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Episode 3596: Vacate The Speakership

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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
unidentified		Pray for our enemies.
unidentified		Because we're going medieval on these people.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people.
unidentified		The people have had a belly full of it.
unidentified		I know you don't like hearing that.
crom carmichael ▲ ● ▼		I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
unidentified		It's going to happen.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼		And where do people like that go to share the big line?
unidentified		MAGA Media.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼		I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
unidentified		Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
unidentified		War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Bound.
unidentified		Welcome to The War Room.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		It's Natalie G. Winters hosting today, Wednesday, May 8th in the year of our Lord 2024.
		There's so many stories we're going to cover today in the War Room from Capitol Hill to the origins of COVID to everything that we've been right on since the inception of the show here in the War Room.
		Luckily, we got Mike Howell from Heritage Oversight.
		Joining us to break all this down, there's some breaking news.
		Comer and Jordan, who you know we are harsh, I would say, justified critics of here in the war room, have referred Michael Cohen to the DOJ for prosecution.
		They've issued, catch this, another strongly worded letter.
		Now, Mike, I may be incorrect, but last time I checked, when Nancy Pelosi was reigning the House, and I use that word intentionally, it didn't really seem like they ever put out letters.
		I don't really know if she ever needed to sign anything, because they actually did stuff.
		They actually had action, action, action, and accountability.
		Unlike House Republicans, it seems like all they can do is send letters.
		Your thoughts on this latest development?
mike howell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, maybe House Republicans are thinking they can get Merrick Garland to get a paper cut or something with all the love letters they're sending over.
		But let me tell the posse here something that members of Congress don't want them to know, and that's that criminal referrals, especially to the DOJ, are virtually meaningless.
		I mean, DOJ is not going to act on them.
		But it's not a unique authority of Congress to send a magical criminal referral.
		Anybody in this country can send a criminal referral.
		Thousands of people do it every day when they call 911.
		If you're sitting at home, you can email DOJ and send them a criminal referral.
		It has the same force and bearing as a congressional referral does.
		Where I want to see action is in the civil contempt against these people.
		Go after them in their individual capacity and force them to comply.
		This is exactly why Peter Navarro is in jail right now.
		And so going through these processes, it's good for headlines.
		It's not going to result in anything.
		We need to actually tie people up in court with a forcing mechanism, which this is not.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		I wish we could swap heritage oversight for House oversight.
		You guys seem to actually do things.
		But there's, of course, another, you guessed it, letter coming from Congress, specifically the Select Committee on the Origins of COVID, who, frankly, in my opinion, besides a good hearing with Peter Daszak, have probably just done more to cover up for Anthony Fauci and these other government-type bureaucrats who helped create COVID-19.
		But on that thread exactly, they sent a letter to the State Department requesting basically
		an unredacted version of a document showing that COVID-19 newsflash developed at the Wuhan
		Institute of Virology.
		You can decide if it was intentional or otherwise.
		But I think the buried lead of this story is that it was the US State Department that
		redacted these documents, not just showing the civil-military fusion going on at the
		Wuhan Institute of Virology, but that COVID-19 surely broke from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
		I'm just curious, your thoughts, again, do you think there's any bite to this letter?
		I know you guys have issued your own lawsuit, I believe, against the CIA for obscuring the origins, but doesn't this also simultaneously sort of prove how our very own agencies are the ones that are sort of playing the Praetorian guard for all of these touchy subjects, whether it's origins of COVID, weaponizing the government, the truth about January 6th?
mike howell ▲ ● ▼		The intelligence community and State Department played an extremely active role in suppressing real information to Americans about COVID.
		I think Fauci spent a lot of time over the CIA, despite what he's told people.
		And it was, you know, the intelligence agencies that were primarily driving this kind of public narrative when Trump was blaming it on the lab leak.
		Senator Cotton got, you know, spanked by the New York Times and called a conspiracy theory for such. It was the
		intelligence agencies and the media that were the Praetorian Guard with Fauci as their golden boy. And so
		accountability against those people for covering not only the truth, but for the Chinese
		communist. I mean, they were trying to have us believe simultaneously that the Chinese weren't
		cooking their bats to temperature. And that was the root cause of COVID. It's insane that this far
		after COVID, we still have zero accountability. People should be in prison for what they've
		done. And I think Fauci's at the very top of that list. Obviously, personnel is policy and
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		we've been really drilling down here in the war room on how it's really the Hill staffers, the
		staff on these committees that we think are sort of aiding and abetting these weak and feckless
		Republicans who refuse to really do anything except send letters.
		Apparently that's the only tool in the toolkit that they want to use.
		I don't think that goes quite well when we're in end of Republic times and all we can do is send letters to the very own agencies that our taxpayer dollars are funding.
		I'm just curious, from your perspective, you obviously have the inside baseball and what's going on on these committees.
		Do you think we're right in our assessment that a lot of the holdup here, and we can get into the NPR hearing, but just more broadly, is that the staffers are refusing to throw down, or do you think the locus of the issue is more squarely on the members?
mike howell ▲ ● ▼		It's both.
		So the oversight community on Capitol Hill is very, very small.
		I mean, there's only a few people that can send subpoenas, right?
