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The virus has now killed more than 100 people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
You don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
This is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
Health officials are investigating more than 100 possible cases in the US. | ||
Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
We have to prepare for the worst, always. | ||
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Pandemic. | |
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
Okay, live from the Alliance Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, we're here at Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium. | ||
Mike's on the stage addressing the audience, waiting for these panels to start. | ||
There's supposed to be more revelations on data and hacks and all this. | ||
A couple incidents last night, looks like they might have put something in the data to get You know, we're going to have these panels, Dave Clements, etc., and I think Colonel Waldron, others, you know, Wendy Rogers is going to be there to walk through all the details. | ||
Now, with almost 75 million downloads in the podcast, it is Thursday, the 12th of August. | ||
Welcome to the War Room. | ||
We're here live. | ||
We've got Captain Seth Keschel is co-hosting with us. | ||
For this next hour, as long as we can keep him. | ||
We've also got Jim Lehman, who's running for the Senate from Arizona. | ||
A couple of things. | ||
A pretty explosive analysis by Dr. Shiva. | ||
Dr. Shiva's committed. | ||
He's got to leave. | ||
Dr. Shiva's committed. | ||
He's going to be on the show tomorrow. | ||
We're going to take our time. | ||
We're going to go through the slides in order. | ||
Make sure everybody understands the math. | ||
And talk about what his analysis has shown. | ||
Remember, the guy's got... He's the man with two brains. | ||
He's got four degrees. | ||
Four advanced degrees, I think. | ||
One degree from MIT, and then three advanced degrees from MIT. | ||
So... | ||
Very, very smart guy. | ||
We're going to have Dr. Shiva back on tomorrow to go through that pretty explosive analysis that he just did. | ||
Before I turn to Jim Lehman, Seth, a lot of people in the live chat and over at America First Audits are blowing up your comments about Dan Crenshaw, right? | ||
You've got some other issues, too, in Colorado and other places besides Texas, right? | ||
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People need to kind of expand their horizons. | |
It was very easy in November and December to be locked into the six contested states where the major lawsuits were. | ||
And then as we've been able to expand our horizons a bit and go from county to county, 3,000 plus counties and independent cities in the country, and see a lot more issues. | ||
So look at Colorado. | ||
The Secretary of State there, Jenna Griswold. | ||
Why in a state Biden won by 14 points would you make such a public spectacle to ban any post-election audits? | ||
That should be the kind of state where this is a slam dunk. | ||
14 points. | ||
That would be like Mississippi or South Carolina banning election audits. | ||
Well, let me play Deva's Advocate. | ||
Maybe she says, hey, just a waste of time. | ||
You guys are sore losers. | ||
You got Seth Kessler and Clements running around now. | ||
That it's over. | ||
It's done. | ||
It's 14 points. | ||
Let's move on to the next thing. | ||
What's your response? | ||
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I would consider it a mandate for the current administration. | |
I read a book to my children at night time about the first 45 presidents and their accomplishments, their museums, their libraries. | ||
They're part of the history. | ||
Even Gerald Ford, a couple years in office. | ||
So this administration, you would think, would want to have a shred of legitimacy with 45 to 55 percent of the country. | ||
You said rubber noses. | ||
You won by 14 points. | ||
You sit there and you shut down the whole movement by saying, hey, it was a 14 point win. | ||
Do all the audits you want, 14 point win, then move on. | ||
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Well, so Biden carried Pennsylvania by more votes than Trump carried Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin by in 2016. | |
Yes. | ||
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And is in Pennsylvania, making sure that there's no audit there. | |
Which an audit verifying his win in Pennsylvania would absolutely legitimize his administration. | ||
It would silence all the critics. | ||
That's what we need. | ||
Senate President Jay Corman to step up and back Doug Mastriana and get these get these Subpoenas out there and let's get the information got Shapiro's to now last night. | ||
Hey Bannon's finally, right? | ||
I'm gonna stop this thing Jay Corman's got all the power to get the subpoenas out there and start the process just like in Arizona So I know we got a lot of work to let's bring in Jim Lehman Jim's from Arizona running for the Senate there walk us through your Tell us what you think Is the importance of getting to the bottom of 3 November in the state of Arizona. | ||
You're running for the Senate. | ||
Everybody's saying it's time to move on. | ||
Time to look to the future. | ||
The election's about the future. | ||
Layman, you're a tough football player. | ||
Tell us what you think about this 3 November movement and particularly what's happening in Arizona. | ||
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No, Steve, thanks. | |
It's very important, obviously, for election integrity. | ||
It's the essential foundation of our republic. | ||
We have spent the time at the tip of the spear in Arizona to do the audit. | ||
They're in the wrap-up phase in the next 30 days. | ||
We've already seen preliminary findings which leave huge holes in any belief that it was fully transparent. | ||
Those have to be answered. | ||
Let me ask you, you're a businessman, you're not a politician. | ||
When you look at the things that you've seen mathematically and what you've seen so far coming out of Maricopa County, as a businessman, a guy runs it by the numbers, what does that tell you? | ||
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Exactly. | |
The numbers are too big to believe in some cases with the amount of ballots that mailed out versus what came back in. | ||
Just on the basic premise, Steve, that those need to add up and they don't. | ||
Many more came back than went out. | ||
If you were buying a company, you would tell your guys, we need additional due diligence. | ||
We need confirmatory due diligence. | ||
There's something wrong. | ||
I don't want to do this transaction because these numbers are moving around. | ||
They should be very solid. | ||
It should be a very simple process. | ||
People going to vote. | ||
Count the votes right. | ||
Moving all over. | ||
Would you call off a deal if you were putting your businessman's hat on? | ||
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Yeah, no question. | |
And also just a basic audit. | ||
My company is private, but we go through an audit each year. | ||
We make sure that any issues that are there are corrected so that we've got a pristine balance sheet. | ||
