00:00:52.000Monday, 12 January, Year of the Lord, 2026.
00:00:56.000In Fort Pierce Grand Jury and panel today, George Papadopoulos is with us.
00:01:01.000L. Todd Woods and Dr. Thayer are going to join us in a moment for the geopolitics all and the national security and the industrial might of the United States of America.
00:01:12.000So, George, just explain, is this going to just cover the run up to the 2016 election and what they tried to do to steal it?
00:01:21.000Or is this going to also include, do you believe, the first term we're having not stopped us and allowing Clinton to get in and be Obama's third term?
00:01:35.000If Clinton had gotten in, and remember Merrick Garland had already been nominated for the Supreme Court, and she wanted to put somebody even more radical than Merrick Garland.
00:01:43.000The reason they didn't fight so hard for Merrick Garland is he was too moderate.
00:01:47.000They would have controlled the Supreme Court, they would have controlled the Senate, the House, and they would have controlled the executive branch.
00:01:53.000The Supreme Court game over the United States of America.
00:01:55.000So are we just going to do the run up to 16, where you got rolled up, or are we actually going to do the first term of the administration, sir?
00:02:03.000Dave, there was always this big question about statute of limitations and how that might preclude the DOJ for pursuing these various charges, because some people thought that the so-called time clock expired.
00:02:17.000But what the DOJ has done here is by looking at the Democrat Party as a whole, as a criminal organization, in parallel to how the mafia was viewed during the time of Mayor Giuliani in New York,
00:02:33.000it allowed them to extend the time clock by looking at the Democrat Party as some sort of criminal entity that has been basically waging lawfare and engaging in criminal activities for at least 10 years, going back to 2015, up through Joe Biden.
00:02:52.000So this is not simply about Donald Trump's first term and things that happened to myself and others.
00:02:56.000This goes into the 2020 election, impeachment 1.0, 2.0, all of the shenanigans during the lawfare effort against candidate Trump this past election and how he valiantly fought back against all of that.
00:03:09.000This is why this is the most important and significant investigation in modern American history, and it's being conducted with the right people at the right time.
00:03:19.000George, where do people, your Twitter feed, you're putting up stuff all the time because you're following this very closely, and we want to make sure that we have you on every couple of days for an update.
00:03:30.620And I know you've got great stuff going up in Gateway Pundit, but where can people follow you?
00:03:37.000This is the single, but Watergate looks like the third-rate burglary it was.
00:03:41.600Listen, as we keep saying, their trial run on lawfare was with Sirica and these guys to take Nixon out, and now they've really perfected it.
00:04:36.820You actually went with Pete Hexeth, and if people think that Pete Hexeth just running around doing push-ups and looking great in suits and coming in for great press conference and bits, I mean, let's be blunt.
00:04:50.980He's been secretary of war of two of the most complicated expeditionary events in American military history.
00:05:00.700The strike that ended the 12-day war and then the situation with Maduro, of the extraction of Maduro.
00:05:07.900Those are enormously, you know, having been a small bit in a wheel as a junior officer back in 79 and 80 for the workup that was the catastrophe at Desert One, I can tell you, well, the military's changed radically, but just the leadership to make sure things happen is extraordinary.
00:05:25.860You were actually selected, Todd, given your knowledge, you were an Air Force Special Forces Helicopter Pilot, Air Force Academy grad.
00:05:35.540I know a lot about the industrial process.
00:05:37.320You were selected to go on this trip last week.
00:05:50.560You know, at the Academy, we were taught about Lockheed Skunk Works back in the middle of the 20th century where they developed jets to counter the Nazis in 140 days out in the desert living in trailers.
00:06:02.180That's what they're doing here at one company, Castilian, who is developing the new Blackbeard cruise missile.
00:06:07.620They put guys out in the desert for months in trailers, and they test, iterate, test, iterate, test, iterate, and with no bureaucracy, with all the funding they need.
