Stephen K. Bannon and Brian Glenn break down the first cabinet meeting of the Trump administration, including who will cover it, who will be the primary pull camera in the briefing room, and why the WHCA no longer has control over the White House press corps.
00:01:25.000Caroline Levitt yesterday from the podium.
00:01:27.000And for the audience, this is a nuance which is actually massive.
00:01:33.000She said that, hey, in the future, the White House press corps, the White House Correspondents Association that puts on the White House Correspondents Dinner that I've boycotted since I partnered with Andrew Breitbart.
00:01:46.000Andrew loved it and going and giving those guys hell.
00:01:49.000I couldn't stand them, so I've never gone.
00:02:11.000Today will be the first day that they're going to let an alternative, I would say Newsmax, be the kind of a secondary pull camera in that room.
00:02:19.000That's the first time that Newsmax, from what I understand, will be a pull.
00:02:23.000So this is kind of the new step in this administration, and you laid it out perfectly.
00:02:28.000The WHCA, which has really controlled the seats in the briefing room and also who flies on Air Force One, that they would no longer have the authority or power to do that.
00:03:19.000President Trump just really going off the chain on this.
00:03:22.000Let's go ahead and hear Caroline Leavitt yesterday.
00:03:24.000I am proud to announce that we are going to give the power back to the people who read your papers, who watch your television shows, and who listen to your radio stations.
00:03:33.000Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team.
00:03:38.000Legacy outlets who have participated in the press pool for decades will still be allowed to join, fear not.
00:03:46.000But we will also be offering the privilege to well-deserving outlets who have never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility.
00:03:54.000Just like we added a new media seat in this briefing room, legacy media outlets who have been here for years will still participate in the pool.
00:04:02.000But new voices are going to be welcomed in as well.
00:04:06.000As part of these changes, we will continue the rotation amongst the five major television networks to ensure the president's remarks are heard far and wide around this world.
00:04:16.000We will add additional streaming services which reach different audiences than traditional cable and broadcast.
00:04:22.000This is the ever-changing landscape of the media in the United States today.
00:04:26.000We will continue to rotate a print pooler who has the great responsibility of quickly transcribing the president's remarks and disseminating them to the rest of the world.
00:04:35.000And we will add outlets to the print pool rotation who have long been denied the privilege to partake in this experience but are committed to covering this White House beat.
00:04:46.000We will continue to rotate a radio pooler and add other radio hosts who have been denied access, especially local radio hosts who serve as the heartbeat of our country.
00:04:56.000And we will add additional outlets and reporters who are well suited to cover the news of the day and ask substantive questions of the president of the United States depending on the news he is making on that given day.
00:05:08.000This administration is shaking up Washington in more ways than one.
00:05:14.000As I have said since the first day behind this podium, it's beyond time that the White House press operation reflects the media habits of the American people in 2025, not 1925.
00:05:26.000A select group of DC based journalists should no longer have a monopoly over the privilege of press access at the White House.
00:05:33.000All journalists, outlets and voices deserve a seat at this highly coveted table.
00:05:39.000So by deciding which outlets make up the limited press pool on a day to day basis, the White House will be restoring power back to the American people who President Trump was elected to serve.
00:05:50.000This is monumental in information warfare because in the press pool, what this is, is that particularly when you see these press avails, and let's take Macron yesterday because we're trying to teach you the rhythm of the White House.
00:06:09.000When Macron comes for a bilat, they, you know, they meet on the West Wing, they go into the Oval, they have a few minutes to themselves, excuse me.
00:06:20.000Then the president always invites the media.
00:06:32.000This will be in the cabinet room today.
00:06:34.000The cabinet room, if you have the Oval, right, you have a very small workstation space for the secretaries or the assistants that are right there outside the Oval.
00:06:51.000Obviously, so many important meetings there, but that's where essentially you've seen it probably in movies, mostly around maybe the Cuban Missile Crisis.
00:06:59.000That's where the Cuban Missile Crisis team, a lot of photographs, a lot of black and white photographs of Kennedy and Curtis LeMay and Bobby Kennedy, all of them, President Kennedy working through that.
00:07:33.000And it's it's jammed with the president's assistance sitting in back and all the cabinet officials around it.
00:07:39.000The press has really got to cram in there.
