00:08:10.500And Chris, I can guarantee you when the bear trap snaps, we're going to get these folks.
00:08:17.820And again, we're going to follow the money, whether it's all whether it's over the two counties here in Minneapolis, St. Paul's or whether it's the East Africa.
00:08:28.800And there's tons of luxury properties, cars that have been bought over there.
00:11:07.660It's Tuesday, 13 January, Year of the Lord, 2026.
00:11:12.300As we've laid out here on the War Room over the last couple of months, as President Trump and Secretary Besson's economic plan starts to kick in.
00:11:21.260And you can see that it's getting traction and building up the radical Democrats, the Marxist jihadists that hate this country and have tried to bring in or did bring in 20 to 30 million illegal alien invaders will get crazier and crazier.
00:13:14.320The core CPI, which strips out food and energy, for example, the three-month rate of change remained at 1.6.
00:13:20.960There are a lot of positives in the report.
00:13:23.200We're going to make significant further progress, which is going to take a little bit of time.
00:13:27.300So we counsel patients because we had a mess that we inherited.
00:13:31.060But the point is, the numbers on the inflation side are trending powerfully in the right direction.
00:13:36.180And, of course, the boom aspect you see in the GDP numbers.
00:13:38.960Near 5 percent private sector GDP, the last two officially reported quarters, the widely-fought Atlanta Fed has growth over 5 percent for the fourth quarter.
00:13:48.300That would take growth for the year, despite the weak Q1 when Biden was in office, of over 3 percent.
00:13:54.420So when we talk about a disinflationary boom, we're talking about surging GDP, rising incomes, and an inflation rate that starts to fall and doesn't preoccupy people's concerns.
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00:14:54.440Well, he will be this afternoon with Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessler back.
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00:20:30.320And we'll play that the entire – he's got a show going on.
00:20:33.180They're playing a show, so we'll cut into that a little bit later.
00:20:36.900Joe LaVarnier, you've talked about this strategy for growth.
00:20:44.580I kept telling everybody, don't lose it, and people came out back in those elections in November, said everything in 2016 is going to be about affordability.
00:21:06.860In fact, we're sitting here on tenterhooks right now waiting for the Supreme Court to talk about President Trump changing all the commercial relationships throughout the world.
00:21:14.580And what we call trade and through tariffs.
00:21:17.800Okay, but the tariff aspect, the commercial aspect, the trade aspect is one big piece coupled with the supply-side tax cut to incentivize capital to pour back into this country into high-value-added manufacture jobs.
00:21:31.340Hence, why the president of the United States is on a plane this morning, going to go to Detroit, going to look at some factories and look at – because one of the gauges here is how many F-150s one can sell, right?
00:21:42.860Maybe President Trump is going to see all that, and they give him a major address.
00:21:46.980Disinflationary boom is not just jargon.
00:21:51.560I want to go back and make sure, because I got Rob Bluey on next from the Daily Signal.
00:21:55.980They've written a brilliant piece about how we get to a balanced budget, because part of the problem we have here is still too much federal spending.
00:22:03.700One of the ways you get there is – wait for it, folks – GDP growth, economic growth.
00:22:11.200Scott Besson, as a contributor here on the show for years, sat as a contributor and said we have one last shot to have a supply-side tax cut, which is driven on production and bringing manufacturing back.
00:22:24.740A part of that – the key to that is growth, is GDP growth, wage growth, job growth.
00:22:29.480What you're seeing now – and I want you to explain to the audience, because this is not a concept you heard during the Biden years, because everything was about this massive federal spending that got us into this hole.
00:22:39.740The hole of inflation, the hole of this huge debt, the interest payments we have to make on the debt was all Biden, because the radical Democrats just believe in government.
00:22:49.820They don't believe in private industry.
00:22:53.740The Atlanta Fed are putting up numbers that are shocking how good they are about private company or private market GDP growth.
00:23:02.020I just want to make sure the audience understands the difference, because this will tee up brother Rob Bluey and his strategy to balance the budget.
00:23:09.780If you take GDP, gross domestic product, and you strip it out federal side, which to your point was booming on an unsustainable track over the previous four years, GDP in Q2 and Q3, President Trump's first two full quarters in office, the economy grew almost 5 percent.
00:23:27.300GDP, excluding the government sector, grew actually 4.8 percent annualized over those two quarters.
