Bannon's War Room - Episode 4815： Trump Addresses Military Officers

00:00:00.000 They have some scammer reporter who started saying, without any knowledge, that he may not have hit the targets as well as they thought.

00:00:10.420 It may not have been obliteration.

00:00:12.420 He did hit the targets.

00:00:13.580 You've got to give us a little credit, right?

00:00:15.700 It was obliteration, it turned out.

00:00:18.020 The Atomic Energy Commission said it was obliteration.

00:00:20.280 You're watching President Trump address all the flag officers of the United States military at Quantico, the Marine base down there.

00:00:26.340 We're going to cover this and to its conclusion.

00:00:30.200 And then we will start the war room.

00:00:33.240 But they had, I guess, a beam going right into these chutes.

00:00:36.600 Every single one of those bombs went right down those chutes into a granite mountain.

00:00:41.780 I think it's the last time they're going to build air chutes.

00:00:44.780 They had these air chutes that were nice, beautiful.

00:00:47.100 They were meant for us.

00:00:48.920 But it was total obliteration.

00:00:51.260 And now they give us credit for that.

00:00:53.300 But these people were phenomenal.

00:00:54.880 I tell you, for the Air Force people here, you can be very proud.

00:00:58.560 That Beto, we just ordered a lot of new ones.

00:01:01.900 New ones and updated ones.

00:01:05.760 But I'd take the other ones.

00:01:08.040 Let me tell you, they couldn't have worked any better.

00:01:10.320 So they flew for 37 hours total, back and forth.

00:01:15.740 No stops, no nothing.

00:01:17.020 We had 52 tankers loading them up.

00:01:18.880 And that's a job I wouldn't necessarily want too much.

00:01:22.220 Flying a tanker loaded up with hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel.

00:01:27.040 I don't know if I'd do that job yet.

00:01:29.520 I asked the question, what happens if it gets hit?

00:01:31.880 Sir, you don't want to know about that.

00:01:33.700 Right?

00:01:34.140 I don't want to know about that.

00:01:36.140 But those guys, they just hear us.

00:01:37.680 They're incredible.

00:01:38.300 I had them all to the Oval Office.

00:01:40.580 We had the B-2 pilots and a lot of the people, even the people that took care of them, the

00:01:46.160 maintenance people, just as important.

00:01:48.100 We had them all to the White House.

00:01:49.760 Gave them a big party on the lawn.

00:01:51.840 Brought some of them into the Oval Office.

00:01:54.360 But on top of all this, we'll deliver a hard-earned pay raise of 3.8% to every soldier, sailor,

00:02:00.220 airman, coast guardsman, space guard, and marines.

00:02:03.960 It's something you weren't getting from the past administration.

00:02:06.960 They did not treat you with respect.

00:02:09.020 They're Democrats.

00:02:09.900 They never do.

00:02:11.520 Not only are we rebuilding our great strength, but for the first time in years, my administration

00:02:16.600 is actually using that strength to defend the core and vital interests of America.

00:02:20.980 And very simply, we are putting America first.

00:02:23.720 And I have since I've been elected.

00:02:25.100 I've always put America first.

00:02:27.400 It's sort of simple, you know, when you think.

00:02:29.540 My campaign was run on common sense, and we did great.

00:02:34.620 We've got the highest numbers ever received.

00:02:38.360 In terms of districts, you know, they have it broken up.

00:02:42.440 2,500 versus 525.

00:02:47.140 We won every swing state.

00:02:49.040 We won the popular vote.

00:02:50.320 We won everything.

00:02:51.980 We won everything.

00:02:52.920 You have to take a look at the map.

00:02:54.300 It's almost entirely red, except there's a little blue line on each coast.

00:02:58.620 And I think that's going to disappear, too.

00:03:01.380 We did really great.

00:03:02.400 And part of it is because of our success with the military, the rebuilding of the military,

00:03:07.040 the vote that I got from the military.

00:03:09.560 And they were the vicious people, you know, that we have to fight, just like you have to

00:03:13.000 fight vicious people.

00:03:14.540 Mine are different, a different kind of vicious.

00:03:17.360 But they spread all these horrible, you know, they made up statements and said what I said

00:03:22.500 about everything, but even about the military.

00:03:25.260 But fortunately, the military didn't believe it.

00:03:27.460 It's hard.

00:03:27.940 You know, they make up a statement and they said, you say, we had 25 people that said

00:03:32.200 he never said that.

00:03:33.320 25.

00:03:33.940 We had 25 affidavits.

00:03:36.200 And they said, well, we're going with it anyway.

00:03:38.280 You know, these sleazebags. 0.97

00:03:40.440 And it's why the press is really losing all power, because people aren't believing it.

00:03:44.980 We need an honest press.

00:03:46.100 We need borders.

00:03:47.440 We need borders.

00:03:48.640 We need an honest press.

00:03:49.840 We need fair elections.

00:03:50.940 I mean, those three things.

00:03:51.920 And we don't have an honest press.

00:03:54.040 We have a really corrupt press.

00:03:55.700 But we fight through the corrupt press.

00:03:57.880 And the people understand.

00:03:59.720 You have to do this stuff a lot.

00:04:01.220 You have to go on television a lot, because you can't get a fair shake if you're going to

00:04:04.520 rely on somebody else.

00:04:06.200 They just don't understand.

00:04:08.140 They've destroyed.

00:04:09.380 The image of media now is at the lowest point it's ever been.

00:04:12.660 And it's lower than Congress.

00:04:14.980 Can you believe that?

00:04:15.860 It's something.

00:04:17.480 But together with many of you in the room, we've brought back the fundamental principle

00:04:22.640 that defending the homeland is the military's first and most important priority.

00:04:27.760 That's what it is.

00:04:29.400 Only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the

00:04:34.440 far reaches of Kenya and Somalia, while America is under invasion from within.

00:04:40.260 We're under invasion from within.

00:04:42.660 No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways, because they don't wear 1.00

00:04:50.560 uniforms.

00:04:51.460 At least when they're wearing a uniform, you can take them out.

00:04:54.200 These people don't have uniforms.

00:04:56.100 But we are under invasion from within.

00:04:58.560 We're stopping it very quickly.

00:05:00.740 After spending trillions of dollars defending the borders of foreign countries, with your help,

00:05:06.440 we're defending the borders of our country from now on.

00:05:10.960 We're not going to let this happen.

00:05:13.200 Biden let people come in from prisons, mental institutions, drug dealers, murderers.

00:05:19.420 You know, we had 11,488 murders allowed into our country by this guy who had no clue.

00:05:28.000 He had no clue.

00:05:30.280 He shouldn't have been there in the first place, but he had no clue.

00:05:33.120 The people that ran the office, the White House, were people that surrounded him, radical left 1.00

00:05:41.540 lunatics that are brilliant people, but dumb as hell when it came to policy and common sense. 0.99

00:05:48.260 And they allowed people from all over the world, from the Congo. 1.00

00:05:53.120 They opened up prisons in the Congo.

00:05:55.600 They came into our country totally unmatched, unvetted, unchecked.

00:06:01.260 And from all over South America, not just South America.

00:06:06.160 You know, you think South America.

00:06:07.420 No, but from all over.

00:06:08.800 A lot came in from Venezuela.

00:06:10.280 Venezuela emptied its prison population into our country.

00:06:14.160 That's why they have Trin de Uruguay, one of the worst gangs ever. 1.00

00:06:19.040 But we took care of them.

