RADIOMarch 01, 2023

WATCH: Biden 'announces' U.S. DRAFT for Ukraine…or does he?

A deep fake video — made by artificial intelligence — recently circulated online, showing a fake President Biden announcing a U.S. draft for the war in Ukraine. The quality of the deep fake video isn’t THAT spectacular (you’ve probably seen more convincing ones), but it could still fool some Americans, Glenn says, especially those not paying attention to how AI is changing the world. Glenn and Stu discuss the video, plus they discuss how AI and deep fake videos potentially could cause HUGE CHAOS in the upcoming, 2024 presidential campaign season...

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STU: I feel like I'm being sucked into something here.

GLENN: You're actually not. This is not --

STU: This is not a trap? It's always a trap.

GLENN: It's not a trap. Honestly, you got something pretty significant right.

Because you asked me, is this the time -- you feel like this is the time we're going to see a deepfake, that could affect things.

STU: Oh, yeah. When we talked about the election, in that context.

GLENN: Yeah. And I said, I think so. But maybe not. Didn't I?

STU: Yeah. And you weren't sure that it would happen. But it seems like you were on that directive. Well, it seems like there was a deepfake out there. And it's not necessarily affecting the election.

This isn't a good deepfake. But it came out yesterday. And it was making the rounds.

And it scared a lot of people. Here it is, cut three.

VOICE: The illegal Russian offensive has been swift, callous, and brutal. It's barbaric. Putin's illegal occupation of Kyiv and the impending Chinese blockade of Taiwan, has created a two-front national security crisis, that requires more troops than the volunteer military can supply. I have received guidance from General Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, that the recommended way forward, will be to invoke the Selective Service Act, as is my authority as president.

The first to be called in a sequence determined by national lottery will be men and women whose 20th birthday falls during the calendar year 2023.

Remember, you're not sending your sons and daughters to war. You are sending them to freedom.
God bless our troops, and God bless Ukraine.

STU: I mean, you're right. That's not even a good.

GLENN: No. Not a good one. And it's still convincing enough.

The only thing that is really wrong with this, is the mouth is not synced exactly. But more importantly, it's too fast. This is based on him, you know, five years ago.

STU: Yeah. Right. He said all the words in the right order. That's the only thing that stuck out.

GLENN: Really, that is. If he would have sounded more like today. And it would have been slower. And you have to go out.

STU: And he threw in a banana's foster reference in the middle or something.

GLENN: My pop used to tell me all the time. Son, you're not going to war. Send somebody else.
(laughter)

GLENN: Then it would have been believable. But this is the kind of thing that is going to happen.

This is the kind of thing that's going to happen. And it's going to be most likely from a foreign source.

STU: Although, it could also come from -- I mean, I don't think American political operatives are above it either.

GLENN: No.

STU: Now --

GLENN: On any side. On any side.

STU: Let me take your temperature on this. Because I know you read a lot about this stuff. And really been on the AI stuff. Mostly by anybody that I know.

My guess is, a speech like that, which if you're listening on radio, you're not seeing this. But it's a flags behind Joe Biden official speech. We're going to war. We're calling up troops.

Is less likely to be the thing, that would affect an election in 2024, as -- as let's say, an off-mic moment. You know, if you remember the -- remember the Mitt Romney 2012 oh, you know, 47 percent of people don't even pay taxes. They don't care.

First of all, that statistic seemed completely right. And why it was controversial, I don't know. But it was -- you couldn't even see his face. In the video clip of that.

GLENN: Correct.

STU: It was just him, kind of a side profile. You couldn't really make out what he was saying. And you heard his voice. Something like that. That was convincing. Where you could see his --

GLENN: Oh, absolutely. I could see something like that coming out about Ron DeSantis.

STU: Yeah. Especially someone like that. The governor of Florida. He's well-known. You know, five years ago, you throw a clip of him. They caught him saying this. You know, I think 80 percent of the left would believe it immediately.

GLENN: Immediately.

STU: Whether it would look good or not.

GLENN: And it would go around and around and around.

And even when it's debunked. It would still leave a taint. It would be enough to change an election, through just a few like five percentage points. You know what I mean?

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: That is -- that's really true.

But this kind of stuff also is very dangerous.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Because this would be targeting people whose 20th birthday is in the year 23. Which is right now.

Those are not necessarily the ones watching what's going on.

STU: Correct.

GLENN: So that thing circles around.

