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And I do rise in opposition to the legislation that was just sent to the United States House of Representatives from the United States Senate. | ||
I just spent a good deal of time going around the country, traveling to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina. | ||
You might imagine why. | ||
Spoke to thousands of Americans. | ||
Not one of them, not one American said, please, Congressman Roy, add more money to the debt. | ||
Please, Congressman Roy, keep spending money we don't have. | ||
Keep spending deficit spending every year bankrupting our kids and grandkids. | ||
But that is precisely what we're doing yet again. | ||
Kicking the can down the road. | ||
That's what we do. | ||
It's what we do best in this chamber. | ||
It's what we do best in Congress. | ||
It is why the American people are so frustrated with this town. | ||
With the swamp. | ||
Because it is a swamp that is entirely not drained. | ||
We are sitting here doing the same thing again. | ||
It is Groundhog Day in the House Chamber all the time. | ||
Every day. | ||
Yet again, spending money we don't have. | ||
Last year, an agreement was reached with spending levels and caps. | ||
Now, I didn't particularly love those levels of caps. | ||
A number of us didn't. | ||
And there were supposedly some side deals. | ||
Does that sound swampy? | ||
Side deals. | ||
But what was written into the law? | ||
What was written into the law was a level that was somewhere around a 1% reduction over last year's enormously bloated omnibus spending level. | ||
A 1% cut. | ||
So can this body possibly adhere to those caps? | ||
No. | ||
No, we can't do that. | ||
Last year, we tried to fix this place. | ||
We tried to do appropriations bills. | ||
We passed 10 appropriations bills out of the committee, 7 appropriations bills off the floor. | ||
We tried to restore regular order. | ||
We had about 1,100 amendments. | ||
We tried to process those so the American people could see their chamber working again. | ||
But what happened? | ||
Everything reverts back to the mean in this town. | ||
The same old story. | ||
Because a side deal is cut. | ||
We have to spend at a higher level, you see. | ||
And that's what's going on back and forth between the Senate and the House. | ||
So for the American people, they need to understand what's happening. | ||
This continuing resolution will fund your government at the same level as last year's massive omnibus spending bill. | ||
That all my Republican colleagues, all of them with the exception of two in this chamber, were adamantly opposed to, voted against, spoke out against, put press releases out against, campaigned against, and they're going to vote for it. | ||
Right now. | ||
They're going to vote to continue to spend at that level. | ||
Not only that, they're going to vote to continue to fund the radical progressive policies embedded in it. | ||
Continue to fund the bureaucracy that's a war of the American people. | ||
Continue to fund open borders. | ||
Continue to fund Alejandro Mayorkas, even as we attempt to impeach him in the Homeland Security Committee. | ||
We're going to fund him. | ||
We're going to fund those open borders. | ||
We're going to fund the United Nations. | ||
We're going to fund the World Health Organization. | ||
We're going to fund UNRWA to give money to the Palestinians that gets to Hamas. | ||
And we're going to go campaign against those things, but we're going to fund them. | ||
And my Democratic colleagues want to hide behind side deals rather than adhere to the agreed-upon caps that would at least modestly reduce spending by 1%. | ||
That's what's happening in this chamber. | ||
And we're going to do this CR in order to buy time to cut a deal that will increase spending. | ||
That will increase spending past the caps in order to honor side deals and to actually increase the funding for a federal government that is at war with the people that I represent. | ||
That is shameful. | ||
Under no circumstances should we vote for that. | ||
Under no circumstances is this something that we should be supporting. | ||
We should stay here and do our work. | ||
But instead, people said, why can't you give the time back, Congressman Royce, so we can go catch our planes before the snowstorm gets in? | ||
I'm sorry. | ||
I think maybe we should stay here and do our job and actually find a way to cut spending like we campaign on over and over again. | ||
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. | |
President Trump got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
It's going to happen. | ||
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
MAGA Media. | ||
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved! | ||
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War Room. | |
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm. | ||
Thursday, 18 January, Year of the Lord 2024, late afternoon, early edition of the War Room. | ||
Thank you for joining us. | ||
100, looks like 108 Republicans out of, what is it now, 222 voted against the continuing resolution. | ||
You just heard Chip Roy with a great summary. | ||
Five minutes. | ||
We're going to have other voices. | ||
Warren Davidson, Bob Good, Chip Roy again. | ||
Of course, Eli Crane. | ||
We'll play him throughout the hour. | ||
I kid you not, they wanted Chip Roy to give up. | ||
It was limited to 20 minutes debate. | ||
It wasn't even a debate. | ||
20 minutes of statements. | ||
They wanted Chip Roy to, and the opposite side, even Granger, the opposite side, the Republicans, I think it was 112 Republicans, 112-108, I think my math is correct, voted for it. | ||
We'll get it up as soon as Grace has it, we'll put it up into the chat room so you can spread it out. | ||
See if your congressman's there. | ||
They played the games today, earlier, that you couldn't get through to anybody. | ||
They blocked the main switchboard and gave you Muzak instead. | ||
So Bill Blaster, That Grace and the team came up with. | ||
If you download that app, you'll get all the numbers. | ||
You can go direct. | ||
They structured it so, this is why it was so early in the afternoon, and they wanted Chip to not even speak. | ||
