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Oct. 24, 2022 - Bannon's War Room
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Battleground EP 165: School Reading Levels Continue To Fall As They Blame COVID As The Reason
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steve bannon
This is what you're fighting for.
I mean, every day you're out there.
What they're doing is blowing people off.
If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the authoritarians, get total control and total power.
Because this is just like in Arizona.
This is just like in Georgia.
It's another element that backs them into a corner and shows their lies and misrepresentations.
This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged.
As we've told you, this is the fight.
unidentified
All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth.
jake tapper
War Room, Battleground.
unidentified
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
steve bannon
Okay, welcome very much.
I tell you what, it's Monday, 24 October, the year of our Lord 2022.
Do we have the Jake Tapper?
Do we have the Jake Tapper thing?
Let's play Jake Tapper.
We're going to bring in Tiffany Justice from Mom's Celebrity.
I want to play the Jake Tapper cold open first.
jake tapper
I have to say, I'm surprised that there hasn't been a national conversation about the damage done to kids because of these school closures and the virtual learning and everything.
Because, I mean, I'm not saying there should be a national do-over, but we can't just pretend that fifth graders who are now seventh graders That didn't happen.
Not with a blame game.
Look, it happened.
People did it.
It was criticized.
The school closures, the virtual learning, etc.
But here we are.
There needs to be a bipartisan movement.
steve bannon
I don't know if we need bipartisanship on this.
I think we need answers and accountability.
Let's bring in Tiffany Justice.
Tiffany, you saw the scores out today.
I want to go back because you got slammed again or your group got slammed again in USA Today.
I want to fold that into this, really what the results are of these horrific scores that came out today in math particularly.
But there's a lot of finger-pointing.
Walk us through, and this is kind of the The Raisin Detra for Moms for Liberty.
So walk us through the results of these assessments of where people stand, tests about how it's been a complete cratering.
And they're blaming it just on COVID-19, but my feeling is it goes much, much deeper than that.
Tiffany Justice.
tiffany justice
So we're talking about the NAEP scores, that's the National Assessment of Educational Progress that were released late last night.
And what we saw in grades four was a five point loss for students in math and three points in reading in fourth grade and eight points in grade eight for math and a drop of three points in reading for eighth grade.
So huge math losses.
It's interesting, I had asked someone once, why do we see more math losses than English losses?
And they said, well, children generally read when they're outside of school, but they don't do as much math when they're outside of school.
And so when you look at the results, it very clearly shows that schools that were open for in-person learning, those students did better than schools that were closed and there were only virtual learning.
And so, you know, to Jake Tapper, I'd say to him, yes, sir.
There are people that have been having a national conversation about this.
I talk to moms and dads every day.
We were started in January of 2021.
Tina and I both served as school board members.
We were concerned about the educational outcomes we were seeing then in 2016 to 2020.
Add in COVID, lockdowns for children in closed schools, and it's just a recipe for disaster.
And our children are the ones that, unfortunately, are reaping all of the harm.
steve bannon
But you've also argued, if you just look at the scores even going into it, the United States is not anywhere near the top of the, so I don't, they're using this as a misdirection play.
It's all about COVID.
These scores have collapsed and clearly they're worse, but there's a systemic problem right now in the public school system about where the money's going, what the focus is versus What it needs to be and must be for the students.
Walk us through that because I think this is now, they're all going to say, you need another trillion dollars.
You need stronger teachers unions.
They'll come to the, their national conversation is all about more money pumped in to the public education program just to be, you might as well take it out in a wheelbarrow and burn it outside.
What were the big problems before even they can start blaming COVID-19?
tiffany justice
Yeah, so if you don't listen to James Lindsay, anyone who knows, has heard of James Lindsay, if you haven't heard of him, go listen to his podcast on newdiscourses.com.
James just did a seminar, which he published there, about the marxification of education.
He says, where did the radicals from the 60s go?
Into the classrooms.
And so we have had this happening in American schools and higher ed institutions for 40 plus years.
teachers unions are the foot soldiers of the progressive far left.
And they do the bidding and the work of the progressive far left.
And to be honest, conservatives have ceded the ground of education almost completely, certainly in the past 20 years with a real focus on school choice.
We believe in school choice, but school choice hinges on an informed parent.
And what we have right now is a situation where there is not a lot of transparency or accountability for teaching or for learning that is happening in the classroom.
