Bannon's War Room - Episode 5168： President Trump Delivers A Historical State Of The Union

00:00:00.000 Speaker Johnson, Vice President Vance, First Lady of the United States.

00:00:30.000 Second Lady of the United States, Members of Congress and my fellow Americans, our nation

00:00:53.840 is back bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before.

00:01:09.700 Less than five months from now, our country will celebrate an epic milestone in American

00:01:14.380 history, the 250th anniversary of our glorious American independence.

00:01:22.100 This July 4th, we will mark two and a half centuries of liberty and triumph, progress and freedom

00:01:28.680 in the most incredible and exceptional nation ever to exist on the face of the earth.

00:01:33.540 And you've seen nothing yet.

00:01:35.920 We're going to do better and better and better.

00:01:38.000 This is the golden age of America.

00:01:47.420 We ended DEI in America.

00:01:53.000 For decades before I came along, we had the exact opposite.

00:02:06.080 From trade to healthcare, from energy to immigration, everything was stolen and rigged in order to

00:02:12.080 drain the wealth out of the productive, hardworking people who make our country great, who make

00:02:17.660 our country run.

00:02:19.660 Under Biden and his corrupt partners in Congress and beyond, it reached a breaking point with

00:02:25.620 the Green News scam, open borders for everyone. 0.63

00:02:29.800 They poured in by the millions and millions from prisons, from mental institutions.

00:02:35.080 They were murderers, 11,888 murderers.

00:02:38.780 They came into our country. 1.00

00:02:39.880 You allowed that to happen.

00:02:42.080 And record-setting inflation that cost the typical family $34,000 in just a speck of time.

00:02:50.580 Now the same people in this chamber who voted for those disasters suddenly used the word affordability,

00:02:57.660 somebody a word, they just used it, somebody gave it to them, knowing full well that they

00:03:03.780 caused and created the increased prices that all of our citizens had to endure.

00:03:10.700 You caused that problem.

00:03:13.020 You caused that problem.

00:03:14.240 They knew their statements were a lie, they knew it. 0.99

00:03:33.680 They knew their statements were a dirty, rotten lie.

00:03:37.300 Their policies created the high prices.

00:03:40.440 Our policies are rapidly ending them.

00:03:43.460 We are doing really well.

00:03:45.940 Those prices are plummeting downward.

00:03:49.040 The price of eggs is down 60 percent, Madam Secretary, thank you.

00:04:03.320 The cost of chicken, butter, fruit, hotels, automobiles, rent is lower today than when I took

00:04:09.420 office by a lot.

00:04:10.900 And even beef, which was very high, is starting to come down significantly.

00:04:16.000 Just hold on a little while, we're getting it down.

00:04:18.900 And soon you will see numbers that few people would think were possible to achieve just a

00:04:24.740 short time ago.

00:04:25.900 As you probably saw at the White House, I hosted a ceremony with Americans who lost their treasured

00:04:33.780 loved ones to the scourge of illegal immigration.

00:04:38.380 People came into our country, how we allowed this to happen with our open borders. 1.00

00:04:43.600 These are the angel moms and families that for decades our government betrayed and our media

00:04:49.600 totally ignored, totally.

00:04:50.860 It was terrible.

00:04:51.860 Hard to believe, actually.

00:04:54.740 In 2023, a 16-year-old high school cheerleader named Lizbeth Medina was supposed to perform 0.77

00:05:02.400 in her town's Christmas parade, but she never arrived.

00:05:05.940 Her mother, Jacqueline, went home to look for her, and she found her lying dead in a bathtub,

00:05:11.920 bleeding profusely after being stabbed 25 times.

00:05:17.160 Lizbeth's killer was a previously arrested illegal alien who had broken in and brutally extinguished

00:05:27.300 the brightest light in her family's life violently and viciously.

00:05:33.700 Her heartbroken mother is in the gallery to remind everyone in this chamber exactly why 0.98

00:05:39.100 we are deporting illegal alien criminals to our country at record numbers, and we're getting 1.00

00:05:44.660 them the hell out of here fast.

00:05:46.840 We don't want them.

00:06:03.700 Thank you very much, Jacqueline, thank you.

00:06:14.300 We can never forget that many in this room not only allowed the border invasion to happen

00:06:22.540 before I got involved, but indeed they would do it all over again if they ever had the chance.

00:06:28.700 If they ever got elected, they would open up those borders to some of the worst criminals

00:06:33.540 anywhere in the world.

00:06:35.540 The only thing standing between Americans and a wide-open border right now is President

00:06:41.120 Donald J. Trump and our great Republican patriots in Congress.

00:06:44.700 Thank you.

00:06:45.700 Thank you.

00:06:46.700 As we speak, Democrats in this chamber have cut off all funding for the Department of Homeland

00:07:03.700 Security.

00:07:04.700 It's all cut off.

00:07:05.700 It's all cut off.

00:07:07.700 They have instituted another Democrat shutdown, the first one costing us two points on GDP,

00:07:15.340 two points we lost on GDP, which probably made them quite happy, actually.

00:07:20.380 Now they have closed the agency responsible for protecting Americans from terrorists and

00:07:25.540 murderers.

00:07:26.540 Tonight, I'm demanding the full and immediate restoration of all funding for the border security,

00:07:33.180 homeland security of the United States, and also for helping people clean up their snow.

00:07:40.620 We have no money because of the Democrats, and it would be nice.

00:07:44.180 We'd love to give you a hand at cleaning it up, but you gave no money.

00:07:49.100 Nobody's getting paid.

00:07:50.100 It's a shame.

00:07:51.100 So you have to think about it.

00:07:52.100 We have, in case you didn't know, a pretty large snowstorm out there.

00:07:56.220 One of the great things about the State of the Union is how it gives Americans the chance

00:08:01.060 to see clearly what their representatives really believe.

00:08:06.180 So tonight, I'm inviting every legislator to join with my administration in reaffirming

00:08:11.500 a fundamental principle.

00:08:13.780 If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support.

00:08:19.040 The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. 0.61

00:08:25.440 I'm going to get you.

00:08:47.200 Thank you.

00:09:17.200 Thank you.

00:09:47.200 Thank you.

00:10:17.200 And perhaps most importantly, I'm asking you to approve the Save America Act.

00:10:45.360 To stop illegal aliens and others who are uncommitted persons from voting in our sacred American elections. 0.99

00:11:03.540 That cheating is rampant in our elections.

00:11:06.260 It's rampant.

00:11:08.080 It's very simple.

00:11:10.180 All voters must show voter ID.