Take us 20 minutes. | ||
Let's go. | ||
It's going to get done. | ||
Just do it. | ||
Because they want to get to the airport to get their planes out because another, I don't know, a couple inches is going to hit D.C. | ||
this evening and tomorrow. | ||
And they've got to get home for their three-day weekend, four-day weekend now. | ||
You can't make this up. | ||
Philip Patrick, I've asked you to join us from Birch Gold. | ||
Rome is burning. | ||
You had all the leverage. | ||
We'll play good. | ||
All these guys sat there. | ||
Chip Roy, Bob Good, Warren Davidson, Eli Crane. | ||
We got all the leverage. | ||
These are Pelosi's numbers. | ||
You guys, every Republican that's in the House, ran against the Pelosi omnibus bill. | ||
The McConnell, Pelosi, Amnesty, they all ran against it. | ||
They all ran against the weaponized. | ||
They ran against everything in this. | ||
And they had the gall, when they had the ability to stop it right now, they had the gall to continue to... Are these people serious, Philip? | ||
And do they understand the scale of the problem that's collapsing around us? | ||
I mean, they just cannot, right? | ||
They just cannot understand it. | ||
Otherwise, how do you vote to do it? | ||
It's obscene. | ||
By the way, I thought Chip Roy did an incredible job. | ||
I think it was very well put. | ||
Obviously, too little too late. | ||
I mean the situation is dire at the moment and by the way we had to listen to Janet Yellen yesterday telling us how Biden had saved us from a 1930s style Great Depression and you know it was all because of government spending but it's obscene right but clearly Clearly these guys don't have a clue what they're doing. | ||
Let's consider a few things, right? | ||
You know, when Biden took office, the nation had $28 trillion in debt. | ||
Today it's 34 trillion. | ||
That's a 21% increase. | ||
That's before we even talk about the 2024 budget. | ||
That's gonna add at least another $2 trillion to the debt and compound the problem even more. | ||
But $6 trillion alone since Biden's been in office, that is an unimaginable amount of money. | ||
Unimaginable. | ||
For some context on that, because I think people need some context, that's one and a half times Japan's total debt. | ||
Adjusted for inflation, it's 20% more than we spent fighting World War II, and more than two Germany's worth of debt in three years. | ||
Right. | ||
It doesn't get much bigger than that. | ||
And their solution is to try and spend their way out of trouble. | ||
In fact, when Yellen spoke yesterday, she said something quite telling. | ||
She said that Biden believed heading into the pandemic, we were talking about pandemic spending, that the most dangerous risk was going in too small with government spending. | ||
I mean, it's just absurd. | ||
So either there's something nefarious happening behind the scenes or, to answer your question, they do not understand the implications of these policies. | ||
It's one or the other, Steve. | ||
You know, the Chinese stock market's in meltdown. | ||
They've had to put stops in. | ||
The Dow Jones and others bounced back today, but the morning headline in the Financial Times is that, you know, you have a global market selloff. | ||
You've got turmoil again in the bond market. | ||
People are starting to ask the hard questions. | ||
You've had this fiscal irresponsibility and monetary irresponsibility. | ||
And you see today, we have every opportunity. | ||
This is why you're not going to have many chances to do that. | ||
You have every opportunity to say, full stop. | ||
We need to get to the table and negotiate, and we've got some leverage, so we're going to force you to the table. | ||
And they punted down the road, oh, it's just a March. | ||
We're going to get these other bills. | ||
It's a total lie. | ||
And remember, not one iota of security on the border. | ||
So when you talk to your congressman in the next couple of days, or they all get out of town, when you talk to him, say, dude, you voted for this thing, and it didn't have, it didn't, it didn't even address the border shutdown. | ||
Philip Patrick. | ||
Look, it's absurd. | ||
What I thought was very telling was listening to Javier Millet. | ||
He spoke at Davos and basically warned the Western world about spending itself into socialism. | ||
You know, he stated that, and I'm quoting directly, the socialist agenda will only bring misery to the world. | ||
And he said, do believe me, no one is better placed than us in Argentina to testify to these two points. Look, I never thought I'd see the day that a president of Argentina would give fiscal advice to the US, but on this occasion, I really hope Biden and his cronies are listening. Look, a hundred years ago, Argentina was one of the 10th wealthiest nations in the world, right? Just a handful of years of misguided money printing and government spending | ||
set the nation on a disastrous course to where it sits today, right? | ||
Do we really need to see inflation hitting 200% here in the US before we change course? | ||
And something, and we've talked about this before, what Millet is saying, he's not offering any new insights, he's talking about history over and over again. | ||
Nations have taken the same disastrous course of trying to spread themselves into prosperity, and every single effort has always ended in the same way, with complete collapse of currency, and often the nation itself. | ||
We've been here time and time again. | ||
The fact that these guys are just willingly going down the path is absurd. | ||
And it brings me back to what I mentioned before. | ||
It's one of two things. | ||
It's either nefarious or they just don't have a clue what they're doing. | ||
But they're both as dangerous as each other. | ||
Headline the Wall Street Journal House passes bill keeping government open as border spending fights rage There was a collective group with Johnson there at the end And there was a lot of like heated conversation as the as part of the 108 that vote against this and people should understand people are furious over there Unless the fiscally Irresponsible and that's what they are Come aboard to the Bob Goods and the Chip Roy's and others. | ||
