Episode 4906： Basic Fundamentals Of Driving An Economy; Redfields Warning
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In this special bonus episode, we recap the results of the mid-term elections and talk about what we can learn from them and what we should be focusing on for the 2020 mid-terms. We also talk about why the midterms are a referendum on the left and the right.
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turnout affair. I mean, it wasn't a low turnout affair in New Jersey or New York or Virginia,
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and it wasn't a low turnout affair in California either. And so this was not a situation in which
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you had very few people voting and you just had quirky things happen. This was, as you say,
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an energized electorate that made a decision that they had had enough and that they were
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going to stand up for democracy in California. It's not just that it was high turnout for what
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you call a process, but think about it. If I had told you a year ago that there would be a ballot
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initiative in California to undo a nonpartisan commission map and put in place a partisan map,
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you would have told me I was crazy. If I had also told you that in Virginia, the way in which
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Democrats would rescue, frankly, one of their more difficult candidates for attorney general
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would be by pivoting towards the promise of redrawing maps, that that would energize and
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galvanize electorate and flip, you know, 13 statehouse seats along the way, you would have
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said I was crazy. And finally, you know, Chris, in Maine, you know, how many times have you and I
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been lectured by Republicans about how popular voter ID is? Well, voter ID was on the ballot in Maine
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and it got smoked. I mean, it lost by 20 points in Maine, which, as you know, is a kind of purple
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state. So there was a lot of democracy on the ballot last night and democracy won.
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Our governor's moving out of their mansions in Virginia. I actually, I had a call with
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Steve Bannon last night and interviewing him for the newsletter to see what his take was.
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The tea. And he, you know, his take is sort of like Karl Rove's take and Newt Gingrich's take,
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which which is we got a lot of work to do. Democrats figured out how to run on affordability.
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Democrats figured out how to win on on populist issues. And we were running traditional campaigns
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straight out of 1990, you know, old Republican style campaigns, which is we're going to cut taxes
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and we're going to fight against the state government. And what Bannon said about Spanberger
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and Cheryl was they went straight to people's pocketbooks. They went straight to their dinner
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tables and they talked about affordability. They talked about higher electric bills.
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And he said that's why it wasn't even a close fight. And he thinks that this election and the
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Democrats sort of adapting and adjusting and whether it's in New York or Virginia,
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or up in New Jersey, he says it's going to be, you know, the future is going to be right wing
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populism versus left wing populism. And Democrats, he thinks, have a lot of reasons to, you know,
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Look, Donald Trump's big lies have not gone away. And election annihilism is still in full force in the
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Republican Party. And unfortunately, we're going to see it in the 2026 midterm elections. I think Donald
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Trump and by the way, in the lead up to this election, remember Donald Trump over the
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weekend said that there was already massive fraud in California. And, you know, he already and the
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White House already said that they needed to clamp down and pass new executive orders as before the
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results even came in. I think this morning, Donald Trump woke up and had a choice. He could either
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claim that, you know, 17 point defeats were actually the results of fraud, or he could just blame
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everyone else. And he went with blame everyone else. So I don't think that he's going to be able to do
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that in 2026 when it's Congress that's on the line, when it's curbing his power as much as he
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likes to have Republicans in positions of power in governorships. It's not crucial to his power in
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the same way it is with Congress. So I expect we will see the full bag of tricks back for 2026.
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I think a week from Friday is the last day before we move over to the palace, which I visited yesterday
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and it's very nice to be a nice move for us. But yeah, you're you're absolutely right. We talked
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about this yesterday and it sounds like Steve Bannon understands this well, which is staying
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away for Democrats from all of these social issues that dogged them a year ago and have dogged them
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for the last couple of years and just saying, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's talk about what's really
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important. The fact that you can't afford to buy groceries, that you can't buy a house until you're 40
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years old in this country, all the things that are so true in this country right now. And so Abigail
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Spanberger, Mikey Sherrill, Mom Donnie in New York City, are those skills, are those messages
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transferable? Democrats seem to think so now as they move ahead a year from now to the midterm elections.
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You mentioned, Joe, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich. He too is warning Republicans
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they have a major problem now after Tuesday's election results. In an interview at the New York
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Times, Gingrich said he believes President Trump is right about his absence on the campaign trail,
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meaning voters stayed home, a challenge Gingrich says the party has to confront.