They don't necessarily know that -- that's the president. Did you see this? I don't watch the news. Somebody just sent this to me. Did you see this?

That's the stuff -- you know, and it -- we're at the very, very, very beginning of this.

STU: I think we've -- we've certainly talked about this.

And done it many times, in conversation over the years.

Of war of the worlds.

And one of the things that's fascinating about war of the worlds.

I don't know. You get highfalutin. How do people believe this?

They're listening to a radio broadcast. An alien invasion. How do they buy this?

Then here we are. Now, look, these deepfakes, look a lot -- maybe more convincing. Maybe it's aliens.

GLENN: War of the worlds was really -- it sounded absolutely real.

STU: Yeah. Although, it was at a time of radio dramas. Which is part of the reason why you think, why did they believe this?

GLENN: But it was also playing on American's innocence. Nobody had ever done that before.

STU: And here we are. No one has ever done this either.

And, you know, we talked about these filters a little bit yesterday.

These TikTok filters, where they're taking people who are moderate to ugly, and turning them into models in realtime. They look perfect. They look like they are on the cover of a magazine.

GLENN: So dangerous.

STU: You know, we're just getting there -- that's a consumer level product, that you can apply, on an app, for free. Right?

What do foreign governments have? What do spy agencies have?

What do political operatives that can raise a million dollars' worth of a crappy email, what do they have?

And the way we've always disassembled this in the past. Have been through institutions. Trustworthy people, who you can trust to look at the evidence, and come back to you with the right answer. We no longer have those institutions.

GLENN: Because they don't -- they refuse to do the things that lead to trust.

STU: Yep.

GLENN: I mean, one of the things -- look, I don't ever ask you for your trust. And I think the vast majority of this audience, finds me to be truthful.

And finds me to at least, if I'm saying it, you know that I at least believe it to be true.

STU: It's a require quality, at times, in this country.

GLENN: In this country.

However, it's not because -- well, I think part of it is because, well, crap. He's right.

But I think the majority of that comes from -- because it's trust is like faith. You -- you take it, you trust me?

You trust me?

You say that, when you're going to go jump off a ledge. Do you trust me?

Not really.

Okay?

That's trust is something that you need, when you don't know the facts.

And that doesn't come from necessarily being right all the time. Because you could be wrong. And I am wrong a lot of the times. But I will tell you when I'm wrong.

You don't have to hear it from a bunch of other people going, you know, he didn't get this right. He didn't get that right. Yeah. I know.

I lead with my mistakes.

If I've made a mistake -- now, there's a difference between being wrong on a theory and being wrong on a fact.

If I'm wrong on a fact, I will immediately correct it. It bothers me.

But I also do that because that's what I would want someone to do in my life. Look, I don't care if you get things wrong. I don't care if you made a mistake. We all do.

I've said stupid stuff. I've done stupid things. I've been wrong. So you just apologize for it. And you admit it. And you you're like, I'm sorry. I'm really working on this. I'm sorry.

We tried to do our best. And whenever we get it wrong, Stu you can verify. We have meetings every day. I think we got something wrong the other day. Half our meeting was, how did this happen? How did we stop it from happening again?

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: And we strive for that. The media. All they have to do. Imagine how much credibility they would have. Let's take Hunter Biden.

If they said, look, Hunter Biden laptop thing. We had -- we had news from the government, that this was misinformation.

And, you know what, it really -- we thought we were doing the right thing. But it kind of pisses me off right now. Because it looks like they might have been lying to us. We're turning over all the information. We're going through it ourself. And we've got investigative reporters on to find out, did they know they were lying to us? And let the chips fall where they may.

If they weren't lying to us. Well, then we can all say, we were all trying to do the best for the election. And in this case, we were wrong. Because now we look at it, and we know it's not a Russian hoax.

And this is something that America needs to know about.

STU: It's important to amend that. And say, we blew it on that. We tried.

This was our reasoning. And look, the reasoning is at some level, coherent. Right?

If ten days before the election, Donald Trump Jr's laptop was found -- now, Donald Trump Jr isn't doing crack all the time. So this probably wouldn't happen. It was found in a computer repair shop, and we started seeing pictures of Donald Trump Jr with hookers and prostitutes. We -- us on the right would be very skeptical, particularly if it came from --

GLENN: Gloria Allred.

STU: Gloria Allred. Right?

We would, of course, be skeptical of that.

