Steve and Eric discuss the latest in the Bolton/Bolling saga, the latest on the hostage situation in Gaza, and a call from the White House about Benny Johnson and his family. Plus, a special call-in from the Oval with President Trump.
00:31:20.160Okay, let's go right to the Oval Office. We're lining up. President of the United States will be out momentarily.
00:31:26.420There you see Dr. Oz and others. We're set to go, and President Trump, they've actually got the podium,
00:31:33.240and we're going to have a little, I think, presentation. The President's going to speak.
00:31:36.480We're going to go after the President in this presentation, and I'm sure the President's going to take a couple of three questions from the media.
00:31:43.540It's been such a huge news day. We are going to go back to New Jersey to the rally.
00:31:49.040So we're going to, how do I say, juggle a few things today.
00:31:54.660Plus, we've got tons of other breaking news and analysis before the President comes out.
00:31:58.440One of the things I didn't get to is that John Bolton, MSNBC, exclusively reported during, I think, right before Nicole Wallace took over this afternoon at 4 o'clock.
00:32:07.800They reported in the late 3 o'clock hour, 4 o'clock, that John Bolton is now, there's been a leak over the Justice Department,
00:32:15.700that DOJ John Bolton is being investigated and looks like will be charged multiple counts of felonies around classified material.
00:32:26.800Very serious. MSNBC was in total and complete meltdown about this. Why?
00:32:32.480Because Bolton, I think, opens up the possibility about how serious the Justice Department is,
00:32:38.380how serious about the national security, how serious they are about classified information,
00:32:42.520and I think that puts people like Brennan and Weissman and, of course, McCabe, all of them, Lisa Monaco, all of these people, very vulnerable.
00:32:51.960Today, it was an absolute, total and complete meltdown.
00:32:59.080Just to give you a little view of the Oval Office, right there, that door, that one of the, and the petty officer,
00:33:08.320one of the chiefs right there is, in fact, I don't know my glass, I think he's the chief.
00:33:12.520That door is, or first class, that door, if I have my bearings straight, that door leads into the, leads into where the dining room is,
00:33:22.700the small dining room where the president conducts a lot of business as he's, as he's viewing events that happen on TV.
00:33:29.060There is, there's the president of the United States, we'll turn it over to the Oval Office.
00:33:31.920It's nice to have you, there's a big announcement, we have a lot of big announcements, there's sort of all big announcements, actually.
00:33:40.260It's wonderful to be in the Oval Office, I think you probably like it the best, you like it the best for press conferences, I sort of do.
00:33:47.660But today I'm excited to announce another historic achievement in our quest to lower drug prices for all Americans.
00:33:55.400You know, prices have come way down, we've gotten prices way down for groceries, for oil especially.
00:40:35.700I talked about this a little yesterday in the Cabinet meeting, but it's worth repeating because it shows this historical achievement as really monumental.
00:40:48.460When I was in my confirmation process, virtually every Democratic senator showed me their preoccupation with making sure that we completed, that I was going to continue to get a commitment from me and continue the IRA drug price negotiations.
00:41:07.360The IRA required the Democrats, while President Biden was in, in the first year of the IRA to negotiate 10 drug prices down.
00:41:18.020And then I was supposed to, in my first year, negotiate 15 and 15 every year thereafter, and that was their plan.
00:41:25.420The Democrats claimed that they had a 22 percent reduction, and that that was a great success.
00:41:30.580When we actually looked at that, when I came into the agency, we realized we were actually paying more for eight of those, eight of the 10 drugs.
00:41:41.300The 22 percent reduction was off of list price.
00:41:45.120And Medicare ended up paying more for eight of the drugs, equal for the ninth, and about a 2 percent discount on the 10th drug.
00:41:54.240So that was the plan, and that's what they did.
00:41:57.240We are continuing the IRA negotiations, but thanks to the president's leadership, we have achieved something extraordinary here, which is a dream that he's had for 20 years because he's the common sense president.