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Gingrich told the Times, quote, Republicans need to confront that we had a bad night and that it
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didn't have to be a bad night. You can't just shrug your shoulders and say, gee, if only we could
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run Donald Trump every time because you can't do it. When you talk about 26 and 28, Republicans have
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to find a way to motivate the base Trump voter to come out and vote. The role of the church is to
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preach the gospel. And just a couple of days ago, we heard Matthew's gospel, chapter 25, which says
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Jesus is very clearly at the end of the world. We're going to be asked, you know, how did you receive
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the foreigner? Did you receive him and welcome him or not? And I think that there's a deep reflection
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that needs to be made in terms of what's happening. Many people who've lived for years and years and
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years never causing problems have been deeply affected by what's going on right now. The spiritual
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rights of people who have been detained should also be considered. And I would certainly invite
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the authorities to allow pastoral workers to attend to the needs of those people. Many times they've
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been separated from their families for a good amount of time. No one knows what's happening,
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but their own spiritual needs should be attended to. I have noticed over the past week or so,
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um, the Pope, uh, the American Pope speaking out repeatedly about the importance of Catholics,
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if they are good Catholics to go out and to welcome the foreigner, uh, you know, he's citing the good
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Samaritan verse versus in Luke. Jesus is explaining who your neighbor is. Uh, the Pope says we will be
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judged by how we welcome foreigners. And you have now the archbishops, uh, in Chicago, when Washington
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across the country, delivering powerful messages, the Pope even at one point suggesting it's hard to
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call yourself pro-life. If you support such horrific treatment of those who are alive, our neighbors,
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as Jesus would say, our neighbors, the foreigner, that's what Jesus said. So if you have a problem
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with that, don't even take it up with the Pope. If you're claiming to be a Christian, take it up with
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Jesus because that's what he says. And so, yes, this is, as we see the church get more and more involved
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in the protecting of the dignity of human beings, of God's children. You are going to see this become
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a more difficult political issue. Yes. Even for Republicans who've turned a blind eye to everything
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that Jesus said in the new Testament about, uh, about, uh, welcoming foreigners, uh, being kind
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to the least among us. It's just, it's just, again, it's, this is something the Pope has started
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talking about something. He's not going to stop talking about.
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This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on
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this people. I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people, the people have had a belly
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full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you've tried to do everything in the world
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to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like
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that go to share the big line? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people
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had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my
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country, this country will be saved. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
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Thursday, 6th, November, Eurovary 2025. A president is going to come on at 11 tentatively from the Oval
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Office. Um, I don't know what that's about. I assume it's going to hear maybe something about
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drug pricing, some moves President Trump is making, obviously, to, um, uh, with this agenda
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he's got, um, to, um, make people's lives better, at least make the economy hum more,
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and then people can figure out what they're going to do with their own lives. He's not
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there to control it. Um, I got up on Getter right now. This is why Getter's free. So if
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you want to go and see all of my brilliant early morning thinking, it's not simply affordability.
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What I was trying to say is it's affordability is part of the issue. This way we've had Dave
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Walsh on for so many years talking about the key for affordability and driving costs down
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is a full spectrum energy dominance, right? And President Trump's getting it. That's when
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he responds, Hey, costs, you know, things are coming down because energy costs are coming
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down. Obviously, uh, other issues of affordability have to be, um, uh, attacked and you're going
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to see with the situation because tariffs are not, there's no demonstrable evidence
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at all that tariffs are driving up, uh, prices. Tariffs are adding to revenue coming into the
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treasury because remember, if you can actually show that prices are rising because of tariffs,
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they would be, you know, browbeating you every day. Now the Supreme Court and let's be blunt
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yesterday, I don't think it was a great day for the home team in making the argument. It seemed
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pretty skeptical. Now oral arguments are just oral arguments. The briefings themselves were,
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were very impressive. That's why I had David Lynch and David Lynch is not MAGA. He's the
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first to admit that David Lynch, you know, from the, the world's worst bet, but Lynch who
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starts off as a globalist talks about, Hey, the bunch of stuff they believed under the Clinton
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and Bush years, particularly Clinton just turned out to be fundamentally wrong. And, you know,
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either say they lied to people or misrepresented about what was going to happen to the American
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worker, the world's worst bet, how the globalization gamble, gamble went wrong. And, uh, what do you
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can do to make it right? Anyway, it's a book that you ought to try to get. He said yesterday that,
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and this is why I want to make all the, uh, filings available to you. He said, when you read the
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briefings, it's much more impressive than the oral argument. And he actually came from,
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I think this thing could potentially get blown out by the Supreme court to, Hey, it's a 50 50 coin
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toss. So that gets back to not just affordability, but the other part of affordability. You cannot
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just focus maniacally on affordability alone and everybody's jumping in. It's two twofold. It's jobs
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and affordability jobs and affordability. Uh, we made a bet. The Trump administration made a bet
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and, um, and, and the house and the Senate went along with it. We disagreed with a big part of
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this. This was the big, beautiful bill, the big, beautiful bill. Scott Besson has said on the show
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for a year before he became secretary of treasury on this very show that this was the last time,
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last chance to have a supply side tax cut. What supply side tax cut focuses on the means of
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production, the capital investment you need in factory plant equipment, capital equipment,
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to drive an economy. Uh, the basic fundamentals, the big, beautiful bill was to do that.
