Transcript of Opening day of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland

And by the way, thank you. Thanks to all of you for making it possible for us to do all the great work we've been doing in the administration. I know we wouldn't have been here without you. But I think the President is acutely aware that the American people gave us a window to save the country. And that's exactly what we're going to do.

And thank God for that because it's been a hell of a lot of fun the past month. Okay, so I don't even think we can keep track of all the things you all are doing. In fact, I don't even think the press can keep track of all they're doing. I mean, they talk about the shock and awe strategy. Seriously.

So when you're looking at this list after list after list, what stands out to you? Well, speaking of the press, I do think that we've had maybe more executive orders than CNN has viewers each night. So hello to our friends at cnn. I think, I actually think that their plan was they were going to go all in on anti Trump. Yeah.

And hope that he could save CNN in the same way that he did, frankly, in 2017, because nobody really watched the network until, until he became president in 2017. But that's maybe the one thing I think the President has been unable to do, unable to save CNN's ratings over the last, over the last few, few months. But look, I think that what the President has tried to do is recognize that we have a historical mandate on a few issues. We have to secure the southern border. And thanks to his actions, border crossings are down well over 90%.

And we're just getting started. Recognizes that we have to really unlock the engine of American growth. We've got to get back to having a growing economy that creates good jobs and high wages for the American people. And a lot of that goes back to drill, baby, drill. We've done more on energy under President Trump's leadership than I think any administration in history.

And that's, that's not an exaggeration. And of course we're going to do more. And then I think the third thing that he's tried to do, of course with the help of Elon and all the great folks at Doge, is ask what are we doing with all of the American taxpayers money and why are we wasting so much of it on garbage that the American people either aren't aware that we're spending it on or don't want to be spending it on in the first place? Like, for example, the stuff that we've Figured out Mercedes is unbelievable. Why are we spending money on progressive modern art projects centered around toilets in Afghanistan?

That's actually something that your tax dollars were funding until very recently. And I think all of us are sitting around and asking, what the hell have we been doing with the American people's money for the last four years? Let's turn off the spigot and spend the American people's tax money on the American people's priority. And that's, of course, been a big focus in the administration, too. Let's dig deeper into the immigration issue.

Sure. We've seen, and you've met many of the victims, people who have family members who have died. Yes. Been tragically, tragically murdered. Those angel families in the hands of these criminal, illegal aliens.

Sure. What's your message to these families? What is. And then what is your message to these horrific drug cartels and human traffickers who have preyed on the most vulnerable in the world? Well, our message to the drug traffickers is get the hell out of our country.

Your free ride is over because President Trump is back in the Oval Office. That is, you're not welcome. You were never welcome, according to the American people. But unfortunately, you had President Joe Biden, who allowed you to run free over the United States of America. And Donald Trump has said, you're terrorist organizations.

We're going to go after you, we're going to wage war on you. And certainly we want you out of the United States of America. And that's an important message, of course. But our message, and you know this, Mercedes, our message to the families is President Trump cares about you. He thinks that it's disgraceful what your own government let happen to your children, to your grandchildren, and it's got to stop.

And of course, we, we, we mourn with people, we pray for people, but we're also asking, as their government, why did this happen to your child in the first place? And the answer is that under Joe Biden, your government didn't do its job. Under Donald Trump, it is, thank God for that.

On the economy. And I'm getting this question all the time. You know, it's this question of affordability. Right. There's a lot of structures, stress on our families.

Something that I think Joe Biden, after the inauguration, and somebody asked me, well, it's been six days. What have you got to fix the inflation crisis created by Joe Biden? I'm like, well, first of all, it's been six days. We've done a lot in six days, but it's going to take Some time to fix what Joe Biden broke over four years. And we know it is, it is easy, unfortunately, to burn the house down.

It takes a little bit of time to build it back up. And here's, here's what we have to do. Because, look, the fundamental goal of our immigration policy, of our border policy, of doge saving taxpayer money, the fundamental goal is we want your children and grandchildren to be able to raise a family in security and comfort in the country that we all love. That is the whole goal of President Trump's agenda, like safety and prosperity. Right.

It's pretty common sense stuff. And we know that to do that, we have to, first of all, unleash American energy. Now, why is that so important? Because, look, if, you know, we all know, grocery prices got too high under Joe Biden's leadership. Well, one of the main drivers of groceries is energy because the farmers are paying more for energy, then we're all paying more for what the farmers grow.

And if the truck drivers who are delivering the groceries are paying more for fuel, then we're all paying more for what the truck drivers are delivering to the grocery, grocery store. If we unleash American energy, that will do more than anything to drive down the cost for the American people. The second thing, Mercedes, is we have got to stop spending the American people's money on garbage. Every dollar, every dollar that we take in and spend, you have to pay for either through taxes or through inflation. And if we spend the American people.

Well, that is J.D. vance, the vice president of the United States, having a Q and A on the stage of

why he thinks we've got to do a lot with that one big, beautiful bill, that first reconciliation package that we're going to get through the House and the Senate. It's going well. It's early. Right?

Right. This stuff takes time to put together. I think, you know, if you had a record pace reconciliation bill, we would get this thing done in May or in June. I think we're on track to do that. But we've got to do some basic things.

Mercedes1 Like I said, we've got to continue to unleash American energy. That's part of the reconciliation bill. We've got to make sure that other countries stop taking advantage of us. That's a big part of President Trump's tariff policy, is we got to stop being taken advantage of. You know, of course, we want to make the President Trump tax cuts permanent and extend them into the future.

We want no taxes on tips. We got to do some of the things we talked about during the campaign. That's got to be part of it. And then finally, and this is really important, everything the president has done on the border, we have got to empower him to do it, not just for a month, but for the next four years. And we've got to.

We've got to hire more Border Patrol agents. We got. We got to give Tom Homan and Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem the resources they need to secure the border and not to return to the border. But I think so many of our issues come back to the border because if you take 30, 40 million illegal aliens, you take Medicare fraud, Social Security fraud. Why are we taking the people's Social Security payments and giving it to illegal aliens?

We know that's happening in the United States of America today. We've got to stop it. If you get control of the border, Mercedes, you do more to control the fiscal problem, the financial problems that we have in this country, than almost anything. Get illegal aliens out of our country. Make sure American tax dollars go to American people.

That is how you solve the fiscal crisis in the United States of America.

Shifting to your incredible speech at the Munich Conference, did you all watch that?

I don't know.

I think they. I'm glad you guys liked it. Not everybody liked it. You guys liked it. Not everybody liked it.

Thank you.

Okay.

I'll take a standing ovation for a speech. I already gave, like, three for the price of one. Yeah. I was going to say. Here's your speech.

Just say it again. All right. But it was. It was fascinating because there was obviously some of these European leaders that, you know, they were a little uptight about it. It stressed them out just a little bit.

A little bit. But you talked about the greatest threats in Europe. Yeah. So, look, the greatest threat in Europe, and I'd say it was the greatest threat in the United states until about 30 days ago, is that you've had the leaders of the west decide that they should send millions and millions of unvetted foreign migrants into their countries. That is the biggest threat to Europe.

And frankly, it remains, by the way, the biggest threat to the United States. Because, yes, we've got four years of President Trump's leadership, but I guarantee you, if the Democrats ever get power again, they're going to try to do it again. We cannot rebuild Western civilization. We cannot rebuild the United States of America or Europe by letting millions and millions of unvetted illegal migrants come into our country. It has to stop.

Thank God it stopped here, but it's got to stop there And a related issue, Mercedes, is you can't just stop it. You have to allow you European peoples, and of course the American people, too, to raise issues about it, Right? You have to allow free speech to debate this stuff. You have to stop doing things to the populations of the world. You've got to give the populations of the world the opportunity to speak up and say, no more of this bs.

We want borders. We want sovereignty. We want to be able to speak our own mind in our own country. And I guarantee you, if we don't allow free speech. And of course, the Biden administration.

I made this point, Mercedes. The Biden administration did more to destroy free speech, not just in the United States, but also in Europe than any administration in American history. I'm not even blaming the Europeans. I'm actually saying you follow the lead of Joe Biden into censorship and mass migration. Follow the lead of Donald J.

Trump, and that's free speech, borders and sovereignty. That is the future for our shared civilization.

And I will tell you something that is really, truly remarkable. That's happening at CPAC is. And we had our second CPAC international summit yesterday. And we have many of these European conservative European leaders with us today, where we stand in solidarity, because they have an opportunity to basically make Europe great again, make Asia great again, make Latin America great again. And so, in essence, I think your message was very well received by many of those conservative leaders across the globe.

But what does this mean with the U.S. now that you know, in giving that speech, what does this mean with the US Relationship with Europe? Well, look, obviously we're going to continue to have important alliances with Europe, but I really do think the strength of those alliances is going to depend on whether we take our societies in the right direction. Think about this. Germany's entire defense is subsidized by the American taxpayer.

There are thousands upon thousands of American troops, Germany today. Do you think that the American taxpayer is going to stand for that? If you get thrown in jail in Germany for posting a mean tweet, of course they're not, right? So the point that I try to make to our European friends, and I think that they're our friends, I believe that, I know President Trump does, is that friendship is based on shared values. You do not have shared values if you're jailing people for saying we should close down our border.

You don't have shared values. If you cancel elections because you don't like the result, and that happened in Romania, you don't have. You do not have shared values if you're so afraid of your own people that you silence them and shut them up. So let's have shared values, let's defend democracy. Let's have free expression, not just in the United States, but all over the Western world.

That is the path to strong alliances. Europe.

We had Ambassador Rick Riddell with us yesterday. He'll be on the CPAC stage during these conferences. He has, like, three jobs or four or five. Yes, but let me ask you this. Where are we on our.

Basically, the status of the Russia, Ukraine moving forward in terms of these negotiations, in bringing peace, this endless war? You know, it's, it's, it's early. And I think what President Trump, what makes him such an effective negotiator, I've seen this in private, is that he doesn't take anything off the table when he walks into negotiation. He says, everything is on the table. And, of course, that makes the heads explode in the American media because they say, why are you talking to Russia?

Well, how are you going to end the war unless you're talking to Russia? You've got to talk to everybody involved in the fighting if you actually want to bring the conflict to a close. And I know the president does. But I'll tell you the goals that animate President Trump's policy. It's really simple.

He wants the killing to stop. He wants to bring lasting peace to Europe. He doesn't just want to stop it now and have the war restart a month from now. He wants to bring lasting peace to Europe. Because the president believes this, and he's absolutely right.

Peace is in the interest of Russia, it's in the interest of Ukraine, it's in the interest of Europe. But most importantly, peace is in the interest of the American people, and he's going to fight for it for the remainder of his administration. Wherever war breaks out, he's going to be the president of peace. Now, he, of course, is a very good negotiator, a very good businessman. He recognizes that a lot of these issues are tough.

It's going to take a smart statesman to figure this stuff out, but we've got that in the White House. And I really believe that we're on the cusp of peace in Europe for the first time in three years because we have leadership from the Oval Office, and we haven't had it in four years in this country.

Matt and I mentioned this right when we started the conference. We're honored by the presence of two hostages that were freed after the Hamas atrocity, the tragedy that we've seen happen. And we have several of the family members as well, who still. They're there, where their loved ones are still being detained by Hamas.

What is your message to these hostage families, these survivors? Our message is that President Trump loves you. He hasn't forgotten your loved ones, and he's going to fight every single day to bring them home. That is exactly what he's been doing, and that's what he'll keep on doing.

I was actually talking with one of my best friends about this a couple of days ago. Can I be your best friend, too? I think we all want to be your best friend, right? Okay. Okay.

But I was talking with him, and he was asking me, he was like, well, I don't understand. Why was Biden unable to do this? And then, like, the minute that Donald Trump won, we started to make progress in bringing the hostages home. And I said, man, it's just a question of leadership. You actually need a president who is willing to pick up the phone and say, you got to bring these people home.

No, no, no, no, we don't. We're not focused on that crap right now. We're focused on bringing hostages home. And then when the negotiations hit a wall, because they always do, you need a president who picks up the phone and says, cut this crap out. We've got to make progress, and you've got to keep that pace going.

It's leadership. It really is. And I saw it behind the scenes. And what the. And what the President did, is he empowered in particular, because this.

Remember, this was before we were inaugurated. This is before we had our great Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, or any of the great people around us. You know, the president sent his dear friend, and he's become my dear friend, Steve Witkoff, as an emissary of the President, United States. And he said, steve, you speak for me. Get it done.

And if there are problems, pick up the phone and call me. And Steve Witkoff, with the president's leadership, got it done. And it's amazing. And, of course, we still got work to do. We've got to finish the process.

But I really believe the President is as committed to this as any American leader in my lifetime. We're going to keep on fighting for it.

One of the issues that's central to the CPAC community is the issue of pro life, of course. And what is the administration going to do to defend the unborn, to provide support for those mothers, those fathers that choose life? Sure. Well, you know, one of the things, of course, the president got done during the first term, and I think that it's why he is accurately called the most pro life president in American history, is he finally made it possible for the will of the people to speak on the life issue. And that was the Dobbs decision.

What that did is it gave the abortion question back to the people. It took it out of the hands of unelected bureaucrats and unelected judges and gave it back to the people. And I think the most important thing that we can do, and as you know, Mercedes, I'm very pro life, I'm a devout Christian, is that we have got to persuade our fellow Americans, because now we've got the power. We've got the power of persuasion. We've got to persuade our fellow citizens that unborn life is worthy of protecting.

It is sacred in the eyes of God, and it should be sacred in the eyes of man, too. And we have to pick up the torch and fight for that every single day. And I know you guys are up for the task. I am, too. And I think on the administration side, what the President has said, and it's been consistent, is going to be consistent in the rhetoric and in the policy is we believe in the Trump administration that babies are good, that families are good, and we want to make it easier for young moms and young dads to choose life, to start families and to bring new life into the world.

That's the whole point of our policy. Now, some of that, of course, is supporting our great crisis pregnancy centers at the moment of these important health care decisions, encouraging young women to choose life at that important moment of choice. Some of that is bringing costs down so that, you know, young moms and dads don't look to the future in a new baby and say, how can I afford this? And if they're able to actually afford to raise a family, maybe they'll start thinking of babies as the blessings that we all know that they are. And I think.

I think fundamentally, this is going to take a lot of leadership from the President on down, but from every single person in this room, we have got to persuade our fellow citizens to stop thinking about babies as inconveniences to be discarded. We've got to start thinking them as blessings to cherish. And that's exactly what I promised to do. So now we're going to get personal. This is so fun.

Your faith. Yep. Why is it so important to you? What does it mean to you? Tell us why, when you go every single day to work, how faith is a part of who you are?

Well, I mean, first is, I believe the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith. It's not just a set of good moral principles, though. It is that I think the fundamental tenet of our faith is that the Son of God became man. He died and he raised himself from the dead. That is the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith.

And I think so much flows from that. And I think one lesson that flows from that is that we shouldn't fear death. Of course, death is a very bad thing, but there are much more. There are much more terrible things than just losing one's life. And importantly, you could lose one's soul.

And I think whether it's fighting for the unborn or fighting for peace and security for our citizens, I want us to be the kind of society where my kids can grow up to be virtuous young people, can be good young Christians, of course, because that's what I'm trying to raise them to be. And that's what our public policy is trying to do, creating the space where moms and dads can raise their children in their faith to become good young people who believe the things that I do. That is what I'm trying to create is the space for you, of course, to raise your children as you see fit, but the space for me to raise my kids to be the kind of young people that I think they ought to be. And the other thing that I take from it, Mercedes, is if you look at the long history of the Christian faith, we've been around for about 2,000 years now, give or take a few years, and there have been really dark times in the history of the Christian faith. There have been really good times in the history of the Christian faith.

And I just try to remind myself that we put our faith in God above. We put our faith in the grace of God, and we try the best to do his will. And we don't worry so much about whether we're going to have earthly rewards. We worry about whether we're doing right by God Almighty above. That's what I try to do, and that's how I try to run my life in public.

You mentioned raising these children into good people and also into good citizens that can contribute to society and to the world. We had so many young people come out and support Don't Donald Trump and J.D. vance this past election. So what is your message? And I really.

What is your message to the young men? You know, I guess my message to young people generally is we're trying to make your life better. And that is this. That is the simple thrust of President Trump's policy is we want you to be able to buy a home. We want you to be able to work a good job.

We want you to be able to raise your kids, like I said, according to the values that you believe in. And we want you to be able to build a nice life in this country that all of us love. That is what we're trying to do. And you know, you guys, more than, more than anybody, more than me, I'm talking about people under the age of 30. In particular, you guys are going to have to deal with the consequences of good policy or of bad policy for much longer than.

Than the rest of us. And I just, I want you guys to think about the future and ask yourself, do you want safe communities? Do you want a prosperous life? Do you want to be able to work a good job, or do you want that job shipped off to China or somewhere else? We're fighting for you every single day.

We want you to help fight for us because we've got to win, not just, not just the policy battles of the next couple of months. We've got to win the midterm elections in a couple of years. We need you. We recognize that. We need you, and we're fighting for you every single day.

And I think, you know, you asked me, my message to young men is I think that our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge. You should, you should try to cast aside your family. You should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place. And I think that my message to young men is don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person because you're a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you're competitive. It's our, like, the cultural message, and I think the President's and mine is the exact opposite.

But our cultural message is, I think that it wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same. We actually think God made male and female for a purpose. And we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women. And we're going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.

And by the way, I actually think, Mercedes, this is the thing that President Trump, this is why the media went after him so hard, is because when I think about what is the essence of masculinity, you could answer this in so many different ways. But when I think about me and my guy friends, we really like to tell jokes to one another. Like, we like to laugh. You think of all the movies that were really popular, saying, you're pretty funny. I try to be.

Okay, President Trump. Who's funnier? Who's funnier? President Trump. All right, let's be honest.

There you go. He's got the best. He's got the best sense of humor of any American political figure. But I think this is why young men in particular are so, you know, they're so inspired by President Trump, is because he doesn't allow the media to tell him he can't make a joke or he can't have an original thought. President Trump just says what's on his mind.

That's a damn good thing. And it's a good example to set for young men in American culture. You know, I always tell my five daughters, I don't have any sons, but Matt and I, we have five beautiful daughters. And I always say, you know, the most important decision you'll ever make is who you marry. That's right.

Always who you marry. And you made a very important decision in marrying Usha. I did. I did. I married up.

I married up. She is a beautiful second lady. And I want to know, what is the best advice Usha has given you? Well, one. This is so fun.

Okay. This is going to be very personal. One piece of advice she gave me, like, a week ago was, you should be nicer on social media. I don't know that I'll take that advice. Some advice is good.

Some advice is, you know, it can be good, but you don't have to always take it. You sound like my husband. The best advice Usha ever gave me when it comes. I mean, she gave me so many good life advices or pieces of advice, but the best advice she gave me when it came to politics is don't let them filter you. And in politics, you've got consultants, and you've got media professionals, You've got pollsters.

You've got a lot of people who try to tell you what to say or how to behave or what to do. And Usha just said, just be yourself. Be authentic. Go out there and say what's actually on your mind. Maybe a little nicer from time to time.

But I think that's the best advice that she gave me. And that's why we take our kids everywhere, and that's why I'm not afraid to make a joke on social media, even if it's sometimes a dad. Joke. I forgive, you know, forgive me, all of you who don't like, don't like dad jokes, but you just gotta be yourself. And I think that's President Trump's superpower in American politics.

And that's probably the best advice such ever gave me, at least on politics. Okay, last question.

What inspires you every day? Well, I mean, one is my family, right? I mean, I'm blessed to have a seven year old, a five year old and a three year old, and I can't help but see the country through their eyes. And when we were on the campaign in particular, and we would take our kids with us, all of my kids, when we were about to land in some new place, you know, they'd all rush to the window of the plane and they look out and they'd say, oh, dad, this looks so cool. Like, you know, the beauty of the Arizona cactuses and Arizona desert.

Or, you know, we'd be in Texas for a fundraiser. They'd be like, oh, my God, like, look at just all of that open space, right? Or we'd be in North Carolina and say, oh, look how beautiful. The green mountains, right? This idea of these beautiful green mountains of Appalachian.

North Carolina, we love North Carolina. And I guess, I guess what inspires me is you can't help but be hopeful and energetic and optimistic about this country when you see it through the eyes of a child. So I hope I never lose that perspective because it does inspire me every day.

Well, Mr. Vice President, you inspire us every day. We are praying for you. We are praying for your family. We are praying for this incredible administration, for, of course, President Donald Trump.

And we are honored that you are here with our CPAC family. And I'm honored to be here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much.

Thank you all. I love you guys. Thank.

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God bless you, ladies and gentlemen. Up next, tales from the crypto, bitcoin and the digital economy. Please welcome strategy executive chairman and co founder Michael Saylor and CPAC board member Christos Marifatsos.

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Good morning, everyone. What about that speech from our vice president and our great Mercedes Schlapp? I am not as good as a moderator as Mercedes. Michael turned to me, he said, man, she's good. I go, mike, I'm not that good.

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That's risk. He is the largest single corporate holder of bitcoin in the world, owning 478,740 Bitcoin now worth 48 billion. Michael just didn't talk about bitcoin. He bet on it. He built on it.

And he led the way for corporations, investors and people like me and you to invest and remain sovereign. He remains one of the most influential voices in financial and technological history, proving that bitcoin isn't just an investment It's a revolution that America has to dominate. Please join me in welcoming one of the most fearless and financial minds in our future, a champion of digital freedom and a trailblazer, Michael Saylor.

Well, thanks for the intro. I'm really excited to be able to address this group today because I think that bitcoin represents the most powerful technology force for conservatism in the world. And I don't know that that's fully appreciated, but Satoshi many years ago had this vision for sound money and sovereign money via technology, via modern cryptography, modern semiconductors, the modern Internet, and that idea of giving economic power to the individual in the face of the overwhelming power of the collective. When you feel like the government's against you, the banking system against you, the currency is against you, big, big tech is against you. When you're the little guy, when you're struggling for freedom and struggling in the face of overwhelming power, you need some advantage.

And Satoshi created this network that's based on two principles. One principle is integrity, and the other principle is sovereignty. The integrity we all know is there'll never be more than 21 million bitcoin. And that's enforced by millions and millions of computers and hundreds of millions of people everywhere in the world that believe it's not okay to lie, cheat or steal. It's not okay to distort the truth.

There is a truth. There is a universal common ledger that no one can tamper with, no one can corrupt. Not a nation state, not a company, not a politician. And that idea of a censorship resistant, unstoppable version of the truth was a first in human history. It was a first and then the second idea is sovereignty.

It's like, well, if there is a truth, can you own it? Right? So with bitcoin, the idea is you can own a bitcoin and not. You don't have to trust a bank with it. You don't have to trust the city with it.

You don't have to leave it in the custody of a big company. You can take self custody. So we oftentimes say we do. You own. The only thing you own are your memories.

Everything else in this world that you own, you own at the pleasure of someone more powerful than you. And they can take it away from you via force. What they can't take away from you is your experience and what's in your head. And the brilliance of Satoshi was, what if we could put all of the money in the world into the heads of the people? What if what you knew was the password to unlock all of your wealth or protect it and nobody else could take it away from you.

And that's a profound shift because what, what Satoshi did was gave us a network where hundreds of millions of people can, can own and control their, their economic energy in a censorship resistant, unstoppable fashion. And that was an idea worth nothing for a year and then it became worth a million and then it became worth a billion and then it became worth 10 billion and then it became worth 100 billion. And when MicroStrategy now strategy got into business about four years ago, it was worth 150 billion and today it's worth 2 trillion. And at that time you were a software company. And we saw this as an opportunity, a different opportunity.

We, we were a software company and we were staring at a quick death or slow death or take a risk. And you know, when the COVID lockdowns took place and the interest rates went to zero, we had to decide were we going to sell the company, throw in the towel, or could we find a way out. And this is, this is the challenge that 40 million companies in America have, which is if you're not one of the magnificent seven, if you're not Apple or Google or Microsoft, how are you supposed to compete in a world where trillion dollar companies have all the power, big banks have all the power, big government has the power. And Bitcoin, Bitcoin offered us the way out. Because if you recapitalize a company on Bitcoin, you're not slave to the bank, you're not slave to the currency, you're not slave to the local politician that tells you what you can do and how you can use your money.

Instead of having the central bank take interest rates to zero and keep them there forever. Bitcoin gave us a 60% return every year. Because the Bitcoin, the bitcoin interest rate is set by a global decentralized system of capital flows. So my company was able to save itself when we switched from Bitcoin from the US treasury or the bond to Bitcoin. Our market cap increased from a billion to 100 billion and our enterprise value increased from 600 million to 105 billion.

And we went from a 500 million dollar company growing 0% a year, competing against a monopoly, Microsoft, where it's hopeless, to a 50 billion dollar company growing 60% a year. That's part of the digital economy. So I feel blessed and we are very fortunate. But that really motivated me with a mission. And what I realized is Satoshi gave us A way out of our conundrum.

Satoshi gave us a strategy that makes a small company big and powerful, that makes the individual more powerful than the state, that turns the power balance between the collective and the individual on its head. And the secret to that is this powerful worldwide network that puts the individual first, that's uncorruptible, that anybody can join, that gives you unfettered, uncensored property rights. Well, to that point, I had spent the last couple days preparing for this and had a list of questions for Michael. And about 10 minutes before we sat down on the stage, and he goes, let's talk about why bitcoin is conservative. Let's talk about why this is your coin and this is your industry.

So, Michael, how is bitcoin conservative? Why should it be important to this audience? The largest conservative conference in the world. Bitcoin, literally represents the conservation of energy in cyberspace. Satoshi implemented a protocol which is inherited conservative.

If I send bitcoin to you, I lose it. You have it. I can't create more. I can't lie about it. The thing that's beautiful about nature is conservation of energy.

Conservatism is based on natural law. It's based on the idea that if you just make something up which isn't true, you'll be punished. And the bitcoin network represents that innate in integrity and truth. So, you know, if you think about the world today, there's just an inherent force. There's a struggle between capitalism and socialism, between people that believe in freedom and free markets and those that believe in central planning and collectivism.

And if I'm a socialist, I want to take away your guns and your money. And bitcoin is money that they can't take away. Like, what freedom do you have if you have all of your money in a bank that can freeze it? What freedom do you have if you have your money embedded in a currency where someone can print forex more of it without your approval and debase it to zero? What freedom do you have if you own real estate in a city where the mayor can put rent control on it or expropriate it or governor can tax it away from your family, what freedom do you have of all your wealth is in a business where the government can tell you you can't operate, shut down your pipeline, tax your employees, tax your income, regulate your product, and the answer is you only have conditional freedom until the government changes and they just take away that freedom.

And then when they take away your wealth, when they take away your economic power, they're going to starve you to death, and then you've got nothing. So Bitcoin represents putting your economic wealth in cyberspace. It's beyond the reach of the mayor, beyond the reach of the governor, beyond the reach of any nation state, beyond the reach of any other company that would do you harm. It is the first time in the history of the human race that you can bind economic energy tightly to an individual, to a family, to your. To your company.

And you don't have to ask permission to have economic wealth, to have money. And you don't have to live in fear that someone gets up on a morning and just takes it all away from you to power you down. And so if I am conservative, I want a family, I want a company, I want freedom. Well, how are you going to pay for it? And if you live in a country like Venezuela and the currency goes to zero, you're going to be begging for food next week.

Wouldn't it be great if I could take the wealth of my family and put it into a network that no one can loot, no one can corrupt? And. And at the end of the day, I don't want to gamble my future. I don't want to take my life savings and gamble in the stock market. I don't want to take my life savings and gamble that the mayor of the city won't just take my property away from me.

I actually just want to own the. The wealth. I want to own my money. And Bitcoin is. Is a way for you to convert your capital into digital capital that will last a thousand years.

Your country will be your company. Your. Your country or your family will be wealthy for generations to follow. You don't have to live in fear. And when you don't have to live in fear, when you have economic independence, you can actually stretch your time horizon out and you can build an institution.

Institution. You can build your family. You can build a life for yourself. Michael, you talked about several things there. One is wealth sovereignty, agency, the ability to come in and for someone, a mayor, a city councilman, to take what you have.

We've seen that happen from New York to California. A lot of us have been subject to this. And then you also talk about leadership. We have President Trump. We have the greatest leader our nation has ever had.

He's compared to George Washington. People love him. We love him. He sees bitcoin. He sees the digital asset industry as an exceptional opportunity.

How can America ensure its dominance moving forward? You know, this nation became great because of the Louisiana Purchase. We bought a third of the country from Nepal, Napoleon, for a few million dollars. Then we purchased Texas and California from the Mexicans for a few million more. Then we purchased Alaska from the Russians for a few million more.

We didn't even know there'd be a trillion dollars of mineral rights underneath Alaska when we purchased it. They called it Seward's Folly. But what I'm describing is manifest destiny. If you want to create a great nation, you have to build it on valuable property. You have to know, where is all the money headed?

