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Donald Trump
This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. I thought this would be easy because I have a very good relationship with President Putin. I have a very good relationship with President Xi. I'm going to be going to China in April. It's going to be. That's going to be a wild one. I said, but we have to put on the biggest display you've ever had in the history of China. You know, last time I went to China, President Xi, he treated me so well. He gave me a display. I never saw so many soldiers. All the same height, exactly the same height, within a quarter of an inch. You can do that when you have 1.4 billion people. You know, lots of shoulders. Everybody was wearing about one eighth of an inch, the same height. I said, if they put their helmets down, you could have played pool on the top of their heads. And it was pretty amazing. But I said, you got to stop it. He said, I'll top it. We're going to top it. We're going to have a lot of the people. Most of the fake news back there is going to be going. So we have. Steve has done a great job. And then a little bit later on, we brought Jared. And Jared was responsible for the Abraham Accords, which is.
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Stephen K. Bannon
President Trump is at the Board of Peace for the initial meeting over at the Institute of Peace. We're going to cover to its entirety and then come in live.
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Donald Trump
Both envoys of peace. And you couldn't get to. I tell you what, I watch these two guys, I say, at least we're covered from an IQ standpoint. These two guys walk into a room and. But people like them both, you know, they're good people and they like them both. And they've had some very good meetings. They've had some very interesting meetings having to do with, as you know, Iran is a hotspot right now, and they're meeting and they have a good relationship with the representatives of Iran, and, you know, good talks are being had. It's proven to be, over the years, not easy to make a meaningful deal with Iran. We have to make a meaningful deal, otherwise bad things happen. But we have to make a meaningful deal. But they have a great relationship with the representatives of Iran. They have a great relationship with the other one that they're really working on now, because so many of these. I mean, as an example, Kosovo, Serbia. I did that one. Could you stand up? If any of you guys are. When you're here, just stand up for a second. Kosovo, Serbia, stand up. What a job. Thank you very much. We appreciate it so good and you're getting along and when you don't get along you'll call me and we'll get it solved, right? We'll get it solved. Thank you very much. Really good. And then again Pakistan and India, that was a big one. And just I think you should actually stand. Come please stand just for a second. Pakistan and India, thank you very much. And I spoke to Prime Minister Modi. He's excited, he's watching us right now. Egypt and Ethiopia, we're going to get that. You know there's a little dam that got built. A little dam, like maybe the largest dam in the world. Built and financed of course by the United States. Brilliantly. And having a little trouble getting water to the Nile. It's not. That's a tough situation but we're going to get that solved. Armenia and Azerbaijan, we talked about. And again thank you fellows very much. Great job. Great job. Thank you. Cambodia and Thailand, so incredible what you did that you got together and it all worked out. They're watching. They're watching right now on closed Circuit. Thank you very much and thank you. That was a big one. Cambodia and Thailand. These are nasty fighters. I have to tell you. These fighters are nasty. Now we talk about. You talk nasty fighter. You're nice guys compared to this. Congo and Rwanda that was. And we've got them pretty peaceful. There's little flare ups every once in a while. I'll get a call once a week. Sir, there's a flare up in the Congo again. We'll get it straightened out, right Susie? We'll get it straightened out. And Israel as you know with you could say Israel in numerous countries if you want to really know the truth. But Israel and Iran and we'll see where that goes. But when you think of Israel, we have, we've done the biggest thing of all. We have peace in the Middle east right now that's bigger than people said it couldn't be done. For 3,000 years they've been talking about Middle East. They said it couldn't be done. And you look at what's happened in Gaza and one of the keys to it was when we took those. Beautiful, magnificent. We just ordered 22 more of them, updated model. The B2 bombers are incredible. I never understood the B2 bomber. I'd watch. It's a wing and I've never quite understood that. Johnny. I'd look at it, I'd say it was beautiful. But what does it do? It carries very big bombs and it went into Iran and it totally decimated the Nuclear, Nuclear potential. And when it did, when it decimated that, all of a sudden we had peace in the Middle east. Because nobody. There was a black cloud hanging over the Middle east. And if that wasn't done, that cloud would have been there and countries like Saudi Arabia, countries like Qatar, countries like. Nobody could have signed. You would have had that threat. Nobody could have had. You couldn't have had peace in the Middle East. So now we may have to take it a step further or we may not. Maybe we're going to make a deal. You're going to be. You're going to be finding out over the next probably 10 days. But this meeting today is proof. With determined leadership, nothing is impossible. When I took office, the war in Gaza was raging with thousands of people being killed and no end in sight. Today, thanks to unrelenting diplomacy and the commitment of many of the great people in this room, we have 59 countries signed up. One Gaza. Think of that. We have. It's amazing. But all the people, many, really, so many in this room, the war in Gaza is over. It's over. There are little flames, little flames. Hamas has been. I think they're going to give up their weapons, which is what they promised. If they don't, it'll be, you know, they'll be harshly met. Very harshly met. They don't want that. You know, all this stuff like, they don't mind dying. They told me that's not true. Everybody would say, oh, they don't mind dying, no, they don't want to die. They said, we don't want to die. People don't want to die. The ceasefire was held and every last remaining hostage, both living and dead, has been returned back home. Think of that. That was an impossibility. And we did hundreds of hostages, but the last 20, and I always said to Steve and Jared, I said, the last 20 are going to be very tough. Very, very tough. And we got them back. We got the living back. And then we only got about 16 of the dead. And we said, well, you got to get them all. You promised them all. And they dug and dug and dug. You can imagine it's a job that's brutal. And Hamas really did a lot of that work. And you got to give them credit for that. They brought the last one home a week ago and. And we got all 28 of them, living and dead. The amazing thing, because