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This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
It's going to happen. | ||
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
Okay. | ||
Welcome back Friday, 7 February, Year of the Lord, 2025. Dave Brat. | ||
And folks, that's just the way it is. | ||
That thing on the CR and the 14th is everything. | ||
You've got to get that sorted first. | ||
Then you should be running around doing these reconciliations. | ||
And it's got to be two reconciliations. | ||
The ICE guys are going to be cash right now. | ||
Remember, we've hit the debt ceiling, so we're in extraordinary efforts on the debt ceiling right now. | ||
And there's cash around. | ||
You're not going to default on securities. | ||
But there's no additional cash out there. | ||
And ICE, this is why they're going to Gitmo. | ||
ICE needs some money to kind of build some infrastructure to get this thing rolling. | ||
We got 10 million to 12 million illegal alien evaders. | ||
Gotta go. | ||
Gotta go home. | ||
Secretary of State Rubio's cutting deals down in Central America with the frontline nations, but it needs some cash. | ||
So, Brat, you've done this drill many times. | ||
Poke holes in my logic, sir. | ||
Because I go to people and I say, tell me where I'm wrong. | ||
And they go, they're in the mumble tank. | ||
And then finally, Tom Massey with that MIT brain just puts it out there. | ||
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Boom. | |
What he said is a short tweet. | ||
Grace, if you can put it into the chat. | ||
And it's not that, oh, Tom Massey doesn't support the president. | ||
This is not about supporting the president. | ||
It's not about supporting the president or not supporting the president. | ||
We're making a case that if nothing's done in President Trump's first year, you're going to have Joe Biden's budget. | ||
That's just a technical reality. | ||
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So, Brad, punch holes in it. | |
Yeah, not many holes to punch. | ||
I mean, the only hole is the amount of revenues we're going to get out of the external revenue service. | ||
I'm all in favor of going big, hard on China across the board and decoupling for many reasons. | ||
We've got to be very smart and strategic on the order of all that with rare earth minerals, and I get all that. | ||
But my memory just goes back when I was in. | ||
It was first give us the House, then the Senate, then the White House. | ||
We got all three. | ||
And then we didn't do anything because the House and the Senate were scared of losing members. | ||
And it's the same logic today. | ||
They're scared of losing a member or two. | ||
There needs to be just a tremendous gestalt shift, right? | ||
Or a Thomas Kuhnian revolution in psychology, which you're helping to bring about. | ||
You know, you're going Old Testament today. | ||
Moses came down with his list of ten and threw them down on the ground and wrecked God's word because he was so upset with the people, right? | ||
And then you got John the Baptist, you got Churchill yelling out in the wilderness by himself. | ||
You've been yelling out in the wilderness, but you're having an amazing effect on this country. | ||
And so the budget numbers aren't going to do the trick. | ||
It's got to be a grassroots effort on the House, contacting your House and Senate members politically. | ||
And putting the fear of God in them, right? | ||
I think it's Proverbs. | ||
Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. | ||
And that's what we've got to get straight. | ||
If you had 200 Thomas Masseys in the House conference, there wouldn't be any wars, there wouldn't be any $36 trillion debt, there wouldn't be any border invasion, etc. | ||
So we've got to get 200 solid members. | ||
So war and posse, we're not to the point of calling because we've got to work through a plan and think this through. | ||
I'm just laying it out there. | ||
And hey, what Dave Brett's saying, poke holes in my argument. | ||
I'm hopeful for external revenue. | ||
We actually came up with this concept here with John Gardner on Worm at the political talk. | ||
And I'm a huge believer in President Trump's strategy on this is brilliant. | ||
But you're 100% correct. | ||
I'm not sure there's going to be a ton of cash in the first year. | ||
Every time they talk to you about four trillion cuts and five trillion cuts and seven trillion cuts and all this, they're talking 10 years because they have a statute that says you have to do things in 10 years. | ||
It's irrelevant. | ||
You can do it. | ||
It's fine. | ||
The only thing that matters, like in any restructuring, is this year and next year. | ||
Let's get through that first, and let's show how we're getting towards a balanced budget. | ||
We're not going to get there. | ||
Let's just show how we're going to get to Scott Bessens, the Secretary of Treasury, 3% of GDP. We're essentially at 6.5% now. | ||
It's not sustainable. | ||
This is why inflation's not going to totally go away, because now it's embedded in the financing cost. | ||
Of, you know, 20% or a third of refinancing, 36, 37, 38, 39, $40 trillion of debt. | ||
We never pay down a penny of principal. | ||
We will never pay down a penny of principal. | ||
Because now the gross interest charges are going to be, what, $1.4 trillion. | ||
Larger than the defense budget. | ||
Oh, by the way, which has to be cut. | ||
Dave Brett, you're going to be back with us at 5. Brother, where do people get you in the interim? | ||
Yeah, Brad, economic son, a getter. | ||
It turns out my young people threw me up on X without me knowing. | ||
And I'll announce that tonight at 5. These young people are trying to get me active. | ||
But I'm glad to see Amichukwa coming on. | ||
He'll throw down a little Old Testament for you. | ||
He'll give you, Pastor, that's who we're going to bring now. | ||
Dave Brat, see you back here at 5. We'll have a big announcement. | ||
Dave Brat's expanding social media empire. | ||
Pastor John Amichukwa. | ||
Amon Shukwet joins us. | ||
I'll cut that to Pastor John. | ||
So tell me today, I want to bring a fire breather on. | ||
