Bannon's War Room - April 28, 2025


WarRoom Battleground EP 756: CCP's Ties With Elite Education


Episode Stats

Length

55 minutes

Words per Minute

172.59195

Word Count

9,554

Sentence Count

632

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

20


Summary

Natalie Winters joins us from the White House to talk about the growing relationship between China and the U.S. military and intelligence services, including China's relationship with Harvard University and the Chinese Communist Party, and the relationship with the Chinese government.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:00:18.960 Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:00:24.280 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:00:28.460 The people have had a belly full of it.
00:00:30.540 I know you don't like hearing that.
00:00:31.940 I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that,
00:00:33.660 but you're not going to stop it.
00:00:34.600 It's going to happen.
00:00:35.880 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:00:39.260 MAGA Media.
00:00:40.600 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:46.020 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:49.800 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:55.460 Save.
00:00:56.060 War Room.
00:00:57.040 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:01:04.680 It's Monday, 28 April, Year of the Lord, 2025.
00:01:08.320 Natalie Winters joins us from the White House.
00:01:10.480 Natalie, I think momentarily we may be getting a feed.
00:01:13.560 So I think we may be jumping into the old form of maybe a press avail.
00:01:16.780 We may be seeing it already on tape.
00:01:18.580 We'll figure it out.
00:01:19.240 But we just had Robert O'Brien, you know him, the national security virus, the last one for President Trump,
00:01:25.480 talking about India, the Chinese Communist Party.
00:01:28.300 I had an interview today with Steve Inscape of NPR,
00:01:31.880 and I kind of went off on the fact that at these universities,
00:01:34.520 I don't think we're being tough enough with about the 350,000 Chinese national students that are here,
00:01:40.280 the additional personnel they have in the national weapons labs.
00:01:43.500 And some of these labs are paying for, for research, have Chinese nationals here.
00:01:48.240 What are your thoughts about this situation at Harvard, ma'am?
00:01:52.520 Well, look, I think whenever we talk about Chinese Communist Party, foreign infiltration ops,
00:01:56.900 there's obviously a lot of focus on how they try to abstain from things turning kinetic,
00:02:01.140 because they say if you turn it kinetic, you've essentially already lost.
00:02:04.240 But I think what the important part is what you're really getting at,
00:02:06.800 what I think we're seeing going on, or at least what we saw at the southern border,
00:02:09.460 and even today I'd flag what's going on in the South China Sea, right?
00:02:12.640 China planting a flag on a Philippine island, just a dispute going on there.
00:02:17.520 I believe Sandy Kay is the name of it.
00:02:19.640 But you're seeing this fusion, I think, between their sort of typical tactics
00:02:23.560 when it comes to the theaters of war, right?
00:02:25.360 More in the information, economic, psychological, lawfare.
00:02:29.000 That's, of course, their three-warfares doctrine.
00:02:30.820 But you're almost seeing this convergence of it becoming kinetic in this sort of roundabout way.
00:02:36.040 And Harvard, I think, is a perfect example of how the American people,
00:02:39.880 it's not just that they're being misled, but they're being intentionally, I think, deceived,
00:02:44.120 not exactly by the Chinese Communist Party, but by the American experts that they're sort of propping up.
00:02:49.720 They have a name for it.
00:02:50.440 It's called the Borrowed Boat Strategy.
00:02:52.080 But they like to launder their narratives, their talking points through Westerners,
00:02:55.840 through trusted American, shall I say, media outlets like the ones that I'm standing by.
00:03:00.320 But Harvard is a perfect example, as a, at least in the CCP worldview,
00:03:04.340 of being an elite institution carrying some weight, some class in terms of influencing American political discourse.
00:03:10.720 They have collaborated with one of the premier United Front Work Department organizations
00:03:15.560 by the name of the China United States Exchange Foundation.
00:03:19.560 Now, the United Front Work Department is the very systematic and calculated political warfare operation
00:03:25.260 that emanates out of Beijing to the tune of billions of dollars.
00:03:28.960 Think Hunter Biden, but on an industrial scale.
00:03:32.480 And I know we'd like to talk about a lot of these universities collaborating with the Chinese Communist Party
00:03:36.680 like it's a thing of the past, right?
00:03:38.840 The Confucius Institutes were shuttered under President Trump.
00:03:41.620 They still have the CSSAs.
00:03:43.080 That's the Chinese Students and Scholars Association,
00:03:45.420 which is where there's more direct espionage efforts going on.
00:03:48.760 But just two weeks ago, if you can believe it, Harvard and actually Columbia
00:03:52.380 were having their sort of annual China conference.
00:03:55.920 It's the Harvard College China Conference.
00:03:58.020 It was April 14th.
00:04:00.240 And guess who not only what their closing speaker was,
00:04:02.840 but who their main partner in terms of sponsoring this event was?
00:04:06.400 None other than QSEF.
00:04:08.520 Now, just to go back real quick, QSEF has a very long pattern of collaborating,
00:04:12.960 particularly with Harvard, also UChicago, a lot of America's top universities,
00:04:17.620 in terms of flying students overseas, training them, having them meet,
00:04:21.120 in some cases even with PLA officials, touring Huawei offices, meeting with sanctioned companies
00:04:26.780 like Hikvision, Huawei, DJI drones.
00:04:30.000 It really is a horrible program and tactic that they use to co-opt a lot of these Western elites.
00:04:35.880 But I think the important point is that in the same world in which our taxpayer dollars
00:04:40.180 are going to subsidize Harvard University, they're concurrently taking billions of dollars.
00:04:45.420 And the disclosure is such that you'll never really know.
00:04:48.040 It's sort of the, you know, counter to, I guess, the act blue dark money, but it's by design.
00:04:52.780 But the Chinese Communist Party is still, as of two weeks ago, publicly sponsoring events
00:04:58.040 with Harvard College.
00:04:59.460 And they also do the Harvard Kennedy School Conference, too.
00:05:01.840 But it's so blatantly in your face.