However, it would be on us, despite our skepticism, to look at the evidence and see if that was real or not. That's not always easy to do. The media refused to do it. Because number one, I think they legitimately didn't believe it initially.

I think they really were skeptical. And number two, they didn't care if it was right or not because they wanted Donald Trump out of office so badly.

GLENN: And that's the problem.

You can say -- you can even come out and say, we made a mistake. We were so driven by our blind hatred for Donald Trump, that we didn't want it to be true. So we didn't really look into it.

And we apologize for that. And we're working on that.

STU: Here's what we're doing.

GLENN: Here's some things we'll put in place, so that doesn't happen again.

But we know now that it is true.

And we're going to lead the investigation on it.

We want you to know, that we know that we were wrong.

And we want to do right. And we are somebody to be trusted. So we're going to go and turn over every single stone.

You may not get the conservatives to go with you. You may get 5 percent of conservatives to go, okay.

And if you lived by that and did that a few times, you would get more and more conservatives. But I bet you would get 55 of the independents who don't trust you now.

You would get a lot of people over time, and you would fix the thing that's killing you.

But they just -- see, it's like chemotherapy. Except, it's better than chemotherapy.

You think it's poison. But it actually isn't poison. Unless you misuse it.

Unless you do it too much.

Unless you've got a hack. But you look at that, as poison.

I can't admit that I'm wrong. That will destroy my credibility. No. It's not.

It's the cure.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: It's the cure.

STU: Admitting it would go so far.

GLENN: Oh, it would.

STU: I think -- honestly, from a cynical sense. It would bail you out of a lot of other mistakes/spin/lies.

GLENN: Oh, my gosh.

STU: You know, if you came out and just admitted the obvious ones. Obviously, we were wrong about the COVID-19 lab leak. And saying it was a conspiracy theory. And wanting everyone banned off social media for it.

Obviously that was wrong. Obviously the Hunter Biden thing was true. We blew it. Here's how we blew it. Here's how we're going to fix it in the future.

You know what, maybe we'll hire a couple of actual conservatives. So when we have these narratives, they can call us on it. And we will give them the ombudsman role where they can write columns saying, this is why my paper got this wrong this time. And we're not going do edit it. And we're not going to stop them. We're going to allow them to do it, even if we disagree. Steps like that are basic and easy. And if you do them, while you might be taking a short-term hit by admitting that you got something wrong.

It's freeing and creates trust with people.

GLENN: Trust, no one gets it right all the time. No one does.

STU: Of course.

GLENN: If you never admit your mistakes. Then you are out of the realm of possibilities of being human.

You know what I mean?

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: And -- and this is part of the trust thing.

To admit that you got it wrong. And correct it. And make sure you take steps, so it doesn't happen again. That's all that people want.

They don't want the media to always agree with them. They want something that will tell them the truth.

Can you -- are you at least striving to tell me the truth?

This AI could change EVERYTHING by next year

With Elon Musk’s announcement of Grok 4, humanity is closer than ever before to creating AGI – artificial general intelligence – which would change everything. Glenn Beck breaks down what’s coming in the next year with AI, which even Elon Musk called “terrifying.”

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GLENN: Let me tell you the biggest story of the day.

And I think it is the biggest story possibly of all mankind, as of today.

It's going to change rapidly.

I don't know if anybody -- did either of you guys watch the Elon Musk thing last night?

STU: No, I did watch a few minutes of it.

GLENN: Okay. Did you, Jason?

JASON: No. I sure didn't.

GLENN: Okay. So the xAI team was there to unveil Grok 4. This is the latest intelligence, and let me be very, very clear.

Last night was not your typical tech launch. This is a moment that demands everyone's full attention.

We are now at the crossroads, where promise and peril are going to collide. Okay?

I have explained to you, for years, AGI.
AI. AGI. And ASI. Narrow intelligence is what we've always had.

General intelligence is the next step. And that is, it's better that man, one -- one, you know, like Grok. Can do everything. That you can do.

Better that you can do.

Okay?

And then there's super intelligence. ASI.

Artificial super intelligence.

That's when things get really, really creepy.

When you hit AGI, the road to ASI could be overnight.

Okay?

We need to understand what's at stake here. Because Grok four brought us closer to that second stage, than ever before.

Grok four is a powerhouse. They demonstrated it last night.

It surpasses the expertise of Ph.D.-level sailors in all fields.

It can get 100 percent on any -- any test for any field, mathematics, physics. Engineering.

