Bannon's War Room - January 30, 2025


Episode 4231： Live In The WarRoom With Megyn Kelly


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Trump signs the Lake and Riley Act, a bill that secures the border with Mexico and provides a path to legal status for illegal immigrants caught crossing the southern border between the United States and Mexico. President Trump is joined in the studio by reporter Steve Kamb and White House correspondent Brian Glenn and reporter Natalie Winters.

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00:00:00.000 law that we're doing today. It's going to save countless innocent American lives.
00:00:05.700 I want to thank every House Republican, every Senate Republican, as well as the 12 Senate
00:00:12.080 Democrats and the 48 House Democrats who voted to pass this vitally important bill. And many of
00:00:18.380 them are with us today. And I really do appreciate it. And I very much especially appreciate the
00:00:23.740 bipartisan support. The Democrats, really a big percentage of them came through and plenty of
00:00:29.180 them wanted to. They probably felt they couldn't, but they really wanted to. That they don't
00:00:33.900 understand that would have made them a lot more popular, would have made them a lot better with
00:00:39.560 their people. The ones that didn't are going to be, they're going to be sorry because the people are
00:00:46.240 not going to forget that they wouldn't sign. This is a perfect, incredible tribute to an unbelievable
00:00:51.600 young lady. It was a mix of emotions. President Trump, I was
00:00:58.000 happy because he heard the cries of a mother and he cares about us and he cares about our children
00:01:07.040 and he kept his word. And I really think that this is going to save lives.
00:01:12.060 This is one of his biggest campaign promises was to really secure the border and get these
00:01:17.980 hardened criminals, these illegals that have broke the law and harmed Americans out of this country. 1.00
00:01:23.880 And this is something that he followed up on.
00:01:26.340 Yes. And that's the one thing that I really appreciate about President Trump is that he
00:01:30.820 keeps his word. Four years when he was president, you know, years ago, we had four years of him
00:01:37.680 saying what he was going to do and then doing what he said. And so I'm so encouraged that he's back in
00:01:43.500 office and he's going to get rid of this craziness, this, you know, storming our borders and making our
00:01:52.240 country unsafe and unstable.
00:01:57.200 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:02:02.140 Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people.
00:02:07.400 I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it.
00:02:13.560 I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,
00:02:16.760 but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
00:02:18.740 And where do people like that go to share the big line?
00:02:22.360 MAGA Media.
00:02:23.700 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:02:29.140 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:02:32.900 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:02:39.240 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
00:02:42.420 It's Wednesday, 29 January in the year of our Lord, 2025.
00:02:51.880 Brian Glenn is live at the White House, our White House correspondent.
00:02:55.740 Brian, big day today with the signing of the bill, but more importantly, the moms that were there.
00:03:00.320 You've tracked this story for four years. Tell me about it.
00:03:02.540 Yeah, what a special moment to have them in the East Room, Steve, as President Trump signs that first bill in office,
00:03:12.820 the Lake and Riley Act, into law.
00:03:15.960 And just to see the pure emotion that President Trump had for these families that have lost loved ones due to the reckless open borders.
00:03:24.340 So, Steve, it was special.
00:03:26.020 I had a moment to kind of talk to her after, off camera, and to learn more about her daughter.
00:03:32.380 And I really, you know, the stories that you're hearing and just how appreciative all of them are for what President Trump is doing right now.
00:03:40.460 Today was a very special moment for them.
00:03:43.000 But, Steve, this country is safer already because President Trump is in office and today is a great example.
00:03:49.560 Yes.
00:03:51.600 Brian, can you hang on for one second or come right back to you at the White House?
00:03:54.700 Natalie Winters is also at the White House.
00:03:56.540 We've got a lot to report today.
00:03:58.260 The rescinding of the memo, OMB.
00:04:01.060 But we have a very special, honored guest in studio.
00:04:04.720 Megan Kelly joins us.
00:04:05.820 Megan, thank you so much for coming by after doing pretty hard duty today over in the Senate side.
00:04:11.940 Oh, wow.
00:04:12.620 Not nearly as hard as RFKJ had to do.
00:04:15.440 That was just a ridiculous exercise they put him through, but he'd handle it with a plum.
00:04:19.940 So, tell me about it because this is a very important, very important nomination for us.
00:04:26.160 We've got to get this one through.
00:04:27.600 Yeah.
00:04:27.960 Do you think, was he as prepared as you thought as he should be?
00:04:31.960 Because they came at him hard.
00:04:33.860 It's not a deposition.
00:04:35.160 Yeah.
00:04:35.580 Saying, I don't remember.
00:04:37.040 You can say that a couple of times, but at some point in time, you've got to confront previous, I mean, he said it.
00:04:42.340 He's a hero to the right.
00:04:43.740 I thought he did fine.
00:04:45.240 The only thing they got him on was, and it was by a Republican, it was Senator Cassidy, who may need to be shorn up.
00:04:52.100 He may need a few phone calls explaining to him.
00:04:54.780 Well, he's getting primered anyway.
00:04:55.980 Yeah.
00:04:56.100 He's not a Trump guy.
00:04:57.280 I mean, somebody should explain to him the importance of the Maha movement.
00:05:00.060 You know, it's cut across party lines, and we really do need his vote because he came at him with like a little, like a test on Medicare and Medicaid and the changes that Bobby was going to make to, you know, have crossover and people who qualify for both.
00:05:15.100 And like, this is the kind of question you ask somebody who's been the nominee for four years and who's pushing for change or more money.
00:05:20.480 He's not in there yet, nor did he run on, you know, Medicare reform.
00:05:23.760 It was so highly technical.
00:05:24.820 It was so technical.
00:05:25.620 So, he got the feeling he was trying to make him look stupid so he could justify his own vote.
00:05:29.400 Like, he's unprepared.
00:05:30.220 He didn't know.
00:05:31.360 And finally, Kennedy got to say how he really feels.
00:05:33.840 I don't think it was a response to Cassidy, but to somebody saying, look, this is what I kind of ran on when I ran for president, and this is what Trump selected me for.
00:05:43.040 Maha and toxins all over our environment and what we eat and what we drink and what we put on our furniture.
00:05:48.800 Like, that's the stuff I'm going to be looking at, these conflict of interest.
00:05:51.940 There's going to be somebody.
00:05:53.180 It's going to be Dr. Mehmet Oz to run Medicare.
00:05:56.400 Like, this is a silly attempt to ruin him.
00:05:59.400 What about answers about how you think he handled the vaccine and not vaccine, anti-vaccine?
00:06:04.940 Fine.
00:06:05.180 I mean, he's answered that a million times.
00:06:06.820 I don't know that they believed it.
00:06:08.640 I think what they're not grasping is that he's not going to ban vaccines for people.
00:06:12.680 He doesn't love mandatory vaccines, and I don't think there are going to be mandates.
00:06:16.260 The 60 that kids need to take now to get in public school?
00:06:19.040 Yeah.
00:06:19.560 I mean, look, I don't think he's told me a million times I'm not anti-vax.
00:06:23.340 I know why they think he's anti-vax.
00:06:25.100 He's got a lot of criticisms of vaccines, which is fine.
00:06:29.180 There's no harm in hearing that.
00:06:31.080 If he tries to ban them, then people are going to lose their minds.
00:06:34.360 I don't think he'll try to do that.
00:06:35.500 He understands that's not what President Trump wants.
00:06:38.640 What should their mandate be?
00:06:40.260 I mean, we want to take on the big pharma medical complex.
00:06:44.040 We had Tommy Trupperville sitting in that seat this morning, and I said, of the military-industrial complex, the big tech complex, and pharma-medical complex, which is the most powerful?
00:06:53.180 He goes, there's no comparison.
