Loomer Unleashed - LIVE: CPAC Coverage

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00:07:56.000 Yeah, I mean that made me what it felt like, but it's also true. 0.99

00:08:00.000 Promote them.

00:08:03.000 There's probably not a lot of promoting on them, but you still.

00:08:07.000 There's not a lot of role in the gun market. 0.88

00:08:11.000 Get out there and shoot.

00:08:17.000 Not a lot of guys. 0.99

00:08:20.000 You talk to them.

00:08:26.000 They don't have to be big vision.

00:08:30.000 They always look at them.

00:08:32.000 They're all phones.

00:08:34.000 They don't see the big vision.

00:08:37.000 We had a client on the block box for the CNAC block box.

00:08:41.000 And this is the high-position.

00:08:43.000 They're going to be talking about how the program is there.

00:08:47.000 So, thank you for the CNAC block box business.

00:08:52.000 We're talking about personal problems.

00:08:55.000 So, we don't know if you want to come together.

00:08:58.000 We're breaking into American media.

00:09:00.000 We just can't break into my heart.

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00:11:46.000 How? - Right now, let's say it's anti-Russia.

00:11:54.000 It feels to them like the way they can.

00:11:58.000 It's the . - It's the . - Never came into Russia. - Even though initially the . - Ridiculous. 0.70

00:12:09.000 - It was a big, big . - Even in . - Oh, no. - Oh, no. - Oh, he missed it. - Ridiculous. 0.97

00:12:20.000 That was their push, but I'm really close to .

00:12:26.000 And when this whole thing popped up, I said, "It's ridiculous," because I saw the .

00:12:37.000 And I knew it wasn't true because .

00:12:42.000 Good morning, CPAC.

00:12:45.000 Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance, led by Carol Adams, and remain standing for the National Anthem, performed by Natasha Owens.

00:12:57.000 Good morning, and welcome to CPAC.

00:13:09.000 Please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance to our great country.

00:13:15.000 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

00:13:30.000 Oh, thank you.

00:13:32.000 Thank you.

00:14:38.000 Lask the wind Whose broad stripes and bright stars Through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched Were so gallantly streaming

00:15:06.000 And the rocket's red glare The bombs bursting in air They gave proof through the night

00:15:28.000 That our flag was still there Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the ramparts we watched O'er the ramparts we watched Were so gallantly streaming

00:15:56.000 And the ramparts we watched Were so gallantly streaming And the ramparts we watched Were so gallantly streaming And the ramparts we watched Were so gallantly streaming And the ramparts we watched Were so gallantly streaming Were so gallantly streaming And the ramparts we watched Were so gallantly streaming And the ramparts we watched Were so gallantly streaming Were so gallantly streaming

00:16:21.000 Were so gallantly streaming of the rain.

00:16:30.000 God bless you and God bless America.

00:16:33.000 Please be seated.

00:16:40.000 Thank you.

00:16:45.000 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Pastor Joshua Neberett with today's invocation.

00:16:50.000 Before I begin to pray, I just want to say that we are living in the greatest time of our era.

00:17:04.000 The Golden Age.

00:17:07.000 And I want to thank God for the greatest president of our lifetime, President Donald J. Trump.

00:17:15.000 Let us pray.

00:17:23.000 Heavenly Father, we come before you for this great and victorious event at CPAC. We want to thank you for the leadership at CPAC. Matt and Mercedes Schlapp, because you've allowed them to lead a great organization with American patriots.

00:17:39.000 And we want to thank you for America, the greatest nation of our lifetime.

00:17:44.000 And because of you, Lord, we've turned our eyes and sought your face and your righteousness.

00:17:52.000 And now we are blessed with the golden age.

00:17:55.000 But we ask you that you bless America.

00:17:59.000 Bless our people.

00:18:01.000 And bless our allies.

00:18:03.000 We pray, God, for a victorious event over the next four days, that it be a safe event.

00:18:11.000 As we strategize and we look upon the heavens, that you find favor over us, Lord, and you continue to bless America.

00:18:20.000 Lord, we ask you that you protect our president and the vice president in all of leadership.

00:18:27.000 And that you put favor over America.

00:18:30.000 We ask you these things in the name that's above every name.

00:18:34.000 That every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

00:18:41.000 In your precious name we pray.

00:18:43.000 Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.

00:19:03.000 Amen.

00:19:04.000 Good morning.

00:19:34.000 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to CPAC 2025.

00:19:39.000 America is back on track.

00:19:43.000 Please welcome CPAC Senior Fellow Mercedes Schlapp and CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp.

00:19:50.000 Pretty cool.

00:19:52.000 All right, come on!

00:19:58.000 I can't hear you!

00:20:01.000 There must be someone real special about to get on stage, right, Matt?

00:20:13.000 We have some seats open here.

00:20:15.000 Let's go pack it in, folks.

00:20:16.000 We got some red seats open.

00:20:18.000 They're moving.

00:20:19.000 What do you think about CPAC 2025?

00:20:26.000 Are you glad that America is back on track?

00:20:31.000 Has it been a long, tedious four years?

00:20:36.000 Are you ready to tell the whole world that America...

00:20:40.000 Is ready to be America again.

00:20:46.000 We have some announcements and some news.

00:20:48.000 There's so much going on.

00:20:50.000 We have a very special guest who's going to be here during the conference.

00:20:55.000 You know, kind of like a tech titan, maybe.

00:21:01.000 Responsible for Doge.

00:21:07.000 Ladies and gentlemen, because thank God we're back to two genders, Elon Musk will be here on the CPAC stage. 0.98

00:21:24.000 We just launched yesterday with the CPAC International Summit where we had several key members Coming from representing from different countries with their delegations where we passed three resolutions.

00:21:39.000 Matt, do you want to share what we did there?

00:21:41.000 Yeah, we passed three resolutions in support with one of America's greatest ally, the state of Israel.

00:21:54.000 We were both saddened and honored to be joined by the families of those who have Friends and family members as hostages by the evil Hamas. 0.76

00:22:06.000 And we have two of the hostages that were freed joining us today.

00:22:11.000 And I believe they're here, right here with us.

00:22:15.000 God bless you.

00:22:18.000 America stands with you.

00:22:21.000 America stands with Israel.

00:22:22.000 And we will ensure that Hamas is eradicated.

00:22:27.000 We will bring peace to the Middle East.

00:22:31.000 Under President Trump.

00:22:33.000 And at the second resolution...

00:22:36.000 It's hard for me to get over that because that's just...

00:22:39.000 Thank you for being here.

00:22:39.000 You honor us with your presence and your courage and your strength.

00:22:43.000 And we have a president now in the United States of America that will not only help your loved ones, he's going to make it so that there aren't future victims, which we have to make sure we prevent.

00:22:54.000 So thank you.

00:22:58.000 Gordon Chang wrote, A very important resolution.

00:23:02.000 By the way, these resolutions were supported by all the nations that were assembled at our second annual CPAC International Summit.

00:23:12.000 We are working not as government entities, but as entities outside government to push for these policies.

00:23:19.000 And Gordon Chang wrote, a very important resolution to combat the Chinese regime, the communist regime in China.

00:23:29.000 And I want all of these despots and dictators to know that Donald Trump might talk to you.

00:23:36.000 He might make you feel like you're welcome because that's part of his job.

00:23:40.000 But in the end, we have a president that's going to stop you cold in your tracks.

00:23:47.000 And all of these countries accepted that resolution as well.

00:23:52.000 And perhaps my favorite resolution, I wish I had it here and could read to you on my phone.

00:23:59.000 But I think I have the gist of it, which is we have a message to the globalists.

00:24:04.000 Last year, Mercy and I stood on the stage and we said, globalism, at CPAC, globalism was going to die.

00:24:12.000 I thought that was an audacious statement.

00:24:14.000 I thought we'd just say it.

00:24:15.000 Right, Jerry?

00:24:16.000 Let's just say it.

00:24:18.000 And then it happened.

00:24:19.000 It's kind of amazing.

00:24:24.000 And so our message to the globalists is, No matter whether you're at the World Economic Forum, the WHO, the EU, you can boo at any time, the UN, no matter who is trying to tell you as a mom or a dad,

00:24:41.000 as a church member, as a teacher, as a cop, no matter who is trying to tell you what pronouns you should use, how you should pray to your God, how much you believe your country is racist.

00:24:55.000 All that's over.

00:25:01.000 And a part of that is, and this is a great way to start.

00:25:05.000 We just had Natasha out here and the great pastor from Arizona who was with us on the campaign trail in Arizona.

00:25:11.000 Part of that is, can we all just thank God for giving us a president who knows how to lead?

00:25:19.000 And I'll expand that to a great young vice president.

00:25:25.000 Who knows how to lead?

00:25:29.000 All these resolutions passed.

00:25:31.000 I don't know how CPAC became a global brand fighting the globalists with people here from like every country all over the world, but let's go with it because it seems to be working just fine.

00:25:43.000 And I want to leave you with this.

00:25:46.000 You are the reason because President Trump is in the White House today.

00:25:52.000 All of you.

00:25:53.000 Each and every one of you fought hard, stood up, shared this incredible optimistic message that we need to save America and in essence save the world.

00:26:07.000 So I want to thank you all personally from the bottom of our hearts as being part of this incredible CPAC family because you all have made the difference in this past election.

00:26:17.000 It's the truth.

00:26:18.000 So we honor you.

00:26:19.000 We appreciate you so much.

00:26:23.000 We've talked long enough.

00:26:25.000 Let's get this show on the road.

00:26:26.000 I think you have someone big that you want to announce that's coming out here.

00:26:29.000 Good luck.

00:26:30.000 I'll be in the wings making sure you do a good job.

00:26:32.000 Okay, Dad.

00:26:33.000 All right, all right.

00:26:34.000 All right, gang, are you all ready?

00:26:37.000 Okay.

00:26:39.000 So, you know, there's this young guy, you know, with this beautiful family, with this beautiful wife that is actually just a shining star right now in American politics.

00:26:52.000 Marine veteran, former Ohio senator, one of the coolest guys I think we have around, and one of the best communicators in this Trump administration.

00:27:05.000 Can you please let us applaud together, let us welcome the greatest Vice President of America, JD Banffs.

00:27:16.000 What's up guys, how we doing?

00:27:29.000 Hey, don't worry, thanks for doing this.

00:27:44.000 Thank you all, thank you.

00:27:53.000 Thank you all.

00:27:59.000 Thank you.

00:27:59.000 It's great to be with you.

00:28:00.000 It's good to see you.

00:28:00.000 It is great to see you too.

00:28:02.000 I mean, you've been like on a whirlwind here.

00:28:05.000 Yeah.

00:28:05.000 Are you a little jet-lagged or no?

00:28:07.000 You know, yes, I am a little jet-lagged.

00:28:10.000 So we did a trip where we went to France and then to Germany.

00:28:15.000 And then we went to San Diego for a family wedding, and then back in D.C., and we did all that in like seven days.

00:28:20.000 So a little jet lag, but that's okay.

00:28:23.000 I'm in a good place right now.

00:28:25.000 I got some sleep last night.

00:28:26.000 Okay, good.

00:28:27.000 Then we're ready.

00:28:27.000 We're ready.

00:28:28.000 But it's a real special day today.

00:28:30.000 You know what today is, guys?

00:28:31.000 It's February 20th.

00:28:33.000 That means our first 30 days.

00:28:37.000 The happy one-month anniversary of the Trump-Vance administration.

00:28:44.000 I mean, how exciting is that?

00:28:46.000 It's very exciting.

00:28:49.000 It's hard to believe we've only been in office for a month because I think we've done more in a month than Biden did in about four years.

00:28:56.000 And thank God for that.

00:28:58.000 But, you know, the president keeps us on a pretty breakneck pace.

00:29:03.000 He always asks, what have we done today?

00:29:05.000 What are we going to do tomorrow?

00:29:06.000 What are we going to do next week?

00:29:07.000 Because I think he realizes this is a special moment in time.

00:29:11.000 And by the way, thank you.

00:29:13.000 Thanks to all of you for making it possible for us to do all the great work we've been doing in the administration.

00:29:18.000 I know we wouldn't have been here without you, but I think the President is acutely aware that the American people gave us a window to save the country, and that's exactly what we're going to do.

00:29:27.000 And thank God for that, because it's been a hell of a lot of fun the past month.

00:29:31.000 Okay, so I don't even think we can keep track of all the things you all are doing.

00:29:35.000 In fact, I don't even think the press can keep track of all they're doing.

00:29:40.000 I mean, talk about the shock and awe strategy.

00:29:42.000 Seriously.

00:29:43.000 So when you're looking at this list after list after list, what stands out to you?

00:29:48.000 Well, speaking of the press, I do think that we've had maybe more executive orders than CNN has viewers each night.

00:29:53.000 So hello to our friends at CNN. I think, I actually think that their plan was they were going to go all in on anti-Trump and hope that he could save CNN. In the same way that he did, frankly, in 2017, because nobody really watched the network until he became president in 2017. But that's maybe the one thing I think the president has been unable to do, unable to save CNN's ratings over the last few months.

00:30:22.000 But look, I think that what the president has tried to do is recognize that we have a historical mandate on a few issues.

00:30:31.000 We have to secure the southern border, and thanks to his actions, border crossings are down.

00:30:36.000 Well over 90%, and we're just getting started.

00:30:42.000 He recognizes that we have to really unlock the engine of American growth.

00:30:47.000 We've got to get back to having a growing economy that creates good jobs and high wages for the American people.

00:30:52.000 And a lot of that goes back to drill, baby, drill.

00:30:55.000 We've done more on energy under President Trump's leadership.

00:30:59.000 And I think any administration in history, and that's not an exaggeration, and of course we're going to do more.

00:31:04.000 And I think the third thing that he's tried to do, of course, with the help of Elon and all the great folks at Doge, is ask, what are we doing with all of the American taxpayers' money, and why are we wasting so much of it on garbage that the American people either aren't aware that we're spending it on or don't want to be spending it on in the first place?

00:31:25.000 Like, for example...

00:31:26.000 The stuff that we've figured out, Mercedes, is unbelievable.

00:31:29.000 believable.

00:31:29.000 Why are we spending money on progressive modern art projects centered around toilets in Afghanistan?

00:31:37.000 That's actually something that your tax dollars were funding until very recently.

00:31:42.000 And I think all of us are sitting around and asking, what the hell are we doing with the American people's money for the last four years?

00:31:48.000 Let's turn off the spigot and spend the American people's tax money on the American people's priority. 0.91

00:31:53.000 And that's, of course, been a big focus in the administration too.

00:32:00.000 Let's dig deeper into the immigration issue.

00:32:02.000 We've seen and you've met.

00:32:04.000 Many of the victims, people who have family members who have died, have been tragically, tragically murdered. 0.94

00:32:12.000 Those angel families in the hands of these criminal illegal aliens. 0.99

00:32:17.000 Sure.

00:32:18.000 What's your message to these families?

00:32:21.000 And then, what is your message to these horrific drug cartels and human traffickers who have preyed on the most vulnerable in the world?

00:32:32.000 Well, our message to the drug traffickers is get the hell out of our country.

00:32:36.000 Your free ride is over because President Trump is back in the Oval Office.

00:32:40.000 That is...

00:32:41.000 You're not welcome.

00:32:46.000 You were never welcome, according to the American people.

00:32:49.000 But unfortunately, you had President Joe Biden who allowed you to run free.

00:32:56.000 We're going to wage war on you.

00:33:00.000 And certainly we want you out of the United States of America.

00:33:03.000 And that's an important message, of course.

00:33:05.000 But our message, and you know this, Mercedes, our message to the families is President Trump cares about you.

00:33:13.000 He thinks that it's disgraceful what your own government let happen to your children, to your grandchildren, and it's got to stop.

00:33:20.000 And of course, we mourn with people, we pray for people, but we're also asking, as their government, why did this happen to your child in the first place?

00:33:29.000 And the answer is that under Joe Biden, your government didn't do its job.

00:33:33.000 Under Donald Trump, it is.

00:33:35.000 Thank God for that.

00:33:38.000 On the economy, and I'm getting this question all the time, you know, it's this question of affordability, right?

00:33:43.000 There's a lot of stress on our families, something that I think Joe Biden could not manage in terms of really helping lower that cost of living and making things just simply more affordable.

00:33:56.000 Sure.

00:33:56.000 We talked about energy independence being a critical component of this, of ensuring that we unleash this economic prosperity.

00:34:04.000 What more needs to be done?

00:34:06.000 Yeah, so one of the first interviews I did, it was, I think, six or seven days after the inauguration.

00:34:12.000 And somebody asked me, well, it's been six days.

00:34:15.000 What have you done to fix the inflation crisis created by Joe Biden?

00:34:19.000 I'm like, well, first of all, it's been six days.

00:34:21.000 We've done a lot in six days.

00:34:23.000 But it's going to take some time to fix what Joe Biden broke over four years.

00:34:28.000 And we know.

00:34:30.000 It is easy, unfortunately, to burn the house down.

00:34:34.000 It takes a little bit of time to build it back up.

00:34:36.000 And here's what we have to do.

00:34:38.000 Because, look, the fundamental goal of our immigration policy, of our border policy, of Doge saving taxpayer money, the fundamental goal is we want your children and grandchildren to be able to raise a family in security and comfort in the country that we all love.

00:34:56.000 That is the whole goal of President Trump's agenda.

00:35:01.000 Safety and prosperity, right?

00:35:03.000 It's pretty common sense stuff.

00:35:04.000 And we know that to do that, we have to, first of all, unleash American energy.

00:35:09.000 Now, why is that so important?

00:35:10.000 Because, look, we all know grocery prices got too high under Joe Biden's leadership.

00:35:16.000 Well, one of the main drivers of groceries is energy.

00:35:19.000 Because if the farmers are paying more for energy, then we're all paying more for what the farmers grow.

00:35:24.000 And if the truck drivers who are delivering the groceries are paying more for fuel, then we're all paying more for what the truck drivers are delivering to the grocery store.

00:35:32.000 If we unleash American energy, that will do more than anything to drive down the cost for the American people.

00:35:39.000 The second thing, Mercedes, is we have got to stop spending the American people's money on garbage.

00:35:46.000 Every dollar.

00:35:48.000 Every dollar that we take in and spend, you have to pay for either through taxes or through inflation.

00:35:56.000 And if we spend the American people's money more wisely, if we stop taxing and spending the American people to death, that's also going to bring relief to all of the pricing pressures that are out there.

00:36:07.000 We're going to make it affordable to live in this country again.

00:36:10.000 That's our mandate.

00:36:12.000 That's our goal.

00:36:12.000 And you're right.

00:36:13.000 There's a lot more that we can do, but I think we've got a pretty good start after 30 days.

00:36:17.000 We've got a pretty good start, but we've got this big, beautiful one.

00:36:24.000 A little budget reconciliation scenario.

00:36:27.000 How is that working?

00:36:28.000 What are the dynamics that are happening right now in Congress and what the administration is doing to ensure that a lot of what the president is wanting to do in terms of really pushing forward with economic prosperity and his tax...

00:36:44.000 Relief initiatives gets done in these bills.

00:36:47.000 Yeah, it's really important.

00:36:49.000 So the Senate obviously has its own approach, and the President has been very clear that his preference is to put everything in one bill.

00:36:56.000 And part of that is just simple legislative strategy.

00:36:59.000 I think the President has learned a lot about how D.C. works.

00:37:02.000 And I actually talked to the President about this yesterday, and he said to me, look, it's very rare that you can get two reconciliation bills done in one Congress, which is why he thinks we've got to do a lot.

00:37:13.000 With that one big beautiful bill, that first reconciliation package that we're going to get through the House and the Senate.

00:37:18.000 It's going well.

00:37:20.000 It's early, right?

00:37:20.000 This stuff takes time to put together.

00:37:22.000 I think if you had a record-paced reconciliation bill, we would get this thing done in May or in June.

00:37:29.000 I think we're on track to do that.

00:37:31.000 But we've got to do some basic things, Mercedes.

00:37:33.000 One, like I said, we've got to continue to unleash American energy.

00:37:37.000 That's part of the reconciliation bill.

00:37:38.000 We've got to make sure that other countries stop taking advantage of us.

00:37:42.000 That's a big part of President Trump's tariff policy, is we've got to stop being taken advantage of.

00:37:48.000 You know, of course we want to make the President Trump tax cuts permanent and extend them into the future.

00:37:54.000 We want no taxes on tips.

00:37:56.000 We've got to do some of the things we talked about during the campaign.

00:37:58.000 That's got to be part of it.

00:38:00.000 And then finally, and this is really important, everything the President has done On the border, we have got to empower him to do it, not just for a month, but for the next four years.

00:38:10.000 And we've got to hire more Border Patrol agents.

00:38:13.000 We've got to give Tom Homan and Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem the resources they need to secure the border.

00:38:20.000 And just not to return to the border, but I think so many of our issues come back to the border, because if you take 30, 40 million illegal aliens, you take Medicare fraud.

00:38:33.000 Social Security fraud.

00:38:34.000 Why are we taking the people's Social Security payments and giving it to illegal aliens? 0.99

00:38:40.000 We know that's happening in the United States of America today.

00:38:43.000 We've got to stop it.

00:38:44.000 If you get control of the border, Mercedes, you do more to control the fiscal problem, the financial problems that we have in this country than almost anything.

00:38:53.000 Get illegal aliens out of our country. 1.00

00:38:55.000 Make sure American tax dollars go to American people.

00:38:58.000 That is how you solve the fiscal crisis in the United States of America.

00:39:06.000 Shifting to your incredible speech at the Munich conference.

00:39:11.000 Did you all watch that?

00:39:15.000 I don't know.

00:39:19.000 I think they really liked it.

00:39:20.000 I'm glad you guys liked it.

00:39:21.000 Not everybody liked it.

00:39:22.000 You guys liked it.

00:39:23.000 Not everybody liked it.

00:39:25.000 Thank you.

00:39:30.000 Okay.

00:39:33.000 Okay.

00:39:36.000 I'll take a standing ovation for a speech I already Two for the price of one.

00:39:56.000 Yeah, I was going to say, here's your speech to say it again.

00:39:59.000 All right.

00:40:00.000 But it was fascinating because there was obviously some of these European leaders that, you know, they were a little uptight about it.

00:40:10.000 It stressed them out just a little bit.

00:40:11.000 A little bit.

00:40:12.000 But you talked about the greatest threats in Europe.

00:40:15.000 Yeah.

00:40:16.000 So, look, the greatest threat in Europe...

00:40:19.000 And I'd say it was the greatest threat in the United States until about 30 days ago, is that you've had the leaders of the West decide that they should send millions and millions of unvetted foreign migrants into their countries. 0.99

00:40:35.000 That is the biggest threat to Europe.

00:40:37.000 And frankly, it remains, by the way, the biggest threat to the United States because, yes, we've got four years of President Trump's leadership, but I guarantee you, if the Democrats ever get...

00:40:50.000 They're going to try to do it again.

00:40:52.000 We cannot rebuild Western civilization.

00:40:56.000 We cannot rebuild the United States of America or Europe by letting millions and millions of unvetted illegal migrants come into our country. 1.00

00:41:05.000 It has to stop.

00:41:07.000 Thank God it's stopped here, but it's got to stop there.

00:41:10.000 And a related issue, Mercedes, is...

00:41:15.000 You can't just stop it.

00:41:17.000 You have to allow European peoples, and of course the American people too, to raise issues about it.

00:41:24.000 You have to allow free speech to debate this stuff.

00:41:28.000 You have to stop doing things too.

00:41:31.000 The populations of the world, you've got to give the populations of the world the opportunity to speak up and say, no more of this BS. We want borders.

00:41:39.000 We want sovereignty.

00:41:40.000 We want to be able to speak our own mind in our own country.

00:41:44.000 And I guarantee you, if we don't allow free speech, and of course, the Biden administration, I made this point, Mercedes, the Biden administration did more to destroy free speech.

00:41:55.000 Not just in the United States, but also in Europe, than any administration in American history.

00:42:00.000 I'm not even blaming the Europeans.

00:42:01.000 I'm actually saying you follow the lead of Joe Biden into censorship and mass migration.

00:42:08.000 Follow the lead of Donald J. Trump.

00:42:11.000 ...international summit yesterday, and we have many of these European, conservative European leaders with us today, where we stand in solidarity because...

00:42:22.000 They have an opportunity to basically make Europe great again, make Asia great again, make Latin America great again.

00:42:30.000 And so, in essence, I think your message was very well received by many of those conservative leaders across the globe.

00:42:38.000 But what does this mean with the U.S., now that, you know, in giving that speech, what does this mean with the U.S.'s relationship with Europe?

00:42:46.000 Well, look, obviously we're going to continue to have important alliances with Europe, but I really do think the strength of those alliances is going to depend on whether we take our societies in the right direction.

00:42:59.000 Think about this.

00:43:00.000 Germany's entire defense is subsidized by the American taxpayer.

00:43:05.000 There are thousands upon thousands of American troops in Germany today.

00:43:10.000 Do you think that the American taxpayer is going to stand for that if you get thrown in jail in Germany for posting a mean tweet?

00:43:17.000 Of course they're not.

00:43:18.000 So the point that I try to make to our European friends, and I think that they're our friends, I believe that, I know President Trump does, is that friendship is based on shared values.

00:43:29.000 You do not have shared values if you're jailing people for saying we should close down our border.

00:43:35.000 You don't have shared values if you cancel elections because you don't like the result, and that happened in Romania.

00:43:42.000 You do not have shared values if you're so afraid of your...

00:43:48.000 Your own people, that you silence them and shut them up.

00:43:51.000 So let's have shared values.

00:43:53.000 Let's defend democracy.

00:43:54.000 Let's have free expression, not just in the United States, but all over the Western world.

00:43:59.000 That is the path to strong alliances in Europe.

00:44:06.000 We had Ambassador Rick Riddell with us yesterday.

00:44:10.000 He'll be on the CPAC stage during these conferences.

00:44:13.000 He has like three jobs or four or five.

00:44:16.000 Yes, he does.

00:44:17.000 Let me ask you this.

00:44:18.000 Where are we on basically the status of the Russia-Ukraine moving forward in terms of these negotiations in bringing peace to this endless war?

00:44:28.000 You know, it's early.

00:44:30.000 And I think what President Trump, what makes him such an effective negotiator, I've seen this in private, is that he doesn't take anything off the table.

00:44:39.000 When he walks into a negotiation, he says, Everything is on the table.

00:44:42.000 And of course, that makes the heads explode in the American media because they say, why are you talking to Russia?

00:44:48.000 Well, how are you going to end the war unless you're talking to Russia? 0.98

00:44:51.000 You've got to talk to everybody involved in the fighting if you actually want to bring the conflict to a close.

00:44:57.000 And I know the president does.

00:45:01.000 I'll tell you the goals that animate President Trump's policy.

00:45:04.000 It's really simple.

00:45:06.000 He wants the killing to stop.

00:45:08.000 He wants to bring lasting peace to Europe.

00:45:10.000 He doesn't just want to stop it now and have the war restart a month from now.

00:45:14.000 He wants to bring lasting peace to Europe because the president believes this, and he's absolutely right.

00:45:20.000 Peace is in the interest of Russia. 0.97

00:45:22.000 It's in the interest of Ukraine. 0.86

00:45:24.000 It's in the interest of Europe. 0.51

00:45:25.000 But most importantly...

00:45:27.000 Peace is in the interest of the American people, and he's going to fight for it for the remainder of his administration.

00:45:33.000 Wherever war breaks out, he's going to be the president of peace.

00:45:37.000 Now, he of course is a very good negotiator, a very good businessman.

00:45:42.000 He recognizes that a lot of these issues are tough.

00:45:45.000 It's going to take a smart statesman to figure this stuff out, but we've got that in the White House.

00:45:50.000 And I really believe that we're on the cusp of peace in Europe for the first time in three years because we have leadership from the Oval Office and we haven't had it in four years in this country.

00:46:01.000 Matt and I mentioned this right when we started the conference.

00:46:10.000 We're honored by the presence of two hostages that were freed.

00:46:14.000 After the Hamas atrocity, the tragedy that we've seen happen. 0.98

00:46:19.000 And we have several of the family members as well who still, they're there.

00:46:26.000 Where their loved ones are still being detained by Hamas.

00:46:38.000 What is your message to these hostage families?

00:46:43.000 Our message is that President Trump loves you.

00:46:47.000 He hasn't forgotten your loved ones, and he's going to fight every single day to bring them home.

00:46:51.000 That is exactly what he's been doing, and that's what he'll keep on doing.

00:46:56.000 I was actually talking with one of my best friends about this a couple of days ago.

00:47:02.000 Can I be your best friend, too?

00:47:04.000 Yes.

00:47:04.000 I think we all want to be your best friend, right?

00:47:07.000 Okay, okay.

00:47:09.000 But I was talking with him, and he was asking me.

00:47:12.000 He was like, well, I don't understand.

00:47:15.000 Why was Biden unable to do this?

00:47:17.000 And then, like, the minute that Donald Trump won, we started to make progress in bringing the hostages home.

00:47:23.000 And I said, man, it's just a question of leadership.

00:47:27.000 You actually need a president who is willing to pick up the phone and say, you've got to bring these people home.

00:47:34.000 No, no, no, no. 0.99

00:47:35.000 We're not focused on that crap right now. 0.99

00:47:37.000 We're focused on bringing hostages home. 1.00

00:47:39.000 And then, when the negotiations hit a wall, because they always do, you need a president who picks up the phone and says, cut this crap out. 0.98

00:47:47.000 We've got to make progress. 0.98

00:47:49.000 And you've got to keep that pace going.

00:47:52.000 It's leadership.

00:47:53.000 It really is.

00:47:54.000 And I saw it behind the scenes.

00:47:57.000 And what the president did is he empowered, in particular, because this, remember, this was before we were inaugurated.

00:48:03.000 This was before we had our great Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, or any of the great people around us.

00:48:08.000 You know, the president sent his dear friend, and he's become my dear friend, Steve Witkoff, as an emissary of the President of the United States, and he said, Steve, you speak for me.

00:48:19.000 Get it done, and if there are problems, pick up the phone and call me.

00:48:22.000 Steve Wyckoff with the President's leadership got it done, and it's amazing.

00:48:26.000 And of course, we've still got work to do.

00:48:28.000 We've got to finish the process.

00:48:31.000 But I really believe the President is as committed to this as any American leader in my lifetime.

00:48:35.000 We're going to keep on fighting for it.

00:48:41.000 One of the issues that's central to the CPAC community is the issue of pro-life.

00:48:46.000 Of course.

00:48:48.000 What is the administration going to do to defend the unborn, to provide support for those mothers, those fathers that choose life?

00:48:56.000 Sure.

00:48:57.000 Well, you know, one of the things, of course, the president got done during the first term, and I think that it's why he is accurately called the most pro-life president in American history, is he finally made it possible for the will of the people to speak on the life issue.

00:49:14.000 And that was the Dobbs decision.

00:49:16.000 What that did is it gave the abortion question back to the people. 0.98

00:49:21.000 It took it out of the hands of unelected bureaucrats and unelected judges and gave it back to the people.

00:49:27.000 And I think the most important thing that we can do, and as you know, Mercedes, I'm very pro-life, I'm a devout Christian, is that we have got to persuade our fellow Americans, because now we've got...

00:49:40.000 We've got the power of persuasion.

00:49:41.000 We've got to persuade our fellow citizens that unborn life is worthy of protecting.

00:49:47.000 It is sacred in the eyes of God and it should be sacred in the eyes of man too.

00:49:52.000 And we have to pick up the torch and fight for that every single day.

00:49:56.000 And I know you guys are up for the task.

00:49:58.000 I am too.

00:50:00.000 And I think on the administration side, what the president has said, and it's been consistent, it's going to be consistent in the rhetoric and in the policy, is we believe in the Trump administration that babies are good, that families are good, and we want to make it easier for young moms and young dads to choose life, to start families, and to bring new life into the world.

00:50:22.000 That's the whole point of our policy.

00:50:29.000 Now, some of that, of course, is supporting our great crisis pregnancy centers at the moment of these important health care decisions, encouraging young women to choose life at that important moment of choice.

00:50:40.000 Some of that is bringing costs down so that young moms and dads don't look to the future and a new baby and say, how can I afford this?

00:50:48.000 And if they're able to actually afford to raise a family, maybe they'll start thinking of babies as the blessings that we all know that they are.

00:50:57.000 And I think...

00:50:58.000 But I think fundamentally, this is going to take a lot of leadership.

00:51:05.000 From the president on down, but from every single person in this room, we've got to persuade our fellow citizens to stop thinking about babies as inconveniences to be discarded.

00:51:17.000 We've got to start thinking of them as blessings to cherish.

00:51:20.000 And that's exactly what I promise to do.

00:51:25.000 So...

00:51:28.000 Now we're going to get personal.

00:51:29.000 This is going to be so fun.

00:51:32.000 Your faith.

00:51:33.000 Yep.

00:51:34.000 Why is it so important to you?

00:51:36.000 What does it mean to you?

00:51:38.000 Tell us why, when you go every single day to work, how faith is a part of who you are.

00:51:46.000 Well, I mean, first is I believe the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith.

00:51:51.000 It's not just a set of good moral principles, though it is that.

00:51:55.000 I think the fundamental tenet of our faith.

00:51:57.000 Is that the Son of God became man, he died, and he raised himself from the dead.

00:52:04.000 That is the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith, and I think so much flows from that.

00:52:09.000 And I think one lesson that flows from that is that we shouldn't fear death.

00:52:15.000 Of course, death is a very bad thing, but there are much more terrible things than just losing one's life, and importantly, you could lose one's soul.

00:52:25.000 And I think whether it's fighting for the unborn or fighting for peace and security for our citizens, I want us to be the kind of society where my kids can grow up to be virtuous young people, can be good young Christians, of course, because that's what I'm trying to raise them to be.

00:52:43.000 And that's what our public policy is trying to do.

00:52:46.000 Creating the space where moms and dads can raise their children in their faith to become good young people who believe the things that I do.

00:52:55.000 That is what I'm trying to create, is the space for you, of course, to raise your children as you see fit, but the space for me to raise my kids to be the kind of young people that I think they ought to be.

00:53:08.000 And the other thing that I take from it, Mercedes, is if you look at the long history of the Christian faith, we've been around for about 2,000 years now, give or take a few years, and there have been really dark times in the history of the Christian faith.

00:53:22.000 There have been really good times in the history of the Christian faith.

00:53:25.000 And I just try to remind myself that we put our faith in God above.

00:53:32.000 We put our faith in the grace of God.

00:53:35.000 And we try the best to do His will, and we don't worry so much about whether we're going to have earthly rewards.

00:53:42.000 We worry about whether we're doing right by God Almighty above.

00:53:47.000 That's what I try to do, and that's how I try to run my life in public.

00:53:52.000 You mentioned raising these children into good people and also into good citizens that can contribute to society and to the world.

00:54:01.000 We had so many young people come out and support Donald Trump and J.D. Vance this past election.

00:54:08.000 So what is your message?

00:54:10.000 And I really, what is your message to the young men?

00:54:15.000 You know, I guess my message to young people generally is we're trying to make your life better.

00:54:22.000 And that is the simple thrust of President Trump's policy is we want you to be able to buy a home.

00:54:29.000 We want you to be able to work a good job.

00:54:31.000 We want you to be able to raise your kids, like I said, according to the values that you believe in.

00:54:36.000 And we want you to be able to build a nice life in this country that all of us love.

00:54:40.000 That is what we're trying to do.

00:54:42.000 And you guys, more than anybody, more than me, I'm talking about people under the age of 30 in particular, you guys are going to have to deal with the consequences of good policy.

00:54:55.000 or of bad policy for much longer than the rest of us.

00:54:59.000 And I want you guys to think about the future and ask yourself, do you want safe communities?

00:55:05.000 Do you want a prosperous life?

00:55:07.000 Do you want to be able to work a good job?

00:55:08.000 Or do you want that job shipped off to China or somewhere else?

00:55:11.000 We're fighting for you every single day.

00:55:14.000 We want you to help fight for us because we've got to win.

00:55:17.000 Not just the policy battles of the next couple of months.

00:55:21.000 We've got to win the midterm elections in a couple of years.

00:55:23.000 We need you.

00:55:25.000 We recognize that we need you.

00:55:26.000 And we're fighting for you every single day.

00:55:28.000 And I think, you know, you asked me, my message to young men is, I think that our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge.

