Steve Bannon (9:44)

Thank you, Mr. President.

Donald Trump (9:45)

Thank you very much.

Steve Bannon (9:46)

We pray for you shortly.

Donald Trump (9:48)

Okay, good, let's do that now.

Prayer Leader 1 (10:01)

Thank you, Mr. President. Would you all please join me in a prayer for the President? Heavenly Father, we come before you with humble and grateful hearts, mindful that every authority on earth is ultimately under your sovereign care. Today we lift up President Donald J. Trump and we ask for your wisdom and your guidance as he carries the mantle of leadership for this nation and around the world. We know that you have placed him in this position for this season in our nation's glorious 250 year history. And so we ask that whatever storm comes his way, he would weather with grace, favor and clarity. Lord, strengthen him in moments of great responsibility and give him peace in moments of great weight. Surround him with advisors who speak honestly, serve faithfully and place the good of the nation first. When decisions are difficult and the path forward is uncertain, may he be guided by your spirit of wisdom and understanding. Grant him discernment rooted not in human understanding, but in your eternal wisdom. Remind him where the root of his joy lies and of the plans you have in store for him, for his family and for this nation. Remind him how very deeply he is loved by you and that you hold him in the palm of your hand. May he not doubt the things you have spoken to him in the quiet place. Instead, Lord, guide his steps and guard his heart. May his ear always be turned to you when he is faced with difficult decisions. And may he seek your will to be done through him. Continue to surround him with counselors who love truth, speak boldly and walk humbly before you. Where there is weariness, bring renewal. Where there is pride, bring humility. Where there is uncertainty, bring clarity through your spirit. Father, we ask for your divine protection over the President and his family. Draw him closer to you and may his leadership reflect the fruits of your spirit. We bring these things to you in your precious and holy name.

Donald Trump (11:56)

Amen.

Prayer Leader 2 (12:07)

In the Latin imago dei. May we always be reminded we are made in the image of God. In the Latin verbum dei. May we also be reminded that we ask for the word of God, our good and gracious God. We pray for the health and deliberations of the President of the United States, and we pray that you would be the final arbiter of whatever decisions he endeavors to make, that you would increase the stature of his wisdom. Because without you, none of us can adjudicate the overwhelming details of leadership and life today. We pray for America and we pray for all parliamentarians around the world. The Book of Timothy teaches us that you have been entrusted with leadership. Today we pray for the future of this nation and that you would lead this President into greater levels of compassion for your name's sake. We pray that you would protect him from the iniquities of evil and that you would give him greater clarity, greater courage and greater capacity to do what is right and the forever challenges. Today we remind him that the lives of millions of people are in his hands and that he has the power to turn mourning into dancing or to reduce the country into a cosmic elegy of chaos and suffering. And it is because of this that we pray that the best of this president would rise among us for the sake of this nation, for the sake of this world. We pray that goodness and mercy would announce themselves in and his life in new and powerful ways. We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the elevation, the alleviation of suffering happening on farms in the Midwest, in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis. Remind him that we are all Americans, all made in the image of God, and that none of us are free unless all of us have our freedoms protected. Many people are not lazy. Many people are simply tired. Many people simply are not okay. Matthew 25 teaches us that faith, that our gifts are given from God and that we should show them with compassion towards others. But most of all, we pray that you would work out your will in his life. May we all do more for the greater glory of God. Because when it's all said and done, we pray as Jesus taught us to pray. We ask that we surrender our all to Jesus, to all hope. I give him freely. I will ever love and trust him and in his life and presence live daily. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.

Donald Trump (15:12)

You may ask me how I know my Lord is real. My Lord is real. You may doubt the things I say and doubt the way I feel.

Political Commentator 1 (15:35)

The way I feel.

Donald Trump (15:38)

But I know he's real today. He'll always be. He'll always be. I can feel it.

Prayer Leader 2 (15:58)

For me.