00:23:33.180Fast forward to the fourth quarter, which there was a government shutdown, and people worried the economy would be depressed.
00:23:39.880The Atlanta Fed has GDP growth predicted at 5.1 percent.
00:23:43.780But related to the president's reindustrialization manufacturing policy and tariffs, the trade deficit shrunk to its lowest level in the last month's reading since 2009, 2009, as imports plunged and exports went up.
00:23:59.520So you've got the private sector, that means business investment, household consumer spending, in addition to exports, and a rejuvenation and revitalization of manufacturing that is driving growth faster.
00:24:12.320And as we look to 2026, Steve, when the secretary talks about a boom and the president talks about a golden era, we're seeing it in these data figures, which are undisputably positive.
00:24:23.480And the next piece that will come will be good, high-paying jobs that will be central to really restoring the economy from the sugar-high, unsustainable government spending blowout that we've had over the previous administration.
00:24:36.760And, of course, the president yesterday putting out executive orders talking about how to keep electricity, the whole thing with data centers.
00:24:44.660Because right now, AI, the only thing that would hurt on the jobs part is artificial intelligence taking away some administrative, managerial, and coding jobs for folks 20 to 30 years old.
00:25:34.140He's dealing with the affordability of housing issue.
00:25:36.520He's getting into the big banks about capping the interest rates at 10%.
00:25:40.720He's all over full-spectrum energy dominance and particularly dealing with these data centers to make sure they can't come back on the grid and torch folks.
00:26:22.360It's one of the places I go every day.
00:26:23.960We push the citizens-free press and Gateway Pundit, all the great sites out there that are free are not behind a paywall.
00:26:31.440Give me a minute on Daily Signal, sir.
00:26:34.360Well, I got to hang out with Jordan yesterday, Steve, from Gateway Pundit on the trip with Secretary Pete Hanks up to Texas, where War Room is now live and loaded.
00:26:44.980So Daily Signal was started about a decade ago by those of us who were at the Heritage Foundation.
00:26:51.080And then when Joe Biden and the folks in the White House took away our press credentials, we became an independent media organization.
00:26:58.660We make sure our content is widely available.
00:27:01.120And our goal is to translate the policy issues that are happening in Washington for the American people.
00:27:07.260And that's why we love partnering with people like E.J. and Tony, who I know is a regular on War Room, to help explain economic issues in ways that the American people can understand
00:27:15.860and also put the pressure on members of Congress and other lawmakers to do the right thing.
00:27:21.080Hang right there, because you take policy seriously as we do, and you've broken down.
00:30:50.500The Republican Study Committee traditionally puts out their budget first.
00:30:54.500But now you can expect others to start releasing their budgets as well.
00:30:58.420Some individual members of Congress do that.
00:31:00.340Of course, the president and the White House will do that.
00:31:02.940And I think the thing that's key, as you and Joe were talking about previously on the show, is the uncontrollable spending that we've witnessed, particularly during four years of Joe Biden.
00:31:13.640But, I mean, let's not discount George W. Bush and Barack Obama and others who contributed to this problem.
00:31:19.520When George W. Bush left office, the national debt was about $10 trillion.
00:32:31.000It looks like you have a five-and-a-half trillion coming in, seven-and-a-half trillion going out.
00:32:36.420How do they propose to close that, sir?
00:32:39.640Well, and first to your point about the Republican Study Committee, I believe they have 189 members.
00:32:44.860And right now there are 218 House Republicans, so pretty much includes a vast majority of House Republicans.
00:32:51.820And so by them putting their weight behind it, you would hope that that would signal that they're serious about cutting government spending.
00:32:58.280But, Steve, you and I both know, because President Trump tried to do this upon taking office last year,
00:33:03.760how difficult it is when you actually get into the process of eliminating government programs
00:33:08.960and reducing that deficit that you talked about.
00:33:12.020And so what the Republican Study Committee is attempting to do here is to go through department by department
00:33:18.480and eliminate what areas that they think are duplicative, wasteful, try to find efficiencies throughout the government.
00:33:26.120Obviously, the president adding this $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon will be a hurdle that lawmakers in Congress will have to overcome.
00:33:34.940But I think just like you and I are expected to balance our budget on a monthly basis,
00:33:40.660we should expect the same of our congressional representatives.
00:33:43.700And Republicans have for years, if not decades, promised that they were going to do this,
00:33:48.040all the way going back to the Tea Party when this issue first surfaced and became such an explosive topic among conservatives in particular.
