Jan. 13, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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War Room Impeachment With Stephen K. Bannon, Jason Miller, and Raheem Kassam | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| The oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God. | ||
| We know that we faced enemies of the Constitution. | ||
| We know we experienced the insurrection that violated the sanctity of the people's capital and attempted to overturn the duly recorded will of the American people. | ||
| And we know that the President of the United States incited this insurrection, this armed rebellion against our common country. | ||
| He must go. | ||
| He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love. | ||
| That doesn't mean the President is free from fault. | ||
| The President bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters. | ||
| So Democrats can say, quote, I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country, while there are uprisings happening around the country. | ||
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But they impeach the President of the United States for saying, peacefully and patriotically, make your voices heard. | |
| Democrats can say, quote, you know, there needs to be unrest in the streets, while there is unrest in the streets. | ||
| But they're going to impeach the President for saying, peacefully and patriotically, make your voices heard. | ||
| Let's be consistent, all of us. | ||
| All of us need to be consistent and condemn the violence all the time. | ||
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| Louis and I rise in support of the article of impeachment against Donald J. Trump. | ||
| If we fail to remove a white supremacist president who incited a white supremacist insurrection, it's communities like Missouri's 1st District that suffer the most. | ||
| The 117th Congress must understand that we have a mandate to legislate in defense of black lives. | ||
| The first step in that process is to root out white supremacy, starting with impeaching the white supremacist-in-chief. | ||
| We have been asked to turn a blind eye to the criminality, corruption, and blatant disregard to the rule of law by the tyrant president we have in the White House. | ||
| We as a nation can no longer look away. | ||
| The President not only incited an insurrection against our government, but has in word and deed led a rebellion. | ||
| The Speaker said to us just moments ago, words matter. | ||
| But apparently those words don't matter when they're uttered by Democrats. | ||
| When the gentlelady from Massachusetts calls for unrest in the streets. | ||
| When the gentlelady from California brazenly brads that she called for people to get in the faces of those who serve and support the President. | ||
| I denounced political violence from all ends of the spectrum, but make no mistake, the left in America has incited far more political violence than the right. | ||
| For months, our cities burned, police stations burned, our businesses were shattered, and they said nothing! | ||
| Or they're cheerlead for it, and they fundraised for it, and they allowed it to happen in the greatest country in the world. | ||
| Now some have cited Some have cited the metaphor that the president lit the flame. | ||
| Well, they lit actual flames! | ||
| Actual fires! | ||
| Time expired, there will be... | ||
| Okay, live from our nation's capital, you're in The War Room. | ||
| It is Wednesday, the 13th of January, the year of our Lord, 2021. | ||
| Now with the number, I think, two or three podcasts in The Nation, a political podcast, and back of, I think, Pod Save America, with over almost 29 million downloads. | ||
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| Jack Posobiec, by a 232 to 197, Absolutely stunning. | ||
| President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, was impeached for the second time on the charge of willful incitement of insurrection. | ||
| We're 10 Republicans. | ||
| But before we get to that, let's talk about your general. | ||
| You've been up here all day. | ||
| A little tougher to get over to the war room now that Washington is an armed camp, not like it was last week when you had a couple of Capitol Hill police and a few bicycle racks, right? | ||
| Very different. | ||
| You've never seen this in Washington, D.C., even given up to the point where we had nightly riots going on back At the end of May and June. | ||
| They were burning Georgetown, all the stores down. | ||
| It was on fire. | ||
| There were parades of rioters marching throughout the streets and you never saw anything like you're seeing right now. | ||
| There are military and police checkpoints all around Capitol Hill. | ||
| There are activated National Guard troops that are walking around armed. | ||
| There are divisions marching inside the Capitol Hill security zone. | ||
| So, it turns out where my studio is, is actually inside the security zone. | ||
| The war room here is inside the security zone. | ||
| So, to be able to even get here, you've got to show ID, you're going to be checked a number of times by armed officers. | ||
| We're literally two or three minutes away on a good day from the One America News studios. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's a brisk walk. | ||
| A brisk walk. | ||
| Usually. | ||
| Not today. | ||
| Take us through, first off, I thought that it was very impassioned, only two hours of debate, to impeach a sitting president for the second time. | ||
| The gravity that that should take, I mean, completely railroaded through, driven, let's be honest, by Republicans, and even the Republicans, the ten that voted, there were a bunch of others that were pushing this along, right? | ||
| And McCarthy, I mean, he said in his speech, although he didn't vote for impeachment, he said the president bears responsibility for the riot. | ||
| Right? | ||
