Learn English with President Trump. President Trump delivers a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. on the importance of standing up to evil and standing up for the most innocent, the defenseless, and the most vulnerable.
00:03:28.000The first battle we must fight is the battle to protect the culture of life.
00:03:33.000Because 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.
00:04:21.000Radicals 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.
00:04:31.000Well, that is not just radical, that is evil.
00:04:39.000They tell us abortion is a right, when in reality, it is the greatest genocide of our time.
00:04:45.000They tell us euthanasia is an act of compassion, when in truth, real compassion is protecting every human life, because every human life matters.
00:04:55.000But we will not remain silent, because evil, trans, and good people remain silent.
00:05:04.000And when good people remain silent, they're not good people anymore, because they are part of the problem.
00:05:11.000We 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.
00:05:20.000The second front of our fight is the defense of the family.
00:05:23.000The family is the foundation of society.
00:05:25.000It's the first government, the first church, and the first school.
00:05:29.000And that is why the enemies of freedom want to destroy it.
00:05:33.000They seek to impose ideologies that confuse our children, strip away their innocence, and attack marriage and motherhood.
00:05:40.000Because a country without strong families is a weak country, easily, very easily manipulated and controlled.
00:05:48.000We will defend God's design for the family and protect the innocence of our children.
00:05:56.000We live in an era where those who speak the truth are persecuted.
00:06:03.000Where censorship and political oppression have become the tools of tyrants.
00:06:08.000We 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.
00:06:20.000Freedom is a gift from God and not government has a right to take it away from us.
00:06:26.000We 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.
00:06:35.000In Latin America, we have seen how socialism makes It makes the majority of the population very poor.
00:06:44.000People love poverty, but they multiply it.
00:06:48.000They love so much poverty, they end up multiplying it.
00:07:41.000I'm an actor, a filmmaker, and a human rights activist.
00:07:46.000But I learned that in politics there is no empty seats.
00:07:50.000There is always someone occupying those spaces, making decisions that will change the destiny of our nation.
00:07:55.000If not forever, then at least for a long time.
00:07:58.000And those decisions will affect our families, for good or for bad.
00:08:02.000So after our movie Sound of Freedom was released, my eyes were opened on many fronts.
00:08:10.000And 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.
00:12:13.000Fentanyl, drugs, human trafficking, child trafficking, illegal guns, terrorism.
00:12:23.000The 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.
00:12:30.000And Mexico, the number one provider of all three.
00:12:38.000We have done a lot of harm to each other.
00:12:41.000We can't move forward without first forgiving each other.
00:12:44.000I believe in the power of forgiveness.
00:12:47.000So I want to start this movement of forgiveness here in Washington, D.C., and I pray that God will heal the wounds.
00:12:53.000So on behalf of Mexico, I want to apologize for all the harm Mexico has done to the United States.
00:13:06.000And the United States needs to apologize to Mexico for all the harm they have done to Mexico.
00:13:13.000And 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.
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00:17:00.000Hey, 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.
00:17:16.000What happens when we leave our kids to the professionals?
00:17:20.000Please welcome America First Policy Institute Chair of the Center for Education Opportunity, Erica Donalds.
00:17:29.000Congressional Commission for the Social Status of Black Men and Boys, Jack Brewer.
00:17:34.000And your moderator, Senior Vice President of Communications, Alliance Defending Freedom, Billy Adwell.
00:17:43.000Well, 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.
00:18:07.000I'm the Senior Vice President of Communications at Alliance Defending Freedom.
00:18:11.000ADF 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.
00:18:19.000For 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.
00:18:27.000They 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.
00:18:52.000It's about defending the decision to defund a religious charter school and fight for equal treatment of religious organizations and education.
00:19:00.000There 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.
00:19:08.000First, 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.
00:19:19.000A 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.
00:19:26.000She 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.
00:19:34.000Erica and her husband, Congressman Byron Donalds, lives in Florida.
00:19:41.000She lives in Naples, Florida with her three sons.
00:19:44.000Jack Brewer serves as the chair of the Center for Opportunity Now and chairman of the Jack Brewer Foundation.
00:19:49.000Recently, Jack was co-chair of Black Voices for Trump Victory Fund.
00:19:53.000He 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.
00:20:01.000He 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.
00:20:13.000So, born in Brooklyn, I can't help myself.
00:20:17.000Let's lay a foundation, if you don't mind, for this topic.
00:20:19.000Erica, talk about what you see as the current state of particularly the public education system.
00:20:25.000Well, the public education system in America has literally failed the American people.
00:20:30.000It 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.
00:20:44.000We 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.
00:21:14.000And so we are taking the education system back, though.
00:21:17.000We're here in the golden age of America, right, at the cusp of that.
00:21:21.000President 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.
00:21:31.000So there's reason for hope, even though the education system has been failing for the past 100 years.
00:21:38.000And 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.
00:21:46.000Like, that was a key differentiator for him.
00:21:50.000It 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.
00:21:58.000What has he done so far that's really encouraged you on the topic of education?
00:22:01.000First 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.
00:22:20.000You have victory in Christ, and he is the ruler over your life.
00:22:30.000President 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.
00:22:42.000When he sat in front of the nation and said, God created man and woman.
00:22:53.000And 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.
00:23:10.000Our education system was established with the basic belief in the Word of God.
00:23:19.000Anything else throws us off, and I think President Trump has taken a stand.
00:23:25.000I 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.
00:23:48.000I just think that we should all understand the spiritual time in which we're living right now in America, particularly with our children.
00:23:58.000And let's get the Ten Commandments back in our schools.
00:24:20.000Erica, 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.
00:26:21.000It'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.
00:26:35.000Right, because the public education system is everybody's.
00:26:38.000Even if your kids are homeschooled or you go to a private school, that's your school, too.
00:26:42.000We deserve to have an influence there.
00:26:44.000We'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.
00:26:53.000Alliance 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.
00:26:59.000Shareholders are speaking out, and they're saying, we're tired of this.
00:27:27.000So 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.
00:27:36.000And so America does have opportunity for people just like me.
00:27:51.000I got my master's in education, adjunct professor.
00:27:55.000I've taught from you talking about the poorest of the poor on to multi-millionaires.
00:28:01.000But 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.
00:28:10.000So I have a little girl in one of my programs.
00:30:43.000So how do we get from where we are to where we want to go?
00:30:45.000Well, 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.
00:30:59.000It was the number one issue for President Trump, saying, there are only two genders.
00:31:04.000We're going to get men out of women's sports.
00:31:06.000And now he got elected with such a mandate and is enforcing Title IX and the protections that provides to girls in their space.
00:31:38.000Because the teachers union and the funding behind them are controlling those electors.
00:31:43.000But 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...
00:31:54.000Get rid of the majority of the Republican incumbents that voted against school choice last year.
00:31:59.000And this year, in just a few weeks, Texas will pass a school choice bill and spend a billion dollars on giving parents options.
00:32:34.000But 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?
00:32:55.000The 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.
00:33:08.000But the end of that verse says something that's so powerful and it's the times that we live in.
00:33:14.000He said, if we don't do it, he shall come and smite the earth with a curse.
00:33:24.000No 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.
00:33:33.000Or you go over to Africa when you see these societies that have gone from a patriarch society to a matriarch society.
00:33:41.000Or 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.
00:33:50.000Those things are generational curses that we must break.
00:33:54.000The only way you bind up a curse is by the blood of the lamb and the word of your testimony.
00:35:23.000Take care, God bless. - Ladies and gentlemen, God bless. - Ladies and gentlemen, and gentlemen, up next, Joy Reid, a desperate plea up next, Joy Reid,
00:35:51.000Please 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
00:36:45.000But the subtitle is How Trump Defeated the Legacy Media and Made Them Irrelevant.
00:36:54.000And 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.
00:37:50.000So 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.
00:37:58.000So 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.
00:38:08.000And no longer do they have a mind of their own.
00:38:12.000I think it was like Media Busters who did it.
00:38:14.000And 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.
00:38:30.000And they brought on Kara Swisher, the noted expert on the topic for that.
00:38:35.000But yeah, that's all over an intern at Doge who was hired by Elon Musk.
00:38:41.000And 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.
00:38:49.000But 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.
00:39:03.000So 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.
00:39:16.000Well, and they've all been reduced to a punchline, these media personalities.
00:39:20.000That's why we're laughing at Joy Reid, because that's what we should do.
00:39:23.000We should mock them and make fun of them.
00:39:24.000And, of course, all this talk about Joy Reid and Big Balls brings us to Don Lemon, Kurt.
00:41:27.000And 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.
00:41:56.000The thing is, like I said earlier, they don't have a mind of their own anymore.
00:42:01.000They 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.
00:42:09.000To 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.
00:42:20.000So 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.
00:45:14.000Andrew Breitbart, 15 years ago, said that.
00:45:19.000And Alex, you have inherited this legacy now, and you are the media.
00:45:23.000Yeah, it's really interesting, too, because a little bit about my story, too.
00:45:26.000In 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...
00:45:38.000Like, three years nearly, until Elon Musk brought me back, and I'm now almost at a million followers on X. Hold that thought.
00:45:47.000He had 100,000 followers, and they banned him because he was so...
00:46:01.000I'm 30,000 from a million, so if you want to get me there before I leave the stage, go for it.
00:46:05.000At 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.
00:46:14.000And 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.
00:46:28.000They were allowed to say that unchecked.
00:46:30.000They got to have their own guests on there, and Adam Schiff saying he has inside knowledge about all this crap.
00:46:36.000On social media, no, it's a blood sport.
00:46:39.000You say something wrong, you're going to get ratioed or community noted.
00:46:57.000And 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.
00:47:09.000To understand what's true and what isn't.
00:47:12.000You're too stupid to discern from a hoax and what's real.
00:47:16.000I'm not sure that they think we're stupid.
00:47:19.000I know they say they're stupid because it justifies their existence.
00:49:23.000Well, and Kurt, this goes back to the arrogance, because think about it.
00:49:27.000Donald 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.
00:53:39.000And 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.
00:53:59.000Obviously, you've just come back from Saudi Arabia.
00:54:01.000You were meeting with Russian officials on really looking to find a solution to end the war in Ukraine between Russia and Ukraine.
00:54:14.000Tell me first how those negotiations are going.
00:54:17.000Any insight that you can give to our CPAC family here in terms of progress that's being made?
00:54:25.000SECRETARY KERRY: Well, let me make one thing clear.
00:54:27.000We would not be in this position, not even close, if it weren't for the leadership of Donald J. Trump.
00:54:35.000I 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.
00:55:05.000And it amazes me how many people in this town are clutching their pearls and having conniption fits over what?
00:55:13.000Because 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.
00:55:36.000But with his leadership, we've now opened negotiations.
00:55:40.000We'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.
00:56:16.000They criticize the efforts that the administration is doing.
00:56:19.000And with that being said, President Trump...
00:56:21.000Has 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?
00:57:49.000We have an obligation to you all, the American taxpayer, to recoup the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been invested in this war.
00:59:52.000And we have been demanding that the Europeans step up and contribute to their own defense.
00:59:59.000And 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.
01:00:16.000And 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.
01:00:27.000So you know what, he's kind of rattled their cage a bit.
01:00:31.000And now they're saying, you know what, suddenly they've found more.
01:00:34.000And they're coming to the table with more.
01:00:42.000We've got Ambassador Mark Wallace with us.
