Bannon's War Room - January 22, 2025


Episode 4211： Freedom Of The J6 Hostages


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 7 minutes

Words per Minute

167.1486

Word Count

11,272

Sentence Count

1,099

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

19


Summary

On this episode of the War Room, Steve talks to Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) about the political prisoners being held hostage in a federal prison in D.C. and the efforts being made to get them released.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.
00:00:09.060 There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families.
00:00:19.000 Some who fear for their lives.
00:00:21.400 And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation.
00:00:43.000 But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals.
00:00:48.960 They pay taxes and are good neighbors.
00:00:52.880 They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, Wadara, and temples.
00:01:02.620 I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away.
00:01:09.500 And that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here.
00:01:20.600 Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger.
00:01:27.820 For we will all want strangers in this land.
00:01:32.280 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:01:43.300 Pray for our enemies.
00:01:45.300 Because we're going medieval on these people.
00:01:48.460 Here's the time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:01:52.760 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:01:54.660 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:01:56.080 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
00:01:58.780 It's going to happen.
00:01:59.820 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:02:03.360 MAGA Media.
00:02:04.780 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:02:10.220 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:02:14.000 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:02:20.280 War Room.
00:02:21.200 Here's your host, Stephen K. Banff.
00:02:23.640 It's Tuesday, 21 January, Year of the Lord, 2025.
00:02:33.880 We've got to get better advanced work.
00:02:37.460 She's stranger in a strange land.
00:02:39.280 That is Reverend Marianne Budd.
00:02:42.480 Bud?
00:02:44.760 Lecturing President Trump in the prayer service today.
00:02:48.100 We'll have more about that later.
00:02:49.260 I want to go to the prison.
00:02:50.840 I want to go to the D.C. Gulag.
00:02:54.120 Our own Ben Burkwam is down there to release some prisoners.
00:02:57.280 And, of course, a friend of the show, the great congressman from Arizona, Eli Crane.
00:03:02.820 Ben, I don't know if Eli's hooked up or not, but give me an assessment of what's happened this afternoon.
00:03:09.000 All the political prisoners, are the hostages, had they been released?
00:03:13.640 No, Steve, they haven't.
00:03:16.240 Thanks for having us.
00:03:17.360 Congressman Crane got out here first thing this morning.
00:03:20.280 Congressman, you just got an update.
00:03:22.160 Yeah, so thanks, Steve, for having us on.
00:03:24.820 We've been working the phones all day today.
00:03:28.120 First, we talked to the prison's public affairs officer.
00:03:33.300 Then I got connected to the U.S. Marshals, called them.
00:03:38.200 We've been trying to get these guys out of here all day long.
00:03:41.060 But the last word we got was probably about 45 minutes ago that 15 of them are going to be released.
00:03:46.860 They're just waiting on the paperwork.
00:03:49.420 We were told that one of the federal marshals had to go and actually get the packets.
00:03:54.120 We don't know how long that's going to take.
00:03:55.940 But keep in mind, word and, you know, what we've been hearing has been changing all day long.
00:04:00.700 So I don't know that that's gospel truth, but that's the last bit of information we got.
00:04:05.260 So here's what I don't understand, Congressman.
00:04:11.420 How can the, you know, he's chief executive of the U.S. government.
00:04:14.900 He's commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces.
00:04:16.800 And he's chief magistrate and senior law enforcement officer of the government.
00:04:22.560 He signs pardons.
00:04:24.800 He wants it done.
00:04:26.060 People get it at 7 o'clock.
00:04:27.220 Why are we 24 hours later, these hostages have not been released, Congressman Crane?
00:04:35.200 Yeah, Steve.
00:04:35.880 I mean, there's a lot of speculation amongst those of us that want to see these individuals released to their families and loved ones.
00:04:42.320 You know, obviously, you know, there's the concern that there's political games being played.
00:04:47.300 People actually dragging their feet intentionally, you know, to slow walk, you know, these efforts.
00:04:51.880 But I have talked to, when I talked to the U.S. Marshal in particular today, he did tell us that, you know, Trump's executive order is being complied with.
00:05:00.980 He even sent a letter to my office saying that they've released 211, you know, federal inmates around the country.
00:05:08.400 I think these are the last ones that are outstanding.
00:05:10.760 So we are waiting on them.
00:05:12.240 So, you know, he also told me that, you know, the thing that was holding some of these guys up, you know, outside of the paperwork was if they had prior convictions or not.
00:05:21.920 And so, you know, that's the information that I've got today.
00:05:24.560 But, you know, Ben invited me out today.
00:05:26.940 I'm happy to be here.
00:05:28.240 And I just wanted to come here and stand with these guys, show support and solidarity for these poor families and these guys that have been locked up for years.
00:05:38.200 Congressman, I know we've got limited time with you.
00:05:40.500 I have to ask, I know one of the things that I think really upset the president was a blanket pardon, preemptive pardons for the J6 committee, Benny Thompson, Cheney, and the staffs.
00:05:54.400 These are people that cause so much pain for everybody.
00:05:57.960 You know, all the J6 prisoners, of course, Navarro and I went to prison.
00:06:01.720 President Trump, I think they had 300 years coming from the criminal referrals from this committee.
00:06:07.020 Number one, why has the speaker not moved to have a vote to shut down this committee and all its historic work?
00:06:15.580 And number two, do you think the congressman that took pardons, should they give up their seats in Congress, sir?
00:06:22.280 Well, you know, I have heard that, you know, taking these pardons is an admission of guilt by some.
00:06:29.760 You know, as far as Speaker Johnson, I haven't been able to talk to him about that, Steve.
00:06:34.500 You know, today we've been focused solely on trying to get these guys out of jail.
00:06:38.180 But, you know, I'm always open to ideas.
00:06:40.600 I know I'm not the smartest guy in the room, and I'm just here to put my shoulder behind the wheel.
00:06:44.240 And as the, you know, days of weeks go by, I know there will be plenty of work to be done, man.
00:06:49.820 So, you know, thanks for having us on the show, and thanks for covering this very important story.
00:06:56.040 We're going to get to Ben Berker in a second.
00:06:57.760 Last question.
00:06:58.620 Andy Biggs, the great friend of the show, I know a great friend and mentor to you, filed papers today to potentially run for the governor of Arizona.
00:07:06.820 Any thoughts on that, Congressman Crane?
00:07:10.620 Yeah, I've got a lot of thoughts on it, Steve.
00:07:12.520 I've been trying to guilt him into running for this spot for a long time.
00:07:16.300 He's definitely the most qualified guy to do it.
00:07:18.840 I think Andy is the most conservative and probably the strongest member of the U.S. House.
00:07:24.260 He was also state president of the Senate in Arizona.
00:07:28.440 He knows Arizona.
00:07:29.820 He knows how the system works better than anybody.
00:07:32.260 I don't think anybody would do a better job.
00:07:34.400 You know, he has my full support, you know, and I know he has the support of the War Room Posse.
00:07:39.960 So, you know, thank you guys for supporting Andy, and I hope he pulls the trigger and goes all the way through with it.
00:07:45.440 So, you're going to step up now and be one of the top budget.
00:07:50.420 If we're going to lose Biggs, you're going to step up and fill his shoes on being one of the top budget hawks here.
00:07:55.020 I saw House Freedom Caucus proposed, gave the president a deal cap, you know, undo the cap in the debt ceiling for two years past the midterm elections and $4 trillion of cap.
00:08:07.480 I do the math.
00:08:08.740 That's $2 trillion per year.
00:08:10.340 We're running right now on $1.9, $2 trillion already this fiscal year.
00:08:14.200 We don't have a budget.
00:08:15.160 The appropriation committee is coming.
00:08:17.060 Are you guys implying by that, Eli, since you're going to step into Biggs' shoes, are you guys implying that Doge and Russ Vogt are going to get essentially no cuts over the next two years?
00:08:28.580 Is that what the $4 trillion cap means?
