
Episode 4446: Truckers Celebrate President Trump’s EO Protecting English-Speaking Truckers, India’s Role In Defeating The CCP...
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Stephen K. Bannon
Got it.
Eric Bolling
We got so many. Look, I want to get to him, but we got so many Pam and Cash. I got to get focused on some and I hear this news going to break in the next week or two.
Steve Gruber
I spoke to Cash.
Eric Bolling
It's stacked up. I need Brennan 51 all of America.
Steve Gruber
I spoke to Cash on Friday. He said expect something high profile very soon. So hopefully it's that. Steve, I'm going to give it to you because I've already eaten into your show and looking forward to seeing working with you tomorrow. We'll hang out tomorrow.
Eric Bolling
You're the best. You're the best day block we got. Eric Bolling is in the house tomorrow here in, in Washington. He's been hanging out. We're doing five hours of COVID starting at 3:00 all the way through. Grub is going to be there is the one of the host at the at the Trump 100 day in Michigan and our guy Brian Glenn's on the plane. He's on Air Force One. So we're going to have a great time. It starts at six. We'll be picking up coverage at three. Eric, you and I got a lot to catch up on. We'll have a great time.
Steve Gruber
Look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Steve, I'll bring you a cigar.
Eric Bolling
It's another bad habit. I quit, kicked all my bad habits.
Steve Gruber
That's what I'm here for. That's what I'm here for.
Eric Bolling
One thing. One thing. We can't go to Rio together. You go, you go as the, you go as the advanced man.
Steve Gruber
Oh, yeah, I think it would be, it might be a little bit of a problem.
Eric Bolling
No, but you know, since you traded oil and gold for a dozen years in the pits, you'd be perfect to go down there. This meeting is so big because we've been warning people for years since we teamed up with Birch Gold to do the end of the dollar empire that this day was coming. Remember, this is the thing. And today John Thune probably let you go. Eric, John Thune put out something truthful. He said, hey, look, from the Senate's perspective, I'm not so sure we get to this that this thing's going to be ready for us to really consider until after Memorial Day. He said, look, it could be through the summer before you vote. This is what I've been saying. People are saying this thing's going to get voted on and sent to the president by Memorial Day. Are sending the president wishful thinking and we got to get back to reality check and there's no bigger way to give people reality check than have the bond market sit here. Start to opine on the range of options we have, Eric. As you know, those options get narrower and narrower every day. You know, and that's why I think this Rio reset is going to be a big deal.
Steve Gruber
You know who would love to see the real reset? Not those BRIC countries. Beside the China wants to see that. China would love to see the US Dollar no longer be the reserve currency because I don't know, maybe. Thank you on maybe, who knows, maybe the euro. But whatever it is, if it's not the US Dollar, that means all those countries that hold US Dollars to negotiate trade currency transactions, going to have to dump them. That is really a lot of selling, like insane selling in the US Dollar. It's a, it's a scary concept. And by the way, you want to be, want to be buying gold before that reset in case it happens. Because 3300 bucks would look like a cheap price if it does happen.
Eric Bolling
This is what we did. You know, the president, as if he doesn't have enough weight on his shoulders right now, to add that one would be unsatisfactory. So we all got to pull together. Eric Bollinger, look forward to seeing you in the House tomorrow, sir.
Steve Gruber
Yes, sir.
Eric Bolling
That's gonna be fun. 100 days President Trump's gonna go to Michigan, the state that gave him the victory. And we're gonna cover it wall to wall. Brian Glenn is on Air Force One. Is that amazing? Is that sound great? Brian Glenn's on Air Force One and Steve Gruber is going to be there at the actual event itself and giving us play by play commentary. And Eric and I will be here. This starts at 3:00 tomorrow. Where Steve Gruber showed naturally is, I think he's going to be doing things at the convention. We'll dial him in as we go. Okay. Remember a couple weeks ago we had the truckers on here about truck. Only truckers that could speak English, right. No. Foreign truckers should be here in the United States of America while President Trump's about to go in the Oval in a few minutes and sign an executive order. Let's play the cold open and we'll bring the truckers in.
Shannon Everett
Well, we fired the first shot back at them in Arkansas. We found a representative, a state representative here by the name of Wayne Long, and a state senator, John Payton filed House Bill 1569, which was written, it was the Secure Roads and Safe Trucking act. And it was written to require all truck drivers to read and speak the English language. It was written to close the loopholes for non domicile commercial driver's license and to close the loopholes for the foreign commercial driver's license and to create felony code for noncitizens that cause injuries and fatalities on our highways. Unfortunately, because of political games and shenanigans here in the state of Arkansas, we never even got to present that bill to the committee. The trucking association put forward another bill, HB 1745, which addressed none of those issues that we just brought up directly. All of those issues are still in, are still allowed on Arkansas highways. The one thing that he did do in the 11th hour was they added English proficiency. They put a fine in HB 1745 so that a driver is now fined $500 if he's caught unable to read and speak English, but they still let him go. So an officer's going to pull him over, they're going to write him a ticket for $500 and say, okay, but now you can carry on on your way. The whole purpose of the English proficiency law is that he's an imminent hazard to the motoring public. So he should be taken out of service and removed from the truck or the truck impounded.
Eric Bolling
This is outrageous. You can't have foreigners coming in here and taking truckers jobs and don't read English, don't understand English. Don't, don't. It's outrageous. This is my point about American citizens. Whether you're in Silicon Valley or driving.
Gord McCall
A truck, you shouldn't have to compete.
Eric Bolling
In your own nation, your own country with foreigners. American companies should be able to compete around the world if they, if they.
Gord McCall
Want and have plants overseas to do what they want.
Eric Bolling
But in this country, you shouldn't have foreign labor imported here to compete against you.
