Bannon's War Room - Episode 5290： What The War In Iran Means Globally; Taiwan's Opposition Leaders Meet With China

00:00:00.000 this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going to

00:00:10.440 medieval on these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people

00:00:17.040 the people have had a belly full of it I know you don't like hearing that I know you try to

00:00:21.120 do everything the world to stop that but you're not gonna stop it it's going to happen and where

00:00:24.720 do people like that go to share the big line? MAGA Media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any

00:00:32.220 of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that

00:00:38.960 answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. 0.62

00:00:47.540 You're in the War Room. It's Friday, April 10th in the year of our Lord, 2026.

00:00:57.100 Natalie Winters hosting today, filling in for Stephen K. Bannon.

00:01:01.040 But, you know, our enemies don't take any days off.

00:01:04.180 So we've got a packed show of what there is waging here on the home front,

00:01:09.480 abroad in the Middle East, the Chinese Communist Party in the Taiwan Straits.

00:01:13.960 We're going to get into all of it, but I want to start with what is, I think, the frankly

00:01:18.120 seminal issue of President Trump's campaign and really a bedrock issue of America First 0.72

00:01:22.100 that is, of course, immigration and restricting it.

00:01:25.360 There should be no caveats on what mass deportations mean. 0.89

00:01:28.860 I know Rosemary Jenks gets that.

00:01:31.000 The wonderful work you've been doing over at the Immigration Accountability Project,

00:01:34.480 I think, speaks for itself.

00:01:36.580 But we've seen a sort of resurgence.

00:01:38.580 It seems like every Congress, there's this new euphemistic spin on what is amnesty to

00:01:43.380 depress the wages and livelihoods of American workers, you know, euphemized, so we're going

00:01:48.340 to give people their new favorite word, dignity. And we're seeing it, it's rearing its ugly head

00:01:54.520 again. It's just people being proxies for big business, right? What's new? But can you sort

00:01:59.900 of walk us through first the sort of affront of this bill, the way that a lot of these Republicans

00:02:04.960 as well, I guess I'd say shocking, but I guess at this rate, it's not that that is the messaging

00:02:10.140 behind it, how radical it is, and what you guys are doing to try to stop it.

00:02:14.920 Yeah, so I call this bill, instead of the Dignity Act, the SAW Act for Screw All American Workers,

00:02:21.600 because this bill hits every American worker, whether they're low-wage, medium-wage, or high-wage.

00:02:28.340 It's got amnesty for at least 10 million illegal aliens to compete with low-wage American workers.

00:02:34.940 It codifies OPT. It doubles the employment-based green cards, so it's hitting mid- and high-wage

00:02:43.160 American workers and taking their jobs. It allows foreign students that get STEM degrees in the

00:02:48.700 United States to remain here permanently. So, I mean, it doesn't matter where you are in the 0.85

00:02:53.900 economy, this bill would dramatically affect you and decrease your wages and increase competition

00:03:01.640 for jobs. It's despicable. And, you know, it's it's not just there are 20 Democrat co-sponsors

00:03:08.360 and 19 Republican co-sponsors, plus the lead sponsor, Maria Salazar. But basically, all of

00:03:15.060 the Democrats in the House support almost all of them anyway, support this bill. And they're just

00:03:20.460 metering the number of sponsors so that they can claim that it's completely bipartisan with 20 of

00:03:26.300 each. So every time they find a new dupe Republican to join their effort, they add on

00:03:32.860 another Democrat. It's just a scam. And they're lying. The sponsors of this bill are lying about

00:03:39.220 it, saying that there's zero tolerance for criminal aliens in the amnesty. That is not true.

00:03:44.180 They have waivers for all kinds of crimes, misdemeanors, drug smuggling, all sorts of

00:03:49.320 things, including, by the way, unlawful voting. So the thing that never happens, they're actually

00:03:54.980 waiving the felony for unlawful voting to get amnesty. It's disgusting.

00:04:02.700 We've done a lot of work here in the war room exposing the kind of, I think, foundational

00:04:06.180 lies that led to the just complete and utter ballooning of the H-1B visa caps, right? This

00:04:11.360 idea, frankly, at its core, which I think is offensive that American workers can't cut it,

00:04:15.440 but they're actually not importing the best of the brightest. But I think this OPT program is

00:04:19.860 something that doesn't get equal attention, even though I think its actual creation is almost more

00:04:25.260 sinister because it really is replacing, you know, the brightest, the youngest, most STEM-oriented

00:04:30.540 Americans, particularly those just starting out their careers, you know, in the college and grad

00:04:35.280 school levels. Could you sort of expand a little bit on that program? Yeah, so the Optional Practical

00:04:41.880 training program, OPT, was created under the Bush, W. Bush administration, by executive fiat. There's

00:04:50.260 no statutory authorization for this program. It was created by the president. And then it was

00:04:56.680 expanded by President Obama so that if you're in a, if you are graduating with a STEM degree as a

00:05:03.040 foreign student, you get three years to stay in the United States and taxpayers subsidize the

00:05:10.320 employers of these foreign graduate students by that since they don't have to pay FICA taxes.

