think that makes him a better economist than anyone in the Biden administration or in the New York Times. You know, for that matter.

But the reality is that this is a Biden talking point, so they picked up on this, and they said, no, no, no. Cookie Monster, shrinkflation is happening because of the green corporations.

GLENN: So today, they're launching something. And, Carol, I want to get your read on this.

This seems a little terrifying. Joe Biden today is launching a new task force to take on unfair and illegal corporate pricing, which Biden sees as a major reason why consumers are not yet feeling the impact of a cooling inflation rate.

The task force will jointly be led by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, two agencies at the forefront of the Biden administration's aggressive regulatory agenda over the past three years.

Wow!

What are these illegal -- what did they say?

Illegal --

CAROL: Illegal and unfair. Illegal and unfair pricing. Unfair -- unfair is anything that Biden says doesn't go along with his narrative. And he's really talking out of both sides of his mouth. Or perhaps mumbling outside of both side of his mouth.

On the one hand, he's touting how much the economy is growing.

That things are going well.

That wages are increasing. If that was the case. Corporations should be doing better.

And there is no corporation, that is making any sort of outsized profits. Things like shrinkflation. And what's happening. Our downstream issues from the inflation.

That the Biden administration caused. And certainly the fed caused.

So to now say, we're going to have a task force. That is going to look up unfair and legal pricing practices.

You know, legal is one thing.

There's a certain definition at least today.

Who knows what that could be expanded to. Unfair is obviously anything that they don't happen to believe in or agree with. Or is against their policy.

One of the things we know in economics, across-the-board, price controls don't work.

That's something that creates rationing, and goods shortages.

GLENN: And a black market.

CAROL: Even Paul Krugman, who gets everything wrong. The one thing he's ever gotten right. He's against rent control. Which is one of many of price controls, even he kind of gets the fact that price controls don't work.

Everyone pretty much across-the-board agrees with that. But now they want to come in with the government, and step in. And say, oh, you're earning too much of a profit.

We don't like what you're doing.

You need to lower your prices.

Even though we're imposing this world upon you. That is a recipe of disaster. And obviously, completely the opposite of free market capitalism.

GLENN: Right. It is a fascistic move. When the government tells companies what to do, it's a move that fascists make.

I'm concerned about this, because, you know, with all the public/private partnerships. The ones that are going to get into trouble. Are not the ones doing the bidding of the American government now.

Let me give you an example. New York State attorney, Latisha James, has now filed suit, against JBS, USA food company.

This is the world's largest beef producer.

Accusing him of fraudulent and illegal business activities.

And disgorgement of all profits and ill-gotten gains.

She's using the state's apparatus, to go after beef procures.

But not for any other reason, other than they say, they are shooting for zero e- missions by 2040.

And she says that's fraud.

CAROL: Yes. She's accusing them of what's, quote, unquote, brainwashing. The state has put these different apparatus around these the different companies.

The companies as we know, leaned into those and wanted to sound like they were complying.

And so they said, oh, we're going to do all these things to help the environment. So now she's saying no, it's fraudulent. You haven't done the things that we said, or at least in the way that we said.

And, you know, with JBS. It's a little bit tough obviously. Because they're this huge corporate conglomerate. In some cases, they may have created some issues with the independent farmers. Either way, you're not rooting for the state here to come in.

And this discouragement of profits sounds, by the way, a lot what happened to Donald Trump. So this is anything that people made, we're going to confiscate it.

GLENN: First New York came for the National Rifle Association. I didn't say anything, because I didn't own a rifle. I wasn't a hunter, and I disagree with guns.

Then they came for Donald Trump, but I didn't vote for him. So it didn't matter. Now they're coming for beef.

And, you know, you could go after JBS for unfair business practices in my opinion. Because I'm a rancher.

CAROL: Sure.

GLENN: And I see these -- I believe there's absolute collusion with the three companies that are producing all of the beef in the country.

They're getting rich. The farmers are getting poorer. The ranchers are getting poorer.

