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Only appliances again but prioritization doesn't mean forget about everybody else. That means you have a criminal alien here and non criminal here. The criminal always comes first because he's the biggest threat to the communities. We can continue to force immigration law, but we'll get back to the footprint here, the normal footprint here. But there will be some security teams staying here, the QRFs until we're assured that those agitators incensed either stay low or further decline. I'm not going to remove everybody out of the safety of our officers, but like I said, Operation Metro Surge is ending. And in the next week we're going deploy the officers here on detail back to the home stations or other areas of the country are needed. But we're going to continue to enforce immigration law. That's what American people voted for. But it has to be a priority of and look, I hear all the hate about, you know, you should arrest everybody. Well, we are, but we're prioritizing those who are the biggest threat to our community. The rapists, the murders, the child molesters, molesters. That's the right thing to do. But I'll say it again, President Trump made a promise of mass deportation and that's what this country is going to get.
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Operation Metro Surge is ending. There are going to remain some officers, some agents in Minnesota. According to border czar Tom Homan, the immigration cris crackdown in Minnesota seems to seems though to be wrapping up. And they say that they've achieved what they set out to do may actually be coming to an end. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry said this in.
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A statement, quote, they thought they could break us.
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But a love for our neighbors and.
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A resolve to endure can outlast an occupation.
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These patriots of Minneapolis are showing that.
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It'S not just about resistance.
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Standing with our neighbors is deeply American.
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And here's Minnesota's governor Tim Walsh.
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Minnesotans never wavered.
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And for that I will be forever grateful.
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I think it's probably safe to say the rest of the country will be forever grateful because they showed what it means to stand up for what's right, to stand up for the true principles of this country, to stand with the Constitution and to stand with human decency. And so I want to note that the announcement today by Mr. Holman, we.
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Are.
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Cautiously optimistic, as we've said, and that this surge of untrained, aggressive federal agents are going to leave Minnesota.
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As the governor noted there, the acts.
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Of bravery by the people of Minneapolis.
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Including the tens of thousands of people.
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Who went out to protest day after.
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Day in bitter cold temperatures, have inspired a nationwide movement.
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Signs of it are everywhere in recent weeks.
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There's progress in that.
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They are leaving right now.
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But as far as some deal that.
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Was struck to get them out, the answer is no. I think what you saw is, is.
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You saw a federal government and an administration that thought that they were going to break the people of Minneapolis down.
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They thought that we were going to.
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Back down and sort of kowtow to whatever it is that they were looking to get done, not just locally in Minneapolis, but nationwide. They were looking to implement a national agenda based on coercing us to change local policy. And here's the thing, we didn't. The people of Minneapolis stood up. They stood up for their neighbors. They loved on each other. And I think that's the kind of.
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Patriotism that is ultimately going to get us through this.
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But I'm pleased to be joined today by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, who you all know and to announce the single largest deregulatory action in American history. That's a big statement in American history and I think we can add the words by far under the process just completed by the epa. We are officially terminating the so called endangerment finding. A disastrous Obama era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers. Prices went up incredibly for a worse product. This action will eliminate over $1.3 trillion of regulatory costs and help bring car prices tumbling down dramatically. You're going to get a better car. You're going to get a car that starts easier, a car that works better for a lot less money.
