Bannon's War Room - Episode 4311： Flooding The Zone With MAGA; Start Of The Trade Wars

00:00:00.000 stories. President Trump hitting Canada and Mexico with 25 percent tariffs on imports to the United

00:00:05.920 States and doubling tariffs on Chinese goods to 20 percent. President Trump saying the three

00:00:11.620 countries had failed to do enough to stop the flow of the drug fentanyl into the United States.

00:00:17.320 Retaliation coming immediately from China, mostly on agricultural products. Canadian Prime Minister

00:00:23.320 Justin Trudeau said that his country would respond immediately with 25 percent tariffs on about 20

00:00:28.740 billion dollars worth of U.S. imports and more than 80 billion dollars of additional dollars worth of

00:00:34.220 imported goods in just about three weeks if the new U.S. tariffs were still in place. Mexico's

00:00:39.940 economy ministry said that President Claudia Sheinbaum was expected to announce Mexico's

00:00:45.220 response during a news conference this morning. Who is this for? Tell me, tell me who is the swing

00:00:54.240 state voter in Pennsylvania or Nevada or North Carolina whose issue in this election was,

00:01:03.160 I don't think Vladimir Putin is getting enough of what he wants. Tell me who is the median voter in

00:01:09.340 some bellwether county in Arizona who thinks, you know what, Russian cyber attacks have gotten so

00:01:15.040 bogged down and difficult, it's getting so it's really difficult to just ransomware a hospital in

00:01:20.600 Arizona these days. Isn't there anything we can do to help with that? Is there a single voter in

00:01:26.400 the United States who thinks that Canada is the bad guy in the world and Russia is the good guy in 0.51

00:01:32.220 the world? And so let's threaten Canada and learn Russian. Is there anyone? Who is this for? 0.99

00:01:42.880 And what did they do to get all of this? What has Russia given up

00:01:48.680 to get this list of things that they have received in the first six weeks that Donald Trump

00:01:56.620 has been back in the White House? He's the dealmaker, right? What's the other side of the deal?

00:02:06.180 This weekend, the foreign policy chief of the European Union said, quote,

00:02:09.720 the free world needs a new leader. The first rest of the free world is trying. This weekend,

00:02:18.480 the prime minister of Great Britain and the president of France announced that they would

00:02:21.420 form a new coalition of the willing to support Ukraine. And they hoped they might get support

00:02:27.040 from the United States for that effort. The United States, our government, has changed sides

00:02:34.400 in the world. And it seems pretty clear they will not be doing that. Our government now sides with

00:02:41.140 Russia and against America's allies. And we spent years trying to figure out why the Republican Party

00:02:52.080 and its new leader would be inclined in that direction. It now sort of doesn't matter.

00:02:57.240 What matters is the new reality is that he controls the government. And that's the way that he has

00:03:03.100 changed the U.S. government's orientation in the world. And it really is hard to imagine what else

00:03:09.200 Putin might want that Trump hasn't already given him in just these six weeks.

00:03:14.000 David, Warren Buffett calls these tariffs an act of war. Like Donald Trump, I said it the other day,

00:03:19.860 has sort of done the unthinkable. The guy that was willing to deregulate the hell out of anything

00:03:24.480 wants to lower taxes as much as possible for corporates and be pro-business has somehow killed animal spirits.

00:03:31.520 What are we in for here? Because corporates I've talked to are like grinding to a halt

00:03:36.040 because they don't know what these tariffs are going to do to them.

00:03:39.440 Well, that's just it. I'll pick up on something that Greg said a moment ago, and that is

00:03:42.360 who knows if the president's satisfied or when he will be. And I sat down with Chrystia Freeland,

00:03:46.600 who's making a run to lead the Liberal Party in Canada. And I said, look, Chrystia, this is a dumb question, 0.98

00:03:50.420 but what do you have to do? What does Canada have to do to satisfy Donald Trump? 0.97

00:03:53.960 But she said, it's not a dumb question. I think that's been kind of the animating feature of this

00:03:57.420 entire debate. As he talks about fentanyl, he talks about immigration, but there's no clear

00:04:01.540 parameters for what these two countries, these two very close allies of the United States need to

00:04:05.500 do. You ask what's going to happen next. I mean, we have been on this very rough journey since

00:04:09.920 inauguration day. Would those tariffs be put in place right after the inauguration? They weren't.

00:04:14.160 There was a research study commission that was floated that these would be postponed once and then

00:04:17.920 again. We're still seeing floated the notion that there could be more tariffs on specific

00:04:21.440 products and retaliatory tariffs. We know this is a thing he loves, but the uncertainty that

00:04:25.860 Greg's talking about permeates all of this. And to your point, does nothing positive to the animal

00:04:31.360 spirits, to businesses, to consumers who are just frankly wondering how this is all going to play

00:04:35.300 out. Overnight imposing tariffs on America's closest allies. The strategy from the White House seems to

00:04:41.800 be to shed as many friends as possible as fast as possible. And the long term question is,

00:04:47.240 does that leave America safer, stronger and greater? Or does it leave it weaker? I mean,

00:04:52.320 if you just, you just look, we've at the risk at the moment is you push the Europeans closer to 0.71

00:04:57.620 China, you push the Canadians closer to China, you push the South Koreans closer to a nuclear weapon. 0.90

00:05:03.160 I mean, it's hard to see how this strategy plays out well for the United States in the long run.

00:05:08.920 It's hard to see how it plays out well in the short run as well. I mean, I think what the

00:05:13.480 Trump people would say is that, if you caught them in private moments, is that friendship and

00:05:20.240 economic deals between the US and Russia, between Trump and Putin, will unleash all kinds of animal

00:05:27.100 spirits and energy deals. And of course, the deal for Ukrainian minerals, which presumably in one form

00:05:35.500 or another, Zelensky will be corralled into accepting. That's going to be boom time for American 0.98

00:05:41.840 businesses. His view of the world is about deals. It's also about an affinity with Putin. I'm not

00:05:49.120 overlooking that. But it's chiefly his, if you want to summarize Trump's view of economics, it's about

00:05:54.980 having lots of deals and punishing those who are in surplus with the United States. There are no

00:06:01.960 friends in that world. There's just deals that Trump has skin in the game in. And so that's how they

00:06:09.540 would justify this as a success, because there is no sort of ethical, philosophical or strategic

00:06:16.180 justification for what he's doing.

