RADIOJanuary 16, 2024

New video evidence TEARS APART Capitol Police testimony on Jan. 6

Blaze Media has finally secured the rights to release CCTV footage from the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 - and it's shocking. The timestamped footage tracks the movement of Capitol Police Special Agent David Lazarus, a key witness in the government's trial against members of the Oath Keepers. In the trial, Lazarus testified that he witnessed multiple "antagonistic" interactions between Oath Keepers and Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn. But Blaze Media investigative reporter Steve Baker joins Glenn to discuss what the footage makes clear: Lazarus wasn't even in the same building at the time of the alleged confrontation! So, Glenn and Steve ask, is this enough evidence for a mistrial for the Oath Keepers who were jailed in part due to Lazarus' testimony? Steve also discusses the likely possibility that he will soon be arrested by the FBI and reveals what the FBI told him when he asked what crime he was accused of.

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GLENN: Steve Baker, who we are -- I don't say this, you know, happily, Steve. I don't mean to make this sound like something we're all excited about

But somebody that I -- I expected to be in jail already. And we're expecting that you may not last the month, before you're arrested by the FBI. Any updates on that?

BAKER: The only update we have was given to my attorney, between the week of Christmas, and January 1st. And that was a conversation he had with the new US attorney that has my case.

And that new US attorney told him that now they have moved my self-surrender date, back to mid-January. And that they would give me seven to ten days notice. Because they have -- I will tell you for two years. They respected my travel schedule.

And have at least shown that kind of courtesy.

But it's the middle of the month now. And we still haven't heard back from them yet.

Now, they did tell my attorney at the time, when he asked, can you just let us know what the charges are going to be?

And the A-USA said, no, we're not going to tell you. Well, why is that?

And I -- I kid you not, Glenn, the US attorney told my attorney, that won't tell me what my charges are, or what I'm facing. Because they said, I will tweet it out, immediately.

GLENN: Well, yeah. So what's the problem with that?

BAKER: I'm not exactly sure.

GLENN: Yeah. So, Steve, we have a lot of people listening today.

They saw what happened in Iowa last night.

They want analysis on it.

We will get that to you, in a second.

For people who haven't been following, why they're after you. It has to have something to do with the fact that you were in the building as a journalist, just like the ABC and NBC people. And you took video.

And you started to say, this isn't the story that everybody is saying it is. Then about two months ago, you put together a video for TheBlaze.

That showed Nancy Pelosi's security detail. Who is instrumental, in the convictions of a lot of these people.

Tell me, bring me up to speed. We'll play the first part of the clip. Tell me what we will hear in this clip.

BAKER: It very important for people to focus in on one thing here.

Special agent, David Lazarus. Who was on the protection detail for Nancy Pelosi.

He testified in the oath keeper's trial. That he witnessed the interaction between the Oath Keepers. And Harry Dunn. Officer Harry Dunn. Who is now running for Congress, by the way.

Yes. And that he saw this interaction. This highly antagonistic interaction between Oath Keepers and Harry Dunn.

Three or four times is what he testified, in great detail, in that trial.

The problem with that, Glenn, was -- is that special agent Lazarus, was not even in the same building.

And we secured the Capitol CCTV video, that I don't think they ever thought, we would get access to. Showing that that's the truth.

GLENN: So let me -- let me play the first part of what first broke yesterday. It's from Blaze TV. And it is an investigative report, again, by Steve Baker.

Here is the setup of what Steve said prior to. So you'll understand the importance of this videotape, in cut two. Listen.

BAKER: The story of David Lazarus on January 6 is very simple.

VOICE: Lawyers for Stewart Rhodes and the Oath Keepers on trial, have suggested that the group helped Officer Harry Dunn.

Dunn just took the stand and said flatout, quote, they didn't.

VOICE: Sentenced to four years in prison.

VOICE: Sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.

VOICE: Sentenced to 12 years in prison.

VOICE: Sentenced to 18 years in prison.

VOICE: His story that day, is he was assisting the evacuation of the Senate at that time. That the incident between Officer Harry Dunn and the Oath Keepers began.

VOICE: Outside of the rotunda, there was Harry Dunn. He was a Capitol police officer. He was freaking out. I mean, he was screaming.

VOICE: Get the (bleep) out of here!

VOICE: He had a rifle. He didn't want to -- he was going to take a bunch of people with him. He was definitely in a position where he could do some damage.

VOICE: The Oath Keepers lined up between him and the more agitated protesters, and assisted him in keeping them off of him.

STU: Dunn rejected the defense's argument, that members of the militia protected him.

GLENN: Wow.

VOICE: I don't conflate my story.

VOICE: He had two separate FBI interviews which were conflict with one another. In the first FBI interview, he actually gave a favorable story about his encounter with the four Oath Keepers.

VOICE: Add stood in front of Harry Dunn for almost six minutes.

VOICE: After he was brought in for his second FBI interview, he changed that story.

VOICE: It was fighting back insurrectionists across the Capitol, while being called the vilest, most racist names.

VOICE: So what they did, was where I in another officer, Special Agent David Lazarus to kind of bolster that story and give it more credibility. By saying, that when he arrived at the top of those stairs, that he saw Dunn standing at the top of those stairs, being hassled by these Oath Keepers.

