Bannon's War Room - Episode 5232： President Trump Participates In Commander In Chief Trophy Ceremony; SC MAGA Is Coming For Lindsey Graham Episode 5232： President Trump Participates In Commander In Chief Trophy Ceremony; SC MAGA Is Coming For Lindsey Graham

00:00:00.000 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Vann.

00:00:06.080 Okay, welcome back, Bradley.

00:00:09.100 Lindsey Graham, who thinks it's Charlie Wilson's war.

00:00:12.600 Just for our audience, as they take your piece, we're pushing it out,

00:00:17.320 and I want them to chew on it over the weekend.

00:00:20.160 What would be the couple of highlights that you would point them to, sir?

00:00:25.280 Well, just one example.

00:00:26.920 There's a group, and this is the way these NGOs work.

00:00:29.560 There's an NGO in Gaza called the Bayadir Association for Environment or something.

00:00:35.900 That's how they are structured or named so that they seem not so nefarious.

00:00:41.600 But since 2016, there was almost a million dollars in USAID fund that we know about that went to them,

00:00:47.940 even though they're openly hosting and throwing parties with leading figures of Hamas.

00:00:53.600 That money is going to Hamas.

00:00:55.400 Meanwhile, what's Hamas doing?

00:00:57.360 Just this week, they're urging Iran to activate all fronts against the United States and our allies.

00:01:05.320 They are urging terrorist organizations, others, to activate against America and its interest.

00:01:12.520 They're helping to embolden Iran, knowing that Iran has allies in the region.

00:01:17.140 And what's Iran doing just as recently as today?

00:01:20.500 They're saying that they need to bring this fight across the globe and expand it beyond the Middle East.

00:01:26.900 Sure sounds like terrorism to me. Meanwhile, they're continuing to attempt to stockpile these missiles, and they're all doing this with American taxpayer money coming from groups that were advocated for by Lindsey Graham.

00:01:43.000 Meanwhile, I asked his office if they could point to any instances of Lindsey Graham cheerleading or trying to generate any oversight at all over USAID, particularly as it related to their money going to these terrorist groups, and I didn't get a response.

00:01:58.960 That's not a good sign.

00:02:02.680 Bradley, where did they go to get this piece over at Breitbart?

00:02:06.160 Great reporting.

00:02:07.140 And where do they follow you on social media?

00:02:08.720 Because I'm sure this is a story that's, as we say in the business, developing.

00:02:13.000 Steve, I think we've just scratched the surface with it.

00:02:18.020 You can find me on X or Twitter at BradleyAJ.

00:02:21.800 We'll tag that story up at the top.

00:02:24.300 We'll pin it at the top.

00:02:25.080 It's on brightbark.com.

00:02:26.500 We're going to stay on this because not only is it big as it relates to this story, but

00:02:31.440 again, I think that this tells us a lot about what kind of advice the president is getting

00:02:37.420 from his stable of Senate advisors.

00:02:39.820 maybe we should all be putting the pressure on some of them and let's hope that president trump

00:02:45.960 is listening to the right people amen sir brilliantly said thank you so much for taking

00:02:52.820 time to come with us okay president trump's going to walk in a minute i got to get no frisch joins

00:02:57.200 us from the national file now no you also uh work uh for very i would say this very conservative

00:03:03.660 candidates we can assume that noel is on the right side of the political spectrum national file a

00:03:08.880 great site uh the laws of political physics because i keep sitting here going the folks

00:03:15.240 in south carolina some of the best folks in the world and they're super maga i don't and they're

00:03:19.820 patriots so many have served in the military you got military bases all over the place down there

00:03:23.820 mo lived there at one time on one of the uh one of the bases oh i tell you what president's coming

00:03:29.200 out no i just gave you a great tee up we're gonna get to it right after we finish with the president

00:03:32.900 the United States.

00:04:01.900 Thank you very much, please. Thank you.

00:04:06.980 I want to begin by just saying we're doing extremely well in Iran.

00:04:13.480 The difference between them and us is they had a navy two weeks ago.

00:04:18.700 They have no navy anymore. It's all at the bottom of the sea.

00:04:22.220 58 ships knocked down in two days.

00:04:25.120 And we have the greatest navy anywhere in the world. It's not even close.

00:04:28.260 So, but we are doing really well.

00:04:30.300 We're not going to let them have nuclear weapons

00:04:32.940 because if they had them, they'd use them

00:04:34.540 and we're not going to let that happen.

00:04:35.860 Should have been done a long time ago by other presidents.

00:04:39.680 So it's an honor to be here.

00:04:40.940 This is fun.

00:04:42.700 And these are great athletes standing behind me.

00:04:45.340 Great coaches, general managers,

00:04:48.380 great people and a great superintendent.

00:04:50.840 Hello, superintendent.

00:04:53.520 We only put our finest as these superintendents

00:04:55.920 these great schools because we don't want to have somebody that they don't look up to. We take our

00:05:01.760 best and they're really amazing. For the second year in a row, it's my great honor to officially

00:05:09.040 present the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy to the one and only Navy midshipmen football team

00:05:16.240 with 11 wins and two losses, playing the best teams in football. I used to always think of

00:05:22.320 the military service is they play like a little step below. It's not true. They play the big

00:05:27.680 teams and they beat them. These players achieve one of the most impressive seasons in Navy football

00:05:32.720 history and any football history, frankly, and I just want to congratulate the

00:05:38.080 midshipmen. I met them backstage and they're great. Thank you. Congratulations.

00:05:42.000 You know, when I mentioned the Navy that we just destroyed, I said, are they good ships?

00:05:55.560 Yeah, they're great ships.

00:05:57.220 Then I said, why didn't we save them?

00:05:58.700 We could have used them ourselves.

00:06:00.640 They said the difference was they didn't know how to use them.

00:06:03.780 Right, General?

00:06:05.180 They didn't know how to use them.

00:06:06.480 They had no idea.

00:06:07.300 But I want to recognize Navy Athletic Director Michael Kelly, who has just done an incredible job.

00:06:16.300 Thank you very much.

00:06:17.900 He looks like a Kelly.

00:06:21.320 He's definitely a Kelly.

00:06:23.640 Along with head coach Brian Newberry, fantastic coach.

00:06:27.200 Brian.

00:06:27.540 He's off to the second best start

00:06:34.440 for any football coach in school history.

00:06:37.280 What's second? Who's first?

00:06:39.360 It's pretty good.

00:06:40.520 That must have been a Roger Starback year, maybe, or something.

00:06:43.660 Because I tell you what, I got to watch Roger Starback,

00:06:46.360 and he was something.

00:06:48.740 He was like, I have to say, I've said it,

00:06:52.300 and some people were insulted by it,

00:06:53.720 but it was like a man playing with children.

00:06:55.980 and he would single-handedly win those games.

00:06:58.600 It was incredible.

00:07:00.040 Thanks as well to your superintendent,

00:07:02.000 lieutenant general, Michael Borg Schulte,

00:07:05.560 who is an accomplished Navy linebacker,

00:07:08.220 a very good one, back in the day.

