Bannon's War Room - Episode 4333： Senate Dems Pushes For 30 Day CR

00:00:00.000 The bracket here, you've got the governor's bracket, you've got Whitmer, you've got Shapiro, you've got the governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, right, Brashear, you've got Illinois, Pritzker, you've got Polis.

00:00:14.160 The governor's bracket is powerhouses, it's packed, he wants to get out of it.

00:00:17.780 Since the California model is so broken, he wants to get out of the governor's bracket and he wants to get to what I call the celebrity bracket.

00:00:25.920 Stephen A. Smith, Mark Cuban, Rahm Emanuel, Pete Buttigieg, and, of course, Gavin Newsom.

00:00:31.580 And he's an attack right to do that.

00:00:34.960 Well, I highly suggest, let me give it over to you, but I highly suggest, folks, if you're listening to a podcast, listen to that one because it was 85% Steve Pannon.

00:00:42.280 It was fantastic.

00:00:43.220 Good job, brother.

00:00:43.800 See you tomorrow.

00:00:45.480 It's fantastic.

00:00:46.800 Thank you, brother.

00:00:48.000 Appreciate you. 0.97

00:00:49.000 Eric Bolling, a gangster and a pirate. 0.91

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00:00:54.300 Okay, breaking news.

00:00:56.580 We're going to go immediately to President Trump's going to go in the East Room momentarily for the official press conference with the Prime Minister of Ireland.

00:01:05.480 We're going to have a little bit of time here beforehand, before Brian Glenn takes it over.

00:01:10.740 I don't have time on the back end, but right now, breaking news on Capitol Hill.

00:01:14.340 Let's go to our cold open for the 5 o'clock show.

00:01:17.280 All right, welcome back.

00:01:18.160 We've got some breaking news on Capitol Hill.

00:01:19.920 The Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer, just announced that Senate Democrats are preparing to block the government funding bill that was passed by House Republicans last night.

00:01:29.640 Our CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent, Manu Raju, on the Hill, as per usual.

00:01:34.880 Manu, what did we learn from Schumer here?

00:01:36.940 I mean, this big question was, were Democrats going to stand and fight?

00:01:39.540 Were they going to view it as important to keep the lights on?

00:01:41.880 The deadline's Friday.

00:01:42.840 I think my question is, I mean, how much of this is real, that we could actually face a shutdown here, and how much of it is them needing to show that they are fighting?

00:01:51.400 Well, they definitely need to show that they're fighting to a lot of Democrats.

00:01:54.220 We want to see this as really their, really it is their first piece of leverage to push back against everything that Donald Trump has done so far.

00:02:01.460 Because their votes are needed in the Republican-led Senate in order to overcome a filibuster attempt.

00:02:07.560 They need 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.

00:02:09.680 The Senate is controlled 53-47 by the GOP.

00:02:12.960 We expect one Republican senator to vote against it, which means there needs to be at least eight Democrats to vote yes.

00:02:18.700 And what Chuck Schumer just said on the Senate floor just moments ago was that there would not be 60 votes.

00:02:25.560 There would not be at least eight Democrats to break a filibuster.

00:02:29.020 Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort.

00:02:35.360 But Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input, any input from congressional Democrats.

00:02:45.660 Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR.

00:02:53.560 Our caucus is unified on a clean April 11th CR that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass.

00:03:08.460 We should vote on that.

00:03:10.940 I hope, I hope, our Republican colleagues will join us to avoid a shutdown on Friday.

00:03:18.080 Now, a CR means continuing resolution, which is essentially an extension of government funding.

00:03:23.640 What Schumer is calling for there is a one-month extension of government funding.

00:03:26.860 But the Republicans are just not going to go for that.

00:03:29.580 So that really is going to leave Democrats with a choice here in the Republican-led Senate.

00:03:34.120 They can vote for the House plan, which they are opposing, because it does have cuts to domestic programs.

00:03:39.160 It does nothing to constrain Donald Trump or Elon Musk for the efforts to purge the federal government so they can vote to accept that House plan, which extends government funding until the end of September.

00:03:49.340 Or they could line up and do what Chuck Schumer said right there, block this plan.

00:03:53.400 And that could lead to a shutdown.

00:03:54.660 And that has actually caused, Casey, a lot of consternation, a lot of concern among Senate Democrats.

00:03:59.880 They don't know how long a shutdown could go on for.

00:04:02.020 They don't know what Trump would do if their government is shut down.

00:04:04.960 Perhaps he could go even further in his efforts to purge the federal workforce and shut down government agencies, which is why a lot of Democrats are still uncertain, despite Schumer's declaration, whether they would actually stand firm and block this plan or whether come Friday, when we expect that key procedural vote to happen, where they'll vote to advance it and eventually let this become law.

00:04:23.820 But if they do that, there'll be a lot of backlash from a lot of Democrats who want to see their party fight in their first piece of leverage against Donald Trump.

00:04:35.160 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:04:40.120 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.

00:04:45.400 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:04:49.660 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:04:51.560 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:04:52.740 I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

00:04:55.680 It's going to happen.

00:04:56.960 And where do people like that go to share the big line?

00:05:00.360 Mega Media.

00:05:01.680 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:05:07.100 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:05:10.900 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:05:17.080 War Room.

00:05:18.100 Here's your host, Stephen K. Banff.

00:05:22.740 It's Wednesday, 12 March, year of our Lord, 2025.

00:05:28.500 Ladies and gentlemen, that is pretty big news.

00:05:30.680 Before the President of the United States walks in with the Prime Minister of Ireland,

00:05:35.900 it's kind of the traditional St. Paddy's Day celebration of our culture, etc.

00:05:41.920 He's going to do a formal press conference in the East Room.

00:05:44.260 Brian Glenn will be there.

00:05:45.260 They have not opened up the East Room yet, so we have a few minutes here beforehand.

00:05:48.740 We are going to go for the entire press conference, and they always ask great questions.

00:05:55.540 Maybe Brian Glenn will get one in, and then we'll come back to the programming and hopefully

00:05:59.520 get Brian Glenn up here.

00:06:00.520 So that's all to happen.

00:06:02.500 Eight o'clock tonight, Eastern Standard Time.

00:06:04.620 We're going to live stream on all of our channels the debate in Wisconsin for the Supreme Court

00:06:12.000 justice.

00:06:12.640 We recommend everybody come into that.

00:06:16.380 Tomorrow, we're actually going to be teed up beforehand with the chairman of the GOP.

00:06:20.120 He's going to break it all down for us.

00:06:21.320 We're going to try to get him in before the president comes in.

00:06:25.660 Also, tomorrow, we'll have a breakdown in polling afterwards, or where that stands.

00:06:29.400 And we'll have the ability for you how you can do out-of-state phone banking.

00:06:34.200 We understand the war in posse.

00:06:35.800 Phone's blown up.

00:06:36.640 People want to go to work, ready to stretch the legs and get back to it.

00:06:41.400 So right there, the Democrats, President Trump put him in a box.

00:06:46.380 The House Republicans voted on a CR and then left town.

00:06:49.920 Pretty cocky.

00:06:50.840 I kind of dig it.

00:06:51.680 Very Trump move.

