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unidentified
he had threatened to kill people before, tried to kill himself.
The police determined there was no probable cause for an arrest.
Back then in 2019, he was labeled a clear and present danger, but he had not applied back then to get a gun, so there was nothing authorities could do.
When he finally did apply, his father sponsored him, and once again, the authorities determined there was nothing they could do.
In all...
steve bannon
Okay, Wednesday, 6 July, Year of the Lord 2022.
Breaking news out of London.
We're going to go there in a moment to Hearts of Oaks.
Also at Eagle Pass, Texas.
Another day as they've now declared an invasion at the county level.
Still coming across.
So we're going to get down to Ben Burkham.
We've got Boris.
Epstein coming in with polling, including, and I'm the first guy to say, Gavin Newsom is going to be their nominee.
New poll out today, I think, shows Newsom 40, Trump 39.
We'll get to all of that as Gavin Newsom starts to talk a much bigger presence in national politics.
But I want to start first in Illinois 10.
You saw right there, and you saw the chart, one of the things that's been upsetting me, and I've put it up on Getter, when everybody go to my Getter feed, Probably the biggest blowback I've ever gotten when I say this and it's probably a third I would say at least a third of the people about Parents have to take some accountability here in this situation and it's furious today MSNBC is out there covering this non-stop and they put up a timeline
In September 2019, authorities were called to come that he had threatened to kill everyone, including his family.
I think they took him for what he was, and his parents would not press charges.
Less than 60 days from that day, his father sponsored him to purchase the weapons.
They are 15.
So hey, you're not going to get to the bottom of this and start having parental accountability.
Sorry.
I don't want to hear about the collective get everything like that.
This is just, as I said, accessories before the fact.
Joe Severino is in a very tough contest out there in Illinois 10.
He's running for Congress.
He's given up his business to basically serve his country.
Joe, Horrible tragedy in Highland Park.
I can't even imagine on a Fourth of July parade and the heart-rending story about the little boy who's now an orphan.
Just all of it.
Give us a sense of what it's like out there today before we get into the details of this.
unidentified
You know, Steve, it's somber.
I live on the border.
I'm in Lake Forest, which borders Highland Park, Illinois.
Just after the shooting occurred, I was actually supposed to march.
I was running late to march, running 10 minutes behind, maybe 15 minutes behind.
I was going to be in the parade.
And thankfully, I was running behind.
After the tragedy, I went to help just to get a feel of the community, offer support, do what I could just to be present and just help, you know, embrace the community because I am running here in the district.
It occurred in our district and it occurred in the actual city in which the incumbent Brad Schneider lives.
So I went there and it was just eerily vacant of a community.
You saw baby wagons, baby bottles, tricycles.
You could just envision the way these parents were just grabbing their children and running for dear life.
It was a very sad scene.
The first responders, there had to be a thousand How can you start healing?
How can the community heal when there's so many?
I mean, this is Buffalo and Ovalde and now this.
It was just great to see him working and a community come together to really try to start healing what occurred after this horrific incident.
steve bannon
How can you start healing?
How can the community heal when there's so many...
I mean this is Buffalo and Ovalde and now this.
It's all the same kid.
It's all the same problems.
You've got the psychiatric drugs.
You have the loner.
You have the parents who are disengaged.
They're doing their own thing.
For somehow, you know, Valdi, you know, we're going to have Ben Burcombe on here in a minute from Eagle Pass.
We still don't know how the kid got the $10,000 or $8,000 to $10,000.
We don't know who helped him buy the guns or who drove him since he couldn't drive.
There's so many unanswered questions involved.
All three were known to authorities.
So you have red flag laws in Illinois.
I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, I think you've got a semi-automatic weapons ban in Highland Park.
You've got very restrictive gun laws on the books.
But as Steve Cortez, who's obviously a huge fan of yours and spent a lot of time in Illinois, he's from there.
He says, since the 1960s, the guns haven't changed, Joe, but the culture has.
What say you?
unidentified
It certainly has.
You know, we have to look at the medications that we're prescribing to these children.
Nobody wants to have the difficult conversation.
You asked, how do we begin to heal?
We have to put the political divide aside and start speaking as parents and community.
It's evident this kid had an issue.
You could look at him.
You can't ignore your instinct to understand that this kid was troubled.
He had a past, a record of interactions with the police, threatening his parents.
He threatened suicide.
He threatened to kill his parents.
He had a plethora of knives he was going to commit some atrocity with that were confiscated by the police.
But we will never get over the hurdle of the core issue here until we start addressing the mental illness.
You know, it's no coincidence all these kids are suffering.
And we're living in an age right now, post this pandemic, where there was so much separation, so much distance, so much electronic communication, that there was another layer that was stripped away that could recognize if there was something up with these children.
So, you know, we have to give power back to the parents.
We have to allow them, create an environment where, you know, we're not all starving from inflation.
In working two, three jobs, single parent households, we need to support the family again.
We need to get the family back at the dinner table.
We need to have the parents understand and not, you know, not be a latchkey kid or an absent parent where you understand what the pulse of your child is.
And I think that's what's missing now.
And you see it slowly evolve.
The more absent the parents are, the thinner the relationship with the child, the more they act out.