00:06:18.820 Yeah, I think sometimes, Kate, we get a little too complicated in our questions. So I think the

00:06:22.560 easiest way we can kind of just ask this is, do Americans like the way that Trump's handling his

00:06:26.560 job and compared to how they felt about Joe Biden? So this is the net approval rating. You look at Joe

00:06:30.420 Biden back in 2024, he was 22 points underwater. Holy cow. You look at Donald Trump, it's just a

00:06:37.300 different planet entirely. I mean, the gulf between these two is wider than the Gulf of America or

00:06:42.140 Mexico, depending on which side of the aisle you stand on. He's at plus two. So look, at this 0.88

00:06:46.780 particular point, Americans are giving Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt. He's doing considerably

00:06:50.960 better than Joe Biden was doing on the handling of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. And so on this simple

00:06:56.560 question, I think Americans are saying, OK, Donald Trump's doing all right on this.

00:07:01.260 What about specifically on how they feel about bringing the war to an end?

00:07:05.400 Yeah. OK. So, you know, look, questions on this can be quite complicated, but I think this kind

00:07:09.940 of gets at sort of where the American trend line is. Americans on the Russia-Ukraine war

00:07:14.640 want a quicker end of the war, but Russia keeps its captured land. Look at this. 50 percent, 0.89

00:07:18.820 50 percent, bare majority, bare majority coming in here, support Ukraine's right to fight,

00:07:25.000 even if it means a longer war. That's at 48. This is very, very close. But the trend line on this

00:07:29.600 question is so important because that want a quick end of the war. Look at this. You go back to August

00:07:34.300 of 2022. It was at 31 percent. Now we're at 50 percent. I mean, that is a rocket ship upwards in

00:07:41.060 terms of the Americans who want a quick end to the war, even if it means Russia keeps the captured

00:07:45.460 Ukraine land. Americans are moving closer and closer to wanting a compromise, even if it means

00:07:50.420 that Ukraine doesn't really get what it set out to want, at least at the beginning of this war.

00:07:55.020 And Americans' views on Russia are shifting as well.

00:07:58.380 Absolutely. I mean, one of the reasons why we're seeing this is Americans who say Russia is an

00:08:03.300 enemy. You go back to 2023, it was 64 percent. And that CBS News YouGov poll, it was down to 34 percent.

00:08:10.180 Now, there is a chunk that believes that Russia is an unfriendly nation, but the percentage who

00:08:13.740 believe that they're either an ally or friendly, that's up to 34 percent as well, basically equal

00:08:18.400 to the percentage who say that they're an enemy. So views on Russia have become, let's say, a little

00:08:22.960 less isolated in terms of wanting Russia to be way out there on their own, thinking that they're an

00:08:27.460 enemy. At this particular point, they're starting to see Russia a little bit more friendly. And I 0.56

00:08:31.280 think that's part of the reason why Americans want to see a compromise at this particular hour.

00:08:38.120 This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on

00:08:46.480 these people. I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people

00:08:52.920 have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything

00:08:56.840 in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do

00:09:00.220 people like that go to share the big line? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these

00:09:07.920 people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer

00:09:14.900 is to save my country, this country will be saved. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance.

00:09:29.960 It's Tuesday, 4 March in the year of our Lord, 2025. Today is the president addresses a joint

00:09:37.180 session of Congress. We normally call it a State of the Union, but traditionally right after the weeks

00:09:42.940 after a president's inaugurated, it is called a joint sessions, a speech to the joint session.

00:09:49.840 That'll take place tonight. We'll have wall-to-wall coverage on that on this, the most all of important

00:09:54.500 days. The reason is economic warfare kicked in last night, the stroke of midnight, 12 Eastern Standard

00:10:02.520 Time, 25% tariffs on two of our three largest trading partners. That would be Mexico and Canada,

00:10:10.040 and a 20% tariff on the Chinese Communist Party. It's historic. And the way to look at this, and also 0.98

00:10:16.820 all these negotiations or phony negotiations in Europe, this is geostrategic on one hand of what

00:10:24.800 President Trump's doing with the rapprochement to Russia, and geoeconomic on the other, as he

00:10:32.480 redoes the business model of the United States of America to make sure that people that want to have

00:10:38.080 access to this market, and that means access to you, the underlying, underpinning civic society

00:10:44.360 of this country. It's made this country free and made the most prosperous nation on earth.

00:10:48.980 They have to pay a premium. And the easiest way to avoid those tariffs is, guess what, or avoid that

00:10:54.360 premium, is move your manufacturing here. You cannot separate out yesterday's announcement by

00:11:02.920 Taiwan Summit Conductor Manufacturing Company, the largest and most important of all the chip,

00:11:09.060 advanced chip design and chip manufacturers in the world, announcing a $100 billion investment

00:11:14.080 in the state of Arizona to offshore their manufacturing away from the Chinese Communist Party

00:11:22.720 to the United States of America. You couple that with Apple's $500 billion

00:11:26.920 announcement a week or so ago, announcing they were moving their manufacturing from China and even

00:11:33.760 some from India to the United States. They're following President Trump's game plan. What

00:11:39.260 President Trump is saying is that, hey, if you move your manufacturing here and create and invest

00:11:45.100 massive amount of capital equipment, and I think yesterday, they said there's already been $1.7 trillion

00:11:51.760 of investment commitments in the first 40 days. Now, some of that is from Massasan and SoftBank and

00:11:58.620 the Gulf Emirates and Qatar and Saudi, and you know, I'm not crazy about that money, but close to a trillion

00:12:06.940 dollars is from the Hondas and the Apples and the Taiwan Semiconductor, the greatest companies in the world

00:12:14.600 and going to bring high-value-added, high-paying jobs. And also, it looks like virtually all of those

00:12:20.760 states are going into red states or MAGA. The world wants to be associated with MAGA. The world feels

00:12:25.620 comfortable and safe, putting its money in states that are controlled by MAGA. And so, this is why

00:12:33.620 President Trump ratched up, you know, last night the economic war. Now, there's other answerly things

00:12:40.040 that he wants to do with this, fentanyl, destroy the cartels, all that. But hey, it's economic warfare.

