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Episode 4792: Trump Signs Executive Order Charging Migrants For H1B Visas
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Steve Bannon
Michael Anton from the State Department. He's just authored the National Security Strategy. Also in the mix is Mike Flynn and Steve Witkoff. Can you give us an indication?
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Donald Trump
Well, they're all good. No, we'll make a decision soon, but we're doing very well. You know, I settled seven wars. More than that, I think, but actually, we settled seven wars. I have. We're working on Gaza. It's a tough one, but we'll get it done somehow. And we're also working with Russia and Ukraine. They hate each other so much you wouldn't believe it. President Putin and President Zelensky, they hate each other to a level that you wouldn't believe. So they're having a little bit of a problem with that.
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Steve Bannon
And are you considering Steven Moran for.
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Donald Trump
Fed Chair too much? He's doing a great job. Just got approved. His vote was a very good one. The Fed should have done more, you know, too late. Powell is terrible. He's terrible Chair. I think he's just terrible. But despite that, we're powering through it. We have another record stock market today. We're very, very high levels, and we're at the highest levels. So we're setting records. Many, many days during my administration, we've set records. And we'll see what happens with 50,000. 50,000 is a pretty big number. Never come close. We're not so far away from it. So that's because they see what's happening. Not so much what's happening exactly right now, but they see all the plants that are being built. They say, see the kind of investment that's going to be made when you take $17 trillion. So Biden had 250 billion. Okay. We're putting a simpler way. They had much less than a trillion. But they had less than a trillion for four years. I have 17 trillion for eight months. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. And I think they're looking at that and they're saying, when those plants open right now, they're being built. A lot of them, and some are starting over the next year. Takes a while, but we're getting fast permits. And when those plants get built, I don't think there'll be anything like what we're going to experience. Yeah. Mr. Ray, President, if I can.
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John
On the subject of free speech, Ted Cruz compared Brendan Carr to a mob boss. The way he's threatening television stations and saying it's absolutely dangerous for the government to determine which speech is okay and which is not. What's your reaction to Ted Cruz?
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Donald Trump
I think Brendan Carr is An incredible American patriot with courage. You know, it used to be. I remember in the old days that networks would have to get licensed, relicensed, and it was always a big deal. You know, they had to show honesty and integrity. When you have a network again, I'll use the same numbers, whether it's 90 or 94 and 97, all different numbers. But when you have networks that give somebody 97% bad publicity or 94% bad publicity, I think that's. I think that's dishonesty. And, you know they're getting free airwaves, right? You can know that, right? You get them for nothing. These airwaves, they make millions and millions of dollars. The news makes millions of dollars. Abc, your network, I mean, your network wrote very badly about me and they had to pay me $16 million. So you think I was right? Or the Brandon cars a right to take away the license? I think Brendan Carr is a courageous person. I think Brendan Carr doesn't like to see the airwaves be used illegally and incorrectly and purposely, horribly. Doesn't like to see a person that won the election in a landslide get 97% bad publicity before the election. I mean, it's amazing that I won the election with that. But here's what happened. The people have given your networks no credibility. They don't give them any credibility, John. If they did, they wouldn't vote for me. They wouldn't have voted for me. When you look at. I mean, you could also say the liberal media, the liberal left, when you look at these stories and papers, but we're not talking about that. We're talking about. I assume you're talking mostly about the networks, but they have a licensing procedure and you can read it as well. They have to show honesty and integrity. And when they take. When they take a good. Well, I think the people decide. That's why I'm president. When they take a. So that means you. When they take great success, like you often do, and you make it into. Like it's a loser or you put a negative spin on it, I don't think that's right. So I think Brendan Carr is a great American patriot. So I disagree with Ted Cruz on that. Will you be.
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Steve Bannon
The president at the UN next week?
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Donald Trump
You're going to the un? I'll be at the un. I'll be making a speech, yes. And are you meeting at any other world leaders? Many of them. Who are you meeting, Mr. President? Well, I'm just meeting Syria. What is your goal from attending that meeting? What you hope to World peace. Nobody's done a better job than I've done on world peace. Nobody settled so many, so many wars as I have. You know, I've been here probably a little bit more than eight months, and I've settled seven. And that doesn't include the destruction of a vast potential nuclear disaster in Iran, which we wiped out totally. As I say, obliterated. We obliterated it. It's been turned right with this beautiful plane right here. We just ordered some more of them, by the way, the B2 bomber just ordered some more. The more updated version. Not that we needed that. We just need the plane because it was so flawless. These pilots flew 37 hours flawlessly. Not an engine problem, not a. Not a screw, not a bolt came loose. It was an amazing. Compare that to many years ago. Jimmy Carter, same, same country with the helicopters and problems and the prisoners and the hostages. What a mess. You know, these. These planes flew 37 hours without a stop. They fueled up. We had 52 tankers fueling the planes along the way. It was an incredible. And every single bomb hit its mark. And then we fired 30 of them from submarines, from a submarine. What a job that was. And I don't even include that. But that stopped a war. That stopped maybe a catastrophic war, Mr. President. So, you know, so I think that nobody has ever done anywhere near that. Now, on top of that, we're working very hard to get Russia, Ukraine settled. We'll see what's going to happen there. I hope we're going to get it done. President Xi and I spoke to him about it, and I believe that he really would like to see it done also. And I think he's going to work with us to help. What was your message to President Xi on the war in Ukraine? What are you asking? Well, it's the same as his message to me. He would like to see it done. He would like to see it. I believe he would like to see it ended. Yes, I do believe these two wars that you were talking about, Gaza and Ukraine, are escalating at the same time. You're going to take the stage of the UN back at the stage after these years. Do you plan to setting any kind.
