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Feb. 21, 2025 - Loomer Unleashed - Laura Loomer

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LIVE: CPAC Coverage Day 2

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	Today, we gather not just as citizens of our respective nations, but as one great family of patriots who understand a fundamental truth.
	If evil never rests, then neither can we.
	The good news is that common sense has won once again in the United States.
	President Trump has won for a third time.
	Yes.
	President Trump is back.
	And after these four years, he should run again.
	Four more years.
	Four more years.
	There you go.
	I agree with you.
	We are living in a defining moment in history.
	This is not just another political cycle, not just another ideological struggle.
	What is at stake is the future of our nations, the future of our children, and the survival of Western civilization itself.
	A civilization built on truth, justice, and liberty.
	Yet today, those values are under attack like never before across many countries in our region.
	The enemies of freedom...
	We are advancing in Latin America.
	Communism, Marxism, woke ideology, narco states, and globalist elites who seek to enslave our people.
	So, I ask you, are we going to let them take over the rest of the world?
	Of course not.
	Are we going to sit back and watch as our nations fall to corruption, tyranny, and mortal decay?
	Of course no.
	We are going to fight.
	And that's why I'm going to join the Elon Musk and President Trump's movement.
	My heart goes out to all of you.
	Fight, fight, fight.
	And that's why the work that TIPAC is doing around the world is crucial.
	Because only when we fight together can we win.
	Thank you, Matt and Mercedes, for your leadership.
	And thank you for your invitation.
	And I'm happy to announce that CPAC Mexico will be taking place in Mexico City in September.
	Please, please follow our social media, CPAC Mexico on Instagram and X. Very soon we will be sharing all the details of the event.
	I would love to see all of you there.
	I promise you, you will have the best time of your life.
	Great food, great margaritas, with moderation.
	With moderation, it's okay.
	Freedom fighters, are you ready to keep fighting?
	Here is a call to action on three principles.
	Our fight will be grounded in three fundamental human rights.
	Life, family, and freedom.
	The battle for life.
	The first battle we must fight is the battle to protect the culture of life.
	Because if we do not defend life, especially the lives of the most vulnerable, if we do not stand up for the most innocent, the most defenseless, then sooner or later we will destroy each other.
	We will kill each other.
	As Mother Teresa said, the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion.
	Because it is a war against the child.
	A direct killing of the innocent child, murdered by the mother herself.
	Today, in many parts of the world, being pro-life is seen as an act of rebellion.
	They call us radicals for saying something as basic as every human being has the right to be born.
	Can you believe that?
	But I ask you, who are the radicals?
	Who are the real radicals?
	Radicals are those who advocate for the killing of babies in the womb, even at nine months of pregnancy, and in some cases, even after birth.
	Who are the radicals?
	Well, that is not just radical, that is evil.
	They tell us abortion is a right, when in reality, it is the greatest genocide of our time.
	They tell us euthanasia is an act of compassion, when in truth, real compassion is protecting every human life, because every human life matters.
	But we will not remain silent, because evil, trans, and good people remain silent.
	And when good people remain silent, they're not good people anymore, because they are part of the problem.
	We will continue to expose this culture of death and promote a culture of life because a nation that kills its own children has no future.
	The second front of our fight is the defense of the family.
	The family is the foundation of society.
	It's the first government, the first church, and the first school.
	And that is why the enemies of freedom want to destroy it.
	They seek to impose ideologies that confuse our children, strip away their innocence, and attack marriage and motherhood.
	Because a country without strong families is a weak country, easily, very easily manipulated and controlled.
	We will defend God's design for the family and protect the innocence of our children.
	Finally, we will defend freedom.
	We live in an era where those who speak the truth are persecuted.
	Where censorship and political oppression have become the tools of tyrants.
	We have seen how They try to silence pro-life leaders, silence priests who preach God's word, silence ordinary citizens who simply want to live in peace.
	Freedom is a gift from God and not government has a right to take it away from us.
	We will also follow the principles of freedom to grow our economies, lift our brothers and sisters out of poverty and build a strong middle class.
	In Latin America, we have seen how socialism makes It makes the majority of the population very poor.
	People love poverty, but they multiply it.
	They love so much poverty, they end up multiplying it.
	Socialism is a cancer.
	It destroys everything that it touches.
	Right now in Mexico, we have a socialist government.
	Mexico is becoming like Venezuela, Cuba, or Nicaragua.
	If we don't react soon, tomorrow is going to be too late.
	And for all these reasons, I'm here.
	I joined the Fight for Freedom many years ago when I was working in Hollywood as an actor.
	I made a promise to God that I will never use my talents again to do anything that will offend my faith, my family, or my Latino culture.
	And after I made that promise, I ended up not working for four years.
	Be careful what you promise.
	So I opened a production company and I became a film producer.
	We started with Bella, Little Boy, Sound of Freedom, Cabrini.
	And in December, the new one, the massacre of the holy innocents.
	I'm not a politician.
	I'm an actor, a filmmaker, and a human rights activist.
	But I learned that in politics there is no empty seats.
	There is always someone occupying those spaces, making decisions that will change the destiny of our nation.
	If not forever, then at least for a long time.
	And those decisions will affect our families, for good or for bad.
	So after our movie Sound of Freedom was released, my eyes were opened on many fronts.
	And I made a promise to God that I would not rest until we eradicate human trafficking, child trafficking, end abortion, and protect our Christian values.
	But I knew I had to start my country.
	That's why in 2023 I wanted to run for president of Mexico as an independent candidate.
	But the system wasn't built for outsiders.
	The same corrupt politicians blocked me from competing in the 2024 elections.
	They were afraid of outsiders.
	In Mexico right now, there is no real opposition.
	There is opposition.
	The majority of the Mexican people do not have political representation.
	And the majority of Mexicans are tired.
	Tired of corruption.
	Tired of lies.
	Tired of politicians who serve the cartels instead of the people.
	And that's why it is so important to continue the fight for freedom.
	We will never stop.
	We will never give up.
	We will give our lives for this mission.
	It's not about us.
	It's about using our talents to make this world a better place.
	It is about glorifying God in everything that we do.
	It's about fighting for something bigger than yourself, bigger than ourselves.
	Remember this one.
	Man gives the battle, but only God gives the victory.
	Man gives the battle, but only God gives the victory.
	But I have hope, I have faith, and I know that very soon everything will change in Mexico.
	Very soon we will receive official approval from Mexico's electoral institute to begin building a new conservative political party.
	I am proud to announce that very soon Movimiento Nacional Viva Mexico will officially be underway.
	And Viva Mexico is not going to be just another political party.
	This will be the largest movement to free Mexico from socialism, communism, the radical left, woke ideology and the corrupt globalists.
	Because Mexico is ready.
	Enough is enough.
	We don't want the same anymore.
	It's time to change.
	For too long our country has been ruled by criminals in government working hand in hand with the cartels.
	Even President Trump recently recognized that Mexico has become a narco-state.
	But I have a message for the corrupt leaders of Mexico.
	Your time is up.
	I know this fight will not be easy.
	The establishment will come after us, threaten us, but they won't stop us.
	Because we know this is not just a political or cultural battle.
	It essentially...
	It is essentially a spiritual battle and we are ready to fight.
	We are not alone.
	God plus one is an army.
	And we are more than one.
	We are more than one.
	We are the majority.
	If God is with us, who can be against us?
	Nobody.
	Because I believe that with courage, determination and God's help, we will rescue our nation.
	We will defeat corruption.
	We will defend our families, our faith and our freedom.
	So let me say this loud and clear.
	God willing, with the Viva Mexico movement, we will make Mexico free again.
	We will make Mexico safer again.
	We will make Mexico healthy again.
	We will make Mexico pro-life again.
	We will be working really hard so we can make Mexico godly again.
	And we will make Mexico great again.
	And we will do this together.
	Because together we are stronger.
	We are not just neighbors.
	We are brothers and sisters.
	What happens?
	What happens when the good people of Mexico work with the good people of the United States?
	What is the result?
	Sound of freedom.
	A movement that is designed to end child trafficking in the world.
	Good things happen.
	Now, what happens when the bad people of the United States work with the bad people of Mexico?
	When they work together?
	What is the result?
	Fentanyl, drugs, human trafficking, child trafficking, illegal guns, terrorism.
	The USA is the number one consumer of child sex in the world, the number one consumer of drugs, the number one consumer of child pornography.
	And Mexico, the number one provider of all three.
	So I want to stop here for a second.
	We have done a lot of harm to each other.
	We can't move forward without first forgiving each other.
	I believe in the power of forgiveness.
	So I want to start this movement of forgiveness here in Washington, D.C., and I pray that God will heal the wounds.
	So on behalf of Mexico, I want to apologize for all the harm Mexico has done to the United States.
	And the United States needs to apologize to Mexico for all the harm they have done to Mexico.
	And after this breach of forgiveness, then we need to make sure that the good people of both nations work together and through bilateral efforts eradicate as much as we can all of the bad things that we have done to each other and focus on all the good things that we have done to each other.
	Capitalize on all the positives.
	Then we will be unstoppable.
	Together, as brothers and sisters.
	When the United States and Mexico stand together, our nations are safer.
	Our border is safer.
	Together, we will make Mexico and United States great again, and we will make the Americas great again.
	God bless Mexico.
	God bless America.
	God bless the world.
	Viva Estados Unidos!
	Viva Mexico!
	Thank you very much.
	God bless you.
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	What happens when we leave our kids to the professionals?
	Please welcome America First Policy Institute Chair of the Center for Education Opportunity, Erica Donalds.
	Congressional Commission for the Social Status of Black Men and Boys, Jack Brewer.
	And your moderator, Senior Vice President of Communications, Alliance Defending Freedom, Billy Adwell.
	Well, I want to start by thanking Matt and Mercy Schlapp I want to start by thanking Matt and Mercy Schlapp for making this panel possible, and I'm so grateful for you two for giving up your time.
	Again, my name is Billy Atlam.
	I'm the Senior Vice President of Communications at Alliance Defending Freedom.
	ADF exists to advance every person's God-given right to live and speak the truth, and we contend for truth and law policy in the public square.
	For those unfamiliar with our work, our attorneys are attributed with 15 Supreme Court victories, and we have an international team that's doing work throughout the world.
	They just came back from ARC. We've actually got two Supreme Court cases going on right now that I think you would be very interested in.
	The first one is Medina vs.
	Planned Parenthood.
	It's about protecting a state's right to decide if taxpayers should go to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
	And I feel like I have a pretty warm crowd for that idea.
	And the other is about education, which relates to this topic here.
	It's Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board vs.
	Drummond.
	It's about defending the decision to defund a religious charter school and fight for equal treatment of religious organizations and education.
	There are few issues that are going to impact our children and our grandchildren more than reforms to the education system, and that's why we're here.
	First, Erica Donalds is an education entrepreneur and is the founder and chairman of OptimaEd and the chair of America First Policy Institute Centers for Education and Opportunity.
	A former elected school board member, she is known as a national expert on education policy and school choice and is a frequent commenter and speaker on this issue.
	She spent 20 years in the financial services industry, finishing her career as the CFO and managing partner of a multi-billion dollar investment management firm.
	Erica and her husband, Congressman Byron Donalds, lives in Florida.
	You're familiar?
	Very good.
	She lives in Naples, Florida with her three sons.
	Jack Brewer serves as the chair of the Center for Opportunity Now and chairman of the Jack Brewer Foundation.
	Recently, Jack was co-chair of Black Voices for Trump Victory Fund.
	He is a White House appointee on the Congressional Commission for the Social Status of Black Men and Boys, and is currently the lead independent director for the GEO Group.
	He was the team captain for the NFL's Minnesota Vikings, the Philadelphia Eagles, who you may have heard of recently, and what I find to be the pinnacle of his career at the New York Giants.
	So, born in Brooklyn, I can't help myself.
	All right.
	Let's lay a foundation, if you don't mind, for this topic.
	Erica, talk about what you see as the current state of particularly the public education system.
	Well, the public education system in America has literally failed the American people.
	It hasn't lived up to the promise where we parents were told, if you send your child to this school for eight hours a day, we're going to teach them to read and do math and achieve their own American dream.
	That was a lie.
	We just found out a few weeks ago that only a third of our students are doing reading and math on grade level, according to the national report card, the NAEP. And we are spending billions and billions of dollars not to teach our kids how to succeed and how to carry forward this republic that we all so value, but we're teaching them about victimhood and oppressors and the wrong history of the United States and the world, and to hate themselves and to hate our country.
	And so we are taking the education system back, though.
	We're here in the golden age of America, right, at the cusp of that.
	President Trump has promised to not only dismantle the Department of Education, but enact school choice and support universal school choice in our states where education belongs.
	So there's reason for hope, even though the education system has been failing for the past 100 years.
	Yeah, that's a great point.
	And you think about, in the state where I live, Virginia, Glenn Youngkin essentially won the governor's seat on the issue of education and speaking to parents.
	Like, that was a key differentiator for him.
	Jack, President Trump...
	It feels like he's been president for like a year and a half this term because so much has happened in a few weeks, but it's not been that long, and yet a lot has happened.
	What has he done so far that's really encouraged you on the topic of education?
	First off, I want to look at the American people, whoever's watching, and speak to your kids for a second, and just tell your child, if no one's ever told you this, Jesus Christ loves you.
	Amen.
	You are not a victim.
	You have victory in Christ, and he is the ruler over your life.
	President Trump has done so much, but I think the most important thing that he's done in front of the American people is he has stood for biblical truth.
	When he sat in front of the nation and said, God created man and woman.
	And that's it.
	That's right.
	And so when you talk about the education system, our founding fathers did not create an education system that is going to indoctrinate boys and girls to make them believe that they can be transgender and any gender they wanted to choose.
	Our education system was established with the basic belief in the Word of God.
	And so...
	Anything else throws us off, and I think President Trump has taken a stand.
	I think you've seen more and more companies come and back him, more and more employers in America have backed him, because we're getting rid of these DEI policies and all these things that have drifted into our education system to start to pick winners and losers and actually separate us and put us back decades in regards to social and biblical justice.
	I just think that we should all understand the spiritual time in which we're living right now in America, particularly with our children.
	And let's get the Ten Commandments back in our schools.
	You're seeing it happen in Louisiana.
	You're seeing it happen in so many other states around our country.
	We all must take a stand, no matter what your religion is, to get this word.
	Back into the hearts and minds of our children that may not have access to it.
	Amen.
	Erica, it's hard to know what to do sometimes, though, because parents, I think the instinct when they see these things happening in the public school is to say, I'm going to put my kids in private school.
	I'm going to homeschool.
	And those are good options, and for some people, that's the right decision.
	But you also don't want to forfeit the public arena to the other side.
	And then again, it's our children who are vulnerable and impressionable.
	You've got children.
	You're in the later teen phases with your children.
	How would you advise a parent with little kids like me?
	My kids are younger.
	They're like 11 to 2. We've got to spread a 4. And we're struggling with it.
	We're asking ourselves a question right now.
	What's the best educational model?
	How would you advise a parent, given the system we have now...
	How would you advise them to go about making those decisions?
	Well, that very dilemma is what got me involved in education.
	As you mentioned, I wasn't an educator.
	I was the CPA. But I have three children, and for one of my children, the A school that I was sending him to did not work well for him.
	He was miserable, therefore I was miserable as a parent.
	And I was fortunate enough to find a classical Christian private school to send him to, and his entire life changed in the first grade.
	He started to love learning and thrive in that environment.
	And I thought, well, how many other Darins are out there?
	And can I help by serving on my local school board to give them options?
	But that's when my eyes were opened to the education monopoly and the corruption that is happening in our school districts.
	What I would say is, you know, the left wants to say that our obligation is to the collective.
	But as parents, our number one obligation is to our family and to our own children, raising them in the things of God.
	And that is your contribution to the community.
	Raising your children well and making sure that they are prepared to be good citizens in this republic.
	And so you need to take care of your own children first.
	I personally would not send my children into a public school in this day and age.
	I don't care if it's an A or not.
	I don't trust them.
	And so I would do whatever I possibly could to find the right educational environment for my children.
	Put your own mask on first, help your children, and then do things for your community.
	Run for school board.
	It's not a bad thing to do, but a lot of the families that I know that are running for school board that are involved in education reform, they took care of their children first, but they're there, as I was, to help take care of their community and other children that don't have that same opportunity.
	Right, because the public education system is everybody's.
	Even if your kids are homeschooled or you go to a private school, that's your school, too.
	We're paying for that.
	We deserve to have an influence there.
	We're seeing a huge shift in the country with regard to DEI. It's been unpopular for a long time, but we're seeing major institutions and politicians starting to come on board and get.
	Get with it.
	Alliance Defending Freedom, we've got a corporate engagement division that's been working, and part of the product of that work was what we're seeing with Walmart.
	Shareholders are speaking out, and they're saying, we're tired of this.
	We don't want it.
	And Walmart's making good decisions.
	There are also corporations that are not making the right decisions, but they're feeling the pressure.
	Jack, talk about, because you've worked a lot with young black men and boys.
	You deal with the issue of fatherlessness, which we can get into in a minute, too.
	But talk about the impact of DEI and that general mentality on the education system.
	First off, the devil is a lie, and DEI is a lie.
	That's right.
	All right?
	So I want to start off by saying that I'm a black man, and I happen to be the lead independent director of a multi-billion dollar public company.
	And so America does have opportunity for people just like me.
	And I'll take that further.
	When you look at what DEI really does...
	So I do a lot of community work.
	I got my master's in education, adjunct professor.
	I've taught from you talking about the poorest of the poor on to multi-millionaires.
	But the one thing that remains consistent is that whenever you tell someone that they're a victim or you tell someone they don't have the ability to learn, then they won't.
	So I have a little girl in one of my programs.
	She literally went to class.
	She got an F on a math.
	And the teacher told her that it's okay because she's a little black girl and that she doesn't have the ability to do this math.
	Telling the girl that math is racist.
	So for me, that burns me up inside.
	And so you start to think about what these little children are being taught in some of these public schools that Erica just mentioned.
	Just heart wrenching.
	I'll tell you another story.
	When you talk about people, and Erica said this, it's not just about us.
	It's about our community, man.
	When you look at our juveniles, we got to realize juvenile crime in the United States of America went up 21% last year.
	These are the little kids, the little boys.
	I have men in my prison program who have been locked up since the age of 14 with grown men.
	We have to do something for the poorest of the poor.
	It starts in our education system.
	We cannot leave these men and these children fatherless.
	Our nation is the most fatherless nation on the planet.
	We have over 18 million kids that don't have an active father in their home.
	I went to a juvenile courtroom.
	There were 25 young men and boys, most of them black, at court to be sentenced By a judge.
	I looked around, there was only one father in the entire courtroom.
	Can you imagine if your child was being sentenced?
	This is the epidemic that we're facing in our nation right now.
	Our education system will never work if we don't put the man back in the home.
	It's a basic Christian concept.
	Children deserve a mother and a father.
	Every child deserves a mother and a father.
	I mentioned a minute ago that we're seeing shifts in DEI and public perception of it.
	Erica, you and I were talking about this earlier.
	How do we take what we see as a public opinion shift and make institutional change out of it, right?
	We can all like the ideas.
	We can be at CPAC and be excited about the ideas that we've gotten, that we're seeing some progress.
	But how do we influence institutions?
	So how do we get from where we are to where we want to go?
	Well, that's so important for this audience, right, because these are the people that believe as we do and have believed as we do, but now the rest of the country has also come along against DEI. People, you know, it's an 80% issue.
	It was the number one issue for President Trump, saying, there are only two genders.
	We're going to get men out of women's sports.
	And now he got elected with such a mandate and is enforcing Title IX and the protections that provides to girls in their space.
	Spaces and in their athletics.
	And he's gonna plow forward.
	You gotta elect the right people.
	That's one way to institutionalize it.
	But look at something like School Choice.
	School Choice now enjoys over 70% support across the country, including 67% of Democrats support School Choice.
	But...
	You also see 100% of Democrats voting against school choice in our state legislators.
	Why?
	Because the teachers union and the funding behind them are controlling those electors.
	But then, you look at a place like Texas, where also rural Republicans went against it, and you had organizations like AFC, Donald Trump himself, America First, Policy Institute come...
	Get rid of the majority of the Republican incumbents that voted against school choice last year.
	And this year, in just a few weeks, Texas will pass a school choice bill and spend a billion dollars on giving parents options.
	So that's how you do it.
	Yeah.
	You get the public and you get the right people in office to make those bold changes.
	Yeah.
	Elections have consequences.
	They do.
	We've been saying that for a while, right?
	Jack, I want to go back to what you were talking about a minute ago with the fatherlessness issue and the education gap.
	What can...
	What can the rest of us do?
	So if you're the average person in the pew, so to speak, you see this epidemic, you don't know what to do.
	I may be able to impact one child.
	I can't fix the whole system.
	But what can the average person that just cares about the public education system, they care about these kids that don't have a mom or a dad in the home, what can we do?
	What would be your advice?
	Well, my advice is, first off, understand that this is not just an issue of education or policy.
	This is a spiritual issue.
	The last verse of the Old Testament is Malachi 4 and 6. That verse says that he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers.
	But the end of that verse says something that's so powerful and it's the times that we live in.
	He said, if we don't do it, he shall come and smite the earth with a curse.
	Our earth is filling the curse.
	No matter if you go to Guatemala or Central America and see that all of their men and fathers are leaving their homes trying to migrate to America illegally.
	Or you go over to Africa when you see these societies that have gone from a patriarch society to a matriarch society.
	Or you come here in America where you can have a generation like mine that was raised to believe that having a baby mama is okay and cool.
	Those things are generational curses that we must break.
	The only way you bind up a curse is by the blood of the lamb and the word of your testimony.
	And so we've got to testify.
	We've got to talk about these things in the public square.
	We've got to stand for these poor children that don't have advocates and people to stand up for them and be their voices.
	Man, get out in your community.
	Go to the local juvenile.
	Go in there and sit in a courtroom and tell a little boy that's 13, 14, 15 that don't have a dad that you love him.
	Go see those folks in prison like the word tells us to do.
	We can't just take care of our people that have.
	we got to take care of those that have not.
	Church, it's our job.
	Church, let's do what the church does.
	Donald Trump can only do so much.
	We need the church to take a stand.
	Churches start schools.
	Churches start daycares.
	Churches empower organizations like Erica's to go in and push for school choice.
	Let's take our country back.
	But we can only do that through God.
	There is no replacement for a Christian witness.
	Ladies and gentlemen, that's all the time we've got.
	If you want to learn more, ericadonalds.com, the jackbrewerfoundation.org, and adflegal.org.
	We'll be around.
	You'll see us throughout the conference.
	Please stop us and say hello.
	Take care.
	Take care, God bless. - Ladies and gentlemen, God bless. - Ladies and gentlemen, and gentlemen, up next, Joy Reid, a desperate plea up next, Joy Reid,
	Please welcome senior columnist for townhall.com, Kurt Schlichter, with @ALXonX, Alex LaRusso, and your host, host of O'Connor & Company on WMAL, Larry O'Connor. - Thank host of O'Connor & Company on WMAL, Larry O'Connor. - Thank you, thank you, thank
	We got real big names waiting, Becca.
	Hey, good to see you.
	We got super big names back there waiting to come out, so we're going to get right to it.
	How about these guys, right?
	I'd be remiss if I didn't tell you that I just wrote a book about the media.
	It's called Shameless Liars.
	Can we get a close-up on that artwork there?
	It's got an incredible forward by a real thought leader.
	Forward by Kurt Schlichter.
	But the subtitle is How Trump Defeated the Legacy Media and Made Them Irrelevant.
	And that's sort of where I want to take this, because for years, ever since the great Rush Limbaugh and Brent Bozell at Media Research Center for the last 35, 37 years, the late great Andrew Breitbart, who brought Kurt and I into this world, we've spent so much time fighting the media and exposing their lies and exposing the propaganda, and it all reached ahead this year, with Donald Trump leading the charge.
	And he won.
	I mean, they are meaningless now.
	And so I want to start with that.
	And Joy Reid kind of is the namesake for this panel.
	Because Alex, she's been reduced to being obsessed over big balls.
	Correct.
	And I need you to sort of explain this to us.
	Explain Joy Reid's obsession with Big Balls.
	Obsession with Big Balls.
	So she's going on media right now, and she's demanding that Congress subpoena a guy named Big Balls and Elon Musk with a straight face on.
	So we've reduced them to a point where they're just looking at social media for people like me who post on X, and they're getting their talking points from online.
	And no longer do they have a mind of their own.
	There's like a whole supercut.
	I think it was like Media Busters who did it.
	And there's just like all of these people on CNN, MSNBC, and they're just repeating big balls, big balls, big balls over and over with a straight face.
	So it's like you look at...
	Well, they've got to get to the bottom of big balls.
	Yes.
	And they brought on Kara Swisher, the noted expert on the topic for that.
	But yeah, that's all over an intern at Doge who was hired by Elon Musk.
	And of course, we have tens of thousands of people in our government who have access to all of your personal information, including your social security number.
	But when Elon Musk has a small team of genius interns that are probably smarter than everybody else on that whole panel or on their entire network, It becomes the biggest deal that they all have access to your personal information.
	So they just set the standard to, like, dox all of these government workers for some reason because tens of thousands of people that are not elected, by the way, have the access to your personal information every single day and have.
	Well, and they've all been reduced to a punchline, these media personalities.
	That's why we're laughing at Joy Reid, because that's what we should do.
	We should mock them and make fun of them.
	And, of course, all this talk about Joy Reid and Big Balls brings us to Don Lemon, Kurt.
	Another gem.
	He's my special friend.
	I'm going to connect the dots, I promise you.
	Because, Kurt, it was during the...
	December 22nd, 2015. I get this call.
	Can you come on CNN real quick?
	Just a video hit.
	I get on.
	And Don Lemon's outraged because, oh, it's the worst thing that ever happened.
	Donald Trump said Hillary got schlonged in the 2008 election.
	She did.
	And I don't care at all.
	And we're going back and forth.
	He said, you should be more upset.
	And I said...
	Look, his opponent chilled for her husband who treated his intern like a human humidor.
	That's not true.
	And he said, you can't say that.
	So I said it again.
	And he kicked me off.
	And what we're saying here is the media used to be something that hit us.
	Now we use it for a punching bag.
	Everybody knows the JD meme.
	Right.
	Okay?
	I don't really care, Margaret.
	They go on her show to humiliate her, and she's too stupid to know it!
	They don't know they're the joke at this point.
	How excited is National Security Advisor Mike Waltz right now, knowing that he's coming out after this panel?
	Well, he's an army colonel, too, so...
	But you were banned from CNN? Yes!
	For ten years, I have not been on CNN. And it's changed my life for the better.
	And honestly, who's got a better career trajectory right now?
	Kurt Schlichter or Don Lemon?
	Because he has also been banned from CNN. Well, look, I'm on board than he is.
	Look, I literally have more followers on the Twitter machine than they have viewers.
	Think about that.
	100%.
	So, Alex, your work that you do right now, you...
	You've got a meme for everything.
	And the fact that these guys can be reduced to a meme, that Margaret Brennan, the host of Face the Nation, a very important show in a very important town with a very important teleprompter reader as its host, she is now a meme.
	She can't do anything.
	From how J.D. Vance has handled her with these interviews to now reducing her to saying that too much free speech will lead to a genocide.
	This really is the best way to attack them now, is to just reduce them to a punchline.
	Yeah, 100%.
	The thing is, like I said earlier, they don't have a mind of their own anymore.
	They are reduced to scrolling social media and looking for the most viral moment that's going on social media, and it becomes now what they're talking about.
	To give you an example, my local city council, they just declared, my city that I'm from, Worcester, Massachusetts, just declared themselves a trans-sanctuary city.
	So I got a tip that it was getting a little wild at the city council meeting, and I watched the four-hour video of them all, like, you've probably seen it, the girl with the wig and everything, the blue hair.
	Oh, yeah, that was that city council.
	Yeah, so I went, that was my city.
	I went through and clipped it.
	For the next three days, it was all over, like, every corporate media, like, talking about it.
	So it's like they're looking at everything that they find online, and then they're making it their news cycle.
	They don't have a mind of their own anymore.
	And, you know, we talk about the gatekeepers a lot.
	The gatekeepers are the people who used to say what kind of news.
	New York Times, right?
	All the news that's fit to print.
	Who's deciding what's fit to print?
	Right?
	There's some people in a tower in Manhattan who's, oh, that's not news that's fit to print, but this is news that's fit to print.
	And they would decide what was worthy for your eyes.
	What was news that you could consume.
	It's been reversed now.
	In fact, we are the ones, as Elon Musk says, we are the media.
	We are driving what's important.
	And that's what this new revolution is about.
	And it all goes back to Andrew Breitbart.
	And one of the underappreciated aspects is how much fun we're having, right?
	That's right.
	Exactly.
	I mean, we've got to dance!
	They're eating the dogs!
	There we go!
	They're eating the dogs!
	They're eating the cats!
	We are having fun!
	We're laughing!
	And Kamala Harris says, my message is joy!
	As she's screaming.
	As Biden's screaming, as she's screaming.
	You will be happy!
	By the way, you mentioned Andrew Breitbart again, and I just want to say, I want to read this.
	This is the very end of my book, but it's a quote from Andrew Breitbart.
	You all remember Andrew, right?
	God bless him.
	Yeah, ALX was five when...
	Exactly.
	Elon Musk is now saying we are the media, and he's right.
	We are the media using social media platforms, using X, which is now a free platform.
	On Tax Day 2010, during the rise of the Tea Party movement, Andrew Breitbart was asked to speak in Washington, D.C. at a Tea Party rally.
	And you should look at this video.
	It's out there.
	He asked everybody in the crowd there at the Tea Party rally to hold up their phones.
	And he said this.
	It's time for a new media revolution, and you are it.
	You are the media.
	Hold up your phones.
	Hold up your cameras.
	This is the future of media.
	This is how we're going to fight the lies, the misinformation, and the propaganda of the mainstream media.
	We are now the media.
	Andrew Breitbart, 15 years ago, said that.
	And Alex, you have inherited this legacy now, and you are the media.
	Yeah, it's really interesting, too, because a little bit about my story, too.
	In 2020, I was really gaining traction, and I was about to hit 100,000 followers on Twitter 1.0 at the time, and then I was just banned for...
	Like, three years nearly, until Elon Musk brought me back, and I'm now almost at a million followers on X. Hold that thought.
	He had 100,000 followers, and they banned him because he was so...
	Look at how dangerous he is.
	Elon Musk buys it, opens it up for free thought and free speech, and now you've got a million followers.
	Yep, nearly.
