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Episode 5062: Diego Garcia The Footprint Of Freedom

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The protests look violent, they look destructive.
How close is, or how at risk is the regime today?
There's no doubt, Katie, that this is probably the most widespread protests that have been seen in Iran since 2009.
Just the fact that the protests are organic, that are just not politically in nature, but started because of economic conditions and have spread so widely.
And frankly, based on the reports that I have seen from the leading opposition group to Iran, that's providing support to the Iranian opposition led by Maryam Rajavi and the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Economic conditions and have spread so widely and frankly, based on the reports that I have seen from the leading opposition group UH, TO Iran, that's providing support to the Iranian opposition led by Mariam Rajavi and the National Council OF Resistance OF IRAN.
That number is far higher.
The key here is whether or not, in the end, the opposition can coalesce around some leadership, both internally and externally and secondly, whether the president of the United States and the United States can provide the technical and cyber support the opposition needs in order to unite.
The president ever direct DOJ officials to open an investigation into power.
No.
And can you reassure the American public that his longstanding criticisms and public comments about Powell had nothing to do with the investigation?
Look, the President has every right to criticize the Fed Chair.
He has a First Amendment right, just like all of you do.
And one thing for sure, the President's made it quite clear, is Jerome Powell is bad at his job.
As for whether or not Jerome Powell is a criminal, that's an answer the Department of Justice is going to have to find out.
And it looks like they intend to find that out.
And of course, we should note, and I know you mentioned this, Powell did respond in a very unprecedented video image or video response saying that this was all part of that pressure campaign that President Trump and the administration had been putting on him to lower those interest rates.
What is the opposition, though?
Is there a unifying leader for the opposition?
I know there's some people that are talking about the former Shah's son who's been living in exile.
But is he popular enough to lead Iran?
This is a self-created delusion by people around the pretender to the throne.
There is hardly any support within Iran for a restoration of the monarchy, particularly under Pahlavi, who is more or less lounged in California and is trying to latch on to these protests.
The major opposition leader globally is Mariam Rajavi, who leads the NCRI or what is known as And that organization has actually boots on the ground providing support to the opposition leadership in many of these cities.
But indeed, the internal opposition structure of Iran has been decimated by this regime.
Because they're not trying to work with the community.
They're trying to terrorize the community.
Donald Trump views his administration as being at war with parts of America that he sees as too liberal.
It doesn't matter that that's not the way, you know, American communities don't work like electoral maps where they're painted red or blue, but that's how he sees it.
And he has deployed federal agents to make the populations in these places suffer.
So incidents like this one, where local residents are trying to prevent ICE from inflicting pain on their neighbors, if those people end up shot, the administration sees that as justifiable.
He's said as much himself.
So they're not de -escalating because they're not interested in de -escalation.
They are interested in inflicting suffering on the people of the state of Minnesota.
The primal scream of a dying regime.
Pray for our enemies.
Because we're going medieval on these people.
I 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 try 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? Mega 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.
WAR ROOM, here's your host, Stephen K Band.
Monday, 12 january, year of our lord 2026, a world on fire protest still in the streets of Tehran, although the regime is saying that that is being tempered and slowing down.
Whitkoff is in negotiations, or in discussions, I should say, with a representative of the ayatollah and the Mullahs to talk about quote-unquote, a new deal.
I don't know what that would anticipate.
The nuclear program may.