01:00:45.000Basically 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.
01:01:53.000The 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.
01:02:06.000And 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.
01:03:11.000We just got word from the Israeli Defense Forces that they have returned.
01:03:17.000Several bodies, the Bibas family, the two beautiful children, the redhead children, and what was supposed to be the body of Shirah, the mother.
01:03:26.000Apparently, that doesn't seem to be the case.
01:03:29.000IDF is saying this is a serious violation of the ceasefire.
01:03:34.000What'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?
01:03:48.000My message, President Trump's message to his families is we are with you.
01:03:54.000His heart breaks and he is horrified by these scenes coming out.
01:04:01.000And 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.
01:04:22.000This is, Hamas is of the worst kinds of terrorist groups out there.
01:04:28.000They are no different than ISIS. They are no different than Al Qaeda.
01:04:31.000And they absolutely must be destroyed.
01:04:35.000And only under his leadership, only under his leadership, remember the Biden administration Was trying to do some type of deal.
01:04:44.000They 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.
01:04:55.000Only when President Trump came in and said, look, there will be all hell to pay, the credible threat that only he can deliver.
01:05:33.000You had protesters celebrating Hamas, talking about from the river to the sea.
01:05:40.000Having 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.
01:05:56.000And there is a lot of talk about two-state.
01:05:59.000You know who doesn't want a two-state?
01:06:15.000We 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.
01:06:31.000They're trying to be strategic in ensuring that the U.S. Does not get involved in some of these regions.
01:06:39.000This has significantly changed under President Trump.
01:06:43.000Walk us through how we're going to deal with this threat of China.
01:06:46.000Remember, 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.
01:07:01.000But he firmly believes we can win this economically.
01:07:04.000We can win this through our supply chains.
01:07:06.000We can win this through our markets and fair trade deals.
01:07:10.000And at the same time, rebuilding our great military under, how about our defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, right?
01:07:17.000Getting them focused on being the most lethal and most badass military in the world and projecting that strength.
01:07:25.000But at the same time, he appreciates the infiltration that's going on.
01:07:28.000And we just had Panama say, you know what?
01:08:11.000You'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.
01:08:27.000And if there's not anything more than America first, then that.
01:08:31.000And so, a lot of, you know, going back to things that worked in the first term.
01:08:36.000But you know what we have now in the second term?
01:08:39.000We have a team that is 200% on board with the vision of President Trump.
01:08:45.000And we've got a great Secretary of State, a great Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Treasury.
01:08:50.000You know, we've got the Team Florida with Susie Wiles and our Chief of Staff.
01:08:57.000Like, we are hitting on all cylinders, and we don't have a president that's year one or even year five.
01:10:10.000Be worthy of those Gold Star families.
01:10:12.000Be a citizen that is worthy of this blessing that we all wake up with breathing free air in the greatest country on earth.
01:10:20.000But we got a glimpse the last four years of what the world and what the country would look like under progressive lack of leadership.
01:10:30.000The 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.
01:10:41.000We went from the Abraham Accords to the Middle East on fire, an out-of-control border.
01:10:47.000I think, you know, and the President is thinking about this a lot as well, of course he wanted that second term.
01:11:15.000Be worthy of those that are out there right now willing to die for all of us and those that did give the greatest sacrifice.
01:11:22.000For 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.
01:12:08.000The 47th President of the United States of America, And, you know, I wouldn't say Fox has been exactly perfect.
01:12:37.000Fox has been a big difference of Fox between now and what it was four years ago, as you know.
01:12:42.000But 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.
01:15:18.000When I wrote the book that you all received, What Are the Odds?
01:15:23.000From Crack Addict to CEO, I used mathematical odds to prove that God exists.
01:15:30.000We 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.
01:15:40.000Well, when do we put them all together and say it has to be a miracle?
01:15:47.000I remember getting invited to the White House for the first time and sitting next to our great president.
01:15:52.000And the cameras went live to the nation.
01:15:55.000And 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?
01:16:02.000Jesus is real, because this would be impossible without God.
01:16:09.000And in the spring of 2020, in another divine appointment, I spoke at the Rose Garden.
01:16:16.000And I said, God has given us grace for such a time as this.
01:16:20.000Well, then we were hit with the China virus and a stolen election.
01:16:24.000And over the next four years, people would come up to me all the time and say, Mike, this doesn't feel like grace.
01:16:33.000God uses all things for good for those who believe.
01:16:38.000And 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.
01:16:49.000And I told him, I said, you know, Mr. President, these bad things are actually helping.
01:17:43.000This 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.
01:18:07.000On January 7th and 8th of 2021, Those two days are historically important.
01:18:14.0001.2 million people were deplatformed and cancelled on Vimeo, YouTube, Suckabuck's Facebook, Jack Dorsey's Twitter.
01:18:24.000If you spoke out about the stolen election, you were deplatformed.
01:18:28.000The rest of the country was too afraid to say anything because on January 6th they went completely silent in fear.
01:18:36.000And 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.
01:18:44.000And we would go, and we'd turn it on right before that dot went out.
01:19:05.000We turn that back on, and our voice has gotten bigger and brighter than ever before.
01:19:13.000And this is, you know, we never gave up.
01:19:18.000People started forming their own platforms, and this is where CPAC came in.
01:19:22.000How important is CPAC that gave us a platform?
01:19:25.000I 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.
01:19:44.000We never stopped speaking out, and our voice has grown to the biggest it's ever been.
01:19:50.000We have beaten the biggest cover-up of the biggest crime in history.
01:20:03.000The Uniparty, the deep state globalists, and the media tried to completely bury the truth about the 2020 election.
01:20:18.000I 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.
01:20:29.000We would have said, open up those machines.
01:20:31.000We would have said, no, we're not going to sit out in snowbanks wearing masks and be banned from our own houses.
01:20:37.000We would not have tolerated another stolen election.
01:20:41.000And evil knew, evil knew this, and they also knew that it was too big to rig, as the president likes to say.
01:20:50.000If 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.
01:20:58.000Well, that's their tool to steal elections.
01:21:00.000By the way, the media will like this, the fake news.
01:21:04.000They did steal four senators and nine congressmen that my teams know of in this last election, just so you all know that.
01:22:41.000We have the greatest mayor ever, Mayor Rudy Giuliani over there.
01:22:47.000We have Emerald Robinson and many other hosts in our 24-7 TV lineup.
01:22:53.000We 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.
01:23:06.000And I'd like to thank, I needed help, and I'd like to thank our great new sponsors like Fisher Liberty Gold.
01:23:16.000And Air Water Healing, they're going to be up there at the booth.
01:23:19.000But 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.
01:23:28.000They stood up and said, hey, we're going to help.
01:23:30.000We're going to sponsor Lindale TV. So thank you.
01:23:35.000I'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.
01:23:46.000The stuff we put out, we have all the pieces to do this.
01:23:50.000We 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.
01:24:47.000In May last year, an opposition activist tried to assassinate him for his policies.
01:24:53.000For politics based on the ideals of fight against fascism.
01:24:57.000For wanting an immediate end to the war in Ukraine.
01:25:01.000For 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.
01:25:11.000For his grasp of reality when he vetoed the compulsory redistribution of illegal migrants among the European Union member states.
01:25:19.000For pursuing a sovereign Slovak foreign policy to all four cardinal points.
01:25:25.000For treasuring freedom of speech and rejecting the politics of single correct political opinion.
01:25:30.000For the first time, Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic is coming to CPAC. If
01:26:31.000AARP and Congress believe America's seniors aren't watching, think again.
01:27:31.000And my guess is you probably like what Trump's doing as well.
01:27:34.000and we'll have the results for you very soon.
01:27:37.000Ladies and gentlemen, a conversation with White House Deputy Chief of Staff, James Blair, and Breitbart, Washington Bureau Chief, Matt Boyle.
01:28:12.000Okay, so James, you are the deputy chief of staff in the White House.
01:28:15.000There's a bunch of you guys that are deputy chiefs of staff, and a bunch of them are going to be here.
01:28:19.000All the president's men are going to be here at CPAC, so it's really exciting.
01:28:23.000Tell us about your specific role in the White House.
01:28:26.000We were talking about this last night.
01:28:28.000Tell us about the various departments that you oversee inside the White House.
01:28:32.000Yeah, I really oversee the external portfolio of the White House.
01:28:37.000There's three main components to that.
01:28:39.000We have our Office of Legislative Affairs, which obviously is really the President's lobbying arm on Capitol Hill.
01:28:45.000We have the Office of Political Affairs, which is just the political operations that come from the White House and run externally, of course.
01:28:53.000And then the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, which deals with the interplay between...
01:28:57.000Uh, federal, state, and local governments, and tribal governments.
01:29:00.000Okay, 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?
01:29:14.000Like, uh, but the, uh, uh, the, the, we're seeing the level of action is just incredible, right?
01:29:20.000Like, it's rapid fire, uh, lots of different action out there.
01:29:24.000Um, 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.
01:29:35.000And at CPAC, of course, we got to give Andrew Breitbart a shout out because Andrew Breitbart was CPAC, right?
01:29:41.000But tell us what it's like in there in the White House every day.
01:29:45.000It seems like it's a pretty crazy wild schedule, if you will.
01:30:35.000And he's really committed to making this time in office very useful for saving the country.
01:30:40.000I mean, he's just going to do what he said he was going to do, and that's it.
01:30:42.000All right, so James, one of the major departments you oversee is the political affairs, obviously.
01:30:48.000You were the political director for the Trump campaign.
01:30:51.000One 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.
01:31:44.000But the plan primarily was to capitalize on opportunities that existed within these different populations of voters that maybe have not traditionally voted Republican.
01:31:53.000We'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.
01:32:15.000And that is, I think, the main thing that everyone has to focus on for the midterms and going forward.
01:32:20.000And I think the reason for that is issues.
01:32:25.000President Trump is not like every Republican politician, as we all know, for the last several decades, particularly cuts against the mold of Washington.
01:32:46.000It 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.
01:32:57.000And he swept the Senate majority into office.
01:32:59.000And really, President Trump performs above all other Republicans.
01:33:04.000And that's because a lot of these voters...
01:33:07.000That are with him have not come over to the party.
01:33:10.000And the way we solve for that going forward is to pass the agenda that he campaigned on.
01:33:58.000And 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.
01:34:23.000I'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.
01:34:34.000We'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.
01:34:50.000I mean, these are exciting young voices that are, you know...
01:34:54.000Eight years ago, President Trump had a rough time of getting his cabinet through.
01:34:58.000This time around, he's actually beating with a smaller majority of his party, Barack Obama, from 2009, when he was confirming his cabinet.
01:35:10.000Trump's cabinet is almost all confirmed now.
01:35:14.000How has the party changed in a better way that is reflecting this transformation that we're talking about?
01:35:23.000Because it's bigger than Trump, I think.
01:36:10.000And 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.
01:36:24.000And I think they recognize how much time he has spent reflecting on his four years in office and how he...
01:36:34.000Has come through the greatest weaponization in history, all the things that we all know.
01:36:39.000I mean, nobody has undergone more challenges to get to an office than President Trump.
01:36:42.000And I think they're quite deferential to giving him the opportunity and the team he wants to not have that happen again.
01:36:49.000And despite those challenges in the first term, he had a historic presidency.
01:36:53.000And now I think the feeling is, well, if we just support...
01:36:58.000support him and support the folks that helped get him elected, then maybe we'll all do better.
