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June 12, 2025 - Bannon's War Room

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Episode 4455: Ending The forever Wars In The Middle East

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dave brat

09:20

donald j trump

32:00

oubai shahbandar

06:35

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bradley thayer

01:20

mike rogers

03:18

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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
unidentified		Pray for our enemies.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Because we're going medieval on these people.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
unidentified		The people have had a belly full of it.
		I know you don't like hearing that.
		I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		It's going to happen.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼		And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
unidentified		Mega Media.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼		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?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
unidentified		War Room.
		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
		All right.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼		Back in the war room, Dave Brat sitting in, great Stephen K. Bannon.
		We're anticipating going to the White House.
		Trump's going to be blocking some absurd California rules which mandate no gasoline cars by 2035.
		In the meantime, I'll be hosting.
		We've got a great friend, national intelligence security expert weighing in in a minute.
		I just want to reiterate what Steve has been saying.
		Across the board.
		And what I want everyone to do is get your favorite clip from Steve Bannon, the most powerful hit that you love personally, and share that and share the platform and share the actual link you used with everyone out there.
		Steve doesn't like self-promoting.
		I like promoting Steve Bannon in the war room.
		You don't get this news.
		I looked at the head of New York Times today, Washington Post today, Financial Times today, nothing.
		They're not covering anything, Steve Bannon.
		Just covered.
		And I just want to reiterate, right, the Iran on the immigration 10 years ago.
		I think most of you know that.
		But immigration has been the key issue for a decade now.
		The left is saying, hey, this is disruptive.
		What Trump is doing is disruptive.
		The 10 million illegal aliens were not disruptive.
		Well, they are disruptive to your kid's school system, to the health care system, to your tax bills, to your pocketbook.
		What the left means when they say that is they're being disruptive to us now because Trump is taking action.
		And we have to keep taking action.
		And, you know, Steve just covered that in full.
		And then when it comes to the never wars, right, I'm getting a little nervous about the establishment globalist elites and what our insiders are doing and what information they're conveying to President Trump.
		Our intelligence services have failed for 30 years.
		They failed to identify the China threat.
		Now we're playing catch-up at the last minute, thanks only to President Trump.
		On Russia, they have misled us.
		Our intelligence services have intentionally misled us since 2014 when they were in on a coup d 'etat in Ukraine, of course.
		And Crimea was at stake, etc.
		And now last week, Ukraine bombed the Russian triad, right?
		No one knows this.
		The church, hello, church, synagogues, people who believe in peace, building a kingdom on earth, that's peace.
		It's not a good thing when the West, and it was the West, bombed the Russian nuclear delivery system, right?
		The Russian triad in five places.
		And now our intelligence services, who knew what, when did they know it?
		Either way, it's not a good look.
		And then finally, on Iran today, after the intelligence services have that record, are we to believe, right?
		I hope Israel's got their intelligence right.
		They probably do.
		But if Iran has a nuclear weapon and we don't know about it, or someone else has one that can go off on their say-so, It's a disaster.
		And China is the big issue right now in the world.
		We need to gather all forces and keep our eyes on one target.
		How we came to hate Russia so much is beyond me.
		After Gorbachev, go listen to Jeff Sachs.
		He's a Democrat on the left who's documented the history with Russia.
		Go check it all out.
		But most importantly, you're all in the choir.
		Share this platform.
		Share the War Room with everyone you know.
		This is the only place you're hearing this news, and it's tomorrow's news today, as they say.
		Right now, we got someone on who knows far more than I do.
		Ube Shabander, welcome to the War Room.
		Ube's going to bring us up to speed on, I think, what's going on around the world, intelligence, defense.
		Welcome to the show.
		Take it away.
		It's yours.
oubai shahbandar ▲ ● ▼		All right, well, look, we had an important phone call between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel earlier in the week, right?
		President Trump told the Prime Minister, hold up on any attacks on Iran's nuclear enrichment plant.
		Let's give my special envoy, Steve Whitcock, President Trump's special envoy, Steve Whitcock, some time in his ongoing negotiations, all right, with the Islamic Republic.
		Now, those talks are continuing in the Arabian Gulf, in the neutral country of Oman this weekend, but all indications suggest that the talks may be on the verge of collapsing.
		And that's why we saw this announcement in the past two days of all these American embassies in the Middle East, Baghdad, Bahrain, some other countries in the region.
		And Kuwait, which has a massive American military base, and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad being one of our largest in the world.
		It's essentially one big fortress surrounded by Iranian-backed militias.
		The announcement was that we're going to start evacuating non-essential personnel, and that seems to be a precautionary move in case the Iranians decide to retaliate, either through missiles or through their regional Shia terror network that they have operating in Iraq and covertly throughout other places in the Arabian Gulf against American assets, if Israel does choose to launch.
		enrichment plant.
		Now, another major development is that today the Iranians said that they reject the findings of the International Energy Atomic Agency, which essentially ruled earlier this week that the Iranians are not providing sufficient clarity on some of their undeclared, and that's
		And some of that enrichment underground could potentially lead to enriching uranium to a high enough level that it could be quickly converted into weapons grade that could then be outfitted on a forehead, on a missile.
		And that is Israel's red line.
		So the worry here is that we seem to be reaching...
