Epstein files shine light on power networks: Revisit BlazeTV's 'The Coverup' on the same corruption web



On January 30, the U.S. Department of Justice dropped over 3 million pages of Epstein-related documents, as mandated by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law by President Trump in November 2025. This massive data dump includes roughly 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.

These revelations seem to confirm what independent voices like Glenn Beck and Matt Kibbe have warned about for years: a shadowy cabal of insiders wield tremendous power to shape how we think.

As the dust settles around this 2026 bombshell, it's the perfect time to revisit BlazeTV’s docuseries "The Coverup” — Matt Kibbe’s deep dive into a similar web of corruption: the COVID-19 pandemic.

Months before this latest Epstein file dump, Glenn Beck sat down with Kibbe to dissect the insidious links between COVID mandates, Russiagate hoaxes, and censorship to pinpoint the very same shadowy forces now spotlighted in the Epstein files.

“The same people and the same machine that weaponized the Russiagate story and covered up the Hunter Biden laptop story are the same people in the [COVID-19] apparatus,” Kibbe told Glenn.

With the Epstein files shining new light on long-hidden networks of power and influence, now is the time to watch BlazeTV’s "The Coverup" series. Go to faucicoverup.com to access the full series.

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Glenn Beck slams THIS deep-red stronghold for pushing the UNTHINKABLE court move



Court-packing — the act of adding judges to get favorable outcomes — is a no-go for anyone who cares about protecting a republic from backsliding into totalitarianism. Venezuela, Cuba, Poland, Hungary, and El Salvador, among other nations, are cautionary tales of what happens to countries who cheat the system by filling the courts with loyalists.

And yet, Utah has just done exactly that. On January 31, Republican Governor Spencer Cox signed Senate Bill 134 into law, increasing the Supreme Court from five to seven justices.

Glenn Beck is enraged that it was Republicans — who have historically rejected court-packing as a dangerous, anti-democratic move — who pushed this through.

“Any country that has ever done this, they fall into totalitarianism because they realize they can just change the referees. They’ll just add more referees, and they’ll add the referees they like,” he says, dismissing the Utah Republicans behind this judicial move as “hypocrites.”

Utah has been having problems with its judges legislating, instead of just interpreting existing laws, as is their designated role, he explains. This issue largely stems from the fact that Utah has adopted the Missouri Plan, in which a list of suitable judicial candidates is compiled by legal experts before the governor makes his or her selection.

“Can we stop being a country run by experts? We see exactly what the experts have done in every category. Stop it,” Glenn pleads.

The real issue, he says, is massive delays and overload in lower state courts. For years, Utahns have begged for reform but to no avail. Some may perceive the state government’s decision to add judges to the Supreme Court — which “wasn’t overrun” — as a solution to their woes, but it’s really just a power grab.

“This is not about efficiency. This is all about control,” Glenn says, “and I understand you have bad judges and they’ve been legislating, but you don’t do this, Utah.”

Republicans, accustomed to controlling Utah, have grown “soft,” “mushy,” and “embarrassed that they actually believe in the Constitution,” he explains, and now that they’ve “made all these mistakes, all these compromises,” they’re doing damage control by packing the Supreme Court.

“Republicans, you don’t get a pass here because Democrats would do it too. That argument damns the republic. ... A legislature that expands a court after losing cases is not defending a republic. It’s announcing, constitutional limits only apply, you know, unless they’re inconvenient,” Glenn criticizes.

The root issue of Utah’s hypocritical compromising, he argues, can be found in America’s universities, which “despise the Constitution” and are teaching America’s future judges, journalists, lawyers, and bureaucrats that Marxism is morality.

“In a state that was raised on the Constitution, you know better than this,” Glenn says to Utah Republicans.

“Why are you shrinking from conflict, as if defending principles is somehow impolite?” he asks. “It is not impolite. It is required of you to stand. A republic cannot survive this kind of shyness. ... You must stand, or you will lose everything.”