00:08:30.380 Well, that's definitely not our plan, Steve, to not get any cuts out of it.
00:08:36.320 You know, I think that there's understanding within the House Freedom Caucus and within conservatives and the conference that, you know, we don't deal in universes of ideal, far from it.
00:08:47.240 You know, so I'm not going to celebrate anything that's going on up here.
00:08:50.560 What I will tell you is we're trying to get the best deal that we can for the American people, and it's going to be tough to even get that with the folks that we work with up here.
00:09:03.640 Eli Crane, Congressman, social media, people want to follow you, particularly down there as a vigil, and you're doing more than praying.
00:09:10.780 You're trying to help these hostages get released.
00:09:13.900 Where do people go, sir?
00:09:14.740 Rep. Eli Crane, Eli Crane, CEO.
00:09:19.400 Thanks, Steve.
00:09:20.140 Appreciate you.
00:09:20.900 Love you guys.
00:09:23.620 Thank you, Congressman Crane.
00:09:24.880 We love you, too.
00:09:25.560 Okay, just a programming note.
00:09:27.020 We're going to go back to Ben Burkham here in a second.
00:09:29.640 We have Noor Ben Laden in Davos to get an update on what's happened there today.
00:09:33.580 A lot of it about AI.
00:09:36.200 Oscar Blue Ramirez is down in Mexico and Tijuana.
00:09:38.920 We're going to talk about all the orders, the executive orders signed.
00:09:41.540 Ezra Cohen is going to come and tell us about what happens in the first couple of days of the National Security Council when you change leadership, particularly a new president comes in.
00:09:52.480 But the president of the United States is going to step up to the microphone in a minute.
00:09:55.640 I think he's an hour late.
00:09:56.800 This is going to be about this announcement today, a $500 billion deal brought in by, I think it was Microsoft, and, of course, SoftBank, one of my favorite guys, not.
00:10:07.760 President Trump is going to come and talk about that.
00:10:09.260 It's about AI infrastructure.
00:10:11.620 We're going to get to Noor Ben Laden in a moment in Davos.
00:10:13.940 Ben Burkham, get us updated.
00:10:15.240 We left you today in the cold outside the D.C. gulag.
00:10:19.000 People running the D.C. gulag and Matthew Graves and these people, you've got to understand, you didn't get pardons.
00:10:25.860 As a matter of fact, Tom Fitt was on this morning.
00:10:28.360 We don't think any of the pardons effectuate because Trump's Justice Department has to implement them.
00:10:35.040 We don't think that's going to happen, and particularly we are strongly recommending to the president of the United States that Pete Hexeth, who I think got voted out of the committee today, 1413,
00:10:45.280 that Pete Hexeth immediately when he's voted on the floor, I think in the next 48 hours, immediately recalled General Milley to active duty and impanel a military tribunal to try him under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for treason
00:11:01.380 and let him use his so-called pardon in court as evidence.
00:11:07.340 Ben Burkham, the hostages, the political prisoners down at the Black Hole of Calcutta, Washington, D.C. Division.
00:11:15.880 What's happening, sir? It gets up to date.
00:11:18.160 Well, just to give you an idea of where we're standing, we're right next to the door.
00:11:22.600 Coming out, you can see it behind me.
00:11:24.420 We've got some officers over here.
00:11:25.880 We've got some caution tape set up here.
00:11:27.900 They're preventing anyone from coming across the street.
00:11:30.100 We've been given access, and I keep an eye out for the door.
00:11:33.540 So as these guys are coming, we're anticipating 15 of them to be released any minute now.
00:11:40.920 Apparently, this Judge Nichols was the one assigned this paperwork.
00:11:47.660 It's still unknown if it was intentionally stalled.
00:11:51.420 It appears to be because everyone else has been let out.
00:11:53.720 This is the only place it hasn't.
00:11:55.520 And these guys, 15 of them should be out momentarily.
00:11:58.480 It could be any second now.
00:11:59.280 And so we're waiting for that.
00:12:00.620 We've got a large group of people across the street.
00:12:02.800 Police have kept them across the street all day.
00:12:05.460 Had several congressmen come by and join this.
00:12:08.640 We've got pressure coming from Congress.
00:12:10.740 I know President Trump is aware of this.
00:12:13.240 People have been reaching out to him as well.
00:12:14.580 But we are being told seven of them won't be released because, again, potentially ongoing charges.
00:12:21.140 But to your point, this is one of the beginnings of the battles that we're facing.
00:12:25.600 But this day would not have happened if the inauguration of President Trump didn't happen yesterday.
00:12:30.420 No, we owe an immense amount to Julie Kelly.
00:12:36.440 Julie, I think we're going to try to get her on.
00:12:38.060 I'm telling my producer right now momentarily.
00:12:40.740 Also, we are going to go to President Trump's news conference when it starts.
00:12:46.240 It's about this artificial intelligence infrastructure fund, $500 billion put in by SoftBank.
00:12:53.600 I think Microsoft's the other.
00:12:55.440 A bunch of your bettors from the venture capital community.
00:12:59.780 Remember the techno feudalist.
00:13:01.740 Ben Burkwam, we're going to come back to you as soon as we have any more updates.
00:13:06.900 Judge Nichols.
00:13:07.660 Let me see.
00:13:08.200 Judge Nichols.
00:13:08.780 Oh, yeah, that was a judge that sent me to a federal prison.
00:13:11.520 I remember Judge Nichols.
00:13:13.060 A Trump appointee, I might add.
00:13:16.300 Judge Nichols.
00:13:18.100 I never talk about the trial, but you know what's interesting is that the en banc, the appeals court,
00:13:25.780 taking an awful lot of time to thinking, hey, is Bennett getting a pardon?
00:13:29.520 Bennett ain't getting a pardon.
00:13:30.460 Don't want a pardon.
00:13:31.840 You guys make a decision.
00:13:33.140 Remember, Nancy Pelosi's committee was totally illegitimate and illegal.
00:13:39.820 Don't take it from me.
00:13:41.360 Take it from Benny Thompson, who went up there and begged, begged, begged for a pardon.
00:13:46.640 Benny Thompson's got a pardon.
00:13:48.120 Liz Cheney's got a pardon.
00:13:49.140 The entire committee's got a pardon.
00:13:50.220 And the staff.
00:13:51.180 I think that might be a ticking time bomb.
00:13:56.040 As Tom Fenton laid out today, guess what?
00:13:58.920 President Trump and the Justice Department, Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, the entire crew over there,
00:14:05.080 absolutely no way should you take any more effort on those pardons whatsoever.
00:14:09.740 Biden should have played games and dropped them at the last, and particularly for his family,
00:14:14.080 should not have dropped them at the end.
00:14:16.040 Should have done it six months ago.
00:14:17.760 Could have done Fauci at any time.
00:14:19.060 Going out the door, it means another Justice Department has to actually effectuate them.
00:14:23.820 Well, guess what?
00:14:24.900 Not going to happen.
00:14:26.240 Short commercial break.
00:14:27.560 We've got Ben down at the Gulag.
00:14:29.580 We've got Norbin Laden in Davos.
00:14:32.360 We have Oscar Blue Ramirez in Tijuana.
00:14:35.860 Julie Kelly's going to join us.
00:14:37.080 Ezra Cohen's going to join us.
00:14:38.100 It's pretty packed on a Tuesday afternoon, late afternoon, early evening show of The War Room.
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00:14:55.120 Short commercial break.
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00:17:36.760 Let's go to Davos.
00:17:38.620 Our own Nora Bin Laden.
00:17:40.460 Nora, last year was chat GBT and then the venture capitalists rushed in.
00:17:45.480 This year, Davos kicked off yesterday.
00:17:47.700 We couldn't join you because we're here for all the activity.
00:17:51.600 What is happening in Davos and the party of Davos and the globalist?
00:17:56.100 Is it more artificial intelligence, ma'am?
00:18:00.160 Absolutely.
00:18:01.120 Artificial intelligence is front and center throughout the week if you look at the agenda
00:18:05.760 and the different panels, but also if you look at the different houses that are featured
00:18:11.400 on the promenade.
