DHS Raid on Ilhan Omar’s Home: What We Know | Guest: David Steinberg | 10/13/26
The Glenn Beck Program
October 13, 2026
Is China shutting down its border after the pneumonic plague lab incident that led to multiple hospitals being quarantined? Glenn breaks down what China’s latest border move means and explains why nobody should panic.
Speakers Glenn Beck, Jason Buttrill, JD Vance, David Steinberg
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Hello America, welcome to The Glenn Beck Program. We've got a lot to cover today. I'm gonna start with Omar and the raid on her home yesterday, which we found out as this show was unfolding yesterday. We don't have a lot more. We have a lot of speculation. We're gonna learn more when the court filings or the affidavit starts to come out, but it is a significant thing yesterday, as we told you, that a federal judge in DC signed off on this warrant. What could they be looking for? Her original immigration and naturalization records, whether information on those things were fraudulent or inaccurate. There is a birthdate thing that they're going back and forth on. And if any of the stuff that they found yesterday goes against anything that was filed, does it have anything to do with her marriage?
I have read both sides on this, that her marriage doesn't matter. But I would think it would, but statute of limitations, we know very little. I'm going to talk to the guy in about an hour and a half, the guy who has been, I mean, he's dedicated his life to this story and has had significant funding behind him to be able to get all of the facts in the stories. He's been going for at least 10 years on this story. He knows more than anybody else. We're going to talk to him, get the latest from him coming up. Also, I want to talk to you about how Oregon adults have the highest rate of mental illness in the United States. We make all kinds of jokes about that. What a surprise. But instead, I'm looking for some real answers because there's some confusing data in this story that I think tells us something much more than just politics. Thank God. Also, big news. China, have they closed their border to Russia?
Not exactly, but it does have something to do with the outbreak. So now we've got China reacting to the outbreak. They've just closed. Well, I'll explain it. It's a little bit complicated. I'll explain coming up in just a second. First, let me tell you about Chapter. Recently, we heard from Eva about her experience with Chapter. She says, don't put it off. Calling Chapter was the best thing I've ever done. We kept putting it off. My husband and I had perfect health records. One day we sat down, we did a phone call appointment with Kevin at Chapter. He guided us through and helped us choose a plan that fit our budget. The coverage that we had was unexpected. We got covered that day. Six days later, my husband had a massive heart attack. He was life flighted to another hospital, a stent put in, open heart double bypass surgery in Nashville a week later. We wouldn't have kept that appointment. We would have lost everything.
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Okay, let's see. Let me start with China here. This is a weird story.
Let me start at the beginning. It was on the 1st of October, a 28-year-old woman named Darya Shiplova. She went into the hospital in Siberia with pneumonia. That's really all we know. By the next morning, she was dead. Now she worked at the Anti-Plague Institute. This is a lab that was founded in 1934 They study the plague, anthrax, cholera, and other things. This area has a problem with plague, she had the pneumonic plague, they think, which means it's carried in the lungs. It's not passed on by rats, it's passed on by coughing or air molecules, okay? What happened next is why we're hearing about it. About 200 people were put in isolation. Hospital was quarantined, up to five hospitals were quarantined. Masks went on in an aluminum plant. Then Moscow said, no, there's nothing to worry about. There's no accident, there's no plague, nothing to see. And Russia's censors warned everybody against spreading fake news. Week later reports in that a second worker from the same institute was in the hospital with the same kind of pneumonia. Now, let me take you to China. You might have seen the headline that just came out, that China is closing the border with Russia. That isn't quite true. And the difference I think matters here. I want to pay attention to this story, but I don't want to panic on this story. China has not shut the crossing. It's the biggest land gate between the two countries, health officials called emergency meetings, and then tightened screenings of people and cargo coming in from Russia. The region around it told anyone from, that's arriving from Siberia to watch for symptoms and report them.
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