There's going to be, you talk about re-establishment and MAGA, there's going to be a bigger split here. | ||
Because these guys that don't get it are going to drive this party into oblivion. | ||
We're in charge now. | ||
And Biden and all these guys are going to blame the Republicans in the House. | ||
Philip, where do people go to get you at Birchgold? | ||
I want you to hang on. | ||
I'm bringing Seb Gorka in here and some geopolitics for a second. | ||
I want to come back to you at the bottom of the hour. | ||
Where do people go, though, in the interim on Birchgold? | ||
Birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
How do they get to you? | ||
Very simple. | ||
So for information on precious metals, birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
To reach me directly, it's at Philip Patrick on Getter. | ||
Again, at Philip Patrick on Getter. | ||
By the way, more than ever, I would definitely talk to Philip Patrick and the team about precious metals, and particularly being a hedge for times of turbulence, because we're going in very turbulent times. | ||
There's going to be a fight every day on this, and I can tell you, some of the 108 that voted against us have had it. | ||
They've had it with their colleagues. | ||
They've had it with their colleagues running on one thing. | ||
Remember, every person in the Republican House is sitting there. | ||
They ran against the omnibus. | ||
They ran against the Nancy Pelosi level spending. | ||
They ran against the woke and weaponized. | ||
They ran against the open border. | ||
And what they just did today is kick the can down the road. | ||
They kicked the can down the road for another month. | ||
And there's going to be another month and then you're going to get an omnibus at the end of this. | ||
So short commercial break. | ||
We're going to return. | ||
We got Seb Gorka, Philip Patrick. | ||
I think we got Mike Davis. | ||
Ken Paxson is going to join us. | ||
The federal government in the state of Texas are in a standoff down in Texas about the southern border. | ||
As these issues, you can't turn away. | ||
And now we've got enough people like the Ken Paxsons of the world that are going to fight back. | ||
It's just not going to be rolled. | ||
Short commercial break. | ||
Back in the war room. | ||
On a day when Speaker Johnson, is he still Speaker? | ||
Is a motion to vacate the chair yet? | ||
The Hill reports that Chip Roy and MTG are looking into it. | ||
More on that in a moment. | ||
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The more things change, the more things stay the same. | |
Fourteen months ago, we asked the American people to give us the majority. | ||
They entrusted us with the majority, running primarily on fiscal responsibility and securing the border. | ||
Thirteen months ago, we roundly condemned the omnibus, the $1.6 trillion dollar omnibus that was put in place, the Christmas omnibus, thirteen months ago, And yet we're operating today and now extending the very Biden-Pelosi-Schumer policies that are bankrupting the country, destroying the country, and under which the American people are suffering today. | ||
Suffering, you ask? | ||
Yes, suffering under record 40-year high inflation, 20-year high interest rates, the average American family paying about $1,000 a month for the same essentials that they were paying $1,000 more a month than they were paying when this president was first elected three years ago. | ||
We've got a $200 billion monthly deficit. | ||
$2.5 trillion a year. | ||
As has already been said, we're $34 trillion in national debt. | ||
We'll be $36 trillion by the time we get to this next election. | ||
And we have the majority in one half of the legislative branch. | ||
When will that begin to account for something? | ||
When will that begin to matter for something? | ||
When you have the majority in one branch, or one house of one branch, shouldn't you get half of what your policy priorities are? | ||
Shouldn't you get half of your spending objectives? | ||
And yet, what we seem to do over and over, we decide what the Senate will take, what the President will sign, and that's what we send to the other body. | ||
That's what we send. | ||
When we have the majority here in this very house, when is that going to matter? | ||
What are we prepared to do? | ||
And what are the red lines that are we willing to draw? | ||
And what are we not willing to do just to keep government open? | ||
To say that we're getting things done. | ||
To say that we're working together. | ||
To say that we're showing that we can govern. | ||
And yet we're not even willing to risk a temporary pause And that 15% of the non-essential part of the government, in order to try to force change here in Washington. | ||
No, we're going to continue the status quo. | ||
And here we are once again, we did this in May with the Failed Responsibility Act, we did it with the continuing resolution in September, we did it with the continuing resolution in November, we did it with the NDAA, we did it with the FISA extension without reforms, and here we are today, We're going to pass another major piece of legislation, predominantly with Democrat votes, minority votes, when we have the House majority. | ||
This is a loser for the American people. | ||
It's a loser for the country. | ||
And just yesterday, we've said, we've said how many times have we... Okay, for now, keep it rolling until I call it. | ||
Right there, Bob Good. | ||
I mean, it's disgusting. | ||
Johnson did this, the two-thirds, he had to suspend the rules. | ||
He's done everything McCarthy's done. | ||
To me, he's gotta go. | ||
He's finished. | ||
He's proven his weakness. | ||
Not one iota. | ||
of change on the southern border. | ||
You funded, you agreed to fund, here's the thing that galls me. | ||
You ran, you guys ran against and took money from this audience and had them work and knock on doors and walk precincts and you lied. | ||
You ran on getting rid of the Pelosi spending, on the woke and weaponized, securing the southern border, all of it. | ||
And all of it's in this bill. | ||
I said, well, Steve, it's only for four more weeks. | ||
No, no, no, no, no. | ||
We're five or six months into this thing now. | ||
You had all the leverage, you're going to force Biden to the table and not take in a snow day. | ||