Where is the future? When we bought California, we didn't know there'd be a Hollywood. We didn't know there'd be a Silicon Valley. No one really considered. In 1867, we didn't have a petroleum industry.

And so where is the money headed in the future? The money's headed to cyberspace. Bitcoin is property in cyberspace. The manifest destiny of this country is to own cyberspace. And I think that President Trump understands the value of owning scarce, desirable property.

If we go to cyberspace and we buy bitcoin and the nation embraces bitcoin, then all of the capital in the world, all of the Chinese money, all the Russian money, money, all the European money, all of the money from the 20th century, the money invested in a Siberian warehouse, the money invested in, fill in the blank, anything you could possibly own in Africa, all of that capital is flowing into cyberspace. It's going from physical to digital. It's flowing from the 20th century to the 21st century. The 21st century is going to be a billion AIs thinking a million times as second. Second.

And what are they going to be using to move their money around? They're going to use digital money because they can't get a bank account, they can't get a credit card. I. I have to approve my wire transfers from my bank once a week. It takes about 20 minutes.

And they asked me on the phone whether the money should move. It's a good problem with 478, 740 Bitcoin, Michael, that the computer. We don't feel too bad is what I'm trying to say. Yeah, I get it. But my point, you really.

We've been doing it that way for 50 years. And if you look at the way the digital economy is going to run in the 21st century, it's going to be a billion computers thinking a million times a second. Moving, moving assets at the speed of light. Bitcoin represents digital capital. That, that network is $2 trillion today.

It's going to be $20 trillion in four to eight years. It's going to be $200 trillion in 20 years. Then it's going to grow faster than every other asset in the world. It's going to continue to grow. The United States should own it, right?

Is that the conversation? Talk to us about the US Bitcoin reserve, everyone. And we've heard a couple other coins being yelled out by the, by the crowd. And people want to know, are we going to have a US Bitcoin reserve? And when is that going to happen?

The way, the way to think about Bitcoin is it's the most powerful digital network in the world. It is cyber power. If you, if you want to dominate the next hundred years, just like the last hundred years is, is based upon dominating sea power, firepower, you know, air power, space power, nuclear power, you want to, you want to dominate cyberspace, you want cyber power. It's the unstoppable network that no one can corrupt. And the use of the unstoppable network, among other things, is hundreds of trillions of dollars of capital moving from point A to point B be.

But the other use of the network is I can send a message which is unstoppable, and I can store information that is unstoppable, and I can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the authenticity of an instruction or a document. No country, no company, no individual, not a trillion computers can corrupt that message. So if you want to own the future, you want to own cyberspace, how do you own cyberspace? You own Bitcoin, and then you run the bitcoin network. You mine Bitcoin, you own Bitcoin.

President Trump understands property. He understands the value of Greenland. He understands the value of Alaska. He understands the value of oil rights. He understand drill, baby, drill would be in power possible if we didn't own the land.

Right. Understands American dominance and, and land is physical property. When I run electricity through semiconductors and I create a wall of encrypted energy, I create digital property. Bitcoin is digital property. You should own it.

Your company should own it. Our nation should own it. It is the future. In your perspective, how soon do you think we're going to be buying bitcoin and have within our U.S. reserve at a timeline, it's going to be 12 months.

You know, I, I think there's an appreciation of, of the power of bitcoin throughout the cabinet, throughout the House, throughout the Senate. There's going to be a political process by which we build consensus with the White House. The House, the Senate and the Cabinet find the right way through. But you know, what I would say on this topic is the US could own 20% of the network like that for free. The dollar would strengthen, the nation would be enriched.

And the real promise is if you own 4 to 6 million bitcoin, you're going to pay off the entire national debt. You're going to neutralize it. We can generate a 50 trillion to 80 trillion trillion dollar benefit to the United States people, to the citizens, to the taxpayers. And we can do it simply by seeing the Future. It cost $6 million to buy Alaska.

The payoff was a trillion, just like right now. You can literally buy it for a song and dance. That's the opportunity. The risk is that you wouldn't want the Saudis to buy it first or the Russians or the Chinese or the Europeans. And there's only room for one nation state to buy up 20% of the network.

And obviously, I think it should be the United States. I think it will be the United States. It's a way for us to enrich ourselves and emerge as a creditor nation in a matter of a decade. It's also a way for us to ensure that we're the economic leaders in cyberspace and the digital economy for the next hundred years. And if we do that, every one of our allies will follow us and then all of our enemies will end up having to buy into the network once it passes.

10 or 20 million a coin, and they will enrich us. And we saw that just yesterday. President Trump was in Miami and he was talking about Bitcoin. The bitcoin reserve is a touchy subject. A lot of people want to know what other coins within the digital asset industry industry are going to be involved.

The US does not just hold just gold and oil within our reserve. It holds up to 27 other trace minerals. And so we're completely diversified. Do you see room for another digital asset to be included in the bitcoin reserve or the US Financial reserve system? I think the key thing to keep in mind right now is that bitcoin is a commodity.

It is an asset without an issuer. There is no company, no individual, no country, no entity that can corrupt, has reached escape velocity. It has gotten to the point where it is basically a freedom virus, a truth virus, a monetary virus. It has been embraced by a trillion dollars of smart money. That is a trillion dollars of real money has been invested in the network.

It is 99% of the digital power on Earth. It's fairly unstoppable and so if you're going to capitalize a company or a country, you want to capitalize it on property or a commodity or a network which is beyond the point where anybody could change the nature of it. And so that makes bitcoin the most certain thing in the digital universe. And when you talk about certainty and when you talk about truth, over the last four years, we've experienced as a culture travesty, we haven't been able to speak, we've been censored. How does bitcoin.

What is bitcoin to you? What do you see that others don't? And how can conservatives capitalize on the opportunity to take advantage and make sure that America is dominating our future, that we have the economic freedoms that our children and our families in America will stay at the front runner of this industry. What I would say to everybody in this room is if you want freedom, if you want liberty, if you want to live your finest life, you're going to need economic power, you need physical power, you need political power, but you need economic power. Bitcoin represents economic armor.

When you put on the suit of armor, then no mayor, no government, no collectivist, no socialist can debank you. They can't take your money away. They can't impoverish you. Just like a gun is a deterrent, bitcoin is a deterrent because if you have wealth in bitcoin, you have the option to move it to any jurisdiction and you can keep it and no one can take it away from you via force of violence, no matter where you are on earth. And so Satoshi gave us an opportunity.

I hope I intrigue all of you with the opportunity and you go do the research and determine for yourself how you benefit from it. But I just leave you with the thought that bitcoin is economic armor. You have Michael. Thank you. God willing, we have as much bitcoin as Michael one day.

This is a defining moment for digital assets. It's a defining moment for our country. We thank all of you. Michael, thank you so much for joining us. CPAC is going to be at the front of the digital asset industry.

We see bitcoin and the entire industry as a significant resource for our country and our people. Thank you, everyone. God bless America. Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Republicans for Weaponization Control. Please welcome chairman of the House Committee on over Oversight and Accountability, Representative James Comer, Counselor to the president, Donald J. Trump, Alina Haba, and your Host, editor of Townhall.com, katie Pavlich.

All right, y'all, good morning. CPAC. How's everyone doing?

Well, it's a wonderful time to be in D.C. it is my, I think, 16th CPAC. It is Alina Haba's first CPAC. Congressman Comer, how many for you? Twice.

Okay, good. So we are here this morning to talk to you about a number of things, but most importantly, one of the most pressing issues of our time, and that is the weaponization of the federal government against its citizens. And we have no one better here today to talk about this than these two. Alina, let's start with you. You've gone from working for President Donald Trump as his attorney with the lawfare, as a private citizen, to now being in the White House and seeing how the government is still being used to thwart his agenda through the courts.

So maybe just take us through a journey, a little bit of your experience and some of the differences. Yeah, it's my pleasure. I mean, I always say I'm happy to not be outside a courtroom for once and have President Trump where he was supposed to be, which is in that. In that Oval Office. So thank God for that.

But I think when I came to and, yeah, my journey's been a strange one for an attorney. Right. You should. I always say this. You should not know who somebody's lawyer is.

That should not happen in this country. And unfortunately, but fortunately for us, because we're going to fix it now, they really took a wrong, a misstep in their calculations when they used courtrooms, AGs, and DAs to try and take down political opponents. When we won the election in the most Sweeping Mandate on November 5, I thought that was over. I really did every state, and I think it was a lot because of what they did with lawfare. And then we got to the White House and we started doing exactly what America voted for us to do, cleaning up, getting rid of bureaucrat bureaucrats that are making money on taxpayer dollars, doing all the things we promised.

And then again came the law fair. And I feel like I'm right at home. So welcome to Washington. Unfortunately, the desperation is something that I thought would end when the American people spoke so loudly on November 5, but they have not. They've just become more desperate.

And now we've got them singing songs in New York and holding Chuck Schumer's holding beer cans. Yeah, quite the scene. They're a little rudderless right now, that's for sure. So, Congressman Comer, you are the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, one of the most important committees that we have on Capitol Hill. And you've been working for years to expose the way that the Biden administration was attacking not just Donald Trump, but also the American people who support him.

And if you look at what's been happening, really starting under Barack Obama, when they use the IRS to go after conservatives, this is not something that it just started. It's been embedded inside the federal government by the left. So now that you've been through the process of doing oversight with the Biden administration, how are you now working in the Trump administration with a new government and Republican control to really try and change some of these things so that Americans aren't being punished for having certain political views? Well, for one thing, I had conversations with Billy Long, the new IRS commissioner, as well as Cash Patel, who hopefully, in a matter of a couple hours, will be the next FBI director. Our staff's communicated with, with Bondi staff, and we've given them specific instances of where bureaucrats have abused their power.

I think a lot of times that, you know, these bureaucrats, they do things, and even when they get caught, nothing ever happens. And what we want to do and what our committee wants to work with the Trump administration on is holding these deep state bureaucrats accountable. At the very least, they lose their job. Hopefully, they get drug in for deposition. But at the end of the day, we've never seen a more weaponized federal government.

It's not just the judiciary, it's the entire federal government. It's the irs, it's the FBI, the CIA. We've got other agencies, the epa, I would argue they've been weaponized. And all the people that Trump put in office are disruptors. That's why I strongly support them.

And at the end of the day, he's going to get every one of his daughters nominees confirmed. So we're going to work with them. Jim Jordan's committee is going to work with them. We want to get rid of these bureaucrats and allow Trump to pass his agenda that the American people gave him a mandate to pass. Yes.

So during the election, one of the big slogans from the left was, we have to do this for the sake of democracy. And it's becoming more and more apparent as the Trump administration gets underway with President Trump's direction that it was really about protecting the bureaucracy. So, Alina, the president has signed more executive orders than any president in history in his first 20 or first month in office. Today is the first. The anniversary or the month anniversary.

Right. Of since January 20th. 20th since the new administration took office and was sworn in. But you have to. He can sign these Executive orders, but he has to have help from the federal government and from Capitol Hill to actually implement them.

And now you're also seeing a number of judges trying to get involved to stop his use of executive authority. Can you talk about the. The judges continuing their lawfare and whether they actually have standing when it comes to blunting some of these orders and saying he doesn't have the power in the executive branch to do what he's doing? Yeah, of course. I mean, you know, it's a lot like what I spoke about before.

This is desperate times for, for them. And I'll say this. I think that if you are going to fix a car and you don't look under the hood, how can you fix it? So what we're doing is taking a good hard look under the hood of where the money was spent, how it was spent. And there are attacks, for instance, on Elon.

We were discussing this. It's so baseless, it's so ridiculous, the fact that they're upset, for instance, yesterday, Governor Hochul and you, that she's going to fight our administration tooth and nail for stopping congestion pricing. Congestion pricing in New York is ruining tourism. It's stopping people that work there from driving to work. Their subways are not safe.

These people are caring more about their next election. They care more about their face on TV and their politics than they do the people they're supposed to represent, the constituents that voted for them to do the work. Unfortunately, they have taken that to courts. And we've seen it. We've won.

We always win. We're keep winning. I mean, even Chuckin said it. Look, if they had it their way, our guy would be in jail right now. And that didn't happen.

And instead, we won in the most profound way. The American people are happy with what we're doing. And the amount of executive orders that we are pummeling on them is because we have that much work to do. We have to correct four years very quickly, very quickly. And we are all committed to win, and we're going to keep winning.

Congressman, you want to weigh in on the role that Capitol Hill has, especially with Republican control in Washington now, to make sure that these executive orders are implemented in a way. Right. I have a bill in the House. Mike Lee has the bill in the Senate. We're going to do everything we can to pass that legislation, to expedite these executive orders and to put them into law.

So whenever the next president comes around, they can't change them by executive orders, because what Trump's doing is what's best for America. It's common sense. He's restored common sense back to Washington, D.C. he's getting the government and the bureaucrats out of the way of the private sector. And we've got to make sure that because comes the law, the land, and I think the support's there in Congress.

There were a few members of Congress on the Republican side in the House and the Senate that stuck their toe in the water to try to defy the president, to try to obstruct the president. Rhinos, hey. Well, I think they're on the team now. I think they got the message from the message back home. They listened to their people when they went home and they're on the Trump train now.

And hopefully we can drain the swamp and make America great. Good. So everybody knows that Elon Musk has been leading his team of doge and rampaging through a number of federal agencies in Washington, D.C. which we are loving because there's so much waste, fraud and abuse. But as we continue to see more of what they're uncovering, yes, of course we see these silly pet projects like Sesame street in Iraq, for example, but we're also starting to see a massive issue of actual corruption that has occurred.

For example, it was reported, I believe this morning by the Free Beacon that Stacey Abrams, who is, you know, Georgia's darling, ran for governor twice. She was involved in a lot of voter initiatives there, got a $2 billion grant from the Environmental Protection Agency after only managing $100 at a nonprofit that she started. Yeah, it's the NGOs, right? So, Congressman, you know, talk about what the Oversight Committee is doing with these new cabinet members like Lee Zeldin, for example, at the EPA to really root out this corruption and this infrastructure the left has built in D.C. to really push their political agenda on the entire country.

We're going to work with the administration. When they identify something that they believe is is fraudulent, we will follow through with, with investigation with subpoena power. Follow the money. That's what we did in the Biden investigation. We got the bank records.

You know, a lot of people say, well, go after the tax records. Let me, as someone that's been involved in banking, tax records don't always tell the the true picture. The bank records don't lie. And one of the things that, that we're working on, we go through a thing called suspicious activity report where banks identify fraudulent behavior. Banks usually catch when something suspicious happens.

If there's an account that had a hundred dollar balance, which is probably the Minimum to open an account. And then all of a sudden they get multi million dollar deposit out of the blue. That raises a red flag. And the banks report that to Treasury. So that's where we're going to be following the money.

We're doing this now with ActBlue and I think we're going to have some very interesting information to come out very soon on Act Glue. But we're having a comm a hearing on March 5th with the Sanctuary city mayors. We're bringing in the mayors of New York, who's not a bad guy. The mayors of New York, Boston, Denver and California. Yeah, and, and, and Philadelphia.

And we're bringing them in. And these, other than the New York mayor, they have tried to obstruct what Tom Hammond's doing and obstruct deportation efforts. So we're going to let them explain that to American people. But one question we have is who's been paying for this? And I believe you're going to see there are a lot of government pots of money that have been funneling through these NGOs, these nongovernmental organizations, and that's what we want to identify.

Musk is all over that, Doge is all over that, and Congress is going to be all over that. And hopefully we can show the American people how abusive the Democrats and their allies in the deep state bureaucracies have been with their tax dollars. They have funneled this mass implosion of illegal immigrants into our country. They've housed them, they've provided free health care. And at the end of the day, I think you're going to see a lot of tax dollars were laundered into programs like this.

Sounds a lot like money laundering. Absolutely. Me. So, Lena, when it comes to these NGOs, there's been a lot of lawsuits that are filed by leftist groups to try and get judges involved in stopping the taking away of the funding or even giving Doge and Elon Musk and his team, who's a special government employee, much like Anita Dunn was under Joe Biden and others in previous administrations to, to keep that kind of funding. But it does seem like there is a lot of corruption, not just maybe something that got lost in terms of going to the wrong place.

Yeah, no, no. I mean, it's very clear. You don't have to be a rocket scientist when you have a line item of trillions of dollars that does not get traced to anyone or anything, but entities that are run by family members of bureaucrats, that's a problem. You don't have to be a lawyer, to know that ain't. That ain't good.

Yeah. And at the end of the day, look, even yesterday they tried to file these restraining orders that were. Was a bunch of individuals that said, oh, we're, you know, we're being hurt by this. And it was denied. And that was actually by a very liberal judge in D.C.

who sat on a lot of the January 6 issues for President Trump and other people. Look, at the end of this, is what I can say. We have been. I think there's 70 lawsuits that have been filed. And I was speaking to Elon, and I said, you know, you should put in Times Square a ticker.

It'll say on the top how much money you're saving. And then on the bottom, we're going to put one about how many lawsuits get filed. One will go up, one will go down very quickly. But they do that when we're winning and when we're hitting them where it hurts. So desperate times call for desperate measures.

You see all these AGS and DAs trying to come in. You see individuals, but they're not winning. And the only people that are winning right now are American people. Right. The taxpayer.

We are winning. It happens to be tax season. So everybody's filing their taxes going, if I don't pay the correct amount or miss a couple cents, they'll threaten to throw me in prison. And now's a great time. Don't worry.

We're firing the IRS today. Is it always. That's great, you know, but that was the stuff that they did, and America didn't like it. You're funneling people to audit and hurt the American people. Why don't we audit the people that are hurting us?

Exactly. It's not supposed to go the other way. We're not supposed to hurt each other. Yeah. And that's really the mission, you know, and it's.

And President Trump said just yesterday, I was with him, and he was speaking at an economic forum, and he said, look, we Hope to take 20% of what Doge has recovered, that is billions and billions of dollars, and put that money back to the American people who were hurt by the last administration who can't buy eggs because they went off and killed all the chickens. But, you know, it's just ridiculous, and we have to get back to common sense. So, Congressman, how can Republicans on Capitol Hill, with their slim majority, work to codify these Doge cuts into law? Because you keep hearing people saying, yeah, well, Congress has to decide because they hold the purse strings. So now you guys have lots of examples inside a lot of these agencies about where these things that have been approved through Congress are going.

How do you make sure it's not just, you know, we see it, it's a problem, but we're going to keep going. The first step is to pass my bill and Mike Lee's bill that expedites this and will allow Congress to codify all the executive orders. Secondly, we've got to follow this up with a budget, with President Trump's budget proposal. We've got to cut spending, we've got to ensure that the tax cuts are renewed. This budget reconciliation, reconciliation bill is huge.

And the reason this needs to be a very large bill is because this is the only vehicle that you can pass through the Senate. That only takes 51 votes. If we have to require, depend on Democrats, we might get Fetterman and that's it. We're still going to be six votes short. Still a long shot.

Yeah, that's a long shot. I wouldn't want to hold my breath on that. But we've got to do it on this reconciliation bill, we've got to renew the tax cuts. We've got to put in the tax cuts that President Trump promised. No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and put this whole agenda in and cut the bureaucracy and watch America grow, watch this country take off.

Once you get the government off the backs of the private sector, the. The entrepreneurial spirit in America will flourish. Americans will prosper. And I think Americans will start to regain a little confidence in their government again. All because of President Trump's mandate.

Because the work that everyone in this room did to get President Trump elected, and deregulation, of course, is a big one. The president has promised for every new regulation, they will eliminate 10 of them. We only have a few minutes left. Alina, you're new to Washington, D.C. new to the world of politics.

Final thoughts about the next four years here and your new gig. First of all, it's so exciting. I never thought I would live in the swamp that I hit on TV every day, but here we are. And I knew he was going to win. I wasn't sure if I was going to come, but I'm glad I did.

I mean, it is such a blessing to be in the West Wing with the greatest president that I've ever seen in my lifetime, in the past. I mean, it is the greatest joy. And having been there with him through the fight to get here, I think is why we fight so hard. I go to work every day. It is a blessing.

I fight for the American people every day now. And I had been started fighting for President Trump, but now it's for all of you. And it's an honor. I mean, I've gotten to do things like child trafficking issues, and I'm speaking to the Middle East. And you have a platform to help not just America be strong, but help the world be peaceful and great.

And it's really America's strength that runs that. And I'm excited. It's been a real blessing and God's given me a real chance to do some change with President Trump. I'm excited. Congressman Comer, what's next?

I know that you guys have a lot. You mentioned the sanctuary city hearing on March 5. People can tune in for that. But final thoughts from you about where we're going here. As Republicans control the government, well, we've got to stick together.

I'm seeing more coordination between the House and the Senate than I've seen in the eight years that I've been in Congress. This is because we have a strong president. We have a strong president that's put in disruptors. The members of Congress that don't like that love the status quo. They went back home during Christmas break.

They went back home after the first weekend when Trump started making his proposals and putting his people in place. And they heard from their concern. Constituents and the American people support President Trump's agenda. And I think Congress understands that. I think even the members that we sometimes get frustrated with in the House and the Senate, I think everybody's on board.

The president's popular and the people have delivered a message. So hopefully we're going to be able to pass his agenda. And I think that the savings that Doge is finding. It's just ironic that the Democrats are exposing their true colors. They are obsessed with Elon Musk.

They have lost their mind over Elon Musk. And that is the Hill. They've chosen to down to protect the bureaucracy when the Republicans being led by President Trump want to end the bureaucracy. So I think we're going to get a lot done and it's all because of President Trump. Yeah.

They're destroying their infrastructure and they're very afraid about what their political future looks looks like. Thank you both so much for sharing your insights today. We'll be watching all of it. Step back. Have a wonderful weekend and thank you for coming.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Liz Truss.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen, it's fantastic to be back in America and it's fantastic to be back at CPAC for the second year in a row. But last year, there was a dark cloud hanging over this conference. It was called Joe Biden. And this year, we are now under the leadership of President Donald Trump.

This is truly. This is truly the golden age of America.

But I'm sad to report. I'm sad to report that Britain is in the dark age. We have a socialist government, commissars ruling over us, who are leading our country in a terrible direction. But what I want to say today is they are not the only problem. The current establishment stooges in Whitehall and Westminster are only the latest iteration of Britain going wrong for the past few decades.

Because, let's be honest, Britain isn't working. The British system is deeply rotten. Britain is becoming a failed state. We've got people who are being arrested and locked up for posting on X and Facebook. We've seen tens of thousands of girls as young as 12 raped, tortured and even killed by Pakistani grooming gangs.

And yet many of those perpetrators have not been brought to justice. In fact, those crimes have been covered up. And we know that the authorities colluded. We know there was police collusion and we know there was collusion from the local council. We have a massive problem with illegal immigration, but yet we can't even deport people who are criminals from our country because of human rights.

One example was an immigrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo who had sexually abused his own stepdaughter. But he was allowed to stay in Britain on the basis of the right to family life. How disgusting. A criminal from Albania was allowed to stay in Britain because his son didn't like the kind of chicken nuggets they sell abroad. And I'm not joking you there.

But it's not just a problem we have with mass migration and illegal immigration. We've also got a problem with our energy in Britain. So in Britain, fracking has been banned. I was the only Prime Minister who allowed fracking. Sadly, I wasn't in office long enough to actually make it happen.

We have net zero policies that have decimated our oil and gas industry. The net result is we have the highest energy prices in the developed world. And in Britain, we've just seen the last steel plant closed down last year. We cannot produce our own steel anymore.

We have an economic orthodoxy, a Bank of England that has printed vast amounts of money. They've created Rampant inflation. They've wasted billions of taxpayer pounds. If they weren't the government, it would be called a heist.

Yet in none of these cases, in none of these cases have any of these people, any of these authorities been held to account for the fact they have completely failed. And we're in a situation where Britain is almost bankrupt morally, socially and economically. And I think people in this room might want to know, how on earth has this happened? This is the country that invented parliamentary democracy. It's the country of the Magna Carta.

It's the country of the Bill of Rights. We protected freedom of the press back in 1695, almost 100 years before the First Amendment. How on earth can the country of Adam Smith and the Industrial Revolution be de. Industrializing? It doesn't make any sense.

And the answer is that everything that made Britain great is being destroyed by an establishment that hates Britain and hates the West.

Like in most of Europe, our universities, our institutions and our corporations have been taken over by anti west ideology, Islamism, green extremism, anti capitalism, wokery, transgenderism. You name it, they've adopted it. And what we've seen is a massive failure of leaders in Europe to push back against this. Because this is not something the population wanted. This is not something the people in Britain or Europe voted for.

This is something that was imposed from above. And what happened is that democratically elected politicians handed vast amounts of power over to the unelected and the unaccountable in Britain. Tony Blair in particular, trashed centuries of liberty by creating a tyranny of technocrats. He created an unaccountable Supreme Court which had never been existed in Britain before. He created a much deeper and powerful state that is not held to account.

He also handed vast powers over to an Alphabet soup of international bodies, the World Health Organization, the United nations, the echr, all of whom nobody could vote in and nobody could vote out. And all of those bodies, as you've seen in the United States of America, have been captured by the same anti west ideology. But what I find really incredible, really, really incredible is it wasn't just China and Iran and Russia that were funding these NGOs funding these anti west groups. It was actually the United States of America under President Joe Biden through usaid. Now, did you know that American taxpayer dollars was funding the BBC?

Did you know that they were funding the Tony Blair Institute? Did you know that they were funding Rory Stewart's wife? It's incredible. We thought you were our friends, but you are. Actually American taxpayers were funded funding this anti west ideology.

And the problem is when the people in Britain voted for something different, when they tried to change the government, when they tried to change the system in 2016, in 2019 and in 2024, they found the same people were still in power. The bureaucracy had not changed. And it's no surprise that young people are losing their faith in democracy because they don't believe it can change things. And amazingly, during all of this, many so called conservatives went along with the ideology. They were busy hugging Greta Thunberg.

They were putting up taxes. I'm not joking about that. They were putting up taxes. They were increasing immigration. They were pursuing transgender ideology.

And it's no wonder that the Conservative Party had its worst defeat since 1834.

Patriotic Brits have had enough. They've had enough. And we look across the Atlantic with envy. We see President Trump in the Executive, in the Oval Office signing off executive orders, and we want some of that in Britain.

We want drill, baby, drill. We want men banned from women's bathrooms and women's sports.

We want illegal immigrants deported. We want taxes to be cut. We want a Trump revolution in Britain.

We want to flood the zone. We want Elon and his nerd army of muskrats examining the British deep state.

Ladies and gentlemen, we missed the first American Revolution in 1776. In fact, it was actually a revolution against us. But we want to be part of the second American revolution.

We want to dismantle the British deep state, which is older and more entrenched than the American one. We need a great restoration bill to repeal all of the terrible Blair laws, the Equality act, the Climate Change act, the Human Rights act, the Constitutional Reform Act. We need to eradicate judicial activism in Britain and restore parliamentary sovereignty. We want our government run by the Executive, not by the bureaucracy.

But most of all, what we need is we need to restore free speech.

This is the lifeblood of our democracy. And J.D. vance is right. Vice President Vance is right. Free speech is in retreat in Britain and in Europe, to Europe's governments, particularly Britain.

They see George Orwell's 1984 as an instruction manual.

Look at the evidence. A British citizen was arrested for praying outside an abortion clinic. We have German prosecutors saying that if you insult somebody, you could be arrested. We had Alison Pearson, a British journalist, visited at her home by the police because of a tweet that she'd posted a year ago and since deleted. I want the police to be policing real crimes, not thought crimes, but not only this.

We have a supine legacy media that pay lip service to Free speech, but have suppressed stories and distorted stories. The BBC were found to have violated their editorial guidelines 1500 times in the four months after the appalling atrocities of October 7th. They were found to have been downplaying Hamas terrorism and promoting the idea that Israel was the aggressor. This is our state broadcaster funded by the taxpayer. The mainstream media have failed to report on the grooming scandal and they failed to hold the deep state to account.

And much of the reason for that is the deep state of the people giving them all their information, all their leaks, all their funding, all of their material. And they're frightened of the media regulator, Ofcom. We have seen what independent media has done for the United States and we want some of that. That's why we are going to be establishing a new free speech media network in conjunction with our American allies, including, including the great people here at cpac. It will be uncensorable and uncancellable.

It will take on the Britain Bashing Corporation, which is what we call the BBC. It will take on Starmer and his socialists and it will take on the censors of Germany because. Because it's only by telling people the truth in the United Kingdom, in Europe, in the Anglosphere, in America that we will turn our backs on the war's west against itself.

All of the people here are working to make America great again.

I believe that we can make Britain great again.

I've been. I believe that we can make Europe great again. And I believe that together we can make the west great again. Thank you. Thank you.

Please welcome from CPAC Brazil, member of the Brazil Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Bolsonaro.