The same thing, the most important thing we do in our country is that election. | ||
And so what we're doing in Arizona should be applauded. | ||
We believe we're out there setting an example for others and we look forward to others following because our legislature has already taken some action on some bills to correct some of the issues that occurred and we're looking for a lot more to occur before the next election to get this thing right. | ||
As a business guy, you see this bill that's passed. | ||
Nineteen Republicans voted for this. | ||
I know you're a finance and numbers guy. | ||
Walk us through, as a senator, if you were there right now with McConnell, sitting in the room, and they don't have a lot of business guys, right? | ||
What would you be telling them? | ||
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Great point, Steve. | |
It's the foundation of our country to make sure that we don't put this debt on to our kids and grandkids and rolling it over. | ||
As your Senator in Arizona, I will tell you today, I will never vote for another debt ceiling. | ||
It is time to draw the line and say we have to do what we have to do. | ||
You will never vote for an increase in the debt ceiling? | ||
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I will never vote for another debt ceiling. | |
Well, they're going to sit there and go, you're irresponsible. | ||
The capital market is going to blow up. | ||
You can't default on the debt. | ||
The stock market is going to implode by 20%. | ||
You're going to hurt all the pension funds. | ||
This is part of the radical nature of the deplorables. | ||
Even Trump gave some relief on the debt ceiling. | ||
Why are you taking such a hard line? | ||
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Look what's occurred just in the last few years, even in a few months. | |
This thing's out of control. | ||
We will not have a currency. | ||
We will not have a country if we don't stand up and say enough is enough and at some point say we've got to take action to do the responsible thing. | ||
There is more than enough. | ||
Talk to us about the dollar. | ||
I mean, you just brought it up right then. | ||
we need to this country, we've got to prioritize, we've got to take care of our military and the law enforcement side and our most needy and vulnerable. | ||
And after that, Steve, everything's on the table. | ||
Talk to us about the dollar. | ||
I mean, you just brought it up right then. | ||
These guys in Washington, it's almost like they have no business sense at all. | ||
As an international businessman, how important is it to make sure that we've got a strong, solid dollar that people are dependent on? | ||
It's still the greatest export we have. | ||
Right now, the pressure on the customer, the $1.2 trillion is just the beginning. | ||
They've got another $3.5 trillion on top of that, and they've got more on top of this, and they're looking at another $6.8 trillion. | ||
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The debt ceiling limit they're going to open for is $6.8 trillion. | |
Playing right into the hands of the CCP. | ||
Many of these guys are very, very close to the The Communist Chinese Party in wanting to bring down its currency and that's got to stop. | ||
The foundation, the bedrock of our nation and of the debt that we have today is based on making sure that we can pay it and not keep rolling it over to kids and grandkids. | ||
We've got an explosive potential economy out there and bringing jobs back to the U.S. | ||
to grow the economy versus keep borrowing money. | ||
You know, you've got Florida, you've got Texas, but I've got to tell you, the beating heart right now of the MAGA movement, the beating heart of the Patriot movement is Arizona. | ||
You've got Patriots out there, they're on fire, and I'll tell you, the sacrifice that they've done for the good of the nation is absolutely extraordinary. | ||
You're also a border state with a massive invasion on the southern border. | ||
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Why would you be the MAGA candidate? | |
Everybody says I'm going to be a MAGA candidate. | ||
I'm the America First guy. | ||
Make your pitch here. | ||
Why is it, Jim Lehman, why are you the guy for Arizona to be the MAGA candidate? | ||
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See, first, not a politician, not a lawyer, businessman, as you said, ex-military, and some linebacker in Alabama. | |
So I know what it's going to be like to take that to the Senate and get things done. | ||
As I've traveled the state in the first 11 weeks, 11,000 miles put on the Yukon, and just seeing that great movement out there, I'm of their stripe. | ||
I'm the person who's standing up and speaking truth, just like we talked about the debt ceiling. | ||
Speaking with Brandon Judd on the board, he agrees. | ||
It's an invasion. | ||
We're beyond the crisis phase. | ||
You think that language is not too inflammatory? | ||
You said, hey, it's not an emergency, it's not a crisis, we have an invasion. | ||
Nigel Farage said that the first time on this show, people's heads blew up. | ||
Why do you believe it's an invasion? | ||
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Just being down there with Brandon all day and just seeing how many are being processed, not arrested, being processed, and the fact that, as he said, only 79% have any chance of something on the humanitarian side in the balance of that military aid. | |
It's an invasion. | ||
If you look at Yuma sector, how many are coming across, it's unbelievable. | ||
Going back, Steve, to the grassroots side, because I've met with them. | ||
I've been quietly behind the scenes supporting Republican conservative candidates over the last years. | ||
What do you mean by that? | ||
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I've put in several million dollars to re-election. | |
Of your own money? | ||
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Of my own money, and particularly if you look at the Arizona House and Senate. | |
Now, we had some squishes that we were able to take out last year because we focused on that. | ||
we're doing again uh... that this year because we want to spend a principle in arizona make sure we bring this country back where it needs to be and they're signing eighty percent of those attending grassroots meetings signing my petition saying layman is my man and I'm back in eleven weeks we already have over a thousand volunteers that have come to the team we've got a really strong infrastructure that we've built just like we do in our company and it's a matter of priorities securing that border I'm going, let's say, let me ask you about this border for | ||
a second. | ||
If you're back there as a business guy with Mitch McConnell and his pencil necks, which Mitt Romney is going to get, of a $1.2 trillion bill, which I think under 30% is really for what we consider traditional infrastructure and even digital, how can they not have a penny for the wall? | ||
And what would you do as one senator, and the junior senator from Arizona, what would you do to combat that if you were in the chamber today? | ||
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Great point. | |
Absolutely important. | ||
First order of business is to secure that border, otherwise we don't have a country. | ||
