April 7, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
| Because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| I got 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 try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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Mega 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. Bann. | ||
| It's Monday, 7 April, the year of our Lord 2025. | ||
| No Jim Cramer, at least so far. | ||
| It is not Black Monday, and President Trump is dug in and over at the White House. | ||
| It is fixed bayonets. | ||
| They're not backing off one inch. | ||
| NASDAQ's up $250, $100. | ||
| Pretty shocking. | ||
| Gold's at $3,000. | ||
| Ten-year treasury's around at $4. | ||
| Commodity prices are dropping. | ||
| President Trump's dug in. | ||
| The Asian markets overnight got absolutely crushed. | ||
| The Hang Seng, which is the premier One of the premier equity markets in all of Asia, out of Hong Kong, down 13%. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party are taking it right on the chops. | ||
| They will not survive a 54% tariffs, full stop. | ||
| The tech bros, too, getting absolutely crushed as Donald Trump just wields a hammer. | ||
| A hammer blow to the exact people that shipped all the jobs from the United States of America to China. | ||
| To be brutally blunt about this, and Richard Haas said earlier, the economic warfare, you're absolutely correct. | ||
| And in the fog of war, you've got to come to the war room because it will help guide you through here. | ||
| Raheem, Tom Fitton is about to join me, Chris Kobach after that, and maybe even Brian Glenn is at the White House. | ||
| The Los Angeles Dodgers are there today with the president. | ||
| I'm sure the president is going to have something to say. | ||
| We're going to try to cover it all. | ||
| Raheem Ghassam, you're about to head to Andrews Air Force Base. | ||
| Geostrategically, the vice president of the United States last week went to Greenland. | ||
| Pete Hegseth went on the Three Island Chain tour over the vast Pacific, the new heartland of defense of the United States of America. | ||
| He went to Hawaii, then to Guam, then to the Philippines and Japan, and today he goes down to Panama. | ||
| What do you hope comes out of this, sir? | ||
| Well, what I hope, it's funny, what I hope comes out of this is what I hope comes out of the argument that is going on on market floors over the course of the day. | ||
| Although I don't put much faith... | ||
| In those people who seem, you know, I think President Trump called them panikins this morning. | ||
| The idea that the so-called wealthiest, strongest militarily nation in the world cannot endure something like this, where we actually have, oh, I don't know, maybe a little redistribution towards the ordinary American. | ||
| And the idea that America cannot go overseas like Pete Hegseth is doing today and actually say, hey, We built this damn thing. | ||
| Literally. And we have given our blood and our treasure for this, and you want to hand it over? | ||
| ...to the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| The same thing with the Chagos Islands. | ||
| I actually just published up on thenationalpulse.com, Steve, an explainer over the Chagos Islands, Diego Garcia, why it matters, because this is going to become a thing again in the next couple of weeks as the administration gets pushed and as the British government tries to give this away effectively again to the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| But hey, look, if you have the strength, if you have the temerity, if you have the audacity, if you reach just a little bit higher, look what happens. | ||
| The European Union turns around today and goes, actually, we kind of do want to negotiate with you. | ||
| We will come to that table. | ||
| Hey, you know, get my message to the markets and to the Republicans, especially on Capitol Hill, is get your heads in the game and stop being those weaklings that you've built, that you've been for centuries. | ||
| That era of America is over. | ||
| I want to transition to Fenton, because Tom Fenton's here to talk about personnel. | ||
| There's not a bigger defender of President Trump or bigger defender of this administration than Tom Fenton. | ||
| Tom Fenton, I've known this guy now for 15 years, one of the great patriots in our country. | ||
| He's got some issues about personnel. | ||
| You've got some issues about personnel. | ||
| Laura Loomer goes in last week, and six guys in the National Security Council get blown out. | ||
| There are some issues, not just getting your sea legs, but who did the filtering process and really what's going on here. | ||
| One more time, Raheem, on the National Security side, you said, hey, they're just starting to learn how to work together as a team. | ||
| What is your recommendation to President Trump? | ||
| About personnel on the national security side as far as you see it, because you're right. | ||
| We haven't taken a big role in the Diego Garcia thing, and we have to. | ||
| There's been kind of crickets about Brazil. | ||
| Really not that aggressive so far until Pete goes down about what's happened in the Caribbean, a CCP takeover. | ||
| President Trump came out the first time. | ||
| President Trump came out and had Le Pen's back, but you've seen no comment at all on Korea, the coup d'etat by the Chinese Communist Party taking the conservative out. | ||
| What is your recommendation on the national security side, Rahim, for President Trump? | ||
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I got two. | |
| Number one, you know, directly, President Trump, the people who have your back on domestic policy, on tariff policy, they are also the people who have your back on foreign policy. | ||
| You do not need to go to the AIs of the world. | ||
| You do not need to go to the neocon institutions of the world. | ||
| You do not need to listen to the Lindsey Graham's of the world to get you over the line on foreign policy. | ||
| We have it within the hardcore OG MAGA populist nationalist wheelhouse that that can work too. | ||
| And if you need recommendations of people themselves, I got... | ||
| The second one is, listen, this is what happens when you try... | ||
| Look, I know this is going to make me extremely unpopular on Capitol Hill, so good thing I'm getting out of town today. | ||
