Bannon's War Room - Episode 4446： Truckers Celebrate President Trump’s EO Protecting English-Speaking Truckers, India’s Role In Defeating The CCP

00:00:00.000 Got it. We got so many. Look, I want to get to him, but we got so many Pam and cash.

00:00:04.520 We got to get focused on some. And I hear there's news going to break in the next week or two.

00:00:08.940 I spoke to cash. It's stacked up. I need Brennan. I spoke to one all of America.

00:00:13.280 I spoke to cash on Friday. He said expect something high profile very soon.

00:00:16.280 So hopefully it's that, Steve. I'm going to give it to you because I've already eaten into your show.

00:00:19.760 And I'm looking forward to seeing working with you tomorrow.

00:00:21.600 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're the best. You're the best day block we got.

00:00:26.240 OK, Eric Bolling is in the house tomorrow here in in Washington.

00:00:32.260 He's going to be hanging out. We're doing five hours of cover starting at three o'clock all the way through.

00:00:36.960 Gruber is going to be there as the one of the host at the at the Trump 100 day in Michigan.

00:00:44.520 And our guy, Brian Glenn's on the plane. He's on Air Force One.

00:00:48.760 So we're going to have a great time. It starts at six. We'll be picking up coverage at three.

00:00:52.880 Eric, you and I got a lot to catch up on. We'll have a great time.

00:00:55.560 See you tomorrow, Steve. I'll bring you a cigar.

00:01:00.800 It's another bad habit. I quit. All my bad habits.

00:01:04.940 That's what I'm here for. That's what I'm here for.

00:01:09.120 See you tomorrow.

00:01:11.620 One thing, one thing we can't go to Rio together. You go, you go as the you go as the advance man.

00:01:17.560 Yeah, I think it would be it might be a little bit of a problem.

00:01:19.880 No, but, you know, since you since you traded oil and gold for a dozen years in the pits, you'd be perfect.

00:01:25.680 Go down there. This meeting is so big because we've been warning people for years since we teamed up with Birch Gold to do the end of the dollar empire that this day was coming.

00:01:34.480 Remember, this is the thing, you know, and today, John Thune, prior to let you go, Eric, John Thune put out something truthful.

00:01:42.840 He said, hey, look, from the Senate's perspective, I'm not so sure we get to this, that this thing's going to be ready for us to really consider until after Memorial Day.

00:01:52.520 He said, look, it could be through the summer before you vote.

00:01:55.820 This is what I've been saying. People are saying this thing's going to get voted on and sent to the president by Memorial Day are sending the president wishful thinking and we got to get back to reality check.

00:02:05.680 And there's no bigger way to give people a reality check than have the bond market sit here, start to opine on the range of options we have.

00:02:14.180 Eric, as you know, those options get narrower and narrower every day.

00:02:18.320 You know, and that's why I think this real reset is going to be a big deal.

00:02:21.180 You know who would love to see the real reset? Not those BRIC countries. 1.00

00:02:24.340 Besides, China wants to see that. China would love to see the U.S. dollar no longer be the reserve currency because, I don't know, maybe the thing yuan, maybe, who knows, maybe the euro.

00:02:34.480 But whatever it is, if it's not the U.S. dollar, that means all those countries that hold U.S. dollars to negotiate trade, currency transactions, are going to have to dump them.

00:02:45.080 That is really a lot of selling, like insane selling in the U.S. dollar. It's a scary concept.

00:02:49.560 And by the way, you want to be buying gold before that reset in case it happens because $3,300 would look like a cheap price if it does happen.

00:03:00.080 This is what we did. You know, the president, as if he doesn't have enough weight on his shoulders right now, to add that one would be unsatisfactory.

00:03:06.200 So we all got to pull together. Eric Bolling, look forward to seeing you in the House tomorrow, sir.

00:03:09.900 Yes, sir.

00:03:10.140 That's going to be fun. 100 days. President Trump's going to go to Michigan, the state that gave him the victory.

00:03:19.260 And we're going to cover it wall to wall. Brian Glenn is on Air Force One. Is that amazing? Does that sound great?

00:03:24.660 Brian Glenn's on Air Force One. And Steve Gruber is going to be there at the actual event itself and giving us play-by-play commentary.

00:03:34.740 And Eric and I will be here. This starts at 3 o'clock tomorrow, where Steve Gruber's show naturally is.

00:03:40.480 I think he's going to be doing things at the convention. We'll dial him in as we go.

00:03:45.020 OK, remember a couple of weeks ago we had the truckers on here about truck only, truckers that could speak English, right?

00:03:51.960 No foreign truckers should be here in the United States of America. 1.00

00:03:54.440 Well, President Trump's about to go in the Oval in a few minutes and sign an executive order.

00:03:58.280 Let's play the cold open and we'll bring the truckers in. 1.00

00:04:00.760 Well, we fired the first shot back at him in Arkansas.

00:04:05.620 We found a state representative here by the name of Wayne Long and a state senator.

00:04:12.820 John Payton filed House Bill 1569, which was written.

00:04:17.900 It was the Secure Roads and Safe Trucking Act.

00:04:20.800 And it was written to require all truck drivers to read and speak the English language.

00:04:24.500 It was written to close the loopholes for non-domicile commercial driver's license and to close the loopholes for the foreign commercial driver's license

00:04:32.580 and to create felony code for non-citizens that cause injuries and fatalities on our highways.

00:04:38.480 Unfortunately, because of political games and shenanigans here in the state of Arkansas, we never even got to present that bill to the committee.

00:04:46.840 The Trucking Association put forward another bill, HB 1745, which addressed none of those issues that we just brought up directly.

00:04:56.980 All of those issues are still allowed on Arkansas highways.

00:05:03.540 The one thing that it did do in the 11th hour was they added English proficiency.

00:05:07.940 They put a fine in HB 1745 so that a driver has now fined $500 if he's caught unable to read and speak English.

00:05:15.600 But they still let him go.

00:05:17.240 So an officer is going to pull him over.

00:05:18.940 They're going to write him a ticket for $500 and say, OK, but now you can carry on on your way.

00:05:22.720 The whole purpose of the English proficiency law is that he's an imminent hazard to the motoring public,

00:05:27.820 so he should be taken out of service and removed from the truck or the truck impounded.

00:05:32.820 This is outrageous.

