Bannon's War Room - Episode 4762： Gain Of Function Economy; Trump Speaks At The Religious Liberty Commission

00:00:00.000 As the president arrives, and I believe the Secret Service wish you to keep your seats.

00:00:05.800 I believe that's the. So just kind of sit there and we'll advise you very shortly.

00:00:11.120 So we'll take a brief break, gentlemen.

00:00:12.880 We're at the War Room. It's Monday, September 8th, September in the year of our Lord, 2025.

00:00:17.640 President Trump is about to arrive at the Museum of the Bible to address the Religious Liberty Commission.

00:00:25.140 You just heard Cardinal Dolan speak. They're taking a short break.

00:00:28.000 Well, the Secret Service checks the room out and the president takes the stage.

00:00:32.820 We've got a very special guest we were going to open with this morning, but he got big footed by the president.

00:00:37.640 We'll get a little bit of it in. Let's go to play.

00:00:39.160 We've got a cold open and then live from the White House, Dr. Peter Navarro.

00:00:43.320 Let's go and let her rip. 1.00

00:00:44.480 Look at the pictures that dominated this week's world news.

00:00:48.640 The vivid illustrations of the failure of Donald Trump's foreign policy.

00:00:52.860 The images that captured most attention were of China's massive military parade and of Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un striding together.

00:01:03.860 Those were to be expected.

00:01:05.340 A reminder that the West faces a determined set of adversaries who see it as their mission to destroy the Western-led international order.

00:01:13.980 What was surprising were the images from the days before when the Shanghai Cooperation Organization hosted leaders from India, Turkey, Vietnam and Egypt, among others.

00:01:26.740 All these regional powers were generally considered closer to Washington than Beijing.

00:01:32.020 But a toxic combination of tariffs, hostile rhetoric and ideological demands is moving many of the world's pivotal states away from America and towards China.

00:01:45.500 It may be the greatest own goal in modern foreign policy.

00:01:49.900 These are powers that have very different ideologies.

00:01:54.100 Nationalist, communist, theocratic in the case of Iran, which is sometimes part of this group.

00:01:59.300 What unites them is their dislike of us.

00:02:04.320 And by us, I mean the democratic world, the language of rule of law, the language of transparency, the language of accountability.

00:02:12.360 Because, of course, that's the language of their own internal oppositions.

00:02:16.560 And China and Russia in particular, but the rest as well, have been working for many years to delegitimize that language,

00:02:23.300 to get the idea of human rights, for example, out of international documents, international institutions,

00:02:28.820 and instead promote an idea that, using the word sovereignty, which, by the way, is a word that the Trump administration also uses,

00:02:37.900 by which they mean you can't, no one can criticize us, and we get to decide what happens inside our own countries,

00:02:45.080 and also if we feel like invading other countries, nobody can object.

00:02:48.440 The White House says it will advance a $5 billion pocket rescission.

00:02:52.980 It's a legally dubious attempt to claw back money that Congress has previously approved.

00:02:58.040 A pocket rescission is a rarely used maneuver.

00:03:00.520 Normally, if the president wants to rescind some funding, he can ask Congress to review it and authorize the change.

00:03:06.160 Congress typically has 45 days to consider it.

00:03:09.160 But a pocket rescission attempts to bypass that by introducing the matter so late into the process

00:03:14.700 that Congress doesn't have enough time to weigh in.

00:03:17.480 Again, the fiscal year ends at the end of this month, 23 days away.

00:03:22.840 If the White House moves forward with that, it essentially amounts to an authoritarian attempt

00:03:27.640 to strip away Congress's explicit power of funding the government, the power of the purse.

00:03:34.020 That's why it's more important than ever for Democrats to play hardball, to fight fire with fire,

00:03:38.120 and some are suggesting that that means being prepared to shut down the government,

00:03:42.560 rather than funding it on Donald Trump's terms.

00:03:45.440 Monday, 8th September, year of early, 2025, right there.

00:03:49.800 You heard a huge fight.

00:03:51.120 I'll give you some more information about that as the show progresses,

00:03:54.740 about the two alternatives or the two basic alternatives, but pocket rescissions.

00:03:59.920 In fact, the Trump administration just announced the Washington Post picked it up.

00:04:03.620 They're thrown down for a huge fight, continual fight, on foreign aid,

00:04:07.940 doing pocket rescissions, rescissions, and all else.

00:04:10.580 Okay, we're going to go live to the president.

00:04:13.240 As soon as he takes the stage at the Religious Liberties Commission,

00:04:17.180 this was just announced that he was going to attend last night.

00:04:19.960 They've been working on it for a while.

00:04:21.080 I think Vince Haley and the team over there, pretty good speech lined up.

00:04:24.900 Let's go to Dr. Peter Navarro.

00:04:27.020 Doc, we were going to spend the morning, part of the morning with you.

00:04:29.380 It looks like you're getting big-footed by your boss, but that's okay.

00:04:32.680 I'm shocked, Steve, that you would cut away to the president when I'm here.

00:04:40.640 I mean, I'm shocked.

00:04:42.620 Hold it, hold it, hold it.

00:04:43.880 I am going to tell the president later.

00:04:45.380 I'm going to tell the president later in the day,

00:04:47.540 actually, Navarro gets better ratings, but we always cut to him,

00:04:51.000 and I'll see how that sets with him.

00:04:53.940 Peter.

00:04:54.480 I think you should do that.

00:04:55.320 I think you take away your red line there.

00:04:57.480 You have a red phone in there, don't you?

00:04:59.080 When there's a crisis, they call Bannon.

00:05:01.460 Is that how that works?

00:05:03.360 No, no, no, no.

00:05:04.380 By the way, you don't.

00:05:05.480 I want it for the record.

00:05:06.480 I want it for Media Matters.

00:05:08.080 Navarro gets high ratings here, but nobody outrates the president.

00:05:12.280 Peter, I want to talk about the trade deals, your tariffs,

00:05:16.380 because we saw today Semaphore has a lead story by Ben Smith and the team over there

00:05:23.160 talking about the conference call that the BRICS nations had,

00:05:27.360 the Zoom call they had the day after the parade.

00:05:30.240 So you had the Shanghai Cooperation Agreement for two days.

00:05:33.460 Then you had the military parade.

00:05:34.840 The next day, the BRICS nations got on the phone.

00:05:37.300 And it just wasn't talking about – it was deeper than even taking on the U.S. dollar,

00:05:42.960 which they're doing with these bilateral deals to try to hide the de-dollarization.

00:05:46.840 This is one of the reasons gold's blown through 3,600 earlier in the morning.

00:05:50.060 But this is really where they talked about uniting to fight Dr. Navarro and President Trump's tariffs,

00:05:57.880 which they called blatant protectionism.

00:06:00.040 Your response, sir?

00:06:00.900 Well, let's see how this is going to work out.

00:06:05.420 Let's see, like, okay, Russia getting into bed with China. 0.53

00:06:09.440 China claims they own Vladivostok, the Russian port,

00:06:14.800 and they're already through massive illegal immigration into Siberia,

00:06:19.120 basically colonizing Siberia, which is the biggest landmass of the Russian semi-empire.

00:06:26.360 So good luck with that, Putin. 0.76

00:06:29.040 And then India, of course, has been at war with China for decades.

00:06:37.260 And, oh, I just remembered, yeah, it was China that gave Pakistan a nuclear bomb. 0.76

00:06:44.280 You got ships flying around the Indian Ocean now with Chinese flags.

00:06:48.660 Modi, see how you kind of worked that out.

00:06:51.780 Meanwhile, the Brazil economy is going down the tubes because of Lula's socialist policies.

00:06:57.140 Well, they keep the real leader of that country in a cell.

00:07:01.700 So let's see what happens.

00:07:04.300 But the bottom line is none of these countries can survive if they don't sell to the United States.

00:07:12.120 And when they sell to the United States their exports,

00:07:15.100 they're like vampires sucking our blood dry with their unfair trade practices.

00:07:20.660 So, look, let's see what happens. 0.87

00:07:24.960 But I don't see how the BRIC alliance stays together since historically they all hate each other and kill each other. 1.00

00:07:33.180 Look, there's pretty powerful economics that President Trump and yourself have laid out when you're talking to these partners.

00:07:41.140 We hear the BRICS nations, we hear that they're trying to unify against us. 0.99

00:07:44.800 But correct me if I'm wrong, you're still an active – they've either gotten a letter and laid out what the terms are,

00:07:51.620 and this is what we're implementing, or you're in active, still discussions with India and others to pull deals together.

00:07:58.300 Are we correcting that?

00:07:59.360 Yeah, let's run them down.

00:08:02.740 We've got 50 percent-plus tariffs on China, and there's discussions ongoing.

00:08:10.560 But the reality with China is, first and foremost, they continue not only to kill us with fentanyl, 0.98

00:08:17.120 but there's this new drug, adnitidine, that's like eight times more deadly than fentanyl that's coming at us.

00:08:24.580 So that's going on.

00:08:27.680 And, of course, India, they have the highest – I call them the Maharaja tariffs. 0.97

00:08:31.640 The Indian government takes offense to that, but it's absolutely true. 1.00

00:08:35.140 They have the highest tariffs in any major country in the world against the United States.

00:08:39.520 We've got to deal with that.

00:08:42.700 And then buying Russian oil.

00:08:46.240 Steve, look, they never bought Russian oil before Russia invaded Ukraine,

00:08:51.660 except for, like, little tiny drops of it.

00:08:54.360 And then they go into this mode of profiteering with Indian – with Russian refiners coming onto India's oil and profiteering.

00:09:04.420 So taxpayers here wind up having to send more money over there.

00:09:09.960 So a lot of things going on.

00:09:12.500 The good news here is, like, look at all the things we've done.

00:09:15.860 Great deal with the European Union, great deal with Japan, Korea, Philippines, Indonesia. 0.81

00:09:21.800 All these countries are working very closely with us because, one, they realize that they've been taking too much advantage of us,

00:09:29.880 and, two, they need our markets.

00:09:32.020 And I think India must come around at some point. 0.99

00:09:36.960 And if it doesn't, it's laying down with Russia and China, and that won't end well for India.

00:09:45.180 I don't want to get you ahead of the president on this, but, you know, this is my favorite.

00:09:49.460 The Financial Times of last week, which Xi said that China's – their rise is an unstoppable power,

00:09:56.400 and they had Putin and Kim on the podium.

00:09:59.660 It's interesting they did not have Modi.

00:10:01.120 He opted out of that.

00:10:02.240 But a question comes up, you guys have been particularly focused on – no, go ahead.

00:10:09.020 Go ahead.

00:10:09.600 Why is it interesting?

00:10:11.460 No, no, no.

00:10:12.200 I just – I agree with you.

00:10:13.860 Modi not there, that's very interesting.

00:10:15.640 Go ahead, sir.

00:10:17.780 So you've been at the tip of the spear, not just in the working negotiations over there,

00:10:23.060 but calling out India on secondary sanctions for taking Russian oil.

00:10:29.460 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:10:30.520 You don't have the rise of China.

00:10:32.900 I understand you and President Trump and Besson and others are trying to work out a very complicated deal with China.

00:10:38.720 But I just look around the world, and I see that they're buying – they're 100 percent energy source from three parties.

00:10:48.260 Russia, which they should be sanctioned if we're going to sanction India. 0.96

00:10:51.440 The Mullahs in Persia, which we've already, I think, technically sanctioned that,

00:10:56.640 and I don't know why we're allowing oil to come out of the Straits of Hormuz to China,

00:11:02.960 both on cargo ships we know or oil tankers we see, plus black market.

00:11:08.700 Then we have an amphibious battle group, the Iwo Jima battle group with 4,000 Marines down there on an expeditionary force off of Venezuela,

00:11:19.560 of which I believe China has also taken oil from Venezuela, which I think we kind of sanctioned that too.

00:11:24.620 Isn't there a logic here that if we just implement the sanctions that I think we've talked about on Russia,

00:11:33.000 the Mullahs in Persia, and Madar in Venezuela, that the Chinese Communist Party essentially has zero energy,

00:11:40.680 and then you can bring them to the table a little bit easier, sir?

00:11:43.800 Look, we're walking a fine line here with all of this.

00:11:52.400 I think that what's got to happen is India's got to stop buying Russian oil.

00:11:58.180 That's going to be good for the whole peace.

00:12:00.740 The road to peace partly runs through New Delhi.

00:12:03.960 Europe certainly has to stop buying Russian oil.

00:12:08.720 And dealing with Iran and Venezuela, that's got to happen. 0.77

00:12:13.320 I mean, look, with China, we've got over 50 percent tariffs on them,

00:12:18.880 and we're doing the best we can in terms of negotiating to protect the American people without hurting the American people.

00:12:26.540 And that's the kabuki and the art of diplomacy that we've got going on.

00:12:32.240 You've just got to trust in Trump.

00:12:34.140 I mean, look at where we've come, Steve.

00:12:36.220 I mean, the difference between this administration and 45, I mean, I was just building here.

00:12:42.860 I had to fight everybody in this place to advance the president's agenda on trade.

00:12:49.040 Everybody now is pulling in the same direction.

00:12:52.140 And what's happening here is it's going to be for the history book, Steve.

00:12:55.920 This is a fundamental restructuring of the international trade environment in ways you can't even imagine could have happened.

00:13:04.520 And President Trump's pulling it off.

00:13:07.340 Yeah.

00:13:07.900 I gave this speech the other day, though, to national conservatism.

00:13:10.860 And I've sat on the show, and you and I talk about it a lot, that with the Chinese Communist Party, particularly this was not a –

00:13:19.120 you know, President Trump said, hey, if you're going to do a conspiracy – in fact, the headline says Trump sees anti-U.S. conspiracy.