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It's absolutely appropriate for people to breathe a sigh of relief, particularly the people in Minneapolis. But around the country, I mean, everybody wants this one of that nightmare to end. And obviously trust but verify will. We'll make sure that, we'll keep watching to make sure that they actually are doing what they say they're going to do. I do think that it's all dress rehearsal. You know, there's been this, this upward movement from, as we go through this, counted every time I feel like I talk about this, but from Los Angeles to Washington to Chicago to Minneapolis, there's just been an increase, and importantly an increase in the, in the number of agents, federal agents on the street. But also importantly, a realization. You know, you'll remember back in Los Angeles, we were all freaking out about the fact that, and rightly so, that Donald Trump had deployed some Marines to Los Angeles and that was unconstitutional or illegal violating Posse Comitatus. I think that one of the things that happened over the course of that time was that Trump realized that the military might be just too professional for him to carry out what he wants to get done in these cities, both in terms of the deportation agenda, but also as a dress rehearsal for what might happen at the polls in November. And there was a realization as he went through these various trial runs, these, these dress rehearsals, that ICE was the better agent for him than the US Military. Who knows, somebody who actually is a senior ranking person in the military might stand up at some point and say, sorry, we're not going to do this President Trump because it violates Posse Comitatus because it's not in keeping with our mission and with our oath to the Constitution. No one in ICE is going to say that Donald Trump has figured out that ICE is the way to go. If you want to exercise these kind of repressive and violent tactics and these kind of intimidating tactics that are all designed to build up people, not in Minneapolis, but around the country watching what happened Minneapolis, as much as they admire millions of us admire what people were doing on the streets and resistance in Minneapolis, people also are looking at what happened in Minneapolis and saw two execution style murders on the streets of Minneapolis. And there are going to be people around the country who are going to be left with a residue of fear because of what they saw on the part of the government in Minneapolis. And so I think, you know, this just is to amplify Miles point this. None of these things should be taken in isolation. We have to be able to look at them as a continuum, as an escalation. And we have to look at what the end game is. And the end game, I think, is not just an endgame that has to do with the deportation agenda. I think the end game has to do with the elections in November.
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I want to thank Governor Walsh for his messages focusing on peace and his support for the Minnesota State Troopers to respond to unlawful situations that put federal officers and the public at risk. I also want to thank Mayor Fry for taking A public stance against agitators setting up barricades that block streets and endanger public safety and for directing the police to take those roadblocks down. Just say, I want to thank Police Chief o', Hara, Sheriff Witt and various other local law enforcement for their responsiveness and efforts to maintain law and order in the streets. We've seen a big change here in the last couple weeks and it's all good changes. I'm also pleased to report that we're seeing a notable decrease on unlawful agitator activity here in Minneapolis and overall throughout the state. This is great news for Minnesota communities that have been adversely impacted by the lawlessness and chaos on the street.
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This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Prison's not got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul.
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I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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War ROOM here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
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It's Thursday 12th February. Yer Valer 2026. A lot of breaking news this afternoon. Of course there you saw Tom Holman trying to be magnanimous and compliment Mayor Fry and compliment the governor. Of course you saw the governor of those guys afterwards, we ended an occupation. These guys are terrible guys. President Trump trying to go out of his way to work out something here. The Senate voted on the Save America act, I think 52, 48. All the Republicans voted for it. Thune had to shift his for a technicality. Had to shift this so they can bring it back up, but not close to the 60 votes. Think they're going to vote again about some patch and then they're going to leave for the Munich Global Security Conference and take next week off. So got to figure out what's going to happen to ice, what's going to happen to DHS here. Other big breaking news. We're gonna get to that in a moment. Bring Julie Kelly and talk about not able to compromise. We had a judge that sat there today and said that Pete Hegseth cannot recall Kelly to active duty to have him face a military tribunal and be court martialed. And then our favorite Bozberg, Julie Kelly, joins us by phone. You've just put something great up on your substack. This is unbelievable, but this shows you President Trump is trying to work with these people, but you can't work with them and particularly the judiciary and these sanctuary city mayors and these sanctuary state governors. There's nothing they're going to take and take and take. They will never compromise. You can't compromise here. Julie Kelly, our favorite Boasberg, who the House has not moved on impeaching and I even think Ted Cruz mentioned that he should be impeached along with your other Beryl Howe, your other favorite. What did Boasberg do today? And I realize people are going to find this quite unbelievable, ma'.
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Well, Steve, you and I have talked about this for almost a year. I mean, this is a full circle moment from March 15th of 2025. The first lawsuit lands on Jeff Bosberg's desk, chief judge of the D.C. district court. This is the ACLU filing the first lawsuit to prohibit the president's invocation of the Alien Enemies act and that ordered the immediate deportation of illegal Venezuelans who were tied to Trend Aragua, which has been designated a foreign terrorist organization by the administration. That night, as planes had already left US Airspace, two planes carrying AEA subjects, Jeb Bosberg gives what he called an oral command to return those two planes carrying the illegal Venezuelans that they had not been offered their due process rights and or habeas petitions. So of course, planes were already out of US Airspace. As we've discussed, they were sent to seekot in El Salvador and then eventually released into Venezuela. Jeb Bosberg now has spent almost an entire year trying not only to get these illegal Venezuelans back to the United States, but to use that oral order, he calls it, as the basis of contempt findings against the Trump administration because they did not return those planes. They were in contempt of court. So what does he do today, Steve, here we are almost a year later, he finally issues an order demanding that not just the DOJ return the men who have now also left Venezuela. They're a third party country. That's what he called them, arrange for remote habeas hearings for the people who are still in Venezuela, but the men who are flown back to the United States who want to advance their habeas claims that means get out of detention or continue to oppose their designation as an AEA subject. Jeb Bosberg ordered the government to pay for these men to be flown back to the United States, meaning of course you and me and everyone else pay for their transport back here.
