Bannon's War Room - Episode 4198： Where We Stand With Trump's Nominees

00:00:00.000 I want to talk to you, though, about Russell Vogt.

00:00:03.860 OK, he wants to be the head of OMB, right, Office of Management, basically, and budget.

00:00:10.580 This is not a position that is high profile.

00:00:13.200 It's not coveted.

00:00:14.060 It's not sexy or cool.

00:00:15.520 However, this guy has made it abundantly clear he wants to shrink the federal government

00:00:20.360 and give the president a lot more direct control over federal funding.

00:00:24.660 Given what this guy wants to do and is clearly broadcasted,

00:00:28.340 should we be paying a lot more attention to him?

00:00:31.120 Of course we should, right?

00:00:33.160 I mean, and how is Russell?

00:00:34.360 Yeah, but like OMB director is not somebody that people are like, what's he up to today?

00:00:38.780 But shouldn't we do?

00:00:39.380 Well, I don't know.

00:00:39.700 Peter Orszag made it pretty sexy back in the day.

00:00:42.440 I mean, only a former investment banker from Lazar would say that.

00:00:48.380 You see that, Peter?

00:00:49.360 All right, Peter, shout out to Peter.

00:00:50.880 Look, I mean, how's he going to work with the great Elon Musk,

00:00:56.560 who's also focused on, and what if, you know, Vivek becomes senator of Ohio?

00:01:03.600 Is Doge going down the tubes at this point?

00:01:06.020 Is Russell Goe going to?

00:01:06.920 No, hold on.

00:01:07.360 If Vivek goes and becomes a senator in Ohio, that's just Elon Musk realizing.

00:01:11.460 Oh, Elon's going to do it all in himself now?

00:01:13.460 Yes, because nobody wants to be a co-head of anything.

00:01:16.280 There can never be two bosses.

00:01:17.620 You are a banker.

00:01:18.260 Yeah, Goldman Sachs used to have co-heads.

00:01:22.140 One wins in the end.

00:01:23.260 I will say that this restaurant thing that you're mentioning, this OMB thing,

00:01:26.460 this is the actual point of where the people, we talk about Project 2025,

00:01:31.920 the really real changes that they want to make are coming through this guy.

00:01:35.880 This is the people that want to reschedule.

00:01:38.480 That's what they call it, federal employees, and fire them for not being loyal enough.

00:01:43.300 Like, if we start to see some of the ability,

00:01:45.720 some of the things that Trump has promised actually start to happen deep inside the government,

00:01:49.760 it will happen through guys like all of that.

00:01:52.420 There are people that funded Project 2025.

00:01:55.720 They have a vested interest in making sure that everything in those 900 and some odd pages

00:02:01.080 gets implemented.

00:02:02.780 And the OMB, for people who've been in government and for political junkies,

00:02:06.620 OMB is an incredibly important position because line by line, budget item by budget item,

00:02:12.460 things are going to get funded or defunded.

00:02:15.620 And that's where we have to focus a lot of our attention.

00:02:17.740 Let's just say Donald Trump gets all of these people through,

00:02:20.500 many of which might not be qualified for the jobs.

00:02:22.880 Then they're going to have to do these enormous jobs with huge responsibility

00:02:27.740 that they're not qualified for.

00:02:29.780 And beneath them are government employees who have been in these roles for decades and decades

00:02:35.160 and decades.

00:02:35.900 And it'll be abundantly clear of all of these administration officials can do their jobs.

00:02:41.100 Well, frankly, I think this is what, you know, Vivek and Elon want to clear out.

00:02:46.740 I think Trump wants to clear out those decades-long employees who might thwart Pete Hegseth

00:02:53.300 from doing whatever the heck he wants to do or Pam Bondi from doing whatever the heck she 0.99

00:02:57.540 wants to do that she's really not qualified to do.

00:02:59.340 Easier said than done.

00:03:01.300 Yeah, but I know.

00:03:03.020 I know it's easier said than done.

00:03:04.600 But they're going to make a lot of noise about trying to get rid of these people.

00:03:08.220 They're the ultimate disruptors.

00:03:10.040 They want to disrupt everything.

00:03:12.500 That's what they think their mandate is.

00:03:14.100 They want to disrupt everything.

00:03:14.720 And wait until they say, we want to cut Medicare and we want to cut Medicaid and we want to

00:03:18.200 cut other entitlements.

00:03:18.420 They're going to get their heads handed to them when they do that.

00:03:19.940 And all those congresspeople have to go back to their home districts and they're going 0.97

00:03:23.460 to say, pound salt, Vivek.

00:03:25.280 That ain't happening.

00:03:26.500 The president has said Jack Smith should go to jail.

00:03:30.800 Will you investigate Jack Smith?

00:03:32.880 Senator, I haven't seen the file.

00:03:35.720 I haven't seen the investigation.

00:03:37.680 I haven't looked at anything.

00:03:39.200 It would be irresponsible of me to make a commitment regarding anything without, you're

00:03:46.360 a long practicing attorney, without looking at a file.

00:03:51.840 So you would need a factual, you would need a factual predicate to open an investigation

00:03:56.820 of Jack Smith, is that right?

00:03:57.900 Not a summary by you sitting here.

00:03:59.740 Yes, sir.

00:04:00.180 And not a summary by the president either, right?

00:04:03.200 Absolutely.

00:04:05.020 So a summary by the president or his desire to investigate Jack Smith would not be enough

00:04:08.660 for you to open an investigation of Jack Smith.

00:04:11.180 Is that right?

00:04:11.700 I will look at the facts and evidence in any case.

00:04:16.360 You know, you know, and sitting here, sitting here, sitting here today, Senator, 72% of Americans

00:04:21.880 have lost faith in the Department of Justice.

00:04:25.040 Sitting here today, sitting here today, are you aware of any factual predicate?

00:04:29.980 To investigate Jack Smith, sitting here today, yes or no?

00:04:33.380 Senator, I will look at the facts and the circumstances of anything brought to me.

00:04:38.380 You're not a part of the department yet.

00:04:39.980 There's no worry about divulging law enforcement sensitive information.

00:04:44.800 So just tell us, are you aware of a factual predicate to investigate Jack Smith, yes or

00:04:50.500 no?

00:04:51.320 Senator, what I'm hearing on the news is horrible.

00:04:53.660 Do I know if he committed a crime?

00:04:55.740 I have not looked at it.

00:04:56.280 You seem reluctant to answer a simple question.

00:05:01.120 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:05:06.020 Pray for our enemies.

00:05:07.960 Because we're going medieval on these people.

00:05:11.240 I got a free shot.

00:05:12.500 All these networks lying about the people.

00:05:15.500 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:05:17.400 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:05:18.580 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop

00:05:21.340 it.