	I'm 30,000 from a million, so if you want to get me there before I leave the stage, go for it.
	At ALX. But yeah, so to your point, it's just like, you know, you are the media because you have a phone and you have the platform on social media.
	And one of the things that's ironic about this whole, you know, moral panic around misinformation, disinformation, all these people can go on their shows like, you know, for four years they talked about the Russia propaganda hoax and Russian collusion hoax.
	They were allowed to say that unchecked.
	They got to have their own guests on there, and Adam Schiff saying he has inside knowledge about all this crap.
	On social media, no, it's a blood sport.
	You say something wrong, you're going to get ratioed or community noted.
	That's right.
	So you're the media and you're also the checker.
	You're the fact checker.
	There's not independent fact checkers like Meta used to have.
	You are the fact checker.
	Well, because the independent fact checkers weren't independent.
	Exactly.
	And they weren't based in fact.
	Correct.
	And this is an important point that I want you to pick up on, Kurt, because this whole idea of needing fact checkers and needing to moderate what you say, and it's all coming from this arrogant presumption that you're too stupid.
	To understand what's true and what isn't.
	You're too stupid to discern from a hoax and what's real.
	I'm not sure that they think we're stupid.
	I know they say they're stupid because it justifies their existence.
	They want to be the gatekeeper.
	They want to be making the decision.
	And you don't need a gatekeeper if you are an individual.
	If you are an independent American citizen with your camera and computer who goes out and makes his or her own news.
	We don't need them.
	It terrifies them.
	That is why Never Trump exists.
	Because we didn't need them.
	That said, the platform and the technology and the freedom is there, and it's opening up more.
	Mark Zuckerberg suddenly is red-pilled, right?
	And that's amazing.
	But it all starts with this fist thrust in the air.
	It all starts with him yelling, fight, fight, fight.
	Right?
	Because...
	He has shown us how to fight.
	Suddenly you see Republicans on Capitol Hill are channeling Trump because he's contagious.
	And I think it all—I mean, I'll give you a perfect example.
	George Stephanopoulos last year lied about Donald Trump.
	He said that he was convicted by a jury of raping somebody, and he said it seven times in a six-minute span.
	What did Donald Trump do?
	Did he do a Mitt Romney thing?
	Did he do a George Bush thing?
	Did he do what Republicans have done for our lifetimes, which is just be the better man and say, oh, well, you know how they are.
	Tut, tut, let's walk away.
	No, he fought, he sued, and he won!
	And that's what we have to do.
	And the fight we have, I mean, listen.
	We're doing a victory lap right now because we've rendered the media irrelevant, but they're not going away.
	The fight continues, Alex, every day.
	100%.
	And then the other thing, too, to your point, 60 Minutes tried to edit that Calm Barbaris interview.
	That's right.
	How did that go for them?
	The FCC has now released the entire thing, and we saw what a sham it was.
	Well, they even...
	They messed up because they put the promo out with the other answer.
	With a different answer.
	Wait a second.
	What happened here?
	Well, and Kurt, this goes back to the arrogance, because think about it.
	Donald Trump had the choice of sitting for 40 minutes with 60 minutes and letting them condense it down to 20 minutes that they decided we could see.
	And they do that, by the way.
	They edit these packages because they think you have a short attention span.
	They talk down to you all the time.
	Instead...
	He said, no, I don't need freaking 60 minutes.
	I'll sit for three hours uninterrupted with Joe Rogan.
	Oh, and by the way, 50 million of you watched that.
	How's that for short attention span?
	And here's the beauty of it.
	Kamala Harris wants to go on Joe Rogan.
	She thinks she's the get.
	She thinks she's in the driver's seat.
	Joe Rogan's like, nah.
	Talk to the hand.
	Wow.
	You don't set the conditions.
	They don't own us anymore.
	That's right.
	They're not in charge.
	We are!
	Well, I think we've recovered from our big balls opening, and I think we'll quit while we're ahead.
	You guys, thank you.
	Keep fighting.
	Follow Alex, get him to a million, and buy my book.
	Hey!
	Cough liver?
	You can crack the code of nuclear waste.
	You've solved something that no one has attempted to do before and has succeeded. - Thank you.
	We're on to something big.
	We have the US government partnered with us now to prove our technology out.
	Make America stronger.
	I want to provide limitless energy to the world and I believe this is the path.
	Every institution today is under attack.
	The home, the church, the government.
	And many people are asking what is the truth.
	Jesus Christ claimed to be ultimate truth.
	Are you willing to face the truth?
	Do you think the MKUltra project ever actually ended?
	The Central Intelligence Agency is actively involved in mind manipulation.
	We all answer to one God and one Savior, and he's there to change your life for the better.
	During my second term, we will fight for Alaska like never before.
	I'm excited about what we can do with President Trump in the office.
	We can work together to provide affordable energy to Alaska and allies all over the world.
	More investment, more certainty, production, more exploration.
	Thank you to everyone in Alaska, and thank you to your great governor.
	I look forward to a long and enduring future relationship.
	Drill, baby, drill.
	Ladies and gentlemen, this is a conversation with National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and CPAC Senior Fellow Mercedes Schlapp.
	All right.
	Good morning, CPAC.
	Mike, are you ready?
	Oh, born for this.
	Okay, good.
	Let's go.
	I don't have a chainsaw for you.
	That's the only thing I couldn't get on the stage.
	You know, Elon Musk came in with the present.
	As a Green Beret, I left the belt-fed machine gun at home.
	There you go.
	There you go.
	Secret Service is okay.
	Maybe next time.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	How are y'all doing this morning?
	Okay, so how amazing was it yesterday?
	Seriously.
	And we're going to top it off this morning with just one of our heroes right now in the Trump administration, someone who CPAC, someone that Matt and I admire so much, our national security adviser, Mike Waltz.
	So let's jump right in.
	Obviously, you've just come back from Saudi Arabia.
	You were meeting with Russian officials on really looking to find a solution to end the war in Ukraine between Russia and Ukraine.
	Tell me first how those negotiations are going.
	Any insight that you can give to our CPAC family here in terms of progress that's being made?
	SECRETARY KERRY: Well, let me make one thing clear.
	We would not be in this position, not even close, if it weren't for the leadership of Donald J. Trump.
	I had the honor of sitting in the Oval Office and listening to President Trump speak with President Putin of Russia and hearing both Putin and then immediately Zelensky both say only under President Trump's leadership, say this to him, and only he could drive an end to this war.
	So under Trump, this war will end.
	And it will end soon.
	And he is the president of peace.
	And it amazes me how many people in this town are clutching their pearls and having conniption fits over what?
	Because President Trump's ready to stop the killing, stop the hundreds of thousands of people that are dying per year in Europe, the largest war in Europe since World War II. And you see the same voices that are demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.
	Post October 7th, then what?
	Oppose peace in Europe?
	It makes no sense.
	But with his leadership, we've now opened negotiations.
	We're sitting down with our host, the Saudis, and talking to the Russians, understanding what they are going to need, and then understanding what the Ukrainians are going to need, talking to all of the Europeans.
	You can't...
	End a war if you don't talk to both sides, and that's what we're doing.
	Thank you.
	It's kind of common sense, you know, in the history of diplomacy.
	It is common sense, but you do find those in the media and the critics basically saying, how can you all be talking to the Russians?
	This is insane, right?
	They criticize the efforts that the administration is doing.
	And with that being said, President Trump...
	Has expressed his frustration with President Zelensky trying to get to the point that we're dealing with how can we get a deal on the raw minerals?
	How do we...
	I mean, the United States has given over $175 billion to the Ukrainians.
	It seems like the Americans...
	There is that war fatigue.
	It's time to move forward.
	How are we going to get Zelensky, President Zelensky, to cooperate?
	Well, so first, and this is the part that the media just wants to ignore, It was Zelensky last September as part of his victory plan.
	It was Zelensky that proposed, hey, let's go into a partnership together.
	If the United States will invest in us, we have aluminum, we have gallium, we have tritium.
	We have all of these rare earth minerals that the modern economy needs.
	A lot of them are not fully developed.
	They need investment.
	President Trump's a dealmaker.
	And so now President Trump...
	Proposes the deal, and sent our Treasury Secretary all the way out to Kyiv to propose it, and then we get this rhetoric in the media.
	Look, here's the bottom line.
	President Zelensky is going to sign that deal.
	And you will see that in the very short term.
	And that is good for Ukraine.
	What better could you have for Ukraine than to be in an economic partnership with the United States, number one?
	What better could you have for Ukraine to stop the killing, number two?
	And you know what?
	We have an obligation to you all, the American taxpayer, to recoup the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been invested in this war.
	Because you know what?
	You know what Europe's contributions are?
	Europe's contributions are in the form of loans.
	And they're often paid back by the interest on Russian assets that have been frozen.
	So Europe gets paid back, but the American people don't?
	I don't think so, right?
	And so that's the deal that we're putting in place that's good for everyone.
	And yes, you have to talk to the Russian side to understand how we're going to get both sides to the table.
	And that's what we're doing.
	Look, this is the common sense presidency.
	This is the presidency of peace.
	He's going to end the war in Europe.
	He is going to end the wars in the Middle East.
	He is going to reinvest the United States and our leadership in our own hemisphere from the Arctic...
	To the border, to Panama, all the way down to our good friends in Argentina with Miele that you saw yesterday.
	And you know what?
	By the end of this all, we're going to have the Nobel Peace Prize sitting next to the name of Donald J. Trump.
	And who opposes peace?
	Like, I mean, how do the Democrats oppose peace?
	You know, you bring up a great question, which is, who opposes peace?
	Yet you've seen the European leaders under President Macron trying to bring the Europeans together.
	In dealing with the Russian and Ukraine situation, they have been unable to move the ball forward.
	How are we going to bring our European leaders on board?
	Well, President, you know, the other narrative you have in the media is, well, we're not consulting with our allies in Europe.
	President Trump has talked to Macron twice last week.
	He's coming here Monday.
	The Prime Minister of Britain is coming here next Thursday.
	We are engaging all of our European allies, absolutely.
	The NATO Secretary General and I just spoke.
	You establish peace through strength.
	And we have been demanding that the Europeans step up and contribute to their own defense.
	And as of now, a third of our NATO allies still are not contributing the minimum, which is 2% of their GDP, that they committed to A year ago, I'm sorry, 10 years ago.
	So that's unacceptable.
	And if you know what, the Europeans want to take a bigger role in their own security, that falls in line with America First principles as far as I'm concerned, as far as President Trump's concerned.
	So you know what, he's kind of rattled their cage a bit.
	And now they're saying, you know what, suddenly they've found more.
	And they're coming to the table with more.
	Fine by us.
	We've only been asking for over a decade now.
	Shifting gears here to Iran.
	We've got Ambassador Mark Wallace with us.
	Basically one of the biggest fighters in terms of ensuring that we can see change in Iran and leading the efforts incredibly here in the United States and across the globe.
	But I've got to ask you right now.
	What is this maximum pressure campaign going to look like in terms of Iran?
	How are we going to stop Iran from exporting terrorism into Israel and killing innocent lives?
	Well, first, thank God that Prime Minister Netanyahu, that Bibi did not listen to the Biden team and did not listen to Kamala Harris.
	And as a result of his leadership and Israel's leadership...
	Hezbollah in Iran is now decimated.
	I mean, the pager, beeper, and walkie-talkie operation is going to go down in history.
	And as a Green Beret, I appreciate a good covert operation.
	That was one of the greatest ones in history.
	So you have Hezbollah largely decapitated.
	You have a real opening in Lebanon that you haven't had in a generation.
	You have Assad gone in Syria.
	You have the...
	The axis of terror from Iran all the way to threaten our partners Israel essentially disrupted, and we need to keep our foot on their neck in that regard.
	And then from a maximum pressure campaign, the President just signed that executive order returning to maximum pressure to start keeping a foot on the neck of the Iranian economy.
	And look.
	Just a few years ago, we were seeing that all of Iran's proxies were out of cash.
	That the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, the militias in Iraq, none of them had the funds and the cash to continue their terror.
	We're going to get back to those policies that work.
	But key to it all is that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
	And why does that matter to everyday Americans?
	Look, if Iran has a nuke, There's a real question of whether they're a rational actor.
	And they can take out our ally Israel.
	They can launch against the world.
	They will have that nuclear umbrella to launch all of these other attacks.
	They cannot have a nuclear weapon.
	And under President Trump's leadership, we will ensure that does not happen.
	Israel.
	We just got word from the Israeli Defense Forces that they have returned.
	Several bodies, the Bibas family, the two beautiful children, the redhead children, and what was supposed to be the body of Shirah, the mother.
	Apparently, that doesn't seem to be the case.
	IDF is saying this is a serious violation of the ceasefire.
	What's your message, one, to the hostages, their families from the United States, from President Trump, and two, How can we ensure that we bring all those hostages back home?
	My message, President Trump's message to his families is we are with you.
	His heart breaks and he is horrified by these scenes coming out.
	And if anyone thinks that Hamas is some type of quasi-benevolent, not so bad, you know, kind of something less than the than the just despicable terrorists that they are.
	What more convincing do you need?
	This is, Hamas is of the worst kinds of terrorist groups out there.
	They are no different than ISIS. They are no different than Al Qaeda.
	And they absolutely must be destroyed.
	And only under his leadership, only under his leadership, remember the Biden administration Was trying to do some type of deal.
	They were obsessed with a ceasefire, but their approach was concession after concession after concession and putting more pressure on Israel than they did on Hamas.
	Only when President Trump came in and said, look, there will be all hell to pay, the credible threat that only he can deliver.
	Did we see this deal come into place?
	Still under Biden.
	And we saw our people starting to come out, including two Americans.
	With more to go.
	So this is only happening because of this election.
	These are the kind of consequences this election has had.
	And we will continue to get out every one that we can.
	But remember, just what, six months ago, eight months ago, you had college campuses.
	You had students.
	You had faculty.
	You had protesters celebrating Hamas, talking about from the river to the sea.
	Having the worst kind of anti-Semitism, and now we've seen, and we just saw yesterday, the despicable people that they are, and why they can never be allowed to run Gaza, and why we can never allow another October 7th again.
	And there is a lot of talk about two-state.
	You know who doesn't want a two-state?
	Who will never allow a two-state?
	Hamas.
	And this is why they just cannot exist going forward.
	China is one of our biggest threats.
	We have seen how China has infiltrated our institutions, has brought fentanyl into the United States, has stolen our intellectual property, have basically made so many deals with many Latin American countries, African countries.
	They're trying to be strategic in ensuring that the U.S. Does not get involved in some of these regions.
	This has significantly changed under President Trump.
	Walk us through how we're going to deal with this threat of China.
	Remember, President Trump is who pivoted us, you know, pivoted the whole national security apparatus back in 2017 and 2018. To deal with the threat and the competition that China is.
	But he firmly believes we can win this economically.
	We can win this through our supply chains.
	We can win this through our markets and fair trade deals.
	And at the same time, rebuilding our great military under, how about our defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, right?
	Getting them focused on being the most lethal and most badass military in the world and projecting that strength.
	But at the same time, he appreciates the infiltration that's going on.
	And we just had Panama say, you know what?
	We're done with Belt and Road.
	We're done with allowing China to infiltrate critical strategic assets like the Panama Canal.
	And again, it's only been a month, folks.
	We've still got it.
	We told the president, he said, you know, you have a full four years.
	We don't have to get it all done in four weeks.
	And just final thing, because you mentioned fentanyl.
	We are going to unleash holy hell on the cartels.
	Enough is enough.
	We are securing our border.
	And the cartels are on notice.
	You've seen now...
	You've seen images of the Mexican Army doing joint patrols with our Customs and Border Police and with our military to secure the United States border, because without a border, you don't have a country and you don't have sovereignty.
	And if there's not anything more than America first, then that.
	And so, a lot of, you know, going back to things that worked in the first term.
	But you know what we have now in the second term?
	We have a team that is 200% on board with the vision of President Trump.
	And we've got a great Secretary of State, a great Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Treasury.
	You know, we've got the Team Florida with Susie Wiles and our Chief of Staff.
	Like, we are hitting on all cylinders, and we don't have a president that's year one or even year five.
	He's year nine.
	And he is...
	We are building the rocket as we're launching it, and it's just been the honor of my lifetime to be a part of it.
	So I was going to ask you who can bench press more, Secretary Hegseth or Mike Waltz, but I'm going to skip that question.
	We're just going to go a little personal here.
	You wake up every morning.
	You have one of the most important jobs in the administration.
	I'm working for a man who doesn't sleep, but yes, I get in a little bit.
	So that means you're not sleeping either.
	What drives you?
	What inspires you to do what you do every day?
	You know what?
	It really is.
	It's been about 20 hours a day.
	And he's going 21 or 22. I don't know how he does it.
	I thought I was in fourth gear as a member of Congress and a colonel and a Green Beret.
	I've now found three more, and he stays in tenth.
	But here's what drives me.
	These guys.
	I don't know if you can see this bracelet.
	This is one of my Green Berets that I lost in combat.
	And every morning I get up, I look in the mirror, we get ready to go, and I tell myself to be worthy.
	Be worthy of their sacrifice.
	Be worthy of those Gold Star families.
	Be a citizen that is worthy of this blessing that we all wake up with breathing free air in the greatest country on earth.
	But we got a glimpse the last four years of what the world and what the country would look like under progressive lack of leadership.
	The world got a glimpse of what the world coming unglued, starting with the disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan and how that was done through the wars in Europe.
	We went from the Abraham Accords to the Middle East on fire, an out-of-control border.
	I think, you know, and the President is thinking about this a lot as well, of course he wanted that second term.
	But you know what?
	Maybe God had a different plan.
	That the world had to see and feel what it would look like in the country without Him.
	And now you're seeing this amazing embrace of His leadership in the world.
	But be worthy, everyone.
	Be worthy of those that are out there right now willing to die for all of us and those that did give the greatest sacrifice.
	For all of us, and thank God we have a leader back in the White House that not only appreciates that, loves them, and loves all of you, and is willing to run through brick walls to get big things done for this country and for peace and security around the world.
	Well, be worthy.
	I'm taking that with me.
	Be worthy to do this incredible work.
	I just want to thank you, and I know on behalf of all of us here at CPAC, we thank you for your service.
	We thank you for your sacrifice.
	We thank you for supporting and giving advice to this great president and in serving in this administration.
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	Thank you, everybody. everybody.
	When I wrote the book that you all received, What Are the Odds?
	From Crack Addict to CEO, I used mathematical odds to prove that God exists.
	We all have things that happen to us all the time that we say, wow, that's a one in a million, or maybe that's a one in a billion, or things that we say, that's impossible.
	Well, when do we put them all together and say it has to be a miracle?
	I remember getting invited to the White House for the first time and sitting next to our great president.
	And the cameras went live to the nation.
	And all my friends at home, and some of them were still on cracker going, looked up and said, what is this crack addict doing with the president?
	Jesus is real, because this would be impossible without God.
	And in the spring of 2020, in another divine appointment, I spoke at the Rose Garden.
	And I said, God has given us grace for such a time as this.
	Well, then we were hit with the China virus and a stolen election.
	And over the next four years, people would come up to me all the time and say, Mike, this doesn't feel like grace.
	And I would say, oh, but it is.
	God uses all things for good for those who believe.
	And the president and I were talking one day, and I was saying that, you know, We were talking about how our country was getting completely destroyed everywhere.
	And I told him, I said, you know, Mr. President, these bad things are actually helping.
	They're opening people's eyes.
	And it'll end up being a good thing.
	And he said, well, Mike, they're destroying our beautiful country.
	And it's going to take so much to fix it all.
	And I said, sir, with God, all things are possible.
	And God, working through you, you'll get it fixed faster and better than ever.
	Well, hasn't this first month been a miracle, huh?
	Thank you, Mr. President, for getting so much done in such a short period of time.
	It actually is a miracle.
	I said it before, and I'm going to say it again.
	Everybody loves our president.
	Some just don't know it yet.
	True.
	This has all been on God's timing, and I believe our great president, if he was put in right after the stolen election, we would have lost our country forever.
	It would have been too soon.
	There were so many things that we had to find out over the last four years, and especially there was one thing that was important.
	We had to get our voice back.
	On January 7th and 8th of 2021, Those two days are historically important.
	1.2 million people were deplatformed and cancelled on Vimeo, YouTube, Suckabuck's Facebook, Jack Dorsey's Twitter.
	If you spoke out about the stolen election, you were deplatformed.
	The rest of the country was too afraid to say anything because on January 6th they went completely silent in fear.
	And it reminds me like when I was a kid, we had black and white TVs, and we would turn them off as kids, and they would go down to a little tiny dot.
	And we would go, and we'd turn it on right before that dot went out.
	It would all come back to life.
	Well, that little dot was our voice.
	And if our voice would have went out, it would have been just like Ronald Reagan said, we're like a beacon of light on a hill.
	If the lights go out here, they go out everywhere.
	It would have been over.
	But our voice did not go out.
	We turn that back on, and our voice has gotten bigger and brighter than ever before.
	And this is, you know, we never gave up.
	People started forming their own platforms, and this is where CPAC came in.
	How important is CPAC that gave us a platform?
	I couldn't speak anywhere back then except for CPAC. So important is CPAC. I and many of you were giving a world stage for our voice when almost every other platform had either blocked us or given up.
	We never stopped speaking out, and our voice has grown to the biggest it's ever been.
	We have beaten the biggest cover-up of the biggest crime in history.
	The Uniparty, the deep state globalists, and the media tried to completely bury the truth about the 2020 election.
	Four years later, evil has failed.
	Everybody knows the truth.
	I told people before the 2024 election, if they tried to steal it again, just like if they'd have tried to give us China virus 2.0, we would not have stood for it.
	We would have said, open up those machines.
	We would have said, no, we're not going to sit out in snowbanks wearing masks and be banned from our own houses.
	We would not have tolerated another stolen election.
	And evil knew, evil knew this, and they also knew that it was too big to rig, as the president likes to say.
	If they would have done it, it would have been one of the biggest deviations in history, and we would have said, we want to see, we're on to you now.
	Well, that's their tool to steal elections.
	By the way, the media will like this, the fake news.
	They did steal four senators and nine congressmen that my teams know of in this last election, just so you all know that.
	Okay?
	132 countries have banned electronic voting machines, and they've done it for a reason.
	More than 100 countries have banned early voting and mail-in voting.
	The United States of America has the worst election platforms in the world.
	We now have to make elections great again.
	We need to go to paper ballots, hand counted, same-day voting, precinct level, and voter ID just the way our great president wants us.
	We have to lead the world in secure elections.
	We cannot let this time with the greatest president in history be in vain.
	This must be the time that God triumphs over evil.
	We have our voices stronger than ever, and we will never ever stop until...
	With this critical timing, we have to get to paper ballots.
	We will never stop.
	We have to get there now.
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	We're at a critical time in history.
	The stuff we put out, we have all the pieces to do this.
	We just need your votes to magnify the truth to the world as we get into this over the next months here and start putting all this information out and what we're doing from the ground up.
	And from our great president down.
	We're doing everything humanly possible to get to this great place with our election platforms.
	God gave us grace for such a time as this.
	And we are in the best times to be alive in history.
	And the greatest revival for Jesus Christ ever.
	Thank you and God bless you.
	Thank you all.
	Thank you.
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	Hey, it's Matt Schlapp with CPAC. You know we've had a huge problem in this country with election fraud.
	But at CPAC, that's not a problem.
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	Ladies and gentlemen, a conversation with White House Deputy Chief of Staff, James Blair, and Breitbart, Washington Bureau Chief, Matt Boyle.
	James, how are you, sir?
	Good to see you, Matt.
	I like those cufflinks.
	Thank you.
	They're very nice.
	Okay, so James, you are the deputy chief of staff in the White House.
	There's a bunch of you guys that are deputy chiefs of staff, and a bunch of them are going to be here.
	All the president's men are going to be here at CPAC, so it's really exciting.
	Tell us about your specific role in the White House.
	We were talking about this last night.
	Tell us about the various departments that you oversee inside the White House.
	Yeah, I really oversee the external portfolio of the White House.
	There's three main components to that.
	We have our Office of Legislative Affairs, which obviously is really the President's lobbying arm on Capitol Hill.
	We have the Office of Political Affairs, which is just the political operations that come from the White House and run externally, of course.
	And then the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, which deals with the interplay between...
	Uh, federal, state, and local governments, and tribal governments.
	Okay, so the, we're seeing right now, in terms of a pace from President Trump, I mean, the amount of executive orders, I think I saw somebody say that there are more executive orders we've seen President Trump sign than there are primetime viewers on CNN, right?
	Like, uh, but the, uh, uh, the, the, we're seeing the level of action is just incredible, right?
	Like, it's rapid fire, uh, lots of different action out there.
	Um, I'll tell you, the, the person that I think I would really, and I know a little bit of something about this because I work for Breitbart, that I think would be absolutely loving this is the one and only Andrew Breitbart.
	And at CPAC, of course, we got to give Andrew Breitbart a shout out because Andrew Breitbart was CPAC, right?
	But tell us what it's like in there in the White House every day.
	It seems like it's a pretty crazy wild schedule, if you will.
	It's a frenetic pace, for sure.
	But, you know, the president has thought deeply about what he wants to accomplish in the time he was not in the White House, obviously.
	And he's been spending a lot of time planning and obviously asking his team to plan the actions that we've executed so far.
	So I get asked a lot, was all this planned?
	And, you know, obviously new ideas come up every day, but...
	A lot of it, if not most of it, was planned.
	He's thought deeply since he left the last time around, and he knows that he wants to accomplish a lot in a short period of time.
	So really, it's all of us just playing catch up with the president.
	It's great to have an energetic leader.
	He runs circles around all of us.
	He doesn't sleep.
	He works all the time.
	And he's really committed to making this time in office very useful for saving the country.
	I mean, he's just going to do what he said he was going to do, and that's it.
	All right, so James, one of the major departments you oversee is the political affairs, obviously.
	You were the political director for the Trump campaign.
	One of the reasons why we are where we are today is that President Trump was able to, in this last election in 2024, pull off arguably one of the greatest political transformations.
	The history of mankind.
	I mean, we are seeing, you know, lifelong Democrats, frankly, vote for President Trump.
	A lot of black voters, Hispanic voters.
	I think I saw him put on his Truth Social recently a list of all the counties he flipped from Democrat control.
	Tell us, you're the nuts and bolts guy of how this happened.
	So tell us, how did you guys pull this off from the Trump campaign?
	And then we'll get into how we hold it together, because I think it's important that we hold this together for the long term.
	But walk us through how you guys did it.
	Yeah, well, so they say success is where preparation meets opportunity, right?
	Obviously, we had a plan.
	But the plan primarily was to capitalize on opportunities that existed within these different populations of voters that maybe have not traditionally voted Republican.
	We've really seen, I mean, the last 10 years, really, since President Trump came into office, has been a slow-moving realignment politically, and a lot of significant demographic shifts are coming with that, that are good for Republicans writ large, if, really very simply, Trump voters can be converted into Republican voters.
	And that is, I think, the main thing that everyone has to focus on for the midterms and going forward.
	And I think the reason for that is issues.
	I mean, good policy is good politics.
	President Trump is not like every Republican politician, as we all know, for the last several decades, particularly cuts against the mold of Washington.
	And I think that's really important.
	I think the number one thing...
	And just to put some stats on it, I mean, President Trump gained more popular votes than any Republican ever has.
	It was the first popular vote win.
	It was the first popular vote win for a Republican president in 20 years and the first non-incumbent since 1988. The House Republicans won more popular votes than they ever have.
	And he swept the Senate majority into office.
	And really, President Trump performs above all other Republicans.
	And that's because a lot of these voters...
	That are with him have not come over to the party.
	And the way we solve for that going forward is to pass the agenda that he campaigned on.
	That's what they voted for.
	And I think that if we give the voters what they paid for with their vote, they will reward us with a long-term political realignment.
	One thing I like to point out is only, because a lot of people say, well, presidents always lose the midterms.
	Often true, but not always.
	In the last hundred years, there's only two midterms where a president has added seats to both chambers of his party.
	One was 2002, and obviously that was post-9-11, kind of a unique time for our country, very patriotic, rallying around President Bush.
	And the other was 1934, which was after the New Deal passed.
	And that really set in motion a hundred-year realignment of politics.
	And it came out of what they did.
	And I think that needs to be the model we're looking at, where we're not looking for incremental change, and we need our Republicans in Congress to help us with that.
	We need to look for big change.
	And I think if we enact big change, which the president campaigned on, we'll be rewarded politically for a long time.
	Couldn't agree more.
	So it feels like we have a different...
	Look, I've been doing this for a long time at Breitbart.
	I've been at Breitbart for 12 years.
	I've been reporting in the conservative movement for 15. It feels like the Republican Party is a different Republican Party now, and this is in large part thanks to President Trump and his endorsements.
	We've got new, incoming, exciting senators, people like Jim Banks from Indiana, who I think we heard from yesterday, Bernie Marino from Ohio, Dave McCormick from Pennsylvania, Tim Sheehy from Montana.
	I mean, these are exciting young voices that are, you know...
	Eight years ago, President Trump had a rough time of getting his cabinet through.
	This time around, he's actually beating with a smaller majority of his party, Barack Obama, from 2009, when he was confirming his cabinet.
	Trump's cabinet is almost all confirmed now.
	How has the party changed in a better way that is reflecting this transformation that we're talking about?
	Because it's bigger than Trump, I think.
	I think it's happening in the Senate.
	It's happening in the House, too.
	Absolutely.
	I mean, frankly, I think our Republicans in Congress are getting on board and seeing that we can do things differently.
	Look, with the cabinet, President Trump selected a cabinet that reflects the diversity.
	of the coalition that swept him into office and the diversity of thought, and that was important to him.
	And we're grateful to our Republican senators for moving them through with relatively little hiccups overall.
	And I think the president's view is that those voices are what the people voted for, and that is the government they want to see.
	And I think the Senate sees that.
	I mean, it's undeniable, ultimately.
	And I do think that Thinking back to eight years ago, many people feel that in some ways President Trump's presidency wasn't given a chance because of the attacks that started from really pre-day one.
	And I think they recognize how much time he has spent reflecting on his four years in office and how he...
	Has come through the greatest weaponization in history, all the things that we all know.
	I mean, nobody has undergone more challenges to get to an office than President Trump.
	And I think they're quite deferential to giving him the opportunity and the team he wants to not have that happen again.
	And despite those challenges in the first term, he had a historic presidency.
	And now I think the feeling is, well, if we just support...
	support him and support the folks that helped get him elected, then maybe we'll all do better.
	A rising tide will lift all boats, and I think that's what we're seeing.