VOICE: At the time, the Harry Dunn Oath Keepers' encounter began, he was not in the same building.

GLENN: Wow!

Now, what this video, if you're not a Blaze TV subscriber. What you're seeing on the screen, are the time stamps. There's about eight different cuts there, of where everybody is in the Capitol.

You see it on a map, through graphics. But you also then see the Capitol cameras.

What's so frightening about this, Steve. Is they didn't think that anybody would get this footage.

And the lie is -- is so clear, that it is a lie.

And basically, to put all of these people in jail. Based on that lie.

It is terrifying what our government is willing to do to its own people.

BAKER: It's terrifying that they are still trying to cover this up.

In fact, we learned just a few days ago, that Capitol Chief police Thomas Manger has stated that he has no intention to investigate this internally.

Or to investigate the actions or the testimony of Federal Agent Lazarus.

GLENN: What!

BAKER: That's correct. And what's also amazing. We showed this in this particular video. We showed a screenshot of an internal Capitol Police leadership email, that I received from one of my sources, inside the building. Who sent this to me, when back in the original release that we did, when we started talked about this, without the videos back in October.

That they were very pleased that the story was not getting traction at the time.

But now that we have the video, this thing really blew up on the social media sites yesterday.

GLENN: Okay. So tell me what we're going to see and hear now, part two.

BAKER: This basically is going to take us through the part where we see Lazarus now, emerging to the area where he claimed that he was.

But this is long after the Oath Keepers have left the building. They have certainly left the area, and are exiting the building.

But this once again, it solidifies the fact that it really brings home the fact, Glenn. That these individuals were testified against, improperly. They were lied against.

They're certainly at the very least. They're -- they're -- not only their convictions. But their sentencing was much worse as a result of the testimony between Harry Dunn and Lazarus.

And the fact is, neither one of these cops who testified in this trial, could possibly have experienced what they said.

As I said before, they gave revery specific and detailed testimonies. And both of them are not only in conflict with one another.

They are this complete conflict with the truth.

GLENN: Okay. Here's part two. This was released yesterday. Listen to this.

VOICE: Lazarus was just not there. He could not have seen -- he could not have witnessed what was taking place, because Lazarus was in another Senate office building across the street from Constitution Avenue.

GLENN: Wow.

VOICE: So we were able to track Lazarus on the Capitol CCTV cameras. Lazarus can be seen moving away from the Capitol building through a lower tunnel at 2:37:59 p.m. Lazarus continues moving toward the Senate office buildings at 2:41:49 p.m.

During Officer Lazarus' October 31st trial testimony, he stated that he began his return to the Capitol building after hearing shots fired, over Capitol Police radio.

VOICE: Shots fired.

VOICE: That occurred at 2:43 p.m.

Here, Lazarus can be seen moving back toward the Capitol at 2:45 p.m.

Dunn's encounter with the Oath Keepers began at 2:44, and lasted roughly between 5 and 6 minutes.

Here, Lazarus finally emerges from the tunnel, back to the Senate side of the Capitol building at 2:48.

Dunn falsely testified that Lazarus was already at the location, where he encountered the Oath Keepers, before he arrived.

But Lazarus can be seen at the top of the elevator, leading up from the tunnel, at 2:48 p.m. on the Senate side of the Capitol.

Over four minutes after Dunn encountered the Oath Keepers from on the House side.

GLENN: I mean, how is this not being investigated?

I guess this is where you come in.

If it is -- if it wasn't for people like you, we wouldn't know.

If it wasn't for places like TheBlaze, this story wouldn't be told. And it would just go away.

But in a surveillance state. And that's really what the Capitol grounds are.

It's a survivals surveillance.

It takes a lot of time, as you know.

But in a normal circumstance, this would mean, that those people, who were tried, and convicted, with this testimony, they would either go for a mistrial. Or they would be immediately released.

That's the way America has always worked.

And no one is doing anything about it.

They think they're going to get away with it. Is that just because people aren't aware of it.

GLENN: Well, they're not aware of it.

But I will tell you, we're working very, very closely with congressional members and staffers on this particular story. As well as the other stories that we currently have this development.

As a matter of fact, representative Barry Loudermilk, who is the chairman of the subcommittee of oversight, from House admin. They just announced a couple days ago.

That they have been given three times the number of staffers from House Speaker Johnson, for the specific purpose of investigating January 6th matters, and I can confirm that now.

But we have been -- I have sat with Mr. Loudermilk several times. I have met with his chief of staff and his staff members on many occasions now.

And I think that -- at the very least, before a committee is called. Or another J6 select committee is convened.

They are going to bring these officers in for transcripts and interviews under oath.

GLENN: Thank you very much, Steve.

I really appreciate all your work. And we pray for you.

And I ask America, pray for Steve baker. He is under threat from the US government.

Just because he's telling the truth. How do I know it's the truth?

He has the video evidence.

Steve, thank you so much. Blaze media correspondent. And investigative journalist.

And if you didn't have this video yet, you can find it online.

You can go to TheBlaze.com.

You can also find it on Blaze TV. But tweet this out. And spread this as much as possible.

This tells in a completely different story.

And there is nothing, but facts, you cannot argue this. At all.

Because everything is time stamped.

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.