Bannon's War Room - April 09, 2025


Episode 4399： Main Goal Of 'Trade War' Stopping The CCP


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Trade tensions between the United States and China escalate to the point of no return. President Trump announces new tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. Beijing retaliates with tariffs of 84% on U.S. goods, and the Dow and S&P 500 open in the red.

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00:00:00.000 They take product, technology, they steal it, they manufacture it, sell it back here. 1.00
00:00:07.120 Never has an administration...
00:00:08.400 Do Americans understand 400% tariffs? What would that look like?
00:00:11.060 I want Xi on an airplane to Washington to level the playing field.
00:00:16.000 This is not about tariffs anymore.
00:00:18.620 Nobody has taken on China yet, not the Europeans, no administration for decades.
00:00:23.960 As someone who actually does business there, I've had enough.
00:00:27.340 I speak for millions of Americans who have IP that have been stolen by the Chinese. 1.00
00:00:33.320 I have nothing against the Chinese people.
00:00:36.380 They brought great literacy, art, and tech to the world.
00:00:41.000 The government cheats and steals.
00:00:44.220 And finally, an administration, you may not like Trump, you may not like his style or his rhetoric.
00:00:49.840 Finally, an administration that puts up and says, enough.
00:00:54.840 He'll have 400% tariffs tomorrow morning.
00:00:58.780 He'll tell you why.
00:01:00.000 Xi can only stay the supreme leader if people are employed.
00:01:04.360 If we wipe out any business there, because we are still 39% of all consumables on Earth and 25% of the world's GDP,
00:01:13.920 America is the number one economy on Earth with all the cards.
00:01:17.080 We will not have that forever.
00:01:18.520 It's time to squeeze Chinese heads into the wall now. 1.00
00:01:21.840 Now, I hear you, but hold on.
00:01:25.520 If we're talking about people, the average consumer, not necessarily the head honchos of businesses all across the globe,
00:01:32.860 can they withstand the pressure of that sort of tax on the goods?
00:01:38.200 It's short-lived.
00:01:39.420 There will be people.
00:01:39.940 But, yeah, but what's your timeline compared to you?
00:01:42.080 You don't know the average American's timeline, what they can actually survive.
00:01:45.460 There's people right now who can't survive.
00:01:47.220 400% tomorrow morning, cheese on an airplane to Washington to cut a deal.
00:01:51.140 And we've got some news just in from our friends at CNBC in response to what we've been talking about.
00:01:56.040 China has just slapped retaliatory tariffs of 84% on U.S. goods in response to what President Trump has done.
00:02:04.400 84%.
00:02:05.160 I mean, OK, here we go.
00:02:09.820 The full-blown trade war.
00:02:11.940 Yeah, prices are going to surge.
00:02:13.620 So much going on.
00:02:14.900 The market's moving around on us.
00:02:16.620 Wall Street set to open in the red this morning as President Trump's reciprocal tariffs against dozens of countries taking effect officially now,
00:02:25.500 including 104% against China.
00:02:28.060 Beijing responding this morning, imposing 84% tariffs on U.S. goods.
00:02:33.900 That's up from 34% that was previously announced.
00:02:37.120 That'll begin tomorrow.
00:02:39.200 You can take a look, by the way, the Dow off 800 points, NASDAQ off 270 points, S&P 500 looking to open down about 92 points.
00:02:47.220 Take a look also, though, at Treasuries because that market has people on edge.
00:02:52.020 We're now looking at the 10-year note at 4.466 and lots of questions about who's going to be buying Treasuries or maybe selling them,
00:03:00.880 including where China stands on all of that.
00:03:04.260 Maria, I think it's unfortunate that the Chinese actually don't want to come and negotiate because they are the worst offenders in the international trading system. 1.00
00:03:14.740 They have the most imbalanced economy in the history of the modern world.
00:03:18.720 And, you know, I can tell you that this escalation is a loser for them, that they have some very smart economists, the academicians, technocrats within their bureaucracy,
00:03:31.620 and they would be telling the leadership that we do not have the edge here.
00:03:36.580 They are the surplus country that their exports to the U.S. are five times our exports to China.
00:03:46.500 So, you know, they can raise their tariffs, but so what?
00:03:50.740 You know what I don't hear them talking about?
00:03:52.740 I don't hear the president either talking about the working American right now who is going to bear the brunt of all of this.
00:04:01.780 These guys are going to be fine, all of them.
00:04:06.000 It's incredible.
00:04:07.000 And yet, to me, there is one option here, and that's for Republicans and Democrats to get together and do something.
00:04:17.520 Why wouldn't they do something today?
00:04:20.520 We heard from the president yesterday, and those I talked to around him, he is holding fast.
00:04:25.880 We've seen some slight rifts open up within the administration, within the Republican Party.
00:04:30.960 We know Treasury Secretary Besant urging more negotiations.
00:04:34.020 Some of those will be taking place in the days ahead.
00:04:37.460 Others, like Peter Navarro, some extended Trump world, those listening to the Steve Bannon podcast are saying,
00:04:43.160 no, dig in, this is indeed our moment to bring back these manufacturing jobs to the United States,
00:04:48.380 even though economists after economists after economists says that's just not realistic,
00:04:52.840 or at the very least, it'll be an extraordinarily lengthy process.
00:04:56.700 It will take years, and a lot of economic pain will be endured between now and then.
00:05:02.660 Now, do you see any anti-American saying?
00:05:04.420 Yeah, we've lost a couple bond deals already because they're not mean.
00:05:07.960 They simply say that, you know, look, we'd rather just do this with a local bank than with a U.S. bank.
00:05:12.720 Look, we could overcome that.
00:05:14.480 You know, that's why part of me thinks that don't let this go on too long
00:05:17.900 because it's causing cumulative damage, including huge anger at the United States.
00:05:21.720 Like I said, my goal would be keep the allies together.
00:05:24.940 Get them together.
00:05:26.120 Keep working on that, you know.
00:05:27.280 And you fix the trade.
00:05:28.480 Whether it's unfair trade, fix it.
00:05:29.920 It doesn't matter if they're an ally or not.
00:05:31.080 It has to be fixed.
00:05:31.580 And I think there are legitimate complaints about military spending.
00:05:35.020 You know, they need to spend more in the military.
