Bannon's War Room - March 31, 2025


Episode 4376： International Legal Attacks On MAGA And Populism Around The Globe


Episode Stats

Length

56 minutes

Words per Minute

178.85278

Word Count

10,065

Sentence Count

794

Misogynist Sentences

13

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

On today's show, we discuss the impact of the Trump administration's new tariffs on the auto industry and the impact on consumers and the economy. We also hear from Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, about his annual letter to investors.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 April 2nd is a liberating day for our country.
00:00:03.700 We're going to be getting back some of the wealth that very, very foolish presidents gave away.
00:00:08.960 Because they had no clue what they were doing.
00:00:10.960 And April 2nd, I would have made it April 1st, but you know what April 1st is?
00:00:15.520 April 1st, I figured, you know, I don't like doing it, but I made it April 2nd.
00:00:21.380 It's a liberation day for our country.
00:00:23.920 Because we're going to be getting back a lot of the wealth that we so foolishly gave up to other countries.
00:00:29.140 Yes, including friend and foe.
00:00:31.000 Yes, a beautiful industry.
00:00:33.340 I want to clarify, chickens aside, when you say a tax cut, how exactly is that going to work?
00:00:38.180 If you're talking about credits for people who are buying new cars, those kinds of things,
00:00:42.120 millions of Americans are not looking to buy new cars,
00:00:44.240 but they are worried about the thousands that are estimated to turn up in their everyday costs for things
00:00:49.300 because the tariff costs has to be passed on by these importers somewhere.
00:00:53.080 Well, all right, let's work through the economics of this.
00:01:00.000 First of all, we're going to raise about $100 billion with the auto tariffs alone.
00:01:05.060 What we're going to do is, in the new tax bill, that has to pass.
00:01:09.520 It absolutely has to pass.
00:01:11.240 We're going to provide tax benefits, tax credits to the people who buy American cars.
00:01:17.480 This is a genius thing that President Trump promised on the campaign trail.
00:01:22.100 So that's going to happen.
00:01:23.120 In addition, the other tariffs are going to raise about $600 billion a year,
00:01:27.420 about $6 trillion over a 10-year period.
00:01:30.240 And we're going to have tax cuts.
00:01:32.200 It's the biggest tax cut in American history for the middle class, for the blue-collar deplorables.
00:01:37.680 And that is going to, if you look at this basically holistically, as they say,
00:01:44.100 consumers and Americans are going to be better off, including all the jobs they get.
00:01:49.320 And then you have gasoline.
00:01:51.100 I don't know if you know this, Shannon, but during the Biden administration,
00:01:54.420 gasoline prices were close to 40 percent higher, a full dollar higher.
00:01:58.220 If you take a working family and you add a dollar off, if we get our gas prices down,
00:02:05.700 that's more than $1,000 in their pocket.
00:02:08.060 What do you make of the larger debate that's happened even over the last week or two now
00:02:12.280 in the world that you inhabit, which is the legal world of law firms?
00:02:18.220 And I'm thinking of Paul Weiss and Skadden, which are settling effectively with the administration
00:02:22.680 and other law firms like Wilmer Hale and Jenner and others that have gone to court
00:02:26.700 and actually won against this administration and how you personally sort of look at all of this.
00:02:33.300 Because I think there's a major question.
00:02:34.760 I was just looking at a letter that was written by a lot of these professors at Harvard
00:02:40.060 who seem to be out of sorts about law firms like this effectively settling over some of their programs at their firms.
00:02:50.900 Look, that's a really hot topic right now for firms and everybody involved around that.
00:02:59.180 There's no question that some firms use their prestige and their brand to actually become a subsidiary of the DNC,
00:03:05.700 and they didn't take on representation of conservative causes and others.
00:03:09.660 Fortunately, that hasn't been our experience at Latham.
00:03:13.140 We did work for conservative causes.
00:03:15.800 And so that's something that is a hot topic that we'll see how it all shakes out.
00:03:22.860 Welcome back to Squawk Box this morning.
00:03:24.440 BlackRock's Larry Fink releasing his annual letter to investors just moments ago.
00:03:29.120 It is titled The Democratization of Investing.
00:03:32.240 He begins by referencing the anxiety about the economy that many clients feel right now.
00:03:37.000 His answer to that is we've been in moments like this before.
00:03:40.080 In his words, quote, somehow in the long run, we figure things out.
00:03:43.880 In the letter, Fink shares his ideas on how to help get investors access to new, more restricted parts of the market
00:03:49.820 and how to enable more people to invest in the first place.
00:03:53.300 Specifically, he sees opportunities to expand access to invest in infrastructure.
00:03:57.020 That's an area, of course, that he's leaned into this year through a series of acquisitions that BlackRock has undergone.
00:04:03.040 He writes, quote, as we enter our century's second quarter,
00:04:06.160 there's a growing mismatch between the demand for investment and the capital available from traditional sources.
00:04:12.400 So governments can't fund infrastructure through deficits.
00:04:15.620 The deficits can't get much higher.
00:04:17.300 Instead, they're going to turn to private investors.
00:04:20.440 He also addresses BlackRock's zeal to acquire Panama Ports,
00:04:23.780 which faces an antitrust review by China's market regulator.
00:04:28.060 And Fink predicts by 2040, the global demand for new infrastructure investment will be $68 trillion.
00:04:33.640 He also makes a call about what he thinks should be the future standard investment portfolio.
00:04:38.540 And this is pretty interesting because instead of 60 percent of stocks and 40 percent of bonds,
00:04:43.700 Fink now suggests 50 percent of stocks, 30 percent of bonds and 20 percent in private asset areas
00:04:51.200 that are now the focus for BlackRock's retirement.
00:04:55.240 He writes the following.
00:04:56.060 He says, quote,
00:04:56.500 While BlackRock helps people invest for retirement all over the world,
00:05:00.000 I want to focus on the U.S. in this section because the situation is dire.
00:05:04.360 Public pensions are facing huge shortfalls.
00:05:07.000 BlackRock is working to make investing in private assets available in 401ks.
00:05:12.300 That's the important part here.
00:05:13.820 Private assets are legal in retirement accounts.
00:05:16.560 They're beneficial and they're becoming increasingly transparent.
00:05:19.340 I should mention just real quick, he makes a note there that if folks had been in private investments,
00:05:26.780 you would have effectively enhanced your returns by 0.5 percent annually,
00:05:31.600 which would have created on a cumulative basis something like a 14 or 15 percent increase in your overall assets
00:05:40.160 at the time of retirement.