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Elon Musk marries SpaceX to xAI — Glenn Beck warns: Earth’s skies are about to change forever



On Monday, February 2, Elon Musk announced that SpaceX had officially acquired xAI in an all-stock deal. The move combines SpaceX’s rockets and Starlink satellite network with xAI’s artificial intelligence technology, creating what Musk calls “one of the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engines on (and off) Earth.” Valued at a staggering $1.25 trillion, it’s the largest private company to ever exist.

In other words, rockets just married artificial intelligence in a super-union that the world can’t even begin to fathom.

Most normies are shrugging off the news as just another leap in an ever-evolving technosphere, but Glenn Beck says our skies are about to change forever.

This merger, he explains, actualizes Musk’s wild dream of launching a million satellites into space, which SpaceX first proposed to regulators in late January this year. Except these satellites won’t be typical Starlink comms; they’ll be a gargantuan network of orbiting supercomputers, drastically expanding the cloud and AI processing capabilities.

This is far bigger than most people realize, Glenn says.

“To give you some idea, right now humanity has roughly 14,000 active satellites operating and orbiting Earth, OK? That’s every nation. That’s every military. That’s every weather system, every GPS signal, every communications platform humanity has ever put into space,” he says.

“Even if only a fraction of that number is ever launched, this is not an expansion of what exists today. This is a complete redesign of space around Earth. This is a replacement of the scale itself.”

While the plan is all about cutting-edge technology, Glenn says it’s more about history repeating itself. In 1800s America, power, he explains, was determined by “who controlled the rivers and then later who controlled the railroads.”

That same power dynamic is at play today — “except the frontier is not land; it’s the sky.” And Elon Musk is doing exactly what the 19th century’s captains of industry did by staking his claim through building.

Like land, which is limited, “there are only so many usable altitudes” in low Earth orbit, Glenn says.

“You place tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of objects into those corridors, you’re no longer participating in space. You’re designing and structuring it.”

What Musk is set to do through the merging of SpaceX and xAI is the equivalent of “one company building every road, every bridge, every highway and [saying], ‘Everybody else can use them, but we built them first,”’ Glenn analogizes.

“Control doesn’t require ownership; it requires scale, and that is what Elon Musk is very good at,” he says.

Why does this matter to the average Joe?

“Because for the first time in history, a private company is positioned to shape the planetary structure ... faster than governments, cheaper than any nation, with replacement cycles measured in months, not decades,” Glenn answers.

“The sky itself [is] becoming managed infrastructure,” and history tells us that whoever is the first to build in a new domain gains a monopoly on it.

These kinds of pioneers “don’t just win,” Glenn says. “They set the rules that everybody else spends decades trying to renegotiate.”

“Every great power shift in history looks small right up until the time it doesn’t. And by the time most people look up, the frontier is already gone.”

Our skies remain a frontier for now, but as soon as Musk’s satellites start going up in droves, we’ll know that the frontier has already been claimed — and the rules are being written by one man.

“When you go out at night, you’re going to see a different sky,” Glenn says.

To hear more of his commentary, watch the video above.

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Glenn Beck explains why his name popped up in latest Epstein drop



On January 30, the U.S. Department of Justice published over 3 million additional pages of documents under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. This new drop contains information from various investigations, including Epstein’s cases in Florida and New York, Ghislaine Maxwell’s case, probes into Epstein’s death, and FBI investigations, among others.

Despite the massive volume of documents and numerous shocking allegations, there were no game-changing revelations that would perhaps lead to fresh accountability for big names.

Glenn Beck, however, says there was one stunning disclosure: His name is in the Epstein files.

“I want to read exactly what it says,” Glenn begins, displaying the official document containing the email where his name is mentioned.

On Wednesday, December 30, 2009, a woman named Alice Jacobs sent Jeffery Epstein the following email:

I just googled where I’m headed right now to meet some old friends and it just occurred to me that a new friend and fellow eccentric is right around the corner from where I’m visiting. I might be able to stop and say hello if you’re around later this afternoon. Would be quick visit but would be a welcome respite from the fox news/glenn beck disciples I am visiting today. They are lovely aside from their politics.

