Episode 5262: Episode 5262: Liberal Judges Deliver Judicial Blows To The Admin; Trump Signs EO On Election Integrity
President Trump and Steve Bannon confront judicial roadblocks, including Judge Leon's injunction on the East Wing ballroom and Judge Moss's First Amendment ruling against NPR defunding. They analyze Trump's election integrity executive order utilizing barcodes and federal agency coordination while debating the legality of bypassing Congress for the $4 billion Federal Reserve project. The discussion extends to regime change in Iran, potential Strait of Hormuz control, and Supreme Court challenges to birthright citizenship, arguing that reciprocal alliances and strict voter verification are essential for national security and electoral integrity. [Automatically generated summary]
Judge is saying, Katie, in a three-page order just decided that the ballroom may not have any further construction done.
They are preliminarily enjoined from taking any action in furtherance of the physical development of the proposed ballroom at the former site of the east wing of the White House.
And then he goes on to detail what exactly it is that the administration may not do to make it crystal clear that this applies to everything from excavation and foundation work to construction work.
This is a judge who does not want to be circumvented by the White House, and that's why he's being as concrete as he is about what it is that they can't do.
But I will also note that this order won't take effect for 14 days.
Can they build the place in 14 days?
Well, I don't know that they can build the place in 14 days, but I think what he is trying to do is also give the administration an opportunity to perhaps appeal this ruling.
A preliminary injunction is, in fact, immediately appealable to the D.C. Circuit, and that may be what they're trying to do.
At the same time, the judge, Richard Leon, who's a senior judge in the D.C. Federal District Court, is saying that they need to file a status report within the next three weeks, apprising the court of their compliance.
So he seems to both be allowing them an opportunity to appeal, but also warning them in the same breath: don't come back to me in three weeks and tell me all of the steps that you actually did take.
And the two weeks before this takes effect is to ignore it.
Is there anything that goes to the Supreme Court?
I think it could ultimately go to the Supreme Court, particularly because what Judge Leon seems to be focused on is whether or not there is congressional involvement here.
It's basically instructing the White House and all of the various defendants here: you may not go any further without express authorization from Congress.
A federal judge has ruled that a key part of President Trump's executive order targeting NPR and PBS was unconstitutional.
The decision blocking the administration from denying federal funds based on editorial viewpoint.
While the ruling does not reverse the Trump-led campaign to strip NPR and PBS stations of federal funding, it is a First Amendment victory that could lead to some funding for PBS and NPR in the future.
You might remember that last summer, Republicans in Congress rescinded federal support over objections from public media advocates.
And the ruling, Judge Randolph Moss writes, quote, the First Amendment draws a line which the government may not cross at efforts to use government power, including the power of the purse, to punish or suppress disfavored expression by others.
He goes on to say that the president's executive order crosses that line because it singles out two speakers and on the basis of their speech, bars them from all federally funded programs.
PBS says that the network is thrilled with today's decision and that we will continue to do what we've always done, serve our mission to educate and inspire all Americans as the nation's most trusted media institution.
I don't know if they'll take it up, but I would put the chance that they would authorize this at close to zero.
If there was actually a number lower than zero, I would put it there because you're not getting, there is no chance the president will get 60 votes in the Senate to build the ballroom at the White House.
None, zero.
Could he get it through the House?
Yeah, probably.
But I'll take it, Lisa didn't mention this, but I'll take it a step further.
If they were to need money for this, I think that would also be close to zero.
It was just announced earlier today the president will be signing an executive order momentarily from the Oval Office, and we will go live there covered all wall to wall.
It turns out, oh, by the way, that this executive order has to do with mail-in ballots.
So we were having Mike Davis on today as the president got pounded by these radical judges at kind of the entry level in the federal court system, both on his ballroom, his ballroom, and also NPR, PBS, all of that, the shutdown of that.
But Mike, I don't know.
Did the president listen to you this morning talking about the Senate and giving up on the SAVE Act and leaving town and being lazy?
And he just, he and Kurt Olson, a couple of people whipped up.
It's supposed to be a pretty detailed executive order about mail-in ballots, sir.
Well, the president has the power under the Constitution, the duty to take care that our laws are faithfully executed under Article II.
And that includes making sure that our federal election laws, our federal election rules, are administered in a way where we're ensuring that we have one person and one vote, equal protection of the law.
Not only does that deal with our election laws, it deals with our civil rights laws.
The president absolutely should require more safeguards in place to make sure that the legal votes of real Americans are not being canceled out by illegal votes from dead people or illegal aliens or others.
So this is an important step that the president's taking to faithfully execute our laws.
Okay, so you're in the years in the wilderness, you were one of the architects of this thinking through the Article II powers of the presidency from being the chief executive officer.
He can hire and fire who he wants.
He can cut, you know, the appropriations bill, which is a law, is a ceiling, not a floor.
His powers as commander in chief of the armed forces, whether it's the Alien Sedition Act or this current conflict under, you know, not being addressed by the War Powers Act, going to Congress, and also, most importantly, as chief magistrate and chief law enforcement officer.
If this was our direction all the time, will it be held against him that he did try to go to Congress and try to codify this in the Save Act first, then the Save America Act?
And when both of those ran into problems, and quite frankly, when the Senate just said, eh, I don't know if we're going to do this, left town, he then comes forward with a, what I understand is a very well thought through executive order.
Would that be held against him?
Because I'll say, hey, look, you understood you had to go to Congress to do that.
Once you were blocked, you came back with this jujitsu executive order, sir.
I don't think that this executive order is going to cover everything that was included in the Save America Act.
This is the president making sure we're taking reasonable precautions under existing statutes to make sure that the legal votes of real Americans are not canceled out by illegal votes from non-Americans, including dead people.
So we'll see what the executive order says, but I'm fairly confident that the president has the power as the chief executive officer to take care that our laws are faithfully executed, both our election laws and our civil rights laws.
Mike, you were here, I think, every day on the show.
I think it was in February, March, because the president, you know, those years in the wilderness, everybody had all the executive orders, everything ready to go.
We were flooding the zone every day.
And of course, they took us to court every time I put an executive order.
And that first line of kind of radical judges would put stays on TROs, all that, and then shut us down for a while until it went through a process.
It seems to me, and correct me if I'm wrong, the one that we just got today on the ballroom and the one that we got on NPR PBS, the judges are getting quite personal about the president and a little nasty.
I mean, these things now have an edge.
I'm not a lawyer, but when I read them, I say, wow, these things have an edge to them written by these judges.
Are some of these radical judges just digging in harder and saying, hey, and they're clearly suffering from Trump derangement syndrome, sir?
It's almost comical to watch these judges issue these injunctions.
You're telling the president of the United States, who's one of the best builders in the world, that he can't improve the White House with a ballroom for a thousand people and a Secret Service command center under that ballroom.
He can't improve that.
He has to keep the East Wing dump in place.
And how does anyone have standing to challenge what the president does?
You have to have Article 3 standing.
Who was injured?
Who was injured by the president's decision?
And finally, on both of these matters, NPR and the East Wing, President Trump's already demolished them.
I mean, what are these injunctions going to do?
They want the East Wing to sit as a construction zone for another six months.
