May 31, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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That was a part of him kind of presenting his product for President Trump. | |
| And they had a fun moment in the car and talked about the innovation of Tesla and all of that. | ||
| So that was one of my personal moments with Elon Musk. | ||
| But I got to tell you, Mike, that moment today in the Oval Office kind of firing back at the reporter talking about the New York Times. | ||
| And that was kind of a fun moment, even though I wasn't there. | ||
| I enjoyed watching it. | ||
| You know, I think it's a whole new energy, okay? | ||
| It's a whole new energy in the golden age of America. | ||
| All right, we're going to toss it over to Natalie Winters, who's going to pick up anchoring the coverage here as President Trump is getting set to take the stage. | ||
| Any minute, down in western Pennsylvania, golden age tour, American Steel victory lap. | ||
| Natalie, over to you. | ||
| Thank you so much, Mike and Brian and Ben. | ||
| What an all-star panel. | ||
| I think Ben Burkwam is going to remain with us throughout probably the pregame, the speech, and hopefully he'll give us some postgame analysis too. | ||
| Today is, of course, Friday, May 30th in the year of our Lord, 2025. | ||
| If we want to bring the show in, let's bring the show in. | ||
| We got some guests that we will, like I said, use in our pregame up to President Trump's, I'm sure, wonderful speech. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you'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? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | ||
| Welcome to The Worm. | ||
| It's Natalie Winters hosting today, Friday, May 30th in the year of our Lord, 2025. | ||
| We're giving you some pre-Trump speech. | ||
| He is out in Pennsylvania continuing, I think, a wonderful tour, celebrating, appreciating, and hopefully incentivizing more Americans to get involved in steel, obviously a critical industry that, like we were talking about before, the Chinese have really outpaced us now for decades. | ||
| There's a graph I think the studio should have if we want to put on screen just to sort of set the stage for what will be President Trump's speech. | ||
| Before we get to Rich Stern of Heritage, He's going to give us the latest on all things. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| You see that? | ||
| Absolutely wild on all things tariffs, trade, the great numbers that we saw President Trump play in the Oval Office today during his press conference with Elon Musk. | ||
| I just wanted to set the stage. | ||
| Obviously, we've seen some evolving decisions coming from the bench, the very radical bench about all things tariffs, the constitutionality of what the Trump administration and people like Peter Navarro have done, particularly when it comes to China. | ||
| There's been a lot of reporting coming out that the chief judge An individual by the name of Mark Barnett basically bypassed a lot of the standard protocol in terms of judge selection to set it up so that the three judges who were tasked with adjudicating all of the cases pertaining to President Trump's tariffs had a long, | ||
| long track record, a CV, a resume, basically exclusively of anti-Trump decisions anytime they bumped up against him, which I guess fair points probably most judges, not just in D.C., but across. | ||
| But I think it's just important to make one key point. | ||
| The timing of all of this is so critical, and not just because of what is going on here in the United States when it comes to our economic warfare with China, but more importantly with what's going on abroad. | ||
| And I'm not just talking about what's been transpiring in the South China Sea and how China's really been ramping up some of their alternative weapon strategies, like we've been talking about here in the war room for a while. | ||
| But right now, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, is overseas in Singapore for the annual dialogue, the Shangri-La, where they're meeting with a dozen-plus countries a day, having their bilateral meetings, basically all tasked with focusing on American defense in the context of Asia, and most importantly, in the context of Asia. | ||
| So it's quite interesting, I think, that you see these judges choosing to get involved on what is probably the most intense form of economic warfare that we have ever waged against the Chinese Communist Party in essentially the same time frame, plus or minus a few hours, when the Department of Defense is engaging in arguably the most critical, I would say, juncture. | ||
| of waging actual war, kinetic or otherwise, against the Chinese Communist Party and a bunch of radical left-wing or establishment Republican judges are trying to send a signal saying that the United States is not serious about actually taking on the threat that is the Chinese Communist Party, right? | ||
| And I think when you broaden this out, obviously the paradigm that we've been seeing, the Alien Enemies Act, the idea of deporting illegal aliens under the idea that it was an invasion using powers that are only, you know, I think you can broaden that out to these tariffs too, right? | ||
| If you believe that the PRC is at war with us, which we certainly do here in the war room, perhaps it's not kinetic yet, right? | ||
| It might just be economic warfare. | ||
| Then in the same way, these tariffs are a form of, I would say, maybe ammo, but maybe armor is a better metaphor to compare it to. | ||
| So I think you're actually seeing an escalation, not just of these judges adjudicating policy from the bench and trying to usurp president. | ||
| President Trump's presidential authorities, imagine that. | ||
| But they are now essentially acting as commander-in-chief. | ||
| So that's why we always say we're not hurtling towards a constitutional crisis. | ||
| We are actively in one. | ||
| And of course, you're already starting to see the judges get involved with the foreign students, particularly the Chinese visas over at Harvard saying that you can't do that. | ||
| It's, you know, who knows, racist. | ||
| I'm sure that's probably somewhere in the actual textual documents that they're going to be apoplectic. | ||
| Sorry, no, we should be deporting all of these people. | ||
| We should not be educating the next generation of enemy combatants, kinetic information, economic. | ||
| Or otherwise. | ||
| And you can suck on that, Silicon Valley and all of you tech bros who are employing, I think, 70% of all your workers are foreign-born. | ||
| Yeah, that doesn't sound very America first to me. | ||
| So if you're going to wear the MAGA hat, maybe, I don't know, try to aim to hire. | ||
| Hey, I'll take 50. Should be 100, but, you know. | ||
| Anyways, I digress on all of that. | ||