	So, James, the big question is, I mean, the first...
	Major elections we're gonna see in just a few short weeks here in Wisconsin.
	We have a Wisconsin Supreme Court races coming up in April.
	The governor races and state-level races later this year.
	We got some special elections coming up for some of the seats that have been opened up by cabinet picks.
	We've got and then we have the midterm elections less than two years away.
	So how do you guys make sure that the The political transformation we saw in November, those new voters walk in beyond just that one year.
	That isn't just a fleeting thing, that this is a lasting political realignment, similar to the 1934 one you're talking about in the FDR years.
	Yeah, I mean, it's not easy, that's for sure.
	The Wisconsin Supreme Court race, looking at numbers there, and there's some folks getting involved for the conservative.
	That'll be challenging, I'll say.
	I mean, it'll be challenging because if you look at the data in Wisconsin, what carries President Trump is a group of voters who only vote when Trump is on the ballot.
	The thing that we have to accomplish in all of these elections is getting that specific group of people, you know, they're super voters on both sides, but getting the people that are sort of with the Trump worldview, who aren't necessarily Republicans, but many of them, you know, would sort of consider themselves that now, is getting them to go to the polls when President Trump's not on the ballot and helping them understand.
	That that supports his worldview, ultimately.
	And just to kind of bring this around, look, you have a standing army out here in the audience, right?
	These are President Trump supporters out here, here at CPAC, and the millions and millions of people watching at home.
	What would be your marching orders to these folks out here in the audience that are watching this event right now, that are watching us have this conversation?
	What do they need to do to help solidify this political realignment?
	Well, I mean, two things.
	One, put in the legwork.
	Obviously, we always need volunteers.
	And in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, the Wisconsin GOP and many others are getting involved.
	And if you've got time to spare, go do it.
	It's very important.
	There's a lot at stake in that race, not the least of which could be the future of congressional maps, which is very important.
	We'll see what happens.
	But just spread the word and continue to, frankly, Encourage Republicans that are down-ballot of President Trump to support his agenda, which is often but not always exactly aligned with, you know, the historic contours of the party.
	I mean, the last thing I'll say is I'll leave you with this.
	There's 13 seats in the House of Representatives that are occupied by Democrats that President Trump won.
	On average, the Republican underperformed him by 5.2 points.
	There's only three seats in the House that Republicans hold that Harris won.
	So that gives you some sense of the fact that we should be playing offense here.
	But that requires bringing all of the other Republicans up to the vote coalition that President Trump has and brought into office.
	So follow the Trump agenda and pass it, and we will all be rewarded for it.
	Really exciting stuff.
	Thank you, James, for a great conversation and give our best to President Trump.
	Thank you.
	Yeah.
	Thanks, Matt.
	Thank you, sir.
	Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for Fanny, Letitia, and Jack, the legal evils.
	Please welcome senior fellow at Claremont Institute, John Eastman, and partner at Tactic Global, Barry Bennett.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	My name is Barry Bennett, and this is Professor John Eastman.
	The professor is a brilliant legal scholar, and I am a fan of, just watched the TV show, Lincoln Lawyers.
	We have a lot in common.
	But what we do have in common, unfortunately, is that we were both made victims of our own government because we dared stand with Donald Trump.
	For me, I ran Ben Carson's campaign back in 2015, 2016. Great American.
	And I became a senior advisor to the Trump campaign in 2016. Within months of working at the Trump campaign, Obama's CIA director, John Brennan, gave my name along with 25 others to the Five Eyes to ask our so-called allies to spy on us in the Russia gate.
	That led to me being bumped by both the UK and Australia and endlessly grilled about Russia and Hillary's emails and all this other crap.
	And then that led to the FBI taking my phone and my emails, the emails of my nine-year-old kid.
	They took my Uber Eats account.
	They got a lot of information there.
	But, you know, one of the things, unfortunately, that John and I have in common, we both had to spend millions of dollars to defend ourselves.
	And John, I'm further along in the process.
	John is still in the fight, and he needs our help.
	But anyway, I want to be quick and tell you who I was and what I've gone through, but John's case is really happening right now.
	So I want him to have...
	Seven and a half minutes and I'll take two and a half.
	Very good.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Look, one of the most most egregious examples of the psychological analysis of projection was when the Democrats before the 2024 election said President Trump would weaponize the Department of Justice.
	I said, Are you kidding me?
	What have we been looking at for the last four years?
	You know, they took my phone in New Mexico outside of a restaurant with an egregiously broad It said all the data on your phone.
	Now, we fought a revolutionary war to stop that.
	That's called the general warrant.
	The Fourth Amendment requires that they identify what they're going to search and seize with particularity.
	They just said everything on your phone.
	And, of course, modern phones are a portal to everything, every communication, every transaction you have.
	They said, oh, no, we're not allowed to look at what we've seized until we get a second warrant.
	And about a month later, I start getting inquiries from a taint team in Portland, Oregon.
	Asking if certain things I was going to assert privilege over, I said, well, I've got a question.
	How do you even have that?
	Where was this second warrant?
	Oh, we got that.
	I said, I haven't seen it.
	Well, yeah, but the phone was in our possession by then, so we've served the warrant on ourselves.
	This is utter nonsense, and they are shredding the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the Sixth Amendment, the right to counsel, the right to attorney-client privilege.
	I had a client, my wife would, sometimes he would forget the time zone difference from where I was on the West Coast and where he was, 4.30, 5.30 in the morning, and my wife would nudge me and say, you better get that, it might be the client.
	Well, the client was the President of the United States.
	And he asked me to help him get the legal challenges to the fraudulent and illegal election in 2020 for the courts to actually consider that.
	And for that, I was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in Jack Smith's criminal prosecution against President Trump, an indicted co-conspirator in Georgia, an indicted co-conspirator in Arizona, where I had no involvement whatsoever.
	They put my bar license in California currently on inactive status.
	I can't practice out there.
	At least I'm still able to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States.
	But part of what's going on here, and they've admitted this, it's to scare lawyers from ever taking on causes or clients that the left doesn't want you to take on.
	This is an egregious abuse of our criminal justice system, the likes of which we have never seen.
	In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt's new appointment as Attorney General, Robert Jackson, he would later become Supreme Court Justice and later head of the Nuremberg Trials after World War II. And he had all the U.S. attorneys in the country at a meeting, and he warned them not to abuse their power.
	And the greatest temptation for abuse of power was to find people you don't like, and then scour the books to see if you can pin something on them.
	Rather than beginning with the crime and investigate whodunit.
	And that's what we have been witnessing out of the Department of Justice, out of the FBI, out of that ridiculous select committee on J6, with Liz Cheney running it, and destroying exculpatory evidence, issuing subpoenas without sign-off by courts, acting as law enforcement agencies without all the guardrails that our Constitution puts on law enforcement agencies.
	And people have said, well, Eastman, why don't you just look forward and leave it alone?
	Don't look back.
	If we don't get to the bottom of what they did and hold the people who did it accountable, they will do it again the first opportunity they get.
	So I have been thrilled with all of President Trump's nominees, but I think the one that is going to be most relevant to this fight is the one that got confirmed yesterday, 51 to but I think the one that is going to be most relevant to this Thank you.
	Because in my view, what we have been witnessing is a nationwide conspiracy to deprive political opponents of their constitutional rights to free speech, to assembly, the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.
	And if you don't hold people accountable for what they did for that, that's a federal felony, by the way.
	There's a group called States United Democracy Center.
	They filed the bar complaint against me in California.
	They're a rabid anti-Trump organization designed to go after all the lawyers that were trying to help Trump.
	They were the ones that were hired by the Attorney General of Arizona to prepare the prosecution memo for the electors and me and unindicted co-conspirator Trump in Arizona.
	And I've told media, I said, that's a little like hiring the fox to do the safety memo for your chicken coop.
	It's utter nonsense.
	And the people that are doing that need to be held accountable.
	And you know, if they spend some time in prison, maybe the next time they get power, they'll be a little bit hesitant about taking on this kind of lawfare against us.
	Amen.
	Amen.
	And we'll never get our privacy back.
	We may never get our reputations back, but this must not happen again!
	That's right.
	I teach at the Claremont Institute, our summer fellowship program, and I was teaching our John Marshall fellows, young lawyers, when the indictment in Georgia came down, and everybody's phone starts going off, and they made fun of it at the end of the week when we had our big roasting.
	But the gentleman that roasted me then turned serious.
	And he said, what we saw here was an exhibition of courage, and courage is contagious.
	And then he said, if you think about the last line of our national anthem, it's not so much whether that flag was still waving, it's what kind of land it is waving over.
	Is it still the land of the free and the home of the brave, or is it now the land of the coward and the home of the slave?
	Ladies and gentlemen, I've got grandkids, and I'm not willing to hand them over to a land of the coward and the home of the slave.
	We fight this battle until we win, until we win permanently.
	We fight it.
	We fight it every day.
	We fight it in the streets.
	We fight it in the courts.
	We fight it wherever we can, because our freedom is too precious to give up.
	Thank you.
	You think about it.
	Our founders pledged to each other their lives, and they meant it.
	Their fortunes, and they meant it.
	Just ask Robert Morris, who funded the Revolutionary War, largely.
	But most importantly for them, more important than either of those, they pledged their sacred honor.
	What kind of sacred honor will we have if we hand off to our grandkids an enslavement contrary to what we inherited from our forebears?
	This is the fight for our time.
	It's the fight worth having.
	I can't think of anything more important to be doing.
	And I thank you all for being here and for the army that you are, for keeping America free, keeping America prosperous, and let's make America great again.
	Thank you all.
	Thank you guys.
	Thank you.
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	Hey, it's Matt Schlapp with CPAC. You know we've had a huge problem in this country with election fraud.
	But at CPAC, that's not a problem.
	Our only problem is getting each and every one of you to vote.
	So look at your badge.
	You have a number on that badge.
	And get your phone out and vote on all the issues that matter.
	And my guess is you probably like what Trump's doing as well.
	And we'll have the results for you very soon.
	Before the cabinet room, you saw Donald Trump's next cabinet make waves at CPAC. The
	nominee for director of Voice of America, Carrie Blake.
	Hello!
	I gotta take this in.
	You guys look phenomenal.
	You look great.
	I know why.
	We're all sleeping better, aren't we?
	How many of you are sleeping so much better since January 20th?
	I curl up every night with the sweetest dreams and watching what President Trump has accomplished and done in one month is so incredible.
	Every day feels like Christmas Day.
	And every night feels like New Year's Eve.
	We got something to celebrate.
	And I want to thank Matt and Mercy for bringing us all together to celebrate this amazing month that we've had.
	Hasn't it been great?
	It's been wonderful.
	You know, a lot of you know about my life in politics, but before that, I had a 30-year career as an award-winning journalist.
	I was the voice of Arizona.
	If you're from Arizona, you know that.
	And I walked away from a very high-paying job in the corporate news during COVID-19 because I just wasn't willing to lie to the public.
	We had such lies going out toward the public.
	And I had to ask myself the question, was this huge paycheck that I was earning worth the cost of my soul?
	And the answer was no.
	And that is a question that a lot of people in the media right now and the bureaucrats in D.C. should be asking themselves at this moment.
	How much is the paycheck?
	How much is the money worth it?
	I'm very, very cynical when it comes to the government.
	It's just how I was raised.
	I grew up with Ronald Reagan as my president.
	Anybody else as a kid have Ronald Reagan?
	And remember his warning?
	His warning was the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
	And boy, was he right.
	But now the tables have been turned.
	And the nine most terrifying words for the government are "we're from DOGE" and we're here to audit you.
	When Elon and the boys show up, I think they're a little nervous, aren't they?
	I prefer a hands-off government.
	Am I alone in that?
	Hands off.
	Unfortunately, our government has one hand around our throat.
	And we're finding out the other hand is in our pockets and they're robbing us blind.
	And thanks to Doge, we've learned that our tax dollars are going to pay for luxury hotels for illegals in Manhattan, circumcisions in Mozambique, transgender operas in Latin America.
	It's terrible.
	It's theft.
	And Social Security benefits to 150-year-olds?
	The only 150-year-old I know is Joe Biden.
	I mean, this is...
	And apparently there's millions of them.
	There's even people that are over 150 that are allegedly getting all of these paychecks.
	So that's just the tip of the iceberg in Washington, D.C. It's really kind of like the D.C. creature is like an animal infested with ticks and parasites.
	From the work-from-home bureaucrats to the handouts and carve-outs and pork, the entire D.C. economy and the surrounding states thrive off of the freebies.
	But it's not free for us, the hard-working Americans.
	We're the ones funding this.
	Our money is lining these swamp creatures' pockets.
	We're paying off their friends.
	We're funding the fake news to broadcast this insane narrative across the globe.
	It's terrible.
	And knowing all of this and knowing how the odds have been stacked against us, it makes what happened on November 5th even more of a miracle.
	Right?
	And we got to thank God for that.
	We got to thank God for that.
	We the people worked, we rose up and we said enough is enough.
	We've had enough of this.
	And now thanks to President Trump's radical transparency, we are learning some cold hard facts about our government.
	I've never felt more betrayed by the government and, frankly, the media mouthpieces back in the fake news.
	This is the biggest scandal of our lifetime, the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on humanity, and any real journalist would be dying to cover this story.
	Unfortunately, we're still surrounded by too many fake journalists out there.
	Have you noticed they're grasping at their pearls, acting offended that the fraud is being uncovered?
	They're offended that we would question the bureaucracy that spent money trying to perform sex changes on monkeys while claiming that FEMA is too broke to help Americans.
	I'll tell you, the purpose of the mainstream media is no longer to inform us, it's to manipulate us.
	Have you been following the AP drama?
	Have you heard about this?
	It's known as the Associated Press.
	I kind of think of them as the anti-American propagandists.
	They're very, very mad about the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.
	Now, they have no issue with swapping out Kiev for Kiev or switching the spelling of the country named Turkey.
	I didn't even know it was possible to spell that another way.
	But they have just been horrified by this name change.
	Remember, these are the same people who didn't want to call riots riots.
	They wanted to call them mostly peaceful protests.
	But they will die on the hill of refusing to call that big, beautiful body of water between Texas and Florida the Gulf of America, which is what it is, by the way.
	And don't get...
	Don't get them wrong.
	They're not making some big principle journalistic stand.
	It's just fake controversy by a bunch of fake journalists.
	Where was the AP? And I don't know if they're back there.
	Where were you, AP, when moms and dads were losing their jobs for refusing to get the untested COVID shot?
	Where were they?
	It was crickets.
	Where were they when moms had to cover their babies' faces with masks?
	They weren't covering that.
	Where were they when the boys were in the locker rooms with girls?
	You know what they were doing?
	They were actually siding with the people who were perpetuating that insanity on us.
	They're criminal.
	They are.
	They still pretend the 2020 election was the most secure election in all of history.
	They never even questioned the impossibility, it's impossible, that Joe Biden got 81 million votes.
	They're still sticking.
	You got to give them credit.
	They're still sticking to their story.
	But what kind of journalist supports the hiding of 40,000 hours of video footage so that we can see for ourselves what really happened on January 6th?
	I still want to see that.
	Don't you want to see that video?
	They want to cover their narrative.
	They want to keep their narrative going.
	A real journalist would never support censorship.
	Every single time I've stood on this stage with all of you at CPAC, I've told you to turn them off, cancel your subscriptions, just tune them out.
	And it turns out it actually worked.
	We rendered the fake news worthless and useless only to find out that our government Has been propping them up, keeping them alive with tens of millions of dollars of our tax money.
	It is absolutely sick.
	They propped them up.
	So the mainstream media is really just kind of a zombie media right now.
	There are a bunch of zombie media outlets who can only make payroll if our government funnels millions of dollars to them.
	It's obscene.
	Last week these media zombies mulled around the idea of boycotting Covering the White House to support the AP. Did you hear about their idea?
	They're going to boycott the White House to support the AP drama.
	That means no more CNN, AP, MSNBC, and the press pool.
	I've got a message for the fake news.
	Don't threaten us with a good time.
	We will not miss your stupid questions, okay?
	Real journalists recognize it is a privilege to cover this moment in American history.
	It's a privilege.
	We are witnessing the return of our government to we, the people.
	It is a historic moment with monumental consequences for America and the entire world.
	It's a golden age in America, and damn it, we deserve a golden age in journalism.
	And that is why I'm honored that President Trump has appointed me to lead the Voice of America.
	VOA has been telling America's story to the world for 83 years this Monday.
	Now, sometimes the coverage has been incredible, and sometimes it's been pitiful.
	We are fighting an information war, and there's no better weapon than the truth, and I believe VOA can be that weapon.
	I told President Trump when he called me and asked me to lead the Voice of America that we will focus on accurate and honest reporting.
	It won't become Trump TV, although I think the ratings would be very high.
	It won't become Trump TV, but it sure as hell will not be TDS TV. You can find all the Trump derangement syndrome that you want over on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, 60 Minutes, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
	The VOA is a soft power for America.
	Some people have suggested shutting it down.
	And with all of the corruption, I get it, I totally do, with all the corruption we're seeing, but I believe it is worth trying to save.
	With a relatively small budget, along with honest reporting, we can spread the values of freedom all over the world and prevent trillion-dollar wars.
	I'm for that.
	So as I transition to this next chapter in my life, can we still say the word transition by the way, or has the woke mob, or has the woke mob ruined another word for us?
	There is still unfinished business that I have in my beloved Arizona.
	Arizona is a mess.
	It's a mess.
	Now, President Trump's victory was a blessing, but Arizona remains corrupt and captured.
	Elon Musk described the government, and I thought this was perfect, as not an apple full of worms, but just a big clump of worms.
	I know.
	Someone just said, ooh, it is a gross thought, isn't it?
	Well, Arizona is the same, and we're going to deworm it.
	For the past four years, we have been in a fight, fight, fight mode.
	And now we are in a win, win, win mode.
	I like this mode.
	And I will say, you know, people always say to me, Carrie, you agree with the president on everything.
	Surely you have nothing you disagree with.
	There is one thing I vehemently disagree with President Trump on.
	We will never, ever get tired of winning President Trump.
	Never.
	So CPAC, are you willing to go to work, work, work to help President Trump reclaim America?
	We gotta work!
	Let's do it.
	This guy's ready.
	Let's do it.
	We're gonna work, work, work so we can continue to win.
	I love you, CPAC.
	Thank you for the opportunity, and God bless each and every one of you.
	Thank you.
	And senior record, calendar, character, Sebastian Borghau.
	Thank you, guys. guys.
	Thank you, guys.
	At ease.
	At ease.
	What a firebrand.
	She doesn't need to be director of the Voice of America.
	She is the Voice of America.
	Let's hear it for Carrie Lake.
	I'm going to do something dangerous right now.
	I'm going to rely on technology.
	What did she say at the end about the one thing she disagrees with the president about?
	When I left my radio show 30 days ago, I asked my engineer to do one thing for me.
	And he said, yeah, I can do that.
	Do you want to hear my ringtone on my phone?
	You're going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning.
	And you say, please, please, it's too much winning.
	We can't take it anymore.
	Mr. President, it's too much.
	And I'll say, no, it isn't.
	We have to keep winning.
	That's my ringtone. .
	Before I talk about counter-terrorism in the last 31 days in American history, can I just use that little technological moment to demand of everyone here and everyone watching that loves America, Would you just please take a moment and celebrate?
	You did it!
	You made it possible to take back the republic!
	Thanks.
	Think of what we did.
	I thought if we're going to win, if the boss comes back, it's going to be insanity.
	It's going to be protest, the pink pussy hat cat, you know, insanity.
	Where are they?
	Where are they?
	We crushed them, the patriots.
	77 million.
	I've got two stories to tell you.
	That's what I'm going to do today.
	No big speeches, talking points.
	Two stories.
	One on how much we're winning and then one about what it's like to work for President Trump.
	I was in Yale yesterday.
	Uh-huh.
	The belly of the beast.
	And I went there to give a speech on counterterrorism and artificial intelligence.
	And next to me were two panelists.
	I won't mention their names.
	But they're not of the 77 million, okay?
	One of them was an Obama appointee.
	Okay?
	I spent the last eight years, because I love America, because I chose America, because I am a legal immigrant to the United States.
	Me and Elon Musk.
	Me and the First Lady.
	We chose this country.
	And for the last eight years, they called people like me, who voted for President Trump, who worked for President Trump, fascists, Nazis, white supremacists.
	For eight years.
	I kind of like, at the end, you just laugh about it.
	Yesterday, my fellow panelists at Yale, the whole time they kept saying, as Dr. Gorka just said, Well, that's interesting.
	I went from being a Nazi to being Dr. Gorka, and as he just said, they've surrendered because we won so bigly.
	So celebrate, smile every day, enjoy it, revel, revel, revel in what you have done.
	I was at Fort Bragg on Tuesday.
	This time is just like, I think I've been at work for about three years already.
	And I was at Fort Bragg.
	Indeed.
	And I was there to see our operators and the commander of Joint Special Operations Command.
	And the naval officer who was looking after me, I asked him, so when are we renaming the base?
	Because Pete, you know, Secretary Hegseth.
	And he showed me his phone.
	Sir, I drove in, oh dark 30 this morning, and the brag sign was already taken down.
	Winning, winning, winning.
	And Pete, if you're watching, Mr. Secretary, I want to be there with the screwdriver when we put it back, okay?
	Always brag, forever brag.
	Okay, so let's get to the real meat of this discussion.
	Wherever I go, I do a lot of public speaking, at least I used to.
	Before I'm in a skiff for 12 hours a day working for the greatest National Security Advisor ever.
	Another Green Beret!
	Oh my gosh!
	How cool is that?
	Mike Waltz is the first Congressman Green Beret National Security Advisor.
	But wherever I used to go to speak publicly, I was always asked the same question.
	Wherever I was in America, whoever the audience was, whatever the topic they gave me, sooner or later, they always asked the same question.
	What's he really like?
	What's President Trump really like?
	Well, let me tell you a story of what he's really like.
	Second Thursday of the new Trump administration.
	We're less than ten days in.
	National Security Advisor Waltz and myself and a military member of my team on the National Security Council are waiting to see the President.
	To tell him something rather shocking.
	We walk into the Oval Office.
	This is all declassified now.
	You can read about it.
	There's a big article in the Daily Mail.
	We presented him a map and some intelligence intercepts.
	And we said, Mr. President, there is an ISIS terrorist enclave, a cave complex in northern Somalia, which our...
	Government has been surveilling for more than a year and a half.
	The president looked at me and Mike and said, what do you mean?
	We've been watching jihadis.
	And Mike said, well, yes, the former administration and Joe Biden didn't want to kill them.
	President Trump looks out from the Resolute desk and said, kill them.
	He got out his iconic big Sharpie pen and ticked the go box on the operational orders.
	Yes.
	And then we left the Oval.
	Less than 30 hours later, I am back with my boss, Mike Waltz, with my team members, underneath the West Wing in the Situation Room.
	It's like I'm in an episode of 24 or a Jason Bourne movie.
	And we were watching this video.
	Play video.
	Now this was classified as I was watching it at the highest level.
	That is a leader of ISIS responsible for training, recruiting, financing, and deploying jihadis across the world to kill Americans and our friends and allies.
	Hiding out in a massive cave complex in northern Somalia.
	We are watching this live.
	But remember, ladies and gentlemen, this is not a movie.
	This is real life.
	And this is what President Trump did to him.
	My incredible team member had this declassified within four hours.
	After which President Trump put a social media post up that I would like to read to you.
	Last line, ladies and gentlemen, the message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that we will find you and we will kill you.
	For four years.
	We plicated our enemies.
	We gave billions of dollars to Iran.
	We opened our borders to anyone who wanted to come in and kill Americans.
	100,000 fentanyl deaths in one year.
	In the last 30 days, we have designated the cartels as terrorists and we have unleashed the hammers of hell on ISIS. So,
	all I want to say to you is President Trump's only motivation, the one he communicates to his national security advisor Mike Waltz and to the whole team in the White House, is protect America.
	And that is exactly what we are doing.
	Whether you voted for him or not is irrelevant.
	He is such a patriot.
	He wants you to be safe and he wants you to prosper.
	That's the real Donald Trump.
	So, please keep the President in your prayers, his family, but also smile and be happy.
	You won.
	All right, guys.
	Let's get up.
	God bless.
	We have been lied to you We have been deceived and I've been saying for years the moment that moms find out what's going on behind closed doors in their children's schools There's going to be a national revolt and that is exactly what you're saying
	Well, what we have learned is that there are members of Congress who aren't really representing the values that we care about as moms When you start telling moms, they're not your kids.
	They're going and what are you talking about?
	The main reason why we've been losing is because we've been fighting principle with policy We need to fight principle with principle, because when we do, freedom wins.
	What America is going to look like in 10, 20, 30 years from now?
	You are deciding it today.
	Motherhood is a great unifier, and mothers of all political persuasion are uniting together to defend and protect their children.
	And Moms for America is giving them a powerful voice and platform to be able to do that.
	You are creating the future of our country, and if you don't like what we see, you have the power to turn it around.
	When my children and my grandchildren ask me, where were you?
	When the Republic was hanging in the balance, I am going to be able to tell them I was right there fighting to my last breath to save it.
	If you think that this mom-led revolution is just a little thing that's going to come and go, you ain't seen nothing yet.
	Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the president and founder of Moms for America, Kimberly Fletcher.
	Is it not a great day in America?
	So I am so excited to be here with you guys when we're happy because it really was really close to being really, really terrible.
	And now I wake up giddy every morning looking at my email going, what do we have today?
	It's just...
	It's awesome.
	But there's some things that we definitely should be celebrating.
	The confirmations, the gulag has been opened, the pardons have been done.
	Women are women again.
	And I was so honored and thrilled to be with the president.
	When he signed that we should not have to say historic executive order protecting women's sports and our safe spaces everything that we asked for we're getting and I am so grateful to be living at this time but I want to make sure that we do not forget 2020 because those Those four years,
	if the President of the United States, I love saying that, if he had gone from one term to another, he would not be anywhere near as effective or on target as he is now.
	And the things that he's getting done, he knows.
	We don't have the luxury of time, but he cannot do it himself.
	The calls that you made to make sure that the confirmations went through...
	That made a difference.
	And I have to say, I was thrilled to be able to get the text from RFK that said, we made his day when he came out of the hearing and went in and out of the hearing and had all those moms out there in their purple shirts and moms for RFK. It was awesome.
	So these guys are there.
	Things are happening.
	Children are being rescued.
	But there's a lot that we have to do and we have to do it together because they cannot do it alone.
	I do want to make sure, though, and take a moment to thank Elon Musk, because prior to him taking over X, we had been permanently suspended from Twitter.
	No way to get our account back.
	And then this white knight comes galloping in and pushes a button and pays a bill and says, you're back.
	So thank goodness that we have a voice again.
	This mighty movement of moms has been incredible over the last two, three years.
	Rallying moms, pulling them together, and being able to be a voice for common sense and truth, and promoting those principles and values that we hold dear.
	There are some things that we have that we're doing.
	It's pretty exciting because the message...
	of Moms for America, reclaiming our culture for truth, for family, for freedom, for the Constitution, those principles of values of freedom are resonating not just across the country but around the world.
	And I have had all these people from these other countries who have said, we need a Moms for America in our country.
	I'm like, I don't think that's going to work as Moms for America.
	We can have a Moms for Hungary and we can have a Moms for Europe.
	And we are uniting all of those moms who have come to us.
	Big announcement.
	We are launching MomsforFreedom.world to collect the moms, gather them together all over the world to stand for these same principles and values.
	We also, we are a very solution-based organization, and so when we see a problem, we don't just talk about the problem, we come up with a solution.
	And when we find somebody that we can partner with that has a solution, we get excited.
	One of those partners is the Child ID Program.
	And we are thrilled to be able to partner with the NFL. And the Attorney Generals across the country, law enforcement, and standing to protect our kids with these child IDs.
	I carried these around in my pocket throughout the 1980s and 90s when I was raising my own children.
	I had eight of them.
	So I had eight little child IDs.
	The unspeakable did happen.
	I had the information to provide to law enforcement to get my kids back into safety.
	With everything that's happening with child trafficking and sex trafficking, this is something positive that we can do to give parents a peace of mind.
	So we are launching this here today, our partnership with Child ID Program.
	There is a real threat.
	To our country.
	And it's not going away.
	What we saw when all these people were flooding to us and all this crazy was happening, all these moms were asking, where is this coming from?
	I said, it's always been there.
	You've seen the Lord of the Rings.
	The orcs were always underneath the ground doing their horrible, dark, evil deeds.
	It was when the ground ripped open and they all started flooding out that we were like, oh my goodness, what's going on?
	Do not think that the devil sleeps.
	They have just gone back underground and this is our opportunity to make sure that ground never opens up again.
	So we have things that we can do uniting and standing together.
	So the greatest weapon that we have right now in our arsenal is Moms.
	And we have got to stand together, unite across the country and around the world to stand up because the hand that rocks the cradle is not just a cute little saying, it's an immortalized fact.
	And if you want to turn this around and hold on to the values we hold dear, protect our children, defend our freedoms, restore the republic, we do it through the Mothers of America.
	If you are a mom, if you are a grandma, if you are a woman of faith, stand up.
	Stand up!
	Right now!
	Stand up!
	You are the heroes.
	You have stood strong.
	You went out and you voted.
	I need you to reach out to every mom you know, your daughters, your sisters, and you tell them how important that voice is.
	Because if we want to continue to win, we've got to get these moms who aren't voting out and voting.
	We've got to restore this love of liberty.
	Of all the things that is happening right now, the thing that I am most excited about is America 250. I was 10 years old in 1976, and I still remember what it felt like that year.
	It was like an explosion of patriotism, and everyone from Jack Daniels to Avon created some kind of commemorative piece which now sits in my living room.
	That's okay.
	And I think I own stock in eBay.
	Anyway, but we can do this again.
	We have an opportunity to light a flame and start a resurgence of patriotism across the country.
	This is like a 50-year opportunity.
	We won't have it again.
	We need to share the story of America.
	We need to be celebrating everything that makes us unique and exceptional because the world, I can tell you as I'm talking around the world to these different countries, these people are coming and saying, we're looking to you.
	And I just spoke in Europe at Make...
	Europe great again.
	And what every single representative from those countries said was, now we have hope.
	It is changing around the world.
	So I have some really good news.
	If you want to join...
	This mom movement, we encourage you to do so.
	Come to momsforamerica.us.
	You can get on your phones right now and text MOMS to 53445 and be a part of this mighty movement of moms because I'm going to tell you what.
	We have the Air Force.
	We have the Space Force.
	And now we got the mom force.
	And we're not done.
