Loomer Unleashed - LIVE: CPAC Coverage Day 2

00:00:03.000 Today, we gather not just as citizens of our respective nations, but as one great family of patriots who understand a fundamental truth.

00:00:13.000 If evil never rests, then neither can we.

00:00:20.000 The good news is that common sense has won once again in the United States.

00:00:29.000 President Trump has won for a third time.

00:00:33.000 Yes.

00:00:37.000 President Trump is back.

00:00:39.000 And after these four years, he should run again.

00:00:45.000 Four more years.

00:00:47.000 Four more years.

00:00:53.000 There you go.

00:00:54.000 I agree with you.

00:00:57.000 We are living in a defining moment in history.

00:01:01.000 This is not just another political cycle, not just another ideological struggle.

00:01:06.000 What is at stake is the future of our nations, the future of our children, and the survival of Western civilization itself.

00:01:15.000 A civilization built on truth, justice, and liberty.

00:01:19.000 Yet today, those values are under attack like never before across many countries in our region.

00:01:26.000 The enemies of freedom...

00:01:30.000 We are advancing in Latin America.

00:01:32.000 Communism, Marxism, woke ideology, narco states, and globalist elites who seek to enslave our people. 0.94

00:01:41.000 So, I ask you, are we going to let them take over the rest of the world? 0.77

00:01:46.000 Of course not.

00:01:48.000 Are we going to sit back and watch as our nations fall to corruption, tyranny, and mortal decay?

00:01:56.000 Of course no.

00:01:57.000 We are going to fight.

00:01:59.000 And that's why I'm going to join the Elon Musk and President Trump's movement.

00:02:04.000 My heart goes out to all of you.

00:02:08.000 Fight, fight, fight.

00:02:11.000 And that's why the work that TIPAC is doing around the world is crucial.

00:02:27.000 Because only when we fight together can we win.

00:02:32.000 Thank you, Matt and Mercedes, for your leadership.

00:02:35.000 And thank you for your invitation.

00:02:39.000 And I'm happy to announce that CPAC Mexico will be taking place in Mexico City in September.

00:02:47.000 Please, please follow our social media, CPAC Mexico on Instagram and X. Very soon we will be sharing all the details of the event.

00:02:57.000 I would love to see all of you there.

00:02:59.000 I promise you, you will have the best time of your life.

00:03:03.000 Great food, great margaritas, with moderation.

00:03:07.000 With moderation, it's okay.

00:03:11.000 Freedom fighters, are you ready to keep fighting?

00:03:17.000 Here is a call to action on three principles.

00:03:20.000 Our fight will be grounded in three fundamental human rights.

00:03:23.000 Life, family, and freedom.

00:03:27.000 The battle for life.

00:03:28.000 The first battle we must fight is the battle to protect the culture of life.

00:03:33.000 Because if we do not defend life, especially the lives of the most vulnerable, if we do not stand up for the most innocent, the most defenseless, then sooner or later we will destroy each other.

00:03:46.000 We will kill each other.

00:03:48.000 As Mother Teresa said, the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion. 0.93

00:03:53.000 Because it is a war against the child.

00:03:55.000 A direct killing of the innocent child, murdered by the mother herself. 0.95

00:04:02.000 Today, in many parts of the world, being pro-life is seen as an act of rebellion.

00:04:09.000 They call us radicals for saying something as basic as every human being has the right to be born.

00:04:16.000 Can you believe that?

00:04:17.000 But I ask you, who are the radicals?

00:04:19.000 Who are the real radicals?

00:04:21.000 Radicals are those who advocate for the killing of babies in the womb, even at nine months of pregnancy, and in some cases, even after birth.

00:04:30.000 Who are the radicals?

00:04:31.000 Well, that is not just radical, that is evil.

00:04:39.000 They tell us abortion is a right, when in reality, it is the greatest genocide of our time. 0.85

00:04:45.000 They tell us euthanasia is an act of compassion, when in truth, real compassion is protecting every human life, because every human life matters.

00:04:55.000 But we will not remain silent, because evil, trans, and good people remain silent. 1.00

00:05:04.000 And when good people remain silent, they're not good people anymore, because they are part of the problem.

00:05:11.000 We will continue to expose this culture of death and promote a culture of life because a nation that kills its own children has no future.

00:05:20.000 The second front of our fight is the defense of the family.

00:05:23.000 The family is the foundation of society.

00:05:25.000 It's the first government, the first church, and the first school.

00:05:29.000 And that is why the enemies of freedom want to destroy it.

00:05:33.000 They seek to impose ideologies that confuse our children, strip away their innocence, and attack marriage and motherhood.

00:05:40.000 Because a country without strong families is a weak country, easily, very easily manipulated and controlled.

00:05:48.000 We will defend God's design for the family and protect the innocence of our children.

00:05:54.000 Finally, we will defend freedom.

00:05:56.000 We live in an era where those who speak the truth are persecuted.

00:06:03.000 Where censorship and political oppression have become the tools of tyrants.

00:06:08.000 We have seen how They try to silence pro-life leaders, silence priests who preach God's word, silence ordinary citizens who simply want to live in peace.

00:06:20.000 Freedom is a gift from God and not government has a right to take it away from us.

00:06:26.000 We will also follow the principles of freedom to grow our economies, lift our brothers and sisters out of poverty and build a strong middle class.

00:06:35.000 In Latin America, we have seen how socialism makes It makes the majority of the population very poor.

00:06:44.000 People love poverty, but they multiply it.

00:06:48.000 They love so much poverty, they end up multiplying it. 0.98

00:06:52.000 Socialism is a cancer. 0.96

00:06:53.000 It destroys everything that it touches. 0.97

00:06:55.000 Right now in Mexico, we have a socialist government.

00:06:58.000 Mexico is becoming like Venezuela, Cuba, or Nicaragua.

00:07:03.000 If we don't react soon, tomorrow is going to be too late.

00:07:07.000 And for all these reasons, I'm here.

00:07:09.000 I joined the Fight for Freedom many years ago when I was working in Hollywood as an actor.

00:07:13.000 I made a promise to God that I will never use my talents again to do anything that will offend my faith, my family, or my Latino culture.

00:07:22.000 And after I made that promise, I ended up not working for four years.

00:07:25.000 Be careful what you promise.

00:07:29.000 So I opened a production company and I became a film producer.

00:07:31.000 We started with Bella, Little Boy, Sound of Freedom, Cabrini.

00:07:35.000 And in December, the new one, the massacre of the holy innocents.

00:07:40.000 I'm not a politician.

00:07:41.000 I'm an actor, a filmmaker, and a human rights activist.

00:07:46.000 But I learned that in politics there is no empty seats.

00:07:50.000 There is always someone occupying those spaces, making decisions that will change the destiny of our nation.

00:07:55.000 If not forever, then at least for a long time.

00:07:58.000 And those decisions will affect our families, for good or for bad.

00:08:02.000 So after our movie Sound of Freedom was released, my eyes were opened on many fronts.

00:08:10.000 And I made a promise to God that I would not rest until we eradicate human trafficking, child trafficking, end abortion, and protect our Christian values.

00:08:19.000 But I knew I had to start my country.

00:08:23.000 That's why in 2023 I wanted to run for president of Mexico as an independent candidate.

00:08:28.000 But the system wasn't built for outsiders.

00:08:32.000 The same corrupt politicians blocked me from competing in the 2024 elections.

00:08:37.000 They were afraid of outsiders.

00:08:39.000 In Mexico right now, there is no real opposition.

00:08:42.000 There is opposition.

00:08:45.000 The majority of the Mexican people do not have political representation.

00:08:49.000 And the majority of Mexicans are tired. 0.98

00:08:51.000 Tired of corruption. 0.56

00:08:52.000 Tired of lies.

00:08:53.000 Tired of politicians who serve the cartels instead of the people.

00:08:58.000 And that's why it is so important to continue the fight for freedom.

00:09:02.000 We will never stop.

00:09:03.000 We will never give up.

00:09:04.000 We will give our lives for this mission.

00:09:07.000 It's not about us.

00:09:08.000 It's about using our talents to make this world a better place.

00:09:12.000 It is about glorifying God in everything that we do.

00:09:15.000 It's about fighting for something bigger than yourself, bigger than ourselves.

00:09:20.000 Remember this one.

00:09:22.000 Man gives the battle, but only God gives the victory.

00:09:25.000 Man gives the battle, but only God gives the victory.

00:09:29.000 But I have hope, I have faith, and I know that very soon everything will change in Mexico. 0.93

00:09:35.000 Very soon we will receive official approval from Mexico's electoral institute to begin building a new conservative political party.

00:09:43.000 I am proud to announce that very soon Movimiento Nacional Viva Mexico will officially be underway.

00:09:51.000 And Viva Mexico is not going to be just another political party.

00:09:56.000 This will be the largest movement to free Mexico from socialism, communism, the radical left, woke ideology and the corrupt globalists.

00:10:05.000 Because Mexico is ready.

00:10:07.000 Enough is enough.

00:10:09.000 We don't want the same anymore.

00:10:11.000 It's time to change.

00:10:12.000 For too long our country has been ruled by criminals in government working hand in hand with the cartels.

00:10:19.000 Even President Trump recently recognized that Mexico has become a narco-state. 0.94

00:10:24.000 But I have a message for the corrupt leaders of Mexico. 0.97

00:10:28.000 Your time is up. 0.53

00:10:33.000 I know this fight will not be easy.

00:10:36.000 The establishment will come after us, threaten us, but they won't stop us.

00:10:40.000 Because we know this is not just a political or cultural battle.

00:10:44.000 It essentially...

00:10:45.000 It is essentially a spiritual battle and we are ready to fight.

00:10:49.000 We are not alone.

00:10:51.000 God plus one is an army.

00:10:53.000 And we are more than one.

00:10:54.000 We are more than one.

00:10:56.000 We are the majority.

00:10:57.000 If God is with us, who can be against us?

00:11:01.000 Nobody.

00:11:02.000 Because I believe that with courage, determination and God's help, we will rescue our nation.

00:11:08.000 We will defeat corruption.

00:11:10.000 We will defend our families, our faith and our freedom.

00:11:13.000 So let me say this loud and clear.

00:11:16.000 God willing, with the Viva Mexico movement, we will make Mexico free again. 0.80

00:11:21.000 We will make Mexico safer again.

00:11:24.000 We will make Mexico healthy again.

00:11:27.000 We will make Mexico pro-life again.

00:11:32.000 We will be working really hard so we can make Mexico godly again.

00:11:37.000 And we will make Mexico great again.

00:11:43.000 And we will do this together.

00:11:45.000 Because together we are stronger.

00:11:47.000 We are not just neighbors.

00:11:49.000 We are brothers and sisters.

00:11:52.000 What happens?

00:11:53.000 What happens when the good people of Mexico work with the good people of the United States?

00:11:58.000 What is the result?

00:11:59.000 Sound of freedom.

00:12:01.000 A movement that is designed to end child trafficking in the world.

00:12:04.000 Good things happen.

00:12:05.000 Now, what happens when the bad people of the United States work with the bad people of Mexico? 0.98

00:12:10.000 When they work together?

00:12:10.000 What is the result?

00:12:13.000 Fentanyl, drugs, human trafficking, child trafficking, illegal guns, terrorism.

00:12:23.000 The USA is the number one consumer of child sex in the world, the number one consumer of drugs, the number one consumer of child pornography.

00:12:30.000 And Mexico, the number one provider of all three. 0.69

00:12:34.000 So I want to stop here for a second.

00:12:38.000 We have done a lot of harm to each other.

00:12:41.000 We can't move forward without first forgiving each other.

00:12:44.000 I believe in the power of forgiveness.

00:12:47.000 So I want to start this movement of forgiveness here in Washington, D.C., and I pray that God will heal the wounds.

00:12:53.000 So on behalf of Mexico, I want to apologize for all the harm Mexico has done to the United States. 0.59

00:13:06.000 And the United States needs to apologize to Mexico for all the harm they have done to Mexico.

00:13:13.000 And after this breach of forgiveness, then we need to make sure that the good people of both nations work together and through bilateral efforts eradicate as much as we can all of the bad things that we have done to each other and focus on all the good things that we have done to each other.

00:13:30.000 Capitalize on all the positives.

00:13:32.000 Then we will be unstoppable.

00:13:34.000 Together, as brothers and sisters.

00:13:38.000 When the United States and Mexico stand together, our nations are safer.

00:13:42.000 Our border is safer.

00:13:44.000 Together, we will make Mexico and United States great again, and we will make the Americas great again.

00:13:52.000 God bless Mexico.

00:13:54.000 God bless America.

00:13:55.000 God bless the world.

00:13:57.000 Viva Estados Unidos!

00:14:00.000 Viva Mexico!

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00:17:00.000 Hey, CPAC Patriots, make sure to go downstairs to go check out all of our incredible sponsors for CPAC 2025. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the Parent Track.

00:17:16.000 What happens when we leave our kids to the professionals?

00:17:20.000 Please welcome America First Policy Institute Chair of the Center for Education Opportunity, Erica Donalds.

00:17:29.000 Congressional Commission for the Social Status of Black Men and Boys, Jack Brewer.

00:17:34.000 And your moderator, Senior Vice President of Communications, Alliance Defending Freedom, Billy Adwell.

00:17:43.000 Well, I want to start by thanking Matt and Mercy Schlapp I want to start by thanking Matt and Mercy Schlapp for making this panel possible, and I'm so grateful for you two for giving up your time.

00:18:06.000 Again, my name is Billy Atlam.

00:18:07.000 I'm the Senior Vice President of Communications at Alliance Defending Freedom.

00:18:11.000 ADF exists to advance every person's God-given right to live and speak the truth, and we contend for truth and law policy in the public square.

00:18:19.000 For those unfamiliar with our work, our attorneys are attributed with 15 Supreme Court victories, and we have an international team that's doing work throughout the world.

00:18:27.000 They just came back from ARC. We've actually got two Supreme Court cases going on right now that I think you would be very interested in.

00:18:35.000 The first one is Medina vs.

00:18:36.000 Planned Parenthood.

00:18:37.000 It's about protecting a state's right to decide if taxpayers should go to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

00:18:42.000 And I feel like I have a pretty warm crowd for that idea.

00:18:46.000 And the other is about education, which relates to this topic here.

00:18:49.000 It's Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board vs.

00:18:51.000 Drummond.

00:18:52.000 It's about defending the decision to defund a religious charter school and fight for equal treatment of religious organizations and education.

00:19:00.000 There are few issues that are going to impact our children and our grandchildren more than reforms to the education system, and that's why we're here.

00:19:08.000 First, Erica Donalds is an education entrepreneur and is the founder and chairman of OptimaEd and the chair of America First Policy Institute Centers for Education and Opportunity.

00:19:19.000 A former elected school board member, she is known as a national expert on education policy and school choice and is a frequent commenter and speaker on this issue.

00:19:26.000 She spent 20 years in the financial services industry, finishing her career as the CFO and managing partner of a multi-billion dollar investment management firm.

00:19:34.000 Erica and her husband, Congressman Byron Donalds, lives in Florida.

00:19:38.000 You're familiar?

00:19:39.000 Very good.

00:19:41.000 She lives in Naples, Florida with her three sons.

00:19:44.000 Jack Brewer serves as the chair of the Center for Opportunity Now and chairman of the Jack Brewer Foundation.

00:19:49.000 Recently, Jack was co-chair of Black Voices for Trump Victory Fund.

00:19:53.000 He is a White House appointee on the Congressional Commission for the Social Status of Black Men and Boys, and is currently the lead independent director for the GEO Group.

00:20:01.000 He was the team captain for the NFL's Minnesota Vikings, the Philadelphia Eagles, who you may have heard of recently, and what I find to be the pinnacle of his career at the New York Giants.

00:20:13.000 So, born in Brooklyn, I can't help myself.

00:20:16.000 All right.

00:20:17.000 Let's lay a foundation, if you don't mind, for this topic.

00:20:19.000 Erica, talk about what you see as the current state of particularly the public education system.

00:20:25.000 Well, the public education system in America has literally failed the American people.

00:20:30.000 It hasn't lived up to the promise where we parents were told, if you send your child to this school for eight hours a day, we're going to teach them to read and do math and achieve their own American dream.

00:20:43.000 That was a lie.

00:20:44.000 We just found out a few weeks ago that only a third of our students are doing reading and math on grade level, according to the national report card, the NAEP. And we are spending billions and billions of dollars not to teach our kids how to succeed and how to carry forward this republic that we all so value, but we're teaching them about victimhood and oppressors and the wrong history of the United States and the world, and to hate themselves and to hate our country.

00:21:14.000 And so we are taking the education system back, though.

00:21:17.000 We're here in the golden age of America, right, at the cusp of that.

00:21:21.000 President Trump has promised to not only dismantle the Department of Education, but enact school choice and support universal school choice in our states where education belongs.

00:21:31.000 So there's reason for hope, even though the education system has been failing for the past 100 years.

00:21:37.000 Yeah, that's a great point.

00:21:38.000 And you think about, in the state where I live, Virginia, Glenn Youngkin essentially won the governor's seat on the issue of education and speaking to parents.

00:21:46.000 Like, that was a key differentiator for him.

00:21:48.000 Jack, President Trump...

00:21:50.000 It feels like he's been president for like a year and a half this term because so much has happened in a few weeks, but it's not been that long, and yet a lot has happened.

00:21:58.000 What has he done so far that's really encouraged you on the topic of education?

00:22:01.000 First off, I want to look at the American people, whoever's watching, and speak to your kids for a second, and just tell your child, if no one's ever told you this, Jesus Christ loves you.

00:22:14.000 Amen.

00:22:18.000 You are not a victim.

00:22:20.000 You have victory in Christ, and he is the ruler over your life.

00:22:30.000 President Trump has done so much, but I think the most important thing that he's done in front of the American people is he has stood for biblical truth.

00:22:42.000 When he sat in front of the nation and said, God created man and woman.

00:22:49.000 And that's it.

00:22:51.000 That's right.

00:22:53.000 And so when you talk about the education system, our founding fathers did not create an education system that is going to indoctrinate boys and girls to make them believe that they can be transgender and any gender they wanted to choose.

00:23:10.000 Our education system was established with the basic belief in the Word of God.

00:23:16.000 And so...

00:23:19.000 Anything else throws us off, and I think President Trump has taken a stand.

00:23:25.000 I think you've seen more and more companies come and back him, more and more employers in America have backed him, because we're getting rid of these DEI policies and all these things that have drifted into our education system to start to pick winners and losers and actually separate us and put us back decades in regards to social and biblical justice.

00:23:48.000 I just think that we should all understand the spiritual time in which we're living right now in America, particularly with our children.

00:23:58.000 And let's get the Ten Commandments back in our schools.

00:24:02.000 You're seeing it happen in Louisiana.

00:24:04.000 You're seeing it happen in so many other states around our country.

00:24:08.000 We all must take a stand, no matter what your religion is, to get this word.

00:24:13.000 Back into the hearts and minds of our children that may not have access to it.

00:24:18.000 Amen.

00:24:20.000 Erica, it's hard to know what to do sometimes, though, because parents, I think the instinct when they see these things happening in the public school is to say, I'm going to put my kids in private school.

00:24:28.000 I'm going to homeschool.

00:24:29.000 And those are good options, and for some people, that's the right decision.

00:24:31.000 But you also don't want to forfeit the public arena to the other side.

00:24:34.000 And then again, it's our children who are vulnerable and impressionable.

00:24:38.000 You've got children.

00:24:39.000 You're in the later teen phases with your children.

00:24:42.000 How would you advise a parent with little kids like me?

00:24:44.000 My kids are younger.

00:24:45.000 They're like 11 to 2. We've got to spread a 4. And we're struggling with it.

00:24:50.000 We're asking ourselves a question right now.

00:24:51.000 What's the best educational model?

00:24:53.000 How would you advise a parent, given the system we have now...

00:24:55.000 How would you advise them to go about making those decisions?

00:24:58.000 Well, that very dilemma is what got me involved in education.

00:25:00.000 As you mentioned, I wasn't an educator.

00:25:02.000 I was the CPA. But I have three children, and for one of my children, the A school that I was sending him to did not work well for him.

00:25:10.000 He was miserable, therefore I was miserable as a parent.

00:25:12.000 And I was fortunate enough to find a classical Christian private school to send him to, and his entire life changed in the first grade.

00:25:20.000 He started to love learning and thrive in that environment.

00:25:23.000 And I thought, well, how many other Darins are out there? 1.00

00:25:26.000 And can I help by serving on my local school board to give them options?

00:25:30.000 But that's when my eyes were opened to the education monopoly and the corruption that is happening in our school districts.

00:25:37.000 What I would say is, you know, the left wants to say that our obligation is to the collective.

00:25:42.000 But as parents, our number one obligation is to our family and to our own children, raising them in the things of God.

00:25:49.000 And that is your contribution to the community.

00:25:52.000 Raising your children well and making sure that they are prepared to be good citizens in this republic.

00:25:59.000 And so you need to take care of your own children first.

00:26:02.000 I personally would not send my children into a public school in this day and age.

00:26:06.000 I don't care if it's an A or not.

00:26:08.000 I don't trust them.

00:26:09.000 And so I would do whatever I possibly could to find the right educational environment for my children.

00:26:15.000 Put your own mask on first, help your children, and then do things for your community.

00:26:20.000 Run for school board.

00:26:21.000 It's not a bad thing to do, but a lot of the families that I know that are running for school board that are involved in education reform, they took care of their children first, but they're there, as I was, to help take care of their community and other children that don't have that same opportunity.

00:26:35.000 Right, because the public education system is everybody's.

00:26:38.000 Even if your kids are homeschooled or you go to a private school, that's your school, too.

00:26:41.000 We're paying for that.

00:26:42.000 We deserve to have an influence there.

00:26:44.000 We're seeing a huge shift in the country with regard to DEI. It's been unpopular for a long time, but we're seeing major institutions and politicians starting to come on board and get.

00:26:52.000 Get with it.

00:26:53.000 Alliance Defending Freedom, we've got a corporate engagement division that's been working, and part of the product of that work was what we're seeing with Walmart.

00:26:59.000 Shareholders are speaking out, and they're saying, we're tired of this.

00:27:02.000 We don't want it.

00:27:03.000 And Walmart's making good decisions.

00:27:04.000 There are also corporations that are not making the right decisions, but they're feeling the pressure.

00:27:08.000 Jack, talk about, because you've worked a lot with young black men and boys.

00:27:12.000 You deal with the issue of fatherlessness, which we can get into in a minute, too.

00:27:16.000 But talk about the impact of DEI and that general mentality on the education system.

00:27:21.000 First off, the devil is a lie, and DEI is a lie.

00:27:26.000 That's right.

00:27:26.000 All right?

00:27:27.000 So I want to start off by saying that I'm a black man, and I happen to be the lead independent director of a multi-billion dollar public company.

00:27:36.000 And so America does have opportunity for people just like me.

00:27:42.000 And I'll take that further.

00:27:46.000 When you look at what DEI really does...

00:27:49.000 So I do a lot of community work.

00:27:51.000 I got my master's in education, adjunct professor.

00:27:55.000 I've taught from you talking about the poorest of the poor on to multi-millionaires.

00:28:01.000 But the one thing that remains consistent is that whenever you tell someone that they're a victim or you tell someone they don't have the ability to learn, then they won't.

00:28:10.000 So I have a little girl in one of my programs.

00:28:13.000 She literally went to class. 0.96

00:28:15.000 She got an F on a math.

00:28:19.000 And the teacher told her that it's okay because she's a little black girl and that she doesn't have the ability to do this math.

00:28:30.000 Telling the girl that math is racist.

00:28:34.000 So for me, that burns me up inside.

00:28:39.000 And so you start to think about what these little children are being taught in some of these public schools that Erica just mentioned.

00:28:48.000 Just heart wrenching.

00:28:49.000 I'll tell you another story.

00:28:51.000 When you talk about people, and Erica said this, it's not just about us.

00:28:55.000 It's about our community, man.

00:28:57.000 When you look at our juveniles, we got to realize juvenile crime in the United States of America went up 21% last year.

00:29:05.000 These are the little kids, the little boys.

00:29:07.000 I have men in my prison program who have been locked up since the age of 14 with grown men.

00:29:15.000 We have to do something for the poorest of the poor.

00:29:18.000 It starts in our education system.

00:29:20.000 We cannot leave these men and these children fatherless.

00:29:25.000 Our nation is the most fatherless nation on the planet.

00:29:28.000 We have over 18 million kids that don't have an active father in their home.

00:29:34.000 I went to a juvenile courtroom.

00:29:37.000 There were 25 young men and boys, most of them black, at court to be sentenced By a judge.

00:29:46.000 I looked around, there was only one father in the entire courtroom.

00:29:53.000 Can you imagine if your child was being sentenced?

00:29:57.000 This is the epidemic that we're facing in our nation right now.

00:30:02.000 Our education system will never work if we don't put the man back in the home. 1.00

00:30:09.000 It's a basic Christian concept.

00:30:19.000 Children deserve a mother and a father.

00:30:21.000 Every child deserves a mother and a father.

00:30:25.000 I mentioned a minute ago that we're seeing shifts in DEI and public perception of it.

00:30:29.000 Erica, you and I were talking about this earlier.

00:30:32.000 How do we take what we see as a public opinion shift and make institutional change out of it, right?

00:30:36.000 We can all like the ideas.

00:30:37.000 We can be at CPAC and be excited about the ideas that we've gotten, that we're seeing some progress.

00:30:41.000 But how do we influence institutions?

00:30:43.000 So how do we get from where we are to where we want to go?

00:30:45.000 Well, that's so important for this audience, right, because these are the people that believe as we do and have believed as we do, but now the rest of the country has also come along against DEI. People, you know, it's an 80% issue.

00:30:59.000 It was the number one issue for President Trump, saying, there are only two genders. 0.99

00:31:04.000 We're going to get men out of women's sports. 1.00

00:31:06.000 And now he got elected with such a mandate and is enforcing Title IX and the protections that provides to girls in their space.

00:31:13.000 Spaces and in their athletics.

00:31:15.000 And he's gonna plow forward.

00:31:16.000 You gotta elect the right people.

00:31:18.000 That's one way to institutionalize it. 0.90

00:31:20.000 But look at something like School Choice.

00:31:22.000 School Choice now enjoys over 70% support across the country, including 67% of Democrats support School Choice.

00:31:31.000 But...

00:31:31.000 You also see 100% of Democrats voting against school choice in our state legislators.

00:31:37.000 Why?

00:31:38.000 Because the teachers union and the funding behind them are controlling those electors.

00:31:43.000 But then, you look at a place like Texas, where also rural Republicans went against it, and you had organizations like AFC, Donald Trump himself, America First, Policy Institute come...

00:31:54.000 Get rid of the majority of the Republican incumbents that voted against school choice last year.

00:31:59.000 And this year, in just a few weeks, Texas will pass a school choice bill and spend a billion dollars on giving parents options.

00:32:06.000 So that's how you do it.

00:32:07.000 Yeah.

00:32:08.000 You get the public and you get the right people in office to make those bold changes.

00:32:13.000 Yeah.

00:32:13.000 Elections have consequences.

00:32:15.000 They do.

00:32:15.000 We've been saying that for a while, right?

00:32:17.000 Jack, I want to go back to what you were talking about a minute ago with the fatherlessness issue and the education gap.

00:32:22.000 What can...

00:32:24.000 What can the rest of us do?

00:32:25.000 So if you're the average person in the pew, so to speak, you see this epidemic, you don't know what to do.

00:32:31.000 I may be able to impact one child.

00:32:33.000 I can't fix the whole system.

00:32:34.000 But what can the average person that just cares about the public education system, they care about these kids that don't have a mom or a dad in the home, what can we do?

00:32:41.000 What would be your advice?

00:32:42.000 Well, my advice is, first off, understand that this is not just an issue of education or policy.

00:32:53.000 This is a spiritual issue.

00:32:55.000 The last verse of the Old Testament is Malachi 4 and 6. That verse says that he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers.

00:33:08.000 But the end of that verse says something that's so powerful and it's the times that we live in.

00:33:14.000 He said, if we don't do it, he shall come and smite the earth with a curse.

00:33:21.000 Our earth is filling the curse.

00:33:24.000 No matter if you go to Guatemala or Central America and see that all of their men and fathers are leaving their homes trying to migrate to America illegally.

00:33:33.000 Or you go over to Africa when you see these societies that have gone from a patriarch society to a matriarch society.

00:33:41.000 Or you come here in America where you can have a generation like mine that was raised to believe that having a baby mama is okay and cool.

00:33:50.000 Those things are generational curses that we must break.

00:33:54.000 The only way you bind up a curse is by the blood of the lamb and the word of your testimony.

00:34:00.000 And so we've got to testify.

00:34:03.000 We've got to talk about these things in the public square.

00:34:06.000 We've got to stand for these poor children that don't have advocates and people to stand up for them and be their voices.

00:34:13.000 Man, get out in your community.

00:34:15.000 Go to the local juvenile.

00:34:17.000 Go in there and sit in a courtroom and tell a little boy that's 13, 14, 15 that don't have a dad that you love him.

00:34:24.000 Go see those folks in prison like the word tells us to do.

00:34:28.000 We can't just take care of our people that have.

00:34:31.000 we got to take care of those that have not.

00:34:34.000 Church, it's our job.

00:34:42.000 Church, let's do what the church does.

00:34:45.000 Donald Trump can only do so much.

00:34:48.000 We need the church to take a stand.

00:34:51.000 Churches start schools.

00:34:53.000 Churches start daycares.

00:34:56.000 Churches empower organizations like Erica's to go in and push for school choice.

00:35:02.000 Let's take our country back.

00:35:04.000 But we can only do that through God.

00:35:07.000 There is no replacement for a Christian witness. 1.00

00:35:11.000 Ladies and gentlemen, that's all the time we've got.

00:35:13.000 If you want to learn more, ericadonalds.com, the jackbrewerfoundation.org, and adflegal.org.

00:35:19.000 We'll be around.

00:35:20.000 You'll see us throughout the conference.

00:35:21.000 Please stop us and say hello.

00:35:22.000 Take care.

00:35:23.000 Take care, God bless. - Ladies and gentlemen, God bless. - Ladies and gentlemen, and gentlemen, up next, Joy Reid, a desperate plea up next, Joy Reid,

00:35:51.000 Please welcome senior columnist for townhall.com, Kurt Schlichter, with @ALXonX, Alex LaRusso, and your host, host of O'Connor & Company on WMAL, Larry O'Connor. - Thank host of O'Connor & Company on WMAL, Larry O'Connor. - Thank you, thank you, thank

00:36:19.000 We got real big names waiting, Becca.

00:36:21.000 Hey, good to see you.

00:36:23.000 We got super big names back there waiting to come out, so we're going to get right to it.

00:36:27.000 How about these guys, right?

00:36:31.000 I'd be remiss if I didn't tell you that I just wrote a book about the media.

00:36:34.000 It's called Shameless Liars.

00:36:36.000 Can we get a close-up on that artwork there?

00:36:40.000 It's got an incredible forward by a real thought leader.

00:36:43.000 Forward by Kurt Schlichter.

00:36:45.000 But the subtitle is How Trump Defeated the Legacy Media and Made Them Irrelevant.

00:36:54.000 And that's sort of where I want to take this, because for years, ever since the great Rush Limbaugh and Brent Bozell at Media Research Center for the last 35, 37 years, the late great Andrew Breitbart, who brought Kurt and I into this world, we've spent so much time fighting the media and exposing their lies and exposing the propaganda, and it all reached ahead this year, with Donald Trump leading the charge.

00:37:23.000 And he won.

00:37:24.000 I mean, they are meaningless now.

00:37:27.000 And so I want to start with that.

00:37:29.000 And Joy Reid kind of is the namesake for this panel. 0.98

00:37:32.000 Because Alex, she's been reduced to being obsessed over big balls. 0.98

00:37:38.000 Correct. 0.98

00:37:42.000 And I need you to sort of explain this to us.

00:37:46.000 Explain Joy Reid's obsession with Big Balls. 0.92

00:37:49.000 Obsession with Big Balls.

00:37:50.000 So she's going on media right now, and she's demanding that Congress subpoena a guy named Big Balls and Elon Musk with a straight face on. 0.99

00:37:58.000 So we've reduced them to a point where they're just looking at social media for people like me who post on X, and they're getting their talking points from online.

00:38:08.000 And no longer do they have a mind of their own.

00:38:10.000 There's like a whole supercut.

00:38:12.000 I think it was like Media Busters who did it. 0.98

00:38:14.000 And there's just like all of these people on CNN, MSNBC, and they're just repeating big balls, big balls, big balls over and over with a straight face.

00:38:23.000 So it's like you look at... 0.67

00:38:24.000 Well, they've got to get to the bottom of big balls. 0.89

00:38:27.000 Yes. 0.96

00:38:30.000 And they brought on Kara Swisher, the noted expert on the topic for that.

00:38:35.000 But yeah, that's all over an intern at Doge who was hired by Elon Musk.

00:38:41.000 And of course, we have tens of thousands of people in our government who have access to all of your personal information, including your social security number.

00:38:49.000 But when Elon Musk has a small team of genius interns that are probably smarter than everybody else on that whole panel or on their entire network, It becomes the biggest deal that they all have access to your personal information.

00:39:03.000 So they just set the standard to, like, dox all of these government workers for some reason because tens of thousands of people that are not elected, by the way, have the access to your personal information every single day and have.

00:39:16.000 Well, and they've all been reduced to a punchline, these media personalities.

00:39:20.000 That's why we're laughing at Joy Reid, because that's what we should do.

00:39:23.000 We should mock them and make fun of them.

00:39:24.000 And, of course, all this talk about Joy Reid and Big Balls brings us to Don Lemon, Kurt.

00:39:29.000 Another gem.

00:39:31.000 He's my special friend.

00:39:32.000 I'm going to connect the dots, I promise you.

00:39:35.000 Because, Kurt, it was during the...

00:39:37.000 December 22nd, 2015. I get this call.

00:39:41.000 Can you come on CNN real quick?

00:39:43.000 Just a video hit.

00:39:44.000 I get on.

00:39:46.000 And Don Lemon's outraged because, oh, it's the worst thing that ever happened.

00:39:50.000 Donald Trump said Hillary got schlonged in the 2008 election.

00:39:54.000 She did.

00:39:54.000 And I don't care at all.

00:39:58.000 And we're going back and forth.

00:40:00.000 He said, you should be more upset.

00:40:01.000 And I said...

00:40:02.000 Look, his opponent chilled for her husband who treated his intern like a human humidor. 0.89

00:40:11.000 That's not true.

00:40:13.000 And he said, you can't say that.

00:40:15.000 So I said it again.

00:40:18.000 And he kicked me off.

00:40:20.000 And what we're saying here is the media used to be something that hit us.

00:40:26.000 Now we use it for a punching bag.

00:40:29.000 Everybody knows the JD meme.

00:40:32.000 Right.

00:40:33.000 Okay?

00:40:35.000 I don't really care, Margaret. 1.00

00:40:37.000 They go on her show to humiliate her, and she's too stupid to know it! 1.00

00:40:43.000 They don't know they're the joke at this point. 1.00

00:40:45.000 How excited is National Security Advisor Mike Waltz right now, knowing that he's coming out after this panel?

00:40:53.000 Well, he's an army colonel, too, so...

00:40:56.000 But you were banned from CNN? Yes!

00:40:58.000 For ten years, I have not been on CNN. And it's changed my life for the better.

00:41:05.000 And honestly, who's got a better career trajectory right now?

00:41:08.000 Kurt Schlichter or Don Lemon?

00:41:10.000 Because he has also been banned from CNN. Well, look, I'm on board than he is.

00:41:14.000 Look, I literally have more followers on the Twitter machine than they have viewers.

00:41:20.000 Think about that.

00:41:21.000 100%.

00:41:22.000 So, Alex, your work that you do right now, you...

00:41:25.000 You've got a meme for everything.

00:41:27.000 And the fact that these guys can be reduced to a meme, that Margaret Brennan, the host of Face the Nation, a very important show in a very important town with a very important teleprompter reader as its host, she is now a meme.

00:41:39.000 She can't do anything.

00:41:40.000 From how J.D. Vance has handled her with these interviews to now reducing her to saying that too much free speech will lead to a genocide.

00:41:49.000 This really is the best way to attack them now, is to just reduce them to a punchline.

00:41:55.000 Yeah, 100%.

00:41:56.000 The thing is, like I said earlier, they don't have a mind of their own anymore.

00:42:01.000 They are reduced to scrolling social media and looking for the most viral moment that's going on social media, and it becomes now what they're talking about.

00:42:09.000 To give you an example, my local city council, they just declared, my city that I'm from, Worcester, Massachusetts, just declared themselves a trans-sanctuary city.

00:42:20.000 So I got a tip that it was getting a little wild at the city council meeting, and I watched the four-hour video of them all, like, you've probably seen it, the girl with the wig and everything, the blue hair.

00:42:33.000 Oh, yeah, that was that city council.

00:42:35.000 Yeah, so I went, that was my city.

00:42:36.000 I went through and clipped it.

00:42:38.000 For the next three days, it was all over, like, every corporate media, like, talking about it.

00:42:43.000 So it's like they're looking at everything that they find online, and then they're making it their news cycle.

00:42:48.000 They don't have a mind of their own anymore.

00:42:50.000 And, you know, we talk about the gatekeepers a lot.

00:42:53.000 The gatekeepers are the people who used to say what kind of news.

00:42:57.000 New York Times, right?

00:42:58.000 All the news that's fit to print.

00:42:59.000 Who's deciding what's fit to print?

00:43:02.000 Right?

00:43:03.000 There's some people in a tower in Manhattan who's, oh, that's not news that's fit to print, but this is news that's fit to print.

00:43:11.000 And they would decide what was worthy for your eyes.

00:43:15.000 What was news that you could consume.

00:43:18.000 It's been reversed now.

00:43:20.000 In fact, we are the ones, as Elon Musk says, we are the media.

00:43:24.000 We are driving what's important.

00:43:27.000 And that's what this new revolution is about.

00:43:29.000 And it all goes back to Andrew Breitbart.

00:43:34.000 And one of the underappreciated aspects is how much fun we're having, right?

00:43:41.000 That's right.

00:43:43.000 Exactly.

00:43:44.000 I mean, we've got to dance!

00:43:46.000 They're eating the dogs! 0.90

00:43:48.000 There we go!

00:43:49.000 They're eating the dogs! 0.90

00:43:51.000 They're eating the cats! 0.93

00:43:52.000 We are having fun!

00:43:54.000 We're laughing!

00:43:55.000 And Kamala Harris says, my message is joy!

00:43:59.000 As she's screaming.

00:44:00.000 As Biden's screaming, as she's screaming.

00:44:03.000 You will be happy!

00:44:04.000 By the way, you mentioned Andrew Breitbart again, and I just want to say, I want to read this.

00:44:11.000 This is the very end of my book, but it's a quote from Andrew Breitbart.

00:44:14.000 You all remember Andrew, right?

00:44:16.000 God bless him.

00:44:18.000 Yeah, ALX was five when...

00:44:20.000 Exactly.

00:44:23.000 Elon Musk is now saying we are the media, and he's right.

00:44:26.000 We are the media using social media platforms, using X, which is now a free platform.

00:44:30.000 On Tax Day 2010, during the rise of the Tea Party movement, Andrew Breitbart was asked to speak in Washington, D.C. at a Tea Party rally.

00:44:41.000 And you should look at this video.

00:44:43.000 It's out there.

00:44:44.000 He asked everybody in the crowd there at the Tea Party rally to hold up their phones.

00:44:49.000 And he said this.

00:44:51.000 It's time for a new media revolution, and you are it.

00:44:55.000 You are the media.

00:44:57.000 Hold up your phones.

00:44:58.000 Hold up your cameras.

00:44:59.000 This is the future of media.

00:45:01.000 This is how we're going to fight the lies, the misinformation, and the propaganda of the mainstream media.

00:45:07.000 We are now the media.

00:45:14.000 Andrew Breitbart, 15 years ago, said that.

00:45:19.000 And Alex, you have inherited this legacy now, and you are the media.

00:45:23.000 Yeah, it's really interesting, too, because a little bit about my story, too.

00:45:26.000 In 2020, I was really gaining traction, and I was about to hit 100,000 followers on Twitter 1.0 at the time, and then I was just banned for...

00:45:38.000 Like, three years nearly, until Elon Musk brought me back, and I'm now almost at a million followers on X. Hold that thought.

00:45:47.000 He had 100,000 followers, and they banned him because he was so...

00:45:51.000 Look at how dangerous he is.

00:45:54.000 Elon Musk buys it, opens it up for free thought and free speech, and now you've got a million followers.

00:46:00.000 Yep, nearly.

00:46:01.000 I'm 30,000 from a million, so if you want to get me there before I leave the stage, go for it.

00:46:05.000 At ALX. But yeah, so to your point, it's just like, you know, you are the media because you have a phone and you have the platform on social media.

00:46:14.000 And one of the things that's ironic about this whole, you know, moral panic around misinformation, disinformation, all these people can go on their shows like, you know, for four years they talked about the Russia propaganda hoax and Russian collusion hoax.

00:46:28.000 They were allowed to say that unchecked.

00:46:30.000 They got to have their own guests on there, and Adam Schiff saying he has inside knowledge about all this crap. 0.98

00:46:36.000 On social media, no, it's a blood sport.

00:46:39.000 You say something wrong, you're going to get ratioed or community noted.

00:46:41.000 That's right.

00:46:42.000 So you're the media and you're also the checker.

00:46:45.000 You're the fact checker.

00:46:46.000 There's not independent fact checkers like Meta used to have.

00:46:50.000 You are the fact checker.

00:46:51.000 Well, because the independent fact checkers weren't independent.

00:46:54.000 Exactly.

00:46:55.000 And they weren't based in fact.

00:46:57.000 Correct. 1.00

00:46:57.000 And this is an important point that I want you to pick up on, Kurt, because this whole idea of needing fact checkers and needing to moderate what you say, and it's all coming from this arrogant presumption that you're too stupid. 1.00

00:47:09.000 To understand what's true and what isn't. 1.00

00:47:12.000 You're too stupid to discern from a hoax and what's real. 1.00

00:47:16.000 I'm not sure that they think we're stupid. 1.00

00:47:19.000 I know they say they're stupid because it justifies their existence. 1.00

00:47:23.000 They want to be the gatekeeper. 1.00

00:47:25.000 They want to be making the decision.