No bill will cross my desk until we have a route to securing that border. | ||
If we need to put the 3rd Army Corps out of Fort Hood, Texas on that border until we can build that wall, we have got to stop things out there because it is literally, Steve, an invasion for those who are on the ground. | ||
Brandon Judd and others are speaking loudly about it, and no one's listening. | ||
Mark Kelly, of course, that's exactly in his interest not to close that border. | ||
By the way, cheers in the background. | ||
That was kind of a wrap-up. | ||
Mike Lindell's been given a fire and brimstone. | ||
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We'll play his back after the break, after the 12 o'clock. | |
We're going to play Mike Lindell's call to arms here. | ||
We've got a lot of very enthusiastic state legislators here that are all down to get to the bottom, full-frenzied audits. | ||
Mike Lindell, Seth Kessel, and Dave Klemmer have really started something here across the country. | ||
Only got a couple minutes left, Jim Lehman. | ||
So, I've got to ask you. | ||
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You're saying that, hey, I would demand a wall, I'm not going to give an inch on the budget. | |
How do you anticipate to implement? | ||
People are saying, hey, a lot of guys talk, walk us through, you've got about two minutes. | ||
Once you're in Washington, D.C., how are you going to hammer that home? | ||
How are you going to hammer all these campaign promises? | ||
How are you going to deliver for the people of Arizona in the MAGA movement? | ||
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She's been fortunate in my business career to do big things, make things happen. | |
It's a matter of understanding what the priorities are. | ||
And we are literally on the edge of losing our country. | ||
And it's time for tough talk. | ||
Not just tough talk, but it's time for tough action. | ||
I'll bring the linebacker mode to the Senate floor. | ||
It's America that stands on the premise here that we've got to be able to stop what's going on and say enough is enough. | ||
We'll do that and give the Border Patrol the backing they need because these guys are overwhelmed. | ||
Look at, and also as Brandon said, it is policy. | ||
President Trump had it right to remain in Mexico. | ||
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They literally drive buses to the border today to get off and basically walk across. | |
overwhelmed. Look at, and also as Brandon said, it is policy. President Trump had it right. | ||
We remain in Mexico. They literally drive buses to the border today, get off and basically walk across. And that's got to stop. | ||
Okay, how can people get, if they like what they hear now in our, for our audience, how do they find out more about you? | ||
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Steve, Jim Lehman, L-A-M-O-N dot com. | |
We've got a great movement going in Arizona. | ||
I'm putting in Smith Capital and can certainly use others to join our army. | ||
Uh, real quickly, 30 seconds. | ||
You went from football player to Alabama to the Army. | ||
How'd that happen? | ||
I thought you were going to go play pro. | ||
Why did you go in the Army? | ||
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I needed to get a civil engineering degree along the way and had an ROTC scholarship and wanted to serve my country. | |
And then since then, in the power industry, it's been a great experience taking it to the Senate floor. | ||
You're a good man, Jim Layman. | ||
Okay, Jim Layman. | ||
Give him a look. | ||
He's got information out there. | ||
He's going to be all over Arizona to the grassroots groups. | ||
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Okay. | |
Short commercial break. | ||
We're gonna return with Captain Seth Kessel. | ||
We're gonna go down live from the floor. | ||
A lot of activity down there here in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the Cyber Symposium. | ||
A lot of revelations gonna take place today. | ||
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Hang on. | |
Take a short commercial break. | ||
Be right back. | ||
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War Room. | |
Pandemic. | ||
With Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
War Room. | ||
Pandemic. | ||
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
Okay, hindsight being 20-20, right? | ||
We support ongoing federal and state funding for local elections offices. | ||
Okay, hindsight being 20-20, right? | ||
20-20 is a very significant number, but that's on the 2020 Democrat Party platform. | ||
Democrat. | ||
Amazing. | ||
It's on page 56. | ||
The hypocrisy of the Democratic Party in the far left is completely off the charts. | ||
But anyway, we're going to go from the beginning. | ||
How did this all start? | ||
So I'm going to pass this off on to Mark Fitchum, who was the lead dog in this sled on November 30th. | ||
So Mark, please. | ||
Thank you, Senator Braley. | ||
So it's interesting. | ||
We look at the 2020 Democrat platform, and election integrity is not a party issue. | ||
If we really hold this organization to the words that they put out, their official party platform, they endorse free and fair elections, they endorse the idea that meaningful post-election audits should be conducted when there's a question and controversy, and that's exactly what we did. | ||
So, beginning November 3rd, by about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Each one of us began to receive emails and they totaled into the tens of thousands by the time we got to November 10th or 12th. | ||
I had asked the leadership in the House of Representatives, at the time I was the chairman of the Federal Relations Committee, to hold a election integrity hearing, public hearing on election integrity. | ||
And I got slow walked. | ||
Basically blocked. | ||
from using House resources to hold a public hearing in response to the email requests, in some cases demands, of our constituents. Now knowing that I'm not elected by leadership, but I'm elected by the constituents, I reached out to Senator Borrelli, who is a Senate Majority Whip, and to our colleague Leo Biasucci, who is the House Majority Whip. | ||
Leo couldn't be with us because he's got other duties for legislative responsibilities. | ||
And I asked them, can we collect up the members who are willing to sit for a public hearing? | ||
And out of that, we invited just about everybody in the House, just about everybody in the Senate, and very few people wanted to take a stand. | ||
Now it's amazing what just a small amount of courage does to the Polity when you actually sit and listen to them. | ||
So on November 30th, we moved our usual public hearing time to the Hyatt Regency Downtown Phoenix. | ||
Because of COVID restrictions, we weren't able to fill the 800-person ballroom. | ||
We could only have 160, and that was with 10 slots for media, 10 slots for a legal team, and 10 slots for the panel. | ||
We started at 9 o'clock in the morning, and I think everybody has seen the video. | ||
At 1030, our governor and our fairly corrupt Secretary of State signed off on the certification of our official canvas. | ||
That was an hour and a half into the presentation of testimony, and I'd like to bring up the reason that we decided to move forward with a public hearing. | ||