Well, the judge, I think the judge actually on the ballroom, he has like a whole list of things to make sure that no piece of equipment can move over there.
I mean, he really goes out of his way to make sure it just stays as a construction zone.
And Dares, I think he also has a line in there that goes, you are the president of the United States.
You're not like the landlord or the tenant, or he's got some sort of convoluted, but this thing is personal.
How does this play from here?
Is this immediately go, they go into court right away and try to get a stay, the White House or the Justice Department, a stay on it to get back to work on this thing?
Is it go right to appellate court?
Because both of these, first off, NPR and PBS, most, as you said, is most of it's broken apart.
If you look at the local TV station now, they're saying, hey, the government used to give us a million and a half.
We got to make it up by having these fundraisers.
We're going to do it on our own.
I mean, what is even left over at NPR?
And on the ballroom, they're just telling literally you're shutting down and nothing's going to move in that construction site.
You said early on that tomorrow would happen, that we would actually get to argue in front of the Supreme Court with the Solicitor General, the 14th Amendment, the birthright citizenship.
It's going to happen tomorrow.
We're going to cover it all day, including live.
Also, Mike Howell and the mass deportation team is putting out their entire plan tomorrow.
Just give our audience, we've got 60 seconds left.
Tamara, how big a day is it for us for really getting our hands around immigration in this country?
And for the audience, as soon as the president, I guess, comes into the Oval, they're going to let the pool, I think he's in the Oval actually getting briefed.
There's an executive order that was announced after our morning show today that the president would sign at 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time in the Oval, and there would be media there.
And I'm certain that he's going to take questions.
There's a lot that's happened in the war today.
We've got a great old cold open for you.
I'm going to get to that.
That's a lot of everything we talked about this morning was a big topic of conversation, particularly it's now leaking out from the White House.
The president is really looking through, like I said, always giving optionality.
He's looking at a number of alternatives, including sitting with his military leaders and discussing where exactly the things stand in taking down the regime's command and control, their ability on the ballistic missile to destroy that, to destroy the Navy, the Air Force, all those punchlists, that four or five things he had to accomplish.
Where do they actually stand with that and what needs to be done?
Also, in the Strait of Hormuz, there's been a lot more conversations with everyone, including the president simply saying, Hey, look, we're not going to be there forever to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
Somebody's got to pitch in here, or we just may pull chocks and be out of here.
Of course, the President, as you know, is always looking for leverage in negotiations.
We're going to get to that in a moment.
I want to go back to this, Neil.
Neil, we know they had been working on something dealing with mail-in ballots.
As you know, the president, you have both the machines and you have the mail-in ballots.
He's really upset about the mail-in ballots.
The president's very upset that the Senate just kind of took off.
And remember, they took off.
They cut a deal that was so bad, even the House, Johnson said, we can't agree with that deal.
They didn't fund ICE.
They didn't fund Border Patrol.
They didn't even make, I think, arrangements even to pay TSA when the House rejected theirs.
So the president's had to find money there.
Now, if you go to the airports, the combination of ICE and I think getting the TSA guys at least some money have really dropped the wait times at the airports.
But he's also very concerned that the Save America Act would just kind of fare thee well.
And remember, we went back now, I think it's two weeks, with Mike Lee and his team and people like Eric Schmidt and Tommy Tove and others that were going to seize the floor and force this confrontation over the filibuster to get a standing filibuster.
As much as they try to do every night, it just didn't happen.
And then there's a deal cut and the Senate just took off.
You got everything from Lindsey Graham being photographed.
And the Lindsey Graham things were so bad.
When people brought them to me, I said, that's artificial intelligence.
It can't be Lindsey Graham.
He's walking around.
He's got like a, it was a bubble wand or I don't even know what it was.
I thought it was a doll, right?
Lindsey's walking around with his doll, his binky around Disney World.
They just took off.
And so I know the president's been working on this on another process.
Talk to me about what's about to happen.
The president's about to sign an executive order.
You've got some reporting from your sources at the White House.
This executive order is pretty detailed and it's got some good, I should say, interesting interconnections between federal agencies that could really give this thing some heft.
So Assistant Attorney General Harmie Dillon has been using, you know, she's the head of the Civil Rights Division and she's been doing various litigations on voter rolls.
The difference is that, you know, those could be six months, a year, 18 months litigations.
By doing an executive order, you're putting a total government approach and you're putting all hands on deck.
What this EO does is it connects Homeland Security, Social Security, the post office, so that everybody creates, so these guys get together, they create for each state a verified role of voters for mail-in ballots and perhaps other purposes.
The Attorney General is brought in because the Attorney General is directed to prosecute anyone who interferes with this process.
And also, there would be a process to withhold funding from the states that do not cooperate.
And so that's the action taken today in the Oval, Steve.
Okay, let's rewind for that for a second, because I think that is, this is the type of thing that a lot of people, and you have to weigh about the government getting too involved in surveillance, et cetera.
But a lot of people that are involved that are concerned about the stealing of elections.
And I just might add, if we could play for the six o'clock hour, I'd like to tell my team, I want to get all of my rants about ICE being at the polling places.
And Ken Cuccinella, like Ken's a good guy.
He's over at CRA.
He's one of Russ Vote's guys.
He was on CNN like the next night, and they played the whole clip of me ranting on War Room about that.
And they had, you know, Scott Jennings and some other people.
And Ken goes, well, Steve knows that's totally illegal because every federal officer's got to carry a firearm and they can't carry a firearm and everything.
And he kind of gave this weird theoretical answer.
The Deputy Attorney General of the United States, Todd Blanche, was on the stage, I think with Matt Schlapp at CPAC.
And he says, no, I agree 100%.
We're going to actually have ICE agents at the, he agrees that I think we can have ICE agents.
We should have ICE agents at the polling booths in November.
And of course, the left completely melted down because now you talk to a guy that's got a real stroke called the DAG, the Deputy Attorney General.
I want to go back to what you just said because this has been thought through.
And I mean, this is the type of thing that if you really connected these dots and gotten these massive bureaucracies, and people should understand, they don't talk to each other.
Their computer systems are not the same.
They don't talk to each other.
They have their own processes, each one, and they're very territorial about that process.
But just walk through what you walked through a second ago about what is the basics of this executive order.
I think the keystone is the creation of a solid voter list for each state.
So we actually know who are the legitimate voters and who is not.
And then only those people will vote.
And certainly only those people will have mail-in ballots.
And those mail-in ballots will be tracked with barcodes, which will sort of satisfy one of the objections that was heard on the House, on the Senate floor, because if you put someone's name on a secret ballot or there's two envelopes or three envelopes, it's either confusing or it actually gives away the secret ballot.
So what they're trying to do is they're trying to see, we have a lot of agencies that have data.
They're supposed to be data sharing anyway.
There was an EO signed last year, 142.82, that was supposed to facilitate the data sharing.
So we're going to jump as soon as we get word from the White House.
We're not in the pool today, but as soon as we get word, we will jump cut live to the White House.
I'm sure the president's going to have a couple of three things to say before he signs this, because this is something that's very close to him.