00:05:03.740 And frankly, Steve, the buried lead is that it's so in your face.
00:05:06.860 That means that they know they've bought off the highest, the upper echelons of the United
00:05:11.060 States, of our society, that they can get away with doing it.
00:05:15.400 Now, when I talk about banning the students, Harvard's addicted to two things, maybe three
00:05:23.420 things, but definitely two things.
00:05:24.760 U.S. federal taxpayer money to keep different programs going.
00:05:29.140 Chinese Communist Party, massive infusion of cash, right, from programs, and probably Qatar.
00:05:34.720 However, I sent you that piece today.
00:05:36.520 There's a study out that says, is it $29 billion, the Chinese Communist Party in Qatar alone,
00:05:43.280 those two have put with major U.S. universities?
00:05:47.300 Our universities that used to be some of the most cherished institutions in our countries
00:05:52.040 are no longer American institutions.
00:05:54.620 This is why at Columbia you had 60% foreign students.
00:05:57.920 That stuff's got to end.
00:06:00.160 Federal money's got to stop right now.
00:06:01.740 They've got to purge these faculties.
00:06:03.040 They've got to purge the—and anybody that's a collaborator with the Chinese Communist Party
00:06:07.040 has got to go.
00:06:08.380 All the kids—and some of these kids are innocent, the Chinese national kids, but right
00:06:12.700 now, while they've got to sign that pledge, they have to report every 30 days.
00:06:15.920 For right now, they've got to go, all of them.
00:06:18.880 And you've got to open those slots up for American kids.
00:06:21.840 We've got to cut the money off from the Chinese.
00:06:23.540 The Chinese Communist Party, we're in an economic war with them right now.
00:06:27.000 Now, that sandbar that people—you know, the mainstream, oh, it's just a sandbar.
00:06:31.200 They are laying a stake to one of the islands as small as the sandbar or a toll
00:06:36.720 to make a statement against the Philippines that they're in charge of the South China Sea.
00:06:43.000 And you've got the, what, nine-dotted—the nine-dotted, you know, map or chart
00:06:48.280 that shows it's an inland sea to mainland China.
00:06:52.680 This thing's rolling hard.
00:06:54.780 And President Trump, you said it perfectly, the Sun Tzu part, if they have to go kinetic,
00:06:58.440 they think they've lost, so they're going to do everything else except kinetic.
00:07:02.740 And the thing they do most is that they know the foreign leaders can be bribed and bought off.
00:07:08.680 Natalie, it's a pretty sorry state of affairs.
00:07:11.140 Not only are the American elites can be bought off, they can be bought off pretty cheaply,
00:07:16.680 can they not, ma'am?
00:07:17.400 Yeah, I mean, I think the whole Confucius Institute issue is sort of the limited hangout version
00:07:23.880 in terms of what is going on on these college campuses.
00:07:26.880 But I think if you even extrapolate more broadly what you're talking about, which I agree,
00:07:30.560 we've been at economic war with them.
00:07:31.960 If not, I would say veering into the territory of kinetic warfare for a very long time.
00:07:36.520 But even if you take away, if you say, OK, maybe these students aren't affiliated directly
00:07:40.040 with the Chinese Communist Party, but table that for a second, we still shouldn't be educating
00:07:45.180 and training and imparting, let alone a country with a history, repeated history at that of
00:07:49.440 intellectual property theft and industrial espionage, with the secrets, with the trades,
00:07:54.900 with industry, with tips, with the brightest, though I don't know if the professors at Harvard
00:07:58.300 are necessarily the brightest, but we should not be educating the very people who will then
00:08:01.940 be competing with American companies, maybe in the boardrooms, but also maybe when it comes
00:08:06.260 to a battlefield.
00:08:06.960 And to that point, I think people don't understand that what the Chinese Communist Party is doing
00:08:13.820 in every facet of American society, I mean, to call it war is an understatement.
00:08:18.740 If you read their military doctrine, which people recall, this is what I got my start in in terms
00:08:22.960 of the investigative reporting, they have very, very calculated, the most heavily cited quote
00:08:29.120 throughout their military doctrine is to subdue, the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy
00:08:34.000 without fighting. And that three warfares doctrine that I was talking about, it's psychological
00:08:38.540 warfare, media warfare, and lawfare. And all of that together is how China has, I would argue,
00:08:44.300 essentially taken over at least the Achilles heel of the United States, which is our ruling class.
00:08:50.500 But I just don't think that the people who are messaging on China, right, in the legacy media,
00:08:55.620 they will never understand the threat, partly because they're paid off, and we've exposed
00:09:00.120 time and time again, the trips that they've paid to take these journalists on in exchange for
00:09:04.860 favorable coverage. But the key point that I would make, too, for anyone who thinks it's so imperative
00:09:09.540 that we somehow replace the people who are going to, you know, replace your children or eventually go
00:09:15.340 to war with us, any company, any business, any person, anybody who is even tangentially linked
00:09:21.680 to China is Chinese to the Chinese Communist Party. They're subject to Article 7 of China's national
00:09:27.340 intelligence law, which stipulates that at any moment, for any purpose, for any reason, very
00:09:32.080 broad scope there, under essentially any purview, they can be requisitioned by the state, by Chinese
00:09:37.920 Ministry of Intelligence, by their spy services, to do whatever the Chinese Communist Party can please.