Hi there. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. I think you have some Bolsonaro supporters here. The great Brazilian community.

This is a little bit weird. I'm not used with talking with the teleprompter. But I'm very happy to be here. Good afternoon, cpec. How are you doing?

It's great to be here in the land of the freedom and the home of the brave. I know many of you are well aware of the risks posed by an elected judges interfering with the policies of a duly elected president. Even we have all heard Elon Musk call it out. We've all heard Vice President G.D. events sound the alarm.

And of course, we've all heard President Trump repeatedly warned that judicial overreach threatens not just his presidency, but the very foundation of the American democracy. Well, I come from the future and I know exactly how this story can end. Okay, maybe not the future. But I come from Brazil, which is not that different. As my country has become a laboratory for censorship and judicial authoritarianism since 2019, it's been used as a testing ground for the judicial weaponization against conservatives, libertarians and Christians, always under the noble pretense of protecting democracy, fighting misinformation and stopping extremism, while in reality silencing dissidents, controlling narratives and criminalizing opposition.

We continue to face the dire consequences of this experiment every day. Just three days ago, my father, former President of Brazil Jerry Bolsonaro, was formally charged by the Attorney General of the current Socialist government with allegedly orchestrating a coup, a Disneyland coup d'etat, as some might call it, without weapons, without a plan. And while he wasn't even in Brazilian territory, but in Orlando, probably debated strategy with Goofy and taking national security advice from Mickey Mouse. Maybe it's really the Disneyland coup d'etat. There is no other word to talk about it.

This baseless accusation, entirely devoid of evidence, is nothing more than a tool to neutralize political opposition. It mirrors the same tactics used against the opposition in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. Yet in Brazil. Brazil is preserved differently on the global stage, because while its situation is in some ways even worse, the persecution is not spearheaded by the executive branch, but by the judiciary. And that makes it all the more dangerous.

We are not talking about a dictatorship in the traditional sense. We are talking about a place where tyrants, eschews, decrease and suppress opposition openly. No. In Brazil, the judicial system has been weaponized, creating an illusion of legality while systematically dismantling democracy from within. And guess who helped found this experiment right?

Agencies like USAID and ned. Institutions supposedly dedicated for promoting democracy, but in reality channeling resources into censorship, judicial overreach and political persecution. In my country, let me introduce to you a man named Alejandro Morais. He is not an elected official. He is a Supreme Court justice who has given himself unchecked power to decide who can speak, who can run for office, and even who can go to the prison under his watch.

Brazil has become a country where social media platforms are forced to silence opposition voices or face billions in fines. Judges and bureaucrats, not the people, decide who is fit to run for office. Congressmen like Daniel Silvera are thrown into jail for so called opinion crimes, receiving an outrageous sentence of eight years and nine months behind bars simply for exposing his views in a video. A punishment more fitting of a totalitarian regime than a democracy. And as I said, even the former president, Jerry Bolsonaro, is at risk of being arrested on the same Kind of bogus charges used against opposition leaders in Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.

But it doesn't stop there. The judicial system has become an instrument for persecution at every level. Political parties that challenge the status quo are harassed and investigated. And some of their candidates are banned from complaining, competing fairly in elections. Independent journalists face exile, or worse, imprisonment for exposing government corruption or criticizing the judiciary.

Ordinary citizens who dare to express dissenting opinions on social media find themselves banned, fined or even arrested. This is not democracy. This is as judicial overreach. This is lawfare. And this is what happens when courts are turned into political weapons against the will of the people.

Why is it happening? Because Jerry Bolsonaro currently leads all major pools outside the margin of error and is the only candidate capable of defeating the left in the 2026 sixth election. If he is kept out of the race, Brazil will fall completely under China's influence. There is no doubt about that. And Brazil cannot be overlooked.

With over 200 million people, the largest economy in Latin America, and the land mass nearly the size of the United States, its geopolitical and economic importance is undeniable. China recognized this and is actively working to pull Brazil deeper into its sphere of influence. And while you might think this is just a Brazilian problem, it's not. This has many ramifications and has already spilled over into the United states. Here are three examples that should concern every American citizen.

Number one, Jason Miller's detention. In 2021, an American citizen advisor to President Trump was detained in Brazil under politically motivated orders. His crime, attending CPAC Brazil and supporting free speech. Number two, Elon Musk's persecution. He was added to an illegal fake news investigation.

That's right. Elon Musk is under investigation. Prosecution. You should be, I don't know, maybe scared of him. If he go around here, if you come around here, threatened with billion dollar fines and saw his company X banned in Brazil, all because he refused to comply with government censorship demands.

The deep state scandal at CBP involving a Brazilian national. Number three, Brazilian authorities in collusion with American bureaucrats manipulated US immigration records to fabricate justification for the unlawful imprisonment of Philippe Martins, a former National Security advisor to my father. He was subjected to solitary confinement, psychological coercion and inhuman treatment in an attempt to extract statements that could be used to incriminate President Bolsonaro. So think about it. If they can detain and silence American citizens, if they can control a country as large as Brazil, if they can manipulate official US governments records to imprison a political opponent abroad, what else they can do?

What Stops them from doing the same to help terrorists, drug cartels, or transnational criminals. And more importantly, if they could do all of this outside of the United States, what makes you think they wouldn't try to replicate it with him? This has gone too far. And you, the American people, must pay attention. Because what happened in Brazil is being used as a blueprint for judicial tyranny elsewhere, including right here in the United States.

Ironically, as I said before, this experiment was partially funded by your taxpayer dollars, which means they will soon come back. They will come to recover that investment. But instead of teaching leftist judges how to destroy Trump, let it serve as a warning for the American people. Freedom is fragile. And don't let an elected judges dictate your democracy.

It's only a matter of time before we wake up in a country where free speech, free elections, and even freedom itself are just distant memories. Brazil was a test now. Thank you. I told you that you have Bolsonaro supporters here.

Now they are applying the same formula elsewhere, including here in the United States. And we need to fight back, just as President Trump is doing through his legal team and in partnership with Rumble, by filling a lawsuit against Alejandro de Moraes for censoring and sanctioning American businesses and citizens. This legal battle will set a crucial precedent, not just for Brazil, but for the future of the free speech and democracy in United States as well. The globalist playbook is in full effect. If you don't fight back now, you will be the next.

Learn from Brazil before it's too late.

Thank you all. My friends, this is my message. Pray for my father. Pray for the Brazilian that are in prison now. Our January 8th guys, we are asking for honesty in the Congress and we hope receive a lot of support from you outside of Brazil, because you know how it means.

God bless America. God bless Brazil. Thank you very much. Thank you back.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Leo Zaki.

Hello, cpac.

My name is Leo Zaki and I'm the host of the international radio show America Matters on the Salem Network and the Answer Network. I was vice president of Zaki Farms, my family's poultry company, and a board member of the California poultry federation for 10 years. 120 years ago, my family legally immigrated to California, where my great grandfather started what became Zaki Farms. Zaki Farms was a vertically integrated business and the largest poultry company on the west coast, largest organic turkey producer in the nation, and the largest privately owned employer in California. After 90 years, we were forced to close our doors and put thousands of people out of work because of Elected officials in California who hate private equipment business.

They raised the anti competitive minimum wage and over regulated the entire industry until it was impossible to exist. Now a lot of smart people will tell you this is just mismanagement, just waste, just incompetence. But let's be real for a second. This is not incompetence. This is a deliberate strategy.

Strategy to destroy small businesses and the middle class. California isn't run by the people anymore. It's run by a political cartel. By a handful of ruling families and their cronies who will not stop unless we drive them out.

Many of you, especially the younger ones in the audience, might not even know this, but California used to be a red state. A strong conservative state. And here's what they don't want you to know. California still has more conservatives than any other state. That's more than Texas.

More than Florida. So how did the radicals stay in power? They built a one party dictatorship. And they call it a supermajority. And they did this by running Democrats but calling them Republicans.

These Rhinos stole the vote from the people. By making IDs for voting illegal. By inflating the census, gerrymandering ballot harvesting and removing all oversight that was in place to ensure election integrity. I'm no detective, but even a dummy can smell voter fraud when the state with the most conservative somehow magically votes blue every year.

We are blessed to have Donald Trump as our president.

We truly are. But all that means is that we have a few more years and a fighting chance to clean out the gangsters who are plundering our beautiful nation. The the fight continues and we must win this battle. And this battle is in California. We can turn California red again.

It's responsible for some of the worst legislators in the nation and destabilizing our republic with anti American policies. If it happened here, it can and will happen in your state too. But that's why you're here. To see conservative values defended against the psychotic enemies of our Republic with their BS woke agenda 21 in 15 minute cities. Every day the new Department of Government Efficiency exposes more of their lunacy in disgusting waste.

California needs its own Doge the and a proper purchasing department to manage its spending habit with full transparency.

Transparency in our government is mandatory to keep out the bad guys. California is over $3.2 trillion in debt. And thanks to Doge, we will soon know some of the insanity these maniacs have been wasting our money on.

This isn't just corruption. It's criminal. The fires in Los Angeles have woken up a lot of lefties. So guess what? It doesn't matter if you used to be a liberal or conservative.

When you're homeless, losing everything tends to change your mindset. I'm here to tell you that California is ready for change, but it won't happen without the support of our Republicans across the nation. That means all of you, everyone in this room and listening at home wants to save this country and defeat defeat the Marxist globalist woke agenda. The time to strike is now. But the establishment rhinos are working hard to derail our America first efforts.

Support your grassroots patriots and sign up for your local precinct committeemen. There's over 200,000 empty seats out of the 400,000 nationwide. If we're going to hold the line, we need to scoot them up and also run for local board, council, committee, statewide positions. Trump Winning does not mean the war is won. It means we are just getting started and Americans are gearing up.

The battle isn't just against a toxic ideology. It's against criminals who have infiltrated our system and are trying to destroy it from within. We are going to break the totalitarian super majority in California with the help of God, the prayers of the righteous and a lot of hard work.

Again, my name is Leo Zaki and please tune into my radio show Monday through Friday and visit my website. To see how you can get involved locally with other patriots, go to turnred.org and I want to thank all of you so much America, California's in the fight. Thank you cpac.

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Hey there. Scan your QR code on your badge so that you can view the agenda, check out our membership circles and learn more about our centers. This President is calling my family is calling me is calling MAGA supporters Enemy of America. I am the daughter of a Cuban political prisoner who fought for freedom, who fought against authoritarian and dictators. He sounds just Like Fidel Castro did.

Fidel Castro would target the enemies of his government and try to take them down. This is exactly what we're seeing with Joe Biden. He should be ashamed of himself. No American. No American should be called a Nazi or be called an enemy of the state.

Those of us who love this country and I have spent my whole life defending freedom in America.

Ladies and gentlemen, what's Hungarian for Trump won and you know it. Please welcome CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp and political director of the Prime Minister of Hungary, Balaz Orban.

Welcome to America, Balaz. Thank you. Nice to be here. Thank you. It's wonderful to be here.

Congratulations to all that you elected President Trump. I think you saved your country and you did a great, great thing to Europe and the world and for my country as well. Okay, so we have to take your business. What is Hungarian for Trump won and you know it?

Tramjerd Mimekmontuk. Very fantastic. That's great. By the way, we've had four CPAC hungries or we will have a fourth. Yeah, the fourth coming up in May.

Is everyone invited? Yes. You have standing invitation. Come. Come and visit us.

Budapest is safe and sound. Safe and sound. The. It's amazing how when we first started collaborating with each other and with the center and with Miklos and the whole gang, people inside of government, people outside of government, everyone said, why would you go to Hungary? And then I read the Washington Post.

I didn't know this. Apparently, your prime minister is like a dictator or something. I didn't realize this. And then he was like a fascist dictator who rigged elections. And that's what I was told.

And I remember telling one of these reporters, I think it might have been at the Washington Post, I was like, wait a minute. I'm always reading that you say you can't rig elections, and now you can rig elections. How did all that disinformation transform into the fact now people look at Viktor Orban and say he's in many ways the leader of Europe. I mean, first of all, the liberals are doing the same with everyone. They did the same with.

You mean your. Yeah. Lying with your president. They did the same with everybody who is opposing their power structures. That's how things look like.

And second, if you represent the truth as a politician and as it is done by my prime minister, then time is on your side. It means that it will turn out that your decisions, even if those were criticized heavily by the liberal institutions and they did everything to destroy you. Like we were dictators, fascists. Putin's puppets whatsoever. But time is on your side and it proves that you were wrong during all time.

That was the case with the migration. When we were saying that letting in hundreds and hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants to Europe and to our country, it's not a good idea. So we should do the other way around. And we asked. We were the only ones who asked the people.

Migration wasn't an issue in Hungary. So we were thinking about that. Oh, we don't have legitimacy, what decisions should be made. So let's ask the people. And we asked the people, we organized national referendum, and obviously overwhelming majority, even those who are disagreeing, agreeing with the government, we're saying no to illegal migration.

And then we stopped it, and then we canceled it. And the same with the war. Same with the war. President Trump is right. As it was said by my prime minister, this war has to end because it brings us nowhere.

It's crazy. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people are dying, and everybody takes it. And your prime minister, from the very beginning of this war, reached out to Joe Biden and said, let's find a way to end this war. He was on this immediately, but the Biden administration was uninterested. He was the one who started the peace mission.

He said that, look, guys, if we want to end this conflict, we need to reopen the communication channels. How do you want to make a peace if you are not having communication with the other side? It's impossible. So if somebody is saying that he is working for peace but not having communication with the other side, he's a liar. That's right.

He's a liar. Don't believe them. Only those people take seriously peace efforts who are ready to engage and negotiate. And what happened only as a news. It's a small news.

Negotiations started immediately. Energy prices went down, stock markets went up. There is. There is again hope. So important.

Communication is important. Peace talks are hard, but communication is important. So there's this special relationship with Donald Trump and Viktor Orban, which is multidimensional, Two amazing guys, very different guys. I think the Western press tries to act like they're the same. They have some similar characteristics.

Strength, endurance, same policies. But they're different in a lot of ways too. Right. I think the one thing that is the most the same is this idea of kind of getting kicked out of power. Even though I don't think Donald Trump got kicked out, that's my view.

I'm sure I'll get canceled from someone for saying that. I don't think he ever Got kicked out, but he had this ability to come back and win the White House. Victor Orban lost power, gain power. That's something they have in common. Matter of fact, I talked to your prime minister on one of my trips and I said, you're the one guy in the earth who can tell Donald Trump how you do this here.

Yes, that's true. My prime minister is the longest serving leader in Europe, but also longest serving in opposition. And I think it's also important if you serve your country, there are different position where you can, where and how you can do it. And I think there is one similarity between Trump and Orban. They both love their nations.

And this is crucial. Nations are obviously different. Like Hungary is a small country. It's an old country, a thousand years old country. United States is a big country, but different geography, different history, different culture.

But if you like your country and you are ready to act in accordance of the interest of your country, then you are doing a proper job. If you are not doing that, then you are a bad politician. That's right. And one of the other similarities is, as you all know, the story of Donald Trump and CPAC is before I was even elected chairman, he wanted to meet, he wanted to talk about how we could collaborate. He always understood that he was going to work around kind of the establishment systems and work with different kinds of allies.

And one of the things your prime minister said to us in this wonderful lunch we have, which will remain off the record, don't worry. That's one of the great things about being around a long time as you follow those rules, is he explained that one of the reasons he lost power was because he didn't have any allies. He didn't have any allies in the media, he didn't have any allies in nonprofits. All the major Soros funded institutions in Hungary were doing the dirty deeds against him. And he realized he needed to set up institutions and organizations that could help tell the truth.

And I think Donald Trump has understood that well too. By using social media, by being a good partner with CPAC and other conservative groups. You agree with this? I agree with you. I think the Western world is healing and we all want.

We are like national conservatives, if I may call ourselves that way. So it means that we want to save our nation and we want to see our nation thrive. This is our goal. This is why we engage, engage in public life. But if we want to save our nations, we have to cooperate.

Because the liberals, they do cooperate. They have an enormous power structure. Well funded, well funded. USAID and other organizations for using American taxpayers. Okay, so let me just stop you.

On behalf of the American taxpayer, we apologize to the good people of Hungary that our government tried to destabilize Orban and the good leaders in Europe. We're sorry. Thank you very much. We appreciate, but unfortunately, nobody in this room had anything to do with it. I want you to know that.

Well, maybe some on the way back, but not the rest of us. Brussels is doing the same, so it's our job to kick them out. In its. It's like, ridiculous. Hungarian people voted against illegal migration.

And what is happening. Brussels is using legal sanctions against us. We have to pay 1 million. So they're bribing, basically blackmailing your government just because you want to have a border. They're saying, we're not going to hold back on the revenue you should be getting from the EU.

Every day, the amount of money the EU owes you grows. Yeah, every day. 1 million euro we have to pay. But. But compared to the other option that we let everybody in and we let to have a country which is destroyed, it's the better option.

So this is the reason in the long term, we need a change. We need a change not just in. In Washington, but in. In Brussels as well. European, Europe, liberal elites, they are the most isolated people now because they are.

Isolated themselves from Trump and the new administration, isolated themselves from Russia, isolated themselves from China. And they are desperate. But for this reason, they are dangerous, and they are ready to do anything to crash their opponents. So we will not let it happen. Don't let it happen.

Don't let it happen. Okay, so I think we have some great titles in some of our talks. Do you know why? I think they're great? Because I came up with some of them.

So let me just bask in a tiny little bit of my glory. But the. There was this concept in America that we needed to have a truce on social issues. We shouldn't talk about questions like when life begins, what is marriage, what is gender, all that stuff. Let the teachers handle it in the schools.

And as a party, what we should do is just try to lower taxes, you know, lower regulations. And over time, I think Donald Trump, who's not necessarily a culture warrior, understood that it was questions of immigration, questions of families, question of the continuation of our society that were paramount. Viktor Orban realized this when he came back to power. One of the most amazing things he has done with his party is try to change all these government regulations so that people want to get married, people want to have kids. Those little Hungarian babies in mother's arms and they, you're not going to have a country if your people don't right have kids.

And this idea that you're going to bring in all these migrants to be the next generation in Hungary is something you guys reject. So in general, the idea of liberal democracy, that the state is not interfering in any of the aspects of the private life, it sounds to be a good idea because we all are freedom loving people and we like freedom and we don't want to stay at our courtyard. But in reality, what happened, the left used this argumentation to overtake the institutions and the liberal state was interfering into the private matters. They were saying that once again, are you saying they were lying? They were acting like they were neutral, but they weren't neutral.

Surprise, surprise. And I think many more conservatives are starting to realize that if these things are important for us, it's not about freedom. Everybody can do what they want. But if somebody wants to have a family, somebody wants to have a marriage, somebody wants to have kids, then we need a state, we need a functioning institutional state system which is not treating her as a, or her as a criminal, but is treating her as a, as a, as a loyal normal. I think they view her as a polluter going to bring another human being into the earth and add to the landfills.

They view it as a negative. It's crazy, isn't it? It's a nightmare. And this nightmare has to be stopped. This is what we were, what we are doing in hungary for like 15 years with trying to create an environment which maintain freedom, freedom of decision for everyone.

But, but also it advocates some policies. We have a proper family policy. Churches are not prosecuted. They are, they are welcomed in Hungary. Woke agenda is, is, is out of schools, out of media.

And I'm, I'm very, I'm very happy to, to see that America is turning to that direction as well. And congratulations to you again. So what we're really saying is big government ends up subsidizing all the activities for our young people that are counterproductive to society continuing. They're encouraging drugs, giving out free needles, encouraging them to be on their parents health care until they're like, what is it, 47 years old now? Nobody gets to grow up at all.

And in Hungary you said okay, well if the government's going to subsidize all these things that we don't want to encourage more of, what if we actually used the government system to subsidize what we want? And you did it through Tax cuts. So if a mom decides, by the way, I don't think we should force anybody to be a parent. It's really hard to be a parent. The last thing you want to do is have people being parents who are really angry that they're being parents.

But like you said, if you want to be a parent, have a kid, you get a tax cut in Hungary. Here we give you almost like a tax increase if. If you have four. Four children, you don't pay any income taxes for the rest of your life. Rest of your life.

And we are planning to increase it. Children with three, and we will see. What if your child's name is Hunter Biden, do you still get a tax cut? Or does that. Is there like an appellate process where maybe you could maybe put a little taxes on that kid?

Every life counts. Okay, fair enough. It's a good answer. Okay, so you're here in America. It's a long trip from Hungary.

By the way, how many people have been to Budapest or to Hungary?

How beautiful was it? How safe was it? Amazing, right? Okay, the balabons are like. They're Polish, but even they are like the Hungarians.

We have beautiful people, beautiful architecture, good food, conservative, safe space that's also important for many people come and visit us. So you've come all this way to America. You're one of the top advisors to a leader that the people here in this room really expect the people around the country respect. Viktor Orban, you're in the middle of everything now, trying to stop a war, trying to change what Brussels tries to do, to ruin people's lives. What's your message for America?

And do you feel hope about how our collaboration, starting with cpac, moving on to Orban and Trump, how this collaboration can change the world? I think my message would be America. America is back, is good news. And don't rely on the liberals and don't count on the liberals. You have your friends all around the world, and if you find your friends, work with them together and make save the Western civilization together, this would be my message.

Are you up to the challenge?

Balaz Orban, thank you for being with us at cpac. Thanks for the important work you do, and thanks for making hungry. Great. Thank you. God bless.

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Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for some say Their Names Israeli hostage families speak, please welcome father of Idan Alexander, Adi Alexander, brother in law of Omir Mehran Moshilabi, Nova Music Festival survivor and brother of Guy Dalal, Gal Dalal. Hosted by CPAC senior fellow Mercedes Schlapp.

Thank you all so much. You know, this is a very difficult, difficult subject. And I see someone in the crowd. Julie Levin, stand up. Look, Julie.

Julie Levin, Mark Levin's wife. But just a, just a leader in this issue of being a voice for the Jewish people, for the suffering that we have seen, the tragedies that we have witnessed against innocent lives. And these brave men have come here to deliver a somber message, but it's also a message of hope, a message of urgency, of message of action that we need to take. And here at cpac, we all CPAC family first. We stand with your families.

When you are in pain, when you are suffering, we are suffering with you. And we are praying for each and every, every one of you. And to start this gal, I want to start with you. You were at the Nova Music Festival that day on October 7th. Tell us what happened.

First of all, I start with thank you, Mercedes. And thank you, all of you for being here supporting us and thank you for having us.

The Nova festival had almost 5,000 people in it, more than 20 nationalities.

It was like a gathering of all sorts of different people from all sorts of different cultures. People were to celebrate life, spiritual people. It was a spiritual festival and the people were kidnapped from them, had nothing to do with this conflict, nothing to do with this war. And they should have never used as a currency in this war. I went to this festival because it was my brother's first festival ever.

And it's your younger brother. It's my baby brother, yeah. And he never went to any of these kinds of festivals. So I encouraged him actually to go to this kind of festival because I knew that it's going to be a good one. And he asked me to come with him to join him in his experience and to watch over him.

That was the only reason I went. And I arrived there pretty early in the morning, and 15 minutes after I arrived, alarms already went off. And I asked my brother if you want to come to my house with his friends. And they all agreed to come to my. To my apartment and asked him if he want to join me in my car.

And he said that he don't want his friend to feel like he left them. So he's going to go back with them and he see me at home. I think like 30 minutes later, the tourists start shooting on us. It was massive round of shooting. It came from all around us.

We had to leave our cars and run away. And I haven't seen my brother ever since.

When that happened, tell us about the moment when you realized, oh my goodness, he's been taken. So after almost 10 hours of fleeing, running and hiding while terrorists shooting on me with gunshots and RPGs rockets, I was finally able to get rescued by our forces. And they took us to the nearest police station. This is where I called my father. And my father sounded broken.

And I said to him, look, if something happened to my brother, you need to let me know. And that's when he told me that my brother was kidnapped and that Hamas was already published a hostage video three hours before I was even able to escape. Which meant that my parents, my family, everyone knew that my brother was taken, but no one told me, so I can focus on saving my own life. So they saw the video. Your parents saw the video first?

Yeah, and I saw it when, you know, I saw it after I was rescued. And all I could think about is that I went there to watch over him and I went back without him. I just couldn't. I just couldn't realize. It took me a while.

How are you getting through day by day? You know, it's a whole process for us, the families of the hostages. Every day it's another struggle. But we always have on our minds that our hostages, our loved ones just suffer much more when we think about the pain that they have to endure was still in captive. We get strength and we get the power to do everything we can and to help them.

I know that my brother will do exactly the same for me. And we have to stay strong for them for when they will come back. Moshe, your brother in law, Omri, he has a wife, Lishai, and two beautiful girls. What happened?

On October 7, Hamas terrorists barge into my sister Lishai and Omri's home. They used a teenager from the kibbutz Toma Arava to lure them to open the door. And they opened it immediately to save Tomer's life. Tomer was found dead a few days later, his body in a field. But Tomri and Lishai knew that they were opening the door to terrorists to save his life.

For hours they were held captive in their own home. My niece Roni was awakened with a gun pointed at her face. Terrorists surrounding her, she was two and a half years old back then. They were then grouped with another family in the kibbutz, the Idan family, whose eldest daughter Mayan was murdered. They were abused for hours.

It was live streamed on Facebook. The terrorists took a phone of one of the captives and simply livestreamed it on their Facebook account. And then at around 1.30pm, Omri was handcuffed. Lishai told him she loves him, she'll take care of the girls and ask him not to be a hero. He told her he loves her.

And that was the last time she saw him. Ronnie, my niece, tried to run to him. Lishai stopped her. Luckily and ever since, Omri has been a hero. For 503 days, he's been a hero in captivity, fighting for survival while we are fighting here to returning home.

I'm lucky because my sister Nisa survived, my parents survived, my other sister and her family survived. All experience October 7th while I was in New York. But being lucky means you have a hostage in your family that you need to fight for.

When Lishai called you, what did she tell you? We discovered Lishai was rescued that evening, Israel time. The night she was rescued, 11 hours after the attack started by the IDF. After Maria was taken, she was held captive for a few more hours in that home.

And we talked for the first time a day later, the entire family on WhatsApp. We did a video call and it was so difficult. By that time, my parents were rescued, my other sister was rescued, and luckily Shai and the girls were rescued. And we tried to understand what's going on, what do we need to do? Where is Omri?

And for the next couple of days we discussed what do we need to do. I wanted to return to Israel to serve in the army. I was a captain in the idf. But then my sister, my sister told me, I need you to be my soldier in this war until Omari comes home. I need you to speak up.

Because there are very few people can speak up for me and for Marie like you can. And since that day, I've been her voice. I've been Omri's voice. I've been every single hostage voice. Because they can't speak from the dungeons of Hamas.

They are chained, they are starved, deprived of water, sanitation, sunlight. They're calling for the rescue and we have to make sure to bring them home. Like Vice President JD Vance said, irrespective of other issues, there is one priority right now. Let's not sign more death certificates. Let's make sure all the hostages who are alive return home.

And those who were murdered in captivity, like those who returned today and broke our heart, will be buried in the land of Israel.

Adi, your son, the oldest of three, Idan, the only living American right now in captivity. How are you feeling? How are you processing this? Every day as a father, you know, I just thinking about the place that my kids grew up in, which is Rockwell, Maryland, not far away from this hotel. And we moved to New Jersey back in 2008.

It's really hard. I mean, Idan is all American kid. Tenafly high school graduate, decided on a gap year to enlist himself to IDF because he loved both of his countries. And this is what he did on that tragic day. He found himself on a tiny outpost next to kibbutz near Oz.

And he was the only soldier at this post. And the post was attacked, heavily attacked. He was surrounded by more than 20 militants. And after conducting a short fight, he found a way to surrender. So we kind of consider ourselves lucky that he managed to surrender.

And ever since, you know, he was seen in the tunnels right at the beginning. And then Hamas released this hostage video on Thanksgiving weekend. When we saw Idan speaking, we saw him. Well, he was pale, he wasn't himself, but he was alive. And this is what, what's important for us, and this is what drives us forward.

GAL 69 hostages have been released. Six, I believe now coming up on Saturday. We've seen the tragedy of the Vivass family, the two beautiful children, the mother, and we've all seen those photos. What is your message to the leaders out there, the international leaders out there who are just not stepping up to put pressure on Hamas to release these terrorists, release these hostages right now. We have been waiting for so long to see hostages returning.

And for almost 500 days, we waited for the second, for the second deal to come. And as soon as Trump started his role as the president of United States, you could see hostages start to return. And I think that's because Trump know evil and good. Trump can see you mentioned Bibas, little babies should have never used taken as hostages, used as a currency in a war. That's just unimaginable evil.