I've never seen anything quite like it, the parents of the dead, they knew their boy was dead. This case, boys, all boys, men. But to the parents, boys, they knew their boy was dead. They wanted that dead body as much as if he were alive. And when they got them back, there was great sadness, but there was great joy, too. They wanted it as much as the people that got their sons back alive. But we got a lot of people before those 20s, Steve, that nobody talks about, but, you know, hundreds of people. We did a good job and you guys did a fantastic job. I want to thank every nation that helped us achieve this monumental breakthrough, saving countless lives and really bringing peace and bringing the concept of peace. Because nobody thought peace in the Middle East. I've always heard peace in the Middle east is impossible, and it's turned out not to be. And we do have some work to do with Iran. They can't have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple. They can't have. You can't have peace in the Middle east if they have a nuclear weapon. And they can't have a nuclear weapon. And they've been told that very strongly. Since the hard won ceasefire of last October, the United States and our partners have facilitated the delivery of vast amounts of humanitarian aid, numbers that nobody has ever seen before. In November, the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved the Board of Peace. And last month in Davos, we welcomed over two dozen members to this very important new organization. And we are very closely working with the United Nations. In fact, I'm going to speak to the Secretary General in a little while. He's a good man and I've had a good relationship. Other than to my last speech, they did turn off my teleprompter. I got up there, my teleprompter didn't work. I'm sitting in front of all of you people. And more. I had no teleprompter. I knew I was in trouble because I'm walking up, you know, the teleprompters are over. He had the most beautiful speech ready. I was all set to knock them dead. First. I had an escalator that stopped. You know that it's going up, boom. It's lucky my movie star first lady was in front of me because I put my hand on a certain part of her body and I was able to stop my fall otherwise, because she had no trouble. I said, boy, that was a very sharp stop, Johnny. So I said, that was strange. I've been on a lot of escalators. It's never happened before. Usually it stops very slowly. This was just boom. But our first lady was right in the proper location for me. I'm waving to people and she was holding on A little tighter. She knew what was happening. She did. She said it's a very successful movie out right now, like number one. Can you believe this? And she'd be movie, big movie star. And I always say it's trouble because I always say this. Not room in one family for two stars. I told her we can't have two stars in one family. So I don't know what that means, but it's not good. But it is good because we're proud of her. She did a People in the United States love the first lady, and she did the movie. And it's become the biggest selling documentary in 20 years. Can you believe the theaters are all packed? Women especially, they go back and they see it two or three times, four times. But together we're committed to achieving a Gaza that is properly governed throughout. The whole area is going to be, you know, so many countries that have really nothing to do with the Middle east, but they're maybe somewhat close by. They're all involved. They want to go in and fight. They tell me all the time, we'd like to send soldiers to fight if it's necessary. And I don't think it's going to be necessary. We have two countries that want to go in and do a number on Hamas. I said, I really don't think it's. I hope it's not going to be necessary because they made a promise and they promised me get rid of their weapons. Looks like they're going to be doing that, but we'll have to find out. But it's no longer a hotbed of radicalism and terror. And to end that, we have today, and I'm pleased to announce that Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, uae, Morocco, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, and Kuwait have all contributed more than $7 billion toward the relief package. That's great. Thank you, fellas. Thank you. And many more are contributing, too. So the numbers are, you know, this just started. This is our first meeting. But every dollar spent is an investment in stability and the hope of new and harmonious. It's a region that's so important. It's so vibrant. It's so incredible. The people are so incredible. But we want to have a harmonious Middle East. The Middle east is amazing. So many friends in the Middle East. They're so smart. Sometimes they're too energetic. That's the, you know, a lot of people aren't energetic. Sometimes they're a little bit too energetic. These are great people. The world is now waiting on Hamas, and that's taking place. And it's the Only thing that's right now standing in the way, we have Lebanon with certain things that we're working on that are very important. We have to solve the problem of Lebanon, but it's relatively small in terms of what we've. What's been done. And again, the key was getting rid of the nuclear potential because Iran would have had a nuclear weapon based on everything we found out, since within one month. We can't let that happen. So many of our friends in Europe are attending today and we're eager to have them become full members. They all want to become full members. And we've had a great response from Europe. And Europe is, you know, it's where I come from, where so many people come from that are in the United States. But we have a great relationship with Europe. We have a great head of NATO. He is a fantastic man and he's doing a great job, really great job. I'm excited to announce that Norway has agreed to host an event bringing together the Board of Peace. Oh, I thought when I saw this note, I'm excited to announce that Norway. I thought they were going to say that they're giving me the Nobel Prize. Oh, this is less exciting. Oh, it says, I'm excited to announce at Norway. And I'm saying, oh, great, I'm getting the Nobel Prize. Finally, finally they got it right. But I don't care. I don't care about Nobel Prize. I care about saving lives. Just so you understand, we play and we all, you know, do what we have to do. I only have one thing. I don't want to see people killed from parts of the world that are very far away from the United States. And if I have an ability turn off to turn off wars, I want to use that ability because it's people, millions of people. It's like the Prime Minister said, 25 million people maybe. And that's a small number compared to what it could have been, if you really think about it. Right? No, I want to save lives and I don't care about prizes. And the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance is raising $2 billion for the support of Gaza. Additionally, Japan is just committed to host an aid fundraiser, which will be a very big one. Very. It's already successful. We know some of the numbers that are being talked about, which will be attended by other nations in the region, including South Korea, the