Speaker | Time | Text |
---|---|---|
unidentified
|
Yeah, I think it's right to connect the dots between the assault on, you know, many different independent institutions, which is a theme that has run through the not quite hundred days of this second Trump term. | |
And I would point out that as far as Chairman Powell goes, you know, you noted that he was appointed by Donald Trump in his first term. | ||
Donald Trump also repeatedly threatened to fire Powell in his first term. | ||
Was prepared to spend, quote, every last nickel of his own money, and he has millions and millions of dollars in order to go to court to stop Donald Trump from eroding the independence of the American Central Bank, which many Wall Street investors, of course, | ||
believe is one of the pillars of our economy. | ||
So if Trump takes the next step, I would expect Powell to consider very seriously suing him. | ||
I would expect there to be a major crisis that obviously will add further instability. | ||
into our markets and a level of uncertainty at the core of the American financial system that I think is unlike anything we've ever seen. | ||
If there is that kind of outright confrontation between the chairman of the Federal Reserve and the president of the United States. | ||
Are they spending their nights awake? | ||
Over this. | ||
How about this Wall Street Journal headline that I just saw tonight? | ||
Dow headed for the worst April since 1932 as investors send a no-confidence signal. | ||
That is happening as the U.S. dollar is falling again. | ||
The cover of The Economist has a falling dollar. | ||
How do you assess all of this? | ||
It's a very dangerous time, I think, for Americans, and certainly American investors are showing that anxiety in the market, as you reported earlier, down 2.5% today. | ||
But what's a really toxic combination in particular right now is that you have, as you pointed out, falling stock market, borrowing money is becoming more expensive for the American government. | ||
At the same time, you have a Congress that is advancing a deeply fiscally irresponsible budget, right? | ||
So you're making it imperative. | ||
For the government to continue borrowing money at the same time that the world is losing confidence in American treasuries, that's a bad combination of factors. | ||
That's very, very dangerous for the American government. | ||
If you think about past fiscal crises, right, or past financial crises, you have the government go into overdrive, spending money to stimulate the economy. | ||
If you get into a budget crisis of this nature with rising yields and making it harder for the American government to borrow money, you'd have to go into... | ||
Cutting. That's not something the American government is used to doing in a crisis. | ||
So it's really problematic to figure out his next steps. | ||
And China's making that very case to our trading partners as well. | ||
And to a certain degree, it's subtly threatening them if you're going to do business with the U.S. and make trade deals. | ||
You know, do it with us instead. | ||
Or if you do it with them, we're not going to do it with you. | ||
So this is not a little trade war. | ||
This is not a tiff. | ||
This is blossoming into a full-blown trade war between the United States and China. | ||
And both countries will get hurt. | ||
Who gets hurt worse is still the open question. | ||
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
unidentified
|
Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. | |
I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
It's going to happen. | ||
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
unidentified
|
Mega Media. | |
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
unidentified
|
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
unidentified
|
War Room. | |
Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | ||
It's Tuesday, 22 April, in the year of our Lord, 2025. | ||
And so the battle lines are being drawn on this. | ||
And I want to step back for a second and give you a view of the entire battlefield that we're dealing with. | ||
Let's go back. | ||
If you go to your notes, you'll remember we said that President Trump, there's three basic verticals he'll be heading down to try to turn this thing around and save the republic. | ||
The first of the three, you'll have ending the kinetic part of World War III, principally in Ukraine, but also in the Middle East, right? | ||
And that will come from negotiations, and it'll be part of a subset of the Russian rapprochement. | ||
Central to that is obviously the Department of Defense, National Security Council. | ||
And you've seen these power struggles over both at DOD and at National Security Council. | ||
And we're going to get into that. | ||
Deep State is definitely pushing back. | ||
Pete Heggs has said today, this morning on Fox. | ||
And now we're in a fight, folks. | ||
We've got to go fix bayonets to save. | ||
Or not to say, to assist Pete Hegseth in making sure he stays the Secretary of Defense because they're out for him. | ||
They're gunning for it. | ||
The second was the deportations of the 10 million, securing the border and the deportations of the 10 million people. | ||
Now I have up on Getter, I think, it's an article out of the Washington Times, Steve Dinan, who's one of the best reporters, along with over at Breitbart, Bender, uncovering... | ||
Day-to-day, what's happening on the border and with deportations and everything with immigration. | ||
He's reporting it's 99% down. | ||
The border has essentially been secured by President Trump. | ||
For all sakes, you've got to build a wall. | ||
You've got to do many other things. | ||
But there's no more open invasion of the country in that regard. | ||
Now, you get to the deportation of 10 million illegal alien invaders. | ||
And what the Democrats are doing, I think, are quite brilliant in fighting us because to delay is to deny. | ||
And now we're hung up and we're arguing about MS-13. | ||
The Democrats have made their position. | ||