It's disgusting you people are leaving town. | ||
Seb Gorka, I was going to have you on here about the expanding war. | ||
You've got Pakistan and the Persians unloading on each other. | ||
That Middle East war that you had looked at as a counter-terrorism experts actually getting into a kinetic conflict of old-fashioned, slug it out, World War I type. | ||
But this is more important right now. | ||
Talk about the collapse and the surrender of the house today under the Biblical worldview. | ||
If we get more Biblical worldview out of Langford, who I think ran Christian camps, his full-time job, and Johnson, I mean this, you're gonna have mass conversions of young men to Islam. | ||
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If this is what the Christians do, let me try this one. | |
Hi Steve, let's just read just two of the elements of this putative deal between Lankford and the White House. | ||
Just two elements. | ||
By the way, first things first, have you actually had a guest on your show before me who said nice things about Chip Roy? | ||
I mean, just sling the hook on that guy. | ||
Chip Roy, Mr. DeSantis, oh come on. | ||
Okay, two elements. | ||
God, don't go there. | ||
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Hold on, hold on. | |
Bob Good, too. | ||
Listen, hang on, hang on. | ||
They endorsed the sanctimonious. | ||
I'm not a fan of that. | ||
But, hey, you've got to fight with the army you've got. | ||
There's not two better guys on cutting spending. | ||
And when you need cutting spending, Chip Roy's doing the best. | ||
If you believe them. | ||
If you believe them. | ||
You need to be more cynical, Steve. | ||
All right. | ||
Two things, okay? | ||
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So, number one, Okay, hold on. | |
I had to negotiate. | ||
No, hang on, hang on. | ||
Don't go there with Liz. | ||
I want to shut down Steve Bannon on Steve Bannon's show, alright? | ||
I want to shut down Steve Bannon on Steve Bannon's show. | ||
Okay, two things. | ||
Just two items from this so-called deal. | ||
Number one, immediate work permits for every illegal alien released from custody. | ||
That's part of the Lancashire Bill. | ||
Immediate work permits for every illegal release from custody. | ||
Number two. | ||
It's only six to eight million people. | ||
Well, I had Stephen Miller on the show today for an hour, and I asked Stephen Miller, so how many people is it really? | ||
Because we've had this 12 million figure for about 40 years now from one Harvard study. | ||
And Stephen said, yeah, I've done the math. | ||
It's 40 million illegals. | ||
40 million illegals. | ||
And then here's the second part of the Langford Agreement. | ||
5,000 illegal migrants to be allowed into America every day. | ||
That's part of the agreement, Steve. | ||
It's part of the agreement. | ||
That's what the Republicans are negotiating. | ||
Yes, it's outrageous. | ||
But this, by the way, that comes, that gets dropped, that's going to get dropped tomorrow night, and the Senate's going to vote on it on Monday. | ||
You're going to have the weekend to read a 9,000 page amnesty bill. | ||
But, Seb, we had the chance today To lock it all down and force Biden to the table. | ||
You had a chance to take that, take Lanford's bill, throw it off the table, take Ukraine, throw it off the table, because we had the chance to shut down the government as it is now and make Biden come on bended knee to negotiate. | ||
And Johnson and over a hundred Republicans voted with the, not just the Democrats, they needed all the Democrats to get two-thirds to even go around the rules. | ||
This is another McCarthy move. | ||
Your thoughts, sir? | ||
Yeah, so look, you've had a very renaissance career from the Navy to Harvard to Goldman Sachs to being a very successful investor on your own, Breitbart, and then Chief Strategist to the President. | ||
So you know a thing or two about negotiations. | ||
And negotiations are about 51% context, right? | ||
You've got to have the battle space understood first. | ||
You've got to have an estimate of the situation. | ||
And that shapes your left and right bumpers on what you can achieve. | ||
When you have Democrats, Democrats, leading Democrats in the last 24 hours, use the phrase there is a crisis at the border because of this administration. | ||
Steve, you walk into that negotiation and you say, OK, you want anything from us? | ||
First, you shut down the border. | ||
When your own party has voices in it that are saying, this is a crisis. | ||
When the mayor of New York is talking about, quote, the immigration crisis will destroy New York. | ||
When the governor of Massachusetts in a straight face is saying, hey, my liberal white friends, will you host some illegal immigrants in your homes? | ||
When you're in that situation, you put whatever you want on the table. | ||
You put Hunter Biden will be in leg shackles, okay? | ||
That's the first part of our negotiation. | ||
But instead, 5,000 illegals a day. | ||
Let's go back in time. | ||
Jed Johnson. | ||
Remember Jed Johnson? | ||
The former Democrat Secretary of Homeland Security. | ||
He said, a bad day is a thousand illegals crossing the border. | ||
And then he said 5,000 is a crisis. | ||
The GOP is saying we want 5,000 as part of the deal. | ||
We want what the Democrats call a crisis. | ||
We'll underwrite, we'll underwrite, we'll underwrite 5,000. | ||
I've got to hold you through the bottom of the hour. | ||
I've got to get to the geopolitics of it. | ||
Pakistan and Persia. | ||
Pakistan and Persia, Steve. | ||
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It's insane. | |
How big a deal is that? | ||
This is like the great game, right? | ||
Tell the audience how big a deal this is getting to be. | ||
So as someone who in my former life had to Educate Pakistani brigadiers at Fort McNair, who thought that, you know, the founders of the Muslim Brotherhood were good guys, actually said that in classroom in front of American officers. | ||
I don't know about you, Steve, you're a strategic mind. | ||
I didn't think, I didn't think that in the year 2024, I would see a nuclear Pakistan actually launch kinetic attacks against Persia. | ||