00:07:10.700 We're also pleased to be joined

00:07:12.480 by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

00:07:15.180 Now, I don't know if he's here

00:07:16.100 because I actually told him he had an option,

00:07:18.960 be in the sit room, you know, the famous situation,

00:07:22.480 or be up here.

00:07:23.820 And if it's okay, I told him,

00:07:25.080 But I think he has two very beautiful sons up here.

00:07:27.740 They're the best.

00:07:28.520 Boone and Jackson.

00:07:29.320 Are you two guys?

00:07:30.080 Well, I told your father, just be in this Situation Room.

00:07:34.740 We're okay with that, right?

00:07:36.040 I think so, right, Coach?

00:07:37.900 Coach, I think you're okay.

00:07:39.600 So, Boone and Jackson, someday you'll be on this team maybe, right?

00:07:42.520 Would you be on Navy, Army, Air Force?

00:07:44.600 Which one?

00:07:45.060 Take Navy.

00:07:45.560 Just say Navy, okay?

00:07:47.740 I don't want to get them in trouble.

00:07:50.040 And your father's doing a fantastic job.

00:07:52.140 and also the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Stairs, Dan Cain.

00:07:57.400 So Dan is unbelievable, and I picked him for a reason

00:08:01.540 because I was told it would take five years to be at ISIS

00:08:04.460 by our television generals.

00:08:06.080 You know, there's a big difference between generals,

00:08:07.660 just like there is between coaches and everything else.

00:08:10.660 They said, sir, five years, and I went to Iraq

00:08:13.700 because I didn't understand why five years,

00:08:16.920 and I met this general, and his name was Dan Cain.

00:08:20.260 I said, what's your name?

00:08:21.100 he said, Raisin, sir. I said, really, Raisin? What is that? Raisin. Oh, it's just my nickname,

00:08:27.260 sir. What's your last name? Cain. I said, your name is Raisin Cain? I love you. You're the guy

00:08:33.200 I'm looking for. And it turned out to be right. So they told me it was going to take four to five

00:08:39.840 years to knock out ISIS. And now I'm in Iraq. I come down, I meet him, some other generals. He

00:08:46.680 was the boss. And I said, how long would it take for you to knock out ISIS? He said, four weeks,

00:08:54.340 sir. I said, four weeks. They tell me four years, maybe five. He said, well, whatever they want,

00:09:03.540 sir. They're the boss. I'm just here. But you can do it in four weeks, sir. And you'll have time

00:09:10.580 left over. I said, you got to be kidding. And he explained that we went through a whole big thing.

00:09:14.540 I won't. Well, nobody in this room would be bored by it. Actually, you'd like to hear every word.

00:09:18.540 I'll tell you every word of it. But bottom line, I said, let me go back. But as I'm leaving,

00:09:25.620 they actually, it was very interesting. I'm walking down the stairs, long fight.

00:09:29.340 I had to turn off the lights after spending trillions of dollars. You had to turn the

00:09:33.320 lights off in the plane because you didn't want to be spotted by the enemy. This was something.

00:09:38.120 So we land. And I said, sir, would you like to rest for a while before we have a meeting? I said,

00:09:43.500 I said, I don't have to rest.

00:09:45.260 My name's not Biden.

00:09:46.500 I don't want to...

00:09:47.700 I'm not resting.

00:09:48.900 And we had great meetings.

00:09:50.800 And then I got back on the plane, I said to him,

00:09:52.980 so, General, you say four weeks,

00:09:54.740 what do you mean that, right?

00:09:55.940 Four weeks, sir, and you'll have time left over.

00:09:58.180 He said, I'll call you on Monday when I get back.

00:10:01.280 And I called him, I said,

00:10:02.320 you still feel that way, General?

00:10:03.620 He said, yes, sir.

00:10:06.060 And I let him do it.

00:10:07.960 He did it in less than four weeks.

00:10:09.600 He defeated ISIS.

00:10:10.620 It was amazing.

00:10:11.900 What a difference.

00:10:13.500 You know, I always say, what a difference the president makes.

00:10:18.960 The border, they said, it can't be done without Congress, it will take years.

00:10:23.320 We did it in about three weeks.

00:10:25.180 We have a border that's now nine months in a row, nobody's come into our country illegally.

00:10:29.620 I'm not even sure if that could be right.

00:10:31.700 But the Democrats keep the stats.

00:10:33.900 So they say, I mean, they have zero people came in through our border.

00:10:36.740 You say it, right?

00:10:38.520 And I said, the president makes a big difference.

00:10:42.740 Well, the generals make a big difference, too.

00:10:44.620 But I told him, I said, Dan, if you don't mind, stay in the situation room,

00:10:48.940 and you watch all those attacks that we're hitting those guys with,

00:10:52.780 and they don't know what's happening.

00:10:54.940 Their Navy's gone. Their Air Force is gone.

00:10:57.800 Their anti-aircraft is all gone. It's all gone.

00:11:01.320 Their radar is all gone. Their leaders are all gone.

00:11:05.480 The next set of leaders are all gone.

00:11:08.000 And the next set of leaders are mostly gone.

00:11:10.000 And now nobody wants to be a leader over there anymore.

00:11:13.760 We're having a hard time.

00:11:15.000 We want to talk to them, and there's nobody to talk to.

00:11:18.420 We have nobody to talk to.

00:11:20.340 And you know what?

00:11:21.280 We like it that way.

00:11:23.160 And we have many other distinguished members of the United States military,

00:11:26.740 but I want to tell you, Hexeth is doing a great job.

00:11:29.360 And Raisin Cain is doing a great job, as good as anybody's ever seen.

00:11:34.600 Don't forget, we had Venezuela.

00:11:36.120 That was the beginning where people started to see the talent.

00:11:38.440 I rebuilt the military and built it, frankly, including Space Force, but I rebuilt the military

00:11:45.200 in my first term. I didn't think I'd be using it this much, but I'm glad I rebuilt it because we

00:11:50.600 can't let these lunatics have nuclear weapons because they were going to use them. They'd use 0.99

00:11:55.200 them fast. One of the ways you know that is when this whole thing started, they started shooting

00:12:01.580 missiles all over the Middle East at countries that were basically not involved because they

00:12:08.060 wanted to take over the Middle East and if they had a nuclear weapon they would have used it 0.98

00:12:12.540 the only question would have been the first hour of the first day that's the only question they

00:12:17.700 would have used it and if they can use a nuclear weapon the world would have been in big trouble

00:12:21.480 we had to stop it should have been done long ago I also want to thank FCC chairman Brendan Carr

00:12:27.980 perhaps the most powerful man in this room you are doing some job he's trying to keep the fake

00:12:33.900 news is trying to make the fake news real and respect it again which is not an easy job but

00:12:39.620 you're doing a really amazing job first time that's happened in 25 years so i congratulate you

00:12:44.860 and everybody in the room everybody in this whole country is watching what you're doing and we

00:12:48.960 appreciate it when a man can get elected in a landslide winning every think of it seven swing

00:12:56.840 states win them all we win the popular vote we win the electoral college by tremendous amount

00:13:03.380 we win the counties by 82 or 84 percent and i got no good press think of it only one thing that

00:13:13.160 only means one thing these people are not respected they're just not respected and we have to have a