00:11:13.540 All voters must show proof of citizenship in order to vote.

00:11:34.540 And no more crooked mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military, or travel.

00:11:48.920 None.

00:11:49.920 And this should be an easy one.

00:11:55.760 And by the way, it's polling at 89 percent, including Democrats.

00:11:59.440 And even the new communist mayor of New York City, I think he's a nice guy, actually.

00:12:14.160 I speak to him a lot.

00:12:15.620 They had policy, but nice guy.

00:12:18.320 Just said they want people to shovel snow.

00:12:22.500 They got hit hard.

00:12:23.920 Wants them to shovel snow.

00:12:25.160 But if you apply for that job, you need to show two original forms of ID and a social security card.

00:12:33.740 Yet they don't want identification for the greatest privilege of them all voting in America.

00:12:39.040 No, it's no good.

00:12:40.040 No good.

00:12:42.040 Both Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly agree on the policy that we just enunciated.

00:12:50.040 And Congress should unite and enact this common-sense, country-saving legislation right now.

00:12:58.040 And it should be before anything else happens.

00:13:01.040 And the reason they don't want to do it, why would anybody not want voter ID? 0.66

00:13:25.760 One reason!

00:13:26.760 Because they want to cheat.

00:13:28.040 There's only one reason.

00:13:30.040 They make up all excuses.

00:13:32.040 They say it's racist.

00:13:34.040 They come up with things.

00:13:35.040 You almost say, what imagination they have.

00:13:38.040 They want to cheat.

00:13:39.040 They have cheated.

00:13:40.040 And their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat.

00:13:45.040 And we're going to stop it.

00:13:46.040 We have to stop it, Josh.

00:14:00.040 And here is one more opportunity to show comments.

00:14:03.040 Look, nobody stands up. 0.99

00:14:06.040 These people are crazy. 0.99

00:14:08.040 I'm telling you. 1.00

00:14:09.040 They're crazy. 0.74

00:14:10.040 Amazing. 0.97

00:14:11.040 Amazing.

00:14:12.040 Boy, oh boy.

00:14:13.040 We're lucky we have a country. 0.83

00:14:14.040 With people like this, Democrats are destroying our country.

00:14:17.040 But we've stopped it just in the nick of time, didn't we?

00:14:48.040 There's been no more stunning example than Minnesota, where members of the Somali community have pillaged an estimated $19 billion from the American taxpayer. 1.00

00:15:01.040 We have all the information.

00:15:03.040 And in actuality, the number is much higher than that.

00:15:06.040 And California, Massachusetts, Maine, and many other states are even worse.

00:15:12.040 This is the kind of corruption that shreds the fabric of a nation.

00:15:16.040 And we are working on it like you wouldn't believe.

00:15:19.040 So tonight, although started four months ago, I am officially announcing the war on fraud to be led by our great Vice President J.D. Vance.

00:15:31.040 We'll get it done.

00:15:52.040 And if we're able to find enough of that fraud, we will actually have a balanced budget overnight.

00:15:59.040 It'll go very quickly.

00:16:01.040 That's the kind of money you're talking about.

00:16:02.040 We'll balance our budget.

00:16:04.040 The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where bribery, corruption, and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception. 0.88

00:16:17.040 Importing these cultures through unrestricted immigration and open borders brings those problems right here to the USA. 0.98

00:16:24.040 And it is the American people who pay the price and higher medical bills, car insurance rates, rent, taxes, and perhaps most importantly, crime.

00:16:34.040 We will take care of this problem.

00:16:36.040 We're going to take care of this problem.

00:16:37.040 We are not playing games.

00:16:39.040 Delilah.

00:16:40.040 You are a great inspiration.

00:16:55.040 Please stand up.

00:16:56.040 You are a great inspiration.

00:16:57.040 Please stand up.

00:17:02.040 Thank you, Delilah.

00:17:03.040 Many, if not most illegal aliens do not speak English.

00:17:07.040 And cannot read even the most basic road signs as to direction, speed, danger.

00:17:24.040 Or location.

00:17:25.040 That's why tonight I'm calling on Congress to pass what we will call the Delilah law barring any state from granting commercial driver's licenses to illegal aliens. 0.66

00:17:37.040 Thank you.

00:17:38.040 Thank you.

00:18:07.040 Thank you.

00:18:08.040 This is especially true among young people.

00:18:10.040 And a big part of that had to do with my great friend, Charlie Kirk, a great guy, great man.

00:18:18.040 So last year, Charlie was violently murdered by an assassin and martyred, really martyred for his beliefs.

00:18:36.040 His wonderful wife, Erica, is with us tonight.

00:18:39.040 Erica, please stand.

00:18:41.040 Thank you.

00:19:02.040 Thank you, Erica.

00:19:03.040 Been through a lot.

00:19:05.040 In Charlie's memory, we must all come together to reaffirm that America is one nation under God.

00:19:12.040 And we must totally reject political violence of any kind.

00:19:16.040 We love religion and we love bringing it back.

00:19:32.040 And it's coming back at levels that nobody actually thought possible.

00:19:36.040 It's really a beautiful thing to see.

00:19:38.040 You have just experienced the longest State of the Union ever in State of the Union history.

00:19:45.040 It wasn't just the feeling you had.

00:19:47.040 It was the math.

00:19:49.040 Over an hour and 47 minutes, the president blowing out of the water the previous record

00:19:56.040 for the longest State of the Union speech ever, a record he himself set last year.

00:20:02.040 In terms of the length of the speech, which I think will probably be the bottom line up front that people take away from the speech was just how achingly long it was.

00:20:17.040 Question, right direction, wrong direction.

00:20:20.040 We asked that about Trump's policies among speech watchers.

00:20:23.040 Now, remember, this is a poll among speech watchers.

00:20:25.040 So it is a much more Republican universe that got polled here because Republicans tune in in greater numbers for a Republican president's State of the Union address.

00:20:34.040 And the results will show you exactly that 64% say Trump's policies would move the country in the right direction.

00:20:41.040 36% say the wrong direction.

00:20:43.040 I just want you to know our our poll of the overall electorate is the exact opposite of that.

00:20:48.040 So in the overall population, he's upside down this way.

00:20:51.040 But among speech watchers tonight, 64% say his policies will move the U.S. in the right direction.

00:20:56.040 And look at the growth President Trump made over the speech.

00:20:59.040 So pre speech, it was 54% of speech watchers said his policies will move the U.S. in the right direction.

00:21:06.040 After the speech, that number goes up 10 percentage points.