00:05:36.920 So I hope what you saw, like, for Europe is a wake-up call.
00:05:40.220 Fix their economy.
00:05:41.120 You know, they have huge bureaucracy, you know, red tape, which I now call blue tape.
00:05:45.560 And, you know, if they fix that, that'd be good for them.
00:05:47.900 And then, you know, pull them closer and keep the Western world together.
00:05:50.980 A huge, complex geopolitical situation.
00:05:53.780 Huge fiscal deficits, not just here, but around the world.
00:05:57.600 Sticky inflation, which I personally think will not go away so quick.
00:06:01.140 And then you have, you know, what's going to happen to tariffs,
00:06:03.200 what's going to happen to trade, what's going to happen.
00:06:04.600 So, you know, tariffs and trade are just part of that mix.
00:06:07.720 They don't completely stand alone.
00:06:10.340 So what do you think about the tariff plan?
00:06:12.480 I think it is perfectly reasonable for someone to say that trade was unfair.
00:06:18.200 There were unfair trade things.
00:06:19.660 And remember, it's not just tariffs.
00:06:21.040 It's tariffs.
00:06:21.980 I think they have the VAT wrong, how they understand it.
00:06:24.340 And I think they should really get a better understanding to make it easy to negotiate.
00:06:27.940 But there are all these non-tariff barriers around food and energy.
00:06:31.360 And then subsidies, which, you know, China is famous for.
00:06:33.560 So it's totally reasonable to say we want to make trade better.
00:06:36.720 But I also want to point out to the Americans, we have the best economy in the world.
00:06:41.080 Our GDP per person is $85,000.
00:06:43.600 China's is $15,000.
00:06:45.400 So you've got to put a little bit into context.
00:06:47.820 But, you know, and then, of course, when they put the tariffs in,
00:06:50.300 it was way beyond what people expected that will cause a little inflation, slow down growth.
00:06:55.080 But I hope what they really do is let Scott Besson, who I think is a professional, negotiate.
00:07:00.460 And I know Japan is here.
00:07:01.420 I gather Korea and Vietnam have called.
00:07:03.420 And then eventually Europe.
00:07:04.260 Get those things done quickly.
00:07:06.720 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:07:13.380 Because we're going medieval on these people.
00:07:18.480 Here's the time I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:07:22.720 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:07:24.640 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:07:26.060 I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that.
00:07:27.820 But you're not going to stop it.
00:07:28.760 It's going to happen.
00:07:29.800 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:07:33.420 Mega Media.
00:07:34.340 I wish in my soul, I wish that anyone had a conscience.
00:07:40.180 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:07:43.960 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:07:50.260 War Room.
00:07:51.180 Here's your host, Stephen K.
00:07:53.120 There are decades in which nothing happens and there are weeks in which decades happen.
00:08:01.880 Welcome to that week.
00:08:03.160 One of those weeks.
00:08:04.040 And there have been many with President Trump.
00:08:06.240 A full-blown, it's gone beyond tariffs, it's gone beyond trade.
00:08:10.220 It's a full-on, you can't call it anything else but an economic war between the Chinese Communist Party and the United States.
00:08:17.380 The Chinese Communist Party ratcheted up retaliatory measures last night, tariffs and others.
00:08:24.620 And they've got a full toolbox.
00:08:26.540 The Wall Street Journal has a really smart article up about how they've been prepping for this war, economic war.
00:08:34.520 They've already been engaged in economic war with us, unconventional warfare, unrestricted warfare.
00:08:40.220 But they've been planning on this for many, many years.
00:08:42.940 And now we're fully on it.
00:08:44.460 Even as we were going through the cold open, the European Union has announced retaliatory measures against the United States.
00:08:52.300 The stock market was kind of calm.
00:08:55.680 Futures overnight then dropped precipitously with the change.
00:09:00.880 President Trump's dug in and then right now is up about 150.
00:09:07.580 I think that's because Scott Besson, the Secretary of Treasury, has been out there.
00:09:10.820 And, yes, there is a – remember, it's not really a negotiation because what they're putting out is non-negotiable.
00:09:17.180 But they're open to having meetings in which they can potentially work out deals.
00:09:23.040 We know that Japan, Korea and Vietnam and I think East Asia is very important this morning.
00:09:28.740 Caroline Renz actually happens to be in Malaysia at the ASEAN meeting.
00:09:33.180 We're going to get a report from her from Kuala Lumpur later in the show about the pressure the Chinese Communist Party is putting on Southeast Asia and East Asia to basically kowtow to them and abandon the United States up to the fact of the word there is that they're telling the delegation in Vietnam to leave Washington, D.C. and come back.
00:09:53.860 So this is full on, as we told you.
00:09:56.920 Remember, our saying here also is that the bond markets turfed out more governments than howitzers.
00:10:03.640 A little while ago, the bond market kind of froze up in 10-year Treasuries.
00:10:08.720 10-year Treasury popped to 4.5%.
00:10:11.860 Remember the other day we were on the show?
00:10:14.560 It was down – I think it hit 3.9, 3.95.
00:10:18.260 That was kind of irregular – I'm not saying liquidity, but irregular –
00:10:23.860 Treasuries back down, and I believe that is twofold.
00:10:26.860 Number one, not just the tariff situation, but now this outright throwdown between the Chinese Communist Party and the United States.
00:10:34.620 But in addition, I think it's just starting to think through the Senate bill, of which is being pushed by the president.
00:10:41.600 And I can tell you there's some spending there people don't understand and scratching their heads, including Jamie Dimon there, a $1 trillion defense bill.
00:10:49.480 And I don't know how that's aligned with hemispheric defense.
00:10:51.960 We're going to work through all that this morning.
00:10:54.680 A huge debate last night.
00:10:55.900 We'll get the clips of that last night between the Libertarian on Zero Hedge, Peter Schiff, and, of course, Spencer Morrison.
00:11:06.600 Spencer, give me your assessment, not just of – we'll play clips last night.
00:11:09.820 It was an incredible debate through hundreds of thousands of viewers.
00:11:14.480 We really want to thank Zero Hedge for putting on.
00:11:16.420 Give us your assessment of what's happened overnight because now this is – as I've said for the last couple of days, and that's why I keep my weekend FT, Trump defying his Beijing's fight back deepens turmoil.
