Radio Show Hour 2 – 06/11/2025

[00:00:13] Broadcasting live from atop the Rocky Mountains, the crossroads of the West, you are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. All right, happy to have you along, my fellow Americans, Sam Bushman, Lance Migliato, George Ballantyne, the Big Big Brothers in the house, the Big Mig, check them out on Rumble and everywhere else, incredible broadcasts are found. Liberty Roundtable loves to have them on monthly. Why?

[00:00:43] Because they tell the tale of truth at the tip of the spear when it comes to news reporting in modern times, ladies and gentlemen. All right, this is a Reuters news piece that I want to spend a little bit of time on here. This is really important, folks. This headline, you know, you've seen the ratings go down for the United States, all the different ratings. Moody's was the latest one until now. The World Bank, quote, is the latest body to cut its growth forecast as a result of what

[00:01:12] they call Trump's erratic trade policy. Now, I don't buy that. I don't buy that at all. It is not a result of Trump's trade policy. Now, I get that Trump has been kind of moving the, you know, discussions around and created a little bit of uncertainty. And that's a serious problem. I agree. And it needs to stop using tariffs is the best way to go, though. But the way he's going about it is a little bit lack of knowledge of economics reality.

[00:01:41] Nevertheless, my point is, this is a lie headline. Lance, I want you to go to this straight away. They're cutting their growth forecast because of Trump. That isn't true. It's because Congress continues to spend money to where no one believes we can service the debt. It's already a trillion dollars a year. And now they're going to spend us into oblivion. That's not Trump. Trump doesn't control the purse strings in America. The House of Representatives in Congress. Go look at your constitution. That's who controls the spending. And they're worried about the growth because of our out of control spending.

[00:02:10] It's not just the trade policy. That's a lie. Lance, listen, you're absolutely over the target. They might cancel your show because of this statement. You know, the truth is, Sam, that that is exactly what's going on. You know, we have a bunch of people in the halls of Congress that don't even, in any realm of the imagination, have the ability to even understand what it takes to balance the budget. They don't care. They don't want to balance it.

[00:02:39] They want to keep all their pork barrel legislation and all their pet projects. And they want to just continue to expand and spend money and use groups like USAID, you know, funnel out money to NGOs and foundations and George Soros so it can be funneled back to them so they can maintain their career politician, you know, lifestyle. That they can continue to get installed as political puppets. And, you know, the kind of politicians that the founders and framers warned us about. It's simple.

[00:03:08] I can tell you how to solve this overnight. You can't run for reelection and you cannot get you won't be paid unless you balance the budget in the halls of Congress. That's it. I guarantee you with as desperate as these people are to stay in power, that budget would be balanced. It's like, let's face it, Sam, if you were running the government right now, how simple would it be for you to roll down the budget, look at all these departments and say, we can't afford that. We can't afford that. We can't afford that.

[00:03:38] We can't afford that. No, we're not going to spend money on that. Rand Paul actually did that and came up with trillions of dollars of savings. He already did it. Yeah. It's done. And that's my point. How easy is it to do that if you don't have the money? Sam, let's face it. You have a budget at home. You have a budget for the radio network. You have a budget for the way you run your life. It's not like you say, hey, I want a Rolls Royce. I'm going to buy it. If you don't have the money for the Rolls Royce, you're sure as hell not going to buy it. At the end of the day, that's not what Congress says.

[00:04:07] Congress says, oh, let's just raise the debt ceiling so we can buy the Rolls Royce. That's my point. Trump is the leader on saying we need to raise. He says we don't even need a debt ceiling. Not only don't raise it, just get rid of it entirely. But listen, the global economy is set to be the weakest run since 2008's recession, says the World Banks. They slash it to 1.8% down from 3.4% in 2024.

[00:04:37] Then they say global inflation to reach 2.9% in 2025. That's above pre-pandemic levels. And I say this, when are you going to get rid of the IRS and give the American people a break, George? For reals. Not just, oh, the guy that you give a tip to, his tax on tips are not there. Or the Social Security person doesn't have to pay tips. Or whatever. Or overtime, or there's no taxes on overtime. Those are just teeny things around the edges. They mean nothing for most of the populace.

[00:05:04] Why don't you just shut down the criminal, Gestapo, thugocracy called the IRS that's unconstitutional in the first place? Congressmen and women have tried to get rid of it. They've been nothing but slaughtered. It's time to get rid of this. And now, they said they would, but now we hear not a single word, George. Well, Congress on both sides of the aisle, it would be very difficult to get either one to remove the IRS to move our federal tax. Because they love spending our money.

[00:05:33] And then it would be less money for them to spend. And what, if, when the tariffs continue to work and more money comes in, they're just going to look at, oh, that's more money for us to spend. It's just, it's a never-ending story with them. You know, if, all right, let's say the taxes are here, we have to pay taxes, right? How come I understand the Social Security, they shouldn't pay any taxes. They're retired, they're elderly, it's bad enough they're paying for all this other stuff, they shouldn't pay any taxes.

[00:06:01] But if you look at no tax on tips, that means they get to work for free and not pay any taxes versus people are paying taxes. I don't know. I mean, that's a, that's a, actually give and go on there. I understand, like, you have your servers who work in diners, they don't make, you know, smaller establishments don't make much money in tips. But then versus more of these bigger restaurants, you know, they're getting big tips.