So I think you can go after that. But it would have to be legitimate. I don't have the facts.

You could go after them for that. And break that monopoly up. Which I think is -- is fair. But he's not.

She's talking about the rain forest. What the hell does the rain forest have to do with New York?

CAROL: And not only that. This is very war on small business-like, right?

Because these bigger companies will have the Capitol base and the power to withstand at least the first time around, some of these tests from the state. But if you are an independent farmer. Or you are a small business, in some other arena. And they come after you. That's it. You are wiped off the map.

Which just further consolidates, those are exactly the opposite of what you just talked about. It doesn't create this more fair playing field.

It creates these tighter monopolies and do you duopolies. So this is almost like a warning sign to say, hey, maybe you want to get out of this business. Because we're coming after you.

And that seems like the plan. They want to capture and control more and more of our resources. And bring it more along with the state.

And they're finding all of these, frankly, unconstitutional ways, and banana republic sort of ways to do it, and we have to stand up.

GLENN: I have to tell you, you got to get out of New York because they're just going the wrong way. Carol -- and, Stu, I think you know a little bit about this too.

This is the future. Litigation is the way the left is moving. They're going to overwhelm the system, with lawsuits, on anything they disagree.

They're just going to take this.

Look what they're doing to Donald Trump.

That's going to happen everywhere.

STU: Yeah. Law fair is definitely the strangle, right?

They keep coming out. They push these things down the throats of everybody.

And then, what's the response?

Like the good outcome, is you spend years and years and years litigating, and spend tons and tons of money defending yourself.

You're not furthering the economy, you're not furthering your business, you're not helping anybody. You're not making products benefiting anyone. You're just in constant defense mode. And how do you advance yourself that way?

CAROL: And you have to have the capital base to be able to do that.

This is not something for the faint of heart, or if you don't have enough dollars in the bank, this is a very expensive endeavor, to be able to fight this.

So you come out the other end. And it's not guaranteed that you will get restitution for your legal fees or anything else for that matter. It's like, oh. Sorry. I guess we didn't win this particular one.

Or you send up in a corrupt area. And they do end up winning. On something that is baseless, as we saw happening in New York.

So it's very frightening. For anybody that has this.

GLENN: So let me ask you. Hochul came out last time under Trump.

Don't worry. This is Donald Trump-specific.

No. No. No. This is exactly. They are targeting a business they don't like. And theory trying to take it down, with everything the state has in its power.

When -- when does New York cross the Rubicon, and businesses just say, I am out of here?

When does New York collapse economically?

CAROL: It's a really good question. Certainly as a test run, I do think that people, particularly New York has a lot of liberal people, who believe that they -- will not happen to them.

We did see mass movement during COVID.

People who said, I've had enough of these policies.

Certainly, the cost. The crime. All those other issues.

Seen a mass exodus in the state, for places like Florida.

For people who remain, that say, no. This is my home. This is the heartbeat of my soul or whatever it is. They just aren't going to believe that it is going to happen to them, until it happens to one of them.

And then, of course, they make another set of excuses, saying, well, you know, this was different.

And I just think, that's one of the big issues with this country.

We have a lot of people, who are in conditional. And decoupled with reality.

And don't understand. And don't want to frankly understand. The reality of what is happening here, Glenn.

GLENN: Right.

So let me go back to this tribunal.

That the -- that the president is starting today. With the Department of Justice.

And the FDC.

This again, I -- I -- you know, I hate to be such a cynic.

But I -- I have no reason, not to be in this case.

They're going to target the companies that are not falling in line with them.

And how are you -- how are we going to fight this one?

What should these companies do?

And what should the average person do, to prepare? Because this is -- this is really going to go right to the heart of capitalism.

CAROL: Yeah. To think, the one piece of good news, the courts are also working. In some cases, the other way.

And there are groups like Pacific legal foundation. And others, who are these nonprofits, that will stand up, for businesses, and individual rights.