00:06:20.840 We took good, strong care of them.

00:06:22.440 And I just want to thank the National Guard in Washington, D.C.

00:06:26.540 It was, it's embarrassing to say this.

00:06:29.400 Now I can't say it because we solved it.

00:06:31.300 But Washington, D.C. was the most unsafe, most dangerous city in the United States of America.

00:06:37.500 And to a large extent, beyond.

00:06:39.860 And beyond that, you go to some, you go to Afghanistan, they didn't have anything like that.

00:06:44.700 You go to countries that you would think there's problems, they didn't have that.

00:06:47.740 And now Washington, D.C., after 12 days of serious, serious intensity, we took out 1,700 career criminals.

00:06:59.940 If you have five career criminals, they can make your numbers look very bad because they'll commit many crimes a day.

00:07:07.520 But we took out 1,700, and they took them out.

00:07:10.060 There was no doubt who the boss was.

00:07:12.380 They did an unbelievable job.

00:07:14.040 Then they started even cleaning.

00:07:15.980 I said, I don't want them doing that, sir.

00:07:17.500 They wanted, they were cleaning it up.

00:07:19.520 I drove through it two days ago.

00:07:21.000 It was beautiful.

00:07:21.740 People are walking down the street holding hands.

00:07:24.440 Man and wife coming from Iowa.

00:07:26.400 They're not worried about being shot.

00:07:28.760 Washington, D.C. is now a safe city.

00:07:31.360 In fact, I went out to dinner with my crew.

00:07:33.480 I haven't done that.

00:07:35.400 In theory, I wouldn't do it.

00:07:37.400 And I felt totally safe.

00:07:39.920 And nobody's been attacked.

00:07:41.460 Nobody's been hurt.

00:07:42.320 Washington, D.C. went from our most unsafe city to just about our safest city in a period

00:07:49.340 of a month.

00:07:50.140 We had it under control in 12 days.

00:07:53.060 But give us another 15, 16 days.

00:07:55.780 It was, it's, it's perfect.

00:07:57.020 And people other than politicians that look bad, they think, you know, the Democrats run

00:08:03.480 most of the cities that are in bad shape.

00:08:05.480 We have many cities in great shape, too, by the way.

00:08:07.940 I want you to know that.

00:08:09.620 But it seems that the ones that are run by the radical left Democrats, what they've done

00:08:14.860 to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they're very unsafe places.

00:08:21.800 And we're going to straighten them out one by one.

00:08:24.260 And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room.

00:08:27.380 That's a war, too.

00:08:28.200 It's a war from within.

00:08:30.260 Controlling the physical territory of our border is essential to national security.

00:08:35.420 We can't let these people in.

00:08:37.720 You know, we had no people enter in the last four months.

00:08:40.880 Zero.

00:08:41.540 Even I can't believe that.

00:08:42.620 You know, we had millions coming in, pouring in.

00:08:45.560 25 million, all told.

00:08:47.260 And of those 25 million, many of them should never be in our country. 0.96

00:08:50.820 They would take their worst people and their people from prisons and jail, and they'd put

00:08:54.680 them in a caravan and they'd walk up.

00:08:57.920 CNN was interviewing one person.

00:09:00.600 Oh, why are you coming?

00:09:01.920 I want freedom.

00:09:03.100 Good.

00:09:03.880 Were you in jail?

00:09:05.040 Yes.

00:09:05.860 For what?

00:09:06.840 Murder.

00:09:08.420 I said, you were in for, you had to see this anchor, a young woman.

00:09:12.620 She's like, I couldn't believe she'll probably lose her job. 1.00

00:09:16.940 But because the left doesn't want to hear that.

00:09:19.880 But we're running it based on common sense and based on love of our country.

00:09:24.500 But I want to salute every service member who has helped us carry out this critical mission.

00:09:28.760 It's really a very important mission.

00:09:30.380 And I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our

00:09:36.280 military, National Guard, but military, because we're going into Chicago version. 1.00

00:09:41.500 That's a big city with an incompetent governor, stupid governor, stupid. 1.00

00:09:45.400 They threw him out of his family business. 1.00

00:09:47.920 He was so stupid. 1.00

00:09:48.840 I know the family. 1.00

00:09:50.720 He becomes governor.

00:09:52.180 He's got money.

00:09:53.900 Not money that he made.

00:09:55.880 But he ran for governor.

00:09:57.280 He won.

00:09:57.540 And now he criticizes us all the time.

00:09:59.680 And last week, they had 11 people murdered, 44 people shot.

00:10:05.040 The week before that, they had five people murdered, 28 people shot.

00:10:09.060 But every weekend, they lose five, six.

00:10:11.580 If they lose five, they're considering a great week.

00:10:14.320 They shouldn't lose any.

00:10:15.880 You shouldn't lose any.

00:10:17.120 This is civilization.

00:10:19.800 And he's always up there saying, we're in very good shape.

00:10:24.400 We don't need the military.

00:10:25.540 No, they need the military desperately.

00:10:27.280 How about Portland?

00:10:29.280 Portland, Oregon, where it looks like a war zone.

00:10:34.300 And I get a call from the liberal governor.

00:10:37.240 Sir, please don't come in.

00:10:38.500 We don't need you.

00:10:39.140 I said, well, unless they're playing false tapes, this looked like World War II. 0.53

00:10:44.920 Your place is burning down.

00:10:48.260 I mean, you must be kidding.

00:10:49.780 Sir, we have it under control.

00:10:51.180 I said, you don't have it under control, governor.

00:10:53.680 But I'll check it.

00:10:55.240 And I'll call you back.

00:10:56.180 I called her back.

00:10:56.720 I said, this place is a nightmare.

00:11:01.100 Probably, it's certainly not the biggest, but it's one of the worst.

00:11:04.300 It's brutal.

00:11:04.860 They go after our ICE people, who are great patriots and tough job, too.

00:11:10.660 But they love it.

00:11:11.400 They love it because they're cleaning up our country.

00:11:14.380 And so you look at some of the things where they took over parts of Seattle.

00:11:17.740 They actually took over a big percentage of Seattle.

00:11:21.980 Think of that.

00:11:22.560 You remember that.

00:11:23.320 That was a while ago.

00:11:25.540 And I sent in the troops, and they were gone.

00:11:27.360 As soon as I sent them in, oh, when we sent in the troops, if you have a real leader that

00:11:31.800 says, you've got to do what you have to do, I put that out the other day.

00:11:35.840 You've got to do what you've got to do.

00:11:37.140 Because we don't want our people hurt as they stand by.

00:11:40.760 I was watching during Biden.

00:11:42.880 They had troops standing up like this, brave, standing up in tension, the way I should stand

00:11:48.360 all the time.

00:11:49.760 And I'm like this.

00:11:51.340 And people are standing.

00:11:52.940 Their mouth is this far away from their mouth.

00:11:55.100 And they're spitting at them, and they're screaming at them.

00:12:00.060 And that soldier's standing there.

00:12:01.920 He wants to knock the hell out of the person, but he's not allowed to do anything.

00:12:08.620 So they just stand there, and they get abused.

00:12:11.080 And a woman was this far away from his face, and she starts spitting in his face, and he's

00:12:17.100 not allowed to do anything.

00:12:19.140 If it's okay with you, generals and admirals, I've taken that off.