00:06:53.640 And Schumer, as of this morning, the thinking was they were going to get 60 votes to break

00:07:00.080 cloture and to basically say, okay, we'll go to the end of the year.

00:07:04.040 We don't like it.

00:07:04.620 We'll go to the end of the year.

00:07:05.480 But they couldn't get the eight votes they needed, even with Fetterman saying he would

00:07:09.540 vote for it.

00:07:11.000 Rand Paul had already said he was going to vote against this.

00:07:13.100 I guess they needed eight votes. 0.57

00:07:15.040 They can't get them.

00:07:16.540 And it looks like, unless something huge happens, what they want is a 30-day extension.

00:07:22.980 Now, we would say for a 30-day extension, if the appropriations bills were anywhere near

00:07:27.560 where they could be, and I think 75% of the total appropriations has been done.

00:07:32.700 We've advocated, hey, pass those bills, work that out, then do a CR for the rest.

00:07:38.540 It doesn't look like that's going to happen.

00:07:40.220 I don't think President Trump or the Republicans are going to accede to that.

00:07:43.300 I think they've already passed that by.

00:07:45.260 Right now, if you're a betting man, I think it looks like the government could shut down

00:07:48.760 at midnight.

00:07:49.480 And I will tell you, I don't know how you unshut it down, but they're essentially,

00:07:54.040 the Democrats shut down the government.

00:07:55.360 Aren't they giving a free hunting license to President Trump and Doge and Elon Musk just

00:08:03.520 to go on and say, oh, here's who is essential and here's who's not essential?

00:08:09.720 We hear, and it's not going to happen this afternoon, we know this, but the executive

00:08:12.860 order to essentially take apart kind of on a formal basis, the education department,

00:08:19.000 the Department of Education, has not been signed yet.

00:08:22.340 So anyway, news, I'm going to get back to it.

00:08:24.420 The Democrats say, Schumer says he doesn't have the votes, and in not having the votes,

00:08:29.420 it looks like we're heading to a shutdown.

00:08:31.040 There'll be a lot more negotiation on that.

00:08:32.760 The Senate Finance Committee goes up to see President Trump at the White House tomorrow.

00:08:36.880 It goes to the White House tomorrow.

00:08:38.140 I think they're talking about the tax, building reconciliation, but I'm sure a lot's going

00:08:42.360 to happen.

00:08:42.820 We also have all day long a firestorm on tariffs.

00:08:46.760 People don't understand tariffs, a lot of nonsense being put out there.

00:08:51.400 So we asked the expert of reshoring, Spencer Morrison, to join us.

00:08:55.860 I got a slight open for him, a clip.

00:08:58.260 Let's go ahead and play it.

00:08:58.900 We'll bring Spencer in.

00:09:01.180 Yeah, listen, there's not much criticism.

00:09:02.560 I think people don't know what he's doing.

00:09:04.180 I don't have to think.

00:09:05.400 I mean, most people say they don't know what he's doing.

00:09:09.220 Speaker Johnson has been defending him, saying that we are effectively, as said, we're in

00:09:15.860 a transition period.

00:09:16.920 John Thune, the Senate Majority Leader, keeps saying, you know my view on tariffs, which

00:09:21.060 is he's not a fan of this, but Trump is trying to reorganize the global order, and we should

00:09:28.080 be patient, is effectively his message.

00:09:30.080 But I will tell you, the market goes down, continues to go down like it's going down

00:09:36.420 now, and I'm not talking about it might be up at this moment, but if it continues a

00:09:40.340 downward trajectory, members of Congress are going to be nervous because people, as I

00:09:46.860 think you noted, Katie, people are not going to be happy if their 401ks or portfolios are

00:09:54.000 going down and they're looking to retire.

00:09:56.660 I think that was in the clip that you showed at the top.

00:09:58.640 The patience to reorganize the global trade order is just going to wane significantly to

00:10:05.940 the extent it exists now.

00:10:07.200 I don't even really know.

00:10:09.500 And on top of that, just with all the chaos with government funding and the tax bill and

00:10:15.700 everything that's going on on Capitol Hill, there's just not going to be an appetite for

00:10:20.300 a large-scale trade war, and I think that will start to rear its head in a couple weeks.

00:10:23.860 The EU was set up in order to take advantage of the United States.

00:10:29.160 Including Ireland?

00:10:29.920 Is Ireland taking advantage of the U.S.?

00:10:32.080 Of course they are.

00:10:33.000 I can't, you know, I have great respect for Ireland and what they did, and they should 1.00

00:10:37.720 have done just what they did, but the United States shouldn't have let it happen. 1.00

00:10:41.740 We had stupid leaders. 1.00

00:10:42.860 We had leaders that didn't have a clue. 1.00

00:10:44.520 Or let's say they weren't business people, but they didn't have a clue what was happening.

00:10:47.920 And all of a sudden, Ireland has, you know, our pharmaceutical companies and other, this

00:10:52.540 beautiful island of, it's Ireland, of five million people.

00:10:58.800 It's got the entire U.S. pharmaceutical industry in its grasp.

00:11:05.320 And, you know, you mentioned housing and you mentioned other things.

00:11:08.060 I mean, I have property in Ireland, as you know, and I love it.

00:11:10.980 It does great. 0.99

00:11:12.640 But I'd like to have, I'd like to see the United States not have been so stupid for so 0.99

00:11:19.100 many years, not just with Ireland, with everybody. 0.99

00:11:22.420 You know, I looked at trade deals.

00:11:23.820 I was telling the group yesterday, I looked at trade deals in term one.

00:11:28.500 It's one of the reasons I decided I had to do this, because somebody had to straighten

00:11:32.320 it out and I didn't see anybody that was going to.

00:11:34.960 I looked at trade deals that were so bad, I'd actually say, how is it possible that this

00:11:40.360 could have happened? 1.00

00:11:40.860 Who would have been so stupid to let these deals happen? 1.00

00:11:44.660 For instance, when the pharmaceutical company started to go to Ireland, I would have said, 1.00

00:11:51.180 that's OK if you want to go to Ireland.

00:11:52.800 I think it's great.

00:11:53.660 But if you want to sell anything into the United States, I'm going to put a 200 percent

00:11:59.140 tariff on you.

00:12:00.180 So you're never going to be able to sell anything into the United States.

00:12:03.340 You know what they would have done?

00:12:04.640 They would have stayed here.

00:12:05.800 OK, Spencer Morrison, the author of Reshoring and I think America's top expert on tariffs.

00:12:16.120 Spencer, your head must have been blowing up the last couple of days. 0.66

00:12:18.940 All the nonsense.

00:12:20.040 Because it's almost been for the audience that doesn't have to monitor CNN and MSNBC and

00:12:25.720 CNBC.

00:12:26.180 It's almost been nonstop tariffs and how evil tariffs are, how terrible tariffs are, how

00:12:30.380 Trump doesn't know anything.

00:12:31.320 He's out of control.

00:12:32.380 He's destroying the world's trading order.

00:12:35.060 Sir, and I'm going to bring you back after the break.

00:12:37.420 But just give us your overall assessment, Spencer, of where we stand in all this. 0.66

00:12:41.200 Is President Trump actually crazy?