00:06:19.100And what you're seeing is just an explosion of innovation with American talent.
00:06:24.840These are all Americans, and with American parts, there's no China involved in this at all.
00:06:29.920They did say they have some allies delivering parts, but just fascinating.
00:06:34.580The 3D printing, the iterative process, the manufacturing plants, the technology that's going on.
00:06:41.360I can't go into all of it, but just an impressive group of people.
00:06:45.100And one thing, in this area of Los Angeles, there had been, I was told, kind of a cultural, you would look down upon anybody working in the defense sector because Google was cool and all that.
00:06:57.260Well, that has changed, and now it's cool.
00:07:48.420Because America First, remember, we're not interventionists, but we want to make sure we have hemispheric defense in America safe.
00:07:56.600Of course, a big part of that is getting rid of the 15 to 20 million illegal aliens that are here that they're fighting us on in Minneapolis.
00:08:05.140If you're a Special Forces guy, I know you were a helicopter pilot.
00:08:08.380My kid brother was a LAMPS pilot on a frigate.
00:08:12.420And you guys do some of the most dangerous flying in the world.
00:08:15.460How did all this advances in technology manifest itself both in the end of the 12-day war and at the extraction of Maduro?
00:08:24.560Because there were things that happened there, as I've drilled down and talked to people, that are mind-blowing about the scale of what the U.S. forces come in with now, sir.
00:08:32.160Well, I had a chance to ask those questions directly, and I can't say specifically what I was told.
00:08:39.820But let's just say it was a multi-pronged effort.
00:08:42.000And there's information out now that the shooters on the ground had advanced technology comms and analysis systems, kind of a heads-up display that we used to have in the cockpits mounted on your helmet so you could see.
00:08:55.880You didn't have to look down at the instruments because you're flying into an LZ that's hot, and you've got to put the guys here with the tail pointed this way and a door gun pointed this way.
00:09:04.940And, you know, number two and three got to come in right behind you, so you can't really look down at your instruments.
00:09:11.260So that's all displayed on your helmet, on your visor.
00:09:14.360And that's what they're doing with the soldier level now, which is fascinating with the network connectivity and also the sonic weapons.
00:09:22.200There's press out on this that they basically took down several hundred, actually up to 1,000 soldiers that were guarding Maduro with sonic weapons that they felt like it was exploding in their brain.
00:09:36.180Maybe that's propaganda to try to deter people from messing with us, but all of that exists.
00:09:42.320You know, how it was used, hopefully will come out later.
00:09:45.460And also, I'm trying to dig into, and I know something, but the guys that were shot on the helicopters, we're going to dig into that going forward as well.
00:09:54.300Well, yeah, the two helicopter pilots, we avoided a tragedy there because of the greatness, and the audience don't understand.
00:10:02.500The helicopter training you get, what Todd Woods got from the Air Force, what my kid brother got with the Navy, what these new things.
00:10:08.740These helicopter pilots are the best in the world.
00:10:11.580What they do is unbelievable, breathtaking.
00:10:48.680So economic, I'm a huge believer in economic warfare.
00:10:52.580The geopolitical strategy, we've got to carry a battle group heading towards the North Arabian Sea.
00:10:56.600President Trump's going to get briefed tomorrow.
00:10:59.120Of course, Todd and I are both hearing that the people, the Lady G, Lindsey Graham, and these folks are pressing President Trump to strike Tehran.
00:11:07.760I believe that if you just cut the oil off coming out of the Straits of Hormuz, headed to the CCP, that that will bring the moolahs to the knees in economic warfare.
00:12:07.300So we want to keep in mind, secondly, that the CCP is really the center of gravity here, right?
00:12:14.160It's the Chinese Communist Party, which is driving a lot of this in conjunction with their allies domestically in the United States, for example, right?
00:12:25.260What's happening in Minnesota is not an accident.
