00:03:04.240The mayor saying, quote, Donald Trump should know that as long as federal agents are in our city acting unconstitutionally against our neighbors, we will continue to push back with everything we've got.
00:03:22.240Here are Democratic members of Congress turning up at the local ICE detention facility, the local ICE jail in Minnesota, demanding to be let in because as members of Congress, they are allowed by law to inspect any federal facility like that at any time with no notice.
00:03:38.240But these members of Congress were nevertheless turned away.
00:03:41.240Today, democracy forward went to court to force ICE and force the Trump administration to let those members of Congress in because that, in fact, is the law.
00:03:50.240And again, if they were hoping that their shambolic and chaotic violence would dissuade Americans from standing up to them.
00:04:02.240Well, they do not understand Americans.
00:04:04.240They do not understand how we are wired.
00:04:47.240Additionally, starting February 1st, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens.
00:05:00.240And it breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems that come.
00:05:04.240So we're not making any payment to anybody that supports sanctuary cities.
00:05:09.240This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:06:53.240All these lawsuits that the mayor of Minneapolis has and Walls has, who are all going to go to prison for the scams they've got in bed with the Somalians,
00:07:03.240including the Attorney General Ellison.
00:08:39.240And if the sheriffs in Portland and Los Angeles and Chicago and Minneapolis would stand up and say,
00:08:46.240Our job is to keep the peace and protect people from crime.
00:08:51.240Getting rid of criminals that were brought in during the Biden administration is what we're supposed to be doing.
00:08:57.240These sheriffs should be showing a lot more leadership instead of standing on the sidelines.
00:09:03.240So I would recommend also most of the sheriffs in this country support Trump.
00:09:09.240And I if I were Trump, I would right now if I was sitting right next to him.
00:09:14.240In fact, I would love to help him with this.
00:09:17.240Invite the sheriffs of those areas and especially the surrounding counties to come to his office and come up with a game plan to help DHS and ICE.
00:09:30.240I've already talked to Tom Holman about this several times and get these sheriffs on board.
00:09:36.240A lot of these sheriffs are already in 287 G training.
00:14:34.780Philip Patrick's going to be here. President Trump at the Detroit Economic Club moments ago
00:14:39.840gave a very powerful speech on the state of the economy.
00:14:43.540E.J. and Tony's going to be with us. Philip Patrick is going to be with us.
00:14:46.460Please stick around. You're in the afternoon and early evening edition of The War Room.
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00:16:29.120We're going to revoke the citizenship of any naturalized immigrant from Somalia or anywhere
00:16:35.400else who is convicted of defrauding our citizens. We're going to get them the hell out of here first.
00:16:43.900And if you come to America to rob Americans, we're throwing you in jail and we're sending
00:16:50.040you back to the place from where you came. We're throwing you right in jail. As we liberate our
00:16:55.140country from this cultural scourge and the plague of corruption and fraud, we'll rediscover the
00:17:01.680natural energy and native spirit that truly makes America great again, like we're doing with Detroit
00:17:07.680and Michigan. If we get rid of fraud and do our job properly on the trillions that are being extorted out
00:17:15.100of our country from corrupt and incompetent governors like Gavin Newsom, J.B. Pritzker,
00:17:21.640and Tim Walz. We will very soon have a balanced budget. And that's the kind of money that we're
00:17:27.200talking about. We're talking about massive amounts of money. Our country wasn't built by people who
00:17:32.000tried to lie and cheat and scam their way to success. It was built by legends like Henry Ford,
00:17:38.620Henry Dow, Thomas Edison, the Kellogg brothers, Alfred P. Sloan, the founder of General Motors,
00:17:46.020men who lifted up American workers and strengthened our nation beyond even belief.
00:17:51.480And we're doing the same exact thing right now. I think we're doing it even better.
00:17:55.760This is the fierce spirit of patriotic free enterprise that we're now unleashing.
00:18:00.960Once again, we are unleashing it like maybe never before.
00:18:04.580Last week, we announced that I'm creating a brand new division at the Department of Justice,
00:18:09.180a legal strike force led by a really tough, smart new attorney general for fraud.
00:18:14.660He is a fantastic young guy. He's so impassioned to do this properly.
00:18:20.540We intend to imprison any fraudster, politician or public official involved in these sick plots to
00:18:26.100loot and pillage our country. In addition, I proudly called for the credit card companies to cap interest
00:18:31.840rates at 10 percent for one year because they're getting 28 and 30 percent and 32 percent.
00:18:37.760And it's unfair. The rates are way too high. As part of those efforts at Davos next week,
00:18:46.040I'm going to provide much more detail about our housing policies so that every American who wants to own a home
00:18:52.860will be able to afford one. We have some great things happening with housing.