00:12:43.560 Hi, Steve. 0.78

00:12:46.460 Thanks for having me on the show.

00:12:47.980 No, President Trump is not crazy.

00:12:49.680 What President Trump is doing is he's recognizing that there are two types of economies that are

00:12:56.260 in conflict in not just in America, but all throughout the world.

00:13:00.520 There's the financialized economy and then there's the productive economy.

00:13:05.160 And what President Trump is doing is he's trying to shift America away from a financialized

00:13:09.800 economy, a service-based economy towards an industrial and a productive-based economy.

00:13:15.560 And this is incredibly important, not just for the long-run prosperity of America, but

00:13:19.780 also for its national security.

00:13:21.720 I just want to give you a really quick example of this, the financial economy.

00:13:27.160 I tell you, Spencer, Spencer, hang on.

00:13:29.780 This is, this is, hang on.

00:13:30.780 This is too good.

00:13:31.580 This is too good.

00:13:32.440 I want to hold it.

00:13:33.740 I want to give you plenty of runway, brother.

00:13:35.800 Because just in saying that, you've been able to kind of give a, you know, a construct,

00:13:41.500 intellectual construct in people's minds for the war and posse.

00:13:46.260 There's the lords of easy money on Wall Street that want to financialize everything.

00:13:50.060 Remember how that worked out for us last time?

00:13:51.740 Remember 2008 with the financial, financialization of the mortgages and credit-backed securities and

00:13:57.560 all this esoteric financial instruments that they took hundreds of millions.

00:14:03.680 If not, baits the dollars of fees out.

00:14:05.700 And then when it all collapsed because the underlying economy couldn't support it, not

00:14:10.240 one of them, not one of them was ever held, ever held accountable.

00:14:14.380 They've socialized the risk.

00:14:16.520 That's a fancy Harvard Business School term for saying you, the little guy, the taxpayer

00:14:22.120 pays.

00:14:22.780 And they've left unlimited upside for themselves.

00:14:25.800 That's a hell of a system.

00:14:27.740 That is one hell of a system.

00:14:29.100 We could not have created something so perfect for the ruling class in this country.

00:14:35.600 This is what President Trump's trying to break, trying to re-industrialize America, what

00:14:42.380 Spencer Morrison calls the productive economy, with manufacturing, production, and high value

00:14:48.820 added, good paying jobs.

00:14:51.080 Short commercial break.

00:14:52.360 We're going to return to the East Room.

00:14:54.340 But first, Spencer Morrison on Reshoring, next in the world.

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00:16:12.020 Here's your host, Stephen K.

00:16:14.300 Bannon.

00:16:16.580 Okay, three pieces of breaking news.

00:16:18.620 Number one, the Democrats said they don't have the votes to break cloture.

00:16:22.560 It looks like we're going to hurtle towards a government shutdown or some major renegotiation.

00:16:26.900 The House is out of town.

00:16:27.880 They're gone.

00:16:29.120 Captain Bannon's in town tonight for Alex Brusiewicz's gathering over at Butterworth, and there's

00:16:34.640 nobody in the House for her to go hang out with, so they're gone.

00:16:37.820 Most of them.

00:16:38.380 Also, breaking news is Julie Kelly.

00:16:42.560 He's going to join us here in a moment about breaking news coming out of the courts about

00:16:45.060 trying to—the federal judge insurrection trying to stop President Trump from executing

00:16:50.340 on his mandate.

00:16:52.060 And, of course, all day they've been in complete and total meltdown about the tariffs.

00:16:57.000 I'm going to go back to Spencer Morrison in a second.

00:16:59.320 Let me get this breaking news from Julie Kelly.

00:17:00.860 She's just out of the court. 1.00

00:17:02.320 Julie, a couple of big cases today, ma'am.

00:17:05.200 They're trying to stop Trump in every way possible.

00:17:08.180 They're trying to stop his executive orders to hold these law firms accountable.

00:17:11.440 They're trying to—the Doge guys found $20 billion that somehow got wired to Citicorp,

00:17:16.280 I think, at the last second.

00:17:17.860 They're in that.

00:17:18.800 The judges are trying to say the money's got to be released.

00:17:21.420 What in the hell is going on?

00:17:22.600 And I know these are some of your favorite judges because they're in Washington, D.C., 0.95

00:17:26.860 on these crazies on the D.C. bench.

00:17:29.840 They hate Trump.

00:17:30.840 As Mike Davis says, this is a federal judge insurrection against the president of the

00:17:37.900 United States.

00:17:38.340 Julie Kelly, what do you got?

00:17:40.100 Steve, it's so frustrating because you and I have talked about this for years, not just

00:17:44.500 related to the federal cases against the president that were handled in Washington, D.C., but,

00:17:50.340 of course, over 1,000 January 6th cases.

00:17:54.080 These judges are out of control, and they have no accountability and no oversight.

00:17:59.740 When is this going to end?

00:18:02.140 Congress has completely abdicated its role in holding these judges accountable, holding

00:18:09.240 impeachment proceedings for at least the most flagrant violators, which includes Beryl Howell,

00:18:15.680 who today—now, who is Beryl Howell?

00:18:18.060 She is the former chief judge of the D.C. District Court.

00:18:22.220 She was in that role for seven years between 2016 and 2023.

00:18:27.340 She managed, as chief judge, all of the lawfare against President Trump, starting with special

00:18:34.920 counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into phony Trump-Russia election collusion.

00:18:41.560 She has acted as nothing more than a rubber stamp for the DOJ—well, until the DOJ went back

00:18:48.120 to Donald Trump in January.

00:18:50.960 So she allowed Robert Mueller to get away with whatever he wanted to.

00:18:56.680 She then did the same with the grand jury proceedings for special counsel Jack Smith in

00:19:02.600 the classified documents case and the J-6 case.

00:19:06.040 But now what she did—and quite honestly, Steve, this is a clear example of a judge who should have

00:19:12.620 recused herself because she handled the Trump-Russia collusion investigation that originated in the

00:19:22.420 offices of Perkins Coie, the law firm that acted as the pass-through between Fusion GPS, who

00:19:29.720 retained Christopher Steele, who made up the dossier, basically, and peddled that around Washington

00:19:35.380 for 2016 and 2017, including at the FBI, she managed that investigation.

00:19:41.680 She should have recused herself from the lawsuit that Perkins Coie just filed seeking a temporary 1.00

00:19:47.820 restraining order to overturn the president's executive order last week that stripped security

00:19:53.880 clearance from everyone at that firm.

00:19:56.740 She did not do that, and instead today issued from the bench putting on hold a temporary restraining 0.99

00:20:05.680 order against the president's executive order stripping Perkins Coie of their security

00:20:13.500 clearances.

00:20:14.240 Just another egregious example of these judges acting solely on their own, using whatever excuse

00:20:22.960 they can't—to overturn—perkins Coie understands when—this is Trump's war—this is Trump's war

00:20:31.320 against the big law firms that run the city, that run the imperial capital, and he put a shot right across

00:20:36.600 the belt.

00:20:37.280 They do understand that this—and this is why they're fighting, and they're fighting out of the box,

00:20:42.100 Julie.

