Dave Brat (8:48)

Well, the Washington Post is out with a very important story and their reporting usually is good on CIA and they're saying that the CIA is realigning from protecting Ukraine's borders in its war to protecting our borders down in Mexico. Now, CIA has always been down in Mexico doing intel operations in support of Mexican and US law enforcement regarding the cartels. But what it looks like here is a major trouble down where they're going to really be enhancing and increasing their ability to infiltrate the cartels, to provide intelligence against the cartels in a more dedicated, committed fashion. A wider, broader way to do counter narcotics operations with the Mexicans and possibly even to do covert actions themselves, infiltrating the operatives into the cartels. So this all just fits in with a lot of other puzzle pieces that have been coming out in bits and dribs and drabs here and there. About that all kind of point to the fact that the United States is resetting the table for something that is probably going to look like what we did with Columbia against the FARC all during the 90s and into the early 2000s where the Colombians went to war with FARC, which is a major cocaine smuggling organization and an insurgency against the Colombian government. Leftists, of course, it looks like they're going to require the Mexicans to drop their hugs not bullets policy of the last six, seven years and make it a bullets not hugs policy.

Todd Bensman (10:47)

Hang on, we're going. Looks like that's where. Hit that again. Number one, the Washington Post. And David Ignatius is spokesperson, person, spokesmodel for the CIA. The Washington Post is literally the typist for what the CIA wants. So it's more than, it's more than just news media. It's a marketing campaign. It's just when Langley tells them to type up, they type up. So when it comes from the Post, this is holy writ number one. Number two, music to my ears. Let's focus on the Ukraine border, not in the vital national interest of the United States. The eastern Russian speaking border between those two Slavic entities. And now focus on our border. And you're right, we've done this before, but now you're seeing Special forces and what the 7th Special Forces Group. You've got the 10th Mountain Division. You've got CIA, you've got the air flights going over. Something's happening, something's getting ready to happen. And they've told the Mexicans, you're not going to hug this one out. We want to see your best forces. And we got the least corrupt. The federales are all owned by the cartels. You went to basically one of the naval forces down there, we call them marines, they call it naval infantry to really. Those are going to be our partners down there when we drop the hammer. Blow to these folks. Todd Benzeman.

Dave Brat (12:02)

Yeah, that's right. So the Green Berets sent a small contingent, at least initially, of trainers down into near the Bay of Campeche in the south to help the Mexican navy train for counter cartel operations. Non conventional, which tells you that something is up obviously. And that particular force, the Mexican Marines, I mean the naval marines are probably the most insulated of all the Mexican military forces from corruption. That tells you something, that they selected them. They're probably going to be the tip of the spear. And whatever happens now, I've told you.

Todd Bensman (12:54)

Right to them, number one, these are the guys. Hang on. These are the guys they brought up to the border to secure before 10,000 of them. Todd, you know, this is the one that's the least infiltrated by the cartels. The cartels control the political process down there. The cartels, they are a part of the political landscape in remember they tell you it's lead or gold, right? And people down there choose the gold, not the lead. And this is the problem. And the federales are up to the next. This naval infantry is the least, is the most pristine, you would agree, for actually being a tip of a spear, folks. Bottom line, when Trump looks at hemispheric defense, he looks at the U.S. navy. This is a very Alfred Thayer Mahan strategy, right? All the way from the first island chain over the vast Pacific, Greenland, the gap up there from Archangel, the Panama Canal. But he understands we got our backyard, what we should have done instead of being in Afghanistan and Ukraine and all this. Finally you have somebody and they're pre positioning for a fight, okay? And there's not going to be a law enforcement fight where the cartels actually outgun the cops. You're bringing in some heavies who are going to drop some. They're going to pound ground and pound these guys like they've never been hit before. And we're going to see how tough the cartel is. Cartel's tough against civilians. They're very tough against the law enforcement that's outgunned by these guys both on our side of the border. Right. Because these people are vicious. And the other side of the border. Hang on for a second. Todd. Todd Benzeman is with us, the great author of Overrun, a book that changed the direction of the 24 campaign from his years of putting himself in harm's way. Of course. Ben Harnwell's in Roma. Got Dave Brat. We're going to talk some economics and capital markets. Birch Gold. Make sure you go check it out. Take your phone, Bannon, 989898. Ask for the free brochure how to Invest in Precious Metals and Gold in the Age of Trump. Short break. Back in a moment.

