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Episode 5105: Live From Minneapolis; Trump Makes Announcement On Substance Abuse In America
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Steve Bannon
Worried Minneapolis could become Fort Sumter, a reference to the first shots filed in the Civil War. And right now, Mayor Jacob Fry is in Washington speaking about Minneapolis. Let's listen.
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Jacob Frey
Political position that differs from that of a federal administration. We've seen this kind of conduct in other countries. We cannot see it right here in America. This is not a Democratic or Republican issue. Never once have I made this partisan. This is a foundational principle of making sure that the endurance of our republic can continue on. It may seem like I'm talking too much on the macro level, or maybe this is a concerning thing to say, but I got to tell you, we're seeing it in our streets right now. And it is up to each and every one of us to partner together, to work together to protect those ideals that we hold firm. The power of the federal government is awesome. The military force that they have, they got tanks, they got bazookas. They can lay siege on American cities with thousands of agents and even troops far outnumbering that of local police department in Minneapolis. We've heard them say that they will end this siege when we hand over voter rolls. We've seen them attack and invade, not just with this occupation, but also with the Department of Justice being used as a weapon. They're investigating me and several other local elected officials not because we've done something wrong, but because we have exhibited one of the core responsibilities that both I and you have as mayors. And that is the core and foundational responsibility to speak on behalf of your constituents.
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Steve Bannon
Why can he not let 2020 go?
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Political Analyst
Well, because if he lets 2020 go, it undermines his entire narrative to his people, his base, that he has been cheated, that he has been the victim of this grand conspiracy of Democrats and never trump Republicans who have been out to get him for more than a decade. At this point, he is pursuing so many different ways of trying to prove this overarching worldview of his, including investigations of the investigations that had to go through, including firing any FBI agents or prosecutors who worked on the January 6th cases. So many different ways. You point out a lot of them in the intro to enforce his version of reality, so that the history books somehow remember that he actually was elected three times instead of twice. Now, there's no reason to believe that is ever going to be proven, at least to the satisfaction of anybody other than his core supporters. But he has determined, he has discovered that the more he says something, no matter how untrue, no matter how many times his own people have told him is not true, if he says it enough times, and he says it with passion. A lot of his own supporters tend to believe him.
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Steve Bannon
What is Tulsa Gabbard doing there?
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Ken Paxson
So she hasn't said, Katie, but what I can tell you is she's not there at the invitation of the FBI. This is the FBI's case. They convinced a judge that there was probable cause to conduct a court ordered search. So there's some evidence that exists that they got in front of a judge. But Tulsi Gabbard, she's the spy chief, right? Her mandate is foreign intelligence matters. It's worth noting that Fulton county was sort of in the middle of, and involved in some of the more bizarre conspiracy theories about foreign involvement in the 2020 election, including that, you know, votes were switched via satellite from Italy and that China and Venezuela were somehow infiltrating and switching ballots through cyber means. All of that has been clearly debunked by the very US Intelligence agencies that Tulsi Gabbard is now supervising. And so it really remains to be seen why she's there. What she's going to say this, but it does make people wonder whether at least she believes or is trying to suggest that there's some evidence that there is some foreign involvement here that she's trying to expose. Certainly Donald Trump has never, has never stopped saying that. And, and it's just giving a lot of people pause.
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Steve Bannon
Ken, is it legal for the FBI to raid an elections office, a state elections office? States run their own elections.
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Ken Paxson
Yeah. Well, this is a criminal investigation, though. And as I said, they've gotten a judge to sign off on a court ordered search. That happens all the time. And there's no prohibition just because it's an election office. If they have evidence that there was evidence of a crime committed in amid those ballots, they must have something. They have some evidence that they convinced an independent magistrate, remember, not part of the FBI, to grant this warrant. What that is remains to be seen because that warrant and that affidavit supporting it are under seal. And so we don't know exactly what the justification was. And it had to have been new evidence, right? Not something that was around in 2020, but something they've just developed. And again, whether this becomes a criminal case, you know, we're a long way from that. The FBI conducts searches all the time, and then nothing happens as a result of it. It certainly is troubling, as you heard, that local officials say, because we have a very clear separation in this country. As you said, states and localities run their own elections, even presidential elections. The Federal government has no role in that. And so here they are with a very heavy handed move. They need to explain it.
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Katherine Burgum
But Peter, how are we still talking about this?
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Steve Bannon
How are we still talking about this? Why does he care anymore? I mean, he won again. He's president right now. Why does he have to go back? Why can't he just let it go?
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Political Analyst
Well, I think he was radicalized in some ways in the last four years, the four years before he came back to office. You know, he became of course indicted four times, convicted of 34 felonies, found liable in civil court for business fraud, for sexual abuse and so on. And I think that, you know, he is out to use this term in office to get back at everybody that he thinks wronged him. And that includes the people that he argues somehow in some mysterious way stole the election from him. And you're right, you would think that he haven't won, could move on, but that's just not his style. He wants to go back and find something, anything he can hang a hat on and say, see, I was right and everybody else is wrong.
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Jacob Frey
We gotta hold rock solid. We cannot back down. Our cities, our mayors are what will hold this democracy together. Thank you so much.