00:12:46.180 And this is why he's shutting down the kinetic part of the Third World War in Ukraine. He's shutting

00:12:54.240 down the kinetic part of the Third World War in Israel. He is shutting down the potential,

00:13:02.540 the potential for a kinetic part of a Third World War in the Straits of Taiwan, the South China Sea on

00:13:08.760 invasion of Taiwan, as he extracts right now the manufacturing of the advanced chips that would

00:13:15.940 destroy the American and world economy. And simultaneously, he's going to economic war

00:13:21.580 with the Chinese Communist Party, 20% tariffs. And the Chinese Communist Party, unlike Mexico and

00:13:27.660 unlike the EU and unlike Canada, they didn't say, well, you know, maybe there's a counter,

00:13:33.400 we'll throw another tariff. They said, hey, we understand exactly what this is. It's economic

00:13:40.400 warfare. And what the Chinese Communist Party say, we will fight you to the bitter end.

00:13:47.380 I like an enemy that's straightforward enough, up in your grill. Okay, we're going to walk through

00:13:53.960 the tariffs. We're going to walk through how the tariffs and the economic warfare tie to what's

00:13:59.180 going on in Ukraine. President Trump called their bluff last night. No more arms, no more money for

00:14:05.680 Ukraine. Hey, Europe, you talk a big game. You talk 800 billion here, all this. You haven't put up any

00:14:11.960 money. You've sent no troops. You talk a big game. Put up or shut up. Because peace is going to come to

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00:16:38.520 Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.

00:16:45.500 So throughout the day, we're going to be with you all day today. We have two hours, obviously,

00:16:49.720 live in the morning, our morning war room, then the afternoon, five to seven. Natalie's going to

00:16:53.480 be at the White House this afternoon. Brian Glenn's at the White House right now. We're also going to

00:16:57.780 be anchoring the Real America's Voice coverage with all of the personnel of Real America's Voice.

00:17:03.560 Brian Glenn, Natalie. We got John Solomon, Amanda Head. Grant will be with us. The team at Studio 8H.

00:17:12.040 Hopefully, Grant Posos will be pregame coverage, then after the State of the Union, or the joint

00:17:17.460 address to Congress, whatever your feeling is. We'll do postgame analysis, all that. We're trying to get

00:17:23.480 some people live in the field at watch parties. So you're going to want to keep it here at Real

00:17:27.800 America's Voice all day. Let's go to, we have Brian Glenn. Brian, let's go to, I've got Eric

00:17:32.500 Tietzel at CRA. I'm going to get to in a second. He's going to explain everything to you. Spencer

00:17:36.740 Morrison wrote this amazing new book called Reshoring. He'll be with us. Brian, today is kind

00:17:43.200 of game day, and President Trump timed this perfectly, and the White House staff want to

00:17:47.340 give a hat tip to Susie Wiles, the entire team over there, not just comms, but kind of organizing 1.00

00:17:52.300 everything. You kick off the economic war at midnight, then you roll throughout the day.

00:17:58.260 You tell NATO to put up or shut up, and then you roll in to address not just the nation,

00:18:05.580 but the world. How's it over there today, Brian? Get us up to date.

00:18:10.060 Yeah, good morning, Steve. Good morning, War Room. It's kind of quiet here at the White House right

00:18:15.120 now, as there's nothing officially on President Trump's schedule other than him departing the White

00:18:20.100 House to the Capitol with the First Lady Melania Trump at around 830, but you teed it up perfectly.

00:18:26.920 I mean, you want to talk about the news cycle, an economic war going on right now, and Alina

00:18:32.860 Habba just did a quick gaggle in the break, and she mentioned, hey, you know, this is what

00:18:38.360 it's all about. America first. Build your product in America, and you avoid the tariffs. That's

00:18:43.360 what President Trump campaigned on. That's what the MAGA movement was all about. So, yes,

00:18:48.640 there might be some temporary pains for the consumer lives, but Steve, you and I both know

00:18:55.060 this is what we've been pushing for for a long time, and it's the reality of this world.

00:19:00.620 And in regards, as far as Ukraine and NATO, hey, he said go. If you guys think you can

00:19:08.960 handle it, go for it. And I think that's a bold move he said last night as well.

00:19:13.740 It's a call. It's a call. It's you have to do it. You have to call their bluff and say

00:19:19.300 you guys are big talkers. You let's be brutally frank. NATO and the EU, the party of Davos and

00:19:26.800 Brussels got us into this war. They kept pushing and pushing and pushing. And it's never it when

00:19:33.400 I was back in the Pentagon in the early 80s, the mere conception that NATO would be as far

00:19:39.680 as in the Ukraine would have been looked at as madness, as pure madness. You know why? 0.76

00:19:44.520 Because it is pure madness. They're the ones that push it. The European elites push it.

00:19:48.640 They put up really no money. The United States put up $350 billion according to President Trump.

00:19:54.280 We've got the forces that they want our security. This was with the punk Zelensky the other day 0.96

00:19:58.640 was in the Oval forcing the entire time because that meeting at the Hay Adams with the senators,

00:20:03.500 he thought he had cards to try to get the security guarantee. And President Trump says,

00:20:07.180 quote, you have no cards. He's calling out NATO. And you cannot look, look, $700 billion. Let me repeat

00:20:16.840 that. $700 billion of state of the art advanced high value added manufacturing by the premier companies

00:20:26.920 in the world have been announced in the last three or four weeks. That has to be tied to the tariffs.

00:20:33.040 It's working. Not only is it working, it's working on a level. The entire investment of foreign companies

00:20:38.520 in Obama, excuse me, in the Biden regime, I think was, you know, $1.5 trillion. President Trump

00:20:47.100 has surpassed that already in his first 40 days. It's extraordinary. And I'm just counting the real

00:20:53.720 ones as the companies, but they're all top of the line. It's Apple. It's Taiwan Semiconductor.

00:20:59.320 It's Honda, right? These are the best companies in the world, Brian Glenn. It's working right now.

00:21:04.040 I will tell you, it's quiet on the outside, but in behind the scenes, Susie Wiles and the team,

00:21:08.660 Peter Navarro, I've already talked to a bunch of them. They are, they're beavering away on this

00:21:12.740 to make this an incredible day for President Trump, culminated in an incredible speech,

00:21:19.120 not just to the nation, but to the world, sir.

