Stephen K. Vance is joined by Eduardo Bolsonaro in the War Room to discuss the assassination of his father, who was shot to death in the ICU, and the impact it has had on his family and the country.
00:00:30.000Thanks to President Trump's tireless efforts to secure a lasting peace, I am glad to announce the signing of today's historic economic partnership agreement between the United States and Ukraine, establishing the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund.
00:00:52.000This partnership allows the United States to invest alongside Ukraine to unlock Ukraine's growth assets, mobilize American talent, capital, and governance standards that will improve Ukraine's investment climate and accelerate Ukraine's economic recovery.
00:01:10.000The Development Finance Corporation will participate and help to establish this fund in collaboration with the government of Ukraine.
00:01:18.980Today's agreement signals clearly to Russian leadership that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine over the long term.
00:01:32.160It's time for this cruel and senseless war to end.
00:01:37.080The killing must stop, and both the United States and the government of Ukraine look forward to quickly operationalizing this historic economic partnership for both the Ukrainian and American people.
00:01:51.080This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:01:58.920Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:02:04.120You're just not going to get a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:02:08.380The people have had a belly full of it.
00:02:39.220It's Wednesday, 30, April, Year of Our Lord, 2025.
00:02:48.180The irony is not lost on me that on the 50th anniversary of American Retreat from Vietnam, we just signed, and Scott Besson's office just let us know, he made that video moments ago and then just signed a document to set up this, the rare earths, the minerals deal and redevelopment with Ukraine.
00:03:08.200Of course, I want to make sure about how deeply involved we get in Ukraine, but I think you can say it's a foundational element that President Trump feels he needs to do to actually bring a real ceasefire there.
00:03:20.740So another historic day, President Trump on the 100th day to sign the minerals deal is a very, very, very important.
00:03:27.980We'll have some details on that deal and go through it tomorrow.
00:03:30.560We're also going to do a special commemoration, 13,000, I think 13,000 participants in Ho Chi Minh City.
00:03:44.440And, of course, the valor and the courage of the Vietnam veterans will always be remembered, and we're going to give a very, I think, a very appropriate, towards the end of the show, on the 50th anniversary of this.
00:03:58.200I have another cold open, another very important guest.
00:04:02.700Now, the other night, we had Edwardo on by Skype, and we were talking about they had already passed this ruling that his father couldn't run a 26, others 130, although his father's up a bunch of points.
00:04:14.440You know the lawfare, these out-of-control judges.
00:04:19.680What the President of the United States may have to do is suspend the writ of habeas corpus for illegal aliens here in the country to get around the judges here.
00:07:58.800I would actually argue that, and we know in this show that they stole the 2020, and the American people know that's how they restored President Trump to the presidency.
00:08:09.020I would actually argue that a more brazen stealing of the election than even President Trump, which was as brazen as you could get, was the stealing of the election from your father.
00:08:19.800The Chinese Communist Party and the Marxists, both in the court system and Lula, and hardcore Marxists, must control the resources and assets from the Amazon and all the agriculture and all the resources of Brazil.
00:08:35.440And they're not going to anything stand in their way.
00:08:37.180This is essentially like the Bolsheviks in 1917.
00:08:41.320Am I – anything on that I'm incorrect?
00:08:44.560And if I can add, Steve, Lula, like five months ago, signed, together with Xi Jinping, 37 agreements, some agreements in the area of energy, satellite communication, uranium, you know, all of these reserves.
00:08:59.480So, basically, China, what they are doing in Brazil is the same playbook that they did with Africa, trying to play all the assets, bring some nice infrastructure to Brazil.
00:09:27.440If I come back to Brazil, Alexandre de Moraes, he was going to seize my passport.
00:09:31.320He made an official request to the Attorney General asking about that.
00:09:35.720Because if I come back to Brazil, my party said that I was going to be the chairman of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee, which is the first committee in the Congress to analyze these 37 agreements.
00:09:49.340You know, because after the president signed the agreement, the Congress has to approve.
00:10:58.060Because it looked like as soon as they laid out that you couldn't run in 26, then they came in and dropped the hammer, even if they had to go into the ICU and give it to and give it, you know, serve your father basically right there with the trial is not going to be delayed and we're going to get you back in the trial.