00:12:27.520It's the result of a long process of communists and communist front organizations working historically with the Soviet Union, more recently working with the PRC's United Front Work Department and associated groups.
00:12:46.000And then, of course, the fact that the Comintern has been privatized.
00:12:50.480It's run by George Soros now, his son Alexander, and other groups like Neville Singham, right, the People's Forum as well.
00:12:59.800So we need to recognize that the CCP is the center of gravity here.
00:13:06.300Everything that we do that weakens the CCP, whether that's oil, whether that's other economic measures, you'll have Peter on, and I'm sure Peter's going to have a lot to discuss.
00:13:16.260Peter Navarro, Dr. Peter Navarro will address this issue, too.
00:13:20.840That's going to be positive, everything that we're doing, which is hurting the CCP.
00:13:26.660Because at the end of the day, in all of these measures, we need to see it through the lens of great power politics, Steve.
00:13:33.740It's whether there's, you know, great power politics is zero sum.
00:13:39.280If something's helping the CCP, it's hurting us.
00:13:41.840So we need to think about every aspect of what's benefiting them and do what we can to ensure that the CCP is hurt, whether that's trade, whether that's tariffs, whether that's oil, or whether that's other tools in the toolbox that we have that we haven't employed yet.
00:14:02.800We want the CCP to rue the day, right?
00:14:05.600They started this economic war with us in April, April 3rd, you'll remember, with the rare earths and the magnets.
00:14:14.400And then again in October, when they tightened that, we want them to rue the day that they started these measures.
00:14:21.920We don't want to fight a war with the CCP.
00:14:36.880By the way, Scott Besson's chairing, I think, a conference today on alternatives away from the CCP on rare earths over at the Treasury Department.
00:18:38.980We're not as big as others, but we do try to get out stories that you really need to know and stories you're not going to hear anywhere else.
00:18:44.280And I'm at real L. Todd Wood on X and at cdm underscore press on X for the company.
00:18:52.600The piece on Pete Hexeth and what they're working on over there at the Pentagon and how Pete's got that thing organized and trying to get the Chinese chemist.
00:19:00.280This party out of the supply chain is worth going over there.
00:20:58.580I know David Hoke and Nick Shirley, right, heroically.
00:21:03.080And these guys are being under abuse by the crowd of Marxist jihadists in Minnesota.
00:21:08.440Are coming out today, I believe later today, with even bigger bombshells than they've already dropped.
00:21:13.520I think people's heads are going to blow up.
00:21:15.160But right now, they're kind of at a standoff.
00:21:19.080We're surging more ICE people into more ICE agents in the Minneapolis.
00:21:23.000But the mass deportations in New York City, I mean, Mondami's kind of called our bluff in Chicago and Minneapolis.
00:21:29.760You've got to get to mass deportation.
00:21:31.240They're 15 to 20 million, and just not bad hombres.
00:21:34.540Everybody here broke the law, and they all got to go.
00:21:37.940And at the same time, you heard Earl Todd Woods is what I've been hearing and working against all weekend.
00:21:43.300We've got to carry a battle group heading toward the North Arabian Sea, where I used to be.
00:21:48.320And let me tell you, if it would stop the oil from coming out of the Straits Hormuz like we stopped off Venezuela, the world would be in a great place.
00:21:56.600Because the economic warfare would bring the regime in Tehran to its knees.
00:22:01.620But Lady G, and if you saw the cold open, Lady G's been working the president all weekend.
00:22:25.120But unfortunately, the American left, the ruling class in this country, aligned with radical leftists like Mondani, like Antifa, they prioritize foreigners always.
00:22:35.320And they do it both here on our soil as well as overseas, as you're just describing there.
00:22:39.820And the events of this new year, I think, bring clarity to this prioritization of foreigners.
00:22:46.240Meaning, if we look at the anti-ice violence that is taking place across the country, but most intensely right now in Minnesota.