The reason they're taking such a big stake on MS-13 and this individual is that, hey, they understand that the Republicans are going to get tired. | ||
The media is going to get tired. | ||
The population is going to get tired. | ||
Of even getting the criminal aliens out of the country. | ||
And so the 10 million are going to stay and they're going to be voters. | ||
And you're going to have Wall Street come in and say, hey, they're central to the economy. | ||
They add one, two percent to GDP. | ||
We need that. | ||
And the whole aspect of suppressing wages for African-Americans and Hispanics in the United States, the lower skilled jobs will just be lost in people. | ||
In fact, they'll argue, oh, that's bringing inflation down, etc. | ||
Strategically, what they're doing, and the courts have taken a big role in this, they're thinking downrange. | ||
That's the second aspect on the deportation. | ||
And what they're doing right now is, quite frankly, smart. | ||
I mean, they're totally embracing that because they have to embrace it. | ||
They have no populist, no populist economics. | ||
They failed to raise taxes on the wealthy to try to close the budget gap as President Trump and the MAGA movement is doing. | ||
They have failed to bring in any economic nationalism. | ||
They're taking their Wall Street party line about, oh my gosh, tariffs are taxes, tariffs are going to raise prices. | ||
That's being a running dog. | ||
For the sociopathic easy money overlords of Wall Street and the corporatists. | ||
So they've made their bed, okay? | ||
It's quite evident. | ||
The credentialed class, because they have no... | ||
They've abandoned the workers. | ||
They've abandoned the working class. | ||
That's evident. | ||
And that's where you come in and have to have their back. | ||
So the two verticals there. | ||
The third, as we said, always the biggest and the most central is you have to get to the economic problems and the financial problems. | ||
Underpinning what they've done to hollow out the United States of America and take away high-paying, good jobs from the working class and the middle class. | ||
And here you get down to who President Trump now is engaged in a, you know, you can't say anything but, a direct confrontation with the Federal Reserve, the central bank, the whole concept of the central bank. | ||
What was stunning about Susan Glassner last night on Stephanie Ruhle. | ||
And she kind of dropped the dime that I hadn't heard before that Powell was prepared to pay tens of millions of dollars to wave off Trump the first time. | ||
And this is where Mnuchin, you know, Mnuchin's handpicked guy. | ||
Many people at the time said this guy was going to be a disaster because he's not a heavy in capital markets. | ||
He's not a trader. | ||
He didn't run a hedge fund. | ||
He's not a Scott Besant who understands about currency, understands the importance of currency. | ||
So the markets have been in turmoil and people are freaking out, but today the market's up 800 points, maybe 1,000 points here shortly. | ||
These markets have bounced around. | ||
Why is it responding today? | ||
And what did Charlotte Howard of The Economist say that was so important? | ||
Markets are responding because things like the headline in the Financial Times of London, Beijing warns of retaliation against nations with U.S. deals. | ||
Right now, It's being reported that, you know, Scott Besant leading this effort with East Asia, with Japan, with South Korea, with India and South Asia, with Vietnam, now they're talking about Thailand, the Philippines, that these East Asian countries are all over, | ||
at least coming to terms agreed, memorandums of understanding, terms agreed, not the detail and all the complications you need for non-trade barriers. | ||
Remember, it's not just about terrorists, not just about the number. | ||
Oh, theirs is 30% and ours is 10%. | ||
It's also about reciprocity, reciprocal tariffs. | ||
Is President Trump bringing in for the conversation for the first time all the non-trade barriers of being essential? | ||
You're not going to get final trade deals, but you are going to get the architecture of that. | ||
And the Chinese Communist Party understands that one of the central parts... | ||
Of these deals is that the center of gravity of your trade will be with the United States. | ||
So President Trump is changing, completely changing the commercial relationships throughout the world. | ||
And as the market sees that that's happening, you're having a positive response. | ||
And I'll get to gold in a second. | ||
Gold at 34, almost 3,500 bucks today. | ||
And we'll talk about that, the explosive growth of gold. | ||
The fly in the ointment. | ||
What Charlotte Howard said last night, which I think is the first time someone in her position as the U.S. editor of The Economist came out and said, hey, what the markets are looking at is that you're engaged in a full economic war. | ||
Remember, as we stand right now, as I've said, we're almost with a full embargo on Chinese goods. | ||
And, you know, Chinese goods, they manufacture so much because we've shipped the jobs and gutted and hollowed out American manufacturing. | ||
That full embargo will have an impact. | ||
There's no doubt about that in 90 to 120 days. | ||
What Charlotte Howard's saying is that engaging in the trade war and engaging in this tariff war is one thing. | ||
And you can clearly see President Trump's the pattern because you have to get to some sort of relationship with China. | ||
That is not one-sided like China's had it. | ||
Remember, they tore up President Trump, the Lighthizer deal that Trump worked on for two years back in 2019, in May of 2019, which would have solved all the issues and integrated China really into the world economy. | ||
This is clearly... | ||
A decoupling process. | ||
But you have to go through the decoupling and make sure it's not completely smash-mouth so that both economies implode. | ||
And this is what President Trump and Besson, I think, are doing magnificently. | ||
Now, what you can't do at the same time, and this is what Charlotte Howard brings up and what we've been harping on, and she used the word irresponsible. | ||