Philippines, Singapore and others. And I know that China is going to be involved and I think Russia is going to be involved. I think they will be. I want to have everybody get all Sides, because it doesn't help when you have all sides with one ideology. You have to have everybody together for this. I'm also pleased to announce that FIFA will be helping to raise a total of $75 million for projects in Gaza. And I think they're soccer related, where you're doing fields and you're getting the greatest stars in the world to go there, and people that are bigger stars than you and I. Johnny, I hate to say it, you know, I met one of your great stars who came to the White House, as you know, and he's. My son was very excited. He's. These are great people. These are great people. And Johnny's going to bring the stars to the area and they're really known. People in Gaza, know every one of them. Right. You know, so it's really something. And we'll soon be detailing the announcement and if I can do, I'll get over there with you. I want to thank Johnny and FIFA for all of the wonderful things they did and are doing. They gave me their first peace prize. They gave me a Peace prize. I think they saw that I got screwed by Norway and they said, let's give him a peace prize. I mean, very good. Thank you, Johnny. I appreciate it. Johnny is very smart. He's very, very smart. The nations represented here today, just in closing, are not just contributing money. Some are also pledging personnel to help preserve the ceasefire and secure a very enduring peace. We have to have enduring peace. Having peace, knowing it's going to blow up in two weeks doesn't mean anything. In particular, Indonesia. Thank you very much. Indonesia, it's a great country. Thank you very much. Look at, look at that man. Look how tough he is. You think it's easy dealing with him? Look at that face. You are a tough cookie. And we say it lovingly, too. We need strength. You say, see, he doesn't mind. He's tough and he's smart. And smart is more important. Morocco, thank you very much. Great. What you're doing is great. Albania, Kosovo, Kazakhstan have all committed troops and police to stabilize Gaza. Egypt and Jordan are likewise providing very, very substantial help, Troops, training and support for a very trustworthy Palestinian police force. We think we're getting some very good people on that police force. And, you know, it's peace in the Middle East. We have peace in the Middle East. Think of it. For years you've been hearing about peace in the Middle east and everybody's saying it's impossible. All of these countries are working together around the vision of a Middle east that is free from the curse of extremism and terror. And now is time. And by the way, even people with extremism and preaching extremism, they're exhausted. They're tired. It's been going on for too many years. I don't care who you are, they're tired. They want peace. And now is the time for Iran to join us on a path that will complete what we're doing. And if they join us, that will be great. If they don't join us, that will be great, too. But it'll be a very different path. They cannot continue to threaten the stability of the entire region. And they must make a deal. Or if that doesn't happen, I maybe can understand. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. But bad things will happen if it doesn't. With the commitments announced today, the Board of Peace is proving that it does not just convene countries, it devises and implements, and real solutions happen. We've. We've come up with solutions. This is so little talk. This is very little talk. All action. First time, it was always talk in the Middle East. People would talk about peace in the Middle east, and then they'd go home and they'd never even think about it again. Nothing would happen. We're providing a model for how responsible sovereign nations can cooperate to take responsibility for confronting problems in their own regions. The Board of Peace is showing how a better future can be built starting right here in this room. And I want to let you know that the United States is going to make a contribution of $10 billion to the board of Peace. Thank you. And we've had great support for that number. And that number is a very small number when you look at that compared to the cost of war. That's. That's two weeks of fighting. It's a very small number. It sounds like a lot, but it's a very small number. So we're committed to $10 billion. Together we can achieve the dream of bringing lasting harmony to a region tortured by centuries of war, suffering and carnage. They say 3,000 years. And hopefully we can lift up the eyes of the world to envision how other intractable conflicts can be settled. So many conflicts, they say are impossible to settle. And we get them settled. We got. Of those eight that we settled, most of them were said to be not settleable. And they not only got settled, they got settled within days. More impossible problems can be solved as we go along this very beautiful path. I think it's a beautiful path. I think it's Such an important day. Even the weather is beautiful. We walk in, it's beautiful. Everything is beautiful. But the ancient wounds can be healed, and they are indeed ancient. This has been going on for so many centuries that our entire planet will be a better, safer, more beautiful and more peaceful place for us all. We're going to be working with the United nations very closely. We're going to bring them back. I think the United nations has great potential, really great potential. It has not lived up to potential. The eight wars, I never even spoke to them about one of them. And I should be speaking to them about all of them. Someday I won't be here. The United nations will be, I think is going to be much stronger. And the Board of Peace is going to almost be looking over the United nations and making sure it runs properly. But we're going to strengthen up the United Nations. We're going to make sure its facilities are good. They need help. And they need help money wise. We're going to help them money wise. And we're going to make sure the United nations is viable. And you have some very good people at the United nations can do a good job. But as I said, it's, I've said it for years, United nations has tremendous potential. A lot of people didn't like what I said. They said, oh, you shouldn't say that because, you know, we don't care about the United Nations. No, it's really very important. And I think it's going to eventually live up to potential. That'll be a big day. So I want to thank everybody for being here. You're my friends, you're great, great leaders. You're great people. And I can honestly say, you know, you're strong leaders, you're tough leaders in many cases. And every single one that I'm looking at that's right here, I've gotten to know and I've gotten to respect and really your friends, you're friends of mine. And if I can help you at all, you let me know. But this is going to be something. The Board of Peace will be something that the likes of which I don't think anybody has seen before. And thank you all very much. It's a great honor. I'm going to ask J.D. vance to come up and say a few words. Thank you very much.