[00:06:29] There should be some kind of, I don't know, cap on that or something different. Like, what if I just take all my pay and tips? What if everybody that pays me is an IT consultant and the radio guys, if I just take tips? That's it. You know, I wouldn't pay any taxes. Anyway, it's interesting. The World Bank tells you how horrible it is in Reuters. The whole article is about how horrible things are. Yeah, that's a great idea, Sam. And then here's what they say at the end. Ready? It said the risk of a global recession is less than 10%, Lance.

[00:07:00] Yeah. You know, let me ask you this, Sam. Do you believe any of this stuff that they're posting? No. Because, of course, it's all linked back. Oh, bogus. They've always got to, you know, make a statement about the World Bank and COVID-19 levels. And then they've got to throw the tariffs into attack. It's always, you know, a controlled op. The tariffs are necessary. Listen, there's no doubt that Trump is making some big moves for the tariffs. It's art of the deal. And they're great moves for the most part. Right.

[00:07:25] But what I don't like about the tariff situation is I was told by him in public media that those tariffs could potentially wipe out income tax completely. That they could, in fact, lower income tax so greatly because the truth of the matter about ports, duties and tariffs is that is what our country was being run on when it was created. Ports, duties and tariffs were supposed to run our entire federal government.

[00:07:54] They were supposed to pay for all the costs related to it. There was never supposed to be a federal income tax. It was never supposed to happen. Why is Trump all of a sudden backing away from that narrative? To me, that's the problem. He makes a statement that I love. It sounds great. And then he backs off of it. Kind of like the audit of Fort Knox. Him and Elon Musk said we're going to have a Fort Knox audit. It was probably going to be televised. Blah, blah, blah. Now it's nothing but crickets. And George has made a valid point. The only reason it's nothing but crickets is because the gold must be missing.

[00:08:24] I've heard a lot of stories about that they might even have, you know, bars made of other materials that are actually, you know, gold-plated. Yeah, tungsten, which has the same weight as gold. And so dimensionally, it would appear to be the same as a gold bar would seem. Is it true? I have no idea. But how come we went from we're going to release the Epstein files, we're going to audit Fort Knox, we're not going to have any income tax or maybe we're going to have a flat tax, to now here's a big, beautiful bill and none of that's in it.

[00:08:54] And Doge was going to rock and roll and now Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are out. And they discovered all these things like U.S. aid scandal and it's big money, trillions of dollars. Rand Paul put together even a plan of showing what we could get rid of without even blinking an eye. Donald Trump said we could take the war machine money, so the military-industrial complex, which we're spending a trillion dollars on now. That got increased in the big, beautiful bill, by the way. He said we could chop that to a half a trillion instead of a trillion.

[00:09:21] I'm afraid if we're not careful with the Summer of Love 3 coming up, we're going to have an internal civil war if we're not very careful. And now we're going to have an external war. I'm afraid. I think Donald's going to be drug into it if we're not very careful. Headline says former U.S. Special Forces officers rescue Burmese families from China-backed military crushes.

[00:09:46] We're talking about Myanmar villages, right, George? George? Yes. I mean, I look, this is, this segment and the next part we're going to be talking about, we have to look at China, the CCP as a whole, and what they're doing. I mean, they're destroying families over there just to create chaos. And you see these children being killed.

[00:10:12] Like, there's a story of a mother or grandmother coming back to the village and she sees the grandkids that are killed. For what? They're just, the CCP is trying to infiltrate every which way possible anywhere they can. Look at Brazil. It's crazy over there with their influence on money. Look what they did at Panama Canal.

[00:10:35] Granted, now they're out, but they're still looking to circumvent ways of getting, you know, trying to dominate their influence all over the world. We have now a second CCP operative via University of Michigan that got arrested because they're trying to sneak in pathogens to destroy our crops. These people, these two sides, these, I'm going to call them the people from school or whatever you want to call them, educators, whatever. They work for the CCP.

[00:11:04] There is no other reasonable reason you can tell me or try to justify it of them to why they're trying to sneak in this pathogen. What we need to do right now is ban anybody from China going to school in this country and anybody that's in our schools that are from China, deport them. Get rid of them right now. I mean, can you imagine if they are successful in killing all our crops in this country to fathom what would happen?

[00:11:33] Is there any, like, people need to take this seriously. Go ahead, Lance. Well, here's the thing. You know, what I see is that, of course, China puts out one face to the world and then they have this other face that runs behind the scenes. If you've ever read The Red Book of Mao, it's very clear that that's what their operation is. They don't care how far they move forward, but they're always going to be operating with that behind the scenes, that that's their intent. What's going on, you know, in Myanmar? It's terrible, right?

[00:12:02] We're talking about ethnic cleansing. But what's really terrible about this is that this former U.S. Special Forces officer that's rescuing these Burmese families, you know, this is an independent operation. This isn't by the U.S. government. My point is we put out money into all these different ridiculous programs across the globe. We saw the waste in USAID, and I keep using that example because that seems to be the example that most Americans are familiar with at this point.

[00:12:30] But like you mentioned earlier, George, the magic money computers. We've got these zombie organizations that are getting tons of money. But when people really need our help around the globe, I don't care if it's in Sierra Leone. I don't care if it's in Myanmar. The problem is that's not where we end up giving the help. We'd rather give money to a transgender opera in India. You know, we'd rather fund some kind of an LGBTQ narrative in the Middle East. The point is that's what I mean.

