Bannon's War Room - September 11, 2026


Episode 5654： Live From GOP Convention Dallas Night 2


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00:00:00.000 Saying on the House was just one of his comments this week.
00:00:03.440 I just want to share a little bit of what he had to say last night,
00:00:06.520 because you mentioned how political this Treasury secretary has become.
00:00:10.480 I was shocked when I heard him. Watch this.
00:00:14.040 Under Joe Biden, Democrats brought this country to the brink of ruin.
00:00:19.820 The radical left is relentless in their pursuit to remake America
00:00:25.080 in the image of every socialist hellscape of the last century.
00:00:30.000 If given power, the first thing they'll do is dismantle the gains we've made under President Trump.
00:00:38.180 So the average American might not know that much about a Treasury secretary, but market participants do.
00:00:44.800 And all I have gotten in the last week from big investors is he's a clown.
00:00:49.100 He's arrogant. He has made a fool of himself.
00:00:51.720 What in the hell is Scott Besson doing?
00:00:53.120 And these are from people who early on.
00:00:55.120 These are the guys who were calling Trump two years ago saying, pick Scott Besson, don't pick Howard Lutnick.
00:01:01.260 And look what he's doing. How much credibility has he lost in the market?
00:01:04.640 Well, even before this, when they came in, this is in early 2025, they wanted to target bond yields.
00:01:09.980 That's the thing that they wanted to bring down. And look at how much they've risen.
00:01:13.800 They weren't worried about the stock market, for all intents and purposes, causing this sort of wealth effect.
00:01:18.140 Right. They wanted to target bond yields. Ten year yield in particular is trading at the highest levels it's been in three years.
00:01:24.880 But here's one thing I'll just say is that the way in which yields have moved up right here, yes, it's affecting things like mortgages and credit card rates.
00:01:31.500 And those are really important to the consumers.
00:01:33.340 But if you own stocks and that is he represents the asset owning, you know, if you think about it, like category in this America, since the yields were back at like four, nine percent.
00:01:43.180 OK, this is going back to mid 2023. Stock markets doubled.
00:01:46.760 So think about that. So the stock market risk assets have not worried that much about yields going that much higher.
00:01:52.620 So really what has to happen here is that if you have a panic around the world because of yield differentials, and we're not going to get some more of a Cato thing right there, I'm sure you wrote a lot about that recently.
00:02:02.620 I mean, that's really the issue, that there's something going haywire among global central banks, global economies.
00:02:08.940 I can see where the Republican Party and the American people stand.
00:02:14.200 I can see that you know what's at stake.
00:02:17.220 I see before me a movement that has never been more united or more determined to ensure
00:02:24.340 we don't go back to the unfair trade or unfettered immigration.
00:02:37.620 To a politics that places migrants who break our laws before citizens who abide by them.
00:02:44.020 to a government that settles for stagnation,
00:02:48.720 to a global order that prioritizes cheap labor over a strong American workforce.
00:02:59.880 We must never go back to a nation that surrenders the freedom
00:03:04.600 our founders sought to secure only to import socialism that free people fought to escape.
00:03:13.340 We've come a long way under President Trump.
00:03:16.300 Now it falls on us to show up when it matters the most, to continue this fight.
00:03:21.280 So tonight, let the rest of this country look to Texas as it so often has.
00:03:27.080 Let them draw hope that the movement behind our great comeback intends to keep going.
00:03:34.040 It is Thursday, the 10th of September in the year of World War 2026 when we are live to the convention.
00:03:39.300 We're honored to be joined by the greatest Secretary of Treasury since Alexander Hamilton,
00:03:44.280 their former contributor and beloved, not just by the War Room Posse, but the entire
00:03:48.780 MAGA movement, Secretary Scott Besson.
00:03:52.220 Secretary, first, I want to go back to that speech last night, incredibly powerful.
00:03:56.340 Walk us through, what were you trying to accomplish?
00:03:59.000 What was the message you were trying to get out in giving that quite powerful speech last
00:04:03.660 night?
00:04:06.220 Steve, great to be with you and great to be with the War Room Posse.
00:04:09.300 And it was really three things.
00:04:11.900 One, that the president has kept his promises and the economy is in very strong shape and, I believe, accelerating.
00:04:22.760 We've seen a million private sector jobs, many of those in manufacturing.
00:04:29.580 We're seeing a manufacturing boom.
00:04:31.880 Two, that given the opportunity, the Democrats will take us right back to where we were.
00:04:40.040 And as I've said many times, the reason I came out from behind my desk is I was worried that candidate Biden,
00:04:47.860 then candidate Vice President Harris, would take us into a European-style social democracy where we do have a lot of debt.
00:04:55.780 And their solution is increased regulation, increased taxes, and that would pull down growth.
00:05:03.060 Growth comes down, more regulation, more taxes, rinse and repeat.
00:05:07.200 And then finally, to say that we are back on the world stage and the American worker and the American people are benefiting from this.
00:05:18.780 Secretary, every day we're getting hammered by MSNBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, all of it about tariffs.
00:05:24.800 Everything we're doing for the working class and really the backbone of this country, you come from working class roots in the great state of South Carolina.
00:05:32.780 Can you make make the case particularly to your critics now among many people who, quote unquote, supported you when you first secretary of treasury?
00:05:40.700 Stephanie Ruhle is a big fan. She says the bond investors on Wall Street.
00:05:44.720 They are really turning on you. And I think it's because they see somebody that's quite successful doing this.
00:05:50.940 But what's your response to all the criticism about the tariffs, about what you're doing to drive manufacturing jobs back here, particularly your focus as Secretary of Treasurer on the working class?
00:06:01.980 Yeah, well, let's start first.
00:06:03.560 Stephanie Ruhle was never with us.
00:06:05.760 You know, Stephanie Ruhle is a limousine liberal, you know, who said, oh, when was the last time Scott Besson was in a shopping mall?
00:06:12.280 Well, I know when I was in the Nordstroms at Tyson's Corner.
00:06:15.660 When was the last time she and her Fifth Avenue wardrobe were in a mall?
00:06:19.640 So, you know, let's move on from Stephanie.
00:06:22.520 And look, if some of the Bloomberg terminal bros are unhappy with what I'm doing, well, that's too bad.
00:06:29.920 And, you know, I will tell you that we have the best performing bond market in the world.
00:06:35.960 And if you look, bond yields have never been more correlated to the energy price.
00:06:41.900 And that's my point here, that is we have a supply shock, and we will get to the other side of this.
00:06:51.620 And we've had two very strong Treasury auctions, and the USA is in very good shape.
00:06:59.460 The Treasury market is in very good shape.
00:07:02.280 The fact that we are the best performing, and Steve, what we've also seen is that term premium,
00:07:09.560 which is the difference between either the 5-year point and the 30-year point or the 2-year point and the 10-year point.
00:07:17.060 The term premium for the 5s and 10s, excuse me, from 5s and 30s, is at its lowest differential in many years.
00:07:32.680 And we are right back to the lows on 2s and 10s.
00:07:35.500 So that is telling you that investors are not demanding a premium for longer-term U.S. debt.
00:07:41.380 So I'm not sure where the beef is.
00:07:43.440 And this whole nonsense today that our operation didn't work.
00:07:48.060 Well, our operation didn't work because we only had $10 billion of offers for our buyback program.