00:06:54.280 Big pharma and medical.
00:06:55.260 I said, they run this town.
00:06:56.240 They run everything.
00:06:57.040 They're involved in everything.
00:06:58.000 The money's so big.
00:06:59.880 How can you—I know this is a big belief of yours.
00:07:02.760 How do you take that on if you're Bobby Kennedy and Trump?
00:07:06.440 It's a very good question.
00:07:07.460 I mean, just getting him in there will be a huge win because, you know, you look at who is trying to stop it today, Elizabeth Warren, who took almost a million dollars from them just a couple years ago when she ran for president.
00:07:17.820 Bernie Sanders, more than a million dollars when he ran for president.
00:07:20.860 Each of these senators, for the most part, is in bed with big pharma.
00:07:24.920 You look at how the cable nets cover him.
00:07:27.040 I mean—
00:07:27.460 MSNBC.
00:07:28.480 It's 80 percent of their ads at night.
00:07:29.740 The Wall Street Journal's against him.
00:07:31.280 The New York Post is against him.
00:07:32.780 That's the Murdoch empire.
00:07:33.600 The Murdoch empire.
00:07:34.800 And then cut to the Pfizer ad, right?
00:07:36.520 So it's like there really are very powerful forces trying to stop him.
00:07:42.120 The greatest thing is that he just doesn't care.
00:07:45.100 And that was actually one of the moments that stood out to me today was when Elizabeth Warren tried to get him saying, well, you promise that after you have this job, you won't work for big pharma.
00:07:54.820 And he laughed.
00:07:56.180 She went to a whole litany.
00:07:57.520 He goes, could you repeat that?
00:07:58.620 Right.
00:07:59.220 He's like, me?
00:08:00.820 He's like, first of all, they don't want me.
00:08:02.360 So it's so refreshing, first of all, to have somebody who's been antagonizing them his whole life.
00:08:06.520 And then secondly, she tried to spin it.
00:08:08.360 She was like, well, will you promise that you won't work for like a law firm suing big pharma?
00:08:14.800 And he's like, well, I'm not.
00:08:16.140 No, I'm not going to promise not to sue big pharma.
00:08:19.080 Why would I promise that?
00:08:20.400 And she tried to spin it like a conflict, like Bobby Kennedy is going to get in there.
00:08:24.160 And what approve vaccines just so playing the long game, he can then get out and join the law firms, suing those vaccine makers and make money.
00:08:34.960 It made no sense.
00:08:36.220 So she was intellectually outmatched, but she was trying to do the bidding of those companies.
00:08:40.040 I don't know the answer to your question, though, Steve, how he's going to actually diminish their influence.
00:08:45.200 But just having him there will help.
00:08:46.880 And one other point.
00:08:48.380 One of the ways I know that is I know a lot of people who are in the Wall Street world trying to make money off of big pharma.
00:08:55.060 And to a person, they've all called me to try to dump on him.
00:08:58.960 Really?
00:08:59.400 And try to convince me to get off of supporting him.
00:09:02.780 It hasn't worked.
00:09:03.440 The question, why you were there front and center today, that people were talking about it, it went viral on the Internet.
00:09:09.200 Why were you there?
00:09:11.380 Well, I support him, and I want people to know I support him.
00:09:14.700 So if it's helpful to anybody to see that, I'm not a kook. 0.96
00:09:17.320 I have children.
00:09:18.300 I don't want them to lose access to medicine.
00:09:21.020 Pretty common sense.
00:09:21.680 Yeah, and I'm 100% in his camp.
00:09:23.880 I don't deny he's got his eccentricities.
00:09:26.720 I don't care.
00:09:27.660 The Caroline Kennedy things in the blender?
00:09:31.320 And she's like, I love my family.
00:09:33.500 I dearly love them, but he's a psychopath predator who lies and cheats and kills baby birds and is responsible for all of the deaths in my family due to addiction.
00:09:42.520 But I love him, and it's a very close family.
00:09:46.140 It's weird.
00:09:47.060 I noticed she didn't say whether they were live chicks that went into the blender. 1.00
00:09:50.520 I'm sorry.
00:09:50.980 It does make a difference.
00:09:52.460 It's a little weird.
00:09:53.700 But he's odd, Steve.
00:09:55.180 He's odd.
00:09:55.700 Like the thing with the bear head.
00:09:56.820 It's weird.
00:09:57.320 I don't care.
00:09:58.220 I couldn't care less.
00:10:00.080 I want him to make America healthy again.
00:10:01.980 I want him to get the toxins out.
00:10:03.440 He spent his whole life suing over toxic rivers like the Hudson where I grew up swimming.
00:10:09.480 I could have been at NASA.
00:10:10.960 I wound up being a journalist because I swam in a toxin-riddled Hudson.
00:10:15.540 He cleaned it up.
00:10:16.860 Too late for me.
00:10:17.880 But he saved a lot of lives.
00:10:19.440 That's why I want him.
00:10:20.580 I think they kind of know that, that this movement has crossed over party lines, so they have
00:10:25.640 to be a little careful of him.
00:10:27.060 When the Wall Street guys call you, what is their biggest thing?
00:10:29.860 Is it a personal foible or is it something policy-wise?
00:10:33.060 They're worried they're going to lose money in all their big pharma investments.
00:10:37.600 That they're worried that their Pfizer stock is going to go down in value because he's not
00:10:43.220 going to just green light all of the drugs and all of the projects, and he's not really
00:10:48.620 big on immunity from lawsuits for these vaccine peddlers.
00:10:53.820 And so, I mean, look what's happening right now with people who are COVID vaccine injured.
00:10:57.860 They can't get any primity.
00:10:59.120 How does he restructure?
00:11:00.280 You got what's Collins left and Fauci left, that whole infrastructure.
00:11:03.760 How do you think he takes that on?
00:11:04.820 He's no fan of that.
00:11:05.540 We met him, and he first started coming to the show with the Anthony Fauci book, the
00:11:10.220 real Anthony Fauci.
00:11:11.280 I think we sold 750,000 copies just in the war room.
00:11:14.160 They sold a million and a half because our audience, who's pretty right-wing and conservative,
00:11:19.340 and when he came on, we do Saturdays with two hours.
00:11:22.380 They were mesmerized by this guy, and particularly, they were not fans of Fauci.
00:11:25.820 And he just walked through chapter and verse of what a monster Fauci was.
00:11:29.000 What do you think he does to that apparatus that Collins and Fauci left behind?
00:11:32.580 That's the most exciting thing about him.
00:11:34.420 He was saying today that he's going to pursue radical transparency, and I think we're going
00:11:39.120 to know where all the bodies are buried.
00:11:41.000 In the same way Trump's doing JFK, RFK files and all that, I think he's going to show us
00:11:45.240 every email he can get his hands on within NHS and the Fauci group and FDA.
00:11:51.340 Let's not forget what's going to happen over at FDA, with whom he'll be working very closely.
00:11:55.240 Stop that revolving door.
00:11:56.720 Those people are corrupt, in my opinion.
00:11:58.760 They are in there.
00:11:59.880 That's why we have an opioid crisis, because they were too in bed with the Sackler family.
00:12:03.920 They refused to say that these opioids were addictive, which they were, Oxycontin.
00:12:08.260 All these people got addicted and died.
00:12:10.840 And the FDA was running cover for them, because the guy in charge of it wanted a job with the
00:12:16.540 Sacklers, which he then got. 0.50
00:12:18.440 So he's going to shut that down.
00:12:20.120 He's really conscious about those conflicts of interest that really do result in people
00:12:25.180 dying.
00:12:26.000 They kept accusing him of leading to the death of people who didn't take vaccines.
