March 4, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| Introduction to the Brian Glenn show right now. | ||
| What we're going to do, the president, a massive announcement this afternoon in the Roosevelt Room. | ||
| We're going to play some clips from that, and we're going to end with our own Brian Glenn asking two brilliant questions of the president of the United States. | ||
| Let's go ahead and let it roll. | ||
| Today, Taiwan Semiconductor is announcing that they will be investing at least $100 billion in new capital in the United States over the next short period of time. | ||
| To build state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing facilities, I think mostly it's going to be in Arizona, which is what I understand, which is a great state. | ||
| I like it because I want it. | ||
| But I want most of them, actually. | ||
| But I did. | ||
| We want it. | ||
| And we want it big. | ||
| The most powerful AI chips in the world will be made right here in America. | ||
| And it'll be a big percentage of the chips made by his company. | ||
| But as you know, they're based mostly in Taiwan. | ||
| And they're far and away the biggest. | ||
| There's nobody even close. | ||
| This $100 billion in new investment will go into building five cutting-edge fabrication facilities in the great state that we just discussed, Arizona, and will create thousands of jobs, many thousands of jobs, and high-paying jobs. | ||
| In total, today's announcement brings Taiwan semiconductor investments to... | ||
| About $165 billion they've started already. | ||
| So we're going April 2nd. | ||
| But very importantly, tomorrow tariffs, 25% on Canada and 25% on Mexico, and that'll start. | ||
| So they're going to have to have a tariff. | ||
| So what they have to do is build their car plants, frankly, and other things in the United States, in which case they have no tariffs. | ||
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Is there any room left for Canada and Mexico to make a deal before midnight? | |
| And should we expect those Chinese tariffs, the extra, extra 10 percent to take effect tomorrow? | ||
| No room left for Mexico or for Canada. | ||
| No, the tariffs, you know, they're all set. | ||
| They go into effect tomorrow. | ||
| just so you understand uh vast amounts of fentanyl have poured into our country from from mexico and as you know also from china where it goes to mexico and goes to canada and china also had an additional 10 so it's 10 plus 10 and uh and it comes in from canada and it comes in from mexico and uh that's a very important thing to say you heard it right there | ||
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Donald Trump just committed to slapping 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico. | |
| It starts at midnight tonight. | ||
| I wouldn't look down at that little black box right now. | ||
| It's going to make you unhappy. | ||
| In addition to the job, you talked about national security, and that's one thing I think a lot of Americans don't understand. | ||
| Explain the national security aspect of this. | ||
| Well, without the chips and semiconductors, nothing runs today. | ||
| You can't buy a car without them. | ||
| You can't get a radio, a television. | ||
| You can't get anything. | ||
| And we thought it was very important, obviously business-wise, but we thought even in terms of national security to have this large percentage of the chips, semiconductors, and other things that they make, the most important product. | ||
| And not a product that you can really copy. | ||
| It takes years and years. | ||
| You know, on the needle of a pin is total genius. | ||
| I mean, they can put things... | ||
| I mean, something the size of the needle, the point of a pin, they put information that is just not even believable. | ||
| So if you would see this, it's just really something. | ||
| Yes, Brian? | ||
| One more aspect of that. | ||
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Honda announced they're coming to Indiana because of the tariffs. | |
| Once again, additional jobs in the factory. | ||
| Well, Honda's coming, and I told you about Apple, that they're going to be starting to build massively here, 500 billion. | ||
| And we have many other companies going to be announced. | ||
| But we had many that have already announced. | ||
| And now it's going to be great. | ||
| It's looking really strong. | ||
| I don't think this country has ever seen anything like we're seeing right now. | ||
| Now, the tariffs, as you know, will start a week earlier than the reciprocal, which is going to be a couple of weeks earlier. | ||
| Reciprocal starts, reciprocal tariffs start on April 2nd. | ||
| And I wanted to make it April 1st, but I didn't want to. | ||
| I didn't want to go April Fool's Day. | ||
| Because that cost me, that cost a lot of money, that one day. | ||
| So we're going April 2nd. | ||
| But very importantly, tomorrow tariffs 25% on Canada and 25% on Mexico, and that'll start. | ||
| So they're going to have to have a tariff. | ||
| So what they have to do is build their car plants, frankly, and other things in the United States, in which case they have no tariffs. | ||
| In other words, you build, and this is exactly what Mr. Wei is doing, by building here, otherwise they'll build, if they did them in Taiwan to send them here, they'll have 25 percent or 30 percent or 50 percent or whatever the number may be someday. | ||
| It'll go only up. | ||
| But by doing it here, he has no tariffs, so he's way ahead of the game. | ||
| I would just say this to people in Canada or Mexico. | ||