00:18:12.320 For those who don't know, every year all these different corporations and institutions take
00:18:18.380 over shops and local cafes and just transform them into their hubs.
00:18:22.280 And you have a plethora of AI hubs dedicated to that topic specifically.
00:18:28.580 And looking at the theme of this year's annual meeting, collaboration for the intelligent age,
00:18:35.860 I'm happy to break that down for the posse, but that very much centers around artificial
00:18:41.720 intelligence and all of these different technologies and how they are going to essentially change
00:18:48.300 our societies and our economies and basically human life.
00:18:54.960 Okay, Nora, hang on for one second.
00:18:57.300 We're going to go talking.
00:18:58.040 Speaking of artificial intelligence, what a great tee-up.
00:19:00.180 We're going to go live to the Roosevelt Room in the White House and President Trump talking
00:19:04.860 about this new deal on artificial intelligence infrastructure.
00:19:07.860 We're going to cut to the feed.
00:19:10.280 An even better second term.
00:19:11.760 And I think we're going to do things that people will be shocked at.
00:19:15.640 We're starting off with tremendous investment coming into our country at levels that nobody's
00:19:23.040 really ever seen before.
00:19:24.440 And they're very happy with the fact that I won the race and that they feel confident in
00:19:31.660 their investments.
00:19:32.300 And it's big money and high-quality people.
00:19:36.400 So my first day back from having a nice life, it's my honor to welcome three of the world's
00:19:44.320 leading technology CEOs.
00:19:46.400 And in the case of Larry, Larry Ellison, it's well beyond technology.
00:19:51.780 He's sort of CEO of everything.
00:19:54.860 He's an amazing man and an amazing business person.
00:19:58.800 But to announce the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history, and it's all taking
00:20:05.420 place right here in America.
00:20:09.180 As you know, there's great competition for AI and other things, and they're coming in at
00:20:16.260 the highest level.
00:20:17.200 We're joined by Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison, SoftBank CEO, my friend Masa.
00:20:25.600 Masa, Yoshi's son, and CEO of OpenAI, and I would say by far the leading expert based on
00:20:36.260 everything I read, Sam Altman.
00:20:39.300 So that's great that you're coming in together.
00:20:42.440 That's a massive group of talent and money.
00:20:45.960 Together, these world-leading technology giants are announcing the formation of Stargate.
00:20:52.200 So put that name down in your books, because I think you're going to hear a lot about it
00:20:56.980 in the future.
00:20:58.480 A new American company that will invest $500 billion, at least, in AI infrastructure in
00:21:05.020 the United States and very, very quickly moving very rapidly, creating over 100,000 American
00:21:11.520 jobs almost immediately.
00:21:12.960 This monumental undertaking is a resounding declaration of confidence in America's potential
00:21:19.580 under a new president.
00:21:23.060 Let me be a new president.
00:21:25.200 I didn't say it.
00:21:25.920 They did.
00:21:26.960 So I appreciate that, fellas.
00:21:28.900 But it'll ensure the future of technology.
00:21:32.540 What we want to do is we want to keep it in this country.
00:21:34.940 China is a competitor, and others are competitors.
00:21:37.460 We want it to be in this country, and we're making it available.
00:21:43.520 I'm going to help a lot through emergency declarations, because we have an emergency.
00:21:49.200 We have to get this stuff built.
00:21:51.020 So they have to produce a lot of electricity, and we'll make it possible for them to get that
00:21:56.680 production done very easily at their own plants if they want, where they'll build,
00:22:01.600 at the plant, the AI plant, they'll build energy generation, and that will be incredible.
00:22:11.300 But it's technology and artificial intelligence, all made in the USA.
00:22:16.300 Begin immediately, Stargate will be building the physical and virtual infrastructure to power
00:22:22.240 the next generation of advancements in AI, and this will include the construction of colossal
00:22:28.140 data centers, very, very massive structures.
00:22:32.240 I was in the real estate business.
00:22:33.880 These buildings, these are big, beautiful buildings.
00:22:36.400 They're going to employ a lot of people.
00:22:38.480 And physical campuses and locations currently being scouted nationwide.
00:22:42.520 They're making their choices of locations.
00:22:44.640 I think they have their choice.
00:22:46.920 I'd like to ask Larry, Sam, and Massa to say a few words and just talk a little bit about
00:22:54.340 what they're doing, and if you have any questions, and then we'll go into a couple of other subjects
00:22:59.640 also.
00:23:00.200 But this is, to me, a very big thing, $500 billion Stargate project.
00:23:06.620 I think it's going to be something that's very special.
00:23:08.980 It'll lead to something that could be the biggest of all.
00:23:12.760 So, Larry, maybe we'll start with you, and we'll go down the line.
00:23:16.780 Thank you.
00:23:17.160 Thank you, Mr. President.
00:23:23.780 We certainly couldn't do this without you.
00:23:26.120 It would simply be impossible.
00:23:29.240 AI holds incredible promise for all of us, for every American.
00:23:34.780 We've actually been working with OpenAI for a while and with Massa for a while.
00:23:39.140 We're going to come back to the president momentarily.
00:23:43.640 These are a lot of guys talking about it.
00:23:45.300 Simply, it's a $500 billion, a half a trillion dollars for Stargate.
00:23:49.100 I think it's going to be a Texas.
00:23:51.020 Infrastructure for AI.
00:23:52.780 The companies are OpenAI, which premiered last year at Davos.
00:23:59.220 Oracle and SoftBank, the Japanese kind of venture capital private equity company.
00:24:07.120 Noor Bin Laden.
00:24:08.400 In the White House, in the Roosevelt Room right now, they're talking about a $500 billion project
00:24:12.660 funded by a lot of, some of it, foreign capital.
00:24:17.620 Is AI still taking Davos by storm since last year?
00:24:22.160 I think it was ChatGBT when it came in.
00:24:24.100 It absolutely changed the entire conversation globally.
00:24:26.940 Ma'am?
00:24:27.240 Absolutely, it is.
00:24:30.080 And as I mentioned before we cut to President Trump, it is center stage throughout the week here,
00:24:37.160 keeping very much in theme with the agenda, the key theme of the WEF annual meeting being
00:24:45.020 collaboration for the digital age.
00:24:47.180 And it's been planned for a very long time, and it isn't a coincidence that you have these three companies that are very much WEF companies
00:24:59.100 partnering together in order to advance this agenda.
00:25:02.740 I will wait to read more about Stargate and what it will actually be doing, but the digitization of society using AI and the arms race,
00:25:18.200 the new arms race of AI with this announcement clearly is very much on.
00:25:23.440 Talk about this arms race, because this is one of the things people are fearing.
00:25:29.000 You know, they don't really understand it.
00:25:30.720 Now we're talking about an arms race, any kind of rapprochement or any getting together with China.
00:25:36.980 The CCP has, I think, be around AI, artificial general intelligence.
00:25:42.040 Do you believe the folks in Davos, are they doing a good job of explaining exactly what we're talking about
00:25:50.640 when we're talking about artificial intelligence, because it's scaring a lot of people in the West, ma'am?
00:25:58.320 And I think rightly so, because the implications of what this technology will have on society,
00:26:05.620 I think we cannot really measure.
00:26:08.100 And to be fair to the World Economic Forum, they are very up front of it,
00:26:13.720 talking about how this is going to be so much more disruptive than the Industrial Revolution.
00:26:21.180 Klaus Schwab famously coined the era in which we find ourselves the fourth Industrial Revolution
00:26:27.740 with these advancements, more specifically with AI,
00:26:33.560 and how, you know, it's going to change the work, the workplace with all of these jobs in various sectors being replaced by AI.
00:26:44.120 And, and I mean, I have the book right here.
00:26:48.400 This is something that should be required reading for the posse to understand the globalists and their plans for humanity.
00:26:55.980 Um, and it's, it's just very, uh, ironic, um, Steve, because, you know, they, as we discussed, you know,
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00:27:16.100 And, you know, the last few years, cooperation was the key word.
