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Steve Bannon
This is an iHeart podcast.
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Carolyn Leavitt
Guaranteed Human go.
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Stephen K. Bannon (Host Intro)
Sources just confirmed to CNN that the United States has seized an oil tanker that had been linked to Venezuela. Now, Russia is responding to the seizure, saying they are the owners of this vessel. The Trump administration has not acknowledged the Russian status, claiming the ship to be stateless. But nevertheless, you can see the sensitive nature of the situation. Russia had sent ships to track and maybe even protect this vessel. Over the last 24 hours, the United States has been tracking it across the Atlantic. It's the same ship that the Coast Guard had tried to seize last month near Venezuela. They were unable to board it and the ship changed course and fled. But now the breaking news. The United States has seized it.
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Steve Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going to medieval on these people. 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. And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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Stephen K. Bannon (Host Intro)
MAGA MEDIA. I wish in my soul, I wish.
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Steve Bannon
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. War.
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Stephen K. Bannon (Host Intro)
Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
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Steve Bannon
It's Wednesday the 7th of January, year of alert, 2026. This next hour is going to be packed. We're going to fit it all in. I want to go back to Todd Wood. So it's called the escalatory ladder, Todd, you're very familiar with that. Pete Hegseth, our great Secretary of War that oversaw once again another precision military operation of incredible complexity. Now, we are going to have a writer from the Daily telegraph on at 5 o' clock that's broken a story that has people's head exploding about meetings that took place in Qatar with the Vice President down there in Venezuela. And she might have been kind of, how can I say this? Maybe on the Trump team beforehand, he's going to walk through reporting. He has that backs up that thesis. He put the story and it's blown up, Todd. But Pete Hegseth, who oversaw that we had a quarantine and Rubio said, he says, look, the way we're going to do this is use our naval forces. We have, as President Trump says, a vast armada off the coast of Argent, off the coast of Venezuela. We've had it there. For a while. It's a carrier strike group. We've also got an amphib ready group. I think there's 12 to 14,000 fleet marines and sailors off there. We're going to use that smartly with the quarantine to leverage their oil policy and other things. And Yesterday we redirected $2 billion, I think, 50 million barrels of oil to the United States of America and away from the Chinese Communist Party. Today, he says it's a blockade. And in naval terms, as you know, that's an escalatory. That's bigger than a, that's bigger than a quarantine. At the same time, on the high seas, special operators, JSOC seized essentially a Russian vessel. And as you said, you believe that there are special operators on the vessel even before the helicopters came in. A retired Air Force general has gotten to one of the war room engine room guys and saying, hey, tell Bannon and Todd I think there's more than oil. It's kind of riding heavy in the light and seas. I'm thinking it's dropping off more than oil at various places. He believes there's something else on that ship. So walk us through what happened. How was it taken? Is this America? Is this an act of war? We go up the escalatory ladder? Is this an act of war against Putin and Russia? Is President Trump putting on notice? We're not going to play any games here, sir.
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Todd Wood
Steve? Well, the op has been practiced a lot. I mean, this is done in JSOC via exercise all the time. So well rehearsed. Nothing new there. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary with them boarding the ship via heliborne assault. And as I said, likely they were on board or close to it well before those helicopters got there. As far as what's going on geopolitically, I see this in a bigger picture. It's obviously hemispheric defense. I mean, we're taking. It's the Monroe Doctrine, what a Donroe doctrine, whatever you want to call it. But if you look at it from a bigger perspective, it may be a way to peace in Ukraine. Right. If we can get Russia and at least out of Venezuela and, and other areas in our hemisphere, then maybe there's a deal to be made in Ukraine for peace. Europe doesn't want that. And I see this as the big struggle is to get that war ended. And we obviously are protecting our hemisphere. So maybe there's a deal. Okay, you know what? You're going to get what you want in Ukraine, but we Want you out of these areas.
