RADIOJanuary 22, 2024

DeSantis would WRECK the Left with THIS Trump cabinet seat

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed former president Donald Trump. Glenn explains why he believes this was a good move. Plus, he asks Trump to do one thing: "Consider Ron DeSantis as your Attorney General." If he announces this soon, Glenn believes it would give Trump "huge momentum."

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GLENN: So looks like Ron DeSantis is out. Kind of a surprising move, don't you think?

STU: A little bit. Just because, you think, if he's going to do this, why not after Iowa?

Why wait?

I guess that's the line.

GLENN: And you could say, because they're arguing back and forth. And deciding what to do. But this was my advice. What was it?

Thursday or Friday. My advice was, he should drop out now. Do no more damage to his name.

You don't want to look like you lost over and over and over again.

Get out now. Stop the damage on the reputation.

And I'm torn on that, because I'm not sure what's going to happen with Donald Trump.

I mean, you could make a case that he's going to go to jail. You could make the case, that he's going to hang himself with paper sheets.

I mean, God only knows what these people are willing to do to stop him from being president of the United States.

And I -- I would like to have somebody, that -- that has delegates that can broker at the convention.

Now, here's what I really would like to say, today. About Ron DeSantis. And that is.

47.

Mr. President, listen carefully.

Please, will you consider Ron DeSantis, as your attorney general?

I think he will do more food as attorney general even, than he would as your vice president.

Make him, and, Ron, please, if it's offered. Please, take it.

Ron DeSantis has law experience, up the wazoo. He's a proven fighter.

He knows the Deep State. If there's anyone who could go in, and clean up the Justice Department. And then start cleaning up all of the -- the nightmares, and return justice, back to the Justice Department. I think it's Ron DeSantis. And I think if -- if he would accept that, and Donald Trump would announce that now, you would have huge momentum, with Ron DeSantis voters.

You would also have it with Trump voters.

And I think you begin. I think Donald Trump should start announcing his team.

And perhaps, the least important one is vice president. Maybe that's me.

GLENN: That's interesting.

He would be very good at that, I think. That's an interesting fit.

A lot of people are like, oh, well. He said a lot of bad things -- the fact that, not only he dropped out.

The key part of this. He also endorsed Donald Trump. There were people who were like, maybe he'll endorse Nikki Haley, which was never going to happen. But he could have done what Chris Christie did.

Right? Where you drop out.

You don't say anything about an endorsement. And then I guess you have 14 hamburgers, or whatever Christie did after he dropped out.

But you could have done that. And, you know, that would have been a plausible thing for him to do.

But he just went ahead and admitted what I think everybody knew for a long time. That Donald Trump is a -- is probably the person who will win this.

And why not get on board now?

GLENN: Yeah. Can we just -- can we stop with this analyzing, and reanalyzing Ron DeSantis? And what did his team do wrong?

You know, there's many things you can point out. But biggest thing you can point out is, Donald Trump once he was indicted, that race was over.

It didn't matter how -- it didn't matter if he had the dream team behind him.

Or if he had the Keystone Cops behind him.

Rob DeSantis didn't have a chance to win, as soon as Donald Trump was indicted.

The mood of the country and the voter, changed. And people began to see Donald Trump for really, who he is.

He's kind of like us. If they'll do that to him, they'll do it to us. So he's kind of fighting for him and us, at the same time. They see him as a man who has been wronged. Who could have given up.

And is now on the verge of losing absolutely everything. Everything.

And yet, what?

We're going to go for somebody else?

No. At this time, the American people, a majority of Republican voters see that, as something, that they feel they should support. Because he's the guy supporting them.

And fighting the same fight, that they're going to have to fight.

So Ron didn't have a chance.

STU: I'm glad you brought that up.

Every single piece of analysis that I've been seeing and reading has been talking about the DeSantis campaign problems.

And, look, there were some.

Like do you want infighting at your super PAC?

No, you choose not to have that, if you have the choice.

However, if you think, well, if everybody at the super PAC were really good friends, he would have won in Iowa.

I mean, that's just -- what are you talking about?