01:37:03.000A rising tide will lift all boats, and I think that's what we're seeing.
01:37:08.000So, James, the big question is, I mean, the first...
01:37:11.000Major elections we're gonna see in just a few short weeks here in Wisconsin.
01:37:15.000We have a Wisconsin Supreme Court races coming up in April.
01:37:18.000The governor races and state-level races later this year.
01:37:24.000We got some special elections coming up for some of the seats that have been opened up by cabinet picks.
01:37:30.000We've got and then we have the midterm elections less than two years away.
01:37:35.000So 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.
01:37:48.000That 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.
01:37:57.000Yeah, I mean, it's not easy, that's for sure.
01:38:00.000The Wisconsin Supreme Court race, looking at numbers there, and there's some folks getting involved for the conservative.
01:38:09.000I 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.
01:38:22.000The 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.
01:38:43.000That that supports his worldview, ultimately.
01:38:46.000And just to kind of bring this around, look, you have a standing army out here in the audience, right?
01:38:52.000These are President Trump supporters out here, here at CPAC, and the millions and millions of people watching at home.
01:38:59.000What 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?
01:39:06.000What do they need to do to help solidify this political realignment?
01:39:34.000But 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.
01:39:54.000I mean, the last thing I'll say is I'll leave you with this.
01:39:56.000There's 13 seats in the House of Representatives that are occupied by Democrats that President Trump won.
01:40:03.000On average, the Republican underperformed him by 5.2 points.
01:40:08.000There's only three seats in the House that Republicans hold that Harris won.
01:40:12.000So that gives you some sense of the fact that we should be playing offense here.
01:40:17.000But that requires bringing all of the other Republicans up to the vote coalition that President Trump has and brought into office.
01:40:24.000So follow the Trump agenda and pass it, and we will all be rewarded for it.
01:41:51.000But 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.
01:42:02.000For me, I ran Ben Carson's campaign back in 2015, 2016. Great American.
01:42:10.000And 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.
01:42:32.000That 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.
01:42:45.000And then that led to the FBI taking my phone and my emails, the emails of my nine-year-old kid.
01:43:01.000But, 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.
01:43:11.000And John, I'm further along in the process.
01:43:14.000John is still in the fight, and he needs our help.
01:43:18.000But 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.
01:43:33.000Look, 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.
01:44:40.000Well, yeah, but the phone was in our possession by then, so we've served the warrant on ourselves.
01:44:47.000This 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.
01:44:57.000I 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.
01:45:09.000Well, the client was the President of the United States.
01:45:12.000And 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.
01:45:25.000And 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.
01:45:39.000They put my bar license in California currently on inactive status.
01:45:46.000At least I'm still able to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States.
01:45:52.000But 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.
01:46:02.000This is an egregious abuse of our criminal justice system, the likes of which we have never seen.
01:46:07.000In 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.
01:46:26.000And 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.
01:46:36.000Rather than beginning with the crime and investigate whodunit.
01:46:40.000And 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.
01:47:04.000And people have said, well, Eastman, why don't you just look forward and leave it alone?
01:47:10.000If 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.
01:47:19.000So 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.
01:47:44.000Because 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.
01:47:59.000And if you don't hold people accountable for what they did for that, that's a federal felony, by the way.
01:48:04.000There's a group called States United Democracy Center.
01:48:08.000They filed the bar complaint against me in California.
01:48:11.000They're a rabid anti-Trump organization designed to go after all the lawyers that were trying to help Trump.
01:48:18.000They 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.
01:48:29.000And I've told media, I said, that's a little like hiring the fox to do the safety memo for your chicken coop.
01:48:36.000And the people that are doing that need to be held accountable.
01:48:40.000And 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.
01:49:07.000I 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.
01:49:23.000But the gentleman that roasted me then turned serious.
01:49:27.000And he said, what we saw here was an exhibition of courage, and courage is contagious.
01:49:33.000And 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.
01:49:45.000Is 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?
01:49:52.000Ladies 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.
01:49:58.000We fight this battle until we win, until we win permanently.
01:50:58.000I can't think of anything more important to be doing.
01:51:00.000And 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.
01:51:45.00030 million Americans regularly go to...
01:51:49.000Something big is happening in the markets.
01:51:51.000So big that I have to bring it to your attention.
01:51:54.000On February 3rd, 2025, President Trump and Treasury Secretary Besant signed an executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund committing to monetizing the assets of the United States balance sheet.
01:52:06.000Meanwhile, the Bank of England is running out of gold.
01:52:09.000So desperate, they're paying 16% a month just to borrow it.
01:52:15.000Right here to the United States, with a drastic increase in metal shipments to CME COMEX vaults.
01:52:21.000Is President Trump preparing to repatriate and monetize America's gold?
01:52:26.000Elon Musk and former Congressman Ron Pohl through Doge are planning an audit of the gold in Fort Knox.
01:52:32.000And on March 1st, President Trump's 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico will take effect, which is major news for the silver market since 80% of all refinery-bound silver comes from Mexico.
01:52:46.000With American silver refineries already facing a three-month backlog, this could send prices soaring overnight.
01:52:53.000President Trump is the catalyst for these historic economy-shifting events.
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01:57:29.000Unfortunately, our government has one hand around our throat.
01:57:33.000And we're finding out the other hand is in our pockets and they're robbing us blind.
01:57:37.000And 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.
01:58:06.000And apparently there's millions of them.
01:58:08.000There's even people that are over 150 that are allegedly getting all of these paychecks.
01:58:14.000So 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.
01:58:25.000From 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.
01:58:36.000But it's not free for us, the hard-working Americans.
01:58:53.000And 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.
01:59:15.000And now thanks to President Trump's radical transparency, we are learning some cold hard facts about our government.
01:59:21.000I've never felt more betrayed by the government and, frankly, the media mouthpieces back in the fake news.
01:59:32.000This 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.
01:59:43.000Unfortunately, we're still surrounded by too many fake journalists out there.
01:59:47.000Have you noticed they're grasping at their pearls, acting offended that the fraud is being uncovered?
01:59:54.000They'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.
02:00:04.000I'll tell you, the purpose of the mainstream media is no longer to inform us, it's to manipulate us.
02:00:21.000I kind of think of them as the anti-American propagandists.
02:00:24.000They're very, very mad about the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.
02:00:29.000Now, they have no issue with swapping out Kiev for Kiev or switching the spelling of the country named Turkey.
02:00:38.000I didn't even know it was possible to spell that another way.
02:00:41.000But they have just been horrified by this name change.
02:00:46.000Remember, these are the same people who didn't want to call riots riots.
02:00:49.000They wanted to call them mostly peaceful protests.
02:00:52.000But 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.
02:02:09.000They're still sticking to their story.
02:02:11.000But 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?
02:02:30.000They want to keep their narrative going.
02:02:32.000A real journalist would never support censorship.
02:02:35.000Every 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.
02:02:46.000We 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.
02:03:23.000Last week these media zombies mulled around the idea of boycotting Covering the White House to support the AP. Did you hear about their idea?
02:03:34.000They're going to boycott the White House to support the AP drama.
02:03:41.000That means no more CNN, AP, MSNBC, and the press pool.
02:04:15.000We are witnessing the return of our government to we, the people.
02:04:21.000It is a historic moment with monumental consequences for America and the entire world.
02:04:27.000It's a golden age in America, and damn it, we deserve a golden age in journalism.
02:04:35.000And that is why I'm honored that President Trump has appointed me to lead the Voice of America.
02:04:40.000VOA has been telling America's story to the world for 83 years this Monday.
02:04:48.000Now, sometimes the coverage has been incredible, and sometimes it's been pitiful.
02:04:55.000We are fighting an information war, and there's no better weapon than the truth, and I believe VOA can be that weapon.
02:05:03.000I 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.
02:05:14.000It won't become Trump TV, although I think the ratings would be very high.
02:05:19.000It 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.
02:05:42.000Some people have suggested shutting it down.
02:05:45.000And 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.
02:05:51.000With a relatively small budget, along with honest reporting, we can spread the values of freedom all over the world and prevent trillion-dollar wars.
02:06:04.000So 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?
02:06:22.000There is still unfinished business that I have in my beloved Arizona.
02:09:54.000Before 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?
02:11:49.000And for the last eight years, they called people like me, who voted for President Trump, who worked for President Trump, fascists, Nazis, white supremacists.
02:13:50.000Mike Waltz is the first Congressman Green Beret National Security Advisor.
02:13:59.000But wherever I used to go to speak publicly, I was always asked the same question.
02:14:05.000Wherever I was in America, whoever the audience was, whatever the topic they gave me, sooner or later, they always asked the same question.
02:14:33.000National Security Advisor Waltz and myself and a military member of my team on the National Security Council are waiting to see the President.
02:14:42.000To tell him something rather shocking.
02:16:17.000Now this was classified as I was watching it at the highest level.
02:16:22.000That is a leader of ISIS responsible for training, recruiting, financing, and deploying jihadis across the world to kill Americans and our friends and allies.
02:16:35.000Hiding out in a massive cave complex in northern Somalia.
02:16:47.000And this is what President Trump did to him.
02:16:50.000My incredible team member had this declassified within four hours.
02:17:03.000After which President Trump put a social media post up that I would like to read to you.
02:17:11.000Last 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.
02:17:43.000In the last 30 days, we have designated the cartels as terrorists and we have unleashed the hammers of hell on ISIS. So,
02:18:00.000all 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.
02:18:16.000And that is exactly what we are doing.
02:18:23.000Whether you voted for him or not is irrelevant.
02:19:05.000We 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
02:19:33.000Well, 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.
02:19:42.000They're going and what are you talking about?
02:19:44.000The 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.
02:19:53.000What America is going to look like in 10, 20, 30 years from now?
02:21:48.000And I was so honored and thrilled to be with the president.
02:21:55.000When 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,
02:22:22.000if 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.
02:22:35.000And the things that he's getting done, he knows.
02:22:37.000We don't have the luxury of time, but he cannot do it himself.
02:22:41.000The calls that you made to make sure that the confirmations went through...
02:22:47.000And 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.
02:23:08.000But there's a lot that we have to do and we have to do it together because they cannot do it alone.
02:23:13.000I 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.
02:23:28.000And then this white knight comes galloping in and pushes a button and pays a bill and says, you're back.
02:23:34.000So thank goodness that we have a voice again.
02:23:38.000This mighty movement of moms has been incredible over the last two, three years.
02:23:46.000Rallying 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.
02:23:55.000There are some things that we have that we're doing.
02:23:58.000It's pretty exciting because the message...
02:24:00.000of 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.
02:24:12.000And I have had all these people from these other countries who have said, we need a Moms for America in our country.
02:24:18.000I'm like, I don't think that's going to work as Moms for America.
02:24:23.000We can have a Moms for Hungary and we can have a Moms for Europe.
02:24:28.000And we are uniting all of those moms who have come to us.
02:24:32.000We are launching MomsforFreedom.world to collect the moms, gather them together all over the world to stand for these same principles and values.
02:24:46.000We 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.
02:24:55.000And when we find somebody that we can partner with that has a solution, we get excited.
02:24:59.000One of those partners is the Child ID Program.
02:25:02.000And 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.
02:25:12.000I carried these around in my pocket throughout the 1980s and 90s when I was raising my own children.
02:25:26.000I had the information to provide to law enforcement to get my kids back into safety.
