Former Vice President Joe Biden joins Stephen K. Bannon in the War Room to discuss his new role as the President of the Texas Rangers and his new position as the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry's replacement as Governor, and his vision for the future of Texas.
00:01:18.000Well, first of all, I was asked by a group of people to explore the idea.
00:01:23.000When I called General Flynn, when I called Allen West, when I called people that are serious in this business of security,
00:01:30.000which is really the baseline of it all for us, for me.
00:01:33.000It's like Eisenhower coming in, another Texan coming in after World War II and leading into the Cold War and really setting the conditions for Reagan's.
00:01:44.000By the way, Reagan is the first president I served under.
00:01:47.000I was asked, of course, I prayed about it.
00:04:09.000It's the water and particularly the aquifers in West Texas and Arizona are going to be sucked dry.
00:04:15.000Are the people awakening to the issue?
00:04:18.000I mean, the EO last night we talked about is now they've accommodated the four C's, one's community, and it's about these data centers.
00:04:27.000The data centers themselves, what they emit, the energy that you've got to come up with, and how that's going to impact the people.
00:04:35.000And then the water, which is really now in Arizona and Texas, if it's not a big deal, it better start being a big deal because these things are going to suck those aquifers dry.
00:04:54.000We want to make sure they can have that same water.
00:04:56.000State of Kansas, I'm looking at a study there.
00:04:58.000They've done for the last 10 years, moving water from the aquifer, not only aquifer, but the Ogallala on an aqueduct to the ranching areas.
00:05:07.000We can start working on that now to step in the gap, but we've got to slow down the amount of AI data centers coming in.
00:05:13.000I've got nothing against technology, but I do when it's deleterious to the survival of the species.
00:05:21.000And we've got ranchers out there in Lubbock.
00:05:24.000My family is a cotton, you know, family generations, generations of it.
00:05:28.000Speaking of the cotton farmers, the ranchers, they're like, we won't be able to give water to our cattle or produce the products that we need.
00:06:04.000I like that you said that he picked up five smooth stones.
00:06:07.000And his odds, if you just looked on the terra, were zero until he, until he hit him right in square in the middle of that face.
00:06:13.000So for me, we have to bring in like Thermopylae or, or like San Jacinto.
00:06:18.000You know, the last battle that really sent Santa Ana running in Texas was San Jacinto.
00:06:23.000A small army under Sam Houston beat them, had them on the run in 18 minutes and they captured the commander.
00:06:29.000You've got to fight on your battlefield.
00:06:31.000So for me, I've got to get, uh, as, as Alan West will tell you, and Chad Prather, Don Huffines, who ran against Abbott the last time, they split the vote.
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00:16:58.000Eric Prince is going to stick with us, but I want to bring Brendan Steinhauser in for the Alliance for Safe or Secure Artificial Intelligence.
00:17:07.000Brendan, I know you've got to bounce, but I just want your thoughts on the executive order at least sets up a process.
00:17:19.000What say you about the EO, your first take on it?
00:17:22.000And what is your guidance to this audience about how we get into this regulatory apparatus, exactly what we need to make sure that we've got a safe and secure artificial intelligence, sir?
00:17:39.000I think that, look, everyone watching, we made a tremendous impact in this discussion and in this debate, and we need to keep fighting.
00:17:46.000It kind of reminds me of the Churchill speech before Parliament where he talks about fighting on the beaches, fighting in the landing grounds and in the fields.
00:18:01.000And so we're going to continue that fight.
00:18:03.000We have to do it at the federal level.
00:18:05.000We have to be involved in those policy discussions in Congress.
00:18:08.000We have to continue to work with our state lawmakers and get governors and attorneys general to pass more laws in those states to defend the laws on the books and to basically tell the Department of Justice that if they sue the states, the states will fight them in court.
00:18:22.000Look, I think President Trump wants to do the right thing here.
00:18:25.000I think he's trying to get this right.
00:18:27.000I just think that there have been some people in the White House like David Sachs and others who have been pushing this approach.
00:18:33.000So I still think there's a lot of work to be done.
00:18:35.000I don't think this is by any means over.
00:18:37.000This is an executive order that has limitations.
00:18:40.000The president cannot just overturn state laws.
00:18:43.000There's talks about carve outs for kids' safety.
00:18:46.000I think we need to sort of hold the administration to that, and we need to continue to work to protect our citizens from advanced AI.
00:18:53.000So you're really saying now with the – because they can't just go and overrule state laws.