| I didn't hear that up until today. | ||
| Well, what you also saw going through was the House of Representatives just passed a bill of attendee. | ||
| And if Jack Maxey here, I'm sure he'd be talking about that as well. | ||
| You are declaring someone and declaring a group of people To be guilty and complicit in a crime without due process. | ||
| Every time a Republican got up and tried to speak through the facts as we've done, as I've done, of the timeline of how this worked, that there couldn't have been incitement, there were pre-planned elements, bad actors and accelerationists in this crowd that came and that showed up that morning looking to do harm, right? | ||
| They're not incited by anything that the president was saying that day. | ||
| They showed up looking to do that. | ||
| Every time a Republican tried to say something about that or bring up any of those inconvenient facts, they were shut down, they were yelled over, they were talked over. | ||
| And what you're seeing today is this isn't, by the way, a punishment of Donald Trump for anything that happened on January 6th, by the way. | ||
| I think they're doing this to send a message to anybody else who's not in the club that if they think that they can ever get the deplorables together to bring them up and say we want to take our country back that they should think again. | ||
| Well, this is the point that we made when we started the show, the War on Impeachment show, back in October, September of October last year, where people were saying, oh, that's fake news, etc. | ||
| I said, no. | ||
| They're going to impeach him, because they think that could cripple him for re-election. | ||
| Here, from people last week, and I remember Thursday and Friday, people were telling me, I was saying, hey, this is what they're going to do, they're going to impeach, and they're going to bring him to trial, maybe before his term ends, or certainly afterwards, because absolutely they want to destroy, they want to make Trump so toxic. | ||
| In addition, they want to bring him to trial because they don't want him to run again in 2024. | ||
| They want all that stripped away from him. | ||
| So here we are today, where many people over the weekend were saying, oh no, this is just going to be optics or it's going to be symbolic. | ||
| They don't do things that are for symbolism. | ||
| They're doing this, and this was rammed through, right? | ||
| They set the rules up. | ||
| Most of the debate was what I call content-free, in that it was both sides arguing about it being rushed, and you did this, but the ability to actually go back to the timeline that Rahim Ghassan and Jack Posobiec did, and things that Rudy are putting up and other people putting up to show that, hey, you couldn't possibly incite this because you were You were, uh, the speech hasn't, hadn't even started. | ||
| Forty minutes away. | ||
| Forty minutes away. | ||
| This thing was already, was already getting revved up at these elements, and now you're seeing elements, and there'll be more reporting over the next couple of days about where some of these elements come from. | ||
| None of that was in there. | ||
| Also, what they then charge, hey, it was predicated upon, you continue to harp on the fact that this was stolen. | ||
| Your people got all worked up about it. | ||
| No attempt, and this is where even Jordan and those guys, no attempt to get into any of the Details of that, which I thought might come up in the two-hour debate, but this was like you ever see the movie Paths of Glory, right? | ||
| They already know what the outcome is, they just want to rush through this, and it was a Moscow show trial. | ||
| What did Kafka say? | ||
| My operating principle is that guilt is already certain? | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| Talk to me, given the way this ran, you know, they said he's a clear and present danger, that the president is a clear and present danger, that he led a rebellion, that he's the white supremacist in chief, right, for white supremacist, white supremacist insurrection. | ||
| Given all that heated rhetoric on the Democratic side, how did 10 Republican congressmen, Given the fact they just got re-elected and they've been out there in the hustings to ask for support, ask for the president's support, to have people come to the district, to have the Republican Party throw in there, how do they get 10? | ||
| And quite frankly, how does McCarthy not whip this? | ||
| Now, we like the fact that this is conscious because these guys have all been outed, right? | ||
| But how does that happen? | ||
| Well, Steve, you know, and I'd say that as well, that I think what we're seeing now, it's not just about the rhetoric, right? | ||
| What you're seeing now is a great revelation. | ||
| Of raw, naked power. | ||
| Not just in Washington, D.C., but even in our country. | ||
| Because you're seeing the corporate backlash to President Trump. | ||
| You're seeing the city of New York breaking all the contracts with him. | ||
| The people who are actually in power here are showing themselves, they're revealing themselves, and they're revealing their intentions. | ||
| They wanted to do this anyway. | ||
| Did you ever think that for a second that President Trump would get out of office and then become one of those, you know, he's hanging out with Barack Obama and George W. Bush and Bill Clinton and he's got his library? | ||
| No, it was never in the cards. | ||
| And what this has done has given them the opportunity to open up the floodgates to say, never again can someone do this, never again can somebody rise up as a political dissident To the two-party duopoly, the uniparty here in Washington DC, and that is a huge... Now look, we've heard also that the Senate Republicans, because the Senate Republicans still have the majority until just 50-50, so it's going to be... So that means Pence is 51, right? | ||
| Everybody get that? | ||
