Bannon's War Room - Episode 4455： Ending The forever Wars In The Middle East

00:00:01.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:00:06.000 Pray for our enemies,

00:00:08.000 because we're going to medieval on these people.

00:00:11.000 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:00:16.000 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:00:18.000 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:00:19.000 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that,

00:00:21.000 but you're not going to stop it.

00:00:22.000 It's going to happen.

00:00:23.000 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?

00:00:26.000 MAGA Media.

00:00:28.000 I wish in my soul,

00:00:30.000 I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:00:33.000 Ask yourself,

00:00:34.000 what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:00:37.000 If that answer is to save my country,

00:00:40.000 this country will be saved.

00:00:43.000 War Room.

00:00:44.000 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:00:53.000 All right, back in the War Room.

00:00:55.000 Dave Brat sitting in the great Stephen K. Bannon.

00:00:57.000 We're anticipating going to the White House.

00:01:00.000 Trump's going to be blocking some absurd California rules,

00:01:05.000 which mandate no gasoline cars by 2035.

00:01:10.000 In the meantime, I'll be hosting.

00:01:12.000 We've got a great friend,

00:01:14.000 national intelligence security expert weighing in in a minute.

00:01:18.000 I just want to reiterate what Steve has been saying across the board.

00:01:22.000 And what I want everyone to do is get your favorite clip from Steve Bannon,

00:01:27.000 the most powerful hit that you love personally,

00:01:29.000 and share that and share the platform and share the actual link you used with everyone out there.

00:01:35.000 Steve doesn't like self-promoting.

00:01:37.000 I like promoting Steve Bannon and the War Room.

00:01:40.000 You don't get this news.

00:01:41.000 I looked at the head of New York Times today,

00:01:43.000 Washington Post today, Financial Times today.

00:01:45.000 Nothing.

00:01:46.000 They're not covering anything Steve Bannon just covered.

00:01:50.000 I just want to reiterate the Iran on the immigration 10 years ago.

00:01:53.000 I think most of you know that.

00:01:55.000 But immigration has been the key issue for a decade now.

00:02:00.000 The left is saying, hey, this is disruptive.

00:02:03.000 What Trump is doing is disruptive.

00:02:05.000 The 10 million illegal aliens were not disruptive.

00:02:08.000 Well, they are disruptive to your kid's school system,

00:02:12.000 to the health care system, to your tax bills, to your pocketbook.

00:02:16.000 What the left means when they say that is they're being disruptive to us now

00:02:20.000 because Trump is taking action.

00:02:22.000 And we have to keep taking action.

00:02:25.000 And, you know, Steve just covered that in full.

00:02:27.000 And then when it comes to the never wars, right,

00:02:30.000 I'm getting a little nervous about the establishment, globalist elites,

00:02:35.000 and what our insiders are doing and what information they're conveying to President Trump.

00:02:41.000 Our intelligence services have failed for 30 years.

00:02:44.000 They failed to identify the China threat.

00:02:47.000 Now we're playing catch up at the last minute, thanks only to President Trump.

00:02:52.000 On Russia, they have misled us.

00:02:55.000 Our intelligence services have intentionally misled us since 2014

00:02:59.000 when they were in on a coup d'etat in Ukraine, of course.

00:03:04.000 And Crimea was at stake, et cetera.

00:03:07.000 And now last week, Ukraine bombed the Russian triad, right?

00:03:14.000 No one knows this.

00:03:15.000 The church, hello, church, synagogues, people who believe in peace,

00:03:20.000 building a kingdom on earth, that's peace.

00:03:23.000 It's not a good thing when the West, and it was the West, 1.00

00:03:28.000 bombed the Russian nuclear delivery system, right?

00:03:32.000 The Russian triad in five places.

00:03:35.000 And now our intelligence services, who knew what?

00:03:38.000 When did they know it?

00:03:39.000 Either way, it's not a good look.

00:03:41.000 And then finally, on Iran today, after the intelligence services have that record,

00:03:47.000 are we to believe, right?

00:03:49.000 I hope Israel's got their intelligence right. 0.91

00:03:52.000 They probably do.

00:03:54.000 But if Iran has a nuclear weapon and we don't know about it,

00:04:00.000 or someone else has one that can go off on their say-so, it's a disaster.

00:04:08.000 And China is the big issue right now in the world.

00:04:11.000 We need to gather all forces and keep our eyes on one target.

00:04:15.000 How we came to hate Russia so much is beyond me.

00:04:19.000 After Gorbachev, go listen to Jeff Sachs.

00:04:21.000 He's a Democrat on the left who's documented the history with Russia.

00:04:26.000 Go check it all out.

00:04:28.000 But most importantly, you're all in the choir.

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00:04:35.000 This is the only place you're hearing this news.

00:04:37.000 And it's tomorrow's news today, as they say.

00:04:42.000 Right now, we got someone on who knows far more than I do.

00:04:46.000 Ube Shabander, welcome to the war room.

00:04:50.000 Ube is going to bring us up to speed on, I think, what's going on around the world, intelligence, defense.

00:04:56.000 Welcome to the show.

00:04:57.000 Take it away.

00:04:58.000 It's yours.

00:04:59.000 All right.

00:05:00.000 Well, look, we had an important phone call between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel earlier in the week.

00:05:06.000 Right.

00:05:07.000 President Trump told the prime minister, hold up on any attacks on Iran's nuclear enrichment plant.

00:05:14.000 Let's give my special envoy Steve Witkoff, President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, some time in his ongoing negotiations.

00:05:22.000 All right.

00:05:23.000 With the Islamic Republic of Iran. 0.74

00:05:26.000 Now, those talks are continuing in the Arabian Gulf in the neutral country of Oman this weekend.

00:05:33.000 But all indications suggest that the talks may be on the verge of collapsing.

00:05:40.000 And that's why we saw this announcement in the past two days of all these American embassies in the Middle East, Baghdad, Bahrain, some other countries in the in the region and Kuwait, which has a massive American military base.

00:05:58.000 And the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad being one of our largest in the world is essentially one big fortress surrounded by Iranian backed militias.

00:06:06.000 And the announcement was that we're going to start evacuating non-essential personnel.

00:06:11.000 And that seems to be a precautionary move in case the Iranians decide to retaliate either through missiles or through their regional Shiite terror network that they have operating in Iraq. 0.57

00:06:24.000 And covertly throughout other places in the Arabian Gulf against American assets.

00:06:31.000 If Israel does choose to launch a strike against Iran's nuclear enrichment plant.

00:06:37.000 Now, another major development is that today the Iranians said that they reject the findings of the International Energy Atomic Agency, which essentially ruled earlier this week that the Iranians are not providing sufficient clarity on some of their undeclared.

00:06:57.000 And that's the key word here undeclared nuclear research facilities that include enrichment and some of that enrichment underground could potentially lead to enriching uranium to a high enough level that it could be quickly converted into weapons grade that could then be outfitted on a forehead on a missile.

00:07:20.000 And that is Israel's red line. 0.74

00:07:24.000 So the worry here is that we seem to be reaching quickly to a fork in the road.

00:07:29.000 President Trump was very clear with Ayatollah Khamenei when he sent him the letter saying, hey, we can either have peace and a prosperous Iran or.

00:07:39.000 But it could lead to the other option, that other option potentially either being a military strike or green lighting or at least providing a yellow light for a limited Israeli strike on some of those underground nuclear research and enrichment facilities in those two main sites in Iran, in Natanz and in Fordow.

00:08:00.000 Fordow is deep in the mountain, very hard to reach.

00:08:03.000 The Israelis think they have the necessary technology with those bunker busters that can go deep under the under the mountains. 0.52

00:08:10.000 That is all that site is also next to a holy Iranian city called Qom.

00:08:15.000 So that could lead to some other complications.

00:08:18.000 But all the all the sirens right now in the region seem to be blinking here that we seem to be at a fork in the road.

00:08:25.000 President Trump, of course, wanting diplomacy, wanting diplomacy first, being this ensures American security interests in the region.

00:08:35.000 Steve Whitcoff is a very capable negotiator, but also President Trump being very clear with Khamenei.