I was asked recently what one of my concerns was coming out of COVID.
It was the fact that we had virtual learning happening, I guess.
That's not real school, by the way.
You know, it does not work for every student.
For some students it did, but for the majority it did not.
It certainly didn't work for families and for parents.
And we didn't see any changes in graduation rates, Steve.
We saw kids being promoted on to grades.
We saw kids continuing to graduate.
And yet there was no accountability for any teaching or learning that had happened with regard to those students.
So you're right.
We are not in a good place as far as education is concerned in America.
And I was raised in the business world.
My father was a car dealer.
My husband and I own a business.
So in the world that I come from, If you have, like, real failure in the work that you're doing, let's say you made seatbelts and two-thirds of the seatbelts failed to keep people in their seats, you wouldn't stay in business very long, would you?
But yet, here we are, in America, where we have rampant educational failure, and the teachers' unions are saying, just give us more money.
And when we say, but wait, the reading scores are really not good, and the math scores are super concerning, and we want to know what's happening in the classrooms, they're not focusing on academics.
They're focusing on social-emotional learning, which is therapy, as education.
That's values education.
Stop and ask yourself, if values are being taught in American public schools, whose values are being taught through social-emotional learning?
The government's?
Is anybody okay with that, as a parent?
When we talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion and CRT, oh it's not being taught, oh it is being taught, oh it's being taught and it's wonderful.
Now in California we just had a teacher's college that said they will not send any teachers into a public school in California, public district, that has banned CRT because it's so necessary for their teachers to be able to practice it.
So, you know, these full circle moments we have where we're showing The hypocrisy of the teachers unions who really have been in control of public education for the past, you know, how many years.
And it has to stop.
And no business would you continue to be able to raise money and to ask for more money if you had systemic failure.
And we do.
Two-thirds of American kids weren't reading on grade level before COVID happened, and now it's only getting worse.
steve bannon
Let's have a couple of minutes on the national conversation.
If Jake Tapper or these people came to you and said, okay, we want you as part of the national conversation, what would the top couple of conversation topics be for the Moms for Liberty, ma'am?
tiffany justice
Transparency and accountability.
Part of parental rights.
So our mission is to unify, educate, and empower parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government.
In order to be able to do that, you need to be able to see what your children are learning.
And if there's anyone who doesn't want to show you what your kids are learning, that's probably a red flag that you wouldn't like it.
So, transparency.
We want transparency in education.
We want all teachers, we want there to be transparency in what children are being taught, whether that's the curriculum or supplemental materials that are being brought into the classroom.
Accountability.
We want real accountability here.
We want accountability for who's in charge, why they've been in charge this long, and if they have a record of failure, we want them removed.
We don't need to have teachers.
I spoke recently at a Board of Education meeting here in Florida.
There was a question asked, what should happen to teachers if they violate HB 5057, which was a Parental Rights and Education Bill?
And I got up and I spoke, I'll send you that video, and I said they should lose their teacher's license.
If you have teachers that are breaking the law in classrooms, they should lose their teaching license.
That's not a controversial thing to say.
I think parents shouldn't have to be worried that every time they send their child into the classroom, that the teaching in the classroom is going to be antithetical to the teaching in the home.
And finally, on the accountability piece, Kids are going to school.
They're spending a majority of their time there.
Parents want their children to be literate.
Not politically literate.
Not turned into little social justice warriors.
But functionally literate.
We want our children to receive practicable skills so that they can be successful in life.
That they can go on and be productive citizens who can have families and provide for themselves.
That's not the goal of public education today.
They want politically literate children.
And again, I go back to James, the Marxification of education, where you see that really our children's education and the education system has been stolen.
It's been captured.
And while American parents consider to think that, you know, we continue to think that we Are sending our kids to get an education, to be successful citizens and to be productive members of our society in school.
That's not what's happening.
These children are being taught to be at odds with everything around them and to reject all traditional values or conservative values, to reject their families.
And, you know, it is the building of the Red Guard in America.
And we need a parent revolution to stop this cultural revolution that has been started in our classrooms.
steve bannon
What you lay out is parental rights, the accountability and transparency.
Why is that getting to be so controversial by the progressive left, the teachers unions?
unidentified
Why?
steve bannon
You have PTAs.
You've always wanted parents involved.
You want citizens from the community to be on school boards.
