Aug. 2, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| sent up uh can you give us an update sir yeah biggest development since we last spoke was that president trump put out an excellent statementement on Truth Social last night in which he explicitly called for the Senate not to recess until we've cleared the backlog, until we've got through the entire executive calendar. | ||
| This is what needs to happen. | ||
| And here's the point, Steve. | ||
| We've got massive bargaining power here. | ||
| We've got Democratic senators who do not want to be here. | ||
| They want to leave town. | ||
| They want to get out of Dodge. | ||
| As long as that's the case, and as long as we've got this unique circumstance where we've got a Republican president, a Republican Senate, and a Republican House, this ship doesn't pass our way all that often, and we need to take advantage of it when it does happen and we need to make sure that we don't disempower the Republican president Donald J. Trump after the American people have resoundingly elected him by failing to confirm his nominees because of course that defaults back to the deep state regulatory bureaucrats and | ||
| they lean overwhelmingly left and so we got to get it done. | ||
| We can do it. | ||
| We can keep them here and in the very worst case scenario, if for some reason the Senate ends up taking a recess which it shouldn't do. | ||
| It should stay here and clear through all of them. | ||
| But at a bare minimum, we should make sure that any recess we take is a real recess none of these pro forma sessions that are designed simply to block the president of the United States from making recess appointments as he's authorized to do under the constitution now i understand he put on there they've taken them in blocks that as soon worked out something with schroomer that you guys are at least going to stay around tonight and maybe over the weekend and move a block or try to move a block of these has there been any overall plan to really address your target | ||
| of 150 the backlog or are we just doing this incrementally right now well it's incrementally it's not uncommon whether we're dealing with setting up votes on amendments for legislation or votes on presidential nominees. | ||
| It's not uncommon for us to stack groups of votes together. | ||
| So there have been some blocks that get cleared by both parties and they get moved onto the Senate floor. | ||
| But the fact that we've got a block that we're about to launch into right now doesn't mean that that's the end of it. | ||
| In fact, that's just the beginning of it. | ||
| There was a tweet out that Thune is sitting down with Schumer and there's some sort of negotiation going on. | ||
| Do you have any idea what that's about? | ||
| Yeah, they're talking through what might be acceptable to each party. | ||
| You know, you've got three principal players here. | ||
| You've got the Senate Republicans, you've got the Senate Democrats, and you have President Trump and the White House. | ||
| So they're just trying to figure out what might be acceptable to whom. | ||
| Now, the Democrats understand that their bargaining power is not immense. | ||
| And for that reason, they're negotiating and they're approving some of these nominations to be confirmed. | ||
| But my goal is to make sure that we stay here as long as it takes to get through all of them. | ||
| There's no reason why we should make it this easy for them. | ||
| We haven't even begun the stage at which we could start moving a lot faster, in part because we're still dealing with some appropriations bills on the MilCon VA appropriates vehicle that we're addressing right now. | ||
| But as soon as that's behind us, we should be in a better position to stack more and more presidential nomination votes and have them addressed one right after the other in the Senate. | ||
| Meanwhile, John Thune is the Senate majority leader, continues to file cloture on more and more nominations. | ||
| I would love to see him file cloture on every one of the 150 or so now pending on the executive calendar so that we can show that we're serious and we can open the door to getting all of these people confirmed. | ||
| Just talk about the landscape and the reason you have to meet it's pretty obvious. | ||
| You have to do either Mike Lee's plan and clean the schedule, clean it up now, this backlog up now, before you go on recess, or do the real recess, not pro forma, where you actually do recess appointments. | ||
| Correct me if I'm wrong. | ||
| When you guys get back after Labor Day, it looks to me that September 30th, you have massive budget, you have appropriations, you've got whether it's going to be a CR, whether it's going to be a minibus, there's talks of an omnibus. | ||
| Those days in September are going to be totally overwhelmed with trying to get the government funded for fiscal year 2026, is it not? | ||
| Yeah, that's exactly right. | ||
| We'll be dealing with trying to keep the government funded for 2026. | ||
| I think there are only something like between ten and twelve legislative days scheduled for us to be in session in September. | ||
| And with that, we've got to get the government funded. | ||
| And then after that's done, presumably, we'll be moving on to the Defense Authorization Act, the NDAA. | ||
| And so look, we do have a legislative agenda. | ||
| And if we don't get the executive calendar, meaning presidential nominations out of the way now, then we're going to end up with another backlog. | ||
| And that backlog is in turn going to impair our ability to fulfill the legislative part of the agenda. | ||
| That's why this has to be done now. | ||
| This doesn't get easier, Steve. | ||
| It just gets harder. | ||
| And so that's why I ask all within the sound of my voice, if you agree that we ought to get these cleared, that President Trump ought to have the benefit of his own nominees being in office, and if you don't want the Senate just punting on this issue, reach out to your senators, especially if they're Republicans, and say, clear the backlog. | ||
| Clear it. | ||
| Clear it before you take any recess in August. | ||
| President Trump and those who elected him deserve nothing less. | ||
| By the way, we've been our team, the Warren Post, been working the phones all day. | ||
| Just tell me, Tupperville, Senator Tupperville was on this morning. | ||
| He said he had a meeting with yesterday. | ||
| He says he was shocked by some of the senators' kind of lack of understanding of particularly the going into taking it off of a pro forma going to a real recess. | ||
| They brought the things yesterday you said and he said Senator Lee had to correct him that people wouldn't get paid. | ||
| It couldn't be done. | ||
| There was only a rudimentary understanding. | ||
| They said you did a great job of answering the questions. | ||
| I think it was kind of shocking that we could be, you know, 24 hours before August 1st, the day before, you know, late July, and senators not know the basic fundamentals of what the tools they have available. | ||