00:05:42.000 So the argument is that private investments have done better over time.
00:05:45.740 What sort of private investments is he talking about?
00:05:48.060 I think he's talking about real estate, private equity,
00:05:50.240 all of the things that historically folks have not been able to have access to.
00:05:52.900 That you'd have to be a much higher income.
00:05:54.840 The future crusades.
00:05:56.120 Nothing on DEI, ESG, climate change.
00:05:59.840 You know, if you really go back and look at the last three years now,
00:06:03.200 he has not really moved in that space.
00:06:06.600 He had obviously been in that space in a very big way and has turned the opposite direction.
00:06:11.080 I think he would say in large part, he would say, and I know you have other views of this,
00:06:18.060 but he would say that he is always, that the letter that he writes historically has been reflective
00:06:23.680 of what the clients have been talking about and advocating for.
00:06:27.400 And I think it's true that years ago there were pension funds, by the way, pension funds,
00:06:32.440 especially in Europe and other places, that were pushing a lot of these issues.
00:06:35.720 And that he was, he would say, reflecting of that perspective and has now a lot of these issues,
00:06:41.100 he thinks are reflective of what the folks have talked about.
00:06:43.480 Believe me, he was a willing participant and a zealot.
00:06:49.120 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:06:54.020 Pray for our enemies.
00:06:55.960 Because we're going medieval on these people.
00:06:59.200 Here's the reason I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:07:03.500 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:07:05.000 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:07:06.920 I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that,
00:07:08.620 but you're not going to stop it.
00:07:09.540 It's going to happen.
00:07:10.820 And where do people like that go to share the big line?
00:07:14.220 Mega media.
00:07:15.560 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:07:20.980 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:07:24.760 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:07:30.940 War Room.
00:07:31.960 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:07:35.000 It's Monday, 31 March, in the year of our Lord, 2025.
00:07:42.740 We could actually start this broadcast right now,
00:07:46.040 and we could continue all the way through the 7 o'clock hour
00:07:49.980 when we get off of our late afternoon, early evening show,
00:07:53.000 and I could do nothing but every block, hit another major story,
00:07:57.980 and we still would not have all the important news of the day.
00:08:01.540 That is how incredible, not just the news cycle.
00:08:06.560 The news cycle is incredible because of the actions being taken.
00:08:09.880 And the driver of the action, let me think about it.
00:08:13.100 Oh, this guy named Donald Trump, the president of these United States.
00:08:16.680 So a couple of the coal open, magnificent coal open from our ever crack staff here at the War Room,
00:08:23.740 my producing staff, and also the folks in Denver that we had the pleasure of doing the show from on Saturday.
00:08:34.200 By the way, there were some folks, we had to get to the airport, we had to get a flight.
00:08:39.400 There were some folks outside the studio.
00:08:41.560 We didn't have time to do a meet and greet,
00:08:44.260 but if you would get to the chat room and let Mo and Grace know who you are,
00:08:48.120 I'll make sure personally we touch base.
00:08:50.140 Really appreciate you guys coming out.
00:08:52.320 A very pleasant surprise, but we were quite late for a plane.
00:08:56.660 Okay, so many important things there.
00:09:01.060 Number one, Larry Fink, the biggest asset manager in the world, trillions of dollars, as you know,
00:09:06.800 driving, and by the way, Andrew Ross Sorkin's excuse at the end is just a more progressive New York Times gobbledygook.
00:09:14.320 This guy's the driver of climate change to force climate change through the capitalist system
00:09:20.380 to make sure the pension funds and the corporations bowed to him.
00:09:23.240 This guy, though, is a world conqueror.
00:09:24.600 Also, DEI, the number one guy on climate change, DEI, total surrender, total and complete surrender.
00:09:33.280 You have broken him.
00:09:34.840 Also, devil is due, governors like Governor DeSantis,
00:09:39.060 these governors really got focused on the pension funds in their state,
00:09:42.180 know exactly what was going on, a team effort, and Larry Fink is broken.
00:09:47.360 Oh, he just responds to what class?
00:09:49.020 No, he doesn't.
00:09:49.740 This guy is all puffed up, thinks he's a world economic genius,
00:09:53.880 always on Trump's case.
00:09:56.200 Climate change, gone.
00:09:58.500 DEI, gone.
00:09:59.720 No longer required.
00:10:00.620 Remember, he's going to put in all of his companies.
00:10:02.200 And even more importantly, he surrendered now on giving access to the masses of the inside deals that everybody else gets.
00:10:09.920 We're going to go all through that.
00:10:11.860 As we're on the eve of Liberation Day, that was Peter Navarro with the massive tax cut.
00:10:17.980 President Trump's going to get the middle class and the working class with these massive job investments coming from these corporations.
00:10:25.180 Liberation Day is upon us.
00:10:26.320 And you're going to be shocked, shocked, shocked when you see the executive order and you see exactly what President Trump's laying out.
00:10:32.880 That's why the markets are kind of in turmoil.
00:10:34.940 When I say markets in turmoil, did I ever mention gold was a hedge?
00:10:37.920 Do you think I mentioned that on here?
00:10:39.760 Gold today, $31.16.
00:10:42.640 That would be $3,116.
00:10:47.140 Yes, folks, for those of you who have been with us for a bunch of years.
00:10:50.020 And hey, what did I tell you?
00:10:51.760 We're not here to tell you to invest in gold.
00:10:53.820 What we're here to tell you and teach you at the War Room is the underlying economic and capital market forces and geopolitical forces in the world
00:11:01.100 that drive the search for a hedge against times of financial turbulence, right?
00:11:07.320 In a geoeconomic and geopolitical reset, and that is what Donald John Trump is doing in a massive scale.
00:11:14.240 That's what happens.
00:11:15.080 Also, Latham and Watkins, the most powerful, even more powerful than Skadden Arps, I'm told, by the engine room in these law firms
00:11:21.400 because they're hooked up with Carlisle Group, the private equity swamp in Washington, D.C.
00:11:27.040 Right there, also kowtowing to President Trump as he's breaking the builder of nations and the breaker of rogues, Donald Trump.
00:11:35.920 Let's go to Brian Glenn's at the White House.
00:11:38.880 Huge day-to-day, plus the Atlantic magazine.
00:11:42.260 And it's got some snarky stuff in it, but it's got a magnificent profile of Stephen Chung
00:11:47.800 because it calls him the hammer for President Trump, our beloved Stephen Chung.