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J.D. Vance
Well, thank you, Mr. President, very much for your leadership, but also for the kind words about me personally. I knew exactly what I wanted to say, but then after the President said that I was so smart and that I didn't want to Repeat, our Congresswoman, who froze for 20 seconds over in Munich. Now, I'm tempted, sir, just to freeze for 20 seconds and just stare at the cameras, and maybe they'll say nice things about me like they do about Congresswoman Cortez. But I have three very brief messages. First of all, to the. To the President of the United States, but to the entire team, to Marco, to Steve, to Jared in particular, who've done such an incredible job. I think what this Board of Peace represents is a recognition that if you actually have a President of the United States and a team that's committed to diplomacy, it can actually work. When I look at what happened to Israel on October 7, all those innocent people who were murdered, the fact that you had all of these hostages, and of course, a terrible war that came from it, I remember thinking to myself, how is it ever going to be possible to. To get these hostages home safely, to make it possible for the people of Gaza to actually have a reasonable future, but also to ensure that Israel is never attacked again? It turns out the answer was you just needed a president who was committed to the effort and committed to the work. And that's what we had, thankfully, under the leadership of this president. And you got to make peace, but then you have to make the peace stick. And that brings me to my second point. That's what the Board of Peace, I think, is fundamentally about, is making the peace stick. And it's an incredible thing that you guys have all done. So, to all of the leaders gathered here today who are investing in the future, who are investing in peace, we're grateful to you, we're grateful for your partnership, and in particular, I think, to the. To the President of Azerbaijan, the Prime Minister of Armenia, who I just saw last week. Thank you all for making it possible and for showing what real leadership can accomplish. When you set aside weapons and killing and destruction and invest in your people and invest in prosperity investors, it can create great things. So thank you both for what you did. I think it showed great leadership. And finally, to the American people, I think it's important that the American people recognize why we're here today. And the reason that we're here today is, yes, to save lives and yes, to promote peace. But this creates incredible prosperity for the American people. The countries represented here represent trillions of dollars of investment in the United States of America that would not have been possible without this President's leadership and advocacy for peace. The economies here represent millions of American jobs, of people who are receiving products built in American factories and made by American workers would not be possible without a focus on peace. So, Mr. President, while I think this is great for the world, I also think it's really, really great for the United States of America. So we're looking forward to the partnership with that. I want to turn it over to the emcee for the rest of the program.
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Donald Trump
And.
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J.D. Vance
And that is our great press Secretary, Carolyn Levitt. Thank you.
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Jason Frazier
Well, congratulations, Mr. President and Mr. Vice
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Donald Trump
President for convening the first ever Board of Peace meeting. And we will now hear from our Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
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Marco Rubio
I'll be brief and to the point. We want to talk a little bit about the strategic vision of this organization and begin doing so by first acknowledging that we are here today because the President has. President of the United States, Donald J. Trump has both an ability and a willingness to use the power of his office to think outside the box. And that's why we're here today. This was a very unique crisis in Gaza, one that the existing international institutions could not solve or figure out. It needed a very specific type solution that required the partnership of all the nations that are here, including those that are here on an observer status. And we appreciate you coming today and being a part of this as well. And that's the point I want to drive home today. And soon you'll hear from Steve and Jared, who, by the way, deserve an incredible amount of credit for pulling this together and working countless hours and traveling all over the world. They truly deserve our appreciation and thanks for the work they've put in under the leadership of President Trump to make this possible. This Gaza situation was impossible to solve under orthodoxy, under existing structures. And so what we did is they went to the UN and they got the UN's approval to put this group together and bring these nations together to come up with a very specific solution, solutions to a very unique and specific problem. We have a long ways to go. There's a lot of work that remains. It will require the contribution of every nation state represented here today. And we thank you for being a part of it. And I hope that this. We hope that this can serve as a model for. For other complex and difficult situations so they can be solved in the same way. But right now, the focus is on this one. We have to get this right. There is no Plan B for Gaza. Plan B is going back to war. No one here wants that. Plan A. The only path forward is one that rebuilds Gaza in a way of enduring and sustainable peace where everyone can live their side by side with one another. And Never worry again about returning to conflict, to war, to human suffering, and to destruction. And again, Mr. President, thank you for having the vision and the courage to pursue something that has never been done before, and we're not done yet. And thank you to Steve Woodkoff and Jared Kushner for the time and the work they put into this. And thank you on behalf of the State Department and the US Government to all of the nations that are here. Every one of you is indispensable, including our observer partners, who we hope can find your way to join us at some point as officially part of this. But we are grateful for the fact you're here today and. And the contributions you've made already. Thank you.
