Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Battleground EP 702： Asleep At The Wheel While The Country Is Overrun

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

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00:01:00.000 Well, any agency or department of the federal government follows the lead of the White House.

00:01:06.640 So the Fox News and other groups are attacking aid for having some social, cultural programs, the culture wars.

00:01:14.920 That's ordered by any White House.

00:01:17.600 We had conservative programs when I was administrator and when Mark Green was administrator in the Bush administration, the Trump administration, the first one.

00:01:26.720 And when the Democrats take, they move it leftist center.

00:01:30.420 And the career people didn't resist when I was there.

00:01:33.360 And I'm probably the most conservative administrator in the history of the agency.

00:01:37.720 They showed me how to do it.

00:01:39.500 I trusted them.

00:01:40.300 I treated them respectfully.

00:01:41.400 And they said, if you do it this way, you're going to get into trouble.

00:01:44.140 If you do it this way, it's going to work.

00:01:45.440 I reviewed every single program from the Clinton administration when I took over in 2001.

00:01:50.880 And I ended dozens of programs.

00:01:53.500 And I redirected them toward our priorities.

00:01:56.200 That took a month.

00:01:57.480 We did it quietly.

00:01:58.760 The career people cost a lot of the Clinton programs dogs because they didn't work. 1.00

00:02:03.680 And they didn't even like them.

00:02:05.520 But they quietly implemented what they, under the Clinton years, what they were told to do.

00:02:12.000 And they do the same thing when I was in office.

00:02:14.920 The notion that AID is not following the foreign policy, of course it isn't.

00:02:19.120 There's no aid administrator.

00:02:20.760 They haven't appointed any people from the Republican Party to run AID under Trump.

00:02:27.300 So, of course, it hasn't moved toward their foreign policy.

00:02:30.300 They just took office three weeks ago.

00:02:31.840 It takes a few months, you know, to move any agency or department.

00:02:35.860 But I might add one last thing.

00:02:38.100 The fact is that the State Department in the F office controls every single dollar AID spends.

00:02:45.620 That's what the office was created for.

00:02:47.660 And they've done that for 20 years now.

00:02:49.980 It's not new.

00:02:51.140 And I might add, who controls the appropriation?

00:02:54.420 The Congress does.

00:02:55.460 And OMB does, which is controlled by the White House.

00:02:58.260 AID doesn't run out and do whatever they want.

00:03:00.840 Every single dollar in the aid budget is already earmarked.

00:03:05.380 We don't have a lot of choice.

00:03:07.440 And I might add, there's a federal index of how well-managed agencies are.

00:03:13.440 It's a nonpartisan group, independent, on purely a technical basis.

00:03:17.880 AID is ranked as the third best managed federal agency in the United States government. 0.99

00:03:23.860 The notion that the agency are criminals and all that, that's a lot of garbage. 1.00

00:03:27.920 It's a lie. 1.00

00:03:30.200 It's an insult.

00:03:31.160 And what they do keep doing, if you repeat a lie long enough, people will begin to believe it.

00:03:36.920 And I speak as a conservative Republican.

00:03:40.000 I work as a vice president for World Vision, the largest evangelical NGO in the world.

00:03:46.100 I serve for 22 years in the Army Reserves.

00:03:49.020 I retired as a lieutenant colonel.

00:03:50.540 I served in the first Gulf War.

00:03:52.740 I am not on the left.

00:03:54.020 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.

00:04:01.960 Pray for our enemies.

00:04:03.900 Because we're going medieval on these people.

00:04:07.180 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.

00:04:11.440 The people have had a belly full of it.

00:04:13.360 I know you don't like hearing that.

00:04:14.780 I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that.

00:04:16.540 But you're not going to stop it.

00:04:17.460 It's going to happen.

00:04:18.520 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?

00:04:22.060 Mega Media.

00:04:23.060 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

00:04:28.920 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?

00:04:32.700 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

00:04:39.000 War Room.

00:04:39.900 Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.

00:04:48.520 Thursday, 6 February, in the year of our Lord, 2025, right there, that's the problem.

00:04:55.280 It's called controlled opposition.

00:04:57.460 Guy sitting there, conservative, former Army officer, runs Evangelical Big Network, and saying how great USAID. 0.95

00:05:05.680 It's a group of criminals.

00:05:08.320 They've supported the NGOs that had the invasion of the border. 0.93

00:05:11.000 They supported all the nonsense coming out of Europe here and here to suppress conservative voices.

00:05:16.860 It's a cutout for the CIA.

00:05:18.520 It has to be shut down, all of it.

00:05:21.180 And President Trump's going to test someone.

00:05:23.540 I actually oppose putting it up into the Secretary of State.

00:05:28.160 He's right.

00:05:28.760 State has kind of controlled this and the CIA.

00:05:30.820 It's a CIA cutout, a big part of it.

00:05:33.900 It's a slush fund.

00:05:35.480 It's caused nothing but damage. 0.99

00:05:37.180 The people over there, many of them are criminals.

00:05:40.260 You have to shut this thing down. 0.99

00:05:41.800 It's not even a question.

00:05:43.820 Not even a question.

00:05:44.720 You've seen the personification of the problem right there.

00:05:49.740 This is how this thing metastised.

00:05:51.880 Don't ask me.

00:05:52.780 Ask Eli Crane.

00:05:54.580 Don't ask me.

00:05:55.580 Ask Matt Gaetz.

00:05:57.420 Ask those people.

00:05:58.220 MTG.

00:05:58.860 Ask those people, the courageous few, the Andy Biggs of the world, that in the middle of the night would argue, as this audience saw, into the wee hours of the morning, these subcommittees on appropriations.

00:06:11.620 And this was a classic one and couldn't get even close to 50% of the conference vote with them.

00:06:17.960 Just an absolute, absolute disgrace.

00:06:21.320 And this is going to be a throwdown on USAID.

00:06:25.140 Let's have it.

00:06:26.540 Let's go for it.

00:06:29.220 A couple other things I'm going to go to.

00:06:30.740 You heard Ben Burkhoff in the background.

00:06:32.360 I'm trying to get him set up.

00:06:33.440 We've got a great thing for Ben.

00:06:34.780 I've got to go to Catherine O'Neill.

00:06:36.540 But let's say a couple things.

00:06:37.320 I don't know if we have the tweet, if we can put it up, or if you can tell me we can put it up.

00:06:43.540 There's a tweet out there from Elon Musk talking about there's billions of dollars in fraudulent payments still going from the Treasury.

00:06:51.580 Senior officials at Treasury tell me that's a bald-faced lie.

00:06:54.340 They've already kind of won this thing about having them read only.

00:06:59.080 But they're telling me they're not billions of dollars going to fraudulent organizations.

00:07:03.260 They have no earthy idea what that means.

