Bannon's War Room - Episode 4296： Cheating And Weaponization; Failures Of Exporting American Culture Abroad

00:00:00.000 ...javelins, and the expression was that Obama gave sheets and I gave e-javelins.

00:00:06.380 That was a big deal at the time.

00:00:08.360 It wiped out.

00:00:08.840 That was the beginning where people said, wow, that's something.

00:00:11.020 Well, that was American equipment.

00:00:13.720 Without American equipment, this war would have been over very quickly.

00:00:17.580 And American money, too.

00:00:19.740 I mean, a lot of money.

00:00:21.240 So will you provide some of these areas?

00:00:22.500 Do you think that war-fighting equipment and the ammunition, that's sustained going forward for Ukraine, and how long is it sustained?

00:00:31.740 Well, it could go forward for a while, and maybe until we have a deal with Russia. 0.60

00:00:37.240 We need to have a deal with Russia, otherwise it's going to continue. 1.00

00:00:41.820 But now when Americans put up their money, the taxpayer money, and the president approves it, we're getting our money back in some form.

00:00:48.900 But it could go on for a while, or it could be settled quickly.

00:00:51.640 I think it's going to be settled quickly.

00:00:53.080 I spoke with President Putin.

00:00:54.300 I think he wants to settle it.

00:00:56.340 And once you get on with life, it's horrible.

00:01:00.780 What's happening, horrible.

00:01:02.140 Thousands of soldiers a week are being killed.

00:01:05.080 And others, too.

00:01:06.300 But especially on the battlefield, thousands a week are being killed.

00:01:11.340 And we want that to end.

00:01:12.700 Will you remind me, Mr. President, will you stop saying?

00:01:14.940 Yes, Brian?

00:01:15.220 Yes.

00:01:16.180 Okay.

00:01:17.220 Real quickly.

00:01:17.960 Carolyn Levin, your press secretary, sent an earthquake through that briefing room earlier today,

00:01:23.560 announcing that the WHCA would not have any control over placing media in the seats of the briefing room.

00:01:30.780 Just want to get your thoughts on that.

00:01:31.960 And also on Air Force One.

00:01:34.520 It's really, it's trading on X.

00:01:36.700 People are talking about it.

00:01:37.780 Get your thoughts.

00:01:38.100 Well, we're going to be now calling those shots.

00:01:41.280 As you know, we won that lawsuit right there.

00:01:43.640 See the Gulf of America, which is a beautiful name.

00:01:45.880 Most people agree.

00:01:46.760 I don't know.

00:01:47.240 It's, you know, AP has been terrible.

00:01:49.860 I think they're radical left.

00:01:51.320 I think they're third-rate reporters.

00:01:53.700 I know the specific young lady that works on the account is terrible. 1.00

00:01:57.240 She's a radical left lunatic, as far as I'm concerned. 1.00

00:02:02.580 They don't treat us fairly. 0.99

00:02:03.680 That's number one.

00:02:05.220 And number two, they had no right to do that.

00:02:07.500 This is the Gulf of America.

00:02:10.160 And if you look at that shoreline, look at that shoreline.

00:02:13.120 Look, from Florida, most of it is, it's called America.

00:02:18.600 And the vast majority, like, big numbers.

00:02:23.500 So, I'm just admiring it as I look at it.

00:02:28.840 I'm getting teary-eyed, but I don't want you to say Trump broke down and started crying.

00:02:33.900 How beautiful is that?

00:02:35.140 Look at the shoreline.

00:02:36.280 Look at that.

00:02:37.240 That's America.

00:02:38.340 Can I shift your attention to Canada real quick?

00:02:39.820 Yes, please.

00:02:40.360 Last week, I spent some time with two government officials for Canada.

00:02:44.860 And I was asking them how realistic is it that Canada would be the 51st state.

00:02:50.340 And they told me there is a path.

00:02:52.480 Alberta is first.

00:02:54.200 And if they sign on, Saskatchewan would follow.

00:02:57.180 And then you go west to British Columbia.

00:03:00.040 There is a movement in Canada to join us.

00:03:03.460 Want to get your thoughts on that and how that's proceeding right now.

00:03:06.320 So, it's true.

00:03:07.460 Thank you, Brian.

00:03:08.080 It's true.

00:03:08.800 A lot of people in Canada are liking becoming our beautiful, cherished 51st state.

00:03:15.960 They'll have to pay much lower taxes.

00:03:18.060 They'll have the ultimate security.

00:03:19.700 You know, they don't pay very much for security right now because they rely on us, which is

00:03:23.840 really unfair to us.

00:03:25.600 They make cars that we could make and they send them back into the United States.

00:03:29.380 They make a lot of things, including the sending of oil and everything.

00:03:35.280 We don't need their oil.

00:03:36.940 We don't need their lumber.

00:03:37.920 In fact, we're going to be freeing up.

00:03:39.560 And I've asked Howard Lutnick to get that done with Lee and everybody.

00:03:44.260 Lee Zeldin, environmental.

00:03:46.200 We're freeing up our forests.

00:03:47.660 We're going to be able to take down trees right now.

00:03:50.600 You know, we're so restricted environmentally.

00:03:52.500 We're going to be freeing it up with an emergency order.

00:03:54.680 We have an emergency order.

00:03:56.480 And we're going to be freeing up our forests.

00:03:58.140 We have more forests than almost anybody.

00:04:01.740 And great lumber, great trees.

00:04:04.280 We don't need anybody's trees.

00:04:05.520 We don't need trees from Canada or anybody else.

00:04:07.640 In fact, we have to put the slits, as they call them, the area in a 50, 60 yard area in between areas of trees.

00:04:14.920 It stops the fires.

00:04:16.880 And frankly, California should have been doing that for years.

00:04:20.100 It's almost getting late.

00:04:21.000 They're going to run out of forests the way they're going.

00:04:23.960 What a shame.

00:04:24.560 And by the way, the water is flowing in California.

00:04:27.160 I hope you people have seen it.

00:04:28.740 But the water is flowing.

00:04:30.140 Do you have a picture of that?

00:04:31.240 Hold it up.

00:04:32.140 Do you have a picture of that?

00:04:33.000 Get a picture of it, please.

00:04:34.180 You know, we had a little skirmish in California.

00:04:39.100 I can't believe we had to do that.

00:04:40.460 But we opened up the water in California.

00:04:43.080 The water was flowing into a place called the Pacific Ocean, which for the Pacific Ocean is only a drop.

00:04:49.640 But for us, it's more water than we can use in California.

00:04:52.480 So I'll get you some photographs, but it's a beautiful sight.

00:04:57.400 The water is flowing in California, beautiful water from the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

00:05:04.060 And it flows down.

00:05:05.420 And instead of being routed out to the Pacific Ocean, and this has been going on for 20 years more,

00:05:11.980 in order to take care of a certain species of fish, which wasn't doing very well without water, I can tell you.

00:05:19.880 So that's a big deal.

00:05:21.820 It's, like, not reported.

00:05:23.760 It's incredible.

00:05:24.520 But California has a lot of water.

00:05:25.920 That's going to take care of farmers. 1.00

00:05:27.840 It's going to wetten up the land.