00:13:24.140 I said, I think this is more of a flex.

00:13:27.540 This is more up in your grill.

00:13:29.440 And we know, Peter, that you and Bob Lighthizer worked for two years, two years on a deal that President Trump was the master architect of.

00:13:40.900 For two years, you guys negotiated with Li He.

00:13:43.220 He did it with Xi.

00:13:45.200 In May of 2019, after they agreed to the deal, right, when they thought they had one belt, one road going – in fact, it was at the same Shanghai cooperation agreement.

00:13:55.520 This is when they were really rolling out one belt, one road, and Putin was there.

00:13:58.840 They tore the deal up and spit in our face.

00:14:01.080 I mean, can you – it just seems we're on a path with these guys that at some point in time – you know, we're the hard decouple group here.

00:14:10.580 And I understand President Trump can't do that.

00:14:12.220 You can't do that because you're trying to, you know, manage a world economy.

00:14:16.860 But do you believe, or does the White House believe, the senior people around President Trump, that we can trust these guys?

00:14:22.380 Because now they feel they're on a roll, sir.

00:14:25.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:14:27.320 No, we – look, and I am always here, as long as I will be here, to remind everybody about the history you've just gone through.

00:14:35.980 I mean, the problem is that you can negotiate, and then they'll cancel a deal at the last minute.

00:14:43.380 That's one of the techniques.

00:14:44.580 So that was the first big trade deal I worked with Bob.

00:14:48.660 And then once we got the skinny deal in January of 2020, you know, they come here, and they knew when they were sitting in the East Wing that the virus was about to descend on the world.

00:15:02.040 You know, they didn't tell us that.

00:15:05.220 Yeah.

00:15:05.540 They took that deal, and they basically didn't follow through on it, right?

00:15:10.500 And then, you know, we've had some issues with the whole Rare Earths deal where some letter versus spirit of the agreement and things like that.

00:15:20.780 Like, nobody can trust the communist Chinese. 1.00

00:15:23.400 I mean, that's what they do.

00:15:25.520 And they always, like, say, well, that's not what we meant or whatever.

00:15:29.080 So I guess my point here, Steve, is can you trust the Chinese communists? 0.95

00:15:36.460 No.

00:15:37.520 Full stop.

00:15:38.400 So it's going to be trust and verify squared.

00:15:42.380 Yeah.

00:15:43.220 If you know the math term.

00:15:45.500 I want to go back, though, for a second, because it's beyond trust.

00:15:50.580 And President Trump's as hard as tough a negotiation yet.

00:15:52.960 Yes.

00:15:53.500 But you go back to 2019.

00:15:54.920 2019, I remember we used to have you on the show, and you would say you go on CNBC and Squawk and everything on the 2019 deal.

00:16:04.820 People should understand.

00:16:06.480 What happened is that Peter and I stepped back in 17 and let Gary Cohen and the Commerce Department, Wilbur Ross, they wanted to do their thing after the Mar-a-Lago meeting.

00:16:17.960 And, of course, it was an epic fail because it basically gave everything to the Chinese. 1.00

00:16:21.580 And President Trump says, we're not doing that.

00:16:23.160 That was in June, July of 2017.

00:16:25.420 He says, no, no, no, we're not going to do that.

00:16:26.780 He deputized Lighthizer Navarro to work under him directly for two years, two years, and made a deal that integrated the Chinese Communist Party into the global economy.

00:16:40.180 You had a great saying.

00:16:41.740 It took care of the seven original sins of the Chinese Communist Party's, you know, not just counterfeiting, but state-owned industries, excess capacity, dumping, all of it. 0.84

00:16:51.120 It was all negotiated over two years with Lee Hu, who was one of the senior guys.

00:16:56.220 In tearing that up, don't they show that they have no interest in being part of an organized entity that is the world economy?

00:17:04.220 I mean, they criticize you and President Trump for being isolationist.

00:17:08.060 You're anything but.

00:17:09.100 We are America first and want American sovereignty.

00:17:12.800 But these deals, the restructuring of this commercial relationships with the world are to also benefit the world to make sure that their economies appropriately can grow.

00:17:23.060 But doesn't this show that we're chasing our tails here a little bit because the Chinese Communist Party is not only can't you trust them, and President Trump will work out trust but verify.

00:17:33.020 But at the end of the day, they have no interest in being part of a system that the Americans control. 0.57

00:17:40.160 Sir.

00:17:40.720 Sir, I think you're missing one of the big parts of the story.

00:17:47.320 Remember when Bob and I were negotiating with the Chinese to get that big deal at the time, we had already imposed significant historic tariffs on China through Section 301.

00:18:01.540 And that was our leverage.

00:18:03.940 And fast forward now, it's the same situation.

00:18:07.180 We've got over 50 percent tariffs on the Chinese as talks of a trade deal are being floated out there.

00:18:18.560 So what the point here, Ship, made is that Donald Trump puts these actions in place on behalf of the American public.

00:18:29.300 And only then does he continue these negotiations.

00:18:34.020 So let's see what happens.

00:18:36.300 But look, let's remember, too, sir, that after they broke the deal, what happened next?

00:18:46.760 It was something called the pandemic.

00:18:48.260 And I remember very clearly standing right here on this ground, the Chinese telling us they were going to bury us in a sea of virus if we dared. 0.93

00:18:58.660 And I was the only one who dared in this administration to say that that friggin' virus came from Wuhan.

00:19:05.260 So what am I saying here, that we've got supply chain issues with the communist Chinese that we've got to deal with. 1.00

00:19:14.820 We've got big issues.

00:19:17.060 Negotiating them is not the same as negotiating with just about any other country.

00:19:22.160 But we do not.

00:19:24.620 Of course, you know, trust but verify.

00:19:26.780 It's the Reagan years.

00:19:29.340 But trust but verify.

00:19:31.080 But while you're doing it, put stuff in place.

00:19:34.620 Yeah.

00:19:35.000 Go ahead.

00:19:36.060 The 50 percent tariffs are clearly having an impact.

00:19:38.180 You can tell that.

00:19:38.880 That's one of the reasons she's starting to squirm. 1.00

00:19:42.060 OK, so you've essentially given the world.

00:19:44.760 President Trump's given the world two options, either if you want to get through the golden door to the golden market, you're going to have to pay a tolling fee.

00:19:52.720 Right.

00:19:52.940 Or you can shift your production over here.

00:19:56.140 Now, the Hyundai situation, it appears, at least from local people we're hearing in Georgia, people going to tick tock, that the reason it was people started calling ICE was local people.

00:20:11.660 And I think Christian groups were saying the 400 of the 475, 300, I think, were Koreans that they weren't paying them any money.

00:20:19.740 They had no they had no food.

00:20:21.680 They couldn't go to any food bank or have anything because they were here illegally. 1.00

00:20:26.740 How do you and President Trump sort out the sort out the reality?

00:20:30.040 I mean, he went up on on true social and said, yo, when you come here, you're going to have to you're going to have to train local Americans.

00:20:37.760 How do you walk me through this Hyundai because they're one of the most powerful companies in the world, the one of the dominant countries in Korea.

00:20:44.760 And Mo and Grace are just over at the at the, you know, the great conference put on by Mina Kim, you know, with the young Korean people about turning that thing around from the CCP controlled government they have.

00:20:56.640 So so walk me through the Hyundai situation.

00:20:58.700 Well, I think here's what we have to understand.

00:21:03.160 This used to be the Chinese model.

00:21:05.100 I think it's more probably called the Asian model.

00:21:07.520 It's like to evade tariffs.

00:21:10.620 What these countries are doing is they're they're coming over this country and other countries where they can transship from and they bring their equipment, lock, stock and barrel.

00:21:22.600 They bring their management, lock, stock and barrel.

00:21:25.080 And in this case, for example, they brought their own employees from their own country and it's exploited them. 0.95

00:21:32.540 So I think what's what's what's we're in the West, we're sometimes Steve, we're just so friggin naive. 0.90

00:21:38.840 Right.

00:21:39.520 And so going forward, as we welcome all these trillions of dollars of investment, I think there has to be some awareness that, hey, if they're going to come over and invest over here,

00:21:50.960 they're going to use American workers and the American supply chain here, you just can't set up a factory here and become like an assembly line using cheap American labor.

00:22:03.440 You've got to have good jobs for Americans.

00:22:05.780 I mean, it's like the reason why why we have tariffs now on European autos is because they were turning South Carolina into a low weight sweatshop assembly plant for Mercedes Benz. 0.52

00:22:17.860 I mean, there was like one model they sent over.

00:22:20.900 It had ninety nine percent of all the content of the car was was Sherman or Hungarian.

00:22:30.500 And no, it's like but the sheriff's in town.

00:22:33.580 His name is Donald John Trump.

00:22:35.000 He's right about over there, although he's out and about now at that conference you're about to televise.

00:22:40.440 And I just want to assure everybody in the war room, we know what people are doing out there, whether it's China or other trading partners.

00:22:48.980 We're not going to let them get away with it.

00:22:50.780 And the American worker in particular is going to see their wages go up and their job prospects expand.

00:22:57.760 No, the the employment numbers for native born Americans is just enormous.

00:23:03.300 By the way, what Dr. Navarro is talking about, we're going to go live momentarily when President takes the stand, takes the takes the stage over at the Religious Liberties Commission conference.

00:23:15.440 He's going to say a few words.

00:23:16.480 They give some remarks.

00:23:17.320 Peter, you know, they're all over the president has has deputized or militarized the National Guard and had him in D.C. to clean up this mess.

00:23:28.740 I was telling people on the Saturday show, I was with some folks, I think on Friday in Georgetown at a dinner who are, I would say, not Trump fans.

00:23:38.300 And to a person, they were talking about how much safer the city was, how much safer Georgetown is, how much safer everything is.

00:23:46.200 I mean, they were saying this high hosannas, although not one of them would come out publicly and say that the Atlantic magazine and all the, you know, Morning Joe and everybody's the authoritarianism.

00:23:58.260 He's going to Chicago.

00:23:59.400 He's going to New York, going to L.A., the authoritarianism.

00:24:02.720 The Atlantic magazine is taking a different approach, but along the same lines.

00:24:07.040 They're calling what President Trump and you and the team and Scott and the team over at the White House and Treasury are doing is Peronism.

00:24:15.080 Basically, you've got strongman economics.

00:24:19.480 When President Trump picks winners and losers, he takes a stake in Intel.

00:24:23.040 He's going to take stakes in more companies.

00:24:25.500 He every day gets up and puts a different tariff on somebody if they tick him off.

00:24:30.080 What is your response to this?

00:24:31.580 Because I can see a very sophisticated, and you hear it on Squawk Box.

00:24:36.100 You hear it on Bloomberg TV.

00:24:39.600 You hear it all the time that they're now – their line of attack here is going to be this is an authoritarian economy based upon Peronism where you have a strongman that just makes decisions, sir.

00:24:50.800 Well, let's talk about economics and let's talk about law and order.

00:24:57.920 Let's start with the law and order first.

00:24:59.520 I mean, here in D.C., what people have to understand is that years ago there was a significant crime rate, but it was isolated to certain neighborhoods.

00:25:12.200 And shame on the government of the District of Columbia for essentially letting black neighborhoods become just shooting galleries. 0.99

00:25:22.760 OK. 0.97

00:25:22.880 What's happened, particularly since the post-pandemic and the flood of illegal aliens is the crime's everywhere. 0.89

00:25:32.880 It's in the subways.

00:25:34.320 It's in the squares.

00:25:35.460 It's just like you just can't walk down the street without fearing for your life.

00:25:39.960 That's a real thing that doesn't show up in the statistics.

00:25:44.680 And it's been absolutely gorgeous having the National Guard here.

00:25:48.940 I mean, it literally has turned everything around and people feel safe again.

00:25:54.700 And you can't really have a thriving, functioning urban environment if people are afraid to go out and do things.

00:26:03.780 It just doesn't work. 0.98

00:26:05.320 So if the left wants to call Latin something bad, I encourage them to keep doing it because they're going to get their frigging ass kicked at the polls by people who understand the difference between violence and safety. 0.99

00:26:23.060 So have at it, Atlantic. 0.99

00:26:24.960 Have at it, Morning Joe.

00:26:26.980 Have at it, whoever you want.

00:26:28.580 It's like people want to be safe in their homes and on the streets and in their cars and not have to worry about their loved ones going out when they're home.

00:26:39.880 And that's what D.C. is like now.

00:26:43.340 And it wasn't.

00:26:44.080 And I think what the strong man Donald Trump shows, you can flip that on a dime.

00:26:48.960 All it takes is will and some National Guard or police.

00:26:53.320 OK, now, with respect to the economics, the Perron thing is kind of interesting, Steve.

00:26:58.000 I mean, you're a student of history.

00:26:59.820 Perron, the first time in, which was a long time, he was in from 40, 1946 to 55, post-war, when countries were getting like off the ground, having been knocked down.

00:27:12.760 And he instituted a regime of tariffs that was actually quite effective, Steve.

00:27:18.780 It brought back a lot of their domestic industries and workers who were Perron's main base, saw their real wages increase significantly.

00:27:28.460 It was a very successful policy.

00:27:30.300 But Perron made one big mistake when he was doing that.

00:27:34.660 In addition to the tariffs, he aggressively taxed the exports of agriculture.

00:27:42.360 And that was that was that was a disaster.

00:27:46.740 And so he just and now the other thing to obviously say is that when you think about a country tariffing, small countries dependent on the rest of the world to export cannot do that.

