Episode 4985: Live Coverage From Trump's Rally In Mt. Poco

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Episode 4985: Live Coverage From Trump's Rally In Mt. Poco
Date: December 9, 2025
Host: Steve Bannon
Location: Mount Airy Casino, Poconos, Pennsylvania

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Overview

This episode broadcasts live from President Donald Trump’s rally near Scranton, Pennsylvania, at the Mount Airy Casino. Steve Bannon and a range of guests—including local officials, former military personnel, entrepreneurs, and Trump administration figures—provide commentary and analysis on Trump’s economic platform, local and national political strategy, and key issues like trade, energy, inflation, and artificial intelligence. The focus is on the significance of Northeastern Pennsylvania as a political bellwether and the Biden vs. Trump economic legacies.

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Key Themes & Discussion Points

1. Scranton’s Symbolic and Strategic Significance

• Scranton is positioned as a critical bellwether for Pennsylvania—a swing state—and by extension, the nation. It’s framed as a cross-section of American demographics and economic interests.
  • Steve Bannon: “Scranton’s one of those bellwethers... Pennsylvania is a swing state and a bellwether state.” [05:19]
• The “Joe from Scranton” narrative is derided as inauthentic, with Bannon arguing that Biden’s ties to Delaware are more representative of corporate interests.
  • Steve Bannon: “He spent a minute there when he was born, really from Delaware, the corporate box.” [05:43]

2. Trump’s Economic Platform and “The Big Beautiful Bill”

• Trump is personally traveling the country to pitch his economic package, promoting tax cuts (notably for overtime and tips), tariffs to bring back manufacturing, and energy dominance.
• Emphasis on the newly-passed legislation making overtime pay tax-free for first responders and working families.
  • Kyle Kashik, first responder: “Making overtime tax-free helps us stretch our paychecks further at a time when everything feels more expensive.” [04:18]
• Return of capital investment and manufacturing jobs is a key promise, with large-scale encouragement for plant and equipment upgrades.
  • Steve Bannon: “He’s going to make America great again by bringing back manufacturing jobs... get capital invested... give attractive tax benefits.” [11:36]

3. Trade, Tariffs, and the Battle Against Deficits

• Tariffs are framed as engines of domestic production and national security rather than inflationary drivers.
  • Steve Bannon: “Tariffs are a forcing function to drive manufacturing back... If you don’t bring your manufacturing back to the United States, you’ll pay a tariff.” [08:52]
• Ongoing efforts to negotiate substantial international investment in the U.S. as a way to offset years of trade deficits and deindustrialization.

4. Inflation, Interest Rates & the “Three I’s”

• The debate homes in on inflation, interest rates, and immigration as the main drivers making life unaffordable under Biden ("Bidenflation").
  • Brian Glenn: “Biden and his auto pen were the chief architects of the worst inflation... in a generation.” [34:47]
  • Brian Glenn: "The third I that drove the cost of living crisis under Biden was inflation..." [39:27]
• Optimism is expressed that Trump’s policies—lowering taxes, raising wages, and deregulation—are already producing a “blue collar boom.”
  • Brian Glenn: “We are witnessing a blue collar boom, with real wages for blue collar workers... increasing at one of the fastest rates in the last half century.” [37:21]

5. Energy Independence & Local Economic Revival

• Pennsylvania’s natural gas and coal reserves are touted as foundations for national energy independence and local economic revival.
  • Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy: “The anthracite coal from this region launched America to the country we are today.” [31:22]
  • Ernie Priet: “We could be the energy capital of the whole world. All we have to do is build the ships to take it over to Europe.” [21:39]

6. Congressional and Political Stakes

• The importance of holding two key Pennsylvania congressional seats in 2026 is emphasized in order to maintain a Republican majority and push reforms.
  • Ernie Priet: “You only have a two vote lead in the House and if we don't have that, you're not going to get anything in the way of reform done.” [25:17]

7. AI Policy and Tech Rivalry with China

• The Genesis Mission for U.S. AI leadership is discussed alongside state-level efforts to regulate and safeguard against AI abuses.
  • Chris Wright: “Major initiative... for the United States to lead in AI to, to maintain our global superiority. Military, technology, economic—AI is going to be transformative for our country.” [30:34]
• Warnings against U.S. technological dependency on China, and arguments for tighter controls and the prevention of technology and know-how transfers.
  • Steve Bannon: “You cut them off from equity capital, you cut them off from debt capital, you cut them off from all the capital markets in the United States... Who does that? Would the Chinese do that for us? No, they wouldn't.” [46:12]