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Todd Bensman (16:40)

Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. Okay, breaking news, the criminal head of criminal division over at the DC Under Graves now Ed Martin's taking control there. Our good buddy Ed Martin and a friend of the show, Ed Martin is just a man on fire. I think she's resigned. So you're going to see a lot more of these Southern District of New York in D.C. as they clean the rat's nest out of there. I'll try to track down Mike Davis. I think Mike's going to join us tomorrow. In fact, if he's feeling better, he's going to join us actually at the force multiplier, cpac.org warm the ticket, 76 bucks. You get a free lunch tomorrow. You get an extra day at CPAC because we're going to do a Force Multiplier academy. We are going to do the show live from there tomorrow. Poso is going to do his 2 o'clock show there live. We're going to have a ton of information in presenters to make sure that we take you next level. Given the tremendous great results you had in 24, the 22 midterm, 24 election and now getting the confirmations approved. Also I want to talk, I'm going to go back to Ben into Benjamin here in a moment. Bridge Colby, it's not been scheduled. It's kind of firestorm between, you know, the Tucker Carlson, the Charlie Kirk kind of the new guys in the new right. Kurt Mills, other good about this guy, Bridge Colby. You know, I do know Bridge. I've read his book. I've talked to him about his book at length. Strategy of Denial. And Bridge is not a, you know, if you read Josh Rogin's book Chaos Under Heaven, which is Xi and Trump in the first term and he's got, you know, he's got these definitions of groups. He's got the, you know, the accommodationists, which are the Wall street crowd. You've got the realists, which is kind of the maddest crowd. You got the hardliners, kind of the Pompeo crowd. And then he said you had a totally new group that had never been done in American history. And that was the super Hawks. The Super Hawks were Navarro, Miller and Bannon. And they don't believe in the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party. Want to see the Chinese Communist party taken down 100%. That's why I'm the only civilian in American history ever be fully sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party. As you guys know, one minute after high noon on the 20th of January 2021, Mike Pompeo, Matt Pottinger, Peter Navarro, Stephen K. Bannon. Those three were still government officials. I was not. All of this revolves around the CCP and the threat to the CCP and the criminals in Beijing. We have two existential threats to us right now, our own making, our debt in our financial situation, and also an existential threat in the Chinese Communist Party. Bridge Colby is far from perfect. But here's what I like about Bridge Colby. I like this a lot about him. Number one, he's one of the earliest voices of kind of what I call the. The establishment because he has established a guy. His grandfather's William Colby. You might have heard that name before, by the way, to tie it back to Todd Benson, when Todd Benson, William Colby's grandfather, ran the CIA back in the days when it delivered some hammer blows before the Church Commission. Talk about the CIA in Mexico. A guy named either Lee Harvey Oswald or somebody pretending to be Lee Harvey Oswald actually went to the. To visit. I think the CIA and the CIA reported on this in Mexico, I believe Todd. It was September or early October of, wait for it, 1963. So the CIA has been very involved in Mexico for a long time and knows his way around there. And now it's going to be utilized to actually for our defense. Bridge Colby is not a super hawk. You can't be a super hawk and be in position. He's going to go in. It's just not. I keep telling my super hawk colleagues, the Committee on the Present Danger, other gu of the Frank Gaffneys and our colleagues who hammer every day about the ccp, the Brian Kennedys. It's just not realistic at that level of the Pentagon in this administration. You're going to get a let's take down the ccp. That is our responsibility to continue to drive that narrative until eventually it becomes accepted wisdom here in the imperial capital. We're not there yet. Bridge Colby is about the Strategy of Denial. That's his book to deny. Now it's very focused on East Asia. And he may not look at, as we look at the Chinese Communist Party as, as having designs on all the Eurasian landmass. He doesn't think by our theory of the case that they really are the controlling element of the mullahs in Persia or the KGB in Russia. And that's why Saudi Arabia, the meeting yesterday is so vitally important, to break them off from their sphere of influence. But Bridge Colby is one of the first guys to say we've got to get out of Ukraine, and this is sensitive. Bridge Colby agrees with, I think, not just Tucker and Kurt Mills, but Stephen K. Bannon. We can't get into a war with Persia. We just can't, given the bad track record we've had over the last 30 years in the Middle East. And it's been a disaster right now. There has to be other means. And this is why the Saudi Arabia meeting is quite symbolic. To have it in Riyadh and to have Russia and the United States coming together, there has to be other means than an air attack or a ground invasion into Persia to stop what they're clearly trying to do. And I say this as a young man that spent a couple of three days off the coast of Persia during the Iranian hostage crisis in the workup for that failed endeavor. And I will tell you, you don't understand that part of the world until you've been there. And you see, it's like the landscape from the moon. It's vast, it's barren. And it's not appropriate for America to go to war in Persia. Just not. And our allies, Israel, There has to be another way. And a guy like Bridge Colby I think can work. And this is one of the reasons he's being blown up right now. He's not perfect on China, but he's good enough for right now. He's been pretty perfect on Ukraine, and I think he's pretty damn good on Persia. And right now in that slot, which is all important slot, I'm a big supporter. Let's get Bridge in there and then we'll figure it out. Because the other alternatives, I don't see any better right now given the reality of where we are. So Bridge Colby, and right now they haven't scheduled it, but this is something we'll be reporting on as we go forward. Todd Bensman, the other thing before we go to the post, anything else on this, because you've been at the tip of the spear. And folks, we're connecting dots here. You've got Hex has sent the military to the border. They're sending training. The 7th Special Forces in 10th Mountain are as tough as we got, right? They're down there training people, quote, unquote. You got the CIA taking an ad out in the, in the Washington Post saying, hey, guess what we're listening to? We're listening to war room. We're listening to maga, we're listening to the election results. We're not. We're out of Ukraine and we want to help defend our country against the chemical warfare of the Chinese Communist Party. We're all in. So that's a big development. It's happening now, the deportations. Bensmith, you're the first guy to mentionand this gets back to the two bills and not the reconciliations. Lindsey Graham's telling the president over the weekend, this will tie to my breath thing. He told the president of the weekend, said, hey, look, this continued resolution is not going to have any more money for you. What we need to do, we need to get this one bill done. We need to get it done now. We need $175 billion to secure the border and to basically, you want to deport 10 million people, you need $175 billion and you need it now. Oh, by the way, let's throw in $125 billion on top of the eight, top of the 900, $125 billion on military and they're going to say banner will shut you guys up. They're going to say this is all for hemispheric defense. You want hemispheric defense, you want the Panama Canal, you want Greenland, you want naval forces, you want to drive out the cartels, you want to have three island chains. That's not in our budget because our budget still ties to the post war international rules based order. Todd Bensman, how's deportations going? Any closing thoughts on taking on the cartels?