You name it.

This is not a search engine.

This is a system that tackles problems, so intricate, they -- they go beyond our existing knowledge base.

Okay?

Let's say there is -- let's say, we have a fusion reactor. And the magnetic containment system goes down. I don't even know what I'm talking about at this point.

But it goes down.

And the top minds all on earth are like, I don't know what to do. Grok 4 can step in, model the physics, design new material, stabilize the system, and avert catastrophe. And it can do it about that fast. Now, this is the capability, that Musk says is just around the corner.

Mark my words. You know, how many -- how many years did I say, between 2027 and 2030, we would start to see this?

STU: Oh, a million times.

That was always --

GLENN: For years. Right? Yeah, always the window.

And everybody, even Ray Kurzweil said, oh, that's way too optimistic. We may be 2050.

And then people started going, 2040, 2030.

Grok shows us 2026 or 2027 is when we're going to hit it. This is the last year, that we have, before things get really weird.

Okay?

Last night, Elon Musk is touting this -- this AI.

And all of the solutions.

And then he says.

Hmm. Probably three times.

Something like this.

And I'm quoting. This is one of them.

It's somewhat unnerving to have created intelligence that's greater than our own.

He then goes on to call it terrifying, twice.

Now, this is a man who has launched rockets, you know, into orbit.

Going to Mars.

And he says, twice!

You know, after he sees the results of it. He says, you know, it's really -- in a way, quite terrifying to see what it's doing.

But we just have to make sure that it remains good!

Oh, okay.

All right. Sure.

Now, the key point in the announcement was the mention of ARC-AGI.

I had never heard of ARC-AGI. I had no idea what it was. But I noticed AGI. And I went, uh-oh. That sounds important. So this is the gold standard. The bench mark testing for artificial general intelligence.

Okay.

As I've said before, AGI. Artificial General Intelligence is a machine that matches all human cognition, across all domains.

Reasoning, creativity.

Problem solving. Not just specialized tasks like playing Go or analyzing x-rays. Everything. For instance, Musk said by mid-next year to the latest end of next year, it will be able to create a full length movie, just from a text prompt.
And do it all at once!

So, in other words, it will say, create a movie, and you just explain the Godfather.

It will do the casting. It will do the writing. It will do the filming, if you will. It will -- score the music, and it will happen that fast.

Almost in realtime. We are nowhere near the computational power now, to do that separately.

But this will do it all at once. It will make a movie with all of it, simultaneously.

So the arc AGI system is the benchmark on how close we are to AGI. Remember, scary things happen at AGI.

Terrifying things happen at ASI. ASI could be a matter of hours, or days after we hit AGI.

Grok 4 scored 16.2 percent on the ARC-AGI scale.

Why is that important? You're like, well, only 16 percent away.

Because last time, it barely broke 8 percent.

And that -- they took that test, last time with Grok three.

And it took us forever to get to 8 percent.

Now, what is it? A year later.

We're at 16 percent. Remember, these things are not linear. The next time, we could be at 32, we might be at 64.

We are on the verge. This is the last year of -- I can't believe I'm saying this. Of normalcy. Okay?

This year is -- we're going to look back at this year, probably two years ago, gosh, remember the good old days, when everything was normal.

And you could understand everything.

This is how close we are!

Everything you and I talked about last night, Stu, about what we're doing in January, make -- put -- does it make it even more critical that that happens like, oh, I don't know.

Right now.

STU: Yeah. For sure.

GLENN: You are going to need to know your values, your ethics, your rights.

You are going to need to know absolutely everything.

Now, Grok 4 is not true AGI yet.

It lacks the full autonomy and the generalized reasoning of a human mind. But it is the closest that we've come.

It's a system that can adapt, innovate, at a level that outpaces specialized AIs by a wide margin.

This is a milestone. This is not a destination, but it's something that should jolt everybody awake. So here's what's coming over the next six months. By December 2025, that's this Christmas!

December 2025, he believes, Musk, that Grok 4, will drive breakthroughs in material sciences.

So, in other words, imagine a new -- brand-new alloy, that is lighter than aluminum. Stronger than steel.

And it revolutionizes aerospace and everything else, or a drug that halts Alzheimer's progression, tailored to a person's DNA.

Grok will drive breakthroughs through material science. So brand-new materials that nobody has ever thought of.

Pharmaceuticals that we never thought could be made.

