On today's show, Andrew Yang and Alex Blumbergert discuss the latest in the ongoing trade war between the United States and the European Union, as well as the latest on the Ukraine conflict. They also discuss the recent decision by a federal judge to strike down a key piece of legislation limiting the ability of a law firm representing Donald Trump to interact with the federal government.
00:00:00.000Big questions, but a key question, since Wyckoff is in Moscow, is what pressure the Trump administration is willing and ready to apply on Russia to abide by a ceasefire?
00:00:42.520But to embarrass Trump publicly is not a good look.
00:00:45.900So I think what would be on the table now with Wyckoff there, and he's a seasoned negotiator, this is not going to be his particular focus, so I read again.
00:00:57.920But what could be on the table is Russian gives to get to a place that Ukraine could accept.
00:01:06.940Ukraine has to accept the deal. It's not Trump's deal. It's not Russia's deal.
00:01:11.480It's Ukraine ending a war that was unjustly launched against it.
00:01:16.720So moments ago, Jonathan LeMair, President Trump threatened to place additional tariffs on European alcohol if the EU does not lift its 50 percent tariff on U.S. whiskey.
00:01:27.800The president posting on social media, if this tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200 percent tariff on all wines, champagnes and alcoholic products coming out of France and other EU-represented countries.
00:01:46.080This will be great for the wine and champagne business in the U.S.
00:01:50.900So, Andrew, let's just get your reaction here, both, I mean, this European EU tariff news just a few moments ago on Truth Social.
00:01:57.800But certainly it has been days worth now of increasingly rhetoric, hostile rhetoric from President Trump, Canada, Europe, the like, and seemingly not backing off these threats of tariffs.
00:02:12.040Look, I just think there's two things that we need to talk about this morning.
00:02:14.740One is just some historical perspective.
00:02:16.860I think we might have mentioned it on the broadcast before, but you go back to 1930, Smoot-Hawley, those tariffs, and then you look a year later, what happened to global trade?
00:02:38.900That's where we are, and if it continues, I imagine we will look a year later from now, and we will say that global trade has declined in a very, very material way.
00:02:50.640I will also say something we have not talked about on this broadcast at all.
00:02:55.380You talk to folks in the travel industry, folks that are involved in airlines, in hotels, and everything else.
00:03:04.060This trade war is going to turn into something broader than just a trade war.
00:03:11.460People in other countries are not coming to the United States the way they used to.
00:03:18.660Foreigners saying, we don't like these people, literally.
00:03:22.120And I think that that has an economic impact but has a much broader, more profound impact that has not even been sort of calculated in what's going on here.
00:03:31.360As the judge hinted there, this chilling effect, what were law firms and other legal experts concerned about?
00:03:38.360So this firm was the basically lead counsel for the 2016 campaign for Hillary Clinton.
00:03:45.160They helped fund the dossier that Trump obviously became obsessed with and hated and thought was unfairly tarnishing his ties to Russia.
00:03:57.180The same law firm in 2020 was at the forefront of many of the post-2020 election efforts to overturn the election.
00:04:08.680They fought Trump in court throughout the country, and they beat him time and time again with a lawyer named Mark Elias.
00:04:15.320Mark Elias has since left the firm, and subsequently a partner at the firm who had been involved with some of the stuff around the campaign and the dossier and Trump's ties to Russia was indicted and went to trial and was acquitted.
00:04:34.160So there has been a judicial process on Perkins Coie before.
00:04:49.360But what happens is, is that last Thursday, he signs this executive order that essentially cripples the firm.
00:04:56.300It basically says that this firm that has a big office in Washington cannot interact with the federal government, essentially stops them from interacting with the federal government.
00:05:06.820And if you're a client of Perkins Coie and your lawyer cannot interact with the government and you have contracts with the government and business before the government, it is highly detrimental.
00:05:17.700And that is what Perkins Coie's lawyers, they have their own law firm now representing them, Williams and Connolly, says yesterday.