00:21:21.040 Yeah, and wait till we hear pharmaceuticals moving their production to the U.S. That is a national

00:21:28.740 security aspect as well. That will be huge. I saw a report last night that we have provided

00:21:34.380 in this war 3.45 million rounds of ammunition. The EU combined was just over a million. So not only

00:21:44.540 have we depleted a lot of the ammunition we have here, we've sent it over there, but we've done our

00:21:50.260 fair share, as Joe Biden loves to say. But it's a bold move. But, you know, he is the master of

00:21:56.440 the deal. Fair share. It should be some far. Fair share. We've paid our fair share. Fair share, dude,

00:22:02.060 bro, bro, what do you, the head, hang on, the head of the Indo-Pac command, which is all the Indian

00:22:08.320 Ocean, all the Western Pacific and East Asia, he said a year ago, unless we dial this down, he said the

00:22:15.060 Europeans are putting in nothing as far as small arms and weapons go. And we're putting everything,

00:22:20.000 we're not going to be able to defend Taiwan. He went on a congressional record. Also, Tucker Carlson.

00:22:24.820 Tucker makes the point that all the arms we sent over there, and the Financial Times in London had

00:22:29.580 this story that Harnwell and I went through a couple of years ago, that it's all being taken by the

00:22:35.140 oligarchs, you know, 30 to 50 percent of it is being taken by the oligarchs and resold to criminal 0.65

00:22:41.380 gangs, radical jihadists, criminal gangs in Europe and the rest of the world. They're taking our thing that

00:22:47.980 the United States is giving them and they're taking and monetizing for themselves. These are

00:22:51.860 the most corrupt people on earth. And they've finally gotten called out by President Trump, 0.67

00:22:57.280 brother Brian Glenn.

00:23:00.400 Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. And as far as what we can expect tonight, Steve, on the House floor,

00:23:05.720 even though this is not an official State of the Union, but it's like one, the shenanigans will

00:23:11.320 start probably from the very beginning as we will see House Democrats show their defiance with

00:23:18.080 President Trump and talk about threats of democracy. And of course, Republicans will stand up and support

00:23:23.260 the agenda. But Steve, you and I need to get on a side note on a lot. And this is a whole nother

00:23:27.900 episode. But this this CR is it bothers me. There's a what's going on on the Hill right now is

00:23:35.660 disturbing. It's a whole nother sideshow. I know that. But we need Republican Party to to do the 0.71

00:23:44.120 right thing. And let's just see what that speech says tonight. Let's let's just see if we can change

00:23:50.320 some attitudes there on the Hill. Well, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. It's got to

00:23:55.780 include this. This is the best. Let me give you some bad news, brother. I don't know if you saw it,

00:24:00.820 but Bloomberg came out late last night, early this morning with Doge's first report from the

00:24:06.760 Pentagon. It's 80 million dollars. Doge has got to step up here. The whole CR is going to hinge on

00:24:12.980 Doge and what they call these anomalies. You cannot pass a CR unless you have the Doge spending cuts in

00:24:18.680 there. And now the issue gets to be in the last 12 hours. Is there any there there? Doge, I think,

00:24:24.240 has to step up to the plate right now. Elon Musk has got to walk through and we have to understand

00:24:29.320 exactly, exactly, exactly what these cuts are have to be in the CR. CR is going to be very tough

00:24:35.620 to pass. It's just going to be very tough to pass. It's going to be very tough. I think now I'm

00:24:40.080 hearing word it may be a 30 day to get their house in order on appropriations. But Brian, we'll talk

00:24:44.660 about that in more detail maybe this afternoon at five o'clock. How do people get you during the day?

00:24:49.920 It'll be a lot of activity in the White House. 830, 830. They leave at 830 to the Capitol. The

00:24:55.100 speech will start approximately about nine o'clock. Yeah, but nine o'clock. You can follow me at

00:25:03.020 BrianGlennTV across the board at Brian on True Social. And I'll get with you later and give you

00:25:08.800 a full rundown of how the BBC interview went last night and what they did not air and what they chose

00:25:15.560 to air. Typical, very typical.

00:25:18.600 Well, hopefully we'll get it and we'll air the whole thing ourselves. Brian Glenn now become a

00:25:24.640 major media star. I don't know who's getting the most clicks, Natalie Winters or Brian Glenn? I knew

00:25:31.680 that Rav and War Room would get a couple of White House correspondents and they would cause trouble

00:25:35.380 immediately, right? They would become controversial. Brian Glenn, oh, we just lost the feed on

00:25:41.760 Brian Glenn. Brian Glenn at the White House. So tonight, coverage live here for the first two hours

00:25:47.840 this morning as usual. Back at five to seven live. Now we'll be back over the White House and then

00:25:53.380 we will recommence from eight o'clock until 11. We'll have some pregame coverage, have the entire

00:26:00.980 America, Real America's Voice team. Then the president will leave, actually leave with the first lady to 0.93

00:26:06.360 the to the Capitol around 830. We'll cover all that. The speech approximately nine o'clock should take

00:26:11.600 at least an hour. I believe he's going to talk about disruption, other topics like that. Let's go

00:26:18.320 to let's go to Eric Tietzel. Eric from CRA. Eric, I know you guys cover both. And of course, Russ

00:26:25.320 vote is in the middle of the CR. He's in the middle of the tariffs. Let's talk about Ukraine, sir. Your

00:26:30.900 thoughts about where we stand in all this. Good morning, Steve. And good morning to the posse and

00:26:36.240 team Natalie, for what it's worth here on my end. No offense to Brian, of course.

00:26:44.420 I got to stick with my Claremont fellow classmate.

00:26:49.000 Exactly. What do you got for us?

00:26:51.260 Yeah, I like the way you talk about this as economic warfare. You're exactly right. Of course,

00:26:55.760 we know that war is just politics by another means, right? What the president is engaged in

00:27:02.420 is statesmanship. It's statecraft. He is putting America first in every aspect of policy, whether

00:27:11.620 that's trade or war or the economy. For the first time in my entire life, we have a president who is

00:27:20.360 willing to do things on behalf of the American people that have not been done before. And it's

00:27:26.020 breaking out right into the open just in the last couple of days. It truly is historic.