I already had Lance Wall now, who's calm and, you know, calm demeanor, but he's a fire breather. | ||
You're probably one of my best, the country's best. | ||
The task force... | ||
That Pam Bondi's leading on making sure there's no more anti-Christian bias in the government and no attacks on individual Christians, plus the faith office today, President Trump in two days around the National Prayer Breakfast, went yard. | ||
Is this just more performative or is this real, Pastor John? | ||
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This is the real deal. | |
You know, to create a task force to fight against anti-Christian bias and bigotry, you know, with the support of Pam Bondi and Paula White, this is what America needs. | ||
Just keep in mind, Merrick Garland labeled parents as domestic terrorists. | ||
Why? | ||
Because they didn't want books like this to be in the school system. | ||
Genderqueer. | ||
They didn't want books like this. | ||
Sparkle Boy to be in the school system for the children to read. | ||
They didn't want books like this, entitled Worm Loves Worm, that talks about same-sex marriage to kids ages 4 through 8. They didn't want that. | ||
And so what President Trump is doing is that he's holding true to his promises. | ||
He said that we will see a golden age in America. | ||
The Bible tells us this, that righteousness exalts a nation, and sin is a reproach towards any people. | ||
And President Trump is holding true to form. | ||
He campaigned on these things, and he's doing it. | ||
But we must also keep in mind that the icing on the cake is this new faith office. | ||
But there's something else that we need to do. | ||
We need to rectify what the demonic and diabolical man Lyndon B. Johnson did in 1954 with the Johnson Amendment. | ||
He found a creative way to shackle the hands of the Christian church, in particular Christian pastors, to keep them muzzled so they won't speak up and out against policies that the Democrat Party was pushing. | ||
We need to re- Peel the Johnson Amendment, and that would be sprinkles on the cake. | ||
But I see today that there's a plan, clearly, on the left. | ||
They're not going to sit back and sit on the sideline and allow President Trump to move forward with his agenda. | ||
They're already talking about impeaching him. | ||
And who do they hate the most? | ||
They don't hate President Trump. | ||
They hate the God of this book. | ||
They hate the God of the Bible. | ||
And when you consider people like Alice Bailey and Margaret Sanger and Madeline Murray O'Hare, who labored to remove prayer from the public school system and the Bible, these are the kind of individuals that President Trump is still fighting today. | ||
America, we have elected number 45 and number 47, and he's holding true to the things that he promised us, and I celebrate that. | ||
What do you hope to see out of the task force? | ||
What will you hope to see out of the faith office? | ||
Because they're two different things. | ||
And what would your potential role be? | ||
Or other evangelical pastors like yourself, sir? | ||
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Well, first and foremost, we want to keep the federal government from telling pastors what they can and can't say. | |
You know, there's this lie that the Constitution includes this line, that there's a separation of church and state, and that's not true. | ||
Thomas Jefferson mentioned that in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association. | ||
He talked about a wall of separation. | ||
And the plan was to keep the state from infringing upon the church and not vice versa. | ||
And so that's where we are today. | ||
We need to repeal the Johnson Amendment. | ||
I want to see that take place. | ||
I also want to position ourselves where we can get back to allowing the Bible and school-sponsored prayer to be recited in schools all across this country every day. | ||
Christianity is the foundation of American civilization and American exceptionalism. | ||
America would not be exceptional if it weren't for Judeo-Christian principles. | ||
So I want to see school-sponsored prayer and school systems all around this country and to get back to the Ten Commandments. | ||
We want to see that take place. | ||
Also, we want to make sure that when Christians go to school, They're not demonized, you know, grades K through 12, by their professors and or by their teachers. | ||
There was a young girl in Chatham County who really got me into this fight nationally to lead me towards going to 18 states and speaking up for children. | ||
There was a young girl in Chatham County who was demonized for a Christian faith. | ||
Her teacher told her that believing in Jesus was tantamount to believing in a brick wall. | ||
That should never happen. | ||
But under the Trump administration and with this new faith office, we're going to see things like that dissipate and we'll be able to have a school system that builds up our children from the bottom up and reminds them of the great heritage that we have in this country when it comes to Christianity. | ||
Pastor John, where can people get you? | ||
Where do they go for your fight? | ||
One, for the kids in the schools, but also for your mission about Christianity and making sure that we get a government that does not persecute Christians, which has been happening. | ||
I mean, we have to face a quite unpleasant fact. | ||
Where do people go to partner with you? | ||
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Yes, you can go to iknowgod.us. | |
I'm leading a national campaign going from state to state. | ||
I've now been to 18 states leading this campaign. | ||
We're fighting against critical race theory, gender theory, and queer theory. | ||
Go to iknowgod.us. | ||
You can follow me there and support me there as well. | ||
Pastor John, thank you so much. | ||
Appreciate you. | ||
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Thank you. | |
God bless you. | ||
We're going to jump, I think, at the bottom of the hour, so a lot more I want to get through. | ||
The Prime Minister of Japan is going to be, I think, arriving momentarily at the White House, maybe there. | ||
