Right-wing think tank close to Trump is working on plans to make that happen if Donald Trump returns to the White House, according to a new report from the Center for Renewing America (CRRA) and Project 25, a conservative think tank.
00:00:00.000Yet another think tank close to Trump is working on plans to make that happen if he returns to the White House.
00:00:06.840Politico obtained documents showing that according to the Center for Renewing America, led by a right-wing extremist named Russell Vought, Trump's former OMB director,
00:00:16.760Christian nationalism is a top priority, along with invoking the Insurrection Act on day one to quash protests and refusing to spend authorized congressional funds on unwanted projects.
00:00:28.920Thanks to reporting from Politico, The New York Times and Axios, we now know that CRA and Project 25 have a long list of plans for America on day one of a second Trump administration,
00:00:42.380including mass deportations, shooting migrants at the border, full immunity for police to kill at will, gutting the EPA,
00:00:52.040terminating the Constitution, bombing Mexico, exiting NATO, banning Muslims from entering the country, imposing ideological screenings for immigrants,
00:01:05.400revoking student visas of those who protest on college campuses against Israel.
00:01:09.240He also wants to dismantle the Department of Education, enforce Florida-style patriotic education in our schools,
00:01:17.340and federal funding of any schools that mention so-called critical race theory, gender ideology,
00:01:23.420or what people like Stephen Miller determined to be inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content.
00:01:29.920They intend to force children to learn about their version of the nuclear family, including the roles of mothers and fathers,
00:01:36.120and things that make men and women different and unique.
00:01:39.800That's what our kids will learn in Trump's Christian nationalist public schools,
00:01:43.340while corporations and America's wealthiest men, like Jamie Dimon, Elon Musk, and every other rich celebrity supporting Trump,
00:07:45.180Russ, I guess your idea is to create kind of Handmaid's Tale and Cromwell's Puritan movement all in the United States at the same time.
00:07:57.860That punch list she went through is pretty interesting.
00:08:03.420Is there any reality to their overreaction and meltdown on all this, sir?
00:08:08.600No, they're just trying to scare Christians across the country from being engaged in the political process.
00:08:14.260And this is actually part of a 100-year strategy.
00:08:18.280And it's to level accusations on any particular regime priority, whether that's having a rule of law that considers all of us on the basis of being made in the image of God.
00:08:32.900They call us bigots for believing that.
00:08:35.940They call us racist for believing that.
00:08:37.800And now in this area, if you're a Christian, they want to call you a Christian nationalist.
00:08:42.420And all we're saying, all I'm saying is that we were meant to be a Christian nation.
00:08:49.680We should provide religious liberty for everyone in this country to practice their faith.
00:08:54.060But that the Constitution, the system doesn't work.
00:08:58.600Western civilization does not work without the underpinnings of a Judeo-Christian worldview that is the bedrock for all of our laws.
00:09:06.260So it is not unnatural for Christians to be a part of the political sphere, the public square, and to say this is what I believe, this is the bedrock for which I believe it, and to have it reflected in our laws, in just policies, in healthy communities.
00:09:24.060And that's one of the reasons we sent the Center for Renewing Up, because we looked at the last 40 years of our country, even on the conservative right, and said, you know what, we are godless.
00:09:37.940We think that the economy alone should be the decider of all of decisions.
00:09:42.260And that ultimately is not an inspiring worldview to rally the country to.
00:09:48.060That's how we have lost our country, is when the right, the people who believe in God, the belief that people who, that God is the measure of all things and not man is the measure of all things, which is really the continental divide between right and left.
00:10:01.460When you have the right unwilling to articulate what it means to be a nation under God, that is a corrective that you have to emphasize a little bit, even if it gets you called names.
00:10:13.120So we are, you know, yesterday was a light press day.
00:10:15.600We're locked in the saddle and ready to go.
00:10:18.920But this is ultimately one that's going to boomerang on the left, because I know the people in the pews.
00:10:24.700They have felt attacked, not only by the left, but their own theologians and their own elites.
00:10:31.420Many of the times they've been pastors, folks who are saying, run, run, run, privatize your faith.
00:10:37.780No, go into the public sphere, go into the public square with with love for your community and your nation and do your best to have the laws reflect what we know to be true.