[00:13:00] If the U.S. really was going to be the U.S. and what I believe the U.S. is, that it should be the greatest country on the earth, then we should be helping these people that are in trouble in these other countries. And what we're allowing to do is we're allowing the CCP to go ahead and do this ethnic cleansing. And now independent groups, these rangers, are doing this because there's nobody else to help them. But why should it be like that, Sam? And why should it be that we're really needed in helping? None of our funds are put in that situation.

[00:13:28] We're not digging wells in Africa, right? We're not doing that to help the Africans across the nation. We'd rather spend the money to do some kind of, you know, transgender, you know, surgeries and back them for U.S. military forces. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. Doge exposed a ton of that, too, highlighting the problems that we have. And we're told that it's going to stop. But I think the money is still flowing. I think so, too. I think they've just found a different way to funnel it. Well, or even the same way.

[00:13:58] Who says it stopped them in these machines? Did anybody say, hey, we went and seized the machines that are printing this magic money? I don't know if anybody went and seized the machines. I wanted a magic money computer. I was going to get one for Liberty Roundtable Live and the Big MIG show. But Elon Musk never got back to me. I mean, wouldn't you like to have a computer you can just type in any amount? It's outside the budget. But see, again, who was operating the magic money computers? Who were the people that were operating them? Who actually did that? Who authorized it? Who allowed it to continue? Where are those arrests?

[00:14:28] Where are the indictments for the magic money computers? Where are the indictments for funneling money to zombie organizations that hadn't been in existence for 15, 20, 30 years? And they were continuing to get money out of our budget. Where are the arrests for that? Where did that capital go? Where are the clawbacks? Chelsea Clinton got $84 million. Sam, Chelsea Clinton got $84 million. And nobody can figure out what she got paid for. I'm just telling you right now. I'm so proud of her. Can you believe my daughter? She's incredible. Yeah, I can. She spent $3 million of the money on her wedding.

[00:14:58] She spent $10 million on her residence. When I saw that she bought a $10 million house, I was blown away. I'm thinking, who is paying Chelsea Clinton that she can afford a $10 million house? Did her mother give her the money? And it turned out her mother hadn't given the money. I'm like, how is this girl who's a nobody, who has zero value for absolutely anything possible, how can she afford a $10 million house and I can't? Why is that? At the end of the day, now I know why. And we're not really going to arrest anybody or anything, right? No.

[00:15:27] Bill Kristol, social media influencer, got $8 million from USAID. I used to watch him post. He's still posting. And everything he posts to him is nothing but negative, negative, negative posts, right? Every attack on Trump, negative about the image. And I thought to myself, how can a guy like this live negatively every single day of his life? He's getting attacked. He just hires everybody else to post it and he doesn't even know about it. Exactly my point. Sealed, protected life, my friend. Right.

[00:15:53] He just builds up the account and now he's paying somebody $100,000 of his $8 million. And he's getting his $8 million a year to continue to do this. And that's the point. You see it. This money is still getting funneled out. I just watched a post from JoJo from Jers. And it's clear that she's still having money to get funneled to her. She was one of the social media influencers that got invited to the White House by Joe Biden. And she had access to the podcasting social media influencer conference room. Yeah. But that's the point. There we are on a take named Joe.

[00:16:23] I thought we were going to stop all this. I thought people were going to get arrested. That's what I voted for. Now on this Myanmar thing, though, here's why it's relevant to We the People. What makes this crisis particularly relevant to Americans is the role of the communist Chinese CCP perpetuating Myanmar's suffering. While what? They control their own interests, right? Yeah, of course. It's strategic timing.

[00:16:51] So it's the biggest supplier of heavy rare earths. This is critical. George, do you want to talk about this a little bit? This is critical to understand. They're going to control all the elements, my friend. We can thank who are esteemed politicians for allowing this to happen. And this is over time. I mean, we did a mineral deal with Ukraine, but I don't know. Can we even get in there to get those minerals? And nobody even knows how much minerals they have. I think we just need to. This is a national security issue.

[00:17:20] We need to just take Greenland, like Trump said. And get all the minerals from there because. They need to the CCP, CCP is just they're slowly creeping in in every which way possible. What they do is like if you look into by Taiwan, it's going to be inevitable that they invade Taiwan. They would and everyone everywhere to do and they go in a little bit.

[00:17:48] They see they're testing the waters, let's per se, from the air to the water. Now with trying to get this new port in Chile. I mean. All right, we'll get to that in just a minute. You know what's interesting to me about this? Why is all we're hearing is Trump and the team sat down and they're about to put a trade agreement together with the communists? That's all we're hearing in the news, right? That's why Trump and others need to come on Liberty Roundtable live and the big mig.

[00:18:15] And let's talk about these rare earth minerals being tied up in the communists and what they're doing. On one hand, they're acting like they're our friends. They want to sit down at the trade negotiating table. On the other hand, they're undermining us at every turn. Look, since April, China has weaponized this dependence by halting rare earth exports to pressure Trump. So is that what's happening while they say they've hammered down a negotiating deal, Lance?

[00:18:46] I mean, look, of course. It's always a plan. And you have to think about it like this. This is all strategic planning, you know? China is a primary driver behind what they're trying to do in Myanmar. And this is an overall plot. You have to look at this. I don't believe that the tariff deal with China is relevant in its own way.