Dave Brat (24:52)

Sir, right before I get to the deportations, I just want to point out the Washington Post, which is now breaking the story, I guess, about the CIA trebling down in Mexico also is carrying a story talking about how, wow, nobody's coming across but Trump keeps putting troops down on the border and what are they going to do? They've got nothing to do. They're twiddling their thumbs. But what they're not realizing that maybe they want to have 500 troops of the 10th Mountain Division in Fort Huachuca as a credible threat to the cartels. When kinetics, when fireworks start up down there because that's a light infantry division. Yes. They'll probably have them scaling cliffs in Arizona going after drug traffickers and whatnot. But if the cartels decide to cross in and do something to our law enforcement, etcetera, they're going to be having to contend with these guys. I just wanted to point out that there is a reason other than, you know, tracking drug traffickers and shutting down, you know, illegal immigration for a group like that to be in Fort Huachuca, 500 of them with all their gear and ammo. So regarding the deportations, I just wanted to point out like there is pearl clutching going on around the globe over the fact that we are cuffing and leg ironing immigrants on these flights. Everybody's going crazy. India is just absolutely beside itself with outrage over a couple of flights that came in and everybody was handcuffed, usually young men handcuffed when they come in there. And I just. The New York Post piece that I have out today is just pointing out that there's a damn good reason for that. Just a few years ago, when the Biden administration was trying to shut down the migrant camp under the Del Rio bridge, they did air deportations on the Haitians and didn't restrain them. And as a result, they tried to hijack flights midair. They rioted on these planes. They tore the stuffing out of every seat and attacked the pilots, attacked ICE agents, mutinied on buses, took over buses that were on their way to Laughlin Air Base for the deportation flights. And they learned their lesson. And I just point out that that is the problem. You don't want to have a hijacking or a riot at 40,000ft.