00:05:33.760 You can't have foreigners coming in here and taking truckers' jobs and don't read English, don't understand English. 1.00

00:05:42.240 It's outrageous.

00:05:44.440 This is my point about American citizens.

00:05:47.000 Whether you're in Silicon Valley or driving a truck, you shouldn't have to compete in your own nation, your own country, with foreigners. 1.00

00:05:56.420 American companies should be able to compete around the world if they want and have plants overseas to do what they want.

00:06:02.680 But in this country, you shouldn't have foreign labor imported here to compete against you. 1.00

00:06:09.800 This was Biden's thing about low-skilled labor.

00:06:11.520 This is why we got 10 million illegal aliens up through there.

00:06:14.720 And as Todd Benz has told you totally again, it wasn't chaos.

00:06:17.140 It was so perfectly thought through.

00:06:20.280 This is why we need some investigations, the rest of those people that did it.

00:06:25.840 Start with Mayorkas. 1.00

00:06:26.680 And then the third executive order, which actually speaks to the heart of your question earlier about the Uber drivers, will be an order directing the Department of Transportation to include English literacy tests for our truckers.

00:06:39.600 This is a big problem in the trucking community that, unless you're in that community, you might not know.

00:06:44.100 But there's a lot of communication problems between truckers on the road with federal officials and local officials as well, which obviously is a public safety risk.

00:06:51.940 So we're going to ensure that our truckers, who are the backbone of our economy, are all able to speak English.

00:06:58.040 That's a very common-sense policy in the United States of America.

00:07:00.960 So the president will be signing that later this afternoon.

00:07:03.300 Yeah, you're welcome.

00:07:04.360 To the back in the yellow tie.

00:07:05.480 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:07:13.660 Pray for our enemies.

00:07:15.620 Because we're going medieval on these people.

00:07:18.900 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:07:23.160 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:07:25.100 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:07:26.500 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.

00:07:29.180 It's going to happen.

00:07:30.440 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?

00:07:33.860 Mega Media.

00:07:34.760 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:07:40.640 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:07:44.400 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:07:50.760 War Room.

00:07:51.620 Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance.

00:07:59.420 Monday, 28 April, Year of Our Lord, 2025.

00:08:02.260 We have Shannon Everett from American Truckers Unlimited and Gord McCall, the writer that got us involved with this group.

00:08:12.900 So first, Shannon, is this the victory, is this executive order the start of a path to get this thing sorted about foreign truckers competing with American truckers?

00:08:23.080 Or is it an end-all, be-all?

00:08:25.300 I mean, talk to us about this executive order.

00:08:27.380 It's definitely a victory.

00:08:30.420 It's a victory for American truck drivers. 0.67

00:08:32.640 It's a victory for the American worker.

00:08:35.020 And it's a victory for the American motoring public.

00:08:38.220 It's definitely not an end-all, do-all.

00:08:41.340 You know, the American trucking industry is a shell of what it once was just five to ten years ago.

00:08:47.420 And so we need to restore the American trucking industry to its greatness.

00:08:51.820 And so there's several things that continue to need more work.

00:08:57.840 But we believe that this is a great step by the president and by the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy,

00:09:04.700 in showing that their priority is the American worker and that they have concern for the American trucking industry.

00:09:09.920 So we think we can work through those remaining issues.

00:09:12.860 So tell us, what is today, Shannon?

00:09:16.300 What did today, President Trump, what is he exactly signing?

00:09:19.780 And what is the impact?

00:09:21.560 And how does this set us forward to go and sort this entire mess out, sir?

00:09:26.000 So there was a memorandum that was issued in 2016 that told all of our law enforcement officers to stop enforcing the law

00:09:36.060 where a United States American truck driver was required to speak and read English.

00:09:43.220 And so this federal agency issued this memorandum, and all of our state agencies that enforce these laws stood down.

00:09:49.340 And so instead of putting a truck out of service and taking a driver off of the roads,

00:09:53.660 they would cite the driver for the violation, and then they would let him go.

00:09:58.200 It's my understanding that today's executive order will be to give guidelines to those officers

00:10:05.500 instead of just giving them a citation to now put him out of service.

00:10:09.320 And so that's been our request all along, that a driver that's unable to read our highway signs

00:10:14.460 is an imminent hazard to the motoring public and should be removed from service and taken out of that truck.

00:10:19.280 So, Gord, where do we go?

00:10:24.820 This is a major development.

00:10:26.960 Obviously, a lot of people are working on this.

00:10:29.680 Talk to us about what we need to do to get this whole mess sorted out.

00:10:32.540 There should be no foreign drivers whatsoever here competing with American citizens for the trucking business, sir. 1.00

00:10:40.900 Right. Well, one of the problems, as Shannon and his team have pointed out,

00:10:48.380 is that during the Biden administration in 2021, they put together this trucking action task force

00:10:55.620 and they effectively doubled the production of CDLs in one year.

00:11:01.080 And a whole bunch of people were just given CDLs.

00:11:05.360 It appears that a number of states cooperated with the Biden administration and reduced requirements.

00:11:11.220 Tell the audience what a CDL is.

00:11:14.100 What's a CDL and why is it such a big deal that they doubled the number of them?

00:11:18.640 The CDL stands for commercial driver's license.

00:11:22.240 And that is the license that you must have to drive an 18-wheeler in the United States of America.

00:11:26.740 It's the same in Canada and Mexico.

00:11:29.780 They call them different terms.

00:11:31.820 But you have to have one to drive a truck.

00:11:34.100 And typically, the United States training systems to produce new drivers

00:11:40.820 will generate between 400,000 and 450,000 new CDLs a year, which is a problem on its own.

00:11:47.960 The trucking industry has got a major retention problem, and it's had one for decades.

00:11:51.800 They try and lie to us that there's a shortage of truck drivers.

00:11:54.860 What's going on is that the industry has not fixed the material conditions of the job

00:12:00.920 or paid drivers enough, and they've been chipping away at it for decades and decades and decades.

00:12:05.900 And the really good, really safe, professional truck driver has had a war essentially declared

00:12:12.160 against him.

00:12:13.580 And what the Biden administration did during the COVID demand spike was flooded the market.

00:12:18.840 And how they were able to achieve that was issuing CDLs to migrants and refugees and a whole bunch of people

00:12:25.800 that are not Americans.

