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Glenn Beck
MORNING BRIEF

DATE: THURSDAY, 10.26.23
LAST UPDATE: 09:03 AM ET
PREPARED BY: CB, RR, JB, SK, BM

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We have the following scheduled for today's program:

BOTTOM OF HOUR 1
GUEST: Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears
TOPIC: The upcoming election in Virginia is going to set the tone for the country in 2024.

BOTTOM OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Karol Markowicz
TOPIC: What American Jews are doing to protect themselves in light of the war in Israel.

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Edwin Black
TOPIC: A historical perspective on the war in Israel.

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Here are some highlights from this day on previous shows:

Oct 26, 2004 - Interview with Mary Matalin... Political commercials... 'The Grudge'... Glenn talks with the organizer of Project Longface... Bill Clinton calls for higher taxes... Ashton Kutcher gives campaign speech for John Kerry... BBC fair and balanced election coverage...

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Domestic News...

Maine mass shooting suspect identified as Army reservist Robert Card
At least 22 people have been shot dead in Lewiston, Maine, and 50-60 people injured at two different locations: a bowling alley and a bar.

Maine Shooting Suspect Was Likely Banned From Owning Guns Over Mental Health
“According to law enforcement, CARD recently reported mental health issues to include hearing voices and threats to shoot up the National Guard Base in Saco, ME,” the bulletin said. “CARD was also reported to have been committed to mental health facility for two weeks during summer 2023 and subsequently released.”

Mr. Speaker, release the J6 footage
It’s time for the House Republicans to keep their promise.

LA family says home intruder threatened to kill them because they're Jewish
The suspect was captured on video yelling, "Free Palestine!" over and over while being arrested after the incident.

Biden Admin Official Responsible for Prosecuting Anti-Semitic Attacks Has Praised Anti-Semitic Activists
Kristen Clarke is responsible for prosecuting anti-Jewish hate crimes.

Biden admin continues to push student loan debt forgiveness with biased regulatory panel
It is no secret that the Biden administration is steadfast in its determination to forgive as many student loans as possible, no matter what the law says.

ACLU sides with Trump, calling gag order in federal case 'unconstitutionally overbroad'
After a thousand disclaimers, the far-left group said, "Trump retains a First Amendment right to speak, and the rest of us retain a right to hear what he has to say.”

Tucker Carlson Warns America Is On The ‘Brink Of Collapse’
“I mean, if you’ve been to church once in the last year, have you thought about the end times recently? Yes, you have … because you can feel that abrupt change is coming and that’s very disconcerting.”

Biden official grilled by GOP over conservative 'disinformation' blacklist group funding
A top Biden administration official was confronted in a congressional hearing by Republicans over the U.S. government funding a "disinformation" group starving conservative media of advertising dollars.

Chicago takes top spot on list of America's most rat-infested cities
America's top 50 rattiest cities were announced Monday by the pest-control company Orkin. For the ninth year in a row, Chicago clinched the top spot, beating out nine other Democrat-run cities.

Biden Crime Family...

Prosecutor says Biden bribery claim was credible enough for further investigation, but FBI resisted
Former U.S. Attorney Scott Brady said he was struck throughout his work by the FBI’s reluctance to engage in the Hunter Biden probe and the unprecedented layers of approval that FBI headquarters imposed on the agents working for him.

FBI received 'criminal information' from over 40 confidential sources on Joe Biden, Hunter, James: Grassley
Grassley alleges that the FBI and DOJ sought to shut down investigations into the Bidens.

The House...

Republican Mike Johnson elected House speaker
"We will restore trust in this body. We will advance a comprehensive conservative policy agenda, combat the harmful policies of the Biden Administration, and support our allies abroad. And we will restore sanity to a government desperately in need of it. Let's get back to work."

NY Times: The Far Right Gets Its Man of the House
The new speaker, Mike Johnson of Louisiana, is virtually unknown to most Americans, but he can be expected to press a hard-right social and fiscal agenda.

Democrats pile on ‘appalling,’ ‘dangerous’ Speaker Johnson
Rep. Mike Johnson hadn’t been elected the 56th House speaker for three minutes and the Democratic attacks started to land. One of the first came 2 minutes, 26 seconds after the House approved Johnson.

Democrats Melt Down After GOP Conference Unanimously Elects Mike Johnson Speaker
“MAGA Mike Johnson’s ascension to the speakership cements the extreme MAGA takeover of the House Republican Conference,” Ammar Moussa, a spokesman for the Biden campaign, said in a statement.

NY Post: Mike Johnson lucked into speaker job — but he has talent to pull it off
Members called him a “Happy Warrior” out of the same mold as the late Jack Kemp, who could disagree with someone without being disagreeable.