02:25:31.000With 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.
02:25:39.000So we are launching this here today, our partnership with Child ID Program.
02:25:57.000What 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?
02:26:21.000They have just gone back underground and this is our opportunity to make sure that ground never opens up again.
02:26:27.000So we have things that we can do uniting and standing together.
02:26:33.000So the greatest weapon that we have right now in our arsenal is Moms.
02:26:41.000And 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.
02:26:52.000And 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.
02:27:01.000If you are a mom, if you are a grandma, if you are a woman of faith, stand up.
02:27:17.000I need you to reach out to every mom you know, your daughters, your sisters, and you tell them how important that voice is.
02:27:25.000Because if we want to continue to win, we've got to get these moms who aren't voting out and voting.
02:27:30.000We've got to restore this love of liberty.
02:27:33.000Of 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.
02:27:44.000It 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.
02:28:09.000We need to share the story of America.
02:28:12.000We 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.
02:28:46.000You 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.
02:37:40.000This 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.
02:39:05.000America first for me means saving this country for my children, my American children first.
02:39:18.000I'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?
02:39:29.000A cursed generation is one that destroys the country for their children and leaves them a mess.
02:39:34.000So that's what we're going to do together, right?
02:39:36.000We're going to save this place for our kids.
02:39:40.000That's what being really pro-life is all about, and that's what loving your country is all about.
02:39:44.000We just welcomed our newest fourth child, born on Inauguration Day, Baby Whittaker, the golden boy.
02:42:02.000Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome senior editor at Human Events, Jack Posobiec.
02:42:07.000Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the new American Republic.
02:42:34.000President Donald J. Trump has returned to office as he always said that he would.
02:42:44.000President 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.
02:42:54.000Give yourselves a round of applause because you never gave up.
02:43:01.000No 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.
02:43:11.000We are done and we've had enough of that city right across the river and we are targeting.
02:43:17.000We are targeting exactly the people of that city and we are coming in and saying, guess what?
02:43:24.000Where our eyes are wide open and our hearts are full of the fire of the Lord God above.
02:43:31.000We are going to come to this town and we are going to restore freedom for the American people.
02:43:41.000We witnessed a miracle one month ago when Donald Trump was returned to office.
02:44:09.000Donald Trump is restoring the American Constitution.
02:44:13.000Donald Trump is the living embodiment of the American Constitution.
02:44:18.000Donald 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.
02:44:50.000If 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?
02:45:00.000Kash Patel is coming for you, and you are going to be locked up.
02:45:09.000And 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.
02:45:16.000Pack your bags because you're going home.
02:45:20.000This country was built by Americans for Americans, and we will hand it off to our American children.
02:45:31.000And to the warmongers of the war machine, guess what?
02:45:35.000Your war machine is grinding to a halt.
02:45:40.000The wars will end and peace will break out across the world.
02:45:44.000And 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.
02:45:55.000It's as simple as that because I'm sorry World War III has been canceled.
02:46:02.000And 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.
02:47:47.000We're going to go after the foreign agents in this country.
02:47:50.000And yes, that includes the foreign agents that are working and have penetrated the United States government and the United States Congress.
02:48:05.000And if there's money that shouldn't be in your pocket, oh, you are going away for a long, long time.
02:48:11.000That's what it means to restore justice in this country.
02:48:14.000That is the greatest effort because President Trump, President Trump came up and he found the destiny of the American people lying in the gutter.
02:48:28.000And he picked it up with his bare hands and he yelled, fight, fight, fight!
02:48:37.000And the American people delivered their mandate to him and put it on his head.
02:48:42.000And as President Trump himself said just a few days ago, a man who saves his nation violates no law.
02:49:41.000For my country, for my family, for your family.
02:49:44.000When President Trump was put to the test, to the ultimate test, in Butler, Pennsylvania, we saw how he answered.
02:49:52.000Because the American people have woken up, and they've woken up for sure.
02:49:59.000Because, folks, it's as simple as this.
02:50:02.000President Trump said that when he was down behind that podium, and think of it.
02:50:06.000You've never seen President Trump like that before.
02:50:08.000You've seen him raise his fist before and punch it in the air and lead great crowds and great rallies.
02:50:15.000But in the moment just before that, what did you see?
02:50:19.000You 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.
02:50:34.000And that is the mission that you are seeing take place right now every day in this new American Republic.
02:50:41.000For 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.
02:50:52.000And therefore, put on the full armor of God so that when...
02:50:57.000When the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after everything they have done to you, to stand.
02:51:05.000I 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.
02:51:13.000Victory is not measured when Donald Trump returns to office.
02:51:17.000Victory is only measured at the final day when we pass on this republic to our children, and our children asked us.
02:51:26.000Mom, Dad, what did you do when America was on the line?
02:51:32.000When the revolutionaries were trying to take over and destroy this country?
02:56:01.000And 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.
02:56:19.000Never 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.
02:56:35.000So I really want to commend the president.
02:56:42.000He deserves a lot of praise for what he did because that was not an easy Decision to make.
02:56:50.000I 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.
02:57:10.000And without that platform, you know, now it's cool.
02:57:19.000And so I want to thank them and praise them also for giving me a platform and then J6ers over the past few years.
02:57:28.000So at any rate, I'm going to introduce my fellow panelists in a moment.
02:57:34.000But what an amazing time talking about a year ago what the Department of Justice was doing.
02:57:42.000And 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.
02:58:10.000And of course, Kash Patel and his team.
02:58:15.000They really need our support and prayers because they've got, I think, arguably the biggest task ahead of them in the Trump administration.
02:58:25.000So I'm going to bring out my friend, and we're going to have a discussion about January 6th.
02:59:13.000Thank you, CPAC, for allowing me to be here.
02:59:14.000Thirty-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.
02:59:32.000I'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.
02:59:40.000So, I think people are familiar with your work.
02:59:43.000Of course, you have your book, Courage Under Fire, the definitive account of January 6th.
02:59:51.000And I've got to tell you, the current January 6th committee under Barry Loudermilk, and I'm glad Speaker Johnson has continued that investigation.
03:00:01.000You know, they refer to it as the definitive after action because there's way too many politicized people's opinions, reports out there.
03:00:11.000You 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.
03:00:26.000And that's kind of how I wrote the book.
03:00:30.000So, Steve and I started talking, I think, a few years ago, and we have become friends.
03:00:38.000We 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.
03:00:51.000But what happened to Chief Sund is, despite his constant pleas to...
03:00:57.000To add more security for January 6th, of course, those were denied.
03:01:02.000But 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.
03:01:15.000And so we could talk a little bit about that.
03:01:20.000Now, 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?
03:01:33.000So when you look at it and you look back, a lot of people may not realize this.
03:01:37.000They've heard Donald Trump offered up 10,000 to 20,000 National Guard troops.
03:01:44.000I 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.
03:01:53.000It was only on the 13th request that I finally get approval at 2.09 p.m.
03:01:58.000So what I've come to learn since January 6th is January 6th was 100% preventable.
03:02:04.000If security on Capitol Hill hadn't been so politicized...
03:02:08.000And, 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.
03:02:18.000It says specifically, I have to go to the Capitol Police Board.
03:02:22.000I'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.
03:02:36.000So when she said she doesn't play a role, she does.
03:02:39.000So 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.
03:03:04.000They'd make sure everyone has the same intelligence.
03:03:06.000Intelligence was handled differently, even within my own unit.
03:03:10.000If intelligence had been accurate, I would have gotten support from the Capitol Police Board.
03:03:14.000I would have gotten support from leadership.
03:03:16.000And again, January 6th wouldn't have happened.
03:03:18.000We had many opportunities to get out in front of this train.
03:03:22.000I think, too, we've talked about and you've discussed during congressional testimony and also just interviews.
03:03:29.000What are some of the things that you've learned over the past four years that you didn't know about that day?
03:03:35.000For example, not being alerted about the presence of FBI informants.
03:03:40.000You 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.
03:04:31.000The other aspect was, again, the domestic terrorists that we now, people are saying, oh, the FBI was tracking domestic terrorists.
03:04:38.000That, 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.
03:04:51.000Now 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.
03:05:08.000And when they talk about tracking domestic terrorists, I mean, they're tracking them with people.
03:05:12.000They're not tracking them with, like, the janitorial crew.
03:05:16.000So it's not unusual for undercovers to be in the crowd.
03:05:20.000You're talking about major events in Washington, D.C. It's probably SOP. But it would have been great to know that.
03:05:27.000So a little bit your experience with the January 6th Select Committee.
03:05:32.000Who 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.
03:05:59.000One, 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.
03:06:06.000Their focus was predetermined outcome.
03:06:08.000It was to focus on basically 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
03:06:12.000How was Donald Trump responsible for this?
03:06:22.000When we had our interview, it got very contentious.
03:06:25.000When 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.
03:06:35.000They 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.
03:06:42.000And then, like I said, it got contentious.
03:06:51.000That made me realize real quick that they weren't looking for the truth.
03:06:55.000And 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?
03:07:05.000The cameras inside the Capitol do not have sound.
03:07:08.000They imported other riotous sounds, other demonstrations, other riots into that.
03:07:16.000Imagine if any chief of police in the United States of America had changed dash cam videos, body-worn camera videos, and imported separate audio.
03:08:01.000But 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.
03:08:13.000I think we're going to learn a lot more.
03:08:15.000Of course, Barry Loudermilk now has a permanent subcommittee under House Judiciary.
03:08:21.000Attorney General Pam Bondi is also notified, announced that she will be looking into the abuses of the FBI against the J6 defendants.
03:08:30.000And so I think we are going to find out a lot more in addition to what we've already learned.
03:09:44.000Do you think the MKUltra project ever actually ended?
03:09:47.000The Central Intelligence Agency is actively involved in mind manipulation.
03:09:51.000We all answer to one God and one Savior, and he's there to change your life.
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03:13:55.000You never stop fighting for America, and I will never ever stop fighting for you.
03:14:02.000We know that there are still more records to be shattered, new summits to be scaled, more triumphs to be realized, and more amazing history just waiting to be written.
03:14:12.000The American adventure has only just begun.
03:14:16.000God bless America, and we will see you next year.
03:17:34.000And I have to do a little something to start this and indulge me because it's a sentimental thing.
03:17:39.000I 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.
03:17:50.000And it's very moving for me to work with them.
03:18:25.000Because the reason why that's so important...
03:18:28.000Poland is here in so many ways, and their government is so wonderful.
03:18:33.000And 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.
03:19:19.000I 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.
03:19:48.000Which could have easily turned into tariffs, so it could have gotten really fun, right?
03:19:52.000It's a testament to what CPAC is about.
03:19:55.000And, 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.
03:20:07.000And Matt and Mercy, I've seen you and I knew you before you were Matt and Mercy.
03:20:11.000And 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.
03:20:55.000We get involved in politics, but there's a lot of crossover here.
03:21:00.000There'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?
03:21:07.000You must have this amazing experience of seeing Donald Trump's maximum pressure campaign that your husband had a lot to do with building.
03:21:17.000Then this four-year hiatus, which is everything to subsidize this radicalized regime.
03:21:24.000And 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.
03:21:37.000How does it feel to be back on the right track?
03:21:47.000All 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.
03:21:55.000People suffered under, continue to suffer under this regime.
03:21:59.000This regime kills its own people, kills its young women, young men, that all they want is freedom.
