The Glenn Beck Program | Hour 2 | 3/17/26

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2:12The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment, and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Well, today is the day that the Save America Act is actually supposed to be presented for debate. Why has this happened? Why is this stalling? Why something this popular is not easy to get through? Well, I'll tell you, data Republicans started tracing something. I think it was last week and I was following her and Ricky reached out and said, hey, would you kind of put all this together and write an essay on this for Glenn Beck.com? So she did. We just published it. It is really good. I want to take you through it. You'll understand how this system works in a way you'd even know. You just even know. And it will explain why the people

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5:18that shows, well, it's also because corruption in the system doesn't technically have to be corruption. It runs on alignment. And once you see it, it's hard to unsee it. The Save America Act is what has brought this to light. That's just a proof of citizenship, folks. That's it. It's not radical. It's not experimental. It's not fringe. 83% of Americans support it. 84% in another poll. Republicans, independents, even the majority of Democrats, the House passed it. And in any sane system, that bill gets debated in the Senate and it's passed. It gets a vote. And then the president signed it. But it may not get a vote. And we have been told before a fight had even begun. It's already over. There's no chance. Ted on arrival. Move along. Nothing to see here. Wait a minute. What? Why? You remember hearing that and thinking, why?

6:24Most people are still saying, why? That didn't come from a protest. That didn't come from the voters. 80% of us are all for it. So where did that come from? Data Republican shows it comes from a news letter. It's called Punchbowl News. This is a name pulled from the Secret Service Code for the Capitol Punchbowl. The publication, Punchbowl News, I never heard of most Americans have never heard of this. And you'll understand why here in a minute. But everyone in Washington on Capitol Hill, they read it every congressional office. Nine out of 10 staffers read every day, Punchbowl News. Okay. Lobbyist, corporate policy teams, legislative directors. How many people read it on a daily basis? You ready? Seven thousand five hundred people. Seven thousand five. That's the

7:29audience. Not millions. Seven thousand five hundred. Now, if journalism were the business, the readers would be the customers. And there's not enough to keep that in business. They're not the customers. 90% of Punchbowl's revenue comes from corporate sponsorships. Wall Street, big tech, finance, industries with billions on the line, depending on what happens in the Senate, right? The subscribers, they're not the customers. They're the product. Corporations are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars not to inform the public, not to reach out and say, look at us. We're such a 7,500 people in the real world make no difference at all unless it's the right 7,500 people. And that's what they're paying for to reach. That very specific group of people.

8:32And this is a room where the staffers decide what matters, where senators are briefed, where legislative priorities live or die before you even hear about them. But everybody on the inside understands this. The Senate majority leader doesn't just vote. He decides what gets a vote. He decides what lives and what will never reach the floor. So when a bill like Save America comes along with overwhelming public support, it doesn't need to be defeated. It just needs to be declared unrealistic. And that's exactly what happened in punch bold news. And once that label is applied, the machine does all the rest. A reporter just has to write no path forward to this. A leader says we just don't have the votes. And before a single senator is forced to stand and be counted, the people who shape Washington's daily reality move

9:36on. Meetings aren't scheduled. Pressure isn't applied. Momentum disappears. Not because the people rejected the bill, but because the system never allowed it to exist. Now here's the part that you really bother you. And not because it's illegal because it's not illegal. Nothing about this is illegal. Not even that it's coordinated. What really should bother you is it works perfectly. Without either of those things, the same corporations funding the news environment are funding the campaigns. The same publication shaping the daily conversation is funded by the same interest that benefit from that conversation. The same senators reading the conventional wisdom every morning built their careers in that same ecosystem. Nobody has to pick up the phone. Nobody has to issue an order. Nobody has to break the law because everyone is already operating inside the same

10:42set of incentives. This is sick. It's not a conspiracy. It's a business model. And business models don't fail because of scandal. They succeed because they don't need one. Now you're in this story as well. Whether you know it or not, you're in it. You're not going to like this. Your representative, Congress, spend over a million dollars of your money to be in that 7,500 people group. Over a million dollars of your tax dollars to buy access to punchball news. They pay to be in the room with your money. You fund the subscription. You pay the cover charge. But you're not invited inside. You have no idea.