		President Trump was very clear with Ayatollah Khamenei when he sent him the letter saying, hey, we can either have peace and a prosperous Iran, or it could lead to the other option, that other option potentially either being a military strike or green
		lighting, or at least providing a yellow light for a limited Israeli strike on some of those underground nuclear research and enrichment facilities in those two main sites in Iran, in Natanz and in Fordow.
		Fordow is deep in the mountain, very hard to reach.
		The Israelis think they have the necessary technology with those bunker busters that can go deep under the mountains.
		That site is also next to a wholly Iranian city called Qom, so that could lead to some other complications.
		And the region seem to be blinking here that we seem to be at a fork in the road.
		President Trump, of course, wanting diplomacy.
		Wanting diplomacy first.
		This ensures American security interests in the region.
		Steve Whitcoff is a very capable negotiator, but also President Trump being very clear with Khomeini.
		Hey, you only have two months.
		You're not going to string us along like Barack Obama.
		That deal just allowed Iran essentially freedom to develop its nuclear weapons capabilities underground and eventually within just about 10 years have be able to freely develop a nuclear bomb.
		Otherwise, you've got the Israelis.
		They're primed and ready.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, yeah, outstanding.
		A couple points here.
		The MAGA crowd and the voting base all voted for ending all the wars.
		President Trump ran very clearly on ending the wars.
		We know who's going to die.
		It's going to be the MAGA kids, the boys and girls from MAGA parents across the heartland, not the globalist elitist, right?
		They all go to the Ivy League schools.
		Their kids are shielded from all of this.
		So that's point number one on this.
		We do not want war.
		We want peace.
		And China, we have other bigger fish to fry.
		And you just raised a couple complexities of holy sites next to it.
		And you think we got riots in the streets right now.
		Wait till after, if that takes place.
		And so point number two is, I think President Trump and the US have plenty of throw weight to message to Israel, right?
		Let me know if I'm right on that or not.
		And then thirdly, our intelligence.
		Do we have it right?
		Do we have certainty that Iran does not have a bomb?
		And so if you can cover a couple of those just real quickly, we may be popping over to the White House in a minute, but if you can cover a few of those issues quickly.
oubai shahbandar ▲ ● ▼		Look, you're 100% right on all these points.
		Look, I was a former defense intelligence analyst.
		I was deployed to Iraq, to Afghanistan.
		I'd been in Syria.
		What were we doing in Iraq?
		What were we doing in Afghanistan?
		Absolute disaster as somebody who was there on the ground as a civilian supporting the military efforts and the intelligence efforts of the United States governments in the Middle East and in Central Asia.
		And so President Trump has it absolutely right.
		We need to get out of Syria.
		What are we doing in Iraq?
		Why are our forces still there?
		We are surrounded by Iran's proxies.
		We have to end the forever wars.
		And there is broad support, not just amongst the MAGA crowd, but amongst blue-collar Democrats.
		You know, what Obama was doing, what Biden was doing.
		There is a real strategic logic to President Trump's policy of America first and ending those forever wars in the Middle East as somebody who's personally experienced those wars on the ground and supporting the U.S. government and the intelligence community.
		Iran does not have a nuclear weapon.
		It does not have a nuclear bomb.
		But the threshold for the Israelis is a little bit at a different level than the American threshold on what we can accept of Iranian enrichment of their power.
		uranium stockpiles.
		The Israelis think right now that they've got a window, a window of opportunity because Iran doesn't have any air defense capability.
		The Israelis destroyed most of Iran's air defense missiles just a few months ago.
		So they want to strike first and hard before they believe that Iran can develop that enrichment capability in the future.
		So once you have uranium on a certain level, then you can quickly reach the The position where you can then build the bomb.
		But currently, the Iranians do not have that nuclear bomb, but we are really at a crossroads.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Uba, last question for you.
		I think we have Congressman White Rogers coming up, maybe Senator Rogers from Michigan.
		All political views are my own.
		But last question for you is perhaps the fundamental one.
		We live in a democratic republic.
		Last time I checked, we're supposed to be in on the decision making.
		Where is Congress?
		When I was in Congress in the conference with the 250 Republicans, we never brought up foreign policy, ever.
		I mean, it's like verboten, right, on purpose because no one wants to vote on the tough stuff.
		You throw it off to someone else.
		I do not like this.
		Congress is in charge of War Powers Act to go to war.
		I don't like this across the board on China, on the Ukraine.
		Congress has 100 blobules sitting in the middle that we're all in favor of.
		All of that business.
		And the American people are against that business.
		So that's a problem.
		And the Democrats are getting away with murder here, too.
		How are they the pro-war party all of a sudden?
		They're just a blank check for all these wars somehow without speaking up.
		And so can you explain that?
		We've got about a minute left.
		Where is Congress and the voice of the people?
oubai shahbandar ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I mean, the tables really have turned.
		I mean, I'm old enough to remember when Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, with very few exceptions, just gave George Bush a blank check to invade the Middle East, and that led to ISIS.
		And that led to Iran also expanding its power throughout the Middle East, completely opposite of American national security interests.
		You need that oversight.
		And now the tables have turned, where President Trump and conservative MAGA Republicans have become the party for peace.
		And as somebody who served on the ground with other fellow Americans, that is so important.
		Because like what you said, at the end of the day, it is your average American who has been either working in the Middle East, has been deploying with the armed forces.
		That is going to be the target of Iranian retaliation.
		Now, we've got the most powerful military in the world.
		If the Iranians launch missiles at our forces and our embassies, you can expect retaliation.