00:05:29.980 And it's going to go all the way down to Los Angeles, where they have curfews on water, where they have all sorts of blocks on water.

00:05:37.340 You can only use so much.

00:05:38.400 We're going to put a, until just recently, they were going to put a number of gallons per person living in a house in Beverly Hills on water.

00:05:49.360 You're not going to have that problem anymore.

00:05:50.800 Do you have a picture?

00:05:51.500 Let me just see what that looks like.

00:05:53.540 How beautiful is that?

00:05:55.040 Look at that beautiful water flowing.

00:05:57.960 Look at that.

00:05:58.560 That's coming in the dikes and other means of transportation. 0.98

00:06:03.420 Isn't that beautiful?

00:06:04.140 Who would believe that?

00:06:05.100 That's all water they could have had.

00:06:07.760 I went to the governor during my first term, and I said, why don't you do this?

00:06:12.540 And they said environmental, they have an environmental problem with clean water.

00:06:19.220 If this water were there, you wouldn't have had those fires.

00:06:24.680 You had sprinklers.

00:06:25.520 They make people put sprinklers in the ceiling of a home, and they had no water in them.

00:06:30.140 With this, they would have had a lot of water in them.

00:06:31.980 They would have all been full.

00:06:32.960 They would have had a whole, you would have had a whole different deal down there.

00:06:35.600 You probably wouldn't have had a fire, but if it wasn't, it would have been small, would

00:06:40.020 have been put out.

00:06:40.680 You had the fire hydrants not working in California.

00:06:44.260 So it's a beautiful site.

00:06:46.420 These are canals that were built.

00:06:48.420 These were all built, and you saw them for years.

00:06:51.320 They were empty, concrete.

00:06:53.320 They call them the V-shapes or the pipe, half-pipes, and they're shaped different forms, but they're

00:06:59.000 shaped, and they're, they rush down through the farm areas where the farmers can take it 0.87

00:07:04.120 and down to Los Angeles, and they were sitting empty for years, and now look at that, look

00:07:11.840 at that way it looked.

00:07:13.780 It wasn't easy.

00:07:14.500 We had to be very unfriendly to get into those areas.

00:07:17.980 We, we opened it up.

00:07:20.280 Mr. President.

00:07:21.160 Mr. President.

00:07:21.540 I essentially attacked California.

00:07:23.780 Can you believe it?

00:07:24.660 Mr. President.

00:07:25.800 Mr. President.

00:07:26.140 I attacked California.

00:07:27.400 Let's go.

00:07:28.480 At the outset of your administration, sir, you committed to ending the weaponization of

00:07:32.700 government, to holding those accountable who participated in the weaponization of government.

00:07:37.000 Hold it.

00:07:37.740 This is a good one.

00:07:38.800 Is everybody listening?

00:07:41.200 Deranged Jack Smith.

00:07:42.640 We're going to call it the deranged Jack Smith signing for Bill.

00:07:47.360 Go ahead.

00:07:48.060 One law firm that provided pro bono legal services to the special counsel's office under Jack

00:07:53.280 Smith's leadership was Covington and Burling.

00:07:55.840 As a result of those actions, we're now going to be suspending and putting under review the

00:08:01.380 security clearances for the attorneys and employees at that firm who worked with Jack Smith's team,

00:08:07.080 and we're going to continue holding the people who were responsible for the weaponization of

00:08:11.700 government, who supported it, accountable for what they did.

00:08:14.360 And you'll be doing this with other firms as time goes by, right?

00:08:17.720 We're looking at sort of the whole panoply of options.

00:08:21.380 The weaponization of our system by law firms, even pro bono work they're doing just in order

00:08:28.160 to clog up government, stop government.

00:08:31.420 And nobody knows about it more than me.

00:08:34.740 And hopefully that'll never happen again.

00:08:37.000 So that Covington and Burlington?

00:08:39.280 Covington and Burlington.

00:08:40.500 Okay.

00:08:43.140 Mr. President, may I ask you a question about Europe?

00:08:46.580 So long term, do you plan to maintain the number of U.S. troops stations?

00:08:51.260 I just want to savor this one, please.

00:08:53.600 Who would like this pen?

00:08:55.800 I'll take it.

00:08:56.180 Why don't you send it to Jack Smith? 0.98

00:09:00.420 A deranged person.

00:09:03.540 Mr. President, what do you say to people who worry that targeting an individual firm or

00:09:07.540 individuals who aren't Jack Smith for his actions?

00:09:10.420 I've been targeted for four years, longer than that.

00:09:13.800 So you don't tell me about targeting.

00:09:15.540 I was the target of corrupt politicians for four years, and then four years after that.

00:09:22.640 So don't talk to me about targeting.

00:09:25.300 Yeah, go ahead.

00:09:25.560 Mr. President, there are approximately two million federal employees right now.

00:09:30.740 By the end of your term, what do you expect that number to be?

00:09:34.720 What would you like that number to be?

00:09:35.960 Well, it'll be lower, but I can't tell you.

00:09:37.900 Everybody knows I ran on downsizing government, but making government better.

00:09:41.980 I ran on tariffs and making our country rich, and that's what it's going to do.

00:09:46.540 We're going to be doing something else that's going to be very, very good.

00:09:50.200 We're going to be selling a gold card.

00:09:55.600 You have a green card.

00:09:56.540 This is a gold card.

00:09:58.120 We're going to be putting a price on that card of about five million dollars, and that's

00:10:02.240 going to give you green card privileges plus.

00:10:05.080 It's going to be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country

00:10:10.360 by buying this card.

00:10:11.480 They'll be wealthy, and they'll be successful, and they'll be spending a lot of money and

00:10:15.760 paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people, and we think it's going to be extremely

00:10:20.280 successful.

00:10:21.760 It's never been done before anything like this, but it's something that we're going to be

00:10:25.540 putting out over the next, would you say, two weeks out?

00:10:27.820 Do you want to say a couple of words about it?

00:10:29.260 Sure.

00:10:29.700 Mr. President, are there any requirements for that gold card?

00:10:32.820 Do you have to invest a certain amount of money in this country in order to qualify for that

00:10:37.320 gold card?

00:10:38.060 Yeah, exactly.

00:10:39.000 So the EB-5 program was really, you lend some money, but it was full of nonsense, make-believe

00:10:48.780 and fraud, and it was a way to get a green card that was low-priced.

00:10:53.060 So the president said, rather than having this sort of ridiculous EB-5 program, we're going

00:10:57.620 to end the EB-5 program.

00:10:59.060 We're going to replace it with the Trump gold card, which is really a green card, gold,

00:11:05.560 so they'll be able to pay $5 million to the U.S. government.

00:11:08.780 We'll have to go through vetting, of course.

00:11:10.220 We're going to make sure they're wonderful world-class global citizens.

00:11:14.080 They can come to America. 0.96

00:11:15.880 The president can give them a green card, and they can invest in America, and we can use

00:11:21.640 that money to reduce our deficit.

00:11:24.600 Why do we give out lotteries of green cards?

00:11:26.620 Why do we give out EB-5 for green cards?