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Nick Sorter
Of red lines for these two countries?
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Donald Trump
And you said before you were frustrated with Putin.
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Nick Sorter
Are you also frustrated with Putin?
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Donald Trump
We have a long time to go before I get up and speak at the un because every day is a long time when it comes to Gaza, when it comes to Israel and the Middle East. So we have a long time to go. But, you know, A lot of my opinions. And remember this, you can't forget October 7th either. People are forgetting October 7th. They forget it too quickly. That was one of the worst days in world history. It was the most evil attack that I think you could really say. Babies were involved, little babies were involved, having their heads chopped off and all of the things that took place. You can't forget that. I don't forget that. A lot of people do, but I don't. Yeah, please. What goes into retaking Bagram? Does that require boots on the ground? We'll see what happens with Bagram. We're talking to Afghanistan. It should have never been given up. It was the most embarrassing day in the history of our country. There was no reason to give it up. I was leaving Afghanistan. I was leaving. I was the one that got it down to 5,000 soldiers. But we were going to. We were going to keep Bagram, the air base. I said it yesterday and we had an incredible trip, as you know, to uk, and I said it during the press conference. It's one of the most powerful runways ever built in terms of weight, length and load, what it can. What it could take. And we just gave it up for nothing. We gave it up for nothing. There was no reason to give it up. We weren't going to leave Bagram. Joe Biden didn't know what he was doing. We had a man that didn't know what he was doing. We had a man, by the way, that didn't approve. If you take a look at what's happening in Congress. We had a man that signed everything with almost everything with an auto pen, and he didn't tell the people from the auto pen whoever was using it. The one man that used it predominantly said that Biden only spoke to him twice, and it was only about the weather. It was about nothing. So those pardons that he gave are illegal. He gave illegal pardons, and that includes the congressman that destroyed and deleted all the information from J6. They deleted everything because it turned out that they were wrong. It turned out that I offered 10,000 National Guard or soldiers whatever they wanted and you wouldn't have had a problem. And they turned it down. Nancy Pelosi turned it down. And the mayor of Washington, D.C. turned it down. They deleted everything and they destroyed it illegally destroyed it. And Biden gave them a pardon. And Biden gave a lot of other people pardons that frankly, would be in jail if it wasn't for those pardons. But those pardons now are illegal according to just about every. What would you have to say on Letitia James. Are you disappointed that the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia has.
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John
Not prosecuted Letitia James? Do you intend to fire him?
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Donald Trump
Well, we're going to see what happens. I am not following it very closely. It looks to me like she's very guilty of something, but I really don't know. I know that the U.S. attorney from the Eastern District or from that district in Virginia, that he was approved by two Democrat senators, who in my opinion, are among the worst. And when I learned that, two senators, Democrats. Because, as you know, it's very hard with the blue slip, it's very hard for a Republican to get somebody approved. If you have one senator that's a Democrat because of an old customer, it's not a law. It's a custom. It's a ridiculous custom. But if you have a Democrat senator, you have to get that senator to approve. Well, in this case, we had two. When I saw that he got two senators, two gentlemen that are bad news as far as I'm concerned. When I saw that he got approved by those two men, I said, pull it, because he can't be any good.
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John
So you see one fire, you want him out?
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Donald Trump
Yeah, I want him out. Yeah. When I learned that he was blue, slipped through by two Democrat senators in Virginia, people that would never vote for the people that haven't voted for us for probably years. Okay, probably years. Two, in my opinion, two bad guys. You know, they are Warner and Kaine. Two bad guys, bad senators, too. They do a terrible job for the people of Virginia. But when I saw that he got approved by these two terrible people that haven't voted. They just don't vote, no matter what it is. We could give them the greatest deal ever and they still wouldn't vote. And they voted for this guy. And I have other people, judges, and I have U.S. attorneys from other states who have the same situation, and they can't get approved. So when I learned that they voted for him, I said, I don't really want him. Okay, Mr. President, do you want to get behind you? Please.
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Steve Bannon
Have you seen the polling, the gallery poll out of Ukraine that shows 23%, less than a quarter of Ukrainians actually support continuing the war against Putin. We saw the European leaders come here and try to say the world is united for the war effort, but Ukrainians have war fatigue themselves. Have you seen the blame and your thoughts on it?
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Donald Trump
I don't blame them. It's a war that never should have started. It's a war that never would have happened if I were president, that war never would have happened, ever. That's a disgrace that that war happened. And they're losing anywhere from five to 8,000 people a week on that war, which is the worst since the Second World War. That's a war that should have never happened.
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Steve Bannon
And if you consider would have never.
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Donald Trump
Happened and it didn't happen for four years when I was here, it didn't happen. Go ahead.
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Steve Bannon
Have you considered cutting funding, even promises made by the Biden administration?
