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General Pam Bondi announcing the creation of a weaponization working group that includes a list of three prosecutors who brought cases against Donald Trump. | |
Jack Smith, Letitia James, and Alvin Bragg. | ||
That's their target. | ||
While at the same time, the new U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia is saying he will weaponize his office. | ||
On behalf of Elon Musk, promising an inquiry into people referred to his office by Musk and saying he will investigate them and will chase them to the end of the earth. | ||
I guess, you know, one person's weaponization is another person's weaponization? | ||
Yes, the irony is not lost on me. | ||
And there's a portion of that letter that you were just reading from. | ||
You and I are having a mind meld here, Michael, because I was looking at that letter earlier today. | ||
And there's a portion of that letter that really is chilling that I want to read to you and our viewers. | ||
Because before he says he's going to chase them to the end of the earth and investigate them, he says, I don't know when it became the role of a U.S. attorney for any office in the country to prosecute people for merely unethical actions. | ||
The whole point of a federal prosecutor's office is to investigate and discover violations of existing federal law and to prosecute those. | ||
And obviously, there is some discretion in where you use those resources. | ||
But this is an administration that keeps telling us that in the District of Columbia there's all sorts of violent crime that has been unaddressed because that office misdirected its resources to the prosecution of January 6th cases. | ||
And now you have Ed Martin very publicly saying it's my job to protect Doge from all these terrible bureaucrats. | ||
It's really incomprehensible to me. | ||
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 try 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. Bass. | ||
Four, three, two, one. | ||
As you see right there, a total complete meltdown on MSNBC because of Days of Thunder. | ||
Also... | ||
The signal, not the noise. | ||
As people like Pam Bondi, this is why the confirmations are so important. | ||
This is why you're going to fix bayonets to make sure that we get President Trump's cabinet in there. | ||
As soon as Russ Vogt shows up to OMB, of course, he was named also the interim head. | ||
Scott Besson had it for a couple of days. | ||
Russ was named the interim head of the Consumer Finance Bureau, which is also going to be shut down, like USAID. Things start to happen. | ||
Pam Bondi, they're all over her. | ||
She's signing edicts every day. | ||
She's signing executive orders every day. | ||
She's cleaning up. | ||
And they're about to begin the investigation of the vast criminal conspiracy against President Trump. | ||
Here today, just saw Amy Wax, and you had... | ||
You had Kimo Gandel from Harvard. | ||
We're here at Harvard Square today. | ||
We'll be talking at a conference later today. | ||
I want to introduce another one of the law students, Sam Delmer. | ||
Sam, thank you for joining us. | ||
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Of course, thank you for having me. | |
What's it like being a conservative at Harvard? | ||
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It's a little bit tough, Steve. | |
I remember my first week I was there, we were talking about hobbies. | ||
I said I was a person of faith, and then suddenly almost two-thirds of the class wouldn't talk to me at all. | ||
Would not talk to you after you said that? | ||
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Yeah, not talk to me at all. | |
They'd avoid eye contact. | ||
This is your first year at Harvard Law? | ||
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First year at Harvard Law. | |
They just thought you were some sort of kook? | ||
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Yeah, I guess because I went to Mass regularly and prayed every day. | |
I'm a religious bigot. | ||
I mean, yeah, they're really crazy. | ||
But the real thing that has been great at Harvard Law is that we have formed like... | ||
A core group of people who are like a brotherhood almost there. | ||
We've really worked to create institutions that are truly conservative, not just milquetoast conservative. | ||
I think this is really where being a conservative has been something that... | ||
Talk to me. | ||
What do you mean milquetoast conservative? | ||
Because we've dealt with the... | ||
In fact, I tell people, the USAID situation, this is why Mike Benz was so powerful going on Joe Rogan. | ||
For a decade or longer, people have fought that, investigated it. | ||
Every time we came close to taking it apart, it was the rhinos that either refused to allow investigations to go forward. | ||
Paul Ryan shut this whole thing down for years and years and years. | ||
I mean, we've seen it in the Capitol nonstop. | ||
It's still one of the biggest problems in the conservative movement. | ||
How does it manifest itself in a place like Harvard? | ||
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Yeah, at Harvard Law it manifests itself through the unknowing libertarian. | |
So there are a lot of people who are, I think, libertarian and they have real libertarian beliefs. | ||
They're really educated. | ||
They know about how to dismantle the government. | ||
They really believe in it. | ||
What you get at Harvard Law is the milquetoast libertarian. | ||
And these people will say that they're legal conservatives. | ||
They'll say that they believe in originalism, for example. | ||
But then when it comes to who they vote for politically, they vote for Kamala Harris. | ||
They vote for-- How do they justify that? | ||
Is it just cowardice? | ||
It's so much pressure. | ||
The reason that guys like You and Kimo are so amazing is the courage it takes on an Ivy League campus, particularly Harvard, to actually put forward your conservative or your religious beliefs. | ||