00:27:19.600 This year, collaboration is the key word.
00:27:22.560 And they are using this term of, uh, the intelligent age,
00:27:25.800 but it's just another code war, code word for the fourth Industrial Revolution.
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00:30:36.460 War Room.
00:30:37.500 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:30:39.860 Okay, as soon as – if there's anything else comes out of the Roosevelt Room, we're going to go back there.
00:30:45.620 Let's go to – but we've got Noor Bin Laden in Davos.
00:30:48.080 Noor, you're going to be there tomorrow.
00:30:49.240 We'll pick you up live in the morning show.
00:30:51.960 Give us a heads up.
00:30:53.020 Anything else we should be thinking about?
00:30:54.860 The audience wants to be smart about this.
00:30:56.660 We know that the demons at the World Economic Forum always try to be one step ahead of the populist nationalist movement, ma'am.
00:31:03.360 Yes, the last thing I'd like to say with regards to this new announcement is that we really need to be wary, despite, you know, all the excitement.
00:31:14.440 And, you know, yesterday was really a day of celebration, obviously, for America and for patriots all around the world like myself.
00:31:21.120 But we really need to be careful about this WEF model of public-private partnership and how governments and corporations are working hand-in-hand together to advance this digitization and the technological agenda that they have in order to centralize power.
00:31:42.760 This is what the word collaboration is all about.
00:31:46.760 So they always function like this with code words.
00:31:49.660 And so I'll be monitoring, obviously, all of the information that is coming out of the WEF, the World Economic Forum, this week.
00:31:58.320 And we'll chat about that tomorrow.
00:32:00.400 What's your social media so people can get you overnight before we get you back up here tomorrow?
00:32:04.240 What's your social media?
00:32:05.400 I know you're posting all day.
00:32:08.120 NorbinLatin.substack.com.
00:32:10.120 And I'm on X at NorbinLatin.
00:32:12.760 NorbinLatin in Davos.
00:32:16.360 Thank you very much, ma'am.
00:32:17.240 See you tomorrow.
00:32:17.840 Great job.
00:32:19.180 Thank you very much.
00:32:21.580 Let's go to the Roosevelt Room.
00:32:23.460 Let's go back to President Trump.
00:32:26.820 There's never been a first day like yesterday, as you know.
00:32:30.140 I signed a sweeping slate of executive orders to stop the invasion of our borders.
00:32:35.180 I launched a government-wide effort to defeat inflation and bring down the cost of daily life and bring down the cost of energy.
00:32:42.320 We magnificently bring it down.
00:32:44.140 And when energy comes down, Larry, I'd say, generally speaking, when energy comes down, everything else comes down.
00:32:50.820 The prices of food and the prices of everything else come down.
00:32:55.300 Energy is the big—that's the big baby.
00:32:57.500 And we declared a national energy emergency to drill baby drill, our term that we use.
00:33:03.780 We're going to drill baby drill like never before.
00:33:06.160 We ended destructive DEI mandates across the federal government and returned our country to a merit-based system and a common-sense system.
00:33:16.160 As you know, the Supreme Court gave us a decision on merit, where things in this country can be based on merit now instead of a lot of different rules, regulations, and things that really put our country at a big disadvantage.
00:33:29.260 We permanently stopped government censorship and restored free speech that was signed yesterday.
00:33:34.780 We were renamed the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America.
00:33:41.800 Sounds so beautiful.
00:33:42.960 The Gulf of America.
00:33:44.320 And returned the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley.
00:33:49.180 They took off the name.
00:33:51.120 And he was actually a great president.
00:33:52.980 He was a very, very successful businessman.
00:33:56.780 He ran for governor of Ohio.
00:33:58.560 He won and did a great job as governor.
00:34:01.500 Ran for president and he won.
00:34:02.980 He was assassinated, ultimately, in his second term, unfortunately.
00:34:08.100 But he was the tariff king.
00:34:10.380 And he—I don't think he was as bad as I am.
00:34:13.820 I think I believe in him even more than him.
00:34:15.660 But he believed in him very strongly.
00:34:18.060 And he raised massive amounts of money.
00:34:20.420 Our country was at its richest.
00:34:22.580 From 1870 to 1913, we had the most—that was when we were the richest, relatively speaking.
00:34:30.880 We were the richest during that period of time.
00:34:32.980 That was tariffs from other countries.
00:34:35.880 And our administration is moving with unprecedented urgency and speed to confront every single crisis facing us.
00:34:43.020 And we'll get the job done.
00:34:45.020 And again, I want to thank Sam and Masa and Larry for being here.
00:34:48.980 It's an honor to have them.
00:34:50.380 And we'll take a few questions if you want.
00:34:52.580 And I'll ask you about some of the executive orders.
00:34:54.540 You would agree that it's never acceptable to a solid police officer, right?
00:34:58.660 So then, if I can, among those who pardon D.J. Rodriguez, he drove a stun gun into the neck of a D.C. police officer who was abducted by the mob that day.
00:35:06.700 He later confessed on video to the FBI and pleaded guilty for his crimes.
00:35:10.840 Why does he deserve a pardon?
00:35:12.680 Well, I don't know.
00:35:13.280 Is it a pardon?
00:35:13.900 Because we're looking at commutes and we're looking at pardons.
00:35:16.920 Okay, well, we'll take a look at everything.
00:35:18.460 But I can say this.
00:35:20.420 Murderers today are not even charged.
00:35:23.920 You have murderers that aren't charged all over.
00:35:27.660 You take a look at what's gone on in Philadelphia.
00:35:29.560 Take a look at what's gone off in L.A.
00:35:32.480 Where people murder people and they don't get charged.
00:35:34.960 These people have already served years in prison and they've served them viciously.
00:35:41.500 It's a disgusting prison.
00:35:43.020 It's been horrible.
00:35:44.660 It's inhumane.
00:35:45.720 It's been a terrible, terrible thing.
00:35:48.360 I also say this.
00:35:49.700 You go to Portland where they wrapped police officers, shot police officers.
00:35:56.380 Nothing happened to anybody.
00:35:58.160 You go to Seattle where they took over a big chunk of the city and people died.
00:36:03.060 Portland, a lot of people died.
00:36:05.000 Wait a minute.
00:36:06.020 And you go also take a look at Minneapolis because I was there and I watched it.
00:36:10.540 And if I didn't bring in the National Guard, that city wouldn't even exist today.
00:36:14.440 People were killed and nobody went to jail.
00:36:17.800 So these people have already served a long period of time.
00:36:20.540 And I made a decision to give a pardon.
00:36:22.900 Joe Biden gave a pardon yesterday to a lot of criminals.
00:36:26.020 These are criminals that he gave a pardon to.
00:36:27.880 And you should be asking that question.
00:36:30.980 Why did he give a pardon to all of these people that committed crimes?
00:36:34.640 Why did he give a pardon to the J6 Unselect Committee when they burned and destroyed all
00:36:42.220 documents which showed that they did what was wrong?
00:36:46.740 Not me.
00:36:47.360 Wait a minute.
00:36:47.840 Wait a minute.
00:36:48.760 Why did they give a pardon to all of his relatives, his brother who made millions of
00:36:53.420 dollars to all these different people, he gave pardons?
00:36:57.280 That's the question you should be answering.
00:36:58.980 All right.
00:36:59.260 Go ahead.
00:36:59.600 Yeah, please.
00:37:00.100 If I could just tell us all a bit about you.
00:37:02.040 See, you guys follow up to that really best.
00:37:03.460 No, no, no, no.
00:37:04.900 I just want to ask you this.
00:37:06.180 You said you will.
00:37:07.080 Tell us about your meeting with Speaker Johnson, Senator Thune.
00:37:10.040 Did you reach any conclusion on this one big story?
00:37:12.420 Pretty much.
00:37:12.940 I think we have a good situation.