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Steve Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Christians, I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people 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 country, this country will be saved.
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Stephen K. Bannon
War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Banner.
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Steve Bannon
It's Thursday 29th January, year of our Lord 2026. Thank you for joining us for the late afternoon, early evening edition of the War Room. Of course, at 6 o' clock we're going to have War Room Texas. Please stick around for that because we have Ken Pax and I, we're going to talk about this Muslim invasion of, of Texas and the effort to remove Sharia law, ban Sharia law in Texas, which is spreading throughout the country. We want everybody to be a part of that. Ben Berkram joins us from the very cold streets of Minneapolis. Ben, before I get into what's happened today with Homan, etc, since you've been our wingman and quite frankly, been the tip of the spear in going to Arizona and Georgia and all that. Please inform. It wasn't Nicole Wallace. I think it was Katie Tur. President Trump understands that the biggest crime in the history of this country would be the stealing of a presidential election and putting essentially a coup and putting in somebody who didn't win. Biden didn't win. They are so upset that Cash Patel and the FBI went yesterday and seized the document, seized the 528,000 votes. All the other documents they collected, well, or if they still exist, have been destroyed. Plus Tulsi Gabbard is down there. Obviously, there's an intelligence and national security aspect of this also. Ben, your thoughts? Can you please inform MSNBC and their contributors why the 2020 election is important? Sir?
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Ben Berkwam
Yeah, look, if we don't get that right, we don't have a country. If you don't have borders and you don't have sovereign elections, then you don't have a country. And that's clearly why they don't want it investigated. It's why they didn't want it investigated in 2020. And they've done everything they can to not have it investigated. This idea that, oh, well, he won again, let's just move on from it. Well, there are people that need to be in prison for a very long time that you do not move on from. If they're, if they're allowed to get away with 2020, there is nothing stopping them from doing it in 2028 or in 2032 or in any other election coming up. There has to be retribution or justice, whatever you want to call it, there has to be justice in this case.
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Steve Bannon
Now, let's call it retribution. First off, you're in the free. You're freezing in the streets of Minneapolis because of the stolen election. This is the head to steal the election. First to get in and then allow 10 to 15 million. What are you talking about? MSNBC. Of course it's important. This is how you. This is. There was a triggering event for invasion of the country and now you sit there and whine every day. Oh, the little boys in the hat and the mommy's here and all that. Hey, we don't care. We don't want family separation. We want to bundle them all up and send them back home. Send them back home. All of them, not just the bad hombres. So talk to me today. The target, the targeted things. It's a big steal. We're out of Maine. You know that detail is there. So tell me about Maine. Tell me about targeting enforcement. I understand we don't have the flying squads on the street anymore. So what do we got, Ben?
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Ben Berkwam
That's actually pretty quiet. Right behind me you've got the Alex Memorial. I'm actually out here celebrating and memorializing the lives of the hundreds of thousands of American citizens killed by illegal aliens, not the criminals that are getting in ice's way. But this is what you have. It's pretty quiet because they don't have anyone to obstruct today because ICE and Border Patrol aren't down in the streets now. They're still conducting their targeted operations. So when the rapid response networks hear about them, they're still going after them, they're still blowing their whistles, they're still trying to obstruct them. But you're not seeing the clashes that you were seeing in the streets as you had for the last month. But going back to your point real quick, Steve, you're absolutely right. We wouldn't have 15 million or 20 million or however many million illegals in this country to go get if we hadn't got the stolen election. That's why all of this is tied together. And the same people that were part of stealing the election were also a part of the ones inviting in the invasion, who are now a part of obstructing ICE in their operations.
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Steve Bannon
That's what they all have to be. All have to be held accountable. It's all got to be transparent. Ben, did we blink? I mean, look, here's my point. Fry and Waltz and these guys are on tv. They're not talking about anything conciliatory. They're still sanctuary cities. They're not going to work with ICE. They want ICE out. Fry goes to D.C. to this mayor's conference. Once again, everybody's a Nazi. Everybody's a fascist. These are the worst people in the world. They're jackbooted. You know, all they're doing is murdering citizens. There's no reaching out to President Trump, as President Trump has sent Tom Holman there. And that's a different Tom Holman we see. Look, as you know, we're huge Tom Holman fans, but is the wrong signal being sent here of too much conciliation, sir?
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Ben Berkwam
I mean, my gut feeling is, yes, some of that will be yet to be seen. Just, just keep in mind, though, all of these operations, these surge operations, were temporary by nature. So we saw it in Chicago, we saw it in la, the one in Maine. They're talking about ending. We saw it in Charlotte and in New Orleans as well. And so what they've been doing is this all of government surge approach going, targeted demographics or jurisdictions and everybody going at once to get the most amount of people you possibly can and then moving on to different jurisdictions. I anticipate that's basically what is happening here. They've been here for over a month. In some ways, it's time to move another location.
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Steve Bannon
I got it, I got it, I got it.
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Ben Berkwam
But I got.