Gord McCall
This was Biden's thing about low skilled labor. This is why we got 10 million.
Eric Bolling
Illegal aliens up through there. And as Todd Benz has told you.
Gord McCall
Totally again, it wasn't chaos. It was so perfectly thought through. This is why we need some investigations, arrest of those people that did it. Start with mayorkas and then the third.
Robert O'Brien
Executive order, which actually speaks to the heart of your question earlier about the Uber drivers, will be a order directing the department of Transportation to include English literacy tests for our truckers. This is a big problem in the trucking community that unless you're in that community, you might not know. But there's a lot of communication problems between truckers on the road with federal officials and local officials as well, which obviously is a public Safety risk. So we're going to ensure that our truckers, who are the backbone of our economy, are all able to speak English. That's a very common sense policy in the United States of America. So the president will be signing that later this afternoon.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you.
Robert O'Brien
Yeah, you're welcome. To the Back in the yellow tie.
Gord McCall
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people.
Eric Bolling
Not got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it.
Gord McCall
I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything.
Eric Bolling
In the world to stop that, but.
Gord McCall
You'Re not going to stop it.
Eric Bolling
It's going to happen.
Stephen K. Bannon
And where do people like that go.
Eric Bolling
To share the big lie?
Cash Patel
MAGA Media I wish in my soul.
Steve Gruber
I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Gord McCall
Ask yourself, what is my task and.
Eric Bolling
What is my purpose?
Gord McCall
If that answer is to save my.
Eric Bolling
Country, this country will be saved.
Stephen K. Bannon
War room here's your host, Stephen k. Ban.
Eric Bolling
Monday 28th April, year of our Lord 2025. We have Shannon Everett from American Truckers Unlimited in All United. Excuse me. And Gord McCall, the writer that got us involved with this group. So first, Shannon, is this the victory? Is this executive order the start of a path to get this thing sorted about foreign truckers competing with American truckers, or is it an end all, be all? I mean, talk to us about this executive order.
Shannon Everett
It's definitely a victory. It's a victory for American truck drivers, it's a victory for the American worker and it's a victory for the American motoring public. It's definitely not an end all, do all. You know, there's the American trucking industry is a shell of what it once was just five to 10 years ago. And so we need to restore the American trucking industry to its greatness. And so there's several things that continue to need more work, but we believe that this is a great step by the President, by the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, and showing that their priority is the American worker and that they have concern for the American trucking industry. So we think we can work through those remaining issues.
Eric Bolling
So tell us, what is today, Shannon, what did today President Trump, what is he exactly signing and what is the impact and how does this set us forward to go and sort this entire mess out, Sir?
Shannon Everett
So there was a memorandum that was issued in 2016 that told all of our law enforcement officers to stop enforcing the law that where a United States American Truck driver was required to speak and read English. And so this federal agency issued this memorandum, and all of our state agencies that enforce these laws stood down. And so instead of putting a truck out of service and taking a driver off of the roads, they would cite the driver for the violation and then they would let him go. It's my understanding that today's executive order will be to give guidelines to those officers instead of just giving them a citation to now put him out of service. And so that's been our request all along that a driver that's unable to read our highway signs is an imminent hazard to the motoring public and should be removed from service and taken out of that truck.
Eric Bolling
Gord, where do we go? This is a major development. Obviously, a lot of people are working on this. Talk to us about what we need to do to get this whole mess sorted out. There should be no foreign drivers whatsoever here competing with American citizens for the trucking business, sir. Right.
Cash Patel
Well, one of the problems, as Shannon and his team have pointed out, is that during the Biden administration in 2021, they put together this trucking action task force and they effectively doubled the production of CDLs in one year. And a whole bunch of people were just given cdls. It appears that a number of states cooperated with the Biden administration and reduced.
Eric Bolling
Tell the audience what a CDL is. What's a cdl, and why is it such a big deal that they double the number of them?
Cash Patel
It's a. The CDL stands for commercial driver's license, and that is the license that you must have to drive an 18 wheeler in the United States of America. It's the same in the United. In Canada and Mexico, they call them different terms, but you have to have one to drive a truck. And typically the United States training systems to produce new drivers will generate between 400 and 450,000 new CDLs a year, which is a problem on its own. The trucking industry has got a major retention problem, and it's had one for decades. They try and lie to us that there's a shortage of truck drivers. What's going on is that the industry has not fixed the material conditions of the job or paid drivers enough. And they've been chipping away at it for decades and decades and decades. And the really good, really safe, professional truck driver has had a war essentially declared against him. And what the Biden administration did during the COVID demand spike was flooded the market, and how they were able to achieve that was issuing CDLs to migrants and refugees and A whole bunch of people that are not Americans. And one of the, one of the ways they were able to get away with that was because of this waiver of English language requirements that Shannon just spoke of.
Eric Bolling
You're saying that when they, all the time they say there's a shortage of truckers. There's a shortage of truckers because they flooded the zone with foreign cheap labor and that's driven the wages down. And so it's tough to get people to do this type of rigorous, rigorous job if you're going to get paid 50% of what you used to get paid for because you're competing against non American citizens.
Cash Patel
Right. And before, before they started flooding it with migrants, they were using taxpayer money to pay for CDL schools. Right. A number of very large carriers, the type of people represented by the lobbying organization called the American Trucking Association. And I want your listeners and viewers understand this very clearly. The American Trucking association does not represent truckers. They represent carriers. And they have been wards of the state for decades taking money from the taxpayer to pay for the production of new CDLs because they can't keep good guys around because they don't want to pay them. They don't want to fix endemic problems in the industry. And what the Biden administration did was took all these migrants and refugees and threw them in there to help the mega carriers continue their program of cheap labor and not fixing their problems and keeping good, safe operators around.