And for that we thank him. And I think that the world is looking at what's going on in United States. And we believe that with him, we will get to see all the other hostages. But the thing is that we are grateful for all the lives that he saved already, but there are still many lives that waiting to be saved. And I would say don't forget about the hostages.

Yeah, this goes Moshe. Beyond a political issue, this is a humanity, a humanity issue. And you've seen President Trump involved personally in this process. But the reality is, and you said this, you said that the Islamic, the fight against Islamic terrorists, it's a long term struggle. But there's this urgency to get these hostages released right now.

I mean, how do you just describe this message to those out there so that the world can unite in saving these hostages? I'll say that our struggle against Hamas, their accomplices, their funders and sponsors, members of the United nations, is long term. And we will finish that long term struggle and be victorious. But for us as a society to be victorious, to protect our national, our social contract, our national and Jewish heathis, we have to bring home the hostages. It's a humanitarian issue, it's an international issue.

Hostages from so many countries were kidnapped of several faith were kidnapped and are still held. Omri is a dual national, Israeli and Hungarian. And I can say the Hungarian government has stood behind us since the beginning and so does the United States government. I'm so appreciative and grateful for President Trump's leadership and I'm certain he knows that what needs to be happening now is that all the hostages must be freed. We have to keep demanding that Hamas let them go, but making sure that we make the concessions needed to bring them home in the short term.

Adi, you've spoken to President Trump multiple times. What does he tell you? President Trump is a very tough guy. He's a smart guy. At the beginning, when we first met, before he took office, he was shocked by the fact that 45Americans were killed on that day on October 7th.

To count anything like this really, other than September 11th, you have to go back to 80s and ever since we met him, he took ownership on this matter, recognizing that Americans are still being held and 45American killed. And we really grateful for that. But we have to push forward until everybody's out. No tips and drips, bunch of them out, like hopefully this Saturday and then we will be done.

Just to wrap up here, Val, what do you want to tell our people here at cpac? How can we support you and your family? So we always say that we need your prayers and we need your actions. Don't forget the hostages, don't forget that they are waiting for you. Everyone can do something and we all have the responsibility to do all we can to bring them back.

And together we will.

Adi, your message to what you want to know how we can be helpful for you and your Family as well. Just keep this issue front and center. Keep praying, really, this is the time to pray. We're in the middle of this process. Hopefully we will be successful to pass it over the finish line with president Trump help, leadership and Steve Witkoff's knowledge and leadership as well.

Just keep praying, guys.

I'll ask all this amazing audience to close your eyes and imagine with me my nieces Ronnie and Alma running to their father Omri. Imagine my sister Lishai hugging and kissing her husband Omri. Imagine Danny, Omri's father, shaving his beard after hundreds of days and embracing his son Omri. Take that joy of picturing that to mobilize in every way you can, prayer, action, rallying, writing so that I could tell my nieces Roni and Alma that their father is coming home tomorrow.

I do want to say we spent time with Noah who is here. She's one of the freed hostages who was in captivity for over 200 days. And let me tell you something, this young woman is recovering from major trauma and she's putting her trauma aside to be a voice for the rest of the hostages. So that is such a brave woman right there. And these are brave men who are being so strong for their families and for the Jewish people.

And we here have an obligation to make sure we give them the love, the support, the prayers and make sure that these hostages come back home.

Thank you. Thank you for being with us at cpac. You all really inspire us. And yes, we're going to bring the people back home. We're going to bring the hostages back home.

We are going to stand with you, stand with your families and ensure that we can start healing and start moving forward. Thank you so much. God bless,

ladies and gentlemen. Up next, blackrock's life matters crushing woke boardrooms. Please welcome u.

S. Representative from west Virginia, representative Riley moore, co founder and president of patriot mobile, Glenn story, CEO of morris industries industries, Nate morris, and your host from newsmax, bianca de la garza.

Thank you. How's it going, cpac?

All right, well, we are so thrilled to be here. And I just had a little backstage convo with these guys, patriots, entrepreneur visionaries. And they are going to be so enlightening. So I'm pleased to be here. And I know we just heard all the introductions, but congressman Moore, Glenn Story, the CEO of patriot mobile, if you don't have a cell service, we're gonna, we're gonna change you today on that.

And Nate Morris, really incredible stories. So let's start a little bit with you, congressman Riley moore, Because West Virginia is the fifth largest energy producer. And people were looking at what was going on. And you were the treasurer before you in Congress and way before it was popular, you actually took on BlackRock, you took on JP Morgan, you took on all these big banks and said, you need to divest. You basically said, you're fired.

Tell us about the circle that was going on in your state that made no common sense. Well, thank you very much. And yes, for us in West Virginia, it was really an existential threat for us to continue to deal with these financial institutions that had an ESG framework that was so harmful to our industries. Coal, natural gas, gas and oil. And so what I did was start to talk to some of our coal producers, natural gas and the like.

And they were losing access to financing. They couldn't continue their operations because no one would bank them. They were essentially being debanked. And we had folks like BlackRock and the other big three. They were moving investment away from these critical industries that just so happened to power of the country and are also so important to the state of West Virginia.

So in 2021, I sent letters to them warning them if they didn't stop this activity, that we were going to divest out of them. And they ignored those warnings. And then in January of 2022, it's a little while ago now, I became the first elected official in the United States to divest our tax dollars out of blackrock entirely.

And then we took it a step further and created what's called the restricted financial institution list, which it said, if you're boycotting the fossil fuel industry, you're going to lose the ability to be able to bid on any financial service contract in the state of West Virginia. And that's where we ended up putting a lot of other banks on that list. Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citi, whole bunch of other guys. And we had to tear up a lot of contracts, tens of millions of dollars. We'll get back to that.

And fortunately, you had the vision to do that. Nate, walk us through. When you were in your early stages, you started your company on a credit card, you said with 10 grand, you took it public, $700 million and you had to battle the woke. Well, you called it like the Sopranos. I'll let you tell that.

Well, you know, first I want to say, you know, I'm Nate Morris, I'm a Kentuckian. I'm a ninth generation Kentuckian. I'm an entrepreneur. And I believe entrepreneurship is the cornerstone to our country. It's how Jobs get created.

And we had a big announcement today this morning come out of Kentucky. Mitch McConnell said he's retiring. The little breaking news here. So I don't know if anyone's heard that yet. And you know, a lot of people have encouraged me to look at the seat and I just want to speak as an entrepreneur.

I'm an outsider, I'm a businessman. And I think we need more people coming from the outside to help President Trump with the America first agenda. And for conservatives, this is our opportunity. Opportunity to rip control that Mitch McConnell has had on the Republican Party and aspects of our party and taken us down this direction. And he has tried to purposely sabotage President Trump over and over and over again.

This is our chance to get it back and give it back to the people. Amen. Well, I do think obviously the country is on a fortunate and trajectory with this election. We can all feel it as we're here, as we're walking in the halls, we're exchanging ideas. I wrote a book last year called Incoming on the Front Lines of the Left's War on Truth because what we saw was the Marxist professors indoctrinating kids and then they go into these woke corporate boardrooms.

And this was a circle that fortunately we've been able to break with this historic election. And I think we all look at Donald Trump as not just our president of this country, but also somebody, a visionary who will take us into an America in the golden age. And you know, your story, Glenn, is amazing. Patriot Mobile is based on Christian values. And that's something a lot of people after we witnessed Butler, Pennsylvania really are coming back to their faith, their faith in this country.

And Patriot Mobile is based on that. And it's very unique model. And you are thriving under that model. Yeah, we absolutely are. And before I go there, I just want to say thank you to Matt and Mercy and the CPAC staff and leadership to do what you guys do to bring the most important conservatives together and just raise each other up.

But to answer your question, yeah, Patriot Mobile is a cell phone service provider. We carve out a portion of every bill and donate back to biblical causes. But what really separates Patriot mobile is we're 100% US based customer service. Our donation patterns along, yeah, it's a great thing. But most importantly, we put God first.

He is at the helm of our business.

He's at the helm of our business. And when he's at the helm of your business, it just changes the landscape. Right. You know, you can't do wrong and you know, we live by these biblical principles. And we make these donation patterns back to organizations like Right to Life, military and first Responders, First Amendment and second Amendment.

You look at those, those are really constitutional, biblically driven objectives or initiatives. So yeah. And when you, you are thriving, you can take that money and do good with it. And I mentioned, Nate, that you went public with your company and after you had been dealing. Tell us a little bit about what you saw.

You said it was a very innovative company, but you had to deal with people. You thought they were, you thought they were like the mob Sopranos, you thought esg. They came in. It was even worse. Yeah.

Let me tell you, I, I thought I saw extortion in the waste business like we did with Tony Soprano. The extortion I saw in the waste business is nothing compared to what ESG tariff do to corporate leaders every day, forcing them into positions and threatening to bankrupt their company if they do not adhere to these bogus, crazy standards. And that's one of the reasons why I'm so compelled to look at getting into politics. Because we as corporate leaders, we have to fight. We have to fight this.

One of the first things I did when I left my company was invest and strive the Vikramaswamys anti woke investment platform to say we're going to stand up to this and we're going to fight back and we're going to make sure that politics stays out of business and gets centered around merit and what the market should reward. Period. Great message. You know, their ultimate goal is to silence us. Right?

That's their goal. Good luck. Right. And we won't be silenced, right? No.

And I think that's part of the, you know, we look at JD Vance and Peter Thiel when they invested in Rumble, we look at Newsmax, we're soaring and it's because Americans truly have woken up. But now there's a higher demand on our elected leaders. And fortunately, Donald Trump doge is making a lot of advances. Maybe we're all even going to get a rebate from what they're saving. But Congressman Moore, I know, I like that you know what it's like being in politics and being in Congress now people are going to be held accountable.

He's talking about Mitch McConnell officially announcing, but their old guard has been put on notice. Can you talk about that since you were at the forefront of sort of putting ESG and BlackRock on notice? Well, yeah, and I'll tell you, I got a lot of calls when I first divested from blackrock, which is three years ago now. And most of it was, Riley, you're an idiot. Why are you doing this?

Why are you even messing with it? And ESG is such an existential threat. I mean, to our capitalist system here in America. As we were just hearing right now, it's an extortion racket. But look, this party now is the party of Donald Trump.

That is very clear. It's an America first movement. That's where the Republican Party is going, and we gotta make sure that we stay on that trajectory. Right? And we've seen this time and time again where we will have America first policies that go and die in the United States Senate.

That happens all the time. You know, clearly I'm in for the one big beautiful bill in reconciliation, and so is President Donald Trump, because that's the way we're going to accomplish his agenda. But, you know, perhaps it looks like the Senate might be moving a piece of their legislation forward. We've got to be unified under the president and execute on his 77 million million vote mandate that he has. I agree.

So that's how Washington works. And, you know, as a member of the national media and hearing the stories of rural Americans, some of them really did feel left behind. I mean, you have cell service, you look at the people ravaged by hurricanes, and FEMA wouldn't even help people with Trump signs. Starlink wanted to come in, and they said, well, if you don't have an address, they're like, these people lost their homes. It was almost at one point, the government was weaponized.

We were seeing it in real time against these poor people. And you had this really kind of amazing thing you said, and obviously you're very successful, but you said, you know who your roots are. And when the left wants to laugh at conservative values or they want to smear us or they want to silence us, you have a beautiful message, Glenn, and I'd love for you to share it with this amazing, amazing crowd. You know, it's when what really happens, when it boils down to, you got to stay with your roots, right? You know what you're doing, and if you let them silence you, they've won.

And I always say no, right? We're going to stand in the forefront. We're going to be bold in what we do, regardless if it's out there, you know, I'll digress momentarily. We. I was on a call with the party chair of Georgia, and I said, hey, dude, how's it going?

And he goes, it's miserable. And I said, what do you mean? He goes, well, our Hurricane east of 75 is destroyed. So Friday at 4:00, I called a couple of our executive team, Scott Coburn, and I said, hey, look, we need to fill up a trailer. We've got a 26 foot trailer, we've got a one ton truck.

Let's fill this thing up with generators, wipes, diapers, baby formula. You just go down the list. Here's the most amazing thing. I couldn't go. I had some family stuff to do, but a couple of our staff did.

And what was amazing about this is they drove out, they were giving stuff out to people that needed it. They haven't had anything. And the law said, you got to turn left. And our driver goes, no, we're going to go straight. So they went straight.

Now this is a grown man, a professional soccer player. A woman was standing on the side of the road and so he says, let's pull over. And they got out of the car and Ethan's sitting down there somewhere. They got out of the car and she goes, you know what? The only thing I need is diapers and wipes.

I just said, lord, please deliver. So they pull over and you know what? We had crates and diapers and wipes. And this is a grown man just starts weeping. He's like, you know what else?

That's what we're commanded to do, to believe in our. And, you know, it's not easy. You know, we have an elected member of Congress, two entrepreneurs and CEOs. When I brought you out, I said, you're patriots. But we also.

I think your stories are so important because other people in this audience are looking and saying, how can I do this? How can I involve. And there is obviously tremendous opportunity for American exceptionalism again under this president. Now you're thinking about possibly getting into the race, but we know that you build companies. What do you just say to folks?

We're on a live stream here. You have, you know, thousands of people watching. You know, they want to know how I get a credit card loan and start a company and be like you and do that in today's climate where we have the winds of change at our back? Absolutely. Look, I.

I was raised by a single mother. 19 of my family members worked in an auto plant in Kentucky. My grandparents helped raise me. And I think that one of the things my mother always said, you know, we may not have a lot of money, but it's free to think big and you should think big. You're going to be thinking anyway, so you might as well be thinking big.

And I think we got to get back to that and be the country of dreamers again. And I think Donald Trump has got people in America to get hopeful and get those dreams in action. And that's one of the reasons why I'm looking at this seat. I feel like as somebody who's I owe so much to my teachers, my pastors, coaches, people who've helped me, I got to do something. And you know, right now we've got two candidates that are looking at this race that are puppets of Mitch McConnell and we can't have that.

Well, when it comes to esg Blackrock, they've been put on notice, Congressman More, and you come up from a family of politicians as well. So, you know, it's a tough business. D.C. is a tough town. Yeah.

Tell us about some of the things that you're working on now that are future forward. I know there's something to do with protecting gun owners rights because you can't just stop it. When it comes to Blackrock, you know, there's a lot of things that are going on and you're really kind of clue us into what you're doing. Yeah. So we dealt with the, this on the state level in West Virginia, it's called a merchant category code.

Maybe some of you have heard of this, but the credit card companies have put this in place to be able to track the purchase of your guns and ammunition in the United States of America. Now, we had put in a, an ability and a right to sue cause of action in West Virginia if they shared your data. But I have a bill right now and I do believe we're going to get action on it in the United States House of Representatives to ban the merchant category code on guns and ammunition. Thank you. Now, this is a little bit off the ESG topic, but this is.

I just wrote an op ed about this and I encourage you to take a look at it because it's a huge national security issue and I am looking at legislation on this. There are currently in the United states, there are 300,000 Chinese nationals on student visas in our country. And I'm looking to ban all student visas from China moving forward. Amen. Amen.

Glenn, tell us about why you are the best choice, the alternative, because you know, you're up against the big guys. It's never deterred you. You said your sales, every time they come after you, you kind of soar. But a lot of people would have been maybe not up for the task to go up against the big guys and all the big cellular companies. Yeah.

You know What I would just say we're not really up against them. We really aren't. You know, we're the only carrier out there. We. I won't get into the technical side, but we buy wholesale from all the major networks.

We repackage it and sell it retail. And the real beauty of that is we provide a service. And I think it's better. Not only is our coverage better because we have all the networks, but look, we put him first. And when you put him first, what can you do?

And then the real hook is when you call into our offices. You know, we have an office in East Texas and in the Valley in California. Either talk with a redneck like me or you talk with the Californian. And that's the real part. But then above that, it's not uncommon that we'll pray with you on the phone.

And it happens all the time. We have a booth downstairs. I'll shamelessly plug Patriot Mobile, come down. I think we've got promo codes. You get a free, free month of service.

But most importantly, you're going to be working with companies that love and honor their creator. And I'm going to just say this, when you do that, it's so much better. You know, you're not supporting organizations that are contrary to your values. Right? I mean, I know we have Patriot Mobile customers out there.

I'm looking at two waving and a couple. Hey, everybody in here should be a Patriot Mobile. Can you hear him now? Hey, that's a good hint, right? You said you were part of Strive, Nate.

And so tell us the future of, you know, do you think that ESG is dead? Is it all done for now or do we have to be vigilant because, you know, corporate greed and others that don't have the intention. A pure of heart, which I'm hearing, hearing from all of you here on the stage. Yeah. Look, elections have consequences.

Amen. And we have to have leaders that are going to fight to keep this nonsense and garbage out of our corporate system and out of our economy. It has no place. And I think, you know, we, we just had. We had an awful thing happen yesterday.

Our governor, a Democratic governor, allowed KFC to move out of Kentucky. So I read about that. Yeah, I read about that. And how does that happen? And this goes back to.

We've got to elect America first. Patriots that are not beholden and on a bended Knee to Mitch McConnell or anyone else that they're going to fight with President Trump and to keep this nonsense out of our politics, period. Let's Just have a few moments left. That's pressure. And you're right there in the thick of it.

AKA they call it the swamp. And they don't say that without reason. Yeah, well, to your previous question, I'm sure there's somebody sitting out here right now. And I want this to be kind of, hopefully core memory. At some point, each and every one of you should consider running for office.

All of you should think about doing this. I'm serious. Because this, this is not. The seat I'm sitting in is not my seat. It belongs to the people, West Virginia.

And they've hired me for two years to do it. Wow. Any of you can do these jobs. You can stand up, go run. State level politics is awesome.

You can get a lot more done there than you can sometimes at the federal level. Please. I encourage everybody to take a look at office. I told you you'd be impressed, right? Congressman Riley Moore.

Glenn Storey, CEO, Patriot Mobile. Nate Morris. And who knows what type of political future we'll be seeing from you. I like this guy back here. I'm doing my show live here over at I our booth at Newsmax.

So come by and say hi. I'm Bianca Delagarza. An honor and a blessing to be with all of you great patriots today. Amen. Amen.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. God bless.

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Thank you very much. Got the same. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, look at this.

Look at these. Beautiful, patriotic, energized. Oh, I love it. I love being at cpac. It is always a pleasure to be at cpac.

I felt like an old man when I was thinking about this trip, because I first came to CPAC in 2011 and it was fun then. It's been fun ever since. But something feels different this year, doesn't it? Something. What is it?

What is that thing? I don't think. I don't think that it's just that we won because, you know, we won in 2016. Some people say we won in 2020. I'm not going to get into it.

But it can't just be that we won. I think the big difference this year is that we won and we won the popular vote. That was the big difference. Most voters in this country voted for Donald Trump. Huge swaths of every demographic, including groups that Democrats have had a lockdown on for decades.

We're talking about an historic proportion of black male voters, almost half of Hispanic voters, something like 50% of women over 45. Even this one really shocked me. 40% of women under the age of 30. That was the most Kamala Y demographic, and we still got that. So many of them voted for Trump and for Republicans in the House and the Senate.

It was a clean sweep. It was a clear mandate, and it was a mandate for common sense. That's the only way to explain this broad coalition of people who usually argue with each other. Republicans, disaffected Democrats, conservatives, liberals, people across both sexes and all ages and all races. The Democrats lost the common sense.

And their loss is our gain, not only at the ballot box, but also in expanding the political imagination, in opening up the discourse that we can have in our politics. For too long, uniparty elites have limited political discourse to exclude the common sense policies that people actually want. Just look at immigration. For decades, we have been told that we have two choices when it comes to more illegal immigration or more legal immigration. And sometimes the left and the right, they compromise and they give us both.

Great. But it turns out that most Americans do not want more immigration of any kind. Most Americans want drastically less immigration, legal and illegal. Gallup polling last July found 55% of Americans want overall immigration reduced. This backs up another poll from 2018.

Harvard Harris found that most Americans want annual legal immigration capped at about half a million. That is about 60% less than the current levels. That is about 85% less than overall immigration levels. That is what most Americans repeatedly have indicated that they want. And it's perfectly reasonable.

Today we have the highest foreign born percentage of the population that we have ever had in our nation's history. It is not possible for a nation to maintain social cohesion and its own way of life while taking in unlimited numbers of foreigners. There's nothing bigoted about that observation. And yet, until recently, that view, the preference of most Americans was totally unrepresented by either major political party. Look at the LGBT ideology.

In recent years, uniparty elites have told us that we have two options. Either we trans the kids in kindergarten, or we wait until they turn eight. Maybe, maybe if we're lucky, we can wait until the kids are out of elementary school before the indoctrination begins. What kind of a choice is that? Within the past decade, transgenderism did not exist in public life at all.

Not in schools, not in sports leagues, not in bathrooms, not in the military, not anywhere. And things worked a lot better then. And probably we should return to that. To put in perspective just how rapidly this gender bending LGBT ideology has been forced upon us, Consider that Barack Obama, in the final year of his first term as president, held that marriage is the lifelong union of a man and a woman, ordered toward the procreation and education of children. Hillary Clinton believed that too.

Basically, everybody believed that everyone, everywhere, for statistically all of human history has understood that fact. That is the only definition of marriage that distinguishes it from other kinds of relationships. Marriage was not invented by ideologues, and it cannot be redefined by ideologues either. It is a natural institution. Not even the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court wants to try, but not even they can change that reality. It just is what it is. Nothing bigoted about that observation. It's just a fact. Here's another fact.

Basic stuff. God exists. Simple. We can know that even in our relentlessly secular political order, 81% of Americans believe in God. And you know, that is actually the lowest number ever recorded.

Historically, the number is north of 95%. And still that means that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe in in God. And that is because the existence of God can be known with certainty from human reason. But these days, you would not know that judging by our public institutions. In recent decades, uniparty elites have offered us two options when it comes to religion.

Keep it private, or don't keep your religion at all in public. Federal agents spy on our churches. They sue members of religious orders. They imprison parents for praying peaceably outside of abortion mills. Maybe, just maybe, we're permitted to entertain religious thoughts silently in our own minds.

But the moment that we start talking about or acting on those ideas in public, we're in trouble. But religion is not just some private privilege. Religion is a public right. Our very country is predicated on the idea that God exists and that we are made in his image. God is in the Declaration of Independence.

He's in our national anthem. He's even on our money. The fact that in recent decades, our political class has largely removed God from public life is an aberration and a national scandal, and it needs to be reversed.

Now, of course, it's not really possible to remove religion from politics, because lawmaking entails moral judgments, whether we're talking about abortion or whether we're talking about parking tickets. Politics requires us to come to certain conclusions about human nature, about justice and mercy, sin and grace. Politics always and everywhere involves rituals and veneration, reward and punishment. These things are inescapable. So when the ideologues remove traditional and true religion from our politics, they can only replace it with their own novel and false religions.

They replace Christmas displays with pride parades, sturdy virtues with modern values, faith, hope and charity with diversity, equity, and inclusion. They ban the Bible from schools, and then they assign genderqueer. That is to say, they removed the most important book ever written, the book without which it is not possible to be an educated person, and they replace it with their own neo gnostic nonsense. Is it any wonder that our rulers got so stupid? You saw the consequences of taking the Bible out of schools a couple weeks ago when our vice president invoked a basic Christian concept and our political establishments started alternately driving, drooling and shrieking.

When he was asked about mass migration, JD Vance brought up the Order of Charity, which is the idea that we owe more to the people closer to us than to people who are further away. This is an observation. It's so obvious. It's articulated in Scripture, it's written about by the great Christian thinkers, but it's also just common sense. It does not take a PhD in Philosophy or theology to know that we owe more to our kids than we do to face tattooed Mexican gangsters.

Now, of course, this means that our political leaders owe more to American citizens than they do to foreigners. That's the point J.D. was making. That is the meaning of the phrase America first. It's not that we don't wish to help people around the world.

We certainly do. We're the most charitable nation in history. But it is perverse for our political elite constantly to prioritize the whims and desires of foreigners over the needs of citizens. A nation without a proper concern for its own well being can never, in the long run, be good to anyone else anyway. This is why when we're on the airplane, they say, put your own mask on before you help others.

You need to have things in order. For decades, our uniparty elite have told us we have two options when it comes to charity and the common good. We can either erase our national borders or we can try and fail to build democracies in the Middle East. Or we could do both. I guess those were our options.

But you know, there's a third option, and it happens to be the option that most Americans want. We can rebuild our own country. We can help our own citizens. Charity, after all, begins at home.

We do not have to accept the false dichotomies offered to us by a corrupt political establishment. We can form new coalitions. We can elect new leaders. We can have our country back. And we can even make it great again.

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Little inside joke while we were backstage. Before we get started though, we want to just thank all the pro life, pro family patriots that are here. Please give yourselves applause for being here and making the travel out to Washington, D.C. during this cold winter. We thank you.

You know, the the name of this panel talks about truces and CPAC has never called a truce on being pro life. We've never called a truce on being pro family. And we've got two of our great allies here today in Terry and Penny. They're going to talk about some of the progress that's being made since we've got a great pro life, pro family president of the White House again. So to kind of start with that, Penny, we're a month into the presidency.

President's been pretty active. What are a few of the things that he's done that get you excited in the pro life movement? Well, first off, thank God President Trump won, right?

And concerned with the For America is the nation's largest public policy women's organization. And we are unapologetically pro life women, and we are not afraid to lead with that. And what a great month it's been from everything from pro life people who use their First Amendment rights to, I don't know, sing and pray outside an abortion clinic being pardoned by our president, as they well should have been, to signing the Mexico City policy executive order to the Hyde amendment coming back, and several many important things. Mexico City policy, of course, is about abortions in other countries. And why are we funding all of this?

Why are we spending $700 million a year for Planned Parenthood, who's the nation's largest abortion provider, and also giving cross sex hormones to little kids? Why are we doing that? I think Doge has got a great target right there. Yes, yes, yes, absolutely. Terry, same question.

And for those of you, I mean, I know you guys watch these two great heroes for the pro life, pro family movement. Both have been leaders on making sure that girls play girl sports, that we use the right pronouns when we're describing ourselves and our kids. But, Terry, same question to you. Where has President Trump made you proud this first month? Well, first of all, President Trump is the most pro family president, period, Ever.

Period. He, look, he's done a full blitz, Craig, to protect a blitzkrieg to protect our children and families out of the gate. He signed this executive order to protect our children, not just their bodies but their hearts and minds, from this nefarious and evil transgender industry, which, by the way, this transgender industry that's given our kids cross sex hormones, blocking their puberties, chopping up their body parts and sterilizing them. It's worth four and a half billion dollars in this country, and we just allow it to go unchecked. And we wonder why we're always talking about it.

Well, it's because they're taking that money and they're piling it back into PR campaigns and public relations and pushing it on our kids in schools. But President Trump, out of the gate, signs this amazing executive order to protect our children from this. And it bans the funding of these surgeries. It bans them at any hospitals that accept Medicaid. But also, what was very fascinating to me was it instructed the Department of Justice to investigate any doctors or clinics or companies, pharmaceutical companies, that are pushing transgender surgeries and hormone treatments on minors.

President and then, by the way, President Trump has been leading on the women's sports fight. And it was so cool. Yeah, that's right. He deserves it. But he had this executive order signing ceremony.

And I've been involved in this fight for so long. We ran so many campaigns, campaign ads on this. But in the background of President Trump signing this were all these little girls from all across the country with their jerseys on their, their medals. And you could just see how much his work on this fight meant to those girls. And so I'm, I'm going to be forever grateful, eternally grateful to President Trump for everything he's done.

Can I just add something to that? Can someone. For America's worked on this issue for seven years with many others, but President Trump was the first person to sign a presidential pledge to American women and actually follow through. This happened in 2023. I went to Bedminster, go to my Instagram page, you'll see a picture, and he signed it right away.

And I don't want to tell you how many other Republicans we had to beg and plead with to get to do it, because he got it at his gut. He looked at my husband was in the room. He's like, can you believe I have to sign a pledge that says that there are only two genders and only women can be mothers? Like, you know, like. But he gets it at his gut.

And we're so deeply grateful because transideology has hurt a lot of kids. And we've talked to, seeing Chloe Cole around this, around the ven, around cpac, many others. Yeah. So we, we've had a busy first month. You know, the vice President talked about some things this morning.

Where do we go next? What, what. You know, obviously we got some early victories. He, he followed through on his promises. Where do we need to go next?

Whether it's with the president, whether it's working with Congress. You know, what, what do. What is a great preview, something that our activists that are here can take back home to start working on as kind of like part two here with. Well, I want to say two things. Number one, an executive order only lasts as long as you have the right president in office.

Right. And we've got to get all of this over the finish line into law. Congress has to do their job, and then, of course, the president will sign it into law. So we cannot give up until we actually are able to codify this policy. And the second thing is the vice President did a great job to today talking about, like, key issues.

And I'd like to talk about the issue of marriage. Shall we? Yeah. Yes. Yes.