00:05:21.540 It's going to happen.

00:05:22.800 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?

00:05:26.200 MAGA media.

00:05:27.540 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:05:32.920 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:05:36.740 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:05:42.920 War Room.

00:05:43.940 Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.

00:05:48.580 Okay, welcome.

00:05:52.500 Thursday, 16 January, Year of the Lord, 2025.

00:05:56.480 Days of Thunder have, the preamble has started and magnificent performance so far.

00:06:04.660 Don't you agree?

00:06:06.420 Audience, you have done an amazing job of contacting people and making sure everybody

00:06:10.580 the sense on point to get these confirmations done.

00:06:13.800 But I have to tell you, I think the flood the zone strategy and I think the way that the

00:06:19.180 staff from Susie to the outside people like Mike Davis and others that prepped people and

00:06:24.660 got them ready, you have to say it's very, very impressive.

00:06:28.960 Incredibly impressive.

00:06:30.260 Hegseth was great.

00:06:31.860 Pam Bondi yesterday, they put her through the ringer.

00:06:35.080 Just incredible.

00:06:35.920 We could have played Pam Bondi's stuff for hours.

00:06:38.260 We just gave the highlight with Shift.

00:06:41.300 There's more, hopefully, play throughout the next couple of hours.

00:06:45.140 Marco Rubio.

00:06:46.800 Boys, Marco Rubio made a transition from just a flat-out neoliberal neocon.

00:06:53.620 He wrote a book on populism a couple of years ago.

00:06:56.180 And that was an America First.

00:06:58.780 Not just simply America First, but America First with also a heavy emphasis on taking down

00:07:03.660 the Chinese Communist Party.

00:07:06.680 Just fantastic.

00:07:07.520 We wanted to start there.

00:07:09.040 And Stephanie Ruhl, for the first time, kind of disappointed me, saying like OMB is a non-event

00:07:14.680 and nobody knows about it.

00:07:15.720 Well, if you're on the inside or if you're the War and Posse audience, OMB is absolutely

00:07:20.300 central.

00:07:21.960 Russ, vote is central.

00:07:23.160 And Russ was fantastic yesterday.

00:07:24.660 And actually, everything we have to have happen.

00:07:30.380 It's a great piece in the Hill today.

00:07:31.840 I've got it up on Getter.

00:07:34.020 Remember, Getter's totally free.

00:07:35.600 Just download it totally free.

00:07:36.960 This is where I put up all my information since I'm banned on Twitter.

00:07:41.640 I guess they have formally come back and said I can join, but I have not.

00:07:45.700 When I say formally join a couple of weeks ago, they did it after being banned for many

00:07:49.840 years because of Dr. Fauci and Chris Wray in the election of 2020, things I'm proud of.

00:07:57.920 Pam Bondi saw the angle of attack yesterday on Bondi.

00:08:02.060 They came at her.

00:08:03.260 And it's interesting.

00:08:04.560 I kind of call it the Cash Patel pregame.

00:08:08.700 I don't know where half the questions either about cash or things related to cash and government

00:08:14.000 gangsters.

00:08:16.000 Still, if you want to know, and cash is going to come up, I don't think next week, but the

00:08:19.300 week after, they're obviously, they have focused on now, I think, that Cash Patel and Tulsi

00:08:26.280 Gabbard, if they're going to get any one, they're going to focus on those.

00:08:29.220 And I would want cash the most, since they're most concerned about the FBI.

00:08:34.040 But if you want to see, if you haven't read the book, and we make it, I think we make the

00:08:42.020 book actually more accessible in the film.

00:08:44.100 The film is, the only person we have in the film is Cash, as he walks you through government

00:08:49.260 gangsters, and he walks you through his punch list of the deep state.

00:08:54.320 It's quite revealing.

00:08:55.280 I think you go to warroom.film, warroom.film, is that correct?

00:08:58.600 Warroom.film.

00:09:00.520 It might be warroom.films, one or the other.

00:09:04.280 We've got the film up there.

00:09:05.200 I produced before going into prison.

00:09:07.460 Very proud of the film.

00:09:09.100 Tremendous feedback on it.

00:09:10.300 Go check it out.

00:09:11.160 Share it with people.

00:09:12.860 Because Cash is going to be a big one.

00:09:13.940 We saw yesterday with Pam.

00:09:16.060 And Pam Bondi, in fact, can we pull the clip about her in the election of 2020?

00:09:22.000 They came at her, every other speaker.

00:09:25.340 See, they're not there to be informed.

00:09:26.960 They're not there really to kind of go through your philosophy.

00:09:29.200 I mean, Pam has been a prosecutor. 0.90

00:09:31.920 Pam has been a, ran, she was Attorney General of Florida, which I believe is the third biggest

00:09:38.540 Attorney General office, only back in California and Texas.

00:09:42.060 So this is a massive operation with hundreds of lawyers doing everything from criminal prosecutions

00:09:48.580 to commercial in real estate, getting involved in commercial in real estate, enforcement of

00:09:55.800 the law, and also disputes.

00:09:57.360 So she has broad experience.

00:09:59.760 They didn't want, they didn't, no Democrat.

00:10:01.840 It's one of the reasons we focus on Democrats here when we do these confirmation hearings. 0.89

00:10:05.580 We want you to see what the opposition's doing.

00:10:09.160 And we're really proud of the fact of how we've juggled this last couple of days with

00:10:12.640 the Real America's Voice team.

00:10:13.880 It's not that easy to kind of cut in and out and try to get the best of bits.

00:10:18.820 Today, we're going to have Pam.

00:10:20.620 And I think Pam's starting here momentarily. 0.95

00:10:22.640 Pam's day two.

00:10:24.380 Think how tough it is for, to be Attorney General.

00:10:26.540 Which I would argue is the most important, is the first among equals of cabinet positions

00:10:34.760 because it's involved in everything.

00:10:36.240 The job of the Attorney General, I don't know how they get to breathe.

00:10:39.720 They are involved in everything.

00:10:41.260 They're going to be involved massively in immigration, massively in the, not just changing the laws,

00:10:48.000 but the deportations, the securing of the border.

00:10:51.340 They're involved, obviously, in everything in national security, law enforcement, all of it.

00:10:55.220 So, Pam, it's a 20-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week job.

00:10:59.080 But she's got a ton of energy and just represented her way there. 1.00

00:11:03.040 What I also like, it's unaffected.

00:11:05.740 She doesn't come with that kind of Washington, you know, the veneer these people get here after they've been here

00:11:10.160 decade after decade.

00:11:11.320 I mean, she's coming.

00:11:13.080 It's, you're getting, that's Florida right there, right?

00:11:16.900 That's University of Florida.