I tell people, if you are not on top of the stealing of the 2020 election, I'm not so sure you're core, you're going to be MAGA, I'm not so sure you're core MAGA, because this is one of the core beliefs is that the stealing of the 2020 election had the country veer, particularly after President Trump's first term, in a very dangerous direction under the illegitimate regime head, Biden.
We saw what happened, 20, 25 million illegal aliens in the country.
Now there's all, tomorrow we're having to put out, Mike Hallis' team is going to put out a mass deportation alliance coalition.
It's got a very detailed, we're going to go through it in detail tomorrow, very detailed action plan, but that's because of what Biden did.
And so this is the railhead of so much of MAGA.
Also, Neil, I would assume that the president is going to take a couple of three questions from the various reporters that will be in there, particularly, I'm sure a lot of them is going to deal with the war, is going to deal with the activities about the war this afternoon, sir.
Yeah, well, the Save America Act was AWOL at yesterday's press briefing.
There were no questions.
There were no statements.
It was almost like, you know, forgotten and everybody's moved on.
The president hasn't moved on.
And I'm hoping that he will go into some of these details of how DOJ is actually going to affect that.
As you know, Thune and Grassley have allowed Democratic senators to block federal prosecutors in their states that they don't like.
And so one of the problems you have is you have, you know, you might have a U.S. attorney, but that U.S. attorney is basically doing whatever he wants because he's not connected to MAGA and Trump because he was basically appointed by the Democrats.
So maybe the new assistant attorney general for fraud, Colin McDonald, he may get involved.
And you may see special attorneys that are designated to go after this.
You talk all the time about a forcing function or a hammer.
I think the prosecution, the threat of prosecution, that's a hammer.
I want to go back over that is that because the president's very cognizant, particularly as things are out there in the ether, as the media is covering them, how they get priorities.
The Save America Act, which was supposed to be everything, and the president put a lot of political capital in back of it, saying, hey, I want this done.
This is my number one priority.
You had Mike Lee Schmidt and others of his top lieutenants, his top lieutenants in the Senate, do that whole thing for that whole two weeks, right?
Every night you would cover it.
We would cover it here on War Room.
You would cover it over Real America's Voice.
And it just, all of a sudden in the middle of the night, they voted.
They didn't fund ICE.
They didn't fund Customers of Border.
The House just sat there and go, we can't do this.
So it ended up they didn't even do the security at the airport.
And so it just got to be a fiasco.
And the Save America part of it just kind of vanished into the ether.
So when John Thune showed up at the House floor at like, you know, quarter past two in the morning, they had given everyone the impression that the Senate was done for the night.
So the debate ended like 9.30, 10 o'clock, and basically everybody went home.
And then Thune snuck in, and the majority leader is able to call bills on the floor by just snapping his fingers.
And that's what he did.
He just put a wooden stake through it and went home.
Okay, before we go to the Oval, we're going to cut there as soon as the president allows us to enter and to sign this executive order.
I'm sure we hear a few words from him and answer.
I'm sure he's going to take some questions from the press.
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And I'll ask Will Scharf to start off attorney, a great talent, a very brilliant young man.
And if you could discuss it, and then I'm going to ask Howard Luttnick to say a few words, and then I'm going to sign it, and we'll take a couple of questions.
Mr. President, as you said, you have in front of you an executive order that deals with a number of issues relating to election integrity.
As you've consistently identified, two of the biggest problems we have with election integrity in this country are one, inaccurate voter rolls that allow ineligible people to vote in various federal and state elections all over the country.
And then, secondarily, you've consistently identified that vote by mail in this country has become rife with fraud.
People returning ballots who aren't eligible to return ballots, ballots being sent to people who aren't confirmed to be eligible voters.
So what this executive order is going to do is one, we're going to take federal data.
We're going to ensure that each state's election officials are provided with a comprehensive view of who the eligible voters in their jurisdiction actually are, allowing them to properly verify that everybody voting in their elections is legally able to vote.
And then it orders the Postmaster General, the U.S. Postal Service, to take bold new measures to verify that ballots both being sent to people are being sent to people who are eligible to vote, and then that ballots being returned are being properly returned by eligible voters only.
And we believe that combined the measures in this executive order will help secure elections in the future and ensure that the many abuses of our election system in the past aren't repeated in future elections.
So the fundamentals of our democracy are built on voter integrity, right?
We all need it.
You've said it time and time again.
It's a total agreement amongst everybody.
So here's the idea.
The states run these elections.
They will, if they want to use the U.S. mail, the U.S. Postal Service, they're going to get a code, a barcode from the U.S. Postal Service, and they're going to put that on the envelope.
And we will have one envelope per vote.
None of this time where we have no idea.
There's no observers to mail.
There's no envelopes.
There's no certainty.
That's all going to go away.
And what the President is doing today is he's going to make sure that mail-in ballots are safe, secure, and accurate, and will have a clear distinction.
If you voted by mail, you will have it on the envelope.
Obviously, not on the ballot, but on the envelope.
So we will know a million mail-in ballots.
There'll be a million envelopes, and you'll be able to know exactly correctly that citizens voted.
But the fact that they don't want to sign voter ID is another issue.
It's a big issue.
The fact that they don't have proof of citizenship, that they want transgender for everybody, that they want men in women's sports.
So the only way, they assume, the only way they can win is to cheat.
When you have men in women's sports, it's fine.
It's wonderful.
By the way, I worked very hard with the Olympic Committee and got that terminated for the Olympics.
Very nice.
Now, girls won't have to get beat up in the boxing ring like they did last time if you saw those fights too.
People that transitioned, beat the hell out of everyone, out of other people, women.
It was not a pretty sight to watch.
So I worked very hard with the Olympic Committee and we were able to get that out.
So the Olympics will not have men in women's sports.
But these are the things that they vote on.
And that's why we're having a problem with them.
They don't want ICE because they don't want people to be taken out of our country that are murderers, that are drug dealers, and that are people from mental institutions, the criminally insane.
These are not nice people.
And it's amazing.
I just, it's not even believable.
If you go back, if you go back 12, 13, 15, 20 years, that we even have to bring up a subject like there will be no trans mutilation.
We don't want any transgender mutilization of our children.
We don't want to have people pouring into our country from other countries all over the world.
Where prisons are opened up all over the world, they're opened up, and they pour into our country.
Murderers.
11,888 murderers.
Think of that.
We got many of them out.
And by the way, Washington, D.C. just set a new record for safety.
And I'm sure you know that because, Peter, when you walk down the street, you're not mugged lately.
But it just, it's a very safe city now.
We took great pains to make it that way.
But it actually happened pretty quickly.
Within three months, it was good.
Within four months, it was very good.
Within five months, it was great.
Now it's better than it ever was.
And so Washington, D.C. is now considered a very, very safe city.
We removed almost 4,000 people, just so you understand.
You know, an interesting stat is that 2% of the people create more than 90% of the crime.
And the good thing about that is when you get rid of 2%, it's not that many.
You don't have a lot of crime.
But Washington, D.C., we're very proud of.
We're very proud of Memphis, Tennessee, and Louisiana, New Orleans is unbelievable.
They had the safest, they just finished their Mardi Gras, the Mardi Gras.
He said, it's the safest Mardi Gras in 58 years because of us.
And really, Chicago should call and say we'd like help.
