Bannon's War Room - February 09, 2026


Episode 5128： The All American HalfTime Show


Episode Stats

Length

55 minutes

Words per Minute

164.96417

Word Count

9,092

Sentence Count

710

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

Bad Bunny's performance at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday night in Minneapolis drew a record number of viewers, and the reaction to it has been hotly debated and debated for weeks. What was the point of the halftime show? And why did so many people react so poorly to it?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 It's America, it's Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Panamá, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, México, Cuba, República Dominicana, Jamaica, Isla, Antilla, United States, Canadá, I'm my motherland, mi patria, Puerto Rico.
00:00:26.360 Seguimos aquí.
00:00:30.960 ¡Ahora sí!
00:00:34.460 De cuando te tuve, de vida el tema beso y abrazo.
00:00:43.460 Ojalá.
00:00:49.560 Muchas gracias.
00:00:51.040 ¡De vida el mapa!
00:00:55.640 ¡Ahora sí!
00:00:58.640 Programming didn't work out too well.
00:01:00.740 133 million people watching Bad Bunny.
00:01:04.240 But I will say it is...
00:01:08.640 If the intention was to provoke people that support ICE and whatever they're doing in Minneapolis, then mission accomplished.
00:01:21.740 Yeah, I suppose so.
00:01:24.000 You know, my problem, Joe, is I just, I don't get offended very easily, so...
00:01:27.940 Yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:01:29.400 I don't own any of Bad Bunny's music.
00:01:32.560 I'm familiar, you know, I know he exists, you know, I'm not the target demographic.
00:01:36.820 But I watch the show because I'm watching the game, and I'm like, it's kind of a good show.
00:01:42.900 It was entertaining.
00:01:44.340 By the way, my high school Spanish is so rudimentary.
00:01:47.160 I didn't understand a word the guy said, he's speaking too fast.
00:01:50.220 But I grew up in L.A., Los Angeles, and, you know, in a way, it was a very American show.
00:01:59.300 Dale, unless, of course, you are a bigot, and you want to go around saying we need Americans,
00:02:04.940 as I saw so many people over the weekend, Americans.
00:02:07.640 He is American.
00:02:08.940 In fact, he's more American than dozens of people who performed for the halftime show,
00:02:17.160 and I didn't see people melting down when it was U2 or Paul McCartney or other people
00:02:22.280 who weren't born in America, who aren't, you know, American citizens.
00:02:25.760 John Heilman, though, a couple of things.
00:02:28.700 First of all, for Hispanics who have been called the others, who have been treated like garbage,
00:02:35.720 who the Supreme Court has said can be pulled over and stopped because they look Hispanic
00:02:40.360 or because they have broken accents or because they work at places where Hispanics and other immigrants work,
00:02:47.300 because of all the racism and the bigotry that's been directed toward them.
00:02:51.360 First of all, this had to be an extraordinary night.
00:02:54.420 I'd say, okay, great, one of the most powerful institutions in America actually recognizes we are Americans.
00:03:02.160 We are Americans.
00:03:03.560 That's the first thing because there are a lot of people that somehow couldn't figure that out.
00:03:09.860 Second thing is the NFL as an institution is bigger than any other institution in America
00:03:20.320 and clearly does not care what Donald Trump or the MAGA right tweets.
00:03:28.720 They just don't care.
00:03:31.560 They are that big.
00:03:33.280 The MAGA right tried to go after the NFL.
00:03:36.460 I heard some people say, oh, we're going to boycott them in 22.
00:03:40.400 Republicans tried to make the NFL an issue.
00:03:43.240 Guess what?
00:03:43.680 It is bigger than ever, and it will be bigger than ever next year, too.
00:03:50.320 Andrew, I watched your show.
00:04:05.320 It was great.
00:04:06.400 How did you do?
00:04:07.260 Do you have a sense of how many people watched?
00:04:10.840 Yeah.
00:04:12.300 It kind of blew our minds, actually, a little bit, Brian.
00:04:15.520 And, you know, we saw at one point across all the different social channels, we saw over 10 million concurrent views.
00:04:22.540 So that was adding up all of Rumble and all of our partners just on the social side.
00:04:27.980 So and now we the numbers keep trickling in.
00:04:30.540 I mean, right now, as I'm sitting here, YouTube's numbers keep updating, keep updating.
00:04:35.460 And so we're trying to put it all together.
00:04:37.940 What I can safely say is that we are now over 20 million viewers across just social.
00:04:44.260 So we haven't even gotten our partner broadcasters, their analytics.
00:04:48.360 As you know, sometimes the ratings take a little while, but that's 20 million viewers.
00:04:52.980 And we don't know how many people were gathered together, three, four, 10 in a room watching together.
00:04:57.960 So we're going to try and put our final number on that when we can.
00:05:02.440 What we can safely say is over 20 million Americans tuned in to the all-American halftime show tonight.
00:05:07.660 You know, I looked at the pregame show.
00:05:09.320 They had Green Day, the most anti-American band you could imagine.
00:05:12.260 They wrote their hits album was called The American Idiot.
00:05:15.740 And the lyrics reflect what he thinks of America and our policies.
00:05:19.820 And then they have at halftime Bad Bunny.
00:05:22.040 I mean, NFL is the number one league in the world and they do a lot right.
00:05:26.560 I don't understand why in the year 250 they wouldn't think red, white and blue.
00:05:30.360 But you did.
00:05:31.720 Lee Bryce also released a song that is so appropriate about our culture.
00:05:36.560 Talk about that.
00:05:37.340 Yeah, he actually wrote that in honor of Charlie.
00:05:41.900 So, you know, he has a ton of hits and we, you know, he wanted to play this one.
00:05:47.360 We said, absolutely.
00:05:48.440 You wrote it for Charlie in his honor.
00:05:50.820 So do it.
00:05:51.740 And I mean, that's what you saw from all of our performers.
00:05:54.200 They did something special to honor the moment, honor how big the stage was, honor Charlie, honor our country.
00:06:00.740 And you saw that from Kid Rock, who said God woke him up in the middle of the night to write another verse to that hit song, Till You Can't.
00:06:09.900 And he used it to, you know, glorify Jesus and lift up his faith and be loud and proud about that.
00:06:17.500 But really, there was no agenda.
00:06:19.180 It was just good music for Americans, for people that wanted to feel proud about their country, wanted to love their country, love their God and love some great music.
00:06:28.200 So, you know, and that was in contrast to the other guys.
00:06:31.580 That was on full display tonight, Brian.
00:06:33.400 The data is pretty clear.
00:06:35.020 It's also the case that we've got 60 million, 60 million Spanish speakers in the United States.
00:06:42.100 It's about 45 million where Spanish is first language, another 20 million or so where Spanish is a second language.
00:06:48.960 This is not alternative programming.
00:06:51.420 This is not bold.
00:06:53.200 It's kind of bold break with tradition.
00:06:55.120 It's something new.
00:06:57.540 It's the first Super Bowl halftime act that's ever performed entirely in Spanish.
00:07:01.760 But all this talks about is all this speaks to is that the NFL understands that its capitalist impulses are firmly in line with the choice they've made.
00:07:14.820 And the MAGA right is the one that is the force that is on the outside looking in.
00:07:20.140 I will say, on top of everything else, whatever you think of the two last acts of the Super Bowl, whatever you think of Bad Bunny, whatever you think about Kendrick Lamar, they are two of the most exquisitely well-produced halftime shows I've ever seen.
00:07:35.120 I don't know what I expected to see, but the combination of the music and the visuals and what Bad Bunny was singing a piano to here, which was to his heritage in a totally inclusive way.
00:07:47.660 Every headline covering this thing was Bad Bunny's message of unity.
00:07:54.220 And, you know, for all these people who thought, well, he's going to go out there and get political and he's going to say stuff about ICE.
00:07:58.680 No, he did a very mainstream, beautifully produced call to everything that's good about how America sees its culture.
00:08:07.640 And he shut up his critics in every possible way last night.