00:09:44.080 And if you know that that's a thing, I have no idea why you would be importing to the tune of hundreds
00:09:48.460 of thousands of foreign students onto these college campuses, where you see it time and time again,
00:09:53.940 people being indicted, arrested for stealing research secrets, for not disclosing that
00:09:58.420 they're being funded by the Chinese Communist Party. And your previous guest, Robert O'Brien,
00:10:03.300 what he really did that was so revolutionary during Trump one was that he really focused on enforcing
00:10:09.520 Farrah and overhauling that and using that as sort of a touchstone or at least a guiding light
00:10:14.860 to go after what are the, as we speak, active 200 plus registered foreign agents on behalf of the
00:10:22.160 Chinese Communist Party. When we talk about the lobbying firms and the law firms, part of the way
00:10:27.680 that China has been able to co-opt the city is that explicitly tied to whether it's Beijing
00:10:34.000 municipal services or Shanghai, name your city, these cities will retain Western law firms or lobbying
00:10:40.020 firms, the ones on K Street that I'm not too far from, and they'll lobby for them for sort of, you know,
00:10:44.440 meaningless, paltry issues. But the real point is that they're on the payroll. Not only are they probably
00:10:49.700 hacking all their devices, but they are then for all the rest of the American and Western corporate
00:10:53.740 clients that they're working on behalf of, they're not going to compromise or come after the clients
00:10:58.280 who are also paying them. I think one of the most staggering and stunning statistics from the
00:11:02.860 entirety of Trump one was when they classified, it was over, I believe, 25 Chinese companies as
00:11:08.840 military collaborators, which, you know, military civil fusion, it's not just an industry thing. It's a
00:11:14.080 science thing. We know the Wuhan Institute of Virology. But of those 20, 25 companies, four or
00:11:20.020 five of them had active Western lobbyists working on their behalf, trying to get them government
00:11:25.740 contracts, trying to, you know, protect their image in the Western press. That's, if you extrapolate
00:11:31.420 that out to every Chinese company, that's extremely damaging. But all of this stuff is very well
00:11:36.820 rehearsed. And I think that most people are really naive. Yes. Hang on. I want to make sure
00:11:42.340 the audience gets a full impact of this. They're lobbying to get U.S. government contracts. Think
00:11:48.780 about that for a second, folks. As if your pension fund hasn't been the private equity and hedge fund
00:11:55.280 money that shipped the jobs over there, that your tax money is not keeping this madness going,
00:12:00.280 that they have retained lobbyists to get government defense contracts. I mean, it's insane. You can't
00:12:09.280 say, I mean, they're at a war with us. They must think we're idiots. We fund it. We let them steal the
00:12:14.560 technology, or we train them up in it, or we just look the other way. If our companies, to get access
00:12:21.440 to their market, have to form joint ventures, the first thing they have to dump in is their
00:12:25.580 intellectual property. I mean, it's open season on the Americans. Explain just as a tutorial. Just go
00:12:32.200 back. Explain to folks, when you say a United Front entity or United Front effort, what does United
00:12:38.300 Front mean? Sure. So this is actually a branch. It's led by the Chinese People's Political Consultative
00:12:46.420 Conference. So this group oversees their foreign outreach efforts, not just limited to the United
00:12:51.900 States, and not even limited to the Western world. It's sort of, I would say, the political
00:12:56.340 institutionalization of what they attempted to do with the Belt and Road, the 140-plus countries that
00:13:02.820 signed on to that. That was using infrastructure and ports as leverage. The United Front Work
00:13:07.320 Department uses business deals, putting spouses on the payroll, in some cases blackmail, trips to China.
00:13:13.500 But a lot of these very euphemistic-sounding organizations, a lot of various city-level
00:13:18.800 federation for return Chinese overseas, the whole sister cities scam, the Chinese Association for
00:13:25.320 International and Friendly Contact, the Chinese People's Association for Foreign Contact. They have
00:13:30.640 these very innocuous but funny-sounding names, but they're very calculated. And I would say just my
00:13:36.560 overview, having tracked this stuff, people can probably tell I geek out on this, but in the early
00:13:41.960 2000s, like after they joined the WTO and were really focusing on the economic warfare stuff,
00:13:47.640 they were very content, I would argue, with just sort of shaping and astroturfing the narrative
00:13:52.240 about what exactly constituted China's rise. And they wanted China to be looked at by the rest of
00:13:57.740 the world as a model, you know, that they were a great country, they lifted all these people out of
00:14:01.980 poverty. But post-Trump entering office, and maybe even a little before that, I think that the
00:14:08.880 influence ops sort of shifted where they were no longer content just shaping the narratives around
00:14:13.200 China. But that was when you really saw them, I think, start to do the more cultural subversion stuff
00:14:18.160 here in the West. And that's when you really get into the, you know, fifth dimension, fifth kind of
00:14:23.260 generation warfare, where by having, you know, by co-opting politicians who will push for immigration
00:14:29.200 policies that lead to an open border, you then allow military-aged Chinese males with ties to
00:14:34.240 the PLA to enter your country through that porous border. When you have lax politicians who won't
00:14:39.520 enforce agricultural laws, that's how you see China buying up farmland. That's how you see politicians
00:14:44.560 who won't call out Chinese spy balloons. That's how you co-opt an entire scientific community to give
00:14:49.060 our tax dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That's how, you know, and the list goes on,
00:14:53.760 right? Take your pick. Hollywood's a perfect example of that. And academia, going back to Harvard,
00:14:58.280 Harvard is also a perfect example of that because, you know, all of these stupid research papers and
00:15:03.640 white papers that they put out, there's no meaning to them. It's not like these researchers are sitting
00:15:08.160 around wanting to write, you know, dozens of pages about useless, woke stuff. Those are then used to
00:15:13.820 lobby members of Congress to adopt certain positions. And when the Harvard Ash Center is literally being
00:15:19.060 funded by Chinese Communist Party-owned enterprises, and in some cases, I mean, Harvard, Xi Jinping's
00:15:24.800 daughter lives in Boston and goes to Harvard. You know what I mean? It's absurd, the level of
00:15:30.860 compromise, but the boldness of it shows you how deeply embedded they actually are. I mean,
00:15:36.960 there's a person who is right now a professor emeritus or whatever at the Naval War College,
00:15:42.500 who I exposed years ago for visiting and going to the Shanghai Academy for Social Sciences,
00:15:49.180 which our own intelligence services have flagged as being the hotbed for how the Chinese Communist
00:15:55.040 Party flags and finds Western spies who will leak documents to them. And we've seen several CIA people
00:16:01.380 leak documents. They have established channels. So if a stupid, you know, Naval War professor is
00:16:08.780 able to do that and Naval War College is able to do that and get away with it, this goes all the way
00:16:14.560 to the top of society. The idea that this is just, you know, Western greed and lust for the Chinese
00:16:19.460 market, that's part of it. Maybe that works with Mark Zuckerberg, though I'd argue he's
00:16:23.680 compromised too. But this is very, very, very calculated. It's why I was able to have the
00:16:29.960 investigative career that I had at the age of 19, because there was so much to report on that no one
00:16:34.760 ever wanted to get into because they were bought off and paid for by them.