03:23:23.000And where we have come, this far, this country has provided so much opportunity and just the freedom and the opportunity that has brought us.
03:23:32.000I mean, I would have never thought I would be sitting here with you guys, with this amazing audience, talking about President Trump.
03:23:43.000Mercy, how long was your father in prison?
03:23:46.000You 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.
03:24:04.000And for us in the United States, we don't comprehend it 100% because we live in this great country.
03:24:12.000But 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,
03:24:29.000you 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.
03:24:47.000And 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?
03:25:00.000And 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.
03:25:13.000Naked 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.
03:25:26.000It is horrific what the Communists have done to destroy so many people, so many families in the world.
03:27:18.000Which everyone can go down to our CPAC Central and go see it.
03:27:22.000It's actually here the first time on American soil.
03:27:26.000It's at CPAC. Go see this killing machine.
03:27:30.000And 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.
03:28:02.000And that's part of the maximum pressure campaign, is to make sure that they understand...
03:28:07.000That 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.
03:28:25.000And that starts with Israel getting rid of Hamas.
03:28:58.000On the sharp end of that, because of, in my opinion, failed policies of the previous administration, numerous service members have been injured.
03:29:06.000It'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.
03:29:15.000And of course, they've sent over 6,000 of these drones into Russia to attack Ukraine.
03:29:22.000And it is an indiscriminate terror weapon that kills innocent women and children.
03:29:27.000So 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.
03:29:50.000The other person who was going to be with us today was the Crown Prince of Iran.
03:29:58.000Mercy and I sometimes pinch ourselves because we have the most fascinating meetings at our CPAC headquarters.
03:30:05.000And 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...
03:30:17.000The 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.
03:30:29.000He's an important voice and he wanted to be with us here today.
03:30:32.000Right, and we heard, we hope, he indicated his mother, the great Shabanou.
03:30:41.000He's sick, and he had to return to Paris.
03:31:33.000I will say this is one of the reasons why...
03:31:36.000We'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...
03:33:47.000I'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.
03:34:03.000You 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.
03:34:12.000The 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.
03:34:41.000And look, we've operated when the crown prince was supposed to be here today.
03:34:45.000We can do something to try to help organize that diaspora.
03:34:49.000It's a diverse diaspora, different people, different competing influences.
03:34:53.000And look, like any diaspora, mercy of the Cuban diaspora, there's a lot of, at times, friction.
03:34:59.000But 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.
03:35:14.000I think we should look at the title of this conversation.
03:35:18.000I'd like to have a MAGA Mullah Meltdown.
03:35:30.000We could invite all the Iranians, leaders and groups who all at times have friction but are all united against this.
03:35:37.000And 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.
03:35:47.000What would your dad think about having a Magomola meltdown?
03:35:50.000It will be a big task, but it is worthwhile, and we have to do it.
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03:38:46.000...away from them because they objected to her gender transition. We're not just here to stop the erosion of liberty for this moment alone.
03:38:55.000We are here to keep the door open for the gospel.
03:38:58.000And when the gospel does its work, truth doesn't just hold its ground.
03:40:24.000I think Moms for America is exactly on track and is doing the right thing for the future of our country and our children.
03:40:30.000Like, Moms for America is going at the heart of the issue.
03:40:35.000I want to go on the record and say, I'm for moms, I'm for America, and I'm especially for Moms for America.
03:40:42.000But I am honored to join Moms for America today as we speak out against the horrific mandates.
03:40:48.000With 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.
03:40:57.000The most dangerous place in all of nature is between a mama bear and her baby cub.
03:41:06.000No 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.
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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.
03:41:58.000CPAC is doing a special investment in Hungary in May.
03:42:01.000CPAC has made its way to Europe for the very first time.
03:42:05.000The gathering frequented by many of the GOP's leading fringe voices is underway right now in Hungary.
03:44:38.000The 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.
03:44:52.000But dear friends, allow me to recall a Hungarian saying.
03:45:00.000It is in victory that one must remain most humble.
03:45:06.000And have a realistic view of the world, I would add.
03:45:10.000We 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.
03:45:22.000Until Donald Trump came to your rescue, the United States hadn't had a strong leader for almost two generations.
03:45:30.000And sadly, the same applies to Western Europe.
03:45:36.000of leadership and vision has led to a systematic collapse on an economic, political and security scale.
03:45:45.000The disease has spread to every and each level of our societies, but its roots are cultural and culture is a matter of national security.
03:45:57.000When Elon Musk let the Doge loose at USAID headquarters, he was targeting the root cause.
03:46:05.000Corrupt, malicious Marxist propaganda poisoning the well of our civilizational greatness.
03:46:13.000But USAID was only one of the heads of the Vogue Hydra.
03:46:19.000The 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.
03:46:38.000Just imagine that good old Georgie spent $1.4 billion to meddle in Europe.
03:46:49.000So the Vogue machine assimilated bureaucracies and policymaking at all levels of government.
03:46:58.000It launched a concerted assault on the family, Christianity, And the sovereignty of nations.
03:47:05.000And the establishment has been more than happy to play along as puppets of the globalist deep state network.
03:47:14.000So do you know, do you know why they hate Trump, Orban or Milei so much?
03:47:22.000Because they refused to submit, wouldn't assimilate and can't be destroyed.
03:47:30.000And now it turns out That they were right all along.
03:47:35.000Just one, but hugely important example.
03:47:38.000Both Trump, President Trump and Prime Minister Orban have been pushing for an end to the bloodshed in Ukraine, going against the progressive warmongers.
03:47:48.000And now, with your new sheriff in the White House, peace negotiations have finally begun, and it's really shocking to see supposed pacifists whining.
03:48:04.000So you know, the lesson is: Strong leaders make peace, weak leaders make war.
03:48:14.000And our civilization is not lost as long as such visionary and charismatic leaders can rise in the Americas and Europe.
03:48:29.000But 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.
03:48:43.000We, 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.
03:51:36.000This 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.
03:51:52.000I think Moms for America is exactly on track and is doing the right thing for the future of our country and our children.
03:51:59.000Like, Moms for America is going at the heart of the issue.
03:52:03.000I want to go on the record and say, I'm for Moms, I'm for America, and I'm especially for Moms for America.
03:52:11.000But I am honored to join Moms for America today as we speak out against the horrific mandates.
03:52:16.000With 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.
03:52:26.000The most dangerous place in all of nature is between a mama bear and her baby cub.
03:52:35.000No 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.
03:56:20.000We 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.
03:56:29.000So today, we are delighted and honored to talk with you about where we've come.
03:56:34.000Where we are and what God has for this country in the future.
03:56:43.000Well, 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.
03:57:13.000A lot of us have watched your entertainment.
03:57:15.000We're so excited about what you're doing, so thank you for that.
03:57:19.000I want to start with something that I don't know that you have touched on in public.
03:57:23.000But we're a Monk family, so we're going to do it right here, right now.
03:57:27.000You were previously with the Hallmark Channel.
03:57:30.000And all of a sudden one day you were gone.
03:57:33.000And 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.
03:57:42.000Would you like to talk about that for the first time right here publicly?
03:58:01.000Well, 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.
03:58:13.000Got to the point in 2017, we were number one, fourth quarter, cramped on to Christmas and very successful.
03:58:21.000And 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.
03:58:40.000And 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.
03:59:07.000And you stood up and had the courage to say, I'm not going along with this.
03:59:12.000I 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.
03:59:20.000Well, this was really the beginning of really seeing this become public or become evident to me.
03:59:28.000We were chosen to host and televise the White House tree lighting.
03:59:32.000It was President Trump's first time doing the tree lighting.
03:59:37.000And 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.
03:59:50.000It was the president's first tree lighting.
04:00:11.000Well, at the time, you know, I was totally shocked.
04:00:13.000We 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.
04:00:26.000We wouldn't be able to survive, and we were successful.
04:00:30.000You know, I kind of took a little grain of salt.
04:00:32.000At the time, though, I was very shaken by that thinking, and then you saw it become more pervasive over the next couple of years.
04:00:39.000So, 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.
04:00:48.000Any place you want to go, you're going to find different type of content that is not family-friendly.
04:00:54.000When 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.
04:01:05.000And when you come to a moment like that...
04:01:07.000And reading notes from viewers who were just so disappointed with, you know, what the direction was, was heartbreaking.
04:01:45.000And, you know, when Bill left Hallmark, I was shocked.
04:01:48.000As well because I had been doing a lot of films for them and I enjoyed them so much.
04:01:52.000I'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.
04:02:08.000And 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.
04:02:18.000I mean, I have plenty of other things to do.
04:03:45.000And 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.
04:03:57.000And this cultural shift is not merely a trend.
04:04:01.000It is a revival that has the potential to reshape society in ways that will make the powerful take notice.
04:04:09.000It 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.
04:04:53.000We don't care what the environment is.
04:04:55.000We 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.
04:05:44.000There's a reason that folks have flocked over there.
04:05:47.000I'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.
04:05:53.000People go and watch what they want to watch, and they'll find that, and I think it's wonderful.
04:05:57.000Andrew Breitbart, who was a friend of mine, once said that, you know, politics are downstream from culture.
04:06:02.000When 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...
04:06:33.000But, I mean, I think it's so important to have those conversations and those kind of films and shows.
04:06:40.000Families have conversations because of them.
04:06:43.000When you're putting out this other content for just a fringe number of people, they'll die.
04:06:49.000You 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.
04:06:59.000The 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.
04:07:43.000So 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.
04:08:31.000Because we know right now, looking at the statistics, Bible sales are up with Gen Zers.
04:08:36.000Young men are returning to church in droves, and there are young people who are really returning back to traditional values, faith-filled families.
04:08:45.000So now it's up to us to come alongside them and help them fly and shine.
04:08:50.000The 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.
04:09:05.000So, I'm going to ask you, what are you working on?
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04:14:31.000Look, I think, I don't know for sure, but I think the frustration that President Trump...
04:14:37.000What 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.
04:14:59.000If you're going to take public money, then you get to have public input.
04:15:04.000And so what we're going to say at the Kennedy Center is, first of all, we've got to clean up the financial situation.
04:15:11.000We have to do the big productions that the masses and the public want to see.
04:15:17.000We want to have really good programming.
04:15:20.000So 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.
04:15:38.000How 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.
04:16:08.000But 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.
04:16:18.000And 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.
04:16:25.000They 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.
04:16:42.000And 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.
04:16:52.000And 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.
04:18:13.000So listen, I want to talk about some of the major...
04:18:19.000One of the conflicts that we're seeing around the world right now that I know you've been working on.
04:18:24.000Number one, I mean, I think this has been top of the list for everyone at the White House, is the situation in Ukraine.
04:18:32.000In your conversations with President Trump, What do you hear from him about what's going on with his relationship with Zelensky, President Zelensky?
04:18:39.000Because 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.
04:19:17.000There are no great solutions right now.
04:19:21.000So 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.
04:21:36.000Let'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.
04:21:50.000The Europeans and the Biden administration all did one thing, which was prepare for more war.
04:21:57.000They talked about more funding for war.
04:22:04.000I 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.
04:22:22.000So you said President Zelensky isn't making choices for peace.
04:22:26.000What do you think are those choices that he should make to bring an end to this that he's not making now?
04:22:33.000Hundreds of billions of dollars of American money.
04:23:12.000And 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.
04:23:24.000Who 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.
