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Steve Bannon
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Steve Gruber
Welcome back to Navy 250, sea power and Freedom.
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Steve Bannon
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Steve Gruber
Gold Group, Patriot Mobile and AMAC for standing with Rev. By the way, go back to Steve Gruber and not theory some fabulous movies. By the way, I'm reminded by my family members that my uncle Dick, Dick Wills, who was just a. Richard Wills, just a great man, was a enlisted man, fought at Leyte Golf, the greatest, I think the largest naval battle in history. Bull Halsey in his fleet off of the Philippines as Admiral Master remembers. Let's listen to some music here for a moment. Then I'm gonna go back to Steve Gruber.
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Steve Bannon
Wow.
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Steve Gruber
Now we're playing some music. Steve Gruber. Tell me about the. Tell me about the audience. You're on the deck. You're on the riser with the media on the USS Harry Truman, by the way. Is the media.
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Steve Bannon
Is the.
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Steve Gruber
Is the media. I guess they're in a sour mood today given the celebratory nature of our. Of the enlisted men.
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Steve Bannon
Aren't they always in a sour mood? They're also sour mood because we're the.
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Captain Fennell
Only ones carrying this thing.
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Steve Bannon
Front to back, top to bottom, wall to wall. It's a testament. Hey, shout out to Rob Sig and.
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Captain Fennell
The complete RAV team for making this.
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Steve Bannon
Possible and getting all those camera angles.
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Captain Fennell
All that opportunity, all that firepower on display for everybody.
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Steve Bannon
The crowd here is fabulous, by the way.
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Steve Gruber
I also want to say before we.
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Captain Fennell
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Steve Bannon
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Captain Fennell
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Steve Bannon
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Steve Gruber
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Steve Bannon
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Captain Fennell
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Steve Bannon
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Captain Fennell
Now you ask about the crowd here.
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Steve Bannon
You know some of Those great Navy.
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Captain Fennell
SEALs we interviewed here earlier, Steve, I.
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Steve Bannon
Just saw them walk down into the crowd down here.
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Captain Fennell
You've got a lot of folks that are Navy all the way around us.
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Steve Bannon
But you have a lot of civilians in here, too. And it's just a very celebratory crowd, as you put it, is a celebration of American freedom and what it took.
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Captain Fennell
To get us there.
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Steve Bannon
The music is fabulous.
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Captain Fennell
Now, like you mentioned, and it's just.
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Steve Bannon
An American celebration, as this whole 250 event has been.
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Captain Fennell
I go back to the big parade.
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Steve Bannon
In D.C. when Donald Trump was there and he'll be here shortly as well.
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Captain Fennell
It is a great day, Steve.
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Steve Bannon
I'm telling you, it's a great day to be here. It's a great day to be an American. And just let me say this, God bless America, because I feel good being here.
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Steve Gruber
This is what we wanted. It's a fine Navy Day. Let's go back and hear some great music from the Navy Band. Okay. As you know, I'm prejudiced towards this music. So we're going to stay. As long as the Navy Band plays, we're going to stay on it right here, hopefully getting ready for the President. I say it's the Commander in Chief. You saw a moment ago. They're getting the podium ready for the Commander Chief. He's going to address the, the enlisted and officers of the Truman and around Norfolk Naval Station.
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Admiral Gary Hall
Here we go.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah, definitely. We're going to take breaks until the President comes. We're going to jump right to it. The Commander in Chief of the Armed forces has been out seeing a live fire exercise. It's kind of his Teddy Roosevelt moment. The White Fleet. Admiral Massow, you may know the history better than I do. I think Roosevelt actually reviewed the White Fleet. The White Fleet went around the world and went around the world because he wanted to show the global power of the United States Navy. I believe that Roosevelt reviewed the White Fleet at Norfolk. Do you remember that or am I wrong there?
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Admiral Sonny Masso
I do. That's absolutely correct. And you know, he wanted to establish an assert power projection and he invoked his own personal powers and sent them out, you know, to the Far east. And then he had to get an act of Congress to get, you know, to pay for the fuel to get him back. But yes, he did. He did do a pass and review in Norfolk. And that was a substantial example of Mahan's influence of sea power on world history in action.
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Steve Gruber
Talk to me about that. Talk to me about how particularly as naval officers, you're ingrained in Alfred Thayer Mahan. His the book the Impact of Sea Power Pun. History is really the basics of naval doctrine for both the Royal Navy and the United States Navy. Sir.
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Admiral Sonny Masso
What he did was he instantiated the fact that, you know, 96% of the world's population live on coastlines. He instantiated the fact that we require sea lines of communication for the exchange of commerce and that those sea lions needed to be protected. And the only nation that was substantial enough to do that was the United States. And this was a book that really, really influenced President Roosevelt, Theodore the 26th president, where he took it almost as a biblical mission statement that this was something that he had to in fact create. And from that spawn things like the Great White Fleet, but also the investment of Navy and really naval aviation, all of that. There's a great book written by a historian named Dr. Dave Winkler on the very first aircraft carrier, which just celebrated its hundredth birthday a few years ago. But the USS Langley and the heuristic development of aircraft and launch and recovery of those aircraft and of course, World War I precipitated another example of studying and raising the bar in those operations.
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Steve Gruber
Hey, Admiral Masso, hang on one second. We'll take a just take a quick break. Take a quick break. And return Admiral Sonny Masso. Captain Fennell, Captain Morgan, Cleo Pascal. We're going to go ahead and jump.
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Steve Bannon
We'll be right back with more. Navy 250 sea power and freedom.
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Steve Gruber
We want to thank our sponsor, AMAC.
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Steve Bannon
For standing with RAV. For 250 years, America's Navy has guarded.
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Steve Gruber
Freedom, projected strength and carried the fight across the sea.
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Steve Bannon
Now from Norfolk, Virginia, history meets destiny. They fight, fight, fight, and they win, win, win. President Donald J. Trump joins America's warriors aboard a mighty aircraft carrier as we celebrate two and a half centuries of sea power, explosive demonstrations, military might, unstoppable.
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Steve Gruber
Strength, Navy 250 sea power and freedom.
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Steve Bannon
With your host, Steve Bannon with live.
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Captain Fennell
Reporting from Jack Posobec.
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Steve Bannon
And Steve Gruber starts right now.
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Steve Gruber
Want to thank Birch Gold and AMAC and of course, Patriot Mobile, our sponsors for today. Want to thank them. And also Rob Sig Parker Sig for making the logistics of this was enormous. And because of the effort put in by real American force. We got the special inside baseball footage from the naval operations at the gun range aboard the USS Bush. Want to get Steve Gruber. As soon as we get some more music, we'll listen to that. Captain Fennell, Sonny brought it up. Talking about Alfred Thayer Mahan. Why is a young naval officer, when you either go to the Naval War College or more likely you take the correspondence courses, why is it the first, the first war you learn about, it's not the Revolutionary War, but they take you back to the Peloponnesian War. Why is the Peloponnesian War against Athens and Sparta such a important tool for learning about geopolitics?
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Captain Fennell
Sir because it was the first great naval conflict in our kind of recorded history that talked about how one nation could defeat another nation through naval power. And so the study of that and Understanding of that and how that influenced the development of the Greek city states and how they were able to a smaller force defeat a larger force, if you will, through power projection is something that Mahan studied and then wrote about and took that history to us. It made us understand the value and power of sea power. That was something that probably people knew before then, but it was really recorded and taught in the universities in the Middle Ages and beyond in the Enlightenment, that people got to learn about that and understand what happened in the Peloponnesian wars and then, you know, then the Romans with their. Their fleets. So the. The issue of the ability to move goods and services via the sea was also wrapped up in this idea that you had to have vessels that could fight and win and defend those commercial vessels. And I think that's really the. The long arc of history in terms of naval power. And Mahan was our teacher for that and still is today. And as you had previous guests on, talked about this idea that we had to have this ability to project our fleets around the world. And it wasn't just sending ships like the Great White Fleet, as we just talked about, went out with 16 battleships, some 14,000 officers and. And sailors for this long journey. What we learned was, is that we needed to have a system of bases and refueling and capability to underway replenishment and all of that. And back then it was coal. Today it's diesel fuel and other fuels. But the point is that we had this ability to understand that the power of naval platforms isn't just to carry our goods, but it's also they are required to be protected as they're carrying them.
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Steve Gruber
We're seeing Paul Morgan. What are we seeing right now? Is that the Osprey coming aboard the Truman?
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Captain Fennell
Yeah, that's. That's really interesting. That's a HMX1 Osprey because it's a green top. Wow. Yeah, that's an Osprey. That's beautiful. Is President on that?
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Steve Bannon
I don't know.
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Steve Gruber
That's Sonny Masso. That's the question. Morgan was caught by a surprise. They put the President of States on that. A quite controversial aircraft, I might add.
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Steve Bannon
Correct.
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Admiral Sonny Masso
Although Commandant of the Marine Corps Mike Hagee, to show how safe it was, he had his entire family, his wife and kid, you know, go on a couple of flights.
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Steve Gruber
By the way, for all our Marine brethren and so many we know and love the. The. We're going to do the 250th anniversary of the birthday of the Marine Corps also. That's going to be a very Very special event. We're going to give them their entire own day. Since Admiral Masso, you know better. The Marines bridle, we call them the Junior Naval Service. So it's, it's a very special, very special breed of man. Very special breed of man. Or woman. No, the Osprey. I don't think we're going to see the commander.
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Steve Bannon
Chief.
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Steve Gruber
Get out of there. Go ahead, sir.
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Admiral Sonny Masso
No, I don't think so, but as you know, I grew up at the north gate of Camp Pendleton in San Clemente, California, and I have immense respect for the Marine Corps, as I know you do as well.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah, tremendous. Cleo, let me ask you. Why is it Henry Kissinger's sidekick, Graham Allison. Kissinger and Graham Allison always compared China in the United States to the. To Athens and Sparta. You know, Alison Graham's book, Destined for War, he talks about the 12 or 14 times a rising power and a declining power have squared off. I think those 14 times, 10 of them have been kind of, you know, almost global conflicts. Why do people keep hearkening back to the Peloponnesian War all the time, ma'?
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Steve Bannon
Am?
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Cleo Pascal
Well, the Peloponnesian War, as Captain Funnell said, is quite important. But the Thucydides trap stuff, I put it in the Mackinder bucket of something that needs to be thought of properly. And again, I don't really buy it because India is in the same position and India isn't about to try to attack the United States in the same way that the Chinese Communist Party is. And then if you look at those terms, Chinese Communist Party, there's a word in there, Communist, that isn't in the, the Indian Republic's name. So I think it's not necessary that a rising country is going to attack another one. I think, you know, this is something innate within the system that has been governing the land of China. Does it look like they put the journalists on the Osprey? Is that what they did?
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Steve Gruber
No, I just, I would just. I was just telling. I was just telling the. Not that we're not, we're not smack talking the Osprey. I just want to make sure. But my producer just said, hey, is that the media that's coming out of the Osprey? Yeah, I think it is. Cleo, thanks for pointing that out, though. Cleo, talk. Tell the audience what the facilities trap is. Why is it such an important concept, at least for the Munichthe Munich Defense Conference, ma'?
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Steve Bannon
Am?
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Cleo Pascal
Because it sort of justifies this thing that, you know, anybody tries to challenge us, it's a kind of destiny thing. And it's not nothing to do with the actual systems themselves. And so you don't have to look at China as a, as a system or as a regime, the nature of the regime. You can just say, oh, well, you know, it's history. And there just happened to be this rising power. It's similar to this kind of reverse Opium War thing that I, I also don't like. It's very effective narrative warfare on the Chinese side because it pulls you away from thinking about the actual dynamics. But, you know, in terms of the fentanyl being revenge for the Opium War, first of all, the US wasn't involved in the Opium War. Second of all, the Opium War was wrong. And so it's sort of like saying we have slavery in Xinjiang because you had slavery in the US at some point. Two wrongs definitely do not make a right, you know. And third, it just, it gives this narrative warfare weapon to give them a pass and at the same time hit.