00:08:41.000 You only have two months. You're not going to string us along like Barack Obama.

00:08:45.000 That deal just allowed Iran essentially freedom to develop its nuclear weapons capabilities underground and eventually within just about 10 years have be able to freely develop a nuclear bomb. 0.87

00:08:59.000 President Trump, of course, got rid of that Obama deal and told Khamenei, hey, we are going to negotiate based on principles that are very clear here.

00:09:10.000 And we're not just going to give you a blank check to reach nuclear weapons capability, but we're going to give you the option of resolving this peacefully.

00:09:18.000 Otherwise, you've got the Israelis. They're primed and ready. 1.00

00:09:22.000 Yeah. Yeah. Outstanding.

00:09:25.000 A couple points here. The MAGA crowd and the voting base all voted for ending all the wars.

00:09:31.000 President Trump ran very clearly on ending the wars. We know who's going to die.

00:09:36.000 It's going to be the MAGA kids, the boys and girls from MAGA parents across the heartland, not the globalist elitist.

00:09:43.000 Right. They they all go to the Ivy League schools. Their kids are shielded from all of this.

00:09:48.000 So that's point number one on this. We do not want war. We want peace.

00:09:53.000 And China, we have other bigger fish to fry. And you just raised a couple of complexities of holy sites next to it. 0.83

00:10:00.000 And you think we got riots in the streets right now. Wait till after if that takes place.

00:10:07.000 And so point number two is I think President Trump and the U.S. have plenty of throw weight to message to Israel. Right. 0.59

00:10:15.000 I don't think they do anything without us giving a thumbs up. Let me know if I'm right on that or not.

00:10:22.000 And then thirdly, our intelligence. Do we have it right? Do we have certainty that Iran does not have a bomb? 0.82

00:10:31.000 And so if you can cover a couple of those just real quickly, we may be popping over to the White House in a minute.

00:10:37.000 But if you can cover a few of those issues quickly. Look, you're 100 percent right on all these points.

00:10:42.000 Look, I was a former defense intelligence analyst. I was deployed to Iraq, to Afghanistan. I've been in Syria.

00:10:48.000 What were we doing in Iraq? What were we doing in Afghanistan?

00:10:51.000 Absolute disaster as somebody who was there on the ground as a civilian supporting the military efforts and the intelligence efforts of the United States governments in the Middle East and in Central Asia.

00:11:02.000 And so President Trump has it absolutely right. We need to get out of Syria. What are we doing in Iraq? Why are our forces still there? 0.98

00:11:08.000 We are surrounded by Iran's proxies. We have to end the forever wars. 1.00

00:11:13.000 And there is broad support, not just amongst the mega crowd, but amongst blue collar Democrats.

00:11:17.000 You know what Obama was doing, what Biden was doing.

00:11:20.000 There is a real strategic logic to President Trump's policy of America first and ending those forever wars in the Middle East as somebody who's personally experienced those wars on the ground and supporting the U.S. government and the intelligence community.

00:11:33.000 Iran does not have a nuclear weapon. It does not have a nuclear bomb.

00:11:38.000 But the threshold for the Israelis is a little bit at a different level than the American threshold on what we can accept of an Iranian enrichment of their uranium stockpiles.

00:11:51.000 The Israelis think right now that they've got a window of opportunity because Iran doesn't have any air defense capability. 0.81

00:11:58.000 The Israelis destroyed most of Iran's air defense missiles just a few months ago, so they want to strike first and hard before they believe that Iran can develop that enrichment capability in the future. 0.92

00:12:10.000 So once you have uranium up a certain level, then you can quickly reach the position where you can then build the bomb.

00:12:18.000 But currently, the Iranians do not have that nuclear bomb, but we are really at a crossroads.

00:12:23.000 Yeah.

00:12:24.000 Uba, last question for you.

00:12:26.000 I think we have Congressman Mike Rogers coming up, maybe Senator Rogers from Michigan.

00:12:33.000 All political views are my own.

00:12:35.000 But last question for you is perhaps the fundamental one.

00:12:39.000 We live in a Democratic Republic.

00:12:41.000 Last time I checked, we're supposed to be in on the decision making.

00:12:45.000 Where is Congress?

00:12:46.000 When I was in Congress in the conference with the 250 Republicans, we never brought up foreign policy ever.

00:12:53.000 I mean, it's like verboten, right?

00:12:55.000 On purpose because no one wants to vote on the tough stuff.

00:12:59.000 You throw it off to someone else.

00:13:00.000 I do not like this.

00:13:02.000 Congress is in charge of War Powers Act to go to war.

00:13:05.000 I don't like this across the board on China, on the Ukraine.

00:13:10.000 Congress has 100 blobules sitting in the middle that were all in favor of all of that business.

00:13:15.000 And the American people are against that business.

00:13:18.000 So that's a problem.

00:13:20.000 And the Democrats are getting away with murder here, too.

00:13:22.000 How are they the pro-war party all of a sudden?

00:13:25.000 They're just a blank check for all these wars somehow without speaking up.

00:13:30.000 And so can you explain that?

00:13:31.000 We got about a minute left.

00:13:32.000 Just get where is Congress and the voice of the people?

00:13:36.000 Yeah, I mean, the tables really have turned.

00:13:38.000 I mean, I'm old enough to remember when, you know, Congress on both, you know, both Republicans and Democrats with very few exceptions,

00:13:43.000 just gave, you know, George Bush a blank check to invade, you know, the Middle East.

00:13:47.000 And we let, you know, that led to ISIS.

00:13:49.000 And that led to Iran also expanding its power throughout the Middle East, completely opposite of American national security interests. 0.70

00:13:56.000 You need that oversight.

00:13:57.000 And now the tables have turned where President Trump and conservative MAGA Republicans have become the party for peace.

00:14:03.000 And as somebody who served on the ground with, you know, other fellow Americans, that is so important.

00:14:09.000 Because like what you said, at the end of the day, it is your average American who has been either working in the Middle East,

00:14:15.000 has been deploying with the armed forces.

00:14:17.000 That is going to be the target of Iranian retaliation.

00:14:20.000 Now, we've got the most powerful military in the world.

00:14:23.000 If the Iranians launch missiles at our forces and our embassies, you can expect retaliation.

00:14:27.000 Don't forget, it was President Trump that killed Qasem Soleimani, Iran's most capable general.

00:14:32.000 But yeah, there's no doubt you need absolute oversight.

00:14:35.000 Let's not forget the Iraq invasion. 0.77

00:14:37.000 Awesome.

00:14:38.000 Uba, I like the way you message, brother.

00:14:40.000 You just get right to the point.

00:14:42.000 You actually answer questions.

00:14:44.000 You inform the War Room audience.

00:14:46.000 Hey, audience, share his talking points right there.

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00:18:59.000 Back in the War Room, sitting in with the great Stephen K. Bannon.

00:19:08.000 We're honored to be joined by former Congressman Mike Rogers from Michigan, soon to be in higher, higher office.

00:19:15.000 All political views are my own.

00:19:18.000 But I think Mike is here to talk to us about Chinese infiltration in our university system.

00:19:24.000 On the War Room, we don't offer opinions and conjecture.

00:19:28.000 We offer the receipts and evidence.

00:19:30.000 And so, Congressman Mike, thanks for being with us today.

00:19:33.000 And the floor is yours.

00:19:35.000 Let us know what you found.

00:19:37.000 Hey, thanks so much, and thanks for having me.

00:19:40.000 Listen, really interesting.

00:19:42.000 University of Michigan had a problem last year.

00:19:44.000 We found five Chinese nationals attending the University of Michigan who went up to Camp Grayling in the north of Michigan and were caught surveilling activities on the base.

00:19:56.000 Why was that important?

00:19:57.000 Wow.

00:19:58.000 And so, you know, we had a Chinese student who was a national, admitted that he voted in the election and got away with it and got on an airplane last year and flew back to China.

00:20:17.000 And the darndest thing is the law actually counts that vote because you can't separate it out, which is crazy.

00:20:24.000 Lastly, and more seriously, we had a case here in Michigan.