Steve Bannon (16:00)

47Th. The 47th. Let's continue with the music, guys. You can continue to play it. There we go. Let's do what we said we were going to do. 47th birth of the United States at the 74th National Prayer Breakers, President Trump had remarks over an hour, talked about a wide range of issues, including his belief in his faith. This is one of the most important events kind of in the. Well, definitely in the spiritual calendar of Washington D.C. okay, here's what we're going to do. We're starting to warm a little late because we want to have complete coverage of the president in the National Prayer Breakfast. We have a lot to to go through this morning. Were very jam. Scott Besant, you know, our former contributor and colleague and dear friend got into a total throwdown yesterday in Front, I think it was the House Banking Committee. It was basically a shouting match for hours. He is in front of the Senate Banking Committee. I believe that Elizabeth Warren is the, is the ranking member on the Democrat side. She's kind of an opening statement. We're trying to go to that. The narco terrorism conference. The hearing is also playing. So we're going to kind of juggle things this morning. Real America's voice is good. They, they showed the National Prayer brokers without commercial interruption. And we're going to skip a break here. I want to play have a very special cold open because folks, a lot has gone on since we left you Yesterday at what, 6:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Let's go and play our cold open and I will return in just a moment. Let's go ahead and let it rip.

Political Commentator 1 (17:33)

Fight to stop Donald Trump from rigging the midterm elections in his favor. Today, the Supreme Court rejected a Republican effort to block California's new congressional map. The state drew new districts to favor Democrats after Trump demanded Texas redraw their map to help his party maintain control of the House. Governor Gavin Newsom responded, quote, trump said he was entitled to five more congressional seats in Texas. He started this redistricting war. He lost and he'll lose again in November. In Georgia today, Fulton county filed a court motion demanding the return of 2020 ballots seized by Trump's FBI last week. The county's top commissioner said he views the FBI raid as a first step to suppress the voter turnout this year. Trump is putting the building blocks in place, folks. Don't be mistaken here. These are the building blocks he's putting in place for an unconstitutional federal takeover of our election elections. Listen to the cities he wants to target next.

Donald Trump (18:33)

Take a look at Detroit. Take a look at Pennsylvania. Take a look at Philadelphia. You go take a look at Atlanta. Look at some of the places that horrible corruption on elections and the federal government should not allow that. The federal government should get involved.

Political Commentator 1 (18:50)

The federal government should get involved. Fulton county might be the first block, but it won't be the last, my friend.

Steve Cortez (18:56)

Donald Trump is already calling to nationalize elections to essentially illegitimately take control of states election systems down to like how the votes are counted. And he and his allies are now.

Steve Bannon (19:07)

Straight up telling us they plan to.

Steve Cortez (19:08)

Try everything they can to interfere in the midterms, including using ICE agents. Steve Bannon, who had a close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, wear three shirts and likes to speak as if he's still in the White House, has been leading the charge.

Steve Bannon (19:21)

We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November. We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again. And you can. You can wind and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen. But let's put you on notice again. ICE is going to be around the polls in the 2026 midterm elections.

Political Commentator 1 (19:45)

It's a political operation. This is all this is. This isn't about the fact that some states have decided to go rogue in their voting and their process of voting, and the idea that citizens can trust the ballots in that state and the federal government, which would then have a legitimate question about, okay, so what are you doing? But they're the problem. And, Commissioner, that's the rub that you're going to run into if you're successful in becoming the one who's in charge of and looking after the vote in the state of Georgia and understanding exactly what. What's required when you have the President of the United States tell us that we should lock down and control. Republicans should control 15 states, all Democratic states democratically run with Democratic leadership across the state. When you have Steve Bannon saying that, oh, we're going to just. We're going to surround the polls with ICE agents. My question is, what polls are you talking about, Stevie? Are you talking about, oh, I don't know, polls in your backyard? Are you talking about polls in black and brown communities? Are you talking about polls here in Maryland, in Prince George's county, largest black county in the state of Maryland? Are you talking about putting polls there, or you talking about putting polls in Mike Johnson's district, where he has to go? Mr. Johnson, Speaker Johnson, are you ready to have ICE agents at your polls? Oh, I'm sorry, my bad. Your. Your district is majority white.