00:11:29.440 This was China. 0.53
00:11:31.360 Yes, they had other aspects too, and you have to get it sorted.
00:11:34.000 You've got to get our other quote-unquote allies from ripping us off, and you have to understand how you get American cars into Japan, and you have to deal with the EU who wants us to defend us, who wants us to keep the carrier battle groups in the Red Sea.
00:11:50.300 Which, by the way, since the EU retaliated, I would pull both carrier battle groups out and say, guys, hope that Suez Canal thing works out for you.
00:11:59.280 Spencer, your thoughts overnight because now it's pretty open.
00:12:03.140 It's economic war between the Chinese Communist Party and the United States of America, sir.
00:12:07.600 And like you said, Steve, this is just the latest salvo in an economic war that's been raging for at least 20 years.
00:12:15.020 We have to remember that since China joined the World Trade Organization, they haven't played by any of the international rules.
00:12:20.800 They've instituted legal barriers to entry to the Chinese market.
00:12:25.320 They've given Chinese exporters massive subsidies and below-market rate loans so that they can invest in the capital that they need to feed the U.S. market.
00:12:37.600 And here's another thing that a lot of people don't know, that when a U.S. company wants to invest in China and build a factory, they have to partner with a Chinese company.
00:12:47.440 And they have to – the management, they have to export the technology, and they have to train up the Chinese people to do the jobs, right? 1.00
00:12:54.820 So this is an avenue for a technological path.
00:12:59.300 This is what Kevin O'Leary was saying last night.
00:13:01.920 You have to form a joint venture.
00:13:03.200 In that joint venture, you have to put all your intellectual property, all your processes, all your patents.
00:13:08.720 They get full access.
00:13:10.040 Spencer, hang on for one second.
00:13:12.080 We're on fire this morning.
00:13:13.540 We're going to go to Greece.
00:13:14.720 The great Matt Boyles just interviewed the prime minister.
00:13:18.480 He's got a lot to say about this trade war in the Chinese Communist Party.
00:13:21.820 The great Jack Posobiec is going to join us.
00:13:23.580 Todd Benzman.
00:13:24.440 As the U.S. military talks about going kinetic via drones on cartels, we've got Dr. Bradley Thayer about the Chinese Communist Party and the economic war.
00:13:34.900 Also, Caroline Wren is from Kuala Lumpur later in the show talking about ASEAN and the folks in Southeast Asia that want to be trading partners to the United States.
00:13:45.440 And guess what?
00:13:47.660 They want to give up their unfair trade practices and be a partner in the United States of America.
00:13:51.780 Okay, I think today's the day gold's over $3,000 again.
00:13:57.060 I said it was going to be turbulent.
00:13:59.480 And watch that bond market.
00:14:01.620 The bond market could take one of two things.
00:14:03.660 I think they could take a trade war or they could take this massive Senate bill.
00:14:08.320 The Senate bill has to be delineated.
00:14:10.420 We can't be like Liz Truss.
00:14:11.900 We can't just be throwing things out there and the Senate bill says, oh, $4 billion of cuts.
00:14:16.900 The gimmicks are not going to work.
00:14:18.860 You have to explain to people, particularly the bond market.
00:14:22.380 You have to explain to the bond market.
00:14:24.200 Bond market is more important than the equity market.
00:14:26.100 So don't get all, you know, don't wet yourself about the Dow Jones Industrial Average and forget about the bond market.
00:14:31.560 Bond market is very important and had a little hiccup this morning, a little freeze early in the morning.
00:14:37.900 Short commercial break.
00:14:39.060 Back in the warm in just a moment.
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00:16:12.480 And those I talk to around him, he is holding fast.
00:16:16.760 We've seen some slight rifts open up within the administration, within the Republican Party.
00:16:21.680 We know Treasury Secretary Besant urging more negotiations.
00:16:24.520 Some of those will be taking place in the days ahead.
00:16:28.200 Others, like Peter Navarro, some in the extended Trump world, those listening to the Steve Bannon podcast are saying,
00:16:33.880 no, dig in, this is indeed our moment to bring back these manufacturing jobs to the United States,
00:16:39.700 even though economist after economist after economist says that's just not realistic,
00:16:43.700 or at the very least, it'll be an extraordinarily lengthy process.
00:16:47.420 It will take years, and a lot of economic pain will be endured between now and then.
00:16:55.280 Okay, we're going to go around the world today.
00:16:57.000 Let's go to Greece and our own Matt Boyle, the national political editor of Breitbart News.
00:17:02.160 One, Matt, why are you in Greece?
00:17:04.780 Why is a Florida boy in Greece freezing?
00:17:07.020 What are you doing over there?
00:17:08.660 And I hear you got breaking news, sir.
00:17:10.640 Yeah, so I'm in Arecova, Greece right now.
00:17:14.420 We're up in the mountains.
00:17:15.880 And just a short way away from here, the Delphi Economic Forum is about to begin.
00:17:20.840 The Delphi Economic Forum is at the center of the world, the ancient world in Delphi.
00:17:25.620 The Greeks would come from all over the country, from all the different city-states like Athens,
00:17:30.420 to go to see the Oracle of Delphi to try to get advice, right?
00:17:36.920 Like, so the Athenians, the ancient Athenians came to Delphi to seek advice on how to stop the invasion of the Persian king, Circe, right?
00:17:47.220 Like, so they've been holding an annual economic forum for the last decade.
00:17:52.800 And there are a ton of world leaders and thought leaders, et cetera, that are coming here.
00:17:58.860 It couldn't be a better time to hold this, because this is the day the tariffs kicked in in the United States, the president's action.
00:18:05.760 And so everybody's looking to the United States to try to figure out what's going to happen.
00:18:11.660 I got to Greece a little over 48 hours ago.
00:18:15.860 In that time frame, I've interviewed the prime minister, one of Greece's two vice presidents,
00:18:22.360 as well as the archbishop of the Orthodox Church in Greece.
00:18:27.480 And tons of different news.
00:18:30.600 The big thing I would say, though, is the big takeaway from all of these conversations.
00:18:35.300 The Europeans, at least the Greeks, are ready to join with President Trump against China, right? 0.89
00:18:40.920 Like, they want to make a deal.
00:18:42.340 They want to figure out how do they get there.
00:18:45.100 The prime minister of Greece, Mitsotakis, told me that he is ready.