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Yeah, I think the reason why is not just cowardice, but I think that they really don't even believe. | |
In the project of conservatism, I think right now you have a lot of grift in conservatism. | ||
I think conservatism is ascendant. | ||
I think this country is revolting against, you know, radical leftist policies. | ||
And I think that what this means is that there's, you know, people who support those policies are seeing the tide is turning and they want to get in on the... | ||
The power that is shifting towards the right. | ||
You can actually see the grift on that in a smaller scale at Harvard. | ||
That is one of the biggest problems we have with conservative ink overall, particularly in the imperial capital. | ||
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Oh, you can see it. | |
You can see it so clearly. | ||
You can see it even clearer at Harvard because so many people there care. | ||
Harvard Law is a professional school, so people only care about their career. | ||
It's a trade school. | ||
You're getting your union card, right? | ||
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Yeah, exactly. | |
You're getting your ticket punched. | ||
Right? | ||
And so many people are concerned about their careers. | ||
Isn't that a legitimate concern? | ||
Because like your first day of class when you talked about your faith, you are othered immediately. | ||
If people are here to say, hey, I've got to pay this huge loan I've got off of going to Harvard Law, is that a justification for them to say, I'll just go along to get along? | ||
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I think it is if we, true conservatives, don't do the work to actually exclude those people from the movement, if they aren't willing to actually take risks to support us. | |
you know, if we let them in regardless of what they said, if they say their pronouns in class and we let them, you know, run our organizations, then we deserve to be ruled by those people. | ||
But we really need to do the work to exclude people, I think. | ||
Tell us about yourself. | ||
Where are you from? | ||
Where's your school family? | ||
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Yeah, I'm from San Antonio, Texas. | |
I went to Notre Dame undergrad. | ||
Hold it, hold it, hold it. | ||
You went to Notre Dame after it was a Catholic college, right? | ||
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Yes, yeah. | |
I mean, Notre Dame, isn't that the... | ||
I grew for the football team since I was two years old. | ||
But isn't it now kind of one of the, like Georgetown, one of the hearts of progressivism in the country? | ||
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Yeah, I mean, it's definitely turned that way. | |
And I think you see this with, you know, they took down the Columbus murals at Notre Dame a few years ago. | ||
They have stopped really enforcing any of the social norms. | ||
The theology classes are sometimes kind of a joke. | ||
I think there's still good pockets of people at Notre Dame, but, you know, it's not... | ||
It's sort of a lack of faith in their own institution. | ||
They don't really believe that they're right anymore. | ||
And so it seems like they kind of make it a liberal arts school just like every other one. | ||
Let me talk about conservatism and maybe MAGA being ascended. | ||
Is that looking at the outside world and you see it through elections? | ||
Are you getting a feel that things are starting to even shift at arguably the most elite of all the Ivy League schools? | ||
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Yeah, I think the things are certainly starting to shift. | |
What we're seeing... | ||
Really a lot is the younger people are getting more and more MAGA. This is really amazing. | ||
And what it means is that, you know, institutions that were previously kind of milquetoast like FedSoc are getting more and more conservative. | ||
You know, maybe not at everywhere, but at least at Harvard Law School, we've been seeing this appreciably happen. | ||
Talk about the Federalist Society, because for years, and you say milquetoast, that behind the scenes, a lot of people, the Mike Davises and other people, and Federalist Society has done such an amazing job of getting these judges, et cetera, helping out through the years. | ||
But you hear the chatter a lot that it's gotten milquetoast. | ||
When you say that... | ||
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Yeah, I think it means what I was talking about earlier with the, you know, originalism. | |
Just caring about originalism or textualism instead of actually being about political conservatism. | ||
I think it's easier to be just an originalist. | ||
You know, you don't get as much flack from students. | ||
But, you know, if you are only that and then you get to the Supreme Court, suddenly you have, you've not bought into the values, you haven't been trained as a conservative, you don't know the real sort of I think that allows you to really squish on some of the key points and not really hold firm when we really need you to. | ||
Do you think that at the college, at the undergraduate level, it's starting to shift or just in the professional schools like the law school and obviously the business school? | ||
I think it's also happening at the college level. | ||
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Some of my friends run a debate society in the undergrad called the John Adams Society, and I've seen them over the past Three years become, you know, sort of libertarian, conservative, kind of normie con, maybe 2015, to become really, really MAGA. And, like, even the new freshmen who are coming in are really MAGA. They get formed in MAGA. And the stuff they read is completely different. | |
They used to read, like, Russell Kirk. | ||
You know, and now they read a lot more, you know, they read Pat Buchanan. | ||
And so I think that shift is really, really good for us. | ||
When you talk about MAGA, what is your definition of MAGA as you see it from Harvard Law School at a top Ivy League college? | ||