00:27:30.320 Um, let's, let's, let's talk about that. When you say that this is a whole new, what I call

00:27:37.820 geoeconomics, he's looking, he's not, this is not a tariff on a tomato in Mexico. It's not a tariff

00:27:43.800 on a, on a, like a part under the hood. I tell you what, let's take a break and we'll, uh, and we'll

00:27:48.280 come back. Eric Tiesel for Center for Renewing America. We have, uh, Spencer Morrison, the great

00:27:54.600 author of the book. By the way, it's Studio 6B. They're going to join us. There's actually a live,

00:28:01.360 I think they're having a live watch party. We're going to have people there. What we want to do,

00:28:06.400 if you have a watch party, put it in the chat right now. Let Grace and Moe see it. We want to cover as

00:28:12.340 much of that as possible as the MAGA movement and the nation and the world gather around their

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00:31:04.660 ...is largely implicit or indirect or customary. We actually have specified our commitment through

00:31:10.180 things like the designation of Taiwan as the pacing scenario for the department. So my view that the

00:31:15.500 combination of the greater threat from China and the lack of preparedness on our part, I have a 0.98

00:31:20.660 different assessment with respect, Senator, about Taiwan's efforts. I think actually as a proportion

00:31:24.360 of GDP, it's well below 3%. I agree with President Trump that they should be more like 10% or at

00:31:28.920 least something in that ballpark, really focused on their defense. So we need to properly incentivize

00:31:33.740 them. So together, that means that my focus has been, again, with the shooting the flare metaphor

00:31:38.040 I used earlier, Senator, to get Taiwan motivated to avoid precipitating a conflict that is not

00:31:44.460 necessary with Beijing and giving us time and space to be able to try to rectify this problem

00:31:49.160 because that is my goal, Senator. Thank you.

00:31:54.580 Thank you very much. Senator Blumenthal.

00:31:59.460 Senator Verona.

00:32:00.660 Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Welcome, Mr. Colby, to you and your family.

00:32:04.860 I ask the following two initial questions with relevance to...

00:32:08.860 We're going to listen for a few minutes. This is the controversial hearing over Eldridge Colby

00:32:15.460 to be one of the assistant undersecretaries of defense. Very controversial. Let's go back and watch.

00:32:21.000 I have not, Senator.

00:32:22.240 Have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement relating to this kind of conduct?

00:32:26.520 I have not, Senator.

00:32:29.720 I think it's interesting that you would not say whether Russia invaded Ukraine and saying that this is a

00:32:38.580 complicated kind of a situation right now, but I think I also heard you say that you would give the

00:32:44.260 president your best advice, advice regardless of what you think he might want to hear.

00:32:50.220 So I'm going to ask you a simple question relating to whether Russian military forces invaded

00:32:57.820 Ukraine. In February 2022, did Russian forces cross the border and invade Ukraine? Yes or no?

00:33:04.640 Well, Senator, you're describing a factual reality that is demonstrably true.

00:33:09.740 Yes. So that would mean that Ukraine invaded... I'm sorry, Russia invaded Ukraine. So that was a question

00:33:15.800 that you would not answer. I think that's pretty important because if you... We care about what Xi Jinping

00:33:22.080 thinks about what this president does and thinks. And if Xi Jinping thinks that we have a president who

00:33:30.800 does not separate fact from fiction, such as who invaded Ukraine, I would think that maybe

00:33:36.280 the president has some conclusions that he would draw, maybe having to do with, as our ranking member said,

00:33:46.020 U.S. fecklessness. And I also think that one of the reasons that our NATO allies are increasing their

00:33:52.800 spending on military is that they do not think that they have a particularly stable partner in the U.S.

00:34:00.740 and therefore they better look to their own interests because they can no longer rely on the U.S.

00:34:07.280 I think that is a very bad situation for the United States to be in, especially as we identify China as a 1.00

00:34:14.380 pacing threat and also whatever Russia is thinking along these lines. Clearly they think that they now have

00:34:21.860 a friend in the president. I don't think that helps us vis-a-vis our strength regarding Russia,

00:34:33.260 regarding China. In fact, I think that we are placing ourselves in a very weakened position with regard to

00:34:41.720 how we are viewed by our adversaries, that would be China as well as Russia, and our allies are

00:34:48.580 like not a good situation to be in. We need a president who can separate fact from fiction.

00:34:54.240 Let me move on. Since the administration has identified China as a pacing threat and the

00:35:00.960 importance of Indo-PACOM to face that threat, would you agree with that? Yes, I think the

00:35:07.620 department has identified China as the pacing threat, as I understand. But Indo-PACOM provided

00:35:11.860 Congress with an $11 billion unfunded priorities list, and this says to me that there is a

00:35:20.220 misalignment of our funding decisions and strategy. If we consider Indo-PACOM to be a priority, and yet

00:35:27.600 you have Indo-PACOM putting forward an $11 billion unfunded priorities, what would you do to decrease

00:35:35.940 the unfunded priorities and align our strategy and the importance of Indo-PACOM with the resources

00:35:42.700 that it gets? And would you agree that maybe we should provide Indo-PACOM with more direct input

00:35:53.180 into the department's budgeting and resourcing priorities? Well, Senator, what I'd like to say

00:35:58.600 is, if I may, is I think this is exactly the kind of baseline reality that I think so much of my

00:36:05.400 strategic argumentation proceeds from. A lot of what I'm saying is that, you know, many of us

00:36:11.280 in the public debate and so forth are acting as if, you know, we can do everything, but the reality is

00:36:17.460 that there's an $11 billion unfunded priority list from Indo-PACOM, and realistically, I bet the real

00:36:22.600 deficit is even higher, given that that's just what came out. So, Senator, if confirmed, I would make

00:36:27.920 it an absolute priority, given the priority that China must get across administrations. I think this is

00:36:32.640 now a matter of strategic consensus to try to not only drive that down, but to, you know, reform the

00:36:39.680 department and reprioritize it to actually go through and carry out the strategic shift that's been

00:36:44.880 talked about in some ways since probably Bob Work was Deputy Secretary of Defense at the end of the

00:36:48.720 Obama administration. So would you agree that Indo-PACOM, that command should be provided with more

00:36:55.940 direct input into the department's budgeting and resourcing process? Senator, I don't have enough

00:37:01.540 information to say specifically organizationally where I would fall on that, but certainly that

00:37:05.780 perspective needs to get, I would say, an elevated. I hope so, because an $11 billion unfunded priority,

00:37:10.580 that is the largest unfunded priority list of any of our combatant commands. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:37:16.260 Thank you. And let me observe, Mr. Colby, that I have been somewhat critical of the COCOMs that have

00:37:29.380 not come forward with... Let me bring in... In the middle of this... Okay, you have the beginning of the

00:37:36.820 Third World War. The kinetic part. This is more dangerous, as I keep saying, as the time between 0.87

