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Donald Trump
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Eric Bolling
All right, folks, at 4:00', clock, markets are closed. On the corner, Broad and Wall. Right now we're open for business. West Palm Beach, Dow Jones. Look at this day. Look at what went on today. 524 up at one point. Nasdaq was down 200. It rallied towards the end of the day, up 150 points. S& P showing a nice move. Here's some good news on that chart right there. Not in the gold market, down a little, but again, look, we started one year ago at 2, 800 an ounce for gold, up almost $2,000 an ounce. Over the course of a year, about 70, 75, 80% maybe move up. Very, very good. But the one right below it, that is very important. 62, 1962, 19 for a barrel of oil. And the reason why that's down $3 is because Trump announced that there may be some sort of non hostile negotiations on some oil sales between he was going to take some of the oil, take it from Venezuela and sell it to some of our allies and they versus them buying it from Russia. This was seen as a very, very positive thing in the oil markets, meaning oil prices go down. Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies are just bystanders right now. They're spectators right now watching the metals move up and down the stock market, move up and down the oil markets. Bitcoin and other cryptos will have the their day. All right, but before we move on any further, if you're 64 years or older, this is important. Every year, too many seniors realize their Medicare plan doesn't cover the doctors they trust. Suddenly they're stuck finding new doctors or way overpaying. That's Medicare. You can spend hours researching, doing everything right and still end up on a plan that costs you thousands of dollars. Chapter first time with us here. Chapter is the only national advisor that compares every Medicare plan. On average, they save people over $1,100 per year on average, folks. One caller, Jill, said her chapter advisor showed her options she didn't even see on her own Medicare website. That's how broken the system is. Chapter is a free resource for our audience and can review all your options in under 20 minutes. So if you're on Medicare or will be soon, call my friends at chapter 814. Chapter 814C H A P T E R. It's help you can trust. And when I hit that age Medicare available, I will call them as well. All right, let's bring our first guest really Good to have him in studio. The American elites and foreign. He says the American elites and foreign powers are using immigration as a political weapon. He believes the thousands of illegal immigrants with criminal records didn't just come here, they were sent here as a weapon to change our demographics and our country. Happy to have the author of the Invisible Coup, How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a weapon. Mr. Peter Schweitzer right here in studio. Really good to have you, my friend.
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Peter Schweitzer
Great to be here.
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Eric Bolling
Congratulations on this wild success of the brand new book. We'll get to all that in a second because it is really dealing with the, the most important issues that are facing America right now. Let's start with Minneapolis, Minnesota. How is this playing out? Who are these agitators?
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Peter Schweitzer
Yeah, well, it's funny because people look at Minneapolis and they think, okay, this is a bunch of middle aged white women blowing whistles, right. And doing crazy things. And there's that element. But there's an international component that people aren't aware of. What do I mean by international component? There are groups in the ground in Minneapolis that we know are tied to the Communist Party of China. They are tied to the Mexican government or they involve the Muslim Brotherhood. And that is a key component to understand, I think, the immigration debate. This is a, in a sense, a battle, a war of civilizations that's taking place within the United States. And they mean to use immigration as a tool to subvert the country. That's not my words. I actually quote them in the book saying that very thing.
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Eric Bolling
Tell us how. Tell us. Give us the. You know, there's a lot of people who talk about this belief. Yeah, give us the steps towards. Is it Russia, is it China, is it Soros, Is it. Who are these Muslim Brotherhood? Scares of bejesus out of me when you say that.
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Peter Schweitzer
Yeah.
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Eric Bolling
How do they actually get into the pockets of these people?
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Peter Schweitzer
That's a great question. So they have different methodologies. They don't all sit around and decide what they're going to do. It's a confluence of interests. So Mexico's strategy is to actually encourage as many people to come to the United States as possible. That seems counterintuitive. People think, well, the Mexican government doesn't want people leaving their country and they actually do because they view it as an opportunity to not only get those remittances, you know, the $60 billion that sent back to Mexico, they also see it as a way of subverting our sovereignty. There was a government report issued by a senior President Sheinbaum aide in Mexico in December of 2024. That said there are 39.9 million Mexicans now living in the United States. We are retaking the territory that was taken from us. And you think that's kind of a ridiculous thing to say, but there's dozens of senior government officials saying that. And they actually back it up. They have 53 consulates in the United States. Compare that to China and Great Britain who have six or seven respectively. And those consulates are involved in political activities inside the United States. They also fight to encourage Mexicans not to assimilate, not to become American.
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Eric Bolling
Why though?
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Peter Schweitzer
Well, they regard them as traitors. And in fact, I quote Alejandro Robles, who's a senior Sheinbaum aide, senior Marina party official, that's her political party, who says that Sheinbaum agrees with him that they are traitors. If they Americanize, if they adopt American values, they should stay true to Mexican values.
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Eric Bolling
Come over here, take our US Dollars, send them back to Mexico, but don't assimilate.
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Peter Schweitzer
That's right.
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Eric Bolling
This is one of the biggest problems, I would say Somalians are. I don't even know if they're told to do it. They just don't know how to assimilate because they come from a rogue country.
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Peter Schweitzer
Yeah, I mean, this is a common thread among all these groups. The Mexican government does this. The Chinese government certainly does not want to Chinese to assimilate. They say you'll never be blonde hair and blue eyed an American. So they put it in sort of these racial terms and they tell Chinese, you're not going to become American. Don't even try. Stay true to China, the Muslim Brotherhood the same way. Because they see immigration as a weapon, a way of transforming the country. That's the word that they use.
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Eric Bolling
To what end? Pete, let me throw this out here. I believe that they're. They call the governments, they let these people go try and make a living in the United States. They want to not assimilate because they want. They wanted to disrupt American, The American civilization.
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Peter Schweitzer
Yeah. They want American civilization to be changed. Now the interesting thing is that this is a marriage of convenience. Right. The Mexican government doesn't want necessarily the same thing as the Muslim Brotherhood. But you see these odd coalitions just like you see the trans rights activists next to the Islamists. It's a bargain that they have come together to defeat the United states. Back in 2007, there was a meeting that involved the two adult children of Che Guevara and they went to Iran to meet with the mullahs and they said, we don't agree on a lot, but we agree on one thing. We need to destroy the United States, and then we'll sort things out later. So that is the reality. They're.
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Eric Bolling
Yeah. So you have China with. With one motive, you have the Muslim brother with another, you have the trans. Antifa. Trans Tifa, we call them.
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Peter Schweitzer
Right.