	Thank you.
	Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the host of The Benny Show, Benny Johnson.
	Thank you.
	What's going on?
	She's back!
	Woo!
	What's happening?
	Welcome to the golden era!
	Look at these crazy Australians who let the...
	From Australia, they escaped the concentration camps in Australia.
	It's amazing!
	The COVID camps, they got out!
	Good for them!
	Way to go!
	We're going to save Australia.
	But we're having a great time saving America, are we not?
	Let's frickin' go!
	Yes!
	CPAC, I'm so proud of you, by the way.
	Can we give you all...
	Can you give yourself a hand?
	This is what CPAC looked like.
	In 2020 versus 2025 right up here.
	Check it out.
	Oh, yes, baby.
	Oh, yeah.
	We call that a glow-up on the Internet.
	Who's more in favor of the chainsaw than the warmonger?
	Yes!
	I'm allowed to show this because Mercedes Schlatt tweeted it, okay?
	All right.
	I freaking love them.
	Matt and Mercedes doing an unbelievable job.
	All right?
	Capturing the energy of the moment.
	That was so awesome with Elon.
	Was that a real chainsaw?
	Did it work?
	Did you actually do it?
	Okay, great.
	All right.
	Fantastic.
	The golden era.
	Just a reminder, you live in a red country.
	You live in a red country.
	Ladies and gentlemen, that's getting redder.
	This is the 2024 election.
	Look at that.
	This is the directional arrows of how much more red the country went.
	And it is so amazing to actually have this moment to celebrate with you.
	Because you know why the country went this way.
	The country went this way because we finally had a candidate that kept his promises.
	And here's a big one that was made at CPAC 10 years ago.
	From our boy, Donald Trump, standing right on this stage, right in this location.
	And Donald Trump said something remarkable.
	Check this out.
	out this is a 10 year old clip whoops Ooh.
	The CIA, ladies and gentlemen.
	Here we go.
	Nice guy.
	Got a lot of problems coming up, in my opinion, with the famous island with Jeffrey Epstein.
	A lot of problems.
	Donald Trump.
	Is there a way to play that clip from the beginning?
	Can we do it one more time?
	Let's go.
	Bill Clinton.
	Nice guy.
	Got a lot of problems coming up, in my opinion, with the famous island with Jeffrey Epstein.
	A lot of problems.
	Ladies and gentlemen, you can tell that Sean didn't even know what to say there, right?
	He's like, whoa!
	Donald Trump was ahead of his time.
	Donald Trump made a promise that he was going to fix the predators inside of our government.
	He was going to start exposing them, starting with Bill Clinton.
	And who do we have now as our Attorney General?
	Pam Bondi!
	The woman who made it punishable by death to go after a child in the state of Florida.
	Pam Bondi!
	And as of yesterday, Kash Patel!
	The man who has promised to expose the entire Epstein list.
	Whoo, baby!
	We are cooking!
	You know who are the most scared people in America right now?
	Right there.
	There you go.
	Oh, yes.
	We're going to have some fun.
	You want to know?
	This is why they tried to lock up our boy.
	Okay?
	This is why they tried.
	Can we have some fun?
	Are we allowed to have fun?
	Is that legal here?
	Okay.
	All right.
	Let's go.
	They tried to lock up our boy.
	But here's what we say as Christians.
	Any Christians out there?
	Any Christians?
	This is what we say as Christians.
	What do we say?
	We say what man intended for evil, God intended for good.
	They tried to lock up our boy, but what they ended up giving them was a rap album.
	The hottest banger of the summer.
	Rappers actually got this tattooed on them.
	When I saw them making murals of it, I knew it was game over.
	Okay?
	It's game over.
	Who knows somebody with a Donald Trump mugshot t-shirt?
	Who knows somebody with a Donald Trump mugshot tattoo?
	Trump's got the mugshot hanging in the White House.
	That's what you call a backfire.
	All right?
	What happened to the...
	Speaking of murals, what happened to the Kamala murals?
	Oh.
	Oh, I'm sorry, Kamala.
	That was the day after the election thing.
	They were like, see you, lady!
	What man intended for evil, God intended for good.
	And we're making some new art, by the way, in the White House.
	We're switching up some of the paintings in the White House.
	You know, after they sent out the photographers, Joe Biden was sitting there like this.
	You know it.
	He was like, the guy...
	You can't stop it.
	Joe Biden called us garbage.
	Did you hear that?
	Joe Biden called us garbage.
	What man intends for evil, God intends for good, right?
	That's right.
	Who's proud to be the garbage that backs President Trump?
	I'm proud of it.
	That's right.
	Look at our boy.
	Look at him.
	He's rocking it.
	The story here is that his staff told him he can take the vest off.
	Trump's like, I love the vest.
	I'm keeping the vest.
	Ladies and gentlemen, they tried to kill him.
	They tried to kill him.
	The most evil thing you can do to somebody.
	Who believes that this is the number one most witnessed miracle in humankind?
	The most witnessed.
	Billions of people have seen this miracle, physically watched this miracle.
	And what happened next?
	Trump goes back to the Butler rally.
	He does a rally right on that spot.
	Brings in Elon Musk.
	Elon Musk does like the jumping on stage.
	You see it?
	Right?
	Too bad he didn't have the chainsaw for that.
	God intended it for good, actually.
	And God saved us.
	And I believe that we witnessed the most seen miracle of all time.
	And then Donald Trump went back to Pennsylvania and did something else remarkable.
	He went to...
	Our boy went to McDonald's and showed us what salty servant leadership actually looks like.
	When was the last time you saw it?
	Just call it Donald's at this point, right?
	Just call it Donald's!
	Just let it go.
	Who's down?
	Look at him go!
	Look at this!
	You know this is why Joe Biden voted for him, because he fixed the ice cream machine.
	You know it!
	I love you guys.
	I love you guys.
	This is fun.
	Let's have fun, right?
	It's been amazing.
	We're witnessing miracle after miracle after miracle, like RFK eating McDonald's.
	That's how much Trump's changed it all.
	Dude, RFK, you got this guy who's proud of RFK, man.
	He's coming in there, making us healthy again.
	You got RFK rolling up.
	This is a dude who, like, was campaigning against Donald Trump, whose wife was, like, doing the same thing, and now he's serving in the administration.
	This is a miracle.
	It's so incredible to watch these moments.
	Tulsi Gabbard ran against Trump one election cycle ago.
	She was running for president against Donald Trump, and here she is doing the Trump dance on stage with Trump.
	What a timeline we're living in.
	Who's proud of Tulsi Gabbard, too?
	We got some Tulsi fans in here.
	Man.
	It's such a special moment.
	And so it's important to, like, center ourselves and remind ourselves what this is all about.
	All right?
	Any parents out there?
	Any grandparents out there?
	You grandparents throw it up?
	Anybody?
	Any young kids who want to be parents out here?
	Any young people who want to...
	Look at this.
	Shout out to the young kids who want...
	Who want to be parents, right?
	Like, we need you.
	And it's actually never been easier, right?
	Have you ever met a lib?
	Like, nobody wants to breed with those people.
	You know, it's like, yellow teeth, purple hair, they smell bad, no deodorant, no showers, okay?
	They don't know what gender they are.
	stuff.
	America first for me, and I'm sure it's the same for you parents out there.
	Let me know if I'm right.
	America first for me means saving this country for my children, my American children first.
	I'm going to fight, fight, fight for my American children because a blessed generation is a generation that leaves the country better for their children, right?
	A cursed generation is one that destroys the country for their children and leaves them a mess.
	So that's what we're going to do together, right?
	We're going to save this place for our kids.
	That's what being really pro-life is all about, and that's what loving your country is all about.
	We just welcomed our newest fourth child, born on Inauguration Day, Baby Whittaker, the golden boy.
	That's my little family.
	That's my motivation.
	Proud Christian, proud father, proud patriot.
	Love this country so much.
	And ladies and gentlemen, Kamala Harris said she was going to run on joy.
	Yeah, right.
	In closing here, I'll show you what joy actually looks like.
	If you wouldn't mind, they were telling me backstage, they've got some very fancy cameras.
	They said, feel free to use them.
	So I said, why not?
	If you wouldn't mind, if you feel compelled, I would like to show the entire country what actual joy looks like.
	I would love to do a big Trump dance with y'all.
	Let's go!
	...make me mad about those other guys and all the things they do wrong.
	The one thing that I will not forgive them for is they're trying to steal the joy from this country.
	Hold up!
	Wait a minute!
	Send me money!
	Trump's iconic dance moves are sweeping the internet and winning him a lot of fans across the globe.
	Look at this!
	Trump's dance moves from Shirtown and even after his election campaign.
	Yeah!
	And it seems like everyone wants to follow the bandwagon.
	Young man, there's no place you can go.
	I say young man, put yourself off the ground.
	I say young man, cause you're in a new town.
	There's no need to be unhappy.
	Young man, there's no place you can go.
	I say young man.
	Thank you, CPAP!
	I love you!
	And I'm sure you will find many ways to have a chance.
	It's fun to stay at the YMCA.
	It's fun to stay at the YMCA.
	They have everything.
	I know it's a joy.
	You can hang on it all for a boy.
	It's fun to stay at the YMCA.
	It's fun to stay at the YMCA.
	You can get yourself here.
	Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome senior editor at Human Events, Jack Posobiec.
	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the new American Republic.
	President Donald J. Trump has returned to office as he always said that he would.
	President Donald J. Trump was put there by the people like you, by the warriors of freedom, by the warriors for America and for the American spirit.
	Give yourselves a round of applause because you never gave up.
	You never gave up the fight.
	You never quit.
	No matter what they threw at you, no matter what they said about you, you, the people of CPAC, the people of America, rose up and said, We are done.
	We are done and we've had enough of that city right across the river and we are targeting.
	We are targeting exactly the people of that city and we are coming in and saying, guess what?
	Where our eyes are wide open and our hearts are full of the fire of the Lord God above.
	We are going to come to this town and we are going to restore freedom for the American people.
	We witnessed a miracle one month ago when Donald Trump was returned to office.
	We absolutely did.
	And then when Donald Trump swore to uphold the Constitution, I saw so many people now saying, oh, but Donald Trump, Donald Trump is here.
	He's violating the Constitution.
	He's shredding the Constitution.
	And I say, no, Donald Trump is not.
	Violating the Constitution.
	Donald Trump is restoring the American Constitution.
	Donald Trump is the living embodiment of the American Constitution.
	Donald Trump is embodying the values of our founding fathers for the first time in a long time in Washington, D.C. The champagne socialist says they cry into their lattes.
	I say to them, well, guess what?
	You're going to have a lot more time to sit around and cry into your lattes.
	Because if you're a bureaucrat that's been going out there wasting the American taxpayers' money, guess what?
	You're going to be fired.
	If you're a crooked politician that's been stealing money from the American taxpayer, saying that you're sending it to Ukraine, but using it to line your own pockets, guess what?
	Kash Patel is coming for you, and you are going to be locked up.
	We're going to investigate all of it.
	And if you're an illegal migrant or someone who's not supposed to be here, let me tell you right now, and I'll issue a message.
	Pack your bags because you're going home.
	This country was built by Americans for Americans, and we will hand it off to our American children.
	And to the warmongers of the war machine, guess what?
	Your war machine is grinding to a halt.
	The wars will end and peace will break out across the world.
	And by the way, I've never seen the mainstream media and the Democrats more upset when we're ending wars and actually restoring peace in the world.
	It's as simple as that because I'm sorry World War III has been canceled.
	And just like the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord, just like the Patriots at Bunker Hill, and just like a Patriot at Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump understands that we are in the tradition of those who fought for this country when this country was on the line.
	That's what all of you are.
	That's what this man has done.
	And look at the team that he's put together around him.
	Not only do we need to restore the republic, but we need to completely revamp and revitalize.
	Our national security in this country.
	And that's why when I look at this team that President Trump has put together, it's so incredible.
	You've got Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.
	You've got your CIA Director, John Ratcliffe, who's now overseeing the largest layoffs at the CIA in 50 years.
	Oh no!
	Oh no!
	A director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who had the power and the temerity to call a lie for a lie and to tell the truth.
	And I will tell you, ladies and gentlemen, if wars can be started by lies, then peace can be started by truth.
	And then, as we saw yesterday, our new director of the FBI, Kash Patel.
	Who's going to be overturning all of the tyranny that's come out of the J. Edgar Hoover building.
	He's going to be overturning it.
	We're going to go after the real criminals.
	We're going to go after the pedophiles.
	We're going to go after the traffickers.
	We're going to go after the illegals.
	We're going to go after the cartels.
	We're going to go after the foreign agents in this country.
	And yes, that includes the foreign agents that are working and have penetrated the United States government and the United States Congress.
	We will count every single dollar.
	And if there's money that shouldn't be in your pocket, oh, you are going away for a long, long time.
	That's what it means to restore justice in this country.
	That is the greatest effort because President Trump, President Trump came up and he found the destiny of the American people lying in the gutter.
	And he picked it up with his bare hands and he yelled, fight, fight, fight!
	And the American people delivered their mandate to him and put it on his head.
	And as President Trump himself said just a few days ago, a man who saves his nation violates no law.
	That is the way forward in America.
	We have to understand our Constitution gave the sole elected executive power to the President of the United States.
	And I say to these crooked judges out there, to these local judges who say that they can block the executive...
	From controlling the executive branch, guess what?
	You are going to have a very rapid meeting at the United States Supreme Court, and all of your power will be struck down.
	And you know something else?
	We're going to take a look at that impeachment clause as well.
	Because we're done, ladies and gentlemen.
	We're done.
	And I'm here to deliver a message to all of you.
	Because it's as simple as this.
	The American people are back.
	For my country, for my family, for your family.
	When President Trump was put to the test, to the ultimate test, in Butler, Pennsylvania, we saw how he answered.
	Because the American people have woken up, and they've woken up for sure.
	Because, folks, it's as simple as this.
	President Trump said that when he was down behind that podium, and think of it.
	You've never seen President Trump like that before.
	You've seen him raise his fist before and punch it in the air and lead great crowds and great rallies.
	But in the moment just before that, what did you see?
	You saw President Trump on his knees with his hands clasped before him in prayer to almighty And I believe in that moment, God spoke to President Trump and delivered him his ultimate mission.
	And that is the mission that you are seeing take place right now every day in this new American Republic.
	For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness in this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
	And therefore, put on the full armor of God so that when...
	When the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after everything they have done to you, to stand.
	I can't tell you what the future will bring, ladies and gentlemen, but I will tell you that victory is not measured when Donald Trump wins an election.
	Victory is not measured when Donald Trump returns to office.
	Victory is only measured at the final day when we pass on this republic to our children, and our children asked us.
	Mom, Dad, what did you do when America was on the line?
	When the revolutionaries were trying to take over and destroy this country?
	What did you do?
	And we will be able to tell them.
	Children.
	We fought.
	We fought for you.
	We fought for this nation.
	We fought for God.
	We fought for Christ our King.
	And we delivered.
	And now it's going to be your turn.
	Because that's how it is, ladies and gentlemen.
	Freedom is not bequeathed to us.
	Freedom is a responsibility that we must uphold every single day of our lives.
	And let me tell you something.
	You will never deny freedom to our children.
	You will never put our children in shackles again because we have stood up and we are never going back to the way things were before.
	God bless all of you.
	God bless CPAC, and God bless the United States of America.
	Robert Fiso, four-time Prime Minister of Slovakia, a small, proud country in the heart of Europe.
	In May last year, an opposition activist tried to assassinate him for his policies.
	For politics based on the ideals of fight against fascism.
	For wanting an immediate end to the war in Ukraine.
	For the return of common sense and the barrier against wokeness.
	When he endorsed constitutional definition of marriage as the unique union of a man and a woman.
	For his grasp of reality when he vetoed the compulsory redistribution of illegal migrants among the European Union member states.
	For pursuing a sovereign Slovak foreign policy to all four cardinal points.
	For treasuring freedom of speech and rejecting the politics of single correct political opinion for the first time.
	Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic is coming to see PAC. Julie
	Julie Kelly on Substack.
	Hello, CPAC.
	Hello, everyone.
	Well, I want to thank CPAC for putting me after Benny and Jack Posobiec.
	I did not have enough coffee this morning to match either one of them, but anyway, hello everyone.
	It's funny that Jack preceded me because two years ago we were on the stage together.
	Jack, myself, Amanda Milius, and Kash Patel.
	Never in a million years would we have thought That we would now be swearing in today.
	Kash Patel is the FBI director.
	Amazing.
	Amazing.
	And a year ago, I was here speaking about how Joe Biden and his Department of Justice was continuing to round up his political opponents and try to throw them in jail, including President Trump and, of course, hundreds of January 6 protesters.
	Never would I have imagined we would be here after President Trump being elected and then taking the really bold, courageous, and compassionate move of pardoning almost all of the J6ers.
	So I really want to commend the president.
	He deserves a lot of praise for what he did because that was not an easy Decision to make.
	I also want to give a shout out to Matt and Mercedes Schlapp and CPAC because when no one would touch January 6th, even on our side, they gave me a platform early on to talk about what was happening to the J6ers and that prosecution.
	And without that platform, you know, now it's cool.
	Everyone's like, yeah.
	Free the J6ers!
	You know, it's like the cause of the day.
	But it wasn't back then.
	And so I want to thank them and praise them also for giving me a platform and then J6ers over the past few years.
	So at any rate, I'm going to introduce my fellow panelists in a moment.
	But what an amazing time talking about a year ago what the Department of Justice was doing.
	And now seeing it turn 180 degrees and, you know, hopefully bringing the reform that is needed, but also cleaning house at the DOJ, getting rid of the very dangerous partisan operatives who LARP as government lawyers in that department, and then, of course, the FBI. So I'm very excited to see what Attorney General Pam Bondi and her team does.
	And of course, Kash Patel and his team.
	They have a lot on their plate.
	They really need our support and prayers because they've got, I think, arguably the biggest task ahead of them in the Trump administration.
	So I'm going to bring out my friend, and we're going to have a discussion about January 6th.
	And he was the...
	Chief of the Capitol Police on January 6th.
	We have become friends over the past few years, so I would like to welcome my friend, Steve Sund.
	Want to go here?
	Perfect.
	Hi, Chief.
	How are you?
	Doing well.
	Chief, why don't you tell a little bit about your background, and then we'll kind of talk about January 6th and your experiences.
	Absolutely.
	Great to be here.
	Thank you, everybody.
	Thank you, CPAC, for allowing me to be here.
	Thirty-year law enforcement veteran, 25 and a half years, a little over 25 with the Washington, D.C. Police Department, where I handled all the major events, 2001, 2005, 9, 13, inauguration, 17, when I was up at Capitol Police.
	I've done a lot of major events, a lot of barricades, a lot of tragic stuff, but loved being a police officer up until January 6th.
	So, I think people are familiar with your work.
	Of course, you have your book, Courage Under Fire, the definitive account of January 6th.
	And I've got to tell you, the current January 6th committee under Barry Loudermilk, and I'm glad Speaker Johnson has continued that investigation.
	You know, they refer to it as the definitive after action because there's way too many politicized people's opinions, reports out there.
	I just want to provide the facts.
	It's much like I police.
	You know, my thought on policing and politics is it shouldn't matter to you what political leaning I am, and it shouldn't matter to me what political leaning you are during a traffic stop, a First Amendment activity, or if you call 911 for help, you should get the exact level of service no matter what.
	And that's kind of how I wrote the book.
	Just the facts.
	So, Steve and I started talking, I think, a few years ago, and we have become friends.
	We have our agreements and disagreements about the interpretation of January 6th and some of the things that happened, but we always are able to discuss those agreeably because I have tremendous respect for him.
	But what happened to Chief Sund is, despite his constant pleas to...
	To add more security for January 6th, of course, those were denied.
	But then the day after, on January 7th, Chief Sun became the fall guy who was, alongside President Trump, then blamed and accused of being responsible for what happened that day.
	And so we could talk a little bit about that.
	Now, looking back four years ago, How that all transpired, how you sort of were, especially Nancy Pelosi's ball guy, for that, and then what has kind of happened since then?
	So when you look at it and you look back, a lot of people may not realize this.
	They've heard Donald Trump offered up 10,000 to 20,000 National Guard troops.
	That most likely is the case.
	I do not doubt that.
	I can tell you definitively, I made 12 requests for federal support, including the National Guard, both in advance and on January 6th while we were under attack and was denied.
	It was only on the 13th request that I finally get approval at 2.09 p.m.
	on January 6th.
	So what I've come to learn since January 6th is January 6th was 100% preventable.
	If security on Capitol Hill hadn't been so politicized...
	And, you know, when you hear Speaker Pelosi say she doesn't have a role in security on Capitol Hill, look at 2 U.S. Code 1970. Look at it before they changed it, because they changed it based on my testimony.
	It says specifically, I have to go to the Capitol Police Board.
	I'm the only chief of police in the United States of America that has to get permission to bring in support from my men and women.
	I went to the Capitol Police Board.
	They are required to then get concurrence.
	They have to go to congressional leadership.
	It's written in the law.
	Her responsibility is written in law.
	So when she said she doesn't play a role, she does.
	So when you look back on it, whether they had approved my request, and the latest report from Congress said if Chief Sun's request had been approved, the perimeter most likely would have never been breached, one.
	Two, intelligence.
	I've done major events in Washington, D.C. for many, many years.
	I've dealt with the FBI. I've dealt with DHS. They'd put out joint intelligence bulletins.
	They'd have briefings.
	They'd call the chiefs into the skiffs.
	They'd do a conference call.
	They'd make sure everyone has the same intelligence.
	Intelligence was handled differently, even within my own unit.
	If intelligence had been accurate, I would have gotten support from the Capitol Police Board.
	I would have gotten support from leadership.
	And again, January 6th wouldn't have happened.
	We had many opportunities to get out in front of this train.
	I think, too, we've talked about and you've discussed during congressional testimony and also just interviews.
	What are some of the things that you've learned over the past four years that you didn't know about that day?
	For example, not being alerted about the presence of FBI informants.
	You know, we talked about not getting access to intelligence, the presence of undercover agents from numerous law enforcement agencies that you weren't really privy to.
	So, I guess, what have you learned?
	Like, what surprised you the most as these revelations have come forward?
	The congressional testimony, the trials, media reporting.
	Well, two.
	Two things that I think surprised me the most is, one, just how adverse some people up in Congress were to the truth coming out.
	People may not realize this.
	When they had the first hearing, February 23rd, 2021, think about that.
	It's only a couple of weeks after January 6th.
	They didn't want me to testify.
	I actually had to go and request through the Rules Committee that I be allowed to testify.
	I told them I will be there in person, I promise you.
	Sure enough, if you look at it, I'm the only one that showed it in person.
	Everyone else was videotaped in.
	The other aspect was, again, the domestic terrorists that we now, people are saying, oh, the FBI was tracking domestic terrorists.
	That, again, started the day after my testimony, January, I'm sorry, February 24, 2001, Jill Sanborn testified and said that the FBI was tracking domestic terrorists coming to the January 6th committee.
	Now we know from GIO reports and various other reports that as of January 6th, they're tracking, I think, approximately 19 to 26 domestic terrorists coming to Washington, D.C. That sure as hell would have been something that I'd like to know about as the chief of police of the Capitol Police said they were coming.
	And when they talk about tracking domestic terrorists, I mean, they're tracking them with people.
	They're not tracking them with, like, the janitorial crew.
	They're tracking them with people.
	So it's not unusual for undercovers to be in the crowd.
	You're talking about major events in Washington, D.C. It's probably SOP. But it would have been great to know that.
	So a little bit your experience with the January 6th Select Committee.
	Who now of course all of the members and all of the staff have been were pardoned by Joe Biden So no one can be held accountable for the destruction of evidence tampering with witnesses such as Cassidy Hutchinson and Other malfeasance that we know actually happened with that committee So but they didn't really want the truth from you either Yeah, I had a very interesting interaction with them.
	One, it became clear early on that their focus wasn't trying to get to what the American people want to know, what really happened on January 6th.
	Their focus was predetermined outcome.
	It was to focus on basically 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
	How was Donald Trump responsible for this?
	I went in there.
	I had, you know, you'd think the chief of police, they'd want me testifying in public.
	Absolutely not.
	When we had our interview, it got very contentious.
	When I repeatedly tried to refer them back to my responsibility to go through the Capitol Police Board to get assistance for my men and women and how I did that in advance of January 6th, they wanted no part of that.
	They did not want you, the American people, to know that I had gone out of my way to try and bring in resources to protect the United States Capitol.
	And then, like I said, it got contentious.
	It was a six-hour interview.
	You didn't see a word of that.
	I thought it was concerning.
	That made me realize real quick that they weren't looking for the truth.
	And then when you watch it, a lot of people are watching some of the videotape, and I've heard this brought up, that, hey, what's going on with some of the sound that was imported on some of the internal videotape?
	The cameras inside the Capitol do not have sound.
	They imported other riotous sounds, other demonstrations, other riots into that.
	Imagine.
	Imagine if any chief of police in the United States of America had changed dash cam videos, body-worn camera videos, and imported separate audio.
	What do you think would happen?
	You'd lose all distrust.
	So when you look at Biden pardoning the January 6th committee, one, committees on Capitol Hill already have certain levels of protection.
	That should be sufficient.
	When you provide them a pardon, you just delegitimize anything they were doing.
	Anybody that had concerns for the credibility, you just legitimize those concerns.
	I think that was a disservice, but their focus wasn't getting to the truth.
	Well, we have a minute to go.
	I told you this would fly by.
	But I think your work and your honesty and, yes, your courage in speaking out about the committee and everything that you saw has really helped unravel the January 6th narrative.
	I think we're going to learn a lot more.
	Of course, Barry Loudermilk now has a permanent subcommittee under House Judiciary.
	Attorney General Pam Bondi is also notified, announced that she will be looking into the abuses of the FBI against the J6 defendants.
	And so I think we are going to find out a lot more in addition to what we've already learned.
	I think so as well.
	And I've got to tell you, I love, I miss law enforcement.
	All the law enforcement I've talked to from FDLE speaks very highly of new U.S. Attorney Bondi.
	So I look forward to seeing what she's going to do.
	But thank you very much for having me here.
	Thank you, everyone.
	Thank you very much.
	Yeah, you want to do this?
	Yeah, let's get it.
	I'll come around this way.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, everyone.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
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	You never stop fighting for America, and I will never ever stop fighting for you.
	We know that there are still more records to be shattered, new summits to be scaled, more triumphs to be realized, and more amazing history just waiting to be written.
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	Ladies and gentlemen, it takes a village, people.
	The MAGA Moolah Meltdown.
	Please welcome CPAC Senior Fellow Mercedes Schlapp.
	Senior Advisor United Against Nuclear Iran, Hiba Willis.
	CEO United Against Nuclear Iran, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace.
	And CPAC Chairman, Matt Schlapp.
	Thank you.
	Where's Michael?
	What kind of music is that?
	I don't know.
	Is that Iranian music?
	No, but we should play one.
	Hey, was Betty Johnson not great?
	I saw some dance moves out there that were pretty good.
	Did you get to see that?
	Benny got the whole crowd dancing.
	I'm not surprised.
	I mean, he's such a charmer.
	And tonight, just so you know, I don't know where Natasha Owens is.
	She's probably getting another dress made.
	She's got a special song for you guys tonight.
	So anybody who's going to the dinner, and if you're not going to the dinner, make sure you watch.
	I know C-SPAN's got this.
	X has it.
	Ben Shapiro was showing this, live streaming this on the Daily Wire yesterday.
	So many ways to get this content, so make sure you watch.
	Thanks for being here, guys.
	Thanks for having us.
	So I'm in a little bit of a vulnerable position today because...
	I don't know if that's a good thing, Schlapp.
	Oh, it's a good thing.
	I've known Ambassador Mark Wallace.
	I choke on that because, you know, when your friend has an august title like that...
	Never used it before.
	Ambassador, whatever.
	But, you know, it is kind of...
	I mean, ambassador to the U.N., so that takes it down a couple notches, actually, when you say U.N. You're vulnerable here, Schlapp.
	I am vulnerable because he's known me a really long time.
	Priscilla O'Shaughnessy is here.
	I know she's going to be mad at me for saying it, from my hometown of Wichita.
	Priscilla's known me since I'm like 18, 16, 17, something like that.
	So you could probably learn some bad stuff from Priscilla.
	Matt, you're really telling your age right now, okay?
	Wallace is in the same position.
	But Mark, it's a great honor for Mercy and I to have you and your beautiful wife.
	You guys do such amazing work.
	You gave me a very special invitation to go to the 80th anniversary at Auschwitz recently.
	I went to Poland.
	Mr. and Mrs. Balabon and Henry, I went to Poland, your home country, even though you're Americans.
	And a beautiful place.
	We met with amazing people.
	It was a very moving trip.
	Thanks for including me.
	But to have you here is very special for Mercy and I. You're a great friend.
	The work you do, you've done behind the scenes and prominently to try to make sure that we defang Iran.
	And Hiva, from your point of view, give the Iranian people a shot.
	It's the mullahs who are in the way, just like the same problem we have in Cuba, the same problem we have in China.
	So thanks for being here.
	Guys, thanks for having me.
	And I have to do a little something to start this and indulge me because it's a sentimental thing.
	I have to get some real thank yous out of the way and talk about what this is because I've known them a very long time and I've seen this grow and I've seen what it's meant to the Schlaps.
	And it's very moving for me to work with them.
	They're very dear friends of mine.
	But first we have to say I have to acknowledge and tell a story.
	I want to acknowledge the government of Poland.
	Prime Minister Tusk, my friend, Radek Sikorski, and the Polish delegation.
	The president of Poland is coming as well.
	And there's an entire Polish contingent here.
	Guys, stand up just for one second.
	And the poll's here.
	You stand up.
	Every poll.
	Come on.
	Every poll.
	Come on.
	No, the delegation.
	The entire delegation, stand up.
	Because the reason why that's so important...
	Poland is here in so many ways, and their government is so wonderful.
	And I had a crazy caper to exfiltrate a drone out of Ukraine and work with our allies, the Poles, to sneak an Iranian drone out of Ukraine and fly it on a Polish C-130, and it's displayed here.
	They're great allies.
	And before the president even did it, they are the biggest NATO defense spender in the world.
	They spend nearly 5% already, already, and they are really the poster child of what we want a NATO ally to be about.
	And it's so great to be here.
	And all the polls, to see them here, it's really exciting.
	Now, I was talking in the green room.
	It's, you know, the schlapp green room, I guess.
	And there was...
	I was talking to the Foreign Minister Sikorski and Amanda McKinney, who's here, and I was talking Iranian drones and things, and this is what CPAC's about.
