Bannon's War Room - February 04, 2025


Episode 4243： RFK And MAHA Win Committee Vote


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Summary

The Senate Intelligence Committee votes on Tulsi Gabbard's nomination to the Armed Services Committee, and there's a lot to watch for in terms of which Republican senators will vote yes and which will vote no. Stephen K. Kamb and Jonathan discuss the implications of the vote, and what it means for the future of the committee and the process.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 on this panel had, yet many of them are starting to fall in line. You saw Susan Collins yesterday
00:00:04.460 say that she planned to vote yes. James Langford, who initially was a yes vote, but then was among
00:00:10.020 the senators raising serious concerns about the way she answered questions related to Edward
00:00:14.420 Snowden, said yesterday, confirmed definitively that he will vote yes for her as well.
00:00:19.560 Young is the only one on the Intelligence Committee who has yet to say which way he plans
00:00:23.800 to vote. And he received a great deal of online scrutiny, particularly from Elon Musk, who's of
00:00:29.780 course, Donald Trump's right hand man right now in the White House. Then Musk signaled on his
00:00:35.120 platform X that he and Young had spoken and that things were resolved. No one said anything about
00:00:41.460 how that impacted Tulsi Gabbard's vote. And Young has continued to say that he is still trying to
00:00:46.700 figure out if he's a yes or no. If Young votes no on committee, that's likely enough to kill
00:00:51.320 Gabbard's vote as well. But Jonathan, I think the important point here is if past practice is any
00:00:57.340 indication about this young new Congress and their relationship with Donald Trump, they will likely
00:01:02.880 fall in line. I think that we should be very surprised if we see either Cassidy or Young stray
00:01:08.740 away from this vote and vote no, and especially be the person, the one individual that takes the brunt
00:01:15.800 of what will likely be an enormous amount of backlash from the MAGA community if they are the ones to vote
00:01:21.560 no. So I'd be very surprised if either of these nominees at least don't make it until the next stage
00:01:27.320 and that full floor vote. But there will be a lot to watch here today. And one other last point I'll
00:01:32.200 make about this, Jonathan, Bill Cassidy up for reelection in Louisiana. If you were to vote no,
00:01:37.180 he would likely face a very stiff challenge from the MAGA world. And keep in mind, he may face that
00:01:42.080 challenge anyway, given the fact that he voted to impeach Donald Trump during his last term. So
00:01:48.060 there's a lot of play here today. And it's going to tell us a lot about the future of these nominees
00:01:51.960 and also the future of this Republican Congress. And if they have any plans to stand up to Donald
00:01:57.100 Trump in the near future. Yeah, there'd be there'd be safety in numbers. But being that one lone
00:02:01.540 no vote that makes a difference is very, very challenging. And I'll say Trump officials I've
00:02:05.140 spoken in recent days feel very bullish about their chances to get everyone through.
00:02:10.060 You send these nominations to the Senate and the Article 3 project will work
00:02:14.120 with Bannon's war room. And we will get these people confirmed. And we have. And we did that
00:02:19.960 with Pete Hexeth. We lit up the Senate when people went to article three project dot org and take action.
00:02:26.720 We've had a hundred and we've had I'd have to get the latest numbers from Mark Lucas.
00:02:31.940 She just gave us the numbers, overall numbers. And in what Natalie said from the White House,
00:02:37.200 literally, we collectively melted down the Senate's phone line, everything. They can't take
00:02:41.820 anymore. It's the most they've ever had. We've had a hundred. We've had a hundred and sixty
00:02:45.980 thousand phone calls and emails going into home state senators. Not just not just Steve Bannon
00:02:52.600 calling up, you know, Macy Hirono from Hawaii calling your home state senators, which is the
00:02:58.100 most effective thing you can do. We have melted down the Senate. So they have gone from dead on
00:03:03.740 arrival to, oh, make this stop after about three days of the war room blowing up the Senate
00:03:10.660 switchboard. So it's it's going very well.
00:03:16.100 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:03:21.020 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:03:26.240 I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly
00:03:31.520 full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the
00:03:34.980 world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
00:03:37.580 And where do people like that go to share the big line? Mega media. I wish in my soul,
00:03:44.320 I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my
00:03:50.720 purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:03:58.020 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:04:01.340 Oh, Tuesday, 4 February, Year of the Lord, 2025. Welcome to the War Room. Okay, it's another
00:04:12.900 work day. We've got USAID. We're actually going to get Ben Burquam's out on ice raids. He's
00:04:21.260 going to stop what he's doing to join us, I think in Newark, New Jersey, another sanctuary
00:04:27.340 city. Ben's going to step out of our ice raid and join us. We're going to have Larry
00:04:32.280 Taughton. We've had Larry on many times over the years. Talk about USAID and their direct
00:04:37.440 involvement in the invasion of the United States. So we want to get that out. Postos here,
00:04:43.180 China's come back. China's not happy. President Trump laid a 10% tariff on them and they're
00:04:49.080 coming back. They're going to antitrust. They're doing this with Google, doing other things.
00:04:53.420 Big tariffs on a blowback. We're going to get all that work through. Postos is going
00:04:58.980 to be on here. Also, BBs at the White House today, first visitor. They're going to talk
00:05:03.880 the strategy of the Middle East. President Trump's trying to shut down two wars simultaneously.
00:05:09.660 We'll talk more about Ukraine with Postos up to. Zelensky's sticking by the fact he only
00:05:13.800 got $77 billion. We sent $250. He said only $178. Actually, theoretically, they can even
00:05:21.800 see where we're trying to send it, but only $77 billion came to him. Something's
00:05:25.960 missing. But the first work is 10 o'clock, Bobby Kennedy. The committee, I think, is
00:05:32.280 actually meeting. If this gets to be real, we will kick into live coverage of that. We
00:05:36.940 know how much you love that. Tulsi Gabbardson, too. We are at the 11th, you know, we're at
00:05:42.840 the 59th minute of the 11th hour here. Two minutes to midnight on this. Right now, it's
00:05:48.140 Cassidy on Bobby and Todd Young of Indiana. I don't know, man. You know these guys. It's
00:05:54.620 like Mike Turner. You get these, you get these yahoos on the, on these intelligence committee
00:05:59.440 and the intelligence committee sucks them in and tell them they're James Bond. And next
00:06:02.680 thing you know is, is that on? Okay. Don't have it feeding back my ears. I can't hear
00:06:08.820 my lovely voice. These, you know, they get, they get to be absolutely awful. So Todd Young
00:06:14.680 is one of those guys. We've lit him up for the last couple of days. Two zero two, two
00:06:18.720 two, four, three, one, two, one is the number. Get your last licks in on this thing. You heard
00:06:24.680 Mike Davis last night, hundreds of thousands of call between article three project in war
00:06:30.440 room. Just you guys going over the top and then war room bill blaster. So there's three
00:06:35.040 avenues of attack here. As Ted Cruz said on his podcast the other day, these things are impactful
00:06:42.040 and Ted Cruz gave you a good cheat sheet. He said, Hey, look, they don't really listen
00:06:47.280 to the, to the logic. You can leave that if it, if it helps you vent, but just give it
00:06:51.940 a boom. Tulsi Gabbard. Yes. Tulsi Gabbard. Yes. Bobby Kennedy. Yes. Bobby Kennedy. Yes.
