March 31, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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And get some dirt on these folks. | |
| I'll turn it over to you, my friend. | ||
| It's your hour. | ||
| Missed you on Friday. | ||
| Eric, I went to Colorado to give a speech to the great GOP there on Friday. | ||
| For timing, I had to miss him. | ||
| Man, my day didn't seem fulfilled unless I'm doing a handover, unless you're handing the show over to me. | ||
| It's like a relay race. | ||
| Eric Bolling. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
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Bowling out. | |
| The great Eric Bolling. | ||
| Here's what's going to happen today. | ||
| We believe at 530 there's going to be a signing, a ceremony in the Oval Office of an executive order. | ||
| We anticipate that executive order may be the Liberation Day About tariffs, about reciprocity. | ||
| We think that's going to happen. | ||
| Right now, we're told it is going to happen live. | ||
| There's going to be a major signing ceremony. | ||
| Our own Brian Glenn is so close, we actually can't do it. | ||
| We're going to try to do a hit to tee it up. | ||
| We're not going to be able to do that. | ||
| Here's what we are going to do. | ||
| We have a lot of business we have to get done before 530. | ||
| And what we're going to do, we're going to go to Florida for Florida 1 and Florida 6. And we're going to go to Wisconsin, get updates on these very tight, very important races. | ||
| Then we're also going to talk to Bolsonaro's team. | ||
| But first, we have a summary of what the news has been this afternoon since we left you guys this morning. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play it. | ||
| We start with jittery global markets bracing for President Trump's new barrage of tariffs set to take effect this week. | ||
| He dubbed Wednesday, April 2nd, quote, Liberation Day, claiming his new plan will free Americans from a dependence on foreign goods. | ||
| But how is that going to happen? | ||
| What kind of tariffs are actually coming? | ||
| Which countries will take the biggest hit? | ||
| The answers to these questions and more, no one really knows. | ||
| CNN's Jeff Zeleny is at the White House. | ||
| Maybe Jeff Zeleny knows. | ||
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Jeff? I mean, Dana, there is no question that for all the whiplash that we have seen here at the White House in the first 66 or so days of this administration, the front and center to all that is the President's view on global trade and what these tariff policies have done. | |
| We've seen an on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again. | ||
| But the President and the White House are talking about Wednesday being the day for these reciprocal tariffs. | ||
| That is essentially the U.S. | ||
| charging what other countries are charging the U.S. | ||
| for tariffs. | ||
| So essentially it's a tax, though, on goods that American consumers will pay. | ||
| The question, will this be across the board? | ||
| Will this be sort of country by country, sector by sector? | ||
| That is an open question. | ||
| The president last night flying back to Washington offered little clarity. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| How many countries will be in that initial tranche? | ||
| You'd start with all countries, so let's see what happens. | ||
| There are many countries. | ||
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Amen. | |
| I haven't heard a rumor about 15 countries, 10 or 15. So you're starting with all countries? | ||
| Essentially all of the countries that we're talking about. | ||
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We'll be talking about all countries and not a cut off. | |
| The administration estimates that Trump tariffs will bring in $600 billion in the first year to the Treasury General Fund. | ||
| The president's extra 25% tariffs on autos alone expected to generate $100 billion on top of the reciprocal tariffs. | ||
| So those tariffs on just about all countries is meant to level the trade playing field. | ||
| The extra 25% tariffs on autos and others meant to protect seven industries the president has deemed critical. | ||
| You see those industries there, autos on the list, along with semiconductors, labor, steel, aluminum, and the others. | ||
| Donald Trump says he doesn't care about tariffs on foreign cars. | ||
| It's going to force people to buy American more. | ||
| Sean Fein seems to be in agreement with him on that. | ||
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Sure, look, unions have for a very long time objected to U.S. trade policy. | |
| In fact, it's almost the touchstone of the contemporary trade union movement in the United States, is that our trade policies have led to layoffs of workers, shutterings of factories, really the hollowing out of many manufacturing towns, including towns in Wisconsin that have lost major plants. | ||
| And so the tariff issue does play both ways. | ||
| there are many working class people who really do believe that the government, the federal government, should be putting its thumb on the scale to help US workers, to help US industries. | ||
| The question, as we've talked about before, is how do you do that in a smart way that helps US workers, but that doesn't harm US consumers and that makes things work? | ||
| And I think that in Wisconsin in this election, Tests that we're seeing not just in Wisconsin, but also in Florida with these two open house races. | ||
| If you're a Democrat and you're watching to see these results, what are you watching for specifically? | ||
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Well, and thanks for that. | |
| One of the things I want to say is this level set for our viewers here. | ||
| You know, those Florida seats are deeply red seats. | ||
| They've not been really competitive seats, and sometimes we can read too much into these special elections. | ||
| Now, that said, I'm going to read too much into the special elections. | ||
| If you look at the 14 special elections that we've had thus far, Democrats have overperformed in 13 of them. | ||
| Um, and I suspect what you'll see in Florida, look, I think Democrats have good candidates down there. | ||
| They've run good campaigns, but it is a deep, they're deeply red seats. | ||
