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Is Iran Preparing to Attack California?! | Guests: Sen. Mike Lee & Bill O'Reilly | 3/12/26
12 Mar 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Well, hello, America. Welcome. It's Wednesday, which means everything is downhill from here. And that has a different kind of meaning when you look at the news of the day, especially the war headlines. Yeah, it looks like it's all downhill from here. So we're going to get into that here in just a second.
I want to give you some meaning behind all of the headlines because there's a lot going on with the war, the corruption that is happening in our country. Mike Lee is joining us here. I want to know which senators just don't want this thing to just don't want, you know, the START Act to pass. I doubt he's going to give me names because he's too nice for that.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the FBI's warning about Iran?
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We have Senator Mike Lee on to talk to us about the SAVE Act. What the hell is going on? Excuse my language. Senator Mike Lee, how are you?
Doing great. Thank you, Glenn. Good to be with you as always.
Okay. Now, Mike, you're the nicest guy I know. You're the most senatorial kind of guy I know. You don't ever like to kick up dust and dirt, you know. But I got to ask you, what the hell is going on? Who in the Senate just does not want this thing to come to the floor and actually have their vote counted? Come on.
Chapter 3: How are modern warfare tactics changing?
Who?
You know, that's the most curious thing, Glenn. We know that there are three who are opposed to the bill. They've been public about that. Senators Murkowski, McConnell, and Tillis. What we don't know is who else... might be among those reputed to be against bringing up the talking filibuster, using the talking filibuster to bring up the Save America Act to pass the Save America Act.
Look, we've got basically zero chance of passing this without invoking the talking filibuster. If we do invoke it, we've got a chance. Now, we can't guarantee exactly what it will look like. We can't guarantee exactly what the outcome will be, but we know we've got a chance, a decent chance to pass it.
If we do it this way, the same way that they had a decent chance of passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, if and only if they used the talking filibuster. They did. It passed. We should do the same thing here. Yes, it takes work. Yes, there's uncertainty. Yes, it'll be a pain in the neck. But you know what? That's our job.
And thank heavens for those who are grateful for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the protections that it brought with it. They should all be very grateful that this didn't wuss out then. They should be very grateful that they didn't let a few senators say, well, I'm going to vote against cloture. So don't even try or just force a failed vote.
you know, failure theater, cloture vote at the front end, and then we'll move on. Thank heavens they didn't do that. They stuck with it. They stuck with it for 60 days. And you know what happened? It brought people to the table. It made people think. It made people realize they were on the wrong side, the losing side of history. And they ended up negotiating some changes to the bill to save face.
And they got the thing passed. We have to do the same thing here. We don't know who the other three other people are, other than those initial three who have identified themselves as against the bill. I strongly disagree with them, but at least they've got the courage to say what they're doing.
There are others who are under the cover of night for reasons I don't understand and not required to identify themselves. Instead, take pot shots from the cheap seats and say, we don't want to do it. But the American people feel differently, and we ought to do this. The American people are with us on this, Glenn. It doesn't come this way very often. These ships don't pass this way very often.
Where we've got the House, we've got the Senate, we've got the White House, and we've got 85% of the American people on our side, only congressional Democrats and a few miscellaneous others are against this. So let's take advantage of it. And don't let these people hide in silence and secrecy and not even identify themselves, much less articulate their reasons for not wanting to do it.
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Chapter 4: What concerns arise from the theft of military drones?
The ones who are actually engaged in the battle, who know it's a battle, who will admit this is what we're doing, or this is what's being done to us. The ones who admit it and then go, ah, no, it's worth going the other way. Or... you know, like the Islamists now they're all saying the same thing. Oh, you know what? We're here in America.
We're here in Europe because we're going to take over because this needs to be a, uh, a, a continent that is dedicated to Allah and Islam. Sorry, not this continent over my dead body. And it may end up over my dead body because not enough people wake up, but we're going to try to wake you up next week. So, uh, join us. That will be on torch. The premier, um, is live March 19th.