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Donald Trump
Well, we're not spending any money on the war. You know, we're being paid for everything. We said, unlike Biden, he gave him $350 billion. And it's just. It was shocking. We're not spending any money on the war. The war is being funded by NATO. NATO is buying our equipment. In fact, I don't want to make money on that war. I don't want to. But we are actually making money on that war because they're buying our equipment, as you know. But we, NATO, as you know, very important, is funding the entire thing. They're paying for the missiles, for the tanks, they're paying for anything they're sent over there. It goes to NATO, and then NATO does what they want with it. In this case, I guess, they give it to Ukraine. It's a very sad war. It's a war that never should have happened. Mr. President, going back to TikTok, could you tell me, is the US Government going to take a board seat in the company, and will the US Government get a board seat within the company? Well, we're going to announce that. Are you talking about TikTok? Yes, we're going to announce it. But it's a great deal for our country. It's a great deal for all of the young people in the country that wanted it, and people generally. I was happy with it. Look, I wasn't a fan of TikTok, and then I got to use it and I became a fan, and it helped me win the election in a landslide. So I think that it's a deal that's going to be great. And it's also controlled by very powerful and very substantial American people, by the way. All American people. Mr. President, a question from Newsmax. Last year, before you took office, there was an estimated 6.8 million men not actively seeking work of prime working age. So if you and Secretary Lutnick could talk about the efforts your administration is taking to help our American gentlemen get back to work. Yeah, well, what we're doing is they're building plants all over the United States and frankly, because of tariffs, we're taking in trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars. And countries that have ripped us off for years, and everyone knows this, countries that have ripped us off for years like nobody has ever been ripped off before. They're now having to pay up. They're paying a lot of. They're paying a lot of money to America and we're reducing taxes with that money. And we're doing things that we were never able to do before. So it's. You're going to have a lot of jobs. The jobs are being created right now. And the tariffs, the tariffs are protecting our country. And we didn't use, you know, tariffs were used against us, but we didn't use them against others. But we're really better at it than anybody else. And we've taken in, we will have taken in trillions of dollars. Nobody has ever seen anything. Even people that were against the tariffs, now they see the way they're working. And by the way, with no inflation, with no problem, we're just building up cash and we're using that cash to reduce taxes, reduce debt and other things. It's a great thing to watch. And your honest reporters are saying they've never seen anything like what's happening. Our country is becoming very rich again, only because of tariffs. If we didn't have it, if we didn't have. If I didn't get elected, this country would be. It was a dead country. Look, we were a dead country a year ago and now we're the most successful, most vibrant country anywhere in the world. Health care. Good evening, sir. Good to see you. You look good on television. Thank you, sir. I try. Tonight, in a few minutes, Steve Bannon will appear on my show. He floats the idea that you should dual hat. Secretary of Treasury Scott Besant, not only as Treasury Secretary, but as interim President, Fed Chair. Would you be willing to entertain that? In other words, you like Scott? Yes, very much. So do I. And I like Steve, too. Would you like to see that? Him dual? We could save a little bit of salary. I think I could maybe make a deal where we just give him one salary. You know, I have a couple of them I don't think he needs. I have Marco. No, I don't think so. We have, we have. Marco's got about three positions, right. He's doing great also. No, no, I don't think that's going to be necessary. Actually, I went to Scott and I talked to him about that position and he loves what he's doing right now. So you know, he's not in the mix because he's. He loves being Secretary of the Treasury. Quick follow up. Today is the first day of early voting in the commonwealth Virginia. Are you planning on campaigning for Winsome Sears, John Reed or Jason Maris? Well, I'm going to have to look at some of them, as you know. You know, it's sort of a semi local election. I've been watching it. I've been seeing the ads. I would appreciate it. As a Virginia voter, just who do you like of the group? Who do you like? The whole ticket, sir. All of them. You like them or. I'll take a very strong look for you. I'm going to look. Secretary Kennedy's panel on vaccine changed its broad recommendations on COVID 19 vaccines today.
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John
Are you comfortable with that change or.
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Steve Bannon
Would you like to see Americans take.
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Donald Trump
The vaccines that were developed under your tenure? Yeah, well, the vaccines, according to a lot of people, and if you look at George said, have had a tremendous, you know, Operation Warp Speed. It was just, according to just about everybody, was one of the greatest things that any president has ever done in this country. So we're very proud of it. I'm very proud of it. I'm also very proud of Regeneron and some of the things that came out of, you know, all of the labs and all of the research that we've done. So I don't know exactly what the final determination is, but I had the vaccine. I was very happy with it. Here I am. Right Here I am. Have you had ideas? Bobby Kennedy seems to be undoing what.
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John
You did with optician warps.
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Donald Trump
I put him in there because I want to have opposite views. That's okay. I think we're going to have something very, very big. Coming up soon on autism. Autism is totally out of control. And one of the biggest, one of the most important things that in my opinion I had to do is to see what's going on with autism. And we're going to have a news conference early next week on autism. And I think you're going to see some things that are amazing that we've learned that somebody else wouldn't have learned. It's out of control. Autism, out of control. And I think we maybe have the reason why. But is Bobby Kennedy going too far.
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John
And unwinding the vaccines?
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Donald Trump
He's saying for older people. Yeah, he's saying for older people. A lot of people agree with that. And. But I can tell you this, Operation Warp Speed, one of the greatest things a president has ever done for this country. And you can say the world, because when we came up with that vaccine, the whole world opened up. But I put Bobby there as somebody that will go either way. And I want, you know, I want the facts. But I also look at facts from Pfizer, where they spent a lot of money, and the other drug companies, they spent a lot of money on finding out the results after the fact. The results were amazingly good.
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Steve Bannon
I'm wondering if you've seen the video put out by former Israeli hostages. It's addressed to you. One is a widow of one that died. And these are people who are freed thanks to you. But they're actually encouraging you to force a ceasefire, force Netanyahu to cease fire. And they didn't address it to him because they think you're the one who might actually listen to them and get it done. They're worried that the hostages who are still there are more at risk if the war continues.