00:28:02.720 They don't have the power and it shows up in things like elasticity and supply and demand. 0.99

00:28:07.780 It's a stupid strategy. 1.00

00:28:09.420 Argentina is not the United States. 1.00

00:28:11.440 On the other hand, there's very good economic theory and practice that shows that the largest market in the world, the United States, actually benefits greatly by having tariffs.

00:28:24.040 There's a whole literature on optimal tariffs for dominant countries and dominant economies.

00:28:29.440 And that's why every other country in the world that we're negotiating with will negotiate with us.

00:28:36.660 I mean, if Denmark tried the same thing, said Donald Trump is doing for the United States, people would laugh at Denmark.

00:28:43.300 They're not laughing at Donald John Trump.

00:28:45.400 They're working with Donald John Trump.

00:28:47.720 And it's just I mean, it's a fundamental restructuring of a trade system that has been killing us since the end of World War Two.

00:29:00.040 We liberated the world at the end of World War Two and they stole our economy. 0.98

00:29:04.460 It's just you can't make that up.

00:29:08.100 Dr. Navarro, the president is going to start momentarily.

00:29:10.420 I want to talk about you and I going to spend a lot of time this week in the run up to a very special event.

00:29:16.020 We're going to be there Friday.

00:29:17.300 But on Saturday, you are going to join us.

00:29:21.160 Talk to us about this event coming up in the importance of it and the importance of your book.

00:29:25.320 Well, the book is called I Went to Prison So You Won't Have to.

00:29:31.680 I really encourage the posse to go to Amazon after the show and buy that book.

00:29:36.880 But get it for yourself.

00:29:37.800 Get it for a friend.

00:29:38.580 It basically documents the kind of lawfare and weaponization of the justice system.

00:29:44.180 What it's like to be a prisoner of conscience inside a jail.

00:29:48.420 Well, and Steve, you and I went through that personally.

00:29:51.540 You and I went to prison because the person who occupied this White House before Donald

00:29:57.300 John Trump came right at us.

00:30:00.640 And one of the messages of I went to prison so you won't have to is that if they can come

00:30:06.780 for Steve Bannon, if they can come for Peter Navarro, if they can come for Donald Trump,

00:30:10.580 they can come for all of us, Steve.

00:30:12.540 All of us.

00:30:13.840 And so we have to fight back.

00:30:15.460 So you and I are going to get on stage at this great venue in Long Island for an hour

00:30:22.140 on Saturday, the 13th.

00:30:24.020 We'll look at us as the pregame to the college football schedule that afternoon.

00:30:28.780 And we're going to we're going to box it around.

00:30:31.020 We're going to debate who had the tougher time in prison.

00:30:34.700 I'm going to knock you out on that.

00:30:36.760 And it's but but yeah, if look, posse, if you want to know what it's like to have to go

00:30:44.320 to prison for a misdemeanor defendant of the Constitution, I mean, I went to prison so

00:30:49.500 you won't have to hold it.

00:30:52.320 I went to hang on.

00:30:53.360 I went to a tougher.

00:30:54.460 I went to a I went to a prison.

00:30:56.240 You went to a club.

00:30:57.060 Hang on.

00:30:57.660 Hang on.

00:30:58.140 But you had a tougher time because they picked on you.

00:31:00.280 You're an older man.

00:31:01.080 No, real quickly, you're all over the news this morning about you're all you're all over

00:31:06.120 the news about you're continuing to fight for constitutional.

00:31:10.000 The reason we went to prison was constitutional principles.

00:31:12.600 Right.

00:31:13.260 We weren't going to back down.

00:31:14.580 We just said this thing's totally illegitimate.

00:31:16.660 Just get the people.

00:31:18.000 It's a little confusing because the Justice Department has kind of like dropped the charges.

00:31:23.040 Right.

00:31:23.520 And are not going to pursue it as you appeal and go up to the Supreme Court.

00:31:26.640 So if they're not pursuing it, what are you arguing for now?

00:31:30.600 Is this is this is Navarre being ornery or is this is there some logic here?

00:31:37.620 So I went to prison so you won't have to.

00:31:41.000 I could have just said I went to prison.

00:31:43.400 So future senior White House advisors will not have to go to prison.

00:31:48.340 And what I'm fighting for on appeal, there's no reason for me to continue the appeal in a

00:31:52.780 case for personal reasons, because I did my time.

00:31:56.000 But I'm doing it for the Constitution.

00:31:58.920 It's like if I lose my appeal, then every senior advisor, regardless of party going forward,

00:32:06.400 will face the same choice I did.

00:32:08.660 It's a Hobson's choice.

00:32:09.820 You either defend executive privilege and constitutional separation of powers and wind up going to prison

00:32:16.020 or you bend your knee to a partisan Congress.

00:32:19.460 I chose what what honor and duty required me to do.

00:32:23.720 Now, what's going on here?

00:32:24.600 This is really interesting, Steve.

00:32:26.460 Department of Justice.

00:32:27.400 Like they were adamant not only about prosecuting me, but here's the important thing, Steve.

00:32:33.240 They argued against both you and me that we had to go to prison.

00:32:39.120 Serve time even as our appeal was going on.

00:32:42.620 We couldn't be released pending appeal.

00:32:44.560 And they argued that because there were no, quote, substantial constitutional issues in the case.

00:32:50.880 Well, of course there were.

00:32:54.320 There's big issues about executive privilege, constitutional separation of powers.

00:32:59.000 And I'm taking it there.

00:33:01.360 Now, the Justice Department withdrew their brief, which is a tacit admission that, of course, there's substantial issues.

00:33:09.600 But by law and by ethics, they damn well got to say why they did it, Steve, so that going forward on the appeal, the appeals court understands, the amicus, which they want to be understands.

00:33:22.800 And we have something to fight.

00:33:24.120 OK, so I read John Solomon's article.

00:33:28.980 It's it's a gorgeous thing as to how they they've done what they did.

00:33:33.420 But we're going to hold their feet to the fire.

00:33:35.960 We're going to get to the bottom of this and we're going to do it for this country and the Constitution.

00:33:40.060 Peter, where do people, Dr. Navarro, where do people go to find out all of your analysis, all the clips you do from all the media you do?

00:33:51.760 The war will push the book.

00:33:53.180 The book's going to be a huge bestseller because it gives you an inside baseball account of the struggle when President Trump was out of office to make sure that he was properly defended and not crushed.

00:34:03.480 By Lisa Monaco, now the head of Microsoft's legal department, maybe the guys putting together the tech dinner should have thought of that before, putting Bill Gates next to the president.

00:34:14.420 Dr. Navarro, where do people go on your social media, sir?

00:34:19.480 Sure.

00:34:20.720 Subset, Peter Navarro dot Subset dot com, Peter Navarro dot Subset dot com.

00:34:25.880 What's what's interesting there is I put everything up in terms of the things that are going on at the White House.

00:34:32.320 So that's a really good way to stay abreast of that.

00:34:36.080 And then usual X getter, true social and Instagram.

00:34:42.220 The X is real P Navarro as is getter and then Peter Navarro at true social.

00:34:49.340 But we got we got a lot of fights on our hands.

00:34:53.300 And and Steve, I guess what does does the leading edge in terms of making this fight?

00:34:58.640 We appreciate you being there. 1.00

00:35:00.060 I'm still going to kick your ass on the September 13th. 0.99

00:35:02.460 No, I'm going to explain to everybody out there why having to sleep in a dorm with 40 guys is a lot more dangerous than having a bunkie in a little cell where you were hiding out. 0.99

00:35:14.260 And we'll have that kind of argument.

00:35:16.260 But the book itself, I went to prison.

00:35:18.060 So you want to have to.

00:35:19.020 It's funny.

00:35:19.900 It's it's but it's it's it's got a hard edge to brother.

00:35:23.160 And I'm going to hit you with it.

00:35:24.180 It's it's it's it's also it's also I don't give up too much.

00:35:28.780 There's also an amazing love story, believe it or not.

00:35:31.340 With Dr. Navarro, it's amazing love story.

00:35:33.300 It's one of my favorite people.

00:35:34.660 I know you're watching.

00:35:37.740 Anyway, sir.

00:35:38.660 Thank you.

00:35:39.200 Thank you, brother.

00:35:40.160 Dr. Peter Navarro.

00:35:41.100 What a way to start the week.

00:35:43.180 We'll talk again.

00:35:44.400 We'll see you on the 13th, man.

00:35:46.260 No boxing gloves.

00:35:47.260 We're going bare knuckle, buddy.

00:35:49.360 OK, sir.

00:35:50.060 Thank you.

00:35:51.440 God, Navarro works out every day.

00:35:53.140 I've seen those tick tocks of him pumping and lifting and riding that bike around.

00:35:59.600 God, gold gold's blown through thirty six hundred.

00:36:03.240 I put up an article today from from another source, not Birch Gold.

00:36:06.760 In fact, I think it was the Financial.

00:36:08.520 I haven't gotten the Financial Times article up yet.

00:36:11.420 Another one.

00:36:11.820 Gold's at thirty six seventy two.

00:36:13.280 I think up eighteen, twenty bucks a day.

00:36:18.260 That Bricks Nation, what the Bricks are doing on protectionism. 1.00

00:36:21.780 They're also here's what you know, as we as the Birch Gold guys, because we sent a team

00:36:26.000 down to Rio and I was really proud of the fact that's one of the reasons we love the

00:36:29.800 the partnership we have with them is to they sent Philip Patrick and the team down and

00:36:35.280 they reported exactly what was going on.

00:36:37.140 The de-dollarization effort is massive, but they're hiding it under these bilateral trade

00:36:42.240 deals.

00:36:42.440 That's one of the things you saw yesterday about the protectionism.

00:36:45.920 The Bricks are trying to become a real anti-American force, an anti-American government. 0.96

00:36:50.880 By the way, we know that I think they're doing mic checks right now over at the Museum of

00:36:55.340 the Bible.

00:36:56.880 Here comes the president right now.

00:36:58.340 Let's cut live to the Museum of the Bible.

00:37:00.880 President Trump and the Religious Liberties Commission.

00:37:04.120 Go live.

00:37:04.560 President Trump and the Rebell celebration.

00:37:08.680 ...

00:37:09.740 ...

00:37:13.560 Thank you very much.

00:37:38.840 Thank you very much.

00:37:39.920 I said we'll have to cut Lee Greenwood a little bit short.

00:37:42.580 How good is how good is he?

00:37:44.560 Right.

00:37:45.000 He's been with us right from the beginning.

00:37:47.680 And I wanted to stand and listen to the entire song.

00:37:50.960 But people would have said, look at the ego of that guy.

00:37:54.140 He just wouldn't stop.

00:37:55.700 He just stood there and listened to the applause.

00:37:57.560 But I appreciate it very much.

00:37:58.860 And I want to thank you for doing an incredible job.

00:38:03.300 Pam Bondi, the attorney general, has been unbelievable.

00:38:06.240 Incredible job.

00:38:07.420 Thank you.

00:38:07.760 And thank you to all of the faith leaders, pastors and patriots who have come to the

00:38:15.180 Museum of the Bible for this historic meeting of the Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty.

00:38:21.260 These are incredible people.

00:38:22.400 And everybody wanted to be on this commission.

00:38:25.480 And I made a couple of people unhappy, maybe even enemies for life.

00:38:30.580 I don't know.

00:38:31.400 But they all wanted to be on the commission.

00:38:33.320 But we picked the right ones.

00:38:34.700 And they've done really a profound, an amazing job.

00:38:39.620 But America was founded on faith, as we know.

00:38:42.840 And I've been saying it for a long time.

00:38:44.460 And when faith gets weaker, our country seems to get weaker.

00:38:49.640 When faith gets stronger, as it is right now, we're having a very good period of time.

00:38:54.200 After some rough years, good things happen for our country.

00:38:58.860 It's amazing the way it seems to work that way.

00:39:00.780 And under the Trump administration, we're defending our rights and restoring our identity as a nation under God.

00:39:09.440 We are one nation under God.

00:39:11.880 And we always will.

00:39:18.160 The need for this commission has never been more clear than it was last week when the ineffectual senator from Virginia,

00:39:26.020 a man named Tim Kaine, stated that the notion our rights come from our creator is, quote,

00:39:34.880 extremely troubling to him.

00:39:36.620 Very troubling.

00:39:37.640 Isn't it troubling?

00:39:38.580 Isn't that terrible, though?

00:39:41.680 How he would say something like that.

00:39:43.980 And advocated really by a totalitarian regime.

00:39:48.140 This is what they say.

00:39:49.120 But as everyone in this room understands, it is tyrants who are denying our rights and the rights that come from God.

00:39:57.460 And it's this declaration of independence that proclaims we're endowed by our creator with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:40:06.980 The senator from Virginia should be ashamed of himself for many things, for many things, for things even beyond that.

00:40:18.740 But in his own way, nothing's more important than those words.

00:40:21.420 Oh, terrible words.

00:40:23.080 As president, I will always defend our nation's glorious heritage, and we will protect the Judeo-Christian principles of our founding,

00:40:31.660 and we will protect them with vigor.

00:40:33.660 We have to bring back religion in America, bring it back stronger than ever before as our country grows stronger and stronger. 0.57

00:40:41.820 Our country is now the hottest nation anywhere in the world.

00:40:45.460 One year ago, our country was dead.

00:40:51.860 And I say it, one year ago, our country was dead.

00:40:55.600 We had leaders from all over the world that talked to me and they said,

00:40:59.480 your country is in trouble, and I just left the Middle East, King of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, a lot of the big countries.

00:41:07.700 Then I was with the heads of NATO, the NATO nations, all of them.