New York should call.
They've had a lot of problems that we want help.
Los Angeles should call and probably will.
I think they have to.
Now, we're going to have to do something when it comes World Cup time and we're going to have to force ourselves upon them, which we have the right to do because we don't want to have any crime.
We don't want to have any problems for the Olympics and the World Cup.
And even for 250.
So with all of that, I'm very happy to be signing the voter integrity, and I think it's going to be really great.
So if you don't mind, I will take some time, and I'll make this signature absolutely perfect.
So it looks very good.
So far, so good.
Okay.
So that's a big deal.
Very proud of it.
And I think, I don't know how it can be challenged.
I'll probably challenge it.
You may find a rogue judge.
You've got a lot of rogue judges.
Very bad, bad people, very bad judges.
But that's the only way that can be changed.
And hopefully we don't appeal if it is.
But I don't see how anybody can challenge it.
I don't see how they can challenge it.
And remember, it's about voter integrity.
We want to have honest voting in our country.
Because if you don't have honest voting, you can't have really a nation, if you want to know the truth.
No, I have a lot of powers to do things, and we use the powers where appropriate.
Sometimes you don't have to use those powers.
They're a little severe.
And then people accuse me of being a king.
You see, the king, this is the new one.
They've been trying for a long time, including four years where I was out of office watching how badly this country was run.
But they've been trying for a long time.
You know what they really are doing is they want to have people coming into our country.
They want to have open borders.
They want to have criminals coming into our country.
They want to have people unchecked, unvetted, coming into our country that you can look at them and say, this is not good.
And that's what happened.
They allowed 25 million people into our country.
Many of those people were criminals.
Many of them were drug dealers and murderers and people that were let out of mental institutions, prison populations.
In some countries, the Congo, almost its entire prison population was allowed to come into the United States of America, the Congo.
Many of the countries in South America, they emptied their prisons out into our country.
This was under Biden.
And nobody can tell me that's a good thing.
And yet, they haven't changed their ways because if they ever took power, they would open up the borders and they would let people pour in and destroy our country.
So I have many powers, but I don't have to use them.
I mean, only in severe cases.
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Mr. President, thank you.
If you were able to sign the UK order to pay the TSA agents, why not do the same for FEMA and other agencies within the Department of Homeland Services?
It's basically, I mean, I wrote a part of his opinion, but basically he's saying I need congressional approval.
And he's so wrong.
This is being financed privately.
It's a donation that's being given by companies, very rich companies, very rich people, so that for 150 years they've wanted a ballroom here.
We're going to have the finest ballroom, I believe, anywhere in the world.
And he said, we need congressional approval.
Well, they don't get congressional approval from the White House when they do things.
Especially when you don't, we didn't ask for any tax money.
We have no taxes.
This is taxpayer-free.
We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents.
And I see right here, I just wrote it out.
He said, we need congressional approval.
Well, we built many things at the White House over the years.
They don't get congressional approval when they build in the White House.
It's totally separate.
And especially when it's a donation.
I mean, the ballroom is a donation.
It's gotten great reviews.
People love it.
And presidents for 150 years have wanted this ballroom to be built because when we have President Xi or other presidents or prime ministers coming, we don't have a big room.
We have the East Group, which is very small.
And he said we need congressional approval.
He also said, but this is positive for us.
I'm allowed, meaning we are allowed to continue building as necessary to, let's see, what is that?
To cover?
The safety and security of the White House and its grounds.
So it says here very carefully, the safety and security have to be protected of the White House grounds.
Well, that's what we're doing because everything's bulletproof glass, et cetera, et cetera, including the ballroom.
And then it goes, construction and all of the things necessary.
It says personal safety of the president and his staff are a part of that.
So it talks about that we're allowed to continue building.
In other words, he put an order on, and even that he gave 14 days.
We don't need it because that's what we're doing.
He's allowed to continue building as necessary.
And when it talks about the safety and security of the White House and its grounds, so just so you know, I wrote some of the thing down.
We have a drone-proof roof, and it talks about the president and his staff.
Well, we don't have a lot of bulletproof glass.
The White House was built a long time ago.
This has the highest level of, in fact, they call this graph, this grass, the glass, it's bulletproof and it's ballistic proof.
It's very thick.
It's like that.
And it's going 45 feet high.
And every window is covered, every door is covered.
The roof is drone-proof.
We have secure air handling systems.
You know, bad things happen in the air if you have bad people.
We have bio-defense all over.
We have secure telecommunications and communications all over.
We have bomb shelters that we're building.
We have a hospital and very major medical facilities that we're building.
We have all of these things.
So that's called I'm Allowed to Continue Building as Necessary.
So think of that for the safety of the President.
So we have all these things.
So on that, we're okay.
Where he's totally wrong, and he made a statement that's fine.
But we're, I'll give you an example.
You have right here $300 to $400 million, depending on finishes.
If I use very expensive marble, if I use very expensive wall coatings, I could bring it up to $400.
Otherwise, we're right now ahead of schedule, we're under budget.
But depending on finishes, from $300 to $400 million are being given by great people, people that you all know.
Rich people, rich companies, big companies.
They wanted to see this built because every president, literally for 150 years, has needed a space like this.
Many of you have gone to the tent when we have a president of a big country or somebody being honored of great distinction.
And they sit in a tent and if it rains, you get soaked because the grass gets wet here very fast.
It's a very wet area.
They used to call it a wetland, but I guess they don't do that for the White House.
But it's essentially a wetland.
And when it rains, you're in trouble.
The water can go up to three to four inches over their shoes.
That's not a good feeling for Prince, who was Prince Charles, who will be here next couple of weeks.
It's King Charles, who's a great guy.
We don't want him to sit in a pool of water.
And they've been wanting this for 100, think of it, 150 years, and we're building it.
And it's covered perfectly.
What's not covered perfectly is the fact that the judge said we need congressional approval.
Many things have been built in the White House.
They haven't gotten congressional approval, especially when the money is being not put up by the taxpayer.
The taxpayer is not putting up a dime.
This building was necessary for many years by the fact that I've built many ballrooms and I built many things and I know how to build.
I'm not building the Federal Reserve where the guy's spending $4 billion for a tiny little building, $4 billion for the Federal Reserve building.
That contractor is going to be one of the richest men anywhere in the world after he finishes the Federal Reserve.
The man is totally incompetent.
Jerome, too late.
Powell is totally incompetent.
And he's got to get out of office pretty fast.
He's doing a bad job, but he's also done a bad job in shepherding the construction of that building.
Do you know they ripped down a part of that building?
And it was a nice, they say it's one of the nicest buildings in Washington.
They ripped it down.
So we feel, and we don't feel, we know that congressional approval is not necessary to put up a ballroom.
And many things have been built on the site.
They've never gotten congressional approval.
And especially when the money is all put up, this is all donations by people that love our country, that love the White House, and that feel it was very necessary.
All I have to do is leave Iran, and we'll be doing that very soon.
And they'll become tumbling down.
And stock prices were up today almost to a record because they know two things.
Number one, we have a safe country.
We had to take a little detour because we had a madman named Khomeini, who sadly is no longer with us.
And we had regime change already.