Eric Bolling
Cheap labor. You heard that before. Okay, guys, stick around. We're going to hold you through a commercial break. President Trump trying to set things right in days of thunder as we come down to the 100th day tomorrow from 3 to 7 here in the war room. Going to have Eric Bolling. We're going to do it live. Steve Gruber's going to be in Michigan as one of the hosts of the event with President Trump. The rally. Our own Brian Glenn's gonna be on Air Force One. How does that sound? Does that sound great? Brian Glenn on Air Force One. We're gonna have wall to wall cover starting at 3:00 tomorrow. Actually do a little pregame on the morning show. Take a short commercial break. You heard Bolling talking about the Rio reset. Bolling spent what, a dozen years in the pits trading oil and gold? He knows. Birchgold.com Bannon. The end of the dollar empire. Modern monetary theory. The sixth free installment. Get it all. Get up to speed before we go to Rio. Short break.
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Eric Bolling
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban Shannon. With the President obviously taking action here and getting involved in this. Now, what shape is the American trucking industry in, in your opinion, sir?
Shannon Everett
Steve it's in the worst shape of my 25 year career. We're in the, we're in the midst of a three year long freight recession. Of course we call it a supply crisis but, and that situation has deteriorated rapidly over the past couple of weeks as the imports coming into our seaports has started to slow down. You know, there's a, I think Gord described it as an accordion effect. There's a, there's a delay in three to four weeks of transit time and even more in some cases for those shipments to arrive to our ports. And so we're starting to feel those effects. We really started to see it last week. You know, in, in my day, in my day job I'm actually running a trucking company. And so this, this advocacy work that we're doing is, is really just you know, part time work that we're doing on the side to do these issues. But in my, in my day job I'm actually, you know, operating a large fleet of refrigerated freight. And so I've seen that situation deteriorate in the last couple weeks. I've seen it rapidly start to dissolve last week. And so we're really predicting that we're headed into over the next two to three weeks a crisis for the American trucking industry, I believe, unlike anything that we've ever seen. I lived through 2008 and 2009. At the time I was hauling automotive parts. We saw factories go down for 11 to 13 weeks. And during that time we had hope. We had hope because we knew that when the factories came back on that we would have adequate work and that we would have cash flow and a profit margin that would suffice. The with today's market is there's not much hope for the American trucking industry because we've been in this crisis now for three years before the tariffs conversation even come come to fruition. And so my concern right now is that a lot of these special interest groups are going to try to lay the blame of the, of the trucking industry faults on the tariffs. And that's not the case. Trucking industry was in shambles long before we ever mentioned tariffs. And so it's important that the administration and the Cabinet understand that there's going to be people trying to place blame at their feet for something that was done in the prior administration. And we need to take action on those things that were done. And so that's what we did in the, that's what we lined out in that letter to Secretary Duffy that said, you know, number one, all drivers should have English proficiency for the public safety of our highways. But we also had four other things that were right below that that really get into the immigration and the economics and the national security issues that have arisen from all of these. And so the second thing was that they need to revoke and ban all of these non domiciled CDLs that they've issued to noncitizens. For 20 years of my career, we did not pass out CDLs at state DMVs to noncitizens of the country. The CDL system was maintained for American citizens. And so I don't know of any legislation or law that was written in Washington to make it to where these DMVs could start issuing these CDLs to noncitizens. It's my understanding that there was some guidelines that were issued by our federal agency down to these state DMVs that took out some ambiguity, removed some language where they thought, okay, we can take advantage of this loophole now and start issuing this to solve our driver shortage problem. And so that should be a loophole that we should be able to close pretty easily because, you know, not only do we have national security and safety concerns, but they have flooded the labor market. And that's why we've coined the term labor dumping. The whole purpose of opening up our CDL system was so they could dump in foreign labor at reduced wages to put pressure on the American truck driver. And so your American truck driver right now, their standard of living has been greatly reduced over the past couple of years. Their pay standards are down, their quality of life is down. The amount of time that they have to spend away from their family is up. And so our American truck drivers are really on their last leg. And my biggest concern is if we don't take action on this issue of the oversupply, the effect of the tariffs is going to completely fall on the American truck driver. It's going to push the remaining American truck drivers and American trucking companies that we have in the business out right now in this critical time. And the replacement cycle that's been going on for the last four years is going to intensify. And that's because the American truck driver and the American trucking company can't operate at the same cost level that these foreign operators and these foreign truck drivers can. And so the first companies to lose in this tariff engagement are going to be the American truck driver and the American trucking company. The third thing that we. That we listed.
Eric Bolling
Yeah, keep going, Keep going.
