Best of the Program | Guest: Tim Barton | 6/23/26

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**Glenn Beck** (0:33)
So, we begin the monologues today with AI, and what is happening with AI? The president says he wants to own some of these AI companies, some sort of sovereign fund. What is that? This is not a new idea. This is actually Hamilton. Hamilton's Bargain is what it's actually called, and there's a lesson to it. I take you through that. Also, we tell you some great stories of founders and, you know, the war.
We think the war started when we declared our independence. The war was already going on. Declaration of Independence came after the battleships, and this week is the anniversary, 250th anniversary of a really important battle in South Carolina. We tell you a story that I had never heard before. I mean, I'm sure people in South Carolina are like, are you a dummy? Of course, that's what it is. I didn't know, and you'd be fascinated by it. And we have special guest Tim Barton in Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor. It's the story of the 56 Americans. It's a book that is on sale today.
They tell the best stories and get it right because they have the documents. Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor. Get it at bookstores and you'll hear a little bit of that all in today's Best of Podcast.

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**Glenn Beck** (2:07)
Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We have just taken another giant leap for mankind. Kind of giant leap for mankind. The president yesterday signed an executive order that America will lead in the quantum tech race. What does that mean? Oh, it means everything. We'll get into that here in just a second. Also, the president is floating a trial balloon about taking pieces of the AI companies.
Let's not. I'll explain why this is actually something that Hamilton was for, believe it or not. I mean, the founders, people are like, they could have never seen this coming. No, but they saw a lot of things that are exactly like today, and I'll explain. Alexander Hamilton saw AI coming? No, but he saw this problem coming. All right. Let me give you a couple of stories here.
Trump has just signed an executive order to lead to the quantum tech race.
It's the first order that pushes for a US quantum computer at a national lab by 2028, plus sensors and networks in five years, while expanding training and supply chains across agencies Energy, Commerce and NASA.
Quantum computing is something you're not going to have access to.
Quantum computing is everything. Quantum computing, coupled with artificial super-intelligence, changes the entire world. The problem with all of this stuff is you're not going to have access to it. The government will.
We're in this catch-22. The government has to have control of quantum computing for their own sake because there will be no secrets. Your bank account will be gone. The minute we have quantum computing, any country can destroy the other because they'll just wipe out bank accounts overnight. They'll just wipe them out. There's no secrets. There's no national secrets. You'll be able to go in to hack into our codes to launch missiles. There are no secrets. There are no doors that have any locks once you have quantum computing. That's the biggest problem. And that's the second post that he did for the executive order. And that is we have to have by 2030, 2031, encryption that is quantum, that will stop any kind of quantum attack on encryption. So we have to have it. I just don't like the government having access to things that the average person can have access to. And I don't want to access to encryption technology, et cetera, et cetera. But this is much more than that. And you combine it with the other thing that was floated yesterday. JD Vance said yesterday, the president is supportive of the United States owning these big AI companies. He likes the idea sort of as a sovereign wealth fund idea. OK, that's good. I understand the sovereign wealth thing. And I understand where Trump is coming from on this.
Where he's coming from is he believes that the nation needs to be strong. You know, this is the same argument that was made back in the colonial era. Let me tell you a story about an argument, OK? Because it just walked into the room with a new face. But it's the same argument. It's the winter 1791 Two men are sitting in the same cabinet and they can't stand each other. They can't stand what the other one wanted to build. Alexander Hamilton, he was an orphan, he was an immigrant, he was a genius. He was the first secretary, Treasury Secretary, and he looked at this fragile, broke, barely stitched together republic and saw what America could be great someday. We could be a great power. He saw way over the horizon. But he believed that to get there, the government had to do something really, really bold. It had to partner with the biggest power on earth. And that wasn't government, that was money. He wanted a national bank. The federal government would assume the state's debts. In his report on manufacturers, the open argument that the state should encourage industry directly through tariffs and subsidies and a thumb on the scale. He said, we can build national champions, we'll fuse the strength of the government to the muscle of commerce, and you get a giant. And he's right, you would. But that philosophy seems really familiar, doesn't it? Now, across the table was Thomas Jefferson. And Jefferson looked at his blueprint and was like, oh my gosh, this is poison. This is slow acting poison.