00:07:05.860 And President Trump and the people in the White House, I think, got to get on point here because the Secretary of Treasury,

00:07:16.840 particularly what we're going to go into, folks, with all these cuts and all this turbulence and all of it,

00:07:23.400 you know, the two people they're going to look to to be steady eddies are Russ Vogt,

00:07:28.560 whose vote on confirmation is going to be later tonight.

00:07:31.080 I think if my crack staff can tell me that, that we've pushed for.

00:07:36.700 The number is 202-224-3-121, although I think, Russ, we got the votes.

00:07:42.080 But last night they spent all night saying he was the most dangerous man in America.

00:07:45.560 And Scott Besson, those two are kind of your steady eddies.

00:07:51.980 And the fiduciary, you know, responsibility of the Secretary of Treasury should not be questioned by anybody in administration unless they have hard facts.

00:08:03.940 And they had hard facts, they ought to go to the Secretary of Treasury.

00:08:06.880 What I've been informed at the highest levels of Treasury is they have no earthly idea what this is.

00:08:12.760 And to put that out there is grossly negligent and grossly irresponsible, particularly in the situation where Scott Besson's got to be a guy at Treasury.

00:08:20.900 So, I don't know, $7 trillion of government securities?

00:08:25.480 I think the price of gold is going up now?

00:08:27.280 Well, Scott Besson gave an interview on Bloomberg and said, hey, President Trump's committed to a strong dollar.

00:08:33.940 A strong dollar.

00:08:35.220 And, you know, that brings certain elements to it.

00:08:38.580 It obviously makes your exports tougher, makes them more expensive.

00:08:42.100 But we're strong, you know, we've always been a strong dollar country, so he's dedicated to a strong dollar.

00:08:50.140 Said that today.

00:08:51.720 Great interview on Bloomberg.

00:08:53.480 Talked about this situation with Doge and talked about these guys that have read-only.

00:08:58.520 But when the Secretary of Treasury goes up there, you can't put out something that says they have, knowingly have billions of dollars of fraudulent payments and haven't done anything about it.

00:09:07.040 But I'm just, Treasury's telling me that that's not the case.

00:09:14.100 And let me be blunt on something else.

00:09:16.440 March 14th approaches.

00:09:18.660 We can't look away on this.

00:09:20.240 We have to, you know, are we going to have another CR?

00:09:23.060 Or what you're telling me, Capitol Hill, is that we're going to kick the can down the road and have a one-year CR.

00:09:30.400 And that one CR is going to be Joe Biden's numbers.

00:09:32.860 That's what it is.

00:09:33.640 It was created back in the summer of last year.

00:09:38.520 It kind of was, it got us through, you know, as Joe Biden's numbers got us through the last crisis, the end of September, got into another crisis in December this year.

00:09:49.240 This is Biden's math.

00:09:50.560 Is that we're going to have the first year of President Trump's presidency?

00:09:52.960 Is it going to be off of Biden's budget, Biden's spending?

00:09:55.680 Is that where we are?

00:09:56.860 And so to get down to it, and I think, Doge, I like what they're doing.

00:10:02.480 I think they're putting numbers together.

00:10:03.900 They're trying to get the engineering diagram of where it cash is.

00:10:06.100 But look, you don't need to go over the National Oceanographic Institute, right?

00:10:11.380 I'm sure Woods Hole or whatever they manage may be not efficient, and we're going to get some efficiencies.

00:10:15.580 That's like, in the summer, get across the Potomac.

00:10:23.460 And Mike Cernovich, I love you, brother.

00:10:25.640 You've been with us there from the beginning.

00:10:28.640 And, but it's not about clearances.

00:10:31.100 They can get enough clearances, and they get people to get some clearances.

00:10:34.180 We need cuts at defense.

00:10:35.940 Let's stop, let's stop kidding ourselves.

00:10:38.600 Right now, we're not having an adult conversation.

00:10:41.300 Let's have an adult conversation.

00:10:42.620 We were promised a trillion dollars.

00:10:44.300 Well, first off, we were promised two trillion dollars in cuts.

00:10:47.440 I did not say that.

00:10:49.140 That's what the Doge guy said.

00:10:50.460 Two trillion dollars on a 6.5 trillion dollar budget.

00:10:54.180 Not over 10 years on that budget.

00:10:56.520 Then it was a trillion dollars on that budget.

00:10:59.060 Fine.

00:10:59.360 It's a trillion dollars.

00:11:01.220 We'll get there.

00:11:02.060 Somehow, at least directionally, it's okay.

00:11:04.100 Then it was not this fiscal year.

00:11:05.920 It's 2026.

00:11:06.880 Well, that's not okay.

00:11:08.700 We need to do this now.

00:11:11.220 We have to address this as a country.

00:11:14.600 We cannot continue to spend, we cannot continue to look away, we cannot keep kicking the can

00:11:19.340 down the road.

00:11:20.340 It's time for an adult moment.

00:11:24.040 And to be able to have a conversation where you're, because you're not going to get to

00:11:29.920 entitlements, and I don't include Medicaid in that, and I don't include any of the waste,

00:11:34.460 fraud, and abuse can we find in Medicare, because I'm sure there's a lot.

00:11:37.840 But the type of numbers we're talking about, two trillion dollars, and or, because you're

00:11:43.440 going to add to what President Trump said today, populist tax cuts of no tax on tips,

00:11:50.540 no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security are going to add bigger to the deficit.

00:11:56.740 The war room, we love those cuts.

00:11:59.460 We want more for working people.

00:12:00.760 That's a great start.

00:12:01.800 President Trump should be a hat tip to him, because nobody else in the past has ever thought

00:12:06.160 about that.

00:12:06.640 But into discretionary spending, you're going to have a firestorm.

00:12:12.980 You had a firestorm last week, and kind of quasi-blinked a little bit, let's be honest,

00:12:16.840 blinked a tad, tad, pulled back the memo, but not the content of the memo.

00:12:21.180 The guys in Doral, all the Republican Congressmen are freaking out, because the constituents are

00:12:26.180 calling.

00:12:26.460 That's just to find out where the money is in the system.

00:12:28.860 Now we have to have cuts.

00:12:29.980 You cannot cut a penny from federal spending unless you start in the Defense Department.

00:12:36.460 Let me say this again.

00:12:37.520 Let's have an adult conversation.

00:12:38.940 Unless you start in the Defense Department, you cannot have any cuts.

00:12:43.460 So the Doge team, you're up to the National Oceanographic, wherever the hell you are, it's

00:12:48.680 all good, do it.

00:12:49.640 But until you cross the Potomac, it's not real.

00:12:54.660 Until you cross the Potomac, this is like McClellan's Army, right?