The debt ceiling, I understand, or what they're talking about is to increase the debt ceiling by $5 trillion. | ||
We cannot have... | ||
You can't have the $6.5 trillion spend or the $7 trillion spend. | ||
You pick your number that they're talking about in these budgets. | ||
The Doge situation, you know, whether you're a fanboy of Elon Musk and think he did a great job or you think he's just all a waste, we have not identified to date, in fiscal year 25, not one penny of waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
Just make sure you understand that. | ||
He promised a trillion. | ||
Hey, I'm a big supporter of the Doge effort. | ||
He came back to the cabinet meeting last week. | ||
Remember that? | ||
And at the cabinet meeting, he says it'll be $150 billion, but it'll be in fiscal year 26. That starts in October. | ||
So, therefore, you have to get back to programmatic budget cuts. | ||
And that has to start in the Pentagon. | ||
If you don't start in the Pentagon, it's not going to go anywhere. | ||
This is one of the reasons I think you see such... | ||
Deep state friction over at the defense department. | ||
There's two things going on. | ||
One, a realignment of national security around a hemispheric defense. | ||
Number two, there's going to be massive, you know, Doge to date hasn't come up with any waste, fraud, and abuse, which obviously is not the case in the Pentagon. | ||
But programmatically, you have to have a, you kind of have to have a deep... | ||
Deep rethinking of what we're doing. | ||
We can't spend a trillion dollars. | ||
The defense authorization budget is $900 billion. | ||
They're adding in the reconciliation another $150 billion that gets over a trillion. | ||
We can't do it. | ||
We can't afford it. | ||
We can't finance it. | ||
And that's why you're seeing these markets, particularly in the bond market. | ||
And remember, we've told you time and again, the bond market gets a vote here. | ||
Okay, short commercial break. | ||
We're going to break this down in even more detail. | ||
In the next segment of The Word, Johnny Conn takes that with American Heart. | ||
unidentified
|
I got American part. | |
I got American faith. | ||
In America's heart. | ||
Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | ||
Okay, welcome back. | ||
As we were speaking, just received from the Free Press, Secretary of State Rubio has announced the official reorganization of the State Department. | ||
It's a bombshell, folks. | ||
A great first start along statutory lines. | ||
Grace and Moe just got it to you if you would push that out to everybody in the war room posse. | ||
You got Pete over at defense. | ||
You have Senator Rubio at state. | ||
You have Tulsi Gabbard at BNI, you got Ratcliffe at CIA, you know, Pam Bondi at Justice, Cash at FBI. | ||
The point of the exercise of those three verticals we saw and everything that has to happen and come together with those departments, in addition, the other exercise we're going through is the deconstruction of the administrative state and taking on the deep state, which we believe needs a sense of urgency. | ||
What you see in Secretary Rubio, what is announced here, and want everybody to read it, including a couple of great org charts, is he's taking down the State Department, which people have talked about for 50 years, 60, 80 years, 100 years, and bitching about the State Department in the 1950s. | ||
Remember, the State Department is what turned over China to Mao Zedong because they were infested with communists. | ||
This gets to the whole McCarthy situation. | ||
Remember, McCarthy started on Who Lost China? | ||
A new book out by another lefty, Red Scare, recommended by Rachel Maddow. | ||
It shows how they totally warp what really happened post-war and in the Cold War. | ||
Actually, I would say what President Trump is doing with this reorganization is not just the greatest... | ||
Repositioning since the end of World War II, I actually think from the beginning, the August of 1914. | ||
But President Trump is essentially ending World War II, at the same time ending the start of World War III, appropriately. | ||
The reorganization of the State Department, now you see out, deals with statutory levels. | ||
Executive orders are only for a point in time. | ||
These institutions were created by statute. | ||
One of the reasons they're going in the court and slowing this down is saying, hey, you're not filing the statute. | ||
You're just kind of freewheeling it. | ||
Okay, if that's a game you're going to play and the courts are going to get involved here in thwarting President Trump's... | ||
Article 2 powers, the unitary theory, the executive, executive theory, boom. | ||
Then get Marco, get Rubio to restructure the State Department, which people, and from Reagan, all conservatives since World War II have bitched and moaned about taking apart the State Department. | ||
Donald Trump has just done it along statutory lines. | ||
Is it perfect? | ||
No. Is it pretty damn good? | ||
Yes. 132 agencies, all these different things. | ||
The State Department's involved themselves in. | ||
And this is the way programmatically, remember that word? | ||
That you start cutting costs. | ||
Pete Hegseth is trying to get that rolling in the state over at the Pentagon. | ||
And it's been thwarted. | ||
Let me play the Pete. | ||
And I got D.C. Drano. | ||
And D.C. Drano had a brilliant tweet up today about what I was talking about before. | ||
They're fighting us on the criminal aliens. | ||
Hopefully not to a standoff. | ||
We're going to get that. | ||
But what they're really thinking of is the strategic goal of not deporting 10 million illegal alien invaders, which has to be done or you don't have a country. | ||
That's the stakes of this. | ||
Let's play the Pete Hegseth. | ||
Can I play the Pete Hegseth Deep State? | ||
And you'll see what people are fighting about and why we're on with Tom Fenton and others saying, hey, we need a sense of urgency to go after this. | ||
Let's go ahead and play it. | ||
unidentified
|