00:08:11.780 There's a book that's sitting in your house somewhere that could use some dusting off.
00:08:18.480 There's a man who died for all our sins.
00:08:22.760 Hanging from the cross.
00:08:26.000 You can give your life to Jesus.
00:08:29.540 And he'll give you a second chance.
00:08:32.600 Till you can't.
00:08:35.780 Take care.
00:08:37.740 Ronald Reagan's farewell speech to America.
00:08:42.260 And he says it is immigrants.
00:08:44.580 It is new arrivals to this country every day.
00:08:48.760 It's an America that throws open their arms to America.
00:08:52.240 Ronald Reagan said this.
00:08:53.780 Ronald Reagan said this.
00:08:55.000 Not some left winger.
00:08:57.120 Ronald Reagan, last speech to America.
00:08:58.840 He says that's what will keep America forever young, forever vibrant and forever ahead of the rest of the world.
00:09:06.240 That's that's what we have.
00:09:07.820 That's our gift.
00:09:09.140 It's been our gift for over 250 years.
00:09:12.720 And it remains that way.
00:09:14.240 And you notice if you had Kid Rock, Bradley Gilbert, Lee Bryce and Gabby Barrett all performing tonight.
00:09:21.080 But you mentioned that you went back and looked at Charlie Kirk's tweets and you noticed that he was always commenting on the halftime show.
00:09:27.640 He said, why can't they be a little bit more red, white and blue?
00:09:30.520 Why can't it be a little bit more pro-American when the whole world is watching?
00:09:33.640 And that's what kind of motivated you guys to do something.
00:09:36.880 Yeah.
00:09:38.080 Yeah.
00:09:38.580 He was always fixated on this event, this halftime institution.
00:09:43.180 He wanted it to lift up the best ideals of our country as opposed to pulling us down or being, you know, kind of the lowest common denominator.
00:09:52.140 He wanted it to lift us higher.
00:09:53.580 He wanted it to be about our highest ideals.
00:09:55.300 And, you know, because of the success that just blew up, it's blown our minds tonight, Brian.
00:10:02.900 So we are going to commit to doing this again next year.
00:10:07.140 We're going to do another halftime show for the country next year.
00:10:11.460 So I'm breaking a little news here, Brian.
00:10:13.660 20 million at very minimum.
00:10:15.820 I think that number is going to go higher, 40, maybe even 50 in the next 24 hours.
00:10:19.980 So I can tell you that's a shot across the bow.
00:10:23.120 People are paying attention.
00:10:24.800 And, you know, if you give us a year to plan this thing, I'm really excited to see what we can pull off.
00:10:30.140 But we got to do it for the country.
00:10:32.260 And this is a massive success.
00:10:34.240 And we were grateful to do it.
00:10:35.920 And the Make Heaven Crowded Tour gets started for 2026.
00:10:38.940 And that's going to be fantastic, too.
00:10:40.660 And, of course, the president's going to be counting on you guys to get the vote out with Turning Point Action.
00:10:47.820 So there's a lot of focus on Turning Point.
00:10:51.120 We're busy.
00:10:51.760 And you're a great spokesman for it.
00:10:54.240 And the number one more time, how many people watched as of right now?
00:10:58.420 Well, what we can say, without a doubt, we have over 20 million views on social.
00:11:04.860 But that's not broadcast.
00:11:06.000 That's not any of our OTT fast channels.
00:11:08.240 So we don't know what that number is going to be.
00:11:09.860 It could rise as high as 40 or 50 million.
00:11:12.560 We're going to find out that final number tomorrow.
00:11:14.580 But at least 20 million, which we can, you can't even debate.
00:11:21.260 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:11:26.180 Pray for our enemies.
00:11:28.140 Because we're going medieval on these people.
00:11:31.440 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:11:35.700 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:11:37.600 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:11:38.780 I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that.
00:11:40.800 But you're not going to stop it.
00:11:41.740 It's going to happen.
00:11:42.780 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:11:46.400 MAGA Media.
00:11:47.740 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:11:53.180 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:11:56.940 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:12:03.300 War Room.
00:12:04.140 Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
00:12:06.460 It's Monday, 9th, February, in the year of our Lord, 2026.
00:12:16.360 I think the number now is up to 25 million.
00:12:18.840 Andrew Colvette is going to join us later in the show, before the Charlie Kirk show, to get all the latest numbers.
00:12:25.000 And Jack Basova will be with him.
00:12:26.500 We're actually packed this morning.
00:12:28.520 But the buried lead in that entire cold open.
00:12:32.040 And I really want to give a shout out to my own production team here at the War Room.
00:12:36.940 And, of course, the Real America Voice crew in Denver for pointing.
00:12:41.800 That was, I think, the best succinct package.
00:12:43.800 Now, unfortunately, we forced you to watch some bad bunny and hear the glazing of Joe Scarborough and the team.
00:12:53.680 But trust me, they don't think it came off that well.
00:12:55.600 Otherwise, it would be wall-to-wall.
00:12:56.900 It's not wall-to-wall.
00:12:58.800 We're packed with, I really want to thank Parker Sig, Rob Sig, the entire Real America Voice team that was so instrumental in helping assisting Turning Point to pull that off.
00:13:11.300 It was truly monumental.
00:13:12.180 If you know how these things get put together, it was absolutely incredible how it was put together.
00:13:18.240 And the pre-show package with Jack Basovic and David Zier and Ben Burquam was fantastic.
00:13:25.960 The numbers here at RAF were huge.
00:13:28.000 Of course, Turning Point was huge.
00:13:29.580 I think they're $25 million now.
00:13:31.280 And I believe Andrew's right before this thing's over.
00:13:34.420 It will be $40 or $50 million.
00:13:36.860 Just incredible.
00:13:37.580 And this was put together relatively at the last moment to make sure it was done.
00:13:43.040 You saw how exquisitely they put it all together.
00:13:46.940 Of course, the NFL, they're not capitalists.
00:13:50.340 That's oligarchs.
00:13:51.240 And it's not the NFL as an institution.
00:13:53.220 It's the owners in back of them.
00:13:55.180 The owners are some of the wealthiest people in the world.
00:13:57.020 And they just showed you what they think of the United States, what they think about open borders.
00:14:01.640 When you really contemplate how we got 15 to 20 million illegal aliens in this country, and now there's a firestorm about getting them out.
00:14:09.680 Just look to the National Football League.
00:14:11.820 Look to the owners of the National Football League.
00:14:14.740 Because that's really who rules America.
00:14:16.900 And yesterday, there was a bet as in-your-face as you can get.
00:14:21.880 Okay, we're going to take a short commercial break.
00:14:23.420 We're going to leave you with Bruce Springsteen.
00:14:24.920 He was upended on the charts by Natasha Owens in Real America Music.
00:14:29.160 We'll play Natasha's song a little later.
00:14:31.660 We're going to take a short commercial break.
00:14:32.980 We're going to come back.
00:14:34.200 We're going to talk about a lot of institutions.
00:14:36.680 Dr. Peter Navarro is going to join us from the White House.
00:14:38.820 John Solomon is going to be here to talk to us about the FBI.
00:14:42.340 Short commercial break.
00:14:43.380 We're going to return to the War Room on the morning after Green Day and Bad Bunny in a moment.
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00:16:22.180 War Room.
00:16:23.180 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.
00:16:27.000 Okay.
00:16:27.440 We curated that so you didn't have to sit through it last night.
00:16:31.380 I know all of this audience watched the Charlie Kirk special, either over at Turning Point's YouTube or on RAV or here at War Room.
00:16:38.820 It was just fantastic.
00:16:40.080 Amazing.
00:16:40.580 John Solomon, we just forced you to watch it.
00:16:43.400 Your thoughts, sir.
00:16:45.140 Before we get into the FBI, before we get into the real news, your thoughts on what you just saw.
00:16:50.820 Well, listen, I want to address what Morning Joe said.
00:16:54.060 I think it's time to start calling him Make It Up Joe.
00:16:56.500 He just makes stuff up.