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Steve Bannon
Okay, but hang on, I see what you're saying. Hang on, I see what you're saying. The sector, but spheres of influence. But just yesterday. And I've got Harnwell, I've got a whole team coming on at 5, because we're going to address this. We got to make some time to do this in Paris yesterday. And I think Witkoff and Jared are over there dealing with. They're having meetings with the Syrians and the Israelis to get that thing settled down. Zelensky shows up, they got a sidebar meeting. And now I hear not just about American security guarantees. And the Germans were not there for the signing, but the French and the British have essentially signed an agreement with Zelensky. Now, the Germans are not party to this. The Americans are not party to this, although they're leaking all kind of information that we will be party toward to set up actual military hubs, I guess it's called, of troops. Not a written security guarantee, not a contract, but near the line of contact with wherever the ceasefire is and wherever the Russian army is. And wherever they agree, maybe they back up an inch, maybe they stay where they are. But wherever that line of contact, these military hubs will be up there with troops. With troops of France who can't afford it, and the British who can't afford it. But this is what you're doing. How can you say you can see any peace deal coming out of this? Because the Russians are not going to agree. They're not going to sit there and agree to have NATO troops, including. It looks like this thing is predicated upon the Americans coming in. They're never going to agree to that, are they?
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Todd Wood
No, and they better not. I mean, we don't want to be in that war. I've been screaming it for 12 years. I don't think Putin will allow that. As you said, and as I just mentioned, it's Europe that is standing in the way of peace here. There's a deal to be made. Europe doesn't want peace. And as you said, the French and the British don't have the capability to put anything in there and sustain it. The Russians know that. The Russians will keep going until they get what they want if the deal is not made. So I firmly believe the US Needs to completely back out of Ukraine. And maybe this is a way to get that done with some kind of deal with Russia via Venezuela. A lot of this is theater. This could be theater. You say the ship is riding high. Maybe it is. Maybe there was nothing in it to begin with, Maybe it was supposed to be picking up oil. I don't know the specifics of the ship, but I do know that Trump is making it very clear of what his priorities are in this area of the world.
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Steve Bannon
They had expert after expert on last night. It was really sickening on CNN And MSNBC and McFaul right there, in fact, in the cold open, we had that loudmouth that's been wrong on everything about Ukraine for four years, three years going on four years, dead wrong on everything. More people dead because a loud mouse like this guy saying, I don't know why Trump wants it. You know, troops. It's not about troops. Greenland will be looked at to secure the Greenland, Iceland, UK gap, what we call it, that slot where Russian submarines would come out, both fast attack and boomers, and you could track them right away. President Trump really is now briefing people that, hey, it's not going to be military, it's not going to. We're actually going to make a deal with them. It's an indigenous population. The Danes have never put any money in there. The people that have no economic opportunity. We're going to make a deal, we're going to offer to buy it, we're going to offer to buy it from them and heck with the Danes. And so now they're completely meltdown that. And McFall's saying, I don't know. Any strategic reason. There's a huge strategic reason for Greenland. It makes total sense. When you think of hemispheric defense from the Arctic down to the Gulf of America and the Caribbean. We gotta clean out the CCP lake down there. You talk about the Panama Canal, control of that, then all the way down to Latin America, where President Trump's cleaning up a place that needs cleaning up, particularly Venezuela. What are your thoughts on this? You think the Russians are going to sit there and agree to get all their troops and all this support at Madur? Because Russia in this regard looks a little bit like a paper tiger. And China, the ccp, this is a huge loss of face. That's where they had their. I think the woman who's the Interior Ministry, she came at and lit us up and almost said, it's an act of war, what we're doing. And taking their oil, sir.
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Bobby Kennedy
Yeah.
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Todd Wood
Russia doesn't have the capability to fight us in this region. Just like in Syria, when they backed away, they're tied up in Ukraine. They have to focus on that. What is going down, in my opinion, is the takedown of a large, organized, massive organized crime. Cartel, if you want to say it, it's not just the drug cartels, and it's in Europe, it's in Ukraine and it's in Venezuela. And you're seeing both of those taken. And that is, I've called it many times before, the organized crime safe house in Ukraine. They can do anything they want. Same in Venezuela when they were launching unrestricted warfare into the U.S. so what I see, that's the overall picture I see Putin is not a threat to Western Europe. He can't even take Donbas at this point. Yes, their military is much stronger than before the war. Their stores of weapons are producing 10 to 1 what NATO produces. Maybe in 20 years they could approach going into the Baltics or something. But they're not a threat right now. Conventionally they are, nuclear wise, but they are not a conventional threat. And they're definitely not a conventional threat in our hemisphere. I think Putin realizes that and there's a deal to be made. I'm going to keep saying that. You know, I want to see that bridge between Russia and Alaska and lots of commerce going on there and an explosion of wealth in North America. That's what I think Trump sees.