00:11:29.060 The president of the United States understands that the right answer is, why don't we eliminate

00:11:34.180 the deficit of the United States of America instead?

00:11:38.020 The gold card, the gold card, well, millions, but the gold card will bring in with it people

00:11:45.560 that create jobs, very high-level people.

00:11:50.600 I think companies will pay to get people in.

00:11:53.340 For instance, you today graduate from the Wharton School of Finance or Harvard or Stanford or any college,

00:12:03.200 and nobody knows if you can even go to work for a company.

00:12:06.920 So Apple and all these companies that want to get people to be working for them will be able to buy a card.

00:12:14.360 And for the people that are number one in their class at top schools, I see that as one of the things.

00:12:21.620 But generally speaking, it'll be people with money and people that create jobs.

00:12:25.480 And they won't have to pay any tax on income outside of the United States, which they're not paying right now.

00:12:31.180 They're not citizens.

00:12:32.060 But they'll have to pay, if they create jobs in the United States, they'll pay full taxes like everybody else. 0.98

00:12:37.580 So you're getting big taxpayers, big job producers, and we'll be able to sell maybe a million of these cards, maybe more than that.

00:12:47.680 And if you add up the numbers, they're pretty good.

00:12:49.560 As an example, a million cards would be worth $5 trillion.

00:12:53.980 Five trillion.

00:12:54.580 Wow.

00:12:55.020 And if you sell 10 million of the cards, that's a total of $50 trillion.

00:13:01.840 Well, we have $35 trillion in debt.

00:13:03.660 That'd be nice.

00:13:04.400 So we'll see.

00:13:05.500 But it could be great.

00:13:08.180 Maybe it will be fantastic.

00:13:11.320 We have it all worked out from the legal standpoint.

00:13:14.720 It's totally legal to do.

00:13:17.540 Hasn't been done before.

00:13:18.480 It's been done in many different forms.

00:13:20.120 We give them away.

00:13:21.440 Why should we give them away?

00:13:22.520 We shouldn't give them away.

00:13:23.660 And I think it's something very exciting.

00:13:27.380 I think it's potentially just something that we're all very excited about.

00:13:32.300 So it's a gold card.

00:13:34.180 It's somewhat like a green card, but at a higher level of sophistication.

00:13:39.040 It's a road to citizenship for people and essentially people of wealth or people of great talent where people of wealth pay for those people of talent to get in.

00:13:47.000 Meaning companies will pay for people to get in and to have long-term status in the country.

00:13:55.840 And I think it's something we're very, very happy about.

00:14:00.560 Would you have anything to say about that?

00:14:02.560 Many other countries, by the way, do this, including, of course, your 51st state does that.

00:14:08.860 And the money's earmarked for deficit reduction?

00:14:11.240 It may be earmarked for deficit, but it actually could be more money than that.

00:14:15.900 I mean, if you did 10 million, it would be, you'd have $15 trillion left over.

00:14:21.240 But generally, it's going to be paid down debt.

00:14:24.000 Do you need Congress for this?

00:14:25.520 Do you think you need them to pass a law?

00:14:26.800 No, we don't need Congress.

00:14:27.040 Because we're not doing citizenship, we're doing the card.

00:14:30.780 It's a path to citizenship, a very strong path to citizenship, but we're not doing the citizenship.

00:14:37.140 For that, I'd have to get Congress.

00:14:38.720 And would all countries be eligible for this gold card?

00:14:41.480 It depends.

00:14:42.700 The countries largely, the people will be vetted very carefully.

00:14:46.460 Mr. President, on Ukraine, would you provide military support for Ukraine in the future under a peace agreement?

00:14:53.660 Say it again louder.

00:14:54.580 Would you provide military support for Ukraine in the future as part of a peace agreement?

00:15:01.240 Well, people are going to do it.

00:15:02.300 I think Europe will largely be responsible for that.

00:15:04.940 European countries will be responsible.

00:15:06.780 But Macron asked for a U.S. backup.

00:15:10.780 Well, we'll see.

00:15:11.540 I mean, right now we're just in the process of negotiating.

00:15:15.600 We've pretty much negotiated our deal on raw earth and various other things.

00:15:21.580 We'll be looking at that security.

00:15:23.200 You're talking about general security for Ukraine later on.

00:15:26.760 I don't think that's going to be a problem.

00:15:28.520 There are a lot of people who want to do it.

00:15:30.440 And I spoke with Russia about it.

00:15:32.100 They didn't seem to have a problem with it.

00:15:33.660 So I think they understand.

00:15:34.660 They're not going back in.

00:15:35.680 Once we do this, they're not going back in.

00:15:38.260 So not saying air defense or aircraft.

00:15:40.940 Would the U.S. provide, for instance, air defense?

00:15:46.440 Right now we're not providing anything.

00:15:49.860 You know, it's about Europe, too.

00:15:51.720 Europe put in $100 billion and we put in $350 billion.

00:15:56.600 It's not a fair thing.

00:15:58.800 You know, we would normally say, and I say it now anyway, but we want equalization.

00:16:04.460 They should put up actually more money than us because they're right there.

00:16:08.020 We have an ocean in between.

00:16:10.060 But we've had very good talks with Russia.

00:16:12.060 We've had very good talks with Ukraine.

00:16:13.620 And we think it maybe will come to an end and we'll stop killing young people all over the battlefield. 0.85

00:16:18.680 And elsewhere.

00:16:19.480 On Europe, so do you plan to maintain heavy military presence in Europe in the long term,

00:16:25.220 like tens of thousands of troops?

00:16:26.920 We'll be involved.

00:16:27.560 Do you want to withdraw some?

00:16:28.540 We'll be involved in Europe.

00:16:29.820 We're involved in Europe now.

00:16:31.280 Europe is our friend.

00:16:32.340 They take advantage of us on trade.

00:16:34.620 We don't like that.

00:16:35.500 What the EU does, we don't like that.

00:16:37.380 But we'll solve that the old-fashioned way.

00:16:40.840 We'll give them the same reciprocal numbers.

00:16:44.600 You know, we're talking about a reciprocal tax.

00:16:46.580 You know that.

00:16:47.680 And if they charge us, we charge them.

00:16:50.100 Right now, they charge us much, much more than we charge them.

00:16:53.640 And they have non-monetary taxes also on tariffs.

00:16:58.200 And we're going to change that.

00:16:59.560 It's all changing.

00:17:00.440 It's all changing.

00:17:01.220 We're not going to be the people that we were.

00:17:04.040 We had people in this office sitting right at this desk or another model of this desk.

00:17:08.740 Because, as you know, the other desk is right now being refurbished.

00:17:12.360 Is Steve Witkoff delaying his trip to the Middle East?

00:17:15.660 No.

00:17:16.340 No, not that I know on the film.

00:17:17.840 And the Middle East has been great.

00:17:20.260 Saudi Arabia has treated us really well.

00:17:22.340 They really have.

00:17:24.120 I think Qatar has treated us very well, too.

00:17:26.500 They want to get that whole mess ended in the Middle East. 1.00

00:17:29.940 You know, we don't even talk about that anymore.