| This is what happens when you throw away Project 2025. | ||
| That was a database and a list and a document that actually had the best interest of MAGA at its core. | ||
| You didn't have to agree with everything. | ||
| But at the end of the day, what was Project 2025? | ||
| It wasn't the things that the media told you it was. | ||
| It was a database of personnel who had been vetted, who we knew were MAGA to their core, who actually could... | ||
| Get in there, day one, hit the ground running, and put together the policies of the Trump 2 administration. | ||
| I would dig up the old Project 2025 database, call Paul Danz, get him back in there, frankly, and get rolling. | ||
| Get the vetted people. | ||
| Raheem, we're going to let you go to Andrews. | ||
| We'll be covering you non-stop while you're with Pete Hegsett, the great Secretary of Defense. | ||
| Social media, National Pulse, where do folks go? | ||
| Yeah, look, you can join up at thenationalpulse.com forward slash warren, but if people don't actually want to join, we also have a big donate button at the top of the site now as well, thenationalpulse.com. | ||
| Everything we do is 100% reader funded, and you can follow us at The Nat Pulse on all social media, and I am at Raheem Kassam. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Good trip, and we'll stay in touch closely. | ||
| Tom Fitton is on. | ||
| Now, I will tell you, my dad that passed away over 100 years old, We revered him in the family. | ||
| A great guy. | ||
| Just the common man. | ||
| He would tell me every time I went back to Richmond, and I tried to go back every week or every couple of weeks, the thing he loved giving money to most was Tom Fenton. | ||
| He would hit Tom Fenton with the 50s or every now and again a 25, and he'd say he'd get that monthly magazine. | ||
| He'd watch Tom on TV. | ||
| He goes, this guy does exactly what he says he's going to do. | ||
| This guy's a fighter. | ||
| Tom Fenton, you have been the biggest supporter. | ||
| ...of President Trump. | ||
| You've been a huge supporter of Kash Patel. | ||
| You're a close friend and a huge supporter of Dan Bongino, Pam Bondi, everybody. | ||
| So when people see you up on Twitter and you're questioning some of the personnel decisions here, I tell people, people got to listen because Fenton doesn't chase rabbits. | ||
| When Tom Fenton's saying something, it's important and it has meaning and something's going to happen about it. | ||
| Over the weekend, there's another personnel issue like we've had at the National Security Council and other places on the national security side with President Trump. | ||
| What is going on? | ||
| What are your tweets about? | ||
| And quite frankly, what's your beef, sir? | ||
| What struck me, Steve, is how mild my issue was. | ||
| I read this New York Times piece, and I know why Cash and Dan didn't like it, because it suggested that they were being swampy with the FBI. | ||
| And there was a detail in there which was surprising to me, was that they had elevated to a significant position the head of the Washington field office of the FBI, Steve Jensen, who many believe to be one of the worst in terms of pursuing the January Sixers, being involved in the targeting of parents over daring to try to figure out what their kids are being taught. | ||
| Turns out he gets elevated. | ||
| The New York Times clearly noted this. | ||
| And I said, what? | ||
| And then we start getting the pushback. | ||
| It's fake news. | ||
| It's fake news. | ||
| What wasn't fake news, which was the implication, was that the hire had taken place. | ||
| That was true. | ||
| And I guess the concern is from the FBI folks is that he's really a good guy not to worry about it. | ||
| And it's frustrating because I don't know about you, but I'm still waiting for prosecutions. | ||
| Now, I know there's not going to be an immediate prosecution, but I want evidence that there's a serious criminal investigation going on into these very people. | ||
| And I guess my big point would be, it's not so much the personnel, it's what personnel makes policy. | ||
| But I don't understand why Marco Rubio has been more aggressive with USAID than Cash and Pam have been with the FBI. | ||
| I think they should be treated similarly. | ||
| It's not a question of who runs the Washington field office. | ||
| It's a question of whether we have a Washington field office. | ||
| Let's go back to Jensen just for a moment. | ||
| This thing he calls controversy. | ||
| I think, Tom, that you're too self-effacing. | ||
| I would tell you folks, Tom Fenton does not promote himself. | ||
| He's not a self-promoter. | ||
| He's a man of few words, but he gets stuff done. | ||
| He's been considered a linchpin of this movement for a couple of decades. | ||
| What is it about Jensen, because a lot of the audience may not know this, what is it about Jensen that you specifically have a concern about of him even being in the orbit of getting a job particularly as big? | ||
| People should understand the Washington field office of the FBI is, I think, even more powerful than the New York FBI. | ||
| Those are the two major field offices. | ||
| What is it about Jensen? | ||
| He was a key figure in this domestic terror push against January Sixers. | ||
| According to testimony before the House, he treated them all as terrorists and was one of the key instigators in pushing the narrative within the bureaucracy that these folks needed to be jailed and ferreted out. | ||
| And he also was instrumental in implementing, to the degree it was implemented, the targeting of parents for going to their school boards. | ||
| And remember, Attorney General Garland suggested they should be treated as terrorists and domestic threats as well. | ||
| And so it's this approach that presumably was rejected last year, and yet he gets elevated to this key position. | ||
| And again, You know, for all I know, maybe he's a good guy and we're all misinterpreting it. | ||
| But what I am not seeing out of the FBI yet and what I'm not seeing in the Justice Department yet is a radical remaking or even talking about it that we've seen with USAID, that we've seen with the Department of Education. | ||
| And there's nothing the FBI is doing that another federal agency or local or state law enforcement can't do. | ||