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Steve Bannon
Todd. There's a lot, you know, Tel Aviv, Leven, they're all getting worked up now. They want American interdiction with the Israelis, idf, Mossad, into the situation of Persia. And I'm saying, hey, the Persian people look right, and the mullahs are firing on them. They're showing they have no regard to it, the people out there, because the economy is in total collapse, as I said it was going to be, if you just enforce the sanctions. Now the biggest one is not being enforced and that is doing the same thing. You know, straits are hormuz that we're doing off the coast of Venezuela. And I've been there in those carrier battle groups. It's so blocked up when they come out, you can shut it down right then you can quarantine it right then. Should we be doing shutting off the mullahs of their biggest cash flow? Like we've shut off the Venezuelans from their biggest cash flow, the regime there, by just interdicting, start with a quarantine if you gotta go up the escalatory ladder to a blockade. But no oil comes out from the mullahs, no cash comes from the Chinese Communist Party. Because if you Venezuela and he cut off the Persian oil for the ccp, there's not going to be a lot of big talk about what they're going to do in Taiwan. Sir.
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Todd Wood
Well, I'll say it again, I said it on your show recently. I don't want an American conflict in Iran that should not be on our table. But I am told that there's going to be some military action. I'm not sure who's going to be involved in it, whether US and Israel or both. But I'm told that is pending. And you know, yes, we should be shutting down the tanker flow long before we take military action and there's no hurry here. Iran's not going anywhere as you said. I don't think the nuclear program is as far along as has been advertised and we need to just continue to put pressure on the regime and let the people on the ground in Iran take care of it, which they're doing by the way in western Iran can't pronounce the name Annaban or something like that. A city was taken over by the civilians and the IRCG was thrown out. So this is big news. It's happening and it just needs to continue to happen all the way across the country.
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Steve Bannon
Let the. Let the Persians do it. Let the Persians take care of their problem. They know the problems. They know the economy. They know what bad guys these mullahs are. Let the Persians don't need foreign interdiction. You particularly don't need Israel in the United States jumping in there because we're going to get blamed for everything and you're going to get sucked in here. There's many ways to let the Persian people do this. Todd, where do people go to all your news sites? What's the central place they go for all the news?
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Todd Wood
CDM press. Put us in your scan daily. We would really appreciate it. Sign up for our social media. Really? We got deplatformed. Lost half a million followers. We're trying to rebuild so that would be very helpful. Thank you. CDmpress.
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Steve Bannon
I'll get deplatformed. Good way to build it back. Having great news. Thank you Todd. Appreciate you.
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Todd Wood
Take care.
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Steve Bannon
So we got comers oversight committee we've got there's a presser starting here momentarily with Caroline Levitt in the press briefing room and Bobby Kennedy and Brooke Rollins are going to be there. So when you have agriculture and Bobby Kennedy that's make America healthy again using both the food and the and the pharmaceutical. Right. Bobby Kennedy's doing such a great job there. Big announcement the other day on vaccines. Brooke Rollins supposedly announced today. We're going to cut to that. We've also got a lot more. So much intent. We're going to get it all Done. And five o', clock, we're going to take a broader view and drill down about exactly what is going on in all in particularly in NATO and Europe, Russia, the complete meltdown as President Trump tries to basically build the construct of hemispheric defense. He's, he's, he's been very upfront. He studied closely the debacle of Iraq, and he is sworn to not allow those things to happen again. And I think if you look at what's happening, it's very smart, particularly the CCP on their back foot right now, huge loss of face, $2 billion of oil to them redirected to the United States of America by the United States Navy. In fact, Captain Fennell will join us tonight. Talk about quarantines, blockades, all of it. What does it mean? Short commercial break. We're gonna return in the war room in just a moment.
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Johnny Khan
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Brooke Rollins
Kill America's voice. Family.
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Steve Bannon
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Bobby Kennedy
No.