00:16:57.780 So he said two things.
00:16:59.260 He said, yeah, NFL's stronger than ever, and MAGA tried to take it out and lost.
00:17:03.320 Actually, MAGA drove down its ratings until football players stopped kneeling.
00:17:08.740 And so if you're going to have a news show, you should have some semblance of factual basis to make your claims.
00:17:13.820 He's completely wrong on that.
00:17:15.140 And then he said the second thing.
00:17:16.200 He and his guests kept trying to portray what Bad Bunny did as inclusive.
00:17:19.860 If half or three-quarters of the audience, or even more, doesn't understand the words, it's not very inclusive.
00:17:26.500 So I thought Morning Joe was more like a propaganda machine again today.
00:17:31.700 It's supposed to be a news show.
00:17:33.120 He should at least have some semblance of fact when he makes his claims.
00:17:36.720 He's a Make It Up sort of guy these days.
00:17:38.540 I'm going to play a little later.
00:17:41.160 David Zier had a fantastic analysis last night on the pregame that Posobiec and Rav did.
00:17:47.460 I'll get to that in a moment.
00:17:48.940 The reason is we've got a ton of breaking news.
00:17:51.000 So, John, you talk about the situation, what the Bad Bunny was, you know, ice out, the culture, the pop culture, you know, trying to shut things down.
00:18:02.420 This week, we're supposed to have a vote on, I guess, Save America.
00:18:07.080 Now, Chip Roy and others are trying to put more things in it.
00:18:09.260 So you've got the mail-in ballots.
00:18:11.040 You have the not just the voter ID, but you've got the about the purging, the voter rolls, all of that.
00:18:17.560 Is your sense, given your knowledge of Capitol Hill, that the House can actually get that passed this week and then turn it over to the Senate?
00:18:24.460 And we'll talk about the Senate in a second.
00:18:26.000 But do you think the House can actually pull this together to codify President Trump's program about straightening out elections?
00:18:33.540 I think so.
00:18:34.800 When I talked to Steve Scalise, he felt he had the votes to get this package through.
00:18:38.580 By the way, the two key provisions already passed the House separately.
00:18:41.560 Putting them together and sending them to the Senate is really designed to put an enormous amount of pressure on the Senate.
00:18:47.240 The House Republican leaders feel confident they'll get this bill through.
00:18:51.020 What does it do?
00:18:51.640 It makes you show proof of citizenship to register and then requires an ID to vote.
00:18:57.860 Two things that would safeguard our elections.
00:19:00.080 And by the way, both of them are 75 to 85 percent popular among Americans, including among minorities.
00:19:06.500 So it's not something that's controversial.
00:19:09.240 And just like Bad Bunny and the NFL were out of tune, elitists that thought it was a great show when the rest of America was scratching its head.
00:19:17.380 The Democrats in the Senate and maybe some Republicans in the Senate are going to show their elitism by trying to stop something that is 80 percent popular.
00:19:25.140 The real question for the Republican Party, the conservative movement, all the conservative groups is, do they have the will to pressure the Democrats and the rhino Republicans to get this vote to the floor?
00:19:37.300 First threshold is, can you force John Thune to go back to the standing, talking filibuster, not the lazy filibuster that Mitch McConnell put into place?
00:19:46.340 And then after that, once Democrats tire and they can't talk anymore and they used up all their talk time, do the Republicans have enough votes to pass this on a simple majority?
00:19:57.940 Every conservative group that I'm talking to wants to lobby and put enormous pressure on the Senate to get the job done.
00:20:06.600 But it will get out of the House by all by all accounts.
00:20:10.200 John, simultaneously, we're also negotiating, the Senate's negotiating this package about restrictions on ICE.
00:20:17.800 Of course, as you've seen, the five or six things are up for discussion.
00:20:21.000 The Warren Posse saying, hey, that's the bare minimum anyway.
00:20:24.040 So what is that?
00:20:24.720 Tell me about the potential shutdown of Department of Homeland Security.
00:20:30.060 Yeah.
00:20:30.380 So I think there's a game of chicken going on.
00:20:33.360 And this is one of the few times that the conservatives have the upper hand in the game of chicken.
00:20:37.420 Why?
00:20:38.180 ICE is fully funded.
00:20:39.540 Regardless of what happens here, ICE is already funded.
00:20:42.400 There was a five-year appropriation that was slipped into the bill last year.
00:20:45.640 So ICE will continue on, which will be an eyesore to the Democrats.
00:20:48.980 It'll make them look silly that they're shutting down the Homeland Security Department, but they can't shut down ICE.
00:20:54.780 Now, what will the Democrats be shutting down?
00:20:57.380 Well, they'll be shutting down FEMA just before the hurricane season starts or while these winter storms are still raging.
00:21:03.360 There is a lot of fodder for conservatives to hold the line if they don't get the deal they want because the demagoguery is going to flip around and boomerang on Democrats in this package if Republicans don't get wobbly knees.
00:21:16.640 John, illuminate the audience on this topic.
00:21:19.900 People are saying, hey, all this standing filibuster and even the negotiations, the Munich Security Conference starts Friday.
00:21:27.260 Half of the Senate wants to be on planes on Thursday to make it.
00:21:29.900 Why is the Munich Security Conference such a big deal for members of the United States Senate that it would actually take away from a robust debate and negotiation around Homeland Security, sir?
00:21:41.620 Another proof that America is second in a lot of people's minds, right?
00:21:44.700 They're more interested in a foreign conference than they are in getting the job done here.
00:21:48.940 They haven't cut spending in a meaningful way.
00:21:51.280 They haven't really given ICE and Homeland all the resources they need.
00:21:55.840 But they'd rather go off and get another junket.
00:21:58.120 I mean, this is a Congress that works less than half the time and spends more time raising money and going on junkets than getting the people's business done.
00:22:06.900 And that's been the case whether it's under Democratic leadership or Republican leadership.
00:22:10.900 Now, the House is moving a lot of stuff, and the House deserves a lot of credit.
00:22:14.180 They're getting a lot done.
00:22:15.760 The Senate is the place where things go to sleep.
00:22:18.020 They go to die because the Senate under Republicans is not much more active than it was under Democrats.
00:22:25.020 Now, they got the big, beautiful bill.
00:22:26.840 They deserve one kudo on that.
00:22:28.820 But since then, that was in July.
00:22:30.320 What have you done for me lately is what a lot of Americans are asking of Senator John Thune in the Senate.
00:22:37.200 You've got a pretty explosive story you put up at midnight last night on Just the News.
00:22:42.520 Let me get this correct.
00:22:43.780 A year before January 6th, the FBI knew there might be some consternation about the election, given the Democrats already wargaming it.
00:22:51.940 They thought this thing through, and they actually had plans specifically for January 6th, sir?
00:22:58.080 Yeah, they did.
00:22:59.100 They had a tabletop exercise that they ran in Boston in August of 2020, five months before January 6th occurred.
00:23:05.860 The memos, which Kash Patel just turned over to Congress, he just found them recently, turned them over to Congress at the request of Chairman Barry Loudamilk, who's in charge of the J6 investigation now in the House, show that the FBI knew there was a strong possibility of a hanging election or a contested election.
00:23:23.100 That both sides appeared to be agitated and likely would, could likely carry out that agitation to the point of violence.
00:23:32.260 And they even devised very specific strategies.
00:23:35.620 And I'm going to, one of them is to embed informants inside the groups where the most likely political violence or political agitation might occur.
00:23:43.380 That is something that the FBI did.
00:23:45.320 We had two dozen informants on the ground on the morning of January 6th.
00:23:49.800 The second thing they recommended was mass prosecutions, even for the most minor of crimes, exactly what the FBI did after January 6th.
00:23:58.240 Now, there are two big things about that strategy.
00:24:00.860 It's pretty clear the strategy was hatched months before, and that's what they carried out.
00:24:04.480 It's not the strategy they used for the political violence that BLM and the far left conducted all throughout the summer and fall of 2020.
00:24:13.720 So a very clear double standard.