00:12:27.240 And one of the ways they were able to get away with that was because of this waiver of English language requirements

00:12:33.340 that Shannon just spoke of.

00:12:35.220 You're saying that when they – all the time they say there's a shortage of truckers.

00:12:42.320 There's a shortage of truckers because they flooded the zone with foreign cheap labor,

00:12:46.680 and that's driven the wages down.

00:12:49.740 And so it's tough to get people to do this type of rigorous job if you're going to get paid 50 percent

00:12:56.040 of what you used to get paid for because you're competing against non-American citizens. 0.94

00:12:59.400 Right, and before they started flooding it with migrants, they were using taxpayer money 1.00

00:13:05.660 to pay for CDL schools, right?

00:13:08.240 A number of very large carriers, the type of people represented by the lobbying organization

00:13:14.080 called the American Trucking Association, and I want your listeners and viewers to understand

00:13:19.120 this very clearly.

00:13:20.620 The American Trucking Association does not represent truckers.

00:13:24.340 They represent carriers, and they have been wards of the state for decades, taking money

00:13:29.640 from the taxpayer to pay for the production of new CDLs because they can't keep good guys

00:13:35.520 around because they don't want to pay them.

00:13:37.180 They don't want to fix endemic problems in the industry.

00:13:40.380 And what the Biden administration did was took all these migrants and refugees and threw them 1.00

00:13:45.800 in there to help the mega carriers continue their program of cheap labor and not fixing

00:13:52.460 their problems and keeping good, safe operators around.

00:13:56.420 Cheap labor.

00:13:57.400 You heard that before.

00:13:58.120 Okay, guys, stick around.

00:13:59.240 We're going to hold you to a commercial break.

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00:14:22.580 Our own Brian Glenn's going to be on Air Force One.

00:14:25.000 How does that sound?

00:14:25.660 Does that sound great?

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00:14:28.220 We're going to have wall-to-wall coverage starting at 3 o'clock tomorrow.

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00:16:12.720 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:16:15.380 Shannon, with the president obviously taking action here and getting involved in this now, what shape is the American trucking industry in, in your opinion, sir?

00:16:31.840 Steve, it's in the worst shape of my 25-year career.

00:16:35.320 We're in the midst of a three-year-long freight recession.

00:16:40.040 Of course, we call it a supply crisis.

00:16:42.980 And that situation has deteriorated rapidly over the past couple weeks as the imports coming into our seaports has started to slow down.

00:16:51.800 You know, there's a – I think Gord described it as an accordion effect.

00:16:54.940 There's a delay in three to four weeks of transit time and even more in some cases for those shipments to arrive to our ports.

00:17:01.860 And so we're starting to feel those effects.

00:17:03.340 We really started to see it last week, you know, in my day job, I'm actually running a trucking company.

00:17:10.940 And so this advocacy work that we're doing is really just, you know, part-time work that we're doing on the side to do these issues.

00:17:18.680 But in my day job, I'm actually, you know, operating a large fleet of refrigerated freight.

00:17:25.080 And so I've seen that situation deteriorate in the last couple weeks.

00:17:28.300 I've seen it rapidly start to dissolve last week.

00:17:31.220 And so we're really predicting that we're headed into, over the next two to three weeks, a crisis for the American trucking industry, I believe, unlike anything that we've ever seen.

00:17:41.800 I lived through 2008 and 2009.

00:17:44.460 At the time, I was hauling automotive parts.

00:17:46.480 We saw factories go down for 11 to 13 weeks.

00:17:48.860 And during that time, we had hope.

00:17:51.720 We had hope because we knew that when the factories came back on, that we would have adequate work and that we would have cash flow and a profit margin that would suffice.

00:18:01.580 The problem with today's market is there's not much hope for the American trucking industry because we've been in this crisis now for three years before the tariffs conversation even comes to fruition.

00:18:12.860 And so my concern right now is that a lot of these special interest groups are going to try to lay the blame of the trucking industry faults on the tariffs, and that's not the case.

00:18:25.560 Trucking industry was in shambles long before we ever mentioned tariffs.

00:18:29.580 And so it's important that the administration and the cabinet understand that there's going to be people trying to place blame at their feet for something that was done in the prior administration.

00:18:38.500 And we need to take action on those things that were done, and so that's what we did, and that's what we lined out in that letter to Secretary Duffy that said, you know, number one, all drivers should have English proficiency for the public safety of our highways.

00:18:53.020 But we also had four other things that were right below that that really get into the immigration and the economics and the national security issues that have arisen from all of these.

00:19:03.460 And so the second thing was that they need to revoke and ban all of these non-domiciled CDLs that they've issued to non-citizens.

00:19:11.180 For 20 years of my career, we did not pass out CDLs at state DMVs to non-citizens of the country. 0.75

00:19:20.860 The CDL system was maintained for American citizens.

00:19:25.540 And so I don't know of any legislation or law that was written in Washington to make it to where these DMVs could start issuing these CDLs to non-citizens.

00:19:34.920 It's my understanding that there was some guidelines that were issued by our federal agency down to these state DMVs that took out some ambiguity, removed some language, where they thought, oh, okay, we can take advantage of this loophole now and start issuing this to solve our driver shortage problem.

00:19:53.220 And so that should be a loophole that we should be able to close pretty easily because not only do we have national security and safety concerns, but they have flooded the labor market.

00:20:07.640 And that's why we coined the term labor dumping.

00:20:10.420 The whole purpose of opening up our CDL system was so they could dump in foreign labor at reduced wages to put pressure on the American truck driver. 0.97

00:20:19.660 And so your American truck driver right now, their standard of living has been greatly reduced over the past couple of years.

00:20:26.200 Their pay standards are down.

00:20:27.500 Their quality of life is down.

00:20:29.480 The amount of time that they have to spend away from their family is up.

00:20:32.740 And so our American truck drivers are really on their last leg.

00:20:36.080 And my biggest concern is if we don't take action on this issue of the oversupply, the effect of the tariffs is going to completely fall on the American truck driver.

00:20:46.740 It's going to push the remaining American truck drivers and American trucking companies that we have in the business out right now at this critical time.

00:20:55.800 And the replacement cycle that's been going on for the last four years is going to intensify.

00:21:00.160 And that's because the American truck driver and the American trucking company can't operate at the same cost level that these foreign operators and these foreign truck drivers can. 0.90

00:21:08.040 And so the first companies to lose in this tariff engagement are going to be the American truck driver and the American trucking company.