00:12:59.980 Until you cross the Potomac and go over into Northern Virginia, to the Pentagon, and put

00:13:08.060 a team, and hey, we'll get them as much, you know, they don't need classifications and

00:13:13.880 high security clearances to go through most of the budget.

00:13:16.040 There are black programs, they're all that, yes, and you can get them, they should have

00:13:19.620 them.

00:13:20.380 If not, guess what?

00:13:22.140 Maybe we round error that.

00:13:23.700 You know, maybe we just round up to it.

00:13:25.980 Let's get into the Materials Command.

00:13:27.400 Let's get into the Pentagon is rife with incompetence.

00:13:31.500 The Pentagon is rife with duplication.

00:13:33.680 The Pentagon is rife with corruption.

00:13:36.420 Corruption.

00:13:36.960 The defense industry is up to the eyeballs of corruption.

00:13:40.800 Next to the biopharmac medical industry in D.C., it's the most corrupt.

00:13:46.900 The most corrupt.

00:13:47.700 And so we're just going to sit there?

00:13:48.860 You're telling me we're just going to sit here?

00:13:51.160 We're just going to sit here and not avoid that?

00:13:54.500 And people that are putting out these, oh, Pete Hex is the government.

00:13:56.880 No, Pete Hex is not going to control.

00:13:58.320 Pete Hex has got to run the building right now.

00:13:59.880 And yes, he's got a budget.

00:14:00.840 He's going to look at it.

00:14:01.640 We're talking about Doge.

00:14:02.980 If you're not prepared to do it, just say you're not prepared to do it.

00:14:05.640 If you're not prepared to do it because you've got a conflict of interest, and that conflict

00:14:08.640 of interest is your space company.

00:14:11.160 SpaceX's fine.

00:14:11.880 Just tell us.

00:14:12.540 And if the reason you don't want to do it is the financing you're doing on SpaceX,

00:14:16.800 and I'd like to know the status of that financing.

00:14:20.040 Has a financing closed?

00:14:22.020 And is it built?

00:14:22.560 I'd just like a simple thing.

00:14:23.680 Has a financing closed recently?

00:14:25.880 And was that financing around numbers that are in the NDAA of $900 billion?

00:14:30.640 Inquiring minds, I'm asking for a friend.

00:14:34.720 I'm asking for a friend.

00:14:35.700 Let's stop the games and let's get down to it.

00:14:37.780 We're not going to cut the budget until we address the Pentagon.

00:14:42.540 And if you think we are, you're kidding yourselves.

00:14:45.820 And I come at it from somebody that served their country.

00:14:49.300 And that country wasn't South Africa.

00:14:51.120 That country was the United States of America.

00:14:53.200 And my daughter went to West Point and served her country.

00:14:56.260 And that country is not South Africa.

00:14:57.960 That country was the United States of America because that's her real country.

00:15:02.480 And this is my real country.

00:15:04.180 I'm not floating around on kind of some, you know, tourist visa and picking a country every

00:15:09.460 couple of years.

00:15:10.200 So let's get, let's get serious.

00:15:14.560 Because all I see when you ratchet down and look at that performance line, also, are we

00:15:18.820 not, if we're not going to have any cuts by March 14th, any recommended cuts, please

00:15:24.140 just tell people now.

00:15:25.260 So then we say, okay, guess what?

00:15:27.380 We can't do it.

00:15:28.400 Let's get a CR and have a CR for the year and work off Biden's numbers.

00:15:31.500 Let's just do it.

00:15:33.020 Let's say we're big boys and girls.

00:15:34.660 That's what they're talking about anyway.

00:15:35.880 It's an open secret on Capitol Hill.

00:15:37.180 This is what they're talking about.

00:15:39.660 So they don't have some big drama at the end and, oh, we're going to shut the government

00:15:42.400 down, not shut the government down.

00:15:43.200 Let's just get it out now.

00:15:46.040 Let's have a conversation.

00:15:47.320 Let's get it out now.

00:15:48.520 Let's do it.

00:15:49.220 But still, the fact remains, and the wealthy should understand this, if you don't want

00:15:59.020 your taxes raised to close the gap to get to Scott Besson, not my number, it's Scott Besson,

00:16:03.900 he's confirmed as Secretary of the Treasury.

00:16:05.700 He said to get down to 3% of GDP as your deficit.

00:16:12.200 Hell, in France, they turfed out a government.

00:16:14.380 This is why the Front National guys are even there.

00:16:17.760 They turfed out a government trying to get down and put it on the backs of the people

00:16:20.480 instead of all the foreign aid, and they threw that government out.

00:16:23.320 Getting down from 6.5% to 3% is not an easy task.

00:16:28.140 I don't even like the 3%, but it's a start. 1.00

00:16:30.300 Besson's giving you a start.

00:16:33.140 And the supply-side tax cuts aren't going to kick in.

00:16:35.980 The growth is going to be there, just like it was in President Trump's first term.

00:16:39.060 Tremendous growth, up to 3%, 3.5%, I think, in 19.

00:16:43.080 But that takes a couple of years to kick in.

00:16:45.260 Remember, hello, the tax cuts came in 17.

00:16:48.180 We're passing 17.

00:16:49.440 In 19 is when it started hitting in.

00:16:51.580 Last time I looked, that's a couple of years.

00:16:54.880 What are we going to do in the interim?

00:16:58.100 What we're going to do is cut spending.

00:16:59.560 If we can't cut spending, let's face it now.

00:17:01.840 And if you don't cross the Potomac, and you don't go to that big building

00:17:09.280 that's right next to Arlington National Cemetery, you're kidding yourself.

00:17:15.840 And so if we're kidding ourselves, let's just have a conversation and say,

00:17:18.580 oh, it's okay, we're going to find some waste, fraud, and abuse

00:17:23.360 in the boats they're commissioning at the National Oceanographic Society,

00:17:27.500 and we're going to shut down USAID, which I think is amazing,

00:17:29.980 and that's $40 or $50 billion a year, and that's a start.

00:17:33.620 That's a start.

00:17:35.140 We'll find waste, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid and Medicare.

00:17:38.260 I'm sure there's tons of waste and fraud over there.

00:17:42.020 But programmatically, programmatically is where you're going to get cuts.

00:17:47.080 And we have to have this conversation on this $900 billion defense bill

00:17:52.360 that's got pork all in it, it's got corruption all in it,

00:17:55.540 it's got incompetence in it.

00:17:56.840 Good God, folks, we didn't win two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,

00:18:01.760 spend $9 trillion or net present value from also the care of the wounded

00:18:06.900 and the psychologically damaged and destroyed.

00:18:10.000 So it's not like we're sitting here and it's the Royal Navy in the 17th century, right?

00:18:18.160 Or it's not the victorious American Army signing the surrender documents

00:18:22.760 on the deck of the Missouri.