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Jason Frazier
Thank you, Marco.
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Donald Trump
We will now hear from our special envoy, Steve Witkoff.
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Steve Witkoff
Thank you, everybody, for being here. I don't know if we ever believed that this was possible when we first started envisioning a Board of peace, but of course, under the President's indispensable leadership. And it begins with that. It begins with President Trump's leadership and his direction, we are here today, and it's pretty amazing. I think we have some people to thank. We had an amazing partnership between the mediating countries. Qatar, Egypt, Turkey. Prime Minister Mohammed, you are an exceptional human being. You really are. Ali, thank you for everything you did. That's you right over there, Ali, wherever Hakan is. Hakan, you are amazing. And so was Ibrahim and President Erdogan, and of course, to the Egyptians. Badr, I know you're smiling because we went through so much, and General Hassan was amazing. We all became friends here. And Prime Minister Sisi, President Sisi. Pardon me. And so many others, but our team, jd, your insight, your counsel. And Marco, you're an amazing secretary, and it's a privilege to work for you. And, Jared, you are my dear friend and the best partner I ever had. You are an amazing person. But, Mr. President, it is my greatest honor to work for you. It is the blessing in my life. I've had many blessings. I don't have to be a practicing lawyer anymore, but this is my greatest blessing. But I also have to mention one other person who is important to this discussion. Oh, the Israelis. I forgot Prime Minister Netanyahu. Without him, much wouldn't have been accomplished as well. And that's really important that we acknowledge him here today. And Ron Dermer. But a person who doesn't. Doesn't care much about the acclaim, we have to acknowledge, too, and that's you, Susie, because I would come back and you would say to me on every trip. What can I do for you? This matters, and you are an inspiration for all of us. So I thank everybody and let me get on to. Am I going on to the next slide? Sure, Caroline, sure. Okay. So with regard to the hostages, we're here today. Again, I say it, I know it sounds redundant, but we're here today because of President Trump. Without him, nothing, none of this was possible. There were 251 hostages. 168 came out alive. 83 bodies were returned to their families so that they could grieve and remember their loved ones, like, in a normal way, in a way that brought their families together. So that was just as important. This was a monumental effort. And I want to tell a story about the president. Every time a hostage family came to visit with us, they were not on the President's schedule. I would walk down to the Oval Office, I would tell the President that there was a hostage family here, and he would say, steve, bring them up every single time. And when we got the last 20 out, we had a celebration at the White House, and I could see the emotion on the President's face. And he came up to me and he said to me, I have to tell you, this is my fifth year in the Oval Office, and I don't know that I've ever had a more special time than this moment with these people, seeing them come home. And I said to the President, you have to look around, because none of them would be home without you, sir. None of them. So I only want to tell you, Mr. President, you gave me my greatest honor to work on this.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Here. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to stream the remainder of this on the Board of Peace opening. I think Jared's going to come up and speak in a moment. We're going to go back if there's any additional news. President broke huge news this morning. We've got to go to Georgia. And we've also got a analysis of what's happening Iran, the some of the big news. I hope the audience understands something. President Trump, this structure of the Board of Peace, I believe is his structure of international coordination of relationships going forward. He said he wants it to oversee the United Nations. So we're going to go back. We're going to go back. Any additional news? I'd like to go. And we have a cold open. Can I play the cold open on Georgia right now? Let's go and play the cold open. We got the entire Georgia crew ready to talk about 2020 and 2020. 6. Let's go and play the cold open.
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Donald Trump
The good thing, when they cheated on the election, they made me wait four years. And because I waited four years, I get the 250th year. And then they cheated on the election. And I said, now we won by so much. We won by millions of votes. But they cheated. It was during a Covid period and they cheated.
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Jason Frazier
The voter roll pre merge.
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Stephen K. Bannon
The.