00:12:29.820 Baloney, it's the other way around.
00:12:31.080 What about today?
00:12:34.580 He goes to health care tomorrow.
00:12:36.060 That's where Tuberville is going to be.
00:12:37.800 Does he need a rehab overnight?
00:12:39.560 Does he need some of the senators rehabbing?
00:12:41.660 Do you think he came out of here today okay?
00:12:43.920 Do you think anybody like Cassidy and these others?
00:12:46.580 Because you know Collins and Murkowski probably knows this because they hate Trump.
00:12:50.780 And McConnell.
00:12:51.620 McConnell's on the bubble.
00:12:52.940 He doesn't like Bobby Kennedy.
00:12:55.360 The right to life people are putting, you know, Pence has got money, I think, from Big Pharma.
00:12:59.320 He definitely is to do the right to life.
00:13:02.580 Where do you put this nomination now and what has to happen in your eyes tomorrow in front
00:13:08.060 of really, it's kind of weird they do finance first and then they do.
00:13:10.980 I know.
00:13:11.360 Well, I asked Tuberville because he says on health care, he says that's the thing they
00:13:14.240 did when they first set the whole thing up because there's so much money flows through
00:13:17.560 the system.
00:13:18.080 The finance guys back in 30 or 40 years ago wanted to make sure that they had somebody
00:13:23.540 that was a fiduciary.
00:13:26.320 I know the poor guy has to go through this twice.
00:13:28.340 Twice.
00:13:28.820 It's a nightmare.
00:13:29.180 And tomorrow it could be more brutal because it's the Democrat guys on health care. 0.52
00:13:32.960 And I mean, I guess he can get a vote on the floor even if he doesn't technically make
00:13:37.500 it out of committee, either committee.
00:13:39.180 Both committees, right.
00:13:39.820 Yeah.
00:13:40.200 But I don't know.
00:13:41.540 I have to tell you, it's not guaranteed that he's getting through.
00:13:45.020 I think that these Republican senators need some pressure.
00:13:47.100 He just made news right there.
00:13:48.340 Yeah.
00:13:48.900 I mean, you're saying, you're calling like you see it.
00:13:51.260 I'm giving you my honest take on it.
00:13:52.700 I want him to be confirmed, but I wouldn't bet the House on it.
00:13:55.520 Walking in this morning, I was much more confident than I am today.
00:13:59.780 And we're doing everything.
00:14:00.900 The number's 202-224-3121.
00:14:04.740 Tomorrow, though, he's got to represent, right?
00:14:07.560 I mean, I would like to see him go on offense.
00:14:09.880 Yes.
00:14:10.060 Wouldn't that be nice?
00:14:10.680 That's what I'm saying.
00:14:10.900 I would like to see him come out swinging.
00:14:13.160 He can run circles around these senators intellectually.
00:14:16.460 Intellectually, yes.
00:14:17.300 You know, I'll tell you an interesting story about him.
00:14:19.080 He came on my show back when he was banned and part of the disinformation dozen.
00:14:23.800 And we did two hours on vaccines and we did two hours on him and his life.
00:14:27.940 Yes.
00:14:28.380 And he talked about growing up Kennedy and one of 10 kids and how his dad, RFK, used to
00:14:34.220 make them all read the newspaper every day.
00:14:36.780 And then at dinner, they'd have to stand up and present three articles.
00:14:40.460 And be able to sort of defend what was in there.
00:14:42.980 So the guys had a lifetime of defending his positions, of being put, you know, under the
00:14:48.440 hot light of, you know, having to be articulate and stand by your views.
00:14:53.680 And then he went into litigation and took on all these companies in his environmental lawyer
00:14:58.560 career.
00:14:58.960 So he can do it.
00:15:01.120 His voice is an impediment, but it's not a stutter.
00:15:04.340 It's a vocal cord thing.
00:15:06.940 Today, I noticed it wasn't great.
00:15:08.700 He told me on the show, some days it's stronger than others.
00:15:11.860 And today was not a good day for him.
00:15:13.700 Let's hope he has a better day with the vocal cords tomorrow because he can be really a lot
00:15:17.840 more forceful than he was.
00:15:18.940 But I think he should come out swinging and really stand up.
00:15:22.400 His best moments today were when he was defending the Maha movement and saying, this is why people 0.88
00:15:27.660 want me.
00:15:28.460 This is what I'm going to do.
00:15:29.720 And I think he should be honest where he's weak.
00:15:31.840 Like the Medicare thing, like Senator, I don't have all those answers, but I know I'm going
00:15:36.020 to have Dr. 0.98
00:15:36.540 Oz if you guys confirm him.
00:15:38.160 I know I'm going to have smart people within NIH who are going to help me understand these
00:15:42.280 things, but I'm being elected or appointed, confirmed, to spearhead a movement that's
00:15:48.520 going to help with childhood health and with everybody's health.
00:15:51.360 And it's going to help people not have to work so hard to get the toxins out of their
00:15:54.240 food and air and pharma and so on.
00:15:56.760 And if he sticks to that, he'll do better.
00:15:58.560 Today was just a little too passive.
00:16:01.540 President Trump thinks very highly of your opinion.
00:16:04.840 Given how important you think this is, should President Trump really jump in here tomorrow
00:16:09.700 and start whipping this vote to make sure that we get the votes?
00:16:12.420 I think so.
00:16:13.140 Yeah, I do.
00:16:13.780 I think I've thought about this a lot because I don't know Trump's feelings about Bobby.
00:16:19.000 You know, I know obviously they struck a political deal where Bobby would come on board and help
00:16:24.060 Trump win and then he would get this position.
00:16:26.220 I think he also digs the brand.
00:16:27.880 Sure.
00:16:28.300 Of course.
00:16:29.180 A hundred percent.
00:16:29.660 But I don't, you know, just Trump, is Trump looking at this like I did my part, I nominated
00:16:36.000 you and now it's up to you.
00:16:38.100 And sure, that would be true.
00:16:40.100 But I actually think it would be really helpful to Trump to have him on board and he can always
00:16:44.740 fire him if he sucks, if he goes crazy, if he does a bit of weird stuff. 0.92
00:16:47.560 You know, Trump's big on the firing.
00:16:49.200 But secondly, I think it would hurt Trump if he doesn't get confirmed because there is
00:16:53.720 a huge movement.
00:16:55.120 You know, it's definitely millions of people that are into this Maha thing.
00:16:58.820 Big.
00:16:58.900 And it's, it caused Democrat crossovers on the vote and he doesn't want to lose them
00:17:05.300 or look like to them like he's not a fighter.
00:17:08.160 Exactly.
00:17:09.220 So I think he should actually, I actually think this one is more important than some of the
00:17:15.120 ones that are coming down the line.
00:17:16.400 Maybe not than Kash Patel.
00:17:17.860 I know that one.
00:17:18.400 We have to have somebody go in and studs up to that place. 1.00
00:17:20.820 But this is, this is life and death.
00:17:23.060 Yes.
00:17:23.260 And he's just the man for the job.
00:17:24.300 And it's the most powerful driving force in this town.
00:17:26.580 If you're going to take this town on and change it, you got to do the biopharmaceutical, medical,
00:17:31.820 industrial complex.
00:17:32.920 You have to put on it.
00:17:33.480 And who's the backup, Steve?
00:17:34.960 You know, like who's the backup?
00:17:36.120 Nobody at this level.
00:17:37.160 Right?
00:17:37.600 Nobody.
00:17:37.800 You could find somebody who's got more of the Tulsi, Tucker, Glenn Greenwald view of foreign
00:17:43.460 policy there.
00:17:44.600 Not that I want Tulsi, I'm just saying there are others who think as she does.