00:18:24.100 That's not what we have now.

00:18:25.780 We don't know how to win wars.

00:18:26.900 Hell, that's the reason Pete Hex is over there.

00:18:30.440 But let's have an adult conversation.

00:18:32.300 If we're not going to cut it, just tell us.

00:18:33.800 That's fine.

00:18:35.300 We're big boys and girls.

00:18:36.380 But if you want to stop the financial crisis, if you want to stop it as an adult,

00:18:42.460 you've got to cross the Potomac and tell me what's going to happen in the Pentagon.

00:18:47.180 Because you're going to leave it at $900 billion.

00:18:49.800 Write this down now.

00:18:51.240 You ain't going to get one penny of cuts socially.

00:18:55.160 There's not.

00:18:55.840 You look at those Republican congressmen.

00:18:57.480 You think they can take that heat?

00:18:59.520 Are you kidding me?

00:19:00.480 If you looked at this crowd, that's what's going to stand up to the firestorm that's going to come?

00:19:05.820 Are you kidding me?

00:19:08.220 These guys can't stand up to anything.

00:19:09.880 Mike Johnson is going to stand up to that?

00:19:12.940 They went down to the conference and they came up with $318 billion over 10 years.

00:19:18.040 I ain't talking about 10 years.

00:19:19.260 I want to know this year.

00:19:20.680 I want to know next year.

00:19:21.980 I don't have time, nor do I have interest in anything in the third year beyond.

00:19:27.660 This year and next year.

00:19:29.320 This year and next year.

00:19:30.700 Am I clear?

00:19:31.760 That's what I want to see.

00:19:32.720 And I want to see it out of the Pentagon.

00:19:34.360 And if you're not prepared to cut, then it's not serious.

00:19:37.600 We should tell the President of the United States it's not serious.

00:19:39.900 And then somebody should have a conversation about whose taxes we're going to raise to close the difference.

00:19:46.440 Because you ain't going to grow your way out of here in the next two years.

00:19:49.220 Full stop.

00:19:50.540 And if my math is wrong, then somebody show me.

00:19:53.200 Because I've looked at every different version of it.

00:19:57.740 And I think I'm right.

00:19:59.080 And I'm the guy that called the two-train dollar deficit.

00:20:01.260 Everybody's skipping around.

00:20:03.260 Oh, we got the biggest conservative.

00:20:04.560 When does that say if you lost your mind, it's going to be two-train a year.

00:20:08.520 It's obscene and absurd. 1.00

00:20:12.500 You're ridiculous. 0.98

00:20:13.420 When Volcker and Reagan saved the country and choked out the debacle that was in inflation and what happened to the country in the late 1970s, early 1980s, when Reagan came in 80, 81, and choked it down, that took courage and guts and the ability to take a political firestorm. 0.97

00:20:35.080 But we're not that country now.

00:20:38.340 Then we're a manufacturing superpower.

00:20:41.280 We had virtually no debt on our balance sheet.

00:20:43.740 The financial condition was totally different.

00:20:45.780 We could leverage things.

00:20:47.980 We can't do that now.

00:20:51.360 No debt.

00:20:52.420 Virtually no debt.

00:20:53.340 And a manufacturing superpower in a highly educated blue-collar workforce.

00:20:58.020 That is not these United States of America.

00:21:01.340 So somebody, you either cut it or you tax it.

00:21:05.660 You figure it out.

00:21:07.600 You either cut or you tax.

00:21:09.200 I'm all for cuts, but we got to get serious.

00:21:12.360 And if we're not serious, then somebody should tell the president, no, it's not serious on the cuts.

00:21:16.980 Let's go then to the taxes.

00:21:20.140 You'll see some people's heads blowing up.

00:21:22.580 You tax these wealthy.

00:21:23.640 You tax the corporatists. 0.69

00:21:25.560 You tax the lords of easy money, the sociopathic overlords.

00:21:28.420 All of a sudden, you'll start seeing cuts coming.

00:21:31.660 South of the Potomac.

00:21:33.800 The place is called the Pentagon.

00:21:35.320 It's easy.

00:21:36.380 You can't miss it. 1.00

00:21:38.020 It's big, large, incompetent, and corrupt. 0.99

00:21:43.220 Pete Hexas knows this. 0.98

00:21:44.280 I'm sure in his first couple of days there he saw it.

00:21:47.400 Catherine, the Christian, the E on the Christians. 0.84

00:21:50.080 Also the pressure and what happens in the White House.

00:21:52.600 You were there.

00:21:53.580 What are these folks going through right now in this intense period?

00:21:56.420 And tell me about this Christian executive order. 0.88

00:21:59.660 That thing is magnificent.

00:22:00.740 But, hey, it tells you where you're on the year of our Lord 2025.

00:22:03.280 You got to put an executive order out.

00:22:04.760 You got to put the head of the DOJ, the attorney general in charge, to wring out the anti-Christian

00:22:09.920 and hating on Christians and Christianity out of a government that Christians pay for every day.

00:22:15.980 Ma'am.

00:22:17.840 Hi, Steve.

00:22:18.760 Thanks so much for having me on.

00:22:20.820 And it's a great day in America today for Christians.

00:22:24.260 It's a great day for the First Amendment. 0.93

00:22:26.900 And so I'm very happy to see all these wonderful EOs coming down the pike. 0.51

00:22:31.500 I mean, the wind is in our sails, Steve.

00:22:35.380 On this issue, I was just at the State Department today visiting some old colleagues

00:22:41.980 who are doing a phenomenal job over there wrangling foreign aid and taking a fine-tooth comb to every single penny that's going out the door.

00:22:54.680 And as you saw probably today, they just cut 97% of the USAID workforce, which is a huge victory.

00:23:04.820 I was the White House liaison there at the tail end of the first administration.

00:23:08.740 I was brought in by John McEntee, and we were stymied the moment that we showed up after the election.

00:23:16.420 So I wish this momentum was there the first time around.

00:23:21.360 This is some of the things that we wanted to do the first time around,

00:23:25.400 but I'm just really, really happy to see them being done now, and it's a really great day.

00:23:35.000 Talk about the intensity in the White House.

00:23:36.860 What it's like when you're there, you're at State, you came back to help us.

00:23:41.780 Just being in the administration, the scrutiny, the pressure, and how tough it is to get anything done, ma'am.

00:23:49.340 Yeah, absolutely.

00:23:50.420 Well, you know, I remember, I could count on my two hands how many of us really were there to execute President Trump's agenda that he won on in 2016.

00:24:02.120 As you know, the personnel issues were very strong in the last administration.

00:24:07.440 This time around, I'm not seeing those problems.

00:24:10.460 I mean, there may be nuances, you know, policy nuances within staff,

00:24:15.500 but in terms of getting things done and delivering on the campaign promises,

00:24:21.660 Trump has the team to do that, and I'm so impressed, and I'm so happy.

