Latest / Real America with Dan Ball / 9/21/26 -- Dan Ball W/ Chanel Rion, Mike Sarraille, Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, Chris Cox.
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Straight ahead on Real America tonight, big news coming out
- 0:03Speaker 1: of the White House as President Trump announces plans to
- 0:05Speaker 1: create a brand new task force on artificial intelligence to
- 0:09Speaker 1: oversee AI policy and the AI industry as a whole.
- 0:14Speaker 1: This announcement follows a new report from last week that
- 0:17Speaker 1: a false intelligence report generated by AI almost led to
- 0:22Speaker 1: a major military operation against a Chinese ship in the
- 0:26Speaker 1: Middle East. What have I been saying? We got the details. Plus,
- 0:31Speaker 1: The media landscape at this house is looking a little
- 0:34Speaker 1: different today. Why? Well, President Trump banned three fake news
- 0:41Speaker 1: outlets from the White House, and the media is losing
- 0:45Speaker 1: their ever-loving mind. I'm going to break it all down
- 0:48Speaker 1: tonight and show you why it's not a violation of
- 0:50Speaker 1: the Constitution or free speech. It is a privilege to
- 0:54Speaker 1: have a seat in the White House. We here at
- 0:56Speaker 1: OAN know you didn't last have one for years in
- 1:00Speaker 1: the Trump administration. secures a historic security agreement with Greenland.
- 1:04Speaker 1: We'll walk you through it. I'm Dan Ball, and Real
- 1:06Speaker 1: America starts right now.
- 1:15Speaker 2: The United States needs to stay in the lead on AI,
- 1:19Speaker 2: and you cannot do safety from second place.
- 1:22Speaker 1: You just can't do it. Good Monday even to you folks.
- 1:25Speaker 1: We begin the show with a heated debate over artificial intelligence.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Lawmakers and tech executives, including the head of public policy
- 1:33Speaker 1: for Anthropic, are split on the idea of regulating AI
- 1:38Speaker 1: amid huge growing safety concerns, and now President Trump's getting involved.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Following the summit that I just showed you a clip
- 1:45Speaker 1: of right there in Washington, D.C., where the head of
- 1:47Speaker 1: public policy for Anthropic made the case for AI, President
- 1:51Speaker 1: Trump then made a major announcement. Taking a true social
- 1:54Speaker 1: over the weekend, he revealed plans to form an AI
- 1:57Speaker 1: force and appoint an AI czar to oversee federal AI policy.
- 2:03Speaker 1: He compared this initiative to Space Force, which was established
- 2:06Speaker 1: during his first term. He said he wants to protect
- 2:08Speaker 1: the AI industry and its growth. The president also noting
- 2:12Speaker 1: that we're leading China, he says, and he wants to
- 2:14Speaker 1: keep it that way. Naturally, we saw a huge reaction
- 2:18Speaker 1: to the statement because we don't have the insight into
- 2:20Speaker 1: who the AI czar is going to be. and what
- 2:24Speaker 1: this actually means when it comes to that dirty word, regulation,
- 2:27Speaker 1: which I gotta say, folks, as a true conservative, you
- 2:29Speaker 1: know I hate regulation, but with AI, I might be
- 2:32Speaker 1: okay with a little bit of it, depending on who
- 2:34Speaker 1: the job goes to, of course, and how they conduct themselves. Now,
- 2:38Speaker 1: let's head to Silicon Valley, because the titans there, of course,
- 2:41Speaker 1: have something to say about it. Jensen Hong, who is
- 2:44Speaker 1: the CEO of Nvidia, and a close ally to President Trump,
- 2:47Speaker 1: is echoing the president's position on creating this czar and
- 2:52Speaker 1: this team to form AI policy.
- 2:55Speaker 3: Should we slow down?
- 2:57Speaker 4: And would that affect the race with China, the American standing?
- 3:02Speaker 5: We should go as fast as we can, irrespective of
- 3:04Speaker 5: anybody else. We are going to go as fast as
- 3:07Speaker 5: we can. But we would never, ever and never should
- 3:13Speaker 5: ship products before they're ready, deliver products that are unsafe.
- 3:17Speaker 5: And nobody's expecting us to do that. but everybody's expecting
- 3:20Speaker 5: us to succeed and help America be as prosperous as possible.
- 3:25Speaker 1: Okay, that all sounds good on the surface, but the
- 3:27Speaker 1: debate over AI policy and safety is a real concern,
- 3:31Speaker 1: especially when it comes to military applications with the technology.
- 3:36Speaker 1: Case in point. A brand new report came out late
- 3:39Speaker 1: last week suggests that the US military had a very
- 3:41Speaker 1: close call with a Chinese ship in the Middle East
- 3:44Speaker 1: earlier this year due to a false report that was
- 3:48Speaker 1: produced with help from AI. Here's what we know from
- 3:52Speaker 1: unnamed sources. And I hate unnamed sources. I sound like CNN,
- 3:55Speaker 1: but this is all the details we got on this one.
- 3:58Speaker 1: Maybe our next guest has some info. Sometime over the
- 4:00Speaker 1: last few months, as the conflict in Iran was heating up,
- 4:03Speaker 1: military officials received intelligence claiming that a Chinese ship was
- 4:07Speaker 1: carrying components tied to a nuclear weapons program. The report
- 4:11Speaker 1: set off alarms, prompting the military to plan an operation
- 4:15Speaker 1: to board the ship and possibly neutralize the threat. Then
- 4:20Speaker 1: everything changed. Right before the operation was supposed to start,
- 4:23Speaker 1: officials dug a little deeper into the report and found
- 4:26Speaker 1: out that the report was made with a little help
- 4:31Speaker 1: from the AI chatbot, and it misidentified the ship's cargo.
- 4:37Speaker 1: According to a source, the report was entirely false and
- 4:41Speaker 1: it could have started a frigging war. Now again, if
- 4:44Speaker 1: this really happened this way, that is a textbook example
- 4:48Speaker 1: of the real dangers with AI. Given situations like this,
- 4:52Speaker 1: it is no wonder the CEO and co-founder of Anthropic
- 4:55Speaker 1: is sounding the alarm bells as well.
- 4:58Speaker 6: Every week to do wonderful things, every week I get
- 5:01Speaker 6: an email from someone who says, This, you know, I
- 5:05Speaker 6: was talking to Claude and Claude diagnosed this disease that
- 5:08Speaker 6: my doctors had missed. I get emails like this every week.
- 5:11Speaker 6: So let's not forget that. But in terms of the
- 5:14Speaker 6: dangers of the technology, I won't lie to you.
- 5:16Speaker 1: There are real dangers. Joining me now to weigh in
- 5:19Speaker 1: on all this, he has a big background when it
- 5:22Speaker 1: comes to the military, of course, retired U.S. Army. officer,
- 5:25Speaker 1: former Pentagon strategist, former instructor at the U.S. Army War College.
- 5:29Speaker 1: But for this discussion, my staff put these books up,
- 5:33Speaker 1: and man, the timing couldn't be any better from our
- 5:35Speaker 1: good friend, retired Lieutenant Colonel Robert McGinnis, The Final Algorithm,
- 5:39Speaker 1: AI Cold War, and AI for Mankind's Future. So I'm
- 5:43Speaker 1: pretty sure, Colonel, come on, you know a little bit
- 5:46Speaker 1: about this subject matter. So first and foremost, welcome, and
- 5:49Speaker 1: let's go to this report. I don't like unnamed sources.
- 5:53Speaker 1: You still have great context of the Pentagon. Did this
- 5:56Speaker 1: happen the way I broke it down? Or is there
- 5:58Speaker 1: something I'm missing about this AI generated report on that
- 6:01Speaker 1: Chinese ship?
- 6:03Speaker 7: Well, Dan, I'm sure that the report on this is
- 6:07Speaker 7: still classified and somebody's probably going to jail for leaking
- 6:10Speaker 7: it if Pete Hexeth can find them. However, this is
- 6:15Speaker 7: not the first report of AI providing the military with
- 6:20Speaker 7: information hallucinogenic, I suppose, responses to what may be the truth.