00:20:28.000 The second set of arrests over the last couple of weeks where students, so-called students, were bringing in biotoxins to go after American crops, wheat, barley.

00:20:41.000 So it would kill those crops. 0.82

00:20:43.000 It would infect those crops. 0.62

00:20:44.000 So certainly hurting the U.S. economy, number one.

00:20:47.000 Number two, certainly hurting our food supply and the health and safety of Americans.

00:20:51.000 And we're seeing a pattern here develop.

00:20:54.000 That's what the problem is, and that's what's so concerning.

00:20:57.000 The University of Michigan is just one place that does this kind of research.

00:21:02.000 And we've had two cases in one particular case.

00:21:06.000 The public reporting shows that the person said that they've done it four times into the into the state.

00:21:13.000 Now, we don't know what happens to that material.

00:21:15.000 We don't know how they're using it.

00:21:17.000 But clearly they had expressions of hurting the U.S. economy.

00:21:20.000 If that is an act of terror, I don't know what is.

00:21:23.000 And so think of this one university.

00:21:25.000 We catch it.

00:21:26.000 There are hundreds of universities that have Chinese students who are trying to get into sensitive areas of research.

00:21:33.000 We have to do something about this.

00:21:35.000 We cannot allow them to do it to us absolutely watching and supervising it as they do.

00:21:41.000 Yeah.

00:21:42.000 Well, the left has a well orchestrated assault across the board.

00:21:48.000 It's analogous to the immigration issue.

00:21:50.000 You know, we believe everyone's creating the image of God.

00:21:53.000 But we've got major wars going on in our inner cities now.

00:21:58.000 And it's a problem of extraction.

00:22:00.000 You know, what do you wait until someone blows up cars before you solve the problem?

00:22:04.000 And similarly, in the university system with the Chinese students, I believe they've signed a document that says they will be loyal to the CCP and report intelligence across the board to be in the U.S.

00:22:17.000 And so I'm personally not in favor of solving this problem by just waiting until we find these terrible, you know, intelligence failures on the part of the U.S. for not catching in the first place.

00:22:30.000 And I think we've got Bradley Thayer joining us.

00:22:33.000 But if you want to respond to that, Mike, and then Bradley, if you want to come on in after that, go ahead, Mike.

00:22:39.000 Yeah.

00:22:40.000 And think about this.

00:22:42.000 The Chinese changed their constitution a few years back that said if the national security approaches you, Mr. Chinese citizen or Ms. Chinese citizen, you must cooperate.

00:22:54.000 You have to give all your documents, all your digital connections.

00:22:57.000 So if you're a student at University of Michigan, you go back home and the National Security Service comes to you and says, we want you to do this.

00:23:04.000 Even if you're not a trained intelligence agent, you have to do this.

00:23:08.000 You have to give them the information of which they ask for.

00:23:11.000 I mean, that just introduces a huge risk for any Chinese student that's doing very sensitive research here.

00:23:19.000 Listen, I don't mind if a Chinese student comes here and gets a great education on Elizabethan literature.

00:23:23.000 Don't care. Great, great. And they get exposed to America when they go home.

00:23:27.000 They can say nice things.

00:23:29.000 But when you allow these students access to very sensitive things and potentially having access to lab work that could cause problems.

00:23:39.000 And by the way, I'm sure you don't find this a coincidence that they came out of Wuhan University.

00:23:44.000 I don't know if you know what did Wuhan do for us in 2020?

00:23:48.000 I mean, if you start looking at the logic of this, you start going, OK, this is a problem we've got to get ahead of.

00:23:54.000 Yeah, no, that's right. And Bradley Thayer with us now, too.

00:23:59.000 This is Michigan and Steve Bannon, you know, makes the plane calls years ahead of time.

00:24:04.000 He calls them the public ivies. So we got problems here.

00:24:07.000 Madison, Harvard's in the books all over the price, right?

00:24:10.000 The Kennedy schools having all sorts of linkages and problems, training programs.

00:24:15.000 Bradley, how serious is this infiltration of the CCP into our intelligence, into our government administration, into our universities in particular today? Bradley, go ahead.

00:24:29.000 Well, Dave, great to join you again. It's such a significant problem, as Congressman Rogers identified, that this is something that has to be addressed.

00:24:41.000 The Trump administration is. The congressman mentioned, of course, the national security law.

00:24:46.000 There are other laws that the Chinese Communist Party has imposed on businesses in China, for example, cybersecurity laws and others.

00:24:56.000 DHS published in 2020 under Acting Secretary Wolf, Chad Wolf, a statement, a warning to U.S. corporations, to U.S. businesses and U.S. entities, warning them.

00:25:10.000 So, Dave, that's five years ago now, warning them that any interaction with a Chinese entity might lead to the compromise of your data and almost certainly is going to.

00:25:23.000 So, it's a very significant problem.

00:25:27.000 Right.

00:25:28.000 You may see, of course, also 23andMe, if you know that, Dave, that's the, you know, a genome.

00:25:35.000 They'll take your genetic data and they'll share it with China, of course, because it's a PRC entity at the end of the day. 0.94

00:25:43.000 Right there.

00:25:44.000 Oh, that's another vulnerability where essentially they're capturing your genetic information and sharing it.

00:25:53.000 Dave Bradley.

00:25:54.000 Sorry to cut you off mid-sentence, brother.

00:25:57.000 Mike, thanks for being with us, Congressman.

00:26:00.000 We're pitching over to the White House right now.

00:26:02.000 President Trump's coming in to write over some misaligned California policy.

00:26:08.000 Let's go to President Trump at the White House.

00:26:18.000 Well, thank you very much.

00:26:19.000 I just said to Mike, this is fantastic.

00:26:21.000 I didn't think we were going to see this coming for a while.

00:26:24.000 Congratulations.

00:26:25.000 This is a very, very important thing.

00:26:28.000 Thank you very much, everybody.

00:26:30.000 This is a very important thing we're going to be discussing.

00:26:33.000 Please sit down.

00:26:34.000 Thank you very much.

00:26:35.000 This is good news, indeed.

00:26:39.000 People said it couldn't be done.

00:26:41.000 You got it done.

00:26:42.000 I just have to sign, right?

00:26:44.000 That's very good.

00:26:45.000 This is really something.

00:26:47.000 And it has to do with the California Auto Regulation, CRA.

00:26:52.000 It's been a disaster for this country.

00:26:55.000 And I want to thank everybody for being here.

00:26:59.000 We officially rescue the U.S. auto industry from destruction

00:27:05.000 by terminating the California electric vehicle mandate once and for all.

00:27:29.000 Thank you.

00:27:35.000 They said it couldn't be done.

00:27:37.000 But, boy, it's been — it's had us tied up in knots for years.

00:27:42.000 And they'd pass these crazy rules in California.

00:27:45.000 And when it would be — 17 states would go by them.

00:27:49.000 The automakers didn't know what to do because they're really building cars for two countries.

00:27:53.000 When you have 17 states, you're building cars for two countries.

00:27:57.000 And I want to congratulate you all — the Senate, the House, the whole thing.

00:28:02.000 It's incredible.

00:28:03.000 I was going to sign an executive order and give it a shot.

00:28:07.000 But the one good thing with this — number one, it holds up forever.

00:28:11.000 And number two, unless somebody votes it out, they'll never do that.

00:28:14.000 And it's just so much better, huh?

00:28:18.000 It's so much better.

00:28:19.000 That's so great.

00:28:20.000 Very proud of you.

00:28:23.000 We're joined today by the great Speaker of the House.

00:28:27.000 I think he's going to go down as a great Speaker of the House, too.

00:28:29.000 I may be wrong.

00:28:30.000 I may be wrong.

00:28:32.000 Who knows?

00:28:33.000 Who the hell knows?

00:28:35.000 I think he is.

00:28:39.000 And he's doing something — the only thing I would say is more important than this one.

00:28:42.000 And I'll tell you what, it's almost close.

00:28:44.000 That's how big this is today.

00:28:46.000 But the great, big, beautiful — I added the word great.

00:28:51.000 You know, I used the word — the great, big, beautiful bill.