00:19:02.000You're actually telling the DeSantis of the world, hang tough until you get what you need for your state into this federal – into some sort of federal regulatory apparatus and or, if that doesn't work, just continue to fight on?
00:19:18.000I think governors like DeSantis in Florida, Governor Sanders in Arkansas, Governor Cox in Utah and many others who have spoken out need to continue to keep up the fight, and they need to say, look, we want Congress to act.
00:19:30.000We want you guys to pass meaningful legislation on this.
00:19:33.000But until you do and unless you do, we're going to continue this process.
00:19:36.000Because I think if this goes through the courts, I can't see the courts allowing much of the EO to continue or to be able to overturn these state laws.
00:19:45.000That's just not a constitutional thing.
00:19:48.000It's not something that a court is going to uphold, any federal court, especially the courts that we have today and the makeup of those courts.
00:19:56.000So I think that states should continue to move forward.
00:19:58.000In some ways, they should call the bluff if the DOJ does threaten to sue them because I think that that will fail.
00:20:05.000That being said, I also think governors and attorneys general need to put pressure on their members of Congress and say, look, if we're going to have a federal standard, then let's get it done.
00:20:15.000Let's work together to protect kids, to work on how we prevent these massive job losses that are coming.
00:20:20.000Let's work on, you know, ideas for preventing loss of control.
00:20:24.000If we see the rise of a super intelligence, I think we need Congress to act.
00:20:28.000And so the pressure is really on them.
00:20:29.000And I think the War Room Posse should be thinking about that today, thinking about getting prepared to move that conversation over to Congress.
00:20:36.000Now, this is why we see Scalise put out 105 days of work this year.
00:20:42.000They could be they could work around the clock just on this.
00:20:45.000There's so many important things you've got to work on.
00:21:05.000But if people sign up to get our newsletter, we're pretty good about sending out information from other organizations and different studies that are out there.
00:21:12.000We do a lot in the media to highlight stories so that people can see what's happening.
00:21:16.000But honestly, the other thing I would encourage people to do is just read everything you can read books on the topic, you know, read articles on the topic because it's moving very fast.
00:21:26.000There's a lot of coverage of this and you really have to get as educated as possible as you can so that you can really make those arguments to your friends, family and neighbors.
00:21:35.000Because, again, we have to get this right.
00:21:37.000There's there's no there is no surrender.
00:21:40.000There is no losing here, not only for the American people, but this is an issue that affects all of us around the world.
00:21:46.000So the United States Congress and the president and the states have a big job to do.
00:21:55.000If Eric Prince, before we get back to geopolitics, artificial intelligence is totally revamping to a degree that's almost hard to keep up with the modern battlefield, is it not?
00:22:08.000It really is, Steve, because you now have a lot of drones and a lot of guidance systems.
00:22:16.000Everything is driven by a unblinking instant brain with perfect recall.
00:22:23.000And you can now have multiple independent targeted drones that can prioritize targets and reprioritize if a few of them are knocked down in the process of attack.
00:22:38.000And it's so cheapened the delivery of precision strike that it's put everything at risk.
00:22:44.000So the delusions of the modern battlefield and the delusions of lessons learned from the GWAT have to be really unlearned quickly or we will pay a horrific price in blood the next time the conventional military needs to go out against any kind of peer level competitor.
00:23:04.000I'd captain for now, I want to get you on final on later, maybe over the weekend or next week about the Navy and Taiwan and fighting major naval battles, this issue about drones.
00:23:14.000But just in Ukraine, you know, President Trump has given Zelensky, hey, look, you got to I'm gonna give you a play me or trade me on Christmas.
00:23:22.000Right. You got to come to some conclusion.
00:23:24.000But drones there have actually changed the battlefield, although the Russians are still doing the Russians classic their classic way.
00:23:32.000They run their military. What's your what's your advice of President Trump about what he ought to do here?
00:23:40.000Look, there's not any huge asymmetric.
00:23:44.000If you think about the World War one, how bogged down it got into trench warfare, that's effective where you are now, although adding precision strike into the mix, holding anything within 30 kilometers of the front line at severe immediate risk.
00:23:58.000The United States entry in the war is what finally pushed put enough energy into the battle space to finish World War one.
00:24:05.000There is no injection of new tech or new capability coming to do that in this war.
00:24:13.000And so a imperfect settlement is better than whatever people think this is now.
00:24:19.000It's a slow rototilling, grinding end.
00:24:22.000It is a pointless slaughter of Ukrainians and Russians to really not move battle lines at all very effectively in either direction.
00:24:31.000There is 0% chance that the Ukrainians are going to take back the eastern provinces or the Crimea.