| And I think you'll see, uh, Democrats probably do better than expectations because we've seen that before and Lord help Republicans if Democrats actually win, uh, one or both of those seats. | ||
| But I think it's very telling also that, you know, Republicans that president pulled His ambassador to be the United Nations ambassador because Republicans are clearly concerned about how they're how they're seeing special elections go and how they're seeing Democratic base being energized and how you're seeing at these town halls where middle-of-the-road voters are not at all happy with what they're seeing coming out of Washington and Donald Trump. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
| Because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| You're not going to get a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big 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. Bamm. | ||
| It's Monday, March 31, Year of the Lord 2025, in approximately 30 minutes, and we stay on schedule with the White House. | ||
| We'll be in the Oval Office. | ||
| President Trump will be signing an executive order live, and then I think he'll open up for some questions from the press. | ||
| Our own Brian Glenn is there, and we're going to turn there immediately or momentarily. | ||
| Right now, we have three men of the hour. | ||
| I want to start first in Florida One, Jimmy Petronas. | ||
| Jimmy, what's the current state of the race? | ||
| Obviously, you and Randy Fine have been on TV nonstop on MSNBC and CNN. | ||
| These are two bellwethers for President Trump's policies, everything from his policy in Ukraine to what he's doing in tariffs. | ||
| What do you have to say, sir? | ||
| Can you hear me? | ||
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This is Jimmy Petronas. | |
| I hear you, Jimmy. | ||
| I'm not sure what's going on. | ||
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Hold on a second. | |
| Kevin. | ||
| Jimmy, let's go ahead and cut and we'll go to, okay, we'll get back to Jimmy Turns. | ||
| Let's get him dialed back in. | ||
| We got him by phone. | ||
| We've got Brian Schimming from Wisconsin. | ||
| Brian, right now polling's coming out showing that we're running behind in Wisconsin, I think two points. | ||
| Is this all about turnout on Election Day? | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| It is about turnout. | ||
| I think the race is very close. | ||
| It's margin of error. | ||
| But the truth of the matter is, I think the liberal opponent put $5.7 million up on TV just in one week, last week. | ||
| And so really what it is, President Trump endorsed the conservative candidate here, Brad Schimel, the former Attorney General, last week. | ||
| If you are a Trump voter in Wisconsin, They want to save this state and help the president? | ||
| You only have one job between now and tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, and that is to go vote for Brad Schimel. | ||
| Actually, I should say, Steve, you have two jobs. | ||
| You go get five or ten people to go do it as well. | ||
| Just voting yourself is great. | ||
| But the truth of the matter is, if we're going to save this state, and we're going to save this country, we've got to have the attitude that we had back in November, and that is, I'm part. | ||
| I, the voter, I, the conservative voter, I, the MAGA voter, are going to do what it takes, and that means voting. | ||
| Very simple. | ||
| Why do we not, I mean, Wisconsin, and you laid out the blueprint for us, Throughout the spring, the summer, and the fall of what had to happen in Wisconsin. | ||
| In Wisconsin, I think even of Pennsylvania and Michigan was the hardest of the three to pierce in the blue wall. | ||
| Why does it seem that we can't get that same traction that we had? | ||
| Is it simply that President Trump's not at the top of the ticket? | ||
| Well, that's certainly part of it, Steve. | ||
| I think here in Wisconsin, which is kind of the, you know, if of the seven targets, there's one with the bluest tint, it probably historically is Wisconsin. | ||
| As I've said to you, we've had 13 races in 26 years in this state that have been decided by less than 30,000 votes, going back to W, George Bush Jr. | ||
| So we have had several close races. | ||
| The two folks who have won it are the same person, Donald Trump. | ||
| So, you know, to have him not on the top of the, you know, ticket this year certainly hurts. | ||
| But look, you know, President Trump won Wisconsin with 1.7 million votes back in November. | ||
| Traditionally, Steve, we kind of have about two million, or a little bit less than that, show up for Supreme Court races. | ||
| So if you're a Trump voter in Wisconsin, or you know Trump voters in Wisconsin, and want to help the president, somebody, I was on the rally tour about 20 cities in the last five days, and somebody came up and asked me, you know, does this really help the president? | ||
| I said, yeah, it helps the president because we can lose two congressional seats in Wisconsin The flat-out plan here. | ||
| I have zero doubt about this. | ||
| You can bring me on three months from now and I guarantee it will happen. | ||
| If the liberals control the court after tomorrow, they will throw out our current congressional map and two Republican seats from Wisconsin. | ||
| Derek Van Orden and Brian Stile will be gone if they redo that map. | ||
| And they've shown, I mean, this is one case where you can take the liberals at their word. | ||
| Last, you know, two years ago, when they won the court initially after the conservatives had controlled it for 15 years, what did they do? | ||
| A lefty third party group comes in, challenges the legislative map, not the congressional map, but the legislative map, and the legislative map ends up getting changed. | ||
| So we're heading, this is deja vu all over again. | ||
| What do you recommend? | ||
| We have 24 hours. | ||
| What time do polls open in the morning? | ||
| Polls generally in the morning in Wisconsin open at 7 a.m. tomorrow. | ||
| Stay open until 8 p.m. tomorrow night. | ||
| If you have gotten an absentee ballot, didn't get a chance to send it back, you can take it to your polling place and drop it off then if you didn't get a chance to send it back. | ||