00:07:41.000So you have a you'll have a pool and we'll take the pool feed is not enough for all the cameras.
00:07:46.000What Caroline Levitt is saying in this situation, too, you'll have a handful of reporters that can actually toss questions to the president because he is he is doing more than any president ever getting information out to the people and disintermediating the mainstream media.
00:08:02.000Yeah. And Brian Glenn, this is the biggest one of the most important disintermediations of all.
00:08:07.000And that's a fancy Harvard Business School word for taking out the middleman, the intermediation.
00:08:12.000You're disintermediating the ability of ABC and CBS and NBC.
00:08:17.000These haters that for years have just have been able to just close down and structure the message coming out of the White House.
00:08:24.000President Trump's not having it, Caroline Levitt. And I really admire Susie Wiles, the entire comms team, Terrell Botowich, all of them for quite frankly, having the backbone to do this.
00:08:36.000We wanted to do it the first term. And to be blunt, we just didn't.
00:08:40.000You know, the folks there, we essentially caved.
00:08:43.000We should have done this in the first. I'm really proud of the team doing it.
00:08:46.000How big a deal is it, Brian, for someone like you that that that covers it day to day, wall to wall, sir?
00:08:53.000It was it was a moment in it. Like I said yesterday on the show, I'm humbled to be able to walk in here every day and do what I do now.
00:09:00.000We'll say this. When she made that announcement yesterday, I could feel the oxygen being sucked out of that room.
00:09:07.000And there is absolutely no denying that that was a complete shock and that she led.
00:09:12.000You know, when you have an administration with has so many news things happening every day to lead with that says a lot as far as the magnitude of what they want to accomplish here.
00:09:22.000But, you know, the WHCA has been in charge of this for a long time and they broke that apart yesterday.
00:09:28.000And we'll see how that moves forward. But today does mark the first day that you're going to see this new change in pool structure here with Newsmax being the basic of the second pool.
00:09:39.000We're going to we're going to we're going to bifurcate Brian Glenn today.
00:09:42.000We're actually going to pick up the pool feed and I'll tee up the cabinet.
00:09:45.000We're going to try to get in there for as much as possible.
00:09:47.000Brian is going to take off for Capitol Hill because at 11 o'clock we're going to have to juggle this.
00:09:52.000There's also this very important Doge subcommittee.
00:09:56.000First of the cabinet, Elon Musk is coming.
00:09:59.000The president just put out a thing how all the cabinet officials love him.
00:10:02.000I'm sure behind closed doors, they're going to have a frank conversation about what's going on these emails.
00:10:07.000But up on Capitol Hill, Marjorie Taylor Greene chairs the subcommittee.
00:10:13.000What do we expect today? You think fireworks or is this going to be going through more information like her first her first subcommittee meeting?
00:10:21.000Well, Republicans are going to bring out the information and Democrats will show up and make it a clown show like they did the first time.
00:10:28.000They're not taking this subcommittee, this Doge thing serious at all.
00:10:32.000And I can't believe they can't because the American people, we found $2.7 trillion in waste, fraud and abuse and Medicaid and Medicare.
00:10:40.000You should take that pretty serious. But I do expect fireworks, it will be, like I said yesterday, it's on the Capitol Hill now.
00:10:49.000It was in the Rayburn building. That room was simply too small.
00:10:52.000It was kind of an intimate space, if you will. This is a much bigger room.
00:10:57.000They're expecting more media, more people, perhaps protesters might make their way into the into the audience there, which will likely happen.
00:11:05.000But I do think and think about this for a second. As logistically, these members are forced to sit further away from each other.
00:11:12.000That's when they get a little braver when it comes to trying to, you know, start any type of feuds or any type of controversy.
00:11:21.000The previous room was tight. And I really think that limited their let's see how proud they are and how brave they are today, because that does play a part in it that they don't take this serious at all.
00:11:32.000Steve, they you're going to see you're going to see anti-Trump, anti-Elon narratives all morning long.
00:11:40.000But the American people are watching. And as this fraud and this abuse, we just USAID has got so much of it.
00:11:47.000The American people are watching. This is how we win the midterms, though, Steve, we talked about this yesterday.
00:11:52.000This is how we win the midterms. We must be the responsible party in charge.