| If they're going to build car plants, the people that are doing them are much better off building here. | ||
| Because we have the market. | ||
| We're the market where they sell the most. | ||
| And so I think it's going to be very exciting. | ||
| Very exciting for the automobile companies. | ||
| Very exciting for... | ||
| I can think of any... | ||
| As an example, North Carolina, they had the grid. | ||
| I used to go there to buy furniture for hotels. | ||
| And it's been wiped out. | ||
| That business all went to other... | ||
| Countries. | ||
| And now it's all going to come back into North Carolina, the furniture manufacturing business, please. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies, 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 line? | ||
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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. Mann. | ||
| It's Monday, 3, March, in the year of our Lord, 2025, afternoon show. | ||
| Big, big, big economic developments this afternoon as we highlight it for you in the morning show. | ||
| Taiwan Semiconductor, $100 billion in the state of Arizona to build one of their advanced facilities. | ||
| And I think it's over four years. | ||
| I think it's $25 billion a year. | ||
| This is a massive deal. | ||
| And President Trump right there just reiterated, Honda in Indiana. | ||
| Apple Computer, $500 billion commitment. | ||
| And now, Taiwan Semiconductor, $100 billion. | ||
| Like I said, I am not big on foreign capital like the Saudis or people come in. | ||
| Or was it Mosi Shan from SoftBank comes in, his talk, $100 billion. | ||
| But when companies are moving manufacturing, all three of those, Honda, Apple, Taiwan Semiconductor. | ||
| And these are platinum names. | ||
| This is like the best of the best. | ||
| This is... | ||
| I think a shocking development and an unbelievable development. | ||
| It shows you what Donald Trump's... | ||
| President Trump is unlocked here. | ||
| Brian Glenn is in the room, asked two great questions. | ||
| Brian, let's go back in there. | ||
| Put us in the room today. | ||
| Pretty big announcement of President Trump and really his economic strategy for the United States. | ||
| On the eve of his... | ||
| It's not even the eve, it's tonight at midnight. | ||
| 25% tariffs, and people should know the markets are a tad rattle on this as he had plays out. | ||
| Your thoughts, sir? | ||
| Yeah, good afternoon. | ||
| Yeah, what a great historic day there in the Roosevelt Room. | ||
| President Trump's stepping out and announcing this massive $100 billion investment. | ||
| Now, mind you, they've already got $65 billion already invested in Arizona, so they're going to tack on another $100 billion. | ||
| Does this once again prove that when you put leadership, someone that has America First, a business-minded expert, into office, this is what you get? | ||
| Remember the SoftBank press conference, Steve, that we did at Mar-a-Lago? | ||
| That was $100 billion, if I'm not mistaken. | ||
| So it just keeps coming on. | ||
| And of course, now that the tariffs, Honda said, wait a minute, let's go ahead and invest into Indiana. | ||
| Take this next generation Civic. | ||
| Let's build it in the United States and not pay the tariffs. | ||
| Just a big win, Steve. | ||
| And you've been talking about this forever. | ||
| And you're financially brilliant in terms of that. | ||
| And for the person at home that just kind of casually follows business news, disregard that little black box on the bottom of the screen with the stock market temporarily. | ||
| Because you and I both know when this manufacturing comes back here and we start making stuff here and people start investing in those computer chips. | ||
| Taiwan Semiconductor. | ||
| It's only going to better this country. | ||
| And just what a great day. | ||
| You know, I want to go back to that. | ||
| I am not a huge fan of people like SoftBank or people like the Gulf Emirates or the Saudis coming in. | ||
| It's totally different, though. | ||
| Honda, Apple. | ||
| And Taiwan Semiconductor. | ||
| These are massive manufacturing powerhouses. | ||
| And this is President Trump's strategy. | ||
| If you move it back here, if you move... | ||
| The manufacturing back here and bring high-value-added manufacturing jobs, which drive everything else, all the ancillary services and Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts and the laundry, housing, everything. | ||
| If you bring those back, not only do you avoid the tariffs, I'll eventually get to try to cut corporate tax rates and make sure we have the most competitive corporate tax rates in the world so that you can really build and think long-term. | ||
| And this is long-term thinking. | ||
| For the MAGA, it's that stability. | ||
| It's that civic stability that they're looking for. | ||
| And here's what's amazing, because I think Apple will follow up. | ||
| People should understand they're coming to, wait for it, red states. | ||
| They're coming to red states, and the reason is it's a safer environment, it's more stable government, it's traditionally lower taxes, a little less regulation, and the stability of family values. | ||
| And I've got to tell you, this is why the Sun Belt, this is why the Southern states, this is why the MAGA states are just going to continue. | ||
| To boom. | ||
| You don't see them putting it up in Connecticut. | ||
| You don't see these factories going in upstate New York. | ||
| You don't see them going in a lot of these blue states, New Jersey. | ||
| And this is why, and California used to be all go to California, not anymore. | ||
| This is the driving direction of the country, Brian. | ||