00:28:55.000 It's going to be one of the most — I said it this morning to a group.

00:28:59.000 I think it's the most important — one of the most important pieces of legislation

00:29:03.000 ever — ever signed, ever approved.

00:29:05.000 So it's going to be something very special.

00:29:08.000 Thank you very much.

00:29:09.000 Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.

00:29:11.000 Thank you.

00:29:12.000 Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.

00:29:13.000 Thank you.

00:29:14.000 Secretary Sean Duffy.

00:29:15.000 And they had a problem in India today when you're on that.

00:29:21.000 Sean is doing a tremendous job.

00:29:24.000 Secretary Chris Wright — everybody said you'd never be able to get him.

00:29:27.000 He's the most talented man, they say, in the oil and gas industry.

00:29:31.000 I'll let you know in about two years if that's true.

00:29:33.000 Well, Doug Burgum — you know, I wanted Doug Burgum to head up energy because he was so successful

00:29:44.000 in North Dakota.

00:29:45.000 He's governor.

00:29:46.000 And he said, sir, there's one person who's much better than me.

00:29:49.000 I said, who?

00:29:50.000 They said, Chris Wright.

00:29:51.000 I said, who the hell is Chris Wright?

00:29:53.000 I had no idea.

00:29:54.000 Now everyone knows Chris Wright.

00:29:56.000 He's going to be more famous than me.

00:29:58.000 But he said, there's a guy named Chris Wright.

00:30:01.000 And if we could get him, he'd be better than I am, sir.

00:30:05.000 And if you know Doug — Doug's not here, is he?

00:30:07.000 If you knew Doug, he's always working someplace.

00:30:10.000 But if you knew Doug, you'd know that he doesn't say that often.

00:30:13.000 And he did.

00:30:14.000 And, Chris, you're doing great.

00:30:15.000 But I don't like — the oil prices have gone up just a little bit over the last few days.

00:30:20.000 I was going to call and just really start screaming at you.

00:30:25.000 Are we okay?

00:30:26.000 Nothing wrong, right?

00:30:28.000 It's going to keep going down a little bit, right?

00:30:31.000 Because we have inflation under control perfectly.

00:30:34.000 You probably saw the records.

00:30:35.000 Everyone's on television saying, what's going on here?

00:30:38.000 Trump has proven to be right. 0.91

00:30:39.000 You know, all of these things.

00:30:40.000 We've taken $88 billion in tariffs in two months.

00:30:44.000 $88 billion with no inflation.

00:30:48.000 And if we're smart, they won't be.

00:30:50.000 Now, we'd like to get this guy to lower interest rates.

00:30:54.000 Because, you know, if he doesn't, we have to pay — we have a lot of short-term debt.

00:30:59.000 Obama gave it to us originally, and Biden carried it on.

00:31:04.000 They like short-term.

00:31:05.000 I like long-term, cheap debt.

00:31:08.000 But a lot of the debt comes through, because Biden — that's what — well, he didn't do it.

00:31:12.000 I'm sure he didn't know anything about it.

00:31:15.000 But somebody approved short-term debt.

00:31:18.000 It's all over the place.

00:31:19.000 And it comes to starting very soon.

00:31:21.000 And if we would lower the interest rates by one point, we'd pay about one point less.

00:31:27.000 That's $300 billion a year.

00:31:32.000 Can you believe it?

00:31:33.000 One point.

00:31:34.000 If he'd lower it by two points, we'd pay $600 billion a year less.

00:31:39.000 That's for years — 10 years, 12 years, whatever we make it.

00:31:43.000 But we can't get this guy to do it.

00:31:46.000 And the fake news is saying, oh, if you fired him, it would be so bad.

00:31:51.000 It would be so bad.

00:31:52.000 I don't know why it would be so bad, but I'm not going to fire him.

00:31:55.000 I just want him to — you know, we call him Too Late, right?

00:31:58.000 Too Late is his nickname — like Too Tall Jones.

00:32:00.000 He was too tall.

00:32:01.000 T-O-O. 1.00

00:32:02.000 And I just say this, because we want to get rid of inflation, and we have.

00:32:09.000 But we're going to be paying more for debt.

00:32:12.000 And all he has to do is lower it.

00:32:15.000 Europe's done 10 lowerings.

00:32:17.000 We've done none.

00:32:18.000 And nobody understands it.

00:32:22.000 Actually, today, when the numbers came out, they were so good.

00:32:25.000 You saw yesterday's numbers.

00:32:27.000 Incredible.

00:32:28.000 No inflation.

00:32:29.000 Today's numbers — today just came out.

00:32:36.000 Same thing.

00:32:37.000 No inflation.

00:32:38.000 You're all shocked.

00:32:39.000 All these guys are watching from business, CNBC, and all of these different networks.

00:32:47.000 Maria Bartiroma actually got it right. 0.86

00:32:49.000 She's been getting it right for a long time, that one.

00:32:52.000 I hope she's appreciated.

00:32:53.000 And Joe Kiernan has been very good at CNBC, I must tell you.

00:32:57.000 But other people aren't so good.

00:32:59.000 But I will say that they are just — they can't believe what's happening.

00:33:04.000 But if I could — because we can discuss, oh, we've got a lot of press.

00:33:07.000 We've got a lot of cameras rolling right now.

00:33:10.000 Not that I like doing it, because I don't.

00:33:12.000 But if we take — if we cut our interest by one point, for years, we save 300 billion.

00:33:20.000 If we cut it by two points, we save — because it's pretty equivalent.

00:33:25.000 We're going to save — we're going to spend 600 billion a year.

00:33:30.000 600 billion.

00:33:32.000 Because of one numbskull that sits here. 0.96

00:33:35.000 I don't see enough raising to cut the rates now.

00:33:40.000 And the problem he's got is that — and I explained to him, look, if inflation went up, cut your rates now.

00:33:48.000 There's no inflation.

00:33:49.000 We've got it down.

00:33:50.000 We've got prices down.

00:33:51.000 We've got gasoline down.

00:33:53.000 And you'll keep it going down.

00:33:56.000 And put gasoline down.

00:33:59.000 We're drill — you know, it's drill baby drill.

00:34:01.000 That's why it's going down.

00:34:03.000 But we're all that — but think of it.

00:34:06.000 I said to him — he was in my office a couple of days ago.

00:34:09.000 I said, if you think there's inflation, let's find out.

00:34:15.000 Because I think we're going to keep it down.

00:34:17.000 I think gasoline is going to be so far down.

00:34:20.000 Oil energy is so much energy.

00:34:22.000 We have so much energy, we don't know what to do with it.

00:34:25.000 But let's say there was inflation in a year from now.

00:34:28.000 Raise your rates.

00:34:29.000 I don't mind.

00:34:30.000 Raise your rates.

00:34:31.000 I'm all for it.

00:34:32.000 I'll be the one to — I'll be calling you.

00:34:33.000 He'll be too late for that, too.

00:34:35.000 But raise your rates.

00:34:38.000 You don't have to keep them up here.

00:34:40.000 If it's going to go up, I'm okay with your raising.

00:34:43.000 But it's down.

00:34:44.000 And we're going out to financing.

00:34:47.000 And I may have to force something.

00:34:50.000 Somebody said, who's the genius that thought of that?

00:34:53.000 I said, it's me.

00:34:55.000 Unlike Biden, I stay awake at night thinking about how to save our country.

00:34:59.000 He was much better at sleeping than me.

00:35:01.000 He could sleep on a beach.

00:35:03.000 He could sleep on a beach with cameras rolling.

00:35:05.000 I can't do that.

00:35:07.000 But I had an idea.

00:35:09.000 I gave it.

00:35:10.000 They said, this is really — we'll go short-term for a year.

00:35:14.000 Let this guy get out of office.

00:35:15.000 Somebody will come in, cut it a couple of points, and we'll save ourselves seven, eight,

00:35:21.000 maybe even $900 billion a year.

00:35:24.000 And he said, what is he doing?

00:35:25.000 What is he doing?

00:35:26.000 Why doesn't he lower these rates?

00:35:28.000 And with that, we'll get on to the California standard, which is a disaster.