[00:19:06] And what I mean by that is do I really truly believe that China is going to enter into any agreement with any country across the entire globe honestly with integrity that they're actually going to follow it? No. They're going to do workarounds. China is known for all their workarounds. It doesn't matter whether they don't. They will figure a workaround on patents. They'll figure a workaround on trademarks. They just ignore whatever they need to do to move their agenda forward. And at the end of the day, I don't, you know, when I see stuff like this, this is my problem.

[00:19:35] This is the stuff we really should be paying attention to. But our eye isn't on this prize. We're busy worried about, you know, people rioting all over the U.S., causing insurrection in every, you know, in every city. And, of course, we're not going to go after the people that are responsible. We're not going to find out and we're not going to follow the money. We're not going to charge them criminally for treason, you know, seditious conspiracy. Right? We're not going to do it. And that's the problem.

[00:20:02] You know, Sam, I just don't believe that no matter what is said by the administration or in the news right now, that it's really going to do what's right for the country. There you go. It's hard to even know how to respond to this stuff. What we're getting is surface details. Oh, they're working out a deal. But all the behind-the-scenes reality are disaster.

[00:20:24] And the next story we're going to talk about after the bottom of the hour in more detail will really highlight this in detail about, hey, they might come to a trade agreement on the surface. But they will violate every bit of it. The Communist Chinese Party has always done that. Every time. I mean, their whole playbook is they want communism to destroy freedom, to destroy liberty, to destroy the free enterprise system, whatever you want to call it. Right?

[00:20:53] They want to dominate. And we've basically funded them for 40 years and built up their military industrial complex to the point where we're having a hard time competing. Now they're about to control the checkpoints of the world, George. The world in the sky. You see their sixth-generation fighter that they came out with? Yes. It's crazy. It is. I mean, but that just comes from them stealing technology from us. Just like they do it on a government level.

[00:21:21] They do it on the small level. Like you said, we just continue to allow them to do it. Look how many businesses here that people invent products and China steals the patents and they duplicate them and they sell them. And it's like a fight to get them to stop. Well, enough's enough. I mean, do we really need China? No. I think every company should pull their companies out. There's plenty of other countries that you could build factories. It might take a little time, but get it done. It's the only way.

[00:21:51] We funded them. We did it. We're responsible. We bought their products. We allowed their GDP to actually surpass ours. So what do you think is going to happen? And they're communists. And their criminal activity has funded their operation. I mean, let's face it. The precursor chemical business with the cartels, they've made just literally billions of dollars off of that.

[00:22:19] Now they're selling ghost gunner mills, clones of 3D and 4D mills to the cartels because the cartels are planning on going into the gun business. They've always got a new vertical for criminal activity. Most of the drugs and precursor chemicals are coming to the United States when it comes to things like fentanyl, carfentanil, methamphetamine, MDMA. They're coming out of labs in China. They don't care. They sell all kinds of knockoff pharmaceuticals. That comes into the country, whether it's Ozempic or other drugs.

[00:22:48] And just because we think we're going to stop the flow going into Mexico, that doesn't matter because they've already got a secondary channel set up in Asia to do the same exact thing and then re-channel through legitimate pharmaceutical companies. That's a story that George and I are going to be covering here in the near-term future on our show. And that's the point. They've got a second plan.

[00:23:13] Man, anybody that thinks you're going to get China to do exactly what they tell you, they're going to say one thing and they're going to do another. I don't trust them as far as I can spit. And they need to be treated in that manner. But we made the mistake, right? We wanted cheap goods. We allowed all of our industry to get transferred over there because, of course, what did we do here? We ran these companies in the ground. Workman's con, unemployment tax, you know, the payroll taxes, health insurance, mandatory health insurance.

[00:23:43] Companies over here just can't afford to produce the goods at the prices that they need to produce it for. If we want to know why inflation, let's face it, the unions probably drove part of the inflation. You know, it's a frightening situation. It's a slippery slope. And I don't know how we stop it, Stan. Well, we stop it by being honest. I'll tell you how we stop it on the other side of the break in great detail. All right? I'll tell you how we stop it. And it's education, education, education for the American people.

[00:24:10] And we, the new media, taking center stage, are at the choke point of this education. What I mean by choke point is, hey, mainstream press gatekeepers have choked this off for decades. Now it's time to get rid of the checkpoint and let real education flow. And when we do, the American people will get incensed enough to connect the dots on Donald Trump's claims. He's got a lot of good points and a lot of good things he's doing. But nobody understands what he says.

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[00:25:04] President Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have yet to sign off on it, but the U.S. and China do have a tentative trade deal. It sets U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports at 55%. China's tariffs on American goods go to 10%. The U.S. also gets rare earth minerals from China. In return, Chinese students will be allowed to keep on attending American colleges and universities. A better than expected report on consumer prices.

[00:25:32] Inflation rose 2.4% last month compared to a year ago. The May figure compares with April's mark of a 2.3% rise in consumer prices compared with a year ago. Economists were projecting prices would increase 2.5% last month as they keep constantly monitoring the impacts of the administration's tariff policies on the economy especially as some retailers and some consumer products companies have publicized plans to raise prices in anticipation of covering the cost of the import duties.