We just saw a -- at least interim win, that Corporate Transparency Act that we had talked about.
The financial crimes network, that was mass-targeting small businesses over the weekend. The Alabama courts had ruled or came out over the weekend, had ruled that it was unconstitutional.

Certainly, we imagined that the Treasury will fight that. If that holds, that shows, that there will be a win.

So there will be these marquee opportunities to push back.

Unfortunately, it's just exhausting.

Because it's like, you go and you kill the ants, and you think that you got everything done. And then the rain comes

And then you have a whole group of them coming back out.

I think we have to stay vigilant. And we have to use our voices.

Because the places where people have spoken up, and said, this is an issue, across-the-board. Whether it's to politicians.

Whether it's to Wall Street.

Wherever it is. Those are the places they backed off. And certainly, they've gone somewhere else.

But things like messing with our food supply, that is an absolute no. And something that everybody should be using their voices.

GLENN: So BlackRock says ESG advocacy say risk-factory for its bottom line.

I told you, don't believe them.

They will repackage.

Carol, I just want to hit this briefly.

Because I've got other things on the economy, I want to talk about.

BlackRock has now said, we're not doing ESG. Too many lawsuits. But we're doing transition investing.

Hmm. What's transition investing?

CAROL: They're transitioning, Glenn.

They want to transition, and they're transitioning, away from ESG.

And they're doing it in infrastructure.

And when they say infrastructure. They mean things like transportation.

Like water. Like sewage. And the like.

So instead of using their client's money to bully companies to make the changes they want. They're like, let's just use our client's money to invest directly into things that are sort of lynch pins, in making a change in their sort of energy cultism, so to speak.

So one of the things they did, they bought a private equity firm. That, actually, specialized in this. Not even just public money. But private money.

This company has about 100 billion in assets, under management. Which is -- not to say is a small amount of money. It's a huge amount of money.

But in terms of BlackRock, it's about 1 percent of their assets under management. Because remember they have about 10 trillion in assets under management.

But it gives them the vehicle to make these direct investments. And the firm they bought, owned things like big pieces of airports around the world. And water and sewage treatment and the like. And so BlackRock is going to be offering more of these investment opportunities, as well as having funds that do that in the public sector.

But the reason, they're doing it. You know, this is not just about control.

This is about following the money, Glenn.

And that is sort of the -- one of the ten polls of ESG. This is a quote from Larry Fink.

Policymakers are only just beginning to implement once in a generation financial incentives, for new infrastructure, technologies, and projects.

So this is not only about control. But this is another cash grab.

They are going to say, well, if we have our friends that we can influence in the government. And we can get them to give more incentives to the projects that we're investing in, then we are going to make more money. And we can achieve our goal. What a great win.

And another way to just completely consolidate money. Take taxpayer money. And find ways to enrich themselves while destroying our lives.

GLENN: That's fantastic.

CAROL: Yep.

GLENN: By the way, one quick thing. We have 90 seconds. We are adding 1 trillion dollars' worth of debt now, every three to four months.

CAROL: Correct. Every 100 days, $1 trillion. I said that you have that one family member in every family, who is the irresponsible one. The one who spends all their money, and then comes begging to you, and saying, they're going to be different this time.

GLENN: Right.

CAROL: The government is that drunk uncle. That is your family member. And unfortunately, there is no -- there is no stopping. But everybody knows the problem.

Like everybody has said this is a problem now. And nobody has the fortitude to do anything about it. We're talking from rating agencies. The Treasury, the Fed, the IMF. You know, major players from Jamie Dimon.

Every single person has come out now and said, this is a massive issue, and nobody is doing anything about this.

GLENN: And when you do this, and you add a trillion dollars every 100 days, to the debt.

Of course, inflation is going to go up.

And that's why you need price controls. And price controls lead to all kinds of bad things.

Don't believe what the mainstream media is telling you.

This is simple mathematics. Period.

Carol, thank you so much.

We'll talk again. God bless.