00:18:56.600As you know, you saw the two hundred billion dollar buy in on bonds and mortgages.
00:19:01.980This will include a ban on large institutional investors buying up single family homes all over the country and making it impossible for people to buy a home.
00:19:13.480And I've also announced that the U.S. government is purchasing two hundred billion dollars of mortgage bonds to bring down mortgage rates.
00:19:19.900And it's had a huge impact already started. And just last week, the average 30 year mortgage drop below six percent for the first time in many years.
00:19:27.960December read on consumer price index. We're expecting a headline number up three tenths of a percent.
00:19:33.880And it delivered. That's exactly what we received up three tenths of a percent.
00:19:39.160Now, if you look at the previous month in August, it was up four tenths.
00:19:42.860September was up three tenths. So this fits right in.
00:19:46.140If you look at X food and energy known as core on a month over month, it's a tenth cooler than expected.
00:19:53.380It's up two tenths. Now, if you look at year over year, up two point seven expected two point seven arrives.
00:20:00.880The one glimmer here on the year over year is the core comes in the tenth light expectations.
00:20:06.440But the two point six level is where we've been.
00:20:09.780And my favorite numbers, and they really are my favorite numbers, Joe.
00:20:13.680If we look at the index, the index on the nonseasonally adjusted index, this started in 1913.
00:20:20.780The index number three hundred and twenty four.
00:20:24.020And why is that important? Because once again, it's a new all time high.
00:20:29.580Pretty much not all the time, but pretty much every month we get a new all time high.
00:20:34.0801913. And if you look at the 1957 rendition, which is the core CPI, it comes in at three thirty one and change.
00:20:45.100And of course, that's also an all time, all time high.
00:20:48.480So, Philip Patrick, I've got you on to make this make sense to me.
00:20:54.420You know, the president is now in a throwdown with the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
00:20:59.200It looks like the markets are supporting the president.
00:21:01.260I mean, they either are a little bit of turbulence in the bond market that that settled out.
00:21:05.580Stock market yesterday, I think S&P 500 all time high.
00:21:09.000Did a little bit of retreat today, but but not much.
00:21:11.460I mean, the markets are supporting him.
00:21:12.860You got this, I think, excellent print or very good print on inflation today.
00:21:18.100And of course, President Trump's down there talking about how we're not going to keep spending on all these social programs.
00:21:23.800So they're obviously stealing the money.
00:21:57.500I think President Trump today did a very good job highlighting the successes so far of his administration.
00:22:04.940He highlighted how capital investment has surged under Trump, how growth has accelerated without massive new entitlement spending, as we saw under the Biden administration.
00:22:16.640Energy costs, very importantly, have stayed contained.
00:22:20.140That is a tax cut for working families.
00:22:22.800I think there's definitely a lot of work to do still, right?
00:22:26.540Growth, although accelerating GDP numbers are strong, it's highly concentrated on the back of AI infrastructure and data centers.
00:23:28.700I mean, Jamie Dimon and all these guys may have a problem.
00:23:31.440Oh, you know, they sit there and they knit their brow and they're saying, you know, we need an independent Fed.
00:23:35.100Well, the money got the stock market hit an all time high yesterday and the bond market is no real turbulence.
00:23:41.560I mean, isn't the money the money gets a vote here.
00:23:44.500Isn't the money saying we're fine with Trump.
00:23:46.740Independence is overrated because Trump's making us so much money.
00:23:50.620The economy's turned around under Biden is about to collapse that the guys running the economy making us so much money.
00:23:56.620If he wants to take on all the Fed chairs, because all the Fed chairs and and the U.S. Senate, the banking committee and all those guys are all sitting there going, Trump's the worst.
00:25:05.360We've got, I think, a carrier strike group somewhere in the Straits of Malacca heading toward the North Arabian Sea.
00:25:10.280All the discussion tonight is going to strike Iran, and I think if he had a target set that said, hey, bang, you drop one there and the Ayatollah falls, he may think about that.
00:25:27.660The Danes are getting ready to send some special operators to Greenland.
00:25:30.820And you've got obviously the situation in Venezuela is the geopolitics.
00:25:36.580Like, why is gold on fire and why is silver on fire when you've got these other markets that are not really in horrible turmoil because of President Trump's challenge?
00:25:47.120Just like Andrew Jackson, like Andrew Jackson said, hey, we don't need a central bank.
00:25:52.480But if we got it, the people are going to control it, not the bankers.
00:25:56.160And I think Trump's saying the same thing.
00:26:32.220But this is interesting times we're living in.
00:26:34.200I think putting economic pressure on the Iranians at 25 percent tariff for anybody doing business with Iran, that's probably the smartest thing to do at the moment.
00:28:48.660Criminals 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.
00:29:01.120Then they take out loans using your equity or even selling your property.