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Eric Bolling
With yet another, you know, ideology that they want us to somehow not be able to attack you, make us more disrupted. Then we can't focus on any one group. And is there a clearinghouse for all these groups, though?
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Peter Schweitzer
There's not a clearinghouse, but again, there's a confluence of interests. It's kind of a Venn diagram. Right. They have overlapping interests and they have a lot of funders that are troublesome. So part of that is sort of course, domestic NGOs that are supported by people like George Soros or Bill Gates. And these immigrant groups say our goal is to transform America through demographics, through cultural change. But then you have the foreign sources as well. So in the case of Mexico, you not only have the 53 consulates, you actually have elected Mexican government officials that live in the United States. You have senators and members of their chamber of Deputies that represent Mexicans in the United States before the Mexican government, which is a massive intrusion into our sovereignty. So they are chipping away at it. And we need to recognize that the problem is not immigration as we think of it, it's weaponized immigration. It's when foreign adversaries are using it as a tool and a weapon. And until we deal with that, I don't think we're going to be able to look at the larger issue of how much legal immigration do we want?
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Eric Bolling
So Mexico. Yes, agree. I believe all that's going on worrisome for me. The true group that. That worries me the most are Muslim, are Islamists, because they believe by their nature that Sharia law is the rule of the way. We're infidels if we don't bow down to. To their allah.
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Peter Schweitzer
Yeah, no, 100%. And the harsh reality is a lot of the extremist mosques in the United States, and there are quite a few in places like Dearborn, Michigan, and in Texas and in Florida and New Jersey, a lot of them are headed by imams that are not Americans. They're here on R1 religious visas, and they're radical, and I quote them extensively in the book. They talk about we need to destroy Western civilization, and we're going to do that with immigration. We're going to use immigration as a Weapon. And they say, we don't need to. We don't need to reach majority. They look at Mamdani's victory in New York, and they say, look, if we have 10 or 12% of the population in a given geographic area, you got it, you win. Yeah, you win. Exactly. Because most people are apathetic. They certainly don't vote in political primaries. They don't vote in general elections either. So they believe that with that critical mass, they can achieve political power. And the same network that the Muslim Brotherhood uses for a lot of these, you know, frightening, violent activities is the same network that's being used to elect people in the United States. So they have funded the campaigns of people like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. So it's a major problem. Again, recognizing the problem is not general immigration, although you have to get things right there in terms of sealing the border. It is weaponized immigration and screening who's actually coming into the country. And for the life of me, why we're importing these radical imams. I would never.
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Eric Bolling
So tell me about this religious visa you just mentioned, because it's the first time I've heard this. I mean, Trump is very good, finding these little loopholes, if you want. Maybe it's not a loophole, but, but, but in saying, I'm not sure we want to do that program going forward, or maybe we want to vet these folks a little bit more.
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Peter Schweitzer
Yeah. The R1 Visa is designed to bring religious workers into the United States. Catholics can use it, Jews can use it, Protestants can use it. So, of course, can can Muslims. The problem is the Department of Homeland Security has done several studies on this, and the, the problem is that when it comes to the Muslim visas, they are wildly filled with fraud. They are wildly filled with disinformation about who these people actually are. And there's no screening. So you could be a radical imam that says, I, you know, I hate Jews and I want to destroy Western civilization. And there's no fact checking or vetting done. That individual comes here, sets up a mosque or assumes responsibility in a mosque based on.
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Eric Bolling
Tell me, is it the same theory of presenting yourself at the border saying, I'm being persecuted, I fear for my life. I'm being persecuted to practice my own religion. Because I don't think they are.
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Doug Burgum
Are they?
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Peter Schweitzer
No. Well, that's a great question. It's in fact the congregations in the United States, the radical congregations that say we need more religious workers because the.
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Eric Bolling
Law says we're not like the tech bros with H1B, visas.
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Peter Schweitzer
Exactly right. Exactly right. And so what happens is there's a lot of fraud. So they will say we need 20, quote, religion workers to come to our mosque, but only two of them are actually working for the mosque. The other 18 are doing political work, they're doing religious work that. That, you know, borders on extremist action. So it's a real, real problem and something that needs to be cleaned up. And again, amazing. The goal is to transform and destroy Western civilization.
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Eric Bolling
Keep that thought, because the book deals with all of this, right? Yeah. The book is phenomenal. By the way, Sheinbaum, president of Mexico, was presented with a question about Peter Schweitzer's book.
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Peter Schweitzer
Yeah, yeah, she was. She said that man with that book, she was asked specifically about.
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Eric Bolling
That alone is going to get me to read this book.
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Peter Schweitzer
Yeah, she was asked specifically about what I did, which was quoting councilor officials from Mexico saying, you know, we've gotta stop Trump. We've got to elect more Democrats. We need to defeat Republicans. That is not what foreign diplomats are supposed to be doing in the United States. I also pointed out the fact that senior government officials from Mexico are ramping up these violent protests, the ones that occurred in Los Angeles, the one that are occurring in Minneapolis. There's a senior official again named Alejandro Robles, who in 2025, went across the country. In his own words, he said he was organizing the militancy against the Trump campaign.
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Eric Bolling
And the Mexican government was condoning this.
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Peter Schweitzer
Yes, absolutely. He's the.
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Eric Bolling
Hold that thought, Peter. Hold that thing. We got good news, folks. We're going to keep Peter for another block in just a minute, but first, I want to talk to you a little bit about the edge. Look at these moves in both gold and silver. There is gold. That's silver right there. That's three days of trading in silver. Look at that. Monster move up, monster move down. Most people think markets, and there's show me gold. If you got gold, throw the gold one up there as well. There's gold. Look at these. It's insane. It's. I did this for. For 30 years, I was on the trading floor. Golden silver. I've never seen moves like this. But most people think markets move on supply and demand. Well, that's partly true, but only partly. That framework works. Until it doesn't. When volatility spikes like that stuff, two forces matter far more than anything else. Fear and greed. Fear forces people to act, to save from massive losses. Or when what you thought was going to happen doesn't happen. Fear creeps in and causes sometimes knee jerk reactions. Greed. Greed convinces people they're right or will be even more right and more profitable if they stay the course. Sometimes that's worse than, than the fear trade, by the way. The market doesn't care which one you feel. It only cares who's disciplined and who has the conviction to make the right moves when things swing violently. That's true in markets. And get this, it's true everywhere else in our lives, in our workplace, in our bank accounts, even in our personal relationships. This is what the edge was built for. We don't predict volatility, we train for it. So grab that QR code right there, take your camera, aim it right at that qr. Little yellow line comes on hit, subscribe, come over. We're never going to charge you for anything. I just want you to be part of this massive movement. We're going to teach you all about fear, greed, supply, demand, staying sharp and sane when everyone else is losing their mind. That's the edge. Once you're part of that. We'll be back two and a half minutes with Peter Schweitzer. All right, we're back with the author of the Invisible Coup. How American elites and foreign powers use immigration as a weapon, Mr. Peter Schweitzer. Pete, we talked, we touched on a little bit. Don Lemon. Don Lemon in Minneapolis buses into, busts into the church, he gets arrested and all of a sudden he becomes put on a pedestal. Let's take a look at last night at the Grammy Awards. Don Lemon shows up and with these lunatics gets a standing ovation. Just, just hear this a little bit. All right, so that was Clive, Clive Davis as he throws a Grammy party every year. You know, world renowned music producer, but biggest probably producer on the planet music these days, Whitney Houston. Don Lemon gets a standing ovation in Clive Davis's pre Grammy party. Here's my question though, Pete. Don goes to Minneapolis, breaks into church, gets arrested. And I'm just, while we're talking in the A block about these other countries kind of destabilize us. Yeah, there was a day where they were accusing Tucker Carlson, some people on the right, of taking Russian money, right. To influence our media here, their opinions. Is it possible he is part of the other side, the disrupting side, or is he just a journalist just, just showing the folks what's going on?