Shannon Everett
The. The third thing that we listed goes back to my personal experience with the USMCA trade lines. And so in my past interview with you, I told you that I did automotive inbound logistics so we would haul the parts into the automotive assembly factory. All of that business now has been transitioned from the American truck drivers to foreign truck drivers. It's almost exclusively hauled by truck drivers from Mexico and Canada operating on B1 visitor visas. And so we need to. Either we need to ban that, or we need to come up with a solution to control what percentage each. Each driver group gets. We should restrict and ban the use of a visitor visa to perform work in the United States. How is it that truck drivers from foreign countries are allowed to use visitor visas to perform work? It's not even a work visa, but there's no enforcement of that. So when a truck driver gets past the inward immigration zones, which is like, I think it's mile marker 12 on Interstate 35, just north of the border. So when you cross the border, you talk to immigration, you go a little bit inward, 10 to 12 miles or so, you have to talk to immigration again. And then once you're past that, you never see another immigration officer, DOT officer, state police. They're not allowed to ask you about immigration. They're not allowed to Ask you for your immigration documents. So why are we allowing these drivers past that zone? The whole purpose of the commercial trade zone was so that they could use these visitor visas For a guy to simply come across the border, drop his trailer, go back to the foreign country, and then if he tried to abuse that, we had a check station 10, 12 miles in that would check his immigration status and say, whoa, you're not supposed to come past this point. And at some point over the last 10 years, somebody made a phone call and said, hey, y'all, let them through. And they just started going through the checkpoints. And so we need to restrict that. We need common sense back into these drivers operating on visitor visas. We need common sense back into that. This trade between the United States, it's not right that we take all of our factories in the United States and move those to Mexico and we move those up into Canada, and then we insource all of the workers for the truck driving job. Can we not at least just have the truck driving jobs? If you're going to take our factories, can we at least keep our truck driving jobs? And so that, that, that item right there addresses that. And then for the families of Deanne Miller, for the families of Ladonia Bryant, look, we want to say thank you for the victory today for this executive order, but we need criminal statutes for these noncitizen drivers who are abusing work visas, who are abusing these CDLs who don't speak English. And then when they're doing all these things knowingly, knowing that they're not qualified, knowing that they're not vetted, knowing that they haven't been properly trained and they're abusing the system and they kill somebody like Scott Miller or they kill somebody like Mark Bryant, they need to be held accountable for negligent homicide. Right now, these guys are all receiving misdemeanors. Our law enforcement agencies don't know what to do, our prosecutors don't know what to do. So they all get a slap on the wrist, they get released, and that's how you get the situation. Like Ignacio Cruz Morales, who's been deported 16 times, 17 times now, and every time he gets deported, he goes, gets in another commercial truck and drives straight back across the border and goes back to work. And so we need criminal statutes to address that. So these guys are charged with homicide and they're given felonies. And then we need a task force. We need a task force to get our arms around this population. Who are these people? I've got a conference call Scheduled later this week to talk about one of these drivers in this pool is on the most wanted list from India and he's been, he's received one of these non domiciled CDLs. So how are we vetting people when the people that are driving our trucks here in the United States are on the most wanted list from a foreign country? So we know, we know that there's no vetting whatsoever. We knew that before we found out about this driver because we saw the licenses that were being issued with made up birth dates. We saw the licenses that were being issued with no first name and with no last name. And so, you know, there's, there's just really no law and order right now in the CDL issuance of to truck drivers here in the United States. And that's why the American trucking industry is being destroyed. You cannot have an unlimited amount of supply of drivers come in without it impacting the overall living standards and the conditions for the American trucking company.
Eric Bolling
Shannon, how do people find out more about you on social media and how they get to the American truckers United?
Shannon Everett
You can follow us on Twitter at u. Truckers. You can also come to our website@americantruckers.com whether you're a concerned citizen, whether you're a truck driver or a carrier that's on your last leg and looking for support. We've got a great coalition now built of good mom and pop trucking companies. Guys, all the way up to a thousand trucks, 300 trucks, guys, as little as 30 trucks. And so we're all coming together to kind of spread this message and to bring back greatness to the American trucking industry. So join us.
Eric Bolling
Shannon, thank you. Court, we've got about a minute. Any closing thoughts?
Cash Patel
Sir, yes, sir. President Trump is going to be facing a lot of pushback from this. Organizations like the ACLU will no doubt stand up and say, hey, migrants and refugees don't need to speak English. He's gonna get pushback from the Mexican and Canadian governments. Canada has a huge problem right now. After a decade of the Justin Trudeau regime allowing scams to be operated on their immigration system. There's all kinds of truckers in Canada who also don't speak English. And the Canadian government's gonna be coming to Trump saying you can't enforce this on us. How can we engage in cross border trade when Trump needs to fight back and say, you guys need to enforce English proficiency on your own drivers? Trump needs to be prepared. He's going to be getting a lot.
Eric Bolling
Of pushback he always does. That's why he's the tip of the spear. Gord McCall, Shannon Everett, thank you guys. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. Our audience loves it. Good victory today. President Trump's on point. We'll make sure we stay close to the story. Keep us up to date on everything that's happening. The American trucker is the backbone of this country. I remember when I started in the show shifted to SiriusXM. I was on the Patriot Channel, had the morning show, actually a Sunday night show, Saturday morning show, but also the 6 to 9am man, oh man, where the truckers big part of the audience was a call in show then. Love the truckers. So does President Trump. He took action today. Action, action, action coming from the 47th president. United States Short commercial break. We're going to the White House and Natalie Winters next.
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Eric Bolling
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. Okay, we'll meet you now at the White House in a moment. We have Robert O'Brien, former National Security Advisor for President Trump in the first term. Robert, you know Scott Besant. Today he's talking about potential architecture of some deals, not final deals, but memos of understanding or at least term sheets for Japan, maybe Taiwan, you know, Korea. But the big one is India. How important is India strategically to us, not simply just on trade but also national security against the Chinese Communist Party, sir.
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, Steve, you're a navy guy. You understand how important the Indian Ocean is in that whole region. We now call the Pacific Command, the Indo Pacom or the Indo Pacific Command. And India is incredibly important. It's a huge country. They're going to be bigger than, than China, population wise. If they're not already, they will be in the next five years. They're a powerful country. They're a democracy. They speak English. They want to be friends with the US And China has territorial claims against India. China has attacked India many times. And so they're not very happy with the Chinese. They've. They've kicked out all the Chinese apps. WeChat and We Will and TikTok are not available in China. In India. And India will go a major manufacturing base for American products and companies are leaving China. So India is a huge, strategic, strategic partner for America going forward. It's part of the quad, the diplomatic alliance between Canberra, Tokyo, Delhi and Washington. And so it was important to President Trump. It's important to America as a whole. And we've got very good relations with India. So I think that's going to be a. A key relationship late into the 21st century.