00:35:33.000 Okay?

00:35:34.000 So, Chris Wright, you're going to get the numbers down.

00:35:36.000 Thank you very much.

00:35:37.000 Lee Zeldin, one of the most important men in this room.

00:35:40.000 He's the man — I get nervous when I talk to him.

00:35:43.000 He's doing a great job.

00:35:50.000 Nuclear, I say, okay, you can take two weeks for that approval.

00:35:55.000 It used to take 20 years, then they wouldn't approve it.

00:35:58.000 Now I say, Lee, nuclear, I'll give you two weeks for approval.

00:36:04.000 He's doing a coal-fired plant.

00:36:06.000 You only get a couple of days.

00:36:08.000 And oil and gas will give you a week, okay?

00:36:10.000 Something like that.

00:36:11.000 But he's doing it so fast, and we have so many plants being built right now.

00:36:15.000 It's so beautiful to see.

00:36:16.000 And one of the reasons they're coming here is because we — they have to produce tremendous —

00:36:21.000 especially the AI — they have to produce beyond believable amounts of electricity.

00:36:27.000 And they're doing — I said to them — I think this was more or less my idea.

00:36:31.000 They didn't have the idea only because they didn't think a thing like this was possible.

00:36:35.000 I said, as you build your plant, you're going to become a utility.

00:36:38.000 And you're going to build a separate plant right alongside of it.

00:36:41.000 You're going to build it.

00:36:42.000 You're going to build a plant that produces electricity.

00:36:45.000 And you'll produce it through natural gas, coal, nuclear.

00:36:51.000 We don't want to produce it through wind because we don't feel like ruining 50 miles of beautiful plains and beautiful vistas.

00:36:58.000 And — but we want to produce it.

00:37:01.000 You know, interestingly, China is opening up a coal plant every single week.

00:37:07.000 But now I'm finding out it might be two plants every single week.

00:37:10.000 And, you know, usually that's a good gauge.

00:37:12.000 If they're using coal, I guess we're supposed to use coal.

00:37:14.000 And, you know, we went to a coal standard.

00:37:16.000 And not that you have to use coal.

00:37:17.000 You're going to use whatever's best.

00:37:19.000 I want to introduce, also, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, who's a tremendous guy.

00:37:25.000 Doctor.

00:37:30.000 And he is a tremendous guy.

00:37:34.000 Tremendously talented doctor.

00:37:36.000 When I have a medical situation for the country — for myself, I haven't used him, but I might have to.

00:37:41.000 Maybe I'll do that.

00:37:42.000 But serious enough, I think I'd probably do that.

00:37:44.000 But he's a tremendously talented gentleman who happens to be a senator and one that's very respected.

00:37:54.000 Chairwoman Shelley Moore Capito.

00:37:56.000 And congratulations.

00:37:57.000 I just endorsed your son.

00:37:59.000 Did you know that?

00:38:01.000 I endorsed your son.

00:38:04.000 I endorsed your son, who's running in West Virginia.

00:38:08.000 And he's great.

00:38:09.000 In fact, he's all Trump all the time.

00:38:11.000 I think much more so than you, actually.

00:38:14.000 You were his largest impediment.

00:38:17.000 No, I'm only kidding.

00:38:18.000 He's all Trump all the time.

00:38:20.000 And he's going to win big.

00:38:21.000 And so congratulate him.

00:38:23.000 Okay?

00:38:24.000 He's really been fantastic.

00:38:25.000 So many people have told me.

00:38:26.000 Thank you.

00:38:27.000 And House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who's a brave man.

00:38:33.000 He went through hell.

00:38:36.000 And we have a lot of other people here that I won't be able to because they don't have your name down.

00:38:43.000 And I'm looking and I see people's names.

00:38:45.000 I'll do a couple of you.

00:38:46.000 But thanks as well to Mark Wayne Mullen, Senator.

00:38:50.000 Mark Wayne.

00:38:51.000 Thank you.

00:38:52.000 Sit up, Mark Wayne.

00:38:53.000 Don't fight him.

00:38:56.000 He's a serious fighter in a lot of ways.

00:38:59.000 And he's a great guy, too.

00:39:01.000 Thank you, Mark Wayne.

00:39:03.000 Deb Fischer.

00:39:04.000 Deb.

00:39:05.000 Thank you, Deb.

00:39:06.000 Good.

00:39:07.000 Pete Ricketts, who's going to do very well in the upcoming election.

00:39:12.000 Thank you.

00:39:13.000 Thank you, Pete.

00:39:14.000 John Husted, who's really moving along in Ohio.

00:39:20.000 John, good luck.

00:39:21.000 You're going to do well.

00:39:22.000 All endorsed people.

00:39:23.000 John Curtis, who's doing terrifically.

00:39:24.000 John, thank you.

00:39:25.000 Good job.

00:39:26.000 They all say excellent.

00:39:27.000 What can I tell you?

00:39:28.000 Good job.

00:39:29.000 And Bernie Moreno, who won a race that was not winnable.

00:39:31.000 They all said it's not winnable.

00:39:32.000 He won in Ohio.

00:39:33.000 They said you can't win that race.

00:39:34.000 It's a waste of time.

00:39:35.000 You're just wasting your time.

00:39:36.000 Right, Bernie?

00:39:37.000 It wasn't a waste of time, was it, huh?

00:39:38.000 And he won by, like, five points, too.

00:39:39.000 Won by a lot.

00:39:40.000 Along with representatives.

00:39:41.000 Kevin Kiley, who's doing terrific.

00:39:42.000 John Curtis, who's doing terrific.

00:39:43.000 John, thank you.

00:39:44.000 Good job.

00:39:45.000 They all say excellent.

00:39:46.000 What can I tell you?

00:39:47.000 Good job.

00:39:48.000 And Bernie Moreno, who won a race that was not winnable.

00:39:49.000 And he won by, like, five points, too.

00:39:51.000 Won by a lot.

00:39:52.000 Along with representatives.

00:39:54.000 Kevin Kiley, Vince Fong, Jay Obernolte, Doug LaMaffa, Daryl Issa Wisdell.

00:40:04.000 I haven't seen you in such a long time.

00:40:05.000 Look at you.

00:40:06.000 How good you look, huh?

00:40:08.000 Good when you have those big margins.

00:40:11.000 It's easier.

00:40:12.000 John Joyce, great guy.

00:40:17.000 John.

00:40:18.000 Thank you.

00:40:19.000 Thank you, John.

00:40:20.000 Dusty Johnson.

00:40:22.000 Morgan Griffith.

00:40:24.000 Troy Balderson.

00:40:25.000 Troy from a place called Ohio.

00:40:30.000 And he played very cute at one time.

00:40:32.000 But then he got, boy, I tell you, he's become a good politician.

00:40:35.000 Where is Troy now?

00:40:36.000 Where?

00:40:37.000 I haven't seen him used for years.

00:40:38.000 I endorsed you early when he was early and younger.

00:40:42.000 But you still look young, and you've done fantastically.

00:40:45.000 Good.

00:40:46.000 Good work.

00:40:47.000 Really good work.

00:40:51.000 Claudia Tenney, New York.

00:40:53.000 Claudia.

00:40:54.000 Thank you, Claudia.

00:40:56.000 John James.

00:40:57.000 John James.

00:40:58.000 I don't know.

00:41:02.000 You know, he's running for governor, but I'm not sure I'm happy about that, John.

00:41:06.000 Do we have somebody good to take your seat?

00:41:08.000 Because otherwise we're not letting him run for governor.

00:41:11.000 We can't.

00:41:12.000 You have somebody good, right?

00:41:14.000 Okay.

00:41:15.000 As long as you like him, they'll win.

00:41:17.000 Tracy Mann.

00:41:18.000 Tracy, thank you very much.

00:41:20.000 Thank you very much.

00:41:21.000 Appreciate it.

00:41:22.000 Michael Baumgartner.

00:41:23.000 Michael.

00:41:24.000 Thank you, Michael.

00:41:25.000 Good.

00:41:26.000 Good job.

00:41:27.000 David Rauser.

00:41:28.000 Rauser.