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Steve Bannon
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Brooke Rollins
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Steve Bannon
Of the movement, you know, the understanding of geopolitics, national security, intelligence, just to make you a more informed citizen, help you understand the world more. And we don't do this so that you're the smartest person at the Little League game sitting in the stands, or you're the smartest person at the backyard barbecue. It's to make you a more effective member and have more agency in the MAGA movement. But it also can roll into your personal and your financial life if you understand this. This is one of the reasons we have. Jim Rickards is one of our contributors, a great contributor, rickardswarroom.com he's got this newsletter called Strategic Intelligence. It's based upon what he calls predictive analytics. It's one of the reasons that Rickards is kind of revered among people, particularly in capital markets, that he has a real understanding because he's worked in this space for, I don't know, 50 years, predictive analytics. And this is why strategic intelligence kind of has a it's got such a renowned following of chairman of the board's CEOs, what I call the C suite. Decision makers and companies all over the world, in countries all over the world. You get access to it. Rickardswarroom.com, go there now you get access to strategic intelligence. And he throws in a book, MoneyGPT, so you can start to understand the interaction between artificial intelligence and fiat currency. Check it out today, rickardswarroom.com, it's a landing page. Go there, check it out. Strategic intelligence. So, Trevor Comstock, momentarily, we're going to go to I think hopefully the a briefing in the White House briefing room. Caroline Levitt has announced it. Bobby Kennedy is going to be there in Brook Rollins, which means it's a combination of what is really make America healthy again, the agriculture part and the food part and the medical part, the pharmaceutical part, which Bobby's been so good of kind of redirecting. It's the whole reason you started Sacred Human Health. These kind of handcrafted products that you guys have done that have all the natural ingredients. And quite frankly, have we just gotten such great feedback from the audience. What do you got for us today?
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Trevor Comstock
Yeah, thanks for having me. Steve, good to see you. A couple things I wanted to mention. Number one, we are still running our new year sale all the way through today. So just make sure to use code 2026 at checkout for 15 off any one time order. Again, that will be good through today. And then also I'm super excited to announce that we just launched our newest product, which is our Sacred Healing Salve. It's already been selling super fast, so I'm hoping that we don't have to list it as out of stock soon. But either way, we're making sure that we we keep up with inventory. And just a little background on it. It is handmade in small batches with organic ingredients and there's no artificial additives or anything artificial within it. And just again, a little background on it. What really makes the the remedy so effective is due to the organic comfrey, which is the main ingredient. And comfrey has been used for centuries to support things like pain relief, inflammation, bruising and even tissue repair. So it essentially helps your body actually recover and repair instead of just masking the discomfort. So a lot of people like to use it for things like sore muscles, joint pain, sprains, swelling, as well as arthritis support. So essentially you just rub it onto any area of your body that needs pain relief. It's like a salve or a balm so just a little bit goes a long way. But we also pair the comfrey with other skin supportive herbs and nourishing fats to help soothe things like cuts, scrapes, burns and even insect bites. So it's incredibly powerful and versatile. And again, it's great for your muscles, your joints, bruises, itching, cuts, and even eczema. So similar to the tallow, if you have a little bit of separate inflammation.
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Steve Bannon
Trevor, Trevor, we. Trevor, we gotta bounce. Where do people go to the website and contact you? We gotta bounce to the, to the briefing room. Where do people go, sir, today?
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Bobby Kennedy
All good?
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Todd Wood
Yeah, yeah.
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Trevor Comstock
Go to sacredhumanhealth.com and then make sure to use code 2026 for 15 off any one time order and let us know if you have any questions.
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Steve Bannon
Contact Trevor. He's there. He's a CEO that interacts with people. Founder that interacts with people. Thank you so much, brother. Let's now go to the White House. In the briefing room.
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White House Press Secretary
The Trump administration took strong action to bar hospitals from performing dangerous, irreversible, life altering transgender procedures on children. The Trump administration announced funding awards to states through the Rural Health Transformation program, an unprecedented $50 billion investment established under President Trump's one big beautiful bill. The Trump administration has also worked with 18 states across the country to ban junk food purchases using SNAP benefits starting this year. And thank you for leading that effort, Secretary Rollins. Additionally, President Trump took historic action to secure most favored nation drug pricing and secured deals with major pharmaceutical companies to massively lower the cost of prescription drugs. And those effects are being implemented as we speak. Americans are going to continue to see the result of these incredible deals the President cut. And I know President Trump and this team behind me worked incredibly hard to lower those drug costs for Americans. On Monday, the CDC, the D.C. adopted common sense updates to America's childhood vaccination schedule. Based solely on the gold standard of science, this action empowers parents and physicians to make the best individualized decisions to protect our children, while also restoring much needed confidence in our public health system. And as a maha mom myself, I'm very grateful for that. So thank you, Secretary Kennedy. To build on this progress, the