00:17:47.820 Who else thinks as he does and would do to them what he will?
00:17:52.400 Let's go to tomorrow.
00:17:53.560 Because tomorrow's going to be, folks, tomorrow morning, we're going to have Bobby Kennedy
00:17:57.120 round two.
00:17:57.900 We're going to have Tulsi.
00:17:58.760 We're going to have Kash.
00:18:00.020 Let's talk about FBI first.
00:18:01.660 Kash Patel.
00:18:02.240 How important?
00:18:03.420 And where do you think that nomination is?
00:18:05.460 I think he's good.
00:18:06.480 I'm not worried about him.
00:18:07.640 I think there'll be some fireworks.
00:18:08.940 He's such a colorful, controversial guy.
00:18:12.020 And they're going to-
00:18:12.620 They were saying he's so good on counterterrorism, counterintelligence, two-thirds of what the FBI
00:18:16.340 does.
00:18:16.700 They know he's qualified.
00:18:18.600 You know, they're going to try to say Tulsi's not qualified. 0.83
00:18:20.760 They tried to say RFKJ's not qualified.
00:18:23.720 I don't think they can make that argument on Kash.
00:18:25.580 I think they're going to spend the whole day talking to him about threats of retribution
00:18:29.180 because the Pam Bondi confirmation hearing was a preview of Kash.
00:18:32.860 50% of Kash.
00:18:34.020 They were way more interested in Kash than they were in Pam.
00:18:36.920 But they knew they couldn't lay a glove on Pam, so let's go after Kash.
00:18:39.760 That's right.
00:18:40.340 So I think we got a preview of what he's going to get.
00:18:43.000 And I'm actually kind of looking forward to seeing what he says.
00:18:45.300 Because Kash is such an energized character, right?
00:18:48.520 Right.
00:18:48.880 And we've heard Trump kind of try to thread the needle on retribution.
00:18:52.660 And you and I have talked many times about how we'd like to see some.
00:18:55.640 So I don't know.
00:18:56.360 Big league.
00:18:56.920 Right.
00:18:57.440 Big league.
00:18:58.140 So I don't know what he's going to say.
00:18:59.520 Is Tulsi on top of the – we're her biggest – we love her.
00:19:03.960 I try to get her in to be UN over Nikki Haley in the first administration. 1.00
00:19:08.020 And she was actually much more impressive.
00:19:11.180 The word is she's not on top of the material.
00:19:14.180 Is that just what they're using?
00:19:15.460 Because Tulsi's very smart, common sense.
00:19:19.180 A colonel now and the lieutenant colonel fought over there, knows the area, knows intel.
00:19:23.780 Now, why do you keep hearing this thing that she's not on top of the material? 0.58
00:19:28.800 You hear the same thing?
00:19:29.760 Yes.
00:19:30.200 I mean, she's not from the intel community.
00:19:33.200 So that's an obvious way.
00:19:33.860 And these guys are all freaks.
00:19:35.000 Once they get on the committee, it's all icy.
00:19:36.800 And they all want to be James Bond.
00:19:38.340 That's right.
00:19:38.640 Exactly.
00:19:39.200 So that's an obvious way to try to diminish her.
00:19:41.380 Right.
00:19:42.400 I don't know.
00:19:43.320 I don't mean to play the woman card, but I have to think there's like a little piece of like she's not smart enough. 1.00
00:19:48.900 You know, she's beautiful.
00:19:50.040 She's from Hawaii. 1.00
00:19:51.600 Like, I don't know.
00:19:53.500 They're too laid back.
00:19:54.380 Yeah.
00:19:54.740 I don't – honestly.
00:19:56.780 Hey, brother, don't give me stink eye.
00:19:58.620 I just kind of feel like to diminish her as not qualified because she's not neck deep in intel is stupid.
00:20:03.660 She can learn it.
00:20:04.380 But the whole point of the Trump appointments is to change things, to do it differently.
00:20:08.500 The fact that she doesn't have the same resume as all those other guys is a plus, not a minus.
00:20:13.160 She can learn what she needs to learn.
00:20:14.780 Like RFKJ, she'll have very smart people in intel around her to help her understand.
00:20:19.400 But you're hiring the philosophy, the person who looks at information differently, who has a different mission than the last guys.
00:20:27.340 So she can learn what she needs to learn.
00:20:29.400 It's her overall reluctance to push the military-industrial complex toward war without any pausing, to second-guess some of the intel that she gets fed by a group that may have ulterior motives.
00:20:40.060 Like, it's hard to find somebody like that.
00:20:42.060 And she's got all of that in abundance. 0.59
00:20:43.880 What I really am not looking forward to is them calling her a spy and trying to suggest she's –
00:20:49.600 There are Russians, all that.
00:20:51.640 And Bashar al-Assad in Syria and all that.
00:20:53.940 What do you want to see – by the way, the missiles that we shot that night that I opposed, President Trump was very ambivalent.
00:21:00.200 They lied about the intelligence that night back in the first couple of months of Trump.
00:21:04.480 You know, the chemical attacks.
00:21:06.160 They sit right there and lie to you. 0.98
00:21:08.180 The changes at the FBI.
00:21:09.560 Let's say that cash gets confirmed.
00:21:13.520 What changes do you feel need to be done at the FBI?
00:21:17.060 I mean, look, everybody who knows says the rank and file, for the most part, are good.
00:21:23.920 They want to enforce the law.
00:21:25.380 They're good soldiers.
00:21:27.120 We know that's not true of all of them.
00:21:28.820 I mean, frankly, there's going to have to be some kicking of the tires at all levels just to see what we have.
00:21:33.280 But, I mean, most of the leadership should be decimated.
00:21:36.180 They allowed this to happen on their watch.
00:21:37.980 And, honestly, I'd love to see the FBI headquarters moved.
00:21:42.680 Take the brutalist architecture and take it apart brick by brick.
00:21:45.560 I think that building needs to go down to the studs. 1.00
00:21:47.720 The whole organization needs to go down to the studs. 0.97
00:21:49.660 It's got a bad vibe.
00:21:50.340 It does.
00:21:51.880 How are we ever going to trust them unless there's a complete overhaul?
00:21:55.060 It's a gut rehab.
00:21:55.960 Should you break it?
00:21:56.980 Two-thirds is counter-intel, counter-terrorism, and one-third is law enforcement.
00:22:00.680 Do you separate – do you break it up into two things?
00:22:03.680 I don't even – like, do we have to have counter-intel still in the FBI?
00:22:08.080 Like, why are they doing that?
00:22:09.280 Can't they just be cops?
00:22:10.640 Yeah.
00:22:11.140 That's a big question.
00:22:12.240 I mean, we have an organization that can do that.
00:22:14.300 Don't we have enough of that?
00:22:15.180 What do you want to see her do at DNI, in Intel?
00:22:18.940 She and Radcliffe combined.
00:22:20.220 I mean, that, too.
00:22:21.680 I want a makeover.
00:22:23.260 I don't trust – I didn't realize, you know, up until, like, the last five years how driven they all are toward war, toward making that military-industrial complex go out there, and how it's all sort of a cabal.
00:22:38.240 And so I just – I like the fact that she distressed them.
00:22:41.120 If you look back over your Fox career, and particularly for the Iraq war, and compare it to today, because you were a lawyer, I mean, your intelligence is the same.
00:22:50.840 What is the difference now that you've had a great awakening versus when you were at the place that probably was the biggest platform?
00:22:57.980 You know, Roger and those guys were 100 percent in back of it.
00:23:00.080 What do you see today that's different than what you saw then?
00:23:03.780 There was a blind trust in the FBI and the CAA and the Pentagon.
00:23:08.440 Blind trust.
