RADIOJanuary 31, 2024

Pro-lifers face 10 YEARS IN PRISON for PRAYING?!

"Our churches and our pulpits must wake up," Glenn says. 6 pro-life protesters now face up to 10.5 years in prison for violating the controversial FACE Act by just praying and singing near an abortion facility. Glenn believes it's people like these who are the true heroes among us. "We love Jesus, we take the hits, and then we win," one of the protesters said. But what does this say about our country? Glenn reviews this story and others that show how corrupted our system has become.

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GLENN: America.

Our churches and our pulpits must wake up.

Six pro-lifers who were convicted of charges, related to the Face Act, earlier on Tuesday, gathered alongside their friends and family. Outside of the federal courthouse, in Nashville, Tennessee. To sing and pray just minutes after being found guilty.

The six -- I should give their name. Chet Gallagher of Tennessee.

Coleman Boyd of Mississippi. Heather Idoni of Michigan. Carl Zastro of Michigan. Paul Vaughn of Tennessee. And Dennis Green of Virginia.

They all face up to 10.5 years in prison, and fines worth 260,000 dollars, after being convicted of conspiracy, against the rights and violation of the face act. A federal law criminalizing the use of force or threats of force, that prevent someone from ascending into an abortion facility.

Let me just tell you something, I saw the video. There were no threats. And there was no force. They were standing on the side of the hallway. Praying!

Despite the steep punishment they face after the convictions.

The six remained in good spirits.

These are the kind of people, that will bring blessings from heaven.

These are the kinds of people, that you -- when all is said and done, the next generation goes, that person was a hero.

Despite the steep punishment they face after the conviction, the six remained in good spirits.

And proceeded to sing and pray outside of the Fred Thompson courthouse, immediately after the verdict was announced.

The jury composed of eight women and four men, took just under four hours to find all six defendants of all charges brought against them by the Biden administration.

They said, quote, this is just normal Christianity. We love Jesus. We take the hits. And then we win.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: As he spoke to the crowd, many family members were fighting back tears. That it gathered outside the courthouse.

He urged those present to write letters to the convicted, including Idoni, who is being held in a Washington, DC, prison over a similar case.

The group sang hymns like Holy, Holy, Holy, All Is Well With My Soul, and Amazing Grace, and also read passages like Psalm 91.

This is in Nashville, Tennessee. While this is going on, somebody who I don't condone this at all. But somebody who chopped the head off of the devil statue, a Satan statue, is also being tried and convicted and going to prison.

Hmm. They say it was a hate speech. Or a hate -- a hate act. A hate crime.

Well, seeing that Satan is the father of all hatred, he was just following through. And just following Satan, by sharing his hatred, I guess.

We have got to wake up.

Our system has been so corrupted, because we have allowed it to be this way.

New York City countless men, Yousef Salaam, a member of the Central Park five was pulled over in Harlem by police on Friday. Just days ahead of council vote on legislation, that would bury police and paperwork, over low-level stops.

Salaam complained about the traffic stop, suggesting he had been pulled over without a reason, and that racial bias was a factor. However, the cop was wearing a body cam.

He -- apparently, he was stopped.

And you see on the body cam. He said, I don't even know why he was pulled over.

He said, instead of answering my question, the officer stated, we're done here.

And he proceeded to walk away. The fact the officer did not provide a rationale for the stop. The only legal stop at a level three reasonable suspicion, or higher for a vehicle stop. Calls into question how the NYPD justifies its stops of New Yorkers. And highlights the need for greater transparency, to ensure they're all constitutional.

Yeah. Unfortunately, for him. Why did the cops stop him.

Because he had an out of date license plate from a different state, that was three years out of step.

He had moved to New York, three years before, never changed it.

I don't know. You get stopped for that?

I would. Then when he was stopped.

Now, remember, this -- this guy said, you know, we know the danger that is out there, every time -- a single time a black man, in particular, gets behind the wheel of a car.

The other reason why the cop stopped him. Is because his windows were tinted so heavily. That it couldn't see the -- you want to stop for race.

He couldn't see through the window, to what the driver was.

When he approached the car. He said, could you roll down the back window please. Because a cop had been shot by somebody with tinted windows like that, in the backseat.

Then he looks in. No threats lurking behind.

He identifies himself. And Salaam interrupts him, saying, I'm council member, Salaam.

This district. District nine.

What did the cops say back to him?

See, this is where the racial bias really comes in.

He said, oh, okay. Have a good one. You're working, right?

Yeah. Take care, sir.

That's what happened.

If this guy stays on the council in New York City, write it off.

If you can get away with besmirching, and probably would have gotten this guy fired. Had it not been for his body cam.

And he was this polite, what will these people do to you?

Nothing matters, to them.

Nothing matters.

Look at all the crime, that is happening.

And what are they doing?

They're going after religious people that are singing hymns.

This is such an important election.

You've got to sign up to make sure that you are on the board, so you can see and you can be somebody who is watching the polls.

Watch the counting.

I want Republicans there.

I want Democrats there.

I want independents there.

I don't want just one side.

I want honest brokers.

I don't know. Because I think that's what most people in America want.

It's got to be 90 percent of the people say. I just -- I don't care if my side loses, if it is fair!

But I don't want any corruption.

Well, unfortunately, all the people of power want that corruption.

Because they can use it to divide us and to control us.