00:05:17.920 So basically, the employer gets a discount to hire a foreign graduate instead of an American

00:05:24.500 graduate. It's it's an unbelievable program. And, you know, most people don't know it exists

00:05:30.700 unless, of course, you're one of the victims of it. The Americans who graduate from college,

00:05:36.020 you know, with a STEM degree, they've done everything they're supposed to do,

00:05:39.220 everything we tell them to do, and yet they can't get a job because the employers are subsidized to

00:05:45.520 hire foreign graduates. And, you know, this is the pipeline that leads to H-1Bs. So people come here

00:05:53.300 as a foreign student, and then they get OPT, and they find an employer, and then that employer

00:05:58.580 sponsors them for an H-1B. And that job is essentially permanently removed from American

00:06:05.180 ability to get it. So it's a terrible program. It needs to be ended. It should have been ended

00:06:11.880 a long time ago. And it is time to completely and utterly end OPT. Nobody here on a foreign

00:06:19.340 student visa should get an employment authorization. If any administration, I think,

00:06:24.520 wants to show that they're putting American workers first, I mean, frankly, there's a

00:06:27.800 laundry list, a very extensive grab bag of weird three-letter programs that you could probably

00:06:34.180 canceled that word. I think OPT should be top of the list. But I want to link this to, I think,

00:06:40.280 what is a pretty alarming story that I'm sure a lot of the Warren Posse has read about, which is

00:06:45.020 that the birth rate is hitting yet new year, new low. Obviously, Lawler and Maria Salazar and

00:06:52.300 established Republicans of the world would say, well, this is why we need mass immigration. This 0.84

00:06:56.820 is why we need to make birth rate citizenship even more laissez-faire. If you're within a 50 0.55

00:07:01.640 kilometer radius of the United States, you can be a citizen. But it sort of seems like addressing

00:07:06.300 the root cause, which is that young American families can't get jobs, don't feel the economic

00:07:10.300 security that they have to actually have children, is sort of being exacerbated by these policies.

00:07:16.040 Can you speak a little bit to sort of linking that crisis with the immigration crisis?

00:07:21.500 Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the more we import foreigners, and by the way, we're importing

00:07:27.060 them at the rate of over a million per year as legal permanent residents. Then we have well over

00:07:33.280 a million temporary foreign workers. And then we have illegal immigration, which is, you know,

00:07:38.920 16 million minimum in this country. And all of those people need a house to live in. They all 0.99

00:07:47.060 need services, whether it's criminal justice services or, you know, welfare services or

00:07:52.960 and public education is a huge one. And so they're competing with Americans for resources

00:07:58.220 and they're taking the supply of infrastructure like housing. So, you know, if you're a young

00:08:05.200 person and you can't afford to buy a house and the rent is out of control, it's tough to make

00:08:11.560 that decision to have a family. But, you know, the immigration is not going to solve a birth 1.00

00:08:17.820 rape problem because, first of all, we're importing poor people. So, you know, the vast 1.00

00:08:23.960 majority of immigrants who come here, especially lawful permanent residents, are family-based 1.00

00:08:29.340 immigrants, and they're largely undereducated and poor. You can't, you know, fix the social 1.00

00:08:37.100 security system or the economy with low-wage workers. You know, we need an educated workforce.

00:08:44.800 We've got AI coming in that's going to be more competition for American workers.

00:08:49.220 So we need to focus on getting Americans, you know, good paying jobs where they can actually support a family and make the decision to have one so that they see some hope in their future.

00:09:02.660 And speaking of that, I think an even more radical idea is birthright citizenship.

00:09:07.680 I think what the Trump administration has been trying to do on ending that is certainly moving in the right direction.

00:09:12.220 I kind of view it as like the worst derivation of DEI.

00:09:15.760 It's not even fake marginalization.

00:09:17.680 It's just like, if you are somehow in the United States

00:09:20.000 and giving birth, you get the most precious thing

00:09:22.680 on this planet, which is citizenship

00:09:24.320 here in the United States.

00:09:25.580 It's preposterous.

00:09:26.680 But I know there's been a lot going on,

00:09:29.240 a lot of everyone in front of the ACLU, 0.82

00:09:31.800 all the horrible, evil left-wing NGOs

00:09:33.600 trying to do everything they can to obstruct this, 0.52

00:09:35.780 whether with protesters or countersuits, lawsuits.

00:09:38.300 Where do we stand on that front?

00:09:40.580 and what do you think the feasibility is of the Trump administration actually being able to end

00:09:44.380 that? So I was actually at the Supreme Court when they had arguments a week and a half ago or so,

00:09:51.840 and it was, I mean, it seems so obvious to me, I'm clearly biased, but the Solicitor General

00:09:58.200 did a great job in those arguments, I thought. It was very clear that at least one of the justices

00:10:06.060 has no concept of much of anything, but certainly didn't understand the meaning of the word

00:10:12.100 jurisdiction and that there's a difference between territorial jurisdiction and political

00:10:17.260 jurisdiction. And it is absolutely clear from what the authors of the 14th Amendment wrote and said

00:10:25.500 in debate that they intended, subject to the jurisdiction thereof, to mean political jurisdiction.

00:10:32.780 In other words, allegiance, allegiance to the United States and not allegiance to any foreign power.

00:10:38.860 And it is preposterous to argue that illegal aliens or temporary visitors, whether they're tourists or foreign students or whatever, have any allegiance to the United States of America, to our government.

00:10:51.940 You can't be—you have to be a lawful permanent resident, essentially, which is what was decided by the Supreme Court in Wong Kim Arp when they said that the parents were legally domiciled and so, therefore, their child was an American at birth. 0.67

00:11:06.640 So, you know, if the justices look at what the actual language of the 14th Amendment meant at the time it was written, and that is very clear, that meaning is very clear in the congressional record, then I think they have to get rid of birthright citizenship.

00:11:27.920 Now, what I think they may try to do, certainly Justice Kavanaugh made it very clear that he was looking for a way out of having to decide the constitutional question, and whether that means they toss it to Congress to define subject to the jurisdiction thereof or some other way, I think that's a very strong possibility.

00:11:49.720 And, you know, the Congress has had a bill called the Birthright Citizenship Act that has been introduced to every Congress for at least 20 years, and Congress should pass it.

00:12:01.300 You know, they should have passed it years ago.

00:12:03.480 They haven't because, of course, it's Congress, and so they don't do much.

00:12:07.280 But they certainly could pass that and define subject to the jurisdiction in the law.

00:12:13.120 That would have actually lent weight to the Solicitor General's arguments in the Supreme Court.

00:12:19.720 we'll hope that they will step up

00:12:22.600 and do their job at some point.

00:12:26.280 Well, I don't think we should hold our breath.