00:11:16.680So, the message, what they talk behind the scene is the Supreme Court is, we have to convict Bolsonaro as fast as possible.
00:11:27.340So, we are not going to repeat the mistake of the United States that lets Trump run.
00:11:33.580So, this virus is coming back to Brazil and now you are facing problems.
00:11:38.660Trump is facing problems here with judges, like in courts, trying to stop off his orders, like people non-elected, you know.
00:11:45.960It's unbelievable that it's the same thing.
00:11:49.060It's not hard to explain to the Americans, to your audience, what is going on in Brazil, but in Brazil, they are more aggressive.
00:12:33.420I think what's shocked people here is because the courts here make some radical decisions, but the judges try to downplay who they are in their role.
00:12:43.700This Morales is almost like a Bond villain from a Bond movie.
00:13:49.780For example, Miss Irassina Gashi, she is 71 years old.
00:13:54.640You have some others that they have more than 70 years old.
00:13:58.360These are the terrorists in Brazil that Morales is sending to jail saying that he's doing that to protect our democracy.
00:14:06.100But they are only like they are paying the bill, as we say in Brazil.
00:14:11.440They are paying the bill to be the argument for Alexandre de Moraes to arrest Bolsonaro.
00:14:18.020Because the crimes that they say that Bolsonaro is charged for are crimes that go to almost 40 years in jail.
00:14:27.240So we guess that they are going to convict my father for something about 30 years maybe, and then send him to jail like forever.
00:14:36.560Because my father nowadays is 70 years old.
00:14:39.740But even like that, he's still leading the polls.
00:14:45.260Now, imagine if he was able to run and there was no confusion in the political scenario of Brazil, how many voters would say that they were going to vote for Bolsonaro?
00:14:58.340What I want to say is, if Bolsonaro can run, he easily will have easily more than 55 or maybe 60 percent of the votes in Brazil in the next election.
00:15:33.120The only thing I warned you, I said, because Bolsonaro and I were coming to the airport,
00:15:37.180and every different part of the airport would come in and meet and toss him up like a soccer game.
00:15:41.660I said, I'm concerned about the security.
00:15:44.320And two weeks later, the assassination attempt, a guy came in and knifed him, and it turned out to be much more serious than we knew at the time.
00:15:52.080Now seven operations, the last one for 12 hours.
00:15:54.600His popularity increases because of his principles and because of the personality.
00:16:00.640I think also because of how much he's giving to Brazil, particularly in coming back like he has.
00:16:12.820Like we did one month ago, a big rally.
00:16:17.860And when we do rallies, I mean, we go to the streets and people just show up in a Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo or even in Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.
00:16:29.080We are talking about at least half a million people on the streets.
00:16:32.580Sometimes like last year, it was about one million people on the streets.
00:16:36.240So his popularity is increasing because people realize when they go to the supermarkets, the prices of everything is going up.
00:16:44.660It doesn't matter how much Lula da Silva pay the mainstream media in Brazil.
00:16:47.820People realize that the life is going to get worse and worse.
00:16:52.040And we do not have a pandemic and we do not have a war starting in Europe.
00:16:57.260So imagine Bolsonaro president with no pandemic and no war starting in Europe.
00:17:03.940It would be like a dream of a government.
00:17:07.480And if you think that you are going to have Trump in the United States, Milay in Argentina,
00:17:12.360I hope that Colombia and Chile are going to overturn these left-wing presidents on the next elections that will be almost the same time of Brazil.
00:17:19.760We can have the whole region far away from the left, I guess, for the first time in history.
00:17:26.220No, it reverses what the Sao Paulo, the whole thing of them trying to make Sao Paulo, trying to make Latin America communist.
00:17:44.820Is there any doubt in your mind once he's in prison, they're going to try to have him assassinated?
00:17:49.260Yes, and this will be the consolidation of the regime.
00:17:54.940It will be like we are in a point, Steve, to your audience understand, we are in a point that still diplomatic medicine can have effect.
00:18:06.360After they consolidate the power, if they put someone from the left next year again in the presidency or someone from the, as I can say, like a permitted right as president.
00:18:23.580You're going to see here in the United States more and more Brazilians coming to leave the United States because people will lose the rope.