but we destroyed it. I don't know much to discuss there. There is a carrier battle group, I believe, in the South China Sea that is heading towards the Straits of Malacca and to the Indian Ocean and eventually to the North Arabian Sea to be in position to give President Trump leverage over whatever he decides. However,
folks, let's read what President Trump just put out. And I quote, effective immediately, any country doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a tariff of 25%. On any and all business being done with the United States of America, this order is final and conclusive. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. President Trump going even further on economic warfare,
a brilliant move to say if you're going to do business with the regime, right, I would assume this would be China, the Chinese Communist Party, because they're buying 50% of their oil from them. So we'll have to see. I don't know. Maybe that carrier battle group,
if it actually does end up in the North Arabian Sea and doesn't turn around and go back to the South China Sea, I don't know. Maybe it is stopping tankers coming out of there and seizing the oil. President Trump also today called, the White House said, it did call Elizabeth Warren and talked to her about the bank credit cards and keep the banks are whining nonstop. This is going to be a financial catastrophe. That they charge you with your APR at, I don't know, 25, 26, 27,
30%. President Trump's trying to get them capped at 10. The banks are going crazy. He talked to Elizabeth Warren, who she said, hey, just use your leverage over them. Let's get it done. Also, on the matter of the Powell,
today, I don't know, the bond market bounced around a little bit. It added a basis point. Dead at a basis point to yields, but stock market up, gold and silver up, but the stock market was up, both the S&P 400, the S&P 500, and the Dow Jones. I think the markets kind of shrugged this off. They would be, if Powell wanted discipline put on the price of the United States, it would show that the bond and equity market,
they had his support. Oh, this is terrible. This is awful. I didn't see it. There was a little turbulence in the bond market, kind of settled out. Stock market was healthy today. A good trading day. What am I missing, though? The cabal of the former chairs of the Federal Reserve, who've done such a horrific job in destroying the U.S. dollar, kind of get together and head pals back. Markets shrugged it off. Markets, no big deal. I think they kind of say,
my impression is they support President Trump. I got to tell you, I think there's also, I think the testimony of Powell's kind of problematic about the mausoleum they're building down there next to the original Federal Reserve building,
which is a beautiful Art Deco building. Just leave it. Why'd you need this new monstrosity? President Trump was shocked when he walked around the construction site. He's been around a couple, three construction sites in his life. So I don't know. That thing looks like it's moving forward. Also in Mexico,
the Mexicans are scrambling. We have Oscar Blue Ramirez now into Mexico and heading down into South Central Mexico because the president indicated, hey, maybe our next shot is at these drug cartels in Mexico. Maybe we have to do a kinetic interdiction. That sent them all in a tizzy. And of course, A couple of senators, I think, are heading over to Denmark.
To talk to them about the situation in Greenland and the Arctic North.
I would warn folks, I think the next one, next big conversation is going to be around Canada and their inability to protect their northern Arctic border from the Chinese Communist Party and the Russians from turning them into the next Ukraine.
No need to have that here in the Western Hemisphere as President Trump cleans things up.
Also, I think I said this morning, just to make sure everybody understands, Scott Besson has reported that Malay in Argentina, they drew down $2.5 billion of the $20 billion facility they gave that the U.S. Government gave them.
They paid it back with interest.
I think we made $40 or $50 million.
Mark Mitchell's with Us.
Mark, you've been looking at a lot of different aspects of things that are going on since so much is every day there's another, you know, another Judge Mac Daddy that changes the next day. President Trump, I don't know, it's kind of in a full flex. Uh, what, what is your, what is your analytics tell you about what you're polling right now about where the American people are on a range of topics, sir? Well, I want to acknowledge because a lot of people call me a black pillar. And first I would say,
I don't black pill. I give you the data. Everything that I say is backed up with data and I draw my conclusions, but I challenge you to make your own. And if Trump's doing well, I'll say he's doing well. If he's doing poorly, I'll say, hold it, hold it. Hang on. Who, accused you of being a black pillar? I think you come forward with pretty straight information. You've got to drive what you think. I don't want to call out names there, but I mean, everybody on Twitter calls me that. And now there's a war on MAGA black pillars when in reality, it's like, okay,
I got to the White House to help give the administration advice, and it looks like they're taking some of that. You know, I'll tell you for November and December, it really felt like the wheels were falling off, and Donald Trump's net approval got down to negative 12. It's still, I think, negative 9 or negative 8 today, but what is changing is the last couple of days have been absolutely incredible. We've finally seen, in my opinion, a lot of aggressive actions, which is what Americans want out of Donald Trump. They want the system fixed, and so if he can make sure, if he's managing this circus, right,
and he has one big main ring, and there's a couple of side rings. I would almost say that he could get away with whatever he wants in those side rings as long as the main ring is the core fundamental root cause problems that Americans have right now. And what are those root cause problems? It's decades of corporatism and uniparty kleptocracy and corporate welfare have hollowed out the middle class and we need the American dream back. And that's going to be a long road to hoe. It's going to be a journey. America needs a golden path, Not a golden age now.
And I think we're starting to see that.
