Aug. 8, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| Here's not got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you're trying to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
| MAGA Media. | ||
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
| Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | ||
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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| 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. | ||
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| We're having to do some for some technical issues with some of our guests. | ||
| We're trying to get them up. | ||
| It may or may not. | ||
| And of course, you know, we have people by phone, but we really have them by phone with this breaking news. | ||
| There's something we've got to get into analytics or some analysis. | ||
| I always want them up on Zoom so you can see them when we kind of walk through and throw charts up, etc. | ||
| Dave Bratt's with me. | ||
| So we're going to get into this Armenian situation in a minute because it's also got, it also has a thing called the corridor that I think we have to understand. | ||
| We're going to get Ube Shandabra up here in a moment as soon as we work out the technical issues to walk us through it. | ||
| President Trump's essentially taking the afternoon today. | ||
| They're going to come, I think, after lunch. | ||
| There's going to be a meeting. | ||
| Then there will be a signing. | ||
| I think that's going to take place all tentatively, four o'clock this afternoon. | ||
| Of course, normally those things kind of run late or a schedule gets jammed. | ||
| So we'll see you in the five and six o'clock show today. | ||
| Natalie's going to take the five, and Dave Bratt and myself will be back to co-host the six. | ||
| I want to go to something from the clip this morning. | ||
| The situation in Gaza, Dave Bratt, it's a little bit confusing, but I think here's at least what we currently know, is that the Israeli cabinet, and I think it was a 10-hour meeting, 10 or 12-hour meeting, quite contentious. | ||
| This is in a series of contentious meetings because it's contentious, not just some people on the right of Netanyahu, but also now the military. | ||
| This is all about this Gaza occupation. | ||
| And it's been released that at least they're going to send troops now into, and they're preparing troops. | ||
| NBC's got a piece up about on photoreconnaissance, you can see that they're getting ready to go into Gaza City, but it also looks like they're going to try to occupy Gaza in and of itself. | ||
| And then they're talking about they will not recognize any of the clearly Hamas, which is nothing but the Muslim Brotherhood. | ||
| And because militarily, they say they're going to take out Hamas and break the back of Hamas's political oversight of Gaza, but they will not deal with the Palestinian Authority, another group of guys they don't think they can trust, but they want to turn this over to the Arab nations. | ||
| Of course, the Arab League has said, hey, we will do this as long as the Palestinian Authority can govern it. | ||
| So it's quite unclear. | ||
| Your thoughts, and one of the things, you know, a huge congressional delegation, instead of going back home, went over to Israel on the CODO right off the bat. | ||
| My concern about this entire thing is that here's my issue, my biggest concern. | ||
| Just like the Persian situation or the Iranian situation, which we now know, that the Israelis needed the Americans not just to finish what they started with, taking out the nuclear capabilities, because between our Tomahawk missiles and our aerial bombardment, total obliteration, but that was 100% American. | ||
| Also, on the defensive side, the citizens in Tel Aviv and Haifa were taking incoming much more than people were led to believe. | ||
| And, you know, we had to provide defensive capabilities, but then at the end of the day, I'm not even sure that was enough. | ||
| These people were just getting crushed. | ||
| Here, my big concern is this could be Baghdad all over again, right? | ||
| I mean, you're talking a couple of million people. | ||
| It already looks like Dresden, there's this massive humanitarian crisis. | ||
| And clearly, the Muslim Brotherhood of Hamas are doing as much as they can possibly stir it up, but there's fault on both sides. | ||
| And now you're talking about a complete occupation of this. | ||
| My fear is, I hope, that the White House and the Pentagon have been briefed on this when they say, hey, they can do what they want. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| If you say that, that implies to, I think, the MAGA that you don't need any American involvement. | ||
| Now, at the same time, you're hearing Huckabee and some guys saying we're going to put in another 30 or 40 feeding stations that the United States is going to fund. | ||