		Don't forget, it was President Trump that killed Qasem Soleimani, Iran's most capable general.
		But yeah, there's no doubt you need absolute oversight.
		The Iraq invasion.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼		Awesome.
		Ubat, I like the way you message, brother.
		You just get right to the point.
		You actually answer questions.
		You inform the War Room audience.
		Hey, audience, share his talking points right there.
		That was very clear and crisp.
		We just covered the world in about 10 minutes.
		Share that with everyone you know.
		Your churches, your synagogues, they need to know what's going on in the world.
		Stay tuned.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
unidentified		We'll be right back.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼		Back in the War Room, sitting in with the great Stephen K. Bannon.
		We're honored to be joined by former Congressman Mike Rogers from Michigan, soon to be in higher, higher office.
		All political views are my own.
		But I think Mike is here to talk to us about Chinese infiltration in our university system.
		On the War Room, we don't offer opinions and conjecture.
		We offer the receipts and evidence.
		And so, Congressman Mike, thanks for being with us today, and the floor is yours.
		Let us know what you found.
mike rogers ▲ ● ▼		Hey, thanks so much, and thanks for having me.
		Listen, really interesting.
		University of Michigan had a problem last year.
		We found five Chinese nationals attending the University of Michigan who went up to Camp Grayling in the north of Michigan and were caught surveilling activities on the base.
		Why was that important?
		Because the U.S. was training Taiwanese soldiers how to defend themselves against the Chinese Communist Party.
		And so, big problem number one.
		Number two, we had a Chinese student who was a national admitted that he voted in the election and got away with it and got on an airplane last year and flew back to China.
		And the darndest thing is the law actually counts that vote because you can't separate it out, which is crazy.
		Lastly, and more seriously, We had a case here in Michigan.
		It's happened the second set of arrests over the last couple of weeks where students, so-called students, were bringing in biotoxins to go after American crops, wheat, barley.
		So it would kill those crops.
		It would infect those crops.
		So certainly hurting the U.S. economy, number one.
		Number two, certainly hurting our food supply and the health and safety of Americans.
		And we're seeing a pattern here develop.
		That's what the problem is, and that's what's so concerning.
		The University of Michigan is just one place that does this kind of research, and we've had two cases.
		In one particular case, the public reporting shows that the person said that they've done it four times into the state.
		Now, we don't know what happens to that material.
		We don't know how they're using it.
		But clearly they had expressions of hurting the U.S. economy.
		If that is an act of terror, I don't know what is.
		And so think of this.
		One university, we catch it.
		There are hundreds of universities that have Chinese students who are trying to get into sensitive areas of research.
		We have to do something about this.
		We cannot allow them to do it to us absolutely watching and supervising it as they do.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well, the left has a well-orchestrated assault across the board.
		It's analogous to the immigration issue.
		You know, we believe everyone's created the image of God, but we've got major wars going on in our inner cities now, and it's a problem of extraction.
		You know, what do you wait until someone blows up cars before you solve the problem?
		And similarly, in the university system with the Chinese students, I believe they've signed a document that says they will be loyal to the CCP and report intelligence across the board to be in the U.S. And so I'm personally not in favor of solving this problem by just waiting until we find these terrible intelligence failures on the part of the U.S. for not catching in the first place.
		And I think we've got Bradley Thayer joining us.
		But if you want to respond to that, Mike, and then Bradley, if you want to come on in after that.
		Go ahead, Mike.
mike rogers ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, and think about this.
		The Chinese changed their constitution a few years back that said, if the national security approaches you, Mr. Chinese citizen or Ms. Chinese citizen, you must cooperate.
		You have to give all your documents, all your digital connections.
		So if you're a student at University of Michigan, you go back home and the National Security Service comes to you and says, we want you to do this, even if you're not a trained intelligence agent.
		You have to do this.
		You have to give them the information which they ask for.
		I mean, that just introduces a huge risk for any Chinese student that's doing very sensitive research here.
		Listen, I don't mind if a Chinese student comes here and gets a great education on Elizabethan literature.
		Don't care.
		Great, great.
		And they get exposed to America when they go home.
		They can say nice things.
		But when you allow these students access to very sensitive things and potentially having access To lab work that could cause problems.
		And by the way, I'm sure you don't find the consequences.
		They came out of Wuhan University.
		What did Wuhan do for us in 2020?
		I mean, if you start looking at the logic of this, you start going, OK, this is a problem we've got to get ahead of.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, no, that's right.
		And Bradley Thayer with us now, too.
		This is Michigan.
		And Steve Bannon, you know, makes the plane calls years ahead of time.
		He calls them the public IVs.
		So we got problems here, Madison.
		Harvard's in the books all over the place, right?
		The Kennedy School's having all sorts of linkages and problems, training programs.
		Bradley, how serious is this infiltration of the CCP into our intelligence, into our government administration, into our universities in particular today?
		Bradley, go ahead.
bradley thayer ▲ ● ▼		Well, Dave, great to join you again.
		It's such a significant problem, as Congressman Rogers identified, that this is something that has to be addressed.
		The Trump administration is.
		The congressman mentioned, of course, the national security law.
		There are other laws that the Chinese Communist Party has imposed on businesses in China, for example, cybersecurity laws and others.
		DHS published in 2020 under Acting Secretary Wolf, Chad Wolf, a statement, a warning to U.S. corporations, to U.S. businesses and U.S. entities, So, Dave, that's five years ago now, warning them that any interaction with a Chinese entity might lead to the compromise of your data and almost certainly is going to.