00:20:42.720 They understand this is much deeper in the justice security clearances.

00:20:46.080 They understand that the next thing—stripping of security clearances, next thing goes to cutting

00:20:51.700 him off of government contracts that these guys live for.

00:20:54.480 And Perkins Coie is with Bob Bauer and Mark Elias.

00:20:58.820 I mean, this is the demon shop of the demon shop, right?

00:21:01.480 That's why they were symbolically chosen as the first.

00:21:05.480 But this is what I don't understand.

00:21:06.720 Is the judge basically restricted the president of the United States from somebody—how can the

00:21:11.360 commander-in-chief be restricted from taking somebody's security clearance away, some institutions?

00:21:15.900 He has ultimate authority on all security clearances, doesn't he, ma'am?

00:21:19.320 Well, I mean, you would think so, but this is apparently not the conclusion of Beryl Howell,

00:21:26.380 where she basically said, and I will be getting the transcript.

00:21:29.060 I was following Kyle Cheney at Politico, who was in the courtroom.

00:21:33.580 This was one of those proceedings that did not have audio like the other hearing that I

00:21:37.920 covered today in Judge Chutkin's courtroom.

00:21:40.620 But you had to be there, so I was following along what Kyle Cheney was saying.

00:21:44.160 And she's making these outlandish declarations, how seeing the president be able to strip

00:21:51.360 someone of their security clearance, you know, just made the hair on her skin raise up.

00:21:58.460 She was making, as she always does, all of these editorial comments directly contradicting what

00:22:07.260 is clearly the president's presidential executive authority to do exactly what he did, not just

00:22:13.800 Perkins Coie, but of course Covington and Burling, the law firm that gave free legal services to

00:22:19.980 special counsel, Jack Smith. And I'm following up on this, but it appears like she is preventing

00:22:28.620 the president's executive order from going through by calling Perkins Coie dishonest and dangerous,

00:22:35.080 which he did. But what the Perkins Coie lawyer told Howell today is this is basically a death

00:22:40.880 sentence for Perkins Coie, that there would be no way for the firm to stay in business if this

00:22:48.820 executive order holds. Oh, baby. Baby, I love this even more. We want a death sentence and we want

00:22:56.080 to salt the, we want a Carthaginian peace. We want to salt the earth around it. You also, this other

00:23:02.880 big, so President Trump as commander in chief can't take some, an institution or person's security

00:23:09.460 clearance away. Okay. I see where they're going. Now the other is about more about money. And this is

00:23:15.520 where, you know, President Trump has the empowerment, has the ability to cut the money off. Tell me

00:23:20.960 about this, this, cause this thing's kind of murky about six, I think this is $20 billion ended up in

00:23:25.960 Citicorp in the last days of Biden who actually gets it. Now people are going to court on that too. Is

00:23:30.460 that correct, Julie? Yes, Steve. And this is a huge scandal that I will be covering and hopefully you

00:23:36.420 and I could talk about more. This has to be one of the biggest scandals out of the Biden-Harris

00:23:41.220 regime. And that is this $27 billion, so quote unquote climate fund, $20 billion of that was

00:23:51.720 hidden at Citibank, put at Citibank, our money under this greenhouse gas reduction fund, $20 billion

00:23:59.940 put at Citibank November 1st of 2024. Obviously to not only keep accountability away from Republicans in

00:24:10.480 Congress, but of course a potential Donald Trump White House. That money was granted to only eight

00:24:17.860 non-profits, climate non-profits, including one that had just been created by Stacey Abrams,

00:24:25.040 who received $2 billion, but the other one, Climate United, and that's who was in court today

00:24:31.680 before Judge Tanya Chutkin, another one of our favorites, filed a lawsuit because EPA Administrator

00:24:38.980 Lee Zeldin and DOJ-FBI is investigating that $20 billion fund that's at Citibank right now,

00:24:47.900 froze disbursement of those funds under suspicions of fraud and other criminal behavior,

00:24:55.100 and then canceled, Lee Zeldin announced last night, canceled the contracts with those eight

00:25:01.140 climate non-profits. Now, the one who was in court today, Climate United, led by a former Obama

00:25:07.960 White House official, packed with Democratic activists and party leaders, they received $6.97

00:25:16.900 billion, Steve, billion dollars. Just ranted to them. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. The year before,

00:25:24.620 Steve, the year before, this fund was created in June of 2023 and had less than $100,000 in the bank,

00:25:30.780 now they are going to this Judge Chutkin asking for a temporary restraining order to force the EPA

00:25:37.160 and Citibank to give them the money that they insist is theirs. Folks, between USAID and the Citicorp,

00:25:48.360 that's what, $27 billion, $40 billion, $50 billion. It's not the philanthropic, this is not tithes,

00:25:54.920 this is not source, this is your tax dollars going to fund the most radical people. Stacey Abrams

00:26:01.260 was on MSNBC the other night yammering on about toasters and energy efficient refrigerators, and

00:26:06.840 she skimmed $2 billion. This is outrageous. And you're going to see some of these judges give

00:26:13.560 TROs and try to give them the money. Hey, this is going to be fought all the way up. The Supremes

00:26:17.820 should get ready because this is going to be fought all the way up, all the way up to the top.

00:26:22.740 Julie, you're reporting, and you're going to drill down as only Julie Kelly can do on this latter one

00:26:26.360 because this one's going to be pretty tasty, I think, Julie. Oh, it absolutely is. And kudos to

00:26:31.840 EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, who really blew the lid off of this last month. Also, Trump's DOJ,

00:26:37.340 including D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, who ordered the freeze of these funds when they found out that

00:26:44.080 it had been sheltered at Citibank. Also, the grant agreements changed twice, December of 2024 and about

00:26:52.360 seven days before Inauguration Day. The Biden, White House, and EPA changed, made modifications to

00:26:58.780 those agreements to make it much easier for these grantees, which are nothing more than a money

00:27:04.460 laundering operation. Our money that they take, they employ who knows who, and then doles this out

00:27:11.640 to what solar panel manufacturers in Arkansas. I mean, this is how absurd and scandalous this is.

00:27:20.420 I am going, I am digging into this. We'll continue to do so because this is a huge, breaking,

00:27:26.780 massive, looks like money laundering scheme into the tons of billions of dollars.

00:27:32.020 What, what, what, what is your, what is your social media, ma'am?

00:27:36.840 Julie underscore Kelly, uh, two on X. I covered the Chutkin hearing today. And then of course,

00:27:42.400 declassified with Julie Kelly on Substack. Yeah. You notice you see some of these judges pop up all

00:27:48.980 the time. This is how important it is to get our judges in and get them confirmed. They're everywhere.

00:27:53.200 Julie Kelly, you're a superstar. Thank you, ma'am. Spencer Morrison on the other side,

00:27:58.820 we're going to get back to tariffs before we go live to the East Room with President Donald

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00:31:01.380 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:31:03.720 There is the East Room. It's going to come up momentarily. Beautiful shot. That's the

00:31:12.000 Real America's Voice camera. In the East Room, the Prime Minister of Ireland, the President of

00:31:17.360 the United States are going to come in momentarily. Spencer, and we're just going to have your

00:31:22.440 voice. I want to keep that shot, Denver. It's a beautiful shot. Spencer, you're going to punch 0.96

00:31:26.760 and I'm going to bring you back. But why this firestorm that's come up and it's consumed cable

00:31:32.680 television, is it because that the forces that want the financialization of the economy, the

00:31:40.240 neoliberal side of the American economy, they will do anything to talk smack about tariffs, 0.84

00:31:50.400 including lie, bald-faced lies on television all day long, sir?