| Does that mean American personnel? | ||
| It means when you do these occupations in these Arab countries, that this does not turn out well. | ||
| Look at our occupation of Baghdad. | ||
| That was a disaster. | ||
| Let's go back in history on the lies of Karl Rove, right? | ||
| Karl Rove and the Bush junta, who lied to your face because it's documented that in the afternoon of 9-11, they were trying to tie Saddam Hussein to what happened in downtown Manhattan and in the Pentagon. | ||
| They were trying to tie, and they worked like crazy to gun-deck the intelligence to make sure we got into a war with Iraq. | ||
| And of course, the war in Iraq took 30 days, I think, before Mattis and those guys got up there. | ||
| The road to Baghdad wasn't much. | ||
| It was years of bloodshed. | ||
| It was years of bloodshed of, you know, in the occupation of Baghdad in Iraq that finally had to go, you know, you got the Colonel Harvey went over, did the assessment, and then General Kelly at the time, who was a great Marine general, he's terrible as a chief of staff for President Trump, but they had to prove they're the strongest tribe in Anbar province. | ||
| And we finally got that thing sorted out after, I don't know, eight years, 10 years. | ||
| I mean, Mo went over there, I think, in 2010 or 11. | ||
| It still wasn't sorted out. | ||
| Eight, nine years later, and that whole occupation was a total disaster. | ||
| They had not thought it through. | ||
| In fact, they fired the general that came up and said, you're going to need 250,000 troops, right? | ||
| And is this plan any different? | ||
| Do we understand? | ||
| And we're saying, hey, let them go do it. | ||
| If they want to do it, let them do it. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| Let them go do it. | ||
| They're an independent country. | ||
| They should make their own decisions, right? | ||
| But I think we need to know: is there any implied American involvement in this occupation? | ||
| I don't believe the IDF general in charge, the chief of staff, has been so adamant that the IDF regular forces are so tired and beat up from fighting Hezbollah, fighting the Muslim Brotherhood in Hamas the first part of this war, that they're saying they're tired. | ||
| And then they've got the volunteers of their, all of them are volunteers, but you got the reserve force, the occupation troops. | ||
| The IDF, the chief of staff in these meetings, was so heated that Netanyahu's, and I'm just saying what the Times of Israel and the Jerusalem Post have reported that Netanyahu's son, who, by the way, doesn't serve in the military and is living in Miami Beach, he tweeted out that there was a mutiny or a potential coup d'état by the IDF. | ||
| They so opposed their president, their father, his father's plan. | ||
| Your thoughts on occupy Gaza? | ||
| Because, hey, if you're going to do it this time, you got to finish what you started. | ||
| We can't have another Persian situation where they start something and they understand to finish it, they need us to be the, they need us to, they couldn't even conceive of finishing the Persian situation. | ||
| And that didn't even talk about defense of their own people from the ballistic missile capability. | ||
| So this Gaza situation has just metastasized over the last two years. | ||
| And man, if you start drawing American, you want to kill the MAGA movement, let's have American troops go over there as an occupational force because this will end in tears, sir. | ||
| Yeah, the basic problem, and I agree with what you just said, is that our interests are not aligned, right? | ||
| Israel's interest is their survival with some tough neighbors going back to 53. | ||
| Our interest is to make friends, right? | ||
| We had the Abraham Accords going with those seven Countries, you know, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Iran. | ||
| And President Trump was kind of saying, like, hey, I want to use negotiation before the bombs start going off. | ||
| We start killing people. | ||
| And so that's the main question. | ||
| Is there an implied implied relationship where we're going to come in at the end? | ||
| It looks like it. | ||
| If you just follow recent history, much less not going back to 1953 when Mossad, CIA, MI6 has been involved in all of these coups through time, and it has not gone well, right? | ||
| And that has implications for our own national security and 9-11, making friends with the rest of the world. | ||
| And so, I mean, I think Netanyahu owes it to us to come forward and explain to us. | ||
| The part I don't get is, you know, Israel has supreme intelligence capabilities, military intelligence. | ||
| They're genius people. | ||
| And I want to know why they can't get rid of Hamas and the PLO leadership, right? | ||
| Trump's getting ready to put a little more security in DC to make sure we get some peace in the streets in DC. | ||
| Surely, Netanyahu, I want to hear that. | ||