They're going at 1130. As soon as President Trump, and he has these bilats, what happens is that the dignitaries show up at that circular driveway, or sometimes through the side door. | ||
Depending where it's easier to do the ceremony, they come in, and President Trump... | ||
We'll then go to the Oval Office and normally go to the side into the West Wing. | ||
President Trump takes him and they have a bilat. | ||
They have a few minutes to themselves together, catch up, give some greetings. | ||
Then President Trump will normally then bring in the press early for some questions, etc. | ||
And then he will do a longer private meeting there and then they'll go out to the press conference. | ||
This is what he did with BB the other day. | ||
I anticipate it will be the same way here. | ||
That 1130, it looks like it may be a press avail. | ||
We'll go to that. | ||
I think our own Brian Glenn will be in the Oval if we do that. | ||
And then they'll have the continuation of the bilateral meeting. | ||
And then later, I think around the 1 o'clock time, and Real America's Voice will cover it. | ||
You'll have the press conference from the East Room. | ||
And then President Trump's leaving early today to go to Mar-a-Lago for Super Bowl weekend. | ||
And Jane Zirkle has got some questions, hopefully, in the press pool to ask him down there. | ||
So it's a lot going on today. | ||
Natalie Werners will be with us at 5 o'clock to wrap up an tense day in the White House. | ||
President Trump has just announced Reuters broke. | ||
Another thing he talked about last night and reemphasized today, reciprocal tariffs. | ||
Is this not the situation with the emergency use of the tariffs for the national security crisis on the southern border of fentanyl? | ||
He's also talking about reciprocal tariffs. | ||
What does this mean? | ||
Times of turbulence. | ||
Think the S&P is down 70 points, S&P 400, I think, or 500 is down. | ||
Remember, the 400 is in industrials, and the 500 includes some of the financials. | ||
I always say, for a pure look at America's industrial might, always check the S&P 400. One of those are down 70 points. | ||
It's a time of turbulence. | ||
That's why Birch Gold. | ||
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Because President Trump is trying to restructure this government and trying to cut massive spending and trying to get populist tax policies in. | ||
The global capital market is going to be a little bumpy. | ||
So buckle up and check with Birch Gold. | ||
Philip Patrick and the team. | ||
Those of you guys, go check with BirchGold.com slash Bannon online. | ||
Reach out to Philip Patrick. | ||
Short commercial break. | ||
You're in the war room. | ||
back in a moment. | ||
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I don't understand the first few weeks of the second Trump administration. | |
Go back and listen to what Steve Bannon told PBS's Frontline in 2019. The opposition party is the media. | ||
And the media can only, because they're dumb and they're lazy, they can only focus on one thing at a time. | ||
All we have to do is flood the zone. | ||
Every day we hit them with three things, they'll bite on one, and we'll get all of our stuff done. | ||
Bang, bang, bang. | ||
These guys will never be able to recover. | ||
But we've got to start with muzzle velocity. | ||
So it's got to start, it's got to hammer, it's got to muzzle velocity. | ||
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Muzzle velocity. | |
Bannon's insight there is real. | ||
Focus is a fundamental substance of democracy. | ||
It is particularly the substance of opposition. | ||
People largely learn of what the government is doing through the media. | ||
So if you overwhelm the media... | ||
A record-setting number of executive orders. | ||
Everybody pardons. | ||
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Violence, nonviolence. | |
Including assaulting police officers. | ||
Birthright citizenship. | ||
We live in unprecedented times right now. | ||
If you keep it moving from one thing to the next... | ||
So far so good. | ||
Is this legal? | ||
If you give it too many places it needs to look. | ||
You've never been deported before? | ||
You've got to fill it. | ||
All at once. | ||
All federal grants and loans will be halted. | ||
Look, there is a purge happening. | ||
Frankly, unprecedented in its nature. | ||
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Guantanamo. | |
DEI. | ||
The Gulf of America. | ||
No coherent opposition can really emerge. | ||
It is hard to even think coherently. | ||
Donald Trump's first two weeks in the White House have followed Bannon's strategy like a script. | ||
The flood is a point, the overwhelm. | ||
Is the point. | ||
The message wasn't in any one executive order or announcement. | ||
It was in the cumulative effect of all of them. | ||
The sense that this is Trump's country now. | ||
It is his government now. | ||
It follows his will. | ||
It does what he wants. | ||
That he is limitless. | ||
If he says that birthright citizenship is over, then it's over. | ||
Shutting down USAID. Shutting down the Department of Education. | ||
There is a whole now parallel agenda. | ||
But I don't know how much Trump understands it or cares about it, but it's Elon's agenda. | ||
And the Elon Musk agenda, our co-president, which is, unfortunately, you know, we've talked, I've talked on this show and in other places about one of the most interesting tensions in Trump's political coalition between the Bannon wing and the Musk wing. | ||
This is the place where Bannon and Musk are aligned. | ||
Bannon wants the deconstruction of the administrative state, is exactly what Elon Musk wants. | ||
Bannon wants it for maybe slightly different reasons, maybe slightly less for personal enrichment than Musk. | ||
But they both want to tear everything down. | ||
They're both Heath Ledger in the second Dark Knight movie. | ||
They just want to watch the world burn. | ||
They want to tear these institutions down. | ||
And Trump has that quality, too. | ||
That's not about retribution. | ||
That's just about nihilism, right? | ||