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Peter Schweitzer
Well, I think he's grandstanding more than anything. I mean, maybe he is taking foreign money. I don't have any evidence for it. And in a way he probably would. I hate to say it be too stupid to. To cooperate effectively with the international actors. But, you know, the foreign element in Minneapolis is there. I mean, two of the most active groups are frso, the Freedom Rose Socialist Organization and the.
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Eric Bolling
Backed by who. Who are they with?
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Peter Schweitzer
They are. They're close to China. They align themselves with China. They pledged allegiance to China. They have fraternal relations with the Chinese Communist Party. They travel there all the time. So FRSO is neck deep in these violent protests. The other one is the party for socialism and liberation. Same thing. Very close to the ccp. There are some people who believe there's financial transactions involved here. I haven't been able to confirm that, but they are neck deep in this violence. And then, of course, Mexico has a Consulate in St. Paul, Minnesota, and they've involved with a couple of the groups, the immigrant right groups that are very active in these protests as well. So this is a battle of civilizations taking place inside the United States. We're used to thinking of this as a function of international affairs. This is actually going on domestically in our country, and foreign actors are very heavily involved.
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Eric Bolling
So I went on Piers Morgan's. I told you this in the very one, Piers Morgan's podcast, very popular podcast this morning. And it was myself, as usual, usually is against three liberals, this one and this girl, Tara Palmeri, who used to be a reporter for ABC DC, also wrote for Politico, now does another newsletter in D.C. and she said, bowling, if you knew anything about journalism. And I stopped and I said, you know, I don't claim to know squat about journalism, but I do know I have this. And I don't know if you can see. This is a White House press card, right? It's a. It's a hard pass. I can walk to the. Into the White House anytime I want. Don't need a meeting. So kind of know a little thing or two about journalism. I said, tara, if I use this card to walk into a mosque, right, and had my shoes on and start asking their. Their people, the Muslims in there, are you legal? Show me your legal status. Who do you back? Do you back Trump? Or you. Do you. Do you back Iran? Or. If I did that, they throw me out of the place. I probably get arrested for it and probably actually have to. You know, certainly if it was a Biden or Obama presidency, I'd be in trouble. Here's my point, though. Don Lemon didn't practice journalism, in my opinion. I think there's even video of him talking to the crowd that was going to bust into the church prior.
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Peter Schweitzer
Yeah, yeah, he seems to be involved in the planning. And by the way, this. This pass is not a get out of the jail free card. If you commit a crime and you are carrying a journalistic pass, you've committed a crime. There's. There's no way of getting out of it. And the charges against Don Lemon are related to the fact that there is video of him seemingly organizing with the organizers. He knows what's coming, he knows what they're planning to do, and then he seems to participate in what's going on in the church. So just because you flash a media badge does not exempt you from criminal charges. And I think that's the point. The point is people are tired of the media saying, we have special privileges that other people don't have. And I think in the case of Don Lemon, he clearly stepped over that line. It was a participant, not just a journalist who was in the distance reporting.
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Eric Bolling
What was going on. Do you think this is him? It's a speculation, folks. We don't know for sure. But this could be Don saying, this is my opportunity to raise my Q score, my recognizability score, and at the expense of this. This pastor and his church. Or is he a useful idiot to some of the socialists that just want to disrupt America and communities?
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Peter Schweitzer
I think it's a little bit of both. I think the socialist wanted him there and used him effectively. But I also think Don Lemon, this is a way to raise his profile. Right. How do you. If you don't really have a platform, you don't have a lot of people that are watching your content on a regular basis, how do you get attention? Right. You position yourself as a victim. You position yourself as. Oh, my gosh, people are coming after you.
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Eric Bolling
Get your ass arrested.
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Peter Schweitzer
Yes.
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Eric Bolling
Helps you quite a bit.
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Peter Schweitzer
Oh, it's great video footage. Exactly. So I think it's both. He was being used, but he was happy to be used because it's beneficial to his career. And that standing ovation. You told me about the standing ovation, I didn't believe you. I said, no, this is going to hurt Don Lemon's career ultimately. But, no, it's actually going to help it. It's going to resurrect his career. And I would anticipate we're probably going to see more of this from Don Lemon and from other quote, unquote, journalists who see it as a way to get attention, draw attention to themselves, and try to build the flock that's following them.
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Eric Bolling
Yeah, and coincidentally, Tim Walls is very close to the Chinese people. Isn't he?
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Peter Schweitzer
He is. He is. He's. He's expressed sympathy for the Chinese system.
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Eric Bolling
You got married there, didn't you? Or the honeymoon in China.
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Peter Schweitzer
He honeymooned in China. And the other thing that's interesting that I'd love your take on is as. As the governor of Minnesota. He's the chairman of the state's financial investment board. Right. They invest the pension fund money. Bloomberg ran a story that Minnesota under Tim Walls is one of the very few states in the United States that has increased its investments in mainland China over the class over the last eight years. And that's interesting because even liberal states like Washington State have. Have reduced their risk, recognizing the human rights and national security concerns. Not with Tim Walls. He has dramatically increased Chinese investments in China, which I find very interesting.