Todd Bensman (27:35)

Hello? Yeah, hey, Todd. By the way, the COVID of your book, is that from the International Bridge? That amazing picture. This book, one of the most important books of the 21st century because this book did more than any to show people the reality of what Biden had done at the border Overrun. How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in US History. Full stop by Todd Bensman. Todd, social media. We got 30 seconds. How do people get to you, sir?

Dave Brat (28:04)

Yeah, Bensman, Todd at X I'm on, you know, Getter and Truth Social. You can find me there. That's my website, toddbensman.com you can sign up for my free newsletter there. Every time I write something, I'll push it out to you. And I work for the center for Immigration Studies, great organization. They've sent me all over the world covering this mass migration event.

Todd Bensman (28:28)

Well, hopefully for too long you're going to work for the United States government in town.

Dave Brat (28:32)

Homer.

Todd Bensman (28:32)

We hope, we pray. Love you, brother Bensman.

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Todd Bensman (30:20)

Okay, there's a. There's a tweet out from Lavrov, I think on rt. So take it for whether it's worth at state TV in Russia, but saying how they've already agreed to ambassadors ASAP and take apart any kind of diplomatic restraints on getting together. Why is this important? Look, we're not Rebecca at Sunnybrook's farms we understand the Russians are as tough as they get. The leadership, they're kind of a follow on from the Bolsheviks and Stalin. These guys kind of ran the deal at Yalta and other places. But it's a beginning of a directionally you've got Europe in Paris talking about their own defense. The key takeaway is that we're not looking for protectorates. We're not an empire. We have a revolutionary basis for this country. We're anti imperial and now it's time to start acting anti imperial in Paris. What you're seeing is they're having A discussion. And they're coming to the conclusion, the smug elites in Europe is they can't afford and never could afford their own defense. This is why we bailed them out in World War I. We then went back and bailed them out again in World War II. We then went back and bailed them out again in the Cold War. And guess what? No thanks. Total smugness of what the heartland of America did. So now it's time for them to fend for themselves. There's no more. They're not a protectorate, they're not a vassal state. That's not what we're looking for. They're going to come quickly to the conclusion they're not going to have health care. They're not going to have six weeks of vacation in summer. They're not going to have retirement at 50 on full pensions. They're not going to have any of that if they got to pay for their defense. And they're going to have an awakening of the reality of being an ally, not being a vassal state. At the same time, we pivot here to take care of business in this hemisphere. Ben Harnwell, there's a lot of tough. Look, the Russians are as tough as they get. The guys who run that are just a notch down, they're a little bit the junior varsity criminal sect that the guys in Beijing have perfected. Right. But we got to deal with them. And it's going to be a tough negotiation, but it's a start. Your thoughts, sir?

Ben Harnwell (32:29)

Steve, you mentioned that the United States isn't looking for protectorates. I have to say, if you look at the Telegraph article from yesterday outlining the plan, supposed plan, the US Administration plan for Ukraine and the rare earths and the minerals, which you and I both.

Todd Bensman (32:48)

Oh, God, don't even go there.

Ben Harnwell (32:51)

Well, the point is that is moving into protect territory, plain and simple. That's in your face. So there are, there are different things circulating right now about.

Todd Bensman (33:01)

No, no, no. But that's. Look, look, look, the minerals, they're not worth it. They're not worth it. This walk away. We're going to be adamant. Walk away. There's no minerals. This is not the walk away. That's a whole thing to get. You're going to have there. You're going to have to have. If companies want to do it, God bless them, let them go over there and do it. I'm sure that the mineral rights will be something that's a long term play. That's to suck you into that. I understand President Trump's thinking He's tired of doing this in Iraq, he's tired of doing it in Afghanistan. He's tired of doing it where the American elite has and you end up like costing $9 trillion, the net present value of $9 trillion between Afghanistan and Iraq and we have nothing. I understand the thought, but in Ukraine it's just cut it and let's get the hell out of there. Let the German mining companies, let the French mining companies, Italian mining companies, let them deal with it. But no, that's not a play. And look Maloney, here's the key. It was the. It's a trap. Here's the thing Ben, I got to bounce. I got to talk about our debt. The finance minister of the party that may actually win. It won't be alternative for Deutschland, but maybe the Christian Democrat, right? This guy's a pretty low key guy. He'sI'm pretty sure it's him. He's the one that's saying hey, a sovereign debt crisis. Sovereign debt crisis Isand you know this. The French government got turfed out because of this.