| Just come explain why that's not possible. | ||
| Why you can't just, you know, okay, you're going to take it over, but take it over and let's have peace and move forward together with some contract. | ||
| And I'm just, you know, I'm an economist. | ||
| So there's a lot of oil and there's a lot of money at stake in Gaza as well. | ||
| And I hope it doesn't end up with that punchline or we're in deep trouble. | ||
| Hang on for a second. | ||
| Just stay right there. | ||
| My co-host, Dave Brett, I want to bring in Ube Shandahar, a former defense intelligence analyst in the Middle East where we've had Ube on before, because a little bit of the occupation of Gaza gets to this thing about what's happening in Armenia today. | ||
| I want to explain it. | ||
| Because it is a peace accord, and President Trump is working for the region and the world to let's go to peace. | ||
| Let's put our guns down and focus on prosperity. | ||
| But there's also a situation with the corridor, right? | ||
| Which I want the Zionists to understand. | ||
| Because when you look at the corridor and then you look at the potential Gaza occupation, there's a lot of people saying, hey, look, that's all great, but we got sanctuary cities. | ||
| We have Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, which are mega cities that are out of control, sanctuary cities. | ||
| And we haven't deported really a person out of there except some criminals. | ||
| And we need mass deportations. | ||
| So is this America first? | ||
| Just take a, we're going to hold you to the break for next. | ||
| Walk us through exactly what's going on today. | ||
| What is this whole situation about? | ||
| Why are we sent this peace thing? | ||
| And what's the underlying strategy here with this corridor, sir? | ||
| Yeah, let's talk peace on the war room. | ||
| And it is a historic day. | ||
| You know, President Trump posted on social media yesterday that a historic day for peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia, two longtime foes that are now coming down to the White House to sign a peace framework overseen by President Trump. | ||
| And this is probably going to be viewed by history as one of President Trump's crowning peace accomplishments as part of his peace legacy. | ||
| Now, for our viewers that don't know what's happening, essentially you have Azerbaijan and Armenia. | ||
| They've been fighting wars for the past four decades. | ||
| The latest one in 2023, the shooting part of the war has ended, and they've been trying to negotiate a lasting peace treaty that hasn't gone anywhere. | ||
| Enter the United States, President Trump and his team. | ||
| They brought the two sides together after a lot of back and forth, shuttle diplomacy. | ||
| And the key sticking point that stopped the two countries from reaching a final peace deal is what's called the Zangazor corridor. | ||
| It's essentially a transport corridor, a road and rail network that would go through Azerbaijan into the southern part of Armenia along its border with Iran. | ||
| And then it would go to Turkey and then into the West. | ||
| Essentially, an East-West corridor that would connect the West to Central Asia and East Asia, bypassing Iran and Russia. | ||
| And Trump is going to is hosting the two leaders, Prime Minister Nicole Pashinian of Armenia, who just tweeted out that blessed are the peacemakers, and Azerbaijan President Ilhan Aliyev, who is the leader of a moderate Muslim country, majority Shia, secular. | ||
| And he wants strategic cooperation with the United States on energy security as well. | ||
| Azerbaijan has a lot of natural gas in the Caspian. | ||
| Liyev was extremely mad at Joe Biden. | ||
| He believed that the Biden administration didn't want peace. | ||
| And he believes that President Trump is the man to bring peace. | ||
| And so this is history. | ||
| It's the first time that you're seeing these two leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan sitting down, signing an actual peace document. | ||
| And it is because of President Trump's efforts. | ||
| This really does impact the United States because it means economic cooperation, trade, energy security, more markets for American goods, with Azerbaijan being a rising power in the South boxes, and it cuts out Iran and Russia. | ||
| So it really is a significant milestone for the president's peace initiative. | ||
| And that corridor is going to be very significant for East-West Connection. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| I want to get into the whole geopolitics of it. | ||
| And also this situation with the persecution of Christians and the slaughter of Christians. | ||
| It all rolls into this. | ||
| Peace today is on the menu at the White House, an historic day this afternoon. | ||
| We're going to cover it all. | ||
| Our team is there. | ||
| We'll cover it as it happens. | ||