00:05:25.340They say that this is almost, this is an existential threat to this firm based on the simple fact that Donald Trump, nearly 10 years after Perkins Coie committed what he thinks is his first sin against him, is suffering under because of this executive order.
00:05:42.300I think the fundamental thing that Americans need to understand, and I'm talking about, like, not the government, but the people watching, is your relationship with Canada, your economic relationship, it's good for you.
00:05:56.320The trade between our countries is balanced and mutually beneficial.
00:06:00.440The stuff you buy from us, you don't buy it, like, out of the goodness of your heart.
00:06:04.860You buy our energy because you need it.
00:06:07.460I think you're from Indiana, right, Kate?
00:06:09.140Okay, so 80% of the potash that American farmers use, and that is fertilizer, you buy from us.
00:08:47.680So we've got to get to the bottom of that, because Weldon, CDC, we've got to get this thing sorted.
00:08:50.900Of course, you saw everything from taxes to the judicial insurrection.
00:08:57.060Mike Davis is going to join us at 11 to go through this whole, because on the legal front, I mean, boom, there's seven or eight court decisions, court opinions right now that are slowing us down.
00:09:09.720Also, John Solomon's going to be here breaking news about a new investigation he's got.
00:09:40.720Well, Steve, thanks again for having me on.
00:09:42.980And everyone here in the war room knows the way that we've known for years on end since the day this war began and even prior to when this war began, that this was always a situation where the West and NATO were walking Ukraine down the primrose path into being smashed by Russian forces.
00:10:01.660And that's what Professor John Mearsheimer said over a decade ago now.
00:10:06.220And we specifically talked time and time again about the effect of German armor on the blood memory of the bloodlands of the East, especially Kursk, where the largest World War II tank battle and actually the largest battle tank battle in human history took place.
00:10:21.520That's why the Russian forces go all in.
00:10:23.520That's why Putin puts on the fatigues.
00:10:26.000That's why he goes down there the first time that he's put on fatigue since the beginning of this war.
00:10:30.900He's sending a message about what happens when you come after Mother Russia.
00:10:35.200That's a message, by the way, for domestic consumption as well as international consumption.
00:10:40.620So on the heels of that, it's very pretty obvious to understand that's not exactly the kind of outfit that you wear to the ceasefires reception.
00:10:47.900That's not exactly what you wear to the treaty signing.
00:10:54.020Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, yeah, but hang on one second.
00:10:57.840I want to make sure the audience understands this, you know, because the Western media portrays Putin as like the personification of the devil.
00:11:05.820He's also got, you know, we had, what was it, Fleckner on last week, his new books, his new book, Our Businesses is Death, about the Russian mercenary army.
00:11:15.820As he said last week on the show, John Lechner, that there are many more bad hombres in senior Russian military command in the Kremlin than Putin, guys who, and to wit.
00:11:30.120And Kurs the other day posted, I think you broke the story, to outflank the Ukrainian and incredibly brave guys that took Kurs, to outflank them,
00:11:39.800the Russian army, the Russian troops, crawled through six miles of a gas pipe to come up and back of and outflank the Ukrainians because they couldn't envelop the Ukrainians.
00:11:52.340The Ukrainians were so tough, they couldn't be enveloped.
00:12:12.380There's people within the Kremlin, particularly from the military side, the security side, the FSB side, which, of course, Putin himself also comes from,
00:12:21.720that they've wanted Kiev to be glassed for a decade plus.
00:12:26.780They said just glass the place, get rid of all of them, dismantle this government, take them out by the bayonet and get rid of everything there and install someone in the old way that Russia used to do it.
00:12:38.460Go in like that, go in big, wipe them out and call it a day.
00:12:42.400That's been something, obviously, that the Russians have not done to this point.
00:12:46.960That's something that Lavrov, of course, the foreign minister, has not been pushing for.
00:12:51.140So the idea that Putin is the one that's driving the furthest of the hard line, no, no, no, no, no.