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So this is going to be cecot, the collection of these gang members, these violent gang members that we've seen at cecot. We've got to take those out of that prison. He's ordered we take them out of that prison and by on US taxpayer dime fly them back to the United.
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States out of sicot last year and sent back to their home countries of Venezuela. So they are not imprisoned anymore. They are at their either in Venezuela where Bossberg has acknowledged that there won't be a way to get them back here because of what's happening between the United States and Venezuela. But he nonetheless wants to make sure that those people, those men who are in Venezuela can get some sort of remote hearing and file more paperwork related to their habeas petitions meaning get out of detention which they're not in. I don't know how you can but continue a habeas petition when you're not in U.S. custody anymore.
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Julie, hang on one second. We'll take a short commercial break. The great Julie Kelly on the other side.
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. Julie Kelly I just want to make sure these habeas requests of over this is what's flooding DOJ right now in Minnesota and other places. Habeas corpus request, this is another law fir technique they've got and the lawyers can't even keep up with it. What so what is Boasberg proposing again? We're going to have zoom hearings with these guys in Venezuela, many of whom I don't even think are incarcerated down there.
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Right. So these men were at ccad as we said they were released into Venezuela with that prisoner swap deal as part of that. So they're in Venezuela, Some of them and this was talked about in a hearing on Monday that I covered, some of them apparently have left Venezuela and gone to other countries. The ACLU who's defending all these illegals didn't exactly know where out of these 137 men, these illegals, this pool that Bossberg has been trying to protect and get back to the US for nearly a year. How, how many of them actually left Venezuela? What third party country they're at what Bossberg is saying, okay, if they left Venezuela, they're a third party country. We are going to have taxpayers pay to have the those individuals come back to the United States. They'll be taken into custody where of course then they will file more habeas claims claiming that, you know, they want asylum or they're based persecution, all the other excuses that we see. Furthermore, they are going to challenge their designation under the Alien Enemies act, claiming to that they're not members of Trenda Aragua. So those are for the individuals who are not in Venezuela, those who remained in Venezuela. And again, the ACLU still can't really say who is where if they're in Venezuela. Jeb Bosberg wants to hold remote hearings. Imagine how that's going to work. You've got whoever sitting in a hovel somewhere in Venezuela with what Zoom connection, and he's going to have his lawyer there and they're going to have an interpreter because none of these men spoke English. And then you're going to have the DOJ on the other end. And of course, there's no sworn statement given. I mean, he's not in US Custody, he's not in the United States. So he doesn't care if he lies about the circumstances. No, I'm not a Trend Aragua member. Okay? I mean, so. And the DOJ has raised all of this in their responses to Job Boss, that not only is it's logistically impossible, everything that he's asking for, but that they're out of US Custody and our laws and due process and constitutional protections aren't conferred to these individuals. But it's just madness. Overall, Steve, you know, we have reports today that illegal immigrants are taking it on their own accord to halt their habeas petitions, to halt their fighting, their removal orders. And they're leaving because they see the writing on the wall. Regardless of what these district court judges have done, completely sabotage the president's immigration agenda for a year, the higher courts are reversing them systematically. So they see the writing on the wall, they're leaving. Then you have Jeb Bosberg, the chief judge of the district court in the nation's capital, wanting to return suspected gang members who are were here illegally from Venezuela, came here during the Biden regime and he wants them back on US Soil.
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No, the worst. The worst. And this is where I mean this name, mass deportations. These are the first bad hombres that got out of here.