	All of a sudden, it turns out...
	That Poland, and I didn't know this, is one of the great apple producers in the world.
	And Amanda, wherever she is here, produces incredible apples in Washington state.
	So immediately, the CPAC discussion in the green room that was about Iranians turned into an apple diplomacy.
	And that's what this place...
	Which could have easily turned into tariffs, so it could have gotten really fun, right?
	It's a testament to what CPAC is about.
	And, you know, having known them, it's really what the Schlaps are about because you can have a conversation with real people about real things and important things and the binds that tie us together.
	And Matt and Mercy, I've seen you and I knew you before you were Matt and Mercy.
	And to see that and the things that you do for our country and for all of us, you know, I just think we should give them an applause.
	I have to do that.
	I've known them a long time.
	But to Matt and Mercy...
	I mean it.
	You know I mean it.
	I'm totally hokey.
	Okay, you're going to make me cry.
	Let's get going.
	He just wants to get invited back.
	I know that.
	Hiva, you married this guy who is this anti-Iranian regime activist, anti-extremism activist.
	We have a lot of commonality.
	Your organization doesn't really get involved in politics.
	You're really involved in national security.
	We are.
	We get involved in politics, but there's a lot of crossover here.
	There's so much that we have in common, because at the end of the day, if it's not about human rights, God-given rights, what is it all about?
	You must have this amazing experience of seeing Donald Trump's maximum pressure campaign that your husband had a lot to do with building.
	Then this four-year hiatus, which is everything to subsidize this radicalized regime.
	And now we're back to trying to bring the regime, not the people, the regime to its knees by depriving them of everything they could possibly need, including customers for their petroleum products.
	How does it feel to be back on the right track?
	It brings hope back.
	Let me tell you, the four years...
	It felt like a betrayal.
	It felt like a betrayal.
	All the money that President Biden gave back to the Iranian regime, not a single one of it went to the people to do anything good for this country.
	People suffered under, continue to suffer under this regime.
	This regime kills its own people, kills its young women, young men, that all they want is freedom.
	Basic freedom.
	Basic freedom of just not...
	How threatening is my hair right now?
	A young woman dies on the street for just showing a bit of a hair.
	And President Biden did not support any of it.
	And to me that was unacceptable.
	And thank God that President Trump is back because this regime is scared.
	Let me tell you.
	All of its proxies are brought down to its knees.
	If any change is going to happen, it is now, and this is the time.
	And I am so thankful for the maximum pressure being back on and all option against this regime, because...
	Eva, you grew up in Iran.
	You spent time there.
	Your family had to flee this regime.
	I mean, how difficult was it for your family to pick up and have to leave everything?
	To come here to the United States.
	Well, your family knows something about that.
	Right, both of you.
	Yeah, both of us.
	I mean, we have a Cuban-American and an Iranian-American sitting next to one another.
	It's an amazing testament to our country that you two are here and can talk about human rights and freedom.
	Because I know them, obviously, both really well.
	And their experience across the world is so similar.
	And there's hope now.
	And where we have come, this far, this country has provided so much opportunity and just the freedom and the opportunity that has brought us.
	I mean, I would have never thought I would be sitting here with you guys, with this amazing audience, talking about President Trump.
	And to me, this is a dream come true.
	And I, yeah.
	Mercy, how long was your father in prison?
	You know, this is very near and dear because what you see And, you know, we had this conversation yesterday with the Jewish families, the families of the hostages, of the tragedy of really how horrific governments can be, terrorists can be.
	And for us in the United States, we don't comprehend it 100% because we live in this great country.
	But when I look at my father, who is now 89 years old, Who, you know, back in the late, early 60s, when he did have to confront the communist regime, and he was put in a situation where,
	you know, he was building his businesses, he was in the prime of his life to have to turn everything over to the communists, because they came in and said, give me your keys to your house, give me your keys to your businesses, and then he's left with nothing.
	And how many countries have so many people, millions and millions of people, who have lost everything in the hands of these horrific authoritarian regimes and these communist regimes?
	And so, for my father, he was thrown into jail after trying to overthrow the Cuban government and was in jail for literally close to eight years, where he was thrown into solitary confinement.
	Naked in a dark room for two to three months at a time, where he was tortured, where he would hear the cries of his friends being executed.
	It is horrific what the Communists have done to destroy so many people, so many families in the world.
	And when you ask my father...
	Are you Cuban?
	Are you American?
	He proudly says, I am American.
	I stand for freedom.
	And you, my daughter, and you, my grandchildren, and you, my son-in-law, you have an obligation to protect this country.
	You have an obligation to protect the freedoms that are fragile in America.
	And that is my message to every single one of you in this audience.
	You know, let me just say one thing there.
	So, Agnieszka, I often say, well, you're Polish.
	You correct me.
	You say you're American.
	American.
	When I ask my father-in-law, or if I slip up and say he's Cuban-American, he puts his hand on my arm and says, I'm an American.
	This is a very, very important difference.
	There's nothing wrong with being proud of your heritage.
	But as Mark Levin, who is a real hero to all of us, says, we're not a nation of immigrants.
	We're a nation of former immigrants.
	That's a really important distinction.
	You know, her family, may her father rest in peace, Mir, he was a wonderful man.
	He said the same thing to him.
	I knew him before he passed.
	And he said, you know, I'm an American.
	And her father and her mother gave up everything in Iran to move her and her sisters here.
	To get a better life.
	Her mother couldn't speak English and still struggles with it because she had a harder time, came a little later.
	But they wanted a better life for their daughters.
	And that's an incredible experience, all in the face of oppression.
	And look, you know, we...
	Because of our friends, the Poles and the United States, President Trump, our friend Rick Grinnell, we were able to bring...
	This Shahed 136 drone.
	Which everyone can go down to our CPAC Central and go see it.
	It's actually here the first time on American soil.
	It's at CPAC. Go see this killing machine.
	And it's a good, important reminder to this regime, this barbaric, murderous regime that intends to tell you that it stands for some kind of godly principles.
	What an abomination they are.
	It's important for them to know.
	That, due to Mark's good work, that we're on to them, that we are going to make sure that we stop them, and that they should be...
	We said yesterday, around the globe, all the right people are sweating.
	That's right.
	They're worried.
	And that's part of the maximum pressure campaign, is to make sure that they understand...
	That if they take steps against America, against Israel, against Jewish people, against Christian people, against our allies, against the stability of civilization, I believe, I'll speak for him, even though I don't represent him, I believe President Trump and our allies will take the steps needed to make this stop.
	And that starts with Israel getting rid of Hamas.
	It starts there.
	Absolutely.
	It's very rare when you can look into the eyes of a despotic regime.
	Because they usually lie.
	And the propaganda they put out is to tell you that they aren't who they are.
	But that drone downstairs, that Shehad 136, is the ubiquitous terror weapon of mass destruction across the Middle East.
	There it is right there on your screen.
	There it is.
	And we have it downstairs.
	It's been used against Israel.
	Three American service members died.
	On the sharp end of that, because of, in my opinion, failed policies of the previous administration, numerous service members have been injured.
	It's attacked our allies in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, across Syria and Iraq, and shipping in the Bab al-Mandab in the Red Sea, even in the Persian Gulf.
	And of course, they've sent over 6,000 of these drones into Russia to attack Ukraine.
	And it is an indiscriminate terror weapon that kills innocent women and children.
	So every time you see an Iranian official, and we list him, say this propaganda, and they smile at you, the smiles that oppress these, their families, you'll look at this drone, and that's the true face of oppression.
	That drone is what they really are.
	So the, and thanks for bringing it here.
	I think it's important.
	The other person who was going to be with us today was the Crown Prince of Iran.
	Mercy and I sometimes pinch ourselves because we have the most fascinating meetings at our CPAC headquarters.
	And he came to our headquarters and we had this great conversation about his view for the government of Iran to be a secular government and...
	The government of Iran that would recognize the state of Israel, a government of Iran that would rid itself of this concept of fueling and feeding and funding terrorism.
	He's an important voice and he wanted to be with us here today.
	Right, and we heard, we hope, he indicated his mother, the great Shabanou.
	He's sick, and he had to return to Paris.
	The Shah of Iran's widow is alive.
	Yes, and apparently she was ill, and we wish her the best.
	And I'm personally disappointed that I didn't get to see His Royal Highness, and I know he would have been a valuable addition.
	But we have to figure out ways to support the Iranian people, just like we supported the Cuban people, because these are the oppressed.
	Any ideas?
	You know, we've been thinking about this.
	Should we do it?
	Should we make some news?
	Yeah, I think we should make some news.
	Why don't you make the news?
	Oh, wow.
	Mercy, you're okay with the news, right?
	Yes.
	I'm not having another baby.
	This is why...
	I would love to, but we're...
	Oh, she says that until someone puts a little baby in her arms, and then she starts having...
	I could be a grandmother before...
	This is why...
	This might be harder than actually raising a baby.
	Let me just say...
	This might be harder.
	But it's worthwhile.
	You might have opened up a bad topic.
	It is worthwhile, though.
	I will say this is one of the reasons why...
	We're here as couples, too, because I kind of saw how you guys operated at the museum that you're opening up on the corner of Auschwitz, at the corner of the camp where this horrible criminal lived, who was the camp...
	Commandant.
	Commandant.
	You watch the movie The Zone of Interest, the Huss House, Rudolf Huss.
	We don't like saying his name.
	I'll only say it one time.
	But the man that institutionalized the industrial-scale slaughter...
	Of Jews and other people.
	Poles.
	A lot of Poles.
	Yeah, a lot of Poles.
	But millions of Jews went to their death looking at that house.
	It is the true face of evil.
	We managed to put, and you were there, we put a mezuzah on the front door of that house after 80 years.
	Yeah, and I got to touch it.
	It was incredibly meaningful.
	It was so interesting.
	When we put that mezuzah on, sometimes you just do things and you don't realize.
	We put it on that door.
	We observed the halachic principles in doing it.
	And we just did it.
	And everybody, Jews, non-Jews alike, wanted to go touch that mezuzah.
	And it's become just a real rallying point.
	It's an evil place.
	I will say it's an evil place.
	I felt evil there.
	I didn't like being there.
	So it's very important that we take evil places and try to, you know...
	Make them more holy.
	And we gotta teach.
	We gotta teach the people.
	We gotta teach the people that these tragedies, these genocides, they happen.
	They have destroyed communities.
	They have destroyed families, and it must stop.
	So let me just say one thing.
	I wanted to say this one thing.
	It's really important.
	So we had a great tour guide at Auschwitz, and I'd never been to a concentration camp, a death camp, a work camp.
	On purpose, I hadn't gone.
	Because I already know I think it's terrible, and it upsets me so much to even be there.
	But one of the things I learned was the initial intent of Auschwitz was to kill political prisoners in Poland.
	So many Polish people were killed who were trying to stand up to authoritarianism.
	Is this right?
	This is right.
	And this is the story for America.
	I'm not comparing it to that.
	I'm simply saying the lesson I learned was Whether you're talking about people that are persecuted by the government, we've had this whole conversation with Julie Kelly here, what happened to people that felt like the last election had fraud, and we have all these J6 victims.
	You have all these people who couldn't even speak their mind that had their Facebook page canceled, while the mullahs have their Facebook page, Donald Trump and other people have their Facebook page taken away.
	The lesson of all of that is when you snuff out political speech, That's just the beginning, and it can lead to even worse things.
	So you're right, sweetheart.
	We have to really understand our history.
	So part of our understanding our history is calling out the bad guys now, right?
	Ambassador Wallace?
	Absolutely.
	So how do we do that?
	Well, I think one of the things we have to do is think about how we can help the oppressed, right?
	How do we rally that?
	And look, we've operated when the crown prince was supposed to be here today.
	We can do something to try to help organize that diaspora.
	It's a diverse diaspora, different people, different competing influences.
	And look, like any diaspora, mercy of the Cuban diaspora, there's a lot of, at times, friction.
	But if we can do something to show that we stand with these diasporas, as diverse as they are, and bring them together on the wrong roof, the moment the unity is shown against these despotic regimes, it's the first day.
	I think we should look at the title of this conversation.
	I'd like to have a MAGA Mullah Meltdown.
	A MAGA Mullah Meltdown?
	A CPAC Iran in Exile?
	I think a CPAC Iran in Exile.
	What do you guys think?
	There we go.
	That would cause a meltdown.
	Right.
	We could invite all the Iranians, leaders and groups who all at times have friction but are all united against this.
	And I know, Matt, you've done so many things with CPAC, but that would be an incredible way to show the people of Iran that their future might be just around the corner.
	What would your dad think about having a Magomola meltdown?
	It will be a big task, but it is worthwhile, and we have to do it.
	That's the only way.
	Will you guys join us?
	Don't worry, we're not going to Tehran.
	We're going to go someplace closer.
	I will not be participating if it's Tehran.
	That's right, not doing that.
	Thank you all for being here.
	Thank you for bringing this weapon of mass destruction.
	Make sure you go down to the CPAC Central to check it out.
	We got so much more going on today, so just don't leave the room for very long at one time, okay?
	God bless you all.
	Thank you all.
	Thank you all for being here.
	Thank you all.
	Thanks.
	Thank you.
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	Dear, dear friends, dear friends, fellow patriots, what a time!
	To be alive.
	For a wonderful month, Donald Trump has been back in the Oval Office and we can all breathe free again.
	And would you look at Elon Musk and those?
	I have never seen so many liberal tears in my life.
	And I'm from Hungary, you know, the island of freedom of Europe.
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	But of course, you know that.
	You know a lot about Hungary, don't you?
	But why?
	It's because our Prime Minister Viktor Orvald.
	He is a loyal friend to President Trump and to CPAC. And loyalty is a true conservative value.
	Prime Minister Orban also spoke at CPEC Dallas in 2022 and has been the keynote speaker at every and each CPEC Hungary so far.
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	The Trump tsunami has swept the dams out of office and there is a revival of the right on the old continent led by Prime Minister Orban and the Patriots for Europe.
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	Until Donald Trump came to your rescue, the United States hadn't had a strong leader for almost two generations.
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	of leadership and vision has led to a systematic collapse on an economic, political and security scale.
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	The left's geopolitical manipulation machine also operates through Hollywood, Brussels, the UN, the Washington swamp, the big media, the Ford, the Gates, the Rockefeller foundations, and of course George Soros' Open Society Network.
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	Hey, it's Matt Schlapp with CPAC. You know, we've had a huge problem in this country.
	With election fraud.
	But at CPAC, that's not a problem.
	Our only problem is getting each and every one of you to vote.
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	Ladies and gentlemen, this is Inclusion Delusion, Hollywood Survivors.
	Please welcome President and CEO of Great American Media, Phil Habit.
	Actor and filmmaker, Dean Cain.
	And your host, co-host of Morning on Merritt Street, Fancy Stinger.
	Wow.
	Which one?
	That's her.
	I know I'm going to the middle.
	There it is.
	Well, hello, CPAC.
	Wait a minute.
	I don't know if I heard that right.
	Hello, CPAC.
	Well, we are delighted to be with you this afternoon.
	But there's one thing we're going to get started and declared right off the bat.
	CPAC, revival is here.
	Woo!
	Revival is here.
	I know so many of you, myself included, have been praying for revival.
	We have been praying for our country.
	We have been praying to return back to the Christian Judeo values that our country is founded on and those great freedoms that we all are blessed to enjoy.
	So today, we are delighted and honored to talk with you about where we've come.
	Where we are and what God has for this country in the future.
	Amen?
	Alright, let's get started.
	Well, Bill and Dean, it's surreal to be able to sit here and have a conversation with both of you because both of you are so integral in terms of this journey we have all been on.
	Bill, I want to start with you.
	We know you have a stellar background.
	You have led the faith and media movement.
	With your positions throughout the years.
	Now you're with the Great American Media Corporation.
	You're leading that.
	There's so many projects that you have now, more that are coming.
	But a lot of us have heard your name.
	A lot of us have watched your entertainment.
	We're so excited about what you're doing, so thank you for that.
	I want to start with something that I don't know that you have touched on in public.
	But we're a Monk family, so we're going to do it right here, right now.
	You were previously with the Hallmark Channel.
	And all of a sudden one day you were gone.
	And you have not really given us the behind the scenes, the scoop, that's what our journalists like to get, in terms of what really happened.
	Would you like to talk about that for the first time right here publicly?
	Of course, sure.
	I'm dying to hear this story.
	I really want to hear it.
	Well, we work together a lot at this time.
	Yes.
	And we will work together again.
	At the Hallmark Channel, but amazingly, after you left, I didn't work at the Hallmark Channel anymore.
	Well, you're next after he tells his story.
	I can't wait for you guys.
	No, no.
	Well, you know, so we had a great team at Hallmark that built an incredible franchise and a great brand and a network and a bunch of networks, actually.
	And we...
	Got to the point in 2017, we were number one, fourth quarter, cramped on to Christmas and very successful.
	And at that point, though, you can see the change in the chairman and the management at the parent company and the family to become much more woke and DEI-driven, very DEI-driven.
	And so, you know, they were in DEI before it was cool to be in DEI. And the reality of that was that we were serving an audience that was focused on family-friendly content and faith-based content, that they wanted traditions, they wanted values, they wanted to see that expressed on TV. And so there was tremendous pressure from the family to make changes.
	So at some point then, you decided...
	And you stood up and had the courage to say, I'm not going along with this.
	I heard, and maybe this little birdie told me the right information or the wrong information, but there was an incident that happened with the White House tree lighting.
	Well, this was really the beginning of really seeing this become public or become evident to me.
	We were chosen to host and televise the White House tree lighting.
	It was President Trump's first time doing the tree lighting.
	And there was an article on the Hill that said, "Trump White House partners with Hallmark Channel for Christmas tree lighting." And it was wildly successful.
	It was the president's first tree lighting.
	We had talent there.
	It did big ratings.
	It was a big part of our Christmas presentation.
	And the reaction was, at the time, that's not so good.
	And you're either with humanity or you're against it.
	That's what you were told?
	Yes.
	And what was your response?
	Well, at the time, you know, I was totally shocked.
	We had an incredibly successful business that was thriving, and we were, you know, and by any measure, we were told for many years we could never be successful as an independent, that we were just, you know, in over our head.
	We wouldn't be able to survive, and we were successful.
	You know, I kind of took a little grain of salt.
	At the time, though, I was very shaken by that thinking, and then you saw it become more pervasive over the next couple of years.
	So, you know, and we had an audience that was so loyal, loved what we did so much, and they had nowhere else to go on TV. There are many places.
	Any place you want to go, you're going to find different type of content that is not family-friendly.
	Values-based.
	When you're faced with something like that, there had to be a level of heartbreak there, because you poured your life, you poured your career into that, you poured your mission, your testimony, your own personal faith into that.
	And when you come to a moment like that...
	And reading notes from viewers who were just so disappointed with, you know, what the direction was, was heartbreaking.
	Wow.
	Dean, you were with Hallmark Channel as well.
	Of course, you guys have a history.
	And you left.
	Tell us a little bit about your personal experience.
	By the way, did I host that Christmas?
	As a matter of fact.
	Did you know that was going on behind the scenes at the time?
	No, I was too busy working for him.
	I didn't realize that was the feedback, which is amazing, because I remember it being a very successful event.
	It was great fun.
	It's shocking to hear that.
	It's actually ridiculous.
	And, you know, when Bill left Hallmark, I was shocked.
	As well because I had been doing a lot of films for them and I enjoyed them so much.
	I'm a single father and I wanted to make a lot of content that my son could see and my family could see and be around that and that I wanted to watch and you really built an incredible brand and then all of a sudden Bill was gone and my phone never rang from Hallmark again.
	And that was, I was like, wow, okay, whatever has happened with the sort of the wokeness, that wasn't going to be me on the other end of the line, which I was okay with.
	I mean, I have plenty of other things to do.
	But I found that shocking.
	I love what you've built.
	Congratulations again.
	But it's just a proven, that you've proven that what you're putting out there is what people want to watch.
	And that's fantastic.
	You know, as far as being...
	They tried to cancel me in Hollywood so many times.
	If an actor speaks up on something, listen, and for actors, go ahead and speak up or don't.
	It doesn't matter to me.
	I would work with Robert De Niro.
	He's a great actor.
	I don't like his politics.
	You know, Rob Reiner, very good director.
	I don't agree with his politics either.
	But I would still work with him, and I don't think it works the other way around.
	Like, I don't think Rob Reiner, and I've met with Rob since, and he didn't hire me, but it could be for many reasons.
	But, you know, you just sort of wonder, you know, why it's so solid, such a solid wall on one side and not the other.
	So I don't think I've ever really been canceled because I continue to work constantly, and I voice my opinion, and thank you.
	Absolutely.
	There is an element of courage when it comes to pressure from the world.
	And as Christians, we need to understand that we are called to be bold.
	We're called to be confident.
	And we're called to operate in excellence at all times.
	It's interesting because now there is a headline of an article in the New York Times that reads, This ought to be good.
	The woke movies era is over.
	That was the New York Times.
	Absolutely.
	And I want to read this other because I want both of you to kind of speak to this because you have been on the forefront of leading by example when it comes to standing up.
	There is a cultural shift.
	This is a quote.
	And this cultural shift is not merely a trend.
	It is a revival that has the potential to reshape society in ways that will make the powerful take notice.
	It is not about political parties, yet its impact will be felt across the political and cultural landscape as young people find hope and identity in Christ and step up as the next generation of leaders.
	That is where we are.
	Are you sure that was the New York Times?
	That was not the New York Times.
	Oh, that part wasn't.
	That was the Christian Post.
	There we go.
	There you go.
	The New York Times has declared woke movies that air over.
	With that being said, Bill, what is next for great America, great American media?
	Well, we're going to be true to who we are.
	We will never compromise our values.
	We will never change.
	We don't care what the environment is.
	We will be serving the viewer, which we believe, by the way, is the vast majority of the country who want to see faith-based content that's family-friendly and supports the country and isn't derisive of those elements.
	So we will never change who we are.
	What is the importance, Dean?
	Because you have been very outspoken, like you said.
	It is not the majority of the country that was asking for the woke content that was being put out.
	I work for Dr. Phil's Mayor at TV, and Dr. Phil has done so much research on this fringe that seems to have the microphone.
	You have challenged that.
	Talk about the significance of where we are right now and what opportunity we have to spread faith, family, and traditional values.
	We kind of don't have to look any much further than what Bill has done.
	Great American media.
	There's a reason that folks have flocked over there.
	I'm not sure about the Hallmark numbers anymore, but I got a funny feeling they're not as good as they used to be, my friend, and I think your numbers are up.
	People go and watch what they want to watch, and they'll find that, and I think it's wonderful.
	Andrew Breitbart, who was a friend of mine, once said that, you know, politics are downstream from culture.
	When you're making content like Bill is making and putting out there, people want that, and they will come to it, and they will see it, and I think that's...
	Super important.
	I love making that stuff because I want my son to be able to, you know, watch this.
	And now he's 24 now, so he's getting into different things.
	But when he was in high school, he was at a Christian school, and I did a film called God's Not Dead.
	I did not play a nice guy in that.
	And everybody watched the film, and the school went to see it, and they're like, dude, your dad's a jerk.
	No, he's acting.
	He's acting.
	But, I mean, I think it's so important to have those conversations and those kind of films and shows.
	Families have conversations because of them.
	When you're putting out this other content for just a fringe number of people, they'll die.
	You know, companies like, I'm not going to pick on Disney, but Disney has not done a remarkable job with their franchises, rebranding, changing things, and look at the success that Bill has had, and I think it's wonderful.
	The courage to do that, though, is so incredible, because without talent like you in God's Not Dead, it isn't the franchise that it is.
	That's right.
	Thank you, good sir.
	I've had the opportunity to be in two of the God's Not Dead movies.
	We met at the Dallas premiere of God's Not Dead, In God We Trust.
	If you haven't seen it, it's a powerful movie because it mirrors what is actually happening in our society today.
	It's the spiritual warfare that we all are watching play out.
	Talk about this Gen Z revival that is happening.
	We're seeing it in sports with players.
	We're seeing it with coaches.
	Ohio State University, guys, they just had 2,000 young people.
	Accept Christ on campus.
	This is happening.
	So talk about how we're going to come alongside those young people and help catapult them into being the next generation of godly, faith-filled leaders.
	I think you talk about it openly.
	You have those conversations.
	I don't think, I mean, if we had this conversation three years ago, they, you know, oh my gosh, what a horrible conversation to have.
	But now it's okay to have this conversation.
	And they should.
	And my son's 24. Does that make him a Gen Z guy?
	Is that qualified as Gen Z? I think so.
	Does it?
	In that area.
	I was worried about our youth.
	I really was.
	Until I started talking to him and some of his friends.
	And there's some common sense out there.
	And I think it's wonderful.
	And so doing this, putting out content that they can watch and talk about and showing them, you know, again, politics, downstream culture.
	Put it out there and hopefully change the culture.
	And I think it's happening.
	How are you going for that audience?
	Because we know right now, looking at the statistics, Bible sales are up with Gen Zers.
	Young men are returning to church in droves, and there are young people who are really returning back to traditional values, faith-filled families.
	So now it's up to us to come alongside them and help them fly and shine.
	The woke left went so far in the other direction, and it was so offensive that it's moved people more toward faith and family and country and supporting the values they love.
	So, I'm going to ask you, what are you working on?
	What do we need to be looking for?
	We have about a minute, 15 seconds left.
	What should we be looking for?
	From your company, and Dean, I'm going to ask you the same question.
	Wow.
	Well, we will...
	Give us the scoop.
	That's a big question.
	On the spot.
	We want to work with him.
	No, I mean, we have two great, our two biggest platforms.
	Our flagship is streaming and is PureFlix, which we mentioned, and Great American Family.
	Both are great and successful, and we're very pleased with both.
	We have a lot of original content on both, original series, original movies, and we'll keep doing that.
	Awesome.
	I hope to work for him for a long time.
	That's what I want to do.
	I want to keep making content that gets people thinking and talking.
	You know, sometimes I'll be the bad guy, but you need a good bad guy with a good message in the film.
	So I hope to just keep making more and more content and putting it out there and having conversations like this that further...
	Our nation and our faith and I hope it's successful.
	And all of us as believers, we are part of this.
	We are, each of us has a role to play so quickly and 10 seconds are left.
	What is your message to everyone sitting in here in terms of their role in making this happen and getting this out in their communities?
	Support projects and channels and platforms like Bill's.
	I mean, 100% it.
	I mean, I give great support to it and that support means everything.
	And be proud of it.
	And never shy away from it, never run from it, and always be who you are.
	And we will continue to give God the glory.
	Let's thank Bill and Dean Cain, and thank all of you.
	God bless you, and God bless this great United States of America.
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	Hey, everyone.
	It is his fault that a Politico journalist is on this stage, so don't get mad at me.
	Get mad at the ambassador.
	All right.
	I have so much I want to talk with you about.
	Let's go.
	But the number one thing that everyone's been...
	Asking me about you is a new hat that you're wearing at the Kennedy Center.
	Oh.
	What is going on?
	How did that happen?
	How big an art connoisseur are you?
	Walk me through the behind the scenes there.
	Well, we want to make art great again.
	And what does that mean?
	Look, I think, I don't know for sure, but I think the frustration that President Trump...
	What I've had is that the Kennedy Center has no cash on hand, no reserves, and they have been paying for the salaries with the debt reserves, while taking around $40 million of public money.
	And so you can't have that.
	If you're going to take public money, then you get to have public input.
	And so what we're going to say at the Kennedy Center is, first of all, we've got to clean up the financial situation.
	We have to do the big productions that the masses and the public want to see.
	We want to have really good programming.
	So the first thing that we're doing, I think the big change, is for everybody to know you've got to be at the Kennedy Center in December because we are doing a big, huge celebration.
	Of the birth of Christ at Christmas.
	How crazy is it to think that we're going to celebrate Christ at Christmas with a big traditional production to celebrate what we are all celebrating in the world during Christmas time, which is the birth of Christ.
	Do you worry at all, though?
	I know there have been some folks who have been dropping out of performing at the Kennedy Center in protest.
	Do you worry about being able to bring in big artists to the center?
	No, we don't, because we already have them.
	And I think it's a real misnomer.
	But let me just say, there's one thing that got a lot of attention that this group dropped out, and it was all blamed on President Trump and me.
	And we've tried to correct the record, and I think we're going to have to do a more direct job because it wasn't true.
	They had the Kennedy Center before I arrived, before President Trump was the chairman, the Kennedy Center had made some decisions about this individual group to change them because ticket sales were atrocious.
	And so they said, you know what, we can't have this because we really don't have any money, and we can't be spending on things that aren't bringing in revenue.
	And so they made this change before we came, and then it was announced, and suddenly it was, you know, the gay men's chorus or something was dropping out because of Trump.
	That wasn't true.
	And it was replaced with some other things.
	That happens all the time, so I would just challenge you.
	So you would welcome the gay men's choir to perform if they were interested?
	Well, first of all, right now, if you're going to take public money, you have to prove that you actually can bring in revenue.
	We don't have any money.
	The woman that had my job before me was getting paid $1.3 million a year, and we had no money.
	How much are you getting paid for this?
	Way, way, way less.
	Wait, let me ask real quick, though, because we were talking about this a little bit backstage.
	How did this happen?
	Because you're going to Venezuela, you're going to Munich, and then suddenly you wake up and you're running the Kennedy Center?
	Well, again, I think it was a frustration from the president that there was no money at the Kennedy Center.
	But why you?
	How did it come about?
	I don't know.
	You'd have to ask him.
	Look, I love the arts.
	I'm somebody who, you know, goes.
	Already to lots of different art styles.
	I appreciate a whole bunch of different styles of art.
	If I started naming all these things, you would be like, wait a minute.
	You're a connoisseur.
	We believe it.
	So listen, I want to talk about some of the major...
	One of the conflicts that we're seeing around the world right now that I know you've been working on.
	Number one, I mean, I think this has been top of the list for everyone at the White House, is the situation in Ukraine.
	In your conversations with President Trump, What do you hear from him about what's going on with his relationship with Zelensky, President Zelensky?
	Because it's clear that they've never necessarily been best friends, but it feels like in the last few days in particular, that relationship has soured.
	What's going on?
	Look, I think, you know, I'm so thankful that we have a president who's concentrating on peace.
	And that's what Donald Trump has just said.
	You know, let's stop.
	Remember that Joe, we handed Joe Biden total peace in the Middle East and total peace in Europe.
	He handed us a war in the Middle East and a war in Europe.
	And we can never forget that.
	So I do get a little bit frustrated with reporters when they're trying to say, oh, your decision now isn't perfect.