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Yeah, I guess my, I'm personally, I really like Pat Buchanan. | |
So a paleocon. | ||
A paleocon, yes. | ||
We love Pat Buchanan. | ||
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Yeah, he's really amazing. | |
But I think MAGA is a bit broader than that. | ||
I think MAGA is just... | ||
A belief that the right is okay. | ||
It's sort of like a no enemies to the right view. | ||
And I think the idea is that we're trying to create a vanguard that will continue to push things to the right, right? | ||
And I think that that is what... | ||
What MAGA is all about. | ||
We're trying to continue to open up the Overton window on the right so we can have actual intellectual discussions and figure out the problems that are going on in this country. | ||
Talk about the conference you guys have had for last night and then today. | ||
What's the purpose of the conference, the types of speakers you're trying to bring in, and the objective? | ||
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Yeah, so the conference is the Conservative and Republican Conference. | |
It's been held for the past two years at Harvard, and it brings together the Harvard County School undergrad and the law school. | ||
And the business school. | ||
Don't want to leave you out there. | ||
And the whole point of it is to bring in conservative speakers to try and educate those who are further to the middle on... | ||
You know, what conservatism is and why we actually hold truly conservative values. | ||
And I think especially to bring, you know, older conservatives into the MAGA movement. | ||
That is who we bring. | ||
So we brought, last year we brought Peter Thiel to come speak. | ||
This year we're bringing, of course, you as a keynote speaker. | ||
We brought Professor Wax, Jeremy Carl, who wrote about anti-white racism. | ||
We brought... | ||
We're bringing Andrew Ferguson, the new chair of the FTC, who I'll have a conversation with Professor Adrian Vermeule. | ||
So we're really trying to open up the new right space, I think, at Harvard, and that is the objective of the conference. | ||
As you go out into the world, how do you take these, what you've learned at Notre Dame, because you're in kind of hostile territory there, and then Harvard, because you've been at two of the top universities, but ones have become very progressive. | ||
How do you take that out and go into the world with your first job, your career, and obviously trying to be involved in politics? | ||
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Yeah, I think the way that I plan to do it is to go home. | |
I think that really the place where I'm going to have the most influence. | ||
Go back to Texas? | ||
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Go back to Texas, yeah. | |
God, these Texas boys, man, you can't get them out of there. | ||
No, seriously, it's like a whole different deal. | ||
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I love Texas, but the folks down there, it's like a different deal. | |
It's even hard, you know, they get to Princeton and Harvard now, they want to go to UT, right? | ||
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Yeah, exactly. | |
So go home and do what? | ||
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Yeah, I think the plan would be to just... | |
Work in state government. | ||
I think, really, the national government is so occupied, it's so tough. | ||
Even though there's a lot of great people, I think I'm not quite smart enough to really do national-level politics. | ||
Well, I don't know about that. | ||
But you want to start at the state level and have a big impact on Texas. | ||
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Exactly. | |
You have social media? | ||
Can people follow you? | ||
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I don't really have much, but I would say you can find me at Fortuna Insights. | |
Fortuna Insights? | ||
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Yeah, that's on LinkedIn. | |
LinkedIn? | ||
And what is Fortuna Insights? | ||
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Fortuna Insights is a company run by a few of my friends and I, and it's mostly dealing with legal questions and the cutting edge of legal technology. | |
Fantastic. | ||
Thanks for having us up here, and great interview. | ||
I look forward to seeing more about you as you go back to Texas. | ||
Sam Delmer? | ||
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Yes. | |
San Antonio, Texas. | ||
Okay. | ||
John Kahn, his house is nothing but ashes now in the Palisades, and one of Andrew Breitbart's original partners is going to take us out with American Heart. | ||
Still to come, I think, hopefully we get Ambassador Carla Sands, one of President Trump's right-hand people in all things foreign affairs, and we'll be able to talk about Canada and the Arctic. | ||
and hemispheric defense next in the world. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
Oh Okay, honored to have Ambassador Carla Sands. | ||
Now, you were on BBC last night from here. | ||
You've been at the conference last night and also today. | ||
Why are you here with this group of reprobates at Harvard, these revolutionaries, rebels? | ||
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Well, because we're creating a revolution here at Harvard and across the country, and it's going to change our nation. | |
This is about America first, and the money's going to change. | ||
The money, the corruption, the... | ||
Tens of billions of dollars that are going to places like Penn and Harvard from the federal government. | ||
This is all going to change. | ||
So you agree with Professor Amy Wax. | ||
You think you've got to use Title VI, get into it and start cleaning up these? | ||
Ivy League institutions, other universities are taking massive amounts of money. | ||
I think she said Penn gets $900 million a year. | ||
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Yes. | |