| There's really nothing. | ||
| And these folks were behind an effort to destroy our constitutional system the last four to ten years. | ||
| And the idea that we're just moving seats around and moving people in and out and that will solve it, to me, is naive. | ||
| And I just want more done in a more timely way. | ||
| I mean, for instance, FOIA. | ||
| There's been no change in FOIA from any federal agency. | ||
| Justice Department is still stonewalling us on information. | ||
| A court asked, hey, what's your position on releasing this tape of Joe Biden being interviewed by her? | ||
| And the Justice Department said, give us three months, we'll figure it out. | ||
| Not acceptable. | ||
| This isn't what we paid for. | ||
| Do you think, because these folks are, I'll tell you what, can you hang on, I want to hold you through the break, because you're both, we couldn't have picked a better dream team than Pam, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino. | ||
| These are all people that are friends of yours, colleagues of yours. | ||
| You've known them for years. | ||
| You've worked with them for years. | ||
| And the question is, do we need a massive restructuring of what's happening over there or just trying to work on the margins? | ||
| And what's the direction of this? | ||
| We know what President Trump wants. | ||
| That's quite evident. | ||
| Okay, we'll take a short break. | ||
| We've got Tom Fitton is joining us. | ||
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| I love my kid sister, my kid sister Mary Beth. | ||
| You know, David Pakman went after her. | ||
| But she just texted me. | ||
| I know because I'm hearing this from a lot of you. | ||
| She asked a question. | ||
| Can the president dissolve Congress? | ||
| No, Mary Beth, it's not Parliament. | ||
| You can't do it. | ||
| But I understand your feelings. | ||
| They're all compromised. | ||
| They all hate Trump. | ||
| They're all corrupt. | ||
| They're all on the take. | ||
| I got it. | ||
| We just got to clean out the rat's nest. | ||
| Let's go back to Tom Fitton. | ||
| So, Tom, what are you proposing? | ||
| What would you like to see? | ||
| because you kind of speak for millions in the MAGA movement. | ||
| And the reason I wanted to have you on today, I've been bombarded by people saying, where are the arrests? | ||
| Where are the investigations? | ||
| Where are the grand jurors? | ||
| They kind of look at Ed Martin over at the U.S. | ||
| Attorney's Office in D.C. | ||
| and they say, hey, that looks like our guy right now, but what's happening overall? | ||
| So what's your recommendations? | ||
| What would you specifically like to see? | ||
| Well, the president's got to be the president. | ||
| And I would, if I were President Trump, I'd be reminding everyone around him that, hey, I'm the president. | ||
| That's what bugged me about that signal chat escapade. | ||
| It wasn't so much that it took place, it was what the substance was, which was they were second-guessing a decision the president had already made. | ||
| And Pam Bondi isn't going to do it. | ||
| Cash Patel isn't going to remake the Justice Department or the FBI. | ||
| They're going to be running it. | ||
| And it's not a criticism of them. | ||
| This is where the president should step in and say, this is what the FBI needs to look like, or this is how it needs to be changed. | ||
| I can't be around anymore to do to others what they did to me. | ||
| And I tell you, if after four years, nothing's been done other than they've reoriented the FBI or DOJ to focus on arresting MS-13, then whoever comes in next time, Republican or Democrat, Trump's going to be investigated again. | ||
| People around Trump are going to be subject to criminal investigation again. | ||
| And so what President Trump needs to do is to hire a special counsel, run it out of the White House. | ||
| Cash, the FBI, they can't investigate themselves. | ||
| DOJ can't investigate themselves. | ||
| Let's stop pretending that these agencies are going to investigate their friends and colleagues. | ||
| It's not going to happen. | ||
| And it's really not fair even to expect the leadership to spend all their time investigating their own people. | ||
| It's not going to happen organizationally. | ||
| That's why you need outsiders. | ||
| And Kash Patel should be told to follow Marco Rubio's lead on USAID. | ||
| Shut it down. | ||
| The reason I love this, and as you know, I'm close, I love Cash, love Dan, love Pam, but the reason I love this structurally is that we talk about the... | ||
| It's not about them, it's about what's happening as a government. | ||
| The structure. | ||
| This gets back to the unitary executive theory. | ||
| I love the fact you're saying, announce a special counsel, that special counsel reports directly to the President of the United States and is run out of the West Wing. | ||
| This puts to rest the third part. | ||
| He's Chief Executive Officer. | ||
| We're in court fighting. | ||
| Can he cut personnel? | ||
| Can he cut budgets? | ||
| Can he impound money? | ||
| The Commander-in-Chief, they're in court right now with Boesberg trying to interfere with him being Commander-in-Chief. | ||
| This is the third leg of the stool, which is being Chief Magistrate and Chief Law Enforcement Officer. | ||
| You take care of all that. | ||
| By setting up a special counsel, having directly report to the office of the president, and set it up in the West Wing. | ||
| And what would be the mandate for that special counsel, Tom Fenton? | ||
| Start running a grand jury in Fort Pierce. | ||
| Investigating the deprivation of his civil rights, the civil rights of other Americans under color of law, the seeming conspiracy with the Justice Department, and... | ||
| The state actors in Fulton County, New York, etc., to target Trump, not because they violated law, to target party leaders in the Republican Party, activists, not because they violated the law, but in retaliation for their First Amendment protected rights. | ||
| That's a crime, potentially. | ||
| And people need to be at least asked questions about what went on. | ||
| I'm not even, you know, this is not a question of a prosecution yesterday. | ||
| This is a question, are they even asking anyone questions? | ||
| President Trump's a crime victim. | ||