11:50There's so many divides in America, but there are a few really important ones. And this is the modern divide in America that really counts. It's not left versus right. It's not Republican versus Democrat. It's those inside the room versus those outside the room. Inside the room, consensus is manufactured. Outside the room, you're just told what's possible. This is impossible. This is just not possible. Why? It's just not. Why? It's just not. Why? It's just not. You people don't get it. No, because we don't get punchball news. Inside the room, priorities are decided before debate. Outside the room, you're told the debate already happened. And if you're wondering why something supported by 80% of the country can vanish without a vote, now you know.

12:51And that's not the system failing. It's working exactly as it was designed. So the question isn't, what happened? Because now we know. The question is, what are you going to do about a system where you paid for the seat? But you were never meant to get one. Thank you, Data Republican. Read this whole article at glenbeck.com right now. Glenbeck.com. All of it is exposed. This is why it was just decided. And we're like, when did they decide this? I was decided in the pages. And she tracks it all down and shows you all of the receipts at glenbeck.com. By the way, she also has a new book out. She is so good. You don't know who Data Republican is. She is deaf and mute. And somebody who is just relentless, she was in high-tech, relentless.

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16:00registration data across multiple states, not ballots, but names, addresses, driver's license, partial social security numbers. Think of this. How dangerous this is. They have your name address, driver's license, and social security number. Do you know what could be done by fraud alone? This is the kind of data you don't need to change a vote. You need it to influence vote, to impersonate, to target, to manipulate. And they didn't just take it. They analyzed it. China took it. They studied it. They mapped American voters like a battlefield. When you have this kind of information, they can influence what you read, what you see all the time. Here's the part that's really frustrating. Our government knew this in 2020. There were clear intelligence reports that were just finding out now. In 2026,

17:02there were briefings. There was even a presidential daily briefing that talked about it. Congress wasn't told. The American people weren't told. And according to whistleblowers now, even the President in the United States wasn't fully informed. But I don't think that guy knew his shoes were on at times. The reports were blocked. They were buried. They were hidden. And at the same time, you were told something very different. You were told, this election is the most secure in history. There is no real foreign interference to worry about. So don't question it. How is that possible? How is that possible? China is, is Noah's, is harvesting voter data. China's linked groups are running influence campaigns. Not was, are thousands of fake drivers license are being seized mostly from China. And an FBI intelligence report raising concerns about

18:05fraudulent mail-in voting schemes. That's pulled back. Told to be deleted. And the day after testimony, day after testimony said nothing to see here, nothing happened. No, there's nothing happening. Let me be clear about something. There is no smoking gun like this. The voting machines were hacked. Not like this. That's not the story. This story is much more dangerous than that because you don't need to hack a machine when you can hack people. Here's, here's the question that our press should be asking, how is it we can secure our nuclear weapon systems? How is it we can secure our military networks, our swift global banking system, our intelligence infrastructure all around the world, but we cannot

19:07secure my ID and my vote. Don't tell me it's too complicated. Don't tell me it's too expensive. Don't tell me it's impossible. We put a rover on Mars. We track trillions of dollars across continents in milliseconds, milliseconds. We can verify your identity to open a bank account, board a plane, buy a house, but voting, that's too hard. What? No, it's not that we can't secure it. It's that for some reason, and maybe I should check punch bull news for some reason, the people in charge don't want it secured, which leads to the only question that matters. Why? Why hide this intelligence from Congress? Why keep the public in the dark? Why fight basic safeguards? Why resist voter ID? Why resist citizenship verification? Chain of custody protections. Look, so it's the Save America

20:13Act is not a silver bullet, bullet. It will not fix everything, but it has done something critical. It says, at a minimum, you have to prove you're a citizen to vote. You have to show identification. Well, is that identification coming from China? We have to treat the vote as the sacred right that it is. That's not a radical, that's not a radical idea. That's baseline civilization. Not left or right. It's about whether you believe in self-government at all, because if foreign governments can access foreign data, if intelligence is hidden from Congress and overstate, if the system resist basic security, then you don't have a republic. You have a system where people are asked to trust, but never allowed to verify. Trust yet verify. You have a system you can't question, and that is a system you no longer control.

21:18So again, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an American. We should be asking, what is it they are afraid of? What is it they are protecting? What is it they are hiding? Because that was supposed to be the most secure election in all of American history. We knew it wasn't, but now we know they also knew. They were hiding it. They were lying about our really our biggest enemy, China, hacking all of our information, hacking the information of citizens, the voting information, you know information is power, knowledge is power.