8. Entrepreneurial Challenges & Small Business Resilience

• High interest rates, inflation, and shipping costs remain challenges for small businesses. Resilience, support for American-made products, and tax relief (via Trump’s economic policies) are presented as solutions.
  • Catherine O’Neill, entrepreneur: “It’s tough, but we have a really incredible dedicated team. And I think good employees go a long way for a business.” [49:52]
  • Michael Lindell: “One of the biggest things... is get the price of diesel down... if the president can do anything... it’s going to help the whole economy.” [53:46]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Steve Bannon (Opening): “This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going... medieval on these people.” [00:02]
• Kyle Kashik: “Knowing now that this work isn’t going to be taxed, well, that really goes a long way.” [03:56]
• Ernie Priet: “We got all the gas in the world that we need here with the Marcellus Shale... we could be the energy capital of the whole world.” [21:39]
• Brian Glenn: “Donald Trump stood above the endless stream of illegal immigration, yelling, stop.” [36:29]
• Brian Glenn: “Thanks to his one big beautiful bill, Americans are taking home more of their hard earned income... no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security and deductibility of auto loans for American made cars.” [41:52]
• Chris Wright: “The anthracite coal from this region launched America to the country we are today.” [31:22]
• Steve Bannon: “Tariffs... are a forcing function to drive manufacturing back here to the United States from international companies in other countries.” [08:52]
• Chris Wright: “AI is going to be transformative for our country. And we cannot be second behind China.” [30:34]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [00:53] – Introduction, Rally context, Scranton’s political symbolism
• [03:10] – Kyle Kashik on tax-free overtime for first responders
• [05:01] – Discussion of Pennsylvania congressional races
• [07:13] – Trump’s economic sales pitch, policy discussion
• [08:52] – Trade, tariffs, and manufacturing focus
• [19:22] – Ernie Priet on military reunions, PA energy and farming, political registration shift
• [22:44] – Importance of Scranton as an American “cross section”
• [25:17] – House races and political stakes
• [34:39] – Brian Glenn: Bidenflation, immigration, and the “three I’s”
• [41:52] – Glenn details tax relief and wage growth under Trump
• [46:04] – Bannon discusses state/federal tensions in AI regulation
• [49:52] – Catherine O’Neill on entrepreneurship challenges
• [53:46] – Michael Lindell on small business, shipping, and economic relief

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Conclusion

Episode 4985 presents a broad, fiery defense of Trump-era and Trump 2024-25 economic policy, linking macroeconomic trends to local realities in Pennsylvania. Through policy analysis, local testimonials, and strategic commentary, the War Room frames this rally and the broader national moment as a turning point—presenting Trump as the architect of an emerging “golden age economy,” with Pennsylvania poised at the heart of America’s political and economic future.

Transcript

[Steve Bannon]

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going.

Medieval on these people.

There's not got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people.

The people have had a belly full of it.

I know you don't like hearing that.

I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that.

But you're not going to stop it.

It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

Ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose?

If that answer is to save my.

[Ernie Priet]

Country, this country will be saved.

[Steve Bannon]

War room here's your host, Stephen K. Band.

Okay, welcome. It's Tuesday the 9th of December in the year of our Lord 2025 year. Looking there right there at the Mount Airy Casino. It's the Poconos can see but outside Scranton, Pennsylvania. Why is Scranton so important folks how many times we go over this. Remember the 2020 election the rumps in 2020 we did all the analysis of. You know he was Joe from Scranton. Remember that? Remember that lie? I'm Joe from Scranton. This is how they tried to make Biden a populist. It's a guy from Delaware, the corporate capital of America. Wilmington, Delaware. You never heard that. They would never allow that to be talked about.

In the 2020 campaign Scranton was everything we used to do analysis. We had people up there. Same in 2024. Scranton's one of those bellwethers that we doing the national anthem right now. We go. I see people standing. Is that maybe my glasses aren't good enough. If we have audio. As soon as we have audio I want to hear the national anthem and all that. Can we go? Do we have it?

Okay.

That's the audio.

Don't think so. Anyway let's see if we can.

We missed the national anthem.

Okay. Right there. President's going to go. Very cramped, jam packed. If you saw earlier massive trout to get in here. We'll go to the stage as soon as they're going to have some pregame. Scott Bessant is there the Secretary of Treasury ERNIE PRIET the 80s some year. Can I still get some ambient noise? Let's go ahead and do it.

[Brian Glenn]

From please welcome local first responder Kyle Kashik.

[Kyle Kashik]

Good evening northeastern Pennsylvania. My name is Kyle. Am I proud to be here tonight. I am a born and raised Pennsylvanian working as a police officer and volunteer firefighter. Just 10 minutes away from my childhood Home in Luzerne County.