00:17:31.600 You guys haven't asked one question about the Middle East.

00:17:33.860 But the Middle East seems to be doing relatively well.

00:17:38.300 And I asked Dr. Miller about the Middle East.

00:17:41.020 For months, even before you were elected in November,

00:17:43.660 you've spoken about your desire to free all of those hostages

00:17:47.880 that have been held by Hamas since October the 7th, a year and a half ago.

00:17:52.020 And just a few weeks ago, you gave an ultimatum.

00:17:55.140 You said if they're not all released by noon on February the 15th,

00:17:59.620 they would be held to pay.

00:18:01.620 Is Hamas thumbing their nose at you, Mr. President?

00:18:04.460 No, I think the opposite.

00:18:05.660 So, as you know, they weren't going to release any more hostages.

00:18:09.380 And I said there's going to be held to pay.

00:18:11.360 And then they agreed that they were going to release the hostages

00:18:15.320 that they had agreed to release, plus an extra one.

00:18:18.060 And so that you could say that was a big difference.

00:18:22.220 But I said it from that point, it's up to Bibi Netanyahu and Israel.

00:18:28.280 I may have taken a different stance.

00:18:30.320 But they did release.

00:18:32.040 They went back to releasing the hostages.

00:18:34.620 But if you remember, they said we weren't going to release any.

00:18:37.400 They've totally ended it.

00:18:39.120 And I said, well, they're not going to release any.

00:18:40.840 They'll be held to pay.

00:18:41.760 But the rest is really up to him.

00:18:45.640 I may have done it differently than him.

00:18:48.380 It's not my decision.

00:18:49.380 It's his decision.

00:18:50.520 But they did release all of those hostages.

00:18:52.540 Mr. President, when you spoke to Vladimir Putin, did he raise or did you discuss at all the possibility of a minerals deal on the Ukrainian land that Russia now controls, striking a deal with Russia?

00:19:03.180 I'd like to buy minerals on Russian land, too, if we can.

00:19:07.960 They have very good rare earth also.

00:19:10.540 They both do.

00:19:11.160 I would say that.

00:19:12.600 And oil and gas.

00:19:13.660 Look, it's a great thing.

00:19:14.660 If we sell this, it's great for Russia, too, because we can do deals there.

00:19:19.060 They have very valuable land that isn't utilized.

00:19:21.200 So something like that could take place.

00:19:24.240 Have you put raising or lifting sanctions against Russia on the table?

00:19:28.540 No, we haven't lifted any sanctions.

00:19:30.700 On the table as part of any negotiations?

00:19:32.800 Well, I guess it will be at some point.

00:19:34.440 But right now, we haven't agreed to lift sanctions on anybody.

00:19:37.880 On that gold card, getting vaccinated.

00:19:39.640 I'm fascinated by this.

00:19:40.980 We should be fascinated.

00:19:42.880 Your taxes will go down to nothing.

00:19:44.780 Would a Russian oligarch be eligible for a gold card?

00:19:48.440 Yeah, possibly.

00:19:49.220 Yeah, I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people.

00:19:52.980 It's possible.

00:19:55.960 They're quite as wealthy as they used to be.

00:19:59.120 They're not as wealthy as they used to be.

00:20:01.320 I think they can afford $5 million.

00:20:04.320 No, a lot of people are going to want to be in this country.

00:20:09.840 And they'll be able to work and provide jobs and build companies and pay taxes.

00:20:15.680 All of those things.

00:20:16.660 It's an incredible thing.

00:20:19.840 I mean, this is the group that is the first to hear it.

00:20:23.680 Nobody's heard about it.

00:20:24.640 Nobody ever thought about it.

00:20:27.060 But we've been thinking about it very, very strongly over the last week.

00:20:30.160 And I was going to announce it sometime next week.

00:20:34.100 And I figured, why not?

00:20:35.000 We have a lot of cameras blazing right now.

00:20:37.220 Might as well.

00:20:38.320 We might as well do it now.

00:20:39.640 We'll have Caroline announce it the next time.

00:20:41.960 No, it's a great thing.

00:20:42.940 The gold card.

00:20:43.640 Remember the words.

00:20:44.500 The gold card.

00:20:46.040 Somebody said, can we call it the Trump gold card?

00:20:48.280 I said, if it helps, use the name Trump.

00:20:50.540 I'll give it to you for free.

00:20:52.160 Mr. President, you probably just launched 10,000 stories.

00:20:54.580 Do you want to elaborate a little bit more on what Russian oligarchs you know or don't know?

00:20:58.160 Isn't it interesting how many stories we do tell?

00:21:01.700 And they all turn out to be true.

00:21:03.560 And they all turn out to be ultimately correct.

00:21:06.340 Trump was right about everything.

00:21:07.940 Do you have one of those Trump was right about everything hats?

00:21:10.160 I'm going to give it to this gentleman.

00:21:13.320 Give me one of those.

00:21:14.380 We're going to begin in two weeks.

00:21:26.300 About two weeks.

00:21:27.580 The sale will start in about three weeks.

00:21:29.980 Mr. President, do you see a more active role for Zelensky now, given the status?

00:21:35.240 I hope so.

00:21:35.740 I mean, look, I think that we want to get that country back on its feet.

00:21:40.540 And right now, it's been destroyed.

00:21:42.500 It's so long here.

00:21:43.340 Give me that, sir.

00:21:44.700 Give me all of them.

00:21:46.820 Look.

00:21:47.560 Yes.

00:21:48.440 See that?

00:21:51.520 Trump was right about everything.

00:21:53.280 Just came in.

00:21:54.560 Somebody sent it.

00:21:55.440 I said, this was sent in by a fan.

00:21:58.400 I said, I think we should make some of them.

00:22:00.820 But we were pretty much.

00:22:02.580 You want one?

00:22:03.140 I'll pass it.

00:22:03.760 Are you allowed to take one?

00:22:04.740 Probably not.

00:22:05.400 He'll consider.

00:22:06.300 I know he'll take one.

00:22:07.320 He'll be sort of a stiff.

00:22:08.540 I said, you're right.

00:22:09.300 Brian, you don't want to take one.

00:22:10.740 He said, thanks very much.

00:22:11.940 I appreciate it.

00:22:12.420 He'll take other things, but not a free hand.

00:22:14.600 Always say yes to the president.

00:22:16.500 Always say yes.

00:22:17.880 Would anybody like one?

00:22:19.500 Mr. President, an easy question perhaps for you.

00:22:22.100 Maybe it's difficult.

00:22:22.980 I'm going to ask you this question.

00:22:24.020 Who do you work for?

00:22:25.680 I work for two news organizations.

00:22:27.080 Who?

00:22:27.500 I work for two news organizations.

00:22:28.540 Who are they?

00:22:29.380 I work for Great Television, America's second largest broadcaster, and I work for iHeartRadio.

00:22:34.780 So there you go.

00:22:36.080 Let me ask you the easy or tough question, Mr. President.

00:22:39.400 The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl.

00:22:41.440 Are they being extended an invitation?

00:22:44.100 They will be.

00:22:44.700 We haven't yet, but we will be.