- 6:27Speaker 7: And the thing that troubles me here, Dan, is that
- 6:31Speaker 7: I know with great certitude that a lot of the people,
- 6:35Speaker 7: even using the unclassified nets in the Pentagon, are now
- 6:39Speaker 7: having to embrace AI. It's always been, over the last
- 6:43Speaker 7: few years in Palatir, which is a classified AI industry,
- 6:48Speaker 7: assistant for people that are planning targets, like the targets
- 6:53Speaker 7: that we made on the 28th of February. And unfortunately,
- 6:57Speaker 7: it appears as if at least one of those was
- 7:00Speaker 7: based on bad intelligence, and we bombed a school, perhaps,
- 7:05Speaker 7: that investigation's undergoing. But the military issues here are very,
- 7:09Speaker 7: very great. I used to be involved in nuclear release
- 7:14Speaker 7: If you put AI involved in censors and in decision-making
- 7:20Speaker 7: with regard to nuclear weapons, I fear that a mistake
- 7:25Speaker 7: could be made. We need to be incredibly careful. So
- 7:28Speaker 7: Ahmadi's right. So is Gregory Henson, Nobel Prize winner that
- 7:33Speaker 7: testified in Congress the other day in closed doors. Elon Musk,
- 7:37Speaker 7: Sam Altman. These guys are indicating that there are issues. Now,
- 7:43Speaker 7: I agree with President Trump. Yeah, there are wonderful benefits
- 7:48Speaker 7: to using AI properly.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Sure, there's great applications. I get that.
- 7:52Speaker 8: You have to be discerning, though. You have to have judgment.
- 7:55Speaker 1: You have to know when to pull the plug.
- 7:57Speaker 7: And unfortunately, we've had instances here in which some people
- 8:01Speaker 7: really didn't understand what they were dealing with and how
- 8:04Speaker 7: to control it.
- 8:05Speaker 1: This is why I keep using the old analogy of
- 8:07Speaker 1: the Terminator films and Skynet. If we start putting AI
- 8:10Speaker 1: in with our military stuff and then we take it
- 8:13Speaker 1: as the gospel, like with this Chinese ship, if that
- 8:16Speaker 1: is what happened, we almost boarded a ship, could have
- 8:19Speaker 1: killed some people on a Chinese ship because AI told
- 8:22Speaker 1: us it was carrying, you know, stuff to make a
- 8:24Speaker 1: nuke program for Iran when it wasn't. Again, that's the
- 8:28Speaker 1: whole premise of the Terminator movie. We put AI in
- 8:30Speaker 1: charge and it killed us off because it started a war.
- 8:33Speaker 1: This just almost happened this year. So anyway, I've got
- 8:36Speaker 1: my major concerns. Now I want to run a quick
- 8:38Speaker 1: clip of our attorney general saying that Democrats and the
- 8:41Speaker 1: press are feeling a lot of fear on AI. I've
- 8:44Speaker 1: heard the president say a lot of Chinese and Russian
- 8:47Speaker 1: bots on social media are stoking the flames of fear
- 8:51Speaker 1: so that we, the American people say stop AI, screw it.
- 8:53Speaker 1: That way China can take over and win. Let me
- 8:56Speaker 1: roll this and get your take.
- 8:58Speaker 9: This AI issue that suddenly come up two months before
- 9:01Speaker 9: an election.
- 9:02Speaker 1: Is being, and the President calls it a hoax, that the.
- 9:05Speaker 9: Way this has come around today and not three months ago,
- 9:08Speaker 9: I mean, I was watching the news today, every Democrat
- 9:12Speaker 9: Senator suddenly races to a microphone to talk about AI
- 9:15Speaker 9: after being eerily silent for months and months and months.
- 9:17Speaker 9: So to talk about the timing of this as being
- 9:20Speaker 9: nothing but an effort to influence the midterms, I shouldn't
- 9:24Speaker 9: have to say.
- 9:24Speaker 1: That out loud.
- 9:24Speaker 9: Of course that's what it is. And that shouldn't be
- 9:28Speaker 9: what drives the decisions that we're making around AI. We
- 9:32Speaker 9: can't lose the AI race to China.
- 9:36Speaker 1: Two things can be true at the same time, Colonel.
- 9:38Speaker 1: We can't lose the AI race. We got to be
- 9:40Speaker 1: safe in its applications. But is the president right and
- 9:44Speaker 1: our Dems and the media and our adversaries stoking a
- 9:48Speaker 1: lot of fear about AI?
- 9:50Speaker 7: Well, there's no question the Chinese have a vested interest
- 9:53Speaker 7: in stoking fears about AI. And they're using every mechanism,
- 9:57Speaker 7: many of which are in the United States, to do that.
- 10:00Speaker 7: And they're probably using tens, if not hundreds of thousands
- 10:04Speaker 7: of chatbots to manipulate the truth.
- 10:08Speaker 8: We've got to be discerning. We have to have good judgment.
- 10:11Speaker 8: In Congress, it's almost laughable. They should have started on
- 10:15Speaker 8: this 20 years ago. 10 years ago, I think, was
- 10:18Speaker 8: probably almost too late. And now, you know, they're acknowledging
- 10:22Speaker 8: in surveys that they haven't even touched AI and they
- 10:25Speaker 8: don't even know how to spell it. And so these
- 10:28Speaker 8: people need to get aboard the train here, defend this country,
- 10:34Speaker 8: and at the same time, don't lose the race.
- 10:36Speaker 7: That's why I wrote the book, The New AI Cold War.
- 10:40Speaker 7: That's exactly where we are today. The difference this time
- 10:44Speaker 7: between the old Cold War, we had missiles and nuclear
- 10:48Speaker 7: weapons and all sorts of infrastructure. This stuff is invisible
- 10:52Speaker 7: to the eye. It's software. We can't see where it's
- 10:56Speaker 7: creeping into our infrastructure and manipulating our truth. So we
- 11:01Speaker 7: really need to get serious about this. And Congress has
- 11:03Speaker 7: got to get off its butt and do something that's
- 11:06Speaker 7: meaningful to defend us against this while not losing a
- 11:10Speaker 7: very critical race against the Chinese. Because I guarantee you, Dan,
- 11:15Speaker 7: if they win, this world is going to be very,
- 11:18Speaker 7: very different than it is today.
- 11:20Speaker 1: I agree with you 110 percent on that one. Colonel,
- 11:23Speaker 1: thanks for raising those alarm bells with those books. And
- 11:26Speaker 1: with your appearances, let's hope that Congress acts soon. If not,
- 11:30Speaker 1: it sounds like the president is going to with this
- 11:32Speaker 1: committee board and then a czar. So hopefully we'll get
- 11:34Speaker 1: some sort of policy and regulation on this while we
- 11:37Speaker 1: don't lose the race. Colonel Robert McGinnis, thank you, sir.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Appreciate you. Thanks, Dan.
- 11:42Speaker 10: Yep.
- 11:42Speaker 1: Coming up after the break, President Trump. Did you hear?
- 11:45Speaker 1: He banned CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House,
- 11:49Speaker 1: and now everybody in the mainstream fake news media is
- 11:52Speaker 1: losing their ever-loving minds. Oh, my God, it's against the Constitution. No,
- 11:57Speaker 1: it's not, because it's a privilege to cover the White House,
- 12:01Speaker 1: and my good friend who used to cover the White House,
- 12:03Speaker 1: Chanel Rion, will join me next to break it all down.
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- 12:44Speaker 11: I attempted to scan my badge, which we have to
- 12:47Speaker 11: do and able to get into the White House grounds.
- 12:50Speaker 11: It did not work. There was a red beeping light.
- 12:52Speaker 11: And so the officer asked me to hand over my badge.
- 12:55Speaker 11: He said that it was disabled. I asked why I
- 12:58Speaker 11: was not able to get inside. He said it was
- 13:00Speaker 11: above him. I tap my badge and it beeps a
- 13:03Speaker 11: couple of different times.
- 13:04Speaker 3: It turns red, blue and green.
- 13:07Speaker 11: And it didn't accept my pin number.
- 13:09Speaker 12: The Secret Service agent in the guardhouse, with whom I
- 13:12Speaker 12: have been friendly in the past, asked to see my badge,
- 13:16Speaker 12: and I handed it over to him.
- 13:17Speaker 11: He told me that it had been deactivated.
- 13:21Speaker 1: Aw, boo-hoo, CNN! You want me to cry for you?
- 13:24Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen. Did you hear what happened on Friday?
- 13:29Speaker 1: The president said, eh, to a couple of mainstream media outlets,
- 13:34Speaker 1: taking away their access at the White House. That's it.