00:37:14.520 Now, it's been in some ways made simpler by Los Angeles because they're going to need a
00:37:19.860 lot of money, and generally speaking, I think you'll find that a lot of Democrats are going
00:37:24.320 to be asking for help, so I think maybe that makes it more one-sided.
00:37:29.460 I think we're going to do very well.
00:37:30.680 Look, we're going to take care of Los Angeles.
00:37:32.560 I'm going there.
00:37:33.600 I'm going to North Carolina, which has been abandoned by the Democrats, and I'm going to
00:37:38.420 North Carolina very importantly first.
00:37:40.320 I'll be there on Friday, and then I'm going from there to Los Angeles, and then I'm going
00:37:46.300 to Nevada, and I'm really going to Nevada to thank them for the vote because we won Nevada
00:37:52.140 overwhelmingly, and that's usually a Democrat vote, and I just want to go there to thank
00:37:58.360 the people of Nevada for the big vote.
00:38:01.780 So we'll be making that.
00:38:03.140 Yeah, please.
00:38:04.260 The leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were free following their pardons yesterday.
00:38:10.240 At the time, back in 2021, you urged them to stand back and stand by.
00:38:14.580 Like, is there now a place for them in the political conversation?
00:38:17.800 Well, we have to see.
00:38:18.600 They've been given a pardon.
00:38:19.700 I thought their sentences were ridiculous and excessive.
00:38:23.400 One of the guys took down a flag that was an anti-American flag, and he was given years
00:38:30.320 in jail.
00:38:31.020 I don't know the exact number, but he was given many years in jail.
00:38:34.020 I thought it was very excessive, and at least the cases that we looked at, these were people
00:38:41.020 that actually love our country, so we thought a pardon would be appropriate, yeah.
00:38:45.460 Mr. President, is it also true in your conversations with Republicans today that you asked them
00:38:49.660 to consider recess appointments for cabinet officials?
00:38:52.540 I think, yeah, if it's needed.
00:38:54.220 I don't think it's going to be needed.
00:38:56.500 Marco, as you know, got passed overwhelmingly with 99 to nothing, which is pretty amazing.
00:39:03.660 Marco is going to do a great job, Secretary of State.
00:39:06.640 But he just got, I guess he was the first one and just got approved.
00:39:11.180 That's some vote, 99 to nothing, and the nothing was a vote that he would have gotten
00:39:17.700 if we wanted to do it.
00:39:19.640 But, you know, whose vote that was, who's doing a great job right now as vice president.
00:39:24.320 Did you also talk about some sort of a trade or a deal involving wildfire relief in extension
00:39:31.040 for a debt ceiling?
00:39:32.640 Well, what I really want to have done, I was talking about this with the guys back in the
00:39:38.380 Oval Office, Los Angeles has massive amounts of water available to it.
00:39:44.320 All they have to do is turn the valve, and that's the valve coming back from and down from
00:39:49.020 the Pacific Northwest, where millions of gallons of water a week and a day even, in many cases,
00:39:58.400 pours into California, goes all through California down to Los Angeles, and they turned it off.
00:40:06.240 It's off now.
00:40:07.040 The valve goes, it turns toward the Pacific Ocean, and all that water goes pouring into
00:40:11.780 the Pacific Ocean.
00:40:12.840 If they did what I told them to do, they wouldn't do it because politically, they didn't think
00:40:18.120 it was good.
00:40:18.900 I think it's great politically.
00:40:20.660 I think they're dead politically.
00:40:22.040 What they've done, they've destroyed the city.
00:40:24.020 What they've done to that city is unbelievable.
00:40:26.800 The sprinklers, their sprinklers in there like these right here that you see, none of them
00:40:31.700 had any water in them.
00:40:33.020 They didn't have any water.
00:40:34.360 The fire hydrants, 40% of them had no water.
00:40:37.300 The brush was soaked, was just dry.
00:40:40.580 Everything was dry.
00:40:41.540 The sprinklers on the lawn weren't allowed to even be used.
00:40:44.800 So, you know, everything was dry, and it was an inferno.
00:40:48.300 They created an inferno.
00:40:49.960 So we're demanding that they turn the valve back toward Los Angeles right now.
00:40:54.140 It's not even believable that they haven't done it.
00:40:56.420 Just so you know, they have a valve, and it turns.
00:41:00.560 Like, think of a sink, but multiply it times, many thousands of times the size of it.
00:41:05.220 It's massive.
00:41:05.680 And you turn it back toward Los Angeles.
00:41:09.040 Why aren't they doing it?
00:41:10.480 They either have a death wish, they're stupid, or there's something else going on that we
00:41:15.580 don't understand.
00:41:16.660 But we want the water that they're throwing away to be used for California.
00:41:23.460 And that includes the farmers of California.
00:41:25.800 You know, when you drive up north, you see all of the land.
00:41:30.000 I couldn't believe it.
00:41:31.120 I was with Devin Nunes when he was a congressman, and some other congressmen from the area, and
00:41:35.400 we're driving up, and we're on the highway.
00:41:38.340 And I keep looking at these farms, and the land is bone dry.
00:41:42.360 And then you'd see an acre, about an acre or two acres, with the most beautiful green
00:41:47.920 plants growing in it.
00:41:50.940 The most beautiful.
00:41:52.040 It's rich stuff.
00:41:55.320 And you look at the soil, and it's so rich.
00:41:57.860 That soil is almost the equivalent to, like, Iowa soil.
00:42:02.480 It's phenomenal.
00:42:03.580 It's got no water.
00:42:05.200 But the reason it has no water...
00:42:06.660 I said, do you have a drought?
00:42:07.720 No.
00:42:08.900 I said, what do you mean you don't have a drought?
00:42:10.340 Look at the thing.
00:42:10.980 It's dry as a bone.
00:42:11.880 The reason you have, like, an acre is because they say you can farm one acre, but no more
00:42:17.520 because they didn't want to waste water.
00:42:19.600 But they throw the water into the Pacific Ocean.
00:42:21.820 These people are crazy.
00:42:23.500 So we're going to be issuing an executive order demanding that they immediately let that
00:42:29.820 water come down to, through California, farmers, even people living in Beverly Hills.
00:42:35.880 Now, those people have been a lot...
00:42:37.040 I mean, a lot of them are wiped out.
00:42:38.360 Believe it or not, you know, they were having restrictions, Larry.
00:42:42.660 You know about this.
00:42:43.860 They wanted to restrict you to 38 gallons of water a day.
00:42:46.960 That sounds like a lot, but it's not when you're a rich person and you like to take a
00:42:51.240 shower.
00:42:52.880 38 gallons doesn't last very long.
00:42:56.160 And they have all this water.
00:42:57.340 And it's really good water.
00:42:59.620 Up high, Pacific Northwest.
00:43:01.700 Some comes in from Canada, a nice country, by the way, comes in from Canada.
00:43:07.700 And it comes all the way through California.
00:43:10.580 And they're restricting it.
00:43:11.820 You even have the half pipes, you know, the half pipes, the cut pipes, big ones, bigger
00:43:16.380 than this room.
00:43:17.460 And they're going all the way down.
00:43:19.340 And they're bone dry.
00:43:21.160 And they could be loaded up with water.
00:43:23.720 No, but isn't it incredible that they don't do it?
00:43:26.900 And it's to protect the Delta smelt.
00:43:28.740 It's a fish that's doing poorly anyway.
00:43:31.880 But I said, how are you protecting the Delta smelt by not giving it water?
00:43:35.200 It's a fish.
00:43:36.660 It needs water.
00:43:37.880 Nobody can answer that question.
00:43:39.880 Are you open to Elon buying TikTok?
00:43:45.340 Are you open to Elon buying TikTok?
00:43:47.800 I would be if he wanted to buy it, yeah.
00:43:49.500 And on your inauguration, on your inauguration.
00:43:51.360 I'd like Larry to buy it, too.
00:43:53.540 I have the right to make a deal.
00:43:55.620 So the deal I'm thinking about, Larry, let's negotiate in front of the media.
00:43:58.820 The deal, I think, is this.