00:37:44.500 1939 and 1941. That would be the invasion of Poland by the Wehrmacht. And in June 1941, the invasion of

00:37:51.540 Russia by the Wehrmacht. That time, the invasion of Poland, later the fall of France, later the Battle of

00:37:59.860 Britain, the air war over Britain, what we call the Blitz. Different operations in both Norway

00:38:06.740 and in North Africa. All of those combined until the Wehrmacht unleashed on the Russians in June of

00:38:15.380 1941. Those two allies at the time turned on each other. The killing was, I don't know, a tenth

00:38:22.500 what has been in Ukraine and in Israel. We are in the Third World War, and now you see the economic

00:38:29.220 part. In fact, the Chinese Communist Party has been at war with us since at least May of 2019,

00:38:35.620 when they declared a people's war. She declared a people's war. They fight called unrestricted

00:38:39.620 warfare. A big part of this is economic warfare. This controversy, and what you're seeing right

00:38:46.340 there, and I think Bridge did a great job. The book, his name is Elbridge Colby. That last name,

00:38:53.620 he's the grandson of William Colby, a hero in World War II with the OSS, but one of the more

00:39:01.380 controversial directors of the Central Intelligence Agency, and so Bridge Colby comes from kind of that

00:39:07.620 Ivy League, you know, the folks that have been kind of running the country. I know him. I'm a big

00:39:14.820 admirer of this book, and Bridge falls in an unfortunate category. This is a very controversial

00:39:22.660 position that President Trump has elevated him to. He has to be Senate confirmed. Michael Anton over at

00:39:27.700 the State Department and Bridge Colby run what are called the policy sectors. Michael Anton actually

00:39:33.940 sits in the seat of George F. Kennan, who wrote the long memorandum. It was called the X Memorandum,

00:39:41.140 I think in the late 1940s, that basically laid out the containment strategy against the Soviet Union,

00:39:47.940 who we realized quickly after funding them in World War II that the Russian people might be our allies,

00:39:53.540 but that the Bolsheviks and the Soviets were certainly not our allies. So Michael Anton has

00:40:00.900 that position. People know Michael very well. He was in the National Security Council with us in the

00:40:05.700 first term and wrote the famous memorandum on Flight 93 in the 2016 campaign. Bridge Colby is going to take

00:40:14.260 the equivalent job in the Pentagon. And the reason this becomes so controversial is, and one of the

00:40:20.740 reasons I did that long interview with Kurt Mills is that Tucker Carlson has come out and been a big

00:40:24.740 supporter of Bridge Colby. Bridge Colby's theory of the case is the following, that he thinks we ought to

00:40:29.860 wrap up this situation in Ukraine and that we shouldn't be in a war, we shouldn't be supporting a war

00:40:35.780 on the erasian landmass. He also has said consistently, as we have, we have to pivot away from CENCOM. We have to 0.66

00:40:43.620 pivot away from the Middle East. The Middle East is a interesting theater, but it's not the 0.98

00:40:49.620 existential theater, okay? It's like in World War II. The decision was made by the FDR that although the

00:40:57.220 Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor, and that's what got us into the shooting point, shooting part of

00:41:02.660 World War II in December of 1941. And in fact, we never declared war in Germany. Germany actually declared war on us,

00:41:09.620 I think three or four days later, because they had a secret treaty with the Japanese,

00:41:13.700 that the priority would be Germany first, hold ground to the Pacific, and then later

00:41:19.620 drive to Tokyo. Bridge Colby's just said, he says, hey, look, I don't think CENCOM is as important as

00:41:25.940 it is. I just don't think CENCOM is the center of gravity of our strategy, has to be to defeat, or in

00:41:33.380 his case contain the Chinese Communist Party. My colleagues and my brethren over at the Committee

00:41:40.260 on the Present Danger, and people like Captain Fennell, and Bill Gertz, the great Bill Gertz,

00:41:46.420 and Frank Gaffney, all the people over there, they think Bridge Colby's too weak, way too weak on the

00:41:51.780 Chinese side. They say, look, he's for containment, he's for Kissinger's detente, he's not that strong on

00:41:58.580 Taiwan, he's not like we are, that won't take down the Chinese Communist Party. But the biggest hit he

00:42:03.300 gets, and some of this comes from that he's not a defender of Israel. And this has made him a very

00:42:08.660 controversial figure. I think Bridge Colby, if you look at the other possibilities, I think Bridge

00:42:13.460 Colby's going to do a fine job. And like I said, I don't support Bridge Colby in all these policies,

00:42:17.380 I'm much more aggressive when it comes to the Chinese Communist Party. But Bridge's book, A Strategy,

00:42:22.580 of denial, kind of is what a great power struggle is, where you basically have command by negation.

00:42:29.540 And his command is to stop them from becoming a hegemon in East Asia. 0.96

00:42:35.140 Brother Tetzel, with Ukraine, Bridge Colby, where do you stand? Where do you stand with Bridge Colby?

00:42:40.420 Because this is controversial. I think one of the controversies is that Tucker, who's thought this

00:42:46.020 through, and I appreciate Tucker's opinion on this a lot. I think Tucker's one of the brightest guys

00:42:50.100 out there. Tucker, and kind of the Kurt Mill School. I love Kurt. I've known Kurt for years

00:42:55.700 and years and years. Kind of the American conservative, the paleo-conservatives, right?

00:42:59.700 They think that we way overemphasize the Middle East, and we have to get much smarter. They really

00:43:05.940 are more of an America first. Would love the Panama Canal to Greenland strategy, the hemispheric

00:43:11.540 defense that President Trump is picking up. But where do you come down on Bridge Colby? And folks,

00:43:16.020 we'll be dipping in and out of this throughout the day. In fact, Grace, if we

00:43:20.020 can put that up on one of our other channels on Rumble, I think it'd be great, because this is

00:43:23.860 one of the more controversial selections that President Trump has had.

00:43:29.940 Yeah, Bridge Colby is a special guy, and just the right guy for this job, in my view. I think

00:43:36.020 it's a testament to him that, as you say, he was raised really in the swamp, in the regime. And he's

00:43:44.020 qualified in all of the ways that a typical person for a role like this would be qualified.