Donald Trump (21:21)

Not those polls.

Steve Cortez (21:22)

Michael Steele.

Political Commentator 1 (21:23)

Oh, that's right. You won't have that problem now, will you, sir? But you oversee the House and can do something about it. But you won't, because you're scared. You're scared of Steve Bannon, you're scared of Donald Trump. And I've heard you over the last few days, hubba to hubba to hubba, line through your teeth. That's the problem that you're gonna have, Commissioner, when you take control, a federal government that doesn't give a damn about your sovereignty as a state, doesn't give a damn about your process. So how do you. What are you saying to the people that you're hoping to let you elect you? That you're going to go and be able to protect their most precious asset.

Political Commentator 2 (22:02)

And that is the vote on January 21, 2029.

Steve Cortez (22:06)

Do you see any scenario where you are still President?

Donald Trump (22:11)

I don't know. It would be interesting. But wouldn't it be terrible if I agreed with you? If I gave you the answer that you're looking for? It would make life so much less exciting, right? It would be so much less exciting. But I only do this for one reason. Make America great again. And that's what we're doing. We're making America great again. Greater than ever before. Our country is greater than ever before.

Steve Bannon (22:36)

To pause and heighten the scrutiny of any bank, charter or licensing application at the OCC connected to the World Liberty Financial. Until all of these conflicts of interest and foreign influence reviews are completed and shared with the United States Congress. All I need to know is will you halt it and do a complete investigation and scrutiny of this licensing application? All you have to ask is yes or no. No, Congressman, the. All you have to ask is the.

Prayer Leader 1 (23:18)

OCC is an independent entity and I would know.

Steve Bannon (23:21)

Congressman, I take that as a no. You traveled to Venezuela. I take that as a no on behalf of. I take that as a no on behalf of your daughter. You do not want to answer that question. I take that as a no. For a 7 billion. I'm asking you to do your responsibility as Secretary of the Treasury. You do not erase what you did. He's the one that went past your time, Mr. Chairman. He did not answer my question. He wouldn't order. He had 6 seconds left left to try to answer your question.

Prayer Leader 2 (23:57)

And it was a yes or no.

Steve Bannon (23:59)

It was a yes or no answer. I asked him will he nor was gentleman yes recognizes Stop covering for the President. Yeah, well stop being his flunky. Okay, Gentlemen. Gentlemen. He's talking to me. I'm responding. 2006 trip to Venezuela stop covering or the President don't be a work for for the American people.

Prayer Leader 2 (24:25)

Work for the American people.

Steve Bannon (24:28)

Don't be a cover up for a mob. Maybe you're going to as long as he Talks not recognize Mr. Bessant please. I recognize the gentleman from Texas.

Georgia State Official (24:39)

We're a swing state and right now our state legislature is controlled by Republicans and our state elections board is controlled by maga. And so we are in danger right now in this current year before I even get a chance to be elected into that job of the state elections board taking over our election. So they may back off from this nationalization thing and say okay, okay, you're Right. We can't go against the constitution. But go ahead, State of Georgia elections board take over the elections. And that will have the same effect if the state elections board in Georgia takes over. Then, you know, there go the voters of Fulton County's votes.

Donald Trump (25:17)

So.

Georgia State Official (25:17)

And there go the state of Georgia votes from all Democrats. And potentially there goes some of our major elections here. And you know, if that continues into 2028, there goes the presidential. Right. So we have to have a Secretary of State who is defending our rights not only as to allow a state takeover, but to allow the counties to run their elections the way they were intended to and to not allow these changes to state law that are going to infringe on voters. And I'm sure there are similar things happening all across the country in, in states like ours to come in the right way.

Election Analyst (25:50)

The American people might not want that.

Steve Bannon (25:52)

But Republicans haven't done anything to help us get there.