- 13:38Speaker 1: He didn't stop them from reporting. He didn't take away
- 13:41Speaker 1: their First Amendment right to speech and free press. He
- 13:44Speaker 1: just said, you don't get access to the White House
- 13:47Speaker 1: while I'm the pres. That's all he said. And by
- 13:50Speaker 1: the way, there's nothing illegal about it. It's been done
- 13:53Speaker 1: by so many previous administrations. I'm tired of hearing all
- 13:56Speaker 1: this chatter over the last 72 hours of people freaking
- 13:59Speaker 1: out about it. Poor CNN now has to do their
- 14:03Speaker 1: live shots from the sidewalk out in front of the
- 14:07Speaker 1: White House instead of in the briefing room. Aww. This
- 14:10Speaker 1: was a policy change from the Trump administration late last week.
- 14:15Speaker 1: And again, like I said, and during this segment over
- 14:18Speaker 1: the next five, ten minutes, I'm going to prove my
- 14:21Speaker 1: point with facts unlike the three stations that got banned
- 14:25Speaker 1: from just the White House. So let's get rid of
- 14:30Speaker 1: the misconceptions about the situation and set the record straight
- 14:33Speaker 1: for the 99% of the lamestream main media who are
- 14:37Speaker 1: out there going, President Trump just attacked these three media
- 14:41Speaker 1: outlets and took away their freedom of the press. No,
- 14:44Speaker 1: he didn't. So, ready? Here we go. On Friday, 47
- 14:49Speaker 1: announced he was banning CNN, MSNOW, who used to be MSNBC,
- 14:54Speaker 1: and Politico, just those three, from the White House effective immediately.
- 14:58Speaker 1: He made the announcement on Truth Social, and he cited what?
- 15:01Speaker 1: Their constant fake reporting, saying the news outlets shouldn't be
- 15:05Speaker 1: allowed to generate fictional reports or lie to the American people. Then,
- 15:12Speaker 1: by the very next day, The ban was being enforced,
- 15:15Speaker 1: and that's why you saw people lose their ever-loving minds.
- 15:19Speaker 1: People accusing him, of course, of violating free speech, freedom
- 15:21Speaker 1: of the press. Now, several major television networks are declining
- 15:25Speaker 1: to participate in their normal White House pool duties. Okay, fine.
- 15:30Speaker 1: Call OAN. We'll be the pool. The five networks that
- 15:33Speaker 1: normally make up the White House pool television are the
- 15:35Speaker 1: big old ones, ABC, CNN, CBS, NBC, and of course,
- 15:40Speaker 1: CNN and Fox. And they're now saying, we're going to
- 15:42Speaker 1: suspend our coverage of President Trump. And that's supposedly because
- 15:48Speaker 1: CNN now was prevented from carrying out their regularly scheduled
- 15:53Speaker 1: stuff today. So they were going to cover the president's
- 15:57Speaker 1: trips to New York City. which he did earlier this
- 16:00Speaker 1: afternoon to go meet with Zoran Mamdani before the United
- 16:04Speaker 1: Nations General Assembly tomorrow. But the White House canceled those plans,
- 16:10Speaker 1: giving the opportunity to another network. President Trump, of course, saying, hey,
- 16:15Speaker 1: I got every right to do this. Plus, based on
- 16:18Speaker 1: the total double standard of how CNN's been covering him
- 16:21Speaker 1: for 10 years versus how they cover Democrats and anybody
- 16:27Speaker 1: that's against President Trump, I actually understand the policy change.
- 16:32Speaker 1: Let's take a look. Just a couple examples of how
- 16:35Speaker 1: they covered, let's see, oh, one of President Trump's big
- 16:40Speaker 1: fraud cases against him. Remember the bogus mortgage fraud? You
- 16:44Speaker 1: all remember that one, right? President Trump lied about what
- 16:48Speaker 1: Mar-a-Lago was worth to get bigger loans. It was only
- 16:51Speaker 1: worth $ 18 million. You all remember that, right? And then
- 16:54Speaker 1: about a year or so ago, we covered the fact
- 16:57Speaker 1: that Democrats New York Attorney General Letitia James was being
- 17:01Speaker 1: investigated for the exact same things. Mortgage fraud. She had
- 17:04Speaker 1: taken a loan, said a home was going to be
- 17:06Speaker 1: a primary residence to get a better interest rate, and
- 17:08Speaker 1: it was going to be a rental income property. Now
- 17:10Speaker 1: here's the same reporter at CNN covering the same type
- 17:15Speaker 1: of fraud case, but one against Trump, one against Adem.
- 17:20Speaker 12: How about the people who don't get the same benefits
- 17:22Speaker 12: based on inflated assets? The people who have tax that
- 17:26Speaker 12: is owed, people who have to actually give the accurate
- 17:28Speaker 12: assessment of the value of their property if they're lucky
- 17:31Speaker 12: enough to own it, according to the so-called American dream.
- 17:34Speaker 12: If they're able to secure a loan in an industry
- 17:37Speaker 12: which oftentimes lays bare bias, whether it's implicit or otherwise,
- 17:42Speaker 12: or you know, algorithm-based or otherwise?
- 17:46Speaker 1: What about those people who say, well, you know what?
- 17:48Speaker 12: All is well did not end well for me because
- 17:50Speaker 12: I didn't have the benefit that perhaps Trump did. I
- 17:52Speaker 12: want to break down this indictment against James in plain English.
- 17:55Speaker 1: I want you to forget the legal codes.
- 17:58Speaker 12: Here it is. They say that she bought a property.
- 18:02Speaker 12: She claimed it would be used for personal use only
- 18:05Speaker 12: as a second home. Instead, she rented it out to
- 18:09Speaker 12: a family of three. Now here is why the prosecutors
- 18:12Speaker 12: want you to care. Prosecutors say that the banks suffered
- 18:16Speaker 12: because when she claimed it was for her, she got
- 18:19Speaker 12: a note rate of 3% rather than 3.815%. And between
- 18:24Speaker 12: that and a seller credit, she probably saved 19 grand
- 18:28Speaker 12: over the life of the loan. The prosecutors say that
- 18:31Speaker 12: her misrepresentation, that's what they're saying it is, that it
- 18:35Speaker 12: harmed the bank.
- 18:38Speaker 1: See the difference? By the way, President Trump said Mar-a-Lago
- 18:42Speaker 1: was worth 60 mil, got the loan, paid the banks back,
- 18:46Speaker 1: nobody was ever damaged or harmed. In Letitia's case, she
- 18:50Speaker 1: didn't pay the interest she should have paid because she
- 18:52Speaker 1: lied about what the loan was for. So who did
- 18:54Speaker 1: mortgage fraud? According to CNN, not Letitia, but Trump did.
- 19:00Speaker 1: There's so many, I could sit here for hours and
- 19:02Speaker 1: show you CNN, MSNBC, and Politico's biased, bogus BS coverage.
- 19:07Speaker 1: But we'll do a couple more, and then we'll bring
- 19:09Speaker 1: our very special guest on and let her weigh in.
- 19:12Speaker 1: Remember Humpty Dumpty? Old little short rotund Brian Stelter over
- 19:18Speaker 1: at CNN? They did an entire segment about whether Joe
- 19:22Speaker 1: Biden should have banned Fox News from the Biden White House.
- 19:27Speaker 1: But don't believe me. Watch CNN talk about the Biden
- 19:31Speaker 1: regime should have banned him.
- 19:33Speaker 3: As it becomes even more and more of a political tool, Zurich,
- 19:36Speaker 3: you wrote a column recently for The Sun about this,
- 19:38Speaker 3: saying Fox should be viewed as a political tool.
- 19:40Speaker 1: And that raises a question.
- 19:42Speaker 3: Should it be a part of the White House press pool?
- 19:44Speaker 3: You know, should it be afforded the privileges that come
- 19:46Speaker 3: with news gathering, even though they do have some news
- 19:49Speaker 3: reporters at the White House?
- 19:50Speaker 8: House?
- 19:50Speaker 3: You're saying they're primarily a political tool show. So should
- 19:53Speaker 3: that be reassessed, Zerwick?
- 19:56Speaker 1: Listen, I really do. I think it's a discussion we
- 19:58Speaker 1: need to have.
- 19:59Speaker 7: Look, you're not supporting democracy. You're not supporting the larger
- 20:02Speaker 7: values of this culture.
- 20:03Speaker 13: They don't even stand up as a opposition party.
- 20:07Speaker 1: Did you hear that? That was March of 21, folks,
- 20:10Speaker 1: just five and a half years ago. Did you hear
- 20:12Speaker 1: what little Bri Bri said? Little Humpty Dumpty? We don't
- 20:15Speaker 1: even know if Fox should have the privilege of covering
- 20:18Speaker 1: the White House. So you see, it's not a right.
- 20:21Speaker 1: It's a privilege that each administration can grant you or not.