And chemical engineering, putting together chemicals that no man has ever thought.

That's going for happen by December.

Imagine a chemical compound that makes carbon capture, economically viable. The climate change stuff, that's over.

It will be over.

Because this will solve that! These are not fantasies.

This is Grok 4.

Musk said something that he never thought. He believes that within the next year, by 2027, Grok 4 will uncover new physical laws.

So that will rewrite the understanding -- our understanding of the entire universe.

That there will come -- like there's gravity. Hey, you know what, there's another law here that you never thought of. Wait. What?

That, he says, will come by 2027. This is going to accelerate human discovery, at an unprecedented scale.

I told you, at some point. I said, by 2030. It might be a little earlier than that.

Things will be happening at such a fast rate, you won't be able to keep up with them.

And it will accelerate to the point to where you won't even understand what all of this means.

Or what the ramifications are!

Are you there yet?

In six months, Grok 4 could evolve into a system, that dwarfs human expertise in economics, defense, all of it.

Now, again, it's a bit terrifying to quote Elon Musk. Why?

Because we don't know, what else comes with this.

This is like an alien life form.

We have no idea, what to predict. What it will be capable of.

How it will view us, when we are ants, to its intellect.

Okay?

It is a tool, but it is also Pandora's box.

If Grok 4 is the biggest step towards AGI.

And maybe one of the last steps to AGI.

My feeling is: What I've been saying forever.

2027 to 2030, I'm leaning more toward the 2027 now.

Because of this announcement last night.

We are on the verge of AGI.

And everything in human existence changing overnight.

And as Musk said himself, two times, it's terrifying!

We should act like it is terrifying.

Or risk losing the control of the future, that we're all trying to build. That's the biggest story of the day.

I think! In my opinion.

Bill O'Reilly reveals how Trump can END Epstein files nightmare overnight!

Bill O'Reilly joins Glenn Beck with his plan for how the Trump administration can fix the Epstein Files fallout "overnight." Plus, he explains why he believes there's only one way that former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan get indicted by a grand jury.

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GLENN: All right. Bill O'Reilly.

Welcome to the program, sir! How are you?

BILL: Welcome. (inaudible)

And right off the bat, I have to correct you.

GLENN: Yeah. You're not alive. What know.

BILL: I mean, you know -- you don't know that?

GLENN: Yeah, yeah. No. I -- I thought you were dead. Anyway --

BILL: You were dead to me, oh!
(laughter)
I --

GLENN: I get it.

BILL: That's just another brick in your wall, Beck.
(laughter)

GLENN: It's good to talk to you, Bill.

Tell me -- you had a conversation with -- with President Trump, what, a couple of months ago, and I talked about --

BILL: Yeah. St. Patrick's Day, he invited me to sit on a cabinet meeting, which he does sometimes.

And he said, look, we've got files, Kennedy, King, Epstein -- what do you think? And I said, well, first Kennedy you've got to put out pretty much everything, which he did. King, he didn't. I don't know why. Because that's important too.

And then on Epstein I said, you have to be careful here, because this is now being used in political precincts. Both sides want to destroy anybody that was associated with Epstein. And the problem is that a federal investigation. They don't make a determination whether you had a -- what kind of relationship you had with Epstein. They just said, so-and-so had lunch with him.

Or maybe so-and-so had -- saw him at a party. And I said, any name of a human being associated with Epstein, in any way, that person is going to be destroyed. Because you know, the press is not going to put anything into context.

So I said, but it's very important that the Justice Department tell the folks what they know.

And you don't have to get specific with anything.

But you have to say, this is the information that we've compiled. And that's not hard.

And I don't know why the Trump administration is not doing that.

GLENN: Wow!

So, first of all, it's your fault, that we're not getting any names. We learned a lot here.

BILL: Probably my fault, but the president --

GLENN: You know what, I think you're right. I don't want all the names of the people. I want to know --

BILL: And I don't either.

GLENN: Right! I want to know the Justice Department has sorted through the things, and then have gone through. And said, this is criminal. This is not. These people are being indicted, et cetera, et cetera. But to come out and say, there is nothing there, I mean, it's -- it's at least --

BILL: It's ridiculous.

GLENN: It's mass incompetence, at least from Pam Bondi. How could she come out and say, it's all sitting on my desk?

And then when she doesn't release it, she says, well, that's because the FBI in New York is thwarting this process. There are people up there, that are trying to keep this from me.