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Donald Trump
Your thoughts on it? Mr. They might be. They also. Maybe they'll be freed because of that. You know, you never know how. It's. Look, war. I was saying, yes, war. A lot of strange things happen. A lot of results take place that you would never think were going to happen. As you know, I was able to get most of the hostages out. We're down to 20. And we have 32 dead people. You know that. We have 32, maybe more, 38. But between 32 and 38 people that were dead, mostly young people. And I've dealt with some of the parents, and we got all our Americans out, as you know, but now we're talking about mostly Israelis. But I dealt with parents, I spoke to parents, and they want the body of their son. I believe in almost all cases sons. But they want the body of their cherished, beautiful son. They want the body back as much as. As though he were alive. It's so sad to see. But I've dealt with the mothers and fathers. Please, sir, please. The body of my son, they know he's dead and they just want him back. They want him back as much as though he's alive. I mean, it's very terrible. And, you know, we have very close to 40 bodies that are included in the whole thing, but we have 20, probably 20 that are living. It might be a little bit less, because a couple of things. Look, young people don't die, okay? They just don't die. They can take a lot. But these. A lot of people died in these horrible tunnels. They're mostly in the tunnels. I know a lot about it. I got them Out. I got them out. But I always said the last 20, when you get down to the last 10 or 20, it's going to be very tough. It's a nasty. It's a nasty situation. You can't forget October 7th, but it's a nasty situation. Terrible. Mr. President, on Gaza, the UN concluded this week that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. What are your thoughts on that? Well, I haven't seen that. I'm looking at it. But did anybody commit genocide on October 7? What do you think about that? That was genocide at the highest level. That was murder. Genocide. You can call it whatever you want, but little babies were chopped in half, arms were cut off, people, heads were cut off people. That's genocide. That's genocide also, I guess. What do you think? Mr. President, a question on your Midwest appointment. A fee from that deal. What is that fee? Well, it hasn't been fully negotiated, but we'll get something. From the standpoint that we worked hard, we put up a lot, we spent a lot of money on letting this come and letting this, you know, it's a very, very big deal. It's a very powerful deal. And the United States, really, I see it. I mean, people were saying, save TikTok. Save TikTok. So many people. It's a big thing. And you know, China can be very proud that they were able to get that started. And so I very much appreciate President Xi's working with us on that very much. What comes next after designating antifa terrorist organization, I know that we're going to designate too, but we're going to look at the people that funded Antifa, see who they are, where they came from and why they did. Have you seen Portland at all? You take a look what's happening in Portland. It's. This has been going on for years. It's just people out of control, crazy. We're going to stop that person. We have to get rid of a couple of other problems first, we're going to get rid of the problems in Memphis, where you can't even walk a block without getting shot. We're going to get rid of the problems in Chicago. Chicago is a great city and we have to save it. We have to save it. I told you, I had the head of the Union Pacific Railroad in my office and I said, so what do you think? You go to every city, you have railroads in every yard. Our biggest railroad, beautiful railroad. He's a great guy. I said, what do you think? He said, sir, save Chicago. Don't let it go down. Save it. The way. He said, it was so meaningful to me. It was so, like. It was like terrible. In a way, it was terrible. Save Chicago. You know, who would ever think that we'd be sitting here talking about saving Chicago? Chicago's a great city. They have a terrible mayor. Terrible. He's at like 5% approval rating. He's an incompetent person. They have an incompetent governor, in my opinion, he's incompetent. 11 people get shot, and he says crime isn't a good shot. I mean, they're losing four, five, six people a week getting killed by bullets, by knives. And then he says how wonderful it is Chicago. Well, it might be wonderful for him. I think they're afraid. Look, he's not a stupid guy. I really believe they're afraid to say politically, I guess from an ideology standpoint, from a Democratic standpoint, he's afraid. He is afraid to say the fact that they have a very unsafe, very dangerous city. He should say, I'm going to call President Donald Trump and I'm going to ask him to send in the troops, to send in the National Guard and clean this hellhole up, because Chicago can be a great city again. I'll tell you what, Washington, D.C. is a great place again. It's booming. And the restaurants are booming. And six months ago, seven months ago, nobody could go outside. And even just walking around the White House, people here are thanking me for what I've done. They're thanking me, they're saying thank you. And I almost know what they mean because they can walk to work. And even when they took Uber and they took other forms of transportation, they felt unsafe because the car was hijacked. While they're in there, they take a car and it's being hijacked as they get into the car. And they did that for safety. And now we have a safe place. You know, we've taken 1,500 people out of career criminals have been taken out of Washington, D.C. and we weren't very nice about it. Do, you know, discuss it with the Union Pacific? I did. I did discuss it, and I don't want to make a comment on it, but Union Pacific is a great railroad, and they want to add a railroad that had a mistake out of a place very close to my heart. You know, a lot of people say that that was a place where I got off to a very good start. It was a rough thing that happened. Well, they're trying to buy that railroad that had the problem. And it sounds good to me, to be honest. With you. Sounds good to me. I'm a very big fan of the head of the railroad, the head of the Union Pacific. He started as a very low on the totem pole, started his job very low and became the chairman of the company over a 45 year period. But I asked him about different cities. He said St. Louis is tough. We, you know, he sort of stops at many of them. New Orleans. We have to save New Orleans. New York. Mr. President, Mr. President, when are you going to get. We're going to be going into New York too, Mr. President, and we're going to be going in quiet. You're really obnoxious. I'm not obnoxious, but I'm trying to ask you what about your plans? You are really. Memphis. I'm not obnoxious, but I am asking.
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Steve Bannon
What are your plans for Memphis?
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Nick Sorter
Many people want to.
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Donald Trump
I'm not going to talk to you until I call on you. What are your plans? So who else? Yeah, go ahead. I just want to settle this free speech question because you've said that you.
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John
Restored free speech in America.
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Donald Trump
Is that free speech?
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John
Including for people who are harshly critical of you, for your political opponents, for people who say things you don't like.