Like -- it's like everyone is analyzing the 20 percent of the problem. When the 80 percent of the problem is being left unstated. Eighty percent of the problem is that Donald Trump is a very unique figure. That has a lock on a lot of the voters in the party, who has a lock on even more of them.

And an insurmountable amount, when he got indicted. And the sort of conservative mind. You know, the Jonathan Haidt, going to that analysis of how conservatives think. Loyalty is a really big part of that. Fairness is a really big part of that.

And a lot of people think, look, Donald Trump deserves another chance here. I don't know that is ever going to be overcome.

PAT: Because I've heard this from some people who even liked Donald Trump big Trump supporters.

And it's like, okay.

Well, Ron DeSantis shouldn't have done this. He shouldn't have said this.

If his online supporters did this or that, or whatever.

And I get all that. And you can criticize some of that stuff fairly. But at the end of the day, if Ron DeSantis ran a perfect campaign, was he going to beat your guy?

And not a single guy would say yes. They would all say, of course not!

And they're right most likely.

I don't know that a perfect campaign could have won in this particular circumstance.

GLENN: No.

STU: It's like arguing the best album of all time is from Beyonce, and you're talking to an audience that's 70 percent Swiftie. It doesn't matter how good Beyonce's album is, you're never going to win that argument.

GLENN: Look, here's the thing. No matter what he did. You know, Ron DeSantis had good numbers. Before the indictment.

And when we were just looking at candidates. But what the Democrats did, right or wrong. I mean, it's definitely wrong. But strategy-wise, right or wrong, I don't know.

Because I don't know what their real thought was, on why to indict him, for 7 billion years of prison time.

But once they did that, all bets were off. And Donald Trump has something else.

And I'm not saying Ron DeSantis doesn't have this. Or anybody that was running, doesn't have this.

But this was in real question right now, from most people.

Does this politician even like America.

Do they like America?

Donald Trump, the one thing you cannot question is: He loves America.

Loves it.

And that is kind of -- it's strangely kind of a baseline.

You have to have that stone, put into your foundation.

And it has to be rock solid.

And the one thing about Donald Trump is: You know he loves America.

And that's want to slight anybody else. It is to slight some of the Democrats.

But it's not to slight, anybody else that was running. It's just so very clear. That Donald Trump is sincere in his love for America.

And I think that goes a very long way.

STU: I think so too.

And look, people believe that he is going to be the guy. I mean, a lot of this is, you look to a person, who is -- has done the job already.

He's basically an incumbent to the Republicans. Right?

This is -- already those advantages are built-in. He has an incredibly prominent profile. One of the most famous outside of maybe Taylor Swift.

Probably the most famous person in the world.

And he's a guy that people are lining up behind.

Because most of the voters in the Republican voting populace, believe he's being targeted and wronged. In a major way. And the fact that they're want only trying to take away his presidency. His legacy.

His future prospects. But also his life. They want to take his life, and throw it into prison.

GLENN: I think even. I think we're approaching a new time. Where we could go further than that. I hate to say that. And I don't want to assign that to anyone.

I'm not saying that it's the Democrats or anyone else.

But I do think there are those who hate Donald Trump so much. And are sick.

They're absolutely sick. And that wouldn't mind, ending his life. Unfortunately.

STU: That's a dark place, I don't want to go to.

And I know you don't as well.

The question becomes. Number up, Nikki Haley has a chance to play out the string here.

She has a chance to be competitive, and win over New Hampshire.

The polls aren't particularly optimistic on that fact. But she will get a decent percentage in that state.

And, you know, have a chance to move on to South Carolina. It's her home state. She deserves the chance to play out the string. I don't want to act like it's completely over.

But, you know, for all intents and purposes, it probably is.

We talked about that tier one, tier two primary. Right?

The tier one is the normal campaign. The normal way things play out. Everyone competes to win.

That one, to me, is largely over.

You still have tier two, though, which is what happens to Donald Trump. And what happens after, if they throw him in prison. And who knows on that one. What's interesting about Haley, there's really no reason to drop out, right?