So we have to address, I think, and there's no money in it.
I mean, this is politics 101.
Directly after this occurred, Brad Schneider, my opponent, was at the national podium using it as a mechanism to create further division and speak on gun control rather than what we could do as a community to heal.
So we have to get back to the fundamentals of community, reach out emotionally, let these people know we care, and stop worrying about profiteering and start concerning ourselves with healing, particularly our children.
steve bannon
Joe, what is your background?
How did you get into the race and how did you get to win the Republican nomination?
unidentified
Well, that was difficult.
I fought off maybe nine people that wanted to primary me.
Ultimately, they thought that I might be the strongest candidate.
I believe I am.
I believe I'm the candidate that's going to send Brad Schneider home finally.
I owned a parking slash hospitality company for 25 years, led the industry here in Illinois.
I have five children, live in Lake Forest.
I just have a passion to want to help.
And like I said, I believe it's a calling to do so.
steve bannon
Joe, why would you seem like a super decent guy?
Politics today is long of tooth and knife.
It's a contact sport.
Why would a nice guy like you want to get into it?
It's a D plus 10.
This is not a seat that... Brad Schneider is, I think, pretty radical.
And he's hyper-partisan.
Why would a guy... You say, hey, we need a nice guy, a nice guy from Illinois, middle American to show up.
Joe Severino shows up from Central Casting.
Why would you possibly want to get into the most brutal of all contact sports now, sir?
unidentified
Well, the reality is I'm an ex-fighter, number one.
I grew up being bullied.
By the time I was 18, I was offered to fight professionally, so I know what it's like to fight back, number one.
Number two, Brad Schneider, actually, last time I was on your show, was sending out emails asking for donations because of, you know, who I run around with, I think is the way he said it.
The fact of the matter is, this isn't a bloodsport.
I'm totally built for this.
Strategy, negotiation, leverage, unity, community.
I know how to bring all these mechanisms together and people together.
To influence an outcome by designing it where everyone can thrive, number one.
Number two, I don't think they're actually built for the fight.
The reality is it's a cowardly game in politics.
It's not really a blood sport, it's cowardly.
They do all this behind the scenes, it's cloaked, it's mirrors.
They don't come forward in battle.
I'm going right at Brad Schneider.
I'm battling him.
In the district.
And it's just been fantastic.
We're resonating so well with people.
And that kind of reinforces the invigoration that, you know, I am.
And it's encouraging that I'm on the right path here.
And I honestly believe that we're going to win the race.
steve bannon
Joe, I think Cook Report's got it as a D plus 10.
Walk us through how, I understand this is a wave year, you've got the economy, but walk our audience through, how do you overcome what looks like a D plus 10 district?
unidentified
It's a D plus 10.
What they did was, the only reason it was valued so high originally is because of the redistricting.
Prior to the redistricting, we had two, for lack of a better word, they weren't strong candidates.
So Brad Schneider did win by a great margin, I think 65-35, whatever it was.
But here I come along.
I'm a strong candidate, family man.
I lead with faith.
I care about the community.
It comes off as genuine.
I have the ability and the bio to change not just the trajectory of the district, but the nation on the legislative floor, and I'd love to be a part of that.
I have a passion for it.
But what they've done is because Brad did so well with weak candidates, they sacrificed a lot of his blue areas in Cook County and they increased it at the red blueprint into McHenry County and all the way up to the border of Wisconsin.
And that's why we received a record number of votes.
We received 34,000 votes in a non-contested primary that hasn't occurred in the past.
His votes went down from 79,000, almost 80,000.
To 50,000.
There was a 15,000 point vote spread between us, which is unheard of in the district.
And I'm a true conservative running that resonates with all people.
And I think it comes across that I care about them also.
Not only are we reaching the independents and the soft Democrats, and we can see that from the ballot box, but they sacrificed Brad Schneider.
They thought he was in a stronger position than he was, and really they put him on the table.
And we're going to take advantage of that to win the race.
steve bannon
Joe, on social media and for your campaign site, how do people find out more about Joe Severino and how they find out more about this epic fight that's going to take place in Illinois 10?
unidentified
Oh, it'll be epic, I promise that, and entertaining the whole way through.
So the way, if you could kindly go to my website, SeverinoForCongress.com SeverinoForCongress.com to learn more about me and my candidacy.
But the most important thing here in Illinois is, I would say what's not so positive, Steve, and to your audience, is that people have given up on Illinois politics.
And right now we have Darren Bailey, we have myself, we have Kathy Selby.
We have a lot of great candidates now that are here for the right purpose.
And, uh, but the people are struggling right now with, uh, so, you know, the, uh, the donations and, and contributing, we have a great grassroots volunteer, uh, base, but what we need to do, uh, you know, like any great race is we need to be funded.
So if anybody out there, uh, felt inclined to support my candidacy to go to Severinoforcongress.com, any little bit helps and it's spent to literally unseat Brad Schneider.
And that's the plan.
steve bannon
Joe, good luck helping to bring the community together.
I think with the situation and the acts of the parents, I just don't know how people are going to get over this for a while.
Obviously, the brutality of the slaying, but to know that this is so unnecessary.