00:42:14.060He learned that we were playing three, four, five, sometimes 10, 10 times for the same drug as they were playing in European countries.
00:42:23.880Some of these drugs were manufactured in facilities in New Jersey and then sold for one-tenth the price in Great Britain in London or Paris that Americans were being charged for them a year.
00:43:48.780That it's critical for its bottom line.
00:43:50.520It's critical for the health of the American people.
00:43:52.300And he asked us also to make sure that those companies would keep their promise to reassure this industry.
00:44:02.040Our national security purposes for our economy, it's critical.
00:44:07.000These companies are making these drugs in the United States.
00:44:10.920We were able to achieve all those things.
00:44:13.180And partially, with the visionary help of Pascal, where is he, of Pascal Sourios, who understood that innovation and the business doesn't work if everybody is not pulling the horse, if everybody doesn't have the skin in the game.
00:44:32.020The whole world was riding on our shoulders and riding on our dime.
00:44:36.440Seventy percent of pharmaceutical revenues comes from this country.
00:44:40.300We only have 4.2 percent of the world's population.
00:44:43.660And we were paying for 80 or 90 percent of the innovation here.
00:44:46.920And the rest of the world was a free rider.
00:44:50.380And Pascal understood that that's not fair.
00:44:53.140And it's not a good, sustainable, long-term business model.
00:45:10.300Not only that, but as the president just pointed out, he is also reassuring this industry here.
00:45:17.660He has 19 facilities already operating in this country.
00:45:22.780He has this other facility in Arbor, Mount Morrill County that Dr. Oz went with Governor Youngkin and broke ground on yesterday.
00:45:31.200He has a second facility that is under construction in Kendall Square in Boston, another facility in Rockville, Maryland, and a fourth facility in Copper, Texas, right outside of Dallas-Fort Worth.
00:45:45.320And he's got plans for building many more in this country, thanks to the president's leadership, to the tariffs, and to the common sense the president has demonstrated in his own commitment to make drug prices lower for hard-working Americans.
00:46:03.000So I want to thank the president for your visionary leadership.
00:46:07.020I want to thank Dr. Oz for his part, and Marty McCary in negotiating this deal.
00:46:13.600Dr. Heidi Overton, Theo Merkel, Chris Klump, and John Brooks, who all played critical parts in the negotiation.
00:46:21.480And, of course, Howard Lutnick, who was the key to these negotiations.
00:47:55.440Bolton's lawyer insists that his client, John Bolton, did nothing improper.
00:47:59.940It is the second instance of targeting a prominent Trump critic in two days and the third in the past two weeks.
00:48:06.580It certainly fuels the perception that Donald Trump is deliberately making his way down a to-do list having to do with his promise of political retribution.
00:48:17.300The reason that we're having this conversation is that presidents are told in normal times,
00:48:25.520and Donald Trump was told this during his first term, that they should not talk about criminal investigations.
00:48:31.880They shouldn't talk about who should be criminally investigated and who committed criminality.
00:48:36.780Because if they do that, it creates a perception that the prosecution is being done at the behest of the president.
00:48:45.420And it raises the question, oh, is this being done for political reasons or is this being done based on the law and the fact?
00:48:52.000Obviously, Donald Trump has not kept his mouth shut about John Bolton.
00:48:55.740So because of that, we cannot sit here as people trying to understand this moment and accept on the face of it that this is being done based on the law and the fact.
00:49:07.760Because the most powerful person in the United States who has picked not only who his attorney general is,
00:49:13.920but it looks like picks, you know, who his line prosecutors are on prosecutions is has been so open about this.
00:49:22.000And during his first term, aides and lawyers told him time and time again,
00:49:26.620don't talk about this because when they really do get one of your enemies, it could potentially undermine it.
00:49:32.740So if he is charged and it does move forward, we will see, first of all, we'll get a sense of what what the evidence is.
00:49:40.360And we will also see what is a question that is is emerged in the Comey case.