00:55:41.000 You should try to cast aside your family.

00:55:46.000 You should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place.

00:55:51.000 And I think that my message to young men is don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person because you're a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you're competitive.

00:56:07.000 It's... 0.99

00:56:08.000 Our, like, our message, the cultural message, and I think the president's and mine is the exact opposite, but our cultural message is, I think that it wants to turn everybody, but our cultural message is, I think that it wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think talk the same, and act the same. 0.97

00:56:37.000 We actually think God made male and female for a purpose.

00:56:40.000 And we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women, and we're going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.

00:56:52.000 And by the way, I actually think, Mercedes, this is the thing that President Trump, this is why the media went after him so hard, is because, you know...

00:57:04.000 When I think about, like, what is the essence of masculinity?

00:57:07.000 You could answer this in so many different ways, but when I think about me and my guy friends, we really like to tell jokes to one another.

00:57:15.000 Like, we like to laugh.

00:57:16.000 You think of all the movies that were really popular.

00:57:18.000 Are you saying you're pretty funny?

00:57:20.000 I try to be.

00:57:21.000 Okay, President Trump, who's funnier?

00:57:23.000 Who's funnier?

00:57:23.000 President Trump.

00:57:24.000 All right, there you go.

00:57:25.000 Let's be honest.

00:57:25.000 There you go.

00:57:26.000 He's got the best sense of humor of any American political figure.

00:57:30.000 But I think this is why young men in particular are so, you know, they're so inspired by President Trump is because he doesn't allow the media to tell him he can't make a joke or he can't have an original thought.

00:57:44.000 President Trump just says what's on his mind.

00:57:46.000 That's a damn good thing, and it's a good example to set for young men in American culture.

00:57:52.000 You know, I always tell my five daughters, I don't have any sons, but Matt and I, we have five beautiful daughters, and I always say, you know, the most important decision you'll ever make is who you marry. 0.92

00:58:04.000 That's right.

00:58:04.000 Always who you marry.

00:58:05.000 And you made a very important decision in marrying Usha.

00:58:08.000 I did.

00:58:08.000 I married up.

00:58:09.000 I married up.

00:58:10.000 She is a beautiful second lady, and I want to know, what is the best advice Usha has given you?

00:58:17.000 Well, one...

00:58:20.000 This is so fun.

00:58:21.000 Okay.

00:58:22.000 This is going to be very personal.

00:58:24.000 One piece of advice she gave me like a week ago was you should be nicer on social media.

00:58:28.000 I don't know that I'll take that advice.

00:58:32.000 Some advice is good.

00:58:33.000 Some advice, as you know, can be good, but you don't have to always take it.

00:58:39.000 You sound like my husband.

00:58:41.000 The best advice Usha ever gave me, when it comes, I mean, she gave me so many good life advices.

00:58:47.000 Or a piece of advice, but the best advice she gave me when it came to politics is don't let them filter you. 0.82

00:58:53.000 And in politics, you know, you've got consultants, you've got media professionals, you've got pollsters, you've got a lot of people who try to tell you what to say or how to behave or, you know, what to do.

00:59:06.000 And Anusha just said, just be yourself, be authentic, go out there and say what's actually on your mind, maybe a little nicer from time to time.

00:59:15.000 But I think that's the best advice that she gave me, and that's why we take our kids everywhere, and that's why I'm not afraid to make a joke on social media, even if it's sometimes a dad joke.

00:59:23.000 Forgive me all of you who don't like dad jokes, but you just got to be yourself.

00:59:29.000 And I think that's President Trump's superpower in American politics, and that's probably the best advice Susha ever gave me, at least on politics.

00:59:35.000 Okay, last question.

00:59:40.000 What inspires you every day?

00:59:42.000 Well, I mean...

00:59:43.000 One is my family, right?

00:59:46.000 I mean, I'm blessed to have a seven-year-old, a five-year-old, and a three-year-old, and I can't help but see the country through their eyes.

00:59:56.000 And when we were on the campaign in particular, and we would take our kids with us, All of my kids, when we were about to land in some new place, you know, they'd all rush to the window of the plane, and they'd look out, and they'd say, oh, Dad, this looks so cool.

01:00:09.000 Like, you know, the beauty of the Arizona cactuses and Arizona deserts.

01:00:14.000 Or, you know, we'd be in Texas for a fundraiser, and they'd be like, oh, my God, like, look at just all of that open space, right?

01:00:20.000 Or we'd be in North Carolina and say, oh, look how beautiful the green mountains, right?

01:00:24.000 This idea of these beautiful green mountains of Appalachian, North Carolina.

01:00:27.000 We love North Carolina.

01:00:30.000 I guess what inspires me is you can't help but be hopeful and energetic and optimistic about this country when you see it through the eyes of a child.

01:00:43.000 So I hope I never lose that perspective because it does inspire me every day.

01:00:49.000 Well, Mr. Vice President, you inspire us every day.

01:00:53.000 We are praying for you.

01:00:55.000 We are praying for your family.

01:00:56.000 We are praying for...

01:00:57.000 This incredible administration for, of course, President Donald Trump.

01:01:01.000 And we are honored that you are here with our CPAC family.

01:01:04.000 And I'm honored to be here.

01:01:05.000 Thank you so much.

01:01:05.000 Thank you.

01:01:06.000 Thank you all.

01:01:08.000 Thank you.

01:01:08.000 I love you guys.

01:02:09.000 I've showed up at CPAC because God sent me there.

01:02:14.000 The greatest God there is in heaven and earth.

01:02:18.000 And we are so blessed.

01:02:21.000 Please stick around and hear what I've got to say because God needs you.

01:02:27.000 He needs you to participate.

01:02:29.000 He needs you to be on fire like I am.

01:02:33.000 God has a way that He can...

01:02:36.000 Fix everything.

01:02:37.000 Because as long as you've got Him in you, as long as you've given your life to Him, you too can participate in this.

01:02:45.000 You know, the first thing that happened is I showed up in Washington, D.C. because God told me to go there.

01:02:53.000 I had no reason.

01:02:55.000 But He gave me a reason immediately, and when I got there, I met two of my greatest friends, Matt and Mercedes Schlapp.

01:03:03.000 Yes?

01:03:04.000 The people that run CPAC, God put in front of me.

01:03:08.000 And I have served God and this organization ever since then.

01:03:14.000 And I'm honored to be called the matriarch of CPAC. CPAC has been...

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01:07:16.000 Good morning, everyone.

01:07:29.000 What about that speech from our vice president?

01:07:34.000 And our great Mercedes Schlapp.

01:07:38.000 I am not as good as a moderator as Mercedes.

01:07:42.000 Michael turned to me and said, man, she's good.

01:07:44.000 I go, Mike, I'm not that good.

01:07:47.000 But good morning, everyone.

01:07:48.000 Thank you so much for being here.

01:07:50.000 It's an honor to be here at CPAC, moderating one of the most critical discussions of our time.

01:07:56.000 The future of Bitcoin, digital assets, and financial freedom.

01:08:02.000 We are witnessing a once-in-a-generation transformation in how people store and transfer wealth and value.

01:08:11.000 And today, I have the privilege of introducing a man who didn't just predict the future of money, he's helping build it.

01:08:19.000 In 2020, as governments printed trillions of dollars, Where it weakened our US dollar, one CEO made history.

01:08:29.000 Michael Saylor became the first major CEO of a US publicly traded company to transfer his entire balance sheet from cash into Bitcoin.

01:08:39.000 Historic.

01:08:40.000 That's incredible.

01:08:42.000 That's risk.

01:08:43.000 He is the largest single corporate holder of Bitcoin in the world, owning 478,740 Bitcoin.

01:08:54.000 Now worth $48 billion.

01:08:57.000 Michael just didn't talk about Bitcoin.

01:08:59.000 He bet on it.

01:09:00.000 He built on it.

01:09:01.000 And he led the way for corporations, investors, and people like me and you to invest and remain sovereign.

01:09:09.000 He remains one of the most influential voices in financial and technological history, proving that Bitcoin isn't just an investment.

01:09:16.000 It's a revolution that America has to dominate.

01:09:20.000 Please join me in welcoming one of the most fearless and financial minds in our future, a champion of digital freedom and a trailblazer, Michael Saylor.

01:09:33.000 Well, thanks for the intro.

01:09:37.000 I'm really excited to be able to address this group today because I think that Bitcoin represents the most powerful technology force for conservatism in the world.

01:09:50.000 And I don't know that that's fully appreciated, but Satoshi, many years ago, had this vision for sound money and sovereign money via technology, via modern cryptography, modern semiconductors, the modern internet.

01:10:11.000 And that idea of giving economic power to the individual in the face of the overwhelming...

01:10:19.000 Power of the collective.

01:10:21.000 When you feel like the government's against you, the banking system against you, the currency is against you, big tech is against you, when you're the little guy, when you're struggling for freedom and struggling in the face of overwhelming power, you need some advantage.

01:10:41.000 And Satoshi created this network that's based on two principles.

01:10:47.000 One principle is integrity, and the other principle is sovereignty.

01:10:52.000 The integrity, we all know, is there'll never be more than 21 million Bitcoin, and that's enforced by millions and millions of computers and hundreds of millions of people everywhere in the world that believe it's not okay to lie, cheat, or steal.

01:11:07.000 It's not okay to distort the truth.

01:11:10.000 There is a truth.

01:11:12.000 There is a universal...

01:11:14.000 There's no common ledger that no one can tamper with, no one can corrupt.

01:11:19.000 Not a nation-state, not a company, not a politician.

01:11:24.000 And that idea of a censorship-resistant, unstoppable version of the truth was a first in human history.

01:11:35.000 And then the second idea is sovereignty.

01:11:37.000 It's like, well, if there is a truth, can you own it?

01:11:42.000 Right?

01:11:43.000 So, with Bitcoin, the idea is you can own a Bitcoin, and you don't have to trust a bank with it.

01:11:51.000 You don't have to trust the city with it.

01:11:53.000 You don't have to leave it in the custody of a big company.

01:11:56.000 You can take self-custody.

01:11:59.000 So, we oftentimes say, what do you own?

01:12:03.000 The only thing you own are your memories.

01:12:05.000 Everything else in this world that you own, you own at the pleasure of someone more powerful than you.

01:12:10.000 And they can take it away from you via force.

01:12:13.000 What they can't take away from you is your experience and what's in your head.

01:12:18.000 And the brilliance of Satoshi was, what if we could put all of the money in the world into the heads of the people?

01:12:26.000 What if what you knew was the password to unlock all of your wealth or protect it, and nobody else could take it away from you?

01:12:37.000 And that's a profound shift because what Satoshi did was gave us a network where hundreds of millions of people can own and control their economic energy in a censorship-resistant, unstoppable fashion.

01:12:58.000 And that was an idea worth nothing for a year, and then it became worth a million, and then it became worth a billion.

01:13:06.000 And then it became worth $10 billion.

01:13:08.000 And then it became worth $100 billion.

01:13:10.000 And when MicroStrategy, now Strategy, got into business about four years ago, it was worth $150 billion.

01:13:17.000 And today it's worth $2 trillion.

01:13:19.000 And at that time, you were a software company.

01:13:22.000 And you saw this as an opportunity, a different opportunity.

01:13:26.000 We were a software company, and we were staring at a quick death or slow death or take a risk.

01:13:35.000 And, you know, when the COVID lockdowns took place and the interest rates went to zero, we had to decide, were we going to sell the company, throw in the towel, or could we find a way out?

01:13:48.000 And this is the challenge that 40 million companies in America have, which is, if you're not one of the magnificent seven, if you're not Apple or Google or Microsoft, how are you supposed to compete in a world where Trillion-dollar companies have all the power.

01:14:05.000 Big banks have all the power.

01:14:07.000 Big government has the power.

01:14:09.000 And Bitcoin offered us the way out because if you recapitalize a company on Bitcoin, you're not slave to the bank.

01:14:20.000 You're not slave to the currency.

01:14:21.000 You're not slave to the local politician that tells you what you can do and how you can use your money.

01:14:29.000 Instead of having the central bank Take interest rates to zero and keep them there forever.

01:14:35.000 Bitcoin gave us a 60% return every year because the Bitcoin interest rate is set by a global decentralized system of capital flows.

01:14:48.000 So my company was able to save itself when we switched from the U.S. Treasury or the bond to Bitcoin.

01:14:57.000 Our market cap increased from a billion to a hundred billion.

01:15:01.000 And our enterprise value increased from $600 million to $105 billion.

01:15:07.000 And we went from a $500 million company growing 0% a year, competing against a monopoly, Microsoft, where it's hopeless, to a $50 billion company growing 60% a year that's part of the digital economy.

01:15:23.000 So I feel blessed.

01:15:26.000 And we were very fortunate, but that really motivated me with a mission.

01:15:31.000 And what I realized is Satoshi gave us a way out of our conundrum.

01:15:40.000 Satoshi gave us a strategy that makes a small company big and powerful, that makes the individual more powerful than the state, that turns the power balance between the collective and the individual on its head.

01:15:56.000 And the secret to that is this powerful, worldwide network that puts the individual first, that's uncorruptible, that anybody can join, that gives you unfettered, uncensored property rights.

01:16:18.000 Well, to that point, I had spent the last couple days preparing for this and had a list of questions for Michael.

01:16:25.000 And about 10 minutes before we sat down on the stage and he goes, let's talk about why Bitcoin is conservative.

01:16:32.000 Let's talk about why this is your coin and this is your industry.

01:16:36.000 So, Michael, how is Bitcoin conservative?

01:16:39.000 Why should it be important to this audience, the largest conservative conference in the world?

01:16:44.000 Bitcoin literally represents the conservation of energy in cyberspace.

01:16:51.000 Satoshi implemented a protocol which is inherently conservative.

01:16:56.000 If I send Bitcoin to you, I lose it, you have it.

01:17:01.000 I can't create more.

01:17:02.000 I can't lie about it.

01:17:05.000 The thing that's beautiful about nature is conservation of energy.

01:17:10.000 Conservative is based on natural law.

01:17:13.000 It's based on the idea that if you just make something up which isn't true, you'll be punished.

01:17:19.000 And the Bitcoin network represents that innate integrity and truth.

01:17:26.000 So if you think about the world today, there's just an inherent force.

01:17:32.000 There's a struggle between capitalism and socialism, between people that believe in freedom and free markets, and those that believe in central planning and collectivism.

01:17:43.000 And if I'm a socialist, I want to take away your guns and your money.

01:17:49.000 And Bitcoin is money that they can't take away.

01:17:55.000 Like, what freedom do you have if you have all of your money in a bank that can freeze it?

01:18:02.000 What freedom do you have if you have your money embedded in a currency where someone can print 4x more of it without your approval and debase it to zero?

01:18:14.000 What freedom do you have if you own real estate in a city where the mayor can put rent control on it or expropriate it or the governor can tax it away from your family?

01:18:25.000 What freedom do you have if all your wealth is in a business where the government can tell you you can't operate, shut down your pipeline, tax your employees, tax your income, regulate your products?

01:18:39.000 And the answer is...

01:18:40.000 You only have conditional freedom until the government changes and they just take away that freedom.

01:18:47.000 And then when they take away your wealth, when they take away your economic power, they're going to starve you to death, and then you've got nothing.

01:18:56.000 So Bitcoin represents putting your economic wealth in cyberspace.

01:19:02.000 It's beyond the reach of the mayor, beyond the reach of the governor, beyond the reach of any nation state, beyond the reach of any other company that would do you harm.

01:19:12.000 It is the first time in the history of the human race that you can bind economic energy tightly to an individual, to a family, to your company, and you don't have to ask permission to have economic wealth, to have money.

01:19:31.000 And you don't have to live in fear that someone gets up on a morning and just takes it all away from you to power you down.

01:19:40.000 And so if I am conservative, I want a family.

01:19:44.000 I want a company.

01:19:45.000 I want freedom.

01:19:47.000 Well, how are you going to pay for it?

01:19:49.000 And if you live in a country like Venezuela and the currency goes to zero, you're going to be begging for food next week.

01:19:59.000 Wouldn't it be great?

01:20:01.000 If I could take the wealth of my family and put it into a network that no one can loot, no one can corrupt.

01:20:11.000 And at the end of the day, I don't want to gamble my future.

01:20:16.000 I don't want to take my life savings and gamble in the stock market.

01:20:19.000 I don't want to take my life savings and gamble that the mayor of the city won't just take my property away from me.

01:20:26.000 I actually just want to own.

01:20:29.000 The wealth.

01:20:30.000 I want to own my money.

01:20:31.000 And Bitcoin is a way for you to convert your capital into digital capital that will last a thousand years.

01:20:41.000 Your country will be, your company, your country, or your family will be wealthy for generations to follow.

01:20:52.000 You don't have to live in fear.

01:20:54.000 And when you don't have to live in fear, when you have economic independence, You can actually stretch your time horizon out, and you can build an institution, you can build your family, you can build a life for yourself.

01:21:08.000 Michael, you talked about several things there.

01:21:11.000 One is wealth, sovereignty, agency, the ability to come in, and for someone, a mayor, a city councilman, to take what you have.

01:21:19.000 We've seen that happen from New York to California.

01:21:22.000 A lot of us have been subject to this.

01:21:25.000 And then you also talk about leadership.

01:21:28.000 We have President Trump.

01:21:29.000 We have the greatest leader our nation has ever had.

01:21:32.000 He's compared to George Washington.

01:21:34.000 People love him.

01:21:36.000 We love him.

01:21:37.000 He sees Bitcoin.

01:21:38.000 He sees the digital asset industry as an exceptional opportunity.

01:21:42.000 How can America ensure its dominance moving forward?

01:21:47.000 You know, this nation became great.

01:21:51.000 Because of the Louisiana Purchase.

01:21:54.000 We bought a third of the country from Napoleon for a few million dollars.

01:21:58.000 Then we purchased Texas and California from the Mexicans for a few million more. 1.00

01:22:04.000 Then we purchased Alaska from the Russians for a few million more.

01:22:09.000 We didn't even know there'd be a trillion dollars of mineral rights underneath Alaska when we purchased it.

01:22:15.000 They called it Seward's Folly.

01:22:16.000 But what I'm describing is manifest destiny.

01:22:20.000 If you want to create a great nation, you have to build it on valuable property.

01:22:26.000 You have to know where is all the money headed?

01:22:28.000 Where is the future?

01:22:29.000 When we bought California, we didn't know there'd be a Hollywood.

01:22:32.000 We didn't know there'd be a Silicon Valley.

01:22:36.000 In 1867, we didn't have a petroleum industry.

01:22:41.000 And so where is the money headed in the future?

01:22:44.000 The money's headed to cyberspace.

01:22:46.000 Bitcoin is property in cyberspace.

01:22:50.000 The manifest destiny of this country is to own cyberspace.

01:22:55.000 And I think that President Trump understands the value of owning scarce desirable property.

01:23:03.000 If we go to cyberspace and we buy Bitcoin and the nation embraces Bitcoin, then all of the capital in the world, all of the Chinese money, all the Russian money, all the European money, All of the money from the 20th century, the money invested in a Siberian warehouse, the money invested in fill-in-the-blank, anything you could possibly own in Africa, all of that capital is flowing into cyberspace.

01:23:33.000 It's going from physical to digital.

01:23:35.000 It's flowing from the 20th century to the 21st century.

01:23:39.000 The 21st century is going to be a billion AIs thinking a million times a second, and what are they going to be?

01:23:46.000 Using to move their money around.

01:23:48.000 They're going to use digital money because they can't get a bank account.

01:23:53.000 They can't get a credit card.

01:23:56.000 I have to approve my wire transfers from my bank once a week.

01:24:00.000 It takes about 20 minutes.

01:24:02.000 And they ask me on the phone whether the money should move.

01:24:05.000 It's a good problem.

01:24:06.000 What's 478,740 Bitcoin, Michael?

01:24:10.000 We don't feel too bad is what I'm trying to say.

01:24:13.000 Yeah, I get it.

01:24:15.000 But my point really is, we've been doing it that way for 50 years.

01:24:20.000 And if you look at the way the digital economy is going to run in the 21st century, it's going to be a billion computers, thinking a million times a second, moving assets at the speed of light.

01:24:33.000 Bitcoin represents digital capital.

01:24:36.000 That network is $2 trillion today.

01:24:40.000 It's going to be $20 trillion in four to eight years.

01:24:44.000 It's going to be $200 trillion in 20 years.

01:24:48.000 Then it's going to grow faster than every other asset in the world.

01:24:53.000 It's going to continue to grow.

01:24:55.000 The United States should own it.

01:24:59.000 Right?

01:25:00.000 Is that the conversation?

01:25:01.000 Talk to us about the U.S. Bitcoin Reserve.

01:25:03.000 Everyone, and we've heard a couple other coins being yelled out by the crowd.

01:25:08.000 And people want to know, are we going to have a U.S. Bitcoin Reserve?

01:25:12.000 And when is that going to happen?

01:25:14.000 The way to think about Bitcoin is, it's the most powerful digital network in the world.

01:25:21.000 It is cyber power.

01:25:23.000 If you want to dominate the next hundred years...

01:25:27.000 Just like the last hundred years is based upon dominating sea power, fire power, air power, space power, nuclear power.

01:25:39.000 You want to dominate cyberspace.

01:25:42.000 You want cyber power.

01:25:44.000 It's the unstoppable network that no one can corrupt.

01:25:49.000 And the use of the unstoppable network, among other things, is...

01:25:54.000 Hundreds of trillions of dollars of capital moving from point A to point B. But the other use of the network is I can send a message which is unstoppable, and I can store information that is unstoppable, and I can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the authenticity of an instruction or a document.

01:26:15.000 No country, no company, no individual, not a trillion computers can corrupt that message.

01:26:24.000 If you want to own the future, you want to own cyberspace.

01:26:28.000 How do you own cyberspace?

01:26:30.000 You own Bitcoin, and then you run the Bitcoin network.

01:26:34.000 You mine Bitcoin, you own Bitcoin.

01:26:38.000 President Trump understands property.

01:26:40.000 He understands the value of Greenland.

01:26:43.000 He understands the value of Alaska.

01:26:45.000 He understands the value of oil rights.

01:26:48.000 Drill, baby, drill would be impossible if we didn't own the land. 0.94

01:26:53.000 He understands American dominance.

01:26:55.000 And land is physical property.

01:27:00.000 When I run electricity through semiconductors and I create a wall of encrypted energy, I create digital property.

01:27:09.000 Bitcoin is digital property.

01:27:11.000 You should own it.

01:27:13.000 Your company should own it.

01:27:14.000 Our nation should own it.

01:27:16.000 It is the future.

01:27:17.000 In your perspective, how soon do you think we're going to be buying Bitcoin and have within our U.S. Reserve at a timeline?

01:27:25.000 I think it's going to be 12 months, 24 months.

01:27:27.000 I think there's an appreciation of the power of Bitcoin throughout the Cabinet, throughout the House, throughout the Senate.

01:27:35.000 There's going to be a political process by which we build consensus with the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Cabinet and find the right way through.

01:27:44.000 You know, what I would say on this topic is the U.S. could own 20% of the network like that for free.

01:27:52.000 The dollar would strengthen.

01:27:54.000 The nation would be enriched.

01:27:56.000 And the real promise is if you own 4 to 6 million Bitcoin, you're going to pay off the entire national debt.

01:28:04.000 You're going to neutralize it.

01:28:06.000 We can generate a $50 trillion to $80 trillion benefit to the United States people.

01:28:14.000 To the citizens, to the taxpayers.

01:28:16.000 And we can do it simply by seeing the future.

01:28:19.000 It cost $6 million to buy Alaska.

01:28:22.000 The payoff was a trillion.

01:28:24.000 Just like right now, you can literally buy it for a song and dance.

01:28:28.000 That's the opportunity.

01:28:30.000 The risk is that you wouldn't want the Saudis to buy it first, or the Russians or the Chinese, or the Europeans.

01:28:39.000 And there's only room for one nation state to buy up 20% of the network.

01:28:44.000 And obviously, I think it should be the United States.

01:28:47.000 I think it will be the United States.

01:28:50.000 It's a way for us to enrich ourselves and emerge as a creditor nation in a matter of a decade.

01:28:56.000 It's also a way for us to ensure that we're the economic leaders in cyberspace and the digital economy for the next hundred years.

01:29:04.000 And if we do that, Every one of our allies will follow us and then all of our enemies will end up having to buy into the network once it passes 10 or 20 million a coin and they will enrich us.

01:29:18.000 And we saw that just yesterday President Trump was in Miami and he was talking about Bitcoin.

01:29:25.000 The Bitcoin Reserve is a touchy subject.

01:29:28.000 A lot of people want to know what other coins within the digital asset industry are going to be involved.

01:29:33.000 The U.S. does not just hold just gold and oil within our reserve.

01:29:37.000 It holds up to 27 other trace minerals, and so we're completely diversified.

01:29:43.000 Do you see room for another digital asset to be included in the Bitcoin Reserve or the U.S. financial reserve system?

01:29:51.000 I think the key thing to keep in mind right now is that Bitcoin is a commodity.

01:29:56.000 It is an asset without an issuer.

01:29:59.000 There is no company, no individual, no country, no entity that can corrupt it.

01:30:05.000 It has reached escape velocity.

01:30:08.000 It has gotten to the point where it is basically a freedom virus, a truth virus, a monetary virus.

01:30:16.000 It has been embraced by a trillion dollars of smart money.

01:30:21.000 That is, a trillion dollars of real money has been invested in the network.

01:30:25.000 It is 99% of the digital power on Earth.

01:30:29.000 It's fairly unstoppable.

01:30:31.000 And so if you're going to capitalize a company or a country, you want to capitalize it on property or a commodity or a network, which is beyond the point where anybody could change the nature of it.

01:30:48.000 And so that makes Bitcoin the most certain thing in the digital universe.

01:30:51.000 And when you talk about certainty, and when you talk about truth, over the last four years, we've experienced as a culture travesty.

01:31:00.000 We haven't been able to speak.

01:31:02.000 We've been censored.

01:31:03.000 How does Bitcoin...

01:31:05.000 What is Bitcoin to you?

01:31:07.000 What do you see that others don't?

01:31:09.000 And how can conservatives capitalize on the opportunity to take advantage and make sure that America is dominating our future, that we have the economic freedoms, that our children and our families and America will stay at the front-runner of this industry?

01:31:25.000 What I would say to everybody in this room is if you want freedom, if you want liberty, if you want to live...

01:31:33.000 Your finest life.

01:31:35.000 You're going to need economic power.

01:31:38.000 You need physical power.

01:31:40.000 You need political power.

01:31:42.000 But you need economic power.

01:31:45.000 Bitcoin represents economic armor.

01:31:50.000 When you put on the suit of armor, then no mayor, no government, no collectivist, no socialist.

01:31:59.000 Can debank you.

01:32:01.000 They can't take your money away.

01:32:03.000 They can't impoverish you.

01:32:05.000 Just like a gun is a deterrent, Bitcoin is a deterrent, because if you have wealth in Bitcoin, you have the option to move it to any jurisdiction, and you can keep it, and no one can take it away from you via force of violence, no matter where you are on Earth.

01:32:22.000 And so Satoshi gave us an opportunity.

01:32:26.000 I hope I intrigue all of you with the opportunity and you go do the research and determine for yourself how you benefit from it.

01:32:33.000 But I just leave you with the thought that Bitcoin is economic armor.

01:32:38.000 You have, Michael.

01:32:40.000 Thank you.

01:32:40.000 God willing, we have as much Bitcoin as Michael one day.

01:32:44.000 This is a defining moment for digital assets.

01:32:47.000 It's a defining moment for our country.

01:32:49.000 We thank all of you.

01:32:50.000 Michael, thank you so much for joining us.

01:32:52.000 CPAC. It's going to be at the front of the digital asset industry.

01:32:57.000 We see Bitcoin and the entire industry as a significant research for our country and our people.

01:33:03.000 Thank you, everyone.

01:33:04.000 God bless America.

01:33:05.000 Thank you.

01:33:06.000 Ladies and gentlemen, this is Republicans for Weaponization Control.

01:33:30.000 Please welcome Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Representative James Comer, Counselor to the President Donald J. Trump, Alina Haba, and your host, editor of townhall.com,

01:33:46.000 Katie Pavlich.

01:34:48.000 All right, y'all.

01:34:49.000 Good morning, CPAC.

01:34:50.000 How's everyone doing?

01:34:52.000 Well, it's a wonderful time to be in D.C.

01:34:56.000 It is my, I think, 16th CPAC.

01:35:00.000 It is Alina Haba's first CPAC.

01:35:03.000 Congresswoman Comer, how many for you?

01:35:06.000 Twice.

01:35:07.000 Okay.

01:35:08.000 So we are here this morning to talk to you about a number of things, but most importantly, one of the most pressing issues of our time, and that is the weaponization of the federal government against its citizens.

01:35:08.000 Good.

01:35:19.000 And we have no one better here today to talk about this than these two.

01:35:23.000 Alina, let's start with you.

01:35:24.000 You've gone from working for President Donald Trump as his attorney with the law fair as a private citizen to now being in the White House and seeing how the government is still being used to thwart his agenda through the courts.

01:35:37.000 So maybe just take us through a journey a little bit of your experience and some of the differences.

01:35:42.000 Yeah, it's my pleasure.

01:35:42.000 I mean, I always say I'm happy to not be outside a courtroom for once and have President Trump where he was supposed to be, which is in that Oval Office.

01:35:51.000 So thank God for that.

01:35:55.000 But I think when I came to, and yeah, my journey's been a strange one for an attorney, right?

01:36:00.000 You should, I always say this, you should not know who somebody's lawyer is.

01:36:04.000 That should not happen in this country.

01:36:07.000 And unfortunately, but fortunately for us, because we're going to fix it now, they really took a wrong, a misstep in their calculations when they used courtrooms.

01:36:20.000 AGs and DAs to try and take down political opponents.

01:36:23.000 When we won the election in the most sweeping mandate on November 5th, I thought that was over.

01:36:28.000 I really did.

01:36:30.000 Every state, and I think it was a lot because of what they did with Lawfare.

01:36:34.000 And then we got to the White House.

01:36:37.000 And we started doing exactly what America voted for us to do.

01:36:41.000 Cleaning up, getting rid of bureaucrats that are making money on taxpayer dollars, doing all the things we promised.

01:36:50.000 And then again came the law fair.

01:36:53.000 And I feel like I'm right at home.

01:36:56.000 Welcome to Washington.

01:36:58.000 Unfortunately, the desperation is something that I thought would end when the American people spoke so loudly on November 5th.

01:36:58.000 We're happy to have you.

01:37:06.000 But they have not.

01:37:07.000 They've just become more desperate.

01:37:09.000 And now we've got them singing songs in New York and holding Chuck Schumer's Holden beer cans.

01:37:13.000 Yeah.

01:37:13.000 Fight the scene.

01:37:15.000 They're a little rudderless right now, that's for sure.

01:37:17.000 So, Congressman Comer, you are the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, one of the most important committees that we have on Capitol Hill.

01:37:25.000 And you've been working for years to expose the way that the Biden administration was attacking not just Donald Trump, but also the American people who support him.

01:37:33.000 And if you look at what's been happening, really, starting under Barack Obama, when they used the IRS to go after conservatives, this is not something that it just...

01:37:43.000 It's been embedded inside the federal government by the left.

01:37:47.000 So now that you've been through the process of doing oversight with the Biden administration, how are you now working in the Trump administration with a new government and Republican control to really try and change some of these things so that Americans aren't being punished for having certain political views?

01:38:04.000 Well, for one thing, I've had conversations with Billy Long, the new IRS commissioner, as well as Kash Patel, who hopefully in a matter of a couple hours will be the next FBI director.

01:38:16.000 Our staff's communicated with Bondi staff, and we've given them specific instances of where bureaucrats have abused their power.

01:38:28.000 I think a lot of times that these bureaucrats, they do things, and even when they get caught nothing ever happens and what What we want to do, and what our committee wants to work with the Trump administration on, is holding these deep state bureaucrats accountable.

01:38:44.000 At the very least, they lose their job.

01:38:47.000 Hopefully they get drug in for depositions.

01:38:50.000 But at the end of the day, we've never seen a more weaponized federal government.

01:38:55.000 It's not just the judiciary.

01:38:56.000 It's the entire federal government.

01:38:58.000 It's the IRS. It's the FBI, the CIA. We've got other agencies.

01:39:05.000 The EPA, I would argue.

01:39:06.000 They've been weaponized.

01:39:08.000 And all the people that Trump put in office are disruptors.

01:39:11.000 That's why I strongly support him.

01:39:13.000 And at the end of the day, he's going to get every one of his nominees confirmed.

01:39:16.000 So we're going to work with them.

01:39:18.000 Jim Jordan's committee is going to work with them.

01:39:20.000 We want to get rid of these bureaucrats and allow Trump to pass his agenda that the American people gave him a mandate to pass.

01:39:27.000 Yes.

01:39:28.000 So, during the election, one of the big slogans from the left was, we have to do this for the sake of democracy.

01:39:35.000 And it's becoming more and more apparent as the Trump administration gets underway with President Trump's direction that it was really about protecting the bureaucracy.

01:39:45.000 So, Alina, the president has signed more executive orders than any president in history in his first...

01:39:50.000 The first month in office.

01:39:53.000 Today is the month-aversary since January 20th.

01:39:58.000 A new administration took office and was sworn in.

01:40:02.000 He can sign these executive orders, but he has to have help from the federal government and from Capitol Hill to actually implement them.

01:40:09.000 And now you're also seeing a number of judges trying to get involved to stop his use of executive authority.

01:40:16.000 Can you talk about the judges continuing their lawfare and whether they actually have standing when it comes to blunting some of these orders and saying he doesn't have the power in the executive branch to do what he's doing?

01:40:27.000 Yeah, of course.

01:40:29.000 You know, it's a lot like what I spoke about before.

01:40:32.000 This is desperate times for them.

01:40:35.000 And I'll say this.

01:40:36.000 I think that if you are going to fix a car and you don't look under the hood, how can you fix it?

01:40:42.000 So what we're doing is taking a good hard look under the hood of where the money was spent, how it was spent.

01:40:49.000 And there are tax, for instance, on Elon.

01:40:51.000 We were discussing this.

01:40:53.000 It's so baseless. 0.99

01:40:54.000 It's so ridiculous. 0.80

01:40:56.000 The fact that they're upset, for instance, yesterday, Governor Hochul in New York, that she's going to fight our administration tooth and nail for stopping congestion pricing. 0.72

01:41:04.000 Congestion pricing in New York is ruining tourism.

01:41:08.000 It's stopping people that work there from driving to work.

01:41:11.000 Their subways are not safe.

01:41:13.000 These people...

01:41:15.000 are caring more about their next election.

01:41:17.000 They care more about their face on TV and their politics than they do the people they're supposed to represent, the constituents that voted for them to do the work.

01:41:26.000 Unfortunately, they have taken that to courts.

01:41:28.000 And we've seen it.

01:41:31.000 We've won.

01:41:32.000 We always win.

01:41:33.000 We keep winning.

01:41:34.000 I mean, even Chukkin said it.

01:41:36.000 Look, if they had it their way, our guy would be in jail right now.

01:41:40.000 And that didn't happen.

01:41:41.000 And instead, we won in the most profound way.

01:41:45.000 The American people are happy with what we're doing.

01:41:47.000 And the amount of executive orders that we are pummeling on them is because we have that much work to do.

01:41:54.000 We have to correct four years very quickly.

01:41:58.000 Very quickly.

01:41:59.000 And we are all committed to win.

01:42:01.000 And we're going to keep winning.

01:42:03.000 Congress, do you want to weigh in on the role that Capitol Hill has, especially with Republican control in Washington now, to make sure that these executive orders are implemented in a way?

01:42:12.000 Right.

01:42:13.000 I have a bill in the House.

01:42:15.000 Mike Lee has the bill in the Senate.

01:42:17.000 We're going to do everything we can to pass that legislation to expedite these executive orders and to put them into law so whenever the next president comes around, they can't change them by executive orders.

01:42:29.000 Because what Trump's doing is what's best for America.

01:42:33.000 It's common sense.

01:42:35.000 He's restored common sense back to Washington, D.C. He's getting the government and the bureaucrats out of the way of the private sector, and we've got to make sure that becomes the law of the land.

01:42:44.000 And I think the support's there in Congress.

01:42:47.000 There were a few members of Congress.