00:11:18.700 Yesterday, you could have had, if we had not gone fixed bayonets with Pete Hegseth,

00:11:22.860 you could have had Ron DeSantis.

00:11:24.260 You would have had three Floridians.

00:11:26.640 And I don't know, I don't think DeSantis went to University of Florida.

00:11:30.520 I think he's a transplant afterwards.

00:11:32.140 But you had three Floridians.

00:11:33.640 You would have had state defense and attorney general.

00:11:36.260 That's pretty, not, pretty impressive, Florida.

00:11:40.100 Pretty impressive.

00:11:41.920 But Pam and the University of Florida, between Marco Rubio and Pam Bondi, represented, represented

00:11:48.360 well.

00:11:48.700 Pam was under intense pressure.

00:11:50.240 She starts back up today at 1015.

00:11:53.320 Then I think Lee Zeldin is going to go here in a few minutes.

00:11:56.540 EPA, we do want to go.

00:11:57.680 I'd love to get his opening statement.

00:11:59.600 As you know, EPA is absolutely central to the deconstruction of the administrative state.

00:12:04.940 Lee, who's really been a specialist in, I think, in foreign affairs, he's done a lot on the EPA side.

00:12:10.180 I think it's a great pick.

00:12:11.840 Number one, I think it's a great pick because Lee is tough as boot leather.

00:12:14.880 And you're going to need to be over there.

00:12:16.340 He will be under siege from the inside.

00:12:20.000 Always remember, we had Rob Bluey on the other day from the Daily Signal, and they had done

00:12:24.460 this poll that showed that 50% of the apparatus, 50% of the bureaucrats, 50% of the senior executives

00:12:31.740 said, not only were they not going to go along, not only were they not just going to slow walk

00:12:36.960 things, they were going to be actively, have active resistance, active resistance to President

00:12:42.760 Trump's policies.

00:12:44.600 One of the ones that will be central to that is EPA.

00:12:46.640 EPA is like OMB.

00:12:47.740 These ones are maybe not the glamour positions or what they call the power, you know, the

00:12:52.680 power departments, which is Treasury, State, Defense, or kind of the big three, Attorney General,

00:12:58.580 the big four, right?

00:12:59.900 Maybe throw DHS in there now.

00:13:03.260 But OMB, I tell people all the time, OMB, I think outside of Chief of Staff of the White

00:13:09.780 House, OMB is probably the most important part of the executive because everything comes

00:13:14.960 to OMB.

00:13:16.180 And this is where DOGE is going to be housed over the EOB.

00:13:19.380 They'll be next to the OMB offices.

00:13:21.880 Russ Vogt yesterday was magnificent.

00:13:24.460 The Hill newspaper has an article, and Grace, if you can put it, it's on my getter, but Grace,

00:13:28.800 I would like to put it out for everybody, and Carly, Bonet, if you can do it over at

00:13:32.660 your Telegram at Midnight Writer, I appreciate it.

00:13:35.100 Also, Elizabeth at our Telegram, everybody.

00:13:39.220 It's an article on The Hill this morning that's quite perceptive.

00:13:44.720 It says in the hearing with Russ Vogt yesterday, you can understand and see where these vicious

00:13:52.780 and tough budget fights are going to come, that everything's going to be framed in that.

00:13:58.800 The House Freedom Caucus has just come out with a proposal.

00:14:03.080 It looks pretty good on one level.

00:14:05.440 I'm not terribly happy with it on another level, but we'll talk about it in a minute.

00:14:10.760 Scott Besson's at 1030.

00:14:12.660 They're going to come at Scott Besson hard.

00:14:14.700 They're going to come at him hard on trade and tariffs, maybe the external revenue service,

00:14:19.280 the way that President Trump is reordining, rethinking through about where the cash comes

00:14:24.780 from to run this government, all of it.

00:14:28.080 They're going to come after Besson hard.

00:14:29.340 They're going to come at Lee Zeldon hard.

00:14:30.900 So it's going to be Pam Bondi, the last shot they get to her.

00:14:33.920 The confirmation hearings, day three.

00:14:37.620 Our team has represented so well.

00:14:39.380 I'm so proud of that.

00:14:40.140 I'm so proud of what's happening.

00:14:41.460 I'm so proud of the transition for just getting a great job and just representing.

00:14:45.400 A couple have been bumped.

00:14:46.180 I think it's smart to bump them until you're ready.

00:14:48.120 Don't go until you're ready.

00:14:49.260 When you're ready, like Rubio, Hegseth, Pam Bondi, you're on point.

00:14:55.340 Radcliffe, magnificent.

00:14:56.840 Short commercial break.

00:14:57.760 Back in a moment.

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00:16:19.360 It's hard to say today, under oath, without reservation, that Donald Trump lost the presidential contest to Joe Biden in 2020.

00:16:26.500 Do you have any doubts that Joe Biden had the majority of votes, electoral votes, necessary to be elected president in 2020?

00:16:53.660 You know, Senator, all I can tell you as a prosecutor is from my firsthand experience.

00:17:00.240 And I accept the results.

00:17:02.600 I accept, of course, that Joe Biden is president of the United States.

00:17:05.960 But what I can tell you is what I saw firsthand when I went to Pennsylvania as an advocate for the campaign.

00:17:13.700 I was an advocate for the campaign.

00:17:15.720 And I was on the ground in Pennsylvania.

00:17:18.160 And I saw many things there.

00:17:20.340 But do I accept the results?

00:17:21.880 Of course I do.

00:17:22.740 Do I agree with what happened?

00:17:24.420 And I saw so much.

00:17:28.060 You know, no one from either side of the aisle should want there to be any issues with election integrity in our country.

00:17:37.440 We should all want our elections to be free and fair and the rules and the laws to be followed.

00:17:44.480 I think that question deserved a yes or no.

00:17:47.800 And I think the length of your answer is an indication that you weren't prepared to answer yes.

00:17:52.680 Okay, Dick Durbin, I'll give you a yes or no.

00:18:00.080 Wait for it.

00:18:01.140 No.

00:18:02.520 Biden is not totally illegitimate.

00:18:04.360 You know, this is why they make such a big deal about it.

00:18:07.380 They want Pam Bondi. 1.00

00:18:08.540 They want an official response from MAGA.

00:18:11.720 It's Pam Bondi.

00:18:12.460 Let's jump.

00:18:14.520 We're going to jump to Lee Zeldin right now.

00:18:16.580 Let's do it.

00:18:17.180 We're going to come back.

00:18:17.720 EPA.

00:18:18.280 Let's hit it.

00:18:19.780 On both sides of the aisle to tackle the most pressing issues facing our country.

00:18:24.560 I humbly sit before you nominated to serve as the 17th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

00:18:32.160 The American people made their voices heard in November, giving President Trump a mandate to lead our nation to prosperity.