That's next Thursday, a week from tonight at 8 PM. By the way, speaking of this, I mean, it couldn't just, it couldn't come at a better time. We've been working months on this and it couldn't come at a better time because we now have the Ayatollah who, which, which was it? The guardian that came out. It was the Daily Mail. Daily Mail. Not really known for being like a premier journalism outlet.
Right, right. And not conservative. And Daily Mail came out. And what did they say about the Ayatollah? Oh, Glenn's putting me on the spot. Let me pull this up again. They basically said, you guys are going to be shocked to hear this. That Iran's new supreme leader is, quote, obsessed with the end of days. What? What?
And, quote, believes he has a special part in hastening humanity down that path. What? Where have you heard that? The return of the promised one. What are you saying? So finally, at least the Daily Mail is like, hey, this guy's a religious zealot and wants the end of the world. Maybe we should pay attention to that. Anyway, he's just come out. There's a new statement.
Now, when I say he has come out with this, I'm not sure it's him or a cardboard cutout because, you know, the Guardian is reporting that the new Ayatollah is actually in a coma. and has lost his leg. The IRGC and state-run media in Iran is saying, he's totally fine. He has a scratch on his leg.
He's got a little boo-boo on his leg, nothing, a little band-aid, you know, I am stuck on band-aid and band-aid stuck on me. That's what he's singing right now. It's no big deal. And so we're not sure who this statement came from, but Reuters has now taken this and translated it from, I think the official language of the Mahadi is gibberish.
And so they have taken this now and translated it from gibberish to English. He said in his statement, Iran will continue using the leverage of closing the Strait of Hormuz. Attacks on U.S. bases in the region are going to continue unless the bases are immediately closed. I don't see that one happening. Iran believes in friendship with its neighbor, but it is only targeting U.S. bases.
That's a hard one to get past because you're hitting... you know, downtown area, way away from our bases, you're hitting apartment buildings. So I, um, they're also going to continue, continue to avenge the blood of martyrs. Uh, that's a top priority and will not be foregone.
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Chapter 5: What concerns arise about military operations and missing equipment?
Of course, the masks do that themselves. And there's these pictures, these clear pictures of these guys wearing masks. And they don't look Norwegian, let's put it that way. But I don't know. I mean, I don't know. And I don't know why we wouldn't have heard about this. How can something this sensitive just go missing on the 101st Airborne Base?
How can they go missing and us only have local news reports?
Yeah, it's pretty wild. And maybe one possible reason is because on military bases, there are roughly on a size like this base for Campbell, there's probably around two to three to sometimes 4000 contractors, private contractors on these bases. And theft does happen pretty much all the time. Something will happen. It won't go to national news. But that's exactly what I was going to say.
I guess they're just not thinking it through.
Chapter 6: How does the discussion shift to military contractors and theft?
Drones that could have crypto. And plus, some kind of AI, military AI that they're using. That's a whole other ballgame right there.
Yeah, I would imagine this is worth a lot on the black market. And as I said earlier, I think this is possibly cartels. And if it's not cartels, then it may be a nation state. That's even worse. But the cartels would love to have this technology on our own borders. Berna Launcher, last night I was having dinner and my niece came into town. And we were having dinner.
And she was talking to me about the school she goes to up in the northeast. And she was saying... Yeah. So, you know, just off campus, we have, you know, we just had like four murders and a stabbing and, and a partridge in a pear tree. And I mean, it was like, what the hell you're, where are you going to school? And she's like, actually, it's a really good school.
And I'm like, yeah, but it doesn't sound good. She's like, no, we kind of stay on campus. I said, do you have a gun or a burner launcher or anything? And she said, no, I said, I'm getting you and your sisters, a burner launcher. And I said, I want you to put it in your backpack or your purse or wherever you are, carry it and keep it. Because I mean, it,
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Chapter 7: What alarming statistics about national debt are presented?