00:29:06.180You won't even know it's happened until you get a collection or foreclosure notice.
00:29:11.840So let me ask you, when was the last time you checked your home title?
00:29:17.640If you're like me, the answer is never.
00:29:21.320And that's exactly what scammers are counting on.
00:30:36.180Remember, Mark was on the show many times during the big steal in 2020, trying to find out what in the hell went on there and get to the bottom of it.
00:30:44.100And I think he was potentially going to run for governor or the Senate.
00:30:47.120He was really a rising star in the Republican Party.
00:30:51.500So we'll get more on that as soon as we get it.
00:30:55.540E.J., talk to me about the numbers you saw this morning, the print on inflation, because Treasury is talking about a disinflationary boom that's coming,
00:31:06.820given we're just getting traction now on the supply side part of the big, beautiful bill.
00:31:12.900Plus, unless the Supreme Court upends it tomorrow, which may be a possibility, the commercial relationships in the world are changed because of tariffs and trade.
00:31:23.120And it's acting as a forcing function to bring capital investment back here, but it doesn't look like it's causing inflation.
00:31:35.080The Supreme Court has a lot of different ways they could go here, not the least of which, which my sources are telling me is a growing possibility among the justices,
00:31:44.220is that they may decide to essentially say that the IEPA tariffs are unconstitutional, but for the sake of not causing chaos,
00:31:53.040they may allow existing ones to stand and just not allow future ones.
00:31:57.020So that means new tariffs would have to be implemented with things like Section 232, for example.
00:32:03.580So the president still has a lot of tools in the toolkit, so to speak.
00:32:06.880It's not as if he will be down and out if the ruling doesn't go his way to one degree or another.
00:32:12.520Now, in terms of the math that we just got today, both the numbers out of the Treasury and the numbers out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics were pretty darn good overall.
00:32:23.660In other words, we're heading in the right direction.
00:32:26.180We are continuing to see a general disinflation trend.
00:32:30.580And by the way, core goods, a category which was supposed to explode in terms of prices because of tariffs, it hasn't.
00:32:39.140In fact, in the last month, not only was the annual rate low, but the month-over-month rate was actually slightly negative, a fraction of a percent.
00:32:48.160So instead of seeing costs explode here, we are seeing the cost of tariffs not passed on to consumers by and large, but mostly eaten by foreign exporters and middlemen, which is a great thing for the American consumer because those customs duties in the first three months of this fiscal year,
00:33:06.500what the Treasury Treasury just told us this afternoon is up to $90 billion for context in the previous fiscal year when we still had Biden in office, that same category of revenue, these customs duties, the income coming in from tariffs, was only $20 billion.
00:33:27.200This is helping reduce the deficit, which is significantly lower right now than it was this time a year ago.
00:33:33.540And again, coming back to these inflation numbers that we're seeing at the consumer level, not only has inflation cooled, but wage growth has not.
00:33:42.400That means paychecks are continuing to get bigger, and more importantly, they buy more than they did a year ago.
00:33:49.260They buy more than they did when Trump took office.
00:33:51.760In fact, the average American's weekly paycheck, Steve, buys about 1.5 percent more now than it did when Trump took office.
00:33:59.060Conversely, under Biden, that average weekly paycheck shrunk, at least in terms of what it could buy, by about 4 percent.
00:35:20.140President Trump, it's kicking in right now.
00:35:22.660The question I have for you, how did all the experts that from Liberation Day all the way to it started kicking in in July, just over and over on MSNBC every night, oh, it's going to blow up.
00:36:02.800They say what they think will sound good.
00:36:05.260They say what they think will sell books or appeal to politicians, whatever the case may be.
00:36:10.500Look, at the end of the day, the same people who have been ragging on President Trump and his policies were the exact same folks cheerleading for Biden.
00:36:18.460And we're dead wrong about inflation being transitory.
00:36:22.600And they also are the same folks who were wrong during the first Trump administration.
00:36:27.020You know, guys like Paul Krugman, after Trump was elected in the first term, he told everybody, look, I've sold my stocks and everyone else should, too, because Trump's going to crash the market.
00:42:27.620It's so important for your strategy and our strategy of the Central Pacific as the new, what is it, as the heartland is on the Eurasian landmass that McKinder made famous.
00:42:38.760Cleo Pascal has made the Central Pacific.
00:42:42.800Tell me what's happened in the defense forum.
00:42:44.180I'm going to hold you through the break, ma'am.
00:42:45.320So I think that the message is finally getting through because one of the keynote speakers was the president of Palau, which is one of the three U.S. freely associated states who is here to talk about what's been going on in the Central Pacific.
00:42:57.900And he's from a country that recognizes Taiwan.
00:43:00.420So he's been on the front line of the Chinese political warfare operations.