00:11:03.980That's why I keep saying the big steal in 2020 was providential, because you saw exactly what they stand for and exactly what they will do to this nation.
00:11:12.560I want to go back. And this is the this is why Russ Vogt is such a extraordinary individual.
00:11:18.180He was OMB. First, he was deputy and then he was OMB under President Trump.
00:11:23.300I could call Russ at any time and say, hey, ask some arcane question.
00:11:26.780You need to. Russ would say, give me a few minutes.
00:11:29.080He'd be there in your office in 10 minutes with a detailed to the fifth decimal place answer.
00:11:34.480He knows the details of actually how the government runs and what the administrative state has done to hijack your government.
00:11:44.620But he's also a guy can put it and can frame it.
00:11:47.080I want to go back to a second because they keep saying you say a Judeo-Christian worldview in that that is the bedrock of this republic.
00:11:56.280They would say, well, hold it. Hang on. Hang on.
00:11:58.360That's Russ Vogt and Bannon and all these guys, these traditional Catholics, evangelical Christians, and they are as Old Testament as they are New Testament.
00:12:06.920But the Enlightenment, our founders went through the Enlightenment and and they wanted to throw off all that excess baggage of the Judeo-Christian West.
00:12:29.060They were pulling from Western civilization and they always expected.
00:12:33.340And there's you go back and find numerous quotes from our founders, from George Washington and others, John Adams, who said, look, this system doesn't work if men is ruled by their appetites.
00:12:44.740You have to have some orientations towards the God who exists, who has made us in his image.
00:12:52.680We don't have rights apart from being created image in the image of God.
00:12:58.240If we don't have those rights that that flow from a creator, it's all on the basis of what government can rights can dispense to you.
00:13:06.680And then you have no you have no security, quite frankly, as individuals, as human beings against totalitarianism.
00:13:13.000So, look, this is this this at times can seem a little theoretical, but it's not.
00:13:18.160This is what our founders have cared deeply to come here, to establish our country, to set up the system that we have loved and cherished and are fighting for on an ongoing basis against what I call the woke and weaponized regime that is going to throw everything they've got us at us.
00:13:36.960And the only solution is to pin your ear backs and keep going forward in the midst of that hostility.
00:13:44.420Do you see anybody on our side that has these beliefs and feels that the republic is in the balance right here with it and with President Trump's tremendous comeback here from having it stolen to get his third win in second term?
00:13:59.420Anybody, you know, going to back down on this?
00:14:02.320No, I think, you know, I've seen I've taken the measure of the people and communities.
00:14:08.320You know, we have a grassroots arm of long history and grassroots activism.
00:14:12.560And all that is is just concerned citizen statesmanship at the local level.
00:14:19.300And what you've seen now, and honestly, this is I think the best answer to your question, Steve, is the the elite community is catching up with where the people is.
00:14:29.200It's it's a part of your show. It's a part of new think tanks, new policy organizations like mine and others.
00:14:36.740You're seeing Heritage Foundation gravitate to to these truths.
00:14:42.700So you're seeing wonderful things across the country in the leadership of the conservative movement.
00:14:48.660And that is why they are so opposed to what we're doing is because they used to have the controlled opposition.
00:14:55.840And the only thing we do is hang on one second.
00:14:59.660As we head toward a presidential election in November, one thing you can be sure of 2024 will be a tumultuous year like no other.
00:15:09.040How will your hard earned savings fare during this year?
00:15:11.560You're already seeing the impacts of inflation at the pump, the grocery store.
00:15:16.480The dollar continues to lose buying power quicker than your wages can increase.
00:17:08.320That was a big example of someone that we're going to miss.
00:17:12.540Your assessment of that tied into the controlled opposition part.
00:17:17.260I think that you have the emergence of voices largely in 26 of Donald Trump that attested to the views of the country, the conservative movement,
00:17:30.420but really independence in a much bigger slice of the country than just a slim majority that had long had these concerns that, you know, we're too secular, we're too global, we're too imperialistic, we're too economic.
00:17:45.600And I remember, you know, working in the conservative movement, and you'd have grassroots conservatives would say, hey, you know, we're a little concerned about the levels of immigration in this country.
00:17:54.760You know, we don't want Afghan refugees coming to this country or refugees from Muslim countries that we don't have the vetting process to be able to deal with them.