00:41:12.840 Everyone said essentially the same thing, that a year ago your country was dead,

00:41:17.860 and now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world.

00:41:20.320 It's true, it's true, it's true in every way.

00:41:26.860 But to have a great nation, you have to have religion. 0.99

00:41:29.540 I believe that so strongly.

00:41:31.560 There has to be something after we go through all of this, and that something is God.

00:41:38.600 We go through all of this for a reason.

00:41:41.340 It's not easy, Felipe.

00:41:42.700 But I want to thank the commission's chairman, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick.

00:41:48.540 He's been the chairman of my Texas campaign from day one.

00:41:56.340 He's been the chairman of my Texas campaign, and we went through six primaries,

00:42:01.920 and we went through everything that we went through, and we won them all.

00:42:05.580 We won everything, including three elections.

00:42:08.120 Got the most votes in the history of Texas three times.

00:42:11.780 Can you believe that?

00:42:15.140 That's pretty good.

00:42:16.080 I heard that the other day.

00:42:17.260 I said, I like that.

00:42:18.840 But I want to thank you, Dan.

00:42:20.140 You've done a great job, and very instrumental in the creation of what we're doing today,

00:42:25.020 as well as a very special friend of mine, Dr. Ben Carson, so special that he's being honored.

00:42:36.420 He's being honored in a couple of weeks, and I was absolutely not here.

00:42:41.280 It was a very important mission for the country, because I usually take missions only for the country.

00:42:47.240 But this was for the country, and I said, I can't do that one.

00:42:50.660 I'm going to go back.

00:42:51.440 I'm going to be with Ben Carson at Mount Vernon.

00:42:53.760 I believe it's going to be a pretty good place, pretty good location, right, Ben?

00:42:57.200 But he's been my friend from the beginning, right from the beginning.

00:43:01.820 Should I tell him the story about what you said to me, Ben, the famous words?

00:43:05.640 He was a very tough opponent.

00:43:07.440 We were fighting it out, and we had actually 18 candidates, including me.

00:43:12.260 And Ben came up to me right after the first debate.

00:43:16.820 He said, you know you're going to win, don't you?

00:43:20.980 And I said, no, I don't know that.

00:43:23.480 I think I'm going to win, but I don't know it.

00:43:25.560 18 people, and I had never done it before.

00:43:28.060 They had all done it.

00:43:29.240 They were all governors and senators, talented people.

00:43:32.780 He said, no, you're going to win it because God wants you to win it.

00:43:36.320 But that didn't stop him.

00:43:45.700 We went through.

00:43:49.720 I said, when is this guy going to quit?

00:43:52.480 He gave me these words of beauty, and then he goes for weeks and weeks.

00:43:56.920 He was tough.

00:43:58.320 He was a tough one, but we love Ben.

00:44:00.800 Ben's special.

00:44:01.740 We appreciate it.

00:44:02.860 Thank you, Ben.

00:44:03.540 Thanks also to the commission members, including Secretary Scott Turner.

00:44:12.760 Pastor Paula White has been with me from the very beginning.

00:44:19.520 Pastor Franklin Graham.

00:44:21.560 Great, great gentleman.

00:44:24.680 Great gentleman.

00:44:26.200 Thank you, Franklin.

00:44:28.320 A man I've watched for years on television, but you're not supposed to admit it.

00:44:31.700 You know, it's like with me, people don't like to admit it, but we all watch.

00:44:36.780 Phil McGraw.

00:44:37.940 Dr. Phil.

00:44:38.920 Dr. Phil.

00:44:40.040 Thank you, Phil.

00:44:41.540 Great guy.

00:44:43.160 He came out early for me.

00:44:44.680 He did a piece on me before the election that was different than any interview I've ever done.

00:44:50.180 He asked me the most personal questions.

00:44:52.180 I said, this guy's really getting personal.

00:44:54.100 But everybody that saw it loved it, so thank you.

00:44:58.400 Thank you very much.

00:45:00.660 Cardinal Timothy Dolan, highly respected man.

00:45:05.780 Great.

00:45:06.820 He come from New York.

00:45:08.940 He was in his own right the king.

00:45:10.780 He was great.

00:45:11.900 And we worked together in the first administration so much on going through that horrible epidemic that we went through.

00:45:18.960 A couple of epidemics we had to go through, a couple of really bad ones.

00:45:22.600 But we worked together, and I helped financially with your church and your schools, keeping your schools going, and it was an honor to do so.

00:45:32.100 Bishop Robert Barron.

00:45:34.320 Bishop, thank you very much.

00:45:36.940 Appreciate it.

00:45:38.340 Great job you've done.

00:45:40.520 A man I watch on television a lot.

00:45:42.460 He doesn't believe it, and I do.

00:45:44.600 Eric Pataxas.

00:45:46.300 Where is Eric?

00:45:47.380 Eric?

00:45:47.900 I do watch.

00:45:50.940 He said, you really don't.

00:45:52.180 I said, I really do.

00:45:53.260 I said, you have to have more confidence in this.

00:45:55.420 Your show is excellent.

00:45:57.200 And he's a great guy, and he wants me to call it the supercentennial.

00:46:01.860 He said, supercentennial.

00:46:03.900 And I think we're going to do that.

00:46:05.640 Let's change it.

00:46:06.640 I really like that idea because we call it the 250 centennial, but it's really not.

00:46:11.580 It's really just below the try, right?

00:46:14.900 So we're going to call it supercentennial then, okay?

00:46:18.340 Let's do that.

00:46:19.280 Will you please make the changes?

00:46:21.240 All of my people that are all over the room, please make that change.

00:46:24.180 A wonderful person who I've known for a long time, Kelly Shackelford.

00:46:29.840 Kelly?

00:46:32.340 Thank you very much.

00:46:34.820 Great job.

00:46:36.380 Ryan Anderson.

00:46:38.300 Ryan, thank you.

00:46:40.560 Congratulations.

00:46:41.260 Kari Bowler and Alison Ho.

00:46:45.200 Kari?

00:46:48.080 Two great people.

00:46:51.080 And we're also joined by the chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Ralph Reed.

00:46:58.100 Here's Ralph.

00:47:00.000 Ralph.

00:47:00.560 You helped so much.

00:47:04.180 You know, Ralph, I think, hit more doorbells than anybody else I know.

00:47:08.220 Millions and millions.

00:47:09.220 What was the number, Ralph?

00:47:10.300 Ten million.

00:47:11.000 Ten million.

00:47:11.700 And it's true. 0.56

00:47:13.320 You know, somebody else would say, well, was it really?

00:47:16.400 And it was.

00:47:17.160 People were saying he was all over the place.

00:47:19.000 Thank you very much, Ralph.

00:47:20.040 I appreciate it.

00:47:20.840 We'll never forget it.

00:47:21.780 Thank you.

00:47:22.100 Let me also thank everyone at the Museum of the Bible, including Steve and Jackie Green.

00:47:29.880 The job they've done is just incredible.

00:47:32.440 It's I want to say their entire families.

00:47:35.560 I want to all hear it.

00:47:36.980 But they founded this beautiful museum to honor the most widely read book in history.

00:47:41.840 And the job they've done is amazing.

00:47:43.460 I asked which museum does the best.

00:47:46.260 You know, I always like to find that out.

00:47:47.700 And numerous times they're saying to the Museum of the Bible that more people come here than

00:47:54.180 anyone else.

00:47:55.220 You probably won't read that in the newspapers or the media.

00:47:59.260 But this is an amazing place.

00:48:01.000 And it does tremendously well.

00:48:02.740 So respect it.

00:48:03.580 And they they built it up.

00:48:05.300 And it was a labor of love.

00:48:07.360 Well, it's nice that he's rich as hell, too.

00:48:10.020 It always helps.

00:48:11.100 Where are you?

00:48:11.860 Where are you guys?

00:48:13.160 Where are they?

00:48:17.000 Look at that.

00:48:17.580 They don't even get good location.

00:48:22.140 See, if I did the Museum of the Bible, it wouldn't be as successful.

00:48:25.660 But I'd be sitting right here.

00:48:27.840 No, I'd be sitting up here.

00:48:31.460 You've done a great job.

00:48:33.160 Everybody's talking about it.

00:48:34.380 It's I got a little involved with museums, you know, because I had a little problem with

00:48:39.120 the Smithsonian.

00:48:40.580 We like like a little more positivity.

00:48:42.960 It was all about all the bad things in our country.

00:48:45.260 I said, what about the good things we've done?

00:48:46.900 And so I got a little involved.

00:48:48.360 I got a little involved with that.

00:48:54.420 And they're making it.

00:48:55.920 Honestly, they're making changes.

00:48:57.420 You know, they were also told what to do by people that came before me, in all fairness.

00:49:01.860 But they're making changes.

00:49:03.500 Big changes are being made at the Smithsonian.

00:49:05.560 But I just want to thank the Green family, because what you've done here is incredible.

00:49:09.280 Thank you.

00:49:09.840 For thousands of years, the Bible has shaped civilization, ethics, art and literature, and it's brought

00:49:19.740 hope, healing and transformation to untold millions and millions of lives.

00:49:24.760 The Bible is also an important part of the American story.

00:49:29.440 That's why I'm delighted to announce it.

00:49:31.640 Just moments ago, I personally delivered the Trump family Bible given to me by my mother.

00:49:36.560 I remember the time she gave it to me.

00:49:38.500 But it was used in both my inaugurations and also display at the museum.

00:49:45.200 And I guess it will now be displayed right in the heart of our nation's capital, right

00:49:49.820 here.

00:49:50.120 And that's an honor.

00:49:51.360 That's an honor.

00:49:52.040 Thank you very much.

00:50:22.040 Very bad.

00:50:22.760 It's like a weed.

00:50:23.520 You think you killed it, and then it starts growing again.

00:50:26.000 So we have to be careful.

00:50:27.600 But it's very, very different than it was.

00:50:31.860 You look at West Point, how proud they are of their heritage.

00:50:34.420 They did something this week, which I thought was appropriate.

00:50:36.940 Some of you know what that is.

00:50:38.960 Does anybody know what that is?

00:50:40.700 Yeah, I like it.

00:50:41.860 I like it.

00:50:42.660 Oh, look at who we have over here.

00:50:44.460 We have your associate, Pam, huh?

00:50:47.600 Leo 2.0.

00:50:50.060 Well, we have Leo here.

00:50:51.340 Is he doing a good job, Pam?

00:50:53.580 He's great.

00:50:54.260 He's a great man.

00:50:56.480 He's a great friend of mine for a long time.

00:50:57.860 President of all time.

00:51:03.980 I'm glad I got to see him.

00:51:05.420 I would have been in big trouble, Pam, if I didn't see him.

00:51:08.300 But thank you, Leo, very much.

00:51:09.620 I appreciate it.

00:51:10.420 For most of our country's history, the Bible was found in every classroom in the nation.

00:51:16.120 Yet in many schools today, students are instead indoctrinated with anti-religious propaganda.

00:51:21.580 And some are even punished for their religious beliefs and very, very strongly punished. 0.97

00:51:26.900 It's ridiculous. 0.80

00:51:28.420 Joining us this morning is Hannah Allen from Honeygrove, Texas. 0.88

00:51:32.600 A few years ago, Hannah organized a group of her classmates to pray for an injured peer.

00:51:39.480 The school principal declared that Hannah's generous act of love was prohibited from taking place in front of the other students.

00:51:46.180 Didn't like it.

00:51:47.040 The principal didn't like it.

00:51:48.660 Can you imagine?

00:51:50.320 But Hannah very strongly stood her ground and she won. 0.79

00:51:54.160 And, Hannah, I just want to thank you for letting the light of your faith shine for all of those to see.

00:51:59.240 We really appreciate it.

00:52:00.620 And where is Hannah? 0.52

00:52:01.980 Is Hannah here someplace?

00:52:03.780 I think so.

00:52:05.140 Hannah, stand up, please. 1.00

00:52:08.180 Thank you very much.

00:52:09.680 Thank you very much.

00:52:13.580 Thank you, Hannah.

00:52:15.560 I know what you went through.

00:52:17.220 I know what you went through.

00:52:18.500 It's great.

00:52:19.460 Appreciate it.

00:52:20.180 To support students like Hannah, I'm pleased to announce this morning that the Department of Education will soon issue new guidance protecting the right to prayer

00:52:28.780 in our public schools and it's total protection.

00:52:47.540 Thank you, Hannah.

00:52:48.620 Great job.

00:52:50.880 See what you did, Hannah?

00:52:52.360 Who knew?

00:52:53.800 Who knew that was going to happen, right?

00:52:55.820 Thank you.

00:52:56.380 Also with us is 12-year-old Shea Encinas from California.

00:53:04.080 Last year in fifth grade, Shea was forced to read a book to a kindergarten student promoting a message of radical gender ideology that is contrary to his religious beliefs and ours.

00:53:17.720 I'd like to have Shea come up and tell the story.

00:53:21.820 It's an amazing story.

00:53:23.220 Shea, please come up.

00:53:24.200 Shea, I love you.

00:53:47.380 Thank you again, Mr. President.

00:54:01.580 Hi, I'm Shea Encinas.

00:54:03.300 I've been a Christian my whole life and Jesus means everything to me.

00:54:06.160 When I was in fifth grade, my school forced me to teach my kindergarten buddy about changing his gender using a book called My Shadow is Pink.

00:54:14.140 The book said you can choose your gender based on feelings instead of how God made us.

00:54:18.740 I knew this was not right, but I was afraid of getting in trouble.

00:54:21.880 After my family spoke up, the school treated us badly and kids started bullying me and my brother because of our faith, and the school did nothing to stop it.

00:54:31.560 It hurt a lot, but I kept trusting God.