It's part of your civic obligation as a citizen.
Why has this become, for the left, why is this so, you're a demon, this is the rise of fascism, what is it about parental rights that has, I've never seen a meltdown on a topic like this in my life.
Why is that?
tiffany justice
We're talking about a fundamental truth, right?
Parents have the fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children.
That means that the government doesn't give you that right and they can't take it away.
And what we saw over the past couple of years was the government very much wants to limit your rights and freedoms based on whatever they think is a compelling interest to do so.
Parents are not going to allow their parental rights to be usurped by the government.
And so parental rights being fundamental means these are natural rights, God-given rights that you have as a parent.
And no one can take that away.
And so this is this fundamental piece of being a human being.
Can you imagine if you had said to our founding fathers, oh, by the way, if you could just write something in to our founding documents, please, that says that parents have the right to direct the upbringing of their children, not the government or the state.
Can you imagine what their response would have been?
It's kind of what my response was when I was first running for school board and somebody said, you might want to think about this issue of boys going into the girls' room.
And I said, what?
That's ridiculous.
Why would I?
I didn't, you know, I wasn't on my radar.
I didn't think that was an issue.
Now is the time that we have to say the things out loud that are important to us and take a stand on these issues.
So the fact that parental rights, this idea of fundamental parental rights is being rejected by some members of political parties is just, I mean, I think it's crazy to be honest with you.
These are not partisan issues.
So to Jake Tapper's point, should this be a bipartisan conversation?
It shouldn't be a partisan conversation at all.
We should be able to agree to some fundamental things about what it means to be an American and to be a parent.
And now is the time for us to come together because there are groups of people, there are elites, who want to keep us divided in order to control us.
And, you know, our kids not learning how to read in school, not being able to think for themselves, us being removed from our children's lives in many ways.
I mean, you don't have to connect many dots to see that this takes us in a very bad direction as a country.
steve bannon
Tiffany, I know from reports on the ground, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, New York State now with five now congressional seats in play.
Sean Patrick Maloney, the head of the DNC, had to get a $600,000 fusion to save his seat.
He's the DNC's chair.
New Jersey, the veil, this ironclad bastion of the progressive left, which has been New England, has been pierced.
And everybody up there is telling me it's not just the inflation, the home heating oil.
One of the things that's bringing the moms and the parents out that Tier 4 would not be engaged or vote is parental rights.
This is actually the, under the surface, the thing that has got people most outraged, whether it's mask mandates, vaccine mandates, the issue of boys playing girls' sports.
Boys and girls bathrooms.
It's just a whole, it's the whole ball of wax, their parental rights.
USA Today has really made you the punching bag for their liberal coverage.
Tell us what's going on, the story in USA Today and what about the politics of this, particularly related to your PAC.
tiffany justice
So it's been very interesting.
You know, I think the far left has known for quite some time that it's important to keep control of school board seats.
And that was like a quiet secret that they had.
And now we have blown the lid off of it.
Tina and I, the co-founders of Moms for Liberty, served on school board from 2016 to 2020.
We know how important that role is of a school board member and local politics and the ability that you have to be able to create positive change in your community.
In that elected position.
I think it was the ACLU of Virginia that tweeted out something that stated like eight times over and over and over written, school board elections matter.
Yeah, they do.
They do matter.
And so we put a real focus on school board elections and it's the only races that we're endorsing in at this point right now across the country.
So we're supporting over 200 candidates across the country.
We have a political action committee, but we've partnered with others Who have been able to raise money in order to be able to fund these races.
So school board elections are incredibly important.
And I just say to your audience in general, you know, look to the candidates in your area that are running.
Ask them where they stand on fundamental parental rights.
There's a Moms4Liberty pledge.
You can go to moms4liberty.org backslash pledge.
Check that out.
Ask them to sign it.
We've had some great elected officials that have signed it.
And make that the litmus test.
Are you going to stand with parents to direct the upbringing of their children?
Go to Moms4Liberty.org.
You can donate to Moms4Liberty if you'd like to, to help to support chapters on the ground.
And again, school board races are important.
Find your local school board races.
Figure out who's on that ballot.
Find your local Moms4Liberty chapter and talk to them about how you can support those candidates.
They very much need the support.
And the teachers unions have known for a really long time that school board is where it's at.
It's how they control everything that's happening in the schools.