00:24:26.160 I mean, we were just in the trenches, and we had no top cover, no top cover.

00:24:31.920 I would have loved to have this drumbeat that we have on X and on all these alternative social media channels.

00:24:39.820 I mean, it's just phenomenal.

00:24:41.760 The radical transparency is happening.

00:24:44.080 We've been asking for this for decades, the radical transparency on where our tax dollars are going.

00:24:50.200 So I couldn't be happier.

00:24:52.020 I mean, obviously, there's always a fight.

00:24:53.660 We can't let up, Steve.

00:24:55.120 We cannot let up, but compared to what it was last time around, it's just so much better.

00:25:03.960 At the start, you saw that, and I want to thank you.

00:25:06.160 You're in the war every day in D.C.

00:25:07.740 You saw at the top the head of the World Vision of the Evangelical,

00:25:10.980 but sitting there and defending USAID, USAID, I mean, and this is the problem.

00:25:17.880 You have these, quote-unquote, conservative republicans that are really not, that are controlled opposition. 0.54

00:25:22.280 This is one of the reasons the USAID thing is a rat's nest. 0.99

00:25:26.280 It's a total rat's nest. 0.79

00:25:27.520 Tell me about it and your relation at state. 0.70

00:25:31.020 Give me some details, ma'am.

00:25:33.260 Yeah, well, this is the thing, Steve, is that, you know, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

00:25:38.160 I mean, you see every 10 minutes I see, you know, a new revelation of where the taxpayer dollars have gone.

00:25:44.640 But the problem is that, you know, he made the argument, well, okay, well, we earmark for X, Y, and Z.

00:25:51.720 But the problem is that through USAID, they would give to NGOs, and then NGOs would then further distribute those funds,

00:26:00.200 and then those funds would be distributed even further.

00:26:03.100 So it was this huge gravy train that was totally untraceable and unaccountable.

00:26:09.260 So, yes, maybe there are earmarks, of course.

00:26:11.980 But where's the money?

00:26:14.340 Where's the money?

00:26:15.180 That's all we're asking, and they can't prove it.

00:26:19.720 It's unbelievable.

00:26:21.680 Dozier's doing a very good look.

00:26:23.340 I support you guys where you should be supported.

00:26:25.240 I love what you're doing, chipping away.

00:26:26.780 I don't like the fact that maybe a treasury, you're blaming people who are not there.

00:26:31.020 Just stick.

00:26:31.840 You got your lane.

00:26:32.800 Drive, drive, drive.

00:26:34.000 USAID is fantastic.

00:26:36.400 Absolutely, Steve.

00:26:36.760 You must cross the Potomac.

00:26:39.240 You must cross. 1.00

00:26:39.800 Absolutely.

00:26:40.120 I want you to hang around, ma'am.

00:26:42.220 Okay.

00:26:42.780 I'm here.

00:26:43.280 I'm here for you, Steve.

00:26:44.640 She's an entrepreneur now.

00:26:48.360 She's one of the great ones.

00:26:50.500 You know, we got Natalie and Grace and Moe, Jane Zirkle.

00:26:53.620 I'm so proud of these.

00:26:56.280 They're really very young people.

00:26:58.240 Battle-hardened, though.

00:26:59.100 Battle-tested.

00:26:59.780 These people have been in tough jams.

00:27:01.240 Plus, the production team, a couple of our producers already over at the White House and the agencies.

00:27:06.280 Granted away working late nights.

00:27:09.500 Of course, we're proud of Russ Vogt and Payaletta and Bassett and all of them.

00:27:13.760 Votes tonight.

00:27:15.180 The vote on vote.

00:27:17.040 It's amazing.

00:27:18.640 Steady pair of hands.

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00:27:30.660 This is why it has to be defense.

00:27:32.080 It can't be all social programs.

00:27:33.500 You're going to have to think this thing through.

00:27:35.000 You've got to think downrange, gentlemen.

00:27:39.980 Ben Berquam and Benzman are going to be here and give you a reality check in the war room in a moment.

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00:33:19.580 Ben, amazing.

00:33:21.300 You've put yourself in harm's way in Central, in the Darien Gap and in Mexico.

00:33:28.140 And expose yourself to the cartels, all of it.

00:33:31.680 Ben's going to be here to talk about the kinetic activity.

00:33:34.100 But you've been on these raids.

00:33:36.920 Are we building momentum?

00:33:38.940 Is the legal part stopping us?

00:33:40.640 Pam Bondi's in there now.

00:33:42.040 Emil Bovey.

00:33:44.800 What's the current status?

00:33:46.000 We understand the guys on the front line are incredibly courageous.

00:33:49.300 But are we scaling this thing up?

00:33:53.460 Well, that's the biggest problem right now, Steve.

00:33:55.640 Every single person that we've caught that I've been a part of these operations with ICE.

00:33:59.400 I was in Chicago.

00:34:00.240 I was in New York.

00:34:00.940 We reported from New Jersey, from that Elizabeth Detention Center.

00:34:04.160 And then yesterday in Baltimore, every single one of these guys had been previously incarcerated,

00:34:09.880 had been in a detention center, had an ICE hold on them, and was released by a sanctuary community back out into the community.

00:34:16.880 And so these guys are going to get them.

00:34:19.300 These guys are picking them up.

00:34:20.320 One of the biggest problems is even if you pick them up, you know, the guys you saw yesterday that we got,

00:34:25.220 they aren't immediately sent out of the country.

00:34:27.560 Most of the time, if they get sent out, they get deported, it'll take about 60 days.

00:34:32.280 But we even have judges that'll protect these guys, known MS-13 members, known Tren de Aragua members,

00:34:40.220 and they're protecting them, saying, well, if we send them back, they might be mistreated in their home country.

00:34:45.900 Bukele might mistreat this MS-13 member if he gets sent back.

00:34:50.340 And so, I mean, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the tens of millions of illegals we have right now.

00:34:58.280 God bless our ICE guys.

00:34:59.860 God bless everybody who goes out there every single day.

00:35:02.460 But no, it's not enough.

00:35:03.660 It's not enough to stop the bleeding, stop the self-destruction of our own country,

00:35:10.140 the suicide that the Democrats have put us on until we get the Justice Department to go after the sanctuary communities,

00:35:17.040 prosecute some of their sanctuary jurisdictions, and defund them, and then start mass deportations.

00:35:24.280 It's, you know, four years from now, it'll look like nothing happened.

00:35:27.700 Let me get, is Benzman up?

00:35:33.640 Let me get Benzman in here with Ben, because you've got people, this is expensive.

00:35:38.280 You've got people putting themselves in harm's way.

00:35:40.120 I think we need to highlight more of these judges.