| It is. | ||
| And he even mentioned that they initially gave Taiwan Semiconductor, I think, five or six billion dollars in kind of tax credits, if you will, to go ahead and get this done. | ||
| And it's ended up bringing in $65 billion. | ||
| So you give a little bit, but you get a whole lot. | ||
| And I think it's great. | ||
| I love the national security aspect of it, too, Steve. | ||
| And that can go into pharmaceuticals as well. | ||
| If we depend on manufacturing of a lot of things that we need, and we saw that in COVID. What would happen, how the price of everything went up. | ||
| You couldn't find an electronic to save your life during that time or some of these prescription drugs. | ||
| Bring the pharmaceuticals, bring the integrated circuits back here in our country. | ||
| Let us manufacture them. | ||
| Let us have our hands on it. | ||
| And I think it's great all around. | ||
| And so it was just a wonderful day. | ||
| And of course, the press conference did pivot to Ukraine as we knew it would. | ||
| I stayed away from asking President Trump if he owned a tracksuit. | ||
| I didn't go there, Steve. | ||
| I didn't go there. | ||
| Kept it business-minded there. | ||
| But obviously, Ukraine did come up in that press conference heavily. | ||
| I do want to say, the difference between Main Street and Wall Street is seen by the box of the stock market drop, and you're right, the long-term benefits for Main Street for President Trump's base. | ||
| But on Ukraine, they're sticking to their guns now. | ||
| Coming out of the White House, correct me if I'm wrong, there's some discussion behind the scenes. | ||
| President Trump having a belly full of it. | ||
| Why the mainstream media is going, oh, Trump is with Putin and these amazing Europeans and Zelensky is Churchill. | ||
| At the White House, what I'm hearing, Brian, is that he may cut off, they may cut off aid altogether, both military aid and economic aid. | ||
| What are you hearing? | ||
| Yeah, I'm hearing the same thing, Steve, and you said it great in that last segment. | ||
| I mean, if NATO and those European countries, they can handle this. | ||
| Go for it. | ||
| But, yeah, that's what I'm hearing as well, so we'll see. | ||
| Tomorrow night, he's got that joint session on the House floor. | ||
| Big thing. | ||
| He'll talk a lot about that. | ||
| Yeah, we're going to make some announcements later. | ||
| Yeah, we're going to make some announcements about the coverage of that. | ||
| Brian Glenn's obviously going to be with us. | ||
| Natalie Winters, all of it. | ||
| Brian, we'll let you get back. | ||
| Brian is now getting interviewed by the major platforms, BBC, NHK, CCT, all over the world. | ||
| As he's become a star, kind of the same level. | ||
| The Real American Voice, you know, Natalie Winters, Brian Glenn, they get him to the White House, they become rock stars. | ||
| Brian Glenn, what's your social media, brother? | ||
| You can follow me at BrianGlennTV, across the board, at Brian on Truth Social. | ||
| And as always, Steve, you're the best. | ||
| Thanks for having me on, and we'll see you back here tomorrow. | ||
| Brian, great coverage. | ||
| We'll see you probably on the morning show, and then tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow night. | ||
| Brian Glenn. | ||
| Got two questions in the Roosevelt Room today. | ||
| Major economic announcements. | ||
| Taiwan's semiconductor $100 billion in building the most advanced chip design and manufacturing in the world, in the great state of Arizona. | ||
| Natalie Winters is going to join us to talk about the strategic relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| And also more blowback on the resistance, the color revolution about Ukraine coming after President Trump. | ||
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All next in the war room. | |
| Welcome back. | ||
| Natalie Winters joins us, our White House correspondent. | ||
| Natalie, you know, you and I have talked now for years about this concept of decoupling versus more integration. | ||
| Of course, the pressure on President Trump from Wall Street and from the corporatists and especially Silicon Valley is more integration. | ||
| And obviously the anti-CCP aspect of our movement is we want to decouple. | ||
| And now that decoupling is kind of, you know, Marco Rubio's there, Waltz is there, some of his advisors. | ||
| Why is this Taiwan Semiconductor deal, how does that play into that, and particularly given this executive order that really didn't get much coverage that happened a week or so ago, ma'am? | ||
| Well, it's essentially the same voices, right? | ||
| Whether it's Wall Street, big business, all these politicians that are compromised by the Chinese Communist Party that we've documented for, what, years that were telling us, what, that tariffs didn't work. | ||
| And now, all of a sudden, you see a huge investment, as you were talking about, $100 billion by factories in Arizona coming from, obviously, TSMC. But I think that the whole sort of chip semiconductor... | ||
| This argumentation that you've always sort of heard come really from the deep state talking point has always been, this is why we need to stay engaged in Ukraine, right? | ||
| Because we're going to set a bad precedent and we really need Taiwan because of semiconductors, because of these chips, right? | ||
| The United States economy could potentially crater overnight if China were to ever invade. | ||
| And I think similar to perhaps President Trump's out-of-the-box, you know, conception of what to do with Gaza, this is another solution to a problem which involves reassuring. | ||
