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EXPOSED: Biden's SHOCKING powers during an emergency

As tension in Europe escalates, and as Putin seems determined to finish what he started in Ukraine, Biden’s foreign policy decisions have never been so important. But President Biden — like all Commander-In-Chiefs that came before him — actually has an EXTRAORDINARY level of power during emergencies. In this clip, Glenn breaks down P.E.A.D.S., the Presidential Emergency Action Documents. He explains how these powers could allow for whoever is leading the White House to circumvent our Constitution like never before…

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GLENN: Hey, we would really want to say thank you. And welcome to our new affiliate in Oklahoma. Talk 100.9. KGWA. Thank you for joining the Glenn Beck Program.

All right. As we were watching while we went in a break, we're watching President Biden give this live speech, about how he needs another $33 billion for the war in Ukraine.

We are escalating. They were asking about, you know, if Russia escalates. And he immediately says, we're ready for whatever they do.

You know, that -- what the president should say. But, you know, we've -- we've always -- we've always little nuclear war could happen by mistake.

We just didn't know the mistake would wear a shoe size ten and be named Joe Biden.

We are in a very dangerous place. And I told Stu about something, what? Yesterday or today. That I've been researching. And this is not a Biden thing.

This is an all presidents thing. It's called P.E.A.D.S. P-E-A-D-S. P.E.A.D.S. And it stands for Presidential Emergency Authorization Directive. Right?

STU: Close. Presidential Emergency Action Documents.

GLENN: Action Documents. So this was started under Eisenhower.

And if you remember, the -- the left went crazy on Donald Trump, because of P.E.A.D.S. Now, I want you to know, the left always self-diagnoses. They always self-diagnoses.

They accuse the other side of something, because that's what they do. I'm convince of it. Okay.

So they were having a problem with Donald Trump, because in covid, he was asked, you know, what is part of the emergency measure? And he said, the president has a lot of emergency measures, and a lot of things that they can do under emergency, that people don't know about. That was an alarm bell for the left.

What is he going to do?

And they -- well, this wasn't well-known or understood. They were talking about P.E.A.D.S. directives. Okay?

This is a directive, that every president, since Eisenhower, because of the threat of nuclear war. They set out and say, okay. Mr. President, this is the possible, probable emergencies that may come your way. That could disrupt a chain of government. Or continuity of government.

So we would need to know. Because if these things happen, they can happen so rapidly, that we won't have a time to make recommendations and everything else. We just need to execute orders.

So let's talk about nuclear war. What is your directive?

And they go through the meeting. And they do the directive. And then they write that presidential directive up. And then he doesn't sign it.

So when an emergency happens, they just put that paper in front of him, and say, this is the presidential directive for nuclear war, sir. We've already briefed you for it. He says, yes. He signs it. And it's law. Now, this, because it's an emergency, supersedes everything, including the Constitution.

Now, let me show you -- you can look this up. And it's absolutely real. What is not real, is we don't know what any of them have said. So if anybody says, yeah. And this one says that.

And Trump was doing this. Or Biden is doing that. You don't know. These are probably top ten closely guarded secrets of any administration.

They've never been really, truly revealed on what they are.

Pieces have come out, from the distant past, and those are disturbing enough.

For instance, there have been P.E.A.D.S. directives that have a list of like 50,000 Americans, that if this emergency happens, they would need to be rounded up, or silenced, or whatever.

Because they could be a danger to the continuity of government. Right?

STU: Yeah. They -- as you point out, no one really knows what is in them.

Some have been -- some details have been -- have leaked out over the years.

So we know that there were 56 of these in effect, as of 2018. That's up from 48, from a couple of decades earlier. This is from the Brennan center. Again, who is no conservative source here.

GLENN: No.

STU: And a lot of it --

GLENN: It's credible, but it's left.

STU: And the reason why, of course, this was a big deal, as you pointed out. It was Donald Trump. They were upset about it, because Donald Trump was going to use them.