	I'm like, yeah, we were put in a hole.
	We were put in a terrible situation.
	There are no great solutions right now.
	So you're going to have to be patient with us that we're trying to dig the Biden people out from this terrible hundred billions of dollars hole that they created.
	That's the first thing.
	The second thing is, I don't think it's fair to say that somehow President Trump has met with President Zelensky four or five times.
	The Trump team has met with the Ukrainians and Zelensky another four or five times.
	So let's say we're up to ten times meeting with the Ukrainians.
	I never once heard from the media an outrage that the Russians weren't invited to those talks.
	However, the one time...
	That the Trump team reaches out to say, how about we talk to the Russians?
	There's this hue and cry from the Europeans and everybody to say, why aren't the Ukrainians involved?
	Well, I think it's because the Russians are the aggressors in this situation.
	And that's another question I wanted to ask you.
	You know, President Trump has...
	has blamed Ukraine recently for starting the war.
	You know better than anyone that it was Russian aggression actually back in 2014. People forget that this goes over a decade back.
	But it was Russia that invaded Ukraine.
	So do you have a sense of why President Trump is making these claims now that Ukraine started the war?
	I think what President Trump is saying very clearly is we have to stop this war.
	He is somebody who's concentrating on saying to both sides, let's talk to both sides and figure out how we stop this.
	Again, we have terrible choices because of the Biden team.
	There's not a lot of great choices.
	And so, yeah, is there frustration that things are not perfect in Ukraine right now?
	Yeah, but I'm a little bit annoyed that we were handed a file that was war when we handed them a file that was peace.
	And so I do think that we're frustrated.
	But why make those false claims about who started the war?
	Why call Zelensky a dictator?
	What is happening there?
	Look, I think the American people are really frustrated with Zelensky.
	I think that there's a big frustration that he's not making great choices for peace.
	And again, when the American people are spending hundreds of billions of dollars...
	There's a frustration.
	Let's go back, you know, you said 2014. Let's go back just to the beginning of this war where Joe Biden messaged for more than 30 days that he knew through intelligence that a war was absolutely coming.
	The Europeans and the Biden administration all did one thing, which was prepare for more war.
	They talked about more funding for war.
	They battened down the hatches.
	They got hardware in there.
	I actually think it's pretty immoral if the President of the United States says, we're having a war in 30 days and we know for sure, and no one shows up in Moscow and Kiev to try to say, let's do diplomacy, let's stop a war, and now we're 100 billions of dollars later, and so there's a frustration.
	So you said President Zelensky isn't making choices for peace.
	What do you think are those choices that he should make to bring an end to this that he's not making now?
	Hundreds of billions of dollars of American money.
	Again, I'll say that.
	And a whole bunch is missing.
	So we immediately say, okay, mismanagement of funds.
	What we want to see is talks with Putin.
	I don't think that talking means that you're weak.
	I actually think talking is a tactic to get to a goal.
	And so...
	We've seen with President Trump he can show up with Kim Jong-un, and we need to be able to have these conversations with the Russians.
	Look, I've done negotiations my whole life.
	I did Serbia-Kosovo negotiations.
	And I can tell you that if you're in the middle trying to bring peace, trying to make sure we're not spending hundreds of billions of dollars on war and we're saving lives, you need at least a person in the middle.
	Who can say, I'm going to talk to these guys, and I'm going to talk to these guys, and I don't care what kind of criticism I get.
	I got to figure out a way for peace.
	It's not going to be perfect.
	I will give you that.
	But again, I go back to the fact of we had it perfect in terms of peace.
	We were handed a war, and now we're being criticized of, well, how do you dig us out of a war, and you're not doing it fast enough, and you're not doing it fair enough?
	So we're a little frustrated.
	So the social media stuff, I mean, President Trump called Zelensky a dictator.
	Do you believe he's a dictator?
	Well, I think when you reject having elections and you're not moving towards that way, people get angry about that.
	Is Putin a dictator?
	Of course.
	Putin is a dictator?
	Yeah, of course.
	So the stuff that we're seeing on social media...
	But I want to say one thing that's really important in this conversation.
	Republican foreign policy leaders have done for 25 years.
	This is a paradigm shift, what he's doing.
	We articulate very clearly under Donald Trump, we don't do regime change.
	We are going to deal with the countries that are in front of us, and our criteria is not how do we make that country better, how do we make America better, stronger, and more prosperous for the people that live here.
	So I was in the East Room when President Trump held the presser with Prime Minister Netanyahu, and he announced the plans for the Riviera of the Middle East in Gaza.
	Is that art of the deal talk?
	Is that a serious plan?
	What is your sense of where President Trump is headed with that idea?
	Well, first of all, let's start from the fact that he's a great negotiator.
	So we know that he's negotiating all of the time.
	Secondly, I think, again, I sound like I keep repeating myself, but we had peace there.
	We had peace agreements, right?
	The media and the intelligence agencies told President Trump, if you moved the embassy, there would be outright war.
	We know the opposite happened.
	Peace agreements broke out.
	And so I think you've got to say to Donald Trump, you know how to deliver peace.
	You certainly know how to negotiate Americans into a peaceful situation.
	And so my kind of attitude is, let's watch and see.
	How this plays out, because I have full faith that Donald Trump is a great negotiator and he's delivered peace before, and he's going to have to do it again now because of the Biden regime.
	Regardless of what it looks like, us getting involved in Gaza, I mean, President Trump has talked about getting out of foreign entanglements.
	That's a promise that he made on the campaign trail.
	How does that jive with his promise?
	I think that's an incredibly fair question.
	Thank you.
	You hear that, guys?
	No, I do.
	I think it's a legitimate question to say, wait a minute, you've said this.
	Again, what I think the thinking and the criteria is, is how do we deliver peace?
	And I've spent eight years at the UN, and what's been happening in the Palestinian territories and in Gaza, we've been talking about for decades.
	Do you believe the U.S. still has a role to play and should play a role in peace in the Middle East?
	Even with the America First agenda?
	Yes, but that doesn't immediately mean that we jump to boots on the ground.
	And I would say the other thing is, I'm a diplomat.
	You're going to hear me talk about diplomacy, not about war and the things of war.
	But I will say that, as kind of a chastisement to the public debate right now, when you talk about security assurances...
	Stop assuming that security assurances are just simply American boots or UN boots and guns.
	I can't think of a better security assurance than private equity folks on the ground.
	American businessmen on the ground trying to do deals and help rebuild or help bring economic development.
	If you've got a bunch of Americans, or Westerners even, That are in Ukraine, that are in the Black Sea, doing economic development, I can't think of a better way to have a security assurance.
	And I know we're running low on time here.
	I do want to talk to you about the wildfires in Los Angeles.
	I know you know people who have lost homes.
	I think anyone that knows anyone in L.A. knows people who have had tremendous loss there.
	How are the recovery efforts going?
	I know the president at the roundtable in the Palisades tasked you with some of that effort.
	How are things going with FEMA? We know Democrats and Republicans can agree that FEMA doesn't always work effectively and quickly.
	What are the bottlenecks, and what are you doing there?
	Well, thanks for asking.
	I think the reality is that the federal response is mostly money, and so...
	We are going to have strings on the money that we give to California.
	They've made terrible conditions.
	We're talking about those conditions now.
	As a Californian, I'm all for it because I don't have faith that if we went back and we just gave California hundreds of millions of dollars, they were going to go back to their same old ways of not giving enough water, having dangerous situations on the ground when it comes to forestry.
	It's going to happen again.
	What are some of those strings you're talking about?
	Well, I don't want to commit too much.
	Give us a little.
	But I will say this.
	Everyone who's involved knows that the California Coastal Commission is a disaster, and it needs to absolutely be defunded.
	And from just a way to think about government.
	We already have local government making these decisions.
	Layering it on with the California Coastal Commission is a terrible idea.
	It's an unelected group of people who are crazy woke left, and one person can stop progress, and they've made California less safe.
	I think squeezing their federal funds, making sure they don't get funds, putting strings on them to get rid of the California Coastal Commission is going to make California better.
	While we're on California, since you have so many ideas for the state, are we going to see Richard Grinnell run for governor of California?
	Honestly, it's not in my plan unless Kamala Harris runs for governor.
	If Kamala runs, if Kamala runs...
	You're jumping in?
	I mean, here's the thing.
	We've spent hundreds of millions of dollars to define who Kamala Harris is.
	If she thinks that she's going to run for governor of California, a Republican is going to win, and I may not be able to resist trying to run against her.
	Making news here at CPAC. Lastly, before I let you go, we talked about the Kennedy Center.
	You've got that performance coming up in December, but what is your ideal performance at the Kennedy Center, if you could have anyone perform?
	Dolly Parton!
	Is that an official invitation?
	Of course, of course.
	I'd love to see it.
	All right, Mr. Grinnell, thank you so much.
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	Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the new G.I. Joes.
	Please welcome former U.S. Navy SEAL, Rob O'Neill, UFC fighter and Special Forces Operator, Tim Kennedy, and your host, host at the Carl Higbee Frontline on Newsmax, Carl Higbee.
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	All right.
	Well, they gave us open mics, no script, and a bunch of guys who used to shoot people for them.
	No, so the last, we were talking 12 years, actually, not just last four, have been disastrous for the military, not only domestically, but on a global stage.
	That's the truth.
	Yeah, pretty madness.
	I've been losing wars everywhere that we look.
	On multiple continents, we've been losing our strategic positions and strategic bases that we have fought for for decades, from Africa, literally every single continent, to Eastern Europe, and obviously in the global war on terror after 20 years, the most embarrassing withdrawal in American history.
	Yeah, Rob, let's talk about that.
	We had the withdrawal from Iraq.
	I was in Iraq in 2009 when we were drawing down.
	I know you guys were in and out of the same areas.
	I was watching us pull resources out, denying the fact that there were bad guys still doing bad things, that were killing coalition troops, and yet they wouldn't let us get them because of the perception that the war was over.
	Yeah, the perception of the war being over is something we've been doing wrong and that's getting too political, and I don't mean just the politics of the country, I'm talking personal power for politicians.
	Making a promise to get out of a place, because that was said in the campaign, or in the case of Afghanistan, on 9-11.
	And just making decisions that don't make sense, because a lot of stuff, I don't know if you noticed, in D.C. doesn't make sense.
	But the way that I put the...
	I mean, Iraq is one of those things where we shouldn't have invaded, but we shouldn't have left the way we did.
	And when the convoys coming from north to south, we should have hit them with some A-10s.
	ISIS is gone, didn't do that, because I guess we could be nice to the enemy.
	But the thing with Afghanistan that I noticed, too, is if you took the bin Laden team and asked them to come up with the worst possible way out of Afghanistan, we would have come up with exactly the way the Biden administration did it.
	And that's all because they wanted to be out before 9-11.
	We lost a lot of people because of that.
	Right, but the unwillingness to actually define the enemy was the bigger problem.
	It was, we're going to work with them, we're going to give them money.
	I mean, hell, we left, what, $80 billion worth of stuff, including Night Vision and Humvees over there?
	They didn't define the enemy, and therefore we couldn't defeat it.
	I mean, that's the story of the oldest time, right?
	Whether it's Vietnam, the Korea War, us being able to define who we're fighting is something that is necessary for us to know who to beat.
	You know, if you take the military and you point them, I still believe, even though we are in a dangerous position with Secretary Hegseth trying to fight to bring back the strength, We still have, without a doubt, the most powerful military on the planet, and I'm so inspired by the young men and women that, especially recently, have raised their hand to serve.
	But, you know, watching Pete Hegseth, I mean, it's the truth.
	In Germany, training with the Special Forces unit, you know, like with the Hulk running right in front of them.
	That guy was huge.
	He was huge.
	That's a big dude.
	I'm just like, you know, that's the America that I know and that I love.
	Put that on a recruiting poster.
	I mean, Rob, we had...
	Record low recruiting over the last four years.
	It turns out if you tell a bunch of people that we're in your ranks that they don't like them anymore, they go home.
	And we had posters of people with two moms or transgender this or DEI that.
	It's like, well, this is a place where we're supposed to put bullets in bad guys' faces.
	That's it, too.
	And the military can be very simple.
	The way you're successful in the military is master the basics.
	Keep it simple.
	And leave the diplomacy to the diplomats, right?
	Go in, crush people, and leave.
	That's all it's got to be.
	And then we start getting into this woke ideology with, okay, you're raised by two women in San Francisco.
	Great.
	Fine.
	I don't think ISIS is afraid of that.
	I don't think Al-Qaeda is afraid of that.
	And even like Queers for Palestine, if they went over there, if I went over there with them, they'd murder them before they murdered me.
	They don't like them.
	But the problem is, we're trying to play nice with everybody.
	It's like, well...
	I don't know if you don't understand them.
	Like we were talking backstage about the enemy.
	Or you just said just now on stage.
	We're bad at defining the enemy.
	And we just think that...
	Here's a little thing I learned as a battle interrogator, especially dealing with terrorists.
	They lie.
	No.
	Yeah.
	What?
	Yeah.
	They'll lie to your face.
	Weird.
	- Weird. - Drago, back me up on that.
	But...
	You know, we can sit here and joke about this, but there's some serious work.
	And look, I actually talked to Secretary Hegstat this morning about it, was trying to get him to call in, but he has this little thing like managing the whole country's DOD. But he's got a serious job ahead of him.
	They've already increased recruiting in 30 days.
	Weird how if you put warfighters, you attract more warfighters.
	But in order to do that...
	I mean, you're talking about a massive deficit, not only from a financial standpoint, where we've spent three times as much on aircraft carrier budgets, where we've massively reduced the force.
	The COVID vaccine was one of the greatest reductions of good men and women.
	And we have to build that back.
	How do we start?
	It's a great question.
	And I think, from the top down, seeing the Secretary of Defense out doing PT with the troops in the morning.
	You know, it's not just the number in which we were failing to recruit for the past four years, but it's who we have been recruiting.
	We're recruiting, and I'm so grateful for everybody that raised their hand to serve.
	We want strong, fearless people that want to be part of the most lethal fighting force on the planet.
	That's who we want.
	We want them as a deterrent.
	We want the rest of the world and every single one of our peer-level adversaries to look at our men and women in uniform and be like...
	Not freaking worth it.
	Exactly.
	Well, that's the other thing, too.
	Rob, you walked in a door, shot the world's most wanted criminal in the face, and didn't think twice about it.
	How do we get more people that want to join because of that versus college benefits, which are great, but also pushing DEI, pushing personal growth, and things like this.
	How do we get more people that want to join because they want to do what you did?
	I think it starts with the recruiting, and it impacted me more to see the Marine killing the dragon with the sword.
	I really like that.
	Plus the movie Navy SEALs with Charlie Sheen.
	Greatest movie ever.
	That's why I became a SEAL. 100% accurate.
	But it's got to start with that, too.
	And we're in a place, too, and it's the generation with staring at your phone, not going to the gym, stuff like that.
	We just lower the standards.
	It's like, well, you can't do the set amount of pushes.
	We'll just cut it in half.
	And I think the good men and women are out there.
	We just haven't been focusing on them.
	They're great people.
	There always has been.
	The leadership has gotten bad simply because you get to a certain level, be it senior enlisting or a senior officer, you become political because you want the next job right down the street here.
	So, I mean, the way to do it is literally get back to the basics, which is forward defense, alliance, solidarity, and deterrence.
	And we're just simply not going to deter people by being nice, but the military's job is not to be nice.
	Again, we do have public affairs.
	Great.
	We also have infantry who will swim over the horizon at night and kill you.
	And that's what we need.
	And not to mention, we will complain about it the whole time we're swimming.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Why do SEALs post-career don't like cold water?
	They torture us with it.
	It's wet.
	The water's wet.
	I've seen dudes in combat go an extra mile just to not get their feet wet.
	I'm not even making that up.
	America's finest.
	Just keep me dry.
	Yeah, exactly.
	- With recruiting, the standards have to be set.
	They have to be met.
	They cannot be moved, they cannot be bent.
	It has to be merit-based.
	If you're gonna fly a helicopter, it's because you're the best person that can be on the stick. - Absolutely.
	Pulling down night vision to go on a mission, it's because you passed every single one of the standards to be there, and you deserve to be there, whether you're wearing a trident, a green beret, or you are proudly just running down, as every single infantryman knows, to shoot, move, communicate, and medicate.
	You met the standard, and you deserve to be there.
	Right.
	Well, that's the other thing, too.
	A 7-6-2 doesn't understand the difference if you're black, white, blue, green, 5-7-5-4.
	250, 150, it doesn't matter.
	So why did we get away from a general standard?
	And now, if you're a 40-year-old woman in the military, you can get 24 minutes to run two miles.
	But if you're a 22-year-old male, you have to do it in 18 minutes.
	How did we get, how did we deviate?
	Well, I mean, again, we need to get back to it.
	We deviated despite, well, I mean, we saw, when I joined in 1996, uniform, uniform, bad haircut, and all we saw was green or blue.
	That's it.
	But now we're to the point because of a softer outlook or because we're so connected, just be yourself.
	Express yourself.
	That's not the military's job to express yourself.
	You'll be fine.
	Sixteen and a half years in the Navy, with the men and women whom I served, we never had a problem with sexism or racism.
	Because it just didn't make sense.
	We knew each other.
	Even when I was getting out, Don't Ask, Don't Tell was the big thing.
	And I remember in Afghanistan, this is after the Bin Laden raid, looking at a bunch of Navy SEALs like, I know damn well some of you are gay.
	I don't really care.
	And at the bottom line, what you do behind closed doors is your business.
	The big question is, can you carry me with body armor after I've been shot and bring me home to my wife?
	That's it.
	I agree with that.
	We had a guy...
	In my first platoon, who got out of the military, and he was like, guys, I gotta tell you, I'm gay.
	And we're like, yeah, we know.
	We know.
	And we don't care.
	Nobody cares.
	Nobody cares.
	Sorry, man.
	Seriously, but that's it, too.
	He can do his job, and nobody cares.
	But then you get involved with the media, and they just want to spin it because they want the talking points to badmouth whichever Republican's running.
	So let's talk, you know, Secretary Hegseth comes in now, 8% cuts across the board.
	A lot of people on the other side are saying, well, hey, this is going to diminish our fighting force.
	And I look at that, I'm like, look, we're still using floppy disks and fax machines.
	Like the DMV is more technologically advanced in some areas of the Pentagon right now.
	So, you know, there's a vast, massive redundancy within the Department of Defense, you know, and how do you get to the bottom of that without...
	Even slightly creeping on the mission of capability.
	And if you're trying to become effective and more efficient, the first thing that you do is you recognize fat and you cut it from it.
	So whether it's fraud, waste, and abuse, and in some instances we're seeing does just come through with a battle axe to do that, which is awesome.
	On the military side, I mean, I would definitely argue, and I know personally, as I think everyone else does, and if you've been in the military, that there are good redundancies, like a good pace plan, primary, alternate, contingent, emergency, and on the communication side, on multiple routes in and out.
	But when it comes to bureaucratic regulation, and the military is not supposed to have that, what is called the kill chain.
	How effectively can I take from...
	From a decision to do something to the execution of it, how fast is that thing?
	And that kill chain has gotten so many bureaucratic steps in there, we have become ineffective and inefficient.
	Those have to be cut.
	Yeah, well, that's the danger of the big corporate mindset, too.
	I mean, you guys know as well as I do, you get the green light to do an op.
	And you have to get it approved up the chain.
	And by that time, the guy's already left his house and fled the country.
	That's true.
	Yeah.
	And I mean, it comes back to the efficiency that they're doing right now.
	You need redundancy in places, like with submarine warfare.
	If one gets an order, another one needs it, too, in case it gets hit and no one knows.
	Stuff like that.
	But the Pentagon hasn't passed a budget.
	An audit.
	An audit.
	Hasn't done it.
	And you've got to start with that.
	And we see it down at the platoon level.
	We're like, well, here's our budget for the year, and we have to spend it all, or we won't get it next year.
	It should be the opposite.
	If you're more efficient, maybe these guys are squared away.
	We can get them more work.
	We can get them more funding.
	But it's almost like the free money thing, where we're just going to get it again as long as we get rid of it.
	And it also seems if you cut even 8% Let's just round it up to an even 40, for good time's sake.
	And you will remove all those limitations, but you'll also remove a significant amount of processes that were put in place after World War II, a time where we have now quadrupled our number of generals, and now we've, I would say, effectively, we lost the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, because the enemy gets a say in that.
	How do you rebuild that within the ranks?
	I mean, there's obviously morale has already gone way up under Donald Trump, big time.
	But how do you rebuild that?
	With generational support.
	Right now with General George and the Sergeant Major of the Army, Mike Weimer.
	Mike Weimer, former unit guy, was part of the special missions units, also a special forces guy.
	They clearly have said time and time again they want to focus on lethality, maneuverability, flexibility, and these are things that bureaucratic systems and...
	Multiple checks and balances always slow down.
	They want kids being able to 3D print a tool that would have cost, through a government contract on a named project, tens of millions of dollars to get.
	And seven years to approve.
	That's right.
	And all of that, we have to innovate.
	We have to innovate our way out of this, and we have to become the 2025 fast, lethal fighting force where the rest of the world is like, ooh, buddy.
	Want nothing to do with that.
	A kid from Oklahoma that just throws hay bales, and now we're giving him the best tools possible to go and kill his enemy.
	Right, and something on that, too, that's a good point.
	I think just when we were talking about Secretary Hegseth working out with the guys and the big monster dude, that's something else right there that you haven't seen with the SecDef, but that's what you need.
	It's always been impressive when the general officer, the general or the admiral, comes and talks to the E5 Mafia.
	Right.
	Hegseth, Mr. Secretary, sorry, Pete, can...
	I've always been saying we need a mid-level officer with combat experience to take the Secretary of Defense, because he will talk to the troops.
	And when you're working out with the troops, you can ask them simple stuff.
	Where are you from?
	Why did you join?
	What are you anticipating?
	What do you expect out of this?
	How's morale?
	Okay, morale's bad, why?
	Morale's good, why?
	Find out why.
	And then, I mean, obviously, it is a pyramid, you know, top-down type stuff, but they might want to think about...
	Potentially changing that up a little bit.
	But also flattening the organization, allowing that direct feedback.
	I remember when I was in, you know, the Admiral would come down and they'd be like, you know, hey, look, if you have any questions for the Admiral, clear it through us first.
	Carl, you're not allowed to ask any questions whatsoever.
	But it's, you know, and I raised my hand.
	This is in 2009 after we'd just gotten back.
	And I said, what's the desired end result in Iraq?
	I mean, I got in a lot of trouble for that, but they had no answer.
	Yeah.
	It was heartbreaking on the ground in Afghanistan, you know, in August of 2021, all the way to the 26th at the Abbey Gate bombing.
	That sent a shockwave through all of GWAT and recruiting.
	Nobody likes to lose.
	America's not built to lose.
	We're built to be the most powerful fighting force on the planet, the military is, and the country that's the strongest that's ever existed in the existence of our species.
	Greatest country ever.
	Our young people need to look at the service members, men and women in uniform, the flag, and with pride, be like, I want to be like Rob.
	I want to be like Carl.
	I want to go win wars.
	It's time for us to start not just being preventative, but for everyone to know that the next war that we go into, we are not just going to fight it.
	We're not there to perpetuate the military-industrial complex.
	We are there to destroy our enemy in the most violent way possible.
	I just want to point out that the Army guy said that they want to be like the two Navy guys over here.
	That said, I mean, look, we have 11 carrier battle groups, so they're not in reserve for some day.
	We're pretty much there now.
	Why do we care what Europe thinks?
	Why do we care what other countries think?
	Why are we catering, especially policy within the DOD, to what other countries think when we can do whatever we want because our aircraft carriers outrun their jet skis?
	Well, that's true, too.
	I mean, I remember seeing a recruiting poster with somebody's water skiing behind a carrier and people laughing at it.
	I was like, no, that could happen.
	That's the fastest ship we got.
	And I can't tell you how fast it goes.
	It's pretty fast.
	But talking about Europe, too, moving.
	Every time we've left Europe, we had to go back.
	So we've got to be careful about that now, too.
	But the problem is with Europe being so weak, most of them aren't paying the 2% GDP they're supposed to be paying.
	But we're not going to be able to deter China, especially a China-Russia coalition, while we're trying to hold the hand of the people that are afraid of Ukraine or going into Poland.
	I don't think they're going into Poland, but regardless, the fight...
	You've got to figure the 5,000 miles of a supply chain we're going to need in the Pacific.
	When China tries, within the next few years, tries to take Taiwan, there's other allies over there dealing with a much bigger enemy, and then you're getting into the AI thing, the drone fighting.
	I'm so glad that wasn't prevalent when we were there, but microwave weapons, stuff like that.
	I mean, we're still back in time.
	We do have smarter people than this panel.
	They're working, but, you know, they've got to be smart about being smart.
	That's a pretty low bar, if you don't know for us.
	No, I mean, that's 100% right.
	The technology is almost outpacing the need for some manning, not all.
	But how do you balance the technology versus the man on the ground?
	This is a question that we've asked every single war and every single conflict.
	Ultimately...
	It really does come down to the men and women on the ground.
	It comes down to the quality of the people, their integrity, and their work ethic.
	And I love this country.
	I'm so proud that I get to wear the uniform and the flag.
	And I get to look to my left and my right, and I am just so inspired by the strength of our service members and the men and women in this country.
	And I have...
	Total confidence that we have the best and the brightest in the world that are answering that question.
	And they are giving the best tools to the best men and women in uniform to then go and both prevent our next war and, heaven forbid, if we do have to fight it, win it.
	Let's talk about kids.
	Rob, I know you got a new one.
	Yeah, I got a birthday on Sunday.
	My daughter Valor turns one.
	So, congrats.
	So, I have three myself.
	You know, and for the last four years.
	In the first time in my life, you know, I come from a somewhat military family.
	I would not have advised my children to join the military.
	How do we make sure that no one ever wants to have that side of a conversation again?
	That's a tough conversation, too.
	Again, the politics getting in, the D.C. swamp ruining everything.
	I mean, it's a tough conversation to have, too, because a couple months ago, someone asked, are your children going to join the military?
	I don't know.
	I mean, maybe you tell them, get straight A's, get an academy, and learn how to fly something.
	But the other stuff...
	You know, I don't know.
	But now, I mean, it's turning the tide.
	But they've got to maintain that.
	Right now, we're in the honeymoon phase still, even though it's Donald Trump's second term.
	You've got to maintain that momentum.
	And again, too, we have the great patriots in this country, too.
	The problem is, I mean, we have X now, but a lot of the voices get shut down.
	I don't know if you noticed shadow banning and stuff like that.
	The patriotic Americans have been shut down before.
	And we've got to, hopefully, with some of the people coming over from the social media side, getting more conservative.
	I mean, we could hope, hope, hope, but we'll see what happens.
	I kind of want to leave it at this.
	As we move out of this phase, I mean, we've got three years and 11 months left.
	I feel like a lot of countries have kind of said...
	I think we're going to win the next six elections.
	I sure hope so.
	At a bare minimum.
	Yeah.
	Minimum.
	Zero reason why we shouldn't have at least the next 12 years.
	We're fixing this country.
	So, you know, with 30 seconds or less to solve the world's problems, how do you get to a place?
	Where we install mechanisms that even politics can't corrupt it.
	Yeah, building that beachhead where these are things that are going to stand the test of time, that are going to stand a midterm election, and then the next national election.
	A strong thing is harder to kill.
	This idea, to answer that question simply, a strong soldier, a strong military, they're just flat out harder to defeat.
	So I want strength, masculinity, power, big, murderous men to be running towards the military to put the flag on their shoulder to serve this country.
	That's what I want.
	Who don't really care about people's feelings.
	They do not.
	They care about winning, and they want to be strong when they do it.
	Rob, Tim, it's been a pleasure.
	Thank you, everybody.
	Appreciate it.
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	Ladies and gentlemen, this is CPAC in action.
	Please welcome founder to Tot Dose Group, Hobe Shabander.
	Founder of Walkaway, Brandon Straka.
	CPAC Chairman, Max Schlapp.
	And your host, host of American Sunrise on Real America on RAV, Dr. Gina Loudon.
	I'm going to go here.
	You want me there?
	All right, everybody.
	Welcome, first of all.
	How amazing has this CPAC been for you?
	And you know, CPAC, the thing I love about it, I've been coming for decades now.
	Phyllis Schlafly actually brought me to my very first CPAC. Now I come every year with Real America's Voice.
	And love talking to all of you.
	But my favorite thing about CPAC is it is what President talks about all the time.
	Action, action, action.
	And so that's what we're going to talk about with you today.
	What we did right in this last election.
	If the message that's coming through to you as really the actors in the action, right?
	If that's the right message, because the people on this panel have the expertise to tell you all of the above.
	So I think what we should do is start with just a brief intro, if you guys can, just a couple of sentences about...
	Who you are and what you did in this last election.
	Thank you so much.
	Hi, everyone.
	My name is Obe Shibander.
	I was in the field in Michigan.
	My group launched the Arab Americans for a Better America, or AIPAC. And thanks to a great deal of CPAC's support, we set up shop in Michigan early on in the campaign as an outside group, working very closely with our favorite ambassador, Rick Grinnell.
	To reach out to the Middle Eastern community, Muslims, Christians in Michigan, and we helped turn Michigan deep red with a lot of first-time, first-time voters, with never-voted Republican ever in their life, voting for President Trump because they knew that he was a president for peace.
	Hey, everybody.
	I'm Brendan Strzok.
	I'm the founder of the Hashtag Walkaway Campaign.
	Don't get a big head, Brady.
	We are the largest national movement of former Democrats walking away from the Democratic Party at this point.
	In 2018, we started a national conversation about the need for people to walk away from the divisive, hateful Democratic Party and political left.
	As of today, walk away has grown to over 750,000 people who have joined our movement, tens of thousands of people who have created their written and video testimonials about leaving the Democratic Party.
	And dare I say that I believe that the 2024 election was the walk away election.
	And I'm not just saying that.
	I'm not just saying that because we walked away with the presidency, and we walked away with the House, and we walked away with the Senate, and we walked away with the popular vote, and we walked away with every swing state in the country, but because massive numbers of minorities walked away from the Democratic Party in 2024 and led us to victory.
	Well, you know this guy.
	Do you have any sentences you want to say about what you do?
	Well, I just want to say that my wife, Mercy, just walked in.
	I think she's doing a great job.
	Thanks for coming to listen to me.
	I was told that there's going to be some harsh judges of how I do in this panel, so I'm very nervous right now about what the scores are going to be.
	In my household, you have to do a good job where I have six women who kind of let you know you don't do so good.