| I think the numbers here, too, Steve, are just staggering. | ||
| It's been, what, about one month since President Trump has been in office? | ||
| They've already courted $1.7 trillion in foreign investment. | ||
| It took the Biden regime four years just to get up to a trillion. | ||
| Frankly, a lot of that FDI was riddled in sort of the Hunter Biden, you know, foreign corrupt pay for play. | ||
| The difference is that I think President Trump represents negotiations not from this, you know, perverse geopolitical equity stance where we have to act like we're not the American hegemon that we are, but that we sort of have a might, an economic might to throw around. | ||
| And the key difference here, Steve? | ||
| Is that now we're weaponizing our government, our economy, you know, our United States dollar on behalf. | ||
| Of the American people instead of against them. | ||
| And obviously, President Trump has staffed his cabinet, his administration with people who are China hawks, who are CCP hawks. | ||
| And I think for so long, you know, every guest we've ever had on the show, you and I have always sat there. | ||
| We've seen this sort of performative activism, right, coming from the rhinos who talk so tough on China, how we need to decouple and decouple. | ||
| Yet when push comes to shove, right, just like these fiscal hawks who did nothing about the USAID orgy of spending. | ||
| President Trump actually acts and is working to decouple them by taking this, I think, really, really monumental step in the semiconductor industry, which then, of course, has a lot of trickle-down effects. | ||
| But this is what decoupling, or at least the opening salvo of it, looks like. | ||
| He's balancing this, too, at the same time with this Russian rapprochement that would be the knife in the heart of Beijing's goal to control the Eurasian landmass with the Mullahs in Persia. | ||
| You have two aspects of this, and we're covering, Dave Walsh is going to be on in a second. | ||
| We're going to talk about the energy aspect of it and the governmental aspect. | ||
| We'll also discuss some of the stuff that's going on with NATO and what's happened. | ||
| But there's another darker side that actually may be more effective, and this is the resistance you've been covering from day one to President Trump. | ||
| And it has a very dark aspect. | ||
| In fact, you could say a lot of it started around the color revolution in Ukraine with Victoria Nuland. | ||
| You've had some great reporting and come up with something that's kind of shocking. | ||
| Can you walk us through the resistance as an element of the Ukraine fight? | ||
| And what have you found out about some of the darker aspects of it, ma'am? | ||
| The Ukraine issue is sort of inextricably linked to the decoupling from the Chinese Communist Party issue that we were just talking about, right? | ||
| I think the sort of myopia, monomania of the idea that Ukraine is the forefront of democracy that sort of plagues the Washington, D.C. class here, it sort of misses the forest for the trees, right? | ||
| This is about President Trump understanding the geopolitical significance, not just looking at the borders of Ukraine, but understanding that the Chinese Communist Party is trying to bring Russia into their Their sphere of influence are certainly more than that, right? | ||
| And really, I think, instigating and instituting a sort of geopolitical alignment, right? | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party is not content with a unipolar, or rather, bipolar world order. | ||
| They want a unipolar world order whereby they replace the United States and reorienting kind of global political affairs through that paradigm is what they are trying to do. | ||
| Not just, you know, ostensibly with Russia in terms of the Ukraine conflict, but also just by bogging us down in another, shall we say, graveyard of empires, Afghanistan type conflict. | ||
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Right. | |
| They would love nothing more than to have the United States peacekeeping forces in Ukraine or anywhere. | ||
| And, you know, I know you always say you've got to focus on the big picture, but, you know, I love drilling down on sort of the minute details. | ||
| And I don't know if you want to get into it now, but write the story about Victoria Nuland's son, who's busy working for a think tank that's actively lobbying against President Trump's peace plan, the proposed mineral deal. | ||
| He's listed as a researcher contributing to the Center for European Policy Analysis. | ||
| This shows you how it is not just a family grift, but it really is the Washington consensus whereby they view these sort of foreign, endless, forever wars as a way. | ||
| I mean, everyone in the Nuland family makes a paycheck online. | ||
| Off of killing young American boys and girls in the name of democracy. | ||
| Literally every single person in that family. | ||
| And I think that that is quite remarkable because it's replicated time and time again, right? | ||
| The story of Hunter Biden is not just one incident. | ||
| That is a pattern that replicates itself because these people have never been called out. | ||
| And their business model is one of global collusion with And not line your pockets while you're lecturing us. | ||
| With your, you know, monotone voices, your pseudo-intellectualism, and your dysgenic, you know, look, telling us, I guess we have to call her the color revolution dominatrix in honor of Darren Beatty. | ||
| But that is what represents a transformational shift. | ||
| And I have to say, Steve, for all the... | ||