Steve, once you cross that line, anything is imaginable. | ||
Anything is possible, Steve. | ||
Ten months, it will only get worse. | ||
Persia has sent the Revolutionary Guard to Yemen, to the Arabian Peninsula. | ||
They're shelling American troops in Iraq every day. | ||
They're now trading missile launches and gunfire with Pakistan. | ||
They're shutting down the Suez Canal, except to the CCP vessels. | ||
This is not even about Gaza. | ||
This thing has expanded now into the badlands of the Middle East. | ||
How bad is this going to get, Seb? | ||
If you have the chief diplomat crying in public, if you've got Blinken saying, what's happening to the Gazans is awful, well, that's when the bad guys get busy. | ||
When you see our ships on fire, U.S. | ||
container vessels, when we lose, nobody's talking about the SEALs who died recently. | ||
When that's happening, anything's possible, Steve. | ||
Seb, hang on for one second. | ||
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Seb's gonna hold through the break. | ||
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I'm gonna have to school him on our House Freedom Caucus warriors. | |
They made some pretty bad choices in backing who's running for president. | ||
On that, I will agree. | ||
Short commercial break. | ||
Seb Gorka, Philip Patrick, next in The War Room. | ||
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Stephen K. Babb. | |
Seb, in the middle of all this, we don't seem to have a firm hand on the tiller because we don't... | ||
The Secretary of Defense is... I don't know, is he dying of prostate cancer? | ||
Is what happened? | ||
They're releasing these ambulance tapes. | ||
Tell me what's going on with Austin. | ||
Well, look, there's an amazing new analyst that I'm promoting a lot. | ||
He's a former heavy weapons guy in the army. | ||
Now he does open source intelligence analysis on YouTube. | ||
Everybody needs to follow Ryan Macbeth. | ||
And we've been going back and forth since this story broke. | ||
So I played the dispatcher audio when Lloyd Austin went to Walter Reed. | ||
And whoever it is, his butler, his flunky, is telling the Fairfax County dispatcher, we need EMS ambulance to this quote-unquote address in Fairfax County to pick up the secretary. | ||
And quote, we want no lights and we want no sirens. | ||
So first things first, Steve. | ||
The Secretary of Defense is supposed to live in the ex officio residence on Fort Myer. | ||
Why is he not living on Fort Myer, or what home, what building was he taken from to be taken to Walter Reed? | ||
Second, since when is a, quote, elective surgery begun with an EMS ambulance visit? | ||
We've been told by the White House it was elective prostate surgery. | ||
I've never heard of an ambulance being used for elective surgery. | ||
And then thirdly, why do they have to hide it? | ||
No, if this is an EMS pickup with an ambulance, Why no lights? | ||
Why no sirens? | ||
Who's in charge? | ||
But why didn't they call Walter Reed and get one of their ambulances to come over? | ||
I mean, it's only the most sophisticated hospitals on the planet. | ||
And you know, and we're not going to divulge anything that's classified, but you know, underneath the West Wing, next to the Navy Mess, Is the sit room. | ||
I mean, you know, there's many sit rooms as you know, the executive office building is overflow. | ||
But the sit room is the hub of real-time comms for the commander-in-chief. | ||
It's basically an intelligent cell underneath the West Wing. | ||
The Situation Room of the White House isn't just for the tracking of the President and National Command Authority. | ||
Since 9-11, what do we do there, Steve? | ||
This is unclassified. | ||
We track, 24-7, the movements of every Cabinet member. | ||
I don't care if it's Health and Human Services, but especially for the Secretary of Defense, your movements are tracked not just by your security detail, but by the situation because we have a line of succession. | ||
And we must know at all times where those cabinet members are. | ||
And we're supposed to believe that for 10 days, the White House didn't know, and the Secretary of Defense's deputy didn't know, and she doesn't have a cell phone when she's on vacation in Puerto Rico. | ||
There is a buried lead here, Steve, and I tell you now, the buried lead is understood by our enemies. | ||
Whatever they're trying to hide at the White House, Iran, Pyongyang, Beijing, they're watching this, and they know that there is no command authority in the chain of succession here in America. | ||
Scary. And we gave them all the money they needed today, continue to fund their government. | ||
The illegitimate presidency of usurper Joe Biden. | ||
Let me just go on. | ||
Can I just mention one thing? | ||
I know we always have fun here, and I know the Posse loves our interactions, Steve, and we're going to get you for a whole hour on my show, America First, but I want to say something about this whole border debacle, the Langford deal, and what Chip Royce said. | ||
You know me, I'm not an ideologue. | ||
I'm a patriot. | ||
I love this country because I chose this country, so I don't do ideological purity tests. | ||
But to anyone of the ilk of Chip Roy, I don't care if they're in the Freedom Caucus. | ||
There's one metric right now. | ||
If you're not supporting President Trump, you are down with the deep state. | ||
It's really that easy. | ||
It's that simple. | ||
After the armed raid on Mar-a-Lago, after the 700 years in prison he's facing, after the coordination between Fannie Willis, Letitia James and the White House, if you're running against President Trump, or if you're supporting anyone who's running against President Trump, that means you are okay with Stasi tactics in America. | ||
So that's my message for the likes of Chip Roy. | ||
I don't care what they say about anything else, if you are not supporting the man Who had the election stolen from him, and who's being charged with 730 years in prison. | ||
I'm sorry, you might as well be working for Merrick Garland. | ||
Uh, duly noted. | ||
I don't agree with that, but duly noted. | ||
Uh, I think, well, I just, look, listen, there's not a bigger supporter of President Trump than me, but we got a crisis in the House. | ||