00:11:53.000 And his motto is relentless aggression.
00:11:56.560 We know you dig that, Brian Glenn, because you are also a believer in relentless aggression.
00:12:01.840 What's happening at the White House today, bro?
00:12:03.560 Well, it's great to be here in the war room, Steve, on this Monday in the White House.
00:12:11.040 As you've laid out in your cold open and the words just now, your intro, it's a big day.
00:12:16.120 I mean, the world markets are looking at the Oval Office and the Liberation Day that's coming.
00:12:21.520 Now, there's two sets of EOs today, Steve.
00:12:23.980 One at 1 o'clock here, local time.
00:12:26.400 That is close to the press.
00:12:27.860 We don't have any indication what that could be, but the one everyone's waiting for is at 5.30 here, local time.
00:12:34.220 That is open to the press.
00:12:35.500 And today, we are officially the secondary pull cam in the Oval Office.
00:12:40.460 So our cameras will be in there.
00:12:42.120 I will be in there and ready to find out how we can change the world here at a stroke of a pen.
00:12:48.380 And watching the left freak out and listening to all of their analysts talk about what's going to happen is very interesting.
00:12:56.020 But going back to Stephen Chung, if I could circle back around, this man has been relentless on the voice of Trump.
00:13:03.860 And he has been relentless on the messaging, the style that he does it, the places he goes, everything from the OTRs to getting in a trash truck and going down the runway.
00:13:16.460 Anyway, Steve, the message is on point.
00:13:18.660 And today, in the Oval Office, the world is watching as finally we put America first.
00:13:26.260 The first two guys I met on the 26th campaign when I took over were the great Andy Sarabian and Stephen Chung.
00:13:34.160 They were the heads of the rapid, in fact, just the heads.
00:13:37.080 They were the entire rapid response department.
00:13:40.000 Two warriors, frickin' frack, as I used to call them.
00:13:43.560 And Stephen Chung is the greatest, used to be here with us at the War Room many years ago.
00:13:48.360 Just an amazing, amazing individual.
00:13:50.780 Just a hammer.
00:13:51.680 Always got Trump's back.
00:13:53.620 And, of course, from the Atlantic Magazine, it's got to have snark in it.
00:13:58.440 But I think that the Warren Posse, we've got it up right now on my Getter account.
00:14:03.800 I think it's a gift so everybody can read it.
00:14:05.980 I think, if not, Grace will help me figure that out.
00:14:08.680 Brian, hang on one second.
00:14:10.500 I just got a couple more questions to ask you after a quick break.
00:14:13.440 We're going to go to France.
00:14:15.680 Remember, I keep saying their whole purpose in winning these elections in the next couple of days is to take the midterm, impeach Trump, eventually steal the 2020 election, and send him to prison.
00:14:27.240 That's top of their agenda, folks.
00:14:29.920 Well, guess what?
00:14:30.760 It's the top of the agenda in Brazil with Bolsonaro.
00:14:32.780 Bolsonaro, and wait for it, in France today, a blockbuster decision.
00:14:38.040 Marine Le Pen found guilty of this kind of trumped-up fraud charge.
00:14:43.160 Open question of whether she can run to be the president of France.
00:14:46.220 With the polling, just like Bolsonaro, she leads in the poll.
00:14:50.140 Bolsonaro leads in the poll.
00:14:51.540 President Trump, all of it.
00:14:53.460 The legal, global legal profession coming after the right.
00:14:56.340 Next in the War Room.
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00:16:11.720 Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
00:16:15.380 It's war on every front, economic, political, psychological.
00:16:21.260 Of course, they got these huge votes tomorrow in Florida, one in six.
00:16:26.100 We're checking with that later in the second hour.
00:16:28.080 Also, Wisconsin.
00:16:29.620 So everything now is pitched a battle.
00:16:32.120 Brian Glenn, today, back at the White House, the pressure, folks, you got to understand this executive order they're working on is quite detailed about what actually they're calling for in about reciprocity.
00:16:46.020 And my understanding is when you look at the math, when you add in the non-tariff barriers, which you have to, the American people are going to be shocked.
00:16:53.240 Now, I would have hoped that, and I recommend it, that the White House be more aggressive in rolling this out and explaining to the American people, what you hear on TV, and this is why we have Spencer on so much, what you hear on TV is 99% just lies.
00:17:09.300 It's either lies, false narratives, et cetera, about tariffs.
00:17:13.400 And that's why Spencer is so important.
00:17:14.740 But the White House, I think, beginning, that's why I think, I think President Trump, the 530 is going to be the executive order, because I think President Trump wants to sit there and explain what Liberation Day is and what reciprocity is.
00:17:27.140 I believe that is.
00:17:28.180 I'm not absolutely certain.
00:17:29.360 So I would assume the one he calls you in for is that one.
00:17:32.940 And if not, he needs to do that.
00:17:35.360 We need to hear from President Trump.
00:17:36.860 He did it on the plane yesterday, but we need him in the Oval, taking five or 10 minutes, walking through the EO, I think, my recommendation.
00:17:44.100 And then, hey, take all comers.
00:17:45.980 Let the questions flow.
00:17:49.080 Brian Glenn, the pressure in the White House today is a pressure cooker, because global markets are on fire right now, sir.
00:17:57.140 Yeah, and you know what?
00:17:58.340 The timing of this executive order at 530, if indeed that's what it is, is obviously after the markets.
00:18:04.820 So we'll give a day for the markets to kind of have that anxiety.
00:18:08.560 What's really interesting, it's been a relatively slow day along Pebble Beach here in front of the White House press-wise.
00:18:15.560 I have seen very little.
00:18:17.100 Normally, where we stand for the War Room hits, there's a lot of journalists around here doing their stand-ups.
00:18:22.500 That has probably been pushed to later this afternoon.
00:18:25.220 Now, I will say this, I have noticed a lot of activity coming in out of the Roosevelt building here, a lot of cars calling up.
00:18:32.060 So, as you said earlier, I would imagine the revolving door in the Oval Office to meet with President Trump.
00:18:38.560 And the phone has probably been pretty active today, as every global leader, every CEO, any kind of market analysts have been really wanting to weigh in on this.
00:18:47.360 And I noticed kind of a nationwide campaign, if you will, Steve, of billboards that are slamming tariffs.
00:18:55.520 And they're all over the South.
00:18:57.160 I noticed here on bench, bus bench, digital billboards here in D.C. as well.