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Donald Trump
I've become immune to it. I've become immune to it. There's never been a person that's had more unfair publicity than me. And that's why your network made me $15 million or $16 million, I believe, to be exact, George Slopadopoulos. And that's why CPS paid me a lot of money, too. And that's why I sued the New York Times two days ago for a lot of money. Because I. Well, I'm winning. I mean, I'm winning the cases. And the reason I'm winning is because you're guilty, John. You're guilty. ABC is a terrible network, a very unfair network, and you should be ashamed of yourself. NBC is equally bad. I don't know who's worse. I think they're equally bad. And you know, for you to stand there and act so innocent and ask me a question like that. But look, you paid a big price because you were dishonest. John, the reason I won that lawsuit was because you were dishonest. You were proven to be dishonest. And so you can't sit back and just say, oh, well, what do you think? You know, like you're some wonderful person. You're not a wonderful person, frankly. You're a terrible reporter. You know it and so do I. Okay, here's what we're going to do. We're going to talk about something that's going to reduce our taxes greatly, that's going to hopefully bring some great people into our country. You know, as you know, right now, nobody is coming in because we've succeeded in closing. We've closed the border very successfully, I think you will agree. We had nobody come in for the last few months. I mean, it was actually said zero even, I can't believe zero. But the numbers are put out by very impartial people or people that have a tendency to be on the left. And they actually said for the last three months, nobody came in. We have a very strong border. It's a closed border. People are coming into our country, but they're coming in legally. It's a beautiful thing to watch, but we are doing something where rather than coming into the border, 25 million people came into our country during Biden. One of the saddest things, the worst thing, look, he was horrible in inflation. He was horrible in just about everything you could be. I don't think he was good on. He wasn't even fair on anything. He was a horrible. It was a horrible administration. He was the worst president in the history of our country. And we have to mop it up. The hardest thing that we have to do is to get rid of the criminals that he allowed into our country from prisons, from mental institutions, gang members, drug dealers. And we're getting them out, and we're getting them out fast. And we're making America safe again, great again. But we're making America safe again. And it's an honor to do it. But this is something. This was an unforced error, what they've done. This is just an unforced error. So I'm going to ask Howard to speak. Howard has done a fantastic job, as you know, Secretary of Commerce, And I'm going to ask Howard and Will. Will, could you just give a quick description of what we're doing and what we're signing, et cetera, and yes, sir, I will do that.
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John
We have two items for your attention today, sir. A major focus of your administration has been shifting the conversation and shifting the policy dynamics around the issue of immigration, closing the border, preventing illegal immigration, but also, as is the case with the executive order in front of you, opening new pathways for truly extraordinary people to come contribute to America instead of taking away from it. So this executive order is entitled the Gold Card. It will set up a new pathway, a new visa pathway for foreigners of extraordinary ability who are committed to supporting the United States for a payment of $1 million to the US treasury or if a corporation is sponsoring them, $2 million by that corporation. And that will give them access to expedited Visa treatment as part of this new Gold Card program.
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Donald Trump
And one of the biggest problems we have is that people, they go to the best schools and they do great and they get great marks and then they're thrown out of the country. You're not allowed to stay this way. A corporation will be able, sort of like a signing bonus in baseball or football. A corporation will be able to get them to stay in the country. And I think it's going to be tremendously successful. Howard, would you say a few words about it, please? Sure.
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Sean Lutnick
So historically, the employment based green card program let in 281,000 people a year. And those people on average earned $66,000 a year, on average. And they were five times more likely to go on assistance programs of the government. So we were taking in the bottom quartile below the average American. It was illogical. The only country in the world that was taking in the bottom quartile. So what we are doing now is we are going to stop doing that. We're going to only take extraordinary people at the very top. Instead of people trying to take the jobs from Americans, they're going to create businesses and create jobs for Americans. And this program will raise more than $100 billion for the treasury of the.
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Donald Trump
United States of America, which we'll use for cutting taxes and paying down debt. We think it's going to be very successful. Essentially we're having people come in, people that in many cases I guess are, you know, very successful or whatever. And they're coming in, they're going to spend a lot of money to come in. They're going to pay as opposed to walking over the borders. And they may come from jails, prisons and everything else. These people don't. They're very productive people and they're going to pay a million dollars. The corporation is going to pay $2 million and it's going to raise billions of dollars, billions and billions of dollars which is going to go to reduce taxes, pay off debt and other good things. So I think it's going to be very on board with these. Mr. President, big techs. Are the big techs on board with this decision? You just. What's going. I wish you'd speak more clearly. I really. Give me, give it to me again. Are the big techs, the CEOs on board with this decision? Yeah, big tech. Yeah, big tech. It's every company. It's big tech, it's big tech, it's big everything, okay? It's a company. I said it's not a tech company. It's tech companies and everything else. It's companies are having a hard time getting people to be able to stay in the country. It's very difficult. Now, if you want to walk through the border, you can have no problem. People say, well, the best way to come in is walk right through the border. But they can't do that anymore because under our administration, the border is totally closed. You can only come in if you come in legally. And that's the way it's been and that's the way it should be. And we're taking a lot of people out of the country that are here from prisons, from jails, from mental institutions and even insane asylums. People that are crazy. We're taking them out of the country. We're getting them out of the country because you can't have a country like that. And I tell you, Christy and Tom Holman and all of the people that have worked so hard on this, they've done an unbelievable job. And I think we're getting great marks for it. People feel safe. Washington D.C. is just the beginning. Other, you know, we brought the numbers down in Chicago a little bit by having the FBI in there for the last five months. We brought the numbers down in Memphis a little bit, but now we're going for the big one. Now we're going to go for the big one. But we set ourselves up very well in Chicago, Memphis, New Orleans a little bit going in early just to see what was happening. You know, we study it. We're studying the site. It's sort of like war. I mean, I hate to tell you, it's like war. Some of these people are really bad. They're really, really sick people. They're dangerous people. They're killers, they're murderers, drug dealers, and can't have it. You can't have a country like that. It's so beautiful to see Washington, D.C. that people are walking down the middle of the street and they're going to restaurants and you are, too, and half of you were mugged. I mean, I. I don't know if she's here now. I don't see her. But, you know, some people were badly mugged that were reporters. Two of the people, right, standing in the back of the room were mugged, and they're not going to have that anymore. And if you look at the crime stats in Washington D.C. you have a Safe place. Again, they were afraid to go to a restaurant because the restaurant would be held up while they're having dinner. And so they'd be mugged going there. And assuming they escaped the mugging, they go to the restaurant and then they're held up. This is how bad it's been to follow up on the visa question. I think this may be the next thing that you're signing, but for the H1B visa action that you're doing next, we'll talk about that. You're very close to the technology CEOs.