00:18:39.900 I'm grateful that the President-elect is giving me the opportunity to lead the EPA at this critical time.

00:18:47.040 Our mission is simple but essential.

00:18:49.600 To protect human health and the environment.

00:18:52.060 We must do everything in our power to harness the greatness of American innovation with the greatness of American conservation and environmental stewardship.

00:19:03.080 We must ensure we are protecting the environment while also protecting our economy.

00:19:09.140 Throughout my life, I've been privileged to hold such titles as Congressman and State Senator and Lieutenant Colonel Butts.

00:19:16.620 None has meant more to me than husband, son, and father.

00:19:20.480 While one of my identical twin daughters, Ariana, is now back at college, I'm excited to be joined here today by my wife, Diana, and our daughter, Michaela, as well as my mother, Meryl.

00:19:35.260 The American people need leaders who can find common ground to solve the urgent issues we face.

00:19:40.840 I want my daughters, your loved ones, and every child across our country to thrive in a world with clean air, clean water, and boundless opportunity.

00:19:51.460 If confirmed, I pledge to enthusiastically uphold the EPA's mission.

00:19:56.200 I will foster a collaborative culture within the agency, supporting career staff who have dedicated themselves to this mission.

00:20:05.980 I strongly believe we have a moral responsibility to be good stewards of our environment for generations to come.

00:20:13.920 It's been so motivating to see the tremendous talent stepping up to serve in the EPA.

00:20:19.240 I couldn't be more excited to partner with our EPA team nationwide to exceptionally serve the American public.

00:20:28.720 I had the honor of working with many of you when I represented New York's first congressional district.

00:20:35.660 My district on the eastern end of Long Island was unique in that it was almost completely surrounded by water.

00:20:40.820 My constituents took environmental issues very seriously, and I developed a record in Congress fighting hard and with great success advancing their local priorities.

00:20:52.560 I worked across party lines to preserve the Long Island Sound and Plum Island.

00:20:57.580 I supported key legislation that became historic bipartisan success stories.

00:21:03.700 It's good. It's interesting.

00:21:05.420 You know, he's tossing out there his bona fides is a good guy.

00:21:07.500 Lee Zilden is a good guy.

00:21:08.540 The engine room informs me that RFK is at the top of the scalp list they want.

00:21:16.280 I think if he took it, I'd actually beg to differ.

00:21:18.500 I think cash is number one.

00:21:20.920 I think RFK is number two.

00:21:24.020 And number three is Tulsi.

00:21:25.680 Although they're kind of jammed two and three.

00:21:28.380 The RFK may get some Democrats.

00:21:31.700 That's the reason I think it's going to be a tough scalp.

00:21:33.620 There are a couple, three Republicans that have a real problem with him, including Judas Pence.

00:21:41.180 Judas Pence put out a thing last night from his group saying they opposed Robert F. Kennedy.

00:21:46.880 We want all the president's picks to get across the goal line because the president wants his team.

00:21:50.340 He's going to get his team.

00:21:51.300 Momentarily, Pam Bondi.

00:21:54.660 So Lee Zilden is there.

00:21:55.480 We're going to get to Lee when they start getting some zingers in there.

00:21:58.520 It is very important for them to crush the EPA, the head of the EPA, because the EPA is central in kind of getting away from a lot of this environmental badness.

00:22:08.420 You see out in California, what's the result of that?

00:22:11.880 You do that year after year after year after year and, hey, ideas have consequences, folks.

00:22:19.740 Was that terrible in Appalachia?

00:22:21.740 We're going to try to – I'm working with Ben Burko.

00:22:23.520 I'm trying to put together a working group with those folks already making calls to people that are going to be in charge here in a couple of days to make sure that we set that right.

00:22:34.540 It makes – it's disgusting what's happened there.

00:22:36.960 Coaling completely forgotten.

00:22:38.520 And if you're back east now, it is bitter cold down there.

00:22:42.300 I think this is going to get to 6 degrees tonight or 6 degrees last night.

00:22:45.500 Those people are suffering, and we've got to come to their aid.

00:22:48.120 And, yes, the personal commitments people are making is absolutely extraordinary as usual with this audience and with the MAGA movement overall and the American people.

00:22:58.260 But this should not be just on private charity.

00:23:00.600 It can't be on private charity.

00:23:01.680 We have funds.

00:23:03.040 We have – you pay your taxes to make sure that they're in times of emergency, right?

00:23:08.120 It's called the – you know, FEMA.

00:23:09.340 It's called emergency for a reason.

00:23:10.800 And for some reason, it's abandoned.

00:23:12.460 I happen to think it's politics and Biden, right?

00:23:16.200 This regime – the Daily Mail, in fact, had yesterday – and if Grace could be so good because I'm going at 9,000 miles an hour.

00:23:24.720 If Grace could pull that – I'm not so sure I even put it up yesterday.

00:23:28.640 I think we just got the page.

00:23:30.860 I didn't have time.

00:23:31.720 But the Daily Mail actually went through and talked about what we've been talking about, how Biden's been trying to thwart President Trump at every level, including this orders of succession, the spending of the money, how the money is financed.

00:23:44.860 Things are doing at the border.

00:23:46.380 They have been united in trying to make this the most difficult transition ever.

00:23:50.820 President Trump is very upfront about that.

00:23:52.560 I think what they're doing in Ukraine – obviously, President Trump – President Trump has got this deal done in Gaza.

00:23:59.840 Now, you should know – it looks like the ceasefire is already kind of coming apart a little bit.

00:24:04.460 But I think from the Frank Gaffney's of the world, the different folks we have in the Victory Coalition and the guys and men and women that come on the show and talk about it, they're not happy about it.

00:24:17.600 They think it's a complete capitulation to Hamas.

00:24:21.480 They think the pressure was put on Netanyahu and it was not appropriate.

00:24:26.400 But, hey, they're huge supporters of President Trump.

00:24:28.760 President Trump wanted a ceasefire.

00:24:30.100 He wanted things to calm down before he came to office and it looks like he tried to get it.

00:24:35.500 I think Witkoff was very involved in that.

00:24:37.220 Witkoff, I think, was in Qatar and went to see Beebe and kind of laid down the law.

00:24:41.640 This is what it's got to be.

00:24:43.080 But as we see it right now, I think that's coming a little unwound.

00:24:47.520 Same with this Ukraine situation.

00:24:50.280 Obviously, our advice in the war room from Ben Harnwell and everybody is that you have to come out, I think, on day one and lay down the law.

00:24:57.940 Otherwise, Kagan and these guys are showing you they're going to try to trap President Trump.

00:25:02.660 What they're saying is traps everywhere, traps in finance.