As a police officer, I work a lot of overtime. For some people, overtime is optional, but for first responders, overtime is a reality of the job. Communities depend on us to be there in a crisis, whether it happens at Sunday at 3pm or Tuesday at 3am I am proud of the work I do and I'm happy to do it, but the hours could take a toll. But knowing now that this work isn't going to be taxed, well, that really goes a long way. Congressman Bresnahan helped pass the historic legislation President Trump signed that is going to put more money in the pockets of street wall working families and first responders like me.

Making overtime tax free helps us stretch our paychecks further at a time when everything feels more expensive. The extra money in my pocket is going towards putting down roots, buying a house.

[Steve Bannon]

We're going to have some. We're going to have some pregame.

[Kyle Kashik]

I really feel supported by this policy.

[Steve Bannon]

We're going to have.

Okay, thank you. We're going to have some pregame. We've got many moving parts here. Thank you to Congressman Brian Glenn is actually with the President. We're trying to get some helicopter shots. I think the President's arriving and of course the President is going to obviously, when he gets there, as we go, take you through these. Can we just take that down just one more notch? There we go. Thank you. I'm going to produce, direct and star in this today.

We've also got Ernie Prietz going to join as soon as he gets up on the riser. Brian Glenn's around. We're going to get up on the riser. There's going to be some talks beforehand, some commentary from local congressmen. Remember, there are two congressional seats in play up here. Scranton is obviously very important.

Geostrategically, when you talk about national elections. It's kind of a bellwether. Pennsylvania is a swing state and a bellwether state. And of course, Scranton has a strong America first following of the president. Biden was able to steal it, remember mail in ballots in 2020. But they made a big deal about Joe Biden being the populist from Scranton.

Populist.

Joe from Scranton, I think he spent a minute there when he was born, really from Delaware, the corporate box, the president today. And you saw in the background, when we go back to the shot, the establishing shot, I'll show you, they've got a phrase in the background about making prices lower, making prices affordable. Two things that this is going to talk about today. One is Obviously affordability. But you don't want to walk into that trap because you have cumulative inflation under Biden at 21% going to be very, very difficult to basically get those prices down. Even with President Trump's full spectrum energy dominance. Other things he's doing on the supply chain, direct action, he's taken presidential action. It is possible to stop the rate of inflation or to get that down. I think that's what the Secretary of Treasury, Scott Bessant, is working on with the president. The other part, as we continue to say, I think the much bigger payoff, particularly if you look at the Secretary of Treasury, what he's telling us is that the big beautiful bill, the supply side tax cut plus the trade in tariffs with what do we have there? Is that, is that Ernie? Oh, is that the president? Let's go and, let's go and cut to that. What do we have there? Is that the, is that the helicopter? There we go right there.

Okay, that's the. We took Air Force One up there. Now we've taken the helicopter. Helicopter in.

Okay, that's at the local airport. Flown in there many, many times. Crowd the meeting. President Trump. There we go, right there.

Our own Brian Glenn is with him and we'll get a report. Let's go ahead and come back to me.

We'll get to Brian Glenn as soon as we get him up on traveling with the president today, this economic speech, President has made a decision to. President Trump is saying, hey, I've heard a lot of people talk and you know, I'm not paying enough attention. Domestic, I'm going to go on the road and sell this myself. President Trump, I think, feels that he's the best salesman for his economic program. A big part of the sales, the sales pitch today is to focus on what's happened on the big beautiful bill, particularly on the investment side, the capital investment that bring back manufacturing jobs. Obviously Pennsylvania, in the Scranton area being around a manufacturing hub. This is very, very important. The write off President Trump has given people, the depreciation President Trump has given people.