Do you think that has to happen? | ||
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Yes, and I think Doge is going to get their AI in there and they're going to find it all. | |
They're going to find the webs and then we're going to turn off the money and then we're going to turn on money that benefits the American people and real research and not just layers and layers of bureaucrats with cushy jobs and gold-plated healthcare. | ||
So you were ambassador to Denmark Greenland. | ||
We're going to get to that in a second. | ||
I also want to ask you about the Arctic and Canada. | ||
But USAID, you're very familiar with it. | ||
Is what we're doing the right thing of shutting this down, totally just shutting the whole thing down? | ||
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It's so exciting, Steve. | |
It's so exciting that we are shutting down USAID because what it was was a giant piggy bank to pay people who are rich, like the Clintons and like a lot of these NGOs. | ||
And they were pushing out ideologies to our trading partners and our aid partners that they don't want. | ||
For instance, the trans stuff, sort of trying to push stuff to largely Christian or Muslim countries or Catholic countries that they don't want to see. | ||
And so this is going to be a win for the taxpayers, but also countries did not want to trade with us because China didn't come with all these ideologies. | ||
They really despised what we were doing, so I'm excited. | ||
Talk about Days of Thunder. | ||
Every day there's another 10 or 12, either executive actions, executive orders, legislation, or just President Trump doing something like stripping Biden of his security clearance. | ||
What's your takeaway of the Days of Thunder in the first couple of weeks? | ||
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Every day's Christmas. | |
I'm having so much fun. | ||
I just, I can't wait every day. | ||
And it doesn't stop like at 5 o'clock. | ||
No, it continues. | ||
And on the weekend, it continues. | ||
And so it's the most exciting political time in my lifetime, but it's also really exciting for the American people and our country. | ||
We're safer every day, and we're saving... | ||
Our money. | ||
It's our money. | ||
Let's put it back in our pockets or just not spend it in the first place. | ||
So your recommendation of the president is keep on. | ||
We call it maneuver warfare. | ||
Just pedal. | ||
All gas, no brake. | ||
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All gas, no brakes. | |
And what about, you've seen now the resistance of the media, the left, they're trying to go to the courts. | ||
What do you say? | ||
When the courts put these TROs up, what do you do then? | ||
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Well, I think that there has to be a change. | |
A friend of mine wrote an op-ed recently, I think it was in the Daily Caller, about how these federal judges should not be able to stop a sitting U.S. president from implementing his administration's policies. | ||
And so I think there have to be changes so that we can't have one judge somewhere. | ||
You say it's an Article 3 versus an Article 2 issue? | ||
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So I'm not sure. | |
I'm not an attorney, but I'll say this. | ||
You don't play one on TV. No, I don't. | ||
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But we have to have the president be able to implement his agenda. | |
He won the popular vote. | ||
He won the electoral college vote. | ||
The people are behind him. | ||
So I think, number one, the judges have to be reined in. | ||
But I think also now we have conservative lawyers who are killers who are going to go toe-to-toe with the left as they try to shut us down on all of these great policies. | ||
And they're on their back foot. | ||
Because every day is Christmas, they can't get in front of him to stop him because he has so many... | ||
You're saying there's so many different things coming, right? | ||
They're just overwhelming the system. | ||
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It's like putting a toy in front of a cat and moving it. | |
They don't know where to go. | ||
Now, one of the reasons I'm so glad I heard you were up here, I want to talk because... | ||
The situation with Greenland, is this not something President Trump thought of the other night? | ||
He has been obsessed with this, about hemispheric defense for a long time. | ||
And you were one of the key people, or the key person in the first term, because you were ambassador to Denmark. | ||
Just walk people through the strategic logic of Greenland. | ||
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Sure. | |
So, I was the ambassador to Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. | ||
It's a kingdom. | ||
but seeing that Greenland just off our northeast coast, one-third the size of the continental U.S., undefended by Denmark, and when I got to Denmark in late 2017, undefended by us as well. | ||
And this is open source. | ||
There were Russian subs everywhere. | ||
The sea lines of communication, the open sea lines were being threatened. | ||
As we talk about, because the Russian bases are from Murmansk and Archangel, they've got to come through the Greenland-Iceland-UK gap to get to the North Atlantic. | ||
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Right. | |
The GI-UK gap is the giant seas between Greenland and Iceland and the U.K., because that's also part of Denmark's area of responsibility, because you have the Faroe Islands just north of Scotland. | ||
These are giant seas. | ||
They have no capability of policing or even having an awareness of what's going on. | ||
And the U.S., really, we struggle in these very aggressive seas. | ||
And we had left after the peace dividend. | ||
The famous movie from World War II with Humphrey Bogart, action in the North Atlantic, and the sea states there are incredible, very tough. | ||
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Yes, our Navy said to me, we're having trouble passing. | |