04:23:35.000But again, I go back to the fact of we had it perfect in terms of peace.
04:23:41.000We 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?
04:24:10.000So the stuff that we're seeing on social media...
04:24:13.000But I want to say one thing that's really important in this conversation.
04:24:20.000Republican foreign policy leaders have done for 25 years.
04:24:23.000This is a paradigm shift, what he's doing.
04:24:25.000We articulate very clearly under Donald Trump, we don't do regime change.
04:24:31.000We 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.
04:24:45.000So 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.
04:25:37.000And so I think you've got to say to Donald Trump, you know how to deliver peace.
04:25:41.000You certainly know how to negotiate Americans into a peaceful situation.
04:25:47.000And so my kind of attitude is, let's watch and see.
04:25:53.000How 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.
04:26:02.000Regardless of what it looks like, us getting involved in Gaza, I mean, President Trump has talked about getting out of foreign entanglements.
04:26:10.000That's a promise that he made on the campaign trail.
04:26:20.000I think it's a legitimate question to say, wait a minute, you've said this.
04:26:25.000Again, what I think the thinking and the criteria is, is how do we deliver peace?
04:26:32.000And 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.
04:26:41.000Do you believe the U.S. still has a role to play and should play a role in peace in the Middle East?
04:26:49.000Yes, but that doesn't immediately mean that we jump to boots on the ground.
04:26:53.000And I would say the other thing is, I'm a diplomat.
04:26:58.000You're going to hear me talk about diplomacy, not about war and the things of war.
04:27:02.000But I will say that, as kind of a chastisement to the public debate right now, when you talk about security assurances...
04:27:11.000Stop assuming that security assurances are just simply American boots or UN boots and guns.
04:27:18.000I can't think of a better security assurance than private equity folks on the ground.
04:27:24.000American businessmen on the ground trying to do deals and help rebuild or help bring economic development.
04:27:37.000If 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.
04:27:50.000And I know we're running low on time here.
04:27:51.000I do want to talk to you about the wildfires in Los Angeles.
04:27:54.000I know you know people who have lost homes.
04:27:58.000I think anyone that knows anyone in L.A. knows people who have had tremendous loss there.
04:28:34.000We're talking about those conditions now.
04:28:36.000As 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.
04:29:07.000Everyone who's involved knows that the California Coastal Commission is a disaster, and it needs to absolutely be defunded.
04:29:18.000And from just a way to think about government.
04:29:23.000We already have local government making these decisions.
04:29:26.000Layering it on with the California Coastal Commission is a terrible idea.
04:29:31.000It's an unelected group of people who are crazy woke left, and one person can stop progress, and they've made California less safe.
04:29:42.000I 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.
04:29:53.000While 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?
04:30:05.000Honestly, it's not in my plan unless Kamala Harris runs for governor.
04:30:23.000We've spent hundreds of millions of dollars to define who Kamala Harris is.
04:30:28.000If 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.
04:30:38.000Making news here at CPAC. Lastly, before I let you go, we talked about the Kennedy Center.
04:30:44.000You've got that performance coming up in December, but what is your ideal performance at the Kennedy Center, if you could have anyone perform?
04:34:03.000Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the new G.I. Joes.
04:34:07.000Please 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.
04:34:36.000Well, they gave us open mics, no script, and a bunch of guys who used to shoot people for them.
04:34:44.000No, 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.
04:34:56.000I've been losing wars everywhere that we look.
04:34:58.000On 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.
04:35:19.000I was in Iraq in 2009 when we were drawing down.
04:35:22.000I know you guys were in and out of the same areas.
04:35:25.000I 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.
04:35:36.000Yeah, 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.
04:35:46.000Making a promise to get out of a place, because that was said in the campaign, or in the case of Afghanistan, on 9-11.
04:35:52.000And 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.
04:35:58.000I mean, Iraq is one of those things where we shouldn't have invaded, but we shouldn't have left the way we did.
04:36:03.000And when the convoys coming from north to south, we should have hit them with some A-10s.
04:36:06.000ISIS is gone, didn't do that, because I guess we could be nice to the enemy.
04:36:10.000But 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.
04:36:21.000And that's all because they wanted to be out before 9-11.
04:36:23.000We lost a lot of people because of that.
04:36:25.000Right, but the unwillingness to actually define the enemy was the bigger problem.
04:36:29.000It was, we're going to work with them, we're going to give them money.
04:36:31.000I mean, hell, we left, what, $80 billion worth of stuff, including Night Vision and Humvees over there?
04:36:35.000They didn't define the enemy, and therefore we couldn't defeat it.
04:36:38.000I mean, that's the story of the oldest time, right?
04:36:41.000Whether 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.
04:36:48.000You 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.
04:37:07.000But, you know, watching Pete Hegseth, I mean, it's the truth.
04:37:11.000In Germany, training with the Special Forces unit, you know, like with the Hulk running right in front of them.
04:38:38.000You know, we can sit here and joke about this, but there's some serious work.
04:38:42.000And 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.
04:38:54.000They've already increased recruiting in 30 days.
04:38:57.000Weird how if you put warfighters, you attract more warfighters.
04:39:04.000I 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.
04:39:14.000The COVID vaccine was one of the greatest reductions of good men and women.
04:40:00.000Rob, you walked in a door, shot the world's most wanted criminal in the face, and didn't think twice about it.
04:40:05.000How 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.
04:40:21.000How do we get more people that want to join because they want to do what you did?
04:40:24.000I think it starts with the recruiting, and it impacted me more to see the Marine killing the dragon with the sword.
04:40:56.000The 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.
04:41:05.000So, I mean, the way to do it is literally get back to the basics, which is forward defense, alliance, solidarity, and deterrence.
04:41:12.000And we're just simply not going to deter people by being nice, but the military's job is not to be nice.
04:41:54.000If you're gonna fly a helicopter, it's because you're the best person that can be on the stick. - Absolutely.
04:41:59.000Pulling 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.
04:42:14.000You met the standard, and you deserve to be there.
04:43:12.000Even when I was getting out, Don't Ask, Don't Tell was the big thing.
04:43:15.000And 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.
04:43:48.000But 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.
04:43:55.000So let's talk, you know, Secretary Hegseth comes in now, 8% cuts across the board.
04:44:00.000A lot of people on the other side are saying, well, hey, this is going to diminish our fighting force.
04:44:04.000And I look at that, I'm like, look, we're still using floppy disks and fax machines.
04:44:08.000Like the DMV is more technologically advanced in some areas of the Pentagon right now.
04:44:12.000So, 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...
04:44:23.000Even slightly creeping on the mission of capability.
04:44:26.000And 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.
04:44:32.000So 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.
04:44:39.000On 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.
04:44:55.000But when it comes to bureaucratic regulation, and the military is not supposed to have that, what is called the kill chain.
04:45:57.000But 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.
04:46:02.000And it also seems if you cut even 8% Let's just round it up to an even 40, for good time's sake.
04:46:08.000And 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.
04:46:24.000How do you rebuild that within the ranks?
04:46:28.000I mean, there's obviously morale has already gone way up under Donald Trump, big time.
04:46:37.000Right now with General George and the Sergeant Major of the Army, Mike Weimer.
04:46:42.000Mike Weimer, former unit guy, was part of the special missions units, also a special forces guy.
04:46:50.000They clearly have said time and time again they want to focus on lethality, maneuverability, flexibility, and these are things that bureaucratic systems and...
04:46:59.000Multiple checks and balances always slow down.
04:47:02.000They 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.
04:47:15.000We 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.
04:47:25.000A kid from Oklahoma that just throws hay bales, and now we're giving him the best tools possible to go and kill his enemy.
04:47:31.000Right, and something on that, too, that's a good point.
04:47:33.000I 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.
04:47:43.000It's always been impressive when the general officer, the general or the admiral, comes and talks to the E5 Mafia.
04:47:50.000Hegseth, Mr. Secretary, sorry, Pete, can...
04:47:55.000I'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.
04:48:02.000And when you're working out with the troops, you can ask them simple stuff.
04:48:12.000And then, I mean, obviously, it is a pyramid, you know, top-down type stuff, but they might want to think about...
04:48:19.000Potentially changing that up a little bit.
04:48:20.000But also flattening the organization, allowing that direct feedback.
04:48:23.000I 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.
04:48:31.000Carl, you're not allowed to ask any questions whatsoever.
04:48:33.000But it's, you know, and I raised my hand.
04:48:35.000This is in 2009 after we'd just gotten back.
04:48:38.000And I said, what's the desired end result in Iraq?
04:48:41.000I mean, I got in a lot of trouble for that, but they had no answer.
04:49:02.000We'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.
04:49:24.000It'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.
04:49:31.000We're not there to perpetuate the military-industrial complex.
04:49:35.000We are there to destroy our enemy in the most violent way possible.
04:49:38.000I just want to point out that the Army guy said that they want to be like the two Navy guys over here.
04:49:44.000That said, I mean, look, we have 11 carrier battle groups, so they're not in reserve for some day.
04:49:52.000Why do we care what other countries think?
04:49:54.000Why 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?
04:50:12.000But talking about Europe, too, moving.
04:50:14.000Every time we've left Europe, we had to go back.
04:50:17.000So we've got to be careful about that now, too.
04:50:19.000But the problem is with Europe being so weak, most of them aren't paying the 2% GDP they're supposed to be paying.
04:50:24.000But 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.
04:50:34.000I don't think they're going into Poland, but regardless, the fight...
04:50:38.000You've got to figure the 5,000 miles of a supply chain we're going to need in the Pacific.
04:50:42.000When 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.
04:50:51.000I'm so glad that wasn't prevalent when we were there, but microwave weapons, stuff like that.
04:51:30.000I'm so proud that I get to wear the uniform and the flag.
04:51:33.000And 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.
04:51:41.000Total confidence that we have the best and the brightest in the world that are answering that question.
04:51:46.000And 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.
04:53:28.000So, you know, with 30 seconds or less to solve the world's problems, how do you get to a place?
04:53:33.000Where we install mechanisms that even politics can't corrupt it.
04:53:37.000Yeah, 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.
04:53:52.000This idea, to answer that question simply, a strong soldier, a strong military, they're just flat out harder to defeat.
04:54:00.000So 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.
04:59:07.000My 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.
04:59:29.000To 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.
05:00:02.000We are the largest national movement of former Democrats walking away from the Democratic Party at this point.
05:00:11.000In 2018, we started a national conversation about the need for people to walk away from the divisive, hateful Democratic Party and political left.
05:00:22.000As 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.
05:00:32.000And dare I say that I believe that the 2024 election was the walk away election.
05:00:41.000I'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.
05:01:16.000I 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.
05:01:24.000In 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.
05:01:30.000Almost 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.
05:01:39.000Okay, 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.
05:01:45.000CPAC has, I think, a big role to play there.
05:01:48.000But Brandon's group has a big role to play there.
05:01:50.000I bet you have Michigan groups that have a big role to play there.
05:01:53.000The one thing as a conservative community, by the way, I'm preaching to myself right now.
05:01:58.000The 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.
05:02:05.000We just believe in America and America's values.
05:02:08.000That 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.
05:04:22.000We 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.
05:04:41.000And I believe that's what happened this time.
05:05:12.000But 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.
05:05:19.000What 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?
05:05:30.000Yeah, look, there is a culture shift that we saw on the ground in Michigan.
05:05:34.000Look, 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.