00:07:55.520 Normally, we get $20 billion, and we only buy the bonds back cheap.
00:08:01.020 So when it said I didn't buy back as many as I said that I was going to buy,
00:08:05.060 It's because we buy them cheap.
00:08:07.800 And, you know, again, that people seem to want to keep their long-term bonds because we only had half as many offers.
00:08:15.060 So, you know, it's a bunch of noise.
00:08:17.540 And in my career, I've made money ignoring the noise.
00:08:21.820 I just want to go back to this because you were brought in principally because you're a capital markets expert
00:08:27.200 and President Trump needed a safe pair of hands as you executed on the economic plan of President Trump and yourself.
00:08:33.760 Just explain this, because we're going crazy.
00:08:36.120 Scott Besson's intervening before the midterm elections.
00:08:40.640 He's just like Powell, was pro-Biden before the 2024 election.
00:08:46.460 Just walk through this intervention.
00:08:48.600 What was your strategy in doing it, and why now?
00:08:53.880 Well, first of all, Steve, that I'm not doing it in front of an election.
00:08:57.600 I'm doing it during a conflict in the Middle East.
00:09:02.000 And the Iranians, if you look at their X accounts, that they are trying to create economic problems in the U.S.
00:09:10.060 either from using the bond yields, using the oil price.
00:09:14.900 And just because whether it's Stephanie, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, even the Wall Street Journal are so unhinged with Trump arrangement syndrome,
00:09:25.120 They want to give the Iranians a platform to operate on.
00:09:31.280 So my job as someone operating during a conflict like this is to ensure that the markets are stable.
00:09:40.920 I frequently say, and no one seems to listen, I can't change the equilibrium price.
00:09:46.740 I am just trying to slow things down, make people step back and look.
00:09:52.320 And look, it's worked.
00:09:53.460 the U.S. bond market has been the best performing.
00:09:58.320 I want to go to the economic war in a second,
00:10:01.300 and now you're kind of the warlord-in-chief about that.
00:10:03.380 But first I'm going to go, you are a huge consumer of economic news on CNBC,
00:10:08.180 on Wall Street Journal, on Financial Times, of London, on Bloomberg.
00:10:12.080 We understand hearing from those organizations,
00:10:15.040 they're taking particularly umbrage that one of their own, Scott Besson, is attacking them.
00:10:20.380 Why are the attacks?
00:10:22.260 What are they misreporting that you say is actually acts of commission, not acts of omission by the financial, the major financial press in the world, sir?
00:10:34.280 Well, again, I said it during the press conference at the G20, first of all, that they platform the Iranians.
00:10:44.380 Everything the Iranians say, much of it is rooted in fantasy.
00:10:49.420 Much of it is aspirational.
00:10:50.880 You know, there's some article, I think it's in the Wall Street Journal, it's in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times this afternoon, that said the Iranians are rebuilding their missile inventory.
00:11:01.000 Maybe.
00:11:02.160 But let's, where's the calibration?
00:11:04.800 Where's the magnitude?
00:11:06.020 We've destroyed 85% of their factories.
00:11:08.440 So are they building one new one a week?
00:11:11.560 Are they building two?
00:11:12.820 You know, it's just these headlines.
00:11:14.620 And then the other thing, too, where I said I am the house, I didn't challenge people to come to me.
00:11:22.540 What I have continuously said is that when I was on the outside as a macroanalyst, my job was to sit outside the room and try to create a framework.
00:11:35.960 Now that I am on the inside, I am trying to create a framework.
00:11:39.960 And many of these people, you know, again, they have such disdain for the administration, want to see us fail, or they would take their pocketbooks over patriotism that they don't want to listen.
00:11:53.120 It was just like, you know, as I said, on Liberation Day, I went out, I was on the, I did numerous interviews, and I encouraged people to take a deep breath that these are the highest tariff rates we are going to see, barring retaliation.
00:12:13.300 The only country that retaliated was China.
00:12:17.660 And you know what, Steve?
00:12:18.960 After about 10 days of down, and I can't remember whether the stock market went down 12 or 14%,
00:12:26.400 we had the fastest recovery in the history of the stock market.
00:12:30.660 So I'm not saying I am always right, don't challenge me.
00:12:34.320 But I am trying to say that I have superior information
00:12:37.880 and that I am trying to give the market good framing so that they don't panic.
00:12:44.800 I want to tell the audience, the secretary is giving this interview.
00:12:48.180 But their goal is to create panic.
00:12:53.100 They want to see things move quickly.
00:12:55.180 They want to set up, like Scott Besson versus Kevin Warsh, that was rubbish, rubbish.
00:13:01.940 Kevin and I have known each other for 20 years.
00:13:04.380 And again, kind of back to framing, to think that I don't know what the chair of the Fed's thinking is, you know, is absurd.
00:13:13.460 But if, you know, somebody sitting at a Bloomberg terminal can somehow, you know, divine and figure out what the Fed's going to do better than I can from my conversations with the chair, then they should have at it.
00:13:28.180 The audience should know that Secretary Besson is giving this as the live presentation starting at the convention hall.
00:13:33.300 It's quite noisy, so thanks for hanging with us.
00:13:35.720 Mr. Secretary, I just got off doing an interview with BBC.
00:13:39.140 They were absolutely consumed by the fact of the economic war and secondary sanctions,
00:13:45.040 and you're asking British companies and British banks to participate.
00:13:48.980 Can you walk us through your economic war plan, and why do you believe that this will succeed
00:13:53.360 when obviously the kinetic part had maybe not the success that people going into it thought it would
00:13:58.600 outside of the total obliteration of the nuclear program?
00:14:02.320 Why do you think your economic plan – and I will tell you, in the city of London and in Europe, on the BBC, they are obsessed by this topic, sir.
00:14:13.680 Well, sure.
00:14:15.760 And again, with them, it's fire-ready aim that sanctions haven't worked in the past or they haven't worked immediately.
00:14:26.560 and someone said, well, you're saying that this is an economic D-Day
00:14:32.700 and I didn't want to make the reporter look like more of an idiot than he is.
00:14:37.000 And I said, well, how long did it take from when we went on the beaches on D-Day
00:14:42.420 to when Hitler killed himself in the bunker?
00:14:45.480 It was 10 or 11 months, right?
00:14:47.520 So, yeah, I wish it would happen tomorrow,
00:14:50.340 but you create the wave and you create the pressure
00:14:54.620 And I can tell you what we're seeing with Iran now is a cornered and wounded animal.
00:15:00.580 And, you know, it's kind of like your open, Steve, where it says, you know, it's the last gasp of the dying regime.
00:15:09.180 And what we're doing here is the reason this is going to work is because of sequencing.
00:15:14.660 That we had six months of air kinetic and we wiped, you know, no Navy, no Air Force.
00:15:24.620 the diminished missiles and drones, and then we wiped out 85% of their missile manufacturing,
00:15:31.400 so their ability to rebuild, despite this article today, which is wildly off, is limited.
00:15:38.180 Now we have the blockade that the president calls the Wall of Steel.
00:15:42.680 Nothing has gone in or out of Iran since the end of July, and we are suffocating them.
00:15:51.460 And let's just look at the score here, that every day we average about 10 million barrels going out in the southern Strait of Hormuz.
00:16:01.400 The Iranians get out zero.
00:16:03.680 So over a two-week period, the score, 140 billion to zero.