| I think we have Rich Stern, who I'm sure probably has some thoughts on what I was talking about. | ||
| Rich, I wanted to bring you on just to sort of give us an update on all things tariffs, but also just the wonderful numbers. | ||
| I'm sure you saw President Trump played them in the Oval Office. | ||
| They were first a war room cold open, might I add. | ||
| But if you can just give us your thoughts. | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
| Look, I think he hit the nail on the head, as always. | ||
| You know, and again, what Trump is doing here is actually being the negotiator-in-chief that we all know. | ||
| He's got this deal together. | ||
| We've got Nippon Steel bringing Japanese money to invest in America for the first time. | ||
| We're all used to the opposite as being what's happening. | ||
| And so we're looking at a deal here that, you're right, is going to expand steel manufacturing America, expand American jobs, pay American workers better, and return, start the down payment, if you will, on returning America to being the manufacturing hub of the planet. | ||
| And so this is just one of those many things. | ||
| We've got four more years left for this, of course, right? | ||
| And just walk us through, I know they have the stay until, is it, June 9th? | ||
| But how do you think this resolves? | ||
| Do you think that the tariff case will be the one that sort of forces this constitutional crisis into the forefront? | ||
| Do you think that that's where they have sort of the best arguments on their side? | ||
| Or is it more on the immigration stuff? | ||
| Where do you think they should be picking these fights? | ||
| So the truth be told, and actually the Meese Center here at Heritage already published an article earlier today kind of breaking down all of the details of all of this. | ||
| And look, I think you're right that in some respects we're already in that constitutional crisis. | ||
| Look, you know, we can go through the four disastrous years of Biden where court judges and bureaucrats were just handing out favors like candy to their friends. | ||
| We're using the courts literally to go after churches and conservatives. | ||
| So I'd say, look, we've been in that crisis for a while. | ||
| To give you a few details on these cases, though, you know, look, I will tell you this. | ||
| If you're kind of reading the plain text of the letter of the law, the precedent on it. | ||
| IEPA wasn't the most robust route for the president to go down to do the tariffs. | ||
| Now, what we published actually out of Heritage is the president's probably still on very firm grounding on the fentanyl-related tariffs. | ||
| So these are the tariffs on Canada and Mexico and China. | ||
| And we believe that the court probably ruled an error on that one. | ||
| But we'll see as things go forward. | ||
| And I should point out the case that was before the Court of International Trade. | ||
| And the court that was before the D.C. District Court are actually ruling on two completely different non-overlapping issues. | ||
| The first one, the International Trade Court, ruled on just the specific tariff emergencies. | ||
| The latter one, the district court rules on whether IEPA, the statute the president's using, can be used for tariffs at all. | ||
| So we'll see as these cases unfold, but the last thing I'll say right now about it is... | ||
| Really, he should use those to enact tariff policy, frankly, to give himself more protection against these radical judges you're talking about. | ||
| We've got a few minutes before I'm going to jump to break. | ||
| I'll hold you if I can. | ||
| Obviously, the big press conference today with Elon, the farewell, that wasn't a farewell ceremony. | ||
| I'm curious your thoughts. | ||
| He spoke, obviously, of the currently, what is it, $160 billion identified in waste, fraud, and abuse, which short-term was projected to skyrocket, I think, above $200 billion. | ||
| And then they talked about hopefully attaining at some point time unknown a trillion dollars in waste, fraud and abuse, kind of not blaming it, but pawning it off on the idea that it was the courts that was holding some of this. | ||
| I think for sure we could. | ||
| Look, the government bureaucrats own numbers. | ||
| And look, you and I don't trust them at all. | ||
| But even the government bureaucrats' numbers from before President Trump was elected still indicated that there's probably $400, maybe even $500 billion a year. | ||
| of at least fraud that goes out of the government, let alone some of these other abuses and waste and all of that. | ||
| So the math is there, the wasted dollars there. | ||
| Again, dollars stolen from hardworking Americans and American businessmen as well. | ||
| So the question is, what can we get at? | ||
| And look, I think the thing that Doge has done that's been unprecedented is they could cut some of that money, but mostly they could shine a spotlight. | ||
| From inside the bulwark of the swamp, on all of the structures of all of the grift and the corruption, and that's the information that no one had. | ||
| We might have known some of these were there, but we couldn't tell you where the waste was, where the fraud was. | ||
| Doge has put a spotlight on that. | ||
| Doge is going to continue to write and make that material public to Congress. | ||
| But at the end of the day, you know, the deep state's been doing this for decades. | ||
| They've twisted Congress into defending their position at the end of the day. | ||
| We need Congress to have a backbone. | ||
| It is Congress that needs to codify these things that Doge has uncovered and put on the table for them. | ||
| So we need to lend them a backbone as much as possible. | ||
| I think the only people capable of giving them a backbone is this audience, as they have done time and time again. | ||
| Rich, if you can just hang with us through the break, Warren Posse. | ||
| Hang with us. | ||
| We've got a packed show. | ||
| Obviously, President Trump is going to be speaking, I believe, at around 5:30. | ||
| In the meantime, I think for everything we've been talking about, Read the latest installment. | ||
| It's no longer The End of the Dollar Empire. | ||
| That one is the title I always like to go with. | ||
| I've got to get the new one. | ||
| Or read The End of the Dollar Empire again. | ||
| It's a great read. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| Richard Stern much more after this short break. | ||
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This is all the founding fathers seem to get... | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | ||
| Welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| We are awaiting President Trump. | ||
| I hear he is in the building, so we're getting quite close. | ||