00:25:05.660 And you're going to see that with Scott Besson today.

00:25:07.360 You saw yesterday with Russ Vogt.

00:25:11.380 In Russ Vogt, they're trying to trap him the entire time about spending, about cutting programs, about entitlements, all of it.

00:25:17.520 All they're doing is laying traps.

00:25:19.760 They're not there to be helpful.

00:25:21.280 This is not supportive.

00:25:22.460 This is not like a transition where somebody won.

00:25:24.640 You come in and say, OK, we lost.

00:25:26.060 You won.

00:25:26.940 How can we be helpful?

00:25:27.840 It's not it's not like that at all.

00:25:29.160 It's the exact opposite.

00:25:30.080 And the Biden executive, the executive branch in Biden has been the has been the worst of the worst.

00:25:36.160 Just absolutely terrible.

00:25:38.740 Today is paneling.

00:25:40.240 So Pam Bonney's up for round two. 1.00

00:25:42.900 Her yesterday was and she's going to get confirmed.

00:25:45.440 She was, I think, magnificent given the pressure she's under with Gates leaving.

00:25:50.280 Obviously, Gates has a different house style, much more aggressive, much more about the investigation.

00:25:56.440 Investigations of the TV rights for a Gates confirmation at at the Justice Department would have been, you know, top five viewing for the year.

00:26:05.260 Pam has a very different style, but it was fantastic.

00:26:08.140 I think she answered all the questions and she answered them in appropriate way.

00:26:11.160 She didn't take the bait.

00:26:13.040 She didn't take the bait.

00:26:14.280 And that's hard when you're sitting up there hour after hour and they're just pounding you and you're at that table alone because you really are.

00:26:21.260 It just shows you it shows you she did with a lot of class, a lot of style and kind of steel toughness, steel magnolia.

00:26:30.740 Right.

00:26:31.260 Not going to flinch, not going to let shifty shift get on her, not going to let she was barraged just like it was not as nasty as Hex says.

00:26:39.920 Hex says took on a personal animosity, but particularly the female Democratic senators. 0.54

00:26:45.440 They were kind of heritans that day just after him, after him. 0.99

00:26:49.160 I thought it was a terrible look for them.

00:26:50.520 That's what Pete's getting through.

00:26:51.420 I think it's one of the reasons Joni Ernst said, hey, I'm all in.

00:26:55.680 We've got Scott Besson.

00:26:57.020 Besson, they've come up with this thing about his taxes.

00:26:59.020 They're going to hammer him on that.

00:27:01.400 Look, he's like he's like everybody.

00:27:03.740 They're aggressive on their taxes.

00:27:05.180 Right.

00:27:05.440 And it's he's going to get pummeled by the Democrats on that.

00:27:08.700 It's all phony.

00:27:09.320 It's all made up.

00:27:10.260 They're going to come after him hard on tax and tariffs.

00:27:12.540 All of it.

00:27:12.880 So that'll be interesting.

00:27:14.360 Lee Zeldin, they're going to get into the question.

00:27:16.120 It's going to be brutal.

00:27:16.820 We're going to cut back and forth from the wisdom of yours truly.

00:27:21.280 I'll put this in context the entire time.

00:27:24.040 And what we saw, we got tremendous feedback from the audience.

00:27:26.500 We're only one to do this.

00:27:28.220 We think it's important.

00:27:29.480 It's important for the cadre and the boardroom posse to understand the angle of attack that the Senate is going to take.

00:27:35.280 Senate is obviously a major player, particularly in going forward.

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00:30:08.620 Times of Turbulence.

00:30:10.120 The Hill article, the newspaper article, you're going to see this in Scott Besant today.

00:30:14.360 As I've said, we've kind of narrowed the range of alternatives for President Trump.

00:30:20.780 It's just a reality.

00:30:21.980 This is what the Biden regime has left him.

00:30:25.020 President Trump, let's go back to the three lines of work and the three ways he's going to attack it, right?

00:30:29.400 You have the three lines of work is, number one, the ending of the kinetic war.

00:30:34.080 You saw, just saying, President Trump's masterstroke in Israel.

00:30:39.500 I realize a lot of our colleagues and contributors are not happy.

00:30:45.120 They think it's a surrender.

00:30:48.180 They didn't remove Hamas from Judea and Samaria.

00:30:53.160 They didn't take care of all the combat battalions in southern Gaza.

00:30:57.980 The war's not over.

00:31:00.060 I happen to think even if you come to a ceasefire, there's going to be, things are going to be reunited.

00:31:04.120 It's going to be back up within 90 days.

00:31:08.940 But President Trump wanted to cease fire, wanted the hostages returned.

00:31:11.820 He wanted that done before he got in office because I think he's sending a signal.

00:31:14.920 He's got other things he has to focus on.

00:31:17.220 He doesn't want a shooting war there.

00:31:19.280 I'm not saying that's not going to happen because I don't know if this ceasefire will hold.

00:31:22.340 The biggest, most important he's got to do now on that on the Third World War kinetic front is Ukraine.

00:31:29.760 And I'm a huge advocate for the president to step up and to say on Monday and to lay out a framework and to really tell the Ukrainians, you know, we're going to get on with this because we're not going to be around forever.

00:31:44.480 We're not going to support this.

00:31:45.820 We're not going to send troops on a security, you know, on a security mission.

00:31:50.420 They're looking for security guarantees.

00:31:51.820 You keep seeing this phrase security guarantee.

00:31:54.860 When you hear security guarantee, read American troops. 0.72

00:31:59.400 I know they're saying now it's going to be NATO.

00:32:01.640 It's going to be UK.

00:32:03.360 Look, those guys won't put in the money.

00:32:05.280 And security guarantee, they want our unlimited cash for weapons and for arms and for rebuilding.

00:32:11.200 And they want they want our troops.

00:32:14.300 Well, people just have to look out to California.

00:32:17.000 We don't have the money to rebuild the world that that's gone.

00:32:21.140 And that is the framing yesterday in the OMB hearing with Russ vote.

00:32:25.580 Russ is very upfront and there's got to be some tough choices made.

00:32:29.020 And they came after him nonstop.

00:32:31.580 And he he really came across, I think, fantastic.

00:32:36.000 But the frame now is everything.

00:32:37.940 We can't afford it.

00:32:39.540 Right.

00:32:39.860 We're essentially I don't know for a going concern as far as the financing of this, because you have an economic plan.

00:32:47.000 An economic plan for the country.

00:32:49.940 And that's quite frankly, you want to be as as close to hands off as possible and just let self organize around capitalism.

00:32:57.220 Yes, you do have to have some sort of, you know, regulatory apparatus.

00:33:01.820 I happen to think now that you have to the regulatory apparatus got to step in and start to break up this big tech situation.