00:44:02.420 And I've met with owners of TikTok, the big owners.
00:44:06.660 It's worthless if it doesn't get a permit.
00:44:09.920 It's not like, oh, you can take the U.S.
00:44:11.800 The whole thing is worthless.
00:44:14.000 With a permit, it's worth like a trillion dollars.
00:44:16.420 So what I'm thinking about saying to somebody is buy it and give half to the United States of America, half, and we'll give you the permit.
00:44:26.200 And they'll have a great partner in the United States.
00:44:29.020 And they'll have something that's actually more valuable because they have the ultimate partner.
00:44:33.940 And the United States will make it very worthwhile for them in terms of the permits and everything else.
00:44:38.440 So think of it.
00:44:40.000 You have an asset that has no value or has a trillion dollar value.
00:44:45.120 It all depends on whether or not the United States gives the permit.
00:44:48.400 So what I'm saying is let the United States give the permit and the United States should get half.
00:44:54.100 Sounds reasonable.
00:44:55.880 What do you think?
00:44:56.880 Sounds like a good deal to me, Mr. President.
00:44:59.100 He can afford it, too.
00:45:02.540 Mr. President, you're a president who has long said that you backed with blue.
00:45:06.020 But aren't you sending the message that assaulting officers is okay with these parties?
00:45:11.800 No, the opposite.
00:45:13.340 In fact, I'm going to be letting two officers from Washington Police, D.C.
00:45:21.320 I believe they're from D.C., but I just approved it.
00:45:25.540 They were arrested, put in jail for five years because they went after an illegal.
00:45:31.880 And I guess something happened where something went wrong and they arrested the two officers and put them in jail for going after a criminal, a rough criminal, by the way.
00:45:42.340 And I'm actually releasing.
00:45:43.540 No, I'm the friend of.
00:45:48.980 A rough criminal, by the way.
00:45:50.800 And I'm actually releasing.
00:45:52.040 No, I'm the friend of.
00:45:52.920 I am the friend of more than any president that's ever been in this office.
00:45:59.380 This is a week ago.
00:46:00.800 He said, if you committed violence on January 6th, obviously you should not be pardoned.
00:46:05.940 Why is your vice president wrong?
00:46:07.640 Well, only for one reason.
00:46:09.780 They've served years in jail.
00:46:11.980 They should not have served.
00:46:13.920 Excuse me.
00:46:14.880 And they've served years in jail.
00:46:17.300 And murderers don't even go to jail in this country.
00:46:21.300 And we had 1,500.
00:46:22.920 We have 16 under review.
00:46:24.580 As you know, we commuted about 16 of them because it looks like they could have done things that were not acceptable for a full pardon.
00:46:33.840 But these people have served years of jail.
00:46:36.020 Their lives have been ruined.
00:46:37.340 And in many cases, listen to me for a second.
00:46:39.920 Stop interrupting.
00:46:41.800 They've served years in jail.
00:46:43.520 And if you look at the American public, the American public is tired of it.
00:46:48.980 Take a look at the election.
00:46:51.100 Just look at the numbers on the election.
00:46:53.500 We won this election in a landslide because the American public is tired of people like you that are just one-sided, horrible people in terms of crime.
00:47:03.240 You don't talk about all the people that have been killed and what happens to those murderers.
00:47:09.580 Murderers get no time.
00:47:10.960 You take a look at some of these DAs.
00:47:13.380 They go after political opponents, but they don't go after people that shoot people in the street.
00:47:18.500 They're caught.
00:47:19.560 They know where they're living.
00:47:20.760 They know everything.
00:47:21.500 They don't even go up to pick them up anymore.
00:47:23.320 They just let them live there.
00:47:24.760 They know all about it.
00:47:25.740 They have their pictures.
00:47:26.920 They have the tape of the shooting.
00:47:28.940 And they don't even go up and you're talking about this.
00:47:32.120 No, we pardoned people that were treated unbelievably poorly.
00:47:37.540 In the history of our country, there's never been anything take place like this.
00:47:42.000 They're still looking for them, but they're not looking for the murderers, the people that are killing everybody.
00:47:47.100 We are, though, and we're getting them out of the country.
00:47:49.960 We just started that.
00:47:50.980 We're getting them out of the country.
00:47:52.260 And they're going to be gotten out of the country fast.
00:47:53.960 They came in illegally from jails and from prisons.
00:47:57.500 They killed many people.
00:47:58.800 Some of them killed many people.
00:48:01.000 About 50% of them killed more than one person.
00:48:04.600 They were released into our country.
00:48:06.740 That's what we're focused on, not the kind of nonsense you're talking about.
00:48:09.920 You've called for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
00:48:13.480 If Vladimir Putin doesn't come to the table to negotiate with you, will you put additional sanctions on Russia?
00:48:19.360 Sounds likely.
00:48:20.840 And do you think that the war should be frozen currently along the war?
00:48:24.320 The war should have never started.
00:48:25.420 If you had a competent president, which you didn't, the war wouldn't have happened.
00:48:29.260 The war in Ukraine would have never happened if I were president.
00:48:32.780 But that couldn't happen because the election was rigged.
00:48:35.380 Yeah, go ahead.
00:48:35.820 Mr. President, there's been some debate within your orbit over whether or not to keep or eliminate H-1B visas.
00:48:41.860 What's your position on that?
00:48:43.020 Do you want to keep H-1Bs or do you want to get rid of them?
00:48:44.940 I like both sides of the argument, but I also like very competent people coming into our country,
00:48:50.700 even if that involves them training and helping other people that may not have the qualifications they do.
00:48:57.460 But I don't want to stop.
00:48:58.880 And I'm not just talking about engineers.
00:49:01.060 I'm talking about people at all levels.
00:49:02.820 We want competent people coming into our country.
00:49:05.820 And H-B-1, I know the program very well.
00:49:07.880 I use the program.
00:49:09.900 Maitre d's, wine, you know, experts, even waiters, high quality waiters.
00:49:18.980 You got to get the best people.
00:49:20.860 Now, then you go into people like Larry and he needs engineers and Masa needs,
00:49:25.660 and this gentleman needs engineers like nobody's ever needed engineers, right?
00:49:30.140 So we have to have the quality people coming in.
00:49:32.680 Now, by doing that, we're expanding businesses, and that takes care of everybody.
00:49:38.840 So I'm sort of on both sides of the argument.
00:49:40.680 But what I really do feel is that we have to let really competent people, great people, come into our country.
00:49:46.340 And we do that through the H-1 program.
00:49:49.400 Mr. President, are you able to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico in an effort to force negotiations sooner on USMCA?
00:49:56.720 No, it's really not on USMCA.
00:50:00.800 It has nothing to do with that.
00:50:01.940 But they've allowed, both of them, Canada very much so, they've allowed millions and millions of people to come into our country that shouldn't be here.
00:50:11.200 They could have stopped them, and they didn't.
00:50:14.020 And they've killed 300,000 people last year, my opinion, have been destroyed by drugs, by fentanyl.
00:50:23.220 The fentanyl coming through Canada is massive.
00:50:26.540 The fentanyl coming through Mexico is massive.
00:50:29.480 And people are getting killed, and families are being destroyed.
00:50:33.300 I mean, the son gets killed, and the family is a basket case for the rest of their lives.
00:50:38.460 I mean, I've seen mothers that thought they'd heal.
00:50:41.620 They never heal.
00:50:42.640 They say it gets worse with time.
00:50:44.580 It gets worse with time.
00:50:45.740 They lose their boy.
00:50:46.720 They lose their baby.
00:50:47.680 They lose their young daughter to fentanyl poisoning.
00:50:53.060 And I had that talk with President Xi the other day, too, of China.
00:50:56.760 I said, we don't want that crap in our country.
00:50:58.640 We've got to stop it.
00:50:59.800 I would have stopped it.
00:51:01.000 I had a deal with him where he was going to give the maximum penalty, which in China is the death penalty for drug dealing.
00:51:10.700 And he all said he was going to give the maximum penalty to fentanyl dealers if they send to the United States.