00:35:42.580 You've seen this in the past.

00:35:44.220 Benzman, what's the situation?

00:35:46.060 What can Pam do about it? 1.00

00:35:47.640 Look, the resistance, they're hitting us on every side, right?

00:35:50.920 We see this on everything President Trump's trying to effectuate,

00:35:53.620 everything that Elon Musk and the team at Doge are trying to effectuate.

00:35:56.560 They're going to federal court, they're trying to chop blockers, they're trying to slow down,

00:36:00.480 they're trying to stop momentum, they're trying to stop muzzle velocity, muzzle velocity,

00:36:05.040 the kind of thing that drives, you know, you're able to get through and accomplish things and get things done.

00:36:11.000 You can see this on the deportations right out of the box.

00:36:14.940 What can be done, Benzman?

00:36:17.260 Well, they just have to keep grinding on in those blue jurisdictions, just like they have, 0.99

00:36:23.840 but they need to ramp up detention space.

00:36:27.760 And they need to have intelligence and they need to access databases of local law enforcements

00:36:34.380 and also DHS databases to figure out where people might be,

00:36:40.240 because they're being released, as Ben just said.

00:36:43.240 So it makes it harder.

00:36:44.460 So you just need better intel, better strategy, better tactic, and more infrastructure.

00:36:52.340 You know, some of these guys, they've had to release 300 or 400 of them

00:36:55.280 just because they didn't have bed space where they were.

00:36:58.980 And that's going to take a little bit of time.

00:37:00.860 They're working hard to get more bed space.

00:37:03.280 It's that simple sometimes.

00:37:05.520 Infrastructure.

00:37:07.620 Tactics.

00:37:08.060 But if Pritzker – hang on for a second.

00:37:11.260 If Pritzker – you talk about getting data and getting access.

00:37:14.280 So, Burkwam, if Pritzker's – if Pritzker's – he's already out there.

00:37:18.720 He's telling you – and he's running on 2028 on this.

00:37:21.500 He says you're not touching a guy in a state prison in Illinois.

00:37:25.220 Johnson's – Mayor Johnson's up in your grill of the sanctuary city of Chicago.

00:37:28.620 Hell, the state legislature in California is passing a $50 million bill to fight Trump on anything.

00:37:34.020 And the big thing is this – is the – and they want all this money to redo the Palisades,

00:37:38.340 but they're going to remain a sanctuary city in L.A. and San Francisco.

00:37:42.040 Burkwam, the attitude of people inside, when are we going to get tough and say, 1.00

00:37:46.640 hey, here's the problem.

00:37:48.360 We're going to arrest Pritzker and Johnson and the guys at the prisons or wherever,

00:37:53.140 you know, the authorities, whoever doesn't turn these people over, give us the data, guess what?

00:37:57.120 Cuff them and take them off because then you'll send a signal, sir.

00:38:00.560 Yeah, yeah, and you'll save millions and millions.

00:38:04.620 You talk about saving money, USAID wasting all this money on inviting the invasion

00:38:09.580 and paying for basket weaving in Guatemala.

00:38:11.740 But you want to talk about saving some money, not having to go out and track these guys down

00:38:16.240 in their home communities, not having to do what we're doing, you know,

00:38:19.260 getting a dozen of these guys in an operation where you spend $20 million.

00:38:23.200 You're going to save a ton of money if you can simply pick them up in the jails,

00:38:26.380 and that issue has to be forced.

00:38:28.020 To Todd's point, a lot of that information is there.

00:38:31.800 So there is, constitutionally, there's federalism where the jails have to share some information

00:38:37.100 about the inmates they have incarcerated.

00:38:39.140 But that doesn't mean that they have to cooperate with ICE detainers.

00:38:42.500 There hasn't been a fight there yet.

00:38:44.180 And I think this is where Emil Bove comes in and says, we have to take this.

00:38:49.200 This is a federal jurisdiction issue, and we have to take this and force their hand.

00:38:53.780 And ultimately, it's Pam Bondi going in, and as you said, I don't know if they're going

00:38:57.960 to arrest Pritzker.

00:38:58.960 I sure as hell would love to see it.

00:39:00.380 I don't know if they're going to arrest Johnson.

00:39:02.020 But what I do think they can do is just simply go into the prisons and say, we're taking these

00:39:06.680 guys.

00:39:07.100 You're not releasing them.

00:39:08.480 And force those jurisdictions to fight them back in the federal courts.

00:39:13.140 The bigger problem, though, is, again, we're talking about tens of millions of dollars

00:39:17.220 to capture a handful of guys.

00:39:20.880 The scale that we're talking about having to deal with, when the American people talk

00:39:24.880 about mass deportations, you know, they think we're talking 10 million people.

00:39:29.600 There's just no possible way under the current rules of engagement, under these current administrative

00:39:34.640 warrants, the way they're being processed, you know, where you knock on a door and all

00:39:38.400 of these guys have been coached by the Catholic charities and all of these other NGOs that are

00:39:43.060 also paid for by USAID, that they simply don't have to open the doors.

00:39:47.040 It's not going to cut it.

00:39:48.080 So we've got to do criminal warrants.

00:39:49.660 We've got to get away from these administrative warrants.

00:39:51.780 And we've got to be able to pick these guys up in jail. 0.98

00:39:53.780 So ultimately, it really does come down to the Justice Department saying, screw you guys. 0.97

00:39:58.440 We're coming in. 0.99

00:39:59.200 We're taking the bad guys.

00:40:00.340 Get in our way.

00:40:00.860 And we're going to arrest you.

00:40:01.680 I mean, until we do that, it's, you know, again, it's good that we're doing what we're

00:40:06.620 doing.

00:40:07.060 We're just wasting a hell of a lot of money doing it.

00:40:09.320 Ben, Ben's been your thoughts about this.

00:40:14.100 Is this what has to do you agree with Ben Berkwam?

00:40:16.880 This has to happen this way that we got to, you know, get back to justice and kind of rethink

00:40:20.800 this thing.

00:40:22.800 Yeah.

00:40:23.240 And I think that there are also some tools.

00:40:25.440 I mean, you mentioned a couple of them.

00:40:27.600 You know, it's not beyond the pale that there could be an arrest of an elected official

00:40:33.440 somewhere.

00:40:33.920 It was interesting to me that there was an assistant attorney general present in, I believe

00:40:40.360 it was Chicago, on some of the ICE raids, just kind of overviewing what was going on.

00:40:46.840 You're not going to have an assistant AG out there for any other reason than to contemplate

00:40:53.080 who can I arrest?

00:40:54.280 What are my authorities out here?

00:40:56.360 What are they doing to get in the way?