00:21:09.040 So Donald Trump made some progress with people watching the speech from their pre speech expectations to what they saw in the speech itself.

00:21:17.040 And that 64% number, that's pretty much in range across all of his State of the Union addresses in his first term last year, the joint session.

00:21:25.040 That's about what we've seen is roughly two thirds have walked away from his speeches thinking he's going to move it in the right direction.

00:21:31.040 So a lot of red meat for the base.

00:21:33.040 Yeah, there's no no doubt about that.

00:21:35.040 I if you're a Republican on the ballot in 2026, I think you leave this speech being as happy as you could possibly be that he sort of stuck to the script on the economy.

00:21:45.040 He gave red meat to the base on immigration and they can leave the home tonight and sort of take that out on the campaign trail.

00:21:52.040 You saw Rachel Madden on this crowd. 0.76

00:21:54.040 Well, welcome.

00:21:55.040 It's Wednesday, 25 February, year of war, 2026.

00:21:57.040 John Solomon, Jim Rickards, many others.

00:21:59.040 We're going to get it all in this morning.

00:22:01.040 That was not a speech.

00:22:02.040 That was a historic moment.

00:22:04.040 He called out these demons, these traitors, these haters of America to their face, not simply on national TV, but on global television.

00:22:15.040 It was magnificent.

00:22:16.040 It was magnificent.

00:22:17.040 And we've got we're we've separated out the Medal of Honor part.

00:22:20.040 We're going to do different aspects that we want to honor during today's The Morning Show and The Afternoon Show.

00:22:26.040 I want to bring in John Solomon.

00:22:27.040 First off, John, I know you talked to the president before, after I had a chance to catch up with him this morning.

00:22:32.040 John, your thoughts on this speech and not even speech, this historic moment that we were all able to participate in last night, sir.

00:22:43.040 Yeah, listen, I think it was a call to action.

00:22:45.040 He divided the room into two people, patriots, people who love their country.

00:22:49.040 We'll celebrate the 250th anniversary of America because it's done good things, who believe that their border should be closed and that their city should be protected from bad criminals and that their spending should go back to levels that don't bankrupt the country.

00:23:05.040 And then the hatreds, those who sit and can't even applaud a young child who recovers from a heinous traffic accident, can't applaud or even cover an event that honors parents who lost their loved ones to fentanyl or to border crimes, can't even applaud American military heroes whose contributions are beyond anything any of us could imagine doing in the call of duty.

00:23:30.040 Those are the hatreds on one side.

00:23:35.040 All they could do after the speech was to give their anger at Donald Trump.

00:23:42.040 The only message they had is that Donald Trump's a bad guy last night.

00:23:45.040 Donald Trump went in the room and said, America is a great country.

00:23:49.040 Look around you.

00:23:50.040 Look at the people that are sitting here, the hockey team, the military patriots, the survivors of horrific crimes.

00:23:57.040 This is what makes America great.

00:23:59.040 And oh, by the way, I'm not going to talk just about my accomplishments.

00:24:02.040 I've got to tell you what comes next because I'm a bottom line.

00:24:04.040 I'm going to do it next.

00:24:05.040 And he laid out six or seven really big ideas.

00:24:08.040 The only idea that Democrats have had since 2016 is that Donald Trump's a bad guy.

00:24:13.040 And we'll just sing that all day.

00:24:15.040 And illegal aliens are better than Americans. 1.00

00:24:18.040 Literally, the president divided that room into two campsite and he has set the stage now for Republicans to run in the 2026 election on that. 0.98

00:24:27.040 Either you love your country, you love common sense, you embrace American heroes and you do the right thing by our country, or you hate it and you play with the communists and the socialists and the defrauding illegal immigrants and the raping and marauding illegal immigrants.

00:24:42.040 That's how we broke down the battlefield last night. 0.94

00:24:45.040 Could not be any clearer.

00:24:46.040 I agree with the CNN assessment.

00:24:48.040 If you're in the Republican Party last night, your president just inspired you on how you're going to run and win the 2026 election, which really gives the Republicans maybe a six or 10 year run in Washington.

00:25:00.040 But and here's the beauty for an audience that is low propensity and low for me.

00:25:05.040 They don't follow politics is on broadcast last night.

00:25:07.040 That's where he's got a chance to talk to the nation and he sets a trap and then tease it up perfectly.

00:25:15.040 This is why Trump's superpower and his skill set is so far beyond traditional politicians because he's not a politician.

00:25:21.040 He set the trap about I want everybody to stand if if the first responsibility of the American government didn't say he has got his administration of the American government is the protection of American citizens over illegal aliens. 0.73

00:25:34.040 And they just sat there.

00:25:36.040 He closed the trap on national TV and their faces and they're screaming.

00:25:41.040 And of course, a couple of the smart ones realize he just got us right there because it's it's it's a high relief policy.

00:25:49.040 Go ahead, sir. Yeah, you look at the shots of Hakeem Jeffries.

00:25:52.040 He knew that the Democrats got Trump last night.

00:25:54.040 And and I think that, you know, it's a great moment.

00:25:57.040 Now the question is, where do conservatives go from here?

00:26:01.040 Where do Democrats go from here? I thought Spanberger had an opportunity last night to be a little different than the rest of her underperforming party and to maybe lay out some fresh ideas. 1.00

00:26:11.040 Instead, she stumbled and bumbled and read a script that probably wasn't even hers.

00:26:16.040 And all it was was we hate Donald Trump. 0.96

00:26:19.040 You should hate Donald Trump. 1.00

00:26:20.040 You were morons to elect this guy. 1.00

00:26:22.040 Shame on you. 1.00

00:26:23.040 They're offending over half the country and they simply don't understand that.

00:26:27.040 And until Democrats get an idea machine going that actually connects with middle America, they're in grave danger.

00:26:33.040 And for the other side, Donald Trump basically told all you guys, I didn't make any excuses last night.

00:26:40.040 I didn't say I can't get the tariffs done because the Supreme Court overruled me.

00:26:46.040 I said, I'm coming back and I'm going to get it.

00:26:48.040 Stop making excuses.

00:26:50.040 Get off your duffs and get the rest of this agenda done before we go to the ballot box in 2026.

00:26:56.040 And that includes the Save Act, some more tax cuts, real savings in the government, something that Republicans have failed, even though Doge set them up for success.

00:27:05.040 And now J.D. Vance is set up for that success.

00:27:08.040 And then accountability, accountability for the double jeopardy abuses of American civil liberties by the hundreds, maybe the thousands.