We're having trouble in these seas. | ||
So we have to get new capabilities. | ||
We need more ships that are capable. | ||
We need more icebreakers. | ||
Russia has around 50 icebreakers. | ||
They have missiles on the icebreakers. | ||
We have two icebreakers, and one doesn't always work. | ||
So we are... | ||
We are outgunned in the Arctic. | ||
Russia's militarized their coast. | ||
They've reopened old Cold War bases, refurbished them. | ||
They have new bases. | ||
Their capabilities are fierce in that region. | ||
The Arctic, as the great game was Afghanistan and Persia between Russia and the British Empire, but India. | ||
The great game of the 21st century is the Arctic. | ||
It's a great power struggle. | ||
The CCP's going to be up there. | ||
The Russians are already up there. | ||
The United States has to be up there because of the strategic nature of the Arctic, correct? | ||
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That's correct. | |
And the CCP, in their paper that they wrote in 2018 called the Polar Silk Road, they claim to be a near-Arctic nation and that they're entitled to 40% of everything under the sea, under the ground, in the region because of their large population. | ||
They're very supremacist in their... | ||
In their outlook on the world and then on, say, the universe. | ||
So talk to me, how does Greenland then, Greenland fits into the Arctic strategy and also for the boxing, the... | ||
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Our national defense. | |
The national defense, the Russian Navy. | ||
It's a big signal to NATO that, hey, the Russian Army may be your problem. | ||
The Russian Navy is our problem. | ||
We'll take care of it. | ||
How realistic... | ||
Is it, since you know the players, how realistic is it for the United States to get some sort of strategic relationship with Greenland since it right now is technically a part of the Kingdom of the Danes? | ||
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Right, so it's a semi-autonomous nation. | |
It has all its own authorities except for defense and foreign policy. | ||
But they have said, their premier said about three weeks ago, they're going independent. | ||
So that's a big deal that he says they're going independent. | ||
I thought it was decades away. | ||
I think he saw Trump's... | ||
And said, now's our time. | ||
That's what I think. | ||
The Greenlanders want independence from Denmark because they abused them. | ||
They haven't developed... | ||
People don't know this. | ||
What do you mean by that? | ||
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Well, so... | |
It's a huge minerals, resources. | ||
Belgium and the Danes and all of Europe, in sub-Saharan Africa and other places, weren't shy about exploiting people. | ||
What happened here? | ||
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Well, so... | |
The Danes have never attempted to develop Greenland. | ||
Most of the buildings, airports, and ports were built by our military, either during the Second World War or during the Cold War, until we left after the Berlin Wall fell. | ||
So we had a big presence there, and most of their infrastructure was built by us. | ||
There is no road between two towns in Greenland. | ||
Like, Denmark has never developed it at all. | ||
Denmark can't afford to develop it or defend it, and they send around $600 million to Greenland every year as sort of a welfare payment. | ||
The days are in kind of tough financial shape. | ||
Is that something that's tough for them? | ||
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Yeah, I think it's tough for them, and I think it'd be welcome for them not to have to pay this, but they also get back all the transit. | |
Port transit goes from Greenland to Denmark, so they get money that way. | ||
All of the airport traffic, except a little bit, goes through Denmark. | ||
So they do get money back, and they've got interest there with interest in the fishing and Greenland and stuff like that. | ||
So their economies are interwoven. | ||
In World War II and the Cold War, up until President Reagan's victory over the evil empire, we had a... | ||
Pretty significant and important military national security function there, correct? | ||
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We did. | |
In fact, we had a huge presence. | ||
We had bases all over the place. | ||
We had deepwater ports. | ||
China tried to buy one of our deepwater ports in southern Greenland. | ||
They tried to pull Greenland into the Belt and Road Initiative and pay for and construct their... | ||
They tried to get Greenland into one belt, one road. | ||
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They did. | |
So they flew the Greenlandic premier and his government and the top CEOs. | ||
They're so smart. | ||
We didn't do it. | ||
No U.S. company or government did it. | ||
They did. | ||
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Flew them over in 2017 before I got there. | |
100% debt diplomacy. | ||
Debt trap diplomacy. | ||
They were going to suck them in and the Greenlanders were thrilled. | ||
They were like, yeah, we want this. | ||
And they said to me, money has no color. | ||
They didn't care where the investment came from. | ||
It was neutral. | ||
They just wanted development. | ||
They want money. | ||
They want good-paying jobs. | ||
They want opportunity. | ||
But they did tell me they want success in their tourism. | ||
So we gave them some help there from the State Department. | ||
Success in their mining. | ||
They needed it. | ||
We're helping them from the State Department. | ||
And they didn't want their kids to learn Chinese as a second language. | ||
They wanted to learn English. | ||
Wow. | ||
We've got about a minute. | ||
Do we see, you know, you're one of the best fire breathers President Trump had in the first term. | ||
Where are we going to see you in the second? | ||
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Well, wherever President Trump puts me. | |