00:16:38.440 Given your professional expertise, what do you think it's going to take to put a blowtorch to this
00:16:47.500 and to rid Harvard of this bacillus, ma'am?
00:16:54.000 So I would start by Congress subpoenaing every Western lobbying firm that has worked on behalf of
00:17:00.880 a Chinese Communist Party linked company to get all the documents, to get the names of the people that
00:17:06.480 they collaborated with, the journalists that went on these trips, the think tankers, the students,
00:17:11.300 just get the names first. And then from there, I think you can kind of reverse engineer who's up to
00:17:16.640 no good. But I would have a zero tolerance policy for a lot of these people who have any affiliation
00:17:21.600 with these Chinese Communist Party United Front Work Department groups. The CCP, as I always described,
00:17:27.220 is radioactive. They're toxic. Once you are awash in their influence ops, you don't escape.
00:17:32.460 I also think that I would say I maybe perhaps disagree with DOJ's decision to
00:17:39.240 water down some of the FARA registration. I actually think FARA is an important statute.
00:17:45.020 I don't necessarily think that what it currently is is all that great. I would have reformed it
00:17:48.680 before getting it out. But I think that they should more intensely enforce FARA operations and
00:17:54.460 make these universities have to disclose their funding. I think that first and foremost and have
00:17:59.880 them make the case to the American people while they're taking and actually, believe it or not,
00:18:03.120 training leaders from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, which has orchestrated the
00:18:07.940 entire Uyghur genocide. Harvard actually has a special program where they used to invite them
00:18:12.480 over here. They would bring them, they'd let them tour the Capitol and have them meet with members of
00:18:16.880 Congress and instruct them how to be better and more efficient politicians. I'm not kidding.
00:18:21.840 I don't know about the audience, but I'm all set to say that I think Natalie is ready to go into
00:18:29.040 a cabinet position, or at least an undersecretary somewhere. We do have a, but while we got you,
00:18:35.040 Natalie, we're going to use you. Let's show, we got the clip. Let's show the clip from over the weekend.
00:18:40.540 We journalists are a lot of things. We are competitive and pushy. We are impatient. And
00:18:48.980 sometimes we think we know everything. But we're also human. We miss our families and significant
00:18:55.580 life moments in service to this job. We care deeply about accuracy and take seriously the heavy
00:19:01.460 responsibility of being stewards of the public's trust. What we are not is the opposition. What we
00:19:08.860 are not is the enemy of the people. And what we are not is the enemy of the state.
00:19:34.300 Natalie, I thought there was no comedian this year at the White House Correspondents' Dinner,
00:19:38.380 man.
00:19:40.460 Maybe I'm pro-fact checkers, because fact check, false. That's, of course, Eugene Daniels,
00:19:46.220 the, I guess, newfound MSNBC contributor who, what, accuses us of being biased despite working
00:19:50.880 for a network where a former Democrat press secretary now works. They recently did a panel
00:19:55.940 together. I'll have to clip it for you. They said some truly wild stuff. I described that dinner as
00:20:01.960 like a doomsday prepper bunker, because that's essentially what it felt like. There was a lot of
00:20:06.000 internal drama amidst the WHCA about whether or not they should actually have had the dinner given
00:20:11.480 the circumstances that we live under. But I will say my takeaway, I went to some of the events this
00:20:15.960 weekend, is that new media, I mean, we've always been strong, but we've never been stronger. And
00:20:20.980 it's quite interesting to watch the legacy media people interact with the new media. I would say much
00:20:25.680 like myself. They treat us like zoo animals. They don't know what to do with us. Maybe it's rooted in envy
00:20:31.440 because their networks are getting spun off and sold and they have no viewership. But I had some
00:20:36.740 very interesting interactions this week. But I just think that this dinner, I know I hosted the
00:20:42.360 Friday show and I made the point to our audience that this is really a victory for them. I mean,
00:20:46.480 in the same way that President Trump has commandeered the Kennedy Center, that weekend is supposed to be
00:20:51.700 something where all of my wonderful colleagues standing around me right now who are, believe me,
00:20:56.060 apoplectic over all the illegal aliens, criminal illegal aliens that have been deported. You can see the
00:21:00.660 signs behind me. I don't know if they know what to do with those. But that's a weekend that those
00:21:04.240 people are supposed to celebrate and relish in the idea that there are these journalists, right,
00:21:08.160 these pristine, untouchable pseudo-intellectuals. You took that from them. Our audience took that
00:21:13.940 from them, not just by helping President Trump get elected, but by helping shows like this, people like
00:21:18.940 you, people like me, have the platforms that we do to totally destroy and debunk their narratives.
00:21:25.120 And I just want to thank our audience and applaud our audience for having done that,
00:21:29.520 because these people are the most smug, like I said, pseudo-intellectuals you will ever meet who
00:21:33.760 think they're better than you. They have nothing but contempt for the American people. They would
00:21:37.620 scoff if we were covering the truck driver issue. They would try to find a way to bring up, who knows,
00:21:42.460 multiculturalism. But it was an important marker. This is, if you read the reports of it,
00:21:48.300 people were hugging longer than they could. They were wearing flats instead of heels. And I think that
00:21:52.740 that's quite symbolic on the, you want to talk about psychological warfare coming from the CCP?
00:21:56.720 Our audience can dish as good as they can take. And they've dished a lot against this
00:22:01.600 legacy media elite. And it's quite glorious to see them not be able to have their parties at not
00:22:07.940 just taxpayer expense, ideologically, but it's, it was great to see. And I have some funny stories.