00:23:09.700 I mean, whatever they said –
00:23:10.220 Post-9-11.
00:23:10.920 Yeah.
00:23:11.700 Whatever they said, we went for it.
00:23:13.260 We were there to defend it.
00:23:14.940 I mean, it was clear.
00:23:15.640 It wasn't said explicitly, but we understood.
00:23:17.660 And that was considered patriotic.
00:23:19.620 And we're still very supportive on the right of cops, for the most part.
00:23:23.200 You know, you've got the libertarians, like my friend John Stossel, who don't have a lot of use for them.
00:23:26.740 But for the most part, Republicans are pro-cop.
00:23:30.080 And kind of viewed them as cops.
00:23:32.420 And for a while there, the FBI was a bunch of cops.
00:23:34.840 And then they got very much into the intel field, as you know, post-9-11.
00:23:38.000 And that seemed important, too.
00:23:39.340 We wanted to stay safe.
00:23:40.300 We were very worried about getting bombed again.
00:23:42.480 And then there was just this mission creep that turned them into something other than what they were supposed to be.
00:23:48.300 And you had senior leadership coming out where they could, saying, we've lost control of the mission.
00:23:53.700 Like, it's no longer what it once was.
00:23:55.540 Do you believe in the theory of a deep state?
00:23:57.100 Do you actually believe that it's an intel, law enforcement, part national security that thinks that they are like a Praetorian guard?
00:24:04.360 That they really guard what the American empire and the American republic is?
00:24:07.580 And they know better than these passing politicians, whether they're Bernie Sanders AOC types or Donald Trump types?
00:24:13.660 Do you believe that actually exists?
00:24:14.920 Yeah, 100%.
00:24:15.420 Yes.
00:24:15.920 And you're not a conspiracy theorist?
00:24:17.440 No.
00:24:17.840 Why do you believe that?
00:24:19.960 Because they've been ruling for so long.
00:24:22.060 They've been getting their way for so long.
00:24:23.420 And look at...
00:24:24.060 And you look at the evidence.
00:24:25.180 It's pretty evident.
00:24:25.640 How else do you explain the 51 intelligence agents who signed the letter in coordination with the Biden White House?
00:24:31.180 How...
00:24:31.660 Campaign.
00:24:32.460 How else do you get that signed that quickly in coordination with the CIA, the existing CIA leadership,
00:24:38.420 if there isn't?
00:24:40.100 Like, they're just on, like, a phone tree?
00:24:42.740 You know, these guys are...
00:24:44.120 They are all part of the same group.
00:24:45.660 They have a group think.
00:24:47.180 And you're either in it or you're out of it.
00:24:48.980 And honestly, like, there's just been too much.
00:24:51.660 Like, the FBI, we never knew it was so politicized.
00:24:54.040 And then there was story after story.
00:24:55.340 And the Trump presidency really blew that open, where we got to see the texts and the emails about them planning on taking him out.
00:25:02.160 Not to mention what they did in the Mar-a-Lago raid and so on.
00:25:05.520 There's just been too much evidence that they are working for an agenda of their own.
00:25:11.440 And I remember talking to Ron DeSantis when I went out there to interview him.
00:25:16.080 And, you know, he's a former JAG lawyer.
00:25:18.660 He's an honest guy.
00:25:19.820 Special Forces JAG lawyer.
00:25:21.000 Yeah.
00:25:21.620 And he had a lot of criticism for a lot of government, but none as strong as he had it for the FBI.
00:25:28.240 And, like, that was the thing he most wanted to report on.
00:25:30.540 And you've lost Ron DeSantis.
00:25:31.620 Yeah.
00:25:32.400 Right?
00:25:33.080 Am I going to lose you at the bottom of the hour?
00:25:34.780 Can we hold you to a break?
00:25:35.740 We've got to lose her?
00:25:36.420 Okay, fine.
00:25:39.080 Today, the memo.
00:25:40.220 They sent the memo out yesterday on freezing all the money.
00:25:43.320 Yep.
00:25:44.200 Firestorm.
00:25:44.660 Rachel Madden and these guys up on the ramparts last night, nonstop, bang, bang, bang.
00:25:49.600 Today, they rescind the memo, but don't rescind the – did we blink?
00:25:55.980 Because we're the believer, never retreat, never apologize, put the ban on and go forward.
00:26:01.860 Was this something at the White House on the administrative side that hurt where we're going with the all pedal, no brake?
00:26:10.080 Mm-hmm.
00:26:11.220 All right.
00:26:11.740 Well, I'll be honest.
00:26:12.540 I don't totally understand how it happened.
00:26:15.360 Nobody does.
00:26:16.440 Right.
00:26:16.740 Okay.
00:26:17.340 I don't think the president does.
00:26:19.360 Okay.
00:26:19.700 Because it's like, what?
00:26:20.980 Wait, what?
00:26:22.580 So, I think, based on the fact that there was negative feedback about it, like, when it comes to –
00:26:27.920 A firestorm.
00:26:28.640 Yeah, like disadvantaged groups not getting their money and Medicaid payments not getting accepted at hospitals.
00:26:32.980 They had to do something to reverse what they had done.
00:26:36.660 That's not to suggest it was taken in good faith and being followed to the letter of the law.
00:26:40.720 I think there were a lot of actors out there who saw an opportunity to say chaos was created.
00:26:44.340 Yes.
00:26:44.600 And to lean into it.
00:26:45.360 But I think Trump was right to just rip off the Band-Aid within 24 hours, get us back to stasis, and this will be forgotten in a day.
00:26:52.380 Who cares?
00:26:52.460 You like the decisive nature of it.
00:26:54.580 That he reversed it.
00:26:56.400 Yeah.
00:26:56.680 Yeah.
00:26:57.360 But it speaks to a bigger issue.
00:26:58.820 This is where you're just trying to track the money and stop to track the money.
00:27:02.100 Yep.
00:27:02.360 What happens – all those thousands of programs that people say, well, I didn't know we supported that.
00:27:06.140 What happens when you have to balance the budget and you have to go in and make cuts on that?
00:27:09.860 We just got – this was just a memo to say we want to track the money.
00:27:13.740 Just everybody stop temporarily.
00:27:15.360 What happens when you have to cut $200 billion or $250 billion out of this program?
00:27:20.800 This is going to be – this is what I keep telling people.
00:27:22.920 I'm glad we're celebrating, but understand the fights in front of us are going to be of epic proportions.
00:27:27.680 There's going to be pain.
00:27:28.800 Like when Elon and Vivek – no longer Vivek, but farewell, Vivek.
00:27:33.660 Elon's was the buyout.
00:27:35.840 What do you mean his?
00:27:36.900 That was, I think, a doge thing.
00:27:38.640 They walked in and said, Silicon Valley, hey, don't assume you have a job.
00:27:44.680 And we'll give you a buyout for six months.
00:27:47.160 That's a doge thing.
00:27:48.020 That's doge signaling you that they've got a plan of how to take the personnel down.
00:27:52.440 Well, I – and Vivek was the first casualty of that.
00:27:55.060 Yeah, exactly.
00:27:56.080 With no buyout.
00:27:57.240 Right.
00:27:57.600 But he'll be fine.
00:27:58.380 He could be governor of Ohio soon.
00:28:00.280 But my point is simply that, yeah, that's what Elon's been saying.
00:28:03.880 Like maybe we get a trillion.
00:28:05.380 Maybe we get a two trillion cut.
00:28:06.700 I mean, that won't even make a dent.
00:28:08.400 But there's going to be some pain coming.
00:28:10.260 But look, to those people who worry about it, I say, look at Argentina.
00:28:13.960 Look how well they're doing.
00:28:15.260 Everybody laughed at Javier Malay.