00:19:02.220 They're trying to push this, yeah, big time.
00:19:03.800 And it's sponsored by Canada on the bottom of it.
00:19:06.940 It's a Canadian economic group there.
00:19:09.020 Just a mass public relations role on this to basically smear what he's going to do later at 530.
00:19:16.760 I think you're eye-opener on India and Canada and many other nations.
00:19:21.780 But it's more than just Canada.
00:19:23.260 You've got the entire neoliberal order that is all – they're freaking out.
00:19:27.840 Because they're freaking out seeing how corporate America is responding to this about bringing jobs back.
00:19:33.740 Hey, Larry Fink, he did talk about protectionism in his letter.
00:19:37.620 We'll get to more about that.
00:19:38.540 But his surrender on climate change, his surrender on DEI, which is now brazen, and now he's talking about giving investment opportunities to the masses.
00:19:48.980 That's the next stage of his evolution.
00:19:51.920 Brian, how do people follow you during the day?
00:19:53.620 We're going to have you back on the 5 p.m. show.
00:19:55.660 Where do we – and by the way, I'm making a bet right now.
00:19:58.860 Here's my bet.
00:20:00.100 That Brian Glenn is not in the Oval Office exactly at 530.
00:20:03.340 I think there might be a – I'm just saying the over and under, there's going to be a slight delay on that.
00:20:08.540 I'm taking the over.
00:20:10.140 I think you're right.
00:20:11.660 Brian Glenn, how do people get to you?
00:20:15.840 You can follow me at BrianGlennTV on Twitter, on Getter as well, on Truth Social, at Brian.
00:20:21.300 I'm going to try to do as much behind the scenes as I can on the days that we are the secondary pull, Steve.
00:20:25.960 What a big honor that is.
00:20:27.260 And we can talk about it in this segment, the WHCA, the article that just came out.
00:20:31.040 And, Steve, you probably push it out on your socials.
00:20:33.060 I'll push it out as well as big changes are coming here in the briefing room.
00:20:37.220 And perhaps we might be sitting front center sooner than later there in the briefing room.
00:20:43.160 One thing I've argued for years – yeah.
00:20:47.360 One thing I've argued for years from the time we first took over in 16, 17,
00:20:51.880 President Trump now – I think he's had a belly full of it.
00:20:54.240 I think he just had enough Caitlin Collins, enough of the lint, enough of the snark.
00:20:58.500 He realizes this is not an honest mania.
00:21:01.260 They're enemies of the people.
00:21:02.760 They're in there.
00:21:03.480 They ask the same cheap shot questions every day.
00:21:05.840 They're not in a search for truth.
00:21:07.500 That's what I keep saying.
00:21:08.600 So if that's the case, put Caitlin Collins in the back row.
00:21:11.680 Let's get some people up front that have an audience.
00:21:13.580 Let's get some podcasters.
00:21:14.720 Let's get some streaming services.
00:21:16.260 Let's get some people who are going to ask decent questions so people can get answers to and get information for their life and for their understanding of politics, sir.
00:21:25.820 Brian?
00:21:26.120 Well, Steve, what's going to be interesting is after President Trump lays out this plan – and I think he's going to do it in a very common-sense way for Americans to understand about this Liberation Day – wait for it.
00:21:37.640 Someone's going to ask a question about Signal.
00:21:39.900 Someone's going to ask a question about Zelensky and Putin.
00:21:42.320 They're going to get off topic because he can explain it in a way that he can dumb it down to a fifth-grade level so everyone can understand it.
00:21:49.840 And if it makes sense to them, well, let's divert.
00:21:52.240 Let's put you back on Signal, which I refuse to even talk about anymore.
00:21:55.320 I think it's a big distraction.
00:21:57.000 But, yeah, you're right.
00:21:57.900 Today is the day.
00:21:59.980 Yeah.
00:22:01.660 What to talk about is the Washington Post released a briefing memo about Pete Heggs and the Pentagon.
00:22:08.780 And guess what?
00:22:09.600 Wait for it.
00:22:10.700 Taking on the Chinese Communist Party with a three-island change strategy and making the Pacific more important.
00:22:15.900 Hey, gosh, I wonder where we heard that before.
00:22:18.180 We'll get to that later.
00:22:19.140 Brian Glenn, you're a hero.
00:22:20.780 We'll see you this afternoon at the White House over in the Oval.
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00:22:51.220 Now, I want to go to – have you heard about these judges?
00:22:56.600 Have you heard about the judges?
00:22:57.580 Right now, the war of the weekend of President Trump because it's the legal profession.
00:23:01.740 It's the judges and the lawyers.
00:23:03.700 And he's engaged in full-on battle with both.
00:23:06.540 We'll update that.
00:23:07.220 Bolsonaro is in court, I think, again today on trial.
00:23:10.500 They're going to put him in prison as a show trial, and they're going to try to assassinate him in prison.
00:23:14.560 Today, a bombshell out of France at the time – and think about it for a second – Bolsonaro leads in the poll.
00:23:20.660 Marine Le Pen leads in the poll.
00:23:22.120 Donald Trump leads in the poll.
00:23:23.280 Marine Le Pen found guilty on some trumped-up charge.
00:23:27.700 The great Jerome Revere is going to join us.
00:23:29.020 I want to play a short package, and then I'm bringing Jerome in.
00:23:31.160 Let's roll it, folks.
00:23:32.280 Leader Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to four years in jail, and she's been banned from running for office for five years.
00:23:39.980 She was found guilty of embezzlement in a trial that focused on how she used party funding.
00:23:45.220 She had been tipped to lead in the 2027 presidential race.
00:23:49.440 The leader of France's National Rally Party, Jordan Bardella, has just said in the past few minutes that she has been unjustly condemned.
00:23:57.180 The party itself has also been fined.
00:24:00.340 We have some live pictures coming to us from inside the courtroom at the moment.
00:24:04.300 Not much happening there.
00:24:05.500 Marine Le Pen left before the sentence had been fully read out by the judge.
00:24:11.040 But watching all the proceedings for us is our Paris correspondent, Hugh Schofield, who is at the courtroom.
00:24:16.700 Lots of developments to bring our viewers.
00:24:18.920 Hugh, let's start from the beginning.
00:24:21.260 What is the latest we've heard on the sentence?
00:24:23.060 Well, we now have, after a very, very tense couple of hours, we have a definitive verdict and sentence on Marine Le Pen.