00:06:56.200 Really. They just, they just tally votes. The vote on Bobby Kennedy's this morning. Remember
00:07:01.080 why is this important? Bobby Kennedy is the instrument that in his department of health and
00:07:08.960 human services is the instrument that we kind of merge. We weld together the MAGA movement
00:07:14.860 and the make America healthy again movement. You saw what happened in, in, in 20, uh, in,
00:07:20.720 in 2024 and five November, we have worked on this for years. This is why we got Naomi Wolf. Remember
00:07:26.040 Naomi Wolf first came on the show back in 2021. You hated her. Oh my God. The hate. Oh my God.
00:07:33.100 She's a feminist. She's a liberal. She's a progressive. Yeah. She was all those things.
00:07:37.820 She was, but this is the red pill of, uh, of the moms of America, the moms for Liberty. Those moms
00:07:44.120 that saw what was being taught to their kids in, in school, the moms all of a sudden had a great
00:07:48.540 awakening and Nicole Shanahan, Shanahan, I think I'm on her show today. Nicole Shanahan came up,
00:07:55.400 was a fire breather, make America healthy again. And they've exposed the entire racket of the food
00:08:01.120 industry. Right. And the kind of, the racket of big, of big agriculture and the racket of, uh,
00:08:08.320 of, uh, big pharma. You watch MSNBC like we do. We deconstruct this all the time. You watch MSNBC,
00:08:14.660 80% of the ads, they have two types of ads. They have ads for the most bizarre drugs you've ever seen
00:08:22.340 in your life. I mean, it's the sickest audience I've ever seen. Last night I saw one that topped it.
00:08:27.380 It's for people that are depressed, but it's a booster for your depression pills.
00:08:31.480 Not kidding. They're depressed and they need a, they need to uplift. It's safe for your
00:08:36.180 depression pills. I'm not picking on people that are depressed. I know people are out there
00:08:39.800 depressed and you particularly depressed if you're watching MSNBC and you're a progressive. I got that.
00:08:45.400 But it's just everything. So big pharma basically supports and Bobby Kennedy has committed to us.
00:08:51.360 One of the first things he's going to do is get big pharma. They don't do it in England. They don't do
00:08:55.120 it in Europe. They don't let these pharmaceutical companies come in and do basic advertising on
00:08:58.800 political channels. Shouldn't be able to do it because it's part of the political agenda.
00:09:03.240 Bobby Kennedy's promise that Bobby Kennedy for all his flaws, and he's a very imperfect instrument
00:09:10.260 as we all are. I think we're, I think we're, I think we're, I think we're running the tables
00:09:15.940 here on imperfect instruments. It's Bobby Kennedy's imperfection that makes his work even better.
00:09:21.260 I think just like president Trump, Pete Hegseth, Stephen K. Bannon, Tucker Carlson, all of us.
00:09:31.360 And today we need Bobby Kennedy, Dr. Cassian folks in Louisiana. We had the surgeon general
00:09:36.960 Louisiana on here the day, and he is full MAGA. And he said, flat out, make no mistake about
00:09:43.120 the people in Louisiana want make America healthy again. They want Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:09:49.360 as the secretary of health and human services. Now you might ask, why is the finance committee
00:09:56.780 voting on this? Why is the health and human services committee not voting on it? That's
00:10:00.000 a very good question. The answer is there's so much cash that flows through this system,
00:10:05.720 cash money, that they make the finance committee kind of oversee it. Health and human services,
00:10:10.920 the committee of jurisdiction, this kind of dual reporting, but the vote goes in the finance
00:10:16.860 committee. This is what Elon's trying to do. As you know, Elon Musk and I have some differences
00:10:22.760 of opinion. We also have some things that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And the big league
00:10:29.440 enemy of each other, when you're talking about big topics, could be very friendly. You know,
00:10:32.960 you can, the clans can unite for a while. They used to do this in Scotland all the time.
00:10:37.340 You can unite to keep, you know, was it Edward I from burning York, from sieging York,
00:10:43.860 and then turn around the next day and be at it fighting each other. It works. I'm Irish. I'm
00:10:49.360 Celtic. It happens all the time. Hell, that's the way that British kept us divided for so many
00:10:54.480 centuries. Two zero two, two, two, four, three, one, two, one. Elon Musk with his engineering
00:11:01.340 behind. Here's what's going on. The memo you saw come out last week from O&B. It's two parts of this
00:11:07.000 story and the media doesn't quite get it because they're not engineers. Elon Musk is going in first.
00:11:12.700 Remember, we need big cuts. We need a trillion dollars, Elon, and we need it like next week.
00:11:17.080 Just identify it. You don't have to make the cuts. President Trump and the House are going to make
00:11:21.660 the cuts. OK, but we need identification in his mind. And this is how an engineer works. Like the
00:11:27.500 first thing that you do on a Navy ship when you show up, you're just an ensign. You have no earthy
00:11:31.760 idea. You basically learn the pointy part of the ship goes forward and the stern is where, you know,
00:11:37.340 is in the back. The fantail is in the back. That's about all you know what they tell you to do.
00:11:40.760 You get a notebook and you line diagram the entire ship. You walk around, you start with
00:11:45.880 like the engines and the, you know, you just, you line diagram the weapon systems, the communication
00:11:50.920 system. The engineer is very laborious. The damage control systems, you just take a pen
00:11:56.340 and you just do it. And then in your mind, you have a mental map. You have a mental map.
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00:12:11.940 hammer. You're such a hammer so far ahead. As soon as, as soon as they start talking something
00:12:16.980 good, we'll go to it. We're going, let's go live to the committee here and I will come back
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00:14:07.300 We will proceed with statements. And I will proceed first, then Senator Wyden, and then we will
00:14:15.900 rotate. I will proceed first, then Senator Wyden, and then we will rotate from one side to the other
00:14:21.740 until we are at a point where we are prepared for the vote. Does that fit with you, Senator Wyden?
00:14:27.840 Yes, sir. Mr. Kennedy, if confirmed, will have the opportunity to deliver much-needed change to our
00:14:35.560 nation's health care system. He has spent his career fighting to end America's chronic illness
00:14:41.560 epidemic and has been a leading advocate for health care transparency, both for patients and for
00:14:48.480 taxpayers. Mr. Kennedy has also clearly responded to our questions during the rigorous due diligence process
00:14:56.060 in his hearing also and in the course of answering over 900 questions for the record that were asked
00:15:02.240 by members of this committee. In response to members of the committee, Mr. Kennedy has even amended
00:15:08.620 his ethics agreement going beyond what is required by the Government Office of Ethics.