We've knocked out one regime, then we knocked out the second regime.
Now we have a group of people that are very different.
They're much more reasonable, I think much less radicalized.
We've had regime change.
We're dealing with people that are much more rational.
And it's amazing what we've done.
We had to make a little detour.
So when the stock market broke all records just a few weeks ago, when it hit 50,000 on the Dow, 7,000 on the SNP, I said to the American people, it's time that we have making a little detour because we have a madman that wants a nuclear weapon.
And if we didn't knock him out with a B-2 bomber, we would have a nuclear weapon right now.
It would have been used before this, before today.
And you may not be standing there asking that question, okay?
So I think we have a country that understands that.
I see CNN did a poll and they talked about voters or MAGA voters.
And my poll came out at 100%.
Nobody covers that poll.
They had another poll where it was at 92% approval.
I think that the people understand it.
We'll be leaving very soon.
And if France or some other country wants to get oil or gas, they'll go up through the strait and almost straight.
They'll go right up there and they'll be able to fend for themselves.
I think it'll be very safe, actually.
But we have nothing to do with that.
What happens to the strait, we're not going to have anything to do with because these countries, China, China will go up and they'll fuel up their beautiful ships and they'll leave and they'll take care of themselves.
There's no reason for us to do it.
We hit them hard.
We got rid of a lot of the radicalized lunatics along the strait.
But if they want something, but I would say that within two weeks, maybe, two weeks, maybe three.
We're hitting them very hard.
Last night we knocked out tremendous amounts of missile-making facilities, as you probably read or wrote.
Do you notice that over the last four or five days you haven't seen very many drone heads, right?
We have some unbelievable anti-drone weaponry that's incredible.
But you want to have, like, for instance, the ballroom.
We have a very powerful steel, very steel roof with other things in it.
And you want to have, if you're building a building for security, like just like his judge's opinion, you have to have security for the president and his staff.
They have, you need heavy, strong ceilings.
You need seriously thick, bulletproof, ballistic glass.
And we have that.
Other buildings don't.
You know, modern, fairly modern buildings don't have that.
They have roofs that are weak and they have regular glass windows.
They've checked that out and they've gotten to the bottom of it.
You know, you have a lot of people now that fly these things all over the place and we're coming down very hard on them.
But we're able to take them out militarily.
We're able to take them out very easily.
And a new thing is lasers.
You know, the lasers are becoming very, very effective.
You hit a drone and it melts in air.
It's a beautiful thing to see.
If it's coming at you, having a laser is a very nice regime.
They are much more accessible.
They are right.
You know, they said we have a present for you, Mr. President, out of respect.
And they said, wait a minute.
Do you want me to answer the question?
You're a fresh person.
You know, we've had a lot of problems with you, haven't we?
No, they don't.
You ask me a question.
No, they don't have to make a deal with me.
When we feel that they are, for a long period of time, put into the Stone Ages and they won't be able to come up with a nuclear weapon, then we'll leave.
Whether we have a deal or not, it's irrelevant.
Now, it's possible that we'll have a deal because they want to make a deal.
They want to make a deal more than I want to make a deal.
But in a fairly short period of time, we'll be finished.
They will not be able to do a nuclear weapon for years.
And when they are ready, maybe in a long time from now, able to do a nuclear weapon, you'll have a president that will be like me and that he will go there and he'll knock the hell out of him again because they cannot have a nuclear weapon.
And I will say, though, that the leadership we're dealing with now with the new regime, because we have a new regime, and the new regime is much better than the past.
unidentified
Mr. President, the Iranian government threatened a bunch of U.S. companies today in the region, including Google, Apple.
They're not going to hit them with a nuclear weapon.
unidentified
Is it something you're concerned about, sir?
No?
Iran's RTC issues a warning that they will target 18 U.S. technology companies if the U.S. continues targeted assassinations of Iranian leaders beginning on April 1st.
You know, this concept could be office, but it's most likely going to be a hotel with a beautiful building underneath and a 747 Air Force One in the lobby, which is going to be a trick.
Because I have listened to this argument for so long, and this is not about Chinese billionaires or billionaires from other countries who all of a sudden have 75 children or 59 children in one case or 10 children becoming American citizens.
This was about slaves.
And if you take a look, slaves, we're talking about slaves from the Civil War.
And if you take a look at when it was filed, all of this legislation, all of this, everything having to do with birthright citizenship, it was at the end of the Civil War.
The reason was it had to do with the babies of slaves and the protection of the babies of slaves.
It didn't have to do with the protection of multi-millionaires and billionaires wanting to have their children get an American citizenship.
It is the craziest thing I've ever seen.
It's been so badly handled by legal people over the years.
If you look at the original birthright citizenship papers, they all happened right after the Civil War.
The reason was it had to do with the babies of slaves.
And hopefully it's going to say, because our country is being scammed.
We're getting all of these people.
They're selling the rights to them.
People are making a living, a big living, getting hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars from bringing people in and saying, congratulations, your whole family is going to be a citizen of the United States of America.
That's not what it was for.
It wasn't for billionaires bringing people in or family in.
It was for the children of slaves.
And what you really have to do, and I don't think the lawyers talk about it as much, look at when the Civil War ended and look at the date of when this was enacted.
When Barack Hussein Obama or when Biden appoints somebody, they go along that line.
You can have the greatest case in history.
And almost, I guess I have to say almost, maybe I don't have to say it, almost without fail, those people, four of them, sometimes five of them, but four of them will vote against you.
You don't have a chance.
You don't have a chance.
And that's not what the court system is.
Now, the Republican appointees tend to go, and this has been long before me, this has been for many years.
Some people would call it stupidity, some people would call it disloyalty.
Some people would say they're right in doing it.
And I don't mind being right, but the other side almost never does it.
Almost.
I think you could find maybe a couple of instances.
Almost never does it.
When a Democrat appoints a judge, and I'm talking about judges, not just justices.
You go before some of these Democrat judges in Washington, D.C., you don't have a chance.
That's why I gave pardons to hundreds of people that were so badly treated, having to do with J6.
I think maybe you would have Fetterman, who I have a lot of respect for.
But the Democrats are unified against it.
And you need Democrat votes.
Unless you do something smart called the filibuster, terminate the filibuster, which they should do.
Republicans should do that.
But there are a couple of Republicans that maybe they're not so smart because the Democrats will do it on the first day in office, maybe the first hour.
It's a question, will it be the first hour or the first day?
So who couldn't believe that a person, you can't even get it to the floor, that a person wouldn't vote for, think of it, for citizenship, proof of citizenship, for voter identification.
And we also added one, we added mail-in ballots, mail-in ballots with exceptions for the military, for people that are sick, people that are traveling, for the disabled.
We have very generous exceptions.
But who would believe that that would be possible not to get those things to vote for?
Then we added best of Trump, we added no men in women's sports, different subject, but we added that.
And we said no transgender mutilization of our children.
These are all 90, 95, maybe 98 in some cases, maybe 99 in terms of those first two.
If you talk about the first two, I think, you know, I think a 98, 99%.
Voter identification, right?
Wouldn't you think, don't you think it's nice with picture?
Wouldn't you think it's nice when the Democrats had their convention, I remember it so well, you had to have identification to get into the arena.