00:22:46.440 I thought it was a great performance by them.

00:22:49.300 And absolutely, they'll be extended that invitation.

00:22:54.460 Would you do that right away, buddy?

00:22:55.540 Yes, sir.

00:22:56.240 We'll do it right away.

00:22:57.140 We're going to do it sometime today.

00:22:59.220 And they deserve to be down here, and we hope to see them.

00:23:02.820 We have a lot of teams.

00:23:03.720 We just had the great hockey team, as you know, Florida come here.

00:23:08.060 We have many of the great athletes come that win things.

00:23:11.100 What's the main obstacle holding up this PGA Tour Lib golf?

00:23:16.060 Well, they have to get together.

00:23:17.280 You know, they've had a lot of discussion back and forth.

00:23:21.020 They both are meaning well, and a deal will ultimately happen.

00:23:25.340 I think it'll happen pretty quickly.

00:23:26.720 It'll be nice to see the golfers, the best golfers, be able to play against each other.

00:23:31.760 What's your role been in this whole project?

00:23:33.380 Just to help expedite it.

00:23:35.620 Tiger was here.

00:23:36.660 Adam Scott was here.

00:23:38.860 Jay Monaghan was here the other day.

00:23:41.160 Just to really help expedite it.

00:23:44.620 We had Yasser here from Saudi Arabia, a great guy.

00:23:48.260 These are all great people, and they want to work it out.

00:23:51.440 So if I can help them work it out, I don't get anything out of it.

00:23:54.760 If I can help them work it out.

00:23:56.620 I just think golf, it's very much of an individual sport.

00:24:00.680 And you want to see the best players playing against each other, not playing in two different locations.

00:24:05.440 What's going to be more challenging, a PGA-LIV deal or a Russia-Ukraine deal?

00:24:10.060 I think the PGA deal is much more important.

00:24:14.020 Sir, may I ask another middle-east question, if I may?

00:24:17.660 What's your take on what's happening in the West Bank and what Israel is doing then?

00:24:21.340 Well, it's a movement up there that a lot of people are concerned about.

00:24:26.260 And there's been a lot of Israeli movement up there for a reason. 1.00

00:24:29.980 And all of a sudden, maybe they're not feeling so good about that.

00:24:34.700 So that would be terrible.

00:24:35.860 I hope that doesn't happen.

00:24:37.900 But there is movement up there that nobody knew about.

00:24:41.960 Right? You know that, right?

00:24:43.360 Yeah. And when you say, are you concerned about it as well?

00:24:45.820 I'm concerned about everything.

00:24:48.180 I want the world to be peaceful.

00:24:49.780 You know, when I left here, we had no war.

00:24:52.420 We had defeated ISIS in less than four weeks.

00:24:55.720 In fact, I took the general that defeated ISIS, and I put him in charge of the whole ballgame.

00:25:00.640 Because that's what we want.

00:25:01.700 We want winners.

00:25:03.980 Raisin Cain, you know?

00:25:05.200 Raisin.

00:25:05.620 When I heard that name, I said, I like that name.

00:25:07.580 That's the kind of general I like.

00:25:09.000 So we'll see.

00:25:09.740 But he was great.

00:25:11.040 He's a great soldier.

00:25:12.720 Not a politician, a soldier.

00:25:14.360 A real soldier.

00:25:15.740 You know that, Brian.

00:25:16.620 This guy was...

00:25:17.460 I do.

00:25:17.960 I've heard that story a million times.

00:25:19.560 Yeah.

00:25:19.940 This guy's the real deal.

00:25:21.120 He is.

00:25:21.980 And I think he's going to do a great job.

00:25:23.840 But think of it.

00:25:24.680 We had no wars.

00:25:25.940 We had no problems.

00:25:27.040 We had no inflation.

00:25:28.860 We had no problems.

00:25:30.500 And then all of a sudden, you have October 7th in Israel, which was horrible.

00:25:36.880 And then you see what happened with...

00:25:39.580 Ukraine would have never...

00:25:41.680 Russia would have never gone in if the election weren't rigged.

00:25:44.920 It was a rigged election.

00:25:46.260 The 2020 election was rigged.

00:25:48.160 And we got out of it.

00:25:49.640 And you see what happened.

00:25:50.700 You see what happened to our country.

00:25:53.360 Inflation.

00:25:54.480 Afghanistan.

00:25:55.180 That horrible withdrawal from Afghanistan.

00:25:57.360 I think when Russia saw what happened in Afghanistan, they said, wow, it's a paper tiger.

00:26:03.640 We're not a paper tiger.

00:26:04.740 We are the strongest military force in the world.

00:26:07.360 And by the way, Pete Hegseth is doing a great job.

00:26:09.800 But we didn't have wars.

00:26:10.980 We didn't have inflation.

00:26:12.480 We had a strong border.

00:26:13.780 We had everything going good.

00:26:17.540 And then Biden got in.

00:26:19.300 And he's, in my opinion, the worst president in the history of our country.

00:26:22.540 I think Jimmy Carter was a very happy man when he passed away two weeks ago.

00:26:26.560 What are you expecting at the cabinet meeting tomorrow?

00:26:29.940 There will be a cabinet meeting.

00:26:31.800 And I'll preside.

00:26:33.080 Unlike Biden, I'll preside over my own cabinet.

00:26:36.180 Mr. President, on the C.Q. Brown, on the dam, compare your cabinet in your second term to your cabinet that you had in your first term.

00:26:42.860 Well, I had some great people in my second term.

00:26:45.240 I think this is deeper.

00:26:46.700 I think it's better because it's deeper.

00:26:49.100 I had some people that I didn't really like too much in my cabinet.

00:26:52.700 But I didn't know Washington then.

00:26:54.560 I was a New York person.

00:26:55.860 I knew New York intimately.

00:26:57.660 But I had to rely on people.

00:26:59.900 I had great people.

00:27:00.820 Look, we got the biggest tax cuts in history.

00:27:03.100 I rebuilt the military.

00:27:04.420 I mean, we did so much.

00:27:05.860 We did unbelievable.

00:27:07.100 Even right to try.

00:27:08.140 Somebody was saying today they were saved by right to try.

00:27:10.780 We did right to try medically.

00:27:13.440 We did transparency medically.

00:27:16.420 That was a big thing.

00:27:17.280 But Biden canceled that one.

00:27:18.900 He didn't cancel right to try, which is interesting.

00:27:21.600 He didn't cancel Space Force.

00:27:23.300 He was going to cancel Space Force.

00:27:25.120 Space Force is turning out to be invaluable.

00:27:29.200 Amazing.

00:27:29.840 We created Space Force.

00:27:31.780 But think of it.

00:27:32.640 We rebuilt our entire military.

00:27:34.580 And now we're going to have to patch it up a little bit again because of what's happened.

00:27:40.760 No, this was a grossly incompetent administration.

00:27:44.120 The only thing they were good at was cheating in elections and the weaponization of government.

00:27:48.240 And thank you very much, everybody.

00:27:50.300 Thank you.

00:27:50.560 Thank you.

00:27:50.800 Thank you, Chris.