And then she makes no arrests on that. We never hear about that again.

And then now all of a sudden, there's nothing to see.

BILL: Well, listen, Pam Bondi does not make decisions on her own.

No cabinet member does.

All the decisions come out of the West Wing.

So what I believed happened was, Trump was so obsessed with the big bill, with Iran, with Putin, with China.

That this -- they didn't even think about this. Okay?

GLENN: I believe that.

BILL: And it slowly began to unravel. And then I caught it by surprise.

But this is the easiest fix. Somewhere so easy.

BILL: So if I'm in charge, and that would be a great thing for everyone, except you, Beck -- but every other American, if I were in charge, tremendous. You would be in Botswana. Right.

GLENN: Right. Oh, I know.

Yeah. Yeah. I would be the ambassador of the white farmers in -- in South Africa if it were up to you. I know. I know.

BILL: No. You would be wandering around going, I am Glenn Beck. And they would go, who? That's what you'd be doing.

GLENN: That's every day.

BILL: So this could happen within the hour. Pam Bondi announces a press conference for tomorrow.

At that press conference, sitting next to her, is Merrick Garland, everyone.

You had this stuff for four years! Now, I understand that Mr. Garland has gone native and is living in a -- well, we can find him. We can pull him out of there, and have him and Pam, sit there and answer questions in a general way about what evidence the Justice Department of the United States has compiled.

GLENN: Not going to happen.

BILL: That's it!

Well, if it's not going to happen, then President Trump is going to take a hit.

But he's calculating that this will say that it's that night important.

But I don't know why you would not do it.

I just don't know. And I'm usually pretty good at predicting what the president does or does not do.

GLENN: So here's the thing, Bill.

I think he keeps focusing on Epstein. It's not that big of a deal.

It's not about Epstein. It's about justice.

It's about, can we trust the people -- correct!

It's all about credibility and justice.

And he's not seeing that. And I don't know how he's missing that. Because I agree with you.

He's been so busy on so many other things.

BILL: That's right. That's right.

GLENN: This is not at the top of his priority list.

But he did campaign on it.

BILL: Right.

And I don't know if there's anybody inside the White House.

He looks to be annoyed, when this subject comes up.

GLENN: Oh, I know.

BILL: And here's the -- what works -- you have to understand.

A guy like Donald Trump runs it all.

If he's annoyed, nobody will want to annoy him more. Okay?

GLENN: Oh, I know.

BILL: That's how it works. The older arch is, because Epstein got favorable treatment.

By the feds, in the first go around in Florida, that there's a deep suspicion about this case.

But if you break it down, if the Biden administration had any dirt on any Republican associated with Epstein. It would have been out.

And vice-versa.

If the Republicans had any dirt on any Democrats. Now, we know that former president Clinton, was involved with Epstein to some extent.

I don't know if that was a factor, okay? I don't know.

But your right for once. You're right. It's about credibility. It's about the American people trusting that we do have equal justice for all!

So what do you -- what do you make of now the Russia gate thing, coming out, today. Or yesterday.

The FISA court.

The fact that they're now saying, hey.

You know, we need to hold Brennan accountable.

We're like five or six days away.

Weeks away from him, you know, slipping past the -- the statute of limitations.

I mean, all these things are out today.

There's that. There is also the -- let's see here.

The Secret Service -- I think this happened a year ago.

But it's being reported as if it's news.

Secret Service suspends six agents assigned to protect Trump during a Butler assassination attempt. I mean, all these things are coming out. Like, look, we're busy on all these things. And I do believe they're busy on these things.

But it's like the Keystone Cops are in charge of the PR on this. It's bad.

BILL: Well, there's a lot of politics involved in both of those cases. Number one, in order to get Comey and Brennan to get indicted by a grand jury. Federal grand jury, and that's the only passage, you would have to have a whistle-blower, saying, yeah, these guys abused their power. I worked for them. And they absolutely wanted to get Trump.

And they knew the Russia dossier was phony.

And they did it anyway.

If I have that Justice Department.

Then you can get those guys.

If you don't have it, they will not be even indicted by a grand jury.

GLENN: So how is it that we do not have that Justice Department?

How do we not have that Justice Department?

BILL: Well, look. I don't know whether they have a whistle-blower or not, okay?

And if they have a whistle-blower, I want the case to go forward.

I want those two men indicted.

You can't do that, at that level.