Carol Roth, the author of the book, you will own nothing.

SHOCK POLL: The % of Young People Who Support SOCIALISM is Insane

New polling reveals a shocking truth: young Americans aren’t just open to socialism... they overwhelmingly want a socialist president in 2028. Glenn Beck and Justin Haskins break down five alarming surveys showing massive ideological shifts among voters ages 18-39, including young Republicans. Why is socialism exploding in popularity, and what does this mean for the future of America? Are we on the brink of a political transformation or potentially even a national crisis?

Watch This FULL Episode of 'Glenn TV' HERE

Property Taxes are OUT OF CONTROL - And Here's Why! | Guest: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott

Texas Governor Greg Abbott joins Glenn Beck to expose why Texans are being crushed by skyrocketing property taxes — and how local governments, not the state, keep driving homeowners deeper into financial distress. Gov. Abbott breaks down his five-point plan to impose strict spending limits, force voter approval for tax hikes, reform out-of-control appraisals, empower citizens to slash taxes themselves, and eliminate school district property taxes for homeowners altogether. Glenn argues that property tax is morally wrong because it prevents Texans from ever truly owning their land, and Abbott lays out his strategy to fight both parties in the legislature to finally deliver lasting relief.

Joe Rogan & Glenn AGREE: We just got CLOSER to civil war

Joe Rogan recently warned that we may have gotten to Step 7 of 9 in the lead-up to civil war. Glenn reviews the 9 Steps and explains why he believes Rogan nailed this one. But Glenn also lays out what Americans MUST do to reverse this trend...

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GLENN: So if you take what Fetterman said yesterday about how people are cheering for him to die on the left, and then you couple it with something that was on the Joe Rogan show on Tuesday. He was saying that the reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk makes him think that the US is closer to Civil War than -- than he thought.

Now, let me quote him. He said, after the Charlie Kirk thing. I'm like, oh, my.

We might be at seven. This might be he step seven on the way to a bona fide Civil War. Charlie Kirk gets shot, and people are celebrating.

Like, whoa. Whoa. Whoa.

You want people to die that you disagree with?

Where are we now on the scale of Civil War?

Well, let me go over the scale of Civil War, because it's sobering.

Now, none of this has to be true. If we wake up and decide, I don't want to do this anymore!

Okay?

Here's step one.

Step one. Loss of civic trust.

Every civil conflict begins when people stop believing that the system is fair. Are we there?

We're so far -- we're so far past the doorway, we are comfortably asleep on the couch on this one. Gallup and Pew both show trust in Congress, the media courts, and the FBI government are now at record lows.

The Edelman Trust Barometer classifies the US now as severely polarized. Majority of Republicans distrust federal elections. Majority of Democrats don't trust the Supreme Court.

Americans are really united on one thing, and that is the other side is corrupt!

When faith in the rules collapses, the republic begins to wobble. But that's step one. Step two, polarization hardens into identity!

Political disagreement is normal!

Identity conflict is fatal!

But that's what Marxists push. Identity politics. This is when politics stopped being about policy, and started being about who you are as a person.

Have we crossed this one into step two?

I mean, we're neck deep into this. A study on this, from PRRI.

It's a survey, found 23 percent of Americans believe political violence may be necessary to save the that I guess.

I think that's an old study. Americans now sort themselves by ZIP code into ideological enclaves. The big sort: Universities, activists, corporations. Everybody is promoting oppressor versus oppressed.

And that -- does what?

It puts us into incompatible tribes. Opponents aren't wrong anymore. The opponent is dangerous!

If I go back and you look at civil wars, Lebanon, before 1975. Yugoslavia, before 1991. That's -- we're doing that. Okay?

Step three. Breakdown of the gatekeepers. The gatekeepers are kind of like the referees of society. It's the media, political parties, churches, civic leaders.

When they fail, extremism fills the vacuum. Okay. Where are we on this? Have our gatekeepers failed us?