00:47:27.000 And you don't need a gatekeeper if you are an individual.

00:47:29.000 If you are an independent American citizen with your camera and computer who goes out and makes his or her own news.

00:47:38.000 We don't need them.

00:47:40.000 It terrifies them.

00:47:42.000 That is why Never Trump exists.

00:47:47.000 Because we didn't need them.

00:47:49.000 That said, the platform and the technology and the freedom is there, and it's opening up more.

00:47:55.000 Mark Zuckerberg suddenly is red-pilled, right?

00:47:57.000 And that's amazing.

00:47:58.000 But it all starts with this fist thrust in the air.

00:48:02.000 It all starts with him yelling, fight, fight, fight.

00:48:05.000 Right?

00:48:07.000 Because...

00:48:07.000 He has shown us how to fight.

00:48:09.000 Suddenly you see Republicans on Capitol Hill are channeling Trump because he's contagious.

00:48:14.000 And I think it all—I mean, I'll give you a perfect example.

00:48:17.000 George Stephanopoulos last year lied about Donald Trump.

00:48:21.000 He said that he was convicted by a jury of raping somebody, and he said it seven times in a six-minute span.

00:48:30.000 What did Donald Trump do?

00:48:31.000 Did he do a Mitt Romney thing?

00:48:33.000 Did he do a George Bush thing?

00:48:35.000 Did he do what Republicans have done for our lifetimes, which is just be the better man and say, oh, well, you know how they are.

00:48:43.000 Tut, tut, let's walk away.

00:48:44.000 No, he fought, he sued, and he won!

00:48:54.000 And that's what we have to do.

00:48:56.000 And the fight we have, I mean, listen.

00:48:57.000 We're doing a victory lap right now because we've rendered the media irrelevant, but they're not going away.

00:49:02.000 The fight continues, Alex, every day.

00:49:04.000 100%.

00:49:05.000 And then the other thing, too, to your point, 60 Minutes tried to edit that Calm Barbaris interview.

00:49:10.000 That's right.

00:49:10.000 How did that go for them?

00:49:11.000 The FCC has now released the entire thing, and we saw what a sham it was.

00:49:15.000 Well, they even...

00:49:16.000 They messed up because they put the promo out with the other answer.

00:49:20.000 With a different answer.

00:49:21.000 Wait a second.

00:49:21.000 What happened here?

00:49:23.000 Well, and Kurt, this goes back to the arrogance, because think about it.

00:49:27.000 Donald Trump had the choice of sitting for 40 minutes with 60 minutes and letting them condense it down to 20 minutes that they decided we could see.

00:49:35.000 And they do that, by the way.

00:49:37.000 They edit these packages because they think you have a short attention span.

00:49:41.000 They talk down to you all the time.

00:49:44.000 Instead...

00:49:44.000 He said, no, I don't need freaking 60 minutes.

00:49:47.000 I'll sit for three hours uninterrupted with Joe Rogan.

00:49:52.000 Oh, and by the way, 50 million of you watched that.

00:49:56.000 How's that for short attention span? 0.98

00:49:59.000 And here's the beauty of it.

00:50:02.000 Kamala Harris wants to go on Joe Rogan.

00:50:05.000 She thinks she's the get. 0.97

00:50:08.000 She thinks she's in the driver's seat.

00:50:09.000 Joe Rogan's like, nah.

00:50:12.000 Talk to the hand.

00:50:14.000 Wow.

00:50:15.000 You don't set the conditions.

00:50:16.000 They don't own us anymore.

00:50:19.000 That's right.

00:50:20.000 They're not in charge.

00:50:21.000 We are!

00:50:24.000 Well, I think we've recovered from our big balls opening, and I think we'll quit while we're ahead.

00:50:33.000 You guys, thank you.

00:50:34.000 Keep fighting.

00:50:36.000 Follow Alex, get him to a million, and buy my book.

00:50:39.000 Hey! 0.99

00:50:40.000 Cough liver?

00:50:41.000 You can crack the code of nuclear waste.

00:51:04.000 You've solved something that no one has attempted to do before and has succeeded. - Thank you.

00:51:11.000 We're on to something big.

00:51:13.000 We have the US government partnered with us now to prove our technology out.

00:51:18.000 Make America stronger.

00:51:20.000 I want to provide limitless energy to the world and I believe this is the path.

00:51:27.000 Every institution today is under attack.

00:51:33.000 The home, the church, the government.

00:51:38.000 And many people are asking what is the truth.

00:51:41.000 Jesus Christ claimed to be ultimate truth.

00:51:44.000 Are you willing to face the truth?

00:51:46.000 Do you think the MKUltra project ever actually ended?

00:51:49.000 The Central Intelligence Agency is actively involved in mind manipulation.

00:51:53.000 We all answer to one God and one Savior, and he's there to change your life for the better.

00:52:02.000 During my second term, we will fight for Alaska like never before.

00:52:12.000 I'm excited about what we can do with President Trump in the office.

00:52:15.000 We can work together to provide affordable energy to Alaska and allies all over the world.

00:52:20.000 More investment, more certainty, production, more exploration.

00:52:24.000 Thank you to everyone in Alaska, and thank you to your great governor.

00:52:28.000 I look forward to a long and enduring future relationship.

00:52:33.000 Drill, baby, drill. 1.00

00:52:36.000 Ladies and gentlemen, this is a conversation with National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and CPAC Senior Fellow Mercedes Schlapp.

00:52:46.000 All right.

00:53:01.000 Good morning, CPAC.

00:53:06.000 Mike, are you ready?

00:53:08.000 Oh, born for this.

00:53:11.000 Okay, good.

00:53:11.000 Let's go.

00:53:12.000 I don't have a chainsaw for you.

00:53:14.000 That's the only thing I couldn't get on the stage.

00:53:17.000 You know, Elon Musk came in with the present.

00:53:21.000 As a Green Beret, I left the belt-fed machine gun at home.

00:53:23.000 There you go.

00:53:24.000 There you go.

00:53:25.000 Secret Service is okay.

00:53:26.000 Maybe next time.

00:53:27.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:53:28.000 How are y'all doing this morning?

00:53:32.000 Okay, so how amazing was it yesterday?

00:53:35.000 Seriously.

00:53:39.000 And we're going to top it off this morning with just one of our heroes right now in the Trump administration, someone who CPAC, someone that Matt and I admire so much, our national security adviser, Mike Waltz.

00:53:55.000 So let's jump right in.

00:53:59.000 Obviously, you've just come back from Saudi Arabia.

00:54:01.000 You were meeting with Russian officials on really looking to find a solution to end the war in Ukraine between Russia and Ukraine.

00:54:14.000 Tell me first how those negotiations are going.

00:54:17.000 Any insight that you can give to our CPAC family here in terms of progress that's being made?

00:54:25.000 SECRETARY KERRY: Well, let me make one thing clear.

00:54:27.000 We would not be in this position, not even close, if it weren't for the leadership of Donald J. Trump.

00:54:35.000 I had the honor of sitting in the Oval Office and listening to President Trump speak with President Putin of Russia and hearing both Putin and then immediately Zelensky both say only under President Trump's leadership, say this to him, and only he could drive an end to this war.

00:54:59.000 So under Trump, this war will end.

00:55:01.000 And it will end soon.

00:55:03.000 And he is the president of peace.

00:55:05.000 And it amazes me how many people in this town are clutching their pearls and having conniption fits over what?

00:55:13.000 Because President Trump's ready to stop the killing, stop the hundreds of thousands of people that are dying per year in Europe, the largest war in Europe since World War II. And you see the same voices that are demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.

00:55:29.000 Post October 7th, then what?

00:55:32.000 Oppose peace in Europe?

00:55:35.000 It makes no sense.

00:55:36.000 But with his leadership, we've now opened negotiations.

00:55:40.000 We're sitting down with our host, the Saudis, and talking to the Russians, understanding what they are going to need, and then understanding what the Ukrainians are going to need, talking to all of the Europeans.

00:55:55.000 You can't...

00:55:56.000 End a war if you don't talk to both sides, and that's what we're doing.

00:56:00.000 Thank you.

00:56:00.000 It's kind of common sense, you know, in the history of diplomacy.

00:56:04.000 It is common sense, but you do find those in the media and the critics basically saying, how can you all be talking to the Russians?

00:56:14.000 This is insane, right?

00:56:16.000 They criticize the efforts that the administration is doing.

00:56:19.000 And with that being said, President Trump...

00:56:21.000 Has expressed his frustration with President Zelensky trying to get to the point that we're dealing with how can we get a deal on the raw minerals?

00:56:30.000 How do we...

00:56:31.000 I mean, the United States has given over $175 billion to the Ukrainians.

00:56:37.000 It seems like the Americans... 0.99

00:56:39.000 There is that war fatigue.

00:56:40.000 It's time to move forward.

00:56:42.000 How are we going to get Zelensky, President Zelensky, to cooperate?

00:56:46.000 Well, so first, and this is the part that the media just wants to ignore, It was Zelensky last September as part of his victory plan.

00:56:56.000 It was Zelensky that proposed, hey, let's go into a partnership together.

00:57:00.000 If the United States will invest in us, we have aluminum, we have gallium, we have tritium.

00:57:07.000 We have all of these rare earth minerals that the modern economy needs.

00:57:11.000 A lot of them are not fully developed.

00:57:13.000 They need investment.

00:57:15.000 President Trump's a dealmaker.

00:57:17.000 And so now President Trump...

00:57:19.000 Proposes the deal, and sent our Treasury Secretary all the way out to Kyiv to propose it, and then we get this rhetoric in the media.

00:57:28.000 Look, here's the bottom line.

00:57:30.000 President Zelensky is going to sign that deal.

00:57:33.000 And you will see that in the very short term.

00:57:37.000 And that is good for Ukraine. 0.71

00:57:39.000 What better could you have for Ukraine than to be in an economic partnership with the United States, number one?

00:57:45.000 What better could you have for Ukraine to stop the killing, number two? 0.70

00:57:48.000 And you know what?

00:57:49.000 We have an obligation to you all, the American taxpayer, to recoup the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been invested in this war.

00:57:58.000 Because you know what?

00:57:59.000 You know what Europe's contributions are?

00:58:02.000 Europe's contributions are in the form of loans.

00:58:04.000 And they're often paid back by the interest on Russian assets that have been frozen.

00:58:10.000 So Europe gets paid back, but the American people don't?

00:58:14.000 I don't think so, right?

00:58:16.000 And so that's the deal that we're putting in place that's good for everyone.

00:58:20.000 And yes, you have to talk to the Russian side to understand how we're going to get both sides to the table.

00:58:26.000 And that's what we're doing.

00:58:27.000 Look, this is the common sense presidency.

00:58:29.000 This is the presidency of peace.

00:58:31.000 He's going to end the war in Europe. 0.83

00:58:34.000 He is going to end the wars in the Middle East. 0.91

00:58:38.000 He is going to reinvest the United States and our leadership in our own hemisphere from the Arctic...

00:58:45.000 To the border, to Panama, all the way down to our good friends in Argentina with Miele that you saw yesterday.

00:58:53.000 And you know what?

00:58:53.000 By the end of this all, we're going to have the Nobel Peace Prize sitting next to the name of Donald J. Trump.

00:58:59.000 And who opposes peace?

00:59:01.000 Like, I mean, how do the Democrats oppose peace?

00:59:03.000 You know, you bring up a great question, which is, who opposes peace?

00:59:07.000 Yet you've seen the European leaders under President Macron trying to bring the Europeans together.

00:59:13.000 In dealing with the Russian and Ukraine situation, they have been unable to move the ball forward.

00:59:21.000 How are we going to bring our European leaders on board?

00:59:24.000 Well, President, you know, the other narrative you have in the media is, well, we're not consulting with our allies in Europe.

00:59:31.000 President Trump has talked to Macron twice last week.

00:59:34.000 He's coming here Monday.

00:59:35.000 The Prime Minister of Britain is coming here next Thursday.

00:59:41.000 We are engaging all of our European allies, absolutely.

00:59:45.000 The NATO Secretary General and I just spoke.

00:59:49.000 You establish peace through strength.

00:59:52.000 And we have been demanding that the Europeans step up and contribute to their own defense.

00:59:59.000 And as of now, a third of our NATO allies still are not contributing the minimum, which is 2% of their GDP, that they committed to A year ago, I'm sorry, 10 years ago.

01:00:14.000 So that's unacceptable.

01:00:16.000 And if you know what, the Europeans want to take a bigger role in their own security, that falls in line with America First principles as far as I'm concerned, as far as President Trump's concerned.

01:00:27.000 So you know what, he's kind of rattled their cage a bit.

01:00:31.000 And now they're saying, you know what, suddenly they've found more.

01:00:34.000 And they're coming to the table with more.

01:00:36.000 Fine by us.

01:00:37.000 We've only been asking for over a decade now.

01:00:39.000 Shifting gears here to Iran.

01:00:42.000 We've got Ambassador Mark Wallace with us.

01:00:45.000 Basically one of the biggest fighters in terms of ensuring that we can see change in Iran and leading the efforts incredibly here in the United States and across the globe.

01:00:56.000 But I've got to ask you right now.

01:00:58.000 What is this maximum pressure campaign going to look like in terms of Iran?

01:01:02.000 How are we going to stop Iran from exporting terrorism into Israel and killing innocent lives? 0.98

01:01:09.000 Well, first, thank God that Prime Minister Netanyahu, that Bibi did not listen to the Biden team and did not listen to Kamala Harris.

01:01:19.000 And as a result of his leadership and Israel's leadership...

01:01:25.000 Hezbollah in Iran is now decimated.

01:01:27.000 I mean, the pager, beeper, and walkie-talkie operation is going to go down in history.

01:01:34.000 And as a Green Beret, I appreciate a good covert operation. 0.84

01:01:37.000 That was one of the greatest ones in history.

01:01:41.000 So you have Hezbollah largely decapitated.

01:01:44.000 You have a real opening in Lebanon that you haven't had in a generation.

01:01:48.000 You have Assad gone in Syria.

01:01:51.000 You have the...

01:01:53.000 The axis of terror from Iran all the way to threaten our partners Israel essentially disrupted, and we need to keep our foot on their neck in that regard. 0.99

01:02:06.000 And then from a maximum pressure campaign, the President just signed that executive order returning to maximum pressure to start keeping a foot on the neck of the Iranian economy.

01:02:19.000 And look.

01:02:22.000 Just a few years ago, we were seeing that all of Iran's proxies were out of cash.

01:02:27.000 That the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, the militias in Iraq, none of them had the funds and the cash to continue their terror.

01:02:38.000 We're going to get back to those policies that work.

01:02:40.000 But key to it all is that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.

01:02:45.000 And why does that matter to everyday Americans?

01:02:48.000 Look, if Iran has a nuke, There's a real question of whether they're a rational actor. 0.98

01:02:53.000 And they can take out our ally Israel. 0.97

01:02:55.000 They can launch against the world.

01:02:57.000 They will have that nuclear umbrella to launch all of these other attacks.

01:03:01.000 They cannot have a nuclear weapon.

01:03:04.000 And under President Trump's leadership, we will ensure that does not happen.

01:03:10.000 Israel.

01:03:11.000 We just got word from the Israeli Defense Forces that they have returned.

01:03:17.000 Several bodies, the Bibas family, the two beautiful children, the redhead children, and what was supposed to be the body of Shirah, the mother.

01:03:26.000 Apparently, that doesn't seem to be the case.

01:03:29.000 IDF is saying this is a serious violation of the ceasefire.

01:03:34.000 What's your message, one, to the hostages, their families from the United States, from President Trump, and two, How can we ensure that we bring all those hostages back home?

01:03:48.000 My message, President Trump's message to his families is we are with you.

01:03:54.000 His heart breaks and he is horrified by these scenes coming out.

01:04:01.000 And if anyone thinks that Hamas is some type of quasi-benevolent, not so bad, you know, kind of something less than the than the just despicable terrorists that they are.

01:04:19.000 What more convincing do you need?

01:04:22.000 This is, Hamas is of the worst kinds of terrorist groups out there.

01:04:28.000 They are no different than ISIS. They are no different than Al Qaeda. 0.91

01:04:31.000 And they absolutely must be destroyed.

01:04:35.000 And only under his leadership, only under his leadership, remember the Biden administration Was trying to do some type of deal. 0.71

01:04:44.000 They were obsessed with a ceasefire, but their approach was concession after concession after concession and putting more pressure on Israel than they did on Hamas.

01:04:55.000 Only when President Trump came in and said, look, there will be all hell to pay, the credible threat that only he can deliver.

01:05:03.000 Did we see this deal come into place?

01:05:05.000 Still under Biden.

01:05:06.000 And we saw our people starting to come out, including two Americans.

01:05:11.000 With more to go.

01:05:12.000 So this is only happening because of this election.

01:05:17.000 These are the kind of consequences this election has had.

01:05:21.000 And we will continue to get out every one that we can.

01:05:24.000 But remember, just what, six months ago, eight months ago, you had college campuses.

01:05:30.000 You had students.

01:05:31.000 You had faculty.

01:05:33.000 You had protesters celebrating Hamas, talking about from the river to the sea.

01:05:40.000 Having the worst kind of anti-Semitism, and now we've seen, and we just saw yesterday, the despicable people that they are, and why they can never be allowed to run Gaza, and why we can never allow another October 7th again.

01:05:56.000 And there is a lot of talk about two-state.

01:05:59.000 You know who doesn't want a two-state?

01:06:01.000 Who will never allow a two-state?

01:06:03.000 Hamas. 0.73

01:06:04.000 And this is why they just cannot exist going forward.

01:06:12.000 China is one of our biggest threats. 1.00

01:06:15.000 We have seen how China has infiltrated our institutions, has brought fentanyl into the United States, has stolen our intellectual property, have basically made so many deals with many Latin American countries, African countries. 0.83

01:06:31.000 They're trying to be strategic in ensuring that the U.S. Does not get involved in some of these regions.

01:06:39.000 This has significantly changed under President Trump.

01:06:43.000 Walk us through how we're going to deal with this threat of China. 0.92

01:06:46.000 Remember, President Trump is who pivoted us, you know, pivoted the whole national security apparatus back in 2017 and 2018. To deal with the threat and the competition that China is. 0.56

01:07:01.000 But he firmly believes we can win this economically.

01:07:04.000 We can win this through our supply chains.

01:07:06.000 We can win this through our markets and fair trade deals.

01:07:10.000 And at the same time, rebuilding our great military under, how about our defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, right?

01:07:17.000 Getting them focused on being the most lethal and most badass military in the world and projecting that strength.

01:07:25.000 But at the same time, he appreciates the infiltration that's going on.

01:07:28.000 And we just had Panama say, you know what?

01:07:31.000 We're done with Belt and Road.

01:07:33.000 We're done with allowing China to infiltrate critical strategic assets like the Panama Canal.

01:07:41.000 And again, it's only been a month, folks.

01:07:45.000 We've still got it.

01:07:46.000 We told the president, he said, you know, you have a full four years.

01:07:49.000 We don't have to get it all done in four weeks.

01:07:53.000 And just final thing, because you mentioned fentanyl.

01:07:56.000 We are going to unleash holy hell on the cartels.

01:07:59.000 Enough is enough.

01:08:01.000 We are securing our border.

01:08:06.000 And the cartels are on notice.

01:08:09.000 You've seen now...

01:08:11.000 You've seen images of the Mexican Army doing joint patrols with our Customs and Border Police and with our military to secure the United States border, because without a border, you don't have a country and you don't have sovereignty.

01:08:27.000 And if there's not anything more than America first, then that.

01:08:31.000 And so, a lot of, you know, going back to things that worked in the first term.

01:08:36.000 But you know what we have now in the second term?

01:08:39.000 We have a team that is 200% on board with the vision of President Trump.

01:08:45.000 And we've got a great Secretary of State, a great Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Treasury.

01:08:50.000 You know, we've got the Team Florida with Susie Wiles and our Chief of Staff. 0.95

01:08:57.000 Like, we are hitting on all cylinders, and we don't have a president that's year one or even year five.

01:09:03.000 He's year nine.

01:09:05.000 And he is...

01:09:06.000 We are building the rocket as we're launching it, and it's just been the honor of my lifetime to be a part of it.

01:09:12.000 So I was going to ask you who can bench press more, Secretary Hegseth or Mike Waltz, but I'm going to skip that question.

01:09:18.000 We're just going to go a little personal here.

01:09:20.000 You wake up every morning.

01:09:22.000 You have one of the most important jobs in the administration.

01:09:25.000 I'm working for a man who doesn't sleep, but yes, I get in a little bit.

01:09:27.000 So that means you're not sleeping either.

01:09:30.000 What drives you?

01:09:31.000 What inspires you to do what you do every day?

01:09:34.000 You know what?

01:09:36.000 It really is.

01:09:38.000 It's been about 20 hours a day.

01:09:40.000 And he's going 21 or 22. I don't know how he does it.

01:09:44.000 I thought I was in fourth gear as a member of Congress and a colonel and a Green Beret.

01:09:49.000 I've now found three more, and he stays in tenth.

01:09:53.000 But here's what drives me.

01:09:54.000 These guys.

01:09:55.000 I don't know if you can see this bracelet.

01:09:57.000 This is one of my Green Berets that I lost in combat.

01:10:00.000 And every morning I get up, I look in the mirror, we get ready to go, and I tell myself to be worthy.

01:10:07.000 Be worthy of their sacrifice.

01:10:10.000 Be worthy of those Gold Star families.

01:10:12.000 Be a citizen that is worthy of this blessing that we all wake up with breathing free air in the greatest country on earth.

01:10:20.000 But we got a glimpse the last four years of what the world and what the country would look like under progressive lack of leadership.

01:10:30.000 The world got a glimpse of what the world coming unglued, starting with the disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan and how that was done through the wars in Europe. 0.93

01:10:41.000 We went from the Abraham Accords to the Middle East on fire, an out-of-control border. 0.96

01:10:47.000 I think, you know, and the President is thinking about this a lot as well, of course he wanted that second term.

01:10:56.000 But you know what?

01:10:57.000 Maybe God had a different plan.

01:10:59.000 That the world had to see and feel what it would look like in the country without Him.

01:11:08.000 And now you're seeing this amazing embrace of His leadership in the world.

01:11:13.000 But be worthy, everyone.

01:11:15.000 Be worthy of those that are out there right now willing to die for all of us and those that did give the greatest sacrifice.

01:11:22.000 For all of us, and thank God we have a leader back in the White House that not only appreciates that, loves them, and loves all of you, and is willing to run through brick walls to get big things done for this country and for peace and security around the world.

01:11:41.000 Well, be worthy.

01:11:43.000 I'm taking that with me.

01:11:44.000 Be worthy to do this incredible work.

01:11:47.000 I just want to thank you, and I know on behalf of all of us here at CPAC, we thank you for your service.

01:11:52.000 We thank you for your sacrifice.

01:11:54.000 We thank you for supporting and giving advice to this great president and in serving in this administration.

01:12:02.000 Ladies and gentlemen, our National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, thank you so much.

01:12:06.000 Thank you, CPAP.

01:12:07.000 Thank you.

01:12:08.000 The 47th President of the United States of America, And, you know, I wouldn't say Fox has been exactly perfect.

01:12:37.000 Fox has been a big difference of Fox between now and what it was four years ago, as you know.

01:12:42.000 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.

01:12:55.000 President Trump is right.

01:12:56.000 That's why millions of Americans are tuning into Newsmax for the real news they can trust.

01:13:01.000 Newsmax for the real news.

01:13:31.000 Every institution today is under attack.

01:13:33.000 The home, the church, the government.

01:13:37.000 And many people are asking what is the truth.

01:13:40.000 Jesus Christ claimed to be ultimate truth.

01:13:44.000 Are you willing to face the truth?

01:13:46.000 Do you think the MKUltra project ever actually ended?

01:13:50.000 The Central Intelligence Agency is actively involved in mind manipulation.

01:13:53.000 We all answer to one God and one Savior, and he's there to change your life for the better.

01:14:03.000 During my second term, we will fight for Alaska like never before.

01:14:12.000 I'm excited about what we can do with President Trump in the office.

01:14:15.000 We'll work together to provide affordable energy to Alaska and allies all over the world.

01:14:20.000 More investment, more certainty in production, more exploration.

01:14:24.000 Thank you to everyone in Alaska and thank you to your great governor.

01:14:29.000 I look forward to a long and enduring future relationship.

01:14:33.000 Drill, baby, drill. 1.00

01:14:37.000 Hey there, scan your QR code on your badge so that you can view the agenda.

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01:14:49.000 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome CEO of MyPillow, Mike Lindell.

01:14:56.000 Thank you, everybody. everybody.

01:15:18.000 When I wrote the book that you all received, What Are the Odds?

01:15:23.000 From Crack Addict to CEO, I used mathematical odds to prove that God exists.

01:15:30.000 We all have things that happen to us all the time that we say, wow, that's a one in a million, or maybe that's a one in a billion, or things that we say, that's impossible.

01:15:40.000 Well, when do we put them all together and say it has to be a miracle?

01:15:47.000 I remember getting invited to the White House for the first time and sitting next to our great president.

01:15:52.000 And the cameras went live to the nation.

01:15:55.000 And all my friends at home, and some of them were still on cracker going, looked up and said, what is this crack addict doing with the president?

01:16:02.000 Jesus is real, because this would be impossible without God.

01:16:09.000 And in the spring of 2020, in another divine appointment, I spoke at the Rose Garden.

01:16:16.000 And I said, God has given us grace for such a time as this.

01:16:20.000 Well, then we were hit with the China virus and a stolen election.

01:16:24.000 And over the next four years, people would come up to me all the time and say, Mike, this doesn't feel like grace.

01:16:31.000 And I would say, oh, but it is.

01:16:33.000 God uses all things for good for those who believe.

01:16:38.000 And the president and I were talking one day, and I was saying that, you know, We were talking about how our country was getting completely destroyed everywhere.

01:16:49.000 And I told him, I said, you know, Mr. President, these bad things are actually helping.

01:16:53.000 They're opening people's eyes.

01:16:55.000 And it'll end up being a good thing.

01:16:57.000 And he said, well, Mike, they're destroying our beautiful country.

01:17:01.000 And it's going to take so much to fix it all.

01:17:04.000 And I said, sir, with God, all things are possible.

01:17:08.000 And God, working through you, you'll get it fixed faster and better than ever.

01:17:15.000 Well, hasn't this first month been a miracle, huh?

01:17:20.000 Thank you, Mr. President, for getting so much done in such a short period of time.

01:17:27.000 It actually is a miracle.

01:17:29.000 I said it before, and I'm going to say it again.

01:17:33.000 Everybody loves our president.

01:17:35.000 Some just don't know it yet.

01:17:38.000 True.

01:17:43.000 This has all been on God's timing, and I believe our great president, if he was put in right after the stolen election, we would have lost our country forever.

01:17:54.000 It would have been too soon.

01:17:56.000 There were so many things that we had to find out over the last four years, and especially there was one thing that was important.

01:18:04.000 We had to get our voice back.

01:18:07.000 On January 7th and 8th of 2021, Those two days are historically important.

01:18:14.000 1.2 million people were deplatformed and cancelled on Vimeo, YouTube, Suckabuck's Facebook, Jack Dorsey's Twitter.

01:18:24.000 If you spoke out about the stolen election, you were deplatformed.

01:18:28.000 The rest of the country was too afraid to say anything because on January 6th they went completely silent in fear.

01:18:36.000 And it reminds me like when I was a kid, we had black and white TVs, and we would turn them off as kids, and they would go down to a little tiny dot.

01:18:44.000 And we would go, and we'd turn it on right before that dot went out.

01:18:47.000 It would all come back to life.

01:18:49.000 Well, that little dot was our voice.

01:18:52.000 And if our voice would have went out, it would have been just like Ronald Reagan said, we're like a beacon of light on a hill.

01:18:58.000 If the lights go out here, they go out everywhere.

01:19:00.000 It would have been over.

01:19:02.000 But our voice did not go out.

01:19:05.000 We turn that back on, and our voice has gotten bigger and brighter than ever before.

01:19:13.000 And this is, you know, we never gave up.

01:19:18.000 People started forming their own platforms, and this is where CPAC came in.

01:19:22.000 How important is CPAC that gave us a platform?

01:19:25.000 I couldn't speak anywhere back then except for CPAC. So important is CPAC. I and many of you were giving a world stage for our voice when almost every other platform had either blocked us or given up.

01:19:44.000 We never stopped speaking out, and our voice has grown to the biggest it's ever been.

01:19:50.000 We have beaten the biggest cover-up of the biggest crime in history.

01:20:03.000 The Uniparty, the deep state globalists, and the media tried to completely bury the truth about the 2020 election.

01:20:12.000 Four years later, evil has failed.

01:20:15.000 Everybody knows the truth.

01:20:18.000 I told people before the 2024 election, if they tried to steal it again, just like if they'd have tried to give us China virus 2.0, we would not have stood for it. 0.96

01:20:29.000 We would have said, open up those machines.

01:20:31.000 We would have said, no, we're not going to sit out in snowbanks wearing masks and be banned from our own houses.

01:20:37.000 We would not have tolerated another stolen election.

01:20:41.000 And evil knew, evil knew this, and they also knew that it was too big to rig, as the president likes to say.

01:20:50.000 If they would have done it, it would have been one of the biggest deviations in history, and we would have said, we want to see, we're on to you now.

01:20:58.000 Well, that's their tool to steal elections. 1.00

01:21:00.000 By the way, the media will like this, the fake news.

01:21:04.000 They did steal four senators and nine congressmen that my teams know of in this last election, just so you all know that.

01:21:11.000 Okay?

01:21:14.000 132 countries have banned electronic voting machines, and they've done it for a reason.

01:21:22.000 More than 100 countries have banned early voting and mail-in voting.

01:21:27.000 The United States of America has the worst election platforms in the world.

01:21:34.000 We now have to make elections great again.

01:21:40.000 We need to go to paper ballots, hand counted, same-day voting, precinct level, and voter ID just the way our great president wants us.

01:21:53.000 We have to lead the world in secure elections.

01:22:08.000 We cannot let this time with the greatest president in history be in vain.

01:22:14.000 This must be the time that God triumphs over evil.

01:22:18.000 We have our voices stronger than ever, and we will never ever stop until...

01:22:26.000 With this critical timing, we have to get to paper ballots.

01:22:30.000 We will never stop.

01:22:31.000 We have to get there now.

01:22:35.000 I encourage all of you to go to LyndaleTV.com.

01:22:39.000 This is my voice.

01:22:41.000 We have the greatest mayor ever, Mayor Rudy Giuliani over there.

01:22:47.000 We have Emerald Robinson and many other hosts in our 24-7 TV lineup.

01:22:53.000 We also, we were granted, and what a blessing, we have White House reporters right at the White House right now with Lindale TV. You have live reporting every single day.

01:23:06.000 And I'd like to thank, I needed help, and I'd like to thank our great new sponsors like Fisher Liberty Gold.

01:23:16.000 And Air Water Healing, they're going to be up there at the booth.

01:23:19.000 But during these times when I was canceled, they're trying to cancel everything I stand for to get rid of these machines and go to pay for ballots.

01:23:28.000 They stood up and said, hey, we're going to help.

01:23:30.000 We're going to sponsor Lindale TV. So thank you.

01:23:35.000 I'd like you all to visit our booth at Lindale TV. The booth that we have here visited, and I need every one of you to get involved now.

01:23:44.000 We're at a critical time in history.

01:23:46.000 The stuff we put out, we have all the pieces to do this.

01:23:50.000 We just need your votes to magnify the truth to the world as we get into this over the next months here and start putting all this information out and what we're doing from the ground up.

01:24:03.000 And from our great president down.

01:24:05.000 We're doing everything humanly possible to get to this great place with our election platforms.

01:24:11.000 God gave us grace for such a time as this.

01:24:14.000 And we are in the best times to be alive in history.

01:24:19.000 And the greatest revival for Jesus Christ ever.

01:24:22.000 Thank you and God bless you.

01:24:24.000 Thank you all.

01:24:25.000 Thank you.

01:24:47.000 In May last year, an opposition activist tried to assassinate him for his policies.

01:24:53.000 For politics based on the ideals of fight against fascism.

01:24:57.000 For wanting an immediate end to the war in Ukraine.

01:25:01.000 For the return of common sense and the barrier against wokeness, when he endorsed constitutional definition of marriage as the unique union of a man and a woman.

01:25:11.000 For his grasp of reality when he vetoed the compulsory redistribution of illegal migrants among the European Union member states.

01:25:19.000 For pursuing a sovereign Slovak foreign policy to all four cardinal points.

01:25:25.000 For treasuring freedom of speech and rejecting the politics of single correct political opinion.

01:25:30.000 For the first time, Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic is coming to CPAC. If

01:26:31.000 AARP and Congress believe America's seniors aren't watching, think again.

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01:26:37.000 Every institution today is under attack.

01:26:39.000 The home, the church, the government.

01:26:44.000 And many people are asking, what is the truth?

01:26:47.000 Jesus Christ claimed the ultimate truth.

01:26:50.000 Are you willing to face the truth?

01:26:52.000 Do you think the MKUltra project ever actually ended?

01:26:55.000 The Central Intelligence Agency is actively involved in mind manipulation.

01:26:59.000 We all answer to one God and one Savior.

01:27:04.000 And he's there to change your life for the better.

01:27:12.000 Hey, it's Matt Schlapp with CPAC. You know we've had a huge problem in this country with election fraud.

01:27:17.000 But at CPAC, that's not a problem.

01:27:19.000 Our only problem is getting each and every one of you to vote.

01:27:22.000 So look at your badge.

01:27:24.000 You have a number on that badge.

01:27:26.000 And get your phone out and vote.

01:27:29.000 And all the issues that matter.

01:27:31.000 And my guess is you probably like what Trump's doing as well.

01:27:34.000 and we'll have the results for you very soon.

01:27:37.000 Ladies and gentlemen, a conversation with White House Deputy Chief of Staff, James Blair, and Breitbart, Washington Bureau Chief, Matt Boyle.

01:27:48.000 James, how are you, sir?

01:28:06.000 Good to see you, Matt.

01:28:08.000 I like those cufflinks.

01:28:11.000 Thank you.

01:28:11.000 They're very nice.

01:28:12.000 Okay, so James, you are the deputy chief of staff in the White House.

01:28:15.000 There's a bunch of you guys that are deputy chiefs of staff, and a bunch of them are going to be here.

01:28:19.000 All the president's men are going to be here at CPAC, so it's really exciting.

01:28:23.000 Tell us about your specific role in the White House.

01:28:26.000 We were talking about this last night.

01:28:28.000 Tell us about the various departments that you oversee inside the White House.

01:28:32.000 Yeah, I really oversee the external portfolio of the White House.

01:28:37.000 There's three main components to that.

01:28:39.000 We have our Office of Legislative Affairs, which obviously is really the President's lobbying arm on Capitol Hill.

01:28:45.000 We have the Office of Political Affairs, which is just the political operations that come from the White House and run externally, of course.

01:28:53.000 And then the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, which deals with the interplay between...

01:28:57.000 Uh, federal, state, and local governments, and tribal governments.

01:29:00.000 Okay, so the, we're seeing right now, in terms of a pace from President Trump, I mean, the amount of executive orders, I think I saw somebody say that there are more executive orders we've seen President Trump sign than there are primetime viewers on CNN, right?

01:29:14.000 Like, uh, but the, uh, uh, the, the, we're seeing the level of action is just incredible, right?

01:29:20.000 Like, it's rapid fire, uh, lots of different action out there.

01:29:24.000 Um, I'll tell you, the, the person that I think I would really, and I know a little bit of something about this because I work for Breitbart, that I think would be absolutely loving this is the one and only Andrew Breitbart.

01:29:35.000 And at CPAC, of course, we got to give Andrew Breitbart a shout out because Andrew Breitbart was CPAC, right?

01:29:41.000 But tell us what it's like in there in the White House every day.

01:29:45.000 It seems like it's a pretty crazy wild schedule, if you will.

01:29:51.000 It's a frenetic pace, for sure.

01:29:53.000 But, you know, the president has thought deeply about what he wants to accomplish in the time he was not in the White House, obviously.

01:30:02.000 And he's been spending a lot of time planning and obviously asking his team to plan the actions that we've executed so far.

01:30:10.000 So I get asked a lot, was all this planned?

01:30:12.000 And, you know, obviously new ideas come up every day, but...

01:30:15.000 A lot of it, if not most of it, was planned.

01:30:18.000 He's thought deeply since he left the last time around, and he knows that he wants to accomplish a lot in a short period of time.

01:30:24.000 So really, it's all of us just playing catch up with the president.

01:30:27.000 It's great to have an energetic leader.

01:30:30.000 He runs circles around all of us.

01:30:33.000 He doesn't sleep.

01:30:34.000 He works all the time.

01:30:35.000 And he's really committed to making this time in office very useful for saving the country.

01:30:40.000 I mean, he's just going to do what he said he was going to do, and that's it.

01:30:42.000 All right, so James, one of the major departments you oversee is the political affairs, obviously.

01:30:48.000 You were the political director for the Trump campaign.

01:30:51.000 One of the reasons why we are where we are today is that President Trump was able to, in this last election in 2024, pull off arguably one of the greatest political transformations.

01:31:03.000 The history of mankind.

01:31:04.000 I mean, we are seeing, you know, lifelong Democrats, frankly, vote for President Trump.

01:31:11.000 A lot of black voters, Hispanic voters.

01:31:14.000 I think I saw him put on his Truth Social recently a list of all the counties he flipped from Democrat control.

01:31:21.000 Tell us, you're the nuts and bolts guy of how this happened.

01:31:24.000 So tell us, how did you guys pull this off from the Trump campaign?

01:31:29.000 And then we'll get into how we hold it together, because I think it's important that we hold this together for the long term.

01:31:35.000 But walk us through how you guys did it.

01:31:37.000 Yeah, well, so they say success is where preparation meets opportunity, right?

01:31:42.000 Obviously, we had a plan.

01:31:44.000 But the plan primarily was to capitalize on opportunities that existed within these different populations of voters that maybe have not traditionally voted Republican.

01:31:53.000 We've really seen, I mean, the last 10 years, really, since President Trump came into office, has been a slow-moving realignment politically, and a lot of significant demographic shifts are coming with that, that are good for Republicans writ large, if, really very simply, Trump voters can be converted into Republican voters.

01:32:15.000 And that is, I think, the main thing that everyone has to focus on for the midterms and going forward.

01:32:20.000 And I think the reason for that is issues.

01:32:23.000 I mean, good policy is good politics.

01:32:25.000 President Trump is not like every Republican politician, as we all know, for the last several decades, particularly cuts against the mold of Washington.

01:32:33.000 And I think that's really important.

01:32:35.000 I think the number one thing...

01:32:37.000 And just to put some stats on it, I mean, President Trump gained more popular votes than any Republican ever has.

01:32:42.000 It was the first popular vote win.

01:32:46.000 It was the first popular vote win for a Republican president in 20 years and the first non-incumbent since 1988. The House Republicans won more popular votes than they ever have.

01:32:57.000 And he swept the Senate majority into office.

01:32:59.000 And really, President Trump performs above all other Republicans.

01:33:04.000 And that's because a lot of these voters...

01:33:07.000 That are with him have not come over to the party.

01:33:10.000 And the way we solve for that going forward is to pass the agenda that he campaigned on.

01:33:15.000 That's what they voted for.

01:33:16.000 And I think that if we give the voters what they paid for with their vote, they will reward us with a long-term political realignment.

01:33:25.000 One thing I like to point out is only, because a lot of people say, well, presidents always lose the midterms.

01:33:31.000 Often true, but not always.

01:33:33.000 In the last hundred years, there's only two midterms where a president has added seats to both chambers of his party.

01:33:40.000 One was 2002, and obviously that was post-9-11, kind of a unique time for our country, very patriotic, rallying around President Bush.

01:33:47.000 And the other was 1934, which was after the New Deal passed.

01:33:51.000 And that really set in motion a hundred-year realignment of politics.

01:33:56.000 And it came out of what they did.

01:33:58.000 And I think that needs to be the model we're looking at, where we're not looking for incremental change, and we need our Republicans in Congress to help us with that.

01:34:05.000 We need to look for big change.

01:34:07.000 And I think if we enact big change, which the president campaigned on, we'll be rewarded politically for a long time.

01:34:14.000 Couldn't agree more.

01:34:15.000 So it feels like we have a different...

01:34:19.000 Look, I've been doing this for a long time at Breitbart.

01:34:21.000 I've been at Breitbart for 12 years.

01:34:23.000 I've been reporting in the conservative movement for 15. It feels like the Republican Party is a different Republican Party now, and this is in large part thanks to President Trump and his endorsements.

01:34:34.000 We've got new, incoming, exciting senators, people like Jim Banks from Indiana, who I think we heard from yesterday, Bernie Marino from Ohio, Dave McCormick from Pennsylvania, Tim Sheehy from Montana.

01:34:50.000 I mean, these are exciting young voices that are, you know...

01:34:54.000 Eight years ago, President Trump had a rough time of getting his cabinet through.

01:34:58.000 This time around, he's actually beating with a smaller majority of his party, Barack Obama, from 2009, when he was confirming his cabinet.

01:35:10.000 Trump's cabinet is almost all confirmed now.

01:35:14.000 How has the party changed in a better way that is reflecting this transformation that we're talking about?

01:35:23.000 Because it's bigger than Trump, I think.

01:35:24.000 I think it's happening in the Senate.

01:35:25.000 It's happening in the House, too.

01:35:27.000 Absolutely.

01:35:28.000 I mean, frankly, I think our Republicans in Congress are getting on board and seeing that we can do things differently.

01:35:36.000 Look, with the cabinet, President Trump selected a cabinet that reflects the diversity.

01:35:42.000 of the coalition that swept him into office and the diversity of thought, and that was important to him.

01:35:48.000 And we're grateful to our Republican senators for moving them through with relatively little hiccups overall.