| So... | ||
| They have the majority until January 20th. | ||
| If they schedule this... No, no, no. | ||
| I think the 22nd is when the two, right now, it's the two Georgia senators will actually be seated, take the oath on the 22nd. | ||
| Okay, so 22nd. | ||
| So they have the ball until the 22nd. | ||
| If they schedule this, if Republicans move forward with the impeachment of their own president, of this president, I think that the party is committing political suicide. | ||
| No, I think that's... Okay, so let's walk through the mechanics. | ||
| Right now, Nancy Pelosi has been impeached. | ||
| In fact, the populist press and some other guys had kind of the wrong headline. | ||
| He wasn't going to be preached. | ||
| They were thinking about the trial. | ||
| Right now, the President of the United States has been impeached for the second time. | ||
| That is done. | ||
| They now forward this To the Senate, and to Jack Posobiec, you know, there's been all this all over the Capitol all day long about Mitch McConnell. | ||
| Remember, this is Mitch McConnell and Schumer working hand-in-glove, right? | ||
| Don't think there's no communications or coordination here. | ||
| If Mitch McConnell, he could very well easily, he says he's not going to do it, he's going to take receipt of this on the 19th, he's not going to change the Senate being out. | ||
| However, if Mitch McConnell was to do that, I mean, they're saying right now there's 20 votes, 20 Republican votes. | ||
| The President could, and McConnell's got the ability to change things. | ||
| You could start the trial on Friday, have Nancy Pelosi deliver it Friday. | ||
| You could have the trial Friday, Saturday, come back Monday, take Sunday off, think it through, come back Monday, vote. | ||
| They could impeach him or remove him from office. | ||
| Don't think that's 1,000% off the table. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Mitch McConnell said it's not going to happen, he's not going to take receipt of this, he's going to come back in, I guess, normal order and take receipt on this on the 19th, the day before the inauguration. | ||
| Which means that Schumer would get it and they would work probably, McConnell would turn over to Schumer on the Friday the 22nd. | ||
| So still up in the air. | ||
| And Schumer, but, there's going to be a trial. | ||
| This is not symbolic. | ||
| Donald Trump is going to be tried by the Senate, either before the 20th or shortly thereafter. | ||
| We'll talk about all that. | ||
| Boris Epstein's got an update with what's breaking. | ||
| Very big news day, obviously historic in American history. | ||
| Second impeachment, first president ever to be impeached the second time. | ||
| We're going to return. | ||
| Boris Epstein, I've got Jack Posobiec, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Be back in a second. | ||
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| Okay, Jack Posobie, you got some breaking news before we bring Boris in? | ||
| I do. | ||
| So, sourced from the White House and then also a very senior source from the Senate, I wish I could say, but to say very senior, that this is the current McConnell plan that's being floated. | ||
| They want to get more than 10 Republicans to convict, but not enough to remove. | ||
| This is something that the president was just heard 10 minutes ago, and that the reason that they're not so sure about whipping enough votes towards removal is because of the 300,000 non-voter turnout in Georgia. | ||
| That was the deplorable staying home in the runoff. | ||
| That is something that has Mitch very scared, and he understands that it was the deplorable staying home that cost him the Senate majority. | ||
| It is literally the deplorables holding the line yet again. | ||
| I wish Brent Hume of Fox News, who just was spouting nonsense last night, never talks about numbers, just all this avuncular Nonsense. | ||
| He said, oh, Republicans know that they chased off Republican voters. | ||
| No, it was the 300,000, as John Frederick said over and over and over again. | ||
| It was the deplorables that didn't show up. | ||
| Mitch McConnell just put out a statement that he's going to pass it on to Schumer. | ||
| They're going to do it. | ||
| They're going to convene on this trial after. | ||
| But all the Trump people out there in this global audience, all the populist nationalists, understand something. | ||
| Donald J. Trump is going to stand trial in the Senate. | ||
| Now, he may stand trial after he's out of office in absentia, but he's going to stand. | ||
| And remember, this is about not just making him so toxic nobody can go around him, get around him to advise him or do anything. | ||
| It's also they're looking to make sure that they purge him out of the Republican Party, purge him out of politics. | ||
| And what they're looking to do is now stop His ability to come back and to run in 2024, and I'm bringing in Boris Epstein, one of the lawyers on his legal team over the campaign. | ||
| So, Boris, what's the latest you're hearing? | ||
| Steve, good to be with you. | ||
| Thanks so much. | ||
| Yes, obviously, the result in the House. | ||
| Here's what's interesting that I do want to point out. | ||
| For all the talk that there was going to be this great number of Republicans who are going with Liz Cheney, And going against Donald Trump, and the number ended up being 10. | ||
| There was talk yesterday that it was going to be 20 or more. | ||
| They barely got to 10. | ||
| I mean, and Adam Kinzinger doesn't really count. | ||
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He's not a Republican, he's a Democrat-in-waiting, let's be honest. | |
| So, and you're already seeing this move by Jim Jordan and others, Andy Biggs, to Stripless Cheney of her position as chair of the GOP conference, the number third ranking Republican member. | ||
| of the House of Representatives and the Republican hierarchy there. | ||