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Steve Gruber
Do you think, do you think the ccp, do you think the CCP really makes a difference between Great Britain at the highest power in the United States? Don't they just consider us foreign devils?
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Cleo Pascal
I think they use different aspects of unrestricted warfare depending on what, what works. So, for example, in the case of, you don't see the sort of fentanyl flood that in the UK that you do here in the us but what you do see is a, is a buying up of elites, including the think tank community, that's giving rise to a situation where, for example, the Diego Garcia military base is, is coming under risk. And I think the weak point there isn't Mauritius, it's the uk and it's because of the way that they've tried to undermine the uk. So I think they've got, you know, this toolkit as described in the 24 warfares, unrestricted warfare, plus many other they've invented since then and they will use as they like. But one of the key, the top three of those warfares is this sort of psychological warfare. And they've also got media warfare and that, that is these things like the Thucydides trap or, you know, the fentanyl is the Opium War, things like that, that put you on the back foot and make it, make it so that you're not looking at China as its own thing, but you get caught up in these other intellectual eddies that can paralyze you or whip you in circles or give a justification to not just say, hold on a second, this is absolutely Wrong. And it has to be stopped.
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Steve Gruber
By the way, look at that magnificent shot right there, right next to the Truman. The President of the United States, Commander in chief will be there momentarily. Tell you what, we're going to try to fit in one more commercial break. The President of the United States, I think, will be arriving momentarily, going to give remarks to a combination of sailors and officers and family members and other interested personages. Incredible Day Navy 250 a commemoration and celebration of the 250th anniversary of the greatest Navy in the history of mankind. Short commercial break we're going to return to Real America's Voice coverage momentarily.
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Steve Bannon
FOREIGN we'll be right back with more Navy 250 sea power and freedom. We want to thank our sponsor, Birch Gold Group for standing with Rav.
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Steve Gruber
Let's go let's go to let's go listen to some music from the Navy band. I believe the commander in chief has arrived. Not on the Osprey, I might mention. I'm not digging, I'm not dinging the Osprey, but it was Cleo Pascal that did mention that they put the media on it. Let that be her quote. There is there's commander in chief right there. We're coming in.
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Secretary of the Navy John Phelan
Amazing.
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Steve Bannon
This is Steve Grover.
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Steve Gruber
Can I go to Gruber? The fleet out of Norfolk, Virginia, the Atlantic Fleet, Captain Fennell and Admiral Master myself were Pacific Fleet sailors. The Fleet, the Seventh Fleet, the historic Seventh Fleet that won the war in the Pacific. And really traditions of that fleet are just amazing. The history of it, the customs and traditions of it, just absolutely extraordinary. Admiral Masso, your your thoughts?
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Admiral Sonny Masso
Yeah, we used to.
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Steve Gruber
Admiral Massa, I think we corrected your we got your microphone working. Any any thoughts on this as you watch? The commander in chief, I think, has arrived at the Truman about to address the Atlantic Fleet sailors.
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Admiral Sonny Masso
Well, I think that these sailors are hungry for the type of leadership that he's been providing and I know that there's an air of excitement and pride and we you know, they love the Navy and there's no better way to celebrate a birthday than, you know, with the commander in chief sharing it with them. So I know that they're they're probably hyper excited about this and I know that he will not disappoint.
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Steve Gruber
Emerald we did have a just a demonstrable fact. We did have an issue with recruiting right. For a couple of years there. It's kind of been sorted out. What are your thoughts about that?
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Admiral Sonny Masso
Well, this is kind of a big deal and it really reflects what the remarks of the Secretary of War expressed last week to the generals and admirals. And basically, the recruiting was, you know, we didn't have a substantial mission. You know, there was no active war in Iraq or in Afghanistan. And so a lot of people kind of lost interest in it. But, you know, more specifically, in the absence of recruiting, we had to compromise some of the standards that were elucidated by the Secretary of War as being unacceptable. Fat sailors, you know, this type of thing. And it used to be that if you failed two fitness tests, then you were sent home. And what we changed that to be is because we couldn't afford. Afford to lose some of these sailors because there's nobody in the pipeline replacing them. We. We. We didn't send them home. We just wouldn't promote them. So. So this. This was a big departure. And, you know, I think a lot of people will clamor for this to be implemented immediately, if not sooner, because it was compromising, you know, combat readiness. And so. And now recruiting is better. For the first time in a number of years, we're able to make our numbers and not do it with fancy NASCAR programs and all these kind of things. People are here serving for all the reasons they always serve. To learn a trade, to serve their country, to make themselves better, to see the world. And I think we're backed in business with that. That. That way forward.
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Steve Gruber
Okay, let's go.
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Steve Bannon
Let's.
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Steve Gruber
Let's pull in on the Navy band. Here we come. Right here. I think it's Doug Collins. Let's listen to the Navy band and see what we got.
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Steve Bannon
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Chief.
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Secretary of the Navy John Phelan
Of Naval Operations, Admiral Daryl Codd.
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Steve Bannon
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the.
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Secretary of the Navy John Phelan
Stage the United States Secretary of the Navy, John phelan. Good afternoon, Mr. President, First lady, as always, it's great to see you. Mr. President, thank you for your leadership and support of our nation's armed forces. Secretary of War, thank you for your leadership and restoring our focus on the warfighter ethos. Secretary of Veteran affairs, great to see you today and thank you for all you do to support our Navy and Marine Corps veterans. CNO Navy leaders, thank you for ensuring that our Navy and Marine Corps remains the preeminent maritime naval force. Governor, Lieutenant Governor and members of Congress, thank you for being here today. After seeing today's display of naval power and standing on this pier surrounded by sailors, Marines, family members and patriotic Americans, all I can say is that was damn impressive. Come on, give him a hand.
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Steve Bannon
Bravo Zulu.
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Secretary of the Navy John Phelan
To the sailors that participated in today's sea demonstration, it is the honor and privilege of my lifetime to Serve as your 79th Secretary of the Navy, especially as we kick off the Navy's 250th birthday celebrations. Thank you, President Trump, for your trust and confidence in me. Mr. President, your directive is clear. Peace through strength. And we are executing it with your one big beautiful bill and your executive order on restoring America's maritime dominance. You've armed us with the authorities, resources and urgency to modernize the fleet, expand our shipyards, rebuild the skilled workforce, deepen our magazines, and harden the infrastructure that wins wars at sea. 250 years ago, the Continental Congress made a bold bet. Who controls the seas controls the future. This was the birth of our Navy, a testament to our historic significance. The Constitution states, Congress shall have the power to provide and maintain a navy. The word maintain means the Navy is intended to be a permanent, continuous institution of national defense and warfare. The founders understood the importance of having a Navy. George Washington, in a letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, wrote, as certain as night succeeds the day, without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive and with it, everything honorable and glorious. Today, 250 years later, history has proven that to be a superpower, one must be a sea power. Mr. President, your mandate ensures that when the world looks to the seas, it sees an American flag. And behind that flag stands a team that is disciplined, lethal and dominant. Today, we show the world what American sea power means. Deadly precision, meticulous execution, raw power and the will to use it. Secretary Hegseth, we are restoring the wario ethos to this department of the Navy not by slogan, but by performance. The Truman right here beside me sustained more than 50 days of tomahawk launches and precision airstrikes to degrade Iran backed Houthi capabilities and protect commercial shipping during Operation Rough Rider. There are many, many missions that we are operating and executing on very well. Including choking off cartel cash flows between Operation Atlantic and Pacific Watch, We've seized over 450 metric tons of cocaine worth more than $11 billion. These seizures represent lives saved. All these operations show us our fleet is ready to answer the nation's call. 24, 7, 365. The remarkable success is a testament to the bold vision of President Trump, whose leadership has ignited a renewed sense of patriotism, inserting more Americans to serve. I'm happy to say the Navy broke its recruiting record four months early, so help is on the way for the high operating tempo you've been living through to our Marines standing in the line with us. Your grit and discipline give US a fighting force no adversary can match. War fighters. You are the backbone of this maritime strength, keeping our nation safe and secure and prosperous. You prove every day freedom isn't free. President Trump thanks you. Secretary Hegg says thanks you. I thank you and your country thanks you. We appreciate the sacrifice you and your families make, and we value your unwavering commitment to the mission. Sea power is a family business. Your sacrifices are not unnoticed, and they are deeply appreciated. They may wear the uniform, but you share the honor and we share the pride. God bless you. God bless our Navy and Marine Corps, and God bless the United States of America.
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Steve Bannon
Thank you.
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Steve Gruber
Secretary of the Navy, with appropriate remarks, as we say. NAVY BAND playing I don't know if that's a Navy band. That may be Pipe 10, because I think that might be the. I think that actually might be the Naval Academy Glee Club, which does such a magnificent job on these songs in the Navy. Okay, I think we're prepared. Waiting for the commander in chief and the first lady.
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Steve Bannon
Fight for your life side when it comes crashing down and it hurts inside you got to take a stand it don't hurt to hide if you hurt my friends then you hurt Put my pride I got to be a man I can't let it slide I am a real American Fight for the rights of every man I am a real American Fight for what's right Fight for your life I feel strong about right and wrong and don't take trouble for very long I'll get something deep inside of me Courage is the thing that.
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Steve Gruber
I'll take a breath from me as people know, this is not my.
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Steve Bannon
Exactly.
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Steve Gruber
It's not my favorite style of music, but we'll get maybe some. Maybe have a sea chant here or something. SECRETARY OF Navy I don't know. I think it's. I'm not so sure Pete's down there. Wasn't Pete at the Navy football game. I got to get on mo about this Army Navy game that's coming up. Navy looks pretty daggone good. Heck of a. Heck of a football team. Think some of the media is getting in place. Some of the other people in the presidential party obviously coming down. That's the shot you have there. We're awaiting the introduction. Believe his next is going to be the commander in Chief. The first lady Commander in chief going to give his remarks. We're pretty close to being on time given the fact. Had to go out to the Virginia Capes and do the exercise, the naval warfare exercise. Just want to give a compliment. I really want to thank The United States Navy for giving us that footage in real America's voice. All the working tell you about how great this, the RAV and the war room team are. I think we got the go ahead or got really the signal. This is actually going to happen basically Thursday when it was kind of locked in. I think the President was going to go down to Norfolk speak before but they changed the schedule around. The President has wanted to do this as Admiral Masso and Clio and Captain Fennell have talked about the Great White Fleet, the review by President Roosevelt and really the rise of the United States as a global power in the Spanish American War and how that was. Decisions were made in the late 19th century about building a global Navy. And Teddy Roosevelt was famously as an I think Undersecretary of the Navy took a bunch, took a lot, made a lot of moves to make that happen. The Navy as an institution. And he didn't ask permission. He just went ahead and did it. Getting ready now I think that's Monica Ambassador Crowley getting ready for the President I states to come. We're going to jump to that live here momentarily still members of his party and and others coming down making sure they get see I think a lot of. Congressman, do we have Steve Gruber?
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Steve Bannon
No.
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Steve Gruber
Gruber, of course getting a signal down there right now is very hard as you can imagine, given all the, the communications going on. You talk about institutions. One of the most impressive institutions in mankind's history has been the Royal Navy. What the Royal Navy did to really build and expand the British Empire and that's what's so incredibly impressive about the United States Navy commerce. Captain Morgan, you're still with us.
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Steve Bannon
Paul.
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Steve Gruber
You've had to basically lead young men and motivate young men. As a helicopter pilot and doing other things you had to do in your detachment, your squadron. Talk to me about recruiting. Now today, young sailors. What is the pitch to a young Sailor, a young 17, 18 year old kid in thinking about coming into the.
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Captain Fennell
United States Navy, you know, that's a really interesting question. A lot of my son's friends, my son went to vmi. Their naval officers, Marine Corps officers, a lot of them left early and as soon as they could, that's over. They're now deciding to stay. And their message, I'm 68 years old. My message is going to fall on deaf ears. But the young officers and the senior enlisted have a story to tell now that's very, very positive and I think the impact on recruiting is going to be great. I would like to address Admiral Masso's comments about air dense and how professional they were. He clearly never cruised with me, so I just wanted to lay that out there. One last thing. The President only flies on white top aircraft. So the Osprey is green top. The 60 that you saw as a white top, that's, that's what they call the white types. They're the presidential birds.