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In President Trump's article, two powers, doesn't this re emphasize? And I don't know why the House hasn't moved to at least begin hearings on the impeachment of Bosberg. It shows you the president can't try to negotiate. He can't try to reason with these people using lawfare. The aclu, this is a color revolution. They don't mind if they're hardened thugs that gang members that almost are a paramilitary operation back in the United States. So this is why President Trump, the movement in the House should be to impeach him, should it not?
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Oh, absolutely. And I mean, we've talked about this from the get go. They should have opened impeachment inquiry as soon as Mossberg filed that contempt motion that he was going to try to hold Trump officials in contempt of that oral order dating back to March of 2025. You know, Steve, I posted this today, Akash Singh, who is I think the associate attorney general, criminal division, very sharp guy, very understands what's going on here. He is asking prosecutors for examples of, you know, judicial bias and what they've had to deal with in these courtrooms. And I posted this is great. He's going to and he will collect those and he will be fierce on that front. However you get it to the Republicans in Congress, they're going to sit on it. Now fast forward to January of 2027. If Hakeem Jeffries gets a gavel, they will not waste a minute opening impeachment, not just for the president, not just for top Trump officials, for Judge Aileen Cannon, for Judge Amel Bovey. They are going to go after any judge, any judge who sided with the president over the last few years.
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It's obvious. Julie, it's on your sub stack. Where do people go to get it? Hopefully get you back on tomorrow, Saturday because this is breaking news and it just shows you the president trying to work with the Democrats and all he does is get slapped in the face every time. Where do people go for this?
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Well, Steve, you're always ahead of the game. But tomorrow's Friday and I will be happy to be on Substack is Declassified with Julie Kelly X Julie underscore Kelly. Two people can see my coverage of the hearing Monday. That set up the stage for what Bossberg did today and his order is linked in my piece at my substack.
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You're the one ahead of the curve. You teed us up early in the week this was going to happen. Julie Kelly, we'll see you tomorrow. Thank you so much.
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Thanks, Steve.
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Let's go to the White house. We got McCabe. Let me play the clip. We got Neil McCabe. Let's play Neil McCabe's clip from the hearing and I'm going to ask him how went, by the way, had a hearing about ice, about Customs and Border, about Minnesota. You had Emmer the whip, very unusual for the House to testify A congressman testify. You also had Ellison, my favorite character there. Let's go and play the clip and bring in Neil.
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Do you train absolute officers to beat.
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Somebody with a canister?
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There are only several officers holding someone down.
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Then you, you know, if you really want to, Mr. Chairman, connect. Can I ask just a process question here? Are the people in those videos not entitled to Fifth Amendment and 14th Amendment protection of due process? It seems to me. It seems to me that if we get to. If we get to a place in time in America, prosecution, where we have. Where we have a video that is the entirety of what is guilt or not guilt, puts us in a very, very. I don't think anybody's assessing. Well, I think that's what I'm saying. You're asking for conclusions. No, we're asking for conclusions for what is the proper use of force for all agents. But you're asking specific questions about a video, and the answers have been generic. Answers we haven't got. As they should be. As they should be, by the way. And so. And I just want to point out that these American citizens who are entitled to. Are entitled the Fifth and 14th Amendment protections. And for us to make certain that we keep that in mind as we ask these conclusive questions. They do for. For a court of law and for any criminal proceeding, they absolutely deserve that. Okay, Neil McCabe, that was. That was Bernie Marino stepping into the breach against Rand Paul. What is. What was this hearing like?
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Yeah, it was. Well, there were two. Two sort of goals the Republicans had. You had Joni Ertz and Josh Hawley or try to beat up Ellison on corruption and the Somali crime syndicate. But then you had guys like Ron Johnson, the former chairman of the committee, and then, as you said, Bernie Moreno, who really went toe to toe with the chairman of the committee, Rand Paul, you know, Rand Paul was, you know, put it out that he was trying to seek some kind of middle ground. I support the president, but obviously we're concerned that people are being shot and killed. But that clip you just played was, you know, Moreno interrupting Rand Paul and Democrat from Michigan, Gary Peters, who's not seeking reelection. Basically, Rand Paul and Peters are just going frame by frame showing how Alex Priddy was shot and killed by federal law enforcement. And so it was exciting, but I was amazed that Marino stepped up. As you said, you were able to.
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Catch Ellison on the way out. We had Tom Holman, being a real gentleman, said nice things about Fry, nice things about Waltz. Of course, they slapped him in the face when they took the mic later because you can't compromise with these people. You can't work with them. You heard what Boseberg just did. What was your interaction with Ellison like?