01:35:55.000 And I think the president's view is that those voices are what the people voted for, and that is the government they want to see.

01:36:04.000 And I think the Senate sees that.

01:36:08.000 I mean, it's undeniable, ultimately.

01:36:10.000 And I do think that Thinking back to eight years ago, many people feel that in some ways President Trump's presidency wasn't given a chance because of the attacks that started from really pre-day one.

01:36:24.000 And I think they recognize how much time he has spent reflecting on his four years in office and how he...

01:36:34.000 Has come through the greatest weaponization in history, all the things that we all know.

01:36:39.000 I mean, nobody has undergone more challenges to get to an office than President Trump.

01:36:42.000 And I think they're quite deferential to giving him the opportunity and the team he wants to not have that happen again.

01:36:49.000 And despite those challenges in the first term, he had a historic presidency.

01:36:53.000 And now I think the feeling is, well, if we just support...

01:36:58.000 support him and support the folks that helped get him elected, then maybe we'll all do better.

01:37:03.000 A rising tide will lift all boats, and I think that's what we're seeing.

01:37:08.000 So, James, the big question is, I mean, the first...

01:37:11.000 Major elections we're gonna see in just a few short weeks here in Wisconsin.

01:37:15.000 We have a Wisconsin Supreme Court races coming up in April.

01:37:18.000 The governor races and state-level races later this year.

01:37:24.000 We got some special elections coming up for some of the seats that have been opened up by cabinet picks.

01:37:30.000 We've got and then we have the midterm elections less than two years away.

01:37:35.000 So how do you guys make sure that the The political transformation we saw in November, those new voters walk in beyond just that one year.

01:37:48.000 That isn't just a fleeting thing, that this is a lasting political realignment, similar to the 1934 one you're talking about in the FDR years.

01:37:57.000 Yeah, I mean, it's not easy, that's for sure.

01:38:00.000 The Wisconsin Supreme Court race, looking at numbers there, and there's some folks getting involved for the conservative.

01:38:07.000 That'll be challenging, I'll say.

01:38:09.000 I mean, it'll be challenging because if you look at the data in Wisconsin, what carries President Trump is a group of voters who only vote when Trump is on the ballot.

01:38:22.000 The thing that we have to accomplish in all of these elections is getting that specific group of people, you know, they're super voters on both sides, but getting the people that are sort of with the Trump worldview, who aren't necessarily Republicans, but many of them, you know, would sort of consider themselves that now, is getting them to go to the polls when President Trump's not on the ballot and helping them understand.

01:38:43.000 That that supports his worldview, ultimately.

01:38:46.000 And just to kind of bring this around, look, you have a standing army out here in the audience, right?

01:38:52.000 These are President Trump supporters out here, here at CPAC, and the millions and millions of people watching at home.

01:38:59.000 What would be your marching orders to these folks out here in the audience that are watching this event right now, that are watching us have this conversation?

01:39:06.000 What do they need to do to help solidify this political realignment?

01:39:11.000 Well, I mean, two things.

01:39:13.000 One, put in the legwork.

01:39:14.000 Obviously, we always need volunteers.

01:39:16.000 And in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, the Wisconsin GOP and many others are getting involved.

01:39:21.000 And if you've got time to spare, go do it.

01:39:23.000 It's very important.

01:39:24.000 There's a lot at stake in that race, not the least of which could be the future of congressional maps, which is very important.

01:39:32.000 We'll see what happens.

01:39:34.000 But just spread the word and continue to, frankly, Encourage Republicans that are down-ballot of President Trump to support his agenda, which is often but not always exactly aligned with, you know, the historic contours of the party.

01:39:54.000 I mean, the last thing I'll say is I'll leave you with this.

01:39:56.000 There's 13 seats in the House of Representatives that are occupied by Democrats that President Trump won.

01:40:03.000 On average, the Republican underperformed him by 5.2 points.

01:40:08.000 There's only three seats in the House that Republicans hold that Harris won.

01:40:12.000 So that gives you some sense of the fact that we should be playing offense here.

01:40:17.000 But that requires bringing all of the other Republicans up to the vote coalition that President Trump has and brought into office.

01:40:24.000 So follow the Trump agenda and pass it, and we will all be rewarded for it.

01:40:30.000 Really exciting stuff.

01:40:32.000 Thank you, James, for a great conversation and give our best to President Trump.

01:40:37.000 Thank you.

01:40:37.000 Yeah.

01:40:38.000 Thanks, Matt.

01:40:38.000 Thank you, sir.

01:41:03.000 Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for Fanny, Letitia, and Jack, the legal evils. 0.77

01:41:09.000 Please welcome senior fellow at Claremont Institute, John Eastman, and partner at Tactic Global, Barry Bennett.

01:41:36.000 Thank you.

01:41:36.000 Thank you very much.

01:41:37.000 My name is Barry Bennett, and this is Professor John Eastman.

01:41:42.000 The professor is a brilliant legal scholar, and I am a fan of, just watched the TV show, Lincoln Lawyers.

01:41:49.000 We have a lot in common.

01:41:51.000 But what we do have in common, unfortunately, is that we were both made victims of our own government because we dared stand with Donald Trump.

01:42:02.000 For me, I ran Ben Carson's campaign back in 2015, 2016. Great American.

01:42:10.000 And I became a senior advisor to the Trump campaign in 2016. Within months of working at the Trump campaign, Obama's CIA director, John Brennan, gave my name along with 25 others to the Five Eyes to ask our so-called allies to spy on us in the Russia gate.

01:42:32.000 That led to me being bumped by both the UK and Australia and endlessly grilled about Russia and Hillary's emails and all this other crap.

01:42:45.000 And then that led to the FBI taking my phone and my emails, the emails of my nine-year-old kid.

01:42:55.000 They took my Uber Eats account.

01:42:57.000 They got a lot of information there.

01:43:01.000 But, you know, one of the things, unfortunately, that John and I have in common, we both had to spend millions of dollars to defend ourselves.

01:43:11.000 And John, I'm further along in the process.

01:43:14.000 John is still in the fight, and he needs our help.

01:43:18.000 But anyway, I want to be quick and tell you who I was and what I've gone through, but John's case is really happening right now.

01:43:27.000 So I want him to have...

01:43:29.000 Seven and a half minutes and I'll take two and a half.

01:43:32.000 Very good.

01:43:32.000 Thank you.

01:43:33.000 Thank you.

01:43:33.000 Look, one of the most most egregious examples of the psychological analysis of projection was when the Democrats before the 2024 election said President Trump would weaponize the Department of Justice.

01:43:47.000 I said, Are you kidding me?

01:43:49.000 What have we been looking at for the last four years?

01:43:51.000 You know, they took my phone in New Mexico outside of a restaurant with an egregiously broad It said all the data on your phone.

01:44:02.000 Now, we fought a revolutionary war to stop that.

01:44:05.000 That's called the general warrant.

01:44:07.000 The Fourth Amendment requires that they identify what they're going to search and seize with particularity.

01:44:11.000 They just said everything on your phone.

01:44:13.000 And, of course, modern phones are a portal to everything, every communication, every transaction you have.

01:44:18.000 They said, oh, no, we're not allowed to look at what we've seized until we get a second warrant.

01:44:23.000 And about a month later, I start getting inquiries from a taint team in Portland, Oregon.

01:44:29.000 Asking if certain things I was going to assert privilege over, I said, well, I've got a question.

01:44:34.000 How do you even have that?

01:44:35.000 Where was this second warrant?

01:44:37.000 Oh, we got that.

01:44:38.000 I said, I haven't seen it.

01:44:40.000 Well, yeah, but the phone was in our possession by then, so we've served the warrant on ourselves.

01:44:47.000 This is utter nonsense, and they are shredding the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the Sixth Amendment, the right to counsel, the right to attorney-client privilege.

01:44:57.000 I had a client, my wife would, sometimes he would forget the time zone difference from where I was on the West Coast and where he was, 4.30, 5.30 in the morning, and my wife would nudge me and say, you better get that, it might be the client.

01:45:09.000 Well, the client was the President of the United States.

01:45:12.000 And he asked me to help him get the legal challenges to the fraudulent and illegal election in 2020 for the courts to actually consider that.

01:45:25.000 And for that, I was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in Jack Smith's criminal prosecution against President Trump, an indicted co-conspirator in Georgia, an indicted co-conspirator in Arizona, where I had no involvement whatsoever.

01:45:39.000 They put my bar license in California currently on inactive status.

01:45:44.000 I can't practice out there.

01:45:46.000 At least I'm still able to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States.

01:45:52.000 But part of what's going on here, and they've admitted this, it's to scare lawyers from ever taking on causes or clients that the left doesn't want you to take on.

01:46:02.000 This is an egregious abuse of our criminal justice system, the likes of which we have never seen.

01:46:07.000 In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt's new appointment as Attorney General, Robert Jackson, he would later become Supreme Court Justice and later head of the Nuremberg Trials after World War II. And he had all the U.S. attorneys in the country at a meeting, and he warned them not to abuse their power.

01:46:26.000 And the greatest temptation for abuse of power was to find people you don't like, and then scour the books to see if you can pin something on them.

01:46:36.000 Rather than beginning with the crime and investigate whodunit.

01:46:40.000 And that's what we have been witnessing out of the Department of Justice, out of the FBI, out of that ridiculous select committee on J6, with Liz Cheney running it, and destroying exculpatory evidence, issuing subpoenas without sign-off by courts, acting as law enforcement agencies without all the guardrails that our Constitution puts on law enforcement agencies.

01:47:04.000 And people have said, well, Eastman, why don't you just look forward and leave it alone?

01:47:08.000 Don't look back.

01:47:10.000 If we don't get to the bottom of what they did and hold the people who did it accountable, they will do it again the first opportunity they get.

01:47:19.000 So I have been thrilled with all of President Trump's nominees, but I think the one that is going to be most relevant to this fight is the one that got confirmed yesterday, 51 to but I think the one that is going to be most relevant to this Thank you.

01:47:44.000 Because in my view, what we have been witnessing is a nationwide conspiracy to deprive political opponents of their constitutional rights to free speech, to assembly, the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.

01:47:59.000 And if you don't hold people accountable for what they did for that, that's a federal felony, by the way.

01:48:04.000 There's a group called States United Democracy Center.

01:48:08.000 They filed the bar complaint against me in California.

01:48:11.000 They're a rabid anti-Trump organization designed to go after all the lawyers that were trying to help Trump.

01:48:18.000 They were the ones that were hired by the Attorney General of Arizona to prepare the prosecution memo for the electors and me and unindicted co-conspirator Trump in Arizona.

01:48:29.000 And I've told media, I said, that's a little like hiring the fox to do the safety memo for your chicken coop.

01:48:35.000 It's utter nonsense.

01:48:36.000 And the people that are doing that need to be held accountable.

01:48:40.000 And you know, if they spend some time in prison, maybe the next time they get power, they'll be a little bit hesitant about taking on this kind of lawfare against us.

01:48:51.000 Amen.

01:48:52.000 Amen.

01:48:54.000 And we'll never get our privacy back.

01:48:58.000 We may never get our reputations back, but this must not happen again!

01:49:03.000 That's right.

01:49:07.000 I teach at the Claremont Institute, our summer fellowship program, and I was teaching our John Marshall fellows, young lawyers, when the indictment in Georgia came down, and everybody's phone starts going off, and they made fun of it at the end of the week when we had our big roasting.

01:49:23.000 But the gentleman that roasted me then turned serious.

01:49:27.000 And he said, what we saw here was an exhibition of courage, and courage is contagious.

01:49:33.000 And then he said, if you think about the last line of our national anthem, it's not so much whether that flag was still waving, it's what kind of land it is waving over.

01:49:45.000 Is it still the land of the free and the home of the brave, or is it now the land of the coward and the home of the slave?

01:49:52.000 Ladies and gentlemen, I've got grandkids, and I'm not willing to hand them over to a land of the coward and the home of the slave. 0.64

01:49:58.000 We fight this battle until we win, until we win permanently.

01:50:03.000 We fight it.

01:50:03.000 We fight it every day.

01:50:05.000 We fight it in the streets.

01:50:06.000 We fight it in the courts.

01:50:07.000 We fight it wherever we can, because our freedom is too precious to give up.

01:50:13.000 Thank you.

01:50:21.000 You think about it.

01:50:29.000 Our founders pledged to each other their lives, and they meant it.

01:50:34.000 Their fortunes, and they meant it.

01:50:36.000 Just ask Robert Morris, who funded the Revolutionary War, largely.

01:50:40.000 But most importantly for them, more important than either of those, they pledged their sacred honor.

01:50:46.000 What kind of sacred honor will we have if we hand off to our grandkids an enslavement contrary to what we inherited from our forebears?

01:50:54.000 This is the fight for our time.

01:50:56.000 It's the fight worth having.

01:50:58.000 I can't think of anything more important to be doing.

01:51:00.000 And I thank you all for being here and for the army that you are, for keeping America free, keeping America prosperous, and let's make America great again.

01:51:11.000 Thank you all.

01:51:11.000 Thank you guys.

01:51:12.000 Thank you.

01:51:42.000 Newsmax is it.

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01:52:09.000 So desperate, they're paying 16% a month just to borrow it.

01:52:13.000 And where is all of that gold going?

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01:53:32.000 Hey, it's Matt Schlapp with CPAC. You know we've had a huge problem in this country with election fraud.

01:53:38.000 But at CPAC, that's not a problem.

01:53:40.000 Our only problem is getting each and every one of you to vote.

01:53:43.000 So look at your badge.

01:53:45.000 You have a number on that badge.

01:53:46.000 And get your phone out and vote on all the issues that matter.

01:53:52.000 And my guess is you probably like what Trump's doing as well.

01:53:55.000 And we'll have the results for you very soon.

01:53:58.000 Before the cabinet room, you saw Donald Trump's next cabinet make waves at CPAC. The

01:54:46.000 nominee for director of Voice of America, Carrie Blake.

01:55:13.000 Hello!

01:55:14.000 I gotta take this in.

01:55:17.000 You guys look phenomenal.

01:55:19.000 You look great.

01:55:20.000 I know why.

01:55:22.000 We're all sleeping better, aren't we?

01:55:25.000 How many of you are sleeping so much better since January 20th?

01:55:31.000 I curl up every night with the sweetest dreams and watching what President Trump has accomplished and done in one month is so incredible.

01:55:40.000 Every day feels like Christmas Day.

01:55:42.000 And every night feels like New Year's Eve.

01:55:45.000 We got something to celebrate.

01:55:47.000 And I want to thank Matt and Mercy for bringing us all together to celebrate this amazing month that we've had.

01:55:54.000 Hasn't it been great?

01:55:57.000 It's been wonderful.

01:55:59.000 You know, a lot of you know about my life in politics, but before that, I had a 30-year career as an award-winning journalist.

01:56:05.000 I was the voice of Arizona.

01:56:07.000 If you're from Arizona, you know that.

01:56:09.000 And I walked away from a very high-paying job in the corporate news during COVID-19 because I just wasn't willing to lie to the public.

01:56:18.000 We had such lies going out toward the public.

01:56:20.000 And I had to ask myself the question, was this huge paycheck that I was earning worth the cost of my soul?

01:56:27.000 And the answer was no.

01:56:29.000 And that is a question that a lot of people in the media right now and the bureaucrats in D.C. should be asking themselves at this moment.

01:56:37.000 How much is the paycheck?

01:56:38.000 How much is the money worth it?

01:56:40.000 I'm very, very cynical when it comes to the government.

01:56:43.000 It's just how I was raised.

01:56:45.000 I grew up with Ronald Reagan as my president.

01:56:48.000 Anybody else as a kid have Ronald Reagan?

01:56:52.000 And remember his warning?

01:56:54.000 His warning was the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

01:57:02.000 And boy, was he right.

01:57:04.000 But now the tables have been turned.

01:57:07.000 And the nine most terrifying words for the government are "we're from DOGE" and we're here to audit you.

01:57:14.000 When Elon and the boys show up, I think they're a little nervous, aren't they?

01:57:24.000 I prefer a hands-off government.

01:57:26.000 Am I alone in that?

01:57:27.000 Hands off.

01:57:29.000 Unfortunately, our government has one hand around our throat.

01:57:33.000 And we're finding out the other hand is in our pockets and they're robbing us blind.

01:57:37.000 And thanks to Doge, we've learned that our tax dollars are going to pay for luxury hotels for illegals in Manhattan, circumcisions in Mozambique, transgender operas in Latin America. 0.92

01:57:52.000 It's terrible.

01:57:53.000 It's theft.

01:57:54.000 And Social Security benefits to 150-year-olds?

01:57:59.000 The only 150-year-old I know is Joe Biden.

01:58:04.000 I mean, this is...

01:58:06.000 And apparently there's millions of them.

01:58:08.000 There's even people that are over 150 that are allegedly getting all of these paychecks.

01:58:14.000 So that's just the tip of the iceberg in Washington, D.C. It's really kind of like the D.C. creature is like an animal infested with ticks and parasites.

01:58:25.000 From the work-from-home bureaucrats to the handouts and carve-outs and pork, the entire D.C. economy and the surrounding states thrive off of the freebies.

01:58:36.000 But it's not free for us, the hard-working Americans.

01:58:39.000 We're the ones funding this.

01:58:41.000 Our money is lining these swamp creatures' pockets.

01:58:45.000 We're paying off their friends.

01:58:46.000 We're funding the fake news to broadcast this insane narrative across the globe.

01:58:52.000 It's terrible.

01:58:53.000 And knowing all of this and knowing how the odds have been stacked against us, it makes what happened on November 5th even more of a miracle.

01:59:03.000 Right?

01:59:05.000 And we got to thank God for that.

01:59:07.000 We got to thank God for that.

01:59:09.000 We the people worked, we rose up and we said enough is enough.

01:59:13.000 We've had enough of this.

01:59:15.000 And now thanks to President Trump's radical transparency, we are learning some cold hard facts about our government.

01:59:21.000 I've never felt more betrayed by the government and, frankly, the media mouthpieces back in the fake news.

01:59:32.000 This is the biggest scandal of our lifetime, the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on humanity, and any real journalist would be dying to cover this story.

01:59:43.000 Unfortunately, we're still surrounded by too many fake journalists out there.

01:59:47.000 Have you noticed they're grasping at their pearls, acting offended that the fraud is being uncovered?

01:59:54.000 They're offended that we would question the bureaucracy that spent money trying to perform sex changes on monkeys while claiming that FEMA is too broke to help Americans.

02:00:04.000 I'll tell you, the purpose of the mainstream media is no longer to inform us, it's to manipulate us.

02:00:14.000 Have you been following the AP drama?

02:00:17.000 Have you heard about this?

02:00:19.000 It's known as the Associated Press.

02:00:21.000 I kind of think of them as the anti-American propagandists.

02:00:24.000 They're very, very mad about the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.

02:00:29.000 Now, they have no issue with swapping out Kiev for Kiev or switching the spelling of the country named Turkey.

02:00:38.000 I didn't even know it was possible to spell that another way.

02:00:41.000 But they have just been horrified by this name change.

02:00:46.000 Remember, these are the same people who didn't want to call riots riots.

02:00:49.000 They wanted to call them mostly peaceful protests.

02:00:52.000 But they will die on the hill of refusing to call that big, beautiful body of water between Texas and Florida the Gulf of America, which is what it is, by the way.

02:01:08.000 And don't get...

02:01:10.000 Don't get them wrong.

02:01:11.000 They're not making some big principle journalistic stand.

02:01:13.000 It's just fake controversy by a bunch of fake journalists.

02:01:17.000 Where was the AP? And I don't know if they're back there.

02:01:20.000 Where were you, AP, when moms and dads were losing their jobs for refusing to get the untested COVID shot?

02:01:28.000 Where were they?

02:01:30.000 It was crickets.

02:01:32.000 Where were they when moms had to cover their babies' faces with masks? 1.00

02:01:36.000 They weren't covering that.

02:01:38.000 Where were they when the boys were in the locker rooms with girls? 0.95

02:01:42.000 You know what they were doing?

02:01:43.000 They were actually siding with the people who were perpetuating that insanity on us. 0.95

02:01:50.000 They're criminal. 0.98

02:01:51.000 They are.

02:01:52.000 They still pretend the 2020 election was the most secure election in all of history.

02:01:59.000 They never even questioned the impossibility, it's impossible, that Joe Biden got 81 million votes.

02:02:07.000 They're still sticking.

02:02:08.000 You got to give them credit.

02:02:09.000 They're still sticking to their story.

02:02:11.000 But what kind of journalist supports the hiding of 40,000 hours of video footage so that we can see for ourselves what really happened on January 6th?

02:02:22.000 I still want to see that.

02:02:24.000 Don't you want to see that video?

02:02:28.000 They want to cover their narrative.

02:02:30.000 They want to keep their narrative going.

02:02:32.000 A real journalist would never support censorship.

02:02:35.000 Every single time I've stood on this stage with all of you at CPAC, I've told you to turn them off, cancel your subscriptions, just tune them out.

02:02:44.000 And it turns out it actually worked.

02:02:46.000 We rendered the fake news worthless and useless only to find out that our government Has been propping them up, keeping them alive with tens of millions of dollars of our tax money. 0.54

02:03:05.000 It is absolutely sick. 0.76

02:03:08.000 They propped them up.

02:03:09.000 So the mainstream media is really just kind of a zombie media right now.

02:03:13.000 There are a bunch of zombie media outlets who can only make payroll if our government funnels millions of dollars to them.

02:03:21.000 It's obscene.

02:03:23.000 Last week these media zombies mulled around the idea of boycotting Covering the White House to support the AP. Did you hear about their idea?

02:03:34.000 They're going to boycott the White House to support the AP drama.

02:03:41.000 That means no more CNN, AP, MSNBC, and the press pool.

02:03:46.000 I've got a message for the fake news.

02:03:57.000 Don't threaten us with a good time. 1.00

02:04:02.000 We will not miss your stupid questions, okay? 1.00

02:04:08.000 Real journalists recognize it is a privilege to cover this moment in American history. 1.00

02:04:13.000 It's a privilege.

02:04:15.000 We are witnessing the return of our government to we, the people.

02:04:21.000 It is a historic moment with monumental consequences for America and the entire world. 0.58

02:04:27.000 It's a golden age in America, and damn it, we deserve a golden age in journalism.

02:04:35.000 And that is why I'm honored that President Trump has appointed me to lead the Voice of America.

02:04:40.000 VOA has been telling America's story to the world for 83 years this Monday.

02:04:48.000 Now, sometimes the coverage has been incredible, and sometimes it's been pitiful.

02:04:55.000 We are fighting an information war, and there's no better weapon than the truth, and I believe VOA can be that weapon.

02:05:03.000 I told President Trump when he called me and asked me to lead the Voice of America that we will focus on accurate and honest reporting.

02:05:14.000 It won't become Trump TV, although I think the ratings would be very high.

02:05:19.000 It won't become Trump TV, but it sure as hell will not be TDS TV. You can find all the Trump derangement syndrome that you want over on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, 60 Minutes, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.

02:05:38.000 The VOA is a soft power for America.

02:05:42.000 Some people have suggested shutting it down.

02:05:45.000 And with all of the corruption, I get it, I totally do, with all the corruption we're seeing, but I believe it is worth trying to save.

02:05:51.000 With a relatively small budget, along with honest reporting, we can spread the values of freedom all over the world and prevent trillion-dollar wars.

02:06:02.000 I'm for that.

02:06:04.000 So as I transition to this next chapter in my life, can we still say the word transition by the way, or has the woke mob, or has the woke mob ruined another word for us?

02:06:22.000 There is still unfinished business that I have in my beloved Arizona.

02:06:27.000 Arizona is a mess.

02:06:29.000 It's a mess. 0.57

02:06:31.000 Now, President Trump's victory was a blessing, but Arizona remains corrupt and captured.

02:06:37.000 Elon Musk described the government, and I thought this was perfect, as not an apple full of worms, but just a big clump of worms.

02:06:45.000 I know.

02:06:46.000 Someone just said, ooh, it is a gross thought, isn't it?

02:06:49.000 Well, Arizona is the same, and we're going to deworm it.

02:06:53.000 For the past four years, we have been in a fight, fight, fight mode.

02:07:03.000 And now we are in a win, win, win mode.

02:07:07.000 I like this mode.

02:07:08.000 And I will say, you know, people always say to me, Carrie, you agree with the president on everything.

02:07:12.000 Surely you have nothing you disagree with.

02:07:14.000 There is one thing I vehemently disagree with President Trump on.

02:07:18.000 We will never, ever get tired of winning President Trump.

02:07:22.000 Never.

02:07:24.000 So CPAC, are you willing to go to work, work, work to help President Trump reclaim America?

02:07:33.000 We gotta work!

02:07:35.000 Let's do it.

02:07:36.000 This guy's ready.

02:07:37.000 Let's do it.

02:07:38.000 We're gonna work, work, work so we can continue to win.

02:07:41.000 I love you, CPAC.

02:07:42.000 Thank you for the opportunity, and God bless each and every one of you.

02:07:47.000 Thank you.

02:08:17.000 And senior record, calendar, character, Sebastian Borghau.

02:08:22.000 Thank you, guys. guys.

02:08:46.000 Thank you, guys.

02:08:47.000 At ease.

02:08:48.000 At ease.

02:08:50.000 What a firebrand. 0.87

02:08:52.000 She doesn't need to be director of the Voice of America.

02:08:56.000 She is the Voice of America.

02:08:58.000 Let's hear it for Carrie Lake. 0.99

02:09:00.000 I'm going to do something dangerous right now.

02:09:09.000 I'm going to rely on technology.

02:09:11.000 What did she say at the end about the one thing she disagrees with the president about?

02:09:18.000 When I left my radio show 30 days ago, I asked my engineer to do one thing for me.

02:09:24.000 And he said, yeah, I can do that.

02:09:27.000 Do you want to hear my ringtone on my phone?

02:09:29.000 You're going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning.

02:09:36.000 And you say, please, please, it's too much winning.

02:09:40.000 We can't take it anymore.

02:09:42.000 Mr. President, it's too much.

02:09:44.000 And I'll say, no, it isn't.

02:09:46.000 We have to keep winning.

02:09:47.000 That's my ringtone. .

02:09:54.000 Before I talk about counter-terrorism in the last 31 days in American history, can I just use that little technological moment to demand of everyone here and everyone watching that loves America, Would you just please take a moment and celebrate?

02:10:15.000 You did it!

02:10:21.000 You made it possible to take back the republic!

02:10:26.000 Thanks.

02:10:28.000 Think of what we did.

02:10:30.000 I thought if we're going to win, if the boss comes back, it's going to be insanity. 0.86

02:10:36.000 It's going to be protest, the pink pussy hat cat, you know, insanity. 1.00

02:10:42.000 Where are they? 0.70

02:10:44.000 Where are they? 0.94

02:10:46.000 We crushed them, the patriots.

02:10:51.000 77 million.

02:10:53.000 I've got two stories to tell you.

02:10:54.000 That's what I'm going to do today.

02:10:55.000 No big speeches, talking points.

02:10:58.000 Two stories.

02:10:59.000 One on how much we're winning and then one about what it's like to work for President Trump.

02:11:07.000 I was in Yale yesterday.

02:11:11.000 Uh-huh.

02:11:12.000 The belly of the beast.

02:11:14.000 And I went there to give a speech on counterterrorism and artificial intelligence.

02:11:19.000 And next to me were two panelists.

02:11:21.000 I won't mention their names.

02:11:24.000 But they're not of the 77 million, okay?

02:11:28.000 One of them was an Obama appointee.

02:11:31.000 Okay?

02:11:33.000 I spent the last eight years, because I love America, because I chose America, because I am a legal immigrant to the United States.

02:11:42.000 Me and Elon Musk.

02:11:44.000 Me and the First Lady.

02:11:46.000 We chose this country. 0.98

02:11:49.000 And for the last eight years, they called people like me, who voted for President Trump, who worked for President Trump, fascists, Nazis, white supremacists. 0.95

02:12:02.000 For eight years. 0.84

02:12:03.000 I kind of like, at the end, you just laugh about it.

02:12:07.000 Yesterday, my fellow panelists at Yale, the whole time they kept saying, as Dr. Gorka just said, Well, that's interesting.

02:12:18.000 I went from being a Nazi to being Dr. Gorka, and as he just said, they've surrendered because we won so bigly.

02:12:32.000 So celebrate, smile every day, enjoy it, revel, revel, revel in what you have done.

02:12:42.000 I was at Fort Bragg on Tuesday.

02:12:46.000 This time is just like, I think I've been at work for about three years already.

02:12:51.000 And I was at Fort Bragg.

02:12:54.000 Indeed.

02:12:55.000 And I was there to see our operators and the commander of Joint Special Operations Command.

02:13:01.000 And the naval officer who was looking after me, I asked him, so when are we renaming the base?

02:13:07.000 Because Pete, you know, Secretary Hegseth.

02:13:10.000 And he showed me his phone.

02:13:12.000 Sir, I drove in, oh dark 30 this morning, and the brag sign was already taken down.

02:13:22.000 Winning, winning, winning.

02:13:23.000 And Pete, if you're watching, Mr. Secretary, I want to be there with the screwdriver when we put it back, okay?

02:13:31.000 Always brag, forever brag.

02:13:33.000 Okay, so let's get to the real meat of this discussion.

02:13:38.000 Wherever I go, I do a lot of public speaking, at least I used to.

02:13:42.000 Before I'm in a skiff for 12 hours a day working for the greatest National Security Advisor ever.

02:13:47.000 Another Green Beret! 1.00

02:13:48.000 Oh my gosh!

02:13:49.000 How cool is that?

02:13:50.000 Mike Waltz is the first Congressman Green Beret National Security Advisor.

02:13:59.000 But wherever I used to go to speak publicly, I was always asked the same question.

02:14:05.000 Wherever I was in America, whoever the audience was, whatever the topic they gave me, sooner or later, they always asked the same question.

02:14:12.000 What's he really like?

02:14:15.000 What's President Trump really like?

02:14:19.000 Well, let me tell you a story of what he's really like.

02:14:24.000 Second Thursday of the new Trump administration.

02:14:29.000 We're less than ten days in.

02:14:33.000 National Security Advisor Waltz and myself and a military member of my team on the National Security Council are waiting to see the President.

02:14:42.000 To tell him something rather shocking.

02:14:45.000 We walk into the Oval Office.

02:14:48.000 This is all declassified now.

02:14:50.000 You can read about it.

02:14:51.000 There's a big article in the Daily Mail.

02:14:53.000 We presented him a map and some intelligence intercepts.

02:14:57.000 And we said, Mr. President, there is an ISIS terrorist enclave, a cave complex in northern Somalia, which our...

02:15:11.000 Government has been surveilling for more than a year and a half.

02:15:15.000 The president looked at me and Mike and said, what do you mean?

02:15:19.000 We've been watching jihadis.

02:15:23.000 And Mike said, well, yes, the former administration and Joe Biden didn't want to kill them. 1.00

02:15:29.000 President Trump looks out from the Resolute desk and said, kill them. 0.95

02:15:33.000 He got out his iconic big Sharpie pen and ticked the go box on the operational orders. 0.99

02:15:47.000 Yes.

02:15:49.000 And then we left the Oval.

02:15:52.000 Less than 30 hours later, I am back with my boss, Mike Waltz, with my team members, underneath the West Wing in the Situation Room.

02:16:02.000 It's like I'm in an episode of 24 or a Jason Bourne movie.

02:16:07.000 And we were watching this video.

02:16:11.000 Play video.

02:16:17.000 Now this was classified as I was watching it at the highest level.

02:16:22.000 That is a leader of ISIS responsible for training, recruiting, financing, and deploying jihadis across the world to kill Americans and our friends and allies.

02:16:35.000 Hiding out in a massive cave complex in northern Somalia.

02:16:39.000 We are watching this live.

02:16:41.000 But remember, ladies and gentlemen, this is not a movie.

02:16:45.000 This is real life.

02:16:47.000 And this is what President Trump did to him.

02:16:50.000 My incredible team member had this declassified within four hours.

02:17:03.000 After which President Trump put a social media post up that I would like to read to you. 0.99

02:17:11.000 Last line, ladies and gentlemen, the message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that we will find you and we will kill you. 0.99

02:17:19.000 For four years. 1.00

02:17:29.000 We plicated our enemies.

02:17:31.000 We gave billions of dollars to Iran.

02:17:33.000 We opened our borders to anyone who wanted to come in and kill Americans. 1.00

02:17:38.000 100,000 fentanyl deaths in one year.

02:17:43.000 In the last 30 days, we have designated the cartels as terrorists and we have unleashed the hammers of hell on ISIS. So,

02:18:00.000 all I want to say to you is President Trump's only motivation, the one he communicates to his national security advisor Mike Waltz and to the whole team in the White House, is protect America.

02:18:16.000 And that is exactly what we are doing.

02:18:23.000 Whether you voted for him or not is irrelevant.

02:18:27.000 He is such a patriot.

02:18:29.000 He wants you to be safe and he wants you to prosper.

02:18:33.000 That's the real Donald Trump.

02:18:38.000 So, please keep the President in your prayers, his family, but also smile and be happy.

02:18:49.000 You won.

02:18:51.000 All right, guys.

02:18:54.000 Let's get up.

02:18:55.000 God bless.

02:19:05.000 We have been lied to you We have been deceived and I've been saying for years the moment that moms find out what's going on behind closed doors in their children's schools There's going to be a national revolt and that is exactly what you're saying

02:19:33.000 Well, what we have learned is that there are members of Congress who aren't really representing the values that we care about as moms When you start telling moms, they're not your kids.

02:19:42.000 They're going and what are you talking about?

02:19:44.000 The main reason why we've been losing is because we've been fighting principle with policy We need to fight principle with principle, because when we do, freedom wins.

02:19:53.000 What America is going to look like in 10, 20, 30 years from now?

02:19:57.000 You are deciding it today.

02:19:58.000 Motherhood is a great unifier, and mothers of all political persuasion are uniting together to defend and protect their children.

02:20:05.000 And Moms for America is giving them a powerful voice and platform to be able to do that. 1.00

02:20:09.000 You are creating the future of our country, and if you don't like what we see, you have the power to turn it around.

02:20:16.000 When my children and my grandchildren ask me, where were you?

02:20:21.000 When the Republic was hanging in the balance, I am going to be able to tell them I was right there fighting to my last breath to save it.

02:20:30.000 If you think that this mom-led revolution is just a little thing that's going to come and go, you ain't seen nothing yet. 0.70

02:20:38.000 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the president and founder of Moms for America, Kimberly Fletcher.

02:20:54.000 Is it not a great day in America?

02:21:15.000 So I am so excited to be here with you guys when we're happy because it really was really close to being really, really terrible.

02:21:25.000 And now I wake up giddy every morning looking at my email going, what do we have today?

02:21:30.000 It's just...

02:21:31.000 It's awesome.

02:21:33.000 But there's some things that we definitely should be celebrating.

02:21:38.000 The confirmations, the gulag has been opened, the pardons have been done.

02:21:43.000 Women are women again. 1.00

02:21:48.000 And I was so honored and thrilled to be with the president.

02:21:55.000 When he signed that we should not have to say historic executive order protecting women's sports and our safe spaces everything that we asked for we're getting and I am so grateful to be living at this time but I want to make sure that we do not forget 2020 because those Those four years,

02:22:22.000 if the President of the United States, I love saying that, if he had gone from one term to another, he would not be anywhere near as effective or on target as he is now.

02:22:35.000 And the things that he's getting done, he knows.

02:22:37.000 We don't have the luxury of time, but he cannot do it himself.

02:22:41.000 The calls that you made to make sure that the confirmations went through...

02:22:45.000 That made a difference.

02:22:47.000 And I have to say, I was thrilled to be able to get the text from RFK that said, we made his day when he came out of the hearing and went in and out of the hearing and had all those moms out there in their purple shirts and moms for RFK. It was awesome.

02:23:03.000 So these guys are there.

02:23:05.000 Things are happening.

02:23:06.000 Children are being rescued.

02:23:08.000 But there's a lot that we have to do and we have to do it together because they cannot do it alone.

02:23:13.000 I do want to make sure, though, and take a moment to thank Elon Musk, because prior to him taking over X, we had been permanently suspended from Twitter.

02:23:26.000 No way to get our account back.

02:23:28.000 And then this white knight comes galloping in and pushes a button and pays a bill and says, you're back.

02:23:34.000 So thank goodness that we have a voice again.

02:23:38.000 This mighty movement of moms has been incredible over the last two, three years. 1.00

02:23:46.000 Rallying moms, pulling them together, and being able to be a voice for common sense and truth, and promoting those principles and values that we hold dear.

02:23:55.000 There are some things that we have that we're doing.

02:23:58.000 It's pretty exciting because the message...

02:24:00.000 of Moms for America, reclaiming our culture for truth, for family, for freedom, for the Constitution, those principles of values of freedom are resonating not just across the country but around the world.

02:24:12.000 And I have had all these people from these other countries who have said, we need a Moms for America in our country. 0.93

02:24:18.000 I'm like, I don't think that's going to work as Moms for America. 0.99

02:24:23.000 We can have a Moms for Hungary and we can have a Moms for Europe. 0.82

02:24:28.000 And we are uniting all of those moms who have come to us.

02:24:31.000 Big announcement.

02:24:32.000 We are launching MomsforFreedom.world to collect the moms, gather them together all over the world to stand for these same principles and values. 0.62

02:24:46.000 We also, we are a very solution-based organization, and so when we see a problem, we don't just talk about the problem, we come up with a solution.

02:24:55.000 And when we find somebody that we can partner with that has a solution, we get excited.

02:24:59.000 One of those partners is the Child ID Program.

02:25:02.000 And we are thrilled to be able to partner with the NFL. And the Attorney Generals across the country, law enforcement, and standing to protect our kids with these child IDs.

02:25:12.000 I carried these around in my pocket throughout the 1980s and 90s when I was raising my own children.

02:25:19.000 I had eight of them.

02:25:20.000 So I had eight little child IDs.

02:25:24.000 The unspeakable did happen.

02:25:26.000 I had the information to provide to law enforcement to get my kids back into safety.

02:25:31.000 With everything that's happening with child trafficking and sex trafficking, this is something positive that we can do to give parents a peace of mind.

02:25:39.000 So we are launching this here today, our partnership with Child ID Program.

02:25:50.000 There is a real threat.

02:25:54.000 To our country.

02:25:55.000 And it's not going away.

02:25:57.000 What we saw when all these people were flooding to us and all this crazy was happening, all these moms were asking, where is this coming from?

02:26:05.000 I said, it's always been there.

02:26:06.000 You've seen the Lord of the Rings.

02:26:08.000 The orcs were always underneath the ground doing their horrible, dark, evil deeds.

02:26:12.000 It was when the ground ripped open and they all started flooding out that we were like, oh my goodness, what's going on?

02:26:18.000 Do not think that the devil sleeps.

02:26:21.000 They have just gone back underground and this is our opportunity to make sure that ground never opens up again.

02:26:27.000 So we have things that we can do uniting and standing together.

02:26:33.000 So the greatest weapon that we have right now in our arsenal is Moms. 0.97

02:26:41.000 And we have got to stand together, unite across the country and around the world to stand up because the hand that rocks the cradle is not just a cute little saying, it's an immortalized fact.

02:26:52.000 And if you want to turn this around and hold on to the values we hold dear, protect our children, defend our freedoms, restore the republic, we do it through the Mothers of America.

02:27:01.000 If you are a mom, if you are a grandma, if you are a woman of faith, stand up.

02:27:07.000 Stand up!

02:27:08.000 Right now!

02:27:09.000 Stand up!

02:27:11.000 You are the heroes.

02:27:13.000 You have stood strong.

02:27:15.000 You went out and you voted.

02:27:17.000 I need you to reach out to every mom you know, your daughters, your sisters, and you tell them how important that voice is.

02:27:25.000 Because if we want to continue to win, we've got to get these moms who aren't voting out and voting. 1.00

02:27:30.000 We've got to restore this love of liberty.

02:27:33.000 Of all the things that is happening right now, the thing that I am most excited about is America 250. I was 10 years old in 1976, and I still remember what it felt like that year.

02:27:44.000 It was like an explosion of patriotism, and everyone from Jack Daniels to Avon created some kind of commemorative piece which now sits in my living room.

02:27:52.000 That's okay.

02:27:53.000 And I think I own stock in eBay.

02:27:55.000 Anyway, but we can do this again.

02:27:59.000 We have an opportunity to light a flame and start a resurgence of patriotism across the country.

02:28:05.000 This is like a 50-year opportunity.

02:28:08.000 We won't have it again.

02:28:09.000 We need to share the story of America.

02:28:12.000 We need to be celebrating everything that makes us unique and exceptional because the world, I can tell you as I'm talking around the world to these different countries, these people are coming and saying, we're looking to you.

02:28:22.000 And I just spoke in Europe at Make...

02:28:25.000 Europe great again.

02:28:26.000 And what every single representative from those countries said was, now we have hope.

02:28:32.000 It is changing around the world.

02:28:37.000 So I have some really good news.

02:28:40.000 If you want to join...

02:28:41.000 This mom movement, we encourage you to do so.

02:28:44.000 Come to momsforamerica.us.

02:28:46.000 You can get on your phones right now and text MOMS to 53445 and be a part of this mighty movement of moms because I'm going to tell you what.

02:28:56.000 We have the Air Force.

02:28:59.000 We have the Space Force.

02:29:01.000 And now we got the mom force.

02:29:04.000 And we're not done.

02:29:07.000 Thank you.

02:29:08.000 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the host of The Benny Show, Benny Johnson.

02:29:30.000 Thank you.

02:29:35.000 What's going on?

02:29:38.000 She's back!

02:29:39.000 Woo! 0.99

02:29:42.000 What's happening?

02:29:45.000 Welcome to the golden era! 0.99

02:29:48.000 Look at these crazy Australians who let the... 1.00

02:29:54.000 From Australia, they escaped the concentration camps in Australia. 0.99

02:29:57.000 It's amazing!

02:29:59.000 The COVID camps, they got out!

02:30:01.000 Good for them!

02:30:02.000 Way to go!

02:30:04.000 We're going to save Australia.