| Our early voting, that is to say early in-person voting, effectively closed down on Friday. | ||
| We're seeing big numbers across the state, not just in our areas, But there's as well, I think the rise in early voting is more on our end. | ||
| I was an early proponent of early voting in the presidential race last year. | ||
| Talked to the president about it. | ||
| I've talked to other folks about it. | ||
| We can't keep going into election day, 100,000 votes down and expect to make it up in 13 hours. | ||
| So I've always been a big push on early voting, even though it's not great. | ||
| A lot of people don't love it. | ||
| But the truth of the matter is, there's a fair increase in early vote. | ||
| We've seen statewide a larger increase in red townships and villages than we have in the blue areas. | ||
| About 37 percent of the liberal vote in Wisconsin is in two places, Madison and Milwaukee. | ||
| Those are easier places to work at. | ||
| Isn't that incredible? | ||
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That does not shock me. | |
| Where do people go tonight to find out about tomorrow? | ||
| Where do they go? | ||
| Information, social media, all of it. | ||
| Where do they go? | ||
| Yeah, they can go to my ex account, which is at Brian Schimming, B-R-I-A-N-S-C-H-I-M-M-I-N-G, right there. | ||
| Join me tonight because I'm going to be doing almost constant on this thing, and also to the state party website at wisgop.org, W-I-S-G-O-P dot org, but better to follow me on Twitter with your constant feed of information. | ||
| This, this, what stays, what happens in Wisconsin tomorrow, Steve, does not stay in Wisconsin. | ||
| It will affect President Trump if it helps knock the House majority a little bit closer. | ||
| Democrats, I don't want to go through another impeachment resolution and the president doesn't deserve. | ||
| Yeah. Brian Schimming, thank you very much. | ||
| We look forward to seeing you tomorrow, sir. | ||
| Everybody get grace. | ||
| Let's get everybody on his Twitter account tonight. | ||
| Tonight's a work night. | ||
| Another nail biter. | ||
| This one in Wisconsin. | ||
| Johnny Conn takes us out with American Heart. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Randy Fine. | ||
| Florida 6 is next in the war room. | ||
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I got American faith in America. | |
| President Trump, we have the example from the first term. | ||
| We know that we imposed historically high tariffs on China. | ||
| We imposed aluminum and steel tariffs. | ||
| We imposed on washing machines, on solar. | ||
| And all we got out of that, Shannon, all we got out of that was prosperity and price stability. | ||
| And the reason why we're not going to see inflation is because the foreigners are going to eat most of it. | ||
| They have to. | ||
| We're the biggest market in the world. | ||
| Hold Shannon. | ||
| And they have to be here. | ||
| They have to be here. | ||
| And so they're gonna cut their prices to absorb that. | ||
| But the bigger picture here, the bigger picture here is restoring the American manufacturing base. | ||
| We don't have that. | ||
| We're an assembly thing. | ||
| You remember, look, something called the Arsenal Democracy back in World War II. | ||
| That was how we beat the Japanese and the Germans with our military might. | ||
| when patent went to berlin it was with trucks jeeps and tanks they were made in the auto plants of the midwest and right now the only thing that looks like the uh... | ||
| the midwest back then is mexico You go across the diaspora of cities in Mexico, there's 50 football field size assembly plants that are down there making the engines for here. | ||
| We can't do that. | ||
| The Germans and the Japanese and South Koreans and the Mexicans have taken our manufacturing capabilities. | ||
| So we've got to get that back. | ||
| We're going to do it in a way which is going to protect American consumers and create jobs for American workers. | ||
| There's going to be over a million new jobs. | ||
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We are ecstatic to see an administration finally address the unfair trade laws in this country. | |
| These laws have destroyed the American working class. | ||
| They've destroyed communities in this country and virtually every state for decades. | ||
| Peter Navarro and then the president of the UAW, United Auto Workers. | ||
| There was supposed to be meltdown last week, a financial turbulence, chaos, all of it. | ||
| A little choppy for a couple of days. | ||
| Everything's fine by closing market on Friday. | ||
| Friday was a kind of a downtick, but not the end of the world folks. | ||
| A lot of that market that we lost in the week before had come back. | ||
| Gold's on a run, but that's not because of the tariffs. | ||
| They're trying to blame everything on the tariffs. | ||
| They're trying to take Wall Street. | ||
| They're all running dogs. | ||
| For Wall Street. | ||
| Every time you hear, oh, it's a tax, it's the price is going to go up over and over again. | ||
| AOC, Bernie, you've run for president twice, you'd think you would learn something about this. | ||
| When Bernie Sanders, oh, these tariffs are terrible, he's out there, he's got this phony populism, cosplay, cosplaying a populist. | ||
| And then the union that's making the cars say, we love this. | ||
| Trade policy has worked against the working class. | ||
| In the middle class in this country for decade after decade after decade, even before NAFTA. | ||
| NAFTA was bad enough. | ||
| Peter Navarro, let me give you a buried lead. | ||
| Take your number two pencil out. | ||
| He says we assemble because all the sitting there running. | ||
| Oh, we do all this manufacturing. | ||
| We know we assemble. | ||
| We do final assembly and then marketing and sales. | ||
| And then after sales support, sales support, marketing support. | ||
| The actual manufacturing of the high-value added components is not done. | ||
| That's done in Germany, still, or they farm it out to Mexico, or they farm it out to Canada, then bring it here, and then assemble. | ||
| President Trump's saying something quite different. | ||
| If you don't make it, manufacture it, put it together, here in the United States of America, you're gonna pay a fee for that, and it makes sense. | ||