00:12:23.640 I say, they spit, we hit.

00:12:26.600 Is that okay?

00:12:27.380 I think so.

00:12:28.720 They spit.

00:12:29.660 It's a new thing.

00:12:31.500 They spit, we hit.

00:12:32.520 How about the cars where the cars are coming out?

00:12:34.560 They get brand new cars, Border Patrol, ice, beautiful, nice new cars.

00:12:39.900 And they're driving along, and they have to go through a gauntlet of rocks being thrown

00:12:44.740 at the car.

00:12:45.900 So here's this beautiful brand new car.

00:12:47.540 By the time it goes 100 yards, it's destroyed.

00:12:53.640 These guys have pretty good arms, some of them.

00:12:56.220 And they're throwing bricks at full force into the window and into the car.

00:13:00.880 It looks like it's a war zone.

00:13:04.020 And I said, never let that happen again.

00:13:06.060 From now on, if that ever happens, and I say it here, you get out of that car, and you

00:13:11.220 can do whatever the head you want to do.

00:13:12.860 Because those people are, you know, you can die from the, those bricks go through the windows. 0.99

00:13:18.920 You can die. 0.62

00:13:19.480 They'd like it to. 0.98

00:13:20.360 They'd like it to go through the window.

00:13:22.340 But this was a couple of months ago.

00:13:24.400 They just kept driving, and bricks are hitting the car.

00:13:26.600 And I said, why aren't they stopping?

00:13:28.240 Because they were under orders from the past administration, never stop.

00:13:32.100 But that's different with us.

00:13:33.600 We stop.

00:13:35.160 And since I gave that order, we haven't had that problem.

00:13:37.640 It's very interesting.

00:13:38.520 It's amazing.

00:13:39.960 It's just like in Venezuela.

00:13:42.760 You've seen the boats going.

00:13:44.500 We can't find any more boats.

00:13:46.920 They're carrying drugs massive.

00:13:49.320 Every boat kills about 25,000 people.

00:13:52.420 That's what they have.

00:13:53.140 They have fentanyl, mostly, and a lot of other drugs.

00:13:56.400 And we take them out.

00:13:58.020 And we've taken out four.

00:14:00.740 So, and it's on air.

00:14:03.720 Everybody gets to see it.

00:14:04.860 Not that we like to do that.

00:14:06.340 But every boat kills 25,000 on average.

00:14:10.100 Some people say more.

00:14:11.580 You know, you see these boats, they're stacked up with bags of white powder.

00:14:15.060 It's mostly fentanyl and other drugs, too.

00:14:18.840 And now we have a problem.

00:14:21.600 General Cain says, sir, there are no boats out there.

00:14:24.400 Not even fishing boats.

00:14:25.740 They don't want to go fishing.

00:14:27.080 I don't blame them.

00:14:27.860 There will be no fishing today.

00:14:30.820 But it's amazing what strength will do.

00:14:34.340 Because all we want to do is stop drugs from flowing into our country.

00:14:38.120 It's destroying.

00:14:38.980 We lost 300,000 people died last year.

00:14:41.780 Everybody knows, friends, many friends probably, that you lost a child.

00:14:46.220 Or adults, too.

00:14:47.860 But you lost a son or daughter because of what's coming into our border.

00:14:52.320 And we're making it very hard.

00:14:55.080 Oh, and we haven't even started yet.

00:14:57.540 Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances.

00:15:06.500 This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room because it's the enemy from within.

00:15:13.060 And we have to handle it before it gets out of control.

00:15:15.380 It won't get out of control.

00:15:17.080 Once you're involved at all, they all joke.

00:15:21.960 They say, oh, this is not good.

00:15:23.300 You saw it in Washington.

00:15:25.300 We had gangs of Trendy Arag with 10, 12, 15 kids. 0.99

00:15:29.680 And these military guys woke up to them.

00:15:32.080 And they treat them with disrespect.

00:15:34.080 And they just got pounded.

00:15:36.640 They just got pounded.

00:15:38.380 The gang just pounded.

00:15:40.260 Then thrown into paddy wagons and taken back to their country. 1.00

00:15:45.020 Some are so dangerous, we don't want to even do that because we don't want to.

00:15:49.440 Some are stone-cold murderers.

00:15:51.980 We don't have the confidence.

00:15:53.180 Even though they're not coming back very easily, we don't have the confidence.

00:15:56.480 We put them in jails.

00:15:58.460 But these service members are following in a great and storied military tradition from protecting frontier communities to chasing outlaws and bandits in the Wild West.

00:16:08.600 And our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies, foreign and domestic.

00:16:14.680 You know that phrase very well.

00:16:17.500 That's what the oath says, foreign and domestic.

00:16:19.920 Well, we also have domestic.

00:16:22.320 George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, George Bush, and others all used the armed forces to keep domestic order and peace.

00:16:33.200 Many of our leaders used the military to keep peace.

00:16:37.780 Now they like to say, oh, you're not allowed to use the military.

00:16:40.900 And you know what the people say? 0.75

00:16:42.260 The people in those cities where they're being raped and shot and beat up. 0.54

00:16:47.300 You know what they say? 0.64

00:16:48.160 We love the military.

00:16:48.940 You ever see where they interview the people on the street?

00:16:51.920 I've never seen somebody say they don't unless they're radical and paid off because a lot of these insurrectionists are paid by, whether it's Soros or other people, but they're paid by the radical left.

00:17:02.360 So today I want to thank every service member from general to private who has bravely helped us secure the nation's capital and make America safe for the American people.

00:17:12.520 It's amazing.

00:17:13.480 The whole world is watching.

00:17:15.580 Everybody in the White House, they come up to me, young women, sir, thank you.

00:17:19.260 I know immediately what they're thanking.

00:17:20.840 They don't have to say it.

00:17:22.180 They walk to work now to the White House.

00:17:23.880 We haven't had a crime in Washington in so long because we got the careers.

00:17:29.660 We call them the careers. 0.95

00:17:31.480 We got these lunatics out and they'll never be any good. 0.97

00:17:36.040 You know, I hate to tell this to the liberal media. 0.99

00:17:40.500 You could spend time with them.

00:17:43.500 You could do whatever you want.

00:17:44.920 You could send them to the finest schools, which they couldn't get into anyway, mentally.

00:17:49.600 They couldn't get in.

00:17:50.740 But no matter what you do, they'll never be good.

00:17:52.600 They're bad. 0.99

00:17:53.360 They're career criminals. 0.99

00:17:55.960 I don't know. 0.98

00:17:56.840 Maybe they were born that way.

00:17:58.820 Some people don't like me to say that, but maybe they were.

00:18:01.760 Certainly some were.

00:18:03.420 Together with the leaders here today, we're also restoring a needed focus on defeating threats in the Western Hemisphere.

00:18:10.800 Throughout this region, cartel terrorists have been allowed to wage a relentless campaign of death and destruction on our country,

00:18:19.320 all because we had weak leadership on top.

00:18:22.600 And we did a great job with it first term, but this is something else what we're doing now.

00:18:27.580 We're taking it to the next level, probably next level times three.

00:18:31.560 But we had COVID come up, and we had to take care of that.

00:18:35.520 We did a great job with COVID.

00:18:37.740 We had the therapeutics.

00:18:41.740 It was just Regeneron.

00:18:43.100 So many things we did for COVID.

00:18:44.680 But we had to focus on that, and every other country in the world was being decimated by COVID.