00:24:31.840 And that sentence is the worst she could possibly have hoped for.
00:24:35.780 In other words, a five-year period of ineligibility to be carried out straight away, regardless of whether or not she appeals.
00:24:43.400 And this is the key point in all of this.
00:24:44.840 I think everyone, even she herself, expected to be convicted on the charges.
00:24:50.000 But the key question was what she would be sentenced to.
00:24:53.800 And there was a phrase, a legal phrase, which was at the heart of this, which is in French, is execution provisoire.
00:24:59.600 If those words were uttered by the president of the court, the judge, it would mean that this period of ineligibility would kick in straight away.
00:25:06.760 She uttered those words, the period is five years.
00:25:09.760 And what that means is that Marine Le Pen cannot run in the next election in 2027, barring some legal twist of which I am completely unaware.
00:25:19.160 And I'm not sure anyone can think of one.
00:25:21.580 She can't run in 2027.
00:25:23.540 And that, of course, is an earthquake.
00:25:26.680 She is favorite to run in those elections, favorite in the sense that she's by far the most popular single candidate in the first round of those elections.
00:25:35.720 It would be her fourth attempt to get the presidency.
00:25:40.060 And at this fourth attempt, she would have the most high chances of winning it because the situation has been working in her favor.
00:25:48.520 And now, at a stroke, a judge, the judicial system has said, you can't run.
00:25:53.640 And that clearly has massive implications for her, for her party, but also for people who are worried about French democracy.
00:26:01.740 It's notable that several political leaders who are her opponents have said in the last weeks that they hoped she didn't get this automatic ineligibility because they say she's someone who we need to fight at the ballot box, not through the judicial system.
00:26:18.840 So even her arch enemy, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, on the far left, has been saying he thought this possibility of an automatic ineligibility was wrong.
00:26:28.500 But there it is.
00:26:29.520 It's happened.
00:26:30.720 And quite suddenly, I would say almost unexpectedly, because a lot of speculation has been around the fact that the judge would be under pressure to sort of take account of politics and the ambiance in the country and so on.
00:26:43.920 So, unexpectedly, Marine Le Pen is suddenly out of the race.
00:26:47.980 And she's a very angry woman.
00:26:49.200 We saw her leaving the courtroom about half an hour ago.
00:26:52.020 She's now at party headquarters with a very, very granite-like face on.
00:26:56.680 She's been joined there by Jourdan Bardella, her kind of deputy, the man who will probably step in if she can't run and will now, therefore, probably step in as a presidential candidate.
00:27:07.340 And they'll be formulating whatever response it is that they're going to formulate.
00:27:11.480 She'll certainly appeal against this, but that won't be good enough, because the appeal probably won't happen for a year and a half or so.
00:27:17.800 And there's no guarantee that the appeal would overturn this sentence.
00:27:22.920 OK, we're going to take a short commercial break here.
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00:29:41.440 Remember, I said, and I've said it last week, I said on Eric Bolling, we did the changeover.
00:29:53.340 I said it at my speech in Colorado on, what, on Friday night, that they're trying to put Trump in prison, right?
00:30:03.860 And they hope he dies in prison.
00:30:05.500 Bolsonaro, they hope he's assassinated in prison.
00:30:07.280 Marine Le Pen, he got four years in prison today on trumped-up charges.
00:30:12.260 Jerome Revere joins us.
00:30:13.360 Jerome, walk us through these charges because it hasn't gotten a tremendous amount of focus because, honestly, I didn't think it was a real thing.
00:30:22.080 And I've talked to you and other guys.
00:30:23.620 It didn't seem, it seems this thing was so trumped up and so phony.
00:30:26.420 Remember, I talked to all my, I ran all the traps in France with you guys over the weekend.
00:30:30.640 And to a person, the most sophisticated people I've known in France said, no, this thing will get some sort of suspended, things like that.
00:30:38.300 And you, but it shows you, and I said, hey, when these guys got you, they're going to, they're going to use any Trump to think.
00:30:43.360 They gave her four years in prison.
00:30:45.240 They've banned her from running again.
00:30:47.220 Now, I realize there's all kinds of things that can happen, just like with President Trump.
00:30:50.220 But the reality, at least as of now, she can't run for office and she's leading in the polls.
00:30:56.560 And they, and they're, and basically she has four years of jail time.
00:30:59.800 So tell our audience, what are the trumped up charges?
00:31:02.940 How did this kind of come out of nowhere, even to the people that are most sophisticated?
00:31:06.700 What happened to the, I think there are 10 or 11 other people, 12 people around her that were also charged.
00:31:11.280 What happened to them?
00:31:12.240 And what does this mean for France?
00:31:14.900 Yes, Steve, the most flabbergasting part of the decision is that the judges decided that the ban for her to run for election begins today before she can make an appeal.
00:31:27.140 So whether she wins in appeal, whether she wins whenever, she's banned from now to be running for the next presidential election in two years.
00:31:36.500 Basically, the charges against her were that as a member of the European Parliament, she hired people to work for her.
00:31:44.400 And instead of these people working in Brussels or in Strasbourg at the European Parliament offices, she brought them in Paris to work at the political parties.
00:31:54.440 And because she was the president of the party, as other members of the European Parliament did the same thing, she was deemed to have organized a scheme to embezzle the European Parliament.
00:32:05.000 Those are phony charges.
00:32:08.660 As you know, when you're a politician, an elected member of the European Parliament, you are a member of the European Parliament even when you are in your home country.
00:32:17.300 It makes no sense whatsoever.
00:32:20.200 The actual prime minister, Bayrou, was doing the exact same thing.
00:32:24.020 He went through a trial a couple of months ago and he was found not guilty of the same crime.
00:32:28.380 So this is charges that are designed so that she's kicked out of the presidential race.
00:32:34.820 Just yesterday in the latest poll, she was 12 points ahead of the next person running.
00:32:41.500 She's far ahead.
00:32:43.060 She's going to win the next presidential.
00:32:44.600 She was about to win the next presidential election.
00:32:47.420 And Macron's boys were very, very far.
00:32:50.040 Hang on.
00:32:50.260 So that's the entire end.
00:32:51.840 I need you to repeat this.
00:32:55.060 Folks, this is a global problem.
00:32:56.840 This is exactly what Trump is facing here in the United States with these judges, these radical judges.
00:33:02.700 We told you that the legal profession is kind of their last bastion that they own and control, whether it's in Brazil, whether it's in the United States of America, whether it's in France.