Stephen K. Bannon (34:23)

The British government got turfed out because of this.

Todd Bensman (34:25)

The German government's kind of getting turfed out because of this. In Italy she's eventually going to get turfed out about this. The bond market has taken out more governments than howitzer's. Just remember that it's one of the things we have to worry about here. When you get $36 trillion in debt and you add in a trillion dollars every hundred days, the global capital markets get a vote and what they're talking about is a sovereign debt crisis at the very moment they got to sit there and start talking about defense they never paid for in their lives. It's a joke Ben. We'll get on back on this tomorrow. Thanks for staying up late last night to do the breaking news out of out of Riyadh and out of Paris. We'll have much more of this in the evening show but Ben will. Let Ben have the night off. Ben, you're putting up stuff 247 where folks go.

Ben Harnwell (35:04)

Thanks Steve. Get, get under my profile. Arnold. I've got a great article at the top of my feed right now indicating talking about this thing that Starmer, Keir Starmer, the UK Prime Minister was calling for in Paris yesterday which was the US Stopgap. Basically the US would be underwriting the UK on the security guarantees. Very, very dangerous territory. And that's following through. No, it is. It's following through on the Biden regime's trickery in its dying days.

Todd Bensman (35:39)

The Atlanticists were a Pacific power, and we're looking for hemispheric defense. The Atlanticist, which I hate to say is kind of racist, but hey, I'll throw it out there, the Atlanticist days are over. We're finished. We don't want to hear about it. And all you get up here in Washington, they don't think the Pacific exists. They don't care about the Western Hemisphere. All they care about is their buddies in Northwest Europe and in places like Paris, places like Milan, places like the City of London and then Greater London. All of it. That day is over. Ben Harnwell, thank you so much, brother.

Ben Harnwell (36:17)

Thanks.

Todd Bensman (36:17)

Steve Austin. Rome. Dave.

Stephen K. Bannon (36:21)

Brett.

Todd Bensman (36:21)

Now we bring it back here. Wall Street Journal, folks, understand, big article today. They've targeted our own former co Host Peter Navarro, Dr. Peter Navarro in the White House. They've targeted Navarro because he's the problem. You know, Trump's got this kind of master plan, but Navarre is the problem. And particularly he's going to destroy the agriculture and manufacturing sector. When the Murdochs come for you, they roll hard, baby. And they're trying to. They're trying to Alinsky. They're trying to Alinsky our own Peter Navarro. Dave. Brat, you got a whole series of charts and analysis. You want to walk us through? What do you got for us, brother?

Dave Brat (36:55)

Yeah, well, I love this show. It's like cramming for an exam every time I come on, because it's just exciting. And here. And you connect the dots, they all just flow, right? The war to the border invasions, to the economy. I think you mentioned the other day, Neal Ferguson, right, great Oxford historian who connects the dots that when your interest payments get bigger than your defense sector, your economy is in decline. And roughly, that's just true intuitively, right? If you look at Western civilization, you need two things to be successful. Empire or country or whatever, and that's a sound economy and a strong military. If you're missing any one of those, you're in trouble. Rome got in trouble precisely because they got over their skis, right? Their spending on wars and defense overcame their ability to generate revenues. And so at the beginning of your show, I love the autocratic breakthroughs, right? This, this is great. Autocratic breakthroughs. And they're accusing Trump and our team of this. The autocratic breakthrough we're doing is we're taking apart the autocracy, right? We're going away from empire, toward hemisphere, go back to Western civ. Name me an autocrat who doged himself, right? Who voluntarily downsized his military, downsized his federal Employees, employees downsize the workforce. I don't think Rome did that. I don't think Napoleon did that. I don't think Lenin, Stalin, Hitler did that. They were all the opposite. And the left wants the big state. Our team is getting it straight. So our interest payments on the debt are not bigger than defense. And the other day on the show, by the way, interest payments over the next decade, the only thing bigger is Social Security, then the interest payments, then underneath that, Medicare, non defense discretionary, Medicaid, defense discretionary. Everything else is under interest payments.