| So, Liz Cheney pulled the gambit. | ||
| I'm not sure it's gonna be successful for her long-term because as you said, the MAGA movement, the MAGA voters, they're behind President Trump. | ||
| And if you look at the numbers that were put out this morning, you see that 80% of Republicans want nothing to do with this impeachment. | ||
| And Republicans want it to go away. | ||
| So, it's very disappointing that there were 10, but I think Liz Cheney was hoping for it to be much more. | ||
| Where do we go from here? | ||
| As you mentioned, it's gonna go to the Senate. | ||
| Mitch McConnell's gonna turn it over to crying Chuck Schumer, and crying Chuck Schumer's gonna stage a joke of a Senate trial for something the president absolutely did not do. | ||
| He said specifically, march peacefully and patriotically. | ||
| And as Jack Posobiec has done a great job on, as well as Rahim and many others, if you look at the timelines, if you look at the videos, the timing just doesn't line up in terms of the rally and the fringe element, which broke into the Capitol. | ||
| And I've said this on your show before, I said again, I absolutely condemn any and all violence from the right and the left, from all members of of any of the fringe parts of the political spectrum, full stop. | ||
| But the fact of the matter remains that President Trump had nothing to do with any incitement. | ||
| And this was a charade. | ||
| Today was a charade and a sad day in American history, but a day that we probably expected because these Democrats, they cannot help themselves, but overreach. | ||
| The cabal of the Democrats, mainstream media, and big tech, and Republican establishment are just absolutely triggered by President Trump and are dead set in going after him. | ||
| So, thank you. | ||
| So you did have ten Republicans led by Liz Cheney, who's number three in leadership, which is pretty stunning. | ||
| And also, Andy McCarthy really came out and said, hey, President Trump bears responsibility for the riot, which, you know, the other day he leaked that President Trump said that on some call. | ||
| You know, that's not true. | ||
| And so he walked it back and changed that. | ||
| He thought he had responsibility. | ||
| Ten is pretty stunning, though. | ||
| Even if it's only 10, not the 20 they talked about, but 10, because the headline can be, you know, bipartisan impeachment. | ||
| And they got a couple of senior people in leadership. | ||
| I mean, Fred Upton's no junior guy. | ||
| You had a couple of rising stars. | ||
| You had Anthony Gonzalez, right? | ||
| And he's been very good on China, from Ohio. | ||
| You've got, obviously, Kinzinger, who's all over MSNBC. | ||
| You've got Tom Rice from South Carolina. | ||
| I mean, I think some surprising names on here. | ||
| You've got the guy from the DeVos family, supported, that took Justin Amash's seat. | ||
| He must think he's Justin Amash Jr., right? | ||
| He shows up for two weeks. | ||
| Shows up for two weeks and votes to impeach the President of the United States of his party. | ||
| I guess, hey, they say voters conscious. | ||
| The thing is, hey, it's very clear. | ||
| So people in their districts are going to have to deal with this. | ||
| Let's talk about Liz Cheney. | ||
| And I'm kind of stunned, too, that McCarthy didn't whip this at all in order to get this number down. | ||
| I mean, having a bipartisan, as you know, Boris, just the optics of it look so much worse. | ||
| That's the whole reason we started the War Room Show, the impeachment to begin with, to hold the Republicans and make sure there was no defections, right? | ||
| And there were no defections. | ||
| As you know, people went, you know, weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks. | ||
| So what do you, what do you think about Liz Cheney's role in all of this? | ||
| I think it's extremely disappointing, but not surprising. | ||
| Obviously, the Cheney family has been part of the Republican establishment for a long time. | ||
| And as we often discuss, President Trump defeated the Republican establishment first, and then he defeated the Democrat establishment. | ||
| So it's not surprising, but absolutely disappointing. | ||
| Absolutely disappointing. | ||
| Even for a fact such as the President Trump pardoned Scooter Libby, something that George W. Bush didn't do, but something that Dick Cheney really, really wanted and pushed for. | ||
| But President Trump came in and he did that, so not a lot of gratitude there. | ||
| from the Cheneys for President Trump pardoning somebody who was a right hand to Dick Cheney when he was at the White House. | ||
| It is very disappointing. | ||
| Again, I think it was Cheney's disappointment that the number wasn't higher, but we are where we are. | ||
| And as you said, the voters in these districts and the Republican conference has to look internally and say, okay, how does this impact everything? | ||
| Jim Jordan said we should have another vote. | ||
| Adam Kinzinger is going to have their saying that Liz Cheney has more support now than ever. | ||
| I'm not sure how you could say that because she only got nine other members to go with her. | ||
| You know, it was a little bit of a Jerry Maguire moment who was coming with me and very few did. | ||
| So, I think that's the fact of the matter there, and some of the hidden leads are going to be what happens to these members in the next round of elections, but now the focus has to be on the Senate. | ||
| And it's absolutely clear, absolutely clear that this is a gambit by the left and establishment Republicans to keep To keep President Trump from running again in 2024, to keep the MAGA movement from having their champion be a candidate. | ||
| And we have to. | ||
| We have to stand strong against that. | ||