Don't miss it. Join today. GlennBeck.com slash Torch. I'm going to start with some bad news. I'm going to give you some good news, and then I'll give you some bad news. And then I probably will give you some good news. But let me give you some bad news. We're talking about the numbers of the debt and our deficit. We just released some more numbers that were made-up numbers when I was a kid.
We have just run a trillion-dollar deficit in the first five months of this fiscal year. Now, here's the good news. That's better than it was last year. So we're making some progress, but buried inside of this report is another number that should wake us all up, and that is $79 billion. In the first five months, $79 billion. That's what we paid in interest. Not in the first five months.
We paid that in February. $79 billion we paid in interest on our debt that is now approaching $39 trillion. Just interest. That is, you know, that's more expensive than everything except three other categories, Social Security, income security programs, and health care. Okay?
Any civilization that is borrowing money just to pay interest on money it already borrowed at that debt is not going to survive. So let me ask you, we're $39 trillion in the hole. We just paid $79 billion last month for just service of the debt. Let me ask you, those numbers are so huge. Is your life getting better? Do you feel like your life is getting better?
Is your airport in your town brand new? How about your roads and bridges for all those infrastructure projects that we've done? Are they better? How about your hospital? Is it new? Is it expanded? Lots of extra room, you know, in the hospital. Are your children better educated?
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Chapter 8: What scandals are highlighted regarding hospice fraud in Los Angeles?
In any way, shape or form, we've spent $39 trillion. Can you tell me where that money has gone to make your life better? Because I don't see the result of it. I see it in the military, and that's it. That's it. So where's the money actually going? Well, let's step away from the spreadsheets here a bit.
Let's go just looking around, poking in cities like Los Angeles, because the answer begins to emerge. And it is far uglier than most Americans are even prepared to admit. Maybe, maybe, or maybe they don't care. I don't know. But let me start with the hospice scandal that we talked about yesterday in Los Angeles County. This is one county.
investigators and journalists have now uncovered what appears to be one of the largest hospice fraud schemes in modern American history. Notice we're hearing it's the largest hospice. It's the largest, uh, uh, uh, you know, uh, autism scheme. What, what are all of these, what are all these schemes? The largest medical scheme, uh,
Hospice care, you know, I'd feel a little guilty stealing from the hospice system. You know, final chapter of life, families gather, pain is eased, dignity is preserved, and you're stealing from that? Wow. Medicare pays for that. No, let me rephrase it. You pay for that. Your tax dollars. And you pay for that because you have compassion.
But in Los Angeles County, hundreds of hospice companies suddenly appeared almost overnight and nobody noticed. Many of them are run out of small little offices and storefronts and residential homes. Like 30. 30 of these companies in one little office. Really? And they were enrolling patients who are not dying. In fact, they existed, but they didn't know they were enrolling in this.
They weren't terminal. People had no idea they had been signed up for hospice at all. Once somebody is falsely enrolled in hospice, the money then begins flowing from Medicare. To whom? Where? Tens of thousands of dollars per patient. Some patients allegedly cycled through multiple fraudulent hospital providers or hospice providers like inventory. The dying turned into billing codes.
The elderly turned into profit centers. Is this a victimless crime? Hospice fraud means that real care is denied. Pain medication is withheld. Proper treatment is delayed. Families misled. And it's not theft of just money. It is the theft of dignity at the end of human life. And when this scandal broke, the response was predictable, wasn't it?
Political response was finger-pointing, blame-shifting, anything except what the public deserves, and that is a ruthless housecleaning. Ruthless housecleaning. Now let's stay in Los Angeles just for a minute because the second story is just as revealing. City of Los Angeles, again, we went from the county, now to the city.
They have approved $106 million to a nonprofit organization that provides legal services to tenants facing eviction. So now on the surface, helping people who can't afford legal representation sounds compassionate, right? But let's take a look a little closer. The organization receiving the money is LAFLA, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.
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