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Steve Bannon
I got tens of thousands. I got tens of thousands. Somalians. I got 10. I got tens. Yeah, but hang on. I got tens of thousands of Somalians. I still got them stealing. They're laughing at you right now. President Trump's trying to be conciliatory, okay? We tried 24 hours to be conciliatory. Now we got to get the flying squads back out there. We need the mass deportations. First off, Ellison said told Homan, he may. He may, like it's a privilege. He may turn over the criminals that already have in jails. Tom Homan couldn't have been more conciliatory today. That was like a new Tom Homan.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Right?
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Steve Bannon
You know, very gentle, very nice, fine. But they're just sitting there laughing in your face. They're not changing. It's a sanctuary city. They're not gonna let the feds do anything. Go ahead, sir.
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Ben Berkwam
Yeah, no, Nothing's going to change until they destroy our country and remake it in their communist image. These are terrorists. These are domestic terrorists that want to destroy this country. That's it. You can't barter. You can't. You can't negotiate with terrorists.
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Steve Bannon
If you can freeze for a few more minutes, I want you to stick around. Ben. Ben Berkwam on the streets of Minneapolis. We're going to go out with you hated this song so much this morning for Bruce Springsteen. Yes. We're going to play it again until we get more rage. You're going to listen to Bruce Springsteen. Birch Gold, text Bannon B A N N Owen at 989-898. The ultimate guide for investing in Gold and precious Metals. Boy, do you wish you had maybe gotten that guy back early in the summer. Come on, folks, we're not talking about chopped liver. We're talking about your financial future. Check it out today. Talk to Philip Patrick. Phil's going to join us by phone. Another wild ride in gold and silver. Short break. There's a lot of politicians that should be getting coal in their stockings for Christmas. But Birch Gold thinks As a smart planner, you deserve silver. That's why for every $5,000 you purchase between now and December 22nd, Birch Gold will send you an ounce of silver free. Remember, silver is up over 60% this year and over $60 an ounce. You see, smart people diversify and have a hedge. That's why I encourage you to buy gold from Birch Gold. With the rate cuts from the Fed in 2026, the dollar will be worth less. And what happens if the AI bubble burst? Diversify. Let Birchgold Group help you convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IR IRA and physical gold. Let me repeat that. Physical gold. And for every $5,000 you buy, you'll get an ounce of silver for your stocking or for your kids. What a great way to teach them about saving smartly. Just text my name, Bannon B A N N o n to 989-898 to claim your eligibility for this offer. Again, text Bannon Bannon to the number 989-898 today. Because Birch Gold's free. Silver with qualifying purchase promotion ends the 22nd of December of this year. Make sure you text Bannon 298-9898. Do it today. War room.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
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Steve Bannon
Okay, got Ben Berkhom's on the streets of Minneapolis. Peter, Philip Patrick is going to join us here in a second. We're talking about gold and silver. I want to bring in Tom Simon. Tom, you were an FBI, what? Special agent in the field for 26 years.
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Tom Simon
Yes, sir. Yeah.
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Steve Bannon
Of course. Yesterday our whole hour was about cash and the FBI and this raid down in, in Fulton County. I'll have more on that by the end of the hour. Tom, the reason we have you on here is about. I'm very concerned, particularly in times of financial turbulence. Every dream every person's had in this audience that's fortunate enough to own a home is in that home. And plus, I don't know, 90% of their net worth. And it's getting, with AI Cyber, all of it. It's get rogue, rogue lawyers, accountants, rogue family members. It's getting more dangerous every day to make sure somebody doesn't get into your title. The home title locks given us a great, you know, 14 days to check out the $1 million triple lock protection. But I want you to talk. Give me a minute or two on. Exactly. Given your vast experience, why this service is something that people should look at and look at hard.
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Tom Simon
Absolutely. Let me tell you a story that might illustrate that. Steve, anyone who's ever been a landlord has probably dealt with a tenant from hell. But I've never heard of a tenant as bad as Jorge Vincente of Gilderland, New York. It's near Albany. Jorge was in a $750,000 house as a tenant that he was renting, but he wasn't paying the rent. And when the owners of the home, his landlords, began to try to evict him, what Jorge did is he went into his county clerk's office and filed a deed transferring ownership of their house into the name of his stepfather, whose identity he had stolen. And this is so easy to do because the clerk of courts and the counties, they aren't taking a look at the legitimacy of these deeds when they get filed to transfer ownership. Their job is just to record the deed. Then when the sheriffs came to kick Jorge out, he was able to produce fake paperwork, actually real paperwork from the county saying that his step stepfather was in fact the owner of the house. Now the real landlords went back and they filed charges against him and he was arrested criminally for filing a false instrument. He actually took the case to trial. And after a three day trial, he was convicted of that crime. And he's looking at up to 10 years in prison when he sentenced in two weeks. But I think the key to this whole thing and the real tragedy here is that the landlords who rightfully own this house, who had it stolen from them by Jorge, they need to go through a civil process, hiring attorneys to restore that home back into their name. Because the criminal courts don't do that. It's not what the criminal courts are for. Which is why I really like the idea of anyone owning home subscribing to Home title lock because they have a US based restoration team who will do that to you for free in exchange for your. Your subscription.