| Are they investigating our crimes against him? | ||
| I'm not seeing any indication that there is. | ||
| And, you know, Dan's been putting out some tweets talking about how there are things that are happening behind the scenes he can't talk about just because it's not readily apparent doesn't mean it's not happening. | ||
| Well, that may be true on certain law enforcement areas, certainly on national security, but it's not true on these types of crimes. | ||
| You know, if there was a serious criminal investigation into what happened against Trump, we'd know all about it. | ||
| And the fact that we're not hearing anything about it is a good indication, as DC gets, nothing's happening. | ||
| Tom Fenton, where do people go to follow this? | ||
| Because I anticipate this is going to get a little momentum after this morning's chat with you. | ||
| Where do people go to follow up? | ||
| They can go to judicialwatch.org, and of course we're all over Rumble, YouTube, Twitter. | ||
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All I'm doing is following it as I see it. | |
| Go ahead. | ||
| Dan and Cash and Pam, they know me well enough to know. | ||
| Don't piss down my leg and tell me it's raining. | ||
| I've seen this party before. | ||
| I've been doing this work for 27 years. | ||
| Don't tell me to wait. | ||
| Tom Fenton. | ||
| Tom Fenton is the people's... | ||
| During the nuclear winter of the Holder years, we referred to Tom Fenton as the people's Justice Department. | ||
| If we didn't have Judicial Watch and Tom Fenton, we wouldn't even have been around how you held the line during those dark years. | ||
| I'll be clear. | ||
| During 45, if we weren't out there yelling about what they were doing, I have no doubt Trump would have been removed from office in 45. And I think he would have been jailed the last four years if we weren't out there pushing back. | ||
| Give me that again. | ||
| Give me that. | ||
| That's very important. | ||
| I agree with you 100%. | ||
| I think Trump would have been impeached. | ||
| In his first term, he would have been impeached and removed and prosecuted, but for Judicial Watch, blowing the whistle from the get-go. | ||
| Similarly, during the last four years, if we didn't start pushing back immediately on the Justice Department's lawfare, Because remember, everyone was in a panic about January 6th, and we saw it for what it was. | ||
| I'm convinced Trump would have been in jail and worse, but for the work of Judicial Watch in large measure. | ||
| Tom, one more time, give me your, where do people go to get you? | ||
| Go to JudicialWatch.org, go to Twitter at Tom Fitton, of course, at Judicial Watch. | ||
| We're all over. | ||
| You can't avoid us if you're online. | ||
| Tom, fantastic. | ||
| I'll be in touch after the show. | ||
| Love you, brother. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| Tom Fitton, an absolute hammer. | ||
| Right now, there's a President Trump. | ||
| President Trump's got a true social. | ||
| We're also going to cut directly to the White House, and we will blow the break. | ||
| As soon as the President comes out, our own Brian Glenn is there, but as soon as the President comes out, We will jump there. | ||
| I want to read, let's put it up. | ||
| Yesterday, China issued retaliatory tariffs of 34% on top of their already record-setting tariffs, non-monetary tariffs, illegal subsidization of companies, and massive long-term currency manipulation, despite my warning that any country that retaliates against the U.S. | ||
| by issuing additional tariffs above and beyond their already existing long-term tariff abuse of our nation will be immediately met with new and substantially higher tariffs. | ||
| Over and above these initially said, Therefore, if China does not withdraw its 34% increase above their already long-term trading abuses by tomorrow, April 8th, 2025, the United States will impose additional tariffs on China of 50% effective April 9th. | ||
| Additionally, all talks with China concerning their requested meetings with us Negotiations with other countries, so requests and meetings will begin taking place immediately. | ||
| Thank you for your attention in this matter. | ||
| Folks, that's called economic warfare. | ||
| President Trump just took a massive punch of she right in the chops. | ||
| I think our deficit on stolen intellectual property That came out of universities that you paid for, | ||
| that came out of companies that you helped finance, that came out of the government that you paid taxes for, is at least $25 or $30 trillion. | ||
| That deficit on top of the trade deficit shows you how much the Chinese Communist Party, with their partners here in the United States of America, the lords of easy money, the sociopathic overlords that run Wall Street, of course the globalist corporatists, and... The apartheid state of Silicon Valley, all of them combined, are the partners of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| And if there was ever a question of what President Trump was going to do, well, I think we've seen in the last four or five days what he's going to do. | ||
| This is outright economic warfare. | ||
| He's told them flat out, you put tariffs on here, tough guy, if you don't take them off by tomorrow, I'm going to add a 50%. | ||
| Xi's country economically cannot exist like that. | ||
| That means essentially there'll be nothing shipped into the United States of America. | ||
| So the stakes couldn't be higher. | ||
| I think the markets are going to kind of react to that. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We got the White House. | ||
| We're ready to go to see the president talk momentarily. | ||
| I think it's going to be in the East Room. | ||
| We also have Chris Kobach from Kansas on deck. | ||
| So much going on in that great state. | ||
| Chris Kobach is going to get us up to speed on something that will actually shock you. | ||
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| your host Stephen K. Van *Mario's music* Okay, monumental news on the economic war with China. | ||
| President's going to talk momentarily in the East Room of the White House. | ||
| We're going to go there, but Chris Kovacs here with breaking news coming out of Kansas. | ||
| Chris, I'm kind of confused here. | ||
| You guys right now don't elect judges. | ||