00:33:08.200 And when Biden last night talks about oligarchs, they created them.

00:33:12.340 Let's not have a race history and talk about this now.

00:33:15.200 You know, now spending is a big deal for them.

00:33:17.080 Now these oligarchs are a big deal for them. 1.00

00:33:18.900 It wasn't a big deal when they were doing it.

00:33:21.520 They're the ones that initiate this massive over the top spending.

00:33:24.320 And people warned them about it.

00:33:25.580 The show warned them about it.

00:33:26.720 People we had on the show like Scott Besson.

00:33:29.580 Does that name sound familiar?

00:33:30.640 Oh, yeah.

00:33:30.940 He's going to be secretary of treasury.

00:33:32.660 Like Russ vote.

00:33:33.640 Does that name sound familiar?

00:33:34.480 Yeah.

00:33:34.600 He's going to be director of OMB.

00:33:35.840 Peter Navarro.

00:33:36.580 Does that name sound familiar?

00:33:37.420 Oh, yeah.

00:33:38.260 Senior counsel for trade and manufacturing.

00:33:40.060 I get it.

00:33:40.620 We brought those people on for a reason.

00:33:44.760 They understand President Trump's economic philosophy and they can implement that.

00:33:49.520 But you have two things.

00:33:50.900 You have both economics and finance.

00:33:52.820 They're not the same.

00:33:54.500 Economics are kind of the doing of things, right?

00:33:57.540 The economy, economics, the goods and services, production, distribution, marketing, the animal

00:34:05.700 spirits, unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit of the American people.

00:34:11.220 The other finances, how we're actually going to pay for this.

00:34:13.760 How are you going to finance it?

00:34:14.760 It's going to be equity.

00:34:15.560 It's going to be debt.

00:34:16.280 This government, how's it going to be done?

00:34:18.200 Where are the sources of revenues?

00:34:20.580 Where are the sources of proceeds and where are the uses of proceeds?

00:34:23.760 One thing I ask you all the time is look around, $36 trillion, where'd it go?

00:34:29.120 Huh?

00:34:29.640 Where'd it go?

00:34:31.140 Where's your 36?

00:34:32.080 Where's the 36 trillion?

00:34:33.120 The $36 trillion, where'd it go?

00:34:36.020 Ask yourself, look around.

00:34:38.800 That's the uses of proceeds, which has to get to be, we have to really start to rethink

00:34:43.900 that because we're spending a lot too much on operations and not enough on investment or

00:34:49.180 infrastructure.

00:34:49.940 The sources of proceeds, and this is where President Trump, the masterstroke is to think

00:34:55.060 about it.

00:34:55.380 Well, hang on for a second.

00:34:57.120 Why is it all internal revenue?

00:34:59.320 Internal revenue is just a mindset we got into at the beginning of the 20th century when

00:35:02.640 we went away from tariffs and went away from more of the, what's called the American system

00:35:07.000 that was developed and laid out by Alexander Hamilton.

00:35:11.020 Remember, we have three, I say, sacred documents that came from divine providence at the beginning,

00:35:17.040 the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, but also the report on manufacturers.

00:35:22.260 The report on manufacturers from Alexander Hamilton at the very beginning is inspired.

00:35:27.600 If you look there, that's as sophisticated as you could possibly get about how to build

00:35:31.560 an industrial economy out of a wilderness.

00:35:35.620 That brother had vision.

00:35:37.680 And this is why I say Hamilton, with all his flaws, remember, he's a quite imperfect instrument.

00:35:43.520 You heard that before?

00:35:44.240 He's a quite imperfect instrument.

00:35:49.100 But man, what a genius, the American system.

00:35:53.460 Up until for the first 140 years, we financed it all from the outside.

00:35:56.320 President Trump with the External Revenue Service saying, hey, I realize, but all the

00:36:00.360 burden for this apparatus, and this apparatus provides so many benefits, not just to the

00:36:04.120 people in the United States, but throughout the world.

00:36:06.520 Like the American Military Committee.

00:36:08.140 Why is it only the United States that pays for this?

00:36:09.900 Yes, allies throw some in and there's specific reason, but the way I think President Trump

00:36:14.480 looks at this is that, hey, it's a premium seating at a football game or a baseball game

00:36:19.180 or a basketball game.

00:36:20.940 The United States behind the golden door is the greatest, most lucrative market in the

00:36:25.100 world.

00:36:25.460 Why is that?

00:36:27.240 Because of you.

00:36:28.500 Remember, you're the full faith and credit of the United States government.

00:36:31.820 It's not the SEC.

00:36:33.040 It's not the Federal Reserve.

00:36:34.040 It's not the U.S. Treasury.

00:36:35.260 It's not Congress.

00:36:36.120 It's you, the people.

00:36:37.860 It's on your shoulders.

00:36:39.620 And now it's really on your shoulders.

00:36:40.900 One of the reasons inflation is not going to go away is the refinancing of this massive

00:36:45.460 debt.

00:36:46.740 We're just adding deficits onto it all the time.

00:36:48.900 But I think Scott Besson's got to, I think it's $7 trillion of government securities he's

00:36:53.380 got to refinance.

00:36:54.900 They come in at higher rates.

00:36:56.160 And right now, as we told you, the 10-year Treasury, I think things backed off a little

00:36:59.300 bit yesterday.

00:36:59.780 But in England, they kind of got the bond vigilantes are in a vault.

00:37:03.620 The guilt is blowing up because they don't believe the business model of what the Brits

00:37:09.420 are putting forward.

00:37:10.140 I mean, Starmer and the Labor Party is already, I think they're in the high 20s of popularity.

00:37:15.280 They were not ready for showtime.

00:37:18.620 We have somebody ready to go?

00:37:20.400 We're producing this on the fly.

00:37:22.340 Besson and Scott, they're starting up now.

00:37:24.640 Let me know when he gives his opening statement.

00:37:26.700 Okay, we've got Scott Besson ready to go.

00:37:28.060 So, Pam hasn't shown up yet.

00:37:31.020 Pam running a little late.

00:37:32.400 Let me tell you, if Lee Zeldin's getting attacked by a Democrat, we'll jump in there.

00:37:36.020 We're going to try to juggle today and do all of this.

00:37:39.540 The Freedom Caucus, along those lines, the Freedom Caucus has put forth a proposal.

00:37:45.660 The proposal, it basically says they need offsets, but they've offered up a two-year relief on

00:37:53.000 the debt ceiling.

00:37:54.180 Have you ever heard the debt ceiling?

00:37:55.400 Have you ever mentioned that on the show?

00:37:56.480 Maybe a couple, three times.

00:37:59.720 I think the bid and the ask, I'm just saying, I think the ask is going to be four years,

00:38:07.360 no cap.