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Jason Frazier
The voter history files pre merge. Both show four votes each, but the absentee voter file doesn't show that that person even requested the absentee ballot, returned it. So that says no votes there and no votes for the election day voting. So again, it just goes on to show how bad the data is in Georgia, in Georgia, that you can't really audit an election if voter history files, voter rolls, nothing matches, which makes it very difficult to say. I mean, I can't say with any certainty that these people voted at all. But what I can say is the data shows votes and the data shows no votes. So really what we need is a clean system where everybody knows who voted, how they voted, and anybody can do an audit of the election. So that's the biggest problem here. And the other problem is the fact that I, as A citizen found 10,000 people registered more than once in Fulton County. When the ERIC system claims that they. They find duplicates and merge them. Secretary of State claims they find duplicates and merge those. And the county, according to Georgia law, is supposed to, from time to time, maintain the voter rolls. They failed also. So I think I'm in the wrong position as a citizen to do Eric's job, Secretary of State's job, and Fulton County's job, and then identify, or do my best to identify fraud in this state. Everybody's failing, and a citizen should not be doing this job. Part of this, Vaughn, is about elections and democracy, but part of this also is about Stephen Miller's project to expel people from this country. And I think that the part about this is when you're looking at the idea of the great replacement theory, it has been used to essentially try to galvanize Republican voters around the country, and especially the 2018 midterms, the 2022 midterms, and that's the idea that Democrats want immigrants to come into the country so that they can vote. And there is just a reality that there is no evidence of widespread or even significant or even minuscule voting by undocumented individuals in the country in American history. And I think that this is sort of, you know, it reminds me of also there was this big investigation by the Republican attorney general general out in Arizona back in 2022 in which there were allegations, conspiracy theories of dead people voting. And he did everything he could. He was an ally of Donald Trump and essentially he came up with nothing and had to put that forward when he was ridiculed by Republicans. And I think that this is another example of the ways in which six years into this, they are struggling to find new conspiracies or new claims and allegations of fraud to justify the way in which Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. And I think it's important that there are still individuals within the White House, Stephen Miller, but also at the local level, like one of the state election board members here in the state of Georgia, who just about an hour and a half ago, the words that she said were, quote, we want free and fair elections in Georgia, because right now we do not. That is one of the individuals that in real time here in the state of Georgia, just seven months from the midterm, is help shaping election administration policy here in this pivotal, pivotal state. This has not been, you know, a one and done or a one off kind of exercise. This has been a concerted effort since the formation of Project 2025. Yes. This is something that many groups out there have war gamed and have looked at. And the reality of it is, comes home when you have the Justice Department or in this particular case, Kristi Noem's office, seeking voter data and registration information. We've got all but three states have received the DOJ request for voter information. You've got the red states that you see on the screen have refused the yellow states have received the request, have not provided information. Those five states and the green states have provided or intend to provide that information. And I want to highlight them. They are Arkansas. They are Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia. In Wyoming, what does that tell you? That the states that are giving over the voter data, right, are these red states who seemingly don't give a damn about what, how their voters are going to be impacted by what they find or how they use that data. It goes to the point that I've been saying to Republicans, John, need to get off stupid, because how do you think we win elections in the Republican, in a general election with Republic voters? We do mail in ballots, right? We work the mail in ballots. We do early voting. We, we work the system. And every system is different. So what does this say that you have these states just, you know, because the Blue states that they ain't going, we know they're not playing. I don't know what the five yellow states are thinking about, but whatever it is, y' all need to come to your census. Here's the thing. We have to also understand that the premise for all of this, which is 20, 24 and everything, this is. It's not TNT. It's not cold case, right? There's no, there's no mystery that they're going to discover at this particular point. This is all about intimidation. It's going to hurt Republicans, like you said. Because when I get a letter to my house saying, is there somebody in your house who's not legal? Maybe you're not allowed to vote. Years ago, we used to say, oh, they're just giving misinformation, disinformation. Now it's about intimidating people. Expect to see ICE agents attacking people in early voter lines. That's the kind of thing that we're going to see happening. And so Republican states need to say no. The Democrat states need to say no. And people need to vote with this in mind. Because when everyone said a couple years ago this might be the last free and fair election, and people who didn't want to vote said, you guys are hyperbole, exaggerating. This is what we're talking about. If you don't want to see armed guards following you and your family when you try and vote this fall, you've got to vote these people out.
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Stephen K. Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. Christians not got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
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Jason Frazier
And where do people like that go
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Stephen K. Bannon
to share the big lie?
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Jason Frazier
MAGA media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Stephen K. Bannon
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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Jason Frazier
War room.
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Donald Trump
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, it's Thursday the 19th of February, year of allure, 2026. We're going to juggle a lot this morning. We're streaming live, and I think Grace has got up streaming live the second part of the Georgia Election Board about Fulton County. I think that's going to go till noon Eastern standard time, but we'll cover to its conclusion. We're also still streaming the Board of Peace. That's going to go for, I think a couple more hours. We're going to stream that. I think other people are going to get up and talk. President gave remarks, made a bunch of news this morning, of course, good talks by Vice President J.D. vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Steve Witkoff, we cut off right when Jared's coming up. That's a streaming. We'll play highlights of all of that later. The president is going to leave. He's going to head down to Georgia to the former MTG's district. He's going to go and see factories and go around. There's also going to be a rally. Real America's Voice will cover that live look at the president's a couple hours late right now. That may be in our five o' clock show. Six o' clock tonight, War Room, Texas. So that's the logistics. I want to go now to Jason Frazier, the star of yesterday's because we got to get this. We have to get Georgia in because it's so important. You heard the mainstream media last night, msnbc, they're war gaming out because we got to get to the railhead of 2020 because it's going to have a direct impact on 2026. Jason Frazier, can you just tell people like who you are and why yesterday you stopped the gobbledygook of the woman who was there. And I just want to make sure and I know a lot of the war mention rooms already told me says you got to have her saying she was only retained on Monday. I'm going to have that in the next block. Jason Frazier, who are you and why were you like the voice of reason yesterday and like the adult in the room, sir?