00:40:58.580 And also, we're already starting to see, you know, serious talk and probably to be followed

00:41:06.240 soon by action of cutting government grants to these blue cities and making them pay for

00:41:14.140 it that way.

00:41:15.620 So I think there's a little bit more, you know, some more string to pull on those kind

00:41:21.820 of tactics as well.

00:41:23.320 But I agree.

00:41:24.220 It's expensive the way they're making them do it, but it's got to be done.

00:41:28.800 Like Hohman said one time, you know, what price do you put on national security?

00:41:35.140 Well, speaking of national security, I know you're doing a summary and it's going to come

00:41:39.260 out, I think, tomorrow.

00:41:40.420 Talk to me about the cartels, Mexico, kinetic activity.

00:41:45.340 The audience was all jacked up yesterday about what you're talking about.

00:41:48.780 Is this going to be real or are we going to take the fight?

00:41:51.160 Are we going to take the torch to the enemy down there?

00:41:54.220 I mean, here's what's going on.

00:41:55.520 You have the Mexican, the 10,000 troops that Trump leveraged out of his tariff threat that

00:42:03.300 are deploying right now in places like Tijuana and Juarez, and they're going to be deploying

00:42:08.540 all over.

00:42:09.280 They're putting them right.

00:42:11.080 And the purpose of this is to stop the drug smuggling and officially to dismantle the drug

00:42:19.300 cartels that are moving fentanyl.

00:42:21.120 That is unlike any other Mexican deployment that I've seen, and I've seen a few of them

00:42:27.960 now.

00:42:28.820 They're putting them right in the smuggling lanes, right in the middle between the cartels

00:42:33.980 and our border, right there.

00:42:37.580 And remember, those cartels have been, you know, cashing in and that cash cow is dead now

00:42:43.840 because on the human smuggling, there's hardly anybody coming across there.

00:42:48.480 You know, we've got the border pretty well hermetically sealed, got to keep the pressure

00:42:52.640 on in every possible way.

00:42:54.940 But that really hit those cartels in the pocketbook like you wouldn't believe.

00:43:00.100 They were making sometimes more money than they were on drugs out of that.

00:43:04.720 And now that's gone.

00:43:06.480 The only thing they have left now is fentanyl and drugs.

00:43:10.240 And now you've got Mexican military guys getting right in between them. 0.58

00:43:14.560 And back of them are the U.S. Marines with, you know, Reapers and all kinds of surveillance

00:43:20.500 stuff.

00:43:21.640 So I think things are going to go kinetic.

00:43:23.920 I have a source that's a really good source.

00:43:27.020 I'm not going to obviously say it is.

00:43:28.760 It's telling me that there is tabletop planning right now for the immediate future to using

00:43:36.340 U.S. intelligence and certain Mexican units to go kinetic on narcotics depots, on fentanyl

00:43:45.760 labs and places like that.

00:43:48.200 When that happens, I mean, get ready.

00:43:50.660 There's going to be fireworks.

00:43:51.960 That's just that.

00:43:52.620 These cartels are money hungry. 0.89

00:43:54.660 They're brazen.

00:43:56.300 They're incredibly well armed from, you know, making billions and billions of dollars on

00:44:02.240 the human smuggling for four years.

00:44:04.080 What do you think they did with that money?

00:44:05.780 They invested it in arms and they are armed up to the teeth.

00:44:10.220 And they're not going to just sit back there and let and lose their drug business.

00:44:14.380 They're not without a fight.

00:44:16.080 So I anticipate some fireworks.

00:44:19.220 This is I want to make sure our staff pulls this.

00:44:21.720 This is big breaking news.

00:44:22.900 The source is telling you there were preparations are underway to potentially go kinetic and

00:44:27.760 do it in the short term.

00:44:29.520 Ben, I know you're writing that.

00:44:30.680 Burquam, you spent time down there.

00:44:32.960 If it goes kinetic with the Mexican military, the Mexican Marines, all that, and maybe a little

00:44:39.020 help by guys like us north of the border, how huge is that going to be in northern Mexico,

00:44:48.960 sir?

00:44:49.100 Well, it'll be all across Mexico.

00:44:52.960 Obviously, you know, some of these guys are their headquarters are all over, but it'll

00:44:57.020 be big.

00:44:57.500 I mean, I do a lot of traveling to Mexico and I'll probably avoid that for a little while

00:45:02.480 unless we're in an armed entourage, because these guys, as Todd said, they're not going

00:45:07.040 to go quietly.

00:45:07.620 And, you know, it'll be the soft targets that'll be real easy for these two guys to go after.

00:45:13.020 So we think they're terrorists now.

00:45:15.580 Wait till they start picking off civilians and and taking advantage of the soft targets.

00:45:22.040 And then the other side of that is on the U.S. side.

00:45:24.180 You know, every one of these cartels we're talking about has U.S. operations as well.

00:45:28.320 So this is going to be not if they go kinetic in Mexico, it's going to be kinetic in the

00:45:32.440 U.S. as well.

00:45:33.300 And there's going to be repercussions all over the place.

00:45:35.280 So this is a lot of fight that's a long time coming.

00:45:38.480 And I think we're just we've barely scratched the surface of how bad it and how violent

00:45:43.180 it's going to get.

00:45:43.900 And again, all preventable, all 100 percent preventable and all driven by leftists who

00:45:50.700 have sold this country out.

00:45:51.960 And and unfortunately, people on our side who were just asleep at the wheel until President

00:45:55.740 Trump came.

00:45:59.040 Ben, where do people go to get your new special?

00:46:01.460 All that you're reporting, it's been incredible.

00:46:02.980 Where do people go?

00:46:05.920 America's Voice, everything has been releasing.

00:46:08.560 We're doing a lot of editing to protect people's identities as we're doing this.

00:46:11.840 But everything's on social media at America's Voice on X on Instagram.

00:46:16.560 And then our next episodes of Law and Border will be on America's Voice dot news.

00:46:19.880 We're working on those as we speak in the next few weeks.

00:46:22.180 We'll be getting those out in my social media at Ben Burkwam as well.

00:46:25.340 And then Frontline America dot com.

00:46:29.400 Thank you, brother.

00:46:30.460 Stay safe.

00:46:31.820 Yes, sir.

00:46:32.780 Yes, sir.

00:46:33.260 Oscar Blue Ramirez, Ben's whole team.

00:46:35.120 Very brave.

00:46:36.000 Ben's before I let you go.

00:46:37.220 Burkwam just said, hey, look, don't think it's going to stay in Mexico or northern Mexico.

00:46:40.900 It'll blow back across here because the cartels are deeply embedded from the Rio Grande Valley to South Texas, Arizona, up to Chicago, Dallas, all over.

00:46:51.020 Every town's a border town.

00:46:53.080 Every state's a border state, sir.

00:46:55.320 Thoughts?