Mike Johnson Acknowledges God’s Plan in Speakership Victory
"I want to tell all my colleagues here what I told the Republicans in that room last night: I don’t believe there are any coincidences in a matter like this."

Politics...

Jamaal Bowman will plead guilty to falsely pulling fire alarm and pay a fine
Bowman said in a statement to Axios that he will plead guilty to the charge and agree to pay a $1,000 fine. Bowman could have faced up to six months in prison for the charge.

Trump Continues To Beat Biden In National, Swing-State Polls
"Trump is polling better than he has in the past – it may be in part because Biden is unpopular, and voters are looking at the election as more of a referendum on him than as a choice between Biden and Trump."

Biden slammed by New Hampshire secretary of state for decision to 'shun' voters
"Despite all the rhetoric about diversity in the presidential nominating process, this issue is really about who determines the eventual nominee — the national political party or the voters."

DOJ Subpoenaed Phone And Email Logs Of Hill Staffers Probing Crossfire Hurricane Malfeasance
The executive branch’s targeting of staffers assisting with congressional oversight represents a dangerous intrusion into the legislative branch’s functioning.

Economy / ESG...

Interest rates on retail credit cards hit a record high
Top rates have hit a record 33.24% APR.

Billionaire predicts 'probably recession' in 2024, suggests US entering '7 lean years' of Pharaoh's dream
Cooperman suggests there are "lean years" to come economically, using a famous Bible passage to explain.

Ford, UAW reach tentative deal to end labor strikes
The tentative agreement includes 25% pay increases over the terms of the agreement and will cumulatively raise the top wage to more than $40 an hour, including an increase of 68% for starting wages to over $28 an hour.

Immigration...

Not 1 cent for Biden’s failed border strategy
The numbers prove that Biden’s border policies have been a complete and irredeemable failure.

Chicago residents raise concerns over planned tent shelter for illegal aliens
Since August 2022, nearly 20,000 illegal aliens have arrived in the city with as many as 4,000 of them forced to sleep in police stations and at O’Hare Airport because of a lack of resources.

Israel at War: Latest News... 

Hamas Terrorists Received Combat Training From Iran’s Quds Force In Weeks Leading Up To Attack On Israel: Report
Iran’s Quds Force, the foreign operations branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, gave Hamas terrorists specialized combat training in the weeks leading up to their attack on Israel, according to the WSJ.

Israel said to delay Gaza invasion to allow US to bolster air defenses in region
Israel has agreed to a request from the Biden admin to temporarily delay its planned Gaza ground incursion to give Washington more time to deploy additional air defense systems to protect its troops in the region, according to a Wednesday report.

Turkey’s President Criticizes Israel and Backs Hamas
Erdogan’s comments are likely to strain relations between his government and those of other NATO members, including the U.S.

UN chief doubles down on Hamas remarks, decries ‘misrepresentations’
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday rejected “misrepresentations” of his remarks a day earlier that Hamas’ October 7 massacre “didn’t happen in a vacuum,” decried by Israel as justifying terror.

Female IDF combat squad claims to have killed 100 Hamas terrorists
Their commander cited it as proof there “are no more doubts about female combat soldiers.”

Israel at War: US... 

Biden: There’s no going back to prewar status quo, there must be vision of 2 states
"There has to be a vision of what comes next, and in our view it has to be a two-state solution.”

On Israel, Biden Picks Up Where Obama Left Off
Secretary of State Antony Blinken contends that Hamas would gain no “greater” victory “than allowing its brutality to send us down a path of terrorism and nihilism. We must not let it." You can hear echoes of Barack Obama’s insufferable moral equivalencies imbued in that statement.

One Republican and multiple Democrats vote against House resolution that declares support for Israel
Thomas Massie was the one Republican lawmaker to vote against the resolution. "It contains an open-ended promise of military support that is so broad that it could be interpreted to commit US soldiers to the conflict."

Anti-Israel Protester Demands Nike Boycott While Wearing Nikes
Newsmax correspondent Addison Smith shared the video on Twitter and pointed out the irony. “Also worth mentioning the Starbucks she pointed to was still completely packed after this,” he said in an accompanying tweet.

Israel at War: Commentary / Media... 

Palestinian Arabs Overwhelmingly Support Hamas And Its Genocidal Aspirations
At least 10 times since Oct. 7, President Biden has stated that the Muslim Arab terrorist group Hamas “does not represent the Palestinian people” or variations such as “the vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas” and “Hamas does not represent the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people.”

Turley: Yes, Hamas is Legally, Morally, and Factually a Terrorist Organization
There is nothing “politicized” in recognizing that Hamas intentionally targeted civilians, including mowing down unarmed participants at a peace concert. They burned civilians alive in their homes and raped women. They intentionally and systemically took civilian hostages, including children and the elderly.