00:43:48.900 Yet he somehow managed to get through with his brain still screwed on correctly, not having been

00:43:53.940 infected by the same ideology that has led the world for the last generation or more. He's an

00:43:59.460 independent thinker. He has done much to stand up and certify a next generation of foreign policy thinkers

00:44:09.220 outside the blob who are putting America first. And it's perfectly reasonable to disagree with some of the

00:44:15.860 specifics around the edges of what he thinks and to argue about those things. That's good. That's

00:44:20.900 healthy in the America first movement. But at the end of the day, Bridge Colby is the kind of person

00:44:26.180 who's going to carry forward the president's agenda alongside a guy like Mike Anton. And I'll say this,

00:44:32.100 if nothing else, if he can sit there and listen to Maisie Hirono talk for five minutes, he'll be

00:44:36.500 just fine with G.

00:44:37.540 She did have a good point. Now she's from Hawaii and Pearl Harbor is in her. She did have a good

00:44:44.980 point. Indo-Pac command has a, and this, this gets back to the CR. This gets back to Doge being over

00:44:50.900 at the Pentagon. This gets back to hemispheric defense. I'm a huge believer right now that what

00:44:55.540 Pete ought to do is we got to take a, we just passed a $900 billion NDAA. We then add in the,

00:45:03.140 in the reconciliations, we've added another about a buck 25. So we're over a trillion dollars in

00:45:08.100 current funding of, of the, of the Pentagon. And you saw the first cut that, that, that, uh,

00:45:13.780 Elon had was $80 million. So it's not going to be relevant unless he gets serious about this.

00:45:18.820 The point of the CR, the point of this fight over Ukraine, the point of calling the bluff of the

00:45:23.220 Europeans is that this cost the, the strategy of the United States, right? To be kind of a hegemon

00:45:30.500 and be everywhere and support fighting everywhere, supporting all these fights. It's ridiculous 0.95

00:45:35.780 strategically. And it's even more ridiculous economically. President Trump, that Panama to 0.97

00:45:40.740 Greenland is more of a naval strategy. And this is where, and I think bridge and Michael Anton are

00:45:45.860 two of the smartest guys I know. And I think that's what it, what it, how it fits in. I also,

00:45:50.180 and I addressed this Israel 365 in Dallas, and I want to thank Rabbi Walecki and others for having

00:45:56.420 me. There was a great audience, kind of a MAGA audience. And, and, and what I said is that,

00:46:00.740 hey, what we have to do, and I think bridge is a big proponent of this. I think Tucker's a

00:46:04.900 proponent of this. I'm a proponent of this. We have to make sure in everything that's going on

00:46:09.300 in the Middle East right now, that the United States of America and Israel does not get sucked

00:46:14.260 into a land campaign against the Persians, or even an air campaign against the Persians. There's

00:46:19.060 other ways to deal with this situation. And, and I keep saying, hey, as bad as the Persians are, 1.00

00:46:24.660 you just, you just crushed Hezbollah in Lebanon. Now you've got Turkey that took down Syria. The 0.81

00:46:30.660 threat is to me, Qatar's money, Qatar's money and, and Turkey's, you know, uh, reestablishing 0.62

00:46:38.020 the Ottoman Empire and the Caliphate. That's a problem. And we, we've got to be very focused, 0.99

00:46:42.420 but we cannot get into another land war. And there's a lot of people itching to go,

00:46:47.220 go shoot it out, uh, with the Persians. And as a guy, as a young man was on a destroyer off the 0.99

00:46:52.260 coast there, I will tell you that place is like the surface of the moon, right? It's,

00:46:56.820 it is so vast and so big and we don't want any part of it. Your thoughts, uh, brother, uh, Tietzel.

00:47:02.900 There's a time and a place for war, uh, a just war. But I think what people are waking up to is 0.88

00:47:08.580 the extent to which America's entire approach to economic growth has been dependent on war.

00:47:14.580 Uh, we do have an industrial policy and it's war. That's why we've been at war for, uh, half of my

00:47:21.220 life, if not more. Um, the president is putting a stop to that and rightly so. Uh, there's this theory

00:47:27.860 of economics that people may be familiar with. Uh, it's called the broken windows theory.

00:47:33.300 And it's basically the argument that you make a bunch of windows and then have somebody break

00:47:37.220 them and that creates economic development because you got to make new windows, right?

00:47:40.820 But of course it's fallacious, uh, because they're not counting the cost of the broken glass. And what

00:47:46.260 we've seen over the last generation is a broken bodies theory of economics. It's fine if Ukrainians 1.00

00:47:52.260 are dying, it's fine if Russians are dying, it's fine if Afghans are dying or somebody has to die 1.00

00:47:57.620 because don't you understand that we're giving sub grants to weapons manufacturers and every

00:48:02.420 congressional district in America that cannot be the way that we grow as a country. And that's

00:48:08.740 why you're exactly right to prove that all of this is tied together tariffs, Ukraine, Russia, Israel,

00:48:15.940 Gaza. The president is taking a whole of economy, whole of nation approach to say, we're not going

00:48:21.220 to be that anymore. We're going to revitalize areas of America with real industry apart from the

00:48:27.540 military industrial complex. You know, Tucker Carlson, Kurt Mills, Steve Bannon, Eric Tietzel,

00:48:35.300 uh, other people in our movement. We're not doves. We're far from it. Uh, we're just not neocons.

00:48:42.260 We don't want to be everywhere. And as a naval officer, as a young man, you know, I, we went from

00:48:46.900 the Western Pacific and one deployment all the way to the North Arabian Sea in the, in the Persian Gulf.

00:48:51.620 So I got a tour of my, my, uh, uh, other members of the family, the same thing. And it's a vast

00:48:57.380 world that we can't be everywhere and we can't be fighting everywhere because it's ridiculous. 0.96

00:49:01.860 It's just ridiculous. And you're a hundred percent correct. Hang on for a second. I want to get to 0.92

00:49:05.060 the economic warfare part of this, Eric, if you can hang on a second. I want to bring in Spencer.

00:49:09.940 The new, the book is reshoring. It's absolutely brilliant. The timing of this is exquisite,

00:49:15.140 sir. You launched the book on the day of, uh, on the day, uh, that we start the economic war

00:49:20.420 against the Chinese communist party and also give a love tap to both, uh, Mexico and Canada.