00:38:07.940 I don't know.

00:38:08.560 Just saying.

00:38:09.840 He's going to want exactly what Biden got by McCarthy.

00:38:13.820 When McCarthy got turfed out by that, the Freedom Caucus.

00:38:16.960 I've got to do this in memory.

00:38:18.020 It's not in front of me now, and I can't pull up my phone.

00:38:19.700 But two years, four trillion dollars.

00:38:23.140 Two years, four trillion dollars.

00:38:25.580 So that's telling you something right there.

00:38:29.080 I mean, that's two, hey, don't want to say we called it, but we called it two trillion

00:38:34.080 dollar deficits the next two years.

00:38:36.580 They're asking for an increase in the, this is the Freedom Caucus.

00:38:38.940 These are the biggest budget hawks out there.

00:38:41.020 I think that's right.

00:38:41.800 Can my producer get it from Grace and send it back to me so it's the top of my feed?

00:38:46.980 They just put out a statement.

00:38:50.340 And they want to have offsets, offsets against all this.

00:38:52.900 So let me, let me just step back for a second.

00:38:55.880 And how do I do this?

00:38:58.640 Give a slight reality check here.

00:39:00.320 I said this at the political thing the other day.

00:39:04.780 When they come up with these budgets and all this stuff, and they're talking about, we

00:39:08.460 got more conservative wins.

00:39:09.820 And I remember McCarthy, we have more conservative wins than we've ever had.

00:39:13.340 His people, some of his people around him called me up and said, you're missing the point.

00:39:16.920 These are more conservative wins than we ever had.

00:39:18.860 Johnson, his favorite phrase.

00:39:20.820 Remember that debacle on the, on the 1500 page CR?

00:39:24.560 We've got more conservative wins.

00:39:26.120 I got so many conservative wins.

00:39:27.640 When they use the phrase conservative wins, they're selling you smoke and mirrors. 1.00

00:39:33.380 As soon as that phrase crosses their lips, just shut down and go, no, screw you. 0.99

00:39:38.520 I don't want to hear it because they're trying to sell you more spending. 0.98

00:39:43.580 Now on the freedom caucus, when they talk about a debt ceiling lift, and these are the most

00:39:48.380 conservative guys.

00:39:51.820 President Trump's not going to say, okay, two years for trade.

00:39:54.980 He's just not going to do it.

00:39:56.160 I don't think.

00:39:57.640 He's just not going to do it.

00:39:59.920 He's not going to want to, he's not going to want to constrain.

00:40:01.860 I don't think.

00:40:03.380 But they're offering up two years and $4 trillion.

00:40:06.140 That means $2 trillion, just simple math.

00:40:09.120 That means $2 trillion deficit the first two years.

00:40:15.700 That implies something.

00:40:16.820 Number one, where's Doge?

00:40:18.560 And I want to get back to just process and critical passes, audiences up to speed so you're smart, so that you've got the information and you're going to be engaged in this fight.

00:40:28.800 The CR kicked down to March.

00:40:32.460 March is the government runs out of money again, almost halfway through the fiscal year.

00:40:38.680 Don't have a budget.

00:40:40.420 Don't have an appropriations that we promised and committed that we're going to do, but for every reason, we don't have it.

00:40:47.100 But March 20th is the date.

00:40:49.200 Note to self, March 20th is 60 days from Monday.

00:40:52.700 So two months, President Trump has.

00:40:56.000 And we want single subject appropriations bills to go through it, you know, chapter and verse.

00:41:00.620 Also, the Doge guys have to merge in that.

00:41:03.400 The Doge cuts can only come from an appropriations process.

00:41:07.720 Other than that, it's just an exercise in writing a white paper.

00:41:10.860 It's another commission.

00:41:12.800 And these commissions go nowhere.

00:41:14.040 If Doge is to have impact, and that's why it's an advisor to, guess what, OMB, right?

00:41:19.340 In that, they can really put in the deconstruction of the administrative state, what they want to do, okay?

00:41:28.060 Now, they promised $2 trillion.

00:41:31.480 And their promise, when they made the $2 trillion cut, it was on the $6.5 trillion of annual federal spending.

00:41:38.120 It wasn't a 10-year.

00:41:40.300 They may not realize it at the time, but they were talking $2 trillion.

00:41:43.860 And President Trump's mind, that was $2 trillion of the $6.5.

00:41:46.080 So my question is, where's the beef?

00:41:50.680 We want Doge to work in the biggest way possible.

00:41:53.040 That's the way you deconstruct the administrative state.

00:41:54.940 You put a brilliant team of very smart people that are entrepreneurs outside the system.

00:42:00.440 They can look at it new.

00:42:01.840 And it's not going to come from waste, fraud, and abuse.

00:42:03.740 Let me just – that's a fantasy.

00:42:05.800 When somebody says waste, fraud, and abuse, they're also selling you something.

00:42:09.320 Is there waste?

00:42:10.440 Absolutely.

00:42:10.980 Is there duplication?

00:42:11.900 Yes.

00:42:12.280 Is there abuse?

00:42:13.160 Yes.

00:42:13.520 All of that.

00:42:14.080 But that is on the margin.

00:42:17.580 It's on the margin.

00:42:19.300 The problem is you're doing too much.

00:42:21.620 You're doing too much with people.

00:42:24.260 And even cutting bodies is not – you've got to cut programs.

00:42:26.600 It's programs and billets, programs and billets, programs and billets.

00:42:30.840 That's what you have to be focused on before you get to the entitlements.

00:42:35.100 That's a different kettle of fish.

00:42:36.860 You've got to get there eventually, but you have to have buy-in by the American people.

00:42:41.580 Maybe not for Medicaid.

00:42:42.700 That's a different topic.

00:42:43.660 But for Medicare and Social Security, if you're going to make any change at all, the American people have to buy into this.

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00:45:01.940 Action, action, action.

00:45:03.240 Secretary, I described.

00:45:14.080 That's why we have the hearing, to get his views.

00:45:16.740 Thank you, Senator Crapo.

00:45:19.420 Thank you very much, Senator Whiten.

00:45:22.120 And today, we are honored to have our good friend and colleague and now the new Budget Committee

00:45:28.000 Chairman, Senator Lindsey Graham, to help introduce the nominee.

00:45:32.880 Welcome, Senator Graham, from the state of the great state of South Carolina.

00:45:37.580 I want to thank you for joining us today.

00:45:40.260 And I'll turn it over to you to introduce Mr. Besant.

00:45:44.000 Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman, and ranking member to all my colleagues.

00:45:47.180 And there are only 100 of us.

00:45:48.560 We know each other pretty well.

00:45:50.700 This is my first appearance in the Finance Committee, probably last.