| In terms of what Jack said, getting 10 to convict but not that 17 that's needed, I guess that would just be a show of support or a show of condemnation against President Trump and support for... I'm not sure how that would work. | ||
| I'm not buying that. | ||
| Here's why, and I understand the $300,000, but if they're going to go all-in, what they can't have is Trump in their life for the next four years. | ||
| And when he wins in 2024, in his next eight years, Trump is involved in their daily lives. | ||
| They're going to make their move now to purge. | ||
| They're going to make their move now to purge. | ||
| That's why this trial is going to be important. | ||
| Is twice as important as the last one. | ||
| I guess since you can't remove him from office, maybe it's not. | ||
| They can purge him, but they can't purge the deplorables. | ||
| And that's what it comes down to. | ||
| I understand that. | ||
| But you can, hey, if you crush Trump, right, you're going to send a lot of deplorables. | ||
| I think a lot of deplorables are going to say, hey. | ||
| Check out. | ||
| Check out. | ||
| Say, look, we saw this guy stood up. | ||
| He represented us. | ||
| He was, you know, not in the room, not in the deal. | ||
| He was in the room with us, for us. | ||
| And here's what happens to him. | ||
| Remember, the thing is, and by the way, you don't get the presidential library, you don't get the Secret Service protection, you don't get any of the financial support, you don't get the interaction with the foreign leaders, no presidential library, none of it, zero. | ||
| They'll strip it all away. | ||
| They want to try to show that if you stand up as a populist and a nationalist to support working class and middle class people, given all your achievements, They want to strip it all away from me. | ||
| They want, they're using him as a symbol. | ||
| And I've told people when this thing first started a week ago, you know, I said, don't think that this impeachment is not real. | ||
| You guys missed it the same way as you missed it last time with, oh, that was just fake news. | ||
| Now, Nancy Pelosi has a plan here. | ||
| Boris, can you hang over for a second? | ||
| I just got two more questions for you on the other end. | ||
| We're taking a short commercial break. | ||
| We've got Jack Passover to be given his perspective of everything. | ||
| We'll return in just a second on War Room Impeachment. | ||
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War Room Impeachment. | |
| With Stephen K. Bannon, Jason Miller, and Raheem Kassam. | ||
| War Room Impeachment. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Welcome back on this historic day. | ||
| We're on Capitol Hill. | ||
| The President Trump just got impeached. | ||
| You heard it for the second time. | ||
| As stunning as that is to kind of comprehend. | ||
| For the willful incitement of insurrection. | ||
| And that will be in the history books, ladies and gentlemen, hundreds of years from now. | ||
| So remember this date. | ||
| You can tell your children and your grandchildren about it. | ||
| How rushed it was. | ||
| Boris, they just announced that the President may put out a video later tonight. | ||
| I want to get to that in one second. | ||
| If you think about the last, and I realize this is more time to build it up, but the last impeachment, there was such a spirited defense. | ||
| There was such an organized effort. | ||
| of the president's legal team, communications team, political team, that they had no defections, zero defections in the House from the impeachment process and then I think one defection in the Senate. Was it Mitt Romney? I think we just had one. | ||
| It was Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney, okay. | ||
| Which was pretty stunning, given where that thing started, right? | ||
| And I'm not, this is an observation, not a criticism. | ||
| It didn't seem to be that, not just spirited, but that organized. | ||
| For instance, on the, and I realize there's only two hours of debate. | ||
| And Pasovic said every time they tried to bring up something of a fact nature about the timeline or the actual charge of willful incitement of insurrection, they got hooted down, they got gaveled down, they couldn't do it. | ||
| But I noticed also none of the receipts got in there. | ||
| This is a little bit content free. | ||
| You had heated rhetoric, great arguments, but they're about the issue of uniting the country. | ||
| It wasn't really so much about the facts itself around the speech in the rally in the March, and certainly not about what happened in the States, that they accused the President of being the predicate for all of it. | ||
| I'd like to have your observations first, and then from both of you guys. | ||
| What's going to happen in the Senate? | ||
| Because the Senate's going to be a trial. | ||
| You remember last time? | ||
| It's a trial. | ||
| It's evidence-produced. | ||
| You know, you get top lawyers in there. | ||
| I don't know if it's Dershowitz or who it's going to be, but you get lawyers in there. | ||
| And this time, remember, the President will not have the White House Counsel's Office. | ||
| This will all be on not just his own dime, but his own team he's going to have to pull together. | ||
| So, Boris, I want to talk about today. | ||
| Given the time constraints, did you see, not just the intensity, but how they try to get actual content in this. | ||
| They try to get facts in this. | ||
| A couple of champions from our side today. | ||
| Yes, very, very constrained time. | ||
| Obviously, Nancy Pelosi ramming this through. | ||
| I thought Matt Gaetz did a great job and pointed out the fact that Ayanna Pressley, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi herself had stoked actual flames, had stoked riots. | ||
| Maxine Waters was calling the Republicans to be attacked When they're out at dinner, right? | ||
| And so I thought that he did a great job, and I thought Jim Jordan was very strong. | ||
| Now, again, this was limited. | ||