00:31:56.060 Yeah, absolutely, Steve. These people are the same people who for the last 50 years have been

00:32:01.200 neutering America's industry. They want America to be weak and easy to control, right? So what 0.86

00:32:07.740 President Trump is doing is he's imposing tariffs on key items like steel, aluminum, all the things

00:32:14.480 that we need for an industrial, powerful economy. And what that's going to do, it's going to shift

00:32:19.020 the balance of power from financial aspects of the economy over the productive aspects of the

00:32:25.920 economy. So, for example, machine tools. These are the sorts of tools that, you know, shape other

00:32:31.860 materials. They're the machines that we need to make more machines. They're basically the reproduction

00:32:36.780 system of our economy. America used to be the leading exporter of machine tools. We made all the

00:32:43.480 machine tools, right? Everybody bought American machine tools at the end of World War II. Now,

00:32:49.140 America makes just 7% of machine tools. I mean, Italy makes more. Italy makes 8% of these,

00:32:55.440 right? You think about the size of the economy between America and Italy. It's not even close.

00:33:00.540 But America's economy is behind Italy's when it comes to creating these really valuable

00:33:05.180 machinery. It's shocking. It's shocking. Germany makes 15%. It's double. 0.79

00:33:13.540 Double. Okay. You're watching the East Room momentarily. The Prime Minister of Ireland,

00:33:18.920 the Taoiseach, I think it's pronounced, in Gaelic, is going to enter with the President of the United

00:33:24.320 States, Donald John Trump. They're going to have some brief remarks, and then they will take questions.

00:33:28.860 Our own Brian Glenn is in the East Room with a Real America's Voice camera crew. As soon as the

00:33:35.940 Prime Minister and the President will come through those double doors are there. As soon as they enter,

00:33:40.260 we will go live to the feed. So this back and forth with Canada. Talk to me about what happened in

00:33:46.380 Canada today. First of all, the Premier was going to charge 25% for the hydroelectric power coming to

00:33:52.360 Minnesota, Michigan, and New York. Then he said he's going to cut it off. They've gone back and forth.

00:33:58.860 Now, Canada is going to put – President Trump went back and said, hey, I'm putting 50% on your

00:34:03.520 aluminum and steel. And then today, I think they fired back. Is this a way to have a trade war?

00:34:09.800 Is it jawboning? You're an expert on this, Spencer. What's going on?

00:34:15.240 Well, I mean, this is really just Canadian politicians scoring election points. There's

00:34:19.900 going to be a federal election coming up this year in Canada. Everybody's trying to score points.

00:34:24.640 And they're scoring these cheap political points at the expense of their own economy and the welfare

00:34:29.960 of their own people. Canada has no cards, Steve. No cards. There's no leverage in a trade war with

00:34:36.780 the states. Just think about this. Canada exports 10 million tons of steel every year to the states.

00:34:42.300 That's 82% of all the steel made in the country.

00:34:44.720 Huh. President Trump has shut down Canada's industry.

00:34:48.040 The voice of Spencer Morrison, he's the author of Reshoring, a new book on bringing manufacturing

00:34:55.820 jobs back to the United States. It is exquisite timing. I want to talk to Gray Delaney and all

00:35:01.780 the people over – what is it? Calimo, just incredible timing on this book.

00:35:05.260 Look, you're using – is this an homage to Donald Trump now that you're using his favorite

00:35:11.600 phrase? You've got no cards. Zelensky has no cards. That's true. Why does Canada have

00:35:16.640 no cards, brother? They're providing Minnesota, Michigan, New York with power. They've got

00:35:22.280 all this product. They've got half the under-the-hood materials components to Detroit, don't they?

00:35:28.060 Whatever Toledo doesn't have, they've got up in Canada right there. Why do you say they

00:35:33.540 have no cards? I know Trump says it. Why does Spencer Morrison say it?

00:35:37.600 I'll tell you why. It's very easy. Canada exports 77% of everything. Everything that

00:35:44.720 Canada makes for export goes to the states. America is the one-stop shop for Canada. And 0.62

00:35:50.660 you know what? Canada even imports more from the states than they buy from them. Canada's

00:35:55.260 economy is completely dependent on America's economy. You know how we talk about import dependency

00:36:00.960 and America is buying critical products from China. The amount that America buys from China

00:36:05.580 is a fraction compared to how dependent Canada's economy is on the states. Canada's economy is like

00:36:11.940 one of those little fish that hook onto a shark, right? It can't survive on its own. So if there's

00:36:17.960 going to be a trade war between the two nations, there's just no way that Canada can win. It's too

00:36:23.240 small. It'd be like California trying to wage a trade war against the rest of the nation. 0.91

00:36:27.960 It totally makes no sense. Okay. We didn't have time. We had a clip for you about Walmart. I think

00:36:35.080 Walmart, the CEO was commenting on China. They're not particularly happy as many of these CEOs

00:36:39.820 of this. And I can't still figure out, call me a simple guy. I can't figure out if we're 10%

00:36:44.960 tariffs or President Trump had another 10 or if we're at 20%. I know she knows this. What is,

00:36:50.620 what is Walmart whining about today about the China tariffs? And what is your independent

00:36:55.700 assessment, Spencer Morrison? Well, China is a distributor of, in general, very low cost,

00:37:05.960 low quality goods that are exported from China. The entire Walmart business model is predicated upon

00:37:12.060 getting goods from these third world countries and bringing them into the states. And they've

00:37:20.180 profited enormously off of this. The problem is they've done it off of the back of American industry

00:37:25.820 and American workers. In order for the Walmart model to be successful, you have to kill off American 0.99

00:37:32.340 industry. And that pits them against the welfare of this nation. America needs to be a country that

00:37:38.700 builds the future rather than buys it. And low cost wholesalers like Walmart or the financial elites in

00:37:47.440 Wall Street are profiting off of America's demise. And it's not good for the country. It's not good

00:37:53.780 for our people. What we need to do is we need to reshore our industries so that we can revive the

00:37:58.100 American dream. Our guest is the author, Spencer Morrison, the author of the new book, Reshoring,

00:38:05.760 which is central about the re-industrialization of America, the policies it's going to take.

00:38:09.480 It's a very complimentary of President Trump's business model, including tariffs. Do you agree

00:38:16.780 with all day long the pulling of hair saying that President Trump is not messing? Let's say the

00:38:22.680 policies are correct. And they don't agree with the policies, but they say the messaging is even worse

00:38:27.100 between Lutnik, Navarro, the president, Besant. As you know, we're very close to some of these guys.

00:38:34.140 What's your independent assessment? Is this being messaged correctly, sir?

00:38:39.480 Well, I think there's two messages that are going out. There's the message that President

00:38:43.700 Trump is speaking to the ordinary common people. And that message is very, very well received.