00:22:14.840 Maybe we'll have to do an after hours edition, but me and the legacy media, it's an interesting thing.
00:22:20.720 Maybe we'll do that. A lot of them are texting me. I'm like, no,
00:22:25.720 I don't want to hang out.
00:22:28.860 Exactly. Slide into your DMs, right?
00:22:31.960 Now, I want to go back to the phrase, though, that seems to upset them and they got to have to give a
00:22:36.560 round of applause to. This is a term we came up in the early days of the first Trump administration,
00:22:43.120 when it was so obvious that everything was hand-to-hand combat.
00:22:45.680 And I really want to applaud Caroline Levitt, Susie Wiles, Taylor Bowditch, Stephen Chung,
00:22:53.740 the entire, you know, media team over there and the chief of staff for really having the strength
00:22:59.180 of purpose to kind of move these people aside and let some young fire breathers in from actually
00:23:06.520 places that have audiences and have engaged activists. The enemy of the people. You could
00:23:12.820 tell that we landed that one and that stings. They have to go and try to reinforce the fact
00:23:18.420 that we're not the enemy of the people. Now, Eugene doesn't actually make the most, you know,
00:23:24.000 he's not the most powerful speaker, but in your hanging out with this group this weekend,
00:23:29.320 is that something that stings a lot that they're now referred to as the enemy of the people?
00:23:36.580 Yeah. And I think the fact that they're using that terminology, it means that it's stuck,
00:23:40.520 right? We won. Like the fact that he says opposition, that's something that we talk about
00:23:44.680 all the time. Usually they would, they would reject that framing. Um, it's an, it's an interesting
00:23:49.620 phenomenon because though you would think that like they would detest my presence being there and hate
00:23:55.900 me, it's, it's more of like a curiosity while also thinking like you're a mental patient, like you
00:24:01.980 belong in an insane asylum. And I think the biggest interesting just thing to me, you see it sort of
00:24:08.320 in their coverage, I think of the new media, but how they even speak to me. It's like, as if they've
00:24:13.420 never talked to someone with my beliefs before, which for a white house reporter, for someone who
00:24:18.640 covers politics, that's sort of outlandish. And I'm not saying that they don't hit the campaign trail
00:24:23.180 and interview MAGA supporters, but I think that they have truly a contempt for them. They think that
00:24:28.940 they're better. They think because, you know, we didn't go to Harvard and get brainwashed by the
00:24:32.460 Chinese communist party, um, that somehow their voices matter more. And I just think that it's wild
00:24:38.220 that the new media beat is the advent of the new media beat. It's this whole thing now, right? We've been
00:24:44.620 around for a very long time. Like I meet people who don't know what war room is and it's preposterous,
00:24:50.760 right? Covering, I mean, that's malpractice in terms of being a journalist. So it's, it's an, it's a very
00:24:55.920 interesting kind of juxtaposition between two different worlds. I break it back to China. It's
00:25:02.540 like a Thucydides trap, right? You have the two competing legacy media, new media, but, um, it's,
00:25:08.300 it's weird. I do it for the audience, but please don't make me do this forever. Yeah.
00:25:13.220 One reason I still don't think they've realized that we're there permanently,
00:25:16.820 not just in this administration, but in Trump 28. And then thereafter that this new media is not
00:25:23.600 going away. We only get stronger and bigger, bigger audiences and more relevant, more scoops
00:25:27.820 every day. They're kind of on the sidelines. I don't think it's hit on them. They think you're
00:25:33.040 a curiosity. They also think you're a curiosity that's just passing through. They have not embraced
00:25:38.360 the fact that you and the people that follow you are there forever. Yes. Natalie, social media.
00:25:47.720 How do people, how do people follow you, man? Natalie G. Winters on all platforms. We'll have to find
00:25:53.480 a way to do a special episode where I tell my stories from this weekend. I met Kennedy. How's
00:25:59.040 that for a teaser? I hope you gave her, I hope you gave her the old what for, for that daily
00:26:06.680 mail thing. Anyway, we'll talk about that later. Natalie, you're the best. Keep working, girl.
00:26:11.920 Have a good one.
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00:31:35.380 Good evening. Authorities across Spain and Portugal are tonight scrambling to restore power to large
00:31:54.140 areas of their countries after one of the biggest power outages in recent history. A cyber attack has
00:32:00.600 been ruled out as the cause, with engineers instead blaming what has been called a rare atmospheric
00:32:06.100 phenomenon that could take days to fully resolve. Ashna Haranag sent this report from Madrid.
00:32:15.060 Carnage in Spain's capital. No traffic lights at this roundabout makes for an almost lawless scene
00:32:21.420 as cars and pedestrians navigate the disorder. It's a picture replicated across the country and in
00:32:27.980 Portugal too. Both nations entirely cut off from power. As the train network grounded to a halt,
00:32:36.400 some stranded passengers in Valencia walked the rest of their journeys. Railway lines deserted and
00:32:42.540 phone lines dead. By lunchtime, office workers poured onto the streets, dazed and disconnected.
00:32:49.760 We were working very well. Suddenly the computer went down. We thought it was a normal blackout as it
00:32:57.180 happens sometimes, but then we heard it was a cyber attack. This was through information through
00:33:01.900 the poor connection we had to the internet. After that, we stopped having any comms, no access to the
00:33:07.100 internet, nothing. And then came the official announcements. Travel is only advised if necessary.
00:33:13.700 State security forces have increased their presence and vigilance on the streets and roads. But for
00:33:21.640 the moment, no civil protection has been observed. As for railway traffic, it has stopped, as you know,
00:33:28.100 for the safety of passengers. Passengers wanting to travel in and out of the countries are desperate
00:33:33.760 for movement. That's simply not happening. Flights in and out are severely delayed or cancelled.
00:33:40.500 Madrid and Barcelona airports are running off contingency generators. There are queues
00:33:45.240 everywhere you look. The taxis, staff desks and check-in. People are desperate for information.