| And President Trump, I think, is going to open up and have people even in the Oval and the signing and take questions, I'm sure. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Back with Ube and Dave Brett in a moment. | ||
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| Ube. | ||
| This is, you know, right now, Witkoff and President Trump are working on this massive Russian rapprogement. | ||
| It gets Ukraine sorted, the Middle East sorted. | ||
| This is clearly, I would argue, our version of One Belt, One Road. | ||
| It puts the Chinese Communist Party at a disadvantage. | ||
| It puts the Mulus and the Persians at a disadvantage. | ||
| And it also hurts Russia's long time. | ||
| And forget the Bolsheviks, forget the KGB. | ||
| Russia's Russia at the end of the day. | ||
| It's their whole drive for a warm water port in the North Arabian Sea, right? | ||
| The great game Afghanistan was in the 19th century. | ||
| But there are a lot of Americans, and particularly a lot of people in MAGA that love President Trump as he leads this effort for peace and putting the guns down. | ||
| They get a little jiggy when they see Gaza in an occupation and they know how Netanyahu and these guys always want to suck the Americans in to have direct involvement. | ||
| They look in Armenia and they know that there's been this horrible slaughter of Christians, but they're saying, hey, it's a half a world away. | ||
| So make the case why geopolitically this makes sense and why this is smart, why this is morally because of the slaughter of the Christians. | ||
| And finally, why this is America first, sir. | ||
| Well, as part of this peace deal, this corridor that's going to be established in southern Armenia that's going to connect Azerbaijan and Turkey and the West to Central Asia and Far East Asia, that's going to be called the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity. | ||
| And from my understanding of the memorandums of understanding that are going to be signed in the White House today between all three sides, the U.S., the Azerbaijanis and the Armenians, is that it's going to be an American company. | ||
| There's going to be no boots on the ground, no deployments of U.S. forces. | ||
| Remember, there's still Russian troops in Armenia. | ||
| Armenia has a massive Russian base there. | ||
| And the Azerbaijanis have said, hey, we've got our own forces. | ||
| We don't need the Americans. | ||
| We don't need the French. | ||
| We don't need the Russians on our soil. | ||
| We just want trade and we want to establish new relations with the United States. | ||
| So it does seem that President Trump's vision of unlocking the economic potential of the South Caucasus, this is an area that's considered or was considered the backyard of the Russian Empire and of the Persian Empire. | ||
| Now, the fact that you've got President Trump, the Americans, we're the ones that are negotiating this peace deal, that is very significant geopolitically. | ||
| Does this mean that this is going to suck America into a conflict in the far-flung reaches of the South Caucasus mountains? | ||
| I do not think so. | ||
| The shooting war is over. | ||
| The two sides, Armenia and Azerbaijan, have said, okay, we fought our wars, it's done. | ||
| Azerbaijan won that battle, but how do we ensure that there are no more future conflicts, shooting conflicts? | ||
| And this deal that is going to be signed in the state, in the White House today, is what's going to establish an irreversible pathway to peace. | ||
| And that is why that is so important. | ||
| And that ensures that the U.S. does not get sucked into a foreign-flung war. | ||
| Now, you are going to have an American company building that road and rail network in southern Armenia, connecting Azerbaijan and its outer territories. | ||
| And that is going to be right on the Iranian-Armenian border. | ||
| So the Iranians, the Persians, you know, that regime, they're not too happy about it. | ||
| And of course, this sticks the thumb in the eye of Moscow because the Kremlin was the one who wanted to be the ones that brought these two former Soviet states together. | ||
| But Azerbaijan wants to reach out to the West. | ||
| They don't want the Chinese influence. | ||
| And Armenia is completely dependent upon Russia and Iran for trade. | ||
| But now, with this peace deal, they can open up their Western trade routes, including trade and economic relations with the U.S., which Armenia does not have. | ||
| It's essentially just a satellite state of Russia and Iran currently. | ||
| This peace deal will change that. | ||
| And the Azerbaijanis have said, hey, no more fightings, no more killings. | ||
| You know, there's churches in Baku, there's churches in Azerbaijan. | ||
| There's a small Jewish community. | ||
| And the Aliyah, just a few weeks ago, was publicly praising President Trump's vision for peace, no new wars. | ||
| In fact, the president posted that clip on his social media. | ||