So unnecessary.
You just feel for the people out there.
unidentified
We'll play any part we can in trying to heal.
And not only that, but we've already been in even in the minority communities.
The temperature is that people want something different.
It's gone on too long.
You know, even through social media, people, the Bible says if we could communicate as one, there's nothing we can't accomplish.
Right now, it doesn't matter if you go to Twitter, wherever it is, see translation, we're communicating as one.
We're reaching in the neighborhoods that need it most, the struggling.
And those are the ones that are supporting us.
And they're the ones that are creating the opportunity to kind of echo up the chain where maybe the soccer moms that thought they were fighting on behalf of something, I'm realizing that maybe they were being used.
Maybe it wasn't an authentic fight, and that's where we're becoming a great merger of interests.
steve bannon
Joe Severino, go with God and fight on.
Thank you, sir.
unidentified
Thank you.
steve bannon
Dedicating his life to jump in here and turn things around.
Okay.
London, England.
Eagle Pass, Texas.
All Next in the World.
unidentified
We will fight till they're all gone. We rejoice when there is no more. Let's take down the T.T.D.
nigel farage
Good evening. Well, last night I made the point that it wasn't just Boris Johnson's career that was being dragged down.
It was actually the whole reputation and brand of the Conservative Party and indeed the broader Conservative movement in this country.
And I've been making the point to many of you who are still ardent Boris Johnson supporters that he's lost a fair bit of his reputation.
A third of those people that voted Conservative in December 2019.
Well overnight, some polling from YouGov proves me wrong.
Proves me very, very wide of the mark.
Overnight, YouGov's figure is that 54% of those who voted Conservative in 2019 want him gone as Prime Minister.
It is a combination of incompetence And frankly, downright lies.
There is no getting away from it, that right throughout this Chris Pincher affair, there have been untruths and outright lies told by many in senior positions in government.
And you know, after Partygate and so many other sagas, enough is enough.
So I think we are, right now, very, very close to the end.
It has resulted in a large number of resignations.
Let's just go through.
Let's just get a feel for the magnitude of what has happened in the last 48 hours.
It began, of course, with Sajid Javid resigning.
We then had Rishi Sunak resign.
We then had Alex Chalk resigns.
Yes, another one bites the dust.
And we go on to Will Quince.
Will Quince, who was sent out to do media on behalf of the government.
And yes, with Will Quince this morning, another one bites the dust.
And we go on to Robin Walker.
To Victoria Atkins.
To Joe Churchill.
To Stuart Andrew.
To Kemi Badnok.
To Neil O'Brien.
And if I kept going, even though we got a two-hour special, a lot of the show would be gone because there were 28 More names to add to that list.
It is a grand total of 38 people who resigned from ministerial positions from the government payroll that they were on in some form.
I can't think of any historical precedent for it.
I'll be joined by David Starkey and we'll talk about that.
But I have to say this.
What is going on behind that door in Number 10 now must be something like the gunfight at the OK Corral.
Because of course Nadine Dorries is there, still flying the flag for Boris Johnson.
But we are reliably informed that Priti Patel, Brandon Lewis, perhaps even the Chief Whip Chris Heaton-Harris and others are there to tell the Prime Minister that the game is up.
He had a very tough time this afternoon, appearing before the committee and the House of Commons.
A difficult time during PMQs.
For Johnson himself, it will be a personal tragedy, because all he ever wanted to be was Prime Minister.
But, I'm afraid, and I said it once before in this little talk and I'll say it again, a combination of incompetence and lies have done for him.
Does he resign this evening?
Well, I would still say there's a 50% chance that he does.
steve bannon
I'll be with you to nine o'clock that is from earlier at the beginning of a two-hour special Nigel Farage and we're here to announce that Nigel Farage is going to join us At the open tomorrow right before I have Kristi Noem governor of South Dakota She's going to be on but right before they're gonna open the show tomorrow Nigel Farage to see if Boris Johnson last Peter of the hearts of oak Peter McIlvenny is join us Peter There's been also another update. Is it Michael Gove Michael Gove one of the top?
Tories conservatives he was essentially he went and gave Boris the the pitch today. You got to leave to save the Conservative Party Boris Johnson fired him.
And now it is Najib Faraj using the American analogy, the gunfire of the OK Corral, is actually pretty close.
Is that what's happening right now?
peter mcilvenna
Yeah, so he was sacked and obviously Gove and Boris were very good friends until Gove turned against him.
I think it was 2016 originally and then in 2019.
And it was Gove that derailed Boris's first run at PM.
I think it was 2016.
Then in 2019, Suddenly after Gove said he wouldn't run, he ran against Boris to try and do real 2019.
So there's a real love-hate relationship with them both.
Gove has served in many positions in government, is a real heavyweight, but he came out today and said privately, I believe it was privately, that Boris had to resign.
That got leaked and it looks like probably 50 minutes ago, I think it was, that Gove was sacked by Boris.
So I mean, yeah, again, Gove is no friend of Boris, so it's quite strange that Boris kind of kept him close for so long.
I guess it's keep your friends close to your enemies closer.
steve bannon
Where do we stand tonight?
That was from earlier from Nigel Farage.