01:42:49.000 On the Republican side, in the House and the Senate, that stuck their toe in the water to try to defy the president, to try to obstruct the president.

01:42:58.000 Rhinos! 0.53

01:42:58.000 Hey, well, I think they're on the team now. 0.53

01:43:01.000 I think they got the message from their constituents back home.

01:43:04.000 They listened to their people when they went home, and they're on the Trump train now, and hopefully we can drain the swamp and make America great again.

01:43:13.000 Everybody knows that Elon Musk has been leading his team of Doge and rampaging through a number of federal agencies in Washington, D.C., which we are loving because there's so much waste, fraud, and abuse.

01:43:23.000 But as we continue to see more of what they're uncovering, yes, of course, we see these silly pet projects like Sesame Street in Iraq, for example. 0.99

01:43:31.000 But we're also starting to see a massive issue of actual corruption that has occurred.

01:43:36.000 For example, it was reported, I believe, this morning by the Free Beacon that Stacey Abrams, who was, you know, Georgia's darling, ran for governor twice.

01:43:46.000 She was involved in a lot of voter initiatives there, got a $2 billion grant from the Environmental Protection Agency after only managing $100 at a nonprofit that she started.

01:44:00.000 Yeah, it's the NGOs.

01:44:01.000 Right.

01:44:02.000 So, Congressman, you know, talk about what the Oversight Committee is doing.

01:44:06.000 With these new cabinet members like Lee Zeldin, for example, at the EPA to really root out this corruption and this infrastructure the left has built in D.C. to really push their political agenda on the entire country.

01:44:21.000 We're going to work with the administration when they identify something that they believe is fraudulent.

01:44:27.000 We will.

01:44:28.000 Follow through with investigation, with subpoena power.

01:44:32.000 Follow the money.

01:44:33.000 That's what we did in the Biden investigation.

01:44:35.000 We got the bank records.

01:44:36.000 You know, a lot of people say, well, go after the tax records.

01:44:39.000 As someone that's been involved in banking...

01:44:41.000 Tax records don't always tell the true picture.

01:44:44.000 The bank records don't lie.

01:44:46.000 And one of the things that we're working on, we go through a thing called the suspicious activity reports, where banks identify fraudulent behavior.

01:44:54.000 Banks usually catch when something suspicious happens.

01:44:57.000 If there's an account that had a $100 balance, which is probably the minimum to open an account, and then all of a sudden they get a multi-million dollar deposit.

01:45:06.000 Out of the blue.

01:45:07.000 That raises a red flag.

01:45:09.000 And the banks report that to Treasury.

01:45:10.000 So that's where we're going to be following the money.

01:45:12.000 We're doing this now with Act Blue.

01:45:15.000 And I think we're going to have some very interesting information to come out very soon on Act Blue.

01:45:21.000 But we're having a hearing on March 5th with the Sanctuary City mayors.

01:45:26.000 We're bringing in the mayors of New York.

01:45:29.000 Not a bad guy.

01:45:30.000 The mayors of New York, Boston, Denver, and...

01:45:33.000 California.

01:45:34.000 Yeah.

01:45:35.000 And we're bringing them in.

01:45:38.000 And these, other than the New York mayor, they have tried to obstruct what Tom Amund's doing and obstruct deportation efforts.

01:45:46.000 So we're going to let them explain that to the American people.

01:45:49.000 But one question we have is, who's been paying for this?

01:45:51.000 And I believe you're going to see there are a lot of...

01:45:53.000 Government pots of money that have been funneling through these NGOs, these non-governmental organizations.

01:45:59.000 And that's what we want to identify.

01:46:01.000 Musk is all over that.

01:46:03.000 Doge is all over that.

01:46:04.000 And Congress is going to be all over that.

01:46:06.000 And hopefully we can show the American people how abusive the Democrats and their allies in the deep state bureaucracies have been with their tax dollars.

01:46:16.000 They have funneled this mass implosion of illegal Immigrants in our country. 0.99

01:46:23.000 They've housed them.

01:46:24.000 They've provided free health care.

01:46:25.000 And at the end of the day, I think you're going to see a lot of tax dollars were laundered into programs like this.

01:46:31.000 Sounds a lot like money laundering to me.

01:46:34.000 So, Alina, when it comes to these NGOs, there's been a lot of lawsuits that are filed by leftist groups to try and get judges involved in stopping the taking away of the funding or even...

01:46:34.000 Absolutely.

01:46:44.000 Giving Doge and Elon Musk and his team, who's a special government employee, much like Anita Dunn was under Joe Biden and others in previous administrations.

01:46:53.000 To keep that kind of funding.

01:46:55.000 But it does seem like there is a lot of corruption, not just maybe something that got lost in terms of going to the wrong place.

01:47:02.000 Yeah, no, no.

01:47:03.000 I mean, it's very clear.

01:47:04.000 You don't have to be a rocket scientist.

01:47:06.000 When you have a line item of trillions of dollars that does not get traced to anyone or anything, but entities that are run by family members of bureaucrats, that's a problem.

01:47:17.000 You don't have to be a lawyer to know that ain't good.

01:47:20.000 And the end of the day, look, even yesterday, Yesterday, they tried to file these restraining orders.

01:47:25.000 There was a bunch of individuals that said, oh, we're, you know, we're being hurt by this, and it was denied.

01:47:30.000 And that was actually by a very liberal judge in D.C. who sat on a lot of the January 6th issues for President Trump and other people.

01:47:39.000 Look, at the end of—this is what I can say.

01:47:42.000 We have been—I think there are 70 lawsuits that have been filed.

01:47:46.000 And I was speaking to Elon, and I said, you know, you should put in Times Square a ticker.

01:47:50.000 It'll say on the top how much money you're saving, and then on the bottom we're going to put one about how many lawsuits get filed.

01:47:57.000 One will go up, one will go down very quickly.

01:47:59.000 But they do that when we're winning and when we're hitting them where it hurts.

01:48:04.000 So desperate times call for desperate measures.

01:48:05.000 You see all these AGs and DAs trying to come in.

01:48:08.000 You see individuals, but they're not winning.

01:48:10.000 And the only people that are winning right now...

01:48:12.000 Our American people.

01:48:13.000 They are.

01:48:14.000 We are winning.

01:48:15.000 It happens to be tax season, so everybody's filing their taxes, going, if I don't pay the correct amount or miss a couple cents, they'll threaten to throw me in prison.

01:48:23.000 And now's a great time.

01:48:24.000 Don't worry, we're firing a bunch of the IRS today.

01:48:28.000 But that was the stuff that they did, and America didn't like it.

01:48:32.000 You're funneling people to audit and hurt the American people.

01:48:36.000 Why don't we audit the people that are hurting us?

01:48:39.000 It's not supposed to go the other way.

01:48:41.000 We're not supposed to hurt each other.

01:48:42.000 And that's really the mission, you know?

01:48:45.000 And President Trump said just yesterday, I was with him, and he was speaking at an economic forum, and he said, look, we hope to take 20% of what Doge has recovered, that is billions and billions of dollars, and put that money back to the American people who were hurt by the last administration, who can't buy and put that money back to the American people who were hurt by the last administration, who can't buy eggs But, you know, it's just ridiculous.

01:49:07.000 And we have to get back to common sense.

01:49:10.000 So, Congressman, how can Republicans on Capitol Hill with their slim majority work to codify these Doge cuts into law?

01:49:19.000 Because you keep hearing people saying, well, Congress has to decide because they hold the purse strings.

01:49:24.000 So now you guys have lots of examples inside a lot of these agencies about where these things that have been approved through Congress are going.

01:49:32.000 How do you make sure it's not just, you know, we see it?

01:49:36.000 It's a problem, but we're going to keep going.

01:49:38.000 The first step is to pass my bill and Mike Lee's bill that expedites this and will allow Congress to codify all the executive orders.

01:49:47.000 Secondly, we've got to follow this up with a budget, with President Trump's budget proposal.

01:49:53.000 We've got to cut spending.

01:49:55.000 We've got to ensure that the tax cuts are renewed.

01:50:01.000 This budget reconciliation bill is huge, and the reason This needs to be a very large bill is because this is the only vehicle that you can pass through the Senate that only takes 51 votes.

01:50:15.000 If we have to depend on Democrats, we might get Fetterman.

01:50:20.000 And that's it.

01:50:21.000 We're still going to be six votes short.

01:50:22.000 Still a long shot.

01:50:23.000 Yeah, that's a long shot.

01:50:24.000 I wouldn't want to hold my breath on that.

01:50:26.000 But we've got to do it on this reconciliation bill.

01:50:29.000 We've got to renew the tax cuts.

01:50:30.000 We've got to put in the tax cuts that President Trump promised.

01:50:33.000 No tax on tips.

01:50:34.000 No tax on overtime.

01:50:36.000 And put this whole agenda in.

01:50:38.000 And cut the bureaucracy and watch America grow.

01:50:41.000 Watch this country take off.

01:50:43.000 Once you get the government off the backs of the private sector.

01:50:47.000 The entrepreneurial spirit in America will flourish.

01:50:51.000 Americans will prosper.

01:50:52.000 And I think Americans will start to regain a little confidence in their government again, all because of President Trump's mandate, because of the work that everyone in this room did to get President Trump elected.

01:51:04.000 And deregulation, of course, is a big one.

01:51:06.000 The President has promised for every new regulation they will eliminate 10 of them.

01:51:09.000 We only have a few minutes left.

01:51:11.000 Alina, you're new to Washington, D.C., new to the world of politics.

01:51:14.000 Final thoughts about the next four years here and your new gig?

01:51:19.000 First of all, it's so exciting.

01:51:21.000 I never thought I would live in the swamp that I hit on TV every day, but here we are.

01:51:25.000 I knew he was going to win.

01:51:27.000 I wasn't sure if I was going to come, but I'm glad I did.

01:51:29.000 I mean, it is such a blessing to be in the West Wing with the greatest president that I've ever seen in my lifetime.

01:51:35.000 In the past, I mean...

01:51:37.000 It is the greatest joy.

01:51:39.000 And having been there with him through the fight to get here, I think is why we fight so hard.

01:51:45.000 I go to work every day.

01:51:46.000 It is a blessing.

01:51:47.000 I fight for the American people every day now.

01:51:49.000 And I had been started fighting for President Trump, but now it's for all of you.

01:51:53.000 And it's an honor.

01:51:55.000 I mean, I've gotten to do things like child trafficking issues, and I'm speaking to the Middle East.

01:52:00.000 And you have a platform to help not just America be strong, but help the world be peaceful.

01:52:06.000 And great.

01:52:08.000 And it's really America's strength that runs that.

01:52:11.000 And I'm excited.

01:52:13.000 It's been a real blessing and God's given me a real chance to do some change with President Trump.

01:52:18.000 I'm excited.

01:52:19.000 Congressman Comer, what's next?

01:52:20.000 I know that you guys have a lot.

01:52:21.000 You mentioned the Sanctuary City hearing on March 5th.

01:52:24.000 People can tune in for that.

01:52:25.000 But final thoughts from you about where we're going here as Republicans control the government.

01:52:30.000 We've got to stick together.

01:52:32.000 I'm seeing more...

01:52:34.000 Coordination between the House and the Senate than I've seen in the eight years that I've been in Congress.

01:52:39.000 This is because we have a strong president.

01:52:42.000 We have a strong president that's put in disruptors.

01:52:45.000 The members of Congress that love the status quo, they went back home during Christmas break.

01:52:52.000 They went back home after the first weekend when Trump started making his Proposals and putting his people in place, and they heard from their constituents.

01:53:03.000 And the American people support President Trump's agenda.

01:53:08.000 And I think Congress understands that.

01:53:10.000 I think even the members that we sometimes get frustrated with in the House and the Senate, I think everybody's on board.

01:53:17.000 The President's popular, and the people have delivered a message.

01:53:21.000 So hopefully we're going to be able to pass his agenda.

01:53:23.000 And I think that the savings That Doge is finding.

01:53:27.000 It's just ironic that the Democrats are exposing their true colors.

01:53:31.000 They are obsessed with Elon Musk.

01:53:33.000 They have lost their mind over Elon Musk.

01:53:36.000 And that is the hill they've chosen to down, to protect the bureaucracy when the Republicans, being led by President Trump, want to end the bureaucracy.

01:53:46.000 So I think...

01:53:47.000 We're going to get a lot done, and it's all because of President Trump.

01:53:50.000 Yeah, they're destroying their infrastructure, and they're very afraid about what their political future looks like.

01:53:55.000 Thank you both so much for sharing your insights today.

01:53:57.000 We'll be watching all of it.

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01:56:26.000 Before the cabinet room, you saw Donald Trump's next cabinet make waves at CPAC. I

01:57:10.000 actually started quite a while ago in CPAC, and I enjoyed it so much that I came back for a second one, then a third, then I said, what the hell, let's run for president.

01:57:21.000 Matt said, it's like five years ago, six years ago.

01:57:24.000 He says, you should run for politics.

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01:57:27.000 For the presidency of the United States.

01:57:30.000 It is my honor to introduce to CPAC 2017 our...

01:57:37.000 First of all, I want to thank Matt Schlapp and his very, very incredible wife and boss, Mercedes, who have been fantastic friends and supporters and so great when I watch them on television defending me, nobody has a chance.

01:57:55.000 I love this place.

01:57:57.000 Love you people.

01:57:59.000 You never stop fighting for America and I will never, ever...

01:58:05.000 Stop fighting for you.

01:58:06.000 We know that there are still more records to be shattered, new summits to be scaled, more triumphs to be realized, and more amazing history just waiting to be written.

01:58:17.000 The American adventure has only just begun.

01:58:21.000 God bless America and we will see you next year.

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01:58:29.000 You never stop fighting for America and I will never, ever...

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01:58:35.000 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Liz Trubb.

01:58:47.000 Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's fantastic to be back it's fantastic to be back in America.

01:59:12.000 And it's fantastic to be back at CPAC for the second year in a row.

01:59:18.000 But last year, there was a dark cloud hanging over this conference.

01:59:22.000 It was called Joe Biden.

01:59:25.000 And this year, we are now under the leadership of President Donald Trump.

01:59:35.000 This is truly the golden age of America.

01:59:43.000 But I'm sad to report that Britain is in the dark age.

01:59:51.000 We have a socialist government, commissars ruling over us, who are leading our country in a terrible direction.

02:00:03.000 But what I want to say today is they are not the only problem.

02:00:08.000 The current establishment stooges in Whitehall and Westminster are only the latest iteration of Britain going wrong for the past few decades.

02:00:21.000 Because, let's be honest, Britain isn't working.

02:00:25.000 The British system is deeply rotten.

02:00:28.000 Britain is becoming a failed state.

02:00:33.000 We've got people who are being arrested and locked up for posting on X and Facebook. 0.89

02:00:41.000 We've seen tens of thousands of girls as young as 12 raped, tortured and even killed by Pakistani grooming gangs.

02:00:54.000 And yet many of those perpetrators have not been brought to justice.

02:00:58.000 In fact, those crimes have been covered up.

02:01:01.000 And we know that the authorities colluded.

02:01:04.000 We know there was police collusion, and we know there was collusion from the local council.

02:01:10.000 We have a massive problem with illegal immigration, but yet we can't even deport people who are criminals from our country because of human rights.

02:01:25.000 One example was an immigrant from The Democratic Republic of Congo, who had sexually abused his own stepdaughter.

02:01:36.000 But he was allowed to stay in Britain on the basis of the right to family life. 0.98

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02:01:46.000 A criminal from Albania was allowed to stay in Britain because his son didn't like the kind of chicken nuggets they sell abroad. 0.97

02:01:55.000 And I'm not joking you there.

02:02:00.000 It's not just a problem we have with mass migration and illegal immigration.

02:02:06.000 We've also got a problem with our energy in Britain.

02:02:10.000 So in Britain, fracking has been banned.

02:02:12.000 I was the only Prime Minister who allowed fracking.

02:02:16.000 Sadly, I wasn't in office long enough to actually make it happen.

02:02:22.000 We have net zero policies that have decimated our oil and gas industry.

02:02:27.000 The net results...

02:02:29.000 We have the highest energy prices in the developed world.

02:02:32.000 And in Britain, we've just seen the last steel plant close down last year.

02:02:39.000 We cannot produce our own steel anymore.

02:02:44.000 We have an economic orthodoxy, a Bank of England that has printed vast amounts of money.

02:02:51.000 They've created rampant inflation.

02:02:54.000 They've wasted billions of taxpayer pounds.

02:02:59.000 If they weren't the government, it would be called a heist.

02:03:02.000 Yet in none of these cases, in none of these cases, have any of these people, any of these authorities been held to account for the fact they have completely failed. any of these authorities been held to account for the And we're in a situation where Britain is almost bankrupt.

02:03:25.000 Morally, socially and economically.

02:03:30.000 And I think people in this room might want to know, how on earth has this happened?

02:03:34.000 This is the country that invented parliamentary democracy.

02:03:38.000 It's the country of the Magna Carta. 0.87

02:03:40.000 It's the country of the Bill of Rights.

02:03:43.000 We protected freedom of the press back in 1695, almost 100 years before the First Amendment.

02:03:54.000 How on earth can the country of Adam Smith...

02:03:58.000 And the Industrial Revolution be de-industrializing.

02:04:02.000 It doesn't make any sense.

02:04:04.000 And the answer is that everything that made Britain great is being destroyed by an establishment that hates Britain and hates the West.

02:04:24.000 Like in most of Europe, our universities Our institutions and our corporations have been taken over by anti-West ideology.

02:04:35.000 Islamism, green extremism, anti-capitalism, wokery, transgenderism, you name it, they've adopted it. 0.98

02:04:46.000 And what we've seen is a massive failure of leaders in Europe to push back against this, because this is not something the population wanted.

02:04:55.000 This is not something the people in Britain or Europe voted for.

02:04:58.000 This is something that was imposed from above.

02:05:03.000 And what happened is that democratically elected politicians handed vast amounts of power over to the unelected and the unaccountable.

02:05:14.000 In Britain, Tony Blair in particular trashed centuries of liberty by...

02:05:22.000 He created a tyranny of technocrats.

02:05:25.000 He created an unaccountable Supreme Court which had never existed in Britain before.

02:05:32.000 He created a much deeper and powerful state that is not held to account.

02:05:41.000 He also handed vast powers over to an alphabet soup of international bodies, the World Health Organization.

02:05:49.000 The United Nations, the ECHR, all of whom nobody could vote in and nobody could vote out.

02:05:57.000 And all of those bodies, as you've seen in the United States of America, have been captured by the same anti-West ideology.

02:06:07.000 But what I find really incredible, really, really incredible, is it wasn't just China and Iran and Russia.

02:06:14.000 That were funding these NGOs, funding these anti-West groups.

02:06:20.000 It was actually the United States of America under President Joe Biden.

02:06:27.000 Through USAID. Now, did you know that American taxpayer dollars was funding the BBC? Did you know that they were funding the Tony Blair Institute?

02:06:45.000 Did you know that they were funding Rory Stewart's wife?

02:06:50.000 It's incredible.

02:06:51.000 We thought you were our friends.

02:06:54.000 But you were actually, American taxpayers were funding this anti-West ideology.

02:07:02.000 And the problem is, when the people in Britain voted for something different, when they tried to change the government, when they tried to change the system in 2016, in 2019, and in 2024, They found the same people were still in power.

02:07:19.000 The bureaucracy had not changed.

02:07:21.000 And it's no surprise that young people are losing their faith in democracy because they don't believe it can change things.

02:07:31.000 And amazingly, during all of this, many so-called conservatives went along with the ideology.

02:07:39.000 They were busy hugging Greta Thunberg.

02:07:42.000 They were putting up taxes.

02:07:43.000 I'm not joking about that.

02:07:45.000 They were putting up taxes.

02:07:47.000 They were increasing immigration.

02:07:50.000 They were pursuing transgender ideology. 0.66

02:07:54.000 And it's no wonder that the Conservative Party had its worst defeat since 1834. Patriotic Brits have had enough.

02:08:07.000 They've had enough.

02:08:08.000 And we look across the Atlantic with envy.

02:08:11.000 We see President Trump in the Oval Office signing off executive orders and we want some of that in Britain.

02:08:21.000 We want drill baby drill. 1.00

02:08:25.000 We want men banned from women's bathrooms and women's sports. 0.99

02:08:32.000 We want illegal immigrants deported. 1.00

02:08:35.000 We want taxes to be cut.

02:08:38.000 We want a Trump revolution in Britain.

02:08:46.000 We want to flood the zone.

02:08:49.000 We want Elon and his nerd army of muskrats examining the British deep state. 0.99

02:09:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, we missed the first American revolution in 1776. In fact, it was actually a revolution against us.

02:09:11.000 But we want to be part of the second American Revolution.

02:09:16.000 We want to dismantle the British Deep State, which is older and more entrenched than the American one. 0.92

02:09:28.000 We need a great restoration bill to repeal all of the terrible Blair laws.

02:09:34.000 The Equality Act, the Climate Change Act, the Human Rights Act, the Constitutional Reform Act.

02:09:39.000 We need to eradicate judicial activism in Britain and restore parliamentary sovereignty.

02:09:45.000 we want our government run by the executive, not by the bureaucracy.

02:09:51.000 But most of all what we need is we need to restore free speech.

02:10:06.000 This is the lifeblood of our democracy.

02:10:10.000 And J.D. Vance is right.

02:10:13.000 Vice President Vance is right.

02:10:16.000 Free speech is in retreat in Britain and in Europe.

02:10:26.000 To Europe's governments, particularly Britain, they see George Orwell's 1984 as an instruction manual.

02:10:36.000 Look at the evidence.

02:10:37.000 A British citizen was arrested for praying outside an abortion clinic.

02:10:43.000 We have German prosecutors saying that if you insult somebody, you could be arrested.

02:10:50.000 We had Alison Pearson, a British journalist, visited at her home by the police because of a tweet that she posted a year ago and since deleted.

02:11:01.000 I want the police to be policing real crimes.

02:11:05.000 Not thought crimes.

02:11:10.000 But not only this, we have a supine legacy media that pay lip service to free speech, but have suppressed stories and distorted stories.

02:11:21.000 The BBC were found to have violated their editorial guidelines 1,500 times in the four months after the appalling atrocities of October 7th.

02:11:35.000 They were found to have been downplaying Hamas terrorism and promoting the idea that Israel was the aggressor.

02:11:43.000 This is our state broadcaster, funded by the taxpayer.

02:11:47.000 The mainstream media have failed to report on the grooming scandal, and they've failed to hold the deep state to account.

02:11:55.000 And much of the reason for that is the deep state of the people giving them all their information, all their leaks, all their funding, all of their...

02:12:06.000 And they're frightened of the media regulator Ofcom.

02:12:11.000 We have seen what independent media has done for the United States, and we want some of that.

02:12:18.000 That's why we are going to be establishing a new free speech media network in conjunction with our American allies.

02:12:31.000 Including the great people here at CPAC. It will be uncensorable and uncancellable.

02:12:39.000 It will take on the Britain bashing corporation, which is what we call the BBC. It will take on Starmer and his socialists.

02:12:49.000 And it will take on the censors of Germany.

02:12:53.000 Because it's only by telling people the truth.

02:12:59.000 In the United Kingdom, in Europe, in the Anglosphere, in America, that we will turn our backs on the wars west against itself.

02:13:12.000 All of the people here are working to make America great again.

02:13:21.000 I believe that we can make Britain great again.

02:13:29.000 I believe that we can make Europe great again.

02:13:34.000 And I believe that together we can make the West great again.

02:13:40.000 Thank you.

02:14:46.000 I think you have some Bolsonaro supporters here.

02:14:54.000 The great Brazilian community.

02:14:58.000 This is a little bit weird.

02:15:00.000 I'm not using it with talking, with the teleprompter.

02:15:04.000 But I'm very happy to be here.

02:15:06.000 Good afternoon, CPEC. How are you doing?

02:15:11.000 It's great to be here in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

02:15:17.000 I know many of you...

02:15:19.000 We are well aware of the risks posed by an elected judge interfering with the policies of a duly elected president.

02:15:28.000 Even we have all heard Elon Musk call it out.

02:15:33.000 We've all heard Vice President G.D. Vance sound the alarm.

02:15:37.000 And, of course, we've all heard President Trump repeatedly warn that judicial overreach threatens not just his presidency But the very foundation of the American democracy.

02:15:51.000 Well, I come from the future, and I know exactly how this story can end.

02:15:58.000 Okay, maybe not the future, but I come from Brazil, which is not that different, as my country has become a laboratory for censorship and judicial authoritarianism.

02:16:08.000 Since 2019, it's been used as a testing ground for the judicial weaponization against conservatives, libertarians, and Christians.

02:16:17.000 Always under the noble pretense of protecting democracy, fighting misinformation and stopping extremism, while, in reality, silencing dissidents, controlling narratives and criminalizing opposition.

02:16:33.000 We continue to face the dire consequences of this experiment every day.

02:16:38.000 Just three days ago, my father, former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, was formally charged by the attorney general of the current socialist government with allegedly orchestrating a coup, a Disneyland coup d'etat, as some might call it, without weapons, without a plan.

02:17:00.000 And while he wasn't even in Brazilian territory, but in Orlando, probably debated strategy with Goofy, And taking national security advices from Mickey Mouse, maybe?

02:17:13.000 It's really the Disneyland coup d'etat.

02:17:15.000 There is no other word to talk about it.

02:17:18.000 This baseless accusation, entirely devoid of evidence, is nothing more than a tool to neutralize political opposition.

02:17:27.000 It mirrors the same tactics used against the opposition in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

02:17:34.000 Yet in Brazil...

02:17:36.000 Brazil is perceived differently on the global stage, because while its situation is in some ways even worse, the persecution is not spearheaded by the executive branch, but by the judiciary.

02:17:50.000 And that makes it all the more dangerous.

02:17:54.000 We are not talking about a dictatorship in the traditional sense.

02:17:58.000 We are talking about a place where tyrants issues decrease.

02:18:04.000 And suppress opposition openly.

02:18:06.000 No.

02:18:07.000 In Brazil, the judicial system has been weaponized, creating an illusion of legality while systematically dismantling democracy from within.

02:18:18.000 And guess who helped found this experiment?

02:18:22.000 Right?

02:18:23.000 Agencies like USAID and NAD, institutions supposedly dedicated for promoting democracy, but in reality...

02:18:33.000 Channeling resources into censorship, judicial overreach, and political persecution in my country.

02:18:39.000 Let me introduce to you a man named Alexandre de Moraes.

02:18:44.000 He is not an elected official.

02:18:46.000 He is a Supreme Court Justice who has given himself unchecked power to decide who can speak, who can run for office, and even who can go to the prison.

02:18:57.000 Under his watch, Brazil has become a country where...

02:19:00.000 Social media platforms are forced to silence opposition voices or face billions in fines.

02:19:06.000 Judges and bureaucrats, not the people, decide who is fit to run for office.

02:19:15.000 Congressmen like Daniel Silveira are thrown into jail for so-called opinion crimes, receiving an outrageous sentence of eight years and nine months behind bars, simply for exposing his views in a video.

02:19:30.000 A punishment more fitting of a totalitarian regime than a democracy.

02:19:35.000 And, as I said, even the former president, Jair Bolsonaro, is at risk of being arrested on the same kind of bogus charges used against opposition leaders in Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.

02:19:49.000 But it doesn't stop there.

02:19:51.000 The judicial system has become an instrument for persecution at every level.

02:19:57.000 Political parties that challenge the status quo are harassed and investigated, and some of their candidates are banned from competing fairly in elections.

02:20:07.000 Independent journalists face exile or worse, imprisonment for exposing government corruption or criticizing the judiciary.

02:20:16.000 Ordinary citizens who dare to express dissenting opinions on social media find themselves banned, fined, Or even arrests.

02:20:28.000 This is not democracy.

02:20:30.000 This is a judicial overreach.

02:20:33.000 This is lawfare.

02:20:35.000 And this is what happens when courts are turned into political weapons against the will of the people.

02:20:42.000 Why is it happening?

02:20:44.000 Because Jair Bolsonaro currently leads all major pools outside the margin of error.

02:20:50.000 And he's the only candidate capable of defeating the left in the 2026 election.

02:20:58.000 If he's kept out of the race, Brazil will fall completely under China's influence. 0.94

02:21:05.000 There is no doubt about that.

02:21:08.000 And Brazil cannot be overlooked with over 200 million people.

02:21:13.000 The largest economy in Latin America and the land mass nearly the size of the United States, its geopolitical and economic importance is uneniable.

02:21:22.000 China recognized this and is actively working to pull Brazil deeper into its sphere of influence.

02:21:30.000 And while you might think this is just a Brazilian problem, it's not.

02:21:36.000 This has many ramifications and has already spilled over into the United States.

02:21:41.000 Here...

02:21:42.000 Are three examples that should concern every American citizen.

02:21:47.000 Number one, Jason Miller's detention in 2021. An American citizen, advisor to President Trump, was detained in Brazil under politically motivated orders.

02:21:58.000 His crime?

02:21:59.000 Attending CPAC Brazil and supporting free speech.

02:22:03.000 Number two, Elon Musk's persecution.

02:22:06.000 He was added to an illegal fake news investigation.

02:22:10.000 That's right.

02:22:11.000 Elon Musk is under investigation in Brazil.

02:22:14.000 You should be, I don't know, maybe scared with him if he go around here, if he come around here.

02:22:20.000 Threatened with billion-dollar fines and saw his company, Axe, banned in Brazil, all because he refused to comply with government censorship demands.

02:22:33.000 The deep state scandal at CBP involving a Brazilian national, number three. 0.55

02:22:39.000 Brazilian authorities, in collusion with American bureaucrats, manipulated U.S. immigration records to fabricate justification for the unlawful imprisonment of Felipe Martins, a former national security advisor to my father.

02:22:53.000 He was subject to solitary confinement, psychological coercion, and inhuman treatment in an attempt to extract statements that could be used to incriminate President Bolsonaro.

02:23:08.000 Think about it.

02:23:10.000 If they can detain and silence American citizens, if they can control a country as large as Brazil, if they can manipulate official U.S. government records to imprison a political opponent abroad, what else they can do?

02:23:26.000 What stops them from doing the same to help terrorists, drug cartels, or transnational criminals?

02:23:33.000 And more importantly, if they could do all of this outside of the United States, what makes you think they wouldn't try to replicate it within?

02:23:45.000 This has gone too far.

02:23:47.000 And you, the American people, must pay attention because what happened in Brazil is being used as a blueprint for judicial tyranny elsewhere, including right here in the United States.

02:23:59.000 Iran? 0.79

02:24:00.000 Thank you.

02:24:02.000 Ironically, as I said before, this experiment was partially funded by our taxpayer dollars, which means they will soon come back.

02:24:13.000 They will come to recover that investment.

02:24:15.000 But instead of teaching leftist judges how to destroy Trump, let it serve as a warning for the American people.

02:24:23.000 Freedom is fragile.

02:24:25.000 And don't still let an elected judge dictate your democracy.

02:24:29.000 It's only a matter of time before we wake up in a country where free speech, free elections, and even freedom itself are just distant memories.

02:24:38.000 Brazil was a test. 0.85

02:24:44.000 Now...

02:24:44.000 Thank you.

02:24:45.000 I told you that you have Bolsonaro supporters here.

02:24:48.000 Now they are applying the same formula elsewhere, including here in the United States, and we need to fight back, just as President Trump is doing through his legal team and in partnership just as President Trump is doing through his legal team and in partnership with Rumble by filling a lawsuit against Alexandre de Moraes for censoring and sanctioning American

02:25:16.000 This legal battle will set a crucial precedent not just for Brazil, but for the future of the free speech and democracy in the United States as well.

02:25:24.000 The Globalist Playbook is in full effect.

02:25:27.000 If you don't fight back now, you will be the next.

02:25:32.000 Learn from Brazil before it's too late. 0.98

02:25:35.000 Thank you all, my friends.

02:25:44.000 This is my message.

02:25:45.000 Pray for my father.

02:25:46.000 Pray for the Brazilians that are in prison now, our January 8th, guys. 0.99

02:25:50.000 We are asking for amnesty in the Congress.

02:25:54.000 And we hope receive a lot of support from you outside of Brazil because you know how it means.

02:26:00.000 God bless America.

02:26:01.000 God bless Brazil.

02:26:02.000 Thank you very much.

02:26:04.000 Thank you.

02:27:05.000 Hello, CPAC.

02:27:06.000 My name is Leo Zaki, and I'm the host of the international radio show, America Matters, on the Salem Network and the Answer Network.

02:27:17.000 I was vice president of Zaki Farms, my family's poultry company, and a board member of the California Poultry Federation for 10 years.

02:27:25.000 120 years ago, my family legally immigrated to California, where my great-grandfather started what became Zaki Farms.

02:27:33.000 Zaki Farms was a vertically integrated business and the largest poultry company on the West Coast, largest organic turkey producer in the nation, and the largest privately owned employer in California.

02:27:46.000 After 90 years, we were forced to close our doors and put thousands of people out of work because of elected officials in California who hate private business.

02:27:58.000 They raised the anti-competitive minimum wage and over-regulated the entire industry until it was impossible to exist.

02:28:06.000 Now, a lot of smart people will tell you this is just mismanagement, just waste, just incompetence.

02:28:14.000 But let's be real for a second.

02:28:17.000 This is not incompetence.

02:28:19.000 This is a deliberate strategy to destroy small businesses and the middle class.

02:28:25.000 California isn't run by the people anymore.

02:28:27.000 It's run by a political cartel.

02:28:30.000 by a handful of ruling families and their cronies who will not stop unless we drive them out.

02:28:36.000 Many of you, especially the younger ones in the audience, might not even know this, but California used to be a red state, a strong conservative state.

02:28:52.000 Thank you.

02:28:53.000 And here's what they don't want you to know.

02:28:56.000 California still has more conservatives than any other state.

02:29:00.000 That's more than Texas, more than Florida.

02:29:04.000 So how did the Radicals stay in power? 0.99

02:29:07.000 They built a one-party dictatorship, and they call it a supermajority.

02:29:14.000 And they did this by running Democrats, but calling them Republicans.

02:29:18.000 These rhinos stole the vote from the people by making IDs for voting illegal, by inflating the census, gerrymandering, ballot harvesting, and removing all oversight that was in place to ensure election integrity. 1.00

02:29:33.000 I'm no detective, but even a dummy can smell voter fraud when the state with the most conservative somehow magically votes blue every year.

02:29:46.000 We are blessed to have Donald Trump as our president.

02:29:52.000 We truly are.

02:29:54.000 But all that means is that we have a few more years and a fighting chance to clean out the gangsters who are plundering our beautiful nation.

02:30:03.000 The fight continues, and we must win this battle.

02:30:07.000 And this battle is in California.

02:30:09.000 We can turn California red again.

02:30:12.000 It's responsible for some of the worst legislators in the nation and destabilizing our republic with anti-American policies.

02:30:25.000 If it happened here, it can and will happen in your state too.

02:30:31.000 But that's why you're here, to see conservative values defended against the psychotic enemies of our republic with their BS woke agenda 21 in 15-minute cities every day.

02:30:43.000 The new Department of Government Efficiency exposes more of their lunacy and disgusting waste.

02:30:52.000 California needs its own doge and a proper purchasing department to manage its spending habit with full transparency.

02:31:02.000 Transparency in our government is mandatory to keep out the bad guys.

02:31:06.000 California is over $3.2 trillion in debt.

02:31:10.000 And thanks to Doge, we will soon know some of the insanity these maniacs have been wasting our money on.

02:31:18.000 This isn't just corruption.

02:31:20.000 It's criminal.

02:31:21.000 The fires in Los Angeles have woken up a lot of lefties.

02:31:25.000 So guess what?

02:31:27.000 It doesn't matter if you used to be a liberal or conservative when you're homeless.

02:31:31.000 Losing everything tends to change your mindset.

02:31:34.000 I'm here to tell you that California is ready for change.

02:31:37.000 But it won't happen without the support of our Republicans across the nation.

02:31:41.000 That means all of you, everyone in this room and listening at home, wants to save this country and defeat the Marxist globalist woke agenda.

02:31:49.000 The time to strike is now.

02:31:54.000 But the establishment rhinos are working hard to derail our America First efforts. 1.00

02:32:00.000 Support your grassroots patriots and sign up for your local precinct committeemen.

02:32:05.000 There's over 200,000 empty seats out of the 400,000 nationwide.