00:33:52.440 The dropout blamed on Spain's electricity grid. Portuguese grid officials say due to extreme
00:33:59.100 temperature variations in the interior of Spain, there were anomalous oscillations in the very high
00:34:05.120 voltage lines. A phenomenon known as induced atmospheric vibration. It's estimated that full
00:34:12.580 normalization of the network could take up to a week. Two countries thrown into darkness and the cause
00:34:19.640 is still up.
00:34:20.480 Okay, folks, this is seven million people in a very advanced industrial country. There's something not
00:34:31.980 right here. And I want everybody to take notes. That's why we covered it this morning as soon as I first
00:34:35.440 heard about it and got some heads up from people that this was going to be big. Dave Walsh joins us. Dave,
00:34:41.860 great job this morning. What is the mumbo jumbo, Dave, that they gave us at the end? My eyes are
00:34:48.380 crossed. What is this new term, induced what? And what are the saints caused by?
00:34:53.960 This is a phrase we have not heard before. Today's word salad from the Spanish government. Induced
00:34:59.340 atmospheric vibration caused by overheating of transmission lines due to heat from the sun,
00:35:05.460 from the atmosphere. Nothing unusual about temperatures in Spain today, actually. This is
00:35:12.480 a remarkable explanation that has never been proffered before. I have never heard of it. We
00:35:18.400 have never heard of it. But I'm telling you, it smacks of when you have a system that is now 50%
00:35:25.980 dependent, as theirs is, on variable part-time electricity sources, solar, wind, and battery
00:35:31.780 storage, mainly solar, you are vastly exposed to needing, one, the importation of huge quantities
00:35:37.400 of electricity for when you don't have those resources, which generally is like 75% of the
00:35:42.600 time. Those resources aren't prevalent in enough abundance to create power. So they do have a
00:35:48.500 massive interlink with France for nuclear power. And of course, a robust activity with Morocco
00:35:53.840 and Libya on natural gas imports to fuel their remaining gas-fired plants, which they're closing
00:35:59.720 over time. As they're also closing their nuclear plants, and they have a plan to close their last
00:36:04.480 two coal plants in the next several years, an attempt to be 80% dependent on variable electricity
00:36:10.820 generation resources, which means they'll be heavily dependent on France, Libya, and Morocco
00:36:15.200 going forward. Possibly, if they build an LNG terminal, be dependent on U.S. LNG coming in there
00:36:20.460 also. This is the risk of having an energy system for electricity that is based on a firm foundation
00:36:28.940 of variable nature-based resources, not controllable by human command, or what we call dispatchable.
00:36:36.180 And we are headed in the same direction here, in our own system.
00:36:39.780 I want to go to that. Is this part of the decarbonization effort? Are they farther along than Germany, sir?
00:36:50.060 They're in about the same place. They're about equal to Germany in the percentage of the capacity
00:36:57.800 of power generation devices installed that are renewable. Solar plus wind in Spain is now about
00:37:04.540 66% of their installed capacity and about 50% of their electricity supply. So to offset, when that's
00:37:12.020 not present, they now have massive importation of French nuclear and from their gas plants, gas coming
00:37:17.960 from Libya and Morocco to offset all the time of day, the very lengthy time of day, that this kind of
00:37:23.700 resource supplies nothing. So you've got a very unstable grid.
00:37:28.620 Yeah. I want to talk about the United States, but I want to break it down by states. I want to talk
00:37:44.620 Florida, South Carolina, and Texas. Those are about as three MAGA states as you can get.
00:37:51.240 Red-blooded Americans live there. Are we heading down a path in those three states to replicate
00:37:59.800 what Spain and Portugal have done, sir?
00:38:04.360 I'm sad to report in Texas, we're there already on an installed capacity basis. Texas is now about
00:38:10.680 55% solar, wind, and battery storage. ERCOT is the grid there. The ERCOT plan for the next five years,
00:38:18.800 assembled by all their power companies, is that the next five years will be 90% of the
00:38:24.080 new capacity additions the next five years will be solar and battery storage. Two-hour-a-day
00:38:30.320 storage, six-hour-a-day solar. So Texas will be in exactly the same place as Spain within five years.
00:38:37.440 It's almost there now. And you know, every summer, we're talking because of that on this show about
00:38:42.880 the electricity shortages imminent in the hottest days of the summer when they're just about out of
00:38:48.160 power to meet normal air conditioning demand when it's 98, 99, which happens frequently
00:38:53.680 in large parts of Texas. Normal, normal days. Running out of electricity because of you don't
00:38:59.200 have enough wind blowing late in the afternoon. And then solar power diminishes badly between five
00:39:04.000 and seven. It reduces by like 80%. But the temperatures hang in there to about 92% of peak
00:39:09.920 till about nine at night. So you get this massive risk window in Texas between five and eight o'clock
00:39:16.080 when the temperatures remain very high. But the solar, the solar concentration for power generation
00:39:21.520 gets very, very low after about 5 p.m. Here is a headed there where the Florida plan for the next 10
00:39:28.080 years is to install 30 go from 30,000 megawatts of solar grow by about 30,000 more megawatts,
00:39:36.480 and only add about 2000 megawatts of gas fired power here. So our whole plan in this state for the next
00:39:42.000 10 years is about 95% solar power, new capacity additions, and about 5% man controlled, dispatchable,
00:39:50.640 baseload, gas fired. It's horrible. We're headed the same place in cost, in cost of space, and federal
00:39:57.680 liability. Hang on, hang on. That's not horrible. That's insanity. There has to be something I don't
00:40:03.760 understand is because the new capital equipment is because it's this new thing. Why given, and particularly
00:40:10.160 now that Trump's in, and Texas is Texas, how could this possibly be? You just told me that these two
00:40:17.120 are on the path to be, and quickly to be Spain and Portugal. We know that model doesn't work.