00:33:56.000I think it's really incumbent upon them to do so.
00:33:59.360And again, to go back to the point that Joe and you were making earlier,
00:34:03.860the spending that we saw during the Biden years contributed to the inflation crisis that the American people faced.
00:34:11.300Now, Scott Bessent and Donald Trump have done yeoman's work to bring those levels down,
00:37:27.940They refuse to make the tough choices and the budget cuts.
00:37:31.400And that has been a consistent theme going all the way back to when Republicans had control, even in President Trump's first term.
00:37:38.180And so I hope that they can move at a pace where they balance the budget within five years.
00:37:42.700Maybe we should demand that they have an even aggressive timeline.
00:37:47.040Because it's going to only help President Trump achieve what he wants and Scott Besson have the economic growth that they think is possible.
00:37:57.040I'll tell you what, I'll talk to you after the show.
00:37:59.160We'll put some different assumptions in on economic growth.
00:38:01.940And Rob Lui, Daily Signal and the Worm will come up with a five-year plan.
00:38:05.640But here's where they catch us every time is when they want a defense budget increase, which is really the industrial policy of the United States.
00:38:34.200So their business – a little starter cash is put up by the sources and those guys, right, and these NGOs.
00:38:40.540That's to get the field troops out there.
00:38:43.120But the way they fund it, because they're not going to fund all of it, is on taxpayer money.
00:38:47.320And those taxpayer monies are all through these social programs.
00:38:49.900And when the Defense Department – when you want to increase defense budget, sacrosanct is the social – as you know, Rob, the social program has got to go up.
00:38:57.240But most importantly, they won't let you get under the hood of the social programs.
00:39:00.900What Minneapolis is showing is the business model of the Marxists, of the red-green alliance.
00:39:10.200In War Room, Texas, one of the things we're drilling down on, we don't really even have a handle yet on what Texas – the state of Texas and the federal government.
00:39:17.600There's one number out there that's $4 billion of state and federal money have gone to build mosques, Islamic centers, school choice for the Islamic thing.
00:39:28.320If we can lance that boil – and I remember, because at Breitbart, as you know, Rob, we partner with you all the time.
00:39:34.500The fight – the years we fought for earmarks – and you're right, overall it's a small part, but it was a gateway drug to bigger spending.
00:39:42.360Now they've gone back and they're doing earmarks like crazy.
00:39:45.420So we have a big fight in front of us, Rob, but we'll partner with you because right now the reason the legislators don't take it seriously is that it's still financeable.
00:39:55.980At some point – in 2035, I think, you look at the 10-year budget, it's $2.5 trillion annually just for the interest payments.
00:40:07.420So when this hits, it's going to hit like a punch from Sonny Liston right up in your face, and you're not going to be able to recover from it.
00:40:16.900Yes, and I think the other important thing to point out is that when you have strong economic growth under a president like Donald Trump and a Treasury Secretary like Scott Besson,
00:40:27.420it's perhaps not necessarily the most glaring thing that's staring you in the face.
00:40:32.760But with a Democrat in control who's only going to pour gasoline on that fire and probably not have the type of economic growth for our country,
00:40:40.300yes, Steve, you're absolutely correct that it is going to be a serious challenge that we will have to confront.
00:40:48.200Probably those young people who are entering the workforce and are staring at years to try to pay down this huge debt.
00:40:56.420You know, to go back to an earlier point that you said, you know, what's the old quote?
00:41:00.780You know, once you have a government program, it's impossible to actually remove it or eliminate it.
00:41:05.620And that is true, as we saw with Obamacare and these subsidies, right?
00:41:10.380I mean, the Democrats put that into place.
00:41:12.040It's why for years we as conservatives tried to repeal Obamacare and get it out of the government because we knew that this was going to be a situation where eventually the government would say,
00:41:28.080And then you end up with a situation like we're in now where nobody wants to give up their subsidies and somebody is going to have to be the bad guy.
00:41:33.820And too often that falls on the feet of the Republicans who, in some cases, are too weak-kneed to say no.
00:41:40.680And you have a situation where it goes on in perpetuity.
00:41:44.040And so I understand they have a narrow margin in the House.
00:41:47.380It shrunk even more at the beginning of January, unfortunately.
00:41:50.920But there are some tough calls they need to make.