Yeah. I think both parties, especially the left, you know, everything I predicted that the left was going to be eaten by the extreme left, and then the communists and the socialists is now happening.

They've lost control of the fringe of each party. Media transformed, you know, from referees into team coaches. Tech platforms. It's outrage for profit. Universities are not there to cool things down. They heat them up.

Churches. Churches are useless. Useless.

When the referees leave the field, the game devolves into a brawl. And the refs are gone off the field. So there are only nine steps. We're at step four. Here's step four.

Are you ready for this one?

Parallel information realities.

Civil wars don't require different opinions. They require different realities.

I remember reading about Germany, at the beginning of, you know, the Nazi era. How the two new newspapers. One was propaganda for the government.

And the other one, it was the last one that was kind of the holdout.

And they said, you could read them, and they would cover the same thing.

But they had almost no information was the same. Except, that happened yesterday.

Here's what they said. And then everything else was different. That's exactly -- I mean, step four is complete!

We can't agree on facts, right?

Crime rates. Border numbers. Inflation. Election security.

Two Americans can watch the same video. And see opposite truths.

Social media algorithms are creating customized political universes.

Digital echo chambers. Deepfakes. We're just at the beginning of that. And both sides accuse the other of running disinformation machines.

Why? Because we don't have a shared reality. So if you don't have a shared reality. How do you settle any dispute?

On the nine steps, we're up to number five. Coming in at number five.

Loss of neutral rule of law.

This out of the nine steps with, five is the pivot point.

It's not corruption, it's the belief that the law is no longer neutral.

Are we there yet?

Let me tell you the CBS you.gov poll. 67 percent say the justice system is used for political purposes.

I think that's low. January 6 defendants given years in prison, 2020 rioters were released. High profile political figures, prosecuted or shielded based on party.

FBI whistle-blowers alleging pressure to inflate domestic extremism numbers. States like Texas, directly defying federal directives, on border enforcement.

And now, leading the way, with the federal government.

History is really cold and unforgiving on this point.

Once the people believe justice is political! Remember, this is the turning point.

The republic stands on borrowed time. Once you no longer believe that justice is achievable. Step six.

Are we there?

I think we are.

Step six. Normalization of political violence!

This is where violence stops shocking the system. Are we there?

Remember, where violence stops shocking the system. Look at evidence just from Virginia. What they just voted for.

He was calling for the death of a -- a political opposition.

Calling for his children to be killed.

Was called on it, never apologized.

Never said anything other than, yeah. I know. He dug it deeper.

Was anyone shocked by it? Apparently not. They elected him. Here's the evidence. 2020 riots.
574 events. $2 billion in damage. Was anybody outraged by that? Or was it downplayed and excused?
Assassination attempts. Assassination attempts against the president. Supreme Court justice.

Fistfights. And mob actions on college campuses. To silence speakers. Rising to do for punching a fascist or stopping genocide. Depending on the ideology. Online chatter discussing Civil War, national divorce, and revolution.

When violence becomes part of the political language, a nation crosses an invisible line. We're now up to step seven out of nine.

This is where Joe Rogan said, are we at step seven?

The rise of militias and parallel forces.

When a state loses he is monopoly on force.

Countdown accelerates. So where are we on this one?

I think we're seeing, maybe early signs of this.

You're starting to see the -- the states kind of organize these mobs, you know, to go after ICE.

Right?

Armed groups, right-wing, left-wing radical secessionists. Anyone.

Once they start forming their own police forces. Or their own option forces, then you have -- then you have everything really falling apart.

Entirely!

I don't think we're there, yet!

But we're starting to see the beginnings of this.

Step eight. The trigger event.

Civil Wars don't begin with a plan. They begin with a spark.

So where are we?

We're not here yet. The conditions are right. Potential triggers, disputed election in '26 or '28.

Political assassination or major attack.

Supreme Court decision that ignites mass unrest.

Financial crisis or dollar crisis.

A state federal standoff turning violent!