02:30:06.000 But we're having a great time saving America, are we not?

02:30:10.000 Let's frickin' go! 0.92

02:30:12.000 Yes!

02:30:15.000 CPAC, I'm so proud of you, by the way.

02:30:18.000 Can we give you all...

02:30:19.000 Can you give yourself a hand?

02:30:21.000 This is what CPAC looked like.

02:30:24.000 In 2020 versus 2025 right up here.

02:30:28.000 Check it out.

02:30:29.000 Oh, yes, baby.

02:30:32.000 Oh, yeah.

02:30:33.000 We call that a glow-up on the Internet.

02:30:39.000 Who's more in favor of the chainsaw than the warmonger? 0.85

02:30:44.000 Yes!

02:30:47.000 I'm allowed to show this because Mercedes Schlatt tweeted it, okay?

02:30:52.000 All right.

02:30:53.000 I freaking love them.

02:30:53.000 Matt and Mercedes doing an unbelievable job.

02:30:57.000 All right?

02:30:57.000 Capturing the energy of the moment.

02:30:59.000 That was so awesome with Elon.

02:31:01.000 Was that a real chainsaw?

02:31:03.000 Did it work?

02:31:04.000 Did you actually do it?

02:31:05.000 Okay, great.

02:31:06.000 All right.

02:31:06.000 Fantastic.

02:31:07.000 The golden era.

02:31:09.000 Just a reminder, you live in a red country.

02:31:12.000 You live in a red country.

02:31:15.000 Ladies and gentlemen, that's getting redder.

02:31:18.000 This is the 2024 election.

02:31:20.000 Look at that.

02:31:21.000 This is the directional arrows of how much more red the country went.

02:31:26.000 And it is so amazing to actually have this moment to celebrate with you.

02:31:32.000 Because you know why the country went this way.

02:31:38.000 The country went this way because we finally had a candidate that kept his promises.

02:31:45.000 And here's a big one that was made at CPAC 10 years ago.

02:31:51.000 From our boy, Donald Trump, standing right on this stage, right in this location.

02:31:58.000 And Donald Trump said something remarkable.

02:32:01.000 Check this out.

02:32:02.000 out this is a 10 year old clip whoops Ooh.

02:32:13.000 The CIA, ladies and gentlemen.

02:32:16.000 Here we go.

02:32:18.000 Nice guy.

02:32:20.000 Got a lot of problems coming up, in my opinion, with the famous island with Jeffrey Epstein.

02:32:25.000 A lot of problems.

02:32:28.000 Donald Trump.

02:32:29.000 Is there a way to play that clip from the beginning?

02:32:31.000 Can we do it one more time?

02:32:32.000 Let's go.

02:32:33.000 Bill Clinton.

02:32:35.000 Nice guy.

02:32:37.000 Got a lot of problems coming up, in my opinion, with the famous island with Jeffrey Epstein.

02:32:42.000 A lot of problems.

02:32:44.000 Ladies and gentlemen, you can tell that Sean didn't even know what to say there, right?

02:32:48.000 He's like, whoa!

02:32:49.000 Donald Trump was ahead of his time.

02:32:54.000 Donald Trump made a promise that he was going to fix the predators inside of our government.

02:33:00.000 He was going to start exposing them, starting with Bill Clinton.

02:33:04.000 And who do we have now as our Attorney General?

02:33:08.000 Pam Bondi! 0.97

02:33:10.000 The woman who made it punishable by death to go after a child in the state of Florida. 1.00

02:33:18.000 Pam Bondi! 0.97

02:33:19.000 And as of yesterday, Kash Patel!

02:33:25.000 The man who has promised to expose the entire Epstein list.

02:33:33.000 Whoo, baby! 1.00

02:33:35.000 We are cooking!

02:33:36.000 You know who are the most scared people in America right now?

02:33:39.000 Right there.

02:33:40.000 There you go.

02:33:42.000 Oh, yes.

02:33:46.000 We're going to have some fun.

02:33:48.000 You want to know?

02:33:48.000 This is why they tried to lock up our boy.

02:33:50.000 Okay?

02:33:51.000 This is why they tried.

02:33:51.000 Can we have some fun?

02:33:52.000 Are we allowed to have fun?

02:33:53.000 Is that legal here?

02:33:54.000 Okay.

02:33:54.000 All right.

02:33:54.000 Let's go.

02:33:55.000 They tried to lock up our boy.

02:33:57.000 But here's what we say as Christians.

02:33:59.000 Any Christians out there?

02:34:00.000 Any Christians?

02:34:02.000 This is what we say as Christians.

02:34:03.000 What do we say?

02:34:04.000 We say what man intended for evil, God intended for good.

02:34:11.000 They tried to lock up our boy, but what they ended up giving them was a rap album.

02:34:15.000 The hottest banger of the summer.

02:34:17.000 Rappers actually got this tattooed on them.

02:34:19.000 When I saw them making murals of it, I knew it was game over.

02:34:22.000 Okay?

02:34:23.000 It's game over.

02:34:24.000 Who knows somebody with a Donald Trump mugshot t-shirt?

02:34:26.000 Who knows somebody with a Donald Trump mugshot tattoo?

02:34:29.000 Trump's got the mugshot hanging in the White House.

02:34:31.000 That's what you call a backfire.

02:34:33.000 All right?

02:34:34.000 What happened to the...

02:34:36.000 Speaking of murals, what happened to the Kamala murals?

02:34:39.000 Oh.

02:34:40.000 Oh, I'm sorry, Kamala.

02:34:42.000 That was the day after the election thing.

02:34:51.000 They were like, see you, lady!

02:34:56.000 What man intended for evil, God intended for good.

02:34:59.000 And we're making some new art, by the way, in the White House.

02:35:03.000 We're switching up some of the paintings in the White House.

02:35:07.000 You know, after they sent out the photographers, Joe Biden was sitting there like this.

02:35:10.000 You know it.

02:35:11.000 He was like, the guy...

02:35:17.000 You can't stop it. 0.99

02:35:18.000 Joe Biden called us garbage. 0.99

02:35:20.000 Did you hear that? 1.00

02:35:22.000 Joe Biden called us garbage. 0.99

02:35:24.000 What man intends for evil, God intends for good, right? 0.99

02:35:29.000 That's right. 1.00

02:35:30.000 Who's proud to be the garbage that backs President Trump? 1.00

02:35:36.000 I'm proud of it. 1.00

02:35:37.000 That's right.

02:35:39.000 Look at our boy.

02:35:40.000 Look at him.

02:35:40.000 He's rocking it.

02:35:42.000 The story here is that his staff told him he can take the vest off.

02:35:46.000 Trump's like, I love the vest.

02:35:47.000 I'm keeping the vest. 0.81

02:35:49.000 Ladies and gentlemen, they tried to kill him. 0.92

02:35:52.000 They tried to kill him.

02:35:54.000 The most evil thing you can do to somebody.

02:35:56.000 Who believes that this is the number one most witnessed miracle in humankind?

02:36:01.000 The most witnessed.

02:36:03.000 Billions of people have seen this miracle, physically watched this miracle.

02:36:08.000 And what happened next?

02:36:09.000 Trump goes back to the Butler rally.

02:36:11.000 He does a rally right on that spot.

02:36:14.000 Brings in Elon Musk.

02:36:16.000 Elon Musk does like the jumping on stage.

02:36:18.000 You see it?

02:36:19.000 Right?

02:36:20.000 Too bad he didn't have the chainsaw for that.

02:36:24.000 God intended it for good, actually.

02:36:27.000 And God saved us.

02:36:29.000 And I believe that we witnessed the most seen miracle of all time.

02:36:33.000 And then Donald Trump went back to Pennsylvania and did something else remarkable.

02:36:36.000 He went to...

02:36:41.000 Our boy went to McDonald's and showed us what salty servant leadership actually looks like.

02:36:49.000 When was the last time you saw it?

02:36:51.000 Just call it Donald's at this point, right?

02:36:55.000 Just call it Donald's!

02:36:58.000 Just let it go.

02:36:59.000 Who's down?

02:37:00.000 Look at him go!

02:37:02.000 Look at this!

02:37:04.000 You know this is why Joe Biden voted for him, because he fixed the ice cream machine.

02:37:09.000 You know it!

02:37:12.000 I love you guys.

02:37:13.000 I love you guys.

02:37:14.000 This is fun.

02:37:16.000 Let's have fun, right?

02:37:17.000 It's been amazing.

02:37:19.000 We're witnessing miracle after miracle after miracle, like RFK eating McDonald's.

02:37:25.000 That's how much Trump's changed it all.

02:37:29.000 Dude, RFK, you got this guy who's proud of RFK, man.

02:37:33.000 He's coming in there, making us healthy again.

02:37:37.000 You got RFK rolling up.

02:37:40.000 This is a dude who, like, was campaigning against Donald Trump, whose wife was, like, doing the same thing, and now he's serving in the administration.

02:37:52.000 This is a miracle.

02:37:54.000 It's so incredible to watch these moments.

02:37:57.000 Tulsi Gabbard ran against Trump one election cycle ago. 0.81

02:38:01.000 She was running for president against Donald Trump, and here she is doing the Trump dance on stage with Trump.

02:38:07.000 What a timeline we're living in.

02:38:09.000 Who's proud of Tulsi Gabbard, too?

02:38:11.000 We got some Tulsi fans in here.

02:38:15.000 Man.

02:38:17.000 It's such a special moment.

02:38:19.000 And so it's important to, like, center ourselves and remind ourselves what this is all about.

02:38:24.000 All right?

02:38:25.000 Any parents out there?

02:38:26.000 Any grandparents out there?

02:38:28.000 You grandparents throw it up?

02:38:30.000 Anybody?

02:38:30.000 Any young kids who want to be parents out here?

02:38:33.000 Any young people who want to... 0.85

02:38:34.000 Look at this.

02:38:35.000 Shout out to the young kids who want...

02:38:37.000 Who want to be parents, right?

02:38:39.000 Like, we need you.

02:38:43.000 And it's actually never been easier, right?

02:38:44.000 Have you ever met a lib?

02:38:45.000 Like, nobody wants to breed with those people.

02:38:47.000 You know, it's like, yellow teeth, purple hair, they smell bad, no deodorant, no showers, okay?

02:38:52.000 They don't know what gender they are.

02:38:54.000 stuff.

02:38:54.000 America first for me, and I'm sure it's the same for you parents out there.

02:39:03.000 Let me know if I'm right.

02:39:05.000 America first for me means saving this country for my children, my American children first.

02:39:18.000 I'm going to fight, fight, fight for my American children because a blessed generation is a generation that leaves the country better for their children, right?

02:39:29.000 A cursed generation is one that destroys the country for their children and leaves them a mess. 1.00

02:39:34.000 So that's what we're going to do together, right?

02:39:36.000 We're going to save this place for our kids.

02:39:40.000 That's what being really pro-life is all about, and that's what loving your country is all about.

02:39:44.000 We just welcomed our newest fourth child, born on Inauguration Day, Baby Whittaker, the golden boy.

02:39:54.000 That's my little family.

02:39:55.000 That's my motivation.

02:39:58.000 Proud Christian, proud father, proud patriot.

02:40:01.000 Love this country so much.

02:40:03.000 And ladies and gentlemen, Kamala Harris said she was going to run on joy. 1.00

02:40:07.000 Yeah, right.

02:40:09.000 In closing here, I'll show you what joy actually looks like.

02:40:12.000 If you wouldn't mind, they were telling me backstage, they've got some very fancy cameras.

02:40:17.000 They said, feel free to use them.

02:40:18.000 So I said, why not?

02:40:20.000 If you wouldn't mind, if you feel compelled, I would like to show the entire country what actual joy looks like.

02:40:27.000 I would love to do a big Trump dance with y'all.

02:40:31.000 Let's go!

02:40:32.000 ...make me mad about those other guys and all the things they do wrong.

02:40:36.000 The one thing that I will not forgive them for is they're trying to steal the joy from this country.

02:40:41.000 Hold up! 0.98

02:40:43.000 Wait a minute!

02:40:44.000 Send me money!

02:40:46.000 Trump's iconic dance moves are sweeping the internet and winning him a lot of fans across the globe.

02:40:52.000 Look at this!

02:40:53.000 Trump's dance moves from Shirtown and even after his election campaign.

02:40:57.000 Yeah!

02:40:58.000 And it seems like everyone wants to follow the bandwagon.

02:41:01.000 Young man, there's no place you can go.

02:41:05.000 I say young man, put yourself off the ground.

02:41:09.000 I say young man, cause you're in a new town.

02:41:12.000 There's no need to be unhappy.

02:41:16.000 Young man, there's no place you can go.

02:41:20.000 I say young man.

02:41:21.000 Thank you, CPAP!

02:41:22.000 I love you!

02:41:25.000 And I'm sure you will find many ways to have a chance.

02:41:32.000 It's fun to stay at the YMCA.

02:41:38.000 It's fun to stay at the YMCA.

02:41:41.000 They have everything.

02:41:44.000 I know it's a joy.

02:41:46.000 You can hang on it all for a boy.

02:41:49.000 It's fun to stay at the YMCA.

02:41:53.000 It's fun to stay at the YMCA.

02:41:57.000 You can get yourself here.

02:42:02.000 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome senior editor at Human Events, Jack Posobiec.

02:42:07.000 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the new American Republic.

02:42:34.000 President Donald J. Trump has returned to office as he always said that he would.

02:42:44.000 President Donald J. Trump was put there by the people like you, by the warriors of freedom, by the warriors for America and for the American spirit.

02:42:54.000 Give yourselves a round of applause because you never gave up.

02:42:59.000 You never gave up the fight.

02:43:00.000 You never quit.

02:43:01.000 No matter what they threw at you, no matter what they said about you, you, the people of CPAC, the people of America, rose up and said, We are done.

02:43:11.000 We are done and we've had enough of that city right across the river and we are targeting.

02:43:17.000 We are targeting exactly the people of that city and we are coming in and saying, guess what?

02:43:24.000 Where our eyes are wide open and our hearts are full of the fire of the Lord God above.

02:43:31.000 We are going to come to this town and we are going to restore freedom for the American people.

02:43:41.000 We witnessed a miracle one month ago when Donald Trump was returned to office.

02:43:47.000 We absolutely did.

02:43:49.000 And then when Donald Trump swore to uphold the Constitution, I saw so many people now saying, oh, but Donald Trump, Donald Trump is here.

02:43:59.000 He's violating the Constitution.

02:44:01.000 He's shredding the Constitution.

02:44:03.000 And I say, no, Donald Trump is not.

02:44:06.000 Violating the Constitution.

02:44:09.000 Donald Trump is restoring the American Constitution.

02:44:13.000 Donald Trump is the living embodiment of the American Constitution.

02:44:18.000 Donald Trump is embodying the values of our founding fathers for the first time in a long time in Washington, D.C. The champagne socialist says they cry into their lattes.

02:44:36.000 I say to them, well, guess what?

02:44:38.000 You're going to have a lot more time to sit around and cry into your lattes.

02:44:42.000 Because if you're a bureaucrat that's been going out there wasting the American taxpayers' money, guess what?

02:44:48.000 You're going to be fired.

02:44:50.000 If you're a crooked politician that's been stealing money from the American taxpayer, saying that you're sending it to Ukraine, but using it to line your own pockets, guess what? 0.87

02:45:00.000 Kash Patel is coming for you, and you are going to be locked up.

02:45:05.000 We're going to investigate all of it.

02:45:09.000 And if you're an illegal migrant or someone who's not supposed to be here, let me tell you right now, and I'll issue a message. 1.00

02:45:16.000 Pack your bags because you're going home.

02:45:20.000 This country was built by Americans for Americans, and we will hand it off to our American children. 1.00

02:45:31.000 And to the warmongers of the war machine, guess what?

02:45:35.000 Your war machine is grinding to a halt.

02:45:40.000 The wars will end and peace will break out across the world.

02:45:44.000 And by the way, I've never seen the mainstream media and the Democrats more upset when we're ending wars and actually restoring peace in the world.

02:45:55.000 It's as simple as that because I'm sorry World War III has been canceled.

02:46:02.000 And just like the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord, just like the Patriots at Bunker Hill, and just like a Patriot at Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump understands that we are in the tradition of those who fought for this country when this country was on the line.

02:46:27.000 That's what all of you are.

02:46:29.000 That's what this man has done.

02:46:30.000 And look at the team that he's put together around him.

02:46:33.000 Not only do we need to restore the republic, but we need to completely revamp and revitalize.

02:46:40.000 Our national security in this country.

02:46:43.000 And that's why when I look at this team that President Trump has put together, it's so incredible.

02:46:48.000 You've got Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.

02:46:51.000 You've got your CIA Director, John Ratcliffe, who's now overseeing the largest layoffs at the CIA in 50 years.

02:47:00.000 Oh no!

02:47:01.000 Oh no!

02:47:03.000 A director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who had the power and the temerity to call a lie for a lie and to tell the truth.

02:47:13.000 And I will tell you, ladies and gentlemen, if wars can be started by lies, then peace can be started by truth.

02:47:23.000 And then, as we saw yesterday, our new director of the FBI, Kash Patel.

02:47:31.000 Who's going to be overturning all of the tyranny that's come out of the J. Edgar Hoover building.

02:47:36.000 He's going to be overturning it.

02:47:38.000 We're going to go after the real criminals. 0.97

02:47:39.000 We're going to go after the pedophiles. 0.99

02:47:42.000 We're going to go after the traffickers. 1.00

02:47:44.000 We're going to go after the illegals. 1.00

02:47:46.000 We're going to go after the cartels. 0.89

02:47:47.000 We're going to go after the foreign agents in this country. 1.00

02:47:50.000 And yes, that includes the foreign agents that are working and have penetrated the United States government and the United States Congress.

02:48:01.000 We will count every single dollar.

02:48:05.000 And if there's money that shouldn't be in your pocket, oh, you are going away for a long, long time.

02:48:11.000 That's what it means to restore justice in this country.

02:48:14.000 That is the greatest effort because President Trump, President Trump came up and he found the destiny of the American people lying in the gutter.

02:48:28.000 And he picked it up with his bare hands and he yelled, fight, fight, fight!

02:48:37.000 And the American people delivered their mandate to him and put it on his head.

02:48:42.000 And as President Trump himself said just a few days ago, a man who saves his nation violates no law.

02:48:51.000 That is the way forward in America.

02:48:54.000 We have to understand our Constitution gave the sole elected executive power to the President of the United States.

02:49:02.000 And I say to these crooked judges out there, to these local judges who say that they can block the executive...

02:49:10.000 From controlling the executive branch, guess what?

02:49:14.000 You are going to have a very rapid meeting at the United States Supreme Court, and all of your power will be struck down.

02:49:22.000 And you know something else?

02:49:23.000 We're going to take a look at that impeachment clause as well.

02:49:30.000 Because we're done, ladies and gentlemen.

02:49:32.000 We're done.

02:49:33.000 And I'm here to deliver a message to all of you.

02:49:37.000 Because it's as simple as this.

02:49:39.000 The American people are back.

02:49:41.000 For my country, for my family, for your family.

02:49:44.000 When President Trump was put to the test, to the ultimate test, in Butler, Pennsylvania, we saw how he answered.

02:49:52.000 Because the American people have woken up, and they've woken up for sure.

02:49:59.000 Because, folks, it's as simple as this.

02:50:02.000 President Trump said that when he was down behind that podium, and think of it.

02:50:06.000 You've never seen President Trump like that before.

02:50:08.000 You've seen him raise his fist before and punch it in the air and lead great crowds and great rallies.

02:50:15.000 But in the moment just before that, what did you see?

02:50:19.000 You saw President Trump on his knees with his hands clasped before him in prayer to almighty And I believe in that moment, God spoke to President Trump and delivered him his ultimate mission.

02:50:34.000 And that is the mission that you are seeing take place right now every day in this new American Republic.

02:50:41.000 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness in this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

02:50:52.000 And therefore, put on the full armor of God so that when...

02:50:57.000 When the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after everything they have done to you, to stand.

02:51:05.000 I can't tell you what the future will bring, ladies and gentlemen, but I will tell you that victory is not measured when Donald Trump wins an election.

02:51:13.000 Victory is not measured when Donald Trump returns to office.

02:51:17.000 Victory is only measured at the final day when we pass on this republic to our children, and our children asked us.

02:51:26.000 Mom, Dad, what did you do when America was on the line?

02:51:32.000 When the revolutionaries were trying to take over and destroy this country?

02:51:36.000 What did you do?

02:51:38.000 And we will be able to tell them.

02:51:40.000 Children.

02:51:41.000 We fought.

02:51:42.000 We fought for you.

02:51:43.000 We fought for this nation.

02:51:45.000 We fought for God.

02:51:46.000 We fought for Christ our King.

02:51:48.000 And we delivered.

02:51:50.000 And now it's going to be your turn.

02:51:52.000 Because that's how it is, ladies and gentlemen.

02:51:54.000 Freedom is not bequeathed to us.

02:51:57.000 Freedom is a responsibility that we must uphold every single day of our lives.

02:52:04.000 And let me tell you something.

02:52:05.000 You will never deny freedom to our children.

02:52:09.000 You will never put our children in shackles again because we have stood up and we are never going back to the way things were before.

02:52:17.000 God bless all of you.

02:52:19.000 God bless CPAC, and God bless the United States of America.

02:52:45.000 Robert Fiso, four-time Prime Minister of Slovakia, a small, proud country in the heart of Europe.

02:52:52.000 In May last year, an opposition activist tried to assassinate him for his policies.

02:52:59.000 For politics based on the ideals of fight against fascism.

02:53:03.000 For wanting an immediate end to the war in Ukraine.

02:53:06.000 For the return of common sense and the barrier against wokeness.

02:53:10.000 When he endorsed constitutional definition of marriage as the unique union of a man and a woman.

02:53:16.000 For his grasp of reality when he vetoed the compulsory redistribution of illegal migrants among the European Union member states.

02:53:25.000 For pursuing a sovereign Slovak foreign policy to all four cardinal points.

02:53:30.000 For treasuring freedom of speech and rejecting the politics of single correct political opinion for the first time.

02:53:37.000 Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic is coming to see PAC. Julie

02:54:51.000 Julie Kelly on Substack.

02:54:53.000 Hello, CPAC.

02:55:06.000 Hello, everyone.

02:55:17.000 Well, I want to thank CPAC for putting me after Benny and Jack Posobiec.

02:55:22.000 I did not have enough coffee this morning to match either one of them, but anyway, hello everyone.

02:55:32.000 It's funny that Jack preceded me because two years ago we were on the stage together.

02:55:40.000 Jack, myself, Amanda Milius, and Kash Patel.

02:55:46.000 Never in a million years would we have thought That we would now be swearing in today.

02:55:53.000 Kash Patel is the FBI director.

02:55:59.000 Amazing.

02:56:00.000 Amazing.

02:56:01.000 And a year ago, I was here speaking about how Joe Biden and his Department of Justice was continuing to round up his political opponents and try to throw them in jail, including President Trump and, of course, hundreds of January 6 protesters.

02:56:19.000 Never would I have imagined we would be here after President Trump being elected and then taking the really bold, courageous, and compassionate move of pardoning almost all of the J6ers. 1.00

02:56:35.000 So I really want to commend the president.

02:56:42.000 He deserves a lot of praise for what he did because that was not an easy Decision to make.

02:56:50.000 I also want to give a shout out to Matt and Mercedes Schlapp and CPAC because when no one would touch January 6th, even on our side, they gave me a platform early on to talk about what was happening to the J6ers and that prosecution. 1.00

02:57:10.000 And without that platform, you know, now it's cool.

02:57:13.000 Everyone's like, yeah.

02:57:14.000 Free the J6ers! 1.00

02:57:15.000 You know, it's like the cause of the day.

02:57:17.000 But it wasn't back then.

02:57:19.000 And so I want to thank them and praise them also for giving me a platform and then J6ers over the past few years. 1.00

02:57:28.000 So at any rate, I'm going to introduce my fellow panelists in a moment.

02:57:34.000 But what an amazing time talking about a year ago what the Department of Justice was doing.

02:57:42.000 And now seeing it turn 180 degrees and, you know, hopefully bringing the reform that is needed, but also cleaning house at the DOJ, getting rid of the very dangerous partisan operatives who LARP as government lawyers in that department, and then, of course, the FBI. So I'm very excited to see what Attorney General Pam Bondi and her team does.

02:58:10.000 And of course, Kash Patel and his team.

02:58:13.000 They have a lot on their plate.

02:58:15.000 They really need our support and prayers because they've got, I think, arguably the biggest task ahead of them in the Trump administration.

02:58:25.000 So I'm going to bring out my friend, and we're going to have a discussion about January 6th.

02:58:31.000 And he was the...

02:58:33.000 Chief of the Capitol Police on January 6th.

02:58:36.000 We have become friends over the past few years, so I would like to welcome my friend, Steve Sund.

02:58:41.000 Want to go here?

02:58:56.000 Perfect.

02:58:58.000 Hi, Chief.

02:58:59.000 How are you?

02:59:00.000 Doing well.

02:59:04.000 Chief, why don't you tell a little bit about your background, and then we'll kind of talk about January 6th and your experiences.

02:59:10.000 Absolutely.

02:59:11.000 Great to be here.

02:59:12.000 Thank you, everybody.

02:59:13.000 Thank you, CPAC, for allowing me to be here.

02:59:14.000 Thirty-year law enforcement veteran, 25 and a half years, a little over 25 with the Washington, D.C. Police Department, where I handled all the major events, 2001, 2005, 9, 13, inauguration, 17, when I was up at Capitol Police.

02:59:32.000 I've done a lot of major events, a lot of barricades, a lot of tragic stuff, but loved being a police officer up until January 6th.

02:59:40.000 So, I think people are familiar with your work.

02:59:43.000 Of course, you have your book, Courage Under Fire, the definitive account of January 6th.

02:59:51.000 And I've got to tell you, the current January 6th committee under Barry Loudermilk, and I'm glad Speaker Johnson has continued that investigation.

03:00:01.000 You know, they refer to it as the definitive after action because there's way too many politicized people's opinions, reports out there.

03:00:09.000 I just want to provide the facts.

03:00:10.000 It's much like I police.

03:00:11.000 You know, my thought on policing and politics is it shouldn't matter to you what political leaning I am, and it shouldn't matter to me what political leaning you are during a traffic stop, a First Amendment activity, or if you call 911 for help, you should get the exact level of service no matter what.

03:00:26.000 And that's kind of how I wrote the book.

03:00:27.000 Just the facts.

03:00:30.000 So, Steve and I started talking, I think, a few years ago, and we have become friends.

03:00:38.000 We have our agreements and disagreements about the interpretation of January 6th and some of the things that happened, but we always are able to discuss those agreeably because I have tremendous respect for him.

03:00:51.000 But what happened to Chief Sund is, despite his constant pleas to...

03:00:57.000 To add more security for January 6th, of course, those were denied.

03:01:02.000 But then the day after, on January 7th, Chief Sun became the fall guy who was, alongside President Trump, then blamed and accused of being responsible for what happened that day.

03:01:15.000 And so we could talk a little bit about that.

03:01:20.000 Now, looking back four years ago, How that all transpired, how you sort of were, especially Nancy Pelosi's ball guy, for that, and then what has kind of happened since then?

03:01:33.000 So when you look at it and you look back, a lot of people may not realize this.

03:01:37.000 They've heard Donald Trump offered up 10,000 to 20,000 National Guard troops.

03:01:42.000 That most likely is the case.

03:01:43.000 I do not doubt that.

03:01:44.000 I can tell you definitively, I made 12 requests for federal support, including the National Guard, both in advance and on January 6th while we were under attack and was denied.

03:01:53.000 It was only on the 13th request that I finally get approval at 2.09 p.m.

03:01:57.000 on January 6th.

03:01:58.000 So what I've come to learn since January 6th is January 6th was 100% preventable.

03:02:04.000 If security on Capitol Hill hadn't been so politicized...

03:02:08.000 And, you know, when you hear Speaker Pelosi say she doesn't have a role in security on Capitol Hill, look at 2 U.S. Code 1970. Look at it before they changed it, because they changed it based on my testimony.

03:02:18.000 It says specifically, I have to go to the Capitol Police Board.

03:02:22.000 I'm the only chief of police in the United States of America that has to get permission to bring in support from my men and women.

03:02:27.000 I went to the Capitol Police Board.

03:02:29.000 They are required to then get concurrence.

03:02:31.000 They have to go to congressional leadership.

03:02:33.000 It's written in the law.

03:02:34.000 Her responsibility is written in law.

03:02:36.000 So when she said she doesn't play a role, she does.

03:02:39.000 So when you look back on it, whether they had approved my request, and the latest report from Congress said if Chief Sun's request had been approved, the perimeter most likely would have never been breached, one.

03:02:50.000 Two, intelligence.

03:02:52.000 I've done major events in Washington, D.C. for many, many years.

03:02:55.000 I've dealt with the FBI. I've dealt with DHS. They'd put out joint intelligence bulletins.

03:03:00.000 They'd have briefings.

03:03:01.000 They'd call the chiefs into the skiffs.

03:03:03.000 They'd do a conference call.

03:03:04.000 They'd make sure everyone has the same intelligence.

03:03:06.000 Intelligence was handled differently, even within my own unit.

03:03:10.000 If intelligence had been accurate, I would have gotten support from the Capitol Police Board.

03:03:14.000 I would have gotten support from leadership.

03:03:16.000 And again, January 6th wouldn't have happened.

03:03:18.000 We had many opportunities to get out in front of this train.

03:03:22.000 I think, too, we've talked about and you've discussed during congressional testimony and also just interviews.

03:03:29.000 What are some of the things that you've learned over the past four years that you didn't know about that day?

03:03:35.000 For example, not being alerted about the presence of FBI informants.

03:03:40.000 You know, we talked about not getting access to intelligence, the presence of undercover agents from numerous law enforcement agencies that you weren't really privy to.

03:03:51.000 So, I guess, what have you learned?

03:03:53.000 Like, what surprised you the most as these revelations have come forward?

03:03:59.000 The congressional testimony, the trials, media reporting.

03:04:03.000 Well, two.

03:04:04.000 Two things that I think surprised me the most is, one, just how adverse some people up in Congress were to the truth coming out.

03:04:10.000 People may not realize this.

03:04:12.000 When they had the first hearing, February 23rd, 2021, think about that.

03:04:16.000 It's only a couple of weeks after January 6th.

03:04:18.000 They didn't want me to testify.

03:04:20.000 I actually had to go and request through the Rules Committee that I be allowed to testify.

03:04:23.000 I told them I will be there in person, I promise you.

03:04:26.000 Sure enough, if you look at it, I'm the only one that showed it in person.

03:04:29.000 Everyone else was videotaped in.

03:04:31.000 The other aspect was, again, the domestic terrorists that we now, people are saying, oh, the FBI was tracking domestic terrorists.

03:04:38.000 That, again, started the day after my testimony, January, I'm sorry, February 24, 2001, Jill Sanborn testified and said that the FBI was tracking domestic terrorists coming to the January 6th committee.

03:04:51.000 Now we know from GIO reports and various other reports that as of January 6th, they're tracking, I think, approximately 19 to 26 domestic terrorists coming to Washington, D.C. That sure as hell would have been something that I'd like to know about as the chief of police of the Capitol Police said they were coming.

03:05:08.000 And when they talk about tracking domestic terrorists, I mean, they're tracking them with people.

03:05:12.000 They're not tracking them with, like, the janitorial crew.

03:05:15.000 They're tracking them with people.

03:05:16.000 So it's not unusual for undercovers to be in the crowd.

03:05:20.000 You're talking about major events in Washington, D.C. It's probably SOP. But it would have been great to know that.

03:05:27.000 So a little bit your experience with the January 6th Select Committee.

03:05:32.000 Who now of course all of the members and all of the staff have been were pardoned by Joe Biden So no one can be held accountable for the destruction of evidence tampering with witnesses such as Cassidy Hutchinson and Other malfeasance that we know actually happened with that committee So but they didn't really want the truth from you either Yeah, I had a very interesting interaction with them.

03:05:59.000 One, it became clear early on that their focus wasn't trying to get to what the American people want to know, what really happened on January 6th.

03:06:06.000 Their focus was predetermined outcome.

03:06:08.000 It was to focus on basically 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

03:06:12.000 How was Donald Trump responsible for this?

03:06:14.000 I went in there.

03:06:16.000 I had, you know, you'd think the chief of police, they'd want me testifying in public.

03:06:21.000 Absolutely not.

03:06:22.000 When we had our interview, it got very contentious.

03:06:25.000 When I repeatedly tried to refer them back to my responsibility to go through the Capitol Police Board to get assistance for my men and women and how I did that in advance of January 6th, they wanted no part of that.

03:06:35.000 They did not want you, the American people, to know that I had gone out of my way to try and bring in resources to protect the United States Capitol.

03:06:42.000 And then, like I said, it got contentious.

03:06:45.000 It was a six-hour interview.

03:06:46.000 You didn't see a word of that.

03:06:49.000 I thought it was concerning.

03:06:51.000 That made me realize real quick that they weren't looking for the truth.

03:06:55.000 And then when you watch it, a lot of people are watching some of the videotape, and I've heard this brought up, that, hey, what's going on with some of the sound that was imported on some of the internal videotape?

03:07:05.000 The cameras inside the Capitol do not have sound.

03:07:08.000 They imported other riotous sounds, other demonstrations, other riots into that.

03:07:15.000 Imagine.

03:07:16.000 Imagine if any chief of police in the United States of America had changed dash cam videos, body-worn camera videos, and imported separate audio.

03:07:25.000 What do you think would happen?

03:07:26.000 You'd lose all distrust.

03:07:27.000 So when you look at Biden pardoning the January 6th committee, one, committees on Capitol Hill already have certain levels of protection.

03:07:36.000 That should be sufficient.

03:07:38.000 When you provide them a pardon, you just delegitimize anything they were doing.

03:07:42.000 Anybody that had concerns for the credibility, you just legitimize those concerns.

03:07:50.000 I think that was a disservice, but their focus wasn't getting to the truth.

03:07:57.000 Well, we have a minute to go.

03:07:59.000 I told you this would fly by.

03:08:01.000 But I think your work and your honesty and, yes, your courage in speaking out about the committee and everything that you saw has really helped unravel the January 6th narrative.

03:08:13.000 I think we're going to learn a lot more.

03:08:15.000 Of course, Barry Loudermilk now has a permanent subcommittee under House Judiciary.

03:08:21.000 Attorney General Pam Bondi is also notified, announced that she will be looking into the abuses of the FBI against the J6 defendants.

03:08:30.000 And so I think we are going to find out a lot more in addition to what we've already learned.

03:08:36.000 I think so as well.

03:08:38.000 And I've got to tell you, I love, I miss law enforcement.

03:08:40.000 All the law enforcement I've talked to from FDLE speaks very highly of new U.S. Attorney Bondi.

03:08:46.000 So I look forward to seeing what she's going to do.

03:08:48.000 But thank you very much for having me here.

03:08:49.000 Thank you, everyone.

03:08:52.000 Thank you very much.

03:08:54.000 Yeah, you want to do this?

03:08:55.000 Yeah, let's get it.

03:08:56.000 I'll come around this way.

03:08:57.000 Thank you.

03:09:07.000 Thank you, everyone.

03:09:08.000 Thank you.

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03:14:31.000 Ladies and gentlemen, it takes a village, people.

03:14:36.000 The MAGA Moolah Meltdown.

03:14:39.000 Please welcome CPAC Senior Fellow Mercedes Schlapp.

03:14:44.000 Senior Advisor United Against Nuclear Iran, Hiba Willis.

03:14:49.000 CEO United Against Nuclear Iran, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace.

03:14:54.000 And CPAC Chairman, Matt Schlapp.

03:14:57.000 Thank you.

03:15:04.000 Where's Michael?

03:15:10.000 What kind of music is that?

03:15:11.000 I don't know.

03:15:12.000 Is that Iranian music?

03:15:13.000 No, but we should play one.

03:15:15.000 Hey, was Betty Johnson not great?

03:15:20.000 I saw some dance moves out there that were pretty good.

03:15:24.000 Did you get to see that?

03:15:25.000 Benny got the whole crowd dancing.

03:15:27.000 I'm not surprised.

03:15:29.000 I mean, he's such a charmer.

03:15:30.000 And tonight, just so you know, I don't know where Natasha Owens is.

03:15:33.000 She's probably getting another dress made. 1.00

03:15:36.000 She's got a special song for you guys tonight.

03:15:40.000 So anybody who's going to the dinner, and if you're not going to the dinner, make sure you watch.

03:15:44.000 I know C-SPAN's got this.

03:15:45.000 X has it.

03:15:47.000 Ben Shapiro was showing this, live streaming this on the Daily Wire yesterday.

03:15:51.000 So many ways to get this content, so make sure you watch.

03:15:55.000 Thanks for being here, guys.

03:15:56.000 Thanks for having us.

03:15:58.000 So I'm in a little bit of a vulnerable position today because...

03:16:01.000 I don't know if that's a good thing, Schlapp.

03:16:03.000 Oh, it's a good thing.

03:16:04.000 I've known Ambassador Mark Wallace.

03:16:07.000 I choke on that because, you know, when your friend has an august title like that...

03:16:11.000 Never used it before.

03:16:11.000 Ambassador, whatever.

03:16:13.000 But, you know, it is kind of...

03:16:15.000 I mean, ambassador to the U.N., so that takes it down a couple notches, actually, when you say U.N. You're vulnerable here, Schlapp.

03:16:25.000 I am vulnerable because he's known me a really long time.

03:16:27.000 Priscilla O'Shaughnessy is here.

03:16:28.000 I know she's going to be mad at me for saying it, from my hometown of Wichita.

03:16:31.000 Priscilla's known me since I'm like 18, 16, 17, something like that.

03:16:35.000 So you could probably learn some bad stuff from Priscilla.

03:16:38.000 Matt, you're really telling your age right now, okay?

03:16:41.000 Wallace is in the same position.

03:16:43.000 But Mark, it's a great honor for Mercy and I to have you and your beautiful wife.

03:16:47.000 You guys do such amazing work.

03:16:49.000 You gave me a very special invitation to go to the 80th anniversary at Auschwitz recently.

03:16:56.000 I went to Poland.

03:16:57.000 Mr. and Mrs. Balabon and Henry, I went to Poland, your home country, even though you're Americans.

03:17:03.000 And a beautiful place.

03:17:05.000 We met with amazing people.

03:17:07.000 It was a very moving trip.

03:17:08.000 Thanks for including me.

03:17:09.000 But to have you here is very special for Mercy and I. You're a great friend.

03:17:12.000 The work you do, you've done behind the scenes and prominently to try to make sure that we defang Iran. 1.00

03:17:22.000 And Hiva, from your point of view, give the Iranian people a shot. 0.96

03:17:26.000 It's the mullahs who are in the way, just like the same problem we have in Cuba, the same problem we have in China. 1.00

03:17:32.000 So thanks for being here.

03:17:33.000 Guys, thanks for having me.

03:17:34.000 And I have to do a little something to start this and indulge me because it's a sentimental thing.

03:17:39.000 I have to get some real thank yous out of the way and talk about what this is because I've known them a very long time and I've seen this grow and I've seen what it's meant to the Schlaps.

03:17:50.000 And it's very moving for me to work with them.

03:17:53.000 They're very dear friends of mine.

03:17:54.000 But first we have to say I have to acknowledge and tell a story.

03:17:58.000 I want to acknowledge the government of Poland.

03:18:02.000 Prime Minister Tusk, my friend, Radek Sikorski, and the Polish delegation.

03:18:06.000 The president of Poland is coming as well.

03:18:09.000 And there's an entire Polish contingent here.

03:18:10.000 Guys, stand up just for one second.

03:18:12.000 And the poll's here.

03:18:13.000 You stand up.

03:18:14.000 Every poll.

03:18:14.000 Come on.

03:18:15.000 Every poll.

03:18:16.000 Come on.

03:18:19.000 No, the delegation.

03:18:21.000 The entire delegation, stand up.

03:18:25.000 Because the reason why that's so important...

03:18:28.000 Poland is here in so many ways, and their government is so wonderful.

03:18:33.000 And I had a crazy caper to exfiltrate a drone out of Ukraine and work with our allies, the Poles, to sneak an Iranian drone out of Ukraine and fly it on a Polish C-130, and it's displayed here. 0.69

03:18:47.000 They're great allies.

03:18:49.000 And before the president even did it, they are the biggest NATO defense spender in the world.

03:18:57.000 They spend nearly 5% already, already, and they are really the poster child of what we want a NATO ally to be about.

03:19:06.000 And it's so great to be here.

03:19:08.000 And all the polls, to see them here, it's really exciting.

03:19:10.000 Now, I was talking in the green room.

03:19:14.000 It's, you know, the schlapp green room, I guess.

03:19:17.000 And there was...

03:19:19.000 I was talking to the Foreign Minister Sikorski and Amanda McKinney, who's here, and I was talking Iranian drones and things, and this is what CPAC's about.

03:19:28.000 All of a sudden, it turns out...

03:19:30.000 That Poland, and I didn't know this, is one of the great apple producers in the world.

03:19:35.000 And Amanda, wherever she is here, produces incredible apples in Washington state. 1.00

03:19:40.000 So immediately, the CPAC discussion in the green room that was about Iranians turned into an apple diplomacy. 0.70

03:19:47.000 And that's what this place...

03:19:48.000 Which could have easily turned into tariffs, so it could have gotten really fun, right?

03:19:52.000 It's a testament to what CPAC is about.

03:19:55.000 And, you know, having known them, it's really what the Schlaps are about because you can have a conversation with real people about real things and important things and the binds that tie us together.

03:20:07.000 And Matt and Mercy, I've seen you and I knew you before you were Matt and Mercy.

03:20:11.000 And to see that and the things that you do for our country and for all of us, you know, I just think we should give them an applause.

03:20:18.000 I have to do that.

03:20:19.000 I've known them a long time.

03:20:20.000 But to Matt and Mercy...

03:20:23.000 I mean it.

03:20:24.000 You know I mean it.

03:20:25.000 I'm totally hokey.

03:20:26.000 Okay, you're going to make me cry.

03:20:28.000 Let's get going.