00:21:14.960 The third thing that we listed.

00:21:17.320 Yeah, keep going.

00:21:19.140 Keep going.

00:21:20.040 The third thing that we listed goes back to my personal experience with the USMCA trade lanes.

00:21:26.340 And so in my past interview with you, I told you that I did automotive inbound logistics.

00:21:31.420 So we would haul the parts into the automotive assembly factory.

00:21:35.040 All of that business now has been transitioned from the American truck drivers to foreign truck drivers.

00:21:40.940 It's almost exclusively hauled by truck drivers from Mexico and Canada operating on B-1 visitor visas.

00:21:48.220 And so we need to either we need to ban that or we need to come up with a solution to control what percentage each driver group gets.

00:21:55.800 We should restrict and ban the use of a visitor visa to perform work in the United States. 0.93

00:22:04.220 How is it that truck drivers from foreign countries are allowed to use visitor visas to perform work?

00:22:09.860 It's not even a work visa.

00:22:11.520 But there's no enforcement of that.

00:22:13.140 So when a truck driver gets past the inward immigration zones, which is like, I think it's mile marker 12 on Airstate 35, just north of the border.

00:22:24.200 So when you cross the border, you talk to immigration.

00:22:26.580 You go a little bit inward, 10 to 12 miles or so.

00:22:29.120 You have to talk to immigration again.

00:22:31.080 And then once you're past that, you never see another immigration officer.

00:22:34.140 DOT officer, state police, they're not allowed to ask you about immigration.

00:22:37.680 They're not allowed to ask you for your immigration documents.

00:22:39.920 So why are we allowing these drivers past that zone?

00:22:43.740 The whole purpose of the commercial trade zone was so that they could use these visitor visas for a guy to simply come across the border, drop his trailer, go back to the foreign country.

00:22:54.460 And then if he tried to abuse that, we had a check station 10, 12 miles in that would check his immigration status and say, whoa, you're not supposed to come past this point.

00:23:03.160 And at some point over the last 10 years, somebody made a phone call and said, hey, y'all let them through.

00:23:09.060 And they just started going through the checkpoints.

00:23:11.680 And so we need to restrict that.

00:23:13.800 We need common sense back into these drivers operating on visitor visas.

00:23:17.780 We need common sense back into this trade between the United States.

00:23:22.780 It's not right that we take all of our factories in the United States and move those to Mexico, and we move those up into Canada, and then we insource all of the workers for the truck driving jobs.

00:23:34.480 Can we not at least just have the truck driving jobs if you're going to take our factories? 1.00

00:23:37.760 Can we at least keep our truck driving jobs?

00:23:40.380 And so that item right there addresses that.

00:23:44.400 And then for the families of Deanne Miller, for the families of LaDanya Bryant, look, we want to say thank you for the victory today for this executive order.

00:23:53.000 But we need criminal statutes for these non-citizen drivers who are abusing work visas, who are abusing these CDLs, who don't speak English. 0.64

00:24:00.860 And then when they're doing all these things knowingly, knowing that they're not qualified, knowing that they're not vetted, knowing that they haven't been properly trained, and they're abusing the system, and they kill somebody like Scott Miller or they kill somebody like Mark Bryant, they need to be held accountable for negligence.

00:24:14.400 Right now, these guys are all receiving misdemeanors.

00:24:17.820 Our law enforcement agencies don't know what to do.

00:24:20.180 Our prosecutors don't know what to do.

00:24:21.900 So they all get a slap on the wrist.

00:24:23.320 They get released.

00:24:24.100 And that's how you get the situation, like Ignacio Cruz Morales, who's been deported 16 times, 17 times now.

00:24:31.420 And every time he gets deported, he gets in another commercial truck and drives straight back across the border and goes back to work.

00:24:37.380 And so we need criminal statutes to address that.

00:24:39.840 So these guys are charged with homicide, and they're given felonies.

00:24:42.440 And then we need a task force.

00:24:44.060 We need a task force to get our arms around this population.

00:24:47.260 Who are these people?

00:24:48.560 I've got a conference call scheduled later this week to talk about one of these drivers in this pool is on the most wanted list from India, and he's received one of these non-domicized CDLs.

00:24:59.020 So how are we vetting people when the people that are driving our trucks here in the United States are on the most wanted list from a foreign country?

00:25:06.460 So we know that there's no vetting whatsoever.

00:25:10.460 We knew that before we found out about this driver because we saw the licenses that were being issued with made-up birthdates.

00:25:16.580 We saw the licenses that were being issued with no first name and with no last name.

00:25:20.840 And so there's just really no law and order right now in the CDL issuance to truck drivers here in the United States, and that's why the American trucking industry is being destroyed.

00:25:33.620 You cannot have an unlimited amount of supply of drivers come in without it impacting the overall living standards and the conditions for the American trucking company.

00:25:43.480 Shannon, how do people find out more about you on social media and how they get to the American Truckers United?

00:25:52.840 You can follow us on Twitter at at atutruckers.

00:25:56.340 You can also come to our website at americantruckers.com.

00:25:59.880 Whether you're a concerned citizen, whether you're a truck driver or a carrier that's on your last leg and looking for support, we've got a great coalition now built of good mom-and-pop trucking companies,

00:26:11.880 guys all the way up to 1,000 trucks, 300 trucks, guys as little as 30 trucks.

00:26:16.900 And so we're all coming together to kind of spread this message and to bring back greatness to the American trucking industry.

00:26:22.180 So join us.

00:26:24.500 Shannon, thank you.

00:26:25.640 Cord, we've got about a minute.

00:26:26.720 Any closing thoughts, sir?

00:26:29.320 Yes, sir.

00:26:30.540 President Trump is going to be facing a lot of pushback from this.

00:26:34.560 Organizations like the ACLU will no doubt stand up and say, hey, migrants and refugees don't need to speak English.

00:26:42.860 He's going to get pushback from the Mexican and Canadian governments.

00:26:46.040 Canada has a huge problem right now after a decade of the Justin Trudeau regime allowing scams to be operated on their immigration system.

00:26:56.120 There's all kinds of truckers in Canada who also don't speak English, and the Canadian government's going to be coming to Trump saying, you can't enforce this on us.

00:27:04.540 How can we engage in cross-border trade?