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Also the tariffs simultaneously was to say on the golden door, the golden door, you're either
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going to pay a premium to get into this market, the best market in the world, or you're going to
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shift your manufacturing over here. That the combination of a tax cut and particularly the
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ability to write everything off in the first year, right? As a, as a real tax shield will, uh, will drive
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capital investment and you will get other capital investment from those companies that, uh, that want
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to avoid the tariffs and come here. That's the bet folks. We have to keep that in mind. Now the question
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We love Scott Besson. Scott keeps saying, Hey, wall street's going to win out and main street's
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going to win out. We need to see the data. And cause I don't know, I think the fourth quarter
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numbers could be a little, uh, could potentially be a little weak, particularly the top line. Now
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remember the, what I didn't agree with the big, beautiful bill, and it was on here banging away
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and talking to people behind the scenes, nonstop was about taxes that for the upper bracket,
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you should have a snapback or at a million dollars, create a new bracket at a million bucks.
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And they get, they get charged 40%. The argument against that and the argument they're making
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about the mass deportation is those, Oh my gosh, you're going to, you're going to affect top
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line GDP growth that the top 1%, 5%, 10%, whatever you want drive so much consumer spending and
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the illegal alien invaders. Cause there's so many of them. And I don't know, 15 or 20 million
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just on Biden's watch. They spend every penny they get either from government programs, charity,
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or the work that they take away from American citizens. They spend it all when they have to,
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because obviously they're not making a ton of money. Those two elements, that's the economy
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you got folks. Plus the massive Keynesian infusion. This is the kind of structural issues
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the United States faces. Now the question is, are those factories really coming back? Is the 19
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movement. Okay, welcome back. So keep the equation in your head. This is the equation they don't want
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you to know and understand, right? Wall Street doesn't want to know it, the deep state, the
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apparatus. They don't want the American people to actually understand things. This is kind of like
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the French Revolution. Remember when the finance minister came because they had to bring all the
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estates together to raise taxes because they had helped in the war against the United Kingdom.
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They had helped partly, they'd helped finance, actually more than partly, they'd helped finance
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their mortal enemy, the British, fighting their colonists in the United States. Their financing
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of the, that's why it's all indestructibly linked from the American Revolution to the French Revolution,
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is that that's one of the ways that France went bankrupt. They actually went bankrupt on a bad,
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bad, bad economic model that the aristocracy just sucked it out of the people. But what triggered
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it was paying the bonds, paying the debt that they financed for the American Revolution. And when they,
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when they published the, and the finance minister said, hey, here's one way we do it. We get the people
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on our side, we just publish, in a broadsheet, we just publish the numbers. We publish the math. And so when
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the people see that, they'll say, yes, we have to tax the church, and we have to, and we tax ourselves,
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give us more taxes, because we'll help the crown. It didn't work out like that. When they publish it,
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people looked around and go, these guys are living up in Versailles, they're living like, you know,
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they're living like heavenly beings, and we're in the sewers of Paris eating rats. Maybe it's time to
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make amends. Kind of the beginning kicked off all the revolutionary period all the way through today.
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But it's important that you understand. It's important that you understand. Because all this
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talk and all that, you know, it didn't turn out, etc. You led in the years in the wilderness,
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it was on your shoulders that the entire thing rested. And President Trump made the most heroic
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decision ever, with full moral clarity, to return, like Cincinnati's from the plow, to return
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back to the political battlefield, understanding that they would bankrupt him, destroy his family,
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put him in prison, and eventually try to assassinate him. All of it. And you put him on your shoulders
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and drove to an amazing victory. To do what? To get lower information, lower propensity voters,
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which is kind of the holy grail of modern politics, as shown by Obama, and shown by Trump,
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and shown by now Zoron, or Zoron, that this is the key to victory. And they did have huge turnouts.