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Steve Gruber
Explain that to people. Explain that for a second about that, about what that means.
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Captain Fennell
Well, the white tops. I did a tour as the chief pilot at the Sikorsky factory for three years and we did all the maintenance on the presidential H3s. I wouldn't even look at them, Steve. I mean, they're just, they're so nice and they're so pristine, but they are maintained to a standard that's really unbelievable. And the HMX1 guys who are the Marine Corps pilots that fly them, they just show up and take parts. Nobody even questions. It's a beautiful thing. And so the white tops are special airplanes. I did my initial night vision goggle calls with HMX1 and it was in green. Green four to sixes. So I didn't mean to disparage the V22. I'm so sorry.
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Admiral Sonny Masso
It was, I didn't mean it that way.
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Steve Gruber
No, no, no, it was, it, it was Cleo that put in the, the kill shot on the media. Okay, let's go. Yeah, I've heard that right there. Let's go. Let.
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Secretary of the Navy John Phelan
My goodness. Well, good afternoon.
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Steve Bannon
How we doing, sailors?
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Secretary of the Navy John Phelan
The absolute best of America. I'm honored to be at the world's largest naval base. Now, I'm the only thing between you, the first lady and the Commander in Chief. So I'm going to keep this very brief, looking out at all of you. I know you know why the President always says we have the strongest, most powerful, most lethal, most ready military on the planet. And he's going to make sure we.
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Steve Bannon
Keep it that way.
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Secretary of the Navy John Phelan
This is the perfect way to mark 250 years of the United States Navy. You know, President Trump has made our mission clear. America first and peace through strength. With common sense at every turn. At the War Department, that is the War Department, we're committed to that core mission of peace through strength. And for the Navy, that means more sailors, more subs, more ships and more munitions for all of them. The Navy and the Marine Corps embody the resilience of our country. Nobody, nobody in the world does it better than the United States Navy. Always remember this.
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Steve Bannon
Fact.
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Secretary of the Navy John Phelan
You are not civilians. You are different sailors, SEALs, Marines, you were set Apart for a distinct purpose. Your diversity is not your strength. Your strength is your unity of purpose, your shared mission, your love of country. Generation after generation, battle after battle, ship after ship, sailor after sailor, you have set the tone. The story began with John Paul Jones when he declared, I have not yet begun to fight. Today we have a commander in chief who fights for all of you and fights for our country every single day. A commander in chief who guarantees that you, the war fighters, have everything you need on the high seas to deter our enemies and if necessary, win overwhelmingly. We have a president who appreciates your dedication. He appreciates your service, your sacrifice, and that of your family as well. And as I always tell every service member, every sailor I see, he has your back. So, war fighters, on behalf of everyone at the Department of War, thank you. Thank you for your commitment to America's Navy. You stand the watch 250 years later. God bless you, God. And may God bless our great republic.
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Steve Bannon
Godspeed. Thank you.
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Steve Gruber
Okay. Secretary War. War brought out by Pete. By Nugent, Ted Nugent. Can't get any better than that, right? Particularly here in Real America's Voice, we have Charmaine as one of our. One of our hosts. She's fantastic. Also an ambassador for Turning Point. Pete Heggs is right there. We're waiting. Secretary Navy Pete, amazing talk. Very motivational this week. I think he got people's attention. Admiral Masso, did. Did the Secretary War, your flag officer, did he get the flag officer's attention this week?
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Admiral Sonny Masso
Well, I don't know that it was a function of getting their attention. I think that he wanted to speak from the heart on some things that he wanted to address versus standards, and he wanted to return to a warrior ethos. And I think, Yeah, I think, I think people paid attention. They got it. They are smart men and women and they know how to proceed from here. So I think it was a solid message, well delivered, and it left no doubt into what his strategic intent is for the behavior of all battle group staffs, you know, as we go forward.
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Steve Gruber
Perfect. Hang over a second. We're about to have the commander in chief and the first lady. Navy band will strike up. The commander in chief's the song, and then we'll go. President Trump's going to give remarks. If I know President Trump, I believe he may go off the glass. What we say away from prepared remarks. Things will be very enthusiastic. He's wanted this day to come for a long time. Sonny, you're so right about Teddy Roosevelt. Captain Fennell, President Trump and his enthusiasm. I think the very first Steve Gruber said it best today that Steve Gruber felt like a 12 year old. He was so excited to see this kind of operation, to see the pride of the sailors, to see the pride of the fleet, to see not just the weapons but the precision that the Navy training has where officers and enlisted just been absolutely incredible. And I'm sure the President has that enthusiasm is with him. This is something he's wanted to do for a long time and actually is doing it very close to where Teddy Roosevelt reviewed the Great White Fleet, which was really America sending a signal to the world we are a global power and we intend to comport ourselves as a global power. And we're going to put the resources necessary to become a global power. So it's been an extraordinary day so far. President there. Normally beforehand, when you see the President, he always runs a few minutes late on this. He's more than likely talking to enlisted men and some of the crew. He always does a meet and greet beforehand where he will meet people from the local community. It's pretty extraordinary because given the fact you gotta think about a speech and you're about to address it, not just 10,000 people live, but the entire world and both our allies and our enemies will be watching this speech. The President always takes time to spend X amount of time beforehand to do a meet and greet, meet local people, etc. I'm sure right now he is talking to some of the sailors of the Truman. Captain Fennell, give me your assessment so far. We're getting ready for the address by the Commander in Chief to the assembled enlisted men and crew of the ships at the Naval station. How you think it's gone so far?
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Captain Fennell
I think it's fantastic, Steve. And on this issue of spirit and pride in our nation and our, our Navy today I, I have a little study here. It said 1964, the public opinion of the military was 75%.
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Steve Gruber
Hang on one second. We got the First Lady. Okay, we got the first lady right there. Let's hear the applause. Let's pick up the sound.
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Steve Bannon
Navy, Navy, it is an honor to be with you to celebrate the 250th year since the United States Navy was officially established. Generations of sailors have kept America free because of their presence on the high seas. Your strength, bravery and sacrifice inspires us all. The President and I just attended an extraordinari demonstration. An inspiring display of skills that reflects the very best of our Navy. For me, it brought the back fond memories of my Visit to the USS George H.W. bush in 2018, I will always remember the pride and professionalism of the sailors I met on that vessel. I witness the enduring spirit of America's Navy, which propels every mission and lives on to every sailor who serves. Now it is my privilege to to introduce someone who holds our military close to his heart, not only as the Commander in Chief, but as a proud American who believes deeply in the men and women who wear the uniform. Please join me in welcoming My husband, the 45th and 47th president, the United States, Donald J. Trump. Sam. And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free and I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and I gladly stand up next to you and they thank her still today there ain't no doubt I love this land God bless the USA from the lakes of Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee across the plains of Texas from sea to shining sea From Detroit down to Houston and New York to LA where there's pride in every American heart and it's time we stand and say that I'm proud to be be an American where at least I know I'm free and I won't forget the men who died who gave that life to me and I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. Cuz there ain't no doubt I love this land God bless the US SA and I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free and I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still to day Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land God satisfy you. God bless the United States Navy. Well, that was good timing, wasn't it? We had to get that right. We had to get that right. But they always get it right. I was just given a display with our wonderful first lady, the likes of which I think few people have ever seen before. We were a few minutes away and the display of strength was absolutely incredible. We appreciate it. Thank you, Navy. Thank you very much. And I want to thank our magnificent first lady for that introduction. People love our First Lady. Thank you. And let me say to all of the incredible sailors on this pier, it's great to be with the fleet. The fleet. And let's also give a very special thanks to the shipmates who put on that spectacular display of Navy dominance. And that's what it was. It was dominance. And Bravo Zulu, you know, that is Bravo Zulu, you know, a Lot of people don't. And it's a true honor to be here with the thousands of our nation's finest sailors at the largest naval facility in the entire world. It's the largest, and I would say, more importantly, it's the best. Okay, it's both. The Norfolk Naval Base. Thank you very much. The largest and it's the best. We're gathered on this storied waterfront to celebrate 250 years of strength, tenacity and unwavering courage by the greatest fighting force even. And that's true. No matter where you go, no matter where you go, no matter what you even think about, there's nothing like the fighting force that we have roam the seas. It's called the United States Navy. And there's nothing in the world like it. Nothing. Not even close. You read stories, they don't have it. Let me tell you. We check it closely. We check it closely. Docked beside us today are a combined 150,000 tons of pure American naval supremacy and two colossal reasons why no one should ever want to start a fight with the usa. They won't fight. We're putting out a lot of fights, though. Do you see that? We're going to be close to number eight. Number eight. We don't want to send you into battle unless it's necessary. Necessary. Right. We're putting out. We're putting out a lot of fires. Maybe some of you will be angry. You'll say, what's he doing? We want to fight. You know what? If we can solve them the way I'm solving them, we solved seven. We have another one that's taken 3,000 years and we're pretty close. But I don't want to talk about it until it's done. But let's give a big round of applause to the men and women of the majestic USS Kearsarge. Thank you. And let's hear it for the sailors of the USS Harry S. Truman. Those who call this carrier home live by a motto that captures the spirit of America's Navy. It's very simple. The words, give em hell. And we do give them hell. For two and a half centuries, that is what every generation of American sailors have done. You've conquered raging oceans and braved ferocious storms to vanquish America's enemies or the high seas and distant shores. You've beaten mighty warships into twisted wrecks of steel. You've splintered vast armadas and sent the mangled pride of empire sinking into oblivion. You've surged the waters thick. Danger, blood, brine. And through it all, the United States Navy has kept the Stars and Stripes soaring high and proud above those big, magnificent waves. You love doing it, too. There's not a thing in the world that you'd rather do, is there? Is there? No. I like your life better than mine. I have to be honest with you. Sailing on those beautiful waters all the time. You're so lucky. Because the American sailor never quits, never fails and never ever lets us down. They've never let us down. Down. Thank you. Thank you. And we're honored to be joined today by service members representing every part of this great naval tradition. Our incredible surface warriors are the reason America's enemies tremble at the sight of a Navy ship. Haze gray or underway. The instant U.S. carrier, cruiser or destroyer breaks across the horizon. Every tyrant and adversary on the planet knows their choice is very simple. It's leave America in peace or be blown up in fire and fury never seen before. All over the world, people know of the skill, nerve, swagger and sheer attitude of the boldest and most daring pilots on the sea. The US Naval aviators. And I just got to witness it with Melania. They land screaming jets on pitching decks in the dark of night with no room for error. There's no room for error. The greatest pilots in the world. And while Navy pilots rain down pain from above, the greatest adversaries fear the daring deeds of our silent service. Below. They prowl and strike from crushing depths, unseen, undetected and unstoppable. They are our brave submariners. Where are the submariners? Here? And they are brave. The most lethal weapon in the world. I will tell you the most. Nobody knows where it is and what it carries. Is nothing that carries weaponry like that. And we're 25 years ahead of any other country when it comes to submarines. Nobody's even close. Nobody can match us. No roll call of Navy warriors would be complete without recognizing some of the fiercest and most elite commandos in the history of war. They are the toughest. And there's nobody tougher than. There's just nobody. That's what they tell me. There's nobody tougher. Called the Navy seals. What do you think about the Navy seals? Where are the Navy seals? We're not going to mess with the Navy seals. They are great. Thank you very much. Incredible people. And of course, our enemies have learned to dread that special cast of warriors who have charged forward almost everywhere. America seized a stronghold or stormed a beachhead. They call themselves the Leathernecks, the Jarheads, the Devil Dogs. But we revere them as the United States Marines, incredible people, Incredible people. With us today are some of those who have led these exceptional men and women. They've led them like nobody else. And I'll tell you a person I'm very, very proud of. He has stepped up and he's hitting home run after home run. They love him. I want to introduce again a man who's just exceptional. I'm so happy with this choice. Secretary of War Pete Hegsett. Thank you, Pete. Doing a job job. I said, pete, what do you think? You know, we used to call it Secretary of War, the Department of War, the War Department. Now we call it Defense. And I don't know, would you ever want to, you know, we won World War I, we won World War II, we won everything in between. We won everything before. And all of a sudden they decide to change the name. They went woke then too. You know, woke is a long time term word. He said, what do you think about changing it to the Department of War? He said, I love it, sir. And that was about the end of it, right? That was the end of it. Thank you, Pete. Great job. He's a great leader. Also. Secretary of the Navy, a very, very successful man. He gave it all up to do this. And we're designing more ships. We have more ships being built. Shortly we're going to be having, have more great ships being built than we've ever had being built in the history of the Navy, John Phelan. John, thank you. Great job, John. He made a lot of money in the private sector. And I said, you want to do this, John? We need a lot of ships and we need them fast. And he said, I want to do it. He gave up a lot, gave up everything to do this, but he's loving it and he's doing a fantastic job. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Darrell Caudle. Admiral, thank you. Great, great job. Rear Admiral Gavin Duff. And along with so many different people here that I could introduce them all day long, I don't want to do that because we got to get to business. Talking a little bit about war and peace. But along with your great officers here at Norfolk Naval Base, Vice Admirals John Gumbleton. John, thank you. Thank you, John. Great young guy. You're a young guy. Great. Doug Perry and Rob Goucher. Thank you. And a very special thanks to a man who just got a 93% approval. He runs the Veterans everything. I call it, he's Veterans everything. The VA Secretary, Doug Collins. He's doing great. Thank you, Doug. Doing a great job. Ambassador Monica Crowley. Monica, thank you very much. A man that everybody loves. He was my doctor in the White House, and I got to know him very well. He was also the doctor for Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him? And he was a doctor for a man named Bush. And at a press conference, they asked him who's in the best shape, who's the healthiest, who's the strongest, who's the best physical specimen of the three. He said, that's easy. President Donald Trump. And I said, I love this guy. I said, I love him. Ronny Jackson, he's now a congressman, as you know. So he was an admiral. He was the chief doctor. He was the whole boss of doctors. And now he's a very, very successful congressman from Texas. Thank you, Ronnie, very much. And I appreciate those words. I'll never forget them. Jen Kaggins. Jen, thank you. John McGuire, Rob Whitman, Dan Crenshaw, Derek Van Orden. These are unbelievable, talented people that are with me and they fight. Thank you very much, fellas. Thank you. Thank you very much. Darling. These are great Congress. I say Congress warriors. That's what you have to be today to be in Congress if you're going to make it. I also want to recognize all of the newly pinned chief petty officers. You got a lot of them here today. I had to approve it. Who recently earned their anchors and now bear their venerable title, Navy Chief. Navy Chief. Thank you, Navy Chiefs. Let's also express the gratitude of our entire nation to every Navy veteran who has come out to honor this big anniversary. We see so many veterans. I saw backstage. I was shaking hands with veterans all over the place. And they are great and they're respected and they're loved. Thank you very much. Stand up if you'd like. Thank you very much. They're really loved. I saw it backstage. I saw so many veterans, my hand will never be the same. Thank you very much. A great honor and a very special thanks to the countless Navy families who support our sailors with such love and devotion. None of what are. And think of this, without them, you wouldn't be celebrating today. Many of you would not be doing very well. Male or female, you wouldn't be doing very well. So we want to thank our family members, right? All of them. Parents, husbands, wives. Thank you. Thank you very much. From the American Revolution until today, the story of the US Navy is a tale of loyalty, sacrifice, sacrifice and commitment stretching back 250 years. So we're celebrating 250. I almost thought I wouldn't get to do that because I was president in 2016. And then they rigged the election on me. And then we caught him, didn't we? We caught him, but, you know, we had to run it again. I ran it again and I got 250, and I got the World cup and I got the Olympics. Can you believe all of it? In my first term, I was the one that got the Olympics. I was the one that got the World Cup. And I said, you know, the sad part is, maybe I'll go. Maybe I won't even be invited, because it won't be during my term. I would say if it were a Democrat, I might not be invited. They don't love me. Exactly. Too much. And then when this happened, now all of a sudden they got all three. But you know what's the most important? 250 years is the most important. Above World cup, above Olympic. But we got them all coming. And on June 14th next year, we're going to have a big UFC fight at the White House. Right at the White House. On the grounds of the White House. When the Continental Congress formed a fleet of just two ships in October 1775, many scoffed at their chances against the most powerful empire on Earth. That was the most powerful ever, relatively speaking. We had two ships. We had nothing other. But we had great heart. They didn't know the audacity and the grit of the American sailor. They had no idea the war for Independence gave us some of the greatest American heroes of, of all time, including the father of the US Navy, Captain John Paul Jones. You know that when a far stronger British ship demanded his surrender, Jones yelled back that timeless battle cry. Right now. I have not yet begun to fight. Don't ask me for that. Think of that. I could just see it. He's a wise guy. He's asking. I haven't even begun to fight. And he knocked the hell out of him. In the War of 1812, Captain James Lawrence shouted his final words to his crew as blood streamed down from his mortal wounds. Fight her till she sinks. He yelled. Don't give up the ship. Don't give up the ship. These are all incredible, very, very famous statements now with years and time, very famous. Don't give up the ship. I say it all the time. You're a little behind. I say, don't give up the ship. And we win. We all know how to win. Today that eternal creed is written into the hearts of every sailor in the fleet. America's Navy never, ever gives up the ship. Right? We never give it up. Another titan of the early Navy was the great commodore, author Sinclair, he defeated the French in the Caribbean battle, and then he went to work on the Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli and raided British forces when they were so powerful in 18, the war of 1812. He raided them. He was knocking them out one by one. Everyone said, where does this guy come from? And we're all descendants, when you think of it. Commodore Sinclair went on to become the commanding officer here at the Naval Station Norfolk, right here, where he founded a nautical school for officers that eventually became the one and only U.S. naval Academy. And I'm going to be at your Army Navy game this year. Who am I going to root for, huh? You may be surprised. It's going to be great. We're going to be here. Generations of the Commodore's descendants have forged their own towering legacies of service in the Navy. And we're joined today by his fifth great grandson, Commander Link Mustin. Where is Mustin? Commander Mustin, where are you? He's here. Wow, look at this handsome guy. That's good genetics. He's got good genes. Thank you very much, Commander. Thank you for continuing a family tradition that has endured for two and a half centuries. Can you believe that, huh? I wonder if they were as good looking as you. I doubt it. You just got better with age, right? Congratulations. Is that young man your boy? Wow. He beat you, they beat you. That's what we want to see. Over the generations, our Navy sailors raised old lorry above the streets of Veracruz, sent the Spanish fleet to its watery grave in Manila Bay, and buried the vicious German wolf packs at the bottom of the sea. Those were vicious, vicious wolf packs. They were brutal. They were hitting us hard. And then we came up with the answer, didn't we? We came up with a way to knock them out. And we were knocking them out so fast, they didn't know what to do. It was really the end once we discovered the secret through some brilliant minds. A lot of them are descendants of the people here right now. In every era of conflict, the Navy has never failed to hunt, kill, and to win. Never failed, Never failed. In World War II, Admiral Bull Halsey's motto, hit hard, hit fast, hit often. And that is exactly what the sailors do. One of those warriors was submarine commander Eugene Fluke, who sent more Japanese tonnage to the ocean floor than any other man in history. I don't like to talk about it too much now, you know, they've been a nice ally, but anybody from Japan here right now, we'll get off the subject immediately. But think of it. Sent more Tonnage to the bottom of the sea. One after one aboard the famed USS Barb, he destroyed a Japanese tanker and a carrier with a single salvo. To his, to his men's chagrin, they were very concerned about it. They didn't think we could do that. And he just knocked them out one after another. And again torpedoes were flying. But his greatest feat came when he spotted 30 enemy ships at port off the coast of China. You know that very famous story. Commander Fluke ordered his men to their battle station, slipped into the harbor and sank six vessels at one time before taking off into the beautiful wild blue ocean. He received four Navy Crosses, the Legion of Merit and the Congressional Medal of Honor. That was a brave guy. In recognition of the incredible achievements of the USS Barb under his command, this December, we will lay the keel of a brand new Virginia class submarine bearing that same legendary name. And his grandson Tom will be there to pick it up. Tom is with us today and I want to thank you for keeping that great legacy. See around. Where is Tom? Oh, look, stand up, Tom. Great. Good Tom, thank you. That's good. That's good genes too, Tom, isn't it? That's good stuff. Thank you very much both for being here. From Midway to the Coral Sea to Leyte Gulf, American sailors fought the most epic naval battles in history. And at Normandy, the Navy led the greatest armada ever formed to deliver the the single largest invasion force the world has ever seen. One of the sailors who did it was Felix Maurizio, who enlisted at age 18 and trained right here in Norfolk. Trained right here on D Day, June 6, 1944. Felix band and amphibious landing craft that did six harrowing runs to Omaha Beach. You all know about it, these are all famous fights. He delivered hundreds of American troops into the battle, including his brother Sal. Felix lost so many of his friends that day, but he kept fighting. He kept going out there, getting more soldiers, getting more, more of everything. He just kept coming. They couldn't stop him. Went on to serve in the Pacific under the great Admiral Nimitz. In February 1945, he spent his 21st birthday landing Marines on the blood flow soaked sands of Iwo Jima. One of the bloodiest, toughest battles ever. Historic battle. Six months later, he was aboard the USS Talladega and Tokyo Bay when Japan surrendered. They said, I don't think we want Felix hitting us anymore. And he retired as a chief petty officer in 1966. This year, Felix celebrated his 100th birthday and he is here this afternoon as a living testament to the glory of The United States Navy. Wow. That's great. He looks good. Felix, you look better than I do. I'm not happy. Not happy about this. Felix. No. They don't want to mess around with him. And, Felix, we salute you. Thank you very much. Incredible 100 years in Korea, American sailors and Marines carried out the daring landing in Incheon and flew more than a quarter of a million combat sorties against the enemy. It was an amazing effort. In Vietnam, the Navy unleashed Operation Rolling Thunder and deployed a brand new unit, the Navy SEALs, to tear up Mekong River Delta. Problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would have won easy. We would have won Afghanistan easy. Would have won every war easy. But we got politically correct. Let's take it easy. We're not politically correct anymore. Just so you understand. We win now. We win. We don't want to be politically correct anymore. And history will never forget that it was the SEALs who stormed the compound at Osama bin Laden and put a bullet in his head. Remember that? And please remember I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago. One year before he blew up the World Trade Center. And I said, you got to watch Osama bin Laden. And the fake news would never let me get away with that statement unless it was true. But I said one year before to Pete Hegseth, I said, one year before Whiz Pete. In the book I wrote, whatever the hell the title, I can't tell you. But I can tell you there's a page in there devoted to the fact that I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden and I didn't like it. And you got to take care of him. They didn't do it. A year later, he blew up the World Trade Center. So we got to take a little credit because nobody else is going to give it to me. You know the old story, they don't give you credit. Just take it yourself. And it was the US Navy that dumped his wretched corpse off the decks of the Carl Vinson to sink into the dark abyss. The Navy's central role in the defense of our liberty continues to this day. Just a few months ago, the Ohio class guided missile submarine played an indispensable part in one of the most spectacular military feats the world has ever seen. The obliteration of Iran's nuclear sites in Operation Midnight Hammer. How did that work out? Pretty good, right? And we shot 30 tomahawks. You know that, Lee? On top of after the B2. How about that? The B2s, what they did those beautiful flying Wings, what they did, they hit every single target they hit. And just in case, we shot 30 tomahawks out of a submarine. Every one of them hit two. So I would say Iran was not particularly thrilled. They were going to have a nuclear weapon within a month. And now they can start the operation all over again. But I hope they don't, because we'll have to take care of that, too. If they do, I let them know that you want to do that, it's fine. But we're going to take care of that and we're not going to wait so long. It should have been done long before I came along. You know that I had the pilots of the B2s in my office, the famous Oval Office. I had them in the B2s. They came in to the White House and we talked about it. They said, you know, sir, for 22 years, our predecessors and us trained for that hit. For 22 years, they were training to take out the nuclear potential of Iran, you said. But it was only when you came along that we did it. And they were so happy that they did it. But they've been training for that hit for 22 years. But no president wanted to do it. They would have had a nuclear weapon within a month, probably within a month or shortly thereafter. And speaking to them would have been much more difficult. In recent weeks, the Navy has supported our mission to blow the cartel terrorists the hell out of the water. You see that? And you know, there are no boats in the water anymore. You can't find any. We're having a hard time