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00:09:32.000Uh, I just, uh, two, three, two was launched.
00:09:34.000Uh, section two, three, two investigation has been launched and is now underway on chips, but not just chips, also the derivative articles.
00:09:41.000So, uh, everything with a chip in it, this is a massive, massive deal.
00:09:45.000And, um, and so that, and this is like, it has to be done.
00:09:50.000Uh, I, I'm very excited about where it's going to go.
00:09:59.000Um, and, uh, the, the pharmaceutical one is not just, not just drugs, but also all the active ingredients where we're totally dependent on China, very dangerously slow.
00:10:08.000So it's almost crazy that we, you know, no, you know, President Biden ignored this.
00:10:12.000I mean, maybe that's not crazy, but, uh, these are long overdue and, um, you know, we, we've got a massive section of the economy there.
00:10:20.000Not agriculture, but some other things happening, but for manufacturing, the actions that are there now cover a lot.
00:10:27.000I think you're going to see a lot more added to steel.
00:10:29.000So look for, you know, maybe appliances.
00:10:31.000You know, maybe appliances, I believe, uh, some of the other industries that mentioned bicycling flatware, these don't sound like, Oh, national security.
00:10:38.000Now, if you go back and read the 2018 steel, uh, report from the department of commerce, Wilbur Ross's department of commerce, that actually said, uh, that, look, our defense industrial base.
00:10:49.000It needs steel, obviously, duh, but you cannot rely.
00:10:54.000The steel mills cannot rely on just defense procurement.
00:10:57.000Defense procurement is very irregular.
00:11:18.000You can't manufacture anything competitively without reasonable and efficient labor inputs to energy cost.
00:11:26.000Electricity is now a huge component of steel making, aluminum smelting, of course, cement making, petrochemical facilities, chemical facilities, pulp and paper, all the above, not just AI and server centers.
00:11:39.000All of that stuff, traditional core economy stuff is all electricity.
00:11:44.000Before we get to the new capacity we need for AI.
00:13:42.000When Charles says, hey, I give the guy a 10 out of 10.
00:13:45.000When you talk about you haven't had a, actually a trade, someone understands trade as a president, even the beloved Ronald Reagan, you know, in 100 years or more than 100 years.
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00:16:12.000So this morning, just to take you a little bit behind the curtain, I was headed into my location to do the program, and I got a text from a very nice source who said, you want to call me.
00:16:22.000And it turns out that three different people, the original source and two others, have confirmed that the plan now by the White House is to remove the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, who was on Fox News this morning, just not that long ago.
00:16:36.000And his deputy, Alex Wong, and much of the member current staff team at the National Security Council because of unhappiness throughout the national security establishment of how they're doing.
00:16:47.000The West Wing's unhappy, the State Department, the Treasury, unhappiness.
00:16:50.000And, of course, this was around before SignalGate.
00:16:53.000It was widely reported that SignalGate ironically may have saved Waltz's job because the president didn't want to be seen as if he were giving in to Jeffrey Goldberg, his new best friend.
00:17:02.000But there's lots of levels of unhappiness.
00:17:04.000And it's less about SignalGate than it is about, as I understand it from my sources, a general belief that it's not being run efficiently in an organized way.
00:17:45.000So Landau, I'm told, will not get the job, even though he's very highly thought of because he's so highly thought of.
00:17:50.000A candidate that's being discussed who has support at very high levels within the administration is Steve Witkoff, the president's friend and special envoy to everything.
00:17:59.000Witkoff has a lot of senior level support, but he also has enemies.
00:18:02.000And two of my three sources pointed me to this, a New York Post story that ran yesterday.
00:18:07.000Very strange story popped up in the New York Post in the middle of the day yesterday.
00:18:11.000Savaging Steve Witkoff with anonymous quotes saying he's over his head and way over his head.
00:18:17.000He shouldn't be leading the Russian negotiations that other countries are confused by him, that people in the government think he's amateurish.
00:18:23.000The story was filled with with savage blind quotes.
00:18:42.000And they believe that that some people believe that the reason the Post story popped up was because word was beginning to spread that Waltz was out and that Witkoff was his likely replacement.
00:18:52.000And what the speculation is, this New York Post story is aiming at stopping that.
00:19:01.000And that is also a guy like Halpern, because a lot of people were talking.
00:19:06.000What the hell is this New York Post story, which is literally a savage, savage attack on Witkoff doing?
00:19:13.000And, you know, and Witkoff's in the in the middle of these the Russian negotiations and Besson's going to sign the the the the quote unquote, you know, minerals deal or economic deal with with Zelensky's people to kind of lay a predicate over there.
00:19:28.000Jack Pasoba comes in. So, Jack, the no scalps policy, I guess we I guess it was good for 100 days.
00:19:36.000Now we're now we're in plan B. Maybe it's scalps.
00:19:38.000I'm a huge believer. And but Halpern just nailed it right there.
00:19:42.000I think it's consistent issues with how things are just being managed and organized, not just not just the the center of gravity being quite neocon and away from the core of America first policies.
00:19:58.000I think this also gets down just to the fact we're in it now.