00:18:48.840 So we had to change gear a little bit to take care of that.

00:18:53.220 But under our leadership, the military is now the knife's edge in combating this sinister enemy.

00:18:59.360 We have to put the traffickers and cartels on notice, and we've done that.

00:19:04.160 And we put a lot of them.

00:19:06.060 We've called them a terrorist organization, which is actually a big thing to do.

00:19:10.240 And nobody's done it, but I've done it with a lot of them.

00:19:14.040 It gives you a tremendous advantage. 0.90

00:19:16.300 If you try to poison our people, we will blow you out of existence, 0.58

00:19:21.680 because that's the only language they really understand.

00:19:25.220 That's why you don't see any more boats on the ocean.

00:19:27.600 You don't see any boats.

00:19:29.440 Around Venezuela, there's nothing.

00:19:31.220 As president, I will never hesitate to defend our people from threats of violence,

00:19:39.380 from the horrible plague that's taking place from within the Iran nuclear power, 0.97

00:19:50.420 the Iran, all of the great power that we thought existed.

00:19:56.440 We blew it out to kingdom. 0.99

00:19:59.280 We took advantage of it, and we just really took advantage of it.

00:20:03.780 It was a beautiful thing to see, and that's what military power can achieve.

00:20:10.340 That's why I chose Raisin Cain.

00:20:14.200 He's fantastic, by the way.

00:20:16.320 I hope you all agree.

00:20:17.400 If anybody disagrees, could I please have your hand?

00:20:20.020 Who disappears that Raisin Cain is no good?

00:20:22.180 Just raise your hand.

00:20:24.080 I don't see any hands raised.

00:20:26.140 All right.

00:20:27.140 That means you're okay.

00:20:28.040 That means that he's okay now, but I saw his results.

00:20:31.900 You know, he took out ISIS.

00:20:33.980 I was told it was going to take four years.

00:20:35.700 It took four weeks.

00:20:37.400 I went to see him, and he took him out in four weeks, knocked him out, knocked him to hell.

00:20:42.340 And I was told by military people it was going to take four to five years to do it.

00:20:47.480 And I don't even know if we'll have it then, sir.

00:20:50.100 These were the Washington generals.

00:20:51.500 I call him the television generals.

00:20:53.420 But Raisin Cain did it in four weeks, took out 100% of the ISIS caliphate. 1.00

00:20:58.520 And as a result of these actions and many others since my inauguration, we're witnessing the

00:21:04.060 triumphant return of peace through strength.

00:21:07.120 We have great peace through strength.

00:21:09.380 America is respected again as a country.

00:21:11.440 We were not respected with Biden.

00:21:12.920 And they looked at him falling downstairs every day.

00:21:16.120 Every day, the guy's falling downstairs.

00:21:18.660 He said, it's not our president.

00:21:21.140 We can't have it.

00:21:22.900 I'm very careful.

00:21:24.040 You know, when I walk downstairs, like I'm on stairs, like these stairs, I'm very, I walk very slowly.

00:21:30.860 Nobody has to set a record.

00:21:34.420 Just try not to fall because it doesn't work out well.

00:21:39.440 A few of our presidents have fallen and it became a part of their legacy.

00:21:44.000 We don't want that.

00:21:45.340 You walk nice and easy.

00:21:46.640 You're not having, you don't have to set any record.

00:21:48.340 Be cool.

00:21:49.740 Be cool when you walk down, but don't, don't bop down the stairs.

00:21:53.920 So one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs.

00:21:59.360 I've never said, da-da, da-da, da-da, ba-ba-ba.

00:22:02.660 He'd go down the stairs, wouldn't hold on.

00:22:04.460 I said, it's great.

00:22:05.880 I don't want to do it.

00:22:06.560 I guess I could do it.

00:22:07.740 But eventually, bad things are going to happen.

00:22:10.820 And it only takes once.

00:22:12.900 But he did a lousy job as president.

00:22:16.200 A year ago, we were a dead country.

00:22:19.320 We were dead.

00:22:20.680 This country was going to hell.

00:22:22.820 We were dead in every way from immigration to military.

00:22:26.160 We didn't have the weapons.

00:22:27.940 We were given everything to, we were given everything to Ukraine.

00:22:32.280 We had nothing.

00:22:34.780 And by the way, I have to tell you, now, as you know, I went over and I met with NATO,

00:22:40.000 and NATO raised from two to five, which everyone said five percent of GDP.

00:22:45.380 Millions and now trillions of dollars are pouring in.

00:22:48.560 They didn't pay the two percent because they know we were there to pay it.

00:22:51.800 And now they paid the five percent.

00:22:54.020 That's trillions of dollars.

00:22:55.300 And we're not spending any money on that war, not ten cents.

00:22:58.380 We sell our equipment to NATO.

00:23:00.560 NATO pays us for the equipment, and they give it to Ukraine or whoever they give it to.

00:23:04.900 But they can keep it.

00:23:06.400 But we're not involved.

00:23:07.720 We have no money going out.

00:23:08.900 Biden gave $350 billion, not sustainable, $350 billion.

00:23:15.440 And we have a war that should have never started.

00:23:19.380 But we're not doing that anymore.

00:23:20.780 So I just want you to know we're selling equipment.

00:23:23.580 Our people are buying equipment.

00:23:25.080 They're buying, they are buying the equipment at full price, a fair price.

00:23:29.940 So I don't want to say we're making money because I don't want to say, I don't want to be making money on a war.

00:23:35.540 It's too many people dying.

00:23:36.700 They're losing 7,000 soldiers a week.

00:23:39.840 A lot of them are Russian soldiers.

00:23:41.320 But between the two countries, mostly soldiers, by the way, sometimes, you know, in Kiev, they'll lob a missile in or some drones in, kill some people.

00:23:50.320 But mostly it's soldiers.

00:23:52.580 Russia and Ukraine are losing 7,000 souls.

00:23:55.620 And, you know, they're not, they're not American. 0.98

00:24:01.100 They're not us.

00:24:02.000 They're not you who have a special obligation.

00:24:05.100 But they're soldiers.

00:24:06.440 They're young people.

00:24:07.220 They leave their parents.

00:24:08.180 They wave goodbye.

00:24:09.000 And then two days later, they're blown up so unnecessarily.

00:24:13.720 And so that's the primary reason I want to get it done.

00:24:17.800 We got to get it done.

00:24:19.240 It's crazy what's going on.

00:24:20.680 That's the worst war that there's been since World War II.

00:24:23.340 The number of soldiers that are being killed there is just crazy.

00:24:27.040 From 5,000 to 7,000 soldiers die a week.

00:24:29.600 Think of that.

00:24:31.460 So I think we'll get that done.

00:24:33.180 But that's turned out to be the toughest one.

00:24:35.000 I'm so disappointed in President Putin.

00:24:37.320 I thought he would get this thing over with.

00:24:40.760 He should have had that war done in a week. 0.91

00:24:44.120 And I said to him, you know, you don't look good.

00:24:47.500 You're four years fighting a war that should have taken a week.

00:24:50.020 Are you a paper tiger?

00:24:53.140 And it's a shame.

00:24:55.980 But I think eventually we'll get that one done just like we, in theory, I want to knock on wood because you never know.

00:25:03.320 It's like we're going to have the Middle East done, which is actually a much harder thing to do.

00:25:08.080 I mean, thousands of years.