Let's talk about the idea that at this point in our nation, we have, we're not at replacement rate for our children. For our families, we have less people getting married, young people getting married. We have a whole group of young men that are following the evil path pathway of Andrew Tate, who's openly in favor of pornography, creating pornography. It is the way of destruction. And I just want to hear on this CPAC stage, repudiate all of that, suggest that although not everybody can get married, not everybody can have children, but it's okay to realize and to state that it's the ideal for a family and it's healthy for a nation and it's healthy for people.

And about 81% of young people in this country want to be married. But we're down in those numbers. And I would suggest there's some real systemic causes of that that we have to deal with. Well, Penny, I think that one of the major problems in this country with family is that we've allowed all. All these losers in the media, losers in Hollywood to tell us what masculinity is, to redefine masculinity.

And what they've done is they've defined all masculinity as toxic. So young men have never been more under attack. You know, I'm sure there'll be headlines about, oh, CPAC's saying that men are under attack. They just don't get it. But if you look at being a young man today, you are inundated with pornography, you're inundated with sports betting, you're inundated with all these distractions like weed.

And there are things that are distracting you and deceiving you from the really important things, like getting married, finding that special partner that you can spend the rest of your life with. And then even from there, if you get married now, you have hurdles for these young men that don't even want to have kids. This is. We're called to be fathers. Being.

I've got seven kids, right? And I might have taken President Trump's. Thank you. He had four. The first time he met President Trump, and he told.

It was funny. We took a picture, and President Trump, I didn't know what to say to him. And so going up, I introduced my wife And I said, Mr. President, can you believe that my wife just had her fourth baby? And he says, oh, my gosh, she's stunning.

Which, my wife is absolutely beautiful. Keep going. Don't stop. But being a father, it's the most amazing thing, right? And they get better, every one.

But you hold these little babies and looking up at you is this little vulnerable human being that's looking at you with these eyes. That are just drawn to you. And it's the product of the love between and the other person that you love with all your heart. And now you have something that you love just as much and you didn't think that was possible. And we have an entire generation of young men who are smoking weed, watching porn, not getting married, not even pursuing women.

We have this thing called incels involuntary celibates. It's terrible. And we can't become a great nation again. We can't make America great again until our men are great again. Until our men are strong and watching porn, doing only fans, recruiting people, making money off of girls on only fans.

That's not how to be a man. That's not masculinity. That's some third gender out there that they've invented. And so I don't know, I just think that these young men out here are just, they're missing out and I want to bring them back home. We got to inspire these young men for the challenges ahead of us.

Let me say we're the women's group who love men and mother of a son. We need to have great role models for them. And you know, and I would say those great role models are not the men who monetize women, but it are the men who are faithful husbands. My husband and I have been married 30 years almost. He's been a faithful husband and father to our children, have been a lifelong friend and supported and supported my career.

That's what you want, young ladies, and don't sell yourself short and settle for anything less. Any man that doesn't respect you and is not willing to commit to you, don't settle for it. But at the same time, the young men have been undermined and I think we need to support them and give them the great role models that they deserve because they'll be happier is the truth. And we're talking about changing our culture and we won an election. But as one of our colleagues in the movement once said to me about 20 years ago, he said the fight only begins.

That's right. You win an election and then the fight, that's when the real fight begins. Because that's when you have to start getting things done. What as kind of in our last few minutes here though from a construct, we're talking about these concepts and, and I have a 15 year old son and I spend a lot of time with him. That's one of my biggest responsibilities, is make sure he comes out right.

And I know you feel the same way about yours and your kids. And you know what, what can we do? What can we send these folks home with that they can do, though, to help get this broader culture shift that we're talking about? Can I just add on to that? Because you touched on something very important, and that's parents being good parents.

It is your top responsibility. It's the most important job I have. And so I, you know, and parents, maybe it's a difficult world we live in. Utah just passed a bill saying that parents have the right. Should be the people that allow children to download apps.

Right. Right now, kids can download anything without parental notification. We need to actually help parents have the tools to be better parents, to be able to protect their kids from bad media, from pornography, from all the things that are toxic that hurt them, and be able to give them a loving, faithful home and recognizing that we as a nation are people of faith. And we need to return to that. Yeah, look, I think that there are some easy things that we can quickly clean up.

And there are already movements that are out there that have been growing. So we're up to 26,000 states that are protecting girls sports. We're up to 27 states now that have banned these gender procedures. But we're up to 19 states that require age verification to access adult content online. If we can get our young people, Matt, off of.

Off of porn and get them to 18 where they're. They're dating girls, they're interested in girls, not computer screens and fake stuff online, I think we're going to have a much brighter future. But again, I think we got to reach our young men, inspire them. You know, JFK would have been a Republican today. Right.

And so I think it's obvious. But in his inaugural address, he said, we do these things as Americans, not because they're easy, but because they are hard. Nothing worth doing is ever easy. And we have to inspire young men that's ripe. They want the challenge.

And there's no better challenge than being a good husband and a good father. And by the way, spirit, spend time with your kids. Like, guys, we're dads. We get to have fun like we get to do. We get to buy the candy that mom won't want.

We get to buy the donuts. We get to throw the kids up in the air way too high, but they're having a blast. So spend time with your kids, even if it's five minutes a week or five minutes a day, but just make time for it. Prioritize the right things. And it's not weed.

It's not Only fans. It's not sports betting. It's your fan family. And take them to church. Go to church.

Penny Nance, Terry Schilling, thank you for being at CPAC again. Thanks, guys.

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So good afternoon, cpac. I'm not sure how many of you saw the images this morning, but we do have to start on a somewhat somber note. There were these terrible images of babies being returned in coffins from Gaza to Israel this morning there and I want to toss it to the Israeli Minister of Diaspora affairs and Combating Anti Semitism, Amicha Cheekli, who's going to lead us in a moment of silence for these Deceased hostages. So we have experienced one of the most toughest days since the beginning of the war. It is an extremely difficult day in Israel with the returning of the bodies of Shiri Kfir, Ariel Bibas, two little children and the mothers, along with Oded Lipshitz from Kibbutz Niroz.

And I think if we can take a moment of silence before we begin.

Thank you. So tragically, these images this morning really do set the scene for our broader conversation here. And first of all, let me just make a brief point. You guys all heard from Vice President J.D. vance this morning.

Vice President J.D. vance said it very well about a month and a half, two months ago, where he said the message should not be bring them home for the hostages. The message should be let them go. Let them go. That is, that's a major shift that the new administration is coming with a new spirit.

You know, for decades we've heard this sentence, Israel has the right to defend itself. But this is obvious and no other state needs to mention that they have the right to defend itself. And this administration is coming with a different message that Israel has the right and it's obliged to eliminate its enemies, to eradicate evil, as Marco Rubio said. And this is a totally different approach. And this is how you win wars.

Well, in many, in many ways, Amichai, I think Israel is teaching the west how to win a war which the west has not really done frankly since, since World War II. But I want to briefly talk about the broader war which is the war for Western civilization actually itself. What is Western civilization? We talk about it here. To me, Western civilization is basically synonymous with the Bible.

It all ultimately goes back, as we two Jews know all too well, to God's revelation to Moses at Mount Sinai. I mean when we talk about defending the West, God, Jews and Christians alike, we're talking about defending those very values and that very way of life. And Israel is not just the canary in the coal mine for all these fights, but anti Semitism itself. As you know, in your role it is a direct attack not just on the Jews, but on all of this, on all of Western civilization. Absolutely.

I think that, you know, President Reagan ended the Cold War and we thought that this war ended, but it never ended. It just wear a different face. And we saw it in universities all across Europe, we saw it on universities here in America. And the woke progressive movement is just another face of the Marxist movement. And in its root this is a godless philosophy that denies the idea of truth.

And when you deny the idea, the concept of truth. There is no good and bad. There is no right and wrong. There is no option for moral clarity. And this is how you can defeat the west from within.

That is the effort that made by the woke progressive movement. And this is a threat not just for the state of Israel. This is a threat for America, and this is a threat for Western civilization. And I think that we need to restore those very basic values. And as President Trump says, we want to put God back on the stage.

Because without God, what is truth? What is right and wrong and good and bad? And it all comes from our common values and our common tradition. And that is, I think, a new era. And I'm very optimistic that with moral clarity, we can achieve amazing things together, Israel and the United States, and lead the free world into a better future.

So one of the things that we were talking about backstage a little bit is that, you know, we in the United States, we in the west more broadly, I think, have forgotten what actual evil looks like. We have forgotten that evil exists. Personally, I became a conservative at 12 years old on 911 because I saw the smoke from the Twin Towers with my own eyes. And I think many people in this post October 7th environment are rising to that same realization. But we can't talk about evil, I think, specifically without talking about the Iranian reg regime, which is really kind of the roots of the overwhelming majority of evil, not just in the Middle east, but frankly around the world more broadly.

Maybe you could just talk a little bit about the specific threat from the Iranian regime and its proxies. And I think you might have a bit of a revelation for us. Yeah. Came with some news, but before one word about the concept of evil, I think that, you know, it's frightening to express our kids to the fact that, yes, the monster beneath the bed really exists, there is evil in this world, and we want, you know, to push away our children and the younger generation to believe that evil does not exist. We in Israel, unfortunately, even those of us who thought that there is no evil met evil on its worst option on October 7th.

We saw evil today in Gaza with the horrors of how the Hamas celebrated this moment of bringing the Bibas family and Oded Lipshitz. And I think that we have failed in the recent decades on educating our kids that evil exists. And we need to confront and we need to fight and we need to sacrifice, just like as we have done in the past decades. And this is something which I think that is also changing and I'm also optimistic regarding to it, although it costs at a Very high price. Now with the Iranian regime in Iran, Khomeini Usta started the Iranian revolution.

He set America as the great Satan and Israel as the small Satan Iran was. And Iran is an enemy of America, an enemy of the state of Israel. And they are very determined in their efforts with their proxies. And one thing which is amazing that I would like to share with you is we have made a research and we found out that this entire campaign that tries to connect between Israel and genocide in Gaza, which is a ridiculous claim because what we have in Gaza is a terror regime that seeks to commit genocide on our villages, on our communities. And what we found out that this entire campaign started with the Revolutionary Guards posting again and again and again the message until it got received in the Western Hemisphere, in Britain with also Persian accounts, and then it got spread out.

And we can see in the research that any time that the trend of the genocide in Gaza is going down, they are pushing more and more twists from fake accounts. And this is an entire campaign that was led by Iran and this is the first time that we can share it publicly with you here in cpac. So this is a very, very big deal. I mean, this is an old tactic of the enemies of Western civilization. The Soviets did it once upon a time, trying to folk meant civic discord here in the United States.

And now we see the face of evil yet again in the face of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. So I mean, the good news right now is that we have an administration here, the Trump Vance administration, that is wholly committed, that is wholly dedicated not just to allowing Israel to fight our mutual enemies, but to actually combating anti Semitism as well. And it's just a timely reminder that we are so blessed, truly so blessed to be here at CPAC with good guys in charge, unlike the last four years to be here at CPAC with guys who understand what the west is and what we stand for. So I know that, I know that you've had some meetings in your time in Washington. Why don't you just talk a little bit about what it looks like from your perspective, what the administration is currently doing.

So in the past few weeks, this administration has done more to combat anti Semitism that the entire past four years. And I'm speaking about first putting the task force led by Leon Torell, which is an amazing individual, an amazing leader, totally committed to combat anti Semitism. And I really, we met him this morning and he's an amazing individual. I think we're going to see a shift in everything that regards Combating anti Semitism, also the defunding on universities who failed to combat anti Semitism on universities and many more decision by this administration. And I think that this administration fully gets it.

And it's also worth telling that with the previous administration, not just that almost nothing happened, but the message was so ambiguous and we saw the IRA definition being undermined and I think it was very, very weak. And you know, actions speak louder than words. And I think that this administration speaks with actions and not with big words. And I really love it. And I think it is also, it is a blessing for the Jewish community, for minorities and for American people.

You know, Teddy Roosevelt, the president famously spoke of the man in the arena. That's his famous speech. And Donald Trump is nothing but the man in the arena. He is nothing if not that right now. So God bless Donald Trump and God bless you Omnifi, and God bless you cpat.

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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome U. S Secretary of energy Chris Wright.

I'm thrilled to be here. Thank you all for being here. I'm also thrilled to work for president Donald J. Trump.

And I can breathe. I don't have a tie on today. I've worn a tie more in the last two or three weeks than I have in my whole life. And I feel liberated right now. When I'm on tv, my mom doesn't recognize me in a tie.

Someone looked like you, but it wasn't you. So who am I? I'm a passionate guy about energy. From a kid in high school, I was passionate about energy sources, energy, technology. I've spent after schooling my entire career as an entrepreneur in energy.

Why? It's energizing and also it's what controls the limits in what's possible in our lives. Not just us, but everyone around the world. We had 30 year global life expectancy at birth throughout all of human history, all the way up to less than 200 years ago. Today it's 73 years.

From 30 to 73. Two things catalyze that change. The growth of human liberty. Bottom up, social organization. What we're all passionate about and the explosion in available energy from hydrocarbons.

These two things just transformed the human condition. I am very. Not everyone in the world has access to the liberty and energy we have. But in our own country, both of those concepts have been under great threat in the last four years. Maybe that's why my political career started.

Liberty under threat, energy resources under threat. President Trump was elected partially on this very issue. And he was elected to get rid of the nonsense and bring back common sense. This.

What do I mean by nonsense? Look at the last four years. What have we seen? Every possible new barrier implemented to make it harder to produce oil and gas. No, that doesn't change the demand for oil and gas.

You just make it harder to produce. What do you get? You get less supply and higher prices.

We've seen 30% rise in electricity prices just in the previous administration during President Trump's first term, almost no change in national average electricity prices. All of a sudden, a huge rise in electricity prices, rise in gasoline, rise in energy across the board. So what was the response to that? Well, the United States is the dominant producer of natural gas, and we have a booming industry exporting natural gas to our allies around the world. Well, let's stop that.

Let's ban new permitting of LNG export terminals. And then to add insult to injury, a whole bunch of regulations were rolled out to limit your ability to buy the appliances you want. You may want to buy that appliance, but the new appliance you're allowed to buy by costs more and works worse. My dishwasher has to run for two hours now, and at the end, I got to clean the dishes. Like, my clothes dryer works at half the power.

In theory, this is saving energy. It just takes twice as long to dry. Our clothes like these are just nonsensical things that have hurt people's lives and driven prices up. President Trump came in and he is strong and he is bold and he gets energy. His goal was, we're going to bring back common sense.

So what's the plan? Drill, baby, drill and build, baby, build.

To produce more energy, you need the infrastructure to move that energy to customers. Think of the consumers in New England. You know, they don't have enough access for natural gas there, and they have sky high electricity prices. And you don't get industries placed in those states. Every state that's driven up the price of energy, it not only impoverishes their citizens, but it makes it so businesses don't want to locate there.

Those businesses are going to locate in another State and frankly, over the last four years, a lot of those businesses are going to locate in another country. We don't want that. We want things build in America. We want those jobs in America, which means we need that energy produced and consumed in America. Thank you.

Thank you.

We're on the cusp of a brand new industry, an energy intensive manufacturing industry called artificial intelligence. This is an industry we want to lead in. This is a lead in. This is American technology. It matters not just for the efficiency of our economy.

It matters from the enormous benefits that will come in drug discovery, in product manufacturing, and frankly in driving costs down. And it also matters for national security. Do we want China to lead the way in AI? I would feel naked if there if their AI was better than ours. What does that say about the balance of power and the security of our commitment country?

We need to lead and win the competition in AI and the only way to do that is to have tremendous energy production that we can both grow our electricity production, which is what AI runs on. But stop the price rises. They had almost no demand growth and they raised prices. This administration needs to do the opposite. We need to have demand growth and supply growth and not raising prices.

Everything we can do to push prices down, that's how we can better human lives, better opportunities for American, lower cost of living, more industries that want to invest and build things here in the United States. That is this president's agenda. And as I dig into my job and my colleagues and other cabinet positions, there is an immense amount of barriers to making things happen. Our country, it's become a place where it's very hard to build something. And unfortunately, it's very easy to stop something.

One regulation, one protest there is. So our government is littered with inefficiency and traps that can be exploited to prevent people from building things. So the task before us is big. It's not modest, it's not simple. But we have a committed team who are working every day to get these barriers out of the way.

Let America grow our energy production, build our energy infrastructure, bring jobs and investment back to our country, raise American wages and lower American prices.

And back to those appliances. Who here is in favor of more expensive, lower performing appliances? How many votes do we have for that? One very President Trump. So under this administration, in my department, and actually in many other departments in the Trump administration, we are working feverishly to remove these regulations to free American producers to build the appliances people want to buy.

We have a factory in the southeastern part of the United States that employs hundreds of people to build a particularly popular product these days. It is a tankless water heater powered by natural gas. It's among the cheapest ways to heat your water. Takes the least space, lower cost. Burns natural gas, our lowest cost thermal energy we can have in our houses.

It's a win on every box. That's why they've been selling like hotcakes and are an emerging product. So what did the Biden administration do? They see a hot product. All Americans are voting yes.

They passed a regulation that would make that product illegal and that company would be dead. In fact, that company is very fearful for the jobs and opportunity of those workers. Now, that's hundreds of American jobs. I care personally about that, but it's much bigger than that. It's all Americans would not have available to them a low cost efficient option to have hot water for their showers and their washing machines and everything else we use use it for.

That's just completely nuts. But again, President Trump, fix that problem. Fix that problem. We found a fix and we are fixing that problem.

That factory, staying open, those products are going to be built in mass and they're going to be shipped all across the country for the American consumers that want to buy them. We're not going to tell you what to buy. We want to enable you to buy what you want to buy. That's that crazy freedom idea.

I'll end with saying, America's back, baby. Thank you all.

Ladies and gentlemen, Please welcome the senator from Indiana, Senator Jim Banks.

Thank you, cpac. I'm Jim Banks, United States Senator from the great state of Indiana.

I just left the floor of the United States Senate where I cast my vote to confirm Cash Patel to be our next FBI director.

It's great to be among so many patriots on this historic day. Today marks the one month point exactly that Donald Trump became our president once again, kicking off the golden age of America.

Within a short time, we've gotten just a glimpse of the greatness that will define this new era. President Trump has already rooted out mass massive waste, fraud and abuse within the federal bureaucracy, crippling the corruption of the deep state. He's directed the largest mass deportation operation in American history, making our communities much safer.

And he's removed the kick me sign from the backs of our industries and our American workers.

Our adversaries and our partners have been put on notice. The era of taking advantage of America is over.

While America is heading toward this golden age at warp speed, we also face a troubling reality. There are those within our borders who hate America and are working against our own people. They hate America and everything that she stands for. They aim to break down and degrade everything that sets America apart. While the left.

While the left has found a multitude of ways to sabotage our institutions. Institutions. Wokeness has become their primary weapon. It's a nuke meant to obliterate our culture and erode American society. Wokeness takes fundamental truths, truths that our civilization is founded upon, and perverts them into ungodly anti American lies.

That ideology serves as a tool to undermine everything that makes America great. The family unit, faith in God, and historical and biological truths. Putting up a fight against this kind of poison requires courageous action. And that's why all of us are here today. And that's exactly what President Trump has given us on his watch.

He's inspired the rise of what I like to call the New Right. It's a coalition of conservatives who recognize that the status quo in Washington is failing. The working class steamrolling their best interest. The old Republican Party bowed down to liberal corporate interest and an America last foreign policy while ignoring the working class. And.

And ladies and gentlemen, let me declare to you today that Republican Party is dead.

This is no time for wimpy Republicans. The New Right merges true conservatism with the interest of the people. President Trump and his administration boldly embody this new Republican Party. This administration had the nerve to stand up against corporate America, the media, the federal bureaucracy, Wall street, the mainstream culture, the education system, the entire Democrat Party, and even weak Republicans on our side.

Speaking on this very stage two years ago, President Trump said, quote, on day one, I will revoke Joe Biden's crazy executive order installing Marxist diversity, equity and inclusion czars in every federal agency. I will immediately terminate all staffers hired to implement this horrible agenda. I'd say that President Trump has followed through on that promise and a whole lot more.

Despite how extensively DEI polluted our institutions, President Trump, with the swipe of a pen, dismantled this Marxist ideology from the halls of our government. The Education Department under President Trump has been given 14 days to end any practice that treats students differently because of their race or lose federal funding.

That is a huge blow to DEI and a massive win for our kids. Maybe most importantly, though, DEI has been uprooted from our military because of Secretary Terry Hexth and President Trump.

Under Joe Biden, our armed forces were wasting precious time and taxpayer resources running social experiments. Do you think that China's military is worried about filling diversity quotas and making sure everybody's pronouns and delusions are respected? Of course not. And as a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, I can tell you that diversity in and of itself provides no strategic advantage. In fact, holding up diversity as some kind of moral virtue is a deadly distraction.

Under President Trump, we're rightfully refocusing our military on lethality because that's what keeps Americans safe. Safe. But it's not just the public sector that's purged radical wokeness. Corporate America is also following suit, bending their knee to common sense. Google, Ford, Meta, Walmart, and so many other companies.

All those companies are decimating their DEI programs.

The culture has shifted away from insanity and back toward objective truth and success based on merit.

It's encouraging to know that our young people are a big part of this corporate shift. They've grown up being indoctrinated by all of this WOKE garbage, but they're the ones who are pushing back the hardest. They understand that DEI is a fundamental attack on the American dream. Let me tell you, as a son of a factory worker who grew up in a trailer park, now serving in the United States Senate, that American dream is very personal to me. It's something that's worth fighting for.

I have three young daughters and I want them to inherit an America that values their hard work, not one that prejudges them or bases their value off of identity politics. DEI is the biggest threat to the American dream. But the golden age of America means the death of dei.

Right now, President Trump has his foot on the neck of Wokeism and driven a stake through the heart of those who hate America.

But let me tell you, Congress needs to do its job. We have to reinforce the successes that President Trump and his administration have accomplished. We need legislation to codify and extend his transformative executive orders. Leaders in both the House and the Senate must partner with President Trump to help get these wins across the finish line and make them permanent.

The Anti Woke Caucus is and has been one of those partners. I'm proud to be the founder of the Anti Woke Caucus. During my time in the House, I've handed off the role to Congresswoman Harriet Hackers from the great state of Wyoming, who now leads that caucus. The Anti Woke Caucus works to expose the cultural rot introduced by the WOKE movement and helps to lay the groundwork for much of what the Trump administration is accomplishing today. It stands against the tide and fights for legislation focused on restoring a merit based society, a society that prioritizes free, free speech, fiscal responsibility and the rule of law.

And I'd like to mention that a lot of outside organizations especially the Claremont Institute, have been essential partners in the momentum that we've had. In 2023, the caucus endorsed the Fairness, Anti Discrimination Individual Rights, or the FAIR act that prohibited federal government from discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin. And that same year, the caucus supported an amendment that I provided to the Department of Defense that would have prevented federal funds from being used to hire or pay employees who work on DEI at the Pentagon. That amendment passed the House, but it failed in the Senate. But now that there are new faces in the Senate, I say it's time that we try again.

Let me close by saying that this recent election in November was a referendum on the status quo. President Trump has led this country and this town into a new age. This isn't business as usual in Washington. We're entering a time of American prosperity and peace that we have never seen before. It's felt all across the heartland of America.

Working people aren't used to their leaders being honest with them or prioritizing their needs. But that's what President Trump and the MAGA movement, the new Right, the new Republican Party, have achieved the cancer of wokeness, tried to undermine our national unity and destroy our country. But thank God it failed. We the people, know what makes this country great. This is the greatest country in the history of the world.

It's always worth fighting for. And I look forward to fighting, fighting alongside you to keep this country great. Thank you. God bless.

The yeas are 51. The nays are 49. The confirmation is confirmed under the previous order. The motion to reconsider is considered, made and laid upon the table. And the president will be immediately notified of the Senate's actions.

Radies. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome President of the European Conservative Reformist Party, Mateusz Vorawiecki.

I stand here in front of you as a representative of Europe, a continent which once shaped the world. And great continent. Continent of great explorers and inventors, Industrial revolutions. Columbus and Copernicus, Leonardo da Vinci and Nikola Tesla. It was really a great continent.

And I want this continent to be great again.

Because now this continent is in decline. And we stand on the shoulders of those giants, our herds. And we owe this to them and to our children. As J.D. vance, Vice President, said it a couple of hours ago, from this place.

We owe this to our children to repair the European continent as well. And we have a great past. And we have to fight for a great future. Future. And it is possible we have to fight for a great future as well.

And now a couple of numbers Figures, they don't lie. Europe just 25 years ago and Europe's GDP was bigger than that one of the United States. Fast forward 25 years later, it's by 50% smaller than that one of the United States. Industrial production in Germany is 90% of this from the 2015. By the way, the industrial production of Poland is on the level of 155% of that one from 2017.

So today Europe stands at a crossroads. It can rise again or fade into irrelevance. And we have to rise because we cannot be the weaker partner of the United States. The challenges all around us are really great and grave. And we have to cope with them hard and glove with the United States.

But to do so we must abandon the outdated EU development model.

The Franco German engine has stalled. And Brussels bureaucracy cannot replace real economy and climate and migration policy instead of delivering solutions have created chaos. If we fail to change course, Europe risk becoming a museum, an open air museum you can say, or worse, a colony of Asian powers. That's a real threat. And Europe faces many threats.

Among them not only a very stupid green deal policy, illegal migration policy, which actually is an open door policy for everybody from Africa, from the Middle east. The Wilkommenskultur of Germany, totally wrong. But also it suffocates the free speech and it also fights with very poor defense system. If we do not fix these internal failures, we will have even bigger challenges to deal with. Because Russia, the illegal migration, China and illustration Islamic terror is just next door behind the corner.

Right now bureaucracy is killing Europe. I tell you, Europe used to award ambition once upon a time. Now at the words compliance, we need a renaissance of the European industry. We need a program designed and crafted in Europe 2040. Exactly like the made in America, made in China as well.

But we don't have it. The EU was built on economic cooperation and freedom. And today every entrepreneur, every innovator, every visionary faces an army of regulators. That's Europe. They don't build, they don't support, they punish, they restrict, they require ESG or DEI or another acronyms.

This is what is happening across Europe. So we see this weakness of the European Union in the AI. We have the thickest AI rule books and we have the strictest AI regulations. But meanwhile we don't have AI in Europe. Unfortunately we also, we can see this very weakness of the European Union in our industry.

Energy prices are Soaring. Vice President J.D. vance was dead right saying that we have to lower the prices of energy. I envy so much your program. Drill baby, drill.

We'll look for one in Europe because factories are shutting down, carbon leakage everywhere, mass layoffs in Europe. Yet European elites push towards unrealistic climate policies instead of securing the economic strength and economic growth. We also see this European weakness in the area of freedom. The European Commission speaks of democracy. While silencing dissent.

They manipulate elections. You've heard about what's happened in Romania. My friend George Simeon from Romania is here with us. And they fight with all the republican movements, including my political camp. You might have heard about the Hudson Institute report quite recently published.

What red, red lines were crossed. What Rubicon. Rubicons were. Were crossed. Attack on democracy, Attack on free speech, Attack on opposition.

Putting opposition members in jail. Exactly what Vice President Jaydivan said in Munich is happening in my homeland. What is this? Is this democracy? The liberal leftist government and liberal left organizations receiving money from the European Commission, receiving money from usaid, Ned, the Soros foundation, they were furnished.

They were supported from all over the place. So how our presidential candidates and we have the presidential election three months from today. How he can fight on level playing field with all the propaganda coming from outside, with the Russian disinformation and manipulation coming from the east and all the leftist money coming from the West. That's really difficult. And I tell you, in three months from today, the presidential elections will be after the first round.

And it is a very critical moment for Poland. Depending on who is going to win, our beloved country will go towards the republican values or leftist liberal values or anti values. I should have said my government was punished for standing up to Brussels. EU recovery funds were blocked. And this was against all the rule of law in Poland.

And it weakened also the European Union weakened its own economy through overregulation and demanding even more green deal, even more illegal migration, even more woke and wokeness. And it left itself defenseless by cutting military expenditures while demanding more strategic autonomy. How they connect the dots on the picture, I don't know. European elites live in a fantasy. They speak of strategic autonomy, but while dismantling their own defense industries.

You know what's the biggest stupidity in the European Union? The one which is going to be described in the future history books. The European Union created four new major industries, but not in Europe. In China. Wind turbines, solar panels.

98% of solar panels produced in China. Electric vehicles, 60% of electric vehicles produced in China. And electric batteries, all furnished and supported with the European money. Cannot imagine more stupid thing.

And Poland shows there is another way. So dear friends, come to Poland. We have a very strong GDP growth around 40% over the decade. Come to Poland. No illegal migration, at least until I was Prime Minister.