Eric Bolling
Look, we love Modi. He's a nationalist, like we like him. And President Trump's obviously very close to Modi. The Howdy Modi thing was the biggest thing President Trump's ever had. When President Trump went to India in 2020, it was unbelievable. But they are very tough negotiators. And if you look at our trade deals, particularly talk to Navarro, India makes his head blow up. Do you think we'll actually get a deal with these guys that we can live with and they can live with?
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, I think we will. I was on both those visits. The Howdy Modi visit was in Houston, as you know, and at the stadium there, the basketball arena packed, and Modi gave a speech. That was the crowd, very raucous. President Trump gave a speech, and you might recall after the end of the speech, you know, all these leaders have a formal relationship. They have a cordial relationship, but they don't have a real friendship. I think the Modi and Trump have a real friendship. And so Modi took Trump by the hands, as they kind of want to do in that region, and held him by both hands and walked him around the arena. The Secret Service had their heads exploded, you know, trying to keep up with Modi and Trump walking around the arena. And there was genuine affection between the two of them. And Then I was on a trip to India where the President had, I think the biggest rally he's ever done was over 120,000 people in the largest cricket stadium in the world. The whole infield of the cricket stadium was full. The every seat of the stands was full. It was hot as Hades that day. We're sitting in the front row and boiling. Remember, Cash Patel, who worked for me at the time, was with me and we were all sweating. But the President gave a great talk, Modi gave a great talk. Again, they walked around the stadium to some extent. And so there's a real relationship there. And I think India understands. After the Chinese attacked India, you'll recall this, in 2019, Steve, and they attacked that Indian patrol up in the Himalayas and dismembered the bodies of the Indian soldiers. They killed and were quite brutal with them. The Indians learned what they were dealing with with the Chinese. And the Indians understood that it's only with American and American weapon systems that they can hold off the Chinese. And so that alliance has really come together in a way that it had not before. So I think it'll be a strong alliance when it comes to trade. You know, I think the Indians. Modi used to joke about it. He knew that the Indian tariffs are very high. It killed Peter, as Peter Navarro, as he pointed out that India had such high tariffs. President Trump understood it. He gave President, Prime Minister Modi a hard time about those high tariffs. But I think now, I think now that Trump is. This is, you know, announced Liberation Days, announced the high tariffs in reciprocal tariffs. I think the Indians understand that they need to make a deal. The Indians have a once in a lifetime opportunity as, as everything moves from China to India, they can blow up their manufacturing base. They can have a huge middle class. Apple announced they're going to start making iPhones in India. 100% of the iPhone in India. That's, that's a great opportunity for the Indians. So, so it's in their interest to reduce tariffs, bring the manufacturing from China to India, export the United States have a strong security alliance with us and, and really have an American Indian future in the, in the Indo Pacific region.
Eric Bolling
Robert, explain to the audience why this tragedy in Kashmir is so volatile. And we got to watch it, you know, the line of departure. Why is that one of the most dangerous parts of the world?
Stephen K. Bannon
Steve, thanks for asking about that. Because so many people don't recognize it as a flashpoint. And we talk about Iran, we talk about Gaza, we talk about Ukraine and Russia, we talk about the Taiwan Straits. But there this when, when India was partitioned by the British between the Muslim and the Hindus, basically, although they're the Pakistan kicked out, most of the Hindus are still Muslims in India, a couple hundred million. But when, when Britain partitioned the empire, the Indian empire into a Pakistan which, and East Pakistan, which became Bangladesh and India, which was primarily Hindu. There are borderlands and gray areas and gray zones and like Gaza or like other places, there are areas where India that were majority Muslim but the Indians considered their territory. One of those areas is Kashmir. And so for many years there's been a low level insurgency, sometimes hotter than other times, where the terrorists have had sanctuary in Pakistan. They've been able to go back across the border and find safety in Pakistan, but then come into Kashmir and attack the Indians. And this last terror attack was really a terrible thing. They killed 23 Indian tourists in a tourist bus. It was a brutal, vicious terrorist attack as we've seen from jihadis and Salafis all over the world, all over the Middle east, all over Afghanistan. And the Indians are really, they've had enough. They're not going to put up with this type of terrorism, terrorism anymore. India is a first world country. They just, they're not going to put up with it. And so they send a very strong message to Pakistan to get these, you know, rebels and terrorists under control. But just like the Pakistanis gave you know, sucker for many years to the Taliban in Afghanistan, they've done the same with the, the terror groups in India that are, that are attacking the Indians. And Pakistan, I think is going to have a reckoning. But the reason it's so dangerous, going back to your question, it was kind of a little bit of a Donald Trump weave. There's not as good as the president, but I try not to shabby nuclear. Both Pakistan and India are nuclear arms. So if the situation escalates, if there is a war, the Indians would probably start winning the conventional war pretty quickly. The balance of power shifted heavily to the Indians with their navy, with their air force, with their army. And so the Pakistanis might feel that they had to use nuclear weapons in response. The Indians would use nukes and you could have a very serious nuclear conflagration on the subcontinent of Asia. And that of course is terrible for the world and terrible for both countries. So it's quite a dangerous situation if it escalates.
Eric Bolling
Pakistan has open source. Pakistan has roughly how many nuclear weapons? And they have a, was it isi? They have a basically intelligence service that kind of runs the government and kind of runs the military that has stability issues and how many nuclear weapons they.
Stephen K. Bannon
Have, you know, it's hard to say. Open source. I've seen reports of up to 60 nuclear weapons in Pakistan and in India. But again, you know, otherwise you'd have to go to classified sources to see what the U.S. intelligence Committee was estimating for both sides. But I think it's been publicly reported, kind of like North Korea, about 60 weapons apiece. That's a lot of nukes, Steve.
Eric Bolling
It's a lot of nukes in a hot territory. What do you, what's going to be the outcome there, you think?