[00:26:01] Correspondent George Williams. Los Angeles, much quieter overnight. President Trump has a message for those who would resort to violence. Los Angeles isn't the only city where demonstrations have taken place over immigration enforcement raids. Protests have sprung up in several American cities. The president issued this warning if those protests turn violent. When they do it, if they do it, they're going to be met with equal or greater force than we met right here.

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[00:30:18] You are listening to the Liberty Roundtable Radio Talk Show. Happy to have you along, my fellow Americans. Lance, you're up for this critical update. I was mentioning right before the break that, hey, we need long-form discussions about what Donald Trump is doing.

[00:30:47] Donald Trump is doing a lot of good behind the scenes. And we need to reinforce that as we, the American people. The problem is we hear headlines from Trump through the mainstream clowns. But we don't know why. You know, why on earth does Trump really want Greenland? Is he just a, you know, thug that wants land? What's this about? Hey, you know, Canada, the 51st state, you know, why? People don't understand why and what's really happening. Long-form radio, long-form talk is the only way, in my opinion, to help people understand what's happening.

[00:31:14] This breakdown for thegatewaypunit.com really, in my opinion, kind of tells the details of this thing. Jason Sullivan has the piece, Lance. Yeah. And I want to say this. Strategically, Trump knows what needs to happen. You know, Greenland is not only important for national security, it also has a strategic reserve of minerals. Now, how many of those are rare earth minerals? Who knows? Same thing with Canada.

[00:31:43] Largest freshwater supply in the world. Incredible mineral reserves that have never even been fully explored. And it's an opportunity to maybe unify the North American content in a way that would give us additional protection. Because that border is being infiltrated just as much as the south border is. The northern border is just being, you know, taken over by the cartels. It's no different than the southern border. So to actually get involved with Canada.

[00:32:08] Canada has been ignored by the UK other than stealing whatever they can from the monarchy. But here we are. Panama Canal is the same situation. You know, China's got their eyes on this secret megaport. And they want to bypass the Panama Canal, which would give them an incredible amount of control over trade. And I think if they secure this Copia Port E project, it's going to turbocharge Beijing's trade in South America. And I think what it's going to do is allow...

[00:32:37] Now, for anybody out in the audience that doesn't know about this, if you guys aren't familiar with the China mega ships, you need to take a look at them. They've got one called the China Max and I believe another one called the Cap Size. These are super tankers. Now, these ships carry 80% more cargo than standard vessels. But they're not able to pass through the Panama or Suez Canal. So they have to take the long route.

[00:33:01] That would change if they get control of this Copia Port that's in Punta Cacos Peninsula. And that gives them direct access on the Pacific Coast. So this is a world... This port is really a world rarity because it's really incredible because it's got a natural breakwater that extends 8 kilometers in the sea and a natural seabed depth that exceeds 30 meters. So you don't need any dredging because that's the difficulty.

[00:33:29] Dredging is a very, very cost prohibitive event which would allow these mega ships to be used. So strategically, this is an incredible opportunity and it's going to enable China to get efficient distribution of goods to Europe, Africa, North America. And I believe whoever controls this corridor, Sam, this is the key to really hemispheric trade dominance. And I think this is something that is being swept. We don't see any of that.

[00:33:56] Have you seen even one article besides the Gateway Pundit in any of the mainstream media is discussing this, Sam? No, and that's my point. See, if Trump knows this and if the Gateway Pundit knows this and all we're hearing is O'Donnell's team sat down in England or wherever the crap they were, London, and hammered out a trade deal with the communist Chinese. I mean, that's just absolute surface fake news that has no value whatsoever. It runs cover for what's really happening.

[00:34:23] When you understand some of these trade routes that China's building, they won't even need the Panama Canal. They'll be able to run this stuff through and absolutely control the choke points of all trade. And America will be absolutely trapped. And so when Donald Trump makes some of these statements, unless there's somebody that will give him time to lay the groundwork, or even if you have some of his aides who are educated, lay some of the groundwork,

[00:34:49] or even if you have people like Jason over to the Gateway Pundit lay some of this groundwork, you could tell the story and Americans pretty soon will be like, I get it. Holy crap. This needs to be dealt with. But when you don't connect the dots, how can you know, Lance? Well, and think about what we're talking about. I bet you 99.99% of America has no idea what these super tankers are all about. And when you think about the fact that they can carry 80% more cargo,

[00:35:18] you have to imagine the impact of that. But I guarantee if you ask somebody, hey, do you know about the China Max super tankers? Do you know about the capsized super tankers? They would say no. Do you know why Donald Trump wants to take control of the Panama Canal and not allow it to continue? And of course, knowing about super tankers, I don't believe they'll be the only countries to ever have them. I'm sure we'll start to see some other countries produce these super tankers, especially if they know they've got this Copia port E that they can actually go through. The point is, doesn't that mean that the Panama Canal needs an upgrade?

[00:35:49] Do we actually believe that Panama is going to upgrade? Do we believe that they're going to upgrade the Suez Canal? That would mean that they probably need a major upgrade so they can be competitive. But strategically, we're not hearing any of that. We'd rather waste our money like we're doing in the continued in the Big Beautiful Bill. Big Beautiful Bill is not addressing any of this. There's none of this in there. So how do we get this? Because, you know, China's Belt and Road Initiative has been extremely powerful.