| This is the premium market in the world because of you. | ||
| Because of you. | ||
| Not because of the oligarchs, not because of Wall Street, because of you. | ||
| It's a premium market. | ||
| You gotta pay a price to get into a premium market. | ||
| And that price does not get paid by consumers. | ||
| Did the Chinese goods go up? | ||
| We put the biggest tariffs ever on China in the first term? | ||
| No, it did not. | ||
| Prices in the fall of 19 before the pandemic. | ||
| We've already had the tariffs on China. | ||
| Prices fine, almost no inflation, right? | ||
| Low interest rates. | ||
| Wasn't the fall of 2019 kind of nirvana? | ||
| Blue-collar wages rising faster than white-collar wages. | ||
| Non-college graduates rising higher than college graduates. | ||
| The credential class finally getting a little push from the middle class and the working class. | ||
| Seems to be fine. | ||
| Tariffs are a tool, an economic tool, that's in a toolbox that President Trump's going to use. | ||
| We believe that in a few minutes he's going to sign the tariff policy of reciprocity, or there's even rumor that it could be 20% across the board, no questions asked, he's not going to give any exemptions. | ||
| It's still up in the air. | ||
| They may wait till tomorrow to do that. | ||
| They may wait till Wednesday morning to do that. | ||
| Because he's I don't think the terrorists themselves actually cut in over to customs until Thursday's my belief But I would like to see some I would like to see some a organized effort here to kind of roll this out I think it's very important. | ||
| So we're gonna spend the rest of the evening on this in and out I want to go now to Brazil Paulo figurati is with us Paulo just can't get us up to date because we start the show this morning lapin She was found guilty of this ridiculous charge of fraud or misappropriation of money. | ||
| It was about a couple of staffers she had from the European Parliament that she had working in Paris. | ||
| They gave her four years in prison and plus excluded her from running for office. | ||
| She's up by 12 to 15 points. | ||
| This is what they're doing to President Trump every day, and what they're particularly doing to President Bolsonaro, who's up, I believe, 15 or 20 points, and he's on trial now. | ||
| A trial that's a total show trial, if any indication of last week. | ||
| A show trial that will end up him going to prison, and I believe, to almost certainly being assassinated by the forces of Lula and this radical chief judge. | ||
| Before we get President Trump up, can you give us an update, sir? | ||
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Yes, Steve. | |
| It's exactly the same playbook. | ||
| They can't defeat us on the ballots, so they have to use lawfare. | ||
| Just the latest chapter in Brazil is that the prosecutor general asked for the dismissal of the absurd other case that they had against former President Bolsonaro regarding alleged falsification of his COVID vaccine cards. | ||
| And this so-called investigation was never about justice or public health. | ||
| It was a fishing expedition, a pretext to go after Bolsonaro and his inner circle. | ||
| I know it sounds familiar because we've seen the exact same playbook used against President Trump. | ||
| We saw fabricated accusations, baseless legal maneuvers, and the relentless use of lawfare to achieve what the left can't accomplish at the ballot box. | ||
| In Bolsonaro's case that I mentioned, they raided the home of one of his top aides, seizing his phone and pouring over every piece of information they could find. | ||
| And again, that was just a backdoor. | ||
| It wasn't about vaccine card. | ||
| Nobody cares about COVID vaccine card. | ||
| President Bolsonaro said he never took the vaccine. | ||
| And so why wouldn't he falsify a COVID vaccine card? | ||
| So After two years of slandering on the media every day, they finally said, well, this case is not important anymore because you got you on something else. | ||
| They were able to go to this aid house and just lean on that until he broke, forcing him to plea bargain and conveniently helping them to fabricate a new story, the so-called So now they don't need this case anymore. | ||
| They just said after two years of slandering, well, we never had any proof. | ||
| So we're going to dismiss it. | ||
| Same thing about, I'm sure you've heard of a case. | ||
| The Bolsonaro was being prosecuted for disturbing a whale. | ||
| I mean, an actual whale. | ||
| He was playing with a jet ski near a whale. | ||
| And the former minister of, actually the current minister of environment of Lula, asked the federal police to investigate him for disturbing a whale. | ||
| They also, the prosecutor general also asked this case to be dismissed, but they used it to pretty much push him and slander him and get evidences and search and seizures of warrants and all that for two years. | ||
| So, what's going on is that they're very confident now that they're going to send him to prison on the alleged coup d'etat case. | ||
| But that's what I want to go back to. | ||
| I just want to make sure the American audience understands the direct parallels. | ||
| I mean, Bolsonaro was kind of, Trump came first, then Bolsonaro. | ||
| Bolsonaro's called, the way he governed was the Trump of the tropics. | ||
| He leads a populist nationalist movement, has a strong religious fervor underpinning to it. | ||
| Walk me through his charges, because you know here, President Trump was what had 92 indictments, eventually 32 felonies, but that didn't even get to what they, they wanted to try him for insurrection. | ||
| I think it was 372 years in prison, potentially. | ||
| They came after President Trump for standing up for the stolen election of 2020. | ||
| Walk us through the actual charges. | ||
| We've got about a minute. | ||
| Tell the American audience what the exact charges are against President Bolsonaro. | ||
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You see, the same corrupt tactics are on full display. | |
| The left throw everything at Trump, from Russia collusion hoax to sham impeachments, and with Bolsonaro it's the same thing. | ||
| They started with saying that he falsified COVID vaccine cards so he could come to the United States. | ||
| He never needed a COVID vaccine card. | ||