00:16:09.700 So if they want to say that they have control of the Strait, it's like for those of us who are old enough to remember the He-Man Women Haters Club and the Little Rascals.
00:16:18.500 They're just a bunch of losers, like, sitting around saying, yeah, we're going to do this, we're going to do that.
00:16:23.240 I mean, they're comical to me.
00:16:24.620 And then the third part is, for the first time ever, that we have five new authorities, many of them maritime, aviation, digital assets, and we are leaning into these.
00:16:40.640 We sanctioned a large group of Iranian airlines, and we have threatened secondary sanctions with any company that does business with them.
00:16:50.480 So the Iranians, they can land an airplane, but you better not give them gate services.
00:16:57.120 You better not refuel them.
00:16:58.380 You better not service them.
00:16:59.920 You better not sell them tickets.
00:17:01.940 So there has never been anything like this before.
00:17:04.940 We sanctioned the Dubai branches of the second largest bank in Egypt that had given the Iranians $1.8 billion.
00:17:15.840 Those branches will be closed.
00:17:18.200 We sanctioned the 30th largest Turkish bank that had been giving billions and billions to the Iranians.
00:17:24.220 That bank will be closed.
00:17:26.420 We would sanction a large bank tomorrow, but we are not going to do it.
00:17:30.720 We're going to do it on Monday because we want to honor the memory of our fallen citizens on 9-11.
00:17:37.160 But watch this space on Monday.
00:17:39.160 So there's never been anything like this.
00:17:41.260 And we are going to anyone and saying it's 47 years.
00:17:47.340 It's over.
00:17:48.460 You have to sever ties.
00:17:50.440 We know who you are.
00:17:51.480 You know who you are.
00:17:52.540 And we are just going to continue with this process until everyone stops dealing with this regime.
00:18:00.720 We will make it so unprofitable that if you want to risk an extinction-level event for your company or for your person, your personal finances, then have at it, but we are coming for you.
00:18:18.400 Mr. Secretary, I know you've got to go. We appreciate the time.
00:18:20.760 One last question. As you leave, not just for MAGA or for working class people that support the president, part of his core base, but for all working people in the country, particularly people that are starting to listen to the siren song of the Democratic Socialists and some of the people on the left.
00:18:37.380 What is your message about Trumponomics and this kind of 10-year process we've had in your work in it, your effort in it?
00:18:45.020 What should all working class and middle class people in this country, whatever their party affiliation or wherever their politics are, what should they understand?
00:18:53.920 What are the takeaways you want them to understand about the economic plan of the president of the United States?
00:19:01.900 I'd say two things, Steve.
00:19:03.760 One, we're turning into two Americas.
00:19:06.360 There's an America on Saturday afternoon, loves college football and loves their country.
00:19:13.180 Then there's another America that is trying to figure out how to bring everyone else down.
00:19:18.580 There's an America who wants to take advantage on the no tax on overtime and work harder to improve the lot of themselves and their families.
00:19:27.580 Or you get the Democratic Socialists who are overeducated, under-earning.
00:19:33.320 Rather than move everyone up, they want to pull everyone down.
00:19:36.360 And what I can tell you about this plan is if I look working families tax cut, one big beautiful bill, what President Trump has done is he has merged business with the working Americans.
00:19:53.160 So on one side, we had very powerful incentives, the immediate expensing of equipment, immediate
00:20:00.200 expensing of factories, immediate expensing of ag structures, and that is creating a
00:20:06.340 building boom that is turning into a manufacturing boom.
00:20:10.820 And then on the other side, we have the president's four signature policies, no tax on tips, no
00:20:16.020 tax on overtime, the reduced taxes on Social Security, 85% of our seniors don't do that,
00:20:22.020 deductibility of interest. And those are finally starting to hit. And we are seeing just like when
00:20:29.280 you were involved with the president's first term, the bottom 25% of workers are getting above 3x
00:20:37.520 what the top 25% are getting in terms of real wage increases or nominal wage increases. And
00:20:45.600 And that's where the power of this is, and it is working, it is kicking in.
00:20:52.120 I think we're in the liftoff phase, and it's all one policy.
00:20:58.100 It is one policy.
00:20:59.500 When you look at what the president did in terms of securing the border, Steve, no one
00:21:05.380 knows this better than you.
00:21:06.940 Lo and behold, the laws of supply and demand, they did not cease for mass and federate immigration.
00:21:13.440 When you bring in 10, 15, 20 million illegal aliens across the border, they push down working people's wages.
00:21:22.660 A study from the Federal Reserve showed that it pushed rents up 30 percent, again, for working Americans.
00:21:30.040 So the message is that it's one policy.
00:21:33.920 They're all starting to kick in.
00:21:35.480 We will get to the other side of this Iran conflict, and the wage gains and the employment gains are going to keep going.
00:21:43.440 Mr. Secretary, thank you very much
00:21:46.980 We'll put up all the information about how people follow you on social media
00:21:50.120 The greatest Secretary of Treasury since Alexander Hamilton
00:21:54.020 In the revolutionary generation
00:21:56.160 And the generation that built this nation, the foundation
00:21:58.420 Mr. Secretary, thank you for joining us today live at the convention
00:22:01.940 Appreciate you, great speech last night, people loved it
00:22:04.360 Thank you, brother, appreciate it
00:22:06.140 Secretary of Treasury, Scott Besant
00:22:09.220 We're going to get Caroline Wren up, my co-host
00:22:11.720 I want to go first to Philip Patrick
00:22:13.180 Philip, give me your assessment. You're a capital markets guy. Give me your assessment of the
00:22:17.500 Secretary of Treasury Scott Besson's comments. Yeah, look, I think he was absolutely spot on
00:22:23.060 with almost everything he said. And anybody that thinks that the Treasury Secretary is doing a
00:22:29.060 poor job, I think is living in an alternate reality. They have to understand, as we've
00:22:34.420 discussed many times, what he inherited, right? Trying to manage America's refinancing costs with
00:22:40.240 nearly $40 trillion of debt is an extraordinary difficult task. But he needs a lot of credit for
00:22:47.120 being, you know, for how creative and aggressive he's been about it. He mentioned working on Japan
00:22:52.700 to strengthen the Japanese yen. People have to understand that is self-serving, right? We're
00:22:57.400 preventing the Japanese from selling US debt. He mentioned how he's been expanding the Treasury
00:23:03.020 buyback program. By the way, that was not a failure at all. I agree with him vehemently.
00:23:08.400 He's been broadening demand for treasuries, exploring swap lines with our Gulf allies, not to mention the Genius Act, which I think was quite aptly named if we want to create demand for treasuries longer term.
00:23:19.940 So I think he's been doing an incredibly good job with a very difficult deck of cards that was dealt to him.
00:23:27.240 But I think he's working through it fantastically.
00:23:29.560 He mentioned sanctioning Iran, economic sanctions.
00:23:32.800 I think that is the right place to go at this point.
00:23:36.220 And I think what's interesting is it's not just sanctioning Iran. Right. We've been doing that for the last 50 years. It's hugely ineffective, but it's sanctioning anybody doing business with the ILGC.
00:23:48.200 You know, we have a lot of problems with our currency, but the dollar network is strong.
00:23:52.540 So, look, I think across the board, he is doing an incredibly good job with, like I said, a very difficult deck of cards that was there.