And so school board members make policy.
So again, important position.
What you can see happening right now is that teachers unions know they're losing control of the school board.
They know that we are in all of the races across the country, and we are working to get better candidates elected.
So you have people running, teachers' union candidates, now running in other races.
I think in Chicago, running for mayor, lieutenant governor in Florida is a union boss from Miami.
So they're concerned.
We have them on the run.
And I think it's only a matter of time before the media realizes that putting parents back in control of education in this country is going to mean better outcomes for kids.
And man, it's about time.
steve bannon
Tiffany, one more time, it's 200, you have 200 school board, you're supporting 200 school board members throughout the country that are running this November?
tiffany justice
Right now, we have, our chapters have endorsed over 200 school board candidates across the country.
And so November 8th is going to be a great day.
Go out and vote.
Your vote matters.
I know for a long time it has felt in this country like your vote doesn't matter or your voice shouldn't be heard.
But I think that our activity and our chapter's activity around the country is showing that your voice does matter.
That if you get up and speak and you address these issues in your community, there are a lot of people that think just like you about these issues, that are really concerned about kids and the direction of our country.
So be brave, stand up, speak up, and get out there and vote.
steve bannon
Tiffany, thank you very much for coming on and I look forward to reading more, many more USA Today hit pieces on human mobs for liberty.
It means you're over the target, so thank you very much for joining us.
tiffany justice
That's right.
We can take the hits.
We're building an army of parents, Steve, so I say bring it.
steve bannon
Absolutely.
I wouldn't think you would respond any other way.
Thank you, Tiffany.
That's a fighter.
I want to go to New York, by the way.
So Tiffany's giving you the map all over the country.
These school boards could not be more competitive.
The left is a complete meltdown every day on MSNBC and CNN, which we monitor here.
They're getting more and more outraged by this.
I want to go to New York, Madeline Brain, Chairman of the Victims' Rights Reform Committee.
She's a former Democrat.
Madeline, walk me through, tell me what the Victims' Rights Reform Committee is.
Because every time I look at New York City with Leticia James and Alvin Bragg and Eric Adams, I see where the criminals have their rights protected.
But every day I look, somebody else is getting pushed onto a subway.
You know, into a subway, off of a platform, people being attacked on the streets, minority communities are being terrorized by criminals.
So, is the law enforcement in New York City, and particularly the prosecutorial side, more focused on protecting victims or the criminal class?
unidentified
Hello, good afternoon.
Thanks for having me, Steve.
Well, absolutely.
They're more focused on the criminal than the victim.
The victims were never factored into this equation for these progressive restorative justice, criminal justice, bail reform, raise the age.
We were never factored in as, you know, mattering.
Victims are just collateral damage of a whole series of Insane policies that are sweeping through the entire state of New York and leaving victim after victim, body after body, mother after mother going down to the mall.
It's just absolutely horrendous.
steve bannon
Help me out here.
90 or 95% of the victims are working class minorities.
How can progressives and the liberal elite are supposed to be the protectors of, in the MAGA movement, supposed to be anti, how can you have a situation where 95% or more of the victims are working class, hardworking, patriotic, decent, minority working class people that are terrorized by this.
Why is the liberal elite, and the progressives particularly, why are they not protecting those people than the criminals?
I'm confused.
unidentified
Yes, it's very confusing.
I have speculation.
I really can't make heads or tails.
I really can't make heads or tails of why, you know, um, it's been allowed to happen.
Only that, in my opinion, um, my community has been sold out.
They sold us out.
They put these policies in place to make it appear like they were doing something to help, um, poor criminals.
And in the interim, It ended up victimizing law-abiding, everyday, tax-paying citizens in our communities.
steve bannon
Madeline, do me a favor.
You used to be a Democrat.
Walk me through your story.
Give us your journey.
unidentified
Yes.
Well, you know, I've been voting for 40, 41 years.
Always Democrat because that's what I was told that Black people were supposed to be, to vote Democrat.
I recently Change registration to conservative because my son was killed in 2018 in Harlem.
He's an Afghanistan war retired veteran.
Um, he was, uh, kick, punch, stomped and stabbed by four people.
He did not know, um, nor had he done any harm.
And when I found myself having to deal with the Manhattan district attorney's office and trying to get justice for my son, I realized that You know, this is not what I want.