The other is tariff and trade. They're trying to blame inflation on tariffs. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Tariffs are generating, I think, quite frankly, very surprising returns to Treasury. Scott Besson will tell you that. But that's not the purpose of the tariffs. The tariffs are a forcing function to drive manufacturing back here to the United States from international companies in other countries. If you don't bring your manufacturing back to the United States, you'll pay a tariff, you'll pay a tolling fee to get access to the most lucrative consumer market in the world. It's just pretty straightforward. Those are two massive bets. We, for 50 or 60 years we've allowed trade and manufacturing, or really manufacturing to atrophy. And therefore we've had these massive trade deficits. And people on Wall street and the elites just laughed at Lou Dobbs and others, Peter Navarro, myself and others that talk about trade deficits and how big I think the trade deficit is something like $24 trillion right now. And how they laugh that, oh, that's just an accounting convention. It's not accounting convention. That all has to be financed. If you have negative trade balances, somehow you got to finance the purchases from the American people. So that's basically your resources going out and stuff coming in. You've got to, you've got to balance that. It's, it's very logical. It's fought all the time by Wall Street. Wall street hates to talk about it. President Trump is the first to really talk about it and this time in his second term, he had the opportunity to do something about it. Now he's getting a full on volley from the haters every day. The economists, the business types that hate fair trade and want to go back to the system that we were just ripped off all the time. President Trump, in the national security memorandum, they just put it on Friday, talked about it. It's the first time really, as we've said before, you focus on your trade and deficits along with your national security. In NATO we pay, essentially we underwrite their security. And on all the trade deals over there, we were upside down, particularly as they, as they negotiate a lot. Just on the whole year for the eu, we were upside down and upside down with different nations and particularly on different things, whether it's cars in Germany or other manufactured goods that were made throughout the rest of Europe. President Trump says we're not going to do that anymore. We're going to get a trade deal that's going to help balance what we do. And paying for your national security. And this national security memo they put out on Thursday night, Friday morning, he said, hey, look, here's the problem. We don't even know. We have no idea who's going to be in charge in 30 years because we look at, or 20 or 30 years because you look at what's happening to your countries, we look at this flood of illegal migration. He said again to Dasha Burns on political and it has the entire European group with their heads blown up. President Trump, that's why he's going to Scranton today kicks off at least an end of year and you're going to see it next year at the beginning of the year. President Trump going on the road and explaining to the American people in very straightforward language, here's what I've done economically. He gave him, he gave himself a grade this morning for the economy of A plus plus plus plus and like I said, reporters talk to me. How could Trump do that? I said, listen, he is the architect. He's the architect of this economic plan. Scott Bessant and others Navarro are kind of the engineers to come in and help execute on his plan. But his plan is very straightforward. He's going to make America great again by bringing back manufacturing jobs to the United States. How's he going to do that? He's going to get capital invested in the United States. He's going to give quite frankly very attractive tax benefits to companies that will invest now and invest in plant and equipment for high value added manufacturing jobs. In addition, on the world's commercial relationships and these trade deals he will go is from Liberation Day, I think to April until today have teams, you know, Howard Lutnick leading some.

Jameson Greer the trade rep heading others, Scott Besson, Secretary treasury, really working on the China deal to head those to make sure that he's trying to negotiate as rapidly as possible, not over a number of years, but within 10 months to a year. Trade deals that then give countries an option. If you're going to invest here in the United States, you can avoid the tariffs. If you're not going to invest in the United States, that's fine, but you're going to pay a different tariff structure for different categories of goods and service. Now, President Trump came keeps pointing to $18 trillion that's been agreed to to come and invest if even a trillion dollars that spent in the first part of next year, you're going to have an economic boom like this country's never seen before. And you've had the corporations taking advantage of the tax benefits of the big beautiful bill, not the, you know, not billionaires getting tax cuts, companies incentivized to invest in plant equipment that workers today and in future generations are going to have a great, great opportunity to really work in what America's best at high value added manufacturing. Of course, now we're into this whole situation with artificial intelligence. President Trump, who sees it one way is looking at at least as he's briefed by Jensen Huang and these people that the United States will dominate not just with us having these chips, but With China actually having chips also now, there's a lot of people that beg to differ with that that we're going to have. Michael. So, so from the Hudson Institute next hour, we're going to walk through details of what the Chinese Communist Party has been up to. So there's a lot of questions there. Anyway, the President United States is in Scranton, Pennsylvania and he is going to give an economic speech. Scott Best, the Secretary of treasury is up there. Our own Alexander Pre, Brian Glenn, entire crew from Real America's Voice. Back in a moment.

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[Ernie Priet]

Well, thank you very much, Steve, for having me back on. And yeah, we had our 250th anniversary, the Marine Corps birthday, November 10th, and we celebrated in Philadelphia with my Mike 37 Combat Unit from Vietnam, which I was a second lieutenant in. And we had a great reunion and was attended by several generals who were from, from our company that made it to the higher ranks, Lieutenant General Paul VanRiper and Brigadier General Tom Droughty. And the Marine Corps is in a state of flux right now. And so we're trying to keep it to be the fighting force that it's always been for America, preserving the sacred honor of this country.

[Steve Bannon]

It seems like every time they come to a budget, the Marine Corps is always in flux. So we'll make sure we have the Marine Corps back in this. What was the general temper or take of the men that you served within Vietnam and gave so much in Vietnam about the state of the country today as they see it, or Bernie?