00:33:11.580 In Israel, they got the same thing.
00:33:13.620 Bibi's trial, I think, was just called off moments ago.
00:33:16.820 The deep state there.
00:33:18.040 And I realize Bibi is not everybody's cup of tea, but they're trying to take him down.
00:33:22.860 This is an organized, united front of these Marxist judges.
00:33:27.380 Once again, she's leading in the polls by how much, and she will be the next president of France.
00:33:33.800 Well, of course.
00:33:34.100 If the courts, and the whole thing, every headline in the Financial Times embezzlement, she had a couple of staffers that were assigned to her in Brussels in the European Parliament.
00:33:45.480 Of course, all these guys, they all take them back.
00:33:47.780 They're working at their own headquarters because they're doing the European Parliament stuff when they're in their own country.
00:33:53.940 It's kind of a – and for that – and you remember, European Parliament was where Front National really started to get some traction.
00:34:00.480 That is what they're calling her for embezzlement, right?
00:34:02.620 That's the big embezzlement that's out of giving her four years in prison for that and also banning her from running again, Jerome.
00:34:10.880 And how many points is she up, Jerome?
00:34:13.060 She was 12 – she's 12 points ahead.
00:34:15.020 She's at – she's polling at 37 when the next best one would be polling at 25.
00:34:20.360 So it's the biggest lead she ever had.
00:34:23.220 Right now, as you know, France is very unstable politically.
00:34:26.840 Macron has lost all his momentum.
00:34:28.360 He's trying through – he's Ukraine backing up through every type of funny argument that France is at war.
00:34:36.740 He's trying to put people together with him.
00:34:38.780 But in fact, French people do not believe in him anymore.
00:34:41.880 And Marine appears to be the only possible challenger.
00:34:46.380 And she's 12 points ahead, 12 points, massive lead.
00:34:51.700 Unbelievable.
00:34:52.560 Jerome, where did people go for your social media to keep up with this?
00:34:55.800 Because this story is now starting to explode across Europe and the United States.
00:35:01.420 You can follow me on X at Jerome, J-E-R-O-M-E, underscore Revere, R-I-V-I-E-R-E.
00:35:08.920 Thank you.
00:35:10.880 Jerome, I'll reach out to you after the show.
00:35:12.900 Love you, brother.
00:35:13.860 Keep fighting.
00:35:15.320 One of the real warriors over in France.
00:35:17.900 I talked to all these guys, the smartest guys in France.
00:35:21.220 Nobody said – they said the judge is too radical.
00:35:23.140 She's up in the polls.
00:35:24.280 She's leading.
00:35:25.180 In all likelihood, she'll be – this is like a third or fourth time running.
00:35:28.240 Front National is making – you know, it's the MAGA movement.
00:35:30.580 It's making progress.
00:35:31.540 They can't stop it.
00:35:33.100 Four years in prison.
00:35:34.960 Four years in prison.
00:35:36.480 Now, there's all kinds of things.
00:35:37.520 She's not going to have to serve.
00:35:38.540 She's going to be home confinement.
00:35:39.760 But, hey, they don't want her to run for president.
00:35:42.780 This is exactly what they're doing to Trump, exactly what they're doing to Bolsonaro.
00:35:46.900 Ben Harnwell, I want you to give me some commentary here and then hang around because I'm going to go to Mexico with Burkwam.
00:35:52.200 We're on the trail of the cartel wars south of the border.
00:35:56.600 Harnwell, your thoughts.
00:35:58.300 You're up close and personal to all this.
00:36:00.800 Is this united front of these neo-Marxist judges, whether in the United States, Brazil, France, the United Kingdom, Israel, Germany, wherever,
00:36:10.960 to basically thwart the populist nationalist uprise across the globe, sir?
00:36:15.140 I noticed you used that expression earlier with the excellent, ever-excellent Jérôme Vivier.
00:36:22.540 Good morning to you, Steve, by the way.
00:36:24.480 I'm not sure whether it is a Marxist thing.
00:36:26.660 And I'm the first person in the world to detect cultural Marxism wherever I see it.
00:36:32.480 I think it's more of a, and I know you have reservations about the term deep state, but I think it's more of the deep state, the system,
00:36:42.980 wherever it is in the West, trying its final holdout, if you will, if I can use that expression.
00:36:50.000 Something that you said repeatedly throughout the entirety of your public life, leaning on Andrew Whitebott, who lends on Gramsci, who lends on Nietzsche,
00:36:59.940 is that the culture is upstream of politics.
00:37:03.640 And what we've seen since, say, 2008, since the financial crisis, inverted commas, is that over the last sort of 15, 20 years,
00:37:14.720 this system, this deep state, has lost its hold over the cultural sphere.
00:37:20.860 And the right, massively, from the Tea Party onwards, through MAGA, dominated the cultural sphere.
00:37:26.160 So then what happened is that the deep state, the system, retreated to the political sphere, and it lost those fights when we started winning elections.
00:37:35.840 And now what you see here is this is their final battle.
00:37:38.600 This is what I would call, Steve, the Custer's last stand of the deep state.
00:37:43.820 This is where they are going.
00:37:45.120 They're going to go down.
00:37:46.060 They will lose this.
00:37:47.200 But this is their final chance, really, to keep their hold on power.
00:37:51.900 Why?
00:37:52.400 Why are they there in the courts?
00:37:54.680 Why is this final battle taking place in the courts?
00:37:57.620 It's because they are unelected judges when all is said and done.
00:38:02.040 They are simply state bureaucrats, state civil servants.
00:38:04.880 They wear robes.
00:38:06.000 They may have special titles.
00:38:07.720 They might sit in courts, whatever.
00:38:09.520 But they are state functionaries.
00:38:11.540 They're responsible.
00:38:12.340 It's the state that pays their salary, their pension, their health care.
00:38:16.000 The final analysis, they are always, Steve, they are always going to defend that system that pays them.
00:38:21.520 And that is why when the system is under threat, they will deep dig down.
00:38:26.760 And, you know, we also mentioned Romania in the list with Carlin Georgescu, who's also been sidelined by the court, by unelected judges.
00:38:35.740 So this is what we're going to see.
00:38:37.360 Now, the question, Steve, is what are we going to do about it?
00:38:40.220 And I have some theories on that.
00:38:45.600 I tell you what.
00:38:46.320 Hang on for a second.
00:38:47.040 I want you to hold that.
00:38:48.080 We're going to put a pin in it.
00:38:48.960 I'm going to keep you around.