- 20:25Speaker 1: It doesn't impede on the Constitution one bit. Want me
- 20:29Speaker 1: to prove it one more time before we get to
- 20:31Speaker 1: our guest? The Biden regime purged over 440 reporters from
- 20:37Speaker 1: their White House press briefing room, and they did it
- 20:41Speaker 1: about two and a half years into his presidency. That
- 20:43Speaker 1: policy came down in the spring of 2023, and it
- 20:47Speaker 1: changed the entire media landscape at the White House when
- 20:52Speaker 1: it comes to how they covered the Biden regime. Okay?
- 20:56Speaker 1: And I got the headline to show you and prove. 442,
- 20:58Speaker 1: I think, was the number. 442! got their press credentials yanked. Now,
- 21:07Speaker 1: let's go one step further. Do you all remember about
- 21:12Speaker 1: how they treated Joe when it came to him asking
- 21:16Speaker 1: the questions? They gave him notes. He knew who to
- 21:19Speaker 1: talk to. It was ridiculous. I'm going to get in
- 21:22Speaker 1: more to that. And one more, because I'm just feeling it.
- 21:26Speaker 1: This network you're watching right now, One America News, was
- 21:29Speaker 1: kicked out of the press briefing room following a huge
- 21:34Speaker 1: change from the White House Correspondents Association. And we had
- 21:38Speaker 1: to fight our way back in. Now, the reporter that
- 21:42Speaker 1: was working at the White House when OAN was going
- 21:45Speaker 1: through all of this now has her own amazing talk show.
- 21:48Speaker 1: And she's my friend. She's the host of Fine Point
- 21:50Speaker 1: right here on OAN. Let's bring host Chanel Rian on
- 21:54Speaker 1: for her reaction. Hi, Chanel. I don't want to sit
- 21:58Speaker 1: here and gloat and I don't want to say it
- 22:00Speaker 1: was the right thing or the wrong thing to do.
- 22:03Speaker 1: I'm just showing the facts. Everybody's freaking out that these
- 22:06Speaker 1: three outlets got pulled from the White House. It is
- 22:10Speaker 1: not a right guaranteed by the Constitution. It's a privilege.
- 22:15Speaker 1: They didn't help you, me, or this network when we
- 22:18Speaker 1: were yanked and kicked out. And every administration for decades
- 22:22Speaker 1: has picked and choosed and plucked things they didn't want,
- 22:25Speaker 1: especially over the last 20 years since the Obama and
- 22:27Speaker 1: Biden regimes. So I don't know why everybody's having such
- 22:30Speaker 1: a hissy fit. Welcome. Your reaction.
- 22:35Speaker 4: I was laughing so much listening to those super cuts
- 22:38Speaker 4: you had of CNN just mourning the fact that they
- 22:41Speaker 4: would tap their card and They would get that traumatic
- 22:44Speaker 4: red beeping sound being denied. If you remember, Dan, we
- 22:50Speaker 4: were not only unceremoniously removed, our seat was removed from
- 22:56Speaker 4: the White House briefing room chart. We were then told
- 23:00Speaker 4: that we would be allowed in at the grace of
- 23:03Speaker 4: the White House Correspondents Association, which prompted me to start
- 23:09Speaker 4: what felt like a one-woman war against the WHCA. And
- 23:13Speaker 4: people couldn't believe that I would speak out against the WHCA.
- 23:16Speaker 4: They said, how would you do that? You're ruining your career.
- 23:18Speaker 4: You would never be able to be invited to these
- 23:20Speaker 4: places or be friends with these people again. I said,
- 23:23Speaker 4: I'm not friends with these people. They don't run the
- 23:25Speaker 4: White House briefing room. They act like they're this official
- 23:29Speaker 4: organization and entity, the White House Correspondents Association.
- 23:33Speaker 1: And they're not.
- 23:34Speaker 4: They are this struggling, private, nonprofit group. that operates on
- 23:40Speaker 4: the White House grounds at the grace of the president,
- 23:44Speaker 4: whoever's sitting in there at the time, at the grace
- 23:48Speaker 4: of the White House press office. I was stunned, Dan,
- 23:51Speaker 4: as someone who is brand new to the field of media,
- 23:53Speaker 4: that no one until that point, until we were kicked out,
- 23:57Speaker 4: no one until that point had raised this question.
- 24:00Speaker 1: They really just.
- 24:01Speaker 4: Assumed that the White House Correspondents Association, an old boys club,
- 24:06Speaker 4: was actually in charge of the White House briefing room.
- 24:09Speaker 1: It's not.
- 24:10Speaker 4: And I was very proud to be part of the
- 24:13Speaker 4: movement that opened that floodgate and exposed them.
- 24:16Speaker 1: Yeah, you did great.
- 24:17Speaker 4: It was ironic that under the Biden administration, Dan. They
- 24:21Speaker 4: tried to do it again. They actually tried to kick
- 24:23Speaker 4: us out of the North Lawn altogether.
- 24:26Speaker 1: I remember.
- 24:26Speaker 4: And I turned on the cameras and I said, would
- 24:28Speaker 4: you explain to me exactly your reasoning for why you
- 24:31Speaker 4: would be kicking OAN out of the White House? And
- 24:35Speaker 4: their explanation was, the White House Correspondents Association told us to.
- 24:40Speaker 4: And so I stopped them. I stepped aside for the
- 24:42Speaker 4: camera and made sure the red light was on. And
- 24:44Speaker 4: I said, White House, please explain to me once again.
- 24:47Speaker 4: You said the White House Correspondents Association told you? that
- 24:51Speaker 4: OAN cannot be on White House grounds? And the deputy
- 24:55Speaker 4: press secretary at the time said, yes, yes. And she
- 24:57Speaker 4: was standing with our Secret Service trying to escort OAN
- 25:00Speaker 4: off the grounds. And I said, so let me get
- 25:02Speaker 4: this straight. WHCA currently is run by CBS. CBS just
- 25:08Speaker 4: told the White House that OAN may not be on
- 25:11Speaker 4: White House grounds? She turned and walked away.
- 25:14Speaker 1: Yeah, they changed their tune.
- 25:14Speaker 4: We never got another problem from them again.
- 25:16Speaker 1: Exactly.
- 25:17Speaker 4: Very different situation from what we're dealing with here now, Dan.
- 25:19Speaker 14: Yeah.
- 25:20Speaker 4: Right now, we as OAN, we were never treating the
- 25:24Speaker 4: White House as if it was some privileged thing that
- 25:26Speaker 4: we were granted. We always knew we were there at
- 25:29Speaker 4: the grace of the White House, which is how it
- 25:31Speaker 4: should be. In this latest lawsuit, Dan, CNN, Politico, they're
- 25:37Speaker 4: acting like their argument is their access to the White
- 25:42Speaker 4: House is a First Amendment right. And that's simply not true.
- 25:45Speaker 4: That's legally not true. Will the White House have its
- 25:48Speaker 4: way in this case? I'm not sure. There are some
- 25:51Speaker 4: other arguments that will be made down the line, I'm sure.
- 25:54Speaker 4: But as far as the argument that you have a
- 25:57Speaker 4: First Amendment right to be on privileged property, the White House,
- 26:01Speaker 4: which is not a courthouse, by the way, Dan, the
- 26:04Speaker 4: White House grounds is the president's residence. It's the West Wing.
- 26:08Speaker 4: It is a protected bubble. A hard pass does not
- 26:11Speaker 4: give you free access to roam the White House.
- 26:14Speaker 13: Right.
- 26:14Speaker 1: Nobody's saying that MSNBC, MSNOW, CNN Politico can't stand now
- 26:21Speaker 1: on the sidewalk right in front of the White House,
- 26:24Speaker 1: see what he's saying on other people's cameras like we
- 26:26Speaker 1: had to do, and then report on what he said.
- 26:29Speaker 1: So nobody's taking your freedom of speech or freedom of
- 26:32Speaker 1: the press away. It's just the privilege, as Brian Stelter said,
- 26:37Speaker 1: the privilege that you had to be at the White House.
- 26:39Speaker 1: I'm so glad we found that clip of a CNN
- 26:41Speaker 1: employee saying that just a few years ago. Your privilege
- 26:44Speaker 1: is gone. But I want to remind folks just a
- 26:46Speaker 1: few more things, because how did we get here? President
- 26:49Speaker 1: Trump obviously got pissed off, let me just call it
- 26:53Speaker 1: like it is, about CNN, MSNOW, and Politico's coverage, their
- 26:57Speaker 1: blatant lies. And people go, well, No, no, no, Dan.