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Steve Bannon
In all your experience. And once this happens, I tell people it's about opportunity costs your entire life. I mean, you can't be a member of the war in posse because we're sending people to the ramparts. You're making calls, you're sending text messages, you're calling people. This is the power of this show. We've changed the course of political history. Once this happens to you, all the angst and everything takes over. Because, you know, a guy could take out a hard money loan, second mortgage, they could try to sell your home, your castle, the thing that 90% of your net worth is in essentially the, the modern savings account is now in jeopardy. And that's all you get sleepless nights, high blood pressure, you have a stroke because you're sitting there going, this is a nightmare. I'm in. A Kafka esque nightmare, sir.
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Tom Simon
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Steve Bannon
Tom1 it's hometitle lock.com promo code Steve they got a 14 day special. You get a free look at the $1 million triple lock protection and you deal with Natalie Dominguez and the team. Tom, thank you so much, by the way. Thanks for the 26 years in the field. You didn't work at headquarters, right?
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Tom Simon
I stayed far away from headquarters. I don't want to get involved with the politics there. I like working cases and putting bad guys in prison.
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Steve Bannon
Thank you, brother. Appreciate you coming. Hometitle promo code Steve let's keep it simple. Thanks, brother. Tom Simon oh my God. Philip Patrick joins us by phone. Philip, thank you for carving out a little time today. I know it's absolutely crazy. Philip, explain to the audience why, what, four or five years ago you and I worked on this thing and said, hey, why don't we do the series called into the Dollar Empire? Because the whole world's built on the Bretton woods system and the dollar is the prime reserve currency. But with this guy Biden who looks like he's crazy with these Democrats, they could spend so much money in the next couple of years having stolen the election, that they could actually put the dollar under assault. And the dollar has lost 28% of its value since then. Philip Patrick, what does that mean to our audience?
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Philip Patrick
I mean, it's everything, right? It's everything that we do is reliant on US Dollars. And you rightly point out Biden was in office for a fairly short space of time. It was one term. And the damage he did, I think in many ways was irreparable. Not only was it amassing, I think it was billion of debt in a very short space of time. But he also weaponized our dollar against Russia and in doing so told the world the US could not be trusted. It is not a safe place to hold assets anymore. And it led to a global scramble away from the US dollar and broadly diversification. I think that the damage that was done under that administration, Trump is trying to undo it is One of the toughest jobs we, you know, anybody in history has had in front of them. But, you know, the situation is dire. And for us, as you pointed out many times, we saw the writing on the wall, I think, earlier than most. And it was just a case of getting out there and trying to educate as many people as possible. It's why, you know, you wanted to push forward with the end of the dollar empire. I know clients love it. Those that have read it and listened have seen the benefits in their retirement with what's happening with precious metals. Unfortunately. Unfortunately for those clients, I think we've a lot of scope for movement still in gold and silver. I think we've got some tough times in front of us. We have a world that is changing, and precious metals are becoming a very important part of that new world.
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Steve Bannon
Okay, my phone's blown up. Number one from people saying, hey, thank you for doing this series. I understand you just didn't talk about the price of gold. You actually, you and Philip of the team of Birch Gold actually gave us documents to educate us, to learn pattern recognition, to learn really about, you know, a little bit about global capital markets and particularly why gold was just not a hedge against times of financial turbulence, which it always has been, and why we were going to go through financial turbulence. But also that has become actually a new asset class, like back in the 19th century. Right. A financial asset. But there are a lot of people, so half people saying, hey, thank you guys so much. I got in years ago. I love it. I'm going to add more. But there's other people saying, hey, Steve, it hit 5,500 bucks today. When you and Philip first started talking, it was like 1000 or 1100. That's a hell of a run. Have I missed it? And I see some profit taking. So I, I said you were magisterial the other day when you walked through all, all of it. I know you don't have the time. We don't. But give us two or three minutes for those folks who are sitting there going, did I miss this move? And should I just sit this one out?
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Philip Patrick
Look, the answer is, is absolutely not. And I'll sort of touch on what I said before. The. The world is changing around us, right? Governments around the world are boring. Trillions of dollars a year. Central banks are boxed in. And investors are starting to question whether IOUs promises to pay can really be honored. We got Ray Dalio at Davos telling people that if you don't own gold, you understand neither economics nor history. Look, look at what's driving the movement? This is coming from central banks. This is the smartest money in the world. They are broadly moving away from currency, away from debt, back towards sound money. Gold's price. Gold is not valued like other things. Gold's price is a reflection of the value of currency. If currency falls, gold prices will move up regardless. I've used the example many times, But World War I Germany an ounce of gold was 142 German Reichsmarks after a period of hyperinflation. Ten years later it was 87 trillion German Reichsmarks. Now I certainly don't think we're heading in that direction in the United States. But like I said the other day, I think gold largely has been undervalued for a long time. And I think in a changing world where trust is breaking down broadly, gold is being repriced to the reality of the modern system. So I am in the camp now that we will see $10,000 an ounce gold in the not too distant future. I think we've got a lot of scope for growth and I think the real risk today is not owning gold. I think I said it last spoke. Central banks are not buying gold because it's going up. Gold is going up because central banks are buying gold and they are continuing to do it.