00:24:01.400 Let me go to Stephanie Rule's comment. She says, hey, all these guys I know that actually called the president, and she's very dialed into Wall Street, called the president and wanted Scott Besson as Secretary of Treasury to go save a pair of hands.
00:24:13.120 They're calling her now and saying, why are all these interventions? And Scott's getting too political. What are all these interventions that he's doing in the bond market? What are your observations about that?
00:24:23.920 he's working with the reality of the situation that he has. Look, what we've done and the way
00:24:31.640 we've managed the bond markets for decades has been simple in comparison to what Scott Besson
00:24:37.100 is dealing with. We've had solid, strong demand for treasuries the entire time. Scott Besson is
00:24:43.800 fighting a global bond market that is now looking at the fiscal position, by the way, that Besson
00:24:49.820 and Trump inherited from the Democrats. They're saying, look, we want higher interest rates and
00:24:55.180 he's doing everything he can to possibly manage it. Look at the Japan situation. I think it
00:25:00.040 highlights what a balancing act Scott Besson has. We have one nation, a close ally of ours,
00:25:06.640 that potentially have to reduce some exposure to our debt. And that causes a debt crisis at home.
00:25:13.440 So doing things, managing things in the way that has always been done in what is a
00:25:17.620 very different bond market, I'm afraid just isn't feasible. What was the alternative to Scott
00:25:23.360 Besson? Howard Lutnick? I don't think so. Scott Besson has done an unbelievable job. And I would
00:25:29.500 say that those people criticizing don't really understand the bond markets that well, quite
00:25:36.000 frankly. Wow. Philip, where do people go right now to get to you, to get access, to walk through
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00:26:21.800 Bannon and just get the information. Do you agree with me that Scott Besson's the finest
00:26:26.860 Secretary of Treasury since Alexander Hamilton? Yeah, absolutely. Listen, I was nervous following
00:26:32.160 him today. I knew it was on the horizon. Philip Patrick, thank you so much. Such a good guy.
00:26:41.780 So, Scott, thank you so much.
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00:31:15.040 We've got, of course, my co-host, Caroline Wren.
00:31:16.840 This is maybe the most unique group we've had.
00:31:19.560 We've got Ambassador Carla Sands from the first administration, a daughter of Pennsylvania,
00:31:24.400 and also Ben Smith, the founder and publisher of Semaphore.
00:31:28.620 I want to go to you first, Wren.
00:31:30.400 Talk to me about Secretary Besson.
00:31:32.140 Stephanie Ruhl's beating up on him this morning.
00:31:34.480 But I think one of the reasons they're doing that, there's been a definite vibe shift in
00:31:39.440 the convention and with the MAGA movement, given what's happened over the last 24 hours,
00:31:43.500 ma'am?
00:31:43.680 you know i think well one the media has just been hounding everyone saying this is going to be
00:31:49.780 empty nobody wants to be a part of this which is of course untrue but even coming into yesterday
00:31:54.640 you know i was unsure what this was going to end up being and you saw an incredible speech
00:31:59.220 from secretary besant it was really just unbelievable but then president trump just gave
00:32:03.940 he was so high energy it went for two hours and it was amazing and i left there so just excited
00:32:11.860 Everyone I've talked to has been excited.
00:32:13.320 So the vibe changes have been very big.
00:32:15.520 And I think going into today, everyone is very, very excited.
00:32:18.220 And so I think Secretary Bessett, the only question I have about him is great secretary or greatest treasury secretary.
00:32:23.620 And I am very much in the greatest treasury secretary camp.
00:32:28.020 What about, talk to me about, Stephanie Ruhl and the team at MSNBC think he's become too political.
00:32:34.540 That he's stepping outside his, although you wouldn't get more political than Alexander Hamilton.
00:32:39.160 that he's stepping outside his narrow lane, which should be worried about the bond market
00:32:44.000 and particularly the 10-year treasury.
00:32:45.640 Your thoughts about that?
00:32:50.000 I think Stephanie maybe has a high school education.
00:32:52.900 I'm not quite sure she's an economist.
00:32:54.440 So anything that she's going to say or judge about Secretary Bessett,
00:32:56.900 Secretary Bessett is the smartest person in every single room that he's in.
00:33:00.400 I can't even believe he would waste any of his time.
00:33:02.360 And I think he even joked about that with you.
00:33:03.860 Like, she is so irrelevant to anything that he is doing to truly.
00:33:07.900 He is the House now, as he said, to run the global economy.
00:33:11.520 And so I don't think he should waste one second or minute worrying about what MSDNC or whatever we call it now is saying about him.
00:33:19.240 If they were if they were complimenting him, that's where I would have concern.
00:33:23.920 She's actually, I think, a former investment banker.
00:33:25.800 We'll leave that for another day.
00:33:26.980 Ambassador Carla Sands, talk to me about the vibe shift.
00:33:29.900 Pennsylvania is central to all this and particularly the House seats up in Pennsylvania.
00:33:35.260 Can you give us an update?
00:33:36.000 Do you feel a sense of urgency and focus coming out of this, given last night's speech by both the Secretary of Treasury and the President of the United States?
00:33:46.460 Yes, the sidewinder from the President of the United States.
00:33:49.220 He is laser-focused, and that's why he has so many House members here speaking that are in, I would say, swing districts.
00:33:57.340 So I saw Ryan McKenzie and other great Pennsylvania congressmen.
00:34:00.560 But from across the country, these seats that are in trouble, he's giving them a platform.
00:34:04.560 and he's going to give them wind and their sails so that they can push it over the finish line.
00:34:10.580 I think this convention is brilliant.
00:34:12.300 I think it's two, three, four points on these elections that are going to be a little tricky
00:34:17.940 because now we're building momentum.
00:34:20.840 Now the grassroots are paying attention.
00:34:22.800 I get chills because I really think this is changing.
00:34:26.000 It's changing the story.
00:34:28.100 It's really hard for the party in power to keep the power.
00:34:31.380 But in this case, the Democrat message is so antithetical to anything that red-blooded Americans love.
00:34:40.140 Red-blooded Americans, even Democrats, they are going to reject this.
00:34:43.360 That's my belief.
00:34:44.500 And President Trump is leading the charge with his great administration to bring this home across the finish line.
00:34:51.340 You are from Pennsylvania.
00:34:53.340 You know Dave McCormick well.
00:34:54.640 Fetterman last night, Senator Fetterman came out and quite shockingly gave a video.
00:34:59.660 Is Senator Fetterman going to flip and be the key point of us keeping the Senate, if necessary, ma'am?
00:35:09.480 I don't know if he's going to flip, but I do know that when I was growing up,
00:35:13.940 he has the positions of every Democrat senator when I was growing up.
00:35:18.000 They supported Israel.
00:35:19.500 They loved our military.
00:35:20.880 They supported a safe border.
00:35:23.700 Even Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton said this stuff just 15 years ago.
00:35:28.940 So this is what's happened in the United States Democrat Party is, I mean, it's a shame, but they've been taken over by lunatics.
00:35:36.700 And so I really hope that people will choose the common sense solutions that the Republican Party, led by President Trump and his administration, are leading with.
00:35:46.880 And that is a secure border, secure country, strong military, take care of our people, great paying jobs.
00:35:53.740 He's growing.
00:35:54.160 He had a blowout employment number just recently, triple what was expected.
00:36:00.440 So he's leading.
00:36:01.640 The manufacturing jobs are coming back.