And I think we're starting to see aggressive actions.
I would love some more intent, a little bit more strategy and plan behind it.
But the fact that they're going after these housing investors, pretty big deal.
The fact that Scott Besson's coming out with like some pretty creative ways to shut down on like remittances and stuff like that.
We're starting to see some good stuff there.
And the other one is brutal government reform, which I would kind of give Trump sort of like a D minus or F plus at because we just haven't seen it.
And the numbers are getting worse.
Donald Trump was elected because people trusted him more than the federal government.
And if he's not attacking the federal government, unfortunately, he's wrong.
And so, all of a sudden, we see right direction, has reclaimed low 40s.
It's a solid 42 % today, I think. And so that's good because we lost the 40% number. And so I think America is fundamentally behind Trump and the polling says it. We had a poll from a week or two ago and we asked America, has Trump delivered not enough or too much of what he promised? Only 21% of America says too much. 38% say not enough. And especially the younger voters,
half of them say not enough. And so what people want is kind of the stuff I think we're seeing out of Trump now. His numbers are getting better when he acts like a dictator and that was kind of like what happened in February and March as well. And so you look at these ICE protesters, you look at this ridiculous level of fraud. People hate this. The Minnesota fraud, I mean, the numbers of fraud just keep getting higher and higher. We're up to 75% of Americans right now that are angry at the level of waste, fraud,
and abuse in America. That's even higher than it was when Doge was threatening to audit the Department of Defense and shut down the Fed. And then, do you agree or disagree with this statement? The fraud reported in Minnesota so far is just the tip of a very large iceberg of fraud involving federally funded programs nationwide. 61% to 26. Huge numbers. Like,
America's like, obviously, obviously these people are stealing generational wealth from us. Mark Hanger for one second. We're going to take a short commercial break. Your polling's always amazing. Your data's always amazing. Don't let people call you names. You're offering good advice. To the president you always have. That's why they invite you over to the White House. Are your critics invited to the White House? Don't think so. Short commercial break. Bob Weir in commemoration of the passing of a great,
maybe not exactly MAGA, but it's the Grateful Dead. Short break. Mark Mitchell. Cleo Pascal is going to join us all next week. Here's your host,
Stephen K. Bann. Mark Mitchell is with us. Mark, by the way, Cleo is at the Honolulu Defense Forum, and she's going to be up momentarily. Mark, Continue on, sir.
Well, I was roasting Minnesota fraud and I think this is the biggest opportunity that Trump has been given this year, and unfortunately, I hate to say it, but it looks like Republicans just don't have a stiff enough upper lip to actually govern this country.
Maybe we'll get some good stuff in the reconciliation bills, I don't know.
They seem even incapable of talking about what their plans are for this year, and that's horrifying.
Democrats are up for I mean.
I guess it could be worse, but Trump captured the zeitgeist of the youth.
He was the most popular.
His job approval rating was the highest when he was taking a chainsaw to the federal government and unfortunately, for whatever reason, it would appear that Republicans sent Doge. Packing out of D.C. on a rail. Well, here we are again. America is being reminded that probably 10% of our annual federal expenditure is waste, fraud, and abuse in a very, very visible,
egregious way where Americans, I think, are demanding aggressive action. And every one of the aggressive things that Trump has done, that the press has, you know, clutched their pearls and clucked their tongues about, is actually more popular than Trump is. Arresting people for the auto pen? More popular than Trump is. Arresting people for, you know, blowing up narco boats? Like, that was more popular than Trump is. Literally everything, including even nabbing Maduro,
Is more popular than Trump is 51 percent approved of uh?
U.s military action to capture Maduro.
Only what is that?
41 percent disapproved, only 28 strongly disapproved.
And so here's where I think it matters like this is not the same America 10 years ago that kind of cared about the constitution and all the finer details about entitlement reform and red versus blue policy.
No again, these people think the system has failed.
They want a brutal return to order and they want people held accountable, and so what Trump could do between now and november is just like surge these cities with everybody.
Like forget just ice.
People protest ice.
Are people going to protest?
The United States Marine Corps?