“I don’t know what that means, but this is the best way to be in the Jeffery Epstein [files], where Jeffrey and his friends are like, ‘I hate Glenn Beck, and I don’t like people who like Glenn Beck.’ Yes, so I am proudly in the Epstein files,” Glenn laughs.

In regard to the file dump, he expresses disappointment — albeit expected disappointment — that yet again, there’s nothing that directly implicates anyone.

“It’s exactly what I thought it would be. I think this thing has been picked through so many times that you’re not going to see anything new in the Epstein files,” he says.

The only thing the files really do is confirm that elites are more often than not “dirtbags.”

“There is an evil in our system, and it revolves around really dark sex stuff,” Glenn says.

Tragically, as of now, it appears there’s no way to legally challenge this insidious elitist network.

The best thing we can do, Glenn says, is “keep our eye on [the Epstein case]” without forgetting that there are other national issues that demand our attention — the violent anti-ICE movement in Minnesota, the socialist collapse of New York City under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and the ongoing power outages in Nashville, Tennessee.

But even these issues aren’t the most critical. The biggest impact we can make is at the micro level — first with our “family” and second with local politics.

“[Donald Trump] is dismantling this global system, and he’s putting it back local, as local as we care to take it,” Glenn says. “It’ll just come back to the United States government, which I don’t think is a good idea — unless we start taking our communities and our states back the right way.”

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The TRUTH about the Ilhan Omar ‘attack’ the media won't tell you



When Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) survived what appeared to be a sort of acid attack, Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck’s first thought was, “In her country, in some Muslim countries, in some Muslim communities, that happens to women and they spray battery acid on their face.”

He thought she should be deservedly freaked out.

“I thought, ‘Wow ... she must be concerned, because she knows in Muslim communities, some people do that,’” Glenn says. “But that’s not what this was.”

“This was some guy who looked like Fred Flintstone that took a syringe and filled it with, are you ready? This is horrible. Filled it with apple cider vinegar. Now I’m not sure if you’re aware of this ... I believe that can stain a nice sweater like that. It can leave a mark,” Glenn jokes.


“We should be clear,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere chimes in, “we do not have any evidence of this particular apple cider vinegar attack staining that sweatshirt or discoloring the stripes, but that is a possibility.”

“Now I agree, Glenn, like legitimately when I first saw that, we didn’t know what this liquid was. It could have been really dangerous. I’m not minimizing, like, that could have been scary for her. She is a divisive figure. It could have been something terrible,” he continues.

“And the person who did it looks completely insane and on something to me in the video. Like just looks completely crazy. A crazy person charges you, gets close to you, gets close to any public figure, there is the possibility that it turns into something really, really bad,” he adds.

However while what happened could have been much worse, Stu points out that because it isn’t, the story would usually disappear.

“When typically, we find out it wasn’t something bad, the story pretty much goes away. I could give you dozens of examples of conservatives ... getting hit in the face with a pie. A conservative being glitter-bombed, right?” he explains. “These things happen all the time. And when they are happening, there is real risk to that person.”

“When you have a person who hates you that much, to run up to you, and be that close to you, it could have gone in a very ugly direction. When we find out that it didn’t, it is a quick incident that goes away almost immediately with no additional coverage,” he continues.

“Not the case with Ilhan Omar. Ilhan Omar, the next day after this incident, was the top story at the New York Times all day long. All day,” he adds, pointing out that in one of the top New York Times articles on the event, they framed it as Trump’s fault for being “xenophobic” and “racist” toward Omar.

“I can’t take it. Because all I can think of is what they’re doing ... to every single member of ICE right now. I can’t. I can’t. My head will explode,” Glenn comments.

“100%. They are demonizing these people. They're calling them Nazis every single day on television,” Stu adds.