00:51:16.720 They were going to get the death penalty.
00:51:17.960 And, of course, Biden didn't pick that up.
00:51:20.720 I had that deal all done.
00:51:22.040 It was all wrapped up.
00:51:23.120 We were going to have it done.
00:51:24.900 And then the election went, let's put it nicely, didn't go the proper way.
00:51:30.380 I'm trying to be nice about it.
00:51:32.240 It was rigged.
00:51:32.920 And we had an incompetent president elected, and he never followed up on that deal.
00:51:38.400 But he should have followed up because if they got the death penalty, they wouldn't be sending fentanyl to Mexico, Canada, and other places.
00:51:45.080 We're thinking about that, too.
00:51:49.140 We're talking about a tariff of 10 percent on China based on the fact that they're sending fentanyl to Mexico and Canada.
00:51:56.200 How soon on those tariffs?
00:52:00.440 Probably February 1st is the date we're looking at.
00:52:03.880 For Mexico and China, we're talking about approximately 25 percent.
00:52:11.320 Do you have an update on the Gaza ceasefire, and are you planning to travel to the Middle East soon?
00:52:15.940 We're thinking about going to the Middle East.
00:52:17.520 Not yet.
00:52:18.920 We have a thing called the hostages are coming back going on right now, and they are coming back.
00:52:25.620 Some of them have been very, you know, very damaged.
00:52:28.620 You look at the young lady with her hand practically blown off.
00:52:33.460 You know how that happened, right?
00:52:35.020 Did you know how that happened?
00:52:36.140 But when you find out, you're not going to be too happy because it was terrible.
00:52:39.740 But the hostages are starting to come back.
00:52:45.260 Oh, if I weren't here, they wouldn't be back ever.
00:52:48.860 They would have never come back.
00:52:49.780 They would have all died.
00:52:51.240 If this were done a year earlier, if Biden would have done this deal a year and a half, two years ago, or frankly, it should have never happened.
00:53:00.220 October 7th should have never happened.
00:53:02.100 Nobody should be dead.
00:53:03.380 But through weakness, they allowed it to happen, and then it was a disaster from them.
00:53:08.560 But you go back just six months ago, many of these young people were living.
00:53:12.700 You know, young people don't die like that.
00:53:14.800 They're just dying.
00:53:16.480 And young people aren't dying at 22 and 23 years old.
00:53:20.380 They don't die.
00:53:21.520 But now they're dying, and you wonder why they're dying.
00:53:24.060 They're being killed.
00:53:24.840 And they have been killed.
00:53:27.360 But they say six months ago, you would have had 11 more living hostages.
00:53:32.460 Think of that.
00:53:33.620 Six months ago.
00:53:34.980 But Biden couldn't get it done.
00:53:36.360 And it was only the imposition that I put on as a deadline that got it done.
00:53:42.680 But it's a very sad situation.
00:53:45.800 It should have never happened.
00:53:47.360 I'll tell you, two things should have never happened.
00:53:49.020 Three things.
00:53:49.620 Inflation should have never happened.
00:53:51.040 It would have never happened, except for what they did to energy and their crazy spending.
00:53:56.200 And Ukraine would have never happened.
00:53:59.200 Never.
00:54:00.180 By the way, Russia never would have gone into Ukraine.
00:54:03.200 I had a very strong understanding with Putin that it would have never, ever happened.
00:54:08.140 He disrespected Biden.
00:54:10.260 Very simple.
00:54:11.040 He disrespects people.
00:54:13.140 He's smart.
00:54:13.780 He understands.
00:54:14.540 He disrespected Biden.
00:54:16.480 And also, the Middle East would have never happened because Iran was broke.
00:54:20.840 They had no money.
00:54:22.180 They had no money for Hamas.
00:54:23.820 They had no money for Hezbollah.
00:54:26.060 It would have never happened.
00:54:27.140 October 7th would have never happened.
00:54:28.940 But it did happen.
00:54:30.040 So this is the cards I've been given.
00:54:32.500 And we're getting the hostages back.
00:54:34.500 That would have never happened under Biden.
00:54:36.120 They would have never come back.
00:54:37.260 They were just dying.
00:54:38.620 Not that slowly.
00:54:40.140 They were dying or being killed.
00:54:42.860 But that was what was happening.
00:54:44.480 Are you going to keep sending weapons to Ukraine?
00:54:47.480 Or are you going to turn off the tap soon?
00:54:50.840 Well, we'll look into that.
00:54:52.300 We're talking to Zelensky.
00:54:53.700 We're going to be talking with President Putin very soon.
00:54:57.120 And we'll see how it all happens.
00:54:59.120 We're going to look at it very soon.
00:55:00.440 One thing I do feel, the European Union should be paying a lot more than they're paying.
00:55:04.860 Because under Biden, I mean, we're in there for $200 billion more.
00:55:09.600 Now, it affects them more than it affects us.
00:55:11.420 We have an ocean in between, right?
00:55:13.160 A little thing called an ocean.
00:55:14.340 And the European Union should equalize.
00:55:18.160 We're in there for $200 billion more than the European Union.
00:55:21.960 I mean, what are we, stupid?
00:55:24.360 I guess the answer is yes.
00:55:26.020 Because they must think so.
00:55:28.060 But the European Union takes advantage of us tremendously on trade.
00:55:32.040 And they now take advantage of, and always have.
00:55:35.580 If I didn't get involved years ago, my first term, one of the first things I noticed was that they're not paying enough.
00:55:43.020 They're not paying.
00:55:43.700 And a lot of those countries weren't even paying.
00:55:45.560 The NATO countries, they weren't paying.
00:55:47.080 Only seven out of 28 were paying.
00:55:50.040 We were one of them.
00:55:51.620 And Poland was one.
00:55:52.980 And they had a few of them that were paying.
00:55:54.500 And some were paying very proudly.
00:55:56.720 Usually, the closer to the borderline of Russia they were, the faster they paid, okay?
00:56:04.360 The ones that were further away tended not to pay so fast.
00:56:07.340 And one thing on that, I think they should lift their number not to 2%, but to 5%.
00:56:12.060 NATO should be at 5%, not at 2%.
00:56:15.680 2% is ridiculous.
00:56:17.260 You asked President Xi in your conversation about Ukraine.
00:56:21.240 You asked him to get involved in helping settle that.
00:56:23.280 Can you tell us about that?
00:56:23.840 I did, yeah.
00:56:24.440 I said, you ought to get it settled.
00:56:27.320 Because he's not done very much on that.
00:56:29.580 He's got a lot of power.
00:56:32.080 Like we have a lot of power.
00:56:33.400 I said, you ought to get it settled.
00:56:34.580 We did discuss it.
00:56:35.520 Yeah?
00:56:35.620 Mr. President, you launched your crypto coin the other day.
00:56:37.740 Do you intend to continue selling products that benefit yourself personally while you're president?
00:56:42.700 Well, I don't know if it benefited.
00:56:44.060 I don't know where it is.
00:56:45.200 I don't know much about it other than I launched it.
00:56:47.480 I heard it was very successful.
00:56:48.800 I haven't checked it.
00:56:50.140 Where is it today?
00:56:52.220 You made a lot of money, sir.
00:56:54.140 How much?
00:56:56.480 Several billion dollars, it seems like, in the last several days.
00:56:58.920 Several billion.
00:57:00.580 That's peanuts for these guys.
00:57:03.820 So you're talking about the letter of the President.
00:57:05.700 Can you give us some sense probably speaking about the letter of the President?
00:57:07.560 Yeah, he wrote me a nice letter.
00:57:08.780 I mean, I did open it last night.
00:57:10.340 And I didn't know Peter said, did you get the letter?
00:57:15.020 I said, wait a minute, let's see the letter.
00:57:16.460 It's sort of a tradition.
00:57:17.400 You put it in the drawer, especially of the beautiful Resolute desk, right?
00:57:22.020 And I opened the drawer, and there it was.
00:57:24.220 It said to number 47.