00:40:24.000 We know it's absurd to even, we mock the Europeans for doing this. We mock the Europeans for decarbonizing
00:40:31.280 on a cult. And here's what's so upsetting about it. The people that brought on the cult of
00:40:36.640 decarbonization have totally walked away from it because it could, it can limit their ability
00:40:42.880 to build data centers and have power centers that can, that can, it can power artificial
00:40:49.200 intelligence. As soon as they see something they want more, they run to that. You don't hear any of
00:40:54.160 this nonsense, any of this crap from these people anymore because they don't want to limit the power
00:40:59.520 that they know that, that artificial intelligence has. How can the state of Texas with Abbott and how
00:41:05.120 can Florida with DeSantis and these legislatures and no offense, I don't know, two thirds of the
00:41:12.240 population is MAGA. How could this possibly going down this path, which is so obviously the road to
00:41:18.880 perdition, sir? DeSantis won't address it. He has never addressed it. He has never spoken publicly about
00:41:25.440 it, that his public service commission appointed by him has approved every single solar new capacity
00:41:32.720 plan of Duke Energy and especially next era, TECO submitted to the PSC here for the last five
00:41:38.240 years. Under all those plans, those companies are installing nothing but solar power and battery
00:41:44.000 storage. It's not, it's not a diverse energy model at all. It's one thing. It's solar and battery storage
00:41:50.080 for the next 10 years here. On top of the fact that these two companies with TECO have spent about 13
00:41:54.960 billion in the last four years on the same stuff that operates here 22% of the time. The known
00:42:01.600 capacity factor in solar here is 22% operational, 78% not. Utilities benefit from this in the following
00:42:09.440 way. The capital return on investment, they're guaranteed by the public service commission is
00:42:14.320 10.8%. The cost of this stuff has been four times more than building conventional combined cycle power
00:42:20.320 plants, gas power plants. So they win, win, win, because the capex churn, the capex investment
00:42:25.920 is so much higher on which they get their guaranteed rate of return. This is a big win for them. They
00:42:31.440 hide behind the notion of net zero decarb to defend, and they now hide behind under the prior
00:42:36.160 administration, hide behind the EPA in defending adding nothing but this stuff that because it's so
00:42:42.320 costly and so intermittent drives up electricity costs through the roof. It's gone up, power costs have
00:42:47.680 gone up. But hang on, but hang on, hang on. MAGA ain't shy about saying, hey, this is not right.
00:42:54.880 Why do I not hear rate payers? Or maybe we do and our ear's just not out. We'll give them a platform.
00:42:59.760 Why are the rate payers in Texas and in Florida, which are the two rail heads of the MAGA movement,
00:43:05.760 why are they not sitting there going, this is outrageous? We're, we're, we're being, we're being
00:43:10.000 ripped off on something. By the way, if you were doing this from something that had a longer good to
00:43:14.560 it, you could see it. This doesn't, it was clearly a hoax, phony science. And the reason I know that
00:43:19.360 is all the people that promoted it ditched it immediately when it came between them and the
00:43:24.240 ultimate power of artificial intelligence. You don't hear any of this net zero crap anymore from
00:43:29.600 the, uh, from the oligarchs. Why are the rate payers not in rebellion down in Florida and in Texas,
00:43:34.880 sir? Um, government officials here seem to think people want this year. They never cross-link the high
00:43:41.600 cost of it with, with doing this. The reality of it is never discussed in cost base by the utilities
00:43:48.240 nor government officials here. Utilities are massive pack donors to government officials here to get
00:43:54.720 elected. Utilities are the second largest donor group in the state behind insurance companies.
00:43:59.760 They control the state house, the state Senate and the governor's thinking on anything about energy
00:44:06.080 strategy. Most notoriously, Nextera. Nextera's articulated CapEx stock program for equity growth
00:44:13.600 of their firm is to be the world's largest owner of wind, solar and battery farms in the world.
00:44:19.600 That is their articulated stock hype message on Wall Street. It has served them well. So now they want
00:44:25.600 to backflip that into Florida and do the same thing here. This place is an embarrassment to them
00:44:30.480 because they just built five, six years ago, five major, huge combined cycle plants. We knew as much
00:44:36.400 about CO2 five years ago when they did that. Now they're beginning to throttle those back, run them
00:44:41.280 part-time, intermittent, up and down, up and down, making them much more inefficient to back up solar
00:44:46.480 that only operates here about 22% of the time. Now this is, it's a big money game for the utilities.
00:44:52.240 They're a massive donor. The general population, because they promote so much, uh, false information
00:44:58.400 on this stuff being kind of free, which is entirely false information by the fact that this is somehow
00:45:04.160 cheap energy. It's way not. It's four times more costly because it's so intermittent and part-time.
00:45:10.400 Texas, the same thing's been underway. There has to be a change in, and the legislature there is
00:45:15.920 considering now a requirement that half of new capacity in Texas has to be baseload, continuous
00:45:21.520 duty, human controlled. That's now under consideration in Texas. That's great news. That would help solve
00:45:27.280 this in Texas. Over here, nothing of the sorts underway. DeSantis has been duplicitous and quiet
00:45:33.520 about the whole damn thing, and has not been forthright with the people on the real cost of
00:45:37.440 this in way reduced reliability, reserve margins going way, way down, and costs going way, way up,
00:45:43.440 which they have. They have. Duke's cost here of 42% the last eight years, and about 32% in the last four
00:45:50.240 years, largely because of this, because of the nine, the eight or so billion that they have planned to put
00:45:56.720 into this, plus the three billion they put into this already, that generates almost no power.
00:46:01.280 It's very sad. It makes a lot of money. What about the great, what about the, damn right,
00:46:06.800 makes a lot of money for it because they're putting in new capex and getting, and getting,
00:46:10.640 and getting what the rate payers to pay for it with a, what guaranteed 10%. What about South,
00:46:15.520 the great state of South Carolina, another mega state, sir? South Carolina has recently extended the
00:46:21.760 life of two coal plants. The Santee Cooper generating company that's owned by the state,
00:46:26.480 very unusual model in the South. They used to have a state-owned electricity utility generation
00:46:30.640 company, has extended the life of White Plant Wina and its other large coal plant there for
00:46:36.480 five to seven years because of the power shortage. So that's good news. Now, by the way, Duke Energy
00:46:41.920 named a new president and CEO, Harry Sedaris. Great guy, great engineer, understands all this.