00:18:07.400And you would get the kind of answers that an economist would give, which is, you know, no problem, nothing to see here.
00:18:15.400And that version of conservatism largely has gone away in the aftermath of President Trump.
00:18:21.580And now what you're seeing is not just that being a good thing, but institutions rising up to take these viewpoints to the logical extension and give the country a version of conservatism that's actually fairly old and one that has been in abeyance for 40, 50 years in the aftermath of World War II.
00:18:42.360That's a good thing. And what we need is more political leaders who get elected to lean into these principles and these ideas.
00:18:50.820And that's one of the things that we try to do to help them at Center for Renewing America.
00:18:54.060Actually, you were at the forefront of this fight over this past weekend on the Ukraine situation, particularly that, hey, you had the border bill was not good enough, didn't have remain in Mexico.
00:19:07.960It was a joke. It was a processing bill.
00:19:10.080But then you stood up and fought against the Ukraine situation just solely today, Axios, their lead story, I think early this morning was about how coming out of the strategy meeting, I guess, in Palm Beach in Miami over the last couple of days, that the word among leadership is that Johnson understands now that we're probably going to shut down the government on the evening of March 1st and take it through March 8th or some period of time to try to force concessions on the border.
00:19:38.920However, that is kind of a jolt of adrenaline to this audience if he's prepared to man up and to force Biden to the table.
00:19:50.420You've been in this town a long time and you know the part of information war and laying out what someone's going to do.
00:19:57.820Are you buying the Axios story? Do you buy that leadership's actually thinking of actually forcing the shutdown of the government on the 1st to force concessions from the Biden regime?
00:20:07.380No, I believe this is disinformation, Steve.
00:20:11.740This is what you put out when you might want a little bit of negotiating space with Democrats who who are just basically saying no to everything you've said and or trying to spook again your own conference into being totally opposed and living in night terrors from the thought of a government shutdown.
00:20:31.500And putting pressure on you to provide the space to be able to cut a bad deal on an omnibus bill or a bad CR.
00:20:39.500So that's what I think is going on. Hope springs eternal.
00:20:42.740And if they decide to go to the ramparts, we'll be right there with them to make sure that they use this leverage point because it's one of the last ones that we have going into the election.
00:20:52.380Let's talk about that leverage point. But I might add that Axios is next story was that where how Democrats are going to come to the aid of Speaker Johnson in case in case what they refer to as the far right makes a makes a move on him.
00:21:09.220As you see the battle space right now, what would be your guidance to Speaker Johnson as we roll?
00:21:16.840They're going to come back with just a couple of days to go. Of course, no additional.
00:21:20.760I don't think a single subject appropriations bills have been spent on of the Senate's done much work at all.
00:21:25.980So we're clearly going to have a cathartic moment around the first.
00:21:30.840What would be your recommendation to him?
00:21:33.400My recommendation would be lean into the conflict, the leverage point.
00:21:36.940You have an opportunity to take the debate to the country to a new level.
00:21:42.700You've been you've been at the edges of it.
00:21:45.160Your members have been at the edge with the appropriations process.
00:21:48.560But this regime is woke and it's weaponized.
00:21:52.380It every bureaucrat is is is has is takes a set of policies and they're not just trying to create big government.
00:21:59.620They're trying to divide the country on the basis of race and identity.
00:22:06.080The levers and policies of government against half the country, most of the of the individuals who who vote Republican, but a larger amount for those that are concerned about what they're seeing in this country.
00:22:18.200So you have a chance to take that and make that a national debate.
00:22:23.020You the only way to do that is to seize this leverage point and insist on a massive reduction to that actual bureaucracy.
00:22:33.220They need to they need to force that debate as opposed to just letting the appropriators, the old bulls write whatever bills they want to and and fiddling at the edges.
00:22:41.220But that's what we've been calling for.
00:22:43.380And, you know, that that's the hope that that we might have if the leadership team down in Miami wouldn't be so afraid of conflict.
00:22:52.900As you see it right now, you're obviously very close to President Trump, the magazine ascended right now.
00:23:01.000In fact, New York Times had a brilliant piece lead story yesterday on CPI, which I know you guys are affiliated with what Center for for the priorities with Jim DeMint of South Carolina.
00:23:15.640Great team he's put together as you see this movement ascended, as you see intellectual leadership, the torch starting to be passed and people like Brother Sharma over American moment, all these young people coming to this staffers coming.