You take this job, you come in with war experience and your great background. | |
Do you think there's a lot of people who don't want you there and there's some type of deep state forces that want to make sure you don't stay there? | ||
unidentified
|
They've come after me from day one. | |
Just like they've come after President Trump. | ||
I mean, I've gotten a fraction of what President Trump got in that first term. | ||
What he's endured is superhuman. | ||
It's not hard for me to do this job. | ||
I know exactly why I'm here. | ||
To bring warfighting and the warfighting ethos back to the Pentagon. | ||
To rip out the insidious ideologies and not compromise and not back down. | ||
To bring in new press voices into the Pentagon, which we've done. | ||
To reestablish standards and accountability. | ||
To not tolerate leakers. | ||
To 100% operational control of our border. | ||
To get rid of trans lunacy in the military. | ||
We haven't backed down. | ||
See, here's the thing. | ||
A lot of people come to Washington and they just play the game. | ||
And punch their ticket. | ||
And get along to go along. | ||
And, you know, start doing Meet the Press and going to the Council on Foreign Relations and spending time with all the new cocktail sipping crowd. | ||
unidentified
|
That's not why I'm here. | |
I'm here because President Trump asked me to bring warfighting back to the Pentagon every single day. | ||
That is our focus. | ||
And if people don't like it, they can come after me. | ||
No worries. | ||
I'm standing right here. | ||
The war fighters are behind us. | ||
Our enemies know they're on notice. | ||
Our allies know we're behind them. | ||
And that, in this dangerous world, for the American people, is what it's all about. | ||
You see right there, he's in the breach. | ||
And they're coming after Pete Hegseth. | ||
Not today. | ||
Maybe the days you get Bill Blaster, you get some of the tools that Grace and the rest of the team have made available to you. | ||
We're not going to go to the ramparts today. | ||
We're going to think this through to have Pete's back. | ||
But Pete Hex is in the middle of the fight, and you've seen the leaks that are going on in the deep state. | ||
He's only beginning the beginning process of the reorganization. | ||
Look, you know, I'm as big a hawk as you got. | ||
The Defense Department's budget's got to be cut. | ||
You have to show a signal that this thing's not going to... | ||
And with the hemispheric defense, the new strategic concept that President Trump has from Panama to Greenland, the Pacific and the three-island chain, and it's also talking about, I don't know, an Iron Dome of some sort of aspect, an anti-ballistic missile. | ||
You hermetically seal the United States all the way from the Arctic, the new great game of the 21st century, the great power struggle in the Arctic. | ||
It sounds like your focus is less on the Eurasian landmass as it should be. | ||
In fact, you're not isolations, but putting America first and America's citizens first and America's national security first. | ||
D.C. Drano. | ||
I want to get D.C. Drano up without playing the cold open. | ||
I may come back to that. | ||
D.C. Drano, tell me about your worry here, sir, with your legal mind. | ||
You're quite worried. | ||
About this fight we're having in the courts, in the Supreme Court, and everything that's going on every second and every day. | ||
The Democrats have now had the back of the MS-13 gangs, but you're taking a broader picture and saying, hey, they're throwing down on this because they want to stall, stop, or have us forget about the deportation of 10 million illegal aliens. | ||
D.C. Drainer, your thoughts? | ||
Why did you put that tweet up this morning? | ||
Well, you're starting to see what their plan was, right? | ||
They're rendered effectively powerless in the federal government. | ||
The only thing they have are these insurgent Marxist judges that they stacked the judiciary with over the last few years, and they're doing their job. | ||
These people are agents of the Marxist movement. | ||
Their goal is to weaken and destroy America from within so that we can effectively be taken over by foreign powers. | ||
And we're seeing, as you said, that the tactic is... | ||
To delay. | ||
And to delay is to deny. | ||
Now, President Trump ran on building a wall in mass deportations not once, not twice, but three times. | ||
And if he does not, you know, do these mass deportations despite the adversity from this deep state, his base is going to soften. | ||
People aren't going to show up in the midterms and then the Democrats are going to take the House and then he's going to get impeached again. | ||
Okay, hang on. | ||
Slow down. | ||
Hang on. | ||
Walk me through that process. | ||
I want to go back because you know we're the platform for the mass deportations. | ||
What are you saying? | ||
What are you telling the audience that you think that unless President Trump continues to push hard on this or just because you're getting all kind of signals, they're just going to focus on the criminal aliens. | ||
So walk me through what you're specifically saying because I think you're putting up a flare that we need to put up now. | ||
So that people are focused on this. | ||
But go back and walk me through that process. | ||
I am, Steve. | ||
And I'm very much in the internet, right? | ||
I see what the base wants. | ||
And they want three things. | ||
They want deep state saboteurs and Epstein clients arrested. | ||
They want mass deportations. | ||
And they want to codify the Trump agenda into law, to have a strong economy. | ||
And what I think their tactic is, is to slow these deportations down because people are already complaining. | ||
They're saying, you know, where did the ticker counter go? | ||
Why are we only focusing on cartel guys and now we're getting stopped by the courts? | ||
But I'm saying this not to criticize, but to highlight how we need to start taking more drastic measures. | ||
And, you know, it's an 80-20 issue. | ||
people support deporting illegal aliens, especially MS-13 and cartels. | ||