These progressive policies, this restorative justice stuff, you know, somebody kills somebody, you take a life, you do life.
You know, there should be no provisions made for someone who is charged and indicted with first-degree gang assault and second-degree murder.
Especially when Alvin Bragg came into office Two of the people who were indicted and charged with the first degree gang assault and murder of my son, captured on video, he dropped the murder charges against two of the people.
And, um, charged one with assault with a shoe and sentenced her to one year time served.
And they sent, uh, another one of the male defendants, uh, they charged him with attempted gang assault and sentenced him to seven years.
Now, We have a trial starting on Thursday, this Thursday, of the two brothers, James and Christopher Saunders.
James is the actual stabber and Christopher is his brother.
I have no confidence.
I have no faith in this criminal justicism, especially Manhattan District Attorney's Office, because we have a district attorney who refuses to prosecute crime, even murder.
So that's one of the reasons why I change parties.
steve bannon
Tell us about your son's service in Afghanistan, his service in defense of his country, ma'am.
unidentified
Yes.
Hassan was a decorated sergeant.
He served two tours in Afghanistan.
He received and returned enemy fire.
He had two kills in the Taliban and Hassan hurt his back scaling a wall.
He fell off a wall in Kandahar, so he was able to retire early.
But Hassan was valiant in battle.
He served his country.
He protected Americans.
He deserves better than what he is getting from our criminal justice system.
steve bannon
Madeline, why did that lead you?
Tell me about the Victims' Rights Reform Committee.
Tell us what you're trying to accomplish.
unidentified
Well, Victims' Rights Reform Council was established because I was trying to, in the beginning years, because we're in four years on this case, right?
And I was trying to figure out what my rights are as a mother of a homicide victim.
Also, Hassan has three And I wanted to know what provisions were in place to protect us, what services were available, what services are provided in the New York State Victims' Bill of Rights.
And it's a very short list of, you know, provisions that are available that absolutely, that do absolutely nothing to really assist us in our, you know, our grief process, in our You know, recovering of anything that was lost.
So Victims Rights Reform Council was established, was birthed out of that.
And what we do is we advocate and lobby for stronger protections and rights that protect victims of homicide, homicide victims and their families, and also accidental overdose.
steve bannon
Madeline, if you could hang on for one second, we're going to take a short commercial break.
When we return, we've got Madeline Brain from New York, an incredibly moving story, a powerful story, and a woman who is not going to let the memory of her heroic veteran son die.
unidentified
We'll return in a moment in The War Room.
steve bannon
Okay, we are with Madeline Brain, Chairman of the Victims' Rights Reform Council.
Madeline, there's an election coming up in a couple of weeks.
Tell us about that.
Tell us what, because we have a massive audience, particularly in New York State.
You've just recently changed your registration.
How important is this midterm election?
It's an election of the Governor, the Attorney General.
It's not the mayor's election, although the new attorney general, if so wanted to, could remove Alvin Bragg.
How important is this election on November 8th for the people, and not just in the state of New York, but in New York City?
unidentified
Well, this election is imperative.
If we never voted before, now is the time to get out there and vote on November 8th.
I changed to the Conservative Party because it aligns with my values, the ones that I was raised with.
God, family, and country.
Also, the candidates that are up for election.
Lee Zeldin.
He's a patriot.
He's a hero.
He's a stand-up guy.
He has integrity.
He has courage.
And he's really sincere in what he's saying.
Michael Henry.
For Attorney General.
He would make a far better Attorney General than Letitia James.
Joseph Pinion.
For Senator.
It's time for Chuck Schumer to retire.
He's been in there for too long.
Joe Pinion is smart.
He's young.
He's savvy.
And his message resonates with my community.
And so does Lee Zeldin.
His message resonates.
So I want to encourage everybody out there who's listening.
steve bannon
Madeline, I'm confused.
Hang on.
I'm totally confused now.
MSNBC tells me all day long and then the evening with Joanne Reed and Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes on and on that you're a woman of color and that Leticia James represents your interest because she's also a woman of color.
Am I not hearing MSNBC correctly or are you confused?
unidentified
MSNBC is lying.
Okay.
Um, Letitia James, me as a black woman, Letitia James does not, you know, uh, represent me.
All right.
Um, she's encouraging too many of our young black women to be proud and hold their head up when they go into an abortion clinic to have an abortion.
Right.