Trump administration is now updating federal nutrition standards and guidelines to ensure that Americans have the most accurate data driven information supported by science and hard facts, not special interests or partisan ideology. President Trump has tasked two of the great individuals behind me, USDA Secretary Rollins and HHS Secretary Kennedy, with collaborating on this vitally important project. And today they are here to officially unveil the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for America. These new guidelines are informed by the best and most reliable research on health and nutrition, particularly as it relates to the role of our diets in the prevalence of chronic disease in the country. They are also. These guidelines are easy to read and understand so every American, young and old, can access this information that literally has the power to change lives. But these are not just an updated guideline. These are the foundation to all federal food programs in our country. These new guidelines are going to update the food that is served to America's children in our public schools, to the plates that are served to our great men in uniform in our military, our veterans in the food that they are consuming at the va. And these new guidelines are all going to impact nutritional programs for the needy in our country, such as WIC and Head Start. Unfortunately, for decades, federal dollars have has promoted low quality, highly processed foods that lead to scores of long term health issues, which means Americans have gone broke because of these health issues. Faulty dietary guidelines of the past stacked the deck against healthy eating and food options for everyday American families, which has fueled the chronic disease epidemic and jacked up the health care costs of households across the country. This failed approach in our public health system ends today. When these guidelines are followed, Americans will be saving themselves thousands of dollars. If we want to help cut health care costs in our country, we must become a healthier country. According to the cea, poor diet is the root cause of oblivion obesity, which accounts for $400 billion in medical spending each year. A healthier America will lead to a more affordable America. The new dietary guidelines from the Trump administration will ensure federal dollars go to real food to improve public health and therefore save the American people their hard earned cash over the course of their lives. So with that, I am going to hand it over to Secretary Kennedy. The great people behind me will give remarks and then we'll get into Q and A for the officials that are here on this specific topic. They will leave because they're all very busy people. And then I will open it up to Q and A with the rest of you on the rest of the news in the world. So thank you and we'll start with Secretary Kennedy.
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Carolyn Leavitt
Thank you, Carol.
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Bobby Kennedy
Thank you.
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Carolyn Leavitt
Today marks a decisive change in federal nutrition policy made possible by President Trump's leadership and the work of maha moms and public health advocates who demanded reform. Today, in accordance with President Trump's directive, Rook and I release the Dietary guidelines for Americans 2025-2030, the most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history. These guys guidelines replace corporate driven assumptions with common sense goals and gold standard scientific integrity. These new guidelines will revolutionize our nation's food culture and make America healthy again. For decades, Americans have grown sicker while health care costs have soared. The reason is clear. The hard truth is that our government has been lying to us protect corporate profit taking telling us that these food like substances were beneficial to public health. Federal policy promoted and subsidized highly processed foods and refined carbohydrates and turned a blind eye to the disastrous consequences. Today the lies stop. The new guidelines recognize that whole nutrient dense food is the most effective path to better health and lower health care costs. Protein and healthy fats are essential and we're wrongly discouraged in prior dietary guidelines. We are ending the war on saturated fats. Diets rich in vegetables and fruits reduce disease risk more effectively than many drugs. Whole grains outperform refined carbohydrates. Added sugars, especially sugar. Sweetened beverages drive metabolic disease. And today our government declares war on added sugar. Highly processed foods loaded with additives, added sugar and excess salt damage health and should be avoided. As Secretary of Health and Human Services, my message is clear. Eat real food. Nothing matters more for health care outcomes, economic productivity, military readiness and fiscal stability. Dietary guidelines shape dozens of federal feeding programs, including Head Start. Lean standards affect 45 million school lunches every day, meals for 1.3 million active duty service members and 40 food serves to 9 million veterans in VA hospitals. Today begins the work of aligning those programs with affordable whole nutrient dense food. Implementation requires coordination across the government. I'm working with many of my fellow cabinet secretaries to deliver results. I want to thank Bobby Mukamala. Thank you very much, who is the president of the American Medical association for committing to mobilize the medical community on nutrition. And I thank also the American Academy of Pediatrics for partnering on this effort. I also look forward to working with Dr. Jay Bhattachara and Dr. Marty Makary to fund and prioritize rigorous nutrition research at the NIH and at the fda. The stakes are measurable and severe. A Johns Hopkins analysis estimates that 48% of every federal taxpayer dollar now goes to health care. The CDC reports that 90% of health care spending treats chronic disease. That means that 40%, 40 cents of every dollar that taxpayers pay in this country is going to treat diseases that could be averted through good food. The United States has the highest obesity and type 2 diabetes rate in the developed world. We spend three times more per capita than the European nation, European Union on health care. Yet our life expectancy is five years lower, largely due to diet related chronic disease. Our childhood obesity rate is five times higher than countries like France. One third of US teens have prediabetes, over 35% are overweight or obese. And 20% of young adults have non alcoholic fatty liver disease. 