00:27:16.040 Now, as we start to look at the FBI intelligence community's conduct, there may be hundreds or thousands of Americans whose civil liberties were abused and violated in a conspiracy to get Donald Trump.

00:27:27.040 It didn't matter whether you were legally culpable.

00:27:29.040 You were going to face the wrath of government.

00:27:32.040 If those things happen, if you get the Save Act, if you get some more spending cuts, if you get that sort of accountability, Donald Trump will have his army out in bundles in November and Democrats will be buttoned down.

00:27:47.040 But that's a big if.

00:27:48.040 We haven't seen the Republicans in that room keep up with the guy that was on that podium.

00:27:53.040 I know you've got to bounce, but you've got some breaking news and stories you're bringing up at Just the News.

00:27:58.040 Give us just give us the you're the pathfinder.

00:28:01.040 Tell us what's dropping and what's about to drop.

00:28:04.040 What we have just a few minutes ago and put up on Just the News is a story that we got thousands of pages of documents.

00:28:10.040 We had to sue for multiple years with the help of America First Legal to get Fannie Willis to finally cough up. 1.00

00:28:16.040 What do they show?

00:28:17.040 They show that Fannie Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney who brought the first state case against Donald Trump that mirrored or mimicked the Jack Smith case against President Trump, was in deep collusion with the Justice Department, with the January 6 Democrats and the Biden White House.

00:28:34.040 Yep, Joe Biden's White House said, we'll waive Donald Trump's executive privilege for you.

00:28:38.040 The Justice Department said, we'll waive and approve your 2E requests, which are requests to get federal workers to help you build a state case against a federal or national figure.

00:28:50.040 The fix was in.

00:28:51.040 And why is this important?

00:28:53.040 Because this is the best proof we've had to date.

00:28:56.040 These documents, 8,000 pages, everybody should go read them.

00:28:58.040 They're up on Just the News.

00:28:59.040 They show that the Democrats intentionally and strategically created a double jeopardy, double drain machine to go after Donald Trump.

00:29:07.040 Potentially another violation of the civil liberties of Donald Trump and his followers who were prosecuted and pursued after the 2020 election.

00:29:15.040 We have double jeopardy.

00:29:16.040 We're protected from being prosecuted for the same crimes in two places.

00:29:19.040 Except in this case, you see the Biden Justice Department, the Biden White House, and the January 6 Democrats trying to push Fannie Willis to create a double jeopardy, double drain situation for Donald Trump.

00:29:32.040 That's not what we do in America.

00:29:33.040 If you're a patriot, if you're a hatred, you might do that.

00:29:36.040 This is day one.

00:29:37.040 Tomorrow, we're going to show people whether there was a financial incentive, a financial reward, a financial follow the money stream,

00:29:44.040 to Fannie Willis that comes in as she's pursuing this.

00:29:48.040 And you can assume that if it happened in Georgia, well, we have similar election cases now in Wisconsin and Arizona.

00:29:54.040 The next question will be for the Justice Department, for the FBI, for the congressional investigators like Barry Loudermilk, who's coming on my show tonight.

00:30:01.040 Did it happen in those states?

00:30:03.040 Was this so orchestrated that federal taxpayers were funding the state efforts to smear Donald Trump to create double jeopardy, double drain situations in multiple states?

00:30:13.040 It will become part of the conspiracy case.

00:30:15.040 It is now working out of Miami.

00:30:17.040 That's what's out.

00:30:18.040 Next week, I think we'll get our first taste of some of the new election integrity revelations that people like Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel and Pam Bonney have been working on.

00:30:28.040 We'll learn of some new intrusions and some things that should concern us and that we can fix with the 2026 election.

00:30:35.040 I think it's the sort of stuff that will wise up some senators who might be on the fence on the SAVE Act. 0.53

00:30:39.040 They might get a little smarter when they hear these next revelations, probably next week.

00:30:43.040 By the way, the exquisite timing because tomorrow is the trial or Friday is the trial in Georgia.

00:30:48.040 We'll get more into that.

00:30:49.040 John, amazing, not just investigative reporting, what John Solomon has been through for years to fight this is just extraordinary.

00:30:57.040 And I got to tell you, your revelations about J6, the White House and DOJ, Peter Navarro will be on at 11 o'clock.

00:31:03.040 We are now prouder than ever that we did not bend the knee to these criminals.

00:31:09.040 And I am so proud that Peter and I went to prison because of these criminals right here.

00:31:14.040 And this will all come out.

00:31:15.040 But it's disgusting what they did. 0.98

00:31:17.040 And the President of the United States called them out to their face of the demons, haters and traitors that they are. 0.91

00:31:22.040 This is not about any policy differences.

00:31:24.040 This is about either love this country, you want to save this republic and you back President Trump, or you're on the other side.

00:31:30.040 There's no middle ground here.

00:31:31.040 No middle ground here.

00:31:32.040 John Solomon, where do people go?

00:31:33.040 The reporting is amazing.

00:31:34.040 The investigation is incredible.

00:31:35.040 Thank you.

00:31:36.040 And you're picking up momentum on this thing and kind of driving.

00:31:39.040 You're on point, is what I say.

00:31:41.040 Where do people go, John?

00:31:42.040 Thank you.

00:31:43.040 Yeah, justinews.com.

00:31:44.040 Jay Solomon reports on all social media platforms.

00:31:46.040 And I'm lucky enough to follow you at 6 o'clock right here on Real America's Voice every night.

00:31:50.040 Justinews, no noise with the amazing Amanda Head. 1.00

00:31:53.040 Fantastic.

00:31:54.040 Thank you, sir.

00:31:55.040 Everybody go there.

00:31:56.040 They break the news all the time.

00:31:57.040 I want to thank Real America's Voice, Parker, Rob Sig, the entire team.

00:32:00.040 Denver, Palm Beach, everybody last night.

00:32:03.040 Just a magnificent broadcast.

00:32:05.040 Just incredible.

00:32:06.040 Teamwork everywhere.

00:32:07.040 Covering like nobody else.

00:32:09.040 All to the rallies, the Democrat, the fake rallies. 1.00

00:32:12.040 These people are criminals. 0.98

00:32:13.040 Watch Solomon's reporting. 0.84

00:32:15.040 Why do you think Peter and I wouldn't bend the knee to him?

00:32:18.040 Pelosi in that crowd and all of them.

00:32:22.040 Right?

00:32:23.040 All of them. 0.97

00:32:24.040 Criminals.

00:32:25.040 This is why it's a moment.