Nothing is ignited yet, but the room is soaked in gasoline. So we don't have seven. We're on the verge of eight, at any time. And here's nine.

This is the point of no return.

When police, military, or federal agencies split, even if no one calls it that, well, where are we?

Well, I just read a story about how with the Mamdani election in New York, a good number of the police force is going to leave. And they're going to go join police forces elsewhere. You also have the tension between the state National Guard, and the federal directives, the state guard and the state directives. Law enforcement recruitment is at crisis lows. The distrust of the FBI, DOJ, CIA. Tens of millions of Americans. I always really respected those institutions. I have no respect for them now. If you have states openly defying federal rules on immigration, drug laws, sanctuary policies.
Whistle-blower claims of internal politicization.

All of these things are in play for the first time in 150 years, people can imagine!

So I give this to you, not to be fearful of, but to know where you are. As a map!

Know where you are.

And hopefully, it might wake some people up, if you chart America on, on the nine step model of Civil War. Steps one through four, completed!

Step five, happening!

Step six, happening! Step seven, beginning! Step eight, just waiting for it. And step nine, avoidable, only if step eight, never happens. Again, I'm not telling you for doom purposes, this is diagnosis. This is a doctor going, I want you to look at the chart.

And this is a doctor saying, I want you to look at -- do you see what's happening to your body?

If you don't stop this habit, you are going to die. You don't have to die. You can stop smoking and drinking right now. You can start exercising. But if you don't, you are going to die.

The question is, are we the nation that says, nah, that's not going to happen to me. Or are we the nation that wakes up and sees our chart and says, good heavens, it's way far more gone than I thought it was. But I feel something in the air.

I'm going to change my behavior. The nation that refuses to look and wake up and stop calling their neighbors enemies, is the nation that fails!

We have to strengthen these things that have already fallen. And, you know what, the easiest one to do is?

Church. Where are you ministers and pastors priests and rabbis?

Where the hell are you?

I think there's going to be a special section for you, when you cross over to the -- because you're doing things in the name of God!

So when you get to the other side, I think there's going to be a special section for those who remained silent. While his rights were being taken away.

You don't own that right.

I don't own that right.

The Lord gave us those rights, and said, protect them!

By you, being the representative, the voice box, if you will, of the Lord, to shepherd his people. By you not standing up and saying, hey, by the way, we have -- we have a moral responsibility to protect these rights for the next generation! By you refusing because you're afraid. Because I think, there's no politics in the Bible! There's no politics in the Bible. Really?

The whole thing is about politics. Is about the moral way you have to live your life.

Calling things as you see them. Calling them back to eternal principles.

He didn't tell anybody how to vote. Render to Caesar what is Caesar's.

But there are certain principles that you have to have, or you lose not only this citizenship, but the next citizenship. The one that really matters. And, boy, if you are doing it because you're a coward, you are in the wrong business!

Get out of the pulpit, and go to work at Jack in the Box.

Democrat “SMOKING GUN” on Trump & Epstein gets DESTROYED by facts

The House Oversight Democrats recently released "new" emails allegedly proving President Trump lied about his knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. However, Glenn points out a glaring issue with these emails that destroys their entire narrative...

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GLENN: Well, let's dive right into the Epstein Maxwell emails. My gosh, Stu!

Why are they trying to cover up that Donald Trump had sex with children!

STU: I mean, it's just clear, as -- as day, in the emails!

GLENN: Yeah. No.

STU: He spent hours with one of the victims. What else could have possibly have occurred in that arrangement? We don't know!

GLENN: And it's -- it's one of the victims, Stu. One of the victims!

STU: One of the victims, that's all we know. One of the victims.

GLENN: Let me read what Jeffrey Epstein wrote. I want you to realize that the dog who hasn't barked is Trump. Victim redacted. Victim spent hours at my house with him. He has never once been mentioned. Police chief, et cetera.

Okay. New information, just released. Or is it?

Because in 2011, 2011, that was released and everybody knew it. It's been out floating around. Here's the change: In 2011, this is what it read.