| We're going to hit Ben Berquam just in a second. | ||
| But, Rich, before I let you go, I just have one last question, because obviously you're seeing the media's apoplexy. | ||
| Oh, Doge is dead. | ||
| Oh, they're not going to be able to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| I don't necessarily think that Doge is something novel. | ||
| I think it's sort of the second iteration, frankly, of what bananism created. | ||
| Which is the idea of deconstructing the administrative state. | ||
| Perhaps it's the kinetic warfare element of it. | ||
| But I'm just curious, your thoughts sort of, you know, comparing, contrasting the first term of President Trump to the second term, how useful, if you think it has been, DOGE was? | ||
| Or, you know, just sort of maybe a report card, an overall assessment. | ||
| So I think DOGE certainly, and I think like Trump coming in this first time, and a lot of people around him, These are people that were outsiders, which is good. | ||
| They weren't swamp creatures. | ||
| But, you know, the tradeoff is it means that they didn't know where all the bodies were buried. | ||
| They didn't know exactly who to trust. | ||
| They didn't know exactly what they could push on. | ||
| You know, we had Biden bureaucrats who've been doing this for decades, who in the two months leading out the door, you know, set landmines back for the troops coming in, right, to sabotage Doge's effort. | ||
| And we should hunt down those bureaucrats, frankly, and undo those things. | ||
| But, you know, that's part of what the deep state does. | ||
| Look, what I would say is I think Doge has got B +, maybe even A-, because what they've done here, and I agree with you that it's yet the next iteration of what's been going on before, but I think it's so important to recognize that what's unprecedented is having a president who wants to go after the deep state. | ||
| Look, we are talking about bureaucrats who've been funneling tens of billions of dollars. | ||
| Two terrorists, two people that murder Americans overseas, that murder Americans here, that fuel left-wing activities, that fund abortions and transgender. | ||
| You and I could talk for an hour about that list. | ||
| And we've had reports and commissions and whatever. | ||
| Doge is the first serious, concrete attempt at actually hunting these things down, making them public, making it so that Congress is a target to go after to actually defund these things. | ||
| And so while that's the beginning, it's a real beginning. | ||
| And that is a thing that is truly spectacular and unprecedented. | ||
| Rich, I've only got two fact checks. | ||
| One, we could probably talk for a thousand hours about all of that. | ||
| And I don't think it's a want to go after the deep state. | ||
| It is most certainly a need. | ||
| But other than that, I totally agree with you. | ||
| And as always, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| Before we have you back on, in the meantime, if people want to follow you, where can they go to do all that? | ||
| Read the reports. | ||
| Read all of it. | ||
| Well, I will concede both your fact checks, and it's always a pleasure. | ||
| Thank you for having me on. | ||
| You can find me at Rich A. Stern on Twitter. | ||
| You can, of course, go to our heritage.org website, find the things I write and that of all my colleagues and the entire team here as well. | ||
| So thank you again for having me on as always. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| I think we are going to bring Ben Berquam in, who, of course, I mean, I'm used to seeing you live on the scene at the southern border, though I guess there's not as much activity going on there. | ||
| We swapped out the illegals for Border Patrol agents, which is a much-needed upgrade. | ||
| But tell us about where you are, tee up the speech, give us sort of, I'll use a word that's probably never been used on a war room before, give us a vibe check of what's going on in the room. | ||
| Well, I will be back out with ICE very soon, so stay tuned for that to the Posse and War Room audience. | ||
| I'll be riding on the operations. | ||
| But today we've got a special invite here to Pennsylvania, just outside of Pittsburgh. | ||
| We're at U.S. Steel. | ||
| This is one of their three major facilities here in Mont Valley, just outside of Pittsburgh. | ||
| This is the Irvin plant. | ||
| Over a million square feet of covered space here. | ||
| Massive, massive facility. | ||
| President Trump's going to be speaking here in just a minute. | ||
| To announce, really, you can see it behind me. | ||
| The golden age in America. | ||
| And you see all the folks that are sitting here in their orange vests. | ||
| These are all American steelworkers, Natalie. | ||
| The backbone of America. | ||
| Blue collar America. | ||
| The men and women who built this country. | ||
| Who the Democrats and the left and the chambers of commerce sold out for the last 60 years. | ||
| And now you have President Trump coming back in saying, we're going to put those workers first again. | ||
| We're going to put America first again. | ||
| And the America First agenda is the agenda that's going to save this country. | ||
| And so that's what we're here for. | ||
| Looking forward to hearing about this deal with Nippon Steel. | ||
| It's going to be coming very soon. | ||
| And they're playing pipel. | ||
| I guess that's a testament to the real masculinity. | ||
| I know we were talking about this before. | ||
| Democrats are busy spending, what, $20 million to understand what it means to be a man? | ||
| I would suggest mandatory viewing. | ||
| The speech tonight, the people in the crowd, the types of people who work in critical industries like steel. | ||
| I'm inclined to think of the coal miners. | ||
| Ben, hang there. | ||
| I'm sure we'll come back to you. | ||
| Maybe we'll hit you before President Trump starts speaking. | ||
| But speaking of immigration, I've got someone, Jessica Vaughn from the Center for Immigration Studies, who I would love to bring on. | ||
| We have some good news coming out of the activist judge brigade for once, and that is that President Trump is being allowed to, I think, overturn the sort of faux legal status of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens migrants. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| They're all euphemisms to me. | ||
| But Jessica, if you can walk us through this decision today, please. | ||
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Yes, this was a big win. | |
| I thought it was a pretty obvious decision. | ||
| The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 to let President Trump's action to cancel the improper parole status that Joe Biden was giving out that was the basis of the catch and release policies at the border. | ||