And unless we get some, the Freedom Caucus has been the only guys that have tried to hold the line there. | ||
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I agree. | |
It's not going to be Chip Roy. | ||
Supporting DeSantis. | ||
It's not going to be Chip Roy. | ||
People, well, you tell me who it's going to be, bro. | ||
Give me some, give me some examples. | ||
I'm not saying Chip Roy's going to be Speaker of the House, but give me some examples of some of the fighters over there. | ||
You gotta have guys that get in there and know the numbers. | ||
Yeah, I still think we owe it a huge debt of gratitude. | ||
Whatever happens, we owe a huge debt of gratitude to Matt Gaetz. | ||
I like the likes of Byron Donalds, Andy Biggs, all the usual suspects. | ||
Hang on, hang on. | ||
You're missing the point. | ||
I love those guys. | ||
I'm talking, when you gotta talk about cutting this $2 trillion deficit, you need people who understand the math and understand it cold. | ||
That's the Chip Royce world. | ||
And look, Chip Ford is a Cruz guy, and I told Chip there's no need to come on the show and debate because DeSantis is not going to be president. | ||
It's a waste of time. | ||
And it's maddening to me that DeSantis has not thrown in the towel yet and is still running around. | ||
But he's not going to be president. | ||
It's irrelevant. | ||
But we have two fights here. | ||
Obviously the fight for Trump is the key fight, but if we don't get the numbers in the House right, if we don't get the numbers in the House and the Freedom Caucus are the only guys to date that will step up consistently and try to fight this, This thing's going to be over before President Trump gets back. | ||
President Trump's going to step in here. | ||
You're going to have 37 trillion. | ||
Go ahead. | ||
Let me give you my response that isn't about personalities. | ||
And it's not even about President Trump. | ||
It's more meta than that. | ||
Yeah, you're right about the spending, which is, you know, the GOP, a drunken sailor for the last 40 years. | ||
I get it. | ||
But the budget doesn't matter, Steve. | ||
The budget is irrelevant if we have a police state. | ||
If it's not just you and Peter Navarro getting arrested, if it's Bank of America telling the Feds because you bought a red MAGA hat, I don't give a toss about the budget, Steve, because the budget will be irrelevant if we actually have gulags. | ||
If Mark Hauk is not the exception to the rule, but is what happens to patriots. | ||
You do understand that we took out all the woke and weaponized. | ||
This is what Chip Roy was saying. | ||
We are basically funding all of Biden's government, all the woke and weaponized, and at policy levels. | ||
That's the crime here. | ||
Right. | ||
Right. | ||
But it's more than just money. | ||
You've got to have someone who can articulate that. | ||
And in the House of Representatives, you don't. | ||
Go ahead. | ||
Yeah, but it's more than just... My point is, look, you're a strategist. | ||
What is the art of strategy? | ||
I mean, you can boil it down to one thing. | ||
Knowing what things are more important than other things. | ||
That's all it is, right? | ||
If you can't prioritize, you can't do strategy. | ||
It's like, you know, when we were told by Obama, we have 110 national priorities in... Excuse me? | ||
If you've got 110, you've got none, okay? | ||
You know, if you've got defeating China and defeating the jihadis, okay, that's cool. | ||
All right, because some things are more important than other things. | ||
So I'm just saying the reality of a police state now is the priority. | ||
Because if we don't win, I don't care about the budget, because if we don't win in 2024 in November, you can kiss all of it goodbye. | ||
Put your head between your legs, kiss it all goodbye. | ||
So I get it. | ||
I agree. | ||
Budget, budget, budget. | ||
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But police state is first. | |
Hang on, hang on. | ||
When President Trump comes in, we're doing a special on Saturday about it's been three years to the day when President Trump left after having the election stolen from him. | ||
And when President Trump takes the presidency a year from now, on this Saturday, one year from now, at noon, We could have $37 trillion of debt. | ||
We could have $1.5 trillion of interest payments. | ||
President Trump's ability, ability, even to go after the deep state is almost going to be secondary to a financial crisis that this country has never faced before. | ||
All right, let me ask you this. | ||
I don't think we disagree. | ||
I don't think we disagree, because I think I know the answer to the next question. | ||
I think we do disagree. | ||
Hang on, hang on. | ||
Let me paint you into a corner, Steve. | ||
Do you think, given the last three years, or given the last 30 years, do you think anything's going to change when it comes to spending in the next 10 months on Capitol Hill? | ||
Honestly, Steve. | ||
Do I think it could change? | ||
No, no, hang on. | ||
But you're saying, could it change? | ||
It could change very easily if you use your leverage. | ||
You could shut down the government tomorrow night at midnight. | ||
If you just use your leverage we have in the House. | ||
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Yeah, if you're the Speaker, but knowing the GOP, knowing the GOP, will it change? | |
Look me in the eye and tell me it's going to change. | ||
It's definitely going to change. | ||
We can't give President Trump that burden. | ||
Do you understand? | ||
Because his tax cuts come back in the first month. | ||
This means that everything that President Trump did in the economic miracle that he did, the tariffs, bringing manufacturing jobs back, what he did for wages, but particularly the tax cuts. | ||
And I didn't love all of them, particularly the upper brackets. | ||
But man, did they work. | ||
Everything that all reverts back. | ||
OK, you're going to have thirty six to thirty seven trillion dollars face amount deficit of debt. | ||
You're going to have a two to two and a half trillion dollar deficit annually. | ||
And this is what's going to get dumped on Trump. | ||
If we don't fight this now, his second term is going to be held in bondage by this debt. | ||