[Ernie Priet]

Well, the state of the country back then was we got home and nobody even wanted to talk to us. They spit on us. But now they want to talk to Vietnam veterans because they seem like they have a lot of sense and went through a lot of hard times and sacrificed so much. We one of the, you know, 68,000 people were killed in the armed forces over there. And so it was, was not an insignificant battle for us. But today, the energy that we're seeing in America is because of President Trump. We're seeing Republicans, for example, registering Democrats in Pennsylvania enormously. We're almost tied with them now. This is three years ago. We're 800,000 down. Now we're almost even. The other thing that's important about Pennsylvania is that we got farmers here. And that farm bill is really important to us. We needed to get that soybeans out there. We need to get that sorghum out to China. And that was accomplished by President Trump and Secretary Besant, who was doing a terrific job in negotiating with the Chinese. The next thing we know is we've got all the gas in the world that we need here with the Marcellus Shale, the Utica Shale that's right there, we could be the energy capital of the whole world. And all we have to do is build the ships to take it over to Europe. And that's what we're going to try to do. That's what Scott Besant did. He got the South Koreans to agree to use the Philadelphia Naval base as a reconstruction base for the building of these LNG tankers, they have a whole convoy like we had in World War II, going over to Europe and just think about that. You re energize the South Philadelphia Naval base and you make it the greatest naval base on the east coast. And it will be the center point for bringing natural gas from Pennsylvania over to Europe and save them from the Soviets. That's all. There are important things that we do that the President has done here in this country.

[Steve Bannon]

Well, talk to us about Scranton. Why does everybody focus on Scranton? As you remember in 20, 2016, when we were going to pierce the blue walls, Scranton was one of the places that we focused on. We kind of caught Clinton and them by surprise because they didn't focus on Scranton. In 2020, everybody focused on Scranton. It was the number one place people looked at. Joe Biden made up this big legacy that he was Joe from Scranton, et cetera. Why is Scranton, Pennsylvania so important?

[Ernie Priet]

Well, Scranton's important because it's a cross section of America. If you know you can sell it in Scranton, you can sell it anywhere. But the important thing is here that we got people who are people who are poor and we have people who are rich and we have people in between. And it's a, it's a good rural suburban area. And it's important or as a bellwether as to what's going to happen in the economy right now. We're still a little suffering here. We still got prices too high. The president's trying to address that. We still got gas prices a little bit too high. Still got to address that. So got inflation. And the biggest thing is we still have interest rates that are too high. And I hope the Federal Reserve tomorrow gets attacked in gear and gets a cut side, starts cutting those interest rates so we can sell more homes, more people can buy mortgages.

[Steve Bannon]

What's the general temper of voters right now in Pennsylvania, particularly people that supported President Trump? How do they think we're doing?

[Ernie Priet]

Well, Trump is. Trump is in a flux right now because he's made a lot of promises. He's trying to deliver, he's working to get them delivered, making these trade agreements all over the world, including with the Chinese. So we get those magnets to work, our rare earth minerals, those are important for us. And we have to have the people recognize that what he's doing to try to bring peace to the world is significant for humanity. And it's been very difficult because he's doing so much. All these other things that he's accomplishing get lost in the details and people don't recognize it. But.

Next year, the most important thing I want to get across is this next year the big beautiful bill kicks in, all the no taxes and the reduced taxes and most the other thing is this, is that people forget about that. There's a lot of refunds going to be coming back in the first quarter of this coming year and that's going to be a tremendous stimulus to the economy. And so you've got to have the big beautiful bill going into effect and you're going to have the, the refunds coming back to people as a stimulus and you're going to have these trade agreements kicking in. And so by the second term, second quarter of this coming year, we're going to be, we're going to be roaring. This country is going to be exploding and that's what President Trump is in, he's in it for the long haul.

[Steve Bannon]

Ernie, this is also president's going up because there's two congressional districts up there that are vitally important for us to hold the House. Can you give us your assessment of the, of the House race in Pennsylvania in 2026?

[Ernie Priet]

Rob Bresnahan is a great congressman and Dan Music the great congressman up here, he got a good congressman down here in the area around Mount Pocono. So yeah, we have to keep those seats. You only have a two vote lead in the House and if we don't have that, you're not going to get anything in the way of reform done. Everything gets stalled. So you got to win those races and they're very competitive, they're very strong candidates and they know how to win. They've proven that they know how to win. We got a, we got a congressman down in the York and area that's Scott Perry that's in a big fight right now and he is, we got to support these people so to make sure that they get elected so that we keep the majority in the House. Now there's some redistricting going on in other states, Illinois, Texas and all of that. That's important too. But the Californians are going to balance that. So because it's a, it's, it's the, it's the bread and butter state that Pennsylvania is the Keystone State that you got to rely on to produce the winner. And the winner is going to be President Trump and American economy in the mayor for the American people.

