Bannon's War Room - Episode 5105： Live From Minneapolis; Trump Makes Announcement On Substance Abuse In America

00:00:00.000 He's worried Minneapolis could become Fort Sumter, a reference to the first shots filed in the Civil War.

00:00:06.720 And right now, Mayor Jacob Frey is in Washington speaking about Minneapolis. Let's listen.

00:00:12.240 A political position that differs from that of a federal administration.

00:00:18.600 We've seen this kind of conduct in other countries. We cannot see it right here in America.

00:00:24.380 This is not a Democratic or a Republican issue. Never once have I made this partisan.

00:00:33.220 This is a foundational principle of making sure that the endurance of our Republic can continue on.

00:00:44.160 It may seem like I'm talking too much on the macro level, or maybe this is a concerning thing to say,

00:00:49.580 but I've got to tell you, we're seeing it in our streets right now.

00:00:52.280 And it is up to each and every one of us to partner together, to work together, to protect those ideals that we hold firm.

00:01:02.720 The power of the federal government is awesome.

00:01:08.000 The military force that they have, they've got tanks, they've got bazookas.

00:01:13.660 They can lay siege on American cities with thousands of agents and even troops.

00:01:20.480 Far outnumbering that of local police departments.

00:01:26.780 In Minneapolis, we've heard them say that they will end this siege when we hand over voter rolls.

00:01:37.180 We've seen them attack and invade, not just with this occupation,

00:01:47.480 but also with the Department of Justice being used as a weapon.

00:01:53.800 They're investigating me and several other local elected officials,

00:01:58.800 not because we've done something wrong,

00:02:00.540 but because we have exhibited one of the core responsibilities that both I and you have as mayors.

00:02:07.760 And that is the core and foundational responsibility to speak on behalf of your constituents.

00:02:13.340 Why can he not let 2020 go?

00:02:15.080 Well, because if he lets 2020 go, it undermines his entire narrative to his people, his base,

00:02:22.800 that he has been cheated, that he has been the victim of this grand conspiracy of Democrats

00:02:30.420 and never Trump Republicans who have been out to get him for more than a decade at this point.

00:02:35.340 He is pursuing so many different ways of trying to prove this overarching worldview of his intruding,

00:02:44.060 including investigations of the investigations that he had to go through,

00:02:48.080 including firing any FBI agents or prosecutors who worked on the January 6th cases.

00:02:53.540 So many different ways.

00:02:54.420 You point out a lot of them in the intro to enforce his version of reality

00:02:59.380 so that the history books somehow remember that he actually was elected three times instead of twice.

00:03:04.720 Now, there's no reason to believe that is ever going to be proven,

00:03:08.400 at least to the satisfaction of anybody other than his core supporters.

00:03:12.460 But he has determined, he has discovered that the more he says something,

00:03:16.180 no matter how untrue, no matter how many times his own people have told him it's not true,

00:03:19.960 if he says it enough times and he says it with, you know, passion,

00:03:23.980 a lot of his own supporters tend to believe him.

00:03:26.080 What is Tulsi Ebert doing there?

00:03:28.600 So she hasn't said, Katie, but what I can tell you is she's not there at the invitation of the FBI.

00:03:33.240 This is the FBI's case.

00:03:35.200 They convinced the judge that there was probable cause to conduct a court-ordered search.

00:03:39.280 So there's some evidence that exists that they got in front of a judge.

00:03:42.480 But Tulsi Gabbard, she's the spy chief, right? 0.94

00:03:45.200 Her mandate is foreign intelligence matters.

00:03:48.840 It's worth noting that Fulton County was sort of in the middle of and involved in some of the more bizarre conspiracy theories

00:03:56.340 about foreign involvement in the 2020 election, including that, you know, votes were switched via satellite from Italy

00:04:02.380 and that China and Venezuela were somehow infiltrating and switching ballots through cyber means.

00:04:08.400 All of that has been clearly debunked by the very U.S. intelligence agencies that Tulsi Gabbard is now supervising.

00:04:15.440 And so it really remains to be seen why she's there, what she's going to say about all this.

00:04:21.400 But it does make people wonder whether at least she believes or is trying to suggest that there's some evidence,

00:04:27.340 that there is some foreign involvement here that she's trying to expose. 0.85

00:04:30.840 Certainly Donald Trump has never has never stopped saying that.

00:04:34.760 And and it's just giving a lot of people pause.

00:04:37.860 Ken, is it legal for the FBI to raid an elections office, a state elections office?

00:04:44.980 States run their own elections.

00:04:47.200 Yeah, well, this is a criminal investigation, though.

00:04:49.080 And as I said, they've gotten a judge to sign off on a court ordered search.

00:04:53.840 That happens all the time.

00:04:54.700 And there's no prohibition just because it's an election office.

00:04:57.280 If they have evidence that there was evidence of a crime committed in amid those ballots, they must have something.

00:05:04.640 They have some evidence that they convince an independent magistrate.

00:05:07.080 Remember, not part of the FBI to grant this warrant.

00:05:10.180 What that is remains to be seen because that warrant and that affidavit supporting it are under seal.

00:05:15.440 And so we don't know exactly what the justification was.

00:05:18.620 And it had to have been new evidence, right?

00:05:20.200 Not something that was around in 2020, but something they've just developed.

00:05:24.500 And again, whether this becomes a criminal case, you know, we're a long way from that.

00:05:28.860 The FBI conducts searches all the time and then nothing happens as a result of it.

00:05:32.900 It certainly is troubling, as you heard that local official say,

00:05:35.500 because we have a very clear separation in this country.

00:05:39.020 As you said, states and localities run their own elections, even presidential elections.

00:05:43.780 The federal government has no role in that.

00:05:45.680 And so here they are, you know, with a very heavy handed move.

00:05:49.540 They need to explain it.

00:05:50.880 But Peter, how are we still talking about this?

00:05:52.880 How are we still talking about this?

00:05:54.760 Why does he care anymore?

00:05:57.040 I mean, he won again.

00:05:58.060 He's president right now.

00:05:59.400 Why does he have to go back?

00:06:00.680 Why can't he just let it go?

00:06:03.540 Well, I think he was radicalized in some ways in the last four years, the four years before he came back to office.

00:06:09.520 You know, he became, of course, indicted four times, convicted of 34 felonies, found liable in civil court for business fraud, for sexual abuse and so on.

00:06:18.820 And I think that, you know, he is out to use this term in office to get back at everybody that he thinks wronged him.

00:06:27.020 And that includes the people that he argues somehow in some mysterious way stole the election from him.

00:06:32.100 And you're right.

00:06:32.720 You would think that he having won could move on.

00:06:35.460 But that's just not his style.

00:06:37.280 He wants to go back and find something, anything he can hang a hat on and say, see, I was right.

00:06:42.080 And everybody else is wrong.

00:06:43.120 We got to hold rock solid.

00:06:45.820 We cannot back down.

00:06:47.820 Our cities, our mayors are what will hold this democracy together.