00:27:06.880 When Trump needs to fight back and say, you guys need to enforce English proficiency on your own drivers, Trump needs to be prepared.

00:27:15.060 He's going to be getting a lot of pushback.

00:27:18.240 He always does.

00:27:19.420 That's why he's the tip of the spear.

00:27:20.800 Gord, McCall, Shannon, Everett, thank you, guys.

00:27:23.420 Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

00:27:24.880 Our audience loves it.

00:27:26.480 Good victory today.

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00:29:31.840 Okay, we'll get to you now at the White House in a moment.

00:29:34.360 We have Robert O'Brien, former national security advisor for President Trump in the first term.

00:29:39.280 Robert, you know, Scott Besant today, he's talking about potential architecture of some deals, not final deals, but members of understanding or at least term sheets for Japan, maybe Taiwan, you know, Korea.

00:29:56.040 But the big one is India. 0.92

00:29:57.920 How important is India strategically to us, not simply just on trade, but also national security against the Chinese Communist Party, sir?

00:30:06.820 Well, Steve, you're a Navy guy.

00:30:08.360 You understand how important the Indian Ocean is in that whole region.

00:30:11.380 We now call the Pacific Command the Indo-Pacom or the Indo-Pacific Command.

00:30:16.320 India is incredibly important.

00:30:17.620 It's a huge country.

00:30:18.500 They're going to be bigger than China population-wise.

00:30:22.320 If they're not already, they will be in the next five years.

00:30:26.100 They're a powerful country.

00:30:27.460 They're a democracy.

00:30:28.820 They speak English.

00:30:29.960 They want to be friends with the U.S.

00:30:31.980 And China has territorial claims against India.

00:30:34.320 China has attacked India many times.

00:30:36.240 And so they're not very happy with the Chinese.

00:30:38.620 They've kicked out all the Chinese apps.

00:30:40.700 WeChat and WeBoo and TikTok are not available in India.

00:30:45.620 And India will become a major manufacturing base for American products and companies that are leaving China.

00:30:52.680 So India is a huge strategic partner for America going forward.

00:30:57.200 It's part of the Quad, the diplomatic alliance between Canberra, Tokyo, Delhi, and Washington.

00:31:04.220 And so it was important to President Trump.

00:31:06.300 It's important to America as a whole.

00:31:08.240 And we've got very good relations with India.

00:31:10.280 So I think that's going to be a key relationship late into the 21st century.

00:31:16.620 Look, we love Modi.

00:31:17.840 He's a nationalist like we like him.

00:31:19.740 And President Trump's obviously very close to Modi.

00:31:22.140 The Howdy Modi thing was the biggest thing President Trump's ever had. 0.74

00:31:24.800 When President Trump went to India in 2020, it was unbelievable.

00:31:28.280 But they are very tough negotiators.

00:31:31.180 And if you look at our trade deals, particularly talk to Navarro, India makes his head blow up. 0.99

00:31:36.200 Do you think we'll actually get a deal with these guys that we can live with and they can live with?

00:31:39.720 Yeah, I think we will.

00:31:42.380 I was on both those visits.

00:31:43.760 The Howdy Modi visit was in Houston, as you know, and at the stadium there, the basketball arena, packed.

00:31:50.140 And Modi gave a speech that had the crowd very raucous.

00:31:53.740 President Trump gave a speech.

00:31:54.840 And you might recall after the end of the speech, you know, a lot of these leaders have a formal relationship.

00:32:00.300 They have a cordial relationship.

00:32:02.040 But they don't have a real friendship.

00:32:03.580 I think that Modi and Trump have a real friendship.

00:32:05.940 And so Modi took Trump by the hands, as they kind of want to do in that region, and held him by both hands and walked him around the arena.

00:32:14.460 The Secret Service, their heads exploded, you know, trying to keep up with Modi and Trump walking around the arena.

00:32:22.460 And there was this genuine affection between the two of them.

00:32:25.520 And then I was on a trip to India, where the president had, I think, the biggest rally he's ever done was over 120,000 people in the largest cricket stadium in the world.

00:32:36.120 The whole infield of the cricket stadium was full.

00:32:39.580 Every seat in the stands was full.

00:32:41.400 It was hot as Hades that day.

00:32:43.520 We were sitting in the front row and boiling.

00:32:46.020 I remember Cash Patel, who worked for me at the time, was with me.

00:32:48.860 And we were all sweating.

00:32:50.720 But the president gave a great talk.

00:32:52.400 Modi gave a great talk.

00:32:53.660 Again, they walked around the stadium to some extent.

00:32:57.460 And so there's a real relationship there.

00:32:59.580 And I think India understands, after the Chinese attacked India, you'll recall this in 2019, Steve, 0.80

00:33:06.280 and they attacked that Indian patrol up in the Himalayas and dismembered the bodies of the Indian soldiers they killed and were quite brutal with them.

00:33:15.040 The Indians learned what they were dealing with, the Chinese. 0.99

00:33:18.000 And the Indians understood that it's only with America and American weapons systems that they can hold off the Chinese. 0.99

00:33:24.440 And so that alliance has really come together in a way that it had not before.

00:33:28.980 So I think it was a strong alliance.

00:33:30.840 When it comes to trade, I think the Indians, Modi used to joke about it.

00:33:35.420 He knew that the Indian tariffs were very high.

00:33:38.220 It killed Peter, Peter Navarro, as he pointed out, that India had such high tariffs.

00:33:44.600 President Trump understood it.

00:33:45.960 He gave Prime Minister Modi a hard time about those high tariffs.

00:33:50.120 But I think now that Trump has announced Liberation Day, has announced the high tariffs, and reciprocal tariffs,

00:33:57.840 I think the Indians understand that they need to make a deal.

00:34:01.500 The Indians have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity as everything moves from China to India.

00:34:05.900 They can blow up their manufacturing base.

00:34:07.900 They can have a huge middle class.

00:34:09.980 Apple announced they're going to start making iPhones in India, 100% of the iPhone in India.

00:34:15.220 That's a great opportunity for the Indians.

00:34:17.440 So it's in their interest to reduce tariffs, bring the manufacturing from China to India, export to the United States,

00:34:23.360 have a strong security alliance with us, and really have an American-Indian future in the Indo-Pacific region.

00:34:31.900 Robert, explain to the audience why this tragedy in Kashmir is so volatile, and we've got to watch it.