02:32:10.000 If we're going to hold the line, we need to scoop them up and also run for local, board, council, committee, statewide positions.

02:32:19.000 Trump winning does not mean the war is won.

02:32:22.000 It means we are just getting started.

02:32:26.000 And Americans are gearing up.

02:32:29.000 The battle isn't just against a toxic ideology.

02:32:33.000 It's against criminals who have infiltrated our system and are trying to destroy it from within.

02:32:39.000 We are going to break the totalitarian supermajority in California with the help of God, the prayers of the righteous, and a lot of hard work.

02:32:47.000 Again, my name is Leo Zaki, and please tune into my radio show Monday through Friday and visit my website to see how you can get involved locally with other patriots.

02:33:02.000 Go to turnred.org, and I want to thank all of you so much.

02:33:05.000 America, California's in the fight.

02:33:08.000 Thank you, CPAC. At

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02:34:28.000 Every institution today is under attack.

02:34:31.000 The home, the church, the government.

02:34:35.000 And many people are asking, what is the truth?

02:34:39.000 Jesus Christ claimed to be ultimate truth.

02:34:42.000 Are you willing to face the truth?

02:34:44.000 Do you think the MKUltra project ever actually ended?

02:34:47.000 The Central Intelligence Agency is actively involved in mind manipulation.

02:34:50.000 We all answer to one God and one Savior.

02:34:55.000 and he's there to change your life for the better.

02:35:00.000 Hey there, scan your QR code on your badge so that you can view the agenda.

02:35:09.000 Check out our membership circles and learn more about our centers.

02:35:14.000 This president is calling my family, is calling me, is calling MAGA supporters enemy of America.

02:35:20.000 I am the daughter of a Cuban political prisoner who fought for freedom, who fought against authoritarian and dictators.

02:35:28.000 He sounds just like Fidel Castro did.

02:35:30.000 Fidel Castro would target the enemies of his government and try to take them down.

02:35:35.000 This is exactly what we're seeing with Joe Biden.

02:35:37.000 He should be ashamed of himself.

02:35:39.000 No American. 1.00

02:35:40.000 No American. 1.00

02:35:42.000 Should be called a Nazi or be called an enemy of the state. 0.77

02:35:47.000 those of us who love this country and i have spent my whole life defending freedom in america Trump won and you know it.

02:36:05.000 Please welcome CPAC Chairman, Matt Schlapp, and Political Director of the Prime Minister of Hungary, Balazs Orban.

02:36:15.000 Welcome to America, Balazs. 1.00

02:36:38.000 Thank you.

02:36:39.000 Nice to be here.

02:36:40.000 Thank you.

02:36:40.000 It's wonderful to be here.

02:36:42.000 Congratulations to all that you elected President Trump.

02:36:46.000 I think you saved your country and you did a great thing to Europe and the world and to my country as well.

02:36:53.000 Okay, so we have to take care of business.

02:36:56.000 What is Hungarian for Trump 1 and you know it?

02:37:01.000 Trump won.

02:37:03.000 We won.

02:37:04.000 Very fantastic.

02:37:06.000 That's great.

02:37:07.000 By the way...

02:37:09.000 We've had four CPAC Hungrys, or we will have a fourth coming up in May. 0.56

02:37:15.000 Is everyone invited?

02:37:16.000 Yes.

02:37:17.000 You have standing invitation.

02:37:18.000 Come and visit us.

02:37:20.000 Budapest is safe and sound.

02:37:22.000 Safe and sound.

02:37:25.000 It's amazing how when we first started collaborating with each other and with the center and with Miklos and the whole gang, people inside of government, people outside of government, everyone said, why would you go to Hungary?

02:37:39.000 And then I read the Washington Post.

02:37:40.000 I didn't know this.

02:37:41.000 Apparently your prime minister is like a dictator or something.

02:37:43.000 I didn't realize this. 0.93

02:37:44.000 And then he was like a fascist dictator who rigged elections.

02:37:48.000 And that's what I was told.

02:37:50.000 And I remember telling one of these reporters, I think it might have been at the Washington Post, I was like, wait a minute, I'm always reading that you say you can't rig elections, and now you can rig elections.

02:38:00.000 How did all that disinformation transform into the fact now people look at Victor Orban and say, he's...

02:38:08.000 In many ways, the leader of Europe.

02:38:11.000 I mean, first of all, the liberals are doing the same with everyone.

02:38:16.000 They did the same with...

02:38:18.000 You mean lying?

02:38:18.000 Yeah, lying.

02:38:19.000 With your president, they did the same with everybody who is opposing their power structures.

02:38:26.000 That's how things look like.

02:38:28.000 And second, if you represent the truth as a politician, and as it is done...

02:38:36.000 By my Prime Minister, then time is on your side.

02:38:40.000 It means that it will turn out that your decisions, even if those were criticized heavily by the liberal institutions, and they did everything to destroy you, like we were dictators, fascists, Putins, puppets, whatsoever. 0.62

02:38:54.000 But time is on your side, and it proves that you were wrong during all time.

02:39:01.000 That was the case with the migration, when we were saying that letting In hundreds and hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants to Europe and to our country, it's not a good idea.

02:39:13.000 So we should do the other way around.

02:39:16.000 And we asked, we were the only ones who asked the people.

02:39:19.000 Migration wasn't an issue in Hungary.

02:39:22.000 So we were thinking about that, oh, we don't have legitimacy.

02:39:28.000 What decisions should be made?

02:39:30.000 So let's ask the people.

02:39:31.000 And we ask the people.

02:39:32.000 We organize national referendum, and obviously, overwhelming majority, even those who are disagreeing with the government, were saying no to illegal migration.

02:39:40.000 And then we stopped it, and then we canceled it.

02:39:43.000 And the same with the war.

02:39:45.000 Same with the war.

02:39:47.000 President Trump is right.

02:39:49.000 As it was said by my Prime Minister, this war has to end because it brings us nowhere.

02:39:55.000 It's crazy.

02:39:56.000 Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of...

02:39:58.000 People are dying, and everybody takes it like...

02:40:01.000 And your prime minister, from the very beginning of this war, reached out to Joe Biden and said, let's find a way to end this war.

02:40:10.000 He was on this immediately, but the Biden administration was uninterested.

02:40:14.000 He was the one who started the peace mission.

02:40:17.000 He said that, look, guys, if we want to end this conflict, we need to reopen the communication channels.

02:40:24.000 How do you want to make a peace if you are not making...

02:40:26.000 Having communication with the other side.

02:40:30.000 It's impossible.

02:40:31.000 So if somebody is saying that he is working for peace, but not having communication with the other side, he's a liar. 1.00

02:40:41.000 He's a liar. 0.99

02:40:41.000 That's right. 0.99

02:40:42.000 Don't believe them.

02:40:43.000 Only those people take seriously peace efforts who are ready to engage and negotiate.

02:40:49.000 And what happened?

02:40:50.000 Only as a new...

02:40:52.000 Small news, negotiations started.

02:40:55.000 Immediately, energy prices went down.

02:40:58.000 Stock markets went up.

02:41:00.000 There is, again, hope.

02:41:03.000 So, important.

02:41:04.000 Communication is important.

02:41:05.000 Peace talks are hard, but communication is important.

02:41:08.000 So, there's this special relationship with Donald Trump and Viktor Orban, which is multidimensional, two amazing guys, very different guys.

02:41:17.000 I think the Western press tries to act like they're the same.

02:41:20.000 They have some similar characteristics.

02:41:23.000 Strength, endurance, same policies.

02:41:26.000 But they're different in a lot of ways, too, right?

02:41:29.000 I think the one thing that is the most the same is this idea of kind of getting kicked out of power, even though I don't think Donald Trump got kicked out.

02:41:37.000 That's my view.

02:41:38.000 I'm sure I'll get canceled from someone for saying that.

02:41:40.000 I don't think he ever got kicked out.

02:41:42.000 But he had this ability to come back and win the White House.

02:41:45.000 Victor Orban lost power, gained power.

02:41:50.000 That's something they have in common.

02:41:51.000 As a matter of fact, I talked to your Prime Minister on one of my trips and I said, you're the one guy on the earth who can tell Donald Trump how you do this.

02:42:00.000 Yes, that's true.

02:42:02.000 My Prime Minister is the longest serving leader in Europe, but also the longest serving in opposition.

02:42:09.000 And I think it's also important, if you serve your country...

02:42:14.000 There are different positions where and how you can do it.

02:42:19.000 And I think there is one similarity between Trump and Orban.

02:42:23.000 They both love their nations.

02:42:25.000 And this is crucial.

02:42:27.000 Nations are obviously different, like Hungary is a small country.

02:42:32.000 It's an old country, a thousand years old country.

02:42:35.000 The United States is a big country, but in different geography, different history, different culture.

02:42:42.000 But if you like your country and you are ready to act in accordance with the interests of your country, then you are doing a proper job.

02:42:52.000 If you're not doing that, then you are a bad politician.

02:42:55.000 That's right.

02:42:56.000 And one of the other similarities is, as you all know, the story of Donald Trump and CPAC is, before I was even elected chairman, he wanted to meet.

02:43:07.000 He wanted to talk about how we could collaborate.

02:43:10.000 He always understood that he was going to work around kind of the establishment systems.

02:43:17.000 And work with different kinds of allies.

02:43:19.000 And one of the things your Prime Minister said to us in this wonderful lunch we have, which will remain off the record, don't worry, that's one of the great things about being around a long time as you follow those rules, is he explained that one of the reasons he lost power was because he didn't have any allies.

02:43:38.000 He didn't have any allies in the media.

02:43:40.000 He didn't have any allies in non-profits.

02:43:42.000 All the major Soros-funded institutions in Hungary We're doing the dirty deeds against him.

02:43:49.000 And he realized he needed to set up institutions and organizations that could help tell the truth.

02:43:56.000 And I think Donald Trump has understood that well, too, by using social media, by being a good partner with CPAC and other conservative groups.

02:44:03.000 Do you agree with this?

02:44:04.000 I agree with you.

02:44:05.000 I think the Western word is healing.

02:44:08.000 We are like national conservatives.

02:44:13.000 May call ourselves that way.

02:44:15.000 So it means that we want to save our nation.

02:44:18.000 And we want to see our nation thrive.

02:44:20.000 This is our goal.

02:44:21.000 This is why we engage in public life.

02:44:26.000 If we want to save our nations, we have to cooperate, because the Liberals, they do cooperate.

02:44:33.000 They have an enormous power structure.

02:44:37.000 Well-funded.

02:44:38.000 Well-funded.

02:44:40.000 USAID and other organizations were using American taxpayers.

02:44:43.000 Okay, so let me just stop you.

02:44:45.000 On behalf of the American taxpayer, we apologize to the good people of Hungary that our government tried to destabilize Orban and the good leaders in Europe.

02:44:55.000 We're sorry.

02:44:56.000 Thank you very much.

02:44:57.000 We appreciate it.

02:44:58.000 But unfortunately, Brussels...

02:45:00.000 Nobody in this room had anything to do with it.

02:45:02.000 I want you to know that.

02:45:04.000 Well, maybe some on the way back, but not the rest of us.

02:45:07.000 Brussels is doing the same.

02:45:09.000 So it's our job to kick them out. 0.99

02:45:13.000 It's like ridiculous. 0.97

02:45:15.000 Hungarian people voted against illegal migration. 0.92

02:45:19.000 And what is happening?

02:45:20.000 Brussels is using legal sanctions.

02:45:24.000 So they're bribing, basically blackmailing your government just because you want to have a border.

02:45:30.000 They're saying we're not going to hold back on the revenue you should be getting from the EU. Every day, the amount of money the EU owes you, gross.

02:45:39.000 Yeah, every day, one million euro we have to pay.

02:45:43.000 But compared to the other option that we let everybody in and we let to have a country which is...

02:45:51.000 Destroyed is the better option.

02:45:54.000 So this is the reason in the long term we need a change.

02:45:57.000 We need a change, not just in Washington, but in Brussels as well.

02:46:03.000 Europe liberal elites, they are the most isolated people now because they are isolated themselves from Trump and the new administration isolated themselves from Russia, isolated themselves from China, and they are desperate.

02:46:20.000 But for this reason, they are dangerous and they are ready to do anything to crash their opponents.

02:46:27.000 So we will not let it happen.

02:46:29.000 Don't let it happen.

02:46:31.000 Don't let it happen.

02:46:32.000 Okay, so...

02:46:33.000 I think we have some great titles in some of our talks.

02:46:40.000 Do you know why I think they're great?

02:46:41.000 Because I came up with some of them, so let me just bask in a tiny little bit of my glory.

02:46:47.000 But the...

02:46:48.000 There was this concept in America that we needed to have a truce on social issues.

02:46:53.000 We shouldn't talk about questions like when life begins, what is marriage, what is gender, all that stuff.

02:47:01.000 Let the teachers handle it in the schools.

02:47:03.000 And as a party, what we should do is just try to lower taxes, you know, lower regulations.

02:47:09.000 And over time, I think Donald Trump, who's not necessarily a culture warrior, I understood that it was questions of immigration, questions of families, questions of the continuation of our society that were paramount.

02:47:27.000 Viktor Orban realized this when he came back to power.

02:47:30.000 One of the most amazing things he has done with his party is try to change all these government regulations so that people want to get married.

02:47:40.000 People want to have kids. 0.96

02:47:42.000 There's little Hungarian babies in mother's arms. 0.71

02:47:46.000 You're not going to have a country if your people don't have kids. 1.00

02:47:53.000 And this idea that you're going to bring in all these migrants to be the next generation in Hungary is something you guys reject.

02:48:00.000 So, in general, the idea of liberal democracy, that the state is not interfering in any of the aspects of the private life, it sounds to be a good idea.

02:48:13.000 Because we all are freedom-loving people, and we like freedom, and we don't want to stay in our courtyard.

02:48:19.000 But in reality, what happened, the left used this argumentation to overtake the institutions, and the liberal state was interfering into the private matters.

02:48:34.000 They were saying that...

02:48:36.000 Once again, are you saying they were lying?

02:48:38.000 They were acting like they were neutral, but they weren't neutral.

02:48:40.000 Surprise, surprise.

02:48:42.000 And I think many more conservatives are starting to realize that if these things are important for us, it's not about freedom.

02:48:52.000 Everybody can do what they want.

02:48:55.000 But if somebody wants to have a family, somebody wants to have a marriage, somebody wants to have kids, then we need a state.

02:49:03.000 We need a functioning institutional system which is not treating her as a criminal, but is treating her as a loyal normal citizen. 0.65

02:49:17.000 I think they view her as a polluter. 0.99

02:49:19.000 Gonna bring another human being into the earth and add to the landfills. 1.00

02:49:23.000 They view it as a negative.

02:49:24.000 It's crazy, isn't it?

02:49:26.000 It's a nightmare, and this nightmare has to be stopped.

02:49:29.000 This is what we are doing in Hungary for, like, 15 years.

02:49:34.000 We're trying to create an environment which maintains freedom.

02:49:39.000 Freedom of decision for everyone, but also it advocates some policies.

02:49:44.000 We have a proper family policy.

02:49:46.000 Churches are not prosecuted.

02:49:48.000 They are welcomed in Hungary.

02:49:50.000 Vogue agenda is out of schools, out of media.

02:49:56.000 And I'm very happy to see that America is turning to that direction as well.

02:50:01.000 And congratulations to you again.

02:50:03.000 So what we're really saying is big government ends up subsidizing...

02:50:07.000 All the activities for our young people that are counterproductive to society continually, encouraging drugs, giving out free needles, encouraging them to be on their parents' health care until they're like, what is it, 47 years old now?

02:50:22.000 Like, nobody gets to grow up at all?

02:50:25.000 And in Hungary, you said, okay, well, if the government's going to subsidize all these things that we don't want to encourage more of, what if we actually used the government system to subsidize what we want?

02:50:36.000 And you did it through tax cuts.

02:50:37.000 So if a mom decides, by the way, I don't think we should force anybody to be a parent.

02:50:42.000 It's really hard to be a parent.

02:50:43.000 The last thing you want to do is have people being parents who are really angry that they're being parents.

02:50:47.000 But like you said, if you want to be a parent, have a kid, you get a tax cut in Hungary.

02:50:51.000 Here we give you almost like a tax increase.

02:50:53.000 If you have four children, you don't pay any income taxes.

02:50:57.000 For the rest of your life?

02:50:58.000 Rest of your life.

02:50:59.000 And we are planning to increase it.

02:51:02.000 Children with three, and we will see.

02:51:05.000 What if your child's name is Hunter Biden?

02:51:07.000 Do you still get a tax cut or does that...

02:51:09.000 Is there like an appellate process where maybe you could maybe put a little taxes on that kid? 0.90

02:51:14.000 Every life counts.

02:51:15.000 Okay, fair enough.

02:51:16.000 That's a good answer.

02:51:18.000 Okay, so you're here in America.

02:51:20.000 It's a long trip from Hungary.

02:51:22.000 By the way, how many people have been to Budapest or to Hungary?

02:51:28.000 How beautiful was it?

02:51:29.000 How safe was it?

02:51:31.000 Amazing, right?

02:51:32.000 Okay, the Balabans are like, they're Polish, but even they are like the Hungarians. 1.00

02:51:38.000 Beautiful people, beautiful architecture, good food, conservative safe space.

02:51:44.000 That's also important for many people.

02:51:46.000 Come and visit us.

02:51:48.000 So you've come all this way to America.

02:51:52.000 You're one of the top advisors to a leader that the people here in this room really respect, the people around the country respect, Viktor Orban.

02:52:00.000 You're in the middle of everything now, trying to stop a war, trying to change what Brussels tries to do to...

02:52:09.000 What's your message for America?

02:52:11.000 Do you feel hope about how our collaboration, starting with CPAC, moving on to Orban and Trump, how this collaboration can change the world?

02:52:20.000 I think my message would be, America is back, is good news.

02:52:27.000 And don't rely on the liberals.

02:52:31.000 And don't count on the liberals.

02:52:32.000 You have your friends all around the world.

02:52:35.000 And if you find your friends, Work with them together and save the Western civilization together.

02:52:42.000 This would be my message.

02:52:44.000 Are you up to the challenge?

02:52:49.000 Balaz Orban, thank you for being with us at CPAC. Thanks for the important work you do.

02:52:54.000 And thanks for making Hungary great.

02:52:57.000 Thank you.

02:52:58.000 God bless.

02:53:03.000 I switched.

02:53:21.000 I made the switch to Newsmax.

02:53:23.000 We start this morning in Washington where all eyes are on the White House.

02:53:26.000 I switched to Newsmax.

02:53:28.000 Newsmax.

02:53:29.000 Newsmax.

02:53:30.000 Have you made the switch?

02:53:31.000 You bet I did.

02:53:32.000 My whole family switched.

02:53:34.000 Everyone is making the switch.

02:53:35.000 I did.

02:53:36.000 I did.

02:53:37.000 I switched and it made all the difference.

02:53:40.000 It made all the difference.

02:53:41.000 Have you made the switch?

02:53:43.000 You should.

02:53:44.000 Millions are switching to Newsmax.

02:53:45.000 You should too.

02:53:50.000 The home, the church, the government.

02:53:55.000 And many people are asking, what is the truth?

02:53:59.000 Jesus Christ claimed to be ultimate truth.

02:54:02.000 Are you willing to face the truth?

02:54:04.000 Do you think the MKUltra project ever actually ended?

02:54:07.000 The Central Intelligence Agency is actively involved in mind manipulation.

02:54:11.000 We all answer to one God and one Savior.

02:54:15.000 And He's there to change your life.

02:54:19.000 for the battery.

02:54:20.000 The End

02:54:50.000 Every institution today is under attack.

02:54:55.000 The home, the church, the government.

02:55:00.000 And many people are asking, what is the truth?

02:55:04.000 Jesus Christ claimed to be ultimate truth.

02:55:07.000 Are you willing to face the truth?

02:55:09.000 Do you think the MKUltra project ever actually ended?

02:55:12.000 The Central Intelligence Agency is actively involved in mind manipulation.

02:55:16.000 We all answer to one God and one Savior.

02:55:20.000 And He's there to change your life.

02:55:28.000 Hey everyone, it's Matt Schlapp with CPAC. You know, CPAC isn't just a conference.

02:55:32.000 We're fighting 365 days a year on all the issues you care about.

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02:55:54.000 And check it out right now.

02:55:56.000 I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.

02:55:59.000 President Trump is back in the White House.

02:56:01.000 Donald Trump won the presidency.

02:56:04.000 President Trump is back in the White House.

02:56:06.000 Donald Trump has taken back America.

02:56:09.000 I actually started quite a while ago in CPAC, and I enjoyed it so much.

02:56:15.000 Then I came back for a second one.

02:56:17.000 Then a third. 0.95

02:56:17.000 Then I said, what the hell? 0.95

02:56:19.000 Let's run for president.

02:56:20.000 Matt said, it's like five years ago, six years ago.

02:56:24.000 He says, you should run for politics.

02:56:25.000 He's the one.

02:56:26.000 He said, you should run.

02:56:27.000 For the presidency of the United States.

02:56:30.000 It is my honor to introduce to CPAC 2017 our president, Donald Trump.

02:56:39.000 First of all, I want to thank Matt Schlapp and his very, very...

02:56:44.000 Incredible wife and boss, Mercedes. 0.97

02:56:47.000 We've been fantastic friends and supporters and so great when I watch them on television defending me, nobody has a chance.

02:56:55.000 I love this place.

02:56:57.000 Love you people.

02:56:59.000 You never stop fighting for America and I will never ever stop fighting for you.

02:57:06.000 We know that there are still more records to be shattered, new summits to be scaled, more triumphs to be realized.

02:57:13.000 And more amazing history just waiting to be written.

02:57:16.000 The American adventure has only just begun.

02:57:20.000 God bless America and we will see you next year.

02:57:24.000 Thank you very much.

02:57:29.000 You never stop fighting for America and I will never ever stop fighting for you.

02:57:39.000 Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to say their names.

02:57:44.000 Israeli hostage families speak.

02:57:47.000 Please welcome, father of Edan Alexander, Adi Alexander, brother-in-law of Omir Maran, Moshi Lavi, Nova Music Festival survivor and brother of Guy Dalal, Gal Dalal.

02:58:04.000 Hosted by CPAC senior fellow, Thank you all so much.

02:58:29.000 You know, this is a very difficult, difficult subject, and I see someone in the crowd, Julie Levin.

02:58:35.000 Stand up, look, Julie. 1.00

02:58:38.000 Julie Levin, Mark Levin's wife, but just a leader in this issue of being a voice for the Jewish people, for the suffering that we have seen, the tragedies that we have witnessed against innocent lives.

02:58:57.000 And these brave men have come here to deliver a somber message.

02:59:04.000 But it's also a message of hope, a message of urgency, a message of action that we need to take.

02:59:10.000 And here at CPAC, we all, a CPAC family, first we stand with your families.

02:59:18.000 When you are in pain, when you are suffering, we are suffering with you, and we are praying for each and every one of you.

02:59:25.000 And to start this, Gal, I want to start with you.

02:59:29.000 You were at the Nova Music Festival.

02:59:33.000 That day on October 7th.

02:59:35.000 Tell us what happened.

02:59:37.000 First of all, I'll start with thank you, Mercedes, and thank you all of you for being here and supporting us.

02:59:43.000 And thank you for having us.

02:59:50.000 The NOVA Festival had almost 5,000 people in it, more than 20 nationalities.

02:59:58.000 It was like a gathering of all sorts of different people from all sorts of different cultures.

03:00:05.000 People who went to celebrate life, spiritual people.

03:00:09.000 It was a spiritual festival.

03:00:10.000 And the people who were kidnapped from them had nothing to do with this conflict, had nothing to do with this war, and they should have never used it as a currency in this war.

03:00:18.000 I went to this festival because it was my brother's first festival ever.

03:00:22.000 And it's your younger brother?

03:00:24.000 It's my baby brother, yeah.

03:00:26.000 And he never went to any of these kinds of festivals.

03:00:29.000 So I encouraged him, actually, to go to this kind of festival because I knew that he's going to be a good one.

03:00:34.000 And he asked me to come with him, to join his experience and to watch over him.

03:00:40.000 That was the only reason I went.

03:00:43.000 And I arrived there pretty early in the morning.

03:00:47.000 Fifteen minutes after I arrived, the alarms already went off.

03:00:50.000 And I asked my brother if you want to come to my house with his friends, and they all agreed to come to my apartment.

03:00:56.000 And I asked him if you want to join me in my car.

03:01:00.000 And he said that he don't want his friends to feel like he left them, so he's going to go back with them, and he'll see me at home.

03:01:05.000 I think like 30 minutes later, the terrorists started shooting on us.

03:01:10.000 It was a massive round of shooting.

03:01:12.000 It came from all around us.

03:01:13.000 We had to leave our cars and run away, and I haven't seen my brother ever since.

03:01:19.000 When that happened, tell us about the moment when you realized, oh my goodness, he's been taken.

03:01:29.000 So after almost 10 hours of fleeing, running and hiding, while terrorists shooting on me with gunshots and RPGs, rockets, I was finally able to get rescued by our forces.

03:01:42.000 They took us to the nearest police station.

03:01:44.000 This is where I called my father.

03:01:46.000 And my father sounded broken, and I... I said to him, look, if something happened to my brother, you need to let me know.

03:01:51.000 And that's when he told me that my brother was kidnapped and that Hamas was already published a hostage video three hours before I was even able to escape, which meant that my parents, my family, everyone knew that my brother was taken, but no one told me so I can focus on saving my own life.

03:02:07.000 So they saw the video.

03:02:08.000 Your parents saw the video first.

03:02:11.000 Yeah, and I saw it after I was rescued.

03:02:16.000 And all I could think about is that I went there to watch over him and I went back without him.

03:02:22.000 I just couldn't...

03:02:24.000 I just couldn't realize it.

03:02:27.000 It took me a while.

03:02:29.000 How are you getting through day by day?

03:02:33.000 You know, it's a whole process for us, the families of the hostages.

03:02:39.000 Every day, it's another struggle.

03:02:42.000 But we always have on our minds that...

03:02:46.000 Our hostess, our loved ones, they are suffering much more.

03:02:49.000 When we think about the pain that they have to endure, we're still in captive, we get strength and we get the power to do everything we can to help them.

03:02:59.000 I know that my brother will do exactly the same for me, and we have to stay strong for them for when they will come back.

03:03:06.000 Moshe, your brother-in-law.

03:03:08.000 Thank you.

03:03:18.000 Omri.

03:03:19.000 He has a wife, Lishai, and two beautiful girls.

03:03:24.000 What happened?

03:03:27.000 On October the 7th, Hamas terrorists barge into my sister Lishai and Omri's home.

03:03:36.000 They use a teenager from the kibbutz, Tomer Aravah, to lure them to open the door. 0.98

03:03:42.000 And they opened it immediately to save Tomer's life.

03:03:47.000 Homer was found dead a few days later, his body in a field.

03:03:52.000 But Domrin Lishai knew that they were opening the door to terrorists to save his life.

03:03:58.000 For hours they were held captive in their own home.

03:04:01.000 My niece Roni was awakened with a gun pointed at her face, terrorists surrounding her.

03:04:09.000 She was two and a half years old back then.

03:04:14.000 They were then grouped with another family in the kibbutz, the Idan family, whose eldest daughter, Maayan, was murdered.

03:04:21.000 They were abused for hours.

03:04:24.000 It was live-streamed on Facebook.

03:04:26.000 The terrorists took a phone of one of the captives and simply live-streamed it on their Facebook account.

03:04:33.000 And then at around 1.30 p.m., Omri was handcuffed.

03:04:38.000 Lishai told him she loves them.

03:04:39.000 She'll take care of the girls. 0.99

03:04:42.000 And ask him not to be a hero.

03:04:44.000 He told her he loves her.

03:04:47.000 And that was the last time she saw him.

03:04:51.000 Ronnie, my niece, tried to run to him.

03:04:53.000 Lishai stopped her, luckily.

03:04:56.000 And ever since, Omri has been a hero.

03:05:01.000 For 503 days, he's been a hero in captivity, fighting for survival, while we are fighting here to returning home.

03:05:10.000 I'm lucky because my sister Nisa survived.

03:05:13.000 My parents survived.

03:05:14.000 My other sister and her family survived.

03:05:17.000 All experienced October the 7th while I was in New York.

03:05:20.000 but being lucky means you have a hostage in your family that you need to fight for when we shy called you did she tell you We discovered Lishai was rescued that evening, Israel time, the night.

03:05:44.000 She was rescued 11 hours after the attack started by the IDF. After Marie was taken, she was held captive for a few more hours in that home.

03:05:55.000 And we talked for the first time a day later, the entire family on WhatsApp.

03:06:01.000 We did a video call, and it was so difficult.

03:06:07.000 By that time, my parents were rescued.

03:06:09.000 My other sister was rescued.

03:06:10.000 And luckily, Shai and the girls were rescued.

03:06:14.000 And we tried to understand what's going on.

03:06:16.000 What do we need to do?

03:06:17.000 Where is Omri?

03:06:19.000 And for the next couple of days, we discussed, what do we need to do?

03:06:25.000 I wanted to return to Israel to serve in the army. 0.97

03:06:28.000 I was a captain in the IDF. But then my sister...

03:06:32.000 My sister told me...

03:06:37.000 I need you to be my soldier in this war until Omri comes home.

03:06:42.000 I need you to speak up because there are very few people who can speak up for me and for Omri like you can.

03:06:49.000 And since that day, I've been her voice.

03:06:53.000 I've been Omri's voice.

03:06:54.000 I've been every single hostage voice because they can't speak from the dungeons of Hamas. 0.91

03:07:00.000 They are chained.

03:07:00.000 They are starved.

03:07:01.000 They're deprived of water, sanitation, sunlight.

03:07:05.000 They're calling for the rescue.

03:07:07.000 And we have to make sure to bring them home, like Vice President J.D. Vance said.

03:07:12.000 Irrespective of other issues, there is one priority right now.

03:07:16.000 Let's not sign more death certificates.

03:07:19.000 Let's make sure all the hostages who are alive return home.

03:07:22.000 and those who are murdered in captivity, like those who will return today and broke our heart, will be buried in the land of Israel.

03:07:29.000 Hadi, your son, the oldest of three.

03:07:40.000 Yeah.

03:07:42.000 Idan, the only living American right now in captivity.

03:07:48.000 How are you feeling?

03:07:49.000 How are you processing this every day as a father?

03:07:55.000 You know, I'm just thinking about the place that my kids grew up in, which is Rockwell, Maryland, not far away from this hotel.

03:08:03.000 And we moved to New Jersey back in 2008. It's really hard.

03:08:10.000 I mean, Idan is an all-American kid, Tenefly High School graduate, decided on a gap year to enlist himself to IDF because he loved both of his countries, and this is what he did.

03:08:24.000 On that tragic day, he found himself on a tiny outpost next to Kibbutz near Oz, and he was the only soldier at this post.

03:08:35.000 And the post was attacked, heavily attacked.

03:08:40.000 He was surrounded by more than 20 militants.

03:08:44.000 And after conducting a short fight, he found a way to surrender.

03:08:52.000 So we kind of consider ourselves lucky that he managed to surrender.

03:09:00.000 And ever since...

03:09:02.000 You know, he was seen in the tunnels right at the beginning.

03:09:07.000 And then Hamas released this hostage video on Thanksgiving's weekend.

03:09:12.000 When we saw Edan speaking, we saw him well.

03:09:17.000 He was pale.

03:09:17.000 He wasn't himself, but he was alive.

03:09:20.000 And this is what's important for us, and this is what drives us forward.

03:09:26.000 Gal, 69 hostages have been released.

03:09:29.000 Six, I believe.

03:09:31.000 Now it's coming up on Saturday.

03:09:33.000 We've seen the tragedy of the Vivas family, the two beautiful children, the mother, and we've all seen those photos.

03:09:46.000 What is your message to the leaders out there, the international leaders out there, who are just not stepping up to put pressure on Hamas to release these hostages right now?

03:10:00.000 We have been waiting for so long to see hostages returning.

03:10:05.000 And for almost 500 days, we waited for the second deal to come.

03:10:13.000 And as soon as Trump started his role as the President of the United States, you could see hostages start to return.

03:10:21.000 And I think that's because Trump knows evil and good.

03:10:26.000 Trump can see, you mentioned it, Bebas.

03:10:30.000 Little babies should have never taken as hostages, used as a currency in a war.

03:10:36.000 That's just unimaginable evil.

03:10:39.000 And for that we thank him.

03:10:41.000 And I think that the world is looking at what is going on in the United States.

03:10:58.000 We believe that with him, we will get to see all the other hostages.

03:11:07.000 But the thing is that we are grateful for the lives that he saved already.

03:11:17.000 But there are still many lives that waiting to be saved.

03:11:20.000 And I would say don't forget about the hostages.

03:11:24.000 This goes, Moshe, beyond a political issue.

03:11:27.000 This is a humanity issue.

03:11:30.000 And you've seen President Trump involved personally in this process.

03:11:34.000 But the reality is, and you said this, you said that the Islamic, the fight against Islamic terrorists, it's a long-term struggle.

03:11:42.000 But there's this urgency to get these hostages released right now.

03:11:48.000 I mean, how do you just describe this?

03:11:54.000 message in to those out there so that the world can unite in saving these hostages you you you you you you you you you you

03:12:25.000 you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you

03:12:58.000 Thank you.

03:14:11.000 I'm grateful for President Trump's leadership, and I'm certain he knows that what needs to be happening now is that all the hostages must be freed.

03:14:20.000 We have to keep demanding that Hamas let them go, but making sure that we make the concessions needed to bring them home in the short term. 0.99

03:14:31.000 Adi, you've spoken to President Trump multiple times.

03:14:36.000 What does he tell you?

03:14:39.000 President Trump is a very tough guy.

03:14:41.000 He's a smart guy.

03:14:42.000 At the beginning, when we first met, before he took office, he was shocked by the fact that 45 Americans were killed on that day, on October 7th.

03:14:53.000 To count anything like this, really, other than September 11th, you have to go back to the 80s.

03:14:59.000 And ever since we met him, he took ownership on this matter.

03:15:06.000 Recognizing that Americans are still being held and 45 Americans killed.

03:15:11.000 And we're really grateful for that.

03:15:14.000 But we have to push forward until everybody's out.

03:15:19.000 No tips and drips.

03:15:21.000 Bunch of them out, like hopefully this Saturday.

03:15:25.000 And then we will be done.

03:15:30.000 Just to wrap up here.

03:15:33.000 Gal, what do you want to tell our people here at CPAC? How can we support you and your family?

03:15:41.000 So we always say that we need your prayers and we need your actions.

03:15:45.000 Don't forget the hostages.

03:15:47.000 Don't forget that they are waiting for you.

03:15:49.000 Everyone can do something and we all have the responsibility to do all we can to bring them back and together we will.

03:16:01.000 Adi, your message to what you want to know, how we can be helpful for you and your family as well.

03:16:08.000 Just keep this issue front and center.

03:16:11.000 Keep praying.

03:16:12.000 Really, this is the time to pray.

03:16:14.000 We're in the middle of this process.

03:16:16.000 Hopefully, we will be successful to pass it over the finish line with President Trump's help, leadership.

03:16:27.000 And Steve Witkoff's knowledge and leadership as well.

03:16:34.000 Just keep praying, guys.

03:16:39.000 I'll ask all this amazing audience to close your eyes and imagine with me my nieces Rony and Alma running to their father Omri.

03:16:50.000 Imagine my sister Lishai hugging and kissing her husband Omri.

03:16:56.000 Imagine Danny Omri's father shaving his beard after hundreds of days and embracing his son Omri and take that joy of picturing that to mobilize in every way you can prayer, action, rallying, writing, so that I could tell my nieces, Roni and Alma, that their father is coming home tomorrow.

03:17:22.000 I do want to say we spent time with Noah, who is here.

03:17:32.000 She's one of the freed hostages who was in captivity for over 200 days.

03:17:38.000 And let me tell you something.

03:17:40.000 This young woman

03:18:03.000 is recovering from major trauma, and she's putting her trauma aside to be a voice for the rest of the hostages.

03:18:13.000 So that is such a brave woman right there.

03:18:19.000 And these are brave men who are being so strong for their families and for the Jewish people.

03:18:27.000 And we here have an obligation.