00:06:52.200 Thank you so much.

00:06:55.640 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:07:00.760 Pray for our enemies because we're going to medieval on these people.

00:07:05.860 I got a free shot.

00:07:07.160 All these networks lying about the people.

00:07:10.140 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:07:11.660 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:07:13.560 I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that.

00:07:15.240 But you're not going to stop it.

00:07:16.180 It's going to happen.

00:07:17.460 And where do people like that go to share the big line?

00:07:20.840 Mega media.

00:07:22.200 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:07:27.600 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:07:31.400 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:07:37.580 War Room.

00:07:38.600 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.

00:07:41.660 It's Thursday, 29th January, Year of Our Lord, 2026.

00:07:49.260 Thank you for joining us for the late afternoon, early evening edition of the War Room.

00:07:54.840 Of course, at 6 o'clock, we're going to have War Room, Texas.

00:07:57.180 Please stick around for that because we're going to have Ken Pax and I.

00:07:59.700 We're going to talk about this Muslim invasion of Texas and the effort to remove Sharia law, 1.00

00:08:07.240 ban Sharia law in Texas, which is spreading throughout the country. 0.80

00:08:09.920 We want everybody to be a part of that.

00:08:12.240 Ben Burkham joins us from the very cold streets of Minneapolis.

00:08:16.140 Ben, before I get into what's happened today with Homan, et cetera, since you've been our wingman

00:08:21.460 and, quite frankly, been the tip of the spear in going to Arizona and Georgia and all that,

00:08:27.000 please inform, it wasn't Nicole Wallace, I think it was Katie Turr,

00:08:33.360 President Trump understands that the biggest crime in the history of this country would be the stealing of a presidential election

00:08:38.820 and putting essentially a coup and putting in somebody who didn't win.

00:08:42.600 Biden didn't win.

00:08:43.240 They are so upset that Kash Patel and the FBI went yesterday and seized the document, seized the 528,000 votes.

00:08:52.620 All the other documents they collected, well, or if they still exist, have been destroyed.

00:08:57.120 Plus, Tulsi Gabbard is down there.

00:08:59.180 Obviously, there's an intelligence and national security aspect of this also.

00:09:03.220 Ben, your thoughts.

00:09:04.000 Can you please inform MSNBC and their contributors why the 2020 election is important, sir?

00:09:12.780 Yeah, look, if we don't get that right, we don't have a country.

00:09:15.860 If you don't have borders and you don't have sovereign elections, then you don't have a country.

00:09:20.640 And that's clearly why they don't want it investigated.

00:09:23.580 It's why they didn't want it investigated in 2020.

00:09:25.900 And they've done everything they can to not have it investigated.

00:09:28.800 This idea that, oh, well, he won again.

00:09:32.340 Let's just move on from it.

00:09:33.760 Well, there are people that need to be in prison for a very long time that you do not move on from.

00:09:39.220 If they're allowed to get away with 2020, there is nothing stopping them from doing it in 2028 or in 2032 or in any other election coming up.

00:09:48.240 There has to be retribution or justice, whatever you want to call it.

00:09:52.620 There has to be justice in this case.

00:09:55.520 Now, let's call it retribution.

00:09:57.480 First off, you're freezing in the streets of Minneapolis because of the stolen election.

00:10:02.840 They had to steal the election first to get in and then allow 10 to 15 million.

00:10:07.560 What are you talking about, MSNBC?

00:10:09.500 Of course it's important.

00:10:11.460 This is how you – there was a triggering event for invasion of the country.

00:10:16.300 And now you sit there and whine every day, oh, the little boy's in the hat and the mommy's here and all that.

00:10:21.060 Hey, we don't care.

00:10:22.340 We don't want family separation.

00:10:23.660 We want to bundle them all up and send them back home.

00:10:26.780 Send them back home, all of them, not just the bad hombre. 0.91

00:10:29.520 So talk to me today.

00:10:30.400 The targeted things, it's a big steal.

00:10:33.220 We're out of Maine.

00:10:33.920 You know that detail is there.

00:10:35.140 So tell me about Maine.

00:10:36.580 Tell me about targeted enforcement.

00:10:38.440 I understand we don't have the flying squads on the street anymore.

00:10:42.380 So what do we got, Ben?

00:10:45.300 That's actually pretty quiet.

00:10:46.480 Right behind me you've got the Alex Preddy Memorial.

00:10:48.680 I'm actually out here celebrating and memorializing the lives of the hundreds of thousands of American citizens killed by illegal aliens, 0.99

00:10:57.400 not the criminals that are getting in ICE's way.

00:10:59.880 But this is what you have.

00:11:01.060 It's pretty quiet because, you know, they don't have anyone to obstruct today because ICE and Border Patrol aren't down in the streets.

00:11:08.260 Now, they're still conducting their targeted operations.

00:11:10.880 So when the rapid response networks hear about them, they're still going after them.

00:11:15.680 They're still blowing their whistles.

00:11:16.740 They're still trying to obstruct them.

00:11:18.680 But you're not seeing the clashes that you were seeing in the streets as you had for the last month.

00:11:26.640 But going back to your point real quick, Steve, you're absolutely right.

00:11:29.460 We wouldn't have 15 million or 20 million or however many million illegals in this country to go get if we hadn't got the stolen election.

00:11:36.060 That's why all of this is tied together.

00:11:37.840 And the same people that were a part of stealing the election were also a part of the ones inviting in the invasion who are now a part of obstructing ICE in their operations.

00:11:45.480 That's why they all have to be all have to be held accountable.

00:11:50.260 It's all got to be transparent.

00:11:52.080 Ben, did we blink?

00:11:55.400 I mean, look, here's my point.

00:11:57.780 Fry and Waltz, these guys are on TV.

00:12:00.140 They're not talking about anything conciliatory.

00:12:02.160 They're still sanctuary cities.

00:12:03.640 They're not going to work with ICE.

00:12:05.500 They want ICE out.

00:12:06.620 Fry goes to D.C. to this mayor's conference.

00:12:09.120 Once again, everybody's a Nazi. 0.99

00:12:10.800 Everybody's a fascist. 1.00

00:12:12.220 These are the worst people in the world. 1.00

00:12:13.640 They're jackbooted. 1.00

00:12:14.820 You know, all they're doing is murdering citizens.

00:12:17.060 There's no reaching out to President Trump as President Trump has sent Tom Homan there.

00:12:20.940 And that's a different Tom Homan we see.

00:12:22.840 Look, as you know, we're huge Tom Homan fans.

00:12:25.020 But is the wrong signal being sent here of too much conciliation, sir?

00:12:29.700 I mean, my gut feeling is yes.

00:12:33.560 Some of that will be yet to be seen.

00:12:35.380 Just keep in mind, though, all of these operations, these surge operations, were temporary by nature.

00:12:40.080 So we saw it in Chicago.

00:12:41.480 We saw it in L.A.

00:12:42.940 The one in Maine they're talking about ending.