00:20:02.000I mean, we're negotiating these massive deals, a Russian rapprochement.
00:20:06.000This is bigger than what Kissinger and Nixon did with China back in the early 70s.
00:20:11.000You're trying to stop two amazingly bloody conflicts in Ukraine and in Gaza or in Israel, I would actually say.
00:20:19.000And then you're trying to, you know, voices are trying to say, hey, we can't go on a bombing campaign, you know, in Persia.
00:20:27.000At the same time, you keep in the Suez Canal open with a couple of carrier battle groups.
00:20:31.000And oh, by the way, you may the flare may go up in Taiwan.
00:21:01.000Well, Steve, thanks so much for having me on.
00:21:03.000And yes, it was at the White House yesterday for the new media briefing with Caroline Levitt.
00:21:08.000I asked a question about the domestic issues as the question regarding domestic left wing violence and the rise in support for these unhuman groups like MS-13, Trendy Aragua, actions like the Ouija Magione.
00:21:21.000And others, you know, poked my head around a few times while I was there and had a few chats.
00:21:28.000But then I then I came back and look, Steve, you and I were here on this program.
00:21:33.000And we were talking about how there were forces within the administration and external pressure that was being put on President Trump driving these strikes on Iran.
00:21:43.000This idea that in the midst of negotiations where we had on Easter weekend, remember, Wyckoff was over there in Rome meeting with the delegation from the Iranian team, their diplomats and their negotiators to try to figure out how to hammer out some kind of deal with the Iranians.
00:22:00.000But people have this and I read that New York Post written.
00:22:23.000They're interested in pushing this neoconservative, neoliberal agenda that we've seen for the last 30 years going back to the Bush administration, by the way, the first Bush administration, and then really reflected in the second, where the United States becomes the, you know, the guarantor of world security, the guarantor of world markets.
00:22:43.000China gets put into those world markets.
00:22:45.000Now you've got the U.S. Navy that's conducting it as we've been discussing the show all these times.
00:23:43.000I'm not so sure that they're heavyweights enough to be considered strategy.
00:23:48.000My point is I think the reason this is expedited, because there has been a no scalps policy, right, that you're not going to give the media any wins here, is because a basic level of competence that you're supposed to coordinate with all these complex things going on.
00:24:04.000Everything from the Venezuela situation, to what's happening in the Caribbean, to the Panama Canal, to Greenland, to the Three Island Strategy, to the Middle East, to Ukraine, to what's going on with the economic war.
00:24:16.000We are fighting like five-dimensional warfare in a most sophisticated, quite frankly, third world war that if any false step is made, could spin out of control.
00:24:26.000And as a coordinating factor, they're taking incoming from state, from DOJ, from Treasury, and from others that the job's just not getting done.
00:24:37.000Do you buy that argument, or are you still that, hey, they're just so neocon that they're just not in the room?
00:24:44.000What I'm saying is those aren't necessarily separate arguments.
00:24:48.000I would put them together, because when you've got one group of people that's on your team that, and by the way, I'm not saying that this wasn't the case.
00:24:56.000I'm just saying in general that you need to have, look, President Trump gets the administration that he wants.
00:25:03.000He's the commander in chief. He's the one who runs the play. He's the one who gets to make the assignments.
00:25:08.000He's the one who decides this is the strategy that goes forward. That's the strategy that goes forward.
00:25:12.000And so with Besant getting the deal signed yesterday, having that inked, and he's going to be doing press, he's already doing press today.
00:25:21.000That was the deal when I was over there in Ukraine with him that Zelensky originally reneged on.
00:25:25.000Then he comes to the White House. He reneges on that. That signals that the path forward isn't necessarily going to be this kinetic, driven, you know, having the B-2 bombers down at Diego Garcia and flying them up to Natanz and Tehran and taking out all these underground bunkers with the bunker-busting bombs like the New York Times wanted.
00:25:44.000And as other external world leaders, shall we say, we're talking about, no, it's that we are going to have the negotiations.
00:25:51.000We're going to have the strategy. Actually, Steve, what this shows is the grand strategy is working.
00:25:57.000That's what's coming down, and the people who have the vision of the grand strategy are the ones that are currently in the lead.
00:26:04.700What, how much of this is going to be the biggest, I guess, I don't want to say controversy, but if you have to go through everything that's working, everything that people are working on, the biggest gap in belief is the situation in Persia.
00:26:22.160That the constant drumbeat of there's got to be a military intervention solution now, that instead of going up an escalatory ladder in economic warfare, you just jump right into let's do bombing runs and have the 101st and 82nd Airborne ready to go in.
00:26:39.320And we know where Waltz comes down on that. How big, how big a part of that drove this decision to happen now?
00:26:48.000I haven't heard any direct sources on that, so I couldn't confirm nor deny, but I do know that Tulsi Gabbard, the DNI, so Lieutenant Colonel Gabbard was out there with the intelligence estimate that said that they were not imminently about to roll out these nuclear weapons, that in fact this wasn't necessary.
00:27:06.700And then, of course, Wyckoff was making Iran part of the leverage point, the inflection point with Russia.