00:13:18.300 press that's respective when you when you um when you can win an election where they say that i got

00:13:25.560 94 percent bad press. Think of it. The other side got 94 percent good press. When they can get 94

00:13:34.960 percent and you win in a landslide, that means the press is not respected. People have no

00:13:39.920 confidence in it. So you're doing a fantastic job. Senators Todd Young and Dan Sullivan,

00:13:47.680 great senators wherever you may be. You're here someplace. Where are you? Hello, fellas. Good

00:13:52.480 senators great guys and representatives ronnie jackson white house doctor he was he served three

00:13:59.280 presidents he said he had barack hussein obama have you heard of barack hussein obama you had

00:14:05.240 obama i didn't want to talk about biden but we he said and you had bush you had young bush i call

00:14:11.880 him young young bush i was not a fan but that's all right but they asked the press asked him who

00:14:19.360 was the healthiest of the three? Dr. Ronnie. Stand up, Dr. Ronnie. This is a big deal. Took a lot of heat for this. They said most guys would say, well, we don't want to talk about that. They said, who's the healthiest of the three? He said, President Donald J. Trump by far. If he didn't eat junk food, he'd lived to 200 years old. And I love this guy. And he then left and he ran. He was an admiral. And he then left and he was a White House doctor.

00:14:48.840 a very respected one.

00:14:50.100 He saved a lot of lives.

00:14:51.180 He was a great doctor.

00:14:52.040 People don't realize that.

00:14:53.160 And he then left, and he said,

00:14:55.100 sir, I'd like to run for Congress.

00:14:56.360 I said, you've never done it before.

00:14:57.660 You won't be able to pull it off.

00:14:58.940 In a very, very all-Trump district,

00:15:01.340 there were 28 people running.

00:15:02.940 Man was retiring.

00:15:03.920 He's been there for years.

00:15:05.620 And I said, Ron, I don't know.

00:15:07.380 It's going to be tough, but we'll try it, right?

00:15:10.080 And we got him in.

00:15:11.460 He blew him away.

00:15:12.200 There was one man that was favored.

00:15:13.520 He was a rhino.

00:15:14.680 He was favored to win easily.

00:15:16.860 And we wiped him out, right, Ron?

00:15:18.340 And he's been a congressman.

00:15:19.700 He's one of the most popular people in Congress.

00:15:21.580 But I don't care about that.

00:15:22.920 I just care that he was my doctor and he said,

00:15:24.740 I'm the healthiest human being.

00:15:25.920 He said, Ronnie, am I healthier than these guys back here?

00:15:29.220 Yes, sir.

00:15:29.920 Okay.

00:15:31.420 All right.

00:15:32.380 See, this is why I like him.

00:15:35.100 Also with Ronnie is Derek Van Orden, a fantastic guy,

00:15:38.660 and members of the Naval Academy's Board of Visitors.

00:15:41.520 Sean Spicer has gone on to great things.

00:15:43.960 And Walt Nuda.

00:15:45.940 Walt, where's Walt?

00:15:46.840 Walsh has become a very famous guy.

00:15:48.400 He works with me, and he does a great job.

00:15:51.620 Great, loyal, incredible person.

00:15:54.520 And Sean Spicer, where's Sean?

00:15:56.580 Where's Sean? Great job.

00:15:58.360 And he's got a very successful television career going.

00:16:01.760 What the hell do I get out of it?

00:16:03.320 Well, you know what? I get nice statements.

00:16:04.800 That's what I get out of it, right?

00:16:06.160 The President- Yes, sir. 100 percent.

00:16:07.220 The President- It's great.

00:16:08.320 You've done great.

00:16:09.160 Thank you very much. Congratulations.

00:16:11.640 Those are really the people that are very much in

00:16:14.500 charge of making everything work at the academy and the other academies separately separate groups

00:16:20.040 a very important position for the navy midship in 2025 was truly a season for the ages you didn't

00:16:28.120 just win the commander in chief's trophy you made history as one of the greatest teams to ever wear

00:16:33.500 the proud uniform of navy football some uniform the the teams have gotten so good in the schools

00:16:42.980 that i was able to get and we're pushing it very hard to make it permanent a military academy

00:16:51.400 deferment policy so because you have some people here you know when i went on the field and i

00:16:58.800 threw up a coin i'm standing next to these guys they were monsters they said look at the size of

00:17:03.720 these guys i thought they were supposed to be small i thought you had i thought you had sort

00:17:07.740 of restrictions on size you know we got rid of that because some of these guys were extremely

00:17:14.000 large and i you know and i we we have the nfl teams here also when whoever wins the super bowl

00:17:20.400 they come the baseball teams we had the dodgers we have we have them all but i saw the size of

00:17:26.160 these guys so i got used to it and i said these guys are as big as the nfl and uh at one of the

00:17:32.760 visits a while ago, first term, they asked me, they said, sir, we have a hard time recruiting

00:17:39.360 because a player, if he's really good, he can't do the four or five years in the military service.

00:17:45.720 Could you ask, we'd like to do a military academy deferment policy. I immediately knew what it

00:17:50.580 meant. And we got it done. And it allows you to defer your service until after your career. So

00:17:57.960 you're going to the nfl for 10 years so now everyone wants to join so do i get credit for

00:18:03.720 this successful team then the superintendent's going to say yes i don't know about the coach i

00:18:09.240 don't know about kelly but uh but the coach i think is uh it made your life a little bit easier

00:18:16.040 it was tough it was tough for the teams when they used to have to play guys that were twice their

00:18:19.960 size right so they did good they had better heart they have bet they have the best heart in the

00:18:24.120 business but size does matter and so what we did is we got that so you have a deferment so a lot of

00:18:30.120 people are able to join now and they do their service later they're great patriots but that

00:18:34.920 would be a lot to ask and i think it's helped your teams really compete at the highest highest level

00:18:40.920 the team was led by your incredible senior class and that includes the co-captain and star

00:18:46.680 quarterback Blake Horvath who is fantastic where are you Blake thank you

00:19:07.460 stay up here if you want look at this guy walks up just stay there just you

00:19:14.460 know they don't want it very good that's look at him i can't get rid of this i can't stay there

00:19:19.980 stay there if you want come on stay there he's a quarterback what the hell but he ends his college 0.73

00:19:24.700 career as one of the most accurate navy quarterbacks of all time with an astounding almost 60

00:19:31.100 percent completion rate second only to the man we just spoke about roger stovac who was unbelievable

00:19:37.020 he was unbelievable he served five years and then he came in and he was came in at like 27 or

00:19:41.980 or something, and he was phenomenal as an NFL player.

00:19:45.560 Likewise, senior wide receiver Eli Haydenreich

00:19:50.520 scorched opposing defenses all year long.

00:19:53.360 They've been writing about him, a lot of stories,

00:19:55.160 setting a school record for receiving touchdowns,

00:19:58.460 and you do need a quarterback for that.

00:20:00.000 Where is Eli?

00:20:02.260 Where's Eli? Come here, Eli.

00:20:04.140 Get over here. 0.99

00:20:11.980 And we're going to bring them down to the Oval Office.

00:20:25.360 Nobody else would have room for none of none of all these big shots that we have here.