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Eric Bolling
Very interesting. And, you know, waiting for that smoking gun, I contend that he's very concerned that there are. There's. There's an email somewhere or two or a conversation that was overheard somewhere of him, especially with the Somali and the 9 billion or whatever. It ends up being like, he may be on the hook a little bit, but again, Pete, and our audience hates this, that we never get perp walks. We get a lot of people doing a lot. Clintons.
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Peter Schweitzer
Yeah.
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Eric Bolling
We get a lot of people doing a lot of bad things. And you just never see it come to a final accountability. Final thought.
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Peter Schweitzer
I keep hoping if the Clintons continue to deny these subpoenas before the House Oversight Committee, that the DOJ will actually charge them with contempt of Congress. They did a Steve Bannon. They've done it to other people. Why are the Clintons, should they be any different? This Department of Justice. You had even Democrats on the House Oversight Committee vote with the majority of Republicans to say if the Clintons do not honor this subpoena, they're going to file a recommendation for criminal charges to doj. If DOJ is ever going to step up, this is the time to do it. Contempt of Congress.
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Eric Bolling
Yep, it is. And again, these guys can play so many games on Capitol Hill, negotiating with Congress side deals until it lands on, well, Pam Bondi's desk, if it's still Pam Money at the time.
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Peter Schweitzer
Yeah.
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Eric Bolling
Or maybe Jeanine Pirro, who's ever ended up being. Hopefully it ends up with that. All right, Peter, when do we. You're going to be a New York Times bestseller, aren't you?
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Peter Schweitzer
Yeah, we're debuting at number one on the New York Times list. Yeah. So it's been amazing response. President Trump has sent out tweets about it. We're grateful for. And of course the President of Mexico has been forced to respond. And I've been asked to testify before the US Senate in March on some of the findings of the book. So I'm very excited to get you.
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Eric Bolling
On after you testify.
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Peter Schweitzer
Absolutely.
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Eric Bolling
I would love some sound bites anytime. Any congratulations, Peter? Peter, I have worked together for a long time, but one of the great, great conservative commentators in the world, folks. Thank you, Peter.
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Peter Schweitzer
Thanks Eric, for having me.
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Eric Bolling
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Donald Trump
We'll go over that. But we have some great business leaders, the best here today. And John, if you would start it off, that would be great. Thank you.
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John (likely John Greeley or a senior official at Export-Import Bank)
Thank you, Mr. President. The President gave us a very clear directive by clear directive. It was much more of an order for us to figure out how to for the first time in American history, create a strategic critical minerals reserve in a way that would benefit the non military manufacturing complex. The challenge was enormous. Not simply because it had never been done before, Mr. President, but we knew that you expected us to deliver in a big way, in a way that was scalable, in a way that was designed for long term success and in a way that would help revitalize our domestic mining industry. But most importantly, most crucially, that it not be subsidized by American tax taxpayers. And so that's exactly what we've done. Mr. President, what you've announced today is a truly uniquely American solution. It brings together our capital markets, which are the best and biggest in the world, with our manufacturers, our innovators, our miners, all pitching in to make this possible. Now, these things don't happen without the best and the brightest within industry being at the table.
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Donald Trump
And.
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John (likely John Greeley or a senior official at Export-Import Bank)
And Mr. President, everyone wants to engage with this administration, with your administration. The key ingredient here was your call to action. Your call to action allowed us to bring together the best players in the market, sometimes the fiercest competitors, getting them to work together to come up with a creative solution. Now, in addition to our great team at the Export Import bank, who worked around the clock, led by Brian Greeley, Jeff Wilson, Sarah Witten, many others, others, we benefited from having the biggest manufacturing CEOs, the smartest market players at the table, all looking to solve this problem. So what we have with Project Vault is marrying a capital solution with what we need when we need it most. And the best part about it is that the American taxpayer will earn a return on financing the first ever strategic critical minerals reserve in history. And we thank you, Mr. President, for allowing this to happen. All of the people around us today help make it possible. Our Cabinet secretaries, our top CEOs, their teams, top market players, whether it be GM, GE, Vernova, Boeing, Klarios, Google, Mercuria, especially Brian Fallick. Hartra tracks this. Our friend Robert Friedland. All of us work together, Mr. President, to deliver this for you and for the American people. So that manufacturers and workers all across the country can rest assured they'll have what they need when they need it. Both.
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Donald Trump
And you're covering everything with this? We're not just doing certain minerals and rare earths. We're doing everything.
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John (likely John Greeley or a senior official at Export-Import Bank)
Everything on a critical.
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Donald Trump
What about magnets?
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John (likely John Greeley or a senior official at Export-Import Bank)
We're focused on the critical raw materials. And we anticipate that that, led by our great manufacturers, will help breed even more solutions.
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Donald Trump
Great job. Thank you very much. Secretary Doug Burgum, please.
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Doug Burgum
Mr. President, again, I want to echo what John said, which is a great thank you to you. You've set the direction, and when you took office, you've done more in the last year for mining and minerals in our country, perhaps than any president in history. Just like drill, baby, drill. You said mine, baby, mine. And what's happened in our country is you've led us through deals with equity deals for the first time. The United States of America is driving equity deals to help sustain and balance this market. You unlocked Alaska with the Amber Road project that opened up over 1700 mining claims in Alaska. And of course, on beautiful clean coal, we've got critical minerals that are co located with that coal and we've unlocked that. The Biden administration did zero coal leases during the last four years. You've done hundreds of millions of tons of coal leases. That's going to help drive electric prices down in America permitting. You mentioned this in your remarks. There were some permits that it's lingered for 29 years. They got done in four months last year under your administration and under your emergency authorities. Some of these permits got done in as short as 12 days. You helped create a club of nations to help balance out the fact that we didn't have markets that were functioning around critical minerals. You let off with Australia, Japan, Korea, Saudi Arabia and Thailand. This week we'll announce 11 more countries that are joining that club of nations as part of this global coalition. And behind that, in the pipeline, there's 20 more nations that want to join under your leadership to allow for trade of critical minerals. And then here we stand today with the teamwork that was described. This would not have been possible without the incredible cabinet you put together. Marco Rubio, Scott Besant, Howard Lutnick, Chris Wright and many others were involved in bringing this together through the vision. Standing with us today are some of our chairmen of our great congressional leadership who also have supported this and helped us find a way to do this without any appropriations. This is happening without tax dollars. And of course, our team on the ground here at the White House, including David Copley and everybody else at the nsc. David leading the global supply chain work, folks, working with Ex IM bank team, working around the clock to make all this happen. So again, when you lead, when you put out a challenge, the teamwork happens. And then here we stand today. This is the largest Ex IM bank deal in the history of the Ex IM bank by more than double. And this is going to help drive national security. It's great for American manufacturers, It's great for American workers. Congratulations, President Trump.