| We just had this huge Donnybrook up in Wisconsin about this. | ||
| We've had this issue in North Carolina. | ||
| It looks like it's going to go our way there. | ||
| Are judges elected in Kansas right now? | ||
| No, they're not. | ||
| Since 1958, they have been selected using the so-called Missouri model when the Kansas legislature proposed a amendment. | ||
| That should have been our first clue, by the way. | ||
| It was a bad idea. | ||
| It was called the Missouri model. | ||
| But anyway, the Missouri model is where you have a commission. | ||
| You have a commission of people select the choices, and then the governor has to pick from one of three choices the special commission. | ||
| But we, back in 1958, took the Missouri model and made it even worse, and we gave lawyers the control of the commission. | ||
| The majority of the commissioners have to be lawyers picked by other lawyers. | ||
| So it's a system of the lawyers, by the lawyers, and for the lawyers. | ||
| And as a result, Kansas, a red state, has one of the most liberal, left-leaning activist Supreme Courts in the country. | ||
| I've argued in front of multiple state Supreme Courts. | ||
| I'd say the only one that's worse than ours is California. | ||
| And so we have a constitutional amendment the legislature just passed in Kansas. | ||
| Two-thirds vote. | ||
| It goes now to the people for ratification to go to electing judges, which is what Kansas did from statehood until 1958. | ||
| And that's a political earthquake in our state. | ||
| If this is adopted by the people, it will be such a positive transformation. | ||
| And it goes to the whole problem we see in the federal judiciary as well, is judges who are not accountable to anyone. | ||
| What does our audience have to do? | ||
| Is this something for the legislature? | ||
| Is this something that needs to go to a vote? | ||
| The Warren posse wants to be all over this because we understand the judges are everything. | ||
| What are folks supposed to do? | ||
| So it's already passed the legislature by the required two thirds majority for a constitutional amendment. | ||
| And now it goes to the people where it needs 50 percent plus one. | ||
| It'll be on the August 2026 ballot. | ||
| You know, definitely next summer. | ||
| War Room could definitely help by getting people informed about the need to vote yes on electing judges. | ||
| Steve, let me put it this way just to frame this issue in a bigger picture. | ||
| And that is, you know, in a constitutional republic, we rely on judges to protect our constitution and protect the rule of law. | ||
| And as the famous Robert Bork, the late great judge, put it in 1990, he said, well, who will guard the guardians? | ||
| Who will guard the judges when they go off the rails? | ||
| And his answer back then was, we need to have judges. | ||
| We need to appoint judges who are originalists and who stick to the text of the law. | ||
| Well, that has sometimes worked, but sometimes judges say they're originalists and say in front of Congress they are one thing, but they are actually something else. | ||
| In Kansas, We have had judges legislating from the bench, and so the best way to make judges accountable is to make them face elections. | ||
| Make them face another would-be judge every six years who can point out the flaws in their decision-making. | ||
| And so when you have judges who are not accountable... | ||
| And this is true to a certain extent in the federal judiciary, just like it is in Kansas. | ||
| You can see judges start legislating from the bench, becoming activists, rewriting the law by reinterpreting it. | ||
| And one of the solutions, I believe the best solution, and one that's achievable here in Kansas, is electing judges. | ||
| And by the way, 22 states already elect judges. | ||
| But it's a very interesting insight into the problem of a judiciary that is not following the text of the Constitution. | ||
| Chris, you're one of the smartest guys legally in the entire Trump MAGA movement. | ||
| Just real quickly, because they're saying today that they're going to go into court, conservatives are going to go into court and challenge President Trump on his tariffs. | ||
| What's your whole take on the use of the federal judiciary here to try to block President Trump's efforts to effectuate the unitary executive theory, sir? | ||
| Well, I mean, obviously we have the courts. | ||
| They are there for, you know, When there's a gray area, when there's an unclear area of the law, absolutely, that's what courts should do. | ||
| They should say, well, the law is written this way. | ||
| The words must be interpreted the way they were understood by the drafters of the Constitution, if you're a Constitution that you're interpreting or a statute. | ||
| So going to the courts in and of itself is not necessarily wrong if they have a legitimate argument. | ||
| But going to the courts with a bogus argument or with an obviously weak argument Solely with the intention of getting a preliminary injunction to gum up the works and put a hold on things until the higher courts can overturn that preliminary injunction, that is an abuse of the system. | ||
| Real quickly, Chris, you're the number one guy, probably intellectual about our borders. | ||
| President Trump's report card so far, how do you grade him? | ||
| Oh, I absolutely give him an A. I mean, this has been... | ||
| Amazing. Using all of these resources, everything from the U.S. military to state national guards to giving ICE, taking the handcuffs off ICE, letting them do their job in Border Patrol. | ||
| Morale is at an all-time high, at least in the careers of people there today. | ||
| No, he's doing an amazing job. | ||
| Kobach, we've got to go to the East Room. | ||
| What's your social media? | ||
| People want to follow you. | ||
| Where do they go? | ||
| They can go to chriskobach.com, that's K-R-I-S-K-O-B-A-C-H.com, or chriskobach1787 on X. Love you, brother. | ||
| Let's go to the East Room, President of the United States. | ||
| People, actually, very talented people. | ||
| the 2024 World Series champion, the Los Angeles Dodgers. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| And I want to congratulate you on a legendary season, and I watched it very closely. | ||
| Some of those teams were home teams, and you did a big number. | ||
| You're really amazing how it all came out and how it all ended. | ||