Like I said, Nigel is going to open our show tomorrow because, as I said yesterday, I don't think, I think Boris, and I put it up on Getter, Boris is going to have to resign.
Ben Harn will disagree with that.
He thought he could actually tough it through because he knows Boris.
I think Boris could tough it through.
What is your sense right now, Peter?
And this is one of the reasons it's important.
Obviously, our mother country, the United Kingdom, we're very close, probably the closest of allies.
Also, Brexit and Boris had that massive win with, I think, an 80-seat majority.
We wanted Brexit done.
We had spent so much time working on Brexit with Raheem Kassam.
And Nigel Farage.
But I think right now in geopolitics, Zelensky's got to be sitting there.
This is a sweet hour of prayer for him.
His boy, Macron, just got blown up in the national elections.
Joe Biden is on the ropes here in the United States at 18% right track, wrong track in the mid-20s with his polling.
And now Boris Johnson, who's really spent more time worried about the Ukraine than he has the economic implosion in the United Kingdom.
He could be gone by morning.
This is bad news for Zelensky.
All his three big allies, because those are the dominant voices in this situation in Ukraine, could be gone.
What's your sense of what's going to happen between tonight, it's near midnight in London, and then tomorrow, let's say by noon?
peter mcilvenna
Well, the last resignation was, I think, half an hour ago, which was a more minor resignation.
The second of Gove was a big one.
And it looks like it's dried up now after having 42.
With Nigel's show, which was, what, an hour and a bit ago, that was 38 resignations.
There have now been 42 resignations.
This is the most ministerial resignation since I think it was Ramsey MacDonald in 1932 or something.
So 90 years.
This is huge what's happened.
I can't, there's no way the Boris can last.
steve bannon
By the way, Ramsay McDonald was called, happened during the Great Depression.
That's when basically people resigned on Herbert Hoover, right?
This was the tectonic plate shift of politics back because of the implosion of the world economy.
With Ramsey McDonald, so you've gone what 90 years for that?
42 resignations Starting I think this morning or late last night.
How can this guy survive?
How do you even run a government with 42 42 resignations of both major players and mid-level players?
peter mcilvenna
Well, he's over.
I think there's about 350 MPs or the 650 he obviously will find a MPs who are new who Boris will come and charm them and they'll accept a ministerial position.
But it could actually get the point where he runs out of MPs that he can give ministerial positions to.
That's where it becomes crazy.
I think Boris will Sleep on this or maybe he'll be up all night having his other half Carrie telling him what he should or should not do as she wears the trousers in that relationship.
And I don't see how he can go tomorrow and last all day without stepping down.
I mean, he's been very blunt whenever he's been told to resign.
His delegations have gone to him today.
At least two different delegations have gone to tell him he has to step down.
He's refused to do that.
The 1922 committee, which is the parliamentary group, met this afternoon and they voted on changing the rules so you could get rid of him.
Obviously he's protected for a year and no confidence motion can't be done again within a year, so they wanted to change the rules.
That was voted down.
So they have elections, the 1922 committee, next week.
So that is the parliamentary party speaking up and hoping that he will actually do the right thing and resign and not have to force him.
But Boris, I think, will have to be forced.
He is adamant that he will continue.
He believes he has the charisma, the charm to push through this.
But if he does not have the MPs backing him, if he cannot fill the Cabinet positions, government cannot continue to function if you do not have ministers in those positions.
So I do not see and I thought he might last a week or so when it was only yesterday.
Politics speeds things up and I don't think he can last another 24 hours.
I really don't.
steve bannon
By the way, it's not just about filling the positions.
The system's in a crisis right now.
You have a massive economic problem.
You have a shooting war that he's been a big cheerleader of over on the eastern Russian-speaking border of Ukraine.
You've got massive geopolitical problems.
They're talking about cutting taxes.
I don't know how you're going to pay for it.
Because you're going to have to, you know, you're not, the pound's not the prime reserve currency.
The economic problems are so serious, he hasn't finished Brexit, he got these remain, the administrative state and Westminster are so powerful that they've basically, the remainers have not really, you've had to, you've had to go full bore to get Brexit done.
I just want to make sure everything's clear.
In 1783 is the last time the king, I think, was removed after the American Revolution.
I think George III actually sacked his primaries.
They don't have the power anymore, so there's no chance that Queen Elizabeth could step in here, correct, Peter?
peter mcilvenna
No, there's no chance.
Constitutional monarchy, as she will, has done nothing to rock the boat, has been a wonderful figurehead, but has not publicly got involved in anything.
Who knows what happens behind the scenes?
So it's not going to happen from Buckingham Palace.
So the pressure is building on the Tory party.
The anger is building on the Tory party.
And I I don't see any way he can get through this.
I don't see any way at all.
steve bannon
You're going to be in the show following Nigel at, it'll be three o'clock in the afternoon, I think three o'clock in the afternoon London time.
Was Boris Johnson, yes or no, Boris Johnson Prime Minister when you join us in the morning, sir, yes or no?
peter mcilvenna
I think he'll have gone by that time.
I think he will be forced out.
steve bannon
I called this two days ago.
I think he will be.
I think he'll throw it in.
How did they get to Hearts of Oak?