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Donald Trump
Thank you. You're doing a fantastic job. Doug. Thank you. Could I ask Mary Barra, the chairman CEO of General Motors, which is setting records every single day and she's doing a fantastic job, to say a few words and also discuss how good the car business is now in the US please?
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Mary Barra
Well, Mr. President, I want to thank you for your commitment to strengthening US Manufacturing and supporting the auto industry. I also want to thank your cabinet and members of Congress and the whole team here that made this possible today. Having a resilient supply chain is critical for our nation and it's critical for all industries, especially the auto industry. We have been strengthened with many of the different policies that have been put in place over the last year. So I want to thank everybody for that. It not only supports US manufacturing, it supports job creation. It also supports the consumer. So thank you. And business is held very strong. We still see a strong consumer. So I'm excited about 2026.
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Donald Trump
I think it's going to be a record with all of your new plants opening up and everything else in our country. In our country. Robert, please.
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Robert Friedland
Mr. President, thank you so much for what you've achieved. Everything we touch, we either grew it agriculturally and you've helped the farmers, or we mined it. All these cameras you see in front of you, they were mined. Every time you pick up a hand phone, it was mined. And so stimulating the ability for the miners in this country to help you industrialize the country. They're the salt of the earth. And, and we're super excited that America is doing something for not only our national security, but for the reindustrialization of the country. Because you can't re industrialize Detroit with a lot of metal. And I'm telling you on behalf of every miner I know they're elated at the breakthroughs that have been achieved here. They'll make a lot more cameras in the future. And maybe you could help us teach everybody that everything you touch like that somebody minded. And we need your support and we're really happy to get it.
- [32:23]
Donald Trump
And congratulations. You're in the hall of fame. Is that the Rare Earth hall of Fame or minerals?
- [32:29]
Robert Friedland
It's a bunch of pictures of dead guys that go back to Herbert Hoover, who was a miner, you know. You know, mining is down to 1% of the S&P 500, but really, everything you touch needs mining. And this is the first administration with your support where we've got hope we can go out and really do it. So as you you know, I last met you in Saudi Arabia with Mohammed bin Salman. We're working in Chile. We want to bring these metals back to the United States and refine them and use them right here. And the vision of this administration, Howard Ludnick's been helping a lot. A lot of people at Exim bank have been helping a lot. I'm just telling you the morale of the miners is sky high, doing a great job.
- [33:08]
Donald Trump
Thank you very much. Congratulations. That's a big deal.
- [33:10]
Robert Friedland
Thank you.
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Donald Trump
Thank you. How about Franchiel say a few words, please? Thank you, Mr. President.
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Doug Burgum
Well, on behalf of Congress, Chairman Westerman can talk about how he's helped unleash the ability to mine through permitting reform. And Senator Marino and I serve on the House Financial Service Committee and Senate Banking Committee. And we're best in this country when we take the private sector and we leverage it to unleash the directions that you're made. And so, together with our reauthorization of the Ex IM bank, we leverage that source with private sector dollars to make this a success. And it's going to be a huge strategic change in America's industrial capacity.
- [33:45]
Donald Trump
Big difference, right?
- [33:46]
Doug Burgum
Big difference.
- [33:47]
Donald Trump
There's never been really anything like what we're doing. Bernie, please.
- [33:51]
Bernie (likely Bernie Moreno)
You know, not to be hyperbolic, but.
- [33:52]
Donald Trump
If you hadn't been elected, the auto industry in America would be over. Completely, completely over. The country would be over.
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Bernie (likely Bernie Moreno)
Well, but the auto industry would have been gone first.
- [34:02]
Donald Trump
The what the Democrats had done with.
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Eric Bolling
Electric vehicles, the mandates, what you were.
- [34:06]
Donald Trump
Able to accomplish last year, Secretary Lutnick, what Secretary Bessant was able to do.
- [34:10]
Bernie (likely Bernie Moreno)
With your leadership, has transformed the auto industry. I tell you, it's never been better.
- [34:15]
Donald Trump
For people in the auto industry. I hear from all my friends, they are elated. And the worst part is that the.
- [34:20]
Eric Bolling
People you really saved were the car.
- [34:22]
Donald Trump
Dealers in California and New York, New Jersey. And they fought me all the way, Mary. Right. They fought me all the way. And now they're saying, thank you very much, but you're doing a great job. Thank you, Bernie. Scott.
- [34:36]
Bernie (likely Bernie Moreno)
Sir, as you always say, economic security is national security. And a country does not have sovereignty if we don't have control of our critical minerals, don't have control of our steel production and our industrial base. And thanks to the work of everyone here, through your leadership, this was a public private partnership that only you could have assembled. And we are taking back our sovereignty, and we are going to have this Volt project, a strategic mineral reserve. And I can't tell you how innovative and exciting this is. And the level of security it is going to give us going forward is phenomenal.
- [35:16]
Donald Trump
And how is your new and I think, new and approved Fed chairman doing? How's that all going?
- [35:22]
Bernie (likely Bernie Moreno)
He's off to a great start.
- [35:24]
Donald Trump
I think so.
- [35:24]
Bernie (likely Bernie Moreno)
He had so much built in credibility. And as the American people, smart people like the Representative Hill, the Senator Moreno, they already knew him. And as the American people get to know him, the important thing is that they will be able to trust the Federal Reserve to steer the economy for them.
- [35:46]
Donald Trump
He's going to do great. Howard, please. So prior presidents took America for granted. They let our critical minerals only be controlled by China.
- [36:00]
Peter Schweitzer
They let our mining business go to.
- [36:02]
Donald Trump
Hell by closing all the mines, closing our coal plants while trying to open them. They let our auto industry. Right.
- [36:10]
Peter Schweitzer
We used to produce 75% of our cars in America. And when Biden left, it was below 50%. We were just letting all of these.
- [36:18]
Donald Trump
Industries just be shredded from America. And thank goodness you are in this.
- [36:23]
Peter Schweitzer
Chair, changing it and taking it back.
- [36:26]
Donald Trump
We are taking back critical minerals.
- [36:28]
Peter Schweitzer
We are taking back mining.
- [36:29]
Donald Trump
We're taking back the auto industry. You're going to watch us take back pharmaceuticals.
- [36:33]
Peter Schweitzer
We're going to take back semiconductors. None of this could possibly happen without your leadership.
- [36:38]
Donald Trump
And it is the most fun to stand back here with your leadership because we are changing America back and making it great again. That's very true. Anybody would like to say anything else? Amen. You guys okay? Everything all right?