00:12:45.400 We saw it in Charlotte and in New Orleans as well.

00:12:48.860 And so what they've been doing is this all-of-government surge approach,

00:12:52.700 going targeted demographics or jurisdictions,

00:12:55.640 and everybody going at once to get the most amount of people you possibly can.

00:12:58.860 And then moving on to different jurisdictions.

00:13:01.040 I anticipate that's basically what is happening here.

00:13:04.100 They've been here for over a month.

00:13:05.880 In some ways, it's time to move to another location.

00:13:08.300 I got it.

00:13:08.680 I got it.

00:13:09.080 I got it.

00:13:09.500 But, yes, to the general public.

00:13:10.800 I got tens of thousands of Somalians.

00:13:12.880 I got tens.

00:13:14.320 Yeah, but hang on.

00:13:15.100 I got tens of thousands of Somalians.

00:13:16.740 I still got them stealing.

00:13:18.860 They're laughing at you right now.

00:13:20.640 President Trump's trying to be conciliatory.

00:13:22.280 Okay, we tried 24 hours to be conciliatory.

00:13:25.580 Now we got to get the flying squads back out there.

00:13:27.860 We need the mass deportations. 0.84

00:13:29.700 First off, Ellison said, told Holman, he may, he may, like it's a privilege,

00:13:35.360 he may turn over the criminals they already have in jails.

00:13:39.100 Tom Holman couldn't have been more conciliatory today.

00:13:42.540 That was like a new Tom Holman, right?

00:13:45.240 You know, very gentle, very nice.

00:13:47.400 Fine.

00:13:48.000 But they're just sitting there laughing in your face.

00:13:50.940 They're not changing.

00:13:52.060 They're, they're, they're, it's a sanctuary city.

00:13:55.620 They're not going to let the feds do anything. 0.88

00:13:57.080 Go ahead, sir.

00:13:58.900 Yeah, no, nothing's going to change until they destroy our country and remake it in their communist image. 1.00

00:14:03.380 These are terrorists. 0.99

00:14:04.320 These are domestic terrorists that want to destroy this country. 0.99

00:14:06.480 That's it.

00:14:06.980 You can't barter.

00:14:07.920 You can't, you can't negotiate with terrorists.

00:14:09.880 If you can freeze for a few more minutes, I want you to stick around a bit.

00:14:16.460 Ben Burquam, on the streets of Minneapolis, we're going to go out with, you hated this song so much this morning from Bruce Springsteen.

00:14:24.600 Yes, we're going to play it again.

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00:16:30.780 Here's your host, Stephen K.

00:16:32.860 Bannon.

00:16:35.560 Okay, we've got Ben Birkholms on the streets of Minneapolis.

00:16:37.940 Peter, Philip Patrick is going to join us here in a second.

00:16:42.320 We're going to talk about gold and silver.

00:16:44.180 I want to bring in Tom Simon.

00:16:45.320 Tom, you were an FBI special agent in the field for 26 years?

00:16:50.480 Yes, sir.

00:16:51.040 Yeah.

00:16:53.360 Of course, yesterday, our whole hour was about the cash in the FBI in this raid down in Fulton County.

00:16:58.820 I'll have more on that by the end of the hour.

00:17:01.920 Tom, the reason we have you on here is about I'm very concerned, particularly in times of financial turbulence.

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00:17:46.420 Absolutely.

00:17:46.980 Let me tell you a story that might illustrate that, Steve.

00:17:49.200 Anyone who's ever been a landlord has probably dealt with a tenant from hell.

00:17:53.080 But I've never heard of a tenant as bad as Jorge Vincente of Gilderland, New York.

00:17:59.160 It's near Albany.

00:18:00.380 Jorge was in a $750,000 house as a tenant that he was renting, but he wasn't paying the rent.

00:18:06.280 And when the owners of the home, his landlords, began to try to evict him,

00:18:10.480 what Jorge did is he went into his county clerk's office and filed a deed transferring ownership of their house

00:18:17.780 into the name of his stepfather, whose identity he had stolen.

00:18:21.120 And this is so easy to do because the clerk of courts and the counties,

00:18:25.000 they aren't taking a look at the legitimacy of these deeds when they get filed to transfer ownership.

00:18:29.180 Their job is just to record the deed.

00:18:31.080 Then when the sheriffs came to kick Jorge out, he was able to produce fake paperwork,

00:18:35.180 actually it was real paperwork from the county, saying that his stepfather was in fact the owner of the house.

00:18:40.520 Now the real landlords went back and they filed charges against him,

00:18:44.280 and he was arrested criminally for filing a false instrument.

00:18:47.160 He actually took the case to trial, and after a three-day trial, he was convicted of that crime,

00:18:52.180 and he's looking at up to 10 years in prison when he's sentenced in two weeks.

00:18:55.660 But I think the key to this whole thing and the real tragedy here is that the landlords who rightfully own this house,

00:19:01.140 who had it stolen from them by Jorge,

00:19:03.760 they need to go through a civil process hiring attorneys to restore that home back into their name 0.97

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00:19:27.160 In all your experience, and once this happens, I tell people it's about opportunity costs.

00:19:31.520 Your entire life, I mean, you can't be a member of the Warren Posse because we're sending people to the ramparts,

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00:19:42.100 Once this happens to you, all the angst and everything takes over because, you know,

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00:19:51.100 The thing that 90% of your net worth is in, essentially the modern savings account, is now in jeopardy.

00:19:58.240 And that's all, you get sleepless nights, high blood pressure, you have a stroke,

00:20:01.800 because you're sitting there going, this is a nightmare, I'm in a Kafkaesque nightmare, sir.

00:20:05.740 Exactly. And as you pointed out, for most Americans, myself included, the equity in your home is your single largest asset.

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00:20:37.060 Tom, thank you so much.

00:20:38.820 By the way, thanks for the 26 years in the field.

00:20:41.100 You didn't work at headquarters, right?

00:20:43.240 I stayed far away from headquarters.

00:20:45.000 I don't want to get involved with the politics there.

00:20:47.160 I like working cases and putting bad guys in prison.

00:20:49.180 Thank you, brother.

00:20:52.300 Appreciate you coming.

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00:20:57.820 Tom Simon.

00:21:00.400 Oh, my God.

00:21:01.120 Philip Patrick joins us by phone.

00:21:02.700 Philip, thank you for carving out a little time today.

00:21:04.480 I know it's absolutely crazy.

00:21:06.940 Philip, explain to the audience why, what, four or five years ago you and I worked on this thing and said,

00:21:12.000 hey, why don't we do this series called End of the Dollar Empire?

00:21:15.040 Because the whole world's built on the Bretton Woods system, and the dollar is the prime reserve currency.

00:21:21.080 But with this guy Biden, who looks like he's crazy with these Democrats, they could spend so much money in the next couple of years having stolen the election that they could actually put the dollar under assault.

00:21:31.600 And the dollar has lost 28 percent of its value since then.