But what Elon Musk is very effective at doing is knowing how to send five... | ||
Really brilliant computer programmers who don't know anything about concerns about what would happen to classified documents or names got out, but know how to get inside the bowels of the Treasury Department's payment systems and extract the information that they need for whatever purposes. | ||
And how to effectively shut down an independent agency like USAID at a weekend of work. | ||
That's the parallel agenda that goes in perfect tandem with the retributive agenda. | ||
It is the slight place where Musk and Trump come together. | ||
Musk is not retributive. | ||
Trump is not fully deconstructed. | ||
I don't think he understands any of those words. | ||
Deconstruction, administrative, state. | ||
But tearing stuff down, great. | ||
And they're working in devilish tandem now. | ||
And I think that part of the challenge here... | ||
How do you address all of that? | ||
It looks to me as if Musk has chosen AID as kind of a demonstration project, just to see how he can destroy an agency and demoralize the rest of the federal workforce. | ||
My question for Andrew is, let's assume that you are right, that Marco Rubio just inherently is not insane, that he understands the good that... | ||
AID was doing and that within the State Department, he wants to recreate some of this, maybe quietly. | ||
But he knows that we need to have it. | ||
But how long would it take? | ||
How difficult would it be, even if he wanted to sort of put it back together now that it's been utterly smashed? | ||
Isn't that a long-term project? | ||
It is. | ||
You destroy an institution, you don't rebuild it overnight. | ||
And I might add, the State Department is not... | ||
I mean, I have great respect for the State Department. | ||
They're the best diplomats in the world. | ||
I was a diplomat for a while as President Bush's envoy to Sudan. | ||
But they are not operational. | ||
They cannot deploy disaster assistance response teams, which AID sends all over the world. | ||
They hire generalists in the Foreign Service. | ||
AID hires... | ||
Specialists. | ||
You have to have an advanced degree to work in the Foreign Service and AID or you can't get hired, which means PhDs, medical doctors, agricultural economists, agricultural scientists. | ||
We have logisticians. | ||
How do you think food aid gets moving? | ||
It doesn't just appear magically. | ||
You have to have people, experts in logistics. | ||
294 people. | ||
To spend $38 billion? | ||
What are they, idiots? | ||
And the hiring systems in the State Department, I have to say, are very slow. | ||
AID has slowed down in recent years, but when I was there, we could hire someone in a couple of months. | ||
I do think that changes need to be made, but the problem is not an AID. No, the problem is an AID. In the deconstruction of the administrative state, and this is where we do all come together, and President Trump understands this, you must take this apparatus apart and get down to what you actually need in a limited government to maximize liberty of the people and also to perform some basic functions. | ||
I'm not saying it shouldn't be regulation or regulatory apparatus. | ||
Nobody's talking about that. | ||
But USAID, and this is why it's such a perfect one to start with, there's no good that comes out of it. | ||
This is all a slush fund. | ||
It's a CIA cutout. | ||
Plus, you've seen what it's done on funding the NGOs and invasion of the southern border and what it's done to suppress speech in this country. | ||
And now we're finding out Victor Orban today announced he wants to see every penny USAID the U.S. government spent on funding these media companies in Hungary that are going after him. | ||
What USAID did was outrageous. | ||
And it's a perfect example for us to focus on because for years, Not just House Freedom Caucus, but pro-liberty people in the House on the Republican side went after USAID and it was backed up by the Paul Ryans that wouldn't even let people get in there and do audits, wouldn't even let people get in there and have any systematic or meaningful review. | ||
This is what you mean by controlled opposition. | ||
When I say, hey, we didn't get into this position by just radical Democrats running wild, of course they ran wild. | ||
But they were allowed to run wild by the controlled opposition Republicans who were too afraid to take the incoming and take the heat. | ||
They wanted to get invited to the cocktail parties in Georgetown and be called, you know, like Mike Turner when Mike Turner, you know, from Dayton, Ohio, flipped when he took over the Intelligence Committee. | ||
Everybody up on Capitol Hill says you're a statesman. | ||
You're a big thinker. | ||
You're projecting American soft power abroad. | ||
All this nonsense. | ||
For a CIA cutout that's doing nothing but damage and promoting the agenda of the American empire, of which we're not an empire. | ||
We're a revolutionary country. | ||
We were founded on a revolutionary idea. | ||
We wouldn't be part of an empire. | ||
And so for post-World War II, the hegemon... | ||
And particularly with the collapse of the Soviet Union under President Reagan, the evil empire, become the hegemon under Bush, 43, and then the thinking of the hegemon. | ||
This is how we gave total and complete power to the apartheid oligarchs in Silicon Valley who are now looking for a bailout. | ||
Let me give you a dirty secret. | ||
Let's have a moment of enlightening. | ||
Here, one of the things that we'll talk... | ||
Two adults like they're adults. | ||
And I finish with that cover of Time Magazine and do a split screen. | ||
Why do I keep saying, cross the Potomac, cross the Potomac, and go to the Pentagon? | ||
Where after I came off sea duty as a junior officer, I was a special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations and had the... | ||
The honor of working there and really was called the CNO's executive board. | ||
That's not some panel. | ||
That's really the 12 flag officers that made up the senior command of the Navy. | ||
We can do a split screen on that if you want. | ||