77% of military aged Americans are ineligible for military service because of diet related conditions. If a foreign adversary sought to destroy the health of our children, to cripple our economy, to weaken our national security, there would be no better strategy than to addict us to ultra processed foods. It's shocking that our own government helped to drive these cataclysmic changes in our diet. The damage is real, it is preventable, and President Trump has ordered it to end. If the United States reduced obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and Alzheimer's Japanese levels, we would save approximately $600 billion a year, about 50% of Medicare's projected long term deficit, or $5,000 per family annually. Current policy. He worsens the problem. 42 million Americans rely on SNAP or common purchases include sugary drinks, Candy and chips. 78% of SNAP recipients are enrolled in Medicaid and 90% of Medicaid spending goes to chronic disease. These incentives raise health care costs and undermine health. This must change. A new framework centers on protein and healthy fats, vegetables, fruits and whole grains. And you can see the food pyramid here. It's upside down, a lot of you will say, but it was actually upside down before and we just righted it. For the first time, the dietary guidelines directly address ultra processed foods and set firm sugar limits in federal procurement, driving a significant reduction in added sugar in school meals. I want to thank President Trump for his leadership and the partners committed to ensuring that federal food dollars support real food and better health. Thank you. And I want to introduce my partner and friend, Brooke Rollins, who is an extraordinary collaborator on this.
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Brooke Rollins
Thank you. Well, good morning everyone. Happy New Year. What a honor to be here. I think this is Caroline's first press conference back and what a great way to start the new year 2026. I want to thank Secretary Kennedy. Your commitment to the well being of Americans is such a blessing to this nation. We have been working on these new dietary guidelines really since almost day one. Bobby and I were voted on on the same day and sworn in on the same day. So I think the partnership from minute one has been real and extraordinary. As Secretary Kennedy mentioned, America is in the middle of the worst chronic health crisis in our nation's history. Over 40% of the roughly 73 million children in the United States have at least one chronic health condition and nearly 90% of health care spending goes toward treating people with chronic disease. Secretary Kennedy mentioned that, but it is really important to keep underscoring that fact. This crisis is unacceptable. It prevents Americans from living healthy and happy lives. And for decades, decades, under both Republicans and Democrats, federal incentives have promoted low quality, highly processed foods and pharmaceutical interventions instead of prevention. As a result, nutrient dense whole foods grown by America's farmers and ranchers have been increasingly displaced. The Trump administration is acutely aware of the this danger and today this announcement is making a major step in doing something about it. Thankfully, the solution is simple and should be non controversial. Eat real food. This is the main message of the new Dietary guidelines for Americans 2025-2030, which encourage households and schools to prioritize whole nutrient dense foods. That means more protection, more dairy, more healthy fats, more whole grains, more fruits and vegetables, whether they are fresh, frozen, canned or dried. We are finally putting real food back at the center of the American diet. Real food that nourishes the body, restores health, fuels energy and builds strength. This pivot also leans into the abundant, affordable and healthy food supply already available from America's incredible farmers and ranchers. By making milk, raising cattle and growing wholesome fruits, vegetables and grains, they hold the key to solving our national health crisis. And President Trump is mobilizing government to ensure families across America have greater access to these healthy foods. In the past 12 months, inflation has slowed and wages have risen for the first time in five years. Under President Trump's leadership, prices for everyday staples are declining and more help is on the way. Recent data show that fruits, vegetables, dairy and proteins, including eggs, pork and ground beef, are becoming even more affordable every day for our American people. American households enjoy the most affordable and abundant food in the world. And today's release only reinforces that reality. A healthy meal is within reach for all American families. These new dietary guidelines are a framework which is meant to be customized to meet the needs, the preferences and the financial status of all American families. For example, a meal including such items as pork or eggs or whole milk or cheese, tomatoes, other fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables, whole grain bread, corn tortilla, can cost today right around $3 for that meal. $3. And soon USDA will finalize our stocking standards, which means that those businesses in America that take the SNAP benefit what they are required to stock in order to take that benefit. By the way, that's almost 250, 50,000 retailers across America that very soon we will be finalizing that rule that will mandate all 250,000 retailers in America double the type of staple foods that they provide for America's SNAP households. This means healthier options will be in reach for all American families, regardless of circumstance, at levels never seen before in our country. These dietary guidelines are foundational to so many USDA programs and their introduction marks the first step in connecting America's schools and dinner plates to the best of American agriculture. Make no mistake, under President Trump's leadership, we are restoring common sense, we are restoring scientific integrity, and we are restoring accountability to federal food and health policy. The new guidelines are all about putting the well being of Americans first, exactly where it should have been all along. This is the foundation that will make America healthy again, not just for those of us alive today, but for our children and our children's children and those coming behind. I want to end by saying God bless America families.