00:21:35.340 Philip Patrick, what does that mean to our audience?

00:21:37.260 I mean, it's everything, right?

00:21:40.700 It's everything that we do is reliant on U.S. dollars.

00:21:43.860 And you rightly point out, you know, Biden was in office for a fairly short space of time.

00:21:48.940 It was one term.

00:21:49.880 And the damage he did, I think, in many ways was irreparable.

00:21:53.780 Not only was it amassing, I think it was $9 trillion of debt in a very short space of time,

00:21:59.240 but he also weaponized our dollar against Russia and, in doing so, told the world the U.S. could not be trusted.

00:22:07.160 It is not a safe place to hold assets anymore.

00:22:10.460 And it led to a global scramble away from the U.S. dollar and broadly diversification.

00:22:17.580 I think that the damage that was done under that administration, Trump is trying to undo.

00:22:24.040 It is one of the toughest jobs we, you know, anybody in history, you know, has had in front of them.

00:22:29.220 But, you know, the situation is dire.

00:22:31.280 And for us, as you pointed out many times, we saw the writing on the wall, I think, earlier than most.

00:22:37.040 And it was just a case of getting out there and trying to educate as many people as possible.

00:22:42.060 It's why, you know, you wanted to push forward with the end of the dollar empire.

00:22:45.500 I know clients love it.

00:22:47.640 Those that have read it and listened have seen the benefits in their retirement with what's happening with precious metals.

00:22:54.100 Unfortunately, and fortunately for those clients, I think we've got a lot of scope for movement still in gold and silver.

00:23:01.000 I think we've got some tough times in front of us.

00:23:03.360 We have a world that is changing, and precious metals are becoming a very important part of that new world.

00:23:10.680 Okay, my phone's blowing up, number one, from people saying, hey, thank you for doing this series.

00:23:14.800 I understand you just didn't talk about the price of gold.

00:23:17.740 You actually, you and Philip and the team of Birch Gold actually gave us documents to educate us, to learn pattern recognition, to learn really about, you know, a little bit about global capital markets.

00:23:27.540 And particularly why gold was just not a hedge against times of financial turbulence, which it always has been, and why we're going to go through financial turbulence.

00:23:35.600 But also that has become actually a new asset class, like back in the 19th century, right, a financial asset.

00:23:43.340 But there are a lot of people.

00:23:44.480 So half of it was saying, hey, thank you guys so much.

00:23:46.460 I got in years ago.

00:23:47.460 I love it.

00:23:48.460 I'm going to add more.

00:23:49.400 But there's other people saying, hey, Steve, it hit $5,500 today.

00:23:52.940 When you and Philip first started talking, it was like $1,000 or $1,100.

00:23:56.820 That's a hell of a run.

00:23:58.440 Have I missed it?

00:23:59.260 And I see some profit taking.

00:24:00.680 So I said you were magisterial the other day when you walked through all of it.

00:24:05.220 I know you don't have the time.

00:24:06.140 We don't.

00:24:06.400 But give us two or three minutes for those folks who are sitting there going, did I miss this move, and should I just sit this one out?

00:24:11.660 Look, the answer is absolutely not.

00:24:15.800 And I'll sort of touch on what I said before.

00:24:18.440 The world is changing around us, right?

00:24:20.740 Governments around the world are borrowing trillions of dollars a year.

00:24:23.680 Central banks are boxed in.

00:24:26.160 And investors are starting to question whether IOU's promises to pay can really be honored.

00:24:31.340 We got Ray Dalio at Davos telling people that if you don't own gold, you understand neither economics nor history.

00:24:39.200 Look, look at what's driving the movement.

00:24:43.020 This is coming from central banks.

00:24:45.000 This is the smartest money in the world.

00:24:47.600 They are broadly moving away from currency, away from debt, back towards sound money.

00:24:54.660 Gold's price, gold is not valued like other things.

00:24:57.720 Gold's price is a reflection of the value of currency.

00:25:00.820 If currency falls, gold prices will move up regardless.

00:25:04.400 I've used the example many times, but, you know, World War I Germany, an ounce of gold was 142 German Reichsmarks.

00:25:12.200 After a period of hyperinflation, 10 years later, it was 87 trillion German Reichsmarks.

00:25:18.440 Now, I certainly don't think we're heading in that direction in the United States.

00:25:22.640 But like I said the other day, I think gold largely has been undervalued for a long time.

00:25:28.120 And I think in a changing world where trust is breaking down broadly, gold is being repriced to the reality of the modern system.

00:25:36.960 So I am in the camp now that we will see $10,000 an ounce gold in the not-too-distant future.

00:25:44.200 I think we've got a lot of scope for growth.

00:25:46.400 And I think the real risk today is not owning gold.

00:25:50.180 I think I said it last time you spoke.

00:25:52.360 Central banks are not buying gold because it's going up.

00:25:55.140 Gold is going up because central banks are buying gold, and they are continuing to do it.

00:26:01.500 And they're not looking at trades.

00:26:03.100 I mean, they're buying and holding this, right?

00:26:04.600 I think the significant thing about this record rate of central banks buying it, these guys like the Polish bank bought the other day.

00:26:09.960 Before you bounce, I just want to go back to Ray Dalio.

00:26:12.020 Ray Dalio, Philip and I came out of the investment banking community in the 80s and 90s, early 2000s,

00:26:17.740 where gold was looked like, as Cain said, a barbaric and ancient relic.

00:26:22.520 It really wasn't discussed in any meaningful way.

00:26:24.980 Ray Dalio, Bridgewater, who I think is one of the largest hedge fund operators, he says the same thing.

00:26:30.120 But he comes at it from a different angle.

00:26:32.060 He says there's $380 trillion of debt.

00:26:35.100 You're going to have a margin call.

00:26:36.460 The world's way too levered.

00:26:38.360 In that case, he's looking at gold not simply as a hedge.

00:26:41.560 He's also looking at it as another financial asset to look at.

00:26:44.660 We've got about a minute, Philip.

00:26:45.880 Your thoughts on that?

00:26:47.820 Listen, it's hard to look at it in any other way, right?

00:26:51.240 The criticism of gold when we were bankers was this is an asset that doesn't perform,

00:26:56.320 and it didn't relative to other asset classes last century.

00:27:00.800 But as we've said, it's an entirely different picture this century.

00:27:05.380 Gold and silver have dwarfed growth in most asset classes,

00:27:09.760 and it's because of what's changed at the turn of the century.

00:27:13.160 This century so far has been characterized by rising debt, massive money printing, and huge calls.

00:27:20.120 And in those climates, people move away from paper promises,

00:27:23.560 and they move towards sound money and tangible assets.

00:27:26.480 And that's the world we are heading into.

00:27:28.500 Okay, you need to talk to Philip Patrick and his team.

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00:27:52.100 In the eighth free installment, I've now approved the graphics.

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00:28:05.580 Philip Patrick, thank you so much, brother.

00:28:07.240 Appreciate you.