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Steve Bannon
And they're not looking at trades. I mean they're buying and holding this. Right. I think the significant thing about this record rate of central banks buying it, these guys like the Polish bank bought the other day. Before you bounce, I just want to go back to Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio, Philip and I came out of the investment banking community in the 80s and 90s, early 2000s, where gold was looked like, as Cain said, a barbaric and ancient relic. It really wasn't discussed in any meaningful way. Ray Dalio Bridgewater, who I think is one of the largest hedge fund operators, he says the same thing, but he comes at a different angle. He says there's $380 trillion of debt. You're going to have a margin call. The world's way too levered in that case. He's looking at gold not simply as a hedge. He's also looking at it as another financial asset to look at. We got about a minute. Philip, your thoughts on that?
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Philip Patrick
Listen, it's hard to look at it in any other way. The criticism of gold when we were bankers was this is an asset that doesn't perform and it didn't relative to other asset classes last century. But as we said, it's an entirely different Picture this century. Gold and silver have dwarfed growth in most asset classes. And it's because of what's changed at the turn of the century. This century so far has been characterized by rising debt, massive money printing and huge calls. And in those climates, people move away from paper promises and they move towards sound money and tangible assets. And that's the world we are heading into.
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Steve Bannon
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Philip Patrick
Thank you, Steve. Have a good one.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Cheers.
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Steve Bannon
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Stephen K. Bannon
But there's nothing more important than what we're doing right now, in my opinion. Today I'm signing a historic executive order to combat the scourge of addiction and substance abuse. Big deal in this country and every, probably in every country. We're calling it the Great American Recovery Initiative. I'm grateful to be joined by co chairs of this sweeping new effort, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And senior advisor to the White House Great American Recovery Initiative Initiative, Katherine Burgum. Thank you both very much. Thank you.
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Katherine Burgum
Thank you, sir.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you. Where's Bobby? Bobby. Hello. Bobby can make me again. I love Bobby. You're doing a great job, Katherine, right? Do we think so? Who's doing a better job, him or your husband? He's doing a good job.
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Katherine Burgum
I'm just getting started.
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Stephen K. Bannon
They're both doing very well. And now you're going to do better than both of them. Thanks as well to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Secretary Doug Burgum, Secretary Scott Turner, Secretary Doug Collins, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, who's got some pretty good news. Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. Oh, I've gotten good at that. Administrator of the center for Medicare and Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmedaz, who's doing a fantastic job and Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Sarah Carter. I Also want to introduce a great friend of mine who happened to be here, and he's very much committed to this. He knows how important it is for our country. He's built a tremendous American company. It's called Weathertech. I guess you've seen the ads. I've seen the ads. I think they're great ads. But more importantly, it's a great product. David McNeil. David, congratulations on what you've done. It's incredible.
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Steve Bannon
Thank you, Mr. President.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you.
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Steve Bannon
Really great.
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Stephen K. Bannon
And the president of Weathertech, Ryan Granger. Ryan, congratulations. What a great job. They built an American company, and it's a thriving company company, too, so. And with a great product, it's great.
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Steve Bannon
To be here in America.
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Stephen K. Bannon
You know, when I was in the private sector, I'd always buy the floor mats. But now that I'm the. Now that I'm president, I no longer have to buy floor mats. But you made a great floor, Matt, and you still do. And lots of other things. Many of those with me today have personally known the heartache of a loved one taken by drug or alcohol addiction. I do. Just like millions of American families. Every year we lose an estimate estimated 300,000 people to drug and alcohol abuse. And the real number is probably much, much higher than that. Thankfully, drug overdose Deaths plummeted by 21% in the last year. We're working very hard on it. We've closed the southern border, seized over 47 million fentanyl pills and 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. That's a record. And I have formally designated doctor. And I tell you what, we have a group of doctors, some of them behind me, who have just been incredible and they've really wanted this. Designated the drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And for some reason they didn't want to do that until we came along. But they are indeed foreign terrorist organizations with our action in the Gulf of America. That sounds so nice. When I hear the Gulf of America, drugs entering our country by sea are down 97%. So when you see the boats being hit, those boats kill on average 25,000 people a boat. So that's 25,000. I would assume mostly American lives. But lives are being saved now. We're taking a bold action to help Americans struggling with all forms of addiction so they can get the help and the support that they need to free themselves from the horrible burden of dependency. The Great American Recovery Initiative will bring together federal, state, local and private sector resources to support addiction recovery, treatment and prevention. And it will help mobilize the full resources and authority of the federal government to help stop this tremendous plague. And I'd now like to invite Secretary Kennedy to start and then Kathryn Burgum and then I'll sign the order which I've just signed and wanted to make sure the signature was good. Took my time and we. Let me just see. Pretty good. Not. Not pretty good. Let's give it a 10. Okay. For Katherine. But I'd like Bobby to say a few words in Katherine. Thank you very much, everybody, please.