00:45:54.300 Y'all work on complicated stuff, and I'm glad you like this stuff.

00:46:00.120 Seems kind of boring to me, but it's important what you do.

00:46:03.980 And I respect the intellect of the people on this committee, because our economy needs the

00:46:09.400 best minds that we can find on the Finance Committee.

00:46:13.820 And we need a Secretary of Treasury that knows what he's doing, has the trust of the President,

00:46:20.440 and loves his country.

00:46:22.080 Your ship came in with this guy.

00:46:24.820 So Scott Besant's from South Carolina.

00:46:29.640 He's academically gifted and real-world tested.

00:46:33.500 He went to Yale, so nobody's perfect.

00:46:37.060 When he told me that, I said, hmm, I don't know about that.

00:46:40.100 But anyway, he's really, really smart, and this is a complicated area.

00:46:45.240 Now, why am I here?

00:46:46.480 Because Trump won.

00:46:48.340 I wouldn't be here if Trump hadn't won.

00:46:50.900 Trump won because more people voted for him.

00:46:53.300 And he had to pick people to form his cabinet.

00:46:58.600 And when he talked about the Secretary of Treasury, I'm not the normal person you would go to

00:47:06.400 ask about, because this is not so much my portfolio.

00:47:10.820 But when he mentioned Scott, I said, oh, my God, home run, from my point of view.

00:47:18.120 I mean, you're talking about somebody who's academically gifted, understands the world.

00:47:24.500 Scott, like any Republican president, would pick Scott.

00:47:28.220 I mean, he really understands the president and what the president wants to do.

00:47:36.140 And the reason I vote for almost everybody, for every president, is I believe, colleagues,

00:47:44.360 that every president deserves a cabinet that they know and trust and can rely upon.

00:47:49.520 If I had to vote for people based on agreeing with them, I wouldn't vote for anybody y'all picked.

00:47:57.640 That's not the standard for me.

00:47:59.040 I vote for people who I disagree with because I think they're qualified.

00:48:03.320 So I would just ask the committee to think, is this man qualified?

00:48:07.520 Does he have the background and the intelligence and the character to serve President Trump and our nation's Secretary of Treasury?

00:48:16.900 I think by any reasonable test of qualifications, he excels beyond the bare minimum to the highest level of excellence.

00:48:28.360 But that's just my opinion.

00:48:30.100 So my goal here today is to tell you a little bit about him.

00:48:35.080 You've heard from the chairman about his success in the financial world, about his academic qualifications.

00:48:43.280 He was born in Little River, South Carolina.

00:48:48.120 Why do they call it Little River?

00:48:50.820 Because it's little.

00:48:53.100 And it's a river.

00:48:56.700 It's in Ory County.

00:48:58.840 How many of you heard of Myrtle Beach?

00:49:00.200 Most of you.

00:49:01.640 Well, this is somewhere between Conway and Myrtle Beach.

00:49:05.740 At nine years old, his first job was to set up beach chairs and umbrellas in North Myrtle Beach.

00:49:11.800 And apparently you did well there, because North Myrtle Beach is thriving.

00:49:18.140 He went to North Myrtle Beach High School, and he was voted most likely to succeed in 1980.

00:49:26.240 And we have a high school classmate of his.

00:49:31.480 What did they see in him?

00:49:33.200 The same thing I see.

00:49:34.340 Someone who really is talented and works hard and just a good person.

00:49:43.160 The type of people that you think are going to succeed, but you hope succeed.

00:49:48.780 So he lives in Charleston in a really nice place.

00:49:55.480 Going from Little River to Charleston is about a two-and-a-half-hour drive, but it's a real change.

00:50:00.720 Since I represent South Carolina, I like them both very much.

00:50:05.960 He's married.

00:50:07.060 John, his husband, is right behind me.

00:50:09.640 And they have two kids, Carolina and Cole, and they're absolutely adorable.

00:50:14.740 And from a South Carolina point of view, we're really proud of Scott.

00:50:18.260 I was over-the-top happy when President Trump picked him, because I know him.

00:50:25.800 I know where he came from.

00:50:28.180 The rich and powerful don't live in Little River.

00:50:31.700 This is truly the American dream.

00:50:34.660 This man has been successful at everything he's ever tried to do.

00:50:41.500 He's worked really hard.

00:50:43.020 And why did President Trump pick him?

00:50:47.080 Because he believes that President Trump's economic agenda is good for this country, and

00:50:52.480 he wants to help President Trump be successful.

00:50:55.400 And here's what Scott said.

00:50:58.640 I think it's the melding of economic policy with national security.

00:51:03.300 Economic policy and national security are now indispensable, and Donald Trump understands

00:51:09.500 that.

00:51:09.820 So I'm here to tell you, folks, I agree with that.

00:51:13.140 If we don't have energy independence, we're less safe.

00:51:16.740 If we don't get our debt in order, we're less safe.

00:51:19.900 I am known around here as kind of a national security guy, but I do understand economic policy

00:51:25.580 matters.

00:51:27.860 If you want to clean up the environment, a carbon fee seems to be a good way to do it,

00:51:32.540 to punish China and India for bad carbon practices.

00:51:35.200 Call it a tariff.

00:51:35.900 Call it whatever you want to do.

00:51:36.920 Call it a tariff.

00:51:37.920 Call it a tariff.

00:51:38.920 Call it a tariff.

00:51:39.920 So, President Trump won.

00:51:40.920 I'm here today because he won.

00:51:43.920 I'm here today because Scott lives in South Carolina.

00:51:48.920 I'm here today to tell you, if you use qualifications as your test, this is the easiest vote you'll ever

00:51:56.500 take.

00:51:58.260 If your goal is to play like the election didn't happen, then I guess you'll vote no.

00:52:05.260 That's just where we're headed in the Senate.

00:52:08.380 When you lose an election, you get up and dust yourself off and you get ready for the next

00:52:12.260 one.

00:52:13.260 But I was honored when he asked me to introduce him.

00:52:17.260 Because I know this man.

00:52:20.260 And America will be in good hands if he's our Secretary of Treasurer.

00:52:26.260 He deserves this job.

00:52:28.260 He's qualified for this job.

00:52:30.260 And President Trump, thank you for picking him on behalf of all of us in South Carolina.

00:52:36.260 We're extremely proud of you and we wish you well.

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00:52:56.260 Now, Jim Rickards, editor of the independent financial newsletter Strategic Intelligence and

00:53:02.260 New York Times bestselling author, is warning about a coming event that could elevate this

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00:53:10.260 In fact, some of the guests I've had on The War Room believe that the government will soon

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Bannon's War Room - January 16, 2025

Episode 4198： Where We Stand With Trump's Nominees

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