Let's you know.
use the Insurrection Act. Or what about all those 80,000 armed IRS troops that we never fired? Like, let's get some people up there. Let's do it in California. Let's do it in New York. Let's do it in New Jersey. And make it lay bare. Okay, okay. Hang on a second. David Hoke tells me they're working on a huge, and it's getting edited right now by the great young videographer, and it may be out tomorrow,
but he's telling me that in Minnesota, they've only scratched the surface. They're about to come out with, I mean, systemic fraud of a scale that you can't believe. Is that just going to throw more gasoline on this fire for President Trump will have support? To go in with a meat axe and do this and also to not just federalize the National Guard,
but maybe even send the Army in if you have to have, because I keep saying they're fighting. These fights are all about mass deportations. The mass deportations have to come. They have to come. Do you think the American people, as you read the data, will they have as back in this, particularly as they see that the Somalian thing is 10 times bigger? Than people think it is today, and it is throughout the country, and not just with the Somalians, but the entire business model of the radical Democrats, the Marxist jihadists,
is based upon having the federal government taxpayers actually pay for this? I mean, what has been dangerous for Trump's numbers is countersignaling his movement and not understanding why he got elected, getting involved in doing things for other people and not the American people,
and not doing enough of what he promised. And so all of these things that he's done already that our polling has said were popular, like, for instance, sending the National Guard. To cities, that was really popular. In fact, more popular than Trump was. None of this stuff has hurt his numbers at all. And so I think where we're at is that I think people are voting and supporting politicians basically because of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. I think they're worried about food,
sustenance, shelter. You know, we're not talking about self-actualization right now. And Americans fundamentally care most about fairness. We've measured that so many different ways, like 90% think it's important to prevent cheating in elections. 95% think it's important we don't have. And so if your core principle is fairness,
accountability, reform, and a return to order, you know, be smart about it, obviously. And people don't like the masks and people don't like the theatrics out of ice, obviously. Some of that stuff has gone a little bit too far, but it's like, why aren't we beating up the businesses? People would be there for that. They don't want to hear about business stability. They're beyond that. They can't afford a future in America. And all the economic metrics continue to say that. So yeah, it's like, okay, if people are protesting ICE, again,
I don't think they're going to be protesting the FBI as much.
They're probably not going to be protesting the troops that we would surge.
But we got to understand where we're at.
Only 30 % trusted the federal government.
Before the election.
Now everybody looks at the government and basically assumes it's been validated multiple times now that there is just a generational level of fraud and abuse.
Over 70 % of Americans assume that most elected representatives are profiting ill -gotten gains from their positions.
Abusing power.
They're angry at the level of waste, fraud, and abuse.
Overwhelmingly, people want to swamp train, like 69%.
They want audits of the major programs.
And we got rid of Doge, and Doge could have ushered in a new generation of youth voting for Republicans,
and Republicans really didn't kind of care about that. But again, now Trump, in my opinion, like remember, we have almost 60% of America agreeing with Trump that he who saves his country violates no laws. And so I think that this is the opportunity of a lifetime for Trump and Republicans is like basically go after this criminal cartel. Of Democrats. And if you,
like, I haven't asked these questions, I'm sure it would be overwhelmingly popular. Let's get RICO cases. Let's, like, roll up Antifa. Like, why, like, finally we're hearing about investigations into George Soros, but people think this country was stolen. They want it back. Okay. Republicans don't have the stones for this because they were the Washington generals to the radical Democrats, Harlem Globetrotters,
that allowed this all to happen. There's still finance in this budget that you have today. You're still financed. It's still financed. It's a complete joke. Mark, where do people go on your YouTube channel? Where do they go on your social media? You're coming a little hot on there, but you've got great analysis. Don't let people call you a black pillow. You're a realist. You're just reporting how you're trying to help people and say, here's where it's going. So just forget the influencers. But where do you go to get you? Yeah,
rasp us an underscore poll and at Honest Pollster on Twitter and rasp us an underscore poll on YouTube. Yeah, this is really optimistic. What I would say is that the bar is so low. Just literally do something. Republicans, do something. That's all America is asking out of you. And I think, quite frankly, Trump has carte blanche to as long as the fundamental principle is restoring fairness and order, then people will give Trump a very, very,
very long leash. Very American virtues. Mark Mitchell, thank you. Thank you for the work you do and thank you for the grief you get. Take it and keep grinding. Thank you, sir. I love it. Thanks. We're going to go to the border in a moment. Oscar Blue Ramirez actually, I think he's south of the border, heading to Central America, Central Mexico, excuse me, About this situation of interdicting the drug cartels.