00:54:33.380 I believe kids like me should be able to live our faith at school without being forced to go against what we believe.

00:54:40.800 I hope no other family has to go through what mine did.

00:54:43.500 Thank you.

00:54:43.940 Thank you, Shea.

00:55:01.320 Great job.

00:55:03.300 That was delivered well, wasn't it?

00:55:05.100 On day one of my administration, I signed an executive order to slash federal funding for any school that pushes transgender insanity on our youth. 1.00

00:55:23.600 We also banned the chemical and surgical mutilation of our children.

00:55:28.560 Thank you.

00:55:35.100 We got men out of women's sports. 1.00

00:55:48.880 How tough was that?

00:55:50.520 How tough was that?

00:55:52.440 But could you imagine, Sirius, I'm just thinking to myself, transgender for everybody, men playing in women's sports, all of the different things we talk about.

00:56:01.400 It's insane.

00:56:02.020 And if you were here 15, 20 years ago, and if somebody made a speech about transgender for everyone, I always say trans because for everyone, transgender, we have some states that actually can force it upon you without the parents' notification or approval.

00:56:19.840 It's not even believable.

00:56:21.560 But can you imagine men playing in women's sports?

00:56:24.620 So you're up 15 years ago, I guess, probably 10 years ago, but 15 years ago.

00:56:30.460 And somebody said, we will not allow men to play in women's sports.

00:56:34.000 People would look at the person and say, what's he talking?

00:56:36.000 Is he crazy?

00:56:37.440 It happened.

00:56:38.860 And not only that, the Democrats don't want to give it up.

00:56:41.820 I watched a congressman fighting like crazy this weekend for men having the right to play in women's sports.

00:56:49.320 And they don't understand.

00:56:51.660 But I don't want to really fight them on that.

00:56:53.140 I let them, I tell all the Republicans, let them go.

00:56:55.720 Let them go.

00:56:56.260 Just, just bring it up about a week before the election.

00:56:59.420 Because you don't want to talk a lot of it.

00:57:01.780 They say it's an 80-20 issue.

00:57:03.380 I say it's, I say, Dan, it's a 97-3 issue.

00:57:07.380 Okay.

00:57:07.540 And transgender is about the same. 0.99

00:57:10.440 It's crazy. 0.95

00:57:11.980 It's sort of a crazy thing.

00:57:14.360 It's a world gone wrong.

00:57:16.260 Just a world gone wrong.

00:57:18.440 And I made the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders. 0.99

00:57:24.000 You're going to hate this.

00:57:25.280 Male and female.

00:57:26.920 You're going to hate it.

00:57:27.600 And we got rid of a very sinister thing, the Johnson Amendment, so that passers can speak the truth that's in their hearts.

00:57:53.520 You know, I'll tell you, I was in a boardroom early on.

00:57:56.840 Paula was there.

00:57:58.100 A couple of people in the room were there.

00:58:00.140 But we had about 50 pastors, some rabbis.

00:58:03.020 We had people from a few different religions.

00:58:06.440 And I was just running.

00:58:08.360 I'd never done it before.

00:58:09.480 So it was very early in the campaign.

00:58:11.160 It was in early 2016.

00:58:14.240 And Trump Tower was 68 stories up in the air at a beautiful boardroom and places loaded up with these people.

00:58:20.820 And they were all excited.

00:58:22.120 And then at the end, I said, I'd love to have your support.

00:58:25.680 And the room went dead silent.

00:58:27.340 Do you remember?

00:58:28.380 It's like, I said, what happened?

00:58:30.420 I know you like me.

00:58:31.600 What happened?

00:58:32.540 Well, I would like to talk to you about it later anyway.

00:58:36.300 I said, all right, but if we could leave and we'll have another meeting maybe.

00:58:39.600 But I would love to have your support.

00:58:41.920 And there was, again, no answer.

00:58:43.900 And I said, well, we'll figure this out.

00:58:45.480 And I went to Paula and some of the others after.

00:58:48.360 And I said, could I ask you?

00:58:49.840 I know when I'm doing well, when I'm doing poorly.

00:58:51.840 And I was doing really well.

00:58:53.620 And then when I asked for support, it was like stone cold silence.

00:58:56.800 They said, we have something called the Johnson Amendment that if a pastor, minister, rabbi or imam or anybody says anything about politics, you can lose your tax exempt status.

00:59:12.180 I said, you've got to be kidding.

00:59:14.240 So that's what happened.

00:59:15.520 And they were petrified of it.

00:59:16.860 Remember that?

00:59:17.480 Nobody even wanted to talk about it.

00:59:19.140 They were absolutely they became a different group of people.

00:59:22.340 And I pledged to them at the next meeting.

00:59:25.000 We had another meeting a couple of weeks later with a similar group of people.

00:59:28.040 I pledged to them that if I win, we're going to get rid of the Johnson Amendment. 0.97

00:59:32.720 This was Lyndon Johnson, who had a tremendous fight with a minister from I believe it was Houston, Houston or Dallas.

00:59:39.780 And they didn't like each other.

00:59:42.660 And Lyndon Johnson was a very powerful president.

00:59:45.600 He had good power, good strength.

00:59:48.080 He ended up being very weakened by the position.

00:59:53.420 But he had tremendous power.

00:59:54.840 He was a big dealmaker.

00:59:56.240 And he got that done, which is pretty amazing that he could get that done.

01:00:00.540 Everybody fought him, but he got it done.

01:00:01.980 He pushed it through, pushed it through Congress where you lose your tax exempt status if you even utter a word about politics.

01:00:09.500 And that was amazing when I heard that that I never heard of that before.

01:00:14.740 And I said, we're going to get rid of it.

01:00:16.180 And we got rid of it.

01:00:17.040 You have got because you're the people we want to hear from.

01:00:20.020 We want to hear from you.

01:00:21.060 I don't want to hear from a lot of people.

01:00:23.780 I hear from too many people.

01:00:25.300 But you're the people we respect.

01:00:26.880 Franklin is incredible.

01:00:28.760 All of the people that are up here, I want to hear from these people.

01:00:33.480 And they come from a different place than me.

01:00:36.100 I come from a business place where there's a lot of rough people, bad people, not really religious people. 0.97

01:00:42.780 There are some.

01:00:44.320 But you're the people that I want to hear from.

01:00:46.340 That's why we go to church on Sundays or we go to wherever we are to listen to people of faith.

01:00:52.580 And it was horrible.

01:00:55.480 I said, you mean, when I heard that and I said to the other people, that means that you should be the most powerful people on Earth, in a sense.

01:01:03.160 And yet you have less power.

01:01:04.760 And I pointed down to Fifth Avenue, which was 68 stories below.

01:01:09.000 And I said, that means that anybody on Fifth Avenue, in theory, has more power than you do.

01:01:14.420 And that's not the way it's supposed to be.

01:01:16.240 It's supposed to be the opposite.

01:01:17.520 We have to give your voices back.

01:01:19.160 And I've given your voices back.

01:01:21.080 And that's one of the reasons that we see upticks now, I think, in religion.

01:01:24.440 And so it's very important.

01:01:30.620 Remember that moment when I said, I'd love to have your support, ladies and gentlemen.

01:01:34.820 And it was like dead silence.

01:01:36.640 I said, there's something going on.

01:01:38.100 And we figured it out.

01:01:39.160 We did something about it.

01:01:40.360 So thank you.

01:01:40.960 Thank you very much to Paula White, too.

01:01:42.580 But upon taking office, I also ended the weaponization of law enforcement against religious believers

01:01:52.260 and pardoned the pro-life activists thrown in jail by Joe Biden.

01:01:55.960 Thank you very much.

01:02:12.580 Thank you very much.

01:02:42.700 They were mean people.

01:02:43.740 What they did to people, what they did to J6, what they did to so many people, they were mean people. 1.00

01:02:49.360 These were really radical, horrible people.

01:02:52.740 And he wasn't that way 20 years ago.

01:02:55.240 He was never the brightest bulb in the ceiling.

01:03:00.840 But he was a man who wasn't overly mean that I saw.

01:03:06.620 But, boy, he became really mean.

01:03:09.120 And his administration was one of the meanest we've ever had.

01:03:11.780 And that's why they're out of here.

01:03:13.500 And people, they're having a hard time getting jobs.

01:03:17.000 And that's the way it should be.

01:03:18.100 Because they were banned.

01:03:19.680 They did tremendous disservice to this country, including allowing 25 million people into it from jails, 1.00

01:03:25.900 from prisons, from mental institutions, drug dealers, all over the world.

01:03:31.540 They were entered our country from jails.

01:03:33.600 The prison population of Venezuela was emptied out into our country.

01:03:37.800 And that's what we're doing now.

01:03:39.540 I spent so much of our time, Tom Holman and the people that have worked on this so hard.

01:03:47.980 You know, Kristi Noem, all of them, they've worked on it so hard.

01:03:50.860 It's just, it's like an unforced era.

01:03:54.420 And to allow people into a country who are truly, there are evil people. 0.99

01:03:59.580 We're all people of religion, but there are evil people.

01:04:02.160 And we have to confront that.

01:04:03.340 I just give my love and hope to the family of the young woman who was stabbed this morning or last night in Charlotte

01:04:11.720 by a madman, a lunatic, just got up and started, it's right on the tape,

01:04:17.480 not really watchable because it's so horrible, but just viciously stabbed. 0.99

01:04:22.800 She's just sitting there.

01:04:24.380 So they're evil people.

01:04:25.900 We have to be able to handle that.

01:04:28.400 If we don't handle that, we don't have a country.

01:04:30.100 And I created the first ever Department of Justice task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias.

01:04:45.620 And for those people that are a little bit naive or not well-read, there is a tremendous anti-Christian bias.

01:04:51.780 We don't hear about it.

01:04:52.580 We don't think about it.

01:04:53.680 You hear about anti-Semitic, but you don't hear about anti-Christian.

01:04:57.680 Now, you have a strong anti-Christian bias, but we're ending that rapidly.

01:05:02.200 I will tell you, it's a whole.

01:05:03.720 We're in a much different world today than we were one year ago.

01:05:06.940 This is like a different world.

01:05:11.380 And to support parents' rights, we're fighting, as you know, for school choice, which most people want.

01:05:17.920 Most people want it.

01:05:18.940 I'll tell you.

01:05:19.680 Dan was responsible for getting it, along with the governor of Texas.

01:05:26.720 They got it in Texas, and we helped you a little bit.

01:05:29.700 They needed about 20 votes from the legislature.

01:05:31.880 He said, could you make a phone call to whoever they were, the legislators, who I like a lot.

01:05:37.120 But they were about 20 votes.

01:05:38.500 And they had been for about 10 years.

01:05:40.020 I said, all right, let's give it a shot.

01:05:41.480 So I gave a big talk to the, who were they, senators?

01:05:47.120 They were House members.

01:05:48.140 But you also helped us defeat about 15 anti-school choice people.

01:05:52.360 That's right.

01:05:53.160 We defeated a lot of anti-school choice.

01:05:55.140 But anyway, he got it done.

01:05:57.020 So congratulations.

01:05:58.180 That was a big applause.

01:05:59.020 But as part of our tax cuts, we've created a massive tax credit for school choice scholarships so that you can send your child to a school that shares your values and you get tax credits and all sorts of good things happening.

01:06:17.000 And I'm also taking action against anti-Semitic and anti-Christian bias in our institutions of higher learning.

01:06:25.180 You've been watching that play out.

01:06:26.520 They're making very substantial settlements.

01:06:29.520 And Leo's involved and Pam Bondi's involved.

01:06:32.760 We've launched.

01:06:37.760 You know, we're getting hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements, Pam.

01:06:41.420 And Leo called me up.

01:06:42.380 Sir, you can do better than that.

01:06:44.280 I said, what am I going to do?

01:06:47.560 I'm going to get one where he really likes it.

01:06:49.520 But he always said, everyone else says, that's amazing.

01:06:52.720 Except for Leo.

01:06:53.440 He says, sir, you could have gotten more.

01:06:55.800 Oh, good.

01:06:56.520 Thanks, Leo.

01:06:59.080 But we've launched sweeping civil rights and Title IX investigations into more than 60 colleges going on currently and universities to stop their violations of civil liberties and First Amendment freedoms.

01:07:11.920 And, you know, we're involved very much in Harvard.

01:07:14.440 That's one that people seem to be reading about more than others.

01:07:17.040 We have many going.

01:07:18.740 And other than having a radical left judge, you have a very radical left judge.

01:07:23.360 But, you know, the appellate courts have been really good to us.

01:07:26.320 So you go before some of these judges, no matter how good a case you have, you can't win.

01:07:31.560 But we've we've had a lot of them.

01:07:33.580 But we've done very well in the appellate at the appellate level.

01:07:36.000 And in the case of Harvard, we have an absolute radical left judge disgraceful should not even be there.

01:07:44.140 But we have we're doing very well with Harvard and we're doing very well with all of them.

01:07:48.260 And where we don't win at the lower courts, which sometimes we do some in some states, we get a very fair shake.

01:07:54.540 In other states, it's not even possible.

01:07:56.680 But we've done very well at the appellate level and at the United States Supreme Court.

01:08:01.420 But this includes an unprecedented two hundred million dollar payment from Columbia University.

01:08:07.360 Columbia paid us two hundred million dollars essentially in fines and penalties.

01:08:11.480 But many more settlements are soon to follow.

01:08:14.400 And they're going to be behaving because they understand we're coming back.

01:08:18.700 They would not let you have your voice.

01:08:20.640 They would let the people in this room, any of them have the voice, because that's not the voice they wanted to hear from.