| He was the president of Brazil when he came here, and there was a waiver for sitting presidents. | ||
| And then they said, well, you got some presents from other leaders of different nations, and you didn't report on these. | ||
| And he did. | ||
| And they say, well, they're probably going to dismiss this case as well. | ||
| But they use this to come up with a bigger case, which is a case that is on trial right now, that he tried a coup d'etat. | ||
| Although he was here in the United States in 2022, when he left the presidency, Brazil had January 8th, which was very similar to January 6th in the United States. | ||
| People revolted. | ||
| The protests went out of control. | ||
| We don't know why exactly. | ||
| A lot of evidence of agents, provocateurs. | ||
| This is the same playbook. | ||
| Destroyed evidences, a special committee. | ||
| It's almost the same. | ||
| And they say President Bolsonaro was behind it all the way. | ||
| So it's a copy and paste of the Trump insurrection case. | ||
| Remember that? | ||
| And that's what they're using to supposedly throw him on prison, which they will. | ||
| Hang on one second. | ||
| I'm going to hold you through the break before we go to the Oval. | ||
| I want to talk about those sanctions next in the war room. | ||
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Morning day, we'll be right. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | ||
| Okay, we're being informed we don't Think that the EO is finished yet for the tariffs. | ||
| This may be another EO signing And but the president is gonna be there We're gonna get I think Brian Glenn's gonna get in there and I do believe he's gonna take questions from the press Just for you that haven't had the pleasure of following this today. | ||
| I kid you not The mainstream media all day has been absolutely obsessed by what topic with everything else going on in the world What topics is obsessed them? | ||
| If you said the signal chat you would be correct the top 30 minutes of each Each hour in the news New York Times Wall Street Journal all of them just obsessed Folks there's good. | ||
| It's a no scalps policy. | ||
| It's time to move on. | ||
| We're not going to address it. | ||
| Nothing happened The operation went off flawlessly President Trump's team out of focus on the business at hand not spent a second on this nonsense in fact If any journalists ask a question night when the president does the presser, to me, they ought to be tossed out of the oval and not let back in. | ||
| I mean, it's time to stop this nonsense. | ||
| You already heard where Caroline Leavitt is finally going to restructure the White House press area briefing room and the mainstream media, particularly the snarky ones, are going to go to the back. | ||
| They'll probably stop showing up because they're not on camera. | ||
| They don't want to do any real reporting. | ||
| So I think it's a brilliant move, but way too long in coming. | ||
| And I hope tonight the President takes questions from all comers, because I really want to see, and I think it's an easier environment for him to answer questions, as these things have been so amazing when he's sitting at the Resolute Desk, than on the plane where it's kind of hard to hear and you can't hear the question. | ||
| Paolo Figueroa, what are the solutions here? | ||
| The United States Given that the closeness of President Bolsonaro to President Trump, there's a lot that can be done. | ||
| It's a lot that Congress can do. | ||
| And quite frankly, and to be brutally honest about it, not simply Lula, but this Chief Justice is such a, is such, I believe, a criminal that you could immediately go to OFAC, restrictions on him, visa restrictions, travel restrictions, financial restrictions, moving money. | ||
| Tell people what OFAC is. | ||
| What are the tools in the toolbox for the United States to show that we have Bolsonaro's back and actually take some action, sir? | ||
| Because I know my phone blows up every time I have you guys on. | ||
| People are saying in the chat room, to me personally, why are we not doing more? | ||
| Why is the United States not stepping up here? | ||
| Bolsonaro is a good man. | ||
| He's essentially President Trump in Brazil. | ||
| And these guys are coming after him, or the exact same people coming after President Trump. | ||
| Paulo. Your thoughts. | ||
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It puzzles me as well. | |
| So because the Biden administration is very much responsible for what's going on in Brazil. | ||
| Joe Biden used USAID money to fund all the disinformation programs in Brazil. | ||
| And he was the one that financially backed this corrupt judge Morais, which is the one that had the beef with Elon Musk. | ||
| The bald guy looks like a James Bond villain. | ||
| He was backed by the Biden administration. | ||
| All the disinformation programs Finance by USAID. | ||
| He got training from the FBI, from the United States Deep State. | ||
| And when he was going to be challenged, the United States Biden administration sent Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, Bill Burns, Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan. | ||
| They sent the whole gang to Brazil to threaten Brazilian Public and military officials not to challenge this guy's morale. | ||
| So this was done by the Biden administration. | ||
| Then we got Donald Trump. | ||
| We thought, well, maybe now the table has flipped, right? | ||
| And now Donald Trump is gonna do a lot. | ||
| But we haven't seen anything very concrete. | ||
| Donald Trump never said anything about Brazil, about Lula da Silva and about So, there are several things that they can do. | ||
| First, and obviously, visa cancellations. | ||
| We're seeing judges coming here, as we talked last week, getting awards and all this to protect the democracy in Brazil. | ||
| These guys should not be allowed to get in the United States. | ||
| That's easy. | ||
| The Secretary of State can do this at any moment. | ||
| He doesn't need authorization from anyone. | ||
| It's at his own will. | ||
| So the other thing that can be done, and Trump did that for the ICC prosecutor, is our financial sanctions, OFAC sanctions. | ||
| The United States has the Office of Foreign Asset Controls that can restrict business from U.S. companies with individuals. | ||