[00:36:14] They've made aggressive moves in so many countries, I mean, even on the continent of Africa. And we've been the ones to fund it, Lance. Exactly. No different than us funding the Wuhan lab and gain-of-function research. The issue is that there's all these backdoor accesses to our capital, to the U.S. markets, and we haven't done anything to protect that. And why is that? Because we've got a uniparty in Congress.

[00:36:42] All they do is worry about who controls. They want to talk about, oh, we're in control of this House. Oh, we're in control of the Senate. It doesn't matter who controls it. It's the same old garbage, no matter whether it's the Democrats or the Republicans. They are not about making America great again. What they're about is making themselves fat, rich, and lazier than ever. Ineffectively, they serve less days doing their job than any other Congress ever has. They make more money than any other Congress ever has.

[00:37:09] They continue to get money from whether it's the foundations, the super PACs, the NGOs, the hidden book deals. They enrich themselves on the back of America, and they don't do anything to protect us and move us forward. This is common sense. What Donald Trump is doing is common sense. But is he doing enough? I don't think so. I agree. He's not doing enough. I agree that it's common sense. But I also agree that, see, even guys like me, though, if you can't connect those dots

[00:37:36] from me, like I don't have time day to day to spend time understanding international trade routes and what can be had in which foreign nations and everything else and how they're building some of these trade route lines and all this stuff. I'm not saying I'm ignorant, but I'm saying everybody needs help getting caught up, right? How can we back Trump's claims when we don't know the reasons why? I mean, they teach you in business. Look, you've got to explain the why first. And when you do, you get people aboard. Without the why, though, people are going to mutiny. They're going to just be like, whatever.

[00:38:05] Donald's crazy and goofy. And the mainstream press loves the headline where Donald says something crazy. Hey, we're going to take over Greenland. And then people are going, oh, my gosh, the guy's a war hawk. He's whacked out crazy. Or we're going to do this and that. We've got to lay the groundwork. The communist Chinese have used our money for 50-plus years to literally create the greatest military industrial complex in the world. We spend a trillion dollars on military every year.

[00:38:33] They spend pennies comparatively. But they take all of our money from trade deficits and build their war machine. Meanwhile, they're quietly using this Belt Initiative, this Belt Road Initiative, to really create trade routes to circumvent everything that we think we have. If we take the Panama Canal back, they'll just run to the next trade route they've built up. And before you know it, if we're not very careful, they will control trade on our hemisphere. This is absolutely disaster.

[00:39:02] But unless people can get the nuts and bolts of it, how do you deal with it? They want this, quote, they call it a secret megaport to bypass the Panama Canal. And they want to shatter the U.S. control over the Western Hemisphere. How are they going to do it? What's this port called? Copia Port E? I think is how you say it? Yeah, I think it's pronounced Copia Port E. Yes. Yeah. Okay.

[00:39:31] Well, if they build that thing, I mean, it's way – it's got – because of that section that you mentioned, that eight – what is it, meter foot? Yeah, it's got a natural breakwater. It's an eight-kilometer natural breakwater, which gives protection to the port. I mean, we're talking about, Sam. If they build this – You don't have to do no dredging, right? Yeah, no dredging because of the depth. If they build this, and they'd be able to build it very quickly, right, if this gets all done,

[00:39:58] this is going to be the new Silk Road, and it's going to be right on America's doorstep. It will give them an incredible advantage, right? And their freight will be moving cheaper and faster than ever before. The delays aren't going to be there. They say this Copia Port E is not just a port. It's a continental gateway.

[00:40:17] Anyway, a linchpin on who controls the future of trade, logistics, and influence in our hemisphere or in the southern hemisphere, right? And so China sees it, and so must we. But see, how are you going to do it when Donald makes a statement and everybody else is going, clown show, whacked out Donald, just loco for power. He's crazy.

[00:40:42] While we ignore the CCP's crazy quest for power, are you kidding me right now? But see, if we can't get these leaders on, I mean, we can break it down because the gateway printed an article. Good for them. But my whole point is, this is why they need to dump the mainstream clowns and go with people who will tell the long-form story so the American people can connect the dots and get behind what needs to happen. George? Listen, you're preaching to the choir, you know, and that's my point.

[00:41:11] Why does mainstream media, right? Why does this administration, why do they continue to reward them? They get rewarded with all the top interviews, all the top releases, all the top news. They get the best seats in the press pool in D.C. They get treated like royalties still after they've done nothing but undermine and destroy the country. They took money from USAID. They took money from NGOs and foundations to post fake news.

[00:41:41] You know, they did everything they could. Look what 60 Minutes did. Yeah, it's great that Donald Trump is going to get a settlement from 60 Minutes. But what about the settlement for the American public? What about the settlement for taking Kamala Harris's interview and faking it, taking it, editing it, and preventing fake news to the world? How about the American public? When do we get a settlement? What about for Sam Bushman, Liberty News Radio, where I've fought for my involvement in the

[00:42:08] media for 30 years at my own expense while I've had to fund National Public Radio to compete with me? Exactly. What about that? What about all the money went to NPR and PBS? I didn't agree to getting that money. How come we didn't get any of that money? How come the money never is equally shared? And again, if 60 Minutes is going to pay a settlement to Donald Trump because he was damaged by that interview that was cut and pasted together, then why aren't they paying a settlement to the American public? Why doesn't Sam and Lance get part of that payment?