		So, it's a very significant problem.
		You may see, of course, also 23andMe, if you know that, Dave.
		That's a genome.
		They'll take your genetic data and they'll share it with China, of course, because it's a PRC entity at the end of the day.
		That's another vulnerability, where essentially they're capturing your genetic information and sharing it.
dave brat ▲ ● ▼		Hey, Bradley!
		Sorry to cut you off mid-sentence, brother.
		Mike, thanks for being with us.
		Congressman, we're pitching over to the White House right now.
		President Trump's coming in to write over some misaligned California policy.
		Let's go to President Trump at the White House.
unidentified		Thank you.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Well, thank you very much.
		I just said to Mike, this is fantastic.
		I didn't think we were going to see this coming for a while.
		Congratulations.
		This is a very, very important thing.
		Thank you very much, everybody.
		This is a very important thing we're going to be discussing.
		Please sit down.
		Thank you very much.
		This is good news indeed.
		People said it couldn't be done.
		You got it done, I just have to sign, right?
		That's very good.
		This is really something.
		And it has to do with the California Auto Regulation, CR.
		A. It's been a disaster for this country.
		And I want to thank everybody for being here.
		We officially rescue the U.S. auto industry from destruction by terminating the California electric vehicle mandate once and for all.
unidentified		Thank you.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		They said it couldn't be done.
		But, boy, it's had us tied up in knots for years.
		And they'd pass these crazy rules in California, and it would be 17 states would go by them.
		The automakers didn't know what to do because they're really building cars for two countries.
		When you have 17 states, you're building cars for two countries.
		And I want to congratulate you all.
		The Senate, the House, the whole thing.
		It's incredible.
		I was going to sign an executive order and give it a shot.
		But the one good thing with this, number one, it holds up forever.
		And number two, unless somebody votes it out, they'll never do that.
		And it's just so much better, huh?
		So much better.
		That's so great.
		Very proud of you.
		We're joined today by the great Speaker of the House.
		I think he's going to go down as a great Speaker of the House, too.
		I may be wrong.
		I may be wrong.
		Who knows?
		Who the hell knows?
		I think he is.
		And he's doing something.
		The only thing I would say is more important than this one.
		And I'll tell you what, it's almost close.
		That's how big this is today.
		But the great, big, beautiful...
		I did the word great.
		You know, I used the word the great, big, beautiful bill.
		It's going to be I think it's one of the most important pieces of legislation ever signed, ever approved.
		So it's going to be something very special.
		Thank you very much.
		Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, thank you.
		Secretary Sean Duffy.
		And they had a problem in India today.
		Sean's doing a tremendous job.
		Secretary Chris Wright, everybody said you'd never be able to get him.
		He's the most talented man, they say, in the oil and gas industry.
		I'll let you know in about two years if that's true.
unidentified		Thank you.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Well, Doug Burgum, you know, I wanted Doug Burgum to head up energy because he was so successful in North Dakota.
		He's governor.
		And he said, sir, there's one person who's much better than me.
		I said, who?
		They said, Chris Wright.
		I said, who the hell is Chris Wright?
		I had no idea.
		Now everyone knows Chris Wright.
		He's going to be more famous than me.
		But he said, there's a guy named Chris Wright, and if we could get him, he'd be better than I am, sir.
		And if you know Doug, Doug's not here, is he?
		If you knew Doug, he's always working someplace.
		But if you knew Doug, you'd know that he doesn't say that often.
		And he did.
		And Chris, you're doing great.
		But I don't like it.
		The oil prices have gone up just a little bit over the last few days.
		I was going to call it.
		Are we okay?
		Nothing wrong, right?
unidentified		It's going to keep going down a little bit, right?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Because we have inflation under control perfectly.
		You probably saw the records.
		Everyone's on television saying, what's going on here?
		Trump has proven to be right.
		You know, all of these things.
		We've taken $88 billion in tariffs in two months.
		$88 billion with no inflation.
		And if we're smart, they won't be.
		Now, we'd like to get this guy to lower interest rates because, you know, if he doesn't, we have to pay.
		We have a lot of short-term debt.
		Obama gave it to us originally, and Biden carried it on.
		They like short-term.
		I like long-term cheap debt.
		But a lot of the debt comes through, because Biden, that's what...
		I'm sure he didn't know anything about it.
		But somebody approved.
		Short-term debt.
		It's all over the place.
		And it comes due starting very soon.
		And if we would lower the interest rates by one point, we'd pay about one point less.
		That's $300 billion a year.
		Can you believe it?
		One point.
		If we'd lower it by two points, we'd pay $600 billion a year less.
		That's for years.
		10 years, 12 years, whatever we make it.
		But we can't get this guy to do it.
		And the fake news is saying, oh, if you fired him, it would be so bad.
		It would be so bad.
		I don't know why it would be so bad, but I'm not going to fire him.
		I just want him to, you know, we call him too late, right?
		Too late is his nickname, like Too Tall Jones.
		He was too tall, T-O-O.
		And I just say this because we want to get rid of inflation, and we have.
		But we're going to be paying more for debt.
		And all he has to do is lower it.
		Europe's done ten lowerings.
		We've done none.
		And nobody understands it.
		Actually, today, when the numbers came out, they were so good.
		You saw yesterday's numbers.
		Incredible.
		No inflation.