I don't know. Maybe I'm not going to see this the same way she had. But if you're here. Why not keep your campaign alive, and keep these delegates coming in at 25 and 30 percent. She will probably get 25, 30 percent in most of these states. She'll be able to bag delegates, and if something happens to Donald Trump --

GLENN: You have a say.

STU: You have a say. And I don't know what the downside is. And this leaves only Ryan Binkley left, Glenn.

And if I -- I have thought about this. I have not been able to figure out a way to do it. But if I can figure out a way to right now bet on Ryan Binkley being second place in the delegate count, I would do it. Because the most likely thing that happens here, Haley drops out. He's the only one left.

And he just -- if you don't know who he is, he is running for president on the Republican side.

GLENN: That really doesn't help me, knowing who he is. That's what he's doing currently.
I still have no idea who Binkley is.

STU: He's a Dallas businessman and pastor, and has been running the whole time.

Again, I don't think there's any reason for him to drop out.

Whoever isn't Donald Trump, is going to get some delegates here.

Haley, you would think would be -- well, why not me? I can stick around. If this thing falls apart at the top, which is possible. Again, we keep talking about how serious these threats are for Donald Trump.

It's not impossible that some of these legal threats wind up working out in a way that -- you know, we all know.

We're going in the Supreme Court, with him being on the ballot or not. My complete belief, is that the Supreme Court would be correct on that. And placed on the ballot in these states. But it's not impossible.

And if these things go the wrong way for Donald Trump. There has to be somebody there.

What might happen, the party comes together, and they just do something. And that's ugly.

If you're Nikki Haley, you have a bunch of delegates. You at least have an argument at that table.

When we're talking about leadership of the free world here, you know, I don't know.

What part of her reputation is she really going to protect by dropping out?

Has THIS Islamist organization BROKEN state laws for YEARS?!

A new report accuses CAIR Action, the political arm of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, of breaking state laws with its political activism. Glenn Beck reviews this story...

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GLENN: So let me go over what is -- what's happening with -- with CAIR.

You know, the Founding Fathers were obsessed over accountability.

Because they knew one thing. You know, they did. They must get suggestions from people on, you know, through tweets. They studied every single system of government.

Every single republic that survived. That didn't survive.

Why didn't it survive?

They studied all forms of government. They were trying to come up with something that could -- could set people free.

And they -- they worked really hard on putting our checks and balances in place, because they knew, once power slips into the shadows. They knew, once power slips into the shadows, once influence becomes unmoored from law, what rises is not a republic.

It's a machine. And that's what you're seeing right now. We're not living in a republic. We're living in a machine.

We -- I think we're staring at one of the largest unregulated political machines operating in the United States ever! Okay.

There have been a couple of groups that are doing sweeping investigations, two watchdog groups. One of them is NCRI and the Intelligent Advocacy Network.

And they have concluded now that the political arm of CAIR, he known as CAIR action, has been operating nationwide with no legal authority, to do the things it has been doing for years now.

They're not allowed to raise money. They've been raising money. Coordinating political campaigns.

Not allowed to do it. Endorsing candidates. Not allowed to do it, they're doing it. Mobilizing voters, shaping policy, functioning as a national advocacy network.

They don't have the legal authority to do any of it. And no one has said anything.

Now, according to the report, CAIR action doesn't just have a paperwork problem.

Investigators found, state by state, that it lacks the license, the registrations. The charitable authorizations, required to legally solicit money.

Excuse me. Or conduct political activity, in any of the 22 states in which it operates. Think of that!

I know how serious this is, because I remember what it took to get the license in each and every state, for Mercury One.

So we could operate. We could raise money. We could do things in those states. It's a lot of work. And if you don't do it, you go to jail. And they find out pretty quickly.

Okay?

22 states, they operate not one, zero legal authorization.

In Washington, DC, the city where CAIR action is incorporated, the department of licensing and consumer protection told investigators, they have no record of CAIR action ever obtaining the basic business license required to solicit funds or to operate.

Imagine how long would you last in business, especially if you were controversial.