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And this is an alert. And we just can't sit there and go, oh, it's idiotic. This is blue states. No,
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forget that. And God loves Scott Pressler. We're doing a book with Scott Pressler.
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I think Scott Pressler is amazing. But there's no apparatus around Scott Pressler. Scott Pressler is
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going around knocking on guys' car windows. It's fantastic. And it's motivating. And he's a great
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man in driving this. But it's so much more than that. And part of it is to make sure exactly,
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before you have a plan you can execute on exactly what are we trying to accomplish or what are we
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trying to do? What are we trying to do? And a big part of this is growth in the, we made a bet,
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the big, beautiful bill. We made a bet. And I said at the time, you're going to live or die on this bet.
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Because these are the type of structural things. Once you do, you can't be swerving off them.
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You got to have that absolute conviction. We made the right decision and we're just going to drive
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it forward. But you have to execute on it. The president of the United States can only do so
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much from the oval. He can set the strategy. He can set the tone. He can set the messaging.
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But he's busy trying to end the third world war and trying to secure the border and get the
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insurrection out that's in our cities and one million other things and cut these deals and meet
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people and shake hands and say, yes, you want to be, yes, come do this, build this and come up with
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this incredible strategy on redoing the world's commercial relationships. That's what yesterday
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was. And if we get a chance, I'll figure it out. I want to play the whole three, three hours and
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maybe get Navarro somebody into commentary. It was a great civics lesson for you and your kids
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on an enormously complicated issue about the world's trading system and the world's commercial system
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and how it's screwed American workers by not the second law of thermodynamics, which kind of David
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Lynch and still guys believe that this inexorable move of globalization, it doesn't have to be like
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that. It doesn't have to be like that. We believe that as like a medieval theology for 30 or 40 years
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and led to the, um, the gutting of the, of the industrial power of the United States.
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That's what president Trump's trying to bring back. That is a key part. So growth is based upon a
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couple of things. One is the capital investment made possible by the big, beautiful bill.
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In addition, and this is the addiction we have, you have to just understand that we are addicted to
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federal Keynesian, a Keynesian infusion. There is no understanding of economics that says with where
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we are in employment and where we are with inflation that you continue to basically turbocharge
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by these massive deficits. That is the seven trillion dollars of spending with the five
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trillion dollars that we take in that two trillion dollar essential gap. And some of that's being cut
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by terrorists, but that's still there. And no spending has not been cut little, virtually at all.
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Doge didn't do it. That was all phony. Um, Russ Vogt is attempting to do it. But when we talk about
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rescission package, you're talking about $5 billion here, $3 billion, mainly symbolic to show that
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President Trump's Article II powers, he has the ability that the appropriations bill, which is a
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law, is a ceiling, not a floor. Until you get, as we've preached on this show for years, until you
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get the control of the spending and the gap, the financing of that, because basically a third of
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that has to be rolled over and financed, you're going to continue in inflation because you're financing
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it at higher rates. As good a job as Scott Bess and these guys have done in the bond market.
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But it's affordability and growth. It doesn't matter if things get down under 2% and are affordable
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if you ain't got a job. And right now the stats are coming out of kids that went to colleges and
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particularly named colleges. I think I saw something the other day, 30% of graduates are getting jobs in
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and what they've dedicated their lives in college and other places to learn.
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Graduates coming out, people under 35 are not, no way they're getting the jobs. And you can see
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all over, as much as corporate America is trying to hide it, that most of these job cuts are coming
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from artificial intelligence. The jobs apocalypse has kind of started.
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And that gets me to a topic, and we're going to explore this more, is that, you know, NVIDIA,
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Jensen Wang, you know, I said he's an agent of influence of the Chinese Communist Party, full stop.
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Full stop. He may be worse than that, but he's at least that. Yesterday he comes out, China will win
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the AI race. China will win the AI race. Now, why was that? Because, oh my gosh, he's throwing his toys
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at the pram because we restricted him on selling the top chips to China. What did I say when I signed
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that proclamation on artificial intelligence, that scientists had to have an agreement among the top
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technology and scientists, and you had to have then a buy-off by the American people? I said the central
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part of that is we can stop, because all they're saying, oh no, we're falling behind China, we're
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going to fall behind China. We'll cut them off. Not just of these chips, cut them off of capital,
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cut them off of education over here, cut them off of training at these companies. All of them go home.