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Jason Frazier
Yeah, I mean, I'm just a guy that got involved after 2020. I had never been in politics. I didn't even know there was a vote, a roll. I mean, I didn't even know there was a Fulton County GOP at the time. I just saw a problem, wasn't sure what was real. So I ended up getting a voter roll, looking at it. And once you start seeing things, you find thousands of people registered multiple times. You find dead people on the voter rolls. You find tens of thousands of people that have moved out of state and that that gets you more engaged. That tells me I need to do something because nobody else will. I mean, the first time I took an error, I found somebody that had passed away 10 years ago on the voter rolls. I took it to The Fulton County Board of Elections. And I said, what do you do with this? And the registrar at the time said, I don't know. Nobody's ever brought one of these to me before. And I'm just thinking, I live in a county, one of the biggest counties in the country, and they don't even know what to do when there's a dead person on the voter rolls. I mean, it blew my mind. So then kind of fast forwarding to yesterday as I got.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Hold on, hang on.
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Donald Trump
But. Hang on.
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Stephen K. Bannon
But hang on, hang on, hang on, Jason, hang on. This is so important. Go back in time. The entire world, the entire direction world. We would not have 20 to 25 million illegal aliens in the streets of America are living here. We wouldn't have these huge, contentious conflicts between ICE agents trying to do their jobs with local authorities in this. In this revolution that's taken over the streets. None of that would have happened if Georgia had been sorted out in 2020. Go. But I wanted you to go back in time and talk to me about the original, because I'm going to get to the future. But how you first got involved and how. I've got Joe Hoft and Harry Howard again saying that there's no way they could have certified this. It was impossible. We got two minutes. Or if we're going to break your thoughts, absolutely agree.
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Jason Frazier
I mean, everything I've seen in 2020, no two data sets match. I mean, you look at the voter history files, you look at the list of who voted on election day, you look at who voted early in person or by mail. No two sets of data match anywhere. So again, if you can't audit an election, you can't certify an election. And that's where we're at in 2020. And that's where we've been at since 2020 and probably way before that. I mean, that's just when I got involved. And I mean, there are errors, clerical errors, they like to call them, continuously, everywhere you look. So it's just run very sloppily. And it makes you kind of wonder, are they just doing this haphazard so you can't audit it? So that way there can't be a trail on. Did we. Did we pad the voter rolls? Did we pad votes? Nobody can really tell because everywhere you look, there's another clerical error. I mean, that's. That's their common answer everywhere.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Jason, hang on for a second. We're in a hole. We got Georgia. We're streaming the Georgia Election Board. We're streaming the Board of peace. We're doing board work today. Major news geopolitically and in Georgia, of course the President's day is both. He's geopolitically the border peace but he's going to Georgia. You know why? Georgia is one of the most important states in the union and it is the most important stay for getting to the bottom of 2020, the stolen election. And we must drive, drive, drive, drive. To do that. You would have never had Bruce Springsteen song. You never had this conflict in the streets of America. You would have never had 25 million illegal alien invaders. If Jason Frazier had been listened to back in 2020. Short break back in the worm moment missed.
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Donald Trump
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Marco Rubio
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Stephen K. Bannon
All I said was do you have
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Donald Trump
dedicated data analysts to stay on top of this?
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Stephen K. Bannon
I understand you have routine procedures as far as registration goes. But I'm saying does Fulton County Board of Elections and Registration have any data analyst as it is a moving target, as you said with voter registration that go through and do in general like what Mr. Frazier has done and that would be a yes or a no answer.
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Donald Trump
I cannot answer that question.
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Jason Frazier
I was retained Monday.
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Donald Trump
So I haven't had these kind of detailed.
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Jason Frazier
But also I don't know what he is doing.
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Donald Trump
I don't know what databases he's using because we don't receive that from the gate.
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Stephen K. Bannon
He is using publicly available data so you don't have to be anybody special.
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Jason Frazier
And there he's doing. And there are. I'm sorry, there are lots of items that we use.
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Donald Trump
We get the Erica, we get information from the Secretary of State, we get obituary records, we get felon records. There's all kinds of items that are used as well as this process that we've laid out in the policy which
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Stephen K. Bannon
is apparently not working.
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Jason Frazier
Respectfully, that is.