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24:22Don't miss the live Q&A with Glenn at the end of the Thursday night special. Join lindbeck.com slash Torch to see it all. Jason, I'd like you in on this if possible. Jason, our head researcher, and he watches over, you know, global military. He used to be in military intel. There's something that has just happened that is remarkably historic. I want to read it to you. President Trump, this comes from the Director of National Intelligence and National Counterterrorism Center, Joseph Kent. President Trump, after much reflection, I've decided to

25:24resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Effective Today. I cannot in good conscious support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. I know this is so damaging. This is Pentagon paper stuff. This is as important as the Pentagon papers. This is going to possibly change the course of America. I support the values of foreign policies that you campaigned on in 16, 2020, 2024, which enacted, you enacted in your first term until June of 2025. You understood that wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation. In your first administration, you understood better than any modern President how to decisively apply military power without getting us drawn into a never-ending war.

26:28You demonstrated this by killing Soleimani and defeating ISIS. Early in this administration, high ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your American first platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States. This is incredible. You can say a lot of things, but to say that Donald Trump is a duped and has been duped by a foreign power because he wasn't smart enough to figure it out is absolutely insane. Insane. deceive you that you should strike now when there was a and that there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie and it is the

27:28same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into a disaster, a Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women we cannot make this mistake again. This is going to set the world on fire. As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a gold star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives. I pray you will reflect upon what you are doing in Iran and who we are doing it for. The time for bold action is now. You can't, no you can't. You can reverse course and chart a new path for our nation. You can allow you you can or you can allow us to slip further toward decline in chaos. You hold the cards. It was an honor to serve in your administration and to serve our great nation, Joseph Kent. This is a senior in official, in intelligence,

28:35saying in real time that the United States has entered a war under false pretenses that Israel got us into the first war in Iraq and now they doped the American president into fighting this war. This is going to fracture public trust. This is the worst letter that could be done that I have ever seen if you want to hold if you're if you're trying to win an election. This is the worst thing. Our allies now are going to be questioning our judgment. Our enemies are going to exploit this like crazy. The war effort now, if you don't think you have given aid and comfort to Iran, you just have. You've told them exactly what I'm telling you right now. It's going to be bad. It's going to be bad. I don't know how you survive things like

29:36this because this guy has just taken gasoline and thrown tanks of it into a bonfire. That was already burning and that fire that is burning is not the Islamic fires, but the the Jews are bad fires. This is probably the most serious break, internal breaks over a war decision in modern history. Never seen anything like this and there's going to have to be investigations on it. I hope we get to the truth on this, but now we've just added that one to the fire. That was already burning out of control, I thought. Jason, your analysis on this? I think that we need an immediate statement from DNI, Tulsi Gabbard,

30:40immediately to go into the details. They probably did not even want to go into at the moment, but they're going to have to now. This is incredibly irresponsible and it needs to be cleared up five minutes ago. They need to go into rapid damage control mode and explain exactly, point by point, encounter everything Joe can't just said. Now, I don't have a problem with, so Joe can't, he's always seemed to me to be kind of like a very libertarian voice within the administration. His wife dying in Syria, I'm sure that pushed him further towards the no war camp. I like having an anti-Boltan style group of people we need those voices, but this is so irresponsible. You might as well just say that, you know, I read the protocols of the Older Zazaya and you know, the Jews control the world. He basically said that. He basically said that. Jews control the United States of America.

31:45Come on. This is so irresponsible. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this, and the only reason I'm saying something like this, you might as well, it's got to be an intention grab. It's got to be. I don't know. He's throwing in. And again, unlike the Pentagon papers, where's the evidence of this? Yeah, no, no, there's no evidence of this. So he has just taken, and this was my problem, and I said this yesterday, I've said this every day since the war started. I don't need more opinions. I need more facts. I'm tired of opinions. I want facts. If this is true, back it up with facts. Show me how this happened. You know, he's made charges here that they deceived the president in believing that Iran, I'm sorry. Have you ever talked to the president in the United States? Do you have any understanding of who this guy is? I can't imagine

32:50anyone being able to deceive him into, you know, hey, go fight Iran, I mean, Israel's war. You might deceive him on, hey, there are some, but I'd like to see the evidence. You might be able to, with evidence, say Mr. President, see the pictures that they showed you here? See the stats that they showed you here? Here are the stats that say that's not true. I could see somebody coming, you know, a group of people coming into the oval and briefing the president and saying Mr. President here is the information, but I also believe somebody like Joe Kent and this why he was important, you know, a libertarian point of view is important to go into the oval office because that's when you go into the oval also say Mr. President, these aren't, these things are not true. Then the president would have said, I'm just guessing here, but I know Donald Trump well enough to know he's not a dup. That's when somebody like Joe Kent would have come in and said Mr.