Civilian gun ownership could have stalled Hamas violence
Despite Israel being surrounded by hostile states and having to deal with violent incursions by the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist groups, only around 2% of Israel’s 9.73 million population owns a firearm.

Why Media’s ‘Precision’ Defense On The Beheaded Babies Story Is Bunk
In keeping with the tone of the rest of the corporate media, features writer for New York magazine’s Intelligencer Eric Levitz tripped over himself over the weekend to label the reports that Israeli babies were decapitated an “overstatement.”

At The New York Times, Praising Hitler Is Fine But Running Republican Op-Eds Gets You The Boot
After praising Adolf Hitler in several social media posts, Soliman Hijjy has been rehired by the Times to cover Hamas’ ongoing attacks against Israel.

Liberal Secular Jews Growing Disillusioned with the Left
After October 7, as every Jew in the diaspora went through collective loss, grief, and mourning, Jews watched virtually every left-wing institution and personality either dismiss or justify the atrocities performed by Hamas.

In Foreign Affairs Essay, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan Said Biden Has ‘De-Escalated Crises in Gaza.’ Then He Erased the Evidence.
The print edition of Sullivan’s essay outlines how the Biden admin’s "foreign policy for a changed world" is leading to a "freer and more stable world." Sullivan particularly praises Biden for helping to bring peace to the Middle East. This was printed before the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.

Russia / Ukraine...

Ukrainian spies with deep ties to CIA wage shadow war against Russia
Since 2015, the CIA has spent tens of millions of dollars to transform Ukraine’s Soviet-formed services into potent allies against Moscow, officials said.

Russia practices ‘massive’ retaliatory nuclear strike
The drill comes 20 months after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and with Putin and Russian officials giving mixed signals about the possible use of nuclear weapons.

Europe...

Shoplifting Surges in UK, Putting Workers in Scary Situations
As people try to walk away with goods, it’s “like the Wild West,” says one store owner, whose employees have been hit and bitten on the job.

Entertainment...

Britney Spears Says New Memoir Set Huge Milestone One Day After Release
"My book is the highest selling celebrity memoir in history and it’s only day 1!"

Environment...

Biden admin moves to curb Western states’ water supply by nearly a trillion gallons
"Today, the Biden-Harris administration is taking another key action to bolster water resilience in the Basin States, leveraging historic investments from the president’s Investing in America agenda to build a more sustainable and equitable future ..."

Newsom flies to China, discusses climate change with Chinese leaders
"California is committed to stopping the greatest existential threat our planet has ever known."

Mosquito-borne illnesses are picking up speed. Experts say Americans are unprepared
Climate change and urbanization are spreading dengue and malaria across the U.S. and Europe. Can we brace ourselves?

LGBTQIA2S+...

Whitlock: Don’t hate — congratulate Dana White and the UFC for Bud Light’s surrender
While other professional sports leagues embrace cultural insanity, White holds the line.

NBA loses one of its 8 full-time women refs
In what can only be described as stunning and brave, Cheryl Flores had become the "first out trans and nonbinary ref in American pro sports."

50-year-old man competes against 13-year-old girls in swimming competition
He made a mockery of the "Girls 13 & over" requirement.

Education...

Jewish students shelter in NY college library as demonstrators pound on doors, shout ‘free Palestine’
In video from the college, the Jewish students can be seen in the library as those outside pound on the doors and repeatedly shout, “Free Palestine.”

NYC school union head justifies Hamas attack in 'private' email to teachers
The union chapter leader for a New York City school is under fire from teachers and members of Congress for sending an email to colleagues alleging that "illegal Israeli colonialist occupation" is what "led to" the deadly Hamas terrorist attacks against the Jewish state.

AI...

Breast cancer breakthrough: AI predicts a third of cases prior to diagnosis in mammography study
A new study published in the journal Radiology last week noted that AI helped predict one-third of breast cancer cases up to two years prior to diagnosis.

Technology...

Lawmakers demand that Amazon censor Alexa
Lawmakers are demanding that Amazon take “proactive measures” to ensure that its voice assistant, Alexa, doesn’t provide “false claims about the outcome of the 2020 elections” after a Washington Post article complained that Alexa was citing responses from Rumble and Substack.

Cruise's self-driving taxis suspended from operating on public roads in California due to safety concerns
Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors, told Fox Business that it "will be pausing operations of our driverless AVs in San Francisco" as a result of the suspension.

Sports...

Former NBA star Dwight Howard denies sexually assaulting man at Georgia home
According to the report, the man accused Howard of sexual assault, false imprisonment, and "intentional infliction of emotional distress." An attorney representing Howard said the alleged incident was "consensual" and only made public after a demand for payment.

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