00:36:03.960 All the things we need to win are happening.
00:36:07.880 Now, there are some headwinds like the Iran war, and I know that the gas is a little high.
00:36:13.480 But in order not to have a nuclear weapon dropped on our heads by Iran, because that's
00:36:18.140 what they were working toward, the great Satan was the U.S., I really respect what he's doing.
00:36:23.220 And I'm glad that he is the first U.S. president to take on this murderous regime.
00:36:30.180 Ambassador, before we let you go, I want to focus.
00:36:32.480 You've got an issue with visas.
00:36:33.960 Of course, immigration is a huge issue.
00:36:35.640 We're going to have Mike Howell for the Mass Deportation Coalition hopefully on momentarily if we can manage our clock appropriately.
00:36:42.440 What's your issue with visas?
00:36:43.720 You were one of the ambassadors in the first term and an advisor to President Trump.
00:36:48.440 yeah my issue is we want american young people whether they went to high school or college
00:36:57.300 whatever it is we want them to have the first choice at good paying jobs we want them to get
00:37:02.480 great jobs and what's happened is our visa system the immigration system has become perverse and
00:37:09.160 companies are blocking american applicants and they're welcoming immigrant applicants to these
00:37:15.280 jobs they're hiding them they're putting them in obscure newspapers they're even their own
00:37:19.740 universities are looking for visa workers rather than their own graduates that's how perverse this
00:37:25.020 has become so i think the number one issue and the administration is moving toward working on this
00:37:29.880 and we need congress to make changes we need changes in the law but i think this is an election
00:37:34.920 issue that's bipartisan young men and women in america deserve to have good jobs why are we
00:37:41.560 But, Ambassador, why are we tap dancing around it?
00:37:46.800 I respect my co-host, Caroline Ren, but she's making a point yesterday about H-1B visas.
00:37:51.280 We've got to charge her more.
00:37:52.360 Why don't we eliminate the entire program?
00:37:54.320 The entire program, these visa programs, are total scams.
00:37:57.740 We should have a 10-year moratorium on all immigration.
00:38:00.600 Your thoughts, ma'am?
00:38:03.300 I don't know.
00:38:04.120 Could the president make an emergency order and just make a pause?
00:38:07.460 I know some industries do need immigrants to do the jobs that Americans aren't doing,
00:38:14.940 but 90% of these jobs can be done by an American citizen and mostly done better.
00:38:20.740 The visa program, H-1B, is mandated by Congress.
00:38:23.700 That's why he can't just eliminate it.
00:38:25.620 However, what Trump is doing, what the administration is doing, though, is actually quite brilliant.
00:38:29.640 Look what Harmeet Dillon is doing as the Assistant Attorney General of Civil Rights.
00:38:32.800 For example, H-1B visa, you have to prove that you have advertised for an American worker.
00:38:38.180 You cannot find one unless you need a foreign worker.
00:38:40.940 Well, they are setting up, these companies are setting up these websites where they don't actually advertise on their own page just to foreign workers.
00:38:46.960 Harmeet Dillon's found those.
00:38:48.080 She's suing those companies.
00:38:49.380 And what I meant by the visa, they're making it more difficult by charging $100,000 to companies.
00:38:54.020 So I wish she could wave a wand and get rid of H-1B visa.
00:38:56.560 I'd be so excited.
00:38:57.360 Unfortunately, it's congressionally mandated.
00:38:58.920 So the Trump admin is, I think, doing a lot.
00:39:00.660 President Trump is the ultimate disruptor.
00:39:03.120 We want to disrupt here, but I appreciate you guys coming with the facts.
00:39:05.900 I like that.
00:39:06.760 Hang on for a second.
00:39:08.400 Ben Smith, you wrote a brilliant piece this morning.
00:39:11.020 There was a crime scene over at the forum, this kind of off-site, all-day-long discussion of major topics.
00:39:16.340 Our own Joe Allen was there last night with Joe Lonsdale, and Lonsdale has always put himself out as a spokesman for the oligarchs.
00:39:24.160 He just gave us very even-handed.
00:39:25.860 You know, we love Semaphore because of the way that you guys cover particularly the economy, the global economy, high tech, AI, all of it.
00:39:33.760 Can you give us your even-handed assessment of what you saw last night on this debate about artificial intelligence and data centers?
00:39:41.380 Because right now in the state of Texas, we've got a tied governor's race against Governor Abbott going for, I think, a third term and really somebody with limited name recognition.
00:39:50.260 It's dead heat, and supposedly the issue is data centers.
00:39:53.640 Ben Smith, the floor is yours.
00:39:55.860 Yeah, thanks for having me on, Steve. You've always been a great friend of the working
00:40:01.100 press and figured I should reciprocate. And yeah, I mean, the AI issue is becoming central
00:40:07.280 to, I think, to these midterms and widely seen, I think, really as something playing
00:40:12.400 out largely on the left. But your man, Joe Allen, held this debate here in Dallas last
00:40:17.860 night that at least to me really crystallized the extent to which the kind of language and
00:40:22.340 thinking of the right right now lends itself to skepticism of AI. As you said, he was debating
00:40:27.840 Joe Lonsdale, a co-founder of Palantir, a very prominent venture capitalist and investor,
00:40:33.500 and made the argument, among other things, that to your previous conversation,
00:40:38.440 these AIs are algorithmic immigrants that are potentially taking American jobs.
00:40:44.580 You know, and more broadly, I think, cast it as basically a regime that's being imposed on Americans who aren't being given a choice about it.
00:40:54.980 And I just really struck me that Lonsdale is a very smart guy, just had not come with a clear answer to those lines of attack,
00:41:02.280 was very focused on rebutting claims about like water use that are circulating and kind of factual questions rather than this larger sense that people are really unsettled.
00:41:13.180 And so, yeah, usually in these debates, if events like this, nobody wins and nobody loses.
00:41:16.920 In this one, it was quite clear that Joe Allen really kind of mopped the floor with him.
00:41:22.420 Ben, help me out for a second because you guys cover this nonstop.
00:41:25.880 The MAGA base and, quite frankly, the working class and middle class Republican base, this is an 80-20 issue.
00:41:32.140 I mean, this is why someone like Governor Abbott that has huge support among folks in Texas is in a dead heat.
00:41:38.780 This is why I think people would say even Byron Donald's does not have the spread that he should have in Florida, whereas Governor DeSantis thinks he's done a very good job about AI and tech.
00:41:51.220 You go on Fox, and like yesterday, you got everybody coming up there and saying, oh, AI is great and data centers are fantastic.
00:41:58.400 The political class and even the conservative media, much of them, are beholden to big tech.
00:42:04.460 and we've got Elon Musk going to write a $50 million check,
00:42:06.960 all kind of money is going to come in here.
00:42:08.780 How do you see that from Summerforce's perspective playing out
00:42:13.000 where you have a base that, and you see Joe Allen kind of speaks for that base.
00:42:16.680 I mean, he was a rigger for country music acts five years ago
00:42:20.320 when he started coming on the show as our editor for Transhumanism.
00:42:23.040 How do you see that playing out in the midterms?
00:42:26.020 Forget 28. It's going to be a huge issue going forward.
00:42:28.900 But in the next 50 days, how do you see it shaking out?