00:38:48.940 People love the president. People have voted for this president like no one in history.

00:38:55.600 And I think they trust him to do the right thing. I mean, President Trump is a business mogul.

00:39:00.240 He knows how to make good deals. I think everybody implicitly recognizes that. But there is a very big

00:39:04.980 disconnect between the ordinary people who sort of on a common sense basis understand tariffs and

00:39:11.000 understand that we've got to bring the factories back because it's their jobs, it's their lives that

00:39:15.220 are being offshored. But there's a big disconnect between them and this sort of academic elite and

00:39:20.880 the academic, the financial elite. They hate President Trump and they don't want to listen to

00:39:26.620 his message on tariffs. And the reality is, is that it's just not being communicated to these people

00:39:31.640 because there's very few people who are a part of America's sort of intellectual elite

00:39:35.780 who know anything about tariffs. There's just no one writing about it.

00:39:41.100 Well, well, let's talk about that for a second, because all day long, even my brother, Eric

00:39:45.760 Bolling says, because he came out of Fox, he says, hey, I love some of the tariffs, but I don't like

00:39:50.700 part of it. All day long, they're saying this is a tax on the American people. This is a tax on the

00:39:54.980 American people. This is a tax on the American people. The consumer is going to suffer. This is 0.52

00:39:58.180 terrible for the consumer. President Trump doesn't care for the little guy. What say you, sir?

00:40:05.500 America was at its most prosperous when our tariffs were the highest. Everybody knows that. That's a

00:40:11.080 point of financial history. It can't be overstated enough. The decline of America's industrial output,

00:40:19.720 the decoupling between wages and productivity, all of this happened after 1974, when the tariff walls

00:40:25.180 were abandoned, when the gold window was closed, and our factories were being offshored to all

00:40:31.440 sorts of countries. I mean, you look at the American economy since 2001, when China joined

00:40:35.600 the World Trade Organization. It's totally backwards. All the gains have been going to the richest few

00:40:40.520 people. Regular, ordinary people have been losing their jobs. The middle class has been completely 0.52

00:40:45.520 eviscerated, and people can't afford to live in the communities they grew up in. This is because of

00:40:50.400 global free trade. This is economic globalism. We don't need that. What we need to do is we need

00:40:55.600 to protect Main Street. We need to protect small businesses. We need to protect American manufacturers.

00:41:01.420 Because the reality is that local productive assets in the States can't compete with the likes of China, 0.88

00:41:08.660 who are using slave labor, who are poisoning their water supplies, who are engaging in all sorts of

00:41:14.120 trade practices that we don't do, like dumping and giving bad loans to corrupt businessmen.

00:41:21.920 I mean, these Chinese companies, Steve, you have to remember, they're an arm of the state.

00:41:25.840 They can run negative balances for 20 years, and they don't go out of business, because the Chinese 1.00

00:41:31.660 government knows that once all the American companies are dead, China's going to move in, 0.94

00:41:35.800 and they can jack up the prices and make all the profits back that they've foregone for 20 years.

00:41:41.600 That's what Japan did to us with the karyetsu model in the 1980s. It worked then. It's working now. 1.00

00:41:47.200 And America's political elites just haven't learned.

00:41:51.380 This is – Spencer brings up a great point. This is in President Trump's first term with Bob

00:41:56.040 Lighthizer and Peter Navarro, early work by myself and Stephen Miller.

00:42:00.560 By Bligherson finally got – in the May of 2019, the deal that had seven different – it cured the seven

00:42:08.000 original sins of the Chinese Communist Party's state capitalism and authoritarian model,

00:42:13.620 which, quite frankly, the elites in the United States kind of copied.

00:42:17.340 But we had a deal that had been negotiated for a year and a half virtually every day.

00:42:23.420 By the way, you see some movement there at the front, the military aid.

00:42:26.480 We are going to jump – our guest is Spencer Morrison.

00:42:29.740 The book is reshoring.

00:42:31.740 We are going to jump live to the East Room as soon as there's some movement from the Prime Minister of Ireland

00:42:37.060 and the President of the United States.

00:42:39.300 What Spencer is talking about is that Lighthizer and Navarro had hammered out with Vice Premier Lee He

00:42:48.780 over 18 months, almost a two-year period, a deal that actually took care of this

00:42:54.380 and – or began to take care of this, of the excess capacity of state-owned industries,

00:42:59.280 the ability of those state-owned industries to basically drive down prices.

00:43:05.780 And that deal was not accepted by Xi and Wang Xixiong at the last second.

00:43:11.000 And that's the same month, folks, that they declared a people's war against the United States of America.

00:43:16.480 This is when warfare really started, political warfare, cyber warfare, unrestricted warfare.

00:43:24.380 People's war against the United States of America.

00:43:27.060 I said we've been at war with the Chinese Communist Party for a number of years.

00:43:31.220 Spencer, reshoring itself.

00:43:35.600 Talk to me.

00:43:36.440 How complicated is that?

00:43:37.760 I love the title.

00:43:39.060 I love the hook.

00:43:40.920 But it's – and you've seen Apple come in at $500 billion of capital investment here to bring factories and jobs back.

00:43:47.840 You've seen Taiwan manufacturing, $100 billion four years in Arizona.

00:43:53.000 You've seen, I think, today, Asahi Brewery going to be in Wisconsin.

00:43:57.940 It's going to be making Asahi super dry.

00:44:00.840 In those days long ago when I used to have a beer every now and again, I loved Asahi super dry.

00:44:05.820 It's amazing.

00:44:06.520 They said they're going to build a big facility here in the United States of America.

00:44:10.840 You've got Honda.

00:44:12.560 You've got Siemens.

00:44:13.760 You've got every category.

00:44:15.880 Everybody's bringing jobs back.

00:44:17.260 Is that reshoring?

00:44:18.420 Is that foreign companies coming and putting their capital work in jobs?

00:44:23.060 Or is that Americans starting to reinvest back here in the United States, American companies, sir?

00:44:30.140 Well, Steve, I think it's a bit of both.

00:44:32.340 I mean, ultimately, big companies and hedge funds, they're going to respond to economic incentives.

00:44:38.860 And if there's a huge disincentive to investing and building factories abroad because you're going to have to pay a really big tax when you bring the products back into America, it just doesn't make any financial sense for them to do that.

00:44:51.160 I mean, very few businesses are going to go and open a factory in China if they know that they have to pay 25 percent to bring their products back into the States.

00:44:59.940 It's just not going to happen.

00:45:01.460 America is the biggest consumer market in the history of this world, and we can use that buying power to build the most productive economy in the history of this world.

00:45:11.440 Hey, Spencer.

00:45:13.260 Spencer, hang on for one second.

00:45:14.660 Can you hang with me?

00:45:15.600 I think we're going to get some movement here.

00:45:17.320 Can we cut live?

00:45:18.480 Let's cut live right now to each room.

00:45:20.220 Here we go.

00:45:21.160 We've got to cut the off.

00:45:38.740 Well, thank you very much.

00:45:40.160 It's a great honor.

00:45:41.480 Great people.

00:45:42.660 A lot of Irish friends right there.

00:45:45.240 A lot of very, very good Irish friends.