| Have you now, do you personally feel? | ||
| comfortable that you've gotten the word out to everyone about the constitutionality, the federal regulations, and the people are up to speed on what's available for them to actually act upon? | ||
| For the most part, yes. | ||
| We've made a significant amount of progress in the last few days on that front, at least with Republican senators. | ||
| Although I am shocked, Steve, still at the number of questions that continue to come up constantly, where just as I think it's been clarified, someone will come up and say, wait a minute, I thought we couldn't pay them if President Trump recess appointed them. | ||
| And then I walked them through the statute, five USC 5503A. | ||
| And I explained the reasons why we can pay them, why there's historical precedent for us paying them. | ||
| There's no statutory prohibition against us paying them. | ||
| And then I'll get another question about, wait a minute, why couldn't the president make recess appointments if we're holding pro forma? | ||
| And I have to walk through that is sort of what happens. | ||
| The legislative muscle, as I like to put it, the legislative muscle starts to atrophy with non use, just as actual muscle does if you don't use it. | ||
| And so because we have been asleep at the wheel as a Senate for so long and we don't talk about these things as we should, we've just been reflexively holding pro forma sessions sessions for more than a decade. | ||
| And as a result of that, people have forgotten how those muscles work. | ||
| It's time to put them back into action because, Steve, the stakes are simply too high right now. | ||
| We have seen what happens when the deep state bastards take control of our government and it's not pretty. | ||
| They will do it again. | ||
| They're trying to do it again right now and we cannot let that happen. | ||
| Saturday make us smart. | ||
| What should we look for overnight to see if there's any breakthrough on your plan or the other, your alternative plan of going on recess? | ||
| We're going to be live tomorrow morning. | ||
| We'd love to have you on if you're still in town, right? | ||
| So can you guess make us smart? | ||
| What do you anticipate we should look for in the next 24 hours? | ||
| Okay, look number one for additional rounds, additional tranches of votes that will be agreed to for consideration on the executive calendar tranches or clumpings of presidential nominees that will be moving forward to vote for. | ||
| Look also on the other end of the spectrum for any discussions, the possibility of an adjournment resolution that does not contain any provision for pro forma sessions. | ||
| Either one of those things will trigger that we're resolving this in one direction or the other. | ||
| Again, I would still prefer that we do this the right way, that we actually confirm them rather than just leaving and allowing the president to recess appoint them. | ||
| If we have to recess for some reason, then that's better than nothing to have it that way. | ||
| But it is much better for us to confirm them because we still have to address it. | ||
| The piper still has to be paid if they're recess appointed. | ||
| Those recess appointments last only until the end of 2026. | ||
| So we'll still have to get to them at some point anyway. | ||
| We might as well get them done now. | ||
| But like I say, it's nice to have the recess appointment option available to us should that become necessary. | ||
| Senator Lee, your social media, both your official and your personal, sir. | ||
| Yeah, at Sen Mike Lee is the official side, and then I've got a separate account that's at based Mike Lee. | ||
| I talk about this ad nauseam at great length. | ||
| I've been talking about recess appointments. | ||
| I've been talking about the need to clear the backlog on the executive calendar so that we don't leave President Trump in a lurch and subject yet again to the ravages of the deep state. | ||
| we've made tremendous progress on this sir because of your leadership i'm telling you everybody looks to you on this topic so thank you very much and thank you i know the president and everybody over there appreciates all the hard work you're doing the senate so thank you thank you senator mike lee of utah boardroom posse we still got some work to do here got some work to do in texas brian hannerson will be here later to join us let's go ahead and play would you have ej up can we play okay okay let's go ahead and can we go to the can we go to the gaggle? | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| President Trump is having a gaggle. | ||
| We just had a gaggle. | ||
| a gaggle with the press the media let's go and do it see what happens we're gonna have some meetings and we'll see what happens. | ||
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The Press: Mr. President, you said the jobs report today were rigged. | |
| Oh yeah, I think so. | ||
| But if you look at before the election, the same kind of thing happened. | ||
| And I think you'll see some very interesting information come out. | ||
| But we got rid of it. | ||
| You have to have honest reports. | ||
| And when you look at those numbers, or when you look at just before the election, and then after the election, they corrected it by 800,000 or 900,000 jobs. | ||
| Yeah, I would say so. | ||
| We have a great relationship. | ||
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Some is false, sir. | |
| And when do you have it? | ||
| Yeah, we have a great relationship with South Korea. | ||
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Are you ready? | |
| Are you open to negotiate with Brazil? | ||
| The Brazilian President Lula said he would like to call you. | ||
| He requested a conversation. | ||
| Would you talk to him now? | ||
| He can talk to me anytime he wants. | ||
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So are you open to characterize? | |
| Yeah, he can talk to me anytime he wants. | ||
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What is on the table for Brazil? | |
| Well, we'll see what happens. | ||
| But I love the people of Brazil. | ||
| What evidence do you have to be honest with you? | ||
| Mr. President, why are you saying the two super... | ||
| the people of Brazil so why do you close the tariffs because the people running Brazil did the wrong thing I don't understand your question. | ||
| Say it. | ||
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We are being deployed in nuclear submarines. | |
| Oh yeah, well we had to do that. | ||
| We just have to be careful. | ||
| And a threat was made and we didn't think it was appropriate, so I have to be very careful. | ||
| So I do that on the basis of safety for our people. | ||
| A threat was made by a former president of Russia and we're going to protect our people. | ||
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President Kennedy, will Hillary Clinton finally be investigated for election fraud? | |