00:12:58.440It's that there are people who are far, far, far worse than him.
00:13:02.060But what I was saying, Steve, is that this work down in Jeddah, the term sheet that's coming out of the Ukrainian side, okay, that's great, that's good.
00:13:11.940Obviously, of course, we support the efforts of Secretary Rubio, of Mike Waltz down there.
00:13:17.260But a lot of this is interlocutory theater without the Russian term sheet.
00:13:22.560And that's why you saw this strategic leak by the Russian hardliners to the Washington Post last night, about 12 hours ago now.
00:13:30.520You saw this leak from an FSB-related think tank, a supposedly classified document, which is obviously strategically leaked by the Russians to say, look, these are the demands that the hardliners want.
00:13:44.860And, Steve, when you look at this stuff, we're talking about full control over all the regions, demilitarized zones on the northeast border, where, by the way, Kursk is, demilitarized buffer zone around Crimea.
00:13:57.960That would include Odessa and a dismantling of the Ukrainian government as it currently exists.
00:14:06.660Hang on, because along with kinetic warfare, you have information warfare.
00:14:10.800This leak to the Post that was the lead story overnight on the Daily Mail actually showed you the ultra-nationalists in Russia that are going to play Smash Mouth.
00:14:21.160We're going to take a short commercial break.
00:14:22.480I also want to say, Steve Witkoff, who's our guy, when he was in Qatar and called Bibi and said, hey, I'm flying in, we've got to sit down immediately on this.
00:14:30.560And Bibi's guy said, hey, it's Shabbat or it's Saturday, you can't do it.
00:14:34.780He said, hey, be in your office at 8 o'clock.
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00:16:18.940So we're going to get to—Mary Holland's going to join us in the second hour.
00:16:21.960We're going to talk about the CDC, Weldon's nomination being pulled over, Measles, New York Times reporting.
00:16:28.020Mike Davis is going to be here on the Judicial Insurrection.
00:16:30.800And this is serious, folks, as we told you.
00:16:32.700Also, prisoners who were with me or a prisoner who was with me at Danbury for praying the rosary in front of an abortion center, one of the holiest guys I've ever met.
00:16:45.480Will Goodman is going to be resentenced tomorrow in a state court in New Jersey by some radical judge to send him back to a New Jersey prison on the same charge.
00:16:55.340We're going to have Will Goodman with us.
00:16:56.740We've got taxes, tariffs, world's on fire this morning, President Trump on fire, on true social, sending off one missive after the other.
00:17:06.260But we need to deal right now with this main event and that it would be this ceasefire, ultimately peace.
00:17:19.460You get this—you know, you get an agreement on ceasefire.
00:17:22.200But you're a long way from having it because the Russians do have terms and they're going to say, hey, the NATO and other guys have tricked us before.
00:17:33.000And the Russians are not—you know, somebody on BBC or Sky TV the other day, a woman asked me, the host, well, do you trust Putin?
00:17:45.860FDR didn't trust Stalin until FDR got a little sleepy at Yalta and, you know, Alger Hiss and these guys gave everything away.
00:17:53.600But Jack Posobiec, folks got to understand, to have a rapprochement with the Russians and to actually end the kinetic part of the Third World War is a heavy lift.
00:18:02.860And this is why with President Trump, with everything he's got going on, with this, you know, war and peace and prosperity,
00:18:09.960for him to have to call and whip the CR vote—oh, by the way, like the fifth story we have this morning, the Democrats are not going to—
00:18:17.360I think we're shutting down the government tomorrow night because the Democrats don't have the vote to break the filibuster.
00:18:22.880So this is all coming together, and I think the next 48, 72 hours is going to be pretty intense.
00:18:28.180Jack Posobiec, Moscow, Kursk, and Kiev, sir.
00:18:33.620Well, Steve, of course, this is part of the axis of instability that we've been talking about for a long time because what is it?
00:18:39.520This is the kinetic part of the globalist American empire that President Trump is working to widen down.