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Yeah, in the hallway after he was leaving, I asked Ellison how he would characterize his relationship and cooperation with Homan. And he was actually very gracious. And he said that all the other officials that came in, they would visit Minnesota, visit Minneapolis, and no one would ever talk to him. Homan was the first guy who talked to him. And he appreciated the fact that Homan was trying to work things out. And of course, you know, as you said afterwards, everybody got nasty. But in that moment, Ellison was trying to be the, the grand gesture guy.
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What came out of this hearing today? What's the takeaway? What did Rand Paul want to accomplish? Did he accomplish it? What's the takeaway?
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Yeah, I think Rand Paul was trying to sort of establish that middle lane narrative, but Moreno, he really stepped up and sort of tipped over that apple cart. And then Ron Johnson, former chairman of the same committee, Ron Johnson also went after the procedures and how ICE is being treated. And of course, you had Tony Lyons, the acting director of ice, who made it clear that despite everything the Democrats are saying, there is no cooperation whatsoever with ICE and the retainers. And so it was interesting anyway, so.
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I don't know what it accomplished. By the way, yesterday at the House, all they're doing is every, every congressman is asking for lions. Are you going to resign? I mean, this is. It's not. They're not. It's not a search for truth. Social media, where do people get? You, sir.
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Reporter McCabe on all the social.
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Steve, thank you, brother. Look forward to getting you back on here tomorrow. Okay, Natasha Owens is going to take us out. We're going to shift focus a little bit. I'm going to talk about these 2 million jobs that were created. Phony jobs, fake jobs in a psyop. The Biden regime having stolen the presidency. They tried to steal the reelection. We're going to walk you through how they did it. Also talking about reality and President Trump's economic turnaround. Birchgold.com Go check it out. The End of the Dollar Empire. With a qualifying purchase, you get a free copy of the hardbound edition called the Patriots edition of the End of the Dollar Empire. Been put into together. We've been publishing this now, pieces of it, installments for what, five years, since 2021. When gold is 1,000. Gold's over 5,000 now. Find out why. Talk to Birch Gold. Birch Gold.com promo code Bannon. Talk to Philip Patrick and the team. Short commercial break Back in a moment. Your host, Stephen K. Ban. E.J. and Tony joins me. E.J. i get such a positive feedback from many sources yesterday on your hit because somebody talked about this real quickly, the fake 2.5 million jobs folks over really two, two and a half years in the run up past midterm, in the run up to the 2024 election by the Biden regime. Walk me through that, sir, because people are outraged about it and I want to figure out what you feel we have to do to get to the bottom of it.
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Well, Steve, what essentially kept happening under Biden was the Bureau of Labor Statistics every month would publish these great jobs numbers and then over the next two months during the normal revision process, they would quietly revise those numbers down very consistently, end by increasingly large amounts. So it wasn't as if this was a one off or that the errors were getting slow, getting smaller over time. No, they're actually getting worse. And then when they would do their once per year benchmarking procedure, as it's called, which is where they take very reliable UI data that has to be filed with the Labor Department per the law, they would take that data, compare it to their previous estimates and realize, oh goodness, we were way off. And again, that happened the last two years in a row. This final one showed an overcount of 900,000 jobs in just a year. So again, that is on top of the existing monthly revisions that we already knew about. So you add all of this up and over a couple years, just over a couple of years, you see that the Biden admin overestimated their initial job figures by well over 2 million. I mean, that's absolutely appalling. Think of it, Steve. The Fed has been trying to make interest rate decisions based on faulty labor market data in part. I mean, the inflation data is, you know, there's problems with that too, trust me. But just sticking with the labor market data, these numbers have clearly been wrong and they've been wrong time and time again. And one of the things, Steve, that we discussed several times on your show was the fact that the jobs numbers kept going up even though the number of people who said they were employed was basically staying flat. And it just didn't make any sense. And we ultimately had to attribute that to some kind of error in the data because all of the other possible plausible explanations one by one were just slowly went away over time. Well, guess what? Now with these last two years once again being revised down, it has basically closed the gap between those two data sets. And so now we see that these much reduced jobs numbers are in fact, the accurate ones. In other words, you either had to have the survey of households catch up or the survey of businesses catch down. And of course, it was the latter, exactly as we had predicted on your show.