00:24:15.420 The second thing is they did embed informants in a lot of groups, including left and right groups, Antifa and right-wing groups.
00:24:23.800 And they got lots of intelligence suggesting a bad episode would occur.
00:24:28.420 We now know from Chairman Barry Loudomilk that that, while those warnings were very strong from the informants,
00:24:34.420 the preparations of the warnings from the FBI to their brethren in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., did not exist.
00:24:40.560 They didn't pass on the warnings from the informants.
00:24:43.000 So two failed examples of the Chris Wray era of the FBI.
00:24:49.220 Knowing something was going to happen, implementing a strategy that hurt conservatives but not liberals,
00:24:54.480 and not warning the people who could actually prevent the violence from occurring, that is the legacy of the Chris Wray FBI.
00:25:00.360 It's what we now have out and open.
00:25:01.900 These documents are now out there for everybody to see.
00:25:04.320 Pretty stunning, though maybe not so stunning, given what we've learned about the FBI.
00:25:08.580 Is there any part of this that shows that they briefed, that Bill Barr and Chris Wray briefed the President of the United States,
00:25:18.640 or briefed his staff, or briefed senior people at the White House after the tabletop exercise,
00:25:23.460 and after they came up with a plan of how to get informants?
00:25:26.680 Is there any evidence at all that people that should have known about this were actually informed about it?
00:25:33.020 No, it doesn't look like the Attorney General knew, Bill Barr, or the brass, at least not as of now.
00:25:38.880 There's no documentation showing that.
00:25:40.760 There's no mention of it in the documents even suggesting that we alert the Attorney General,
00:25:45.580 or the Homeland Security Department, or the Capitol Police, or the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police.
00:25:51.300 So it looks like the insular sort of pillared FBI existed again.
00:25:57.100 These are the same diseases that affected the FBI before 9-11, and you're starting to see the same thing.
00:26:03.360 You plan for something, you don't create the scenario where that planning actually results in success, it results in failure,
00:26:10.080 and the American people are the big loser.
00:26:12.120 January 6th was a preventable attack, as was 9-11.
00:26:16.220 We now know that from the 9-11 report.
00:26:18.460 The parallels between the two are really, really remarkable, and I think the Chris Wray era,
00:26:24.560 you know, a lot of people talk about the James Comey era.
00:26:26.320 There's plenty of reasons to talk about James Comey, but he was a much shorter-term FBI director.
00:26:32.020 Chris Wray was a much more consequential, longer FBI director,
00:26:35.820 and perhaps caused more harm to the institution and to security in America and to law and order in America.
00:26:41.800 He went after Catholics.
00:26:43.260 He went after school parents.
00:26:45.220 He went after FBI agents if they were pro-Trump or pro-Second Amendment.
00:26:50.200 And he had all the goods to prepare and stop a January 6th crisis, but instead failed to do so.
00:26:58.560 John, where do people get all your content, news site, social media, and particularly the show?
00:27:05.500 Justinews.com is the website.
00:27:08.060 Be checking that out later today.
00:27:09.560 I think there's going to be some news about you.
00:27:11.260 There's Steve Bannon.
00:27:11.940 Good news for you.
00:27:13.000 Good news for the American public.
00:27:14.260 Jay Solomon reports on all social media platforms, and I'm lucky enough to follow you every night at 6 o'clock
00:27:19.240 here on Real America's Voice, just the news, no noise, and television show.
00:27:23.320 Thank you, sir.
00:27:24.040 Appreciate you.
00:27:25.120 Look forward to seeing you at 6 o'clock tonight.
00:27:28.140 Thank you.
00:27:29.560 I think this argues that it's just not bad apples.
00:27:32.740 It's a structural, institutional issue.
00:27:35.300 And that's why the FBI, I think, has got to be taken apart.
00:27:38.140 The question that gets to be, and this is where it talks about motivation for people to get out and vote, where's the accountability?
00:27:46.120 When is Chris Wray?
00:27:47.020 When are we going to get into a serious effort to hold Chris Wray accountable for everything he did?
00:27:53.440 This is another outrage about, and then he bald-faced light about it.
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00:29:53.880 Okay, welcome back.
00:29:57.120 Let's go to Dr. Peter Navarro at the White House.
00:29:59.920 Dr. Navarro, you've got a lead story up in Rural Clear Markets this morning.
00:30:03.820 Now, the discussion with Speaker of the House Johnson last week,
00:30:08.640 they had a Senate donor meeting, I think, down in Palm Beach,
00:30:13.720 and they had other meetings in D.C.
00:30:17.360 They're all talking about the economy's turning around so quickly
00:30:19.920 that that's going to take us through 2026.
00:30:21.880 Of course, we just can't depend upon the economy.
00:30:25.320 There's so many other things that have got to be done
00:30:26.780 and to get our voters motivated and up to the ramparts.
00:30:31.380 But specifically on the economy,
00:30:33.120 you're saying that Wall Street doesn't understand Trumponomics,
00:30:37.500 that it's all starting to click,
00:30:39.480 yet all you hear in the Wall Street Journal,
00:30:41.660 the Financial Times of London,
00:30:43.080 the New York Times business section,
00:30:45.000 is woe is me how bad the economy is.
00:30:46.940 So what is true?
00:30:47.760 What are you guys doing?
00:30:50.080 And I know the stock market hit $50,000,
00:30:53.480 but obviously that means lower cost of capital
00:30:56.540 to make sure that we can build more manufacturing facilities.
00:30:59.660 But a lot of people are not involved in the stock market.
00:31:03.060 So what does Trumponomics mean?
00:31:05.020 What doesn't Wall Street get about it?
00:31:06.920 And why are you so confident that we're going to have
00:31:09.020 a robust, booming economy come the fall elections?
00:31:12.820 Well, first of all, for folks out in Magaland
00:31:16.740 who are not involved in the stock market,
00:31:19.540 it still matters if the stock market's going up
00:31:22.160 because it's a prediction of basically
00:31:24.980 how the economy in the future is going to look like.
00:31:28.440 And by the way, we'll do this maybe later in the week.
00:31:31.520 I'm going to talk about how the manufacturing renaissance
00:31:34.280 is actually going well.
00:31:36.020 But here's the deal.
00:31:38.680 April 7, 2025, it was shortly after President Trump
00:31:43.700 announced the reciprocal tariffs,
00:31:46.420 and Wall Street's head exploded.
00:31:48.420 I was on Squawk Box with the famous Joe Kernan.
00:31:55.120 And again, futures dead red down,
00:31:58.780 and Dow was like flirting with $38,000.
00:32:02.160 Okay, this was not many months ago.
00:32:05.080 It was April 7.
00:32:06.500 And I got on there with Joe,
00:32:08.060 and I walked him through the four engines
00:32:10.080 of GDP growth that Trumpnomics does
00:32:15.420 and told everybody to relax
00:32:17.160 that the Dow was going to hit $50,000.
00:32:19.120 I think I'm the only guy on Wall Street
00:32:21.420 who said $50,000.
00:32:23.600 And Joe, of course, was like,
00:32:25.100 eh, you're crazy, kind of stuff like that.
00:32:27.660 But we hit $50,000 on Friday.
00:32:31.200 And here's what Wall Street doesn't understand.
00:32:35.080 Here's what Jay Powell does not understand.
00:32:38.280 Everything that Trump does
00:32:40.320 is largely supply-side oriented.
00:32:43.160 And the virtue of supply-side type policies
00:32:45.580 is they can simultaneously stimulate growth
00:32:50.980 without causing inflation.
00:32:54.340 Very different from Keynesian demand stuff,
00:32:56.860 spend money and just throw s*** at it.
00:32:58.660 And the four engines of growth are the tax cuts,
00:33:02.480 cutting the regulatory burden,
00:33:05.260 strategic energy dominance, and fair trade.
00:33:08.500 And all of those work for MAGA
00:33:11.760 because the common denominator is
00:33:15.440 to boost working-class jobs manufacturing.
00:33:19.700 And if you just walk through that,
00:33:21.500 the big, beautiful bill,
00:33:22.900 like, what's it doing?