Donald Trump (25:54)

Republicans need this issue because their only option is to scare the hell out of people because they're fundamentally incapable of leading the economy in a responsible way here. There's only one point you made though, that I disagree with my new friend and that is that they have a quota system. What they actually have is self deportation goals. And so they will never want to do this quietly even if they met these quotas. What they actually want to do is publicly scare the hell out of people with brutish, inhumane tactics that will up the number of people who just flee the country because they're so afraid. And that's the inherent immorality of this administration's policy and strategy.

Steve Bannon (26:40)

And that's why the mask is so important. They can't do that.

Prayer Leader 1 (26:42)

Exactly what you're saying.

Steve Bannon (26:43)

They cannot do that if they're not wearing masks.

Political Commentator 2 (26:46)

And I mean, it's extremely concerning because you look at how those sorts of voter roll checks are enforced, how the, you know, sort of driver license id, even sort of simpler ID requirements are enforced. It's always disproportionately affects minority groups because you often have bluntly white poll workers be more suspicious of minority voters. And so that's always the effect effect here. I will say, you know, it doesn't seem like there's a ton of momentum for the SAVE act in Congress. But I am extremely concerned about this, you know, potential ICE deployment that Steve Bannon is talking about. Obviously, Steve, Stephen is a podcaster. He is trying to get attention so that he can get ad revenue. I always want to take that with a little bit of a grain of Salt. But it does seem like this is what Steve Bannon. Yeah, he's still Steve Bannon. That, it does seem like that's what they are trying to build up towards. And I think it's really important for people that support democracy, Republicans or Democrats, to get ahead of this and make very clear it's not just that ICE deployments are unconstitutional, violate the First Amendment, 14th Amendment. Military deployments at polling places is a federal crime. 18 USC 592. Democrats need to be extremely clear. If this happens, they will be criminally prosecuted by a future administration. That is the only, only way this stops.

Donald Trump (28:04)

They.

Steve Bannon (28:04)

At the, at the prayer breakfast, the, the person that came on right after the President, the commander in chief, spoke to the prayer breakfast, said, gave a prayer and said, asked almighty God to buffet the president against any storms I think that would be, would come in his administration or to his life. The storm has arrived. This is an inflection point in American history, this entire fourth turning. But now, as you know, the urgency and momentum builds up. Let's just make sure the Democrats understand something. Never again with all your lies. We are never going to allow an election to be stolen. Look what you've done to this country. You have 15 to 20 million illegal aliens in this country leeching off this country, bankrupting it with all these scams and all this fraud. And all you have to do is look up in Minneapolis to the Somalians and that's all over the country in every state in the union. We're not going to allow our country to be destroyed because you can't get legitimate citizens to vote for you. Not going to happen. And like I said, you can cry and whine and throw your toys out of the pram and throw a hissy fit ice. And if it has to call the Insurrection act, then the 82nd and 101st Airborne are going to be around the polls and they should be around every pole because we don't want any. I don't care about the district. We don't want any. And we will not allow any illegal aliens to vote. They have to have an id. They have to be on a voter roll that must be purged and the mail in ballots must be checked and signature verified. We're going to take a short commercial break. The storm has arrived and we're going to write it out next in the war room. Ready to hit it.

Steve Cortez (30:03)

Yeah.

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Election Analyst (32:35)

Rickards war room.com Fulton County Absentee Ballots There were 74,000 absentee ballots that had come into Fulton county by the time the polls closed the legal deadline by the time the polls closed on November 3rd. But somehow, four days later, instead of those 74,000, there were 148,000 plus just a little over 148,000 absentee ballots that were now suddenly in the mix. Now, where did those come from? Fulton county election officials ordered ordered on October 16th, over 1 million new absentee ballots. They were ordered without envelopes, even though in order to cast an absentee ballot in Georgia, you have to mail it, you, you have to put it in an envelope. It has to be sealed in an envelope. And we saw in one of our counts in our lawsuit, our election contest, that was never heard by a judge because no judge was appointed. But we, our volunteers saw all of these pristine ballots, no folds. Those cannot be absentee ballots.