Over 20 million black babies have been destroyed through abortion.
That's genocide.
in our community and she is promoting that and encouraging it.
Most of us want that to end.
We do not want Planned Parenthood in our communities.
You want to put something in our communities?
Fix the schools.
Fix the housing.
Put real educational vocational trade.
You want to help our children avoid incarceration?
Put some things there that's actually going to divert them.
From going to the street.
Go within the four walls of the home.
Find out what's going on in their home.
Because that behavior is learned.
It's learned inside of the home.
Anytime my tax dollars pays to support these children, and they're not being cared for properly, I have a problem with that.
Because they're the ones who are suffering the most.
We need to give them tough love, not just coddling, not just feeling sorry for them and labeling them with mental illness.
We need to give them tough love.
And if anybody who knows what that means, that means that you gotta be hard on them.
When they get in trouble, make sure they pay the first time so they can learn a lesson.
Forget all this arresting them and letting them go and over and over and over, and then don't lock them up until they kill somebody.
You're making career criminals out of a whole nother generation.
And Letitia James is promoting a whole nother generation of genocide through abortion in our community.
So that's how I feel about Letitia James.
steve bannon
Madeline, how can people find out more about you on social media, your website, and how they find out more about the Victims' Rights Reform Council, and if they want to support it, where do they go?
unidentified
Okay, you can go to www.victimsrightsreformcouncil.org, and if you would like to donate, we definitely need support in helping us to take trips to Albany and different states, because we advocate all All right, we also have different initiatives that we do.
We have battle book services where other mothers of homicide victims, we like to send someone in court with them so they don't have to sit by themselves.
Like I have been sitting by myself for four years.
So I know the feeling of being alone and feeling abandoned and have to deal with that.
So there's certain, there's some things that we would like to initiate But we need the support.
So please go to our website at VictimsRightsReformCouncil.org and donate.
I can be found on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter.
My name, Madeline Brain.
steve bannon
Madeline, thank you very much for joining us.
You're a patriot and I think your son would be incredibly proud of the fight you've had, not just for his memory, but for the memory of all victims.
Thank you.
unidentified
Amen.
Amen.
Thank you.
steve bannon
I'm going to go to Lauren Davis now from New York City.
We're going to go to Texas, Lauren Davis.
Lauren, you're running for a judge down in Texas.
Tell me about what you just heard from Madeline Brain in New York City, ma'am.
unidentified
Yes.
I mean, it's no surprise having the same kind of wave of Democrat turning Republican for all the reasons she mentioned here in Dallas.
Dallas proper can be a very blue, liberal, Um, city, but I'm, I'm also running for a county race, but county-wide I have, I hate to admit it, but I have Davis yard signs showing up in Beto yards.
People are starting to, to split their ticket.
I've talked to Democrats there say, um, you're the very first Republican I'm ever going to vote for.
I had more money in my pocket under Trump.
I mean, it's just a very real wave that's sweeping the, Um, the country and I'm glad to see Republicans be the one to pick up the working class because it, um, you know, the people of America matter.
The middle of America matters.
steve bannon
Dallas is such a diverse place, but walk us through it.
Is it crime?
Is it the schools?
Is it inflation?
When you talk to people, because these are all grassroots campaigns when you're running it at your level, what are folks telling you?
What is top of mind, regardless of their political affiliation, what are folks telling you?
Because you don't get better than Texans, right?
You don't get tougher than Texans.
What are Texans telling you?
unidentified
It's economy, the prices, gas, everything's out of control.
Crime is out of control.
We have a Soros funded DA currently.
We had two healthcare workers shot at a Methodist hospital recently by a man who was released on parole with an ankle bracelet.
So crime is out of control, broad daylight this happened.
Our communities are being rocked by crime and the first ones to experience it are the minority communities.
It's a reality and people are sick and tired of it.
The Dallas ISD school system is something we fought.
Personally, my kids were all in public school up until last year.
I've talked to a Democrat activist here who came into my campaign headquarters where I am now and said, we're not going to agree on anything, but I hate your opponent, Clay Jenkins.
And I said, well, sit down, let's talk.
And we ended up Leaving, agreeing on everything.
He, one of his biggest issues was Dallas ISD covering up cheese heroin overdoses of children and parents were suffering, wanting help.
And the school board covers it up.
The school board, you know, forced masks on my children.