00:25:10.780 But we have to get that war done. 0.81

00:25:12.680 So now we're, just think of it, we're a dead country.

00:25:16.200 I was with the king of Saudi Arabia, a great guy.

00:25:19.740 I was with the emir of Qatar.

00:25:22.980 I was with the great leadership of UAE.

00:25:25.220 I was over there.

00:25:26.460 We brought back $2 trillion and more.

00:25:32.000 They ordered 200 planes, Boeing, they ordered so much, and they were great.

00:25:37.400 But they all said essentially the same thing.

00:25:40.020 They said, one year ago, you were a dead country, and now you're the hottest country anywhere in the world.

00:25:47.900 We're the hottest country in the world right now.

00:25:50.720 The absolute hottest country in the world.

00:25:52.780 We have, there's nobody even close.

00:25:55.280 Putin said that to me.

00:25:56.580 We met in Alaska, had a good meeting.

00:26:00.480 Then he went back and started sending drones into Kiev.

00:26:03.540 I said, I thought we had a good meeting.

00:26:06.000 But it's one of those things.

00:26:07.500 But we were a dead country a year ago, and now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world.

00:26:14.400 Think of that.

00:26:14.920 You can be proud of that.

00:26:16.000 And you must have felt like hell when you have a wife or a husband at home, and you used to read the numbers that we can't get people to join the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard.

00:26:31.300 You must have felt like, you know, I have a job that nobody wants.

00:26:35.620 It doesn't feel good.

00:26:36.600 Well, now you have a job that is brimming over with people wanting it.

00:26:41.280 They want it.

00:26:41.880 And you're able to get a much higher quality because now you have your choice.

00:26:46.100 You know, you want so many.

00:26:48.240 And we're going to have many, many people that aren't going to be able to join because of the fact that we don't, you know, we don't need them at this moment.

00:26:55.920 But think of it.

00:26:56.960 What a difference that is from, I could just imagine two years ago, you're reading front page articles in the New York Times, of course, and Wall Street Journal.

00:27:06.860 They always give us unfair stories, but they played it so big.

00:27:11.380 They were playing it so big.

00:27:12.500 Nobody wants to join the Army, the Marines, the Air Force.

00:27:15.420 They want it.

00:27:15.880 They don't want to join.

00:27:18.120 They don't want to join the Coast Guard at all.

00:27:21.780 Nobody wants to join.

00:27:23.160 Nobody wants to join our police forces.

00:27:25.100 Our police forces also.

00:27:26.300 It's almost went hand in hand.

00:27:28.380 And I used to say, boy, you know, I'm speaking in front of the military today, and it's embarrassing because I'm speaking in front of people who have a job that other people don't want.

00:27:39.900 But now you have a job that everybody wants.

00:27:41.980 So I think that has to make you feel good.

00:27:43.980 It's one of the reasons I love being here today because I wanted to say that.

00:27:46.820 I have to say that everybody wants to be in the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines.

00:27:54.360 If you think the Coast Guard and Space Force are beautiful Space Force.

00:28:00.140 It's a whole different world.

00:28:01.560 And now they're signing up, by the way, seriously, big numbers for the police.

00:28:05.580 Dangerous job, isn't it?

00:28:07.140 Fire Department.

00:28:09.160 But that's the paving the way for progress once thought almost impossible.

00:28:13.800 I mean, a year ago, you wouldn't have thought that was possible.

00:28:15.880 A year ago, they were talking about making the military smaller because they can't get the people to join.

00:28:22.920 We're thinking about making it larger because we have so many people.

00:28:26.920 And it's nice to be able to cut people because of merit that aren't really qualified for any reason, a physical reason, a mental reason.

00:28:37.700 You don't have to take them anymore because you have the pick of the litter.

00:28:42.900 And they all want to be with you.

00:28:44.440 They all want your job.

00:28:45.440 They want to be with you.

00:28:46.540 They want to work with you.

00:28:48.980 They'll even take your job, you know.

00:28:51.140 Got to be a little bit sharp.

00:28:52.360 You got to watch it.

00:28:53.860 But everybody wants to be doing what you're doing now.

00:28:57.040 What a difference.

00:28:57.700 When I speak to you, and I can say that as opposed to a couple of years ago when I was talking to rooms where they were desperate to get people and they couldn't get them.

00:29:06.380 What a difference a presidential election can make.

00:29:10.460 That's all it is.

00:29:11.340 It's just a presidential election.

00:29:13.520 Yesterday at the White House, we put forward a plan for peace in Gaza.

00:29:18.580 We announced it and we're going to create something that was my idea, but unfortunately I got drafted.

00:29:24.700 It's going to be called the Board of Peace and it's going to reign over that territory and we're going to get that done.

00:29:34.040 And they asked if I'd be the chairman of the Board of Peace.

00:29:36.600 I wasn't counting on that.

00:29:37.760 I had the idea for the Board of Peace.

00:29:40.300 But I said yes.

00:29:41.420 And I guess because of that, every leader, everybody wants to be on the Board of Peace.

00:29:46.160 And we're going to watch over that very volatile part of the world and keep it non-volatile so you don't have to get involved.

00:29:53.680 We want to save you for other things or save you for nothing from that standpoint.

00:29:58.180 We don't want you fighting wars, but if you have to, you're going to be the most lethal fighting force in the world.

00:30:03.380 And I would say that even two, three years ago, but now I say it with great enthusiasm.

00:30:08.300 It's so true. 0.84

00:30:09.040 And we're striving tirelessly to end the terrible war in Ukraine.

00:30:13.000 And as you know, we're also working hard to get the allies to share more of the burden of our defense.

00:30:19.320 Much of that has really already taken place.

00:30:23.060 But all NATO members have committed to the increase that I talked about.

00:30:27.540 Think of that.

00:30:28.080 That was unthinkable.

00:30:29.520 It used to be 1%.

00:30:30.760 Then we got it up to 2% in my last term.

00:30:34.420 And they did not like it.

00:30:37.160 And now I got it to 5%.

00:30:38.460 And I get along great with all of them.

00:30:40.600 In fact, they call me the president of NATO.

00:30:42.460 I said, I don't think so.

00:30:44.660 But they're great.

00:30:46.100 They're great people.

00:30:47.220 And they're spending a lot of, they're spending a lot of money and a lot of money that they should have been spending in the past.

00:30:53.560 But I think Putin was a wake-up call for them, really.

00:30:57.560 We're now selling large quantities of American-made weapons to NATO.

00:31:01.280 And we're getting really fair pricing.

00:31:05.900 We're making a lot of money.

00:31:06.920 It's my hope that from Europe to Asia to the Middle East, our allies will make similar commitments to increase their military capabilities.

00:31:17.020 And this will greatly strengthen our alliances.

00:31:19.780 And also, it will make war far less likely.

00:31:23.400 You know, if you have a strong, if you're a strong presence like we are, we are such a strong presence.

00:31:29.180 And I go around bragging about that.

00:31:30.920 I said, we have the strongest military anywhere in the world.

00:31:33.440 I say it.

00:31:33.900 You never heard Biden say that.

00:31:37.400 Never heard him say anything.

00:31:39.600 But you never heard him say it.

00:31:40.920 Did you ever hear him say, we have the strongest military?

00:31:43.360 He doesn't say that.

00:31:44.460 I say it.

00:31:45.100 We have the strongest military anywhere in the world.