00:12:29.060 I think the only thing capable

00:12:30.060 of getting House Republicans to do anything

00:12:32.160 is the phone calls from the war room posse, 0.95

00:12:34.600 which we are all very grateful for.

00:12:36.500 And I know you guys have been really

00:12:37.560 putting your shoulder behind the wheel

00:12:38.800 on yet another thing that I guess

00:12:40.460 congressional Republicans have not just created the problem,

00:12:43.420 but failed in fixing, certainly aided and abetted.

00:12:46.400 That's mass deportation.

00:12:48.000 You obviously have the mass deport,

00:12:49.720 mass deportation coalition can you give the audience a quick update on what you guys got

00:12:54.380 going on there yeah so we released the playbook for the mass deportation coalition on april 1st

00:13:00.900 it's available online it's at the mass deportation coalition.org i think it is or

00:13:06.660 mass deportations.com either way uh and it lays out our recommendations for the trump administration

00:13:14.400 to get the deportation numbers up to a million this year so that they can ramp up even more

00:13:21.780 after that in coming years, we believe that since the president promised the largest mass

00:13:28.880 deportation campaign in American history that we want to help him deliver that, it's absolutely

00:13:35.300 critical. After four years of the Biden invasion, we have to get these illegal aliens out of our 1.00

00:13:41.260 country. We do not want to give them amnesty. Thank you, Maria Salazar. We want them out of 0.99

00:13:46.540 our country. And so there are relatively easy, straightforward ways to do this, including things 1.00

00:13:54.340 like the no-match letters from the Social Security Administration or the IRS, which would be better

00:14:00.320 for enforcement purposes. Worksite enforcement is absolutely critical. We have to do worksite

00:14:06.240 enforcement and we have not seen that ramping up yet so yeah the the we must get mass deportations

00:14:14.620 and that means we have president trump speaking so i'm gonna have to toss to him but people got

00:14:19.660 to check that out we're gonna toss to president trump right now thank you for joining us rosemary

00:14:22.560 yeah but that'll open up automatically yeah the answer is yes but the strait will open up

00:14:27.700 if we just left the strait's gonna otherwise they make no money so the strait's gonna open but what

00:14:33.520 What we have is no nuclear weapon,

00:14:35.180 but we'll open the strait anyway.

00:14:37.200 Don't forget, we don't use the strait.

00:14:39.060 Other countries use the strait.

00:14:41.000 So, we do have other countries coming up,

00:14:43.100 and they'll help out.

00:14:44.600 But we don't use it.

00:14:46.800 It won't be easy.

00:14:48.000 It won't be — I would say this.

00:14:50.980 We will have that open fairly soon.

00:14:53.080 The Press, what's your backup plan?

00:14:54.680 The President.

00:14:55.380 The President.

00:14:56.380 The Press, what's your backup plan if there's

00:14:57.380 a deal open?

00:14:58.180 The President.

00:14:58.240 You don't need a backup plan.

00:14:59.680 We have — the military is defeated.

00:15:01.680 Their military is gone.

00:15:03.980 They have, you know, we've degraded just about everything.

00:15:07.080 They have very few missiles.

00:15:08.180 They have very little manufacturing capability.

00:15:11.820 We've hit them hard.

00:15:12.620 Our military is amazing, the job they've done.

00:15:14.860 The Press.

00:15:15.700 Is this a one-and-done talk?

00:15:17.360 Or are you open to more talks afterwards,

00:15:19.440 depending on what you're doing?

00:15:20.060 The President Biden has been talking for 47 years

00:15:26.740 with other Presidents, and we're not doing much talking.

00:15:29.840 Thank you very much.

00:15:30.700 You're back in the war room.

00:15:39.260 It seems like President Trump is very familiar with the war room show clock,

00:15:43.480 timing that perfectly with what would have been our break, making my job easy.

00:15:48.980 We have Cleo Pascal.

00:15:51.040 We also got Brian Kennedy, who I want to have on to give us some updates

00:15:55.220 on what President Trump was just talking about.

00:15:57.340 But before we get to all things Iran, Cleo, I want to bring you on the show. You're always at the tip of the spear doing very interesting work in Chinese Communist Party infiltration and shenanigans across the globe often and, you know, conveniently placed strategically located ports and other very interesting military significance locations.

00:16:17.600 I'd love to get some updates on that, but also your thoughts on the meeting we saw go down between Taiwanese opposition leader and Xi Jinping, certainly an escalation.

00:16:27.840 A lot of talks about unification and the future of Taiwan, how that kind of all meshes in with what you've been working on.

00:16:36.740 Yes, thank you very much. So she's the president of the KMT, which, as you mentioned, is the opposition party.

00:16:42.000 And it's a party that's been known to be quite close to China for a very long time.

00:16:47.400 And what it's doing is it's creating fractionalization, not just within the KMT, because there are some sections of the KMT that would like to remain free of such overarching Chinese control and be put in re-education camps when the Chinese come across the street and all that sort of thing.

00:17:05.640 But it also creates fractionalization within the population itself. 0.74

00:17:09.100 So it's the kind of entropic warfare of the political warfare realm that we've been seeing before. 1.00

00:17:16.200 It's not helpful, which is what the Chinese are going for. 0.98

00:17:20.660 And it's combined with closing of airspaces that we're seeing in other locations and a continuation of military exercises and building up of their capacities. 0.98

00:17:32.640 They are not slowing down.

00:17:34.100 So it's among the spectrum that goes from political warfare all the way through to kinetic. It's a strike right into the heart of the political infrastructure within Taiwan, and hopefully it won't be effective.