00:42:31.400 you know i just think it makes it really hard for president trump to cut through with this case he's
00:42:38.500 making you know it's saying that he is kind of in sync with and speaking for the space that's
00:42:44.780 really upset about this particular issue and his answer has been if you don't want this it's because
00:42:49.340 you want to be broke you know like he's he is all in on for data centers i think it kind of is very
00:42:54.360 distracting for republicans puts him in a difficult position i mean there's a flip side to this right
00:42:59.100 Like many, many Americans who say they don't want data centers in their backyard really like using ChatGPT.
00:43:04.780 And the experience in America is we complain about tech companies, we complain about social media.
00:43:09.680 We never actually regulate them or do anything, and consumers really like them.
00:43:13.260 I'm not sure it's as simple a political issue, but it's certainly a huge, messy distraction in the midterms.
00:43:19.720 Ben, how do people get to Semaphore?
00:43:21.560 We put up a lot of articles on our Getter account in True Social and Twitter from you guys,
00:43:27.480 particularly in covering the economy, capital markets, AI, tech, all of it.
00:43:31.060 Where do people go?
00:43:34.140 Sign up for our email briefings at semaphore.com.
00:43:36.900 And thank you.
00:43:38.600 Thank you, Ben.
00:43:39.860 Ambassador Carla Sands, how do people follow you on social media, ma'am?
00:43:45.660 They can follow me on Twitter X at Carla H. Sands.
00:43:49.220 and I also am now and then on Instagram and Facebook,
00:43:52.600 but I've written about these visa issues
00:43:55.420 and the fact that this is a real travesty
00:43:58.120 and American young people deserve that job.
00:44:01.140 Thanks.
00:44:02.160 Ambassador Sands, thank you.
00:44:03.540 Appreciate you and 100% agree with you and Caroline Wren.
00:44:07.260 Of course, I'm always an extremist,
00:44:08.880 so I want to go extreme level.
00:44:09.800 Thank you, guys.
00:44:11.300 We're going to go right back.
00:44:12.660 As soon as we do some shift over,
00:44:15.040 we're going to go right back to the convention.
00:44:18.060 We're going to go right back to our studio and convention.
00:44:20.400 I want to give a thank you to Real America's Voice for making sure everything's so possible and moving seamlessly.
00:44:26.280 Also, the audience should understand when right now they're up and like Scott Besson's doing an interview or Ben Smith or Ambassador Sands, my co-host Caroline Wren, it is so noisy and it's so hard to keep in concentration.
00:44:39.820 I really want to thank everybody.
00:44:42.560 I don't think there's any doubt there's been a vibe shift.
00:44:45.660 I think President Trump's one hour and 45 minute where he brought the heat last night is only he can.
00:44:51.900 And think about it. He keeps saying, oh, he's 80 years old. He's an old man.
00:44:55.120 He for an hour and 45 minutes. And trust me, most of that was not on what I call the glass.
00:45:02.480 He was not reading off a teleprompter that was coming from the heart.
00:45:06.000 Clearly, we've had a vibe shift. And like I said, we have a long, difficult task ahead of us in the next 50 days.
00:45:12.080 We have to galvanize, I think, in 25, maybe 28 congressional districts, half of those that President Trump won, some by double digits in the 2024 presidential election.
00:45:23.560 If we can thread the needle there, if we can thread the needle there, we can win this and also hold a couple of seats in the Senate.
00:45:33.100 Let's go back live.
00:45:34.780 Caroline Wren, give me the vibe in the auditorium right now.
00:45:38.980 We're going to have a big night ahead of us that kicked off.
00:45:42.260 It's pretty loud and pretty raucous.
00:45:44.500 What do you got for me, ma'am?
00:45:47.900 It is very loud.
00:45:49.060 In fact, when I first got here, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick was speaking,
00:45:52.480 and he had a very excited audience.
00:45:55.820 Let me say, people thought he did a great job.
00:45:57.980 It was very, very loud here in the arena.
00:45:59.780 And so I think tonight we're teeing up.
00:46:01.720 I cannot wait to hear what President Trump says.
00:46:03.900 You know, when I was on here last night, we were previewing the speech.
00:46:06.080 We said, I hope they let Trump be Trump, and he goes off the cuff, and boy, did they deliver last night with that.
00:46:11.560 I really thought that the speech did not feel like it was just overly scripted.
00:46:15.520 It sounded like President Trump, I thought he was on message, but he was funny, and I thought it was one of the best speeches he has ever given.
00:46:22.360 And so I look forward to hearing what he says tonight, and then also J.D. Vance.
00:46:25.960 I'm very excited to see what J.D. Vance has to say.
00:46:28.220 I've heard a lot of people in the arena saying they're interested in what he's going to talk about tonight,
00:46:34.000 how he is going to handle an audience of this crowd and stepping into a big moment for him.
00:46:38.640 So I think that people are just excited to be here.
00:46:41.880 Okay, we've got two.
00:46:42.980 We've got three Texans there.
00:46:44.100 We've got Caroline Wren, we've got Isaac Glasser, and, of course, Glenn Story,
00:46:48.300 who is from Oklahoma but now is a full-blooded Texan.
00:46:52.160 Isaac, I want to ask you first.
00:46:53.620 We've had a maniacal focus on the great state of Texas.
00:46:56.140 We're shifting our flag back down to Texas with Patriot Mobile here in a couple weeks to focus on it.
00:47:01.820 You've got Abbott in a dead heat.
00:47:03.580 You've got, supposedly in the polling, Paxson's down a couple of three to Tallarico.
00:47:08.020 What is your sense right now?
00:47:09.140 We've got a couple of these House seats, particularly down the Rio Grande Valley.
00:47:12.640 The House, the Senate, this governorship, all of it could be hanging in the balance right now.
00:47:20.100 What is your thoughts?
00:47:20.800 You're from the Texas Young Republicans.
00:47:22.180 You're the head of the club.
00:47:23.660 What do you guys have to say?
00:47:26.140 Yeah, thanks for having me, Steve.
00:47:29.220 My name is Isaac with the Young Republicans of Texas, I'm the chairman.
00:47:32.480 I think something that we really want to see, because these races are so competitive, is
00:47:36.740 a focus on messaging to young people specifically.
00:47:40.760 I think the things that Abbott has done with his kind of moratorium on data centers is excellent.
00:47:45.520 I think expanding off of that would be to ensure that all hiring for these data centers
00:47:50.760 is going to be going to only American young people.
00:47:54.040 But beyond that, I think his position on the H-1B or stopping the H-1B program for public institutions, taxpayer-funded jobs, is excellent.
00:48:02.020 I think it's very attractive.
00:48:03.520 But I want to see that even further and apply that to, you know, all Texan jobs.
00:48:07.800 I think they really need to be going to our young people in this great state.
00:48:10.840 And I think that would give us a competitive edge going into some of these closer races.
00:48:14.680 Isaac Laster and the Texan Republicans, is the energy for young people, particularly young men,
00:48:21.680 I've come to a couple of your events.
00:48:23.220 I'll be one in October.
00:48:24.840 But is James Fishback taking that energy?
00:48:27.800 Fishback did a kind of out-of-conference, out-of-convention event the other night.
00:48:32.980 It's gotten a lot of pickup, a lot of focus.
00:48:35.100 I gave an interview to BBC.
00:48:36.480 They were all over it.
00:48:38.280 Is James Fishback, is the James Fishback types, have they captured the energy of young men, sir?