	Almost every one of my kids is here today, so if you see them, be careful because they're good staffers, I want you to know.
	Okay, so let me just give you a quick overview at CPAC. You guys are all very generous to us and to many other conservative groups.
	CPAC has, I think, a big role to play there.
	But Brandon's group has a big role to play there.
	I bet you have Michigan groups that have a big role to play there.
	The one thing as a conservative community, by the way, I'm preaching to myself right now.
	The one thing as a conservative community, which I think is the pro-America community, I'm not so sure conservative is even a word we have to use right now.
	We just believe in America and America's values.
	That we've got to partner together really, really well if we're going to beat the bad guys, if we're going to beat the commies.
	So this is a little bit to myself.
	I get competitive.
	I think, well, that's a CPAC thing.
	CPAC did that.
	And we're doing a good job as an organization because all of you are helping us.
	But we all have to work together.
	And I have to say, to begin my comments, I think we ought to give a rousing applause.
	to having an RNC chairman who was uber-competent and did a great job in Michael Watley.
	Susie Wiles, the campaign manager for Donald Trump, deserves a round of applause for being uber-competent, and Chris LaCivita.
	Let's give them a round of applause.
	They're all friends of mine.
	They're all people I've worked with for a long time.
	I don't even want to tell you how many decades it's been.
	It's a lot of decades.
	There's a lot of snow on the roof now.
	I know that.
	I have to comb it every morning, once a day.
	But beyond that, these entities, the campaign and the RNC, can only do so much.
	You've got to have outside groups.
	You've got to have non-profits that will do a lot.
	And I just want you to know, from a CPAC perspective, I have some of my board members here who helped me think this through.
	We tried to do what others weren't doing.
	It was because the RNC was so competent and the campaign was so competent that I knew that they would do their pieces competently.
	And that's not always the case in politics.
	Sometimes they're not doing it competently, and then you're scared to death because you've got to fill in.
	They did their job competently.
	And then we saw the seams, right?
	We saw the openings that we could spend time on.
	And for CPAC, we decided to focus on a couple things.
	We helped you in Michigan with Rick's direction because we thought Michigan could be turned red.
	Are you here from Michigan, anyone?
	Wasn't that awesome?
	It happened.
	And funny, when you look for the openings in the seams, it takes less revenue because nobody's playing.
	And so you play with smaller amounts of money.
	We still spent millions of dollars on this project.
	Mercy led the way on the Hispanic outreach.
	Believe it or not, there was a lot of openings there.
	Thank you, sweetheart, for your great work and your voice on those things.
	And then we did something else.
	By the way, we believe that they cheat.
	I'm sorry if it's controversial.
	I'm never going to stop saying it.
	I'm sorry if I keep getting canceled.
	I believe they cheat.
	We think, as a board at CPAC, we think that if we expose their cheating, put cameras on their cheating, have people watching and reporting on their cheating, writing letters to state officials about how they plan to cheat, that that stops a lot of the cheating.
	And I believe that's what happened this time.
	And we did plenty of that.
	Well, Matt, here's a question, though.
	We heard a lot about banking the vote, right, in this last election.
	And the other thing about this last election that I'd like each of you to speak to is that, you know, we had Donald Trump.
	We're not going to have Donald Trump, probably.
	Well, I don't know.
	Maybe we will.
	After yesterday, maybe we will have Donald Trump.
	But we had one George Washington.
	And I think there's one Donald Trump.
	I think there's one Donald Trump.
	But the question is, you know, we hear this message all the time of bank the vote, as if that was the only thing that needed to be done in this last election.
	What do you all see on the horizon as we look forward into the midterms and, of course, into the next election that we need to be preparing for already, at least in our minds?
	Yeah, look, there is a culture shift that we saw on the ground in Michigan.
	Look, we're talking about precincts where Arab Americans are a majority in the Detroit metro area that Joe Biden, you know, won by over 80% in 2020, that he, that Kamala lost by over 10% this time around.
	That is a sea change.
	You know, I mean, Kamala Harris was going around campaigning with Liz Cheney.
	You know what we did?
	We spent just, you know, a few thousand dollars, put up a few billboards of just a picture of Kamala looking into the eyes of Liz Cheney.
	We put, you know, war.
	You know, this is the war candidate.
	Ours is the peace candidate.
	Those are the simple messages that resonate with immigrant communities, with second-generation communities.
	These were deep blue precincts that had flipped red from Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Hamtramck, Yemeni Americans, Chaldeans, Bangladeshi communities, both Muslim and Christians.
	It's historic what is happening here.
	And we have a real moment to build on flipping Michigan and what I call a cultural sea change that President Trump inaugurated.
	And I think we have a tremendous opportunity to build on that victory in places like Michigan.
	And Matt, you're so right in what you said a minute ago.
	When I started Walkaway back in 2018, 2019, what I wanted to do is fill in what I call some of the holes in where I felt like the Republican Party needed extra help.
	One of those was doing outreach to minority communities.
	I didn't see enough of it, and a lot of it wasn't, you know, truly effective.
	So we got on the road back in 2018, 2019, and haven't stopped talking to the black community, the Hispanic community, the LGBT community, Asians, Muslims.
	And what we saw in 2024, I think after all these years of efforts and many other groups doing amazing work, is the black community shifted 3% to the right.
	The Asian community, 5% shifted to the right.
	The youth vote, 7% to the right.
	The American Indian, 10% shift to the right.
	And the Hispanic community, 20% shift to the right in 2024 from 2020, which I think is absolutely astounding.
	In legacy media, Brandon, is not reporting some of those numbers that you're talking about.
	Well, they don't want people to know.
	And they want to try to keep convincing people that the Republican Party is the same old Republican Party they've been able to malign as being racist and bigoted and not welcoming to minorities, when in fact, we are the new America First Republican Party, which is a big, diverse tent of intellectual ideas and diverse people of all backgrounds.
	Long has been the true Big Tent, but the media would really like to keep that a secret from the voting electorate.
	One of the things that you did that I think is so fascinating is, you know, you always hear you've got to go into the communities, and I know CPAC supported you.
	You went right into those communities.
	And probably no one had ever been there to ask them for their vote before.
	No.
	In many instances, we held dozens of town halls, anywhere from 20 people to 200 people.
	And Ambassador Grinnell, God bless him, was talking to everybody.
	He didn't leave Michigan.
	He just stayed in Michigan.
	He worked his rear off.
	It was amazing to watch the posts.
	And you guys didn't do it in a way to get a bunch of attention.
	You did it quietly.
	People thought we were crazy.
	When we started early on, they're like, what?
	Why are you reaching out to them?
	Why are you reaching out to a community that was in the deep blue precincts that never voted Republican, let alone for President Trump?
	But Ambassador Grinnell led the way.
	Leadership matters.
	Look, and these were conversations that were difficult conversations.
	Kamala Harris didn't want to meet with the Arab Americans, the Muslim Americans, because she was afraid of tough questions.
	But our guy, Rick, sat in there.
	A lot of these conversations, they were respectful.
	They were respectful conversations, but they were tough conversations.
	And that is The difference when you have a paternalistic Democratic Party far left that doesn't want to treat You know, minority groups that are American at heart, that are pro-America.
	They've immigrated here.
	They've sacrificed so much for their families and for their children.
	I'll give you an anecdote.
	One of the...
	We did a 20-second ad called The Daughter of Dearborn that went viral in Michigan.
	It was a lady by the name of Sam Luqman.
	She was a Yemeni-American, a daughter of immigrants, a single mother, was a progressive activist, and was looking into the camera telling...
	Her community to vote for Donald Trump because he is the candidate for peace, as he has proven to be.
	And that is...
	I mean, we've never seen anything like it.
	It was absolutely historic.
	People thought we were crazy for even trying, but we proved them wrong.
	And, Gina, you hit the nail on the head with what you said a moment ago about, you know, a lot of these communities haven't even been talked to, and if a small amount of outreach can make such a difference.
	When we look at 2025, okay, so 2025, there's two very big races that we have coming up.
	There's a governor's race in Virginia and a governor's race in New Jersey, right?
	Yeah, but you guys, listen to me, because...
	Aaron, can we win New Jersey?
	Okay.
	Elizabeth, we can win.
	Okay.
	Yeah, but hear me out here because there's two key philosophies that I'm asking people to embrace going into this year and every year forward.
	Number one, that every year is an election year.
	We can no longer just get involved every two years or every four years for a couple of weeks before the election.
	And number two, every election is a national election.
	What do I mean by that?
	Well, we saw in 2020 how just a few governors in a few states with the stroke of a pen changed their voter laws by executive order, which cost us the 2020 election.
	So it does matter in every state who the governors are.
	We have to get involved in all of this.
	Now, when we talk about communities that people are not connecting with, it doesn't just go by, you know, the color of people's skin or their religion.
	In New Jersey, convicted felons are allowed to vote in New Jersey.
	Well, guess what?
	The Democratic Party, who has spent decades screaming about criminal justice reform, when they decided to go after Donald Trump and decided to go after the J6ers, the Democratic Party decided that there's nothing worse in the world than being a convicted felon and that they're the scum of the earth.
	I am going into New Jersey all of this year.
	I'm going to be speaking in prisons.
	I am going to be speaking...
	I am going to be speaking to ex-convicts groups.
	And my message is very simple.
	Which political party is demonizing convicted felons and which political party just elected one to be president of the United States?
	I love that.
	Matt, here's a quick question for you.
	I like these guys talking, Gina.
	I think you're making a lot of sense.
	Well, but I want you to address something, because you talked about looking out there at the landscape in your own states and seeing what no one else is doing, seeing the message that no one else is thinking or the action that no one else is taking.
	You did that in this last election.
	Just talk briefly about that.
	Yeah, so, you know, I worked on presidential campaigns.
	You know, Mercy and I... We met in a White House.
	Like, we've been doing national politics.
	I mean, I kind of feel like I'm at an AA program here because I'm like, I'm sorry to all of you that I've been involved in politics my whole entire life.
	It's the only thing I've ever done.
	But a part of that is even when you're dim-witted, you can learn some things.
	And what you learn is that everybody's a genius when you win an election.
	So we're all geniuses.
	Everything we did was fantastic because we won.
	And that's not honest.
	No.
	Some of the things were difference makers and some of the things weren't.
	When you lose, everyone's an idiot.
	And everything you did was stupid.
	And that's not honest either.
	So you have to really look at things in a clear-eyed way.
	I would say there's a couple things.
	I've been doing this job a while and there's a couple things I'm actually proud of.
	Even though they say that's a vice, right?
	Pride.
	But there are a couple things I'm proud of.
	One of the things I'm most proud of...
	Is back to Brandon's comments and your comments too.
	The first group, and we do this together, we're a community.
	The first group to invite RFK to speak was who?
	CPAC. CPAC invited RFK. I got yelled at by everybody.
	What an idiot you are.
	He's a liberal.
	He's running against Trump.
	He's going to hurt Trump.
	I was like, I don't know.
	I'm reading about these assassinations.
	I think he's got a real finger on the pulse of this deep state thing.
	And by the way...
	I don't know if any of you have noticed, but I think I eat too many Snickers bars sometimes, and I don't think our food thing is working so good.
	And I go to all these other countries, I go to Hungary and Brazil and all these countries, and they all look so much better than the rest of us in America who are a little porky and a little like eating our processed food.
	So he might be right about this.
	So we let him come and he spoke about this and he hit it out of the park.
	Now he's in Trump's cabinet, okay?
	Do you know who was the first group to invite Tulsi Gabbard to speak on the right?
	See you back.
	She headlined our Reagan dinner.
	Any of you who were in this room who were there that night who yelled at me, not at you.
	You didn't yell at me, Karen.
	But it worked out.
	But some of you said to me, what the hell are you doing?
	I was like, I don't really know, but we're going to give her a shot because the Democratic Party is literally kicking her out of it.
	And she just ran for president.
	And they say she's a Russian agent.
	Well, they say Trump's a Russian agent, so I really might like her when I get to know her.
	And she did a spectacular job.
	By the way, you know who else we...
	Who took a chance on who everyone said it was wrong to do?
	Donald Trump.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Came to CPAC. Yeah.
	Look at what National Review said when we invited Donald Trump to CPAC. Clutching pearls.
	How many of you were there that year?
	How many of you were there?
	That's cool.
	I was there.
	You were there, Kimberly.
	We're getting old.
	But talk about pearl clutching to invite Donald Trump, who wasn't a registered Republican and, you know, said some bombastic things.
	It was the right thing to do.
	So we're going to keep doing that.
	We're going to keep having nontraditional, you might say, whatever, people be a part of our program.
	And sometimes they'll say things that maybe some of us don't like.
	But along this process, we're going to rediscover something as a country.
	The right to speak your mind.
	The right to not be canceled.
	And the right to learn and think a little bit out loud.
	And if we can allow that to be something that's acceptable again, I think we're going to self-correct as a country.
	So I'm proud that we played a role in that.
	So the answer to your question is, in politics, one of the first things we're going to do is we're going to say to Americans out there who can legally vote once, we're going to tell them, if you feel comfortable with a little bit about what you're hearing, for instance, in this conversation, you're welcome.
	You're welcome.
	Matt, can I say to you too, to your point about taking risks and inviting non-traditional people, people are very aware of what I've gone through for the last four years.
	Which was wrong.
	Thank you.
	But I want you guys to know that in 2022, very shortly after I got off of house arrest, and certainly when the national conversation regarding January 6th was still extremely negative, I got a phone call from Matt Schlapp in early 2022, and his exact words to me were, Brandon, don't think that your friends have forgotten about you.
	He said, I want you to come and speak at CPAC in 2022. And he invited me to speak in 2022 and 2023 and 2024 and gave me a stage and a platform to talk about my January 6th experience and to even erect a prison cell at January 6th to do a demonstration to draw attention to what the J6ers were going through.
	So I want to thank you for your consistent support of the January 6th community all this time.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah.
	We are almost out of time.
	Do you have any final words?
	Because we want to...
	Hey, no.
	First, Gina, can we say thank you for Michigan?
	Yeah!
	Thank you.
	Thank you for believing in us.
	Thank you for believing in us when not many people believed in our mission.
	Muslim Americans, Arab Americans love President Trump.
	They love the message for peace, the peace that the president has already delivered.
	And this is a community that's growing, and you're going to see a lot more of them voting Republican.
	All right.
	Awesome.
	Let's do it.
	Thank you all for being here.
	Thank you, Gina, and thanks for being here with Real America Voice.
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	Ladies and gentlemen, up next, the great expansion, a new energy economy.
	Please welcome CEO Curio 55, Ed McGinnis, Governor of Alaska, Mike Dunlavy, and founder and executive director of Power the Future, Daniel Turner. - I'm here. Daniel Turner. - I'm here.
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	There we go.
	Governor, you're in the middle.
	It's like a dating game.
	Great to be with you.
	Hello, CPAC, and thanks for joining us on this panel about energy.
	An expression I say often, energy is everything.
	First thing you did this morning when you woke up required energy.
	You probably turned off your alarm.
	You took a hot shower.
	You looked at your phone to see what President Trump did during the night.
	You brewed some coffee.
	And the very last thing you will do tonight before you go to bed requires energy.
	Turn off the light.
	Set your alarm.
	Energy is everything.
	And as President Trump says, if we're going to enter into this golden age of America, we are only going to do so with affordable...
	Reliable, abundant American energy.
	So it's great to have a panel to talk about this with two gentlemen who don't just love energy, but because of that, they love humanity.
	I'm with Governor Mike Dunleavy, the 12th governor of the great state of Alaska.
	Thank you.
	And Ed McGuinness, who's the CEO of Curio, one of the most innovative nuclear companies in the country and in the world.
	And we're going to talk about energy.
	And Governor, if you don't mind, I'm going to start with you.
	So January 20th.
	A plethora of executive orders, and yet Alaska got its own.
	Pretty remarkable.
	The first state to ever get its own executive order.
	Why was this necessary for Alaska?
	What happened?
	Well, President Trump, for many reasons, has always had an affinity for Alaska, even in his first term.
	But he sees us as a solution to many of America's problems.
	As many people know, Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867 because of its resources.
	Vast amounts of oil, vast amounts of gas, vast amounts of minerals, 49 of the 50 rare earths, millions of acres of trees, fish, the list goes on and on and on.
	And we've had a difficult past with some administrations.
	President Trump came on the scene, understood its importance to the world, the U.S. and the world, and when he came back here on November 5th, I've got to tell you, November 5th, I don't know about you, but it was like Christmas for me, and I'm 63 years old, so I was hopping all over the place.
	But long story short, a lot of the issues that could help America are in Alaska.
	So they put together an executive order on mining, oil, gas, different oil plays, different gas projects.
	I mean, one of the largest projects in the world that we're working on right now is our gas project, which would have gas go down a 42-inch line, 800 miles, and then to Tidewater for Asia and our Asian allies.
	He sees that as a critical link in what he wants to do.
	And boy, he's moving at breakneck speed.
	I mean, just like you said, Daniel, you wake up in the morning, it's like, what happened today?
	Yeah, it's remarkable.
	And everything we need in the energy space.
	Is in Alaska.
	To open that up to America is great.
	Ed, there's a line on your website, on Curio's website, which I love, and it says, energy access promotes human rights.
	And I wanted to ask you to talk about that and elaborate on it.
	What does abundant energy mean for human rights, just for humanity, and how Curio can help solve that?
	First of all, I want to say what a great time in history to be an American.
	And I just want to say that.
	Also...
	What a great time.
	I'm in the energy business.
	What a great time to be in the energy sector.
	We have a country now that is number one in producing oil and gas, and we need to do the same thing for our other key energy sectors, including nuclear.
	And as Daniel said, we need affordable, robust, reliable electricity.
	That is accessible to all.
	We need that fuel to drive this agenda for this country realizing the full abundance of energy resources we have in this country.
	The days of taking highly valuable material whether it's oil and gas with the shale revolution the way we've shown how we can tap that or nuclear where we're throwing away perfectly Good, highly valuable nuclear fuel just because of international government policies.
	The day to start maximizing our energy resources in the United States is now.
	And we need to reshore our nuclear infrastructure just the way the oil and gas industry brought themselves back from the days of the 70s with a slow decline, the supposed peak oil.
	And then industry came in and innovated and found a way to tap in that shale through directional drilling, through hydraulic fracturing.
	Now we are the number one producer in both oil and gas.
	We can do the same for nuclear, but I can assure you right now Russia and China are eating our lunch internationally on nuclear.
	And the implications go beyond civilian.
	It's time for this country to really snap out of it and whip our nuclear infrastructure and fuel cycle back into shape.
	You know, we just finished four years of Scranton Joe.
	And you are Scranton, Mike, if I can call you that.
	You're from Scranton originally.
	I'm the other guy.
	You're the other Scranton guy.
	But you both look at energy and it comes to blue-collar jobs, working Americans.
	You see it very differently.
	Why is our vision, the conservative vision, why is your vision, especially for Alaska, so much radically different than Joe Biden's?
	Because I think President Biden seriously was hijacked by extreme environmentalists in his term.
	We both grew up in Scranton.
	We heated with coal when I was a kid.
	We took out the ashes.
	We had anthracite coal.
	Scranton was the anthracite coal capital of the world, built this country.
	But we were not rich, and that's the thing about energy.
	In Alaska, we build policies for the single mom with three kids, and that includes energy and accessibility energy.
	But I don't know what happened there with President Biden.
	There was a time I think he was pro-energy, but again, I believe he was hijacked.
	The past four years for Alaska has been nothing but brutal.
	I mean, executive order after executive order.
	We had 66 to 68 what we call sanctions put against Alaska by our own federal government.
	Those were more sanctions put against us than put against Iran or Venezuela.
	So, in essence, our own federal government, our own federal agencies were at war with the state.
	The very state that was brought into the Union in 1867, purchased from Russia, for our...
	And so, again, I believe President Biden was hijacked by the environmentalists.
	There was a social engineering program that was foisted on the backs of this country.
	And boy, oh boy, I guess the sun rose again on November 5th.
	That's all I can tell you.
	It's like Christmas every day now.
	Absolutely.
	Ed, you were just saying how Russia is eating our lunch when it comes to nuclear, and one of the things that President Trump talks a lot about is artificial intelligence.
	Signed an executive order on it, and projections say that we need twice to three times the amount of electricity production to win the AI revolution.
	What's the role you see of nuclear so that China doesn't eat our lunch when it comes to artificial intelligence?
	Absolutely.
	We have a key role.
	That's why you see some of the big tech companies now investing in nuclear.
	We want to complement what oil and gas is bringing to the table.
	And our nuclear power systems can provide what we call behind-the-meter power dedicated for these data centers.
	And what that does is it helps prevent the inadvertent increase on the residents in the states where those AI data centers are going to be.
	And it helps insulate them from the potential of having escalating electricity prices because of these big data centers coming in and needing a large portion of power.
	So dedicated nuclear with a sustainable approach of recycling.
	All that so-called nuclear waste.
	Most people in the United States don't realize that nuclear fuel, when we spend hundreds of millions of dollars producing that fuel, mining the uranium, it runs in a reactor for about five years.
	Government policy has been in the past.
	How many people realize that after it's running a reactor for five years, you've only used about 4% of the energy value.
	You have enough energy value left in that used nuclear fuel to meet U.S. electricity needs for 150 years.
	So we need to stop throwing away this material.
	It's like buying a beautiful Cadillac Escalade and driving it for a month and then throwing it away.
	I don't think those would like that.
	So I think that we need to be common sense again.
	And we have to maximize our natural resources, recycle this material.
	And Russia recycles and they end up dominating the fuel supply market in isotopes.
	So I'm confident that if we get the nuclear sector on a good footing like oil and gas and we can do it, They will be able to respond to the AI data centers and increase demands on our finite grid.
	And government policy has driven a lot of these problems?
	It is primarily a function of government policy, nonsensical, and policy that's not looking out for the residents of the states, but really focus on...
	International issues have nothing to do with the benefit of the community.
	Bad government policy has ruined a lot of rural America.
	And that's why I started Power of the Future for those energy jobs, coal miners in Appalachia.
	Rural energy jobs where bad government policy, radical green policy comes in and destroys their livelihoods and their towns.
	And Alaska has a lot of rural folks.
	And what do energy jobs mean to rural Alaskans?
	It means everything.
	In Alaska, most of our energy plays and our mining plays are in the rural parts of the state where our indigenous people live.
	My wife is an Eskimo lady from north of the Arctic Circle.
	My three daughters work in the largest lead zinc mine in the world at Red Dog Mime, an engineer, logistics officer, and a buyer.
	So when you close down an energy play or a mining play in Alaska, what happens?
	Those people don't get the opportunity to work.
	The local areas don't get the revenue.
	You offshore that to some place like China.
	You embolden child labor.
	You embolden dictatorships.
	You embolden the, really, wrecking the environment.
	And America loses.
	We offshore everything, all opportunities.
	In Alaska, this is an interesting stat.
	Since oil production began on the North Slope, our Inupiaq Eskimo folks on the North Slope where oil comes from, their life expectancy has increased by 14 years in research that's been done.
	That is the greatest increase in life expectancy of any group in the United States of America, and that was due to oil production because they could then finance clinics, better runways, better schools, doctors, you name it.
	Resource development, oil production isn't just good for us, it's good for everybody, and it's good for the entire world, to be honest with you.
	Yeah, and it's good for those jobs in rural communities that don't have alternatives.
	Absolutely.
	As we run out of time, Ed, a final thought that you think our audience, I mean, these are the people that get stuff done, right?
	If you want to leave a message with this audience, this group of patriots, what should they know about nuclear going forward?
	Nuclear is in a position to help us truly achieve.
	Energy dominance in the United States and globally.
	Just like oil and gas, nuclear is not just a domestic issue.
	When we develop our own independent capability in the nuclear sector, that has global implications.
	Right now, shockingly, we have almost all of our nuclear fuel provided by foreign suppliers.
	Russia still, to this day, provides well over 20% of our nuclear fuel.
	We need to rebuild our domestic nuclear sector.
	And we know how to do it.
	And it's time now.
	And with this president and this unique moment in history, we're going to do it.
	And how much of these materials can be found in Alaska?
	Same deal, Governor.
	A final word for this great audience of what your state can do for the country, for the world, for peace.
	So much more.
	I mean, we have uranium finds in Alaska that we can commercialize and assist with the...
	The industry.
	We have, as I mentioned, oil, gas, you name it.
	All of the critical minerals, all of the rare earths that we need to make sure that we have our technological approach not offshore anymore, but kept here in America.
	And I would say this.
	I want to leave the audience with this thought.
	You know, George Washington founded this country.
	Abraham Lincoln saved this country.
	I think history is going to show that Donald Trump will be the most transformational president we've ever had.
	And the next four years are going to be a golden opportunity for the United States of America.
	It really is.
	We don't need to buy oil from Venezuela or Iran.
	We don't need to buy it from the Saudis.
	We don't need to get critical nuclear materials from the Russians.
	We don't need to look to the Chinese for our cobalt, for our uranium, for our nickel, or so many of the rare earths and metals and minerals that are found in Alaska.
	We are entering this golden age of America.
	It's going to be remarkable.
	I marvel to think, with these last couple seconds to say, I marvel to think if we were here, but November had gone differently.
	The freak show of cabinet members we'd be talking about.
	The executive orders towards us punishing you for just trying to bring Americans abundant energy.
	Yes.
	The entire nation would have entered, I think, a dark period of time.
	Really think about it.
	It would have been just four years because if there was a re-election, we would have eight years of this and we probably would have never gotten out of it.
	So thank God the election went the way you are.
	Thank God for November.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah, and thank God for our energy workers who are right now working in oil, gas, coal, and nuclear.
	They're powering everything.
	Energy is everything.
	And again, the last thing you'll do at the end of the day requires energy.
	And God bless the men and women who work in this sector tirelessly, that they have an advocate in President Trump and they have an advocate in these and a champion.
	And these two great men as well.
	So thank you very much and God bless.
	Thank you, sirs.
	Thank you.
	And Vice Chair, Center for Election Integrity, America First Policy Institute, Hogan Kinley.
	All righty.
	All righty.
	You guys, how you doing?
	Sir.
	Good to see you.
	Hey, CPAC. How's everybody doing?
	Now, you know why they have us three up here is because they wanted to do a dry run for when Trump gets here in the raucous crowd.
	So we're basically exactly how it's going to be when Trump is here, just so everyone's clear.
	Guys, what a huge, huge, massive victory we had in this past election.
	I still...
	Now, you can clap for that.
	I still can't believe it sometimes when I look up and I see...
	Donald Trump and the Oval, and it just still means so much to me.
	I know it means so much to you guys because you're the ones who got in there.
	You're the ones who did the work.
	You're the ones who went to the neighbors and explained to them why our policies made their lives better and how Joe Biden had been kicking us in the teeth if they didn't feel it already, for heaven's sakes.
	But at Palm Beach, election night, I'm down there doing all the media stuff, and Trump's about to come up, and one reporter comes by me and he says, So what do you think?
	This is kind of like 2016 vibes, right?
	I was like, are you insane?
	2016?
	I was like, yeah, he beat Hillary Clinton.
	No one thought that was going to happen.
	But since then, the indictments, the mugshot, raiding his home, going through his wife's underwear drawer, for heaven's sakes, trying to get rid of his businesses, going after his friends, his family, his co-workers, his colleagues.
	Not one, but two assassination attempts.
	Not one, but two opponents.
	Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
	It's not even close to how it was in 2016. Also, he wins all the swing states, and he wins the popular vote.
	I mean, no one saw that coming.
	And on election night, I don't know about you guys, but I was still really, really nervous.
	As those results were coming in, even after they called Pennsylvania, I'm like, we're still too short.
	I'm freaking out here.
	But I knew the work put in by so many governors and secretaries of state, attorneys general across this country to make it too big to rig, to make it easy to vote but hard to cheat, was going to hold.
	And the two men next to me were instrumental in making sure the vote It was legitimate.
	And North Carolina led the way in 2020, holding steady.
	We know we got the North Carolina ladies somewhere, I'm sure.
	I'm sure they're there.
	So Trump gave you a big directive on trying to make what you did in North Carolina a thing all over the country.
	Talk a little bit about what you were able to accomplish, what you saw from 2020, how you fixed it.
	And how we're going to keep it that way.
	Yeah, look, for you to win in a battleground state or a battleground district, you need three things.
	You need a great candidate, run a great campaign.
	Check.
	You've got to get out the vote.
	Check.
	You have to protect the ballot.
	You have to protect the ballot.
	So what we wanted to do is set up a program.
	We had three real components.
	Number one, you have to have the right rules of the road in place before the voting starts.
	Only American citizens can vote.
	You have to have a voter ID. States need to clean up their voter rolls, and you've got to have basic protections for your mail-in ballots.
	Has to happen before voting starts.
	And then second, you have to be in the room.
	You have got to be in the room with poll workers, with poll observers, and with attorneys.
	So we set out to build the largest The first election integrity program in the history of the country, the first time we've ever done it nationally, we recruited tens of thousands of poll workers.
	We recruited 6,500 attorneys, 230,000 volunteers.
	And in every single one of our battleground states and districts, we were in the room every single time a vote was cast or a vote was counted.
	And third, You have to talk about this.
	You have to go out and you have to communicate to all of the voters that you are going to be protecting the ballot.
	Because we had 5% of Republican voters said we are way less likely to go vote because we think that cheating is going to cancel out our vote.
	If we had 5% of the voters in Arizona stay home, we lose.
	If we have 5% of Republican voters in Pennsylvania stay home...
	We lose.
	So we had to make sure that they understood.
	The flip side, and this is where Laura Trump, by the way, what a great job Laura Trump did, was make it clear in every single conversation, if you cheat, we will find you, and we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.
	And so we were able to communicate very effectively all across the country.
	In fact, Laura and I did, we added it up.
	Over a thousand TV and radio hits on election integrity alone all across the country.
	That's the program that we needed to have in place so that we could get there.
	And I have to say, one of the best things that we saw across this country was in red states and in battleground states where we had Republican governors, Republican secretaries of state, Republicans in the legislature.
	We were able to work with them to get those rules of the road the right way.
	Nobody was better across the country at working with us than Frank LaRose from Ohio.
	No question.
	Now, he told me backstage I could call him Frank, but he said you have to call him secretary the whole time.
	That's not true.
	Absolutely.
	So, Frank, you and I talked right after 2020. We had a meeting about this very topic, and you were talking about even though we had won Ohio, and it was really trending solidly red at this point, you still saw some problems.
	And as we know, doing things in a state...
	It kind of becomes the blueprint for other states.
	So you've led the way on some of the things in Ohio.
	Talk about what you found and how you work to fix it there.