I want you to realize that the dog hasn't barked is Trump. Virginia spent hours at my house with him.

Why would you redact a name that is already out in the public square!

It's already out!

The memo is already out. The email is already out. It's been out for years. Why would you redact that name now?

Well, because it makes it all of a sudden, new and shiny. Shiny and new. If you don't know who said it, you see victim, and you're like, oh, you see victim. Who is the victim?

I don't know. But when you know it's Virginia, you know this has already gone to court. This is -- she already testified about this!

He didn't partake in any of this, any sex with any of it. It's true. He didn't partake in any sex with us, and I'm quoting, this is from the testimony. But it's not true, that he flirted with me. Donald Trump never flirted with me. Have you ever met him?

Yes, at Mar-a-Lago, my dad and him. I wouldn't say they were friends, but my dad knew him, and they would talk. Have you ever been in Donald Trump or Jeffrey Epstein's presence with one another? No!

What's the basis of your statement that Donald Trump is a good friend of Jeffrey? Jeffrey has told me that Donald Trump is a good friend of his.

He didn't partake in any of -- any of the sex with any of it. He flirted with me.

It's true, that he didn't partake in any sex with us. But it's not true that he flirted with me.

So I don't understand that. But she goes on. Donald Trump never flirted with me!

Okay. So what -- what's new about this?

This is the same girl, this is the same person that -- didn't she work at Mar-a-Lago?

Or she was going to get a job at Mar-a-Lago.

STU: Yeah. I believe she did at one point.

GLENN: Yeah. So we know they know each other. We know they know each other.

We know that at Mar-a-Lago, Jeffrey Epstein would come, and he was poaching the employees. The girls there. To go work for him.

And Donald Trump went to him. And said, "Hey, man. Stop it. Stop poaching people from me. That's not cool. Don't do it." And then he said, "Oh, yeah. All right." And then he did it a second time. And he's like, "You know what, you're out. I don't want you here anymore. I asked you not to do it, and you did it." Now, that doesn't mean that he knew what was happening to the girls or what was happening or anything else.

And even if it did mean something was happening with the girls, he was saying, "Hey. Stop it! Don't take any of the girls or the women here.
Don't do it." I don't believe he knew anything about any of this. But God only knows! And really, God only knows!

This is not new news. Donald Trump, he might end up beating Bezos as the richest man on the planet! When all is said and done!

Because, again, the -- they're presenting this as new fact, a giant scandal. Stu, I don't know if you know this. This is -- this breaking news is a giant scandal.

STU: Yeah. I've heard democratic representatives saying that over the past 24 hours. Yeah. We need to investigate this.

This is shocking stuff. It's a massive scandal. Even ABC News, I heard, pushed back against this. And said, well, what scandal? What are you implying occurred here?

We know who the victim was. We know the victim. Like why. Why did you even redact that name?

And they're like we always redact name of victims.

Do you really? When they're already out publicly?

Not to mention, this particular victim is not even alive.

You know, she sadly died. I mean, it's a terrible, terrible story.

GLENN: Terrible story.

STU: Yeah. She passed away.

A suicide. It was at least the report I believe. But she has a posthumous book coming out. But like a terrible, terrible story.

But, you know, to act as if you have to protect her identity when, number one, she's dead.

GLENN: Is ridiculous.

STU: Number two, everybody already knows who she was, including the news sources, who also have a policy, you would think.

And ABC has a policy. They redact, that was in this type of situation. But it's already been out. We already knew who it was.

So they redacted to make it look like he's with other people who have not already told us nothing bad occurred! You know, and it is an absolutely awful tactic. And at least --

GLENN: I think litigation should follow again. I think he should sue them again. Anyone who is presenting this as new information.

ABC did their job. Congratulations for ABC. They did their job.

They pointed out, this is not new information.

Why would you redact. Why are you releasing this now? And you're redacting a name this -- this email is already out!