00:22:53.800If we look at these migrant scams that have been perpetrated at a scale that's almost hard to believe within our country.
00:23:00.940And then if we look at the amount of aid and attention that we are focusing on overseas wars that have nothing to do with the United States, not in our national interest, particularly the Black Sea, ancient ethnic regional conflict that is ongoing there.
00:23:15.920The common theme, the through line, and you do such a good job of this on War Room, Steve, connecting the dots between events that may not on their face seem to be interconnected, but they're inextricably linked.
00:23:26.100The through line is prioritizing foreigners always.
00:23:29.720That is what the ruling class in this country does.
00:23:32.600Now, thankfully, our movement stands up against that.
00:23:35.220And it's not just the right thing to do to prioritize American citizens.
00:23:38.520It's also politically expedient and very, very popular.
00:23:42.260I've been polling for months and months, for example, whether or not the United States should disengage from Ukraine if those two parties cannot reach a peaceful resolution,
00:23:51.800given the fact that Donald Trump, thankfully, has brokered, finally, peace dialogue there.
00:23:56.820And if they cannot, only a tiny minority of America wants to stay engaged.
00:24:01.060My latest poll, for example, of Gen Z, 18 to 25-year-olds, only 23% say that we should stay engaged in Ukraine.
00:24:10.100So our main battles are not in Tehran.
00:24:27.400This is why we're launching War Room Texas today about the Islamic invasion and stopping Sharia law in Texas because New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, and Seattle.
00:24:36.640I mean, you go across five of the biggest cities in the north.
00:24:42.540They haven't fallen like London, which I tell people in Paris and London all the time.
00:24:46.000I just gave a huge interview on French TV the other night in prime time, and I said, yo, in Paris, the Fifth Republic is going to fall, and the only way you're going to take Paris back, you're going to have a bloody civil war.
00:25:00.480Now, the problem is there's not many episodes on Capitol Hill.
00:25:03.940H-1B visas and all these legal migration things are all a scam.
00:25:09.540You know, Chip Roy's come out with it.
00:25:10.920We've supported a hard 10-year moratorium, no immigration for a decade to sort this mess out in the ending of the H-1B visa scam.
00:25:20.560Is that also a priority that we – if we don't do that, plus drive out the 15 to 20 million illegal alien invaders that came here kind of on the low-scale end, you're not going to have a country.
00:25:31.420A working-class Hispanics that we just won in the Rio Grande Valley, working-class blacks are going to sit there and go, well, what did you guys really end up doing for us, sir?
00:25:41.180Listen, you're exactly correct, Steve, because the betrayal, the betrayal of sovereignty, the betrayal of prioritizing our own neighbors, our own American citizens, it has been bipartisan.
00:25:50.540So let me take it from the theoretical to an action item list that I hope will be pursued aggressively, both by the Trump administration as well as by our movement, by grassroots citizens in this country.
00:26:23.000It becomes increasingly apparent that he committed crimes, that he wasn't just tolerating the abuse of the law and scams on a massive scale, but actually incentivizing and participating in them.
00:26:34.320So it's good that he's not running again.
00:26:36.360That's the first scalp for America First.
00:26:43.480And then on the Republican side of the aisle, Tom Emmer, third in charge of the House on the GOP side, congressman from Minnesota, who's talking really tough these days.
00:26:54.000Suddenly he's found religion on immigration.
00:26:57.180For a decade, he has been constantly and everywhere welcoming and encouraging more and more third world migration, particularly from Somalia, the former chair of the Somalia caucus.
00:27:09.160There is one, believe it or not, on Capitol Hill.
00:27:11.800A Republican chairing it from Minnesota, bragging about it constantly, now trying to act tough on these issues.
00:27:22.300I'd prefer that he get beaten, of course, at the ballot box.
00:27:24.360But if that doesn't happen, he cannot be in leadership.
00:27:27.000He cannot have a position of influence within our party, certainly not within our movement.