00:33:24.000 No tax on tips,
00:33:25.840 no tax on overtime,
00:33:27.420 no tax on Social Security.
00:33:28.880 Most important,
00:33:29.520 from a manufacturing point of view, Steve,
00:33:31.740 is 100% expensing
00:33:33.340 for investment in new factories
00:33:36.020 and manufacturing, okay?
00:33:37.640 Check that box.
00:33:39.700 The regulatory burden,
00:33:40.920 hey, you lower the regulatory burden,
00:33:42.880 you lower costs that increase profits,
00:33:46.360 future profits give you an expectation
00:33:48.600 that stock prices go up.
00:33:50.100 So we're seeing that strategic energy dominance.
00:33:54.160 Steve, oil and natural gas being cheap
00:33:57.680 isn't just the fact that your car
00:34:00.420 and your house run cheaper, okay?
00:34:03.500 It's that energy is ubiquitous
00:34:06.960 across the entire economy,
00:34:08.560 particularly for food,
00:34:10.100 because natural gas is a big ingredient
00:34:13.240 for fertilizer.
00:34:15.280 I don't know if you know this.
00:34:16.080 So check that box.
00:34:19.020 And then the fair trade thing
00:34:20.160 and the tariffs,
00:34:21.340 it's like what people don't understand
00:34:22.720 about that
00:34:23.380 is when you stop the world
00:34:25.680 from cheating us,
00:34:26.720 and it's not just China,
00:34:27.960 it's Europe,
00:34:29.040 it's Brazil,
00:34:30.480 it's everywhere,
00:34:32.460 Canada,
00:34:33.500 Mexico,
00:34:34.740 when you stop them
00:34:35.620 from cheating us,
00:34:37.780 then we get more jobs
00:34:40.640 in factories here
00:34:42.060 and abroad
00:34:45.340 people want to come here
00:34:47.340 to avoid the tariffs
00:34:48.360 so they invest here.
00:34:50.200 So then what that in turn does,
00:34:51.880 that begats,
00:34:52.680 investment begats,
00:34:54.340 productivity,
00:34:55.360 productivity begats
00:34:56.860 jobs and increased wages.
00:34:59.460 So this is what Wall Street doesn't get.
00:35:01.860 Jay Powell doesn't get it.
00:35:04.120 Back in 2018
00:35:05.360 when he was raising rates too soon,
00:35:07.640 he cost us a point of GDP growth.
00:35:09.600 Right now he's sitting on interest rates
00:35:15.180 way above where they should be
00:35:17.080 because he doesn't understand Trump-nomics.
00:35:19.920 And people just need to understand
00:35:21.380 that this stuff works.
00:35:23.340 So we're positioning for a boom.
00:35:26.380 And it's like,
00:35:27.760 I don't like the name drop or whatever,
00:35:30.700 and I won't say the names,
00:35:31.820 but there were a couple of senators last night
00:35:33.700 just talking about November coming up.
00:35:36.420 And they were like really defensive
00:35:38.520 about the big, beautiful bill.
00:35:40.500 I said, no, no, no, no, no.
00:35:41.820 It's like, you got to understand,
00:35:43.000 between now and November,
00:35:45.160 everything's going to get better.
00:35:46.980 Consumer confidence going up.
00:35:49.060 The ISM Manufacturing Index
00:35:51.500 had a huge jump last week, Steve.
00:35:54.200 And we'll talk more about it
00:35:55.240 later in the week.
00:35:56.780 And so life's going to be good
00:35:59.680 or at least better.
00:36:01.060 And it doesn't mean
00:36:02.040 that we don't understand people's pain.
00:36:04.500 We understand how hard it is
00:36:06.720 to get by in this world.
00:36:09.500 We understand some of the threats
00:36:10.700 out there like AI.
00:36:12.460 But on balance,
00:36:14.420 there's a reason why 50,000
00:36:16.120 on the Dow got hit.
00:36:17.820 And it's good for Main Street
00:36:19.620 as well as Wall Street.
00:36:21.100 End of grant.
00:36:23.700 Let's talk about that,
00:36:25.160 the Wall Street versus Main Street.
00:36:27.000 In the growth,
00:36:28.020 and I think you're seeing
00:36:28.860 in other people,
00:36:29.880 the IMF and the Atlanta Fed
00:36:31.440 and other people coming out,
00:36:33.140 and you're hitting a number,
00:36:35.580 particularly in the real economy,
00:36:37.760 that people didn't think you would hit.
00:36:39.220 You know, people are talking
00:36:39.740 four, maybe four and a half percent
00:36:41.260 GDP growth.
00:36:42.740 Is your concern,
00:36:44.540 particularly,
00:36:45.160 a lot of this investment
00:36:46.280 is going in data centers,
00:36:47.480 a lot of investment.
00:36:48.180 You saw $700 billion this year
00:36:50.300 from the major companies
00:36:52.160 into artificial intelligence.
00:36:54.340 Are you concerned that
00:36:55.780 because it's both GDP growth,
00:36:59.640 it's jobs growth,
00:37:00.820 and it's real wages growth?
00:37:02.680 Are you concerned
00:37:03.500 that the job growth
00:37:05.760 may not be as robust
00:37:07.800 as the overall growth
00:37:09.560 of the economy?
00:37:11.300 Well, first of all,
00:37:12.600 we have to do a reset
00:37:14.260 both on Main Street
00:37:16.440 and Wall Street
00:37:17.240 on what to expect
00:37:18.840 in terms of job growth
00:37:20.840 every month
00:37:22.100 in order to create enough jobs
00:37:24.180 through the American people.
00:37:25.540 When we were importing
00:37:27.020 20 million illegal aliens
00:37:29.540 over a four-year period
00:37:32.200 under Joe Biden's
00:37:33.500 open border policies,
00:37:35.340 we had to create
00:37:36.420 upwards of 200,000 jobs
00:37:38.320 a month, Steve.
00:37:39.640 200,000 jobs a month
00:37:41.160 to keep the unemployment rate
00:37:43.040 where it was.
00:37:45.160 And as you know,
00:37:46.580 in the statistics,
00:37:48.220 which blew my mind
00:37:49.880 when they started coming out,
00:37:51.320 we were actually seeing
00:37:52.860 American citizens
00:37:54.920 go to the unemployment line
00:37:57.140 and all the net new job growth
00:37:58.960 in the Biden years
00:37:59.920 was illegal aliens.
00:38:02.740 Now, today,
00:38:04.240 with the deportations,
00:38:06.800 we only need to create
00:38:08.720 about 50,000 jobs a month
00:38:11.020 in order to maintain
00:38:13.280 steady state
00:38:14.600 and keep wages
00:38:15.680 on the upswing.
00:38:17.140 and Wall Street
00:38:19.420 hasn't really
00:38:20.420 adjusted to that.
00:38:21.800 You know,
00:38:21.960 you get the Steve Leismans
00:38:23.360 of this world
00:38:24.000 on CNBC,
00:38:24.740 well,
00:38:25.080 they only created
00:38:25.720 50,000 jobs.
00:38:26.940 It's like terrible.
00:38:28.160 Nothing like the Biden years.
00:38:29.500 Well,
00:38:30.220 you don't need to have
00:38:31.940 that number.
00:38:33.280 So that's going to be
00:38:34.120 really important.
00:38:34.920 And look,
00:38:35.360 Steve,
00:38:35.940 I'm as concerned
00:38:36.980 as anybody
00:38:38.380 in MAGA
00:38:39.380 and anybody,
00:38:40.640 including you,
00:38:42.180 about the effect
00:38:43.240 of AI
00:38:43.720 on jobs,
00:38:46.980 on electricity,
00:38:49.060 on water,
00:38:50.580 and on agricultural land.
00:38:53.020 But we are working hard
00:38:55.860 on all four points
00:38:57.320 of that compass
00:38:57.980 and hopefully
00:39:00.340 we can stay ahead
00:39:01.860 of that curve.