00:31:48.000 We have great leadership.

00:31:49.280 And I'll tell you, Pete and General Cain, all of the people that I've met that have been lifted up in rank.

00:31:57.440 And we got many of them out of here, too.

00:31:59.380 I'll be honest with you.

00:32:00.540 Didn't like doing it.

00:32:01.380 But we got many of you out of here because we weren't satisfied.

00:32:05.040 We know everything about everybody.

00:32:07.880 It will also help the United States rapidly rebuild our defense industrial base.

00:32:12.220 Each of you can play an important part in getting allies to do their part.

00:32:17.140 So to that end, Secretary Hagstaff will soon be announcing major reforms to streamline military acquisitions and expedite foreign military sales.

00:32:27.380 We have tremendous numbers of countries that want to buy our equipment.

00:32:32.380 And, you know, in many cases, it takes too long to have backlogged.

00:32:36.560 We're backlogged on all the equipment, which is something that's new to us a little bit.

00:32:40.940 And I told those companies, you better get your ass going because, you know, we're buying, we're selling you a lot of equipment.

00:32:48.160 We're getting countries to buy your equipment. 0.98

00:32:50.100 You've got to produce the equipment.

00:32:51.640 Some of the countries, I'm not going to mention, but some of the countries are buying a lot.

00:32:57.940 And that's a good thing.

00:32:58.780 They're on our side.

00:33:01.620 95%.

00:33:02.100 I'll never say 100% because it can always turn, right?

00:33:05.300 You know about that.

00:33:06.120 But they're on our side.

00:33:08.380 The problem is we have to get the companies that make this equipment.

00:33:11.780 And we make the best equipment in the world, but they've got to make it faster.

00:33:15.880 We have orders for the F-35.

00:33:17.920 We have orders for everything.

00:33:19.740 The new F-47.

00:33:21.000 We have orders for everything.

00:33:22.740 They've got to make it faster.

00:33:24.880 A lot faster.

00:33:25.840 Ammunition they have to make faster.

00:33:27.380 In the coming months, we'll be making even more historic announcements to fully embrace the identity of the Department of War.

00:33:36.300 I love the name.

00:33:37.400 I think it's so great.

00:33:38.340 I think it stops wars.

00:33:40.480 The Department of War is going to stop wars.

00:33:42.420 If we are as ruthless and relentless as our enemies, the United States Armed Forces will be totally unmatched in the future.

00:33:52.860 We have a group of enemies that are very ruthless and very smart, but they can't match us.

00:34:00.860 They can't match us.

00:34:01.760 They don't even come close to matching us.

00:34:04.320 Again, you know, it's very important for me to say we have the greatest military in the world, but we make the best equipment in the world.

00:34:09.680 I watched our anti-missile missiles.

00:34:14.700 I watched our patriots just knock things out.

00:34:17.880 It's like a needle hitting another needle on the stage.

00:34:21.560 There's a needle up there, and you send another needle up, and it hits it every time.

00:34:26.960 During the war, we went 14 for 14.

00:34:29.200 We had 14.

00:34:30.500 This is with Iran. 0.98

00:34:31.700 We had 14 missiles coming at us.

00:34:34.320 All 14 were knocked out of the sky, every one of them.

00:34:39.680 We make the best equipment, from Sparta to Rome, to the British Empire, to the United States of America.

00:34:46.240 History has shown that military supremacy has never been simply a matter of money or manpower.

00:34:53.260 At the end of the day, it is the culture, spirit of our military that truly sets us apart from any other nation.

00:34:59.640 Our ultimate strength will always come from the fierce people, the most brilliant people with such pride and the unbending will and the traditions of excellence that have made us the most unstoppable force ever to walk the face of the earth.

00:35:17.200 And that's what we are.

00:35:18.040 Remember, we never want to use it, but we have the most powerful nuclear capability, and I call it nuclear deterrent of any other country.

00:35:26.860 Nobody close.

00:35:27.580 The men and women in this room inherit the legacy built and won by Washington and Jackson, Grant and Pershing, Eisenhower and Patton, Nimitz and LeMay.

00:35:38.600 We carry forward the majestic military heritage passed down from father to son, soldier to soldier, and one generation of warriors to the next.

00:35:48.980 You are warriors.

00:35:49.880 You know that, right?

00:35:51.260 You're great warriors.

00:35:52.280 Well, you wouldn't be in this room.

00:35:55.240 You're the best of the best.

00:35:56.900 From Concord Bridge to Fort McHenry, from Gettysburg to Manila Bay, from Normandy to Sicily, and from the jungles of Vietnam to the dusty streets of Baghdad, America's military has charged into hellfire, climbed up jagged mountains, crossed roaring oceans,

00:36:18.480 and thundered across open deserts, and thundered across open deserts to defend our flag, our freedom, and our homeland.

00:36:25.440 Nobody does it like you.

00:36:27.360 Now we are discovering American muscle, reasserting American might, and beginning the next story chapter in American military legends and lore.

00:36:39.780 That's L-O-R-E. 1.00

00:36:43.380 It is lore.

00:36:44.300 When it comes to defending our way of life, nothing will slow us.

00:36:50.160 No enemy will stop us.

00:36:51.580 They cannot stop us.

00:36:54.140 And no adversary will stand in our way.

00:36:56.920 They won't stand in our way.

00:36:58.380 We don't want them to stand in our way.

00:37:00.340 We don't want to even put them in that position, but they're not going to stand in our way ever again.

00:37:04.560 You'll never see four years like we had with Biden and that group of incompetent people that ran this country that should have never been there.

00:37:13.940 Because we are the United States military, the best, the boldest, the bravest that the world has ever seen, that the world has ever known.

00:37:22.400 And with leaders like we have right here in this beautiful room today, we will vanquish every danger and crush every threat to our freedom in every generation to come.

00:37:34.520 Because we will fight, fight, fight, and we will win, win, win.

00:37:40.860 I want to just thank you once again and God bless the United States military and God bless America.

00:37:46.840 God bless you all.

00:37:47.620 Thank you very much.

00:37:48.640 Thank you.

00:37:49.000 Thank you.

00:37:49.060 Thank you.

00:37:50.060 Thank you.

00:38:20.060 Thank you.

00:38:50.060 Thank you very much.

00:38:51.060 Thank you very much.

00:39:20.060 Thank you.

00:39:21.060 Thank you.

00:39:22.060 Thank you.

00:39:23.060 Thank you.

00:39:50.060 Thank you for your attention.

00:39:51.060 Thank you.

00:39:52.060 Thank you.

00:39:53.060 Thank you.

00:39:54.060 Trump's trying to put them out. Russia won't cooperate. Israel looks like we've got a chance 0.99

00:39:58.840 there, but it better be about us. We've got to get our team going. We've got to get our military

00:40:03.360 going. We've got to put a foot down and we've got to start training more and not worrying about all

00:40:08.420 the things that go along with this woke establishment. One of the things that Pete,

00:40:15.060 that Secretary of Warwick hit him with, not just the woke and Webb and I were getting rid of DEI,

00:40:19.640 all this, no more guys walking around in dresses. That's all going away. But he also directly

00:40:24.520 addressed them about basically coming across as warriors, not just in the way they carry

00:40:30.460 themselves, but also their physical fitness. And he kind of left it out there that there may be

00:40:35.820 some folks in that room and not making the traveling squad. Any thoughts on that?