| It was kept to the specific question about the rally and whether the president incited this, quote-unquote, insurrection, which is a ludicrous question, because the president, again, specifically said, march peacefully and patriotically. | ||
| The American people are allowed to have their voices heard, They're not allowed to break into the Capitol and to commit violent acts. | ||
| But the president never told them to do it. | ||
| He never called on them to do it. | ||
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This was a fringe group which did fringe terrorism. | |
| He never implied it either. | ||
| I mean, this is pretty straightforward. | ||
| He never implied it. | ||
| He did not. | ||
| And if you look at the history of our country in the last year, And all the riots, the rioting in Seattle, in Portland, in Minneapolis, in New York, the murder of former police captain David Dorn in St. | ||
| Louis, all of the hate, the destroying of businesses poured into our country by the left, and now they're claiming that President Trump incited this fringe group? | ||
| It is complete hypocrisy, it's complete dishonesty, and it's exactly what we expect from the Democrats. | ||
| Jack Posobiec. | ||
| So what we saw here today, and Boris, I've said this again, this is a bill of attendee. | ||
| This was passed. | ||
| This is the first time an impeachment has been done. | ||
| I have to check this, but I'm pretty sure this is the first time an impeachment has been done without a single hearing taking place. | ||
| Not one hearing. | ||
| This is a bill of attendee. | ||
| That means there was no trial. | ||
| There was no Ability for either side to present any facts. | ||
| There was no consideration of the facts. | ||
| And they know that, Boris. | ||
| They know. | ||
| They know the timeline. | ||
| We put out the timeline a week ago, and then the New York Times came out last night and backed us up, right? | ||
| They admitted, they say, yeah, Posobiec and Kazan have it exactly right. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| They don't care about this because, again, this is the naked display of power in our capital. | ||
| Those who have power are using it to prevent someone who's been a thorn in their side from ever attaining it again, and the people who supported him for shutting them out of elections moving forward and Mitch McConnell over there in the Senate is trying to figure out how he can possibly go back to these people and send them the daily text messages for chip in a hundred bucks chip in a hundred fifty bucks when they all saw them do to their champion what they're doing today Well, and Liz Cheney called him a mob. | ||
| And she just wasn't referring to the people up at the Capitol. | ||
| She said he addressed the mob. | ||
| That means the speech. | ||
| That means everybody that was there is part of a mob. | ||
| Liz Cheney, who thought that she would be welcomed as a liberator, but only got 4% of the House to back her. | ||
| Yeah, they didn't throw roses in the street. | ||
| Okay, I want to go to the Senate trial. | ||
| I want to pivot already. | ||
| Mitch McConnell's punted because I think Mitch McConnell is not just about the three, I think the 300,000 in Georgia are very important, Jack Posovic, but I believe he also understands that if he put Trump on trial now and actually allowed people to vote for his removal from office, that would actually be the end of the Republican Party. | ||
| It would be the Whigs immediately. | ||
| OK, so he's kind of kicked the can to the to the Biden administration and to Chuck Schumer, which will take it on, I guess, when the two right now, the two senators in Georgia are supposed to be sworn in, I think, on Friday the 22nd. | ||
| So, Boris, you're a strategist, right? | ||
| Do you think Schumer, because Clyburn came up and said, hey, we want, Biden had the first 100 days, and we'll bring this back, we have unlimited time to do it, we'll bring it back on the 101st day, and that's what we do, we don't want it caught, or do you think Schumer moves quickly? | ||
| I am hearing that they're going to move quickly. | ||
| That's what I'm hearing. | ||
| Now, that is not casting stone, but that's what I'm hearing. | ||
| I think Schumer is so hungry, crying Chuck, is so hungry for blood from the Trump movement, from President Trump, but really from all of us, from the whole MAGA crowd, from the whole 74 million Americans who backed President Trump, the most votes ever gotten by an incumbent president, that Schumer's not gonna be able to help himself. | ||
| He's gonna move quick, and then it'll be incumbent upon us as backers of the president and the legal team if he chooses to go ahead and present the evidence, present the information, present the facts, and make it clear that this is just a canard. | ||
| It is a joke. | ||
| It is a nakedly political power grab and one last parting shot from the whack jobs on the left against President Trump. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Boris, he has the ability now to turn this into his national plot. | ||
| This could be his scopes trial, right? | ||
| You know, this could be his ability, and it should be his ability, to put all the evidence forward, put it in the record, and not, I gotta tell you, not having the White House counsel also means that he's a little bit freer to set his strategy, right? | ||
| You have a lot of restrictions, a lot of constraints when using White House counsel because you have to be the president at the same time. | ||
| This time around, he has the ability to go in there, can't use certain language, but go in there blazing, go in there blazing. | ||
| The White House Counsel doesn't represent Donald Trump, it represents the Office of the President. | ||
| Boris, I want to go to you. | ||
| You're the constitutional lawyer here. | ||
| People are confused. | ||
| My phone's blowing up all day long. | ||