How long would you remain in business, if you never had a business license?

You think somebody would figure that out?

In a sooner time than I don't know. A couple of decades!

This report means, that the organization if true, is engaging in unlicensed inner state solicitation.

It has exposed itself to allegations as serious as deceptive solicitation. Wire fraud and false statements to the IRS. These are big things.

And this is not political rhetoric.

Are these phrases written in black and white. In the law.

And by investigators. In California, one of CAIR's most active hubs. The state attorney general has said, the state attorney general of California has said, same pattern here!

The state of California, to say, yep. That's what's happening here.

CAIR action has never registered with California's charitable registry.

Never filed the required CT1 form. And has no authorization whatsoever to request donations. But they've been doing it in California anyway.

Fundraising, selling memberships. Issuing endorsements. Mobilizing voters. All of that has been done by CAIR action. There's no record of any license. Any permission, ever. Going to CAIR. From California. That's according to their attorney general.

Wow!

That's pretty remarkable, huh? How does that happen?

It's not just the coast. It is also happening to the Midwest, the South, the Mountain West. Every state hosting its own CAIR action fundraising page, complete with the donate now and become a member portal, despite no trace of the legal filings required to operate. That's bad!

Now, here's where the stakes rise.

Because CAIR action presents itself openly, as the political arm of CAIR National.

Investigators are now warning that any unauthorized fundraising or political activity.

Could become CAIR's national responsibility as well.

So, in other words, the parent, CAIR itself, might be held responsible.

Meaning, this is want just a rogue subdivision.

This could implicate the entire National Organization of CAIR.

Now, this is happening at the same time it's coming under national scrutiny. It's also Texas.

And I think Florida have designated the group a foreign terrorist organization. Members of Congress are now asking the IRS, the Treasury, the Department of Education to investigate all of its partnerships, all of its financing, all of its influence operations. I mean, I think they're going to be in trouble.

How long have we been saying this?

But every time, I have pointed out anything about CAIR, I have been called an Islamophobe, which shuts everything down. That is a word, developed by people like CAIR, to shut people down, so you'll never look into them.

So what happens next?

First of all, the reports have to hold up.

Regulators now have an obligation. Not a choice. An obligation to act!

State attorneys general in these 22 states, they might pursue fines, injunctions, criminal referrals.

All of them need to take action!

The IRS, needs to take action. Investigate tax exempt fraud. Treasury Department may review foreign influence or money flow violations.

Anything coming from overseas.

Oh, I can't imagine it. They're so buttoned up, right now.

DC regulators may determine whether CAIR actions entire fundraising operation has been unlawful from the beginning.

But here's the deeper question. And it's not bureaucratic. This one is constitutional.

Can the United States tolerate an influence machine, that operates outside of the legal framework, designed to prevent corruption, foreign leverage, and untraceable money?

If I hear one more time, talking about how AIPAC has just got to be investigated. Fine. Investigate.

I'm not against it.

Investigate.

Why aren't you saying anything about CAIR?

It feels like it might be a tool in the hands of a foreign operation.

Why aren't you saying anything about this?

Because here it is! It's not like, hey. I wonder why.

This is it! This is it! This isn't about silencing CAIR. Muslim Americans are -- that are full citizens, they have every right to speak. Every right to vote. Every right to organize. Participate in public life. No question! They can disagree with me, all they want.

But no organization. None! Not mine. Not yours. Not theirs. None. Should operate a nationwide political network, in the shadows and be immune from all of the guardrails that every other group must follow!

That's called a fourth branch of government!

That's how a fourth branch goes.

By the way, CAIR has placed all kinds of people in our Department of Homeland Security. Et cetera, et cetera. This organization has done it!

This is -- you cannot have a fourth branch of government.

They must abide by the laws.

No -- you can't have a branch that nobody elected. Nobody oversees.

Nobody holds accountable.

We talked about this yesterday, on yesterday's podcast. So what needs to happen is total transparency. CAIR action has to release its filings. Its donor structure. Its compliance records, if they exist. Equal enforcement under the law. I don't want them prosecuted in special ways.