And so I saw the way the apparatus works. | ||
In particular, I saw the way the apparatus works of material acquisitions and shipbuilding. | ||
And this is President Reagan's. | ||
I was in the first years of President Reagan. | ||
It was building a 600-ship navy. | ||
Remember that? | ||
You might be old enough to remember that. | ||
We're going to go, I think, from under 300 ships to a 600-ship navy as Mahan's strategy of taking over kind of the British Empire's Royal Navy to choke down the power in the Eurasian landmass. | ||
That would be... | ||
Than the Soviet Union. | ||
And that was going to be quite expensive. | ||
But I saw that going. | ||
I saw the meetings. | ||
I was sat in the meetings as a junior officer. | ||
I was a grundune. | ||
But I come off CEDU. You know, I was, I don't know, 25, 26 years old. | ||
Taking notes. | ||
And so I saw the apparatus. | ||
I saw how it worked. | ||
As a young man made a lasting impression. | ||
And the people over there are good people. | ||
They're patriots. | ||
They're trying to do the right thing. | ||
It's a system that's out of control. | ||
And now, it's at $900 billion. | ||
We must cut federal spending. | ||
The number one existential threat to the United States is the Chinese Communist Party and inextricably linked our debt. | ||
And they understand this. | ||
And we're hurtling down a path. | ||
There are no easy alternatives. | ||
How do I know that? | ||
I just saw the OMB memo go out before Russ Vogt, the great Russ Vogt, by the way, shows up today on his first day of work. | ||
Even saying where all the money is in the system caused a riot on Capitol Hill. | ||
Caused a meltdown with the Republican members down at DeRal for their conference hearing. | ||
They were so shaken up. | ||
Their 10-year budget had $318 billion of cuts over 10 years. | ||
That's $31 billion a year. | ||
Over 10 years. | ||
Over 10 years. | ||
It's a joke. | ||
Oh, in addition, they had another $350 billion of increased spending. | ||
This is about political will and addressing things head-on. | ||
Why do they not want to cross the Potomac? | ||
Why do they not want to go south of the Potomac? | ||
Why do they not want to take the bridges and go to the Pentagon? | ||
Because Silicon Valley is inextricably linked to the Pentagon's budget. | ||
The oligarch's payday is over in the Pentagon. | ||
It's over in Arlington. | ||
Right there. | ||
That's why Amazon, that's why Pentagon City, right next to the Pentagon, is all the new high-tech hub. | ||
Proximity is power, right? | ||
Short commercial break. | ||
Okay, we're going to have a split screen if we can do that, Denver. | ||
There we go right there. | ||
Prime Minister Sheba. | ||
I think momentarily we've come for a meeting with the President of the United States. | ||
Remember, the President was very close to Abe, who was assassinated, gunned down in the streets. | ||
Think of Tokyo, right? | ||
The President took that hard. | ||
He was very close to Abe. | ||
Abe is the only guy I've seen the President. | ||
It wasn't 36 holes. | ||
I think they played 27. Abe was the first one to come and see him. | ||
We left. | ||
It was about this time, maybe a week later. | ||
We left. | ||
The White House, and went down to Mar-a-Lago, and the President and Abe, Abe was as much a golfer as President Trump, they played 18 holes, and Abe says, hey, how about another nine? | ||
And they went back out, just the two of them with the caddies, and the Secret Service, and played another nine holes. | ||
I think they wanted to play 36, but... | ||
He had that kind of relationship with Abe. | ||
And every time he went to Japan, they played one of the great courses in Japan. | ||
So President Trump personally had a very, very strong relationship, a very deep relationship with Prime Minister Abe. | ||
Prime Minister Shiba is there today. | ||
Obviously, huge talks. | ||
About the Japanese defense budget. | ||
The talks today will be about trade. | ||
They're going to be about tariffs. | ||
President Trump, this is why he said reciprocal tariffs. | ||
I'm sure he's going to have a conversation with the Japanese about that. | ||
His external revenue service is very high on the president's mind because if that cash comes in, maybe you have to do less cutting. | ||
Maybe you don't have to increase taxes on anybody, particularly the wealthy. | ||
Maybe you have bigger tax cuts, maybe even no tax on bonuses, which is something they've talked about, more populous tax cuts. | ||
The president's trying to juggle a lot, but the central part of the conversation, besides trade, will be around national security in the first island chain in the Pacific, and that'll be Taiwan, Guam, all of it. | ||
With the Japanese committing, I think, to rewrite their constitution, do other things to make sure they're more aggressive and spend more money in defense. | ||
I also think a big part of the conversation is going to be South Korea. | ||
There's essentially a coup going on there, and the Chinese Communist Party is in back of it, and that has to be addressed. | ||
Korea is a dagger. | ||
The Korean Peninsula is a dagger, pointed at the heart of Japan. | ||
Remember, Korea and Japan have had a very, very, very troubled history. | ||
Very troubled history. | ||
Things happened during World War II. And if folks think that things that happened in Nazi Germany, in Poland, in the mainland China, things happen in China that still today fire up the Chinese people, the Korean people still furious about a lot of the activity that went on with the Japanese in Korea. | ||
And the Japanese had a history of trying to dominate Korea. | ||
So that'll be a big... | ||
A big discussion today. | ||
Because the Koreans, who used to be one of our greatest allies, there's something going on in Korea, probably 25% to a third of the young people, I would say lean towards kind of pro-CCP. It's all got to be addressed. | ||
And the Japanese have to step up to the plate. | ||
When I talk about cutting the defense budget, one of the reasons is, is as we think about the hemispheric defense strategy of President Trump, remember from Greenland and the Arctic all the way down to the Panama Canal, and then with Latin America having... | ||