How did they get you guys on social media?
peter mcilvenna
We're on at Hearts of Oak, on Getter, on Rumble, on anything else.
Or you can go to the website heartsofoak.org forward slash livestream and you can watch all our videos directly.
But go to Getter.
Getter is the best place to go.
At Hearts of Oak.
steve bannon
I watch you all the time, I get her.
Thank you very much for joining us, Peter.
Appreciate it staying up and joining us.
peter mcilvenna
We'll see you tomorrow.
steve bannon
Crisis in London.
Okay, there's another crisis on the southern border.
When we left yesterday, Ben Burquam was talking to Murderers Row, the 27 Yankees, right?
Had the top guys.
We stopped the invasion, not so fast.
We're going to Eagle Pass, Texas next.
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Alex Jones, everybody, this Georgia Guidestones.
Georgia Guidestones.
Somebody blew it up last night.
I blew a part of it.
I thought at first it was a hoax.
It's not.
Turns out it's real.
May have been actually the part that said about the 500 million people.
I know a lot of people mock the Georgia Guidestones, but hey, it's got everything down there.
500 million is from 1970.
My crack staff here, the resource, the engine room tells me it's from 1979.
We'll get back to it.
Let's go to Eagle Pass, Texas.
Okay, Burquam.
I left you yesterday.
The best... It was peak Ben Burquam.
Ben Burquam living his best life.
I had, what, Chip Roy, Ken Cuccinelli, Mark Morgan.
I got Sheriff Coe, Russell B. McKinney.
You've declared an invasion of the United States in Texas, or Texas, and we're going out and we're going to start arresting people and sending them back across.
Now you're in Eagle Pass, Texas, and there was a whole flood of folks coming in there.
Of course, the U.S.
government's throwing them in vans to go take them to Greyhound or to airlines to fly them into the heartland of the country.
What in the hell is going on?
I thought we stopped this invasion.
ben bergquam
Yeah, I guess the illegals that we're coming across haven't gotten the memo yet.
What it really comes down to is Governor Abbott.
Governor Abbott has to declare this an invasion.
What you see behind me is just a fraction of what one of the five groups that we saw come across today.
Well over 200, we showed up, well over 200, mostly fighting age men coming across the border.
And it's happening all over, point to point to point.
We're driving back and forth all day today and it's just group after group after group.
Money in the cartel's pockets, money in the NGO's pockets, money in Washington D.C.' 's pockets as they're pulling it out of your pockets.
It's not stopping unless Governor Abbott and the governors step up and declare this an invasion.
The sheriffs are doing everything they can.
The judges, it was historic, the judge actually came out, the court said that this is an invasion.
Now Governor Abbott has to do his job for the citizens of Texas.
steve bannon
Okay, are they, is someone, is Chip Roy or Ken Kutcher, who is actually going to see Paxton and see Governor Abbott?
Because this has got to happen.
ben bergquam
I know they're talking to him.
I talked to Ken Cuccinelli afterwards, after the interview yesterday, and he said they're going after it.
That's the push is on Abbott right now.
There is heavy pressure on Abbott to do this.
And not just Abbott, this is other governors.
Any governor could enact this.
Governor DeSantis in Florida could do the same thing.
The vast majority of the people that you see behind me, this group of about 50 Military-age men.
They're going to Florida.
The vast majority.
That's where they're heading.
Every single governor has the authority to do this.
The question is, do they have the will?
But that's the pressure right now is Abbott.
Quit giving lip service.
Quit sending your National Guard down here to be Ubers for the cartels.
Declare an invasion and stop them before they come in.
steve bannon
What about Sheriff Coe?
Last week he was arresting folks.
Now he's got a mandate.
Is Sheriff Coe in Kenney County?
Is he arresting people?
ben bergquam
He so he did.
He told us that was kind of a unique situation where he didn't have the room in the hospital for these people.
A lot of the people are coming over injured, so he took him back and gave him the option.
They chose to go back across the border, but I think it's going to come down to that.
I asked him that question.
He says he's got something coming out in the next week that he's going to be presenting.
He didn't want to go on record with it yesterday, but that's the question.
At some point, the constitutionally elected sheriffs may end up having to fill that void.
Something has to happen because it's it's us.
It's our nation.
Or this invasion.
We cannot sustain this as a nation.
It's national suicide.
But we're starting to see that.
Where sheriffs are stepping up saying, if the governor's not going to do it, we're going to do it.
We'll see.
steve bannon
And you see the games they're playing.
Berquam's down there.
As soon as they get down to the TV camera, they're throwing people in the vans, getting them up to the Greyhound, getting them up to, on your tax dollar, to fly into Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Ben, just hang on.
I want to finish the show.
If you could just hang on for a few minutes.
I want to bring in Boris Epstein.
Boris, I know we talked about polling, some other polls out today, but this shows you, if the Supreme Court doesn't show you enough contrast between Trump's agenda and everybody else's, look at the border.
I mean, the only guy that's ever had... The Republicans talk about it.
They go down and take photo ops on it.
ben bergquam
They do.
steve bannon
Look at Abbott.
Look at Ducey.
Avid and Ducey right there.