00:46:47.520 Within two weeks of being announced, he's announced an alliance with GE Vernova to buy
00:46:52.960 seven new advanced gas turbines. Now, we're hoping a couple of them may come here to Florida,
00:46:58.000 South North Carolina get two or three or four of those, Cincinnati get one or two of them in the
00:47:02.160 whole Duke world, and build some combined cycle continuous duty baseload power, hopefully.
00:47:08.000 At the same time, back in Florida, the chairman of Florida Power and Light of NextEra has announced
00:47:12.880 an alliance with GE Vernova to buy gas turbines for their hyperscaler clients around the country.
00:47:20.080 So here's FP&L and NextEra announcing for Florida, net zero decarb only, solar only,
00:47:25.280 but for their hyperscaler AI clients nationally, they're buying a bunch of gas turbines to feed them
00:47:31.680 24-hour-a-day cost-effective power. You talk about duplicitous kind of rhetoric from one company.
00:47:38.560 Solarize Florida, based on a net zero decarb philosophy, ruin power capacity here and reliability,
00:47:46.000 drive costs through the roof, but give hyperscalers exactly what they need, 24-hour-a-day combined
00:47:50.960 cycle gas-fired power around the country, supplied by NextEra. Just announced by that,
00:47:56.080 an alliance with GE for that purpose. Not here for ratepayers, but for their hyperscaler clients.
00:48:01.600 It's, you know, we have some awkward things going on here in this space.
00:48:08.240 Last thing, only 10% of Spain and Portugal are back online. They say it could take four
00:48:14.720 or five days. This could be very dangerous. I mean, you've got a country with seven million
00:48:19.120 people in large urban areas that have no power whatsoever, and you can tell these urban areas
00:48:24.800 are not set up for that, sir.
00:48:26.320 Well, before we connected in this forum, Texas had that happen in the winter back three years ago.
00:48:32.800 Grid loss for about close to a week in the snowmageddon of three years ago in January.
00:48:38.880 In the last three summers that we've been chatting back and forth about Texas crisis in July and August,
00:48:43.680 that comes up about every two weeks, they've been that close to losing the entire grid in Texas.
00:48:49.280 When your demand exceeds supply, you can easily lose the grid. You've got too much demand being
00:48:55.440 placed on resources, causes units to shut down, causes a reconstruction of the grid,
00:49:01.120 logic and programming to get it back up and running, can take a week to 10 days. That's a disaster.
00:49:06.960 Texas has been right on the verge of that about five times in the last two summers. Same set of issues
00:49:13.200 as here. And we haven't called it induced atmospheric vibration. It's shortage of electricity to meet demand.
00:49:20.160 So they've skated by in Texas the last two years with a lot of demand curtailment and voluntary
00:49:25.840 requests of users to scale back washers, dryers, air conditioning in the late afternoon. And that's
00:49:32.160 worked. Fortunately, that's worked. But they've been that close also to losing the grid for up to a week
00:49:37.520 or more in Texas the last two years. Because this is what happens when you lose the grid. It takes a while to
00:49:43.120 reconstruct the system. It's not physical. There's a lot of programming and interconnections to make it
00:49:48.800 re-sync and get back up and running. You don't want to lose the grid. Spain has done that. It's a complete
00:49:54.800 disaster. Dave, I know you're following this one for us. We'll talk to you tomorrow morning. Where's your
00:50:02.880 social media in the interim, sir? I appreciate the opportunity to speak about it, Steve. It's on
00:50:08.000 the XTruthSocial and getter, DaveWalshEnergy.com. Thank you.
00:50:13.440 No, when you talk about it, my head blows up. It can't. I mean, it could happen anywhere else in
00:50:18.960 the country. It could not possibly happen in Texas and Florida. But it's happening in Texas and Florida.
00:50:25.440 It just shows you. Unless you keep them honest every day of the week, you just never know, right? You
00:50:29.600 just got to do it. You got to be on top of it nonstop. The situation in Texas is out of control,
00:50:35.040 all that Texas house. Anyway, Dave Walsh, you're a great man. Thanks for doing this.
00:50:41.840 We're going to lose some of our contributors here in the next couple of weeks that are going to go
00:50:45.200 to jobs in other places, right, to high office. We'll make some announcements. I hope one day,
00:50:53.360 Dave Walsh is one of them. He's a guy that the administration needs big time.
00:50:58.000 And we need you. What we're going to need is you to man the ramparts. Scott Bessent is out today.
00:51:04.400 And what does Scott Bessent say? Scott Bessent, I don't know if I have this. Yes. Scott Bessent
00:51:10.240 just tweeted out. This is called truth, folks. We had another successful big six meeting today,
00:51:16.720 and we hope to have a tax bill done by the 4th of July. The House is moving quickly.
00:51:22.320 Happy announced the steps to agree to it.
00:51:25.760 Thune said today will be the summer. Scott Bessent, finally, this is why he's a safe pair of hands
00:51:30.560 as Secretary of the Treasury. With all the happy talk of Polly Pockets, he said this would never
00:51:35.600 happen. Scott comes out today and says, we hope by July. That means those guys working through
00:51:42.880 the Memorial Day weekend and grinding through to hopefully get it by the 6th of July or the 4th of
00:51:48.960 July or somewhere around that. It's the first time anybody's put a real time frame here.
00:51:53.760 Even with all the hard work they're going to do, I think it's going to come later.
00:51:57.760 So watch, and this is why people are talking about Stefanik for Speak of the House.
00:52:04.080 The House guys understand their whole summer is going to be shot. Not that that's a priority for me,
00:52:09.120 but there ain't going to be any August recess. We're going to have to grind this one, folks,
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