| I hope so. | ||
| I hope so. | ||
| I don't know whether or not that will happen, but I hope so. | ||
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Mr. President, why don't you fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics? | |
| Because I think her numbers were wrong. | ||
| Just like I thought her numbers were wrong before the election. | ||
| Days before the election, she came out with these beautiful numbers for Kamala. | ||
| I guess Biden slash Kamala. | ||
| And she came out with these beautiful numbers trying to get somebody else elected. | ||
| Then right after the election, I think on the 15th, November 15th, she had an $800,000 or $900,000 massive reduction. | ||
| said she made a mistake. | ||
| No, that woman is not going to resign. | ||
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Do you have any evidence that she's going to resign? | |
| Yeah, one of the governors, as you know, of the Federal Reserve has just announced she's resigning. | ||
| I understand it was over the fact that she disagreed with somebody from her party. | ||
| She disagreed with too late. | ||
| You know who too late is? | ||
| She disagreed with too late on the interest rate. | ||
| So we'll see what happens. | ||
| But we just found out that I have a open spot on the Federal Reserve Board. | ||
| I'm very happy about that, John. | ||
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And what did Medvedev say to you that made you really mad? | |
| Well, you just have to read what he said. | ||
| He was talking about nuclear. | ||
| When you talk about nuclear, we have to be prepared, and we're totally prepared. | ||
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On the monthly draft report, going forward, why should anyone trust the numbers? | |
| Well, that's what I'm saying. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| No, you're right. | ||
| Why should anybody trust numbers? | ||
| You go back to election, election day. | ||
| Look what happened two or three days before with massive, wonderful job numbers trying to get him elected or her elected, trying to get whoever the hell was running. | ||
| Because you go back and they came out with numbers that were very favorable to Kamala, okay? | ||
| So trying to get him elected, trying to get her elected. | ||
| And then on the 15th of November or thereabouts, they had an eight or nine hundred thousand overstatement reduction right after the election. | ||
| It didn't work because you know who won, John? | ||
| I won. | ||
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Your supporters have had issues with these numbers. | |
| Now that you've had issues with the numbers for a long time. | ||
| But today's, we're doing so well. | ||
| I believe the numbers were phony just like they were before the election. | ||
| And there were other times. | ||
| So you know what I did? | ||
| I fired her. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| I did the right thing. | ||
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If any government official going forward is presenting data or information you don't like, should they fear for their job? | |
| I've always had a problem with these numbers. | ||
| You know, I was thinking about it this morning. | ||
| Before the numbers that came out, I said, who is the person that does these numbers? | ||
| And then they gave me stats about before the election. | ||
| I had a similar problem. | ||
| I mean, she gave out numbers that were so good for the Democrats. | ||
| It was like unbelievable. | ||
| And then right after the election, she corrected those numbers with, I think, almost 900,000 corrections. | ||
| I think nobody had ever seen anything like it. | ||
| Well, today she did the same thing with the 253,000, whatever the number was. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| We need people that we can trust. | ||
| I mean, your question is a very good one. | ||
| We need people we can trust. | ||
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What about you? | |
| What would you like a different switcher way? | ||
| You know who you planned our place with? | ||
| I've got about three very good, I have a lot of good candidates. | ||
| I will say, everybody wants it. | ||
| I've had more phone calls, but I have three people that The Press: Do you have a background in labor statistics? | ||
| The President: You know, I could do a long-term thing, or I could do a temporary. | ||
| It's a 14-year term. | ||
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The Press: Right. | |
| But do you put someone in who actually has labor statistics experience? | ||
| The President: I put somebody in I put somebody in who's going to be honest. | ||
| The Press: So you're taking long-term? | ||
| The President: That's all we want. | ||
| The President: I have a choice. | ||
| I can have four months. | ||
| I could do a short-term, or I could do a 14-year deal. | ||
| so we'll see. | ||
| We have a lot of people of good people around well the problem with Switzerland we have a we have a 40 we have a $40 billion deficit with Switzerland. | ||
| I spoke yesterday to Switzerland, but we have a $40 billion deficit with Switzerland. | ||
| That's a big deficit. | ||
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Can I ask you a question on the construction? | |
| You say you're raising $200 million, you're donating a bunch, others are as well. | ||
| Are you blocking foreigners from donating money to build that station? | ||
| Honestly, I never even thought of it, but it doesn't matter. | ||
| I'm putting up my money, but it doesn't even matter. | ||
| They've wanted a ballroom at the White House, and it's been very popular. | ||
| You know, when we put it out yesterday. | ||
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Are you building out that a crown prince or some European? | |
| I'm not looking for that. | ||
| You know, you have very strong restrictions as to who can donate and we go by the restrictions. | ||
| I mean, it's not that much money. | ||
| I didn't even start yet, by the way, but when I do, I'll release it. | ||
| Maybe one, me. | ||
| I would, yeah. | ||
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Did you talk to Steve Whitcoff today about his journey to Gaza? | |
| Did you talk to Steve Whitcoff? | ||
| I did. | ||
| I spoke to Steve Woodcoff. | ||
| He had a great meeting with a lot of people, and the primary meeting was on food. | ||
| And he also had some other conversations that I'll tell you about later. | ||
| But he had a meeting on getting the people fed, and that's what we want. | ||
| And I'll see you later on. | ||
| The Press: The Press: The President: Well, I understand India no longer is going to be buying oil from Russia. | ||
| That's what I heard. | ||
| not but that's a good step we'll see what happens okay On tariffs, obviously the Treasury is taking it so much ready right now. | ||
