The Glenn Show has gotten off to a strong start in 2026. Last Friday’s stream featured two excellent guests weighing in on two big topics: Murtaza Hussain on the Epstein Files and Daniel Bessner on Venezuela. Let’s get into it.
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We began with a discussion of the biggest domestic news story of the year thus far: the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. The incident has brought the political conflict surrounding ICE operations in American cities to a head, with many opponents of ICE claiming that the shooting was cold-blooded murder and many supporters of ICE claiming it was justified self-defense on the part of the agent. President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have all spoken in support of the ICE agent. I found the rush to judgment by officials and the vituperation directed at Good to be, frankly, awful. Those of us who want the truth are waiting for all the facts to come in, and the administration ought to do the same.
My first guest on the stream was Murtaza Hussain, a journalist who’s been doing detailed, in-depth reporting on the Epstein Files for Drop Site. Murtaza’s reporting focuses on Epstein’s business and financial activities, and he’s dug up information that most mainstream media have either failed to recognize, downplayed, or ignored. I talked with Murtaza about Epstein work as a broker and power player involved in sub rosa international deals involving figures like former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak and scandals like Iran-Contra. Murtaza is after the big questions: How did Epstein make his money? What was the nature of his work? How did he draw so many powerful and influential people into his circle? In this segment, he sheds some light on how Epstein transformed himself from a high school teacher into a player in a shadowy world few of us will ever see directly.
Next, historian and co-host of the American Prestige podcast Daniel Bessner joined the stream to provide some insight on US activities in Venezuela. Why did we violate Venezuela’s borders, launch a military strike on it, and arrest its president and his wife? Is it all about the oil? Or is there some deeper global strategy at play? I laid out my preliminary thoughts on our activities in South America in a short essay that I posted yesterday, and Danny brings his analysis and critique of American empire to bear on what is, to many, a slightly perplexing turn of events.