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Hawaii tells Supreme Court our rights should exist only with permission



Something shocking just happened between Hawaii — a state that already has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation — and the Supreme Court, and Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck is sounding the alarm.

In defense of a sweeping gun restriction, Hawaii argued that Americans’ rights only exist if someone else gives permission, citing "Black Codes" written to disarm freed slaves as “historical tradition.”

This means that gun owners can’t carry on private property, unless the owner explicitly allows it.

“That means your constitutional right only exists if somebody else says yes. And the judges are like, ‘I’m sorry, how are you doing the math on this one?’ And Hawaii steps up to the microphone and says, ‘Yeah, your honor, don’t worry, history supports us on this,’” Glenn says.


The initial Black Code law that Hawaii’s new law is modeled after was written after the Civil War, and it was meant to disarm newly freed slaves so they were unable to defend themselves from mobs, the clan, or corrupt authorities.

“People who normally recoil from Black Codes, you know, like garlic with a vampire, suddenly embrace them because it helps restrict guns,” Glenn explains.

“But the case isn’t really about guns,” he says. “And that’s what I think everybody who is analyzing this case is missing. It is not about guns. It’s about whether your rights exist before government or only after permission is granted.”

“Hawaii says your right exists if someone else allows it. The Constitution says no, no, your rights exist because you exist and you’re free. And the court’s being asked to answer the question, do we define American liberty by its highest principles? Or by its darkest moments?” he continues.

“And once you use poisoned history to limit rights, rights stop being rights,” he adds.

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The ‘Barabbas trap’ in Minnesota: Why anti-ICE mobs are BLIND to reality



Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck has come up with a newly coined term to describe what has the left in a death grip — the “Barabbas trap.”

Glenn modeled the term after the Jewish insurrectionist and notorious prisoner Barabbas, who was released after Pontius Pilate asked a crowd during Passover whether he should release the insurrectionist or Jesus Christ.

The crowd chose to release the one who offered the easy way out, revolution, rather than Christ’s way.

And he believes the left is currently falling hardest for the “Barabbas trap” in Minnesota.


“This is possibly the biggest fraud case in American history, OK? And there’s no way the Democrats in power didn’t know about it. But no one’s talking about that,” Glenn says on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“No one’s talking about how you, the taxpayer, the people who are now saying ‘Barabbas,’ how you were ripped off, how maybe your children were hurt because your government, the state government and the local government, was giving money knowingly to people who were abusing the system,” he explains.

“And when the government comes in to arrest, they start shouting for revolution. And they’re shouting for it because of the leaders. The same leaders who likely allowed the fraud, know the people in the streets will look past their egregious sins if it means stopping Trump,” he continues.

While Glenn agrees that it's “sane” to have a healthy distrust of the federal government and demand “accountability and transparency” — he also notes that there’s a line where “distrust becomes devotion.”

“Where you stop evaluating the facts because you’re devoted, where your movement stops being about justice and becomes about being against something so completely that it doesn’t matter what you’re now defending,” Glenn says.

“When people are told these arrests are targeting truly dangerous criminals, the sober response isn’t blind faith in the government. I don’t have that,” he says, explaining that the sober response is asking for evidence.

“And if the claim is true, if people are being swept up, who are really violent, predatory, destructive, then the society is indeed standing at a knife’s edge, cliff’s edge ... not because enforcement can’t be abused. It can. Not because the state can’t lie. It can. But because a crowd can begin to treat evil as an acceptable ally as long as it wears the right costume: resistance,” Glenn says.

“I would like to coin a term here. This is the 'Barabbas trap,'” he adds.

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Conservatives panic that Trump is caving in Minnesota — but Glenn Beck explains his master strategy



On Monday, January 26, President Trump announced that he had had "very good" and "productive” conversations with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) amid the escalating anti-ICE protests, violence, and backlash over fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

According to statements from all three, their conversations centered on de-escalating tensions from the anti-ICE protests and federal immigration operations in Minnesota, including potential reductions in federal agent numbers, allowing state-led investigations into the recent fatal shootings by agents, cooperation on handing over criminal noncitizens from state custody, reassigning Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, and assigning border czar Tom Homan to oversee matters on the ground.