| Now he can proceed with that. | ||
| There were two judges dissenting. | ||
| Ketanji Brown-Jackson and Sotomayor lamented the devastating consequences that would face our country if President Trump were allowed to revoke these protections from deportations, but not a word from them or acknowledgement of the devastating consequences these parolees have wreaked on American communities, whether it's Trenda Aragua. | ||
| And their crimes or attacks on people in shelters or just the cost of sustaining this completely illegal parole problem. | ||
| It made no sense that one president could not undo an executive action of a prior one, especially one that was illegal. | ||
| So this is really good news. | ||
| I'm curious. | ||
| It seems like the left is getting intensely Tensely, almost at sort of an, I would say, escalatory rate, just apoplectic over what is going on, particularly on the immigration and deportation front, right? | ||
| You see them breaking into the ICE facilities, the protesters. | ||
| They're getting very agitated about it. | ||
| And it seems like it's because the court doesn't always have their back, right? | ||
| The decision that you were just talking about, right? | ||
| They feel the need to go. | ||
| And I think, Jessica, we're going to have to have you back because I think President Trump is coming out, so I think we're going to have to toss to him. | ||
| Or, you know, we're just going to keep the shot. | ||
| Real quick, just give us some of these other cases that are kind of in limbo, working their way through the court. | ||
| Do you think we're going to see similar decisions that will be positive for the Trump administration? | ||
| Or do you think they're going to sort of hamstring some of their decisions on the immigration front? | ||
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I think for the most part, these are going to be positive for immigration enforcement and the president's authority. | |
| And we have to remember to see it in that light that this is all an effort. | ||
| To restore presidential authority over foreign affairs and immigration policy, because there's no other way this can work for our country unless he gets that authority back. | ||
| And it was so abused under Biden to huge disastrous consequences for us. | ||
| So we need this to happen. | ||
| I think it will, for the most part. | ||
| I'm curious, too, in terms of the legal immigration front, everything that's been going on with the H-1B visas, a lot of the foreign student stuff, do you see any positive movement on that? | ||
| Or do you think that 120,000 number that I know our audience is very upset over, do you think that that's sort of set in stone? | ||
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No, I think we are almost certainly going to see... | |
| action against the abuse of not only guest worker programs, but also this absurd OPT program that has allowed like 300,000 people, former students to take jobs in the United States at a discounted rate. | ||
| I think all of these programs are going to be reviewed. | ||
| I think eventually Congress is going to have to step in as well, but we're going to also start to see the employers who discriminate against Americans openly be the subject of investigations from the Department of Justice. | ||
| And that's a huge win for American workers because people were ignoring them for so many years before. | ||
| I love the articles you put out. | ||
| They're very dense, but they're full of research that no one else wants to do. | ||
| Where can people go to stay up to date with your work and everything you guys are doing? | ||
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Everything we do is at CIS.org, including our sanctuary map, which has been updated today and is similar to the DHS map that came out today. | |
| And I'm on Twitter at JessicaV, at underline CIS.org. | ||
| Thank you, ma 'am, for joining us. | ||
| We'll have you back on soon, hopefully, to break more good immigration news. | ||
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I hope so. | |
| Again, I even think the term immigration is too cutesy, just like Steve always says deep state is, because it's a mass invasion of this country. | ||
| It's effectively kinetic warfare. | ||
| I would also add, it's quite interesting, as you guys know, it was buried in a very cool He does not identify as a conservative or Republican. | ||
| He identifies as a populist nationalist, as I'm sure you do too. | ||
| But they were talking about, buried in the piece, how 70% 70% of all hires for Silicon Valley-based tech firms are foreign-born. | ||
| And this was not per government data, and we'll get to the buried lead in a second, but this was based off of a recent study, I guess one of the most recent ones that they had compiled just through local or whatever accessible data they had. | ||
| But that's the real kicker, right, for a government that, you know, loves data and complex systems. | ||
| And, you know, they always like to have, you know, their fact-checked resources available. | ||
| They don't choose to gather the data on the foreign worker programs from just a... | ||
| They don't want to gather those numbers because they don't want us to be informed and understand the scope and magnitude of what these guest worker programs, which is code for the great replacement theory, replacing you, not just as an American citizen, but as an American worker. | ||
| It's absolutely asinine. | ||
| And frankly, you see it too, right? | ||
| And they're sort of weird data gathering when it comes to illegal aliens, illegal immigration, right? | ||
| As much as they love to talk about immigration and open borders, it's probably the most under-resourced in terms of data collection. | ||
| And frankly, it's all by design. | ||
| And last point on this, I believe the GAO, they put out their long report on Chinese ownership of farmland, which the Biden admin pointed to saying, oh, this is proof that China's not buying up farmland, despite the fact that we're opening the floodgates wide open, no pun intended for them to come and buy it, should they choose to come via spy balloon or, I guess, pick your poison. | ||
| and requesting. | ||
| They just said, we don't know how much farmland China owns, so therefore they don't own any farmland. | ||
| A bunch of liars. | ||
| Someone who's not a liar is President Trump and our next guest, which will be coming up after this short break. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
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We'll be right back. | |
| Welcome back to The War Room, where we are awaiting President Donald J. Trump speaking in Pennsylvania. | ||
| I think as we speak, he's getting a tour with some steelworkers. | ||