03:20:28.000 He just wants to get invited back.

03:20:31.000 I know that.

03:20:34.000 Hiva, you married this guy who is this anti-Iranian regime activist, anti-extremism activist.

03:20:48.000 We have a lot of commonality.

03:20:49.000 Your organization doesn't really get involved in politics.

03:20:52.000 You're really involved in national security.

03:20:54.000 We are.

03:20:55.000 We get involved in politics, but there's a lot of crossover here.

03:21:00.000 There's so much that we have in common, because at the end of the day, if it's not about human rights, God-given rights, what is it all about?

03:21:07.000 You must have this amazing experience of seeing Donald Trump's maximum pressure campaign that your husband had a lot to do with building.

03:21:17.000 Then this four-year hiatus, which is everything to subsidize this radicalized regime.

03:21:24.000 And now we're back to trying to bring the regime, not the people, the regime to its knees by depriving them of everything they could possibly need, including customers for their petroleum products.

03:21:37.000 How does it feel to be back on the right track?

03:21:40.000 It brings hope back.

03:21:42.000 Let me tell you, the four years...

03:21:44.000 It felt like a betrayal.

03:21:46.000 It felt like a betrayal.

03:21:47.000 All the money that President Biden gave back to the Iranian regime, not a single one of it went to the people to do anything good for this country.

03:21:55.000 People suffered under, continue to suffer under this regime.

03:21:59.000 This regime kills its own people, kills its young women, young men, that all they want is freedom.

03:22:06.000 Basic freedom.

03:22:07.000 Basic freedom of just not...

03:22:09.000 How threatening is my hair right now?

03:22:12.000 A young woman dies on the street for just showing a bit of a hair.

03:22:21.000 And President Biden did not support any of it.

03:22:24.000 And to me that was unacceptable.

03:22:26.000 And thank God that President Trump is back because this regime is scared.

03:22:32.000 Let me tell you.

03:22:33.000 All of its proxies are brought down to its knees.

03:22:36.000 If any change is going to happen, it is now, and this is the time.

03:22:40.000 And I am so thankful for the maximum pressure being back on and all option against this regime, because...

03:22:48.000 Eva, you grew up in Iran.

03:22:50.000 You spent time there.

03:22:52.000 Your family had to flee this regime.

03:22:54.000 I mean, how difficult was it for your family to pick up and have to leave everything?

03:23:00.000 To come here to the United States. 1.00

03:23:02.000 Well, your family knows something about that.

03:23:04.000 Right, both of you.

03:23:04.000 Yeah, both of us.

03:23:05.000 I mean, we have a Cuban-American and an Iranian-American sitting next to one another.

03:23:09.000 It's an amazing testament to our country that you two are here and can talk about human rights and freedom.

03:23:15.000 Because I know them, obviously, both really well.

03:23:17.000 And their experience across the world is so similar.

03:23:21.000 And there's hope now.

03:23:23.000 And where we have come, this far, this country has provided so much opportunity and just the freedom and the opportunity that has brought us.

03:23:32.000 I mean, I would have never thought I would be sitting here with you guys, with this amazing audience, talking about President Trump.

03:23:39.000 And to me, this is a dream come true.

03:23:42.000 And I, yeah.

03:23:43.000 Mercy, how long was your father in prison?

03:23:46.000 You know, this is very near and dear because what you see And, you know, we had this conversation yesterday with the Jewish families, the families of the hostages, of the tragedy of really how horrific governments can be, terrorists can be.

03:24:04.000 And for us in the United States, we don't comprehend it 100% because we live in this great country.

03:24:12.000 But when I look at my father, who is now 89 years old, Who, you know, back in the late, early 60s, when he did have to confront the communist regime, and he was put in a situation where,

03:24:29.000 you know, he was building his businesses, he was in the prime of his life to have to turn everything over to the communists, because they came in and said, give me your keys to your house, give me your keys to your businesses, and then he's left with nothing.

03:24:47.000 And how many countries have so many people, millions and millions of people, who have lost everything in the hands of these horrific authoritarian regimes and these communist regimes?

03:25:00.000 And so, for my father, he was thrown into jail after trying to overthrow the Cuban government and was in jail for literally close to eight years, where he was thrown into solitary confinement.

03:25:13.000 Naked in a dark room for two to three months at a time, where he was tortured, where he would hear the cries of his friends being executed.

03:25:26.000 It is horrific what the Communists have done to destroy so many people, so many families in the world.

03:25:35.000 And when you ask my father...

03:25:37.000 Are you Cuban?

03:25:38.000 Are you American?

03:25:39.000 He proudly says, I am American.

03:25:42.000 I stand for freedom.

03:25:44.000 And you, my daughter, and you, my grandchildren, and you, my son-in-law, you have an obligation to protect this country.

03:25:51.000 You have an obligation to protect the freedoms that are fragile in America.

03:25:55.000 And that is my message to every single one of you in this audience.

03:26:01.000 You know, let me just say one thing there.

03:26:05.000 So, Agnieszka, I often say, well, you're Polish.

03:26:08.000 You correct me.

03:26:09.000 You say you're American.

03:26:10.000 American.

03:26:11.000 When I ask my father-in-law, or if I slip up and say he's Cuban-American, he puts his hand on my arm and says, I'm an American.

03:26:17.000 This is a very, very important difference.

03:26:19.000 There's nothing wrong with being proud of your heritage.

03:26:22.000 But as Mark Levin, who is a real hero to all of us, says, we're not a nation of immigrants.

03:26:29.000 We're a nation of former immigrants.

03:26:31.000 That's a really important distinction.

03:26:33.000 You know, her family, may her father rest in peace, Mir, he was a wonderful man.

03:26:39.000 He said the same thing to him.

03:26:41.000 I knew him before he passed.

03:26:43.000 And he said, you know, I'm an American.

03:26:46.000 And her father and her mother gave up everything in Iran to move her and her sisters here.

03:26:52.000 To get a better life.

03:26:54.000 Her mother couldn't speak English and still struggles with it because she had a harder time, came a little later.

03:27:01.000 But they wanted a better life for their daughters.

03:27:03.000 And that's an incredible experience, all in the face of oppression.

03:27:08.000 And look, you know, we...

03:27:09.000 Because of our friends, the Poles and the United States, President Trump, our friend Rick Grinnell, we were able to bring...

03:27:16.000 This Shahed 136 drone. 0.97

03:27:18.000 Which everyone can go down to our CPAC Central and go see it.

03:27:22.000 It's actually here the first time on American soil.

03:27:26.000 It's at CPAC. Go see this killing machine.

03:27:30.000 And it's a good, important reminder to this regime, this barbaric, murderous regime that intends to tell you that it stands for some kind of godly principles. 0.94

03:27:41.000 What an abomination they are.

03:27:44.000 It's important for them to know.

03:27:46.000 That, due to Mark's good work, that we're on to them, that we are going to make sure that we stop them, and that they should be...

03:27:57.000 We said yesterday, around the globe, all the right people are sweating.

03:28:00.000 That's right.

03:28:01.000 They're worried.

03:28:02.000 And that's part of the maximum pressure campaign, is to make sure that they understand...

03:28:07.000 That if they take steps against America, against Israel, against Jewish people, against Christian people, against our allies, against the stability of civilization, I believe, I'll speak for him, even though I don't represent him, I believe President Trump and our allies will take the steps needed to make this stop.

03:28:25.000 And that starts with Israel getting rid of Hamas.

03:28:27.000 It starts there.

03:28:28.000 Absolutely.

03:28:30.000 It's very rare when you can look into the eyes of a despotic regime.

03:28:36.000 Because they usually lie.

03:28:37.000 And the propaganda they put out is to tell you that they aren't who they are.

03:28:41.000 But that drone downstairs, that Shehad 136, is the ubiquitous terror weapon of mass destruction across the Middle East. 1.00

03:28:50.000 There it is right there on your screen.

03:28:51.000 There it is.

03:28:52.000 And we have it downstairs.

03:28:53.000 It's been used against Israel.

03:28:55.000 Three American service members died.

03:28:58.000 On the sharp end of that, because of, in my opinion, failed policies of the previous administration, numerous service members have been injured.

03:29:06.000 It's attacked our allies in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, across Syria and Iraq, and shipping in the Bab al-Mandab in the Red Sea, even in the Persian Gulf.

03:29:15.000 And of course, they've sent over 6,000 of these drones into Russia to attack Ukraine.

03:29:22.000 And it is an indiscriminate terror weapon that kills innocent women and children.

03:29:27.000 So every time you see an Iranian official, and we list him, say this propaganda, and they smile at you, the smiles that oppress these, their families, you'll look at this drone, and that's the true face of oppression. 0.97

03:29:42.000 That drone is what they really are.

03:29:45.000 So the, and thanks for bringing it here.

03:29:49.000 I think it's important.

03:29:50.000 The other person who was going to be with us today was the Crown Prince of Iran.

03:29:58.000 Mercy and I sometimes pinch ourselves because we have the most fascinating meetings at our CPAC headquarters.

03:30:05.000 And he came to our headquarters and we had this great conversation about his view for the government of Iran to be a secular government and...

03:30:17.000 The government of Iran that would recognize the state of Israel, a government of Iran that would rid itself of this concept of fueling and feeding and funding terrorism.

03:30:29.000 He's an important voice and he wanted to be with us here today.

03:30:32.000 Right, and we heard, we hope, he indicated his mother, the great Shabanou.

03:30:41.000 He's sick, and he had to return to Paris.

03:30:44.000 The Shah of Iran's widow is alive.

03:30:46.000 Yes, and apparently she was ill, and we wish her the best.

03:30:49.000 And I'm personally disappointed that I didn't get to see His Royal Highness, and I know he would have been a valuable addition.

03:30:54.000 But we have to figure out ways to support the Iranian people, just like we supported the Cuban people, because these are the oppressed.

03:31:02.000 Any ideas?

03:31:04.000 You know, we've been thinking about this.

03:31:06.000 Should we do it?

03:31:06.000 Should we make some news?

03:31:07.000 Yeah, I think we should make some news.

03:31:09.000 Why don't you make the news?

03:31:10.000 Oh, wow.

03:31:10.000 Mercy, you're okay with the news, right?

03:31:12.000 Yes.

03:31:12.000 I'm not having another baby.

03:31:15.000 This is why...

03:31:16.000 I would love to, but we're...

03:31:19.000 Oh, she says that until someone puts a little baby in her arms, and then she starts having... 1.00

03:31:22.000 I could be a grandmother before...

03:31:23.000 This is why...

03:31:24.000 This might be harder than actually raising a baby.

03:31:27.000 Let me just say...

03:31:28.000 This might be harder.

03:31:29.000 But it's worthwhile.

03:31:30.000 You might have opened up a bad topic.

03:31:31.000 It is worthwhile, though.

03:31:33.000 I will say this is one of the reasons why...

03:31:36.000 We're here as couples, too, because I kind of saw how you guys operated at the museum that you're opening up on the corner of Auschwitz, at the corner of the camp where this horrible criminal lived, who was the camp...

03:31:51.000 Commandant.

03:31:52.000 Commandant.

03:31:52.000 You watch the movie The Zone of Interest, the Huss House, Rudolf Huss.

03:31:55.000 We don't like saying his name.

03:31:57.000 I'll only say it one time.

03:31:58.000 But the man that institutionalized the industrial-scale slaughter...

03:32:03.000 Of Jews and other people.

03:32:05.000 Poles. 0.96

03:32:06.000 A lot of Poles.

03:32:07.000 Yeah, a lot of Poles. 0.96

03:32:08.000 But millions of Jews went to their death looking at that house.

03:32:11.000 It is the true face of evil.

03:32:14.000 We managed to put, and you were there, we put a mezuzah on the front door of that house after 80 years.

03:32:20.000 Yeah, and I got to touch it.

03:32:23.000 It was incredibly meaningful.

03:32:24.000 It was so interesting.

03:32:25.000 When we put that mezuzah on, sometimes you just do things and you don't realize.

03:32:29.000 We put it on that door.

03:32:31.000 We observed the halachic principles in doing it. 0.50

03:32:33.000 And we just did it.

03:32:35.000 And everybody, Jews, non-Jews alike, wanted to go touch that mezuzah. 0.99

03:32:40.000 And it's become just a real rallying point.

03:32:43.000 It's an evil place.

03:32:44.000 I will say it's an evil place.

03:32:46.000 I felt evil there.

03:32:48.000 I didn't like being there.

03:32:50.000 So it's very important that we take evil places and try to, you know...

03:32:55.000 Make them more holy.

03:32:56.000 And we gotta teach.

03:32:57.000 We gotta teach the people.

03:32:59.000 We gotta teach the people that these tragedies, these genocides, they happen.

03:33:05.000 They have destroyed communities.

03:33:07.000 They have destroyed families, and it must stop.

03:33:09.000 So let me just say one thing.

03:33:10.000 I wanted to say this one thing.

03:33:11.000 It's really important.

03:33:12.000 So we had a great tour guide at Auschwitz, and I'd never been to a concentration camp, a death camp, a work camp.

03:33:19.000 On purpose, I hadn't gone.

03:33:21.000 Because I already know I think it's terrible, and it upsets me so much to even be there.

03:33:27.000 But one of the things I learned was the initial intent of Auschwitz was to kill political prisoners in Poland.

03:33:36.000 So many Polish people were killed who were trying to stand up to authoritarianism.

03:33:42.000 Is this right?

03:33:43.000 This is right.

03:33:43.000 And this is the story for America.

03:33:45.000 I'm not comparing it to that.

03:33:47.000 I'm simply saying the lesson I learned was Whether you're talking about people that are persecuted by the government, we've had this whole conversation with Julie Kelly here, what happened to people that felt like the last election had fraud, and we have all these J6 victims. 1.00

03:34:03.000 You have all these people who couldn't even speak their mind that had their Facebook page canceled, while the mullahs have their Facebook page, Donald Trump and other people have their Facebook page taken away. 0.68

03:34:12.000 The lesson of all of that is when you snuff out political speech, That's just the beginning, and it can lead to even worse things.

03:34:22.000 So you're right, sweetheart.

03:34:24.000 We have to really understand our history.

03:34:26.000 So part of our understanding our history is calling out the bad guys now, right?

03:34:30.000 Ambassador Wallace?

03:34:32.000 Absolutely.

03:34:32.000 So how do we do that?

03:34:33.000 Well, I think one of the things we have to do is think about how we can help the oppressed, right?

03:34:39.000 How do we rally that?

03:34:41.000 And look, we've operated when the crown prince was supposed to be here today.

03:34:45.000 We can do something to try to help organize that diaspora.

03:34:49.000 It's a diverse diaspora, different people, different competing influences.

03:34:53.000 And look, like any diaspora, mercy of the Cuban diaspora, there's a lot of, at times, friction.

03:34:59.000 But if we can do something to show that we stand with these diasporas, as diverse as they are, and bring them together on the wrong roof, the moment the unity is shown against these despotic regimes, it's the first day.

03:35:14.000 I think we should look at the title of this conversation.

03:35:18.000 I'd like to have a MAGA Mullah Meltdown. 0.94

03:35:21.000 A MAGA Mullah Meltdown? 0.80

03:35:22.000 A CPAC Iran in Exile? 0.59

03:35:24.000 I think a CPAC Iran in Exile.

03:35:26.000 What do you guys think?

03:35:27.000 There we go.

03:35:28.000 That would cause a meltdown. 0.66

03:35:29.000 Right.

03:35:30.000 We could invite all the Iranians, leaders and groups who all at times have friction but are all united against this.

03:35:37.000 And I know, Matt, you've done so many things with CPAC, but that would be an incredible way to show the people of Iran that their future might be just around the corner.

03:35:47.000 What would your dad think about having a Magomola meltdown?

03:35:50.000 It will be a big task, but it is worthwhile, and we have to do it.

03:35:54.000 That's the only way.

03:35:55.000 Will you guys join us?

03:35:57.000 Don't worry, we're not going to Tehran.

03:35:59.000 We're going to go someplace closer.

03:36:02.000 I will not be participating if it's Tehran. 1.00

03:36:04.000 That's right, not doing that.

03:36:06.000 Thank you all for being here.

03:36:07.000 Thank you for bringing this weapon of mass destruction.

03:36:11.000 Make sure you go down to the CPAC Central to check it out.

03:36:14.000 We got so much more going on today, so just don't leave the room for very long at one time, okay?

03:36:19.000 God bless you all.

03:36:20.000 Thank you all.

03:36:21.000 Thank you all for being here.

03:36:22.000 Thank you all.

03:36:23.000 Thanks.

03:36:24.000 Thank you.

03:36:52.000 Welcome to CPAC.

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03:39:11.000 Every institution today is under attack.

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03:39:20.000 And many people are asking, what is the truth?

03:39:23.000 No!

03:39:24.000 Jesus Christ claimed to be ultimate truth.

03:39:27.000 Are you willing to face the truth?

03:39:29.000 Do you think the MKUltra project ever actually ended?

03:39:32.000 The Central Intelligence Agency is actively involved in mind manipulation.

03:39:36.000 We all answer to one God and one Savior, and he's there to change your life for the better.

03:39:45.000 America is under attack.

03:39:56.000 Our families are being crushed under the politics of a radical agenda.

03:40:01.000 But moms have had enough. 1.00

03:40:03.000 We are standing up and we are fighting back.

03:40:07.000 This is our battle.

03:40:08.000 This battle is every bit as important as a revolutionary war because we fight for the same thing.

03:40:14.000 Moms for America is a national movement of moms reclaiming our culture for truth, family.

03:40:22.000 Freedom and the Constitution.

03:40:24.000 I think Moms for America is exactly on track and is doing the right thing for the future of our country and our children.

03:40:30.000 Like, Moms for America is going at the heart of the issue. 1.00

03:40:35.000 I want to go on the record and say, I'm for moms, I'm for America, and I'm especially for Moms for America.

03:40:42.000 But I am honored to join Moms for America today as we speak out against the horrific mandates.

03:40:48.000 With a national network of over a half a million mothers, Moms for America is one of the fastest growing movements of women in the country.

03:40:57.000 The most dangerous place in all of nature is between a mama bear and her baby cub.

03:41:04.000 We are the change.

03:41:06.000 No matter what, no matter where, and no matter how difficult the obstacles are that are facing us and our families, we will not give up and we will not give in.

03:41:18.000 So if not now, then when?

03:41:19.000 If not you, then who?

03:41:20.000 Welcome to the Moonland Revolution!

03:41:22.000 *Supac Hungary* *Supac Hungary* This video is brought to you by the U.S. Department of Defense.

03:41:30.000 "CAP-Hungary, the Hungarian version of the annual super conference of hard-right US Republicans the Hungarian version of the annual super conference of hard-right US Republicans has begun Free authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

03:41:58.000 CPAC is doing a special investment in Hungary in May.

03:42:01.000 CPAC has made its way to Europe for the very first time.

03:42:05.000 The gathering frequented by many of the GOP's leading fringe voices is underway right now in Hungary.

03:42:11.000 We'll be right back.

03:42:41.000 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Chairman CPAC Hungary, Miklos Santos.

03:42:49.000 Thank you.

03:43:04.000 Dear, dear friends, dear friends, fellow patriots, what a time!

03:43:12.000 To be alive.

03:43:13.000 For a wonderful month, Donald Trump has been back in the Oval Office and we can all breathe free again.

03:43:28.000 And would you look at Elon Musk and those?

03:43:31.000 I have never seen so many liberal tears in my life.

03:43:37.000 And I'm from Hungary, you know, the island of freedom of Europe.

03:43:41.000 It is our national sport to make the Liberals cry.

03:43:48.000 But of course, you know that.

03:43:52.000 You know a lot about Hungary, don't you?

03:43:56.000 But why?

03:43:58.000 It's because our Prime Minister Viktor Orvald.

03:44:02.000 He is a loyal friend to President Trump and to CPAC. And loyalty is a true conservative value.

03:44:15.000 Prime Minister Orban also spoke at CPEC Dallas in 2022 and has been the keynote speaker at every and each CPEC Hungary so far.

03:44:26.000 And CPEC Hungary will be a joyous occasion this May again.

03:44:32.000 Because 2025 began tremendously.

03:44:38.000 The Trump tsunami has swept the dams out of office and there is a revival of the right on the old continent led by Prime Minister Orban and the Patriots for Europe.

03:44:52.000 But dear friends, allow me to recall a Hungarian saying.

03:45:00.000 It is in victory that one must remain most humble.

03:45:06.000 And have a realistic view of the world, I would add.

03:45:10.000 We may have won a famous battle in the struggle for the soul of the West, but the fight against the Vogue is far from over.

03:45:22.000 Until Donald Trump came to your rescue, the United States hadn't had a strong leader for almost two generations.

03:45:30.000 And sadly, the same applies to Western Europe.

03:45:36.000 of leadership and vision has led to a systematic collapse on an economic, political and security scale.

03:45:45.000 The disease has spread to every and each level of our societies, but its roots are cultural and culture is a matter of national security.

03:45:57.000 When Elon Musk let the Doge loose at USAID headquarters, he was targeting the root cause.

03:46:05.000 Corrupt, malicious Marxist propaganda poisoning the well of our civilizational greatness.

03:46:13.000 But USAID was only one of the heads of the Vogue Hydra.

03:46:19.000 The left's geopolitical manipulation machine also operates through Hollywood, Brussels, the UN, the Washington swamp, the big media, the Ford, the Gates, the Rockefeller foundations, and of course George Soros' Open Society Network.

03:46:38.000 Just imagine that good old Georgie spent $1.4 billion to meddle in Europe. 1.00

03:46:49.000 So the Vogue machine assimilated bureaucracies and policymaking at all levels of government.

03:46:58.000 It launched a concerted assault on the family, Christianity, And the sovereignty of nations. 0.98

03:47:05.000 And the establishment has been more than happy to play along as puppets of the globalist deep state network.

03:47:14.000 So do you know, do you know why they hate Trump, Orban or Milei so much?

03:47:22.000 Because they refused to submit, wouldn't assimilate and can't be destroyed.

03:47:30.000 And now it turns out That they were right all along.

03:47:35.000 Just one, but hugely important example.

03:47:38.000 Both Trump, President Trump and Prime Minister Orban have been pushing for an end to the bloodshed in Ukraine, going against the progressive warmongers.

03:47:48.000 And now, with your new sheriff in the White House, peace negotiations have finally begun, and it's really shocking to see supposed pacifists whining.

03:48:02.000 That the war might be over.

03:48:04.000 So you know, the lesson is: Strong leaders make peace, weak leaders make war.

03:48:14.000 And our civilization is not lost as long as such visionary and charismatic leaders can rise in the Americas and Europe.

03:48:29.000 But in order to cut off Every single head of the Volk Hydra and break the great geopolitical manipulation machine of the left, we must unite our forces.

03:48:43.000 We, we, we, you, conservatives, we respect the past, so we should write the future too, and so we will, we will win, but we win so that we can fight for more.

03:49:01.000 Fight for normality over green jihad. 0.86

03:49:04.000 Fight for the family, the best thing humanity invented so far, over wokeness. 0.97

03:49:11.000 Fight for political leadership over bureaucratic dictatorship.

03:49:15.000 Fight for national security over open society.

03:49:18.000 and fight for peace, securing life for future generations over the ideology-driven bloodshed of war.

03:49:26.000 You know, you know life, life is much more than a struggle for self-preservation.

03:49:35.000 And what it makes it more is precisely what it makes it truly beautiful and meaningful to us.

03:49:43.000 Our families, our children, our dignity, our freedom, our faith and our country.

03:49:51.000 That is the message I came here to share and that is what CPAC and CPAC Hungary is all about.

03:49:57.000 We really very much hope You join us again this May in Budapest at CPEC Hungary.

03:50:04.000 Let us fight together and the age of patriots will dawn.

03:50:09.000 With a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, let us be confident that the best is yet to come.

03:50:18.000 God bless you.

03:50:19.000 God bless America.

03:50:20.000 God bless Hungary.

03:50:22.000 To God alone glory.

03:50:24.000 Thank you very much.

03:50:26.000 I switched.

03:50:50.000 I made the switch to Newsmax.

03:50:52.000 I switched to Newsmax.

03:50:57.000 Newsmax.

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03:50:59.000 Have you made the switch?

03:51:00.000 You bet I did.

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03:51:04.000 I did.

03:51:05.000 I did.

03:51:06.000 I switched, and it made all the difference.

03:51:09.000 It made all the difference.

03:51:10.000 Have you made the switch?

03:51:11.000 You should.

03:51:13.000 Millions are switching to Newsmax.

03:51:14.000 You should too.

03:51:15.000 America is under attack.

03:51:21.000 Our families are being crushed under the politics of a radical agenda.

03:51:29.000 But moms have had enough. 1.00

03:51:31.000 We are standing up and we are fighting back.

03:51:35.000 This is our battle.

03:51:36.000 This battle is every bit as important as a revolutionary war because we fight for the Moms for America is a national movement of moms reclaiming our culture for truth, family. 0.80

03:51:50.000 Freedom and the Constitution.

03:51:52.000 I think Moms for America is exactly on track and is doing the right thing for the future of our country and our children.

03:51:59.000 Like, Moms for America is going at the heart of the issue. 1.00

03:52:03.000 I want to go on the record and say, I'm for Moms, I'm for America, and I'm especially for Moms for America.

03:52:11.000 But I am honored to join Moms for America today as we speak out against the horrific mandates.

03:52:16.000 With a national network of over a half a million mothers, Moms for America is one of the fastest growing movements of women in the country.

03:52:26.000 The most dangerous place in all of nature is between a mama bear and her baby cub.

03:52:32.000 We are the change.

03:52:35.000 No matter what, no matter where, and no matter how difficult the obstacles are that are facing us and our families, we will not give up and we will not give in.

03:52:46.000 So if not now, then when?

03:52:48.000 If not you, then who?

03:52:49.000 Welcome to the Monland Revolution! 0.63

03:52:51.000 The jacket was up here somewhere.

03:53:03.000 The jacket was up here.

03:53:33.000 The jacket was up here.

03:53:42.000 Every institution today is under attack: the home, the church, the government.

03:53:50.000 And many people are asking what is the truth?

03:53:53.000 Jesus Christ claimed to be ultimate truth.

03:53:55.000 Are you willing to face the truth?

03:53:58.000 Do you think the MKUltra project ever actually ended?

03:54:01.000 The Central Intelligence Agency is actively involved in mind manipulation.

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03:54:47.000 Hey, it's Matt Schlapp with CPAC. You know, we've had a huge problem in this country.

03:54:51.000 With election fraud.

03:54:53.000 But at CPAC, that's not a problem.

03:54:55.000 Our only problem is getting each and every one of you to vote.

03:54:58.000 So look at your badge.

03:54:59.000 You have a number on that badge.

03:55:01.000 And get your phone out and vote on all the issues that matter.

03:55:06.000 And my guess is you probably like what Trump's doing as well.

03:55:10.000 And we'll have the results for you very soon.

03:55:12.000 Ladies and gentlemen, this is Inclusion Delusion, Hollywood Survivors.

03:55:22.000 Please welcome President and CEO of Great American Media, Phil Habit.

03:55:29.000 Actor and filmmaker, Dean Cain.

03:55:32.000 And your host, co-host of Morning on Merritt Street, Fancy Stinger.

03:55:41.000 Wow.

03:55:44.000 Which one?

03:55:46.000 That's her. 0.88

03:55:47.000 I know I'm going to the middle.

03:55:48.000 There it is.

03:55:49.000 Well, hello, CPAC.

03:55:55.000 Wait a minute.

03:55:57.000 I don't know if I heard that right.

03:55:59.000 Hello, CPAC.

03:56:00.000 Well, we are delighted to be with you this afternoon.

03:56:05.000 But there's one thing we're going to get started and declared right off the bat.

03:56:08.000 CPAC, revival is here.

03:56:12.000 Woo! 0.99

03:56:13.000 Revival is here.

03:56:14.000 I know so many of you, myself included, have been praying for revival.

03:56:19.000 We have been praying for our country.

03:56:20.000 We have been praying to return back to the Christian Judeo values that our country is founded on and those great freedoms that we all are blessed to enjoy. 0.95

03:56:29.000 So today, we are delighted and honored to talk with you about where we've come.

03:56:34.000 Where we are and what God has for this country in the future.

03:56:38.000 Amen?

03:56:39.000 Alright, let's get started.

03:56:43.000 Well, Bill and Dean, it's surreal to be able to sit here and have a conversation with both of you because both of you are so integral in terms of this journey we have all been on.

03:56:55.000 Bill, I want to start with you.

03:56:57.000 We know you have a stellar background.

03:56:59.000 You have led the faith and media movement.

03:57:03.000 With your positions throughout the years.

03:57:05.000 Now you're with the Great American Media Corporation.

03:57:07.000 You're leading that.

03:57:09.000 There's so many projects that you have now, more that are coming.

03:57:12.000 But a lot of us have heard your name.

03:57:13.000 A lot of us have watched your entertainment.

03:57:15.000 We're so excited about what you're doing, so thank you for that.

03:57:19.000 I want to start with something that I don't know that you have touched on in public.

03:57:23.000 But we're a Monk family, so we're going to do it right here, right now.

03:57:27.000 You were previously with the Hallmark Channel.

03:57:30.000 And all of a sudden one day you were gone.

03:57:33.000 And you have not really given us the behind the scenes, the scoop, that's what our journalists like to get, in terms of what really happened.

03:57:42.000 Would you like to talk about that for the first time right here publicly?

03:57:45.000 Of course, sure.

03:57:47.000 I'm dying to hear this story.

03:57:49.000 I really want to hear it.

03:57:49.000 Well, we work together a lot at this time.

03:57:52.000 Yes.

03:57:52.000 And we will work together again.

03:57:53.000 At the Hallmark Channel, but amazingly, after you left, I didn't work at the Hallmark Channel anymore.

03:57:57.000 Well, you're next after he tells his story.

03:57:59.000 I can't wait for you guys.

03:58:00.000 No, no.

03:58:01.000 Well, you know, so we had a great team at Hallmark that built an incredible franchise and a great brand and a network and a bunch of networks, actually.

03:58:12.000 And we...

03:58:13.000 Got to the point in 2017, we were number one, fourth quarter, cramped on to Christmas and very successful.

03:58:21.000 And at that point, though, you can see the change in the chairman and the management at the parent company and the family to become much more woke and DEI-driven, very DEI-driven.

03:58:40.000 And so, you know, they were in DEI before it was cool to be in DEI. And the reality of that was that we were serving an audience that was focused on family-friendly content and faith-based content, that they wanted traditions, they wanted values, they wanted to see that expressed on TV. And so there was tremendous pressure from the family to make changes.

03:59:04.000 So at some point then, you decided...

03:59:07.000 And you stood up and had the courage to say, I'm not going along with this.

03:59:12.000 I heard, and maybe this little birdie told me the right information or the wrong information, but there was an incident that happened with the White House tree lighting.

03:59:20.000 Well, this was really the beginning of really seeing this become public or become evident to me.

03:59:28.000 We were chosen to host and televise the White House tree lighting.

03:59:32.000 It was President Trump's first time doing the tree lighting.

03:59:37.000 And there was an article on the Hill that said, "Trump White House partners with Hallmark Channel for Christmas tree lighting." And it was wildly successful.

03:59:50.000 It was the president's first tree lighting.

03:59:52.000 We had talent there.

03:59:53.000 It did big ratings.

03:59:54.000 It was a big part of our Christmas presentation.

03:59:57.000 And the reaction was, at the time, that's not so good.

04:00:03.000 And you're either with humanity or you're against it.

04:00:07.000 That's what you were told?

04:00:08.000 Yes.

04:00:09.000 And what was your response?

04:00:11.000 Well, at the time, you know, I was totally shocked.

04:00:13.000 We had an incredibly successful business that was thriving, and we were, you know, and by any measure, we were told for many years we could never be successful as an independent, that we were just, you know, in over our head.

04:00:26.000 We wouldn't be able to survive, and we were successful.

04:00:30.000 You know, I kind of took a little grain of salt.

04:00:32.000 At the time, though, I was very shaken by that thinking, and then you saw it become more pervasive over the next couple of years.

04:00:39.000 So, you know, and we had an audience that was so loyal, loved what we did so much, and they had nowhere else to go on TV. There are many places.

04:00:48.000 Any place you want to go, you're going to find different type of content that is not family-friendly.

04:00:54.000 Values-based.

04:00:54.000 When you're faced with something like that, there had to be a level of heartbreak there, because you poured your life, you poured your career into that, you poured your mission, your testimony, your own personal faith into that.

04:01:05.000 And when you come to a moment like that...

04:01:07.000 And reading notes from viewers who were just so disappointed with, you know, what the direction was, was heartbreaking.

04:01:14.000 Wow.

04:01:15.000 Dean, you were with Hallmark Channel as well.

04:01:17.000 Of course, you guys have a history.

04:01:20.000 And you left.

04:01:21.000 Tell us a little bit about your personal experience.

04:01:23.000 By the way, did I host that Christmas?

04:01:26.000 As a matter of fact.

04:01:28.000 Did you know that was going on behind the scenes at the time?

04:01:31.000 No, I was too busy working for him.

04:01:35.000 I didn't realize that was the feedback, which is amazing, because I remember it being a very successful event.

04:01:40.000 It was great fun.

04:01:42.000 It's shocking to hear that. 0.86

04:01:43.000 It's actually ridiculous. 0.88

04:01:45.000 And, you know, when Bill left Hallmark, I was shocked.

04:01:48.000 As well because I had been doing a lot of films for them and I enjoyed them so much.

04:01:52.000 I'm a single father and I wanted to make a lot of content that my son could see and my family could see and be around that and that I wanted to watch and you really built an incredible brand and then all of a sudden Bill was gone and my phone never rang from Hallmark again.

04:02:08.000 And that was, I was like, wow, okay, whatever has happened with the sort of the wokeness, that wasn't going to be me on the other end of the line, which I was okay with.

04:02:18.000 I mean, I have plenty of other things to do.

04:02:19.000 But I found that shocking.

04:02:21.000 I love what you've built.

04:02:22.000 Congratulations again.

04:02:23.000 But it's just a proven, that you've proven that what you're putting out there is what people want to watch.

04:02:30.000 And that's fantastic.

04:02:31.000 You know, as far as being...

04:02:33.000 They tried to cancel me in Hollywood so many times.

04:02:36.000 If an actor speaks up on something, listen, and for actors, go ahead and speak up or don't.

04:02:40.000 It doesn't matter to me.

04:02:42.000 I would work with Robert De Niro.

04:02:44.000 He's a great actor.

04:02:45.000 I don't like his politics.

04:02:47.000 You know, Rob Reiner, very good director.

04:02:49.000 I don't agree with his politics either.

04:02:51.000 But I would still work with him, and I don't think it works the other way around.

04:02:54.000 Like, I don't think Rob Reiner, and I've met with Rob since, and he didn't hire me, but it could be for many reasons.

04:03:01.000 But, you know, you just sort of wonder, you know, why it's so solid, such a solid wall on one side and not the other.

04:03:08.000 So I don't think I've ever really been canceled because I continue to work constantly, and I voice my opinion, and thank you.

04:03:17.000 Absolutely.

04:03:18.000 There is an element of courage when it comes to pressure from the world.

04:03:22.000 And as Christians, we need to understand that we are called to be bold.

04:03:27.000 We're called to be confident.

04:03:29.000 And we're called to operate in excellence at all times.

04:03:32.000 It's interesting because now there is a headline of an article in the New York Times that reads, This ought to be good.

04:03:38.000 The woke movies era is over.

04:03:42.000 That was the New York Times.

04:03:44.000 Absolutely.

04:03:45.000 And I want to read this other because I want both of you to kind of speak to this because you have been on the forefront of leading by example when it comes to standing up.

04:03:55.000 There is a cultural shift.

04:03:56.000 This is a quote.

04:03:57.000 And this cultural shift is not merely a trend.

04:04:01.000 It is a revival that has the potential to reshape society in ways that will make the powerful take notice.

04:04:09.000 It is not about political parties, yet its impact will be felt across the political and cultural landscape as young people find hope and identity in Christ and step up as the next generation of leaders.

04:04:26.000 That is where we are.

04:04:29.000 Are you sure that was the New York Times?

04:04:31.000 That was not the New York Times.

04:04:32.000 Oh, that part wasn't.

04:04:33.000 That was the Christian Post.

04:04:34.000 There we go.

04:04:35.000 There you go.

04:04:36.000 The New York Times has declared woke movies that air over.

04:04:40.000 With that being said, Bill, what is next for great America, great American media?

04:04:46.000 Well, we're going to be true to who we are.

04:04:48.000 We will never compromise our values.

04:04:50.000 We will never change.

04:04:53.000 We don't care what the environment is.

04:04:55.000 We will be serving the viewer, which we believe, by the way, is the vast majority of the country who want to see faith-based content that's family-friendly and supports the country and isn't derisive of those elements.

04:05:07.000 So we will never change who we are.

04:05:09.000 What is the importance, Dean?

04:05:12.000 Because you have been very outspoken, like you said.

04:05:14.000 It is not the majority of the country that was asking for the woke content that was being put out.

04:05:20.000 I work for Dr. Phil's Mayor at TV, and Dr. Phil has done so much research on this fringe that seems to have the microphone.

04:05:28.000 You have challenged that.

04:05:30.000 Talk about the significance of where we are right now and what opportunity we have to spread faith, family, and traditional values.

04:05:39.000 We kind of don't have to look any much further than what Bill has done.

04:05:43.000 Great American media.

04:05:44.000 There's a reason that folks have flocked over there.

04:05:47.000 I'm not sure about the Hallmark numbers anymore, but I got a funny feeling they're not as good as they used to be, my friend, and I think your numbers are up.

04:05:53.000 People go and watch what they want to watch, and they'll find that, and I think it's wonderful.

04:05:57.000 Andrew Breitbart, who was a friend of mine, once said that, you know, politics are downstream from culture.

04:06:02.000 When you're making content like Bill is making and putting out there, people want that, and they will come to it, and they will see it, and I think that's...

04:06:10.000 Super important.

04:06:11.000 I love making that stuff because I want my son to be able to, you know, watch this.

04:06:15.000 And now he's 24 now, so he's getting into different things.

04:06:18.000 But when he was in high school, he was at a Christian school, and I did a film called God's Not Dead.

04:06:23.000 I did not play a nice guy in that. 0.99

04:06:25.000 And everybody watched the film, and the school went to see it, and they're like, dude, your dad's a jerk. 0.99

04:06:30.000 No, he's acting. 1.00

04:06:32.000 He's acting.

04:06:33.000 But, I mean, I think it's so important to have those conversations and those kind of films and shows.

04:06:40.000 Families have conversations because of them.

04:06:43.000 When you're putting out this other content for just a fringe number of people, they'll die.

04:06:49.000 You know, companies like, I'm not going to pick on Disney, but Disney has not done a remarkable job with their franchises, rebranding, changing things, and look at the success that Bill has had, and I think it's wonderful.

04:06:59.000 The courage to do that, though, is so incredible, because without talent like you in God's Not Dead, it isn't the franchise that it is.

04:07:08.000 That's right.

04:07:09.000 Thank you, good sir.

04:07:10.000 I've had the opportunity to be in two of the God's Not Dead movies.

04:07:14.000 We met at the Dallas premiere of God's Not Dead, In God We Trust.

04:07:18.000 If you haven't seen it, it's a powerful movie because it mirrors what is actually happening in our society today.

04:07:25.000 It's the spiritual warfare that we all are watching play out.

04:07:29.000 Talk about this Gen Z revival that is happening.

04:07:32.000 We're seeing it in sports with players.

04:07:34.000 We're seeing it with coaches.

04:07:35.000 Ohio State University, guys, they just had 2,000 young people.

04:07:39.000 Accept Christ on campus.

04:07:41.000 This is happening.

04:07:43.000 So talk about how we're going to come alongside those young people and help catapult them into being the next generation of godly, faith-filled leaders.

04:07:53.000 I think you talk about it openly.

04:07:54.000 You have those conversations.

04:07:55.000 I don't think, I mean, if we had this conversation three years ago, they, you know, oh my gosh, what a horrible conversation to have.

04:08:01.000 But now it's okay to have this conversation.

04:08:03.000 And they should.

04:08:04.000 And my son's 24. Does that make him a Gen Z guy?

04:08:06.000 Is that qualified as Gen Z? I think so. 0.98

04:08:08.000 Does it?

04:08:09.000 In that area.

04:08:10.000 I was worried about our youth.

04:08:11.000 I really was.

04:08:12.000 Until I started talking to him and some of his friends.

04:08:14.000 And there's some common sense out there.

04:08:16.000 And I think it's wonderful.

04:08:17.000 And so doing this, putting out content that they can watch and talk about and showing them, you know, again, politics, downstream culture.

04:08:25.000 Put it out there and hopefully change the culture.

04:08:27.000 And I think it's happening.

04:08:28.000 How are you going for that audience?

04:08:31.000 Because we know right now, looking at the statistics, Bible sales are up with Gen Zers. 1.00

04:08:36.000 Young men are returning to church in droves, and there are young people who are really returning back to traditional values, faith-filled families.

04:08:45.000 So now it's up to us to come alongside them and help them fly and shine.

04:08:50.000 The woke left went so far in the other direction, and it was so offensive that it's moved people more toward faith and family and country and supporting the values they love.

04:09:05.000 So, I'm going to ask you, what are you working on?

04:09:08.000 What do we need to be looking for?

04:09:09.000 We have about a minute, 15 seconds left.

04:09:11.000 What should we be looking for?

04:09:13.000 From your company, and Dean, I'm going to ask you the same question.

04:09:15.000 Wow.

04:09:16.000 Well, we will...

04:09:17.000 Give us the scoop.

04:09:19.000 That's a big question.

04:09:20.000 On the spot.

04:09:20.000 We want to work with him.

04:09:22.000 No, I mean, we have two great, our two biggest platforms.

04:09:27.000 Our flagship is streaming and is PureFlix, which we mentioned, and Great American Family.

04:09:32.000 Both are great and successful, and we're very pleased with both.

04:09:35.000 We have a lot of original content on both, original series, original movies, and we'll keep doing that.

04:09:40.000 Awesome.

04:09:41.000 I hope to work for him for a long time.