00:15:13.180 Mr. Kennedy has proven his commitment to the role of Secretary of the HHS, and I will vote in favor of his
00:15:21.880 nomination. I strongly encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to do the same. And with that,
00:15:28.280 I recognize our ranking member, Senator Wyden, for his remarks. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I'll have a
00:15:33.800 brief statement, and then several of my colleagues on our side are also going to make brief statements. This
00:15:41.560 morning we're going to vote on Robert Kennedy's nomination to serve, Kennedy's nomination to serve
00:15:47.580 as our nation's chief health care officer. Before we get to Mr. Kennedy and why I believe he is
00:15:55.340 singularly unfit to serve as HHS secretary, I'd like to say this. The last several days we've witnessed
00:16:04.880 an authoritarian takeover of our federal government by Elon Musk and Donald Trump. They have set their
00:16:12.880 sights on a full purge of anyone in government that doesn't bend the knee and follow their orders.
00:16:21.040 They've taken over the Treasury Department's payment system. And colleagues, that has a direct effect
00:16:29.140 on major programs within our committee's jurisdiction that include Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
00:16:38.900 For example, this committee voted for a major reform of pharmacy benefit manager legislation. We passed it
00:16:49.160 26 to nothing, but Trump and Musk killed it. Think what they could do with abuse of the payment
00:16:58.880 system. Now, in my view, much of this is of dubious legality and constitutional authority, and certainly
00:17:06.320 flies in face of congressional responsibilities. I'll wrap up on this point by saying I hope our colleagues
00:17:14.560 on the other side of the aisle will not sit by while Musk and Trump make a mockery of the power Republicans
00:17:22.880 hold in their congressional majority. Now more than ever, the American people need leaders that will stand
00:17:31.280 up to these abuses. That brings me to Mr. Kennedy. A recent analysis showed that Mr. Kennedy has made 114
00:17:42.880 separate appearances in just the last four years where he has espoused anti-vaccine views
00:17:51.040 or spread information about the efficacy of vaccines, misinformation specifically. In 36 of those instances,
00:18:02.960 Mr. Kennedy directly linked vaccines to autism. Last week, Mr. Kennedy was given ample authority on a bipartisan
00:18:11.360 basis to recant his decades-long career peddling anti-vaccine conspiracies. Instead,
00:18:20.800 he spent his time with us dodging and weaving and gave no indication that if confirmed as HHS secretary,
00:18:28.000 he would stand by the long-settled science surrounding routine vaccinations. Just take
00:18:35.680 the Samoa measles outbreak as an example. Mr. Kennedy told me, and I quote,
00:18:41.440 we don't know what was killing them. Speaking about the 83 measles deaths during an outbreak of the disease in
00:18:49.680 2019. Just yesterday, colleagues, the director general of health from Samoa called this claim
00:18:57.840 a total fabrication. Peddling these conspiracy theories as the nation's chief health officer
00:19:06.000 is going to be deadly for kids across the country. On abortion, Mr. Kennedy's answers once again raised
00:19:13.440 still more questions. He refused to tell us whether he would blindly follow a directive from Donald Trump
00:19:19.040 to break the law and end access to Mifepristone. And he seemed to have no understanding of his role in enforcing
00:19:26.080 existing federal laws that guarantee women the right to life-saving abortion care. Mr. Kennedy
00:19:33.280 also failed on several occasions to show a basic understanding of the Medicare and Medicaid programs
00:19:40.240 he would be tasked with overseeing. Colleagues, that alone should be disqualifying. Mr. Kennedy has given
00:19:48.320 us no reason to believe there'll be anything other than a rubber stamp for plans to gut Medicaid and rip
00:19:53.280 health care away from the American people and be a yes man if ordered by Musk or Trump to take an illegal
00:20:00.240 action. I close with this, colleagues. Today we're going to make a judgment about the future of science
00:20:10.320 in this country. We're going to make decisions that are going to impact the health and well-being of
00:20:16.320 Americans for years to come. I agree, and I say this to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, that the
00:20:25.920 health care status quo needs substantial changes so we get better, more affordable care to patients.
00:20:35.360 And that leaves, given my statement, the question in front of us now that's pretty simple. Do senators want
00:20:44.160 their legacy to include disregarding basic health science and instead elevate conspiracy theorists?
00:20:53.680 Making Robert Kennedy Secretary of Health and Human Services, in my view, colleagues, would be a grave
00:20:59.360 threat to the health of the American people. And I urge my colleagues this morning to vote no.
00:21:05.040 So Senator Wyden, we have all of our members here. Senator Wyden and I have agreed that we will have
00:21:20.720 two or three on each side who wanted to make statements to do so before the vote. So please,
00:21:26.880 everyone, hold with us while we have those statements made, and then we will proceed to the vote.
00:21:32.400 I know we've got a lot of folks pushing on science. That's what we're running on here. The
00:21:36.720 Maha and the MAGA moment come together. Let's go back to the committee, hear what they have to say.
00:21:41.920 I'll jump in if it starts to bore me. How about that? Let's go ahead.
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00:22:55.920 After we talked that we would have two or three, and I'm happy for both sides to make brief remarks,
00:23:02.160 and I'd still like to stay with that. I did make that commitment. And so I could say to my colleagues
00:23:10.160 on my side, I would appreciate it if you would hold your remarks until after the vote. We will let a
00:23:15.520 couple on your side have their remarks, and then we will proceed to the vote. Great. Thank you.
00:23:20.400 And who would be next? Senator Cantwell. Senator Cantwell.
00:23:23.120 Mr. Chairman, thank you. When you said two or three people, I didn't know who you had in mind. But
00:23:29.040 being next in seniority, I appreciate the opportunity. Today is very concerning to me
00:23:38.560 because of the future of what I think our nation faces. When I think of this issue, I think of
00:23:47.840 my Pacific Northwest leadership, how Paul Allen, on his own, invested $100 million to fight Ebola.
00:23:58.480 I think of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, not just trying to eradicate polio and work on these
00:24:06.240 issues, but to think of a regime that helps not just our nation's health, but global health. So with the
00:24:14.880 UW, the University of Washington, the Cancer Research Center, all of these entities are a collaboration
00:24:22.800 of saying we have to go faster in solving these threats to our nation as it relates to health.
00:24:33.040 Now, we can have a big discussion, which I think you guys all want to have a big discussion about
00:24:37.040 whether and when what happened in the Wuhan province, but I can tell you we were the first
00:24:42.800 city. We had the first patient. We had the first people who died in nursing homes. We had an emergency
00:24:48.720 room at a hospital who basically was just begging for any equipment we could get them. The whole
00:24:55.280 community stood up and moved as fast as we possibly could and broke down barriers to save lives, and that
00:25:03.520 is what we have to continue to do on innovation. We cannot let another country get ahead of us on some
00:25:10.960 sort of warfare issue and not have a response when it comes to a vaccine. So the most challenging,
00:25:19.120 I wanted to vote for Mr. Kennedy in the context of my family's history. My dad stood behind his father
00:25:25.200 the night his father gave the famous speech. I told him in my office, in my family, the Kennedys stood up.
00:25:32.160 But when he answered Senator Cassidy's question, and he couldn't even give him the answer that yes,
00:25:42.480 the data is there to support vaccines today. I don't need any more data. All of a sudden,
00:25:49.600 I saw this world that we got affected by in Seattle not being stood up for. I need someone at HHS who is
00:25:58.960 going to say we're going to be a leader in medical, technology, science, vaccines. We are going to
00:26:05.200 fight foreign powers. We are going to be there to provide global health, and I don't want to recalcitrant.