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John
Are they concerned about that?
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Donald Trump
I think they're going to be very happy. Everyone's going to be happy. And we're going to be able to keep people in our country that are going to be very productive people. And in many cases, these companies are going to pay a lot of money for that and they're very happy about it. Okay, we'll talk about that next. Sarah. Okay, my friend, why don't you keep that? Okay, thank you. Done such a good job. Okay, it's phase one. John, are you happy? Sure. Thank you. Okay, let's go.
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John
Thank you, Mr. President. One of the most abused visa systems in our current immigration system has been the H1B nonimmigrant visa program. This is supposed to allow highly skilled laborers who work in fields that Americans don't work in to come into the United States of America. What this proclamation will do is raise the fee that companies Pay to sponsor H1B applicants to $100,000. This will ensure that the people they're bringing in are actually very highly skilled and that they're not replaceable by American workers. So it will protect American workers, but ensure that companies have a pathway to hire truly extraordinary people and bring them to the United States.
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Donald Trump
We need workers, we need workers, we need great workers. And this pretty much ensures that that's what's going to happen. I think, Sean, you agree with it.
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Sean Lutnick
While they're 100 to thousand dollars per year. So the whole idea is no more will these big tech companies or other big companies train foreign workers. They have to pay the government $100,000. Then they have to pay the employee. So it's just non economic. If you're going to train somebody, you're going to train one of the recent graduates from one of the great universities across our land. Train Americans, stop bringing in people to take our jobs. That's the policy here. $100,000 a year for H1B visas and all of the big companies are on board. We've spoken to them about the Gold card.
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Donald Trump
They love this. They love it. They really love it. They need it. Go ahead, Sean. Mr. President, it seems like there's two categories of visa programs, the H1B that a lot of people believe take American jobs, and then the Gold Card in programs like EB5 that add value and jobs to America. Is that sort of how you look at the Visa program? Well, ideally, look, if somebody's got the people, they're not going to want to spend $100,000 as an example in your second category. So it's not taking jobs. And we need certain jobs. We need certain skilled jobs that we don't have. But they won't be taking jobs because, you know, ideally the people are going to want to. They're not going to stay in America and create jobs. So that's why I'm asking. They're really investing like you have to two categories. One, Secretary Lutnick, the gold card and EB5 that create jobs at investment. And then there's other ones that seem to take, you know, whether it's a J1 and O or an H1B that take us jobs. Yeah, that's pretty correct. I would say that's a correct assessment. But the main thing is we're going to have great people coming in and they're going to be paying. I mean, it's, it's, it's wonderful to say, oh, gee, this is. We took in 25 million people that look, many criminals. Jails were opened from Venezuela, from many other countries, and they were let out of jail and poured into our country, our poor country. How it suffered with this, with this stupid president that we had and the stupid people that surrounded him right around this desk, these liberal, crazy people that have destroyed, they could have destroyed. If we didn't win this election, our country would have been dead. Our country was dead. Think of it. And I've said this. The king of Saudi Arabia said your country was dead one year. They thought it was dead. This country couldn't have survived another year of those people running it. And now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. Think of that. And this is going to help. And we're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars. This will be taken in. The Gold card will be taking in hundreds of billions of dollars. And companies will be able to keep some people that they need, you know, they need people of expertise, great expertise. And I think it's going to be a fantastic thing. And we're going to take that money and we're going to reduce taxes we're going to reduce debt. We have a very, very strong country. Assuming everything works out great with the lawsuit that we have. We have a lawsuit that's inspired by far foreign countries that ripped us off for 25 years. But assuming we win, that we hopefully win, it's in the Supreme Court of the United States. We have a country that no stopping us. There's no, we're rich, we'll be rich. We can take care of poor people, we can take care of our military, we can take care of everything. We can take care of beyond the country, we can help take care of the world that we don't. It'll just be the same struggle that we've had for years where other countries charged us tariffs and they ripped us off. Our country has been ripped off more than any country in the history of the world. And now we are, we're doing what we have to do. We're taking in billions and billions of dollars at levels that nobody has ever seen, trillions of dollars. And we're using it to reduce debt, we're using it to reduce taxes. The great big beautiful bill is a big tax reduction. It's being paid for by the tariffs and people are paying a lot less money in taxes. They're being, think of it, no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. It's an unbelievable phenomena. It really is. It's the golden age. We're making it the golden age. Without the tariffs, it would be impossible. And China for years charged us tariffs and they continue to do it and so do other countries. Most countries, they charge us, they were ripped. Look, the European Union, as you know, I get along very well with them, but they ripped us off so badly, there's never, nobody has ever seen anything. Now the European Union is paying us $950 billion and they're paying us $750 billion to buy our energy. And they're okay with it. They signed the agreement. You know, it's not like anybody forced them to do it. They're okay with this. Tariffs are making our country very rich again. And we'll be able to take care of our debt, we'll be able to take care of our taxes, lower taxes. We'll be able to take care of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security. We're going to be a rich country again. Without tariffs, we'd be in very big trouble. I still want Europe to pay 100% tariffs on China. Excuse me, H1 visas, sometimes used by people already in the country legally on other visas or student Visas. Does this apply to them or to renewals? Or does it only apply to people.