00:18:50.800 He believes Europe is ready to make a deal that he called win-win, a mutually beneficial deal with President Trump.
00:19:01.060 And that they understand that the big picture here is about stopping the Chinese Communist Party.
00:19:06.220 So that trade war that we're talking about here, that economic warfare with China, that's what this picture is about.
00:19:12.420 And I think that President Trump has a unique opportunity right now around the world with what you see with a number of these countries,
00:19:19.300 whether it be the Europeans, who are sometimes being dragged kicking and screaming along to the point of working with the Americans to stand up to China.
00:19:28.860 But they may get dragged there.
00:19:30.620 But along with that, the Japanese, the South Koreans, the Indians, and so many more, President Trump can unite the world and create a global coalition to defeat the Chinese Communist Party.
00:19:43.760 And there's a pathway to do so already in existence.
00:19:47.220 President Trump signed earlier this year, and this is the big picture.
00:19:50.380 And I asked the president about this when I was in the White House with him just a few weeks ago.
00:19:54.920 So he signed a deal with Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, when he came to the United States, called the IMEK Corridor.
00:20:03.520 And the IMEK Corridor is the first Western-led trade corridor to counter the Belt and Road Initiative from China.
00:20:12.980 It starts in India.
00:20:15.000 It goes through the Middle East.
00:20:16.520 And this is why expanding the Abraham Accords and getting the Saudis on board is so important. 0.98
00:20:21.300 It goes through UAE and Saudi Arabia.
00:20:23.400 And then it goes through Israel.
00:20:25.960 And then it goes from there through Cyprus into Greece into Western Europe.
00:20:31.200 So the way to look at this is, and this is what the prime minister told me, is that you have on one side the world's biggest democracy in India.
00:20:39.820 On the other side, the world's most powerful democracy in the United States.
00:20:44.540 And the birthplace of democracy right here in Greece, in the center that holds the whole thing together.
00:20:50.060 And this is the Western world's answer to the communist-led trade routes through the Belt and Road Initiative.
00:20:57.160 Is there an understanding of not just the Greeks but the other Europeans that are there that we have to come to some sort of – there's got to be worked out – you know, we put forward this – the issue of reciprocity, which both tariffs and non-tariff barriers, particularly in countries like Germany, et cetera.
00:21:15.720 Is there an understanding at this conference that these are reasonable requests and somehow we've got to figure this out?
00:21:22.920 I've only talked to Greeks so far.
00:21:25.980 So I haven't talked to some of the folks from the other places yet.
00:21:28.940 So I don't want to give you misinformation.
00:21:32.060 But I do think that what you're seeing from the European leaders – and you heard this from the European Union president, Ursula von der Leyen, the other day.
00:21:41.400 They're willing to work with the United States.
00:21:44.020 Their effort – their measures that they approved just moments ago, the European Union, are frankly – they're kind of muted, right?
00:21:54.160 Like these were things they were planning anyway in response to the aluminum and steel tariffs.
00:22:00.100 They dropped the bourbon tariff that they were going to do after President Trump's threat of 200 percent tariffs in response on any European alcohol imports to the United States.
00:22:10.620 So I think the Europeans, based off my conversations, again, pretty heavily with the Greeks and I'll see if I meet some folks from some other nations, is that President Trump can rally Europe to his side in the broader economic war with China.
00:22:25.820 You've been following President Trump as close as anybody for the last 10 years.
00:22:31.800 It should be no surprise that this throwdown with China came and China's punching back with all their might and actually the Wall Street Journal is reporting how they've been preparing their toolbox with a lot of different – including, as I've been warning on this show, maybe even cutting off medicines and active pharmaceutical ingredients.
00:22:49.120 I mean, they've got a whole escalatory ladder.
00:22:50.920 You're – knowing President Trump, is there anything that President Trump's done in the last 48 hours vis-a-vis the Chinese Communist Party and China as a trading partner surprise you?
00:23:00.980 No.
00:23:02.200 This is – and everybody keeps asking me, oh, is Trump going to back down because of the Wall Street trade, you know, the markets or the media pressure?
00:23:10.260 No.
00:23:10.660 President Trump has been gearing up for this moment his entire life, right?
00:23:15.220 Like, go back and watch the interviews he did decades before he was president.
00:23:19.560 I've talked to him about this dating back to, you know, two years before, three years before he ran the first time.
00:23:26.240 And during his presidency, both presidencies, and in the intermediary time between.
00:23:33.420 President Trump has been, you know, gunning for this fight forever.
00:23:37.980 And the reason why is because the United States needs it.
00:23:41.580 It's like a nuclear bomb went off, Steve, in America's heartland, right?
00:23:45.280 Like, after the Cold War, right?
00:23:47.020 America after World War II was a manufacturing powerhouse.
00:23:50.020 This is what I keep telling all the Greek leaders that I've been meeting with.
00:23:53.080 Because I've met with several business leaders, politicians, et cetera.
00:23:57.120 They have my schedule very packed while I'm here, right?
00:23:59.700 Because I'm only here for a few days.
00:24:00.900 But the, I keep telling everybody, after we were manufacturing powerhouse coming out of World War II, and then after the Cold War, we, you know, the entire foreign policy establishment acted like history was over.
00:24:15.300 That was the phrase you would hear.
00:24:16.440 It was the end of history, right?
00:24:18.060 Like, that there was no challenge anymore.
00:24:19.980 And then that allowed the Chinese Communist Party, and frankly, the politicians in both parties in America, both Republicans and Democrats, from both Bushes, the Clintons, the Obamas,
00:24:30.900 and Biden allowed China to hollow out our middle class.
00:24:35.920 It's like in all the factories.
00:24:38.520 So many of the factories are shut down.
00:24:40.280 The ones that are still operating that used to employ, say, 30,000, 20,000 people maybe employ 1,000 now, right?
00:24:46.580 Like, so it's as if a nuclear bomb went off in Ohio.
00:24:50.380 And President Trump deeply understands this.
00:24:53.180 And then, oh, by the way, China, just for good measure, just keeps pumping fentanyl back into the, to replace the jobs, right? 0.65
00:25:00.220 Like, so they steal our factories and our innovation and our manufacturing.
00:25:05.180 And then they, they pump drugs in to poison our people afterwards.