		It's, you know, Jordan, Comer, Kathy McMorris-Rogers, the heads of these committees.
		And on those, there's a small select group of lawyers, and it's a revolving door.
		It's the same individuals who Then go up and get the job in leadership or go back and get the prime posting on the committee.
		It's that kind of environment where those decisions are very closely held and they don't want to share the power.
		I've long been arguing to build up a gigantic church-style weaponization committee, exactly like was promised to us.
		But one of the reasons why members and others in the swamp there don't wanna do that and share power
		is because other people get access to actually use it.
		It's, you know, you can't go on Fox News every night and talk about your letters
		if other people are kind of going more aggressively than you
		and have the power and authority to do that.
		They also, you know, at the leadership level, want to prevent food fights, essentially.
		They don't want to go hard on things like Biden or elsewhere because they know
		that if it has to come to the floor for a vote, they could lose, and that's another political problem
		that could get in the way of sending, you know, money to Ukraine or other things
		that there really are there to do.
		And so they'd rather drape it up in these processes and hearings and letters.
		And they're counting on dying legacy media to cover that breathlessly.
		But I think what, you know, as we become more sophisticated as an American first movement, we understand that it's not good enough.
		We want actual results.
		And if you look across the base, I know the posse is wise to this, people are very unhappy.
		And that's why you see a lot of members taking a lot of heat.
		We were supposed to have levels equivalent and above of the ferocity that the January 6th committee had.
		And instead, we've gone to Pen Pal Games, hoping that Merrick Garland and others get paper cuts from all the letters that are sent to them.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		It really is wild.
		I mean, if it weren't for the work of people like Julie Kelly, Darren Beattie, the National Post on a myriad of issues, but I would say most obviously, January 6th, we wouldn't know.
		We wouldn't know anything.
		Our congressional Republicans have done basically nothing.
		And then two, three years down the road, they take, you know, alternative media's story of the day, and then they spin it off as their own.
		I mean, even the story we were talking about previously, the State Department redacted document. That wasn't even initially obtained by
		Congress. That was obtained via a FOIA request by the U.S. nonprofit U.S. Right to Know,
		who's been doing great work on the origins of COVID. But it just seems like they're
		taking such a back seat to such crucial and critical fights for the sake of this country.
		And speaking of this country, obviously there's nothing more important than securing our
		borders, contrary to the Washington consensus, that Ukraine's borders are more important. But
		you guys over at House Oversight, we know you're obviously in the crosshairs of the
		mainstream media, Democrats, and frankly, establishment Republicans every day. But you guys, I want
		to read the quote, have uncovered truly just some mind-blowing reports coming out of an NGO based
		in Mexico that's housing migrants from Outside of Mexico, too, if I watched the video in the studio.
		If you have the B-roll, you can play it while Mike and I talk.
		But they were putting up flyers in this basically refugee migrant camp that read, Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States.
		We need another four years of his term to stay open.
		The buried lead there being these are flyers for non-citizens, illegal aliens, people who Are not registered to vote here.
		I guess you don't need IDs, so I guess they could technically vote here.
		But they're non-citizens.
		Walk us through the story, just sort of give us the rundown, and then I want to get into the Soros links, the Mayorkas links, to all of this really criminal scheme.
mike howell ▲ ● ▼		Right.
		So we work very closely with the undercover investigative team at Muckraker, led by Anthony Rubin.
		And they went to a nonprofit shelter in New York City, where they were able to, you know, while posing as illegal aliens, obtain fraudulent residency documents for $10 at this New York shelter.
		While there, they learned from the illegal alien community that one of the invasion staging camps in Mexico, you know, right across the border, was providing literature encouraging illegal aliens to explicitly vote for Biden.
		And so they went down there and discovered those flyers to be true.
		And they were there.
		They physically obtained the flyer.
		I have it in my custody.
		And they found it displayed on a porta potty as well.
		And additionally, we uncovered a series of political activism in this area to include
		a balloon sign that said, buy Trump last election.
		Joe Biden went down there and basically right before Biden was quote unquote inaugurated
		was was dealing with them.
		It's just a hotbed of political activity run by sheer partisans with connections to the
		Soros network and Mayorkas himself.
		And so we put this out.
		The implications on our election integrity system are severe with millions of illegal aliens going and the left fighting to preserve their access to the voting system.
		They're in court every day trying to make sure that the loopholes remain open so illegals can potentially vote and that there are unaccountable ballots going out that could be collected.
		And so we put this out and it's a real threat to the regime.
		And so the regime responded as they do with, you know, attempts at character assassination.
		Initially, the New York Times said they're, you know, right-wing media reporter after us.
		And, you know, he had this long, sobbing piece trying to defend the nonprofit, but he didn't discredit anything.
		And so they're trying again right now.
		Your taxpayer-funded NPR has a hit piece coming out tonight or tomorrow.
		It won't prove anything to be false because everything is absolutely true.
		And in this context, we agreed to speak with NPR for an interview.
		And we're happy to do it because the facts are on our side.
		We said it had to be recorded.
		And during the interview, we confronted their reporter on, amongst other things, she used to work for the organization ACORN, the illegal voter registration group of Obama years.
		And so this is who they're sending.
		They're not sending their best.