00:32:27.040 Last night was a moment.

00:32:28.040 And we have to fire off the football here.

00:32:30.040 We have to be forced multipliers in this content.

00:32:32.040 Jim Rickards, you join us.

00:32:34.040 You've been around Washington, New York, the centers of power for a long time.

00:32:38.040 First off, your assessment of what you saw and what you heard last night.

00:32:42.040 And like I said, we're going to play the Medal of Honors.

00:32:44.040 We're going to have Terry Schilling about the transgender ideology, all this coming later.

00:32:48.040 Before I get into the geopolitics of it, sir, just give me your sense of what happened last night.

00:32:54.040 Yeah.

00:32:55.040 Thanks, Steve.

00:32:56.040 I thought about the speech in kind of three different dimensions.

00:32:59.040 One is, you know, policy, whether Republicans in particular, but, you know, the population as a whole care about.

00:33:05.040 Two, I'll just call it theatrics.

00:33:07.040 And then three, does this make any political difference in the long run?

00:33:11.040 I'll start with the theatrics.

00:33:12.040 I mean, you know, communications theory, the research is very clear, something like this.

00:33:16.040 People actually don't listen to it.

00:33:18.040 They're listening, but they're not, they don't listen.

00:33:21.040 What they do is they watch.

00:33:22.040 They form their judgment about what they see.

00:33:25.040 The theatrics were excellent for Trump.

00:33:27.040 It was, you know, the close of, you know, Rashid Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.

00:33:31.040 They looked, you know, impotent, frustrated, marginalized.

00:33:35.040 You know, they were yelling, screaming, whatever. 1.00

00:33:37.040 But what a pathetic show. 0.97

00:33:39.040 Elizabeth Warren, when Trump mentioned the capture of Nicholas Maduro of Venezuela, 0.99

00:33:45.040 she winced as if, well, what a horrible thing. 0.74

00:33:47.040 I mean, and you can't control that.

00:33:49.040 A lot of it's just, you know, reflex.

00:33:51.040 But the camera doesn't lie. 1.00

00:33:53.040 So I said that in that sense, the Democrats look like complete losers. 0.99

00:33:58.040 Again, almost like not a serious, not important party. 0.95

00:34:01.040 The other, on the other side, yeah, Congressional Medal of Honor,

00:34:04.040 the Olympic hockey team honoring various Americans and then paying respects to, you know,

00:34:10.040 people have suffered tragedies.

00:34:11.040 It was all very good.

00:34:12.040 I might have had one.

00:34:14.040 By the way, the Congressional Medal of Honor winners and the Freedom, the Presidential Medal

00:34:19.040 of Freedom winner, well deserved.

00:34:21.040 No question about that.

00:34:22.040 I might have had one or two less, maybe just one, put the rest in the Oval Office,

00:34:27.040 a little more dignified setting.

00:34:28.040 It was almost like they were handing them out.

00:34:30.040 But okay.

00:34:31.040 But the winners deserve them.

00:34:32.040 But I thought that was a little bit overdone.

00:34:34.040 But the visuals were extremely good for Trump.

00:34:37.040 On policy, again, you know, what's not to like?

00:34:42.040 Tariffs will replace the income tax.

00:34:44.040 Lower drug prices with Trump Rx.

00:34:46.040 Requiring data centers to provide their own electricity so the cost doesn't go to consumers.

00:34:52.040 Matching grants for private retirement plans.

00:34:54.040 Stop the Insider Trading Act.

00:34:56.040 War and fraud led by J.D. Vance.

00:34:58.040 I mean, I could go on and on.

00:34:59.040 That's what a State of the Union address is in some way.

00:35:02.040 So this was all excellent.

00:35:04.040 I personally agree with every one of those policies.

00:35:07.040 But that doesn't matter.

00:35:08.040 What matters is, you know, are you appealing not just to Republicans, but also to independents?

00:35:13.040 The answer was yes.

00:35:15.040 But there were two other things that I thought were very revealing.

00:35:19.040 On the big issue, war and peace, he said very little.

00:35:24.040 Now, he did say something very important, which is that Iran will not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.

00:35:30.040 He was categorical.

00:35:31.040 There were no conditions on that.

00:35:33.040 Well, if you say that and Iran doesn't agree, then you have a war.

00:35:38.040 So I do.

00:35:39.040 We talked about this before.

00:35:40.040 I do expect the attack to come.

00:35:43.040 I'm circling March 10th as a date.

00:35:45.040 But what Trump said left very little doubt about it.

00:35:48.040 Because clearly, Iran's not going to agree to that.

00:35:52.040 And so you can expect the war.

00:35:54.040 The fact that he said so little to me was actually very revealing.

00:35:58.040 But where this fell down and where I would be.

00:36:02.040 By the way, I voted for Trump six times in primaries and general elections.

00:36:05.040 So I'm on his side.

00:36:07.040 But where he, I would say, failed, this has to do with the politics of it.

00:36:11.040 Where do we go between here and the midterm?

00:36:13.040 Did he move the needle?

00:36:15.040 You know, John Solomon had a very good analysis.

00:36:17.040 He said the Democrats don't have any issues except I hate Trump.

00:36:22.040 They actually do have one.

00:36:23.040 It's the affordability issue.

00:36:24.040 The White House was slow to realize that.

00:36:27.040 I think Susie Wiles was important in kind of getting them focused on that. 0.99

00:36:30.040 But they still don't understand it.

00:36:32.040 The White House does not understand the affordability issue.

00:36:35.040 They're talking about a lot of things.

00:36:37.040 When Trump said inflation is plummeting, it's not plummeting.

00:36:40.040 Actually, the latest data, it's about the same.

00:36:42.040 Up a little bit by some measures, down by others.

00:36:44.040 But it's not really moving a lot.

00:36:46.040 But here's the thing.

00:36:47.040 We don't have prices going down.

00:36:49.040 When you say inflation is slowing, they're still going up.

00:36:51.040 And they're going up a very high base.

00:36:53.040 Now, was this Biden's fault?

00:36:54.040 Absolutely.

00:36:55.040 This was the Democrats and Biden's fault.

00:36:57.040 The Inflation Reduction Act, which was a trillion-dollar fraud.

00:37:01.040 And then the COVID Act, which Biden put in, which was another trillion-dollar bonanza.

00:37:08.040 That's what caused the inflation.

00:37:10.040 But at this point, the American people don't care.

00:37:12.040 They're like, okay, yeah, we get it.

00:37:13.040 The Democrats caused it.

00:37:14.040 That's why we elected Trump.