- 27:01Speaker 1: It's not a lie. It's the way they see it
- 27:02Speaker 1: or the way they covered it. They perceived it. So
- 27:04Speaker 1: that's their reporting. Well, really. So run this one where
- 27:08Speaker 1: Inside Edition, halfway through JoJo's term, showed and exposed how
- 27:14Speaker 1: CNN covered Joe. And when you see how they covered
- 27:17Speaker 1: Joe versus how they cover Trump, I would see why
- 27:21Speaker 1: the president went, you guys lie to the American people.
- 27:23Speaker 1: End about me. Screw you. Get out of the White House.
- 27:25Speaker 1: Roll this clip.
- 27:28Speaker 13: President Biden was photographed holding a cheat sheet during his
- 27:31Speaker 13: press conference yesterday. Look, it has a photo of Los
- 27:35Speaker 13: Angeles Times reporter Courtney Subramanian, along with a pronunciation of
- 27:39Speaker 13: her name.
- 27:40Speaker 1: But there's more.
- 27:42Speaker 13: The card also includes her question. You can also see
- 27:45Speaker 13: someone's handwriting telling the president that she will ask the
- 27:49Speaker 13: first question.
- 27:50Speaker 1: Did the press do that for President Trump, Chanel? You
- 27:59Speaker 1: don't have to answer. It was rhetorical.
- 28:00Speaker 4: This is where I think it'll get tricky, Dan. Dan,
- 28:03Speaker 4: I think this is where it's going to get slightly
- 28:06Speaker 4: tricky for the Trump legal team. The ability for the
- 28:11Speaker 4: president to say, you know, this is protected grounds and
- 28:14Speaker 4: you are here at our privilege, it does not mean
- 28:16Speaker 4: that you can now kick out press because you just
- 28:20Speaker 4: don't like their coverage, which Trump implied in his tweet.
- 28:23Speaker 4: I think that's not a fatal... detail, but it is
- 28:27Speaker 4: a detail that the plaintiffs in this case are going
- 28:32Speaker 4: to grip onto and and lean in and say, look,
- 28:36Speaker 4: he's discriminating us because he just doesn't like the way
- 28:39Speaker 4: we cover things.
- 28:39Speaker 1: Sure. But wait a minute, hold on, because I know
- 28:41Speaker 1: you're getting your law degree, Chanel.
- 28:42Speaker 4: I think ultimately once the legal team gets involved from
- 28:44Speaker 4: the Trump White House, they're going to start pointing out, look,
- 28:47Speaker 4: this is how Politico, this is how CNN, this is
- 28:52Speaker 4: how these various news organizations actually impede White House operations.
- 28:57Speaker 4: And so this is a generic rule we're applying. We're
- 29:00Speaker 4: going to apply a standard here. And if you don't
- 29:02Speaker 4: meet that standard, you may not... engage, you may not
- 29:05Speaker 4: enjoy the privilege of covering the most coveted 14 acres
- 29:10Speaker 4: in America, in the world.
- 29:11Speaker 1: Sure, Chanel, real quick though.
- 29:13Speaker 4: So hopefully the legal team does come up with a
- 29:15Speaker 4: very tangible guideline here that's applicable across the board, because
- 29:20Speaker 4: if they lean in on this and say, well, you're
- 29:22Speaker 4: kicking out people just because of their viewpoint.
- 29:25Speaker 1: Okay, but hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
- 29:28Speaker 1: You almost got your law degree, so I know you
- 29:29Speaker 1: know the law way better than me. But if they
- 29:31Speaker 1: can prove that CNN, Politico, MSNOW, by way of their reports,
- 29:36Speaker 1: shows their complete bias and propaganda that they're spewing against
- 29:41Speaker 1: President Trump, then it's just not his feelings got hurt
- 29:44Speaker 1: because he doesn't like the way they cover, It's factual.
- 29:46Speaker 1: One more case in point. About two, three years ago,
- 29:51Speaker 1: they got a CNN director on undercover video discussing how
- 29:57Speaker 1: CNN covers President Trump. To me, this would be more
- 30:00Speaker 1: evidence that they lie about the man. This was Project
- 30:04Speaker 1: Veritas and this director named Charles Chester. Roll this one, please.
- 30:09Speaker 9: We were creating a story there that we didn't know
- 30:12Speaker 9: anything about.
- 30:14Speaker 1: So I think that's propaganda.
- 30:16Speaker 4: Think what we did.
- 30:17Speaker 1: We got Trump out.
- 30:18Speaker 10: I am 100% going to say it, and I 100%
- 30:21Speaker 10: believe it, that if it wasn't for CNN, I don't
- 30:24Speaker 10: know that Trump would have gotten voted out.
- 30:26Speaker 1: Our focus was to get Trump out of office, right?
- 30:29Speaker 2: Without saying it, that's what it was, right?
- 30:31Speaker 1: So our next thing is going to be for climate change. Awareness.
- 30:34Speaker 4: Do you think it's going to be just a lot
- 30:36Speaker 4: of fear?
- 30:36Speaker 1: Climate change.
- 30:38Speaker 2: Yeah, fear sucks.
- 30:40Speaker 1: He obviously undercover cam there admitting that they're propagandists at CNN,
- 30:45Speaker 1: that they literally skew their reporting to make Trump look bad.
- 30:51Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be for the Trump legal team grounds to
- 30:53Speaker 1: say it wasn't just the president's feelings, it's factual. We
- 30:58Speaker 1: looked at the reporting of what CNN, MSNOW and Politico
- 31:01Speaker 1: have done versus the facts of these stories and just
- 31:05Speaker 1: bring up this guy and some other stuff and go, Here,
- 31:08Speaker 1: they gave one administration the questions ahead of time. This
- 31:10Speaker 1: director said they purposely made stuff up or made it
- 31:13Speaker 1: negative against Trump or did 90% of their coverage geared
- 31:16Speaker 1: towards him and only, you know, 2% towards Biden during
- 31:19Speaker 1: the campaign. Whatever it is, the legal team should be
- 31:21Speaker 1: able to show all these biased reports and go, it
- 31:24Speaker 1: has nothing to do with President Trump's feelings. It has
- 31:26Speaker 1: to do with the accuracy in reporting. And you three
- 31:30Speaker 1: have been lying. So we're taking your privilege, not your
- 31:34Speaker 1: constitutional right. We're taking your privilege away for your lies.
- 31:39Speaker 4: I'm sure the Trump team is going to use as
- 31:43Speaker 4: many arguments as they can possibly use. I don't know
- 31:46Speaker 4: how effective it will be in a D.C.
- 31:48Speaker 1: Court.
- 31:48Speaker 4: We've seen precedent that is not entirely favorable to this,
- 31:52Speaker 4: but I think that as long as they zero in
- 31:55Speaker 4: on the fact that the White House is a protected
- 32:00Speaker 4: space and you don't have carte blanche a right to
- 32:06Speaker 4: be on the White House grounds... then that is going
- 32:09Speaker 4: to be a very interesting case to make sure to
- 32:11Speaker 4: remind the judge about. The problem here, Dan, too, is
- 32:17Speaker 4: you have the ostensibly right-wing media, too, ostensibly Fox News,
- 32:23Speaker 4: jumping in and standing in in solidarity here.
- 32:25Speaker 15: I saw.
- 32:27Speaker 4: It all traces back to this nefarious, struggling nonprofit that
- 32:34Speaker 4: runs the White House press briefing room. Now, I think
- 32:36Speaker 4: we've had some a little bit of an illusion that
- 32:38Speaker 4: they no longer run the White House press briefing room.
- 32:41Speaker 4: But as this latest story illustrates, they still think and
- 32:45Speaker 4: act like they own and operate the White House briefing room.
- 32:48Speaker 4: It's entirely unacceptable, and I hope that as more of
- 32:52Speaker 4: this story gets exposed, their power diminishes. And I think
- 32:56Speaker 4: that it will down the line. Now, remember why OEN
- 33:00Speaker 4: was kicked out of the White House briefing room rotation
- 33:03Speaker 4: to begin with. I had asked this very question. How
- 33:06Speaker 4: do you feel, Mr. President, about the fact that you have...
- 33:10Speaker 4: media sitting in this room repeating our adversaries' verbatim propaganda.
