Stephen K. Makan and Jack Posobiec join host Stephen K. to discuss the latest on the Bolton raid on his home, the Trump administration's response to the Florida trucking crash, the Iran deal, and much more!
00:00:00.000part to Gavin Newsom's sanctuary policies. Now, Donald Trump's first administration denied him
00:00:05.680commercial driving privileges in the country, but then Joe Biden's administration gave it to him.
00:00:11.900In other words, more blood on many Democrats' hands as far as I am concerned. Now, because
00:00:17.660the Democrats' obsession, aiding and abetting the law-breaking, those illegals, those people
00:00:23.560that enter our country don't respect our laws, border, and sovereignty, even institutionalizing
00:00:28.940it in states that are sanctuary, that offer those protections like California, because without
00:00:34.300California, without Joe Biden's insane policies, three Americans in Florida would not have been
00:00:40.340in this preventable crash. But the Trump administration, they are now taking action to
00:00:45.400secure our roads. Just moments ago, about an hour ago, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the
00:00:51.720following announcement. Quote, he said, effective immediately, we are pausing all issuance of
00:00:57.540worker visas for commercial truck drivers.
00:01:02.900This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going
00:01:10.200medieval on these people. Here's the time I got a free shot at all these networks lying
00:01:15.260about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that.
00:01:20.300I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
00:01:22.920It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big line? Mega Media.
00:01:29.000I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and
00:01:36.760what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:01:44.420War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
00:01:53.500Friday, 22 August, Year of the Lord 2025. Thank you so much for sticking around for the second hour of the morning edition of the War Room.
00:02:01.840This afternoon, also going to have, from 5 to 7, the afternoon, early evening edition. It'll be on fire.
00:02:08.280So much going on today. We're absolutely packed. We've had to kind of rejigger the show a little bit
00:02:13.100because of the raid on Bolton's house. The great Jack Posobiec, a naval intelligence officer,
00:02:17.780a former naval intelligence officer, is going to join us on this because this is going to,
00:02:21.200the Bolton raid is going to have massive implications to what's going on now because he's one of the biggest cheerleaders.
00:02:26.920He's the neocon's neocon. Also, I'll play, hopefully I'll play the clip where we got it later.
00:02:33.840Karl Rove, and I kid you not, one of the architects and particularly the information war architects of the Iraq war,
00:02:41.500right, actually went on Fox and in the Wall Street Journal and said, and I told you this was going to happen,
00:02:48.360said if President Trump doesn't work and get a deal that's suitable to Zelensky and this crowd and the European elites,
00:02:54.980this will be his Afghanistan, right? This is not Trump's war whatsoever.
00:03:00.020And the Europeans have told us they're not prepared to do any serious commitments on the security guarantees,
00:03:07.460which this audience has been months ahead of, of anybody else, because we've talked about it,
00:03:12.060not prepared to do any what we call line of contact security guarantees, which is the meaningful guarantees.
00:03:17.900They want the United States to do it. So the whole Ukraine thing, President Trump said,
00:03:21.320hey, look, if Zelensky gets a meeting with Putin, that's great. I'm not going to be part of the bilat.
00:03:24.820I'm not going to set it up. The reason is he saw the Europeans that got on the plane and they fell apart.
00:03:30.600Nothing serious. So we're going to break all that down in a moment.
00:03:33.640When I talk about a maximalist strategy, I mean, in every aspect, we have to understand this is about the,
00:03:40.620this gets to the, to the recess and the recess appointments. We are burning daylight.
00:03:45.380We only have so much time and we're against the concentration of industrial power, the concentration of financial power,
00:03:53.080the concentration of technological power, right?
00:03:56.500To try to sort this mess out and get this country back on its footing of being America first.
00:04:02.520That means like on this redistricting, which is audience, you drove the victory in Texas when nobody would talk about it.
00:04:07.780And Abbott didn't want to do it. And Patrick didn't want to do it. And Speaker Burrow didn't want to do it.
00:04:13.280And I totally respect, I know I, we follow the president's true socials on this one.
00:04:18.540He's trying to be, you know, magnanimous to down Texas, but his true social on Burrow, right?
00:04:23.560Is not the perspective of the war room. That guy is a sad sack and didn't want to do anything.