00:25:09.140 So when I say it's a nuclear, like a nuclear bomb went off, it's not just the, the, the hit of losing the job and losing the factory.
00:25:15.820 Then they're addicting all of our people to, to deadly chemical drugs.
00:25:19.860 And, um, uh, it's having lasting, lingering effects.
00:25:23.540 So President Trump is exactly right about this.
00:25:26.180 And I think that, um, he's not backing down.
00:25:29.640 There's no reason why he would back down.
00:25:31.760 Uh, there's nothing that the establishment can do to stop him.
00:25:34.840 And I think that, uh, look, this is a big swing.
00:25:37.680 He's taking a huge swing here, uh, as president, uh, it's maybe bigger than, uh, many of us would have thought he would have taken, right?
00:25:45.540 Cause you know, sometimes, you know, once they get there, they get into office, you know, all these people get around them and they try to work them from different sides.
00:25:53.380 I'm impressed with President Trump.
00:25:55.360 And I think that, um, the more he holds the line and buckles down here, if he succeeds on this, and I think he will, uh, he will go down as one of the greatest presidents, uh, in, in, in our country.
00:26:06.100 They'll have to carve out a, an extra spot for him on Mount Rushmore if he wins on this fight, right?
00:26:11.360 Like, I mean, and they'll probably be on, uh, you know, on, on money at some point, right?
00:26:15.940 Like, I mean, he's going to be remembered as an incredible president if he pulls off this huge swing that he's taking.
00:26:21.280 Matt Boyle, where do people, uh, get your reporting at Breitbart and see the, uh, the interview you're going to put up with the Greek prime minister, where'd they go?
00:26:30.080 Yeah, we just published it.
00:26:31.720 Uh, it's at Breitbart.com and, uh, on my X handle at mboyle1, I'll have all sorts of different things.
00:26:37.620 And we've got tons more stories coming from here.
00:26:40.760 So, uh, exciting stuff, uh, uh, from here.
00:26:43.720 So Steve, thanks for having me.
00:26:45.120 Exciting stuff.
00:26:46.080 An amazing, amazing background here in Arakowa.
00:26:48.780 So I had to do the hit outside.
00:26:51.280 No, amazing.
00:26:53.180 Amazing.
00:26:53.640 Let you get inside.
00:26:54.280 Let the Florida boy get inside and not freeze.
00:26:56.200 Okay.
00:26:57.760 Amazing.
00:26:58.300 Great report.
00:27:00.700 Jack Posobiec is going to join us in a moment.
00:27:02.720 We're going to go to commercial break.
00:27:04.000 We got Spencer Morrison.
00:27:05.380 Spencer had the big debate last night on, uh, Zero Hedge.
00:27:08.920 I want to thank the team over at Zero Hedge for making that possible with Peter Schiff.
00:27:13.720 Uh, I mean, we're prejudiced.
00:27:15.060 We think Spencer did amazing.
00:27:17.920 I think the audience in too.
00:27:19.140 Jack Posobiec is one of the top experts in the country as a naval intelligence officer,
00:27:25.440 speaks perfect Mandarin, reads Chinese, knows from an intelligence point of view,
00:27:31.700 and also President Trump and the White House and the MAGA movement.
00:27:35.900 He's going to be with us next short commercial break.
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00:29:49.100 Okay, welcome back.
00:29:50.920 We're going to go around the world this morning because this is a world event.
00:29:54.720 We want the War Room audience to watch that.
00:29:57.860 I am watching the bond market.
00:29:59.920 As you remember, I've said, and Jack, you know this, that there are more governments turfed out.
00:30:04.980 The bond market is taking out more governments than howitzers.
00:30:09.440 You've got to watch that bond market.
00:30:11.380 The 10-year treasury drives your life.
00:30:13.520 It's been a little, it's been, it's jerked around here the last couple of days.
00:30:18.100 Froze up a tad this morning.
00:30:19.900 I happen to think that's dumping the Senate bill on top of it, particularly with not, it's ill-formed.
00:30:25.620 You have to be very, you have to have a lot of specificity on these things right now.
00:30:28.800 People are paying attention.
00:30:31.360 Posobiec, your thoughts on Boyle.
00:30:33.920 By the way, incredible interview with Matt Bull in Greece.
00:30:36.440 I want to thank Matt for going outside and freezing to do that.
00:30:39.920 Thoughts on his from Greece, also yours.
00:30:42.580 They got Taiwan this morning, China.
00:30:45.700 You know this area.
00:30:47.260 You know the neighborhood better than anybody.
00:30:48.700 What do you think?
00:30:50.380 Yeah, Boyle is, I guess he's a month early for the East Med.
00:30:53.020 It'll probably warm up a little bit, a little bit come May, but you have to have that Delphi for him a little bit later up there on Mount Olympus, I guess.
00:31:01.240 Get us some of those thunderbolts for him.
00:31:03.620 But look, when it comes down to it, when it comes down to it, with President Steve, go back to the very first days of war room pandemic.
00:31:11.240 Go back to the very first days of all the things that we've talked about from that day until now.
00:31:18.340 Everything that we've discussed has been building to this moment.
00:31:23.020 Everything that MAGA has been fighting for, everything that these people have been fighting for, we're almost at the 10-year mark of President Trump coming down that escalator, coming down the golden escalator.
00:31:34.180 It'll be just in a couple of months here.
00:31:35.700 It's 10 years to say the American people have been ripped off.
00:31:40.480 And what have we said?
00:31:41.520 We said that it was an emerger, an elite merger.
00:31:46.060 Not capture, but an elite merger.
00:31:47.680 Natalie Winters has all the reports.
00:31:49.380 National Pulse has all the reports.
00:31:50.800 A merger of the elites of the United States and the elites of China.
00:31:55.200 And through that corrupt elite merger, they built the seeds of globalism, sown, by the way, on the bloodied streets of Tiananmen Square.
00:32:05.260 We've talked about this for years, wrote books about it, et cetera, et cetera.
00:32:07.900 And now President Trump is finally going to do something to fight back.
00:32:14.780 I'm not just talking about the IP stealing and the military secrets and all the stuff that's going on and Clinton selling them the satellite technology and all the rest.
00:32:22.260 No, no, no, no.