And they had a card that was bigger than most of their chests.
And it had everything.
It had their picture.
And if you didn't have that card, they threw you away.
In New York City recently, we had a big snowstorm.
Mayor Mendemi had, he called out for people to shovel snow.
But you had to give identification with picture.
If you didn't have, and it wasn't one identification, you had to have two.
So to shovel snow in New York City, you need identification, double with picture, but to vote, which is maybe our most cherished thing, you don't need.
They don't want voter ID, the Democrats, because they want to cheat.
The problem is we need their votes.
In order to get it, you need their votes.
And look, they know their policy is so bad.
They know that if they gave those votes, they might never win another election.
So they're fighting like hell.
They're actually fighting for their survival because their policy, the Republicans have great policy.
Smart policy.
Strong borders, low interest rates, low taxes.
We just gave you the largest tax cut in history.
All these great policies, you know, we want a strong military.
Look at our military.
We have the strongest military.
Look what happened in Venezuela.
It was so incredible.
People said the greatest military maneuver they've ever seen.
Look what's happening in Iran.
We're just, I mean, we're totally unchecked.
Everything's been bombed out.
They have no anti-aircraft protection.
They have no nothing.
They don't have anything.
Look at our military.
The Democrats don't want that.
And when I read the fake New York Times, you take a look at it, it's like, oh, they're putting up a good fight.
They're not putting up a fight.
They're not even shooting at us, okay?
We have planes.
Planes are just ruling the sky.
We have airplanes.
Those two.
Those two.
We have airplanes.
Nice, right?
Lincoln with a little modern touch.
The great Benjamin Franklin with a little modern touch.
But think of it.
They are roaming the skies over Turan.
They're not even being shot at because their equipment's been totally decimated.
They have nothing to shoot.
They have no Navy.
They have no anything.
And just think about this.
They have no Navy.
They have no military.
They have no nothing.
They're losing.
They admit they're losing.
They're begging to make a deal.
And if you read the fake New York Times, a corrupt newspaper, where I'm showing them and I think I should do very well.
But you would almost think, who's winning?
It's so fraudulent.
But just to finish up with the New York Times, if you read the New York Times prior to my election victory, including the first one, and the second one too, I won three times.
I won three times convincingly.
But let's go to the third victory.
If you read the New York Times, you would say, oh, Trump's going to lose.
But I won in a landslide.
I won the popular vote.
I won the Electoral College in a massive number, right?
Massive.
I won the counties.
86% of the counties are one.
All of these different things.
Winning the popular vote for Republicans, you know, pretty amazing.
But if you read the New York Times for months and months and months, you're hearing, oh, Trump is doing so badly.
We have to straighten out our media.
The reason their circulation is way down, the New York Times circulation, you know, has gotten way down.
Washington Post is almost extinct.
The papers that are being dishonest, papers generally, people don't believe the media.
And to finish, I got 93% bad publicity.
Some people say 97, but between 93 and 97.
A person that gets 97% of bad stories, maybe Caroline's doing a poor job.
Okay, the President of the United States, the Wrangler, is going to step in and get the pool out.
There we go.
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We're going to get to it in a moment.
I'm going to go back to Neil McKay, but also the president.
He must have heard that Real America's voice was doing this all day at the Supreme Court.
The president actually said he is going to go to hear the argument, and that is very, very rarely happens.
I think President Trump went to the open in the first term.
We're going to get back to that in a minute.
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Okay, the president had a bunch of blockbuster news there.
Number one, it was this executive order.
Number two, what he had to say about going to the Supreme Court tomorrow.
So we said it's very important.
We know it's very close to President Trump's heart, this issue, not a fringe issue at all.
Also, what he had to say about the war.
Neil, let's go with the last one first.
With the war, he said, hey, we're basically wrapping up.
I've accomplished my objectives with the nuclear weapons, with the ballistic missiles, with the industrial base, with the Air Force, their Navy, et cetera.
I think we got two more weeks, maybe a couple of days on the other side.
He was then pressed to say, Look, you say you're talking to the right guys.
If you're talking to the right guys, are you going to cut a deal?
And he says, you know, maybe we maybe we are, but it's not necessary for us to finish our work and take off.
How do you interpret that?
That's a very different take than President Trump has had.
The unconditional surrender, he's clearly off, but he says, Hey, I've done regime change.
I've got a new set of guys there.
He actually says they're more reasonable.
This, we know there's tons of discussions going on behind the scene.
It seems like he's had, and I know Scott Besson is very involved in this because Scott Besson is saying, Hey, there's going to be some multinational force that's going to be escorting ships in.
But clearly, it looks like he's telling, and this is one of his negotiating styles, as you know, to say, Hey, look, as a forcing function, we're out of here in two weeks, maybe plus a couple of days.
You guys better be organized because the Strait of Hormuz is really Europe's problem, Japan and Korea's problem, and the Chinese Communist Party.
Your thoughts, yeah, the United States military has been wargaming Iran scenarios for 50 years, 60 years.
Truman threatened to use nuclear weapons if the Soviets didn't evacuate their forces from Iran in 1946.
So, this is territory that we've looked at for a long time.
And so, what we could do is we could send in the Marines and we could take the islands and we could secure some territory.
We could cut a deal and set up a rival government.
There's all sorts of things we could have done.
And I think Trump is just sort of looking at it now and he's saying, I don't want to be a part of this.
And I have to give him some credit.
I think that there are some premises and some scenarios that he was promised would take place.
They didn't necessarily take place.
And I got to believe that his conversations with these new leaders, maybe they're going so well that they're like, Hey, we'll just keep talking and we don't need a treaty or anything.
Okay, Sam Faddis is going to join me at the bottom of the hour.
We're going to go through what we just heard in the Oval Office.
Let me read you something, Anil, about the executive order.
This comes from Mark Elias, a fan favorite here at the war room.
He tweets out with President Trump talking about breaking, he's expected to sign a sweeping executive order aimed at cracking down on mail-in voting, escalating his long-running effort to restrict voting access ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Elias then states: if Trump signs an unconstitutional executive order to take over voting, we will sue.
I don't bluff, and I usually win.
This is going to be hotly contested.
I'm sure they're going to be in court tomorrow morning.
Tell me your thoughts about this executive order.
President Trump had really thought this through.
Number one, it was about cleaning up the voter rolls, and it was also about mailing ballots.
Yeah, immediately my thoughts turned to those judges.
You know, everyone was celebrating that Trump put 232 federal district judges and appellate judges on the bench, but at least 85 of them were in blue states, so that they were in some way, shape, or form, approved by Democratic senators.
And so the federal bench is full of so-called Republican judges, but a lot of them literally have nothing to do with MAGA or even the Republican Party.
And so Elias has a very powerful ally in the federal judges.
And let's see how it goes.
But, you know, Trump has a good legal team.
He has the Constitution behind him, as Mike Davis said.
So the barcode, the barcode is to address the issue that if you put someone's name on a ballot or an envelope, then you basically take away the secret ballot.
And there are problems with, you know, having two envelopes and three envelopes where it just becomes so complicated.
And that's actually one of the nuts that they couldn't crack inside the Senate.