I want to go out to Honolulu to the defense forum.
Our own Cleo Pascal out there.
Cleo's the leading.
I'm a thinker about the Central Pacific as the strategic pivot of the United States.
I think President Trump is a pretty big fan.
You tell me that they're focused on economic warfare out there.
Thank God.
President Trump just dropped a thermonuclear economic warfare bomb.
He said anybody doing business with the Islamic regime or the Islamic Republic Of Iran will immediately get a 25 % tariff.
I assume that means the CCP.
Buying their Earl in droves and tankers from the Mulas.
Your thoughts?
Cleo? Yes, and what we're seeing here is not just that blocking, but also building. There's a lot of serious investors here who are talking to practitioners, people in the field, about how U.S. investment can be deployed in order to build up alternatives to some of that Chinese investment and to create different pathways for ports, airports, energy infrastructure. Digital connectivity,
it's really being broken down in a very practical way that we haven't seen in a long time, and the right people are in the room here in Honolulu. I think it probably helps that they're holding it in January in Honolulu. But it's a very different approach,
different language than I've heard here before, and it's quite promising. Cleo, supposedly, theoretically, a carrier battle group in the South China Sea is heading to the Straits of Malacca to go to the Indian Ocean. Then to the North Arabian Sea to give President Trump options,
to give him alternatives about what he's thinking through against the Islamic Republic. Remember, we're the big ones. The guys say, hey, economic warfare, you're doing great. If they go, just have them stop the tankers and the mullahs will be brought to their knees even faster than Scott Besson's plan,
which has brought them to their knees pretty quickly. En route there, they're going to pass Diego Garcia. Here to four, that's kind of been an American base, a strategic American base on a small island in the Indian Ocean. Starmer and the Labour government is trying to give it away to essentially a proxy for the Chinese Communist Party. I think in Lords today they discussed it. Please tell me they reversed that, That Diego Garcia is going to stay in British and American hands, ma 'am.
No, they haven't.
And I think you've been there.
Have you been there?
I've been to Diego Garcia.
And so you know how important it is.
It's basically a pier and a runway.
It's a pier and a runway.
In the middle of nowhere.
It's a runway for strategic bombers.
It can reload the nuclear subs, It can port carrier groups.
It has the pre -positioning ships.
It does the Space Force operations.
It is a piece of American power projection in a location that can range Africa, Middle East, the approaches to the Indian Ocean from the Pacific. It is unbelievably important, and the British are trying to create a situation where the Chinese can get it out from the Americans. Well, Not all the British.
We're going to take a short commercial break.
Not all the British.
I think Starmer's Labor Government, right?
We have a couple of three people.
Nigel Farage, I think, is one of them.
Let's find This.
Anyway, we'll get into It.
We've got Oscar Ramirez.
All of It.
Give me a Second.
We're just going to go to break and get you back here with some runway.
Jenny's story is going to also join us about 6 o 'clock today.
We're going to launch WAR ROOM Texas about the situation on there.
How do I say this?
Takeover, Sharia law?
We'll get into all of it.