		And we confront her with this.
		It obviously discredits her whole reporting narrative that she's looking into election integrity.
		But after the call They didn't allow our colleagues at Mock Breaker to download it because they didn't give them access.
		There was a technical issue with, you know, getting the recording.
		And so they have this recording and they're refusing to turn it over because it's so deeply embarrassing to them.
		And then simultaneously today, the NPR CEO was supposed to be on Capitol Hill.
		She basically gave him the finger and didn't show up.
		And of course, Republicans did nothing.
		They had an empty chair and pretended that was a victory.
		But they need to get a subpoena out to her today to sit in the deposition to turn over the tape.
		We pay her salary.
		It's absolutely ridiculous that, you know, we're paying for a hit piece on ourselves right now.
		And Congress doesn't have her sitting down in a chair under a subpoena.
		And if she doesn't show, they'll see her in court.
		And that's what I think the posse needs to lean on, on folks on the Hill to actually do.
		We want results.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		We always love to throw down on the enemy of the people, the mainstream media here, but before we get into the NPR stuff, I'll hold you through the break.
		We got a few minutes.
		I'm just curious, sort of taking a step back, zooming out, whether it's, you know, this NGO specifically, but what have you seen from your kind of heritage purview of actual documented evidence of illegals voting or at least being solicited to vote?
mike howell ▲ ● ▼		Right, so there are documented instances of illegal aliens voting.
		Of course, you know, the name of the game with the leftist construction of the election system now is they make it as, you know, difficult as possible to go back and audit.
		I mean, look what's happening in Georgia.
		Officials are admitting that they don't even have like hard copies and basic data to perform a legitimate audit.
		And they do things, you know, in terms of documents like And so then voila, there is a registered voter with access to vote and no way to really prevent them from doing it.
		doesn't even speak English, to check a box to the government admitting that they're here
		illegally.
		Of course they're not going to do that.
		Even the smart ones wouldn't do that.
		And so then, voila, there is a registered voter with access to vote and no way to really
		prevent them from doing it.
		You have efforts to get a citizenship question on forms for voting.
		But of course the House made a lot of noise about this today and are talking about the
		SAVE Act, but they have lost all their leverage because they wanted nothing more than Ukraine
		to get funded, and so they have no more leverage to force the passage of such things.
		Other documents include Washington, D.C.
		We put out their illegal alien voter registration guide.
		Of course, they're saying, hey, this is only for local elections.
		But I don't think the, you know, 10 million illegal aliens storming our borders from 150-plus countries are that civically aware of the difference between a local and federal election.
		And so, of course, they're going to be confused.
		Other documents, a White House meeting where people advising the White House on how to, you know, do their takeover of federal elections said, we need to let illegals, you know, trust that they'll act within the law.
		So they're creating the conditions.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		Mike, I've got to hold you right there because we've got to jump to break, but after the break I want to discuss how this links to Mayorkas.
		George Soros goes all the way to the top.
		That's probably why they're so scared.
		In the meantime, go to birchgold.com slash Bannon.
		I'm sure the mainstream media will say it's misinformation, but that's how you know it's good.
		Give Philip Patrick a call at birchgold.com slash Bannon, the latest installment of the End of the Dollar Empire.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼		7.
		develop and grow our majority by building upon our resources and expanding—to successfully
		advance our conservative vision and agenda. Whereas Speaker Johnson has not lived up to
		a single one of his self-imposed tenets, whereas Speaker Johnson allowed the conference only
		one day rather than 72 hours to review a 1,000-plus-page bill to which no amendments could be offered
		rather than ensure total transparency, open processes, and regular order.
		Whereas Speaker Johnson worked with Democrats to produce appropriations text, NDAA text, and other legislative items rather than with Republicans to understand and emphasize each member's unique strengths and engage with them.
		Whereas Speaker Johnson relied on majority Democrat support to pass a two-part omnibus spending bill rather than advancing a policy agenda supported by conference consensus.
		Whereas on December 1st, 2023, Speaker Johnson failed to protect the Republican majority when he allowed multiple votes to remove another Republican from the House of Representatives.
		It was unprecedented for a member to be removed from Congress by a two-thirds vote prior to conviction of a crime.
		To this day, the Republican expelled from the House under Speaker Johnson has not been convicted of a crime.
		Meanwhile, a Democrat now holds that seat.
		Whereas Speaker Johnson supported fully funding abortion, the trans agenda, the climate agenda, foreign wars,
		and Biden's border crisis, rather than ensuring liberty, opportunity,
		and security for all Americans.
		Whereas Speaker Johnson relied on Democrat votes on at least two occasions,
		with the first transgression occurring on March 22nd, 2024, with the House passage of H.
		Rez 1102, part two of the Johnson-Schumer omnibus, and the second transgression occurring on April 20th, 2024,
		with House passage of H.R. 8035, the $61 billion Ukraine funding bill.
		On both occasions, the majority of the majority.
unidentified		Delay will suspend.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼		On both occasions, the majority of the majority, 112 Republicans, voted against the measures, while only 101 voted in favor.
		Whereas before Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Speaker, our conference had passed seven appropriation bills, which were some of the strongest conservative bills passed in decades.