- 33:16Speaker 4: They are repeating Chinese propaganda in this room, and they
- 33:19Speaker 4: have direct access to you in your Oval Office. That
- 33:23Speaker 4: was the question that pushed out... caused us to be
- 33:27Speaker 4: pushed out by the White House Correspondents Association and sparked
- 33:31Speaker 4: this entire conversation where we explored who exactly runs the
- 33:36Speaker 4: White House briefing room. And the answer was not the
- 33:39Speaker 4: White House briefing, the White House Correspondents Association, as they
- 33:43Speaker 4: led us to believe. It was the White House. But
- 33:45Speaker 4: it took us five, six years to actually realize that.
- 33:49Speaker 1: Yep, exactly. If there's a Democrat in charge, the press
- 33:52Speaker 1: is all good with them. The minute that switches, as
- 33:55Speaker 1: we found out under President Trump, Man, does the media change.
- 33:58Speaker 1: This is a point where a leopard can change its spots,
- 34:01Speaker 1: and the media does, depending on who's sitting in that
- 34:04Speaker 1: White House. Chanel, as always, thank you so much for
- 34:07Speaker 1: being the fighter and the journalist, and soon to be
- 34:09Speaker 1: the attorney that you are. We appreciate you so much. Thanks, Chanel.
- 34:13Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, retired Navy SEAL, Mike Cirelli's
- 34:17Speaker 1: gonna join us. with an update on the latest with
- 34:20Speaker 1: Iran and what the heck's been going on in the
- 34:22Speaker 1: Middle East. It was a violent weekend. Details when we
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- 35:00Speaker 1: you can't get anywhere else. I think they're in a
- 35:12Speaker 1: state of collapse.
- 35:13Speaker 14: You know, their economy is right now at a level
- 35:16Speaker 14: that they've never seen before. It's the worst economy they've
- 35:18Speaker 14: ever had. They have inflation that's over 300%. They're not
- 35:22Speaker 14: paying their soldiers. They're not paying their military. They're not
- 35:25Speaker 14: paying their police. They're a mess.
- 35:27Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. Yeah, we will. The conflict with
- 35:30Speaker 1: Iran began nearly seven months ago, and it has been
- 35:32Speaker 1: taking a huge toll on Iran's economy and I'd say
- 35:36Speaker 1: our economy, too, Mr. President. Now, the currency in Iran collapsing,
- 35:41Speaker 1: inflation there skyrocketing, roughly one-third of their pre-conflict natural gas
- 35:47Speaker 1: production gone. Now, winter around the corner, the pressure for
- 35:51Speaker 1: them to make a deal is mounting, but we know
- 35:53Speaker 1: that they were trying to hold out until our midterm.
- 35:56Speaker 1: They're hoping that Republicans lose the House and Senate, Trump
- 35:59Speaker 1: will then be handcuffed, can't do anything, and then they
- 36:02Speaker 1: think that we'll just let it go and it'll be over.
- 36:05Speaker 1: That brings us to the Treasury Secretary, Scott Zenz. The
- 36:08Speaker 1: Secretary just issued a major warning to Iran's terrorist regime today, saying,
- 36:13Speaker 1: listen up, if you're wise. Take a look.
- 36:16Speaker 15: All the Iranian airlines, all the Iranian airlines will be
- 36:19Speaker 15: shut down around the world. And how do we do that?
- 36:23Speaker 15: That if they land, you cannot provide them with fuel,
- 36:26Speaker 15: you cannot provide them with landing services, you cannot sell
- 36:29Speaker 15: them tickets, or you will be knocked out of the
- 36:31Speaker 15: dollar system. And what we're seeing here, Joe, is we've
- 36:35Speaker 15: seen enablers.
- 36:37Speaker 15: Throughout the world.
- 36:39Speaker 1: We know who they are.
- 36:40Speaker 15: They know who they are. And we are putting a
- 36:42Speaker 15: stop to it.
- 36:44Speaker 1: That's a sanction you should have done a while ago.
- 36:45Speaker 1: I like it. As we speak, Iran, though, threatening a
- 36:48Speaker 1: much broader response to any new strikes from us. It's
- 36:53Speaker 1: been about two weeks since our last military hit on Iran,
- 36:56Speaker 1: destroying five oil tankers after they attacked our naval warships. However,
- 37:01Speaker 1: if we do hit them again, which I think we should,
- 37:04Speaker 1: Iran says they're going to deploy some new weapons with
- 37:07Speaker 1: New capabilities. They say they're also changing their tactics, according
- 37:10Speaker 1: to one of their spokesmen. Now, the spokesman didn't go
- 37:13Speaker 1: into any detail, but says the threat is crystal clear.
- 37:17Speaker 1: President Trump hits us, we're going to hit them back. Okay.
- 37:21Speaker 1: No meeting confirmed right now, so if anything diplomatic is
- 37:25Speaker 1: supposed to happen, we haven't been hearing about it. But
- 37:29Speaker 1: things are happening in the Middle East. Take the Houthis,
- 37:32Speaker 1: for example. You know, the ones that get their money
- 37:33Speaker 1: from Iran. The Houthis are rapidly ramping up their attacks
- 37:37Speaker 1: over in Saudi Arabia, claiming credit for multiple strikes over
- 37:40Speaker 1: the last week. They've been firing drones and ballistic missiles
- 37:43Speaker 1: at sensitive areas within Saudi Arabia and claim credit for
- 37:47Speaker 1: an attack on the capital city that happened on Saturday.
- 37:51Speaker 1: They reportedly targeted a jet fuel storage center, marking the
- 37:54Speaker 1: first assault on the capital since the conflict between us
- 37:59Speaker 1: and Iran started back in February. It has been one escalation, rather,
- 38:03Speaker 1: after another and no end in sight in the Middle East.
- 38:06Speaker 1: So the big question is, where are we going to
- 38:08Speaker 1: go from here? What's going to happen? The Trump administration
- 38:11Speaker 1: declined to take direct action against the Houthis, but they
- 38:15Speaker 1: said they might take more action against Iran this week.
- 38:20Speaker 1: I hope so. Get something done before the midterms so
- 38:22Speaker 1: gas prices will go down, so people will stop focusing
- 38:25Speaker 1: on the war in Iran and can focus on the
- 38:27Speaker 1: positive things that the Trump administration has done. Joining me
- 38:31Speaker 1: now to weigh in on the current state of what's
- 38:33Speaker 1: happening with Iran, retired Navy SEAL, Chief Talent Officer at Overwatch,
- 38:37Speaker 1: Mission Critical, our pal Mike Cirelli, back on the program.
- 38:41Speaker 1: All right, Mike, what do you think? What are your
- 38:43Speaker 1: sources of the Pentagon telling you? Because I know Hegseth
- 38:46Speaker 1: was pretty amped up over the weekend going to some
- 38:48Speaker 1: ball games, and when the press would ask him, it
- 38:50Speaker 1: sounded like he's ready to hit them and hit them
- 38:52Speaker 1: hard and finally put this to bed, but yet we
- 38:54Speaker 1: don't do it. And then we hear from the Treasury Secretary, well,
- 38:58Speaker 1: we got this bright idea with a sanction on their airlines.
- 39:00Speaker 1: I love it. Why didn't we do it months ago?
- 39:03Speaker 2: Well, Dan, you're not getting away easy on this one. First,
- 39:06Speaker 2: congratulations to you and Peyton on the announcement. We knew
- 39:10Speaker 2: Peyton had it in her. My wife and I had
- 39:12Speaker 2: doubts about you that you could come through.
- 39:15Speaker 1: Thanks.
- 39:15Speaker 2: You proved us wrong.
- 39:16Speaker 1: Before we get to the war, okay, my wife and
- 39:19Speaker 1: I are expecting. We just found out this weekend. Thank you, Mike.
- 39:21Speaker 1: We told Mike right away. Okay, Mike, go ahead. Get
- 39:23Speaker 1: on with it.
- 39:24Speaker 2: There's a lot going on this week. So first, the
- 39:27Speaker 2: meeting between Trump and the Gulf Cooperation Council leadership. He
- 39:31Speaker 2: wants to hear what they believe should be the next steps.