00:20:29.700 None of the senators, none of all these people.

00:20:32.120 We're going to bring them down.

00:20:33.120 We're giving them a special medal, a beautiful medal, a very expensive medal that I see it

00:20:38.480 on eBay tonight.

00:20:39.480 I'll be extremely upset.

00:20:40.480 All right. So we're going to all march down there later. Congratulations. Thank you very much.

00:20:45.560 It's very nice that you say that. The whole team is pointing at you. Are you looking to go NFL UK?

00:20:51.000 Yes, sir. I'm looking to.

00:20:52.100 Good. That's great. I'll bet you make it. So we have Eli and setting all the school records for

00:21:00.280 receiving touchdowns, earning a spot at the NFL combine and cementing himself as without a doubt

00:21:07.640 the greatest wide receiver in navy history that is not bad did you do the combine how did you find

00:21:14.920 it were you impressed by the athletes i was yes sir were you as good as them were you better

00:21:25.000 good i can see it we're going to watch okay we're watching all you guys

00:21:29.720 and let's not forget one of the strongest athletes the navy has ever seen

00:21:33.400 Oh, this is the guy I want to meet, who was named a first-team All-American, you can't

00:21:39.780 do better than that, on five different organizations, so five groups named a first-team All-American.

00:21:46.380 Senior lineman and co-captain, Landon Robertson.

00:21:49.600 Where's Landon?

00:21:50.680 Where is he?

00:21:51.120 There, sir.

00:22:00.660 His arms are like steel.

00:22:02.200 It just hurt my head.

00:22:03.400 I hit his muscle.

00:22:05.200 It's like steel.

00:22:08.220 You're not messing.

00:22:09.600 You think I can take him to play?

00:22:13.120 Like Ronnie.

00:22:14.400 Thank you.

00:22:14.960 Congratulations.

00:22:15.980 This is fantastic.

00:22:17.600 So listen to this about Landon with a 665-pound squat

00:22:23.040 and a 465-pound bench press.

00:22:27.340 What about women playing in men's sports? 0.97

00:22:30.500 Think we could have a woman take your position? 1.00

00:22:33.860 Is there a woman out there? 0.99

00:22:34.800 I don't think so.

00:22:36.220 You know, we're trying to end that.

00:22:37.440 No men. 0.93

00:22:39.360 Think of it.

00:22:40.220 No men in women's sports. 0.97

00:22:42.380 Maybe I'll put Landon in women's sports for a little while. 1.00

00:22:46.600 How ridiculous.

00:22:47.700 I mean, you know, they say that's an 80-20 issue. 0.98

00:22:50.180 No, no.

00:22:50.720 That's a 99% issue.

00:22:53.640 It's amazing.

00:22:54.660 Thank goodness the Democrats keep pushing these things.

00:22:57.380 open borders transgender for everybody and they want to have men playing women's sports

00:23:04.820 so landon has some really big records and he's so strong that the team had to

00:23:09.940 special order a longer barbell i see because the barbell would break that's crazy

00:23:16.020 is he the strongest one on the team

00:23:20.500 so thank you very much we have a lot of fun at these things i hope you i love sports and i love

00:23:37.600 athletics and i love competition i love competition and these guys are champions

00:23:42.360 but perhaps no single player better represents the heart and soul of this team than your five foot

00:23:48.600 nine 174 i love those guys those guys that are a little smaller than you're supposed to be but

00:23:55.160 they have a bigger heart than everybody on the team right and the other team too 174 pound playmaker

00:24:01.300 who delivered key knockouts and blocks on opponents almost twice his size senior brandon

00:24:08.020 Chapman. Brandon

00:24:10.260 plays selfless, relentless

00:24:12.600 football. I got this from his coach.

00:24:15.060 As he likes to say, quote,

00:24:16.520 here's a quote, the way I look at it,

00:24:18.660 the fight's not over until I win.

00:24:21.460 That's a great, that's

00:24:22.740 it, right? Just keep going.

00:24:24.940 And that's really the spirit of the

00:24:26.720 Navy and our great sailors.

00:24:29.000 Where are you, Brandon?

00:24:30.060 Yes, sir.

00:24:38.020 They love him.

00:24:42.140 Boy, I tell you, you don't have players like that.

00:24:44.960 You don't win.

00:24:46.920 You just can't win.

00:24:47.780 You need people like Brandon.

00:24:49.540 And they all have that big heart.

00:24:51.160 It's very tough.

00:24:51.940 When you get into that elite group, when you beat those schools that are big, big and powerful,

00:24:57.200 it's a pretty amazing thing.

00:24:58.680 This group of winners opposed and opened the 2025 season with seven straight victories,

00:25:05.460 including a thrilling win over one of your top rivals it's always tough to air force coach air

00:25:11.180 force is always tough what is that i mean they're always tough you beat them but they uh they always

00:25:17.800 seem to have a good they have a good record and they always seem to do well right but no problem

00:25:22.360 with this team right what was the score you won by coach was it a close game or not that close

00:25:27.860 one by three you won a couple of close ones but you won doesn't really matter so i wish it went

00:25:34.120 right? So that's great, Coach. But as every Navy football player knows, you don't make it to the

00:25:40.520 White House unless you also triumph over Army on that second Saturday of December, which is

00:25:47.300 the whole deal. I was at that game. It was amazing. It was an amazing game. The spirit.

00:25:52.980 And I have to say, they introduced Trump. The place went crazy. There were no, like,

00:25:57.280 let's give a little boo. There wasn't a boo in the house. Even the fake news couldn't say.

00:26:01.120 i've gone to games where i've got i would say i got 97 but there might be one person boo boo

00:26:07.520 they cover that person they interview that person that person becomes a star but they couldn't find

00:26:13.520 any person at that game that was some game there was some scene in the historic 126 army navy

00:26:20.320 football game and again something i really enjoyed i love being there i'll be there coach i'll be

00:26:26.960 that you got to be back coach we can't ever lose you you'll be back right you better be back do

00:26:31.760 whatever you do whatever you do kelly get him signed right speaking of that and you get him

00:26:37.280 signed all right but you battle back from a two score deficit to draw within six points

00:26:44.240 in the fourth quarter i was there it was looking not great it was not looking great fellas you know

00:26:50.480 i can't say i was rooting for you but i i did want to see that commander-in-chief deal is a

00:26:54.560 big deal right and it only happens if you win and it wasn't looking great with time slipping away

00:27:00.640 navy mounted one final drive and you marched downfield nearing the goal line after running

00:27:06.400 back alex teska broke loose into the secondary which was amazing for a huge 24-yard gain okay

00:27:14.080 where's alex where's alex i saw alex before

00:27:24.560 Thank goodness. Thank goodness.

00:27:26.560 That was fantastic.

00:27:27.560 I watched that because it was not looking good.

00:27:30.560 After you did that, the momentum shifted.

00:27:33.560 Right, Coach?

00:27:34.560 Coach was saying, I think, I don't know, I got a problem.

00:27:37.560 And then he did that.

00:27:38.560 We all felt good.

00:27:39.560 That's great. Congratulations.

00:27:40.560 That's beautiful.

00:27:41.560 That's amazing.