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What do you, you did this month after month. That's why the audience is going crazy, because we did this for years. Every month we said there's a problem. What is your. Give me a minute. What's your recommendation needs to be done here?
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Well, Steve, they have to bring the Bureau of Labor statistics into the 21st century. I mean, we're, we're still trying to do these surveys as if it was 100 years ago. So much of this data needs to just be simply automated and we need to actually have these systems redesigned in such a way that it's not burdensome for employers to actually fill them out. And you need to do one of the things that Doge did was they got separate computer systems to actually talk with one another. You need the exact same thing here, where weekly data that is collected in one area of the Department of Labor is actually communicated with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. If you actually start that kind of integration process, you could bring this data very quickly up to date instead of having to wait well over a year before we get accurate numbers. I mean, that's just appalling. That's ridiculous. It's no way to run the largest economy in the world.
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E.J. give me a minute or two. On the positive nature what President Trump and Navarre and all these people Scott Bessem been working on. We had very positive news yesterday. Of course, the mainstream business community barely covered it. I know a lot of the hedge funds and private equity did. But walk me through the jobs report yesterday.
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Sure, Steve. So a lot of really good news in it. In fact, it's hard to find bad news in the report. Manufacturing has been on a thin three year slide and it finally had an uptick in January. Now we'll see, hopefully that's the start of an upward trend. But whatever the case, it's welcome news. The fact that again, manufacturing, which has been contracting not since April, but since January three years ago, 2023. It's nice to see that slide stop. And again, hopefully this is the start of an upward trajectory there. And one of the reasons for hope is because construction was up over 30,000 jobs. As all of this investment is pouring in to the United States, it's increasing construction, particularly of factories, which means more manufacturing employment down the road. So again, positive sign. They're very hopeful on that front. We're also seeing strong wage growth. And who is actually getting that wage growth? It's not a bunch of government employees. No, we're continuing to shed government jobs. We have the fewest federal bureaucrats right now since 1966. Think of that, Steve. You have to go back six decades to find a lower number than we have right now. Phenomenal news. And that wage growth, by the way, is outpacing inflation. So what the average American can actually buy with their weekly PayCheck has grown 2% in just Trump's first year. It fell 4% during Biden's four years. And lastly, if we look at who, who is actually getting these jobs, once again, it is not foreign born workers. Right. Biden basically turned the, the American labor market into a kind of temp agency for federal bureaucrats and foreigners. What Trump has done is again, he has flipped that script. We are losing federal jobs. All of the jobs we are adding are in the productive private sector. And who is getting them? Native born Americans, foreign born workers actually lost jobs over the last year. So all of the net job growth that we saw again has gone to native born Americans. So it's great when we look at who is getting the jobs, the kind of jobs they're getting, where those jobs are, how much they're getting paid. Good news on all of those front, Steve. And I guess one last thing that's really important too is the fact that the labor force is growing because labor participation is going up. People who were previously sitting on their, on their couch at home have reentered the labor force and are back looking for jobs. And they're not only looking, they are finding those jobs. The number of people employed jumped by several hundred thousand. That's absolutely phenomenal News. And the U6 unemployment rate, which measures not just people who are looking but can't find a job, but even people who are part time but, but can't find a full time job. It includes people who aren't even looking anymore. They're just discouraged and they've given up looking for work even though they would like to work. The U6 number also fell by several hundred thousand. So again, virtually everywhere you look in this report, Steve, it is good news from top to bottom.
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An increasing real wage of totality. This thing was going to turn around. It's turning right now. You can see this. This is why they're so set on trying to shut down the government. They want to hurt the economy and hurt President Trump, where do people get you? Your Twitter feed is on fire with great statistics throughout the day. Ej, you've called this for now, I think three or four years in the show every month. Where do folks go?
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The Twitter feed's gonna be the best place to find me. And the handle there is Ealejantony.
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Thank you, sir. Appreciate you.
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Thank you, Steve.