00:37:15.040 But now what are you going to do about it?

00:37:18.040 And you can't fix a problem if you don't understand it.

00:37:21.040 And the White House does not understand it.

00:37:23.040 And here's why.

00:37:24.040 They're looking at GDP, inflation, household income, et cetera.

00:37:30.040 They're important numbers.

00:37:31.040 And some of them are mildly positive in that sense.

00:37:35.040 But they're all averages.

00:37:37.040 And the White House doesn't understand that an average hides as much as it reveals.

00:37:42.040 So even if the average favors you, you have to look behind the average and say, okay, what's the degree distribution?

00:37:48.040 Not to get geeky.

00:37:49.040 But it's like, okay, an average is just a whole bunch of people.

00:37:51.040 Add them up.

00:37:52.040 Divide.

00:37:53.040 But what's behind it?

00:37:54.040 What's the skew?

00:37:55.040 And what you find is that income is 80% or 90% of the gains on average are going to 10% to 20% of the people, which means 80% of the population is being left behind.

00:38:07.040 And that's what the White House doesn't see.

00:38:09.040 And you have to see that to really adjust what people are concerned about.

00:38:12.040 So theatrics, great.

00:38:14.040 Policy, great.

00:38:16.040 I think the fact that you said very little about the war with Iran was revealing, that means the war is coming. 0.94

00:38:22.040 But on the big issue, which is affordability, which is what the midterms will probably turn on, I think the White House still doesn't get it.

00:38:29.040 I'll have you back on to discuss this because I want to talk about growth and wage growth, all of it.

00:38:34.040 But we'll get into the economics hopefully later in the week or next week, Jim, when we get you back.

00:38:39.040 I want to go back to the war. 0.81

00:38:41.040 He was as definitive as I referred him ever, saying you can't have a nuclear weapon or part of a nuclear weapon.

00:38:48.040 Jared Kushner and Witkoff are supposed to be – I guess Jared caught the red-eye.

00:38:54.040 They're supposed to be in Geneva today to talk to the Persians, and they still can't get in the same room.

00:38:59.040 I think President Trump – you're going to hit a limit that he's not going to sit there and these – the Persians are in one room, Jared and Witkoff another, and they're passing notes back and forth with the Oman guys or with the Swiss. 0.89

00:39:15.040 I think he's going to – if they don't get into a room and start having a real discussion and not the Persian way to negotiate, let's negotiate the next meeting, the size of the table, what the notes are.

00:39:25.380 I agree with you.

00:39:26.480 I think he's – I think he's – he says, I want peace, I want a deal.

00:39:30.600 But I'm not – we're not going to play games.

00:39:32.760 When you say March 10th, is that because of Ramadan or when you think the air wing will be ready on the second carrier strike group?

00:39:39.700 Why are you picking the 10th?

00:39:40.980 Yeah, it's more about the air wing and the interoperability and getting signals coordinated.

00:39:46.800 Nothing to do with Ramadan.

00:39:48.380 I don't think Trump cares that much about that.

00:39:51.600 It's – you know, the second carrier group, the carrier strike force, Gerald F. Ford, is in place.

00:39:58.260 So they're there, but they can't just start launching planes off the deck.

00:40:01.580 There's a little bit more preparation.

00:40:02.760 And what we have is diplomacy and preparation for war going down the same tracks.

00:40:08.020 And it was working in parallel.

00:40:09.480 Well, of course, you want a diplomatic solution.

00:40:12.200 But one of the ways you get there is to show that you're prepared for war.

00:40:14.740 One thing we know about Trump, and you can talk to Maduro and Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico, about it.

00:40:19.660 He's not bluffing.

00:40:21.200 And he's made that clear.

00:40:22.400 And I think he made it clear last night.

00:40:23.540 He didn't have to say a lot.

00:40:25.360 He said the one categorical thing, which is you cannot have a nuclear weapon.

00:40:29.180 But now the message to the Iranians, tell us what you're prepared to do in terms of verifiability, transparency, shutting down these programs, et cetera.

00:40:38.040 If you can't, if you can't do it quickly, meaning in days, maybe a week at the most, then the attack is coming.

00:40:44.180 How the attack unfolds, that remains to be seen probably.

00:40:47.900 Do you think he's framed this, that I'm not looking for a regime?

00:40:52.620 I'm not in a regime-change war, but I'm going to take out their nuclear program. 0.99

00:40:56.880 And if the Ayatollah and the Mullah's got to go down to get there, that's going to happen, too.

00:41:01.960 But this is not a war.

00:41:04.140 It's not a war of choice.

00:41:05.680 It's not a regime-change war.

00:41:07.160 He's to do it to eradicate the possibility of nuclear weapons, although I thought we had total obliteration back in the 12-day war.

00:41:13.960 Your thoughts, sir?

00:41:16.180 Yeah.

00:41:16.680 I mean, from the situation room, the information was that this is a two-step plan.

00:41:22.180 Step one, pretty difficult, but pretty conventional military.

00:41:26.060 Take out the air defenses.

00:41:27.680 Take out the factories that make the drones.

00:41:29.920 Take out the ballistic missiles to the extent you can.

00:41:32.700 Basically, degrade Iran's ability to strike back or attack U.S. assets or Israel in the area. 0.51

00:41:38.400 And Israel will be part of this, clearly.

00:41:39.860 We haven't talked about that a lot, but it'll be Israel and the United States.

00:41:43.200 Because that's stage one.

00:41:45.120 Then you take a beat, and you turn to the Iranians. 0.97

00:41:47.420 Okay, you got the message now.

00:41:48.640 Do you want to talk or not?

00:41:50.780 Maybe then something different will happen.

00:41:53.220 It remains to be seen.

00:41:54.260 But if not, then you go to stage two, and that is a decapitation strike.

00:41:59.160 You're saying coercive diplomacy, that this will be coercive diplomacy if they don't come to the table now.

00:42:05.560 Jim, predictive analytics, what is it, and why does it make strategic intelligence, your newsletter, so different than all others?

00:42:14.200 Thanks, Dave.

00:42:15.000 Yeah, basically, we have, like I said, we're not smarter than anybody else, but we have better models and make better use of them.

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00:42:37.860 And Bayesian theory, which is a theory when you don't have all the information.

00:42:43.120 I always say, if you have all the information, a smart high school kid can solve the problem.

00:42:47.440 How do you solve problems when you don't have all the information?

00:42:49.780 That's more difficult.

00:42:50.820 That's where this Bayesian theory comes in.

00:42:52.600 So we use all those great track records.