Steve Bannon (33:54)

If Mo and Grace and Elizabeth, that that's Cleto can push. I just want the PDF and I need people to get into not just the summary but to I think it's a 264 page report. Raffensperger came on the Today show because remember, go back particularly those of you who have been with us for a while. We covered live as we always do the, the election. I think it was Raheem and myself, Bill McGinley, remember that Jason Miller, I think was at the White House, would come in and out. Raffensperger went on the Today show the next morning. And this is Cletus, the opening of that there had been 4.7 million ballots, which I think was a record in Georgia. He says this, there were Trump was up at that time, this is the morning after, by 103,000 ballots. We had Richard Barris and others coming on that had done precinct by precinct analysis and they said it's only 100. Trump's on by 103 and there are only 94,000 ballots uncounted. And it is impossible, mathematically impossible for Biden to win. And what happened all of a sudden, miraculously, these mail in ballots, by the way, mail in ballots had to be there by the close of the polls, I think at 7 Eastern Standard Time on the 3rd or they didn't count. And all sudden, miraculously, like the loaves and the fishes, these ballots start showing up. 300,000. It turns a total fiasco. Cleta Mitchell and a team put walk through this thing in excruciating detail. In fact, one of the young men on the team was on Steve Stern's call yesterday. And so when they say, oh, it's been checked 10 times, only nine people, no, no, that is a bald face live. We're talking about the mail and ballots. They know exactly what we're talking about. We haven't gotten to the machines yet with the tapes and all that. That's why Tulsi Gabber was down there when the stuff was seized. And we already know that the tapes, many of the tapes have been fouled. The left has to understand, if Your voters are U.S. citizens that are registered to vote legitimately and have an id, what's your worry. Why are you going crazy? I tell you why you're going crazy. We caught you in stealing the 2020 election and we're never going to allow it to happen again. Look what's happened to the nation. Look where we're having to spend your time. This whole concept of opportunity cost that you can't focus on this because you have to focus on this. And here's what we're focused on. We're going to get every illegal alien out of this country with mass deportations or self deportations. It has to happen or we don't. We're not a sovereign nation and we're not going to allow the games that you guys have played to continue to be played. We're drawing a line in the sand and it's not going to happen. Now, Tom Holman's as good a guy as you can get. One of the best of the best that we have. But his thing of unprecedented cooperation, just in the last 48 hours, Hochul in New York has signed a decree, I think an executive order. There will be no cooperation, none between law enforcement at the city or state level. With ICE agents. It's a sanctuary state. And she's, she's thrown down hard. Spanberger, in her drive to be Newsom's vp, has done the same thing in the Commonwealth of Virginia. After she swore on the campaign trail she would not do that, she signed an executive order to do it. So the Democrat and fry and waltz. I think you heard President Trump in the, in the, both at the prayer breakfast and I think in the NBC interview have, have, have not been cooperative at all. Maybe a couple of sheriffs have taken Tom Holman's phone call. That's not unprecedented. Unprecedented cooperation sends a signal to the other side. And let me tell you where we are right now. We're in a jam. Eric Schmitz, Senator Schmidt's going to be here, I think, help us think through how we're going to do this. John Solomon, who's going to tee up the show with his great reporting over just the news of, like how, you know, we got the SAVE act and the Save America act and Make America Great Again act and they kind of all in combination get to the problem. But right now, I think, and I realize some people disagree with me, I think they've got the cards because we've walked into this trap that we've carved out dhs and you saw last night, they came and gave us their demands. Their demands is essentially to shut down ice. No mask, you know, body cameras. Right. Body Cameras, not to track people, these illegal aliens, but to, but to show the vulnerable, show vulnerabilities of what the ICE agents are doing. Also