| And there's a specific law for that, which is the Magnitsky Global Act of 2016. | ||
| So the president has authority of signing executive orders saying US companies should not do business with this guy. | ||
| What happens is that the bank accounts or any credit card, anything gets immediately shut down and frozen anywhere in the world. | ||
| So this would be a very good measure to be taken. | ||
| And I do not understand why Why the action hasn't been taken with a guy that's violating democracy and free speech in Brazil, imprisoning journalists, coming after opposition and pretty much controlling the country. | ||
| And they are consolidating power very fast. | ||
| So the window for the United States to act is very short. | ||
| Otherwise, we're going to have another Venezuela. | ||
| And when you come to the point that Venezuela came, there's not much you can do. | ||
| So it's like you're treating cancer. | ||
| You have a narrow window to use chemotherapy or even smaller actions. | ||
| And what's gonna happen, what's gonna work now, will not work in one year. | ||
| After they consolidate power, after they send Bolsonaro to prison, the sanctions will not work anymore. | ||
| And then what's left? | ||
| Military action? | ||
| It's the same situation in Venezuela, and the same thing that happened to Cuba in the late 50s and early 60s. | ||
| Paulo, what is it about Brazil that after the United States, that this is like the jewel in the crown for the globalists? | ||
| Why are they so obsessed? | ||
| Biden administration working with Lula, who's obviously a puppet of the CCP, but then you have these judges. | ||
| What is it, through the globalist eyes, why is Brazil such a high value-added target for them, sir? | ||
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Well, it's everything that you want from a geopolitical perspective, right? | |
| The defense of the Western Hemisphere. | ||
| You have all the five things that you need to do from a geopolitical perspective. | ||
| Brazil has more energy, produced more energy than most OPEC countries. | ||
| Brazil is the second iron ore producer in the world. | ||
| You need iron for the war machines. | ||
| Not only that, Brazil has the best iron ore on the planet. | ||
| Has all the rare earth out of the 20 something rare earth that United States needs. | ||
| Brazil has most of them. | ||
| The United States currently depend on China, could depend on Brazil. | ||
| Brazil has also fifth largest population. | ||
| And if Brazil stops sending food to China, China will starve in three months. | ||
| So Brazil is pretty much the pathway to choke China in terms of food. | ||
| So it has everything that you need. | ||
| Not only that, Brazil is also a very big antagonistic of every single U.S. policy. | ||
| Brazil is pro-Hamas, openly pro-Hamas. | ||
| Brazil is pro-Iran. | ||
| Brazil is pro-Venezuela, obviously pro-China. | ||
| Brazil is doing everything through the BRICS, which is presided by Brazil right now, it's chaired by Brazil, to undermine the dollars, a global currency. | ||
| So everything, the globalists and the Chinese one, are in Brazil. | ||
| What's, I think, mind-blowing is that conservatives, they don't care very much. | ||
| They don't seem to understand how important it is, Brazil, in terms of geopolitics. | ||
| They're thrilled with Millet in Argentina, and we all are. | ||
| We love Argentina. | ||
| But just to give you a perspective, Steve, the whole country of Argentina is the size of the state of Sao Paulo in terms of GDP and population. | ||
| Brazil is half the population GDP and territory of South America and also the largest population in the United States from the Americas after obviously Mexico and Canada. | ||
| There are more Brazilians in the United States now than Cubans. | ||
| So you have everything. | ||
| It's important. | ||
| The Brazilian diaspora will be deciding key seats in the Congress. | ||
| And I'll give you a quick example. | ||
| Donald Trump lost supposedly, allegedly, When Bolsonaro was even president, | ||
| Macron It is crucial, not only from an environmental standpoint, which is also important. | ||
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There are regions there that we don't even understand. | |
| But in terms of rare earth, it's unbelievable. | ||
| I don't know if people know this, but a few months ago, the Chinese bought a mine in Brazil that it is connected to the largest uranium mine that we have in South America. | ||
| The Chinese bought it. | ||
| Chinese company bought it. | ||
| So. Most likely. | ||
| Chinese will, unless we can stop them, explore uranium in Brazil. | ||
| So the Amazon also has more oil than the Gulf of America, former Gulf of Mexico. | ||
| So it's crucial. | ||
| That whole region is crucial in so many aspects. | ||
| And the Chinese are pretty much taking over. | ||
| I have reports in Brazil from my friends that work on the infrastructure sector saying Paulo, most of the meetings we have to do here now, we have to have a Mandarin, a Chinese translator. | ||
| That's how much they're controlling of our infrastructure. | ||
| In terms of cars, car industry, the Chinese electric cars are taking over Brazil. | ||
| And sadly for Elon Musk, Tesla is not even in Brazil yet. | ||
| Wow. Unbelievable. | ||
| Paulo, where do we want, if people want to go and get the updates on what's happening to President Bolsonaro every day, if they want to hear more about OFAC, because our Congress, I guess, judiciary, the Congress could move, I know the administration could, but the Congress could start pushing this too. | ||
| We have many different options in the Senate, in the House. | ||
| We just need some people that understand the geopolitical importance of Brazil, and particularly how close the Bolsonaro movement and President Bolsonaro is to MAGA and the Trump movement. | ||
| So I want to make sure people go to your site every day. | ||
| You're kind of a central log on for everything that's going on. | ||
| So where do folks go? | ||
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They can go to my ads at Rio P. Figueiredo or my website www.paulofigueiredoshow.com and everything is in English there so they can follow everything that's ongoing in Brazil in English there. | |
| Fantastic, thank you very much. | ||