00:28:07.900 I'll let you go back to work.

00:28:09.620 Thank you, Steve.

00:28:10.440 Have a good one.

00:28:11.080 Cheers.

00:28:13.280 Thank you, sir.

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00:31:05.940 I'm here in a little while, but there's nothing more important than what we're doing right now, in my opinion.

00:31:12.860 Today I'm signing a historic executive order to combat the scourge of addiction and substance abuse.

00:31:20.220 Big deal in this country and probably in every country.

00:31:23.080 We're calling it the Great American Recovery Initiative.

00:31:28.580 I'm grateful to be joined by co-chairs of this sweeping new effort, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

00:31:36.080 and Senior Advisor to the White House, Great American Recovery Initiative, Catherine Burgum.

00:31:42.780 Thank you both very much.

00:31:44.740 Thank you, Catherine.

00:31:45.600 Thank you, sir.

00:31:46.500 Thank you.

00:31:47.420 Where's Bobby?

00:31:48.340 Bobby?

00:31:49.220 Hello, Bobby.

00:31:50.040 Come make me a hand.

00:31:50.980 I love Bobby.

00:31:51.720 You're doing a great job, Catherine, right?

00:31:55.180 Do we think so?

00:31:56.020 Who's doing a better job, him or your husband?

00:31:59.320 Maybe the husband's doing a good job.

00:32:02.180 I'm just getting started, sir.

00:32:03.280 They're both doing very well.

00:32:04.440 I know you're going to do better than both.

00:32:06.780 Thanks as well to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary Doug Burgum, Secretary Scott Turner,

00:32:13.440 Secretary Doug Collins, Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff, who's got some pretty good news, Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, FDA Commissioner, Dr. Marty McCary, NIH Director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.

00:32:28.200 Oh, I've gotten good at that, Chief of Staff, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmet Oz, who's doing a fantastic job, and Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Sarah Carter.

00:32:45.440 I also want to introduce a great friend of mine who happened to be here, and he's very much committed to this.

00:32:53.280 He knows how important it is for our country.

00:32:55.380 He's built a tremendous American company.

00:33:00.300 It's called WeatherTech.

00:33:01.500 I guess you've seen the ads.

00:33:02.680 I've seen the ads.

00:33:03.680 I think they're great ads.

00:33:04.700 But more importantly, it's a great product.

00:33:07.180 David McNeil.

00:33:08.380 David, congratulations on what you've done.

00:33:10.420 It's incredible.

00:33:11.240 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:33:12.160 Thank you, really great.

00:33:13.780 And the President of WeatherTech, Ryan Granger.

00:33:17.480 Ryan, congratulations.

00:33:19.060 What a great job.

00:33:20.640 They built an American company, and it's a thriving company, too, so with a great product.

00:33:26.660 It's great to be here in America.

00:33:28.020 You know, when I was in the private sector, I'd always buy the floor mats, but now that I'm the, now that I'm President, I no longer have to buy floor mats.

00:33:34.840 But you made a great floor mat, and you still do, and lots of other things.

00:33:38.940 Many of those with me today have personally known the heartache of a loved one taken by drug or alcohol addiction.

00:33:47.160 I do.

00:33:48.200 Just like millions of American families, every year we lose an estimated 300,000 people to drug and alcohol abuse.

00:33:55.200 And the real number is probably much, much higher than that.

00:33:59.340 Thankfully, drug overdose deaths plummeted by 21% in the last year.

00:34:03.900 We're working very hard on it.

00:34:05.200 We've closed the southern border, seized over 47 million fentanyl pills and 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder.

00:34:14.060 That's a record.

00:34:14.880 And I have formally designated doctor, and I'll tell you what, we have a group of doctors, some of them behind me, who have just been incredible.

00:34:26.460 And they've really wanted this, designated the drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

00:34:32.540 And for some reason, they didn't want to do that until we came along.

00:34:35.620 But they are indeed foreign terrorist organizations.

00:34:39.060 With our action in the Gulf of America, that sounds so nice when I hear the Gulf of America, drugs entering our country by sea are down 97%.

00:34:49.380 So when you see the boats being hit, those boats kill, on average, 25,000 people a boat.

00:34:57.020 So that's 25,000, I would assume, mostly American lives, but lives are being saved.

00:35:02.780 Now we're taking a bold action to help Americans struggling with all forms of addiction so they can get the help and the support that they need to free themselves from the horrible burden of dependency.

00:35:14.120 The Great American Recovery Initiative will bring together federal, state, local, and private sector resources to support addiction, recovery, treatment, and prevention.

00:35:25.780 And it will help mobilize the full resources and authority of the federal government to help stop this tremendous plague.

00:35:32.780 And I'd now like to invite Secretary Kennedy to start, and then Catherine Burgum.

00:35:37.400 And then I'll sign the order, which I've just signed.

00:35:40.120 And I wanted to make sure the signature was good, took my time.

00:35:45.400 And let me just see.

00:35:46.940 Pretty good.

00:35:47.680 Not, not, pretty good.

00:35:50.240 Let's give it a 10, okay?

00:35:52.420 For Catherine.

00:35:53.820 But I'd like Bobby to say a few words, and Catherine, thank you very much, everybody.

00:35:58.200 Please.

00:35:58.660 Mr. President, thank you for your leadership, for signing an executive order that tells the truth about one of the greatest challenges that our country faces.

00:36:07.580 Addiction is not a moral failure.

00:36:09.200 Here, it is a disease.

00:36:11.080 It's chronic.

00:36:11.920 It's treatable.

00:36:13.500 And for too long, our nation has responded with fragmentation, with stigmatization, and silence, instead of science, compassion, and coordination.

00:36:24.080 Today, President Trump changes that.

00:36:26.340 With the Great American Recovery Initiative, we finally bring the full strength of the federal government together across health care, law enforcement, housing, labor, faith communities, and the private sector to save lives, restore families, and rebuild communities that addiction has hollowed out.

00:36:44.840 Nearly 50 million Americans suffer from substance use disorder.

00:36:49.920 Many never receive treatment.

00:36:52.220 Even more don't believe that help is possible.

00:36:54.660 That is not because recovery doesn't work.

00:36:57.820 It's because our systems have failed to reach the people where they are early enough, long enough, and with dignity.

00:37:05.000 This initiative fixes that.

00:37:07.560 We will align federal programs instead of letting them operate in silos.

00:37:11.440 We will set clear, measurable goals and report honestly to the American people.

00:37:17.480 We will use evidence-based care, modern science, and continuous support, just as we do for heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses.

00:37:26.900 We will focus on prevention before addiction takes hold.

00:37:30.820 We will intervene early.

00:37:32.360 We will expand access to treatment that leads to real, long-term recovery.

00:37:38.480 And we will support re-entry because recovery does not end when treatment ends.

00:37:43.980 It succeeds when people return to their families, their jobs, and their communities with purpose and with hope.

00:37:50.240 As co-chair of this initiative alongside of Catherine Burgum, whose leadership and commitment strengthens this work, I pledge urgency, accountability, and honesty.