00:38:49.700 I want to go to Mexico.
00:38:50.640 I want to go cartel wars and come back to you about potential solutions.
00:38:53.740 Also, Matt Palumbo, who's Dan Bongino's right-hand man, is going to be with us a little later about this new entity called the Populist Times and also his work taking down the Chinese Communist Party.
00:39:06.020 But let's go to Mexico.
00:39:07.060 We've got Ben Berquam and Oscar Blue Ramirez.
00:39:10.040 Sir, first of all, I want you guys to be safe.
00:39:12.460 You're down there to cover the cartel wars.
00:39:16.380 And I just want to tell people, the videos that Ben and these guys have are so violent, we came and showed them.
00:39:22.400 They literally showed us outside their hotel at the square across the street or just right down the street, a human head that had been cut off as a warning sign to officials of what are in media, of what was in store for them if they go against the cartels.
00:39:37.820 Guys, where are you?
00:39:39.200 Set the stage for us.
00:39:42.460 Well, Steve, we are in Culiacán.
00:39:44.540 This is the epicenter of the war zone of the cartels between Los Chapitos and Los Mayitos.
00:39:49.660 This war hasn't been stopped, and it hasn't stopped.
00:39:52.460 Just past week, more than 36 murders have occurred in just one week.
00:39:57.360 That means that five murders per day.
00:40:00.300 The murder rate has been increasing.
00:40:01.900 The insecurity right here in Culiacán is devastating.
00:40:05.360 It is like a curfew.
00:40:06.380 People disappear around 8 or 9 o'clock at night.
00:40:09.700 They go back to their homes.
00:40:11.640 You know, it's just a ghost town right here.
00:40:13.780 This is the epicenter, and it has been, since Donald Trump got into office, more than 300 laboratories have been dismantled right here in the part of Culiacán.
00:40:22.960 This is the epicenter of a war zone.
00:40:25.060 This is why they need to be designated as terrorists, and we came down here just to give you the reality of what's happening.
00:40:30.640 Yeah, and Steve, you're looking at that footage right there.
00:40:32.640 That was last night.
00:40:33.440 This is an area of town, historic area of town, that is usually bustling till midnight over the entire weekend.
00:40:41.000 And as Oscar said, it's a total ghost town.
00:40:43.360 But as you referenced, where we're standing on this balcony, I can see the corner where the head was left.
00:40:49.300 This was just last week.
00:40:51.040 This was a message from the cartel to the people.
00:40:54.480 If you get in the way of the cartel, this is what's going to happen to you.
00:40:57.300 And this is the level of violence.
00:40:58.940 That's why President Trump labeling these guys terrorist organizations is so critical.
00:41:03.200 They are terrorist organizations.
00:41:04.820 You don't know if you live here or any of these cartel cities across Mexico, if you're going to walk out with your kids and you're going to see a human head or severed limbs or a body out in front of your house.
00:41:14.840 That's the level of insecurity to the point where the local police in about 45 minutes are going to be protesting because they're not safe.
00:41:23.720 Their own government isn't able to keep the police, the local police safe from the cartels.
00:41:28.080 That's the level of insecurity down here that the cartels have created.
00:41:31.840 And that's what we're up against.
00:41:32.920 That's what the Democrats invited into America.
00:41:35.000 And that's what the Mexicans are now having to fight finally.
00:41:40.380 I want to go back.
00:41:42.260 I'm going to hold you through the break.
00:41:43.600 I want to go back to when you say labs, what type of labs, Oscar, are you talking about, sir?
00:41:50.280 Fentanyl, specifically fentanyl.
00:41:52.660 They just found a massive, the biggest laboratory seizure.
00:41:56.220 It was done in Zacatecas just a week ago.
00:41:58.980 More than 700 million doses of methamphetamine that were found right here, not too far from Culiacan, but right here in Culiacan.
00:42:05.760 They have dismantled more than 300 laboratories that is just particularly directed to fentanyl, sir.
00:42:13.600 So this is the way, the way you stop the fentanyl traffic is you're going to interdict it there at the railhead of where the actual labs are?
00:42:22.660 Yeah, that's right.
00:42:24.780 In fact, talking to the local officials, there's clearly an American presence here.
00:42:30.240 In fact, some of the operations, there are American drones that are flying over for surveillance.
00:42:35.180 America is directly involved.
00:42:36.900 It's clear, again, unofficially on the ground here working with these guys.
00:42:40.680 And that's what's given them the courage to actually do what they're having to do against the cartels.
00:42:45.240 Before this, basically, the cartels controlled everything.
00:42:48.000 Now you've got the Mexican government actually going after them.
00:42:50.440 The big question, though, is, and I was asking one of the local reporters here, is it going to make a difference?
00:42:54.920 And his answer to me was, well, you've arrested a lot of the heads of the cartels.
00:42:58.360 The problem is there's always somebody to step back up and take that position.
00:43:01.980 They don't think anything is going to change here until you start arresting the politicians that control the cartels.
00:43:07.140 And that goes all the way up to the president.
00:43:08.980 There's a reason why she's protecting El Mayo.
00:43:11.120 There's speculation that she's getting direct assistance from El Mayo.
00:43:15.500 There's a lot behind this.
00:43:17.220 But bottom line is nothing's really going to change down here until you get every level of government held accountable for what's going on.
00:43:24.320 Yeah. Hang on one second, guys.
00:43:27.620 Short commercial break.
00:43:28.840 We're going to go back to Mexico about the cartel wars, back to Rome about the deep state taking on everybody next in the war room.
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00:46:33.140 Okay, guys, Mexico is controlled by seven families.
00:46:38.620 They control the politicians.
00:46:39.940 The politicians kind of – it's all a little bit of cosplay.
00:46:43.060 So what do you mean?
00:46:43.780 Break this down.
00:46:45.480 I felt like we finally, with all the focus, it looks like you're going to have some sort of kinetic activity, meaning military.
00:46:55.120 Where is this all heading?
00:46:56.100 Because now you're saying arrest the politicians.
00:46:57.840 But the politicians are kind of interchangeable down there, right?
00:47:00.440 And they kind of do what the cartel – they're not controlling the cartels.
00:47:04.120 Don't the cartels control the politicians, guys?
00:47:07.640 Yeah, it's kind of a mixed relationship.
00:47:10.560 So you have both.
00:47:11.340 There's an influence from the top, as you mentioned, the seven families.
00:47:14.540 But there's also influence within cartels – excuse me, within politics as well.