| So overall, this is really a historic achievement and ensures that American trade and prosperity is put first, ending the forever wars in the South Caucasus and in the Middle East. | ||
| That used to be a very volatile area. | ||
| Now, for the first time in four decades, no more wars. | ||
| I also think it's not a random, since there are no coincidences, I don't think in knowing President Trump is a chess master when it comes to negotiations. | ||
| I don't think it's a random event that this is happening today while they're sort of surging. | ||
| It may be one of the many reasons that Putin is saying, hey, maybe I ought to sit down with these guys before they do some more damage to the Russian Empire. | ||
| So it's not random. | ||
| This is happening on an August. | ||
| It's kind of a game. | ||
| Hey, let's get these Armenians and Azerbaijans over. | ||
| Ube, where can people follow you? | ||
| You're doing a lot. | ||
| People don't know. | ||
| Ube's working with Rick Renelle. | ||
| You're doing a lot over the Kennedy Center. | ||
| You're also one of the smartest brains I know on the defense intelligence side. | ||
| Where do people track you down? | ||
| Where they get your content, sir. | ||
| God bless. | ||
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| That's Oscar Sierra 26. | ||
| Trump will fix it. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Look forward. | ||
| We'll talk to you. | ||
| Talk to you more after the signing. | ||
| How about that? | ||
| Blessed are the peacemakers. | ||
| Blessed are the peacemakers. | ||
| President Trump, I think it's his fifth or sixth war. | ||
| He's so, Brad. | ||
| You know, I'm always a little jiggy when you got an American company building a corridor over that part of the world for the protection of it, right? | ||
| But let's see how this thing plays out. | ||
| President Trump's smart enough and he's grinding through here. | ||
| I do think that this is one of the elements of getting Putin's attention, right? | ||
| To saying, hey, look, two can play this game and get his attention That a rapprochement between the United States and Russia makes a lot of sense, and now's the time to do it. | ||
| You got to sort this mess out in the Ukraine. | ||
| You got to help sort this mess out in the Middle East. | ||
| And then we got to sort this mess out with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Your thoughts about this. | ||
| And one thing I want to make sure is not, we failed to mention is that there's a global persecutions of Christians and Christianity and the Christian church. | ||
| One of the worst parts of the world, it really been genocide is in this part of the world, which nobody covers, including too many Christian pastors and the Catholic Church does not do enough of highlighting the slaughter that's going on here, sir. | ||
| No, the Armenians, I had a great Armenian community in Richmond, Virginia. | ||
| The church, they're just outstanding people, very kind, generous, just fun to be with. | ||
| And so this is just a great day. | ||
| And this conflict, from what I know of it, is not primarily religious, right? | ||
| It's territorial. | ||
| It goes with Soviet Union and everything. | ||
| But the major piece here is the bigger geopolitical aims of the U.S. and Trump. | ||
| And we got to get out of this making friends with Russia once we get past this piece here. | ||
| And I feel very positive about the initiatives coming up between Trump and Putin. | ||
| And so, you know, the stupidest thing we've done is to drive Russia closer to China. | ||
| And you just heard Azerbaijan doesn't want to go that way. | ||
| And I'm friends with a bunch of ambassadors from Africa and other, they'll put it in Christian, they don't like Russia. | ||
| They don't like China, I mean. | ||
| They've been treated terribly by China. | ||
| And so the world is ours. | ||
| We have to engage. | ||
| That doesn't mean we need to support and spend money and all that, right? | ||
| And all the USAID and the deep state stuff. | ||
| That's not what it means. | ||
| What Trump's doing here, using the private sector as a bumper zone. | ||
| Boy, I like that idea. | ||
| You know, and that used to be the thesis that didn't work out so great. | ||
| You know, countries that trade together don't go to war with each other. | ||
| That was our theory with China as well. | ||
| They failed with China because they're so entrenched in Marxist-Leninism under Xi. | ||
| But the rest of the world is not that entrenched. | ||
| I don't think Putin is that entrenched. | ||
| And so Trump's doing everything right here. | ||
| These deals, he's putting heavy pressure. | ||
| There's no one else tough enough to stand up to all of the EU, right? | ||
| Way years back. | ||
| That was the, I about fell off my couch when I watched him turn around to the entire EU leadership, right? | ||
| The presidents and prime ministers, et cetera. | ||