Many people on the right interpreted this as the Trump administration caving to leftist protesters. Glenn Beck confesses that that was his initial reaction upon hearing the news.

“When I first saw this story yesterday … I thought, is he waving the white flag? What is he doing? ... Is this all about the election and getting re-elected and he's got to make nicey-nice?” he admits.

But deeper scrutiny led Glenn to believe that it is not surrender but rather "counterinsurgency” that we are witnessing in the Twin Cities.

“We're seeing Trump shift the battlefield, not abandon it,” he says, explaining that if Trump were legitimately surrendering, he would “end the enforcement nationwide,” “call off ICE operations,” “publicly repudiate Homan or Miller,” “admit wrongdoing,” and “accept the 'Gestapo snatching people off the streets' narrative.”

But “none of that happened,” says Glenn.

Instead, Trump “narrowed the enforcement criteria. Political pressure is rerouted, optics cooled, legal authority preserved, responsibility transferred back to the states,” he explains. “This is not a surrender. I believe this is a reframing of the fight, and it's really smart.”

From the get-go, Trump was clear about ICE’s objective, says Glenn: “Get the really bad criminals off the streets.”

“So the goal was never ICE agents everywhere all the time. The goal was this: Force blue-state leadership to choose publicly and unmistakably between protecting violent criminals or cooperating with federal law enforcement,” he explains.

Minnesota was sliding into irremediable chaos, which would only benefit the radical left, which is aiming to cultivate a “legitimacy crisis,” he says. Escalation is exactly what the insurrectionists wanted Trump to do.

But he smartly didn’t drop the hammer. Instead, he made some moves in order to win the “optics war” — one of them being relocating Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, whom Glenn calls “a walking headline” and a “symbol” for the left’s anti-ICE movement.

This one move, Glenn says, accomplished a number of things. It weakened the Senate shutdown talks, took the media’s favorite villain out of the story, and moved the fight from “personality back to policy.”

“This is classic Trump,” he says.

“Never die on someone else's hill if it isn't the hill you chose. … Only die on the hill you choose,” he adds, quoting Trump’s iconic 1987 book “The Art of the Deal.”

“So when he talks to Walz and Frey, I don't think this is capitulation. I think these were traps.”

To hear more of Glenn’s analysis, watch the video above.

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Scott Bessent DESTROYS Gavin Newsom after Davos Trump smear



California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) flaunted his disdain for the Trump administration at Davos this past week — but thanks to Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, he didn’t get away with it.

“We used to have a general rule. You do not go out of the country and badmouth your country or your politicians. You just don’t do it. And we never used to do that. That changed under the Obama administration," Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck explains.

And that’s exactly what Newsom did.


"Trump is a T. rex. You mate with him or he devours you, one or the other," Newsom said at Davos on Tuesday.

And consequentially, even Scott Bessent felt the need to take Newsom down.

“I think it’s very, very ironic that, you know, Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken, may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris,” Bessent said.

“He’s here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros, and Davos is a perfect place for a man who, when everyone else is on lockdown, when he was having people arrested for going to church, he was having thousand-dollar-a-night meals at the French Laundry. And I’m sure the California people won’t forget that.”

Bessent went on to say that he had a “message to Governor Newsom,” and that message is that the Trump administration is “going to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse” in his state.

“I was told he was asked to give a speech on his signature policies, but he’s not speaking, because what have his economic policies brought? Outward migration from California, a gigantic budget deficit, the largest homeless population in America, and the poor folks in the Palisades who had their homes burned down,” he continued.

“He is here hobnobbing with the global elite while his California citizens are still homeless. Shame on him. He is too smug, too self-absorbed, and too economically illiterate to know anything,” he added.

Glenn is thrilled by Bessent’s speech.