00:32:22.760 We're talking about the hollowing out of the middle class. 0.56
00:32:24.960 We're talking about the hollowing out of the working class, particularly in – go look at the – why is the Rust Belt like the Rust Belt? 0.97
00:32:30.300 Why is Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin look the way that it does and Shanghai and Shenzhen look the way they do?
00:32:38.700 That's where your money went.
00:32:40.420 That's where all these people – oh, China is more technologically advanced than us and China's leaps and bounds.
00:32:45.140 Guess what?
00:32:46.020 That's built off of Western capital.
00:32:48.000 That's built off of the backs of the American people being turned into a zombie-like consumer slave class where you have two options, right?
00:32:56.740 Go buy the new iPhone or go take the latest fentanyl and as you go slowly spin down into a downward spiral of depression and the deaths of despair throughout the America's economic heartland.
00:33:08.880 That's why the MAGA movement exists.
00:33:11.040 That's why President Trump is where he is.
00:33:13.100 That is what the American people voted for him to do, not the elites, the working class people of this country.
00:33:19.800 When I saw President Trump's speech last night at the NRCC, I said that is full-throated, raw economic nationalism, and I had tears in my eyes watching that speech because finally, finally someone is actually doing something about the Chinese Communist Party that has been robbing us blind for 30 years.
00:33:37.480 And look, I've talked about this for so long.
00:33:39.620 I spent two years over there, about 2006 to 2008, off and on, going back and forth, Shanghai, Shanghai American Chamber of Commerce, going working for a U.S. firm, trying to bring U.S. business over there.
00:33:50.360 We can't bring U.S. businesses over there. 0.96
00:33:52.200 There's all sorts of trade barriers and all of a sudden some party members got this problem and they got that problem and, oh, this can't come over because, you know, you've got agriculture.
00:33:59.640 You've got mad cow disease and you've got bird flu, so we've got to block this and block that. 0.69
00:34:03.820 They won't call it a tariff, but they'll call it something else because they know exactly what they're doing.
00:34:08.580 And then you have American business owners and American politicians going over there saying, oh, so you're a model.
00:34:15.660 You don't have to worry about pollution controls or human rights or civil rights or any of these things.
00:34:20.360 You get to pay people nothing.
00:34:21.400 And you have all these workers and they'll do they'll do the work much, much cheaper than all those those union workers, manufacturing workers and blue collar workers in the United States.
00:34:30.540 This is great.
00:34:31.500 We love this system.
00:34:32.500 And then we're going to come back and import it to the United States.
00:34:35.900 The big lie of all of this has been rather than China becoming more open and democratic if we put them into the World Trade Organization or give them the PNTR, the Permanent Normal Trade Relations.
00:34:47.320 No, the most favored nation status, by the way.
00:34:49.720 No, we've become more Chinese.
00:34:52.060 We've become more like them.
00:34:53.780 We've become more autocratic.
00:34:55.340 We've become more socialist.
00:34:56.920 We've become more more like Xi Jinping's technocracy.
00:35:01.200 And it's done.
00:35:02.000 And by the way, Steve, what happened the very last time that China had their backs up against the wall, right up against the wall, like Kevin O'Leary said?
00:35:10.000 What happened?
00:35:11.400 COVID.
00:35:12.440 That's when COVID-19 was released at the height of the Hong Kong protests, at the height of Trump's tariffs the first time.
00:35:19.100 COVID comes out.
00:35:20.120 COVID-19.
00:35:21.040 They lied about it.
00:35:22.440 And by the way, the Free Beacon has the story yesterday.
00:35:24.920 They hit our soldiers at the Wuhan World Military Games in October 2019.
00:35:30.020 They lied about this.
00:35:31.200 They knew it was coming to the United States.
00:35:32.780 So don't sit there and tell me, oh, Wall Street Journal, oh, they got a whole of war.
00:35:37.860 No, it was warfare.
00:35:39.000 It was warfare.
00:35:39.820 And it's time to fight back.
00:35:41.760 Yeah.
00:35:42.640 They declared a people's war on us in May of 2019 when they rejected the Lighthizer-Navarro deal that President Trump had worked on for two years.
00:35:52.840 They declared it had one belt, one road, the top of their game.
00:35:55.720 They were crushing Hong Kong.
00:35:57.200 They rolled right into the games, released COVID to stop Trump.
00:36:00.900 You said on the very first show, folks, particularly newer audience members, but our original posse would remember the very first show, Jack Posobiec was on there.
00:36:11.440 And I asked you the question, the very first pandemic after we shifted over from impeachment in late January of 2020.
00:36:18.780 I asked you point blank.
00:36:20.660 I said, does he still have the mandate from heaven?
00:36:23.380 And you said it's questionable.
00:36:25.380 What about today?
00:36:26.220 Is that Xi trying to convince the Chinese people he still retains the mandate from heaven?
00:36:30.900 Well, that's exactly what Kevin O'Leary was discussing when he said Xi cannot remain supreme leader if he loses the mandate of heaven, if he loses face in front of the Chinese people.
00:36:40.240 So the mandate of heaven goes into this idea, this theory of Chinese history of the cyclical nature of Chinese dynasties.
00:36:48.260 And if you look at the CCP as a modern dynasty of China, the same way Qing dynasty, Ming dynasty, Song dynasty, Qin dynasty, et cetera, all the way back to Emperor Qin Shi Huang and the Yellow Emperor, the Golden Emperor, all the rest, that a dynasty falls when the dynasty becomes corrupt, when a dynasty loses.
00:37:06.620 So invasion, pestilence, economic downturn, disease, famine, these are all reasons for a dynasty to have lost face or in the Chinese context, lost the mandate of heaven. 0.75
00:37:20.000 And so if the Chinese people believe he has lost this, then potentially that would be something that would actually sap the economic strength or the political strength of his position within China.
00:37:29.580 Now, I don't think that he is in a position to lose power in China right now.
00:37:33.960 That's not what I'm saying.
00:37:34.820 But what I am talking about is this is the nature of how China works.
00:37:40.300 This is the nature of how things have always been.
00:37:42.140 So he's going to fight as hard as possible to maintain the Chinese Communist Party's grip on control within China, the same way he did back all the way back then.
00:37:53.780 The market is basically flat right now.
00:37:56.540 So people are waiting for the next blow to fall.
00:37:59.160 This is after the European Union.