- [36:51]
Doug Burgum
Chairman was well. Thank you, Mr. President.
- [36:54]
Donald Trump
Such a good man. Go ahead. A great day.
- [36:57]
Doug Burgum
And it couldn't have happened without your leadership. And I think people will be talking about this for a long time because.
- [37:03]
Eric Bolling
We'Re bringing back American mining and American manufacturing.
- [37:06]
Doug Burgum
You know, God blessed our country with abundant resources.
- [37:10]
Eric Bolling
Secretary Burgum talked about the Ambler Road 49. Critical minerals that can be mined in sufficient quantities just in that one area.
- [37:17]
Doug Burgum
But from northern Minnesota, Arizona, my home state of Arkansas, we are blessed with all these minerals. They're just in the ground.
- [37:25]
Eric Bolling
But when we get them out of.
- [37:26]
Doug Burgum
The ground and not only mine them, but refine them and process and manufacture with them, it'll unleash great wealth for our country. And that'll just build on all the other successes. So thank you for what you've done. It's a great day.
- [37:39]
Donald Trump
And how does it feel to be in the Oval Office? Is that crazy? Are we ever here?
- [37:43]
Robert Friedland
No, I've never been here, sir. But it's fantastic.
- [37:45]
Donald Trump
All the goals here? A little bit, yeah. But it's a special place. Never been so beautiful either. Yeah. Questions, please.
- [37:53]
Mary Barra
Mr. President, speaking of the Fed, would you like to see Jeanine Pirro drop the investigation into Chairman Powell to help? Senator Tillis has basically said that, you know, he's not going to really be working.
- [38:04]
Donald Trump
That's why he's not a senator very soon.
- [38:07]
Mary Barra
Would you like to see the investigation?
- [38:08]
Donald Trump
No, I'm Just going to take it to the end and see. Look, you're doing a small renovation, and they've spent almost $4 billion doing a small renovation. I'm doing buildings. I built a hotel, the Waldorf, it's called. And I did it for around $200 million is a much bigger job. They're spending almost. It could be $4 billion. I'll tell you what, I don't even see an end in sight. I feel badly for the new Fed chairman because he may not have an office for four years. I don't know what these people are doing. So it's either gross incompetence or it's theft of some kind or kickbacks. I don't know what it is. But Jeanine Pirro is incredible and she'll find. Figure it out. But no, you want to take it and just find out what happened. Because we can't go around doing a renovation of a small, little complex, very small couple of little buildings, and spend billions and billions of dollars on it. Something went wrong. We have to find out what it was. Yeah.
- [39:05]
Mary Barra
Please, Mr. President. Thank you. Speaking of renovations, you announced you wanted to build a new and spectacular entertainment complex at the Kennedy Center. Do you plan on doing tearing it down?
- [39:15]
Donald Trump
And how much will all of the renovations cost? Probably around $200 million. And you know, it's funny, in real estate and building, I've done so much of it. I've done so well with it. You want to sit with something for a little while before you decide on what you want to do. And, you know, we sat with it, we ran it. It's in very bad shape. It's run down, it's dilapidated, sort of dangerous things fall out, fall out of ceilings. You've seen it. And we had some big events there. We had a lot of great events there over the last year, but you can't do any work because people are coming in and out and you have the workman. We have a marble man over there the other day, he said, you know, every time I put down a piece of marble, people are stepping on the marble. They don't even have time to dry. And you can't do the same quality job if you close it. And, you know, we're fully financed. And so we're going to close it and we're going to make it unbelievable, far better than it ever was, and we'll be able to do it properly. I was thinking maybe there's a way of doing it simultaneously, but there really isn't. And we're going to have something that when it opens, it's going to be brand new, beautiful. I'm not ripping it down. I'll be using the steel. So we're using the structure. We're using some of the marble and some of the marble comes down. But when it's open, it'll be brand new and really beautiful. It'll be at the highest level. We can do a much better job, probably in a way a faster job in terms of, you know, because when you do it piecemeal, for instance, they have a play tonight and you can't do anything. You have to pull out everything and you can't have stanchions all over the place and people are walking in to see a play. So we'll be closing it sometime around July 4th. It's like, we'll close it on July 4th in order to do something great for America. And then we're going to build it. We have great contractors. We're going to build it and we'll do it right. We're using the highest grade marbles, the highest grade everything. It'll be brand new, tremendous carriers. Putting in the air conditioning. I guess they're a better, but they're probably going to get it carrier. We're going to have all brand new air conditioning, heating. The steel will all be checked out because it'll be fully exposed. You know, it's been up for a long time, but as anybody knows, it was in very bad shape. Wasn't kept well before I got there. So we're going to make it. I think there won't be anything like it in the country.
- [41:34]
Bernie (likely Bernie Moreno)
About your meeting with President Petro later this week. He's been quite critical of you since you spoke back in January after the Maduro raid. What would you like to hear from him tomorrow in terms of drug trafficking, Venezuela? What are your expectations?
- [41:46]
Donald Trump
I mean, he's been very nice over the last few years. Month or two. He was certainly critical before that, but somehow after the Venezuelan raid, he became very nice. He changed his attitude very much. So, no, I look forward to seeing him. He's coming in. We're going to be talking about drugs because tremendous amounts of drugs come out of his country. And I look forward to see. We're going to have a good meeting. Yeah. Steve Witkoff is going to be the Iranian Foreign Minister on Friday. What are you hoping you'll get out of that? Well, you're going to have. A lot of things are happening. You have Iran and you have Russia, Ukraine and you have the Middle East. We have a lot of things going. A lot of problems were here for a long time before I got here. We settled eight wars. And I think we're going to. I think we're doing very well with Ukraine and Russia. For the first time, I'm saying that, you know, we're doing. I think we're going to maybe have some good News. We're losing 25,000 people a month are being killed in that war. Ridiculous war. 25,000 was 31,000 last month. Think of it. Young, beautiful kids, you know, the kids of parents. They have parents. It doesn't affect us in one way, but in another way, it's 25,000 souls that if I can solve it, you know, we're not spending money like Biden did. He gave $350 billion away. I make everyone pay. And the United nations, you know, they're a little bit involved, but if you look, take a look at what's happening, the countries of Europe are paying us for the weapons. So we have NATO paying. We send missiles over there, they pay us in full, doesn't cost us 10 cents, and we make money, I guess. But I don't even want to talk about that, because what I really want to do is save those people from. Then there is. Mary, can you imagine 25,000 to 30,000 people a month? That's like a stadium full of people every single month. And, you know, I mean, I was blessed with something where I can get these things done. Got eight of them done. I thought all eight were going to be more difficult than this one. I thought my relationship with President Putin would give us a, you know, much easier road. But there's tremendous hatred between Zelensky and Putin, tremendous hatred. I mean, it's a shame, but it's taken longer than we thought. I did call up President Putin and he's agreed. He's put it out, too. They have the same cold wave that we do, maybe different, because it's pretty far away, but it's the equivalent. And Ukraine's a very cold country. It's much colder than us. It's colder than they say. On average, it's Canada or colder. And on top of that, they have a tremendous cold wave. Then I asked him if he wouldn't shoot for a period of one week, no missiles going into Kiev or any other towns, and he's agreed to do it. So it's something. Talk about Iran's nuclear program. Do you think Mr. Witkoff will get a deal on that? Well, we're talking about that. We have ships heading to Iran right now. Big ones, biggest and the best. And we have talks going on with Iran. We'll see how it all works out.