00:28:16.960 He took the chainsaw out.
00:28:18.380 He cut all the government agencies.
00:28:20.280 Everybody predicted doom and gloom and that there'd be a massive recession.
00:28:23.500 It's worked up brilliantly.
00:28:24.840 Where do people get your show?
00:28:25.920 Where do they get you on social media?
00:28:26.880 YouTube.com slash Megan Kelly.
00:28:29.240 Sirius XM live at 12 noon.
00:28:32.500 And that's on Channel 111.
00:28:34.000 Are you having more fun now doing what you're doing than when you were the big star at Fox?
00:28:37.840 Oh, my God, Steve.
00:28:38.360 I can't imagine being stuck back there.
00:28:40.980 I just can't.
00:28:41.580 Like, I laughed today.
00:28:42.980 I was talking to my assistant.
00:28:43.820 I was like, remember when we thought it was a bad thing that I got fired by NBC?
00:28:47.800 Remember when we thought it was a bad thing that Tucker got fired?
00:28:50.320 Like, remember we used to look at that as a bad development?
00:28:53.080 Right.
00:28:53.500 Thank God.
00:28:54.400 On my knees in the morning.
00:28:55.980 Thank God.
00:28:57.220 For my course of events.
00:28:58.100 One more time.
00:28:58.660 Where do people get this show?
00:28:59.940 So, you can get it on podcast anywhere you want for free.
00:29:02.120 YouTube.com slash Megan Kelly or Sirius XM at noon east on Channel 111.
00:29:06.600 And on social media, where do they go?
00:29:08.300 You go to X, first and foremost, and Insta.
00:29:11.840 Megan Kelly, not in a billion years, I think, at one point in time.
00:29:15.860 In fact, we had the party for Matt Boyle last night.
00:29:17.900 Oh, nice.
00:29:18.260 My boy was back here as the bureau chief now, national political editor.
00:29:22.500 He and I need to have a hug.
00:29:23.860 No, no.
00:29:24.160 I'll find Tony Lee, too.
00:29:26.840 Tony Lee, Matt Boyle.
00:29:28.140 It was a great PBS special, though.
00:29:29.900 Yes.
00:29:30.200 I still watch it all the time.
00:29:31.040 It was very interesting.
00:29:31.860 Very dramatic.
00:29:32.520 It was one of their best.
00:29:34.320 And honestly, Steve, it's a pleasure to know you.
00:29:36.160 And I'm honored to be here.
00:29:37.160 Real honor.
00:29:37.740 You're a fighter.
00:29:38.180 Okay, short commercial break.
00:29:39.780 We'll return to the White House.
00:29:41.260 Brian Glenn next in the war room.
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00:32:38.000 Okay, let's return back to the White House.
00:32:46.660 Brian, amazing today on the law, but I've got to ask you, this memo, the OMB memo,
00:32:53.240 which I thought actually was quite smart of how to send it out.
00:32:56.120 It shows you you want to find out where the cash is going.
00:32:58.740 It was only temporary.
00:33:00.240 It's kind of a standard stock thing that all administrations do.
00:33:03.600 It might have been worded a little, you know, tough.
00:33:08.800 But what are your thoughts about the memo and then what happened today,
00:33:11.360 the firestorm that hit from the left?
00:33:12.980 And did we show these guys victory?
00:33:14.840 And is there blood in the water, brother?
00:33:18.020 Yeah, there is a little blood in the water.
00:33:20.500 It's interesting because as Caroline Leavitt walked out this morning,
00:33:24.300 just making her way down Pebble Beach, she did stop for a press gaggle.
00:33:29.480 And that was the very first question they asked her.
00:33:32.880 And her answer was, as to expect it now in this very aggressive Caroline Leavitt,
00:33:38.580 was like, don't you know how to read a memo?
00:33:40.740 We were very specific.
00:33:42.500 Like, it's not that hard to explain who gets the money, where it goes,
00:33:47.020 and just all of the facts.
00:33:48.960 Because, you know, Steve, the media really took this and they broke it apart.
00:33:53.860 They ran with the narrative and they used, you know, a lot of terms like,
00:33:58.420 well, you're going to, you know, Mills on Wheels and a lot of other organizations
00:34:02.000 are going to, you know, that help millions of people every day are going to run out of money.
00:34:06.280 And she was very specific on that.
00:34:08.380 So I think that that's indicative of what we're going to see from this press secretary.
00:34:13.680 She's direct, Steve.
00:34:14.700 She's exactly what we would expect a press secretary to be under President Trump.
00:34:19.960 No, she's fantastic. 0.97
00:34:23.620 What about the theory of the case?
00:34:25.340 Because the day we had Gitmo, we have every day you're getting 10 or 12 major
00:34:29.940 either executive actions or executive orders.
00:34:33.320 Is this, are we still going to remain since there was, I'm not saying they blinked,
00:34:37.720 but maybe flinched.
00:34:38.780 Are we still going to get all pedal, no brake, Brian?
00:34:42.400 I think so, Steve, from what I understand, they're going to be going full speed ahead
00:34:49.360 with a lot of this stuff and press conference.
00:34:52.060 From what I understand, Steve, you're either going to hear from Carolyn Leavitt every day
00:34:56.860 or President Trump.
00:34:58.240 You're not going to have this previous administration where you might go a week
00:35:02.080 without even seeing President Trump, I mean, President Biden, previous administration,
00:35:07.300 and then you have the previous press secretary not really giving any answers.
00:35:12.000 Steve, I spent some time today talking to people who have been in this, covering the White
00:35:18.640 House for numerous years, and they tell me, Brian, we've never seen the press room like
00:35:23.520 this.
00:35:23.760 We've never seen answers come out of an administration like we see now.
00:35:27.280 So I think it is going to be pedal to the metal, not only on just getting stuff going,
00:35:33.260 but then when we get back in session next week, coming off a three-day, I guess, summit, if you
00:35:42.920 will, down there at Doral, and from my sources tell me that not a whole lot got accomplished
00:35:49.540 as far as a plan.
00:35:51.340 So let's see what that looks like next week when they get back into session and President
00:35:56.080 Trump huddles with the powers to be there in the House, and we figure out what we're
00:36:01.280 doing because, you know, that's, we've got to, you know, President Trump can do all he
00:36:06.200 can from here, but we've got to start working on some things in the House and get on the same
00:36:11.980 page.
00:36:12.580 And, I mean, are we collectively together right now, Steve?
00:36:15.980 I would say for the most part, yes, but that's not enough.
00:36:20.600 We have to be 100 percent behind this agenda, and we'll see how that pans out.
00:36:26.720 I think right now we're closer maybe on policy.
00:36:30.000 Look, there's a big difference on tax and things like that.
00:36:32.300 I'm not sure we're collectively, I had Senator Tupperware, I'm not sure we're collectively
00:36:36.760 together on process.
00:36:39.160 And process, folks, is not just people, as you know, Brian, it was just a process story.
00:36:43.760 Process is going to be big here because of the debt, the deficits, the budget we've got
00:36:49.000 to get passed, the one or two reconciliations, just the ability to appropriate and essentially
00:36:57.180 raise the money, you know, in a timely manner, and to make sure we continue to move forward
00:37:02.320 the process.
00:37:02.980 I'm not so sure we're on it.
00:37:04.380 One last thing, Brian, for you, Lake and Riley, the first big bill, President Trump, and he
00:37:09.120 kind of gave a warning to people that weren't in back of this, that, hey, there'll be consequences.
00:37:14.620 But at the same time, it was, I found it quite ironic, on Gitmo, he said on Gitmo, they're
00:37:21.300 going to turn Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, into a housing for, I think it's 30,000 of the worst 1.00
00:37:28.500 hombres, he wants them out of the country.