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Look, and many of these are the sons and daughters allowed by Jing, but this is just a, the Chinese
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Communist Party has weaponized you. And yes, under no circumstances can we allow the Chinese Communist
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Party to get a lead in AI? And Jensen Wang sitting there going, well, it's not, at first, it was not,
00:25:40.180
well, it's not a problem if their companies do it. Hey, just as long as everybody's got my chips.
00:25:46.020
So he even walked it back last night. Well, I didn't really mean that. I mean, you know,
00:25:49.440
it's something else. No, dude, we get the joke of what you're doing. And right now, this whole kind
00:25:54.680
of bubble in capital markets, and I showed you the other day where they're now going to go into the,
00:25:59.540
I'll pull this up from Saturday's Financial Times of London, and I will get that maybe for the next
00:26:05.660
block or thereafter. They've said about going into debt markets, $200 billion. Now the AI companies
00:26:10.820
whose stocks are at all time high, Jensen Wang's at $5 trillion. They're now going to go $200 billion.
00:26:17.400
What are they doing? What has Dave Walsh been on here talking to you about? Data centers. Why are
00:26:23.080
electric bills going to go up? One, because all the crap from climate change and all the non-sustainable
00:26:30.960
solar power, wind power, all these fantasies are now coming home to roost. But yesterday, baby,
00:26:39.000
they went for it. The chief financial officer of OpenAI, and OpenAI is getting ready for their IPO,
00:26:46.360
initial public offering. And this thing's going to have, I don't know, a trillion or $2 trillion value
00:26:52.440
out of the gate. These guys are all become, the Frontier Lab companies, they're all the richest
00:26:59.040
guys in the world. Jensen Wang at $5 trillion market cap, richest, most powerful guy in the world.
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The chief financial officer of the company, in her opening statement, says, you know,
00:27:10.640
we really need a government. What would make things easier for us is a government guarantee. Whoa,
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Thank you. I'm so honored to finally have you in here, sir.
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First off, and the president's going to be in the Oval Office, I think, at 11.
00:30:15.120
Obviously, we're going to cut to that, as we always do.
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Before I get to the warning, why you're a hero to so many people.
00:30:23.500
And Bobby Kennedy's such a hero to so many people.
00:30:25.580
Why is it like Batman and Robin, you playing Robin.
00:30:29.700
Why are you not the wingman right now for Bobby Kennedy in the government?
00:30:35.860
You know, I'm trying to help Kennedy as much as I can.
00:30:38.500
I've said it publicly many times that I think he'll be the most consequential health secretary
00:30:44.440
And I do spend a lot of energy trying to, you know.
00:30:51.200
You said that most of your guys have been around a long time.
00:30:58.060
Why do you think Bobby Kennedy, who has literally no background in this except a passion for studying
00:31:05.100
this and becoming, you know, we had the real Anthony Fauci, which, you know, I told you,
00:31:09.740
read like the phone book but sold like a million and a half copies.
00:31:13.500
Why is Bobby Kennedy, who's the first guy that didn't really come from this area, kind
00:31:17.920
of came as an interested, you know, the British used to say, interested amateur, why will
00:31:22.080
he be the most consequential director of HHS, cabinet secretary of HHS in the country's
00:31:28.460
Well, I think first and foremost because he's an open thinker.
00:31:31.300
He's willing to step back and look at the situation.
00:31:34.060
As you mentioned, he's passionate about improving health of the American public.
00:31:37.720
And he's really articulated, I think, as well as anyone, that America is an unhealthy nation.
00:31:44.640
When I worked for President Trump, you know, the reality is people ask why we lost so many
00:31:49.840
people from COVID when countries like Taiwan lost so few.
00:31:59.100
You know, we have probably 50%, 40%, 50% of the nation has a significant chronic disease.
00:32:09.740
And he started to go after some of the, you know, some of the reasons that that's happening.
00:32:14.620
When I was CDC director, I wanted to go have the cereal industry work with me.
00:32:18.680
And I wanted the beverage industry to work with me.
00:32:25.440
Are they driving, are the snack foods and half of what the EBIT cards go for and the sodas and everything?
00:32:32.320
Is corporate America, because you have a lot of good people working in corporate America.