00:27:43.560 So, Alex did his job, and he did a fantastic job.

00:27:48.560 But every football player knows, every single one of them,

00:27:52.560 of them, that you don't have heart, you don't have that. You can have all the strength, like Brandon,

00:27:58.340 you can have all the strength you want, but if you don't have heart, that's exactly what Alex showed,

00:28:03.300 and he's another one that's known for that. Then three times the formidable Army defense held the

00:28:08.460 line, and they really held it, making it fourth and goal, midshipmen. So it's time to do or die,

00:28:16.460 right coach and with six minutes and 37 seconds left on the clock other teams might have kicked

00:28:24.060 an easy field goal but that's not this coach coach did you have a call did you call up the

00:28:29.260 superintendent and talk to him like what do i do or did you just say let's go for it i think you

00:28:33.820 said go i think you just go for it right coach but not this team with this coach with the commander

00:28:39.420 in chief's trophy on the line which is a big deal blake dropped back in the pocket

00:28:46.060 surveyed the field delivered a strike across the middle to eli for a touchdown and secured victory

00:28:53.100 over army in one of the most iconic moments in navy football history um i wouldn't say an army

00:29:00.220 football history i guess it was iconic also but not quite in the same manner but i watched that

00:29:06.140 that was incredible the annual army navy game is truly one of the most special occasions in all of

00:29:11.980 sports but in recent years the college football playoff expansion is encroached on this sacred

00:29:17.660 four-hour time slot traditionally reserved for army navy so what did i do i went out

00:29:27.660 i don't know if i could have pulled it off i have much more power in my second term don't you think

00:29:31.180 what do you think would you say brandon much more power first term i don't know if i could

00:29:35.500 have gotten away with this but what did i do i went out and said uh i won't i'm going to sign

00:29:42.940 an executive order to ensure that the second saturday in december is preserved exclusively

00:29:50.540 nobody's playing football not ohio state against notre dame not lsu against alabama nobody's going

00:29:58.300 to play football for four hours during that very special time of the year in december it's preserved

00:30:06.860 forever for the army navy game now if you don't want to watch football you don't have to but if

00:30:13.340 you want to watch football you're only watching one game you're not watching 19 different games

00:30:18.540 all of them in many ways big so coach that puts a little pressure because the whole world's going

00:30:22.700 to be watching so nobody else is going to be allowed of course we'll probably get sued

00:30:28.140 at some point we always get sued but we win those suits and we'll win this one the only

00:30:35.820 game that's going to be played so we preserve that time no matter who it is uh you're playing

00:30:40.540 the army navy game it keeps it keeps it special we like it right are you okay

00:30:50.940 and just simply we don't want other college football games over over you know playing over us

00:30:57.580 And frankly, I'd always watch the Army-Navy game anyway, but you don't know.

00:31:01.800 You get some of these games, they're pretty tough, pretty good, and they're pretty tough.

00:31:05.220 And they'll be able to play, but they'll play after 7 o'clock, I think.

00:31:08.920 We brought it all the way up to 7 o'clock, so that should give you plenty of time,

00:31:12.720 even if you have a little overtime stuff.

00:31:14.900 So it's great.

00:31:16.500 It's just an honor to do, because it's such an important tradition of our country.

00:31:20.260 It's beyond football, actually.

00:31:21.640 It's a tradition of our country.

00:31:24.020 In two short months, the 28 seniors on this team will be commissioned as officers

00:31:29.060 in the greatest military the world has ever seen.

00:31:32.000 We have the greatest military in the world, the strongest, the greatest,

00:31:34.660 and we're proving that when you can take Venezuela in a matter of minutes,

00:31:40.520 put somebody on a helicopter that was well-guarded with thousands of people,

00:31:44.080 with iron doors, those doors were like plastic.

00:31:47.800 The United States Navy, the Marines, the whole military,

00:31:51.240 we have the greatest in the world.

00:31:52.880 I was so proud of what I did, and I always loved Space Force because that was my baby.

00:31:58.100 That has never happened.

00:31:59.520 That hasn't happened in 81 years, a new force, and it hadn't happened.

00:32:04.800 And I think we all agree that Space Force has become, you think, right, very important,

00:32:09.160 very important to the success that we're having even now.

00:32:12.320 Over the past few weeks, the world has seen the true strength and might of our sailors

00:32:18.060 and aviators as they fought in one of the most complex and successful military operations

00:32:24.500 of all time against the Iranian regime.

00:32:27.800 And it's amazing.

00:32:29.800 It's not, I don't want to get too crazy here.

00:32:33.560 Not a contest.

00:32:35.180 It's not even a contest.

00:32:37.200 They do whatever they want.

00:32:39.280 They can't, they are, they had a lot of great equipment, Russian equipment, Chinese equipment,

00:32:44.200 a lot of, they had plenty of money. 0.63

00:32:45.700 That equipment was useless against us, useless.

00:32:50.480 No force on Earth can beat the American sailors or the American military, we're the strongest

00:32:55.040 in the world by far.

00:32:57.000 To those standing behind me who will soon be joining these missions, I say, sail fast,

00:33:03.220 stay strong and go Navy.

00:33:05.660 And I just want to congratulate again this incredible team on this, the win of this trophy.

00:33:10.460 It's not often that this trophy gets presented, you have to have a very special year to get

00:33:15.460 and I'm going to sign the executive order right now

00:33:18.220 and then invite Coach Newberry up to say a few words

00:33:20.860 and talk about what a great team

00:33:22.740 and what great individuals they are.

00:33:24.900 So, Coach, I'll sign and then you take over, okay?

00:33:28.440 Thank you very much.

00:33:39.420 This is not an auto pen.

00:33:43.160 Imagine taking it and saying,

00:33:44.200 Would you please have this sign?

00:33:46.100 Somehow, I don't know how they got by that.

00:33:49.000 It didn't work.

00:33:50.880 Let's go.

00:34:03.240 All right, it's a good one.

00:34:05.060 We rate them.

00:34:06.800 That's close to a 10, maybe a 10.

00:34:09.100 See, fellas, you can see it first.

00:34:11.900 That's pretty good.

00:34:14.200 And what I'll do is I'll give these out also as a good person, you know, if you didn't get them down at the office, you didn't get them out here if I'm a mistake.

00:34:30.440 Coach, take over. Thank you very much.

00:34:44.200 Good morning.

00:34:48.700 Thank you, Mr. President.

00:34:50.160 Thank you for signing that executive order

00:34:51.940 and protecting the sanctity of the Army-Navy game.

00:34:55.380 It's a game with a soul, and it deserves to be protected.

00:34:58.380 Thank you very much.

00:35:00.200 Thank you to you and your staff, your gracious hospitality,

00:35:03.280 and for making today's ceremony possible.

00:35:06.360 Thank you to the distinguished guests and everyone in attendance

00:35:09.240 for being here to recognize this team

00:35:11.520 and this exceptional group of young men.

00:35:14.200 On behalf of our players, our staff, and their families, our superintendent, General Michael Bocholte, and our athletic director, Michael Kelly, it is truly an honor to be here.

00:35:26.620 We're grateful and humbled to be back again.

00:35:30.240 As I shared last year, it's been our goal to return to this stage many times during your tenure, Mr. President.