00:17:50.520 i'm curious your your broader thoughts as to how what is going down in the middle east is affecting

00:17:59.100 the calculus in beijing i know there was a lot of focus on sort of shake up at the cmc having

00:18:03.720 younger maybe more you know wolf warrior style leaders in there potentially making something

00:18:07.880 more aggressive likely to happen or just sort of you know agreeing with anything that xi jinping

00:18:12.540 wanted a distraction for maybe a dismal economy at home right a lot of permutations but that's

00:18:17.700 sort of a big variable to now toss into this. What's your general assessment of, you know,

00:18:23.820 the United States' significantly expanded involvement, not just from a, you know,

00:18:29.140 defense industrial-based munitions, artillery weapons perspective, but also just seems like

00:18:34.340 maybe a reorientation of focusing on that region a little bit more. How do you think that affects

00:18:38.040 Xi's calculus in Taiwan? It's a very complex scenario because you can find indicators

00:18:47.620 for things that would help the U.S. position

00:18:49.880 and things that would hurt the U.S. position.

00:18:52.000 So in terms of things that would help the U.S. position,

00:18:55.000 the Chinese Communist Party likes things to be predictable,

00:18:58.200 and President Trump is anything but predictable.

00:19:00.860 So unless they feel like they've got a control over the political situation,

00:19:05.620 which would mean that the U.S. wouldn't enter into a conflict with Taiwan to begin with,

00:19:10.220 or the kinetic situation, which is the U.S. can't,

00:19:12.960 munitions are depleted or whatever that enter into a situation in Taiwan, then it makes it harder

00:19:18.520 for China to move. Also, the U.S. is in the process of strangling some key fuel supply lines

00:19:26.320 into China. So not only out of the Middle East, but also the Venezuela move was incredibly

00:19:31.100 important for that. So those are things that might help delay a Chinese decision to go across

00:19:38.560 the strait. But another is, you know, if they think that the American population isn't going

00:19:44.240 to push for anything else, if they think they have the sort of tools available to them in places like

00:19:49.400 Guam, for example, to be able to cut off a U.S. response and buy some time so that the media

00:19:56.780 narrative warfare campaign can take root and make it an almost fait accompli, then you've got

00:20:04.480 something that would benefit China. And also remember that the Chinese are, 0.92

00:20:09.680 there's talk about, you know, having to bring massive amounts across the street,

00:20:15.500 how difficult that would be. They can fly in on commercial flights, large amounts of what's

00:20:22.720 required. And also the Chinese organized crime elements in key ports within Taiwan are basically

00:20:29.880 controlling the ports. So who knows what's coming into the ports anyway. So when you're looking at

00:20:34.120 assessing Chinese capabilities already in Taiwan, it's not only essential to look at that fifth 0.94

00:20:40.440 column element, but also the role of Chinese organized crime in undermining Taiwan's ability

00:20:45.740 to respond. And again, the key, I think, is going to be delaying, making things go dark,

00:20:52.920 creating confusion, making it harder for the U.S. political response to trigger a kinetic response 0.94

00:21:00.260 that would force the Chinese to dislodge.

00:21:03.740 But that's once the decision to try to invade Taiwan is taken.

00:21:07.820 And that decision hopefully has been complicated by President Trump's forceful actions

00:21:15.560 and unpredictability from a Chinese Communist Party calculations perspective.

00:21:22.940 From CNMI to Guam to Diego Garcia to all of these sort of, you know, not niche in the geopolitical sense, but niche in the traditional Western media sense, places that you've spent a lot of time.

00:21:36.280 And I think there's an extremely high and outsized ROI on, you know, investing there and securing those areas and rooting out PRC infiltration.

00:21:44.680 And what would you tell the Trump administration are those little kind of, you know, edge case situations, which maybe don't catch a bunch of media headlines, but that the result or return that they would get from really deploying, whether it's resources or political capital or just attention to these areas, they could really shore up some security and ensuring that the PRC is less likely to do something, you know, more in the kinetic spectrum in Taiwan.

00:22:10.000 Thank you. Thank you for that question.

00:22:11.420 There's one thing that's very critical at the moment.

00:22:14.640 So we've talked about the three U.S. freely associated states, Palau, Federalist States of Micronesia, and Marshall Islands.

00:22:20.340 So these are this area of the Central Pacific between Hawaii and Guam and the Philippines.

00:22:27.180 These three islands have a unique relationship with the United States.

00:22:31.000 They can serve in the military at very high rates, and they do.

00:22:36.280 They can freely work and live in the U.S.

00:22:38.840 The U.S. has the responsibility to protect them.

00:22:42.780 It has strategic denial.

00:22:44.220 It's what allows the U.S. to safely get across the center of the Pacific in order to be able to get to the first or second island chain and to get to the Americans in Guam and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Island.

00:22:55.840 Over 100,000 Americans died during World War II to create this very unique relationship.

00:23:01.980 And these are the locations of battles like the Battle of Peleliu in Palau, for example.

00:23:07.140 Right now, I mentioned that they serve in the U.S. military at very high rates.

00:23:11.820 They're such an integrated part of U.S. defense that not only have they allowed the U.S. to use their land to defend the U.S., including the Americans in Guam and CNMI, but also in Hawaii and the mainland, but they've used their bodies.

00:23:28.680 They've physically served in the U.S. military.

00:23:31.700 They've died for the U.S.

00:23:32.920 And part of the agreement is that they're supposed to get VA services when they go back.

00:23:39.840 So if they have PTSD, for example, they should be able to get their drugs for PTSD.

00:23:45.040 And again, they're so integrated that the U.S. Postal Service is domestic U.S. mail in Palau,

00:23:52.000 Federalist States of Micronesia, and Marshall Islands.

00:23:53.920 So it shouldn't be complicated.

00:23:55.600 And as part of the renewal of the agreements, Compacts of Free Association, this was promised

00:24:01.380 to them.

00:24:01.940 And there's funding allocated for it. But for some completely inconceivable reason, kind of lower level people in veterans affairs are blocking it. And the result is that it's such a breach of trust because you have these people go from, for example, the Marshall Islands. They serve in Afghanistan. They serve in Iraq. They come back home in need of help. And the US has breached its contract.