00:27:31.860So I think those three action items, Ilhan Omar, Tim Walz, Tom Emmer, if we see those three things happening in the next few weeks and months, now we're talking.
00:27:42.660And that gives us the right and the platform into November to make the case to the American people that Republicans deserve leadership.
00:27:51.420They deserve the speaker's gavel in the House of Representatives because they're protecting you against a foreign invasion.
00:30:18.460Talk to a hill, as the company describes it, a hillbilly with an East Texas accent.
00:30:24.440An American citizen to find out about all the special offers that Patriot Mobile have.
00:30:28.720But most importantly, they back your play.
00:30:31.900They're a Christian conservative company that really helped put on that great event we had on Friday all day in Texas.
00:30:40.640And there'll be a – I'll get Glenn's story up tonight on the launch of War Room Texas that will drive us toward the 3 March primary to take – ban Sharia law from the state of Texas.
00:30:54.080Let's hopefully start that process, ban Sharia law from the United States of America.
00:30:57.220Ask the people in Tehran today how that worked out for them.
00:33:28.680Going forward, the steady state to keep the unemployment rate low is more like 50,000 jobs a month rather than 200,000.
00:33:37.360And we have to adjust our thinking when we analyze that and not fall into the Democrats' trap of saying we're a slow-go presidency because that's nothing far from the truth.
00:33:48.720All right, third thing, Venezuelan crude.
00:34:06.000All refineries are bespoke or customized refineries.
00:34:10.200So much of our refinery capacity, and we haven't built new ones in, like, decades, was targeted to refine heavy oil.
00:34:21.100When fracking came along, that's disproportionately light oil, so we're running our refineries inefficiently.
00:34:28.740So to the extent that we can get Venezuelan heavy crude in to mix in with our refineries, particularly in the Gulf Coast areas, we're going to be able to significantly lower the price of gasoline and diesel for the American people.
00:34:46.580And number four on the list, which is interesting, is this whole capping of credit card interest at 10%.
00:34:53.380I was on with Maria Bartiromo this morning and joked, but it's true.
00:35:02.100I mean, the mafia can't charge as high as interest rates as the credit cards get away with.
00:35:09.780And the bankers are complaining about this, about that.
00:35:14.300But the problem is, Steve, they do no due diligence.
00:35:18.520They hand out credit cards like they're cotton candy, and then they charge everybody else for the inevitable fraud that happens.
00:35:26.440So the boss, President Donald John Trump, is hitting on all cylinders, trying to reduce the cost of living for Americans, even as he's trying to increase wages.
00:35:41.080And that's a report to Magaland and the great Steve Bannon.
00:35:45.820Dr. Navarro, before we let you go, I know you're working on a bunch of things.
00:35:51.460So you just give us a quick heads up, a couple minutes on things that we should look at coming out of your shop.
00:35:57.460We understand that the Supreme Court may rule this week on tariffs.
00:36:00.920The central biggest thing that President Trump's done, besides economically, the massive supply-side tax cut, was Liberation Day and the changing of the world's commercial relationships.
00:36:15.820Well, look, in terms of you asking what's coming up, we're looking very, very carefully at this whole problem of AI data centers driving up the cost of electricity for Americans at the same time that they threaten the integrity of the grid.
00:36:37.560And you're going to expect some strong action from President Trump on this.
00:36:42.620He has the back of American rate payers, both at the consumer level, on businesses.
00:36:52.380It's amazing in a bad way how much electricity is projected for the AI folks to use.
00:37:00.440And by the way, and this galls me, a significant amount of the electricity these AI centers are using now is servicing like chat GPT users in places like India and China, which is, you know, we've got to wrap our heads around that.
00:37:18.820So that's, I think that's going to be an important one.
00:37:21.520Keep your eyes also on the critical mineral rare earth space.