00:57:26.620 And it was a very nice letter.
00:57:28.060 I mean, I could show it, because I think it was a nice letter.
00:57:30.500 Maybe I will.
00:57:31.060 I think it was just basically it was a little bit of an inspirational type letter.
00:57:40.560 You know, enjoy it, do a good job.
00:57:44.020 Important, very important, how important the job is.
00:57:46.580 But I may, I think it was a nice letter.
00:57:49.360 I think I should let people see it, because it was a positive for him in writing it.
00:57:54.580 I appreciated the letter.
00:57:55.600 Mr. President, were security concerns at all a factor when deciding to move your inauguration?
00:58:01.960 No, not at all.
00:58:03.180 No, not at all.
00:58:04.520 It was just cold.
00:58:06.640 Look, if we would have, you know, I just went out to the helicopter, right, to, to, we said goodbye.
00:58:13.120 That's a tradition, as long as helicopter, before it used to be a stagecoach, and then helicopters came along.
00:58:19.380 But that's been a tradition.
00:58:20.880 You go out and you do that.
00:58:21.980 And we stood there for 10 minutes, and I'll tell you what, people would not have been able to get through that day.
00:58:28.160 That was cold.
00:58:29.060 It was sort of interesting.
00:58:30.240 Don't let the sun fool you.
00:58:32.240 Tell me something.
00:58:33.320 Sunny days can get very cold, can't they?
00:58:35.380 Because that was so freezing yesterday.
00:58:37.860 You couldn't have gotten through it.
00:58:39.400 It would have been.
00:58:40.100 And the answer is no, it wasn't security.
00:58:42.540 With that being said, I thought the Capitol, the rotunda, was beautiful.
00:58:48.340 72 degrees, unbelievable sound, you know, it's like being in an opera house.
00:58:56.300 I could see people wanting to do it there rather than outside.
00:59:01.460 Why did you remove John Bolton's security clearance, sir?
00:59:04.040 It was, I think there was enough time.
00:59:07.760 It's, we take a job.
00:59:09.200 You take a job.
00:59:11.200 You want to do a job.
00:59:12.200 We're not going to have security on people for the rest of their lives.
00:59:14.800 Why should we?
00:59:15.380 I thought he was, I thought he was a very dumb person, but I used him well because every time
00:59:21.400 people saw me come into a meeting with John Bolton standing behind me, they thought that
00:59:27.680 he'd attack them because he was a warmonger.
00:59:29.940 He's the one that got us involved, along with Cheney and a couple of others, convinced Bush,
00:59:34.980 which was a terrible decision, to blow up the Middle East.
00:59:38.480 You know, we blew up the Middle East and we left.
00:59:41.700 We got nothing out of it except a lot of death.
00:59:44.160 We killed a lot of people.
00:59:46.680 And John Bolton was, you know, one of those guys, a stupid guy.
00:59:50.520 But no, you can't have that for life.
00:59:52.480 You shouldn't expect it for life.
00:59:54.120 Will that take place here and when and where will you meet with Zelensky?
00:59:59.820 I don't know.
01:00:00.320 I mean, look, President Zelensky would like to have peace.
01:00:04.140 He's told me that very strongly.
01:00:05.560 He'd like to have peace.
01:00:06.460 But it takes two to tango.
01:00:07.740 We'll see what happens.
01:00:08.720 When will you meet with President Putin?
01:00:10.340 Anytime they want, I'll meet.
01:00:11.860 I'd like to see that end.
01:00:13.300 Millions of people are being killed and they're being killed.
01:00:16.180 It's a vicious situation.
01:00:18.160 And they're now largely soldiers.
01:00:20.260 A lot of people have been killed in the cities.
01:00:22.840 They look like demolition sites, buildings, massive buildings bombed and coming down.
01:00:28.620 The thing with Ukraine is that many more people died than you're reporting.
01:00:32.120 You're not reporting the real numbers.
01:00:33.600 And I'm not blaming you for that.
01:00:34.960 I'm blaming maybe our government for not wanting to release those numbers.
01:00:39.640 Many more people died than what you know about.
01:00:42.740 When those big buildings come down and they say two people were injured.
01:00:46.080 No, no.
01:00:46.940 Many people, thousands of people are being killed.
01:00:49.360 But the people, the real killing now is on the war front.
01:00:53.160 It's a very flat land.
01:00:55.120 And the only thing that stops a bullet is somebody's body.
01:00:58.840 And you have young soldiers.
01:01:00.060 So Russia's lost about 800,000 soldiers now.
01:01:03.780 Ukraine's lost about 600 or 700,000.
01:01:06.780 I think the numbers are low that they're giving out.
01:01:09.040 But they've lost massive numbers of young soldiers.
01:01:15.800 And that war should stop.
01:01:18.060 It's very flat.
01:01:19.200 You know, it's beautiful farmland.
01:01:21.300 And it's flat and really beautiful in a different kind of a way.
01:01:24.920 But they don't have any protection.
01:01:26.660 The only thing that stops a bullet is a body.
01:01:29.940 And those bodies are stopping a lot of bullets.
01:01:32.000 And they're getting, they're being decimated.
01:01:33.920 Both sides.
01:01:34.480 Your conversation with President Xi, what did you tell him in terms of when to expect tariffs?
01:01:40.600 And what can he do to avoid them?
01:01:42.500 About which one?
01:01:44.000 About tariffs?
01:01:45.020 We didn't talk too much about tariffs other than he knows where I stand.
01:01:48.460 Look, I put large tariffs on China.
01:01:51.220 I've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars.
01:01:54.800 Until I was president, China never paid not 10 cents to the United States.
01:02:00.980 With me, they paid hundreds of $600 billion or so or more, more than that even, of tariffs.
01:02:09.640 And if I didn't do that, you wouldn't have a steel mill open in the United States right now.
01:02:14.720 You wouldn't have one steel mill open in the United States.
01:02:18.200 So what I did is I saved the steel industry.
01:02:20.760 I saved other industries, too, with other tariffs.
01:02:23.820 Other countries are big abusers also.
01:02:29.760 You know, it's not just China.
01:02:32.000 China's an abuser.
01:02:33.380 But the European Union is very, very bad to us.
01:02:37.600 They treat us very, very badly.
01:02:39.440 They don't take our cars.
01:02:41.360 They don't take our cars at all.
01:02:43.020 They don't take our farm products, essentially.
01:02:45.300 They don't take very much.
01:02:47.080 We have a $350 billion deficit with the European Union.
01:02:51.100 They treat us very, very badly.
01:02:52.620 So they're going to be in for tariffs.
01:02:57.200 It's the only way you're going to get back.
01:02:58.720 It's the only way you're going to get fairness.
01:03:01.040 You can't get fairness unless you do that.
01:03:03.180 But the European Union has treated us very badly.
01:03:05.560 But essentially, everybody treats us badly.
01:03:09.340 You know, everybody treats us badly.
01:03:10.940 Yes, go ahead.
01:03:12.060 Because we allow them to.
01:03:14.000 Because we've had stupid people doing this.
01:03:17.220 And we can't have...
01:03:17.860 I wouldn't have...
01:03:18.500 I'd like to have these three people negotiate for us.
01:03:20.740 Just for one week.
01:03:22.520 And we'd be a rich country again.
01:03:24.080 But we'll be rich.
01:03:25.400 Mr. President, on AI data centers, will you rescind President Biden's executive order that opens up federal lands?
01:03:32.080 On which centers?
01:03:33.080 On data centers.
01:03:34.140 Will you rescind President Biden's executive order that opens up federal lands for data centers and energy production?
01:03:40.360 No, I wouldn't do that.
01:03:41.300 That sounds to me like it's something that I would like.
01:03:43.420 I'd like to see federal lands opened up for data centers.
01:03:45.880 I think they're going to be very important.
01:03:47.420 Again, we have a lot of competition for that.
01:03:49.820 So it's an honor to have these three great people.
01:03:52.420 Great, great CEOs and great geniuses.
01:03:56.500 All three.
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