00:34:38.300 You know, the line of departure.

00:34:39.420 Why is that one of the most dangerous parts of the world?

00:34:44.800 Steve, thanks for asking about that, because so many people don't recognize it as a flashpoint.

00:34:49.340 We talk about Iran.

00:34:50.220 We talk about Gaza.

00:34:51.300 We talk about Ukraine and Russia.

00:34:52.440 We talk about the Taiwan Straits.

00:34:55.140 But when India was partitioned by the British between the Muslim and the Hindus, basically,

00:35:00.980 although Pakistan kicked out most of the Hindus, there are still Muslims in India, a couple hundred million.

00:35:06.700 But when Britain partitioned the empire, the Indian empire, into a Pakistan, and East Pakistan, which became Bangladesh,

00:35:16.400 and India, which was primarily Hindu, there are borderlands and gray areas and gray zones. 0.93

00:35:25.240 And like Gaza or like other places, there were areas where India were majority Muslim, and the Indians considered their territory.

00:35:35.580 One of those areas is Kashmir.

00:35:37.160 And so for many years, there's been a low-level insurgency, sometimes hotter than other times,

00:35:41.440 where the terrorists have had sanctuary in Pakistan.

00:35:45.720 They've been able to go back across the border and find safety in Pakistan, but then come into Kashmir and attack the Indians. 0.99

00:35:52.480 And this last terror attack was really a terrible thing.

00:35:55.060 They killed 23 Indian tourists in a tourist bus.

00:35:59.780 It was a brutal, vicious terrorist attack, as we've seen from jihadis and Salafists all over the world, all over the Middle East, all over Afghanistan. 0.95

00:36:08.300 And the Indians are really—they've had enough. 1.00

00:36:10.360 They're not going to put up with this type of terrorism anymore.

00:36:12.980 India is a first-world country. 1.00

00:36:14.840 They just—they're not going to put up with it.

00:36:16.720 And so they sent a very strong message to Pakistan to get these, you know, rebels and terrorists under control. 0.92

00:36:24.900 But just like the Pakistanis gave, you know, sucker for many years to the Taliban in Afghanistan, 0.84

00:36:30.280 they've done the same with the terror groups in India that are attacking the Indians. 0.94

00:36:36.320 And Pakistan, I think, is going to have a reckoning.

00:36:38.600 But the reason it's so dangerous, going back to your question, it was kind of a little bit of a Donald Trump weed there.

00:36:45.860 Not as good as the president, but I try.

00:36:49.180 Not too shabby.

00:36:50.780 Both Pakistan and India are nuclear arms.

00:36:55.020 So if the situation escalates, if there is a war, the Indians would probably start winning the conventional war pretty quickly. 1.00

00:37:01.820 The balance of power has shifted heavily to the Indians with their navy, with their air force, with their army.

00:37:07.500 And so the Pakistanis might feel that they had to use nuclear weapons in response.

00:37:11.820 Then the Indians would use nukes. 1.00

00:37:13.040 And you could have a very serious nuclear conflagration on the subcontinent of Asia.

00:37:18.540 And that, of course, is terrible for the world and terrible for both countries. 0.71

00:37:22.900 So it's quite a dangerous situation if it escalates.

00:37:25.560 Pakistan has open source.

00:37:27.460 Pakistan has roughly how many nuclear weapons?

00:37:30.760 And they have a, was it ISI?

00:37:32.820 They have a basically intelligence service that kind of runs the government and kind of runs the military that has stability issues.

00:37:41.260 And how many nuclear weapons they have?

00:37:42.960 You know, it's hard to say.

00:37:46.420 Open source, I've seen reports of up to 60 nuclear weapons in Pakistan and in India.

00:37:52.380 But again, you know, otherwise you'd have to go to classified sources to see what the U.S.

00:37:57.700 IIC Intelligence Committee was estimating for both sides.

00:38:01.580 But I think it's been publicly reported, kind of like North Korea, about 60 weapons apiece.

00:38:07.000 That's a lot of nukes, Steve.

00:38:08.380 It's a lot of nukes in a hot territory.

00:38:12.180 What do you, what's going to be the outcome there, you think?

00:38:16.880 So it's hard to say.

00:38:18.300 I mean, the passions are, of course, exercised on both sides.

00:38:22.380 They're both proud people.

00:38:23.980 They've got a shared heritage.

00:38:25.320 You know, it's kind of like, you know, brothers who were separated, you know, early on or have a long-term quarrel.

00:38:34.500 So there's passion that influences the debate, unfortunately, and human emotions.

00:38:42.580 So, you know, it could be bad.

00:38:44.160 But I think the Pakistanis, I think Prime Minister Shiraz in Pakistan, understand that this is, things have changed.

00:38:52.580 India is becoming, you know, almost a great power.

00:38:55.680 Pakistan, they've got, you know, five times the population of Pakistan.

00:38:59.420 Pakistan has to be very careful here. 0.98

00:39:00.900 They've played a dangerous game in hosting these terror organizations.

00:39:03.720 And, again, I'm not suggesting that the Pakistanis directed the terror attack or were involved in it as a government.

00:39:11.720 But they certainly know that they have these terrorist organizations, you know, camping out in Pakistan.

00:39:18.780 They haven't, you know, rounded them all up yet.

00:39:21.900 They probably should.

00:39:23.820 And so I think that you're going to see a steady de-escalation.

00:39:28.080 I think the Indians made a very strong point.

00:39:29.980 There was some shooting across the border.

00:39:31.780 The Indians, you know, took some steps to go after terrorists within India.

00:39:37.120 But I think both parties are going to be level-headed enough here to calm it down a little bit.

00:39:44.200 As you mentioned, the Pakistanis are unstable politically.

00:39:47.680 You know, Imran Khan, the great cricket player, was the Prime Minister.

00:39:51.040 He's probably still the most popular politician in Pakistan.

00:39:54.880 He gets along quite well with President Trump.

00:39:57.040 But he was deposed by the government, the current government.

00:40:00.780 And so there's some instability in Pakistan.

00:40:03.520 We'll see how that, if that is an impact on how they deal with this, these terror organizations and separatist movements that are finding sanctuary and safety within Pakistan and are attacking India.

00:40:15.540 He's a populist that's in prison.

00:40:19.360 Was it the Chagos Islands?

00:40:20.980 Diego Garcia.