| With us today is Dodgers owner and chairman Mark Walter. | ||
| Thank you very much, Mark. | ||
| Congratulations. President Stan Kasten. | ||
| One of the greatest managers of the really ever to wear the Dodger blue, Dave Roberts. | ||
| what a time he said. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| That's great. | ||
| What a job. | ||
| I think he would have lasted even with George Steinbrenner, right? | ||
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I love George, but he was very quick. | |
| You lose two games and you were fired. | ||
| Great job, Dave. | ||
| Also, I want to recognize Secretary of Agriculture. | ||
| We have some great people, Brooke Rollins, who, you know, when I came to office, they said, the eggs are going through the roof. | ||
| Eggs! I said, what the hell are they talking about? | ||
| I was there for four days and they were blaming me for eggs. | ||
| And they had. | ||
| They've gone up like six times or something. | ||
| Some record number. | ||
| You couldn't get them. | ||
| And I gave it to Brooke, and I just saw the other day they're down 73%. | ||
| Right? That's pretty good. | ||
| And the press doesn't mention that. | ||
| Nobody talks about it. | ||
| But I know. | ||
| Secretary of Labor, Laurie Chavez de Rimmer. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Congratulations. The Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, who's a big Dodger fan, by the way. | ||
| Susie, thank you. | ||
| And we have also representatives. | ||
| Kevin Kiley. | ||
| Congressman Kevin Kiley. | ||
| Young Kim. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Congratulations. Great job. | ||
| Jay Olbernolte. | ||
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Jay. Thanks, Jay. | |
| Nanette Barragan. | ||
| Nanette, where's the... | ||
| Hi, Nanette. | ||
| Oh, look at that. | ||
| Nice outfit. | ||
| One of my favorite people, Gus Bilirakis, Congressman. | ||
| Hi. Addison McDowell, new to the Congress, but doing a great job. | ||
| Thank you, Addison. | ||
| A real good baseball player and a friend of mine, Roger Williams. | ||
| Great job. | ||
| And another new congressman, but he's been there a long time in a mental sense because he has really done a job and he knows Congress very well. | ||
| He was with me for seven years. | ||
| Brian Jack. | ||
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Brian. Congratulations, Brian. | |
| And others. | ||
| We have a couple of senators here. | ||
| I just don't particularly like them, so I won't introduce. | ||
| Over the course of this amazing season, the members of this team... | ||
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I didn't think it was that big a deal, actually. | |
| Washington. Over the course of this amazing season, the members of this team gave us some of the most incredible performances ever seen in the baseball diamond. | ||
| In all of baseball history, only six players have ever hit 40 home runs and stolen 40 bases in a single season. | ||
| And an elite group known as the 40-40 Club. | ||
| It's a 40-40 Club and very few people make it. | ||
| but unanimous National League MVP, Shohei Ohtani. | ||
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Yeah! Come here. | |
| Come here. | ||
| Oh boy, come here. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Looks like a movie star. | ||
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He's got a good future, I'm telling you. | |
| He shattered all of those records last year. | ||
| Think of it. | ||
| All of them. | ||
| And he did something even more because he became the first ever member of the 50-50 club. | ||
| So 40-40 is tough. | ||
| Hitting 54 home runs and 59 steals and accomplished... | ||
| An accomplishment unparalleled in 149 years of Major League Baseball. | ||
| Think of that. | ||
| That's just incredible. | ||
| Even more incredibly, Shohei clinched that achievement in what some have called the greatest game ever. | ||
| Was it that good of a game? | ||
| That was a pretty good game, actually. | ||
| Right there? | ||
| Is he good? | ||
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He's only getting better. | |
| And he's getting better? | ||
| That's scary for a lot of people, huh? | ||
| Even more incredibly, Shohei clinched the achievement. | ||
| I mean, it really was, and at a time, at an age that nobody ever thought was possible. | ||
| On September 19th, 2024, he did the unthinkable by going six for six. | ||
| This is pretty amazing. | ||
| I didn't realize it was that good. | ||
| I saw that game. | ||
| Six for six against the Marlins with three homers, ten RBIs, and a pair of stolen bases. | ||
| Other than that, it was not a great game. | ||
| How many people have gone six for six in just a period, right? | ||
| Not very much, right? | ||
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Maybe a dozen. | |
| Maybe a dozen. | ||
| Amazing. As you know, the Dodgers were down a lot of talent on the mound last season due to injury. | ||
| The resilient group used 40 different pitchers, the most ever by an eventual World Series championship team. | ||
| They had to go and get them. | ||
| I don't know how they got them and where they got them, but they got them because they won. | ||
| I know you especially miss the heart and soul of the pitching staff, Clayton Kershaw, who is really fantastic. | ||
| These are the best-looking people I've ever seen. | ||
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It's incredible. | |
| But Clayton has been unbelievable, and if you look at his records and you look at the... | ||
| I'm glad to meet him. | ||
| I've watched him for a long time. | ||
| He's a young guy yet, but I've watched... | ||
| You are a young guy, but I've watched you for a long time. | ||
| So congratulations. | ||
| Amazing. All year, the Dodgers faced down adversity. | ||
| You entered the playoffs battered and bruised, but not broken. | ||
| When you ran out the healthy arms, you ran out of really healthy. | ||
| They had great arms, but they ran out. | ||
| It's called sports. | ||
| It's called baseball in particular. | ||
| And pitchers, I guess you could say, in really particular. | ||