finding them. But, you know, it's a pretty tough thing we've been doing. But you have to think of it this way. Every one of those boats is responsible for the death of 25,000American people and the destruction of families. So when you think of it that way, what we're doing is actually an act of kindness. But we did another one last night. Now we just can't find any. You know, it's the old story. We're so good at it, that there are no boats, in fact, even fishing boats. Nobody wants to go into the water and anymore. Sorry to tell you that, but it's. We stop. We're stopping drugs coming into America, if that's okay. We're stopping drugs at a level that nobody has ever seen before. Last year we lost, I believe, 300,000 people. And that's not talking about the destruction to families. Every one of us knows families that have been destroyed because the son, daughter, even mothers and fathers are destroyed by the fentanyl pouring in and drugs pouring in. Well, they're not coming in by sea anymore. So now we'll have to start looking about the land because they'll be forced to go by land. And let me tell you right now, that's not going to work out well for them either. And it was the Truman Carrier strike group that unleashed American fury on the Houthi terrorists in the Red Sea. And as you know, they settled. But they settled because they made the statement, we've never been hit like that ever before. And earlier this year conducted the single largest airstrike from an American carrier in history. That was the largest ever. I want to express my personal thanks to every single sailor who contributed to these phenomenal victories. We only know victory. We're only going to know victory. Victory. We don't want to know the other. The other word. We want to know victory. We're going to have great victories in the years to come. Well, at least for almost three and a half years, we're going to have great victories. I want to thank a group of women from North Carolina. Look at these great. Will you stand up, please? These beautiful women have followed me. This is number 151. You could call a rally. This is sort of a rally. Let's face it. This is a rally. This is a speech of love. We're all. We all love our country. But that group is from North Carolina. They're up to about 151 visits. They have a whole group of them. I never see their husbands. I don't know what's going on with their husbands, I assume. Do they still love you, the husbands? Yes. Good. But I want to thank you, 151. They've been following me since 20, 2016. And you look even better now than you did then. But I want to thank you very much. It's a really group. They love our country. They like Trump. But you know what? They really do. They love our country. And we have the right policy. Right? We have policy. We don't want crime. We don't want men playing in women's sports. We don't want transgender for everybody. We don't want to have open borders where millions of people come into our country from jails, from prisons, from mental institutions and insane asylums. Drug dealers, murderers. 11,000, 788 murders were allowed to come into our country. A lot. A lot of them are gone. And by the way, Washington, D.C. is a safe place right now. It went from one of the most dangerous cities in our country. Can you believe that to probably the safest among the safest in our country. Nobody's being hit anymore. It's very safe. And I want to thank you. A lot of the people here have helped. A lot of the people in the audience are people that have straightened them out. It took 12 days. Think of that. Now we're in Memphis. We're doing the same thing in Memphis. And we're going to Chicago. You know, we have a governor that thinks it's wonderful when 50 people in a short period of time were murdered in Chicago. Over 200 people were hit. And so we send in the National Guard. You know what we send in whatever necessary. People don't care. They want to. They don't want crime in their cities. And we're doing it and we're doing it well. We're doing it like nobody's ever done it before. So I just want to tell you, you're very close to D.C. the restaurants are thriving. The restaurants are dying. They were closing one after another. Now they're thriving. They're opening up beautiful new restaurants. Restaurants. Washington D.C. is safe. And I even went there and had dinner the other night and I stood right smack in the middle of the street. Secret Service was thrilled and I gave a news conference. It's a safe place now. Washington D.C. it's always going to be. Our nation's capital is always going to be safe. We're never going to let that happen again. What happened there? One of the most beautiful places. We're doing a big beautification program. At least take me. Very little, very short, but we're doing a beautification program to go along with the security and safety. We're getting rid of the graffiti, the potholes, the broken medians between roads. We're doing a real job and you'd be proud of it. I think everybody here is proud of it, frankly. That's our nation's capital and that has to be clean, beautiful and safe. The US Navy always stands for America. As your commander in chief, I will always stand for you. I promise you that. You know that. That's why you voted for me in numbers that nobody's ever seen before. And I want you to know that despite the current Democrat induced shutdown, we will get our service members every last penny. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Do not worry about it. It's all coming. It's coming. And even more because I'm supporting the across the board pay raises for every sailor and service member of the United States armed force. But we have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats. They want to give all of our money to illegal aliens that pour into the country. And you know, I have a bigger heart than they do, but the problem is when you do that, they come in by the millions. Everybody wants that, so you can't do it. But I've also pledged the largest ever investment in our military's history. We're spending over $1 trillion. We've never had anything like that before, $1 trillion on our military. And that includes, along with your secretary of the Navy and Pete Hegseth, we're going to be building lots of ships and doing a lot of things that you haven't seen happen for 35 years. We'll soon revitalize our once great shipyards with hundreds of billions of dollars in new investments and people coming from all, all around the world. And they're going to build ships in America. We want them built in America. And as I told our generals and admirals last Tuesday, we are getting wokeness the hell out of our military. It's gone. It's really gone. I don't know that it was ever really here. I think some of the top people had it. I knew a few of them. They were really. They were major losers, but they were losers. Unlike our great general, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who may be here, Dan Raisin Cain. You know Raisin Cain, When I heard his name, I said, that's the guy I'm looking for. But he's been an amazing warrior. And, you know, he was the one headed up the attack on Iran. And everything he's touched has turned out great. He knocked out ISIS. So I was told it would take four to five years to beat ISIS. When he came on board, he did it in four weeks. We knocked him out in four weeks. 100% of the ISIS caliphate is Dan Kaine. Here he is. You know why? Because he's working. That's the one thing. We don't have to worry about him, but he is a fantastic man. That's the man I wanted right from the beginning. I said, if I ever do this again, and if I could get lucky enough to win, because we have a base like nobody in history has had, I said, I'm going to pick Raisin Cane as the chairman. And that's what we did. And he's been incredible. We will not be politically correct when it comes to defending American freedom. That's why we have renamed the Department of Defense at Department of War, as I said. And we have changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. That was easy. That was an easy one. You know, for years I've looked at it and I edited it up, and I figured we have 92% of the frontage. I say, how come we call it the Gulf of Mexico? I mean, I wouldn't say that Mexico is thrilled with me, but what are you going to do? It's the Gulf of America, and I love it. Now, I was watching the other night, a report, and they said very routinely in the Gulf of America, this is. You know, they just went on to talk about. They didn't do it with a smirk or a smile. They didn't say, Indy, Gulf of America. No, it's called the Gulf of America now, and nobody's playing games with it. We got sued by the Associated Press, and they lost. In fact, the judge was so good, he said he's calling it the Gulf of America. He's got all the approvals. You have to do that, too, to the very liberal Associated Press. They got thrown out of court. In fact, they're almost not allowed to cover me anymore because of that. It's a big hit, so I'm very proud of that. Under our leadership, the spirit of the American forces is soaring like it has never soared before. I think right now we have more spirit than we've ever had before. After years of recruiting shortages, we couldn't get guys or gals to become sailors. One year ago, they didn't want to be a seller. Although I must say, once I said, we're going to run a lot of people, it made it better. But let's go back two years, and it was even worse because there was no hope. We had this horrible, horrible president who had no clue what the hell was happening. The chances of him walking down those stairs successfully were not good. And I have to be careful because one day I'm going to probably fall. No, the North Carolina women said, that will never happen to you. I always say, walk down the steps nice and slow. I do nice. I don't have to bop down the stairs. Walk nice and slowly. But we have a waiting list. Think of this. We have a waiting list for people wanting to get into the United States Navy, the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marines, Space Force. Oh, we love Space Force. But think of it. We have a waiting list for every branch of government now, and that includes police. Police and firemen. They didn't want to. Nobody wanted to be a policeman. Now they want to be a policeman. Now they want to be in the Navy. They want to be in the Air Force so badly. The Marines, the Army, they want to be in all of it. They love Space Force. I love Space Force because I created Space Force. That was my thing. Then it's going to turn out to be one of the most important. But one year ago, our country was dead. We had a dead country. People say, sir, you shouldn't say that. It's two strings of withdrawal. We had a dead country and today we have the hottest country anywhere in the world by far. One year. Think of it. One year ago we were dead. The king of Saudi Arabia said to me, president, one year ago, we thought we lost America. We thought it was a dead country. And now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world. He said that I use this term and I'm pleased to say that 2025 was the Navy's single best recruiting year ever. Not bad. So you went from those embarrassing headlines of a year ago. Think of it. Nobody wants to go into the Navy. How does that make you feel? Now you have a different problem. You know what the problem is? Everybody wants your job. I like that better right now. But nobody's going to take your job. You were with us when it was not as nice. It wasn't as nice. Those are the people I like the best too. The people that were with me when it wasn't looking so good. Like these ladies from North Carolina. They were with me when it wasn't looking that good. A lot of fake scandals were created. All fake. One of those eager new recruits is 18 year old Aiden Rollins. A recruit like I'm so proud of. Aiden's father was a sailor. His grandfather was a sailor. And after four years of Navy rotc, it is Aiden's turn to carry on that tradition. When he enlisted in April, his father Daniel, a Navy veteran, was so inspired that he decided to reenlist to. Wow. I'm delighted to say that father and son are here with us today representing the future of this great fleet. Please, Aiden and your father, please stand up. But. Wow. Wow. That's a good looking family, I tell you. Thank you both. That's a great story. Beautiful. Your father looks pretty young, Aidan. I mean, he's a young looking guy. Every sailor, aviator, submariner and shipmate in the Navy inherits a tradition of excellence and daring, power and glory unmatched in the long saga of mankind's voyage on the sea. From that first ship, the schooner Hannah, to the awesome side of a modern carrier battle group. Underway. The U.S. navy has always been the iron will of a proud and mighty nation. Pushing forward through the currents and over those big beautiful waves, through the spray of raging combat and the fog of naval war. America's sailors have proven time and again that our Navy does just the best job there is. Anything having to do with sailing the oceans is nobody to compete. We own the skies. We stalk the depths. And we rule the seas like nobody has ever ruled the seas. From Boston harbor to Hampton Roads, from the Philippine Sea to the Red Sea, from the Guanacanal to the vast, great Atlantic Ocean. Our sailors have seized triumph upon triumph. We don't know anything about defense feet. We heaped honor upon honor and carved greatness and splendor into the pages of history. We only talk about the Navy and only use that word, splendor. We also say victory because that's the other. We have splendor and we have victory. On gun decks and flight decks, in torpedo rooms and cockpits, they have poured out their blood, sweat and tears. And offered their very lives to defend this land between the seas. They have crossed icy canals, leapt from burning records, plunged into frigid waters, soared into deadly skies and slashed across the mine infested bays. To claim American victory. And to defend the cause of liberty. To defend, quite frankly, the American flag. In every era and every part of this globe, our sailors have fought with courage in their hearts, patriotism in their souls and salt water in their veins. You have that salt water. Don't let the doctors change it. Keep it. Because there's nothing like it. There's no blood like it. And standing before all of you today, I know that whatever our nation is threatening, and whenever they need help, whenever duty calls, American sailors will hoist our flag high. And they will rally to Admiral Farragut's immortal battle cry. Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead. Go, you son of a gun. With your help, we will fight, fight, fight. We will win, win, win. Because of you, our Navy and our country will always be proud and righteous and mighty and free. Congratulations once again on 250 years of total dominance. Sail fast. Stay strong. Thank you. God bless our sailors. And God bless the United States of America. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. I said, young man Pick yourself off the ground. I said, young man. Cause you're in a new town there's no need to be unhappy Young man, there's a place you can go. I said, young man when you're short on your dough, you can stay there and I'm sure you will find many Ways to have a one good time. It's fun to stay at the YMCA it's fun to stay at the ymca they have everything what you're meant to enjoy. You can hang out all the boys. It's fun to stay at home YMCA it's fun to stay at home and why you can get yourself clean. You can have a good meal, you can do whatever you feel. Young man, are you listening to me? I said, young man, what do you want to be? I feel Young man, you can make million dreams but you got to know this one thing no matter does it all by himself. I said, young man, put your pride on the shelf and just go there.