01:08:25.240 They wanted to hear from a very sinister voice.

01:08:28.700 And we're not going to allow that.

01:08:30.680 In recent years, we've seen far too many violent attacks perpetrated against Americans of faith, beautiful Americans of faith, including in our schools and places of worship.

01:08:40.660 And you know about it more than I do.

01:08:43.140 Two weeks ago in Minneapolis, a demonic killer shot 21 people and murdered the two precious children at a Catholic school.

01:08:53.440 Can you believe that?

01:08:54.680 Hard to believe.

01:08:55.580 And time goes by and people say, oh, I sort of remember it.

01:08:59.540 But I remember it.

01:09:00.440 I'll always remember it.

01:09:01.460 What a horrible thing.

01:09:03.500 Too many happens too much.

01:09:05.740 Our hearts are shattered for the families of those beautiful children.

01:09:09.100 And I've made clear Attorney General Pam Bondi is working really hard that we must get answers about the causes of these repeated attacks.

01:09:18.660 And we're working very, very hard on that.

01:09:20.860 And the Trump administration will have no tolerance for terrorism or political violence, and that includes hate crimes against Christians, Jews, or anybody else.

01:09:29.460 We're not going to allow it.

01:09:30.200 And there was also a horrible killing recently in Charlotte, where I talked about, and so many others.

01:09:40.380 And we will, we're going to get to the end of it.

01:09:44.060 And, you know, when you have horrible killings, you have to take horrible actions.

01:09:48.420 And the actions that we take are nothing.

01:09:50.980 We, this cashless bail started a wave in our country where a killer kills somebody and is out on the street by the afternoon.

01:09:59.360 And, you know, in many cases, going out and killing again, cashless bail.

01:10:04.240 And you try and reason with people like in Chicago with the governor and the mayor.

01:10:08.740 You try and reason with them.

01:10:10.800 And it's like you're talking to a wall.

01:10:12.420 It's just doesn't, I assume it's just a political ideology. 1.00

01:10:16.280 They're not stupid people. 0.99

01:10:17.800 Must be an ideology that's just buried in their head and you can't do a damn thing about it. 0.99

01:10:22.980 And we'd love to go into Chicago and straighten it out.

01:10:26.000 But, you know, Washington, D.C., you'll be happy to know, is a free and safe zone.

01:10:31.260 It's so safe right now.

01:10:37.980 It was, it was one of the most dangerous.

01:10:41.040 Can you believe it?

01:10:41.760 So, you know, you see the beautiful buildings.

01:10:43.700 But we're going to also do an upgrade because a lot of the beautiful buildings have a little graffiti on them.

01:10:48.060 They have roads that aren't proper.

01:10:49.360 They have medians that are bad and falling down into the road, the dividers. 0.99

01:10:53.100 We have things that we have to take care of and beautify.

01:10:58.580 We want to beautify it.

01:10:59.700 Very little work will be done.

01:11:01.120 I'm very good at that.

01:11:02.100 That's what I really did the best in life, probably.

01:11:05.620 I said, was I a better builder or politician?

01:11:08.420 They said, I think you were a better builder, sir.

01:11:10.200 I said, I didn't know if I was happy about that or not.

01:11:13.220 But, yeah, I was a really good builder.

01:11:16.440 And I'll fix this place up for peanuts. 1.00

01:11:18.540 I'll fix it up.

01:11:19.480 We'll put in new dividers.

01:11:21.540 You ever notice they're all rotted, rusting and falling down on the road?

01:11:25.700 Potholes all over the place.

01:11:27.100 We're going to have this place looking beautiful within 12 months.

01:11:30.300 Even the little white tiles in the tunnels, you know, you go through the tunnels and there's

01:11:38.580 little white tiles.

01:11:39.480 They've been up for about 60 years and like there's pieces missing and you can't match

01:11:46.020 them.

01:11:46.240 Believe me, you can't.

01:11:47.740 You try and match them.

01:11:48.820 It never works.

01:11:49.480 You can't.

01:11:49.880 They've been up 60 years.

01:11:50.900 You don't get the same match no matter what you do.

01:11:52.700 But we'll take all those tiles off and you're going to have beautiful white tile tunnels

01:11:57.500 again and everything's going to be really the way it should be.

01:12:00.880 Because when foreign leaders come, you know, I had to take down the tents. 1.00

01:12:03.920 We had over 58 tent cities that we took down right in the middle of our parks, right next

01:12:09.140 to our great buildings, Supreme Court.

01:12:11.500 You'd have a tent city right there and nobody would ever tell them to do it. 1.00

01:12:16.100 We had a blue tent right on Lafayette and they seemed to have a permit.

01:12:20.720 And one of the fake news media was asking me the other day, what about the blue tent?

01:12:26.140 What blue tent?

01:12:26.840 Because all the tents you got.

01:12:28.000 Somehow these people were very well connected with the communist cause.

01:12:31.960 And I said, there's a tent up there.

01:12:34.720 Really?

01:12:35.100 Yeah.

01:12:35.480 And he was a friendly reporter for a change.

01:12:37.960 He said, it's terrible that the tent.

01:12:39.760 I said, I didn't know that.

01:12:40.960 I'm surprised that I checked and there was.

01:12:43.460 And we got it down very quickly.

01:12:45.600 It's down.

01:12:46.620 It's down.

01:12:47.340 It wasn't easy.

01:12:47.960 You know, people chained themselves to a tree and this and that, but that's okay.

01:12:53.560 They can chain themselves if they want.

01:12:55.140 That was a tough one.

01:12:56.000 That's been there for years.

01:12:57.080 It's been there for many years.

01:12:58.080 We took it down.

01:12:59.140 It came down very quickly, Pam.

01:13:01.140 So I hope Attorney General Bondi will be looking into some of these things.

01:13:05.740 And I really know that some of them she is.

01:13:08.600 She's done such an incredible job.

01:13:10.880 You know, she's got a lot of pressure on her not to do these things by a certain group

01:13:14.300 of people that I guess don't love our country or there's some ideology that they're just

01:13:19.900 indoctrinated with.

01:13:21.500 But she's going to do a fantastic job.

01:13:23.740 And we're waiting for a call from Chicago.

01:13:26.240 We'll fix Chicago.

01:13:27.740 And again, D.C.

01:13:28.480 is right now.

01:13:29.260 So safe.

01:13:29.880 You can go out.

01:13:30.880 Friends of mine called.

01:13:31.860 One in particular has been in D.C.

01:13:34.120 for a long time.

01:13:35.520 And he said, I haven't gone out in four years for dinner with my wife.

01:13:39.160 The restaurants were all closing because people were afraid even if they're in the

01:13:42.380 restaurant, it didn't matter.

01:13:43.340 They were held up.

01:13:44.480 You know, guys would walk in with guns into a restaurant and that's over.

01:13:48.880 It's not happening.

01:13:49.940 It's now safe.

01:13:51.120 And this man said, I've gone out to dinner in the last week and a half four times.

01:13:56.020 And I am so safe.

01:13:57.620 My wife could meet me at the restaurant. 0.95

01:13:59.600 She could walk by herself.

01:14:00.880 There is zero threat.

01:14:01.940 The National Guard working with the police.

01:14:05.200 Working with the mayor.

01:14:06.440 The mayor has, you know, that's not her ideology.

01:14:08.880 And now I think it maybe is her ideology.

01:14:11.720 She's taking a lot of heat, too, from the radical left.

01:14:14.300 You know, they don't like that she's allowing it.

01:14:16.800 But look, she's going to either allow it or we'll just do it because, you know, it's just

01:14:20.780 she understands.

01:14:26.080 She understands that.

01:14:27.460 But I can tell you the people of D.C. are thrilled.

01:14:30.520 I have never had so many people.

01:14:33.040 The other day, I had a big scrum in front of me of the press.

01:14:37.360 And I said, you know, everybody here or many of you have been mugged.

01:14:41.200 Right.

01:14:41.560 And they're all going like and these aren't people necessarily on our side.

01:14:45.140 They're all going.

01:14:46.360 Yeah.

01:14:46.780 It's just what about you?

01:14:48.520 Yes, it's true.

01:14:49.300 I was a couple of times.

01:14:50.520 Every one of them.

01:14:51.260 It's crazy.

01:14:52.200 Not going to happen anymore.

01:14:53.540 So right now we went from a one of the most.

01:14:57.140 And some people say the worst, the most violent city.

01:15:00.640 Can you imagine our capital being the most violent city?

01:15:03.260 But it was it was really bad into a totally safe zone.

01:15:08.000 It's called the safe zone city.

01:15:09.180 There's no crime.

01:15:10.060 They said crimes down 87 percent.

01:15:12.360 I said, no, no, no.

01:15:13.660 It's more than 87 percent.

01:15:16.300 Virtually nothing.

01:15:17.800 And and much lesser things, things that take place in the home.

01:15:22.380 They call crime.

01:15:23.140 You know, they'll do anything they can to find something.

01:15:25.640 If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime.

01:15:29.320 See, so now I can't claim 100 percent.

01:15:32.000 But we are we are a safe city.

01:15:34.040 You can walk to a restaurant.

01:15:35.400 You can walk to the White House.

01:15:36.660 If you work there, you could walk to the Capitol.

01:15:38.580 And even the Democrats, I can't believe it, but they don't want to admit it.

01:15:42.280 But I can't believe it.

01:15:43.480 We could do the same thing in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles.

01:15:46.720 We did it.

01:15:47.160 We saved we saved Los Angeles.

01:15:50.140 We saved Los Angeles, Dan.

01:15:52.200 You know that Los Angeles was a mess.

01:15:54.500 If we didn't send our troops in, Gavin Newsom would have had a real problem.

01:15:59.760 We sent our troops at the head police officer.

01:16:02.580 The top person said we could have never done this alone. 0.52

01:16:05.520 We sent our troops right in at the beginning and we killed it. 0.56

01:16:09.180 And it was nasty. 0.99

01:16:10.560 But we killed it immediately. 0.99

01:16:12.640 Immediately.

01:16:13.740 And I don't know why Chicago isn't calling us saying, please give us help.

01:16:17.520 When you have over just a short period of time, 50 murders and hundreds of people shot.

01:16:23.480 And then you have a governor that stands up and says how crime is just fine.

01:16:27.660 It's it's really crazy.

01:16:29.220 But we're bringing back law and order to our country.

01:16:37.380 And I began my remarks today by noting that the reverence for our creator.

01:16:44.320 I mean, we have reverence for our creator.

01:16:47.540 It is inscribed into our Declaration of Independence, a copy of which I have very proudly hanging in the Oval Office.

01:16:54.760 An original copy.

01:16:56.020 Very old, beautiful copy.

01:16:57.680 Next year, we will celebrate 250 years since that declaration was signed as part of the grand.

01:17:07.340 Well, this is really a commemoration like I think we're going to do.

01:17:11.280 We're going to try and do a commemoration like nobody's ever seen before.

01:17:14.560 But we've invited America's great faith communities to pray for our nation and for our people and for peace in the world.

01:17:21.840 And it's going to be an amazing it's going to be an amazing time.

01:17:25.000 We're going to have an amazing time.

01:17:26.280 And we have the Olympics.

01:17:28.040 We have the World Cup and we have 250.

01:17:31.380 OK, the supercentennial as our mandate.

01:17:37.100 But and we're going to it's going to be it's going to be amazing.

01:17:40.920 It's going to be maybe bigger than the both of those events.

01:17:43.780 You know, when I was president, I got I got the World Cup and I got the Olympics.

01:17:48.560 I got I got them to choose Los Angeles and I was very proud of it.

01:17:52.940 The only problem was I wasn't going to be president because I would have served out normally my time.

01:17:57.620 And then you had some very bad people who rigged an election.

01:18:01.420 And look what happened.

01:18:02.940 And I end up getting the Olympics, the World Cup.

01:18:05.020 It's amazing the way God works.

01:18:08.880 Isn't it amazing the way God works?

01:18:15.140 It's true.

01:18:15.920 I got the Olympics, you know, because I'm a little bit of a selfish person, I guess I said, you know, I got the Olympics and Obama would not call.

01:18:23.260 I'll never forget the head of the Olympic Committee called and the mayor of Los Angeles called me and he said, sir, the president will not talk to them.

01:18:32.200 You know why? Because he traveled to Geneva or wherever to make the presentation and he came in fourth.

01:18:38.940 Now, a president shouldn't do that.

01:18:41.100 A president should say, I will do that.

01:18:43.060 I will make that journey, which has never been made before.

01:18:45.760 But if I make that journey, you have to pick me.

01:18:49.040 He didn't do that.

01:18:50.120 That's why we had a country that was going to hell, because he didn't do a lot of things like that.

01:18:53.980 So he ended up sitting there and they announced that we're fourth.

01:18:56.940 We were like almost last.

01:18:58.900 And so he didn't like the Olympic Committee too much.

01:19:01.560 So he refused to talk to him.

01:19:02.660 So I get a call from the mayor of Los Angeles who said, please, sir, would you call?

01:19:07.420 We're ready to get it.

01:19:08.380 But and I spoke to a gentleman and I believe it was Geneva, whatever, wherever they are.

01:19:14.860 And I couldn't get him off the phone.

01:19:16.860 He was so dying for love.

01:19:18.280 He finally got finally got something anyway.

01:19:21.500 And he agreed that the Olympics would come to the United States and I was so proud of it.

01:19:26.120 And then I realized even then I said, I'm not going to be the president.

01:19:29.440 And then the World Cup, we got the World Cup.

01:19:31.600 I did that one, too, with Johnny and got the World Cup.

01:19:35.580 And I said, I can't believe it.