Because my successor opens the door. He is not even reacting when the German police is pushing the illegal migrants who got to Germany and pushing them back to Poland. So right now you can feel very secure in Poland. But what will happen in a couple of years time if they continue their mad policy? I don't know.

So come to Poland if you want to see a country ready to start. Stand shoulder to shoulder with your great country, with the United States.

But why is Poland safe and strong? Because we have rejected the European self destruction policy. And this is why I'm so much concerned these days that my successor as Prime Minister is a very pro German, pro Brusselian politician, doesn't understand geopolitical challenges around us. And he can destroy this very Poland which we love. We cannot allow him to do this.

I refuse to accept Europe's decline. While I was Prime Minister, Poland grew on average around 4 percentage points. And we had a period of time when we were catching up with Germany and the other Western European countries as the fastest pace in our history. Thank you. And history is unforgiving to those who remain passive.

So we have to really fight shoulder to shoulder to regain free Poland. We have to fend off all those leftist and liberal ideological tendencies. We have to unleash our economies. Deregulation is not means, not chaos. It means unleashing our potential.

And this is what has to be done. Regulation, red tape all over the place in Brussels. This is mad policy of Brussels. The greatest technological revolutions happened not because government stepped back, not because government allowed those to happen, but because government stepped back. Second, we have to defend our sovereignty.

So no more blackmail from the European Commission, no more juristocracy. Do you have juristocracy here in the States? We have it all over the place in Europe and in Poland. It's crazy. Third, we have to rebuild our defense.

And Poland is dedicating more than 4 percentage points on defense. It's the country where, while I was able to repair the public finances and the Polish budget, I have left the Polish budget in a very good state. And my successors are trying to take credit for of this. And we are spending 4.5%, 4.7% on defense because we know how important this is. Europe created the first universities, the first modern economies, the strategies that shaped history.

Now we must awaken that spirit again. The spirit of inventors, the spirit of ambition, the spirit of capital, courage and determination. On top of the already existing difficulties, problems we have this huge war in Ukraine. And there is the space of intermarium, of which Poland can be a barbican, barbican of stability between the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea. And we want to be the indispensable ally of the United States in this part of the world.

We need you, but I believe you need us as well. So if we fail, Europe fades into history. Europe is declining. If we fail, Europe will become a junior partner of Russian Chinese tandem. And together, Russia, China, China and Europe is stronger than the United States.

So it's a jeopardy for the security and stability and prosperity of the United States as well. If we act, however, Europe shapes the future. If we restore our strength and our vibrant economy, Europe and the USA together may stay as a beacon of hope and freedom. The choice is ours. Let's make Europe great again.

Thank you.

The bad people of Mexico meet with the bad people of the United States. What's the result? Culture of death, child trafficking, abortion, illegal gangs, drugs, death. Mexico and United States, we are not just neighbors, we're brothers and sisters. We need to work together.

And let's make Mexico and America great together again. Let's send the world a message. We condemn the police state tactics of Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Lula da Silva and Joe Biden. I want to start by thanking Matt and Mercedes Schlapp and everyone at the American Conservative Union. They say globalism comes to die at tpac.

I'm here to tell you that in El Salvador, it's already there. An amazing time to be in this fight for freedom.

Hey, it's Matt Schlapp with cpac. You know, we've had a huge problem in this country with election fraud, but at cpac, that's not a problem. Our only problem is getting each and every one of you to vote. So look at your badge. You have a number on that badge.

And get your phone out and vote on all the issues that matter. And my guess is you probably like what Trump's doing as well. And we'll have the results for you very soon as I think it was President Reagan said, we're from the government. We're here to help. I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

We're from the government. We're here to help.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a conversation. Please welcome speaker of the House Mike Johnson with Newsmax's Rob Finnerty.

Thank you.

Good to see you, Mr. Speaker.

Well, thank you so much for being here. Look at all the patriots gathered. This is great. Fantastic. About to make America great again for the next four years.

We want to thank Matt and Mercedes Schlapp for putting this together on behalf of Newsmax. Mr. Speaker, thank you so much for being with us. Yeah. As everyone just heard, Cash Patel.

It's official. Murkowski and Collins voted against him.

Mitch McConnell voted for him and announced that he's not going to run again in two years.

I guess my question is, which one surprised you more today? Well, I'm glad he did it. And I want to tip my hat to Leader Thune and the Senate Republicans. They're getting the job done. The Trump Cabinet is being confirmed.

We need that. President Trump needs his team in place. And I'm really grateful that they're moving as quickly as they are and they're setting a good pace. And so far. So far, so good.

So, Mr. Speaker, only twice in, I believe 85 years has the president's party picked up seats in the midterm elections. But you are going to change that in two years? We are. We are.

There's a lot of reasons for that. We're going to defy history and we're going to grow the House majority in two years and not lose the majority.

I think everybody recognizes President Trump needs four years and not two. And if they took the majority back, they would try to impeach them. They would open the border wide. They would create all sorts of chaos. So we have to win, and we will.

And let me tell you why. Because we have a very favorable landscape right now as we're, as we're Sitting here today, 13 House Democrats are sitting in districts that President Trump won pretty handily. That's right. There's more than 20 districts that President Trump came within five points of winning. So we've got a great landscape to go out and play offense, not defense, but offense, to flip those seats into our column.

And on top of that, we had an historic demographic shift, shift in the election cycle. We all saw it happening. We had a record number of Hispanic and Latino voters, black and African American voters, Jewish voters, union workers, all these groups that had not traditionally been in the Republican Party. But on the sheer force of Donald Trump's Persona, they came into the party and, and they're going to be with us for quite some time. Because now we have, now we have a once in a generation opportunity, Rob, to demonstrate for these people that it truly, truly is our conservative policies that are better for them that leads to human flourishing.

It's better for individuals, families, communities, states and the nation as a whole. We do that. We'll hold this majority for quite some time. Question I've wanted to ask you for a while. So before the election, Trump force won Donald Trump's personal plane, there was a photograph.

I'm going to name you four people that were in this photograph. Kid Rock, RFK Jr. Elon Musk, Donald Trump. The fifth person, House Speaker Mike Johnson. Did you ever think that group would be together at 30,000ft?

You left out Jelly Roll. I mean, it's a great group. Yeah, we went to the UFC fight, was in Madison Square Garden, and we did a round trip to Palm beach to South Florida in the same night. So we arrived back at Palm beach about 4:25 in the morning. Morning.

And everybody you just named was up like it was the middle of the afternoon. Man, it was a great, great event. But look, that's, that's the, that's the, the power of President Trump. He brings together all sorts of people that would not otherwise be unified like that. And it's a great thing for the country.

It's unifying for the country. And there's talent and, and it's a Motley Crue sometimes, but in a beautiful way. And that's been one of the highlights of being speakers, hanging out with that. Absolutely. And you fit right in.

Yeah, you fit right in. Can you explain why the left and why so many Democrats are enraged at Donald Trump right now for trying to end two wars that he did not start? I wish I could explain. The Democrats, they're just enraged about everything. Think about it.

Their policies and their parties are in totally disarray. They don't have a leader. They don't have a real vision forward. They don't know where they're going to head. The entire platform has been repudiated by the American people.

The woke progressive nonsense has been stamped out. And so all they know to do is to lash out. I mean, think of it. They're opposing the ending of wars. They're opposing the ending or they're imposing the doge effort.

Right. What Elon and the team are doing is what Congress has not had the ability to do. They have cracked the code. They're inside the belly of the beast of the bureaucracy and the algorithms are crawling through. That's right.

They're exposing this massive fraud, waste and abuse that we have not been able to uncover because the deep state has hidden it from us. This is a revolutionary kind of moment. It really is. And I told Elon in His office Monday before last. I said, you think of this like a scientist and a data analyst and I think of it like a Constitution constitutional law attorney and a historian.

Elon, what we're going to do here is bring back the founders original intent for the federal government. Right. I mean, Rob, you know, you're a student of history as well. The founders wanted a lean, small federal government. They wanted most of the power pushed down to the states, as you know, and they wanted the federal government to be closely monitored by the duly elected representatives of the people in Congress.

The problem is Congress has not been able to do that job because they've been hiding the evidence, hiding the ball. Elon's on the inside and that's why the Democrats are so nervous. He is right over the target right now. Yeah. It's been remarkable to see the Department of Government Efficiency.

That's what DOGE stands for, Department of Government Efficiency. And Democrats are almost in this un American position right now of being against their primary mission, which is to save the American taxpayer money, which to me doesn't make any sense. They like to spend the taxpayers dollar. I don't think that's ever been. They sure do.

They're for big government. That's what big government progressives do. They want the government to control every aspect of our lives. And the last four years, Biden Harris administration, it was, you know, regulations on steroids. And so now we have an opportunity to fix everything.

We have a very ambitious, very aggressive legislative agenda because we have been given this opportunity by the voters to fix it. President Trump got 77 million popular votes, right? Yeah.

In the House, house Republicans got 74.8 million popular votes. That's the highest total we've ever gotten. Wow. Yeah. So we see it as a mandate to dial all that back and to fix it.

And, and you're seeing that happen very aggressively. The President is over 300 executive actions already and we're going to codify so much of what he's doing so that the next team can't unwind it. That's right.

In America, we hold presidential elections every four years. We did so during COVID We did so during the Second World War. We did so during the Civil War. During the War of 1812, the White House was burned to the ground three months before James Madison was elected. How important is it for Ukraine to hold presidential elections?

Well, it's very important, of course, and because they were canceled last spring. That's right. That's right. And the President has pointed that out. And they claim to be A democracy.

That's right. We need an end to the conflict. And what I've explained, I've done two panels at two different, different events. This morning, I started the Republican Governors Association. They asked me about this, and I went to the big business leaders, Fortune 500 executives there.

They all want to know the same thing. What is President Trump doing there? I said, you got to give him room to operate and do what he does. He's doing a level set. Right.

You've got to get both parties to come and bring about an end to this conflict, which will serve America's interest and everybody's interest around the world. But I think of it very much like a mediation or arbitration. If you're a lawyer, you know, I'm a recovering lawyer. Forgive me, I think of those terms. But when you start a mediation, you start an arbitration between two parties.

You don't bring them into the room for that first meeting. You do it separately. So I think Zelensky complaining that he wasn't invited to the first meeting with Saudi Arabia and Russia is misplaced. I mean, what Trump's trying to do is do a level set, put the conditions in place for that real negotiation, negotiation to happen. And we've got to allow him to do what he does.

Remember, he wrote the Art of the Deal. He knows what he's doing. Absolutely. If that level set takes, let's say, three, six months or it drags on. Do you see another funding bill for the war in Ukraine?

Look, there's no appetite for that. What do you think? I know. Yeah. Got our answer there.

We have to. We have to bring it to an end. And I can tell you that our European allies understand the necessity of this as well. It struck on too long. By some estimates, Russia's lost almost 700,000 troops, maybe more.

The Ukrainians have suffered great losses. We have to bring an end to the conflict. President Trump is exactly right. It's time for it to end. And he is the brute force.

I think that can make that happen. The President said that a percentage of Doge savings could maybe go back to the American people in the form of what he called doge stimulus checks, something like 20%. How would that work? Well, look, I mean, politically, that would be great for us, you know, Is that everybody a check? But really, we have to think of it, I think, in a.

That just got everybody's attention. Yeah, I know. I just saw everybody look up all the time. I know, but. But if you think about our core principles, right, fiscal responsibility is what we do as conservatives that's our brand.

And we have a third $36 trillion federal debt. We have a giant deficit that we're contending with. I think we need to pay down the credit card. Right. That's what I think we need to do.

Mr. Speaker, we keep hearing about this one big, beautiful bill. Tell me how big, how beautiful. Oh, it's going to be so big. I shouldn't do it that way.

So the beauty of reconciliation, and I don't want to get too deep in the weeds on the procedure, but normally you need a 60 vote threshold in the Senate to do anything of substance, but budget reconciliation is the one exception to process where you only need 51 votes in the Senate, a bare majority. So we're going to use this reconciliation process to achieve most of the priorities that we ran on in the election cycle and that President Trump. That's right, Committed to. So I could be here a long time listing all those things. But, but clearly it's the most important interest of the country.

We're going to secure that border once and for all. We're going to do that.

We're going to get the economy going again, American economy going, make sure that we don't have the largest tax increase in US History, which is what would happen by default at the end of this year if we fail in this mission. Because the tcja, the Tax Cuts and Jobs act extensions expire. The cuts expire. We're going to get the economy going. We're going to get back to American energy dominance in this bill.

Yep. And we're going to take a blowtorch to the regulatory state, get the bureaucracy back in check.

Lots of details, lots of subcategories under all that. But it's going to be a big, beautiful bill and it has to be by necessity because that gives us the highest probability of success. Remembering that I have a small margin in the House, one. I'm going to have one vote for much of this. What could go wrong, Rob?

It's going to be fine. Right. But everybody, everybody is committed to delivering the America first agenda. And that's why we're going to get it done. So what is your working dynamic like with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who, for the first time in a long time, the Senate's got a bigger majority than the House right now?

Yeah, they do. The Republican majority in the Senate has a larger margin than we do in the House. And so by necessity, the two chambers have to work very closely together. And that's kind of an innovation. It doesn't really happen happen in Washington.

It hasn't so long as I've been there, but as soon as I became speaker of the house in October 23, the first instinct I had was go meet with the Senate Republicans and let's align the two chambers. It just makes sense. It's common sense. So we're doing that and you're going to see no daylight between the Republicans in the House and Senate.

Mr. Speaker, there was some reporting this week that the Democrats are planning what they're calling a Super ticket in 2028. Kamala Harris and AOC are you prepared for that? Oh, let it be so. Let it be so.

Wow. Is that real? Is that's, that's an actual legitimate. Well, I use that word legitimate very loosely nowadays with the media. But that report is out there.

We'll say, wow, I don't know who would run for president. President and who would be vp. Wow. Yeah. I so hope that happens.

Do the Democrats, do they have a leader right now? No, they don't. They don't have a leader at any level. Or is it still Joe Biden? Well, he wasn't the leader for the last four years.

They really are in a real, a real bind. They don't have a leader, they don't have a vision, they don't have a platform they can run on. They have to do a whole cloth reinvention of the party. But they're very divided right now because they're in the blame game as they do the autopsy of what happened in the election cycle. So it's an interesting time.

Look, our party's in great shape right now. We are very unified. We have a broadened coalition. That's exactly right. And we have the principles and the policies that truly are better for the American people.

I think they've recognized that. You know, what happened in the last four years, Rob, is that the woke progressive left tried so hard, they moved so aggressively so quickly to switch swing that pendulum to the left, and it went all the way to the left and it clicked and now it's coming back. Right. We are a center right country. We always have been, we always will be.

And I think President Trump is seen as a force helping us to push that pendulum back in place. So we're going to seize that historic moment and I believe we can, we can bring about a much better outcome for the people and for the country. Two questions. Elon Musk tweeted yesterday, quote, the real reason so many Democrats are upset about entitlements is that they're using taxpayer money to attract and retain illegal immigrants, their future voters. Is that what you think?

The last four years at both our borders has been all about 100%. They opened the borders wide. They did not care about the calamity and the heartache and the death, frankly, that it caused of American citizens, because it was a power play. They wanted to turn these people into voters, and they want to change the outcome of the census in five years. This is very serious, and we're going to be dealing with the effects of this, the catastrophe, for years to come.

It's a terrible tragedy. And don't ever forget that that was their motive. It was for their own political gain that they put the American people in such jeopardy. Fentanyl alone is the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages 18 and 45. And that's flowed open the border.

Human trafficking, all of the attractions, atrocities. They lost hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors in the system somewhere to traffickers. All of it they allowed. They turned the other way. They could have sealed that border any moment.

The president had the authority, and I asked him personally on multiple occasions. I pleaded with him. I begged Joe Biden, use your authority. And he'd look down at the floor and shuffle his shoes and say, I can't do that. Well, the American people let him know how they felt about that.

Can I ask you now, the horse is out of the barn. Joe Biden is in Rehoboth beach, retired. How did he seem during those moments where you were with him in person? It was only a couple of occasions. I talked to him on the phone a few more times than that.

They didn't allow me to meet with him one on one for probably. Yeah, but there's a, you know, now widely reported story of something that happened. I think it was in early February of last year when I was in the Oval Office, and I asked him why he paused. LNG exports, like, Mr. President, why would you pause liquefied natural gas exports to our European allies?

Because they're going to have to go to Vladimir Putin to get their needs met. And he tried to argue with me and tell me that he didn't do that. And it occurred to me in this dialog that he genuinely did not know what he had signed, that they had put this executive order in front of him, and he didn't understand what it was. And that was a very alarming moment of realization for me. And I think the whole country knows now, but it was a dangerous time, a very perilous time for us, particularly in that last year.

Of his administration. But thank God. Thank God that President Trump is back in the White House and we can restore this.

I think, Mr. Speaker, this room knows you, but I think the American people are still getting to know you. And I thought this was wonderful. Your son is on the boxing team at the Naval Academy. I didn't know that.

How is he doing? Well, he's bigger than his father, if that's any kind of. He's doing great. He made it to semifinals in the brigade, you know, championship last Friday and lost in a one point split decision to a young man that was three years older than him and had been boxing about six years longer, I think. So he held his own.

He's been boxing for about seven months. Okay, so seven months and he's on the team. He did jiu jitsu for a long time. He's a tough kid, but this is a. This is a different kind of a.

Does he learn that from his father? Oh, yes, of course. I mean, of course. Yes, of course. No, he's a tough kid.

He. He's a great kid. He takes after his mother. Ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.

All right. Donald John Trump. Do solemnly swear. President Trump is back in the White House.

Is back in the white diamond. Donald Trump has taken back America. I actually started quite a while ago ncpac and I enjoyed it so much that I came back for a second one, then a third that I said, what the hell, let's run for president. Matt said, it's like five years ago, six years ago. He says you should run for politics.

He's the one who said you should run for the Presidency of the United States. It is my honor to introduce to CPAC 2017 our President, Donald Trump. First of all, I want to thank Matt Schlapp and his very, very incredible wife and boss, Mercedes, who have been fantastic friends and supporters and so great. When I watch them on television defending me, nobody has a chance. I love this place.

Love you people. You never stop fighting for America, and I will never, ever stop fighting for you. We know that there are still more records to be shattered, new summits to be scaled, more triumphs to be realized, and more amazing history just waiting to be written. The American adventure has only just begun. God bless America and we will see you next year.

Thank you very much.

You never stop fighting for America, and I will never, ever stop fighting for you. Hey, everyone, it's Matt Schlapp with CPAC. You know, CPAC isn't just a conference. We're fighting 365 days a year on all the issues you care about. Please go to your badge.

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Everything they said about him has been wrong. I don't know how he does it. It has always been a battle against Donald Trump. Trump puts a very bright light on the two tiered system of justice that only seems to go after President Trump. The reason why we want him as president is because he's not stuck in this kind of bureaucratic machination.

He was very clear if you hit your target, you were golden and you could work and work and work and do a great job. He's a very inquisitive person who loves to talk about the economy. Trump does the same thing in a different medium. He's talking directly to the American people. That's why Trump is transformational, because he kind of came outside the Republican Party.

He's a great closer. He understands what the most important issues are to voters. Not only is America a great country, but that we Americans are good people. Donald Trump stands for everything that's good, everything that we need. What needs to be changed in our society today.

Think about that Trump supporter that was demonized, that was taken down, that was criticized, that was targeted. Think about that person out there. That is the one. They are winning tonight. The American people, they've spoken up tonight.

We just lived through history. We're never going to see anything like this ever again.

Being woke is easy when it was just a call to defund the police or end capitalism, Right? It's a little different when your fellow ideologues start cheering for your beheading. And here's a question, this next video. Does this look like London to you?

The pro Hamas protests making for a very interesting political moment at Harvard, a university recently ranked the worst school for free speech in America. What would Harvard do in a moment like this? We all wondered. A school that will expel you from for using the wrong pronoun and making a pink haired trans girl cry. Well, in this moment, Harvard just miraculously transformed into free speech absolution.

Apparently at Harvard, there's nothing offensive at all. Even though everything's offensive at Harvard, there's nothing offensive at all about celebrating the murder of a thousand people, including a whole bunch of ladies and gentlemen, please welcome from Florida, Senator Rick Scott.

So good Afternoon. Welcome to the capital. What do you think about Cash Patel?

You know, I told CPAC leadership that next year's event should be down in my home state of Florida.

You know, we also have a great view of the Gulf of America.

By the way, the weather's a little bit better. I think it's about 75 degrees. So the first thing I want to do is I want to thank you. I want to thank CPAC for all your friendship and support. You know, last year I ran to be Senate Majority Leader, and many of you very vocally supported me, and I'll be eternally grateful.

Your vocal support changed the Senate. You did it.

Now. For too long, Washington has been known for all the wrong things. Big spending, no results, waste, inefficiency. Washington is about enriching politicians like Nancy Pelosi. Yep.

Bureaucrats like Anthony Fauci at the expense of the American people. Washington was always about protecting the status quo because the politicians in Washington made money off of it. Washington was about a radical social, environmental agenda, about forever wars, open borders, lies, and no accountability. Washington was about Washington. It wasn't about the American people who simply want to lead their lives without bureaucrats telling them what the hell to do.

All of that is changing. It's changing fast because of one person, Donald J. Trump, being in the White House.

Now, President Trump is bringing common sense back to Washington. He's bringing transparency and accountability back to Washington. He's working with great leaders like Elon Musk to bring efficiency back to Washington. Washington. And the Democrats are complaining like crazy, but he's changing Washington in record time.

He's bringing the voice of the American people back to Washington. President Trump is making America great again.

Now, what's he deserves? He deserves our thanks and our respect. But what's he get instead? He gets lies and obstruction. For the Democrats, the mainstream media, and even some establishment Washington Republicans desperately cling into relevance.

Mitch McConnell supports Merrick Garland's nomination for Attorney general. He's already voted against three of President Trump's cabinet nominees. Aoc. She's the only one. Fascism.

CNN is blasting blaring that the Trump administration is a threat to democracy and ushering a constitutional crisis. Guess what? Here's the good news. They're the past.

Their voices no longer matter. Their shadow can no longer hang over politics. They lost. The American people won.

What happened? Last fall, President Trump and an army of supporters like you all across this great country started a movement, one that changed the country and reset our future for a golden era. The future is about you and Your hopes and your dreams. It's about us. It's about amplifying the voices of the American people.

Finally, finally, finally giving the government they're paying for and that they deserve.

Now, a couple years ago, in the midst of Joe Biden's disaster presidency, or whoever was in charge, I put out a plan with some ideas to rescue this country from the radical Democrats who are trying to destroy our values and bankruptcy us in the process. Now, the way the Democrats and establishment Republicans responded, you would have thought I broke the law. And the craziest part of it, I couldn't tell who hated it more, Joe Biden or Mitch McConnell. Now think about it. I propose some really crazy ideas.

So just think about these. Teach your students about the U.S. constitution. That's a hard one. The Bill of Rights.

Our founding fathers have their kids recite the Pledge of Allegiance and salute the flag.

Eliminating the Department of Education.

Banning the federal government from asking American citizens to disclose their race or school skin color on government forums.

Funding our police and enforcing all of our laws.

Securing the border. Build a wall. Name the wall after Donald Trump.

Start growing the American economy, not the Washington economy.

Enacting term limits for a member of Congress and federal bureaucrats. Protecting the integrity of the American election.

Protecting, defending, promoting the American family at all cost.

Believing in science. Guess what? Men are men. Women are women.

Unborn babies. They're babies. Sorry, Democrats. I was tarred and feathered for proposing such crazy ideas. But it was worth it because it was time for Republicans, at least the true honest, conservative Republicans, to stand up and fight the hell back.

Now, here in Washington, we're seeing what truly fighting back gets us. The bureaucrats are scared that their lives are being exposed. The money spigot is being turned off. NGOs across the world and liberal think tanks around the world are scrambling because they're golden goose in has finally laid its last egg.

Corporate America has tripping over itself to reverse racist DEI programs that seek to divide us by race, gender and creed. Now fighting back gets us a government that's listening, an administration that's focused on a stronger future, a president that really cares, who truly fights for us and will not accept the status quo any longer. Now let me say what I said a few years ago when I introduced my plan to rescue our country. Failure is not an option. The future of this country depends on each and every one of us and the actions we take today, tomorrow, and the months to come.

Now, I've got grandkids, many of you in this room and watching on TV You've got kids and grandkids as well. In America, we used to believe we had a duty, a sacred duty to leave things better for our children and our grandchildren than we found them.

Two trillion dollar deficits, $36 trillion in debt, Medicare and Social Security going bankruptcy, failing schools, high crime rates means that hasn't happened. Instead, our political and cultural rot has made things harder for our kids and our grandkids than they were for each of us. It's harder to get a good education now than it was when I was growing up. It's harder to buy a home. It's harder to start a business.

It's harder to get a good full paying job. It's harder to live the American dream. That's wrong. That cannot be our legacy.

Those of us fighting side by side in the conservative movement have faced significant obstacles, even unfortunately inside our own party. But you and we have kept fighting. We have to fight harder now. We have the opportunity. But it takes our fight now.

We all watched what happened in Butler. We all saw President Trump stand up and raise his fist at what he do. Fight, fight, fight. Even in the face of unimaginable obstacles, he kept fighting. Now we know he's going to keep fighting.

I know I'm going to keep fighting. And I know everybody in this room is going to keep fighting with us.

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As I think it was President Reagan said, we're from the government, we're here to help. I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrible, terrifying words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help. We're from the government, we're here to help sources out there that are saying that Iran, their goal is to draw the US into this broader conflict. There's no question that not only did the Iranian parliament come out and start saying death to Israel, you know that they've chanted death to America. They hate us, they hate our culture, they hate what we stand for, which is that of freedom and religious freedom.

And for them they want to take us down. And the mere fact is you have a commander in chief right now who is hiding in the basement that needs to be out there every single day answering the tough questions. Instead, they basically say that climate change remains the most important national security security crisis that we're facing. They have caved in time and time again to Iran while knowing that they are funding Hezbollah. They sent over $100 million, that is Iran, to Hamas and over $700 million to Hezbollah.

Clearly it is about sponsoring terrorism. Clearly it is about destroying our strongest ally, Israel and then America.

Ladies and gentlemen, up next, nowhere to hide the takedown of left tech. Please welcome from Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt and founder and president Article 3 Project, Mike Davis.

Thank you, sir. Yeah, good to be with you.

Well, thank you for coming. We're going to talk about big Tech, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple and what we need to do to end their gatekeeping power over information and commerce. And this started under the Trump 45 administration where we saw our 100-year-old antitrust laws get dusted off and we ended Big Tech's antitrust amnesty where we're, where we, we want to use antitrust, which is law enforcement to go after these trillion dollar big tech monopolists who they have too much power and they use that power for bad things and they're anti competitive and we saw that the Trump 45 Justice Department started this. I always said that the only thing that the Biden administration did right was they continued President Trump's antitrust enforcement under the Biden antitrust division. And we're seeing with President Trump that he is fully committed to, to finishing the job with antitrust.

You see this with his appointment of Andrew Ferguson to chair the Federal Trade Commission. And we're seeing this with President Trump's pick of Gail Slater to lead the antitrust division. And it is, it's critically important because these trillion dollar big tech monopolists, they crush competition, they shudder small, small businesses and they cancel conservatives and others with whom they disagree. And I'll tell you that the tip of the spear in this fight has been Senator Schmidt from Missouri. He has been a warrior against big tech.

And so I'm very pleased to talk to him today about these issues. And I just want to start this off, Senator, to just get your thoughts on antitrust and big tech generally and what you think needs to happen. Well, I think great to be with you and great to be back at cpac. What a great crowd.

And this feels a lot different now that we won in November than it did just a couple years ago, doesn't it? There's a new sheriff in town. So, yeah, I think that, that for most people, especially people in this room and conservatives, they have seen, Mike, over the last four years in particular, what happens when you have these massive concentrations of power. And you see that sort of collide with this fundamental belief that we have as conservatives that when we're born, we're born with certain rights and those rights come from God. And the first one that's mentioned in our, in our Constitution, our Bill of Rights is the right to speak your mind.

This idea of fundamental human expression right and government's only role is to make sure it protects those rights. That's like the foundation of the country. And we believe that. So when you have these massive companies, then that infringe upon that right? And sometimes with the behest, at the behest of the federal government.

It's a scary situation. In my, my previous job before this one, I was Attorney General for the free state of Missouri. It was a great gig. I loved it. And we launched the Missouri vs Biden lawsuit, which turned into Murphy vs Missouri.

But you got to remember. So I think it's important to sort of go back in time in 2021, 2022, really, before Elon Musk had bought Twitter, before Jim Jordan was holding hearings. We filed this lawsuit. And it's interesting. Jen Psaki, you gotta go back.