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March 3rd primary in Texas on the ballot is Prohibiting, banning Sharia law in the state of Texas. The governor's already designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CARE as terrorist organizations, supposedly DPS. The Texas Rangers are investigating that right now. So we're going to bring all those threads together. We're going to have this show at least until March 3rd, 4th, or 5th,
until after the primary. We're actually going to shift the flag of the war room for a while down to Texas. We think it's that important to get this done. Of course, we're going to have on the rest of the war room all the news and analysis throughout the world. Capital markets, geopolitics,
good old-fashioned politics. In fact, the grass is going to be back in the saddle tomorrow morning. We're going to talk about our favorite topic, redistricting, starting in Florida. The 2026 midterms. No better way to win the 2026 midterms than to have a massive turnout on 3 March and put up,
I don't know, 60, 70, 80% approval of banning Sharia law in the state of Texas. The fight is on in New York. The fight is on in Minneapolis. The fight is on in Chicago and Seattle and Portland. And the great jewel of the crown, Texas, they're coming for. And we have to make sure we have the Texans back. To both stop this now and reverse it and drive it from our country. Cleo Pascal, give me a couple of minutes. Diego Garcia is strategically very important, particularly now,
more than ever. You can see what's happening in the next 72 hours. The United States Navy and its allies will always need that port. It is no need at all whatsoever. It is insanity. Given how we're getting across the globe,
you can see the beginnings of a phase two of the kinetic part of the Third World War. To give away one of our most strategic assets, the island down there at Dea Garcia. What is going on in England? Can this be reversed if Starmer is hell-bent,
who's stone-cold broke and needs the United States more than anything? Is there any way to reverse this? Yes. The Chagossians and the British who are trying to fight for it are saying they just need a signal from the U.S. that the U.S. doesn't want it. Very soon after the Trump administration came in, in March, there was a press release put out, I think before Trump appointees were in place, signaling approval for this deal. Now, this deal is a 99-year lease. President Trump has said in the context of Greenland,
leases don't mean anything. But what's going to happen if this deal goes through is the U.K. gives the Chagos Archipelago, which includes Diego Garcia, Mauritius, a country which is already very close to China, and then leases from Mauritius the land under the base. Now, they're supposed to pay about $35 billion or pounds or the amounts are huge over 99 years. And if the UK misses one payment, the lease can be cancelled. And I think that's what they're setting up to do. And even if they don't do that,
because Mauritius has signed the African Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, as soon as they go to Mauritius, The U.S. will be in contravention of that treaty because they're probably nuclear weapons on the base or passing through the base. Now,
we can say that the U.S. doesn't care about international treaties, but there may come an administration that wants to find a reason to get rid of the base, and then they will use that as an excuse. So there are at least two time bombs sitting inside this agreement that makes no economic sense. And as you said, The Brits are Broke.
Do you think they're going to be paying?
Billions of dollars for a U .S. Base in the middle of the Indian Ocean if you've got a government like Starmer's government that is already not even sharing intelligence data with the U .S. On things like Venezuela because they think it might be a contravention of international Law.
So this is a.
This is a Setup.
What happened today in the House OF Lords was skulldudgery.
They passed a regret motion which implied that a lot of the Lords were not happy with this, but regardless, they Kept recalling votes and calling for more votes and confused everybody to the point where they got it through the House.
So now it's just a matter of time, unless something Happens.
And the Chagossians themselves, the people of those islands who were expelled decades ago, see the U.S. as their only hope. They've written an open letter to President Trump. They've said, please save us. We will name an island after you. They're desperate. So the decision for this now rests. In the White House,
about whether or not the U.S. will be able to retain this critically important base and the Chagossian people will have a future that doesn't involve just being subsumed by the Mauritians. In the CCP. Where can people follow you as you're out to Honolulu Defense Forum? You're pulling tough duty this week,
Cleo, so how do people follow you? And from here it's to Palau and Yap, so it gets even nicer. I'm on Twitter. I'm going to post some of the footage from that House of Lords debate,
if you want to see how crazy that is. And this is called the footprint of freedom. Diego Garcia is known as the footprint of freedom. Prime Minister Starmer,
the whole thing is a setup. I don't understand why it's not front-page news everywhere, and I'm really grateful to you, especially on such a busy day, to find some time to cover it. Always. The Central Pacific is a strategic pivot for Manifest Destiny 2.0,
America first. Thank you, ma'am. Appreciate you. Oscar Blue Ramirez. All kind of, they're sending troops, they're sending Mexican troops to the northern border. President Trump is saying, yo, unless it cleans up the activity down there, I'm going to go and interdict the drug cartels, and I'm going to do it with kinetic warfare. I'm not doing economic warfare. I've done enough of that. First off,
what is going on? You're best at parsing this. What is the bid and the ask on this between Mexico and the United States governments, sir? Well, Clyde,
shame on Steve. It's just basically trying to please the Trump administration. The country is a mess. The Mexican citizens, we know. that the three branches of power they are controlled by the organized crime and the cartel this same uh it's a copy face of what she has been doing every time that the trump administration pressures the shambhala administration she deploys national guardsmen to the north borders or she deploys more military just to Be reassured that the citizens are not being hurt,
but actually going after the real consequences and the real organizations and criminal organizations, she's not going after. You've got a war in Culiacán with the Mayos and Los Chapos going on two years, and she cannot even end that. That is the real situation. That is where the Trump administration needs to focus in the places like Michoacán. That is controlled by the CJNG that from there, the massive laboratory constructions to, you know, cocaine,
fentanyl are made also in the mountains of Culiacán and also in the south border where it is the massive trafficking of illicit gasoline and also cocaine coming down from South America in the part of Chiapas.
