Join us as we recap the day at CPAC where Steve Bannon kicked off an amazing four and a half hour long event called Action, action, action. We had some incredible guests including Frank Gaffney, Laura Trump, and more!
00:12:22.000The only ones that you're getting from El Salvador now that are coming illegally are the MS-13 members that are trying to get away from El Salvador,
00:12:27.000that are fleeing there because he's actually holding them accountable.
00:13:58.000We're going to change things up a little bit.
00:14:01.000I want to start off, Steve, you're used to this, but we're going to put you on the hot seat.
00:14:07.000Could you do some table setting about maybe just a couple of minutes on why what we're doing in these countries and our collaboration with them are so important?
00:14:18.000And the reason why it's important to start with Steve is, as Jay Aiba knows, Steve made that first trip out to CPAC Japan and caused quite a...
00:14:29.000I've never been to a press conference quite like that, Steve Bannon, going to Tokyo.
00:14:33.000But, Steve, can you kind of set the table here about what we're doing and why it's important?
00:14:36.000Well, I think it's one thing for us to say it, but I brought this week's economists, and it's the economists saying it, right?
00:14:43.000The economists, and remember, the Economist magazine is the tip sheet for the globalists.
00:14:50.000As we head toward a presidential election in November, one thing you can be sure of.
00:14:55.0002024 will be a tumultuous year like no other.
00:14:59.000How will your hard-earned savings fare during this year?
00:15:02.000You're already seeing the impacts of inflation at the pump, the grocery store.
00:15:07.000The dollar continues to lose buying power quicker than your wages can increase.
00:16:11.000They absolutely detest everything that populist nationalists do.
00:16:15.000And, of course, here they call it national conservatism.
00:16:18.000But they talk about the rise of the national conservatism movement in Europe and other places throughout the world.
00:16:25.000I think CPAC and what you guys have done over the last couple of years of going there and actually reaching out to people and having those people respond.
00:16:33.000I mean, these CPACs have been unbelievable, whether it's been Brazil or Mexico or, of course, Hungary, Japan.
00:16:40.000And I think you see a commonality of what's happening.
00:16:47.000I think the biggest crises may be this massive amount of debt that we have, the $300 trillion of debt that we have globally, and that no one government has a path to get out of here.
00:17:03.000That is going to converge in a couple of years and lead to a massive financial crisis that will dwarf 2008 and will dwarf what happened in 1929.
00:17:12.000And right now we don't have a political class that can deal with that.
00:17:16.000In addition, you've got the beginning of a kinetic Third World War on the Eurasian landmass that has many attributes of even the Second World War.
00:17:25.000But you've got a kinetic war underway right now.
00:17:29.000And underlying all that is a mass invasion of Europe and a mass invasion of the United States.
00:17:36.000Those three crises are all going to converge here in the next couple of years.
00:17:40.000And governments are going to fall because of that.
00:17:43.000And that's why I think the populist movement, the nationalist movement, is going to be a solution to make sure that the people that are citizens of these countries, citizens of individual countries, are going to have a response to the populist nationalist movement or the national conservative movement or whatever it's called in Europe today.
00:18:01.000So I think this conference, when you say where globalism comes to die, I just don't think it's tongue in cheek.
00:18:10.000And on top of that is obviously the Chinese Communist Party and how they're in the back of a lot of this and they're spreading money all over.
00:18:17.000So three converging crises that no individual government to date has come up with a solution for that we're going to have to work together because we're not isolationist.
00:18:26.000We're the last thing from isolationist.
00:18:28.000We believe in the Treaty of Westphalia and the Westphalian system.
00:18:32.000We will make sure we bequeath that system and our constitutional republic and your great countries to generations to come if we fight now for the next two or three years.
00:18:45.000So this conference, this meeting, in and of itself, relies the two main charges, which is, first of all, we hate people that look different from us or talk different from us and that we're isolationists.
00:18:56.000We're doing more diplomacy and good work than all these globalists ever thought about doing.
00:19:01.000And I was thinking here, as I sit at this table, I'm with three survivors, three high-ranking Trump officials who made a big difference in the world.
00:20:57.000We warned Europe to pay your fair share.
00:21:00.000We told Europe you shouldn't be having a Putin pipeline into Europe.