00:18:47.000This needs to be seen, and the War Room audience understands this, that this is completely interconnected with the tariffs and the global restructuring of the world economy
00:18:58.300as pertains to the global American empire that President Trump is undertaking.
00:19:25.540And, Steve, like your good buddy Gavin.
00:19:28.240And so when we have a new deal that President Trump—a fair deal that President Trump is trying to put forward for the American worker, it's simple.
00:19:37.980We are not going to seek monsters abroad anymore, and that also means prosperity at home through manufacturing, prosperity at home through a restructuring of how we run our global trade commitments and our global military commitments.
00:19:54.500Because if we're not constantly going to war to open up new markets, to search for new commodities, people forget it wasn't just that Biden's son was on the board of a Ukrainian oligarchs company.
00:20:05.600It was a gas and oil company called Burisma, working for a Ukrainian oligarch there in Ukraine.
00:20:16.420Because if you get over there, you get the oil deal, then you're able to have the U.S. be subservient because it all comes down to financial trade in the global markets.
00:20:25.440But President Trump understands that it's intrinsically linked.
00:20:28.620That's why he's brought up the mineral deal.
00:20:30.440That's why he's trying to find a way to economically restructure things so that the United States isn't on the hook for these things anymore and also that you completely knock the neocons and neoliberals out.
00:21:10.060The price of gold, $29.63, it's on a run.
00:21:14.200The converging forces around this, I need everybody right now, Birch Gold, text your phone, ban it, 9-8-9-8-9-8, get investing in gold in the air of Trump.
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00:21:38.500We want to protect the American worker, that a lot of these trade deals haven't been fair.
00:21:44.060But, you know, I can tell you what's not good for the economy is this government shutdown.
00:21:48.600I don't know what Democrats are thinking here because they're going to own it.
00:21:52.060And to the extent that it hurts confidence, hurts the American people, we have had incredible Republican unity since January 20th.
00:22:02.860And the fact that the Democrats are in disarray, they're flailing, and this is the best they can do, that I think this is the economic story for the next few days.
00:22:53.940I just would tell those guys, I think the Musketeers, that Elon Musk and the Musketeers, you know, might be even a bigger tear after that.
00:23:04.660I think it's very important for Secretary of Treasury Scott Besson.
00:23:09.620As you know, he was one of our big contributors here, given his financial and capital markets knowledge over the last couple of years, to get more out in front of these things.
00:23:17.960I would love to see him doing more gaggles.
00:23:19.700I'd like to see him taking more questions from the press.
00:23:21.640Jack Posobiec, you just mentioned world capital markets, the economy, deficits, all of it, gold's on a tear right now.
00:23:52.240I did it on Gavin Newsom the other day, but it's like a shock to liberals because they don't watch War Room.
00:23:57.600What we're seeing right now from the invasion of Ukraine three years ago and the start of this war, it's much bloodier than the – like from the invasion of Poland to the Operation Barbarossa in June of 21.
00:24:13.500But I'd actually throw in the Chinese going into Manchuria.
00:24:17.460I would kick in the Spanish Civil War and I'd throw in the Winter War with the Finns and the Russians.
00:24:22.480You add it all up until Operation Barbarossa in 1941 in June and then later Pearl Harbor.
00:24:29.560This is far bloodier, far more vicious.
00:24:32.880This is like World War I type conflict and blood and killing and maiming and casualties than you've ever seen before.
00:24:43.060People have to understand Trump's stepping in the middle of something and wars always become up to wars of annihilation.
00:24:57.640The Russian army crawled and walked six miles through gas pipes to surround the Ukrainians because the Ukrainians would not be enveloped.
00:25:07.800They were fighting that hard and cursed.
00:25:09.440Jack Posobiec, give me some perspective on how heavy a lift this is for Donald Trump.
00:25:15.180Look, Steve, I think everybody needs to take a step back, right?
00:25:19.500We are currently within the fourth turning.