00:48:47.780 Yeah, I think in many ways they have.
00:48:49.960 I think they are not afraid to address some of those concerns that young men have about raising a family, about having a good career, about finding their place in the world.
00:49:00.300 And I think that Fishback, at least to his credit, is offering some novel ideas.
00:49:05.700 He cares about the moral fabric there in Florida, and he cares about the economic well-being of young people.
00:49:11.080 So we've had people that were attending his event and a lot of people who are big fans of his.
00:49:16.400 But I think he is a kind of a avatar for those figures who are coming next in politics, who are willing to pick up that burden that young people are feeling and really represent them.
00:49:28.800 Glenn Story, while we had James Fishback doing this event for young men, you guys had a massive lunch for faith leaders the other day.
00:49:38.180 How are we going to position this and frame it?
00:49:41.160 You've got Tallarico running as a Christian, Glenn Story.
00:49:44.720 He's running as a Christian.
00:49:46.120 In fact, he wears it on his sleeve.
00:49:48.420 What is the counterstroke we're going to do here to kind of lay out the case for the MAGA movement and the Trump movement and the Republicans that we are actually the party that really believes in the Christian faith and supports it, sir?
00:50:04.160 You know, before I answer that, I just want to say how impressive is this to be an example of the young Republicans and guys that are trying to bring Texas back to the way it used to be?
00:50:15.320 Thank you.
00:50:15.760 It's an honor to be standing here with you, brother.
00:50:17.900 Likewise.
00:50:18.200 And I love what you're doing.
00:50:19.620 And with respect to what Tala Rico or Tala Frico, go ahead, Steve.
00:50:23.420 Thank you.
00:50:25.300 With respect to what Tala Frico's doing, you know what?
00:50:28.960 He's going to sell into some of the mushy middle.
00:50:32.000 But at the end of the day, he is unequivocally not one of us.
00:50:35.820 He's not a Texan.
00:50:37.100 Yeah, I was born here.
00:50:37.980 And by the way, my great-grandfather was here before Texas was a statehood.
00:50:42.660 However, with that said, the real beauty is Texans believe in hard work, love their family, love the other groups, and really build a great state.
00:50:56.900 And I'm not sure that anybody that's a real Texan can look at him and say, yeah, that guy's going to fight for me.
00:51:03.860 No way, because he doesn't have a spine, because he wiggles on every damn thing he says,
00:51:09.320 especially where he's sitting there going, hey, this is a meat-free campaign.
00:51:14.280 And the reality of it is the next day you see him choking on a turkey leg
00:51:18.160 because he hasn't swallowed meat in 20 years.
00:51:20.780 So nobody can believe that guy.
00:51:24.660 Caroline Wren, you're a Texan.
00:51:26.840 How is Paxson, even on these fake polls, how is he down a couple, three right now?
00:51:30.320 We're in the 50-day run-up to this thing, man.
00:51:34.380 Sure.
00:51:34.860 Well, just to touch on that, I just want to say that James Fishback is a lunatic that just lost the Florida governor's primary by 40 points.
00:51:40.400 If you are a young Republican in Texas actually looking for someone to look up to, I'd highly recommend Congressman Brandon Gill.
00:51:47.120 I think that he is actually the model of what we should all be looking for as a family man who represents our country and speaks our voice.
00:51:54.460 So I just wanted to put that in there.
00:51:55.640 Now, as far as Paxton, again, I think Paxton is going to do extremely well.
00:52:00.620 I think he will win by somewhere between four and seven points.
00:52:04.760 Texas is not going to vote for James Telefrico.
00:52:08.140 And the money is coming in right now for Paxton, but money is on everything.
00:52:12.180 Ken Paxton just defeated John Cornyn, and $150 million was spent against Ken Paxton,
00:52:18.440 and probably $7 million for him.
00:52:20.780 And money has diminishing powers in it.
00:52:23.240 Right now I want to see any money that is coming in the Texas Senate race really should be focused on defining James Talarico.
00:52:28.520 People don't realize how radical he is.
00:52:30.620 Texas is a very expensive state to play in.
00:52:32.800 James Tallarico blew through all of his money over the summer.
00:52:35.240 I don't think that the Democrats have the money to actually come in and attempt to rescue him.
00:52:39.200 Every negative ad that could ever be run against Ken Paxton has already been run.
00:52:42.920 He has won three times statewide in Texas.
00:52:45.520 James Tallarico has won zero times statewide in Texas.
00:52:48.740 So I'm not saying to be complacent.
00:52:51.100 There's no more important thing that we could do than getting Ken Paxton into the United States Senate.
00:52:56.740 And so everyone who is at home, that is the race that you should be focused on.
00:52:59.820 But, again, I think we are going to have a Senator Ken Paxton very soon.
00:53:03.320 Yeah, amen.
00:53:04.380 Okay, hang on a second.
00:53:06.020 By the way, Brandon Gill, great guy, but you've got to watch who you take your money from.
00:53:09.100 Let me be blunt.
00:53:11.200 Isaac, what about Ken Paxton and General Paxton?
00:53:14.020 I mean, shouldn't we be coming together?
00:53:15.780 Are there still Cornyn Republicans, in your view, that refuse to back Ken Paxton?
00:53:23.820 Not any young ones, not any that I've met.
00:53:26.080 I think people are overwhelmingly in support of Paxton, at least as far as young, motivated Republicans go.
00:53:32.820 I think the people that are kind of still backing Cornyn tend to be a little bit more of that established Republican type.
00:53:39.720 I think, though, that we need to absolutely coalesce around Paxton.
00:53:43.660 I think that we've been block walking all across the state on his behalf with all of our clubs and have been kind of throwing our weight behind him.
00:53:50.620 But I think it will be necessary.
00:53:52.020 I think it will be a close race.
00:53:53.280 And, you know, I just want to add a little bit to that.
00:53:55.480 But I believe there's no question in my mind that even the guys back on the other side that back Cornyn,
00:54:07.240 I forgot his name already, but anyway, those guys are going to come around
00:54:11.660 because even though they spent $150 million against him, they still love their state of Texas,
00:54:18.340 and they're going to have to just say, hey, I realize that I'm not going to win or my guy's not going to win,
00:54:24.340 but he's infinitely better than Talafrico, you know, and I know they're coming around.
00:54:30.620 I was just literally talking to somebody that's tied into the other side,
00:54:34.720 and they were saying, look, we're going to bring us, everybody together at the table,
00:54:39.400 and we're going to make this work.
00:54:41.320 And I just said, look, if there's anybody that can do it, it's you.
00:54:45.160 And it made me just, it made me feel good.
00:54:47.380 You know, this is the Bush side of the party.
00:54:49.580 They're not going to let the state go away because they dislike a candidate.
00:54:54.340 Yep.
00:54:55.940 Isaac, you guys have actually been canvassing.
00:54:58.460 Talk to me the feedback.
00:54:59.480 I want to know the feedback as you go door to door.
00:55:01.340 Look, we're huge Ken Paxson fans.
00:55:05.440 He was with us on the first day of the illegitimate Biden regime.
00:55:09.520 He was our first guest on the afternoon show.
00:55:11.380 He said, hey, look, where Biden holds the Constitution, we'll support him.
00:55:14.760 When they go outside of that, we'll defend the great state of Texas.
00:55:18.040 And he sued him, I think, the next day.