03:18:30.000 to make sure we give them the love, the support, the prayers, and make sure that these hostages come back home.

03:18:38.000 Thank you.

03:18:45.000 Thank you for being with us at CPAC. You all really inspire us.

03:18:51.000 And yes, we're going to bring the people back home. 1.00

03:18:55.000 We're going to bring the hostages back home.

03:18:57.000 We are going to stand with you.

03:18:59.000 Stand with your families and ensure that we can start healing and start moving forward.

03:19:04.000 Thank you so much.

03:19:05.000 Thank you so much.

03:19:06.000 God bless.

03:19:06.000 Thank you.

03:20:09.000 Ladies and gentlemen, up next, Black Box Life Matters, crushing woke for business.

03:20:16.000 Please welcome U.S. Representative from West Virginia, Representative Riley Moore, co-founder and president of Patriot Mobile, Glenn Story, CEO of Morris Industries, Nate Morris, CEO of Morris Industries, Nate Morris, and your host from Newsmax.

03:20:37.000 Bianca De La Garza.

03:20:39.000 - Thank you.

03:20:55.000 How's it going, CPAC?

03:20:59.000 - All right. - Well, we are so thrilled to be here, And I just had a little backstage convo with these guys.

03:21:07.000 Patriots, entrepreneurs, visionaries, and they are going to be so enlightening.

03:21:11.000 So I'm pleased to be here.

03:21:12.000 And I know we just heard all the introductions, but Congressman Moore, Glenn Story, the CEO of Patriot Mobile.

03:21:18.000 If you don't have his cell service, we're going to change you today on that.

03:21:22.000 And Nate Morris, really incredible stories.

03:21:26.000 So let's start a little bit with you, Congressman Riley Moore, because West Virginia...

03:21:32.000 Is the fifth largest energy producer.

03:21:36.000 And people were looking at what was going on, and you were the treasurer before you were in Congress.

03:21:41.000 And way before it was popular, you actually took on BlackRock.

03:21:46.000 You took on J.P. Morgan.

03:21:49.000 You took on all these big banks and said you need to divest.

03:21:52.000 You basically said you're fired.

03:21:54.000 Tell us about the circle that was going on in your state that made no common sense.

03:22:00.000 Well, thank you very much.

03:22:02.000 And, yes, for us in West Virginia, it was really an existential threat for us to continue to deal with these financial institutions that had an ESG framework that was so harmful to our industries, coal, natural gas, and oil.

03:22:20.000 And so what I did was start to talk to some of our coal producers, natural gas, and the like, and they were losing access.

03:22:29.000 To financing.

03:22:30.000 They couldn't continue their operations because no one would bank them.

03:22:34.000 They were essentially being debanked.

03:22:36.000 And we had folks like BlackRock and the other big three that were moving investment away from these critical industries that just so happened to power the country and are also so important to the state of West Virginia.

03:22:48.000 So in 2021, I sent letters to them warning them if they didn't stop this activity.

03:22:55.000 That we were going to divest out of them, and they ignored those warnings, and then in January of 2022, which is a little while ago now, I became the first elected official in the United States to divest our tax dollars out of BlackRock entirely.

03:23:11.000 How about that?

03:23:16.000 And then we took it a step further and created what's called the Restricted Financial Institution List, which had said if you're boycotting the fossil fuel industry, You're going to lose the ability to be able to bid on any financial service contract in the state of West Virginia.

03:23:30.000 And that's where we ended up putting a lot of other banks on that list.

03:23:33.000 Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citi, a whole bunch of other guys.

03:23:38.000 And we had to tear up a lot of contracts, tens of millions of dollars.

03:23:41.000 We'll get back to that.

03:23:43.000 And fortunately, you had the vision to do that.

03:23:46.000 Nate, walk us through when you were in your early stages.

03:23:49.000 You started your company on a credit card.

03:23:52.000 You said with 10 grand, you took it public, $700 million.

03:23:55.000 And you had to battle the woke, well, you called it like the Sopranos.

03:24:01.000 I'll let you tell that.

03:24:02.000 Well, you know, first I want to say, you know, I'm Nate Morris.

03:24:06.000 I'm a Kentuckian.

03:24:07.000 I'm a ninth-generation Kentuckian.

03:24:09.000 I'm an entrepreneur, and I believe entrepreneurship is the cornerstone to our country.

03:24:14.000 It's how jobs get created.

03:24:16.000 And we had a big announcement today, this morning, come out of Kentucky.

03:24:20.000 Mitch McConnell said he's retiring.

03:24:22.000 Woo! Woo! Woo! 0.99

03:24:25.000 The little breaking news here.

03:24:31.000 So I don't know if anyone's heard that yet.

03:24:33.000 And, you know, a lot of people have encouraged me to look at the seat.

03:24:37.000 And I just want to speak as an entrepreneur.

03:24:39.000 I'm an outsider.

03:24:40.000 I'm a businessman.

03:24:41.000 And I think we need more people coming from the outside to help President Trump with the America First agenda.

03:24:48.000 And for conservatives, this is our opportunity to rip control that Mitch McConnell has had on the Republican Party, in aspects of our party, and taken us down this direction.

03:25:02.000 And he has tried to purposely sabotage President Trump over and over and over again.

03:25:07.000 This is our chance to get it back and give it back to the people.

03:25:12.000 Amen.

03:25:13.000 Well, I do think, obviously, the country is on a fortunate trajectory with this election.

03:25:20.000 We can all feel it as we're here, as we're walking in the halls, we're exchanging ideas.

03:25:25.000 I wrote a book last year called Incoming, on the front lines of the left's war on truth, because what we saw was the Marxist professors indoctrinating kids, and then they'd go into these woke corporate boardrooms, and this was a circle that, fortunately, we've been able to break with this.

03:25:40.000 Historic election and I think we all look at Donald Trump is not just our president of this country But also somebody a visionary who will take us into an America in the Golden Age and You know your story Glenn is amazing Patriot Mobile is based on Christian values and that's something a lot of people after we witnessed Butler, Pennsylvania really are coming back to their faith Their faith in this country.

03:26:05.000 And Patriot Mobile is based on that.

03:26:07.000 And it's a very unique model.

03:26:09.000 And you are thriving under that model.

03:26:11.000 Yeah, we absolutely are.

03:26:12.000 And before I go there, I just want to say thank you to Matt and Mercy and the CPAC staff and leadership to do what you guys do to bring the most important conservatives together and just raise each other up.

03:26:25.000 But to answer your question, yeah.

03:26:27.000 Patriot Mobile is a cell phone service provider.

03:26:29.000 We carve out a portion of every bill and donate back to biblical causes.

03:26:35.000 But what really separates Patriot Mobile is we're 100% U.S.-based customer service.

03:26:42.000 Our donation patterns along, yeah, it's a great thing.

03:26:46.000 But most importantly, we put God first.

03:26:48.000 He is at the helm of our business.

03:26:54.000 He's at the helm of our business.

03:26:57.000 And when he's at the helm of your business, it just changes the landscape, right?

03:27:01.000 You know you can't do wrong.

03:27:03.000 And, you know, we live by these biblical principles, and we make these donation patterns back to organizations like Right to Life, Military and First Responders, First Amendment and Second Amendment.

03:27:15.000 You look at those, those are really constitutional, biblically-driven objectives or initiatives.

03:27:23.000 And when you are thriving, you can take that money and do good with it.

03:27:26.000 And I mentioned, Nate, that you went public with your company, and after you had been dealing...

03:27:31.000 Tell us a little bit about what you saw.

03:27:32.000 You said it was a very innovative company, but you had to deal with people you thought they were like the mob in Sopranos.

03:27:39.000 You thought ESG, they came in.

03:27:40.000 It was even worse.

03:27:42.000 Yeah, let me tell you.

03:27:43.000 I thought I saw extortion in the waste business, like we did with Tony Soprano.

03:27:49.000 The extortion I saw in the waste business is nothing compared to what ESG terrorists do to corporate leaders every day, forcing them into positions and threatening to bankrupt their company if they do not adhere to these bogus, crazy standards.

03:28:04.000 And that's one of the reasons why I'm so compelled to look at getting into politics, because we, as corporate leaders, we have to fight.

03:28:12.000 We have to fight this.

03:28:15.000 When I left my company was invest in Strive, Vivek Ramaswamy's anti-woke investment platform to say we're going to stand up to this and we're going to fight back and we're going to make sure that politics stays out of business and gets centered around merit and what the market should reward, period.

03:28:33.000 Great message.

03:28:34.000 You know, their ultimate goal is to silence us, right?

03:28:37.000 That was their goal.

03:28:38.000 Good luck, right?

03:28:39.000 And we won't be silenced, right?

03:28:41.000 No.

03:28:42.000 And I think that's part of the, you know, we look at J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel when they invested in Rumble.

03:28:47.000 We look at Newsmax.

03:28:48.000 We're soaring.

03:28:50.000 And it's because Americans truly have woken up.

03:28:53.000 But now there's a...

03:28:54.000 Higher demands on our elected leaders and fortunately Donald Trump doge is making a lot of advances Maybe we're all even going to get a rebate from what they're saving but congressman Moore.

03:29:05.000 I know I like that You know what it's like being in politics and being in Congress now People are going to be held accountable.

03:29:11.000 He's talking about Mitch McConnell officially announcing, but their old guard has been put on notice.

03:29:17.000 Can you talk about that since you were at the forefront of sort of putting ESG and BlackRock on notice? 1.00

03:29:22.000 Well, yeah, and I'll tell you, I got a lot of calls when I first divested from BlackRock, which is three years ago now, and most of it was, Riley, you're an idiot. 1.00

03:29:33.000 Why are you doing this? 1.00

03:29:34.000 Why are you even messing with this?

03:29:36.000 And ESG is such an existential threat, I mean, to our We've seen this time and time again where we will have America first policies that go and die in the United States Senate.

03:30:06.000 That happens all the time.

03:30:08.000 You know, clearly I'm in for the one big, beautiful bill in reconciliation, and so is President Donald Trump, because that's the way we're going to accomplish his agenda.

03:30:17.000 But, you know, perhaps it looks like the Senate might be moving a piece of their legislation forward.

03:30:21.000 We've got to be unified under the President and execute on his 77 million vote mandate that he has.

03:30:30.000 I agree.

03:30:33.000 So that's how Washington works and you know as a member of the national media and hearing the stories of rural Americans some of them really did feel left behind I mean you're you're you have cell service you look at the people ravaged by hurricanes And FEMA wouldn't even help people with Trump signs.

03:30:53.000 Starlink wanted to come in, and they said, well, if you don't have an address, they're like, these people lost their homes.

03:30:57.000 It was almost at one point the government was weaponized.

03:30:59.000 We were seeing it in real time against these poor people.

03:31:02.000 And you had this really kind of amazing thing you said.

03:31:04.000 And obviously you're very successful, but you said you know who your roots are.

03:31:08.000 And when the left wants to laugh...

03:31:11.000 At conservative values, or they want to smear us, or they want to silence us.

03:31:14.000 You have a beautiful message, Glenn, and I'd love for you to share it with this amazing crowd.

03:31:19.000 You know, what really happens when it boils down to, you've got to stay with your roots, right?

03:31:27.000 You know what you're doing, and if you let them silence you, they've won.

03:31:32.000 And I always say, no, right?

03:31:36.000 We're going to stand in the forefront.

03:31:37.000 We're going to be bold in what we do.

03:31:40.000 Regardless if it's out there, you know, I'll digress momentarily.

03:31:44.000 I was on a call with the party chair of Georgia, and I said, hey, dude, how's it going?

03:31:48.000 And he goes, it's miserable.

03:31:51.000 And I said, what do you mean?

03:31:52.000 He goes, well, our hurricane east of 75 is destroyed.

03:31:56.000 It's Friday at 4 o'clock.

03:31:58.000 I called a couple of our executive team, Scott Coburn, and I said, hey, look, we need to fill up a trailer.

03:32:04.000 We've got a 26-foot trailer.

03:32:06.000 We've got a one-ton truck.

03:32:07.000 Let's fill this thing up with generators, wipes, diapers, baby formula. 1.00

03:32:13.000 You just go down the list.

03:32:15.000 Here's the most amazing thing.

03:32:17.000 I couldn't go.

03:32:19.000 I had some family stuff to do, but a couple of our staff did.

03:32:22.000 And what was amazing about this is they drove out.

03:32:25.000 They were giving stuff out to people that needed it.

03:32:28.000 They haven't had anything.

03:32:33.000 The law said you've got to turn left, and our driver goes, no, we're going to go straight.

03:32:37.000 So they went straight.

03:32:39.000 Now this is a grown man, a professional soccer player.

03:32:42.000 A woman was standing on the side of the road, and so he says, let's pull over.

03:32:47.000 And they got out of the car, and Ethan's sitting down there somewhere.

03:32:50.000 They got out of the car, and she goes, you know what?

03:32:54.000 The only thing I need is diapers and wipes. 0.98

03:32:57.000 I just said, Lord, please deliver.

03:33:00.000 So they pull over.

03:33:02.000 And you know what?

03:33:03.000 We had crates and diapers and wipes.

03:33:05.000 And this is a grown man just starts weeping.

03:33:07.000 He's like, you know, what else?

03:33:09.000 That's what we're commanded to do.

03:33:11.000 It is.

03:33:13.000 And you know, it's not easy.

03:33:15.000 You know, we have an elected member of Congress, two entrepreneurs and CEOs.

03:33:19.000 When I brought you out, I said you're patriots.

03:33:21.000 But we also, I think your stories are so important because other people in this audience are looking and saying, how can I do this?

03:33:28.000 How can I involve?

03:33:29.000 And there is...

03:33:30.000 Obviously, tremendous opportunity for American exceptionalism again under this president now.

03:33:37.000 You're thinking about possibly getting into the race, but we know that you've built companies.

03:33:41.000 What do you just say to folks?

03:33:42.000 We're on a live stream here.

03:33:44.000 You have, you know, thousands of people watching.

03:33:46.000 You know, they want to know how I get a credit card loan and start a company and be like you and do that in today's climate where we have the winds of change at our back.

03:33:54.000 Absolutely.

03:33:55.000 Look, I was raised by a single mother.

03:33:58.000 19 of my family members worked in an auto plant in Kentucky.

03:34:02.000 My grandparents helped raise me.

03:34:04.000 And I think that one of the things my mother always said, you know, we may not have a lot of money, but it's free to think big.

03:34:11.000 And you should think big.

03:34:12.000 You're going to be thinking anyway, so you might as well be thinking big.

03:34:15.000 And I think we've got to get back to that and be the country of dreamers again.

03:34:21.000 And I think Donald Trump has got people in America to get hopeful and get those dreams in action.

03:34:27.000 And that's one of the reasons why I'm looking at this seat.

03:34:30.000 I feel like as somebody who's, I owe so much to my teachers, my pastors, coaches, people who have helped me, I've got to do something.

03:34:38.000 And, you know, right now we've got two candidates that are looking at this race that are puppets of Mitch McConnell.

03:34:44.000 And we can't have that.

03:34:46.000 Well, when it comes to ESG, BlackRock, they've been put on notice, Congressman Moore, and you come from a family of politicians as well, so you know.

03:34:56.000 It's a tough business.

03:34:57.000 D.C. is a tough town.

03:34:58.000 Tell us about some of the things that you're working on now that are future forward.

03:35:02.000 I know there's something to do with protecting gun owners' rights because you can't just stop it when it comes to BlackRock.

03:35:08.000 You know, there's a lot of things that are going on, and you're really kind of clueless into what you're doing.

03:35:12.000 Yeah, so we dealt with this on the state level in West Virginia.

03:35:16.000 It's called a merchant category code.

03:35:19.000 Maybe some of you have heard of this, but the credit card companies have put this in place to be able to track the purchase of your guns and ammunition in the United States of America.

03:35:28.000 Now, we had put in a...

03:35:31.000 An ability and a right to sue cause of action in West Virginia if they shared your data.

03:35:37.000 But I have a bill right now, and I do believe we're going to get action on it, in the United States House of Representatives to ban the merchant category code on guns and ammunition.

03:35:49.000 Thank you.

03:35:53.000 This is a little bit off the ESG topic, but I just wrote an op-ed about this, and I'd encourage you to take a look at it because it's a huge national security issue, and I am looking at legislation on this.

03:36:06.000 There are currently, in the United States, there are 300,000 Chinese nationals on student visas in our country, and I'm looking to ban all student visas from China moving forward.

03:36:19.000 Amen. - Thank you, Kim.

03:36:19.000 Amen.

03:36:25.000 Glenn, tell us about why you are the best choice, the alternative, because, you know, you're up against the big guys.

03:36:34.000 It's never deterred you.

03:36:36.000 You said your sales, every time they come after you, you kind of soar.

03:36:41.000 But a lot of people would have been maybe not up for the task to go up against the big guys and all the big cellular companies.

03:36:48.000 Yeah, you know what?

03:36:50.000 I would just say, We're not really up against them.

03:36:54.000 We really aren't.

03:36:55.000 You know, we're the only carrier out there.

03:36:58.000 I won't get into the technical side, but we buy wholesale from all the major networks.

03:37:02.000 We repackage it and sell it retail.

03:37:05.000 And the real beauty of that is we provide a service, and I think it's better.

03:37:10.000 Not only is our coverage better because we have all the networks, but...

03:37:14.000 Look, we put Him first.

03:37:16.000 And when you put Him first, what can you do?

03:37:19.000 And then the real hook is when you call into our offices, you know, we have an office in East Texas and in the Valley in California.

03:37:28.000 You either talk with a redneck like me or you talk with a Californian.

03:37:33.000 And that's the real part.

03:37:35.000 But then above that, it's not uncommon that we'll pray with you on the phone.

03:37:40.000 And it happens all the time.

03:37:42.000 We have a booth downstairs.

03:37:44.000 I'll shamelessly plug Patriot Mobile.

03:37:46.000 Come down.

03:37:47.000 I think we've got promo code CPAC. You get a free month of service.

03:37:52.000 But most importantly, you're going to be working with companies that love and honor their creator.

03:37:59.000 And I'm going to just say this.

03:38:01.000 When you do that...

03:38:03.000 It's so much better.

03:38:05.000 You know you're not supporting organizations that are contrary to your values.

03:38:09.000 I mean, I know we have Patriot Mobile customers out there.

03:38:12.000 I'm looking at two waving.

03:38:14.000 Hey, everybody in here should be a Patriot Mobile customer.

03:38:18.000 Can you hear him now?

03:38:19.000 Hey, that's a good hint, right?

03:38:22.000 You said you were part of Strive, Nate.

03:38:24.000 Love it.

03:38:25.000 And so tell us how in the future of, you know, do you think that...

03:38:29.000 ESG is dead.

03:38:31.000 Is it all done for now?

03:38:33.000 Or do we have to be vigilant?

03:38:35.000 Because, you know, corporate greed and others that don't have the intention appear of heart, which I'm hearing from all of you here on the stage.

03:38:42.000 Yeah, look, elections have consequences.

03:38:45.000 Amen. 0.93

03:38:45.000 And we have to have leaders that are going to fight to keep this nonsense and garbage out of our corporate system and out of our economy. 0.93

03:38:53.000 It has no place. 0.95

03:38:55.000 And I think, you know, we just had...

03:38:58.000 We had an awful thing happen yesterday.

03:39:00.000 Our governor, a Democratic governor, allowed KFC to move out of Kentucky.

03:39:04.000 So I read about that.

03:39:06.000 Yeah, I read about that.

03:39:08.000 And how does that happen?

03:39:09.000 And this goes back to, we've got to elect America first, patriots, that are not beholden and on a bended knee to Mitch McConnell or anyone else, that they're going to fight with President Trump and to keep this nonsense out of our politics, period.

03:39:24.000 I just have a few moments left.

03:39:26.000 That's pressure, and you're right there in the thick of it, a.k.a.

03:39:29.000 they call it the swamp, and they don't say that without reason.

03:39:33.000 Yeah, well, and to your previous question, I'm sure there's somebody sitting out here right now, and I want this to be kind of hopefully a core memory at some point.

03:39:42.000 Each and every one of you should consider running for office.

03:39:47.000 All of you should think about doing this.

03:39:49.000 I'm serious, because this is not, the seat I'm sitting in is not my seat.

03:39:54.000 It belongs to the people of West Virginia, and they've hired me for two years to do it.

03:39:59.000 Any of you can do these jobs.

03:40:01.000 You can stand up, go run.

03:40:03.000 State-level politics is awesome.

03:40:06.000 You can get a lot more done there than you can, sometimes at the federal level.

03:40:09.000 Please, I encourage everybody to take a look at office.

03:40:11.000 I told you you'd be impressed, right?

03:40:13.000 Congressman Riley Moore, Glenn Story, CEO of Patriot Mobile, Nate Morris.

03:40:18.000 And who knows what type of political future we'll be seeing from you.

03:40:22.000 I like this guy back here.

03:40:23.000 I'm doing my show live here over at our booth at Newsmax.

03:40:27.000 So come by and say hi.

03:40:28.000 I'm Bianca De La Garza.

03:40:29.000 An honor and a blessing to be with all of you great patriots today.

03:40:34.000 Amen.

03:40:35.000 Thank you.

03:40:36.000 Thank you.

03:40:36.000 Thank you so much.

03:40:37.000 God bless.

03:40:38.000 Thank you.

03:41:08.000 Poland, the only international TV station that interviewed Donald J. Trump.

03:41:14.000 I'd like to say hello to the Polish people.

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03:41:30.000 This is Republika, the home of free speech.

03:41:33.000 The steal was stopped on Election Day, I think in no small part thanks to Judicial Watch's heavy lifting.

03:41:40.000 In just the last year...

03:41:42.000 Something big is happening in the markets.

03:41:44.000 So big that I have to bring it to your attention.

03:41:47.000 On February 3rd, 2025, President Trump and Treasury Secretary Besant signed an executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund committing to monetizing the assets of the United States balance sheet.

03:41:59.000 Meanwhile, the Bank of England is running out of gold.

03:42:02.000 So desperate, they're paying 16% a month just to borrow it.

03:42:06.000 And where is all of that gold going?

03:42:08.000 Right here to the United States, with a drastic increase in metal shipments to CME COMEX vaults.

03:42:15.000 Is President Trump preparing to repatriate and monetize America's gold?

03:42:19.000 Elon Musk and former Congressman Ron Pohl through Doge are planning an audit of the gold in Fort Knox.

03:42:25.000 And on March 1st, President Trump's 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico will take effect.

03:42:32.000 Which is major news for the silver market since 80% of all refinery-bound silver comes from Mexico.

03:42:39.000 With American silver refineries already facing a three-month backlog, this could send prices soaring overnight.

03:42:46.000 President Trump is the catalyst for these historic economy-shifting events.

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03:43:29.000 Just waiting to be written.

03:43:32.000 The American adventure has only just begun.

03:43:35.000 God bless America, and we will see you next year.

03:43:39.000 Thank you very much.

03:43:43.000 You never stop fighting for America, and I will never, ever stop fighting for you.

03:43:50.000 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the host of the Michael Knowles Show.

03:44:00.000 Michael Knowles.

03:44:02.000 Thank you very much. - Thank you very much.

03:44:15.000 Good to see you.

03:44:16.000 Thank you.

03:44:17.000 Oh, look at this.

03:44:18.000 Look at these beautiful, patriotic, energized.

03:44:23.000 Oh, I love it.

03:44:25.000 I love being at CPAC. It is always a pleasure to be at CPAC. I felt like an old man when I was thinking about this trip, because I first came to CPAC in 2011. And it was fun then, it's been fun ever since, but something feels different this year.

03:44:42.000 Doesn't it?

03:44:43.000 Something.

03:44:43.000 What is it?

03:44:44.000 What is that thing?

03:44:46.000 I don't think that it's just that we won.

03:44:50.000 Because, you know, we won in 2016. Some people say we won in 2020. I'm not going to get into it.

03:44:55.000 But it can't just be that we won.

03:44:58.000 I think the big difference this year is that we won, and we won the popular vote.

03:45:06.000 That was the big difference.

03:45:08.000 Most voters in this country voted for Donald Trump.

03:45:13.000 Huge swaths of every demographic, including groups that Democrats have had a lockdown on for decades.

03:45:21.000 We're talking about an historic proportion of black male voters.

03:45:24.000 Almost half of Hispanic voters.

03:45:27.000 Something like 50% of women over 45. Even, this one really shocked me, 40% of women under the age of 30. That was the most Kamala-y demographic, and we still got that. 1.00

03:45:39.000 So many of them voted for Trump and for Republicans in the House and the Senate.

03:45:45.000 It was a clean sweep.

03:45:46.000 It was a clear mandate.

03:45:48.000 And it was a mandate...

03:45:50.000 For common sense.

03:45:51.000 That's the only way to explain this broad coalition of people who usually argue with each other.

03:45:58.000 Republicans, disaffected Democrats, conservatives, liberals, people across both sexes and all ages and all races.

03:46:07.000 The Democrats lost the common sense.

03:46:10.000 And their loss is our gain, not only at the ballot box, but also...

03:46:15.000 In expanding the political imagination, in opening up the discourse that we can have in our politics.

03:46:23.000 For too long, uniparty elites have limited political discourse to exclude the common sense policies that people actually want.

03:46:33.000 Just look at immigration. 0.95

03:46:35.000 For decades, we have been told that we have two choices when it comes to immigration.

03:46:40.000 More illegal immigration or more legal immigration.

03:46:45.000 And sometimes the left and the right, they compromise and they give us both.

03:46:48.000 Great.

03:46:49.000 But it turns out that most Americans do not want more immigration of any kind.

03:46:56.000 Most Americans want drastically less immigration, legal and illegal.

03:47:03.000 Gallup polling last July found 55% of Americans want overall immigration reduced.

03:47:12.000 This backs up another poll from 2018. Harvard Harris found that most Americans want annual legal immigration capped at about half a million.

03:47:21.000 That is about 60% less than the current levels.

03:47:25.000 That is about 85% less than overall immigration levels.

03:47:29.000 That is what most Americans repeatedly have indicated that they want.

03:47:34.000 And it's perfectly reasonable.

03:47:37.000 Today, we have the highest foreign-born percentage of the population that we have ever had in our nation's history.

03:47:44.000 It is not possible for a nation to maintain social cohesion and its own way of life while taking in unlimited numbers of foreigners. 1.00

03:47:54.000 There's nothing bigoted about that observation.

03:47:58.000 And yet, until recently, that view, the preference of most Americans, Was totally unrepresented by either major political party.

03:48:10.000 Look at the LGBT ideology. 0.99

03:48:12.000 In recent years, uniparty elites have told us that we have two options.

03:48:16.000 Either we trans the kids in kindergarten, or we wait until they turn eight. 0.87

03:48:21.000 Maybe, maybe if we're lucky, we can wait until the kids are out of elementary school before the indoctrination begins.

03:48:28.000 What kind of a choice is that?

03:48:31.000 Within the past decade, Transgenderism did not exist in public life at all.

03:48:37.000 Not in schools, not in sports leagues, not in bathrooms, not in the military, not anywhere.

03:48:43.000 And things worked a lot better then, and probably we should return to that.

03:48:47.000 To put in perspective just how rapidly this gender-bending LGBT ideology has been forced upon us, consider that Barack Obama, in the final year of his first term as president, held that marriage Hillary Clinton believed that, too.

03:49:12.000 Basically, everybody believed that.

03:49:14.000 Everyone, everywhere, for statistically all of human history, has understood that fact.

03:49:20.000 That is the only definition of marriage that distinguishes it from other kinds of relationships.

03:49:26.000 Marriage was not invented by ideologues.

03:49:29.000 And it cannot be redefined by ideologues either.

03:49:32.000 It is a natural institution.

03:49:35.000 Not even the Supreme Court.

03:49:38.000 The Supreme Court wants to try.

03:49:40.000 But not even they can change that reality.

03:49:43.000 It just is what it is.

03:49:45.000 Nothing bigoted about that observation.

03:49:47.000 It's just a fact.

03:49:49.000 Here's another fact.

03:49:50.000 Basic stuff.

03:49:52.000 God exists.

03:49:55.000 Simple.

03:49:56.000 We can know that.

03:49:59.000 Even in our relentlessly secular political order, 81% of Americans believe in God.

03:50:05.000 And you know, that is actually the lowest number ever recorded.

03:50:09.000 Historically, the number is north of 95%.

03:50:12.000 And still, that means that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe in God.

03:50:17.000 And that is because the existence of God can be known with certainty from human reason.

03:50:23.000 But these days, you would not know that, judging by our public institutions.

03:50:28.000 In recent decades, uniparty elites have offered us two options when it comes to religion.

03:50:33.000 Keep it private or don't keep your religion at all.

03:50:36.000 In public, federal agents spy on our churches.

03:50:40.000 They sue members of religious orders.

03:50:42.000 They imprison parents for praying peaceably outside of abortion mills. 0.73

03:50:48.000 Maybe, just maybe, we're permitted to entertain religious thoughts silently in our own minds.

03:50:54.000 But the moment that we start talking about or acting on those ideas in public, we're in trouble.

03:51:00.000 But religion is not just some private privilege.

03:51:04.000 Religion is a public right.

03:51:06.000 Our very country is predicated on the idea that God exists and that we are made in His image.

03:51:13.000 God is in the Declaration of Independence.

03:51:15.000 He's in our national anthem.

03:51:17.000 He's even on our money.

03:51:19.000 The fact that in recent decades...

03:51:22.000 our political class has largely removed God from public life, is an aberration and a national scandal and it needs to be reversed.

03:51:31.000 Now, of course, it's not really possible to remove religion from politics because lawmaking entails moral judgments, whether we're talking about abortion or whether we're talking about parking tickets.

03:51:47.000 Politics requires us to come to certain conclusions about human nature.

03:51:51.000 About justice and mercy, sin and grace.

03:51:55.000 Politics always and everywhere involves rituals and veneration, reward and punishment.

03:52:01.000 These things are inescapable.

03:52:02.000 So when the ideologues remove traditional and true religion from our politics, they can only replace it with their own novel and false religions.

03:52:10.000 They replace Christmas displays with pride parades, sturdy virtues with modern values, faith, hope, and charity with diversity, equity, and inclusion.

03:52:21.000 They ban the Bible from schools, and then they assign genderqueer. 0.97

03:52:25.000 That is to say, they remove the most important book ever written, the book without which it is not possible to be an educated person, and they replace it with their own neo-gnostic nonsense. 1.00

03:52:36.000 Is it any wonder that our rulers got so stupid? 0.98

03:52:40.000 You saw the consequences of taking the Bible out of schools a couple weeks ago, when our Vice President invoked a basic Christian concept. 1.00

03:52:48.000 And our political establishment started alternately drooling and shrieking.

03:52:53.000 When he was asked about mass migration, J.D. Vance brought up the order of charity, which is the idea that we owe more to the people closer to us than to people who are further away.

03:53:03.000 This is an observation.

03:53:04.000 It's so obvious.

03:53:05.000 It's articulated in Scripture.

03:53:08.000 It's written about by the great Christian thinkers.

03:53:11.000 But it's also just common sense.

03:53:13.000 It does not take a PhD in philosophy or theology to know that we owe more to our kids than we do to face-tattooed Mexican gangsters. 1.00

03:53:24.000 Now, of course, this means that our political leaders owe more to American citizens than they do to foreigners. 0.99

03:53:34.000 That's the point J.D. was making.

03:53:36.000 That is the meaning of the phrase, America first. 0.68

03:53:39.000 It's not that we don't wish to help people around the world.

03:53:41.000 We certainly do.

03:53:42.000 We're the most charitable nation in history.

03:53:44.000 But it is perverse for our political elite constantly to prioritize the whims and desires of foreigners over the needs of citizens.

03:53:53.000 A nation without a proper concern for its own well-being can never in the long run be good to anyone else anyway.

03:54:02.000 This is why when we're on the airplane, they say, put your own mask on before you help others.

03:54:07.000 You need...

03:54:08.000 To have things in order.

03:54:09.000 For decades, our uniparty elite have told us we have two options when it comes to charity and the common good.

03:54:14.000 We can either erase our national borders, or we can try and fail to build democracies in the Middle East.

03:54:20.000 Or we could do both, I guess.

03:54:22.000 Those were our options.

03:54:23.000 But, you know, there's a third option, and it happens to be the option that most Americans want.

03:54:28.000 We can rebuild our own country.

03:54:30.000 We can help our own citizens.

03:54:32.000 Charity, after all, begins at home.

03:54:35.000 We do not have to accept the false dichotomies offered to us by a corrupt political establishment.

03:54:47.000 We can form new coalitions.

03:54:50.000 We can elect new leaders.

03:54:52.000 We can have our country back, and we can even make it great again.

03:54:58.000 Thank you very much.

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03:58:19.000 For all 10 of them.

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03:58:23.000 A little inside joke while we were backstage.

03:58:26.000 Before we get started, though, we want to just thank all the pro-life, pro-family patriots that are here.

03:58:32.000 Please give yourselves applause for being here and making the travel out to Washington, D.C. during this cold winter.

03:58:39.000 We thank you.

03:58:40.000 You know, the name of this panel talks about truces, and CPAC has never called a truce on being pro-life.

03:58:47.000 We've never called a truce on being pro-family.

03:58:50.000 And we've got two of our great allies here today, and Terry and Penny, they're going to talk about some of the progress that's being made since we've got a great pro-life, pro-family president of the White House again.

03:59:01.000 So to kind of start with that, Penny, we're a month into the presidency.

03:59:06.000 The president's been pretty active.

03:59:08.000 What are a few of the things that he's done that get you excited in the pro-life movement?

03:59:13.000 Well, first off, thank God President Trump won, right?

03:59:19.000 And Concerned Women for America is the nation's largest public policy women's organization, and we are unapologetically pro-life women.

03:59:28.000 And we are not afraid to lead with that.

03:59:31.000 And what a great month it's been, from everything from pro-life people who use their First Amendment rights to, I don't know, sing and pray outside an abortion clinic.

03:59:42.000 Being pardoned by our president, as they well should have been, to signing the Mexico City policy executive order, to the Haidt Amendment coming back, and several many important things.

03:59:57.000 Mexico City policy, of course, is about abortions in other countries.

04:00:00.000 And why are we funding all of this?

04:00:02.000 Why are we spending $700 million a year for Planned Parenthood, who's the nation's largest Yes, that's right.

04:00:23.000 Terry, same question.

04:00:26.000 I know you guys watch these two great heroes for the pro-life, pro-family movement.

04:00:31.000 Both have been leaders on making sure that girls play girls sports, that we use. 0.74

04:00:38.000 The right pronouns when we're describing ourselves and our kids.

04:00:43.000 But, Terry, same question to you.

04:00:45.000 Where has President Trump made you proud this first month?

04:00:48.000 Well, first of all, President Trump is the most pro-family president, period.

04:00:53.000 Ever.

04:00:54.000 Period.

04:00:56.000 Look, he's done a full blitzkrieg to protect our children and families. 0.94

04:01:02.000 Out of the gate, he signed this executive order to protect our children, not just their bodies, but their hearts and minds, from this nefarious and evil transgender industry. 1.00

04:01:13.000 Which, by the way, this transgender industry that's giving our kids cross-sex hormones, blocking their puberties, chopping up their body parts and sterilizing them, it's worth $4.5 billion. 1.00

04:01:25.000 In this country.

04:01:26.000 And we just allow it to go unchecked.

04:01:27.000 And we wonder why we're always talking about it.

04:01:29.000 Well, it's because they're taking that money and they're piling it back into PR campaigns and public relations and pushing it on our kids in schools.

04:01:36.000 But President Trump, out of the gate, signs this amazing executive order to protect our children from this.

04:01:43.000 And it bans the funding of these surgeries.

04:01:45.000 It bans them at any hospitals that accept Medicaid.

04:01:50.000 But also, what was very fascinating to me was it instructed the Department of Justice to investigate any doctors or clinics or companies, pharmaceutical companies, that are pushing transgender surgeries and hormone treatments on minors.

04:02:04.000 And then, by the way, President Trump has been leading on the women's sports fight.

04:02:09.000 And it was so cool.

04:02:12.000 Yeah, that's right.

04:02:13.000 He deserves it.

04:02:14.000 But he had this executive order signing ceremony.

04:02:17.000 And I've been involved in this fight for so long.

04:02:19.000 We ran so many campaign ads on this.

04:02:22.000 But in the background of President Trump signing this were all these little girls from all across the country with their jerseys on, their medals, and you could just see how much his work on this fight meant to those girls.