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Mr. President, thank you for your leadership, for signing an executive order that tells the truth about one of the greatest challenges that our country faces. Addiction is not a moral failure. It is a disease. It's chronic, it's treatable. And for too long, our nation has responded with fragmentation, with stigmatization and silence. Instead of science, compassion and coordination. Today, President Trump changes that with a great American addiction recovery initiative. We finally bring the full strength of the federal government together across health care, law enforcement, housing, labor, faith communities and the private sector to save lives, restore families and rebuild communities that addiction has hollowed out. Nearly 50 million Americans suffer from substance use disorder. Many never receive treatment. Even more don't believe that help is possible. That is not because recovery doesn't work. It's because our systems have failed to reach the people where they are early enough, long enough and with dignity. This initiative fixes that. We will align federal programs instead of letting them operate in silos. We will set clear, measurable goals and report honestly to the American people. We use evidence based care, modern science and continuous support just as we do for heart disease, diabetes and other chronic illnesses. We will focus on prevention before addiction takes hold. We will intervene early. We will expand access to treatment that leads to real long term recovery. And we will support re entry because recovery does not end when treatment ends. It's a succeeds when people return to their families, their jobs and their communities with purpose and with hope. As co chair of this initiative alongside of Kathryn Burgum, whose leadership and commitment strengthens this work, I pledge urgency, accountability and honesty. Katherine and I share the experience of having been addicted and long term recovery. Almost everybody in this room room and almost everybody in our country has been touched by addiction. Steve Witkoff, who's here, had an extraordinary son. Andrew was a superstar boy, a straight a student, an athlete and a wonderful leader and lost that son to addiction. President Trump has talked about his own families rad a struggle with addiction. All of us are touched. If it touches these people, it can hurt every American. And President Trump is often talked about with compassion about the families who lose children to this disease. 100,000 children a year until recently. Now it's about 76,000. Those families are devastated forever. And the cost to our country, not only in dollars, but and just the malaise and the despair that it imposes is incalculable. We are going to listen to states, localities, frontline providers and tribal nations. We will partner with communities and faith based organizations. We will work with employers, clinicians and recovery leaders who know what works on the ground. President Trump has already acted. The CITES are securing the border against deadly drugs, signing the Halt Fentanyl act, strengthening treatment programs, expanding access to naloxone medication assisted treatments, and investing billions in prevention and recovery. This executive order builds on that record and accelerates it. Recovery is not a side issue. It's an economic issue, a workforce issue, a family issue, a national security issue. When Americans recover, communities grow stronger. When families heal, children thrive. And when we confront addiction with courage instead of complacency, we reclaim the promise of our country. This initiative is about life. It's about responsibility, and it's about building a great American recovery. Together with this executive order and with major announcements that I will announce next week, we are taking decisive action to make America healthy again.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you. Thank you, Bobby. And great job. And you're doing a fantastic job. She's doing a fantastic job. And I saw his wife yesterday and she confirmed that he's doing a fantastic job. So she's on your side. You know that she's great. And Oz, thank you for being here. We appreciate it. Katherine, please go ahead.
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Katherine Burgum
Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you so much. Your leadership today relative to this announcement about the Great American Recovery is a gift to all Americans who are suffering from the brain disease of addiction. I also want to thank First Lady Melania Trump for her leadership during your first administration and now that the work she's doing championing youth and children, especially related to foster care, where early trauma and instability are often consequences of the disease of addiction. Addictions touch this administration in real and profound ways. President Trump, you've openly spoke about your brother Fred, whose struggle with addiction shaped your life and your understanding of this disease. And Susie Wiles carries the lived experience of her father, the late, great Pat Summerall, whose recovery journey became a source of hope for millions. Vice President Vance has shared his story of his mother's battle and recovery. And as Secretary Kennedy just said, he brings his own lived experience, proof that recovery is not theoretical, it is possible. These stories matter because they are not isolated. They reflect the reality of the over 190 million Americans, that's half our nation who are impacted in some way by the disease of addiction. And I am one of them. I started drinking in high school, and I was a blackout drinker from the start. For 20 years, I struggled relapsing constantly, constantly starting over, constantly trying to stay sober and failing. I reached a point where I truly did not believe there was one single reason for me to keep living. And I was suicidal at the end of my drinking. One day, I was out walking alone. I didn't have faith. I wasn't religious. But something in me said I should ask for help. And out loud, to no one, because it was just me. I said, I don't know if anyone is there, but I need help. And that was a day I became sober. Fifteen years later, I found myself somehow standing in front of people as first lady of North Dakota, thanks to him. But I was asking people to share their stories openly about addiction so we could eliminate the shame and stigma, so more people would reach out for help and more lives could be saved. And today I'm standing here in this incredibly beautiful Oval Office and. And if not for the grace of God, I would not be alive today with over 23 years in recovery. That's why I'm here. And my message is simple. Never give up Hope for recovery. Mr. President, I also want to thank you for allowing me to stand here with you today. I was in this building in 2017 when the administration announced the national response to the opioid crisis. And nearly a decade later, the crisis remains. And in many ways, it has grown worse. Not because we lack compassion, not because we lack effort, but because we never fully aligned our system with the truth. Addiction is not a moral failure. It is not a character flaw. And it's not simply a behavioral issue. Addiction is a lifelong, chronic, relapsing medical disease as real as diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. And when we fail to treat it as such, we don't treat the disease. And we pay mightily for the consequences. Emergency rooms, jails, foster care, overdose deaths and broken families. The Great American Recovery changes that. This initiative represents a fundamental shift from reaction to prevention, from fragmentation to coordination, from stigma to science, from short term fixes to a long term recovery. And for the first time, we're aligning federal leadership across health, justice, labor, housing, veterans, social services, the faith office, and education around one single shared truth. When addiction is treated early and correctly, people recover and families heal. Addiction is a generational disease. And if we don't treat it properly, it repeats Repeats from parent to child, from community to community. And when we treat it like a lifelong condition, the condition that it is, we stop that cycle. We save lives. We restore families. We rebuild communities. We return people to dignity, purpose and productivity. Mr. President, thank you for seeing this moment clearly. With your leadership and the Great American and Recovery Initiative, we're establishing a new framework and a new national response to the disease of addiction, including treatment and care that parallels other chronic diseases with this framework and treatment. Recovery is not the exception, it is the expectation. Thank you.