00:40:22.220 How can we actually have the Indian Ocean be something that's strategic to us?

00:40:27.980 It's the most important base there.

00:40:29.880 Aren't we letting the Brits give it away, sir?

00:40:32.060 You know, it's mind-boggling, Steve.

00:40:36.400 The fact that Keir Starmer wants to give the Diego Garcia, which is an unpopulated island.

00:40:42.160 I think there were maybe 50 or 60 people from Diego Garcia who live in England quite well.

00:40:48.240 But he wants to give it away, I think, to the Maldives, which have strong relations with the Communist Chinese.

00:40:53.140 That's the most important base probably in the world for America.

00:40:57.540 It gives us reach into the Indo-Pacific.

00:41:00.100 It gives us reach into Central Asia.

00:41:02.280 It gives us reach into the Middle East.

00:41:04.120 And if we have to attack Iran, the planes will take off from Diego Garcia. 0.97

00:41:08.080 Now, there's some talk that the U.S. would receive a 99-year base, similar to Guantanamo way in Cuba, even if the Brits gave up the islands.

00:41:16.820 But giving up the Chagos Islands is this island chain that's unpopulated to a government that never has governed them.

00:41:26.700 And it's not even part of their government.

00:41:28.100 But it asserted it's a vestibule of colonialism and they should have the islands instead of the U.K.

00:41:34.140 It's really a bad move by Starmer.

00:41:36.540 It's a woke, politically correct type move that will harm British security and U.S. security throughout the world.

00:41:44.340 And I think the Brits still have a chance to pull it back.

00:41:47.480 But we'll see what they do.

00:41:49.000 They should.

00:41:52.900 Can you tell us, you're the head of the PIAB, the President's Intelligence Assessment Board?

00:41:58.100 Can you take a minute?

00:41:59.140 We've got some time here.

00:42:00.280 Can you stay through the break?

00:42:01.480 We've got a three-minute break coming up.

00:42:02.800 Can you stick with us?

00:42:04.260 Oh, yeah, of course, Steve.

00:42:06.700 What is, just give people an overview.

00:42:08.860 What is PIAB?

00:42:10.680 So the PIAB is the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.

00:42:13.560 I'm a member of it.

00:42:14.460 Devin Nunes, the former chairman of the House Intelligence Select Committee on Intelligence, IPSI, is the chairman.

00:42:20.220 He's a great chairman.

00:42:21.920 We've got a number of top members that the President announced recently.

00:42:25.580 And the idea is to keep an eye on the IC, to suggest reforms to the IC, to go to the president and advise them on how the intelligence community is servicing them.

00:42:36.120 And we think there are ways for them to do a better job, to improve and ensure that they operate in compliance with the U.S. Constitution and treat American citizens with their constitutional protections as they should as an intelligence community.

00:42:53.860 So it's an advisory board that meets once a month, and it was quite an honor for the President to appoint me.

00:43:01.400 There are not a lot of jobs for a former National Security Advisor, but this, Henry Kissinger, a former NSA, Brent Scowcroft, and Zig Brzezinski were all on this board, the PIAB.

00:43:11.500 So it's kind of a refugee home for former National Security Advisors.

00:43:16.200 It was very good of the President to appoint me.

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00:45:12.460 Bannon.

00:45:12.820 Robert O'Brien relieved John Bolton as national security advisor for the last year and a half under President Trump.

00:45:22.160 And I think everybody that's close to President Trump can say that Robert O'Brien is a safe pair of hands and calm things down there.

00:45:29.580 Robert, Venezuela, it is a massive, it's got a massive potential for oil, gas, natural resources, but the country is a complete mess.

00:45:40.780 What's your recommendation to President Trump?

00:45:42.380 We know it's the top of mind for him.

00:45:44.720 In this hemispheric defense from the Panama Canal to Greenland and to clear out the Caribbean of the Chinese Communist Party's navy, Venezuela will be a linchpin in Latin America with Brazil and our allies in Argentina.

00:45:58.500 What's your recommendation to the President about Venezuela?

00:46:02.960 Well, listen, you're absolutely right, Stephen.

00:46:04.840 I think the President's instincts, and I haven't talked to him about this, you know, directly recently, but I think the President's instincts are to get a deal with the Venezuelan government.

00:46:13.280 And, look, the government, as you know, in Venezuela's Maduro, he succeeded Chavez, communist, you know, not a great guy, kind of a tough guy.

00:46:22.400 Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.

00:46:24.000 But wasn't that counter, isn't that counter, at least to the pre-Robert O'Brien?

00:46:29.140 I mean, weren't Bolton and Mike Pompeo?

00:46:32.020 They had a coup down there that reminded me of the movie Bananas.

00:46:36.660 Remember they had the guys that were going to go, and it was like two companies of guys in green uniform.

00:46:40.980 Maduro and these guys are tough hombres, as the President would say.

00:46:45.180 Didn't we try to overthrow the government at one time?

00:46:48.480 Well, look, there was a purported coup attempt.

00:46:52.080 It made the Bay of Pigs look like Normandy. 0.55

00:46:55.180 It was very unsuccessful and involved in about four or five guys.

00:47:00.100 So I don't think it was much of a threat to the Venezuelan government.

00:47:03.040 But look, no one likes Maduro or Chavez.

00:47:07.280 But we've got to face reality here.

00:47:09.360 We can either replace him and send the 101st down and get involved in a war, which the Venezuelans know we could overthrow the regime.

00:47:17.900 Guaido and the current gal, Machado, probably won the election.

00:47:21.920 But we've got to look at what's in America's interest.

00:47:25.720 And there are three things that I'm looking at here, Steve.

00:47:29.520 Maduro wants a deal.

00:47:30.580 He wants to stay in power.

00:47:31.500 He knows he's got to get a deal with President Trump to stay in power.

00:47:34.680 He wants to make some money off his oil.

00:47:37.720 And the way to make money if you're Venezuelan and maximize the value of your oil is to sell it to America.

00:47:43.440 Because we have refineries here that are specifically set up to refine Venezuelan crude, which is a very heavy crude.

00:47:51.220 We've got the refineries.

00:47:52.400 We've got the distribution network.

00:47:54.080 And it's a million barrels of oil a day.