- [44:44]
Mary Barra
Mr. President, whenever you speak with President.
- [44:47]
Donald Trump
The Pentagon released National Defense Strategy last week and it says, where are you from with that? Nice. From Europe, Lithuania, Baltic states.
- [44:54]
Peter Schweitzer
National Defense Strategy says that U.S. will provide critical but only limited support for European defense.
- [45:00]
John (likely John Greeley or a senior official at Export-Import Bank)
What does that mean, limited support?
- [45:02]
Donald Trump
Can, will the US Still. Well, we get along very well with Europe. I do, because, you know, don't forget I got the GDP lifted from 2% to 5%. Nobody thought that could be possible. And they're giving us a lot of that money there. We have the best military equipment. We're selling it to NATO. But I get along very well. But Europe has to be careful because, you know, there are those that say it's no longer recognizable between immigration and energy. You know, it's, there's so much potential in UK you know, you have the North Sea oil and they basically close it down and then they buy energy from Norway, which is the North Sea, the oil. So you figure that when in Norway's got trillions of dollars, they have to be careful. You need energy and you can't do the windmills because the windmills, you're supposed to make money with energy, not lose money. So I'm very disappointed. I look, I love Europe, I love the people of Europe. And they have to be very careful. They're at a tipping point. You have tremendous immigration problems and you have tremendous energy problems. It was a bad combination.
- [46:06]
Mary Barra
Mr. President. Thank you. Mr. President, Kristi Noem just announced that you're deploying body cameras to Minneapolis. What's your thinking behind this decision and do you want to see this?
- [46:16]
Donald Trump
Well, it wasn't my decision. I would, you know, I leave it to her. They generally tend to be good for law enforcement because people can't lie about what's happening. So it's generally speaking, I think 80% good for law enforcement. But if she wants to do that, I'm okay with it. Remember one thing, we closed the border. We had a. I got elected on a disastrous border and we have nobody coming in through our border anymore. We had 25 million people come in in four years through our border. Many of them were murderers and drug dealers and mentally those mentally insane from mental institutions and insane asylums. And now we don't have anybody coming, coming in for nine months now. I mean, they actually report zero. We have zero people coming in, which I find hard to believe. But the Democrats do that report. They tend to be left leaning that do that report. So I assume it's true. If it's not, it's a very tiny amount of people. But we basically have a tremendously perfect strong border. And also crime levels are at the lowest point. They've been in 125 years, since 1900. We have the best numbers. And that's despite the fact that we had a lot of criminals and murderers. 11,888 murders came in and we have the lowest numbers that we've had in 125 years. So, you know, so we're doing a good job. If she wants to do the camera thing, that's okay with me.
- [47:43]
Mary Barra
Mr. President, there was one comment about during January. Do you think this is due to your efforts and do you think two states should see this as a sign that they should cooperate with you?
- [47:53]
Donald Trump
Well, if there was one, I mean we haven't had one in a long time. D.C. has become a very safe. It was an in house homicide. It was in house. It was a, it was a dispute within a family. We have had virtually no crime in D.C. d.C. Is now considered a very safe place, and it should be. It's our nation's capital. And we sent in the soldiers. I read the Washington Post this weekend, it was incredible. They were trying to determine how come, how did we get so low numbers. The low numbers in D.C. because we have very little crime, if any. And they talked about everything except for the fact that we put our National Guard and great soldiers inside our city. They didn't want to mention that it's how dishonest because if we didn't do that, you'd have tremendous crime in D.C. and I get thanked every single day by people that work in the White House. People, young ladies, men, they come up, thank you sir, for making D.C. so safe. They walked to work. Now, a year and a half ago, they wouldn't have walked to work. They would have been killed or mugged or something would have happened to them. So it's, you know, it's a great honor. But you've got to read the story of the Washington Post. They do it. Crime is way down in D.C. now, what's the reason for it? The reason for it is we have very big, strong, good looking soldiers standing around and I think they make the place look better. But this is our capital and we have a very safe capital. We had a very dangerous capital before. Yeah, please.
- [49:21]
Bernie (likely Bernie Moreno)
Sir, yesterday you said you were speaking to people about Cuba to reach an agreement.
- [49:25]
Peter Schweitzer
What sort of agreement are you hoping to reach?
- [49:27]
Donald Trump
Is that what the Cuban government, it's a failed nation now and they're not getting any money from Venezuela and they're not getting any money from anywhere. It's a failed nation. Mexico is going to cease sending them oil. So I'd like to take care of the people that are here from Cuba. You know, we have many people that came from Cuba that were thrown out of Cuba or that fled Cuba. They came over on rafts, they went through shock infested waters. I don't know how they did it. And it was many years ago. Many would like to go back. Men would like to at least visit their relatives. And I think we're at a pretty close. But we are dealing with the Cuban leaders right now.
- [50:06]
Doug Burgum
Mr. President.
- [50:07]
Peter Schweitzer
Mr. President, the wall Street Journal reported.
- [50:09]
Eric Bolling
That the royal family of Abu Dhabi.
- [50:11]
Peter Schweitzer
Invested hundreds of millions of dollars near World Liberty Financial. Can you explain why you decided to take that investment? Was that a transaction?
- [50:18]
Donald Trump
Well, I don't know about it. I know that crypto is a big thing and they like it. A lot of people like it. The people behind me like it. My sons are handling that. My family is handling it and I guess they get investments from different people. But I'm not, I have all I can handle right now with Iran and with Russia and Ukraine and with all the things we're doing. So I don't know. I don't know exactly other than, you know, I'm a big crypto person. I'm the one that probably helped crypto more than anybody because I believe in it. And the reason I believe in it is because if we don't do it, Scott, I think we can say then China is going to do it.