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you. You know, I saw them riding horses in a video and they said, who is that? I was talking about her, not him. They explained it. I said, I'm going to hire him because anybody has somebody like you to be with. It's an amazing tribute and it's a great couple. Amazing couple. And she's very much a part of his big success. He was a fantastic success, as you know, having been one of the most successful business people. And I saw him campaigning, a great governor. Two term governor. He was, did a fantastic job, North Dakota. And he's done a great job. And I'll tell you what, Katherine's a very big part of it. I see it. It's just really one of the fantastic couples. So I appreciate it. What a beautiful job you've just done. And I want to to give this to you and you can figure out what you're going to do with Bobby, you know, but let's have a good picture of the two of them and everyone else. And I'd like to ask Steve Witkoff also to say a couple of words when we're finished because he is a very special person who I knew very well, an incredible person. So if you don't mind, Steve, I'll ask you to do that in just a second, direct, please. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. Great to you that point.
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Katherine Burgum
Thank you so much.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Steve, please. The President is doing the same thing to me now that he did to me in 2017.
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Steve Bannon
You remember Katherine? Yeah.
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Katherine Burgum
We were sitting next to each other.
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Steve Bannon
So I want to tell the story about this. So I came to the opioid conference.
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Stephen K. Bannon
And the President did not know I was coming because I was invited by the first lady. And he leaned over, saw me in.
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Steve Bannon
The aisle and he looked at me and he said, Steve. And then he realized why I was.
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Stephen K. Bannon
There, because I had lost my son Andrew. And the President was an incredible friend. When I lost him, I lived in his building at 502 Park Avenue.
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Steve Bannon
And I remember when him and the.
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Stephen K. Bannon
First lady came and I talked about this all the time. And so he took my hand and.
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Steve Bannon
He said to me, come on up.
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Stephen K. Bannon
To the stage and tell the world about your boy Andrew. And of course that was, you know, something that was really meaningful to me, but. And I got through it and I talk about it all, all the time. I talked about him on the campaign.
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Steve Bannon
Trail and so forth.
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Stephen K. Bannon
He is a very special man and he's begun and led the fight against opioid addiction and alcoholism. And Katherine, I feel like we sort of bonded from that, from that day.
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Steve Bannon
And it's just my blessing to work for you, sir.
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Stephen K. Bannon
This is a special guy. He and a group of people Jared helped and others helped. Steve, Peace in the Middle east. And we're there, yes, a couple of little flames, but they're very little by comparison. And they'll go out quickly. They're already going out. And he's now trying very hard to settle up with Russia and Ukraine. And I think a lot of progress is being made there. And I told that Russia is not doing any shooting for a period of time during this horrendously cold weather because of you. So we asked President Putin if they could stop the shooting for a week. They're being hit with proportionately the kind of cold that we're being hit. It's much colder in Ukraine to start off with, but it's really cold now. And he agreed to do that. We appreciated that very much. It's a nasty war. It's a, a nasty, nasty war. Would anybody else have anything to say? I can say that I am extremely late, but that's okay, don't worry about me. Would anyone else have anything to say? Doug, you're doing a fantastic job. We appreciate it. Marty, you are really something special. Everyone's talking about you every time. If I don't mention Marty, Bobby always mentions it. So we have a great team, Jay. Great, Marty. Great. Do you guys want to say something?
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Steve Bannon
Thank you.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you.
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Steve Bannon
Well, historically with addiction, the entire society has always been reactionary. And that's been the story of health care. But at the fda, we are looking into incredible cutting edge therapeutics and we are being proactive, giving them vouchers when we see something that's promising to get an approval as quick as weeks in an era of a 10 to 12 year approval time. And the ultimate therapeutic is community houses of worship addressing loneliness. And so that's part of the Maha agenda, thanks to Bobby. Thank you, Mr. President.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you very much. Thank you, Jay.
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Steve Bannon
Mr. President, in 2018, you launched the HEAL initiative, helping to end addiction long term at the NIH. It's paid fruit. It's yielded fruit. The ingenuity of small business has developed products that can deal with pain without opioids. The naloxone, which saves lives, that was the fruit of nih. And for the kinds of investments that your administration that you made, starting from the first Trump term to now will continue to pay dividends. The kind of resources, research that the NIH is doing is will help turn the tide, make people's lives so much better, restore families. All of the addiction that we've seen, the 80,000 deaths we saw, the huge spike in addiction deaths during the first Biden term is going to be a thing of the past, and I'm so proud to be part of this.