00:26:11.760 I need a leader, and that is why I'm voting no. Thank you. Senator Wyden and I have agreed that
00:26:18.000 Senator Warnock will now speak. Following Senator Warnock, we will proceed to the vote, and then anyone
00:26:24.160 else who wants to make remarks will be allowed to make remarks. Senator Warnock. Thank you so very
00:26:30.240 much, Mr. Chairman. At a rally a few months ago, Donald Trump said that he was going to allow Mr.
00:26:38.560 Robert Kennedy to, quote, go wild on health. Go wild. Of all the things that I can think of that I'd like to
00:26:48.160 see a Secretary of Health and Human Services do go wild is not on the list. Mr. Robert Kennedy is
00:26:54.480 manifestly unqualified for the job he seeks, and in both my live and written questions for the record,
00:27:03.600 he failed to commit to protecting access to affordable health care, failed to commit to protecting
00:27:09.840 the people who are protecting us. The problem that the CDC has is that every day these noble civil
00:27:17.520 servants and workers protect us from dangers that we don't see, and often you don't get credit for
00:27:25.280 protecting people from things that they don't see. I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC.
00:27:32.720 He's unqualified, and I dare say everybody here knows it. We need a serious person at the helm of the HHS,
00:27:46.080 an agency responsible for the about half of the health, the health of about half of all Americans. Mr.
00:27:53.680 Kennedy appears more obsessed in chasing conspiracy theories than chasing solutions
00:28:01.280 to lower health care costs for working families in Georgia and to make sure that we are protected. The
00:28:07.200 last thing we need is a dilettante dabbling in conspiracy theories at HHS. I cannot vote for a nominee who
00:28:17.200 is not going to lower health care costs for Georgians, who is going to undermine basic science in public
00:28:24.080 health, who puts his own interests above the health and the well-being of others, for the health and
00:28:31.440 well-being of all of our families, the people who count on us, to think about them in these rooms of power.
00:28:39.600 I urge all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to look past politics and think of country,
00:28:46.000 and to find the moral courage to do what's right. Oppose this nomination.
00:28:55.360 Thank you, Senator Warnock. We now have not only a quorum, but all members of the committee are present.
00:29:01.840 I move that the committee favorably report the nomination of the Honorable Robert F. Kennedy,
00:29:06.320 Jr. of California, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. Is there a second?
00:29:11.200 Second.
00:29:12.800 There is a second. The clerk will call the roll.
00:29:15.200 Mr. Grassley.
00:29:16.480 Aye.
00:29:16.960 Mr. Grassley, aye.
00:29:18.000 Mr. Cornyn.
00:29:18.720 Aye.
00:29:19.280 Mr. Cornyn, aye.
00:29:20.080 Mr. Thune.
00:29:20.720 Aye.
00:29:21.040 Mr. Thune, aye.
00:29:21.920 Mr. Scott.
00:29:22.560 Aye.
00:29:23.040 Mr. Scott, aye.
00:29:23.920 Mr. Cassidy.
00:29:24.720 Aye.
00:29:25.120 Mr. Cassidy, aye.
00:29:26.000 Mr. Lankford.
00:29:26.800 Aye.
00:29:27.200 Mr. Lankford, aye.
00:29:28.000 Mr. Daines.
00:29:28.720 Aye.
00:29:29.120 Mr. Daines, aye.
00:29:30.000 Mr. Young.
00:29:30.560 Aye.
00:29:31.040 Mr. Young, aye.
00:29:31.760 Mr. Barrasso.
00:29:32.480 Aye.
00:29:32.960 Mr. Barrasso, aye.
00:29:33.680 Mr. Johnson.
00:29:34.320 Aye.
00:29:34.880 Mr. Johnson, aye.
00:29:35.600 Mr. Tillis.
00:29:36.320 Aye.
00:29:36.720 Mr. Tillis, aye.
00:29:37.600 Mrs. Blackburn.
00:29:38.320 Aye.
00:29:38.880 Mrs. Blackburn, aye.
00:29:39.520 Mr. Marshall?
00:29:40.080 Aye.
00:29:40.480 Mr. Marshall, aye.
00:29:41.520 Mr. Widen?
00:29:41.920 No.
00:29:42.560 Mr. Widen, no.
00:29:43.520 Ms. Cantwell?
00:29:44.080 No.
00:29:44.640 Miss Cantwell, no.
00:29:45.200 Mr. Bennett?
00:29:45.840 No.
00:29:46.240 Mr. Bennett, no.
00:29:47.120 He, Mr. Warner?
00:29:47.920 No.
00:29:48.420 Mr. Warner, no.
00:29:49.440 Mr. Whitehouse?
00:29:50.080 No.
00:29:50.440 Mr. Whitehouse, no.
00:29:51.280 Ms. Hassan?
00:29:52.120 No.
00:29:52.240 Ms. Hassan, no.
00:29:53.360 Ms. Cortez Mazdeau?
00:29:54.320 No.
00:29:54.880 Ms. Cortez Mazdeau, no.
00:29:55.440 Cortez Masto no. Ms. Warren no. Ms. Warren no. Mr. Sanders no. Ms. Smith no. Mr. Lujan no. Mr. Lujan no. Mr. Warnock no. Mr. Warnock no. Mr. Warnock no. Mr. Warnock no. Mr. Walsh no. Mr. Walsh no. Mr. Chairman. Aye. Chairman votes aye. Mr. Chairman the final tally is 14 ayes 13 nays.
00:30:17.660 Right there. Good work. We're in posse. Chalk went up. That was tough. That was hard.
00:30:32.260 Senator Cassidy of Louisiana. Now it helps folks. He's in cycle. He doesn't want a primary challenge. That is historic right there.
00:30:42.200 The committee just voted to approve 14 13 along party lines. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
00:30:52.440 So of the three. The trifecta that we get to get across. Bobby Kennedy is now voted at a committee.
00:31:01.140 And I think with our whip count. You know we it may be tight. But we always got J.D. in reserve. J.D. Vance the the vice president United States and president of the Senate if we need it.
00:31:15.180 But right now just a historic historic vote right there. And folks that was because of you and Mike is article three.
00:31:23.600 It was the war and posse both direct calls of the two zero two two two two four three one two one and also using Bill Blaster Grace Chung and the Bill Blaster team.
00:31:34.980 And in addition the make America healthy again movement. They did an amazing job. Children's health defense all of it.
00:31:41.820 So take a lap right there. Victory. Very tough. And this is another one is Mike Davis said last night.
00:31:48.080 Well for those who didn't watch the six o'clock hour the fourth hour we're trying to get people coming back.
00:31:54.480 We spent the day at the White House car over the agencies and try to come in studio and summarize what's working on Mike had been at the White House all day and had been working on on confirmations.
00:32:06.860 Mike's a specialist in confirmation on judges. But he's also become in this current cycle.
00:32:11.820 He's been he he is doing murder boards for tons of these candidates.
00:32:17.780 I think he'll be working on the entire Justice Department. He murder boarded Russ Vogt.
00:32:23.080 He was the murder board on Cash Patel. He is very involved.