		Today's numbers.
		Today just came out.
		Same thing.
		No inflation.
		They're all shocked.
		All these guys are watching from business, CNBC.
		And all of these different networks.
		Maria Bartiroma actually got it right.
		She's been getting it right for a long time, that one.
		I hope she's appreciated.
		And Joe Kiernan's been very good at CNBC, I must tell you, but other people aren't so good.
		But I will say that they can't believe what's happening.
		But if I could, because we can discuss, oh, we've got a lot of press, we've got a lot of cameras rolling right now.
		Not that I like doing it, because I don't.
		If we cut our interest by one point for years, we save $300 billion.
		If we cut it by two points, we save, because it's pretty equivalent, we're going to save, we're going to spend $600 billion a year, $600 billion, because of one numbskull that sits here.
		I don't see enough raisin to cut the rates now.
		And the problem he's got is that And I explained to him, look, if inflation went up, cut your rates now.
		There's no inflation.
		We got it down.
		We got prices down.
	We got gasoline down.
	And you'll keep it going down and put gasolines down.
	We'll drill, you know, it's drill baby drill.
	That's why it's going down.
	But we're all that.
	But think of it.
	I said to him, he was in my office a couple of days ago.
	I said, if you Think there's inflation.
	Let's find out.
	Because I think we're going to keep it down.
	I think gasoline is going to be so far down.
	Oil, energy, we have so much energy, we don't know what to do with it.
	But let's say there was inflation in a year from now.
	Raise your rates.
	I don't mind.
	Raise your rates.
	I'm all for it.
	I'll be calling you.
	He'll be too late for that, too.
	But raise your rates.
	You don't have to keep them up here.
	If it's going to go up, And we're going out to financing.
	And I may have to force something.
	Somebody said, who's the genius that thought of that?
	I said, it's me.
	Unlike Biden, I stay awake at night thinking about how to save our country.
	He was much better at sleeping than me.
	He could sleep on a beach.
	He could sleep on a beach with cameras rolling.
	I can't do that.
	But I had an idea.
	I gave it.
	They said, this is really...
	Let this guy get out of office.
	Somebody will come in, cut it a couple of points, and we'll save ourselves seven, eight, maybe even $900 billion a year.
	What is he doing?
	Why doesn't he allow these rights?
	And with that, we'll get on to the California standard, which is a disaster.
	Okay?
	So, Chris Wright, you're going to get the numbers down.
	Thank you very much.
	Lee Zeldin, one of the most important men in this room.
	He's the man.
	I get nervous when I talk to him.
	He's doing a great job.
	Nuclear, I say, okay, you can take two weeks for that approval.
	It used to take 20 years, then they wouldn't approve it.
	Now I say, Lee, nuclear, I'll give you two weeks for approval.
	A coal-fired plant.
	You only get a couple of days, and oil and gas will give you a week, okay?
	Something like that.
	But he's doing it so fast, and we have so many plants being built right now, it's so beautiful to see.
	And one of the reasons they're coming here is because they have to produce tremendous, especially the AI, they have to produce beyond believable amounts of electricity.
	And I said to them, I think this was more or less my idea.
	They didn't have the idea only because they didn't think a thing like this was possible.
	I said, as you build your plant, you're going to become a utility.
	And you're going to build a separate plant right alongside of it.
	You're going to build it.
	You're going to build a plant that produces electricity.
	And you'll produce it through natural gas, coal, nuclear.
	We don't want to produce it through wind because we don't feel like ruining 50 miles of beautiful plains and beautiful vistas.
	But we want to produce it.
	interestingly, China is opening up a coal plant every single week.
	But now I'm finding out it might be two plants every single week.
	And you know, usually that's a good gauge if they're using coal.
	I guess we're supposed to use coal.
	And you know, we went to a coal standard.
	Not that you have to use coal.
	You're going to use whatever's best.
	I want to introduce also Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, who's a tremendous guy, doctor.
unidentified		Okay.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		And he's He is a tremendous guy, a tremendously talented doctor.
		When I have a medical situation for the country, for myself, I haven't used him, but I might have to.
		Maybe I'll do that.
		If it's serious enough, I think I'd probably do that.
		But he's a tremendously talented gentleman who happens to be a senator and one that's very respected.
		Chairwoman Shelley Moore Capito, and congratulations.
		I just endorsed your son.
		Did you know that?
unidentified		I endorse your son.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I endorse your son, who's running in West Virginia, and he's great.
		In fact, he's all Trump all the time.
		I think much more so than you, actually.
		You were his largest impediment.
		No, I'm only kidding.
		He's all Trump all the time, and he's going to win big, and so congratulate him.
		Okay, he's really been fantastic.
		So many people have told me.
		Thank you.
		and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who's a brave man.
unidentified		He went through hell.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		We have a lot of other people here that I won't be able to because they don't have your name down, and I see people's names.
		I'll do a couple of you, but thanks as well to Mark Wayne Mullen, Senator.
		Mark Wayne, thank you.
		Stand up, Mark Wayne.
		Don't fight him.
		He's a serious fighter in a lot of ways, and he's a great guy, too.
		Thank you, Mark Wayne.
		Deb Fischer.
		Deb?
		Thank you, Deb.
		Pete Ricketts, who's going to do very well in the upcoming election.
		Thank you.
		Thank you, Pete.
		John Husted, who's really moving along in Ohio.
		John, good luck.
		You're going to do well.