33:57President, these things are wrong and the president would have said, Joe, can you show me the evidence that this is wrong? Can you, can you, can you prove that? Because I have this evidence over here and I don't want to go to war. I don't want to do that. He would have said that. I don't want to do this, but I have this. Can you prove that to be wrong? No. Well then Joe, what do I do? Do I take Joe's word for it? Or do I take the evidence that has been presented by my own intel? That's exactly what the president would have done. Ricky, I want to bring you in on this. Yeah. One thing to point out is that I'm pretty sure Vice President JD Vance is aligned in his foreign policy worldview with Joe Kent, but what you don't hear from JD Vance is it was an honor to serve the president, but also he's lying to you. We are all lying to you. So there's that.

35:00And then the other thing I'd like to know is who is pulling Trump by the nose? Is it Israel or is the Arab leaders? Just in the last 24 hours, we have headlines stating that several Gulf states are urging Trump to keep going on Iran and to fully dismantle them. No, no, no, no, no, no, that's not possible because Israel is doing this so that they can destroy their Arab neighbors and keep them, you know, keep them under their toe. So that's not true. There's none of those things actually happened. Do you have any evidence that those things happened, Ricky? Don't give me started. I didn't want to bring the story to you. You do know you do have the evidence. You have the written word from those allies that are all Arabs. Yes, I have that. Do you have the evidence to the other side that Israel is trying to do this war to destroy the Arab world? No,

36:06you have an opinion. Well, I've got an ass and an opinion. They're both worth exactly the same thing. They're not worth a, they're not worth a damn thing. Give me the facts. That is the problem with this country. You have too many people like me who are paid to give you an opinion and perspective on what the hell all of this means. Unfortunately, there are so many of us that some people have to get a leg up on somebody else. I've got to get more clicks. I've got to get more advertisers. I got to get more followers. I got to get whatever it is. And so they no longer attach themselves to facts. I have some things that I think I know about this situation that I think is really important. But I'm not going to share them because I don't have any facts

37:10to back them up. I don't have any evidence to back it up. I have gut feelings. So Glenn, why don't you say it because they're gut feelings. They're not facts. And when you're talking about the destruction of people, when you're talking about war and killing people, when you're talking about possibility of World War three, when you're talking about dividing this nation into into two groups, I hate them Jews. And I just want to know what the truth is. I don't want to get involved in anybody else's. When you're dividing us, this hard on something this dark, produce the damn evidence, Joe, produce the evidence. If you're right, I'll stand with you. But produce the damn evidence. All you did was while other people were just pouring gasoline over our entire nation,

38:20all of our institutions. You just sat in the corner just like, I'm just going to flick matches. I'm going to flick matches. Let me tell you what I know, but I'm not going to tell you how I know it. I can't prove anything. It's just my gut feeling. Produce the evidence, Joe. Back in a minute. Let me tell you about our sponsor. Our sponsor is the Berna launcher. You're driving home late one night, long, quiet stretch of highway. You notice a car sitting on the shoulder with hazard lights blinking. One of those moments where you pause for a second, part of you wants to help somebody might be stranded, but what do you do? I mean, you're going to pull over on the dark road, people you don't know, put you in a situation you didn't plan for, you slow down, you take a look, you have to decide whether to stop or not. If you do, wouldn't you feel a lot better knowing that

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40:30steady people or they set them on fire. And this is one of those moments. And if you just join us, you don't know what I'm talking about. I'll give you the news here in just a few minutes, but a quick recap. A senior intelligence official has just stepped forward and made a charge that is so sweeping about this war that if it is true, it could bring down the country. I really believe that. It is that devastating, absolutely devastating. And I don't believe it. I think it is I I'm going to hold on to my opinion for a few more minutes. Let me let me, you know, make sure I'm I'm sure of exactly the words that I want to use, but this is a very dangerous moment. Very

41:36dangerous moment. Make God save the Republic.