I would be honored to serve again. | ||
I don't want to miss out on this. | ||
This is like the most exciting time in my life to have a commander. | ||
What's the highest and best use of Ambassador Carla Sands? | ||
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Well, I hope to be an ambassador under him, but frankly, I told him, I'll do whatever he needs me to do. | |
One thing I've noticed, he's got ambassadors, which are great, because some of the ambassadors are amazing, but you've also got these special envoys. | ||
Would you be open to that? | ||
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Whatever he wants me to do. | |
I told him. | ||
You're ready to roll. | ||
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Yes, he makes fun of me. | |
Oh, you really want to work for me? | ||
Yes, I do. | ||
I don't want to miss out. | ||
This is the most exciting time in my life. | ||
Really? | ||
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Yeah. | |
That's fantastic. | ||
Now, social media, where do people get you? | ||
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So I'm on Twitter, X Carla H. Sands. | |
I'm on Instagram a little bit, Facebook a little bit, but mostly you can find me living on Twitter. | ||
Are you working on a book or anything of your experiences? | ||
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Maybe one day. | |
Okay, fine. | ||
I have to make sure somebody wants to read it. | ||
I think you get a big audience for that. | ||
Ambassador Carla Sands, we're going to take you out with Modern Day Holy War, Birchgold.com. | ||
It's going to be turbulence and not just including the CBO report that says, guess what? | ||
$2 trillion of deficits as far as the eye can see. | ||
$52 trillion by 2035. That's not the war room. | ||
That is actually the Congressional Budget Office. | ||
Talk about it more in the next segment. | ||
Ambassador, thank you so much. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
Okay, welcome back. | ||
We are pressed for time. | ||
So much going on here today as we're live from Harvard Square, the Salient Magazine offices. | ||
Just an incredible magazine, incredible staff, incredible people, incredible place they have here. | ||
Ben Harnwell from Rome. | ||
Ben, a lot of movement on Ukraine, a lot of talk about Ukraine. | ||
President Trump now saying, hey, I want the minerals, I want a mineral deal. | ||
Our advice to President Trump. | ||
President Trump, let's just cut bait. | ||
It would be nothing but headaches and heartaches dealing with these people, particularly Zelensky. | ||
Zelensky's adamant. | ||
He only got $77 billion. | ||
He says $179 billion somehow went somewhere. | ||
He only got $77, so it's $102 billion missing in his calculation. | ||
We calculate $250 billion, but hey, we're just rounding down. | ||
Kellogg is talking about, and I've got to tell you now, you see these plans get leaked, and this thing is going to take longer than 100 days, going to take six months. | ||
Next thing you know, we're going to have a quagmire. | ||
Get us updated, Ben, and then we'll talk about recommendations to our beloved president. | ||
Morning, Steve. | ||
Yeah, well, I think we're already in the quagmire. | ||
We're not deep in the middle of the quagmire sinking, but we're definitely in. | ||
It's up to the ankles. | ||
Sadly, the directional pull of the tide of the... | ||
Quagmire is ever deeper inwards. | ||
Now you started off mentioning Colonel, excuse me, General, Lieutenant General Kellogg. | ||
Now he came out in an interview last night saying that there's going to be an audit on this money given and weaponry given to Ukraine. | ||
I think this audit is going to take two parts. | ||
It's going to be an audit on the Ukrainian side. | ||
He says there are already inspectors general there investigating that. | ||
But it's also going to be on the US side. | ||
As you correctly say, it's going to take years to work out, to account for everything sent over to Ukraine. | ||
And to be honest with you, Steve, I don't even know if it's possible years after the event to account for all of the inventory that's been expended on an active... | ||
What I'm more interested in is how much money and weaponry has the United States given to Zelensky. | ||
I have to say, and I said this when we spoke about this on the show last week, I think what Zelensky is doing here, and I guess he knows when he calls for an audit himself, which he did last week, I think he knows what that audit is going to produce and is going to suggest. | ||
That he has only received $76 billion worth of equipment, not the $176 billion, certainly not the $250 billion. | ||
And I think the reason he's pushing this argument is to try to manipulate American public opinion to say, well, hang on, he hasn't squandered $250 billion. | ||
He squandered a figure which is a little more than a quarter of that. | ||
that perhaps if we actually gave him the full amount, he might be able to repel Russia from the border. | ||
This is the last card he's got up his sleeve. | ||
And I sort of think, Stephen, this concerns me. | ||
We're walking into his trap on this. | ||
Well, he's not calculating also the $5 billion per month that we send to support the government. | ||
I think over three years. | ||
I think it's been over $100 billion of that, but I'm sure we'll go through and parse it. | ||
President Trump says he's either going to meet with him or talk to Zelensky next week. | ||
There's all kind of rumors around the imperial capital, not the eternal capital in Rome, the imperial capital in Washington, D.C., that President Trump's looking, they're trying to figure out a meeting with Putin, a sit-down that may take place in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, UAE. What's your recommendation to the president when he talks to Zelensky next week, sir? | ||
Well, next week is the Munich Security Conference. | ||
Let's not have any references back to 1938 on this. | ||
The annual Munich Conference is taking place. | ||