		Speaker Johnson refused to continue this important process.
		he instead led us to another CR on January 18, 2024, and got it passed with the support
		of 207 Democrats.
unidentified		The House is not in order.
unidentified		Ladies recognized.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼		And only 107 Republicans.
		While 106 Republicans voted against it.
		Whereas Speaker Johnson passed a third CR, this time calling it a process CR, as if that made continuing Nancy Pelosi's budget yet again any different from the previous CRs.
		Whereas with little to no communication with our conference, Speaker Johnson passed the first minibus appropriations bill on March 6 and passed the second minibus appropriation bill two weeks later on March 22.
		Whereas a two-part omnibus split into two minibuses was crammed down our throats and passed under suspension of the rules with only one day to review it.
		Whereas Speaker Johnson's omnibus did nothing to stop Biden's deadly border invasion, it fully funded it.
		Speaker Johnson did nothing to stop the energy-killing Green New Deal climate agenda, he fully funded it.
		He did nothing to stop the weaponized Department of Justice and FBI, he fully funded them.
		He did nothing to stop the trans agenda on kids.
		He fully funded it.
		He did nothing to stop full-term abortions.
		He fully funded them.
		He did nothing to stop the fueling of forever foreign wars.
		He fully funded them.
		Whereas on April 18, 2024, the Rules Committee passed H.R.A.S.
		1160, the rule providing for consideration of the $95 billion foreign funding package.
		By a vote of 9 to 3, notably, all Democrat members of the committee voted to advance the measure to the floor.
		While three Republicans opposed it, it is unprecedented for members of the minority party to advance a resolution out of the Rules Committee.
		Since 1995, there have been a few instances of rules advancing out of committee with minority support.
		However, H.R.A.S.
		1160 is the only instance where this was done to bypass opposition from the members of the majority party.
		Whereas the last instance, an appropriations measure which passed the House failed to include a majority of the majority was on final passage of the fiscal year 2015 Department of Homeland Security House Appropriations Bill during the 114th Congress.
		In the months following this failure, Speaker Boehner announced his resignation.
		Whereas in a January 26, 2024 Dear Colleague, Speaker Johnson called the Senate Supplementals and Border Security legislation dead on arrival in the House.
		Likewise, in January 2024, Speaker Johnson took a trip to the U.S.-Mexico border where he said, if President Biden wants a supplemental spending bill focused on national security, it better begin by defending America's national security.
		Whereas in the months following his border trip, Speaker Johnson introduced a $95 billion foreign aid supplemental with no border security attached.
		Whereas excuses like, this is just how you have to govern in divided government, are pathetic, weak, and unacceptable.
		Even with our razor-thin Republican majority, we could have at least secured the border, with it being the number one issue in the country, and the issue that is actually causing Biden to trail President Trump in poll after poll.
		Whereas Speaker Johnson's capitulation on his promise to secure the border came on the
		heels of Lake and Riley being brutally murdered, women and children being raped by illegal
		alien monsters, and our own Border Patrol and Texas National Guard being run over by
		hordes of military-aged illegals.
		Whereas great legislation like H.R. 2 and the Lake and Riley Act are only messaging
		bills unless we fight to enforce them in our government funding bills.
		Whereas while serving on the House Judiciary Committee, Mike Johnson was a strong defender
		of individual liberties and was the chair of the subcommittee on the Constitution of
		Limited Government.
		Despite his history as a defender of civil liberties on April 12, 2024, Mike Johnson
		cast a deciding vote against requiring a warrant.
		persons' queries of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FISA, Section 702 data.
		Whereas our conference could have also taken out funding for abortion and the trans agenda on kids
		if our own speaker would have allowed us to offer amendments instead.
unidentified		House will be in order.
		Members will kindly take their conversations outside the chamber.
		Gentlewoman's recognized.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼		Instead, Mike Johnson worked with Chuck Schumer rather than the conference and gave Joe Biden and the Democrats everything they wanted, no different from how a speaker, Hakeem Jeffries, would have done.
		Whereas Speaker Johnson fully funded special counsel Jack Smith's witch hunt and 91 indictments against President Trump, our Republican presidential nominee.
		House Republicans could have used our power of the purse to stop this, but Speaker Johnson didn't even let us try.
		Whereas Joe Biden's weaponized DOJ is arresting a new January 6th election protester every single day and putting nonviolent political enemies including veterans, mothers, and fathers, and grandparents in jail for years, and the 5th January 6th defendant has now committed suicide.
		Whereas our pro-life Christian conservative Republican speaker Mike Johnson fully funded
		the Department of Justice as it is prosecuting and convicting peaceful
		pro-life activists who are facing 11 years in jail.
		Again, refusing to allow Republicans to offer amendments to stop these injustices.
		Whereas actions are the only thing that matter, and words are meaningless without following through on them.
		By passing the Democrats' agenda and handcuffing Republicans' ability to influence legislation, our elected Republican Speaker Mike Johnson has aided and abetted the Democrats and the Biden administration in destroying our country.
		Whereas removing this uniparty speaker will not give the speaker's gavel to the Democrats,
		which would only happen if Republicans actually vote for Hakeem Jeffries.
unidentified		House will be in order.
		Gentlewoman will suspend.