I don't know why they're not concentrated on these places.
This is where they need to be concentrated.
And, you know, we need consequences, Steve.
There is no consequences right now with, you know, legitimate leaders of the criminal organizations and dismantling these criminal organizations that at the end of the day, this is what the Trump administration wants.
Oscar, the cartel heads have to have looked at Maduro and the thugs around him because those are real gangsters.
They had to look at that and what the American military did on that extraction, which is extraordinary.
it's a different level of warfare. And to look at the expeditionary hit President Trump put on the. Iranians to end the 12-day war and understand that President Trump's not a guy to be messed with. Isn't there a concern? I mean, wouldn't they be if President Trump said, hey, look, you got options here, but it's got to be full surrender. Do you think the cartels will surrender or are they dug in and just going to tell Trump, come and get it? Well, the real cartel is the one that is wearing the suit and the tie,
Steve. And these are the dirty politicians and these are the ones that they're being pressured right now. And after they saw the extraction of Nicolás Maduro I am going to airstrike these cartels in Mexico if you don't fix this. Immediately, Claudio Sheinbaum came in and said, I'm going to do whatever you need me and whatever you ask me to do as long as you don't come over here and strike my associates. Basically, the whole conservative party and the opposition of the left,
it is now what Donald Trump has done is given them courage to go up. And defend Mexico and go up to them and tell them, you know what, why you're still protecting these people, why you haven't designated them as terrorists. The cartels right now, they understand that their frame and their protection,
it is the government. They are the ones that they're actually preventing these organizations from getting slammed, from getting destroyed, from getting airstriked. That will be what millions of Mexicans we want. We don't want, the majority doesn't want an intervention, but what they want, it is the elimination of these criminal organizations. So the country of Mexico can prosper, Steve. Is the Mexican government now to the point that they would welcome Trump to come in,
just like the VP down in Venezuela, but say on the surface, we don't like it?
Have they really had a change of heart?
They've got an opportunity to kill the cartels.
Are they still actually really on the cartel side?
Well, the Mexican government, it is controlled by the organized crime in the cartels.
This is why the right-wing political parties in Mexico are continuously exposing them and pressuring them.
The real cartel in the government, it is these dirty politicians.
Nobody in history has done what President Trump has done in Mexico.
More than 50 dirty politicians he has exposed, and he also has closed more than 12 companies that they were involved with politicians.
giving out illegal substances and precursors to the chapels and the miles so they can traffic fentanyl into the north borders of the United States of America.
They're the ones that they need to feel the pressure.
They need to freeze their accounts.
They need to investigate it immediately and stop playing games of just pleasing the Trump administration.
Trump administration needs to understand that descending the troops to the north borders is just a smokescreen to just continue with the massive operation in the war that is in the central parts of the country seat.
Now, what about your travel?
I don't give too much away, but you've you've said that this thing needs to be covered and you're trying to cover it right now.
What aspects of this are you going to try to cover?
And are you actually going to try to get down to at least some area in South Central Mexico?
Yes, sir.
We're going to the main parts where the war is happening.
And also, absolutely, we need to inform what the Trump administration has done in Mexico, closing laboratories, also closing these companies.
We're going to be informing from the companies that they have been closed because of the Department of Treasury has exposed these companies that were given illegal precursors.
Also, we're going to show the Mad Max vehicles, the you know, these vehicles that they were seized by the Mexican government due to the Trump administration and all the equipment and the technology that the cartel has grown.