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Stephen K. Bannon
Hang on, let me have it. This is everything, folks. Let me get Frasier back in here. I got Harry Har. He's got more breaking news on this. Because if you want to take this republic back, we got to get to the railhead of the stone election of 2020. Look at everything that's fallen from that. Look at the war. You think the Board of Peace, Gaza would have never happened? Ukraine would have never happened. There are millions of people that are dead about this. The world's in turmoil. We're financially upside down and going to be incredibly difficult to recover from those years. And we got 25 million invaders in the country, and now we're fighting street warfare to try to get them out. All because of what you saw in that room. Oh, I was just retaining money. It's, it's, it's performative. They understand they got nothing, so they want to send some bureaucrat up, they want to retain her on Monday. And you got to go in and just say gobbledygook to confuse people, to confuse them. And what is Frazier? What is Frazier? Jason Frazier is just. That is the American Revolution. That's 1775 right there. Just dug in, lady. I'm sorry. Everything you're saying is nonsense. I just took publicly available data, and here's what it shows. They will do everything to obfuscate this. Why do you think we're going to court next week? They're trying to get the evidence back. Why do you think they got Abby Lowell down there? Why do you think they got Norm Eisen down there? Because they understand this is everything right now. And my God, the heroism of the Georgia election board, of hanging play and hanging in there. And now they're going to subpoena. And the only thing I didn't like, don't subpoena Ravensburg to show up at your regular meeting next week or next month. Have an emergency meeting on Monday and get him up there. Jason Frazier, your thoughts about. Oh, I was. I was just retained on money, and she had led up to that. I'm sitting there watching this thing. I go, this makes. This is just corporate. I've said enough corporate. I've done enough due diligence on companies to know that when you're just getting somebody just blowing smoke to buy time. Jason Frazier.
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Donald Trump
Yeah.
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Jason Frazier
She was clearly dancing up there. She knew they didn't have the goods. She. I mean, I think she's just used to being able to talk a talk. It's Fulton County. Nobody ever questions them. Well, I had all the receipts on my laptop. I mean, if you were watching that video, I was, you know, hitting alt tab going from one file. Here's the vote here's. Here are the voter rolls from before the merge because they kept claiming that, oh, it was a merge issue. And we had somebody double registered the voter history files. We have this new system now. So the old system things there were errors. Well, I had the previous data. I have the new data. I had all the data that they could look at because I didn't trust the secretary of State. So I downloaded that before we got our new system. So they had nothing to say. And after I showed the facts, I mean, her dance just stopped. I mean, they had. What else do you say to that?
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Stephen K. Bannon
But this is the thing. They've been doing this for years. This is why it's so important. We have to stick the landing.
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Donald Trump
Now.
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Stephen K. Bannon
We have two. We're going on two tracks here. One, they're trying to. In the courts, trying to get the evidence back. The other is the Georgia Election Board. We have your back 1000%, you Patriots on there. To basically take control of Fulton county. And they're going to melt down into msmec. And I'm saying you're going to have ICE agents around the polls to make sure you can't have illegal aliens in their voting, and you're going to have control of these. And by the way, take Maricopa county over next. They should take Philadelphia. After that, you just have to run the tables. And everything was stolen in 2020. Jason, hang on for a second. Harry, Howie, Harry, Harry. You guys put out a press release this morning. Tell me about these data sets. I got a couple of minutes. I think you buried the lead on your. On your press release. I want to talk about these. You say you have enough information now that people, that authorities could pursue criminal prosecutions against people. What did you come up with? What's this about Georgia and why are you talking. Why are you using the C word? Why are we talking criminal and not just certification?
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Jason Frazier
Well, because we have to hold these
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Stephen K. Bannon
people responsible for what they've done to our country. I mean, they're stealing trillions of dollars from the federal treasury for their own pet projects, and they're not even legitimately present in Washington. So at least in 2020, this is the case. Right? So what we've concentrated on, and I agree with Jason completely, and we have the same type of analysis on the voter rolls. The voter rolls pretty much in 2020, everywhere in the country were broken.
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Donald Trump
Somewhere along the way, they decided to
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Stephen K. Bannon
Help America Vote Act. And the requirement under law.
- [53:39]
Jason Frazier
Requirement under law to keep accurate voter
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Stephen K. Bannon
rolls was something optional to the states. And it's not optional. Matter of fact, there's a criminal provision directly in the Help America Vote act that requires them to obey certain things with regard to the voter registration rules, the certification of the vote and whatnot. And I know Department of Justice because I've been working with them, has been looking into enforcement of the criminal procedure provisions of the Help America Vote act, amongst other election law. The fact though, that what we. Go ahead, just hang over one second. I'm going to hold you through the break room and get more of it. Yes, mainstream media, when you pull the clip today, he's working at Department of Justice on bringing criminal charges. This was the crime. This is the greatest crime in American history. They stole the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, in Arizona, in Pennsylvania, in Michigan. Oh, and let's throw in Wisconsin for good measure. President Donald John Trump won the 2020 election full stop. And at the tip of this fight right now, as Michael Steele says, people are war gaming this. Yes, there is war gaming going on. Right. Because this is political warfare and information warfare and has a direct, direct, direct bearing on this 2026 midterm and where they think they're going to stop the resurgence of President Trump. We're going to take a short commercial break. Live streaming. Georgia election board. We're live streaming the Board of peace in D.C. president Trump's the Board of Peace. He's heading to Georgia for a rally this afternoon in the Peach State. Short commercial break. We're going to take care of all of it and explain it all to you. Next in the war room from the boss.
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