		Gentlewoman is recognized.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼		and In fact, Minority Leader Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi, and other high-ranking Democrats have publicly stated they will save Mike Johnson from a vote to vacate him.
		In a recent interview, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said, even though we're in the minority, we effectively have been governing as if we were in the majority.
		Whereas our country is nearly $35 trillion in debt, and about $40 billion are added to
		the debt every day.
		Our border is overrun by illegal invaders and terrorists from over 160 countries.
		Our people are being killed by the hundreds every single day by fentanyl.
		And Mike Johnson refuses to do anything about it.
		Whereas Mike Johnson is ill-equipped to handle the rigors of the job of Speaker of the House, and has allowed a uniparty, one that fuels foreign wars, tramples on civil liberties, and increases our disastrous national debt, to take complete control of the House of Representatives.
		Whereas, Speaker Johnson's tenure is defined by one self-serving characteristic.
		When given a choice between advancing Republican priorities or allying with the Democrats to preserve his own personal power, Johnson regularly chooses to ally himself with Democrats.
		Now, therefore be it.
		Resolve that the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives— Gentlemen, we'll suspend.
unidentified		The House will be in order.
unidentified		Gentlewoman's recognized.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼		Resolved that the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives is hereby declared to be vacant.
unidentified		The chair will now recognize the gentlewoman from Georgia to offer the resolution just noticed.
unidentified		Does the gentlewoman from Georgia offer the resolution?
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		The clerk will report the resolution.
		Whereas the House Republican Conference elected Mike Johnson on October 25, 2023, after three and a half weeks of trying to decide on a new Speaker of the House.
		Whereas Mike Johnson sent the Republican Conference a letter making promises as to what type of Speaker he would be, and outlining his plans going forward.
		Mike Johnson put forth seven tenets that would guide the conference under his Speakership.
		One, restore trust by ensuring total transparency, open processes, and regular order.
		Two, advance a comprehensive policy agenda supported by conference consensus.
		Three, promote individual members, and thus the whole team, by working to understand and emphasize each member's unique strengths, district dynamics, and challenges, and individual goals and objectives.
		Four, engage members in productive working groups to formulate solutions in key policy areas and enhance our internal communications and team building.
		Five, effectively message to persuasively inform the Republican base and the American
		people of our policy agenda, why we are pursuing it and how it will ensure liberty, opportunity
		and security for all Americans.
		Six, build and utilize external coalitions in the conservative ecosphere, including think
		tanks, policy groups and other allied organizations that can contribute to our efforts.
		Seven, develop and grow our majority by building upon our resources and expanding the base
		to successfully advance our conservative vision and agenda.
		Unanimous consent to dispense with the motion.
		Pardon?
		With the reading.
		With the reading.
		Is there objection?
		Objection is heard.
		Clerk will read.
		Whereas Speaker Johnson has not lived up to a single one of his self-imposed tenets.
		Whereas Speaker Johnson allowed the conference only one day rather than 72 hours to review
		a 1,000-plus page bill to which no amendments could be offered rather than assure total
		transparency, open processes, and regular order.
		Whereas Speaker Johnson worked with Democrats to produce appropriations tax, NDAA tax, and
		other legislative items rather than with Republicans to understand and emphasize each member's
		unique strengths and engage with them.
		Whereas, Speaker Johnson relied on majority Democrat support to pass a two-part omnibus spending bill, rather than advancing a policy agenda supported by conference consensus.
		Whereas on December 1, 2023, Speaker Johnson failed to protect the Republican majority when he allowed multiple votes to remove another Republican from the House of Representatives.
		It was unprecedented for a member to be removed from Congress by a two-thirds vote prior to
		conviction of a crime.
		To this day, the Republican expelled from the House under Speaker Johnson has not been
		convicted of a crime.
		Meanwhile, a Democrat now holds that seat.
		Whereas Speaker Johnson supported fully funding abortion, the trans agenda, the climate agenda,
		foreign wars, and Biden's border crisis, rather than ensuring liberty, opportunity, and security
		for all Americans.
		Whereas Speaker Johnson relied on Democrat votes on at least two occasions, with the
		first transgression occurring on March 22, 2024, with House passage of House Resolution
		1102, Part 2 of Johnson-Schumer Amitibus, and the second transgression occurring on
		April 20, 2024, with House passage of 8035, the $61 billion Ukraine funding bill.
		On both occasions, the majority of the majority, 112 Republicans, voted against the measures, while only 101 voted in favor.
		Whereas before Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Speaker, our conference had passed seven appropriation bills, which were some of the strongest conservative bills passed in decades.
		Speaker Johnson refused to continue this important process.
		He instead led us to another CR on January 18, 2024, and got it passed with the support
		of 207 Democrats and only 107 Republicans, while 106 Republicans voted against it.
		Whereas Speaker Johnson passed a third CR, this time calling it a process CR, as if that
		made continuing Nancy Pelosi's budget yet again any different from the previous CRs.
		Res, with little to no communication with our conference, Speaker Johnson passed the first minibus appropriations bill on March 6th and passed the second minibus appropriations bill two weeks later on March 22nd.
		whereas a two-part omnibus split into two minibuses was crammed down our throats and
		passed under suspension of the rules with only one day to review it.