The judges have shown | ||
What can we do? | ||
There are multiple things we can do, including executive orders for E-Verify and other regulations to have immigration enforcement enacted that would push people to self-deport. | ||
But I also argue we should consider suspending the writ of habeas. | ||
And that is a constitutional power that the president can use in the event of rebellion or invasion. | ||
It has been done before. | ||
It can be done with the stroke of a pen. | ||
And we can start to take more drastic actions to deport illegals, especially the cartels, without judicial overview, without the courts getting involved. | ||
And it's been done by three presidents, to my knowledge. | ||
Hang on. | ||
Don't bury the lead. | ||
unidentified
|
Don't bury. | |
You just dropped a bomb there. | ||
I want to go back because as I compare President Trump to General Washington and to Abraham Lincoln, both General Washington wanted to use that a couple of three times. | ||
And Lincoln did use it, right? | ||
Lincoln suspended habeas corpus a lot, including at the beginning of the war with the city council of Baltimore. | ||
Walk me through. | ||
We got... | ||
30 seconds I want to hold you through. | ||
Walk me through. | ||
You want to suspend habeas corpus? | ||
How are you going to do that? | ||
Is that autocratic breakthrough, or is D.C. Drano going full Nazi on me? | ||
No. It's a constitutional power that is explicitly reserved for an event of rebellion or invasion. | ||
I would say 10 to 20 million illegal aliens coming into this country counts as an invasion, especially when many of those illegal aliens are coming from hostile adversaries like China, like Ukraine, like other, Venezuela, | ||
the trend to Aragua, they're being sent by these governments. | ||
We have to take drastic actions. | ||
And frankly, I think the American people are fed up, and they'd be willing to do this in limited circumstances. | ||
Okay, hang on for a second. | ||
I'm going to hold you through. | ||
D.C. Drano, what's the solution? | ||
His heads are going to blow up on this. | ||
Gold's over 35. Remember, it's not the price, it's the process. | ||
Take your phone out. | ||
Text Bannon, B-A-N-N-O-N, at 989898. | ||
That'll put you in contact with Birch Gold. | ||
You get the ultimate guide for investing in gold in precious metals in the era of Trump. | ||
Totally, completely free. | ||
Do it today. | ||
Put you in touch with Philip Patrick and his... | ||
unidentified
|
Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | |
Okay, Birch Gold. | ||
What the economist woman was talking about at the beginning... | ||
About the spending is about the survival of the dollar as the prime reserve currency. | ||
Yes, we have to have a national debate about that, whether we want to do it or not. | ||
It has tremendous benefits, but it requires tremendous responsibilities. | ||
What does Spider-Man say? | ||
With great power goes great responsibility, but that's one of the prime reserve currency. | ||
Go to birchgold.com. | ||
End of the dollar empire. | ||
Totally free. | ||
Six installments. | ||
We're working on the seventh to get ready for Rio. | ||
Last one is modern monetary theory. | ||
We always want to give you the idea, and then we'll show you how it executes in the real world. | ||
Modern monetary theory. | ||
Go to birchgold.com and talk to the Philip Patrick team. | ||
It's going to set another all-time high today. | ||
It's not about the price. | ||
It's about the process of how it got there. | ||
Once you understand that, boom, you're going to be ready to face the world. | ||
DC Drano, look, nice theory, brother, to habeas corpus. | ||
I got one wrinkle. | ||
And this is how the deep state rolls. | ||
They dropped over D&I, unbeknownst to Tulsi, they leaked, a national intelligence estimate that showed clearly that there's been no invasion by any foreign power. | ||
The Venezuela is, in fact, not in back of MS-13 or Trendy Aragor or anything. | ||
They cut your legs out for money. | ||
This is how the deep state rolls. | ||
So tell me what you do there. | ||
You're a smart lawyer. | ||
It's not an official report, but I think it's a draft or advanced draft. | ||
They leaked it. | ||
What do you do when your own intelligence apparatus around the president is trying to undercut him so he has no standing in the court when he does exactly what you say he has to do, which is suspend habeas corpus and start rolling him out of here, brother? | ||
Well, is that the same deep state that indicted them four times? | ||
We don't care what they say, okay? | ||
We have common sense. | ||
We watched our country be invaded for four years by 10 to 15 million illegal aliens, many of them men of fighting age, okay? | ||
And when I say suspend the writ, not only is this a constitutional power in Article 1, Section 9, but we're not even suspending it for American citizens, okay? | ||
There's none of that. | ||
These are illegal aliens. | ||
They do not have a right to be here. | ||
They get deported. | ||
We go around the courts by using constitutional authority to do so. | ||
And the president who used this the most is the Democrats' favorite president of all time, FDR, OK? | ||
FDR used it, Abraham Lincoln used it, and Ulysses S. Grant used it. | ||
And you know what? | ||
All their faces are on our money. | ||
OK, they ended up being pretty good looking in historical hindsight. | ||
And Trump has the chance to do that. | ||
We have to normalize this. | ||
You cannot allow 20 million illegal aliens to invade our country and allow them to stay. | ||
This is an invasion. | ||
That is what an invasion is. | ||
Time to start taking drastic action. | ||
I understand what President Trump is doing. | ||
He's going through the process. | ||
He's exposing that Democrat Marxist judges are going to stop him every step of the way at a certain point. | ||
I feel he's going to have no decision but to do this. | ||
And you know what? | ||
If he stands strong and he does it, he'll win in a landslide in the midterms because this is what Americans want on both sides of the aisle. | ||