04:09:42.000 That's what I want to do.

04:09:44.000 I want to keep making content that gets people thinking and talking.

04:09:48.000 You know, sometimes I'll be the bad guy, but you need a good bad guy with a good message in the film.

04:09:53.000 So I hope to just keep making more and more content and putting it out there and having conversations like this that further...

04:10:02.000 Our nation and our faith and I hope it's successful.

04:10:05.000 And all of us as believers, we are part of this.

04:10:08.000 We are, each of us has a role to play so quickly and 10 seconds are left.

04:10:12.000 What is your message to everyone sitting in here in terms of their role in making this happen and getting this out in their communities?

04:10:18.000 Support projects and channels and platforms like Bill's.

04:10:24.000 I mean, 100% it.

04:10:25.000 I mean, I give great support to it and that support means everything.

04:10:29.000 And be proud of it.

04:10:30.000 And never shy away from it, never run from it, and always be who you are.

04:10:36.000 And we will continue to give God the glory.

04:10:38.000 Let's thank Bill and Dean Cain, and thank all of you.

04:10:41.000 God bless you, and God bless this great United States of America.

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04:13:56.000 Hey, everyone.

04:13:57.000 It is his fault that a Politico journalist is on this stage, so don't get mad at me.

04:14:02.000 Get mad at the ambassador.

04:14:04.000 All right.

04:14:05.000 I have so much I want to talk with you about.

04:14:07.000 Let's go.

04:14:07.000 But the number one thing that everyone's been...

04:14:10.000 Asking me about you is a new hat that you're wearing at the Kennedy Center.

04:14:16.000 Oh.

04:14:17.000 What is going on?

04:14:20.000 How did that happen?

04:14:21.000 How big an art connoisseur are you?

04:14:23.000 Walk me through the behind the scenes there.

04:14:25.000 Well, we want to make art great again.

04:14:30.000 And what does that mean?

04:14:31.000 Look, I think, I don't know for sure, but I think the frustration that President Trump...

04:14:37.000 What I've had is that the Kennedy Center has no cash on hand, no reserves, and they have been paying for the salaries with the debt reserves, while taking around $40 million of public money.

04:14:57.000 And so you can't have that.

04:14:59.000 If you're going to take public money, then you get to have public input.

04:15:04.000 And so what we're going to say at the Kennedy Center is, first of all, we've got to clean up the financial situation.

04:15:11.000 We have to do the big productions that the masses and the public want to see.

04:15:17.000 We want to have really good programming.

04:15:20.000 So the first thing that we're doing, I think the big change, is for everybody to know you've got to be at the Kennedy Center in December because we are doing a big, huge celebration.

04:15:33.000 Of the birth of Christ at Christmas.

04:15:38.000 How crazy is it to think that we're going to celebrate Christ at Christmas with a big traditional production to celebrate what we are all celebrating in the world during Christmas time, which is the birth of Christ.

04:15:54.000 Do you worry at all, though?

04:15:55.000 I know there have been some folks who have been dropping out of performing at the Kennedy Center in protest.

04:16:00.000 Do you worry about being able to bring in big artists to the center?

04:16:04.000 No, we don't, because we already have them.

04:16:07.000 And I think it's a real misnomer.

04:16:08.000 But let me just say, there's one thing that got a lot of attention that this group dropped out, and it was all blamed on President Trump and me.

04:16:18.000 And we've tried to correct the record, and I think we're going to have to do a more direct job because it wasn't true.

04:16:25.000 They had the Kennedy Center before I arrived, before President Trump was the chairman, the Kennedy Center had made some decisions about this individual group to change them because ticket sales were atrocious.

04:16:42.000 And so they said, you know what, we can't have this because we really don't have any money, and we can't be spending on things that aren't bringing in revenue.

04:16:52.000 And so they made this change before we came, and then it was announced, and suddenly it was, you know, the gay men's chorus or something was dropping out because of Trump.

04:17:00.000 That wasn't true.

04:17:01.000 And it was replaced with some other things.

04:17:04.000 That happens all the time, so I would just challenge you.

04:17:06.000 So you would welcome the gay men's choir to perform if they were interested?

04:17:10.000 Well, first of all, right now, if you're going to take public money, you have to prove that you actually can bring in revenue.

04:17:17.000 We don't have any money.

04:17:17.000 The woman that had my job before me was getting paid $1.3 million a year, and we had no money.

04:17:27.000 How much are you getting paid for this?

04:17:29.000 Way, way, way less.

04:17:30.000 Wait, let me ask real quick, though, because we were talking about this a little bit backstage.

04:17:34.000 How did this happen?

04:17:35.000 Because you're going to Venezuela, you're going to Munich, and then suddenly you wake up and you're running the Kennedy Center?

04:17:40.000 Well, again, I think it was a frustration from the president that there was no money at the Kennedy Center.

04:17:47.000 But why you?

04:17:48.000 How did it come about?

04:17:50.000 I don't know.

04:17:51.000 You'd have to ask him.

04:17:52.000 Look, I love the arts.

04:17:54.000 I'm somebody who, you know, goes.

04:17:59.000 Already to lots of different art styles.

04:18:03.000 I appreciate a whole bunch of different styles of art.

04:18:07.000 If I started naming all these things, you would be like, wait a minute.

04:18:10.000 You're a connoisseur.

04:18:12.000 We believe it.

04:18:13.000 So listen, I want to talk about some of the major...

04:18:19.000 One of the conflicts that we're seeing around the world right now that I know you've been working on.

04:18:24.000 Number one, I mean, I think this has been top of the list for everyone at the White House, is the situation in Ukraine.

04:18:32.000 In your conversations with President Trump, What do you hear from him about what's going on with his relationship with Zelensky, President Zelensky?

04:18:39.000 Because it's clear that they've never necessarily been best friends, but it feels like in the last few days in particular, that relationship has soured.

04:18:48.000 What's going on?

04:18:49.000 Look, I think, you know, I'm so thankful that we have a president who's concentrating on peace.

04:18:53.000 And that's what Donald Trump has just said.

04:18:55.000 You know, let's stop.

04:18:56.000 Remember that Joe, we handed Joe Biden total peace in the Middle East and total peace in Europe.

04:19:03.000 He handed us a war in the Middle East and a war in Europe.

04:19:06.000 And we can never forget that.

04:19:07.000 So I do get a little bit frustrated with reporters when they're trying to say, oh, your decision now isn't perfect.

04:19:14.000 I'm like, yeah, we were put in a hole.

04:19:15.000 We were put in a terrible situation.

04:19:17.000 There are no great solutions right now.

04:19:21.000 So you're going to have to be patient with us that we're trying to dig the Biden people out from this terrible hundred billions of dollars hole that they created.

04:19:30.000 That's the first thing.

04:19:31.000 The second thing is, I don't think it's fair to say that somehow President Trump has met with President Zelensky four or five times.

04:19:41.000 The Trump team has met with the Ukrainians and Zelensky another four or five times.

04:19:47.000 So let's say we're up to ten times meeting with the Ukrainians.

04:19:50.000 I never once heard from the media an outrage that the Russians weren't invited to those talks.

04:19:56.000 However, the one time...

04:19:59.000 That the Trump team reaches out to say, how about we talk to the Russians?

04:20:03.000 There's this hue and cry from the Europeans and everybody to say, why aren't the Ukrainians involved?

04:20:07.000 Well, I think it's because the Russians are the aggressors in this situation. 0.99

04:20:10.000 And that's another question I wanted to ask you.

04:20:12.000 You know, President Trump has...

04:20:14.000 has blamed Ukraine recently for starting the war.

04:20:17.000 You know better than anyone that it was Russian aggression actually back in 2014. People forget that this goes over a decade back.

04:20:25.000 But it was Russia that invaded Ukraine.

04:20:28.000 So do you have a sense of why President Trump is making these claims now that Ukraine started the war?

04:20:34.000 I think what President Trump is saying very clearly is we have to stop this war.

04:20:40.000 He is somebody who's concentrating on saying to both sides, let's talk to both sides and figure out how we stop this.

04:20:47.000 Again, we have terrible choices because of the Biden team.

04:20:51.000 There's not a lot of great choices.

04:20:53.000 And so, yeah, is there frustration that things are not perfect in Ukraine right now?

04:20:58.000 Yeah, but I'm a little bit annoyed that we were handed a file that was war when we handed them a file that was peace.

04:21:06.000 And so I do think that we're frustrated.

04:21:10.000 But why make those false claims about who started the war?

04:21:14.000 Why call Zelensky a dictator?

04:21:16.000 What is happening there?

04:21:17.000 Look, I think the American people are really frustrated with Zelensky.

04:21:21.000 I think that there's a big frustration that he's not making great choices for peace.

04:21:28.000 And again, when the American people are spending hundreds of billions of dollars...

04:21:34.000 There's a frustration.

04:21:36.000 Let's go back, you know, you said 2014. Let's go back just to the beginning of this war where Joe Biden messaged for more than 30 days that he knew through intelligence that a war was absolutely coming.

04:21:50.000 The Europeans and the Biden administration all did one thing, which was prepare for more war.

04:21:57.000 They talked about more funding for war.

04:21:59.000 They battened down the hatches.

04:22:01.000 They got hardware in there.

04:22:04.000 I actually think it's pretty immoral if the President of the United States says, we're having a war in 30 days and we know for sure, and no one shows up in Moscow and Kiev to try to say, let's do diplomacy, let's stop a war, and now we're 100 billions of dollars later, and so there's a frustration.

04:22:22.000 So you said President Zelensky isn't making choices for peace.

04:22:26.000 What do you think are those choices that he should make to bring an end to this that he's not making now?

04:22:33.000 Hundreds of billions of dollars of American money.

04:22:36.000 Again, I'll say that.

04:22:37.000 And a whole bunch is missing.

04:22:39.000 So we immediately say, okay, mismanagement of funds.

04:22:45.000 What we want to see is talks with Putin.

04:22:50.000 I don't think that talking means that you're weak.

04:22:53.000 I actually think talking is a tactic to get to a goal.

04:22:57.000 And so...

04:22:58.000 We've seen with President Trump he can show up with Kim Jong-un, and we need to be able to have these conversations with the Russians.

04:23:06.000 Look, I've done negotiations my whole life.

04:23:09.000 I did Serbia-Kosovo negotiations.

04:23:12.000 And I can tell you that if you're in the middle trying to bring peace, trying to make sure we're not spending hundreds of billions of dollars on war and we're saving lives, you need at least a person in the middle.

04:23:24.000 Who can say, I'm going to talk to these guys, and I'm going to talk to these guys, and I don't care what kind of criticism I get.

04:23:30.000 I got to figure out a way for peace.

04:23:32.000 It's not going to be perfect.

04:23:34.000 I will give you that.

04:23:35.000 But again, I go back to the fact of we had it perfect in terms of peace.

04:23:41.000 We were handed a war, and now we're being criticized of, well, how do you dig us out of a war, and you're not doing it fast enough, and you're not doing it fair enough?

04:23:49.000 So we're a little frustrated.

04:23:50.000 So the social media stuff, I mean, President Trump called Zelensky a dictator.

04:23:54.000 Do you believe he's a dictator?

04:23:55.000 Well, I think when you reject having elections and you're not moving towards that way, people get angry about that.

04:24:04.000 Is Putin a dictator?

04:24:06.000 Of course.

04:24:07.000 Putin is a dictator?

04:24:08.000 Yeah, of course.

04:24:10.000 So the stuff that we're seeing on social media...

04:24:13.000 But I want to say one thing that's really important in this conversation.

04:24:20.000 Republican foreign policy leaders have done for 25 years.

04:24:23.000 This is a paradigm shift, what he's doing.

04:24:25.000 We articulate very clearly under Donald Trump, we don't do regime change.

04:24:31.000 We are going to deal with the countries that are in front of us, and our criteria is not how do we make that country better, how do we make America better, stronger, and more prosperous for the people that live here.

04:24:45.000 So I was in the East Room when President Trump held the presser with Prime Minister Netanyahu, and he announced the plans for the Riviera of the Middle East in Gaza.

04:24:58.000 Is that art of the deal talk?

04:25:01.000 Is that a serious plan?

04:25:03.000 What is your sense of where President Trump is headed with that idea?

04:25:08.000 Well, first of all, let's start from the fact that he's a great negotiator.

04:25:11.000 So we know that he's negotiating all of the time.

04:25:15.000 Secondly, I think, again, I sound like I keep repeating myself, but we had peace there.

04:25:24.000 We had peace agreements, right?

04:25:26.000 The media and the intelligence agencies told President Trump, if you moved the embassy, there would be outright war.

04:25:33.000 We know the opposite happened.

04:25:35.000 Peace agreements broke out.

04:25:37.000 And so I think you've got to say to Donald Trump, you know how to deliver peace.

04:25:41.000 You certainly know how to negotiate Americans into a peaceful situation. 0.74

04:25:47.000 And so my kind of attitude is, let's watch and see.

04:25:53.000 How this plays out, because I have full faith that Donald Trump is a great negotiator and he's delivered peace before, and he's going to have to do it again now because of the Biden regime.

04:26:02.000 Regardless of what it looks like, us getting involved in Gaza, I mean, President Trump has talked about getting out of foreign entanglements.

04:26:10.000 That's a promise that he made on the campaign trail.

04:26:12.000 How does that jive with his promise?

04:26:15.000 I think that's an incredibly fair question.

04:26:17.000 Thank you.

04:26:19.000 You hear that, guys?

04:26:20.000 No, I do.

04:26:20.000 I think it's a legitimate question to say, wait a minute, you've said this.

04:26:25.000 Again, what I think the thinking and the criteria is, is how do we deliver peace?

04:26:32.000 And I've spent eight years at the UN, and what's been happening in the Palestinian territories and in Gaza, we've been talking about for decades.

04:26:41.000 Do you believe the U.S. still has a role to play and should play a role in peace in the Middle East?

04:26:47.000 Even with the America First agenda?

04:26:49.000 Yes, but that doesn't immediately mean that we jump to boots on the ground.

04:26:53.000 And I would say the other thing is, I'm a diplomat.

04:26:58.000 You're going to hear me talk about diplomacy, not about war and the things of war.

04:27:02.000 But I will say that, as kind of a chastisement to the public debate right now, when you talk about security assurances...

04:27:11.000 Stop assuming that security assurances are just simply American boots or UN boots and guns.

04:27:18.000 I can't think of a better security assurance than private equity folks on the ground.

04:27:24.000 American businessmen on the ground trying to do deals and help rebuild or help bring economic development.

04:27:37.000 If you've got a bunch of Americans, or Westerners even, That are in Ukraine, that are in the Black Sea, doing economic development, I can't think of a better way to have a security assurance.

04:27:50.000 And I know we're running low on time here.

04:27:51.000 I do want to talk to you about the wildfires in Los Angeles.

04:27:54.000 I know you know people who have lost homes.

04:27:58.000 I think anyone that knows anyone in L.A. knows people who have had tremendous loss there.

04:28:03.000 How are the recovery efforts going?

04:28:06.000 I know the president at the roundtable in the Palisades tasked you with some of that effort.

04:28:10.000 How are things going with FEMA? We know Democrats and Republicans can agree that FEMA doesn't always work effectively and quickly.

04:28:17.000 What are the bottlenecks, and what are you doing there?

04:28:20.000 Well, thanks for asking.

04:28:21.000 I think the reality is that the federal response is mostly money, and so...

04:28:27.000 We are going to have strings on the money that we give to California.

04:28:30.000 They've made terrible conditions.

04:28:34.000 We're talking about those conditions now.

04:28:36.000 As a Californian, I'm all for it because I don't have faith that if we went back and we just gave California hundreds of millions of dollars, they were going to go back to their same old ways of not giving enough water, having dangerous situations on the ground when it comes to forestry.

04:28:55.000 It's going to happen again.

04:28:57.000 What are some of those strings you're talking about?

04:28:59.000 Well, I don't want to commit too much.

04:29:04.000 Give us a little.

04:29:05.000 But I will say this.

04:29:07.000 Everyone who's involved knows that the California Coastal Commission is a disaster, and it needs to absolutely be defunded.

04:29:18.000 And from just a way to think about government.

04:29:23.000 We already have local government making these decisions.

04:29:26.000 Layering it on with the California Coastal Commission is a terrible idea.

04:29:31.000 It's an unelected group of people who are crazy woke left, and one person can stop progress, and they've made California less safe.

04:29:42.000 I think squeezing their federal funds, making sure they don't get funds, putting strings on them to get rid of the California Coastal Commission is going to make California better.

04:29:53.000 While we're on California, since you have so many ideas for the state, are we going to see Richard Grinnell run for governor of California?

04:30:05.000 Honestly, it's not in my plan unless Kamala Harris runs for governor. 0.99

04:30:14.000 If Kamala runs, if Kamala runs...

04:30:17.000 You're jumping in?

04:30:19.000 I mean, here's the thing.

04:30:23.000 We've spent hundreds of millions of dollars to define who Kamala Harris is. 1.00

04:30:28.000 If she thinks that she's going to run for governor of California, a Republican is going to win, and I may not be able to resist trying to run against her.

04:30:38.000 Making news here at CPAC. Lastly, before I let you go, we talked about the Kennedy Center.

04:30:44.000 You've got that performance coming up in December, but what is your ideal performance at the Kennedy Center, if you could have anyone perform?

04:30:52.000 Dolly Parton!

04:30:56.000 Is that an official invitation?

04:30:58.000 Of course, of course.

04:31:00.000 I'd love to see it.

04:31:01.000 All right, Mr. Grinnell, thank you so much.

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04:34:03.000 Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the new G.I. Joes. 1.00

04:34:07.000 Please welcome former U.S. Navy SEAL, Rob O'Neill, UFC fighter and Special Forces Operator, Tim Kennedy, and your host, host at the Carl Higbee Frontline on Newsmax, Carl Higbee.

04:34:25.000 Yes!

04:34:26.000 What up, Drago?

04:34:29.000 I love you, brother.

04:34:35.000 All right.

04:34:36.000 Well, they gave us open mics, no script, and a bunch of guys who used to shoot people for them.

04:34:44.000 No, so the last, we were talking 12 years, actually, not just last four, have been disastrous for the military, not only domestically, but on a global stage.

04:34:54.000 That's the truth.

04:34:54.000 Yeah, pretty madness.

04:34:56.000 I've been losing wars everywhere that we look.

04:34:58.000 On multiple continents, we've been losing our strategic positions and strategic bases that we have fought for for decades, from Africa, literally every single continent, to Eastern Europe, and obviously in the global war on terror after 20 years, the most embarrassing withdrawal in American history.

04:35:16.000 Yeah, Rob, let's talk about that.

04:35:18.000 We had the withdrawal from Iraq.

04:35:19.000 I was in Iraq in 2009 when we were drawing down.

04:35:22.000 I know you guys were in and out of the same areas.

04:35:25.000 I was watching us pull resources out, denying the fact that there were bad guys still doing bad things, that were killing coalition troops, and yet they wouldn't let us get them because of the perception that the war was over.

04:35:36.000 Yeah, the perception of the war being over is something we've been doing wrong and that's getting too political, and I don't mean just the politics of the country, I'm talking personal power for politicians.

04:35:46.000 Making a promise to get out of a place, because that was said in the campaign, or in the case of Afghanistan, on 9-11.

04:35:52.000 And just making decisions that don't make sense, because a lot of stuff, I don't know if you noticed, in D.C. doesn't make sense.

04:35:57.000 But the way that I put the...

04:35:58.000 I mean, Iraq is one of those things where we shouldn't have invaded, but we shouldn't have left the way we did.

04:36:03.000 And when the convoys coming from north to south, we should have hit them with some A-10s.

04:36:06.000 ISIS is gone, didn't do that, because I guess we could be nice to the enemy.

04:36:10.000 But the thing with Afghanistan that I noticed, too, is if you took the bin Laden team and asked them to come up with the worst possible way out of Afghanistan, we would have come up with exactly the way the Biden administration did it.

04:36:21.000 And that's all because they wanted to be out before 9-11.

04:36:23.000 We lost a lot of people because of that.

04:36:25.000 Right, but the unwillingness to actually define the enemy was the bigger problem.

04:36:29.000 It was, we're going to work with them, we're going to give them money.

04:36:31.000 I mean, hell, we left, what, $80 billion worth of stuff, including Night Vision and Humvees over there?

04:36:35.000 They didn't define the enemy, and therefore we couldn't defeat it.

04:36:38.000 I mean, that's the story of the oldest time, right?

04:36:41.000 Whether it's Vietnam, the Korea War, us being able to define who we're fighting is something that is necessary for us to know who to beat.

04:36:48.000 You know, if you take the military and you point them, I still believe, even though we are in a dangerous position with Secretary Hegseth trying to fight to bring back the strength, We still have, without a doubt, the most powerful military on the planet, and I'm so inspired by the young men and women that, especially recently, have raised their hand to serve.

04:37:07.000 But, you know, watching Pete Hegseth, I mean, it's the truth.

04:37:11.000 In Germany, training with the Special Forces unit, you know, like with the Hulk running right in front of them.

04:37:16.000 That guy was huge.

04:37:16.000 He was huge.

04:37:17.000 That's a big dude.

04:37:18.000 I'm just like, you know, that's the America that I know and that I love.

04:37:21.000 Put that on a recruiting poster.

04:37:22.000 I mean, Rob, we had...

04:37:24.000 Record low recruiting over the last four years.

04:37:26.000 It turns out if you tell a bunch of people that we're in your ranks that they don't like them anymore, they go home.

04:37:30.000 And we had posters of people with two moms or transgender this or DEI that. 0.98

04:37:37.000 It's like, well, this is a place where we're supposed to put bullets in bad guys' faces. 0.99

04:37:41.000 That's it, too.

04:37:41.000 And the military can be very simple.

04:37:43.000 The way you're successful in the military is master the basics.

04:37:46.000 Keep it simple.

04:37:47.000 And leave the diplomacy to the diplomats, right?

04:37:50.000 Go in, crush people, and leave.

04:37:51.000 That's all it's got to be.

04:37:52.000 And then we start getting into this woke ideology with, okay, you're raised by two women in San Francisco.

04:37:56.000 Great.

04:37:57.000 Fine.

04:37:57.000 I don't think ISIS is afraid of that.

04:37:59.000 I don't think Al-Qaeda is afraid of that.

04:38:00.000 And even like Queers for Palestine, if they went over there, if I went over there with them, they'd murder them before they murdered me. 1.00

04:38:07.000 They don't like them.

04:38:09.000 But the problem is, we're trying to play nice with everybody.

04:38:11.000 It's like, well...

04:38:13.000 I don't know if you don't understand them.

04:38:14.000 Like we were talking backstage about the enemy.

04:38:16.000 Or you just said just now on stage.

04:38:18.000 We're bad at defining the enemy.

04:38:20.000 And we just think that...

04:38:22.000 Here's a little thing I learned as a battle interrogator, especially dealing with terrorists.

04:38:26.000 They lie.

04:38:27.000 No.

04:38:28.000 Yeah.

04:38:28.000 What?

04:38:29.000 Yeah.

04:38:29.000 They'll lie to your face.

04:38:31.000 Weird.

04:38:31.000 - Weird. - Drago, back me up on that.

04:38:38.000 But...

04:38:38.000 You know, we can sit here and joke about this, but there's some serious work.

04:38:42.000 And look, I actually talked to Secretary Hegstat this morning about it, was trying to get him to call in, but he has this little thing like managing the whole country's DOD. But he's got a serious job ahead of him.

04:38:54.000 They've already increased recruiting in 30 days.

04:38:57.000 Weird how if you put warfighters, you attract more warfighters.

04:39:02.000 But in order to do that...

04:39:04.000 I mean, you're talking about a massive deficit, not only from a financial standpoint, where we've spent three times as much on aircraft carrier budgets, where we've massively reduced the force.

04:39:14.000 The COVID vaccine was one of the greatest reductions of good men and women.

04:39:17.000 And we have to build that back.

04:39:19.000 How do we start?

04:39:20.000 It's a great question.

04:39:22.000 And I think, from the top down, seeing the Secretary of Defense out doing PT with the troops in the morning.

04:39:28.000 You know, it's not just the number in which we were failing to recruit for the past four years, but it's who we have been recruiting.

04:39:33.000 We're recruiting, and I'm so grateful for everybody that raised their hand to serve.

04:39:39.000 We want strong, fearless people that want to be part of the most lethal fighting force on the planet.

04:39:45.000 That's who we want.

04:39:46.000 We want them as a deterrent.

04:39:48.000 We want the rest of the world and every single one of our peer-level adversaries to look at our men and women in uniform and be like...

04:39:55.000 Not freaking worth it.

04:39:57.000 Exactly.

04:39:58.000 Well, that's the other thing, too.

04:40:00.000 Rob, you walked in a door, shot the world's most wanted criminal in the face, and didn't think twice about it.

04:40:05.000 How do we get more people that want to join because of that versus college benefits, which are great, but also pushing DEI, pushing personal growth, and things like this.

04:40:21.000 How do we get more people that want to join because they want to do what you did?

04:40:24.000 I think it starts with the recruiting, and it impacted me more to see the Marine killing the dragon with the sword.

04:40:29.000 I really like that.

04:40:30.000 Plus the movie Navy SEALs with Charlie Sheen.

04:40:32.000 Greatest movie ever.

04:40:33.000 That's why I became a SEAL. 100% accurate.

04:40:35.000 But it's got to start with that, too.

04:40:37.000 And we're in a place, too, and it's the generation with staring at your phone, not going to the gym, stuff like that.

04:40:44.000 We just lower the standards.

04:40:46.000 It's like, well, you can't do the set amount of pushes.

04:40:48.000 We'll just cut it in half.

04:40:50.000 And I think the good men and women are out there.

04:40:53.000 We just haven't been focusing on them.

04:40:55.000 They're great people.

04:40:55.000 There always has been.

04:40:56.000 The leadership has gotten bad simply because you get to a certain level, be it senior enlisting or a senior officer, you become political because you want the next job right down the street here.

04:41:05.000 So, I mean, the way to do it is literally get back to the basics, which is forward defense, alliance, solidarity, and deterrence.

04:41:12.000 And we're just simply not going to deter people by being nice, but the military's job is not to be nice.

04:41:16.000 Again, we do have public affairs.

04:41:17.000 Great. 0.99

04:41:18.000 We also have infantry who will swim over the horizon at night and kill you. 0.99

04:41:22.000 And that's what we need. 0.97

04:41:23.000 And not to mention, we will complain about it the whole time we're swimming.

04:41:26.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

04:41:28.000 Why do SEALs post-career don't like cold water?

04:41:32.000 They torture us with it.

04:41:34.000 It's wet.

04:41:36.000 The water's wet.

04:41:37.000 I've seen dudes in combat go an extra mile just to not get their feet wet.

04:41:40.000 I'm not even making that up.

04:41:42.000 America's finest.

04:41:43.000 Just keep me dry.

04:41:44.000 Yeah, exactly.

04:41:44.000 - With recruiting, the standards have to be set.

04:41:48.000 They have to be met.

04:41:50.000 They cannot be moved, they cannot be bent.

04:41:52.000 It has to be merit-based.

04:41:54.000 If you're gonna fly a helicopter, it's because you're the best person that can be on the stick. - Absolutely.

04:41:59.000 Pulling down night vision to go on a mission, it's because you passed every single one of the standards to be there, and you deserve to be there, whether you're wearing a trident, a green beret, or you are proudly just running down, as every single infantryman knows, to shoot, move, communicate, and medicate.

04:42:14.000 You met the standard, and you deserve to be there.

04:42:16.000 Right.

04:42:17.000 Well, that's the other thing, too.

04:42:18.000 A 7-6-2 doesn't understand the difference if you're black, white, blue, green, 5-7-5-4.

04:42:24.000 250, 150, it doesn't matter.

04:42:26.000 So why did we get away from a general standard?

04:42:29.000 And now, if you're a 40-year-old woman in the military, you can get 24 minutes to run two miles.

04:42:34.000 But if you're a 22-year-old male, you have to do it in 18 minutes.

04:42:38.000 How did we get, how did we deviate?

04:42:39.000 Well, I mean, again, we need to get back to it.

04:42:42.000 We deviated despite, well, I mean, we saw, when I joined in 1996, uniform, uniform, bad haircut, and all we saw was green or blue.

04:42:51.000 That's it.

04:42:52.000 But now we're to the point because of a softer outlook or because we're so connected, just be yourself.

04:42:58.000 Express yourself.

04:42:59.000 That's not the military's job to express yourself.

04:43:02.000 You'll be fine.

04:43:04.000 Sixteen and a half years in the Navy, with the men and women whom I served, we never had a problem with sexism or racism.

04:43:10.000 Because it just didn't make sense.

04:43:11.000 We knew each other.

04:43:12.000 Even when I was getting out, Don't Ask, Don't Tell was the big thing. 0.98

04:43:15.000 And I remember in Afghanistan, this is after the Bin Laden raid, looking at a bunch of Navy SEALs like, I know damn well some of you are gay. 0.96

04:43:21.000 I don't really care. 0.97

04:43:22.000 And at the bottom line, what you do behind closed doors is your business.

04:43:26.000 The big question is, can you carry me with body armor after I've been shot and bring me home to my wife?

04:43:30.000 That's it.

04:43:31.000 I agree with that.

04:43:32.000 We had a guy...

04:43:34.000 In my first platoon, who got out of the military, and he was like, guys, I gotta tell you, I'm gay.

04:43:40.000 And we're like, yeah, we know.

04:43:41.000 We know.

04:43:41.000 And we don't care.

04:43:42.000 Nobody cares.

04:43:43.000 Nobody cares.

04:43:44.000 Sorry, man.

04:43:45.000 Seriously, but that's it, too.

04:43:46.000 He can do his job, and nobody cares.

04:43:48.000 But then you get involved with the media, and they just want to spin it because they want the talking points to badmouth whichever Republican's running.

04:43:55.000 So let's talk, you know, Secretary Hegseth comes in now, 8% cuts across the board.

04:44:00.000 A lot of people on the other side are saying, well, hey, this is going to diminish our fighting force.

04:44:04.000 And I look at that, I'm like, look, we're still using floppy disks and fax machines.

04:44:08.000 Like the DMV is more technologically advanced in some areas of the Pentagon right now.

04:44:12.000 So, you know, there's a vast, massive redundancy within the Department of Defense, you know, and how do you get to the bottom of that without...

04:44:23.000 Even slightly creeping on the mission of capability.

04:44:26.000 And if you're trying to become effective and more efficient, the first thing that you do is you recognize fat and you cut it from it.

04:44:32.000 So whether it's fraud, waste, and abuse, and in some instances we're seeing does just come through with a battle axe to do that, which is awesome.

04:44:39.000 On the military side, I mean, I would definitely argue, and I know personally, as I think everyone else does, and if you've been in the military, that there are good redundancies, like a good pace plan, primary, alternate, contingent, emergency, and on the communication side, on multiple routes in and out.

04:44:55.000 But when it comes to bureaucratic regulation, and the military is not supposed to have that, what is called the kill chain.

04:45:02.000 How effectively can I take from...

04:45:05.000 From a decision to do something to the execution of it, how fast is that thing?

04:45:09.000 And that kill chain has gotten so many bureaucratic steps in there, we have become ineffective and inefficient.

04:45:15.000 Those have to be cut.

04:45:16.000 Yeah, well, that's the danger of the big corporate mindset, too.

04:45:21.000 I mean, you guys know as well as I do, you get the green light to do an op.

04:45:25.000 And you have to get it approved up the chain.

04:45:27.000 And by that time, the guy's already left his house and fled the country.

04:45:29.000 That's true.

04:45:30.000 Yeah.

04:45:30.000 And I mean, it comes back to the efficiency that they're doing right now.

04:45:33.000 You need redundancy in places, like with submarine warfare.

04:45:37.000 If one gets an order, another one needs it, too, in case it gets hit and no one knows.

04:45:40.000 Stuff like that.

04:45:41.000 But the Pentagon hasn't passed a budget.

04:45:44.000 An audit.

04:45:45.000 Hasn't done it.

04:45:45.000 And you've got to start with that.

04:45:46.000 And we see it down at the platoon level.

04:45:48.000 We're like, well, here's our budget for the year, and we have to spend it all, or we won't get it next year.

04:45:52.000 It should be the opposite.

04:45:53.000 If you're more efficient, maybe these guys are squared away.

04:45:55.000 We can get them more work.

04:45:56.000 We can get them more funding.

04:45:57.000 But it's almost like the free money thing, where we're just going to get it again as long as we get rid of it.

04:46:02.000 And it also seems if you cut even 8% Let's just round it up to an even 40, for good time's sake.

04:46:08.000 And you will remove all those limitations, but you'll also remove a significant amount of processes that were put in place after World War II, a time where we have now quadrupled our number of generals, and now we've, I would say, effectively, we lost the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, because the enemy gets a say in that.

04:46:24.000 How do you rebuild that within the ranks?

04:46:28.000 I mean, there's obviously morale has already gone way up under Donald Trump, big time.

04:46:32.000 But how do you rebuild that?

04:46:34.000 With generational support.

04:46:37.000 Right now with General George and the Sergeant Major of the Army, Mike Weimer.

04:46:42.000 Mike Weimer, former unit guy, was part of the special missions units, also a special forces guy.

04:46:50.000 They clearly have said time and time again they want to focus on lethality, maneuverability, flexibility, and these are things that bureaucratic systems and...

04:46:59.000 Multiple checks and balances always slow down.

04:47:02.000 They want kids being able to 3D print a tool that would have cost, through a government contract on a named project, tens of millions of dollars to get.

04:47:11.000 And seven years to approve.

04:47:12.000 That's right.

04:47:12.000 And all of that, we have to innovate.

04:47:15.000 We have to innovate our way out of this, and we have to become the 2025 fast, lethal fighting force where the rest of the world is like, ooh, buddy.

04:47:23.000 Want nothing to do with that.

04:47:25.000 A kid from Oklahoma that just throws hay bales, and now we're giving him the best tools possible to go and kill his enemy.

04:47:31.000 Right, and something on that, too, that's a good point.

04:47:33.000 I think just when we were talking about Secretary Hegseth working out with the guys and the big monster dude, that's something else right there that you haven't seen with the SecDef, but that's what you need.

04:47:43.000 It's always been impressive when the general officer, the general or the admiral, comes and talks to the E5 Mafia. 0.99

04:47:48.000 Right.

04:47:50.000 Hegseth, Mr. Secretary, sorry, Pete, can...

04:47:55.000 I've always been saying we need a mid-level officer with combat experience to take the Secretary of Defense, because he will talk to the troops.

04:48:02.000 And when you're working out with the troops, you can ask them simple stuff.

04:48:04.000 Where are you from?

04:48:05.000 Why did you join?

04:48:06.000 What are you anticipating?

04:48:07.000 What do you expect out of this?

04:48:08.000 How's morale?

04:48:09.000 Okay, morale's bad, why?

04:48:10.000 Morale's good, why?

04:48:11.000 Find out why.

04:48:12.000 And then, I mean, obviously, it is a pyramid, you know, top-down type stuff, but they might want to think about...

04:48:19.000 Potentially changing that up a little bit.

04:48:20.000 But also flattening the organization, allowing that direct feedback.

04:48:23.000 I remember when I was in, you know, the Admiral would come down and they'd be like, you know, hey, look, if you have any questions for the Admiral, clear it through us first.

04:48:31.000 Carl, you're not allowed to ask any questions whatsoever.

04:48:33.000 But it's, you know, and I raised my hand.

04:48:35.000 This is in 2009 after we'd just gotten back.

04:48:38.000 And I said, what's the desired end result in Iraq?

04:48:41.000 I mean, I got in a lot of trouble for that, but they had no answer.

04:48:44.000 Yeah.

04:48:46.000 It was heartbreaking on the ground in Afghanistan, you know, in August of 2021, all the way to the 26th at the Abbey Gate bombing.

04:48:54.000 That sent a shockwave through all of GWAT and recruiting.

04:48:59.000 Nobody likes to lose.

04:49:01.000 America's not built to lose.

04:49:02.000 We're built to be the most powerful fighting force on the planet, the military is, and the country that's the strongest that's ever existed in the existence of our species.

04:49:12.000 Greatest country ever.

04:49:14.000 Our young people need to look at the service members, men and women in uniform, the flag, and with pride, be like, I want to be like Rob.

04:49:22.000 I want to be like Carl.

04:49:23.000 I want to go win wars.

04:49:24.000 It's time for us to start not just being preventative, but for everyone to know that the next war that we go into, we are not just going to fight it.

04:49:31.000 We're not there to perpetuate the military-industrial complex.

04:49:35.000 We are there to destroy our enemy in the most violent way possible.

04:49:38.000 I just want to point out that the Army guy said that they want to be like the two Navy guys over here.

04:49:44.000 That said, I mean, look, we have 11 carrier battle groups, so they're not in reserve for some day.

04:49:49.000 We're pretty much there now.

04:49:50.000 Why do we care what Europe thinks?

04:49:52.000 Why do we care what other countries think?

04:49:54.000 Why are we catering, especially policy within the DOD, to what other countries think when we can do whatever we want because our aircraft carriers outrun their jet skis?

04:50:02.000 Well, that's true, too.

04:50:03.000 I mean, I remember seeing a recruiting poster with somebody's water skiing behind a carrier and people laughing at it.

04:50:08.000 I was like, no, that could happen.

04:50:09.000 That's the fastest ship we got.

04:50:10.000 And I can't tell you how fast it goes.

04:50:12.000 It's pretty fast.

04:50:12.000 But talking about Europe, too, moving.

04:50:14.000 Every time we've left Europe, we had to go back.

04:50:17.000 So we've got to be careful about that now, too.

04:50:19.000 But the problem is with Europe being so weak, most of them aren't paying the 2% GDP they're supposed to be paying.

04:50:24.000 But we're not going to be able to deter China, especially a China-Russia coalition, while we're trying to hold the hand of the people that are afraid of Ukraine or going into Poland. 0.52

04:50:34.000 I don't think they're going into Poland, but regardless, the fight...

04:50:38.000 You've got to figure the 5,000 miles of a supply chain we're going to need in the Pacific.

04:50:42.000 When China tries, within the next few years, tries to take Taiwan, there's other allies over there dealing with a much bigger enemy, and then you're getting into the AI thing, the drone fighting.

04:50:51.000 I'm so glad that wasn't prevalent when we were there, but microwave weapons, stuff like that.

04:50:55.000 I mean, we're still back in time.

04:50:57.000 We do have smarter people than this panel.

04:50:59.000 They're working, but, you know, they've got to be smart about being smart.

04:51:01.000 That's a pretty low bar, if you don't know for us.

04:51:05.000 No, I mean, that's 100% right.

04:51:07.000 The technology is almost outpacing the need for some manning, not all.

04:51:11.000 But how do you balance the technology versus the man on the ground?

04:51:15.000 This is a question that we've asked every single war and every single conflict.

04:51:21.000 Ultimately...

04:51:22.000 It really does come down to the men and women on the ground. 0.79

04:51:25.000 It comes down to the quality of the people, their integrity, and their work ethic.

04:51:29.000 And I love this country.

04:51:30.000 I'm so proud that I get to wear the uniform and the flag.

04:51:33.000 And I get to look to my left and my right, and I am just so inspired by the strength of our service members and the men and women in this country.

04:51:40.000 And I have...

04:51:41.000 Total confidence that we have the best and the brightest in the world that are answering that question.

04:51:46.000 And they are giving the best tools to the best men and women in uniform to then go and both prevent our next war and, heaven forbid, if we do have to fight it, win it.

04:51:56.000 Let's talk about kids.

04:51:57.000 Rob, I know you got a new one.

04:51:59.000 Yeah, I got a birthday on Sunday.

04:52:01.000 My daughter Valor turns one.

04:52:03.000 So, congrats.

04:52:05.000 So, I have three myself.

04:52:07.000 You know, and for the last four years.

04:52:09.000 In the first time in my life, you know, I come from a somewhat military family.

04:52:14.000 I would not have advised my children to join the military.

04:52:17.000 How do we make sure that no one ever wants to have that side of a conversation again?

04:52:21.000 That's a tough conversation, too.

04:52:23.000 Again, the politics getting in, the D.C. swamp ruining everything.

04:52:26.000 I mean, it's a tough conversation to have, too, because a couple months ago, someone asked, are your children going to join the military?

04:52:32.000 I don't know.

04:52:32.000 I mean, maybe you tell them, get straight A's, get an academy, and learn how to fly something.

04:52:36.000 But the other stuff...

04:52:37.000 You know, I don't know.

04:52:37.000 But now, I mean, it's turning the tide.

04:52:38.000 But they've got to maintain that.

04:52:40.000 Right now, we're in the honeymoon phase still, even though it's Donald Trump's second term.

04:52:43.000 You've got to maintain that momentum.

04:52:46.000 And again, too, we have the great patriots in this country, too.

04:52:50.000 The problem is, I mean, we have X now, but a lot of the voices get shut down.

04:52:54.000 I don't know if you noticed shadow banning and stuff like that.

04:52:56.000 The patriotic Americans have been shut down before.

04:52:58.000 And we've got to, hopefully, with some of the people coming over from the social media side, getting more conservative.

04:53:03.000 I mean, we could hope, hope, hope, but we'll see what happens.

04:53:05.000 I kind of want to leave it at this.

04:53:08.000 As we move out of this phase, I mean, we've got three years and 11 months left.

04:53:13.000 I feel like a lot of countries have kind of said...

04:53:16.000 I think we're going to win the next six elections.

04:53:18.000 I sure hope so.

04:53:22.000 At a bare minimum.

04:53:23.000 Yeah.

04:53:23.000 Minimum.

04:53:24.000 Zero reason why we shouldn't have at least the next 12 years.

04:53:27.000 We're fixing this country.

04:53:28.000 So, you know, with 30 seconds or less to solve the world's problems, how do you get to a place?

04:53:33.000 Where we install mechanisms that even politics can't corrupt it. 0.79

04:53:37.000 Yeah, building that beachhead where these are things that are going to stand the test of time, that are going to stand a midterm election, and then the next national election.

04:53:49.000 A strong thing is harder to kill.

04:53:52.000 This idea, to answer that question simply, a strong soldier, a strong military, they're just flat out harder to defeat.