00:42:55.060 So we basically, what we offer our readers and our subscribers is we're going to tell you what's going to happen next.

00:43:01.920 And we just did in this interview, you can see how the war is going to play out in stages.

00:43:06.060 And again, as of now, the White House does not have a good handle on the midterm of elections, but they could, but it's getting late.

00:43:14.420 So this is what our models are telling us.

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00:43:56.240 And Rickards, you're pretty damn smart.

00:43:57.980 Don't, don't, don't, don't.

00:43:58.980 So let's start talking your book, okay, as they say on Wall Street.

00:44:02.740 Brother, thank you so much.

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00:44:06.560 Thanks.

00:44:09.160 RickardsWarRoom.

00:44:10.160 Is Bo Davidson, do I have Bo up?

00:44:12.320 Is Bo, so Bo, we left you last night.

00:44:15.920 You relieved the watch, and you relieved the watch with Spanberger.

00:44:19.820 Give me a minute or two about that.

00:44:21.540 I'm going to come, I'm going to hold you through the break and bring you back about the speech.

00:44:24.200 But you had the, you had, you had the honor of having the Spanberger watch last night.

00:44:29.260 Your thoughts, sir?

00:44:30.980 Yeah, the honor or dishonor, however you want to view it.

00:44:33.060 But it is an honor to be on your program, Steve, with you.

00:44:35.080 Thanks for having me.

00:44:36.000 Some really tremendous coverage last night by the RAV team front to back.

00:44:39.680 Abigail Spanberger, Steve, opened her non-speech with three questions.

00:44:45.360 Is the president working to make life more affordable?

00:44:48.340 And I think all three of these questions, by the way, Steve, were rhetorical.

00:44:50.940 I think the answer unequivocally is yes.

00:44:54.000 Second question, Steve, is he working to keep Americans safe?

00:44:57.300 Well, we watched almost two hours of a speech where he talked about protecting Americans

00:45:00.500 and calling out Democrats that can't stand up,

00:45:03.140 who don't understand the fundamental role of American government.

00:45:05.400 So that answer is yes.

00:45:06.780 Her third question, Steve, is the president working for you?

00:45:10.800 All the things that were laid out in that speech,

00:45:13.060 from his policies to his vision to what he's going to do coming down the road,

00:45:17.180 that answer is also unequivocally yes.

00:45:20.100 So she had three rhetorical questions at the top of her speech 0.99

00:45:23.220 that she tried to keep answering and saying the answer is no.

00:45:26.200 But I think after what we saw in an hour and 47 minutes or so,

00:45:29.280 the answer was yes to all three of those questions.

00:45:31.920 She stepped in it.

00:45:34.060 Did she?

00:45:35.160 And also, it looked, correct me if I'm wrong,

00:45:38.360 it looked tiny compared to the scale of President Trump.

00:45:41.780 Did it not, sir?

00:45:43.380 It looked very, very small.

00:45:44.760 It looked like they had paid extras from Central Casting to come in there and clap for her.

00:45:48.060 You know, you look at the scale of the State of the Union.

00:45:51.380 I'll admit, it would be tough to try to create something similar.

00:45:55.480 It's kind of like what the great work Turning Point USA did with their halftime show.

00:45:59.360 If you're going to go big,

00:46:00.760 you have to make it at least somewhat equivalent to what just happened.

00:46:04.020 Now, maybe they couldn't have predicted that Trump would come out

00:46:05.900 with one of the most amazing speeches he's ever had.

00:46:08.120 But to have a little piddly group of 10 people clapping for you with that tepid speech,

00:46:12.280 it just didn't cut the mustard for me.

00:46:13.980 Did not.

00:46:15.680 Bo Davis is going to stick through the break.

00:46:17.380 We're going to talk about the speech itself, the optics, the power of image and symbol.

00:46:23.060 It was a historic moment last night.

00:46:24.620 It was not a State of the Union speech.

00:46:26.260 This is an inflection point.

00:46:28.940 Bruce Springsteen is going to take you out.

00:46:30.820 This is the opposition.

00:46:32.180 There's nothing to debate here.

00:46:34.160 There's no debate, and there's no debate.

00:46:36.220 They're not going to convince us.

00:46:37.300 We're not going to convince them.

00:46:38.660 One side's going to win, and one side's going to lose.

00:46:41.540 This is where we are now, in America, in the year of our Lord, 2026.

00:46:46.260 Short commercial break.

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00:51:11.540 Okay, gold is up over $5,200 in the headline crossing the Bloomberg tape.

00:51:19.520 It's because of uncertainty on tariffs and geopolitical risk.

00:51:23.760 Peter Navarro is going to be on in a moment to talk about the tariffs.

00:51:26.820 But geopolitical risk, that's a fancy term for war.

00:51:32.800 President Trump and Rickards had this right.

00:51:34.520 I don't agree with Jim on the affordability issue.

00:51:37.980 We'll have Jim back on.

00:51:38.800 He's a very smart guy to walk through that and break it down.

00:51:42.900 But President Trump is about as blunt as he's ever been.

00:51:46.020 And as you know, we adamantly oppose a regime change.

00:51:49.220 We're in Iran, but President Trump's been very consistent on this with the nuclear weapon.

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00:52:54.240 Bo, last night was interesting.

00:52:57.080 As you watch Spanberger, she's the president because he didn't have a state of the union last time.

00:53:01.460 But traditionally, you do go up every year.

00:53:03.820 He went a couple of weeks right after the inauguration to give an update on the nation.

00:53:08.540 And the response by the Democrats was Slotkin in Michigan.

00:53:12.640 Then they had Spanberger in Virginia.

00:53:14.380 They've picked two CIA operatives that did now have an elective politics. 0.75

00:53:20.420 I find that quite odd.

00:53:22.160 The pattern recognition there is so obvious.

00:53:24.660 Bo, your thoughts?

00:53:26.180 It is.

00:53:26.840 I think you bring up a very valid point, Steve.

00:53:28.540 If nothing else, I think we have to look at it nefariously at its very least.

00:53:33.280 You know, I suppose, Steve, that they picked Spanberger because of her victory in Virginia

00:53:37.460 and thinking that she's like the face of the party, this repudiation of Trump.

00:53:41.000 But I think we saw that fail last night.

00:53:42.900 And to be honest, I don't even know if it mattered who was speaking last night

00:53:46.060 because the dichotomy of what we saw between President Trump's aplomb versus Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib

00:53:52.560 and their pettiness, their childishness, I think that's actually what became the face of the party last night

00:53:57.600 no matter what Abigail Spanberger said.