00:38:01.000 Jack, hang on one second.
00:38:02.180 I want to bring in Benzman on the fentanyl situation.
00:38:05.040 And Jack, get your intel observation.
00:38:07.640 Todd Benzman joins us.
00:38:09.060 Todd reports out that the U.S. military or CIA are looking at doing actual kinetic drone strikes to stop the fentanyl traffic.
00:38:18.000 A Treasury today put out a report.
00:38:21.840 Besant was up and said that the fentanyl thing is getting worse right now.
00:38:25.680 The Chinese Communist Party, they had a biological war with the pandemic.
00:38:31.560 This is chemical warfare against the American people. 0.53
00:38:34.480 They're not dialing it back.
00:38:36.100 It may be a little stop coming through Mexico because of the tariffs, but they're not dialing it back.
00:38:40.440 Talk to me about this report and your assessment.
00:38:44.540 Yeah, NBC is out with a pretty scoopy report talking about how the White House and Trump are interested in unilateral drone strikes against the cartels in Mexico.
00:38:59.960 This is causing quite a kerfuffle, of course, in the bilateral relationship between Mexico and the United States.
00:39:08.980 But I've been telling you here for, you know, a couple of months now that they seem to be the United States seems to be moving in a direction toward this for since the very beginning, you know, putting a bunch of spy flights up and naval vessels off both coasts and 10th Mountain Division on our side and and striker brigades, CIA.
00:39:35.120 So, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if Trump decided at some point to start striking in Mexico, which would be just absolutely unprecedented.
00:39:49.100 Claudia Scheinbaum is out over the last 10 hours or so complaining about this, saying, you know, we're you know, we're we're opposed to this.
00:39:58.380 It's it's something we won't accept, et cetera.
00:40:02.360 But, you know, Donald Trump is not a conventional president at all, as we all know.
00:40:08.800 And so, you know, anything's possible.
00:40:11.520 It's the madman theory in action here.
00:40:16.640 Hang on one second.
00:40:17.580 I just want everybody to understand this is all part of a piece.
00:40:21.720 The Chinese Communist Party with the fentanyl was their chemical weapon. 0.88
00:40:25.460 That was their kind of second opium war.
00:40:27.540 What the British did to them. 0.99
00:40:28.860 They're doing now to us.
00:40:30.640 President Trump has said it got to stop the games.
00:40:33.060 Now, we know from reports in The New York Times, Todd, that the that the fentanyl, the tariffs have cut the fentanyl by 50 percent.
00:40:41.200 But the report best and the people are talking about is that the Chinese Communist Party are still in back of this and trying to push hard.
00:40:47.200 I guess the blockbuster in the story is not so much the drone strikes, but it's unilateral.
00:40:52.880 In other words, he ain't dialing in the Mexicans.
00:40:55.340 I think I think the feeling is probably they don't want this to leak because the Mexican, even the Mexican Marines are rife with informants for the cartels.
00:41:04.560 The cartels own the federales.
00:41:06.760 They own the politicians.
00:41:07.900 You keep talking about going after the company.
00:41:09.760 Is this why President Trump's thinking now of unit unilateral military action against the at least these labs, these concentration of labs in these in these mountain towns, sir?
00:41:21.280 Yeah, look, Mexico is acting.
00:41:25.440 They are moving on fentanyl labs in places like Culiacan, where Ben Burkwam and Oscar have been visiting recently.
00:41:35.720 New York Times has been down there.
00:41:38.220 They are moving.
00:41:39.100 They are doing some things.
00:41:40.680 The seizures are way down on our side of the border.
00:41:45.340 It does seem like there's been action, but not enough.
00:41:48.680 Apparently, Donald Trump doesn't think that there's been enough action.
00:41:53.240 And I'm guessing that they probably discern that the Mexicans heart is not really in that fight.
00:42:00.220 They're all taking their cut, in my opinion.
00:42:04.180 And I think that's an informed opinion.
00:42:06.460 For many, many years, there have been no raids whatsoever.
00:42:09.720 No move on Culiacan labs for years and years, 10 years.
00:42:14.320 All of a sudden, now they're doing a few things.
00:42:16.880 But evidently, it's not enough.
00:42:20.600 So, you know, we'll see.
00:42:21.980 And I think the numbers for fentanyl smuggling events are going to be down again in March.
00:42:29.580 That'll be three consecutive months of declines in fentanyl seizures on our side, which is a good indicator.
00:42:38.700 And Derek Maltz, the head of DEA, told me last week that he thinks that they've got intel that the cartels are making a decision to start moving fentanyl into European markets instead of our markets just to get the heat off of them.
00:42:56.840 Maybe that is emboldening Trump.
00:43:00.720 Maybe they want to keep that fire under the pan, so to speak, on that.
00:43:07.160 Who knows what's going on there?
00:43:08.640 But it's definitely caught everybody's attention on that NBC report.
00:43:13.560 Yeah, that was a controlled leak.
00:43:18.920 They had pretty good sourcing on that.
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00:45:05.480 I've been telling you for a long time that this day was coming, right?
00:45:10.220 We're now, this is a throwdown.
00:45:12.480 And I agree with Boyle.
00:45:13.840 I agree with Poso.
00:45:15.720 I agree that Ben's been, President Trump's not backing off this.
00:45:18.640 And that means the Chinese Communist Party's got a big toolbox, part of the toolbox.
00:45:23.780 The Wall Street Journal's talking about is, guess what, active pharmaceutical ingredients.
00:45:28.560 Of course, everything, rare earths, everything that they've controlled.
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00:45:47.920 This is a world that is a-changing, right?
00:45:51.000 As Boyle said and Poso said, they've been an unrestricted war for us over a decade, right?
00:45:56.680 But people's war outright since May of 2019, viciously, viciously.
00:46:01.620 First of the pandemic from the Wuhan lab, which we called in the very first day of war and pandemic. 0.96
00:46:07.040 And we're proven right over time after being smeared and, remember, deplatformed by everybody because of that.
00:46:14.740 And also for standing up for President Trump and his victory in 2020, which we're very proud of even today because he did win in 2020.
00:46:23.680 Birchgold.com, ended the dollar empire.
00:46:26.600 In the Wall Street Journal article, what they talk about is the Chinese Communist Party making all efforts right now on a de-dollarization move globally.