00:49:26.180 What, what is president Trump's theory of the case here, sir? Wall Street's going crazy. Uh,

00:49:31.220 the, the business press is, oh, this is terrible. It's the end of it. I think your theory is very

00:49:36.660 close to president Trump. You think the exact opposite, do you not? Yeah. President Trump has

00:49:42.340 been saying this ever since he was a young man. I remember an interview we did. I think it was on

00:49:47.460 Oprah and he was talking all about how America is losing its industrial might and its industrial

00:49:53.300 capacity. Uh, and tariffs are the prime tool to reshore our factories and to bring those good middle 0.91

00:49:59.860 class jobs back to America. And tariffs have two main policy components. Okay. There's an economic

00:50:06.980 side of the coin. The other side of the coin, uh, is, uh, is power. It's national defense.

00:50:12.260 Uh, money is power, right? Um, so what tariffs are going to do and president Trump,

00:50:18.500 his latest executive order as of yesterday says, look, we're going to slap another 10%

00:50:22.980 tariffs on China. Uh, the reason for that, uh, you know, the purported reason is he says,

00:50:28.740 look, they're bringing all this fentanyl into the country. They need to be punished. But when taken

00:50:33.140 into consideration with all of the other policy objectives and things that the president is doing,

00:50:38.420 you can see that as part of a much broader, uh, agenda, uh, to strengthen America and the

00:50:44.900 backbone of this country, the backbone of this country since, uh, you know, since the late 1800s

00:50:50.340 has always been our industry. How do we beat the Germans in World War II? How do we beat the 0.99

00:50:55.540 Japanese? We beat them because we were able to build so much more, uh, military, uh, products 1.00

00:51:03.540 than them. Not only that we were ahead of the curve in terms of technology, right? So we, we had a

00:51:10.420 wonderful confluence of economic production, uh, and technological growth. And unfortunately,

00:51:16.980 since 1974, all of that has been bleeding out of this country. We've been sending our factories to

00:51:22.740 China. We've been sending our technology industry over to Europe and to India, and we're losing the

00:51:28.820 edge. Uh, right now America is buying the future that we used to build. Uh, and case in point is

00:51:35.380 this trade deficit, right? America spends almost a trillion dollars every year buying foreign products,

00:51:42.020 stuff that we should be making in this country. And that's displaced.

00:51:45.300 Okay. But the wall, hang on, hang on, but the wall, yeah, but hang on the wall street guys and

00:51:50.740 particularly Gary Cohen and I fought this every Navarra and I versus Gary Cohen and Mnuchin every

00:51:55.620 day in the first term, every day. And they would say, uh, they were both Goldman Sachs guys and they

00:52:01.380 would look me in the ISA trade deficits don't matter. That is a ridiculous way to look at the

00:52:06.260 world. Your thoughts, sir. Well, they're completely wrong. Trade deficits matter because of the way the 0.99

00:52:12.820 books are actually balanced. So when, when we spend a trillion dollars abroad on foreign goods,

00:52:18.500 the Chinese aren't giving us all of that for free. We have to pay for it somehow. And there's 1.00

00:52:22.580 only two ways we can pay for it, Steve. We either pay for it by selling assets or we pay for it by

00:52:28.980 selling debt. Now, what does it look like on the asset side? Because we have to balance the books,

00:52:33.540 right? Uh, assets are real estate. Assets are ownership of America's companies.

00:52:39.460 So a really good example, last year, foreign buyers bought up a $62 billion worth of American

00:52:46.020 real estate, everything from ranch land in Iowa to real estate in Manhattan and San Francisco.

00:52:53.140 And this is putting huge pressure on our real estate markets. I mean, we talk about all of these

00:52:58.820 people, uh, young people who are unable to afford to grow up in the communities, uh, you know,

00:53:04.660 where they were raised. They can't buy houses in the cities they grew up in.

00:53:08.420 The big part of the reason for that is all of these foreigners are buying up all of that land 1.00

00:53:12.260 with money that we give them for goods. Uh, look at ownership of America's corporations.

00:53:17.300 When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, uh, about 7% of our, uh, corporations were

00:53:25.540 owned by foreign entities. Today it's up to 17%. We're giving them money to buy our land and to buy our

00:53:32.900 corporations. Uh, not only that they're buying up, uh, our debt. They're basically, uh, when we

00:53:39.540 send money abroad, that money has to be spent in America. So we're giving them money to fund the

00:53:45.460 federal government's debt. Uh, and not, so essentially what we're doing is we're borrowing money from, uh,

00:53:51.460 these countries and paying them interest for the privilege of purchasing their goods, the goods

00:53:56.020 that we should be building in this country. So wall street's got it totally backwards. Uh,

00:54:01.380 they're, uh, essentially covering, uh, covering their own tracks.

00:54:06.340 It doesn't matter that the books are balanced. It also matters how they're balanced.

00:54:12.660 Um, what about, uh, I'll tell you what you hold on. We're gonna go to the top of the hour. Uh,

00:54:17.780 Eric Tietzel, we got to bounce. What's your social media? Where do people get you at CRA? Uh,

00:54:22.580 you know, you've, you're, you're the stand in, you've replaced Russ vote, the Grace Russ vote.

00:54:27.380 People still want to get all the information. I know what you guys are up to, where they go.

00:54:30.660 Yeah. No one will ever replace Russ, but we're, we're doing our best. You can find me at Eric

00:54:35.780 Tietzel and at center for renewing America to follow all the great work that the team's doing

00:54:40.580 over here. Thank you, Steve. Great to talk to you. Thank you, brother. Um, we're gonna take a short

00:54:48.820 commercial break. The 11 o'clock hour, we got Tom Fenton also going to go to Rome to, uh, get, uh,

00:54:55.940 some perspective on what president Trump's doing, the economic warfare side and Ukraine.

00:55:02.260 We have Ben Harnwell teed up. We also have Spencer Morrison, this amazing new book,

00:55:08.100 reshoring that puts the lie, everything you've been told about terrorists. President Trump

00:55:13.220 understands this. This is economic warfare flat out. And guess what? He's going to win this one,

00:55:20.820 just like he took down ISIS, just like he's going to take down the cartels.

00:55:24.820 He's going to stop the chemical warfare attack, the second opium war driven by the Chinese Communist 1.00

00:55:30.340 Party and a lot more from the EU to Canada, to Mexico, all of it. President Trump, winner takes

00:55:38.340 all short break. We're going to leave you going out with the right stuff. We'll be back in a moment.

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Bannon's War Room - March 04, 2025

Episode 4311： Flooding The Zone With MAGA; Start Of The Trade Wars

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