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Karen Taylor Robeson just announced she's running for governor in a Republican primary in Arizona. She just put out a notification. She has suspended her campaign. We're going to work on that overnight. Have more to report on that. She's running against Andy Biggs out there in Arizona. That's going to be a hotly contested campaign against Hobbs, the current governor. But the primary, Karen Taylor Robeson has announced that she's putting her campaign on hold. Want to go to Arizona, to Tucson, Arizona. Kevin Posobec's been reporting. Just got out there, guess last night for real. America's Voice. You're right outside the house of, I think, Nancy Guthrie. Walk me through what's happened. I thought they had a white tent out there earlier. This has turned into kind of almost a national phenomenon, like the Lindbergh kidnapping. What is going on there, sir?
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Yes, that's a good point. It sure seems that way. So, yeah, directly behind me, this is the scene of the crime. And you know, just last week, that archway is where we got the video. Okay. Of the suspect trying to remove the camera. And to my side, there is a Pima county sheriff truck. Okay. So, yeah, this is Tucson, Arizona. I mean, it's desert town. It's. It's mostly quiet and cozy, but at night time, it does get very, very dark around here. There's no street lights and, you know, you can see the stars like you'd never seen before. But it's also, you know, riddled with coyotes and scorpions, rattlesnakes. And you know, why.
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Why is.
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Why is that. Why is the. Before we get to the cartel, why is the sheriff. It looks like the sheriff and the FBI are not working together. But why is the sheriff not having updates? In fact, turn the camera. The whole world's media is theirs, right? This is one of the biggest stories world. But why is the sheriff not giving updates? We've gotten on people before for not giving updates. Why do we have to come in? You know, CNN's got Jake Tapper. Other networks have some of their big stars. Just turn the camera. Let's see who's out there right now.
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Sure. Well, we have a bunch of local. We have Basically every. Every media company in Arizona and even the major news companies and the one that Savannah Guthrie worked for so well, still works for, but still. I've seen everybody you could think of down here, and we're all here, Steve. But where are they? Where's law enforcement? You got locals coming together, giving flowers and, you know, passing by, walking their dogs. But the law enforcement. Exactly. So. So, yeah, great point is that, you know, you got the Pima county sheriff's truck there. It's looking mighty clean. I mean, are these guys doing work or what? I mean.
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Is anybody asked why the. Because Tucson's a very democratic town, very progressive. Because it's got a huge. It has a huge university there, University of Arizona. Why are we not getting updates from official authorities? Why are we going to you and CNN's going to Jake Tapper and you're talking to sources. You'll have some sources tomorrow. But why, why. Why is it like a media blackout on this? In fact, it took us 10 days to get the. The footage. It looked like, you know, some of those. That classic Mexican wrestlers coming there, Right? It's a very bizarre photo. Why is it taking so long?
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Well, I think it's taken so long because, honestly, they got nothing, but they want to take credit for everything. I mean, these guys, this is the land of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. So, I mean, you got to think to yourself like, they've had that forensics tent up, right? And they're taking. They're looking for hair follicles that probably blew away in tumbleweeds, you know, a couple days ago. By now, they're trying to get fingerprints from little gloves, you know, a week later. But, you know, they're trying to measure how tall this guy was, and they can't even measure bricks and get a good estimate here. So this guy, Nanos, Sheriff Nanos is, you know, he's a tenured officer here. And what he's trying to do is just basically, you know, say, oh, I don't need any of your help. I got this. We got this under control. It's a small town. I mean, this guy's gunning to get a statue built up him at, you know, a decade from now when he retires, when really we should have people like aviators like Howard Hughes.
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Where's your social media? I know people are going to be following this. We're going to have you back on in the morning show tomorrow. We're going to start in Arizona about Robeson dropping out of this race or at least putting her I shouldn't say drop out, putting her campaign on hold, which is tenement, I think, to dropping out, given how heated it is. Kevin, where do people get you?
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You can follow me on X and Instagram at Kevin Sobe. That's my real name. And yeah, we're digging into local resources here, getting getting the talk of the town and I'm looking forward to visiting the other sites and also the sheriff's department, see if I could get in touch with public affairs officers there.