00:46:56.660 Yeah, I agree.

00:46:57.960 My first experience covering the border was from 2006 to 2009, and that was Calderon's war on the cartel.

00:47:07.500 That's the last time we had a real war in Mexico, and it did spill across the border.

00:47:14.840 I covered it for three years straight on both sides of the border, and it was nasty, ugly, horrible.

00:47:21.280 I mean, you know, torture houses.

00:47:23.980 The cartels were fighting the Mexican Marines and each other, and they were spilling over onto the U.S. side.

00:47:31.860 They were killing people on this side that thought were snitches.

00:47:34.820 We were fighting headless bodies.

00:47:37.480 All sorts of that kind of stuff can happen on this side as well.

00:47:42.080 Homan was out today.

00:47:43.180 He was asked, I think it was ABC News, said, you know, what's going to be the American reaction if, you know, those cartels try to attack Americans? 0.99

00:47:54.520 And, you know, Homan said, you know, he's a madman. 0.97

00:47:57.620 He's going to go crazy on those cartels. 0.97

00:47:59.980 It's going to go, you know, big-time kinetic.

00:48:02.340 I don't know if that's actually going to happen, but I think there's a reason why he's messaging.

00:48:08.100 I don't know.

00:48:09.240 I wouldn't cross Homan, and I wouldn't cross Miller, and I certainly would not cross a guy named Donald J. Trump.

00:48:15.360 We've got to bounce.

00:48:16.040 Benzman, I know you're working on this big story.

00:48:17.860 We want to have you back on when it's up because you've got a massive scoop there, sir.

00:48:22.740 Where do people go to track you on social media?

00:48:26.480 Yeah, go to BenzmanTodd at X.

00:48:30.240 I'm at Getter, and I'm at Truth Social.

00:48:33.460 Those are the main things.

00:48:34.660 ToddBenzman.com if you want to sign up for my free newsletter.

00:48:38.100 Thank you, sir.

00:48:41.160 Appreciate you.

00:48:42.180 Benzman saying we're going to Kinetic.

00:48:44.680 He's got it from the top.

00:48:46.520 Catherine, we've got to bounce.

00:48:48.060 Tell me about you can't go in because you've got to run the company.

00:48:51.900 We understand that.

00:48:52.660 Tell me about the company.

00:48:53.440 Give me a minute on a special.

00:48:55.380 What do you got for us?

00:48:57.940 Thanks, Steve.

00:48:58.680 Yeah, I mean, I'm out here in D.C., but I have my company out in Wyoming.

00:49:04.000 It's Merriweather Farms.

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00:49:06.940 We do have a burger blowout running.

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00:49:19.680 So get it while it lasts.

00:49:21.760 And then if you're interested in other products, use code USAID for 10% off site-wide, Steve.

00:49:30.580 You like what I did there.

00:49:36.320 One more time.

00:49:36.960 Where do they go?

00:49:38.080 And I love it.

00:49:39.520 I love it.

00:49:40.020 Show me the sign again.

00:49:40.940 Can you show me the sign again?

00:49:42.120 What's the signage?

00:49:42.940 Oh, this one?

00:49:44.380 This one?

00:49:45.560 Hot Girls E-Peef.

00:49:47.260 Yes.

00:49:47.500 That's right.

00:49:48.120 That's what they do.

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00:49:52.240 They do.

00:49:53.340 And Merriweather Farms.

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00:49:55.200 Where do they go?

00:49:55.660 What's the special?

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00:50:09.880 Thanks, Steve.

00:50:11.540 What a heckle. 0.99

00:50:12.900 What a heckle. 0.99

00:50:13.660 Love you, girl.

00:50:14.540 Keep fighting.

00:50:15.580 Love you, too, Steve.

00:50:16.440 Thanks.

00:50:16.620 She's one of the best.

00:50:17.200 One of those new generation of fighters.

00:50:18.780 She's great.

00:50:19.640 Total heckle.

00:50:20.460 Love it.

00:50:22.220 Let's go to the—I don't want to identify the island in the South Pacific.

00:50:25.500 Let's go to the—your dad's, I think, gone by there in a ship before, I think, maybe.

00:50:30.440 Mo Bannon, finishing your birthday trip and returning back to join us this week in a big event we've got at Harvard.

00:50:38.240 How's it been, ma'am?

00:50:40.360 It's been great here.

00:50:41.620 A very relaxing birthday trip, but I don't want the War Room Posse to think that I took any time off because there's no time off in the War Room.

00:50:48.580 So I have been working while I've been here in the South Pacific.

00:50:53.300 But I want to remind everyone that CPAC—

00:50:57.500 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:50:58.460 You've been working.

00:50:59.340 I've been lighting you up.

00:51:00.480 I've been lighting you up all hours of the night.

00:51:02.720 Hey, is this done?

00:51:03.580 Is this done?

00:51:04.260 No.

00:51:05.380 Mo's putting in a good 12-, 14-hour day.

00:51:08.120 But in the sun.

00:51:09.180 Behind the—and I'm five hours behind the East Coast.

00:51:11.880 So while I will come home with a tan while everyone else is enjoying the 30-some degree weather back on the East Coast.

00:51:21.780 But I encourage everyone to, if you have not gotten your tickets for CPAC, go to CPAC.org slash War Room to get your tickets.

00:51:30.920 The War Room Posse gets 20% off.

00:51:33.160 Your tickets are $76.

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00:52:01.680 I will be back just in time to hear you speak at Harvard and then also for CPAC.

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00:52:15.400 CPAC's $76.

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00:52:18.660 They want as many War Room Posse members, and we're going to make it the day before, and we're throwing in a free lunch.

00:52:24.460 We're going to spend the whole day, maybe even do a gonzo war room in the morning right there with audience participation.

00:52:30.600 Audience participation is the whole thing at CPAC.

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00:52:33.520 All of us are going to be there.

00:52:35.560 It's going to be amazing.

00:52:36.980 We're actually going to be in a special space this year so we can kind of – they've had noise complaints of the War Room Posse.

00:52:42.620 I'm so shocked.

00:52:43.840 I'm shocked that the Posse gets there and gets a little loud.

00:52:46.100 And that's the morning show.

00:52:47.700 Now you're going to start drinking at night.

00:52:50.000 Mo, social media, where do people get you, ma'am?

00:52:53.000 You can get me on Twitter and get her at Maureen underscore Bannon and also on Instagram at RealMaureenBannon.

00:52:59.540 And maybe I'll bring this view back with me to the East Coast so maybe we can have this view on a green screen at the Force Multiplier Academy.

00:53:09.200 We need it.

00:53:10.800 We'll see you tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time in the War Room.

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Bannon's War Room - February 07, 2025

WarRoom Battleground EP 702： Asleep At The Wheel While The Country Is Overrun

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