00:18:29.220And Alexandre de Moraes will be the whole powerful man, you know, ruling the country and doing whatever he wants.
00:18:37.240But still we have a window of opportunity that if Alexandre de Moraes gets sanctioned with OFAC sanctions, this could stop his dictator wheeling and brings...
00:18:53.900Explain to our audience why because, and people in Brazil should know this, this is getting the scrutiny at the highest levels here in Washington, D.C.
00:19:01.060Because Morales is so out of control and people in Brazil should understand it.
00:19:05.440Explain to people what OFAC means, why it's so important here as something to actually bring, start to bring Morales to justice.
00:19:15.160OFAC sanctions is basically, in popular language, is the death penalty, is the financial death penalty.
00:19:23.360So it means that the person who received this sanction, they cannot even have a credit card, you know, Visa or MasterCard, American Express credit card,
00:19:33.200because he will be out of the SWIFT system for international transactions.
00:19:38.600He's forbidden to open a bank account.
00:19:41.580I mean, if a bank allow him to open an account in the bank, this bank cannot use the SWIFT system where the supercomputers are here, United States.
00:19:51.720So it's basically what the United States did recently with other justices of the Supreme Court, but from Venezuela, Michael Moreno,
00:20:02.060and also with Karim Khan, which is the prosecutor of the ICC, the International Criminal Court.
00:20:08.860And it's sure we'll send a huge message to the Supreme Court in Brazil.
00:20:14.500And I don't think that any other of the 10 justices that we have in our Supreme Court, they could have the same courage of Morales to go ahead with the censorship,
00:20:28.600with the persecution against the right, the human rights violation, because we have even a guy that died in prison.
00:20:36.420He died in prison, and he was arrested because January 8th, and his lawyers and even the Attorney General asked Alexandre de Moraes to release him,
00:20:46.720but Alexandre de Moraes did not release the guy.
00:20:50.520And unfortunately, he was died in jail.
00:20:56.500And Alexandre de Moraes is doing way more.
00:20:58.120Only to finish with this answer, he was sending arresting warrants against American citizens.
00:21:08.660Imagine that, a lady called Flavia Cordero, he was tweeting, talking about the Supreme Court here in United States,
00:21:15.880and Alexandre de Moraes was sending arresting order against this lady.
00:21:20.460So, you have a bunch of arguments to sanction our eyes, and what I see behind the scenes from people around the White House and around the Congress,
00:21:33.560I don't want to talk about their names, this issue is getting hotter and hotter,
00:21:38.640and I guess sooner or later Trump is going to do that, and we have a big hope that it can rescue our democracy in Brazil.
00:21:46.160Will this shut down? Will this shut down? Will this shut down Moraes immediately?
00:21:52.720You call it the financial death penalty. What will it mean for him personally?
00:21:56.920Personally, like, it doesn't matter how much money he has, he cannot spend the money.
00:22:01.080And it doesn't matter who, anyone else that do contracts with him or any kind of commercial relation with him,
00:22:07.620they also receive the same kind of sanctions.
00:22:10.080So, basically, he's isolated. No one is going to be together with Moraes.
00:22:16.160Why has it been so tough, do you think? Why do you think it's been so tough to get this?
00:22:22.380Why do you think it's been so tough to get this rolling today?
00:22:24.920Because we have to bring all the information that what is happening in Brazil to the authorities in the United States.
00:22:31.120And this is so hard because Trump, he has so many things to do.
00:22:34.980If you look to the hostages in Gaza, you still have hostages in Gaza on the hands of Hamas.
00:23:12.380I also think it's caught some people by surprise.
00:23:16.880I mean, not the warmen were impossible, but I think it's even caught people in this town by surprise how radical Brazil has gone so quickly.
00:26:27.080That piece of paper, that's your title, is the only kind of contract you've got that shows that that house, your real asset, which is, I don't know, 90% of your net worth, is actually yours.
00:26:37.940So what do you do with the triple lock, $1 million protection?
00:26:43.480In the middle of the night, if something happens, somebody's messing with that title, boom, you get an alert.
00:26:48.060And then if all else fails, you get $1 million restoration protection with lawyers, all of it, to make sure you get your title back and therefore your house and therefore 90% of your net worth.
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00:32:39.020But this all stems from a stolen election.