04:02:38.000 And so I'm going to be forever grateful, eternally grateful to President Trump for everything he's done.

04:02:43.000 Can I just add something to that?

04:02:45.000 Concerned World for America has worked on this issue for seven years with many others.

04:02:49.000 But President Trump...

04:02:50.000 was the first person to sign a presidential pledge to American women and actually follow through.

04:02:57.000 This happened in 2023. I went to Bedminster.

04:03:00.000 Go to go to my Instagram page.

04:03:02.000 You'll see a picture.

04:03:03.000 And he signed it right away.

04:03:06.000 And I don't want to tell you how many other Republicans we had to beg and plead with to get to do it, because he got it at his gut.

04:03:12.000 He looked at, my husband was in the room, he's like, can you believe I have to sign a pledge that says that there are only two genders and only women can be mothers?

04:03:21.000 Like, you know, like, but he gets it at his gut, and we're so deeply grateful because trans audiology has hurt a lot of kids, and we've talked to... 0.95

04:03:30.000 I've seen Chloe Cole around the event, around CPAC, many others.

04:03:35.000 Yeah.

04:03:36.000 So, we've had a busy first month.

04:03:40.000 You know, the Vice President talked about some things this morning.

04:03:42.000 Where do we go next?

04:03:45.000 Obviously, we got some early victories.

04:03:47.000 He followed through on his promises.

04:03:50.000 Where do we need to go next, whether it's with the president, whether it's working with Congress?

04:03:54.000 You know, what is a great preview, something that our activists that are here can take back home to start working on as kind of like part two here?

04:04:03.000 Well, I want to say two things.

04:04:05.000 Number one.

04:04:06.000 An executive order only lasts as long as you have the right president in office, right?

04:04:11.000 And we've got to get all of this over the finish line, into law.

04:04:16.000 Congress has to do their job, and then, of course, the president will sign into law.

04:04:20.000 So we cannot give up until we actually are able to codify this policy.

04:04:26.000 And the second thing is, the vice president did a great job today talking about, like, key issues.

04:04:34.000 I'd like to talk about the issue of marriage.

04:04:36.000 Shall we?

04:04:38.000 Let's talk about the idea that at this point in our nation, we're not at replacement rate for our children, for our families.

04:04:47.000 We have less people getting married, young people getting married.

04:04:51.000 We have a whole group of young men that are following the evil pathway of Andrew Tate.

04:04:59.000 Who's openly in favor of pornography, creating pornography, it is the way of destruction.

04:05:06.000 And I just want to, here on the CPAC stage, repudiate all of that, suggest that although not everybody can get married, not everybody can have children, but it's okay to realize and to state that it's the ideal for a family.

04:05:23.000 And it's healthy.

04:05:25.000 For a nation, and it's healthy for people.

04:05:28.000 And about 81% of young people in this country want to be married.

04:05:33.000 But we're down in those numbers, and I would suggest there's some real systemic causes of that that we have to deal with.

04:05:41.000 Well, Penny, I think that one of the major problems in this country with family is that We've allowed all these losers in the media, losers in Hollywood, to tell us what masculinity is, to redefine masculinity. 0.81

04:05:55.000 And what they've done is they've defined all masculinity is toxic. 0.92

04:05:59.000 So young men have never been more under attack.

04:06:03.000 That's true.

04:06:03.000 I'm sure there will be headlines about, oh, CPAC's saying that men are under attack.

04:06:08.000 They just don't get it.

04:06:09.000 But if you look at being a young man today...

04:06:12.000 You are inundated with pornography.

04:06:13.000 You're inundated with sports betting.

04:06:16.000 You're inundated with all these distractions like weed.

04:06:19.000 And they're things that are distracting you and deceiving you from...

04:06:23.000 The really important things, like getting married, finding that special partner that you can spend the rest of your life with.

04:06:31.000 And then even from there, if you get married, now you have hurdles for these young men that don't even want to have kids.

04:06:37.000 We're called to be fathers.

04:06:39.000 I've got seven kids, right?

04:06:41.000 And I might have taken President Trump's...

04:06:45.000 Thank you.

04:06:47.000 He had four the first time he met President Trump.

04:06:51.000 And he told me, it was funny, we took a...

04:06:52.000 And President Trump, I didn't know what to say to him.

04:06:56.000 And so going up, I introduced my wife and I said, Mr. President, can you believe that my wife just had her fourth baby?

04:07:03.000 And he says, oh my gosh, she's stunning, which my wife is absolutely beautiful. 0.73

04:07:06.000 Keep going, no stop.

04:07:08.000 But being a father, it's the most amazing thing, right?

04:07:13.000 And they get better every one.

04:07:15.000 But you hold these little babies, and looking up at you is this little...

04:07:21.000 Vulnerable human being that's looking at you with these eyes that are just drawn to you.

04:07:26.000 And it's the product of the love between you and the other person that you love with all your heart.

04:07:32.000 And now you have something that you love just as much and you didn't think that was possible.

04:07:36.000 And we have an entire generation of young men who are smoking weed, watching porn, not getting married, not even pursuing women.

04:07:45.000 We have this thing called incels, involuntary celibates. 0.64

04:07:49.000 It's terrible.

04:07:50.000 And we can't become a great nation again.

04:07:52.000 We can't make America great again until our men are great again, until our men are strong.

04:07:57.000 And watching porn, doing OnlyFans, recruiting people, making money off of girls on OnlyFans, that's not how to be a man.

04:08:05.000 That's not masculinity. 0.50

04:08:06.000 That's some third gender out there that they've invented. 1.00

04:08:11.000 So I don't know.

04:08:11.000 I just think that these young men out here are just, they're missing out.

04:08:14.000 And I want to bring them back home.

04:08:15.000 We've got to inspire these young men for the challenges ahead of us.

04:08:18.000 Let me say, we're the women's group who love men.

04:08:21.000 And I'm a mother of a son.

04:08:22.000 We need to have great role models for them.

04:08:26.000 And, you know, and I would say those great role models are not the men who monetize women, but it are the men who are faithful husbands.

04:08:34.000 My husband and I have been married 30 years almost.

04:08:36.000 He's been a faithful husband and father to our children.

04:08:40.000 I've been a lifelong friend and supported my career.

04:08:44.000 That's what you want, young ladies. 1.00

04:08:46.000 And don't sell yourself short and settle for anything less.

04:08:50.000 Any man that doesn't respect you and is not willing to commit to you, don't settle for it.

04:08:55.000 But at the same time, the young men have been undermined, and I think we need to support them and give them the great role models that they deserve, because they'll be happier, is the truth.

04:09:04.000 And we're talking about...

04:09:07.000 We're changing our culture, and we won an election, but as one of our colleagues in the movement once said to me about 20 years ago, he said, the fight only begins.

04:09:17.000 You win an election, and then the fight, that's when the real fight begins, because that's when you have to start getting things done.

04:09:25.000 What, as kind of in our last few minutes here, though, from a construct, we're talking about these Concepts and and I have a 15 year old son and I spend a lot of time with him That's one of my biggest responsibilities is make sure he comes out right and I know you feel the same way about yours and your kids and You know what what can we do?

04:09:42.000 What can we send these folks home with that they can do though to help?

04:09:46.000 Get this broader culture shift that we're talking about I'm just add on to that because you touched on something very important And that's parents being good parents.

04:09:55.000 It is your top responsibility.

04:09:57.000 It's the most important job I have.

04:10:00.000 And so, you know, in parents, it's a difficult world we live in.

04:10:06.000 Utah just passed a bill saying that parents have the right, should be the people that allow children to download apps.

04:10:15.000 Right now, kids can download anything without parental notification.

04:10:19.000 We need to actually help parents have the tools to be better parents, to be able to protect their kids from bad media, from pornography, from all the things that are toxic, that hurt them, and be able to give them a loving, faithful home and recognizing that, you know, we as a nation...

04:10:43.000 Are people of faith and we need to return to that.

04:10:46.000 Yeah, look, I think that there are some easy things that we can quickly clean up.

04:10:50.000 And there are already movements that are out there that have been growing.

04:10:53.000 So we're up to 26 states that are protecting girls' sports. 0.98

04:10:56.000 We're up to 27 states now that have banned these gender procedures. 0.99

04:10:59.000 But we're up to 19 states that require age verification to access adult content online.

04:11:05.000 If we can get our young people, Matt, off of porn and get them to 18 where they're dating girls, they're interested in girls, not computer screens and fake...

04:11:15.000 I think we're going to have a much brighter future.

04:11:18.000 But again, I think we've got to reach our young men, inspire them.

04:11:22.000 You know, JFK would have been a Republican today, right?

04:11:25.000 I think it's obvious.

04:11:26.000 But in his inaugural address, he said, we do these things as Americans not because they're easy, but because they are hard.

04:11:33.000 Nothing worth doing is ever easy.

04:11:36.000 And we have to inspire young men that's ripe, they want the challenge, and there's no better challenge than being a good husband and a good father.

04:11:44.000 And by the way, spend time with your kids.

04:11:47.000 Guys, we're dads.

04:11:48.000 We get to have fun.

04:11:49.000 We get to buy the candy that mom won't want.

04:11:52.000 We get to buy the donuts.

04:11:54.000 We get to throw the kids up in the air way too high, but they're having a blast.

04:11:58.000 So spend time with your kids, even if it's five minutes a week or five minutes a day, but just make time for it.

04:12:04.000 Prioritize the right things.

04:12:06.000 And it's not weed.

04:12:06.000 It's not OnlyFans.

04:12:08.000 It's not sports betting.

04:12:10.000 It's your family.

04:12:11.000 And take them to church.

04:12:12.000 Yeah, go to church.

04:12:15.000 Penny Nance, Terry Schilling, thank you for being at CPAC again.

04:12:18.000 Thanks, guys.

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04:15:19.000 Hace un año estaba en esta misma tribuna compartiendo con vosotros las mismas preocupaciones y recibiendo también los mismos desprecios de quienes nos daban por derrotados.

04:15:32.000 Ahora nos toca sonreír porque ese desprecio de quienes se creían todopoderosos e intocables se está convirtiendo en rabia.

04:15:41.000 Rabian porque el mundo ya es distinto.

04:15:44.000 Yeah, it's more similar to what we dreamed about ago.

04:15:49.000 It's already in retroceso that misery and woquism that they wanted to impose. 0.96

04:15:55.000 It's already shown that the future is not written.

04:15:58.000 It's shown that that that future can be hope and luminous, and that only had to be valent governors, capaces to listen to their peoples and capaces to fulfill their promises.

04:16:13.000 Thank you very much for allowing me to be again to your side, to say essentially the same thing, but to do it with much more hope.

04:16:22.000 I would like to use this intervening to respond, as a Spanish and European, to the speech last week of the vice-president Vance in Munich.

04:16:34.000 I would like to do it to give a firm and contundent answer.

04:16:40.000 And the first word of that answer should be...

04:16:42.000 Thank you.

04:16:44.000 Simply, thank you.

04:16:46.000 Thank you because Europe needed to hear that speech and its leaders needed to hear those truths, the same things they try to silence and manipulate when we say it.

04:16:58.000 Thank you, Vice President Vance, because they can't continue to hide and hide the reality.

04:17:06.000 But, especially because everything that was said in Munich is true.

04:17:12.000 It's true that we face a serious democratic crisis.

04:17:15.000 It's true that the oligarchies, which no one has voted in Europe, are dedicated to taking decisions very prejudiciales for our peoples, without ever asking our peoples.

04:17:26.000 It's true that the mass immigration promoted by those same oligarchies is destroying the community, the public services and the identity of our peoples. 0.91

04:17:37.000 It's true that from the hands of that immigration comes the terrorist islamist. 1.00

04:17:42.000 And not like an isolated phenomenon, but like a repetitious cruelty in Europe. 0.85

04:17:46.000 This is precisely for those who want an Islamized Europe, for those who promote or tolerate Islamic tribunals in our own cities, for those who have abandoned the women of Europe, who see how now the sexual agressions are multiplied. 0.96

04:18:03.000 It's true, too, that a mixture of pacifism, of egoism, of suicide and of submissive With that combination, the Europeans have seen how the oligarchs have left indefense to Europe.

04:18:18.000 Insegure their streets, ruin their borders and insufficient their resources.

04:18:24.000 And it's true, and in this is the democratic crisis, that the citizens steal the capacity to choose all these issues and at the same time steal the money from their pockets to pay all that disparate.

04:18:39.000 Esas verdades ya dibujan un escenario muy grave en nuestro continente.

04:18:44.000 Pero hay algo aún más importante.

04:18:47.000 Es verdad que en Europa se está persiguiendo la libertad.

04:18:51.000 En Europa hoy pretenden que todas esas verdades no se puedan denunciar y, por lo tanto, no se puedan remediar los problemas.

04:19:00.000 Las oligarquías europeas están destruyendo todo lo que hizo a Europa grande alguna vez.

04:19:07.000 And for that they want to liquidate our freedom, which is the vertebral column of our shared civilization.

04:19:13.000 Because Europe is the Greek philosophy, the Roman law and the Christian spirituality.

04:19:20.000 Europe is not the Islamist submission, the woke ideologies or the cancelation culture.

04:19:28.000 The answer to the truth of the vice president Vance was not expected by a commissioner of the censure.

04:19:37.000 The vice president Vance came to say that Europe already no accept the freedom of expression.

04:19:42.000 And the answer to a socialist socialist man was that the speech of Vance is unacceptable.

04:19:50.000 We applauded it and we thank the thanks because it is true that we have a shared civilization.

04:20:00.000 And it is not the woke, nor the communist manifest.

04:20:04.000 Although we've suffered too many times those totalitaries so similar in their forms.

04:20:11.000 Our civilization is the freedom of expression, the freedom of creation, the freedom of economic and the roots of christianity, because the future is also in those roots.

04:20:23.000 And it's true that if we want to preserve that civilization, we must change the route.

04:20:28.000 Alguns we have a lot of time exige it.

04:20:31.000 And some nations are already getting it with great electoral results.

04:20:35.000 Because it's true, too, that were politicians who took those decisions.

04:20:40.000 Politicians with names and names.

04:20:41.000 And it's enough to change those politicians to change the tenebrous future to which they directed us.

04:20:48.000 Those politicians, who are now rabies, are working on saying President Trump as enemy of Europe because he puts the interests of the estadounidenses in first place.

04:21:00.000 Esa acusación es algo que solo se le puede ocurrir a quienes han puesto los intereses de sus ciudadanos en el último lugar.

04:21:07.000 Son esos políticos los que ahora pretenden llevarnos al conflicto masivo porque no se atreven a reconocer sus errores.

04:21:14.000 Son esos políticos los que han impuesto a Europa las verdaderas cargas a nuestra economía.

04:21:21.000 No son los aranceles anunciados por Estados Unidos, que ojalá no lleguen.

04:21:25.000 The real arancels to the European Union are the Green Pact, the abusive taxes and the woke regulation. 0.92

04:21:32.000 That's our ruin.

04:21:33.000 And no one has imposed nobody from outside.

04:21:36.000 They have imposed politicians in Brussels in contra of the will of the European people.

04:21:43.000 They are the same who were cried when the President Trump has already eight years ago adverted to Europe that Russia was putting on the hands of renunciating to the fossil fuel energy.

04:21:54.000 The same ones who now cried while hearing the speech of Van.

04:21:59.000 Literally, the same ones.

04:22:01.000 And literally, they cried.

04:22:04.000 And still they cried.

04:22:06.000 But they don't cry for the dead in Ukraine, whom they have used and whom they have betrayed. 0.57

04:22:11.000 They don't cry for the dead during the pandemic, whose origin they also censured.

04:22:17.000 They don't cry for the continuous victims of the yihad attacks.

04:22:21.000 No.

04:22:22.000 They don't cry for anything.

04:22:24.000 No lloran tampoco por todas las oportunidades que han robado a los jóvenes europeos ni por la inseguridad a la que han condenado a las mujeres europeas.

04:22:31.000 No lloran por la destrucción de las iglesias ni por los ataques terroristas en los mercadillos navideños.

04:22:37.000 No, no lloran por nada de eso.

04:22:39.000 Lloran y patalean porque su incapacidad, su necedad y su traición ya está a la vista de todo el mundo.

04:22:46.000 They were crying, and still they were crying, because their business, which is not another than the of enriching the world, it has reached its end.

04:22:55.000 And other things, because the administration Biden, which was filled with the cartels, has ended.

04:23:02.000 And with that, they were ended the millions of dollars that they repented to spread their policies and ideologies absolutely nefast.

04:23:12.000 They also because their time has ended.

04:23:18.000 We can not feel the most limited compassion for those who have been strong with the poor and now they are in the right and true arguments.

04:23:31.000 But we have to be careful.

04:23:32.000 Like Sánchez in Spain, the bureaucrats of Brussels are going to be aferring to their in the middle of the country, perhaps because they know that when they don't feel there, they will have to sit down in a bank in front of a judge.

04:23:48.000 Now they are trying to take us to the total war, the same ones that have left Europe in defense, destroying their industry and their capacity to generate energy. 0.60

04:23:57.000 The same ones that gave Russia the possibility of invading Ukraine.

04:24:02.000 The same ones that facilitated Putin's aggression, condemning our energy dependence.

04:24:08.000 Now, the president of my country, Pedro Sánchez, is traveling to Kiev, to Ukraine.

04:24:14.000 But he won't do it to tell the ucranians that Russia's bombs will pay He himself, yes.

04:24:21.000 He pays Sánchez, who buys Russia the double of gas that he bought before the war.

04:24:27.000 And with that money that the populists and the socialists europeans have also financed the war to Putin.

04:24:34.000 Therefore, we have to leave those Napoleons of Salón, who only know how to provoke wars, whose consequences always pay others, both in terms of economic and in terms of materials. 0.94

04:24:48.000 Europa necesita que se vayan esos napoleones para tener ejércitos fuertes, fronteras inviolables y una industria de defensa.

04:24:59.000 Necesitamos todo eso.

04:25:00.000 Hemos visto precisamente en Israel cuál es la verdadera amenaza que enfrentamos.

04:25:05.000 Y hemos visto también que solo la firme voluntad de Israel para existir le está permitiendo ganar una guerra que no comenzaron ellos.

04:25:15.000 Europa necesita...

04:25:17.000 Defenderse.

04:25:17.000 Necesita defenderse de los planes de quienes llevan el terror a nuestras calles y de quienes empujan esos planes.

04:25:25.000 Tiene que defenderse de esas oligarquías disfrazadas o de esos oligarcas disfrazados de filántropos como Soros.

04:25:32.000 Porque hace nueve años ese enemigo de nuestra civilización dijo que la Unión Europea debería recibir un millón de inmigrantes al año.

04:25:41.000 Nine years later, the European Union received 9 million immigrants.

04:25:45.000 To achieve it, not only has invested its money through its own own NGOs and bought by bureaucrats, politicians and judges, but also has invested the of your, the of the American and the European contributions.

04:25:59.000 I think it is a unique case in the history where the people are forced to pay from their own pocket the invasion that the people own.

04:26:10.000 They now say that Elon Musk is now Because he seeks freedom in social networks and because he has the courage and the right to express his opinions.

04:26:19.000 The reality is that they're saying, because they don't want to know that they've been to Soros and to the administration of Biden's administration.

04:26:28.000 Just one last thing about my country.

04:26:32.000 The first person who visited the corrupt president of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, was George Soros, in the Palacio de la Moncloa.

04:26:40.000 That was published and never been denied by the Gobierno.

04:26:43.000 However, they never had any problems with the injerencias until now.

04:26:49.000 These are many the truths that the vice president Vance said in Munich.

04:26:54.000 We have to start to confront them from the beginning, from the more basic.

04:26:58.000 We must conquer, before nothing, the liberties that have been taken.

04:27:02.000 Reconquist the freedom of expression, the freedom of expression, the freedom of expression, the freedom of expression for our industry and for our camp, our capacity to produce energy.

04:27:12.000 We must also conquer our borders, our identity and the lost security in our streets.

04:27:18.000 We must conquer the democracy for all citizens and we must conquer the sovereignty of the nations.

04:27:25.000 And that we are safe.

04:27:27.000 We're going to do it.

04:27:28.000 Pese a quien pese y cueste lo que cueste, vamos a reconquistar nuestro futuro.

04:27:36.000 La época de las tinieblas está llegando a su fin. 0.63

04:27:40.000 Estamos dejando atrás una de las etapas más oscuras del mundo libre.

04:27:45.000 Sonreamos y sigamos luchando, luchando y luchando.

04:27:49.000 Muchas gracias.

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04:30:11.000 Ladies and gentlemen, this is a conversation with the Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Anti-Semitism, Amihai Shikli, and host of The Josh Hammer Show, and author of Israel and Civilization,

04:30:25.000 Josh Hammer. - So Josh Hammer. - So good afternoon, CPAC.

04:30:46.000 I'm not sure how many of you saw the images this morning, but we do have to start on a somewhat somber note.

04:30:52.000 There were these terrible images of babies being returned in coffins from Gaza to Israel this morning there.

04:30:59.000 And I want to toss it to the Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, Amichai Chikli, who is going to lead us in a moment of silence for these deceased hostages.

04:31:08.000 So we have experienced one of the most toughest days since the beginning of the war.

04:31:14.000 It is an extremely difficult day in Israel with the returning of the bodies of Shiri, Kfir, Ariel, Bibas, two little children and their mothers, along with Oded Lifshitz from Kibbutz Niroz.

04:31:28.000 And I think if we can take a moment of silence before we begin.

04:31:33.000 Thank you.

04:31:38.000 So, uh, try, try.

04:31:40.000 Tragically, these images this morning really do set the scene for our broader conversation here.

04:31:44.000 And first of all, let me just make a brief point.

04:31:46.000 You guys all heard from Vice President J.D. Vance this morning.

04:31:49.000 Vice President J.D. Vance said it very well about a month and a half, two months ago, where he said the message should not be bring them home for the hostages.

04:31:57.000 The message should be let them go.

04:32:00.000 Let them go.

04:32:02.000 That is the message.

04:32:04.000 That's a major shift that's the...

04:32:09.000 New administration is coming with a new spirit.

04:32:12.000 You know, for decades we've heard this sentence, Israel has the right to defend itself.

04:32:18.000 But this is obvious, and no other state needs to mention that they have the right to defend itself.

04:32:25.000 And this administration is coming with a different message, that Israel has the right and it's obliged to eliminate its enemies, to eradicate evil, as Marco Rubio said.

04:32:38.000 And this is a totally different approach.

04:32:40.000 And this is how you win wars.

04:32:44.000 Well, in many ways, Amichai, I think Israel is teaching the West how to win a war, which the West has not really done, frankly, since World War II. But I want to briefly talk about the broader war, which is the war for Western civilization actually itself. 0.60

04:33:01.000 What is Western civilization?

04:33:03.000 We talk about it here.

04:33:04.000 To me, Western civilization is basically synonymous with the Bible.

04:33:09.000 It all ultimately goes back, as we two Jews know all too well, to God's revelation to Moses at Mount Sinai.

04:33:16.000 When we talk about defending the West, guys, Jews and Christians alike, we're talking about defending those very values and that very way of life.

04:33:25.000 And Israel is not just the canary in the coal mine for all of these fights, but anti-Semitism itself.

04:33:33.000 As you know, in your role, it is a direct attack, not just on the Jews, but on all of this, on all of Western civilization. 0.99

04:33:40.000 Absolutely.

04:33:41.000 I think that, you know, President Reagan ended the Cold War.

04:33:47.000 And we thought that this war ended, but it never ended.

04:33:52.000 It just wore a different face.

04:33:55.000 And we saw it in universities all across Europe.

04:33:59.000 We saw it in universities here in America.

04:34:03.000 And the woke progressive movement is just another face of the Marxist movement.

04:34:10.000 And in its truth, this is a godless philosophy that denies the idea of truth.

04:34:18.000 And when you denies the idea, the concept of truth, there is no good and bad.

04:34:24.000 There is no right and wrong.

04:34:25.000 There is no option for moral clarity.

04:34:28.000 And this is how you can defeat the West.

04:34:32.000 From within.

04:34:33.000 That is the effort that's made by the woke progressive movement.

04:34:38.000 And this is a threat not just for the state of Israel. 0.53

04:34:43.000 This is a threat for America.

04:34:45.000 And this is a threat for Western civilization.

04:34:49.000 And I think that we need to restore those very basic values.

04:34:54.000 And as President Trump says, we want to put God back on the stage.

04:35:00.000 Because without God...

04:35:02.000 What is truth?

04:35:05.000 What is right and wrong and good and bad?

04:35:07.000 And it all comes from our common values and our common tradition.

04:35:12.000 And that is, I think, a new era.

04:35:16.000 And I'm very optimistic that with moral clarity we can achieve amazing things together, Israel and the United States, and lead the free world into a better future.

04:35:29.000 So one of the things that we were talking about...

04:35:32.000 Backstage a little bit is that, you know, we in the United States, we in the West more broadly, I think have forgotten what actual evil looks like.

04:35:39.000 We have forgotten that evil exists.

04:35:42.000 Personally, I became a conservative at 12 years old on 9-11 because I saw the smoke from the Twin Towers with my own eyes.

04:35:48.000 And I think many people in this post-October 7 environment are arising to that same realization.

04:35:53.000 But we can't talk about evil, I think, specifically without talking about the Iranian regime, which is really kind of the root. 1.00

04:35:59.000 Of the overwhelming majority of evil, not just in the Middle East, but frankly around the world more broadly. 0.94

04:36:06.000 Maybe you could just talk a little bit about the specific threat from the Iranian regime and its proxies.

04:36:11.000 And I think you might have a bit of a revelation for us when it comes to Iranism.

04:36:14.000 Yeah, I came with some news.

04:36:15.000 But before, one word about the concept of evil.

04:36:19.000 I think that, you know, it's frightening to expose our kids to the fact that, yes, the monster beneath the bed...

04:36:30.000 There is evil in this world.

04:36:32.000 And we want to push away our children and the younger generation to believe that evil does not exist.

04:36:40.000 We in Israel, unfortunately, even those of us who thought that there is no evil, met evil on its worst option on October 7. We saw evil today in Gaza with the Horrors of how the Hamas celebrated this moment of bringing the Bibas family and Odette Lipschitz. 0.59

04:37:07.000 And I think that we have failed in the recent decades on educating our kids that evil exists and we need to confront and we need to fight and we need to sacrifice.

04:37:21.000 Just like as we've done in the past decades.

04:37:25.000 And this is...

04:37:25.000 Something which I think that is also changing, and I'm also optimistic regarding to it, although it costs at a very high price.

04:37:33.000 Now, with the Iranian regime, in Iran, Khomeini, who started the Iranian revolution, he set America as the great Satan, and Israel as the small Satan. 0.87

04:37:49.000 Iran was, and Iran is an enemy of America. 0.97

04:37:54.000 An enemy of the state of Israel.

04:37:56.000 And they are very determined in their efforts with their proxies.

04:38:02.000 And one thing which is amazing that I would like to share with you, we have made a research and we found out that this entire campaign that tries to connect between Israel and genocide in Gaza, which is a ridiculous claim, because what we have in Gaza is A terror regime that seeks to commit genocide on our villages, on our communities.

04:38:31.000 And what we found out, that this entire campaign started with the Revolutionary Guards posting again and again and again the message, until it got received in the Western Hemisphere in Britain, with also Persian accounts, and then it got spread out, and we can see...

04:38:53.000 In the research that any time that the trend of the genocide in Gaza is going down, they are pushing more and more tweets from fake accounts, and this is an entire campaign that was led by Iran, and this is the first time that we can share it publicly with you here in SIPAC. So this is a very, very big deal. 0.50

04:39:18.000 I mean, this is an old tactic of the enemies of Western civilization. 0.98

04:39:21.000 The Soviets did it once upon a time, trying to foment civic discord here in the United States, and now we see the face of evil yet again in the face of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. 0.98

04:39:32.000 So, Amihai, the good news right now is that we have an administration here, the Trump-Vance administration, that is wholly committed, that is wholly dedicated.

04:39:43.000 Not just to allowing Israel to fight our mutual enemies, but to actually combating antisemitism as well.

04:39:50.000 And it's just a timely reminder that we are so blessed, truly.

04:39:54.000 So blessed to be here at CPAC with good guys in charge, unlike the last four years, to be here at CPAC with guys who understand what the West is and what we stand for.

04:40:03.000 So I know that you've had some meetings in your time in Washington.

04:40:06.000 Why don't you just talk a little bit about what it looks like from your perspective, what the administration is currently doing.

04:40:10.000 So in the past few weeks, this administration has done more to combat anti-Semitism than in the entire past four years.

04:40:18.000 And I'm speaking about...

04:40:21.000 First, putting the task force laid by Leon Torrel, which is an amazing individual, an amazing leader, totally committed to combat anti-Semitism.

04:40:30.000 And I really, we met him this morning, and he's an amazing individual.

04:40:34.000 I think we're going to see a shift in everything that regards combating anti-Semitism.

04:40:40.000 Also, the defunding on universities who failed to combat anti-Semitism on universities.

04:40:48.000 And many more decisions by this administration, and I think that this administration fully gets it.

04:40:58.000 And it's also worth telling that with the previous administration, not just that almost nothing happened, but the message was so ambiguous, and we saw the IRA definition being undermined.

04:41:13.000 And I think it was very, very weak.

04:41:15.000 And you know, actions speak louder than words.

04:41:18.000 And I think that this administration speaks with actions and not with big words.

04:41:24.000 And I really love it.

04:41:27.000 And I think it is also a blessing for the Jewish community, for minorities, and for American people.

04:41:35.000 You know, Teddy Roosevelt, the president, famously spoke of the man in the arena.

04:41:39.000 That's his famous speech.

04:41:41.000 Donald Trump is nothing but the man in the arena.

04:41:43.000 He is nothing if not that right now.

04:41:45.000 So, God bless Donald Trump.

04:41:47.000 And God bless you, Amichai.

04:41:49.000 And God bless you, CPAT. Thank you guys so much for having us.

04:41:52.000 Thank you.

04:41:54.000 Thank you.

04:42:23.000 the 47th president of the United States of America.

04:42:25.000 And, you know, I wouldn't say Fox has been exactly perfect.

04:42:29.000 Fox has been a big difference of Fox between now and what it was four years ago, as you know.

04:42:34.000 But we have others that come along and they're doing well and Newsmax has been really good and, you know, others are coming along and people are seeing that they're watching these conservative networks.

04:42:47.000 President Trump is right.

04:42:48.000 That's why millions of Americans are tuning into Newsmax for the real news they can trust.

04:42:52.000 This lunacy will end on my first day back in the Oval Office.

04:42:57.000 I promise you it will end immediately.

04:43:00.000 Hi Donald John Trump.

04:43:17.000 You solemnly swear.

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04:43:29.000 They've made billions partnering with big health insurance corporations while opposing reforms seniors want, like applying big discounts to medicines directly at the pharmacy counter.

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04:44:47.000 When the bad people of Mexico meet with the bad people of the United States, what's the result?

04:44:52.000 Culture of death, child trafficking, abortion, illegal guns, drugs, death.

04:44:59.000 Mexico and United States, we are not just neighbors.

04:45:01.000 We're brothers and sisters.

04:45:02.000 We need to work together.

04:45:04.000 And let's make Mexico and America great together again.

04:45:08.000 Let's send the world a message.

04:45:09.000 We condemn the police state tactics of Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Lula da Silva, and Joe Biden.

04:45:17.000 I want to start by thanking Matt and Mercedes Schlapp and everyone at the American Conservative Union.

04:45:24.000 They say globalism comes to die a tipa.

04:45:28.000 I'm here to tell you that in El Salvador...

04:45:31.000 It's already there.

04:45:32.000 An amazing time to be in this fight for freedom.

04:45:35.000 Eliminar la corrupción de la política, pero no nos vamos a rendir en volver a ser Argentina grande nuevamente.

04:45:41.000 Va ser quien va a ganar y quien va a proteger a la familia.

04:45:47.000 Esa es la batalla.

04:45:49.000 Y ellos al final del día querían llegar a nuestros hijos.

04:45:55.000 A nuestros hijos para dividirnos.

04:45:58.000 Viva España!

04:46:01.000 Viva los Estados Unidos!

04:46:03.000 Viva Israel! 0.93

04:46:05.000 Vamos a ganar!

04:46:21.000 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome US Secretary of Energy, Chris welcome US Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright. Chris Wright.

04:46:43.000 I'm thrilled to be here.

04:46:44.000 Thank you all for being here.

04:46:46.000 I'm also thrilled to work for President Donald J. Trump.

04:46:55.000 And I can breathe.

04:46:57.000 I don't have a tie on today.

04:47:00.000 I've worn a tie more in the last two or three weeks than I have in my whole life, and I feel liberated right now.

04:47:06.000 When I'm on TV, my mom doesn't recognize me in a tie.

04:47:11.000 Someone looked like you, but it wasn't you.

04:47:13.000 So who am I? Like, I'm a passionate guy about energy.

04:47:18.000 From a kid, in high school, I was passionate about energy sources, energy technology.

04:47:24.000 I've spent, after schooling, my entire career as an entrepreneur in energy.

04:47:30.000 Why?

04:47:32.000 It's energizing.

04:47:36.000 And also, it's what controls the limits in what's possible in our lives.

04:47:42.000 Not just us, but everyone around the world.

04:47:46.000 We had 30-year global life expectancy at birth throughout all of human history.

04:47:52.000 All the way up to less than 200 years ago.

04:47:55.000 Today, it's 73 years.

04:47:57.000 From 30 to 73. Two things catalyze that change.

04:48:03.000 The growth of human liberty.

04:48:05.000 Bottom-up social organization, what we're all passionate about, and the explosion in available energy from hydrocarbons.

04:48:14.000 These two things just transformed the human condition.

04:48:19.000 Not everyone in the world has access to the liberty and energy we have.

04:48:24.000 But in our own country, both of those concepts have been under great threat in the last four years.

04:48:32.000 Maybe that's why my political career started.

04:48:35.000 Liberty under threat, energy resources under threat.

04:48:40.000 President Trump was elected partially on this very issue.

04:48:44.000 And he was elected to get rid of the nonsense and bring back common sense.

04:48:51.000 What do I mean by nonsense?

04:48:59.000 Look at the last four years.

04:49:00.000 What have we seen?

04:49:02.000 Every possible new barrier implemented to make it harder to produce oil and gas.

04:49:08.000 No, that doesn't change the demand for oil and gas.

04:49:11.000 You just make it harder to produce.

04:49:13.000 What do you get?

04:49:14.000 You get less supply and higher prices.

04:49:19.000 We've seen 30% rise in electricity prices just in the previous administration.

04:49:26.000 During President Trump's first term, almost no change.

04:49:30.000 In national average electricity prices, all of a sudden, a huge rise in electricity prices, rising gasoline, rising energy across the board.

04:49:39.000 So what was the response to that?

04:49:41.000 Well, the United States is the dominant producer of natural gas, and we have a booming industry exporting natural gas to our allies around the world.

04:49:50.000 Well, let's stop that.

04:49:51.000 Let's ban new permitting of LNG export terminals.

04:49:56.000 And then to add insult to injury, a whole bunch of Regulations were rolled out to limit your ability to buy the appliances you want.

04:50:05.000 You may want to buy that appliance, but the new appliance you're allowed to buy costs more and works worse.

04:50:12.000 My dishwasher has to run for two hours now, and at the end, I've got to clean the dishes.

04:50:20.000 My clothes dryer works at half the power.

04:50:23.000 In theory, this is saving energy.

04:50:25.000 It just takes twice as long to dry our clothes.

04:50:29.000 These are just nonsensical things that have hurt people's lives and driven prices up.

04:50:34.000 President Trump came in, and he is strong, and he is bold, and he gets energy.

04:50:40.000 His goal was, we're going to bring back common sense.

04:50:45.000 So what's the plan?

04:50:47.000 Drill baby, drill, and build baby, build.

04:50:51.000 To produce more energy, you need the infrastructure to move that energy to customers.

04:51:00.000 Think of the consumers in New England.

04:51:02.000 They don't have enough access for natural gas there, and they have sky-high electricity prices.

04:51:07.000 And you don't get industries placed in those states.

04:51:10.000 Every state that's driven up the price of energy...

04:51:13.000 It not only impoverishes their citizens, but it makes it so businesses don't want to locate there.