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Steve Bannon
Applying for the first time from abroad?
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Sean Lutnick
Renewals, first times. The company needs to decide do they want. Is the person valuable enough to have $100,000 a year payment to the government, or they should head home and they should go hire an American. The whole idea, it's annual and it's for total. It can be a total of six years. So $100,000 a year. So either the person is very valuable to the company and America, or they're going to depart and the company's going.
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Donald Trump
To hire an American.
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Sean Lutnick
And that's the point of immigration. Hire Americans and make sure the people coming in are the top, top people. Stop the nonsense of letting people just come into this country on these visas that were given away for free. President is crystal clear. Valuable people only for America. Stop the nonsense and remember, the country.
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Donald Trump
Just a fee, right? Yeah. To America. The country would rather not have to pay $100,000, but they'd rather. How do you do that? You hire Americans. So there's an incentive to hire American. But there may be instances where it's better off doing through expertise or whatever it may be. But they're both unbelievable. Whether it's a gold card or anything else that we talked about today, and that includes talking about freedom of speech, because our country has been decimated by bad people. Very bad people. People that love crime. They love crime. Explain it to me. They don't want to have our military go in and save lives. But when you go and ask the people, do you mind having the National Guard come in if it meant safety? They look at the question like, what's wrong? What kind of a stupid question is that? Of course they do. We want to have. We're going to have a safe country again. We're not going to have people shot. 11 people shot. Think of it. In Chicago, over a period of six or seven weeks, 55 people were murdered. And then you have a governor saying how wonderful it is. It's not wonderful. It's very unsafe. There's not a place in the world you go outside. You go to Afghanistan, you go to different places all over the world that you hear about. It's 20% of what's happening in places like Chicago. And you think of them as unsafe. Mexico City. Mexico City. It's a tough place, dangerous place. The crime rate is lower. Think of it. What's happening to our country? We're not going to let it happen. And I think I got elected largely for that. Reason. So we're going to have a safe country again. We're going to have a great country again. We're doing unbelievably. We have the highest stock market in history. We have the most investment we've ever had ever as a country coming in. And we're very simple. You know, they said, how do you get elected? I got elected because I'm going to make America great again. That's what we're doing. We're making America great again. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you, press. Thank you, press. Thanks, guys. We'll go out the door right there. Thank you. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Let's go. Let's go. Right out this way. Thank you.
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Donald Trump
Thanks guys. Let's go, let's move. Thanks guys.
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Host/Announcer
Keep the shot right there. The President of the United States. We're going to lose this pretty quickly right there. Wow, what an oval office. He signed two executive orders and took all incoming from the world's press including a couple of mainstream media that they try to give incoming. They got blowback. ABC News wouldn't want to be at ABC News today. Jonathan Karl. Jonathan Karl. Jonathan, you're not a good person. You're a terrible reporter and your company just paid 16 million doll. I think ABC and I think NBC and the reporters there just have to understand one thing. When, when you're our cbs. I don't think NBC is paid yet. Paid yet. Get that Media Matters when President Trump threatens to go to court Threatens to sue you and you sign back a check, whether it's 60 Minutes or ABC News. Just a note to Jonathan Karl and all the other guys, the guys over at, you know, Bob Costa and the guys over at cbs. Anytime you ask him that question, let me give you a heads up, he's going to pivot back to the lawsuit.
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Donald Trump
You admitted guilt.
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Host/Announcer
You're a bad organization. You're terrible people. And then boom. So just make sure that understands. Coming. Okay, we got a lot to get to between now and the seven o' clock hour. I've got a package right here. We've got the great Nick Sartor. And Nick is going to join us from, I think, Turning Point headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. Let's play the package. I'm going to bring Nick Sorter in to start the war room.
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Nick Sorter
It reminds you that although these people pretend to be adults that they are sometimes, you know, they think a lot less than even children do when it comes to compassion, when it comes to thoughtfulness, when it comes to being a leader. You know, I did expect the President's address to the nation would have been a lot more compassionate filled. It would have been less partisan. He doesn't even know who the assassin is. For him to say wing lunatic, I think it kind of denigrated his status and the status of the office he holds. But what I do know for sure is that, you know, Charlie was someone who once said, you know, guns save lives after a school shooting. Charlie was someone who was willing to debate and downplay the death of George Floyd in the hands of Minneapolis police.
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Host/Announcer
I think he called him a scumbag.
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Nick Sorter
Right. Have no regard downplay slavery and what black people have gone through in this country by saying Juneteenth should never exist. And I think there are a lot of people who are out there talking about him, just wanting to have a civil debate.
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Steve Bannon
A complete rewriting of history.