00:41:29.000 Thank you.

00:41:30.000 Glenn Grothman.

00:41:31.000 Hi, Glenn.

00:41:32.000 Thank you very much, Glenn.

00:41:33.000 Brett Guthrie.

00:41:34.000 Brett.

00:41:35.000 Thank you, Brett.

00:41:36.000 Thank you, Brett.

00:41:37.000 Rudy Yakim.

00:41:38.000 Thank you.

00:41:39.000 Thank you, Rudy.

00:41:40.000 And I want to thank you all.

00:41:41.000 There's some additional people in the room, but we have to get back to it.

00:41:44.000 This is like so big.

00:41:45.000 This is a big one.

00:41:46.000 Under the previous administration, oh, the previous administration.

00:42:03.000 I could go point after point.

00:42:05.000 Everything they did.

00:42:06.000 Open borders.

00:42:07.000 Men playing in women's sports. 0.81

00:42:09.000 Transgender for everybody. 0.97

00:42:11.000 Everybody, let's go transgender. 0.68

00:42:13.000 What a group of people you had over there. 0.98

00:42:16.060 They must have hated our country.

00:42:18.680 Under the previous administration,

00:42:20.280 the federal government gave left-wing radicals

00:42:22.580 in California dictatorial powers to control the future

00:42:26.580 of the entire car industry all over the country,

00:42:28.940 all over the world, actually.

00:42:31.720 Because they have to build a car.

00:42:33.320 They can't build 19 different cars called the same thing.

00:42:37.920 And really, it was all over the world what was happening. 0.79

00:42:41.500 They approved Governor Gavin Newsom's ridiculous plan

00:42:46.480 to impose a 100 percent ban on all new gas-powered cars

00:42:51.620 within a very short period of time.

00:42:53.020 Think of this.

00:42:55.180 You couldn't buy any other car except an electric-powered car.

00:42:59.580 And in California, they have blackouts and brownouts. 0.94

00:43:01.920 They don't have enough electricity right now to do the job.

00:43:06.500 And country-wide, you'd have to spend $4 trillion

00:43:11.600 to build the firing plants, to build, to be able to,

00:43:15.180 they go to the firing, they call them a lot of things,

00:43:17.180 charging plants, firing plants.

00:43:19.920 $4 trillion you'd have to spend.

00:43:23.080 In the Midwest, they built nine of them.

00:43:28.180 Nine individuals, it's like a pump.

00:43:29.820 It's just like a pump, except instead of gas,

00:43:32.000 electricity comes out.

00:43:34.560 They spent, actually they built eight of them,

00:43:38.840 $9 billion they spent for eight.

00:43:43.780 Eight little hoses, $9 billion. 0.69

00:43:47.240 Now, I'm sure they could have done it for about,

00:43:49.080 you know, one-thousandth of that,

00:43:50.820 but even if they did, it's unaffordable. 0.93

00:43:53.680 They approved Governor Gavin's ridiculous, 0.99

00:43:58.260 it's so ridiculous. 0.98

00:43:59.260 By the way, you would, if I didn't bring the military in, 0.97

00:44:03.100 Los Angeles would be burning down right now, 0.99

00:44:05.340 be burning just like his damn houses burned down, 1.00

00:44:07.900 because he didn't have the water that he should have had. 0.99

00:44:09.700 He had so much, they have so much water.

00:44:12.940 We had to send in the military to free up the water. 1.00

00:44:16.340 And we did that right after the fires.

00:44:17.880 We told them to do it in the first term.

00:44:20.320 But just like that ridiculous plan, this is a plan to ban,

00:44:25.680 think of it, a plan to ban 100, and they call it the 100% ban

00:44:31.780 on all new gas-powered cars,

00:44:34.720 and abolish 75% of the gas-powered trucks, 75%.

00:44:39.920 The trucking industry saw me, they said,

00:44:41.760 sir, it doesn't work.

00:44:44.000 Number one, the trucks are so heavy,

00:44:45.440 they're two and a half times heavier than a diesel-powered truck.

00:44:50.580 So, one of the big truckers, 28,000 trucks, big company,

00:44:55.320 tremendous company, and he said,

00:44:57.420 I go out of business immediately.

00:44:58.760 I'm not going to play games.

00:45:00.580 I mean, he said, did you explain these things

00:45:02.660 to the government officials?

00:45:05.620 Like, the truck weighs two and a half times more,

00:45:10.100 two and a half times more than a regular truck,

00:45:12.500 a gasoline-powered diesel.

00:45:15.080 And he said, based on that,

00:45:17.680 we have to rebuild every bridge in the United States of America,

00:45:20.820 because it wasn't designed to hold cars and trucks that heavy,

00:45:24.720 because the batteries are very heavy.

00:45:26.160 They're, you know, probably lead.

00:45:28.560 They have a lot of things in those batteries that weigh a lot.

00:45:31.800 But it's two and a half times.

00:45:32.960 It's a simple number, two and a half times.

00:45:34.960 And if you want to do this,

00:45:37.860 you have to spend trillions and trillions of dollars

00:45:41.640 on rebuilding every bridge in the United States,

00:45:44.400 and I guess throughout the world,

00:45:45.840 because they do follow us.

00:45:48.080 And the big rig buses and even cement trucks,

00:45:52.340 they want to abolish certain categories of truck.

00:45:58.060 But they want to go 75 percent of all of these trucks

00:46:02.720 have to be abolished almost immediately.

00:46:05.900 I mean, the time is just crazy.

00:46:08.900 And they don't go far.

00:46:12.040 Another little problem.

00:46:13.640 With a tank of diesel, you can go from New York to Los Angeles,

00:46:18.040 if you want to go to Los Angeles right now.

00:46:22.120 But New York to Los Angeles.

00:46:23.640 And you can go back a little bit.

00:46:26.620 With the electric truck,

00:46:28.660 you'll stop approximately six times.

00:46:32.920 Enjoy your stop.

00:46:36.520 And the trucker saw me, and I said,

00:46:38.020 did you just explain this?

00:46:39.360 Because this is like, you know, if you explain it,

00:46:42.020 if a person is reasonable for that,

00:46:43.800 he said, we explained it, they didn't care.

00:46:46.360 They said, we're going all electric. 1.00

00:46:49.760 They're, they can't be stupid, 1.00

00:46:52.640 because anybody that can cheat on elections like them 1.00

00:46:55.080 is not a stupid person. 1.00

00:46:58.440 But they must hate our country. 1.00

00:46:59.880 But I said to this big trucker, he said, 0.97

00:47:02.720 sir, I've been buying trucks my whole damn life. 0.91

00:47:06.400 He's a rough guy, smart guy. 0.98

00:47:08.800 He said, I got thousands of them.

00:47:11.600 I've been buying them for 50 years.

00:47:13.800 And every single year, they got better.

00:47:17.140 They got more efficient.

00:47:18.340 They got bigger.

00:47:19.100 They got stronger.

00:47:21.500 I build apartments in my trucks now for the drivers.

00:47:24.840 I said, what's an apartment?

00:47:25.940 That's on the cab.

00:47:26.980 They put this in.

00:47:28.420 And sir, I know you like luxury,

00:47:29.840 but you wouldn't mind living in one of these.

00:47:31.840 I said, maybe I would.

00:47:33.040 Maybe I wouldn't.

00:47:35.040 I mean, it doesn't sound too appealing,

00:47:36.640 but I said, so what's the problem?

00:47:42.160 He said, so I know there's one thing.

00:47:44.980 For 50 years, every single year,

00:47:47.260 one thing happened.

00:47:48.760 They got better.

00:47:50.860 They got stronger.

00:47:51.920 They got more efficient.

00:47:53.300 They got faster.

00:47:55.440 They could carry any load.

00:47:58.360 If we went to this standard,

00:48:00.200 we'd go back beyond 50 years.

00:48:03.800 They wouldn't go as far as a truck from 50 years ago.

00:48:08.240 It would be too heavy and have all the other problems.

00:48:10.680 He said, we'd be going backwards.

00:48:12.480 We'd be taking a trucking industry.

00:48:14.080 We'd be starting all over.