00:37:26.420We're seeing tremendous innovation in that space here in America in the wake of the weaponization of that set of materials from the Chinese.
00:37:38.760So we'll be talking over the coming months how that's unfolding.
00:37:43.800But keep doing what you're doing, brother, and we love the war room.
00:37:50.660Well, we look forward to what the Supreme Court says.
00:37:52.880What you and Jameson Greer and Scott Besson have done in support of the president's magnificent architecture on trade and commercial relationships is nothing short of historic.
00:38:02.520And you can already see the benefits, what exports up 30 percent, imports down 30 percent, trade deficit tightening, something you and I and others have worked on for many, many years.
00:38:13.040Dr. Navarro, where do people go to keep up with you on social media, particularly all your hits you're doing in media?
00:38:20.780Yeah, I did bury that lead, by the way.
00:38:23.460The lowest trade deficit, best gain since 2009.
00:38:28.520And remember, Steve, that when the trade deficit falls, that gives us higher growth because we've got more jobs and factories and all that stuff.
00:38:38.180PeterNavarro.com is the one-stop shop that'll get you to all the social media.
00:38:43.420We're doing, Steve, we're doing a lot of 60-second videos that we're putting out on X and Getter and True Social that really are capturing these thoughts about individual issues,
00:38:55.520whether it's the ban on institutional investors or mortgage-backed securities or whatever.
00:39:01.840And there's my sub-stack, of course, Peter Navarro sub-stack.
00:39:07.240And that's a good place to get your comments in.
00:39:10.620I repost those videos because that reminds me of the Peter Navarro I know and love up close and personal because they actually see your personality.
00:39:51.900And, you know, as usual, Dr. Navarro is correct there because tightening immigration controls, right, stopping the illegals, phasing out the worker visas, it's not just the right policy for this country, for our national security, for our social cohesion.
00:40:05.940It's also, it's an economic imperative.
00:40:10.560For example, illegals have been competing unlawfully, unjustly in the labor market against American workers for decades.
00:40:18.420Now we see under President Trump rising real wages, I believe largely because two and a half million people have already left between those who have self-deported and those who were forced, who were arrested and punted out of this country.
00:40:30.340We've got to keep that going and accelerate that number.
00:40:33.900But Dr. Navarro is exactly correct when he talks about housing, the demand for housing.
00:40:37.340There's such an artificial demand by tens of millions of foreigners who don't belong here in the first place.
00:40:42.820The illegals, on top of that, far too many, millions and millions who are here legally, but we don't need to be in this country.
00:40:50.260I would also add to that list health care.
00:40:52.420When you look at health care, I think a lot of Americans don't realize how many millions of illegals, how many millions of foreigners are getting taxpayer-funded health care in this country.
00:41:02.400So if you're upset, understandably, about your insurance premiums going up in a very big way in this new year, realize that a big part of that cost is for foreigners.
00:41:13.000Steve, 86, I just saw a report over the weekend, 86% of the Somalians are on Medicaid in Minnesota.
00:41:20.180It's outrageous what they've allowed to happen and destroyed this for American citizens, correct?
00:41:25.760And think of how much easier, we've got a lot of fiscal challenges in this country, right, because of decades of profligacy.
00:41:31.200But think of how much easier it would be to tackle those challenges if, number one, we had a more productive, higher-earning workforce here, paying more taxes into the U.S. Treasury.
00:41:39.600But, number two, most importantly, if we vastly brought down the expense side of the ledger, especially on health care, because we're no longer paying for illegals who don't belong here in the first place,
00:41:49.660but on top of it are literally costing us billions and billions in over years, trillions of dollars in health care.
00:43:25.380Most importantly, it's 80% or 90% of your net worth if you're in an American city.
00:43:28.900If you're lucky enough to own a home, and President Trump's clearly trying to move heaven and earth so people can, particularly young people, got a shot of owning a home.
00:43:37.700Can't have first-time homebuyers be 40 years old.
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