00:24:28.060 And from a political warfare perspective, apart from anything else, this is a gift to the Chinese who say, look, they take your boys and girls and they send them back broken. 0.94

00:24:38.540 The U.S. doesn't care about you. 0.93

00:24:40.720 And at the same time, the Chinese are also sending medical teams into the area.

00:24:45.840 So they've got a team of at least half a dozen doctors working out of the main hospital in Pohnpei in the Federal States of Micronesia.

00:24:54.660 And they are the ones serving the veterans.

00:24:56.820 So they're getting whatever information a doctor can legitimately ask for from a service member.

00:25:03.420 Where did you serve?

00:25:04.480 What are your injuries?

00:25:05.700 How can you get your care?

00:25:08.220 And why aren't you getting your care from the U.S.?

00:25:10.040 Why are we the ones giving you the care?

00:25:11.880 So this honorable treatment of the men and women from the Federalist States of Micronesia, Palau, and Marshall Islands that the U.S. government promised them and is not delivering to them is low cost.

00:25:25.960 The money is already allocated. And if it's not done, it is very damaging to the U.S. position across the region and is a huge opening for the sort of Chinese entry into the medical systems that can result in expanded social credit control, including denial of care to the sort of people who would otherwise be standing up to the Chinese. 0.92

00:25:50.860 it's always an honor to have you on you bring us the cutting edge information that we certainly 0.88

00:25:57.120 need to know and i think that's a great recommendation if people want to follow

00:26:00.760 you stay up to date with everything you've got going on where can they go to do that

00:26:03.940 thank you i'm on x um just my name cleo pascal c l e o p a s k a l and i don't follow anyone

00:26:12.400 just because of my grumpiness about the algorithm so it's not personal if i'm not following you

00:26:19.260 It's my own little tiny fighting against the machine.

00:26:23.840 There we go.

00:26:25.680 Thank you so much for joining us.

00:26:27.260 We always appreciate having you on.

00:26:28.780 Thank you.

00:26:29.220 Thank you.

00:26:31.080 We've got a few minutes before we're going to jump to break,

00:26:33.540 but I don't want to spare any of the time

00:26:34.900 that we have with our next guest,

00:26:36.100 Brian Kennedy, who joins us now,

00:26:38.940 formerly of Claremont, of all things.

00:26:41.480 You guys have really been putting out

00:26:43.320 some, I think, wonderful resources 0.97

00:26:44.760 making the case for the Iran war.

00:26:47.440 You know, there's some people who have differing opinions, but I think it's important to have,

00:26:51.800 you know, robust discussions about it.

00:26:54.020 And I think, you know, what Claremont and certain magazines have been putting out really

00:26:58.680 is some wonderful materials.

00:27:00.620 I'd love to get your thoughts on the ceasefire, if it actually is one, what you think the

00:27:06.200 future of it looks like.

00:27:07.400 And I don't know if you were able to see President Trump's recent comments just right there in

00:27:11.420 the gaggle talking about the Strait of Hormuz, obviously an extricably linked to the ceasefire,

00:27:15.760 but your thoughts on sort of where we stand. Well, thank you, Natalie. Great to be with you

00:27:20.700 on this Friday afternoon. Look, I take the president at his word that we've achieved

00:27:26.380 many of our objectives, that the ceasefire is something that we hopefully can negotiate around

00:27:32.840 and come to some kind of conclusion on this. I take the president seriously when he says

00:27:38.960 they can't have nuclear weapons. Now, a lot of people don't believe they have nuclear weapons,

00:27:44.080 that they didn't want nuclear weapons they say they wanted nuclear weapons and the president

00:27:48.240 believed them he has believed them for many many years and so if he believes that we have reduced

00:27:55.040 their ability to build nuclear weapons then it's time for us to leave whether or not the

00:28:01.520 strait can be opened soon to our satisfaction is something here that's going to need to be

00:28:06.720 negotiated and i believe that given the team we have open there hopefully we're going to be able

00:28:12.080 to achieve that but we don't know what the ceasefire will hold we don't really know whether

00:28:17.200 the people who are that we're negotiating with actually have the authority to be negotiating

00:28:23.120 we certainly hope they do but this is a country in iran that's at war with us and so there will

00:28:29.280 be parts as i think the war room has done a brilliant job of articulating there'll be people

00:28:34.480 over there who will still continue to fight the war and they may not agree with whatever terms

00:28:39.600 are come up with here um tomorrow uh and so we're gonna have to we're gonna have to see

00:28:45.280 but one hopes that the war ends no no one wants this war and i i can say at claremont there are

00:28:50.640 people who you know regardless of the wisdom of doing it now certainly want the president to win

00:28:58.320 but there are also critics of of what the president's done here and i think we can

00:29:03.040 have and should have a robust debate about those things and and i think we are and i think war room

00:29:07.760 has been at the forefront of that.

00:29:09.580 And as I say, I've done a brilliant job at that.

00:29:13.040 I've been very proud to be a part of Worm.

00:29:14.920 I think it's one of the few shows right now

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00:29:19.960 I think a lot of shows are just pandering to one direction.

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00:29:26.320 to the China Hawks to the China Skeptics.

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00:29:29.060 Brian, if you can hang with us through the break,

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00:33:18.860 Welcome back to The War Room, quite, I guess, prophetically named.

00:33:28.000 We still got Brian Kennedy, chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger China.

00:33:32.860 Brian, I just sort of want to toss it to you in the broadest sense.

00:33:35.580 I'm sure you heard my discussion with Clio, how this affects the PRC calculus.

00:33:39.120 Obviously, there's a lot of developments going on, not just in the Taiwan streets,

00:33:43.920 but in mainland China with the meeting between the opposition leader and Xi Jinping.

00:33:48.860 So I'm curious how you think the sort of various outcomes of what we're seeing going on in

00:33:54.680 Iran kind of affect the PRC back at home, obviously, with reporting being that they

00:33:59.680 were kind of quite instrumental in helping the ceasefire even be agreed to.

