Ian Livingston
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![On Monday’s edition of The Glenn Beck Program at The Blaze, the host, who has railed against Antifa for years, said three FBI agents came to his house to pick his brain on the subject after he discussed Antifa on his show last week.
“So we dove in head first, and we analyzed the Antifa network and we went from the street thugs to the support groups, eventually to the funding,” he said. “To say the FBI was interested in this might be an understatement. Let’s just say the FBI is turning over every single stone. It is so clear to me that they are exploring all angles of this, and they are talking to anyone and everyone that can give them any kind of information.”
Beck went on to explain that he knows this because the FBI reached out to him for more information:
Saturday, I get a phone call. “Uh, the director would like to send over some agents to speak to you, Glenn.” And I’m like, “The director? FBI agents?”
“Yes, you said some things that they need to talk to you about.” And I’m like, “Good things or bad things?”
“They’ll be over.”
So they sat in my living room. Three agents sat in my room on Saturday afternoon for almost two hours. And I immediately called [my researcher] Jason [Buttrill]. I’m like, “Jason, you’re the researcher, your fault. I’m gonna throw you under the bus! You better get your butt over here.”
So Jason was there. And my wife and Jason and I sat there, and it was surreal at one point. I talked to them for about 15 minutes just going over the Tides Foundation and saying, if you understand Tide, you’ll understand how difficult your job is going to be. And this is information that I first gave on Fox years ago.
Let me just say this. Finally, we have an administration and an FBI director that is willing to go in deep, not surface, but deep. I can only imagine what we could have avoided if anyone in an administration would’ve done this in 2011. But if I were in that “imaginary” group of Antifa, which, by the way, has “imaginary” leaders leaving …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:izhfbj6pve3oskf3pbz6b3vr/bafkreidcd5e6jyrzd56nj3p7fcqptpzdohtm4bhdyeei3kb5n6l4tnxbha@jpeg)
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