00:23:29.580What's your sense right now with this lawless lawfare, the breaking of rule of law against President Trump?
00:23:36.900What's your assessment of where we stand as we use CPAC now to drive towards a massive victory in the House, Senate, governorship, state legislatures and, of course, obviously the most important, the presidency?
00:23:52.020You know, zooming out on this question, you know, I think from a standpoint of getting people to lean into the fight and realize it's not going to go away, you can't avoid the lawfare and save your country.
00:24:02.720So you have to be prepared institutionally to handle it.
00:24:06.640And President Trump is is is handling it for him.
00:24:10.320CPI is is is helping start organizations and institutions and has come on and hired Mark Meadows, who's the subject of his own legal issues unfairly.
00:24:21.640And of course, we have the great Jeff Clark, America's lawyer, you know, and and he got fired from his job because the Democrats unfairly went after him because he cared about voter integrity.
00:24:33.160They went after him, quite frankly, because he has a world class legal mind and he thinks as if he's one of the community like the rest of us.
00:24:41.740And so that makes him particularly dangerous to the left.
00:24:44.420We came along beside him institutionally and said, look, we're not going to let him cancel you, but that takes great risk.
00:24:51.320And there are other people out there that we need to come along beside.
00:24:55.820And I am I want to make sure we have institutions that can handle all of the individuals that they attempt to cancel us with because they have corporate America.
00:25:06.680They have these law firms that you don't have to be credentialed or to actually know anything about the law.
00:26:06.540We've put a number of these foundational documents about our vision.
00:26:10.040If you're just now new to us, you thought you were coming from the spending and you're wondering where where did this understanding of conservatism come from that you all have?
00:26:18.800Go to our about page and learn the story of why we created CRA.
00:26:23.740And, of course, you can find me on all the channels at at Russ Vogt.
00:26:30.040And we want Joy Ann Reid's producers and Rob Reiner's assistants to go over there and spend a good time today.
00:26:56.500Word has I'm looking at a tweet that they've temporarily delayed this bill down in Florida that was really targeted to Gates and other people to have runoffs.
00:27:06.120That's been temporarily delayed today at this committee hearing.
00:27:08.960It means it's probably not going to get done in this session.
00:27:27.360President Trump had a tremendous success last night in South Carolina.
00:27:31.300I think over six million dollars raised among some of the most prominent people in that state, probably leading into this this blowout win on Saturday.
00:27:41.660But Nikki Haley said she's not going to quit.
00:30:15.040They've already said that Biden, the regime is going to use the State of the Union to, quote unquote, reset his campaign.
00:30:22.020But one line of attack you can see, and this is coming out of Rob Reiner's movie, which is, you know, the Politico story, the New York Times story.
00:30:30.300They had the New York Times lead story in CPI, of which the Center for Renewing America is part of.
00:30:35.840They had they had the lead Politico story about Russ Vogt being this crazed Christian nationalist that's going to try to recreate Handmaid's Tale.
00:30:44.700And then you had the release of Rob Reiner's movie.
00:30:48.300These are not coincidences that they're coming after us with information warfare that only makes us stronger.
00:30:55.100As I remember, everything else they've said from the vaccines to the election, it all craters to J6.
00:31:04.940It's one of the reasons that CPAC is so important this year.
00:31:08.160The theme is where globalism goes to die, maybe also, Matt Schlapp, what I'm hearing, because people's heads are blowing up, not just not just globalism goes to die, but maybe journalists who are actually information warfare participants.
00:31:35.660Well, you know, we got to get smarter.
00:31:37.120We have people that run around and say they're journalists.
00:31:40.160And if you look at their feeds, 100 percent of their stories are let's get what Republican, what conservative, as you said, who can we mischaracterize who loves America and let's go get them and let's make trumped up charges on them from anonymous sources.
00:31:55.680And Russ Vogt, who's a hero of mine and many, has had to deal with this.
00:32:00.840And everyone who does anything that's worthwhile has to deal with this.
00:32:03.360You have to deal with it probably more than anyone or just that would be Donald Trump who deals with it more than anyone.
00:32:08.340So this tactic they're using against Trump is intergalactic, but they're using similar tactics against all of us.
00:32:15.860If you're a propagandist, you can buy a ticket like everyone else.