00:27:51.360 Thank you, Chris.

00:27:51.920 Thank you, Chris.

00:27:53.140 Thank you.

00:27:53.720 Thank you, guys.

00:27:55.440 It's Tuesday, 25 February, Year of Our Lord, 2025.

00:27:58.680 Right there, President Trump holding court as he signs executive orders.

00:28:04.780 Some of those executive orders, a little controversial, the Trump gold card.

00:28:09.060 I've got to wrap my head around that.

00:28:11.120 But he said the Biden administration was great for two things, cheating, cheating and weaponization.

00:28:17.320 And I think he's correct on both of those.

00:28:19.400 Another huge day of Days of Thunder.

00:28:21.660 Do we have our first guest up?

00:28:23.220 Is he up correct?

00:28:24.040 We're getting him right now.

00:28:26.180 Michael Benz.

00:28:27.140 Mike Benz is going to join us.

00:28:31.200 Huge development in that story.

00:28:33.100 The story is about this, I guess, a chat room or a thread in a chat room with senior people in the National Security Agency.

00:28:45.180 And I think other people in the intelligence community, absolutely kind of demonic of what they're talking about.

00:28:51.400 Tulsi Gabbard, I think, has just signed something that has signed something that's going to out the names of these people.

00:28:59.560 So this is going to be huge.

00:29:00.200 It's Mike Benz, who's been so terrific about following the security, the national security in the intelligence community.

00:29:07.860 Mike Benz is going to join us.

00:29:09.160 Also, Eric Tietzel from CRA.

00:29:13.180 As it stands right now, I don't think it's changed here in the last few minutes.

00:29:18.180 They're trying to schedule a vote on this budget resolution, which will kind of kick off the process for the reconciliation, for the one big, beautiful bill.

00:29:28.440 You've got to get this first.

00:29:30.440 The House will try to pass it tonight and then see if the Senate wants to act on it.

00:29:34.600 If the Senate doesn't want to act on it, I think it becomes part of it.

00:29:37.940 The Senate can come up with their alternative.

00:29:40.860 A lot of confusion on Capitol Hill.

00:29:42.360 People all day tweeting, talking about the CR.

00:29:44.700 Let's get this done now.

00:29:46.780 Let's make sure it's not a year in CR.

00:29:49.140 How are we going to get the how are we going to get the doge cuts in there?

00:29:52.320 Then on this side, the reconciliation with the budget, all very confusing.

00:29:57.520 But just remember, the process is President Trump's trying to push his agenda, the agenda of a supply side tax cut.

00:30:04.140 He needs to do that to a budget reconciliation process.

00:30:07.820 So that will begin tonight.

00:30:09.240 I was very skeptical earlier today when Johnson said at first they scheduled it.

00:30:15.680 Then he said later, well, it's either tonight or, you know, it'll be sometime.

00:30:19.600 I thought that was an indication that he did not have he did not have the did not have the votes.

00:30:26.080 And I've been people I'm talking to thought it might be not even this week or next week before they rounded everybody.

00:30:33.180 I think there's been some whipping of the vote since then.

00:30:36.240 It's supposed to be at six thirty tonight.

00:30:37.820 We will cover that live on the CR.

00:30:41.800 I am told that the continuing resolution for this year, there's still significant number of votes short.

00:30:47.560 And the Democrats have told him they're not going to bail him out.

00:30:51.140 So that's not going to happen.

00:30:52.920 President Trump right there talking about everything from trying to do the merger of live golf and the PGA Tour.

00:31:00.800 Obviously, President Trump very interested in that as a as a guy that takes golf very seriously, takes tour golf very seriously and the majors very seriously.

00:31:08.180 Everything to what's happening in Ukraine.

00:31:11.160 And I understand we're on the half yard line on the Ukraine deal, which is the minerals deal, the way it's been structured.

00:31:19.520 And as you saw it yesterday, Macron, they're still trying to get American security guarantees.

00:31:23.340 Their belief is if they get the United States in for some sort of development project with their minerals and remember, most of their minerals, I believe, at least the way I understand the geography of Ukraine, are not simply in the eastern part of Ukraine, but very close to the Donbass.

00:31:41.000 So I don't know how that's going to work without some sort of Russian, you know, at least acknowledgement.

00:31:46.920 And I think they'll be part of this Russian rapprochement that, you know, the Europeans once again trying to get us entangled in the Ukraine. 0.68

00:31:57.180 The Ukraine deal makes perfect sense. 0.93

00:31:59.220 Or as perfect sense as you can get in this day and age as part of an overall Russian rapprochement.

00:32:05.820 I think I've got Mike Benz.

00:32:07.500 Mike Benz.

00:32:08.300 Mike, you join us.

00:32:09.920 Tulsi Gabbard just put out a tweet or there's a tweet out about Tulsi about what she may be doing this NSA. 0.96

00:32:14.220 Can you explain to our audience, given your knowledge of the intelligence community, kind of this what's coming out on Twitter the last couple of days?

00:32:24.040 It seems seems quite depraved, perverted, demonic.

00:32:27.340 I don't know what you want to say, you know, how you've referred to it.

00:32:31.700 But can you tell our audience exactly technically what's been going on and what has been revealed by this, sir?

00:32:37.720 Yes, there have been communications with the CIA, NSA.

00:32:41.240 These are over unclassified channels.

00:32:43.280 But essentially, just like private corporations like Google have essentially chat groups that are designed for inclusivity and basically in-group solidarity for various identity groups in the intelligence community.

00:32:59.540 You have these LGBT and sort of queer-centric affinity groups that have been using the CIA and NSA unclassified comms channels to basically, you know, say this charitably, to talk ill of domestic political opponents. 0.67

00:33:21.020 Of course, CIA and NSA are both supposed to point outwards.

00:33:24.640 They're not supposed to opine at all on domestic affairs, especially domestic political affairs.

00:33:30.100 They're supposed to answer to the democratic will of the domestic population.

00:33:34.700 And the fact that, of course, as Chuck Schumer famously said, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you to use those foreign-facing dirty tricks to target domestic political opponents.

00:33:45.620 The fact that they couldn't even keep it in their pants long enough to do it on their own cell phones, to do it on their own messaging apps, on their own phones, they couldn't wait to get to the office to conspire with their friends about, you know, celebrating the death of people like Pat Robertson and to, you know, call Tulsi Gabbard a Russian agent or, you know, an enemy of the queer community. 0.60

00:34:11.740 I'm not sure even where they're getting that from, you know, is evidence of just how deep the ideological rot has gotten within the intelligence core.

00:34:22.600 So let me get this straight so the audience can understand this.

00:34:27.100 You have these affinity groups.

00:34:29.360 They use these comm channels, text messaging, chat rooms, whatever, at least sponsored or somehow on the apparatus of the server of the intelligence, these various intelligence apparatus.

00:34:41.740 And this affinity group is, what, transgender, LGBTQ+, is that what it is, this affinity group?

00:34:50.840 Yeah, and it's important to remember here that there was a reorientation of the intelligence community towards this while Kamala Harris was vice president and when she was on oversight of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

00:35:07.720 There was a famous episode, I forget if it was reported by the New York Times or Politico, but where Kamala Harris described getting CIA analyst memos on, you know, geopolitics of countries in Central Asia and Eastern Europe and whatnot.