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Stephen K. Bannon
And, fellas, some great things happening, Marty. Great. Really great things happening, I hear. And some pretty big announcements over a short period of time, right?
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Steve Bannon
Yep. Moving drugs over the counter so you don't need a prescription. Naloxone, which treats opioid, is one of those drugs. And we're being proactive with synthetic 7. Oh, a new opioid that's showing up. And we're working with the DOJ on addressing that because chemists are coming up with new opioids faster than the government has been able to keep up. We're going proactive on these new chemicals.
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Stephen K. Bannon
That's great. No, I hear fantastic things. Thank you all very much. We really appreciate it a lot. Thank you. Oz. He's doing a fantastic job. Thank you all very much. I appreciate it. Thank you. Please. Thank you.
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Katherine Burgum
Mr. President, can you respond to the new Fox poll that says people think ISIS tactics are too aggressive?
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Steve Bannon
Supporters are done.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you. Cameras, we're going.
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Katherine Burgum
Thank you, guys.
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Steve Bannon
Okay, hang over a second. The Wranglers, as we call them, are taking the press out, so we're going to lose the shot here momentarily. That's Oval Office President Trump signing another historic executive order, this time about addiction and cures for addiction. As you know, this very high priority for both the president and Bobby Kennedy and had a whole group there. It was amazing. That's Doug Burgum's wife. And I think it was incredible, her sharing of her journey. As people know, she's, you know, she just talked about there. She became a pretty severe alcoholic and then was able to work her way out of that addiction. And it's. When Doug Burgum was running for president, she shared that story a lot. I think it was one of the, the more powerful stories on the, on the, on the campaign trail, or I guess running for, for vice president. The president said right there, hey, I'm running a little late, but I'll take, you know, I can't take questions, but let's have everybody talk. He's running late for Melania's. The documentary about Melania the First lady is premiering tonight at the Trump Kennedy Center. They're having a VIP reception beforehand. They're going to play the film. Obviously, the film is in theaters. I think it's in 1400 theaters this weekend. There's already controversy because, you know, a snow was it bomb cycle is going to hit the Washington, D.C. area and much of the East Coast. So the bitter and cruel cold that we've had is going to be added onto with ice, more ice and snow. So they're, they're kind of concerned about the opening weekend, the film. But this is going to be a big premiere and it's really great to have the, to have the president say, I'm running a little late, but I can't, I can't be late for that premiere. There was some news out of there. He had Witkoff and of course, Steve Wykoff did lose a son to opioids and, and he gives a very moving witness about that. But Steve also added, as it's breaking now, that they have gotten a ceasefire. The situation with Zelensky and Putin, it looks like it's a ceasefire, at least for a week. I think the Russians have agreed they will not launch back into Kiev and they've been hammering Kyiv. You know, the power systems, the grid, it's bitter cold there. And so Wyckoff has gotten with President Trump and I think it was off a phone call with President Trump. They have gotten a ceasefire. My understanding is Zelensky may actually try to go to Moscow and negotiate this one on one. So we'll have to, we'll have to see. Is it. Do I have John Lott? Is John Lott still there? Not John Lott. Who is going to be with us? John Lott is going to join us. John Lott's going to join us tomorrow. John Lott has got a lot of information about the government shutdown that's coming. It looks like the Democratic, the Senate Democrats today said they're prepared to approve other appropriations bills, but they will not approve dhs. So this is going to be another fight. President Trump has gone out of his way, has gone out of his way to try to work with these radicals, including the radicals in the Senate. They do not want DHS funded. They don't want DHS funded because they don't want any of the illegal alien invaders to leave. Because their business model is to get these folks here to have a little startup cash from source and from some of these other outside sources, make sure they can kind of get them in, get them settled, and then get them on the government dole where they're taking billions of dollars, and then they get them in illegally to vote. And that's their machine. That's. That's how they make it. This is why they're so shocked about the FBI going down. The FBI going down to Fulton county and actually getting their hands on the receipts. Okay, everybody stick around. We're going to continue here. We got Ken Paxton. Attorney General Paxton is going to starve. He's running for the US Senate, but he's got a lot to say about Sharia law and CAIR as a terrorist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. What they're doing about in Texas. War Room Texas follows us. We had Philip Patrick on here, folks. Whatever you do, it's totally free. Just get in contact with Birch Gold and get a relationship. Start building a relationship with Philip Patrick and his team. Get all the information from Birch Gold Gold early in the day, blew through 5,500. You might want to ask yourself, how in the hell did I miss that? Bannon and these guys have been talking about for years. Don't worry about that. Worry about what it actually says, what the documents say, what we talk about on the end of the Dollar Empire. What does it mean? What does it mean for your financial stability? Okay? We're going to leave you with Bruce Springsteen, okay? I promise. The audience in meltdown. I got it. You can only take so much. I wanted to see. I wanted to see if I could take it to the max here. Maximalist strategy. I won't play Bruce Springsteen again. This is the last time you're going to hear it. The streets of Minneapolis. We're going to take a short commercial break. I'll return in a couple of minutes. War Room Texas is upon us. See in a minute.
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Stephen K. Bannon
The names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis. We'll remember the names of those who.
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Philip Patrick
Died on the streets of Minneapolis.
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Steve Bannon
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