| You know, Beltway elites, the think tank, the K Street crowd who think that they're so frickin' smart and that the reason why we need to protect Ukraine and destroy this country and trash our economy is so we set an example so the Chinese Communist Party won't invade Taiwan. | ||
| Well, here's two things that just happened. | ||
| President Trump just essentially blocked that by reshoring that industry here to the United States. | ||
| And two... | ||
| President Trump is actually showing that the United States actually is someone who's able and willing to negotiate from the standpoint of putting America first, unlike these fake think tank hacks who are quite literally funded by the Chinese Communist Party and their big tech counterparts. | ||
| So President Trump, as you always say, is a blunt force instrument. | ||
| And an armor-piercing shell. | ||
| And sometimes it's the thing itself, right? | ||
| It's the deal. | ||
| It's the investment. | ||
| It's the meeting in the Oval Office. | ||
| But it's also just, I think, more symbolic, too, in calling out—I'd call it a grift. | ||
| Maybe racket is a better terminology for it. | ||
| But the racket that is the incestuous deep state that I think the Newland family just epitomizes. | ||
| And on top of that, you've got the geostrategic and geoeconomic. | ||
| I mean, tonight at midnight, the 25% tariffs go in on two of our three biggest trading partners, Mexico and Canada. | ||
| He says you just haven't lived up to being really kind of allies. | ||
| In addition, I think he's hitting 10% on China tonight. | ||
| On the morning of, right, his speech is really his first State of the Union or address to Congress, as it's called, right at the beginning of your first term. | ||
| your thoughts on that, ma'am. | ||
| Well, look, Steve, all these people who are now telling us that we have to melt down, right? | ||
| And feel so bad and sympathetic for all these poor people who've been fired by USAID. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| Those are the same brilliant geniuses who've crafted the policies that have forced President Trump to need to institute these tariffs, crafted the immigration policies that have stolen the jobs, livelihoods, and, frankly, dignity by forcing American workers to train their replacements. | ||
| So I have absolutely zero sympathy, empathy. | ||
| Whatever you want to qualify it as for these people. | ||
| And you bring up these tariffs. | ||
| That's, again, another thing that I think is effectively evaluated through the paradigm of it's not just the thing itself, right? | ||
| The tariff in and of itself is an effective economic tool like Peter Navarro has outlined better than I ever could. | ||
| But I think it also just demonstrates that President Trump, and by extension, the United States, is back. | ||
| And when they melt down, make no mistake, about how President Trump is appointing loyalists, right, the nasty, dirty L-word, to his cabinet, they're not melting down because he's appointing people who are loyal to President Trump. | ||
| They're melting down because he's appointing people who are loyal to the United States of America because that is so fundamentally transformational, not just from what we've seen under Joe Biden. | ||
| I don't even like calling it the deep state, but the sort of Washington establishment, you know, beltway class, where they view Canada, these countries that we're now hurling tariffs against. | ||
| It's just trading partners, because you know what? | ||
| To them, they are. | ||
| They're, you know, expanded market access, right? | ||
| It's the trope of when we thought letting China into the WTO, that we would change them. | ||
| It seems like every country, you can extrapolate that critique. | ||
| Every country that we've somehow gotten into business with, and when I say we, I'm not talking about the American people, right? | ||
| I'm talking about, well, the elites. | ||
| They've benefited, but the average American worker has been totally screwed over, and President Trump is actually fighting. | ||
| For American workers, and that's why they're in meltdown over it. | ||
| And it's glorious to see. | ||
| Natalie, you're going to be with us tomorrow on our wall-to-wall coverage of State of the Union. | ||
| What is your social media in the interim, ma'am? | ||
| Natalie G. Winters on all social media platforms. | ||
| Look forward to seeing you guys tomorrow. | ||
| Thank you for having me on. | ||
| Great hit, Natalie. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| Dave Walsh is going to join us. | ||
| We're going to talk some... | ||
| Geo-economics. | ||
| And it's going to shock you about the hypocrisy and all this. | ||
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| Has to get into a room, so to speak, and we have to make a deal. | ||
| And the deal can be made very fast. | ||
| It should not be that hard a deal to make. | ||
| It could be made very fast. | ||
| Now, maybe somebody doesn't want to make a deal. | ||
| And if somebody doesn't want to make a deal, I think that person won't be around very long. | ||
| That person will not be listened to very long. | ||
| Because I believe that Russia wants to make a deal. | ||
| I believe certainly the people of Ukraine want to make a deal. | ||
| They've suffered more than anybody else. | ||
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Has there been any communication with the administration since the Oval Office meeting? | |
| Have they reached out to you? | ||
| And separately, you talked about resignation a few days ago. | ||
| How are you thinking about elections? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well... | ||