00:35:22.700 And she gave orders for these CIA analysts to, you know, type the memos up again or to, going forward, make sure that the language in the CIA analyst memo was gender inclusive.

00:35:40.300 For example, she cited, according to mainstream news reporting, that a term was used to describe a female foreign leader that would not be used, in her opinion, for the same activities by a male foreign leader.

00:35:55.420 And so, you know, as has been reported, she basically wanted the intelligence community to completely reorient the language it uses in intelligence analyst memos, the culture of the organization,

00:36:09.680 to basically have ideological dominance of the exact sect that we now see is doing domestic political targeting and using official CINSA comms channels for, you know, basically a combination of a kink, you know, a kink sex talk, a, you know, a domestic targeting outlet and, you know, a gossip column. 0.70

00:36:34.800 So we'll get to the domestic targeting a second, but the kink part, doesn't that make people in the intelligence community more vulnerable to be influenced, blackmailed, influenced, et cetera, by, by foreign powers? 0.86

00:36:55.380 Isn't that, doesn't the intelligence community think that that is a concern that these people may be exposed and may be, may be black, may be open.

00:37:04.800 Well, that was always the knock in the, uh, from the 1950s until, you know, the 1970s, 80s, it was always the, uh, you know, the, the traditional FBI, you know, concern was that members of the LGB, LGB community, this is sort of before the T took over, um, you know, because there was social stigma around homosexuality in, in, in the mid 20th century, that it, that, you know, folks in, in high level politics,

00:37:34.800 who had a deep dark secret at risk of being exposed would be at risk, at risk for blackmail. And this was, you know, this was something that was a not inconsiderable part of, uh, you know, U S counterintelligence in the, in the mid 20th century.

00:37:49.520 But then I think as, uh, LGBT, uh, was exported around the world by U S intelligence as a means to sort of break up post Soviet States and draw them into a more liberal, uh, Euro Atlantic order. 0.65

00:38:04.580 And as the sort of geopolitics of gender and sexual identity, uh, became weaponized as we're seeing with USAID, for example, spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year, if not low billions of dollars a year on transgender dance festivals, uh, LGBT music conferences and, and, uh, all sorts of cultural affinity groups.

00:38:26.480 And a large part of that is because it's, it's, it's, it stands in such stark, uh, contradiction to the norms of the, you know, the, the, the former Soviet empire and the legacy paternalistic Russian, uh, influence, as well as the Chinese, uh, that, that it's, they're useful affinity groups abroad.

00:38:45.120 And so you sort of have a similar situation where, where just the promotion of that at a movement and at a cultural level has, uh, you know, can have some blowback when you start to see this type of clustering, um, you know, attacking heteronormative, you know, communities essentially.

00:39:03.600 So I'm, yeah, and I'm not making a value judgment about whatever people do in their own personal private life.

00:39:09.840 The question I'm asking, this is a group, this is a group chat, right?

00:39:14.660 Which would be open to be, uh, to be broken by, uh, foreign agents.

00:39:19.420 And here in the group chat, they're, they're open and, uh, and this thing gets pretty salacious.

00:39:25.360 Isn't that a problem with the intelligence community having this type of platform where whatever people do in their personal private life is what they do in their personal private life.

00:39:33.800 But here you're actually making it almost like theater and it's out there for, it seems to me to be very easy.

00:39:39.840 For foreign intelligence agencies, particularly the CCP, who are brutal about this kind of stuff.

00:39:45.120 That's why I can't, can't imagine how this went on.

00:39:49.080 And what you're saying is essentially officially sanctioned by previous, uh, administrations of the intelligence community.

00:39:57.160 Well, that was, it was a major emphasis of, of Kamala Harris during her time at the incentive.

00:40:02.780 Cause remember before she was vice president and running for president and, and backed by, if you remember, there was the, you know, 50 plus intelligence community, um, you know, support letter for, uh, for Kamala Harris over Joe Biden.

00:40:15.660 Uh, she had bipartisan support during the time that, you know, internationalist Republicans really dominated the Republican wing of, of Congress during Trump's first term, uh, while she was on the Senate intelligence committee before she became vice president.

00:40:29.780 And then the presidential nominee for the DNC.

00:40:32.340 So that, you know, this super protected group status effectively means that if you, if you castigate the, you know, you know, the attempt to use official comms channels as a private sex chats, that you are, what would normally be impropriety.

00:40:49.400 If, if, if it was done in the heterosexual community is, uh, becomes almost like a hate speech targeted attack on a protected class when the same standards are, are held to that community.

00:41:01.700 I think that was at least the, uh, the cultural norms that were set up, um, by the Biden Harris, uh, by the Biden Harris, uh, you know, oversight and, and implementation of the executive branch Intel core.

00:41:16.240 Sure. And there was also open, almost targeting of political opposition.

00:41:21.200 It puts to a joke that these groups are apolitical, right? Uh, there was open derision and actual potential targeting of political opposition, sir.

00:41:34.240 Yeah. I mean, they openly, they openly celebrated the death of, of Pat Robertson, you know, saying that, uh, if the, if there's, you know, smoke, uh, if it felt smoky today,

00:41:46.140 it was because the gates of hell had just opened up and, uh, you know, and, you know, the, the deceased conservative had just entered and then, you know, followed by five or six similar chat messages that were all spiking the football.

00:41:59.940 And, you know, these, these sorts of things are, are standard fare in, in, in the rough and tumble of a comment section, uh, you know, where you have red team, blue team.

00:42:09.260 But the fact is, is the intelligence community is where the darkest arts are practiced.

00:42:14.340 This is where we overthrow governments.

00:42:16.460 This is, this is where we do, uh, you know, gain of function funding for freak viruses.

00:42:21.760 This is where we provide clandestine support for terrorist groups and paramilitaries.

00:42:27.160 Um, there's, there's a license to kill effectively given to these agencies.

00:42:32.580 So when the civilians who pay these people's paychecks see that they have their sights directly on the, on the taxpayers of this country, where they're not even allowed to operate.

00:42:42.880 Uh, I think it resonates with, with something with, with a very deep and legitimate fear in, in the U S population, which is that when you are given, when you are a spy agency who is authorized to lie legally under NSC 10 dash two plausible deniability, when you are authorized to overthrow democratically elected governments and do all the malfeasance of, uh, of, you know, traditional CIA spy craft, there's a special, uh, burden on you.

00:43:12.860 You know, to, to, you know, just like judges are held to a standard beyond impropriety, they have to avoid the appearance of impropriety, whether there was propriety or not, they, they should not even come close to the line.

00:43:24.480 And in this case, they blew so far over it that, um, you know, the smoke, so to speak, was the exhaust pipe from, uh, from these, these channels that they were having.

00:43:34.660 But like I said, if this, I mean, this, this is the unclassified comps that we got.

00:43:39.500 Imagine what's in the classified documents.

00:43:41.040 Imagine the, the domestic targeting and, you know, the language in, uh, in CIA, NSA analyst memos during the Biden administration around populism.