00:35:36.000 There is no higher honor in our program than standing here representing the Naval Academy, the entire brigade of midshipmen, the Brotherhood, and all the men and women who serve and have served in our Navy and Marine Corps.

00:35:49.980 These young men understand that wearing the Navy uniform comes with a responsibility greater than football.

00:35:57.180 Each day they strive to live up to the core values of honor, courage, and commitment, and the standards of those who came before them.

00:36:04.140 leaders of character who have gone on to serve our country with distinction.

00:36:09.320 What they accomplished this season is a direct result of that ethos and mindset.

00:36:14.400 The players here on stage and to my left in the audience are some of the very best our country has to offer.

00:36:21.960 In just a little over two months, these 28 seniors standing behind me will graduate and commission as officers in our Navy and Marine Corps under your command, Mr. President.

00:36:32.440 They will do so with character, discipline, and the values that define this institution.

00:36:38.980 I also want to recognize our fellow service academies, the United States Army and the United States Air Force.

00:36:45.020 The rivalry we share is among the greatest traditions in college football,

00:36:49.380 but it is grounded in deep and enduring respect

00:36:53.040 because we know that one day many of these young men may stand shoulder to shoulder in defense of our nation.

00:36:59.540 The Commander-in-Chief's Trophy represents the commitment, discipline, teamwork that

00:37:07.040 define the future leaders and warfighters of our armed forces.

00:37:11.280 Every day our players balance the demands of Division I athletics with the responsibility

00:37:15.500 of preparing to serve as officers.

00:37:18.560 That challenge forges the character this trophy represents.

00:37:22.220 In our view, it is the most meaningful and honorable trophy in all of college sports.

00:37:28.460 to our families, alumni, and the countless people

00:37:32.500 who support the Naval Academy, thank you.

00:37:35.960 Your belief in these young men

00:37:37.520 and what this institution stands for

00:37:39.720 makes moments like this possible and special.

00:37:43.220 Mr. President, thank you for hosting us today

00:37:46.080 and for your continued support of the men and women

00:37:48.300 who serve our great country.

00:37:50.780 This time, I'd like to bring our two captains,

00:37:52.660 Landon Robinson and Blake Horvath up

00:37:54.640 to present you with a couple of gifts.

00:37:56.580 Thank you.

00:37:58.460 Well, first, Mr. President, it's just an honor to be here.

00:38:19.580 This football is very heavy.

00:38:20.860 I know.

00:38:21.860 You need a strong neck.

00:38:22.860 Like you said, you're the healthiest guy here, so you've got the neck to do it, yes sir.

00:38:28.380 So I just want to say thank you so much for having us here.

00:38:31.820 Absolute honor.

00:38:32.700 And last year, I was hesitant to say it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, right,

00:38:36.200 because I knew we'd be back this year.

00:38:37.820 So I'm glad I can now say it's a twice-in-a-lifetime experience

00:38:40.760 and just couldn't have done it without our whole team here, right,

00:38:44.380 our support staff from the strength and the trainers to all these guys

00:38:47.160 and all the guys who are still at school right now in class.

00:38:50.060 Thanks to all of them and just for everybody for supporting us.

00:38:53.040 And, you know, go Navy, beat everybody.

00:38:58.380 absolutely you know first off thank you mr president for the opportunity to be here

00:39:04.400 blake said it said most of it but i'm just so thankful to all my teammates and all my coaches

00:39:08.520 for all the hard work they've put in it's very hard to go 11 and 2 in a season but i couldn't

00:39:12.680 be more proud to play for navy football and i couldn't be more proud to represent the united

00:39:15.960 States Naval Academy. So, go Navy beat Army forever.

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00:44:45.280 Commander-in-Chief, what a great little ceremony.

00:44:48.160 The Commander-in-Chief trophy, of course, goes to the team that has the best record

00:44:52.360 amongst the Air Force Academy at West Point

00:44:55.600 and the United States Naval Academy.

00:44:58.540 Just a tremendous look at that right there.

00:45:00.720 Great kids.

00:45:03.460 Those are the young men that you have manning these carriers,

00:45:09.340 many pilots, officers, surface warfare officers,

00:45:12.540 intelligence officers on the submarines,

00:45:14.080 and, of course, the United States Marine Corps,

00:45:17.080 very ironic today with a Marine Expeditionary Unit

00:45:20.520 leaving San Diego, heading to the North Arabian Sea,

00:45:24.420 but that's what they do right there.

00:45:27.080 What a great little ceremony.

00:45:28.880 Always honored to cover it every year,

00:45:30.780 and the president at the top of his game today.

00:45:34.480 So they're going to go now to the Oval Office.

00:45:36.540 If you go see the president, you'll get a trip to the Oval Office,

00:45:41.420 and then right next to the Oval Office,

00:45:42.720 between the Oval Office and the little dining room he has

00:45:46.160 that he works out of a lot,

00:45:48.400 But there's a space now that he's got.

00:45:52.620 He keeps all the ball caps, and he keeps some of the merch and memorabilia,

00:45:56.240 and everybody gets to stop there and pick up a ball cap or pick up something.

00:46:00.860 Anchors Away, the traditional song of the United States Navy

00:46:04.180 in the United States Naval Academy.

00:46:07.040 Absolutely incredible.

00:46:09.420 Great service today.

00:46:10.560 no fresh as we're playing the uh as we're going out on this segment with uh with anchors away

00:46:18.920 you have a just talk about serendipity you actually have a can we have you on here talking

00:46:25.060 about lindsey graham but you actually have a connection with the united states naval academy

00:46:27.940 sir yes sir my father was the starting center offensive lineman for the naval academy back in

00:46:34.780 the 70s uh his sophomore through senior year um under george welsh uh who then uh went to coach

00:46:41.840 in your home state uh at the university of virginia yeah that was a step down george welsh

00:46:49.360 naval guy he actually george welsh actually uh did a great job at that program and i think built

00:46:54.840 that program you're a legendary they won they won a title and and yes yeah they won a title

00:47:01.060 unbelievable uh your father must have been quite a football player because george welsh was known

00:47:07.040 as a what we refer to as a taskmaster we also have the naval academy's fantastic i i just want

00:47:13.780 to do add before i go to no talk about lindsey graham moe is i think seven and oh against navy

00:47:20.540 as a volleyball player seven and oh of course at west point they really were the 11 and two record

00:47:25.480 they talked about today they really gauge you as an athlete of how you do if you're at naval

00:47:30.940 academy how many times you beat army and if you're at army how you beat navy that is really the

00:47:35.860 intensity of that robbery no um i want to talk about some man i want to talk about the law of

00:47:42.080 political physics i i have been uh and you work for one of the candidates in fact i think we had

00:47:48.640 the candidate on when he first started his campaign and i want to say it was in the spring of 2024 it's

00:47:54.400 been a while yeah you know that was the law fix because i keep it yes in uh 25 20 25 um i um i

00:48:04.900 keep asking for the folks in south carolina particularly as lindsey graham gets more and 0.66

00:48:12.100 more out of control and quite frankly more and more offensive as he goes on and his personal

00:48:17.400 behavior and he's he's trying to he's trying to make it like charlie wilson's war and as i said