00:32:19.760But you're not in the media and we're not going to credential you by saying you're in the media.
00:32:23.360Now, there's plenty of left wing people who are in the media who actually, you know, at least 20 percent of the time or 25 percent of the time they'll take on Menendez or they'll say Biden's too old.
00:32:33.260Or they at least have some coverage that you could say, OK, there's some journalism there.
00:32:37.680But as we know, what's happened to these corporate media entities is they're 100 percent.
00:32:43.360If you listen to MSNBC, it's 100 percent anti-Trump, anti-America, anti-conservative every moment of every day.
00:32:50.840They never have any kind of honest treatment of anything.
00:32:53.240And they run anybody off from the station who used to be at least somewhat honest some of the time, like Chris Matthews and such.
00:33:21.800They're all you like you've got the vice president's poll coming up and virtually all the VP candidates you've got speaking, which I think are all of them are all MAGA or all populist nationalists and that you've lost the Reagan fusionist and the libertarians.
00:33:38.440And I think and even Grover Norquist said, you know, CPAC is is over.
00:33:43.380It's not it's not as relevant anymore because it's just gone full MAGA.
00:33:48.500And you were brought in and we were one of the drivers of that when I was at Breitbart to get you in there because the thing had gotten so it was it was let's be blunt.
00:34:11.440You know, as I said to someone who called me on this the other day, bless their hearts.
00:34:14.400I'm sorry that Grover Norquist isn't quite the power that he used to be and his dinners aren't as quite as impactful as they used to be because they could never kind of get comfortable with this idea that things were changing.
00:34:36.180And if we do that, we're going to lose.
00:34:37.740Just like all successful head coaches or CEOs or leaders, you got to read the current battlefield and you better come up with new strategies.
00:34:46.120And we haven't done a very good job of doing that.
00:34:48.020And one of the things, Steve, you helped us with is to kind of shuck CPAC's old way of doing things and listen to people and try to make it relevant.
00:34:56.660And it's why we're going to get more media attention over the course of these four days than any of the venerable institutions in our society, all those award shows, all those sporting events.
00:38:48.680It's important, but it only goes so far.
00:38:50.500Matter of fact, there are more conservatives in this country than there are Republicans.
00:38:55.120And if you add conservatives and those who use terms like populist and MAGA, it's a big coalition.
00:39:00.100Matter of fact, it's a majority, which is why they have to cheat so much, because that's the only way they can win.
00:39:04.840And that's why they have to shame us so much, because it's the only way they can get us to shut up and be scared is when they use those tactics.
00:39:11.400And we're going to talk about this at CPAC.
00:39:13.080And I think the international part is critical, because, Steve, it's not just happening here in America, which is clearly the most important country in the world in so many ways.
00:39:21.700But it's happening in these other countries.
00:39:23.500We have President Bukele coming from El Salvador.
00:39:25.840He faces similar kind of left-wing attacks.
00:39:28.580We have Javier Malay coming from Argentina, the president of Argentina.
00:40:02.180I appreciate you, Mercedes, taking so much time to help us with what we're doing today and all the other things we're doing while we're there.
00:40:08.940The audience couldn't be more pumped up.
00:40:10.960Where do people go if they still want to attend?
00:40:13.140I'd say thank you to Rav and thank you to War Room.
00:40:15.380You guys have been great talking about how important this event is.
00:40:19.780I will tell you, tickets are selling like hotcakes.
00:40:22.400It is going to be a very, very full place.
00:40:25.880So if you want to be here, which you should be, this is going to be history.
00:40:28.960Better get on that website soon because we're about ready to come to the close and have a packed house and tell our president that we need four more years.
00:40:39.400Do you mind if I give a particular shout-out to HuffPo, Washington Poe, others that may be on the cut list?
00:43:34.640You still got to get – I'm going to ask for a show of hands on the end of the dollar empire who's been naughty, who's been nice, who's read it.
00:52:24.780This is one of the problems with the RNC and what they allowed to have happen here because all the Biden, as incompetent as their regime is, as poorly as their campaign is being run, they've got tons of money and they're applying it.
00:52:36.800And so we're going to get to all that.
00:52:39.720Also, the CR, March 1st, it'll happen if we put our shoulder to the wheel, either shut down the border or shut down the government.
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