00:25:22.840The fourth turning was always going to be about chaos.
00:25:26.900It was always going to be about churn.
00:25:29.340The other potential – remember, the other side of this coin had the United States going down the other road was a full totalitarianization of the United States government and the U.S. system, which began under COVID, and that at the same time coupled with a third world war versus the BRICS nations and then throw in Iran, North Korea, and probably a couple of others on the other side of that.
00:25:51.520What President Trump is doing is he's understood the lessons of World War I and understood that Washington's warning and also Eisenhower's warning about foreign entanglements and the military industrial complex, that if you let these foreign treaties run and govern all of your decisions, that is how your wars expand.
00:26:09.740That is how you get into deeper and deeper and bloodier and bloodier wars.
00:26:30.560Obviously, the exact same territory that we're talking about right now with Kursk.
00:26:34.020This stuff always happens and expands and expands and expands, leads to the Second World War, leads to the Cold War, et cetera, et cetera.
00:26:42.400President Trump is saying, let's take another path.
00:26:46.020That's why he's empowered Secretary Besson in there to say, look, we can find an economic way to restructure the way that we're looking at all of this rather than go down the road of bombs, military, artillery, and the bodies lying in the dirt.
00:30:18.920But this is, there's a huge push to have it from the Ukrainians, from the capitals of Europe, from NATO, from Brussels, from Davos.
00:30:26.300They want American, young American men and women, boys and girls, as hostages in there and some security force.
00:30:34.100Harnwell, what's the state of play here from your perspective?
00:30:37.880Well, look, Steve, I'm basically the only analyst I'm aware of that said,
00:30:44.140and I think I said this to you in three separate texts before the White House showdown a couple of weeks ago.
00:30:50.240I said, I don't believe there's going to be any agreement signed in the White House on that day.
00:30:55.020And I sent you two texts yesterday saying, I don't believe that Russia is going to sign up for this 30-day ceasefire.
00:31:04.940Now, in terms of punditry, only fools deal with prophecy.
00:31:09.640But I did stick my neck out with you on both of these occasions.
00:31:12.820And I can only explain what led me to this analysis.
00:31:17.000And it's basically this, Steve, I don't think anybody outside of the war room is certainly in American media is trying to look at the situation from not only the Russian perspective,
00:31:29.560but certainly absolutely not the Chinese perspective here.
00:31:35.200In journalistic terms, Steve, I think this is professional malpractice.
00:31:38.000If you're the CCP, if you're Xi and you're looking at this, what is the one thing that you would actually be wanting to see happen at this stage
00:31:46.200when you see the turbulence in the domestic U.S. financial markets right now?
00:31:53.340The one thing that you would really want to do, and this is what Russia is doing with a fishing line,
00:31:59.020it's drawing President Trump ever closer in and with his credibility into committing permanently to underwrite Ukraine's security guarantees.
00:32:13.860Now, they're either going to call it that or they're not, but that is absolutely what's on the card.
00:32:18.020So if you're Xi here and your long-term ambition is to take Taiwan,
00:32:21.720the one thing you want to do is to continue to draw in America to do exactly the same commitment to Ukraine that it's doing at the moment.
00:32:32.720The last thing you want to see is America disengage, basically, is what I'm saying.
00:32:37.900And what I said to you yesterday by text is I even sketched out what I thought the Russian statement is going to be
00:32:45.900in response to the Ukrainian offer for a 30-day peace fight.
00:32:50.560And I said, basically, they're going to be very polite, they're going to be very respectful, but they're going to say no.
00:32:55.400And we're going to read out some of the headlines shortly, because I think it was a perfect matchup, my prediction.
00:33:00.980And the reason I predicted this is because it is not in Russia's interest at this stage to agree to a 30-day ceasefire.
00:33:49.200What this 30-day ceasefire agreement that Ukraine has said it's open to is not a ceasefire agreement, Steve.