You've got now constitutional heavyweights like Russ Vogt, Ken Cuccinelli, Chip Roy, who used to be chief of staff of Ted Cruz.
These guys all work through the Constitution.
It's 100% legal.
He won't do it.
This is the difference between Trump and all these other guys.
Trump acts.
The rest of these guys talk.
Boris Epstein.
boris epshteyn
Conservative, that's what it's been doing forever, right?
It's a lot of talk.
President Trump walks the walk, and he walks the walk On securing the southern border, walks the walk on constitutionalist justices, which just gave us the historic win, and that was my morning newsletter today, an overturning of Roe v. Wade, walks the walk on backing down and beating the deep state, the administrative state, and that's why President Trump is up by pretty much 50% in all the polls.
When I say 50%, I don't mean up by 50%, meaning somebody's half of him, I mean up by an actual difference of 50%.
Because President Trump is the one who made promises and kept all those promises and delivered win after win after win.
Not just for MAGA, but for the American people as a whole.
So that's why if you look at an Emerson poll, you look at a Harvard-Harris poll, there's no competition, there's no contest.
The President Trump, as we hope and expect, declares his presidency.
For 2024, his candidacy for 2024.
He's going to be the runaway, the runaway winner of the primary.
And look at the numbers here.
They've got Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, they're putting all these up.
He's going to crush whoever it is in the general.
And we're going to get four more years of strengthening our border, of not looking pathetic and weak.
steve bannon
Don't pick on my boy.
Don't pick on my boy, Gavin Newsom.
We'll get to that in a second.
But look, I want to lay out something.
And Ron DeSantis has done a terrific job as governor.
I mean, he's a fighter.
But when the New Yorker does, what, a 12,000 word profile of you, the New Yorker, the Intelligentsia's newspaper or magazine does a 12,000 word puff piece on DeSantis, you know the fix?
No, no, no.
The Atlantic was Mitt Romney.
The Atlantic came after, you know, did American Rasputin, which was not a puff piece.
unidentified
Well, I thought that Rasputin thing was kind of nice.
boris epshteyn
You know, they took like 15,000 people to kill that guy.
steve bannon
We love it.
Hey, let's say this.
It's on brand, OK?
But Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney writes his big piece.
You know, Mitt Romney's wringing his hands and, you know, he's all worried.
America's in denial.
You know, the Atlantic puts him up front and center.
Big thing over the weekend, a thought piece.
New York has got a puff piece on DeSantis.
People understand something.
They're trying to promote people that are not Trump.
They fear Trump.
This is why CNN and MSNBC, it's non-stop.
That's why J6 and Little Jamie were asking.
Nothing has changed since the day he won, right, in 2016 with the nullification.
This is all just an extension.
This is an extension of the nullification of Project Boris.
boris epshteyn
No doubt about it.
And you're right.
If the New Yorker's doing a puff piece about you, something isn't right.
And Governor Sanders has done a great job in Florida, and he absolutely should continue doing a great job in Florida.
And hey, he's got a great future ahead of him, no doubt about it.
But what we need now, what we need to get our country back from—we're not at the brink anymore, folks.
We're off the cliff.
And I almost dropped an F-bomb there, but I don't want to get you banned anywhere else where I haven't gotten you banned yet.
We're off the cliff, folks.
Okay?
This is not a drill.
This is not a joke.
We're off the cliff.
We don't have a southern border.
Our inflation is runaway.
Gas is going to $10 a gallon.
So what we need now is the only person who stood in the breach and brought us back from the brink last time.
And that was President Donald J. Trump.
unidentified
What would the world be of Hillary Clinton?
steve bannon
But I've got at 6 o'clock, I have Dave Walsh on to talk to you about energy and compare Trump's full-spectrum energy dominance to where we are now globally in the world.
And by the way, here's who's suffering.
The third world, in 18 months, the third world is going to start starving.
And then I've got Frank Gaffney.
You've got China going to do joint naval exercises like off Latin America.
They're like rabid dogs, they smell weakness.
And this administration, wandering around.
Now, the polling in the Daily Mail, and I kid, I was the first person to say Newsom was going to be the guy because he's going to crush it out there in California.
But they're not even taking Kamala Harris and Biden seriously anymore.
The media, they've kind of broomed past that.
They're looking at Pritzker.
They're looking at Whitmer.
They're looking at Newsom.
They're looking at, you know, nobody in his cabinet.
Cooper in North Carolina.
unidentified
The mayor was at Landry.
steve bannon
I think, I think Mayor Pete, I think, I think the weekend, the Fourth of July weekend was the last of that.
Yeah, I'm not feeling that.
I'm not feeling that.
I'm not even sure the Senate.
I'm not even sure the Senators do that.
So talk to me about the Daily Mail, about these polls that show Trump beats Biden by five or six, but he's in a dead heat with people like Newsom.
What does that mean to you, Boris Epstein?
boris epshteyn
Means he beats Biden by 20 and he beats the rest of them by 15 because they haven't been out there as much and they have not been as affiliated with the terrible failure that's the Democrats.
But keep in mind, all this polling, from the primary to the general, nobody's even politiqued yet, right?
There's been no campaigning.