00:21:06.000That Russian pipeline was sanctioned by the Trump administration.
00:21:10.000And that Russian pipeline had the sanctions dropped at the request of Chancellor Merkel to Joe Biden.
00:21:19.000And Joe Biden and the Democrats immediately voted to drop the sanctions on Nord Stream 2.
00:21:26.000I think when you combine the attack on energy and the fact that you don't have individuals who are willing to do tough diplomacy, you know, the Liberal Party in America, the Democrats, mocked tough diplomats.
00:21:48.000Every time we had a diplomat that was out front doing something tough, they said, you're being mean to our allies.
00:21:55.000And I would argue that when you have a credible threat of military action, you don't need to use that threat.
00:22:04.000You don't need to use the military action.
00:22:07.000Because people believe, like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, that they mean what they say.
00:22:16.000And that they just may do something that's unpredictable.
00:22:33.000And I think, you know what, I've waited 25 years to be the party of peace and the other side be the party of war.
00:22:42.000And let's remember, we should start every conversation and finish every conversation by saying, Vladimir Putin wants Joe Biden to be reelected.
00:22:55.000And as we discussed in our board meeting, Joe Biden is using some Vladimir Putin tactics to keep his opponent off the stage as well, which is really repugnant.
00:23:05.000And we'll be talking about that later in the meeting.
00:23:07.000So the intent is for this to be conversational.
00:23:10.000Feel free if you have a comment to interrupt.
00:23:19.000And so, KT, would you like to – KT, former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Trump and advisor to President Reagan, understands peace through strength because she helped live it and develop it and is a wonderful and outstanding and talented member of our board.
00:23:35.000I would, first of all, thank you, everybody, for what you've said, and particularly thank you, everyone from all over the world who's attended.
00:23:42.000I think it's important right now to acknowledge one person who's here, and that's Nigel Farage.
00:23:48.000Because every movement needs the spark.
00:23:55.000And 30 years ago, Nigel Farage, member of the Conservative Party, the Tory party of Great Britain, with a potentially fantastic political career in front of him, walked away and founded his own party.
00:24:36.000So, we are all going to call you, including former ministers of state and prime ministers, we're going to all call you by your first names.
00:25:55.000You know, the globalist narrative that somehow we're isolationist, we don't want to work together.
00:26:02.000Not only do we want to work together internationally, we need to work together internationally to combat the great threats we face in the world.
00:26:24.000Do you know, it just always seemed to me, Katie, that the nation state was the essential building block that we believed in.
00:26:31.000The nation state was something that gave us a sense of identity.
00:26:35.000The nation state was something we were happy, well, sometimes reluctant, but happy to pay our taxes to.
00:26:41.000The nation state was something that, in extremis, we would be prepared to put on military uniform and go out and defend.
00:26:50.000The nation state was the extension of our family, if you like.
00:26:54.000There was a sense of togetherness about the nation state.
00:26:57.000And provided it was democratic, and it's back to the point that Rick made about peace, you know, there is no example of two mature functioning nation states going to war with each other.
00:27:35.000And yes, we got Brexit, which was an amazing achievement.
00:27:38.000But I think the other threat we face, and you know, Steve has talked about, you know, the massive debt problem, the problems potentially of war in the world.
00:27:48.000But we also face a huge internal problem.
00:27:51.000The scenes that we've witnessed today in London, in Parliament Square, and indeed within the House of Commons, is a new phenomenon.
00:28:01.000Religious sectarianism now beginning to dominate British politics.
00:28:06.000Parliament Square, as we speak, is full of thousands of people waving Palestinian flags.
00:28:12.000That somehow what is happening, this religious hatred that exists against Israel, against the Jewish people.
00:28:21.000And if we're frank about it, this has happened because successive Labour and Conservative governments have pursued completely irresponsible immigration policies, not encouraged integration, not encouraged a sense of working together.
00:28:38.000And now we have radical Islam is becoming mainstream in British politics.
00:28:44.000We will have, by the 2029 general election, we will have a radical Islamic party represented in Westminster.
00:28:51.000And this is why borders, you can't be a proper country unless you control your borders.
00:28:56.000And I'm very hopeful that the American people see sense and that put back a president in November that says we must defend our borders.