05:06:11.000Those are the simple messages that resonate with immigrant communities, with second-generation communities.
05:06:19.000These were deep blue precincts that had flipped red from Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Hamtramck, Yemeni Americans, Chaldeans, Bangladeshi communities, both Muslim and Christians.
05:06:38.000And we have a real moment to build on flipping Michigan and what I call a cultural sea change that President Trump inaugurated.
05:06:48.000And I think we have a tremendous opportunity to build on that victory in places like Michigan.
05:06:57.000And Matt, you're so right in what you said a minute ago.
05:07:00.000When 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.
05:07:09.000One of those was doing outreach to minority communities.
05:07:12.000I didn't see enough of it, and a lot of it wasn't, you know, truly effective.
05:07:15.000So 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.
05:07:24.000And 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.
05:07:35.000The Asian community, 5% shifted to the right.
05:08:00.000And 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.
05:08:23.000Long has been the true Big Tent, but the media would really like to keep that a secret from the voting electorate.
05:08:31.000One 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.
05:08:39.000You went right into those communities.
05:08:42.000And probably no one had ever been there to ask them for their vote before.
05:09:30.000A lot of these conversations, they were respectful.
05:09:32.000They were respectful conversations, but they were tough conversations.
05:09:35.000And 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.
05:09:55.000We did a 20-second ad called The Daughter of Dearborn that went viral in Michigan.
05:10:00.000It was a lady by the name of Sam Luqman.
05:10:03.000She was a Yemeni-American, a daughter of immigrants, a single mother, was a progressive activist, and was looking into the camera telling...
05:10:13.000Her community to vote for Donald Trump because he is the candidate for peace, as he has proven to be.
05:10:26.000People thought we were crazy for even trying, but we proved them wrong.
05:10:30.000And, 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.
05:10:39.000When we look at 2025, okay, so 2025, there's two very big races that we have coming up.
05:10:45.000There's a governor's race in Virginia and a governor's race in New Jersey, right?
05:10:50.000Yeah, but you guys, listen to me, because...
05:10:56.000Yeah, 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.
05:11:04.000Number one, that every year is an election year.
05:11:07.000We can no longer just get involved every two years or every four years for a couple of weeks before the election.
05:11:12.000And number two, every election is a national election.
05:11:16.000Well, 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.
05:11:26.000So it does matter in every state who the governors are.
05:11:29.000We have to get involved in all of this.
05:11:31.000Now, 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.
05:11:37.000In New Jersey, convicted felons are allowed to vote in New Jersey.
05:11:43.000The 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.
05:11:57.000I am going into New Jersey all of this year.
05:12:27.000Well, 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.
05:12:43.000Yeah, so, you know, I worked on presidential campaigns.
05:12:46.000You know, Mercy and I... We met in a White House.
05:12:49.000Like, we've been doing national politics.
05:12:50.000I 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.
05:14:08.000I 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.
05:14:16.000And 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.
05:15:59.000And the right to learn and think a little bit out loud.
05:16:05.000And if we can allow that to be something that's acceptable again, I think we're going to self-correct as a country.
05:16:12.000So I'm proud that we played a role in that.
05:16:14.000So 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.
05:16:34.000Matt, 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.
05:16:46.000But 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.
05:17:04.000He 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.
05:17:24.000So I want to thank you for your consistent support of the January 6th community all this time.
05:20:16.000Thank you President Trump for standing up for America's families.
05:20:20.000With the stroke of a pen, President Trump is shutting down radical gender ideology and racist indoctrination in our schools, protecting children from dangerous, irreversible transgender surgeries, defending the truth that there are only two genders and saving women's sports.
05:20:37.000They'll do anything to stop President Trump, but he's not backing down, and neither are we.
05:20:45.000Ladies and gentlemen, up next, the great expansion, a new energy economy.
05:20:52.000Please 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.
05:22:40.000Well, President Trump, for many reasons, has always had an affinity for Alaska, even in his first term.
05:22:46.000But he sees us as a solution to many of America's problems.
05:22:49.000As many people know, Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867 because of its resources.
05:22:54.000Vast 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.
05:23:03.000And we've had a difficult past with some administrations.
05:23:08.000President 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.
05:23:23.000But long story short, a lot of the issues that could help America are in Alaska.
05:23:30.000So they put together an executive order on mining, oil, gas, different oil plays, different gas projects.
05:23:38.000I 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.
05:23:50.000He sees that as a critical link in what he wants to do.
05:23:53.000And boy, he's moving at breakneck speed.
05:23:56.000I mean, just like you said, Daniel, you wake up in the morning, it's like, what happened today?
05:24:33.000What a great time to be in the energy sector.
05:24:36.000We 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.
05:24:48.000And as Daniel said, we need affordable, robust, reliable electricity.
05:25:00.000We need that fuel to drive this agenda for this country realizing the full abundance of energy resources we have in this country.
05:25:12.000The 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.
05:25:33.000The day to start maximizing our energy resources in the United States is now.
05:25:40.000And 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.
05:25:55.000And then industry came in and innovated and found a way to tap in that shale through directional drilling, through hydraulic fracturing.
05:26:06.000Now we are the number one producer in both oil and gas.
05:26:10.000We can do the same for nuclear, but I can assure you right now Russia and China are eating our lunch internationally on nuclear.
05:26:18.000And the implications go beyond civilian.
05:26:22.000It's time for this country to really snap out of it and whip our nuclear infrastructure and fuel cycle back into shape.
05:26:30.000You know, we just finished four years of Scranton Joe.
05:26:36.000And you are Scranton, Mike, if I can call you that.
05:28:20.000Ed, 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.
05:28:29.000Signed 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.
05:28:37.000What's the role you see of nuclear so that China doesn't eat our lunch when it comes to artificial intelligence?
05:28:45.000That's why you see some of the big tech companies now investing in nuclear.
05:28:49.000We want to complement what oil and gas is bringing to the table.
05:28:52.000And our nuclear power systems can provide what we call behind-the-meter power dedicated for these data centers.
05:28:59.000And 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.
05:29:14.000And 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.
05:29:26.000So dedicated nuclear with a sustainable approach of recycling.
05:29:34.000Most 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.
05:29:47.000Government policy has been in the past.
05:29:50.000How many people realize that after it's running a reactor for five years, you've only used about 4% of the energy value.
05:29:58.000You have enough energy value left in that used nuclear fuel to meet U.S. electricity needs for 150 years.
05:30:06.000So we need to stop throwing away this material.
05:30:09.000It's like buying a beautiful Cadillac Escalade and driving it for a month and then throwing it away.
05:30:19.000So I think that we need to be common sense again.
05:30:22.000And we have to maximize our natural resources, recycle this material.
05:30:28.000And Russia recycles and they end up dominating the fuel supply market in isotopes.
05:30:35.000So 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.
05:30:50.000And government policy has driven a lot of these problems?
05:30:53.000It 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...
05:31:05.000International issues have nothing to do with the benefit of the community.
05:31:09.000Bad government policy has ruined a lot of rural America.
05:31:13.000And that's why I started Power of the Future for those energy jobs, coal miners in Appalachia.
05:31:19.000Rural energy jobs where bad government policy, radical green policy comes in and destroys their livelihoods and their towns.
05:32:09.000We offshore everything, all opportunities.
05:32:12.000In Alaska, this is an interesting stat.
05:32:15.000Since 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.
05:32:27.000That 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.
05:32:39.000Resource 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.
05:32:47.000Yeah, and it's good for those jobs in rural communities that don't have alternatives.
05:34:02.000We have, as I mentioned, oil, gas, you name it.
05:34:05.000All 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.
05:34:32.000We don't need to buy oil from Venezuela or Iran.
05:34:36.000We don't need to buy it from the Saudis.
05:34:38.000We don't need to get critical nuclear materials from the Russians.
05:34:41.000We 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.
05:34:49.000We are entering this golden age of America.
05:35:16.000It 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.
05:35:21.000So thank God the election went the way you are.
05:35:34.000And again, the last thing you'll do at the end of the day requires energy.
05:35:37.000And 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.
05:37:34.000You'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.
05:37:43.000But 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?
05:37:54.000This is kind of like 2016 vibes, right?
05:38:00.000I was like, yeah, he beat Hillary Clinton.
05:38:02.000No one thought that was going to happen.
05:38:05.000But 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.
05:38:19.000Not one, but two assassination attempts.
05:38:52.000But 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.
05:39:08.000And the two men next to me were instrumental in making sure the vote It was legitimate.
05:39:19.000And North Carolina led the way in 2020, holding steady.
05:39:25.000We know we got the North Carolina ladies somewhere, I'm sure.
05:40:26.000And then second, you have to be in the room.
05:40:30.000You have got to be in the room with poll workers, with poll observers, and with attorneys.
05:40:36.000So 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.
05:40:55.000And 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.
05:41:06.000And third, You have to talk about this.
05:41:10.000You have to go out and you have to communicate to all of the voters that you are going to be protecting the ballot.
05:41:18.000Because 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.
05:41:26.000If we had 5% of the voters in Arizona stay home, we lose.
05:41:31.000If we have 5% of Republican voters in Pennsylvania stay home...
05:41:35.000So we had to make sure that they understood.
05:41:38.000The 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.
05:41:57.000And so we were able to communicate very effectively all across the country.
05:42:02.000In fact, Laura and I did, we added it up.
05:42:04.000Over a thousand TV and radio hits on election integrity alone all across the country.
05:42:10.000That's the program that we needed to have in place so that we could get there.
05:42:15.000And 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.
05:42:29.000We were able to work with them to get those rules of the road the right way.
05:42:33.000Nobody was better across the country at working with us than Frank LaRose from Ohio.
05:42:46.000So, 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.
05:42:58.000And as we know, doing things in a state...
05:43:01.000It kind of becomes the blueprint for other states.
05:43:03.000So you've led the way on some of the things in Ohio.
05:43:05.000Talk about what you found and how you work to fix it there.
05:43:08.000Yeah, Ohio's emerged as a gold standard, but we don't rest on our laurels, right?
05:43:12.000And first of all, Chairman Watley and his team, they knew the assignment, and they succeeded at it.
05:43:17.000But in states across the country, we need to be working on list maintenance.
05:43:20.000That's like hygiene, like brushing your teeth.
05:43:23.000We remove dead people from the voter rolls on a monthly basis.
05:43:26.000That shouldn't be controversial, right?
05:43:28.000We make sure that only citizens are registered to vote in our state.
05:43:32.000I 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.
05:43:38.000I said, how do you explain the 700 that I caught in the last couple months?
05:44:12.000We had to have smart policies for these things called drop boxes.
05:44:15.000Now listen, I'm not a fan of drop boxes, but my job in the executive branch is to carry out the law.
05:44:19.000Our state legislature makes those available at our county boards of elections, but I put them under video surveillance 24-7 and their webcast.
05:44:28.000We made sure that they were emptied multiple times a day.
05:44:31.000And I also put rules in place that said you can only return your own ballot.
05:44:36.000If 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.
05:44:44.000We're doing this to prevent ballot harvesting, and that's the biggest danger with Dropbox.
05:45:08.000So they are preparing, scheming, plotting for this midterm as well.
05:45:14.000As Frank said, we don't want to rest on our laurels.
05:45:17.000We want to be prepared for the new wave of problems we could face at the ballot box.
05:45:22.000So what is the RNC doing to kind of get out ahead of the next little...