Talking about the deep state, Justice Department. | ||
When are we going to start seeing the, because Pete Hexas is talking about, hey, there's some investigation over the Pentagon, they're going to forward it to the Justice Department. | ||
Hey, Pete, no matter what's happening over the Pentagon, the Justice Department should have 50 things in the queue in front of that, including the Epstein files. | ||
Listen, I held up that binder because I want Epstein clients arrested. | ||
And I thought there were more things in that binder than there apparently were. | ||
We didn't have time to review it. | ||
But I can tell you, everyone on the MAGA side, we want Deep State, arrest. | ||
Give us something. | ||
Give us one. | ||
You don't have to arrest the entire Epstein client list tomorrow, but start somewhere. | ||
Give us one. | ||
I'm personally of the belief that it's been long enough where you can at least get one or two at this point. | ||
I understand it takes time to get used to the controls and figure out who your allies are and build a case, but come on. | ||
I mean, it's been a few months at this point, and people want arrests. | ||
I want arrests. | ||
You want arrests. | ||
We all want arrests. | ||
DC Drano, where do people get you online, sir? | ||
What's your handle? | ||
At DC Drano. | ||
I'm on all the platforms. | ||
And yeah, you know, listen, I know they're in a den of vipers in these organizations. | ||
But if you want to, we will support the hell out of you. | ||
We have a massive independent media ecosystem. | ||
If you start fighting for us, we will start fighting for you. | ||
That's where we're at. | ||
So let's start putting handcuffs on wrists and showing that justice is real again in this country. | ||
Amen. Thank you, DC. | ||
Appreciate you. | ||
Okay, we've got to open Ben Harnwell's at St. Peter's Square right now. | ||
Let's go ahead and play the call over and bring Ben in live from the Vatican. | ||
unidentified
|
Blessed are the meek. | |
Juxtapose that, though, John, with how different that is. | ||
With where we are as a society right now, not just Americans, but Europeans around the world, how this anti-immigrant movement has risen up, while you have a pope who over and over made it his mission to talk about the importance of protecting those who are most vulnerable. | ||
Well, you have, you know, democracy and Christianity, and this is not to get into Christian nationalism and the often unhealthy blending of faith and power politics, but democracy and Christianity have a great deal in common. | ||
It requires us to see one another as fellow children of God. | ||
And that may sound grand or soft somehow, but that is in fact the motive force. | ||
Of democracy. | ||
If I don't respect you and your dignity before the law and you don't respect mine, then we fall into a state of nature. | ||
We fall into a struggle, a constant battle to get what we want. | ||
And the message, both of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, is that you can't simply take everything you want when you want it. | ||
That there is, in fact, a hierarchy of affections, that we have to control our appetites. | ||
And in doing so, we all have a better chance of filling those appetites. | ||
So it's not just about being great people, but it is about seeing one another in a way that enables us to at least, if we don't love our neighbor, we should at least try. | ||
Was that Stephanie Ruhl quoting the Sermon on the Mount, Blessed are the Meek? | ||
Wow. TV history. | ||
Ben Harnwell, you're in the Vatican, or outside the Vatican, or in Vatican City State, I guess, close to St. Peter's, with some scoops. | ||
Walk us through everything that's happening, sir. | ||
Morning, Steve. | ||
Well, yesterday, standing on this very spot, I took the footage. | ||
of St. Peter's Piazza and I indicated live on air that against all the mainstream media interpretation that was pumping out the propaganda hard yesterday, there was no great sense of grief here, no great sense of sort of bewilderment. | ||
What shall we do now? | ||
Our beloved Pope is dead. | ||
I said that beneath the apostolic palace there, right over my shoulder, and there were no nuns there kneeling on the ground, praying the rosy with tears, screaming. | ||
Down there, little faces. | ||
And Steve, I was ripped a new one on social media after posting that. | ||
People said, you know, where's your compassion, Han? | ||
They're saying, look, I've been to St. Peter's. | ||
It's not what you're saying. | ||
And of course, when I push back, it is exactly what I said. | ||
However, there is something that corroborates the War Room's unique coverage. | ||
And that is, again, they'll be very kind in this letter. | ||
That a number of Roman sources have said to me this morning. | ||
As I'm talking, I'll explain the significance of this. | ||
This is Cardinal Ray, the dean of the council. | ||
Thanks, guys. | ||
He's basically, this letter went out yesterday, Steve, summoning all the cardinals at whatever age to participate in what's called the general congregations. | ||
When has he summoned them to do this? | ||
From nine o'clock this morning. | ||
Bergoglio dies yesterday, and already the cardinals have been summoned in, and part of the discussion will be the date of the conclave. | ||
We know it's going to be between 15 and 20 days after Bergoglio's death. | ||
Of course, by majority vote, they can change that. | ||
But here's the point, Steve. | ||
This is the killer point here. | ||
I've checked, right? | ||
Since I got that letter, I've checked. | ||
I can't find a single case in any death of a pope. | ||
Where the general congregations have been summoned for the next day. | ||
In JP II's case, out of respect, he died on the 2nd of April. | ||
The first general counsels were on April the 4th, two days later. | ||
Benedict was four days after his term of up when he resigned. | ||
I've never found a single instance. | ||
Do you know why? | ||
Because it's unseemly. | ||
It's unseemly. | ||
We are in the nine-day, the novembiales, the nine-day period of official mourning right now. | ||