By the way, more news on Michelle Obama. And I'm telling you, I think this is going to happen. Sources now claim, money men, behind Michelle could be the best candidate against Donald Trump. Money men have been contacted.

By apparently, in 2022, a trial balloon by Michelle Obama and her husband, to test if they can get support from Wall Street, et cetera.

She said, if I'm running, and I ask for your support, what would you -- would you -- would you back me?

Apparently. Apparently.

Then, she has just gone on to podcast. She admitted her concerns on Jay Shetty's podcast, on purpose.

Telling him, what's going to happen in this next election?

I'm terrified what could possibly happen. Who we select. Who speaks for us. Who holds that bully pulpit?

It affects us in ways sometimes I think people take for granted. The fact that people think that the government, does it really even do anything?

And I'm like, oh, my God. Our government does everything for us.

And we can't take this democracy for granted. I worry sometimes that we do. These are the things that keep me up at night.

Now, as Megyn Kelly mentioned. She doesn't have a book out. She doesn't have anything that she was promoting. Who called and said, hey. You should do this podcast with Michelle Obama.

What happened there?

And why is she saying this?

I don't know. Could be nothing. But I just want to point out to Stu, who likes to lose money in bets.

STU: My gambling record is incredible.

I mean, I don't even think, it's not even gambling for me.

I just win.

That's all. That's how it works.

GLENN: Really. Wow. Wow. Why are you still working here then?

STU: I need to get enough money, to get into the big bets.

I don't have a -- I'm working on it, though.

GLENN: Okay. So I see the market here.

Joe Biden has an implied probability of 80 percent.

But he is -- you have to -- how does this work?

Is this negative 400.

STU: Negative 400, you bet $400 to win $100.

In other words, you -- the overwhelming favorite, if you're minus 400.

GLENN: Okay. So Hillary Clinton, plus 5,000, Gretchen Whitmer. Plus 10,000.

Robert Kennedy, plus 6600. Tulsi Gabbard, plus 6600.

Elizabeth Warren, plus 5,000.

Kamala Harris, 1900.

Dean Phillips. Up --

STU: Plus 1900?

That means basically 19 to one.

GLENN: Yeah. Gavin Newsom, 800. To one.

And Michelle --

STU: Like eight to one.

GLENN: I -- I don't --

STU: So you bet $10, you get $80.

GLENN: Okay. Michelle Obama, plus 400.

STU: Bet $10, get $40 if you win.

GLENN: Okay. And Joe Biden, negative 400.

STU: Bet $40, get $10.

GLENN: So Michelle Obama was nowhere on this list, until recently. She's now popped up.

STU: I mean, look, people like you, are going to spend their money on people like Michelle Obama to win the nomination.

GLENN: You want to make a bet?

STU: Sure.

GLENN: What would you like to bet?

STU: What would you like to bet?

GLENN: Well, the last time we made a bet was years and years ago, where you had to go on the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum.

STU: Wow. You remember that?

GLENN: Oh, I do. I do.

STU: Mid-2000s. Eagles' Super Bowl. I really wanted the day off to go to the game.

GLENN: Right. Right.

STU: You made me wager with you, that if the Eagles lost, I had to stand on the steps of the Rocky Museum, and say, Rocky was a loser too.

GLENN: Yeah

STU: That was...

GLENN: "Like all of Philadelphia, Rocky was a loser too."

And it made you very popular.

STU: I was very popular, and somehow made it out of their alive. But lived to enjoy an actual Super Bowl championship, so I don't know what kind of precedent you're setting here with this wager.

Look, do you actually -- what you've outlined with Michelle Obama is a plausible theory of something that could theoretically happen. Do you actually believe that it would happen.

GLENN: I do.

STU: More than 50 percent?

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: What -- give me a number, 75 percent?

GLENN: Sixty.

STU: 60 percent. We'll do 50/50. We'll have even odds. And I'll say, it will be Joe Biden.

You say, it will be Michelle Obama.

GLENN: So what does that mean. Even odds.

STU: Yeah. Ten dollars. Win $10.

GLENN: Okay. So let's bet a thousand bucks. Put your money where your mouth is.

STU: You're saying, you will give me a thousand dollars, if Joe Biden is the nominee for the Democrats?

GLENN: No. Wait. Wait. Wait. If he is the guy running when the election happens.

STU: When the election happens?

GLENN: Yeah. If he's the guy running when the election happens.

STU: Like, he's the guy on the ballot, he's the guy we're voting for or against on that day.

GLENN: And it's not some technicality. Like he's still on the ballot.

STU: Right. I'm willing to be totally -- yes. I'm in, 100 percent.

GLENN: All right. A thousand bucks. You've got it. It's a public bet. You can't back out of it. I, of course, can always say, that's not what America heard.

STU: That is what you'll say.

GLENN: I will not. I will not welch on that bet. I think there is a very strong chance that she is -- she is the one.

STU: I think it's plausible. I just think my value here is really good.

GLENN: Now, here's the thing.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: I think she's the one that could change everything. So am I doing -- is this a well-spent thousand dollars? Because if I'm saying, yeah. It's going to happen. It's not going to happen. We've learned that --

STU: You're hedging your life. I love that.

GLENN: It's worth a thousand dollars to me, that she doesn't run.

STU: Right. Tempt the fates.

GLENN: Tempt the fates.

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.