00:48:23.000 charlie wilson's war is nothing to laugh at i know the the movie was turned into something like

00:48:27.700 a uh i don't want to say a light comedy but it had a comedic tones to it what charlie wilson was

00:48:32.920 doing was very serious and charlie wilson did do a lot of good but he also did a lot of damage

00:48:38.740 and this is why we got to think about this and lindsey graham just this kind of all this time

00:48:43.900 he spends in the middle east and comes out with these things like two weeks ago that he would

00:48:48.740 offer he would offer uh saudi arabia the kingdom of saudi arabia in perpetuity defense pact if

00:48:55.720 they quit stabbing us in the back and got to the gun line of uh going against iran it was just

00:49:01.080 things like this all the time and i kept asking i said i see these numbers he's got these huge

00:49:05.900 numbers and president trump has endorsed him and president trump's beloved down with the mega base

00:49:10.940 but i said there's got to be some time that the folks in south carolina who are as strong a

00:49:16.200 patriots as possible and particularly patriots that serve their country it's a history of service

00:49:22.420 to the nation i said at some point time i said unless i'm missing it some point time there's

00:49:27.400 got to be an awakening here and a reckoning with lindsey graham and really have a real conversation

00:49:33.500 and debate about this race and then uh i saw that rasmussen and mark mitchell and the team over

00:49:38.740 there have been doing some polling can you just walk people which i think is kind of blockbuster

00:49:43.260 stunning polling for a guy that's an incumbent that's got the Senate leadership fund, unlimited

00:49:48.600 amount of money, and the endorsement of President Trump. Can you walk us through the math of what's

00:49:52.380 happening in South Carolina, sir? Yes, thanks, Steve. And yeah, full disclosure, I do work for

00:49:58.400 Mark Lynch. Mark Lynch is a businessman in the upstate of South Carolina, and he's putting it

00:50:03.460 all in, pushing all the chips in to get rid of this weirdo, Lindsey Graham. And so the numbers,

00:50:09.880 Going back to last May, there was another Rasmussen poll that showed that Lindsey was very vulnerable.

00:50:15.700 That's very consistent with other – there are a lot of other polls out there showing that Lindsey Graham is very vulnerable.

00:50:21.440 And this cycle, we have just the guy to do it.

00:50:23.700 We have a successful businessman in Mark Lynch, and he's been up on air on TV for many months last year and all this year.

00:50:31.620 And Lindsey is deathly afraid.

00:50:34.760 That's why he's on Fox News every day.

00:50:36.800 When you say he's afraid, just walk through the math.

00:50:42.040 If an incumbent's below 50%, that's a flashing red light.

00:50:47.940 Most incumbents should be able to blow these, particularly when you've been around an incumbent for a couple of times, and you're very close to the leadership in the Senate, so they'll pour unlimited money in you.

00:50:56.680 What is the basic math that shows?

00:50:58.360 When you say he's in trouble, give me some math to prove that.

00:51:01.240 What is actually the trouble that he's in?

00:51:02.840 So that that survey back last May showed that 50 fully 57 percent of the primary electorate, the Republican primary electorate in South Carolina is not going to vote for Lindsay.

00:51:13.320 So that's a horrendous number for Lindsay. Usually, like you say, these incumbents, they get scared if they get, you know, if their approvals are anywhere near 50.

00:51:22.020 But now you have more than just the approval. You say you have 57 of a big majority saying they're just not going to vote for the guy.

00:51:28.080 and um and again that's with that strength of incumbency you're supposed to have been helping

00:51:32.960 your constituency for you know decades on end and uh buying all these favors well

00:51:39.040 whatever lindsey has done he hasn't bought any favor in south carolina and the folks are done with

00:51:45.180 him what uh what does the math show us right now because i was kind of shocked and and look this

00:51:53.120 is this is this is a serious poll i think it's expected voters it's not just the whole thing of

00:51:59.040 everybody down there it's not even i think it's likely voters correct it's not just registered

00:52:03.420 voters it's likely voters so as you get closer this thing is pretty serious and it's a big poll

00:52:08.920 and it's done by somebody the rasmussen group is known as somebody that really has you know along

00:52:13.600 with richard barris and probably trafalgar really has their hands on the pulse of the maga movement

00:52:19.200 and Trump-aligned grassroots people.

00:52:22.840 So what does it show?

00:52:23.700 What type of trouble does it show Lindsey Graham in? 1.00

00:52:26.340 Yeah, so 1,000 completes on the poll,

00:52:29.460 so it's a very sizable sample

00:52:31.100 and a pretty low margin of error.

00:52:33.680 And it's got Lindsey Graham at 41, 1.00

00:52:38.260 which is nine points below that 50% number

00:52:41.340 that we mentioned earlier,

00:52:42.980 and then Lynch at 21,

00:52:45.460 and then all others rounding it out.

00:52:47.860 And so that anti-Lindsey number adds up to about 33%. And so it's 41-33 with like roughly almost 30% undecided, Steve. And so as you know, what happens is as people start to wake up and look at the election, not everybody's looking at the election all year long like, you know, you and I are.

00:53:06.440 and you know a lot of the the war room posse is a lot of times and so but the voters are going to

00:53:12.580 start to wake up here over the next you know 11 weeks as we go to June the 9th for this primary

00:53:17.120 and they're they're going to say I got Lindsay and I got a business guy outsider and those are

00:53:22.260 going to break two to one for the business guy outsider Mark Lynch and so and then the key part

00:53:28.280 is this on the informed ballot the pollsters and the guys who run these surveys they're they're

00:53:33.020 statisticians and their data guys, they call it the informed ballot. That's after you've been told

00:53:38.200 about Lindsey, and you know now about Lindsey, that he backed USA, that he backed all the

00:53:44.340 Ukraine wars, that he backed Amnesty, that now, as you reported earlier today, that he's funding

00:53:48.520 literal terrorists that are closing the Strait of Hormuz with that great report from Breitbart News.

00:53:54.580 When they learn all of this, his support is so soft, Steve, it falls off the table,

00:53:59.220 and lynch leads okay uh it's and it's an inversion it's uh 34 and then lynch is lynch 34 and then

00:54:06.820 lindsey graham is down in the 20s okay so lindsey graham's support is baby soft um in it's funny

00:54:14.460 it's like the only place he's pulling really well is like dupont circle in san francisco steve

00:54:18.720 the poofters love lindsey the poofters love lindsey real quickly how do you with lindsey's

00:54:26.920 amount of money in the Senate Leadership Fund, how do you get to that in a forum? Because what

00:54:30.860 they're going to do is swamp you with ads for the folks that don't pay attention. So what's the

00:54:35.620 strategy for your candidate in the next 11 weeks? So we're going to be everywhere. And Mark Lynch

00:54:41.900 has a big war chest. He's getting ready to drop a bunch of it onto Lindsey Graham's head. And we

00:54:47.280 obviously need all the help we can to still break through. But millions of dollars, Mr. Mark Lynch

00:54:52.680 is investing in the country in the republic in the future of the republic and uh and he would

00:54:58.100 ask that you go to lynch for senate.com to help this uh poll is is proof of a going concern we