| Some Republicans have been pushing for tariff checks to go out. | ||
| The basic idea is to move the money back. | ||
| Any doubt about that? | ||
| of people that would like to see us do sort of a dividend to the people of our country it's something I'd consider how much would you have I'd also want I want to pay off that but there's a possibility I'd do a dividend that's something I've never had the time to do before I know sorry on terrorists obviously there's Is that unbelievable? | ||
| Right there is the press gaggle of the president going out to Marine 1, out to Marine 1, to Air Force 1 at Andrews Air Force Base and then up to Bedminster. | ||
| Bedminster is his New Jersey summer home. | ||
| Absolutely magnificent, an incredible golf course. | ||
| and a country club there that he's put a lot of money into to refurbish and just made top of the line. | ||
| And he really enjoys himself there, although this weekend, I hope it clears up. | ||
| It's not the rainy, muggy summer we've had so far. | ||
| Okay, so a lot of news there. | ||
| I mean, this is the great thing about these press gaggles, these availabilities. | ||
| I mean, who does that? | ||
| Did Obama ever do that? | ||
| No. | ||
| Did George Bush ever do that? | ||
| No. | ||
| Did Biden ever do that? | ||
| Forget about it. | ||
| That's so ridiculous. | ||
| Can't even contemplate a answer. | ||
| Look at President Trump on every topic, just off the top of his head, understands and knows when to pull it back and say, hey, I'll give you some information on that later.. | ||
| The situation in Gaza. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| About half the questions about the termination of the Bureau of Labor Statistics head about screwed up numbers. | ||
| Where did we hear that before? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| In the war room every month for the last four years from a guy named EJ Antoni. | ||
| Let's go and play a cold open for EJ who's going to join us briefly. | ||
| Let's go ahead and let her rep. Complained about. | ||
| And that is the Bureau of Labor Statistics and whether we get accurate numbers. | ||
| Now everybody's talking about the number here. | ||
| It's a quarter of a million jobs. | ||
| They're like on the downside. | ||
| It turns out we didn't get and now it's a restatement. | ||
| What in the hell is going on there? | ||
| If we put in our own person into BLS, is there a MAGA Republican that President Trump knows and trusts? | ||
| Are they running the Bureau of Labor Statistics yet, sir? | ||
| No, unfortunately, Steve, we still haven't gotten there. | ||
| And I think that's part of the reason why we continue to have all of these different data problems. | ||
| You know, the guy we had previously, Bill Beach, is actually a great guy, brilliant statistician. | ||
| And he recognized some of the problems that we had in the data. | ||
| He was taking steps to fix that. | ||
| But unfortunately, he was removed by the Biden administration. | ||
| He's not there anymore. | ||
| And he's been replaced by someone who, frankly, I think is in. | ||
| And that shows with the fact that the problems in the statistics that first became evident all the way back in the spring of 2022, those problems are still there. | ||
| And if we can go to the first chart here, I think it really helps illustrate that where essentially what you can see is the fact that the disparity between the number of people who are saying they have a job, who are employed, that's in brown there versus the line in gray is the number of non-farm payrolls we have. | ||
| As you can see, before the pandemic, they tracked very, very well together. | ||
| But since then, they've really started to spread apart. | ||
| And that problem has never actually been fixed. | ||
| In other words, we're not correctly estimating either the number of people with jobs or the number of actual jobs in the country or both. | ||
| Henrietta, starting with you, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics fired by the President, in Trump's words, for faking the jobs numbers and, quote, manipulating them for political purposes. | ||
| Let's just fact check that. | ||
| This is offensive in the extreme. | ||
| When we traffic in economic circles, I mean, I speak with chief economists, folks at BLS, Federal Reserve folks, Treasury folks all day, every day, and I have for fifteen years now. | ||
| What is happening here is about the worst case scenario that you could imagine. | ||
| Our data collection, our statisticians, our professors, the economists at all these agencies are the envy of the world in terms of their data collection. | ||
| And it really recalls to me Trump's first term when he started telegraphing that he felt like democracy was a disadvantage versus President Xi's situation and a communist governing system wherein he can famously manipulate the data coming out of China. | ||
| And he viewed that as a disadvantage that the United States had to adhere to because we have open, free data collection and reporting that is outside of his purview. | ||
| And that's what he's under about the worst thing you can do in economic circles right now. | ||
| I thought I was going to come on here and talk about tariffs because that was the news that we were reacting to. | ||
| We are, yeah. | ||
| To be completely honest, five minutes ago I learned about what happened here. | ||
| So I'm reacting in real time. | ||
| And I think my initial reaction is, this is what cartoon dictators do. | ||
| If you don't like the data, you say that the data is lying, you blame the numbers. | ||
| And I'm just, I'm amazed at how shameless all this is. | ||
| And it is true. | ||
| It rings true of what happens in China, where you have an authoritarian regime, where if economists speak out and say that there's's something wrong going on with the economy, suddenly the economist disappears and we don't know what happened to them. | ||
| And so I don't want to start getting alarmist, but it is exactly what you would imagine a dictator in a Marvel movie would start to do. | ||
| That is my live, honest reaction. | ||
| I'm going to keep paying attention to what's happening to the markets. | ||
| We've seen a lot of taco type reactions from the markets thus far. | ||
| The markets say, okay, we don't really believe you. | ||
| It's fine. | ||
| He's he's not really going to do it. | ||
| I mean, first he said July 9 was the deadline, then August 1, now he's pushing it into August 7. | ||
| This, I don't know. | ||
| Maybe this cuts it. | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| Okay, these people haven't looked at this over the years. | ||
| Remember, every month we have EJ come on and he goes back to how they've downgraded numbers before. | ||
| Under Biden, they want to put up a big employment number and then later kind of tuck it in, as Eric Bowling said when we did the handoff. | ||
| EJ Antony joins us right now. | ||
| EJ, walk us through what today means. | ||