00:29:04.000If we lose our borders, if we lose our borders, we lose a significant part of our culture.
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00:32:47.000We do, we are trying to protect our state's sovereignty.
00:32:52.000And we say that the best figure, the best number of illegal migrants is zero.
00:32:58.000And actually, in Hungary, the number of illegal migrants within Hungary is zero.
00:33:04.000And last, and last but not least, we also go against the liberal, globalist, progressive mainstream by refusing this LGBTQ plus ideology.
00:33:26.000And we do protect the family, because there is only the family, and we do protect the children, the minors, against this nonsense gender sensitization.
00:33:39.000So, and to tell the truth, although they are coming with this democracy and rule of law bullshit, sorry for using this word, in and from Brussels, their core problem is with this.
00:33:56.000That there is a country, there is a government, there is a right-wing force in the heart of Europe, in Central Europe, standing up firmly for those values.
00:34:04.000And what we see nowadays, from the side of Brussels, Brussels is our deep state.
00:34:12.000It's like the federal government here in the U.S.
00:34:16.000We are proud members of the European Union, we Hungarians.
00:34:19.000But we are members of the European Union because it is in the interest of Hungary, and not because it is the European Union.
00:34:28.000But what Brussels, the deep state, does nowadays, first of all, politically, institutionally, let's say, is that they are outsourcing decision making from the local level, from the member state level, to the federal level.
00:34:44.000On a daily basis, they do invent new competences that should be in the hand of Brussels, not in the member states, contrary to the founding treaties of the European Union.
00:34:56.000And secondly, they do use this federal institutional level to push through their work agenda.
00:35:09.000So just, sorry, just one last word, last sentence.
00:35:13.000The EU is keeping back funds, very relevant money for Hungary, which should be money for EU funds for the Hungarians.
00:35:25.000And the only reason, and this was admitted by the president of the European Commission, von der Leyen, a few weeks ago, that they do withhold that money because of the Hungarian Act on the Protection of the Children, which directly goes again, this LGBT sensitization.
00:35:44.000So what my point is here, that the ultimate goal that we do have in this election year for the PP elections and for the American elections is to build a global coalition against the globalists.
00:36:02.000One of the things I learned in going to your beautiful country is you talk about zero illegal migration or immigration, but yet very generous when it comes to the Ukrainians who have had to flee the war and stuff.
00:36:14.000So they mischaracterize what that policy is.
00:36:17.000You allow it when it's the right time to allow it.
00:36:19.000Of course, Hungary launched its largest humanitarian action program, indeed, for Ukrainian refugees and for Ukrainians in the state of Ukraine.
00:36:32.000And, of course, they can accuse us of being pro-Putinist, as they do accuse President Trump of being pro-Putinist.
00:36:43.000But our only goal is to reach ceasefire and peace negotiations.
00:36:49.000Let me ask the ambassador, let me just interrupt for a second.
00:36:52.000I'd like to continue on with Hungary and the experiences you're having.
00:36:55.000You know, you're getting a lot of bad press, right?
00:36:58.000Viktor Orban, you've been with Viktor Orban from the very beginning.
00:37:01.000And he is receiving all of the same kind of criticisms Donald Trump is.
00:37:05.000In fact, people call him the Donald Trump of Europe.
00:37:07.000So can you talk to us about the pushback you're getting from your European allies and what the pushback you're getting,
00:37:13.000probably from your own government in a lot of ways, your elite establishment?
00:37:18.000Yeah, thank you very much for the opportunity, Matt, and for the invitation.
00:37:23.000I'm in a difficult position because I should sum up 1,100 years of history.
00:37:28.000And it's not that easy why we are – why we are –
00:40:31.000My job as an ambassador is to build bridges.
00:40:33.000But I always put up the question that, do I really want to build a bridge to a land where I don't want to go to?
00:40:40.000And, of course, I mean, in a way we meet an existential threat to us.
00:40:45.000And immediately when we articulate our position on illegal immigration or genderism, what is happening in our schools, whatever, they immediately position it as if it was a democracy debate.
00:41:05.000I think that's an important point to make, that our liberal colleagues do not tolerate another opinion.
00:41:10.000And for that, I want to turn to the former British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, who, when she became prime minister, there was a collective cheer in the conservative movement in the United States saying, wow, Margaret Thatcher is back.