Stephen K. Bannon
So it's hard to say. I mean the passions are of course exercised on both sides. They're both proud people. They've got a shared heritage. It's kind of like, you know, brothers who were separated early on or have a long term quarrel. So there's passion that influences the debate, unfortunately, and human emotions. So, you know, it could be bad. But I think the Pakistanis, I think Prime Minister Shiraz and Pakistan understand that this is, things have changed. India is becoming, you know, almost a great power. Pakistan, they've got, you know, five times the population of Pakistan. Pakistan has to be very careful here. They played a dangerous game in hosting these terror organizations and again, I'm suggesting that the Pakistanis directed the terror attack or, or were involved in it as a government. But they certainly know that they have these, these terrorist organizations, you know, camping out in Pakistan and they haven't, you know, rounded them all up yet. They, they probably should. And so I think that you're going to see a steady de escalation. I think the Indians made a very strong point. They, there was some shooting across the border. The Indians, you know, took some, some steps to, to go after tariffs within India. But I think, I think both parties are going to be level headed enough here to, to calm it down a little bit. As you mentioned, the Pakistan is very unstable politically. Imran Khan, the great cricket player was, was the prime minister. He's probably still the most popular politician in Pakistan. He gets along quite well with President Trump. But he was deposed by the government, the current government. And so there's some instability in Pakistan. We'll see how that, if that is an impact on how they deal with this, these terror organizations and separatist movements that are finding sanctuary and safety within Pakistan and are attacking India.
Eric Bolling
He's a populist that's imprisoned. Was it the Chagris Islands? Dego Garcia, how can we actually have the Indian Ocean be something that's Strategic to us is the most important base there. Aren't we letting the Brits give it away, sir?
Stephen K. Bannon
You know, it's mind boggling, Steve, the fact that Keir Starmer wants to give the the Diego Garcia which is an unpopulated island. I think there were 50 or maybe 50 or 60 people from Diego Garcia who live in England quite well. But he wants to give it away I think to the Maldives which have strong relations with the communist Chinese. That's the most important base probably in the world for America. Gives us reach into the Indo Pacific, it gives us reach into Central Asia, it gives us reach into the Middle east. And if we have to attack Iran, the planes will take off from Diego Garcia. Now there's some talk that the US would receive a 99 year base like similar to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba even if the Brits give up the islands. But it's giving up the Chagos Islands, this island chain that's unpopulated to a government that never has governed them and it's not even part of their government but asserted it's a vestige of colonialism and they should have the islands instead of the uk. It's really a bad move by Starmer. It's a woke politically correct type move that will harm British security and US security throughout the world. And I think the Brits still have a chance to pull it back, but we'll see what they do. They should.
Eric Bolling
Can you tell us you're the head of the PIE app, the President's Intelligence Assessment Board. Can you take a minute? We got some time here. Can you stay through the break? We got a three minute break coming up. Can you stick with us?
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, of course. Steve.
Eric Bolling
What, what is, what is? Just give people overview. What is PIE up?
Stephen K. Bannon
So the pipe is the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. I'm a member of it. Devin Nunez, the former Chairman of the House Intelligence Select Committee on Intelligence. Ipsy is a chairman. He's a great chairman. We've got a number of top members that the President announced recently and the idea is to keep an eye on the ic, to suggest reforms to the ic, to go to the President and advise him on how the intelligence community is servicing them and if we think there are ways for them to, to do a better job, to, to improve and you know, ensure that they operate in compliance with the US Constitution and treat American citizens with their constitutional protections as they should as an intelligence community. So it's an advisory board, it meets once a month and it was quite an honor for the President to, to appoint Me. There are not a lot of jobs for a former National Security Advisor. But this. Henry Kissinger, former nsa, Brent Scowcroft and Sig Brzezinski were all on this, this board. The. The pie, Evan. So it's kind of a refugee home for former National Security advisors. Hang up.
Eric Bolling
Hang over one second. Robert O'Brien is going to join us on the other side.
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Eric Bolling
Robert O'Brien relieved John Bolton as National Security Advisor for the last year and a half under President Trump. And I think everybody that's close to President Trump can say that Robert O'Brien is a safe pair of hands and calm things down there. Robert. Venezuela, it is a massive. It's got a massive potential for oil, gas, natural resources, but the country's a complete mess. What's your recommendation to President Trump? We know it's the top of mind for him in this hemispheric defense from the Panama Canal to Greenland and to clear out the Caribbean of the Chinese Communist Party's navy. Venezuela will be a linchpin in Latin America with Brazil and our allies in Argentina. What's your recommendation to the president aboutabout Venezuela?
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, listen, you're absolutely right, Steve, and I think the president's instincts, and I haven't talked to him about this, you know, directly recently, but I think the president's instincts are to get a deal with the Venezuelan government. And look, the government, as you know, in Venezuela's Maduro, he succeeded Chavez, Communist, not a great guy, kind of. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Eric Bolling
But wasn't that counter, isn't that counter at least to the pre Robert O'Brien? I mean Warren Bolton and Mike Pompeo, they had a coup down there that reminded me of the movie Bananas. Remember, they had the guys that were gonna go and it was like two companies of guys in green uniform. Maduro and these guys are tough hombres, as the president would say. Didn't we try to overthrow the government at one time?