00:38:00.500 Catherine and I share the experience of having been addicted and long-term recovery.

00:38:08.720 Almost everybody in this room and almost everybody in our country has been touched by addiction.

00:38:14.600 Steve Witkoff, who is here, had an extraordinary son, Andrew, who was a superstar boy, a straight-A student, an athlete, and a wonderful leader.

00:38:27.960 And lost that son to addiction.

00:38:31.700 President Trump has talked about his own family's struggle with addiction.

00:38:37.400 All of us are touched.

00:38:38.760 If it touches these people, it can hurt every American.

00:38:43.760 And President Trump has often talked about, with compassion, about the families who lose children to this disease.

00:38:50.980 100,000 children a year until recently.

00:38:53.400 Now it's about 76,000.

00:38:56.360 Those families are devastated forever.

00:38:59.360 And the cost to our country, not only in dollars, but in just the malaise and the despair that it imposes is incalculable.

00:39:08.980 We are going to listen to states, localities, frontline providers, and tribal nations.

00:39:14.800 We will partner with communities and faith-based organizations.

00:39:18.200 We will work with employers, clinicians, and recovery leaders who know what works on the ground.

00:39:24.660 President Trump has already acted, decisively securing the border against deadly drugs, signing the HALT-Fentanyl Act, strengthening treatment programs,

00:39:35.260 expanding access to nalaxone, medication-assisted treatments, and investing billions in prevention and recovery.

00:39:42.380 This executive order builds on that record and accelerates it.

00:39:48.620 Recovery is not a side issue.

00:39:50.700 It's an economic issue.

00:39:52.640 A workforce issue, a family issue, a national security issue.

00:39:57.600 When Americans recover, communities grow stronger.

00:40:00.500 When families heal, children thrive.

00:40:03.900 And when we confront addiction with courage instead of complacency, we reclaim the promise of our country.

00:40:09.340 This initiative is about life, it's about responsibility, and it's about building a great American recovery together.

00:40:18.000 With this executive order and with major announcements that I will announce next week,

00:40:24.660 we are taking decisive action to make America healthy again.

00:40:28.040 Thank you.

00:40:28.760 Thank you, Bobby, and great job.

00:40:30.560 And you're doing a fantastic job.

00:40:33.260 He's doing a fantastic job.

00:40:35.200 And I saw his wife yesterday, and she confirmed that he's doing a fantastic job.

00:40:40.440 So she's on your side.

00:40:41.640 You know that.

00:40:42.580 Which is great.

00:40:43.940 And, Oz, thank you for being here.

00:40:45.220 We appreciate it.

00:40:46.300 Catherine, please.

00:40:47.120 Go ahead.

00:40:47.700 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:40:49.460 Thank you so much.

00:40:50.740 Your leadership today, relative to this announcement about the great American recovery,

00:40:55.700 is a gift to all Americans who are suffering from the brain disease of addiction.

00:41:00.240 And I also want to thank First Lady Melania Trump for her leadership during your first administration, 0.70

00:41:08.080 and now the work she's doing championing youth and children, especially related to foster care,

00:41:14.680 where early trauma and instability are often consequences of the disease of addiction.

00:41:19.720 Addictions touch this administration in real and profound ways.

00:41:22.900 President Trump, you've openly spoke about your brother, Fred, whose struggle with addiction shaped your life

00:41:29.940 and your understanding of this disease.

00:41:32.300 And Susie Wiles carries the lived experience of her father, the late, great Pat Summerall,

00:41:37.680 whose recovery journey became a source of hope for millions.

00:41:41.640 Vice President Vance has shared his story of his mother's battle and recovery.

00:41:46.640 And as Secretary Kennedy just said, he brings his own lived experience,

00:41:50.140 proof that recovery is not theoretical, it is possible.

00:41:54.940 These stories matter because they are not isolated.

00:41:57.940 They reflect the reality of the over 190 million Americans,

00:42:03.440 that's half our nation,

00:42:05.480 who are impacted in some way by the disease of addiction.

00:42:09.680 And I am one of them.

00:42:11.760 I started drinking in high school,

00:42:13.760 and I was a blackout drinker from the start.

00:42:15.760 For 20 years, I struggled, relapsing constantly,

00:42:21.280 constantly starting over,

00:42:23.540 constantly trying to stay sober and failing.

00:42:26.760 And I reached a point where I truly did not believe

00:42:28.720 there was one single reason for me to keep living,

00:42:31.300 and I was suicidal at the end of my drinking.

00:42:34.380 One day, I was out walking alone.

00:42:36.700 I didn't have faith.

00:42:37.920 I wasn't religious.

00:42:39.360 But something in me said I should ask for help.

00:42:41.860 And out loud to no one, because it was just me,

00:42:46.320 I said, I don't know if anyone is there, but I need help.

00:42:50.620 And that was the day I became sober.

00:42:54.080 15 years later, I found myself somehow standing in front of people

00:42:58.020 as First Lady of North Dakota, thanks to him.

00:43:01.780 But I was asking people to share their stories openly about addiction

00:43:05.840 so we could eliminate the shame and stigma,

00:43:07.680 so more people would reach out for help and more lives could be saved.

00:43:12.280 And today, I'm standing here in this incredibly beautiful Oval Office.

00:43:17.300 And if not for the grace of God, I would not be alive today

00:43:20.100 with over 23 years in recovery.

00:43:22.460 Thank you.

00:43:27.940 That's why I'm here.

00:43:29.140 My message is simple.

00:43:30.140 Never give up hope for recovery.

00:43:32.100 Mr. President, I also want to thank you for allowing me to stand here with you today.

00:43:35.760 I was in this building in 2017 when the administration announced

00:43:40.040 the national response to the opioid crisis.

00:43:42.900 And nearly a decade later, the crisis remains,

00:43:45.240 and in many ways, it has grown worse.

00:43:47.580 Not because we lacked compassion, not because we lack effort,

00:43:51.560 but because we never fully aligned our system with the truth.

00:43:55.200 Addiction is not a moral failure.

00:43:57.080 It is not a character flaw.

00:43:58.540 And it's not simply a behavioral issue.

00:44:01.140 Addiction is a lifelong chronic relapsing medical disease.

00:44:04.260 It's as real as diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.

00:44:09.480 And when we fail to treat it as such, we don't treat the disease.

00:44:13.020 And we pay mightily for the consequences.

00:44:16.460 Emergency rooms, jails, foster care, overdose deaths, and broken families.

00:44:21.880 The Great American Recovery changes that.

00:44:26.560 This initiative represents a fundamental shift from reaction to prevention,

00:44:30.600 from fragmentation to coordination, from stigma to science,

00:44:34.440 from short-term fixes to long-term recovery.

00:44:37.360 And for the first time, we're aligning federal leadership across health, justice,

00:44:41.460 labor, housing, veterans, social services, the faith office,

00:44:45.040 and education around one single shared truth.