04:54:00.000 So I want strength, masculinity, power, big, murderous men to be running towards the military to put the flag on their shoulder to serve this country.

04:54:09.000 That's what I want.

04:54:10.000 Who don't really care about people's feelings.

04:54:12.000 They do not.

04:54:13.000 They care about winning, and they want to be strong when they do it.

04:54:15.000 Rob, Tim, it's been a pleasure.

04:54:17.000 Thank you, everybody.

04:54:18.000 Appreciate it.

04:54:19.000 Thank you.

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04:57:27.000 Ladies and gentlemen, this is CPAC in action.

04:57:31.000 Please welcome founder to Tot Dose Group, Hobe Shabander. 1.00

04:57:36.000 Founder of Walkaway, Brandon Straka.

04:57:39.000 CPAC Chairman, Max Schlapp.

04:57:42.000 And your host, host of American Sunrise on Real America on RAV, Dr. Gina Loudon.

04:57:48.000 I'm going to go here.

04:57:57.000 You want me there?

04:57:59.000 All right, everybody.

04:58:06.000 Welcome, first of all.

04:58:07.000 How amazing has this CPAC been for you?

04:58:12.000 And you know, CPAC, the thing I love about it, I've been coming for decades now.

04:58:18.000 Phyllis Schlafly actually brought me to my very first CPAC. Now I come every year with Real America's Voice.

04:58:23.000 And love talking to all of you.

04:58:25.000 But my favorite thing about CPAC is it is what President talks about all the time.

04:58:31.000 Action, action, action.

04:58:33.000 And so that's what we're going to talk about with you today.

04:58:35.000 What we did right in this last election.

04:58:38.000 If the message that's coming through to you as really the actors in the action, right?

04:58:45.000 If that's the right message, because the people on this panel have the expertise to tell you all of the above.

04:58:52.000 So I think what we should do is start with just a brief intro, if you guys can, just a couple of sentences about...

04:58:59.000 Who you are and what you did in this last election.

04:59:02.000 Thank you so much.

04:59:03.000 Hi, everyone.

04:59:03.000 My name is Obe Shibander.

04:59:05.000 I was in the field in Michigan.

04:59:07.000 My group launched the Arab Americans for a Better America, or AIPAC. And thanks to a great deal of CPAC's support, we set up shop in Michigan early on in the campaign as an outside group, working very closely with our favorite ambassador, Rick Grinnell.

04:59:29.000 To reach out to the Middle Eastern community, Muslims, Christians in Michigan, and we helped turn Michigan deep red with a lot of first-time, first-time voters, with never-voted Republican ever in their life, voting for President Trump because they knew that he was a president for peace.

04:59:51.000 Hey, everybody.

04:59:52.000 I'm Brendan Strzok.

04:59:53.000 I'm the founder of the Hashtag Walkaway Campaign.

04:59:59.000 Don't get a big head, Brady.

05:00:02.000 We are the largest national movement of former Democrats walking away from the Democratic Party at this point.

05:00:11.000 In 2018, we started a national conversation about the need for people to walk away from the divisive, hateful Democratic Party and political left.

05:00:22.000 As of today, walk away has grown to over 750,000 people who have joined our movement, tens of thousands of people who have created their written and video testimonials about leaving the Democratic Party.

05:00:32.000 And dare I say that I believe that the 2024 election was the walk away election.

05:00:37.000 And I'm not just saying that.

05:00:41.000 I'm not just saying that because we walked away with the presidency, and we walked away with the House, and we walked away with the Senate, and we walked away with the popular vote, and we walked away with every swing state in the country, but because massive numbers of minorities walked away from the Democratic Party in 2024 and led us to victory.

05:01:04.000 Well, you know this guy.

05:01:06.000 Do you have any sentences you want to say about what you do?

05:01:10.000 Well, I just want to say that my wife, Mercy, just walked in. 0.96

05:01:12.000 I think she's doing a great job.

05:01:14.000 Thanks for coming to listen to me.

05:01:16.000 I was told that there's going to be some harsh judges of how I do in this panel, so I'm very nervous right now about what the scores are going to be.

05:01:24.000 In my household, you have to do a good job where I have six women who kind of let you know you don't do so good. 1.00

05:01:30.000 Almost every one of my kids is here today, so if you see them, be careful because they're good staffers, I want you to know.

05:01:39.000 Okay, so let me just give you a quick overview at CPAC. You guys are all very generous to us and to many other conservative groups.

05:01:45.000 CPAC has, I think, a big role to play there.

05:01:48.000 But Brandon's group has a big role to play there.

05:01:50.000 I bet you have Michigan groups that have a big role to play there.

05:01:53.000 The one thing as a conservative community, by the way, I'm preaching to myself right now.

05:01:58.000 The one thing as a conservative community, which I think is the pro-America community, I'm not so sure conservative is even a word we have to use right now.

05:02:05.000 We just believe in America and America's values.

05:02:08.000 That we've got to partner together really, really well if we're going to beat the bad guys, if we're going to beat the commies.

05:02:13.000 So this is a little bit to myself.

05:02:14.000 I get competitive.

05:02:16.000 I think, well, that's a CPAC thing.

05:02:17.000 CPAC did that.

05:02:19.000 And we're doing a good job as an organization because all of you are helping us.

05:02:23.000 But we all have to work together.

05:02:25.000 And I have to say, to begin my comments, I think we ought to give a rousing applause.

05:02:30.000 to having an RNC chairman who was uber-competent and did a great job in Michael Watley.

05:02:36.000 Susie Wiles, the campaign manager for Donald Trump, deserves a round of applause for being uber-competent, and Chris LaCivita.

05:02:41.000 Let's give them a round of applause.

05:02:48.000 They're all friends of mine.

05:02:49.000 They're all people I've worked with for a long time.

05:02:53.000 I don't even want to tell you how many decades it's been.

05:02:56.000 It's a lot of decades.

05:02:57.000 There's a lot of snow on the roof now.

05:02:59.000 I know that.

05:03:00.000 I have to comb it every morning, once a day.

05:03:03.000 But beyond that, these entities, the campaign and the RNC, can only do so much.

05:03:08.000 You've got to have outside groups.

05:03:10.000 You've got to have non-profits that will do a lot.

05:03:12.000 And I just want you to know, from a CPAC perspective, I have some of my board members here who helped me think this through.

05:03:18.000 We tried to do what others weren't doing.

05:03:20.000 It was because the RNC was so competent and the campaign was so competent that I knew that they would do their pieces competently.

05:03:27.000 And that's not always the case in politics.

05:03:29.000 Sometimes they're not doing it competently, and then you're scared to death because you've got to fill in.

05:03:32.000 They did their job competently.

05:03:34.000 And then we saw the seams, right?

05:03:36.000 We saw the openings that we could spend time on.

05:03:38.000 And for CPAC, we decided to focus on a couple things.

05:03:41.000 We helped you in Michigan with Rick's direction because we thought Michigan could be turned red.

05:03:46.000 Are you here from Michigan, anyone?

05:03:48.000 Wasn't that awesome?

05:03:49.000 It happened.

05:03:50.000 And funny, when you look for the openings in the seams, it takes less revenue because nobody's playing.

05:03:57.000 And so you play with smaller amounts of money.

05:04:00.000 We still spent millions of dollars on this project.

05:04:03.000 Mercy led the way on the Hispanic outreach. 0.86

05:04:05.000 Believe it or not, there was a lot of openings there.

05:04:07.000 Thank you, sweetheart, for your great work and your voice on those things.

05:04:11.000 And then we did something else.

05:04:12.000 By the way, we believe that they cheat.

05:04:14.000 I'm sorry if it's controversial.

05:04:17.000 I'm never going to stop saying it.

05:04:18.000 I'm sorry if I keep getting canceled.

05:04:20.000 I believe they cheat.

05:04:22.000 We think, as a board at CPAC, we think that if we expose their cheating, put cameras on their cheating, have people watching and reporting on their cheating, writing letters to state officials about how they plan to cheat, that that stops a lot of the cheating.

05:04:41.000 And I believe that's what happened this time.

05:04:42.000 And we did plenty of that.

05:04:44.000 Well, Matt, here's a question, though.

05:04:46.000 We heard a lot about banking the vote, right, in this last election.

05:04:50.000 And the other thing about this last election that I'd like each of you to speak to is that, you know, we had Donald Trump.

05:05:00.000 We're not going to have Donald Trump, probably.

05:05:03.000 Well, I don't know.

05:05:03.000 Maybe we will.

05:05:04.000 After yesterday, maybe we will have Donald Trump.

05:05:06.000 But we had one George Washington.

05:05:09.000 And I think there's one Donald Trump.

05:05:11.000 I think there's one Donald Trump.

05:05:12.000 But the question is, you know, we hear this message all the time of bank the vote, as if that was the only thing that needed to be done in this last election.

05:05:19.000 What do you all see on the horizon as we look forward into the midterms and, of course, into the next election that we need to be preparing for already, at least in our minds?

05:05:30.000 Yeah, look, there is a culture shift that we saw on the ground in Michigan.

05:05:34.000 Look, we're talking about precincts where Arab Americans are a majority in the Detroit metro area that Joe Biden, you know, won by over 80% in 2020, that he, that Kamala lost by over 10% this time around.

05:05:50.000 That is a sea change.

05:05:52.000 You know, I mean, Kamala Harris was going around campaigning with Liz Cheney. 1.00

05:05:57.000 You know what we did?

05:05:57.000 We spent just, you know, a few thousand dollars, put up a few billboards of just a picture of Kamala looking into the eyes of Liz Cheney.

05:06:05.000 We put, you know, war.

05:06:07.000 You know, this is the war candidate.

05:06:09.000 Ours is the peace candidate.

05:06:11.000 Those are the simple messages that resonate with immigrant communities, with second-generation communities.

05:06:19.000 These were deep blue precincts that had flipped red from Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Hamtramck, Yemeni Americans, Chaldeans, Bangladeshi communities, both Muslim and Christians.

05:06:37.000 It's historic what is happening here.

05:06:38.000 And we have a real moment to build on flipping Michigan and what I call a cultural sea change that President Trump inaugurated.

05:06:48.000 And I think we have a tremendous opportunity to build on that victory in places like Michigan.

05:06:57.000 And Matt, you're so right in what you said a minute ago.

05:07:00.000 When I started Walkaway back in 2018, 2019, what I wanted to do is fill in what I call some of the holes in where I felt like the Republican Party needed extra help.

05:07:09.000 One of those was doing outreach to minority communities.

05:07:12.000 I didn't see enough of it, and a lot of it wasn't, you know, truly effective.

05:07:15.000 So we got on the road back in 2018, 2019, and haven't stopped talking to the black community, the Hispanic community, the LGBT community, Asians, Muslims.

05:07:24.000 And what we saw in 2024, I think after all these years of efforts and many other groups doing amazing work, is the black community shifted 3% to the right. 0.95

05:07:35.000 The Asian community, 5% shifted to the right.

05:07:38.000 The youth vote, 7% to the right.

05:07:41.000 The American Indian, 10% shift to the right. 0.72

05:07:45.000 And the Hispanic community, 20% shift to the right in 2024 from 2020, which I think is absolutely astounding. 1.00

05:07:54.000 In legacy media, Brandon, is not reporting some of those numbers that you're talking about.

05:07:59.000 Well, they don't want people to know.

05:08:00.000 And they want to try to keep convincing people that the Republican Party is the same old Republican Party they've been able to malign as being racist and bigoted and not welcoming to minorities, when in fact, we are the new America First Republican Party, which is a big, diverse tent of intellectual ideas and diverse people of all backgrounds.

05:08:23.000 Long has been the true Big Tent, but the media would really like to keep that a secret from the voting electorate.

05:08:31.000 One of the things that you did that I think is so fascinating is, you know, you always hear you've got to go into the communities, and I know CPAC supported you.

05:08:39.000 You went right into those communities.

05:08:42.000 And probably no one had ever been there to ask them for their vote before.

05:08:46.000 No.

05:08:46.000 In many instances, we held dozens of town halls, anywhere from 20 people to 200 people.

05:08:52.000 And Ambassador Grinnell, God bless him, was talking to everybody.

05:08:55.000 He didn't leave Michigan.

05:08:56.000 He just stayed in Michigan.

05:08:58.000 He worked his rear off.

05:08:59.000 It was amazing to watch the posts.

05:09:01.000 And you guys didn't do it in a way to get a bunch of attention.

05:09:04.000 You did it quietly.

05:09:05.000 People thought we were crazy.

05:09:07.000 When we started early on, they're like, what?

05:09:09.000 Why are you reaching out to them?

05:09:10.000 Why are you reaching out to a community that was in the deep blue precincts that never voted Republican, let alone for President Trump?

05:09:16.000 But Ambassador Grinnell led the way.

05:09:19.000 Leadership matters.

05:09:20.000 Look, and these were conversations that were difficult conversations.

05:09:23.000 Kamala Harris didn't want to meet with the Arab Americans, the Muslim Americans, because she was afraid of tough questions.

05:09:28.000 But our guy, Rick, sat in there.

05:09:30.000 A lot of these conversations, they were respectful.

05:09:32.000 They were respectful conversations, but they were tough conversations.

05:09:35.000 And that is The difference when you have a paternalistic Democratic Party far left that doesn't want to treat You know, minority groups that are American at heart, that are pro-America.

05:09:49.000 They've immigrated here. 0.97

05:09:50.000 They've sacrificed so much for their families and for their children.

05:09:53.000 I'll give you an anecdote.

05:09:54.000 One of the...

05:09:55.000 We did a 20-second ad called The Daughter of Dearborn that went viral in Michigan.

05:10:00.000 It was a lady by the name of Sam Luqman. 0.86

05:10:03.000 She was a Yemeni-American, a daughter of immigrants, a single mother, was a progressive activist, and was looking into the camera telling...

05:10:13.000 Her community to vote for Donald Trump because he is the candidate for peace, as he has proven to be.

05:10:20.000 And that is...

05:10:22.000 I mean, we've never seen anything like it.

05:10:24.000 It was absolutely historic.

05:10:26.000 People thought we were crazy for even trying, but we proved them wrong.

05:10:30.000 And, Gina, you hit the nail on the head with what you said a moment ago about, you know, a lot of these communities haven't even been talked to, and if a small amount of outreach can make such a difference.

05:10:39.000 When we look at 2025, okay, so 2025, there's two very big races that we have coming up. 1.00

05:10:45.000 There's a governor's race in Virginia and a governor's race in New Jersey, right?

05:10:50.000 Yeah, but you guys, listen to me, because...

05:10:52.000 Aaron, can we win New Jersey?

05:10:54.000 Okay.

05:10:55.000 Elizabeth, we can win.

05:10:56.000 Okay.

05:10:56.000 Yeah, but hear me out here because there's two key philosophies that I'm asking people to embrace going into this year and every year forward.

05:11:04.000 Number one, that every year is an election year.

05:11:07.000 We can no longer just get involved every two years or every four years for a couple of weeks before the election.

05:11:12.000 And number two, every election is a national election.

05:11:15.000 What do I mean by that?

05:11:16.000 Well, we saw in 2020 how just a few governors in a few states with the stroke of a pen changed their voter laws by executive order, which cost us the 2020 election.

05:11:26.000 So it does matter in every state who the governors are.

05:11:29.000 We have to get involved in all of this.

05:11:31.000 Now, when we talk about communities that people are not connecting with, it doesn't just go by, you know, the color of people's skin or their religion.

05:11:37.000 In New Jersey, convicted felons are allowed to vote in New Jersey.

05:11:42.000 Well, guess what? 0.99

05:11:43.000 The Democratic Party, who has spent decades screaming about criminal justice reform, when they decided to go after Donald Trump and decided to go after the J6ers, the Democratic Party decided that there's nothing worse in the world than being a convicted felon and that they're the scum of the earth. 1.00

05:11:57.000 I am going into New Jersey all of this year. 0.96

05:11:59.000 I'm going to be speaking in prisons.

05:12:01.000 I am going to be speaking...

05:12:02.000 I am going to be speaking to ex-convicts groups.

05:12:07.000 And my message is very simple.

05:12:10.000 Which political party is demonizing convicted felons and which political party just elected one to be president of the United States?

05:12:21.000 I love that.

05:12:22.000 Matt, here's a quick question for you.

05:12:24.000 I like these guys talking, Gina.

05:12:26.000 I think you're making a lot of sense.

05:12:27.000 Well, but I want you to address something, because you talked about looking out there at the landscape in your own states and seeing what no one else is doing, seeing the message that no one else is thinking or the action that no one else is taking.

05:12:40.000 You did that in this last election.

05:12:41.000 Just talk briefly about that.

05:12:43.000 Yeah, so, you know, I worked on presidential campaigns.

05:12:46.000 You know, Mercy and I... We met in a White House.

05:12:49.000 Like, we've been doing national politics.

05:12:50.000 I mean, I kind of feel like I'm at an AA program here because I'm like, I'm sorry to all of you that I've been involved in politics my whole entire life.

05:12:57.000 It's the only thing I've ever done. 0.87

05:12:58.000 But a part of that is even when you're dim-witted, you can learn some things.

05:13:03.000 And what you learn is that everybody's a genius when you win an election.

05:13:08.000 So we're all geniuses.

05:13:09.000 Everything we did was fantastic because we won.

05:13:13.000 And that's not honest.

05:13:14.000 No.

05:13:14.000 Some of the things were difference makers and some of the things weren't.

05:13:18.000 When you lose, everyone's an idiot. 1.00

05:13:20.000 And everything you did was stupid. 1.00

05:13:22.000 And that's not honest either. 1.00

05:13:24.000 So you have to really look at things in a clear-eyed way.

05:13:26.000 I would say there's a couple things.

05:13:29.000 I've been doing this job a while and there's a couple things I'm actually proud of.

05:13:33.000 Even though they say that's a vice, right?

05:13:35.000 Pride.

05:13:36.000 But there are a couple things I'm proud of.

05:13:38.000 One of the things I'm most proud of...

05:13:39.000 Is back to Brandon's comments and your comments too.

05:13:44.000 The first group, and we do this together, we're a community.

05:13:47.000 The first group to invite RFK to speak was who?

05:13:50.000 CPAC. CPAC invited RFK. I got yelled at by everybody.

05:13:54.000 What an idiot you are. 1.00

05:13:55.000 He's a liberal. 1.00

05:13:56.000 He's running against Trump.

05:13:58.000 He's going to hurt Trump.

05:13:59.000 I was like, I don't know.

05:14:00.000 I'm reading about these assassinations.

05:14:03.000 I think he's got a real finger on the pulse of this deep state thing.

05:14:07.000 And by the way...

05:14:08.000 I don't know if any of you have noticed, but I think I eat too many Snickers bars sometimes, and I don't think our food thing is working so good.

05:14:16.000 And I go to all these other countries, I go to Hungary and Brazil and all these countries, and they all look so much better than the rest of us in America who are a little porky and a little like eating our processed food.

05:14:26.000 So he might be right about this.

05:14:27.000 So we let him come and he spoke about this and he hit it out of the park.

05:14:30.000 Now he's in Trump's cabinet, okay?

05:14:32.000 Do you know who was the first group to invite Tulsi Gabbard to speak on the right?

05:14:36.000 See you back.

05:14:37.000 She headlined our Reagan dinner.

05:14:39.000 Any of you who were in this room who were there that night who yelled at me, not at you.

05:14:43.000 You didn't yell at me, Karen.

05:14:45.000 But it worked out.

05:14:47.000 But some of you said to me, what the hell are you doing?

05:14:48.000 I was like, I don't really know, but we're going to give her a shot because the Democratic Party is literally kicking her out of it. 0.99

05:14:54.000 And she just ran for president. 1.00

05:14:57.000 And they say she's a Russian agent.

05:14:58.000 Well, they say Trump's a Russian agent, so I really might like her when I get to know her. 1.00

05:15:03.000 And she did a spectacular job. 1.00

05:15:05.000 By the way, you know who else we...

05:15:07.000 Who took a chance on who everyone said it was wrong to do?

05:15:10.000 Donald Trump.

05:15:11.000 Yeah, yeah.

05:15:12.000 Came to CPAC. Yeah.

05:15:13.000 Look at what National Review said when we invited Donald Trump to CPAC. Clutching pearls.

05:15:19.000 How many of you were there that year?

05:15:21.000 How many of you were there?

05:15:23.000 That's cool.

05:15:23.000 I was there.

05:15:24.000 You were there, Kimberly.

05:15:25.000 We're getting old.

05:15:27.000 But talk about pearl clutching to invite Donald Trump, who wasn't a registered Republican and, you know, said some bombastic things.

05:15:34.000 It was the right thing to do.

05:15:35.000 So we're going to keep doing that.

05:15:37.000 We're going to keep having nontraditional, you might say, whatever, people be a part of our program.

05:15:44.000 And sometimes they'll say things that maybe some of us don't like.

05:15:48.000 But along this process, we're going to rediscover something as a country.

05:15:54.000 The right to speak your mind.

05:15:56.000 The right to not be canceled.

05:15:59.000 And the right to learn and think a little bit out loud.

05:16:05.000 And if we can allow that to be something that's acceptable again, I think we're going to self-correct as a country.

05:16:12.000 So I'm proud that we played a role in that.

05:16:14.000 So the answer to your question is, in politics, one of the first things we're going to do is we're going to say to Americans out there who can legally vote once, we're going to tell them, if you feel comfortable with a little bit about what you're hearing, for instance, in this conversation, you're welcome.

05:16:33.000 You're welcome.

05:16:34.000 Matt, can I say to you too, to your point about taking risks and inviting non-traditional people, people are very aware of what I've gone through for the last four years.

05:16:44.000 Which was wrong.

05:16:46.000 Thank you.

05:16:46.000 But I want you guys to know that in 2022, very shortly after I got off of house arrest, and certainly when the national conversation regarding January 6th was still extremely negative, I got a phone call from Matt Schlapp in early 2022, and his exact words to me were, Brandon, don't think that your friends have forgotten about you.

05:17:04.000 He said, I want you to come and speak at CPAC in 2022. And he invited me to speak in 2022 and 2023 and 2024 and gave me a stage and a platform to talk about my January 6th experience and to even erect a prison cell at January 6th to do a demonstration to draw attention to what the J6ers were going through. 1.00

05:17:24.000 So I want to thank you for your consistent support of the January 6th community all this time.

05:17:30.000 Absolutely.

05:17:31.000 Yeah.

05:17:33.000 We are almost out of time.

05:17:35.000 Do you have any final words?

05:17:37.000 Because we want to...

05:17:37.000 Hey, no.

05:17:38.000 First, Gina, can we say thank you for Michigan?

05:17:41.000 Yeah!

05:17:42.000 Thank you.

05:17:43.000 Thank you for believing in us.

05:17:44.000 Thank you for believing in us when not many people believed in our mission.

05:17:49.000 Muslim Americans, Arab Americans love President Trump.

05:17:53.000 They love the message for peace, the peace that the president has already delivered.

05:17:58.000 And this is a community that's growing, and you're going to see a lot more of them voting Republican.

05:18:03.000 All right.

05:18:04.000 Awesome.

05:18:04.000 Let's do it.

05:18:05.000 Thank you all for being here.

05:18:07.000 Thank you, Gina, and thanks for being here with Real America Voice.

05:18:10.000 Have you all gone down to CPAC Central and seen their big Mac Daddy television set down there?

05:18:16.000 It's a little boisterous and loud, but I kind of love it.

05:18:18.000 It's fun.

05:18:19.000 And every single morning, 8 to 10 a.m.

05:18:21.000 Eastern Time, American Sunrise, I'd love to have you in our morning show audience.

05:18:28.000 But tight show and we haven't had you on yet, but we'll have to do it.

05:18:33.000 But we have these guys on all the time and love to have your input and participation.

05:18:37.000 Thank you all so much for a great take-out.

05:18:40.000 Thank you.

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05:20:45.000 Ladies and gentlemen, up next, the great expansion, a new energy economy.

05:20:52.000 Please welcome CEO Curio 55, Ed McGinnis, Governor of Alaska, Mike Dunlavy, and founder and executive director of Power the Future, Daniel Turner. - I'm here. Daniel Turner. - I'm here.

05:21:14.000 Oh, you're here?

05:21:15.000 Oh, wait, wait.

05:21:17.000 There we go.

05:21:18.000 Governor, you're in the middle.

05:21:20.000 It's like a dating game.

05:21:24.000 Great to be with you.

05:21:26.000 Hello, CPAC, and thanks for joining us on this panel about energy.

05:21:30.000 An expression I say often, energy is everything.

05:21:33.000 First thing you did this morning when you woke up required energy.

05:21:37.000 You probably turned off your alarm.

05:21:39.000 You took a hot shower.

05:21:40.000 You looked at your phone to see what President Trump did during the night.

05:21:43.000 You brewed some coffee.

05:21:45.000 And the very last thing you will do tonight before you go to bed requires energy.

05:21:51.000 Turn off the light.

05:21:52.000 Set your alarm.

05:21:53.000 Energy is everything.

05:21:54.000 And as President Trump says, if we're going to enter into this golden age of America, we are only going to do so with affordable...

05:22:02.000 Reliable, abundant American energy.

05:22:04.000 So it's great to have a panel to talk about this with two gentlemen who don't just love energy, but because of that, they love humanity.

05:22:11.000 I'm with Governor Mike Dunleavy, the 12th governor of the great state of Alaska.

05:22:15.000 Thank you.

05:22:16.000 And Ed McGuinness, who's the CEO of Curio, one of the most innovative nuclear companies in the country and in the world.

05:22:23.000 And we're going to talk about energy.

05:22:25.000 And Governor, if you don't mind, I'm going to start with you.

05:22:27.000 So January 20th.

05:22:29.000 A plethora of executive orders, and yet Alaska got its own.

05:22:33.000 Pretty remarkable.

05:22:34.000 The first state to ever get its own executive order.

05:22:37.000 Why was this necessary for Alaska?

05:22:39.000 What happened?

05:22:40.000 Well, President Trump, for many reasons, has always had an affinity for Alaska, even in his first term.

05:22:46.000 But he sees us as a solution to many of America's problems.

05:22:49.000 As many people know, Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867 because of its resources.

05:22:54.000 Vast amounts of oil, vast amounts of gas, vast amounts of minerals, 49 of the 50 rare earths, millions of acres of trees, fish, the list goes on and on and on.

05:23:03.000 And we've had a difficult past with some administrations.

05:23:08.000 President Trump came on the scene, understood its importance to the world, the U.S. and the world, and when he came back here on November 5th, I've got to tell you, November 5th, I don't know about you, but it was like Christmas for me, and I'm 63 years old, so I was hopping all over the place.

05:23:23.000 But long story short, a lot of the issues that could help America are in Alaska.

05:23:30.000 So they put together an executive order on mining, oil, gas, different oil plays, different gas projects.

05:23:38.000 I mean, one of the largest projects in the world that we're working on right now is our gas project, which would have gas go down a 42-inch line, 800 miles, and then to Tidewater for Asia and our Asian allies.

05:23:50.000 He sees that as a critical link in what he wants to do.

05:23:53.000 And boy, he's moving at breakneck speed.

05:23:56.000 I mean, just like you said, Daniel, you wake up in the morning, it's like, what happened today?

05:23:59.000 Yeah, it's remarkable.

05:24:00.000 And everything we need in the energy space.

05:24:02.000 Is in Alaska.

05:24:04.000 To open that up to America is great.

05:24:06.000 Ed, there's a line on your website, on Curio's website, which I love, and it says, energy access promotes human rights.

05:24:13.000 And I wanted to ask you to talk about that and elaborate on it.

05:24:17.000 What does abundant energy mean for human rights, just for humanity, and how Curio can help solve that?

05:24:22.000 First of all, I want to say what a great time in history to be an American.

05:24:27.000 And I just want to say that.

05:24:29.000 Also...

05:24:30.000 What a great time.

05:24:31.000 I'm in the energy business.

05:24:33.000 What a great time to be in the energy sector.

05:24:36.000 We have a country now that is number one in producing oil and gas, and we need to do the same thing for our other key energy sectors, including nuclear.

05:24:48.000 And as Daniel said, we need affordable, robust, reliable electricity.

05:24:57.000 That is accessible to all.

05:25:00.000 We need that fuel to drive this agenda for this country realizing the full abundance of energy resources we have in this country.

05:25:12.000 The days of taking highly valuable material whether it's oil and gas with the shale revolution the way we've shown how we can tap that or nuclear where we're throwing away perfectly Good, highly valuable nuclear fuel just because of international government policies.

05:25:33.000 The day to start maximizing our energy resources in the United States is now.

05:25:40.000 And we need to reshore our nuclear infrastructure just the way the oil and gas industry brought themselves back from the days of the 70s with a slow decline, the supposed peak oil.

05:25:55.000 And then industry came in and innovated and found a way to tap in that shale through directional drilling, through hydraulic fracturing.

05:26:06.000 Now we are the number one producer in both oil and gas.

05:26:10.000 We can do the same for nuclear, but I can assure you right now Russia and China are eating our lunch internationally on nuclear. 0.78

05:26:18.000 And the implications go beyond civilian.

05:26:22.000 It's time for this country to really snap out of it and whip our nuclear infrastructure and fuel cycle back into shape.

05:26:30.000 You know, we just finished four years of Scranton Joe.

05:26:36.000 And you are Scranton, Mike, if I can call you that.

05:26:39.000 You're from Scranton originally.

05:26:40.000 I'm the other guy.

05:26:41.000 You're the other Scranton guy.

05:26:43.000 But you both look at energy and it comes to blue-collar jobs, working Americans.

05:26:47.000 You see it very differently.

05:26:49.000 Why is our vision, the conservative vision, why is your vision, especially for Alaska, so much radically different than Joe Biden's?

05:26:56.000 Because I think President Biden seriously was hijacked by extreme environmentalists in his term.

05:27:03.000 We both grew up in Scranton.

05:27:04.000 We heated with coal when I was a kid.

05:27:06.000 We took out the ashes.

05:27:07.000 We had anthracite coal.

05:27:09.000 Scranton was the anthracite coal capital of the world, built this country.

05:27:13.000 But we were not rich, and that's the thing about energy.

05:27:17.000 In Alaska, we build policies for the single mom with three kids, and that includes energy and accessibility energy.

05:27:23.000 But I don't know what happened there with President Biden.

05:27:27.000 There was a time I think he was pro-energy, but again, I believe he was hijacked.

05:27:32.000 The past four years for Alaska has been nothing but brutal.

05:27:35.000 I mean, executive order after executive order.

05:27:38.000 We had 66 to 68 what we call sanctions put against Alaska by our own federal government.

05:27:45.000 Those were more sanctions put against us than put against Iran or Venezuela.

05:27:50.000 So, in essence, our own federal government, our own federal agencies were at war with the state.

05:27:54.000 The very state that was brought into the Union in 1867, purchased from Russia, for our...

05:28:01.000 And so, again, I believe President Biden was hijacked by the environmentalists.

05:28:08.000 There was a social engineering program that was foisted on the backs of this country. 0.99

05:28:13.000 And boy, oh boy, I guess the sun rose again on November 5th.

05:28:17.000 That's all I can tell you.

05:28:18.000 It's like Christmas every day now.

05:28:19.000 Absolutely.

05:28:20.000 Ed, you were just saying how Russia is eating our lunch when it comes to nuclear, and one of the things that President Trump talks a lot about is artificial intelligence.

05:28:29.000 Signed an executive order on it, and projections say that we need twice to three times the amount of electricity production to win the AI revolution.

05:28:37.000 What's the role you see of nuclear so that China doesn't eat our lunch when it comes to artificial intelligence? 0.85

05:28:44.000 Absolutely.

05:28:44.000 We have a key role.

05:28:45.000 That's why you see some of the big tech companies now investing in nuclear.

05:28:49.000 We want to complement what oil and gas is bringing to the table.

05:28:52.000 And our nuclear power systems can provide what we call behind-the-meter power dedicated for these data centers.

05:28:59.000 And what that does is it helps prevent the inadvertent increase on the residents in the states where those AI data centers are going to be.

05:29:14.000 And it helps insulate them from the potential of having escalating electricity prices because of these big data centers coming in and needing a large portion of power.

05:29:26.000 So dedicated nuclear with a sustainable approach of recycling.

05:29:32.000 All that so-called nuclear waste.

05:29:34.000 Most people in the United States don't realize that nuclear fuel, when we spend hundreds of millions of dollars producing that fuel, mining the uranium, it runs in a reactor for about five years.

05:29:47.000 Government policy has been in the past.

05:29:50.000 How many people realize that after it's running a reactor for five years, you've only used about 4% of the energy value.

05:29:58.000 You have enough energy value left in that used nuclear fuel to meet U.S. electricity needs for 150 years.

05:30:06.000 So we need to stop throwing away this material.

05:30:09.000 It's like buying a beautiful Cadillac Escalade and driving it for a month and then throwing it away.

05:30:17.000 I don't think those would like that.

05:30:19.000 So I think that we need to be common sense again.

05:30:22.000 And we have to maximize our natural resources, recycle this material.

05:30:28.000 And Russia recycles and they end up dominating the fuel supply market in isotopes.

05:30:35.000 So I'm confident that if we get the nuclear sector on a good footing like oil and gas and we can do it, They will be able to respond to the AI data centers and increase demands on our finite grid.

05:30:50.000 And government policy has driven a lot of these problems?

05:30:53.000 It is primarily a function of government policy, nonsensical, and policy that's not looking out for the residents of the states, but really focus on...

05:31:05.000 International issues have nothing to do with the benefit of the community.

05:31:09.000 Bad government policy has ruined a lot of rural America.

05:31:13.000 And that's why I started Power of the Future for those energy jobs, coal miners in Appalachia. 0.98

05:31:19.000 Rural energy jobs where bad government policy, radical green policy comes in and destroys their livelihoods and their towns.

05:31:25.000 And Alaska has a lot of rural folks.

05:31:27.000 And what do energy jobs mean to rural Alaskans?

05:31:30.000 It means everything.

05:31:33.000 In Alaska, most of our energy plays and our mining plays are in the rural parts of the state where our indigenous people live.

05:31:39.000 My wife is an Eskimo lady from north of the Arctic Circle. 0.67

05:31:41.000 My three daughters work in the largest lead zinc mine in the world at Red Dog Mime, an engineer, logistics officer, and a buyer.

05:31:48.000 So when you close down an energy play or a mining play in Alaska, what happens?

05:31:54.000 Those people don't get the opportunity to work.

05:31:56.000 The local areas don't get the revenue.

05:31:58.000 You offshore that to some place like China.

05:32:00.000 You embolden child labor.

05:32:02.000 You embolden dictatorships.

05:32:03.000 You embolden the, really, wrecking the environment.

05:32:07.000 And America loses.

05:32:09.000 We offshore everything, all opportunities.

05:32:12.000 In Alaska, this is an interesting stat.

05:32:15.000 Since oil production began on the North Slope, our Inupiaq Eskimo folks on the North Slope where oil comes from, their life expectancy has increased by 14 years in research that's been done.

05:32:27.000 That is the greatest increase in life expectancy of any group in the United States of America, and that was due to oil production because they could then finance clinics, better runways, better schools, doctors, you name it.

05:32:39.000 Resource development, oil production isn't just good for us, it's good for everybody, and it's good for the entire world, to be honest with you.

05:32:47.000 Yeah, and it's good for those jobs in rural communities that don't have alternatives.

05:32:51.000 Absolutely.

05:32:52.000 As we run out of time, Ed, a final thought that you think our audience, I mean, these are the people that get stuff done, right?

05:32:57.000 If you want to leave a message with this audience, this group of patriots, what should they know about nuclear going forward?

05:33:03.000 Nuclear is in a position to help us truly achieve.

05:33:07.000 Energy dominance in the United States and globally.

05:33:10.000 Just like oil and gas, nuclear is not just a domestic issue.

05:33:14.000 When we develop our own independent capability in the nuclear sector, that has global implications.

05:33:21.000 Right now, shockingly, we have almost all of our nuclear fuel provided by foreign suppliers.

05:33:29.000 Russia still, to this day, provides well over 20% of our nuclear fuel.

05:33:36.000 We need to rebuild our domestic nuclear sector.

05:33:40.000 And we know how to do it.

05:33:41.000 And it's time now.

05:33:42.000 And with this president and this unique moment in history, we're going to do it.

05:33:47.000 And how much of these materials can be found in Alaska?

05:33:51.000 Same deal, Governor.

05:33:52.000 A final word for this great audience of what your state can do for the country, for the world, for peace.

05:33:56.000 So much more.

05:33:57.000 I mean, we have uranium finds in Alaska that we can commercialize and assist with the...

05:34:01.000 The industry.

05:34:02.000 We have, as I mentioned, oil, gas, you name it.

05:34:05.000 All of the critical minerals, all of the rare earths that we need to make sure that we have our technological approach not offshore anymore, but kept here in America.

05:34:15.000 And I would say this.

05:34:16.000 I want to leave the audience with this thought.

05:34:17.000 You know, George Washington founded this country.

05:34:20.000 Abraham Lincoln saved this country.

05:34:22.000 I think history is going to show that Donald Trump will be the most transformational president we've ever had.

05:34:27.000 And the next four years are going to be a golden opportunity for the United States of America.

05:34:31.000 It really is.

05:34:32.000 We don't need to buy oil from Venezuela or Iran.

05:34:36.000 We don't need to buy it from the Saudis. 1.00

05:34:38.000 We don't need to get critical nuclear materials from the Russians.

05:34:41.000 We don't need to look to the Chinese for our cobalt, for our uranium, for our nickel, or so many of the rare earths and metals and minerals that are found in Alaska.

05:34:49.000 We are entering this golden age of America.

05:34:52.000 It's going to be remarkable.

05:34:53.000 I marvel to think, with these last couple seconds to say, I marvel to think if we were here, but November had gone differently.

05:35:00.000 The freak show of cabinet members we'd be talking about.

05:35:03.000 The executive orders towards us punishing you for just trying to bring Americans abundant energy.

05:35:10.000 Yes.

05:35:10.000 The entire nation would have entered, I think, a dark period of time.

05:35:15.000 Really think about it.

05:35:16.000 It would have been just four years because if there was a re-election, we would have eight years of this and we probably would have never gotten out of it.

05:35:21.000 So thank God the election went the way you are.

05:35:23.000 Thank God for November.

05:35:25.000 Absolutely.

05:35:25.000 Yeah, and thank God for our energy workers who are right now working in oil, gas, coal, and nuclear.

05:35:31.000 They're powering everything.

05:35:32.000 Energy is everything.

05:35:34.000 And again, the last thing you'll do at the end of the day requires energy.

05:35:37.000 And God bless the men and women who work in this sector tirelessly, that they have an advocate in President Trump and they have an advocate in these and a champion.

05:35:44.000 And these two great men as well.

05:35:46.000 So thank you very much and God bless.

05:35:48.000 Thank you, sirs.

05:35:49.000 Thank you.

05:36:33.000 And Vice Chair, Center for Election Integrity, America First Policy Institute, Hogan Kinley.

05:36:41.000 All righty.

05:36:48.000 All righty.

05:36:52.000 You guys, how you doing?

05:36:54.000 Sir.

05:36:55.000 Good to see you.

05:36:57.000 Hey, CPAC. How's everybody doing?

05:37:01.000 Now, you know why they have us three up here is because they wanted to do a dry run for when Trump gets here in the raucous crowd.

05:37:07.000 So we're basically exactly how it's going to be when Trump is here, just so everyone's clear.

05:37:13.000 Guys, what a huge, huge, massive victory we had in this past election.

05:37:20.000 I still...

05:37:21.000 Now, you can clap for that.

05:37:22.000 I still can't believe it sometimes when I look up and I see...

05:37:25.000 Donald Trump and the Oval, and it just still means so much to me.

05:37:28.000 I know it means so much to you guys because you're the ones who got in there.

05:37:32.000 You're the ones who did the work.

05:37:34.000 You're the ones who went to the neighbors and explained to them why our policies made their lives better and how Joe Biden had been kicking us in the teeth if they didn't feel it already, for heaven's sakes.

05:37:43.000 But at Palm Beach, election night, I'm down there doing all the media stuff, and Trump's about to come up, and one reporter comes by me and he says, So what do you think?

05:37:54.000 This is kind of like 2016 vibes, right? 0.61

05:37:57.000 I was like, are you insane?

05:37:59.000 2016? 0.93

05:38:00.000 I was like, yeah, he beat Hillary Clinton.

05:38:02.000 No one thought that was going to happen.

05:38:05.000 But since then, the indictments, the mugshot, raiding his home, going through his wife's underwear drawer, for heaven's sakes, trying to get rid of his businesses, going after his friends, his family, his co-workers, his colleagues.

05:38:19.000 Not one, but two assassination attempts.

05:38:23.000 Not one, but two opponents.

05:38:25.000 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

05:38:27.000 It's not even close to how it was in 2016. Also, he wins all the swing states, and he wins the popular vote.

05:38:36.000 I mean, no one saw that coming.

05:38:40.000 And on election night, I don't know about you guys, but I was still really, really nervous.

05:38:46.000 As those results were coming in, even after they called Pennsylvania, I'm like, we're still too short.

05:38:50.000 I'm freaking out here.

05:38:52.000 But I knew the work put in by so many governors and secretaries of state, attorneys general across this country to make it too big to rig, to make it easy to vote but hard to cheat, was going to hold.

05:39:08.000 And the two men next to me were instrumental in making sure the vote It was legitimate.

05:39:19.000 And North Carolina led the way in 2020, holding steady.

05:39:25.000 We know we got the North Carolina ladies somewhere, I'm sure. 1.00

05:39:27.000 I'm sure they're there.

05:39:30.000 So Trump gave you a big directive on trying to make what you did in North Carolina a thing all over the country.

05:39:37.000 Talk a little bit about what you were able to accomplish, what you saw from 2020, how you fixed it.

05:39:42.000 And how we're going to keep it that way.

05:39:43.000 Yeah, look, for you to win in a battleground state or a battleground district, you need three things.

05:39:48.000 You need a great candidate, run a great campaign.

05:39:51.000 Check.

05:39:52.000 You've got to get out the vote.

05:39:54.000 Check.