You know, we'll hear from the fake media, the fake news, that, oh well, you know, this evidence that Mr. Giuliani and his team had failed in court. | ||
Well, the truth is, it was never decided on merits. | ||
It was always decided on competent jurisdiction. | ||
And I think, as much as I might be excoriated for this, the courts actually had it right. | ||
This is a legislative fight. | ||
And you don't want this in the courts. | ||
You've seen what the courts will do. | ||
So on November 30th, we spent 10 and a half, I would say, grueling hours listening to evidence that was presented by the Giuliani team and giving constituents the opportunity to be heard. | ||
That was probably the most important thing that we could do. | ||
At 7.30 in the evening, the Hyatt Regency said, we're at the outside of your contract. | ||
Would you like to renew for another day? | ||
Not at that price tag, thank you very much. | ||
Because ultimately, it ended up costing about $25,000. | ||
By the way, that's costs that probably should have been the burden of the House of Representatives. | ||
But once again, we see that the people have a vested interest in hearing the truth. | ||
So, out of generous contributions by a number of people, also people paying their own way. | ||
I'd like to go on record right now, since I've been fact-checked on this so many times, it's ridiculous. | ||
The Trump team paid their own way. | ||
Nobody paid for them. | ||
I covered the cost until we could actually get all the invoices collected. | ||
So, I want to be very clear. | ||
By the end of the day, we realized we never would have needed subpoenas. | ||
We could have gone a whole nother day, maybe a half a day, the following day, with all of the people who were lined up to testify. | ||
So to them, if they happen to be watching this, I've said it before, I'll say it again, it was no slight to you, we just ran out of time. | ||
Now what we were able to uncover Some will argue whether or not it was probable cause. | ||
Some will call it clear and convincing. | ||
I will tell you this, that Senator Eddie Farnsworth, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a lawyer, recognized that there was substantial evidence, which is not a legal term of art, but somewhere between probable cause and clear and convincing, that it was time to hold a hearing | ||
in the Senate Judiciary Committee, and that was where the subpoenas for the work that's been ongoing out of the Senate, that's where those subpoenas originated from. | ||
But I'll close with my comments just very quickly. | ||
I flew to Washington D.C. | ||
on January 5th with an evidence book that was about an inch, inch and a half thick, to hand deliver to Congressman Paul Gosar so that he was armed with the facts | ||
He was armed with the evidence that we had collected on November 30th to show that there were substantial discrepancies in the Maricopa County election and that we were asking, 21 members of the House and five members of the Senate, asked for Vice President Pence to hold Arizona's electors pending one of two things. | ||
That was either that litigation that was in process be completed or that we complete a forensic audit. | ||
We had 14 days to get that done. | ||
I'm going to turn it over to Senator Morelle because on December 14th, that's when the real ball started rolling. | ||
Senator? | ||
Right. | ||
President Fann authorized the committee, the Judiciary Committee, to have a hearing and bring in the county supervisors and the election departments. | ||
They had just one county supervisor, their chairman representing the county, Maricopa County, and their election folks. | ||
So we had them appear in committee, Senator Eddie Farnsworth. | ||
Let me tell you what, he was a great chairman, he was a great legislator, and of course he chose not to run again. | ||
He got tired of the left pounding and falsely accusing everybody. | ||
Anyway, you know how it is. | ||
Anyway, we held the hearing, we heard testimony from the county folks. | ||
And one of the very things that were very striking that stood out to me was the insistence that the machines are not hooked to the internet. | ||
Right. | ||
So, you know, I'm just a knuckle-dragging jarhead with a GED, but I kind of know how to read and figure things out. | ||
But when I asked the election people, well, you know, there's been allegations that only your vendors were allowed to touch the tabulation machines and no county Employees were allowed to touch them. | ||
So, could you please address that? | ||
They said, no, no, no, we had full control over everything. | ||
I said, so, how do we know that? | ||
Because it's been alleged that somebody could take one of them thumb drives or whatever, a little who-ya, whatchamacusits, they are, they could take it out of the machine and go and plug it into a laptop and change things around because that's been alleged that things ended up in cyberspace and switched around. | ||
No, no, no, we had full control or chain of custody. | ||
We had, you know, everything was logged. | ||
It was cameras on it 24 every you couldn't move without the camera being on I'm like, okay good Well, what about the office space for your your vendors your election equipment vendor? | ||
Which just happens to be Dominion and they say well, what do you mean? | ||
Do you have cameras in their office spaces? | ||
They go, I don't understand the question. | ||
Well, it's quite a simple question. | ||
Do you have cameras in their office space? | ||
Because I recall watching a county supervisor's meeting where one of the supervisors was either bragging or complaining about the county providing county taxpayer workspace for a third-party vendor in the elections department. | ||
And they said, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. | ||
We do have a workspace for them. | ||
We have office space for them. | ||
I go, okay, good. | ||
Do you have security cameras in there? | ||
And they go, well, I don't understand the question. | ||
It's simple. | ||
How do we know that they didn't take one of the little thumb drives or whatever they are and stick it into a SP card or whatever the heck these things are, stick it into one of their laptops and change something in cyberspace? | ||
Because that's been alleged. | ||
Well, there's no Internet. | ||
There's no Internet hookup. | ||
Like, OK, well, here's the here's the problem that I'm having. | ||
Because of COVID, we did not do our hearing at the Senate In the Senate. | ||
We did it all via Zoom. | ||
So I have to rent a condo year-round in Phoenix, because I live three hours away. | ||
So I'm in the kitchen table, and I got my government laptop, and we're all doing this. | ||
I'm like, well, here's my problem. | ||
I'm on a government laptop right now, and the only two wires that are plugged into this thing is the power cord and the mouse, because I'm old school. | ||
I got to use the old mouse. | ||
And they go, I says, but right now we're communicating during Wi-Fi. | ||
Isn't that the Internet? | ||
And of course, Dead silence from them and of course watching Eddie Farnsworth on the screen just kind of rocked back and just kind of grinned because he knew exactly where I was going with this. | ||
And I said, so you cannot say with 100% accuracy that nothing got changed on the internet from anybody's laptop or anything because anything, anything can be hacked. | ||