| I want to add, Paolo, is also, you're not on trial, you're not tried in absentia, but I think you're one of the 10 or 11 guys that were also indicted or quasi-indicted along as basically President Bolsonaro's inner circle? | ||
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They're actually decided that they are going to try me in absentia. | |
| So yeah, I'll probably be convicted without a chance to defend myself. | ||
| I don't want to say Bannon called it again, but I told you, I think they're going to try an abstention because I don't know. | ||
| Of course they are. | ||
| Of course they are. | ||
| They're Marxist judges. | ||
| Of course they are. | ||
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It's because the law is so explicit. | |
| It's so explicit. | ||
| The law says if you are not there and if they can't serve you, they should suspend the trial. | ||
| But they decided, yeah, we don't actually need to follow the law. | ||
| So let's try this guy in abstention. | ||
| Unbelievable. Paolo, you're a hero. | ||
| Look forward to getting another update from you in the next couple of days. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
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Thanks for having me. | |
| Romania. France. | ||
| What's happening in Pakistan with Khan. | ||
| Remember the populist, the great cricket player that's in prison now? | ||
| Darren Beatty did such a great job when he was at Revolver. | ||
| That would be Darren Beatty, who's interim undersecretary of state. | ||
| Making things happen now, of course, the United States and Bolsonaro in Brazil and many, many, many, many other places. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We're waiting for the president to enter the Oval Office or let us in. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| back in a moment. | ||
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The folks are lined up. | |
| We do understand, from some of our sources, the President is going to maybe take questions from the media. | ||
| I think very important today with Florida 1 and 6, Wisconsin, you've got the judge's insurrection, most importantly you have, which still has not been signed or promulgated, the executive order on tariffs, on reciprocity, or people talking about it maybe 20% across the board. | ||
| Gold surging to another all-time high today. | ||
| Remember, since we've done this for the last three or four years, I think gold was $1,100 an ounce, or thereabouts. | ||
| It's not important exactly what the price of gold is. | ||
| It is the dynamics that drive the price of gold and make gold a hedge against times of financial turbulence, like it's been for mankind, or a store of value, as it has been for thousands of years, right, of recorded history. | ||
| There is a logic to that. | ||
| What we try to do with Birch Gold is walk you through that logic, make sure you understand it, to teach you how to fish, not to sell you a fish. | ||
| I think it's worked out well. | ||
| I get more compliments about this when we travel around, of people, that it's really open, particularly for folks, if you're ever saying, hey, I don't understand math, I don't like thinking about finance, it's very confusing to me. | ||
| We try to make this as accessible as possible. | ||
| We think that's very important. | ||
| We're very proud that a major university with a great finance department now makes it a part of the required course for their undergraduates to basically, because it's accessible, to teach them about capital markets and about what drives the demand for gold, what drives the demand for a hedge in a complicated financial world. | ||
| Like I said gold's over 3,100 today with everything's happening geopolitically, geoeconomically. | ||
| What you're gonna see if it all plays out according to plan in the next 24 to 48 hours is that President Trump is gonna put out a document, an executive order. | ||
| That document's essentially gonna lay, and people run around at reciprocity, tariffs, they're gonna raise the rates, that's all noise. | ||
| The signal is that President Trump is trying to Have a geoeconomic reset the most fundamental since the Second World War and I would argue the first time that we've gone back to what the founders and framers Really thought in laying out this country and laying it and setting out the structure of the country how we were governed ourselves They had a political structure and that political structure came through the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution and | ||
| other laws that came out to basically Built out of the Constitution the framework we have today But there was also an economic plan that economic plan was put out by Alexander Hamilton one of the greatest of all the founding fathers Hamilton wrote a report called the report on manufacturers and Hamilton did this in his early days as Secretary of the Treasury in Hamilton was | ||
| a He was a genius He really had thought this through and realized that the potential for manifest destiny of this great content potential continental empire Could be based upon manufactured goods But you had to nurture those industries and he laid it out that was called the American plan or the American system And it ran throughout as one of the most highly contested Things of the events institutions of the early part of our Republic Put forward by | ||
| not just Alexander Hamilton, but people like Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln and others Do who are kind of protections high tariff and nurturing of? | ||
| Industry just something more than agriculture. | ||
| There will be more than just natural resources Remember, it's kind of brilliant If you think about the Chinese Communist Party if you look at trade between the two nations and remember you think the United States is an advanced Manufacturing superpower, but if you look at the trade and the balance of trade from China to ourselves China sends us back everything we get from China is essentially a finished good, | ||
| or in the sense of what Jace Medical hopes to protect you from is generic medicines and active pharmaceutical ingredients, which President Trump says, hey, I'm going to break that one day. | ||
| But it's a finished product. | ||
| What we ship to them is raw materials. | ||
| We're like a colony. | ||
| We're like an economic colony. | ||