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Steve Bannon
By the way, God bless the American farmer and rancherlins, Bobby Kennedy working together. It's unbelievable. Everything you've been told about food to make you healthy is wrong. They're sorting it out. Two hitters right there. Love it. Johnny Khan joins me. John, I want to get this song in, in this segment. Look, you're already beloved for American Heart. We play it every day in our A block, right? Audiences loves it. All the other songs you've come out with, people love. Tell us about this new song that you're breaking today for us.
- [37:22]
J
This new song was my response to losing my home in the Palisades fire. And it was just the way I dealt with it, which is what I think Good Art is all about, is sort of dealing with hardship in a way that's productive and universal to other people. And although the song is particularly about the fires, I'm hoping that in a broader sense that it moves people that have had catastrophic loss in their lives, whether it be death, illness. I mean, the fires is one thing, but everybody deals with loss on a daily basis.
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Steve Bannon
But this is catastrophic. And Johnny, I'm going to hold you, Andrew Breitbart's partner, the guy that every day we hear his great voice in that song, that moving song, the Tea Party anthem, American Heart. Let's hear this on the first year anniversary, folks. Today, one year ago was the Palisades fire. Let's go ahead and play it. And we're going to bring John com back.
- [38:35]
Johnny Khan
You came in, you didn't use the door. And fed yourself, but still you wanted more. Now there ain't nothing much Left to say I know now I was the only one in my own way and somehow I'll find the will so I can find a way. Through the ashes, broken matches Nothing less than should have lasted all that matters now is where he turn. Clear skies you can see for miles after it burns. Where'd you go? You left so much behind. That you can't take with? Cause you can't take what is mine. And if I ever should see your face I tell you go back to hell. Cause that's the only place I won't look for you I won't waste another day. In the ashes, broken matches nothing lasted should have lasted holding me matters now it's where it turns Clear skies you can see for miles after it burns all that beautiful rain coming down.
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Bobby Kennedy
That.
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Johnny Khan
Beautiful rain don't stop now.
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Carolyn Leavitt
And from.
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Johnny Khan
Those ashes broken matches Something good in all that tragic all that matters now is where you turn. Clear skies I can see through my And I know one day I'll smile again after it burns after it burns after it burn.
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Steve Bannon
John Kahn. Incredible. Walk me through the song again. This is. It's the first year anniversary of the Palisades. Everything you had, I keep telling people, every dream you have is in your home. Every memory, every dream you ever had was in that home, correct?
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J
That's correct. I was there for 25 years. I grew up in the Palisades, went to high school there, bought my first and only home in the Palisades. And I do want to tell the posse one thing, Steve, because it's important to me, and that is that you were one of the first people to reach out to me. And I'll never forget it. I was sitting on my dad's sofa. I had a pair of jeans, couple of shirts, and that's about it. Some guitars. And I got a text from you, and it said, whatever you need, brother. And I will never forget that you that. You texted me that. And I wanted one of the posse to know that. But this song, you know, this song came about, you know, it was very hard after the fires to even pick up a guitar. It took me months to even. I would walk by them. I'd never pick him up. I'd never sit at the piano. And then a few months later, I just sat down at the piano and this song came. You know, it poured out. And I think it's. It's kind of a. I'm talking to the fire in the second person. But I'm also telling myself, you know, you know, as a conservative, we believe that when you get knocked down, you get back up and you keep swinging. And even though in my heart, I had no idea what I was going to do or how to deal with what I was facing, I was telling myself through this song and everybody else, hopefully to get up, see the clear skies and know that you got a future. And you're not going to sit there and wallow in this and you're going to figure out what you're going to do.
- [43:38]
Steve Bannon
I'm going to hold you through the break. Do people go to itunes right now? Can they download this is available?
- [43:44]
J
Yeah, it's on all the streamers. You can find it on the link on my Instagram and Twitter and all that stuff. But it's. It's on all the streamers.
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Steve Bannon
Hang on for a second. I'm gonna hold you through the break. On the first anniversary of the Palisades.