00:43:03.360And I think they're starting to understand we need to secure the center of the Pacific, not just through kinetic, but through political warfare.
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00:45:43.800So, Cleo Pascal, there may be a strike in Iran tonight.
00:45:49.260Obviously, the non-interventors are saying economically, you know, Scott Besson gave this speech in March about how the Trump administration is going to put the screws of sanctions and go after their currency.
00:46:20.440The president's going to look at all alternatives.
00:46:21.680But there's a carrier battle group I think is going to maybe assist in that, taking it out of the South China Sea.
00:46:28.040The folks there at this Honolulu Defense Conference, did they buy into your theory of the case and the worst theory of the case that the Central Pacific is the strategic pivot of the Western Hemisphere in America's homeland defense,
00:46:42.680in which President Trump is from Greenland to the Arctic to the Panama Canal to South America.
00:46:48.320We bailed out Argentina, and they paid us back already.
00:46:51.220They paid the $2.5 billion from the $20 billion line we gave them.
00:46:56.900I think we made $50 to $100 million or something.
00:47:00.780And see in Venezuela, we snatched the bad guy and kind of told the regime, you've got to do the following, and we're going to control the oil there.
00:47:06.460And maybe even Guyana, and maybe the Gulf of America, you added to Texas, we're like to the 10th power.
00:47:13.460We don't need the Gulf Emirates anymore.
00:47:19.460Have people there bought off on the fact that that conference you're sitting at is so important because the strategic center of our country happens to be in that vast ocean right in back of you, ma'am?
00:47:32.080So, as mentioned, the only head of state that they have speaking here is the president of Palau, which is right at the Battle of Peleliu.
00:47:39.620A lot of Americans died for Palau to become independent.
00:47:43.180But the challenge is that you have to travel from here in Honolulu, eight hours west, to get to more of the United States in Guam and the CNMI area.
00:47:56.860And that's when Admiral Paparo was speaking at the opening session, and he was asked how important the Indo-Pacific is in the context of hemispheric defense.
00:48:05.940He didn't mention that the U.S. is in Asia.
00:48:08.880The U.S. is on the front line of Asia.
00:48:12.480And if he can't secure the center of the Pacific, he can't secure those Americans sitting way out on the front line.
00:48:19.960This goes back to President McKinley, who said during the Spanish-American War, unless that perimeter is secure, then Oregon and California aren't safe.
00:48:31.860And then we learned during World War II, if the center of the Pacific isn't secured, then the U.S. isn't safe, because that's where the Japanese staged Trump for over 30 years.
00:48:40.480So we're starting to see some recognition, and we're also starting to see exactly what the rest of this hour has been about, which is the confluence of political warfare and economic warfare.
00:48:50.860So you're seeing new levers coming into play.
00:48:53.220And again, in Palau, I think we're starting to see the first roots of a new form of strategic foreign policy.
00:48:59.920They signed a deal with the U.S. on December 23rd, where the U.S. will be able to send up to 75 deportees to Palau.
00:49:08.000That was the headline. But underneath that headline, the U.S. is agreeing to send to Palau, on the ground, law enforcement personnel, cyber personnel, customs integration, people who can actually do the counter-Chinese political warfare operations.
00:49:23.860Specifically, they're going after Chinese corruption and Chinese organized crime in Palau to try to liberate it from that ground-level political warfare grip.
00:49:31.880Because when you see those demonstrations happening in places like Minnesota, and you start to track the money, you can see that not all of it is coming from Americans.
00:49:40.260And even more so, because the Chinese have realized how important the center of the Pacific is to the U.S., they've been doing the same sort of thing there.
00:49:46.620So you need to, along with selling the missiles, you need to have the law enforcement and intelligence sharing in order to be able to go after the sort of destabilization you have on the ground.
00:49:57.880And there's been one good win that happened in the last 24 hours, which is we've covered extensively what happened in Saipan with the Chinese casino.
00:50:08.060ICE has finally arrested the Chinese woman that was heavily involved in setting up that casino.
00:50:14.140Now, it's a good start, but Chinese can still arrive in Saipan, in the United States of America, without a visa.
00:50:33.940And I would just like to quickly say we're talking about public-private partnerships.
00:50:37.700I think you have to have much more involvement of faith communities and missionaries in the region because they're the ones that can really fight the Chinese.
00:50:44.400They're the ones that scare the Chinese on the ground.
00:50:46.300They don't do normal economics, and they can change the balance of power in the region in a way that is the fundamental good versus evil, which is what this fight is actually about.
00:50:56.960I will set you up to talk to a bunch of them.
00:51:05.840The Central Pacific as the strategic pivot of the United States of America.
00:51:10.320Trevor Comstock, Mike Lindell's at a debate today with, I think, 12 people, a huge debate put on by one of the big alpha news, one of the great news services in Minnesota.
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