This is Covid forced masking, forced vaccinations. The real raw Power of the federal government was on display. And Jen Psaki was standing there up at the podium saying, yeah, we're flagging this for Facebook. They need to take this down. They wanted to start a disinformation governance board.

Remember Mary Poppins who was singing, what was her name? But she's, you know, singing about how great it is. And this misinformation, this disinformation must be taken down by the government. So you saw this when we filed the lawsuit, we got discovery before the temporary restraining order that ultimately went to the Supreme Court. And what we found was shocking.

We had an idea of what was happening, but could have never been prepared for what we found, which was high level government officials working directly through a secret portal with the big tech companies at Facebook, at Twitter saying, take this down, this is misinformation, you need to take this down. And them saying, okay, what else can we do? They were also threatening, threatening to take away Section 230 protections that they didn't do more censorship. So as this unfolded, it really, I think showed to the world and to this country the real risk of these concentrations of power with the federal government working directly with big tech giants to censor speech. And I think this is the fight, this is the fight long term for us.

The Democrats, the liberals even have ceded this ground, the high ground of defending your right to speak your mind. And so as conservatives, I think we should own this issue. It's the right thing to do. And clearly American people, I think, watched all this the last four years and they sent back President Trump to fix it. That's exactly right.

I think people need to understand the whole, the whole point of antitrust is to protect the free market, right? When you have these trillion dollar monopolists using their market power to crush competition, you no longer have a functioning market. You no longer have a free market. And that's why antitrust laws that have been on the books are so critically important to break up this power. Because if you, if you're a free market conservative like we both are, you should strongly support, support antitrust law enforcement.

You are targeting the anti competitive tumors on the free market. So you don't need industry wide regulation. Facebook is calling for regulation. Of course they are, because they're a big company and they can afford to pay for the lawyers and the lobbyists and you know, the PR people to navigate those regulations. Those are entry barriers to startup competitors.

And I would say this, remember this about Google and YouTube. If Google competed against YouTube instead of acquired YouTube, there's no chance that Google would be censoring half of America based upon their political viewpoints. They would try to be. They would be competing. Google would be competing with YouTube for conservative users, not trying to censor them.

And I think that's really important to remember, I think. And I think Google in particular, like, there's been a lot of attention. I mean, thank God Elon Musk bought Twitter and X. And it really is a platform. It really is a platform.

And. But Google is really the ultimate black box, that algorithm. Like if you're a business or whatever or you're a political candidate, there's a huge difference between you being on page one of the search and page 12 of the search. Right. And nobody gets to see the wizard right now.

Nobody gets to see it. So I think some of these, the litigation as relates to Google's really important to sort of bust that up so you have real competition. That's right. There are two major antitrust lawsuits working their way through the courts right now. And Google's the worst of the worst.

They're the worst actor. And one is on Google search monopoly. When you go on Google and look for things online, that's their search monopoly. The bigger problem is Google has an online advertising monopoly. Right.

They use the money they make with their online advertising monopoly to fund their censorship. All their woke nonsense that they do is because they have this online advertising monopoly. And you're seeing lawsuits right now, again, started under Trump, to Biden's credit, continued under Biden. We need to finish the job with Trump's antitrust law enforcers like Gail Slater at the antitrust division. Another problem you're seeing with these big tech platforms is something like News Guard, right, Where they have, they rate news services in schools like libraries and classrooms.

And of course, they give conservative news organizations like Newsmax or Fox News or Breitboard, they give them lower grades. And so kids don't have access to conservative news sites. They get the liberal news sites like CNN and msnbc. And that needs to end as well because again, they're trying to control information and commerce in this country and we just cannot let this happen. So.

Well, I think the other thing that's happening too, and we saw it, which is why, you know, it's such a great opportunity. Opportunity for us now with, with having President Trump in the White House, having a Republican House, having Republican Senate, because we can actually put some structural safeguards in place too. For example, you know, section 230 protections. What is that back in the 90s when the Internet was sort of Becoming a thing. What Congress said was, okay, you're gonna be sort of immune from liability because you're a platform, right?

People can go on there. As long as an open platform, you can't be sued for what somebody else says. And the idea was to have this democratization of information, right? What it didn't ever contemplate was that they would then be themselves sort of the censors, right? And so I think, you know, by way of legislation, you got to pick.

You're either going to be an open platform or you're going to be a publisher who can get sued, like 60 Minutes ought to get sued for the nonsense that they did to President Trump in the interviews. So they gotta pick a team. And also, if you're a bureaucrat and you work to censor Americans, you ought to be able to be sued individually by a citizen. So it doesn't take an attorney general to have to go do that. You, as an army of Americans, can sue the censors.

That would change. I think that would really change the incentive, incentive structure, which would be really important. And I can't, I can't miss the opportunity to point out just how exciting, as Mike and I and all of you believe. You know, the founders believed in this system of checks and balances where we have, you know, powers spread out among the branches. You have federalism.

The whole intent was so that no one branch or no one person could get ever to get so powerful to take your liberty away. Right? That's the whole idea. The whole point is to protect individual liberty. They could have never contemplated the administrative state as it currently is right now.

Right? These, this army of bureaucrats in buildings, by the way. They don't even show up to work anymore. About 6% of people are actually in the offices here in Washington, D.C. on any given day.

But they have immense power. Over your lives, Right? Over your lives. They can take away your liberty. In some cases, they could take away your livelihood.

And so what President Trump is embarking on, and you see just the histrionics every day, the Democrats are losing their minds because of Doge and these efforts to strip away that power. And they should, they should, because the people of this country elected one person to run the executive branch and he gets to make decisions on personnel and on policy. And you don't get to see send millions of dollars to Guatemala for sex changes and think you're immune from having that money stripped away. That's what this fight is all about right now. So it's an exciting time.

It is an exciting time. And I will say this to the big tech platforms like Google and Facebook, thank you for paying for Trump's inauguration. I think Mark Zuckerberg donated a million dollars. We appreciate that. It was a fun party.

But Mark Zuckerberg spent, what, $400 million chasing President Trump out of office in 2020. So $400 million versus a million dollars. I think he has a lot of catching up to do. And I don't think. I don't think that he's going to buy antitrust Amnesty from the Trump 47 Justice Department or the Trump 47 Federal Trade Commission.

We have. We've had these antitrust laws on the books for 100 years. And to these trillion dollar big tech platforms, nobody's above the law. And so I. Justice is coming.

Yeah. And I think one other. With the time we have left, I just mentioned one other thing to kind of look out for on the Judiciary Committee. I was telling Mike, I chair the Constitution Subcommittee, so we have jurisdiction over the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, second. So get ready.

We're going to have some fun hearings and bring people in and hold people to account for trying to take away your right to speak your mind.

So whoever's watching this, who engaged in the activity, stay tuned. But also, what's happening with Doge right now? And it was so smart to start with these, with usaid, right, where you had all of this money flowing to D. DEI programming in Burma and LGBTQIA plays in Europe and, you know, LGBTQ Sesame street in Iraq. I mean, this is, like, totally insane, but that's where this money was going.

But it was funneled effectively through these NGOs. Right? The Biden administration was also using these NGOs to bring mass migration into this country, to break up our sovereignty as a country. And they were also using it to help flag things for their vast censorship enterprise. And so I think we're going to do some investigating on who these NGOs are.

And if you want to know why the Democrats, if you want to know why they're objecting so much to this, there is a lot of corruption that's going to be exposed. So let's go. I want to. I want to. I want to.

I want to end this on this point. Senator Schmidt has been a warrior in the Senate for President Trump's Cabinet picks and others. And Cash Patel was just confirmed today as our next FBI director. I remember when Cash was nominated, a lot of very smart people in Washington said his nomination was dead on arrival. Well, now it's Director Kash Patel and I want to thank, want to thank Senator Schmidt for all he does for President Trump and his, his, his nominees.

This guy is a warrior. So thank. Thanks for your work too. Thanks for your work too. Thank you.

Yep. All right. God bless you guys.

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Congratulations to Matt and Mercedes Slap for making it happen. And what a time it is to cross the pond, my country. You can't say anything or you might get put in prison. We're getting poorer. Everybody's miserable.

We're governed by a left wing, awful government. Suddenly, post November 5th, America is optimistic, it's upbeat. It's the beginning of the golden age in America. And it is all because of one totally extraordinary individual. You know, I can tell you that if you take on the establishment, they do not come out with a tray of drinks.

The whole of the British establishment wanted us to be members of the globalist European Union. All the parties, all the big businesses, all the trade unions. And it was almost me alone saying, this is a crazy idea. We want control of our sovereignty, our borders and our identity. Back with the British people.

And for daring to say that they made my Life hell. But the tough times I went through are as nothing compared to what they put Donald J. Trump through. It went on for year after year after year. Endless court cases, mainstream media abuse, harassment of his family, debanking from some of the worst financial institutions, assassination attempts.

And yet this man has come through it braver, stronger, wiser than at any point. He is simply the bravest man that I know. And we should all applaud him. We really should. We really should.

And what a pick. What a pick for vice president.

You know, very often around the world, very often vice presidents, American vice presidents are not particularly noticed, not taken that seriously. But after the speech at the Munich Security Conference, I think we can say with some confidence that the American VP is going to be a major part of global politics. I loved it. I loved it. Did you enjoy his speech?

Well, I tell you what, they didn't, did they? They absolutely hated it. It rather reminded me of my times in the European Parliament a decade ago, getting up, saying the bloke had the charisma of a damp rag and that rather upset them. But JD was right to have allowed millions of, of undocumented young males to come into Europe, many from war zones in which they took an active part, to allow those people who come in, and in many cases come from cultures and countries where women are not even treated as second class citizens, to have seen the massive increases in crime, gang crime, dramatic increases in sexual crime against women, and yet nobody in the European establishment is prepared to put their hands up to recognize the depth of the problem and to say sorry to their people. And JD Called them out in this speech and he was right.

He was right.

He also mentioned free speech and I think was a third figure in American public life. Now that is. Well, I think he's a hero because if you remember 2020 in November, you couldn't say anything about the conduct of the election in this country. You then couldn't say anything about vaccines or about lockdowns without social media closing you down. And then along came the hero of free speech, Elon Musk.

Fantastic. And he's fighting for free speech. And boy, if we don't have free speech, we're not living in a free, open, democratic society. It matters that much. And I think what, and I believe that the talents of the world's most successful businessmen going into this amazing Doge project.

I wish him all the luck in the world and Godspeed. I really, really do.

We very often follow you American trends. We tend to follow you, occasionally follow some of our trends. I Mean, you gave us woke and we gave you Prince Harry.

No, you keep him. You keep him.

But in 2016, we delivered a political thunderbolt across the whole world, and it was called Brexit. And I believe that a wave crossed the Atlantic and helped Donald Trump win the presidency in November 2016. Well, this time, the Trump win has the ability not just to save your country, not just to make you freer, more prosperous than America has ever been, because undoubtedly that is what is going to happen, but it's also producing a wave that is now coming the other way across the Atlantic. I had been retired from politics for nearly four years, but I decided last June I'd get back into politics because I couldn't bear what was happening in my country.

And I, I am now leading, and in historical terms, this is incredible, I am now leading reforming uk, and we are now topping every opinion poll in Britain.

And we are, and we are going, going to win the next general election and save our country. We're going to do it. We're going to do it.

And what you guys have done, what cpac, what the activists have done in helping President Trump win 85% of the counties in this great country of yours, to win the House, the Senate, the majority vote, all those things you've done, the confidence of this man surrounded by a great, great team, this is all going to blow back and help us in our endeavors and across the rest of Europe too. And I really believe, I really believe that, like you, British taxpayers have had enough of sending £100,000 to Bangladesh to study shrimp behavior.

But we've had enough of free speech being cracked down upon. We've had enough of two tier policing, two tier justice, different groups of people being treated differently by the law. We've had enough of being told, you can't say that, the hell with it. Within the limits of what free speech gives us, we should be allowed to say whatever the hell we want.

And we will. And we will. We will deport those who come into Britain by dinghy illegally. We will make sure that those to come to Britain legally subscribe to our shared values. In fact, in many ways, what we're fighting for is a very similar agenda to the one that you've just fought for and the one that you have just succeeded with.

I want to finish by saying, as a regular at CPAC and as somebody who has publicly supported President Trump and been a friend of his for a decade, this is a remarkable CPAC coming together. This is something to celebrate in style, to be proud of you're going to make America great again. And we in turn, will make Britain great again. Thank you. Thank you very much.

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What a good looking crowd today. I love it. All right, so we are going to be doing our podcast live. So I'm going to give you guys a countdown. You guys are going to be in the podcast with us.

I'm going to say we're from cpac. I want you guys to be as loud as you possibly can. Are you ready? All right, here we go. Welcome.

It is Verdict with Ted Cruz live from CPAC 2025 cinder. It's. I like this being our annual time to hang out with fun people. Well, it is great to be back with cpac. And I gotta say, CPAC this year, there is energy, there's excitement.

It turns out winning doesn't suck. It does not. And we have a guest. We have the Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi.

So these guys never invite me to be on their podcast. They finally did and I get to do it in front of all of you. So this is awesome. Well, Pam, I will tell you that there is some good karma to being on this podcast at cpac because the last guest we had at CPAC was someone named J.D. vance.

He's done all right for himself. He's a great man. So welcome. Thank you. You have been attorney general 15 days.

It feels like 15 years. I believe you. And by the way, you just got some help an hour ago. The Senate just finished confirming.

Been on the phone with him non stop. I talked to him on the ride over here. He is going to do fantastic. All right, let's start. 15 days.

You've come into what I think is the single most important cabinet position in this administration because we went through four years of Biden weaponizing the Department of Justice, using it to attack his enemies and to support his friends. So let me ask you, you come into doj, you've got a mission. You've got a mission to restore integrity to the department, to end the weaponization and politicization. How do you do that? How do you get that done?

You know, the volume, Senator, what concerned me the most, it's the volume of how bad it was. And it still is. We're working on it. It's day by day by day. But we've got a team of great people.

And on day one, I issued 14 executive orders. And number one is the weaponization ends and it ends now. And that's what we did.

Let me ask you something. In the 15 days you've been there, how many DOJ employees have said so? Something to the effect of, thank God, a lot of them. I believe you. Look, look, I spent four years hearing from AUSA Assistant US Attorneys, hearing from FBI agents, hearing from men and women who believe in the rule of law and were horrified at the politicization of the FBI and the doj.

And so I know for a lot of good, honorable men and women who've devoted their careers to defending the Constitution, there's a lot of gratitude that they can get back to doing their job, their core function. And that's thanks to Donald J. Trump getting back in office. And he gave us a clear directive, make America safe. And that's what we're going to do.

You know, to start with the law enforcement agencies talking about cash. These men and women didn't go to Quantico. They're not risking their lives to waste their time on all this politicization and raiding Mar a Lago. Really stopping all of that is stopping. And we are returning them to their core function, fighting violent crime.

And that's what the great majority of men and women in law enforcement, DEA, ATF, U.S. marshals, FBI, as well as the incredible legal team at the Justice Department. That's what they want to do. So let's talk about one of the most lawless aspects of the last four years, which was the open borders that we saw and the 12 million illegal immigrants that have come into this country. You've had just two weeks, but you've hit the ground running, going after the criminals, going after the murderers, going after the rapists, going after the child molesters, going after the.

The Venezuelan gang members. Tell us, number one, what you're doing as Attorney general, that is making a real difference. That is already making America safer. And number two, I understand you have some breaking news concerning my home state of Texas, which I'm particularly proud to hear. I do, I do.

And the press release isn't even out yet. Joint Task Force Alpha, that we elevated one once we came in office. It's with the Department of Justice and the FBI, and we work hand in hand with Homeland Security. Christine Ohm is awesome. We all work so well together.

Joint Task Force Alpha just made a huge arrest in Juarez, Mexico. They were headed to Texas, to El Paso. Human smuggling. Yeah, huge. That's why we do what we do every day.

That's why these agents risk their lives every single day. It's human smuggling. And a lot of children, a lot of children they're saying are safer because of this. Let me ask you a question. President Trump, and this has made headlines on what you're just talking about, we've designated these cartels as terrorist organizations.

What does that allow you to do in your job? And Cash Patel now is the head of the FBI. What is that going to give you the ability to do and to go after them? Well, Stephen Miller is doing a great job, as we are. Right.

Leading this effort with all of us. Mike Waltz at dod, we all work so. Keith Hagseth. We all work so well together. And it gives us the ability.

They are a terrorist group and it gives us the ability to go after them more ability anywhere in the world and treat them as terrorists. They are terrorists. If you're bringing fentanyl into this country and killing our kids, you're a terrorist and we're coming after you. 300 a day is the average that are dying in this country right now. When you took this job and you hear that number and you saw the inaction from the last administration, how angry did that make you?

So angry. You know, State ag, before I became United States Attorney General. And fentanyl was really just coming on the market and now with this horrible open border policy just flowing, flowing across our borders and killing kids, killing adults every single day. And it's criminal that no one was doing anything to stop it. I can't comprehend how any administrative administration, progressive nor conservative, how any administration could tolerate that and let that happen.

And it ended day one with Donald Trump when he shut that border. I was at the border back in September. I went with Lara Trump and Morgan Ortegas and we were in Yuma, Arizona. And I saw firsthand, there is nothing humanitarian that was happening at that border. Nothing.

Nothing. They have a race rape tree where they're raping women as they're coming into this country. I saw firsthand piles and piles of passports just thrown from every country you can imagine because the Biden administration was letting you walk right in the country if you didn't have a passport. They said they saw Asian Chinese individuals saying, oh, we're from Cuba. So they wrote down there, from Cuba and had to let them legally walk right in under that administration.

But the drugs, the trafficking, I learned a new term, disposable child. The customs, the border patrol agents told me that they saw a little boy. And they kept recognizing the same little boy over and over and over coming in. Because if you came into our country as a family unit, they just let you walk right in. This little child was being trafficked.

Yes. Now, how they were getting him back to me, Mexico, is beyond me. But they were bringing on again, he wasn't their family, so who knows what happened to his parents. Well, and I will say a number of people in the room gasped at a term you use, which, which unfortunately is a real term, rape tree. And it's something that we're seeing, we've been seeing for the last four years in Texas.

We've seen it in Arizona, that the cartels will go and violently rape women, Women, they'll violently rape teenage girls, young girls, and then they will hang their underwear in the tree. And you'll find a tree down on the southern border with 10, 20 pairs of underwear as they're mocking law enforcement, saying we can do whatever we want. And for four years, the Biden Justice Department, they just, they just turned a blind eye and they facilitated it. You know, you talked about the kids. So they had a policy.

If you arrive with a kid, it's essentially a get out of jail free card. And so you started seeing a phenomenon that we've never seen in immigration before, which is single young men showing up with little kids. Now, that's not a normal pattern of migration, but we started seeing military age men showing up with little boys and little girls, many of whom are physically and sexually assaulted in transit. And the same kid, the cartels would recycle over and over and over again to bring in gang members, to bring in criminals. Now let me ask this, what is most effective?

Stopping the invasion at the southern border? The border. Closing our borders, which is what we've done. Donald Trump has closed our border. But now, of course, we all know we have so many of these illegal aliens fighting age men ages 13, 18 to 35 in our country, walking around our country.

And President, how concerned are you, how concerned are you right now about the 12 million illegal aliens who came in under Joe Biden and about the risk of terrorism, of Hamas, of Hezbollah, Palestinian, Islamic Jihad, the risk of terrorism targeting Americans across this country. It's, it's, it's a huge risk. And we, we all, we all know how bad it is now. And that's what Donald Trump is committed to do, is to take these people out of our country, to prosecute them, to deport them, to get them off our streets. And that's what all of these law enforcement agencies are doing.

You know, Lake and Riley, of course, that beautiful young woman, University of Georgia. Lake and Riley is probably the most prominent name. But look how many Lake and Riley's are out there. One victim is too many. Jocelyn Nungaree.

Rachel Marin. Right. We, right. I mean, the numbers every day. And, and I gotta say so already in the first two, two weeks, you've sued New York, you've sued Chicago, you can clap for that.

These sanctuary cities that are fighting, and I've got to say Massachusetts in particular, actually our last podcast, we talked about this, how Massachusetts continues to this day to have violent child rapist illegal immigrants who they release on the Streets. And they refuse to notify ice. They refuse. These are illegal immigrants who could be deported immediately. And the Massachusetts officials take criminals who violently rape little kids.

Let me ask you, what is your message to a mayor, to a local official who wants to defy federal immigration law? Well, our message is very clear. I sued Illinois First, Chicago, first day, first day. And I gave a very strong warning. If you don't comply with the law, you're next.

And guess who didn't listen. New York. Kathy Hochul got sued. They all got sued in New York. And if you don't follow the law, you're going to be next, because we are going to get violent criminals off our street.

And you know, Senator, it's more than that. They are endangering the lives of our great men and women in law enforcement. That's what people don't understand. When you're hiding illegal aliens from law enforcement, you're endangering their lives. It's gonna stop.

So let me ask you, two weeks into it, you've been at doj. What's your assessment? Is it as bad as you thought it would be? Is it better? Is it worse?

It's worse of. It's no worse. You inherited chaos. Worse. Worse, meaning.

Yeah, that. That department had completely lost its mission of fighting violent crime. Look what they did to President Trump. Look at the weaponization. And weaponization ended.

And the deep state is very real. I think all of you in this room know that it's very real. And people trying to undermine everything you're doing. You know, three weeks into it, I went in one department and found huge 20 by 20 glossies of Joe Biden, Merrick Garden, Merrick Garland, and Kamala Harris still hanging up in my office. They're gone, they're gone, they're gone.

And guess what's replacing it? A very handsome photo of a man named Donald Trump. Not the one. The hallway. Right, that picture.

That. That one. Okay, I like that one. And replacing. But I make light of that.

But that's what's happening. You know, he had been in office three weeks, and the deep state still had those pictures hanging. And that's. To me, that's defiant. It's insubordination, not going to happen.

But you know what we said most people, the majority of the people are great people who went to law school, became prosecutors, became law enforcement agents to fight crime. You've spent your professional life as a prosecutor. How important is it to you to go after bad guys and to get bad guys off the street and keep people safe? It means everything. And that the drug epidemic, you know, the fentanyl just flowing into our country now, the terrorists, the gangs, TDA, Trans Dagua, MS, 13, all of the gangs who are now terrorist organizations, we've got to stop them.

And that's why we do what we do. And we all have to work together. And working with Homeland Security has been great, too. So one of the most shocking statistics from the prior administration is the number 300,000, 300,000 children that the prior administration had in custody and that they lost, that they do not know where they are. We know that many of those children are being abused right now.

Tell, tell me about the efforts, you and Homeland Security and the Trump administration, the efforts you are doing to find those children and to get them out of harm's way. That's top priority. And that's Donald Trump's top priority, to find these victims and to save them. And that's what I don't. I truly can't comprehend how any administration would let that happen and not care.

And that's what we're all fighting for. And, you know, you say when you take a job with this incredible volume, you think, how do you do it? How do you. How do you focus every day? And you do it by saying, if I can save one life, it's worth it.

Well, it's a lot more than one compound. That's how you start off one life. And it is thousands and ultimately more. So I want to say something to the folks here at cpac, which is, as many of y'all know, Ben and I do this podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. We do it three days a week.

We do it Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. We've got roughly a million unique listeners all over the country. And we do this to go around the corporate media, to go directly to the American people and to bring the truth and bring the facts. So I want to ask everyone here, many of y'all already subscribe to the pod, but I want to ask everyone here to pull out your cell phone right now, pull out your cell phone and text the word verdict. V E R D I C T.

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Oh, my father points out that he, you know, my dad is 85 and he said when he hears subscribe, he thinks it's a magazine subscription. There's no charge. It just magically appears in your phone early in the morning on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. And we bring in guests like the Attorney General of the United States and we focus on what is happening, the victories that President Trump is winning and the news that the corporate media won't cover. I want to ask you 24005 I want to ask you a question.

It's one that I've been dying to ask you. And it deals with with all of the pardons that were given out from Joe Biden at the end. There were a lot that went to his family. It is what it is. There's one person he did not pardon that would be himself.

There are a lot of people that think there should be accountability. Should this be something that is looked at to see what he did while he was president.

Don't you find it very interesting, though, that they attempted to prosecute the president for having documents in the most secure place in the world other than the White House, Mar A Lago. And he had the security clearance to take them. Yet Joe Biden, who had no security clearance to take them at the time, had them in his garage with his drug addict son going in and out of his garage. Yet what did they say about him? Too old to prosecute, frail old man.

But listen, Donald Trump and I have not talked about that at all. This is not about targeting. This is what they do to us. This is not about targeting. This is not about weaponization.

This is about keeping America safe and going forward and prosecuting violent criminals. If you committed a crime in this country, no one is above the law. I will say that. No one is above the law.

So, so, Pam, the, the media are going crazy about New York Mayor Eric Adams and the charges that were dismissed against him. So glad you brought that up. Tell us what the story is, what, what happened there and, and why were the charges dismissed? Sure. And Amal, who has done an incredible job, he, he worked on this case.

He looked at this case. It was an incredibly weak case filed to make deportation harder. That's why they did it. They took one of the biggest mayors in the country off the playing field in order to protect their sanctuary city this case, it was so incredibly weak. It was about increases in airline tickets, upgrades in airline tickets in his official capacity.

Without getting getting into all the details of the fact, I don't even think it could survive a verdict. Excuse me. Incredibly weak case. That is the weaponization of government. That's law, fair filing, that's lawfare.

When you're filing cases like that. To keep someone who criticized Joe Biden, who said they took away his security clearance so he could not get the details, so he could not help enforce the deportation efforts in New York, and you know, these people are going after him ride a subway in New York. It's not safe. Violent crime is at an all time high and that's what they're doing. So it's not about weaponization.

It's about ending their weaponization of the government and fighting violent crime and enabling cities like New York and mayors like Eric Adams to enforce Donald Trump, Trump's immigration policies.

I want to ask you and go back to something you said a moment ago. We were talking about cartels and they have been able to set up networks and we see this coming up now more often, where they're controlling states and cities and states and the entire flow. And they've been able to do this and set it up without having to worry that anyone's going to stop them. We're seeing this not on border states, but, but all over the country. This network.

At what point do we get to start dismantling that? How long does that take? How much time is that going to take? Because they've been here for quite some time with the last administration. There's a lot I can't talk about now, but very publicly.

I think you've seen a lot happen. A lot is happening every day. Our great men and women in law enforcement are out there. It's a joint effort with our office, office and with Kristi Noem. And again, we all work so well together.

Whether it's Mike Waltz, y'all are friends. I think people don't understand this. Like this is a group in this administration. And you and I have talked about this on the show. You guys are friends.

Like y'all know each other before you got here. How important are those relationships that you say, hey, I trust? Excuse me. I trust you. I trust you.

I trust you. I got your back. Let's go to work. Vital and crucial. And Mike Watson, Chrissy, we're on the phone with each other all the time.

And to change topic just a little bit, just, just to give you an example, Lee Zeldin a dear friend of mine, Right. Guy on President's Day, running the EPA now. Epa, Lee Zelda and great administrator of epa. I'm on the phone hours with Scott Besson, our Secretary of treasury, and Lee Zeldin. And you know, we've seen, thanks to Elon Musk, my buddies.

Great work. Yep. And it's been reported. Look what they're doing at epi. I'm changing the subject a little bit, but they're giving out billions of dollars after Joe Biden lost the election, trying to push this money out the door, virtually shoveling cash out the windows as they said.

Gold bars. Yeah, let's throw all the gold bars off the ship. Yep. And we're stopping them. We're stopping them in real time.

We're going after them. But it's because we all pick up the phone and we talk directly to each other. So we're able to work together. Talk to Marco Rubio and look at the men like Steve Witkoff out there, Rick Grinnell, what they're doing working with Marco and Mike Walton, all the great. The people that they're saving around the world.

And that's thanks to one man, Donald Trump. He put all of us in these positions. Well, and the consistent bread of the cabinet nominees is that you're all change agents. You all came in with a mission. And it is.

Listen, there has never been a first month of any presidency in the history of the United States of America, like the last 30 days.

Amen. And I'll tell you, I have had great joy turning to my Democrat colleagues in the Senate and just deadpanning. Well, three years and 11 months to go, and they literally start twitching like they have facial tics that they cannot suppress. But. All right, Pam, one of the things that people like about this podcast that we try to do is we try to bring people behind the scenes to actually understand what's going on behind closed doors.

So tell us about your first day as Attorney General. You're confirmed. And like day one, when you get sworn in, just, just walk everyone through what day one of being Attorney General of the United States is like, you go nonstop. And I jokingly said it felt like 15 years because you're. You're working seven days a week, week, nonstop.

When we're all working with each other and everything we do, it overlaps. And especially with Department of Justice, especially, too, with all this money going out the USA and all of these agencies, and we're going to be helping all these agencies, but you just hit the ground running, literally. And don't look back. I don't look at what time of day it is. I don't think I've slept in 15 days.