| But the starting rotation during the National League Division Series, this scrappy Dodgers bullpen shut out the Padres, saved the season and forced Game 5. Then key players battled back from midseason injuries to help deliver the National League pennant, including superstars Mookie Betts. | ||
| Oh, she good. | ||
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Good looking. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Mookie. That guy can play, can't he? | ||
| I mean, unbelievable. | ||
| You really... | ||
| Mookie is... | ||
| I've been watching it. | ||
| I don't want to say I watched him when he was on Boston, but I did. | ||
| I didn't think that was a particularly good trade when they made it, and I happen to be right. | ||
| And Max Muncy, I want to congratulate Max. | ||
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Max? Come here, Max. | |
| His arms are very strong. | ||
| I'm used to shaking politicians and hitting their armors like jello. | ||
| And now it's like steel, all these guys. | ||
| But Max, that's great. | ||
| And also, Yoshi Yamamoto. | ||
| Yoshi? Wow, what great athletes. | ||
| And, of course, series MVP, Tommy Edmund. | ||
| And that was an MPVP series. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| It's a good feeling, right? | ||
| That's pretty good. | ||
| That's a lot of talent you had to beat out there for the MVP. | ||
| But they all had an incredible... | ||
| Tommy was 4.07 with 11 RBIs. | ||
| In six games. | ||
| That's not bad, right? | ||
| That's not bad. | ||
| When it counted, too. | ||
| Next game, the Blockbuster World Series against another iconic team. | ||
| Team known as the New York Yankees. | ||
| I love the Yankees. | ||
| George was a great friend of mine. | ||
| He had very few friends, but he was... | ||
| And if you want to spend work, sit for nine innings with a game watching the Yankees play with George. | ||
| You were exhausted by the end of the game. | ||
| It was very, it was actually hard work, but we love George. | ||
| And they're doing a good job and they're doing well this season and you're already nine and two. | ||
| And so you're doing a good job. | ||
| Maybe you see the same thing over again. | ||
| In game one of the World Series, Freddie Freeman on a sprained ankle. | ||
| He's a great player with a broken finger and a broken rib channel. | ||
| Kirk Gibson's legendary walk-off home run in game one. | ||
| Of the 1988 World Series, that was a game that pretty much everybody remembers. | ||
| You could hardly swing the bat, but he swung it one time, and it was a shot. | ||
| On the first pitch, Freddie saw in the bottom of the 10th, he hit an unforgettable walk-off grand slam home run. | ||
| The first in World Series history. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| The Dodgers rode the momentum to win two of their next three games, placing them on the verge of baseball immortality in the dramatic Game 5, down five runs on the top of the fifth. | ||
| That was a strange... | ||
| For those Yankee fans, but I'm not saying I was a Yankee fan because I love these people behind me. | ||
| But down five runs in the top of the fifth with two outs and the bases loaded, the Dodgers gave us one of the grittiest half-inning World Series events, showings that anybody's ever seen. | ||
| Mookie started the rally by beating out a routine ground ball to first, which he's fast as hell. | ||
| I don't know how the hell you can... | ||
| Having that speed, isn't that a great thing? | ||
| I played baseball, but it was sort of slow. | ||
| I wasn't fast. | ||
| Driving in the phenomenal KK Hernandez. | ||
| is whiskey. | ||
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Okay. Okay. | |
| It's a hell of a group. | ||
| Then Freddy drove in two more runs and Teoscar Hernandez drove in another couple of runs. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| It's a group. | ||
| Teoscar, so you're doing well this season, too? | ||
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A little bit. | |
| Yes, that's what I heard. | ||
| That's what I heard. | ||
| After a few dominant innings from Blake Training. | ||
| Where's Blake? | ||
| I heard dominant, right? | ||
| That's dominant. | ||
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That is good to be down here. | |
| Great job, Blake. | ||
| And the team was crowned the World Series champion against a great team. | ||
| The Yankees are a great team and always a great franchise. | ||
| And I guess, I don't know, like 28 or something, they've won a lot, probably, maybe more than any team in history overall. | ||
| And you might be catching them pretty soon if you keep going. | ||
| You've got a little ways to go, I guess. | ||
| The scouting report at the start of the series. | ||
| You said that the Dodgers could win by focusing on the fundamentals, and that's exactly what they did. | ||
| You showed America that it's not about individual glory, it's about the team digging deep and sprinting right through first base, and you did that all the time. | ||
| I watch some games. | ||
| I love baseball. | ||
| I don't get to watch as much as I'd like, but you always see a spirit in this team. | ||
| I think a lot of that has to do with the ownership and the management, frankly. | ||
| But you see a spirit on the Dodgers that you don't see with a lot of teams. | ||
| A lot of teams I turn on, I say, oh, let's forget it. | ||
| When I turn on the Dodgers, I like to watch the team. | ||
| And now that I've gotten to meet these guys personally, I like it even more. | ||
| I'm going to like it even more. | ||
| And you're off to a great start. | ||
| After seeing how successfully you've begun this season, I can tell you that you can plan on being back here. | ||
| I hope you're going to be back here next year. | ||
| I don't want to give you too... | ||
| I don't want to give you too much because we want to have a little suspense for next year, but I will tell you, we're going to go down, we're going to do something we don't do generally. | ||
| We're going to run them down really fast. | ||
| Do you have a game today or tonight? | ||
| We're going to run them down to the Oval Office. | ||
| And we're going to show them the fabled Oval Office. | ||
| And there's nothing like it. | ||
| And this wonderful owner, one of the greatest owners in sports, by the way, from everything I've heard, one of the greatest owners in sports, along with your other compatriots. | ||
| Right, fellas? | ||