00:32:37.640
A lot of people coach Little League and, you know, build the churches and are kind of that civic society.
00:32:42.640
In their professional capacities, do these companies know that what they're selling is harmful to people's health?
00:32:51.120
Well, and yet it's just, it's how they make money.
00:32:54.400
And trying to break through that, I can tell you, you know, I'm a pretty aggressive guy.
00:33:03.700
He's really gotten the corporations to sit down and talk to them about processed foods.
00:33:11.140
Do you know, Steve, we spent $10 billion last year.
00:33:15.780
So our kids in K through 12 can have sodas at the lunch program.
00:33:29.240
So I think Kennedy's, he's willing to take it on.
00:33:32.600
And, you know, maybe it's his legal background.
00:33:35.660
I think he's been very effective in bringing people to the table.
00:33:41.120
I think Kennedy doesn't get a fair shot with the media.
00:33:45.740
He said, you know, he said on more than one occasion, he's never had a good story written about him.
00:33:52.900
The media is supposed to be so progressive and so empathetic.
00:33:56.200
Why on this most central issue we have, the health of the nation, why did they go after a guy like, and Bobby Kennedy's got, he's got a few warts, right?
00:34:09.320
But why do they seem to target Bobby Kennedy time after time after time?
00:34:13.820
You know, I think, I don't know the total answer.
00:34:18.100
We were talking about it because, you know, I'm a big Kennedy fan.
00:34:21.580
And I think part of the problem is they think he's a traitor.
00:34:27.060
Being, having been a liberal and a progressive.
00:34:29.100
And now he turned over to work with Trump and help get Trump elected.
00:34:32.100
And the Maha movement is kind of hard welded to the MAGA movement.
00:34:38.620
I mean, Trump needed to get a, you know, suburban housewives and everything, you know, on his side.
00:34:45.620
Part of this thing you saw on Tuesday night, we kind of lost focus on the Maha part of it.
00:34:49.940
I think Kennedy's Maha movement really helped give Trump the presidency.
00:34:54.500
And, you know, Kennedy's committed to making America healthy again.
00:35:03.720
The two or three things that you think Kennedy has to do, because I talked to you beforehand and you said,
00:35:08.340
hey, listen, the reason I'm not in the government, Bobby, I think I can do more for Bobby Kennedy in the movement outside.
00:35:15.560
The two or three things that you think we have to accomplish now to start to make the country healthier would be what?
00:35:23.700
First and foremost, we've got to take on obesity, which you started with the processed foods.
00:35:27.780
Do you know, if you and I, there was a study at NIH where people had the exact same caloric intake, exact same exercise.
00:35:37.660
One's eating clean and one's eating ultra-processed foods.
00:35:39.960
And at the end of one or two months, the one that was eating processed gained 20 pounds and the one that didn't, didn't gain a pound.
00:35:47.260
They go to Europe and spend a week and a month in Europe and they don't gain weight.
00:35:51.220
So I do think the processed food is a big problem.
00:35:56.240
I like the fact that he's going back and going to bring back his uncle's, you know, physical fitness ideas.
00:36:06.640
And, you know, it's tragic when you think, I was in the Army for 20-something years.
00:36:11.760
77% of young people can't pass a military medical exam.
00:36:23.360
And I will tell you, I'm convinced Kennedy will make inroads within two years on obesity.
00:36:32.120
And I think he'll get more and more Americans, particularly housewives, mothers, you know.
00:36:37.820
I have 14 grandchildren behind him because we've got to make America healthy again.
00:36:42.480
Do you know, when we look at kids now under the age of 20, that 20 to 30% of them already have type 2 diabetes.
00:36:52.860
That's from laying around and eating the ultra-processed food.
00:36:55.380
Ultra-processed foods, sugar drinks, not exercising.
00:36:59.660
Drinking some of the $10 billion in soda that the taxpayers provide to kids that shouldn't be drinking sodas.
00:37:10.140
I think he's going to also do something that's important to me and maybe one of the reasons I navigated to him at the beginning.
00:37:28.880
My son almost died of a fentanyl overdose from contaminated cocaine.
00:37:41.380
And in that speech, I mentioned that my son had almost died from fentanyl.
00:37:48.000
And I said, you know, stigma is the enemy of public health.
00:37:53.300
I told my son when he came to me and asked for help, and he was ashamed and cried.
00:38:09.000
It started for me for HIV, but then it was obesity or in this case, you're a drug addict.