| And that was just a great day. | ||
| He sent the signal and we're strong enough to do it. | ||
| And now peace, we have the chance, the opportunity. | ||
| And this certainly is providential, right? | ||
| God wants us all to love each other, love him and love each other. | ||
| And we've got to move in that direction. | ||
| In every country, with every relationship, we need to move toward peace. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| As long as you're keeping your eye on the price, that's what I think you're 100% correct. | ||
| A rapprochement with Russia is in everyone's best interest for peace throughout the world, and particularly to allow the United States to get back and to focus on, like, we got a problem in these sanctuary cities. | ||
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| Short commercial break. | ||
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| The group's doing that. | ||
| We've got a little news break here, and I'll get more to it. | ||
| But Letitia James, New York Post, others reporting, New York Times reporting that Letitia James has been, wait for it, subpoenaed in this case about her the fraud about her real estate. | ||
| I think there's more to it than that. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Headline, New York Post, Tish Fritat, New York A.G. James subpoenaed by Justice Department over $450 million civil fraud case against President Trump. | ||
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| And I think there's also more aspects about her personally, but we'll get more details of that this afternoon on the afternoon show. | ||
| Rob Burgess joins us. | ||
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| I think it's kind of going viral, but give us the background of that ad. | ||
| $18 billion is kind of shocking to people. | ||
| Is that what they spend just on television a year? | ||
| Is that what they spend across all media? | ||
| What is that number? | ||
| So that number is all media, television, radio, newspaper ads, digital advertising. | ||
| This is a systematic problem here in the United States and in New Zealand. | ||
| We are one of two countries that allow direct to consumer advertising by big pharma. | ||
| And what it's actually doing is it's underwriting big media. | ||
| And so we're not getting the true coverage of this issue. | ||
| President Trump has led the issue on this for a long time. | ||
| And that's part of the reason why Americans for Pharma Reform exists is we want to amplify taking back control of our healthcare. | ||
| We want lower drug costs. | ||
| We want to hold big pharma accountable. | ||
| And at the end of the day, Rob, hang on. | ||
| Aren't you just a collection of anti-vax wing nuts? | ||
| Isn't that what you're just doing this and you're saying we're going to big pharma, everything like that? | ||
| But the core of it, aren't you just a bunch of tinfoil hat anti-vax wing nuts, sir? | ||
| No, we're actually not. | ||
| We've got some hospital group systems involved. | ||
| We've got grassroots donors. | ||
| We've got people who are actually concerned about too much pharma influence in media. | ||
| We've got people that are concerned about too much media influence in pharma. | ||
| But a huge chunk of our supporters are people that are sick and tired of the control that pharma has over our elected officials. | ||
| We ran a nationwide poll, Steve, just two weeks ago, 5,000 respondents. | ||
| And one of the questions that we asked them was, would you be more likely or less likely to support and vote for a candidate who accepted money from big pharma, even if you had previously supported them in the past? | ||
| 75% of Americans, regardless of partisan lien, said they would vote against that candidate if they learned that they were taking money from big pharma. | ||
| This is an issue here in this country, and it's going to be a bellwether issue in the midterms this year. | ||
| I know you're watching things like that all the time. | ||
| So, Rob, you know, because we monitor so our audience doesn't have to, and we usually do cold opens, a combination of MSNBC and CNN. | ||
| And MSNBC honestly is two-thirds of it if we're putting up these type of things. | ||
| So it's constant monitoring of these two networks. | ||
| And what has shocked me over the last couple of years is MSNBC is absolutely, I say, it would be a test pattern if you took the Big Pharma ads off. | ||
| It's so unbelievable. | ||
| I mean, every hour or every segment, because media, ourselves included, everybody breaks it down by segments. | ||
| Every segment's got at least two big pharma ads on these diseases you've never even heard about. | ||
| I mean, it's so bizarre. | ||
| And plus the antidepressants. | ||
| I mean, the people that watch those shows have got to be so anxious and depressed. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| But literally, and particularly with the spin-off coming, where NBC and Comic are kind of shoving it off, I guess, with the golf channel and some weather channels, some other things. | ||