	Yeah, Ohio's emerged as a gold standard, but we don't rest on our laurels, right?
	And first of all, Chairman Watley and his team, they knew the assignment, and they succeeded at it.
	But in states across the country, we need to be working on list maintenance.
	That's like hygiene, like brushing your teeth.
	You do it every day.
	We remove dead people from the voter rolls on a monthly basis.
	That shouldn't be controversial, right?
	We make sure that only citizens are registered to vote in our state.
	I testified in front of Congress last year, and a couple of the Democrats said, all right, LaRose, there's no such thing as non-citizens on the voter rolls.
	I said, how do you explain the 700 that I caught in the last couple months?
	Well, guess what?
	In Ohio, we catch them, we refer them for prosecution.
	We make sure that our voter rolls are accurate.
	We also...
	Yeah.
	We also fight...
	Not settle these last-minute lawsuits.
	When the radical left comes suing us weeks before the election, they have bad intentions.
	We don't settle those lawsuits.
	We fight them.
	This year alone, last year rather, I was 7-0 against this creep named Mark Elias.
	We beat him when he tried to change the election laws in Ohio.
	And here's something else we do.
	We had to have smart policies for these things called drop boxes.
	Now listen, I'm not a fan of drop boxes, but my job in the executive branch is to carry out the law.
	Our state legislature makes those available at our county boards of elections, but I put them under video surveillance 24-7 and their webcast.
	Anybody can go watch those.
	We made sure that they were emptied multiple times a day.
	And I also put rules in place that said you can only return your own ballot.
	If you're returning somebody else's ballot, like a disabled person, which the law allows, or a family member, you've got to bring it inside.
	We're doing this to prevent ballot harvesting, and that's the biggest danger with Dropbox.
	No question.
	No question.
	Again, great work over there.
	Chairman, with the Democrat Party, we are very aware of the fact that, to them, their God is government.
	They do this nonstop, from sunup to sundown, Monday through Sunday.
	It's not just in election years like Republicans used to do.
	It's all the time.
	So they are preparing, scheming, plotting for this midterm as well.
	As Frank said, we don't want to rest on our laurels.
	We want to be prepared for the new wave of problems we could face at the ballot box.
	So what is the RNC doing to kind of get out ahead of the next little...
	The next big election, rather, but all the other little things that could come up.
	Look, I think the first thing is that when Laura and I came in in March, we had eight months until Election Day to build a national program for the first time ever.
	And we really focused on the seven battleground states.
	We played a lot in New York and California because of the congressional seats.
	And then we were working, you know, in Virginia and Minnesota and New Hampshire in case they got traction, right?
	But now we have two years.
	Now we have time to build this out in truly into a national fashion.
	We filed 175 lawsuits last year across the country to get those laws in place up front.
	Now we have the opportunity to go into every state and make sure that every single state is going to have the right rules of the road.
	We also have a chance to work with Congress.
	Brian Stile, who's the chair of the House committee that takes care of election integrity, Ron Johnson is the Senate committee chair, are doing great work.
	We're going to work with them to make sure that we have national laws that are going to be implemented, right?
	Right now, it's illegal in every state.
	It's a federal law that only American citizens can vote.
	And every single state has got to clean up their voter rolls every day.
	Why do we not have a federal law that says you have to have voter ID? I think we should.
	There are other things that we need to put in place right now through Congress, and we're going to take this time to work with Congress, the governors, and the states to make it even stronger.
	It's so important.
	And, you know, guys, when we first started looking at election integrity, you and I did years ago, we both did, one of the things that was shocking to me as we were polling this data and information and trying to find out what people liked about election integrity laws, we had, you know, 87% of people wanted photo identification.
	Not voter identification, but photo identification.
	84% wanted ballots being returned to election officials by election day.
	All these things were happening.
	But I said, you know what I want you to do?
	I want you to poll the number of Americans who believe only Americans should vote in American elections.
	Now, I thought that would be 90% easy.
	Three years ago, it was 60%.
	And I went to the pollster and I said, that is...
	So not true.
	Did you phrase it right?
	He goes, no, I phrased it right.
	And he said, the difference is about 30 to 40 percent of America want open borders.
	And I thought, well, that's weird.
	In two years, after we had governors who said, you know what?
	You want illegal aliens?
	You want sanctuary cities?
	Fine.
	You got them.
	After those same people that were polled that said we want open borders got a taste of what it was like to have your communities flooded with people who don't have the right to be here, who are taking You know, your resources from your schools, from your hospitals, from your first responders, etc.
	They said, you know what?
	Maybe only Americans should vote in American elections.
	And that number went from 60 to 92% in just a few short years.
	That shows you how much the policy matters.
	And as you're talking about doing some stuff from the federal level, I think that's important because we still, as a party, we believe in federalism.
	Because what works in Mississippi may not work in Montana or Maine or Massachusetts.
	There are some common denominators there that you're talking about that now we have the House, now we have the Senate, and Lord knows we got the White House at this point.
	We need to work together to make sure that happens.
	And Frank, before I get to you here, understand to me what's vital.
	Donald Trump has done something here I think is so important.
	All of his cabinet secretaries, which, let's be honest, what an all-star team he's got.
	They're not only well-suited and well-experienced to do the job that they've been asked to do, they're also good on television.
	And that matters because we have to continue to sell what we're doing to the American people.
	We have a history of just passing something and then going, ah, the people get it.
	It's fine.
	They'll figure it out.
	No, no, no, no.
	We have to pass it and remind them every day why it's so important and why what we're doing makes their lives better regardless of race, religion, color, or creed.
	And he's got the right team to do it.
	And with you, Frank, in Ohio, you already got, there's some Ohio, there you go, there you go.
	Knowing where the landscape is nationally, knowing what you're doing, talk about some of the things you're doing with other states, though, that at the state level, as you...
	As you built out the blueprint and you kind of showed them the way, who you're working with, what you're trying to accomplish.
	Yeah, so I just finished a year as the chairman of the Republican Secretaries of State organization.
	So working with my fellow Republican Secretaries of State across the country, I'm helping them see some of the things that we've learned the hard way in Ohio.
	Ohio and Florida have sort of been in the national spotlight for 25 years, right?
	And so we've learned these lessons.
	We want to help apply those in other states.
	One of these examples, by the way, is not allowing foreign nationals to Fund campaigns in your state.
	By the way, this is happening.
	Issue campaigns.
	We prohibited that in Ohio.
	It's hard to enforce, but I've got an investigative division that works to do this.
	I testified in the Kansas state legislature last week, and they just passed a bill saying that only American citizens can donate money to a campaign.
	That's just one example.
	But here's something else, and that's a great thing.
	The great thing about CPAC is it's a gathering of conservatives from all over the country, and we can get on message about how we talk about these things.
	So here's a couple things to think about.
	Let's put this idea to rest that somehow Republicans want to suppress the vote.
	It is utter...
	Nonsense.
	The left accuses me of wanting to suppress the vote.
	If that's my objective, I stink at it.
	Because we've had massive turnout in Ohio.
	And guess what?
	Republicans have won in record-breaking elections.
	We don't want to suppress, but we do want to make sure it's honest.
	And integrity drives participation.
	People are more likely to vote in an election when they know it's honest.
	Here's something else on citizenship.
	Ask a group of new Americans.
	People that have worked hard to earn their citizenship have stood there and taken the oath and raised their right hand.
	Ask them if we should callously give away something that they worked so hard to earn.
	Those new American immigrants would tell you, protect citizenship.
	Make sure that only citizens vote.
	And so don't let the left get away for a moment in saying that it is racist to say that only American citizens should vote in our elections.
	Nonsense.
	That's right.
	Absolutely.
	And as we kind of come up on the close of this panel, I'm going to put you on the spot, Wiley.
	If you could do one election integrity piece, either at the state or federal level, that you think would make the most difference in making sure that the trust and faith and confidence in our elections either returns or retains, either way, what would that be?
	I think a national voter ID is absolutely going to be essential.
	What I really appreciate is that Donald Trump is the first president, he's the first candidate, who really truly made election integrity a core function of the campaign.
	You know, I had breakfast with him right when I became the chair, and he said, all right, Michael, what's the plan?
	How are we going to win?
	And I said, we're going to do two things, only two things.
	We're going to get out the vote, and we're going to protect the ballot.
	And we talked a lot about what that was going to look like.
	And as we got up to leave, he said, I'll tell you what, Michael, how about I get out the vote and you protect the ballot?
	Our mandate across this entire country as a Republican Party is election integrity.
	And I'd like to just ask, how many people here worked on an election integrity program, made a phone call, knocked on a door, or served as a poll worker?
	Give yourselves a round of applause.
	As we go into this next election cycle in 2026, it is going to be absolutely critical that we do not walk away from this program that we put in place over the last election cycle.
	We absolutely have to build on it.
	And when everybody in this room and everybody watching all across the country...
	Says, yes, you know what?
	I'm going to go participate.
	I'm going to do a four-hour shift or an eight-hour shift or work an entire day in the polls to make sure that we're there in the room.
	Then we are truly going to be able to keep all of our ballots protected.
	No question.
	And he's right, guys.
	And it's something we say in the South a lot, which is if you're not at the table, you're on the menu.
	You've got to be in the rooms, folks.
	You've got to do the work.
	And just because we won this time does not mean we'll win next time.
	Donald Trump is the single biggest driver of voter turnout I have ever seen in my 25 years in politics.
	It's going to be difficult, if not impossible, to duplicate that without each of you getting engaged and staying engaged.
	Last question, same to you.
	One thing you would do differently or something in Ohio, fix things?
	If you don't have a Republican Secretary of State in your state, make sure to work hard in 26 to elect one.
	That's right.
	And then hold them accountable to actually do list maintenance.
	It's hard work.
	We have to work every day to take non-citizens off the voter rolls, to take dead people off the voter rolls, to make sure when people move out of our state, they're taken off the voter rolls.
	That's probably the most important thing your Secretary of State does on a daily basis.
	No question.
	Well, thank you guys very much.
	Listen, I want to thank Matt and Mercy.
	I want to thank each of you for being here today, being engaged, being involved.
	And just real quickly, I don't want to speak for both of you, but you and I have had a chance to travel North Carolina quite a bit.
	Go to a lot of counties, do a lot of Lincoln Day dinners and other things.
	It always fascinates me what we're able to do in this country that we can't do anywhere else on the planet.
	This nation affords opportunity.
	Like nowhere.
	And I think everyone understands that, and that's why you're here, and you want to be engaged and involved.
	And for someone like me, and being born in a small town in North Carolina, of course, and raised in a smaller town in Arkansas, I'm a nobody from nowhere.
	I shouldn't get to go into a White House.
	I shouldn't get to know a president or fly on Marine One or be in the Beast or Air Force One or any of those things.
	But I got to do that every single day for four years with Donald Trump in his first term.
	It blows my mind when I think about it because, again, I didn't have a last name like Bush or Cheney or Kennedy or Clinton.
	Thank God it wasn't a Clinton.
	But you understand, I don't have that blue-blood political last name.
	But I get to do the things I did, and I would go in the White House every day in my office, and you guys know the picture of the West Wing when you have those two Marines standing out front.
	That window over the right Marine's shoulder is my office.
	And I got to go into the White House every single day and stand right in front of Donald Trump, right in front of the Resolute desk in the Oval Office and give him advice.
	Now, he never took a word of it.
	Not a single word.
	But that's not the point.
	It's only in this country would someone like me get to give it.
	And I am confident with the record-setting success Donald Trump had in the first term, the success he's already had in the second term, and your engagement.
	From top to bottom, in every room across every state, to fight to get this guy re-elected like you did, to fight to keep the House, to keep the Senate, this country is going to remain that shining city on a hill.
	So thank you very much.
	Appreciate y'all coming out.
	Thanks, everybody.
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	You know, we've had a huge problem in this country with election fraud, but at CPAC, that's not a problem.
	Our only problem is getting each and every one of you to vote.
	So look at your badge.
	You have a number on that badge.
	And get your phone out and vote on all the issues that matter.
	And my guess is you probably like what Trump's doing as well.
	And we'll have the results for you very soon.
	As President Reagan said, we're from the government.
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	I think you all know that I've always felt the...
	Nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
	We're from the government.
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	Before the cabinet room, you saw Donald Trump's next cabinet make waves at CPAC. Ladies
	Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome from Florida, Congressman Byron Donald.
	Thank you.
	It has a pretty good ring to it, doesn't it?
	Yes, we love it.
	CPAC, look, it's been an interesting 12 hours for me.
	A lot of things have been going on.
	Hi, honey.
	My wife is here.
	Hi, honey.
	I love you.
	It's good seeing you.
	I want to tell you a little bit about the last 12 hours, and then we'll talk about the other stuff, but I want to talk to you about the last 12. Thank you so much.
	I'm in an event, and my phone is ringing yesterday, and it was with my good friend out of Kentucky, Andy Barr, and I'm at an event for him in Naples, and my phone is ringing nonstop, and I'm like, what is going on?
	And I'm trying to pay attention to the event because I'm trying to be a good friend to my colleague from Kentucky, and I get a phone call, and it's from the president.
	And he talks to me about what he just put out on True Social.
	And I just want to say, Mr. President, thank you.
	And I will never let you down.
	But I didn't even have a chance to really digest what was going on because an hour later, our middle son, he and his team were playing in a regional championship last night.
	And I got to tell you, as a dad, let's put politics aside for a moment.
	As a dad, I watched my 17-year-old son play the game of his life.
	And I mean, I coached him from when he was three, and he would be mad at me for making him take jumpers and layups.
	And every now and again, you might have an argument in the driveway.
	He wanted to go play.
	I made him go to work.
	But last night, watching him really make key plays for his team.
	It all kind of came full center.
	So my phone is blowing up, and people in the gym are trying to talk to me about politics, but I'm watching my son just live that moment in time when all the work and all the preparation meets success.
	And they were down five points in the third, and they had to rally back.
	And the thing that's iconic in my mind, and I know we're supposed to be talking about politics in the golden age of America and making America great again, but I will tell you...
	Part of the golden age of our nation is the success of our children and our grandchildren.
	So I'm watching my son.
	It's eight seconds on the clock.
	The place is going berserk.
	We have a lead.
	He gets a rebound.
	And he just starts dribbling down court.
	And I'm...
	On the side of the baseline that he's dribbling towards, like, I can't sit in the stands.
	I gotta stand on the baseline and yell at the referees, not too loud.
	Not too loud, not too loud.
	I'm much more mature these days.
	My wife is looking at me like, no, you yell.
	And he's dribbling towards me, and it looks like he's gonna take off and dunk, and he decides not to.
	He passes it to a teammate.
	The clock expires.
	He turns around.
	He sees me.
	I see him.
	and he's all sweaty and nasty, but it was the best bear hug a father could ever have.
	My son was able to do last night the thing that we want all of our children to be able to do.
	To have the opportunity to truly excel, to find themselves, to work hard, and to deliver success.
	Not just for themselves, but for the people around them.
	He and his teammates last night, they won a big game.
	They're going to the state Final Four next week, and I'm not going to miss a game.
	I'm going to be at each one of them.
	But as I was coming out here to talk with you today, it kind of gave me an ability to take a step back, because the things that we are fighting for, the ideals that we stand for, are for the future of this great nation.
	And so while the Democrats have continued to lose their minds, Literally, yes.
	There were five senators who were standing at a podium all by themselves protesting the fact that Kash Patel is now the director of the FBI. You have Democratic members of Congress who were standing outside of the USAID building.
	Protesting the fact that Donald Trump has delivered on the promise of cleaning out the waste, the fraud, and an abuse in our federal government.
	Some of their donors are pissed at them.
	And they, frankly, should be pissed at them.
	I mean, they just wasted, what is it, $1.5 billion for a devastating loss?
	That's really expensive.
	To those donors, you should come and join us.
	we actually believe in using money efficiently and effectively.
	They're going to the courts, the last bastion of hope they possibly have.
	And they're going to the courts and they're now trying to sue President Trump.
	Because he's using the same discretion the Democrats have used for decades to build a leviathan of a federal government that is not responsive to you, that does not listen to what we, the people, desire, that ignores elections no matter the outcomes, but continues to build an albatross of a federal...
	And now they are mad because we are committed to doing the thing we told you on the campaign trail for months.
	we are going to bring this government to heal it will be responsive to the will of the American people and we will make America great again in my state in my state some of the things that we're going to do on Capitol Hill we've been doing in Florida
	You know, the phrase down in Florida is, make America Florida.
	There's a reason why citizens have been leaving blue states to go to Florida.
	There's a reason why people who immigrate legally, and I stress legally, from some of the worst places in the world come to Florida.
	There's a reason why students in Florida and parents in Florida have choice at their fingertips to find the best solution for their children.
	And that reason is because we have leaders who have been committed to the principles of individual liberty and limited government.
	They have been committed to those same constitutional principles that are the very foundation of the America First movement.
	And our leaders, Governor DeSantis, and before him, Governor Scott, and all of the men and women who have served in our legislature, myself included, a long time ago.
	Well, not that long ago.
	I'm not that old.
	I'm 46. I'm not that old.
	We were committed to making sure that there was a state that people could go to to chase the American dream, to realize the American dream, to be able to watch their kids do something fantastic like I had the opportunity to do last night.
	And that state's Florida.
	But let me tell you this.
	Florida's not going to stop leading.
	We're going to build off of what we've done and we are going to continue to lead bigger, better, faster, greater, safer, freer, because the American dream is for everybody.
	And we're going to show the other 49 states how to get it done.
	To my friend at 1600, who I know you guys are going to see tomorrow night.
	My friend, Mr. President, I already know they're not going to get you down.
	You just keep going.
	Because the forgotten men and women of this nation are grateful for your leadership.
	They are grateful for the vision, and they are grateful, frankly, for the guts.
	to be able to stand toe-to-toe with the insane radical left and tell them no more, America is going to be in the golden age and it will do tremendous thing for the people that live here.
	And as for me, stay tuned.
	APPLAUSE A few miles from here, myself and my colleagues, we have a job to do.
	And I want to tell you, we are going to deliver on the agenda that all of you worked for, that all of you knocked doors for, that you made phone calls for, that you got people to the polls for, that you might have been watching your polling location for.
	We are going to deliver on that agenda because the Democrats are a mess, the media doesn't even know what to say, and quite frankly, have they ever really known what to say?
	I mean, their credibility, please.
	Margaret Brennan, oh my gosh.
	Thank God J.D. Vance spoke common sense and real talk to her.
	But we are going to get this job done.
	A long time ago, My wife was with me, this is early on, in this journey in politics.
	A long time ago, there was a phrase I always said when I would meet with people and talk to people.
	And this is when I was asking for votes, probably eight years ago, ten years ago.
	And I would say, I need your vote, because we have a country to save.
	Well, CPAC, you delivered the vote.
	And now on Capitol Hill, working with President Trump, we are going to deliver and save the greatest nation man has ever known.
	God bless you, CPAC. God bless America.
	And God bless the future children of this nation.
	Thank you.
	Let's give them a round of applause for this wonderful event.
	And I want to thank each of you for being here today.
	I'm so excited to be with you all.
	There is a renewed sense of energy and enthusiasm in this country and in this room.
	Can you feel it?
	Yes, you can.
	Well, we're all excited.
	To have President Donald J. Trump back at the helm of this country, ushering in the golden age of America.
	Well, CPAC, you know I am a Baptist preacher.
	Yes.
	And so when I see people in the room and people in the crowd, it makes me feel very encouraged.
	But I promise to only have three points, and then I'll close.
	Is that all right?
	Well, it's a great honor for me to be here and a privilege to serve as the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
	I look forward to supporting President Trump and Vice President Vance in their mission to advance policies that put you, the American people, first above all else.
	Amen.
	You will hear me say this many times over the next few years.
	I'm not really concerned.
	I'm not really concerned with media attention.
	I'm a purpose-driven person.
	Thank you.
	And my only goal is to do what's right by the American people.
	I'm grateful that the President has trusted me with this tremendous purpose of serving you, the American people.
	And I know you have heard this great, timeless statement from President Lincoln.
	That government is of the people, by the people, and for the people.
	This statement today still rings true because we are one team in America.
	Never forget that the government works for you.
	There should be no division between you and your leaders in Washington, D.C. You know, I've been part of many teams in my life.
	In sports.
	In business, in ministry, and today I consider it a great privilege to be on this team with you, the American people.
	We are one people, and we will act with one voice under the leadership of President Trump.
	Leadership on a team is built on service and trust.
	And as a new secretary, as your new servant leader, I want to earn your trust.
	And that starts with you getting to know who I am and why I'm passionate about this mission at HUD. I was born in Richardson, Texas.
	Any Texas people out here today?
	My first job as a young man was as a dishwasher at Spring Creek Barbecue.
	I had to wear corduroy pants.
	Steel-toed boots in the heat of the summer in Dallas, Texas.
	There was barbecue sauce everywhere, but that was my first job.
	And you know, that job and every job that I've had since then has afforded me the opportunity to meet new people.
	To be a critical thinker and to be a problem solver and most importantly, to serve others.
	And I'm confident that this opportunity at HUD, this blessing, which it is a tremendous blessing to me, will be no different.
	You know, like many of you in this room, I have faced difficulty in my life.
	I've had to rely on God's grace to overcome obstacles that the enemy tried to use to stop me.
	From carrying out the Lord's calling on my life.
	We've all faced struggles.
	Can I get an amen?
	We've all faced struggles, family struggles, financial struggles, health struggles.
	We've all had the odds at some point in time stacked against us in our life.
	And if you have not faced struggle in your life, just keep on living.
	Just wait.
	Because James says this, consider it a pure joy.
	When you face trials of many kinds, consider it pure joy when, not if, you face trials because the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
	How many know we are a steadfast people?
	Well, I graduated from the University of Illinois where I played football, ran track, and met my beautiful wife.
	Football is still mental.
	And physical toughness in me.
	And after graduating, I was selected in the seventh round of the National Football League's NFL Draft.
	Now, if you don't know, the seventh round is the last round in the NFL. And you know, many people, being a seventh-round draft pick, many people thought that I was an underdog.
	They thought, there's no way this guy's gonna make it, but I didn't view it that way.
	Instead, I viewed it as a tremendous opportunity in my life to make a generational impact, even in the world of sports.
	I was blessed to play nine seasons in the National Football League with With the Denver Broncos the San Diego Chargers and my beloved Washington Redskin I went back to Texas and since I've been back home I served as an associate pastor at Prestonwood Baptist Church and
	I also had the honor of serving as an elected representative in the Texas State Legislature.
	And in 2019, President Trump blessed me with the opportunity to lead the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, where I had the privilege of learning from my dear friend and mentor and former HUD Secretary, Dr. Ben Carson.
	I was fortunate to travel the country and see firsthand the impact of Opportunity Zones, Zones, which provide forgotten Americans the chance to create a true foundation for themselves and ultimately allowing them to become self-sufficient and self-sustaining and unleash the potential that the Lord has blessed every individual in our country with.
	And I'm excited to build on the success of Opportunity Zones in this next chapter and to continue delivering growth, opportunity, self-sufficiency to the forgotten men and women and families of America. self-sufficiency to the forgotten men and women and families of After leaving the White House, I felt the Lord calling me to continue this service in the private sector.
	So my wife and I started our family foundation where we mentor high school and college student athletes and we provide our first kids program teaching children how to become proficient readers.
	How many know that leaders are readers?
	You know, an interesting fact for you all.
	As of today, only one-third of fourth graders in America read at grade level.
	Only one-third.
	That is unacceptable for our nation, and we are failing our children.
	We do not give them the tools they need to succeed in life.
	Our chief aim for the First Kids program and our foundation is to change the trajectory of these children in our country.
	All along the way, you know, I believe the Lord was preparing me.
	And I say this humbly.
	I believe God is a sovereign God.
	And Jeremiah 29 and 11 says, For I know the plans that I have for you, plans to prosecute you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.
	And I believe that from before the womb of my mother that he was preparing me for this moment, for this day, for such a time as this.
	From washing dishes to graduating college, playing in the NFL, serving in the Texas House, building businesses, to now standing before you, the beloved people of America, as a secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
	him and he was training me and preparing me and I will say I am truly honored to be here today I want to encourage you if I may I want to encourage everyone in this room and those that are watching online to never let your circumstance define your ability or your opportunity to succeed.
	Never let your circumstance or the situation in your life or where you come from, I am a living witness to define your ability to succeed.
	We must not have a defeatist attitude, but instead we will have a victorious attitude no matter the difficulty that we face.
	We will not be victims, but instead we will be victorious.
	Amen.
	Well, this is my story.
	But I look forward to hearing the stories of as many of Americans as possible as I travel around the communities all over our country.
	The stories will help inform my work at HUD and our team and the purpose for which we're there.
	We will be mission-minded at HUD. So I'm ready.
	I'm ready to do the work.
	I'm ready to rebuild and to revitalize American communities and ensure everyone Has the opportunity to achieve the American dream.
	As young professionals, you understand, those of you in the room, you understand that housing affordability crisis that we face in our nation, many people have felt this.
	I have a 24-year-old son who has said to me, how in the world am I going to be able to afford a home someday?
	The young men and women that I mentor in Dallas, they share these same sentiments and worries that the American dream is drifting further and further out of reach.
	But today, I challenge you to think of this not so much as a crisis.
	But instead, as an opportunity to change course.
	An opportunity to uplift individuals and families and lead them down the path of self-sufficiency and self-sustainability.
	An opportunity, if you will, to decrease the cost and increase the supply of safe, quality, affordable housing in our country.
	An opportunity to enact impactful, enduring policies.
	That build on President Trump's first-day executive order to reduce housing costs in our country.
	At HUD, we've already created many opportunities for Americans to thrive.
	These opportunities are based on our four key principles that have been my North Star for many years.
	Integrity, transparency, accountability, and efficiency.
	On my first day in office, I directed HUD to halt any pending or future enforcement actions related to the Biden Administration's Equal Access Rule, which ensures that HUD-funding providers, such as shelters, offer services based on individuals' sex at birth, male or female.
	Our team at HUD, we are carrying out the mission laid out by President Trump on January 20th when he signed an executive order to restore biological truth to the federal government.
	This means getting the government out of the way of what the Lord established from the very first day when he created man in his own image, male and female.
	We're going to restore.
	Integrity at our agency.
	You've probably heard that HUD has established a Doge Task Force to review how the agency is spending your hard-earned tax dollars.
	As stewards of the American taxpayer, we will be detailed and deliberate about every single dollar we spend to serve all American communities, rural, tribal, and urban.
	Under President Trump's leadership, We will identify and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.
	To date, we've already identified over $260 million in savings and an additional $1.9 billion that was misplaced during the Biden administration.
	We've moved very quickly.
	This is our second week, and we've moved quickly to fix this issue and return the funds that we found back to the Treasury Department for other federal expenditures for the American people.
	See, these actions will help us to return to the primary mission of HUD. Finding long-term solutions that provide affordable housing, spur business creation, and rebuild a prosperous American communities across our country.
	HUD will partner with local leaders.
	Local leaders who know what their communities need to rebuild their lives and livelihoods rather than imposing top-down solutions from Washington bureaucrats.
	We will also expand Opportunity Zones.
	Through these public-private partnerships, 1 million people in America have been lifted out of poverty.
	Opportunity Zones have attracted $84 billion in investment.
	Resulting in new infrastructure, housing, revitalization, and business creation.
	These are the type of innovative, results-driven solutions I plan on continuing at HUD. Now finally, we're going to take inventory.
	How many know what inventory is?
	We're going to take an assessment and inventory of every program at HUD. Amen.
	When I was a little boy, my daddy worked at a grocery store called Safeway.
	Y'all remember Safeway?
	And at nighttime, when I would go to the store with him, I would see the men and the ladies taking all the stuff off the shelves.
	And I said, Daddy, what are they doing?
	He said, we're taking inventory to see which products work for our customers and which products do not.
	Well...
	You as American people, you are our customers.
	We will take inventory to see which programs that we have that are serving you and which programs we have that are not serving you.
	And while stewarding, y'all heard that word in a long time, stewarding the budget and the resources we have as well.
	Y'all, I want to close with this.
	I gave you my three points.
	Now here's my close.
	Scripture says that the government rests on the Lord's shoulders.
	Hope in America does not depend on a man.
	Our hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ.
	And it is him, it is the Lord who anoints.
	It is the Lord who appoints men and women to serve and to carry out His mission.
	Of bringing hope to the world.
	And I'm honored today to be called for such a time as this.
	All glory goes to the Lord and I thank Him for this opportunity to make a generational impact and to give a voice to all forgotten Americans.
	We will achieve great things at HUD. The best days are yet to come.
	Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.
	The 47th President of the United States of America.
	And you know, I wouldn't say Fox has been exactly perfect.
	Fox has been a big difference of Fox between now and what it was four years ago, as you know.
	But we have others that come along and they're doing well.
	And Newsmax has been really good.
	And, you know, others are coming along.
	And people are seeing that they're watching these conservative networks.
	President Trump is right.
	Right.
	That's why millions of Americans are tuning into Newsmax for the real news they can trust.
	Every institution today is under attack.
	The home, the church, the government.
	And many people are asking, what is the truth?
	Jesus Christ claimed to be ultimate truth.
	Are you willing to face the truth?
	Do you think the MKUltra project ever actually ended?
	The Central Intelligence Agency is actively involved in mind manipulation.
	We all answer to one God and one Savior.
	And he's there to change your life.
	For the battle.
	In a time when the very fabric of our nation seemed under siege, one organization was willing to fight for America's principles and defend our children's future.
	of the American Principles Project.
	This is what happens when tolerance goes too far.
	It's a bit shocking to hear Democrats talk about them losing the culture war.
	After all, they started it.
	You're denying reality and you're denying them the care that they need.
	All right, America is back on track 2025. But next year, CPAC 2026 is going to be even bigger.
	Go get your tickets now.
	Go to CPAC.org.
	And join the movement.
	This president is calling my family, is calling me, is calling MAGA supporters enemy of America.
	I am the daughter of a Cuban political prisoner who fought for freedom, who fought against authoritarian and dictators.
	He sounds just like Fidel Castro did.
	Fidel Castro would target the enemies of his government and try to take them down.
	This is exactly what we're seeing with Joe Biden.
	He should be ashamed of himself.
	No American, no American should be called...
	A Nazi or be called an enemy of the state.
	Those of us who love this country, and I have spent my whole life defending freedom in America.
	Ladies and gentlemen, a conversation with Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Christian Miskulski, and CPAC board member, KT McFarland.
	I'm really wondering why you're here at CPAC, where you've listened to the most important and powerful people in the country and the most important people in the world, the people who are going to be governors and presidents and everything else.

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