| You've criticized this now for years. | ||
| You really did a very detailed job today. | ||
| The president shortly thereafter terminated the head. | ||
| Put it in perspective. | ||
| Where are we, sir? | ||
| Oh, Steve, I think we're certainly in a better place. | ||
| And what today demonstrates is just how powerful this show and its audience is, quite frankly, and also the fact that the president is among the audience, clearly, because it was this show that brought the issue to his attention. | ||
| So what this really means is the fact that we are holding federal bureaucrats accountable. | ||
| I mean, this woman oversee a survey with a response rate of 42 percent. | ||
| The majority of people don't even respond to the survey. | ||
| That's why we have had such irrational or I should say, such irregular responses. | ||
| That is why we have had such inconsistent results here and why we have needed such massive revisions. | ||
| On top of that, it's also clear that the models and the methodologies need to be revised, that is, the ones that compute these actual jobs reports. | ||
| That has not been done, despite the fact that for a little over three years now there has been evidence of significant problems in the statistics. | ||
| So I would say if there's any big takeaway from this, it's the fact that this president is holding federal bureaucrats accountable. | ||
| It's not a matter of the jobs report today wasn't as good as it was today. | ||
| day wasn't as good as the president wanted it to be. | ||
| The people who are alleging that are basically making or they're basically playing politics with the situation, okay? | ||
| The reality is the president is not happy with the inconsistencies in the numbers. | ||
| He's not happy with the unreliability of the data, and he's going to put someone into that position now, I hope, who is going to make sure that that is the priority. | ||
| It's not a matter of making the numbers look good. | ||
| It's a matter of them being accurate. | ||
| EJ Antony, butchers, I know you're out. | ||
| Thank you for stepping out of your meeting to call us. | ||
| Big day and monumental for you. | ||
| Social media so people can now follow you more closely, sir. | ||
| It's going to be on X, and the handle there is at Real EJAntoni. | ||
| And Steve, thank you so much seriously for having me today so we could highlight this issue for the president. | ||
| It's because of you, your show, this platform that something happened. | ||
| EJAntoni, thank you very much. | ||
| Very kind words. | ||
| Audiences very focused on that. | ||
| We've talked about this now for years. | ||
| Air Force One right there, pulling away. | ||
| away the they're pulling away the ramp. | ||
| President Trump's going to take off. | ||
| Are we going to blow the break or just go it's Denver's calling this. | ||
| I would love to stay with it, but just stay with it if we can to see it taxi out. | ||
| Maybe we will anyway. | ||
| Okay, let's go to break and we'll come back and see the president lift off. | ||
| Came too late for that. | ||
| I have two recommendations. | ||
| A governorship on the board of the Federal Reserve came available today with a resignation. | ||
| What about Judy Shelton for that? | ||
| I have the audience in on that. | ||
| Judy Shelton for the governorship of the Fed and EJ Antoni to head up the Bureau of Labor Statistics. | ||
| A straight shooting guy. | ||
| Sounds good? | ||
| Warren Posse, you've been on it. | ||
| Mike Lee knows you're on it. | ||
| Got his back. | ||
| Brian Harrison down in Texas. | ||
| We're going to get a vote tonight or tomorrow at that committee. | ||
| Fixed bayonets. | ||
| Let's get up on the ramparts. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| President Trump's at Andrews Air Force Base aboard Air Force One. | ||
| He is heading to Bedminster, his summer home. | ||
| We will spend the weekend working. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Back in a moment. | ||
| I had a chat with Representative Mass out of Florida, and, you know, it was recommended to me. | ||
| to develop a relationship with Congressman Mask because he has direct ear of the president and often travels down to Florida because the president goes down there tomorrow Largo, right, on Air Force One with the president. | ||
| So he has the ear of the president. | ||
| And I went up to him and I said, Listen, I hear this about you, I need some help, this is the situation, right? | ||
| And coincidentally, the following day, the following day, I'm getting messages from the tour operators here on the ground that we're seeing movement in terms of processing. | ||
| And on the following morning, I had a transportation and infrastructure meeting. | ||
| So I went up and I was like, hey, I don't know if it's a coincidence, but you know, here we are. | ||
| I just wanted to say thank you, right? | ||
| And what he tells me is that, listen, we're not anti China. | ||
| We want their money. | ||
| You know, there's a clear differentiation between national security concerns and wanting money, right? | ||
| And what this is about, at the end of the day, is money. | ||
| Whoa, whoa, hang on. | ||
| My head's blown up. | ||
| By the way, that's Air Force 2. | ||
| I think I got my glasses on now. | ||
| I think it's Air Force 2 or even lower than that. | ||
| Because it's a short hop, you don't need Air Force One. | ||
| It's a short hop. | ||
| You also can take a much smaller contingent of both the press pool and even White House staff. | ||
| So we'll watch that. | ||
| That's at Andrews Air Force Base is what we would call it, not Joint Base Andrew. | ||
| Come on, man, Andrews. | ||
| It's Andrews Air Force Base. | ||
| So the president getting ready to leave, we're going to watch that in its entirety. | ||
| Why don't we bring, so I'm going to do some directing here. | ||
| Let's get Cleo up and let's get her in the box, not me, just Cleo. | ||
| People know my lovely voice. | ||
| Cleo, you get to share the screen with the President of the United States and Air Force 2 getting ready to leave. | ||
| Andrews to go to Bedminster for his weekend. | ||
| And to explain to the audience who was that person? | ||
| Because there was more bad information given right there. | ||
| No, Brian Mass is a congressman. | ||
| He's a war veteran. | ||
| I think he's a double amputee. | ||
| He's a great guy. | ||
| I have some big problems with him. | ||
| He wore his IDF uniform or some IDF uniform to Congress once, which I thought was very inappropriate. | ||
| But he's a solid guy. | ||
| But he's a backbencher, right? | ||
| So she's sitting there saying, Oh, Brian Mass told me, and this is what we want, and everything like that. | ||
| We don't want, and we're not going to tolerate, these Chinese nationals coming through and blowing through there. | ||
| And who made the comment, we want their money? | ||
| You know, what do you mean, we want their money and that's what this is? | ||