		Speaker Johnson's omnibus did nothing to stop Biden's deadly border invasion.
		It fully funded it.
		Mike Johnson did nothing to stop the energy-killing Green New Deal climate agenda.
		He fully funded it.
		He did nothing to stop the weaponization, DOJ and FBI.
		He fully funded them.
		He did nothing to stop the trans agenda on kids.
		He fully funded it.
		He did nothing to stop full-time workers.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		We are going to keep this playing in the background.
		If there's anything imminent newsworthy that we need to toss to, we will.
		But I don't think there's any better person we could have on with us than Mike Howell to walk us through what we just saw.
		That was, of course, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene filing the motion to vacate
		the speakership.
		That is Speaker Mike Johnson.
		We have a lot of reporting coming in, whether it's from Punchbowl, Jake Sherman, House Republicans.
		They look like they want to force a vote to table the motion to vacate tonight.
		You saw AOC obviously introduce her own kind of version of that.
		CNN's Annie Greer is saying that House Republicans were caught very off guard by this.
		No one was really expecting this.
		I would say the Warren posse go look at Jake Sherman and Melanie Zanona from CNN.
		They kind of have the live real time updates.
		But for the real spin on what we just witnessed, Mike Howell, your your thoughts and just procedurally
		how this will play out.
mike howell ▲ ● ▼		So a big event here.
		And I will say the only person who seems to know what's going on is Olivia Bieber.
		It frustrates me to no end that even, you know, Republican House leadership consistently leaked to her.
		And so she's got the beats and the scoop on this.
		It's, you know, unfathomable to me that they work with regime media.
		But on the motion to vacate, what we're going to see is it be called up for a vote very quickly, which to me reflects a sign from House leadership that they think they can get all the Democrats to vote with them.
		Obviously, this has the practical consequence of Mike Johnson, Speaker Johnson, being supported by Democrats, which is a politically painful vote to have.
		I think that's the purpose of Representative MTG and then Massey's motion here.
		It'll be interesting to see if they pick up any more than both just those two members and if Democrats actually stay true to the indications that they will support Speaker Johnson.
		I'll say as a purely practical matter, I don't speak with anyone who's happy with the state of the House GOP and the direction they've taken to prioritize Ukraine over the border.
		And so what you're seeing is those frustrations boil over.
		I do see a lot of disagreement amongst people about tactical whether this is the right move or not.
		It seems to be where the conversation's focused, not on whether House leadership has done a good job
		steering this conference, which to me, the answer is clearly a big no,
		in that the border, which was the number one issue in which Speaker Johnson promised, you know,
		everybody and even, you know, my friends at Heritage Foundation in particular,
		would be the hill that they would die on as an absolute priority.
		And so these are the consequences that flow from those things,
		whether you agree it's a tactically wise decision or not.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		Apparently House Democrats were laughing when MTG said that Johnson has effectively ruled
		like Hakeem Jeffries, but you guys have, I think of any really oversight body in the country,
		really kept tabs on why that is a valid charge.
		What would you say to the Democrats who are laughing at her for saying that?
mike howell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, they're laughing because they're winning, and that's why.
		They're getting virtually all the major items that they want and they're gloating over it.
		I'm particularly frustrated with the lack of, you know, oversight and investigations throughout this Congress, which predates Speaker Johnson's tenure.
		But we were promised that this would be the oversight Congress.
		And, you know, the American people saw what the Democrats were able to do through the January 6th committee.
		And the actual financial, reputational, and legal consequences that were doled out, up to and including putting people behind bars in Peter Navarro.
		And that just never took off for the House Republicans.
		They're perfectly content with this old-school style of just sending letters and, again, hoping Merrick Garland gets a paper cut.
		That's not what the American people expected, and I think that's why you see the base so
		upset not only on the legislative failure of the House of Representatives, but on their
		oversight and investigations failure, which honestly was a layup for them.
		That completes public support to go all gas, no brakes, and instead we're just back to
		sending letters and getting glorified by legacy media for the announcement of processes that
		go nowhere.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		Well, speaking of legacy media, it's a good tweet.
		One senior GOP source tells Julie Grace, I believe from Politico is it?
		You can legit quote, you can legit tweet this.
		The fact that Fox News hasn't even broken from the five to break the motion to vacate shows how serious the world is taking this.
		I don't know about you, Mike, I think the world is taking this pretty darn seriously.
		I think every single allegation that MTG made on that floor, that she's made on War Room, that she's written, she has her demands leaked, are extremely serious.
		The MAGA movement, the grassroots, may I add, very same people who helped oppose Kevin McCarthy think that whether it's Ukraine, southern border, what's going on with January 6th, political prisoners, that's very serious stuff.
		And the fact that Fox News, Murdoch-owned Fox News, I feel like I gotta add that in Steve's absence, isn't breaking to it.
		I feel like that's a symptom of the problem.
		The Democrats are laughing.
		The legacy media doesn't want to cover it.
		They've done a wonderful job as skewering MTG as someone who's just a delusional lunatic.
		In reality, she's just not beholden or bought off by these same corporate interests that are having a payday and then some with Mike Johnson.