The funeral's going to be on Saturday. | ||
He's going to be transferred to the Vatican, the basilica, right over my shoulder there, for three days' worth of public hearing. | ||
And already the cardinals are gathered together from this mourning, and they're going to be gossiping and choosing their successor. | ||
So when I say, Steve, as I did... | ||
On air yesterday that the rope for the Romans, it was just an ordinary Monday, an ordinary sunny April Monday, and there was no great sense of grief. | ||
Behind the papal walls, amongst the cardinals, it's even more clinical. | ||
So, folks, make of that what you will. | ||
But I will close this with this point. | ||
If you're following American cable news, and they're all saying that, you know, that the Pope was beloved for his humility and he was a reformist and all the rest of the nonsense. | ||
Please bear in mind that those closest to him, and you can work out in concentric circles, those closest to him working out are the least moved by his death yesterday. | ||
What does this mean for conservative Catholics and traditional Catholics that want to have a show of force and make sure that we can blunt, you know, someone farther to the left, or somebody as dangerous as Perilyn taking over, or as even John Yep said yesterday, | ||
which I think is the scariest, a moderate or somebody that comes in like a wolf in sheep's clothing. | ||
What is it going to take for Cardinal... | ||
Cardinal Burke and others, Cardinal Serra, to make sure people know that they have a big backup here of traditional Catholics, particularly in the United States. | ||
Well, firstly, the war room posse can hit the phones, hit the Vatican switchboard and start leaving messages of support for people like his eminence, Cardinal Burke, Cardinal Zen. | ||
Cardinal Zen doesn't have a vote, but he'll certainly make his voice. | ||
I'm known in the informal settings of the general congregations. | ||
So speak to the Cardinals, like Cardinal Serra, you mentioned, and say, look, we're with you, we're praying for you. | ||
Please do what you can. | ||
But Steve, you want to know the truth? | ||
And your question was perfect, by the way, because a number of journalists have reached out to me today and say, look, who are the Conservatives lobbying for? | ||
And my response is, we're not there, right? | ||
Don't even start on that line. | ||
At best, the Conservative bloc vote can be a blocking instrument. | ||
But, you know, I don't even think the numbers are there for that. | ||
I'll pick up on one thing. | ||
I know Cardinal Parolin. | ||
I know him personally, by the way. | ||
I know he gets a bad press on the Warren because of the China deal. | ||
And that's fair enough. | ||
But he is by no means the worst possibility. | ||
That might come out. | ||
By no means is the worst. | ||
That could come out of the conquest. | ||
There's a lot worse than him. | ||
The sharks that are a lot worse than him, sensing the blood in the water, are ferocious. | ||
As I said, they're already plotting today. | ||
The corpse, Steve, isn't even cold. | ||
And they are already plotting politically to move quickly to get their guy in. | ||
So look, just folks, pray. | ||
Protestants, Catholics, pray. | ||
Where do people get you, Ben, for all-day coverage? | ||
Where's your social media? | ||
Where do they go? | ||
It's my social media platform of choice, Steve. | ||
Get up! | ||
And go there, folks. | ||
At Harnwell's my profile. | ||
At Harnwell's my surname. | ||
unidentified
|
Go there. | |
I've got some great posts there waiting for you at the top of the feed. | ||
Thanks, Steve. | ||
God bless. | ||
Catch up with you tomorrow. | ||
Yeah, magnificent coverage. | ||
We're going to be wall-to-wall in this. | ||
We'll develop this more tomorrow. | ||
Short commercial break. | ||
Back in the warm in just a moment. | ||
unidentified
|
We rejoice when there's no more. | |
Let's take down the CCP! | ||
Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | ||
Okay, the next hour, we're going to do something special. | ||
Glenn Beck's going to join us for the entire hour, and Real America's Voice is going to allow us to go commercial-free. | ||
We're going to talk about Glenn Beck, about the beginnings of a show and the importance. | ||
He was one of the first guys, if not the first guy on television, to actually back in 2010, I think it was, 2008, 9, 10, to warn about debt, to worry about the financial crisis. | ||
So we're going to talk a lot about that and get his thoughts on that. | ||
So 10 o'clock, we're going to start at 11 o'clock. | ||
He'll be coming on here in a minute. | ||
There's so much going on. | ||
Five to seven is going to be insane tonight. | ||
We are jammed up with so many stories, not just around the world, in Korea, in Brazil. | ||
Things obviously happen in the Vatican, but also the full-out assault on President Trump from the deep state and the courts. | ||
So get all that and we'll have an update on the finances. | ||
You know, people love the geopolitics and capital markets. | ||
We do. | ||
First of all, Birch Gold. | ||
Go to Birch Gold and get the End of the Dollar Empire. | ||
This is with the run-up to Rio, the Rio Reset, which we're going to come up with something very special on that. | ||
Make sure you're up to speed on everything. | ||
Birchgold.com slash the End of the Dollar Empire slash Bannon End of the Dollar Empire. | ||
Gold is going to hit what looks like another all-time high today. | ||
It's not the price. | ||
It's the process. | ||
That's what we're here to teach you. | ||
Okay, Catherine's joining us. | ||
Catherine, you were at the State Department. | ||
You've got a first shot at this free press article on Secretary of State Rubio's restructuring. | ||
Give me a minute on that. | ||
So you were there in the darkest days. | ||
You went over first in 17 and I think 18 to the State Department. | ||
You were taking nothing but incoming there all the time. | ||
What do you think about this first cut at a major reorganization in the State Department? | ||
unidentified
|
Thanks, Steve, so much for having me. | |