| This is a national security issue with between the United States and the CCP, and it's very important. | ||
| The folks out there have to understand, a lot of people are getting their eyes on this now, and in fact, to the degree that it's important enough for us with everything we've got going on in the war room, we're going to actually stream live the state funeral of the governor starting at 7 p.m. Eastern time, and which I will host. | ||
| Cleo, what's going on, ma'am? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| So, yes, I'm here in the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas, and the governor's funeral is going to start in a little over an hour. | ||
| I wanted you to see what it's like because it's beautiful here. | ||
| and he loved it. | ||
| He loved the people. | ||
| He loved the place. | ||
| Come visit. | ||
| This is one of the most beautiful parts of the United States. | ||
| The person that you just saw speaking is the representative to Congress of the Commonwealth of Northern Marian Islands. | ||
| So she represents here in Congress and the processing she was talking about was the speeding up of the entry of Chinese coming in without a visa. | ||
| They've got this other program called EVS TAP, which the Chinese used to come in with no visa and now they realize that wouldn't fly. | ||
| So they've got this EVS TAP thing, which is they call enhanced vent vetting. | ||
| It's enhanced more than zero. | ||
| But they want it because it's easier for them to get in. | ||
| And just so you know, because the argument is always, oh, it takes too long with the B1B2. | ||
| I checked on the State Department website. | ||
| Currently, if you're in Delhi and you want to apply for a B1B2 visa, the wait time is about five and a half months. | ||
| They do it in month increments. | ||
| And if you're in Beijing, the wait is zero months. | ||
| So there's no logical reason why they can't just go and apply for a visa like every other Chinese coming to every other part of the United States. | ||
| But what you were talking about there, someone, a professor from the US Naval War College, Colonel John Atkinson, saw that and was like, She doesn't understand how national security works. | ||
| If she thinks this is just about the money, she doesn't understand how the Chinese operate. | ||
| She doesn't understand what goes into political warfare. | ||
| This is a complete misunderstanding and I would hope a mischaracterization of what Congressman Mask said and believes. | ||
| And she is hurting her colleagues. | ||
| This is a piece of film that if someone was running against Mask, they now have a legitimate question about, do you support Chinese coming into the US without a visa? | ||
| Would you like me to pause while the president takes off? | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| It's good. | ||
| There's a president right there. | ||
| I feel like I should do more. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| The president is very interested in your topic, so he's leaving right there. | ||
| Wheels up. | ||
| Very fantastic. | ||
| I think hopefully we're going to grab some footage. | ||
| It's not long. | ||
| I think it's a quite short flight. | ||
| So within the confines of this show, we'll be able to show you President Trump arriving. | ||
| maybe even to another availability or gaggle the one on the lawn of the White House was just spectacular I'll get into some of that in a moment no uh claire because I want to make sure you make the uh I want to make sure you make the uh you're on time for the funeral. | ||
| No, this is I'm sure Mass is a national security guy. | ||
| Now he's very focused on Israel, but I think he's been very strong against the anti-CCP in one of the contingents. | ||
| I'm sure he was misinterpreted. | ||
| But here's, I just want the audience to understand something. | ||
| You've taken a flight to Tokyo and then down to the Northern Marianas Islands. | ||
| You're how many hours by jet away from the United States and you're in the United States? | ||
| I want everybody to know this. | ||
| This is not us going to look in the Eurasian landmass or the Middle East and looking for trouble. | ||
| This is the territory of the United States of America. | ||
| And there's been more. | ||
| blood, American blood, shed per square inch of this territory than anywhere else in the world, except for maybe the battlefields of Antietam and Gettysburg and Coal Harbor, maybe I'll throw that in there. | ||
| This is sacred, these are sacred, this is if you believe in the greatest generation, if you believe in the sacredness of their cause, what they gave their lives for, the Northern Marianas Islands and those islands in the Pacific, which those people opted to stay, it's part of the United States when they saw the brutality of what Japan tried to do in the co, you know, the co prosperity sphere, and they see the CCP trying to do the same thing. | ||
| This is why this is so important. | ||
| This is why this governor was kind of revered. | ||
| He knew the dangers of doing this. | ||
| And right now to be looking for they could come in now could someone get on a plane in Saipan or someone could get on a plane and just travel come to California, come to Hawaii, come into the United States once they get there unvetted, ma'am? | ||
| So they're technically not supposed to leave here without the Chinese are not supposed to leave here. | ||
| But they're illegally going by boat to Guam, at least in the hundreds. | ||
| And we know that they're illegally buying US IDs here in Sianomai. | ||
| Motor Vehicles was convicted specifically of selling US driver's licenses to Chinese who were here illegally. | ||
| It cost, in case you're curious, about $1,700 for a US driver's license and $300 for a renewal. | ||
| And if you can see that building towering over the hotel behind me, that's the Chinese Casino that I was standing in front of before. | ||
| You can see that casino from pretty much everywhere you are in downtown Garapan, which is the capital. | ||
| And if I may just very quickly, in that longer interview, she also talks about Jim Jordan being very supportive of her EVS TAP program. | ||
| And we know that Congressman Nells wrote a letter in support of it. | ||
| So I don't know what she's saying to her congressional colleagues, but I don't think she's saying, please support letting Chinese into the US without a visa. | ||
| And what's interesting is, I would like to know who recommended she target masked, if that's indeed what happened, and also, this is her number one legislative agenda. | ||
| If she was to approach if this did happen, she could have asked for anything. | ||
| She could have asked for cabotage waivers, which would have helped the tourism sector in other ways. | ||
| She could have helped ask for a million different things. | ||
| But what she wanted was this. | ||
| She wanted Chinese to be able to get in to the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas with less vetting. | ||