| I was lucky enough to interview, I think, some coal miners about a month ago at the White House. | ||
| Different things, but still. | ||
| Real masculinity that I guess the Democrats are wasting $20 million. | ||
| To understand, I guess if you want to understand all things economy, gold too, you've got to be checking out birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| Get the latest installment of the wonderful books that Steve writes with the team, Philip Patrick, give them a call. | ||
| They love to talk to you. | ||
| I've heard you guys love to talk to them as well. | ||
| I think we got Brian Glenn, like I said, we're also waiting for President Trump, but I wanted to have her on with the tragic passing of a very dear friend of the show, the community, really, I think, the country writ large, and that is none other than Bernie Carrick. | ||
| Jane, I know you knew him very well. | ||
| You had the honor of working closely with him, I think, through your time with Mayor Rudy Giuliani. | ||
| You also have a great piece up on warm.org. | ||
| I don't know if we'll have time to get to that, but maybe you can give us a little tease. | ||
| But I just would like to give you a few minutes. | ||
| Two minutes just to tell the audience about what a wonderful man the one and only Bernie Carrick was. | ||
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Yeah, so Bernie Carrick, America's police commissioner, he was the NYPD police commissioner during 9-11. | |
| And when I was working for Rudy, I had the honor of attending the 9-11 ceremony back in 2020. | ||
| And obviously with COVID, New York City, it was shut down and there was debates over whether the lights would shine, whether the names would be read by family members. | ||
| But the Tunnel to Towers Foundation stepped in and made sure that those lights did shine. | ||
| We made sure that the family members were able to read the names of their loved ones. | ||
| And Bernie Carrick and Mayor Giuliani were in attendance that day. | ||
| It was a beautiful, solemn day, as always. | ||
| And it was there that I learned about the Tunnel to Towers Foundation that was created in honor of FDNY Stephen Siller, who was off-duty during 9-11. | ||
| But when he saw what was going on, he strapped his gear on, ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and into the World Trade Center where he ultimately lost his life attempting to save others. | ||
| So today the Tunnel to Towers Foundation works to provide... | ||
| And for the past several years, I have run in the Tunnel to Towers annual 5K that's held in New York City to retrace the steps of firefighter Steven Siller. | ||
| It is an amazing event for anyone who wants to make the commitment to never forget, who loves this country, who loves New York City. | ||
| It's simply just beautiful and awe-inspiring. | ||
| War Room thought it would be a really great idea to honor Bernie Carrick in running in honor of him. | ||
| So right now, I don't know if Denver can display that link that I sent to Cameron, but we have a fundraising page set up at the Tunnel to Towers site so you can support the Tunnel to Towers mission. | ||
| You can sign up for the run. | ||
| You can run alongside myself and other War Room Posse members as we join the commitment to never forget and honor Bernie Carrick. | ||
| I was honored to, I think, go to their annual gala in New York with Rahim, a man of the gala scene, I think last year or two years ago, and it's really a wonderful organization. | ||
| Jane, I'll have you plug that one more time before you go, but just give the audience a little teaser since I think President Trump is getting a nice, long, extended tour, as I'm sure he wants all the details. | ||
| You have a new op-ed up on warm.org. | ||
| Real quick, give us the latest. | ||
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It's time to take doge. | |
| To the mass incarceration epidemic that is plaguing this country, President Trump this week has issued a slew of pardons, and with the newly appointed pardonsar, Alice Johnson, it's ramping up, and it's time to see a lot more action in the criminal justice arena. | ||
| What I call for in this piece is mass pardons for nonviolent drug offenses. | ||
| Currently in federal prisons, 45% of inmates are in there for nonviolent drug offenses. | ||
| And so this is a huge burden on the American taxpayer. | ||
| It costs on average $30,000 to $60,000 per year to house these inmates. | ||
| So if there were to be around 100,000 pardons for nonviolent drug offenders, you would save the American taxpayer around $3 to $6 billion per year. | ||
| here. | ||
| Quite the proposal. | ||
| I'm curious, why do you think letting... | ||
| Why do you think that's something that is particularly in Doja's lane? | ||
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Well, it was interesting. | |
| Savannah Chrisley put out a statement on X that said her pardon, the pardon for her parents that she worked with. | ||
| And since the 1970s, when the war on drugs started, incarceration has just simply skyrocketed. | ||
| In 1970, America only incarcerated around 200,000 individuals. | ||
| Now we incarcerate over 200,000. | ||
| So we do have a mass incarceration epidemic, and it's time to take out some of the rot and corruption from our prisons by letting people out who have proven to be rehabilitated or can live a life outside of prison walls. | ||
| Look, if it were up to me, I'd probably send more people to Seacott, but I digress. | ||
| Jane, in the meantime, one more time, hit us with where people can go to help honor Bernie Carrick's memory at the Tunnel to Towers run. | ||
| That's very brave of you to do that, and if people want to follow you, read the piece where they can go to do all that. | ||
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You can go to t2t.org, and you can follow me at Jane Zirkle on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Getter. | |
| Thank you, ma 'am, for joining us. | ||
| We will certainly have you back on soon. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| I think we have Brian Glenn and Ben Burquam. | ||
| It's a rab doubleheader. | ||
| Honored to be on with the two of them. | ||
| We're going to bring them on together. | ||
| Ben, I think President Trump is about to speak. | ||
| And Brian, I'm not even sure if you're on the ground there. | ||
| If you are, I'd love to get your thoughts sort of pre-gaming the speech. | ||
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Can you hear me okay, Natalie? | |
| Now I can, yes. | ||
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Wonderful, wonderful. | |
| Well, thanks for having me on. | ||
| I'm outside the swamp, unlike you. | ||
| I know you're right in the middle of D.C. Ben, you're there in Pennsylvania. | ||