00:45:48.100 But thank you all for being here.

00:45:49.860 Even though it's still a few days away, I want to be the first to wish each and every one of you a very happy St. Patrick's Day.

00:45:57.040 It's a big day.

00:45:59.280 And as a lifelong New Yorker, nobody knows the Irish better than me.

00:46:04.620 I know too much about the Irish. 0.99

00:46:06.120 So let me begin by saying I really do.

00:46:10.260 I love the Irish.

00:46:11.240 I've had great, great friends over the years, and I love the Irish special people.

00:46:15.680 And I've been to Ireland many times.

00:46:17.560 I have a lot of property in Ireland, actually.

00:46:19.820 And it does very well, so I like it.

00:46:22.840 If it didn't do well, I wouldn't like it.

00:46:25.320 But I'm always struck by the awesome beauty of the Emerald Isle and the strength and warmth and grit and grace of the Irish people.

00:46:33.780 Very few people can compare.

00:46:36.580 Today we're delighted to welcome Taoiseach Mahal Martin, a very special man doing incredibly well and very popular, and his beautiful wife, Mary.

00:46:47.760 And I want to thank you both for being here, the first official visit to the White House.

00:46:52.360 So thank you very much for being here with us.

00:46:54.980 Thank you.

00:46:55.580 Thank you.

00:47:01.700 I also want to extend a special welcome to Ireland's ambassador to the United States, Geraldine Boom.

00:47:09.260 And where are you, Geraldine?

00:47:10.740 Here you are.

00:47:11.340 Geraldine Byrne Nation.

00:47:14.000 And you're going to be working with this gentleman right here.

00:47:17.560 He's a very great golfer, one of the best golfers that you'll ever see.

00:47:21.520 He'll be playing golf all day long.

00:47:23.840 He'll take clients out to play golf.

00:47:26.800 But he's won many, many club championships.

00:47:29.260 And Ed Walsh, congratulations.

00:47:31.800 Great.

00:47:32.460 It's going to be great.

00:47:36.360 We're grateful also to be joined by the members and many members of our cabinet, proud Irish-Americans, Sean Duffy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

00:47:47.900 Where's Robert F. and Sean?

00:47:49.740 Hi, Bobby.

00:47:51.980 I knew that, let's see, Duffy we knew and Kennedy we knew.

00:47:56.080 Some of you, I wasn't sure.

00:47:57.580 Pam Bondi, I don't know.

00:47:58.820 Are you Irish?

00:47:59.840 Are you Irish?

00:48:01.120 With that name, I can't even figure that out.

00:48:03.300 She's doing a hell of a job, I'll tell you. 0.93

00:48:04.960 That Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary of Energy.

00:48:08.360 Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright.

00:48:14.400 Now, you're doing a good job.

00:48:15.500 You see the oil is going down.

00:48:17.220 It's going down.

00:48:17.880 Sixty-five dollars a barrel today.

00:48:20.640 You're doing better than I even thought.

00:48:22.300 Because everything else is going to be coming down with it.

00:48:25.180 All those expensive goods that you had to suffer with for four years are all coming down.

00:48:30.540 Energy leads the way.

00:48:31.540 Thank you.

00:48:32.000 Good job you're doing with our friend, right?

00:48:34.500 HUD Secretary, Scott Turner.

00:48:38.420 You're not Irish, Scott. 1.00

00:48:39.500 We're Scott.

00:48:40.340 Give me a break, Scott.

00:48:41.680 You know, I want to be politically correct and not mention it.

00:48:44.120 But I'm going to say, how much Irish do you have in you, Sean?

00:48:47.460 I don't know.

00:48:48.880 He said zero.

00:48:50.080 That's right.

00:48:50.560 Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins.

00:48:54.820 Thank you, Doug.

00:48:56.080 You're Irish. 0.98

00:48:58.480 EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin.

00:49:01.240 He's one of the most important guys.

00:49:04.100 He's going to get those approvals.

00:49:06.360 A nuclear power plant will take less than two weeks to get approved.

00:49:10.460 Right, Lee?

00:49:12.460 It used to take 15 years.

00:49:14.280 We're going to do it in a couple of weeks.

00:49:16.180 U.S. Trade Representative, Jameson Greer.

00:49:19.640 Where are you, Jameson?

00:49:21.980 Jameson Greer.

00:49:22.780 Thank you, Jameson.

00:49:24.960 And I also, there's a very special man here that I've been watching a long time.

00:49:30.300 One of the greatest dancers ever in the world.

00:49:33.080 Michael Flatley is around here someplace.

00:49:35.960 There's nobody like this guy.

00:49:39.960 Great, Michael.

00:49:41.040 I've watched him.

00:49:42.320 Radio City, I've watched you a lot, Michael, whose feet, the way they moved.

00:49:45.780 I don't know how the hell you do it.

00:49:47.020 Can you still dance like that, or is Father Time caught up?

00:49:51.780 You know, Father Time has never lost.

00:49:53.460 You know that, right?

00:49:54.840 But you're doing great.

00:49:57.540 You look fantastic.

00:49:58.480 Also with us are Representatives John McGuire.

00:50:01.760 John.

00:50:02.400 Hi, John.

00:50:04.640 Good.

00:50:06.000 Bill Heisinger.

00:50:08.000 Bill, thank you.

00:50:09.080 Ronnie Jackson.

00:50:10.960 Doc Ronnie, as I call him, even though he's a congressman.

00:50:14.000 Special guy.

00:50:15.020 John Joyce.

00:50:16.920 John.

00:50:18.920 Thank you, John.

00:50:19.940 David Joyce.

00:50:21.800 David.

00:50:23.120 Thank you.

00:50:24.840 And Guy Ressenshthaler.

00:50:27.460 That's actually the way you pronounce it, you know.

00:50:35.000 Nobody else gets it right.

00:50:36.240 I got it right, but it's a hell of a name.

00:50:39.260 Despite that, he's very successful at what he does, which is politics.

00:50:43.180 And he's a great guy.

00:50:44.020 Thank you, Guy.

00:50:44.540 We have come together to this beautiful White House this evening for the annual shamrock

00:50:50.360 ceremony, a living symbol of the long and unique friendship between Americans and the

00:50:54.480 Irish.

00:50:55.480 And we're always going to have that friendship, just like we have a great friendship.

00:50:59.540 We'll always have that very special friendship.

00:51:01.660 This wonderful tradition dates back to 1952, when the first Irish ambassador to the United

00:51:08.740 States sent President Truman a box of shamrocks as a gesture of goodwill.

00:51:13.700 Do you hear that, Walsh?

00:51:15.400 The first.

00:51:15.920 You're not the first.

00:51:16.760 You're, I don't know what you are.

00:51:18.280 What number are you?

00:51:18.980 Do you have any idea?

00:51:20.820 You've spent a long time, right?

00:51:22.640 Let's see.

00:51:23.140 I could figure it out pretty easily.

00:51:25.060 The bond between our nations is the old America itself, and it is as old as our country.

00:51:31.420 So many Irish volunteers risked their lives in the American Revolution, and George Washington

00:51:36.540 described Ireland as, quote, the friend of my country in my country's most friendless

00:51:42.500 stay, meaning Ireland stuck with us when we were not doing so well, when it was looking

00:51:47.840 pretty bad.