Look, if AIPAC is doing the same thing. AIPAC should be prosecuted exactly the same way.
I want it equal. I want constitutional rule.

If conservatives, if Catholics, pro-Israel, environmental, Second Amendment groups, if they have to comply by the state law, so does CAIR action.

And if CAIR action has to do it, so do the Second Amendment groups and environmentalists, and pro-Israel and conservative groups. The law cannot be selective. It can't be!

I don't know how that's controversial in today's world. But somehow or another, they will find a way.

The Feds have to review all of this. If the report is accurate, the IRS and the Treasury have to determine whether false statements or unlicensed interstate solicitations have occurred.

Americans deserve to know what exactly, who is influencing our elections. Who is shaping our policy? Who is raising money in their state?

Especially physical the organization claims political authority, that it doesn't legally possess.

Because history will teach us one unchanging lesson. When a republic stops enforcing its own laws, someone else will always step in to fill that vacuum because power abhors a vacuum!

Unregulated, political power abhors a free people. So while it's about CAIR, it's not about Muslim Americans. It's not about religion.

As always, at least on this program, we try to make it about the rule of law.

One standard for everyone or no standard at all!

And that more than anything, will determine whether or not our institutions remain worthy of the freedom and responsibility that we have entrusted to them.

Glenn Beck WARNS Democrats Will Return with VENGEANCE in 2026 | Glenn TV | Ep 473

America is entering a year of historic upheaval from Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the spiritual shock that followed, to Trump’s tariff revolution, China’s rare-earth war, collapsing energy grids, AI displacement, and the looming fights over Taiwan and Venezuela. Glenn sits down with BlazeTV hosts ‪@deaceshow‬ and ‪@lizwheeler‬ along with his head researcher Jason Buttrill, to break down the biggest stories of 2025. Plus, they each give their most explosive prediction for 2026 that could shape our politics, economy, national security, and civil rights in ways Americans have never experienced before.

Trump Just SHATTERED the “Expert Class” - And the Deep State is in Total Panic

For nearly a century, Washington DC has been ruled by an unelected “expert class” operating as an unconstitutional fourth branch of government — accountable to no one, removable by no president, and shielded from all consequences. Glenn breaks down why Trump’s firing of the Federal Trade Commissioner could finally dismantle the 1935 precedent that empowered technocrats, how Ketanji Brown Jackson exposed the Supreme Court’s embrace of expert rule, and why America cannot survive a government run by people who never face the voters and never pay for their failures.

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GLENN: Okay. So President Donald Trump fired the federal trade commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. Federal Trade Commission is an administrative position. I mean, this is under -- the head of the federal trade commission is a cabinet member.

And if the justices uphold Trump's firing of Slaughter, that will overturn a precedent that was horrible, that was set in 1935. Remember, 1935, we're flirting with fascism. You know, everybody thinks. Because they haven't seen the horrors of fascism yet.

Everybody thinks fascism is neat, blah, blah. So what they do is they say that this is an independent person. And the president can't fire them. Because they're, you know, an independent agency.

Well, wait. That would make a fourth branch of government. Our Constitution is really clear.

There is no such thing as a fourth branch of government. Right?

So that's what they're deciding. Now, here is Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is talking about how we really need to listen to the experts. Cut four.

VOICE: Because presidents have accepted that there could be both an understanding of Congress and the presidency. That it is in the best interest of the American people to have certain kinds of issues, handled by experts. Who, and I think you -- in your colloquy, Justice Kagan, have identified the fact that these boards are not only experts, but they're also nonpartisan. So the -- the seats are actually distributed in such a way, that we are presumably eliminating political influence because we're trying to get to science and data and actual facts, related to how these decisions are made.

And so the real risk, I think, of allowing non- -- of allowing these kinds of decisions to be made by the president, of saying, everybody can just be removed when I come in, is that we will get away from those very important policy considerations.

VOICE: We will get away from US policy considerations, and it will create opportunities for all kinds of problems that Congress and prior presidents wanted to avoid, risks that flow inevitably, just given human nature, the realities of the world that we live in.