| There is communication. | ||
| There is communication. | ||
| Not on my level. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| As regards resignation, my resignation. | ||
| If I'm to be changed and I'll hear how can I put it. | ||
| Because what's happening with the support, to change me, it will not be easy. | ||
| Because it is not enough to simply hold elections. | ||
| You would need to prevent me from participating in the elections. | ||
| And it will be a bit more difficult. | ||
| They'll have to negotiate with me. | ||
| And I said that I'm exchanging it for NATO membership. | ||
| And then it means that I've fulfilled my mission. | ||
| There is NATO. It means I've fulfilled my mission. | ||
| Although, honestly, it looks like the people, and I'll not be calling their posts, naming their posts, but the citizens of other countries are telling Ukrainians which president they should have, especially if these people occupy official posts. | ||
| It seems to me a bit undemocratic and unconstructed. | ||
| We are speaking about the values, and it definitely looks not very democratic. | ||
| You know, President Trump, please, President Trump, don't get in a room with him. | ||
| I know there's a lot of pressure on you, a lot of people, you can, you don't need them for a peace deal. | ||
| They have no interest. | ||
| They have no interest. | ||
| All they're trying to do is entangle the United States, entangle the United States in what will be a long protracted exit like in Vietnam. | ||
| With more money and they want a security guarantee, they're going to whine. | ||
| They're recalcitrant. | ||
| They're like nine-year-old children that are ornery. | ||
| He's not trustworthy. | ||
| The whole oligarchy of Ukraine, they're a group of criminals. | ||
| Remember, they're the third most corrupt nation on earth by independent people that assess those types of things. | ||
| It's hard enough to negotiate with Putin and the KGB. The Europeans are just going to have to do whatever you decide to do. | ||
| Full stop. | ||
| NATO is what got us into this situation in the first place. | ||
| By their insisting, and he insisting, that they wanted to be a member of NATO, which would be right up in Russia's grill. | ||
| Also a member of the EU. Dave Walsh, I've got to bring you in here because the hypocrisy of the European elites, and this is why I'm so virently opposed and have been to the European elites who have dragged America into war after war after war. | ||
| And remember, folks, all of you were all kicked out of those countries, your grandparents, your great-grandparents, your great-great-great-grandparents. | ||
| We're all given the boot by your betters in these countries. | ||
| We don't owe these people anything, zero. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| The folks over there are fine. | ||
| You see now a sovereignty movement, a populist national revolt country by country, because they've taken the inspiration of President Trump and the MAGA movement, and now they're sitting there going, we've got to throw these bums out. | ||
| But those bums still call the deal. | ||
| Dave Walsh, you're my energy guy, and at the basis of everything is energy. | ||
| Plentiful, consistent, cheap energy. | ||
| That's what drives an industrial world and a post-industrial world. | ||
| It's going to drive the algorithmic age even more than it drove the industrial age because of the massive power requirements of artificial intelligence. | ||
| Dave Walsh, what is the blatant hypocrisy of the European elites in this situation around Ukraine and potential rapprochement of the United States and Russia, sir? | ||
| Well, focusing on Starmer and Macron's visit here right before Zelensky came, with the virtue signaling, chest beating, and shameless demands of the U.S. to step up and continue to heavily fund this Ukraine war, I'm sure President Trump in private reminded them they're below net zero in respect to they have purchased from the beginning of this war $221 billion worth of Russian natural gas, | ||
| oil, Coal and uranium for their energy supply. | ||
| While they've lent $100 billion, roughly, to the Ukraine, lent for the war effort, they've spent $221 billion in Russia on Russian fuels to fuel their economy. | ||
| Because the net-zero decarb wind-solar battery storage movement in Europe produces about 8% of their all-in energy. | ||
| It has been a drastic failure because of the minimal nature of that kind of energy. | ||
| And oh, by the way, during this war, they've spent another equivalent $250 to $275 billion on Russia's ally, China, for solar panels and batteries, battery storage for power, the Western European nations. | ||
| So here they are, heavily funding this war effort through Russia's ally, but more directly Russia. | ||
| $61 billion every year, $220 billion over a three-year period, $70 billion a year in spending in Russia for... | ||
| Substances they must have to exist as a society. | ||
| So there is no way that they're going to get involved in hand-to-hand combat, in actual kinetic warfare, against Russia. | ||
| They're heavily supporting this war cause on a two-to-one basis over that which they're lending to Ukraine. | ||
| It's obscenely shameless that they're demanding the U.S. to fund what they are actually spending in Russia on oil, gas, coal, and uranium. | ||
| What is the potential you see, if we work through some rapprochement with Russia, and particularly the fact that we want to break them up from the CCP, isn't energy, if we talk about, the first thing to do is to lay down the guns in Ukraine, but then figure out how we build some prosperity around that ceasefire, or at least the beginnings of peace. | ||