Anything can be hacked. | ||
As a matter of fact, my phone is via Wi-Fi. | ||
How can you say that? | ||
So that's when Eddie Farnsworth heard enough and he asked when he issued the subpoena at With the authorization from the President, Karen Phan, President of the Senate. | ||
And that's how things got started and we subpoenaed the county. | ||
Now, when those subpoenas went out, then they acted all shocked and hurt. | ||
Because they didn't see it coming. | ||
Well, that's a complete lie. | ||
Because Senator Farnsworth let them know, three days ahead of the committee, that subpoenas were on the table. | ||
And most likely, subpoenas would be issued. | ||
And they knew that. | ||
So, right off the bat, the spin started. | ||
And let me tell you something, Maricopa County's got more spin than a Beatles LP, let me tell ya. | ||
For you younger folks, that's a record. | ||
Nevermind. | ||
So that's when the spin and the lies started coming out and the obstructionism. | ||
And then they started fighting the subpoenas. | ||
They chose to fight us in court. | ||
They didn't want to comply. | ||
We tried to issue a, we tried to pass a resolution to hold them in contempt. | ||
Now Arizona state law says the Senate has to vote on contempt, contempt of the Senate, so that way then if they don't comply, Then the Senate President can sign a warrant to send these Sergeant-at-Arms down to take them into custody. | ||
Now, they don't go to jail, because Arizona state law doesn't do that. | ||
They would just bring them to the State Senate, where they're the guests of the Senate, down in the basement with our interns and staff. | ||
So we wouldn't, you know, we really don't throw them in jail. | ||
We would've just taken them into custody. | ||
But we tried to pass a resolution. | ||
Now, the Senate make-up, politically, is 16 Republicans and 14 Democrats. | ||
So we need 16 votes to pass anything. | ||
Unfortunately, we had one senator who decided to, at the last minute, after he signed on to the resolution at the last minute, not telling anybody what his intentions were, he voted no. | ||
He voted with the Democrats to, you know, to not support the resolution. | ||
Not only did he undermine the own authority of the State Senate, but he undermined the authority of the direct representation of the people of Arizona. | ||
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That's right. | |
And that's what people are missing, because we are the direct representatives of the people, and he just undermined everybody that voted in the state of Arizona. | ||
So anyway, so they chose to fight us. | ||
We went to court. | ||
The Attorney General filed an amicus brief, if you will. | ||
I don't know if that's the right word. | ||
Stating that our subpoenas are legal and enforceable. | ||
The judge concurred that our... Because that was the matter before the court. | ||
The question is, are our subpoenas legal and enforceable? | ||
And the judge concluded, yes, our subpoenas are legal and enforceable. | ||
And of course, the county said, okay, fine, we'll comply. | ||
Then they left the courtroom and they started complying a little bit. | ||
They didn't comply fully. | ||
Now, we chose to do the audit at the Maricopa County Election Center. | ||
We chose to do it there. | ||
That's where it should have been. | ||
That's where the election was held. | ||
That's where they came and they certified the machines. | ||
And they did a recertification of the machines after the election. | ||
And then they said they were going to do their own audit. | ||
Well, you can't audit yourself by having the same company that came out and certified equipment to come out and do another certification and call that an audit. | ||
Now, the Election Assistance Commission does not certify companies to do audits. | ||
They only certify companies to certify machines are acting properly at the time of inspection. | ||
Labs. | ||
They certify labs. | ||
They certify labs, right. | ||
But that's it. | ||
They don't certify companies to do audits. | ||
They can call it an audit, or you can call it a ham sandwich. | ||
We all know it's bologna, and that's exactly what they were. | ||
So we started to do our own. | ||
They wouldn't give it, so we started to move on that. | ||
We wanted, like I said, we wanted to do everything there on site. | ||
We wanted to get in there where the forensic cyber guys could go in there and check the equipment. | ||
They could have been in and out of there within a week. | ||
Just get the equipment, download the data they needed and they would have been gone. | ||
We could have brought out one pallet at a time and counted ballots and scanned them all and done our thing. | ||
They chose to push it away from the County Tabulation Center. | ||
They chose to push it where we had to rent the Veterans Coliseum, where the fairgrounds is at. | ||
They chose to push that off-site, which cost us more money, more logistics, responsibilities and resources had to be expended, cost more money, more taxpayer dollars. | ||
They chose to do that. | ||
And guess who did not lift a finger? | ||
Because that jeopardized the chain of custody. | ||
The Secretary of State, Katie Hobbs, never lifted a finger to intervene and say, no, We have to make sure the integrity of this equipment is intact. | ||
We have to maintain the chain of custody. | ||
So did not intervene at all. | ||
They encouraged it to be pushed off site. | ||
Now, they thought they would get over on us because they thought they were going to attack us on chain of custody. | ||
But when they drove up the trucks to drop all the ballots off, we had cameras on them the whole way to a cage. | ||
where security cameras are on there 24-7. | ||
And all the equipment, the election equipment, same thing. | ||
So that way the chain of custody was completely tracked and under constant 24-hour surveillance and armed security. | ||
And I would add that helicopter overwatch of the trucks from the Maricopa County Center to the Veterans Coliseum, these guys were falling over themselves trying to get a better shot. | ||
So it was probably one of the best covered helicopter jobs in the history of our state. | ||
Yeah, I know. | ||
It was almost as good as the President's motorcade. | ||
It was amazing. | ||
Just about. | ||
Just about. | ||
But anyway, so that's how we still got the audit started. | ||
But remember, keep in mind, they chose to push it off-site. | ||
So other states, don't allow them to do that. | ||
Because what they're trying to do is set you up to fail, so they can accuse you of breaking the chain of custody and accuse you of something in the future. | ||
So, now we're into the audit mode. | ||
Now, I'm going to allow, I'm going to let, please, Senator Rogers was outstanding and stellar on actually showing a lot of folks that came in to get a tour of the audit. | ||
Well, thank you, Sonny and Mark. | ||
These are my brothers, really, who keep me in line. | ||
I'm a brand new elected official. | ||
I represent northern Arizona, where four counties comprise my district, and not one of them is Maricopa County. | ||
And when you come from a rural part of the state, your constituents really want to know What happened? | ||
They feel as though, since they don't live in Phoenix or Tucson, they're sort of out in the hinterland. | ||