This is long overdue, and I actually was in the office that they're doging, called J, the Office of Civilian, Superiority, Democracy, and Human Rights, which is an office that's totally out of control with spending and priorities that are just not in alignment with the president's agenda. | ||
Attempted to do this in the first term. | ||
But Mike Pompeo was the one that stopped us. | ||
OMB was behind us. | ||
Rust was behind us in the first term. | ||
So it's great news to see that Secretary Rubio is taking a stab at this. | ||
And it's also really important that this drumbeat on the outside from the MAGA base supporting Doge in their efforts is strong because Secretary Rubio is responding to that. | ||
So, and this is not perfect. | ||
We'll have you back on next week, Catherine, to talk about this. | ||
This is not perfect, but it's a first cut. | ||
It's to take it down to its statutory limits. | ||
I understand there's people, and that's where the EO came from, there are people in MAGA that want to basically shut down the entire State Department. | ||
Legally, President Trump, I think, realized they can't do that now. | ||
I know, Catherine, you've got some very strong opinions about what ought to happen as you were there, and you saw the problem over at Foggy Bottom. | ||
But, Catherine... | ||
Instead of going to Florida and running for Congress, you went out to Wyoming and created a great company. | ||
Tell me about it. | ||
unidentified
|
Absolutely. Yes, now I'm the CEO and founder of Merriweather Farms, which is a vertically integrated beef company in the great state of Wyoming. | |
And as you can see behind me, our wonderful employees are actually cutting the meat that you guys buy from us. | ||
So we're very transparent. | ||
We want people to learn and know where their food is coming from. | ||
And today we're offering a special on our spring barbecue box. | ||
It's $30 off. | ||
No discount code required. | ||
It's grilling season. | ||
Except, of course, if you live in Florida. | ||
But it's grilling season is upon us. | ||
So we want to offer you this special to get some of my favorite cuts in this box. | ||
And we're also doing a burger blowout, which you guys ask for all the time. | ||
So walk us through. | ||
Give us 30 seconds on the burger blowout. | ||
What are folks supposed to do? | ||
unidentified
|
Yeah, yeah. | |
So I've mentioned many times before, I keep about 50 to 75 pounds of ground beef or burger in my deep freezer at all times. | ||
It's a cut that you can cook in just about any recipe, and it's high-quality. | ||
You can really taste the difference from the grocery store. | ||
We dry-age 14 days, so you can really taste that flavor. | ||
So you guys ask for it all the time, and we want to make sure that we're taking care of the war room saucy first and foremost. | ||
Catherine, where do people go? | ||
If they want to go get these great deals, where do they go right now? | ||
unidentified
|
Absolutely. Meriwetherfarms.com and it will be right on the homepage. | |
You'll see the burger blowout. | ||
There's also a spring barbecue box and the discounts are already baked in, so no need for a promo code. | ||
There's the spring barbecue box. | ||
It's a great blend of cuts. | ||
Fabulous, ma'am. | ||
Keep fighting. | ||
I'm going to have you back on to break down and get your opinions and observations after you've time to read. | ||
It just came up on the free press. | ||
The restructuring of the State Department under Secretary of State Marco Rubio with the guidance from President Trump. | ||
Thank you, ma'am. | ||
Appreciate you. | ||
unidentified
|
Have a great day. | |
Rickardswarroom.com. | ||
If you like geopolitics and capital markets, get strategic intelligence. | ||
Rickardswarroom.com. | ||
Just go there today. | ||
You get Strategic Intelligence, the great newsletter. | ||
Plus, he throws in a free book. | ||
Capital markets, currency, money, and chat GPT, totally free. | ||
It'll scare the lights out of you about artificial intelligence, but it's supposed to. | ||
Thank you very much. | ||
So much going on, Deep State. | ||
Full on. | ||
We're going to have much more about Pete Hegseth, the fight over the Defense Department, also the National Security Council. | ||
Derek Harvey's over there. | ||
They're trying to blow him up already in the first day he's showing up. | ||
Mike Lindell. | ||
Talk to me, brother. | ||
I want to finish strong. | ||
Got Glenn Beck next. | ||
Got you on early. | ||
Sell me a sheet before we go to break and bring in Glenn Beck, sir. | ||
unidentified
|
No, Mike. | |
Oh, no, Mike. | ||
Mike, I had time cut out for you here to sell a sheet. | ||
Today at 5 o'clock, here's what we're going to do. | ||
We're going to have a breakdown of the capital markets, particularly why is the bond market so over-responding? | ||
Why is the bond market blowing up right now? | ||
Here's the central thing. | ||
The bond market is because of the big, beautiful bill has too much spending in it. | ||
Remember, the deficit so far this year in the first six months of the year, the fiscal year, is $1.3 trillion. | ||
It's heading to a $2.5 trillion deficit. | ||
The big, beautiful bill has, I think, a debt ceiling that takes up $5 trillion. | ||
The bond market's going to get a vote here, folks. | ||
President Trump is getting it done on the tariffs, getting it done on the commercial, on the restructuring. | ||
Okay? Getting it all done there. | ||
You see now, I think, there's been an announcement on India. | ||
We may be in terms agreed in India. | ||
I think we're going to have terms agreed in Japan. | ||
And remember what the Financial Times of London is saying, Beijing is warning all these partners, if you sign these deals and agree with these deals, the center of gravity is trading with the United States. | ||
There's going to be retaliation. | ||
That's what Trump is up against. | ||
But you can't do both at the same time. | ||
You can't reorganize the world's commercial relationships at the same time you have out-of-control federal spending. | ||
Short commercial break. |