00:37:30.760 Didn't you find it ironic we signed Lake and Riley on the same day that President Trump
00:37:34.440 takes another powerful action to say, I'm getting bad hombres out of this country?
00:37:38.300 Yeah, no, what a powerful thing, Steve, and I'll go a step further.
00:37:44.120 Did you hear him talk about the countries that when he calls them, and he's saying, hey,
00:37:48.380 we're going to, you're going to, you're going to take some of these hardened criminals back
00:37:52.000 in your country, and you're going to like it.
00:37:54.200 I mean, he was very direct, and he got a couple laughs out of the crowd there, but I do think
00:37:59.840 it's symbolic of all that's going on right now, and he's, he means business.
00:38:05.440 I mean, I said this earlier in one of the shows today, you know, America is a safer place
00:38:11.200 when criminals are off the streets, whether or not they're illegals, or they're just, are 0.87
00:38:15.100 Americans, I mean, it's a safer place, and I think for once, we have somebody that when
00:38:20.880 they speak, Steve, people listen, no matter if you're a government official here, or you're
00:38:27.480 a foreign dignitary from somewhere else, they're listening to President Trump, and the law
00:38:32.860 is the law, and today was a great law that President Trump signed into act.
00:38:40.060 Brian Glenn, fantastic, great you're down there, social media, where do people follow you,
00:38:44.300 because you're putting stuff up all day, between doing the hits on the shows, it's
00:38:48.000 so great to see you down there, I don't know how we're going to split you in two, and use
00:38:51.720 your back on Capitol Hill with all the important stuff that's going on in the House, but somehow
00:38:55.660 we'll figure it out, yeah, well, you can find me at Brian Glenn TV, I'm trying to put up
00:39:01.740 as much stuff as I can, Steve, between the cold weather, draining your phone battery, and
00:39:05.800 everything else, because it all happens right behind me, along the Pebble Beach, we've got
00:39:10.560 a lot of people coming in and out, so we try to grab as many interviews, and as much content
00:39:14.700 as possible, so Steve, I appreciate you having me on today, and hopefully we've got some great
00:39:20.800 four years ahead, right here at the White House.
00:39:25.100 Well, if nothing else, Brian, it will be exciting, must-see TV, thank you, Brian Glenn, appreciate
00:39:30.880 you.
00:39:31.500 Yeah, it is, thanks.
00:39:34.360 Also, Bobby Kennedy, I know the White House, I'm sure tonight, and the number for folks,
00:39:40.480 202-224-3121, I have to agree with Megyn Kelly about Senator Cassidy, and I think right
00:39:48.440 there, you're seeing the, with Bobby Kennedy, if you count Murkowski and Collins, because
00:39:53.980 you just never can count on them, because they're essentially Democrats, and Mitch McConnell,
00:39:58.180 because of the revenge tour, you can't lose anybody, J.D.'s the tiebreaker with that, almost
00:40:05.380 lost Tillis the other day, almost lost Tillis, didn't happen, but on Friday, people should know
00:40:11.000 behind the scenes, there was some movement, because that got a little jiggy.
00:40:15.080 You're not going to be able to lose anybody, Cassidy, others, how it gets voted out of
00:40:20.940 committee, we have to see, Bobby Kennedy for round two tomorrow.
00:40:24.640 For tomorrow, folks, it's going to be, you know, we're going to have Cash, Patel, you're
00:40:30.620 going to have Tulsi Gabbard, and Bobby Kennedy all throughout the day, and it'll be quite
00:40:35.900 intense in the morning, we'll be cutting back and forth between the two.
00:40:39.320 Go to War Room Films, you can still get Cash's government gangsters, you might want to see
00:40:45.640 that before it takes place tomorrow.
00:40:47.100 He might get asked a couple of three questions about the book and all of it, but it's right
00:40:51.780 now, and this gets back to like the memo, President Trump's winning everywhere, he spread
00:40:57.560 eagle everywhere, right, and, you know, kind of spread eagle the field, so that they don't
00:41:03.800 know which way to kind of go, last night, you can see Matt, and tonight, they're going
00:41:08.540 to spike the football, tonight, they're going to say, hey, we pushed back, and they collapsed.
00:41:13.300 This is why, to me, it's just march forward, you're hitting it all, you're hitting on all
00:41:17.320 cylinders, you're doing great things, the country is excited, the polling's been good,
00:41:23.080 people know you got a, were dealt a very bad hand.
00:41:26.940 I just hope that this doesn't come down to, hey, even on this memo, which was basically
00:41:32.120 a warning to the different departments, don't be sending out cash, I believe where this came
00:41:36.560 from is President Trump's been signing, he's been signing these executive orders and taking
00:41:41.500 executive actions, whether it's World Health Organization, the Green New Deal, we showed
00:41:47.600 you the headline in the Financial Times the other day, $300 billion, I think, unspent from,
00:41:53.980 you know, what he calls Green New Scam Deals, he wants to use that to reallocate to, you
00:42:00.220 know, to the border wall, to border security, maybe his economic program, his theory of the
00:42:05.580 case in the unified executive is impoundment, that he believes that the appropriations process,
00:42:11.140 which is part of essentially the Constitution and the order of what comes out in the House,
00:42:17.180 the ability to, all revenue generation, all taxes have to come out of the House, spending
00:42:21.380 really has to come out of the House, that he has the ability, that's a ceiling, has the
00:42:25.680 ability to go in and kind of grab back, they counter with, there's no line item veto.
00:42:29.960 These are massive separation of powers issues, these are massive, I think, constitutional issues,
00:42:35.640 but President Trump's driving forward.
00:42:38.200 My point, when you put out a memo, even if in hindsight, people say, hey, there's some
00:42:42.840 questions, some loose language, you just move forward, because this is the testing period.
00:42:48.600 This is the testing period.
00:42:50.660 And they're only going to get more, you know, innervated.
00:42:54.100 Right now, it's been very tough for them to find a hill to rally around, what's called a
00:42:58.760 rally point.
00:42:59.740 They haven't been able to find it.
00:43:01.760 We don't want to hand one to them.
00:43:03.440 I actually thought the memo was terrific.
00:43:05.620 I realized it led to some confusion.
00:43:07.420 Maybe there's a little more coordination, et cetera.
00:43:10.100 On the Doge side, about the buyout, that's what happens in corporate America all the
00:43:15.160 time.
00:43:15.420 I understand there's more regulations, more rules with federal employees, but I think
00:43:19.880 it shows they're putting a shot across the administrative state's bow.
00:43:24.880 They're saying, hey, if you don't want to come back to work, et cetera, and we can't
00:43:28.380 guarantee you a job because we're going to be deconstructing the administrative state
00:43:32.540 and some of these bureaus, some of these departments may not work.
00:43:35.980 I think Elon said it one time, there are 466 departments or bureaus or agencies in the
00:43:41.000 federal government.
00:43:41.540 He wants to take it down.
00:43:42.380 He threw out a random number, 99.
00:43:44.660 And he sees that in his engineering mind.
00:43:47.360 I'm sure he hasn't finished the analysis, but that's directionally where he's going.
00:43:51.660 And you can tell this from Vivek.
00:43:54.940 When Vivek was on Jesse Walters the other night and some of these other shows, when they
00:43:58.820 talked to him about, hey, did you get let go?
00:44:01.200 He says, listen, I had a more of a constitutional, legal way of going after the deconstruct the
00:44:06.600 administrative state and getting these changes at cost.
00:44:10.900 Elon's very engineering oriented.
00:44:12.900 He looks at it as both a kind of a cost cutting or taking things down.
00:44:16.220 He's been very, you know, very upfront about that.