00:32:27.340 As you remember, he was a guy with Gorsuch, Kavanaugh. Gorsuch was not hard.
00:32:32.120 Kavanaugh was I shouldn't say not her. They're all hard. But his was relatively easy.
00:32:37.280 Kavanaugh's was a tractor pull. Mike Davis in the breach did not blink.
00:32:41.460 And that's the reason Kavanaugh's on the Supreme Court, because trust me, there was a that unforgiving minute like Pete Hexeth.
00:32:48.260 Remember about a month ago on that Thursday when we started the five o'clock show, we had to we had to jump up on it.
00:32:54.620 You guys did it. Pete Hexeth is at the border with the U.S. Army in the Marine Corps.
00:32:59.480 What's he doing securing the border? And that's because of this of this group.
00:33:05.160 You just dug in there and said, no way. We want Pete Hexeth. Governor Santa's a fine guy.
00:33:09.800 We want Pete Hexeth. President Trump wants him and we want him and we got him.
00:33:13.860 Same with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:33:15.640 I cannot tell you, folks. The great effort and work that you have done here using your agency, because this is one.
00:33:23.860 Remember what Mike Davis said last night? All these things are dead and they're all dead in the water.
00:33:28.260 And these people are all dead and they're all washed up on the beach where they ain't washed up on the beach.
00:33:31.300 The reason Kennedy's so important, the reason HHS is so important, this is the fusion.
00:33:38.260 This is the merger of the MAGA movement and the Make America Healthy Again movement, which is a rising tide of these particularly moms that are sitting there going, hey, we want the Agriculture Department.
00:33:50.200 We want HHS. We want to make America healthy again.
00:33:53.540 We're tired of these diseases. We're tired of this, of all this.
00:33:56.820 We're tired of these drugs. We don't need to be on these drugs all the time. It's ridiculous.
00:34:01.700 What we need to do is be healthy.
00:34:03.480 And they're at the tip of the spear and Bobby Kennedy is at the tip of the spear.
00:34:06.160 So everybody over at the Kennedy shop that we've been working with for the last couple of months and they're amazing, amazing, amazing team.
00:34:13.600 Chief of Staff over there, of course, Stephanie Spears, all of it.
00:34:17.680 Naomi Wolf, behind the scenes, so many great – Mary, the president of Children's Health Defense, we've had on so many times.
00:34:26.160 Just fantastic, fantastic work.
00:34:28.060 Can't speak highly enough about Children's Health Defense.
00:34:30.140 Remember, at one time they were considered a bunch of wingnut fringe element.
00:34:34.500 They're not considered now wingnut fringe element.
00:34:37.000 Their head is now on the path to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.
00:34:44.020 And let me bring up another point.
00:34:46.160 No matter how much you kowtow these Democrats, it's full resistance.
00:34:50.200 I want to go back to the opening of Wyden.
00:34:52.980 Wyden's opening had nothing to do with Bobby Kennedy.
00:34:55.400 It's all about President Trump and Elon Musk.
00:34:57.900 And let me refer back to Elon for a minute.
00:35:00.940 And back to the analogy of the Navy ship.
00:35:02.860 As a young officer, you line out the ship because then you see how the system works, a ship as a combatant.
00:35:08.940 A combatant works as a system.
00:35:11.380 You must understand the system to maximize the benefit of the system, but also if things come, like in combat, and the system has disruptions, you know how to work around those disruptions to keep it fighting.
00:35:24.860 This is what Elon Musk – and also remember, Wellington, what do we teach here all the time?
00:35:28.420 What did General Wellington do with his young officers in the Peninsula Campaign?
00:35:33.280 He's in Spain and Portugal.
00:35:34.700 They're in a land they've never been in before.
00:35:36.380 A lot of these guys came and served with him in India.
00:35:39.180 He would bring them up alongside him and say, hey, bring the next lieutenant up to ride alongside him.
00:35:44.580 He said, tell me what's on the other side of the hill.
00:35:47.500 And the guy would go, I don't know, more hill?
00:35:49.740 Going down a hill?
00:35:50.900 A downslope?
00:35:51.660 He goes, no, no, no.
00:35:52.440 I want you to tell me specifically what's on the other side of the hill.
00:35:56.300 And he would train these people, train them.
00:35:59.100 Just don't look at what's around you.
00:36:00.660 You've got to be projected downrange.
00:36:02.580 In life, how many people do you know that can't get it together enough to think of what process is, to kind of think what's happening and how this all comes together?
00:36:11.260 That's what separates you in the war room.
00:36:13.840 That's what separates the show is to think downrange, to think over the other side of the hill, to think about the ship that you've wired diagram.
00:36:22.760 How does it work as a system?
00:36:24.780 And in the system, what are the weak points?
00:36:26.680 How can we – where do we know the point of attack is on the system to disrupt it, particularly when we've been in the minority for so long?
00:36:34.840 What Elon Musk is doing is seeing his engineering brain come into work.
00:36:39.400 What he first wanted to do – this is, I think, in back of the first – there was two parts to this.
00:36:43.560 First was the memo of OMB to say, OK, in this vast system, what cash is in the system that hasn't been spent versus what the approved appropriations was?
00:36:54.140 Appropriations is $6.5 trillion, roughly.
00:36:57.340 We're working on last year's budget because we haven't passed a budget.
00:37:00.940 It's still a CR.
00:37:01.700 We're kicking a can down the road.
00:37:03.580 But OMB manages that and kind of watches it as far as percentages.
00:37:07.280 He wanted to see how accurate it was but also where the cash is and what's the blowup we had last week.
00:37:12.840 The blowup last week is very simple.
00:37:15.340 The cash is everywhere.
00:37:16.920 The cash is everywhere.
00:37:17.740 Remember, the guys were at Durrell playing golf and listening to President Trump and thinking great thoughts about the budget, which they refused to cut.
00:37:25.140 But they found out that, hey, the money is in Head Start, the money is in Meals on Wheels, the money is at the Kiwanis Club.
00:37:31.280 It's all over.
00:37:32.800 It's at these hospitals, community hospitals.
00:37:34.940 It's everywhere in every congressional district and a lot of MAGA districts, and their phones were blowing up.
00:37:40.980 So it's a good exercise to have.
00:37:42.620 They also found out it might not be as accurate as they thought it was.
00:37:46.740 Another good test.
00:37:48.240 He's testing a system.
00:37:50.080 Russ Foden, those guys are testing a system.
00:37:52.600 The progressives' heads blew up because they said finally somebody's underneath the hood of the car, and they're seeing how this thing works, right?
00:38:00.840 And these guys just want to spend and fire and forget.
00:38:03.180 It's all spent.
00:38:03.940 You can't do anything.
00:38:04.760 President Trump's theory of the case goes back to, and the reason the memo came out, President Trump is signing executive orders.
00:38:10.560 We're talking about every day, days of thunder.
00:38:13.340 We're talking about EO to pull us out of WH, the World Health Organization.
00:38:17.020 We're talking about an EO to stop the Green News scam.
00:38:20.100 You talk about an EO that cuts this off or stops this or stops this.