00:42:11.000So what has happened in Britain over the past 30 years is power that used to be in the hands of politicians has been moved to quangos and bureaucrats and lawyers.
00:42:26.000So what you find is you find a democratically elected government actually unable to enact policies.
00:42:33.000So, for example, on illegal immigration...
00:43:04.000We've got the Judicial Appointments Commission.
00:43:07.000So Tony Blair changed 1,000 years of British history in 2005.
00:43:12.000He got rid of the traditional role of the Lord Chancellor who sat in the Cabinet and was the head of the judiciary.
00:43:19.000He instead put control of appointments in the hands of a quango.
00:43:26.000So what you have is rather than democratically elected politicians being accountable for decisions, often those decisions are now in the hands of people who aren't elected.
00:43:38.000And what I wanted to do as Prime Minister, I believe, would have improved things in Britain.
00:43:55.000But there's a whole bunch of people, and I describe them as the economic establishment, who fundamentally don't want the status quo to change.
00:44:04.000Because they're doing quite fine out of it.
00:44:07.000They don't really care about the prospects of the average person in Britain.
00:44:12.000And they didn't want things to change.
00:44:15.000And they didn't want their power taken away.
00:44:17.000So I think that's the issue we now face as conservatives, is it's not enough just to will conservative policies and say we want to control our borders or we want to cut taxes or we want to reform our welfare system.
00:44:32.000Because we have a whole group of people now in Britain with a vested interest in the status quo who actually have a lot of power.
00:44:41.000And power has been taken away from democratically elected politicians and it now sits in the hands of bureaucrats.
00:45:06.000And there were sand thrown in every gear of everything President Trump tried to do, whether it was on foreign policy issues, whether it was on economic health care, it was everything.
00:45:17.000So do you see a second Trump administration?
00:45:20.000Is this going to get only worse, Steve?
00:45:24.000I think the reason, well, it'll try to get worse in one regard in that the administrative and deep state, after President Trump wins, starting on the afternoon of the 20th of January, every day will be like Stalingrad, right?
00:45:41.000Last time we went in this come from behind upset, and MAGA had not fully developed the personnel or even the policies, all the deep policies, the second and third tier that you have to do.
00:46:30.000In fact, we went through the whole four years, I think, Ambassador Grinnell, and there were tons of billets we never filled because we didn't have the personnel.
00:46:41.000So on the afternoon of the 20th, in the transition, we'll have beachhead teams and landing teams that will be able to get that second and third level where the work really gets done and where the administrative state actually makes a difference.
00:46:54.000Now, remember, in ours, we have 2.25, I think, federal employees.
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00:48:26.000I think we have two and a half million or three million in the military, but we have 17 million contractors.
00:48:32.000And those contractors – so it's essentially take the military – it's 19 million, 18 to 19 million people that run an apparatus that spends $7 trillion a year, $7 trillion.
00:48:44.880And so I think President Trump is going to be ready to go this time, but they've already said – remember, the Federal Reserve Treasury is working today to stop President Trump, the law affairs to stop President Trump, the national security apparatus to stop President Trump.
00:48:58.160It's all there to stop President Trump, so it's going to take fortitude.
00:49:04.140You go into these massive bureaucracies like the State Department defense, every day is going to be a war to the knife.
00:49:09.660And somebody's going to – there's no compromise here.
00:49:12.120If we want to save our country, we have to take down the administrative state.
00:49:15.440I mean, the prime minister has seen this up close and personal.
00:49:18.400You have to take down the administrative state is an out-of-control fourth branch of government that our founders not only never envisioned but would warn against if they came back, they'd be furious.
00:49:29.000And so I think this fight, that internal fight, is going to be absolutely vicious, and we have to win it.
00:49:37.460Can I just add three very quick points, very quick points.
00:49:40.260By the way, you probably all have heard the buzz that Rick Grinnell is probably likely to have an extremely important role in a Trump administration.
00:49:47.220I mean, we're not going to predict anything, but there are a lot of us who think that would be an extremely good idea.
00:50:03.840It was one of the reasons why they kicked Trump off Twitter was because he was successfully going to the people and going around the media, and they didn't like it.