00:51:49.200 Irish heritage gave us the boldness of Andrew Jackson.

00:51:52.840 I didn't know Andrew Jackson was Irish.

00:51:55.060 The brilliance of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Ford, and Walt Disney, and the leadership of

00:52:01.240 the late, great President Ronald Reagan.

00:52:09.940 It was men and women of Irish descent who built the hallowed halls of Notre Dame University.

00:52:17.420 Notre Dame is great.

00:52:18.800 What a great place.

00:52:19.660 The legend of the Boston Red Sox and the golden arches of McDonald's.

00:52:23.940 That's right.

00:52:24.420 Today, one in every ten Americans trace their roots back to the old country.

00:52:29.460 We're discussing we have five million people living in Ireland, but we have 35 million

00:52:35.000 people living here, right, of Irish descent.

00:52:37.200 That's a pretty interesting statistic.

00:52:39.680 I was looking at all these great dancers over here.

00:52:42.360 You are very beautiful.

00:52:44.300 Are you all great dancers?

00:52:45.560 Is that right?

00:52:46.380 Look at that.

00:52:47.080 Young, great dancers.

00:52:49.100 Wow.

00:52:50.840 That's great.

00:52:53.220 Did you perform for the group before?

00:52:55.860 Because I heard somebody was doing really fantastic.

00:52:58.900 They said, these people are fantastic.

00:53:00.400 I didn't get to see you.

00:53:02.120 Do you want to do it again?

00:53:05.000 We might have them do it again.

00:53:07.040 I heard you did a fantastic job.

00:53:08.660 Thank you.

00:53:09.480 As we celebrate Irish American Heritage Month, we're grateful to be joined by hundreds of

00:53:14.800 these proud patriots right here today.

00:53:16.840 And I know from personal experience that many of the people that we have here, they're just

00:53:22.580 fierce.

00:53:23.140 They have fierce Irish flame, we call it.

00:53:26.720 You never give up.

00:53:27.680 You never, ever give up.

00:53:29.200 Oh, I even see Don.

00:53:30.220 Hello, Don.

00:53:31.140 You are definitely Irish, Don McGann. 0.99

00:53:34.040 You are definitely an Irishman.

00:53:35.860 There's no question about that.

00:53:37.780 But you never give up.

00:53:39.060 We will never give up ever, right, for the young ones ever, because you never know what's

00:53:43.460 going to happen, you know.

00:53:44.360 Just a little, a little bit more effort, and you get there.

00:53:47.700 Look at what happened to me.

00:53:49.320 A lot of people said this was not a possibility.

00:53:56.160 They said that was going to be a tough race, and we won in a landslide.

00:53:59.460 And let's keep it that way, right?

00:54:00.880 And we're having, we're having a great time bringing our country back and bringing it back

00:54:05.080 back at a level that people had no idea was going to take place this rapidly, this quickly.

00:54:10.860 And a lot of our great people that are secretaries and the people working in the administration

00:54:15.240 are here, and they're doing a fantastic job.

00:54:18.200 So I want to thank all of you.

00:54:19.880 Five blocks east of where we are today, that spirit once helped save the very heart of the

00:54:24.780 city's Irish-American community.

00:54:27.120 You all know about it.

00:54:28.140 During the War of 1812, British forces rampaged through the streets of Washington, burning

00:54:33.820 every building in their path.

00:54:35.460 Every single building was being burned down.

00:54:38.680 Almost every one fled, but not Father William Matthews of St. Patrick's Church, which was

00:54:45.540 built to serve the Irish workers who came to build the Capitol in the White House.

00:54:49.960 They were building the White House, and they formed a great bond.

00:54:52.680 And they were doing the pretty, pretty important buildings, the White House and the Capitol.

00:54:58.660 I would say that's about as good as it gets.

00:55:00.600 As the fire spread, the priest and the group of his parishioners said that we're just going

00:55:07.080 to have to barricade ourselves in.

00:55:09.020 We're going to have to do something because it's really bad.

00:55:11.320 It's really dangerous in here.

00:55:13.280 And inside the church, they climbed to the roof, armed with only buckets of water.

00:55:17.980 That's the only thing they had.

00:55:19.280 And the other thing they had was faith in God.

00:55:21.520 They had a big faith in God.

00:55:23.740 They said, God will never do this to us.

00:55:26.180 Risking their lives, they defended the church.

00:55:28.740 And more than two centuries later, St. Patrick still stands as a beautiful testament to their

00:55:33.900 incredible resolve and bravery and the patron saint of the Emerald Isle.

00:55:40.100 And that's what it is, St. Patrick.

00:55:42.340 So we have St. Patrick's Day, and we remember their courage, and we honor the bravery of countless

00:55:47.220 Irish Americans who have kept our country safe, strong, prosperous, and free.

00:55:51.820 And I made a little talk with my friend right behind me before at the Capitol, and they gave

00:55:59.540 me one statistic that they don't have here.

00:56:01.600 I thought it was an amazing statistic.

00:56:03.280 I think 50 percent of the people that won the Congressional Medal of Honor were Irish.

00:56:10.780 Can you imagine?

00:56:12.260 And I want to check on that.

00:56:15.740 Because that sounds to me, it's, you know, it's just that.

00:56:19.340 I want to, Pam, would you please have that investigated?

00:56:21.700 Because how is that possible?

00:56:23.520 Seriously.

00:56:24.100 How is that possible?

00:56:25.320 I was very surprised to see that, Mary.

00:56:27.900 Would you agree that that's possible?

00:56:29.660 Would the Irish anything?

00:56:30.800 It's possible.

00:56:31.220 With the Irish. 1.00

00:56:32.700 No, think of it.

00:56:33.660 The Congressional Medal of Honor is the highest award you can get in this country.

00:56:38.740 And 50 percent, although you also have the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but I will say the Presidential

00:56:44.280 Medal of Freedom, it's much easier to, I mean, you know, you get it for achievement in something,

00:56:51.380 but you don't have to take many, many bullets, although there has been one bullet that was,

00:56:57.260 there's been one bullet that was not too good.

00:57:01.340 I'm the only one, the Presidential, that got that.

00:57:05.320 But think of that.

00:57:06.560 50 percent of the people that received the Congressional Medal of Honor had Irish heritage

00:57:13.460 and were involved in some form with the Irish, and that's pretty good.

00:57:17.380 That's a pretty big statement.

00:57:18.920 In closing, I want to remember one more Irish-American patriot our nation lost this week.

00:57:25.860 In 1979, Anthony R. Dolan, some of you know that name, a lot of the people that work in

00:57:31.180 the White House know it very well, became the youngest ever Pulitzer Prize winner for his

00:57:35.560 reporting on government corruption in Stamford, Connecticut.

00:57:39.060 In 1981, he became the chief speechwriter to President Reagan, whom he served for eight

00:57:44.420 years, that's a long time, that's the full time, eight years, coining the phrase, evil

00:57:49.640 empire, that was his word.

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Bannon's War Room - March 13, 2025

Episode 4333： Senate Dems Pushes For 30 Day CR

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