00:38:23.720 And President Trump would then pick up his favorite papers, which would be the Wall Street Journal, right?
00:38:27.960 He'd pick up the Wall Street Journal.
00:38:29.340 He would pick up the Financial Times of London.
00:38:32.560 He'd pick up his real favorite, the New York Times.
00:38:34.600 And on the front page of these every day, it's, hey, Trump is signing these things, but they're meaningless.
00:38:40.720 Remember the headline?
00:38:41.700 We put up the Financial Times last week.
00:38:43.600 The headline there was the $300 billion has already been spent through the system.
00:38:48.580 That's driving President Trump nuts.
00:38:50.300 He's going, hey, I'm signing these EOs.
00:38:52.100 What are they telling me?
00:38:53.440 This money's already spent.
00:38:55.840 The theory of impoundment.
00:38:57.840 Understand this.
00:38:58.900 Write that down with the number two pencil.
00:39:00.420 This is about the unified theory of the executive.
00:39:03.200 Ideas have consequences.
00:39:05.940 We're starting at big ideas, and we're flown it through the system.
00:39:10.380 The unitary theory of the executive is that he's the chief executive of the United States government.
00:39:16.540 He is the commander-in-chief of the Uniformed Military Services.
00:39:20.840 He is the chief magistrate and the chief legal, chief defender, legal officer of the United States government.
00:39:30.080 Law enforcement officer.
00:39:31.120 That hasn't happened since Nixon.
00:39:33.580 They're apoplectic.
00:39:34.820 As chief executive officer, he can make executive decisions.
00:39:38.080 The theory of the case is the appropriations bill, which is statutory in a law, and we fight over those all the time.
00:39:44.700 In fact, we've got Eli Crane sent me some footage.
00:39:48.800 It's amazing.
00:39:49.300 Eli Crane in the middle of the night, I think a summer ago or two summers ago, sitting there arguing about the – to the appropriations committee or subcommittee about, guess what, USAID.
00:40:01.720 And he and Matt Gaetz are hammering it, and they're telling me about how illegal it is and what they're doing and how their fund has got to be shut down.
00:40:07.340 The Republicans voted him down.
00:40:10.100 Less than 50 percent of the Republicans had his back and had Matt Gaetz's back.
00:40:15.280 So – and I love Cernovich.
00:40:16.320 Cernovich is sitting there going, the House Freedom Caucus tried it for years, USAID, and they didn't do anything.
00:40:20.460 Mike, this is about the Republican establishment.
00:40:23.500 What Eli Musk has put on notice is not the House Freedom Caucus.
00:40:26.440 Eli Crane and those guys want to do it.
00:40:27.940 They haven't had the votes.
00:40:29.120 The votes are the establishment.
00:40:30.560 That's the ones you see dead quiet, and the reason is they don't want Elon Musk coming in and drop a $10 million dime on their head in their district that they can never get out of.
00:40:40.260 So Elon Musk is sitting there, and that's USAID.
00:40:43.100 But let's go back to the line diagram.
00:40:44.540 President Trump wants to see where the cash is.
00:40:46.260 He wants to do impoundment.
00:40:47.560 He's saying, hey, the appropriations bill says what the ceiling is.
00:40:51.940 I, as executive, with my powers, my Article II powers, as the chief executive of this apparatus called the federal government, I can make executive decisions.
00:41:02.880 And that executive decision is that, guess what?
00:41:05.620 The Green News scam is not working.
00:41:07.640 There's $300 billion.
00:41:08.620 I'm going to go grab that money because I'm going to impound it, and guess what?
00:41:13.300 I'm going to reallocate it to, I don't know, maybe getting 12 million illegal aliens out of the country.
00:41:19.180 Hey, just saying.
00:41:21.640 Or as a chief executive officer, he could make other decisions.
00:41:25.340 That's his theory of the case.
00:41:26.720 These ideas are big.
00:41:28.820 I think a couple of three of them may actually end up at the Supreme Court, okay?
00:41:32.700 I think a lot of these ideas are going to have to be argued out, go into court, and eventually see.
00:41:41.420 But President Trump's got a pretty good track record on that.
00:41:43.380 You go back to the first on the travel ban.
00:41:45.160 We sat there in a travel ban, and I told him the Supreme Court will back us up all the way through the system.
00:41:51.420 President Trump didn't want to back off Iraq.
00:41:53.200 Iraq was in the first one.
00:41:54.780 We did a second because of Madison, these guys.
00:41:59.300 And President Trump goes, I don't like this.
00:42:01.060 We're going to win with the first one, but I'll do it because my generals want to do it.
00:42:04.940 Did the second one, went to the Supreme Court.
00:42:06.600 Guess what?
00:42:07.280 No, no, President Trump is correct.
00:42:09.420 That's what you're seeing here.
00:42:10.220 Now, Elon takes it one step further.
00:42:12.120 He goes, hey, I see in the diagram maybe the forward part of the ship where we can monitor this.
00:42:18.160 I know where the cash is, but that's not actually controlling the cash.
00:42:21.160 It just controls part of it.
00:42:22.820 I want to go back to the railhead of this.
00:42:24.920 I want to see where the check – I want to see where it goes from actually being a 15,000-page document like these appropriations bills are,
00:42:32.560 how that actually flows through the system, to what department, and who cuts the checks.
00:42:37.880 How does the check get cut?
00:42:39.520 Because Office of Management and Budget clearly is a management apparatus, and Doge is part of that.
00:42:45.340 They're a consultant to that.
00:42:46.460 They're an advisor to that.
00:42:47.880 I want to see actually how it gets the checks get cut.
00:42:51.540 That leads us to the Treasury Department.
00:42:53.500 The Treasury Department then goes back, and that's why he has a team over there.
00:42:56.660 And what are they doing?
00:42:57.460 They're lining out right now and doing a line diagram right now on all of it and seeing where the thing comes over,
00:43:04.820 the budget – the appropriations bill comes over with the allocation of cash from the Treasury.
00:43:09.740 And remember the Treasury has got to also – since we only take in, I don't know, $4.5 trillion.
00:43:15.700 It all goes to the Treasury, right?
00:43:17.720 And you're spending $6.5 trillion.
00:43:19.940 There's a gap.
00:43:20.820 There's Mr. Deficit.
00:43:22.980 Remember Mr. Deficit?
00:43:24.340 Okay, Mr. Deficit is in finance by Treasury selling bonds and their partner – their money printing partner, the Federal Reserve,
00:43:32.500 the money printing partner, the fiat currency.
00:43:35.020 So this is how it works, and he's doing a massive diagram, and they're actually finding in the system some issues.
00:43:42.240 I think he's saying some of this is on auto pay.
00:43:44.600 They've auto paid some, and there's not even – there's some organizations or institutions are not signed off in the appropriations,
00:43:51.620 maybe even gone away.
00:43:52.660 See, when he's spending $6 trillion, that stuff's going to happen, and that's what he wants to rewire it.
00:43:58.340 Now, his theory of the case is in seeing this, he will see where massive inefficiencies are, massive overlaps are.
00:44:05.740 And we've always kind of dismissed waste, fraud, and abuse here.