they don't have immunity. You need a federal warrant, you need a judicial warrant on every time. You got to get. 15 million people will be 15 million years before we get them. None of that, none of that is negotiable. It's non negotiable. Every item they sent. And they know that because now they say, well good, shut down, shut down dhs. We don't care. Because they don't care. They don't care about terrorists coming in the country. They're for mass immigration, they're for open borders. They're consistent because their business model is predicated upon it. Totally predicated upon it. They probably, Jesse Kelly said it, I think he's right. They probably got 20, 25% of the vote in this country. They can't win unless they cheat. Why do you think they're going crazy over. We're saying, hey, we're just putting ice age around. There's not going to, there's going to be zero illegitimate foreigners in this country voting for pre, for the midterm elections that basically want to do, to shut President Trump down. This is not even a question. And they can get as they can, they can throw the toys at the pram and throw a hissy fit and whine and, and moan every day. It's not going to happen. And we need to, the, we need the, the Republicans to take a tough stand. I know that's an oxymoron, but they're going to have to do it. I heard today at some of these meetings they've got these Senate meetings going House means donors are back there. People are talking about these voucher programs. Hey, if a guy's been here for five years, no, you're not giving any vouchers. We're not doing that. Particularly the people that are involved in allowing the Somalians to come here and now sitting there, going to know nothing about it. Tom Emmer, you started the Somalian caucus in, in the House of Representatives. You have, you're just as guilty of doing this as a Democrat. Okay? And you may be the whip and you may be a big guy and you may be a hockey player and you're going to high stick everybody. Hey, I don't care. You're part of the problem. And now that now it's been exposed of what a scam it is and what a crime against the nation, all of a sudden you're missed. Oh we got to get the Somalians out. Well, where the hell were you when it first happened? Everybody knew this was going to happen. This is not shocking news to anybody. So we're in it now in the next couple of weeks are going to define and anybody, if you give them, if you put body cameras, you're just giving the opposition, so you're just taking a knee. They're going to look at anything as weakness. And right now, unprecedented cooperation. A couple of calls from sheriffs and upstate Minnesota is not unprecedented cooperation. That's some guys pleading for help. I got it. When Fry goes on national TV and says, yes, we're going to allow, we're going to allow ICE to come in to the jails and start getting these, these bad hombres out in an organized fashion. I mean, get them the hell out of the country. And Wall says, we're going to do it through the rest of the state and we're going to welcome ICE to do this as step one. Then to me, that is cooperation. We haven't seen that. We haven't seen the numbers. And I can tell you the rest of the states in Illinois, in California, in New York and now the Commonwealth of Virginia, they're throwing down harder than ever. Cortez, you got it. You got a great documentary on this. I do want to go to the House banking thing because, because, you know, right there, Max rose in the cold more. The Republicans don't have anything. Dude, pull your head out your ass and look at the, look at the growth rates that are happening. Right? Look at the growth rates that are happening. Don't give me the mouth that we don't know what doing in the economy. Look at what Biden did. The all federal spending that got us into the inflation problem and buried us as far as debt goes because of the ridiculous spending you did on things that don't matter. President Trump, at least the tax cuts are focused on driving capital investment to draw manufacturing back here, provide high value added jobs along with this tariff and trade policy. So don't tell me we don't know anything. The economy, the economy's roaring. In fact, one of the problems is, is Polly Pockets is sitting there. He's telling people the economy is going to be so on fire, we don't have to worry about anything else, sir, the economy is going to be on fire. And yes, there's a lot we have to worry about. Steve Cortez, your thoughts about where we are, sir?