| They're so dependent upon Big Pharma paying top dollar. | ||
| I don't know how MSNBC would even exist without the Big Pharma ads, sir i 100 agree with you our analysis is that stations like msnbc cnn they rely on at least 31 of their ad revenue to come from big pharma network-wide that number only increases when you get into some of what they call their flagship shows in the mornings and the afternoons and so it very much is a situation that they are so | ||
| reliant on this money in order to keep the lights on, to pay their talent? | ||
| How could they ever be an objective journalistic source against big pharma? | ||
| Now, what a lot of people don't realize, though, is that pharmaceutical companies are able to write their television advertising off on their corporate taxes. | ||
| It's 100% tax deductible with profit margins of 40% or more on their blockbuster drugs. | ||
| That means companies like Pfizer are sometimes receiving tax refunds larger than what they pay in corporate taxes every year. | ||
| That's despicable. | ||
| And so you're absolutely right. | ||
| By turning the screws on big pharma, by saying we do not want direct-to-consumer advertising to happen in this country, which, by the way, 52% of voters, regardless of party in this country, say they support, including a majority of rural, suburban, and urban women, do not want to see pharmaceutical ads on television. | ||
| 81% thinks that the industry as a whole needs to be reformed. | ||
| We have an opportunity to change the narrative in this country. | ||
| We have the opportunity to put President Trump's America first healthcare priorities in place. | ||
| And it starts next Friday. | ||
| We are launching the ban big pharma ad bus tour. | ||
| We're launching that next Friday. | ||
| We're going to be in Las Cruces, New Mexico for our first stop. | ||
| And we are going to crisscross the country over the next eight weeks, sharing this with voters and holding town halls and answering people's questions about this very important issue. | ||
| So what is your ask specifically? | ||
| Do you want to ban all media? | ||
| Do you want to go to what the European countries have done? | ||
| I think Canada has done. | ||
| Do you, what is the ask? | ||
| Because you're, you're going to politicians. | ||
| This is their mother's milk is, uh, is big pharma. | ||
| So you're going to go to the politicians and say, hey, I got to get you off the big pharma tit, right? | ||
| It, it, how successful is that going to be? | ||
| You're, you're asking them to, to take their primary donors or one of their primary donors and shut it down and, and, and not let them, and then say, by the way, you got to vote to support us and shutting these guys down from literally what's propaganda. | ||
| It's not news, propaganda on these news channels. | ||
| So we've got one of three things that we're asking for, right? | ||
| Again, we are a group that focuses on putting patients first. | ||
| We align with the Ad America first message. | ||
| So we don't want to take away constitutional rights, right? | ||
| We, we know there's a first amendment for a reason, but we do think that Congress should close the tax loophole and stop allowing a hundred percent of these ads to be written off on corporate taxes. | ||
| That right there will lower the amount of ads by a good amount. | ||
| The second thing that we're asking Congress to consider doing is to utilize a provision of existing statute that would allow RFK Jr. to levy fees on these, on these commercials. | ||
| And we're recommending a dollar for dollar match. | ||
| We think for every dollar that big pharma spends on direct-to-consumer advertising, they should be fined or have a fee assessed of a matching dollar that goes to offset Medicare and Medicaid in this country. | ||
| You know, you saw the number at the top of the segment. | ||
| Over tens, over $10 billion dollars, dollars a year are spent on this can you imagine if they had to pay a dollar for dollar match and how we could help fix some tax problems in this country deficit you know debt medicare medicaid some of these welfare programs that americans rely on so heavily. | ||
| The last thing that we want people to do, though, is to let their voices be heard. | ||
| That's why it's so important to make sure you go to busbigpharma.com, right? | ||
| Let us know that you want to see us on the bus tour, but more importantly, sign the petition saying that you want to ban direct-to-consumer advertising in its current form. | ||
| That's going to be the information that we share with every member of Congress about why this isn't so important in their district. | ||
| Lastly, Steve, I'd love to. | ||
| We're getting ready to launch the second ad in that series with the same protagonists and a different family talking about a whole different set of direct-to-consumer advertising. | ||