00:11:56.000We must cut the budget. We must get everything approved, which, by the way, yesterday with that vote passing,
00:12:02.000Thomas Massey being a hard no on it, we knew that was going to happen.
00:12:05.000That just set the framework up for the no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security.
00:12:12.000We have a long fight ahead of us. If it took us that hard to get this done, I don't even know what what March 14th looks like.
00:12:19.000I really don't know. It's actually kind of scary, to be honest with you.
00:12:24.000It's going to be there. Like I said, we're going into the grind.
00:12:27.000Brian Glenn, what's your social media? People got to be dialed into Glenn today.
00:12:32.000Brian Glenn, because he's either at the White House hustling to break stories and get insights or is up on Capitol Hill.
00:12:39.000I don't know. We got to get a replicant of you, Brian Glenn, to be able to cover both, because today's a typical day.
00:12:46.000We want to cut you in half and have you have you at the cabinet and have you and have you at Capitol Hill.
00:12:52.000Well, I guarantee some of these protesters outside this White House and Capitol Hill probably want to cut me in half.
00:12:58.000I'll document all of this as I travel over there.
00:13:01.000You can follow me at Brian Glenn TV, Instagram on X and at Brian on True Social.
00:13:06.000As always, Steve, it's a pleasure to come on here on War Room.
00:13:10.000And I will continue to update you as the details come out on both here at the White House and on Capitol Hill.
00:13:16.000We'll try to get a stand up. We'll have to juggle.
00:13:20.000This is going to be this is going to be a producer driven show today to get all the action.
00:13:25.000So, Brian, we'll hopefully see you back up here at 11 at Capitol Hill.
00:13:29.000Doge subcommittee. It did. The bill did pass last night.
00:13:33.000The budget resolution that starts the process either for one big, beautiful bill or two on reconciliation.
00:13:39.000Still a lot of questions on all of it. The spending is very ephemeral, I would say.
00:13:46.000What's not ephemeral is the is the numbers for this year that's going to take place on the 14th of March and or before.
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00:16:50.000And, you know, if you came to CPAC or get in the chat rooms, talk to people coming to CPAC or came to Denton County a couple weeks ago, I really tried to make sure that I can visit with as many of you as possible, get selfies, catch up, hear what you're working on.
00:17:07.000And CPAC, I think, I think turned out very well.
00:17:10.000We had a couple of meet and greets that went for a couple hours.
00:17:57.000A big sweep in the in the House races.
00:18:00.000I can't understand and very disturbing how the Texas House, who tried to impeach, went to all that effort to impeach General Paxton, Ken Paxton.
00:18:11.000Then it's just a debacle down there, given all the MAGA.
00:18:14.000So I'm down at Tarrant County with the Patriot Mobile and others.
00:18:40.000I think the tickets for the dinner are sold out, but you can get general admission.
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00:18:49.000Make sure also you go to Patriot Mobile, the mobile company that supports your values as part of this Patriots economy that we've been in back of because we want alternatives.
00:18:59.000And people say, well, hey, Steve, we won and all the DEI don't.
00:19:02.000You can't trust these corporations at all.
00:20:38.000And at the time, geo strategically, it was very important to not have on that Eurasian.
00:20:45.000If you think of the map of the Eurasian landmass with Beijing, the criminals there.
00:20:50.000Then you've got the Mullahs in Persia. You've got the KGB in Russia.
00:20:54.000You've got Erdogan in Turkey, who, as I predicted years and years ago, is kind of trying to reestablish the Ottoman Empire and really the caliphate.
00:21:04.000And eventually with Qatar, his banker, Erdogan's banker tried to take over the two holy sites.
00:21:14.000You throw in Pakistan and North Korea.
00:21:17.000You've got a very lethal mix there that can cause a lot of trouble.
00:21:21.000And the way you've got to stop that is somehow you have to have a rapprochement or understanding because the Russian people have been one of the greatest allies we've ever had, the Russian people.
00:21:31.000And I spent my youth in my 20s on a destroyer as a junior officer, an ensign, Lieutenant J.G., and ultimately Lieutenant, or I think I was still a J.G. when I left the ship, on an ASW ship, you know, hunting Russian submarines, Soviet submarines.
00:21:50.340And then when I got back to the Pentagon, it was all about, you know, as President Reagan had shown up, I got there the same day that he did, actually went to the inaugural as a Grand Dune and then showed up the next day.