00:04:27.520And no Democrats have really been punished down there.
00:04:29.460Or they're talking about some $9,000 penalty.
00:04:31.320We have to have a maximalist strategy everywhere.
00:04:36.260What do I mean by that? Whether it's the redistricting wars.
00:04:39.200If we're going to get to 100 seats, let's get on with, let's get to 100 seats.
00:05:30.860What's happening right now with that amphibious group in the 4,000 Marines and other troops and sailors have been assigned to Southcom right now going to the Caribbean.
00:05:43.320The great Alex Jones yesterday said, broke some news.
00:05:46.860Hey, they're getting ready to have military interdictions, kinetic interdictions against the cartels in Mexico and maybe Central America.
00:05:57.900That's the hemisphere we want to clear up.
00:06:01.140The 55 million visas, we've got to go through.
00:06:04.100We're going to dump half of those visa holders or have their visas pulled like tomorrow and told they've got 30 days to get out of the country.
00:06:13.900You wouldn't have an affordability problem.
00:06:16.920You just saw on the truckers, and I want to bring in the folks that brought this to our attention so the war and posse could get on with it.
00:06:22.220Cord McGill, Shannon Everett, and we have Daniel Chafin, who is a logistics expert.
00:06:32.240Talk to me about what happened the other day with this case, this event that finally brought to the nation's attention, which you guys have been arguing for a while about these commercial driver licenses that are given to particularly Mexican citizens, Mexican nationals.
00:06:48.140They can't speak English, can't read English, and not going to abide by any rule.
00:06:52.540You scared the hell out of people when you came on a month or so ago, a couple of months ago, and alerted the American citizens to what this problem was.
00:07:00.420And now you've had guys killing people on highways, as you guys predicted it was going to happen unless it got cleaned up.
00:07:06.600So walk me through the case of what exactly happened here.
00:07:09.820So on Tuesday, August 12th, we saw a pretty serious crash on the Florida Turnpike near Fort Pierce.
00:07:17.080A gentleman who had came into the United States illegally by the name of Harjinder Singh, behind the wheel of the semi, as you see in the clip you're playing, attempted to execute an illegal U-turn across the Florida Turnpike.
00:07:33.240And in doing so, he pulled right in front of three people in a minivan driving 70 miles an hour who were instantly killed.
00:07:40.260The problem with this incident is this isn't the only one.
00:07:43.120There have been a string of these crashes and collisions involving insourced labor on American highways.
00:07:50.840Back in June, we saw in Terrell, Texas, a gentleman from Cuba working for one of these dodgy chameleon carriers, hauling a load for the United States Postal Service, fell asleep at the wheel because the company he worked for backdoored into his electronic logging device, fudged his hours and allowed him to drive until he couldn't drive anymore.
00:08:10.660And he wiped out most of an entire family in Texas.
00:08:13.740Then we had another one in Austin, Texas, in March.
00:08:18.200A couple of days after the crash in Florida, we had six or seven semis get in an accident on the same stretch of Interstate 70 in Illinois.
00:08:27.820A friend of mine who's a trucker, he just left Vermont the other day, called me and said he keeps getting detoured from all these crashes.
00:08:33.360And most of the time, we're finding it's drivers who've been insourced here from other countries and been given fraudulent or questionable CDLs, many of which are downstream of this program that Joe Biden started in 2021 under his trucking task force, where instead of listening to industry experts tell him,
00:08:54.700hey, we need to get trucks moving, we need to fix the detention problem, we need to pay drivers more and improve the material conditions of American truckers' jobs, they completely ignored all of that expert advice.
00:09:06.320And downstream of that task force, we have seen at least, at very least, half a million migrants, refugees and illegals issued CDLs by about 10 states,
00:09:16.680as identified by my colleague Shannon Everett here at American Truckers United, and America's highways are flooded with people who often don't speak English, have got very little training, very little vetting,
00:09:29.160and clearly don't know what they're doing because they keep getting in these accidents all the time.
00:09:33.720It's economic warfare against America's well-trained truckers.
00:09:39.260Gord, before I go to Shannon, hang on for a second.