[00:42:38] I mean, you know, Donald Trump's going to get more money. I don't know that he needs any more money. And I'm not picking on Donald Trump for being a good business person, for being successful. What I'm picking on is it's just more of the same. I don't see the thank you. I don't see the funnel down to the people that have been fighting. What I see is continuing to reward the people, whether it's in Congress, whether it's in mainstream media, for doing what we were told they shouldn't be doing. And we heard it for the last 10 years now. But yet here it is, the same old, same old.

[00:43:08] When I look at the press pool and I continue to see those people participating in there, why weren't they thrown out? Why is MSNBC and CNN still in there? Why are they still allowed to be part of the press pool? Why does the FCC and the FCC not enforce the laws on the books? Social media influencers are being paid to lie to the American public. And they're doing it on a daily basis. And they're not putting in their posts, paid posts, sponsored posts. Why aren't they being criminally charged?

[00:43:35] Why are they allowing and continuing to support the brainwashing operation that exists in our media? Because let's face it, this port story, this is a major, extremely important story. They should be screaming this from the rooftops. But yet, let's face it, if you and I weren't digging around, this story would just be swept under the rug. And if it wasn't for the good folks at the Gateway Pundit to write this story, I don't know that you and I would even realize this, would we? I kind of knew about it.

[00:44:04] I knew about the super tankers and how dangerous they were. I knew about what was going on in the struggle in the Panama Canal. Yeah, and I knew some general things, too. But there was also a similar struggle that was being used in the Suez Canal. And I knew that they were looking for a project. I did know this from the NFSC, that they were looking for a project that would allow them to expand their global reach using their super tankers. And I knew some of those details, too.

[00:44:27] But without this story connecting all those dots, I didn't realize how sinister and how plotting and how close it was to becoming reality. Yeah, correct. Right? Absolutely. I hear about the super tankers, and I can do a quick story saying, hey, they have these super tankers that can carry more product. What is it, 80% more product? Yeah, 80% more than a normal tanker. And people don't realize. I knew they were big, but I didn't realize it was that big. Did you?

[00:44:52] What's incredible about that, if you look at the current size of our standard tankers or ships that carry the sea containers, you guys have seen them at the ports. They're huge. A ship. Those are huge. Now, imagine a ship that can carry 80% more sea containers. I can't almost comprehend it. So, see, I knew about super tankers, but I didn't know that they were 80% more.

[00:45:15] I knew that there was other ways besides the Panama Canal, but I didn't realize how easy, because of the depth of the water in this other, whatever you call it, this other port, gateway, whatever we're going to call this thing, I didn't realize that it was so easy to build an infrastructure to use. I knew some of those things, but I didn't have all the details that make it poignant and immediate. And I want to say something. I don't know that it's easy, but the Chinese are strategic.

[00:45:45] They identified this opportunity. And, of course, the Belt and Road Initiative, that's what it's all about. It's about expanding their reach. It's about getting more allies that they've used their capital to grab. That's what they're doing all over northern Africa. Their integration into northern and all parts of Africa, actually, is all about finding any country there that needs capital to grow their economy.

[00:46:12] Of course, through that, they have to have a guarantee of they're going to allow them to have beneficial trade deals. They're going to allow them to have political influence. They want support from these administrations. And, of course, Africa is for sale. The U.K. isn't as interested as they were after they cleaned out all the resources, right? They've already cleaned out most of the diamonds. At the end of the day, they don't care any longer. What I'm telling you is that China is strategic.

[00:46:38] And they don't care if they only move forward an eighth of an inch every 20 years. That's what the Red Book Mao is all about. It's about pushing their political agenda, their economic agenda, and their country agenda forward. And they don't care how much they move forward or how long it takes them as long as they're moving forward. So this operation to find a strategic port, they've been working on it for the last 10 years. But they've now found it. It's now been exposed.

[00:47:05] The problem is it's only on Liberty Roundtable and the Gateway Pundit. And no doubt we have way more stature than we had before. It's on the Big Mig. It's on the Gateway Pundit. It's on Liberty Roundtable. Maybe a few others. But why can't we get the leaders of the United States to talk about it with us in long form to where we can catch the American people up and get them? Okay, you got the mainstream press. They won't touch it. They're busy going, oh, Melania Trump made a mistake during the riots and she's turning heads. What? Who cares? Yeah. Okay. That's the headline.

[00:47:35] And we're seeing these things. But I don't see Trump or any of these people helping us at all tell these stories. We need to align if we're going to take the narrative back and control the narrative and say, hey, the narrative is what's good and bad for America. I want to make America first. But I'm telling you right now, you don't make America first by reporting, oh, they went to London and hammered out a great deal with the communists.

[00:48:00] You win and make America first by saying, hey, we're going to make sure they don't control this port, that they don't get this done. That's not happening on our watch. Right? And that's the problem. I mean, listen to these titles from CNN. I'm going to read these fresh quickly. Newsom confronts Trump with a potential blueprint for Democrats. More than a dozen lawmakers tied to stock trade. Transactions ahead of Trump's early tariff pause. Trump's China truth is nothing of the sort. Chaotic scene unfolds between police and CNN crew live on air.

[00:48:29] I mean, do these really seem to be the top priorities? Do these seem like this is what really matters as far as a news cycle? Of course, that's why CNN's ratings are going into the tank. That's why they even worse every month. So far, as one of their reporters, I guess the cops grabbed him and put his arms behind his back. They didn't tie him or cuff him or anything else. They brought him to the side. And then he had to explain that he was a CNN reporter and show his credentials. And then they let him go. That's one of their big stories. Yeah.