You're presenting this as a new scandal.

And you redacted that name. This is completely dishonest. The news media shouldn't even run with it. They shouldn't even run with it. They should have said, old news. Old news. And if you did run with it, you should have handle it had like ABC handle it had. Wait a minute. Why did you redact name.

What do you mean that there's a new scandal. She already testified exactly opposite of what you're believing Jeffrey Epstein over the victim right now. I just want to make sure you understand the Democrats right here. You're taking the name of Epstein, over the victim.

Oh, okay. All right.

STU: And Epstein doesn't even say that anything occurred.

GLENN: No.

STU: There's not -- it's just -- it would be something you would have to jump to a conclusion, to accuse Donald Trump of something like this.

And we know what happened, because the victim said nothing!

Said, it was nothing!

GLENN: Right.

STU: In fact, it wasn't even a flirtation. Which, by the way, even that, you might have thought was creepy. It wasn't even a crime.

It wasn't even flirtation. So it's a disgrace in every single way.

GLENN: All right. So let me take you here. Let me take you here.

If you remember when the shutdown first started, what did the Democrats say, the reason why they did the shutdown?

Not them! Why Mike Johnson and everybody else wouldn't negotiate!

Why wouldn't -- why wouldn't the Republicans negotiate?

Because the heat was on, to release the Epstein files.

And they didn't want to have to do that. So they shut the government down!

Okay?

They wouldn't negotiate. You didn't hear any of this? Oh, it's so arrogant.

STU: It doesn't make any sense at all. That's probably what they said.

GLENN: I know. I know. So the government is open, and what does Mike Johnson do yesterday?

He said the House is going to vote on a bill to release all of the files related to the late financier, convicted child sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein next week. He said on Wednesday that a discharge position to bypass leadership and force a vote on the bill, hit the benchmark for needed signatures. It's been decided by him to expedite the vote for the bill, which under the current rules could have been delayed until at least early September.

So he says, as soon as that petition hit, the needed 218 signatures, I brought it up. Unanimous consent. Let's go! Release it.

So he's pushing this forward. Good, Mike!
Release all of it. Thank you!

Get it out. Lance this boil.

I mean, if anybody thinks that you're ever going to get the truth on this in the first place, it's madness. It's madness. Everybody -- I mean, so many important people were involved in this, and it was in the hands of the Democrats for the longest time. Okay?

So they had all of this information. You don't think it was all picked through? And if there was anything about Donald Trump, you don't think that would have come up between 2020 and 2024?

There's nothing in there about Donald Trump. These people are so stupid. This time, we've got him, boys. This time, we've got him.

No, you don't. This time, it's like Wile E. Coyote. This time, we've got the Roadrunner!

No. You're never going to catch him on this. It doesn't work. The guy was the most investigated person in the history of the world, and you've got nothing! Now, it's good to come out.

But if you think you're going to catch a bunch of people on the left, you're not going to. Because they had it, you know, in their possession.

You don't think all of the names were taken out? You don't think things were destroyed, if there was anything? I believe there was something. But I don't believe there's any names in it anymore. You're not going to get the truth on this one. You're just not going to get the truth, but release everything that we have. Everything!

Oh. Oh, by the way, also in the Epstein emails. How come nobody is talking about this one, Stu?

This one is from Michael Wolff, to Jeffrey Epstein. And then Jeffrey Epstein responds.

So Michael Wolff writes, "What's the thumbnail on Nes Baum (phonetic) Foster?"

And Jeffrey Epstein writes back, "Nes Baum White House Counsel, dot, dot, dot, Hillary doing naughties with Vince."

Now, Vince Foster killed himself, you know, and then killed himself at the White House. And then drug himself across the street to the park.

I mean, I don't know -- the Vince Foster thing is so old. And it doesn't -- but why is nobody talking about that one?

Why is no one talking about that?

Also, this the Jeffrey Epstein email bundle, ABC, you don't feel that's necessary to bring that one up?

Huh. Interesting.