04:51:19.000 Those businesses are going to locate in another state, and frankly, over the last four years, a lot of those businesses are going to locate in another country.

04:51:26.000 We don't want that.

04:51:28.000 We want things built in America.

04:51:30.000 We want those jobs in America, which means we need that energy produced and consumed in America.

04:51:36.000 Thank you.

04:51:39.000 We're on the cusp of a brand new industry, an energy-intensive manufacturing industry called artificial intelligence.

04:51:51.000 This is an industry we want to lead in.

04:51:54.000 This is American technology.

04:51:55.000 It matters not just for the efficiency of our economy, it matters from the enormous benefits that'll come in drug discovery, in product manufacturing, and frankly in driving costs down, and it also matters for national security.

04:52:10.000 Do we want China to lead the way in AI? I would feel naked.

04:52:15.000 If their AI was better than ours, what does that say about the balance of power and the security of our country?

04:52:22.000 We need to lead and win the competition in AI. And the only way to do that is to have tremendous energy production that we can both grow our electricity production, which is what AI runs on, but stop the price rises.

04:52:39.000 They had almost no demand growth and they raised prices.

04:52:42.000 This administration needs to do the opposite.

04:52:45.000 We need to have demand growth and supply growth and not raising prices, everything we can do to push prices down.

04:52:52.000 That's how we can better human lives.

04:52:57.000 Better opportunities for Americans, lower cost of living, more industries that want to invest and build things here in the United States.

04:53:06.000 That is this President's agenda.

04:53:09.000 And as I dig into my job and my colleagues and other cabinet positions, there is an immense amount of barriers to making things happen.

04:53:18.000 Our country, it's become a place where it's very hard to build something, and unfortunately, it's very easy to stop something.

04:53:27.000 One regulation, one protest, our government is littered with inefficiency and traps.

04:53:35.000 That can be exploited to prevent people from building things.

04:53:39.000 So the task before us is big.

04:53:41.000 It's not modest.

04:53:42.000 It's not simple.

04:53:43.000 But we have a committed team who are working every day to get these barriers out of the way, let America grow our energy production, build our energy infrastructure, bring jobs and investment back to our country, raise American wages and lower American raise American wages and lower American prices.

04:54:10.000 And back to those appliances.

04:54:12.000 Who here is in favor of more expensive, lower-performing appliances?

04:54:18.000 How many votes do we have for that one?

04:54:21.000 Very good.

04:54:22.000 President Trump, so under this administration, in my department, and actually in many other departments in the Trump administration, we are working feverishly to remove these regulations, to free American producers, to build the appliances people want to buy.

04:54:40.000 We have a factory in the southeastern part of the United States that employs hundreds of people to build a particularly popular product these days.

04:54:54.000 It is a tankless water heater powered by natural gas.

04:54:59.000 It's among the cheapest ways to heat your water, takes the least space, lower cost, burns natural gas, our lowest cost thermal energy we can have in our houses.

04:55:08.000 It's a win on every box.

04:55:11.000 That's why they've been selling like hotcakes and are an emerging product.

04:55:15.000 So what did the Biden administration do?

04:55:17.000 They see a hot product, all Americans are voting yes.

04:55:20.000 They passed a regulation that would make that product illegal.

04:55:25.000 And that company would be dead.

04:55:27.000 In fact, that company is very fearful for the jobs and opportunity of those workers.

04:55:32.000 Now, that's hundreds of American jobs. 0.91

04:55:34.000 I care personally about that.

04:55:35.000 But it's much bigger than that.

04:55:37.000 It's all Americans would not have available to them a low-cost, efficient option to have hot water for their showers and their washing machines and everything else we use it for.

04:55:48.000 That's just completely nuts.

04:55:51.000 But again, President Trump...

04:55:53.000 Fix that problem.

04:55:54.000 Fix that problem.

04:55:55.000 We found a fix, and we are fixing that problem.

04:56:02.000 That factory staying open, those products are going to be built in mass, and they're going to be shipped all across the country for the American consumers that want to buy them.

04:56:10.000 We're not going to tell you what to buy.

04:56:11.000 We want to enable you to buy what you want to buy.

04:56:15.000 That's that crazy freedom idea.

04:56:17.000 I'll end with saying, America's back.

04:56:25.000 Baby!

04:56:27.000 Thank you all.

04:56:28.000 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the senator from Indiana, Senator Jim Banks.

04:56:55.000 Thank you, CPAC.

04:57:00.000 I'm Jim Banks, United States Senator from United States Senator from the great state of Indiana.

04:57:22.000 I just left the floor of the United States Senate where I cast my vote to confirm Kash Patel to be our next FBI Director.

04:57:49.000 It's great to be among so many patriots on this historic day.

04:57:55.000 Today marks the one-month point exactly that Donald Trump became our president once again, kicking off the Golden Age of America.

04:58:11.000 Within a short time, we've gotten just a glimpse of the greatness that will define this new era.

04:58:19.000 President Trump has already rooted out massive waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal bureaucracy, crippling the corruption of the deep state.

04:58:31.000 He's directed the largest mass deportation operation in American history, making our communities much safer.

04:58:43.000 And he's removed the kick me sign.

04:58:47.000 From the backs of our industries and our American workers.

04:58:53.000 Our adversaries and our partners have been put on notice.

04:58:58.000 the era of taking advantage of America is over.

04:59:03.000 While America is heading toward this golden age at warp speed, we also face a troubling reality.

04:59:16.000 There are those within our borders who hate America and are working against our own people.

04:59:22.000 They hate America and everything that she stands for.

04:59:27.000 They aim to break down and degrade everything that sets America apart.

04:59:33.000 While the left has found a multitude of ways to sabotage our institutions, wokeness has become their primary weapon.

04:59:43.000 It's a nuke.

04:59:44.000 meant to obliterate our culture and erode American society. 0.82

04:59:49.000 Wokeness takes fundamental truths, truths that our civilization is founded upon, and perverts them into ungodly anti-American lies.

05:00:04.000 That ideology serves as a tool to undermine everything that makes America great, the family unit.

05:00:12.000 Faith in God and historical and biological truths.

05:00:16.000 Putting up a fight against this kind of poison requires courageous action, and that's why all of us are here today.

05:00:24.000 And that's exactly what President Trump has given us on his watch.

05:00:29.000 He's inspired the rise of what I like to call the New Right.

05:00:33.000 It's a coalition of conservatives who recognize that the status quo in Washington is failing the working class.

05:00:41.000 Steamrolling their best interest.

05:00:44.000 The old Republican Party bowed down to liberal corporate interests and an America-last foreign policy while ignoring the working class.

05:00:54.000 And ladies and gentlemen, let me declare to you today, that Republican Party is dead.

05:01:01.000 This is no time for wimpy Republicans.

05:01:11.000 The new right merges true conservatism with the interest of the people.

05:01:16.000 President Trump and his administration boldly embody this new Republican Party.

05:01:23.000 This administration had the nerve to stand up against corporate America, the media, the federal bureaucracy, Wall Street.

05:01:34.000 the mainstream culture, the education system, the entire Democrat Party, and even weak Republicans on our side.

05:01:42.000 Speaking on this very stage two years ago, President Trump said, quote, On day one, I will revoke Joe Biden's crazy executive order installing Marxist diversity, equity, and inclusion czars in every federal agency.

05:02:05.000 I will immediately terminate all staffers hired to implement this horrible agenda, end quote.

05:02:11.000 quote, "I'd say that President Trump has followed through on that promise and a whole lot more." Despite how extensively DEI polluted our institutions, President Trump, with the swipe of a pen, dismantled this Marxist ideology from the halls of our government.

05:02:33.000 The Education Department under President Trump has been given 14 days to end any practice that treats students differently because of their race or lose federal funding.

05:02:49.000 That is a huge blow to DEI and a massive win for our kids.

05:02:59.000 DEI has been uprooted from our military because of Secretary Hegseth and President Trump.

05:03:11.000 Under Joe Biden, our armed forces were wasting precious time and taxpayer resources running social experiments.

05:03:19.000 Do you think that China's military is worried about filling diversity quotas and making sure everybody's pronouns and delusions are respected?

05:03:28.000 Of course not.

05:03:30.000 And as a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, I can tell you that diversity in and of itself provides no strategic advantage.

05:03:38.000 In fact, holding up diversity as some kind of moral virtue is a deadly distraction.

05:03:46.000 Under President Trump, we're rightfully refocusing our military on lethality.

05:03:52.000 Because that's what keeps Americans safe.

05:03:56.000 But it's not just the public sector that's purged radical wokeness.

05:04:01.000 Corporate America is also following suit, bending their knee to common sense.

05:04:08.000 Google, Ford, Meta, Walmart, and so many other companies, all those companies are decimating their DEI programs.

05:04:20.000 The culture has shifted away from insanity and back toward objective truth and success based on merit.

05:04:30.000 It's encouraging to know that our young people are a big part of this corporate shift. 0.98

05:04:35.000 They've grown up being indoctrinated by all of this woke garbage. 0.96

05:04:39.000 But they're the ones who are pushing back the hardest. 0.98

05:04:42.000 They understand that DEI is a fundamental attack on the American dream.

05:04:48.000 Let me tell you, as a son of a factory worker who grew up in a trailer park, now serving in the United States Senate, that American dream is very personal to me.

05:05:01.000 It's something that's worth fighting for.

05:05:05.000 I have three young daughters, and I want them to inherit an America that values their hard work, not one that prejudges them or bases their value off of identity politics.

05:05:17.000 DEI is the biggest threat to the American dream, but the golden age of America means the death of DEI. Right now, President Trump has his foot on the neck of wokeism and driven a stake through the heart of those who hate America.

05:05:42.000 But let me tell you, Congress needs to do its job.

05:05:47.000 We have to reinforce the successes that President Trump and his administration have accomplished.

05:05:52.000 We need legislation to codify and extend his transformative executive orders.

05:06:01.000 Leaders in both the House and the Senate must partner with President Trump to help get these wins across the finish line and make them permanent.

05:06:14.000 The Anti-Woke Caucus is and has been one of those partners.

05:06:18.000 I'm proud to be the founder of the Anti-Woke Caucus during my time in the House.

05:06:27.000 I've handed off the role to Congresswoman Harriet Hageman from the great state of Wyoming, who now leads that caucus.

05:06:36.000 The Anti-Woke Caucus works to expose the cultural rot Introduced by the woke movement and helps to lay the groundwork for much of what the Trump administration is accomplishing today.

05:06:47.000 It stands against the tide and fights for legislation focused on restoring a merit-based society.

05:06:54.000 A society that prioritizes free speech, fiscal responsibility, and the rule of law.

05:07:01.000 And I'd like to mention that a lot of outside organizations, especially the Claremont Institute, have been essential partners in the momentum that we've had.

05:07:10.000 In 2023, the caucus endorsed the Fairness, Anti-Discrimination, Individual Rights, or the FAIR Act, that prohibited federal government from discriminating on the basis of race, color, or national origin.

05:07:22.000 And that same year, the caucus supported an amendment that I provided to the Department of Defense that would have prevented federal funds from being used to hire or pay employees who work on DEI at the Pentagon.

05:07:34.000 That amendment passed the House, but it failed in the Senate.

05:07:37.000 But now that there are new faces in the Senate, I say it's time that we try again.

05:07:46.000 Let me close by saying that this recent election in November was a referendum on the status quo.

05:07:53.000 President Trump has led this country and this town into a new age.

05:07:58.000 This isn't business as usual in Washington.

05:08:00.000 We're entering a time of American prosperity and peace that we have never seen before.

05:08:06.000 It's felt all across the heartland of America.

05:08:10.000 Working people aren't used to their leaders being honest with them or prioritizing their needs.

05:08:16.000 But that's what President Trump and the MAGA movement, the new right, the new Republican Party, have achieved.

05:08:22.000 The cancer of wokeness tried to undermine our national unity and destroy our country, but thank God it failed. 1.00

05:08:30.000 We the people know what makes this country great.

05:08:33.000 This is the greatest country in the history of the world.

05:08:36.000 It's always worth fighting for, and I look forward to fighting alongside you to keep this country great.

05:08:42.000 Thank you.

05:08:43.000 God bless.

05:08:46.000 The yeas are 51. The nays are 49. The confirmation is confirmed. 1.00

05:08:53.000 Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions.

05:09:05.000 Ladies and gentlemen,

05:09:31.000 please welcome President of the European Conservative Reformist Party, Mateusz Kulabiecki.

05:10:00.000 I stand here in front of you as a representative of Europe, a continent which once shaped the world, a great continent, a continent of great explorers and inventors, industrial revolutions, Columbus and Copernicus, Leonardo da Vinci and Nikola Tesla.

05:10:27.000 It was really a great continent and I want this continent to be great again.

05:10:39.000 Because now this continent is in decline and we stand on the shoulders of those giants, our herds, and we owe this to them and to our children, as J.D. Vance, vice president, said it a couple of hours ago from this place.

05:11:02.000 We owe this to our children to repair the...

05:11:07.000 European continent as well.

05:11:10.000 And we have a great past and we have to fight for a great future.

05:11:15.000 And it is possible.

05:11:17.000 We have to fight for a great future as well.

05:11:20.000 And now, a couple of numbers, figures, they don't lie.

05:11:28.000 Europe, just 25 years ago, and Europe's GDP. It was bigger than that one of the United States.

05:11:38.000 Fast forward 25 years later, it's by 50% smaller than that one of the United States.

05:11:48.000 Industrial production in Germany is 90% of this from 2015. By the way, the industrial production of Poland...

05:11:59.000 It's on the level of 155% of that one from 2017. So today, Europe stands at a crossroads.

05:12:13.000 It can rise again or fade into irrelevance.

05:12:18.000 And we have to rise because we cannot be the weaker partner of the United States.

05:12:26.000 The challenges all around us...

05:12:29.000 Are really great and grave and we have to cope with them hard and glove with the United States.

05:12:39.000 But to do so we must abandon the outdated EU development model.

05:12:49.000 The Franco-German engine has stalled.

05:12:54.000 And Brussels' bureaucracy cannot replace real economy.

05:13:00.000 And climate and migration policy, instead of delivering solutions, have created chaos.

05:13:10.000 If we fail to change course, Europe is becoming a museum, an open-air museum, you can say.

05:13:20.000 Or worse, a colony...

05:13:23.000 of Asian powers.

05:13:24.000 That's a real threat.

05:13:27.000 And Europe faces many threats. 0.99

05:13:31.000 Among them, not only a very stupid Green Deal policy. 0.95

05:13:37.000 Illegal migration policy, which actually is an open-door policy for everybody, from Africa, from the Middle East, the Willkommenskultur of Germany. 0.99

05:13:49.000 Totally wrong.

05:13:51.000 But also It suffocates the free speech and it also fights with very poor defence system.

05:14:01.000 If we do not fix these internal failures, we will have even bigger challenges to deal with because Russia, the illegal migration, China and Islamic terror is just next door, behind the corner.

05:14:23.000 Right now, bureaucracy is killing Europe.

05:14:27.000 I tell you, Europe used to award ambition once upon a time.

05:14:34.000 Now it awards compliance.

05:14:37.000 We need a renaissance of the European industry.

05:14:42.000 We need a program designed and crafted in Europe 2040. Exactly like the made in America, made in China as well.

05:14:51.000 But we don't have it.

05:14:53.000 The EU was built on economic cooperation and freedom.

05:14:58.000 And today, every entrepreneur, every innovator, every visionary faces an army of regulators.

05:15:08.000 That's Europe. 0.57

05:15:09.000 They don't build.

05:15:11.000 They don't support.

05:15:13.000 They punish.

05:15:14.000 They restrict.

05:15:16.000 They require ESG or DEI. Or another acronyms.

05:15:24.000 This is what is happening across Europe.

05:15:27.000 So we see this weakness of the European Union in the AI. We have the thickest AI rule books and we have the strictest AI regulations, but meanwhile we don't have AI in Europe, unfortunately.

05:15:47.000 We also, we can see...

05:15:49.000 This very weakness of the European Union in our industry.

05:15:53.000 Energy prices are soaring.

05:15:56.000 Vice President J.D. Vance was dead right saying that we have to lower the prices of energy.

05:16:03.000 I envy so much your program Drill Baby Drill.

05:16:07.000 We'll look for one in Europe.

05:16:12.000 Because factories are shutting down, carbon leakage everywhere, mass layoffs.

05:16:19.000 In Europe, yet European elites push towards unrealistic climate policies instead of securing the economic strength and economic growth.

05:16:31.000 We also see this European weakness in the area of freedom.

05:16:38.000 The European Commission speaks of democracy while silencing dissent.

05:16:47.000 They manipulate elections.

05:16:51.000 You've heard about what's happened in Romania.

05:16:54.000 My friend George Simeon from Romania is here with us.

05:16:58.000 And they fight with all the Republican movements, including my political camp.

05:17:07.000 You might have heard about the Hudson Institute report, quite recently published.

05:17:14.000 What red lines were crossed?

05:17:16.000 What rubicons were crossed?

05:17:19.000 Attack on democracy.

05:17:21.000 Attack on free speech.

05:17:22.000 Attack on opposition.

05:17:23.000 Putting opposition members in jail.

05:17:27.000 Exactly what Vice President J.D. Van said in Munich is happening in my homeland.

05:17:34.000 What is this?

05:17:35.000 Is this democracy?

05:17:39.000 The liberal leftist...

05:17:42.000 Government and liberal-left organizations receiving money from the European Commission, receiving money from USAID, NED, the Soros Foundation.

05:17:56.000 They were furnished, they were supported from all over the place.

05:18:02.000 So how our presidential candidate, and we have the presidential election three months from today.

05:18:12.000 How he can fight on level playing field with all the propaganda coming from outside, with the Russian disinformation and manipulation coming from the East, and all the leftist money coming from the West.

05:18:29.000 That's really difficult.

05:18:32.000 And I tell you, in three months from today, the presidential elections will be after the first round.

05:18:42.000 It is a very critical moment for Poland.

05:18:46.000 Depending on who is going to win, our beloved country will go towards the Republican values or leftist liberal values or anti-values, I should have said.

05:19:01.000 My government was punished for standing up to Brussels.

05:19:07.000 EU recovery funds were blocked.

05:19:09.000 And this was...

05:19:12.000 Against all the rule of law in Poland.

05:19:16.000 And it weakened also, the European Union weakened its own economy through overregulation and demanding even more Green Deal, even more illegal migration, even more woke and wokeness.

05:19:35.000 And it left itself defenseless by cutting military expenditures.

05:19:41.000 While demanding more strategic autonomy.

05:19:46.000 How they connect the dots on the picture, I don't know.

05:19:50.000 European elites live in a fantasy.

05:19:53.000 They speak of strategic autonomy while dismantling their own defence industries. 1.00

05:20:00.000 You know what's the biggest stupidity in the European Union? 0.99

05:20:04.000 The one which is going to be described in the future history books. 0.99

05:20:08.000 The European Union created Four new major industries, but not in Europe, in China.

05:20:17.000 Wind turbines, solar panels, 98% of solar panels produced in China.

05:20:24.000 Electric vehicles, 60% of electric vehicles produced in China.

05:20:30.000 And electric batteries, all furnished and supported with the European money. 1.00

05:20:41.000 Stupid thing. 1.00

05:20:46.000 And Poland shows there is another way. 1.00

05:20:51.000 So, dear friends, come to Poland.

05:20:55.000 We have a very strong GDP growth, around 40% for over the decade.

05:21:02.000 Come to Poland. 1.00

05:21:03.000 No illegal migration.

05:21:05.000 At least until I was Prime Minister.

05:21:08.000 Because my successor, He opens the door.

05:21:12.000 He is not even reacting when the German police is pushing the illegal migrants who got to Germany and pushing them back to Poland.

05:21:24.000 So right now you can feel very secure in Poland.

05:21:30.000 But what will happen in a couple of years time if they continue their mad policy?

05:21:37.000 I don't know.

05:21:38.000 So come to Poland if you want to see a country ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with your great country, with the United States.

05:21:48.000 But why is Poland safe and strong?

05:21:57.000 Because we have rejected the European self-destruction policy.

05:22:02.000 And this is why I'm so much concerned these days.

05:22:06.000 My successor as Prime Minister is a very pro-German, pro-Brazilian politician.

05:22:13.000 He doesn't understand geopolitical challenges around us.

05:22:19.000 And he can destroy this very Poland, which we love. 1.00

05:22:24.000 We cannot allow him to do this.

05:22:28.000 I refuse to accept Europe's decline.

05:22:32.000 While I was Prime Minister, Poland grew On average, around four percentage points.

05:22:40.000 And we had a period of time when we were catching up with Germany and the other Western European countries as the fastest pace in our history.

05:22:52.000 Thank you.

05:22:55.000 And history is unforgiving to those who remain passive.

05:22:59.000 So we have to really fight.

05:23:05.000 Shoulder to shoulder to regain free Poland. 0.99

05:23:10.000 We have to fend off all those leftist and liberal ideological tendencies.

05:23:19.000 We have to unleash our economies.

05:23:22.000 Deregulation means not chaos.

05:23:27.000 It means unleashing our potential.

05:23:30.000 And this is what has to be done.

05:23:32.000 Regulation red tape all over the place in Brussels.

05:23:36.000 This is mad policy of Brussels.

05:23:41.000 The greatest technological revolutions happened not because government allowed those to happen, but because government stepped back.

05:23:53.000 Second, we have to defend our sovereignty.

05:23:56.000 So no more blackmail from the European Commission.

05:24:01.000 No more juristocracy.

05:24:03.000 Do you have juristocracy here in the States?

05:24:06.000 We have it all over the place in Europe.

05:24:09.000 And in Poland, it's crazy.

05:24:13.000 Third, we have to rebuild our defense.

05:24:16.000 And Poland is dedicating more than four percentage points on defense.

05:24:21.000 It's the country where...

05:24:24.000 While I was able to repair the public finances and the Polish budget, I have left the Polish budget in a very good state.

05:24:35.000 And my successors are trying to take credit for this.

05:24:40.000 And we are spending 4.5%, 4.7% on defense because we know how important this is.

05:24:48.000 Europe created The first universities.

05:24:54.000 The first modern economies.

05:24:56.000 The strategies that shaped history.

05:24:59.000 Now we must awaken that spirit again.

05:25:03.000 The spirit of inventors.

05:25:06.000 The spirit of ambition.

05:25:09.000 The spirit of courage and determination.

05:25:11.000 On top of the already existing difficulties, problems, we have this huge war in Ukraine.

05:25:21.000 And there is the space of intermarium of which Poland can be a Barbican. 0.92

05:25:28.000 Barbican of stability between the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea.

05:25:32.000 And we want to be the indispensable ally of the United States in this part of the world.

05:25:39.000 We need you.

05:25:41.000 But I believe you need us as well.

05:25:44.000 So, if we fail, Europe fades into history. 0.50

05:25:50.000 Europe is declining.

05:25:52.000 If we fail, Europe will become a junior partner of Russian-Chinese tandem. 0.92

05:25:59.000 And together, Russia, China and Europe is stronger than the United States.

05:26:06.000 So it's a jeopardy for the security and stability and prosperity of the United States as well.

05:26:15.000 If we act, however, Europe...

05:26:20.000 If we restore our strength and our vibrant economy, Europe and the USA together may stay as a beacon of hope and freedom.

05:26:33.000 The choice is ours.

05:26:35.000 Let's make Europe great again.

05:26:37.000 Thank you.

05:27:03.000 When the bad people of Mexico meet with the bad people of the United States, What's the result? 0.50

05:27:09.000 Culture of death, child trafficking, abortion, illegal guns, drugs, death.

05:27:15.000 Mexico and United States, we are not just neighbors, we're brothers and sisters.

05:27:18.000 We need to work together and let's make Mexico and America great together again.

05:27:24.000 Let's send the world a message.

05:27:26.000 We condemn the police state tactics of Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Lula da Silva and Joe Biden.

05:27:33.000 I want to start by thanking Matt and Mercedes Schlapp and everyone at the American Conservative Union.

05:27:40.000 They say globalism comes to die a T-Pack.

05:27:44.000 I'm here to tell you that in El Salvador, it's already there.

05:27:48.000 An amazing time to be in this fight for freedom.

05:27:51.000 Eliminar la corrupción de la política, pero no nos vamos a rendir en volver a ser Argentina grande nuevamente.

05:27:57.000 Va a ser quien va a ganar y quien va a proteger a la familia.

05:28:03.000 That's the battle.

05:28:05.000 And at the end of the day, they wanted to come to our children.

05:28:11.000 To our children to live with us.

05:28:14.000 ¡Viva España!

05:28:17.000 ¡Viva Estados Unidos!

05:28:20.000 ¡Viva Israel! 0.64

05:28:22.000 Hey, it's Matt Schlapp with CPAC.

05:28:38.000 You know, we've had a huge problem in this country with election fraud.

05:28:41.000 But at CPAC, that's not a problem.

05:28:44.000 Our only problem is getting each and every one of you to vote.

05:28:47.000 So look at your badge.

05:28:48.000 You have a number on that badge.

05:28:50.000 And get your phone out and vote on all the issues that matter.

05:28:55.000 And my guess is you probably like what Trump's doing as well.

05:28:59.000 And we'll have the results for you very soon.

05:29:03.000 I think it was President Reagan said, we're from the government.

05:29:05.000 We're here to help.

05:29:06.000 I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

05:29:17.000 We're from the government.

05:29:18.000 We're here to help.

05:29:19.000 Ladies and gentlemen, this is a conversation.

05:29:28.000 Please welcome Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson with Newsmax's Rob Finnerty.

05:29:36.000 Thank you.

05:29:47.000 Thank you.

05:29:48.000 Good to see you, Mr. Speaker.

05:29:53.000 Yeah.

05:29:54.000 Well, thank you so much for being here.

05:29:59.000 Look at all the patriots gathered.

05:30:00.000 This is great.

05:30:01.000 Fantastic.

05:30:02.000 About to make America great again for the next four years.

05:30:05.000 We want to thank Matt and Mercedes Schlapp for putting this together.

05:30:08.000 On behalf of Newsmax, Mr. Speaker, thank you so much for being with us.

05:30:11.000 Yeah.

05:30:11.000 As everyone just heard, Kash Patel...

05:30:14.000 It's official.

05:30:22.000 Murkowski and Collins voted against him.

05:30:27.000 Mitch McConnell voted for him.

05:30:31.000 And announced that he's not going to run again in two years.

05:30:37.000 I guess my question is, which one surprised you more today?

05:30:41.000 Well, I'm glad he did it, and I want to tip my hat to Leader Thune and the Senate Republicans.

05:30:46.000 They're getting the job done.

05:30:47.000 The Trump cabinet is being confirmed.

05:30:50.000 We need that.

05:30:51.000 President Trump needs his team in place, and I'm really grateful that they're moving as quickly as they are, and they're setting a good pace, and so far, so far, so good.

05:31:00.000 So, Mr. Speaker, only twice in, I believe, 85 years has the President's Party picked up seats in the midterm elections.

05:31:11.000 But you are going to change that in two years.

05:31:14.000 We are.

05:31:15.000 We are.

05:31:18.000 There's a lot of reasons for that.

05:31:19.000 We're going to defy history, and we're going to grow the House majority in two years and not lose the majority.

05:31:27.000 I think everybody recognizes President Trump needs four years and not two.

05:31:31.000 And if they took the majority back, they would try to impeach him, they would open the border wide, they would create all sorts of chaos.

05:31:37.000 So we have to win, and we will.

05:31:39.000 And let me tell you why.

05:31:40.000 Because we have a very favorable landscape.

05:31:42.000 Right now, as we're sitting here today, 13 House Democrats are sitting in districts that President Trump won pretty handily.

05:31:49.000 That's right.

05:31:52.000 There's more than 20 districts that President Trump came within five points of winning.

05:31:57.000 So we've got a great landscape to go out and play offense, not defense, but offense, to flip those seats into our column.

05:32:05.000 And on top of that, we had an historic demographic shift in the election cycle.

05:32:09.000 We all saw it happening.

05:32:10.000 We had a record number of Hispanic and Latino voters, black and African-American voters, Jewish voters, union workers, all these groups that had not traditionally been in the Republican Party.

05:32:20.000 But on the sheer force of Donald Trump's persona, they came into the party, and they're going to be with us for quite some time, because now we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity, Rob, to demonstrate for these people that it truly is our conservative policies that are better for them, that leads to human flourishing.

05:32:38.000 It's better for individuals, families, communities, states, and the nation as a whole.

05:32:42.000 We do that.

05:32:43.000 We'll hold this majority for quite some time.

05:32:45.000 Question I've wanted to ask you for a while.

05:32:49.000 Before the election, Trump Force won Donald Trump's personal plane.

05:32:53.000 There was a photograph.

05:32:54.000 I'm going to name you four people that were in this photograph.

05:32:57.000 Kid Rock, RFK Jr., Elon Musk, Donald Trump the fifth person, House Speaker Mike Johnson.

05:33:06.000 Did you ever think that group would be together at 30,000 feet?

05:33:10.000 You left out Jelly Roll.

05:33:12.000 I mean, it's a great group.

05:33:15.000 We went to the UFC fight, it was in Madison Square Garden, and we did a round trip to Palm Beach, to South Florida, in the same night.

05:33:23.000 So we arrived back at Palm Beach about 4.25 in the morning, and everybody you just named was up like it was the middle of the afternoon, man.

05:33:29.000 It was a great, great event.

05:33:31.000 But look, that's the power of President Trump.

05:33:35.000 He brings together all sorts of people who would not otherwise...

05:33:38.000 Be unified like that.

05:33:40.000 And it's a great thing for the country.

05:33:41.000 It's unifying for the country.

05:33:43.000 And there's talent, and it's a motley crew sometimes, but in a beautiful way.

05:33:48.000 And that's been one of the highlights of being speaker, is hanging out with that crew.

05:33:51.000 Absolutely.

05:33:51.000 And you fit right in.

05:33:52.000 Yeah, yeah.

05:33:53.000 You fit right in.

05:33:54.000 Can you explain why the left and why so many Democrats are enraged at Donald Trump right now for trying to end two wars that he did not start?

05:34:03.000 I wish I could explain the Democrats.

05:34:05.000 They're just enraged about everything.

05:34:08.000 Think about it.

05:34:09.000 Their policies and their parties are in totally disarray.

05:34:12.000 They don't have a leader.

05:34:13.000 They don't have a real vision forward.

05:34:15.000 They don't know where they're going to head.

05:34:18.000 The entire platform has been repudiated by the American people.

05:34:21.000 The woke, progressive nonsense has been stamped out.

05:34:24.000 And so all they know to do is to lash out.

05:34:27.000 I mean, think of it.

05:34:28.000 They're opposing the ending of wars.

05:34:30.000 They're opposing...

05:34:32.000 They're imposing the doge effort, right?

05:34:34.000 What Elon and the team are doing is what Congress has not had the ability to do.

05:34:38.000 They have cracked the code.

05:34:39.000 They're inside the belly of the beast of the bureaucracy, and the algorithms are crawling through.

05:34:44.000 That's right.

05:34:48.000 They're exposing this massive fraud, waste, and abuse that we have not been able to uncover because the deep state has hidden it from us.

05:34:56.000 This is a revolutionary kind of moment.

05:34:58.000 It really is.

05:34:59.000 And I told Elon in his office Monday before last, I said, you think of this like a scientist and a data analyst, and I think of it like a constitutional law attorney and a historian.

05:35:10.000 Elon, what we're going to do here is bring back the founder's original intent for the federal government, right?

05:35:16.000 I mean...

05:35:20.000 Rob, you know your student history as well.

05:35:22.000 The founders wanted a lean, small federal government.

05:35:25.000 They wanted most of the power pushed down to the states, as you know, and they wanted the federal government to be closely monitored by the duly elected representatives of the people in Congress.

05:35:34.000 The problem is, Congress has not been able to do that job because they've been hiding the evidence, hiding the ball.

05:35:40.000 Elon's on the inside, and that's why the Democrats are so nervous.

05:35:43.000 He is right over the target right now.

05:35:46.000 It's been remarkable to see the Department of Government Efficiency.

05:35:51.000 That's what DOGE stands for.

05:35:52.000 Department of Government Efficiency, and Democrats are almost in this un-American position right now of being against their primary mission, which is to save the American taxpayer money, which to me doesn't make any sense.

05:36:06.000 They like to spend the taxpayer's dollar.

05:36:08.000 I don't think that's ever been...

05:36:09.000 They sure do.

05:36:10.000 They're for big government.

05:36:11.000 That's what big government progressives do. 1.00

05:36:13.000 They want the government to control every aspect of our lives.

05:36:15.000 And the last four years, Biden-Harris administration, it was regulations on steroids.

05:36:20.000 And so now we have an opportunity to fix everything.

05:36:23.000 We have a very ambitious, very aggressive legislative agenda because we have been given this opportunity by the voters to fix it.

05:36:30.000 President Trump got 77 million popular votes, right?

05:36:34.000 Yeah.

05:36:37.000 In the House, the House Republicans got 74.8 million popular votes.

05:36:42.000 That's the highest total we've ever gotten.

05:36:44.000 Wow.

05:36:45.000 Yeah.

05:36:46.000 So we see it as a mandate to dial all that back and to fix it, and you're seeing that happen very aggressively.

05:36:52.000 The president has over 300 executive actions already, and we're going to codify so much of what he's doing so that the next team can't unwind it.

05:37:01.000 That's right.

05:37:05.000 In America, we hold presidential elections every four years.

05:37:09.000 We did so during COVID. We did so during the Second World War.

05:37:14.000 We did so during the Civil War.

05:37:16.000 During the War of 1812, the White House was burned to the ground three months before James Madison was elected.

05:37:22.000 How important is it for Ukraine to hold presidential elections?

05:37:27.000 Well, it's very important, of course.

05:37:30.000 Because they were canceled last spring.

05:37:31.000 That's right.

05:37:32.000 And the president has pointed that out.

05:37:34.000 And they claim to be a democracy.

05:37:36.000 That's right.

05:37:37.000 We need an end to the conflict.

05:37:39.000 And what I've explained, I've done two panels at two different events this morning.

05:37:42.000 I started the Republican Governors Association.

05:37:44.000 They asked me about this.

05:37:45.000 And I went to the big business leaders, Fortune 500 executives there.

05:37:48.000 They all want to know the same thing.

05:37:49.000 What is President Trump doing there?

05:37:51.000 I said, you've got to give him room to operate and do what he does.

05:37:55.000 He's doing a level set, right?

05:37:57.000 You've got to get both parties to come.

05:37:59.000 And bring about an end to this conflict, which will serve America's interest and everybody's interest around the world.

05:38:04.000 But I think of it very much like a mediation or arbitration.

05:38:07.000 If you're a lawyer, you know, I'm a recovering lawyer.

05:38:09.000 Forgive me if I think of those terms.

05:38:11.000 But when you start a mediation, you start an arbitration between two parties, you don't bring them into the room for that first meeting.

05:38:18.000 You do it separately.

05:38:19.000 So I think Zelensky complaining that he wasn't invited to the first meeting with Saudi Arabia and Russia is misplaced.

05:38:27.000 I mean, what Trump's trying to do is do a level set, put the conditions in place for that real negotiation to happen, and we've got to allow him to do what he does.

05:38:37.000 Remember, he wrote the art of the deal.

05:38:38.000 He knows what he's doing.

05:38:39.000 Absolutely.

05:38:41.000 If that level set takes, let's say, three, six months or it drags on, do you see another funding bill for the war in Ukraine?

05:38:50.000 Look, there's no appetite for that.

05:38:52.000 What do you think?

05:38:52.000 No.

05:38:54.000 We've got our answer there.

05:38:56.000 We have to bring it to an end.

05:38:58.000 And I can tell you that our European allies understand the necessity of this as well.

05:39:01.000 It's drug on too long.

05:39:02.000 By some estimates, Russia's lost...

05:39:04.000 Almost 700,000 troops, maybe more.

05:39:07.000 The Ukrainians have suffered great losses.

05:39:10.000 We have to bring an end to the conflict.

05:39:12.000 President Trump is exactly right.

05:39:13.000 It's time for it to end, and he is the brute force, I think, that can make that happen.

05:39:17.000 The president said that a percentage of Doge savings could maybe go back to the American people in the form of what he called Doge stimulus checks.

05:39:27.000 Something like 20%.

05:39:29.000 How would that work?

05:39:31.000 Well, look, I mean...