And we had that fight last year, but my fight is the same fight as many, many parents.
And luckily we had enough resources to make Private school, a reality.
It's not easy, but it's a reality.
And there's a lot of people who don't have the extra funds to pay $20,000 a year for private school to avoid the public school system.
And here in Dallas, it's 150,000 students.
It's enormous school system.
And the school board do not care.
I've been down there, fought them, named the school board trustees by name, and they could care less.
In fact, at one point in my fight against the medical mandates, One school board member, Dustin Marshall, had the audacity to instruct the superintendent to block my family's emails through the IT department.
So the IT cut off our access to the school board.
steve bannon
I think a lot of people are shocked when they see that Dallas actually has a very liberal political establishment.
Here's what I'll get, and this is coming off of Madeline Brain from New York.
The recipients of the bad education, the terrible education, the terrible health care, the crime, the economic crime, is the minority community.
What do these political elites, who are all progressive left Democrats, what do they think they're accomplishing, right?
The schools are getting worse, the crime is more out of control, you know, just on every topic it's worse and worse and worse, and the people that are suffering that, You know, I used to be friends with some of them, and when I took my stand, I realized that they hated people like me.
unidentified
Everyday people who just believe in Christ and want to go to school and expect their kids to learn ABCs.
And so I think some of them, in their mind, Believe that they're doing a great job, but I think what I've discovered in this process of running for office for the first time and going through this battle in the school is that these people truly believe in the equity argument.
They are lacking Christ in their life.
So they believe as a man or a woman here on earth that they can manipulate and control people's outcomes.
And that's what they are doing to our kids.
They're all focused on their data and the outcomes, and you cannot.
Control someone's ultimate destiny and outcome.
All you can control are the inputs you put in.
And these people just have it backwards and they believe they're playing God with people's lives.
They believe that they are that powerful.
I think that's where the elite portion of it comes in saying, like, for example, here in Dallas, there's a lot of people who are like, oh, Dallas ISD is great.
They're doing so many things for the kids and the community.
They have all the CRT, the transgender.
I mean, everything that's going across the country is here in Dallas ISD.
And they say, Oh, no, that's so great.
But none of them put their kids in the school.
They don't go there and they don't go there for a reason because they, they do not punish kids for misbehavior.
So my son was in a public high school last year for half a year, fights in the hallway every day, drugs in the bathroom.
He had a teacher who actively encourages them to not stand for the pledge.
They're pledging allegiance basically to their mask mandates and they have nothing Christ-centered.
It's just completely filled with this, this social agenda and it's causing kids to, to suffer.
They're confused.
They don't feel welcomed in their school.
I mean, heaven forbid you say Christ and you're ridiculed to no end.
So I think these people, Believe they're doing the right thing.
They're just on such a wrong path.
steve bannon
Lauren, tell people how can they get to your site to find out more about your campaign?
We want to use you as an example.
There are tens of thousands of Lauren Davieses out there that are running for school boards, running for judgeships, running for town commissions.
This is about engagement.
You took a heroic step to do it.
So how can people get to your website?
How can they find out more about you if they're so inclined to support you?
unidentified
Yes, yes, we need all the support we can get.
My website is davis4dallas.com.
So davis4dallas.com.
And yes, parents like myself who have no political experience are stepping up.
Our government was meant to be run by everyday citizens of their communities, and that's what we represent.
So davis4dallas.com.
steve bannon
Lauren, you're a true hero, particularly taking all the grief I know that you're taking in your race.
So, we've got your back.
Thank you very much for coming on.
unidentified
Thanks.
Thanks for having me.
steve bannon
These people are so incredible.
Just incredible.
Let me bring in Dr. Paul Alexander, a long-term Time contributor.
He's got a new book out.
Dr. Alexander, When I talk to people throughout the country, we call it the three I now, this morning on the show.
You've got inflation, you have immigration, and now you've got injections.
Particularly the CDC unanimous vote the other day had people furious.
And we just had Lauren on, there was a huge fight in Dallas.
It got her to run for a judgeship.
We had Tiffany Justice on at the beginning of the show.
People are fired up.
Walk me through, people want to know your opinion.
What is your Thoughts on what happened Thursday with the CDC, sir?
dr paul alexander
Well, first of all, Steve, you know, I think you deserve the praise.
You are one of the real patriots out there.
I wanted to say that up front.