Steve Cortez (43:07)

Yes. So regarding the economy and it's directly related to immigration. Real wages are the Mother's milk of prosperity for the vast majority of Americans who don't own substantial financial assets. So that means their pay adjusted for the goods and services they need in their life. That's real wages. We had a two year stretch under Joe Biden, two years straight for 24 months. Every single month, real wages went down. People were working harder to get poorer. Longest such stretch on record in American history. What we now have with Trump back in office is every single month of the Trump presidency, real wages are leaping higher. That's great news. Why is it connected to immigration? Because we've taken over 2 million illegal workers out of the labor force where they were competing unjustly, unlawfully against American workers, depressing wages for American citizens. So it's clearly one of the key reasons. There's other reasons, but it might be the foundational reason that particularly for working class Americans, real wages are jumping higher. So at the same time they're bringing home more, more money. They're also bringing it literally to a home that is finally getting more affordable. And again, I point to the numbers here, not just sloganeering. Rent just hit a four year low nationally. We've seen rents come down since Trump took Office nationally by 1.4%. It's much more than that in other places. Once again, to connect this to immigration, I just wrote an article about this. A national survey of apartment owners, investors and landlords. 40% of them say that one of the reason rents are going down, and I would argue the primary reason they're going down is because the illegals are leaving. They put an artificial stress on the housing market. Again, not just competing in the job market, but also competing in the housing market against American citizens. So our pay goes up, our life gets more affordable on top of all the other benefits of a secure border, national security, street safety, reclaiming our culture, social cohesion, a more patriotic, unified society of high trust that we can rebuild. But the economic benefits are tangible. They're clear. And again, this is another compelling reason why we absolutely must keep the foot on the gas regarding immigration enforcement. Because immigration enforcement is an affordability driver. It's an affordability accelerant. Joe Biden put us into a terrible bind on both of those macro categories on immigration with an open border and on affordability. President Trump is a. Both is addressing both at the exact same time.

Steve Bannon (45:38)

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Steve Cortez (48:31)

When you think of central Illinois in the American heartland, you probably conjure up images of abundance, fertile farms, windswept plains, hardy Midwestern patriots, and perhaps even the University of Illinois fighting Illini. But unfortunately, you should also picture this. Yes, that's a Lai Ni football broadcast in Mandarin Chinese in the middle of America. Why is it just insane for us to effectively educate our enemies?

Steve Bannon (49:20)

That is part of the ecosystem. We are providing an ecosystem for the Chinese Communist Party actually to stay competitive with us. We're providing them access to American equity markets, mass access to American debt markets, to basically pension funds, workers. Money in the United States whose jobs are being shipped overseas are essentially paying for that as we're financing that. Also the training. They're in our national labs, they're in companies here in the United States. But particularly we have 350,000 or more, because I'm not even sure we know the exact number that we are taking into our best universities and training them in competition to our own people.

Political Commentator 1 (49:55)

And we need to be a patriotic nation. I mean, we, you know, I'm American. I love the fact that I'm American. I'm blessed that I'm American. On the one hand, I'm proud to be an American, but on the other hand, I am blessed to be an American. And it really hurts my heart when I see teaching institutions or any institution that is denigrating the American or our Western culture.

Steve Bannon (50:26)

Okay, the Big Ten and, and the Fighting Illini. Illinois, a great university. How do we get in a situation, Steve, of now? Because I keep saying it's the public IVs, it's not the Ivy League. That's the problem. They're all over the Ivy League. But it's the University of Michigan, it's University of Wisconsin, it's Berkeley, it's Illinois, it's University of Virginia, North Carolina. These public Ivies. Or where the big problem is, because this is where kids, particularly in state, kids of, of every demographic, every faith, should be able to go to school. If you're an American citizen, your parents have been here for a while. This is the problem. We're taking these. We're taking these Chinese nationals. And a lot of times it's not this kid's fault, but they've all got to sign up to report back to the CCP Intelligence, sir.