| Very, very suspicious. | ||
| And she should understand we're not backbenchers and we're going to make this a big deal. | ||
| Cleo, just give us the order of battle of what's going to happen today with the state funeral. | ||
| So the state funeral, which will be live streamed, starts in about an hour and fifteen minutes. | ||
| This is a very religious part of the country, mostly Catholic. | ||
| They were colonized for about three hundred years by Spain, so then there will be a mass. | ||
| Then he will his body will be taken to the cemetery. | ||
| And this is the cemetery, this part of the US They're having a hard time with cemetery space. | ||
| They're burying them four people deep. | ||
| And one of the things that Governor Palacios was very he really loved his people and he wanted them to have a dignified resting place. | ||
| And he has been working for a long time to get a public cemetery open. | ||
| And yesterday there was a conscription ceremony for the public cemetery. | ||
| And Governor Palacios will be the first person laid to rest there. | ||
| It's at the foot of Suicide Cliffs, which is where the Japanese threw themselves off during the Battle of Saipan. | ||
| But it's a very beautiful, peaceful spot. | ||
| And the key speaker at the consacration of that was the one of the highest level people to come out from Washington that I've seen so far, which was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Insular Affairs, who used to be the legislative director for Representative King Hines, who you just saw. | ||
| He also was involved in writing legislation to enable this casino to come in with lessening of the bonds. | ||
| So you've got the highest ranking person. | ||
| I mean, he's originally from here, but he's currently working as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Insular Affairs at the Department of Interior, who is what was Washington's face at the conscription of this cemetery for where Governor Palacios will be the first person laid to rest. | ||
| So when you're watching the service, keep an eye open for Angel Demapan, the Deputy Assistant Secretary, and remember that he was very involved in facilitating the entry of the Chinese casino. | ||
| He was the Chief of Staff for the Governor that whose family made a lot of money selling leasing land at inflated profits for the casino, and he was legislative director for King Hines, who may also be speaking at the funeral. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Cleo, of course, one of the suicide cliff was not just the Japanese army, but many civilians., the propaganda had been they've given so much propaganda about the American forces, they threw themselves off and killed themselves instead of surrendering. | ||
| They would not surrender in Saipan, as in many of the places in the Pacific. | ||
| American territory all. | ||
| Cleo, social media, we'll see about we're going to start streaming here at 7 o'clock. | ||
| I'll be hosting this. | ||
| We're going to stream the entire service, including the burial. | ||
| We think it was that important in this battle against the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Your social media, ma'am. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I'm on X, just my name, Cleo Pascal, CLEO, PAS, KAL. | ||
| And I have to, many people have come up to me here and have been grateful for the war room coverage. | ||
| And they've felt quite abandoned. | ||
| And if you want, you can go to the main media here is Marianis Variety. | ||
| They have a Facebook page and you can leave messages of condolences, but just knowing that you care has made an enormous difference to many people here. | ||
| Well, thank you and thank them. | ||
| It's a way we honor the greatest generation and also the young greatest generation that's coming up in back of us to fight all this. | ||
| Thank you, ma'am. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| We're going to take a short break here. | ||
| Natalie's going to join me on the other side. | ||
| First question I'm going to ask Natalie, given that she's, from the time she's 17 years old, become one of the top investigative reporters in the world about the Chinese Communist Party, there's no problem letting Chinese nationals in with no visas totally unvetted into the United States of America. | ||
| If one thing you can take away from what we're doing here in this situation is that, you know, in the Battle of the Pacific and the War in the Pacific, these islands were so important. | ||
| There's so much American bloodshed for these. | ||
| So many boys from Kansas and Missouri and Virginia and New York City and the Bronx and Chicago that gave their lives. | ||
| for this for a reason and a purpose. | ||
| And we're going to make sure we honor it. | ||
| A short commercial break. | ||
| And Ellie Winters on the other side. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | |
| You're welcome. | ||
| Okay, we want to thank Cleo. | ||
| Right there is the president. | ||
| That is Allentown, Pennsylvania. | ||
| I shored not to get involved in New York Airspace on a Friday afternoon. | ||
| They're going to Allentown. | ||
| The other direction is about an hour away from Bedminster by car. | ||
| I would hope that they would have one of the they would pre-deploy, for-deploy one of the look at that landing right there, Air Force 2. | ||
| That they would have the one of the helicopters there to take him. | ||
| We'll see all this. | ||
| This is Allentown, Pennsylvania, about an hour away from Bedminster. | ||
| We'll be able to hopefully cover this entire thing for the duration of the show. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Natalie Winters joins us. | ||
| Natalie, given your research over the last, I don't know see any problem at all with allowing Chinese nationals into Saipan, Guam, other places, unvetted, without visas, ma'am, to kind of wander around and do what they want, where they want, any time they want? | ||
| I would say while we're at it, let's let them make up what, like, fifty percent of the Harvard and Duke graduating class. | ||
| But I think we're probably already approaching those numbers. | ||
| But you and I know it, right? | ||
| It's infiltration, not invasion. | ||
| And obviously we say that World War Three, the kinetic part hasn't necessarily started yet, at least in the context of China. | ||
| But I think if you look, not just the numbers of the people who are crossing into the United States, either through the open southern border or through these kind of proxy cut out territories. | ||
| I mean, these are people who have military backgrounds. | ||
| Remember it was the Biden regime that overturned, stopped the really vetting of these people asking if they had any weapons training, if they had ties to the PLA. | ||
| And frankly, I mean, think about all the weird train derailments that we had under Joe Biden. | ||