00:34:05.100 But how you think this just sort of affects the broader geopolitical situation?

00:34:10.920 Yeah, that's a great question, Natalie.

00:34:12.920 First of all, I think the PRC wanted that ceasefire because they want their oil contracts to be fulfilled from Iran, and they certainly don't want or could afford to have the global economy go into some kind of freefall if things got worse over there.

00:34:29.960 So they weren't doing this to look out for anybody but themselves.

00:34:35.060 Look, I've always looked at this problem with Iran, partly in terms of China or maybe even mostly in terms of China.

00:34:42.920 China has used Iran as a proxy against the United States for many years. 0.79

00:34:48.700 The reason the Chinese want that proxy is because they're able to use it for influence throughout the Middle East. 0.67

00:34:57.140 So Iran's nuclear program, which is ostensibly the reason we're there, has been developed for over two decades with the help of communist China. 0.75

00:35:06.920 Much of that development of those nuclear weapons programs occurred in North Korea using Chinese and Russian scientists. 0.53

00:35:15.600 So China certainly sees Iran as one of their proxies.

00:35:20.540 Venezuela was also one of their proxies.

00:35:23.000 Cuba is also one of their proxies.

00:35:25.480 I think much of what President Trump has done here is to eliminate the ability of China's proxies to harm the United States. 0.77

00:35:33.800 And so Venezuela, in my judgment, was about China. Cuba, if we should go down that road, will be about China. And certainly Iran, quite substantially, is due to China and their support of Iran's nuclear weapons program.

00:35:49.380 I think what Trump, President Trump has done here is signaled to communist China that's not going to take place, that we're going to do what's in our interest. 0.54

00:35:58.340 We're not going to be in endless wars. We're not going to have an American empire that seeks to go everywhere, you know, all over the world.

00:36:06.020 But we are going to stop you, communist China, from using your influence to harm the interests of the United States and, more importantly, the security of the United States. 0.91

00:36:16.500 So I see this as targeted as much at China as it is Iran. And in that sense, I take quite seriously what President Trump has articulated, as I say, about their nuclear weapons. And I'm concerned today about what communist China could do to resupply Iran during these two weeks. 0.92

00:36:37.340 the president has articulated that there'll be 50 percent tariffs on anybody who looks to be

00:36:43.720 helping Iran during this period of time. But we're in a delicate spot here. And this is not

00:36:49.820 going to be easy. I don't think it's going to be quick. I hope it is quick. But, you know,

00:36:54.160 there's a long way to go here before we see an end to this war in terms that are suitable to

00:37:00.660 the United States. Yeah, I mean, from start to finish, from cradle to grave, basically all of

00:37:07.620 the domestic drone manufacturing done in Iran is aided and abetted. It's buttressed by Chinese 0.99

00:37:12.820 technology manufacturing. And I understand what you're saying on the China front. I think there's

00:37:17.520 no disputing that these countries have acted as proxies. But I think to me, to help square that

00:37:23.060 logic chain, I think it's incumbent that the administration really seriously then address

00:37:27.840 our defense industrial base, right, and the shortages that we're now seeing as a result

00:37:32.160 of what is going on in this conflict, not just by the rearrangement of forces, but by the

00:37:37.220 deployment, right, of interceptors and missiles that we're seeing we now have really critically

00:37:42.420 low levels of. And I think that in some cases, the way that the Pentagon is approaching,

00:37:47.120 kind of fixing or trying to up those numbers is just by giving massive amounts of money to the

00:37:52.680 same, you know, military industrial complex giants, these defense primes that got us here.

00:37:57.840 in the first place. And I don't think, I mean, in my opinion, that we've seen enough movement

00:38:02.780 to deter the Chinese from, I think, viewing America as being in a place that is, from a 0.97

00:38:08.980 defense industrial-based perspective, adequately supplied to effectively deter China. Obviously, 0.94

00:38:15.400 this conflict is going on in real time. So that's something that has to play out. It takes years to

00:38:20.240 make just one submarine. But I'm curious how you sort of view that problem as factoring in

00:38:26.800 to the lens of the China issue, but also the ability or the prospect of boots on the ground

00:38:33.780 and how you think that would affect the calculus.

00:38:37.240 Let me go with your first point about the industrial capacity of the United States to produce these weapons

00:38:42.780 or our own defensive munitions.

00:38:46.680 We're not going quickly enough.

00:38:48.840 If we have defense industries today that are not working around the clock the way they did in World War II

00:38:55.020 to produce these munitions, then we're making a mistake, and the Defense Department or the

00:39:00.100 Department of War is going to have to fix that immediately. My guess is there are various parts

00:39:05.580 of our military-industrial complex, the way you describe it, that are working around the clock

00:39:11.320 to make sure we're protected, and we need to be, and we need to be protected by, you know,

00:39:17.380 not merely munitions that we can use to inflict damage upon our enemies, wherever they may be,

00:39:25.020 but we also need defensive systems. As I've argued, even though I'm a supporter of President

00:39:30.380 Trump and a supporter of his actions here, I've made the argument that if we had a national

00:39:35.840 missile defense that could protect the United States, then we wouldn't be over there right now

00:39:41.320 doing this. And the president has a Golden Dome initiative that he is pursuing, but we're not

00:39:48.320 pursuing it quickly enough. Back to your question of the military-industrial complex. If we had that

00:39:54.260 defensive system in place, this whole question of Iranian nuclear weapons would have been a moot 0.88

00:39:59.080 point and we wouldn't have been over there. And so let's consider that for a moment. We don't want

00:40:05.320 to go to war all over the world, but the mere fact that we don't have a national missile defense

00:40:09.920 to protect us from Iranian, Chinese, Russian, or, you know, other potential rogue actors who 0.86

00:40:18.020 have nuclear weapons that they may have gotten from the communist Chinese should be something

00:40:22.760 we're deeply concerned about boots on the ground i don't think that's a viable option we don't have 0.92