00:44:20.220 That memo, and I would admit it's not the traditional thing you see kind of come through
00:44:24.980 the staff secretary, but it was out there that I wouldn't pull back either because I
00:44:29.600 think directionally you're showing Rachel matter last time when she started, there was 1.00
00:44:33.520 a 28 minute, I think opening segment, the first 10 minutes, she's just in complete meltdown 1.00
00:44:38.860 about they want to get rid of the government.
00:44:40.320 They want to get rid of the government.
00:44:41.620 These people are so tied to the government.
00:44:44.260 And I hope you saw as the exercise where all this money goes.
00:44:48.640 Look at the thousands of programs.
00:44:50.400 This is, I think, shows you the scale of Leviathan.
00:44:55.260 It also is a harbinger of fights to come.
00:44:59.320 President Trump didn't cut anything yesterday.
00:45:01.420 He didn't eliminate any programs.
00:45:03.240 He didn't take away any billets.
00:45:05.300 He basically foreshadowed, hey, here's where we're going with this.
00:45:10.180 And we look at this as, as I said, money and billets, billets, personnel and cash flow,
00:45:16.540 how cash goes through the system.
00:45:18.620 So I would just press on.
00:45:21.520 Caroline Levitt, I think, has been fantastic today.
00:45:24.340 She didn't back down an inch.
00:45:25.420 In fact, she had something.
00:45:26.380 I'm still trying to get totally deciphered.
00:45:28.580 The memo's rescinded, but not the facts of the memo.
00:45:32.160 And we want those departments and agencies to understand you're not to spend.
00:45:36.140 So we'll have to see that tonight.
00:45:37.360 But I think it's been fantastic.
00:45:38.620 Birch Gold, so excited.
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00:46:31.680 I don't know.
00:46:31.900 I want to warn you of a huge change that could be coming to our money and our bank accounts.
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00:46:49.200 Now, Jim Rickards, editor of the independent financial newsletter Strategic Intelligence and New York Times bestselling author, is warning about a coming event that could elevate this governmental surveillance to a terrifying new level.
00:47:03.260 In fact, some of the guests I've had on The War Room believe that the government will soon expand their powers to track our every move.
00:47:10.660 If we say the wrong things on social media, donate to the wrong causes, buy firearms, or even vote MAGA, the government may be able to shut us out of our bank accounts.
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00:48:27.940 So the guys at BirchGold, look, we've got work ahead of us.
00:48:32.840 We have to get these three cabinet nominees.
00:48:35.180 And Lee Zeldin was voted in today.
00:48:37.820 So he's the EPA, head of the EPA, which is a huge win, a huge win.
00:48:43.600 We've got to get Bobby Kennedy.
00:48:45.560 And I think Bobby Kennedy gave as good as he got today.
00:48:48.740 We got a little scuffed up.
00:48:49.780 Let's be blunt.
00:48:50.340 Bobby Kennedy goes again tomorrow with health, really the Health and Human Services Committee over in the Senate.
00:48:56.780 Tommy Tuberville will be on that.
00:49:00.000 202-224-3121.
00:49:02.080 Get Mike Davis or the guys at Article 3 or Grace Chung and the Bill Blaster.
00:49:08.860 Make sure that you're most efficient, effective possible.
00:49:11.220 So we've got some – we've definitely got some work to do on this.
00:49:15.800 You also have Cash DeMar with the FBI.
00:49:17.720 You get Tulsi with DNI to be Reckless Partner as she runs – be Director of National Intelligence. 0.96
00:49:25.700 We've got some work to do on all these.
00:49:27.480 You have to put guys on those, particularly people like Cassidy. 0.91
00:49:30.020 And the folks down there, we have a big audience in Louisiana.
00:49:32.920 Be very helpful if you told Senator Cassidy.
00:49:35.820 And I kind of agree.
00:49:37.560 It was such a technical question.
00:49:39.060 His were so technical.
00:49:40.840 I don't know if Bobby should be prepared to answer those or not.
00:49:43.700 But tomorrow he should assume that they're going to be coming and they're going to be rolling hard on him.
00:49:48.480 So tomorrow, another day, we've got to get Bobby in.
00:49:52.340 Make America healthy again.
00:49:54.260 I want to give a thank you to all, like the Warren Posse and the folks that showed up today to support Bobby Kennedy in the room.
00:50:01.880 I think we're going to try to get Mary Holland here from Children's Health Defense in the next hour. 1.00
00:50:05.240 Next hour is going to be Jam.
00:50:06.580 Pat Carey Lake is going to join us.
00:50:08.840 Jim Rickett is going to join us.
00:50:09.920 I'm going to go to the White House.
00:50:12.200 Natalie's up.
00:50:12.820 A bunch of breaking developments in the White House on other stories we're covering there.
00:50:16.860 That's kind of the center of action in town.
00:50:19.640 One thing that's becoming self-evident from Senator Tuberville's visit, right now there's not an agreement on a process.
00:50:27.180 But one thing there is an agreement on is that the deficits are not going to be radically cut, at least for a while.
00:50:35.240 They will be cut.
00:50:36.120 President Trump's committed to that.
00:50:37.800 Scott Besson said he'll figure out a way to finance it.
00:50:40.660 One thing you can rest assured of is that they're going to be looking for tax revenue, the IRS particularly, although they're getting tons of agents cut.
00:50:47.860 And President Trump eventually wants to get rid of all personal income tax one day.
00:50:53.920 That day is not today.
00:50:55.380 He's making, you know, no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime.
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00:51:51.620 One thing about medicine, the Chinese Communist Party is taking the high ground or trying to take the high ground on not just artificial intelligence but also social media. 0.86
00:52:03.760 Big fight in front of us.
00:52:05.060 Everybody's talking right now about Silicon Valley may need to battle another $500 billion into artificial intelligence.
00:52:10.580 One thing I tell you, we're drawing closer and closer to a conflict because the Chinese Communist Party is already in a conflict with us.
00:52:20.040 They will tell you right up front that they are in an unrestricted war, a people's war, an unrestricted war against the foreign devils. 0.94
00:52:27.080 That would be the United States of America.
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00:53:03.980 Okay.
00:53:04.920 To reset the big firestorm today, President Trump doing positive, the Lake and Riley Act, it's a big ceremony at the White House.
00:53:13.440 He also announced he's turning Gitmo over to a 30,000, I think, bed facility for bad hombres so they can get them out of the country and get them down there. 1.00
00:53:21.900 And where they can figure out what they're going to do with them, maybe to get them to their home country to serve out the rest of their jail sentences.
00:53:27.980 So big day there.
00:53:29.420 The memo that really set the template for, hey, we want everything to stop.
00:53:34.380 And one of the things that I think people learned is how far the federal government is in everybody's life.
00:53:39.580 The list of the NGOs was mind-boggling.
00:53:42.660 The list, the amount of money, I think it was $3 trillion of cash going through the system, $3 trillion.
00:53:47.000 The left, I don't understand, President Trump kind of is getting a feel for how to deconstruct the administrative state.
00:53:53.660 He's sending out executive orders every day they're on.
00:53:56.960 So this is very, very important.
00:53:58.260 Okay.
00:53:58.680 Next hour, we're going to go back to the White House for our own Natalie Winters.
00:54:03.700 Mary Holland from Children's Health Defense.
00:54:06.120 Jim Rickards is going to join us.
00:54:07.540 He's got a couple of surprise guests.
00:54:08.740 The Carrie Lake.
00:54:09.940 All of it.
00:54:10.960 Oh, and is Mike Lindell with me?
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00:55:38.420 Thank you very much, brother.
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00:55:44.260 Short commercial break.
00:55:45.200 We're going back to the White House with our own Natalie Winters.
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