| They say, hey, Trump leaves at noon, or he's finished at high noon a week from today. | ||
| Why is he, how can he even impeach a guy? | ||
| Guy's gone, right? | ||
| You can't remove him from office. | ||
| Walk people through what the precedent are they're going to argue, and particularly the ultimate penalty here, which is to strip his ability to ever run for federal office again. | ||
| So, Alan Dershowitz says that it is unconstitutional, and it's an open question. | ||
| On the flip side, the Democrats are going to look to 1876 when Secretary of War Belknap resigned. | ||
| And then resigned after being impeached, I believe. | ||
| And then there was a trial in the Senate. | ||
| He was not convicted. | ||
| So this is going to be litigated. | ||
| It's an open question. | ||
| But if a trial were held and the president were convicted, then they could go back and have another vote to bar him from running for public office ever again. | ||
| Here is the issue that they're going to face. | ||
| If President Trump is somebody who's publicly stating or declaring that he's running for president again, can the Democrats, and of course the Republicans, really get away with prohibiting a candidate or a prospective candidate for president for running on some drummed up charge that all of America knows is total BS? | ||
| Is Dershowitz saying that even holding a trial for him after he's out of office is unconstitutional? | ||
| Or is he saying that the ultimate penalty of saying he can't run for the office of the president again, is that unconstitutional? | ||
| Dershowitz is saying that once the president leaves, no more trial, cannot move to a trial, cannot have an impeachment trial in the Senate. | ||
| That's Dershowitz's perspective. | ||
| Obviously, Alan Dershowitz is very smart, knows the Constitution well. | ||
| There's going to be arguments on both sides. | ||
| And believe you me, I hope that Alan Dershowitz is correct. | ||
| Well, do you think if Schumer gets this and decides to go forward after the swearing-in of the two new Senators from Georgia on the 22nd, that immediately, it seems to me, because Dershowitz will be part of the team, he's already volunteered, that would, I assume, go to the Supreme Court immediately. | ||
| Dershowitz would want to argue he can't even have a trial here. | ||
| You would make a petition right away and challenge the authority of the Senate to hold a trial over a former president. | ||
| Boris, what's your social media? | ||
| How can people get you? | ||
| Only two left. | ||
| R.I.P. | ||
| Parler, we're gonna miss you. | ||
| Hopefully you come back strong. | ||
| Boris underscore Epstein on Instagram. | ||
| Boris underscore E-P-S-H-T-E-Y-N on Instagram. | ||
| At Boris E.P. | ||
| on Twitter. | ||
| Gonna be putting a lot from here on out. | ||
| Obviously on this continuing impeachment saga and continued impeachment canard. | ||
| Boris underscore Epstein on Instagram. | ||
| At Boris E.P. | ||
| on Twitter. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| Stay strong. | ||
| Thank you, Boris. | ||
| Jack Posobiec, is Mitch McConnell the puppet master here? | ||
| Is he making the moves? | ||
| Is he helping Schumer make the moves to try to purge President Trump from the Republican Party and try to destroy not just President Trump but also the MAGA movement? | ||
| Well, I think that's right. | ||
| We've known that Mitch has certainly had it out for the President since the beginning, all the way back to 2015. | ||
| But remember, because of the 50-50 Senate that's going to be coming up following January 22nd, That Mitch and Schumer now are going to sit down and hammer out what the Senate rules are going to be for that session. | ||
| Of course, Mitch also has the filibuster power and they need 10 more votes to be able to break that. | ||
| They need the 60 votes. | ||
| So Mitch and Schumer, people need to understand, they are much closer working together than anybody thinks right now. | ||
| They are holding together everything that goes through the Senate. | ||
| If Mitch wanted to shut this down, he could have shut it down already. | ||
| He didn't. | ||
| Why is that? | ||
| The question is, why did Mitch McConnell not shut this entire process down? | ||
| Because he's trying to walk this fine line of guiding the party away from Trump. | ||
| That's a fine line? | ||
| Is that a fine line, or is he using a bludgeon? | ||
| He's using a bludgeon to do it, and it's not going to work. | ||
| The 300,000 stayed home, Mitch. | ||
| They stayed home in Georgia. | ||
| Okay, we're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to come back with Fr. | ||
| Frank Pavone of Priests for Life when we return on War Room Pandemic. | ||
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| For a willful incitement of insurrection, the President was impeached today by the House. | ||
| Chuck Schumer just put out a statement, Donald Trump has deservedly become the first President in American history to bear the stain of impeachment twice over. | ||
| The Senate is required to act and will proceed with his trial and hold a vote on his conviction. | ||
| That's the Minority Leader become the Majority Leader on the 22nd of this month. | ||
| I want to turn now to Father Frank Pavone. | ||
| Thank you for having me on, and let's do exactly that. | ||
| Father, we come before you on this day for our nation. | ||
| Yes, Steve, thank you for having me on and let's do exactly that. | ||
| Father, we come before you on this day for our nation. | ||
| Lord, we ask you to enlighten our minds, help us to see that you are with us in this battle, Help us to see that you are calling us constantly for the victory of truth, for the victory of justice. | ||
| Lord, your providential hand has been on this nation since its beginning, and it has not left us today. | ||
| And we thank you for the gift, not only of this nation, but of this president who has so often reminded us that our faith is not in government, but in you, O God. | ||