01:19:37.980 Can you hold it a little sooner, sir?

01:19:39.420 It's all given out at all these different places.

01:19:41.520 So I wasn't going to get that either.

01:19:43.900 And now I got them both.

01:19:45.040 And I can't say that I created 250.

01:19:48.040 That one is that one.

01:19:50.400 I'd like to say I created 250 years.

01:19:53.680 I can't say that.

01:19:54.500 But we are going to create a great party and a great celebration.

01:19:57.940 And I'd like to ask a very good friend of mine, Secretary Scott Turner, to come up and say a few words about some of the things we're doing.

01:20:05.720 And, Scott, please take it away.

01:20:07.560 Yes, sir.

01:20:07.980 Thank you.

01:20:16.580 Well, good morning.

01:20:18.000 Good morning.

01:20:19.040 So grateful to be here.

01:20:20.300 What an honor it is to stand with this commission and with our president.

01:20:26.400 Y'all, we're in the nation's capital.

01:20:28.960 We're at the Museum of the Bible.

01:20:31.600 We're together.

01:20:32.760 And we're talking about faith.

01:20:34.020 Did anybody else pick up on that?

01:20:37.240 I wouldn't want to be anywhere else but right here.

01:20:40.200 So thank you, Mr. President.

01:20:41.820 It's an honor to serve under your leadership, sir, and to be a part of this tremendous cabinet.

01:20:48.280 How many know we have a godly, faithful cabinet?

01:20:52.020 And a cabinet that prioritizes prayer.

01:20:57.780 On July 3rd, Mr. President, of this year, you kicked off the year-long celebration of America's 250th birthday in Iowa.

01:21:06.440 You invited America's faith communities to come together to pray for our country.

01:21:12.940 Well, Mr. President, America's faith communities are responding with overwhelming enthusiasm, as you can see here today.

01:21:19.540 Today, more than 70 major faith organizations and churches have joined together to participate in what we're calling America Praise.

01:21:30.740 In fact, many of you are here today, including leaders from Pray.com, Hallowed, the National Religious Broadcasters, the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Intercessors for America, and many, many others are here with us.

01:21:44.060 And I want to take a moment, if you are here today, and you have joined this faith movement, America Praise, please stand, if you're here this morning.

01:21:51.940 Please, if you're here, stand and let us see you.

01:21:56.880 Thank you.

01:22:00.700 Well, together, we have our simple proposition.

01:22:06.580 Think about this.

01:22:07.680 What if one million people prayed for our country every single week between now and next July 4th?

01:22:18.560 More specifically, what if believers all across this great nation got together with 10 people, friends, family members, colleagues, work associates,

01:22:30.400 10 people each week to pray for our country and for our fellow citizens?

01:22:36.200 Let that sink in.

01:22:38.500 One million people every single week.

01:22:41.840 Ten people getting together to pray for our country and for our citizens.

01:22:47.680 Think about the miracles that would take place over the next year.

01:22:52.680 Think about the transformation that you and I could witness in communities all across the land.

01:22:58.960 Children, sons returning to their fathers, daughters returning to their mothers, families coming back together, health being restored, financial needs being met, mountains being moved.

01:23:13.400 Think about it.

01:23:14.640 If a million of us every week got together and prayed for this great country, how many know that God is well able to do it?

01:23:24.100 We're a nation that has always believed in the power of prayer.

01:23:36.520 During a constitutional convention, when our founding fathers, and many of you know this, were discussing the formation of our country,

01:23:44.360 Benjamin Franklin stopped the debate and asked the delegates to pray for guidance from the Lord God Almighty.

01:23:50.840 He famously said, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?

01:24:01.700 How many are grateful that God put that on the heart of Benjamin Franklin on that day?

01:24:09.500 Prayer brings restoration.

01:24:12.120 It rebuilds what has been broken.

01:24:14.480 It ignites an indescribable power of hope within you and within me.

01:24:22.020 It's a light that's felt for all of those in whom we intercede and pray for.

01:24:27.760 And you've all heard faith leaders across the country quote 2 Chronicles 7 14, which says,

01:24:34.060 If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sins and will heal their land.

01:24:49.680 On behalf of President Trump and ultimately, the Lord God Almighty, who calls us to pray without ceasing, I am inviting all Americans to pray with unwavering faith for the renewal of our nation and our fellow citizens.

01:25:10.160 Amen?

01:25:10.720 Amen.

01:25:11.400 All Americans.

01:25:12.020 Will you all stand with me as we rededicate America to one nation under God?

01:25:30.000 Father, we thank you for this time that we have together.

01:25:33.800 Lord God, we thank you that we can gather together as faithful people, as faithful leaders, as denomination leaders, as religious leaders.

01:25:44.880 Father, we thank you for our president, Donald J. Trump.

01:25:47.720 Father God, who you have anointed and appointed for this time, for such a time as this.

01:25:52.520 Lord, thank you that the president prioritizes prayer.

01:25:55.240 Father God, that he sees the power, the importance, the priority of praying together as a people, as a country, as a nation.

01:26:03.840 Father, we in this place today, in this great museum of the Bible, Father God, we lift up our president.

01:26:10.300 Lord God, we lift up his family.

01:26:12.260 We lift up God, our vice president, our cabinet, and everyone, God, who serves in this administration through all branches of government.

01:26:19.840 Father, help us to be godly men and godly women.

01:26:22.660 And, Father, help us to surrender to the power, to the presence, and to the will of God.

01:26:27.440 And, Lord, we pray this morning as we commemorate, Father God, as we call our nation to pray.

01:26:34.020 Lord God, as we rededicate our nation to one nation under God.

01:26:38.180 Father, we pray for your forgiveness.

01:26:40.060 We pray, Lord Jesus, that you would give us great favor and understanding, Father God, as we bow our knee before you, as we humble ourselves before you.

01:26:49.500 And, Lord God, we thank you that it's starting even right now, that families will come back together, sons will return to fathers, daughters will return to mothers, healing and revitalization will take place.

01:27:00.780 New life will come to our nation.

01:27:02.980 And, Father, we're so grateful that we can stand in the nation's capital as a people of believers in this great institution.

01:27:12.340 Lord God, in the presence of God Almighty, by the power of the Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus, we humble ourselves.

01:27:19.400 We thank you.

01:27:20.420 And, God, we know that from this day until on that great day, July 4th of 2026, when we celebrate 250 years, that, Lord God, from now to then and forevermore, you will be glorified and honored.

01:27:33.900 And, Father, we pray for a sweet celebration.

01:27:37.420 And, Lord God, that all people of all faiths, Father God, will come together, Lord, not just Democrat, not just Republican, but all American people will come together under the banner of Yahweh, of God Almighty.

01:27:49.860 And, Lord God, we praise you and we thank you and we love you.

01:27:53.260 In Jesus' name, amen.

01:27:54.540 Amen.

01:27:54.860 Amen.

01:27:55.240 Amen.

01:27:55.460 Amen.

01:27:55.740 Amen.

01:27:56.240 Amen.

01:27:56.740 Amen.

01:27:57.240 Amen.

01:27:58.080 Amen.

01:27:58.160 Amen.

01:27:58.200 Amen.

01:28:03.900 Amen.

01:28:12.080 Amen. 1.00

01:28:13.180 Damn. 0.99

01:28:13.780 Amen. 1.00

01:28:14.720 Amen.

01:28:14.780 Amen.

01:28:15.380 Amen.

01:28:15.880 Amen.

01:28:16.920 Amen.

01:28:17.680 Amen.

01:28:18.800 Amen.

01:28:18.920 Amen.

01:28:19.320 Amen.

01:28:19.860 Amen.

01:28:20.000 Amen.

01:28:20.520 Amen.

01:28:20.980 Amen.

01:28:21.140 Amen.

01:28:22.000 Amen.

01:28:22.760 Amen.

01:28:24.360 Amen.

01:28:32.200 Amen.

01:28:33.660 Amen.

01:28:33.840 truly make this the golden age of america it's what we're doing we're in a golden age we're at

01:28:40.000 the very beginning of a golden age so much progress has been made in the last eight months

01:28:44.540 progress like nobody's ever seen before they're writing about it they're actually saying it

01:28:50.560 they've never seen anything like what's happened in the last eight months and together we will

01:28:57.200 make our country greater stronger more united and more faithful than ever before thank you

01:29:03.000 god bless you and god bless america thank you very much

01:29:05.860 thank you

01:29:07.740 thank you

01:29:10.800 thank you

01:29:12.800 thank you

01:29:22.600 thank you

01:29:31.400 oh

01:29:33.340 Once I was lost, but now I'm found.

01:29:41.720 Was blind, but now I see.

01:29:53.840 When we in heaven can bow.

01:30:03.340 As we get ready to break, our vice chair, Dr. Ben Carson, again, is going to be on.

01:30:19.720 What a way to start a week.

01:30:22.140 Dr. Peter Navarro, live from the White House, talking about trade and throwing down hard,

01:30:26.220 as only Peter Navarro can do, and then the president of the United States at the Religious

01:30:29.440 Liberties Commission today, given, you can't say anything but an amazing speech.

01:30:38.200 And then some of the personal testimony.

01:30:42.320 The young boy, incredible.

01:30:45.720 And that's what the school, look at what the school made that kid do.

01:30:50.020 President Trump going to set things right there.

01:30:52.180 Just absolutely, absolutely incredible.

01:30:54.020 Couldn't be prouder of the president.

01:30:56.160 Just a great day, great morning.

01:30:57.720 What a way to kick off.

01:30:58.500 That was over at the Museum of the Bible.

01:31:01.580 Our own Jack Posobiec was in the audience.

01:31:05.160 We're going to try to track down Jack.

01:31:06.520 If not, I'm sure he'll give you a full read out at 2 o'clock.

01:31:10.380 Maybe we'll be getting back here at 5.

01:31:14.280 Hey, is that not what you voted for?

01:31:16.660 President Trump right there, going to make sure that Christians are not discriminated against

01:31:22.900 and that throwing down hard, not enough people will step up and have the back of Christians.

01:31:28.800 And I mean, Christians won't stand up. 1.00

01:31:31.640 They're like intimidated.

01:31:32.680 Well, President Trump's not intimidated.

01:31:36.260 So much going on here in the nation's capital, in the imperial capital.

01:31:39.840 So, number one, let's talk about budgets and midnight on the 30th.

01:31:47.140 I think the reality, you're going to have an unpleasant choice because the work hasn't gotten done.

01:31:55.920 They took six weeks off to go on a holiday or vacation.

01:32:02.520 I know they were back in the districts working hard.

01:32:04.960 But my understanding is that you're going to be facing two choices.

01:32:12.820 I guess three.

01:32:13.780 They could shut down the government.

01:32:15.120 But if the Democrats do shut down the government, President Trump and I think Russ Vogt and others have a plan about

01:32:24.340 you've got essential personality, you've got non-essential.

01:32:29.560 I think the non-essential are getting bottom-blown.

01:32:31.720 And you want to talk about deconstructing the administrative state?

01:32:35.660 That's the way to do it, is to get rid of literally, because remember, there's two and a half million civilians, employees.

01:32:43.980 There's two and a half million, roughly, uniform.

01:32:46.800 And then there's about five million, I don't know, consultants that are at the level of actually making some sort of administrator or managerial decision.

01:32:54.460 So that's about 10 million people overall.

01:32:57.360 They covered a lot by having so many of those consultants or non-permanent employees working.

01:33:05.280 That's option one.

01:33:06.560 Option two is they are working on an omnibus.

01:33:10.100 And right now, we're going to focus this week on the NDAA, National Defense Authorization Act,

01:33:15.880 which I continue to ask, why is this a must-pass bill?

01:33:19.220 Because they don't authorize.

01:33:20.700 They're supposed to reauthorize these other departments X amount of years.

01:33:25.020 Normally, I think five.

01:33:26.120 They've never reauthorized EPA.

01:33:28.560 I don't think they've reauthorized the Justice Department.

01:33:31.840 Why don't they want to reauthorize? 0.95

01:33:33.540 Why do they just kind of skip it and go right to appropriations or right to a budget?

01:33:36.800 Because they understand that these things have had mission creeps.

01:33:39.680 These institutions, cabinet positions, et cetera, have had mission creep.

01:33:43.980 And now they're covering so much.

01:33:46.500 It's the power of Scott Bessence.

01:33:48.560 Scott Bessence's amazing piece in the Wall Street Journal, I think on Saturday morning, came out Friday afternoon.

01:33:59.700 And then it was in the, I think, Journal of International Economy, 27 pages long, where he goes through, in detail, breaking apart the Federal Reserve.

01:34:08.080 That has not gotten the coverage that it should have.

01:34:12.780 Number one, the media does not want to talk about it.

01:34:15.060 One of the ways they keep power here is the central bank.

01:34:18.180 Scott Bessence, first cut of his restructuring of the Federal Reserve, because he said the Federal Reserve has suffered from gain-of-function, gain-of-function issues.

01:34:30.080 They have essentially weaponized the central bank against the people of the United States, as Fauci would use gain-of-function to take these viruses and weaponize them,

01:34:42.880 determine the biological weapons, of which you know from the COVID-19 got visited upon the American people through the Wuhan lab, through the Chinese Communist Party. 0.53

01:34:52.460 So your two alternatives, if you don't shut down the government, are going to be an omnibus, and they may have a cute name for it, but that's going to be presented to you.

01:35:02.460 An omnibus takes you all the way through the fiscal year, but is just packed with horrible things.

01:35:08.960 One thing on the NDA they're trying to slip in is an artificial intelligence amnesty.

01:35:14.000 All those demons that were at, all those demons that were at the, around the President's table the other night, foisted on him by David Sachs and others, are, you know, absolutely outrageous.