00:43:50.940 I mean, populism was a major, uh, a major target of intelligence work because it was defined as a threat to democracy itself.

00:43:58.860 So I can only, only imagine what's in the classified files around, you know, targeting of these various groups that in, in, in, in the unclassified, they're, they're talking, they're, they're celebrating the deaths of openly.

00:44:11.040 Mike, this plays into the, those of us that think this is a, uh, the intelligence apparatus is completely and totally out of control, not supervised.

00:44:21.440 And where it is supervised, it's to be weaponized against the American people.

00:44:25.680 Uh, what is your recommendation?

00:44:27.500 Cause obviously you're very highly regarded in MAGA circles, but you're also very highly regarded at the senior levels of the white house, the administration.

00:44:35.980 What, what is Mike Benz's conclusion here?

00:44:39.100 What has to be done about this situation?

00:44:41.500 Keep cleaning house.

00:44:43.040 I think everything that's being done is incredibly heartening to see.

00:44:47.320 I actually don't think there has ever been this much pressure on, on the rogue intelligence agencies here in the U S in the entirety of U S history.

00:44:56.540 There was a, there was a moment of, of reform in the late 1970s during the church and Pike committee hearings, during what was called the Halloween massacre, when Jimmy Carter fired 30% of the CIA and slashed their budget.

00:45:10.140 You know, there's, uh, it's now, it's been floated that up to half of, of CIA officers or agents or analysts could be fired in the upcoming, uh, months, which would be even more severe and drastic than, uh, what was done under Jimmy Carter.

00:45:26.060 And then when you combine the fact that USAID has been slashed and USAID is the, is the primary money funnel, uh, that's that, that builds up the institutions that CIA then works with to conduct operations.

00:45:38.880 Uh, I don't think there's anything that's been close, uh, in previous years to what has been done just in the past month, but you can expect opposition on this from, from several places.

00:45:49.540 The judges, there's going to be a full court press for, to go to jurisdictions in New York or wherever they can find favorable judges, uh, to try to stop that firing process from happening.

00:46:01.100 I think that it's already underway, you know, Elon and the Doge people with the consent of the treasury and Donald Trump have, have offered golden parachutes essentially to CIA personnel.

00:46:12.440 This is, this is greatly bothered the, uh, CIA and exile folks who are telling people don't take the money because they offered eight months, uh, eight months severance.

00:46:22.920 Basically, you get eight months of your CIA pay, uh, paycheck.

00:46:26.400 If you, if you leave that, that way we're paying you without you having to work.

00:46:32.740 Mike, Mike, can you hang on?

00:46:34.720 Can you hang on one second?

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00:51:55.760 Mike Benz, solutions to this and any other aspects of this you think we ought to understand, particularly as Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe try to get their hands around the deconstruction of the deep state?

00:52:11.060 Well, it's important to remember that it's all connected.

00:52:13.120 In this case, it was CIA and NSA, but CIA is primarily a covert support mechanism for the State Department, and NSA is a covert support mechanism for the Pentagon.

00:52:26.580 And so it's all connected.

00:52:28.500 This attempt to clean out the rogue elements and the rot within the intelligence community means that the same pressure needs to be applied at state and at DOD.

00:52:39.240 So obviously, USAID has come under intense pressure, but state will be inheriting USAID.

00:52:47.200 And so all of those programs and all of those functions that were being done to project soft power influence, for example, we talked about how some of these gender identity and sexual orientation identity aspects have been weaponized by U.S.

00:53:04.420 statecraft for decades now as a way to try to implement regime change or try to alter the course of elections.

00:53:12.220 A great example of this, for example, the CIA red cell memo that was disclosed by WikiLeaks from 2010 showed that when the CIA, when the State Department was frustrated that France and Germany,

00:53:25.340 that their parliaments were not taking more taxpayer dollars from Germans and French citizens to support the NATO war effort in Afghanistan,

00:53:33.820 the CIA analyst memo proposed to the State Department, based on their own field work and polling surveys they'd done,

00:53:40.320 that if the messaging is changed from a national security predicate to support the war to a feminist predicate to support the war,

00:53:47.540 by changing the State Department messaging and the USAID media-funded messaging away from Afghans as terrorists to Afghan women as being oppressed,

00:53:58.880 that that would lead more of the German population and French population, because 50 percent of the voters are women, 0.96

00:54:05.500 and you have many men who are sympathetic to the women's rights issues,

00:54:09.320 that that would lead European parliaments to vote to give more money for the NATO war in Afghanistan.

00:54:16.460 And you see this play out in country after country, this selective analysis of the demographics of a country,

00:54:25.300 in order to build up those capacities, in order to implement, to achieve aims that are deemed beneficial to U.S. statecraft.

00:54:36.020 And so I think that this has now gone on so long that we're now seeing blowback at home.

00:54:40.740 There's a parallel, for example, with our migrant and refugee programs.

00:54:44.180 The primary function of our refugee programs and migrant programs are to bring people from foreign countries in war-torn areas

00:54:55.760 where their families are part of militias or political royalty who's being oppressed there,

00:55:01.760 bring them to safety in the U.S., pay for their entire lifestyles, 1.00

00:55:05.580 and have tens of thousands of them send back remittances that basically fund a CIA or special forces proxy war in the region.

00:55:14.180 But then those people stay here, and they, in turn, exert their own influence over the politics, and there is blowback.

00:55:20.580 This is what's happening in London, for example, with Pakistan. 0.96

00:55:23.500 Pakistan plays a major role in British statecraft in Central Asia and even into Romania and Ukraine.

00:55:29.320 And the fact that there's been such a huge amount of importing of those refugee communities who are playing a useful role,

00:55:38.120 the Great Britain, in terms of funding the British war effort and the great game against Russia,

00:55:43.520 you see the same thing happening with gender and sexual orientation blowback here in the intelligence community,

00:55:49.640 who works, again, with those elements abroad for statecraft purposes.

00:55:53.860 So this has to be a holistic effort is what I'm saying.

00:55:56.300 You see this at CIA and NSA.

00:55:58.260 You have to take it all the way up to the chain, to the State Department and DOD,

00:56:01.920 and that means Marco Rubio and Pete Hegsett have their work cut out for them.

00:56:07.880 Wow. And Tulsi Gabbard. Extraordinary.

00:56:10.920 Benz, where can we get you?

00:56:12.420 I know on social media you're active, influential, and a must-read.

00:56:17.180 Where do people go?

00:56:17.840 At MikeBenzCyber on X, and the website is FoundationForFreedomOnline.com.

00:56:27.320 Benz, I hope it's not too long before we can't interview you because you're in the administration.

00:56:32.520 It's one of my prayers every night before I put my head down the pillow.

00:56:37.040 We need you on the inside.

00:56:38.240 No, we need you on the inside now more than ever.

00:56:40.580 Benz, thank you so much, man.

00:56:41.940 Great work.

00:56:42.420 Thanks, dude.

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Bannon's War Room - February 26, 2025

Episode 4296： Cheating And Weaponization; Failures Of Exporting American Culture Abroad

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