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Nick Sorter
Yeah, there is nothing more effed up like than to completely pretend that, you know, his words and actions have not been recorded and in existence for the last decade or so. Instead of uniting Congress in this tragedy with one of the many bipartisan options to condemn political violence and Kirk's murder, as we did with the late Melissa Hortman. Instead, the majority proceeded with a resolution that brings great pain to the millions of Americans who endured segregation, Jim Crow and the legacy of bigotry today, we should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the Civil Rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake Stake who after the violent Attack on Paul Pelosi, claimed that, quote, some amazing patriot, unquote, should bail out his brutal assailant and accused Jews of controlling, quote, not just the colleges, it's the nonprofits, it's the movies, it's Hollywood, it's all of it, unquote. His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans. Far from the working, quote, working tirelessly to promote unity, unquote, asserted by the majority in this resolution. I said that the people who were full of. Were the people who were saying that Kirk was civil.
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Donald Trump
Thank you. That's not true.
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Nick Sorter
Who called for public execution of people he disagreed with is not civil. The person who said, you are a black woman, you lack the ability to process thoughts is not civil. The person who said, because I am Muslim, I cannot be in this country because I want to destroy Western society is not simple. The person who said, A 10 year old should be forced to carry the child of a rapist. It's not simple. I do believe those of you who are interested in rewriting this hate.
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Host/Announcer
It's Friday the 19th of September in the year of our Lord 2025. President does a one hour signing of executive orders. And over an hour and talking to the press. We'll get to all that. The great Nick Sortor joins us. Nick, I think you're actually over at Turning Point today in Phoenix. You've done amazing reporting on this Drudge. The Mack Daddy on Drudge is AOC as running full out, not simply for the Senate, but for the presidency in 2028. The squad voted unanimously, I think all five of them, against the resolution for Charlie Kirk. But you've done some extraordinary reporting, sir, on Omar of Minneapolis. What do you have for us? Your tweet is on fire right now. What do you got?
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Steve Bannon
I mean, look, I don't know if you saw this yesterday, Steve, but Ilhan Omar, after all of these comments that she's made about Charlie Kirk, you know, we're trying to figure out exactly why. Why could she be upset about that? And the answer is it's because Charlie was right. She actually did commit immigration fraud. We have the proof here that Ilhan Omar actually did marry her brother. These are records that are untouched records from the state of Minneapolis that proves it. Okay. At this point in time, I don't see there being any reason that the DOJ shouldn't start the process of revoking Omar's citizenship. It's all right here and proves what we've been saying all along. She Married her brother. That's immigration fraud. All with the intention of coming to the United States.
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Host/Announcer
So, Nick, just explain to the audience, we've put your tweet up and we're going to blow this clip out. But what actually do you have? What does it say? And is it an official government document?
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Steve Bannon
Yes, it is. It's taken straight from Hennepin county in the state of Minnesota. And the man listed on the form, nobody disputes this at this point. They're trying to. That. That is her brother's name that is listed on that document alongside hers, saying that they are legally married. And that was in an effort to. To bring for her and her brother to come to the United States illegally. And then they divorced later, saying that they had irreconcilable differences. And I guess, you know, that's. That's probably because it was her freaking brother. So, look, this is more than just a talking point, Steve. There's actually substance here. There's proof for it. And, you know, she. She's upset. Now, I've got plenty of things. I was looking back to see what Charlie Kirk had actually said about her and said. He called her the inbrate pretty frequently. Said, quote, ilhan Omar openly admits that she's fighting for Somalia's interests, not America's. That's openly clear. Look, I don't know if they, you know, murdering your political opponents is acceptable in Jack, Pakistan or wherever she's from, but maybe she needs to go back there. That's what she wants.
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Donald Trump
So, Nick, can you hang?
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Host/Announcer
We're gonna take a short commercial break. I need you to hang because last time we talked to you, you were in the lobby of the Kennedy center getting ready for the prayer vigil. Now you're actually out Turning point. It looks like the memorial, the spontaneous memorial. I want to get your feedback on that. But real quick question. Why has this not been acted upon? If Nick Sorter's got this document, why have we not acted upon this in the first Trump administration? Or just DHS just act upon this at all? Why has this been left to fester?
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Steve Bannon
Honestly, I think in the first Trump administration, they were taking fire from too many angles, and it just wasn't a top priority at the time. But now we have the mandate, we have the backing, and right now there's no better time to do it, because the remarks, the gross remarks that she is making, glorifying the death of an American hero that the vast majority of Americans have a positive opinion on, and the vast amount are looking at a loss for the United states, this is the time to do it. Because the majority of people will totally understand at this point. It doesn't look like it's just an attack on her for being an immigrant. There's, there's a political will to back it up at this point.
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Host/Announcer
Yeah, Nick, just hang on for one second. Nick Sorter is at the compound, the campus of Turning Point, usa. It's absolutely magnificent in Phoenix, Arizona. Short commercial break. Nick Sorter on the other side. A lot of other surprises for you. Stick around. We're gonna be on. Hey, we're human. All too human. I don't always eat healthy. You don't always eat healthy. That's why doctors created Field of Greens. A delicious glass of Field of Greens daily is like nutritional armor for your body. Each fruit and each vegetable was doctor selected for a specific health benefit. There's a heart health group, lungs and kidney groups, metabolism, even healthy weight. I love the energy boost I get with Field of Greens. But most of all, I love the confidence that even if I have a cheat day or wait for it a burger, I can enjoy it guilt free because of Field of Greens. It's the nutrition my body needs daily. And only Field of Greens makes you this better health promise. Your doctor will notice your improved health or your money back. Let me repeat that. Your doctor will notice your improved health or your money back. Let me get you started with my special discount. I got you 20% off your first order. Just use code Bannon B A N N o n@fieldofgreens.com that's Code Bannon@feelagreens.com 20% off. And if your doctor doesn't know how healthy you look and feel, you get a full money back guarantee. Fillegreens. Com Code Bannon. Do it today.