00:40:41.380 Yeah, exactly right. I mean, you got to be in shape. Now he's breaking down to where everybody's

00:40:48.200 going to have the same physical requirements. Uh, he's going to put a discipline back into the

00:40:53.660 area of, Hey, you just can't turn into a slob, you know, just because you're a, even a three or

00:40:59.360 four star general, you you've, you've got to go by the rules or regulations. You've got to, we got to

00:41:04.380 put together a military that's capable of fighting. Uh, Steve, just, just in the, the hearings I've been

00:41:12.200 in the last few weeks, it's getting more and more volatile across this, across the world. Number one,

00:41:17.080 we've got to protect ourself here at Homeland, but we also got to help, help our allies to some

00:41:22.900 degree. But number one is America first. And president Trump continues to say that, and we

00:41:28.500 can't fight unless we're in good shape, good physical shape and understand that the young men

00:41:34.500 and women that come out of high school or college, uh, you're here to represent the United States of 1.00

00:41:39.580 America, but you have to be able to do the job and, and be able to pass all the physical requirements.

00:41:45.240 Let's talk about the, uh, uh, our strategy here. Uh, there's a bunch of articles today that talk

00:41:54.420 about the national defense plan or the national defense policies, which is an annual, uh, when,

00:42:00.540 uh, we got to the white house in 17, we shifted from the war on terror to talk about great power

00:42:06.440 struggle. Of course, I pushed that the Chinese communist party is the focus that they also put

00:42:11.720 where they forced, uh, some of the, uh, neocons forced the Russia situation in there too. That

00:42:16.840 was fine. But there's now reports coming out that this new plan that you guys are going to take a

00:42:22.120 look at. It's come out of the white house has really focused on hemispheric defense, which we

00:42:26.300 think is great, but at the same time has even downplayed the situation in, in China and look at

00:42:32.920 China just as a potential Pacific threat and not a global threat. Your, your, your thoughts on it,

00:42:38.680 you've been as close to this as anybody, particularly about defending the homeland,

00:42:42.180 but are you concerned that maybe we're, we're de-emphasizing the Chinese communist party too

00:42:46.880 much? Steve, at the end of the day, you're exactly right. China, China, China. You can talk

00:42:51.560 about Russia all you want. Uh, Russia's economy is the size of California's. Uh, they can't, uh,

00:42:58.120 they can't function. Russia can't function unless China helps them. And that's the reason 0.99

00:43:02.560 president Trump's going after NATO saying, listen, quit buying Russian oil. You're funding, uh,

00:43:08.400 the Ukraine war. Uh, we're pumping money in and, but, uh, so as Europeans, but they're pumping money 0.51

00:43:14.640 to Russia because they, they're hardheaded and trying to buy all this oil from Russia. But China 0.98

00:43:19.760 is the problem. We got to get over all that and start understanding China has an economy that's not 0.94

00:43:26.000 very good, but whatever it is, they're taking almost 90 cents out of every dollar and putting

00:43:30.960 it towards their military. They are building for a war. They are building to take over, uh,

00:43:37.200 the free world. Uh, this president has made himself president of lifetimes as Xi Ping. And, uh, he means

00:43:44.320 business. And the only way he can stay in that power is continue to build that military and show that

00:43:50.000 he's somebody that means business. So, uh, we can worry about Russia. We can worry about the Middle East,

00:43:55.040 but at the end of the day, the people that can really do damage to us in a, in a way that, uh,

00:44:01.440 would be very harmful to the United States of America and the free world is China. 1.00

00:44:07.680 You know, there's, uh, some rumors coming out of Capitol Hill that the arms packages for Ukraine

00:44:12.800 are going through or at least being put together. There's another arms package for Israel, but there's

00:44:18.240 a potential hangup on a, uh, arms package for Taiwan. Uh, now I'm not actually to disclose any

00:44:24.480 confidential, but is, is that smart actually in the world we live in today? Isn't shouldn't the Taiwan 1.00

00:44:30.400 arms package take priority over Israel or Ukraine?

00:44:35.360 Well, Taiwan has paid a lot of money to us for weapons. Uh, we have been slow go on delivering

00:44:42.480 weapons to Taiwan. Uh, and that's happened ever since I've been here for the last four or five years.

00:44:47.360 Uh, I don't know why that's happened, but that just, it was caused by the Biden administration.

00:44:51.920 They just drug their feet on it. I think president Trump is up that he understands the significance of

00:44:57.520 what would happen if China went into Taiwan. Uh, but at the end of the day, I have not voted for a dime

00:45:03.200 to go to Ukraine. And I know that Russia is trying to push the narrative here of, of flying these drones

00:45:08.880 over Poland and some of these other countries. But again, I'm gonna go back to my, uh, original thought

00:45:15.120 here. It's, it's about China. It's about China. We can not get our eye off the ball. Uh, that's what 0.88

00:45:21.840 Russia is doing. They're trying to get us to take our off the ball, knowing that China is building up 0.98

00:45:26.080 and we're not going to be able to stay up with them. If we continue to flush money, uh, to Ukraine.

00:45:31.200 I don't think the president's going to give money. I think he went to Europe a couple of weeks ago and

00:45:35.680 said, listen, y'all gonna, y'all gonna have to step up to the plate here and start paying your own

00:45:40.400 way. We can't do it anymore. We've got to build a golden dome. We've got to help, uh, build up our

00:45:45.680 military because we are not near where we used to be. And we've got to make sure that we put America

00:45:50.880 first, especially the American military. Senator, can you hang on for one second?

00:45:56.560 I want to hold you through the break. Uh, got a couple more questions. I particularly want to

00:45:59.680 ask you about the government shutdown and maybe some activity down in the great state of Alabama.

00:46:04.560 Real quickly, have you, with the, with the Alabama being one of the most MAGA states with

00:46:08.880 great Patriots, have you ever gotten any blowback from folks down there about Europe sitting there

00:46:13.760 going, I'm not voting for any of this Ukraine stuff. We've got about 30 seconds.

00:46:17.600 Not one time. Well, not one part of I've been able to been pushed back on him. We've got

00:46:23.120 what six military bases. We've got defense contractors. We have, uh, now we have space command coming back.

00:46:29.600 Uh, I think people understand it. I think people in Alabama understand it more than a lot of people,

00:46:33.920 because we are a military state that, uh, China is the one that we got to, uh,

00:46:38.640 push back on. And we just waste money, Steve. We waste, waste, waste more money.

00:46:43.360 And we can't continue to do that and be the world power that we need to be.

00:46:49.520 Senator Tuberville, hang on for one second. We'll take a short commercial break. Senator

00:46:53.280 Tommy Tuberville, great state of Alabama.

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00:51:36.000 and the team. Senator, midnight tonight, government shut down. The great Russ vote, one of our

00:51:44.380 contributors here for years, has got a plan to say, hey, essential, non-essential, and non-essential,

00:51:51.320 you know, maybe we start having some reductions in forces. Maybe we have mass layoffs. Reuters is

00:51:56.860 reporting and verifying this rumor is going around. I think up to 100,000 federal employees,

00:52:02.120 it looks like according to Reuters, have tendered their resignations because they want to get out

00:52:06.560 on this fiscal year and not wait around until any kind of challenges to whatever they're doing next

00:52:11.500 fiscal year. Your sense of how President Trump has played this, and tell me, do you support Russ

00:52:16.800 votes plan? Oh, 100%. This is a bloated government, Steve. We cannot continue down this same path.