00:27:14.940So if you want to put leverage on Iran, you know who's got that leverage.
00:27:18.980Russia does because they're the ones who built Iran's nuclear program.
00:27:22.560And then China does because they're Iran's largest customer for their oil sales.
00:27:28.520The economics and the military geopolitical strategy, it's all connected in the grand strategy of Trump's doctrine for the second administration.
00:27:39.620And I think, unfortunately, there's people who are, you know, maybe watching too much other networks that don't quite get that.
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00:31:48.920But this was – but this – folks should know this was an issue way before the signal thing.
00:31:56.100And I want to go back to the difference between America first national security policy, which is not isolationist and is not dovish, but there's definitely kind of a way you look at the world.
00:32:07.260And you don't want to be bombing everywhere.
00:32:09.240You don't want to be sending American troops over.
00:32:13.940I find this revolting for the audience.
00:32:16.260You remember the great video collections the morning staff did and the afternoon staff yesterday on the 50th anniversary?
00:32:22.580And we didn't get enough – spend enough time, and I will do it on Saturday's show.
00:32:26.280The 50th anniversary of the retreat of the fall of Saigon and particularly the fact of the 58,000 American casualties, that's killed in action.
00:33:04.220Worse, you've got the Murdochs who, as you know, I think are some of the biggest scumbags on Earth, okay?
00:33:12.540The reason this country is in the shape it's in is because Fox News and the Wall Street Journal tapped along as controlled opposition.
00:33:21.300They let the radical Democrats coupled with the lords of easy money on Wall Street, the global corporatists, and the apartheid state of Silicon Valley run the deal and deindustrialize this country and make paupers out of the working class and the middle class.
00:34:41.340And Paul Gijo and all you big talkers and Bannon and these populists, these nationalists, you're scum.
00:34:47.880The editors of the Wall Street Journal, you're scum for putting that up there, scum.
00:34:55.040And you've shown people who sacrificed – people who sacrificed exactly what you think of their sacrifice.
00:35:03.720You could have had a million different alternatives on photos of either combat that took place there, the battle that took place there, any military cemetery,
00:35:12.320the children and grandchildren of those Vietnam vets.
00:35:18.240This is as bad – you know what this is?
00:35:21.620This is the equivalent of spitting on them when they came home in the 60s and 70s, driven by the radicals.
00:41:12.040But thrown a few sharp elbows in New York City and close to the president.
00:41:16.620Remember, Jack, when Ronald Reagan came in, he picked Judge Clark.
00:41:21.040They had Richard V. Allen and eventually got – when Richard V. Allen was bounced because, I don't know, Richard V. Allen taking a refrigerator or something.
00:41:36.000Judge Clark was somebody that was probably the closest person, and he was equivalent to Whitcoff in lack of national security experience, I would say.
00:41:45.800But he had the full faith of Reagan to tell him, hey, what in the hell are these guys doing?
00:41:56.600I want to make sure nobody's – they're not cutting deals with the Contras and taking money out of here and doing stuff.
00:42:04.100Jack, we've just got about two minutes.
00:42:05.460Your closing thoughts on the NSC today.
00:42:07.140Yeah, I'll just say the – I've said this so many times here on The War Room, and thanks, Ken, for having me on, Steve.
00:42:13.700It's the most dangerous words for the America First movement to hear about someone is that they're highly respected in Washington, D.C.
00:42:23.040The minute you hear that set phrase, this is highly respected, highly respected, highly respected in D.C., that means this is someone that has come up through the system, that has come up through the ranks, that has checked every wicket, that has checked every box, that is totally dependent on the system for their credibility and for their authority.
00:42:43.880So this is a tough job that the president has to find people who actually have the expertise on these issues, have the clarity on these issues, but also aren't totally co-opted or perhaps well-meaning but don't understand the grand strategy that President Trump is hearkening to, which, by the way, is the previous national security, economic, geopolitical, geostrategic policy of the United States pre-globalism.
00:43:13.340President Trump is ratcheting things back to the pre-globalist era, and that's what a lot of people don't seem to understand.
00:43:21.400This is traditional American foreign policy.
00:44:19.120Now, the president is not just the Mike Lindell thing.
00:44:22.160I think the president may be going to step forward here in a minute or two, maybe give us some explanations of what's going on.
00:44:27.600Big day in the White House reporting that the National Security Advisor, Green Break Colonel Mike Waltz, former member of Congress from Florida.
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00:47:22.520And this woman, two years she's been fighting this battle, and that's why our million-dollar protection, like you said, is designed the way it is.
00:49:09.260This is a war in production right here, man.
00:49:11.640Rose Garden on a beautiful May Day with that music.
00:49:15.280And the president of the United States, right there, it's just so you know, right back at that podium where that flag is, that is the Oval Office.
00:49:23.420The Oval Office looks out into the Rose Garden.
00:49:52.800Now, the residence has those, kind of the east room and it has more of the ballrooms or the rooms down below that, on that one, that first level.
00:50:01.800Actually, you've got to go up a level, I guess, actually, technically.
00:50:04.320You walk into the basement level where the, I think the map room's down there.