| If you look at all the, I think, critical infrastructure attacks, whether it's the hacking or the weird, you know, batteries and the solar panels that they've been hacking into, it's all part of a broader plan that I think we've really been sounding the alarm over for years. | ||
| Natalie, how do they take our elite seriously? | ||
| How do they take us seriously? | ||
| I mean, to get into Shanghai, even to get into a Even get in Hong Kong, it's hermetically sealed. | ||
| They know everyone. | ||
| They got the face recognition. | ||
| It's a total surveillance site. | ||
| There's no piano plant. | ||
| These are hermetically sealed entities. | ||
| How can they take it seriously when you have a situation in the western Pacific with our territories where they can just go in? | ||
| And you know the graph you just heard Cleo talk about, you know, one of the officials there was selling California driver's license at 1700 bucks a pop. | ||
| Because as soon as you got a driver's license, you know, you can do everything, including voting. | ||
| I mean, how are they supposed to take it seriously when we're so open and so soft and they're so hermetically sealed and Well, look, Steve, I think the answer to this question dovetails with what you're probably going to ask me next, which is what have we done on the treason front? | ||
| What have we done on the Chinese Communist Party spy front? | ||
| I mean, think about Eric Swalwell or Hunter Biden, right? | ||
| They're obviously kind of the laughing stock examples of Chinese Communist Party infiltration. | ||
| But there are dozens, if not hundreds of people like them in the highest levels of government, as Cleo was alluding to, the people who have embedded and burrowed in, even in the Trump administration, that are proxies of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| It's not just ideological compromise, it's monetary compromise, it's blackmail, right? | ||
| I think we've really honed in on. | ||
| And to your point, you know, I wanted to come on and give us some good news about what they're doing on the treason front, on the Obama front, on the Russia gate front. | ||
| But unfortunately, I can't sit here and give that. | ||
| You have breaking news coming from Laura Loomer. | ||
| I know we're pulling that, but if we want, I guess we won't cut away from that. | ||
| But if we can, if we do, scroll the tweet and let's see who the Trump administration is considering putting in as the deputy director of the NSA. | ||
| That's John Edwards, the former chief information officer at the CIA under Obama. | ||
| I mean, full stop. | ||
| Why are we even considering people who worked in the Intel agency's Intel community under Obama, under a president that weaponized against the American people. | ||
| If you actually read his personal bio, he actually says that, you guessed it, Director Brennan personally asked him to come back and work at the CIA. | ||
| Laura also reports her sources telling her that he and John Brennan are so close that they actually vacationed together. | ||
| And this is the guy who now is going to be essentially what, the number two over at NSA. | ||
| But Steve, the signal, not noise here. | ||
| What really got this whole Russia Gate thing started when Tulsi was declassifying these documents? | ||
| It was that Obama refused to release the presidential. | ||
| The President's Daily Brief on december 9, 2016, because it showed that there was no evidence of Russia collusion. | ||
| Now that they're trying to jam through this obviously Brennan Apparatchuk, Brennan crony, into the upper echelons, if not the most upper echelons of the NSA, which, as you know, is responsible for the overwhelming majority of what's contained in the Presidential Daily Brief. | ||
| I mean, this is not just a cover up. | ||
| This is, I'm sorry, do you think Joe Biden would consider anyone from the Trump administration for any position, let alone the number two over at the NSA? | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| The last time I checked, they tried to, what, like Jeff Clark, and absolutely destroy anyone who is even tangentially associated with the MAGA movement, even if it was for just one day on January 6. | ||
| I don't understand why it takes Laura Loomer to have to vet these people, right? | ||
| This should be so this should be a no go from the start, but this is something, I mean, this is an issue that I think really, really matters, right? | ||
| Personnel is policy. | ||
| How in the heck are you going to hold John Brennan to account when his buddy is busy probably being promoted, if not outright elevated to the number two position at the NSA potentially as we speak. | ||
| That's not accountability. | ||
| That's not retribution. | ||
| That's laying the groundwork for retribution against MAGA, which is not what I voted for. | ||
| Natalie, give me your social media. | ||
| Thank you for carving out some time to jump on here because I want to get this update. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| What's your social media? | ||
| Where can people track you down over the weekend? | ||
| You always say I take a long time to get ready. | ||
| I think you take longer time than I do. | ||
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It's Natalie, she winters on all social media platforms. | |
| Thanks. | ||
| Do you have a good weekend? | ||
| I need more. | ||
| I need more hair and makeup. | ||
| Natalie Winters, thank you so much, ma'am. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Great job as usual. | ||
| I want to thank Cleo. | ||
| We're going to pick up Cleo Pascal in the seven o'clock hour. | ||
| I'm trying to track down Laurel over there. | ||
| President's plane, Air Force 2, right there. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
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| Oh, we're taking a gold clock. | ||
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| We're going to stick right here for about another minute. | ||
| We're going to go take a hard break at the top, right? | ||
| I'm looking for my producer to give me a nod. | ||
| There we are. | ||
| Okay, we're going to take a hard break at the top. | ||
| The president's plane is there. | ||
| They may be deboarding on the other side. | ||
| There we go right here. | ||
| See the president leave. | ||
| You still want to go to break? | ||
| You want to cover this? | ||
| Oh, tell us, Justice. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| I'll keep it on this. | ||
| Yes, we'll go to the other. | ||
| Right now, John Solomon and Amanda Head are going to pick it up, adjust the news right there. | ||
| We're going to keep that shot. | ||
| The President of the United States will come in momentarily. | ||
| He is in Allentown, Pennsylvania at the airport. | ||
| He's going to leave and go to Bedminster from there to start his weekend, working weekend. | ||
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| Toss it over to just the news with John Solomon and Amanda Head. |
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