| It's a great team of owners, and that's very important. | ||
| But we're going to... | ||
| He said they'd love it, and I think he'd like to do it himself. | ||
| So we're going to... | ||
| We'll get out of here, and we will run. | ||
| We'll sprint down, and we'll see the Oval Office, which is really something to see. | ||
| You know? | ||
| It's funny. | ||
| People come from all over, the biggest people, the richest people, the most powerful people, and they come and they go into the Oval Office and they just stare. | ||
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Oh, wow. | |
| They all have beautiful offices. | ||
| They have offices that are the best in the world in many cases. | ||
| But they love the Oval Office. | ||
| So with all of that, I'd like to now introduce you to the Dodgers chairman, Mark Walter, to say a few words. | ||
| And then we're going to follow that up with Clayton, who's going to say a couple of things. | ||
| And that's a great representative of a great team. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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Mark, thank you. | |
| Well, thank you very much. | ||
| We're very pleased to participate in the tradition of bringing champions to the White House. | ||
| Last season was an incredible season. | ||
| We won the World Series. | ||
| Second time since 2020 and only eight times in our history. | ||
| We played in front of almost 4 million fans and we had many millions more on television. | ||
| Our global following has soared and not only from Shohei Otani, but also from Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Clayton Kershaw, and many, many more. | ||
| Alongside this on-field success, we have been deeply immersed in our community. | ||
| Our players and managers have supported our... | ||
| have each had foundations and support for communities. | ||
| Our trust last year has committed $100 million to help Chicago or L.A. fire. | ||
| And so on behalf of the organization, I want to thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| OK. | ||
| Wow, this is an incredible honor for me to stand here today representing the Los Angeles Dodgers and this group of staff and players behind me today. | ||
| The 2024 Los Angeles Dodgers season is one that will go down in the history books, always holding a special place in the hearts of myself and those there with me, as well as millions of Dodger fans around the world. | ||
| This organization exemplifies what it means to come together as one. | ||
| For a greater purpose and represent something so much bigger than themselves. | ||
| The selflessness and humility that each one of these players and staff have shown over the last year is truly an inspiration. | ||
| They have constantly played hurt, switched positions, and taken the ball to put the team first. | ||
| As a spectator for our championship run last year, I was in awe of this group. | ||
| Their unwavering confidence, coupled with a selfless pursuit for team excellence, was an inspiration. | ||
| That is why I'm so grateful to get to speak today on their behalf, as I know none of them would say this about themselves. | ||
| Moving forward, I hope the 24 Dodgers can serve as an inspiration to many like they were to me, not just in sports, but in life, remembering to put others before ourselves. | ||
| It moves a team and a society forward. | ||
| So thank you for allowing me to speak today. | ||
| Because the story of the 2024 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers is a true joy to get to tell. | ||
| And it's because of the extraordinary people that are behind me and their incredible pursuit of excellence. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And Mr. | ||
| President, we have a gift for you as well. | ||
| Oh, I like that. | ||
| Oh, I like that. | ||
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Come on, Mark. | |
| Oh, they're going to miss you. | ||
| Okay. Right here, Chris. | ||
| The President. | ||
| They're Team Jersey, the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers. | ||
| Let's go back and play the music, guys. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play it. | ||
| Don't cut the audio. | ||
| The president's going to lead them to the Oval Office right now. | ||
| I think the Dodgers are going to go on a very special trip to the Oval Office. | ||
| What we're going to do is toss to, we're going to carry this through, I think, all the way through to Charlie Kirk. | ||
| To Charlie Kirk. | ||
| Now, Presidents promised the Dodgers a special trip down to the Oval Office. | ||
| It's very rarely done. | ||
| The Dodgers are in town to play Washington tonight. | ||
| So today, that's why I started at 11 o'clock. | ||
| There they go right there. | ||
| Very special occasion for the President of the United States. | ||
| As you know, President Trump is a longtime Yankees fan. | ||
| He just had some great comments about his experiences in baseball. | ||
| President Trump played baseball at the New York Military Academy when he was in prep school. | ||
| President Trump also was a good friend of George Steinbrenner. | ||
| And when Steinbrenner bought the club and started turning around the Yankees after CBS had owned it, the big rivalry was obviously between the Dodgers and the Yankees there in the 70s and the 80s when the Dodgers had those great teams and Steinbrenner was rebuilding it. | ||
| There we go, right there. | ||
| We're going to toss to Charlie Kirk. | ||
| Once again, I want to thank Brian Glenn and the Real America's Voice team for being live. | ||
| There goes the Dodgers right there as they funnel off the stage. | ||
| The entire World Championship team showed up. | ||
| They gave President Trump A jersey. | ||
| President Trump was reminiscing about George Steinbrenner. | ||
| He said, hey, you want to know what work is? | ||
| Sitting next to George Steinbrenner for a nine-inning game up in the owner's box because Steinbrenner would be calling down to the bullpen. | ||
| He'd be yelling at his coaches, his managers, and plus giving play-by-play commentary. | ||
| Okay, we're going to toss to Charlie Kirk in a moment. | ||
| Let me do a reset right here. | ||
| Markets are on fire throughout the world. | ||
| President Trump is dug in. | ||
| He's not budging. | ||
| And big break. |
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