GLENN: This is why -- this is why they're saying, there's going to be a coup. There's going to be a coup.

And we all said, there's not going to be a coup. But they were thinking about P.E.A.D.S.

That he could say, there's trouble on the streets. Give me that presidential emergency directive, because that triggers it, and I'm going to be the president, and we're suspending elections. Or whatever. Okay?

STU: So we know there were P.E.A.D.S. in past years, that authorized detention of alien enemies and other dangerous persons within the United States, suspended the writ of habeas corpus by presidential order. Provided for various forms of marshal law, issued a general warrant.

Just, I feel like we were specifically against general warrants, but issued a general warrant, permitting search and seizure of persons and property.

Established military areas, as those created during World War II, suspended production of the Federal Register. Declared a state of war, and authorized censorship of news reports.

GLENN: It's my understanding. I don't know this for sure. But it's my understanding, that these P.E.A.D.S., they don't go out of fashion. So you can update them. You can add to them. But they're not revoked.

So if that's there, that is part of the toolbox, that already has been discussed. All the president has to do is sign it.

This is terrifying. It can even allow -- let's say the president and vice president, let's use, you know, Ronald Reagan and -- and George -- you know, George H.W. are out. And there's an attack on them.

And it -- it -- and it is a nuclear war. Let's say, you know, they're in the sum of all fears. And it's Morgan Freeman. And the vice president is also there. And there's a nuclear strike. And it kills the two.

I can guarantee you, there would be a P.E.A.D.S. on that. But a P.E.A.D.S. could include that -- if this happens, that triggers this P.E.A.D.S., which says, now the Department of Defense becomes an interim president, not the Speaker of the House.

It can -- it can -- cut the government out.

STU: How is this constitutional, Glenn?

GLENN: It's what -- you know, it's what Mike Lee was talking to me about. And my eyes glazed over. This is like four years ago. And we were like, what are you even talking about?

And remember, he was pushing the REINS Act.

STU: Yes. Which should be passed immediately.

GLENN: Should be passed. Because that exposes all of this.

STU: Among other things.

GLENN: And he was like, Glenn, the REINS Act. It's really important. And I said, yeah. Yeah. Sure, Mike.

And I just really didn't understand it. P.E.A.D.S., I get. And he was absolutely right.

The REINS Act. Now, the left was all for the REINS Act, under Donald Trump. They're not for it now.

We -- we should know about what's in these presidential directives.

Because, you know, like I said, and I'm going to be clear on this. Back in January of 2019, we were seeing people welded into their homes in China.

STU: 2020, yeah.

GLENN: 2020. And it was horrific what was coming.

And we never thought that, you know, we would all be quarantined in our houses.

We never thought that would happen. And we didn't know what we were facing.

And I said at the time, my gut says, that this is going to be bad. But it's not going to be the Bubonic Plague. It's not even going to be maybe the Spanish flu from 1918.

However, what it does to our economy and the economy of the world, is going to be horrific. So don't fear the virus. Fear what's -- what will happen because of it.

Not to minimize the death of covid. But as we see now, look at the ramifications. We're still paying for. We're still -- did you see that Fauci yesterday, or two days ago, came out and said, we're out of the pandemic phase.

Why did he retract that yesterday? Why did he retract that?

I can guarantee you, it's for some legal purpose. It is because somebody now could be sued. Because we're out of a pandemic. If they do something. Or because funds are still being spent. That maybe shouldn't be spent. Because it's under the guise of pandemic.

Or they're --

STU: In the middle of asking for more money to fight it right now. And he can't come out and say that. Which, by the way, is another reason, he should never do another interview. Just stop doing interviews. Can you get off television for five seconds? Ten seconds. Do something out. Work out. Play some golf. Do anything else, other than be on television all the time.

GLENN: All right. Thank you for that. You feel passionately about that though?

STU: A little bit!

GLENN: Yeah, okay.

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Salena Zito reveals WHY Trump said “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.


SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?


SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.