00:38:24.460
God graced him to accept to go into a treatment program, which he did 14 months.
00:38:34.720
So I think he also will take on the challenges that we're having with drug use disorder, which
00:38:42.660
When I was in Baltimore, my son needed treatment.
00:38:45.480
There was no, but we had four Catholic hospitals.
00:38:48.620
None of them had programs for drug use disorder.
00:38:51.500
And I'm going to say, I said, Archbishop Laurie, I said, listen, I said, I think every family
00:38:56.180
in the archdiocese has somebody struggling with drug use disorder, whether it's, whether
00:39:01.140
it's alcohol or whether it's drugs, we need, we need to be more aggressive.
00:39:06.880
We're building some good programs for drug use disorder.
00:39:09.360
And coupled with that, most of these kids with drug use disorder, they're there because
00:39:13.080
they're self-medicating for mental health issues that aren't being treated.
00:39:20.420
And, and, and, you know, I say it, I said it about his uncle, you know, his uncle,
00:39:26.180
I used to do this when I was trying to bring an end to the AIDS epidemic with Trump.
00:39:29.640
I, I, I said, you know, Kennedy's advantage was he saw the possible and then led a nation
00:39:47.200
And part of that is we have to shift our disease system, which I've been part of for
00:39:52.660
over 20 years, and we need to create a health system.
00:39:58.920
I mean, I think he's got some good people working with him with Oz and Bhattacharya.
00:40:05.780
And when you said, you know, the truth is, he's had a problem at CDC.
00:40:10.400
So why do we not have Red, Redfield in there banging heads, sir?
00:40:19.500
Go back and tell the audience a story about HIV and about what you try to do on HIV and,
00:40:24.580
and, and, and the, and the, and the, the horrible experience.
00:40:28.980
Well, you know, the, the HIV is a good example of some of the same challenges that we have
00:40:32.420
with COVID because the first problem with HIV was that they never allowed public debate.
00:40:38.100
I mean, I was the first, when I was at Walter Reed in 1983, 81, 82, 83.
00:40:46.380
When I was there, okay, I started seeing people with AIDS.
00:40:57.920
50% of my patients were married and had spouses.
00:41:09.180
Had that, you're saying it was heterosexual at the time?
00:41:11.740
I'd say, and people criticized me, said, oh, they're all liars.
00:41:13.980
No, of the women that I had, I'd say 75, 80% of them were heterosexually acquired.
00:41:22.980
Heterosexually acquired, though, from guys that either were bisexual or gay and just.
00:41:27.980
I think the bisexual man played a big role here.
00:41:30.700
And then of my men, I had, and this is about two-thirds of them were bisexual.
00:41:37.580
Homosexual, the homosexuals in the military were a little different than the homosexuals
00:41:43.900
Well, back then, that was the way they could get a security clearance.
00:41:46.840
Some of the guys were, you know, had sex with men maybe a couple times a year.
00:41:58.100
But about a third of them weren't homosexual men.
00:42:02.080
And I had worked up prostitute populations around the world and showed that these prostitutes
00:42:09.060
The commissioner of health in New York took me on and he said, you know, Redfield's data
00:42:12.820
is all false, that we have no heterosexual transmission in the state of New York.
00:42:17.400
We've tested all of the prostitutes and they're all the IV drug addicts.
00:42:21.360
I asked him in front of 10,000 people, I said, commissioner, how many women that weren't
00:42:30.680
I didn't test anybody because we know women who don't use drugs can't have AIDS.
00:42:35.580
And I said, go back and test your prostitutes that use cocaine nasally and don't inject.
00:42:42.080
And he went back and saw two thirds of them were HIV infected.
00:42:44.520
So there was just no debate and there was no denial.
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Why is Kennedy, one more time, why is Kennedy going to be the most consequential?
00:44:32.400
He's passionate, and the most important thing when you want to accomplish a mission, you
00:44:38.960
It's actually English, my family's from England.
00:44:44.380
We came over on the second boat and then married somebody from the first boat.
00:45:02.400
How did you get this death since everybody was against you?
00:45:08.000
I thought that they were trying to suppress the fact that it was only transmitted by gay.
00:45:13.580
So if you had any evidence at all that it was heterosexual, they wanted it out there.
00:45:17.600
Because remember, the first, I think in the early 80s, when this first started coming on the radar.
00:45:22.420
And I remember, for me, it was in New York City that one of the guys in the word processing department, who was, because that days in the word processing, particularly investment banking, he went all night long.