People like the Bolsonaro's, people like Mele, to drive the Chinese Communist Party out of the Amazon and out of really Latin America and really come to what I guess now it's Monroe Doctrine 5.0. | ||
But as he talks about hemispheric defense, it means that we can then pick and choose where we are throughout the world. | ||
Obviously, Japan is a great ally. | ||
President Trump's always been very upset about how they haven't treated us great in trade. | ||
So there'll be some testy conversations, just like the other day with... | ||
With Netanyahu, people talk about Gaza, Gaza, Gaza. | ||
One of the most important things, you didn't come out of there, and I know this is important to Tucker and other people and myself, there was no commitment. | ||
You didn't hear a lot of talk that you had Lindsey Graham running around on Fox all the time about some sort of military confrontation with the Persians. | ||
President Trump, I think, is trying to tamp things down right now and trying to tamp it down in a logical way. | ||
I also would recommend that news coming out of Ukraine, I think, is not great, because I think President Trump continues to get tapped along by these people, and my point would be to cut, particularly when Zelensky came out and said, I've only got $77 billion. | ||
Okay, bro, you're saying the quiet part out loud. | ||
Maybe we have to rethink this entire thing. | ||
Also, President Trump even talking about taking the rare earths and the other mineral rights in Ukraine to pay for all this means you have further engagement in Ukraine. | ||
I think... | ||
And although they've got great mineral rights, I think disengagement is the best on that part of the Eurasian landmass. | ||
So Prime Minister Ishibe will be here. | ||
He'll come through. | ||
That's the West Wing entrance right there. | ||
They do, when they take them, there's a little reception area. | ||
They take them right to the Oval Office. | ||
There'll be a, you know, the Prime Minister in one chair, one of the gold chairs in front of the fireplace, President Trump in the other. | ||
They'll have some exchanges. | ||
The staffs will talk. | ||
Kind of get together. | ||
Then President Trump, I believe, is going to have a presser. | ||
Clearly it won't happen. | ||
It won't happen during our show. | ||
We thought it might happen at 11.30 today. | ||
Real America's Voice, Charlie Kirk's up next. | ||
I'm sure they're cut in because President Trump's always saying provocative things in the days of thunder during that. | ||
And particularly markets will want to know. | ||
They want to know about these reciprocal... | ||
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tariffs. | |
President Trump doesn't do anything that's not kind of thought through. | ||
He just dropped that bomb yesterday with Reuters because the Prime Minister of Japan has always had a big problem with Japan being such a closed market to American goods and particularly American automobiles where they sell so many automobiles here, although now they make a lot more than they used to. | ||
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What have we been talking about all morning? | ||
Taxes. | ||
Just to go back through, President Trump put out an eight-point plan on taxes yesterday after this four-hour meeting. | ||
What jumped off the page at me was the commitment to the cuts on Social Security. | ||
That over the life of it, or at least over 10 years, I think it's over a trillion dollars. | ||
It's a couple hundred. | ||
I mean, it's a big deal. | ||
It's a big deal for you. | ||
Particularly if you reach retirement age. | ||
It'll put significantly more money in your pocket, which is what you need. | ||
Social Security is not much. | ||
Not much. | ||
But the taxes will put additional spending money. | ||
It'd be great. | ||
Because you guys, unlike giving the taxes to the wealthy, because then you've got the whole thing. | ||
They can reinvest it, but they actually spend it. | ||
It is a marginal spending. | ||
You guys will spend it. | ||
Or tuck it away for a rainy day, as you guys often want to do, as the working class and middle class people do. | ||
But that's a real cut. | ||
And if the external revenues, I think it's going to take a while for those to kick in. | ||
President Trump's got a real idea about that that he's thinking through. | ||
It's a big idea. | ||
It's a powerful idea. | ||
You've got to get to the spending. | ||
And this is why I think we have to have from the Doge guys right now, before the one-year CR, which is coming, we have to have just a general idea blocked out. | ||
Could we cut $500 billion this year? | ||
Could we cut $100 billion? | ||
If we just cut USAID, then let's cut it. | ||
Let's zero it. | ||
I think it should be zero. | ||
I think it should go from $40 to $50 billion to zero. | ||
But I strongly believe you can't be over Social Security. | ||
And even if you're looking for data, even if you're looking to rewire it, even if you're looking at waste, fraud, and abuse, which is all important, very important, you've got to get over to the Pentagon. | ||
If you don't show the imperial capital you're prepared to take on the Pentagon, you're sending a signal. | ||
That you're weak. | ||
Just are. | ||
You can sit here and you go through geopolitically. | ||
You can build a plan that if you get aggressive against our number one existential threat, the Chinese Communist Party, and the debt that's linked with our financing them and gutting the country, because how do we get in this situation? | ||
The trade deficit and the real deficits are, and I've always said, and Lou Dobbs said. | ||
And President Trump believes this, although the Wall Street people don't. | ||
It's two sides of the same coin. | ||
In gutting the country, in gutting the manufacturing, it made us more dependent upon foreign sources. | ||
That's why he had these huge trade deficits. | ||
And no, when people say, oh, the money's fungible, we can be a service economy, you can't. | ||
An advanced nation has to have an advanced, major, massive physical capital and a manufacturing base. | ||