		All endorsed people.
		John Curtis, who's doing terrifically.
		John, thank you.
		Good job.
		They all say excellent.
unidentified		What can I tell you?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Good job.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		And Bernie Marino, who won a race that was not winnable.
unidentified		They all said it's not winnable.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		He won in Ohio.
		They said you can't win that race.
		It's a waste of time.
		You're just wasting your time.
		Right, Bernie?
		It wasn't a waste of time, was it?
		And he won by like five points, too.
		Won by a lot.
		Along with representatives Kevin Kiley, Vince Fong, Jay Obernolte, Doug LaMaffa, Darrell Issa Wisda.
		I haven't seen you in such a long time.
		Look at you.
unidentified		How good you look, huh?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Good when you have those big margins.
		It's easier.
		John Joyce.
		Great guy.
		John, thank you.
		Thank you, John.
		Dusty Johnson.
		Morgan Griffith, Troy Balderson, Troy from a place called Ohio, and he played very cute at one time, but then he got, boy, I tell you, he's become a good politician.
		Where is Troy now?
		Where I haven't seen him used for years.
		I endorsed you early when he was early and younger, but you still look young, and you've done fantastically.
		Good work.
		Really good work.
		Claudia Tenney, New York.
		Claudia.
		Thank you, Claudia.
		John James.
		John James.
		I don't know.
		You know, he's running for governor, but I'm not sure I'm happy about that, John.
		Do we have somebody good to take your seat?
		Because otherwise we're not letting him run for governor.
		You have somebody good, right?
		Okay.
		As long as you like him, they'll win.
		Tracy Mann.
		Tracy, thank you very much.
		Thank you very much.
		Appreciate it.
		Michael Baumgartner.
		Michael.
		Thank you, Michael.
		Good.
		Good job.
		David Rauser.
		Rauser.
		Thank you.
		Glenn Grothman.
		Hi, Glenn.
		Thank you very much, Glenn.
		Brett Guthrie.
		Brett.
		Thank you, Brett.
		Rudy Yakum.
		Thank you.
		Thank you, Rudy.
		And I want to thank you all.
		There's some additional people in the room, but we have to get back to it.
		This is, like, so big.
		This is a big one.
		Under the previous administration, the previous administration, I could go point after point everything they did.
		Open borders, men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody, everybody.
		Let's go transgender.
		What a group of people you had over there.
		They must have hated our country.
		Under the previous administration, the federal government gave left-wing radicals in California dictatorial powers to control the future of the entire car industry all over the country, all over the world, actually.
		Because they have to build a car.
		They can't build 19 different cars called the same thing.
		And really it was all over the world what was happening.
		They approved Think of this.
		You couldn't buy any other car except an electric-powered car.
		And in California, they have blackouts and brownouts.
		They don't have enough electricity right now to do the job.
		And countrywide, you'd have to spend $4 trillion to build the Firing plants to build, to be able to, they go to firing, they call them a lot of things, charging plants, firing plants.
	$4 trillion you'd have to spend.
	In the Midwest, they built nine of them.
	Nine individuals, it's like a pump, just like a pump, except instead of gas, electricity comes out.
	They spent, actually they built eight of them, $9 billion they spent.
	For eight.
	Eight little hoses.
	Nine billion dollars.
	Now, I'm sure they could have done it for about, you know, one thousandth of that, but even if they did, it's unaffordable.
	They approved Governor Gavin's ridiculousness.
	So ridiculous.
	By the way, you would if I didn't bring the military in, I would They have so much water.
	We had to send in the military to free up the water.
	And we did that right after the fires.
	We told them to do it in the first term.
	But just like that ridiculous plan, this is a plan to ban, think of it a plan to ban 100, and they call it the 100% ban.
	On all new gas-powered cars and abolish 75% of the gas-powered trucks.
	75%.
	The trucking industry saw me.
	They said, sir, it doesn't work.
	Number one, the trucks are so heavy.
	They're two and a half times heavier than a diesel-powered truck.
	So one of the big truckers, 28,000 trucks, big company, tremendous company.
	He said, I go out of business immediately.
	Like, the truck weighs two and a half times more, two and a half times more than a regular truck, a gasoline-powered diesel.
	And he said, based on that, we have to rebuild every bridge in the United States of America because it wasn't designed to hold cars and trucks that heavy because the batteries are very heavy.
	They're, you know, probably lead.
	They have a lot of things in those batteries that weigh a lot.
	But it's two and a half times.
	It's a simple number, two and a half times.
	And if you want to do this, you have to spend trillions and trillions of dollars on rebuilding every bridge in the United States, and I guess throughout the world, because they do follow us.
	And the big rig buses and even cement trucks, they want to abolish certain categories of truck.
	But they want to go 75% of all of these trucks have to be abolished almost immediately.
	I mean, the time is just crazy.
	And they don't go far.
	Another little problem.
	With a tank of diesel, you can go from New York to Los Angeles, if you want to go to Los Angeles right now.
	But New York to Los Angeles, and you can go back a little bit.
	With the electric truck, you'll stop approximately six times.
	Enjoy your stop.
	And the trucker saw me, and I said, did you just explain this?
	Because this is like, you know, if you explain it, if a person's reasonable for that, they said, we explained it, they didn't care.
	They said, we're going all electric.
	They can't be stupid because anybody that can cheat on elections like them is not a stupid person.
	But they must hate our country.