There's going to be Vice President Vance, there's going to be General Kellogg there. | ||
President Trump is going to try to talk to Putin, as you mentioned. | ||
My advice to him is, look, I said this. | ||
I've been saying this. | ||
You've been saying this on the show. | ||
President Trump has no need to produce any peace plan. | ||
That is what is one of these forces, centripetal forces pulling him into the quagmire. | ||
It gives him a moral stake and a political stake in a successful outcome of this conflict. | ||
Right now, he has no need to play host or broker or negotiator or dealmaker on this, Steve. | ||
No need whatsoever. | ||
He has an electoral mandate. | ||
All he needs to say is, we are out. | ||
You guys do what you want. | ||
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Ukraine, Europe, Russia, you guys sit down and talk. | |
We are out. | ||
That is my electoral mandate. | ||
This is me fulfilling that. | ||
We are out. | ||
Over. | ||
That's what I think he still needs to say desperately. | ||
This is what I want to have Ambassador Sanz on before you. | ||
President Trump could not be clearer. | ||
The new geostrategic construct, It's hemispheric defense. | ||
From the Arctic all the way down to the Panama Canal, you've cut off the Chinese Navy in the Panama Canal from connecting with the Russian Navy in the Caribbean. | ||
end. | ||
You've boxed the Russian Navy in up in Murmansk, an archangel by control of Greenland or partnership with Greenland in some sort of partnership with Canada and the Arctic. | ||
You've boxed up the CCP and the Russians. | ||
You have with Bolsonaro and Bolsonaro's forces and others in Brazil and melee. | ||
You can run the Chinese Communist Party out of the Amazon and out of Latin America. | ||
You have Monroe Doctrine 2.0. | ||
President Trump of any world leader. | ||
He has no blood on his hands, no involvement. | ||
He's advocated against this. | ||
They hadn't stolen the election. | ||
It would never have happened. | ||
He is 100% morally clear, politically clear, strategically clear on the Ukraine situation and all they're trying to do in Washington, D.C. And this is just not the left and the Atlantic Council that got us in this mess. | ||
It's also the rhino neocons are trying to entrap President Trump every second of every day to meet with Zelensky and talk to Putin and, hey, maybe we want the natural resources. | ||
Everything related to Ukraine is cursed. | ||
It's cursed. | ||
It's called the bloodlands for a reason. | ||
It's not our situation. | ||
The vital national security interest of the United States is the southern border of the United States, not the eastern Russian-speaking border of these two Slavic entities. | ||
And there's no upside here. | ||
And the president is being sucked into that every day. | ||
General Kellogg's a good man. | ||
I think he's being sucked into it. | ||
And somebody's got to just sit there and go, no. | ||
We've got hemispheric defense. | ||
We have more on our plate than we can deal with with Canada, with Greenland, with Panama. | ||
With sorting this mess out in the Red Sea and the Middle East, you've got the South China Sea and Taiwan. | ||
The agenda of the United States is full. | ||
And President Trump, who's got the clearest record of not wanting to do this and telling Boris Johnson we shouldn't do this, now's the moment to cut bait. | ||
Ben Harnwell, thoughts? | ||
Steve, I posted on this, on Getter this morning, President Trump has suggested... | ||
That in exchange for the U.S. providing security guarantees. | ||
And this is still on the line. | ||
This is still the formal position that General Kellogg is going to go next week and start discussing with the Ukrainians about the eventual terms of a negotiated peace. | ||
And the security guarantees provided by the U.S. are still there floating around. | ||
And President Trump came out, you saw this a couple of days ago, saying, oh, well, look. | ||
Ukraine's full of these rare earths and the minerals. | ||
We could do with those for our industries. | ||
Zelensky should give us that and then we'll provide the security guarantees. | ||
I posted on this, look, I don't really ever go directly against President Trump on social media or even on this show. | ||
On this, I just said, that's absolutely crazy. | ||
I could not disagree with that strategy more. | ||
It seems to me to be a mirror of Kuwait only with swapping rare earths for oil. | ||
And the basic deal is, I mean, President Trump, I don't understand who is advising and who's standing at his elbow feeding these into his ear, because these ideas into his ear, because superficially you can say, oh, yeah, that sounds great. | ||
We could do with all we could do with hoovering up access to all these rare earth minerals and all this, but stops them going over to China. | ||
The problem is that it's going to be US taxpayers That are underwriting the security guarantees. | ||
U.S. boots on the ground implicitly or explicitly underwriting the security guarantees. | ||
And it's going to be the U.S. take oligarchs that gain the benefit of having access to the rare earths. | ||
So the U.S. taxpayer gets to pay and the billionaires get the dividends. | ||
It is absolutely wrong, Steve. | ||
So I'm pushing back on presidential for that. | ||
Mark me down as a no on that one. | ||
Yeah, no, your social media posts are great. | ||
Ben, we've got to bolt. | ||
Where do people get you over the weekend until Monday? | ||
Getter, Steve, my social media platform of choice. | ||
Just tap in my surname, at Harnwell. | ||
I think that's my X profile there. | ||
That's Ben underscore Harnwell. | ||
But I'm really active on Getter at Harnwell. | ||
Thanks, Steve. | ||
God bless. | ||
Have a great weekend. | ||
Fantastic. | ||
We'll see you up on X. Grace Chung and the team monitoring that. | ||
Kimo Ganel is back. | ||
Kimo, I want to make sure we get to you on transhumanism. | ||
Give me your thoughts. | ||
We cover transhumanism non-stop here. | ||
We have an editor, Joe Allen, who's written a fantastic book for us and for our audience. | ||