05:39:33.000 Politically, that would be great for us, you know, because then everybody would check.

05:39:36.000 But really, we have to think of it, I think, in a different way.

05:39:39.000 That just got everybody's attention, by the way.

05:39:40.000 Yeah, I know.

05:39:40.000 I just saw everybody look up all of a sudden.

05:39:42.000 I know.

05:39:42.000 But if you think about our core principles, right, fiscal responsibility is what we do as conservatives.

05:39:48.000 That's our brand.

05:39:49.000 And we have a $36 trillion federal debt.

05:39:52.000 We have a giant deficit that we're contending with.

05:39:55.000 I think we need to pay down the credit card, right?

05:39:57.000 That's what I think we need to do.

05:40:01.000 Mr. Speaker, we keep hearing about this one big, beautiful bill.

05:40:05.000 Tell me how big, how beautiful.

05:40:06.000 Oh, it's going to be so big.

05:40:08.000 I shouldn't do it in that voice.

05:40:11.000 So the beauty of reconciliation, and I don't want to get too deep in the weeds on the procedure, but normally you need a 60-vote threshold in the Senate to do anything of substance, but budget reconciliation is the one exception to the process where you only need 51 votes in the Senate, a bare majority.

05:40:26.000 So we're going to use this reconciliation process to achieve...

05:40:30.000 Most of the priorities that we ran on in the election cycle and that President Trump, that's right, committed to.

05:40:37.000 So I could be here a long time listing all those things, but clearly it's the most important interest of the country.

05:40:43.000 We're going to secure that border once and for all.

05:40:45.000 We're going to do that.

05:40:49.000 We're going to get the economy going again, American economy going.

05:40:52.000 Make sure that we don't have the largest tax increase in U.S. history, which is what would happen by default at the end of this year if we fail in this mission, because the TCJA, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act extensions expire, the cuts expire.

05:41:03.000 We're going to get the economy going.

05:41:05.000 We're going to get back to American energy dominance in this bill.

05:41:09.000 Yep.

05:41:10.000 And we're going to take a blowtorch to the regulatory state.

05:41:13.000 Get the bureaucracy back in check.

05:41:18.000 Lots of details, lots of subcategories under all that, but it's going to be a big, beautiful bill, and it has to be by necessity, because that gives us the highest probability of success, remembering that I have a small margin in the House.

05:41:29.000 One.

05:41:30.000 I don't have one vote for much of this.

05:41:32.000 What could go wrong, Rob?

05:41:33.000 It's going to be fine.

05:41:34.000 Right, right.

05:41:35.000 But everybody, everybody is committed to delivering the America First agenda, and that's why we're going to get it done.

05:41:41.000 What is your working dynamic like with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who for the first time in a long time, the Senate's got a bigger majority than the House right now.

05:41:49.000 Yeah, they do.

05:41:50.000 The Republican majority in the Senate has a larger margin than we do in the House.

05:41:53.000 And so by necessity, the two chambers have to work very closely together.

05:41:57.000 And that's kind of an innovation.

05:41:58.000 It doesn't really happen in Washington.

05:42:00.000 It hasn't so long as I've been there.

05:42:02.000 But as soon as I became Speaker of the House in October 23, the first instinct I had was...

05:42:07.000 Go meet with the Senate Republicans and let's align the two chambers.

05:42:10.000 It just makes sense.

05:42:11.000 It's common sense.

05:42:12.000 So we're doing that.

05:42:13.000 And you're going to see no daylight between the Republicans in the House and Senate.

05:42:18.000 Mr. Speaker, there was some reporting this week that the Democrats are planning what they're calling a super ticket in 2028, Kamala Harris and AOC. Are you prepared for that?

05:42:35.000 Oh, let it be so.

05:42:36.000 Let it be so.

05:42:37.000 Wow.

05:42:39.000 Is that real?

05:42:40.000 Is that real?

05:42:40.000 That's an actual legitimate...

05:42:42.000 Well, I use that word legitimate very loosely nowadays with the media, but that report is out there, we'll say.

05:42:48.000 Wow.

05:42:49.000 I don't know who would run for president and who would be VP. Oh, wow.

05:42:52.000 Yeah.

05:42:53.000 I so hope that happens.

05:42:54.000 Do the Democrats...

05:42:55.000 Do they have a leader right now?

05:42:58.000 No, they don't.

05:42:58.000 They don't have a leader.

05:42:59.000 Is there any leader at any level?

05:43:00.000 Or is it still Joe Biden?

05:43:02.000 Well, he wasn't the leader for the last four years.

05:43:07.000 They really are in a real bind.

05:43:09.000 They don't have a leader.

05:43:10.000 They don't have a vision.

05:43:11.000 They don't have a platform they can run on.

05:43:12.000 They have to do a whole-cloth reinvention of the party.

05:43:15.000 But they're very divided right now because they're in the blame game as they do the autopsy of what happened in the election cycle.

05:43:20.000 So it's an interesting time.

05:43:22.000 Look, our party's in great shape right now.

05:43:24.000 We are very unified.

05:43:25.000 We have a broadened coalition.

05:43:27.000 That's exactly right.

05:43:29.000 And we have the principles and the policies that truly are better for the American people.

05:43:34.000 I think they've recognized that.

05:43:35.000 You know what happened in the last four years, Rob, is that the woke progressive left tried so hard, they moved so aggressively, so quickly, to swing that pendulum to the left, and it went all the way to the left, and it clicked.

05:43:45.000 And now it's coming back, right?

05:43:47.000 We are a center-right country.

05:43:49.000 We always have been.

05:43:50.000 We always will be.

05:43:51.000 And I think President Trump is seen as a force helping us to push that pendulum back in place.

05:43:56.000 So we're going to seize that historic moment.

05:43:59.000 And I believe we can bring about a much better outcome for the people and for the country.

05:44:02.000 Two questions.

05:44:05.000 Elon Musk tweeted yesterday, quote, the real reason so many Democrats are upset about entitlements is that they're using taxpayer money to attract and retain illegal immigrants, their future voters.

05:44:17.000 Is that what you think the last four years at both our borders has been all about?

05:44:23.000 100%.

05:44:24.000 They opened the borders wide.

05:44:25.000 They did not care about the calamity and the heartache and the death, frankly, that it caused of American citizens because it was a power play.

05:44:34.000 They wanted to turn these people into voters, and they want to change the outcome of the census in five years.

05:44:39.000 This is very serious, and we're going to be dealing with the effects of this, the catastrophe, for years to come.

05:44:46.000 It's a terrible tragedy, and don't ever forget that that was their motive.

05:44:50.000 It was for their own political gain that they put the American people in such jeopardy.

05:44:55.000 Fentanyl alone is the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45, and that's flowed open the border.

05:45:01.000 Human trafficking, all of the atrocities, they lost hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors in the system somewhere to traffickers.

05:45:08.000 All of it.

05:45:09.000 They allowed.

05:45:09.000 They turned the other way.

05:45:10.000 They could have sealed that border any moment.

05:45:13.000 The president had the authority.

05:45:14.000 And I asked him personally on multiple occasions.

05:45:17.000 I pleaded with him.

05:45:18.000 I begged Joe Biden, use your authority.

05:45:21.000 And he'd look down at the floor and shuffle his shoes and say, I can't do that.

05:45:25.000 Well, the American people let him know how they felt about that.

05:45:29.000 Can I ask you, now that the horse is out of the barn, Joe Biden is in Rehoboth Beach, retired.

05:45:34.000 How did he seem during those...

05:45:37.000 Moments where you were with him in person?

05:45:40.000 It was only a couple of occasions.

05:45:41.000 I talked to him on the phone a few more times than that.

05:45:43.000 They didn't allow me to meet with him one-on-one for probably obvious reasons now.

05:45:48.000 But there's a, you know, now widely reported story of something that happened.

05:45:52.000 I think it was in early February of last year when I was in the Oval Office and I asked him why he paused LNG exports.

05:45:59.000 Like, Mr. President, why would you pause liquefied natural gas exports to our European allies?

05:46:04.000 Because they're going to have to go to Vladimir Putin to get their needs met.

05:46:07.000 And he tried to argue with me and tell me that he didn't do that.

05:46:10.000 And it occurred to me in this dialogue that he genuinely did not know what he had signed.

05:46:15.000 That they had put this executive order in front of him and he didn't understand what it was.

05:46:20.000 And that was a very alarming moment of realization for me.

05:46:23.000 And I think the whole country knows now.

05:46:24.000 But it was a dangerous time, a very perilous time for us, particularly in that last year of his administration.

05:46:30.000 But thank God, thank God that President Trump is back in the White House and we can restore this.

05:46:38.000 I think, Mr. Speaker, this room knows you, but I think the American people are still getting to know you.

05:46:43.000 And I thought this was wonderful.

05:46:46.000 Your son is on the boxing team at the Naval Academy.

05:46:52.000 I didn't know that.

05:46:53.000 How is he doing?

05:46:55.000 Well, he's bigger than his father.

05:46:58.000 He's doing great.

05:46:59.000 He made the semifinals in the brigade championship last Friday and lost in a one-point split decision to a...

05:47:07.000 To a young man that was three years older than him and had been boxing about six years longer, I think.

05:47:12.000 So he held his own.

05:47:12.000 He's been boxing for about seven months.

05:47:15.000 Seven months and he's on the team?

05:47:16.000 He did jiu-jitsu for a long time.

05:47:17.000 He's a tough kid.

05:47:18.000 But this is a different kind of...

05:47:20.000 Does he learn that from his father?

05:47:21.000 Oh, yes, of course.

05:47:22.000 I mean, of course.

05:47:24.000 No, he's a tough kid.

05:47:26.000 He's a great kid.

05:47:27.000 He takes after his mother.

05:47:28.000 Ladies and gentlemen, the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.

05:47:30.000 Thank you.

05:54:23.000 who simply want to lead their lives without bureaucrats telling them what the hell to do.

05:54:46.000 All of that is changing, and it's changing fast because of one person.

05:54:51.000 Donald J. Trump being in the White House.

05:54:57.000 Now, President Trump is bringing common sense back to Washington.

05:55:03.000 He's bringing transparency and accountability back to Washington.

05:55:08.000 He's working with great leaders like Elon Musk to bring efficiency back to Washington.

05:55:14.000 And the Democrats are complaining like crazy, but he's changing Washington in record time.

05:55:20.000 He's bringing the voice of the American people back to Washington.

05:55:26.000 President Trump is making America great again.

05:55:30.000 Now, what's he deserve here?

05:55:37.000 He deserves our thanks and our respect.

05:55:38.000 But what's he get instead?

05:55:40.000 He gets lies and obstruction for the Democrats, the mainstream media, and even some establishment Washington Republicans desperately clinging to relevance.

05:55:53.000 Mitch McConnell supports Merrick Garland's nomination for Attorney General.

05:55:59.000 He's already voted against three of President Trump's Cabinet nominees.

05:56:04.000 AOC, she's yelling about fascism.

05:56:07.000 CNN is blaring that the Trump administration is a threat to democracy and ushering a constitutional crisis.

05:56:14.000 Guess what?

05:56:15.000 Here's the good news.

05:56:17.000 They're the past.

05:56:21.000 Their voices no longer matter.

05:56:24.000 Their shadow can no longer hang over politics.

05:56:27.000 They lost.

05:56:29.000 The American people won.

05:56:33.000 What happened last fall?

05:56:35.000 President Trump and an army of supporters like you all across this great country started a movement.

05:56:41.000 One that changed the country and reset our future for a golden era.

05:56:48.000 The future is about you and your hopes and your dreams.

05:56:53.000 It's about us.

05:56:55.000 It's about amplifying the voices of the American people.

05:56:58.000 And finally...

05:56:59.000 Finally, finally, given the government they're paying for and that they deserve.

05:57:05.000 Now, a couple years ago, in the midst of Joe Biden's disastrous presidency, or whoever was in charge, I put out a plan with some ideas to rescue this country from the radical Democrats who are trying to destroy our values and bankrupt us in the process.

05:57:26.000 Now, the way the Democrats And establishment Republicans responded, you would have thought I broke the law.

05:57:34.000 The craziest part of it, I couldn't tell who hated it more, Joe Biden or Mitch McConnell.

05:57:41.000 Now think about it.

05:57:42.000 I proposed some really crazy ideas, so just think about these.

05:57:48.000 Teach your students about the U.S. Constitution.

05:57:52.000 That's a hard one.

05:57:54.000 The Bill of Rights, our founding fathers.

05:57:56.000 Have their kids recite the pledge of allegiance and salute the flag.

05:58:04.000 Eliminating the Department of Education.

05:58:06.000 Banning the federal government from asking American citizens to disclose their race or skin color on government forums.

05:58:22.000 Funding our police and enforcing all of our laws.

05:58:28.000 Securing the border, build the wall, name the wall after Donald Trump.

05:58:34.000 Start growing the American economy, not the Washington economy.

05:58:40.000 Enacting term limits for member of Congress and federal bureaucrats.

05:58:51.000 Protecting the integrity of the American election.

05:58:58.000 defending, promoting the American family at all cost. 0.55

05:59:01.000 Believing in science, Guess what?

05:59:09.000 Men are men.

05:59:12.000 Women are women. 1.00

05:59:16.000 Unborn babies, they're babies.

05:59:19.000 Sorry, Democrats. 0.95

05:59:22.000 I was tarred and feathered for proposing such crazy ideas.

05:59:28.000 But it was worth it, because it was time for Republicans, at least the true, honest, conservative Republicans, to stand up and fight the hell back.

05:59:37.000 Now, here in Washington, we're seeing what truly fighting back gets us.

05:59:47.000 The bureaucrats are scared that their lives are being exposed.

05:59:51.000 The muddy spigot is being turned off.

05:59:54.000 NGOs across the world and liberal think tanks around the world are scrambling because their golden goose has finally laid its last egg.

06:00:04.000 Corporate America is tripping over itself to reverse racist DEI programs that seek to divide us by race, gender, and creed.

06:00:13.000 Now, fighting back gets us a government that's listening, an administration that's focused on a stronger future, a president that really cares.

06:00:23.000 Who truly fights for us and who will not accept the status quo any longer.

06:00:30.000 Now, let me say what I said a few years ago when I introduced my plan to rescue our country.

06:00:36.000 Failure is not an option.

06:00:39.000 The future of this country depends on each and every one of us and the actions we take today, tomorrow, and the months to come.

06:00:50.000 Now, I've got grandkids.

06:00:52.000 Many of you in this room and watching on TV, you've got kids and grandkids as well.

06:00:57.000 In America, we used to believe we had a duty, a sacred duty, to leave things better for our children and our grandchildren than we found them.

06:01:10.000 $2 trillion deficits.

06:01:12.000 $36 trillion in debt.

06:01:15.000 Medicare and Social Security going bankrupt.

06:01:18.000 Failing schools.

06:01:20.000 High crime rates.

06:01:22.000 It means that hasn't happened.

06:01:25.000 Instead, our political and cultural rot has made things harder for our kids and our grandkids than they were for each of us.

06:01:32.000 It's harder to get a good education now than it was when I was growing up.

06:01:35.000 It's harder to buy a home.

06:01:37.000 It's harder to start a business.

06:01:39.000 It's harder to get a good, full-paying job.

06:01:43.000 It's harder to live the American dream.

06:01:45.000 That's wrong.

06:01:47.000 That cannot be our legacy.

06:01:49.000 Those of us fighting side by side in the conservative movement have faced significant obstacles, even, unfortunately, inside our own party.

06:02:05.000 But you and we have kept fighting.

06:02:08.000 We have to fight harder now.

06:02:10.000 We have the opportunity, but it takes our fight.

06:02:13.000 Now, we all watched what happened in Butler.

06:02:15.000 We all saw President Trump stand up and raise his fists at what he did.

06:02:19.000 Fight!

06:02:23.000 Even in the face of unimaginable obstacles, he kept fighting.

06:02:27.000 Now, we know he's going to keep fighting.

06:02:31.000 I know I'm going to keep fighting, and I know everybody in this room is going to keep fighting with us.

06:02:36.000 Thank you for what you're doing.

06:02:43.000 Thank you.

06:02:44.000 God bless every one of you.

06:02:46.000 God bless the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

06:02:49.000 And God bless this great country.

06:02:51.000 Have a great day.

06:02:52.000 Bye-bye.

06:02:53.000 AARP really watching out for these days.

06:03:15.000 They've made billions partnering with big health insurance corporations while opposing reforms seniors want, like applying big discounts to medicines directly at the pharmacy counter.

06:03:24.000 Instead, AARP supports liberal price-setting schemes, giving politicians, not seniors, control over any so-called Medicare savings.

06:03:31.000 With no guarantees, funds won't be spent on unrelated...

06:03:34.000 Something big is happening in the markets.

06:03:37.000 So big that I have to bring it to your attention.

06:03:40.000 On February 3rd, 2025, President Trump and Treasury Secretary Besant signed an executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund committing to monetizing the assets of the United States balance sheet.

06:03:53.000 Meanwhile, the Bank of England is running out of gold.

06:03:56.000 So desperate, they're paying 16% a month just to borrow it.

06:04:00.000 And where is all of that gold going?

06:04:02.000 Right here to the United States, with a drastic increase in metal shipments to CME COMEX vaults.

06:04:08.000 Is President Trump preparing to repatriate and monetize America's gold?

06:04:12.000 Elon Musk and former Congressman Ron Pohl through Doge are planning an audit of the gold in Fort Knox.

06:04:19.000 And on March 1st, President Trump's 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico will take effect, which is major news for the silver market since 80% of all refinery-bound silver comes from Mexico.

06:04:33.000 With American silver refineries already facing a three-month backlog, this could send prices soaring overnight.

06:04:39.000 President Trump is the catalyst for these historic economy-shifting events.

06:04:44.000 As he says, we are entering the golden age of America.

06:04:48.000 So take advantage of President Trump's golden age by owning the asset that has the potential to back our currency.

06:04:53.000 Call Kirk Elliott Precious Metals today to reposition your portfolio into gold and silver at 720-605-3900 or visit KEPM.com slash Loomer.

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06:05:19.000 We'll be right back.

06:05:49.000 We'll be right back.

06:05:55.000 Instead, they basically say that climate change remains the most important national security crisis that we're facing.

06:06:03.000 They have...

06:06:03.000 Laws get dusted off, and we ended Big Tech's antitrust amnesty, where we want to use antitrust, which is law enforcement.

06:06:15.000 to go after these trillion dollar big tech monopolists who they have too much power and they use that power for bad things and they're anti-competitive.

06:06:25.000 And we saw that the Trump 45 Justice Department started this.

06:06:31.000 I always said that the only thing that the Biden administration did right was they continued President Trump's antitrust enforcement under the Biden Antitrust Division.

06:06:44.000 And we're seeing with President Trump that he is fully committed to finishing the job with antitrust.

06:06:51.000 You see this with his appointment of Andrew Ferguson to chair the Federal Trade Commission.

06:06:57.000 And we're seeing this with President Trump's pick of Gail Slater to lead the antitrust division.

06:07:04.000 And it's critically important because these trillion-dollar big tech monopolists, they crush competition.

06:07:12.000 They shutter small businesses and they cancel conservatives and others with whom they disagree.

06:07:18.000 And I'll tell you, the tip of the spear in this fight has been Senator Schmidt from Missouri.

06:07:24.000 He has been a warrior against big tech.

06:07:27.000 And so I'm very pleased to talk to him today about these issues.

06:07:33.000 And I just want to start this off, Senator, to just get your thoughts on antitrust and big tech generally and what you think needs to happen.

06:07:41.000 Well, I think, great to be with you, and great to be back at CPAC. What a great crowd.

06:07:49.000 And this feels a lot different now that we won in November than it did just a couple years ago, doesn't it?

06:07:55.000 There's a new sheriff in town.

06:07:57.000 So, yeah, I think that for most people, especially people in this room and conservatives, they have seen, Mike, over the last four years in particular, what happens when you have these massive concentrations of power.

06:08:10.000 And you see that sort of collide with this fundamental belief that we have as conservatives that when we're born, we're born with certain rights.

06:08:19.000 And those rights come from God.

06:08:22.000 And the first one that's mentioned in our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, is the right to speak your mind.

06:08:28.000 This idea of fundamental human expression, right?

06:08:31.000 And government's only role is to make sure it protects those rights.

06:08:36.000 Like, the foundation of the country.

06:08:37.000 And we believe that.

06:08:38.000 So when you have these massive companies, then, that infringe upon that right, and sometimes with the behest, at the behest of the federal government, it's a scary situation.

06:08:49.000 In my previous job, before this one, I was Attorney General for the Free State of Missouri.

06:08:55.000 It was a great gig.

06:08:56.000 I loved it.

06:08:56.000 And we launched the Missouri versus Biden lawsuit, which turned into Murphy versus Missouri.

06:09:04.000 But you've got to remember, so I think it's important to sort of go back in time.

06:09:08.000 In 2021, 2022, really before Elon Musk had bought Twitter, before Jim Jordan was holding hearings, we filed this lawsuit.

06:09:21.000 And it's interesting.

06:09:23.000 Jen Psaki, you've got to go back.

06:09:25.000 This is COVID, forced masking, forced vaccinations.

06:09:29.000 The real raw power of the federal government was on display.

06:09:32.000 And Jen Psaki was standing there up at the podium saying, yeah, we're flagging this for Facebook.

06:09:36.000 They need to take this down.

06:09:38.000 They wanted to start a disinformation governance board.

06:09:41.000 Remember Mary Poppins who was singing, what was her name?

06:09:45.000 But she's singing about how great it is and this disinformation must be taken down by the government.

06:09:52.000 So you saw this, when we filed the lawsuit, we got discovery before the temporary restraining order.

06:09:57.000 That ultimately went to the Supreme Court.

06:09:59.000 And what we found was shocking.

06:10:01.000 We had an idea of what was happening, but could have never been prepared for what we found, which was high-level government officials working directly through a secret portal with the big tech companies at Facebook, at Twitter, saying, take this down.

06:10:16.000 This is misinformation.

06:10:18.000 You need to take this down.

06:10:19.000 And them saying, okay, what else can we do?

06:10:21.000 They were also threatening.

06:10:23.000 Threatening to take away Section 230 protections if they didn't do more censorship.

06:10:27.000 So as this unfolded, it really, I think, showed to the world and to this country the real risk of these concentrations of power, with the federal government working directly with big tech giants to censor speech.

06:10:39.000 And I think this is the fight.

06:10:41.000 This is the fight long-term for us.

06:10:43.000 The Democrats, the liberals even, have ceded this ground, the high ground of defending your right to speak your mind.

06:10:51.000 And so as conservatives, I think we should own this issue.

06:10:54.000 It's the right thing to do.

06:10:56.000 And clearly, American people, I think, watched all this the last four years, and they sent back President Trump to fix it.

06:11:01.000 That's exactly right.

06:11:05.000 I think people need to understand the whole point of antitrust is to protect the free market, right?

06:11:11.000 When you have these trillion-dollar monopolists using their market power to crush competition, you no longer have a functioning market.

06:11:19.000 You no longer have a free market, and that's why antitrust laws that have been on the books are so critically important to break up this power, because if you're a free market conservative like we both are, you should strongly support antitrust law enforcement.

06:11:34.000 You are targeting the anti-competitive tumors on the free market, so you don't need industry-wide regulation.

06:11:42.000 Facebook is calling for regulation.

06:11:44.000 Of course they are, because they're a big company.

06:11:47.000 And they can afford to pay for the lawyers and the lobbyists and the PR people to navigate those regulations.

06:11:53.000 Those are entry barriers to startup competitors.

06:11:57.000 And I would say this, remember this about Google and YouTube.

06:12:02.000 If Google competed against YouTube instead of acquired YouTube...

06:12:08.000 There's no chance that Google would be censoring half of America based upon their political viewpoints.

06:12:15.000 Google would be competing with YouTube for conservative users, not trying to censor them.

06:12:21.000 And I think that's really important to remember.

06:12:24.000 I think in Google in particular, there's been a lot of attention.

06:12:29.000 I mean, thank God Elon Musk bought Twitter and X, and it really is a platform.

06:12:34.000 It really is a platform.

06:12:37.000 But Google is really the ultimate black box.

06:12:40.000 That algorithm, like if you're a business or whatever, or you're a political candidate, there's a huge difference between you being on page one of the search and page 12 of the search, right?

06:12:52.000 And nobody gets to see the wizard right now.

06:12:54.000 Nobody gets to see it.

06:12:55.000 So I think some of these, the litigation as it relates to Google is really important to sort of bust that up so you have real competition.

06:13:02.000 That's right.

06:13:02.000 There are two major antitrust lawsuits.

06:13:05.000 Working their way through the courts right now.

06:13:07.000 Google's the worst of the worst. 0.80

06:13:08.000 They're the worst actor. 0.79

06:13:11.000 One is on Google's search monopoly.

06:13:13.000 When you go on Google and look for things online, that's their search monopoly.

06:13:17.000 The bigger problem is Google has an online advertising monopoly.

06:13:22.000 They use the money they make with their online advertising monopoly to fund their censorship.

06:13:30.000 All their woke nonsense that they do is because they have this online Advertising monopoly.

06:13:35.000 And you're seeing lawsuits right now, again, started under Trump, to Biden's credit, continued under Biden.

06:13:41.000 We need to finish the job with Trump's antitrust law enforcers, like Gail Slater at the Antitrust Division. 0.98

06:13:48.000 Another problem you're seeing with these big tech platforms is something like NewsGuard, right, where they rate news services in schools, like libraries and classrooms, and of course, they give conservative...

06:14:02.000 News organizations like Newsmax or Fox News or Breitbart, they give them lower grades, and so kids don't have access to conservative news sites.

06:14:13.000 They get the liberal news sites like CNN and MSNBC, and that needs to end as well because, again, they're trying to control information and commerce in this country, and we just cannot let this happen.

06:14:28.000 Well, I think the other thing that's happening, too, and we saw it, Which is why, you know, it's such a great opportunity for us now with having President Trump in the White House, having a Republican House, having a Republican Senate, because we can actually put some structural safeguards in place, too.

06:14:43.000 For example, you know, Section 230 protections, what is that?

06:14:48.000 Back in the 90s, when the Internet was sort of becoming a thing, what Congress said was, okay, you're going to be sort of immune from liability because you're a platform.

06:15:00.000 People can go on there.

06:15:02.000 As long as it's an open platform, you can't be sued for what somebody else says.

06:15:06.000 And the idea was to have this democratization of information.

06:15:10.000 What it didn't ever contemplate was that they would then be themselves sort of the censors.

06:15:16.000 And so I think, by way of legislation, you've got to pick.

06:15:20.000 You're either going to be an open platform, or you're going to be a publisher who can get sued like 60 Minutes ought to get sued for the nonsense that they did to President Trump in the interviews.

06:15:30.000 So, they've got to pick a team.

06:15:32.000 And also, if you're a bureaucrat and you work to censor Americans, you ought to be able to be sued individually by a citizen, so it doesn't take an attorney general to have to go do that.

06:15:45.000 You as an army of Americans can sue the censors.

06:15:48.000 That would change, I think that would really change the incentive structure, which would be really important.

06:15:54.000 And I can't miss the opportunity to point out, Just how exciting, as Mike and I and all of you believe, you know, the founders believed in this system of checks and balances where we have, you know, power is spread out among the branches, you have federalism.

06:16:09.000 The whole intent was so that no one branch or no one person could ever get so powerful to take your liberty away, right?

06:16:16.000 That's the whole idea.

06:16:17.000 The whole point is to protect individual liberty.

06:16:20.000 They could have never contemplated the administrative state as it currently is right now.

06:16:26.000 This army of bureaucrats in buildings, by the way, they don't even show up to work anymore. 1.00

06:16:30.000 About 6% of people are actually in the offices here in Washington, D.C. on any given day.

06:16:35.000 But they have immense power over your lives, right?

06:16:38.000 Over your lives.

06:16:39.000 They can take away your liberty in some cases.

06:16:41.000 They can take away your livelihood.

06:16:43.000 And so, what President Trump is embarking on, and you see just the histrionics every day, the Democrats are losing their minds because of Doge and these efforts to strip away that power.

06:16:55.000 And they should.

06:16:57.000 They should because the people of this country elected one person to run the executive branch.

06:17:03.000 And he gets to make decisions on personnel and on policy.

06:17:07.000 And you don't get to send millions of dollars to Guatemala for sex changes and think you're immune from having that money stripped away.

06:17:16.000 That's what this fight is all about right now.

06:17:17.000 So it's an exciting time.

06:17:19.000 It is an exciting time.

06:17:21.000 And I will say this to...

06:17:23.000 The big tech platforms like Google and Facebook.

06:17:26.000 Thank you for paying for Trump's inauguration.

06:17:30.000 I think Mark Zuckerberg donated a million dollars.

06:17:33.000 We appreciate that.

06:17:34.000 It was a fun party.

06:17:35.000 But Mark Zuckerberg spent, what, 400 million dollars chasing President Trump out of office in 2020. So, 400 million dollars versus a million dollars.

06:17:46.000 I think he has a lot of catching up to do, and I don't think that he's going to buy antitrust amnesty from the Trump 47 Justice Department or the Trump 47 Federal Trade Commission.

06:18:00.000 We've had these antitrust lulls on the books for 100 years, and to these trillion-dollar big tech platforms.

06:18:10.000 Nobody's above the law.

06:18:11.000 And so justice is coming.

06:18:13.000 Yeah, and I think one other, with the time we have left, I just mentioned one other thing to kind of look out for.

06:18:18.000 On the Judiciary Committee, I was telling Mike, I chair the Constitution Subcommittee.

06:18:22.000 So we have jurisdiction over the First Amendment, the Second Amendment.

06:18:26.000 So get ready.

06:18:26.000 We're going to have some fun hearings and bring people in and hold people to account for trying to take away your right to speak your mind.

06:18:36.000 So whoever's watching this, who engaged in that activity, Stay tuned.

06:18:41.000 But also, what's happening with Doge right now, and it was so smart to start with USAID, where you had all of this money flowing to DEI programming in Burma and LGBTQIA plays in Europe and LGBTQ Sesame Street in Iraq.

06:19:03.000 I mean, this is totally insane, but that's where this money was going.

06:19:06.000 But it was funneled effectively through these NGOs.

06:19:10.000 The Biden administration was also using these NGOs to bring mass migration into this country, to break up our sovereignty as a country, and they were also using it to help flag things for their vast censorship enterprise.

06:19:24.000 And so I think we're going to do some investigating on who these NGOs are.

06:19:27.000 And if you want to know why the Democrats...

06:19:29.000 If you want to know why they're objecting so much to this, there is a lot of corruption that's going to be exposed.

06:19:38.000 Let's go.

06:19:39.000 I want to end this on this point.

06:19:44.000 Senator Schmidt has been a warrior in the Senate for President Trump's cabinet picks and others, and Cash Patel was just confirmed today as our next FBI director.

06:19:57.000 I remember when Cash was nominated, a lot of very smart people in Washington said his nomination was dead on a rifle.

06:20:05.000 Now it's Director Kash Patel.

06:20:07.000 And I want to thank Senator Schmidt for all he does for President Trump and his nominees.

06:20:14.000 This guy is a warrior.

06:20:16.000 Thanks for your work, too.

06:20:17.000 Thanks for your work, too.

06:20:18.000 Thank you.

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06:23:46.000 You know, I can tell you that if you take on the establishment, they do not come out with a tray of drinks.

06:23:54.000 The whole of the British establishment wanted us to be members of the globalist European Union.

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06:25:05.000 We really should.

06:25:07.000 And what a pick.

06:25:10.000 What a pick for Vice President. 0.67

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06:25:24.000 But after the speech at the Munich Security Conference...

06:25:32.000 I think we can say with some confidence that the American VP is going to be a major part of global politics.

06:25:41.000 I loved it.

06:25:42.000 I loved it.

06:25:43.000 Did you enjoy his speech?

06:25:47.000 Well, I tell you what, they didn't, did they?

06:25:50.000 They absolutely hated it.

06:25:52.000 It rather reminded me of my times in the European Parliament.

06:25:56.000 A decade ago, getting up saying the bloke had the charisma of a damp rag, and that rather upset them.

06:26:04.000 But JD was right to have allowed millions of undocumented young males to come into Europe, many from war zones in which they took an active part, to allow those people who come in, and in many cases come from cultures and countries, Where women are not even treated as second-class citizens.

06:26:30.000 To have seen the massive increases in crime, gang crime, dramatic increases in sexual crime against women.

06:26:42.000 And yet nobody in the European establishment is prepared to put their hands up to recognise the depth of the problem and to say sorry to their people.

06:26:54.000 He called them out in this speech.

06:26:56.000 And he was right.

06:26:58.000 He was right.

06:27:03.000 He also mentioned free speech.

06:27:06.000 And I think he's a third figure in American public life now.

06:27:10.000 Well, I think he's a hero.

06:27:12.000 Because if you remember 2020, in November, you couldn't say anything about the conduct of the election in this country.

06:27:20.000 You then couldn't say anything about vaccines.

06:27:24.000 Or about lockdowns, without social media closing you down.

06:27:29.000 And then along came the hero of free speech, Elon Musk.

06:27:36.000 Fantastic.

06:27:38.000 And he's fighting for free speech.

06:27:42.000 And boy, if we don't have free speech, we're not living in a free, open, democratic society.

06:27:50.000 It matters that much.

06:27:52.000 And I believe That the talents of the world's most successful businessman going into this amazing Doge project, I wish him all the luck in the world and Godspeed.

06:28:07.000 I really, really do.

06:28:10.000 Now, we very often follow you.

06:28:16.000 American trends, we tend to follow.

06:28:19.000 You occasionally follow some of our trends.

06:28:22.000 I mean, you gave us woke.

06:28:27.000 And we gave you Prince Harry.

06:28:29.000 No, you keep him.

06:28:36.000 You keep him!

06:28:40.000 But in 2016, we delivered a political thunderbolt across the whole world, and it was called Brexit.

06:28:52.000 And I believe that a wave crossed the Atlantic and helped Donald Trump win the presidency in November 2016. Well, this time,

06:29:07.000 the Trump win has the ability not just to save your country, not just to make you freer and more prosperous than America has ever been, because undoubtedly that is what What is going to happen?

06:29:23.000 But it's also producing a wave that is now coming the other way, across the Atlantic.

06:29:31.000 I had been retired from politics for nearly four years, but I decided last June I'd get back into politics because I couldn't bear what was happening in my country.

06:29:44.000 And I am now leading, and in historical terms this is incredible, I am now leading Reform UK and we are now topping every opinion poll in Britain.

06:30:03.000 And we are going to win the next general election and save our country.

06:30:13.000 We're going to do it.

06:30:14.000 We're going to do it.

06:30:19.000 And what you guys have done, what CPAC, what the activists have done in helping President Trump win 85% of the counties in this great country of yours, to win the House, the Senate, the majority vote, all those things you've done, the confidence of this man surrounded by a great, great team, this is all going to blow back and help us in our endeavours.

06:30:47.000 And across the rest of Europe, too.

06:30:50.000 And I really believe that, like you, British taxpayers have had enough of sending £100,000 to Bangladesh to study shrimp behaviour. 0.94

06:31:06.000 But we've had enough of free speech being cracked down upon.

06:31:11.000 We've had enough of two-tier policing, two-tier justice, different groups of people being treated differently by the law.

06:31:19.000 We've had enough of being told, you can't say that.

06:31:23.000 The hell with it.

06:31:24.000 Within the limits of what free speech gives us, we should be allowed to say whatever the hell we want.

06:31:34.000 And we will.

06:31:36.000 And we will. 0.75

06:31:38.000 We will deport those. 0.94

06:31:40.000 Who come into Britain by dinghy illegally. 0.99

06:31:44.000 We will make sure that those to come to Britain legally subscribe to our shared values. 1.00

06:31:50.000 In fact, in many ways, what we're fighting for is a very similar agenda to the one that you've just fought for and the one that you have just succeeded with.

06:32:01.000 I want to finish by saying, as a regular at CPAC and as somebody who was publicly Supported President Trump and been a friend of his for a decade.

06:32:15.000 This is a remarkable CPAC coming together.

06:32:18.000 This is something to celebrate in style, to be proud of.

06:32:22.000 You're going to make America great again and we in turn will make Britain great again.

06:32:28.000 Thank you.

06:32:29.000 Thank you very much.

06:32:30.000 Thank you.

06:32:31.000 Thank you.

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