Steve Cortez (51:16)

That's exactly right. And by the way, yes, the pressure on those young Chinese is intense and I feel for them. They're victims of the Chinese commun party as well. But I'm concerned with the American victims of this entire rotten structure. That last guest we showed there, Tony Robinson, he's a fantastic example of what these universities can do and used to do. He grew up on the south side of Chicago. Young black man with a single mom, was brilliant Studied hard, went to University of Illinois, studied chemistry. And Steve, it changed his life. He became an industrial chemist, and he is now somewhat retired into teaching chemistry. He's now passing that forward to the next generation because that's the kind of patriot and man he is. He says in that full interview, he says, I'm not sure I get that chance. It's going to go. That spot's going to go to a Chinese national now from overseas instead of an American at a flagship university. And it's happening all over the country. Unfortunately, one of the worst cases is University of Illinois. That's why I highlighted it. 6,000 Chinese nationals in the middle of the American heartland. By the way, the Chinese government, they're evil, but they're not dumb. Why do they choose U of I? Because it's so good at stem? Because people like Marc Andreessen and Larry Ellison came out of University of Illinois. A lot of amazing companies and amazing technological developments have come out of U of I. We're now going to pass that knowledge on to the Chinese. And by the way, in some cases, it's not passed the knowledge on, it's have the knowledge stolen from us. You mentioned University of Michigan, of course. We just had shocking indictments of Chinese students at the University of Michigan who were literally smuggling bioweapons into the United States in an attempt, we believe, to attack American agriculture, to poison our food. So, you know, in the, in the most benign case, we're taking opportunity from Americans, and we shouldn't be doing that. In the worst case, we are actually inviting spies and saboteurs into the United States. We're incentivizing them to come in. And these universities are at fault, the politicians are at fault, and folks, we're paying for it. Here's the thing. Even if you've never been to college, if you've never sent a kid to college, all of us, every one of us, are financing these schools, and not just the state schools, in many ways. We actually finance the private institutions, the Ivy Leagues, even more. Columbia University, for example, the home of Alexander Hamilton, half foreign, gets billions of dollars in foreign aid. So I'm making the case in this documentary. And Steve, you are a critical part of this documentary everybody needs to watch, particularly for the Steve Bannon segment, which is so key. I'm making the case that the number of Chinese nationals at American universities should be zero. It should be bagel none. And the number of foreign students overall should be capped at an extremely low level. I'm arguing for 1%, but something reasonable not the 25, 30, 40% that we're seeing at these selective universities again, that we subsidize.

Steve Bannon (54:10)

No. And make those available to local kids. I know how great University of Illinois is. The great Grace Chong, one of the most brilliant people I've had an opportunity to work with for many decades, came out of University Illinois. I think she's a kid from Chicago. Make it available to the kids from Chicago. Make it available to the kids from Illinois. We don't need Chinese Communist party here taking 6,000 billets immediately. Turn those all over. And here's the reason they're taking higher tuition from the CCP guys. The people in state pay a lower tuition. That arbitrage is what pays the tenure in the retirement for these left wing professors. This is the jam we've got ourselves in. And particularly when you talk about the more technical programs both in business and in agriculture and in chemistry and the sciences and particularly technology, you're absolutely correct. Before I lose you, Steve, real quickly, where do people go to get all the content? Because I got to ask you about Meeks. Where do people go?

Steve Cortez (55:08)

Cortez investigates.com Cortez with an S at the end. Cortez investigates.com it's free. Watch it. Share it. We don't. We're not monetizing this. We want the world to see this. We want all Americans to get angry, informed and then take action.

Steve Bannon (55:21)

Hang on. Senator Schmidt's going to be next. I'm asking Steve if you could hang around. Elizabeth Warren is lighting up Scott Bessant today. Scott Bessant there to walk through the president's economic plan with the Banking Committee. She's the ranking member. Real Quickly, Steve, 30 seconds. Meeks attacked, attacked Scott Besant hammer and tong yesterday. Tell me about Meeks.

Steve Cortez (55:44)

Yeah, so let's look at Meeks 2008. He had to pay $63,000 to the FEC for using campaign funds for personal expenses, including personal trainer and his own personal vehicle. He also took a zero interest loan from a donor. He bought a home for $170,000 less than it was worth from a donor. He cozied up to Chavez when he was in charge of Venezuela. Meeks is intrinsically corrupt. He is no one to be lecturing. The great Scott Bessant Short commercial break.

Steve Bannon (56:12)

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