You compliment everyone.
You deserve that praise.
Now, here's what I'm saying.
There's no clinical data.
There's no medical justification for a zero-risk child.
McCary and their Johns Hopkins studied this and they found across America and parents must listen to what I'm saying next.
We have found not one healthy child, not one healthy child got infected with COVID and has died.
And that is the data.
So what the ACIP, what the CDC did was they rubber stamped the FDA with this vaccine, this gene injection for these children who have statistical zero risk.
The vaccine has failed.
It does not protect the upper airways.
We know that.
Everyone is getting reinfected.
You're going to have to get a boost every day at the rate they're going.
And the vaccine skews to harms with pericarditis, myocarditis.
So parents on a risk management decision could only come to the conclusion that they don't need this.
And you need to stand up and say no.
This is the hill that parents must, must be willing to defend because Fauci, Dr. Francis Collins, Birx, Walensky, no one up to this moment I'm speaking, has prosecuted the case as to why a healthy child in America deserves these COVID-19 injections.
None.
Your healthy child, their innate immune system.
And the problem is, CDC knows what I'm saying.
Children have an innate immune system, their first line of defense that protects them beautifully.
Leave children alone.
These gene injections will damage the innate immune system and render children vulnerable, particularly to autoimmune disease.
Many children will die.
Steve, I want to say it one more time.
Not if.
Many children who get these shots Will die.
We have seen adults die.
Parents need to take a stand.
steve bannon
Dr. Alexander, we only got a couple minutes, but I gotta ask you, why was it 15 to nothing?
These people are all credentialized, they all come from the finest universities in the nation.
Why was there no dissent?
Why was there no, somebody said, just vote Napsin, I can't do it.
Why was there no, even in the debate, why were credentialized people, why did they not just cave, but actively supported this move, sir?
dr paul alexander
Well, first to answer your questions, I just want to say some praise to Madeleine Braid who spoke earlier and I will take her back all the way to the Great Society under Lyndon Baines Johnson that began the damage of the African American community in America.
That's something that people need to be aware of.
Anyway, the key here, Steve, is look, you worked in the administration also.
I had the fortune to be in Washington and the misfortune because it was the worst period of my life, but I can tell you, a lot of these public servants in these alphabet agencies, they're scared.
They're scared for their own safety.
They're scared for their jobs, their careers.
They know, many of them, I had conversations with those who support on the Democrat side, on the Republican side.
They know that what we've been saying, McCullough, Malone, Dr. Naomi Wolf, what we've been saying is correct.
But they're scared.
They know they will be out of a job.
Their careers will be mothballed.
Their grants, everything will be over.
So they're just going along because they have no data.
Steve, there is no data anywhere.
I'm saying it and people might say, well, that's a really bold statement.
When we study the data every day, me, Dr. Rish, we look at the data line by line.
There is no data to support this.
This is outrageous.
It's almost as though they have vaccines to sell.
Children do not need these.
Completely.
And I think there's potentially more nefarious means and strategies at play here.
I know we don't have time.
steve bannon
Well, yeah, we'll get into that more.
I want to get to cover the book up because you just said outrageous and furious.
The book, Presidential Takedown.
I guarantee you in the audience, if you get this book and read it, you will be burning white hot mad.
I got a minute to describe, Dr. Alexander, why people should get this book.
What story do you tell?
dr paul alexander
Well, look, Steve, Tony Lyons from Skyhorse who wrote, they wrote Fauci's, Robert Kennedy's book, The Reliant in Fauci.
I decided to go with them and Ken Hecken-Lively.
Look, from my stay there, I can tell you it from on the inside point of view.
I was at the HHS and from everything I saw, I can say this, that from day one, for the period I was there, during this pandemic response, it was a concerted effort across the United States government, CDC, NIH, NIAID, They worked against President Trump.
And the thing is, they would explain, people, I think it's because I came from the islands, I'm a very personable, I like to talk, and people felt comfortable.
But they would tell me, you know, Dr. Alexander, we are working against President Trump.
And he doesn't even understand that we will make his administration unmanageable and ungovernable.
We will try.
And they did it.
steve bannon
Dr. Alexander, we'll have you back on.
The book is Presidential Takedown.
Make sure you get it.
Skyhorse.
You can get it on Amazon right now.
We will see you on fire tomorrow morning at 10 a.m.
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