| That the American way is not one of bureaucracy, but rather of family and of our values. | ||
| We praise you, Lord God, for the list of accomplishments of this president that is longer than we can keep track of. | ||
| And we ask that as we continue to serve you and your kingdom, That we will take up our part in educating our children, our grandchildren, and all our fellow citizens in what it means to be an American, in what it means to lead, and that we will use the example of this President and of his accomplishments to inspire one another to continue making America great. | ||
| We thank you, Father, for your grace, and we thank you for the spirit and the determination to fight. The light shines on in the darkness, the darkness does not, cannot, will not overcome it. And it is in that spirit, Lord God, that we commit ourselves again to continue to work for America and for you. We pray all this through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. | ||
| Amen. Father, can you tell us, can you give your assessment of where America stands tonight? | ||
| I've been saying, Steve, for many months that the Democrats and those who oppose President Trump do not just want him out of the White House. They want him out of the minds and hearts of the American people. | ||
| Now, every president eventually has to leave the White House. | ||
| We've got a constitutional time clock that we're all under. | ||
| But we are not going to let it happen that he be removed from the minds and hearts of the American people. | ||
| We're at a point now where, you know, I think those that are weakest try to make themselves look strongest. | ||
| I think we're seeing desperation coming from the other side. | ||
| They know that the president has started a movement. | ||
| That tens of millions of citizens buy into, myself included, and that we're not going to stop it. | ||
| This movement is going to continue to grow because it's based not on Donald Trump as an individual, and he constantly reminded us of this. | ||
| He said, this is not me, it's us. | ||
| You know, they're attacking me because they're attacking you. | ||
| It is not that I win, it's that we win. | ||
| And I think we've got tens of millions of citizens that are convinced of that and that are not going to be deterred by this absolutely outrageous behavior on the left that we're seeing manifested in so many different ways, trying to silence us all. | ||
| Father, we've got about two minutes left. | ||
| I just want to, so many people in this movement who are fighters are just sitting there going, hey, what do I do next? | ||
| I'm so depressed. | ||
| Now that either the steal or the loss, however you say it, right, took place, you know, President Trump is not going to be on the 20th. | ||
| What would your recommendation for all the MAGA people tomorrow morning? | ||
| What should they do first thing? | ||
| First thing in the morning to make sure that we're firing on all cylinders and driving forward, not just sitting there depressed. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Well, Stephen, one of the things I've done is, you know, the other day I downloaded the entire website of the White House, promiseskept.com, all the speeches, executive orders, all the accomplishments of the president. | ||
| I think what we need to do, starting right away, is begin rereading and re-familiarizing ourselves with these amazing accomplishments and start talking about it, spreading it, educating others about it. | ||
| That's number one. | ||
| Number two, we've gotta get to know our state legislators and begin working on election reform. | ||
| We've gotta be working on the next election, the midterms, and we've gotta be starting on that right now. | ||
| And I think those are two very key things right there, because American politics does have an amazing resiliency and, you know, we know that Uh, if it's true to past patterns, uh, we will make some significant gains in, uh, in 2022. | ||
| But I've started a little, uh, effort within the pro-life movement called Pro-Life MAGA and, uh, prolifemaga.com. | ||
| I'm just telling people, let's get together right now and let's start doing these concrete things, especially educating people about what the president has accomplished. | ||
| Can you walk, get, uh, give us that website again, Father, so people can go there, prolifemaga? | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Prolifemaga.com. | ||
| Father, I know you're a big fan of Jack Posobiec's Twitter feed. | ||
| What's your own social media handle? | ||
| Oh, thank you, Steve. | ||
| F.R. | ||
| Frank Pavone. | ||
| F.R. | ||
| Frank Pavone, that's on Twitter, that's also on my YouTube channel, and Facebook, it's Father Frank Pavone. | ||
| Father, thank you very much for joining us. | ||
| Thank you for the prayer for the nation. | ||
| And thank you for what you do. | ||
| Good to be with you. | ||
| Thank you, Father. | ||
| Pasoba, closing comments. | ||
| This is a day that will live in infamy. | ||
| This was the second impeachment over a false pretext. | ||
| As Conrad Black said earlier today, the second time the President has been impeached when there is a transcript available that already exonerates him. | ||
| Okay, we've got the remainder of President Trump's, the week left for President Trump. | ||
| I think you're going to see action, action, action. | ||
| You'll be very surprised, I think, what President Trump is going to do. | ||
| And then, obviously, we're going to have the trial of President Trump by a Democrat-controlled Senate and Chuck Schumer. | ||
| Okay, tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, we're going to be breaking some, I think, some pretty big news. | ||
| So come back and see us at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. | ||
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