As far as the Secret Service is concerned, monumental screw up. Everybody knows it. They fired the morons in charge of it. That woman -- I was embarrassed listening to her, trying to explain.

They didn't know what the deuce was going on. But this was across-the-board, in the Biden administration.

You know, it was a year ago Sunday, this upcoming Sunday.

GLENN: Right.

BILL: And it's just another example of how the Biden administration was the second worst administration in the history of this country. People have no idea how bad it was.

Every single agency was chaotic. Nothing worked. And this is just part of that. And we'll have a slew of stuff on Sunday. Nothing really meaningful.

I mean, they suspended the Secret Service agents, as they should have. They fired the director as they should have. The guy was a nut.

I don't know if there was anything more to that. I doubt it.

I'm more interested in the guy in the bushes. Because they don't know anything about him. I would like to know a little bit about him.

But again, the federal government, it doesn't really matter. It's the government. They never want to tell us stuff, Beck, never.

We always have to pull it out of them. It's almost like Russia or something. Come on!

GLENN: Right. Yeah. Let me ask you, let me take you back again to the Epstein thing.

I noticed yesterday, there were these people who were on the left. Who were taking tweets of mine. That say, look. These things don't make sense. On the Epstein thing. And they just have to be answered. And not anti-Trump at all.

And yet, the anti-Trump people were retweeting that, and they're trying to -- they're trying to get the right to fight against itself again and split people away from Donald Trump, where I don't think this Epstein thing is -- is splitting people from Donald Trump, at least at this point.

And I -- you know, I -- my wife stopped me from answering some of those tweets, yesterday.

Because it's never good, when you -- when I tweet in anger. Which I did.

But -- or was going to. What did you think about how this is being used against the right to try to separate us even more?

BILL: Everything is political. Everybody knows that for you.

But the MAGA people, from the mail I get. And I get a voluminous amount of mail. They're not happy.

GLENN: Oh, I agree. I'm not happy.

BILL: Now, are they going to throw President Trump under the cliché-ridden bus? No. Because to them, the greater good is being served by a fair tax bill.

Trying to cut waste.

Dealing with Iran effectively. And hopefully dealing with Putin.

That's another thing, that's on Trump's plate.

He has to deal with Putin now.

Has to. And that will be the next big story.

GLENN: How is he going to deal with it?

BILL: Lavrov and Rubio, are in Indonesia, as we speak.

And I assume that Rubio is delivering a message. That you either stop, or we're going to just absolutely crush you economically. Which the United States can do. By saying. No bank does business with Moscow.

And if you do business, no matter what bank you are, we're going to put you out of business.

Okay?

GLENN: Yeah. I've only got a couple of seconds. But didn't we already do that under Biden?

BILL: No! We didn't do the banks. We did the sanctions. And the sanctions they can always get around, because China is going to buy as much oil from Russia as possible.

You stop the banks, from doing all business with Moscow? Who is going --

GLENN: Isn't that what the SWIFT thing was all about?

When we kicked them off of SWIFT, wasn't that what that was all about?

BILL: No! Because they can still do a huge business with countries buying their oil.

And they got to pay Putin and Russia for the oil, and that has to go through the banking system.

If you stop the banking system, he can't get paid.

GLENN: Hmm, it's amazing. I'm glad I'm not the president right now. I think he's made some very brave decisions, and he is walking a tightrope. I mean, the world is on edge. And I pray for --

BILL: He looks very tired to me. Very tired. I haven't talked to him in a while, which is unusual. But you're right. You're absolutely right. That's the second time you've been right in this conversation. My God!

GLENN: I know. It's crazy.

BILL: What in the world.

GLENN: I was wrong about you being dead.

BILL: What is happening?

GLENN: It's good -- it's good to talk to you, my friend. Is everything okay? Is everything going well?

BILL: Everything is all right, Beck. We are not only successful, but that's old news. We've been that way for 50 years, but I appreciate you having me on your fine program.

GLENN: Okay. I love you.

BILL: Stu is still breathing.

GLENN: Hmm.

BILL: So that's good. Right.

But I've got a big book called Confronting Evil. Of course, we sent it, and of course you denied getting it. That comes out September 9th, so put me on a dance card.

GLENN: Well, we'll have you on. And you can also find Bill and his YouTube page. YouTube.com/BillOReilly. Or is it The Walking Dead?
(laughter)
He's not even laughing. Maybe he hung up. Bill O'Reilly, great to have him on.

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