- 39:34Speaker 2: He wants to hear their opinion on if they need
- 39:36Speaker 2: to escalate the war. You know where I fall into
- 39:39Speaker 2: that camp. But ultimately, there's something key here, too, is
- 39:42Speaker 2: that they're going to talk about a durable regional security
- 39:45Speaker 2: architecture moving forward. That's why we're going to sell F-35s
- 39:49Speaker 2: to Saudi Arabia. That doesn't solve the near-term problem. We
- 39:52Speaker 2: need to hit Iran. Right now, Trump has military time
- 39:56Speaker 2: on his side, along with that economic pressure. We all
- 39:59Speaker 2: know we're looking at the clock for November 3rd. He
- 40:02Speaker 2: does not have the political time, and that's the conundrum
- 40:05Speaker 2: he's in. But the Houthis are interesting, and I do
- 40:07Speaker 2: want to hit the Houthis real quick. So the Houthis
- 40:10Speaker 2: have widened the map for Iran. Basically, you now have
- 40:14Speaker 2: economic pressure on the Strait of Hormuz. You now have
- 40:16Speaker 2: it on the back door, Bob El-Mandeb. but the Houthis
- 40:20Speaker 2: are doing it for their longevity as well. They know
- 40:24Speaker 2: they're going to lose the Iranian lifeline, and America needs
- 40:30Speaker 2: to keep whacking at the trunk, not the branches. But
- 40:33Speaker 2: the Houthis know when Iran becomes irrelevant, if they have
- 40:37Speaker 2: some control over the Red Sea, they have some leverage
- 40:40Speaker 2: in future negotiations.
- 40:42Speaker 1: Ah, so that's why they're stepping it up now with
- 40:44Speaker 1: the Saudis and the Red Sea. Because they're looking for
- 40:47Speaker 1: future control of something when the piggy bank from Iran
- 40:51Speaker 1: runs out, which is coming close and soon.
- 40:54Speaker 14: Yes.
- 40:55Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense. What do you think
- 40:57Speaker 1: the next move should be? I mean, again, I like
- 40:59Speaker 1: this airline thing. That's one way economically to keep hitting them.
- 41:02Speaker 1: I know we went after oligarchs that are working with them.
- 41:05Speaker 1: We've been going after banks that are working with them.
- 41:07Speaker 1: So I know that Treasury is trying to do everything
- 41:08Speaker 1: they can militarily. You're on board with hitting them hard again.
- 41:12Speaker 1: So am I. What does that look like, Mike? What
- 41:14Speaker 1: should we be doing like yesterday to try to get
- 41:17Speaker 1: this to bed before November 3rd?
- 41:21Speaker 2: Well, Dan, it's so easy to look back and armchair
- 41:23Speaker 2: quarterback this entire thing.
- 41:24Speaker 1: I get it.
- 41:25Speaker 2: You just brought it up.
- 41:26Speaker 1: Why didn't we.
- 41:27Speaker 2: Implement those sanctions on their airliners earlier? Why didn't we
- 41:30Speaker 2: do a lot of things earlier? And I think that's
- 41:31Speaker 2: going to be the major lessons learned is that one,
- 41:34Speaker 2: we should have never given up on the sustained air
- 41:36Speaker 2: campaign against Iran. We shouldn't have ever given them the
- 41:39Speaker 2: time that we gave them on negotiations during the ceasefire.
- 41:44Speaker 2: We need to pick back up and you need to
- 41:46Speaker 2: continue to not only behead their leadership, degregate their leadership,
- 41:50Speaker 2: remove what remaining residual missile or drone capabilities they have,
- 41:54Speaker 2: but you've got to hit them in critical infrastructure that
- 41:57Speaker 2: keeps the lights on, the power plants. And those are
- 42:00Speaker 2: viable military targets. But additionally, we're also seeing reports that
- 42:05Speaker 2: You know, their nuclear programs, Pickaxe Mountain, we're seeing a
- 42:10Speaker 2: lot of activity. And some people believe we're going to
- 42:12Speaker 2: see an October surprise. And what they're leading towards that
- 42:16Speaker 2: with is that they wouldn't be surprised if they see
- 42:18Speaker 2: a nuclear test by Iran in October.
- 42:21Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
- 42:22Speaker 1: So we just need to hit that Pickaxe Mountain. We
- 42:23Speaker 1: need to hit Karg Island. We need to hit the infrastructure,
- 42:26Speaker 1: even though President Trump was trying to save it for
- 42:28Speaker 1: the Persian people. I think we've got to start hitting it.
- 42:30Speaker 1: We have weeks to go here. And the midterms are
- 42:33Speaker 1: on the table. And let me tell you, between the
- 42:35Speaker 1: gas prices, which obviously went up because of this conflict,
- 42:38Speaker 1: it could be the GOP's downfall in the House. I
- 42:40Speaker 1: don't think the Senate. And then we have a lame
- 42:42Speaker 1: duck president for two years because the Dems will control
- 42:45Speaker 1: the purse strings. Folks, this is a critical election. And
- 42:49Speaker 1: I'll end where we began, not on Iran, but on
- 42:51Speaker 1: our good news. Mike, thanks. I'll call you for any advice.
- 42:54Speaker 1: You know, oh, wait, you're not in the over 50 category.
- 42:57Speaker 1: Father club, having a newborn. I'll be in the over
- 43:00Speaker 1: 50 club, not you. You're only 48, 49, right? Find
- 43:03Speaker 1: victories where you can.
- 43:04Speaker 2: I'm 48, about to turn 49, but we will be
- 43:07Speaker 2: trying probably beyond 50.
- 43:09Speaker 1: Oh, you're going to go for number two. All right. Well,
- 43:11Speaker 1: then I'll call you out. Like I have a choice
- 43:12Speaker 1: in the matter. I'll call you out the next time.
- 43:14Speaker 1: That's right. When your wife decides if you're having another one.
- 43:16Speaker 1: Mike Cirelli, retired Navy SEAL. Thank you, brother, for the
- 43:19Speaker 1: well wishes on our new baby. And thanks for the
- 43:22Speaker 1: insight on the conflict with Iran. Appreciate you, brother. Take care. Thanks, Dan.
- 43:26Speaker 5: Yep.
- 43:26Speaker 1: All righty, straight ahead. President Trump was right again. So
- 43:31Speaker 1: about a year or so ago, he said the U.S.
- 43:33Speaker 1: needs to take over Greenland to keep us safe from
- 43:36Speaker 1: China and Russia in the future, right? And everybody made
- 43:38Speaker 1: fun of him. Well, guess what? Details next. For all
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- 44:26Speaker 14: If we don't take Greenland, Russia or China will take Greenland.
- 44:31Speaker 1: And I am not going to let that happen.
- 44:32Speaker 16: Is there any deal they can offer you?
- 44:34Speaker 1: Yeah, sure. I'd love to make a deal with them.
- 44:37Speaker 4: It's easier.
- 44:38Speaker 1: But one way or the other, we're going to have Greenland.
- 44:41Speaker 1: Remember that, folks? We were talking about that, what are
- 44:45Speaker 1: we in September? That was January. It was kind of
- 44:48Speaker 1: late last year into early this year. We were all
- 44:50Speaker 1: talking about Greenland and people on the left and Democrats,
- 44:54Speaker 1: the media making fun of Trump. Oh, Denmark's never going
- 44:56Speaker 1: to give it up. Why would Greenland want to have U.S.
- 44:59Speaker 1: help them out or control them? And President Trump explained
- 45:01Speaker 1: why with China and everybody was making fun of him. Well, evidently,
- 45:07Speaker 1: there's a deal, like President Trump said there would be.
- 45:12Speaker 1: Last Friday, the Trump administration struck a historic security agreement
- 45:16Speaker 1: with Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark, expanding now our
- 45:20Speaker 1: access to that land in a major way. This trilateral
- 45:24Speaker 1: deal is expected to be finalized at the UN General
- 45:27Speaker 1: Assembly in New York City tomorrow. It is designed to
- 45:31Speaker 1: strengthen NATO's role in securing the Arctic and around that area.
- 45:36Speaker 1: Some details still being confirmed, but the news is a
- 45:39Speaker 1: big blow, especially to our biggest adversary, China. China and
- 45:44Speaker 1: Russia will both be prohibited from building any base or
- 45:49Speaker 1: investing in anything on Greenland, like ever. While the U.S.
- 45:54Speaker 1: government gains full military access to the country at no
- 45:58Speaker 1: cost to you and me, the American taxpayer. There's even
- 46:03Speaker 1: more to it as well. Our U.N. ambassador, Mike Waltz,
- 46:07Speaker 1: broke it all down over the weekend.
- 46:09Speaker 10: People should understand that if we're ever attacked by any
- 46:13Speaker 10: type of intercontinental missiles, they'll come over the Arctic. Our radars,
- 46:18Speaker 10: our sensors are incredibly important up there.
- 46:20Speaker 1: They need to be defended. We need to have full access.
- 46:24Speaker 10: And no one, Dana, was paying attention to the Arctic
- 46:27Speaker 10: until President Trump was. I can tell you with certainty
- 46:32Speaker 10: that our NATO allies were not spending what they need to.