The main thing is that Homeland Security, working with the Post Office and the Social Security Administration, are going to create valid lists of citizens registered or authorized to vote in each state.
So each state will have a list.
And so when you vote, and certainly when you go in and request a mail-in ballot, your name will be checked against that good list created by the government, by the federal government.
And then the add-on to that is that the Attorney General and the Justice Department is directed to prosecute anyone who interferes with this process, anyone who creates a situation where there are bad voters on that list.
And then certainly there's also in the executive order that states will lose federal funding if they do not cooperate or otherwise interfere with the process, Steve.
Boy, we started the morning with getting John Eastman from the airport before he got on the plane to come back here.
Of course, Politico had the big story about Eastman.
Talked about how this went from a kook, from a fringe theory to John Sauer, the Solicitor General of the United States tomorrow, arguing this for the government.
John Sauer has been a rock star.
You saw today with the president with the ballroom and PBS and NPR all over him.
I think a couple of weeks ago, they were all over Kerry Lake and what he had done for Voice of America and everything that's associated with that U.S. government broadcasting.
They are coming for President Trump as hard as possible.
That's one of the reasons over the Justice Department.
We don't have enough bodies over there.
One of the reasons conservative law firms have been telling people, well, if you go to work for President Trump, you're not going to get a job at a big conservative law firm.
Very difficult getting bodies in.
And then you've got the blue slip situation, which Neil just referred to, where the senators in these blue states can do blocking functions.
I don't think President Trump's gotten more than 14 or 15 of his own U.S. attorneys in there at the state level.
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Of course, he co-hosted with me for about a half hour.
A terrific guy and such great feedback.
He had his notes right there going through everything.
We're going to try to track Jim down as Sam Fetta is going to join us next.
But hey, President of the United States, I think, is signaling very strongly that he kind of has a path that he sees this developing.
And he's, you know, taking in all the military, all the military data and information.
He's talked to two individuals he thinks very highly of.
It's Admiral Cooper at CENTCOM and General Kane, his senior military, uniformed military advisor, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Of course, AI.
Much more on that this week.
David Sachs, I might add, was removed as the czar for artificial intelligence and crypto.
Now, according to him, it's, oh, I'm taking a job on PCAS, but that's just kind of an honorary committee that looks at research.
He was already on that.
He's going to be now.
They promoted him to co-chairman.
But they took away the AI.
Why did they take away AI?
He was trying to ram down the American people's throat this situation with amnesty for artificial intelligence.
Okay, there's been tremendous activity all day across the world on about our allies in the Gulf, our allies in NATO and Europe.
As you know, we did the whole morning show about this.
There's been a lot of activity.
The president's been working on this, had some, and this is one of the reasons I think not just signed the executive order about the mail-in ballots, which our guest, Sam Fattis, is one of the top grassroots leaders in the country up there in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to be all over because that's how they stole it in 2020 in Pennsylvania was mail-in ballots.
It just wasn't signing that.
I do believe the president wanted to do it about five o'clock, late in the afternoon, early in the evening, to then address the media and to talk to him about, I think, some pretty startling information where we have been.
You can tell kind of the line of thought that the president has.
I've asked Sam to step away from doing what he was doing a few minutes ago and join us.
I want to play this.
It's about four minutes.
I want the audience to listen to it again, and then I'm going to bring Sam in to help break it down for us.
All I have to do is leave Iran, and we'll be doing that very soon.
And they'll become tumbling down.
And stock prices were up today almost to a record because they know two things.
Number one, we have a safe country.
We had to take a little detour because we had a madman named Khomeini, who sadly is no longer with us.
And we had regime change already.
We've knocked out one regime, then we knocked out the second regime.
Now we have a group of people that's very different.
They're much more reasonable, I think, much less radicalized.
We have had regime change.
We're dealing with people that are much more rational.
And it's amazing what we've done.
We had to make a little detour.
So when the stock market broke all records just a few weeks ago, when it hit 50,000 on the Dow, 7,000 on the SP, I said to the American people, it's time that we have making a little detour because we have a madman that wants a nuclear weapon.
And if we did not come out with a B-2 bomber, we would have a nuclear weapon right now.
It would have been used before this, before today.
And you may not be standing there asking that question, okay?
So I think we have a country that understands that.
I see CNN did a poll and they talked about voters or MAGA voters.
And my poll came out at 100%.
Nobody covers that poll.
They had another poll where I was at 92% approval.
I think that the people understand it.
We'll be leaving very soon.
And if France or some other country wants to get oil or gas, they'll go up through the strait and hormones straight.
They'll go right up there and they'll be able to fend for themselves.
I think it'll be very safe, actually.
But we have nothing to do with that.
What happens to the strait, we're not going to have anything to do with because these countries, China, China will go up and they'll fuel up their beautiful ships and they'll leave and they'll take care of themselves.
There's no reason for us to do it.
We hit them hard.
We got rid of a lot of the radicalized lunatics along the strait.
But if they want something, but I would say that within two weeks, maybe, two weeks, maybe three, we're hitting them very hard.
Last night we knocked out tremendous amounts of missile-making facilities, as you probably read or wrote.
So this morning, Sam, we spent talking about with various of our contributors and experts about, and particularly Ben Harnworld joined us from Rome because of kind of the outrageous response of NATO, people like Spain not, you know, taking Road of Spain, which, as you remember, is a major naval base and naval air base.
And now this joint deal we have with them, they've essentially blocked us from using that and also blocked use of airspace.
We talked about the Saudis, we talked about the Gulf Emirates, and then this afternoon, we knew this was kind of boiling.
The president pretty adamant.
Two weeks, maybe three weeks, two weeks, maybe a couple of days.
I've got my punch list.
We're going down pretty methodically.
We're out of here.
And the Hormuz, if you want your oil, as he told, hey, France, go take it, protect it.
But it's not for us to sit there and worry about every mine, every guy with what an MPAD, every rebel down there.
Your thoughts about where we are and what message is the Commander-in-Chief sending to the Gulf nations and also to our allies in Europe, sir.
Well, up front, Steve, you know, as you know as well or better than anybody, the President often says things to provoke a response or stake out a position and doesn't necessarily represent where he's ultimately going to end down, but end up, but he's making a point.
So he's looking at NATO countries as an example, in particular Spain, which is not just saying it won't send troops, but is literally denying us overflight, not letting us fly through their airspace and saying, you know, we need you and you're not there.
So in effect, what goes around comes around.
Do not expect on the other side of this ledger that we will forget this and that we will be there for you in all circumstances.
So I get it.
I think that's an important point.
I think it's something that needs to be said.
You guys are free to go your own way, but don't then turn around and think you're going to get a blank check from the United States.
In effect, you're sort of altering the nature of the alliance and there will be consequences.
In regard to where we are in terms of ending the conflict, there are some signs here that I think are hopeful.
You know, that we're beginning to hear some noises from the Iranians, perhaps.
And certainly the president's talking about trying to wind this down and conclude this.
And that's all, I think that's great.
You know, it's sort of like you're seeing the first sparks in a fire.
Maybe we're kindling something positive here.
Where I guess I, you know, what I'm building up to, my great hesitation is I don't think it is a viable solution for us to just leave and say the straits are not our issue, particularly in light of what the Iranians are doing.