| But I'm certainly enjoying watching the coverage as we have President Trump back in that very key state of Pennsylvania and celebrate the fact, Natalie, that manufacturing – And the people of Pennsylvania, a big part of their economy, a big part of the campaign agenda of bringing manufacturing back, keeping those jobs. | ||
| And today is a celebration of that. | ||
| And, Ben, I'm curious. | ||
| We're told by the media that Americans overwhelmingly don't support these tariffs. | ||
| But it seems like, it looks like, there you go, right on cue. | ||
| President Trump is walking out. | ||
| Denver, you let me know when you want me to shut up. | ||
| I'm sure the audience just wants to watch President Trump. | ||
| I don't blame them. | ||
| Thank you, Brian, for joining us. | ||
| And Ben, we will hit you after he speaks. | ||
| That is, of course, President Trump walking out on stage in Pennsylvania. | ||
| Speaking to a bunch of steelworkers and hardcore MAGA devotees. | ||
| We will continue warm after he is done speaking with some post-game analysis, so don't go anywhere. | ||
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From the lakes of Minnesota, to the hills of Tennessee, on the rocks and the rains of the sea, on the sea as I can see. | |
| From Detroit down to Houston, New York to LA, where there's pride in every American heart, and it's time we stand and sing. | ||
| Hey, how to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. | ||
| And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me. | ||
| And I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. | ||
| Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land. | ||
| God bless the USA. | ||
| God bless the USA. | ||
| And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. | ||
| And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me. | ||
| And I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. | ||
| Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land. | ||
| God bless the USA. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| What a group of people. | ||
| We love this group. | ||
| You voted for me. | ||
| They never had a chance in Pennsylvania. | ||
| They never even had a chance. | ||
| But I'm thrilled to be back in this beautiful Commonwealth at the legendary Mon Valley Works. | ||
| Irvin Plant. | ||
| Irvin Plant. | ||
| With the proud Pennsylvania patriots who are the heart and soul of U.S. Steel. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| Oh, you're going to be happy. | ||
| We are going to be happy. | ||
| There's a lot of money coming your way. | ||
| It's a lot of money. | ||
| You're going to say, please, sir, we don't want this kind of success. | ||
| It's too much, sir. | ||
| We can't take it. | ||
| Please, we beg you. | ||
| We don't want this much success. | ||
| But we do, really, don't we? | ||
| We're going to be so successful. | ||
| You have just started. | ||
| You're going to watch. | ||
| We're here today to celebrate a blockbuster agreement that will ensure the storied American company stays. | ||
| American company. | ||
| You're going to stay in American company. | ||
| You know that, right? | ||
| But we're going to have a great partner. | ||
| We're going to have a great partner. | ||
| And I have to tell you, Japan has been a tremendous friend of mine during my years as president. | ||
| And then we had a little hiatus. | ||
| We had a rigged election. | ||
| But then we won. | ||
| We said, let's make it too big to rig. | ||
| It made it too big to rig. | ||
| And this is a much more powerful term than we could have ever had the other way. | ||
| So a lot of things. | ||
| God was looking down on us all for a lot of reasons, including right there. | ||
| A lot of reasons. | ||
| We were blessed. | ||
| And you're going to be blessed. | ||
| You're going to see that. | ||
| It will keep its headquarters in the great city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where it belongs. | ||
| For generations, That's what it's going to be. | ||
| The best and strongest steel on earth will forever be made in America and made in Pennsylvania. | ||
| And I want to thank a man that I saw right at the beginning of this whole thing, during my first term, as we call it. | ||
| U.S. Steel President Dave Barrett. | ||
| Dave, thank you very much, wherever you may be. | ||
| Wherever you may be. | ||
| Thank you, Dave. | ||
| And he came to the White House and he said, sir, we're in trouble. | ||
| We need help. | ||
| He was put there to save the company, right? | ||
| I remember it so well, like yesterday. | ||
| He was put there. | ||
| They hired him to save the company. | ||
| And he came up and he said, we need help, sir. | ||
| I said, what can we do? | ||
| Because all the steel companies were going south. | ||
| They were all in trouble. | ||
| He said, if you could get tariffs, sir, and save this company. | ||
| And I thought about it. | ||
| I studied it up real quick. | ||
| It took me about two minutes. | ||
| And I said, Dave, I think we're going to make you very happy. | ||
| And we did make you happy, didn't we? | ||
| We saved the company. | ||
| We put 25% tariffs on your company. | ||
| So we had protection. | ||
| We were protected from outside horrible influence, including dumping, where they were dumping steel all over the United States. | ||
| And we saved it. | ||
| It was a great honor. | ||
| You did a good job. | ||
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You did a good job. | |
| He more than saved the company. | ||
| He made the company great. | ||
| This will be a great company in a very short period of time. | ||
| Also, the vice chairman of Nippon Steel, Takahiro Mori. | ||
| Takahiro, thank you very much. | ||
| Great guy. | ||
| Highly respected. | ||
| He's highly respected all over the world for what he's done with steel. | ||
| He's going to make this. | ||
| This is going to be his pet project. | ||
| It's going to be great. | ||
| Thank you, Takeho. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| We're also pleased to be joined by a man who's done a fantastic job. | ||
| He's central. | ||
| I always say he's central casting. | ||
| Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett. | ||
| Where is Scott? | ||
| Central casting. | ||
| Thanks, Scott. | ||
| We had a good report today. | ||
| I don't know if you saw. | ||
| The numbers were through the roof and there was no inflation. | ||
| And they said, you know, Trump was right again. | ||
| And we're all saying, oh, inflation, inflation. | ||
| We're taking in billions and billions of dollars and tariffs and other things. | ||
| And we're keeping our competitive nations. | ||
| We're keeping them. | ||
| They're competitors. | ||
| And we're keeping them totally at bay. | ||
| And we right now have the hottest nation. | ||
| Anywhere in the world. | ||