00:47:19.200 Just to give you an idea.
00:47:20.800 So out of the murders that are done here, one in ten, less than one in ten is actually solved.
00:47:26.420 When it comes to the DA – so it's not just the politicians, it's not just the president and the governors and the local municipal politicians.
00:47:33.560 The DAs as well.
00:47:34.600 Most of these crimes, the murders, they don't even try to prosecute.
00:47:38.520 When it comes to kidnappings, zero percent, approximately zero percent, around one percent, are solved, the kidnappings.
00:47:45.900 So there's really no punishment for what's happening.
00:47:48.820 Now, you'll take the head off the snake.
00:47:50.500 That's the big concern that people have.
00:47:51.940 Yes, they're going after them.
00:47:53.680 Yes, President Trump is doing more.
00:47:55.560 His influence is giving them the courage to go after these guys.
00:47:58.400 But the big concern is four years, eight years from now, if you don't take out the fundamentals, the foundation that built this entire thing, you're not going to change anything.
00:48:07.640 That's the big concern.
00:48:09.200 And as you mentioned, where do you start?
00:48:11.560 Is it the politicians?
00:48:12.480 Is it the cartel?
00:48:13.460 Is it the DAs?
00:48:15.420 It's every level of society.
00:48:17.180 So Todd Benzman, his theory of the case is – and Todd is a guy at the forefront of this.
00:48:24.060 I think eventually Todd will end up actually in the Trump administration, I happen to believe because he's so knowledgeable.
00:48:31.480 He says, hey, there's a two-prong attack.
00:48:33.540 One prong is what they call the company.
00:48:35.800 That's the politicians, the lawyers that work with the cartels.
00:48:39.760 It's the financing.
00:48:40.660 It's how they do the money laundering.
00:48:41.960 It's not just how they distribute the drugs in the United States but as they actually turn it into dollars and get the cash back that they can use it.
00:48:49.560 The other part is the kinetic part, and that is the Mexican military, the federales, and also U.S. CIA, paramilitary, and eventually U.S. military.
00:48:59.100 So Oscar Blue Ramirez, where do we stand in that both hitting him from the company side and hitting him from the kinetic side, sir?
00:49:05.560 Well, the problem, sir, right here is the way that Mexico is being pushed and Mexico is being handled in this.
00:49:11.340 You know, politically in front of the world, what they're doing is just – they are only attacking two cartels, and they're living – they're letting one just survive, and that is El Mayo, because, you know, the speculation is strong over here.
00:49:23.860 The speculation is that El Mayo Zambada politically funded the campaigns of AMLO, Andres Manuel López Obrador, and also Clara Schimbaud, the current president.
00:49:32.400 So the current seizures of drugs and the current attacks have been only to the C.G. and G. cartel and also to Los Chapitos.
00:49:40.560 That has been that they are trying to dismantle those two organizations and ultimately, you know, let the other organization prevail.
00:49:47.840 That is the actual problem. That's the problem right now, that they're trying to send the message to the Trump administration, that they're actually dismantling all the cartels, but it's a complete lie.
00:49:57.520 That is what they're putting out there, and El Mayo Zambada still looks like he controls the country's decisions, and also he controls the dirty politicians, that that is the other problem that we have in Mexico.
00:50:07.320 That is the real cartel, the ones that they wear the suit and the tie.
00:50:10.120 Wow. Ben Berquam, your coverage, you and Oscar's coverage over the next couple of days, I don't want to give out where you're going to be because we may not end up seeing you.
00:50:21.020 That's how dangerous it is. But just give us a sense of why you and Oscar down there, where are you going to be going this week?
00:50:26.620 Well, this is the epicenter of what's happening. So you have to go, you know, Sinaloa is where a lot of this violence that we see even on our streets of America comes from.
00:50:35.280 So we're coming down here to expose that. We're going to be heading to different locations around here, and then we're going to be heading north to another undisclosed location to show what's actually happening here.
00:50:44.020 But to Oscar's point, this is analogous to what's happening in America. The same thing is true.
00:50:47.780 If we don't take care of the activist judges, the traitorous judges in America, we're never going to get to the bottom and restore our country.
00:50:54.700 The same thing is true here. We have to get to the bottom of it and hold the politicians accountable, get the bankers involved, as Todd Bensman has talked about.
00:51:00.920 So we're going to be doing that. You can follow us. You can follow me on Real America's Voice.
00:51:04.840 We'll be reporting all week long from there. Thanks to our sponsor, Patriot Mobile, for all the work.
00:51:11.060 Use promo code RAV when you do that, or War Room. I don't know, or Ben, and I forget which one we're using right now.
00:51:16.220 But Patriot Mobile, either way, use it. So we'll be down here covering that, heading different spots as we go.
00:51:21.500 And my social media is at Ben Berkwam on everything.
00:51:26.640 Oscar Blue, where do we get you, sir?
00:51:28.440 All around, sir. Oscar Blue, Ramirez, you know, ex, old popcorns, of course, Real America's Voice News, sir, and always thank you, sir, for the invitation.
00:51:38.340 Okay, we want you guys to be very careful down there. You're in the heart of the beast. You've got to be very careful to, you know, watch yourself.
00:51:45.720 Very dangerous what you guys are doing, but needed. You're patriots and heroes. Thank you, guys.
00:51:51.520 Yes, sir. Thank you.
00:51:52.320 They're down in the middle of bad hombres, and that place down there, you can't tell who's friend or foe, because it can turn on you in a second.
00:52:00.080 That's very brave coverage. These guys, one of the reasons we had this great victory, their coverage of Daring Gap and the beast and the train for years and years and years.
00:52:07.920 972 Patriot. Do the switch today. See Patriot Mobile sponsoring our efforts down watching the cartel wars.
00:52:18.980 Glenn Story and the team down in Tarrant County, Texas, are on top of it.
00:52:24.100 Remember, as Tarrant County goes, so goes Texas. As Texas goes, so goes the nation.
00:52:28.900 That's the fight they got. It's an incredible service. You're layered on top of every major phone service out there.
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00:52:44.320 The right stuff's going to take us out. Dave Brat's going to join us.
00:52:48.600 We're going to break down Liberation Day with charts.
00:52:51.380 We've got the great Ben Harnwells in Rome. Talk about the deep state, what it's doing to thwart our revolution.
00:53:00.720 And Matt Palumbo, Dan Bongino's wingman, all next in the second hour on a Monday morning in the War Room.
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