00:45:38.500
And when he couldn't get gigs, he'd work as an amazing word processor at night.
00:45:42.920
Everybody noticed he started getting very sick and very thin.
00:45:46.720
And they said it was because this new disease was coming.
00:45:49.480
Back then, everybody said it was, the panic was that it was transmitted with heterosexuals.
00:46:02.560
First, I've always said, if you look globally, heterosexual transmission is a major mode of transmission.
00:46:06.960
In the United States, it was first recognized in gay men.
00:46:10.040
But it really was a sexually transmitted disease.
00:46:13.660
Because I was the first person to show that it wasn't just gay.
00:46:17.920
And yet the gay community really came at me hard.
00:46:20.660
And one of the reasons it came at me hard is because I took the first principles of medicine.
00:46:34.820
You probably know in New York, they made it illegal for a doctor to write an HIV diagnosis in a medical record.
00:46:47.020
And I was able to convince the Secretary of Defense that this was a very important, relevant military problem.
00:46:54.800
Because in Korea, we had 30 cases per 100 soldiers of gonorrhea.
00:46:59.460
So for us to think we were going to be skipping a sexually transmitted disease.
00:47:07.800
I said, the difference now with gonorrhea is now we have a deadly sexually transmitted disease.
00:47:15.280
And we decided to put the principles of medicine on the table.
00:47:23.000
And, as you know, the military then screened everybody.
00:47:27.560
We treated everybody that was infected properly.
00:47:30.860
But the media immediately said that we were trying to, you know, when I was up for CDC director, they tried to kick me.
00:47:36.800
They said I recommended putting people in leprosy camps and all this stuff.
00:47:42.500
You know, I recommended treating people to the best of our ability based on the knowledge that we had.
00:47:47.260
And it was unfortunate that, you know, I made my reputation by nothing that insightful.
00:47:54.920
When I said that at the first international AIDS conference in Atlanta that we should diagnose the disease, I was booed off the stage.
00:48:03.600
And then I presented my data at another paper and showed that about 92% of people that had HIV infection, if you followed them for 18 months or more, got sicker.
00:48:15.320
I was saying, no, it looks like it's going to be over 90% are going to get sick.
00:48:22.140
And then when I presented the data showing husbands and wives infecting each other that it could be sexually transmitted, guess what happened?
00:48:34.380
We're going to go to, President's going to come in.
00:48:37.180
One thing I want to get to, you've got, one is what happened during the pandemic, right?
00:48:47.600
Because when a guy like you, who's kind of a no BS guy and don't mind getting booed off the stage, if you're putting the truth out there, they boo you all they want.
00:48:58.000
You're going to come back two weeks later with more data if you get booed off.
00:49:04.200
By the way, the book, Redfield's Warning, Dr. Redfield gives it to you straight with the bark on, right?
00:49:15.140
So, Steve, the real important thing here and the real reason I wrote the book is I want people to realize that biosecurity is one of the most critical national security threats that we have in this nation.
00:49:27.760
I've even said it's more relevant than China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
00:49:32.340
And if you think about how COVID-19 changed life in America.
00:49:39.100
It was created by gain-of-function research in the lab.
00:49:42.360
I think they were developing it actually as a biodefense weapon because they were trying to develop what I call a vector for a vaccine.
00:49:52.140
But, by the way, to do that, to then have, then weaponize it.
00:50:02.380
The military was trying to create this virus so that it could infect humans, so that it could be used to carry packages into the human body.
00:50:11.460
But the gain-of-function, what, what the guy in North Korea, was it Barclay, what he was, Barrack, what Barrack was doing at UNC, what they were doing at University of Maryland, we banned gain-of-function here because it was too, too loosey-goosey.
00:50:22.880
It was Tony Fauci when the time that the first HHS director, President Trump, got terminated, the guy from Georgia that I think was a congressman, a doctor, when he got terminated.
00:50:33.500
And that gap, that 60, yeah, price, when that 60- or 90-day gap, Tony Fauci slipped over to the, the, the EOB, part of the national security, and got it slipped in there that you could start doing gain-of-function.
00:50:46.280
Yeah, he, he and Collins could pass an exemption to any procedure to do it.
00:50:51.980
If you talk to people now that were in the White House, nobody remembers that this really happened, but it really happened.
00:50:58.540
We can, we can prove that later that he slipped in.
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