Todd Bensman (38:54)

Hang on. I just want to make sure people know Niall Ferguson is a tremendous historian. But the mack daddy in this, a guy named Paul Kennedy. He wrote a book that was a must read when I came out of the Pentagon and went to Harvard back in the mid-80s. It was towards the end of President Reagan's administration. He wrote the Rise and the Fall of Great Powers. If I can strongly recommend to this audience, you get a book, it's in paperback. He's a British naval historian. That's absolutely brilliant. He went through essentially, I don't think he does any China. He does the history of the west, empires and rising powers. He always ties it back. The fall part comes from. This comes from you've spent too much money on arms. Too much. You've diverted too many, you know, swords. It's swords. Plowshares to swords. And it's how you finance it. He gets to the part of, it's not just the aggregate amount of what you're doing and the manpower you're killing. Right. Your own best guys. But he gets into how you finance it. The rise and the fall of great powers. And baby, it is the United States today. And that's what these elites that run this nation have not got. They have not learned the true lessons of history that have been out there to learn.

Dave Brat (40:04)

Right.

Todd Bensman (40:05)

And this is what America first means. Dave, brat, your thoughts?

Dave Brat (40:09)

Yeah. And so you know, the conservatives are dumb, to quote our vice president, who I thought was funny the other day. But the left is smart. Now I'm going to get to that in a little, little analysis here. But the Wall Street Journal, you know, they're just silly. And it's all about framing. On our, on our good friend Peter Navarro yesterday, they say reciprocal trade, they're calling that maximalist tariffs, reciprocal trade, which means just fairness. Right. It's like Aristotelian fairness. It's like the golden rule.

Todd Bensman (40:38)

But hold it. They're not silly. But they're not. Hang on. They're not silly. It's actually very well thought to be. Here's the thing. We're not talking about tariffs. This is a new. Trump has a new geostrategic concept. You see it playing out in Saudi Arabia in the negotiation and here with the CIA and military going down. These are the actions of a new geostrategic realignment. He also has a geoeconomic realignment. It's not tariffs. We're not talking about a 25% tariff on a Mexican avocado. We're not talking about a part made under the hood in Canada that goes back and forth 20 times. It's different than that. He's talking about what we talk about here, that civic society has provided for the greatest market in mankind's history. And Trump thinks like, hey, if you're going to get a skybox at a sporting event, or if you're going to get a front row seat at concert, you got to pay a premium to get through the golden door. It's got to be a premium. And if you're not going to pay the. If you bring your manufacturing here and make it here, then guess what? You don't probably have to pay the premium. But it is to a degree. The Wall Street Journal is smart to attack this because they're free traders, right? This is the Economist, the Financial Times of London. Really, the papers and magazines that inspired the Wall Street Journal were built in the time of free trade. These were ideological, almost religious fights in, I guess, the 18th, late 18th and 19th century in Britain, when London was the centerpiece of the world. And the fights here, you know, from the Corn Laws and everything ahead, this was British politics for 150, 200 years. It's one of the reasons we had a revolution. Remember, our revolutionary generation have been on the ground floor of an empire. When Clive and these guys are doing India, they're doing North America. And these guys said, hey, look, we see how a worthless aristocracy has corrupted commons. Has corrupted commons taken it away from the little guy? And they have. They give these monopolies to their buddies, like the British East India Company. And they saw this coming in British history. What's not done enough is the power of these monopolistic companies to basically drive international strategy and geostrategy in North America. Here in the United States, this is what the revolutionary generalists are about. This is what Alexander Hamilton, now, he wanted to replicate a little bit later. But these guys understood it. These were smart lawyers, they were real estate speculators, they were freebooters like Sam Adams and John Hancock. They understood exactly what was going on and they said, hey, guess what, we'd rather opt out even to the point of being hungish traitors to have our own deal here because we see what's happening with this worthless aristocracy in London. We see how the corrupted commons, we'll never be free. We will never be free. We will co opt it. And that is what we owe the revolutionary and the framers, they had an ability to have a pretty damn good deal and they risked it all for future generations down to the current day. And this is what this fight's about. Today we have almost the exact same fight, right? And now we've allowed these oligarchs in the concentration. Well, if a revolutionary generation walked into Washington D.C. today, they walked that square and they would spit. They'd be so mad about what we've allowed to deteriorate. Short commercial break. We're going to return with Dave Bratt, Professor Dave Brat in the war room in just a moment. Spread the word all through Hong Kong. We will fight till they're all gone. We rejoice when there's no more. Let's take down the seaside.