- [50:54]
Doug Burgum
Right?
- [50:55]
Donald Trump
If we don't do crypto then than China's going to do it. And it's just like AI. We're leading AI by a lot. And if we weren't leading, China would have led. You know, they're very capable, they're very good. What do you have to say about that?
- [51:08]
Bernie (likely Bernie Moreno)
You've made America the digital asset capital of the world. We did the genius act for stablecoins. Many of the people standing up here are working on the clarity bill to.
- [51:18]
Donald Trump
I hope that gets done.
- [51:19]
Bernie (likely Bernie Moreno)
Market structure and we're bringing us best practices to an exciting the new industry. Digital assets innovation and it spreads everywhere. So if the US and you agree.
- [51:31]
Donald Trump
That if we didn't do it, China and others would, but China would.
- [51:34]
Bernie (likely Bernie Moreno)
Oh, China would have had the lead and then others around the world and terrible jurisdictions would have been doing it.
- [51:42]
Peter Schweitzer
And on Iran. Sir, can you say what your threshold.
- [51:45]
Eric Bolling
Of military action is with.
- [51:46]
Donald Trump
Well, I can't tell you what I, I'm going to do because right now, you know, we have a tremendous force going there, just like we did in Venezuela, even bigger. And they'll be there soon. And I'd like to see a deal negotiated. I don't know that that's going to happen, but, I mean, if I knew, I wouldn't be able to. I wouldn't tell you. I'd be very foolish. But right now we're talking to them, we're talking to Iran, and if we could work something out, that would be great. And if we can't, probably, probably bad things would happen. Yeah, please. On the government shutdown, do you think there could be a resolution to this issue?
- [52:25]
Doug Burgum
And have you gotten assurances from House Republicans?
- [52:28]
Donald Trump
Well, I spoke with Speaker Johnson, I spoke with Leader Thune, and I think they're pretty close to a resolution. You know, we were at 5.6% GDP and we lost a point and a half because of the 42 days shutdown. Think of that. We would have been at seven. Nobody ever saw a number like seven. And I think, Howard, probably a point and a half was the number. Right? Point and a half for the shutdown. Exactly right. And it's very bad for our country. But despite that, we have the highest numbers we've ever had. You know, we're doing well. We're. We're going right through it. But I will say that I spoke with Senator Schumer numerous times and I don't think they want to see a shutdown either.
- [53:07]
Mary Barra
Mr. President, are you going to sue Trevor? Noah, last night in a post, you alluded that something could be coming.
- [53:11]
Donald Trump
Yeah, well, he said that. He said that I spent time on Jeffrey's. Jeffrey Epstein's island. I didn't. I mean, he's a lightweight, this guy. He's a terrible. I thought. I think he's terrible. I thought he did a terrible job at the Grammys. I thought the whole Grammys was terrible. I watched part of it. It's not watchable, but he was a lousy host. I'd say not as bad as Jimmy Kimmel, but. But pretty close. And no, he made a statement about me and Jeffrey Epstein. I have nothing to do with that. I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. And in fact, if you look at the DOJ, they announced, you know, they released 3 million pages. It's like this is all they're supposed to be doing. And frankly, the doj, I think, should just say we have other things to do because that whole thing has turned out, I mean, other than Bill Clinton and, you know, Bill Gates and lots of people that have. There are a lot of questions about it, but nothing on me. But it was even sort of better than that because they found that Jeffrey Epstein and this Leesbag writer named Michael Wolf were conspiring against Donald Trump to lose the election. So Epstein was conspiring with a writer for me to lose the election. So right there, you know, that I had nothing to do with this guy. But, yeah, it's a terrible thing, the amount of time that's being wasted. You know, when EPC was alive, like 10 years ago, nobody cared about it, but they're only doing it. But now it's really hitting back on them because Bill Clinton is such a big part of it. The Democrats are pushing it. And the problem is that it's turning out to be the Democrats that were with and conspired with Epstein. So I think you're probably going to see a little pullback from them. But think of it. They were working together to try and help me lose the election. But this is the Oval Office, so I guess that didn't work out too well. Okay. One more question, Mr. President.
- [55:04]
Peter Schweitzer
Do you have an update on the.
- [55:05]
Donald Trump
U.S. troop level in Europe?
- [55:07]
Peter Schweitzer
Are you planning any force reductions?
- [55:08]
Donald Trump
No. We have a great relationship with Europe. We have a great relationship with our troops. You know, the greatest. One of the best things that. What I can say is that when I, if you go back a year and a half ago, so I'm running for election, they had the worst recruitment numbers in the history of our country. Nobody wanted to join the military or nobody wanted to join the police. Nobody wanted to join the fire departments. We couldn't get anybody to be a proud member of our country. And now, Doug, as I told you before, now we have the best recruiting numbers that we've ever had in our military. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Space Force. We love in Coast Guard. I love the Space Force. It's doing great. But now we have waiting lists on every. Everybody wants to join. You know why? Because people are proud of our country. Because our country is doing great. I think Mary can say the same thing. You had lots of people not working so well, and now you. I mean, you just wish you could get them in faster. I know that it's hard to get them.
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Mary Barra
Yeah. We continue to bring people in and have training programs. We're investing in the U.S. training people.
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Eric Bolling
Yes.
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Donald Trump
But two years ago, you didn't see anything like this it's amazing what's happened. So we have the number one in the history of our country. We've never had more people that want to join our armed forces than we do right now. And a year and a half ago, nobody wanted to join. They were embarrassed by our country, they were embarrassed by our leadership, and now they're proud of our country, and they're very proud of our leadership. And a lot of the leadership is right behind me. Thank you very much, everybody.
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Mary Barra
Thank you, Press. Thank you, Press. Thank you, Press.
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John (likely John Greeley or a senior official at Export-Import Bank)
Let's head out.
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Mary Barra
Thank you, Press.
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Donald Trump
Start moving.
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Peter Schweitzer
Thank you.
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Eric Bolling
Well, that was supposed to be a closed press, by the way, which means he does these things in. In the Oval Office or wherever. And the press is there and they do this, and then they release the video to us later. He ended up opening it up right as we were, you know, ending the. The interview with Peter Schweitzer. So he went about 30 minutes on that. We didn't have much time for anything else. But whatever we missed today, we'll bring into tomorrow. I really want to continue to talk about Don Lemon, what he's up to. And you heard them talking all about some of the things that went on last night in the grammars. Anyway, War Room's up next. We'll see you tomorrow. Hopefully have a maybe 60 minute show tomorrow. We'll see.
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Donald Trump
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