Manufacturing base provides high-value-added-paying jobs. | ||
Principally to men. | ||
Women too, but principally to men. | ||
This is why we have 70 million men that are not in the workforce. | ||
Those are not white men. | ||
It's whites, blacks, Hispanics, everybody. | ||
I think there's 72 million men that are not in the labor force now. | ||
A country like ours, you can't go on if men, and these are working-age men. | ||
That's not the old guys like myself who still feel they've got a lot of fight left in them. | ||
I'm talking about working-age men. | ||
You have to do that. | ||
You do that, you stop the trade deficit. | ||
Trade deficit's $100 billion in December. | ||
$100 billion. | ||
Almost all that tied to China. | ||
And of course they try to lie. | ||
Oh, this is Trump's threat of tariffs. | ||
They're all front-loading it. | ||
No, it has been categorically shown by economists that didn't happen. | ||
We're just having increasing trade deficits. | ||
People, you know, they're dividing the currency. | ||
China's playing every game in the world to keep that manufacturing base, and they're very shaky. | ||
That's part of President Trump's tariffs. | ||
Remember, you don't have to pay the tariffs. | ||
To get in the golden market, you don't have to pay the tariffs. | ||
If you move the manufacturing here, you don't have to pay it. | ||
That's part of the thing he's doing with Germany. | ||
He's telling Germany, hey, we're not going to let you game the system anymore. | ||
We're not going to let you, because you have the high tariffs in Germany. | ||
We do that, you get to Mexico, and you're going to build it all in Mexico and just ship it across the border at the lower wage rates and really gut. | ||
American car manufacturing. | ||
We're not going to allow that to happen. | ||
President Trump's going to have a tough conversation here in a moment in the Oval Office with the Japanese Prime Minister. | ||
The topic's going to be trade and it's going to be defense. | ||
And when he says reciprocity on tariffs, he means Japan. | ||
He's not digging that. | ||
He's not into that at all. | ||
So you've got to take that. | ||
So back to Tax Network. | ||
We have a problem here in the country. | ||
You don't have enough tax revenues coming in. | ||
President Trump's cutting taxes in one regard, but he's increasing taxes, increasing taxes on billionaires right there by the sports team. | ||
Not a lot of money, but symbolically very important. | ||
Taking away carried interest. | ||
Not a ton of money. | ||
It's good throwing something in the kitty. | ||
It has to be done because Wall Street's getting current income and paying capital gains taxes on it, which you couldn't get, because they've allowed current income to be rolled up into kind of capital gains. | ||
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It's not fair at all. | ||
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The Prime Minister of Japan is going to be here in a moment. | ||
We're going to take a short commercial break, as we should. | ||
I'm going to speak. | ||
The people of Patriot Mobile, Brian Glennon and these guys, have been so great to invite me down on the 28th of February to Tarrant County. | ||
Posobiec is going to be with me. | ||
Amanda Milius is going to be with me. | ||
A whole bunch of other nefarious characters. | ||
We're going to have a good old time. | ||
I'm going to give a keynote speech. | ||
Posobiec is going to speak. | ||
Amanda Milius is going to be great. | ||
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This is Glenn Story and the team really stepping up to the plate. | ||
Okay, there we are right there. | ||
Make sure Mo and Grace get that in the chat. | ||
When everybody in the local area not spend time beforehand visiting everybody. | ||
Short commercial break. | ||
We're going to come back. | ||
We're waiting for the Prime Minister of Japan, as is the President of the United States. | ||
We'll kick it all off in just a moment in the war room. | ||
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Okay, welcome back. | |
That's a full shot of the honorary entrance to the West Wing. | ||
There's a small greeting area on the other side where the columns are to the left. | ||
You're seeing the full shot. | ||
There we come right there. | ||
There's the Prime Minister of Japan. | ||
Motorcade's pulling up. | ||
That's the Executive Office building right in the back. | ||
That's where most of the White House personnel work. | ||
Now, the President should be there to meet him. | ||
Don't know if we're going to get a shot at that, but there's Prime Minister Ishibe arriving for his meeting with the President of the United States. | ||
He's going to be greeted. | ||
I think that's the president right there. | ||
Handshake. | ||
Take a few photographs for the journalist. | ||
Back off, you get a shot. | ||
President Trump, a deep relationship with Japan. | ||
Like I said, a strong personal relationship with Abe. | ||
Abe and the president really got along personally. | ||
As people who play golf, you know, when you play golf with a guy that you like playing golf with, the give and take, the kidding, the teasing, you could see the other two. | ||
They really had a... | ||
And this is the rest of the Japanese delegation showing up and back. | ||
So let's pull the camera back. | ||
Fantastic. | ||
What a beautiful shot. | ||
That right there is a press wrangler. | ||
You see the young woman right there? | ||
She's got one of the hardest jobs in the White House wrangling the media. | ||
You see them wrangling right there? | ||
The shots. | ||
So some more of the staff going on. | ||
That's the entrance up top to the West Wing of the White House. | ||
That's kind of the main official entrance. | ||
In back of the camera, keep the camera right there. | ||
If you go to the left, is the main entrance of the residence. | ||
That's where people sometimes pull up when they're the residence with Melania and the president. | ||
But this is the West Wing, the working side. | ||
Now, what the president will do, will go and lead... | ||
Pass the Roosevelt Room to the Oval Office. | ||