GLENN: Okay.

Now, remember, what she's saying here is, we have to have experts.

We have to have experts. We have to have experts that don't really answer to anybody. Okay?

They're appointed. And then they're just there. This from a, quote, judicial expert, who cannot define a woman, because she's not a doctor.
She's not a scientist.

She needs an expert to define a woman.
That's how insane her thinking is. Okay?

Now, I would just like to ask the Supreme Court, when you want things run by experts, do you mean things like the State Department, or the counsel of foreign relations, that have gotten us into these endless war wars for 100 years?

Because these are the things that Woodrow Wilson wanted. He wanted the country run by experts.

Okay. So is it like the Council of Foreign Relations, that keep getting us into these endless wars.

Or is it more like the Fed, that directs our fiscal policy, that has driven us into $38 trillion of at the time. We have all powerful banks. That strangely all belong to the fed. And endless bailouts for those banks. Are those the experts that you're talking about?

Or are you talking about the experts that are doctors, that gave the country sterilizations, lobotomies, transgender surgeries. You know, or should we listen to the experts, like the ones that are now speaking in Illinois, to get us death on demand like Canada has, with their MAID assisted suicide, which is now the third largest killer in Canada. MAID, assisted suicide, third largest killer in Canada. Experts are saying, we now need it here, and they're pushing for it in Illinois. Or should we listen to the experts? And I think many of them are the same experts strangely, that brought us COVID. Yeah. That was an expert thing. They were trying to protect us. Because they need to do this for our protection. So direct from the labs in China with the help of the American experts like Fauci. We almost put the world out.

Should we listen to those guys?

Or the experts that brought us masking, and Home Depot is absolutely safe. But Ace Hardware wants to kill grandma. Which are the experts that we want? That we want to make sure that we have in our lives? That they don't answer, or can't be fired by anybody. Because I'm pretty full up on the experts, myself. I don't know.

But you're right. These experts would keep the president in check, and they would keep Congress in check. And you in check!

And the Supreme Court, which would be really great. You know, and you know who else they would keep in check? The people.

So, wow, it seems like we would just be a nation run by experts, and our Constitution would be out the window, because that's a fourth branch!

And if you don't believe me, that, you know, these experts never pay a price. Can you name a single expert?

Give me a name of an expert, that gave us any of the things that I just told you about.

Give me the name. I mean, give me the name of one of them. Give me the name of one of them that went to jail. Give me the name of one expert that has been discredited.

You know, where your name will be mud in this town. Do you know where that came from?

Your name is going to be mud. It's not M-U-D. It's M-U-D-D, that comes from Dr. Samuel Mudd. Okay? He was a docks man. He was an expert. He was that set John Wilkes Booth' broken leg. He made crutches. He let him stay there for a while. He claimed he didn't know him, but he did know him.

In fact, one of the reasons they proved it.

Is because when he pulled the boots off -- when he pulled both of his boots off, right there, in the back, you couldn't have missed it. It said "John Wilkes Booth."

He's like, I have no idea who he was.

Yeah. Well, you knew him in advance. This was a predetermined outpost where he could stay. It's clear you could know him.

The guy was still discredited, we still use his name today. Your name will be mud in this town.

And we think that it's like dirt, mixed with water kind of mud. No, it's M-U-D-D, Dr. Mudd. The expert that was so discredited, went to jail, paid for his part of the assassination of -- of Lincoln.

Give me the name of one of the experts in the last 100 years, that has brought us any of the trials and the tribulations. The things that have almost brought us to our knees. Give me the name of one of them. Can't!

Because once an expert class, they don't answer to anyone. So they never go to jail.

Wow! Doesn't that sound familiar. People never going to jail!

There's a rant that's going around right now, that I did in 2020. And everybody is like, see. He's talking about Pam Bondi.

No, no. I got to play this for you, a little later on in the program. But I want to get to the experts and what the Constitution actually says about that. Because you don't need my opinion. What you need are the actual facts. So you can stand up and say, yeah. I think Ketanji Brown Jackson is an idiot. Okay?