01:35:28.600 I believe the President, I've asked my staff to cut, I think he made a comment in there about Biden's administration, about people that had come after him, and he said, I think, quote,

01:35:38.080 they're not getting any jobs, have I heard that correctly?

01:35:41.580 Somebody's got to tell the President, Lisa Monaco, who essentially ran the Justice Department, put Peter Navarro in prison, put me in prison, but more importantly came after President Trump.

01:35:50.900 All the attacks of President Trump from Maine Justice came through her.

01:35:55.540 She was the Deputy, she was the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.

01:35:58.560 She's at Microsoft.

01:36:01.560 She's at Microsoft as General Counsel.

01:36:03.400 They've got to turf her out of there. 0.99

01:36:04.520 Mr. President, if you're under the, if you're under the understanding that these people are not getting jobs, that just would not be correct.

01:36:13.220 The folks around you, particularly the tech bros, are not informing you because you had Bill Gates, not, you know, Bill Gates and vaccines after Bobby Kennedy gets eviscerated that day in the star chamber that was the Senate with people that had taken millions of dollars.

01:36:30.520 You know, it was tens of millions when we added all up historically, the whole crowd trying to go after Bobby Kennedy.

01:36:37.160 Well, Bill Gates is right there, and Lisa Monaco now is the general counsel at Microsoft.

01:36:42.080 That is a big league job.

01:36:44.800 Big league job.

01:36:46.280 She's got to be turfed out of it, or should be turfed out of it. 1.00

01:36:49.640 Your other alternative.

01:36:50.600 So, take this one on board.

01:36:56.820 Your other alternative, because they haven't done the appropriations.

01:36:59.280 The other one is, wait for it, a CR.

01:37:02.280 When your best options are sitting out, this is a CR with rescissions.

01:37:07.340 And as you know, these rescissions have gotten, and pocket rescissions particularly where they don't go back to Capitol Hill, which is the moral equivalent of impoundment, has people on Capitol Hill.

01:37:19.420 Because here's their argument.

01:37:20.340 Well, we cut all these deals, and we work so hard, and we have bipartisan agreement on the appropriations.

01:37:26.280 And then the president just comes in and essentially just takes out what he wants to take out.

01:37:31.060 You're damn right, because you guys have not cut spending.

01:37:34.680 My understanding and great belief is that on the 30th of September at midnight, the deficit for fiscal year 2025, which is the one that we're in, will be about $1.8 to $1.9 trillion.

01:37:49.680 And I said it was going to be $2.8, hey, close, but we'll see when it's all added up.

01:37:58.100 I'm sticking with two.

01:37:59.160 That's my number.

01:38:00.480 They're saying it could be $1.8, but even a $1.8, you can't.

01:38:04.340 And remember, we accepted Biden and Nancy Pelosi's math.

01:38:08.500 At least this would be President Trump's math, but my understanding is it's going to be a $2 trillion potential deficit in a fiscal year, fiscal year 26, which is the one that starts October 1st.

01:38:22.340 Why do we spend so much time on this?

01:38:24.900 I don't know.

01:38:26.480 Let me think about this for a second.

01:38:28.200 Maybe inflation, maybe, you know, spending, what, $1.4 trillion now in interest payments on the debt.

01:38:35.840 Maybe it's because of the Berks nation.

01:38:37.660 Maybe it's because of the weakening of the dollar.

01:38:40.360 Maybe it's because the gold's on a run.

01:38:43.200 All of those, because gold's been a hedge against this.

01:38:47.040 You can't continue on like this, but if you do the one, nine, and the two, right, that's what?

01:38:51.800 The three, nine, four, you start to understand whether the debt ceiling was kicked up $5 trillion.

01:38:58.740 At some point in time, somebody's going to have to say stop.

01:39:02.960 Where you stop, to stop, you must start.

01:39:06.300 And where you must start is the defense budget.

01:39:09.900 If you do the defense budget, if you do the defense budget, we can then make the argument and get hands around the social welfare programs.

01:39:19.200 And eventually, when you prove to the American people that you were responsible, you're taking care of that, then you can get into a conversation about the entitlements and start redoing laws on that, right?

01:39:30.860 To make sure it's equitable and fair and all those sorts of things.

01:39:33.500 But you can't even have a discussion on that.

01:39:35.520 And you shouldn't have a discussion until you prove that you can do something with discussion on your spending.

01:39:38.840 Now, let me go back to the NDAA and defense spending.

01:39:43.300 Huge article in Politico and Everywhere of how Bridge Colby has written the defense policy statement, which is essentially the overall strategy coming from the Joint Chiefs of Defense Department of the United States.

01:40:00.420 When we took the White House the first time, President Trump said, hey, the global war on terror is no longer our top priority, taking on the Chinese Communist Party is. 0.92

01:40:10.960 And, of course, the apparatus had to throw in Russia. 0.70

01:40:12.940 So great power struggle.

01:40:14.760 Although Russia was not, I can tell you, was not a priority at the time as much as the Chinese Communist Party.

01:40:22.620 The Chinese Communist Party is still running the deal.

01:40:24.240 They're running the deal with the Russians right now because they help finance them, they give them weapons, and they buy their oil and natural gas in huge output deals.

01:40:34.620 And now they're actually financing the Siberian gas and oil fields.

01:40:40.720 I pull today's Monday's Financial Times of London.

01:40:45.580 And lo and behold, look at that headline right there.

01:40:47.920 Russian energy giants turn to China for fundraising as economic ties grow, right?

01:40:55.840 The Chinese Communist Party has been financing this, of course, up there also as the prime minister of Japan is resigning.

01:41:02.820 Why is he resigning?

01:41:03.860 Oh, wait for it.

01:41:05.380 Failed economic policy.

01:41:07.160 Deficit too big as percentage of GDP.

01:41:10.560 What's happening today in France or tomorrow in France?

01:41:12.940 Oh, wait for it.

01:41:14.320 Another government's going to fall.

01:41:16.020 It's a parliamentary system.

01:41:17.080 The parliamentary government's going to fall.

01:41:18.420 Macron's still going to be there as president, but he may even get forced into a new election.

01:41:22.960 Why are they doing it?

01:41:23.780 Oh, wait for it.

01:41:26.000 7% GDP, deficit to GDP, not sustainable.

01:41:31.160 They're collapsing.

01:41:33.020 Great Britain, Starmer's approval now, I think 11%, maybe going to single digits.

01:41:38.240 Why?

01:41:38.460 Oh, they just found a $50 billion hole in their budget, 50 billion pounds maybe, that they didn't think about.

01:41:44.780 So, eventually, somebody's going to have to get grips on this.

01:41:49.380 One way the Russ vote and those guys are doing now is rescissions.

01:41:51.880 Now, they're relatively small.

01:41:53.140 In fact, they're tiny.

01:41:54.540 They're dropping the bucket compared to the problem, but they show that they're prepared to do more.

01:41:59.600 That's why you either have a CR, and I don't see getting the 60 votes, but hey, so you're either going to have a CR, which this audience hates.

01:42:08.480 I understand that, but it'll have rescissions attached, or there'll be an omnibus, and we're going to have to fight that because I think there's going to be enough goodies in that for the Democratic senators.

01:42:18.700 They're going to say, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get on board that.

01:42:20.580 We'll get on board that.

01:42:21.340 That's what we want.

01:42:21.920 Either way, there's going to be a fight coming up, and what's the downside of shutting down the government?

01:42:30.520 Force the Democrats, because then you've got essential, non-essential, and if you're non-essential, you've got to have a discussion of do we need this?

01:42:38.240 Because right now, we should just be financing the essential.

01:42:41.360 When I talk about the essential, to go back to the NDA, Bridge Colby writes this strategy paper about hemispheric defense, and everybody in political environment,

01:42:48.920 where, oh, they're talking about the homeland and abandoning the rest of the world, that's not what they're saying, and that's not what's happening.

01:42:54.080 But they are saying hemispheric defense.

01:42:57.220 We have to take care.

01:42:58.480 It's kind of Monroe Doctrine on steroids.

01:43:00.840 We have to take care of the hemispheric defense and the vast Pacific that connects our territories in the Western Pacific to us is the strategic pivot.

01:43:13.940 And you've got from the Panama Canal to Greenland.

01:43:18.360 You've got the Arctic.

01:43:19.480 Oh, by the way, you've got – this is the situation happening in Venezuela right now, and I think that needs some clarity.

01:43:26.740 People are working through it.

01:43:28.060 But they're saying – and this is the difference.

01:43:30.560 President Trump, when he talks fentanyl, he looks at that as a chemical weapon of the Chinese Communist Party, not just something coming through a cartel,

01:43:39.240 not just something they're making money on, which is bad enough, and he wants to stop.

01:43:43.160 So kinetic activity against the cartels is something that's part of hemispheric defense.

01:43:50.060 Now, if you're talking about regime change in Venezuela, that may be a different kettle of fish because regime change that doesn't come from the country's grassroots,

01:43:59.660 you know, decapitation leads to problems as Iraq and Afghanistan have shown us, that it has to be really driven by the will of the people in these countries.

01:44:09.200 This is why I keep saying, hey, if the Mullahs are ideal, just cut them off from the oil. 1.00

01:44:17.120 I still think it's almost 80 percent – maybe with Russian oil now it's not as high, but I think at one time it was 80 percent of the CCP's energy needs.

01:44:25.520 Their energy needs were coming out of the Persians. 1.00

01:44:30.420 Straits of Hormuz can be in the Gulf – the Persian Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz easily blockade, easily you can stop and turn those vessels around.

01:44:38.100 And you do the black market that they get about half of it from, from the Mullahs. 1.00

01:44:45.580 First off, you literally shut down the Mullahs. 0.98

01:44:49.180 You'll have the Persian people overthrowing themselves, which is the way it has to happen. 1.00

01:44:52.800 You can't do a decap. That's why I'm so adamantly opposed to this, getting involved in another war.

01:44:59.480 And for Israel and for the Jewish people, hey, the threat from you has come as Sadiq Khan in London and Imam Dhani in New York City. 0.73

01:45:10.900 That's the threat.

01:45:11.860 Imam Dhani is going to win unless something changes dramatically, unless they start to expose his financing sources of Qatar.

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01:52:54.660 That'd be overtaken by the Red-Green Alliance. 0.81

01:52:57.740 Julian Barbary, now more than ever, credit card debt I think is 1.2, 1.3 tree.

01:53:04.520 And I think there's 8 to 10% non-performing.

01:53:08.400 If you get a notification from your credit card company or you get your monthly bill and

01:53:13.640 your light behind payment, if you just put it in the drawer, do good things happen, ma'am?

01:53:18.940 No, that's a negative.

01:53:22.280 Can't wait for you guys to come to the West Coast, by the way.

01:53:26.060 You know, this is, you were talking about the deficit.

01:53:28.840 Perfect timing for done with debt to come on today because the average American is struggling.

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01:53:36.680 And when something disastrous happens, it could be, in my case, it was cancer.

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01:53:42.540 It can be many, many things.

01:53:44.180 If you don't have that big, beautiful nest egg aside, you're in trouble.

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01:54:39.320 I just happen to be lucky enough to be a spokesperson because I have no shame in what happened to me.

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01:55:02.780 So, Steve, you know, don't.

01:55:03.720 Real quickly.

01:55:04.220 Yeah.

01:55:05.040 Real quickly.

01:55:05.740 What I want people to understand, don't think that declaring BK, people say, oh, just declare BK.

01:55:11.360 It ain't, first of all, not that simple.

01:55:12.880 Two, it sticks with you for a while.

01:55:15.040 Don't take it from me.

01:55:15.900 Talk to the Done With Debt folks because they'll walk you through a bunch of alternatives.

01:55:18.780 But people just sit there and go, if I get so far behind, I can just declare BK and then they give me new credit cards.

01:55:24.460 The bankruptcy sticks with you.

01:55:26.520 But you've got to talk to the professionals.

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01:55:50.420 They're master negotiators.

01:55:51.900 Thank you so much, Steve.

01:55:53.760 Thank you, Jillian.

01:55:55.340 By the way, you're going to be my co-host when we come out to the West Coast.

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01:56:00.020 Jillian Barbary.

01:56:01.440 Better be ready, my son.

01:56:02.600 You.

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01:56:07.300 Thank you, ma'am.

01:56:08.540 Thank you.

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01:56:19.580 Just do not put the credit card notice bill in the drawer and think it's going to go away.

01:56:26.100 Mike Lindell, you've had those problems in the past.

01:56:28.560 You worked through them.

01:56:29.400 We just had the Religious Commission today.

01:56:31.080 President Trump addressed it.

01:56:33.060 Sir, did not our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ turn your life around?

01:56:38.420 Absolutely.

01:56:39.400 I was saved, actually.

01:56:41.380 February 18, 2017.

01:56:43.920 Everyone's going, wow, that's not too long ago.

01:56:47.000 But yes, I was.

01:56:48.820 In fact, I told the president.

01:56:50.640 This was last week.

01:56:51.540 We're in the Oval Office.

01:56:52.560 And he was saying, he goes, Mike, when you got set free of all your drugs and everything,

01:56:56.600 how did you do that?

01:56:57.540 And I said, I prayed to God to release me of the desire.

01:57:00.340 I woke up the next day and the desire was gone.

01:57:03.240 So with God, all things are possible.

01:57:05.940 And look what he's doing, working through our president and getting all these great things done.

01:57:10.040 So it's been pretty amazing, Steve.

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Bannon's War Room - September 08, 2025

Episode 4762： Gain Of Function Economy; Trump Speaks At The Religious Liberty Commission

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