[Steve Bannon]

Ernie, you've been an attorney General, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. You know how tough that job is. What would be your advice to Pam Bondi and others? We got about a Minute I want to hold you through the break. Pam Bondi and others about going after the deep state. People are chomping a bit. They want to see some arrests, they want to see some prosecutions. What's your advice?

[Ernie Priet]

Well, I think the world of Pam Bond and she's a great, great attorney general down in Florida and it's a very effective spokesperson for the, the law and order folks in, in America and she's got some good people working for her and I, I, I think that she's, give her, you kind of give her a chance. My God, she's only been in there six months and you know, you make sure that you get your, your people lined up and then you can start to do the thing that, that you need to have accomplished for the law and order and the war on drugs. I mean, I'm sorry, but I just tell you this. You're traveling, you're taking drugs from South America to America. Shoot them out, shoot them out of the water. I mean if we're going to have a war on drugs, that's, that's what it means. You got to stop the people that are bringing the killing substances to America.

[Steve Bannon]

Maybe you'll be a deterrence to turn. Ernie, are you on social media? Are you on social media?

[Ernie Priet]

No, I'm not. No, I'm not. I'm just Ernie, pre aid lawyer and lawyer in Scranton and.

I'm so, I'm. Hey Steve, I'm 85 years old.

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[Michael Lindell]

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[Chris Wright]

President Trump signed the Genesis mission. This is a major initiative for the United States to lead an AI to, to maintain our global superiority. Military, technology, economic AI is going to be transformative for our country. And we cannot be second behind China. A Biden administration or a Harris administration would guarantee we could not lead an AI because we'd be short of energy. We'd have inflation problems racking our country. We'd have blackouts across the country. Today, today, President Trump has stopped the closure of coal plants.

The anthracite coal from this region launched America to the country we are today. Think about that. And the Biden administration did everything they could to crush coal generated electricity, coal mining, coal exports to the world. Coal opportunity total and destructive nonsense. Under President Trump, we have record high oil production, record high natural gas production. Soon we will start to see downward pressure on electricity prices. And let me end I must.

[Michael Lindell]

Yes.

[Chris Wright]

I take the that as a sign that everyone prefers lower electricity prices over higher electricity prices.

[Steve Bannon]

That's Chris Wright, that's Chris Wright, the, that's our secretary of energy. Remember when they talk about the, the shale fields up there is that Pennsylvania and part of New York are the Saudi Arabia natural gas. We just got on with it. You've got unlimited natural gas. There's.

Silver, threw 60 bucks a ounce today. Pretty amazing. Gold on fire. Financial markets in turbulence. And of course tomorrow I think the Fed's going to talk about rate cuts and this will be Powell's the last hurrah for Powell, the destruction he's done. And obviously everybody in the know says they completely miscalculate the interest rates over there. So he's been as President Trump says, too late. Powell but that'll be tomorrow. President Trump is up going to give his economic speech. I think running a little late, but he is going to have Scott Besson, Secretary of Energy rights there speaking right now. Birch Gold. Go over there. The key things to get to Philip Patrick, birchgold.com, promo code Bannon get to Birch. You get access to Philip Patrick and his team and all the information, tons of free information. You have no obligation, none, zero. They want to make sure that you understand what you're doing and then when you get into precious metals that you're in for the long haul and they can explain it all to you. I think we started with them goal was a thousand bucks an ounce or eleven hundred dollars an ounce. Wanted to make sure that we had a program that people that didn't major in economics in college or didn't major in finance could understand. It would be accessible. As we say they can learn and you can learn as you go. And I think it's been quite successful today. Make sure you go and get all the information. Birch Colt and Philip Patrick comes on the show at least once a week to talk to us, talk about what's happening at capital markets. So make sure that you, that you, that you go check it out. Check it out. Today, Scott Besant. Let's go back to the main stage. Secretary Treasury Scott Bessant.

[Chris Wright]

On your chest.

[Ernie Priet]

You can beat the world. We can beat the war.

[Michael Lindell]

Good.

[Brian Glenn]

And thank you all. It's good to be back in Pennsylvania. I hear Scranton is sleepy, Joe Biden's hometown. But but as far as I can tell, this is Trump country.

Pennsylvanians elected President Trump for a second term because they had had enough of a president who put America last.

Biden and his Biden and his auto pen were the chief architects of the worst inflation Biden inflation in a generation.

His administration made life impossibly expensive for American families through a toxic mix of what I call the three immigration, interest rates, and inflation. Biden's immigration, free for all, was among the greatest abuses of power ever imposed on the American people.