		In the speakership, Mike, your final thoughts before I let you go on not just why Fox News should be covering this, but this isn't something just to laugh off.
		The allegations that she's raising are extremely serious.
mike howell ▲ ● ▼		There are.
		I mean, there are a lot of policy disagreements about the direction of the House conference, and especially when we get access to power and are told conservatives have power and they will do things in line with what we're promised, and those aren't delivered upon, there's going to be consequences to that.
		And again, people can argue over whether this is the tactically correct move, but I don't think it's arguable that we're in disarray right now because promises just have not been kept.
		The people were told border security was the hill that they would die on, and instead they gave the money to Ukraine, Israel and others while we're being invaded.
		And I think people have a right to be furious about that, and they'll stay furious.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		Mike, thank you so much for joining us.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		If people want to follow you, support the work that you guys are doing at Heritage, where can they go to do all that and find out more?
mike howell ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
		Follow us on X at OversightPR.
		I'm at mhaltweets.
		And if you want to read the New York Times or NPR, they're dropping in pieces of us on left and right.
		But don't pay to get through the paywall.
		Scrub it off into other websites so they don't get your clicks.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		Mike Howell, thank you so much for joining us.
mike howell ▲ ● ▼		Thanks, Natalie.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		Now, like I said, we will keep bringing you the breaking news.
		The House is now voting to table or kill Greene's attempt to remove Johnson.
		Steve Scalise just moved to table her resolution.
		The House is now voting on that, which I believe you can see.
		Maybe we'll toss to him after the break, but I think they're just voting now.
		But like I said, Fox isn't even tossing to this.
		House Republicans are trying to table it in lockstep with AOC, just like when Biden endorsed
		Mike Johnson's border bill, just like when Pelosi came out and endorsed Johnson, what
		was it, two days ago.
		Those aren't necessarily the endorsements that I would be going for.
		That's not necessarily the people that I'd want to be working in lockstep with.
		I see we have Julie Kelly up.
		Julie, Congressman MTG invoked, what was it, the sixth or fifth, I believe, suicide of
		a January 6th political prisoner in her speech.
		I'd love to get your thoughts on her introduction of the motion to vacate, but specifically
		kind of through the lens of the reporting you've done.
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Well, unfortunately, Natalie, I think I'm on my eighth interview today.
		It's been kind of a nonstop related to the classified documents case and all the breaking news.
		So unfortunately, I did not hear what my friend Marjorie had to say, but I'm sure it was powerful and eloquent.
		And yes, we did learn of the at least fifth suicide of a January 6th defendant, a man who was arrested, David Homel, arrested in January.
		on offenses for his participation in January 6th.
		And Natalie, instead of living through or trying to live through the torment and torture by this DOJ, FBI, DC U.S.
		Attorney Matthew Graves, he, like at least four others before him, decided to take his life and shot himself in the head on April 17th.
		So once again, Natalie, the DOJ with blood on its hands, As you know, unfortunately, suicide of Jay Sixers continues to tick up, but that is not stopping the DOJ and Matthew Graves from continuing to investigate, raid, arrest, prosecute, and throw behind bars January Sixers.
		They just today announced a woman from California was arrested on a felony and misdemeanors.
		It's just stunning to watch this happen.
		And Natalie, to your point and Steve's point, It is just outrageous that the Republicans in power have done nothing to stop this.
		So wait, and this is why they continue.
		This is why the DOJ continues to get away with it.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		The DOJ certainly has blood on their hands, but I would say House Republicans are just as much an accessory to the crime.
		They've done absolutely nothing.
		And like I was saying earlier in the show, if it weren't for the work of yourself, Darren Beatty, other outlets, they wouldn't even have half the information that they've been able to cobble together this shoddy attempt to push back against the Democrat.
		The Mainstream Narrative on January 6th.
		Julie, if you can hang with us through the break.
		I want to walk through this more with you.
		But in the meantime, Warren Posse, we'll bring you, so if there's any breaking news from the House for Steve Scalise, it looks like has motioned to table.
		They're taking a recorded vote now.
unidentified		We will be back after the break.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		Welcome back to the war.
		You gotta go to birchgold.com slash Bannon to get the latest installment of The End of the Dollar Empire, and while you're at it, maybe check out Public Square, look at some other patriot-owned businesses, stop giving your money to people that hate you, but frankly, stop giving your votes to people that hate you.
		talking about people who hate you. The House has resoundingly tabled a motion to out Speaker Johnson
		359 to 43. Republicans 196 yeses and 11 noes. From the Democrats 163 yeses and 32 noes.
		Now, we got Julie Kelly here, and since we have you for a few minutes where I have to let you go, I'd love for you to help us just kind of look downrange on the classified documents case, what the timeline looks like there.
		Yet another issue that House Republicans have failed to do pretty much anything on.
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Well, Natalie, thankfully, we have Judge Aileen Cannon, who has more guts than really the entire Republican conference in Washington, D.C.
		And quite frankly, she is doing the heavy lifting in the work and taking the arrows that House Republicans should have started with beginning in 2023.
		So she's blowing this case open.
		She's going to be holding a series of hearings over the next few months.