00:39:03.360 Let me,
00:39:04.000 last thing,
00:39:04.480 I know you're going
00:39:04.860 to come back
00:39:05.340 and we're going to
00:39:05.880 address this more
00:39:06.680 later in the week,
00:39:07.500 but the Wall Street Journal
00:39:08.780 in particular
00:39:09.600 is on a jihad
00:39:11.920 that President Trump
00:39:13.160 is in fact
00:39:13.940 in your plan
00:39:14.740 and Besson's plan
00:39:15.860 and Hassett's plan
00:39:18.020 is not really
00:39:19.280 creating the manufacturing jobs
00:39:21.400 at the pace
00:39:22.100 that we need.
00:39:22.980 You want to give us
00:39:23.660 at least a couple of lines
00:39:26.040 on your rebuttal
00:39:27.120 to the Wall Street Journal
00:39:28.060 and I understand
00:39:28.620 you're coming back
00:39:29.340 with more statistics
00:39:30.680 later in the week,
00:39:31.820 but the Wall Street Journal
00:39:33.240 seems to be adamant
00:39:34.420 that,
00:39:36.000 in fact,
00:39:36.780 President Trump
00:39:37.360 has made it
00:39:37.820 a central part of his
00:39:38.720 to bring manufacturing jobs back.
00:39:40.420 That's one of the reasons
00:39:40.980 you have a gig
00:39:42.260 in the White House.
00:39:43.600 What say you, sir?
00:39:45.420 It's a three-phase process.
00:39:47.400 First of all,
00:39:48.800 you put the tariffs on.
00:39:50.960 Second of all,
00:39:52.240 investment comes in
00:39:53.580 both from abroad
00:39:54.720 but also from
00:39:55.760 the big,
00:39:56.200 beautiful bill,
00:39:56.960 100% expensing.
00:40:00.140 Third,
00:40:01.320 construction jobs begin.
00:40:04.100 You can't make stuff
00:40:06.040 and create factory jobs
00:40:07.400 until the construction
00:40:08.380 is completed.
00:40:09.320 That takes 12 to 18
00:40:11.040 to 36 months.
00:40:13.680 So,
00:40:14.160 that's how the ramp-up
00:40:15.740 looks.
00:40:16.980 And again,
00:40:18.300 the Wall Street Journal
00:40:19.160 wants that talking point.
00:40:21.060 They want two things.
00:40:22.000 They want to say
00:40:22.740 the tariffs are inflationary.
00:40:24.640 They want to say
00:40:25.640 the tariffs don't bring manufacturing.
00:40:27.800 That's their mantra.
00:40:29.180 But they're not looking
00:40:30.240 at the same data
00:40:31.620 I'm looking at
00:40:33.000 and they're not
00:40:33.620 to understand
00:40:34.280 the sequencing,
00:40:35.760 Steve,
00:40:36.000 the sequencing.
00:40:36.760 You've got to build
00:40:38.240 the factories
00:40:38.900 before the manufacturing
00:40:40.180 jobs come.
00:40:42.280 Dr. Navarro,
00:40:43.400 you were dead right
00:40:44.180 on the 7th of April,
00:40:45.380 which was a couple of days
00:40:46.420 after Liberation Day
00:40:47.880 when we talked about
00:40:49.120 fair trade
00:40:49.880 throughout the world,
00:40:50.500 redoing the world's
00:40:51.320 commercial relationships
00:40:53.020 with President Trump
00:40:54.240 putting the country first
00:40:55.260 and American citizens first
00:40:56.520 and American workers first.
00:40:58.060 At 38,000,
00:40:59.100 once again,
00:40:59.600 you're called shot to 50.
00:41:01.080 It's like after we won in 16
00:41:03.340 when Peter Navarro
00:41:04.580 single-handedly
00:41:05.840 stopped a market route
00:41:08.080 by actually explaining
00:41:09.400 Trumponomics to the world
00:41:11.200 for the first time,
00:41:12.060 I think,
00:41:12.500 by an economist,
00:41:13.540 a PhD economist.
00:41:14.800 I want to thank you.
00:41:15.660 Where do people go?
00:41:16.380 You're putting up videos
00:41:17.240 all day long,
00:41:18.020 content all day long
00:41:19.120 to explain this.
00:41:19.880 Where do people go?
00:41:21.220 We'll tell them stories
00:41:22.360 some other time.
00:41:23.120 It's funny.
00:41:23.980 I love it.
00:41:25.360 Where do people go
00:41:26.360 for your content?
00:41:28.120 PeterNavarro.com,
00:41:29.020 PeterNavarro.com,
00:41:30.820 and you can go to
00:41:31.820 X, Getter, and Truth.
00:41:35.100 The boss just last night
00:41:36.700 retweeted a video I did
00:41:40.440 which goes with
00:41:41.820 the Real Clear Markets piece
00:41:43.160 on Dow 50,000,
00:41:45.540 and you can see that.
00:41:48.400 So PeterNavarro.com
00:41:50.260 is the one-stop shop.
00:41:51.300 Steve, keep doing
00:41:51.920 what you're doing, brother.
00:41:53.160 And the video had no Lion King
00:41:54.860 at the end of it.
00:41:55.500 Peter Navarro,
00:41:56.060 make sure that was taken care of.
00:41:57.780 Dr. Navarro, thank you.
00:41:58.860 I look forward to having you
00:41:59.540 later in the week.
00:41:59.800 I don't use it either.
00:42:01.980 Thank you, sir.
00:42:03.820 Do I have John Fredericks?
00:42:04.860 John Fredericks,
00:42:05.380 can we tease the next block?
00:42:07.640 Where are you?
00:42:08.300 So where are we catching you, sir?
00:42:08.780 Maybe on a bus tour in Iowa.
00:42:10.900 Straw poll coming up.
00:42:12.440 We've got one running.
00:42:13.700 You're in it.
00:42:14.580 You're doing better
00:42:15.300 than anybody expected
00:42:16.380 except me.
00:42:17.160 I knew you'd be right there.
00:42:18.980 I'll share that later.
00:42:20.380 Bannon on a roll in Iowa.
00:42:21.860 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:42:23.960 I want to know
00:42:24.560 what the good folks in Iowa
00:42:25.700 are talking about.
00:42:27.020 John Fredericks is going to join us
00:42:28.100 after a short commercial break.
00:42:29.380 He's got a...
00:42:30.480 We're there to find out
00:42:31.960 as we're here in Texas
00:42:33.140 how fired up
00:42:35.060 the Trump base is
00:42:36.740 for turning out in November.
00:42:39.140 There's a lot of, I think,
00:42:39.960 miscommunications.
00:42:40.960 New poll out
00:42:41.860 in Texas
00:42:42.840 that shows
00:42:43.820 Ken Paxton
00:42:44.780 has a pretty big lead
00:42:46.180 over John Cornyn.
00:42:46.940 and I can tell you
00:42:47.620 being down in Texas
00:42:48.460 if you're watching
00:42:49.200 if you're watching television
00:42:51.000 John Cornyn,
00:42:51.880 Senator Cornyn
00:42:52.460 has carpet bombed
00:42:53.740 has carpet bombed
00:42:55.300 has carpet bombed Texas
00:42:56.900 with $50 million worth of ads
00:42:59.120 but Ken Paxton up.
00:43:00.160 We're going to try
00:43:00.440 to get Ken Paxton
00:43:01.220 later in the show.
00:43:02.300 We're going to take
00:43:02.620 a short commercial break.
00:43:03.520 John Fredericks
00:43:04.060 is live
00:43:04.700 from his Freedom Bus
00:43:06.620 in I think Des Moines, Iowa
00:43:08.780 or in Iowa.
00:43:09.680 He's going to take a tour
00:43:10.440 around the state this week.
00:43:11.400 He's going to have
00:43:11.700 a lot of good info
00:43:12.600 on where the MAGA voters
00:43:14.380 stand.
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00:45:43.920 Here's your host,
00:45:45.280 Stephen K. Mann.
00:45:48.780 John Fredericks joins us.