00:52:24.380 We've got way too many people that are in position that have been here too long, and you can't fire

00:52:29.220 them. You know, I don't know how they get in a position where if you don't do your job or you're

00:52:34.200 not adequate or you're not needed anymore, you can just sit there and remain in a role and take the

00:52:41.540 taxpayers' money. You know, I just, I don't believe in that. So this would be a great opportunity if

00:52:47.680 they did shut it down. And again, I'm not for shutting it down. Just to be shutting it down,

00:52:52.420 I think the really big shutdown is going to be the next one. But if they want to shut it down now,

00:52:58.060 they give Russ an opportunity to start combining agencies. Let's put energy with the EPA. 0.68

00:53:05.200 Let's do all kinds of things where we can cut back on this bloated government. The American 0.86

00:53:09.660 taxpayers can't afford this nonsense. And this would be a great time. So please, Chuck Schumer,

00:53:14.960 talk your folks into shutting it down. And let's shut this thing down and start cutting people and

00:53:19.680 sending them and doing other jobs. There's a lot of jobs out there. And so, yeah, again, I think the

00:53:26.640 best time to shut it down would be the next vote, which would be in what, a month, month and a half.

00:53:32.020 But if they want to shut it down now, let's, so be it. You're giving folks inside baseball. I want

00:53:38.160 to just explore for a second. You're saying, Hey, look, this was a CR that goes to the 21st of

00:53:41.820 November, clean CR. And we hate CRs, but clean CR to 21st of November. These guys want to continue

00:53:47.140 to fund illegal alien healthcare and other craziness. So that's not going to happen. But your point is the 0.77

00:53:51.780 next one, when you got to look at, they're going to try to jam an omnibus, your colleagues up there in

00:53:56.420 the Senate. One of the reasons you're leaving and going to run, you're running for governor of

00:54:00.760 Alabama is that you've, you've had enough of the madness up there, but that's going to be the big

00:54:05.260 one, right? When we have to face, because they refuse the legislature up there, the house and

00:54:10.700 the Senate to refuse to make any significant cuts and Russ and the president had to depend upon

00:54:15.540 rescissions and pocket rescissions, but these are symbolically important, but they're kind of on

00:54:20.060 the margin. So that's what you're saying next time in mid November, if we, if we go with this today

00:54:25.480 by 21st of November is going to be the, uh, that's going to be the big fight. Oh, that's going to be

00:54:31.160 the showdown, uh, because they want another trillion dollars there for illegals getting all 0.97

00:54:35.620 kind of, uh, welfare and insurance. And, uh, again, they want to cut back on, on one of the few good

00:54:43.100 things, um, that they even looked at is, is the money now for rural healthcare. But at the end of the

00:54:48.800 day, Steve, they, they want a bloated government. They don't want to do a budget. The American

00:54:53.860 taxpayers deserve a budget. We haven't done one since I've been here in five years. Chuck Schumer,

00:54:58.580 all he wanted to do was these bloated omnibus bills where you put all this stuff in there

00:55:02.860 and we can't afford it. We don't have any money. I don't know where they think they're going to get

00:55:06.420 money. Uh, but this, this place lives on in a, in a, in a, in a fairy fairyland world up here.

00:55:13.000 And if we don't do something like combine agencies, cut people back, put them out in, in, uh, in public

00:55:20.380 life, uh, we're not going to have the world that, uh, or the country that you and I had an

00:55:24.940 opportunity to grow up in. No, you're not going to have the productivity before I let you go. Uh,

00:55:31.320 there's some discussion that, uh, Paul Feinbaum, the, uh, the amazing football analyst down in

00:55:37.520 Alabama that now is a national figures on ESPN. He has said that the Charlie Kirk assassination has

00:55:43.740 moved him so much in the response of the country and particularly the memorial service. He's actually

00:55:48.440 thinking of getting in and running for the United States Senate. Uh, your thoughts are.

00:55:53.540 Yeah, it'd be my seat. And we've had two or three people already running qualifying ends at the end

00:55:59.060 of January. So he's got time to get in. Then it's a five month race till May with where you have the

00:56:04.240 primary. I've known Paul a long time and Paul would is just a commentator that created a division

00:56:10.660 between, uh, uh, fans on both sides of whatever teams he wanted to talk about that day on the radio

00:56:16.660 or TV. And he, he had a dialogue. I'm going to tell you, Paul's smart. Uh, he loves the country.

00:56:22.220 Uh, again, I've been a friend of mine for a long time. I have not talked with him about it. I did

00:56:26.220 an interview with him about 30 minutes, about, uh, two months ago, uh, face to face and it went well,

00:56:32.020 but, uh, uh, you know, I tell you, he's got a hundred percent name ID in Alabama and he'd have a

00:56:37.600 lot of big people behind him. He would be a force in the race if he decided to get into it. But,

00:56:41.740 uh, again, I'm, I'm for people that comes up here that don't want to be in politics. They want to

00:56:46.640 come up and help. And so, uh, I don't support any of them. I don't, there's no reason for me to get

00:56:51.780 involved, but, uh, uh, Paul's a good guy, a good friend. Uh, but your experience was you came up

00:56:59.420 there. And I think the reason that you've been such a big hit here on the war room, you talk very

00:57:03.960 straight. You don't mince words. You're, you, you just tell it like it is. And you've been shocked

00:57:09.480 like this whole thing with the budget. You've been shocked that, that the democratic party and

00:57:13.580 even part of the, the Republican establishment will not address the fundamental needs of the

00:57:18.380 country. One is that we've got to stop printing money. If we don't do that, we're going to destroy

00:57:22.120 this country. And I think you've been shocked about that. Haven't you? Yeah. Quantitative easing,

00:57:26.400 you know, it was, it's been a disaster. Uh, the open borders, the law enforcement, there's no

00:57:31.660 democratic party anymore. It's all a bunch of communists and socialists and they can't tell the

00:57:35.920 truth. They will look you in the face and they'll lie when the truth, they know the truth,

00:57:39.460 who's better, uh, Steve. But, uh, you know, it's, uh, this place is a God awful mess. And that's

00:57:45.580 the reason that president Trump had to get elected. Uh, he had to come in and restore some order to it.

00:57:50.340 Now he's got people fighting him from both sides, from the Senate and Republicans and the house. I mean,

00:57:55.240 in the, in Democrats, uh, they want it their way. They come up here to get reelected instead of doing

00:58:00.280 what they should be doing is make a decision for their state and their country. Um, that's your job,

00:58:06.820 but we don't do that. We've got these people that know better than everybody else. And they fight

00:58:10.600 back against president Trump. And, and, uh, but again, uh, it's, uh, it's better since president

00:58:16.640 Trump's here, but now we've got a chance, please shut this government down and let's start cutting

00:58:21.160 folks. Midnight tonight, Senator Tuberville, social media. Where do people go to follow you,

00:58:26.780 sir? Uh, at Senator Tuberville.

00:58:29.700 Pretty simple. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you coming on. Thanks, Steve. Thank you.

00:58:39.980 Father was at D-Day. Man has a great love for his country and is a great patriot.

00:58:45.420 Short commercial break. We're going to break down Pete Hexeth's talk to the flag officers.

00:58:51.140 Senator Josh Hawley is going to join us also next in the war room.

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Episode 4815： Trump Addresses Military Officers

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