00:22:05.840That you have a strategic realignment, a rapprochement.
00:22:09.980The Ukrainian situation has to be seen in that.
00:22:13.140That's one of the things we're going to talk about at the Cabinet today, and President Trump's got a terrific team working on this with Scott Besson, who's been the lead on the Ukrainian deal.
00:22:23.340Steve Witkoff, a close associate of his from the real estate days, has just done an incredible job of negotiating deals under President Trump's guidance.
00:22:33.740I think he's the tip of the spear with Russia.
00:22:35.640Marco Rubio, Senator Rubio, now Secretary of State, very involved.
00:22:46.940He and Peter Navarro working on the tariff.
00:22:48.780So you have a total geostrategic realignment.
00:22:52.360And if we can get the beginnings, because we could have done it the first term, but it's too messed up by the Atlanticists and the warmongers.
00:23:00.460If we could get a break of this very dangerous and very serious strategic alliance between Russia and China, if we can start to break that off, which I think we're in the process of doing, that's monumental.
00:23:16.380You're seeing the end of the post-war international rules-based order, as Secretary of State Rubio said in his confirmation.
00:23:26.980Because that system that was established essentially by the United States with concurrence of its quote-unquote allies has been used and turned on the American people and the American middle class and American working class by your betters to enrich themselves,
00:23:48.800to impoverish you at the same time that you would, you know, that your sons and daughters, not that you pay for it with your taxes, but your sons and daughters are the folks that man the national security apparatus in the uniformed military services.
00:24:05.840President Trump's overall goal is peace and prosperity.
00:24:11.940You work through some different strategic alliances, and at the same time, you refocus on defense of the homeland.
00:24:22.680That would be what he's doing in the Monroe Doctrine 2.0 from Panama to Greenland
00:24:30.480and putting a kind of a forward thrust of extending essentially the defensive borders of the United States from the Arctic all the way down to Central America
00:24:41.420and really a naval strategy to make sure the Chinese Navy, the PLA Navy, can never connect with, through the Panama Canal, the Russian Navy, and the Caribbean.
00:24:51.700Take control of the Panama Canal, which he's in process of doing.
00:24:55.080And I can tell you, Michael Yan is saying, hey, the Chinese are still down there.
00:25:00.320They're still building some stuff down there.
00:25:02.540But he's seeing, quite frankly, the remigration or the self-deportation of huge groups of people going back the other way through the Darien Gap.
00:25:14.260So President Trump's message is getting out there quite boldly.
00:25:19.480On the situation in the Arctic, you've got all this consternation in Canada.
00:25:23.060Right, as President Trump talks about that or discusses, that is the potential 51st state.
00:25:27.700And Greenland looks like, I think, that they're working towards a plebiscite to get their independence from Denmark
00:25:33.660and then potentially some sort of arrangement with the United States.
00:25:37.400He's also looking at the three island chains, right, that we've had so many of the smart people on the Committee on the Present Danger come and talk about.
00:25:44.940Using the Great Ocean Desert of the Pacific as a natural strategic barrier to the United States.
00:25:51.780President Trump says there's two oceans.
00:25:54.940That means eventually this gets back to the budget last night.
00:25:57.720It gets back to the tax cuts because all this is inextricably linked.
00:26:01.160It is the way to get our defense budget down below a trillion dollars.
00:26:04.880Also on social services, on social services and the safety net and all that, Medicaid to the food, you know, for the income security, what they call it, the food stamps and all that.
00:26:16.400You have to, you know, you're going to have to show that you're serious about looking at defense.
00:26:22.260And we just can't have, you know, be paying three and a half percent of our GDP for defense.
00:26:30.060Not given the fact that we've spent money for years and years and years, and particularly during the Biden regime, that has been outrageous.
00:26:39.400And a breach of fiduciary responsibility.
00:26:42.660So this is what President Trump is doing.
00:26:45.680Part of the cabinet meeting today, I'm sure, is to get caught up in that and make sure that it's much more – it's organized and organized with domestic policy also.
00:26:54.380I can tell you my feel for what they're doing today is much tighter.
00:26:59.280We got the confirmations done tighter.
00:27:01.020I think it's much tighter, much better organized than it was in the first.