[00:48:58] And I mean, and that's my point. It's the sleight of hand. It's the David Copperfield. I'm going to make the elephant disappear over here. And they don't cover the stuff that matters. Congress is so focused on making headlines and posting on social media. The Democrats just found out how to do short form video. And they just can't stop themselves. They just do it every single day. Now, that's not what we that's not what the country is supposed to be doing right now. We're supposed to be fixing.

[00:49:25] And if we continue to allow these career politician lowlifes maintain their positions and keep moving forward, nothing but garbage. This country is in serious trouble. We're 36 plus trillion dollars in debt. And there's there's there's no effort whatsoever to stop that. We don't know if we have any gold in Fort Knox. They get rid of the debt ceiling so we can continue forever without accountability.

[00:49:50] What we should be doing is saying, hey, we're not going to let as long as the communist Chinese continue to be aggressive on every single front from police stations in the United States that are communist Chinese controlled known to controlling this canal to building a military industrial complex to threatening Taiwan to I can go on and on. They threaten the nuclear option, which means financial against the United States years ago as well. Why don't we basically say, hey, the best way to prevent them from getting their, quote, wherewithal is to stop the money?

[00:50:21] Yeah, I mean, you have to cut off the source, right? And then you have to stop the individuals that are using their own personal money or money that they got from places like USAID to continue to destroy the country from within. Those are enemies in the United States. We have to take a much firmer hand. You know, everybody's talking about Donald Trump being radical. They're fortunate it's not me as president of the United States. I'd be locking and rocking. There'd be so many of our congressional members sitting down in Gitmo, and I wouldn't give them any voice whatsoever.

[00:50:49] And the mainstream media, I would have thrown them out of the press pool. They would have been done. I wouldn't give them one interview. I wouldn't give them one element of my time. I'm still waiting for the Trump administration to give me credentials from whitehouse.gov slash new media. I applied for that and haven't heard a single word of you. We did the same thing over at the Big Ming Show. We applied for it, haven't heard a single word. But yet we've continued to support this administration. But I can tell you this. You won't hear a word because they can't handle the truth.

[00:51:17] They want people that are going to say questions that they want them to say. That's why you won't see Trump on shows like ours. They're afraid of the real questions. Plain and simple. Go ahead, Lance. Sorry. No. I think it's spot on, George. I'm happy you put that in there because you're right. At the end of the day, if they really wanted the truth, then they would get on these shows and put out the truth.

[00:51:41] If they really wanted the American public to know about this port, to know why Greenland matters, to know why even Canada matters, they should be thinking about it from that. Listen, did you see this? That one of the Mexican politicians came out and said that he's willing to use the Mexican resources to pay for the wall. But they're going to go after the map from 1830 of Mexico and the United States. 1830 map. That means what? Utah is part of Mexico? Yeah.

[00:52:10] Mexico, you lose Utah, you lose Arizona, you lose New Mexico, you lose half of California and all of Texas. There you go. So that's what they're saying in Mexico. Is that really what we should be allowing anybody even say? I would have come out today and said, I dare you. I dare you. And I'm going to tell you what right now. If you don't get these cartels handled, I'm going to use military and I'm going to start drone striking within the country of Mexico.

[00:52:35] So if you think you've got a problem right now, go ahead and keep talking with that little rhetoric of yours. And I would have just, you know, but that's the problem. The strong leadership I voted for, the decisive hand, the swift action, I don't see it. Again, same old, same old song and dance. To me, it's the same old man. I'm not happy right now. And I don't think I'm going to be made happy. I'm going to write a headline for you. Ready? Donald is the youngest old man we've ever seen on the national stage.

[00:53:06] I'm sorry. Yeah. You'll never see anybody match his energy. Never. That's right. He's incredible. And then the other side says, oh my gosh, he's Satan incarnate. And there you go. That's the headlines. Isn't that the headlines that have dominated for literally a decade now? Basically. Yeah. In a nutshell, different iterations and different weird twists and turns. But at the end of the day, Donald is the youngest, most capable old man on the stage you've ever seen in your life. That's one narrative. The other narrative is he's Satan incarnate. And that's really what breaks it all down.

[00:53:35] And we're not talking about anything that could really restore the republic, protect the American people, increase the economy for the United States. Everything is increasing the economy for the communists and the haters. Okay. Even Mexico. Your point's well taken. Why are we even entertaining or allowing those kind of statements to go forward without a challenge? Oh, I would have hammered that guy. He would have been hammered, Shane. Oh, you know what? Newsom is going to sue the administration. Who cares? They're not going to win. They're not going to go anywhere.

[00:54:03] All the administration has to do is sue California. Why don't we pull all the money from California? Why don't we say, hey, you get a handle on these riots tomorrow or you don't get a penny from the government anymore? Yeah, just cut them off. Sorry. You're done. We're going to stop it. Yeah, but nobody has the gumption to do that. They won't do it. Some people say we're too hard to do it. Cowards and traitors. Remember this. We do want the respect of the world.

[00:54:28] And the way you get it is by the rule of law and the moral high ground and honest, true, real accountability. We've got to take action, people. And I know that sounds crazy. But in the end of the day, the Gestapo gets after you every year at the IRS. It's got to stop. God save the republic. Thanks, everybody.