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We'll make sure we get you dialed in. And let me tell you something, Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp are not just legends, they are mega heroes out in Arizona. So don't be coming don't be bringing this Philadelphia smack talk, you know, criticizing Wyatt Earp and are, you know, saying things about Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Of course, it's Kevin Posovic and we're going to have Kevin back on the show tomorrow. Also hopefully have Andy Biggs Andy Biggs running against Karen Taylor Robeson. She's just announced blockbuster news. She's put her she's put her race on hold. I think The Ken Paxton vs. Cornyn and Annie Biggs vs. Karen Robeson are the two biggest primaries, I think in the country on the Republican side. Short commercial break we're going to talk about the Chinese Communist Party. Too much focus on Iran, not enough on the existential threat that faces us next in the war room.
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Here'S your.
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Host, Stephen K. Ban Scott Coburn joins me, Chief Marketing Officer. Chief marketing officer, patriot M.O. get to Scott. In a moment. So we've wanted to do a lot on the Chinese Communist Party because they're the existential threat, but we've been taking so much time up on this Iran situation. I want to go to Eva right now. We've got Forrest and Eva from new federal State. Eva, Jamestown's come out with a report. I just wanted this whole thing of purges Xi consolidating power or he's about to be overthrown. It's a question inside the community of not just Lao Bajing, but the analyst. Walk us through this report. What's really going on?
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Ma', am, I think this report is is ban on and I loved it because the events has happened more than two weeks now and we're very disappointed by it. To be frankly, we didn't see any sharp analysis done by the Western by the people so called understanding the ccp. The reason why this is a historical inflection point and never before in the funding of the CCP for almost 100 over 100 years. This is the first time the top tier PLA professional military commander has been purged. And this purge has not didn't start at day one, it started actually 2023. If you look at the highest commander organ of the PLA which called CMC Central Military Commission seven people right now, only five left. The last two General, General Zhang and General Liu was the rare generals who had a real combat experience. So look at two people sitting at the table who left. One is the chief commander Xi Jinping. She was not trained how to fight. Basically he's a layman. And the other General, another person who is remaining on CMC is also a layman. Their political work in the pla. So right now it's not only dysfunction, it's really the most fracture, most the weakest point of the PLA ever before. So we think this is a one of the window of opportunity for the west to really leverage these opportunities and to basically end the CCP regime. Because remember that General Zhang Yusha sought Americans help to end this region. It's not about corruption, it's not about getting more power, but it's about ending the ccp. So this is very important and we yet to see the western commentator analyst to speak about this.
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So does la does Laoing in the mainland. Give me a minute. Is Lao Beijing know what's going on here?
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Lang doesn't know because this is. This is where they're going to seal the inflammation. This is, this is why our tooth are so shadow banned on X. Okay, so it's ridiculously low in terms of the viewership. So that's why the Beijing, the people who are living in China they're looking for an exits given compound the economic situation and given the elite infighting. That's why we think this is a perfect window of opportunity for the western to strike the ccp. If you want to end this zero sum game, this is the moment to act in history forest.
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Where do people go for new federal state news? Where they go, sir?
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Okay, they can find us on Getter which is NFIC speaks and also Getter NFIC tv. We also have X account which is NFIC speak.
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Perfect. I want to get you guys back on tomorrow Saturday I want to talk about Ava's making the point. Now's the time to strike Ava and Forrest new federal state. Thank you. Scott Coburn. We have something new to talk about. What do you got?
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Fantastic. Scott. Thanks. Stick around. Thanks, Steve. Mike Lindell, you had kind words. Give me 30 seconds today because Waltz and Fry, after you were so magnanimous and supported the president, said it was a smart thing to do. Of course, they dumped all over the president. They dumped all over the effort there. Metro Surge. They dumped all over Homan. What say you, sir?
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Well, I'll tell you, everybody, we're coming for them by pulling out. This will die down now. And then we get to it, they don't get to cover up their fraud anymore. Those two are. Those two will end up behind bars. The fraud that's been committed against our country. The biggest fraud in history, I believe. And so, Steve, I. I look at it. I'm always optimistic. I look at it as a good thing, I'd say. And you guys, you want to help out? I'm running for Mike Lindell or Mike Lindellgov.com this is. This is the big picture. We have nine months. Yeah. For the midterms. Every. The most important midterms in history. And in Minnesota, I'm going to win this with your help, Mike Lindellgov.com you guys, just my last night here in beautiful Florida. And we're having a big event here tonight. But I want to get. I wanted to get on here and get you your mega sale. Your second annual mega sale where two sales combined. Free shipping on your entire order. The towels, 34.98 lowest in history. They were.
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