00:27:05.600You have people, I think, that have signed off and buy into the direction President Trump's heading.
00:27:12.960And he is, you know, it's like every day, like Zeus throwing thunderbolts, throwing lightning bolts when you hear this, you know, rumbling thunder.
00:27:24.740It's days of thunder and years of lightning right now.
00:27:28.160And every day it's another major aspect of this.
00:27:34.600I think it's – hey, I think it's the best cabinet since Lincoln's work cabinet.
00:27:39.160I do, because what he's doing is not normal course of business.
00:27:44.060Most of these, like Republicans in particular, as controlled opposition, just get in there and just buy into the system, the way the system runs.
00:30:10.220Okay, so you've got to bifurcate this.
00:30:14.580You have two things going simultaneously.
00:30:16.100You have the cabinet meeting, and I'm sure President Trump's going to get everybody up to speed on what he's doing geo-strategically.
00:30:22.120Also, it shouldn't be lost on anybody that the tariffs in Mexico and Canada right now,
00:30:30.840and President Trump's reinforcing this, so unless it's waived off somehow, 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada.
00:30:37.660Now, that gets to the geo-economic part of it.
00:30:41.940Once again, these are not tariffs, as people think, like putting a 25% tariff on an avocado coming from Mexico
00:30:51.560or some sort of part for the automotive industry because a bunch of the under-the-hood components for the automotive industry are made in Canada.
00:32:59.280The Saudi Arabia and others are coming here to put hundreds of billions of dollars in.
00:33:03.380I'm not a huge fan of foreign capital, but I understand and see his logic.
00:33:07.940He wants essentially, I think, a trillion dollars coming from the outside, even in his first term, to build manufacturing plants here, to put capital equipment in here, and therefore jobs, and he would avoid the tariffs.
00:33:20.300But if you don't do that in Mexico, and remember, Mexico, Canada, and China are our three biggest trading partners.
00:33:27.520He's already said 10% on China on the CCP.
00:33:31.960This is another revenue stream to try to close.
00:33:37.140You get bigger revenues at the tax structure you currently have, right?
00:33:41.460You then get tariffs or what he calls external revenue, and I love, obviously, we helped dream up the name with John Gardner, the manufacturing guy.
00:33:51.780It's external revenue, so it's not just all internal revenue on companies domiciled in the United States and American citizens and or foreign nationals living here.
00:34:01.600And eventually, though, you have to get down to the hardest part, and that is spending cuts.
00:34:08.020And my concern, even for last night, is the budget resolution, all these budget resolutions and the reconciliation process, because we have to talk like adults.
00:34:23.100President Trump, the power of President Trump's political movement is that in Washington, D.C., not in the room, not in the deal.
00:34:31.020In fact, if you're not in the room, you're probably getting carved up.
00:34:33.640But President Trump, in his MAGA movement, puts you not only in the room, it puts you at the head of the table as kind of the chairman of what we call the creditors committee.
00:34:45.740So he empowered you, and obviously, you empowered yourself through your agency in making the phone calls, doing the precinct strategy, canvassing, backing Scott Prensler, everything that needed to be done to have this massive grassroots victory.
00:34:59.260Now it's going to come time to be fiduciaries and talk about the reality of the budget.
00:35:04.620And that's, to me, the reality, the acid test, is what's happening in to finance the rest of this year.
00:35:09.460And that takes place at midnight, the stroke of midnight on the 14th of March.
00:35:15.020The two things going on, remember, as we've instructed you over the last couple of years, in negotiations, it's very important to have what we call forcing functions.
00:35:23.260Things that actually have to force a decision, have to force the people negotiating to actually not just come to the table, but to start making agreements that actually can stick.
00:35:35.440We have two forcing functions, the debt ceiling, and we have the actual, the September 30th deadline from last year that we've kicked the can down the road with several continuing resolutions, or CRs.
00:35:50.040That game's kind of over on the 14th of March.
00:35:53.720Yes, we could kick it down for 30 days and 30 days and 30 days, but since we already kicked it down from right before Christmas,
00:36:01.360and we understand how much you hate CRs, and you should hate them, to give President Trump and his team 90 days or 100 days to basically get ready, that game ends on the 14th.