00:44:50.220 When addiction is treated early and correctly, people recover and families heal.

00:44:56.720 Addiction is a generational disease, and if we don't treat it properly,

00:45:00.640 it repeats from parent to child, from community to community.

00:45:05.360 And when we treat it like a lifelong condition, the condition that it is, we stop that cycle.

00:45:12.900 We save lives, we restore families, we rebuild communities,

00:45:16.900 we return people to dignity, purpose, and productivity.

00:45:20.840 Mr. President, thank you for seeing this moment clearly.

00:45:25.000 With your leadership and the Great American Recovery Initiative,

00:45:28.360 we're establishing a new framework and a new national response to the disease of addiction,

00:45:33.400 including treatment and care that parallels other chronic diseases.

00:45:38.580 With this framework and treatment, recovery is not the exception, it is the expectation.

00:45:46.080 Thank you.

00:45:47.160 Thank you, darling.

00:45:51.440 You know, I saw them riding horses in a video, and they said,

00:45:59.080 Who is that?

00:45:59.800 I was talking about her, not him.

00:46:01.600 And when they explained it, I said, I'm going to hire him.

00:46:05.360 Because anybody has somebody like you to be with, it's an amazing tribute.

00:46:11.440 And it's a great couple, amazing couple.

00:46:13.560 And she's very much a part of his big success.

00:46:16.320 He was a fantastic success, as you know, having been one of the most successful business people.

00:46:22.240 And I saw him campaigning, a great governor, two-term governor.

00:46:28.060 He was, did a fantastic job, North Dakota.

00:46:32.680 And he's done a great job.

00:46:34.580 And I'll tell you what, Catherine's a very big part of it.

00:46:37.260 I see it.

00:46:37.980 It's just really one of the fantastic couples.

00:46:40.540 So I appreciate it.

00:46:41.640 What a beautiful job you've just done.

00:46:43.200 And I want to give this to you, and you can figure out what you're going to do with Bobby.

00:46:48.520 You know?

00:46:50.200 But let's have a good picture of the two of them and everyone else.

00:46:53.300 And I'd like to ask Steve Whitcoff also to say a couple of words when we're finished,

00:46:57.220 because he's a very special person who I knew very well.

00:47:03.340 An incredible person.

00:47:04.820 So if you don't mind, Steve, I'll ask you to do that in just a second.

00:47:08.500 All right?

00:47:09.520 Please, Bob.

00:47:17.940 Okay.

00:47:18.640 Thank you very much, you, Catherine.

00:47:20.280 Thank you very much.

00:47:21.180 Thank you.

00:47:22.080 Great to do that.

00:47:23.020 Thank you so much.

00:47:24.080 Steve, please.

00:47:27.480 The President is doing the same thing to me now that he did to me in 2017.

00:47:33.500 Do you remember, Catherine?

00:47:34.320 Yeah, we were sitting next to each other.

00:47:35.940 Yeah.

00:47:36.240 Yes.

00:47:36.980 So I want to tell the story about this.

00:47:40.480 So I came to the opioid conference, and the President did not know I was coming,

00:47:46.440 because I was invited by the First Lady.

00:47:48.740 And he leaned over, saw me in the aisle, and he looked at me and he said,

00:47:52.800 Steve, and then he realized why I was there, because I had lost my son, Andrew.

00:47:58.440 And the President was an incredible friend when I lost him.

00:48:02.200 I lived in his building.

00:48:03.460 And I remember when him and the First Lady came, and I talked about this all the time.

00:48:09.500 And so he took my hand, and he said to me, come on up to the stage and tell the world about your boy, Andrew.

00:48:18.100 And, of course, that was, you know, something that was really meaningful to me, but, and I got through it.

00:48:25.760 And I talk about it all the time.

00:48:27.800 I talked about it on the campaign trail and so forth.

00:48:30.140 He is a very special man.

00:48:31.460 And he's begun and led the fight against opioid addiction and alcoholism.

00:48:38.000 And, Catherine, I feel like we sort of bonded from that, from that day.

00:48:41.720 And it's just my blessing to work for you, sir.

00:48:46.680 There's a special guy.

00:48:47.880 He and a group of people, Jared, helped, and others helped.

00:48:56.980 Steve, peace in the Middle East, and we're there.

00:48:59.520 Yes.

00:48:59.800 A couple of little flames, but they're very little by comparison, and they'll go out quickly.

00:49:04.380 They're already going out.

00:49:06.120 And he's now trying very hard to settle up with Russia and Ukraine, and I think a lot of progress is being made there.

00:49:13.580 And I told that Russia's not doing any shooting for a period of time during this horrendously cold weather.

00:49:21.840 Because of you.

00:49:23.160 So we asked President Putin if they could stop the shooting for a week.

00:49:30.300 They're being hit with proportionately the kind of cold that we're being hit.

00:49:35.180 It's much colder in Ukraine to start off with, but it's really cold now.

00:49:39.280 And he agreed to do that.

00:49:40.740 We appreciated that very much.

00:49:42.720 It's a nasty war.

00:49:44.280 It's a nasty, nasty war.

00:49:46.900 Would anybody else have anything to say?

00:49:49.020 I can say that I am extremely late.

00:49:51.900 That's okay.

00:49:52.740 Don't worry about me.

00:49:54.220 Would anyone else have anything to say?

00:49:55.980 Doug, you're doing a fantastic job.

00:49:57.920 We appreciate it.

00:49:58.800 Marty, you are really something special.

00:50:02.180 Everyone's talking about you every time.

00:50:04.220 If I don't mention Marty, Bobby always mentions him.

00:50:08.120 So we have a great team.

00:50:11.200 Jay, great.

00:50:12.820 Marty, great.

00:50:13.600 Do you guys want to say something?

00:50:14.640 Thank you.

00:50:15.120 Thank you.

00:50:16.140 Well, historically, with addiction, the entire society has always been reactionary.

00:50:21.380 And that's been the story of health care.

00:50:24.000 But at the FDA, we are looking into incredible, cutting-edge therapeutics.

00:50:29.200 And we are being proactive, giving them vouchers when we see something that's promising, to get an approval as quick as weeks in an era of a 10- to 12-year approval time.

00:50:38.680 And the ultimate therapeutic is community, houses of worship, addressing loneliness.

00:50:46.260 And so that's part of the Maha agenda, thanks to Bobby's. 0.98

00:50:48.520 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:50:49.240 Thank you very much.

00:50:50.240 Thank you.

00:50:51.180 Jay?

00:50:51.400 Mr. President, in 2018, you launched the HEAL initiative, helping to end addiction long-term at the NIH.

00:50:59.340 It's paid fruit.

00:51:00.800 It's yielded fruit.

00:51:02.920 The ingenuity of small business has developed products that can deal with pain without opioids.

00:51:09.660 The naloxone, which saves lives, that was the fruit of NIH, and for the kinds of investments that are your administration that you've made, starting from the first Trump term to now, will continue to pay dividends.