00:55:19.980 But what is your sense as you guys start the canvassing process?
00:55:22.900 What are you hearing as you go door to door?
00:55:28.260 There certainly is a barrier there.
00:55:30.180 I think the media has done a great job putting out all the baggage of Ken Paxton over the last year or so.
00:55:37.180 However, with that being said, I think when you really get into it with people, when you're knocking doors and you tell them, hey, I understand people aren't perfect.
00:55:45.520 There's things that we don't like about certain candidates.
00:55:47.680 However, what we know for a fact is that Paxton is an unbelievable fighter for Trump, for the MAGA agenda, for what is right in the state of Texas.
00:55:55.680 And once you get that through your mind and you can put together the fact that he is a necessary component to bring about Trump's agenda in this state,
00:56:03.480 I think people's hearts are kind of opened up to that.
00:56:07.140 And they are willing to vote for him because they realize that this is ultimately exactly the direction we need to go.
00:56:12.140 Senator Bernie Marino is going to join us.
00:56:13.780 We have him right here.
00:56:16.220 Hang on. Senator Marino, get hooked up. I'm going to go real quickly. Taylor Mitchell out at the Charlie Kirk. Taylor Mitchell on the Charlie Kirk. What's going on on the campus? Do we have any protest?
00:56:26.100 yes well we just got in no protest yet i know that that's supposed to be happening a little
00:56:32.900 bit closer to 6 30 mountain time when that starts but we're on campus where charlie kirk gave his
00:56:38.640 final speech one year ago and just around the corner we're just around the corner where charlie
00:56:43.200 kirk was assassinated it's been a peaceful morning so far but we do know that there are again like
00:56:48.440 you said planned protests later security is on standby in case anything gets out of hand we've
00:56:53.280 seen armed security or armed police around as well but we uh we've really been seeing a lot
00:56:59.220 of supporters we've seen supporter after supporter come and pay their respects there are pictures and
00:57:04.120 flowers under the flag where he was assassinated plus listen to this a man traveled all the way
00:57:08.860 from michigan with a massive cross to pray and honor charlie kirk and people have been coming
00:57:14.060 to pray under that cross as well today what a beautiful tribute and not long ago supporters
00:57:19.320 were seen with chalk under the tunnel there, drawing flags and writing encouraging notes
00:57:23.680 for Charlie, like, well done, Charlie.
00:57:25.900 It's been such a beautiful day after such a sick tragedy.
00:57:28.920 And I also want to add, one of my favorites of all, there's a young supporter, he looks
00:57:32.980 like a teenager, he's been standing in the hot sun for hours with an American flag paying
00:57:37.000 his respects to Charlie.
00:57:38.220 You can find that on our social media as well.
00:57:40.200 Okay, Taylor, you hang around, you're going to be, we're going to go to just the news
00:57:43.400 at the top of the hour, we're going to go right back to you at the Charlie Kirk Memorial.
00:57:46.620 Glenn Beck, doing a great job, volunteered to go out there.
00:57:49.980 I want to go back to our studio live, Senator Bernie Marino.
00:57:53.100 Senator Marino, you carry basically the banner of the MAGA movement in the United States Senate.
00:57:58.500 What is your thoughts last night of President Trump's speech?
00:58:02.660 He did a great job.
00:58:03.940 He laid out the case that President Biden left this country on the brink of complete and utter failure.
00:58:10.240 And in 18 months, we've accomplished more than any other administration in American history,
00:58:16.760 but the job is not done.
00:58:19.820 Did we complete everything? Absolutely not.
00:58:22.320 And that's why we need two more years to complete the agenda.
00:58:26.320 We cannot go backwards, Steve. You know that better than anybody else.
00:58:29.840 There's movements to take the Republican Party back to Mitt Romney.
00:58:34.000 We are not going to allow that to happen.
00:58:36.040 We need to win in November and complete the agenda.
00:58:39.620 Senator Marino, there was a huge chorus of boos last night from the MAGA movement.
00:58:43.780 The president stepped in bravely and said, no, no, no, no.
00:58:45.780 Thunes did a good job.
00:58:47.140 Your thoughts about that moment, sir?
00:58:51.580 Well, look, it speaks to the reality that we haven't accomplished everything in the United States Senate that we shouldn't have.
00:58:57.360 We should have gotten the Save Act passed, and we didn't get that done.
00:59:01.080 Voters are very frustrated.
00:59:02.540 We're going to continue to advance that.
00:59:04.340 But look, the only thing I'd ask is a little grace here to understand that the Democrats are at historic levels of absolute total obstruction.
00:59:13.860 We're going to have nine new Republicans, no matter what, maybe even more, that come in and are sworn in in January.
00:59:20.120 That's our opportunity to get Save America done and all the rest of the agenda completed that we need to get done.
00:59:27.220 Senator Marino, before we let you go, last night a lot of people, in particular MSNBC, CNBC this morning,
00:59:31.740 said the $5,000, what President Trump said about the tariff payment is a gimmick. That's a desperate
00:59:37.100 gimmick. You said no way. You're putting forward legislation. Walk the audience through why it's
00:59:41.900 not a gimmick and why you think this is serious and you're putting it forward in legislation, sir.
00:59:48.300 Absolutely. This is extraordinarily essential, Steve. As you know, our responsibility is to
00:59:53.500 working American citizens. So what we're going to do is a one-time dividend so that American
00:59:59.500 workers get the benefit of the success of this nation to get them back to what I call level
01:00:04.880 because Joe Biden destroyed working Americans. We have so much investment coming in, so many great
01:00:11.240 opportunities for working Americans, but it's not kicking in right away. So what we're going to do
01:00:15.200 is we're going to put in a market access fee. You can call it a tariff in legislation so it's
01:00:20.220 permanent. Over a 10-year window, it'll bring trillions of dollars into the U.S. Treasury.
01:00:25.900 We're going to front load that and give every American citizen, every working class American citizen, a $5,000 dividend.
01:00:33.920 I hope to get that money out the door sometime next year to provide the important relief that they need now.
01:00:42.180 Okay, Senator Marino, where do people go for your social media?
01:00:46.480 People want to find out more about you, more about what MAGA's doing in the Senate, and particularly this $5,000 bonus.
01:00:52.200 Where do they go?
01:00:52.680 follow me on x at bernie marino b-e-r-n-i-e-m-o-r-e-n-o you can follow my website is
01:01:02.040 berniemarino.com but look all of us got to turn out like president trump's on the ballot on
01:01:06.760 november 3rd because he is on the ballot his policies are on the ballot go out there and
01:01:11.620 vote staying home is all for the radical left senator marino thank you for the fight isaac
01:01:18.100 laster where do people go to find out everything about the young republicans of texas and you
01:01:22.280 social media? Absolutely. You should go to yrtx.gop. We have our state convention on October 17th.
01:01:32.660 Steve, you are headlining our convention, which we are very grateful for. We will also have Mays
01:01:36.920 Middleton, Beau French, more officials from the administration and more speakers to come.
01:01:41.900 And my Twitter is Isaac J. Laster. Thank you. Thank you. Caroline Wren, fantastic job. Everybody
01:01:47.640 wants to meet you at the convention, Caroline. Where do they go on social media?
01:01:52.280 sure it's at caroline wren on x truth social and get her thank you man appreciate you
01:01:59.480 want to thank real america's voice the entire war room team that's there live and i want to
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