00:50:13.700The second is the public is much more educated now about the swamp in D.C.
00:53:13.380Okay, with that, I'm going to toss to my pal Gordon Chang, China expert, fellow member of the board of CPAC, and very well versed on everything Asian and Pacific.
00:53:23.740And let me just say, Ambassador Carla Sands, feel free to jump in because you've played this special role as a Trump ambassador.
00:53:32.220You know, I might be able to root for you to get a new post in the new administration.
00:53:36.560But feel free to jump into this conversation as it moves forward, okay?
00:55:13.900And he started off kind of quiet, but then when our former prime minister, Abe was assassinated, he suddenly took a new tone and became a lot more active.
00:55:46.380And his greatest achievement, and I mean this not seriously, obviously, his greatest achievement was last summer pushing a law that forces LGBTQ ideology on the Japanese people.
00:55:58.980That was his greatest achievement in Japan so far.
00:56:01.340Okay, Rick Grinnell, let's say that you're the next secretary of state.
00:56:10.160Just for sake of discussion, you heard Jay Aiba talk about how Rahm Emanuel has been pushing LGBTQ plus whatever policies on his country.
00:56:26.240If you were a secretary of state, what would you be doing with regard to your ambassadors to Japan or anywhere else with regard to U.S. social policies?
00:56:35.060Well, first of all, I feel pretty passionate about protecting kids should not be a controversial issue.
00:56:43.640So having a under 18 over 18 policy is what I believe in.
00:56:50.920If you're under the age of 18, we should absolutely protect kids.
00:57:11.900I think there's a huge debate on whether or not that's even old enough.
00:57:16.860But what I would say is protect the kids.
00:57:22.160And after the age of 18, live and let live.
00:57:25.220There's a whole bunch of things that I don't agree with that people do when they're adults.
00:57:32.280But I'm not going to tell them what to do.
00:57:34.140I'm much more of a libertarian on that issue.
00:57:36.940So what I know President Trump wants to do is always concentrate on job creation, the economy, and making people safe, whether through economics or through national security.
00:57:50.560So having this social issue agenda, to me, is something that we shouldn't be pushing on other countries.
00:58:01.360We can have the debate in our country, and we can do that domestically, maybe through the states, have federal legislation if we need to.
00:58:11.940But when it comes to telling another country what to do on a social policy, I just don't think that that's right.
00:58:18.740President Trump did launch a decriminalization of homosexuality campaign.
00:58:24.500Sixty-nine countries around the world criminalize homosexuality.
00:58:34.040And that was something that he stood for.
00:58:36.960And I think we had incredible support from the religious community, left, right, and center, for that law to push that idea.
00:58:47.640I think when it comes to anything else, gay marriage or any of these issues, you should let the people of a country decide for themselves what works in Israel, doesn't work in the United States, doesn't work in Hungary, doesn't work in Poland, doesn't work in Japan.
00:59:32.060And we heard Miklos talk about protecting children.
00:59:34.820I mean, we should be, you know, we should not be forcing children in other countries to do things that we might think are right, but it's not our business.
01:00:00.720In October, the Australian people resoundedly rejected a constitutional amendment that had been pushed by the Albanese government.
01:00:10.480This was called the voice referendum because the idea was, in the name of promoting social equality, racial equality, the proponents of this wanted to create racial divisions that would be enshrined in the Constitution.
01:00:27.600And the question is, you know, everyone thought that this was going to pass because it was not only the government, but the companies, the movie stars, all of the establishment lined up for it.
01:00:53.940And when we first announced that we were going to oppose the voice, which was, the voice is essentially a change to the Constitution that it gives special electoral benefits to people based on their race, which was our Indigenous Australians.
01:01:10.540And I think one of the things that binds conservatives all over the world is the concept that we're all born equal under the law and we should be treated as such.
01:01:19.740And so this was very much going against that, I guess, that kind of principle.
01:01:25.320And Australia, over the decades, has been a very conservative country.
01:01:28.880We've elected conservative governments much more often than we've elected left-leaning governments.
01:01:33.960But over the last 10, 12 years, there's been, the states have been dominated by left-leaning premiers, equivalent to your governors.
01:01:42.540And unfortunately, our so-called right-leaning prime ministers should have been in the other party.