00:49:45.000And I'm sure we'll emerge in the James case, most of the Bolton case, which is where is the line on vindictive prosecution?
00:49:52.380So a lot of people that get indicted go to court and they try and file motions and they say,
00:49:57.100I'm being unfairly prosecuted and I'm being persecuted for that.
00:53:35.060I mean, his calendar as National Security Advisor is closely monitored.
00:53:39.620Every meeting is an important meeting.
00:53:41.740It may be a possibility that either his colleagues or his outside consulting firm or whatever were taking opportunities for who was on that calendar to get retained or do consulting work.
00:53:51.680Now, that hasn't been proven, but I hear that's one of the paths that are going down.
00:53:54.720My point, Schmidt just sitting there, they're making this stuff up.
00:54:35.180And the reason they're so freaked out, they're more freaked out about Bolton even than Comey.
00:54:39.080Because they realize on this national security aspect that John Brennan and Lisa Monaco and Andrew McCabe and that whole clapper, that whole crowd is going to get rolled up.
00:54:55.620As soon as the president comes back to the little podium there to take questions, we're going to jump out of the break and go right back to the Oval Office.
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00:58:15.000Okay, we're going to juggle two things.
00:58:16.900It is Friday, 10 September, in the year of our Lord, 2025, one month ago today, the assassination in cold blood of Charlie Kirk, one of the greatest Americans of his generation or any generation, just an extraordinary young man assassinated in cold blood.
00:59:01.360I'm on the seaport pier of Wildwood, New Jersey, and you're seeing something that New Jersey has not seen without Donald Trump in a long, long time.
00:59:12.180You're seeing a rally of patriots that are out here that want to take their state back.
00:59:17.520They're sick of the corruption, and they're sick of these carpetbaggers who come from Virginia, like the candidate that they have, this Obama plant that he's airlifted into New Jersey to try to take their state.
00:59:30.080Jack Cittarelli, he's from real Jersey, and this is a place where you're seeing that fire, the patriots, the real New Jerseyans out here today.
00:59:38.880It's a blustery day here up on the seaport pier in North Wildwood.
01:00:22.960And two, can you guys deliver the same type of kind of breathtaking victory that President Trump had in November 24 in a couple of weeks in New Jersey?
01:00:30.900Well, Steve, let me tell you, if there's a team that's going to do it, it's the team from Pennsylvania from 2024.
01:00:39.460We were able to show how to deliver that by activating key demographic groups.
01:00:44.040The working class, going directly to them, asking them for their votes, going to Catholics, going to traditional Christians, people who understand the problems that have gone on, the problems of Trenton, the problems of Washington, D.C.
01:00:57.080They don't want New Jersey to become the next Virginia.
01:00:59.940And I'll tell you what's happening in New Jersey.
01:01:01.900Go and look at the county shift map from 2024.
01:01:04.760100% of the counties of New Jersey in 2024 shifted right, shifted red.
01:01:15.920And Pennsylvania is the next Ohio because of Donald Trump.
01:01:19.180And Steve, we're seeing that activation, that same activation of low propensity voters, of the working class that we saw in 2024 in Pennsylvania, now happening in New Jersey.
01:01:32.320And with this team that understands, and keep in mind, we've got Cliff Maloney, but we're also working with Turning Point Action as a partner, talking to Tyler Boyer, using that same algorithmic method that Tyler put together for 2024 to be able to work that magic again.
01:01:47.100We know exactly who to target, turning out these low propensity voters to be able to make sure that they are the margin of victory come this November.
01:01:56.760Jack, I need to take a minute and talk about Pennsylvania for a second.
01:01:59.640In 2016, when we won, I think we won Ohio by a couple of points, but it was kind of hanging in the balance right to the end.
01:02:05.800In 2024, I think we won Ohio by 10 points.
01:02:10.360When you say Pennsylvania is the new Ohio, and I think we won by 120,000 votes this time, what was it that you and Pressler and Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA, what was actually the work that you guys did to turn Pennsylvania into the new Ohio?