	But I said to this big trucker, he said, sir, I've been buying trucks my whole damn life.
	He's a rough guy, smart guy.
	He said, I got thousands of them.
	I've been buying them for 50 years.
	And every single year they got better.
	They got more efficient.
	They got bigger.
	They got stronger.
	I build apartments in my trucks now for the drivers.
	I said, what's an apartment?
	That's on the cab.
	They put this in.
	And, sir, I know you like luxury, but you wouldn't mind living in one of these.
	I said, maybe I would, maybe I wouldn't.
	I mean, it doesn't sound too appealing, but I said, so what's the problem?
	He said, so I noticed one thing.
	For 50 years, every single year, one thing happened.
	They got better.
	They got stronger.
	They got more efficient.
	They got faster.
	They could carry any load.
	If we went to this standard, we'd go back beyond 50 years.
	They wouldn't go as far as a truck from 50 years ago.
	It would be too heavy and have all the other problems.
	He said, we'd be going backwards.
	We'd be taking a trucking industry.
	And I think that's a good thing.
	I don't know if it's a good thing.
	This was before the election.
	He said, you don't win the election.
	I'm going to close up my business because I'm not going to lose my...
	I know exactly what's gonna happen.
	It's gonna be a catastrophe.
	It's the craziest thing I've ever heard.
	They're making you buy stuff that doesn't work.
	It's no good.
	It doesn't work.
	And I'm all for electric.
	If you want to buy electric, you can buy electric.
	Cars are great.
	If you buy the right ones, your cars are great.
	And you should be given the option, buy the electric car, buy a gasoline-powered car, buy a hybrid.
	Probably not hydrogen, because hydrogen has a tendency that when it blows up, you're gonzo.
	It's over.
	They find you 75 yards down the road, you know.
	Where is he?
	Well, I think that's him, but I'm not sure.
	So, you know.
	They said, we think we can solve the problem.
	I said, that's not good enough when they think.
	No, it sounds like it's quite severe.
	If it doesn't work, Steve, it'll work most of the time, but if it doesn't, it's over.
	It'll make your accident look like peanuts compared.
	You wouldn't be around, I'll tell you, because it's pretty...
	I don't know.
	Let's see what happens.
	I would say it's off to a bad start.
	But because of the size of California's population and the fact that 17 other states follow California, that's the problem.
	17 other states follow California.
	They have the most ridiculous laws I've ever seen for a lot of things.
	This is just cars.
	And trucks.
	They have a lot of them for other things, but we have It's called the California car standards and this Like, so far, I'd say about 90%.
	In fact, General Motors announced yesterday they're going to spend about $6 billion because of tariffs and maybe because of my election on November 5th.
	But because of tariffs, I think, more than anything, they're all coming back.
	They're coming back from other countries that took them 25, 30 years ago.
	They're all coming back.
	We have now almost $15 trillion.
	They had almost nothing last year, and the year before, very little.
	Nobody wanted to be back here.
	Nobody wanted to come to our country anymore because we were like stupid people.
	We looked like stupid people.
	We were laughed at all over the world.
	Now we're not laughed at anymore, I can tell you that.
	But they wanted to shatter our domestic supply chains and literally grind civilization to a halt.
	We would have gone so far back.
	It's hard to believe, actually.
	Hard to believe when you don't have enough electricity to give a person a little air conditioning in the summer, and now they want you to take electricity and fire up all these cars.
	But we're not going to let that happen.
	Meanwhile, all of the auto jobs would be shipped to China because they're very strong on electric.
	It lives off an estimated 200,000 American autoworkers would be destroyed.
	It's one of the reasons I did so well with the United Autoworkers.
	And now I'm really doing well with them.
	I did phenomenally with them.
	No Republican ever got any numbers like that.
	I got in the Teamsters, too.
	Sean O 'Brien, the head of the Teamsters.
	These guys, they like Trump because I produce jobs.
	They know that.
	Everybody knew that the other workers knew better than anybody how good the tariffs were and they had I don't know him at all.
	But he didn't like me at all.
	Now he's going around saying, this guy's unbelievable.
	HE WAS VERY NICE TO ME THE LAST FEW MONTHS.
	DURING THE CAMPAIGN, NO, BUT IF I've done what I said I was going to do, and we've brought back tremendous numbers of jobs.
	And you're having auto plans built all over the country.
	All over.
	They've never seen anything like that.
	They're leaving from Mexico.
	They're leaving from Canada.
	They're leaving from other parts of the world.
	If they want a Mercedes-Benz, you're going to have it made here.
	It's okay to have a Mercedes, but they're going to make it here.
	Otherwise, they're going to pay a very big tariff.
	They already are.
	That's one of the reasons we have $88 million.
	It's a lot of money.
	But that's peanuts compared to what we're going to be making in another few months.
	They haven't even kicked in yet.
	But we're not going to...
	I think these people are either corrupt or really dumb.
	And they're supposed to be economists.
	And the campaign, I promise, to end this disaster.
	And today, our Republican majorities in Congress have delivered.
	And I don't know.
	I can't imagine.
	It's so obvious.
	It's so good.
	Did we get any Democrat votes?
	Did we get one?
	Two?
	Who?
	35?
	I think that's great.
	You know, I think that's great.
	You've got 35 Democrats.
	I think that's great.
	As far as I'm concerned.
	One in the Senate.
	On something that's so good.
	But who was the one?
unidentified		Well?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		I congratulate her.