And she's really not an expert on anything. Especially the Constitution. You need the facts, on what the Founders said. Because the Founders would be absolutely against what they did in 1935.

Because that just -- what does it do?

It just sets up a fourth branch of government.

EXPLAINED: Why the Warner-Netflix/Paramount Merger is DANGEROUS for All of Us

The biggest media merger in modern history is unfolding, and Glenn Beck warns it’s the most dangerous consolidation of power America has faced in decades. With six corporations already controlling 90% of the nation’s news and entertainment, a Warner-Netflix or Warner-Paramount megacorporation would create an unstoppable information cartel. Glenn exposes how “too big to fail” thinking is repeating itself, how global elites and “experts” are tightening their grip, and why handing our entire cultural narrative to a handful of companies is a direct threat to freedom. The hour is late — and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

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GLENN: By the way, it's never good when you consolidate power. It's never good.

And what is going on now, with this Netflix Warner Brothers paramount stuff, I don't care if Larry Ellison is a conservative or not.

No one should have that much power.

I did a show, gosh, four years ago. I don't even remember when I did it.

We looked it up. In the 1980s. 19 percent of American media was owned by over 50 companies.

Forty years later, 90 percent of the media is watched and controlled by six companies.

National Amusements, the Red Stone Family controls CBS, CMT, MTV, Nickelodeon, gaming and internet. Simon & Schuster Books. That's all one.

Disney, ABC, ESPN, History Channel, Marvel, Star Wars, video games and print.

TimeWarner controls CNN, Warner Brothers, HBO, Turner, video games, internet, and print media like TIME. Comcast, MSNBC, NBC.

CNBC, Telemundo, the Internet.

New Corp. Fox. National Geographic. Ton of others. Sony, with a ton of movies, music and more. The big six. They're valued at nearly $500 billion.

Now, this is something I put together five years ago. So I don't even know. This is probably not even valid even today.

And now we're talking about Netflix, Warner Brothers. Paramount, into all of these one giant corporation. It's wrong! It's wrong!

We can't keep putting all -- everything into the hands of just a few! It's what's killing us!

We've got to spread this around. We can't -- the government cannot okay mergers like this.

They're big enough he has

What happened -- what happened when the banks went under, or almost went under in '08. What did they say the problem was?

They said the banks are too big to fail.

Too big to fail.

Because they were providing all of the services, everybody needs. All the time. And there's only a handful of them.

So if they fall, then everything falls.

Right?

That was the problem. So what did we do to fix it?

We made them bigger!

We let them merge with other banks, and gobble up other things!

And started taking on the local banks.

And so now, your banks that were too big to fail. Are now even bigger. And their failure would be even worse!

What is wrong with us?

Seriously, we're not this stupid.

We're not this stupid.

I think we're just this comfortable.

We just think the experts have a plan. No. The experts don't have a plan.

Their plan is stupid. Their plan is to make it bigger.

Every time it fails. Make it bigger. Push it up.

Make it more global.

No. Haven't you seen what the entire world is like?

The entire world is over-leveraged. The entire world is on the edge.

The entire world is being redesigned.
So what do we do? We don't allow them to make things bigger! We need to start taking more individual and local control of things. They're making it bigger. Which will make the problem bigger. And make the problem so big, you won't be able to do anything about it, because all the experts. All of the heads. They'll all -- there will be six of them. And they will all be sitting in one room.

And they will all be making the instigations. And with them, making those decisions will be all the heads of all the countries around the world, that you're not going to have a say in any of that. They're already trying to do it with the WEF.

But if -- if the Supreme Court says, no, experts matter. And the president can't fire them. You will not have any control over anything!

We're at this place, where we can back out. We can turn around.

We can do it.

It's not too late. But the hour is growing very late.

I don't know about you, I don't like being this.

Up to the edge, you know what I mean?

I would rather have lots of breathing room, between me and the edge of the cliff.

But we don't have that anymore.

Everything has to be done right.

And we have to pay attention.

And the worst thing we can do is make things bigger.

Dream big, think small.