01:02:25.860Well, Steve, it's what we were doing was being able to spread the fact that Donald Trump's message was the message for the working class.
01:02:39.000Pennsylvania is a Rust Belt state, but in many ways, the entire Northeast has those Rust Belt voters, and New Jersey does as well.
01:02:46.440The working class voters of these areas, the farmers of New Jersey, by the way, people don't even understand, so much of South Jersey, Central Jersey actually is farmland.
01:02:56.220The blueberries of New Jersey people might know about.
01:02:58.900These are areas where you've got people that are natural Republican constituents, but Steve, they were totally checked out of the party.
01:03:05.920The party of Paul Ryan, the party of Mitt Romney, the party of John McCain, they were sick of the wars, they were sick of the corporate handouts, they were sick of all of it, and they saw all the financial corruption with John Corzine when he was airlifted in from Goldman Sachs.
01:03:20.120What they wanted was a state and a government that would work for them, that would deliver those jobs, that would deliver freedom from crime, that would liberate them from illegal aliens, by the way.
01:03:31.360And, Steve, New Jersey is one of the highest states per capita for illegal aliens, and it's nowhere near the border.
01:03:37.980It's because they've made the entire state a sanctuary state, and to activate those voters that could come out on that issue and so many of these other issues, Steve, the issue of housing, obviously, being a huge issue with this huge influx of people that should not be in this state, that is how New Jersey can be flipped the same way Pennsylvania was.
01:03:56.140Jack, you're going to speak, we're going to come back to the stage, we're going to interview you also, you're going to tell us more about the two candidates, we've got to go to the Oval Office, your Commander-in-Chief and President of the United States has taken the podium again.
01:04:07.440Let's go back to the Oval, get back to Jack Posobiec in a moment.
01:04:09.960I've done that a lot, so it's really, it's going to be incredible, and that's going to be so good for Medicaid and Medicare, and everything, frankly, for your life, it's going to be so good.
01:04:19.740So nobody ever thought they were going to see, and don't let Democrats take the credit, because, you know, they'll try, they'll say, oh, we worked so hard on it, they didn't work hard, they did, they obstructed, they actually did the opposite.
01:04:31.140So that's really more important than even the tremendous investments being made in our country, but think of it, we cracked 18 trillion, with a T, trillion dollars, and, frankly, one trillion for four years wasn't that bad.
01:04:46.980He did less than a trillion, but we did that in a period of eight months, so it's pretty record-shattering by many trillions of dollars.
01:04:55.840Any country, no matter what country you're talking about, nobody's done numbers like that, so thank you all for being here.
01:05:01.240Do you want to have a couple of questions? Yeah, please.
01:05:04.080One on this, if I could, and one on China, if I may.
01:05:07.020First on this, could you have brought these pharmaceutical companies to the table without that 100% tariff that you imposed?
01:05:13.700Well, it's not 100%. You're talking about China might be 100%.
01:05:16.300No, I'm talking about the 100% you imposed on pharmaceuticals for that section.
01:05:19.300I would never have been able to bring them. Now, I'm not sure that Pascal would like to say, but behind the scenes, he did say,
01:05:25.180tariffs were a big reason he came here, and also the fact he loved Virginia. He liked this guy. He liked me.
01:05:31.640I think the November 5th election was a very important date. We had a good election, and that was important.
01:05:38.120But, yeah, he's here. A lot of, I can speak for almost everybody that's here. Most of them are here because of tariffs,
01:05:45.000because you have to understand, he has no tariffs. If you build in this country, there are no tariffs.
01:05:50.280I'm going to ask you about China, if I could. I just want to confirm, have you canceled your meeting with President Xi?
01:05:56.740No, I haven't canceled, but I don't know that we're going to have it, but I'm going to be there regardless,
01:06:01.120so I would assume we might have it. But, you know, they hit the world with something that really is not anything that people are going to do.
01:06:10.260And it's, it was shocking. I can tell you, Howard and I and Todd, we all, we all, Scott, we were all speaking about it before.