“I just don’t know who my biggest hero is right now, but Bessent is one of them,” Glenn says.

“He’s one of the best, well-put-together, deep-thinking, calm secretaries that we’ve ever had in that position,” he continues. “I mean, I just have complete confidence that if he says it, I’m like, ‘Okay, I may not understand or I may not agree with it, but I’m going to roll the dice with you.’”

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Conflicting narratives, one dead American: Glenn Beck cuts through the media spin on Alex Pretti shooting



Minneapolis’ anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests have continued to intensify. Over the weekend, several clashes between protesters and ICE agents occurred, one that resulted in 37-year-old Minnesota local Alex Pretti, who was carrying a legally concealed handgun, being shot and killed by several ICE agents during a federal immigration enforcement operation on January 24.

The reporting on the circumstances surrounding Pretti’s death has been conflicting. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, as well as other Trump administration officials, have framed the ICE officers’ actions as justified.

In her official statement, Noem said, “An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9-millimeter semi-automatic handgun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. Fearing for his life and for the lives of his fellow officers around him, an agent fired defensive shots.”

She further described the incident as “a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage and kill law enforcement," labeling it "domestic terrorism.”

Multiple bystander videos, forensic audio analyses, and video analyses and reporting from major outlets including the New York Times, BBC, and NPR, however, directly contradict these claims. This evidence indicates Pretti was already pinned to the ground, disarmed (his concealed handgun removed from his waistband during the scuffle), and no longer posing a threat when agents fired numerous rounds.

As of now, many American citizens appear genuinely confused and divided about what really happened in Alex Pretti's shooting due to the sharply conflicting narratives.

On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn offers some insight to the truth behind Alex Pretti's shooting — examining the conflicting claims, the chaotic scuffle, and why rushing to judgment or prosecution could miss the bigger picture of escalating unrest.

“First of all, what Noem said is not true,” says Glenn frankly.

“If you want to say technically he approached carrying a 9mm, he did, but it was holstered and in his back. And you have a right to carry a gun at a protest. ... It is perfectly legal and constitutionally protected,” he adds.

While it was unwise for Pretti to carry a gun and get involved with federal officers, it was not technically illegal because he never actually pulled the gun, Glenn explains.

On the other hand, the officers who shot Pretti were in an extremely “chaotic situation,” Glenn pivots, noting that these men are on edge after enduring ceaseless violence, doxxing, and threats from protesters.

Video footage captures a tangle of people — officers in tactical gear, one in plainclothes, Pretti, and other protesters — in a wrestling match on the ground. The officer who discovered Pretti’s handgun and removed it from his waistband was wearing plainclothes, meaning bystanders — including the ones who yelled “gun” — could have easily mistaken him for an armed protester.

Further there’s a good chance agents in the scuffle with Pretti didn’t see the plainclothes officer remove the handgun and could have assumed that the people yelling “gun” were referring to Pretti.

Glenn says that the civil rights protests spearheaded by Martin Luther King Jr. were only successful because they were peaceful. Protesters didn’t bring guns to demonstrations; they didn’t escalate confrontations with police; and they didn’t intentionally create chaos.

“King would have let [Pretti] rot in prison and wouldn't have marched for that guy because he had a gun, because he made the rest of the movement look dangerous. Even though he had a right to have a gun, Martin Luther King would have said, 'You don't bring a gun. You don't push back. You don't do it because that's the way peaceful protests win,’" says Glenn, “and everybody who knows anything about protesting knows this.”

“The left, they've been preaching Martin Luther King forever. They know this is not the tactic of Martin Luther King. This is the tactic that escalates, not de-escalates, things.”

All evidence considered, Glenn falls somewhere in the middle on Pretti’s death.

“We have to be very careful with our words and speak the truth at all times, even if it hurts our side,” he says.

“I don't think he should have been shot, but I also don't think they should prosecute [the officers who shot him] because it's a chaotic situation. ... It's just a really nasty, bad situation.”

To hear more of Glenn’s analysis, watch the video above.

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