00:45:50.300 John, you're on your bus.
00:45:51.760 You're taking the bus
00:45:52.440 for a week's tour,
00:45:53.420 and I want to go through
00:45:54.220 so the Warren Posse
00:45:55.100 knows where you're going.
00:45:56.820 I'm in Texas.
00:45:58.040 You're in Iowa.
00:45:59.820 Neither one of us
00:46:01.260 are in Virginia.
00:46:02.640 Nuclear winters
00:46:03.520 come to Virginia
00:46:04.240 as we warn people
00:46:05.240 about Spanberger
00:46:06.240 is on a roll.
00:46:09.900 She's going to jam
00:46:10.540 through this 10-to-1
00:46:11.660 House situation.
00:46:14.180 Maryland's going to go 8-0.
00:46:16.440 DeGrasse is going to be up here
00:46:17.700 in the next couple of days.
00:46:18.680 We're going to talk about
00:46:19.120 the redistricting movement
00:46:19.980 across the country.
00:46:21.180 At best,
00:46:22.180 we can come up
00:46:22.980 plus three or plus four
00:46:24.180 on the Republican side
00:46:25.300 if everything comes together.
00:46:26.980 But what's the temperature?
00:46:27.980 You just heard Dr. Navar
00:46:28.900 from the White House.
00:46:30.180 We're going to have
00:46:30.560 Mark Mitchell on
00:46:31.440 in a couple of minutes.
00:46:33.220 And, of course,
00:46:33.820 Mark and Richard Barris,
00:46:35.460 who are two of the best
00:46:36.200 MAGA pollsters,
00:46:37.500 have gone to a dark place
00:46:39.660 about what they think.
00:46:41.240 I know on Capitol Hill
00:46:42.180 there's a lot of people
00:46:43.000 in the House,
00:46:43.520 a lot of people in the Senate
00:46:44.240 are throwing in the towel already.
00:46:46.240 The only thing that matters
00:46:47.720 is the MAGA base
00:46:49.120 and where their heads
00:46:49.860 are at right now.
00:46:50.620 What is your sense so far
00:46:51.820 as you kick it off today?
00:46:52.780 I think you're in
00:46:53.200 the Des Moines area.
00:46:54.680 What's your sense
00:46:55.360 from the actual
00:46:56.100 MAGA fighters out there
00:46:58.280 in the great state of Iowa?
00:47:00.600 Shocking in one day
00:47:01.980 to get out of the district.
00:47:03.220 You know, my wife, Ann,
00:47:04.660 that runs the company,
00:47:05.740 the CEO,
00:47:06.640 said, you've got to
00:47:07.460 get out of this bubble.
00:47:08.380 You've got to get out of D.C.
00:47:10.660 I want you to go to Iowa,
00:47:12.440 go on a bus tour there.
00:47:13.800 That's where it all started.
00:47:14.780 Go to the heartland.
00:47:16.140 I mean, you come out here
00:47:16.800 for a couple of days
00:47:17.540 on the weekend.
00:47:18.440 You go to restaurants.
00:47:19.640 You meet people fired up.
00:47:22.320 Nothing like you get in D.C.
00:47:24.400 Nothing like the Panikins
00:47:25.660 in the Senate.
00:47:26.720 Nothing like John Thune
00:47:27.760 thrown in the towel.
00:47:29.180 The whole bit,
00:47:29.680 it's so different out here.
00:47:31.440 The temperature,
00:47:32.660 you know,
00:47:32.920 you look at New Jersey,
00:47:34.280 Virginia,
00:47:34.780 MAGA voters didn't show.
00:47:36.280 They're depressed, etc.
00:47:37.400 You had the debacle
00:47:38.700 that went on
00:47:39.500 in North Dallas
00:47:40.700 and that's special.
00:47:42.120 The feeling here
00:47:43.020 is the exact opposite.
00:47:44.620 I mean,
00:47:44.760 we got great MAGA candidates
00:47:46.260 like Ashley Vincent
00:47:47.880 running for Senate.
00:47:48.900 You talk to people,
00:47:50.020 they're fired up.
00:47:51.620 You know,
00:47:52.000 you got all these good things
00:47:54.280 happening in the economy
00:47:55.640 and people are starting
00:47:57.160 to feel it.
00:47:57.760 Gas prices have come down,
00:47:59.200 etc.
00:47:59.660 So people are starting
00:48:00.780 to feel,
00:48:01.260 hey,
00:48:01.360 there's a light here
00:48:02.220 at the end of the tunnel
00:48:03.740 and I was becoming
00:48:06.140 almost the cultural center
00:48:08.680 of the MAGA base
00:48:10.260 and your posse base
00:48:11.220 out here
00:48:11.640 because the people
00:48:12.820 are fired up.
00:48:14.260 And so,
00:48:15.040 the spring in my step
00:48:16.940 being here
00:48:17.840 just two days
00:48:18.720 over the weekend
00:48:19.340 from where I was,
00:48:21.060 you know,
00:48:21.280 spending three weeks
00:48:22.120 in Washington,
00:48:22.800 D.C.
00:48:23.120 every day
00:48:23.480 at the White House.
00:48:24.700 Unbelievable difference,
00:48:26.400 Steve,
00:48:26.680 and it gives me
00:48:27.460 great hope
00:48:28.600 that we're going
00:48:29.280 to turn this thing
00:48:30.060 around in the midterms.
00:48:31.920 I think we got a shot
00:48:33.240 right now
00:48:33.680 when this economy turns,
00:48:35.540 we got a shot
00:48:36.400 to actually win
00:48:37.780 these midterms
00:48:38.500 and save the house.
00:48:39.780 I'm fired up.
00:48:40.460 We got great candidates
00:48:41.840 here running
00:48:42.580 and,
00:48:43.480 you know,
00:48:44.420 the thing about Iowa
00:48:45.220 is you got to go
00:48:46.100 talk to people.
00:48:47.100 There's 99 counties.
00:48:48.780 You can't do TV
00:48:50.060 like they're doing
00:48:50.680 in Texas.
00:48:51.100 You got to go out
00:48:52.020 and talk to people
00:48:52.760 and when you do,
00:48:54.520 they tell you the truth.
00:48:55.760 They tell you what's going on.
00:48:56.920 So,
00:48:57.160 we're fired up here.
00:48:58.600 No,
00:48:58.720 I think that's why
00:48:59.240 the Texas grassroots
00:49:00.220 aren't fired.
00:49:00.920 I think that's one
00:49:01.300 of the reasons
00:49:01.640 Paxson's a new poll
00:49:02.700 out today.
00:49:03.200 We're trying to get
00:49:03.720 Ken on,
00:49:04.620 shows Ken up.
00:49:05.780 But I want to go back
00:49:06.860 because this is very important.
00:49:07.920 A turned around economy
00:49:09.380 from the Biden disaster
00:49:10.620 is the predicate
00:49:11.560 of President Trump's
00:49:13.220 effort to turn around
00:49:13.980 the country.
00:49:14.940 Obviously,
00:49:15.880 the closing of the borders,
00:49:17.380 mass deportations,
00:49:18.340 all that,
00:49:18.720 but a singular event
00:49:21.000 was this passage
00:49:21.740 of the big,
00:49:22.460 beautiful bill
00:49:22.900 and tariffs.
00:49:23.800 Like I said,
00:49:24.240 they both work simultaneously
00:49:25.640 about driving
00:49:26.820 manufacturing back here.
00:49:29.160 People are seeing
00:49:29.900 the green roots there.
00:49:31.140 You got the entrepreneurial
00:49:32.620 class and you got
00:49:33.560 the workers.
00:49:34.860 Break it down both.
00:49:35.960 What are the business guys
00:49:37.140 and the entrepreneurs
00:49:37.740 saying and then
00:49:38.420 what are the average folks
00:49:39.440 on Main Street
00:49:40.480 saying as you talk to them?
00:49:42.300 Well,
00:49:42.540 let's start with
00:49:43.080 the business folks,
00:49:43.920 the small business,
00:49:44.780 which is the engine driver
00:49:46.100 in the nation for jobs.