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, look, there was a purported coup attempt. It was, it made the Bay of Pigs look like Normandy. It was very unsuccessful and involved about four or five guys. So I don't think it was much of a threat to the Venezuelan government. But look, no one likes Maduro Chavez, but we've got to face that face rally here. We, we can either replace them and send 101st down and get involved in a war which the Venezuelans know we could, we could overthrow the regime. Guaido and the current gal Machado probably won the election. But we've got to look at what's in America's interests. And there are two things, three things that I'm looking at here, Steve. Maduro wants a deal. He wants to stay in power. He knows he's got to get a deal with President Trump to stay in power. He doesn't. He wants to make some money off his oil. And the way to make money if you're Venezuela and get the maximize your, the value of your oil is to sell it to America because we have refineries here that are specifically set up to refine Venezuelan crude, which is, it's a very heavy crude. We've got the refineries, we've got the distribution network and it's a million barrels of oil a day. So instead of seeing those million barrels go to China, which is our, as you know, is the adversary that could affect the lives of our children and grandchildren, we want those million barrels a day in America. Supporting American manufacturing, given a synergy Dominance, allowing us to export some oil to our allies in Japan and Europe. So, so, number one, we want to get the oil. President Trump is very focused on getting the resources, the minerals, the oil we need to power this, this golden age of an American economy that you talk about. You know, it's, it's tax cuts, it's deregulation, its energy dominance as tariffs. And the energy dominance part has helped. If we do a deal with, with Venezuela, number two, Maduro let all these bad guys, he's trying to argue gang members come to America. He literally emptied out the jails, as the President has talked about, and we're starting to send them back to El Salvador. But we need Maduro to take back all the Venezuelans that are here, the illegal Venezuelans. The Venezuelans are here legally are great citizens. A lot of them live in Florida. They're wonderful people. They're patriots or their conservatives. But the bad Venezuelans, we need them back in Venezuela. We need Maduro to take them. And the number three, Steve, and this goes to the point you just made about the Chinese navy, the Chinese navy, the Russian navy, even the Iranians have been using Venezuela as a home base in the Caribbean. And so we've got to tell Maduro, look, the deal is we'll buy your oil. We'll take, we'll take it. You take back your badge of folks that you sent here, and you kick out the Iranians, you kick out the Russians, and you kick out the Chinese, and then we'll deal long term with, with the internal governance of Venezuela, obviously supporting the democrats and, and give people human, you know, basic human rights and the rule of law. But let's, let's take an American first approach to Venezuela to start with, which is get the oil, get the bad guys out of our country and back into Venezuela in prisons. Let Maduro take care of them, feed and cloth them in jail, and let's get the Chinese and Russians and Iranians out. And if President Trump can pull off that deal, I think that'd be a great thing for the country and maybe probably a little diversion from John Bolton, who wanted to invade Venezuela. I understand why he did. But the famous tablet with 10,000 troops written on it that he let the press see. But I think we're probably, I don't think the American people are ready for another war right now. They want to see, and war is not stardom. President Trump is, you know, the peacemakers, you know, and so I think we're going to see a real good deal with Venezuela that will be Good for America and it'll be kind of a hard headed realistic deal, you know, and it may not satisfy, you know, all everything we want, but it can get the big things that are good for the American people.
Eric Bolling
Well, we want to thank you for the great service you did in the first term. And I know you're available if the president needs you in the second term. And you know, being on PI up and having these great ideas, particularly about Venezuela, that's going to be a big one. Hopefully you and Rick Grinnell can work together and pull that off.
Stephen K. Bannon
Robert's doing a great job on that with that, that mission. He's, Grinnell's been down there, he's been talking to Maduro. He's a very good negotiator. He did the Serbia, Kosovo deal with me in the first term and Rick is the guy to pull something like this off.
Eric Bolling
You guys are a pretty good team. Where do people go on social media or website track your writings and your thinking?
Stephen K. Bannon
Twitter Obert cobriant Thank you brother.
Eric Bolling
Appreciate you coming on today.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hey, thanks Steve. It's an honor. Thank you. Thank you my friend.
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Podcast Summary: Episode 4446 - Truckers Celebrate President Trump’s EO Protecting English-Speaking Truckers, India’s Role In Defeating The CCP
Introduction
In Episode 4446 of Bannon's War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon and co-host Eric Bolling explore two critical issues impacting American society and national security: the recent executive order by President Donald Trump aimed at safeguarding American truckers and the strategic significance of India in countering the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Released on April 28, 2025, this episode provides in-depth discussions with key experts and stakeholders in these domains.
1. Protecting American Truckers: The Executive Order
Celebration of the Executive Order
The episode kicks off with a celebratory tone as Shannon Everett from American Truckers Unlimited and writer Gord McCall join the conversation to discuss President Trump’s executive order. Shannon Everett remarks:
“It's definitely a victory for American truck drivers, it's a victory for the American worker and it's a victory for the American motoring public.” ([08:28])
Background and Importance
Shannon explains that the executive order mandates English proficiency for all truck drivers operating in the United States. This move aims to enhance public safety and ensure effective communication between truckers and regulatory authorities. The order reverses a 2016 memorandum that had relaxed enforcement of English language requirements, allowing foreign truckers to obtain Commercial Driver's Licenses (CDLs) without stringent language proficiency.
Impact on the Trucking Industry
Shannon Everett provides a bleak outlook on the current state of the American trucking industry:
“We're in the worst shape of my 25-year career... there’s been a three-year-long freight recession.” ([16:31])
He attributes the industry's decline to previous administrations' policies that artificially inflated the number of CDLs by including migrants and refugees. This influx has led to "labor dumping," where foreign drivers are employed at lower wages, undermining American truckers' livelihoods.
Discussion on CDL Policies
Cash Patel critiques the Biden administration's approach:
“The trucking industry has got a major retention problem... they’ve been chipping away at it for decades.” ([12:38])
Shannon Everett elaborates on how the relaxed CDL issuance has led to unsafe practices on the roads, with non-English-speaking drivers posing significant risks:
“Unless you're in that community, you might not know. There's a lot of communication problems between truckers on the road with federal officials and local officials as well, which obviously is a public safety risk.” ([07:02])
Strategic Importance of the Executive Order
Eric Bolling emphasizes the necessity of the executive order:
“The American trucker is the backbone of this country. ... President Trump's action today is setting things right.” ([29:27])
He underscores that protecting American truckers not only preserves jobs but also ensures the reliability of goods transportation across the nation.