00:09:41.620The guy did an illegal – on the Florida freeway, that huge interstate, he tried to do a U-turn, an illegal U-turn in the middle of that, and that's – and the folks in the minivan ran into him?
00:10:03.040Shannon, please explain to this audience what the logic is of why in the United States of America we need 500,000 aliens given a commercial driver's license to compete against American drivers.
00:10:22.300Well, it's an irresponsible logic that's been parroted by the lobbyist group in Washington, D.C., and so it's not necessary.
00:10:32.160You know, there's been this narrative that's been pushed out into the industry that says that we have a driver shortage, and it's always continuously seems to be the same number of 80,000 drivers.
00:10:42.320When we first started bringing awareness to this issue, we found very quickly that we had over 6 million CDLs as reported by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's website online.
00:10:53.800But when we made that statement, when we made that claim, it was like, well, that number's bad.
00:10:58.620Well, if that data is the only public source of data that's available for everyone to use to make the claims on how many CDL drivers we have in the United States, how can you also tell us that there's a shortage?
00:11:10.180If we don't have the data, how can you have a number that tells us how many drivers we don't have?
00:11:16.280If there was a shortage, they wouldn't just be pulling drivers from third-world countries.
00:11:20.340They would be pulling drivers from everywhere they could possibly recruit them from.
00:11:23.580But what we've identified is that the 10 states that are responsible for flooding our highways with all of these unvetted, untrained, and unqualified drivers are only insourcing drivers from third-world countries, countries like Serbia, countries like Ethiopia, countries like India, Ecuador, Honduras.
00:11:42.100These are all places where the workers from those countries have third-world living standards, that they're comfortable receiving third-world living wages.
00:11:51.560And so they're able to come in here and displace American workers when they don't have to be paid a prevailing wage, when they don't have to pay any federal income taxes.
00:12:01.680They don't have to pay any state income taxes.
00:12:03.660They don't have to receive any health care benefits.
00:12:06.120And that's because the majority of all of these workers that they've brought in and issued these CDLs are not here on proper work visas.
00:12:15.400They're here on, and then they're abusing these B-1 visitor visas.
00:12:20.660They're abusing these EAD cards, these employment authorization documents.
00:12:24.880And they're being issued an unusual new phenomenon, what everyone now knows to be this non-domicile CDL.
00:12:32.080And so prior to the Biden administration issuing new guidance and saying that these rogue states could issue non-domiciled CDLs, our trucking industry was not experiencing this phenomenon.
00:12:44.120And so this is completely new, and, you know, I think it's a blessing that God is using Steve Bannon and the war room posse, that God's using Secretary Marco Rubio and Secretary Duffy, because there are people all across this country who are brokenhearted.
00:13:00.720They're broken-spirited because either their families have been killed and they don't really understand the circumstances of how that was possible.
00:13:07.940You also have families who have lost generations of wealth as the companies that they own and operate have been subsidizing losses for the last three to four years as they try to compete with this new ecosystem of drivers that we've never had to compete with before.
00:13:30.620I'm going to hold you through the break because you have economic warfare against the backbone of this country, and that's the truck drivers, right?
00:13:36.980And truck drivers is also a generational thing.
00:13:40.720There are many, many families that pass this down generation to generation, just like my family was a phone company family, right, or part of the family were firemen.
00:13:47.900Get folks in these industries, right, and they pass it down to their kids, they pass it down to their grandkids.
00:13:53.840Economic warfare plus a clear and present danger to American families on American highways.
00:14:22.400They either want to automate it with artificial intelligence or want to get a foreign worker in here that will work for one-third the wage in horrific conditions.
00:14:32.540That is why our fight is against the concentration of economic power.
00:14:39.280These globalists, right, and these neocon neoliberals, and we're seeing that today from Jackson Hole with Powell and the central banks all the way to the raid on John Bolton's house in suburban Maryland.
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00:27:14.880Remember, Jack Posobiec, a former naval intelligence officer.
00:27:18.500This is going to be far deeper and uglier, I believe, than just the book of The Room Where It Happened.
00:27:25.180That's what initiated this investigation of John Bolton.
00:27:29.320But I think John Bolton's dirty on many levels.
00:27:31.800Also, the geopolitical reality of what's happened in the last 96 hours.
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