And they'll be in the Oval Office. | ||
This is called a bilateral. | ||
See the flags out there honoring both countries? | ||
There's some of the official military guard right there. | ||
They will go into the Oval Office and they'll spend a few minutes and they'll discuss and talk with each other, catch up. | ||
And then normally what the President likes to do is allow the press... | ||
The flags come down when people are inside, so we know right now the President and the Prime Minister are inside. | ||
What happens is that they then have a few minutes to catch up. | ||
The President loves bringing the press in before he's really had the longer bilat right there at the honor guard. | ||
U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, not too shabby. | ||
Looking pretty squared away this morning. | ||
I think we passed inspection. | ||
See, they're going back now underneath the portico. | ||
The president likes bringing the president to the Oval, and it's always crowded. | ||
The Oval Office is not that big. | ||
He'll bring the president. | ||
They'll be behind the sofas, looking, taking a camera shot to the fireplace. | ||
There's the executive office building right there. | ||
That's where most of the people work. | ||
Very few offices in the West Wing. | ||
Very tiny. | ||
I keep saying it's a relatively old two-story building on top of a military command center, which is the National Security. | ||
Council apparatus that's down below with the Kennedy room and all the famous rooms. | ||
There we are. | ||
Great shot. | ||
Real America's voice. | ||
Fantastic. | ||
I love that. | ||
Seeing the color guard walk out. | ||
Now, they're going out. | ||
They're actually going towards what the main entrance to the residence is. | ||
This is back across the lawn of the White House, or the sidewalk that goes across the lawn. | ||
The president will invite the press in for a presser, and that's where we see these questions are thrown, and they'll always wait. | ||
The way the group, because they cannot let all the press in, there's the main portico for the White House right there, as we talked about. | ||
And the press will take questions. | ||
They'll be shouting them. | ||
Normally, they'll have more international media and more East Asian and Japanese media, Korean media, Chinese there when someone like the Prime Minister of Japan is there. | ||
He'll take questions, and then they'll leave. | ||
The Wrangler, that young woman you just saw, and there's others. | ||
And the Wranglers are tough jobs because the media is very rambunctious. | ||
They should be. | ||
They're trying to get their scoops. | ||
They're trying to get their photographs. | ||
They're trying to get their question answered. | ||
Our own Jane Zirkle, Brian Glenn, are as good as they get at tossing out and getting a question answered. | ||
That's what these folks get paid for. | ||
I can tell you, it's less snarky today than was the first. | ||
The first term was just unbearable. | ||
You get in there, it was all about Comey, all about everybody. | ||
Then the president will have a longer bilateral. | ||
He'll sit there, and that's where we'll bring up these contentious issues of the tariffs and trade. | ||
He'll bring up the contentious issues. | ||
They've got to pay more for their defense. | ||
They'll talk about the Chinese Communist Party and our joint efforts there. | ||
And then they will take a few minutes, hang out, maybe even go to the Roosevelt Room, maybe even have a quick bite of lunch, and then they'll go to the East Room of the White House. | ||
That's where the military guard is going. | ||
Here is all the West Side. | ||
On the other side is the East. | ||
That's where the First Lady's office is. | ||
But the East Room, the famous room on the other side of the White House, for the press conference, for Netanyahu's press conference. | ||
And that will be today. | ||
And the President will break news both at his press availability in the Oval Office and the press conference today. | ||
So it's a full day. | ||
Real America's voice. | ||
There's the beautiful White House. | ||
That's the Portico. | ||
That's kind of the front of the White House, the side with the port of the big porch, multi-level porch, is on the other side, facing the Washington Monument. | ||
In the Ellipse, where President Trump gave that famous speech on January 6th, that's all right in back here. | ||
Let's go. | ||
Mike Lindell, you join us. | ||
Let's do a split screen. | ||
Let's bring Mike up, but I want to keep that beautiful shot of the White House. | ||
Love the camera work today of the directors on Real America's Voice. | ||
You guys are on fire right now. | ||
See, I can give a little play-by-play commentary. | ||
I don't care if it's Appalachia or L.A. We'll wing it somehow. | ||
Mike Lindell. | ||
Today, real quickly, sir, Christian, they're going to have a... | ||
Paula White, they're going to sign a thing about the faith office. | ||
They had the task force set up yesterday. | ||
Your thoughts about that? | ||
And then talk to me about the crosses and the pillows. | ||
Yeah, it's a great day for our country. | ||
I mean, all the things that... | ||
Doing the... | ||
The stuff our real president is doing... | ||
It's historical to help Christians across our country. | ||
I know I talked yesterday how I've been attacked just because of my Christianity and by Keith Ellison in Minnesota. | ||
You know, him attacking my Lindale Recovery Network, which is Christ's face to help people in addiction. | ||
These are problem, solution. | ||
This is why Donald Trump is so awesome, a great real president. | ||
Problem, solution, and he has a gift. | ||
He knows what it'll manifest to. | ||
And so I'm very excited. | ||
Every day is just something new and something so exciting. | ||
All the work that all of us have done, the War Room Posse and everything, to get to this point. | ||
And like I said, God's given us grace for such a time of this. | ||
We're in historical times, everybody. | ||
And that's a good reason why we are leaving. | ||
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Charlie Kirk is next. | ||
We're back at 5 o'clock. |