00:33:56.080It's a surrender, and that is not going to go down, and this is the other half of the equation, and Jack alluded to it in the first half of this hour.
00:34:07.100The Europeans are coming along that, and they're supporting – they are ponying up cash.
00:34:13.180They're not going to tax for this because they know it won't – they know it's not going to go with the European taxpayer,
00:34:18.480but they're going to borrow in order to fund 800 billion worth of – billion euros worth of defense expenditure.
00:34:25.500So Zelensky does – it's not true, Steve.
00:36:18.100Jake Sherman, who's pretty good, Jake Sherman just tweeted out of what the moderate Democrats, guys like Mark Warner and these guys are saying,
00:36:26.200that they're not going to vote for this.
00:36:27.220Jake Sherman says, hey, it looks like we're heading to a government shutdown.
00:36:30.720He just had the Secretary of Treasury walk out of the White House to the sticks.
00:36:34.560And he says, hey, everybody's talking about the tariffs thing, the potential tariffs, and all these tweets going back and forth.
00:36:39.460He says the reality of affecting the – impacting the American economy is the Schumer shutdown.
00:36:46.220And so I hear you, and I think that's a good European perspective.
00:36:50.740But the reality is going to always get back.
00:36:53.340And this is why the Russians are going to play more and more hardball.
00:36:56.260And you're going to see the opportunity cost of – because you only have so much time, right?
00:37:02.120And so it's not just direct cost when you go down an avenue of endeavor.
00:37:12.060By committing resources here, I can't.
00:37:14.360And the World Bank tells us that the reconstruction of Ukraine is $500 billion.
00:37:19.260And as you've said many times in the show, Harnwell, double that.
00:37:23.840It's a trillion dollars reconstruction.
00:37:25.700So they're trying to suck the United States in.
00:37:28.080And if we're going to be America first, which is intervention of a choosing – at the time and place of our choosing, hemispheric defense, non-interventionist.
00:37:38.280But when we do intervene, it's a time and choosing our place.
00:37:42.200No way Ukraine or that part of the bloodlands.
00:37:48.440Well, Steve, look, you mentioned the key words to America first.
00:37:52.100Now, and I get that I'm probably a lot more isolationist than you are, and you're a lot more isolationist than President Trump is.
00:37:59.780But the point is – and this comes back to something that you've been saying for the last three years – no one has ever made the argument where America's interests are in the current Ukraine war.
00:38:09.900And that's pivotal here because there are no U.S. interests in Ukraine.
00:38:14.980So an America first perspective on this is going to be exactly what we've been saying for months and months and months on this show, which is to withdraw and totally disengage the United States from Ukraine.
00:38:26.200And say to the Europeans, if you want to come up and defend Ukraine, defend democracy, have at it, but we're out.
00:38:34.340That is the policy that this program has been pushing constantly.
00:38:38.400And it's also right, Steve, you mentioned the rare earth thing.
00:38:43.120Look, synthesize what I've been saying just now on the show with the – and I'm pushing this out on Geta basically every day.
00:38:54.160And in the strongest words possible, I would advise President Trump to have nothing to do with it whatsoever because this is, in the background, the key to Europe's braggart in front of Russia and China here.
00:39:21.800If you want to see the performative aspect of what the Europeans are doing, look at Poland and Italy.
00:39:28.100Italy has said, look, we're going to raise 40,000 troops, but we're not going to be in everything for years, but we're not sending any to Ukraine.
00:39:35.420Poland has said to America today in the last couple of hours, send your nuclear warheads to Poland.
00:40:14.100This is all a fantasy of what they're talking about.
00:40:16.800They don't even pay the 2% they committed for NATO, 2% of GDP.
00:40:21.220None of them are—when you go through and actually look at what they're spending the money for on climate change, on health care, all of it.
00:40:28.700When I'm talking about combat arms, interoperability maneuvers, NATO right now, ex the British, can't put forward two combat divisions, two combat divisions.
00:40:38.920If you can't do that, you're not serious players.