And so they constantly ask me, Senator, what's going on down there? | ||
So here I am, a new vice chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. | ||
I'm in my corner office that Gunny gave me that has no windows. | ||
And then Senate President Karen Fann put out a text and said, if you want to go down to the audit, which is only a mile from the Capitol, by the way, you can go. | ||
So I was the first one, other than Sonny, to go and have a look. | ||
And I went that very day, which was toward the end of May, because I was fascinated. | ||
Here we are on the front row of history. | ||
And so I made an appointment to sit down with someone who is expert to walk me through it. | ||
So I sat down with this guy who was in his 40s, late 30s, who gave me all the detail thus far of where the audit was for about an hour. | ||
And then another gentleman took me around on the floor. | ||
And what I saw on the floor And as many of you have seen the photos of, were these colored Lazy Susan style tables that the votes were counted on. | ||
And three of the five people at each table were Maricopa County voters who voted in the November 2020 election. | ||
2,000 of these kinds of volunteers gave of their time at the audit. | ||
So they not only had skin in the game because they had voted in that election, but they were vetted and background checked. | ||
And the chain of custody and the accountability of where each ballot went and how it was tabulated was excruciatingly acute and minutely tracked. | ||
And so the first time I was walking around and I had a security guy, you might remember him from the He had a white cowboy hat on and Cowboy Andy was his nickname. | ||
And he took me around and he said, Colonel, I have someone here on the floor I want you to talk to. | ||
So he motioned over this gentleman who came to me and said, Wendy, I also served in the Air Force. | ||
I was also a pilot like you in the Air Force. | ||
I'm a retired general officer. | ||
And I said, great to meet you, sir. | ||
And he said, I want to tell you, I flew tankers in Strategic Air Command. | ||
He said, the chain of custody in this room is tougher and more acute and narrow than even it was in Strategic Air Command. | ||
He said, I can't go to the bathroom without signing off. | ||
Yeah. | ||
tabulation sheets I'm working on. He said I've never seen anything like this. And so fast forward, Sonny had me host many of you brave patriots who journeyed to Arizona. Yeah. Hats off to you. | ||
And among them was none other than former Governor Eric Greitens of Missouri, Navy SEAL, who had the same observation in terms of accountability and chain of custody of the procedures on that floor, which were bar none better in many cases than the U.S. military. | ||
military. | ||
So you had Navy, you had Air Force, all of us seeing the excellence of this. | ||
What about the actual forensic look at the ballot itself? | ||
Four different parameters were looked at underneath a microscopic camera. | ||
We're talking the yellow dot water marks in the paper. | ||
We're talking how the hash mark lines lined up from the back to the front of the paper. | ||
We're talking, and this is what amazed me the most, was whether or not the oval bubble was filled in by a human or not. | ||
Because of the three-dimensional ability for that microscopic camera to look at the paper and whether or not it was cratered. | ||
And we could look at the fibers of the paper. | ||
The media is beside itself because they won't communicate the truth of the excruciating detail to which this analysis was done of 2.1 million ballots. | ||
2.1 million ballots. | ||
2.1 million ballots. This is a packageable effort. This is a transportable, usable, again in other states, project that you can take. | ||
And the two companies, the two companies are Cyber Ninjas, the overarching application security company, And Cypher, C-Y-F-I-R, data security company. | ||
And so that first day I was there, I went back to my house and I looked up this technician who had spent an hour with me before I walked the floor. | ||
It was none other than Doug Logan himself, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, who had spent an hour with the little grandma from Flagstaff. | ||
And these men and women are the best and brightest of our country in terms of cyber security, expertise, and level of access with security clearance. | ||
So don't let anyone tell you That this is anything less than the most professional audit imaginable. | ||
And as President Karen Fan will tell you, she would tell me, Wendy, there is no yellow pages entry that you can open up and find An audit entity that can audit an election. | ||
We had to put together experts from around the country at the behest of other Secretaries of State and Senate Presidents and the Federal Election Commission. | ||
She pulled Karen Fann, a woman with a steel spine from a rural district, just as we are, Hold these experts together dauntlessly, tirelessly, and got them hired. | ||
And so you can do that also. | ||
We are here to encourage you, to let you know that we will get to the truth and that you can do it in your states. | ||
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That's right. | |
So I would add that it's my understanding that the major auditing houses were contacted and asked if they would like to do the work. | ||
And the response was, we'll have to take a pass because we have government contracts that are at risk. | ||
What a surprise. | ||
The other thing that I want to make note of is, and Senator Rogers has teed this up very well, It's not just what was found in the audit itself, but it is the documents that have been discovered as a result of discovery and the process. | ||
Look folks, you can either have fast or you can have accurate. | ||
Fast is a service to the media. | ||
Accuracy is a service to the people. | ||
That is where we need to have our focus. | ||
So now we have letters that have come out. | ||
As time goes on, and I've used this metaphor before, the ocean is truth and a vessel with a crack in it is a lie. | ||
Sooner or later enough water is going to seep in, enough truth is going to seep in that it's going to sink that vessel of lies. | ||
So we now have documents that have been uncovered, internal documents, that were released publicly by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and the, I believe it was the Elections Department, Y'all have heard of Sharpiegate? | ||
Yeah, I remember Sharpiegate. | ||
It was all over the news and Facebook and everything. | ||
Yeah, so... Conspiracy theory! | ||
The media mocked the conspiracy theory of Sharpiegate. | ||
Well, here's a little bit of fact that folks can check. | ||
People were instructed to use ballpoint pens up to, and this is a quote, up to the day of the election, but on the day of the election, instruct voters to use Sharpies. | ||
Interestingly enough, one of the things that was disclosed in the most recent hearing is that there was ink bleed through because of Sharpies. | ||
Imagine that. | ||
Which caused ballots to do what? | ||
Go to adjudication. | ||
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is where one of the major areas of potential fraud exists. | ||
Because if it bleeds through, if the ink bleeds through the paper, it confuses the automated machine, which by the way, I'm not a fan of automated machines. | ||