01:06:19.820And it was, we said, where did that come from? It was just, that was out of the blue, right?
01:06:25.680Out of the blue, they came up with this whole import-export concept, and nobody, nobody knew anything about it.
01:06:34.320So if they roll back their export controls, the new announcement, would you roll back?
01:06:38.640Yeah, yeah, look, we're going to have to see what happens. That's why I made it November 1st. We'll see what, what happens, yeah.
01:06:43.740Mr. President, Mr. President, go ahead, please.
01:06:46.080What else besides software could be on the table in terms of export controls?
01:06:49.920Oh, a lot more, a lot more. I mean, you have, you have a lot more.
01:06:54.420We have airplanes, we have airplane parts. You remember that from last time?
01:06:58.360And we were just surprised at China. I have a very good relationship with President Xi, and they did that.
01:07:03.320This is not something that I, you know, instigated. This was just a response to something that they did.
01:07:09.680And they didn't really aim it at us. They aimed it at the whole world. The whole world is, is subject to it.
01:07:17.280So I thought it was very, very bad. But we have many things, including a big thing is aeroplane.
01:07:21.620They have a lot of Boeing planes, and they need parts, and lots of things like that. Steve?
01:07:25.820How did you persuade the Israeli Prime Minister to accept the Gaza deal, and what will be your message to the Knesset when you speak to them?
01:07:34.600Well, he wanted it, you know. It's been a long time. He's been fighting a long time. He's been fighting hard. He wanted it.
01:07:40.680It's a great deal for Israel, but it's a great deal for everybody, for Arabs, for Muslims, for everybody, for the world.
01:07:47.820And as you know, on Monday, the hostages come back. They're getting them now. I mean, they're getting them now.
01:07:54.120They're in some pretty rough places under Earth. They're in some pretty rough places where only a few people know where they are, in some cases.
01:08:03.760So they're getting them, and they're also getting the bodies, approximately 28 bodies.
01:08:11.180And some of those bodies are being unearthed right now as we speak. I mean, they're working on it right now as we speak.
01:08:19.400It's a tragedy. It's a tragedy. No, he was very happy with it.
01:08:23.840And I can tell you that I saw Israel dancing in the streets, but they were dancing in Qatar and Saudi Arabia and UAE and many, many countries.
01:08:32.900I saw Egypt. They were dancing. I'll be going to Israel. I'll be speaking at the Knesset, I think, early on.
01:08:42.220And then I'm also going to Egypt. They were terrific. But all of the countries are great. Indonesia was great. Jordan was great.
01:08:50.000They were all great. Everybody, everybody wants this deal to happen.
01:08:54.680What happens in Gaza the day after the hostage release?
01:10:58.420Mr. President, Mr. President. Go ahead, please, in the back.
01:11:00.560Thank you. And what guarantee did you give Hamas to persuade them that Israel will restart the bombing campaign once the hostages have been exchanged?
01:11:08.360What did I do with respect to them? Well, you know, I spoke a little bit tough.
01:11:12.020And that's what would happen. I mean, you have to speak tough.
01:11:15.760It's that's a tough world. That's a tough, as they say, neighborhood.
01:11:19.900And they're tough people. They're very tough people.
01:11:22.660They're smart people that good negotiators.
01:11:26.660You know, things going. They put that to good use.
01:11:29.920They're going to be very, very successful.
01:11:31.220But they knew the retribution would be tremendous, unsustainable.
01:16:22.880As of this two days ago, I would have said seven, which I did say.
01:16:25.660But the other one was signed up, sealed.
01:16:28.520As you know, Israel signed it just now.
01:16:32.240They signed it, and they approved it today, their parliament.
01:16:35.040And it's a great honor to be involved with so many.
01:16:38.760So the person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today called me and said, I'm accepting this in honor of you because you really deserved it.
01:17:05.100And you could also say it was given out for 24, and I was running for office in 24, you know, all of the transactions that we did in terms of closing.