00:46:35.540 Because they're getting crushed in their capital markets.
00:46:39.100 So de-dollarization, remember, that's what we talk about in the end of the dollar empire.
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00:46:46.760 Poso, you heard Benzman.
00:46:49.080 He makes the case that President Trump and the team are thinking about this.
00:46:53.460 People should understand the NBC report was quite well sourced from, you know, the Pentagon, the intelligence services, and the White House.
00:47:02.780 Your thoughts, sir?
00:47:03.580 Look, Steve, when it comes down, though, we know that the border situation has gotten completely out of control.
00:47:10.560 These people not only – and I shouldn't say people, these scum, these absolute animals that are operating on both sides of the border.
00:47:16.840 That's what's clear about this is that these rat lines that they've had over, up, and into parts of the southern United States have been going on for a decade plus.
00:47:25.320 The situation is completely unstable.
00:47:27.300 Why are we so worried about the borders of countries that are thousands and thousands of miles away?
00:47:33.620 And when, again, we're not protecting our own economic heartland?
00:47:37.340 You know, I'm a Mackinderite when it comes to the American heartland.
00:47:41.620 You know, not so much about the world island, but when it comes to the American heartland, yeah, then I become a Mackinderite.
00:47:48.020 And so this idea is we need to fight – if you look at it as a whole-of-government, whole-of-society approach towards the CCP, well, guess what?
00:47:58.780 The CCP, where are they?
00:48:00.320 They're at the Panama Canal.
00:48:01.660 They're at the border when it comes to the fentanyl through the backfilling of these cartels.
00:48:06.920 They're coming across the Arctic.
00:48:09.180 They're going to Taiwan with the first island chain there.
00:48:11.840 So when you look at all of these things writ large, and then, of course, they're all backfilling with Wall Street and the Ivy Leagues and taking all of our professors, the Thousand Talents program.
00:48:22.220 I got it, OK?
00:48:23.280 The answer is what's behind every door.
00:48:26.320 It always ends up being China. 0.98
00:48:29.080 So they're fighting a people's war against us on every single front. 0.70
00:48:33.460 And finally, finally, there is an administration that says rather than tapping into that, that's saying I'm going to be on the crack myself.
00:48:43.040 No, we're going to get America off the crack.
00:48:45.640 We're going to get America back to a holistic, healthy heartland economically, spiritually, and physically.
00:48:53.640 And, yes, that means taking out the running dogs of the CCP in these cartels.
00:48:58.840 So, yeah, if there's some cartels that don't want to stand down, well, guess what?
00:49:02.500 We've got drones.
00:49:03.640 We've got the 75th Ranger Regiment.
00:49:05.560 We've got the 82nd Airborne.
00:49:07.140 Let's have at it.
00:49:08.000 Let's have at all of it.
00:49:09.320 When it comes to special forces, why not?
00:49:11.640 Wouldn't surprise me, by the way, Steve, if we had a couple of three guys that are already out there painting targets.
00:49:21.760 Todd Benzman, you just heard Jack.
00:49:24.360 People are serious about this.
00:49:25.700 We're fed up with it.
00:49:26.560 We're tired of having our people destroyed by this chemical warfare attack by the Chinese Communist Party. 0.99
00:49:32.280 How do you think that's going to set down south of the border, sir?
00:49:37.320 Oh, I mean, you know, it's the American dogs.
00:49:41.800 I mean, there's a long history about, you know, American military adventures in Mexico and everywhere else down there.
00:49:50.320 And people are, especially people like Claudia Scheinbaum, you know, people on the kind of socialist left are especially keyed in on this.
00:50:02.540 So I don't know what their pushback is going to be, but they'll push back if we try something like that.
00:50:10.820 I think what they're up for is some joint kind of U.S. intelligence-led intervention kind of action down there.
00:50:19.580 I don't know what they're going to do if we just go at unilateral.
00:50:22.880 I mean, I think they're going to lose their collective minds.
00:50:25.180 And one thing about that that I do worry about, I'll just put this out there, is that we don't want to see the Mexican population, you know, start viewing the cartels as the hero victims of martyrs against the, you know, the North American dogs that are doing this to us again.
00:50:47.680 And so there's – I think there is a fine balance.
00:50:50.560 We don't want to lose the Mexican people in too much military intervention.
00:50:56.360 It's just something to think about.
00:50:59.520 Yeah, no, that gets to the Pancho Villa, Blackjack Pershing, the last expeditionary force I think we said down there.
00:51:05.940 Todd, we'll spend more time on this during the week.
00:51:09.080 Where do people go to get all your great writings and all your information?
00:51:11.820 Because this front in the war of the Chinese Communist Party is about to go kinetic, I believe, either in combination with the Mexican military or in a solo endeavor.
00:51:23.260 So where do people get you?
00:51:24.460 I know you're covering it nonstop.
00:51:26.600 Well, they sure have been setting the table for that for a couple of months now.
00:51:31.240 Yeah, so you can, you know, follow me at – on X, Benzman Todd.
00:51:35.480 I've got an account at Getter, very active, and Truth Social.
00:51:40.800 ToddBenzman.com is my website, and you can follow my newsletter.
00:51:45.280 Sign up for my free newsletter there.
00:51:47.180 I've got a piece about to publish in the Daily Wire that I just came back from the border, and I'll put that up here shortly.
00:51:57.920 Great, and we'll push it out.
00:52:00.000 Todd Benzman's Daily Wire piece will push out as soon as we get it.
00:52:02.820 Thank you, Todd.
00:52:03.460 Look forward to having you back on during the week.
00:52:06.360 Got to use Todd Benzman while we can.
00:52:09.900 Never know when we're going to lose him to the administration.
00:52:13.220 Jack's going to stick around.
00:52:14.260 We've got Spencer Morrison.
00:52:15.520 I hate to say the victor of the debate last night, but let's say the victor of the debate last night.
00:52:19.980 Although it was a great debate.
00:52:21.860 Libertarians versus the Nationalists.
00:52:24.380 We're going to take a short commercial break.
00:52:26.340 We've got the right stuff to take us out.
00:52:27.760 We're going to go around the globe to Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur,
00:52:31.520 to hear about what our potential trading allies are talking about now.
00:52:36.700 Jack Posobo is going to stick around with me.
00:52:38.260 Short commercial break.
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