00:54:00.120 Her tepid, milquetoast response, I think, was not only just a throwaway,

00:54:03.680 but there's no way she could possibly top it.

00:54:05.580 And after what we saw visually, I think there's no way that she could come back

00:54:09.660 and all she could do was retreat at that point.

00:54:12.000 It was a terrible speech, terribly delivered, terribly written,

00:54:14.900 as opposed to the masterfully written and masterfully delivered speech by Donald Trump.

00:54:19.480 Bo, with all the different, we're going to be putting clips up all day.

00:54:23.220 We just had a 22-minute cold open, and we're still trying to cut

00:54:26.620 and make sure we get a great piece on the Medal of Honor winners.

00:54:31.340 And Terry Schilling is going to come on.

00:54:32.860 We're going to the transgender. 1.00

00:54:34.200 Of everything you saw last night, the optics, the power,

00:54:36.500 give me your one or two items you would tell people to focus on today.

00:54:42.100 Well, there are four themes that kept running through last night's speech, Stephen,

00:54:45.460 and I want to focus on the fact you talked about this being an experience.

00:54:48.260 There's a Greek word called kairos.

00:54:49.960 It means a unique moment in time, a unique moment for decisive action.

00:54:53.280 I think that's what we saw last night.

00:54:55.180 You know, kudos to Ross Worthington and Vince Haley for incredible writing.

00:54:58.680 But there were four themes, Steve.

00:55:00.140 One was celebration, and you just touched on it there.

00:55:02.240 It's the men's hockey gold.

00:55:03.940 It's the 250th birthday, FIFA World Cup, Olympics in L.A.,

00:55:07.920 the Medals of Honor, celebrating our veterans, our heroes,

00:55:11.220 Scott Ruskin, Eric Slover, amazing men,

00:55:13.880 amazing men and women who have done heroic things.

00:55:16.240 That's something we all as Americans can and should and must celebrate.

00:55:21.120 Yet half of the room, Steve, is not standing up.

00:55:23.920 So there's a delineation, and that's kind of my second theme, really,

00:55:26.620 that I saw from the speech was this differentiation or demarcation.

00:55:30.960 He mentioned the Dinah Washington song almost,

00:55:33.100 What a Difference a President Makes.

00:55:34.560 That's the song that kept playing in my head.

00:55:36.580 The differentiation of Trump versus Biden,

00:55:39.260 of Republican versus Democrat,

00:55:40.660 of logic in the Republican Party versus insanity in the Democrat Party,

00:55:45.580 of Rubio versus Hillary Clinton as far as Secretary of State goes,

00:55:48.880 of an open border versus a closed border.

00:55:51.600 There was this differentiation that kept happening and demarcation.

00:55:54.880 And the line in the sand,

00:55:56.500 you've got to stand up if you believe that the government's first role

00:55:59.460 is to protect American citizens and not illegal aliens.

00:56:02.140 And that line was drawn, my friend.

00:56:04.000 And when that line was drawn and nobody stood up on their side of the aisle,

00:56:06.760 I think we saw what happened, what we witnessed last night

00:56:09.300 in terms of American history, that it cannot be overestimated.

00:56:13.200 So that's theme number two, Steve.

00:56:14.580 For me, the third theme was explanation.

00:56:17.120 Every policy that Donald Trump laid out last night,

00:56:20.700 he had a living, breathing witness to it

00:56:22.920 or a witness to what the bad policy was before him.

00:56:25.880 And we could run through those.

00:56:26.860 On the tax plan, Megan Himhauser getting an extra $5,000 1.00

00:56:29.600 to take home this year.

00:56:31.260 Trump Rx, Catherine Rayner with lower-priced IVF drugs.

00:56:34.600 Border policy, having Delilah Coleman and Lizbeth Medina's mom

00:56:38.380 victims of terrible policy on crime.

00:56:41.280 Irina Zarutska's mom, Irina stabbed, of course, in North Carolina.

00:56:44.460 Transgender policy, Sage Blair,

00:56:46.580 who couldn't inform her parents of the policy.

00:56:48.680 And foreign policy, Enrique Marquez being saved from a Venezuelan prison.

00:56:52.600 Every single policy he laid out,

00:56:55.120 he had a living, breathing witness for it

00:56:57.540 or someone who'd been unfortunately the victim of a bad policy

00:57:00.320 under the previous administration.

00:57:02.020 And lastly, Steve, I'll just say this.

00:57:03.400 I think the fourth theme was vision.

00:57:05.200 What he laid out, what we're looking, what's coming down the road.

00:57:07.960 Retirement accounts, Delilah's Law, 0.76

00:57:09.940 requiring tech companies to provide their own power.

00:57:12.120 This was the vision that Donald Trump laid out.

00:57:14.640 Here's what we've done that's good.

00:57:16.020 Here's what's coming down the road that you can like.

00:57:19.640 Kairos, where do you get that 0.99

00:57:21.280 besides Real America Voice and War Room?

00:57:24.880 Bo Davison, you just stuck the landing.

00:57:26.820 Where do people get you, sir?

00:57:28.620 Go to at the Bo Davison, B-E-A-U-D-A-V-I-D-S-O-N. 1.00

00:57:33.460 And again, Steve, an honor to be on this program with you.

00:57:35.380 It was an honor to share the programming with you last night

00:57:37.640 and all the great RAV team that we had covering last night.

00:57:40.280 Amazing coverage.

00:57:41.100 You guys did great.

00:57:41.980 Thank you so much, Bo.

00:57:43.060 Thank you, my friend.

00:57:43.900 Look forward to having you back.

00:57:45.720 Let's cut that clip.

00:57:46.900 That's the best summary of this speech I saw.

00:57:48.860 It's an event, a historic event, an inflection point.

00:57:52.860 It's now upon us to take it upon our shoulders and to drive this.

00:57:57.980 Last night, President Trump told you loud and clear,

00:58:00.400 this is a base election in 2026.

00:58:02.420 They're not persuadables.

00:58:04.300 They're turning out their side.

00:58:05.500 We've got to turn it our side.

00:58:07.340 We're going to leave you with Natasha Owens

00:58:09.500 up in Bruce Springsteen's face.

00:58:13.800 We're going to take a short commercial break.

00:58:15.740 Peter Navarro, Terry Schilling,

00:58:17.440 Brian Kennedy, next in the War Room.

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Bannon's War Room - February 25, 2026

Episode 5168： President Trump Delivers A Historical State Of The Union

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