00:49:47.500 I mean,
00:49:48.140 there's a very different
00:49:48.940 attitude here
00:49:49.760 because of the one
00:49:50.960 big,
00:49:51.380 beautiful bill,
00:49:52.160 because of the write-offs
00:49:53.720 they were able to take
00:49:54.560 for new equipment
00:49:55.340 and expansion.
00:49:56.440 Obviously,
00:49:57.020 with the stock market up,
00:49:58.680 like Peter Navarro said,
00:49:59.800 like the doctor said,
00:50:00.640 up to $50,000,
00:50:01.900 people are now looking again
00:50:03.940 at reinvesting
00:50:05.220 in this economy,
00:50:06.640 growing their business,
00:50:07.540 hiring workers.
00:50:08.880 You know,
00:50:09.120 this is the time
00:50:09.860 for expansion.
00:50:10.880 So that's going.
00:50:12.100 You get down
00:50:12.900 to the working people
00:50:14.140 and look,
00:50:15.700 they like health care
00:50:16.780 prices to come down.
00:50:18.080 That's the number one
00:50:18.980 negative issue
00:50:19.720 I hear from working people.
00:50:22.180 Health care,
00:50:22.720 too expensive,
00:50:24.020 but Rx is coming down
00:50:25.820 with Trump Rx.
00:50:27.000 Prescription prices
00:50:27.820 are coming down.
00:50:28.960 But like,
00:50:29.680 I was at a restaurant
00:50:30.580 last night,
00:50:31.700 talked to the waiter.
00:50:32.960 Here's what the guy said.
00:50:34.440 I'm getting a $5,500 check back.
00:50:38.620 No tax on tips.
00:50:40.700 Not $55 or $500.
00:50:43.000 Like, you know,
00:50:44.440 George Bush or somebody
00:50:45.560 sent out a check.
00:50:46.760 It's a $5,000 I'm getting back.
00:50:49.280 Like, I can do a lot with that.
00:50:50.720 I go on vacation.
00:50:51.960 I can buy something.
00:50:53.440 You know,
00:50:53.640 I get my automobile fixed.
00:50:55.140 So it's a big deal
00:50:56.260 for working people
00:50:57.860 when these refunds
00:50:59.560 start to hit
00:51:00.820 and people understand
00:51:02.180 no tax on overtime,
00:51:03.760 no tax on tips.
00:51:04.600 These are actually real.
00:51:05.840 Plus my general tax rates down.
00:51:08.040 A lot of businesses
00:51:09.280 I've talked to here,
00:51:10.940 talking about five,
00:51:12.380 six of them,
00:51:13.000 over the past week,
00:51:14.160 all of them,
00:51:15.460 even if revenue was up,
00:51:17.260 paying less taxes
00:51:19.100 like we are
00:51:20.620 in 25 than they did in 24.
00:51:23.620 All this stuff
00:51:24.860 is starting to roll up.
00:51:26.260 Nobody saw this
00:51:27.440 until
00:51:28.440 they're going to see it
00:51:30.340 in the second quarter.
00:51:31.480 When you look at GDP growth here,
00:51:33.740 you know,
00:51:33.900 the average working people,
00:51:35.740 working guy,
00:51:36.440 punching a clock,
00:51:37.360 he doesn't know
00:51:37.700 what GDP growth is.
00:51:39.700 All he knows is,
00:51:41.700 is my paycheck
00:51:42.780 lasting me longer
00:51:45.060 at the grocery store?
00:51:46.740 That's it.
00:51:47.880 And as prices
00:51:48.640 start to stabilize
00:51:49.560 and now come down,
00:51:50.940 that feeling of hopelessness
00:51:52.560 is going away,
00:51:54.240 which is driving
00:51:55.100 out the base now.
00:51:56.280 I think we're going to start
00:51:57.220 to see it
00:51:57.760 over the spring
00:51:58.820 and by the middle
00:52:00.920 of the summer.
00:52:02.700 John,
00:52:03.260 where do people go
00:52:04.500 to find out
00:52:05.040 the bus is going to be
00:52:05.760 going to different sites
00:52:06.540 in Iowa?
00:52:07.020 We want to make sure
00:52:07.680 as many War Room Posse members
00:52:09.580 as possible
00:52:10.480 get there.
00:52:11.360 Where do they go
00:52:11.780 for information?
00:52:13.260 And call in
00:52:13.880 in the morning
00:52:14.540 if you're from Iowa
00:52:15.400 or you know anybody
00:52:16.360 in Iowa,
00:52:16.980 just call in the show
00:52:18.440 6 to 10 a.m.
00:52:19.580 Eastern,
00:52:20.520 888-480-JOHN,
00:52:22.320 888-480-JOHN.
00:52:23.860 You can find out
00:52:24.440 where the bus is.
00:52:25.900 That's
00:52:26.200 johnfervixradio.com
00:52:28.100 and follow me
00:52:29.340 on social media
00:52:30.820 at JF Radio Show
00:52:32.300 at JF Radio Show
00:52:34.500 and we've also got
00:52:35.540 a big straw poll
00:52:36.520 up the first
00:52:37.140 in the nation.
00:52:38.340 You can vote in that.
00:52:39.980 So very interesting
00:52:40.880 the results so far.
00:52:42.320 We'll not go into it now
00:52:43.200 but you'll get those
00:52:44.740 later at
00:52:45.960 jfradioshow.com.
00:52:48.720 I tell you what,
00:52:49.320 Steve,
00:52:49.500 getting out of
00:52:50.480 the beltway,
00:52:51.800 getting out of
00:52:52.360 D.C.,
00:52:53.340 coming to Iowa,
00:52:54.580 best thing I did.
00:52:55.780 Changes your attitude.
00:52:56.340 I told you
00:52:57.680 moving to D.C.,
00:52:58.820 you would live
00:52:59.920 to regret it.
00:53:01.700 Real quickly,
00:53:02.280 we've got 30 seconds.
00:53:03.820 How cynical
00:53:04.360 was the NFL
00:53:05.080 owner's move
00:53:05.960 yesterday
00:53:06.460 on putting
00:53:07.200 Bad Bunny on?
00:53:08.840 It was just terrible.
00:53:10.360 I mean,
00:53:10.560 that thing was
00:53:11.120 such a joke.
00:53:12.380 Steve,
00:53:12.900 I mean,
00:53:13.160 I bet the Seahawks
00:53:14.180 obviously I was happy
00:53:15.020 about the win.
00:53:15.960 We did not watch
00:53:16.900 the halftime show
00:53:17.860 but like,
00:53:18.860 you've got to get
00:53:19.640 your audience,
00:53:20.280 dude.
00:53:20.840 I mean,
00:53:21.260 President Trump
00:53:22.460 gets his audience.
00:53:23.680 Steve Bannon
00:53:24.340 gets his audience.
00:53:25.600 I get my audience.
00:53:27.220 Roger Goodell
00:53:27.880 in the NFL
00:53:28.600 suits,
00:53:29.560 they don't understand
00:53:30.900 who their audience
00:53:32.260 is for football.
00:53:33.420 That thing was
00:53:35.480 a disgusting catastrophe.
00:53:37.720 They ought to be
00:53:38.020 ashamed of themselves.
00:53:39.120 We've got to bounce.
00:53:42.240 Listen, folks,
00:53:43.120 I want to tell you
00:53:43.880 about this particular
00:53:44.900 pharmacy because
00:53:45.840 they're actually
00:53:46.760 doing things
00:53:47.580 right now
00:53:48.180 for the American people.
00:53:50.040 They're the real deal,
00:53:51.720 not another
00:53:52.780 corporate chain.
00:53:54.000 If you're tired
00:53:55.000 of fighting
00:53:55.420 a broken system
00:53:56.300 or begging
00:53:56.900 for prescriptions,
00:53:57.800 you need
00:53:58.480 all-family pharmacy.
00:53:59.640 When someone
00:54:01.080 in your house
00:54:01.820 gets sick
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