00:44:08.260 We know it's a lot, but it doesn't get to the trillion dollars or the two trillion that you've got to cut here.
00:44:14.700 But he's going about it – this is how an engineer thinks.
00:44:18.240 This is how Thomas Edison – and he's the modern-day Edison, let's say.
00:44:22.740 This is how Thomas Edison would come through and say, if we're going to restructure this – he keeps talking about the digital side.
00:44:28.300 One, I just want to see how the system works.
00:44:31.380 It's no different than a young officer in a Navy ship.
00:44:33.420 It's no different than the war room posse.
00:44:35.080 Why do we – remember what we say all the time?
00:44:37.900 We're going to show you critical path, right, process, statics and dynamics of process, you know, where the inflection points are, where the angle of attack is.
00:44:47.860 This is why you're so much more sophisticated than virtually all these people in Capitol Hill because you've studied this.
00:44:54.520 You've studied this in the war room.
00:44:56.380 And he's doing a quick tutorial.
00:44:58.300 Now, as it comes through, some of the first things he sees are surprise exactly what the war room posse has been looking at because for the last four years, five years, we've had people on like Mike Benz.
00:45:11.460 We had a young investigative reporter like Natalie Winters.
00:45:14.120 We had Darren Beattie on all the time, right?
00:45:17.120 We have Jack Posobiec and Raheem Kassam.
00:45:19.460 You have Revolver News.
00:45:20.940 You have Cain at Citizen Free Press are putting these stories up.
00:45:23.760 You are ten times more sophisticated.
00:45:27.180 I know you're sitting there going, man, come on.
00:45:28.740 I got a bib overall.
00:45:29.840 No, you don't.
00:45:30.340 Come on.
00:45:30.940 You're more sophisticated with a more sophisticated understanding than virtually all the media because all the media is – the ones on TV are all like movie stars and TV stars, okay?
00:45:40.080 They're not there for their brains, okay?
00:45:42.500 They're there for their style and their looks.
00:45:44.080 The laboring oars of the press, some are very good and some get it done, but that's the exception, not the rule.
00:45:52.360 That's the exception, not the rule because the city does not reward real reporting.
00:45:56.840 The city does not reward – the media does not reward.
00:46:00.060 They reward the over-the-top Trump's a fascist, right?
00:46:03.960 Over-the-top Elon Musk and Steve Bannon are at war with each other or they go to the horse race.
00:46:08.900 If they're going to the horse race on a presidential campaign or they're doing this kind of palace intrigue and who's in and who's out on the court and what's that, that's the lazy way.
00:46:17.020 It's easy.
00:46:18.080 The story kind of writes itself, right?
00:46:20.100 And this is what they do.
00:46:21.640 They don't get in back of the underlying processes.
00:46:24.440 They don't get in back of the convergence of these forces.
00:46:27.040 They've totally missed – they've still missed one of the biggest, most important stories ever, not just the rise of populism, which they're too arrogant to really get in back of in detail, although some are running to it now because they think they get a book deal.
00:46:39.400 What they've missed is the theory of the case of how we won 2024 and Elon Musk, quite frankly, I say, to his credit, he came in and backed that because there's always countervailing forces around Trump.
00:46:55.040 And President Trump – you've seen President Trump, we say, in beast mode right now, right?
00:47:00.600 This is days of thunder, and he's dropping bombs, whether it's trade, geoeconomics, Greenland, Panama, the border, DEI.
00:47:10.040 You just go on and on.
00:47:11.440 I can name 25 things that we're not even talking about now.
00:47:14.620 They're all big because he's in beast mode every day, bang, bang, bang.
00:47:19.380 It's not just flood the zone.
00:47:21.320 He sees he's crushing the opposition.
00:47:23.200 They're on MSNBC yammering, right?
00:47:25.320 And at the Daily Show last night, John Stewart took on Chuck Schumer, which I'm sitting there going, why are they – it's great for us.
00:47:33.280 They roll Schumer out.
00:47:34.960 And he goes, we're not going to fall for Bannon's flood the zone.
00:47:38.040 We're focused.
00:47:39.100 Yeah.
00:47:40.060 OK?
00:47:40.500 And he's sitting there going, they've got to shut down Schumer.
00:47:42.380 It's so bad because there is no opposition right now.
00:47:46.080 There's just not.
00:47:46.720 They're trying to get opposition.
00:47:48.100 Jamie Raskin, they ran over for this pathetic outside of USAID because why?
00:47:52.320 The engineering mind of Elon Musk said, hey, this is a no, this USAID, it's not a ton of money in the grand scheme.
00:48:00.260 It's 50 bay in a year, so it's meaningful.
00:48:02.840 But more importantly, it's poison.
00:48:04.640 It's a CIA cutout.
00:48:06.500 We've got Larry Taunton and the great Ben Burquam that we're going to get up in a moment and talk about this, right?
00:48:15.600 This is what's been funding the Daring Gap.
00:48:17.460 And Elon went to it and his team went to it, and he talked to the president.
00:48:20.560 And President Trump says it's run by a bunch of lunatics.
00:48:23.160 This thing has been a pool of cash for radical Democrats, the deep state, the administrative state, to turn against Americans, to turn against Americans, all the suppression of information, of conservative voices.
00:48:35.480 Mike Benz came on last night, did a magnificent job, as Mike Benz always does, walking through why USAID has to be shut down immediately.
00:48:42.980 I know Elon and those guys have been on his Twitter feed all the time, right?
00:48:47.440 And Benz, last night, Elon put up our conversation with Benz and put it up on his site because he understands, Benz understands it.
00:48:54.800 Elon and these guys, and guess what they did?
00:48:56.680 They locked the administrative state and deep state guys out of the building, 600.
00:49:01.520 They say you don't need to show up.
00:49:02.460 Work from home, since all the federal employees do, just work from home.
00:49:05.340 I think they cut actual access to some of the numbers.
00:49:09.820 I think they cut them off, hard cut them off.
00:49:12.780 And yesterday they had a protest.
00:49:14.100 It was kind of sad.
00:49:15.880 Jamie Raskin and the team out there.
00:49:17.960 And look, I'm not supportive of everything Elon wants to do.
00:49:21.120 I'm particularly a little concerned about the data, but I think that'll all get worked out.
00:49:24.260 What I'd like is hammer blows are coming to the right places.
00:49:26.880 Now, my issue is how do we get to a trillion dollars now off that?
00:49:32.300 This is the question before us.
00:49:34.320 We have to turn that and scale it.
00:49:37.200 Because at this level, it's not going to be meaningful unless the line diagrams got deep secrets in it, which could be.
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00:51:14.900 Other picks like Gabbard that have been controversial.
00:51:19.140 Will they all get through?
00:51:21.100 I think the betting at this point is that Trump runs the table.
00:51:24.180 Now, obviously, anything can happen.
00:51:25.680 We shouldn't make predictions.
00:51:27.000 But he does not look like he is going to lose any of these nominees as controversial as they might be.
00:51:33.900 And, again, it doesn't mean the Republicans are necessarily all comfortable with it, but they have fallen in line.
00:51:37.900 They recognize the political reality.
00:51:39.520 The political reality is right now is Trump's Washington.