		And I think, Natalie, the most important one will be at the end of June, three days of hearings related to evidence of collusion between the Biden White House, the National Archives, the Department of Justice, the FBI to concoct this criminal case, really entrap Donald Trump and his team into some sort of records case beginning in early 2021, not long after he left office.
		So kudos to Judge Aileen Cannon for doing the work and exposing the truth.
		Keep up the good work, Natalie.
		in Washington have been completely flat-footed.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		Julie, thank you so much for joining us.
		I'm sure we'll have you back.
		You'll probably be back tomorrow.
		I know you have a lot of interviews every day, but we appreciate you joining us here
		in the War Room.
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Keep up the good work, Natalie.
julie kelly ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		That means a lot coming from you.
		I appreciate that.
		Thank you.
		So just to rehash, it's 11 Republicans voted no, i.e.
		a vote to proceed on a vote removing Johnson, and they were joined by 32 Democrats who shared them in their refusal to allow Mike Johnson to continue being Speaker of the House or at least allow a motion to vacate.
		To proceed, like we said, Fox didn't even take it live.
		They're still, I think, doing a recorded vote now.
		What is it, about five or ten minutes?
		Depends.
		But you know, here in the War Room, we obviously think Mike Johnson, just like Kevin McCarthy, they do not deserve to be Speaker of the House.
		is not why you guys knocked doors, worked so hard, really buttressed the MAGA movement,
		the grassroots. You guys did not knock doors so we could send more money to Ukraine, not
		secure our southern border, not have meaningful investigations. They didn't even set up an
		election integrity committee. The China subcommittee is a joke. They're giving money to the actual
		They're helping them weaponize.
		They're helping them hate you and hate you with raw, brute force.
		What was it?
		The sixth patriot, the sixth fellow member of the MAGA movement committed suicide because of the treatment that they've faced from the Department of Justice.
		Yeah, it might be Biden's Department of Justice, but it's Biden's DOJ, funded by House Republicans, aided and abetted By the people who should have our backs.
		It seems like there's only 11 Republicans who actually have our back, who think that our borders matter more than Ukraine.
		I'm so glad that House Republicans have the nerve and the ability to tweet all the hard talk about how our southern border matters, how Democrats are doing nothing.
		I'm so glad you guys did the little sideshow and introduced the act today about election integrity.
		Elections don't matter if we elect Republicans who act like Democrats.
		I don't care if you have an R or D next to your name.
		If you didn't vote to oust Mike Johnson, you're not a patriot.
		You're not a part of this America First movement.
		I don't care about securing elections and any of these shiny toys that they want to throw at us.
		They're never going to actually pass them.
		They think you're idiots.
		They think we're dumb tools, so much so that Fox doesn't even want to put MTG, well they won't even have her on the network, but that they won't even air her introducing the motion to vacate.
		Shows you what they think of you.
		They want to be the ones that set the goalposts.
		They don't like that war room networks like Real America's Voice, that we can set the goalposts now and say, you know what?
		No, giving aid to Ukraine, that's not what our priority is.
		Leaving our southern border wide open to terrorists and Chinese nationals, that's not our priority.
		Absolutely shameful.
		Perhaps I'll have to whip out my Dump Him shirt that I wore to pay respect to Kevin McCarthy.
		Guess we had a better track record after I wore that shirt.
		I think it was the day after Kevin McCarthy was deposed and the New York Times said the war room was guilty of, what was it, sowing chaos, destroying democracy?
		Well, if democracy looks like a bunch of fake, feckless, weak Republicans covering for someone who's even more weak and feckless, that is Speaker Mike Johnson.
		Then I don't know if I'm a fan of that.
		But I know I am a fan of Krom Carmichael and therefore, by extension, a fan of Soul Tea.
		Krom, if you want to walk us through all the wonderful benefits that the War Room Posse can receive if they sign up, go get Soul Tea.
crom carmichael ▲ ● ▼		Natalie, thanks so much.
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		And what I want to do today, Natalie, just very quickly, is kind of explain how Sol-T actually works.
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		Now, theophyllabin normally resides in fresh green tea at 1%, and so we increase the potency of the theophyllabin by 22 times.
		Now then, what theophyllabin does, when you take these soft gels, What Theoflavin does is it helps, it reduces the ability of cholesterol to accumulate in one particular area of the liver.
		Now it's actually a different area of the liver than where a statin works.
		And so if you are on a statin, if you're on a small statin, Theoflavin will actually help you, or salt tea, will actually help you reduce your cholesterol further.
		Now in my case, I reduced my bad cholesterol from 130 to 89, and that was about 20 years ago, and I've been taking... We're coming up against the end of the show, so can you give us the website and the code that people ought to go to and use?
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		We ship you every 90 days and it will help you manage your cholesterol.
		Natalie, thanks so much for letting me talk to the Apostle.
natalie winters ▲ ● ▼		Of course, thank you for joining us, the 11 House Rs who are on our side in this.
		Biggs, Burleson, Crane, Davidson, Gosar, Green, Massey, Mooney, Moore of Alabama, Roy, and Spartz.
		I'm glad we only have a few seconds before the show's over, but I wish I had more names to read, but unfortunately the Republican Party seems to be a joke most days.
		Steve, we'll be back for the 6 p.m.
		and tomorrow morning.

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