| And six months ago, we had a nation that was dying. | ||
| We had a nation that was cold as ice. | ||
| And now we have the hottest, most talked about nation anywhere in the world. | ||
| Anywhere. | ||
| Good job, Scott. | ||
| Also, Secretary of Labor, Laurie Chavez de Riemer. | ||
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Laurie, thank you very much. | |
| Highly recommended by the Teamsters and a couple of others, I have to tell you. | ||
| And I said, I'll take that. | ||
| I'll take that. | ||
| But she's been fantastic. | ||
| Also, we have some incredible congressmen and women. | ||
| Mike Kelly. | ||
| Where's Mike? | ||
| Mike. | ||
| Mike. | ||
| He's wearing a shirt today. | ||
| A lot of times he doesn't. | ||
| If it's cold, he doesn't wear a shirt. | ||
| Thank you, Mike. | ||
| Dan Muser, who I hear is going to maybe be running for governor. | ||
| That's what I hear. | ||
| I hear there's a rumor about that. | ||
| There's a rumor about that. | ||
| Another man, good luck with that, Dan. | ||
| I'll tell you, if that's your decision, you've got my support. | ||
| You know that, right? | ||
| If you run, you've got my support. | ||
| He's been a guy, don't you think? | ||
| He's been a great congressman. | ||
| He's been a great congressman. | ||
| And if you run, you have my support totally, and you'll win. | ||
| You'll win. | ||
| The people are going to get it real fast. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Good luck. | ||
| Guy Reschenthaler, who is a fantastic person with a very good friend of mine today, and I appreciate you coming together. | ||
| And Guy, thank you very much. | ||
| What a job you've done from the beginning, right? | ||
| We never had a problem from day one, you and I. Thank you very much, Guy. | ||
| Great job. | ||
| Mike Rulli. | ||
| You know Mike? | ||
| Where's Mike? | ||
| Mike? | ||
| Thank you, Mike. | ||
| Great job you're doing. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Really, really good. | ||
| And another friend of mine, a great hockey player, actually, Pete Stauber. | ||
| Pete, thank you. | ||
| What a great hockey player. | ||
| He was the real deal, right, Pete? | ||
| He'll even admit it. | ||
| He's going to admit it. | ||
| Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tem Kim Ward. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Good job, Kim. | ||
| Good job. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| A woman who's an incredible writer, actually. | ||
| She understands what they call the rust belt. | ||
| We won't be able to call this section a rust belt anymore. | ||
| It'll be a golden belt. | ||
| It'll be a golden dome, right? | ||
| It'll be part of a golden dome that we're building to save everybody's lives. | ||
| But this is a woman who's really fantastic. | ||
| She's a brilliant writer. | ||
| She just got signed up by, of all groups, the Washington Post. | ||
| That's big time. | ||
| Selena Zito. | ||
| Where is Selena? | ||
| She's around here. | ||
| Selena, thank you. | ||
| She understands you people and me better than we do. | ||
| She understands us and she got it right from the beginning with Trump, didn't you, Selena? | ||
| She said right early on, guess what? | ||
| He's going to win. | ||
| That was when people were saying, really? | ||
| Is he running? | ||
| He's only doing this for fun. | ||
| She said, no, he's going to win. | ||
| And I wouldn't say it's fun, but boy, are we doing progress, right? | ||
| We're making big progress. | ||
| So you have a couple of people here that I wanted to introduce because, you know, being a guy that's watched a lot of football, this man had tremendous courage. | ||
| He had a lot of grit. | ||
| And everybody knows he wasn't the largest person on the field at all, but he was in many ways the most courageous. | ||
| Rocky Blyer. | ||
| Rocky. | ||
| Come up here, Rocky. | ||
| Come up here. | ||
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Come up here, Rocky. | |
| He's such a great, great heart. | ||
| Come on up here, Rocky. | ||
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Wow. | |
| And two other people I want to bring up because I'm a fan of your Steelers. | ||
| And I happen to think a really good quarterback is a man named Mason Rudolph. | ||
| And I think he's going to get a big shot. | ||
| He's tall. | ||
| He's handsome. | ||
| Got a great arm. | ||
| And I have a feeling he's going to... | ||
| So, Mason Rudolph, come up here. | ||
| And also his safety, who's an absolute killer, Miles Killebrew. | ||
| Do you know Miles? | ||
| Come on up here, Miles. | ||
| Come on up here, fellas. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| Mr. President, on behalf of U.S. Steel and to the people of Pittsburgh, more importantly, though, to all the Steeler fans that are here this evening, I have the honor of making you an honorary Pittsburgh Steeler and would like to present to you your jersey. | ||
| as as With the number 47 as the 47th President of the United States, a number that hangs in the National Football League Hall of Fame, I'd like to present this to a Hall of Fame President. | ||
| Please accept it. | ||
| I'm honored to be here with a great Steeler legend like Rocky Blyer, somebody who fought for our country in Vietnam and came back and played some great football with the black and gold. | ||
| Awesome to be here as part of this big investment in Pittsburgh. | ||
| Go Steelers. | ||
| How about this president of ours, huh? | ||
| Just wanted to say God bless you, President Trump, and God bless you, Pittsburgh. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much, everybody. | ||
| It's a great group of people. | ||
| And he did have a lot of courage, didn't he? | ||
| Not that big. | ||
| I said, Rocky, I've had you up to here. | ||
| But boy, does he have a heart, right? | ||
| It's all about the heart. | ||
| Also, Senator Dave McCormick, who had a great election victory, and he sends his regards. | ||
| He's trying to get a certain bill through that's going to give you the largest tax cuts in history, and we got to get it done. | ||
| So thank you to Dave. | ||
| He's been great. | ||
| Perhaps most importantly, let me thank the tough, hardworking members of the United States Steelworkers Local 2227 and the United States Steelworkers Local. | ||
| 12, 19, and the United States Steelworkers, local 15, 57. You people are amazing, and look what you've been able to do. | ||
| Look what you've been able to do. | ||
| This is a big deal today. | ||
| This is a big deal. | ||
| You know, I have to tell you about Nippon. | ||
| They kept asking me over, and I kept rejecting it. | ||
| No way, no way, no way. | ||
| And after about four times, They really want it. | ||
| And they're putting up, you know, billions of dollars. | ||
| And they're going to do this plant and other plants. | ||