I'm a big fan of hand counting. | ||
It confuses the machine and forces electronic adjudication. | ||
That's where somebody decides who you voted for. | ||
Not where you voted for, who you, who you, who they think you voted for. | ||
There's a couple of great pieces on that we can get you that show the analysis that Cyber Ninjas did which quite frankly is fascinating to see just how off some of these dots were. | ||
But the important thing that I want you to the big takeaway is that this is there are so many different ways to defeat a legitimate ballot. | ||
It takes just a little bit of courage And I guarantee you, your constituents will reward you for standing up for their right to vote, for a fraud-free election, for a transparent system, and the protection of the right to scrutinize an election. | ||
Now, I also needed to make note, I mean, Senator Rogers brought it out, there was a retired two-star Air Force General there. | ||
We also had retired FBI, retired other law enforcement, retired IRS agents that know how to do these numbers things. | ||
And of course, it's amazing how the media... | ||
The lamestream media throws out all kinds of misinformation. | ||
Welcome back to the Alliance Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. | ||
That is Gunny Sunnibarelli. | ||
It is Colonel Wendy Rogers and Mark Fincham. | ||
They were going to be our guests in the second hour, but they're down on the panel to explain exactly what's been going on in Arizona. | ||
Programming note, you can consider coming to the end of the War Room for our morning broadcast. | ||
We'll be back at 5 p.m. | ||
Eastern Time today, following John Frederick's Outside the Beltway on Real America's Voice. | ||
You can stay and watch on Real America's Voice Rumble Channel or just stay with warroom.org. | ||
We're going to have wall-to-wall coverage. | ||
The live feed is going to continue. | ||
You're going to see everything. | ||
going to be a lot of explosive presentations this afternoon. | ||
So you want to make sure you watch. | ||
We'll basically come back at 5 o'clock and wrap that up. | ||
I want to go to now Captain Seth Keschel. | ||
I've been joined by Darren Gobb from Montana, the founder of the Restored Liberty Movement. | ||
Guys, thank you very much. | ||
I really appreciate you. | ||
I know, Seth, you've got a lot of folks Legislature, this thing is packed with now 50 states have sent representatives. | ||
And of course, Darren Gobb, Colonel, I should call him Colonel Gobb, from out in Montana. | ||
Big Montana delegation out here. | ||
Six, seven, eight representatives. | ||
You guys want to get to the bottom of what happened in Montana, right? | ||
That was a big win for Trump, but you say there's some problems out there? | ||
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Absolutely. | |
And when you look at the numbers, and thanks to Seth for all the work he's done there, we know for a fact that six counties in Montana really need a full audit. | ||
And frankly, if you were going to take it from there, there's 36 or so that we could really look at deep. | ||
And if we're going to go that far, then why not do everything and just make sure everything is legitimate. | ||
I wanted to have you on to talk about Restore Liberty, but let me go to Seth Kesha for a second. | ||
You brought up something to break that has bugged me as the guy that ran the campaign in 2016 when they lost by those narrow margins. | ||
Although they did kind of deal with it as they were going to concede as soon as AP called it, because they thought that Trump would never concede. | ||
That's why they did it. | ||
But they never went back and complained about Wisconsin, particularly Wisconsin and Michigan. | ||
Why is that? | ||
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Well, you know, they had the joke that Hillary Clinton didn't even know where Wisconsin was. | |
But, you know, I don't think that's a joke. | ||
For perspective, we talked about Biden earlier going to Pennsylvania, 80,000 vote margin and trying to prevent an audit. | ||
Trump carried Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin by 78,000 combined. | ||
So why was there no push for a full forensic audit? | ||
The media's going to say that's because they're better sports to try to slime us as poor sportsmen. | ||
Right? | ||
They're not insurrectionists. | ||
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We're insurrectionists. | |
I think you have to ask the question, you know, why no forensic audit in Michigan? | ||
10,000 votes. | ||
Is it because there's been issues in Detroit for decades? | ||
There's hundreds of thousands of ballots that are always there? | ||
They didn't want to call the fire down on themselves. | ||
You got in the bottom of what's happening in Wayne County. | ||
You would have seen back then that Trump won by a lot more than the The small margin we did, I think 10,000 votes, have been a lot more than that. | ||
Your summary, you're here for the rest of the day. | ||
Give us your sense of how this is galvanizing the 3 November movement. | ||
The media's saying, hey, Lyndale's got nothing, this thing's off. | ||
It couldn't be more different than the energy in this room. | ||
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Well, for your fans on here who are also baseball fans, a friend of mine, former Braves pitcher who threw a no-hitter, Kent Merker, he commented on social media to me that I really brought some fire down on Dan Crenshaw. | |
But the point is to motivate to action. | ||
So all these legislators that are here, a lot of them are definitely moving towards action. | ||
There's a couple as soon as I step off of your stage that want to meet with me. | ||
But, like Kent said, you know, and I wrote back to him, I was like, we're trying to push people out of their comfort zones. | ||
I know a guy I went to the Military Intelligence Captain's Career Course with, Tim Geithner. | ||
He's a state rep from Colorado. | ||
Great guy. | ||
El Paso County has a ton of issues. | ||
He's the kind of leader that we need to step up in the state, leaving like these delegations in Washington. | ||
You know, we have several audit groups in Washington that are making headway, and I talked about Robert Sutherland yesterday. | ||
Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania. | ||
There's a lot of Army guys. | ||
I need some Navy guys to step up. | ||
You guys are shaming me. | ||
This is showing me why my daughter went to West Point and not go to the Naval Academy. | ||
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Right? | |
It's all these army guys. | ||
Mastriana, Darren, you, Colonel Galb, you, in Colorado. | ||
It's, you know, you got Crenshaw sitting there trash-talking, trash-talking this effort. | ||
He's got to get his mind right on this thing. | ||
Abbott, what do people in this audience, this explosive, what you said yesterday on the stage, walk us through what our audience, which are all activists, what do they need to do to get their feelings to Governor Abbott? | ||
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We have people commenting on social media about reaching out to Governor Abbott's office. | |
So far, his staff has not given a position, and that may be somewhat normal given the fact that I broke that news yesterday after business hours. | ||