00:51:26.240 The kind of research that the NIH is doing will help turn the tide, make people's lives so much better, restore families.

00:51:36.460 All of the addiction that we've seen, the 80,000 deaths we saw, the huge spike in addiction deaths during the first Biden term, is going to be a thing of the past, and I'm so proud to be part of this.

00:51:50.040 And, fellas, some great things happening, right?

00:51:52.360 Yeah.

00:51:52.780 Marty?

00:51:53.280 Great, really great things happening, I hear.

00:51:56.820 And some pretty big announcements over a short period of time, right?

00:52:00.260 Yep.

00:52:00.800 Moving drugs over the counter so you don't need a prescription.

00:52:03.920 Yeah, what?

00:52:04.240 The naloxone, which treats opioids, is one of those drugs, and we're being proactive with synthetic 7-OH, a new opioid that's showing up, and we're working with the DOJ on addressing that, because chemists are coming up with new opioids faster than the government has been able to keep up.

00:52:21.760 We're going proactive on these new chemicals.

00:52:24.400 That's great.

00:52:25.020 Now I hear fantastic things.

00:52:27.160 Thank you all very much.

00:52:28.440 We really appreciate it a lot.

00:52:29.860 Thank you, Oz.

00:52:31.100 He's doing a fantastic job.

00:52:32.800 Thank you all very much.

00:52:34.240 I appreciate it.

00:52:36.320 Thank you.

00:52:36.780 Please.

00:52:37.260 Thank you.

00:52:37.580 Mr. President, can you respond to the new Fox poll that says people think ISIS and tactics are too aggressive?

00:52:43.240 Thank you, guys.

00:52:43.800 Thank you, guys.

00:52:44.200 Thank you, guys.

00:52:44.240 Thank you, guys.

00:52:46.140 Thank you, guys.

00:52:48.620 Thank you, guys.

00:52:49.400 Thank you, guys.

00:52:50.320 Thank you.

00:52:50.940 Thank you.

00:52:51.020 Thank you.

00:52:52.240 Thank you.

00:52:52.940 Thank you.

00:52:54.340 Okay.

00:52:54.780 Hang over a second.

00:52:55.820 The wranglers, as we call them, are taking the press out.

00:52:59.640 So we're going to lose the shot here momentarily.

00:53:01.320 That's the Oval Office.

00:53:02.700 President Trump signing another historic executive order, this time about addiction and cures for addiction.

00:53:08.960 And as you know, this very high priority for both the president and Bobby Kennedy.

00:53:14.240 And it had a whole group there.

00:53:15.820 It was amazing.

00:53:16.900 That's Doug Burgum's wife. 0.89

00:53:18.620 And I think it was incredible, her sharing of her journey.

00:53:23.020 As people know, she just talked about it there.

00:53:25.340 She became a pretty severe alcoholic and then was able to work her way out of that addiction.

00:53:31.900 And it's when Doug Burgum was running for president.

00:53:35.820 She shared that story a lot.

00:53:36.940 I think it was one of the more powerful stories on the campaign trail, or I guess running for vice president.

00:53:44.900 The president said right there, hey, I'm running a little late, but I'll take, you know, I can't take questions, but let's have everybody talk.

00:53:54.040 He's running late for Melania's, the documentary about Melania, the first lady, is premiering tonight at the Trump Kennedy Center.

00:54:04.960 They're having a VIP reception beforehand.

00:54:07.640 They're going to play the film.

00:54:09.380 Obviously, the film is in theaters.

00:54:11.000 I think it's in 1,400 theaters this weekend.

00:54:12.980 And there's already controversy because, you know, a snow, what is it, bomb cycle is going to hit the Washington, D.C. area and much of the East Coast.

00:54:22.620 So the bitter and cruel cold that we've had is going to be added on to with ice, more ice and snow.

00:54:29.000 So they're kind of concerned about the opening weekend in the film.

00:54:31.540 But at least it's going to be a big premiere.

00:54:33.480 It's really great to have the president say, hey, I'm running a little late, but I can't be late for that premiere.

00:54:41.040 There was some news out of there.

00:54:44.380 He had Witkoff.

00:54:46.040 And, of course, Steve Witkoff did lose his son to opioids, and he gives a very moving witness about that.

00:54:53.140 But Steve also added, as it's breaking now, that they have gotten a ceasefire.

00:54:58.960 The situation with Zelensky and Putin, it looks like it's a ceasefire at least for a week.

00:55:04.060 I think the Russians have agreed they will not launch back into Kiev, and they've been hammering Kiev, you know, the power systems, the grid.

00:55:11.380 It's bitter cold there.

00:55:12.860 And so Witkoff has gotten, with President Trump, and I think it was off a phone call with President Trump, they have gotten a ceasefire.

00:55:19.120 My understanding is Zelensky may actually try to go to Moscow and negotiate this one-on-one.

00:55:26.520 So we'll have to see.

00:55:28.840 Do I have John Lott?

00:55:30.160 Is John Lott still there or not?

00:55:31.980 John Lott, who is going to be with us, John Lott is going to join us.

00:55:35.740 John Lott's going to join us tomorrow.

00:55:38.660 John Lott has got a lot of information about the government shutdown that's coming.

00:55:42.780 It looks like the Democratic, the Senate Democrats, they said they're prepared to approve other appropriations bills, but they will not approve DHS.

00:55:50.780 So this is going to be another fight.

00:55:51.980 President Trump has gone out of his way, has gone out of his way to try to work with these radicals, including the radicals in the Senate.

00:56:01.120 They do not want DHS funded.

00:56:03.200 They don't want DHS funded because they don't want any of the illegal alien invaders to leave. 1.00

00:56:10.600 Because their business model is to get these folks here to have a little startup cash from source and from some of these other outside sources, make sure they can kind of get them in, get them settled, and then get them on the government dole where they're taking billions of dollars and then they get them in illegally to vote.

00:56:26.560 And that's their machine.

00:56:28.000 That's how they make it.

00:56:29.140 This is why they're so shocked about the FBI going down, the FBI going down to Fulton County and actually getting their hands on the receipts.

00:56:37.900 Okay, everybody stick around.

00:56:39.200 We're going to continue here.

00:56:40.700 We've got Ken Paxton.

00:56:42.220 Attorney General Paxton is going to starve.

00:56:43.800 He's running for the U.S. Senate.

00:56:45.120 But he's got a lot to say about Sharia law and CARE as a terrorist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, what they're doing about it in Texas.

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00:57:21.980 Bannon and these guys have been talking about it for years.

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00:57:34.360 Okay, we're going to leave you with Bruce Springsteen.

00:57:36.220 Okay, I promise.

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00:57:44.440 I won't play Bruce Springsteen again.

00:57:46.720 This is the last time you're going to hear it.

00:57:48.480 The streets of Minneapolis.

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Bannon's War Room - January 30, 2026

Episode 5105： Live From Minneapolis; Trump Makes Announcement On Substance Abuse In America

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