And this is my point to the guys in the House. | ||
You either got to fight it right now and you got to use every ounce of leverage. | ||
When President Trump comes in, talk about taking apart the administrative state, he's going to be overwhelmed with a financial and economic crisis. | ||
And quite frankly, I think that part of what the Democrats are doing is doing this on purpose. | ||
Understanding this is how they're going to cripple President Trump's second term. | ||
His second term is going to be overwhelmed with economic crisis just for the scale of the numbers. | ||
It's increasing every day. | ||
We're adding a trillion dollars of face amount every hundred days. | ||
They're going to cripple President Trump's ability to do anything. | ||
Go ahead, Seth. | ||
Yeah, no, it's definitely part of the plan, I agree, but look, I'm not a betting man, but I'll ask you right now, put a hundred bucks on the table that the GOP will fix this by November. | ||
If not fix the whole thing, but take a big step, I'll take the bet. | ||
Because that's our job. | ||
I gotta do it because we gotta do our job. | ||
A hundred bucks. | ||
That somehow that we will stop. | ||
We will stop. | ||
We'll revert back. | ||
We'll revert back off the Pelosi bill. | ||
We'll revert back and use all of our leverage. | ||
I'll take that bet. | ||
I have to. | ||
Otherwise, we're wasting our time here. | ||
I'm shaking your hand with a Skype connection right now. | ||
Thank you. | ||
Okay, got it. | ||
And we'll go into this more in the hour special we're going to do. | ||
We've got to bounce. | ||
Are you going to do any specials on the war in the Middle East that you're an expert on? | ||
I think we should make that the second half of our discussion. | ||
We'll talk about Persia. | ||
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Okay, fine. | |
We'll talk about big picture. | ||
I know our discussion's about Iran when we were in the White House, so let's make that the second half of our discussion when you come on my show. | ||
Perfect. | ||
And my guys will set up, we'll do it next week. | ||
Seb Gorka, how do people get to you? | ||
Since you're dead wrong in the budget, I want people to go to your site. | ||
Since you're dead wrong in spending, I want to get everybody to Seb's site right now. | ||
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Right. | |
And then I'm going to bring my reinforcements, and I think Dave Brat will back me up, as opposed to the other guy you had with a funny accent. | ||
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He's a free and conscious guy, go ahead. | |
Yeah, yeah, but he's also lived in the real world. | ||
SebGawker.com, the substack is sebastiangawker.substack.com, Rumble, Truth Social, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Parler, Getter, and the book, of course, sadly more relevant than ever, is Defeating Jihad and the War for America's Soul. | ||
Check them all out and then tune in to Steve on my show as soon as we set it up. | ||
Okay, and I'm going to bring on the next segment. | ||
It's going to be Philip Patrick from Birchgold, who Seb just dumped on, but that's okay. | ||
So who said nice things about Chip Roy? | ||
Chip Roy and Bob Good made a horrible mistake in supporting DeSantis. | ||
And Chip knows that he and I have gone back and forth on that a number of times. | ||
Hopefully they'll see the error of their ways quickly. | ||
Well, well, getting, getting, getting to apologize on your show to the posse. | ||
Okay, I'll work on that. | ||
I'll work on that. | ||
Short break. | ||
Philip Patrick next. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K Vance. | |
Okay, we've got Ken Paxson, Attorney General of Texas with us. | ||
I'm confused, General Paxton. | ||
The federal government is trying to take public land in Texas and move your people off. | ||
They're trying to protect the border from Texas to allow more illegal alien invaders. | ||
It's very confusing. | ||
How can the federal government have essentially troops down there or authorities trying to remove your guys and open up the border of Texas to more illegal alien invaders? | ||
Make that make sense to me. | ||
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It's going to be really hard because it doesn't make sense. | |
It's literally a two and a half mile area along the border. | ||
The whole border for us, at least on the Texas part of it, is over 1,200 miles. | ||
For some reason, the federal government seems to think they can't do their job without this 2.5 acres that we have taken over and that we're protecting so that we don't have this as a staging point for the cartels to bring their illegals through to the Border Patrol. | ||
So we're just trying to stop the part that we can stop. | ||
And the federal government's threatening us saying that they're trying, that we need to get out of their way because they're enforcing immigration law. | ||
We all know that's not true because they don't enforce immigration law. | ||
The very opposite is happening. | ||
They're encouraging the cartels to bring people to them in all kinds of ways. | ||
So where do we stand on this thing? | ||
It's the most bizarre thing. | ||
They're going to court. | ||
They're doing this symbolically because they're telling you, get out of the way. | ||
Don't care what Abbott says. | ||
They don't care what the voters in Texas say. | ||
They could care less about you. | ||
They want that border open so they can flood the zone here with as many illegal aliens as possible, invaders. | ||
So how is this going to play out? | ||
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Well, so ultimately, I mean, we have all kinds of things going. | |
We have our buoy case. | ||
We have our case where we sued them over cutting our fences down. | ||
We have our case where they're suing us because our legislature passed laws that basically allow us to deport people. | ||
My hope is we're going to end up in the Supreme Court dealing with this whole Arizona v. U.S. | ||
where they're going to claim that that protects them. | ||
Because they want to be able to continue their illegal immigration, and they're going to claim that they don't have to enforce the law, and if they don't enforce the law, then somehow the states can't protect themselves. | ||