01:17:15.400But there are those that say we did so much that they should have done it.
01:17:20.500But I don't take – I'm happy because I saved millions of lives, many millions of lives.
01:17:25.840And speaking of somebody that saves lives, don't ever play golf with them because Keegan Bradley just walked in, one of the greatest golfers in the world, the captain of the Ryder Cup.
01:17:34.900And, man, I'll tell you, you did a good job.
01:25:43.800Two of the biggest things I'm just putting up now, the lead story in the Daily Mail.
01:25:47.820The Chinese Communist Party, let's be blunt, double-crossed the president of the United States.
01:25:51.940This is dealing with rare earths and particularly magnets, these things that are essential to industrial production.
01:26:00.680The president put out a true social earlier.
01:26:04.140They've caught the Chinese Communist Party doing what?
01:26:06.500Being what the Chinese Communist Party always is.
01:26:09.060Which is a bunch of double-dealing thugs.
01:26:11.440They've sent other countries of the world trying to restrict, excuse me, trying to restrict sending rare earths to the United States.
01:26:20.380Also trying to mess with the United States tariffs.
01:26:22.180Anyway, the intelligence and the Commerce Department, the Treasury Department, has caught the Chinese Communist Party really trying to undercut the United States of America.
01:26:29.280And President Trump put out a true social.
01:26:31.600I think he's adding 100% tariff to Chinese goods.
01:26:36.980And he was pretty brutal in the tariff situation.
01:26:40.960Stock market took a big hit at the end of the day.
01:26:42.900As you imagine, equities are very nervous about what's going on.
01:26:45.180I think it's leading is what we've always said.
01:26:47.620Remember, I pride myself on being the leader of the anti-CCP movement here in the United States of America, along with Lao Baijing and the new federal state of China.
01:26:56.500And, you know, the Committee on the Present Dangerous.
01:31:57.640I want everyone to know that's watching.
01:32:00.720To anyone that thinks that New Jersey is a blue state or that you couldn't possibly win.
01:32:05.680In 2021, that election was decided by 84,000 votes.
01:32:13.960I want every person in this state to know, you count, you matter, and this is the year that we are going to take the governor's mansion and send Jack Chattarelli!
01:33:42.100And on October 25th is the first day of early in person voting.
01:33:45.620I ask you, vote in overwhelming numbers.
01:33:49.960We are going to beat the cheap by making this election too big to rig, like we did last year in 2024.
01:33:55.640And if there is a Mikey cheating scandal, Cheryl spy in the audience, number one, make me look cute.
01:34:07.640Number two, I want you to know you cannot stop what is coming because the people of New Jersey are rising up and we are going to shock the nation.
01:34:15.200We are going to make history Tuesday, November 4th.
01:38:54.160I got to tell you, though, the most fun I had was back in Dover.
01:39:01.940The day we had that rally when the Democratic mayor walked in at the cafe restaurant, a woman walked in, not realizing just what the hell she walked into, a Chattarelli for governor rally.
01:39:10.660And she came over to me kind of defiantly, and she said, I want you to know something.
01:39:15.040Mikey Sherrill is my congresswoman, and I really like the job that she's doing representing me in Washington, D.C.
01:39:21.760You vote for me, I'll make sure she stays your congresswoman.
01:39:30.280There was a pregnant pause, and then she looked up at me and said, I think I might like you.
01:39:34.300I said, that's what this is all about, because the more you see in here, Mikey, the less you're going to like.
01:39:41.560We're going to expect the next, do the, what we're going to do over the next 24 days, what we've been doing every day since June 11th, telling the people in New Jersey who Mikey Sherrill really is.
01:39:51.000She wants you to think she's a Jersey girl.
01:40:35.500Somebody who supports sanctuary cities, us being a sanctuary state.
01:40:40.220Somebody who broke federal law for stock trades and stock reporting and can't explain how her net worth has increased by $7 million in the six years she's been in Congress.
01:40:50.160This is somebody who voted no on the big, beautiful bill.