- 46:35Speaker 10: Now President Trump has an icebreaker deal in place with Finland.
- 46:41Speaker 10: He has the spending that he's driving coming out of NATO.
- 46:45Speaker 10: And we'll now have the full access and basing that
- 46:47Speaker 10: we need for Iron Dome, access to critical minerals, access
- 46:51Speaker 10: to the energy reserves that are up there.
- 46:55Speaker 1: All right, joining me now to weigh in on all this,
- 46:57Speaker 1: he was on the program for the last couple of
- 46:59Speaker 1: years talking about Greenland because besides being the founder of
- 47:03Speaker 1: Bikers for Trump and a big supporter of 47, he
- 47:06Speaker 1: was also a presidential appointee to Homeland Security Advisory Council
- 47:09Speaker 1: and spent weeks and weeks on the ground in Greenland
- 47:14Speaker 1: talking to the natives, not the Denmark officials, the folks
- 47:17Speaker 1: that live there. to see if they would be okay
- 47:20Speaker 1: with America kind of taking over and being involved in
- 47:23Speaker 1: their future. And so let's be joined now by Chris Cox,
- 47:26Speaker 1: our good pal over at Bikers for Trump. Chris, you
- 47:29Speaker 1: got it done, man. I remember you coming on like
- 47:32Speaker 1: last year. When you got back from Greenland and saying, look,
- 47:35Speaker 1: I've been talking with these people. I remember actually you
- 47:38Speaker 1: put me in touch with someone that was part of
- 47:42Speaker 1: the parliament, not on the Denmark side, but some of
- 47:45Speaker 1: the locals. And I chatted with them on the phone.
- 47:48Speaker 1: And the ones you put me in touch with were
- 47:50Speaker 1: actually excited about hearing what America had to offer. Fast forward.
- 47:54Speaker 1: Here we are. The deal's ready to be inked, even
- 47:58Speaker 1: though there was a lot of naysayers. Chris, welcome back.
- 48:02Speaker 16: Dan, we couldn't be more excited about this. This is
- 48:04Speaker 16: a long time in the coming. You know, we've had
- 48:05Speaker 16: article after article here. These liberal publications are coming out
- 48:09Speaker 16: and they're about 10 percent truth from, you know, just
- 48:13Speaker 16: all over the board. But, you know, the bikers for Trump,
- 48:15Speaker 16: we did play a role. What we did, we reverse
- 48:18Speaker 16: engineered the White House approach to it in our mind.
- 48:21Speaker 16: So where the Pentagon had a plan to acquire agreement,
- 48:24Speaker 16: the bikers for Trump tried to figure out how can
- 48:26Speaker 16: we win the hearts and the minds of the people.
- 48:28Speaker 16: So that's the way we went about it. And so
- 48:30Speaker 16: you might remember when Donald Trump, he put the truth out,
- 48:34Speaker 16: social media post out about a the medical bill going
- 48:37Speaker 16: to Greenland. That was one of our ideas. We took
- 48:40Speaker 16: nine months developing that before Governor Landry even stepped into
- 48:45Speaker 16: the scene. And so a lot of these things and
- 48:48Speaker 16: a lot of these plans, we were definitely behind. We
- 48:50Speaker 16: spent time on the ground. Just like we've got an
- 48:53Speaker 16: army and the biker community and the Amish community, we
- 48:56Speaker 16: also have boots on the ground in Greenland. And we
- 48:59Speaker 16: just couldn't be more proud of the presidency and this
- 49:01Speaker 16: thing come to fruition. And, you know, this is one
- 49:05Speaker 16: of his biggest this is next to the Louisiana purchase.
- 49:07Speaker 16: This is a pretty big deal right here as far
- 49:10Speaker 16: as adding some boundaries to America. And what you said
- 49:13Speaker 16: earlier is exactly right. Russia owns about 51 percent of
- 49:17Speaker 16: the Arctic coast. Before Friday, we had about 12 percent
- 49:22Speaker 16: of it with Alaska. Now, with the help of Greenland
- 49:26Speaker 16: and the friendship and the partnership that we have with Greenland,
- 49:29Speaker 16: We are able to control 49% of that coast. Now,
- 49:32Speaker 16: if you look at the map, when you're looking at
- 49:35Speaker 16: the Arctic Circle, on the eastern part of that circle,
- 49:39Speaker 16: that's where the Russian submarines come in with nuclear capabilities
- 49:42Speaker 16: that patrol all around Europe. And then they come down
- 49:46Speaker 16: and they have operations off the coast of Florida. OK,
- 49:49Speaker 16: so it's no secret what's going on here. So this
- 49:52Speaker 16: is just a major problem. a major achievement for the
- 49:55Speaker 16: president and his staff and congratulations to him. We're happy
- 49:59Speaker 16: to have played our part in it. And nobody saw
- 50:02Speaker 16: it coming except Donald Trump. And you know, when that
- 50:04Speaker 16: man puts his mind to something, he gets it done.
- 50:05Speaker 16: And I want to congratulate him because this is big
- 50:07Speaker 16: time and what it's going to also help.
- 50:09Speaker 1: Well, Chris, he also understands, sorry to interrupt you. He
- 50:11Speaker 1: also has understood for years, decades that we needed that outpost,
- 50:16Speaker 1: if you will, of Greenland to make sure that Russia
- 50:20Speaker 1: and China didn't use that area for staging if they
- 50:23Speaker 1: ever decided to attack us. So he's understood that for
- 50:25Speaker 1: a long time. Chris, before I lose you, because I'm
- 50:27Speaker 1: almost out of time, you do have that army of
- 50:30Speaker 1: bikers around this country, and I love that fact. And
- 50:33Speaker 1: with the midterms now less than 50 days out, are
- 50:35Speaker 1: you gonna start deploying the bikers for Trump and rallying
- 50:39Speaker 1: the troops, if you will, so we can make sure
- 50:41Speaker 1: that the GOP wins these midterms? And I'm gonna say it,
- 50:45Speaker 1: not because every Republican deserves it, because there's some rhinos
- 50:48Speaker 1: out there I don't like, but we gotta make sure
- 50:50Speaker 1: that people show up so that Democrats don't take the
- 50:52Speaker 1: House and Senate and screw this country over for generations
- 50:56Speaker 1: to come. Chris? Absolutely.
- 50:58Speaker 16: We'll be at the Myrtle Beach Bike Rally and Myrtle's
- 51:00Speaker 16: Inlet with Governor Henry McMaster. He'll be our emcee, a
- 51:04Speaker 16: master of ceremonies. And we'll get out to vote for
- 51:07Speaker 16: Darlene Graham. And we're looking forward to having her. Then
- 51:11Speaker 16: on the 17th, we'll be in Daytona Beach, and we're
- 51:15Speaker 16: going to be having a rally for Byron McDonald's. And
- 51:20Speaker 16: we just can't be more excited about the things we're
- 51:22Speaker 16: doing across the country. And closing about Greenland, the people
- 51:24Speaker 16: that are going to really help the most, the Greenlandic people,
- 51:27Speaker 16: they're going to have an opportunity to seek out their
- 51:29Speaker 16: independence and finally stand on their two feet. And it's
- 51:32Speaker 16: very exciting for those people over there.
- 51:33Speaker 1: And that's what we're really pulling for. I remember you
- 51:35Speaker 1: talking to them. And like I said, you put me
- 51:37Speaker 1: in touch and them saying they didn't like how Denmark
- 51:39Speaker 1: had been treating them for decades. So I'm excited for this.
- 51:42Speaker 1: I'm excited for you, Chris, for helping out with this.
- 51:45Speaker 1: Where do folks go here with 10 seconds left if
- 51:46Speaker 1: they want to see where Bikers for Trump's going to
- 51:49Speaker 1: be leading up to midterms? Is it on your social media?
- 51:51Speaker 16: Yeah, you find us at Bikers for Trump on Facebook.
- 51:53Speaker 16: It's probably the easiest thing. You can see we've got
- 51:55Speaker 16: about 400,000 members, and we've got your back, America.
- 51:58Speaker 1: There you go. Bikers for Trump, the founder, Chris Cox.
- 52:01Speaker 1: They're going to be out there getting the vote out
- 52:02Speaker 1: over the next few weeks. Thanks, Chris. Great job on Greenland.
- 52:06Speaker 1: Take care, brother.
- 52:07Speaker 16: Yes, sir. Thank you.
- 52:08Speaker 10: Yep.
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