05:39:55.000 You have to protect the ballot.

05:39:57.000 You have to protect the ballot.

05:40:00.000 So what we wanted to do is set up a program.

05:40:03.000 We had three real components.

05:40:05.000 Number one, you have to have the right rules of the road in place before the voting starts.

05:40:11.000 Only American citizens can vote.

05:40:14.000 You have to have a voter ID. States need to clean up their voter rolls, and you've got to have basic protections for your mail-in ballots.

05:40:23.000 Has to happen before voting starts.

05:40:26.000 And then second, you have to be in the room.

05:40:30.000 You have got to be in the room with poll workers, with poll observers, and with attorneys.

05:40:36.000 So we set out to build the largest The first election integrity program in the history of the country, the first time we've ever done it nationally, we recruited tens of thousands of poll workers.

05:40:50.000 We recruited 6,500 attorneys, 230,000 volunteers.

05:40:55.000 And in every single one of our battleground states and districts, we were in the room every single time a vote was cast or a vote was counted.

05:41:06.000 And third, You have to talk about this.

05:41:10.000 You have to go out and you have to communicate to all of the voters that you are going to be protecting the ballot.

05:41:18.000 Because we had 5% of Republican voters said we are way less likely to go vote because we think that cheating is going to cancel out our vote.

05:41:26.000 If we had 5% of the voters in Arizona stay home, we lose.

05:41:31.000 If we have 5% of Republican voters in Pennsylvania stay home...

05:41:34.000 We lose.

05:41:35.000 So we had to make sure that they understood.

05:41:38.000 The flip side, and this is where Laura Trump, by the way, what a great job Laura Trump did, was make it clear in every single conversation, if you cheat, we will find you, and we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. 1.00

05:41:57.000 And so we were able to communicate very effectively all across the country.

05:42:02.000 In fact, Laura and I did, we added it up.

05:42:04.000 Over a thousand TV and radio hits on election integrity alone all across the country.

05:42:10.000 That's the program that we needed to have in place so that we could get there.

05:42:15.000 And I have to say, one of the best things that we saw across this country was in red states and in battleground states where we had Republican governors, Republican secretaries of state, Republicans in the legislature.

05:42:29.000 We were able to work with them to get those rules of the road the right way.

05:42:33.000 Nobody was better across the country at working with us than Frank LaRose from Ohio.

05:42:38.000 No question.

05:42:40.000 Now, he told me backstage I could call him Frank, but he said you have to call him secretary the whole time.

05:42:45.000 That's not true.

05:42:45.000 Absolutely.

05:42:46.000 So, Frank, you and I talked right after 2020. We had a meeting about this very topic, and you were talking about even though we had won Ohio, and it was really trending solidly red at this point, you still saw some problems.

05:42:58.000 And as we know, doing things in a state...

05:43:01.000 It kind of becomes the blueprint for other states.

05:43:03.000 So you've led the way on some of the things in Ohio.

05:43:05.000 Talk about what you found and how you work to fix it there.

05:43:08.000 Yeah, Ohio's emerged as a gold standard, but we don't rest on our laurels, right?

05:43:12.000 And first of all, Chairman Watley and his team, they knew the assignment, and they succeeded at it.

05:43:17.000 But in states across the country, we need to be working on list maintenance.

05:43:20.000 That's like hygiene, like brushing your teeth.

05:43:22.000 You do it every day.

05:43:23.000 We remove dead people from the voter rolls on a monthly basis.

05:43:26.000 That shouldn't be controversial, right?

05:43:28.000 We make sure that only citizens are registered to vote in our state.

05:43:32.000 I testified in front of Congress last year, and a couple of the Democrats said, all right, LaRose, there's no such thing as non-citizens on the voter rolls.

05:43:38.000 I said, how do you explain the 700 that I caught in the last couple months?

05:43:42.000 Well, guess what?

05:43:42.000 In Ohio, we catch them, we refer them for prosecution.

05:43:45.000 We make sure that our voter rolls are accurate.

05:43:47.000 We also...

05:43:48.000 Yeah.

05:43:49.000 We also fight...

05:43:51.000 Not settle these last-minute lawsuits.

05:43:53.000 When the radical left comes suing us weeks before the election, they have bad intentions.

05:43:58.000 We don't settle those lawsuits.

05:43:59.000 We fight them.

05:44:00.000 This year alone, last year rather, I was 7-0 against this creep named Mark Elias.

05:44:05.000 We beat him when he tried to change the election laws in Ohio.

05:44:10.000 And here's something else we do.

05:44:12.000 We had to have smart policies for these things called drop boxes. 0.93

05:44:15.000 Now listen, I'm not a fan of drop boxes, but my job in the executive branch is to carry out the law.

05:44:19.000 Our state legislature makes those available at our county boards of elections, but I put them under video surveillance 24-7 and their webcast.

05:44:27.000 Anybody can go watch those.

05:44:28.000 We made sure that they were emptied multiple times a day.

05:44:31.000 And I also put rules in place that said you can only return your own ballot.

05:44:36.000 If you're returning somebody else's ballot, like a disabled person, which the law allows, or a family member, you've got to bring it inside. 0.82

05:44:44.000 We're doing this to prevent ballot harvesting, and that's the biggest danger with Dropbox.

05:44:48.000 No question.

05:44:49.000 Again, great work over there.

05:44:52.000 Chairman, with the Democrat Party, we are very aware of the fact that, to them, their God is government.

05:44:59.000 They do this nonstop, from sunup to sundown, Monday through Sunday.

05:45:05.000 It's not just in election years like Republicans used to do.

05:45:07.000 It's all the time.

05:45:08.000 So they are preparing, scheming, plotting for this midterm as well.

05:45:14.000 As Frank said, we don't want to rest on our laurels.

05:45:17.000 We want to be prepared for the new wave of problems we could face at the ballot box.

05:45:22.000 So what is the RNC doing to kind of get out ahead of the next little...

05:45:26.000 The next big election, rather, but all the other little things that could come up.

05:45:30.000 Look, I think the first thing is that when Laura and I came in in March, we had eight months until Election Day to build a national program for the first time ever.

05:45:38.000 And we really focused on the seven battleground states.

05:45:42.000 We played a lot in New York and California because of the congressional seats.

05:45:46.000 And then we were working, you know, in Virginia and Minnesota and New Hampshire in case they got traction, right?

05:45:53.000 But now we have two years.

05:45:55.000 Now we have time to build this out in truly into a national fashion.

05:45:59.000 We filed 175 lawsuits last year across the country to get those laws in place up front.

05:46:09.000 Now we have the opportunity to go into every state and make sure that every single state is going to have the right rules of the road.

05:46:16.000 We also have a chance to work with Congress.

05:46:19.000 Brian Stile, who's the chair of the House committee that takes care of election integrity, Ron Johnson is the Senate committee chair, are doing great work.

05:46:27.000 We're going to work with them to make sure that we have national laws that are going to be implemented, right?

05:46:32.000 Right now, it's illegal in every state.

05:46:35.000 It's a federal law that only American citizens can vote.

05:46:38.000 And every single state has got to clean up their voter rolls every day.

05:46:43.000 Why do we not have a federal law that says you have to have voter ID? I think we should.

05:46:48.000 There are other things that we need to put in place right now through Congress, and we're going to take this time to work with Congress, the governors, and the states to make it even stronger.

05:46:56.000 It's so important.

05:46:58.000 And, you know, guys, when we first started looking at election integrity, you and I did years ago, we both did, one of the things that was shocking to me as we were polling this data and information and trying to find out what people liked about election integrity laws, we had, you know, 87% of people wanted photo identification.

05:47:15.000 Not voter identification, but photo identification.

05:47:18.000 84% wanted ballots being returned to election officials by election day.

05:47:21.000 All these things were happening.

05:47:23.000 But I said, you know what I want you to do?

05:47:24.000 I want you to poll the number of Americans who believe only Americans should vote in American elections.

05:47:31.000 Now, I thought that would be 90% easy.

05:47:35.000 Three years ago, it was 60%.

05:47:37.000 And I went to the pollster and I said, that is...

05:47:40.000 So not true.

05:47:41.000 Did you phrase it right?

05:47:42.000 He goes, no, I phrased it right.

05:47:44.000 And he said, the difference is about 30 to 40 percent of America want open borders.

05:47:49.000 And I thought, well, that's weird.

05:47:51.000 In two years, after we had governors who said, you know what?

05:47:56.000 You want illegal aliens? 0.99

05:47:57.000 You want sanctuary cities?

05:47:59.000 Fine.

05:47:59.000 You got them.

05:48:00.000 After those same people that were polled that said we want open borders got a taste of what it was like to have your communities flooded with people who don't have the right to be here, who are taking You know, your resources from your schools, from your hospitals, from your first responders, etc.

05:48:14.000 They said, you know what?

05:48:15.000 Maybe only Americans should vote in American elections. 0.65

05:48:18.000 And that number went from 60 to 92% in just a few short years.

05:48:24.000 That shows you how much the policy matters.

05:48:27.000 And as you're talking about doing some stuff from the federal level, I think that's important because we still, as a party, we believe in federalism.

05:48:34.000 Because what works in Mississippi may not work in Montana or Maine or Massachusetts.

05:48:38.000 There are some common denominators there that you're talking about that now we have the House, now we have the Senate, and Lord knows we got the White House at this point.

05:48:47.000 We need to work together to make sure that happens.

05:48:49.000 And Frank, before I get to you here, understand to me what's vital.

05:48:56.000 Donald Trump has done something here I think is so important.

05:48:58.000 All of his cabinet secretaries, which, let's be honest, what an all-star team he's got.

05:49:04.000 They're not only well-suited and well-experienced to do the job that they've been asked to do, they're also good on television.

05:49:13.000 And that matters because we have to continue to sell what we're doing to the American people.

05:49:17.000 We have a history of just passing something and then going, ah, the people get it.

05:49:21.000 It's fine.

05:49:22.000 They'll figure it out.

05:49:23.000 No, no, no, no.

05:49:24.000 We have to pass it and remind them every day why it's so important and why what we're doing makes their lives better regardless of race, religion, color, or creed.

05:49:32.000 And he's got the right team to do it.

05:49:34.000 And with you, Frank, in Ohio, you already got, there's some Ohio, there you go, there you go.

05:49:43.000 Knowing where the landscape is nationally, knowing what you're doing, talk about some of the things you're doing with other states, though, that at the state level, as you...

05:49:52.000 As you built out the blueprint and you kind of showed them the way, who you're working with, what you're trying to accomplish.

05:49:57.000 Yeah, so I just finished a year as the chairman of the Republican Secretaries of State organization.

05:50:02.000 So working with my fellow Republican Secretaries of State across the country, I'm helping them see some of the things that we've learned the hard way in Ohio.

05:50:09.000 Ohio and Florida have sort of been in the national spotlight for 25 years, right?

05:50:13.000 And so we've learned these lessons.

05:50:15.000 We want to help apply those in other states.

05:50:17.000 One of these examples, by the way, is not allowing foreign nationals to Fund campaigns in your state.

05:50:23.000 By the way, this is happening.

05:50:25.000 Issue campaigns.

05:50:26.000 We prohibited that in Ohio.

05:50:28.000 It's hard to enforce, but I've got an investigative division that works to do this.

05:50:32.000 I testified in the Kansas state legislature last week, and they just passed a bill saying that only American citizens can donate money to a campaign.

05:50:39.000 That's just one example.

05:50:41.000 But here's something else, and that's a great thing.

05:50:44.000 The great thing about CPAC is it's a gathering of conservatives from all over the country, and we can get on message about how we talk about these things.

05:50:51.000 So here's a couple things to think about.

05:50:53.000 Let's put this idea to rest that somehow Republicans want to suppress the vote.

05:50:58.000 It is utter...

05:50:58.000 Nonsense.

05:50:59.000 The left accuses me of wanting to suppress the vote. 0.96

05:51:02.000 If that's my objective, I stink at it.

05:51:05.000 Because we've had massive turnout in Ohio.

05:51:07.000 And guess what?

05:51:08.000 Republicans have won in record-breaking elections.

05:51:11.000 We don't want to suppress, but we do want to make sure it's honest.

05:51:14.000 And integrity drives participation.

05:51:17.000 People are more likely to vote in an election when they know it's honest.

05:51:20.000 Here's something else on citizenship.

05:51:23.000 Ask a group of new Americans.

05:51:25.000 People that have worked hard to earn their citizenship have stood there and taken the oath and raised their right hand.

05:51:31.000 Ask them if we should callously give away something that they worked so hard to earn.

05:51:35.000 Those new American immigrants would tell you, protect citizenship.

05:51:39.000 Make sure that only citizens vote.

05:51:41.000 And so don't let the left get away for a moment in saying that it is racist to say that only American citizens should vote in our elections.

05:51:47.000 Nonsense.

05:51:49.000 That's right.

05:51:49.000 Absolutely.

05:51:51.000 And as we kind of come up on the close of this panel, I'm going to put you on the spot, Wiley.

05:51:57.000 If you could do one election integrity piece, either at the state or federal level, that you think would make the most difference in making sure that the trust and faith and confidence in our elections either returns or retains, either way, what would that be?

05:52:12.000 I think a national voter ID is absolutely going to be essential.

05:52:18.000 What I really appreciate is that Donald Trump is the first president, he's the first candidate, who really truly made election integrity a core function of the campaign.

05:52:30.000 You know, I had breakfast with him right when I became the chair, and he said, all right, Michael, what's the plan?

05:52:35.000 How are we going to win?

05:52:36.000 And I said, we're going to do two things, only two things.

05:52:38.000 We're going to get out the vote, and we're going to protect the ballot.

05:52:40.000 And we talked a lot about what that was going to look like.

05:52:45.000 And as we got up to leave, he said, I'll tell you what, Michael, how about I get out the vote and you protect the ballot?

05:52:51.000 Our mandate across this entire country as a Republican Party is election integrity.

05:52:57.000 And I'd like to just ask, how many people here worked on an election integrity program, made a phone call, knocked on a door, or served as a poll worker?

05:53:07.000 Give yourselves a round of applause.

05:53:12.000 As we go into this next election cycle in 2026, it is going to be absolutely critical that we do not walk away from this program that we put in place over the last election cycle.

05:53:25.000 We absolutely have to build on it.

05:53:28.000 And when everybody in this room and everybody watching all across the country...

05:53:32.000 Says, yes, you know what?

05:53:34.000 I'm going to go participate.

05:53:35.000 I'm going to do a four-hour shift or an eight-hour shift or work an entire day in the polls to make sure that we're there in the room.

05:53:44.000 Then we are truly going to be able to keep all of our ballots protected.

05:53:48.000 No question.

05:53:49.000 And he's right, guys.

05:53:51.000 And it's something we say in the South a lot, which is if you're not at the table, you're on the menu.

05:53:55.000 You've got to be in the rooms, folks.

05:53:57.000 You've got to do the work.

05:53:58.000 And just because we won this time does not mean we'll win next time.

05:54:01.000 Donald Trump is the single biggest driver of voter turnout I have ever seen in my 25 years in politics.

05:54:07.000 It's going to be difficult, if not impossible, to duplicate that without each of you getting engaged and staying engaged.

05:54:14.000 Last question, same to you.

05:54:16.000 One thing you would do differently or something in Ohio, fix things?

05:54:19.000 If you don't have a Republican Secretary of State in your state, make sure to work hard in 26 to elect one.

05:54:25.000 That's right.

05:54:25.000 And then hold them accountable to actually do list maintenance.

05:54:28.000 It's hard work.

05:54:29.000 We have to work every day to take non-citizens off the voter rolls, to take dead people off the voter rolls, to make sure when people move out of our state, they're taken off the voter rolls. 1.00

05:54:37.000 That's probably the most important thing your Secretary of State does on a daily basis.

05:54:41.000 No question.

05:54:42.000 Well, thank you guys very much.

05:54:43.000 Listen, I want to thank Matt and Mercy.

05:54:45.000 I want to thank each of you for being here today, being engaged, being involved.

05:54:48.000 And just real quickly, I don't want to speak for both of you, but you and I have had a chance to travel North Carolina quite a bit.

05:54:54.000 Go to a lot of counties, do a lot of Lincoln Day dinners and other things.

05:54:58.000 It always fascinates me what we're able to do in this country that we can't do anywhere else on the planet.

05:55:04.000 This nation affords opportunity.

05:55:06.000 Like nowhere.

05:55:07.000 And I think everyone understands that, and that's why you're here, and you want to be engaged and involved.

05:55:11.000 And for someone like me, and being born in a small town in North Carolina, of course, and raised in a smaller town in Arkansas, I'm a nobody from nowhere.

05:55:22.000 I shouldn't get to go into a White House.

05:55:24.000 I shouldn't get to know a president or fly on Marine One or be in the Beast or Air Force One or any of those things.

05:55:29.000 But I got to do that every single day for four years with Donald Trump in his first term.

05:55:36.000 It blows my mind when I think about it because, again, I didn't have a last name like Bush or Cheney or Kennedy or Clinton.

05:55:46.000 Thank God it wasn't a Clinton.

05:55:48.000 But you understand, I don't have that blue-blood political last name.

05:55:53.000 But I get to do the things I did, and I would go in the White House every day in my office, and you guys know the picture of the West Wing when you have those two Marines standing out front.

05:56:00.000 That window over the right Marine's shoulder is my office.

05:56:04.000 And I got to go into the White House every single day and stand right in front of Donald Trump, right in front of the Resolute desk in the Oval Office and give him advice.

05:56:15.000 Now, he never took a word of it.

05:56:17.000 Not a single word.

05:56:19.000 But that's not the point.

05:56:21.000 It's only in this country would someone like me get to give it.

05:56:25.000 And I am confident with the record-setting success Donald Trump had in the first term, the success he's already had in the second term, and your engagement.

05:56:34.000 From top to bottom, in every room across every state, to fight to get this guy re-elected like you did, to fight to keep the House, to keep the Senate, this country is going to remain that shining city on a hill.

05:56:46.000 So thank you very much.

05:56:47.000 Appreciate y'all coming out.

05:56:48.000 Thanks, everybody.

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05:59:13.000 Hey, it's Matt Schlapp with CPAC.

05:59:18.000 You know, we've had a huge problem in this country with election fraud, but at CPAC, that's not a problem.

05:59:24.000 Our only problem is getting each and every one of you to vote.

05:59:27.000 So look at your badge.

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05:59:30.000 And get your phone out and vote on all the issues that matter.

05:59:36.000 And my guess is you probably like what Trump's doing as well.

05:59:39.000 And we'll have the results for you very soon.

05:59:42.000 As President Reagan said, we're from the government.

05:59:46.000 We're here to help.

05:59:47.000 I think you all know that I've always felt the...

05:59:51.000 Nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

05:59:58.000 We're from the government.

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06:00:04.000 Before the cabinet room, you saw Donald Trump's next cabinet make waves at CPAC. Ladies 0.95

06:00:47.000 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome from Florida, Congressman Byron Donald.

06:00:53.000 Thank you.

06:01:37.000 It has a pretty good ring to it, doesn't it?

06:01:39.000 Yes, we love it.

06:01:43.000 CPAC, look, it's been an interesting 12 hours for me.

06:01:49.000 A lot of things have been going on.

06:01:51.000 Hi, honey.

06:01:52.000 My wife is here.

06:01:53.000 Hi, honey.

06:01:54.000 I love you.

06:01:54.000 It's good seeing you.

06:01:57.000 I want to tell you a little bit about the last 12 hours, and then we'll talk about the other stuff, but I want to talk to you about the last 12. Thank you so much.

06:02:08.000 I'm in an event, and my phone is ringing yesterday, and it was with my good friend out of Kentucky, Andy Barr, and I'm at an event for him in Naples, and my phone is ringing nonstop, and I'm like, what is going on?

06:02:20.000 And I'm trying to pay attention to the event because I'm trying to be a good friend to my colleague from Kentucky, and I get a phone call, and it's from the president.

06:02:33.000 And he talks to me about what he just put out on True Social.

06:02:40.000 And I just want to say, Mr. President, thank you.

06:02:43.000 And I will never let you down.

06:02:45.000 But I didn't even have a chance to really digest what was going on because an hour later, our middle son, he and his team were playing in a regional championship last night.

06:03:05.000 And I got to tell you, as a dad, let's put politics aside for a moment.

06:03:08.000 As a dad, I watched my 17-year-old son play the game of his life.

06:03:18.000 And I mean, I coached him from when he was three, and he would be mad at me for making him take jumpers and layups.

06:03:24.000 And every now and again, you might have an argument in the driveway.

06:03:28.000 He wanted to go play.

06:03:29.000 I made him go to work.

06:03:32.000 But last night, watching him really make key plays for his team.

06:03:37.000 It all kind of came full center.

06:03:39.000 So my phone is blowing up, and people in the gym are trying to talk to me about politics, but I'm watching my son just live that moment in time when all the work and all the preparation meets success.

06:03:54.000 And they were down five points in the third, and they had to rally back.

06:03:57.000 And the thing that's iconic in my mind, and I know we're supposed to be talking about politics in the golden age of America and making America great again, but I will tell you...

06:04:05.000 Part of the golden age of our nation is the success of our children and our grandchildren.

06:04:12.000 So I'm watching my son.

06:04:20.000 It's eight seconds on the clock.

06:04:22.000 The place is going berserk.

06:04:24.000 We have a lead.

06:04:26.000 He gets a rebound.

06:04:28.000 And he just starts dribbling down court.

06:04:31.000 And I'm...

06:04:33.000 On the side of the baseline that he's dribbling towards, like, I can't sit in the stands.

06:04:37.000 I gotta stand on the baseline and yell at the referees, not too loud.

06:04:41.000 Not too loud, not too loud.

06:04:43.000 I'm much more mature these days.

06:04:45.000 My wife is looking at me like, no, you yell. 1.00

06:04:49.000 And he's dribbling towards me, and it looks like he's gonna take off and dunk, and he decides not to.

06:04:53.000 He passes it to a teammate.

06:04:55.000 The clock expires.

06:04:57.000 He turns around.

06:04:59.000 He sees me.

06:05:00.000 I see him.

06:05:00.000 and he's all sweaty and nasty, but it was the best bear hug a father could ever have.

06:05:06.000 My son was able to do last night the thing that we want all of our children to be able to do.

06:05:20.000 To have the opportunity to truly excel, to find themselves, to work hard, and to deliver success.

06:05:26.000 Not just for themselves, but for the people around them.

06:05:30.000 He and his teammates last night, they won a big game.

06:05:33.000 They're going to the state Final Four next week, and I'm not going to miss a game.

06:05:37.000 I'm going to be at each one of them.

06:05:41.000 But as I was coming out here to talk with you today, it kind of gave me an ability to take a step back, because the things that we are fighting for, the ideals that we stand for, are for the future of this great nation.

06:05:56.000 And so while the Democrats have continued to lose their minds, Literally, yes.

06:06:03.000 There were five senators who were standing at a podium all by themselves protesting the fact that Kash Patel is now the director of the FBI. You have Democratic members of Congress who were standing outside of the USAID building.

06:06:23.000 Protesting the fact that Donald Trump has delivered on the promise of cleaning out the waste, the fraud, and an abuse in our federal government.

06:06:36.000 Some of their donors are pissed at them.

06:06:39.000 And they, frankly, should be pissed at them.

06:06:41.000 I mean, they just wasted, what is it, $1.5 billion for a devastating loss?

06:06:47.000 That's really expensive.

06:06:50.000 To those donors, you should come and join us.

06:06:52.000 we actually believe in using money efficiently and effectively.

06:06:56.000 They're going to the courts, the last bastion of hope they possibly have.

06:07:05.000 And they're going to the courts and they're now trying to sue President Trump.

06:07:09.000 Because he's using the same discretion the Democrats have used for decades to build a leviathan of a federal government that is not responsive to you, that does not listen to what we, the people, desire, that ignores elections no matter the outcomes, but continues to build an albatross of a federal...

06:07:30.000 And now they are mad because we are committed to doing the thing we told you on the campaign trail for months.

06:07:37.000 we are going to bring this government to heal it will be responsive to the will of the American people and we will make America great again in my state in my state some of the things that we're going to do on Capitol Hill we've been doing in Florida

06:08:06.000 You know, the phrase down in Florida is, make America Florida.

06:08:12.000 There's a reason why citizens have been leaving blue states to go to Florida.

06:08:19.000 There's a reason why people who immigrate legally, and I stress legally, from some of the worst places in the world come to Florida. 0.98

06:08:29.000 There's a reason why students in Florida and parents in Florida have choice at their fingertips to find the best solution for their children.

06:08:40.000 And that reason is because we have leaders who have been committed to the principles of individual liberty and limited government.

06:08:50.000 They have been committed to those same constitutional principles that are the very foundation of the America First movement.

06:08:57.000 And our leaders, Governor DeSantis, and before him, Governor Scott, and all of the men and women who have served in our legislature, myself included, a long time ago.

06:09:06.000 Well, not that long ago.

06:09:08.000 I'm not that old.

06:09:09.000 I'm 46. I'm not that old.

06:09:12.000 We were committed to making sure that there was a state that people could go to to chase the American dream, to realize the American dream, to be able to watch their kids do something fantastic like I had the opportunity to do last night.

06:09:26.000 And that state's Florida.

06:09:31.000 But let me tell you this.

06:09:34.000 Florida's not going to stop leading.

06:09:36.000 We're going to build off of what we've done and we are going to continue to lead bigger, better, faster, greater, safer, freer, because the American dream is for everybody.

06:09:47.000 And we're going to show the other 49 states how to get it done.

06:09:51.000 To my friend at 1600, who I know you guys are going to see tomorrow night.

06:10:03.000 My friend, Mr. President, I already know they're not going to get you down.

06:10:08.000 You just keep going.

06:10:10.000 Because the forgotten men and women of this nation are grateful for your leadership.

06:10:16.000 They are grateful for the vision, and they are grateful, frankly, for the guts.

06:10:21.000 to be able to stand toe-to-toe with the insane radical left and tell them no more, America is going to be in the golden age and it will do tremendous thing for the people that live here.

06:10:35.000 And as for me, stay tuned.

06:10:46.000 APPLAUSE A few miles from here, myself and my colleagues, we have a job to do.

06:11:03.000 And I want to tell you, we are going to deliver on the agenda that all of you worked for, that all of you knocked doors for, that you made phone calls for, that you got people to the polls for, that you might have been watching your polling location for.

06:11:20.000 We are going to deliver on that agenda because the Democrats are a mess, the media doesn't even know what to say, and quite frankly, have they ever really known what to say?

06:11:30.000 I mean, their credibility, please.

06:11:32.000 Margaret Brennan, oh my gosh.

06:11:36.000 Thank God J.D. Vance spoke common sense and real talk to her.

06:11:43.000 But we are going to get this job done.

06:11:46.000 A long time ago, My wife was with me, this is early on, in this journey in politics.

06:11:57.000 A long time ago, there was a phrase I always said when I would meet with people and talk to people.

06:12:04.000 And this is when I was asking for votes, probably eight years ago, ten years ago.

06:12:10.000 And I would say, I need your vote, because we have a country to save.

06:12:16.000 Well, CPAC, you delivered the vote.

06:12:19.000 And now on Capitol Hill, working with President Trump, we are going to deliver and save the greatest nation man has ever known.

06:12:30.000 God bless you, CPAC. God bless America.

06:12:35.000 And God bless the future children of this nation.

06:12:38.000 Thank you.

06:13:58.000 Let's give them a round of applause for this wonderful event.

06:14:03.000 And I want to thank each of you for being here today.

06:14:06.000 I'm so excited to be with you all.

06:14:09.000 There is a renewed sense of energy and enthusiasm in this country and in this room.

06:14:15.000 Can you feel it?

06:14:17.000 Yes, you can.

06:14:18.000 Well, we're all excited.

06:14:20.000 To have President Donald J. Trump back at the helm of this country, ushering in the golden age of America.

06:14:29.000 Well, CPAC, you know I am a Baptist preacher.

06:14:34.000 Yes.

06:14:35.000 And so when I see people in the room and people in the crowd, it makes me feel very encouraged.

06:14:42.000 But I promise to only have three points, and then I'll close.

06:14:47.000 Is that all right?

06:14:49.000 Well, it's a great honor for me to be here and a privilege to serve as the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

06:15:02.000 I look forward to supporting President Trump and Vice President Vance in their mission to advance policies that put you, the American people, first above all else.

06:15:13.000 Amen.

06:15:14.000 You will hear me say this many times over the next few years.

06:15:17.000 I'm not really concerned.

06:15:21.000 I'm not really concerned with media attention.

06:15:25.000 I'm a purpose-driven person.

06:15:29.000 Thank you.

06:15:31.000 And my only goal is to do what's right by the American people.

06:15:37.000 I'm grateful that the President has trusted me with this tremendous purpose of serving you, the American people.

06:15:43.000 And I know you have heard this great, timeless statement from President Lincoln.

06:15:49.000 That government is of the people, by the people, and for the people.

06:15:56.000 This statement today still rings true because we are one team in America.

06:16:02.000 Never forget that the government works for you.

06:16:05.000 There should be no division between you and your leaders in Washington, D.C. You know, I've been part of many teams in my life.

06:16:16.000 In sports.

06:16:18.000 In business, in ministry, and today I consider it a great privilege to be on this team with you, the American people.

06:16:26.000 We are one people, and we will act with one voice under the leadership of President Trump.

06:16:32.000 Leadership on a team is built on service and trust.

06:16:37.000 And as a new secretary, as your new servant leader, I want to earn your trust.

06:16:42.000 And that starts with you getting to know who I am and why I'm passionate about this mission at HUD. I was born in Richardson, Texas.

06:16:54.000 Any Texas people out here today?

06:16:57.000 My first job as a young man was as a dishwasher at Spring Creek Barbecue.

06:17:03.000 I had to wear corduroy pants.

06:17:07.000 Steel-toed boots in the heat of the summer in Dallas, Texas.

06:17:12.000 There was barbecue sauce everywhere, but that was my first job.

06:17:17.000 And you know, that job and every job that I've had since then has afforded me the opportunity to meet new people.

06:17:24.000 To be a critical thinker and to be a problem solver and most importantly, to serve others.

06:17:30.000 And I'm confident that this opportunity at HUD, this blessing, which it is a tremendous blessing to me, will be no different.

06:17:39.000 You know, like many of you in this room, I have faced difficulty in my life.

06:17:44.000 I've had to rely on God's grace to overcome obstacles that the enemy tried to use to stop me.

06:17:52.000 From carrying out the Lord's calling on my life.

06:17:55.000 We've all faced struggles.

06:17:57.000 Can I get an amen?

06:17:59.000 We've all faced struggles, family struggles, financial struggles, health struggles.

06:18:04.000 We've all had the odds at some point in time stacked against us in our life.

06:18:10.000 And if you have not faced struggle in your life, just keep on living.

06:18:15.000 Just wait.

06:18:16.000 Because James says this, consider it a pure joy.

06:18:20.000 When you face trials of many kinds, consider it pure joy when, not if, you face trials because the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

06:18:34.000 How many know we are a steadfast people?

06:18:38.000 Well, I graduated from the University of Illinois where I played football, ran track, and met my beautiful wife.

06:18:47.000 Football is still mental.

06:18:49.000 And physical toughness in me.

06:18:52.000 And after graduating, I was selected in the seventh round of the National Football League's NFL Draft.

06:18:58.000 Now, if you don't know, the seventh round is the last round in the NFL. And you know, many people, being a seventh-round draft pick, many people thought that I was an underdog.

06:19:12.000 They thought, there's no way this guy's gonna make it, but I didn't view it that way.

06:19:16.000 Instead, I viewed it as a tremendous opportunity in my life to make a generational impact, even in the world of sports.

06:19:24.000 I was blessed to play nine seasons in the National Football League with With the Denver Broncos the San Diego Chargers and my beloved Washington Redskin I went back to Texas and since I've been back home I served as an associate pastor at Prestonwood Baptist Church and

06:19:50.000 I also had the honor of serving as an elected representative in the Texas State Legislature.

06:19:55.000 And in 2019, President Trump blessed me with the opportunity to lead the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, where I had the privilege of learning from my dear friend and mentor and former HUD Secretary, Dr. Ben Carson.

06:20:18.000 I was fortunate to travel the country and see firsthand the impact of Opportunity Zones, Zones, which provide forgotten Americans the chance to create a true foundation for themselves and ultimately allowing them to become self-sufficient and self-sustaining and unleash the potential that the Lord has blessed every individual in our country with.

06:20:39.000 And I'm excited to build on the success of Opportunity Zones in this next chapter and to continue delivering growth, opportunity, self-sufficiency to the forgotten men and women and families of America. self-sufficiency to the forgotten men and women and families of After leaving the White House, I felt the Lord calling me to continue this service in the private sector.

06:21:05.000 So my wife and I started our family foundation where we mentor high school and college student athletes and we provide our first kids program teaching children how to become proficient readers.

06:21:18.000 How many know that leaders are readers?

06:21:22.000 You know, an interesting fact for you all.

06:21:26.000 As of today, only one-third of fourth graders in America read at grade level.

06:21:31.000 Only one-third.

06:21:32.000 That is unacceptable for our nation, and we are failing our children.

06:21:36.000 We do not give them the tools they need to succeed in life.

06:21:40.000 Our chief aim for the First Kids program and our foundation is to change the trajectory of these children in our country.

06:21:49.000 All along the way, you know, I believe the Lord was preparing me.

06:21:55.000 And I say this humbly.

06:21:57.000 I believe God is a sovereign God.

06:22:01.000 And Jeremiah 29 and 11 says, For I know the plans that I have for you, plans to prosecute you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.

06:22:10.000 And I believe that from before the womb of my mother that he was preparing me for this moment, for this day, for such a time as this.

06:22:21.000 From washing dishes to graduating college, playing in the NFL, serving in the Texas House, building businesses, to now standing before you, the beloved people of America, as a secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

06:22:37.000 him and he was training me and preparing me and I will say I am truly honored to be here today I want to encourage you if I may I want to encourage everyone in this room and those that are watching online to never let your circumstance define your ability or your opportunity to succeed.

06:23:07.000 Never let your circumstance or the situation in your life or where you come from, I am a living witness to define your ability to succeed.

06:23:20.000 We must not have a defeatist attitude, but instead we will have a victorious attitude no matter the difficulty that we face.

06:23:32.000 We will not be victims, but instead we will be victorious.

06:23:39.000 Amen.

06:23:42.000 Well, this is my story.

06:23:45.000 But I look forward to hearing the stories of as many of Americans as possible as I travel around the communities all over our country.

06:23:51.000 The stories will help inform my work at HUD and our team and the purpose for which we're there.

06:23:56.000 We will be mission-minded at HUD. So I'm ready.

06:24:04.000 I'm ready to do the work.

06:24:06.000 I'm ready to rebuild and to revitalize American communities and ensure everyone Has the opportunity to achieve the American dream.

06:24:15.000 As young professionals, you understand, those of you in the room, you understand that housing affordability crisis that we face in our nation, many people have felt this.

06:24:25.000 I have a 24-year-old son who has said to me, how in the world am I going to be able to afford a home someday?

06:24:31.000 The young men and women that I mentor in Dallas, they share these same sentiments and worries that the American dream is drifting further and further out of reach.

06:24:42.000 But today, I challenge you to think of this not so much as a crisis.

06:24:47.000 But instead, as an opportunity to change course.

06:24:50.000 An opportunity to uplift individuals and families and lead them down the path of self-sufficiency and self-sustainability.

06:25:00.000 An opportunity, if you will, to decrease the cost and increase the supply of safe, quality, affordable housing in our country.

06:25:08.000 An opportunity to enact impactful, enduring policies.

06:25:14.000 That build on President Trump's first-day executive order to reduce housing costs in our country.

06:25:24.000 At HUD, we've already created many opportunities for Americans to thrive.

06:25:30.000 These opportunities are based on our four key principles that have been my North Star for many years.

06:25:36.000 Integrity, transparency, accountability, and efficiency.

06:25:41.000 On my first day in office, I directed HUD to halt any pending or future enforcement actions related to the Biden Administration's Equal Access Rule, which ensures that HUD-funding providers, such as shelters, offer services based on individuals' sex at birth, male or female.

06:26:03.000 Our team at HUD, we are carrying out the mission laid out by President Trump on January 20th when he signed an executive order to restore biological truth to the federal government.

06:26:18.000 This means getting the government out of the way of what the Lord established from the very first day when he created man in his own image, male and female.

06:26:28.000 We're going to restore.

06:26:36.000 Integrity at our agency.

06:26:38.000 You've probably heard that HUD has established a Doge Task Force to review how the agency is spending your hard-earned tax dollars.

06:26:48.000 As stewards of the American taxpayer, we will be detailed and deliberate about every single dollar we spend to serve all American communities, rural, tribal, and urban.

06:27:00.000 Under President Trump's leadership, We will identify and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.

06:27:09.000 To date, we've already identified over $260 million in savings and an additional $1.9 billion that was misplaced during the Biden administration.

06:27:22.000 We've moved very quickly.

06:27:28.000 This is our second week, and we've moved quickly to fix this issue and return the funds that we found back to the Treasury Department for other federal expenditures for the American people.

06:27:38.000 See, these actions will help us to return to the primary mission of HUD. Finding long-term solutions that provide affordable housing, spur business creation, and rebuild a prosperous American communities across our country.

06:27:54.000 HUD will partner with local leaders.

06:27:56.000 Local leaders who know what their communities need to rebuild their lives and livelihoods rather than imposing top-down solutions from Washington bureaucrats.

06:28:07.000 We will also expand Opportunity Zones.

06:28:11.000 Through these public-private partnerships, 1 million people in America have been lifted out of poverty.

06:28:18.000 Opportunity Zones have attracted $84 billion in investment.

06:28:25.000 Resulting in new infrastructure, housing, revitalization, and business creation.

06:28:29.000 These are the type of innovative, results-driven solutions I plan on continuing at HUD. Now finally, we're going to take inventory.

06:28:40.000 How many know what inventory is?

06:28:44.000 We're going to take an assessment and inventory of every program at HUD. Amen.

06:28:51.000 When I was a little boy, my daddy worked at a grocery store called Safeway.

06:28:57.000 Y'all remember Safeway?

06:28:59.000 And at nighttime, when I would go to the store with him, I would see the men and the ladies taking all the stuff off the shelves.

06:29:05.000 And I said, Daddy, what are they doing?

06:29:07.000 He said, we're taking inventory to see which products work for our customers and which products do not.

06:29:16.000 Well...

06:29:16.000 You as American people, you are our customers.

06:29:19.000 We will take inventory to see which programs that we have that are serving you and which programs we have that are not serving you.

06:29:27.000 And while stewarding, y'all heard that word in a long time, stewarding the budget and the resources we have as well.

06:29:35.000 Y'all, I want to close with this.

06:29:40.000 I gave you my three points.

06:29:41.000 Now here's my close.

06:29:45.000 Scripture says that the government rests on the Lord's shoulders.

06:29:51.000 Hope in America does not depend on a man.

06:29:55.000 Our hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ.

06:29:57.000 And it is him, it is the Lord who anoints.

06:30:08.000 It is the Lord who appoints men and women to serve and to carry out His mission.

06:30:15.000 Of bringing hope to the world.

06:30:18.000 And I'm honored today to be called for such a time as this.

06:30:23.000 All glory goes to the Lord and I thank Him for this opportunity to make a generational impact and to give a voice to all forgotten Americans.

06:30:34.000 We will achieve great things at HUD. The best days are yet to come.

06:30:42.000 Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.

06:30:45.000 The 47th President of the United States of America.

06:31:11.000 And you know, I wouldn't say Fox has been exactly perfect.

06:31:14.000 Fox has been a big difference of Fox between now and what it was four years ago, as you know.

06:31:19.000 But we have others that come along and they're doing well.

06:31:22.000 And Newsmax has been really good.

06:31:25.000 And, you know, others are coming along.

06:31:28.000 And people are seeing that they're watching these conservative networks.

06:31:32.000 President Trump is right.

06:31:33.000 Right.

06:31:33.000 That's why millions of Americans are tuning into Newsmax for the real news they can trust.

06:31:38.000 Every institution today is under attack.

06:31:40.000 The home, the church, the government.

06:31:44.000 And many people are asking, what is the truth?

06:31:48.000 Jesus Christ claimed to be ultimate truth.

06:31:51.000 Are you willing to face the truth?

06:31:54.000 Do you think the MKUltra project ever actually ended?

06:31:57.000 The Central Intelligence Agency is actively involved in mind manipulation.

06:32:01.000 We all answer to one God and one Savior.

06:32:05.000 And he's there to change your life.

06:32:09.000 For the battle.

06:32:13.000 In a time when the very fabric of our nation seemed under siege, one organization was willing to fight for America's principles and defend our children's future.

06:32:25.000 of the American Principles Project.

06:32:27.000 This is what happens when tolerance goes too far.

06:32:31.000 It's a bit shocking to hear Democrats talk about them losing the culture war.

06:32:35.000 After all, they started it.

06:32:36.000 You're denying reality and you're denying them the care that they need.

06:32:44.000 All right, America is back on track 2025. But next year, CPAC 2026 is going to be even bigger.

06:32:52.000 Go get your tickets now.

06:32:53.000 Go to CPAC.org.

06:32:55.000 And join the movement.

06:32:57.000 This president is calling my family, is calling me, is calling MAGA supporters enemy of America.

06:33:03.000 I am the daughter of a Cuban political prisoner who fought for freedom, who fought against authoritarian and dictators.

06:33:11.000 He sounds just like Fidel Castro did.

06:33:13.000 Fidel Castro would target the enemies of his government and try to take them down.

06:33:18.000 This is exactly what we're seeing with Joe Biden.

06:33:20.000 He should be ashamed of himself.

06:33:23.000 No American, no American should be called...

06:33:26.000 A Nazi or be called an enemy of the state. 0.50

06:33:30.000 Those of us who love this country, and I have spent my whole life defending freedom in America.

06:33:39.000 Ladies and gentlemen, a conversation with Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Christian Miskulski, and CPAC board member, KT McFarland.

06:34:11.000 I'm really wondering why you're here at CPAC, where you've listened to the most important and powerful people in the country and the most important people in the world, the people who are going to be governors and presidents and everything else.

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