00:47:55.700 So instead of seeing those million barrels go to China, which is, as you know, is the adversary that could affect the lives of our children and grandchildren, 0.93

00:48:03.420 we want those million barrels a day in America, supporting American manufacturing, giving us energy dominance, allowing us to export some oil to our allies in Japan and Europe.

00:48:14.520 So number one, we want to get the oil.

00:48:16.460 President Trump is very focused on getting the resources, the minerals, the oil we need to power this golden age of an American economy that he's talking about.

00:48:24.500 You know, it's tax cuts, it's deregulation, it's energy dominance, and it's tariffs.

00:48:29.760 And the energy dominance part has helped if we do a deal with Venezuela.

00:48:35.120 Number two, Maduro let all these bad guys, these gang members come to America.

00:48:41.780 He literally emptied out the jails as the president has talked about.

00:48:45.440 And we're starting to send them back to El Salvador. 0.96

00:48:47.680 But we need Maduro to take back all the Venezuelans that are here, the illegal Venezuelans. 1.00

00:48:52.720 The Venezuelans that are here legally are great citizens.

00:48:55.420 A lot of them live in Florida.

00:48:56.380 They're wonderful people.

00:48:57.780 They're patriots.

00:48:58.620 They're conservatives.

00:48:59.760 But the bad Venezuelans, we need them back in Venezuela. 1.00

00:49:03.280 We need Maduro to take them.

00:49:04.920 And then number three, Steve, and this goes to the point you just made about the Chinese Navy.

00:49:09.140 The Chinese Navy, the Russian Navy, even the Iranians have been using Venezuela as a home base in the Caribbean.

00:49:16.400 And so we've got to tell Maduro, look, the deal is we'll buy your oil.

00:49:20.900 We'll take it.

00:49:23.000 You take back your bad folks that you sent here. 0.97

00:49:24.920 And you kick out the Iranians, you kick out the Russians, and you kick out the Chinese. 0.99

00:49:28.620 And then we'll deal long-term with the internal governance of Venezuela, obviously supporting the Democrats and give people basic human rights and the rule of law.

00:49:39.540 But let's take an American-first approach to Venezuela to start with, which is get the oil, get the bad guys out of our country and back into Venezuela in prisons, let Maduro take care of them, feed and clothe them in jail.

00:49:50.440 And let's get the Chinese and Russians and Iranians out. 1.00

00:49:54.600 And if President Trump can pull off that deal, I think that would be a great thing for the country.

00:49:59.120 And probably a little diversion from John Bolton, who wanted to invade Venezuela.

00:50:04.080 I understand why he did, but he had the famous tablet with 10,000 troops written on it that he let the press see.

00:50:11.660 But I don't think the American people are ready for another war right now.

00:50:16.080 They want to end wars, not stardom.

00:50:18.380 President Trump is a peacemaker, as you know.

00:50:22.240 And so I think we're going to see a real good deal with Venezuela, that it'll be good for America.

00:50:27.660 And it'll be kind of a hard-headed, realistic deal.

00:50:31.160 And it may not satisfy everything we want, but it can get the big things that are good for the American people.

00:50:38.880 Well, we want to thank you for the great service you did in the first term.

00:50:41.900 And I know you're available if the president needs you in the second term.

00:50:46.480 And, you know, being on PIAB and having these great ideas, particularly about Venezuela, that's going to be a big one.

00:50:51.720 Hopefully you and Rick Grinnell can work together and pull that off.

00:50:55.420 Robert, what do people get your social media?

00:50:57.140 Yeah, Rick Grinnell's doing a great job with that mission.

00:51:00.480 Grinnell's been down there.

00:51:01.480 He's been talking to Maduro.

00:51:04.240 He's a very good negotiator.

00:51:05.720 He did the Serbia-Kosovo deal with me in the first term.

00:51:09.640 And Rick is the guy to pull something like this off.

00:51:13.500 You guys are a pretty good team.

00:51:15.320 Where do people go on social media or website to track your writings and your thinking?

00:51:21.300 Twitter, at Robert C. O'Brien.

00:51:25.200 Thank you, brother.

00:51:26.040 Appreciate you coming on today.

00:51:27.920 Hey, thanks, Steve.

00:51:28.560 It's an honor.

00:51:29.180 Thank you, my friend.

00:51:31.880 India.

00:51:32.280 And that's the strategic thinking that President Trump needs around him.

00:51:36.360 You can tell that.

00:51:38.260 O'Brien did a really good job in the first term.

00:51:40.940 One of the folks on the bench, you know, with Grinnell and O'Brien.

00:51:45.660 You can always, you know, if you need a player, call him up.

00:51:48.300 Make it a special envoy.

00:51:50.360 President Trump had his hands for?

00:51:51.840 Good Lord.

00:51:53.420 Never seen a workload like this.

00:51:55.240 No human on Earth has ever had a workload like this guy.

00:51:59.060 I mean, look, today, at least started to solve the trucker problem.

00:52:05.360 That's probably not in the top 50.

00:52:07.120 And it has to get done.

00:52:08.460 We've got to get this sorted with the truckers.

00:52:10.840 That's how many problems President Trump is dealing with.

00:52:14.500 Birch Gold, that one of the problems is the de-dollarization of the world's economy by the Chinese Communist Party and the BRICS nation. 1.00

00:52:22.500 Now, a lot of that is the evil of the Chinese Communist Party. 0.95

00:52:26.600 However, our elites have not helped us here, as they've been financially irresponsible.

00:52:32.640 I don't need to tell you that.

00:52:33.860 You have to live with it every day.

00:52:35.160 Birchgold.com.

00:52:36.460 End of the dollar empire.

00:52:37.980 Six free installment.

00:52:39.060 You get all the other five for free.

00:52:41.720 Birchgold.com slash bandit.

00:52:43.360 And most importantly, you get to talk to Philip Patrick and the team.

00:52:46.020 They're sending a team to Rio.

00:52:48.580 I think we're going to try to get Eric Bolling to go with them.

00:52:51.200 Make sure you go check it out today.

00:52:52.880 Right Stuff takes us out.

00:52:53.840 We're back in a minute.

00:52:54.720 We're going to go to the White House with Natalie and maybe even into the Oval Office for a signing of an executive order.

00:53:02.320 Short commercial break.

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Bannon's War Room - April 28, 2025

Episode 4446： Truckers Celebrate President Trump’s EO Protecting English-Speaking Truckers, India’s Role In Defeating The CCP

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