But you don't want. And then when you find out about this human trafficking ring that was just broken up, it's just. That's why we're all doing what we're doing and you just keep going forward. And our directive from our boss is so easy, especially on my end. Make America safe.

And so you just don't. Senator, you don't. Even my heart is saying knows I forget to eat. You forget what time it is. And it's six o'clock at night.

Why do I have a headache? Because I haven't eaten today. But you're going nonstop. And it's not me, it's an entire team. I've got Chad Meisel, I've got Emil, I've got Todd Blanche, thank goodness, coming in.

And we've got Kash Patel now, so they better look out. How nice is it to have a boss, a guy by the name of Donald J. Trump who just lets you do your job? Exactly. I mean, there's a lot of presidents in the past that have really tried to keep their thumb on people.

It seems like he's saying, go and go, get it done and call me when you need me. He has trusted all of us in all of our various capacities and all the different roles we have, whether it's education or agriculture, you know, all the cabinet labor, all of the different cabinet secretaries, just to go out and do the best we can. And, you know, we want to make all of you proud and we want to fulfill his directive to make our country great. That man sure didn't need that job. He's a good friend of mine.

And I love, during my confirmation hearing when they get on me because they say I'm friends with Donald Trump. Yes. I'm proud. Very. No, I'm not friends with him.

I'm good friends with him and I'm very proud to work for him.

You know, when you look at weaponization and politicization, part of it is using it to attack your political opponents. And we've seen four years of that under Joe Biden. Yeah. Another part of it is turning the other way at your political allies and refusing to enforce the law against them. And I think one of the most egregious examples we've seen over the last two years is the rising anti Semitism on college campuses.

Amen. The violent protesters and rioters, many of whom are not students, are not affiliated with the universities, and they are threatening students. You look at Columbia University, the Orthodox rabbi there sent out an email to the Jewish students on campus and said, do not come to campus because the university cannot and will not keep. Keep you safe. And the Biden Justice Department did nothing.

They investigated nobody. They didn't follow the money, they didn't indict anyone, they didn't prosecute anyone, and they did not enforce Title 6 of the Civil rights laws, which say that if. That. That if you are tolerating harassment on the basis of ethnicity or religion, that you will have your federal funds cut off. How is the Department of Justice different today?

And what will your approach be to anti Semitism and threats of violence directed against Jewish students on campus or any other students on campus? We have an October 7th task force that we started and we will protect you. When I was just a citizen, before I had this job, what you said, I'm watching these. These aren't peaceful protest. We all believe in peaceful protest.

Oh, I'm sorry. Unless you're a liberal and you don't want a parent to quietly pray outside an abortion clinic, or you're a parent to go to a school board or a parent at a school board, they're going to call you a domestic, domestic terrorist. Yeah, but I'm screaming at my TV, watching these violent protests, you know, the last since October 7th. You're watching this happen. And all of our students, students deserve to be saved.

And first of all, these students who are here on visas, who are threatening our American students, need to be kicked out of this country. Amen.

It is refreshing, simple to have an Attorney General who has the approach that you're going to follow the law and enforce the law. And that, sadly, has been missing for the last four years. It's pretty basic. Isn't. Should not be complicated.

Let me ask you, what keeps you up at night? What scares you in the first two weeks in this job? Pretty much everything. I don't sleep at night anymore, of course. Everything we talked about, the drugs, the cartels, the great.

Maybe I'll get a little sleep tonight. Based on the arrests that were just made, the children that are being trafficked, things that have been so personal to me since I was a state prosecutor and then since I was stated Attorney General, now you just get to help people on a bigger level, which is pretty, pretty cool to get to do that. But most recently, it's really been what Elon has been uncovering and the usaid, the waste at epa, this money, trillions of dollars they believe just being handed out, which is most likely making a round trip, well, going to terrorist organizations. And you are on the front line of defending the president and Elon Musk and Doge and all the effort they're doing. And every day we are seeing Democrat attorneys general and Democrat interest groups suing the president, suing Elon Musk, suing the federal government.

And the Department of Justice is on the front lines. And sadly, we're seeing left wing activist judges, individual district district court judges issuing nationwide injunctions. Tell us about what, what it's like defending against those lawsuits and give us your thoughts on, on the authority of, of one radical district judge to try to run the executive branch and issue a nationwide injunction. Two words, we're winning. But yeah, so you've got, you've got one.

I like that answer. One unelected district judge trying to tell President Trump, who was elected overwhelmingly by the American people, where federal funds can go. We're winning even in liberal courts, by the way, Senator, we're winning. And if not, we're going to go all the way to the Supreme Court and keep winning. Well, Pam, let me say, you and I have been friends a long time time.

I am thrilled with the job you're doing. I'm thrilled, I was thrilled when the president announced your nomination. And let me say on behalf of 31 million Texans and Americans across this country, thank you. Thank you for stepping forward and answering the call. Thank you for pouring your heart into defending this nation, into keeping my kids safe, keeping Ben's kids safe, keeping all of our kids safe.

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Hey, man, that is a big crowd and they are not here for me.

How you guys doing?

Nice vibe this year, right after the best month we've ever had. Nice to see you all. Thanks for coming out. Good to see you. I'm not going to kill any more time.

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Why don't we bring him out? Yeah.

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Thanks, guys. Have a seat.

So that was something. I am become meme? Yeah, pretty much. I'm just. I'm living the meme.

It's like there's living the dream and there's living the meme. Ended pretty much. What's happening? You know, you're like, I think you're bigger. I mean, Doge started out as a meme.

Think about it. And now it's real. Isn't that crazy? It is. It is crazy.

But it's cool. Let me ask you this a Year ago, if someone had told you you'd be at CPAC and working with the president to absolutely shred the government, the swamp, whatever you want to call it, would you ever believe that? No. No. Me neither.

But it's cool. This is awesome. And I just want to say, you know, thanks for your support. I mean, guys are, you know, so. I mean, you know, we're trying to get good things done, but also, like, you know, have a good time doing it and, you know, and have, like, a sense of humor, you know, so, like, like, I mean, the sort of.

The left wanted to make comedy illegal. You know, you can't make fun of anything, so there's like, comedy sucks. It's like, nothing's funny. You can't make fun of anything. It's like legalized comedy.

Yeah, legalize comedy. And we've. We've shifted the entire culture, and just the last few months, the whole culture, this country, has shifted dramatically just because of that election. Yeah, exactly. You know, freedom of speech, you know, having fun again.

It seems like we should. We should have a good time. You know, it. I mean, it's a great time. If everybody in this place is so excited, and I haven't.

I mean, when you talk to conservatives, everybody's happy. Yeah. And everybody feels this great sense of relief because we were going to hell for. For about four years. It really felt bad, especially toward the end.

It felt really bad. Yeah. I mean, I thought we. I thought we were sort of heading for a point of no return, really. You know, until.

That's why it was so essential that President Trump win the election and that there'd be a Republican majority in the House and Senate, which, thanks to you, that. That has been accomplished. Yeah. Yeah. I want to ask you.

One of the biggest questions I have for you is you. You've been, you know, politically. You weren't really on one side or the other for a long time. You're a businessman. A lot of people stay away from it.

Now you're on a side, and you've chosen a side. You're sitting here in a MAGA hat. What. What's it. You know, how did that happen?

What was the moment? It's like, you know, dark gothic maga. That's a good one.

What was there a specific moment? Was there a moment that it all changed? Yeah. When I realized it was a fool, but no, it was, I guess.

Yeah. I mean, I'd say, like, I was politically neutral for. For quite a while, you know, you know, leaning a little Democrat, you know, how do you Go from this? Yeah. No, no.

How does that happen? Well, did they go crazy? Yeah, they did work. They did go crazy. Yeah, they went crazy.

No, I mean, that whole cat cancel culture and it's trying to stop freedom of speech and infringe upon, just in general, infringe upon people's personal freedoms. They just want state control. State control of what you say. They want to take away your guns, and the reason they want to take away your guns. So there's nothing you do to oppose them.

So it's sort of like, you know, I just. Like, we just need to restore the fundamental elements of what made America great, which is freedom and opportunity. We're seeing a lot of these freedoms disappearing in the West. It's not just about America. We're watching.

We're all watching Europe and knowing that they're about 50, 100 years ahead of us. Right. Because they got an early start. And we're watching how they're devolving. And you're trying to save it from happening here.

No, I mean, in Europe, they put people in prison for memes. Yeah. You know, I'm like, that's insane. And they're collapsing. I mean, this society is.

It's a collapsing society. It feels that way. It feels like France was nicer 50 years ago than it is today. Yeah. I don't think you can question that.

Yeah. So. But yeah, I mean, really.

Thanks. I love you, too. I mean, I really just wanted to do useful things, like, you know, basically build products, you know, provide products and services that are good and that. I wasn't, really, like, that interested in being political. It just, like, there was, at a certain point, no choice.

Yeah. So. Yeah. Can I ask you what. On the same side of that coin, what's it like from going neutral to being vilified, largely vilified, by the media?

Like, you're. What? No, really. I mean, you turn on some of these channels, brother. I mean, they don't.

They're angry. Does it bother you at all? I mean, when they're chanting for my death? I suppose that's a little. You know.

And then, like, the song's not even that good, and it's like. Like you call that a death chant? That's nothing. Please. They've been singing a lot.

Good music. There's a lot of music lately. It's not good music either. Yeah, Yeah. I would say that there, you know, watching what you're doing with Doge is.

Is just. People love it. I mean, I. I've always looked at the government and I've always looked at the government. I've seen this big machine that.

And you just know that they waste because they don't care. Nobody could. There's more money coming. They don't care. You're cutting all this out.

Everybody in this country knows that the government is full of waste, fraud and abuse and you're doing the work and the Americans love it. Watching their reaction politically to this, I can't believe how bad they are at responding to this. I don't know how you're gonna sit there and scream and complain because they're cutting waste out of the government and try to win another election. How do you try to win on that? Well, at this point I'm like, I'm not sure how much of the left is even real, how much was propped up by our money.

Yeah, yeah. Like literally you see these sort of fake rallies where there's like hardly any people and the media will like frame it and like, you know, get all six people, you know, in the frame. But it's like nobody else is there. Like just. It doesn't have popular support.

But then you learn that like there's hundreds of billions of dollars going to these so called NGOs and it's your tax dollars that are funding things that are fundamentally anti American and they're propping up their narrative. Yes. A lot of that government money has been propping up left that I don't think is as strong as they made it seem. In fact, a massive amount of your tax dollars is going to legacy media companies directly from the government. The government wants to take over media.

Yeah, it's terrible. That's why we have X. Yeah. And that's, that's why you spent $44 billion. I mean that's a lot of money.

I mean, more than it was probably worth. But it had a. There was a message. Freedom is priceless. Priceless.

Yeah.

Probably one of the most important investments this country's ever seen. If you got to protect the First Amendment, it's not much more important than that. Yeah, I mean I got a lot of criticism and people said, well, that proves he's a huge idiot from a, you know, like, look, you know, he bought it for whatever, $44 billion and now it's worth like 8 cents. And it's not worth 8 cents. But you know, there's, but yeah, it was essentially to, you know, buy freedom of expression.

And once that's gone, it's all over. Yeah, Sent into tyranny is really quick after that. Yeah. I mean, like, you know, all the sort of federal money going to media companies is what. What helps explain why the legacy media all says the same thing at the same time.

Yeah. Like, isn't it, like. It's, like, weird, like, you put them up where it's like, you know, like, when they're. They're mouthpieces for. For the state.

For the state, yes. And that's. That's what we've come to know. Yeah. It's scary.

And I like that meme where. Where they. Because they're always saying, like, threat to our democracies. That. Threat to.

But. But if you just replaced democracy with bureaucracy, it makes a lot of sense. Makes perfect sense. Yeah. Big threats to the bureaucracy.

That's exactly right. Let's talk about. Let's talk about these DOGE dividend checks that everybody's talking about this week. And I know you tweeted out that you're going to. Does everybody want, like, a $5,000 check in the mail?

It sounds kind of good. Right. And the best part about it would be knowing where it came from, that that's five grand that you sent them last year. Totally. It's.

It's money that's taken away from things that are destructive to the country and from organizations that hate you to you. That's awesome. Does it seem. I mean, have you talked. I mean, that's, like, glorious.

That's like the spoils of battle, you know? I like that. Is there. Is there traction on that? Yeah.

Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, talk to the President. He's supportive of that. And so it sounds like, you know, that's the.

Something we're going to do. Yep. So as we're finding savings, that's going to translate directly to reductions in tax. Yeah. I mean, I think they fired 6,000 people at the IRS today, and I think Lutnick said last night that they're talking about shutting down the irs.

And I think it's fair. I. I think people should realize this is. I mean, the amount of money that we said we send Washington, like, 5 or 6 trillion a year. That is such an ungodly amount of money.

I mean, what do they say, like, a trillion seconds is, like 30 years or something like that? I mean, that's how much we send them, and they seem to never have enough. There must be a lot you can cut. No, absolutely. People ask me, what's the most surprising thing that you've encountered when you go to D.C.

you know, when you're in D.C. and I said, well, the most surprising thing is the scale of the expenditures and Actually how easy it is to just. Just when you add caring and competence where it was absent before, you can actually save billions of dollars sometimes in this. In an hour. It's wild.

And then they scoff at it and say, oh, a few billion here, there. I mean, the way they're talking about it, you can see they don't care. It's such little money compared to how much they're used to wasting. That's what's really scary. Yeah.

No, I mean, exactly. But obviously it just shows that they really lack empathy for the average taxpayer who's working hard, paying taxes. And then they say, oh, a million dollars doesn't matter. I'm like, I think it matters a lot people, you know, so what are you talking about? I'd like to have it.

Let me ask you a question. I, you know, I know the president fairly well. Watched him survive two assassination attempts. The second, had the first one not happened, the second one would have gotten him, you know, it was very. Because without those extra guys, they would have never seen that gun poking through the fence at the golf course.

I saw the crew that you. The crew that you like. Mind blowing that this has happened. I mean, it just. And what.

By the way, why do we still know nothing about that guy in Butler, what's going on?

But Cash is going to get to the bottom of it. Yeah. There you go. Yeah.

Confirm. Confirmed just a couple hours ago. But I saw that the security detail that you had come in is enormous. Well, it's that enormous, maybe it should be bigger. I think you could probably afford it.

But I mean, how concerned are you about your safety? Dealing? I mean, it's. You are. You are a wanted man.

Are you? Are you nervous? So, look, I'm open to ideas for improving security. I have to tell you, like, I don't actually have a death wish, I think. But, you know, it's not that easy.

So. Yeah, I mean, but I have like. I've had even like, people like President Bukele from El Salvador who. Who managed to put in prison like 100,000, like, murderous thugs. And he was like.

He called me, he's like, I'm worried about your security. I'm like, you're worried about my security? I'm like, what? Okay. You know, I mean, yeah, talk about guts to do that down there.

I mean. Yeah, totally. And survive. I'm like. I was like, how did you put all those thugs in prison without dying?

Because it seems like that would have been not easy, you know? Well, there's a. The president has one of his top attorneys is now investigating, I guess, Chuck Schumer for threats against scotus. Congressman on the democrat side for saying, you know, basically saying, we're going to bring a war to you, like, a fight to you. I mean, the rhetoric.

You guys are screwing with things that are not supposed to be messed with. We're fighting the Matrix. A lot of people that really don't want that to happen. Yeah, we're fighting the Matrix big time here. Yeah.

But that's got to be done. Yeah, and it certainly does. What's. What's going on with. Tell us about Fort Knox.

Yeah, it's Kentucky. It's a military base. It's a ton of gold. Tons and tons and tons. 5,000 tons of gold or something.

5,000, give or take. Are there in the ground in, like, this. I mean, it's a very secure. I think we all want to see it. I'd love to see it.

Like, this is your gold, by the way. It's the public's gold. Do you think it's not there? I don't know, but I think we just want to see it. Yeah, we want to go see it and just make sure, like, somebody didn't spray paint some lead or something, you know?

Yeah. Like, is this real gold? Fight at the bar? You know, didn't d. But I think, honestly, you know, part of this also is just like, let's.

Let's, you know, let's have some fun. And. And. And, you know, like, like I said, this. This.

All this gold at Fort Knox, it's the public's gold. Gold. It's your gold. So, like, I think you have, like, a right to see it. Take a tour, you know?

Yeah. I think we should have a. Do it. Do it. Turn.

The president last night was like, that's. I think he's in favor of it. That would be cool. And then we, like. It should be like a live tour.

Like, you can see what's going on. Open the door. Like, what's behind it. Well, and, you know, I think I'd watch that. Oh, are you.

Yeah. I mean, what is. What is 5. 5,000 tons of gold look like? How big is that?

Is it. Is it the size of this? It's got to be pretty big, you know, it's got to be a lot of gold. Maybe there's some other stuff in there, like, just walk around, like, I don't know. Maybe they got some other stuff in there.

Are you thinking about auditing the Federal Reserve as well? Which is obviously. Yeah, sure. Regulatory economy. I.

I Imagine you think the waste has got to be everywhere. Yeah, no, waste. Waste is pretty much everywhere. People ask, like, how can you find waste in, like, in D.C. i'm like, look, it's like being in a room and this target, the wall, the roofs, and the floor are all targets.

So it's like you're going to close your eyes and go shoot in any direction. You can't miss, you know, so it's pretty wild. You just push on things a little bit and you save billions of dollars, like, just a little bit, you know, it's wild. It's scary, isn't it? It's right.

That's why I say it really is underrated. If you add caring and competence, how much things improve. Yeah. And, you know, and we just find so many totally crazy things, which, you know, obviously we're sharing with the public. We post everything we learn, you know, just, you know, so you can see it.

You know, what do you. It's like, isn't it like, it's totally wild. Like, we did just. We just did like a check the database on Social Security Security, like, says, how many Americans alive Americans eligible for Social Security are there? And according to the database, it's over 400 million.

And we're like, wait a second. And how many are human? How old are they again? Yeah. And then, like, we found, like, one person in there is, like 360 years old.

I'm like, what do they know, Ben? I mean, yeah, you know, America didn't exist before for. At that time. Like, so. So, yeah, we were colonies, you know, maybe it's just me, but I think it's a red flag.

I don't know. But are there indications that those. That there were checks going to those people or any of those people? Well, yeah, I guess the question right this. I mean, I get the Social Security Administration is dumb, but are they paying these people?

Are they that dumb? I don't know. A bunch of money is going out from the Social Security Administration and in fact, from all entitlements programs. 70 billion in waste in, like, seven years. That's 10 billion a year.

Well, I think the fraudulent payments. The rough estimate from General Government Accountability Offices on is over $500 billion of fraud a year. 500 billion. And how long the time per year? Per year.

On Social Security? No, no. On all government. All entitlements. All entitlements.

Yeah. Yeah. It sort of actually makes sense when you look at the thing from a top level and say, like, okay, the $7 trillion was spending by the government. What Percentage do you think is fraudulent? Okay, exactly.

Like a conservative estimate of the 7 trillion would be 10% conservative. Probably a little higher than that. Yeah, exactly. Feels like a quarter out every dollar. Right.

But if the fraud's only 10% of 7 trillion, you've got $700 billion of fraud. Yeah. And by the way, it's like, really easy to take advantage of the federal government. It's very easy. Very easy.

Look at Covid. Yes, everybody got rich during COVID I mean, look at all these scammers. I mean, it's unbelievable.

It looks like in terms of the COVID payments, there was something like $200 billion of COVID payments. Fraud taken by fraudsters out of the country. Out of the country. That's like, I think, listen, if there's going to be fraud, it should at least be domestic. So, you know.

But they managed to get $200 billion out of the country. I'm like, what? Didn't we notice that? Let me ask you, let's do immigration here for a second. You know, there's this move now that China, Trump's latest thing is that he cut.

He's going to cut funding any kind of money that ends up in the hands of illegal immigrants. So if you're funding these sanctuary cities and states, that's how they thrive. Right. They're paying for these hotels. That's all federal money.

If you got a hotel in your city, in New York, you got all these hotels full of migrants, that's not state money. That's. The feds are covering that. He's going to cut all that. It's really hard to deport 15 million people.

And it seems like the move now is, let's see if we. Especially at the rate that we're going, it seems like the move now is let's make it so that they leave on their own. If there's no longer a dull system for them, if they can't get their hands on hotel rooms and money, they're going to go back, especially if there's no work. Well, I think it's really important for people to understand that the Biden administration sent any possible money that they could, if there was money they could send to facilitate and amplify illegal immigration, they sent it, okay? They took money from FEMA meant for helping Americans in distress, and sent that money to luxury hotels for illegal immigrants in New York.

That is an outrage. They actually did that. And not only that, even after the President signed an executive order saying it has to stop the future fema, the sort of whatever Deep state bureaucrats still pressed send on $80 million last week to go to the Roosevelt Hotel in New York and other places last week. And now they're mad that it got stopped and they're like trying to sue to have it be restored. It's like the gumption is.

You think they're creating a new voter class? Would you think that was the goal when they opened up the borders for four years? Create a new voter class, get them citizenship, get them in, vote a lot of these things. Like you don't actually have to assume some grand conspiracy. You just need to look at basic incentives, benefits.

So if the incentives fundamentally, if the probability that an illegal is going to vote Democrat at some point, whether it's cheating, but eventually they can become citizens. But if the probability is like 80, 90%, just look at California, which is super majority Dem, and then the incentive is to maximize the number of illegals in the country. That is why the Biden administration was pushing to get in as many illegals as possible and spend every dollar possible to get as many, because every one of them is a customer. Everyone is a voter. Yeah.

So the whole thing was a giant voter importation scheme scam. Pretty obvious. Very obvious. And then they, moreover, then they, they actually created the CVP1 border app thing where they were, which is like where they could, they would literally fly people in. It's not like, like at the point at which, you know, people being flown in at your expense, sending planes, building a wall doesn't fly them over the border.

Yeah, they're literally flying them in. No other, no other country in the world would do something like this. Nobody is this stupid. Yeah. And then we found that it was like a hundred million dollar contract given to some guy in London actually, oddly enough, for the CVP1 app.

So they're flying illegals into the swing states and if you've got like a margin of victory of maybe 20,000 people and you fly 2,200,000 illegals into that state, it's not going to be a swing state for long. Change the numbers eventually. Yeah, Maybe in four or eight years. You're. Exactly.

It's a long game. It's just a matter of time. Yeah, yeah. So it might take like a year for an asylum seeker or something to get on the, to get a green card, then five years for the citizenship. It's, it's, it's an investment that is guaranteed to pay off.

Yeah. Just a question of when they all remember who brought them in and who left him here. Exactly, exactly. I want to Go back. I want to talk about Biden.

It's a big deal. I think a lot of people don't quite appreciate that this was an actual real scam at scale to tilt the scales of democracy in America. Treasonous treason. One more Biden question. I remember when they would do the electric car stuff, they would always try to box you out even though you have the only electric car anybody wants.

You said, I think this week that you think that Biden left these astronauts up in space because he didn't want to give you an opportunity to save them. Make NASA look bad, make the private sector look better, make you look good. You believe that? Yeah, absolutely. So, of course I kind of agree.

Why would he want to let you help them come down when you're supporting the President? The Biden administration was attacking me next level. I mean, the Department of Justice or injustice under the Biden administration was. I mean, they were suing SpaceX. They were suing SpaceX for not hiring asylum seekers.

And we're like, but it's actually illegal for us to hire asylum seekers because we're. Rocket technology is covered under ITAR rules, which means it's advanced weapons technology. And so we can only hire permanent residents or citizens. So we're damned if we do, damned if we don't. So how can they sue us for not hiring asylum seekers when it's actually illegal for us to do so?

Nonetheless, there was a big Department of Justice or injustice case about this against SpaceX. So obviously it was an antagonistic situation. And those astronauts were supposed to be up there for eight days, and now they're up there for eight months. Does that make any sense? And we obviously could have brought them back sooner, but they didn't want it to, didn't want anyone who supported President Trump to look good, basically.

Yeah, that's the, that's the, that's the issue. The, A lot of them are saying right now that the reason that you want to get into Social Security, that you want to get into all of these different, into treasury and things like that, is that you're looking for personal information and you're trying to make more money. Yeah, I, I've never met anybody as rich as you that cared less about money. In my life, every time I hear a story about you, you're sleeping on a couch of some other guy in a city that you could buy the entire thing. Yeah, I'm like, I don't think you care about money, do you?

No, actually, I, I, I mean, listen, like, if I, if I steal some Social Security, I can finally buy nice things. Yeah. You know, and on that same question, they're also talking about, you guys are going to end Social Security, you're going to end Medicare, you're going to end these things. I don't imagine that conversation has been had with the president. And that's the plan.

No, in fact, the actions that we're taking with the support of the President and the support of the agencies is what will save Medicare, what will save Social Security.

And because if the country goes insolvent, if all the money is just spent on paying interest on debt, there's no money left for anything. So that's the reason I'm doing this, is because I was looking at the big picture here, and it's like, man, our debt's getting out of control. The interest payments, interest on the national debt now exceeds, exceeds the entire Defense Department budget, trillion a year in interest just to carry the money that we owe is a trillion a year. Yes. That is unbelievable.

And rising rapidly. A country is no different from a person. Country overspends, country goes bankrupt, same as a person who overspends goes bankrupt. So it's not optional to solve these things. It's essential.

We're going to go bankrupt. Yes, we are. Couple minutes left here. Russia, there's a huge push from this. Oh, yeah, yeah.

People are like, sort of like, to end this. Say, like, yeah, you know, I, I'm a, I'm a bought asset of Putin. I'm like, he can't afford me. Yeah, I think, I think you're worth more than Russia. Think about it.

So you're trying to end a war. It's. Ending a war always means you have to compromise, you have to negotiate with an enemy or an adversary. That's just what it is. And right now, they are lambasting the president for trying a different method to a war that they haven't been able to end for three and a half years or three years.

Yeah, they, you know, they're saying Trump's blaming Zelensky for the invasion. How do you, how do you process all of the negativity toward him for trying to end this war? Well, first of all, I think we should have empathy for the people dying at the front lines. That's the most important thing. And people have been dying.

You know, it's like, how many more years is this supposed to go on? Yeah. And imagine if that was your son, your father, you know, what are they dying for? What exactly are they dying for? That line that has barely.

The line of engagement has barely Moved for two years. This is how much people dead in trenches for what? And I'll tell you what, for what it's like, for the biggest graft machine that I've ever seen in my life. That's for what.

It's unreal. Like, the amount of money that is being taken in graft and bribery is disgusting. And so what's actually happening is that those, you know, people, those poor guys are getting sent into a meat grinder for money. That's what's actually going on. Yeah, it needs to stop.

And that's, I mean, that's. It seems. I mean, Trump is so pragmatic on this. He just, he's just looking at it and he's saying, it's Ukraine, it's not our country, it's not a NATO ally. I just want to see people not dying.

I want to see on both sides. I mean, think about how many young, so many young men have died in Ukraine that, that the army is starting to age out, the military is aging out. You got 40 and 50 year old guys fighting in a war because there's nobody left that's not killed or maimed in their 20s. That's the reality of it. Think about how many people that is.

If you're a humanitarian at all, you just got to end the war. Like, no matter what, just get it over with. Yes. People, they need to stop dying. And the grift machine's got to stop.

And I think people that don't, A lot of people out there don't realize, like, the President has a lot of empathy. He really cares, you know, he's a good, he's a good man. So I got one more for you.

I've been fascinated by you for a very long time. Thanks. I've just, I just, I've never seen anybody that can, you know, do so many things at the same time. I mean, you've got the rockets, you got the cars. I've always wanted to ask you, what is it like inside your mind?

Like, is it just a thousand miles an hour? I mean, are you. Yeah. Is it just not. I mean, does it ever stop?

Do you sleep? How much do you sleep? What's paint us a picture of inside of the mind of a genius? Like, how do you do all this? Can you answer that question?

It's not an easy question. I mean, my mind is a storm. Yeah. So it's a storm. But I mean, let me maybe tell you something, like, you didn't ask a question, but I think it's worth, nonetheless, maybe just elaborating on something which is, you know, I grew up in South Africa, but my morality was informed by America.

I read comic books, you know, played Dungeons and Dragons, and I watched American TV shows, and it seemed like America cared about being the good guys, you know, about doing the right thing. And that's actually pretty unusual, by the way, in the world. It's very unusual. Yeah. It's not like.

Actually, most countries don't do that. No, they don't. No. And so I was like, yeah, you know, you want to be this good, you want to be on the side of good. You want to care about what's right, and.

Yeah. So that's what I believe in, you know, I gave you a tough one at the end. Yeah. So, yeah. That's great.

That's great. Elon Musk. All right. Thank you. Thank you so much.

All right. I appreciate SA it.

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