| If you actually look at the shipping data of what goes to China from the United States, agriculture goods, oil and gas, you know, natural resources, wood, all of it, very little finished product. | ||
| What comes back is finished product. | ||
| That's why it's, I don't know, a half a trillion dollars trade deficit annually that builds up year after year after year. | ||
| And with all that trade, all that, all the finished products they're sending, and they just don't assemble them. | ||
| In China, they also make the high value added parts. | ||
| That's where the good jobs went. | ||
| That's where Youngstown in Akron, Ohio, towns in the Midwest. | ||
| This is why President Trump with his economic nationalism could pierce the blue wall in 2016 and again in 2024. | ||
| Also in 2020, although they counted the mail-in ballots from the phony non-live voters. | ||
| And that's how they won. | ||
| By the way, in a moment, it looks like President Trump is starting. | ||
| Let's go ahead and jump. | ||
| We're going to take you live to the Oval Office. | ||
| We're going to blow the break. | ||
| The President of the United States, Donald John Trump. | ||
| A friend of mine, Kid Rock, sometimes referred to as Bob. | ||
| I know him as Bob, but he's been a good friend for a long time, many years. | ||
| And he's been after something that is for the good of a lot of people. | ||
| Including, in particular, the public, and having to do with ticket sales and scalping and all of the gouging that you have been reading about that's gotten worse and worse with time. | ||
| And I didn't know too much about it, but I checked it out, and it is a big problem. | ||
| And I thought, I think you've been trying to get this done for 20 years or something. | ||
| You said Trump got it done in two weeks. | ||
| But we came up with a very serious EO. | ||
| And I'm going to sign it now, and maybe I'll ask you, Will, to explain a little bit about it, please. | ||
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Of course, sir. | |
| So this is an executive order, as you said, that deals with the ticket reselling business. | ||
| For fans of live entertainment, and for entertainers as well, the ticket reselling industry has become a huge issue. | ||
| These people use bots and computer algorithms to buy up huge blocks of tickets and then jack up the price so that fans of live entertainers like Mr. | ||
| Richie, I almost called him Mr. | ||
| Rock, don't have access to concerts the way that they should. | ||
| And when they do, it's at exorbitantly high prices. | ||
| So what this executive order does, it charges the FTC and the Department of Justice with rigorously enforcing laws on the books in collaboration with state attorneys general that have power over consumer protection and other people who have the power to really crack down on this issue so that entertainers and fans won't be subject to these abusive and oftentimes illegal practices. | ||
| Good. Thank you very much. | ||
| Bob, do you want to say something? | ||
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Yeah, anybody who's, it doesn't matter your politics. | |
| First of all, thank you, Mr. | ||
| President, because this has happened recently. | ||
| Alina Haba gets her credit too, because I know she worked very hard on this, but thank you for making this happen so quick. | ||
| Anyone who's bought a concert ticket in the last decade, maybe 20 years, no matter what your politics are, knows that it's a conundrum. | ||
| You buy a ticket for $100, by the time you check out it's $170. | ||
| You don't know what you get charged for, but more importantly, these bots, you know, they come in to get all the good tickets to your favorite shows you want to go to, and then they're relisted immediately for sometimes a Four or five hundred percent markup. | ||
| The artists don't see any of that money. | ||
| Ultimately, I think this is a great first step. | ||
| I would love, down the road, if there would be some legislation that we could actually put a cap on the resale of tickets. | ||
| I'm a capitalist and a deregulation guy, but they've tried this in some places in Europe and it seems to be the only thing that's us, as artists, be able to get the tickets into the hands of the fans at the prices we set. | ||
| I'll be the first one to say, and I know the president doesn't like when I say this, but I'm a little overpaid right now. | ||
| It's kind of ridiculous. | ||
| I would rather be, you know, a hero to working class people and have them be able to come attend my shows and give them a fair ticket price. | ||
| I can't control that right now. | ||
| So hopefully this is a step to really be able to make that happen. | ||
| I know a lot of artists and a lot of fans who love love concerts and music are going to be very appreciative. | ||
| I think Bob is more interested in the fans and the people that are having to pay Crazy prices. | ||
| Benny is the artist. | ||
| Maybe the artist a little bit, but the fans a lot. | ||
| I've spoken to him over the years about it. | ||
| And it's been... | ||
| It bothers him. | ||
| It bothers a lot of other artists, too. | ||
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It does. | |
| The artists, and they go out with a $100 ticket, and it sells for $2,000 the following night. | ||
| And they seem to be able to sweep up the best locations, too, which is pretty amazing, so... | ||
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They've only enforced that box act one time, I believe. | |
| A couple years ago in New York City, so we got a couple million dollar fine. | ||
| And that's the only time they've enforced that act. | ||
| And who's the primary culprit? | ||
| Who sells these tickets? | ||
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It's the scalpers. | |
| These bots go in, and they're automated, so you're... | ||
| But is there a company involved? | ||
| You might not want to say. | ||
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No, no. | |
| Well, there's reselling markets all... | ||
| Yeah. I think I know, Peter. | ||
| But that's... | ||
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I don't know. | |
| Don't get him involved. | ||
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What company do you think it is? | |
| Maybe they're more innocent than we think. |
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