00:24:38.000And so all they're doing now is ruining themselves demographically.
00:24:41.000So Trump is right to call the Europeans out on their delusional nonsense because they're not going to suddenly win and they certainly don't have the means to pump even enough money in to keep the Ukrainians afloat.
00:24:56.000But the biggest problem is Ukrainians just don't have enough manpower.
00:25:56.000Rwanda has a surrogate called M23, which they have armed and trained with Chinese surface to air missiles, armed Turkish TB2 drones with Israeli laser guided missiles and guided mortars.
00:26:10.000Polish jammers, some very high end tech that is provided and operated by Rwandan special forces inside the Congo.
00:26:17.000President Trump's reached out to both sides, invited them to the White House, had both President Chizekete of Congo and Paul Kagame of Rwanda into the White House last week.
00:26:27.000And while he's in the White House, Paul Kagame is launching another offensive.
00:26:35.000What Kagame is trying to do is basically grow the size of Rwanda by about tenfold at the expense of his neighbor.
00:26:42.000And that jackass had the gall to do that while standing in the White House next to Trump.
00:26:47.000So I applaud Trump for reaching out and trying to make peace, but sometimes people just don't want to make peace.
00:26:54.000And so then other options have to be on the table.
00:26:59.000And I and I hope the United States does not allow the Chinese Communist Party is one of the big benefits of Rwanda hacking off this this additional area and making it a a lawless area.
00:27:12.000There's already a lot of organized Chinese crime that steals a huge amount of the mineral wealth from the Western mining companies and from the artisanals in the Congo.
00:27:21.000It's becoming a an extreme violent version of the worst parts of the American West all over the place in Africa with with billions of dollars of mineral value.
00:27:33.000The headline number last year was thirty seven billion in copper and cobalt.
00:27:38.000Well, cobalt is what's needed for making phones, batteries for vehicles or electric vehicles for electrical storage and all the high end electronics that we require in our lives to make a modern society.
00:27:50.000And Rwanda had the had the very bad taste of launching another, launching an offensive while standing in the White House with President Trump.
00:28:02.000Eric, where do people get you on social media?
00:28:05.000Where can they find your thinking, your writings, podcasts, all of it?
00:28:09.000I post on X quite a bit at real Eric D. Prince.
00:28:15.000And they can also check out what we're doing at unplugged.com slash war room.
00:28:47.000Criminals forge your signature on one document, use a fake notary stamp, pay a small fee with your county and boom, your home title has been transferred out of your name.
00:28:59.000Then they take out loans using your equity or even selling your property.
00:29:04.000You won't even know it's happened until you get a collection or foreclosure notice.
00:29:11.000So let me ask you, when was the last time you checked your home title?
00:29:16.000If you're like me, the answer is never.
00:29:19.000And that's exactly what scammers are counting on.
00:30:15.000Steve, we developed the unplugged phone.
00:30:19.000We've sold 15,000 plus devices available all over the country now.
00:30:26.000And it's built as a privacy focused phone to actually control your data so that you have control of your data and it's not leaked like a minigun everywhere to big tech.
00:30:40.000Look, the reason that Google and Apple are multi trillion dollar companies is because they collect and export so much of your data in an era of AI makes it exceedingly dangerous.
00:30:51.000So our phone developed from the core blocks with its operating system all the apps on your phone from exporting your personal data.
00:31:00.000We have open source the operating system so people can be very comfortable.
00:31:06.000And the next devices are going to be made in America.
00:31:09.000And you can order them at unplugged.com.
00:31:11.000It has all the apps that you're familiar with, but it has a privacy center so that you can see how your phone is protecting your data from leaving your device with our own cloud version where you have keys to your, where only you have the keys to that data.
00:31:38.000And it is my daily communications advice.
00:31:40.000Our new CEO left Apple special projects specifically because he wanted to be part of our team to build a phone that will rival Google and Apple.
00:31:50.000Um, last thing you're not, uh, some of the war imposities asked, you're not calling for intervention in this, uh, president Trump, what he's trying to do to bring peace is one thing you're not calling for an American intervention into sub-Saharan Africa.
00:32:05.000No, but there's a lot of things the administration can do to help, um, the aggrieved countries from being overrun by, um, by a bad actor that, um, is also sponsored by the Chinese communist party.
00:32:21.000And I, it's really not in America's interest to lose, uh, access to the trillions of dollars of mineral value coming out of the Congo.
00:32:28.000So, um, again, not asking for military intervention, but there's a lot of things the intelligence community can do way short of going to war.