00:32:43.160His reelect, just like they stole President Trump's reelect.
00:32:45.460If memory serves me correctly, sir, in August of 2021 at the first cyber symposium, a young man stood up and made about a 20 or 30 minute presentation about how they were going to steal the upcoming election in Brazil.
00:33:01.780And that young man is Eduardo Bolsonaro.
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00:44:40.480Bang the drum slowly, play the pipe lowly to dust, be returning from dust, we begin.
00:44:56.360Bang the drum slowly, I'll speak of things wholly above, and be a lonely world without end.
00:45:11.100I meant to ask you, how when everything seemed lost, your fate was in a game of dice they tossed.
00:45:29.500There was still that line that you would never cross, at any cost.
00:45:39.740I meant to ask you, how you lived, what you believed, with nothing but your heart up your sleeve.
00:45:54.300And if you ever really were deceived by the likes of me, bang the drum slowly, play the pipe lowly to dust, be returning from dust, we begin.
00:46:21.300May the drum slowly, I'll speak of things wholly above, and be lowly world without end.
00:46:36.300Gone now is the dead and the sun, there is peace tonight on our Arlington, but the song of my life will still be sung by the light of a new home.
00:47:06.300I meant to ask you, I meant to ask you, how to plough that field, I meant to bring you water from the well, and be the one beside you when you fell, could you tell?
00:47:31.300Can you tell me, how to plough that field, I meant to ask you, how to plough that field, be the one beside you when you fell, and be my son, would you say, how to plough that field, what you did, what you did, what you did, what you meant to be.
00:47:33.300Can you play the drums slowly, play the pipe lowly to dust, be returning from dust, we begin.
00:47:49.300As we begin, make the drum slowly us be the things holy above, and be lonely a world without us.
00:48:19.300I want to thank our production team for doing that.
00:48:36.920I think we're going to replay those tomorrow, both of them, the one from the morning and the afternoon.
00:48:41.380Emmaloo Harris, I think it's Lucy O'Kane is the writer of the song.
00:48:45.620That's a version done by Emmaloo Harris.
00:48:48.400And for O'Kane, I think it was an homage to her father.
00:48:52.980And I think it's about the homage to her father who fought in World War II.
00:48:57.100But a magnificent, great job on the production team.
00:49:00.620This is why you have to think through all of this.
00:49:03.200You know, President Trump, one of the biggest focuses he's got is swords into plowshares.
00:49:08.380Of course, it's going to be a big defense budget.
00:49:10.340But one thing he's doing, and this is why today they signed the economic deal with Ukraine.
00:49:16.160President Trump's working nonstop like he's got any time at all to do the, any time at all to spare time.
00:49:23.860But he's, you know, one of the biggest things is to stop the kinetic part of the Third World War.
00:49:27.840This is when people throw around these loose terms.
00:49:32.920We've got to take out the nuclear thing.
00:49:34.260Just go back and think about Vietnam, right?
00:49:37.700The, what is it, the 20 years we spent there, the casualties, the, what was given up.
00:49:43.220And then to essentially walk away from it all and leave the Vietnamese people and the people of Southeast Asia that had partnered with us and just cut them off and leave us.
00:49:56.800And you see the blood and sacrifice of what happened.
00:49:59.880It's just, it's, it's, and you can't have this happen again.
00:50:02.520This is why you very much, particularly people who are hawks, who believe in the use of national security in, in moments when you really need it.
00:50:10.820You have to be very, very careful about that.
00:50:14.180You can't go around bombing everything.
00:50:18.56050 years ago today, and think that the elites in this country, the lessons they didn't learn, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, right now, the same group,
00:50:29.580the same exact group is sitting there putting pressure on President Trump to start bombing in, in Persia.
00:50:36.200And I will tell you from the experience of a very young naval officer back in, I don't know, 1979, 1980, that you get tied up with Persia.
00:50:46.180You get tied up in a land war over there.
00:50:48.040You get tied, you're not going to go in and bomb it.
00:50:50.640It's going to be much more involved than that.
00:50:52.680And the last place on earth, you want your sons and daughters next to the jungles of Vietnam is, is on those hot, dry plains and in the mountains of Persia.
00:51:03.600You know, we've, we've sacrificed enough in that part of the world.