Future Implications and Ongoing Challenges
Shannon warns that while the executive order is a significant step, the trucking industry still faces numerous challenges:
“The American trucking industry is a shell of what it once was. We need to restore it to its greatness.” ([08:28])
He calls for further legislative and regulatory measures to address remaining issues such as revoking non-domiciled CDLs and enforcing stricter penalties for non-compliance.
2. National Security Focus: India’s Role in Countering the CCP
Introduction to India's Strategic Importance
Transitioning from domestic issues, the podcast shifts focus to global politics, particularly the role of India in countering China's growing influence. Robert O’Brien, former National Security Advisor, provides expert insights:
“India is incredibly important. It's a huge country. They're going to be bigger than China, population-wise, in the next five years.” ([30:06])
India as a Democratic Counterbalance
Robert O’Brien highlights India's democratic values and English proficiency as key factors that make it a reliable ally against the authoritarian CCP:
“They are a democracy. They speak English. They want to be friends with the US and China has territorial claims against India.” ([30:06])
Regional Conflicts and Nuclear Concerns
The discussion delves into the volatile Kashmir region, a longstanding flashpoint between India and Pakistan. Stephen K. Bannon explains the complexities:
“Both Pakistan and India are nuclear-armed. If the situation escalates, it could lead to a very serious nuclear conflagration.” ([34:31])
He underscores the risks associated with regional tensions and the importance of maintaining strategic alliances to prevent escalation.
Strategic Naval Bases: The Diego Garcia Debate
A critical segment addresses the strategic naval base at Diego Garcia. Stephen K. Bannon criticizes the British government's consideration to transfer the base to the Maldives:
“Das it's the most important base probably in the world for America. It gives us reach into the Indo-Pacific, Central Asia, and the Middle East.” ([40:33])
He warns that relinquishing control of Diego Garcia would significantly diminish the United States' strategic military reach in key global regions.
Diplomatic Relations and Trade Deals
Robert O’Brien discusses ongoing and potential trade negotiations with India, emphasizing mutual benefits and the necessity for reduced tariffs to facilitate deeper economic ties:
“India understands that they need to make a deal. They can blow up their manufacturing base, have a huge middle class, and become a major manufacturing hub.” ([31:16])
3. Addressing the Venezuela Crisis
Economic and Security Imperatives
The podcast briefly touches upon Venezuela's ongoing crisis, with Stephen K. Bannon offering strategic recommendations:
“Maduro wants to stay in power and make money off his oil. We should leverage our relationship to secure American oil needs and remove foreign influences.” ([46:24])
Immigration and Legal Concerns
He emphasizes the need to repatriate illegal Venezuelan immigrants and dismantle support for terrorist organizations operating within the country:
“We need Maduro to take back the bad Venezuelans and remove Iranians, Russians, and Chinese influences.” ([46:24])
Diplomatic Solutions Over Military Intervention
Bannon advocates for diplomatic solutions over military intervention, suggesting that a negotiated deal would better serve American interests without the costs of war:
“War is not stardom. President Trump is the peacemaker, and we need to see a realistic deal that benefits America.” ([46:48])
4. Closing Remarks and Future Outlook
Reaffirmation of Policy Directions
In closing, Eric Bolling reiterates the importance of the discussed policies:
“President Trump took action today to solve the trucker problem... We need to get this sorted.” ([29:27])
Strategic Alliances and Economic Policies
He also touches upon broader economic strategies, including combating the de-dollarization efforts by the CCP and reinforcing financial stability through investments in gold:
“Birch Gold specializes in helping you convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax-sheltered IRA and physical gold.” ([14:59])
Final Thoughts
Stephen K. Bannon and Robert O’Brien both emphasize the need for cohesive strategies to protect American interests both domestically and internationally. The episode concludes with a focus on maintaining strong alliances, enforcing critical domestic policies, and ensuring national security in an increasingly complex global landscape.
Notable Quotes with Timestamps
Shannon Everett: “It's definitely a victory for American truck drivers, it's a victory for the American worker and it's a victory for the American motoring public.” ([08:28])
Shannon Everett: “We're in the worst shape of my 25-year career... there’s been a three-year-long freight recession.” ([16:31])
Cash Patel: “The trucking industry has got a major retention problem... they’ve been chipping away at it for decades.” ([12:38])
Eric Bolling: “The American trucker is the backbone of this country.” ([29:27])
Robert O’Brien: “India is incredibly important... they're a democracy. They speak English. They want to be friends with the US.” ([30:06])
Stephen K. Bannon: “Both Pakistan and India are nuclear-armed. If the situation escalates, it could lead to a very serious nuclear conflagration.” ([34:31])
Stephen K. Bannon: “It’s the most important base probably in the world for America. It gives us reach into the Indo-Pacific, Central Asia, and the Middle East.” ([40:33])
Robert O’Brien: “India understands that they need to make a deal. They can blow up their manufacturing base, have a huge middle class, and become a major manufacturing hub.” ([31:16])
Stephen K. Bannon: “Maduro wants to stay in power and make money off his oil. We should leverage our relationship to secure American oil needs and remove foreign influences.” ([46:24])
Conclusion
Episode 4446 of Bannon's War Room delivers a comprehensive analysis of domestic policy changes affecting American truckers and lays out the strategic imperatives of fostering strong alliances with nations like India to counterbalance China's influence. Through expert insights and critical discussions, the episode underscores the interconnectedness of economic policies and national security in shaping America's future trajectory.