00:41:23.100She's supposed to be the bridge, the quote-unquote bridge, really, it's Hungary, it's Orban.
00:41:29.960Let me be brutally frank to the prime minister of Italy.
00:41:34.580If you propose that, that would be, I think, enough to say the United States should withdraw from NATO.
00:41:40.860If the NATO nations want to give a security guarantee, a NATO security guarantee with, you know, with Article 5, that attack upon that, this attack brings everybody into a war, the U.S. should say we're out.
00:41:53.100And I'm a supporter of the NATO alliance.
00:41:54.920But, hey, if you're going to play games like that and you have not even had the decency to get anywhere near 2% in the Italian military, let's say it's been underfunded for, I don't know, I'm going to pick a random number, 50 years, and you're going to sit there and say and put a guarantee that it guarantees American boys and girls in a shooting war in Ukraine?
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00:46:08.040I got heads blowing up that the harder line in the Kremlin has come say, Putin, we love you, but you're dealing with the Americans and they're running dogs for the Europeans.
00:46:25.320I think that this is just negotiating posture.
00:46:29.240And at the same time that they're doing this, let's remember that Russia, China went to Iran to see if they can get Iran to get some common sense on nuclear.
00:47:20.520I think Russia would like to get us part of this deal.
00:47:22.780Let's get Ukraine out of our territory and maybe we'll pull back from some of Ukrainian territory to really show a ceasefire is worth doing.
00:47:29.880I think we're just seeing negotiating.
00:47:31.600I don't think there's anything to be panicked about right now.
00:47:34.420Donald Trump knows the art of the deal and there's a deal still being still to be had here.
00:47:38.020The Russian Navy with the Chinese Navy, the PLA's Navy, and the Persian Navy all doing exercises in the Gulf of Oman in the North Arabian Sea.
00:47:48.680And for all those that are with us for non-intervention in any type of war in the Middle East regarding Persia,
00:48:37.560Listen, there is something important that the Republican Congress and the Trump administration still needs to do.
00:48:42.960We need a formal damage assessment to understand how much our national security may have been compromised by Biden's lax handling of classified materials.
00:49:15.980It means that China was starting to get, if it was listening in or infiltrating any soft communications, it would know how we organize our situation rooms.
00:49:25.000It would have known what time of day and what discussions were being there.
00:49:29.340It gives them a leg up to potentially monitor situation room activity for years to come, not just in 2014 when this memo is aired.
00:49:36.820We have sensitive conversations with Iraqi diplomats, with foreign diplomats.
00:49:43.300There is a conversation sent to President Biden's insecure iPad and his Gmail account, you know how secure Gmail is, in which they're talking about NSA intercepts in a Latin American country's response to the fact that they found out they were being monitored.
00:50:00.560That is super sensitive, secret stuff that shouldn't be on a private email.
00:50:05.640The Republican Congress, under Mike Johnson, the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, owed the American people an intelligence assessment to find out how much our enemies gained in access to government because of Joe Biden's sloppiness.
00:50:20.340Real quickly, John, before I let you go, NBC News is reporting that President Trump has requested of Pete Hexeth over the Defense Department military options about seizing and operating the Panama Canal.
00:50:37.340I think the fact that it leaked tells you it's posturing, that it's part of the negotiating, that maybe we want more from Panama than just the fact that we bought those two ports with a company which, by the way, does lean left historically.
00:50:49.220So, you know, just because an American company, it's sort of a left-leaning American company, used to be on the DEI and ESG front lines.
00:50:57.220So I think he's looking for other options to keep pressure on Panama.
00:51:00.580If it leaks, it means it's meant to come out for the public.
00:51:03.460If it isn't leaked, it means it's something super secret.
00:51:06.080I think it's posturing to get a better deal with Panama.
00:51:08.820Solomon, over the years, you've gained a lot of wisdom, sir.
00:51:16.660Where do people go for your show, John, and where do they go for Just the News, social media, all of it?