| We're hoping to launch that here in the next two weeks. | ||
| And if you'll have me back, we'd love to give it to you as an exclusive so you can air it first. | ||
| Done. | ||
| Deal. | ||
| One more time. | ||
| Where do people go to go to the site and social media, all of it? | ||
| So people understand. | ||
| I want to make sure the posse is always best when they fully understand the issue. | ||
| So we'd like to inundate them with information so they can make their own decisions. | ||
| But where do they go? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| We need your support at bustbigpharma.com. | ||
| Again, bustbigpharma.com. | ||
| And you can find us on all the social media sites. | ||
| Handle is at busbigpharma. | ||
| We're on X, we're on Instagram. | ||
| We're on Facebook. | ||
| We're on Truth. | ||
| We're on Gitter. | ||
| We are proud to be supported by the posse. | ||
| We will give you as much information as you need, and we look forward to being back. | ||
| Thank you, Rob. | ||
| Rob Burgess. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| So, Brad, you've been there. | ||
| What's it like? | ||
| What's it like when big pharma comes in and puts the squeeze on you as a lowly congressman? | ||
| I was so low, I never got the squeeze. | ||
| That is what I refer to as the giant XL spreadsheet in the sky, right? | ||
| That's up in the speaker's office. | ||
| It's shared with two or three people, and that's it. | ||
| But for the war room, let me give them the analogy that best fits that I just had to get in today. | ||
| When you go to the Federal Reserve, go watch that Tucker interview on the Fed guy. | ||
| But the Federal Reserve was set up to be the lender of last resort for the small little banks, right? | ||
| And then we had this thing happen after the Fed called the Great Depression. | ||
| And the Fed was supposed to come in as a lender resort for the small banks. | ||
| What happened? | ||
| The small banks got crushed. | ||
| The small businesses got crushed. | ||
| They all went bankrupt. | ||
| That's mom and pop. | ||
| There weren't social insurance companies. | ||
| So now you hear the U.S. and there's all these arguments for big tech, big pharma, big everything. | ||
| They all need to go bye-bye. | ||
| It's very dangerous politically. | ||
| It's dangerous to our constitutional republic. | ||
| These folks are out of control. | ||
| The money shifts behaviors, preferences. | ||
| And the last gentleman was great. | ||
| You got to end big, big pharmacy, right? | ||
| It's the bigs that are shaping everything. | ||
| They're the ones that have monopoly power, and there'll be every argument in the book. | ||
| They're going to make, well, we're competing against China like big tech or something like that. | ||
| We have to have this power. | ||
| And so, no, that's why the base is hyped up now. | ||
| We all know this is the time in our country's history to make the big push and to end these big firms are doing extreme damage to the middle class, to the working class. | ||
| They're all working together. | ||
| They all get to meet with only leadership. | ||
| They don't even have to put up with the average congressman. | ||
| The average congressman's not in the loop at all. | ||
| And so thank God for the war room and the pressure we're putting on them. | ||
| We got some great people working up and antitrust now in D.C., and they need to be applauded for their great work. | ||
| No, the antitrust, the neo-Brandeisians over at the FTC, the FCC, Gail Slater and the team at the Justice Department. | ||
| You got Mike Davis, all of us working towards this. | ||
| And you're right. | ||
| The difference, I can tell you, the single biggest difference between the first term and the second term is the concentration of power under Biden, these oligarchs, big tech, big media, the big banks, big finance, big pharma. | ||
| It is, they are crushing and squeezing the life out of the entrepreneurs in this country and the American people. | ||
| Dave, Brad, hang on. | ||
| Want to talk in, let's get the number back up if we can. | ||
| Maybe we'll do it at the top of the next hour. | ||
| In Texas, need you on the phone today to light these folks up down there and tell them, hey, we need some action, action, action. | ||
| The governor's office, the lieutenant governor, call the lieutenant government, tell them about the Senate. | ||
| How come the Senate hadn't voted? | ||
| Call the Speaker of the House. | ||
| Hey, let's take some action. | ||
| Quit talking and take a couple of parking spots away. | ||
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| They've done such a great job supporting this effort. | ||
| Glenn's story and the team. | ||
| Short break. | ||
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| Fantastic job. | ||
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