05:45:26.000The next big election, rather, but all the other little things that could come up.
05:45:30.000Look, 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.
05:45:38.000And we really focused on the seven battleground states.
05:45:42.000We played a lot in New York and California because of the congressional seats.
05:45:46.000And then we were working, you know, in Virginia and Minnesota and New Hampshire in case they got traction, right?
05:45:55.000Now we have time to build this out in truly into a national fashion.
05:45:59.000We filed 175 lawsuits last year across the country to get those laws in place up front.
05:46:09.000Now 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.
05:46:16.000We also have a chance to work with Congress.
05:46:19.000Brian 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.
05:46:27.000We're going to work with them to make sure that we have national laws that are going to be implemented, right?
05:46:32.000Right now, it's illegal in every state.
05:46:35.000It's a federal law that only American citizens can vote.
05:46:38.000And every single state has got to clean up their voter rolls every day.
05:46:43.000Why do we not have a federal law that says you have to have voter ID? I think we should.
05:46:48.000There 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.
05:46:58.000And, 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.
05:47:15.000Not voter identification, but photo identification.
05:47:18.00084% wanted ballots being returned to election officials by election day.
05:48:00.000After 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.
05:48:15.000Maybe only Americans should vote in American elections.
05:48:18.000And that number went from 60 to 92% in just a few short years.
05:48:24.000That shows you how much the policy matters.
05:48:27.000And 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.
05:48:34.000Because what works in Mississippi may not work in Montana or Maine or Massachusetts.
05:48:38.000There 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.
05:48:47.000We need to work together to make sure that happens.
05:48:49.000And Frank, before I get to you here, understand to me what's vital.
05:48:56.000Donald Trump has done something here I think is so important.
05:48:58.000All of his cabinet secretaries, which, let's be honest, what an all-star team he's got.
05:49:04.000They'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.
05:49:13.000And that matters because we have to continue to sell what we're doing to the American people.
05:49:17.000We have a history of just passing something and then going, ah, the people get it.
05:49:24.000We 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.
05:49:34.000And with you, Frank, in Ohio, you already got, there's some Ohio, there you go, there you go.
05:49:43.000Knowing 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...
05:49:52.000As you built out the blueprint and you kind of showed them the way, who you're working with, what you're trying to accomplish.
05:49:57.000Yeah, so I just finished a year as the chairman of the Republican Secretaries of State organization.
05:50:02.000So 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.
05:50:09.000Ohio and Florida have sort of been in the national spotlight for 25 years, right?
05:50:28.000It's hard to enforce, but I've got an investigative division that works to do this.
05:50:32.000I 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.
05:50:41.000But here's something else, and that's a great thing.
05:50:44.000The 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.
05:50:51.000So here's a couple things to think about.
05:50:53.000Let's put this idea to rest that somehow Republicans want to suppress the vote.
05:51:41.000And 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.
05:51:51.000And as we kind of come up on the close of this panel, I'm going to put you on the spot, Wiley.
05:51:57.000If 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?
05:52:12.000I think a national voter ID is absolutely going to be essential.
05:52:18.000What 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.
05:52:30.000You know, I had breakfast with him right when I became the chair, and he said, all right, Michael, what's the plan?
05:52:36.000And I said, we're going to do two things, only two things.
05:52:38.000We're going to get out the vote, and we're going to protect the ballot.
05:52:40.000And we talked a lot about what that was going to look like.
05:52:45.000And 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?
05:52:51.000Our mandate across this entire country as a Republican Party is election integrity.
05:52:57.000And 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?
05:53:12.000As 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.
05:54:29.000We 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.
05:54:37.000That's probably the most important thing your Secretary of State does on a daily basis.
05:55:07.000And I think everyone understands that, and that's why you're here, and you want to be engaged and involved.
05:55:11.000And 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.
05:55:22.000I shouldn't get to go into a White House.
05:55:24.000I 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.
05:55:29.000But I got to do that every single day for four years with Donald Trump in his first term.
05:55:36.000It 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.
05:55:48.000But you understand, I don't have that blue-blood political last name.
05:55:53.000But 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.
05:56:00.000That window over the right Marine's shoulder is my office.
05:56:04.000And 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.
05:56:21.000It's only in this country would someone like me get to give it.
05:56:25.000And 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.
05:56:34.000From 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.
06:01:57.000I 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.
06:02:08.000I'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?
06:02:20.000And 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.
06:02:33.000And he talks to me about what he just put out on True Social.
06:02:40.000And I just want to say, Mr. President, thank you.
06:02:45.000But 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.
06:03:05.000And I got to tell you, as a dad, let's put politics aside for a moment.
06:03:08.000As a dad, I watched my 17-year-old son play the game of his life.
06:03:18.000And I mean, I coached him from when he was three, and he would be mad at me for making him take jumpers and layups.
06:03:24.000And every now and again, you might have an argument in the driveway.
06:03:39.000So 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.
06:03:54.000And they were down five points in the third, and they had to rally back.
06:03:57.000And 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...
06:04:05.000Part of the golden age of our nation is the success of our children and our grandchildren.
06:05:41.000But 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.
06:05:56.000And so while the Democrats have continued to lose their minds, Literally, yes.
06:06:03.000There 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.
06:06:23.000Protesting the fact that Donald Trump has delivered on the promise of cleaning out the waste, the fraud, and an abuse in our federal government.
06:06:36.000Some of their donors are pissed at them.
06:06:39.000And they, frankly, should be pissed at them.
06:06:41.000I mean, they just wasted, what is it, $1.5 billion for a devastating loss?
06:06:50.000To those donors, you should come and join us.
06:06:52.000we actually believe in using money efficiently and effectively.
06:06:56.000They're going to the courts, the last bastion of hope they possibly have.
06:07:05.000And they're going to the courts and they're now trying to sue President Trump.
06:07:09.000Because 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...
06:07:30.000And now they are mad because we are committed to doing the thing we told you on the campaign trail for months.
06:07:37.000we 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
06:08:06.000You know, the phrase down in Florida is, make America Florida.
06:08:12.000There's a reason why citizens have been leaving blue states to go to Florida.
06:08:19.000There's a reason why people who immigrate legally, and I stress legally, from some of the worst places in the world come to Florida.
06:08:29.000There's a reason why students in Florida and parents in Florida have choice at their fingertips to find the best solution for their children.
06:08:40.000And that reason is because we have leaders who have been committed to the principles of individual liberty and limited government.
06:08:50.000They have been committed to those same constitutional principles that are the very foundation of the America First movement.
06:08:57.000And 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.
06:09:12.000We 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.
06:09:36.000We'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.
06:09:47.000And we're going to show the other 49 states how to get it done.
06:09:51.000To my friend at 1600, who I know you guys are going to see tomorrow night.
06:10:03.000My friend, Mr. President, I already know they're not going to get you down.
06:10:10.000Because the forgotten men and women of this nation are grateful for your leadership.
06:10:16.000They are grateful for the vision, and they are grateful, frankly, for the guts.
06:10:21.000to 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.
06:10:46.000APPLAUSE A few miles from here, myself and my colleagues, we have a job to do.
06:11:03.000And 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.
06:11:20.000We 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?
06:14:49.000Well, it's a great honor for me to be here and a privilege to serve as the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
06:15:02.000I 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.
06:18:16.000Because James says this, consider it a pure joy.
06:18:20.000When you face trials of many kinds, consider it pure joy when, not if, you face trials because the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
06:18:34.000How many know we are a steadfast people?
06:18:38.000Well, I graduated from the University of Illinois where I played football, ran track, and met my beautiful wife.
06:18:52.000And after graduating, I was selected in the seventh round of the National Football League's NFL Draft.
06:18:58.000Now, 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.
06:19:12.000They thought, there's no way this guy's gonna make it, but I didn't view it that way.
06:19:16.000Instead, I viewed it as a tremendous opportunity in my life to make a generational impact, even in the world of sports.
06:19:24.000I 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
06:19:50.000I also had the honor of serving as an elected representative in the Texas State Legislature.
06:19:55.000And 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.
06:20:18.000I 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.
06:20:39.000And 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.
06:21:05.000So 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.
06:21:18.000How many know that leaders are readers?
06:21:22.000You know, an interesting fact for you all.
06:21:26.000As of today, only one-third of fourth graders in America read at grade level.
06:22:01.000And 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.
06:22:10.000And 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.
06:22:21.000From 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.
06:22:37.000him 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.
06:23:07.000Never 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.
06:23:20.000We must not have a defeatist attitude, but instead we will have a victorious attitude no matter the difficulty that we face.
06:23:32.000We will not be victims, but instead we will be victorious.
06:24:06.000I'm ready to rebuild and to revitalize American communities and ensure everyone Has the opportunity to achieve the American dream.
06:24:15.000As 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.
06:24:25.000I 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?
06:24:31.000The 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.
06:24:42.000But today, I challenge you to think of this not so much as a crisis.
06:24:47.000But instead, as an opportunity to change course.
06:24:50.000An opportunity to uplift individuals and families and lead them down the path of self-sufficiency and self-sustainability.
06:25:00.000An opportunity, if you will, to decrease the cost and increase the supply of safe, quality, affordable housing in our country.
06:25:08.000An opportunity to enact impactful, enduring policies.
06:25:14.000That build on President Trump's first-day executive order to reduce housing costs in our country.
06:25:24.000At HUD, we've already created many opportunities for Americans to thrive.
06:25:30.000These opportunities are based on our four key principles that have been my North Star for many years.
06:25:36.000Integrity, transparency, accountability, and efficiency.
06:25:41.000On 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.
06:26:03.000Our 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.
06:26:18.000This 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.
06:26:38.000You've probably heard that HUD has established a Doge Task Force to review how the agency is spending your hard-earned tax dollars.
06:26:48.000As 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.
06:27:00.000Under President Trump's leadership, We will identify and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.
06:27:09.000To date, we've already identified over $260 million in savings and an additional $1.9 billion that was misplaced during the Biden administration.
06:27:28.000This 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.
06:27:38.000See, 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.
06:27:56.000Local leaders who know what their communities need to rebuild their lives and livelihoods rather than imposing top-down solutions from Washington bureaucrats.
06:28:07.000We will also expand Opportunity Zones.
06:28:11.000Through these public-private partnerships, 1 million people in America have been lifted out of poverty.
06:28:18.000Opportunity Zones have attracted $84 billion in investment.
06:28:25.000Resulting in new infrastructure, housing, revitalization, and business creation.
06:28:29.000These are the type of innovative, results-driven solutions I plan on continuing at HUD. Now finally, we're going to take inventory.
06:30:18.000And I'm honored today to be called for such a time as this.
06:30:23.000All 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.
06:30:34.000We will achieve great things at HUD. The best days are yet to come.
06:30:42.000Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.
06:30:45.000The 47th President of the United States of America.
06:31:11.000And you know, I wouldn't say Fox has been exactly perfect.
06:31:14.000Fox has been a big difference of Fox between now and what it was four years ago, as you know.
06:31:19.000But we have others that come along and they're doing well.
06:32:13.000In 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.
06:33:23.000No American, no American should be called...
06:33:26.000A Nazi or be called an enemy of the state.
06:33:30.000Those of us who love this country, and I have spent my whole life defending freedom in America.
06:33:39.000Ladies and gentlemen, a conversation with Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Christian Miskulski, and CPAC board member, KT McFarland.
06:34:11.000I'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.