If any of these, here's the bottom line, right, on the Republican side, and again, all respect to everybody, love, kumbaya, okay?
If anybody out there actually is willing to step into the ring and go up against President Trump, their approval is going to go to effectively zero, right?
Because MAGA's not going to stand for that.
Who is the last person who has attacked President Trump who's been able to stick around in politics?
How's that working out for Liz Cheney?
How'd that work out for Tom Rice?
How's that working out for Gloomy Toomy, right?
So the primary is a done deal.
unidentified
That's it.
boris epshteyn
It's over.
Okay, nobody who is MAGA is actually going to challenge President Trump.
That's not happening.
And another Trump or elect Liz Cheney has no shot.
So the primary's over.
The President Trump, if he runs, will win the primary going away, I predict by, you know, somewhere in the 50-point range.
In the general, Once Gavin Newsom gets in there, what's he gonna argue for?
Oh, I'm a Democrat, and California's cool, and I went to have dinner at French Laundry, and Joe Biden is, like, my guy.
steve bannon
How's that gonna work?
What's the argument?
We, you know, about the CCP, about Taiwan, about, and we're going to talk today about, you know, this morning we talked about Taiwan Semiconductor, that's a proxy about the invasion of Taiwan.
You had Michael Burry, the big short guy, put out a tweet today.
He says Taiwan, China makes a move on it in 2023.
You've got the, you've got a whole world of geopolitics and integrated capital markets.
What's Gavin Newsom going to argue?
Gavin Newsom, who I think is going to be their guy, because I think he's going to stride across, you know, You're forgetting somebody.
He's making it, okay, I'm going to get to that.
Don't pick on my girl.
The broom!
Where's the broom?
Is he going to argue that I made it a sanctuary state for abortions?
Is that the pitch for the nation?
unidentified
No.
steve bannon
We're in a crisis.
People have to understand, this is a crisis.
boris epshteyn
Hold on.
The feces and the crack needles on the street in San Francisco?
That's his city, by the way.
Newsom isn't an L.A.
unidentified
guy.
boris epshteyn
He's a San Fran guy.
Let's not forget.
He's got no argument to make.
I'm telling you, it's going to be Crooked or Joe Biden.
I think Biden isn't giving up that easily, by the way.
I think the media is hoping he does, and Democrats hope he does, but Joe Biden is an old Demented at this point.
Stubborn Irish guy.
I don't know if you know any of those, but they don't really give up that easily.
steve bannon
I come from a family of those.
Okay.
I want to hold on.
And by the way, we don't like talking about 2024.
2022 is everything.
But these things have kind of popped up.
And we're going to talk about our favorite HRC.
boris epshteyn
It popped up because President Trump is winning, winning, winning at the Supreme Court on the border.
He's winning in the polling.
That's why it's coming up.
Because this is, as somebody said, this is President Trump's second term.
And it's going pretty damn well.
steve bannon
It's a pretty good, outside of letting Biden make any economic decisions.
Okay, the Fed also met today.
I think they're signaling going to be a 75 point basis, a 75 basis point race.
Back in a moment, Boris Epstein in the War Room.
unidentified
Everything's begun, and you are over.
Cause we're taking down the CCP.
boris epshteyn
Spread the word all through Hong Kong.
unidentified
We will fight till they're all gone.
boris epshteyn
We rejoice when there's no more.
unidentified
Let's take down the CCP.
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Ben Burquam, I think you and the family just left California a while ago.
Is my assessment of Gavin Newsom correct, sir?
ben bergquam
It's light.
This guy is the biggest scumbag you can imagine.
The fact that we have a mass exodus leaving California and we were part of it, our family left.
I've had to step over those feces and those needles in San Francisco.
Nobody in California wants Gavin Newsom unless you're a criminal, you're a bum, or an illegal.
The reason we have this going on behind me is in large part because of scumbags like Gavin Newsom.
I was there when Kate Steinle got murdered because of his policies in San Francisco and that is why people are leaving.
Unless you like paying for your own misery, you cannot vote for Gavin Newsom, and nobody will.
steve bannon
Boris, you brought up a great point that I think triggered Berkram right there.
His reign as mayor of San Francisco was not exactly stellar, would you say?
boris epshteyn
No, absolutely not.
It was disastrous.
It was actually, if you look at it, it was during the recession and then the turn into the 2010s, it was the downturn of San Francisco.
It's when San Francisco went from sort of the city of Tony Bennett, I love by heart in San Francisco, to the disaster it is now.
And Gavin Newsom is the one to thank for that.
Gavin Newsom's got no argument to the American people, okay?
Let's just, let's just, you know, the masturbatory fantasy of the left that he's gonna be the, the, and by the way, the guy's a boozer, he's got a, he's, you know, he's got a history of partying from here to Timbuktu.
steve bannon
Boy, boy, boy, we're getting, boy, we're getting personal, Ray.
We had any guys, we're early, we're in July of 22, and Boris- Hey, by the way- He's gone right for the throat.
He's a boozer.
He's a party.
It's a known party.
Hey, let's not drop the oppo file on him right away.
We got a long way to go.
We got to stretch the show.
Is he being a smart aleck?
I want to get to Burkhardt's point.