00:40:27.560 enough boots and there's a lot of ground to cover so i don't see us uh going in there with boots on

00:40:33.800 the ground i don't think that's been the president's plan of course there are a number of

00:40:37.960 contingencies here but let's take the president at his word that he wants to reduce their capacity

00:40:45.080 to produce nuclear weapons and the ballistic missiles that could that could potentially harm

00:40:50.360 both the united states and whether people want to hear this or not israel by the way i have a new

00:40:56.280 piece out in the federalist where i've articulated president trump's views about this over the last

00:41:02.120 25 years including you know in 2024 when he ran for president even though he doesn't believe in no

00:41:09.320 new wars he does have a particular view about iran that he takes very seriously and he has said it

00:41:17.160 20 years ago in in one of his books that i i describe he said iran cannot have nuclear weapons

00:41:24.280 period he also said that israel and again i know much of the audience may not be supportive of

00:41:31.000 israel but president trump said of israel in 2020 i guess it was 2020 exactly he said they're a

00:41:39.800 unsinkable aircraft carrier for american interests meaning it wasn't about being friends with israel

00:41:45.960 it wasn't about you know that he mentions nothing about our judeo-christian heritage

00:41:51.640 whatever we mean by that he means strictly in strategic terms israel was useful for the united

00:41:59.560 states and so we're gonna we're gonna do what's in our power vis-a-vis iran to protect the united

00:42:05.800 states first and foremost but in a secondary way israel and again it wasn't out of any kind of

00:42:11.880 friendship this is 2020 so he he rejects this notion that apac had any influence on him back

00:42:19.080 in 2020 right he wasn't even he was considering political office in 2020 but he wasn't an active

00:42:26.760 you know candidate he thought strategically and again we can disagree about these views

00:42:31.960 but this is what president trump thought and his actions today are in pursuit of what he understands

00:42:37.320 as a strategic imperative for the United States, which is to defend our interests in the Middle

00:42:43.240 East and to defend, first and foremost, the American homeland. So I think this whole calculus

00:42:49.220 has to be about, you know, what does President Trump believe about this? What has he said about

00:42:55.880 this? What does he run for office on? 2015, before he ran for president, he articulated

00:43:01.440 the exact same view. And in 2024, he said again, they could not have nuclear weapons.

00:43:09.480 And so for all the Tucker Carlson's and Alex Jones, who say they've been betrayed by President

00:43:14.460 Trump, they weren't listening to what he was saying. He said even in 2024, they couldn't have

00:43:20.120 nuclear weapons. In the same paragraphs where he was describing no new wars, he was also saying

00:43:26.440 they couldn't have nuclear weapons. And so I think we should all take that in mind,

00:43:31.700 that there is something important going on here in what we've done. The president gets nothing

00:43:37.820 out of going after Iran politically. This is a political loser for him. So he's risking 0.99

00:43:44.460 politically much of his support around the country by doing what he's doing. And we can say, well,

00:43:51.720 Israel is dragging him into the war, and certainly Israel has influence. I'm not denying that in the 0.99

00:43:57.400 least. And they have, you know, outsized influence, and I agree with that. But I also would say

00:44:04.480 President Trump sees the Iranian threat in ways that many of his supporters did not fully

00:44:11.100 appreciate. And what we're seeing today is him carrying that out and trying to do so in a way

00:44:17.640 that doesn't destroy the global economy

00:44:19.840 and certainly doesn't destroy the U.S. economy.

00:44:22.920 But I think support for what he's doing

00:44:25.260 is much more broad than we're giving him credit for.

00:44:30.260 Ryan, if people want to read that piece,

00:44:32.080 I'm sure they will.

00:44:32.960 Where can they go to get it

00:44:34.340 and where can they go to stay up to date

00:44:35.560 with everything you're putting out?

00:44:38.120 Thank you, Natalie.

00:44:41.000 presentdangerchina.org is the website.

00:44:42.760 I put that piece up on my X and Getter and Truth Social

00:44:46.980 on X, it's Brian T. Kennedy. One on Getter and True Social, it's Brian T. Kennedy.

00:44:54.300 And by the way, let me plug a new show, if I can, on Real America's Voice, which is coming out on

00:45:00.240 Sunday. There's a new show called Get Real, hosted by my old friend David DeRocher. And it's a part

00:45:07.440 of the Real Clear Politics family that is going to be shown here on Real America's Voice. And

00:45:14.000 there's a special show Sunday on China. That's some members of the committee on the present

00:45:18.340 danger China are part of discussing China, myself and Steve Mosher and others. So I would highly 0.99

00:45:24.760 recommend that to the audience. And that's on Sunday at four o'clock. Thank you, Natalie, for

00:45:28.840 for having me on today. Of course, we'll have to check those out. Thank you for coming on the show.

00:45:34.540 Thank you. Now, our next guest,

00:45:37.560 pain of citizen free press. I'm sure everyone's probably favorite site here will really only come

00:45:44.000 on war room to talk about one thing. So now I guess they sort of like when there's news about

00:45:49.320 how the national debt is exploding only because it means we get to get some, uh, some expertise

00:45:53.440 from Cain. Cain, there's a new study from the CBO talking about how it's not just that the national

00:45:58.840 debt is absurd, but basically all of our projections about them are wrong too. And typically

00:46:02.960 on the underside, always lower. They always seem to be more expensive than all the government

00:46:08.320 experts tell us they're going to be. Can you walk us through real quick? I'm going to hold you

00:46:11.620 through the break. But what exactly the latest is in national debt land? Well, you didn't tell

00:46:18.880 the full part of the story. So here's the inside scoop for the War Room audience. Occasionally,

00:46:23.460 Natalie Winters posts stories in the stack. If you wonder what the stack is, that's the list

00:46:28.980 of headlines that's it's currently got about 1200 of them um it's at the top of citizen free press

00:46:34.500 and natalie this morning posted five or six stories along with me as uh as she was doing

00:46:41.820 all of her other work and one of them was about the national debt and specifically interest on

00:46:46.460 the national debt and she knew that it would piss me off or whatever it would fire me up as a better

00:46:51.120 description and and you know i expanded on her headline and moved it to the top so look you know

00:46:58.300 Well, the War Room audience is pretty smart, so they probably know this.