		I don't care.
		I think it's great.
		It's very interesting.
		Why did I ask that question, Mr. Smith?
		But in a few moments, I'll sign three pieces of legislation that will kill.
		Totally killed.
		You can't do anything about it.
		They can't take us to court.
		They can't do any of the things they can do with the executive orders.
		And it's permanent.
		I'll sign three pieces of legislation that will kill.
		The California mandates forever, and they're never coming back.
		Now the auto companies are the most happy, because now they're going to be designing and building one auto.
		It will be much cheaper.
		It's much less expensive.
		They were showing me, one of the most respected people, was showing me that to save a little, like a half a glass of fuel...
		The engine has to stop and then turn on and blah, blah, blah.
		And I said, does it work as well?
		No, it's terrible.
		It's terrible.
		And that's to save a little bit of fuel, this much fuel, that Chris Wright can produce with one extra little oil well someplace, right?
		One little, a small one, a very small one.
		But think of it.
		Your cars are going to cost you $3,000, $4,000 less, and you're going to have what you want.
		And again, you can get any car you want.
		You can get electric.
		A lot of people love the electric.
		They like Tesla.
		So do I, in all fairness.
		I like Tesla.
		And I like others, too.
		But I also like combustion engines.
		And, you know, there are reasons for a lot of things.
		When I was in Iowa, we had an unbelievable victory, if you remember.
unidentified		Remember?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		That was nice.
		You won by like so much nobody I said, what happened?
		They were electric cars, and they don't work in cold.
		I said, I didn't know that.
		And they don't work in extreme heat either.
		Other than that, they're wonderful.
		But they're electric cars, and I noticed that, and then I didn't pay much attention because we won by about 65 points.
		So I was more interested in that.
		But I do remember that scene.
		I said, what the hell is going on over here?
		This historic action will also help us reduce inflation and bring down the price of automobiles and electricity very, very substantially.
		You know, we're building massive electricity right now.
		It's already started because of that guy right there, Lee.
		Zeldin, by far the most important man in the room, Mr. Speaker.
unidentified		Stand up, Lee.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		He blows you guys away, John.
		He blows the politicians away.
		I'm sorry right now.
		Actually, he's a great politician.
		He almost won for governor in New York, which is just missed by a few points.
		And that was another race that was not winnable.
		You almost got it.
		But I think what you're doing now is even bigger if you want to know the truth.
		I think it's actually more important if you can believe that.
		Under the previous regime, car prices skyrocketed as a direct result of the mandates.
		These mandates, this nonsense that you had to do, and they have so many other rules and regulations that the car companies who are here today appreciate that.
		And Susie Wiles is here today.
		Stand up, Susie.
		Most incredible woman.
		Most powerful woman in the world, they say.
		She was rated the most powerful woman in the world, Susie Wells.
		One phone call and a nation is destroyed.
		She could destroy five nations with five calls.
		And she's doing a great job.
		More importantly, right?
		Doing a great job.
unidentified		Nobody likes it.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Energy prices would likewise soar as a Radical left forced more electric vehicles onto the grid while blocking approvals for new power plants.
		They want to block the approvals.
		They want you to have a car with electric, but they block the production of the juice that runs the cars.
		All of them, all forms of cars.
		It's just the craziest thing.
		We're in a different sphere now.
		We're on a whole different planet right now.
		The result would be rolling black You couldn't do it.
		You couldn't even do it.
		Think of it.
		They're forcing you to do something.
		And they want you to do boats also.
		I assume boats are being covered by this.
		Boats, they want you to go all electric.
		And the batteries are so heavy, the damn boat practically doesn't float.
		I used to have a lot of fun talking about that one on the tours.
		We'd talk about it.
		I said, what would happen if the boat sank?
		Because if we went to North Carolina, South Carolina, we visited boat factories.
		Unbelievable guys.
		And they said, sir, we have one problem.
		They're forcing us to go electric for the boat.
		I said, how's it going to work?
		The boat will not float, sir.
		It's so heavy.
		And it won't go fast and lots of other.
		And I did ask him a question.
		Because I have a lot of background.
		My uncle was a big shot at MIT, the smartest guy.
		He never had a smarter guy.
		And I guess I have a little of that.
		My first question was, what would happen if the boat sank?
		Do you get electrocuted?
		Remember I said that?
		And I used to be decimated by these people back here, right?
		I used to be decimated.
		They'd say, what kind of a crazy question is that?
		I'm actually serious.
		What happens if you're an electric boat and the boat is going down?
		You're in trouble, Susie.
		And I used to say, remember?
		Oh, I'd get decimated.
		The audience loved it, but the press would laugh at it.
		I said, so if I have my choice of going down, we're jumping five or six yards away from the boat, but there's a shark there.
		What do I do?
		You know what I said?
		I'd rather be electrocuted.
		I said, I'll take electrocution every single day.
		But actually, he said, nobody's ever asked me that question, sir.
		He makes votes.
		Nobody ever asked me that question.
		This is really an unusual question.
		He said, and honestly, I don't have the answer.
		He wasn't able to.
		I said, don't worry about it.
		If I win, you won't have to worry about it.
		But today, we're saving California, and we're saving our entire country from a disaster.
		Your cars are going to be thousands of dollars less money.
		And even the ones that, if you buy electric, we're not going to make you do certain things that are just a waste of money and just a time-consuming waste of money.
		They make you do things that are no good for anybody.

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