Boris, is he being a smart aleck running these ads on Fox in the affiliates down in None of the smart ones, but if anybody wants to go, they can go.
And by the way, in terms of coming in hot, that's what we're doing, right?
We are in January NFL form here, okay?
are going to leave the free state of Florida, Trump country, to do the reverse Ben Burquham and to move to California, sir?
boris epshteyn
None of the smart ones, but if anybody wants to go, they can go.
And by the way, in terms of coming in hot, that's what we're doing, right?
We are in January NFL form here, okay?
It is always conference, championship, and Super Bowl weekends where we play, okay?
This isn't nonsense, you know, two-a-days and let's stretch and all that crap.
That's what we do.
We're always on our game because we are prepared and we're at war.
unidentified
And you better believe that's what it is.
steve bannon
Mediaite's gotta get this.
He's a boozer!
He's got a long history of partying.
unidentified
I didn't bring up any powder, okay?
boris epshteyn
I'm not making any allegations over here.
steve bannon
Bolivian marching powder.
Okay, I want to go to HRC.
boris epshteyn
I'm not saying that Gavin Newsom loves Scarface, but I'm not saying he loves Scarface.
steve bannon
Okay.
HRC.
She's up in the bullpen.
She's limbering up.
She's ready for the call.
Boris Epstein.
boris epshteyn
That was my impersonation of her on a broomstick.
Yeah, I mean, we saw an article over the weekend in mainstream media.
The Democrats need Hillary Rodham Clinton.
You think that's not placed by Lanny Davis or somebody else?
You think that just pops up out of nowhere?
Oh yeah!
You know what we need to write about?
steve bannon
Some editors came up with the idea, let's do a feature, let's do a big feature on Hillary.
Where's Hillary?
Of course, Drudge makes it almost a Mac Daddy, right?
boris epshteyn
The guy who was like walking around with no pants.
You know, her other main advisor.
She's got Lenny Davis doing her PR and then she's got these other guys.
You know what I mean?
Her whole team's back together.
Everybody's been backing her up.
Everybody's putting her out there.
And so I think we can joke about all we want.
I think, I'll still say, every day that goes by that Biden is still the illegitimate, but the occupant of the Oval Office, he's more likely to be the nominee, no matter how much the mainstream media hopes he's not.
steve bannon
But I think HRC is the likely suspect.
The reason I disagree is that Biden can't get anything done now, because the knives are out already.
They're carving him up.
Not the Republicans.
The Republicans are collaborators helping him get stuff done.
It's the Democrats that are carving this guy up, non-stop.
boris epshteyn
But remember, he would have to agree.
He would have to consent to not being on the ticket.
Literally, the guy's been working at this for, what is it, 142?
His whole life, that's all he's wanted is to be in that Oval Office, and he barely knows it, but he's there.
steve bannon
The morning newsletter was hot.
How do people get the morning newsletter?
How do they get the rest of you on social media?
unidentified
Hot.
boris epshteyn
We may put out the one about Gavin Newsom tomorrow morning.
I haven't decided yet.
Go sign up right now.
BorisCP.com.
unidentified
Hot.
boris epshteyn
BorisCP.com.
Hot on Getter.
He's a boozer.
Hot on Getter at BorisCP.
On Twitter at BorisCP.
Hot on True Social at Boris.
Hottest on Instagram.
steve bannon
Boris on Twitter.
Drinking fog cutters.
Fog cutters and Irish coffees, you know, created in San Francisco.
boris epshteyn
Boris, thank you.
He's a boozer!
steve bannon
Thank you.
Ben Berquam, from the Ridiculous to the Sublime, the southern border, this is a tragedy beyond all others, this invasion.
You were there with the four guys, the four horsemen.
When is Abbott, you got a minute, what has Abbott got to do and what has Ben Berquam saying Abbott's got to do for the American people and the good folks in Texas?
ben bergquam
He's got to grow a pair.
I mean, you said it.
This is about Republicans having the spine.
They've been cowards.
I spoke to the landowners who run this pecan orchard.
They are sick of weak Republicans.
They don't even blame the Democrats.
The Democrats are the enemies.
It's the Republicans.
You've got to step up.
You've got to have the courage to do it.
You have to say, I'm not afraid of getting attacked.
We're going to do this because it's the right thing to do.
Be like President Trump.
That's what Abbott's got to do.
steve bannon
Ben, real quickly, how do people get to you on social media?
They've got to follow you all the time.
ben bergquam
America's Voice, you get me there, americasvoice.news, download the app, and then on social media, my website frontlineamerica.com and at benberkwam on everything.
steve bannon
Abraham Hamadei, a former Army Captain, Intelligence Officer and Prosecutor, has got the Republican nomination and Trump support for the Attorney Generalship of Arizona.
We're talking about what he would do.
He backs calling this an invasion.
We've got Dave Walsh on the global energy crisis and what needs to be done to correct it.
Frank Gaffney, the Chinese Communist Party is encircling the United States of America.
Nobody's on watch.
And of course, MI5 and the FBI had a joint press conference today.
First time in history to talk about the encroachment of the Chinese Communist Party in both the United Kingdom and the United States.
Short break.
We're back and we're on fire in the next hour in the War Room.
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