| And it's great. | ||
| And you're going to have control. | ||
| You're going to maintain control. | ||
| And nobody would put up money like that. | ||
| And every time, Dave, I think you'll say, every time they came in, the deal got better and better and better for the workers. | ||
| Because I didn't give a damn about anybody else, if you want to know the truth. | ||
| The rest of them, they'll take care of themselves. | ||
| But for the workers, and I have no doubt that Nippon and Dave and everybody else, we're all working together. | ||
| They're not going to be in Washington. | ||
| I'm going to be watching over it. | ||
| And it's going to be great. | ||
| But there's unbelievable spirit for what you're doing. | ||
| And I'm telling you, you're going to find out that the great people of Japan, and we love them, you know, Shinzo Abe was my friend. | ||
| He was a great prime minister of Japan. | ||
| And unfortunately, he's no longer with us. | ||
| You know what happened with Shinzo. | ||
| But he was a great friend of mine, an amazing man. | ||
| And it's an amazing country. | ||
| And you're going to have a tremendous relationship. | ||
| So thank you very much. | ||
| We very much appreciate it. | ||
| Very much appreciate it. | ||
| For more than 124 years the men and women of US steel have poured the molten metal and forged the tempered beams that 100 stories high and much higher than that. | ||
| The city of Pittsburgh used to produce more steel than most entire countries could produce. | ||
| And it wasn't even close, but our steel work is no better than anyone. | ||
| Decades of Washington betrayals and incompetence. | ||
| And stupidity and corruption cost this region over 100,000 steel jobs, and they melted away, just like butter melts away. | ||
| Between the year 2000 and 2016, more than half of all the jobs in Pittsburgh's iron and steel mills were obliterated. | ||
| They were just absolutely taken away. | ||
| Like, just taken away like you take away candy from a baby. | ||
| When I came into office eight years ago, I proclaimed a simple but crucially important principle. | ||
| If you don't have steel, you don't have a country. | ||
| You don't have a country. | ||
| You can't make a military. | ||
| What are we going to do? | ||
| Say, let's go to China to get our steel for the army tanks and for the boats and ships. | ||
| A strong steel industry is not just a matter of dignity or prosperity and pride. | ||
| It's above all. | ||
| and it is. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| You're going to see some amazing things here. | ||
| That's why I fought for the American steel worker like no president has ever fought before. | ||
| That's why I won your votes like no president has ever won before. | ||
| And right from the beginning, it didn't take long. | ||
| You got it right from the beginning. | ||
| I think before I even opened my mouth, because even as a Why do you let that happen, not only here, but all over the country? | ||
| In 2018, I imposed historic tariffs on foreign steel, and the results were amazing. | ||
| You wouldn't have this plant right now if I didn't put on 25% and 50% tariffs. | ||
| They were dumping steel, as you know, from China and from all over the world. | ||
| They were dumping it all over our country, dumping it. | ||
| And it was bad steel. | ||
| It was garbage. | ||
| But it was steel. | ||
| And it was cheap as hell. | ||
| And it was a terrible thing. | ||
| And you wouldn't have had any steel mills. | ||
| I don't think, Dave, they'd have a steel mill open in the country if we didn't do the tariffs. | ||
| And it was just in time. | ||
| It was just in time. | ||
| They were closing up as fast as you can count. | ||
| In a few short years, domestic steel production surged by more than 10 million tons. | ||
| Imports from your foreign competitors dropped by 24% almost immediately. | ||
| And more than $15 billion of investment poured into American steel throughout the United States, all because you had a president who stood up for our steelworkers and put America first. | ||
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I'm very proud of that one. | |
| Stood up for everyone else. | ||
| But then came four calamitous years of a president who obviously wasn't doing the job. | ||
| I'm trying to be nice. | ||
| You don't have to be nice. | ||
| But what he did to this country is a disgrace between the borders. | ||
| Millions and millions of people pouring through our borders from all countries all over the world. | ||
| They came from the jails of the Congo. | ||
| They came from all over South America. | ||
| Prisons, gangs, drug dealers, drug merchants. | ||
| They came from mental institutions, the mentally insane. | ||
| They were pouring into our country by the millions. | ||
| They allowed this to happen to our country. | ||
| But we're moving them out. | ||
| We're moving them out faster. | ||
| We're bringing them back to where they came from. | ||
| We're having a lot of problems with the liberal judges in courts, the radical left crazy judges. | ||
| That, you know, they come in without courts. | ||
| They pour into our country totally unvetted and unchecked. | ||
| Nobody checked them. | ||
| Nobody had any idea who they were. | ||
| 11,888 of them were murderers. | ||
| 50% of those over 11,000 people that were murderers. | ||
| 50% murdered more than one person. | ||
| And these people were allowed to come into our country by the Democrats. | ||
| You can never forget what they've done. | ||
| And it's a single. | ||
| We've beaten inflation. | ||
| Look at what we've done. | ||
| Look at the numbers that came out. | ||
| The prosperity. | ||
| Everything is good. | ||
| First time ever. | ||
| Right track, wrong track. | ||
| We're on a right track. | ||
| First time in 28 years. | ||
| But they allowed that to happen. | ||
| I built almost 700 miles of wall. | ||
| If we didn't have the wall, we could have never done what we did. | ||
| Over 700 miles. | ||
| But still, they came because they didn't want to finish. | ||
| They didn't want to close up any gap. | ||
| The gaps that we had to keep so that we could get our equipment out, so we could get through. | ||
| They didn't want to put up the final stages. | ||
| It would have taken three weeks to put up the final stages. | ||
| They said, no, we don't want the wall built. | ||
| And I thought they were kidding, but they weren't. | ||
| They wanted open borders, and what they let into our country can never be. | ||
| Forgotten. | ||
| The last administration granted tens of thousands of job-killing tariff exemptions to your foreign competitors. | ||
| So they were afraid to take down the tariffs that I imposed because it was so good for our country, so much money. |
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