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Johnny Khan
Fire, John Khan, all that tragedy.
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Stephen K. Bannon (Host Intro)
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
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Steve Bannon
Johnny Khan. You're putting this out on the anniversary of this. It's amazing you did the song in that short a period of time. I was gonna have a bunch of guests. You know, we have a ton of people on the west coast that are close colleagues. We've actually owned some property or supported people that own property in the Palisades before, but we had no good news to report. It's been a disaster. I'll deal with that later. But the song itself is some movie. I've noticed, because you're out song in the a block of the American heart and people are constantly contacting me. Steve, don't talk over American heart. Play the whole thing. We love it. The songs you did about President Trump and the comeback and the fight and now this song, in your creative process, is it something that has to move you, that you're just not writing, you know, traditional love songs or commercial songs, but the really your big hits are the ones you've really, you know, have become kind of anthems. Are things that happen to you personally?
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J
Yeah, I think that's.
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Todd Wood
That.
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J
That's a common theme with. With my music. I mean, it's. I remember when I came to Nashville, all the songwriters were saying, you know, don't come here and write about tattoos and pickup trucks. It's not what you do. It's not who you are. A good buddy of mine, Jeff Steele, who's in the hall of fame, just said, write what you feel. And I'm never moved to write a song unless I'm feeling something deeply. For example, fighter. I was watching a press conference After President Trump got convicted, and I just shook my head and I was just amazed at the fortitude that this man has. And I just thought, what a fighter. And I just went to the piano and it comes out this song. Like I said, I sat down at the piano and the depth of feeling I had. I mean, just to hit a note on the piano after months and months of not playing any music, it has to move me. And you have to trust that. And I think that any good song that you trust and you're not overthinking that comes from the heart is what resonates with people. And I think that the common denominator that I would love the takeaway for my music to be is that we're all in the same boat. We all deal with the same challenges in life. There's only a handful of emotions, and if you can crystallize that in a piece of work, then hopefully it'll resonate. Just like Fighter was about President Trump's fight, if you didn't know that it was about President Trump, it could be about any daily battle that you're having. And the same one with this one, it's about tremendous loss and where do you go after the loss and are you going to give up or are you going to see blue skies or a light at the end of the tunnel? I think that's hopefully what resonates with people.
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Steve Bannon
One more time, where do people go? The name of the song, how do they go to all the streaming platforms and download it?
- [46:53]
J
Right now, the song is called After It Burns. There are links on my Instagram, which is on Khan Music, J O N K A H N music, or Twitter, Mr.JohnDavid, which is M R J O N David. And there are links at the top that have a link to all the streamers where you can get it. Amazon, iTunes, Apple Music, etc. And I'm just. I've gotten great feedback from the people back home in the Palisades. And that's really what. What means the most and why I wanted to write the song.
- [47:27]
Steve Bannon
Well, they need. They need a pickup because the. The. Everything has happened, not just the disaster and the tragedy, but there's been no real assistance. I think only 600 permits of 6 or 7,000 of disaster. We'll talk about that another time. Johnny Khan, we love you. Music's great. Very moving, powerful. On the anniversary of the Palisades fire. Thank you, sir, for joining us.
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J
Love you, Steve.
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Todd Wood
Thank you.
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J
I appreciate it.
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Steve Bannon
Love you, too, brother. Mike Lindell. There's a We're going to stream the debate today. We'll talk about that later. Right now, the war room. We got two minutes. The War Room wants a deal. What do you got for us?
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Steve Bannon
Thank you, brother. Appreciate you. 7pm tonight we will be live streaming the first debate in the Republican primary race for governor of Minnesota. Mike Lindell will be there and we will stream it all and I will hopefully have commentary. I'll be traveling, but hopefully have commentary also. The Charlie Kirk show is up next. Erica Kirk is going to interview the secretary of war, Pete Hegseth at 1:30pm Eastern Time Standard time on the Charlie Kirk Show. Make sure you stick around for that Jack Posovic, too. We're back at five. We're already packed for the five to seven. Five all the way to seven. And then we'll roll right into the debate with Mike Lindell. We thank all of our sponsors. And now we're going to leave you with with Johnny Khan.
- [51:23]
Johnny Khan
Clear skies you can see for miles after it Bur all that beautiful rain coming down that beautiful rain doesn't stop now. And from those ashes broken matches something good in all that tragedy.
- [52:03]
Steve Bannon
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