| Are the possibilities with leadership by the United States and then Western Europe an integration into the energy aspect of that part of Europe and Eurasia, sir? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, we're going to have to take this out of the closet. | ||
| This invasion took this subject out of the closet. | ||
| The fact that the European attempted reliance on wind, solar, and battery storage has produced net zero energy for them, a lack of energy driving industry out of the UK, out of England, out of Austria, and the like, they do have a heavy localized dependence they do have a heavy localized dependence in the region on Russian oil and gas. | ||
| I think a very large part of any peace process is certainly reinitiating all of that trade They desperately need that. | ||
| And that needs to come out of the closet, out in public, those economies, especially for home eating. | ||
| Commercial heating is all, 98% in Western Europe is oil and gas driven, not wind and solar. | ||
| You don't have that in the morning between 5 a.m. | ||
| and 9 a.m. | ||
| at all. | ||
| So that, I mean, their dependence on the Russian economy for energy resources, that makes sense, can be a key part of settling this whole thing. | ||
| Because it would actually drive up legitimate Russian supply. | ||
| And bring them back into a harmonious conclusion of the real relationship that's there. | ||
| That's what I'm pointing to. | ||
| Germany, this whole thing with the pipeline, we now know more about the U.S.-Ukrainian collaboration and the Nord Stream explosion, was all about attempting to induce Germany to get into this fray with money. | ||
| As we all recall, the first six months of it, they had no interest in participating at all in the Ukraine conflict, which is a decision. | ||
| So our efforts to help with that Nord Stream pipeline calamity was about attempting to induce them to be troubled into supporting the Ukraine effort. | ||
| That's how cross-linked these countries are with Russian oil and gas supply. | ||
| Russian natural gas supply just reached the top of the list. | ||
| The number one exporter of natural gas, LNG, to Europe became Russia last June, June of 2024, again. | ||
| Vis-a-vis tankers, LNG, displacing the U.S. and Qatar as number one suppliers in Western Europe of natural gas. | ||
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| During the height of this war, it's so hypocritical. | ||
| Germany, the signal to the United States of the madness of the Greta Thunberg and everything, Germany's, and this is why the government just got turfed out, got crushed, and it should be a lesson to Democrat politicians. | ||
| Germany's economy is shrinking at 3-5% because, as you called it a couple of years ago, they're deindustrializing because they're shutting down major sources of consistent, plentiful, and cheap energy. | ||
| Right? | ||
| I mean, this is a way that you drive an economy into a ground. | ||
| And this is my point. | ||
| If you integrate the entire area, as you say, take those deals out of the closet and dust them off. | ||
| But the first thing you've got to do is get away from this madness of net carbon zero, is it not? | ||
| No, their supposed conversion to dependence on their energy wind program, wind and solar, has really resulted in what typically happens with this here in California and New York, the same thing. | ||
| For example, massive imports of electrification to offset the tiny weeny fractions of energy actually available from wind and solar. | ||
| So Germany in the last five years has been largely dependent on Russia for heating and cooling for commercial activities in homes. | ||
| On French nuclear power, on Polish coal-fired power, to displace those coal plants and all the nuclear plants that were closed in Germany by Merkel. | ||
| The absolute disastrous move by her to attempt to depend on tiny, tiny fractional portions of wind and solar that simply aren't there enough to matter. | ||
| So the dependence on Russia grew mightily in Germany, as President Trump pointed out at the UN six and a half years ago, and they thumbed their nose at him. | ||
| And now we've got the same guy weeping at the podium last week because of J.D. Vance's speech. | ||
| They've ruined their economy. | ||
| Chemical plants moving out, steel plants moving out, car plants moving out. | ||
| It's a disaster. | ||
| England has seen this already, economy on its knees, for exactly the same reason. | ||
| The destitution of its prior energy strength only 15 years ago in the U.K. North Sea oil, coal plants, nuclear plants being shuttered now. | ||
| Just an energy disaster. | ||
| So, I mean, the reality of their dependence on Russia does need drug out of the closet and made a key part of settling all this because that economic crosslink is, in the long run, it's a good thing if, you know, Russia hopefully behaves with the settlement and the peace agreement, then we're back in business. | ||
| We're not going to be able to beat the cost of their LNG pipeline gas with U.S. LNG at a $6 premium coming from the U.S. to displace it. | ||
| It makes no economic sense. | ||
| So the Russian energy supply restart on a legitimate basis is a key part of a peace action here. | ||
| Without question. | ||
| Dave, can you hang on for a second? | ||
| After the break, I want to ask you the question about tariffs tonight. | ||
| They kick in in Mexico and Canada, and I think the 25%, the 10% tomorrow also, I believe, in China. | ||
| President Trump has said at midnight, when the clock strikes midnight, It's all systems go. | ||