By allowing 10 to 20 million illegal aliens into the country against the will of voters, the last administration stole both jobs and homes from American families. Home prices and rents soared as millions of illegal aliens who were never supposed to be here in the first place competed for housing and wages cratered from the glut of new labor supply. Biden's open borders effectively created a black market in labor that kept wages for working Americans artificially suppressed. Thousands of our own citizens suddenly found themselves out of work or working a job that barely paid the rent. At the same time, they saw their rent costs climbing higher. Why? Because they now had to compete for a limited number of homes against a seemingly unlimited number of illegals. Donald Trump stood above the endless stream of illegal immigration, yelling, stop.

[Michael Lindell]

Stop.

[Brian Glenn]

And this is why Pennsylvania and Americans voted for him in a landslide. President Trump promised to secure the border and return American jobs and homes to American citizens through the largest deportation effort of the century. He has delivered on that promise in every day, every way.

Common sense. Common sense. Simply closing the border. Our President is bringing an end to illegal wage suppression to put American workers first.

And as policies are already bearing fruit, real wages across the country are up 1% on the year, the first time in four years we are witnessing a blue collar boom, with real wages for blue collar workers under President Trump increasing at one of the fastest rates in the last half century, almost in line with with his first term. Thanks.

Thanks to the President's efforts to clean up illegal immigration, he is fixing high home costs as well. Rents have come down significantly. Consider that the average national price of rent has decreased 5% since the peak of Biden's immigration insanity.

We expect average home prices to follow suit as deportations unlock more housing supply. The second eye that made life unbearable for American families under Biden was interest rates, which climbed at an unprecedented rate while he was in office. But President Trump is fixing that too. High interest rates make life more expensive for American families, but they are coming down. Under President Trump, the bond market had its best year, best year since 2020. And if I have anything to say about it, as your nation's top bond salesman, bonds will have another strong year in 2026 as we fight to bring treasury borrowing costs down.

[Kyle Kashik]

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[Brian Glenn]

Lower treasury borrowing costs mean lower mortgage rates, lower car payments, and lower credit card bills, which all translates to Greater buying power for all Americans.

The third eye that drove the cost of of living crisis under Biden was inflation. The previous administration ran up the highest deficit in U.S. history outside of a recession or wartime. As a result, inflation skyrocketed to a 40 year high as Secretary Wright, the highest in his lifetime. In my lifetime, families watched our hard earned savings melt away as prices of consumer goods climbed ever higher. As with immigration, the Biden administration stole from the American people through inflation. Consider that 42%. 42% of inflation under Biden was triggered by his administration's runaway deficit spending. Inflation is the ultimate stealth tax. It's the government's way of spending money it doesn't have and devaluing yours. Biden ran up America's credit card and left all of us here to foot the bill in the form of higher prices and groceries, gasoline, clothes and other goods we depend on. This was just one more reason voters like you elected President Trump. President Trump is stamping out Bidenflation for good. And we fully expect, fully expected to roll down next year. Prices went up under Biden because his central planning policies created scarcity. Scarcity in nearly every sector of the economy from housing and energy to credit and consumer goods. This made inflation even worse than it would have been as a result of deficit spending alone. But where Biden created scarcity, President Trump is creating abundance. Thanks to President Trump's efforts on deregulation, America's businesses are able to build and innovate again. Thanks to his one big beautiful bill, Americans are taking home more of their hard earned income. As a result of no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security and deductibility of auto loans for American made cars. American made cars.

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Insanity.

Our great President is ushering in a golden age economy by making America affordable again. We're grateful to have you with us. And I look forward to forward to the president speaking to all of you this evening. It's great to be with you. Thank you.

[Steve Bannon]

So incredible since Scott started here as.

A contributor, given a speech right there as secretary treasury is fantastic. I think that summarizes it talks about both the affordability issue. It also look at that, lower prices, higher paychecks, bigger paychecks. That's good. Like the messaging, very straightforward. President Trump kicks off his he's going to go around the country and sell his economic plan. He's the best to do it. He realizes that he's going to take Scott Besson on some of these. Secretary Wright, Secretary Energy, all of it. Very, very, very impressive. Do we have the can I play the clip of the president's running a little late. I'm not sure the speech is going to start until 6:30. There'll be some congressmen and other people up. Do we have the clip? Is that ready? Let me go in and play a clip. This about the now the.

The AI amnesty is out of the is out of any of the bills at NDA or any of the must pass or any of the appropriations bill. They're now going to try to craft some sort of executive order. Mike Davis, the Mike Davis, the Viceroy is working with the White House on this. Of course, people have to see what the details are. This is one of the spots. Brendan Stein, Steinhaus made this for the group that he's got. A lot of these are coming out right now as we try to sort out what's happening with the AI amnesty. Let's go ahead and play it.