00:48:15.340 But actually, it would be worse,

00:48:17.220 because it was better 50 years ago than ...

00:48:20.240 So, I said, what are you going to do

00:48:21.680 if I don't win this election?

00:48:23.320 This was before the election.

00:48:25.220 He said, you don't win the election.

00:48:26.560 I'm going to close up my business,

00:48:27.960 because I'm not going to lose my ... 1.00

00:48:29.600 He said, I'm not going to lose my ass. 1.00

00:48:33.000 I know exactly what's going to happen. 1.00

00:48:34.500 It's going to be a catastrophe.

00:48:36.340 It's the craziest thing I've ever heard.

00:48:37.900 They're making you buy stuff that doesn't work.

00:48:41.380 It's no good.

00:48:43.480 It doesn't work.

00:48:44.340 And I'm all for electric.

00:48:45.780 If you want to buy electric, you can buy electric.

00:48:47.720 Cars are great.

00:48:49.380 If you buy the right ones, your cars are great.

00:48:53.780 And you should be given the option, buy the electric car,

00:48:57.120 buy a gasoline-powered car, buy a hybrid.

00:49:00.720 Probably not hydrogen, because hydrogen has a tendency

00:49:04.400 that when it blows up your gonzo, it's over. 0.75

00:49:06.800 They find you 75 yards down the road, you know?

00:49:11.440 Where is he?

00:49:12.440 Well, I think that's him, but I'm not sure.

00:49:15.640 So, you know, they said, we think we can solve the problem.

00:49:18.440 I said, that's not good enough when they think.

00:49:20.040 No, it sounds like it's quite severe.

00:49:22.300 If it doesn't work, Steve, it'll work most of the time.

00:49:25.180 But if it doesn't, it's over.

00:49:27.680 It'll make your accident look like peanuts compared.

00:49:30.680 You wouldn't be around, I'll tell you,

00:49:32.120 because it's been pretty — but some people like it.

00:49:34.960 I don't know.

00:49:35.620 Let's see what happens.

00:49:37.160 I would say it's off to a bad start.

00:49:40.020 But because of the size of California's population

00:49:43.000 and the fact that 17 other states follow California,

00:49:46.140 that's the problem, 17 other states follow California. 0.98

00:49:52.420 They have the most ridiculous laws I've ever seen 0.93

00:49:54.980 for a lot of things. 0.92

00:49:56.180 This is just cars, but we're — and trucks and all.

00:50:00.060 They have a lot of them for other things.

00:50:02.020 But we have — it's called the California Car Standards,

00:50:06.420 and this horrible scheme would effectively abolish

00:50:10.500 the internal combustion engine, which most people prefer.

00:50:15.800 Like, so far, I'd say about 90 percent.

00:50:17.740 In fact, General Motors announced yesterday

00:50:20.280 they're going to spend about $6 billion on —

00:50:23.280 because of tariffs and maybe because of my election

00:50:26.080 on November 5th.

00:50:27.080 But because of tariffs, I think, more than anything,

00:50:30.020 they're all coming back.

00:50:31.120 They're coming back from other countries 1.00

00:50:32.720 that took them 25, 30 years ago.

00:50:34.920 They're all coming back.

00:50:36.720 We have now almost $15 trillion.

00:50:39.360 They had almost nothing last year, and the year before,

00:50:41.660 they're very, very little — nobody wanted to be back here.

00:50:44.800 Nobody wanted to come to our country anymore 1.00

00:50:47.740 because we were like stupid people. 1.00

00:50:49.640 We looked like stupid people. 1.00

00:50:51.000 We were laughed at all over the world. 1.00

00:50:52.580 Now we're not laughed at anymore, I can tell you that.

00:50:55.880 But they wanted to shatter our domestic supply chains

00:50:59.940 and literally grind civilization to a halt.

00:51:03.480 We would have gone so far back.

00:51:05.720 It's hard to believe, actually.

00:51:07.560 Hard to believe when you don't have enough electricity

00:51:09.800 to give a person a little air conditioning in the summer,

00:51:13.300 and now they want you to take electricity

00:51:15.600 and fire up all these cars.

00:51:18.940 But we're not going to let that happen.

00:51:21.900 Meanwhile, all of the auto jobs would be shipped to China

00:51:25.580 because they're very strong on electric.

00:51:29.080 And it lives off an estimated 200,000

00:51:32.320 American autoworkers would be destroyed.

00:51:34.320 It's one of the reasons I did so well

00:51:35.960 with the United Autoworkers.

00:51:38.620 And now I'm really doing well with them.

00:51:40.660 I did phenomenally with them.

00:51:42.060 No Republican ever got any numbers like that.

00:51:44.700 I got in the Teamsters, too.

00:51:46.360 Sean O'Brien, the head of the Teamsters.

00:51:48.040 These guys, they like Trump because I produce jobs.

00:51:51.200 They know that.

00:51:52.700 Everybody knew that — the autoworkers knew better

00:51:55.000 than anybody how good the tariffs were.

00:51:57.700 And the head of the autoworkers, I don't know him at all,

00:52:01.840 but he didn't like me at all.

00:52:03.780 Now he's going around saying, this guy's unbelievable.

00:52:07.240 He was very nice to me the last few months.

00:52:10.220 During the campaign, no.

00:52:11.320 But if — I've proven, you know, I've proven it.

00:52:14.980 I've done what I said I was going to do,

00:52:16.680 and we've brought back tremendous numbers of jobs.

00:52:20.120 And you're having auto plants built all over the country,

00:52:24.200 all over — there's never seen anything like that.

00:52:26.760 They're leaving from Mexico.

00:52:28.520 They're leaving from Canada.

00:52:29.760 They're leaving from other parts of the world.

00:52:32.660 If they want a Mercedes Benz, you're going to have it made here. 0.96

00:52:35.400 It's okay to have a Mercedes, but they're going to make it here.

00:52:37.640 Otherwise, they're going to pay a very big tariff.

00:52:40.140 They already are.

00:52:40.800 That's one of the reasons we have $88 billion.

00:52:43.980 It's a lot of money.

00:52:44.820 But that's peanuts compared to what we're going to be making

00:52:46.940 in another few months.

00:52:48.320 They haven't even kicked in yet.

00:52:51.020 But we're not going to let any of these bad things happen, 0.99

00:52:54.760 these stupid projections that I've been reading about 1.00

00:52:57.660 for the last six months. 1.00

00:52:58.840 I think these people are either corrupt or really dumb. 1.00

00:53:02.900 And they're supposed to be economists. 1.00

00:53:04.540 And the campaign, I promise, to end this disaster.

00:53:07.600 And today, our Republican majorities in Congress

00:53:10.280 have delivered.

00:53:11.480 And I don't know.

00:53:12.280 I can't imagine.

00:53:14.420 It's so obvious.

00:53:15.340 It's so good.

00:53:16.520 Did we get any Democrat votes?

00:53:18.860 Did we get one?

00:53:20.460 Two?

00:53:21.800 Who?

00:53:22.700 Thirty-five.

00:53:24.400 Thirty-five?

00:53:25.460 I think that's great.

00:53:27.260 You know, I think that's great.

00:53:28.300 You got 35 Democrats.

00:53:31.260 I think that's great.

00:53:32.800 That, as far as I'm concerned.

00:53:34.100 One in the Senate.

00:53:35.940 One in the Senate.

00:53:38.280 On something that's so good.

00:53:39.580 But who is the one?

00:53:41.320 The one.

00:53:42.440 Five in my wife.

00:53:44.180 Mr. Well?

00:53:46.320 I shouldn't have asked.

00:53:52.820 I congratulate her.

00:53:53.960 I don't care.

00:53:54.660 I think it's great.

00:53:57.160 It's very interesting.

00:53:59.300 Why did I ask that question, Mr.

00:54:01.160 President, Mr. President, I'll sign three pieces of legislation that will kill, totally 0.95

00:54:09.240 killed. 0.58

00:54:10.240 They can't do anything about it.

00:54:11.660 They can't take us to court.

00:54:12.940 They can't do any of the things they can do with the executive orders.