| They've had their warning and it's going to happen. | ||
| And later in the month, reciprocity. | ||
| Dave Washington will join us after the break. | ||
| Financial markets were quite turbulent after President Trump was in the Roosevelt Room. | ||
| The positive nature of the Taiwan Semiconductor was offset by the uncertainty they saw in the tariffs. | ||
| This is why now, more than ever, Birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| Get to Philip Patrick and the team. | ||
| Understand. | ||
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| But get to Philip Patrick and the team about why gold is a hedge in times of financial turbulence. | ||
| I think it was a 500-point drop in the market at one point today. | ||
| We are going to go through some bumps, folks, as President Trump sorts out this mess. | ||
| Some bumps. | ||
| Birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Dave Walsh on the other side. | ||
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| Speaking of times of turbulence, tariffs tonight on China, 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada. | ||
| He's talking about reciprocity of tariffs on Europe very quickly, and I think 10% hit China. | ||
| So it's all systems go. | ||
| Walk us through the energy aspect of this. | ||
| How is this going to impact the folks that are getting tariffs on them and also the United States of America, sir? | ||
| Well, let's talk China first. | ||
| We've got to, I mean, without congressional ability to dismantle these incentives on solar and wind. | ||
| But by the way, I do think the national energy emergency helps us do that. | ||
| In the short range, in the absence of that ability, going ahead and putting massive tariffs on Chinese solar panels, thin-film PV, inverters, batteries for utility-scale storage, that's a huge deal. | ||
| 51% of new capacity in the U.S. this year will be solar, 29% battery storage. | ||
| All of that, essentially all of that, imported from China, that's a disaster. | ||
| So imposing stiff tariffs on a country. | ||
| That will not accept U.S.-made steam turbines, U.S.-made generators, will not accept U.S.-made switchgear, will not accept U.S.-made transformers, will not accept U.S.-made gas turbines. | ||
| Parts they do, but not the whole unit. | ||
| They have soft programs against the importation of any of that from Japan here and Western Europe. | ||
| So the tariffs in reciprocity on solar, wind, and battery storage especially make complete sense. | ||
| With respect to our energy policy that's now dominated by Chinese supplied equipment displacing American fuel. | ||
| Europe, the same situation with respect to all basic industry. | ||
| I spent my life working to attempt to export breakers, switchgear, transformers, motors, generators into Europe. | ||
| You can't do it from here. | ||
| And you can't do it from Japan either. | ||
| The trade wall in Europe, Western Europe particularly, has been up so high for 55 years due to their defense of their social labor governments acting hand-in-hand with their government-controlled industry behemoths to void out any notionality of participating in global trade. | ||
| You must buy generation and electrical equipment and steel and cars in Europe that are made in Europe, hard stop, and they defend that with tariffs, and they defend that position with a lot of soft regulatory For some reason, the Wall Street, the New York Times never mention this, that the trade wall in Europe has been up so high for so long, we're way past the 80-year-ago reconstruction of Western Europe. | ||
| It's just a tactic to void out the importation of largely U.S. and Japanese product that are horrendous. | ||
| Mexico, strong message needs delivered. | ||
| He's delivering it on the border. | ||
| We're serious about the border. | ||
| So we've got to make the tariff stick for a good while to assure she understands we're very serious about the border. | ||
| And they need to keep that border manned with their troops. | ||
| They need to bolster the troops. | ||
| And they need to get after the cartels. | ||
| And I think Pete Hegsath is on the right page in discussions now, opening up about going after them in country. | ||
| And you've got the same issue with Canada and not really being that egregiously supportive of our border needs up north. | ||
| Nor accepting of our products over a long history, including mainly ag products. | ||
| So he's working reciprocity, and that makes complete sense, and people understand that. | ||
| So if it's well explained, and I'm sure it will be, people grasp what the essence of reciprocity is on that topic, like for like. | ||
| People blocking us, they've got to see the same medicine coming back, and then there's a chance. | ||
| In the longer picture, he is a free trade guy. | ||
| He said that eight years ago. | ||
| You've got to do this to bring people to sanity on Western Europe specifically, China specifically, accept products from others, don't dump products here, and then not accept anything from the U.S., from Japan. | ||
| Be rational about it. | ||
| This is a way to bring them to heel. | ||
| This is the logical way to do it. | ||
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Sure, it's harsh, but it's the way to do it. | |
| Trump's geoeconomic plan. | ||
| He'll say something about this in depth more at the State of the Union. | ||
| Dave Walsh, social media. | ||
| Brain analysis, sir, social media. | ||
| Dave Walsh, energy, true social, X, and getter. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
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