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Mike Lindell (45:43)

Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.

Todd Bensman (45:47)

Okay, Brett is going to be here this afternoon in studio to co host both hours we're going to get to all of his brilliant analysis because I've been yelling and screaming into his microphone and taking away all his airtime. We're also going to have updates on the resistance, the Supreme Court, all the legal, the federal judges, everything they're trying to do on Doge. Brad and I are actually going to take some time besides his charts. We're actually going to take some time and walk through process. We're going to walk through the CR that's coming and we're going to talk about the two reconciliations, everything else President Trump and the economic team are trying to do. So that's all five to seven nights. Plus we've got a special. I didn't know this until last night, in the middle of the night. The manifesto the young woman wrote in Nashville, the Christian school, is not like a three page back. It's 900 pages. Michael Patrick Leahy is doing an extraordinary job out there in Nashville. He's going to be on. We're going to get into this cult of this, I don't know, this transgender cult that's murdering people. This stuff's over the top. There's something wrong here. It's happening all over the country. We're going to have some of the experts on to break it all down at 6:00. And Dave, Brett's going to be with me besides economics and more updates on geopolitics. Dave, Brad, closing thoughts, no charts. Dave, you're going to save them for tonight. Warren Posse is going to want to be here to see it all. And Brad's going to be with us all day tomorrow in CPAC. Cpac.org war room, $76 a ticket all day. You get a hot lunch, you get to see us all. Everybody will be there making presentations. Bill McGinley is going to join us thinking we try to get Scott Pressler in by video. Brad's going to be there. Grace Chung making a guest appearance. You know what it does take get Grace out of L. A. So this is how big it is. Dave, Brad, closing thoughts.

Dave Brat (47:35)

Yeah. Good. The Wall Street Journal article didn't even make a trade argument. Right. They first mentioned Navarro's prison term. Hegseth. I mean, great economic analysis, right. Wall Street Journal. And then the buried lead comes out about two thirds down the article and they start talking about what they really want. They want exemptions and carve outs, etc. And so that's where I'm saying they're off course compared to the left. Right. The left is brilliant. Let me read you a few lines. I'm going to skip all the charts, but I'll just read a few sentences. People may not know this. Economists don't know this. While I remember something smart from my training, but back in the days, they changed the definition of manufacturing and investment. And this is going to shock you when you hear this. The definition of manufacturing has evolved over time to include more than just physical transformation of materials and now also includes services, engineering, logistics and technology. Computers, big tech, etc. Are now counted as manufacturing. But it's more than that. Capital investment is counted as manufacturing. But here comes the bombshell. Yes, this is all brought to you by artificial intelligence, by the way. Green investment is part of US manufacturing and it's a key driver of job creation and a more sustainable economy. How is the green investment part of US manufacturing, you might ask the answer, tax credits. The inflation reduction act, IRA offers tax credits on clean energy, etc. So all this when I show you the charts, Brookings and all of our fair weather friends are showing. Don't worry about it. Manufacturing still going up, right? It's just employment. All the jobs numbers are going down. You know, don't worry about those human beings. Manufacturing is going up, jobs are going down. Well, that's because manufacturing has been redefined by the left in the government statistics. Yes, I'm going to get into that with you later today. But if you don't understand that they can lie with the statistics, you can't lie with the human beings and the jobs.

Todd Bensman (49:34)

Right.

Dave Brat (49:35)

Because they're easy to count, very hard to lie. And I'm going to show you on that line. We'll break five as well.

Todd Bensman (49:41)

We'll break it all down. Also talk about the deficit, debt, all of it in the cr, all the games being played right now because we've got. We can't have austerity for the people and tax cuts for the wealthy. It's not going to work. Right. Just not going to work. So we got to figure this out collectively. How about that, Dave? Brad, Social media. We'll see here at 5. Social media, sir.

Dave Brat (50:01)

Yeah. Brat. Economic getter.

Todd Bensman (50:02)

And now on X. Whoa, on X. Still banned on X here. Thank you, Dave. Brad, see you at 5. Mike Lindell, it's a very special day for you, sir. We're so glad to have you as a partner and as a friend and a colleague. Why is this day important in the history of Mike Lindell?

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Todd Bensman (52:32)

We'll see you tomorrow, Mike, in the Force Multiplier Academy. Thank you, brother.

Mike Lindell (52:37)

Yeah, thanks.

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