00:36:13.220And what we're hearing from everybody is they intend to do a full year or an end of year, following six months to September 30th, CR.
00:36:24.620And there's a couple of big problems with that that people have not addressed yet.
00:36:28.700And we keep hammering that it's got to be addressed.
00:36:31.660The debt ceiling doesn't have to be done immediately.
00:38:04.080The third thing that's hard, you can't get your head around it, is that if you do the CR as existing, the CR you have to do first, I think, before you do any of this budget reconciliation, because this is for out years, is that none of the doge cuts come in.
00:38:24.380It's an up or down vote on existing Biden's budget.
00:38:27.480So none of the let's take let's assume for purposes of this discussion that the $55 billion that Elon has said they found and Scott Besson has kind of backed that up, the $55 billion of waste, fraud and abuse and or the shutting down of things like USAID.
00:38:43.820That would be fully financed for the year.
00:38:47.160Not only would you not get the cuts, it would be awful.
00:38:49.960It would be that you're actually paying for it through the end of the year.
00:38:53.040So those three things, to me, make a CR for the rest of the year a non-starter and that we should do what we what they wanted the other 90 days to do is finish the individual appropriations bills, negotiate with the Senate and come up with something as bad as it would be.
00:39:08.420Then you would get the doge cuts in there and at least make some attempt to try to lessen the deficit and it'd be President Trump's priorities.
00:39:18.280The solution, and you heard last night, this is why we had CRA on here, Tietzel, is that they're going to do this.
00:39:28.300And this gets back to the unitary theory of the executive.
00:39:32.280That in their interpretation, and it's my interpretation also, I agree with this 100 percent, that the appropriations, that number is the ceiling that the Constitution says that the president's the chief executive officer of the United States government.
00:39:46.400And that means he can make decisions like chief of executives.
00:39:49.940He can either if programs are not being hit, he can either hold back or impound the money and or he can or in and or he can kind of reprogram.
00:40:01.800And they're saying, well, you don't have line on veto.
00:40:28.020It's probably the best of a bad lot of alternatives is this one hang up.
00:40:32.180And this is what I have been very concerned and been very vocal about this from the beginning because I don't totally trust the Supreme Court.
00:40:42.460I particularly don't trust people like John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett.
00:40:48.520Roberts is a very political chief justice, although this is the Thomas Court.
00:40:55.420Roberts is technically the chief justice and he gets to set the agenda.
00:40:59.420It shouldn't be lost on you that what we thought and was proposed is a no-brainer.
00:41:04.300And that's the situation with the president having the executive authority under the unitary theory of the executive as chief executive to terminate individuals that work in his government.
00:41:13.880The special counsel, the Brahmin that President Trump wanted to get rid of, as we said, you're going to go to federal court.
00:41:23.400You're going to then ask for the immediate expedited hearing at the appellate level and then get on the emergency docket for the Supreme Court.
00:41:33.620Well, step one, they went to federal court.
00:41:36.120Obviously, these radical judges agreed with the president couldn't fire the guy.
00:41:40.240Then we went to appellate court and then we go to the emergency docket.
00:42:09.820So this budget fight, which is inextricably linked with an interpretation of the Constitution, is going to get pretty gnarly.
00:42:20.000And, folks, we're not saying man the ramparts yet because we've got to work through a bunch of this stuff.
00:42:24.660Today, I think at the cabinet meeting, I think this is one of the things President Trump is going to talk about.
00:42:30.160It's not just doge, as we've said for so long.
00:42:32.620Doge has to be put into more of a formal process, right, more of a formal process like OMB and like the appropriations process to actually make sure that the cuts that are found on the waste, fraud, and abuse stick.
00:42:46.920Then it's having Elon and this team working with the cabinet officials, which is the harder part, which is actually programmatically in billets.
00:42:56.720Billets stand for, you know, a slot for a body.
00:42:59.500It's not just getting rid of a person.
00:43:11.300We're going to block granted back to the states.
00:43:13.100Or we're going to require, you know, stringent work requirements.
00:43:17.500Or we're going to say that no more illegal aliens on Medicaid.
00:43:24.960This is all part of the cutting to try to get under a trillion dollars of deficit because our financial model right now is a country's unsustainable.
00:43:33.500One thing that shouldn't be lost to you is the 10% tariffs on China.
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