00:51:41.740 He's getting his way.
00:51:43.280 If they were to stand up to him, they would pay a price.
00:51:47.000 And very few of them are willing to do that.
00:51:48.620 Now, you know, what's most striking about these nominees, particularly the ones we're talking about, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, Pete Hegseth, these are people who are being put in place of agencies and departments specifically that they have, in fact, criticized deeply, whose very foundations in some ways they would like to blow up or at least dismantle, revamp, what have you.
00:52:15.080 And so this is going to be the start, not the end, of a rather extraordinary experiment, in effect, in government, which we're putting people in place who don't believe in the departments and agencies that they are running, believe that they need to be completely uprooted and transformed.
00:52:32.600 Some people think that would be for the best, but a lot of people are worried in Washington right now.
00:52:35.940 Okay, Todd Young, another newsflash.
00:52:40.100 Todd Young has just announced he's going to vote for Tulsi Gabbard.
00:52:42.860 Tulsi Gabbard will be approved by the Intelligence Committee this afternoon.
00:52:45.880 She will go to the floor.
00:52:46.660 She'll be approved for the United States Senate.
00:52:48.960 I mean, we're going to have to, you know, it ain't over till it's over.
00:52:53.620 But man, oh man, you heard Peter Baker.
00:52:56.400 You think that hurt Peter Baker?
00:52:58.120 You know Peter Baker.
00:52:59.280 He's got that scrunched up face.
00:53:00.600 That's the very officious New York Times, the paper of record of your beloved republic, telling you the way things are.
00:53:08.400 Hey, the way things are right now, they're not happy.
00:53:10.800 Plus, we're going to have cut in a few minutes.
00:53:13.420 Harry Enten, the great poll server of CNN, says he sums up his current polling.
00:53:17.560 Trump is winning on his cabinet picks.
00:53:20.900 Folks, don't lean on your muskets here.
00:53:27.520 But man, in your fixed band, it's fantastic.
00:53:30.440 Cannot, cannot, cannot, cannot say enough.
00:53:33.900 Right there, he laid it out.
00:53:35.140 Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Cash Patel, Bobby Kennedy.
00:53:39.960 All looks like they're going to get approved.
00:53:42.460 And I'm just saying, if we hadn't blinked and hadn't gotten wobbly on Matt Gaetz, Matt Gaetz would be, Pam Bonney's fantastic.
00:53:50.760 She's going to do a great job.
00:53:51.660 But we would have had Matt Gaetz as Attorney General of the United States.
00:53:54.920 Of that, there's no doubt.
00:53:56.100 Why is that?
00:53:57.760 You can't beat MAGA.
00:53:59.540 Can't do it.
00:54:01.100 Resilience, they can't beat it.
00:54:02.220 That's why they're freaking out now.
00:54:04.200 They actually saw it.
00:54:05.220 They thought they were going to be able to pick off at least one and maybe two and take it as a victory here about President Trump.
00:54:11.740 Okay, more on this.
00:54:12.500 I want to go to something very special.
00:54:14.720 We're going to go to Greenland live.
00:54:17.960 Our own Tom Danz is there.
00:54:20.340 Tom, walk me through.
00:54:21.360 Why are you in Greenland?
00:54:22.500 And why is it important?
00:54:24.060 What is happening today that this audience, the War Room Posse, needs to know about?
00:54:28.820 Hey, Steve.
00:54:29.640 Great to be with you.
00:54:30.720 Great to be with the Posse.
00:54:32.880 Yeah, coming to you live from the south of Greenland.
00:54:35.520 And we're here because my organization, American Daybreak, and really, when I worked for President Trump in the first administration, I was at Treasury, and then I was an Arctic commissioner.
00:54:46.120 But part of what is really important today in the moment is for Americans and really for the rest of the world to realize how closely intertwined our country has been with Greenland for so long and why it's so important.
00:54:59.440 And so what we're here in the south of Greenland, and you can see the American flag here flying at half-staffed behind us, is we're at the site of the former main base in U.S. base during World War II in Greenland called Bluey West One.
00:55:17.120 And in particular, we're here, the flags at half-mast today, because it symbolizes the sacrifices that Americans made in this war, and in particular, something that was celebrated yesterday called Four Chaplains Day.
00:55:33.680 We have a bus coming down right here, we're going to pass by us.
00:55:37.400 But yeah, this is a little town of 130 people, but at one point we had 1,400 Americans here running.
00:55:45.920 This is literally carved out of a mountain of rock in Greenland.
00:55:50.580 Greenland, for those who aren't so familiar with it, you know, this is a country, I'm from Texas, this is a country three times the size of Texas with about 56,000 souls on it.
00:56:02.500 So it's just an incredibly remote place, but really only about three and a half, four hours flight time from the U.S.
00:56:10.900 So this base is kind of what we call the front door, part of North America, Greenland is part of North America, it's the front door on our U.S. east coast.
00:56:21.420 And particularly when we talk about the sacrifices that were made here, that's Four Chaplains Day.
00:56:27.120 So Four Chaplains Day is the National Day of Remembrance.
00:56:30.580 It occurred yesterday.
00:56:32.200 It recognizes the loss of the U.S. Army transport ship Dorchester, which was torpedoed.
00:56:39.320 It was on its way from New York City to this base here in Narsasawak.
00:56:45.700 It was a multi-day voyage.
00:56:47.760 It was torpedoed by a Nazi submarine about 100 miles off the coast, went down with the loss of 672 men, 659 Americans.
00:56:59.060 If you can imagine, right now when we're standing here, it's minus five degrees Fahrenheit.
00:57:04.500 The sun's out.
00:57:05.480 Last night it was minus 20 here.
00:57:08.360 These men went down in 20 minutes in the ocean, right?
00:57:15.580 But there were four—this is part of the incredible story of heroism here.
00:57:20.140 There were four chaplains aboard who had just been—they were newly minted first lieutenants in the U.S. Army.
00:57:28.780 And there were—two of them were Protestants.
00:57:31.520 There was a Methodist minister, and there was a Reformed Dutch minister.
00:57:35.000 There was a Roman Catholic priest, and there was a Jewish rabbi.
00:57:38.980 And they were essential because they were traveling on a ship.
00:57:42.720 There were 902 men.
00:57:44.900 So this was a—this was a commercial ship that had been turned in, requisitioned by the war authorities.
00:57:53.240 It was being run by U.S. merchant marines, important.
00:57:55.780 My grandfather—this was a U.S. merchant marine—and actually made this run.
00:58:00.220 He wasn't on this ship, but he sailed back and forth to Greenland during the war and helped build the air base here afterwards.
00:58:07.500 So that's how I come—but these were merchant mariners carrying army troops, civilians to work here.
00:58:15.800 We had six—we had 13 different installations around Greenland that we built up.
00:58:21.260 Hey, Tom, Tom, just hang on for one second.
00:58:24.020 We're going to take a break.
00:58:24.780 I'm going to come—we're going to turn to Greenland.
00:58:26.640 We've got Jack Bosovic's going to join us.
00:58:28.420 We're going to go from the Darien Gap to Greenland.
00:58:32.700 Next in the war room.
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