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Secretary of the Navy John Phelan
To the ymca I'm sure Chief of the Armed Forces.
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Steve Gruber
Incredible, incredible day. Now he's only got to go back and go back to Washington, D.C. and deal with the Gaza war. Let's bring in Admiral Gary Hall. Admiral hall was on the National Security Council for President Trump and President Trump's first term. Admiral hall, you've had an opportunity to see Today a historic 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States Navy. And of course, wrapped up with a. With a very inspiring talk to the sailors and men of the Truman and the other ships in the fleet that are at Norfolk Naval Station. Your thoughts, sir?
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Admiral Gary Hall
Well, thank you, Steve. I'm humbled to go after the President. Wow, I have chills right now. I have goose flesh. Send me to the recruiters. I want to sign. Sign back up. You know, three great speeches. And I'll tell you, the culture of the Navy is different than all the other service. Each service has their own culture. But in the Navy, you cannot order anybody to cheer. You cannot order them to applaud. And their response to the Secretary of War, their response to the first lady, their response to the President is awesome. And those people, they just, you know, that they hate. They hate the fact that people love President Trump. You know, the American sailor. They come from ordinary Americans, the state. You know, they. They're neither liberal or conservative. They're just good, all Americans. And they love the president. To see that is just amazing. The President mentioned, you know, the Kearsarge and I commanded a similar ship. You know, a thousand sailors, 2,000 marines. And again, they are genuine Americans. And when they cheer, it's coming right from their heart. And so, yeah, sign me back up, Steve. You know, in the promo to this broadcast, I saw a picture of you as Ensign Bannon. And first, for our listeners, I want to tell you something. I met Lieutenant Bannon back in 1986, 87. When he showed up at my squadron, every wife, every spouse, every girl there swooned and went, have you seen Chris Bannon's brother? Oh, he is gorgeous. So anyway, and Steve, you and I thanks you and I joined about the same time. And the reason we joined was. And tell me if I'm right with you. Adventure, opportunity. And I use the phrase association with heroes. And that's exactly why sailors are joining today. They want adventure, they want opportunity and they want to serve with like minded heroes. And service is the big term right there. So what a great day. 250 years. I only spent 39 years in the Navy. I wish I could have spent a couple more.
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Steve Gruber
I want to ask you about. And by the way, I was born right outside in Ocean View, right near the Norfolk Naval Station. Of course, family, so many families associated with the Navy. And it was reading those inspirational and hearing the stories, the inspirational stories of the Pacific Fleet that always, I always wanted to be a naval officer and to go to the Pacific Fleet. And I was blessed to be able to do that. One technical question for you. You were President Trump's on the National Security Council, pretty senior position about alliances. You had been one of the senior officers at NATO outside of your service to the fleet as a pilot. What's the difference you've seen in the cut of the jib of the president in the second term than the first?
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Admiral Gary Hall
Well, one, he doesn't feel hampered and two, he's doing amazing things. You know, I served for two years at NATO and you know, the common joke is NATO stands for not at the office or after two o'. Clock. And they are, you know, those staff. NATO is staffs. It's not force structure. And the fact that President Trump has made them, you know, pony up more of their GDP for infrastructure, that is a big deal. Because basically anytime anything came up in NATO and we had all the senior officers represented, if ever there was a question about what to do, everybody bent over to tie their shoes and I was standing there with loafers. They were all looking for the Americans to take charge, whether it be the 4th of July picnic or an operation at sea. And their forces, we had quick reaction forces, naval forces, and with an exercise once every year, and there were four quarters where you would sign up and the NATO forces would only sign up on the quarters that they didn't deploy forces. So President Trump has really, I think, wakened up the NATO forces that they, one, they have to pony up, you know, two, they have to deploy and have the Infrastructure to go to sea. You know, when I worked for the President, I used to say, if you go in to see him, one, there's six things I want to tell you. One, he's not going to do the same thing and expect a different result, which is, you know, withdrawal from Afghanistan. Two, he's going to be respectful of taxpayer dollars. And three, he's not going to put any American in harm's way, whether it be dodging Department of state or NGOs. And the other thing, if you go into the seat of the president, he's going to ask you with a project, how much are we paying? How much are. Why is it important to the United States? How much are we paying? How much are others paying? Burden sharing. And he wants NATO to step up and share the burden.
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Steve Gruber
Admiral, hang on for a second. I want to go to. I'm going to come back to you. I want Taj Gill. Taj, you've had a chance to see this today. The Navy seals got two great speakers at the beginning and a demonstration of the Navy seals boarding ships. Your thoughts today, particularly the enthusiasm of the sailors.
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Taj Gill
Oh, yeah, it was awesome. Trump's a man. Can you hear me? Yeah.
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Steve Gruber
Yes, sir. Gotcha.
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Taj Gill
Amazing. Okay.
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Steve Bannon
Got it.
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Taj Gill
Yeah. Trump's a man. He's amazing. Those sailors were fired up. And then I saw him earlier. I was watching the show earlier when he was out on the, on the aircraft carrier and they were doing the live fire demonstration with the CWIZ and the Navy seals. Fast rope in there. It was that. That was an incredible day. And like Trump said, the naval Recruiting in 2025 is the highest ever. And that's because of Trump, and that's because of Hegseth getting all the woke stuff out of the military and turning it back into a lethal fighting force, as it should be, and using the naval power to restore the freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and defeating the Houthis. Trump is the man. Pete Hegseth is doing an amazing job, and the Navy is going to flourish again. It's going to turn back into a fighting force. And their job is to maintain freedom of navigation across the world, to keep the shipping lanes open.
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Steve Gruber
For recruiting, it's very, you know, for recruiting for the Navy seals, it's always tough to get the right people. I know a lot of people want to be Navy SEALs, but it's so tough psychologically and physically. And I tell people the psychological toughness of you guys is unbelievable. What do you think this meant today to our broader audience, particularly of young Americans, about The potential for volunteering for the Navy.
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Taj Gill
I think young people are going to be fired up. I think. Well, we already see they're already fired up. The, the recruiting is the highest it's ever been for the Navy. And I think that's, that goes across armed forces. But everything Trump and the military is doing right now, it builds enthusiasm, it builds morale, and it gets people motivated to be Americans. Like we need to bring back an overwhelming sense of patriotism to America. That's how you defeat this, this woke mind virus, this ideology that's in America. It's through patriotism and it's through leadership. And Trump is providing the leadership. But Pete Hegseth in power and he is getting rid of all this crap that's in the military and it's returning it to its roofs. The Department of War, it's a fighting force. Lethality is its job. And that's what they're doing. And that's going to motivate young people to join the military, because the military is now the military again. It's a fighting force. It's not, you know, they're not out doing all this other stuff that they're not supposed to be. So I think, I think this is going to motivate young people to join the military big time.
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Steve Gruber
As Pete said, precision and ferocity. Guys, hang right there. I want to go. Captain Fennell, we're going to let you go. Your closing thoughts are you spent, you dedicated your professional life to the United States Navy from a very young man, you served your country. You were bold enough and brave enough to tell the country what they needed to hear at the very moment. Certain administrations didn't want anybody to talk about that. What are your thoughts today?
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Captain Fennell
Well, I just joined the chorus of what you've just heard. This is really spectacular. I'm sitting over here in Switzerland, it's almost midnight, and proud to be here and proud to have watched all this. And I can feel the energy all the way over here. I came into the Navy in 1986 when I was commissioned and I came in, in the Reagan Top Gun movie had come out. Reagan was president. And I wanted something to do that was meaningful and I wanted to join the Navy. And I can see in those sailors faces, especially the petty officers today. And I think Admiral hall said it. They don't, they won't clap. No one orders sailors to clap. They were happy. They were enthusiastic about their president and their service. I am so excited to see this. I'm just looking forward to seeing our Navy grow and for us to become the navy that we have always been, which is to ensure that every seafaring nation has freedom of navigation, free access to the oceans, and that we defend America both from the land and the sea. This has been a great day and it's been an honor to be here. So thank you very much.
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Steve Gruber
Where do people get. You've got another great piece about the Navy. We're going to have you on this week to talk about, talk about that in the challenge of the Chinese Communist Party war fighting capability. Where do people. What's the title of your piece and where do people go to get it?
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Captain Fennell
Yeah, the title of the piece is Victory at Sea, the importance of the Maritime Power against the prc. And it's an American greatness. I write for American greatness just every few weeks or so when something gets my attention. And this speech today and what the president said last week in Quantico about victory at sea, this is what this is about, getting back to be able to fight and win wars at sea. If we can do that, all the other stuff of humanitarian assistance and showing the flag and helping other people and coalitions and all that will come. But if we cannot defeat any other nation, Navy at sea, then we have failed. And that's what we're headed back to. And I'm so glad that President Trump spoke about that and that we have a new spirit of war fighting and naval war fighting that's coming back to our nation. And as they said, I think the admiral said, and others, I'm ready to sign back up if they'll take me.
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Steve Gruber
Captain Fennell, thank you so much. You're fighting a pretty good fight and making sure the public knows, understands what's going on. So thank you. Honored to have you on here, sir.
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Captain Fennell
Thank you.
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Steve Gruber
I think we got a guy that's about to make Captain Sean Spicer joins us. Of course. Sean, you are a critical part of the, of the first term. Give me your thoughts today. I think you put on the rank of captain on Tuesday, or have you already put it on? It's just the ceremonies on Tuesday.
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Steve Bannon
Tuesday.
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Sean Spicer
The ceremony's on Tuesday. Looking forward to it. I saw Secretary Hegseth last night just to confirm we're good to go. I told him I haven't eaten in like four days because I got really worried after his speech. And he said, I said that not fit, you know. So I said, all right, I'm good, I'm good. Yeah, it's, by the way, big win yesterday at Navy against Air Force. I'll take a win as A win. It was 30, 34, 31. We're, we're halfway to the Commander in Chief's trophy once again. So that was good. But look, I thought today was fantastic, the opportunity to celebrate the Navy, the history of the Navy, seeing those sailors down there in the pier get fired up. This is what it's all about, this folks getting appreciated, getting thanked for their service, feeling inspired about what they're doing, and importantly, the why. Steve, you know this. I mean, you can sit around forever and do what you're told, but having that sense of duty and purpose is critical. And when President Trump reminded folks again today was that sense of purpose. And he also made it very clear in a sort of a funny way that, look, I'm going to go out there and be the president of peace. I'm on the cusp and on the precipice of solving eight big wars. But that means that you don't have to fight, that you can continue to train and be ready. But we're going to make sure that we bring peace around the world so that we don't have to use you unless we have to.
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Steve Gruber
Captain, can you hang on for a second? We'll come back to you because I want to ask you some differences between the first and second term. I think we're seeing a much more determined President Trump. They're not, will not be held down by, by the voices of just conventional, of how to think about things conventionally. When I go. Cleo Pascal, want to thank you for spending the entire day doing this. Your, your, your whole theory of the case about the Central Pacific being the strategic pivot, the counter to Mackinder's heartland theory, I think, is brilliant. We're going to spend a lot more time developing that over the days and weeks ahead. Thank you so much. Closing thoughts and observations.