And they grew so much under the four years of Joe Biden.
all of this got exacerbated because of the enormous trafficking of humans and trafficking of children, and the cartel grew two times bigger under the years of Joe Biden. So all of this we're going to show on this trip, hopefully, sir. Oscar, you be careful. You've shown tremendous courage in the last four or five years reporting down there from Mexico for your country and also in Central America and all the way down to the border. Of Colombia and Venezuela. You were the first one in the Darien Gap, so be very,
very careful. Oscar Blue Ramirez, you've got a show now on Rav Spanish. Talk to people where they go for that, where they go for your content. Well, you know, you can follow Rav Español. That's the new channel of Real America's Voices. We're doing all the information in Spanish, so follow Rav en Español. And our show is going to be there, you know, in the next incoming weeks. Raymond Nassar is one of the shows that is there. Also, Javier Negre, you can follow there. You know,
All the presentations of Rabin Español, all my social media is Oscar Blue Ramirez, sir, and also Real America's Voice News, sir.
Best coverage of the cartels ever.
Best in coverage of the invasion here.
Thank you so much, sir.
Appreciate you.
Real hero.
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
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I think, a couple of days before Christmas. Next thing you know. And I've been, I've had a lot of conferences, I've given a lot of speeches, I've been involved in a lot of things. Friday was unique. There was something that pulled all that together spiritually that was so powerful. How did it happen, ma'am? You know, it truly was spiritual. It's interesting, I'm going to take you back a little bit, because, you know, just watching everything that's going on with the whole, you know, Islamification of Texas, okay? Yeah. And literally,
I have been praying for months. I've been on my knees, and I was like, God, this is your country. Help us. Where are you? God, where are you? And just praying for God to take his country back, right? And then you reached out to Glenn. I think it was Christmas Eve. And he said, okay, we got to do a conference. We got to get people rallied. We got to do And we've got to do it by this date,
because that's the only time that Garrett can do it. And I'm like, well, that's like two and a half weeks away. I've got a company I've got to run. How's this going to happen? And I literally went to bed that night going, there's no way. No one can put a conference on in two and a half weeks. And I was woken up,
and literally it was God speaking to me, and he said, just say yes, do not fear, I will bring you a coalition. And I went to bed with such peace. And the next morning I called my friend Melinda Preston over at Denton County Republican Party and I was like,
what do you think about this idea? And she's like, yeah. And then we were at Park City's Republican woman luncheon and I went up to Elle and I was like, you know, what do you think? Oh, yes. And then yeses were just coming in one after the other after the other. And you saw the invitation. It had 22 causes on there. And it was incredible. And then people start coming and they're like,
we need to do a pre-meeting. We need to get all these folks together. And I was like, okay. So I just start calling people and people are throwing out names. And we had 62 either cause leaders or legislators in the room. And And we just started talking about, What do you know?
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And it was just incredible.
You were there, Steve.
And it was just an incredible pre-meeting.
And then the actual event itself, you know, there was so much hope.
There was so much excitement.
It was kind of like when DEI came out and people were afraid to say you were against DEI or CRT because you would be called a racist.
Right.
And then when people just started saying, this is crazy.
Talk about that.
And we saw that there was just so much commonality.
And so, you know, the silent majority.
Right.
That we were we were there were so many people passionate about the same thing.
It was the same thing that night.
I mean, you felt it in the room.
It was probably one of the best events.
and it wasn't me, it was him. It was all him, and it was an incredible team that we have at Patriot Mobile. I mean, Patriot Mobile is, You know, we have things that we want to do,
and the team just rallies around it, and, you know, we were all high-fiving at the end of it. It was an incredible event, so thank you. Thank you for kick-starting it, and then thank you for everybody for saying yes. 972 Patriot,
that's where you go to Patriot. What's your social media, Jenna? Jenny, we're going to kick off with War Room Texas in a moment. What's your social media? So it's patriotmobile.com. Go backslash Bannon and learn more about what Patriot Mobile is all about. We do more than just cell phone service. We are a mission. So we are funding that mission through the sale of cell phone service,
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there's going to be even more bombshells coming out of Minnesota. I'll deal with that with you tomorrow. Right now, the war in posse in two minutes. Give us some deals, sir. You guys, I'm on my way to another governor debate, and I've been doing them every day, but I wanted to get on here because we started this morning our biggest mattress and topper sale in the history of MyPillow. 100% made in the USA, but let me tell you, just on the queen size alone, there's over 10,000 pressure cushions, individual cushions,
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