I'm ready to have that argument again, because we're going to make arguments that weren't made back in the Obama administration, and we're going to make the case that we have the right and the obligation to protect our border if the federal government is not just going to not follow the law, but they're actually going to violate the law by encouraging illegal immigration. | ||
Is that ever gone to the Supreme Court? | ||
Has it ever gone, who's really got the priority in protecting their border? | ||
Like, for instance, does the state of Texas have priority over the federal government in protecting that border in the Rio Grande Valley? | ||
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So, they're going to claim there's a case called U.S. | |
v. Arizona, where Arizona passed laws to try to protect their border. | ||
The U.S. | ||
Supreme Court came in 5-3 and said, no, this is federally controlled. | ||
However, We haven't seen the kinds of results and the consequences that occurred now under the Biden administration. | ||
We've never had anything like this, where the consequences have been so negative, whether it's drugs, increases in crime, whether it's just the cost of illegal immigration. | ||
It cannot be right that the federal government can pass a law, not enforce it, and then say that the states are subject to all the consequences of not enforcing federal law. | ||
That just cannot be right. | ||
And so we're ready to take that challenge on and make that argument. | ||
As you see it right now, do we need a big bill coming out of the Senate on the border, or do we need to enforce the laws that are on the books and make every effort to close and seal the border, sir? | ||
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I know that immigration laws that we have in effect work, because Donald Trump proved it. | |
Whether it was the, you know, starting of the building of the wall, but it was really enforcing Title 42. | ||
It was enforcing the Remain in Mexico program, which stopped all this crazy asylum stuff, where everybody claims asylum and then just stays in the country. | ||
They stopped catch and release, so that they had to stay on the other side of the border until they actually had a real hearing. | ||
Biden dismantled all of that, and he's proven that you can dismantle immigration law that's going on right now, that we have in place, that you can dismantle it, and it works. | ||
They've destroyed our immigration system, and the results are the largest number of people coming across the border that we've ever had. | ||
How do you see this playing out over the next couple of weeks? | ||
Who's going to bleed first? | ||
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I mean, we're not going to blink. | |
I can tell you that. | ||
We're sticking. | ||
We've got many irons in the fire on the immigration. | ||
You know that's true. | ||
We're not blinking. | ||
We've got many irons in the fire on this, all of which I think should be successful, whether it's the buoys case, whether it's the wire cutting case, whether it's the stopping us from deporting our people ourselves, illegal immigrants ourselves. | ||
Or whether it's this newest challenge. | ||
We have all kinds of ways of making the argument that this is a bad system that the Biden administration is implementing, which is basically that making up their own laws and they're not enforcing existing law and they're partnering with the cartels to get these people here as fast as possible. | ||
That's what's happening. | ||
Big time. | ||
Ken Paxson, how do people follow you? | ||
Where do they go? | ||
Because this one's on the front burner right now, particularly after the crater of the Republican House today. | ||
It's going to keep on keeping on at least through March. | ||
Where do people go? | ||
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At KenPaxsonTX and then KenPaxson.com. | |
Attorney General Paxson, thank you for joining us. | ||
Appreciate it. | ||
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Thank you. | |
Have a great evening. | ||
I just saw that Elise Stefanik voted no on the CR. | ||
That's going full MAGA. | ||
She's actually touring with the President tomorrow in New Hampshire. | ||
We're going to have a bunch of New Hampshire specials. | ||
We're going to be live from New Hampshire. | ||
We've got folks in New Hampshire live tomorrow. | ||
We're going to be covering all the President's speeches. | ||
We're going to be live for part of the Saturday show. | ||
We're going to have wall-to-wall coverage leading up to this. | ||
Hopefully put it away. | ||
Nikki Haley looks like she's 18 points down, so hopefully the rearguard action, the donors are playing there, will end it and will end this. | ||
DeSantis is not even up there, he's at 4%. | ||
I don't know if he's that much higher in South Carolina. | ||
Maybe we can end this all, this travesty, on Tuesday night and keep the spending to, I don't know, $350 million to try to take out President Trump. | ||
The next hour, we've had to juggle it a bit, but Philip Patrick, I think, is going to join us. | ||
Grace is going to be here with Bill Blaster. | ||
I think we're trying to get Mike Davis. | ||
We've got a ton of stuff going on in the next hour. | ||
And more, we're going to play more clips from people discussing this absolute debacle today to allow... Remember, this goes now to, I think, March 1st for the first set, March 8th for the second, but they're not going to get anything done in the interim. | ||
You're not going to see a lot of these single subject Appropriations bills passed. | ||
So another big fight looming, but hey, we got 108 votes today. | ||
I think there was only a hundred, I think a couple people didn't vote. | ||
I'm hearing that there was only 107 that voted for it. | ||
We'll get all the math right, but the math is going out of direction, but it's disgusting and a disgrace that 107 voted for it, including the Speaker of the House. | ||
Okay, short commercial break. | ||
We're back with the second hour. | ||
You do not want to miss it. | ||
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