00:41:53.160And, by the way, Steve, they can start this month because let's not forget that the government funding runs out on January 30th
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00:45:43.420And this court's decision, Michael M. makes clear that that's not a viable as a plea claim.
00:45:48.260In Michael M., this court upheld a statutory rape law that applied differently to men than women.
00:45:55.140And the rationale was because women faced a unique risk of pregnancy.
00:45:59.100But, of course, if either the male rapist or the female victim was infertile, there'd be no pregnancy.
00:46:05.180So, on their theory, you could have come in and said, well, I have an as-applied claim that I was infertile, so it was okay to rape the underage girl.
00:46:12.740And this court not only rejected that, the court said it would be ludicrous, ludicrous to say that you could bring an as-applied claim for prepubescent girls.
00:46:21.980That's just not the way as-applied scrutiny works in intermediate-scrutiny cases.
00:46:27.200That's equally true, as my friend said, in Wynne.
00:46:29.900In the court's decision in Wynne, the justification for the law was making sure that the parent knew that they were the parent and had an opportunity to have a relationship with the parent.
00:46:40.820But Wynne's father knew about the birth, was present with Wynne the whole time, and brought Wynne to the United States.
00:46:49.160Nevertheless, the court held, for the class of men overall, it was reason-tailored, and they weren't going to focus on the specific facts of Wynne.
00:47:28.360Baseball, which she was excellent, made the regional team in baseball.
00:47:31.500Well, basketball, she played high school for a while, but volleyball was her big love and being a setter, and she went to a school called American Martyrs in Manhattan Beach.
00:47:41.680And Manhattan Beach is where Karch Karai and the beach volleyball Olympic team trained, so she was right there.
00:47:49.600All the coaches at this Catholic grade school had played at USC or UCLA, and a lot of those people were either Olympic people or people had started at the top programs in the country.
00:48:03.640So she was trained as a very little girl to that, and then she got started, and they had a championship team at American Martyrs for the Catholic League and for the State League.
00:48:12.540And then she went to a big-time prep school that specialized, one of the big specialties was women's sports, and she played volleyball there under an incredible coach.
00:48:22.800People would come from all over to play for this coach.
00:48:25.300But in volleyball, as many of these sports, it's not really the school system that does it.
00:48:28.840It's club teams because people could be in a school district that's just not going to be competitive with club teams.
00:48:33.840And these club teams are as close to a professional athlete as you can get.
00:49:05.320It's a way to get your ticket punched to Division I or some ride at Division II school.
00:49:11.940And, I mean, great schools like the Lafayettes and the Hamilton Colleges, the Union Colleges, these schools back east that recruit these kids nonstop.
00:49:19.000You go to the recruiters nonstop, and these kids are dedicated.
00:49:22.960They put in hour after hour after hour.
00:50:10.220This thing is driving me nuts because I'm no feminist.
00:50:14.220But I saw in sports the way for the working-class kids of all races to get a ticket out.
00:50:23.940And to hear this thing that you let boys come in and compete with them, it's a freak show.
00:50:28.200So why are we putting on these little girls, these becoming women, and the type, I mean, aggressive, tough, stick to it, just no quit, every American quality you want, right?
00:50:41.200What Title IX was supposed to do, it actually, I saw that because my sisters, my dad was a great athlete, my brothers, my sisters weren't great athletes because that just wasn't the thing you did back then.
00:51:28.340But I definitely think it's even more serious, right, than, you know, name calling, that men who are seeking to compete in women's sports are engaging in really abusive, intimidating, and inappropriate behavior on many, many levels.
00:51:47.580And then going down to the level of minors.
00:51:51.580I think you are a feminist, I think you are a feminist in spite of yourself, Steve, because, you know, no one I've heard yet, outside of a very small group of women, like Jennifer Say, the former, I think, Olympian athlete who's been very vocal about this, has expressed so well what the injustices are, as you just did.
00:52:10.080And, you know, again, in spite of your commitment to not being a feminist, that's a very feminist set of empathic comments you made about the struggles of girls.
00:52:32.740They're not going to come up with $60,000 a year to, you know, pay.
00:52:37.740Their families won't pay for that college education.
00:52:40.160If they want a college education, it's going to be through that hard work, that effort, that grit, as you put it, of playing a sport and excelling.
00:52:49.260And the minute you've got a guy in a dress or with a ponytail or whatever de minimis thing, you know, he thinks he needs to do to be called a girl competing, there's the advantage gone.
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