00:54:17.200 And it's permanent.

00:54:18.620 I'll sign three pieces of legislation that will kill the California mandates forever.

00:54:25.060 And they're never coming back.

00:54:26.060 Now, the auto companies are the most happy because now they're going to be designing and

00:54:29.580 building one auto.

00:54:31.780 It will be much cheaper.

00:54:33.720 It's much less expensive.

00:54:36.360 They were showing me, one of the most respected people, was showing me that to save a little,

00:54:42.700 like a half a glass of fuel cost them thousands of dollars with new computers and stop it.

00:54:49.300 The engine has to stop and then turn on and blah, blah, blah.

00:54:53.080 And I said, does it work as well?

00:54:54.200 Well, no.

00:54:55.200 It's terrible.

00:54:56.200 It's terrible.

00:54:57.200 And that's to save a little bit of fuel, this much fuel, that Chris Wright can produce

00:55:00.840 with one extra little oil well someplace, right?

00:55:06.080 One little, a small one, a very small one.

00:55:07.960 But think of it.

00:55:08.960 Your cars are going to cost you $3,000, $4,000 less, and you're going to have what you want.

00:55:15.480 And again, you can get any car you want.

00:55:17.240 You can get electric.

00:55:18.240 A lot of people love the electric.

00:55:19.560 They like Tesla.

00:55:21.340 So do I, in all fairness.

00:55:23.160 I like Tesla.

00:55:24.160 And I like others, too.

00:55:27.160 But I also like combustion engines.

00:55:28.800 And, you know, there are reasons for a lot of things.

00:55:32.580 When I was in Iowa, we had an unbelievable victory, if you remember.

00:55:37.160 Remember?

00:55:38.160 That was nice.

00:55:39.160 You won by, like, so much nobody even talked about anything else.

00:55:43.160 But it was a great victory.

00:55:44.160 But it was unbelievably cold that night.

00:55:46.160 And I was going to watch my victory in the area where I was going to make a speech.

00:55:52.160 And the whole place was littered with cars.

00:55:56.160 I said, what happened?

00:55:57.160 They were electric cars, and they don't work in cold.

00:56:01.160 I said, I didn't know that.

00:56:03.160 And they don't work in extreme heat, either.

00:56:05.160 Other than that, they're wonderful.

00:56:07.160 But, no, but if you're in a cold climate, you know, how do you do that?

00:56:11.160 But they're electric cars.

00:56:12.160 And I noticed that.

00:56:13.160 And then I didn't pay much attention because we won by about 65 points.

00:56:18.160 So I was more interested in that.

00:56:20.160 But I do remember that scene.

00:56:21.160 I said, what the hell is going on over here?

00:56:24.160 This historic action will also help us reduce inflation and bring down the price of automobiles

00:56:29.160 and electricity very, very substantial.

00:56:31.160 You know, we're building massive electricity right now.

00:56:34.160 It's already started because of that guy right there, Lee Zeldin.

00:56:37.160 By far the most important man in the room, Mr. Speaker.

00:56:41.160 Stand up, Lee.

00:56:49.160 He blows you guys away, John.

00:56:51.160 He blows the politicians away.

00:56:53.160 I'm sorry right now.

00:56:54.160 He actually, he's a great politician.

00:56:56.160 He almost won for governor in New York, which is just missed by a few points.

00:57:01.160 And that was another race that was not winnable, but you almost got it.

00:57:06.160 But I think what you're doing now is even bigger if you want to know the truth.

00:57:09.160 I think it's actually more important if you can believe that.

00:57:12.160 Under the previous regime, car prices skyrocketed as a direct result of the mandates.

00:57:18.160 These mandates, this nonsense that you had to do.

00:57:21.160 And they have so many other rules and regulations that the car companies who are here today

00:57:25.160 appreciate that.

00:57:26.160 And Susie Wells is here today.

00:57:28.160 Stand up, Susie. 0.96

00:57:29.160 Most incredible woman.

00:57:30.160 Most powerful woman in the world, they say. 1.00

00:57:34.160 She's the most powerful.

00:57:35.160 She was rated the most powerful woman in the world, Susie Wells. 0.89

00:57:40.160 One phone call and a nation is destroyed.

00:57:42.160 She destroys, she could destroy five nations with five calls. 0.99

00:57:45.160 And she's doing a great job.

00:57:46.160 More importantly, right?

00:57:47.160 Doing a great job.

00:57:48.160 Nobody likes it.

00:57:49.160 Energy prices would likewise serve as a radical left force, more electric vehicles onto the

00:58:04.160 grid while blocking approvals for new power plants.

00:58:07.160 They want to block the approvals.

00:58:09.160 They want you to have a car with electric, but they block the production of the juice that

00:58:16.160 runs the cars and all of them, all forms of cars.

00:58:20.160 It's just the craziest thing.

00:58:21.160 We're in a different sphere now.

00:58:23.160 We're in a whole different planet right now.

00:58:25.160 The result would be rolling blackouts and a collapse of our power systems.

00:58:30.160 We'd have a total collapse.

00:58:31.160 You couldn't do it.

00:58:32.160 You couldn't even do it.

00:58:33.160 Think of it.

00:58:34.160 They're forcing you to do something.

00:58:35.160 And they want you to do boats also.

00:58:37.160 I assume boats are being covered by this.

00:58:39.160 And boats, they want you to go all electric. 0.97

00:58:42.160 And the batteries are so heavy, the damn boat practically doesn't float. 0.71

00:58:48.160 I used to have a lot of fun talking about that one on the tours. 0.98

00:58:53.160 We'd talk about it.

00:58:54.160 And I said, what would happen if the boat sank?

00:58:56.160 The boat sank because we went to North Carolina, South Carolina.

00:59:00.160 We visited boat factories.

00:59:01.160 Unbelievable guys.

00:59:02.160 And they said, sir, we have one problem.

00:59:05.160 They're forcing us to go electric for the boat.

00:59:07.160 I said, how's it going to work?

00:59:09.160 The boat will not float, sir.

00:59:12.160 It's so heavy.

00:59:14.160 And it won't go fast and lots of other.

00:59:17.160 And I did ask him a question because I have a lot of background.

00:59:21.160 My uncle is a big shot at MIT, the smartest guy.

00:59:24.160 He never had a smarter guy.

00:59:26.160 And I guess I have a little of that.

00:59:28.160 My first question was, what would happen if the boat sank?

00:59:31.160 Do you get electrocuted?

00:59:32.160 Remember I said that?

00:59:33.160 And I used to be decimated by these people back here.

00:59:37.160 Right?

00:59:38.160 I used to be decimated.

00:59:39.160 They'd say, what kind of a crazy question is that?

00:59:43.160 I'm actually serious.

00:59:44.160 What happens if you're an electric boat and the boat is going down?

00:59:47.160 You're in trouble, Susie.

00:59:49.160 And I used to say, remember, oh, I'd get decimated.

00:59:52.160 The audience loved it, but the press would laugh at it.

00:59:55.160 I said, so if I have my choice of going down,

00:59:58.160 we're jumping five or six yards away from the boat,

01:00:01.160 but there's a shark there.

01:00:03.160 What do I do?

01:00:05.160 You know what I said? 0.88

01:00:06.160 I'd rather be electrocuted. 0.94

01:00:07.160 I said, I'll take electrocution every single day.

01:00:11.160 But actually, he said, nobody's ever asked me that question, sir.

01:00:15.160 He makes boats.

01:00:16.160 Nobody ever asked me that question.

01:00:17.160 This is really an unusual question.

01:00:19.160 He said, and honestly, I don't have the answer.

01:00:22.160 He wasn't able to.

01:00:23.160 I said, don't worry about it.

01:00:24.160 If I win, you won't have to worry about it.

01:00:26.160 But today, we're saving California,

01:00:31.160 and we're saving our entire country from a disaster.

01:00:34.160 Your cars are going to be thousands of dollars less money.

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01:00:41.160 we're not going to make you do certain things

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01:00:46.160 They make you do things that are no good for anybody.

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Bannon's War Room - June 12, 2025

Episode 4455： Ending The forever Wars In The Middle East

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