Your thoughts on transhumanism? | ||
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Yeah, getting back to it, I think there's two issues. | |
There's the incidental issue, which is who controls the tool. | ||
I think that's the less interesting question. | ||
You're saying in AI, the AI part of this, yes. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, exactly. | |
AI, machine learning. | ||
And there's a lot of people involved in, I would at least say, adjacent to our movement. | ||
I think you can call Peter Thiel that, for example. | ||
We're working on that, for example, at the Harvard Innovation Labs, and we're certainly part of the movement. | ||
The better question is about the intrinsic part, which is really a spiritual question when it comes down to it, because the question is, what happens when the tool becomes just as efficient? | ||
Right now, we can empirically say they are not. | ||
You can say there's hallucinations, there's correctness problems, there's groundedness, there was a Stanford study based on this, but really it comes down to the Western ethos. | ||
The Eastern ethos, which is traditionally based on habitual conduct, what works, empiricism, Confucius, for example, talks about this in the Analects, is only interested in how to apply it to society and receive collective benefit. | ||
The West is different. | ||
The West tends to be interested in meaning and grappling with God. | ||
You know, this goes as far back to our biblical roots, the people of Israel, right? | ||
It's about wrestling with God. | ||
And so it's really this existential question. | ||
What do we do if the tools we have are so efficient we don't need humans in the majority of these jobs? | ||
Which, by the way, this also, the fact this dialectic has only occurred now shows there's a lapse between the working class and the intelligence. | ||
What do you mean by that? | ||
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Well, we've already been automating the working class for the past 200 years. | |
I mean, this goes all the way back. | ||
Marx, ironically enough, identifies this with the breakup of the guilds, right? | ||
When you had blacksmiths and you had different artisans that were replaced by factories. | ||
Now, there's some positive benefits to that. | ||
If you just look at it from an Eastern ethos, people, their quality of life went up. | ||
They were able to consume more products. | ||
But that's not meaning. | ||
The fact we live in a country where suicide rates are at some of their highest points... | ||
And yet the quality of living keeps going up, shows there's a disjunction between meaning and material effect. | ||
And so really what we're tackling with AI is how to combine that juncture. | ||
What that simply means is we need to bring back a biblical discourse. | ||
And the reason transhumanism is problematic is it attempts to distort God's image. | ||
It's an attempt to usurp it. | ||
And really the working class has been yelling about this for the last 200 years. | ||
We see with products, right, in the American context. | ||
China has taken over. | ||
It's undermined the majority of products coming into the country. | ||
People have lost their manufacturing jobs. | ||
And that's something the MAGA movement is about. | ||
It's about restoring American meaning. | ||
Your recommendation for our audience, we've got Dark Aeon from Joe Allen, all of his writings. | ||
When you go and look at something on transhumanism in artificial intelligence, what's your recommendations for people that want to get up to speed? | ||
What do you recommend they read? | ||
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Yeah, so there's a lot of great blogs online. | |
If you're looking incidentally, so based on the tools, you can follow me, Fortuna Insights on LinkedIn. | ||
I'm consistently posting blogs. | ||
You're linking to blogs all the time, right? | ||
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constantly. | |
I'm consistently writing them. | ||
Adrian Vermeule has a great blog on this. | ||
He kind of links between law and artificial intelligence and algorithms. | ||
Again, he points to the intrinsic versus the incidental. | ||
Follow the short ones because the books are getting left behind often because they look at the empirical effects of AI and every day they're changing Deep Seek completely changed the landscape, at least in terms of the marketplace on AI. And so you need to be... | ||
One step ahead of the books and read those blogs. | ||
Thanks, brother. | ||
Thank you. | ||
He didn't get the hook this time. | ||
My producer's backed off. | ||
It's Kimo Gandel, Harvard Law. | ||
Very impressive young man, like Sam Delmore. | ||
Short break, back in a moment. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
Okay, welcome back. | ||
So, great article in the Hill newspaper this morning about tariffs. | ||
You know what it focused on? | ||
You got it. | ||
Active pharmaceutical ingredients and generics. | ||
The tariffs that President Trump are talking about are going to be hit right on these products and many, many more, obviously. | ||
Read the Hill article. | ||
Mo, let's get it up into the chat. | ||
Grace, let's put it in the chat. | ||
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Right now, President Trump's tariffs are going to include active pharmaceutical ingredients, and they're going to include generics. | ||
That means the prices are going to go up, because he's, you know, and he's trying to bring manufacturing back. | ||
Navarro and those guys, I think Rosemary Gibson's on the board, of the NET down in, I think it's Hopewell Virginia, Chester Virginia's been built to actually bring it back to the United States, but that is going to take a while, let's say decades. | ||
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Thank you, Steve. | |
See you next week. | ||
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I appreciate it. | |
Have a great Super Bowl weekend. | ||
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