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Cleo Pascal
Ma', am, it's been a great day and an honor to spend it with you and with the posse watching as well. And just for those of you who aren't in the Navy to understand that this information affects your daily lives in, in so many ways that the old saying of trade follows the flag, this is about the economy and economic growth. And I would argue also the currency follows the flag. So when the British Navy was the dominant force in the 19th century, the British pound was the global reserve currency. And the, the US Dollar really became the global reserve currency at the same time as this, the naval power of the US Became really evident. They're not totally congruent, but they certainly overlap to a large degree. So the Role of the Navy in preserving core economic strengths within the US System is paramount. And it, you know, the President's speech about rebuilding the Navy and about shipbuilding is incredibly important. Important and heartening. And apart from that, all I'd say is, you know, go Navy. Beat China.
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Steve Gruber
Cleo, what's your social media? How do people keep up with you? What are your coordinates?
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Cleo Pascal
I'm on X, just My Name, Cleopasko, Clio, P.S. kL and on getter at Real Cleo, because somebody stole my name.
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Steve Gruber
Thank you, ma'.
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Steve Bannon
Am.
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Steve Gruber
Admiral Masso, you're an expert in naval warfare, surface warfare. You know everything about the and have worked in the process of getting these great weapons systems and all that, but you really specialize in motivating young men and women. Put in perspective what we saw today, sir.
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Admiral Sonny Masso
Well, I think that what we saw today is that the 250 year amazing journey of our Navy is completely parallel with, with our Nation and its 250 year journey. Everything our nation has acquired and done has really been enabled in a very large way by our Navy. I think today what we showed our allies and enemies and our own internal sailors in the family is that we are vital, that the President has stepped up and is amazingly supported us. Our future is bright and there is no better friend nor worse adversary potentially than our own Navy. And we showed that in spades today. It was an amazing day and I thank you for allowing me to participate with you and I thank you for spending as much time as you did because no one else put it together like you did.
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Steve Gruber
Well, it was easy given all the guys like you I know in the Navy and how much we love it, but it was incredible. Real America's voice and the Navy put on such a incredible show of combined operations. And I was really proud of the fact since Parker and Rob Sagan, the Real America's Voice team, worked so hard on this, the actual the White House and the Navy decided to give us a feed that nobody else had. So Admiral Masso, do you have social media, Sonny, to place people and go get your writings?
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Admiral Sonny Masso
No, not really. I mean, I'm, I'm out there in LinkedIn and other places. I'm the president of the Navy Museum Development foundation and I can be found@emassonmdf.org so.
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Steve Gruber
You'Ve got a podcast on Navy history. You guys still got the podcast on Navy history.
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Admiral Sonny Masso
Where can people go to get, you know, that'll. Well, we're on Naval Historical foundation second Saturday out of YouTube and we have 84 pieces of great content that I think people would really enjoy.
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Steve Gruber
We'll drive them to him. Avril Massa, thank you so much. Cleo Pascal, as always, you're tremendous. Don't ever change. From the Real America's Voice Studios in Washington, D.C. i want to thank real America's voice and all the team in Washington for making this happen. To two great, very blessed today. Just have a great crew. Let me go back. I want to make sure we get all of our other guests in here. Sean Spicer, just put in perspective today, in particular, President Trump's want to do this for a long time. The analogy to Roosevelt, the great white fleet, we do it at the basically the same thing, Hampton Roads, Virginia capes, and compare President Trump to the first term and what he's trying to accomplish this term.
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Sean Spicer
Sir, it's a great question. I've been going down this and I'll have more to announce because I actually have a project that I'm working on this to really talk about the difference in all of the areas between Trump 1.0 and 2.0. And I think the difference in 2.0, whether it's NATO and one of your previous guests mentioned that tariffs or the military in particular. Think about what he has tasked Secretary of the Navy John Phelan with. Shipbuilding. So the first time when he came into office, Steve, you know that there's a lot of us getting to know each other, the president getting to know us, the president trying to understand, you know, what his agenda was and how to get it through. He knew what he wanted, but he didn't necessarily understand the process. And frankly, I don't know that we all did. He came into the second term very clear about what he wanted to do with the time that he had in the second term. So you look at Tom Homan, the precision which he's carrying out these immigration raids to make sure our country is safer and stronger. But he also is doing that in the military. Anytime you listen to the Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, he's very, very laser focused on shipbuilding. He understands the task at hand, the threats that we face in the future. And he's not wasting any time putting plans and PowerPoint presentations and taking meetings. It's like he's got his marching orders out there, which is this is what we need to do to take on threats of the future. I want you to stay laser focused on that. I want you to implement it to get it done. And I think Secretary Phelan has done a phenomenal job of literally taking those orders from the top and executing them, making sure that everyone understands what the focus is. And that's what I think the real difference is right now is that President Trump isn't waiting around. He understands that the threat is real, the threat is now. And he's tasked all of these folks. And you look at, I know a lot of people who haven't served didn't appreciate, I don't think the message that Secretary Hegtech gave the other day. This idea of an ethos isn't just about how many push ups you can do or how long you can plank for. It's a mindset. If you wake up every day thinking, I'm going to be ready to fight, I'm going to be ready to defend the country. It kind of permeates everything that you do. You go to your desk, whether you're sitting there working, you know, in a, in a program that's, that's desk based or deck based out on a ship, you understand that there's a purpose to what you do and a readiness to yourself and to your team. That's, that's critical. And what Hegseth did the other day was to reset that mentality and to say we're not here to hug each other, to all get along. We're here to protect this nation. And, and there is a, a complete and utter sort of unity of purpose that stems from the top with President Trump goes down through Secretary Hegseth, goes down into the Navy to Secretary Thielen and the CNO and everyone else. So I feel like the sense of unity, purpose, mission is so much greater this time because President Trump has picked a team and made it clear what those policies are, policies are, and then said, go do it.
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Steve Gruber
Sean Spicer. Brilliant. I guess we're going to have you back on. I want to talk about the tough trade offs that have to come. We talk about shipbuilding as we've talked about the different geopolitical concerns and hemispheric defense, all that there's got to be some tough decisions made and tough trade offs. But you're absolutely correct. President Trump's given marching orders are in this fight to the fleet. All ahead flank. Sean, where do people get your podcast, which I can tell you when I'm on Sean's podcast, everything goes viral. I just tell my team, watch Sean Spicer. It all goes viral.
- [125:59]
Steve Bannon
It all goes.
- [126:00]
Steve Gruber
Some of the stuff I say on the show not going Sean Spicer. It's literally top of Daily Mail and it's viral. So I don't know how you do.
- [126:07]
Steve Bannon
It, but you keep doing it.
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Steve Gruber
Where do people go from your podcast and your social media, it's like a.
- [126:13]
Sean Spicer
Reese's Peanut butter cup. You need the chocolate and the peanut butter to make it taste great. So I'll ask the questions, you give the answers, and then we'll make it all happen. On YouTube, it's Sean M. Spicer. There's my website, Sean Spicer.com has my newsletter and everything else. And obviously on Twitter, it's just Sean Spicer. So, but obviously we do a live show in the morning, a show in the evening that you've been on a ton. And, and anyone who can sign up on YouTube, obviously we're on Rumble and Getter and all that as well. But really where we need to grow, continue to grow, is on YouTube. So thank you for that.
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Steve Gruber
Captain Spicer. Thank you. And sorry, can't be back there Tuesday, but you're going to be. I, I, I, I can tell already you're going to be in good hands. So bravo.
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Sean Spicer
The secretary's got me. I, I told him that you're not allowed to do push ups and blues. And then I watched all the midshipmen and the superintendent yesterday break. You saw that by the way, right? They broke the Guinness Book of World record number of push ups. And I was a few minutes late for the game, Steve. And I gotta tell you, at first I was a little like concerned that I was running behind, but we had some traffic on Route 50 getting out there. And then when I realized what they were doing, I was like, thank goodness.
- [127:18]
Steve Gruber
Keep going. Unbelievable. Navy's got Mo. Mo and the folks at army gonna have their work really cut out for them against that name.
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Steve Bannon
Oh, yeah.
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Steve Gruber
So, Sean, thank you for coming on. Look, everybody, go to the podcast sign up right now.
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Sean Spicer
Great coverage today by you and great coverage. You, Rob Sig, Real America's Voice was the go to place today. Thank you guys for doing this.
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Steve Gruber
Yeah, appreciate it. Appreciate Real America's Voice. That was a go to place. Make a commitment on this. He's. These specials are working. People like the fact you do this in depth coverage. We get great people on. I got an easy job. I just sit here in the microphone, just, just like passing the basketball to the shooters. Gary Hall, Admiral hall, your closing thoughts on all this. I appreciate you coming on. I know you had to travel rapidly to get where you could get up on the show. You've got a great insight to President Trump and particularly how he, he works and is thinking about national security since you were on the National Security Council. For President Trump and worked closely with him for a couple of years. This week is going to be the announcement of the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace. There's already a great piece up. I think it's in Newsweek about how, and maybe Daily Mail also about how it's kind of stacked against him with the Norwegians. But closing thoughts on today and particularly President Trump in this leadership style was seeing right now in his second term.
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Admiral Gary Hall
Well, first of all, I was one of the Navy's finest helicopter pilots. And the best pilot I ever flew with was a young guy named Chris Bannon. Had to get that out there. Chris was an awesome co pilot. We made a difference in the war. First of all, the Navy is the away team. So we are deployed. And everybody's been talking about shipbuilding. The President also talked about investing in shipyards, ammo and sailors. Right now we have the lowest number of ships in the Navy we've ever had. We have ships that have to come into port, give their ammunition to another ship before they go out. President Trump's going to solve that and we need to. So I'm grateful for the hammering home of the shipbuilding and the investment in ship shipyards. And again, we're the away team. Quantity has a quality all of its own. And the President, when you, when you meet the President and even Bill Maher said, hey, when you're in the White House with him, he's, he's not the guy you see elsewhere. He grew up in construction. I'll tell you, when I walked into the Oval Office, he would get up from his desk and walk right over and shake your hand. I mean, he is a, a man's man. He's a man of the people. He's down and dirty in the, you know, in the trenches with all American people, not these politicians that do nothing. So the President, I mean, he's got a grasp on this. We in night. I have to say, in the year 2000, I was hosted on board a Chinese ship. And the toast was to the greatest Navy in the world. From the fastest growing Navy in the world. I tell you, China is our adversary. And I hope that we never see American ships underwater due to the Chinese fleet. So we need to build those ships, we need to invest in those shipyards, and we have to arm them completely. 100 with ammo. Every ship, every armory. So the President's doing a great job. He's really focused.
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Steve Gruber
So, yeah, we got some tough decisions to make, though. Tough decisions. We got some tough decisions to make because the defense budget, trillion over A trillion dollars. You're going to have to make some tough. I look, I'm all for I think it's the strategic logic of whether it's hemispheric defense and or as I say, you've got to be more confrontational with the Chinese Communist Party. And I realize the new defense we're going to talk about this week, I think the new defense strategy a little bit downplays the issue between the Chinese Communist Party and the United States, maybe talks about China as a regional power. It's not a regional power. It's not an East Asia power. It's not just control of the South China Sea and the Straits of Taiwan, although do want to do that. They want to push us out of the three island chain. They want to push us back across the Pacific and they also want to have a dominance in South Asia, in particular around the Indo Pacific. But we'll get into that more this week. Admiral hall, where do people go on social media to track you down in your thinking?
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Admiral Gary Hall
Well, Apple podcasts, you can look for Navigating Life with Rear Admiral Gary Hall. You can go to Amazon, buy my book Navigating Leadership, Making a Pact with Excellence. And on substack, I'm the navigating admiral and most of my podcasting is with I've just did an episode with Sonny Masso where we talked about 9, 11, the Pentagon and how our faith helped us through all that. So again, Navigating Leadership, Making a Pact with Excellence, a great book for all young leaders and old leaders which will tell my faith journey, my Navy journey and my leadership journey. So again, the best copilot ever had named Chris Bannon, call sign race.
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Steve Gruber
Wow. Thank you, sir. My kid brother was pretty special or is pretty special, I should say. Great pilot. Had a had a co pilot and a mentor named Admiral Gary Hall. That's pretty good too. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you.
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Admiral Gary Hall
Thank you. Thank you, Steve, for having me.