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[Steve Bannon]

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[Ernie Priet]

I think one of.

[Steve Bannon]

The key things here is you just.

Can'T do these in the dark of night. I mean the David Sacks and the Berlagar completely misses Led the President. This could just be slipped in there. It's going to be easy. It's not. You have to have a discussion, you have to have a debate about this. Clearly it may be a little cumbersome to have these states do this, but in the absence of anything, something's going to fill that vacuum. And so there has to be some discussion at the federal level. Exactly what you're talking about. Also the Genesis mission. Chris Wright there, the Secretary of Energy said, hey, this, we want to have AI dominance naturally, but we have to understand what that dominance is going to be. And if we don't want the Chinese Communist Party to be competitive, there are methods to do that. Number one, you don't let Jensen Wong talk you into selling high end chips. They're a couple of years behind us right now. There's certain aspects, they may be ahead, but if you cut them off from equity capital, you cut them off from debt capital, you cut them off from all the capital markets in the United States, you cut them off to how to build the ecosystem. What I mean by the ecosystem, the training, the know how, the expertise, the knowledge training these Chinese engineers in our own colleges and then have them go back to compete with us. Who does that? Who does that? Would the Chinese do that for us? No, they wouldn't. Would the Chinese ever sell these chips to us if they had and we did? No, they wouldn't. We're going to have one of the experts on next in the next hour to go through this in detail. But this is a debate you have to have. You're just not going to be able to slide it in. And now I hope and I, I think people that are, have a better big picture of this are now talking to the President. I think the executive order supposed to be signed on Friday wasn't. And clearly you want to dominate artificial intelligence on that, there's no question. But you also have to have guardrails for what these institutions, particularly the four frontier labs of Altman and Moscow are doing and what they're doing with your money now, I might add, there's a, there's, it's out today. I've got to verify the math. But they're talking about Space X. And Elmo got all upset that I said, hey, we're going to take 50% of the equity on an $800 billion valuation. Hello. The time at the valuation today and the Starlink is part of it at $1.5 trillion. This is why Jacob Isaac man is now is they're going to go get confirmed as head of NASA. That whole game has been exposed because Elmo Elon's got to have somebody that can sit there and give him almost 100%, I think 97% launch capacity over at NASA. This thing started, it was $5 billion, $50 billion. And look, he's got an AI piece that I'm sure he's got the Starlink piece. We got to break it all down. But they're talking about a valuation of $1.5 trillion. How much of that do you own? How much of this you've been underwriting with government contracts? Think about that for a second. How much do you own? And people say, well, Steve, you can't be a social. I'm not being a socialist. We are actually capitalists. What we don't want this company to devolve into is, wait for it, crony capitalism or state capitalism. Kind of like the Chinese model, kind of like Elon's partners in Tesla, the Chinese Communist Party, the way they rule. So we're going to break all that down, too. We're going to make sure that you have all the facts and all the information so that you can make rational decisions about all this.

Let's go. Do we have Kathryn o'? Neill? Catherine o' Neill joins us. Entrepreneur par. Excellent. Catherine, I understand you're sold out of beef. You're only doing subscriptions. First off, tell us as an entrepreneur, we had Ernie Pre 8 from Scranton. How tough is it right now with interest rates where they are, price costs where they are? How tough is it being an entrepreneur right now?

[Catherine O'Neill]

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[Steve Bannon]

Talk to me about, are you going to do any Christmas special at all? Can you do any Christmas specials, given the fact that beef is tough to come by now? And by the way, the subscription people that the Warren posse love it so much they signed up for the subscriptions. So you haven't had any spot beef to sell, ma'?

[Michael Lindell]

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[Steve Bannon]

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[Steve Bannon]

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[Catherine O'Neill]

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[Steve Bannon]

American beef for American carnivores. How about. That's a good tagline. I'll talk to you about that one later. Catherine o', Neal, you're hammering it, man. Thank you so much.

[Catherine O'Neill]

Thanks, Steve. Great to see you.

[Steve Bannon]

I'm have Catherine on next week and talk about how you get the subscription line. Now you got to line up to get the subscriptions. I told people that was going to happen. The beef is that good over at Meriwether. Mike Lindell, the president is in Scranton. He's running a little late. You have a lot of big name personages. Get up on that stage and talk about the economy. What's your sense? You're one of the top entrepreneurs in this country. Your sense of it. And what do you got for the Warren posse to get access to to cut their costs on the Christmas gift, sir?

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[Ernie Priet]

Thank you, Michael.

[Steve Bannon]

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