00:55:05.600 finally have a candidate in south carolina a lot of people ask steve how does lindsey keep on

00:55:10.660 getting elected i'll give the answer he's never been incredibly challenged unfortunately there's

00:55:15.560 a good couple good guys who have nancy mace ran a challenge in 2014 but she didn't have any money

00:55:20.180 a couple hundred grand another guy lee bright really good guy uh maybe got close to a million

00:55:25.300 bucks raised but it wasn't quite enough mark lynch has the resources he's a strong christian

00:55:29.820 conservative guy lifelong south carolinian you got a really credible candidate against lindsey

00:55:35.320 graham at this time where lindsey just happens to be you know crapping the bed every day on fox news 1.00

00:55:41.880 yeah okay uh we got a bolt i want to i'm gonna reach out to you after i think we want you on

00:55:48.060 the Saturday or Sunday show to break this down some more so we get a better reality of what's

00:55:51.820 happening. Noel, in the interim, where do they go to see your candidate? Where do they go to get

00:55:56.060 this poll? And what's your social media? You come in a little hot every now and again on social

00:56:00.080 media. Where do people go? Yeah. Yep. So lynchforsenate.com for Mark Lynch,

00:56:06.180 at Mark Lynch SC on all of the Mark Lynch socials. And I'm, unfortunately, Elon won't

00:56:12.880 let me tweet right now, Steve, because of that. Right after we did that interview about the

00:56:16.500 ashley biden diary with miss london hunter biden's girlfriend i can't tweet my personal twitter's

00:56:21.740 gone so i'm i'm appealing to elon musk please allow me to tweet elon no he's a he's a he's

00:56:28.240 a first amendment free speech absolutist okay thank you brother appreciate you see you over the

00:56:32.180 weekend no frish national file wynton hall code red the the the long awaited two things happening

00:56:42.240 First off, Winton, about your book directly, The Left, The Right, The China, and the Race to Control AI, blockbuster news overnight, an industrial concern, a great company, now senior executives arrested by the FBI for, what is this?

00:57:00.000 They're shipping behind the scenes in fake servers, NVIDIA chips to the Chinese Communist Party so the Chinese Communist Party can keep up with artificial intelligence. 0.74

00:57:09.580 Can you break that down for us, sir?

00:57:11.100 I think you warn about that in your book, don't you?

00:57:14.040 No, I absolutely do.

00:57:15.620 And it's something that you've been, you know, very strong on.

00:57:17.960 There's nobody that's stronger on the CCP and understanding the 5D chess game that they're playing.

00:57:23.060 And it really is going to be a game over compute, right?

00:57:25.660 The GPUs, the graphic processing units.

00:57:28.000 We've seen this debate over export chip controls.

00:57:30.420 We've seen the debate with the H200s. 0.97

00:57:33.080 Yeah, this is just another example of the end runs that are being done and how you can sneak around, you know, any regulation or any kind of control.

00:57:42.900 But obviously, China's determined drive here. 0.96

00:57:45.700 And so, you know, NVIDIA, this is a real problem because you're talking about not just the current, you know, Blackwell chips.

00:57:52.280 You're talking about the Verirubin chips and getting these advanced chips into the hands of the CCP.

00:57:57.880 These are the same kinds of efforts that the CCP has set out in 2017 to dominate the AI race by 2030.

00:58:07.020 We've got four years.

00:58:08.440 They've been very focused.

00:58:09.980 Everybody needs to understand something.

00:58:12.080 China imports more semiconductors than it does oil.

00:58:17.780 That's their national priority because they understand both the economic upside of this issue

00:58:22.940 and the power that will accrue to it, but also the military applications.

00:58:26.360 And in addition to that, the CCP techno surveillance state.

00:58:30.740 And specifically on that, you know, things like supremacy in encryption, supremacy in hacking of weapons systems, supremacy in being able to hack infrastructure.

00:58:41.240 So this is real.

00:58:42.700 And, you know, this is why this whole export chip control is so important.

00:58:47.100 And I'm so glad that you and, you know, Joe Allen and a handful of others, look, a lot of people don't want to get in the weeds on this stuff.

00:58:54.200 And they say, well, we just want to play, you know, with the cotton candy stuff and the bread and circus stuff.

00:58:58.460 This is where the rubber hits the road, okay?

00:59:01.140 Because whoever has the most advanced chips and whoever's been able to do that,

00:59:05.200 you're going to be able to see these issues that we've talked about, the choke points.

00:59:09.020 This is the only thing holding this thing back are these choke points, okay?

00:59:13.300 There's very few places that you can really apply pressure.

00:59:16.260 And when you're talking to most experts, you're talking about a six-month to three-year lead, maybe.

00:59:22.280 And again, we know the hidden hand strategy of the CCP and Xi Jinping to be able to flashbang

00:59:28.380 grenade over here and actually have something, information and movement over here.

00:59:32.320 So people got to lock in and they got to dial in on this.

00:59:35.580 And this, you know, espionage issue and handing off chips is exactly why we've been talking

00:59:43.420 about all this stuff for so long.

00:59:45.040 And I'm glad finally, you know, unfortunately in this situation, but we've got to get some

00:59:49.440 attention on this right away.

00:59:51.620 Okay, so for this audience, because it is very important on this issue and all the issues related to artificial intelligence that you use your agency and come to your own individual conclusions.

01:00:06.360 Nobody's going to tell you guys how to think on this, but we are going to set a framework so you can get the information to kind of think it through because it's a very complex topic.

01:00:12.920 That's why Code Red is the book you need and you need now.

01:00:16.000 why do i say you need it now because as we were on this show and watching the commander-in-chief

01:00:22.020 there with the united states naval academy's football team the white house released this

01:00:26.760 long-awaited kind of federal framework this huge fight with ronda santis and everybody at these

01:00:31.480 states this federal framework is four pages long uh it is um it is going to be controversial

01:00:37.900 but you need to have the background the power of this book is that he walks you through what you

01:00:43.800 need to know about artificial intelligence but then gets into the power and influence and politics

01:00:48.280 of it so that you have a framework of how to think this through and that's why code read so important

01:00:53.260 so you got to go to a bookstore or go to amazon and get it delivered to marx i think this weekend

01:00:57.740 this uh let's say firestorm debate that's going to come over this framework is going to be quite

01:01:04.760 intense and it is going to do more than anything to kind of drive the direction of this country

01:01:09.640 and our number one existential threat,

01:01:12.860 the competitor of the Chinese Communist Party in this regard.

01:01:16.600 Wynton, I'm going to hold you through the break.

01:01:18.280 I want two minutes.

01:01:18.880 We're going to get you back over the weekend to break down Code Red

01:01:21.240 because Code Red's the book the White House just put out its guidance.

01:01:25.280 It's cut, David Sachs and the White House's cut,

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01:01:33.260 over the development of artificial intelligence.

01:01:37.020 As important as the SAVE Act and all these other things,

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Episode 5232： President Trump Participates In Commander In Chief Trophy Ceremony; SC MAGA Is Coming For Lindsey Graham Episode 5232： President Trump Participates In Commander In Chief Trophy Ceremony; SC MAGA Is Coming For Lindsey Graham

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