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Steve Gruber
You're trying to get we're thank you, sir. We're trying to get Steve Gruber back up, but I think we've lost signal. President United States heading back to back to the White House. Hopefully we're gonna get Jack Posobic at some time. Jack Posobic. We embedded Jack Pos the in bed. We didn't get any reports from him all day. I will tease him all night for that. Stan Wojkowski is on. Stan and I realize you're joining us from Europe. I appreciate you sticking around. I just want to spend a minute about before we leave this about the importance we were able to see the submarines out there today in exercise with the fleas President Trump did. But I just want to make sure before we go, you talk about the importance of submarines and most importantly, this kind of relationship alliance we have with our brothers and sisters in Australia to make sure that the Chinese Communist Party, and particularly the Chinese Navy, does not become dominant in the Indo Pacific. Sir.
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Steve Bannon
Sure.
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Stan Wojkowski
Thank you very much, Steve, for having me over on the show on such a moment this occasion. And before I I talk of submarines, I want to recognize our men and women in uniform. Today. We serve in the Navy both at home, abroad and in the high seas. This display and show of force we saw today is first and foremost a message to our current troops, but also the future ones enlisting. And in that sense, the Secretary of the Navy fell and spoke of a very high pace of recruitment, which is I think commensurate with the both President Trump's doctrine of reinvigorating and recapitalizing our Navy, focusing obviously all of the political and the industrial might of the United States to continue being the greatest naval force the world over in a obviously more perilous world where freedom of navigation and, and reassuring allies and deterring adversaries remain first and foremost a priority. I think today was a very strong message, not just sent to the troops, but also sent to our partners and our adversaries in that sense, I think to those pundits at home and those allies and partners abroad who have talked a big talk about the US Foreign policy being in retreat. The Aukus alliance, I think, is a very strong case against that perceived retreat. And I want to recognize, Under Secretary Elbridge Colby, who was tasked with a very difficult review process for a program that President Trump inherited from his predecessor, which brought together the UK and Australia and the US to project or to continue projecting naval supremacy in the Indo Pacific, a very large body of water, obviously, and one where there are at any given moment at least 6, 7 territorial disputes between China's People Liberation Navy or its maritime militia and our allies in the region from the Philippines to Vietnam to Malaysia or Japan, Taiwan, Korea or Indonesia. And so reaffirming our commitment to Aukus, this 40 year program, which would build in the US three Virginia class submarines to transfer to Australia and have some sort of a transfer of production, transfer of technology and partnership in collaboration with the uk, the only partner we've ever done, a transfer of technology in the nuclear power propulsion realm for Australia to deter first, to reassure our friends and allies in the region and also give predictability to our adversaries, deterrence is the name of the game. Peace through strength is a doctrine. And in fact, stealth is probably today the single most important element of our nuclear triad. Because in an age of shifting innovations in the war scenarios that we are seeing in Ukraine and elsewhere, low tech technologies, low tech weapon systems are increasingly threatening very expensive, very complex systems and platforms. And whether it is unmanned surface drones or underwater drones or aerial drones that are having a major impact on conventional warfare, for very low cost, I might add, it is absolutely fundamental that our submarine fleet remains the strongest fleet in the world and continues to grow. And America first does not necessarily mean America alone. Far from that. I think Aukus, and reaffirming our commitment to Aukus sends a message to our NATO partners, sends a message to our allies in the Pacific, Indo Pacific, that the US Remains a steadfast partner in keeping freedom of navigation and deterring any kind of adversary, whether they're conventional, asymmetric or non state actors. So in that sense, I want to recognize both President Trump and his Secretary of the War and Secretary of the Navy, but also the Undersecretary Colby, for having reaffirmed and sent a very strong message in that sense.
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Steve Gruber
No British Colby's done a great job. Just this defense thing is coming out about China being a, a regional problem versus a global problem. We'll get to that later in the week. Stan, before I let you go, I want you give us a minute. You used a term that we've talked about today, but I don't think we've actually highlighted it. And this is what I'm saying, there's got to be some tough decisions and choices made. You used the term naval supremacy. What do you mean by naval supremacy and what does it mean in today's world?
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Stan Wojkowski
So naval supremacy, first and foremost, is about freedom of navigation. And this is a big globe where we exchange and trade goods with all partners around the world. And in centuries prior, and even in decades prior, without a strong naval force and a leading globally capable naval force, piracy was a lot more common. And state actors could undermine significantly the trading order. And I think in this global world, we need a force that can guarantee freedom of navigation first and foremost. But as we look at the Indo Pacific, such a large body and swath of water, and we see all these island nations that are constantly challenged in their economic, exclusive economic zones and territorial waters. Naval supremacy also means projecting far from home base, the, the ability to deter those that might want to challenge the existing order. And in, in, in the Indo Pacific, for The most part it means, you know, the People's Liberation Navy or their maritime militia, whether it is by way of building artificial reefs or whether it is by plowing fisheries near our shores in South America, in the Galapagos, in Argentina, challenging those navies in ways that they're incapable of responding on an equal footing. The US Navy and that US Naval supremacy is more important than ever.
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Steve Gruber
Stan, where do people go to find out you're writing your thinking? Social media. Are you old school and don't do social media?
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Stan Wojkowski
So a bit like the submarines that we spend a lot of time trying to connect capital with industry and policy decision making, we try to remain as stealth as possible. Obviously we have a LinkedIn page, we have an X account, but for the most part is to watch your show and not really post anything. I did post something yesterday in French media about the German submarine manufacturer TKMS going partly public in Frankfurt and what the implications are for those conventional submarines. I do want to say there was a very good article that came out in the US Naval Institute website by Lieutenant Commander Jim Hassell who makes the case that conventional submarines should be incorporated into the US Navy to bring lethality for faster and cheaper with less manned service members. And that's certainly one of the policy recommendations that we're putting forth with, with this administration.
- [141:52]
Steve Gruber
We're going to have you on and talk about that Diesel boat. Diesel boat, diesel boat submarines and diesel boat skippers will appreciate that. Stan, thank you so much. Look forward to having you back on the show.
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Stan Wojkowski
Thank you again, Steve. Have a great evening.
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Steve Gruber
Before, before we close out today, I got to bring in Taj. You've been a la, you've answered last call a couple, three times in your life. You're the, you're my anchorman here. Sum up today. What was it about, sir?
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Taj Gill
Oh, it was about celebrating the history of the Navy 250 years. That's pretty amazing. And then Trump, Trump bringing everything back to life, like just breathing new fresh life into the military. And he, you know, he, he tapped Pete Hegseth and all you need in life is some leadership and guidance. Whether you're a self starter, you need someone else to give it to you. If you have leadership, the correct leadership and the correct guidance and you're going to win. And as we can see in the Red Sea under Biden, there was no freedom of navigation. The Hooties owned it. They're, they're shooting rockets and missiles and drones at ships all the time. And then Trump came in and within 60 days it's back open for business in that, you know, he signed some kind of agreement with the hoodies. Basically they capitulated and shut down their piracy operations. And in, in the, the incredible thing is this recruiting numbers are the highest ever for the US Navy. So the leadership and guidance under Trump and then he just motivates people wherever he goes. Like I was watching a video of him flying in with Air force ones with F35s flying next to it. It's crazy. He, he's, he's awesome. You know, he, but he's done this his whole life. You know, I was watching him as a kid in Hollywood and, you know, he was in Home Alone. The. What his other TV shows and everything. Trump's amazing. He's the man. He's not perfect. He doesn't do everything right, but he's almost perfect. And he's exactly what America needs and he's exactly what the Navy needs. He's breathing new life into the Navy. They're going to build new ships, they're going to refurbish the old ones, they're getting new weapons, new armament. They're getting rid of the, rid of the woke stuff. So they're going to bring that lethality back into our fighting force. And they're getting, the most important thing is they're getting rid of dei. So everything is going to be merit based. So we're going to have the best fighting force with the best training, the best equipment, and we're going to be respected and feared around the world. That's, that's what our military is there for. Like the guy Stan was saying, it's about deterrence. Nobody respects an adversary that it's like, you know, half ass. It doesn't bring their A game to the table. So under Trump, he's breathing new life into our military and our military is bringing back the A game. We're going to have the best people, the best training, the best equipment, and nobody's going to want to mess with us. That's, that's deterrence. That's what the military is for. And then the other thing is, he said we're going to start winning again. Like World War I, World War II, we won flat out, period. Full surrender, right? That's what it's about. And peace through strength. So we don't need, if we don't need to do that, then, yeah, that's what the deterrence is. But if we go to war, we have to win, win, win, win. None of this nation building and occupying like we're talking about Yesterday, Venezuela. If we take these ports, that's easy. But we always get bogged down when we do this nation building thing, when we occupy these countries for a decade or more and everything gets screwed up, you go in and win and leave. And that's how you do it.
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Steve Gruber
Ferocity and precision. As Pete Hexa said the other day, I want to tell people also this thing about people coming with peace restraint, peace restraint. Well, look, look, a lot of people just think that means building more arms, having a bigger defense budget, building more weapons systems. We saw under Biden and all that spending money. They don't fear you. They don't fear your lethality. And if you don't, if they don't fear that you've got the political will to use it and to take guys down and to win, then you're not. There's no peace to strength. Peace through strength means people fear you. And they know that if you're pushed, when you bring it, it's like the, the total obliteration that ended the 12 day war. President Trump hit and hit hard and moved on, and the Iranians have kind of never recovered that. And quite frankly, that was a central building block to the, to what President Trump's going to face when he gets back. Remember, President Trump's leaving here and has now got to go back. He gave him a 6 o' clock deadline. I think they've moved that because his negotiators, Jared Kushner and Witkoffer, now at the resort town in Egypt on the Red Sea to start the negotiations, kind of wind this thing up. But you can tell for reports coming out today in Axios and the Washington Post, New York Times, President Trump's not kidding around. He wants to put this deal together and he's going to hammer. He's going to hammer some people, bang heads to make it happen. One thing I did notice today, I want to tell the audience, I've said, hey, it looks like President Trump is, I mean, really tired. There's a couple times this week, you see, he's doing so much. He was like a young man today. His energy, his enthusiasm, he fed off this. He's been waiting to do this a long time. He absolutely loved it. You could tell, the energy, the enthusiasm. He's having fun right now when we leave. He's having fun when we leave this broadcast. I need a pot of Warpath coffee. Tell me where I'm supposed to go. Taj Gil, since you served your country as a gunman and now you make the greatest coffee in the world, where do folks go to enjoy it?
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Taj Gill
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Steve Bannon
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Taj Gill
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Steve Gruber
Tasers to tell me says we got the best web in the seals. We got the best weapons, we got the best material, the best equipment, the best training, the best leadership. We're the best commandos in the world, but we got nothing but Navy brew right off a destroyer. We got. We got to do better than that taste. Gill, we love you. Thank you for being part of the program.
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Taj Gill
Thank you, sir. Love you, too. Appreciate it.
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Steve Gruber
Okay, President Trump's heading back to the White House. He's going to then turn his attention to ending. I don't know, is this eighth war, a ninth war? Of course. The Nobel Prize Committee is meeting even as we speak. They announce on Friday the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. If this guy doesn't get it, I mean, I don't know what you got to do to get it. We're going to sign off now. I want to thank Real America's voice. Everything. Use the DC studio all over. We had equipment everywhere, people everywhere. Jack Bosoba. I know Jack Beso's got some great footage because he was in kind of the bubble with security for the President, wasn't able to get out. But Jack's got a lot of stories to tell when he gets back. Hopefully have Jack on tomorrow. And they're not all C stories. They're not going to all be sea stories. So we'll have the Sobicon tomorrow. We're going to leave you with a little compilation that the Real America's Voice team put together. I want to thank everybody. It's been a long but a great day, and you can tell by the energy the President of the United States has. We're going to be back here at 10:00am Eastern Daylight Time tomorrow morning. You're going to be back in the war room. I'll be up all night putting up, putting up my thoughts and observations on what's going on, particularly in the Middle east, as President Trump tries to hammer out a historic peace deal. We'll see you back here at 10 o'.
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Steve Bannon
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Steve Gruber
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