That came straight from the mouth of Steve Toth, the state rep who authored the Texas Audits Bill, that he has information suggesting Audit is going to endorse the Audits Bill. | ||
So the pressure needs to stay on. | ||
We need to support the governor's decision on that that he is going to support, of course. | ||
Folks, you're going to see that Trumpism is on fire in the Rio Grande Valley, even more than Steve Cortez laid out the analysis. | ||
I'm telling you, you've got a full forensic audit of Houston and Harris County, but particularly also the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas. | ||
This is why Henry Gonzalez is running around with his hair on fire, right? | ||
They understand, they understand working-class Hispanics are part of the Trump movement. | ||
They're part of America First movement, right? | ||
These are super patriots, they're serving in the armed forces, the traditional family, we believe in traditional families. | ||
I got to tell you, that's why we need an audit in Texas. | ||
Audit in Texas is going to make people's heads blow up. | ||
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Yeah, well the populist left also, they're not exactly happy with the way they've been cut out of the equation either. | |
So that's why you have populist left blowing up in Houston talking about the traditional fraud rings in Harris County. | ||
This is the third largest city in the United States. | ||
There's a lot of potential for illegal voting. | ||
Big time. | ||
Trump blew up 30% in votes in Harris County. | ||
A similar performance as he did in Miami, except the Democratic column blew up as well. | ||
Colonel Gobb, we're going to have you back on here, but I'm very fascinated by this Restoring Liberty movement, particularly as it's catching fire around the country. | ||
Take a couple of minutes, tell our audience what it is. | ||
I want everybody to give this effort of yours a look. | ||
What's going on? | ||
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Hey, thanks, Steve. | |
What we're working on right now is we're building a grassroots effort of citizen activists. | ||
All of us are volunteers with directors in every state. | ||
non-party affiliated with people that are just concerned about where this nation is going and we understand that we the people ultimately own this country and we and the government governs at consent of the we the people so we have to get involved in every way we possibly can. | ||
You don't feel right now that we have consent of the governed? | ||
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Certainly doesn't feel that way in here. | |
And everybody I talk to around the country, and it doesn't matter their background. | ||
Everybody is upset about what's going on. | ||
They don't think anybody's listening. | ||
And that's everybody from Venezuelans who's moved here, Cubans who've moved here, Colombians. | ||
They're all raising the banner saying... They're in shock about what's happening here. | ||
They saw it firsthand. | ||
It's the same thing happening in America right now. | ||
So what is Restore Liberty? | ||
What are you trying to do? | ||
Get back to the Constitution? | ||
What's your angle of attack on this thing? | ||
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Well, four pillars mainly, but the first one is this Declaration of Constitutional Consent, which is something that we wrote about a year ago that looks somewhat like Declaration of Independence, but it's a message to pass to the federal government that says, we the people have to consent to what you're doing. | |
And if you don't govern constitutionally, then we no longer consent. | ||
And then we're working on getting constitutional sanctuaries at the state level as a declaration from governors or legislators or whoever we can get. | ||
And if that doesn't work, get counties and cities to do the same thing. | ||
Let me ask you a question. | ||
You have a concept in here, say, American liberties as the founders understood it. | ||
What's the difference between the founders understood it and how we understand it today? | ||
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In many ways, sometimes I guess people would say that they're looking for license to do whatever they want. | |
And Liberty, the way the founders really understood it, was a freedom that is bounded by a moral backbone and a moral compass. | ||
And that is the huge difference that we're trying to get back to, using the Tenth Amendment and people's rights. | ||
How do people find out more about this? | ||
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What's the website? | |
Restore-Liberty.org is our website. | ||
The declaration is the main thing on there. | ||
You can explore more in there. | ||
You can find out all the local branches. | ||
If I live in Texas, I can go to this site and find out where. | ||
I know you guys are concentrated in Montana right now, but this is going to spread throughout the country? | ||
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It's in 32 states right now. | |
Texas is one of them. | ||
The gentleman to my left is in Texas helping with this project. | ||
I want to say something before we go, and we're going to be back at 5 o'clock Eastern Time in the War Room. | ||
I'm really proud of the fact you've got so many veterans that have dedicated... You're a 29-year veteran of the... 28. | ||
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28? | |
Colonel, you're a Black Hawk pilot? | ||
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Yes. | |
In Keschel, you've got on the stage Borelli, you've got Colonel Rogers. | ||
There's so many veterans that can have the easy way out and just go play with the grandkids, play golf. | ||
There's so many veterans. | ||
Jim Lehman, you've got guys throughout this country. | ||
The veterans are the backbone of this movement right now, along with the moms. | ||
I'm really proud of the fact that veterans have not taken the easy way out and not said, hey, it'd be so easy for guys to say, hey, I gave 25 years to my country and now I've got to spend time with the grandkids. | ||
They understand That 25 years is just the opening bid, right? | ||
They want to pass this down and make sure that their life's work is worthwhile. | ||
They've got to, once more, come to the, you know, answer the trumpet's call. | ||
So it's an incredible honor. | ||
Captain Seth Keschel, real quickly, what's your social media? | ||
How do people follow you, Captain? | ||
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Telegram, at real S. Keschel, K-E-S-H-E-L. | |
And obviously make sure you follow Restore Liberty at Restore Liberty on Telegram as well. | ||
By the way, the Telegram group over there, the America First daughters, you guys are on fire. | ||
Don't back off. | ||
It's just incredible. | ||
Also our chat room over there. | ||
Really honored. | ||
We're going to be back at 5 o'clock, jam it up with guests. | ||
And what's happening is there's going to be some big explosive developments today here. | ||
Dave Clements is going to talk about hacking and how this thing was hacked. | ||
All at 1 o'clock local. | ||
We'll have a wrap up at 5 p.m. | ||
Eastern, see you then. | ||
Back in the War Room. | ||
Thanks guys. |