I mean, they now have, I don't think the bill in their modulus, their parliament has finally passed, but they have a formal declaration that is out of committee.
So it's a draft of their formal government position that says, that codifies that they now control the straits.
Nobody will pass unless you pay in reals.
And you have to get permission from them and you have to buy permission.
And it says no American ships under any condition can pass.
And it says no Israeli ships can pass.
And it says nobody who participates in our sanctions against the Iranians can pass.
That's a whole bunch of people there.
So I don't think in reality we can just say at the end, not our problem and walk away and leave the Iranians in control of 20% of the world's oil and natural gas supply, whether it moves.
I get it that we are energy independent, but we are not independent of the economic consequences of that.
Sam, you know, these people and President Trump says, hey, we're finally dealing with quote unquote some reasonable people.
As you go down the food chain and kill more of these, do you get, to your best of your knowledge, do you get to more reasonable or do you get just a tougher ombres lower down the food chain?
I mean, like I said, these aren't Jeffersonian Democrats.
Who is actually the type of person that you think the government is dealing with right now?
And like you said, they've been very bold about saying, hey, look, we control it now.
You're going to pay, if we decide to let you through, you're going to pay us, I think, 2 million bucks a ship.
But anybody that's with the with Israel, with the United States, and particularly the sanctions, and they're, I think they're including the Gulf Emirates.
So I don't know what gets out of there since outside of their oil, that's the rest of the oil and natural gas, sir.
If you follow the logic of that in the terms of what they're proposing, the only thing that's going to move is their oil and their natural gas.
So that, you know, that's a non-starter to me.
You just can't do that.
Who do you get to?
I mean, the first problem, and I think I said this talking to you the other day, I've said it many times, is the first problem is now we're groping around in a dark room, right?
We don't have the intelligence.
We don't know who the hell we're talking to.
So all these guys are now unknown quantities.
So you're guessing to what extent the guy you're talking to actually has any wasta, right?
And some of them will be total zealots and totally crazy and absolutely diehard 12ers and like, you know, give me a suicide vest.
I'm ready to blow myself up kind of guys.
You're also just going to run into guys that, you know, tell you that they're big shots and they have connections and they're speaking on behalf of the government.
And then a week later, you're going to realize this guy is not talking to anybody and he doesn't speak for anybody.
And that's all a friggin waste of a waste of time.
So there's going to be, there's going to be a lot of dead ends and a lot of frustration here.
Because the president said, I think three times a day, and he's been saying it throughout the day to media.
He says, I've accomplished regime change.
You know, you had these guys we had to deal with for years.
They wouldn't negotiate.
They're all dead.
In fact, I've killed down two or three levels below that.
So in my mind, I've done regime change.
What signal is that to the Israel?
Because he's signaling to the Europeans that somehow you guys got to get serious about this because it's just not our problem.
So I need to see the Royal Navy.
I need to see the French Navy.
He's very specific about the French.
He's also been signaling to the Saudis.
He's talking about full economic war.
He's very upset about this Dubai situation where the Iranians appear to still be able to do money laundering and get cash from what's to be bulletproof sanctions.
But it seems to me he's also signaling to our ally in Jerusalem when he keeps saying, hey, I didn't set out to have regime change.
That was not on my punch list, but I've accomplished regime change, sir.
Yeah, well, I mean, again, I get it that we're reading tea leaves to a certain extent, but I think what he's saying to the Israelis is we're going to end this on our terms, not on yours.
And maybe, you know, maybe I'm being too optimistic.
There's a little subtext there that says it's now clear that you guys kind of had you and Tel Aviv had a different agenda and have different ideas about how this goes and who's in the driver's seat.
And it's time for me to disabuse you of that notion, if that's correct.
I'm all for that, right?
These guys are the junior partners.
They don't should never be telling us what to do, should never have been telling us what to do.
Sam, before I let you go, you're also one of the grassroots leaders of the Commonwealth, which Mailland ballots were the way they stole the 2020 election.
The president, obviously, very frustrated with Senate leaving town, the Save America Act in limbo, not even the ICE paid for.
We're going to have the coalition on tomorrow.
The Mass Deportation Coalition is dropping their action plan, Mike Howell and the team.
We've seen it, but tomorrow it's going to actually be released, I think, at 8 o'clock in the morning.
We'll talk about that in the morning as we cover the Supreme Court with the president saying he's going to be there, which is extraordinary for the 14th Amendment, the birthright citizenship.
The mail-in ballots, he just signed an executive order that ties together a bunch of agencies, gets the post office involved.
He understands that this mail-in ballot situation is a ticking time bomb, right, leading up to the 2026.
I mean, and action on this from their perspective, long overdue.
It's not a criticism of the president.
It's just they're fed up.
They've been fed up for years.
They know exactly how this plays.
This whole mail-in ballot thing is, I mean, it is, it gives you a license to steal elections.
And that is what has been happening.
And our legislatures at all levels have completely failed the test.
And look, I think this is a completely constitutional move.
It will be challenged, obviously, in the courts as being unconstitutional because the states are supposed to run elections.
But this is a national security issue.
We got real world, no conspiracy theory evidence stacked to the ceiling of the Chinese as one example of being involved in interfering in these elections and wanting to manipulate these elections.
And we can't have that.
We can't just, we can't have federal elections and, you know, a vote and put a guy in the White House and not know that he wasn't installed by a foreign power, as may have very well happened in 2020.
So I'm all for it.
It is massive.
It is huge.
It is one of those things where the grassroots are going to be saying, thank God, he has delivered on one of our key demands.
I mean, when I brought together the Pennsylvania Patriot Coalition, the single issue on which we rallied when we first got together in Harrisburg was exactly this, was mail-in voting and getting a handle on it.
Ideally, getting rid of it.
But if we couldn't do that, getting a handle on it.
The one that was most egregious to me the entire time was Philadelphia and what they did because they had said they're going to have the two envelopes.
They tore it up and threw it over there.
You saw them steal it in broad daylight.
You saw the Pennsylvania legislature.
Eventually they came back and sent a letter to McConnell.
This is the whole thing about they wanted another 10 days.
It's the thing that Pence overruled, but it has been a scar that has not healed.
And I think the president, I think he's shown his frustration.
He says, look, I've tried the Senate.
I've tried this.
These guys are not moving.
I'm going to send an executive order.
If we've got to go to court, because he's talking about cleaning up the voter rolls on a national basis and stopping the most egregious violations of mail-in ballots.
And God bless him for doing it.
And it's time now, you know, before the midterm elections.
Let's just have it.
Let's just go to the Supreme Court and slug this thing out and have people, you know, have the Supreme Court tell us you can't do it.
Sam, thank you so much for changing your evening, both make us smarter on the president's signaling, because I think he's also getting a little fed up with this thing, particularly fed up with, what do I say, allies or supposedly allies that are not pulling their weight or in some cases, maybe pulling too much weight.
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Okay, tomorrow is going to be game day.
Supreme Court President of the United States says he's going to be there.
We're going to cover it.
We're also going to have Mike Howell and the entire team associated with the Mass Deportation Coalition to walk through their action plan.
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