00:47:01.600 And I'm going to pause you there because we've got a bounce to break.

00:47:03.600 But now they've got the lore and they've got the backstory of how I strategically used the stack to get you on the War Room.

00:47:09.500 It makes my job easier.

00:47:10.860 We'll be right back after this short break.

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00:49:31.740 We still got Cain with us.

00:49:32.700 Cain, I'm sorry I had to interrupt you.

00:49:34.260 I'm going to let you pick up

00:49:35.100 where you left off,

00:49:36.400 giving us all the updates

00:49:37.720 on where we stand on the...

00:49:39.660 I think ballooning is still an understatement,

00:49:41.500 but all things national debt. Yeah, no problem. You know, it's all bad news anyway, Natalie. We

00:49:48.200 should probably just, I could sum it all up in a minute and we should skip over it.

00:49:52.800 The story though that you put up that's in the stack that if people want to see it

00:49:57.680 is that people need to be reminded that interest, just the interest on the national debt has really

00:50:02.840 exploded as interest rates have gone up, right? So five years ago, we were paying 300 billion a

00:50:09.500 year in interest. And now we're paying over a trillion. And that trillion is a little bit more

00:50:13.580 than the defense or it's right around the size of the defense budget. And it's bigger than Social

00:50:17.920 Security or Medicare. So it's it's this huge number. Right. And so it works out. It's three

00:50:23.680 billion dollars a day and even worse. So that's the interest part. What do we actually borrow

00:50:28.860 every day is another three billion. So we're borrowing the U.S. government borrow six billion

00:50:33.200 dollars every day. So you multiply six times three hundred and sixty five days in a year.

00:50:37.580 That's how you get a two trillion dollar deficit every year. And as you and I have talked, people should actually know, Natalie and I talk about the national debt in our private personal phone calls.

00:50:48.280 As we as you and I have talked, you know, we're bringing in five and a half trillion in tax revenue every year and we're spending seven and a half trillion.

00:50:57.400 So that's how you get a two trillion dollar deficit. And we certainly wish the government would pay a little bit more attention to it.

00:51:03.960 We love Scott Besson and we love President Trump and we know he cares about the national debt.

00:51:09.020 Like there's no doubt about it. But, you know, I've the case I've been making and I'll throw it back to you.

00:51:15.320 The case I've been making is just that this is a time, you know, Trump has a certain type of popularity with the base where we would support him.

00:51:23.260 I would like to see a real effort in these next three years to address the long term spending problems that are causing the national debt to, you know, to grow this way.

00:51:33.680 So that's the case I always try to make. And people will notice in the stack that if there's one issue that I really, really care about, it's debt and deficit issues. And so I'm trying to, you know, and I'm now convincing you to have the same neuroses that I have. So there you go.

00:51:51.220 I'm curious, you know, not just year to date, but I guess start of this administration to date, have you seen anything meaningful that gave you a little bit of hope that they were going to address this head on?

00:52:03.680 Revenue. The only place, and this is the point that Besant tried to make, is, look, we're going to grow the revenue side. We're going to grow the tax revenue. And it looks like that's being done slightly. I mean, deficits were about $2.2 trillion under Biden. And this year, this fiscal year for Trump, it's probably going to be $1.9 or $1.95.

00:52:22.800 So that's yes, that's you know, we're making slight bits of progress that we're that we're shrinking it.

00:52:29.140 But, you know, you talked about in the last segment, Trump, again, I love the guy, but he wants to increase the defense budget from one trillion to one point five trillion.

00:52:38.140 So that's obviously going to expand the deficit again. It would take it from one point nine to about two point three trillion.

00:52:45.820 So, yeah, whatever. It's not the best news. That's why we're burying it on a Friday, Natalie. This is really good TV strategy.

00:52:52.800 hey uh what can i say i i get told i'm gonna host and it always seems to be on

00:52:59.040 on friday's afternoon which i say it's prime time because it's the real the real war room posse that's

00:53:04.320 here that's true these are the hardcore fans and ones that are here and look i i say it all tongue

00:53:10.040 in cheek like you know how i how i sort of feel about this stuff and i'll just say this as we

00:53:15.080 check out you know the war room audience needs to pay attention pay attention when natalie talks 0.99

00:53:19.840 She is one of the true, amazing young superstars. 0.51

00:53:23.420 People will forget she's still just 25 years old and, you know, and she's running this show like a pro.

00:53:28.960 So it was fun to be with you. And I'll always say yes.

00:53:32.780 I'm laying it out there now. When you host the show, if you want to talk national debt, I'll be happy to do it.

00:53:39.180 Well, I wish more people spoke about the national debt who are in Congress and the White House and all around the country.

00:53:45.380 Thank you for joining us.

00:53:46.260 If people want to read the site, I know it's easy to get to,

00:53:49.920 but sometimes you'll say Citizens Free Press.

00:53:52.280 So let's dispel the myths.

00:53:53.700 It's Citizens Free Press.

00:53:54.880 Where can they go to read it and follow you guys on social?

00:53:58.320 Yeah, they're all Citizens Free Press.

00:54:00.380 And that was a nice little dig at Bannon.

00:54:02.160 We love you, brother.

00:54:03.320 Citizens Free Press.

00:54:05.260 Somehow people find their way to the correct address.

00:54:10.340 It's my favorite site.

00:54:12.160 where I go to multiple times a day

00:54:14.200 to prep for the shows and everything.

00:54:15.640 Cain, thank you for joining us.

00:54:16.820 We will have you back on soon,

00:54:18.020 hopefully with better news

00:54:19.080 about the national debt.

00:54:22.440 Sounds good.

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00:54:34.120 So hit us with both.

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