July 12, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| 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. | ||
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The people have had a belly full of it. | |
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
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I know you've tried 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? | ||
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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. | |
| We're broadcasting live from the War Room here in our nation's capital in Washington, | ||
| I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz. | ||
| I've got the watch for the next hour as we continue to delve into the work of the Congress, how that dovetails with this remarkable historic moment in presidential politics where the Democratic Party seems to be uneasy with the status of their current nominee. | ||
| They think he needs to make a decision. | ||
| He thinks he's already made one, but He probably doesn't remember a lot of what's going on. | ||
| We've also got breaking news on the legal front I want to get to. | ||
| The motion is in in the Manhattan Alvin Bragg case. | ||
| The Trump team is seeking a vacated verdict in that matter. | ||
| The verdict was irreparably spoiled. | ||
| Now when you look at that Manhattan case through the lens of the immunity, a decision that the Supreme Court handed down, the use By the brag prosecutors of testimony from Hope Hicks, Madeleine Westerhout, the use of Trump tweets, that would all have been excluded under the Supreme Court's definition of immunity. | ||
| They used that. | ||
| That would justify a vacated verdict on those 34 felony counts that were highly political, seen as political, and seemed to do nothing more than fuel President Trump's continued rise in the polls and his ascendancy in this presidential race. | ||
| And wouldn't that be something? | ||
| Wouldn't that be something if the result of all of this tomfoolery in Manhattan is that Trump got the benefit of exposing how partisan and political and corrupt that trial was, but then ultimately had the verdict vacated Because they didn't appropriately tailor presidential immunity to the facts of that case and the evidentiary presentation. | ||
| It's really something. | ||
| We're joined now by Florida Congresswoman Ana Paulino-Luna. | ||
| You've seen her everywhere these last several weeks because she has been hot on the trail of Attorney General Merrick Garland. | ||
| You'll remember that when Special Counsel Rob Herr interviewed President Biden, he came to the conclusion that Biden was too senile to ultimately be charged. | ||
| Imagine that. | ||
| President Trump derives immunity from the Constitution and Joe Biden derived immunity from his own cognitive decline. | ||
| Quite the comparison. | ||
| But as a consequence of that, Congress sent a subpoena for the transcript of that and also the recording of the interview that led her to the conclusion that Joe Biden was senile to the point of immune. | ||
| And Garland did not produce it. | ||
| He was held in contempt of Congress. | ||
| He ignored that contempt, and then that brings us to the moment of this past week when Florida Congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna forced a vote in the House on inherent contempt. | ||
| Now that vote failed, but the Congresswoman is still working the issue. | ||
| Ana, thanks so much for joining us. | ||
| Before we get into the specific vote and your ongoing work with our colleagues, tell the posse what is inherent contempt? | ||
| How do we think about it through a different lens than the contempt we've been used to seeing the Congress vote on and execute? | ||
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So there's a few types of contempt. | |
| So typically, two of these three types of contempt will go to the Department of Justice to enforce. | ||
| And as you are seeing, there is blatantly a two-tiered justice system in this country. | ||
| And so actually, Thomas Jefferson penned something called Inherent Contempt in Jefferson's manual, which is our toolkit, if you will, our legislative toolkit. | ||
| That has been in existence since this country was founded. | ||
| And so I basically found it as a punitive tool that we could use to enforce our subpoenas. | ||
| And so we're at a time in our country where if people blatantly disregard our ability | ||
| to investigate, which is exactly what Garland is doing at the direction of Joe Biden, mind | ||
| you, not only does it treat Congress as an unequal branch of government, but ultimately | ||
| we also have a massive national security issue on our hands. | ||
| And so I just want the Warren posse to know that actually leading up into this, we had | ||
| actually reached out and by we, I mean, even the Speaker's office had reached out to Garland | ||
| and said, look, we will go into a skiff and we will listen to these recordings. | ||
| If you guys are actually in fear that these are somehow going to be used against you or | ||
| this is political, we will go and ensure that that does not happen by listening to the recordings | ||
| And they denied that. | ||
| They did not want that to happen. | ||
| And so I filed the motion on inherent contempt and ultimately It will levy a $10,000 a day fine if Garland is found by the House to be guilty of inherent contempt. | ||
| And so I'm actually currently, to give you guys an update, working with some of those no votes in an effort to get them to be a yes. | ||
| But if the vote was brought to the floor the day that we were doing debate, Matt, and you saw all of the debate that had happened that day, it would have passed. | ||
| And so we did have some members that had family emergencies and had flown out. | ||
| And so next week, or when we return after convention, I do believe it will pass then. | ||
| I even heard rumors that we had colleagues that were rushed off to the hospital and unable to be there. | ||
| Now, a number of folks in the posse are wondering about the remedy that you've selected here, the $10,000-a-day fine. | ||
| There were some who were pretty animated by your discussion earlier about using compulsory confinement of the Attorney General to require the production of these recordings. | ||
| How did you land on this remedy, and was it essential Correct. | ||
| So I'm, from the perspective of any American that defies a subpoena goes to jail, I don't think that the Attorney General should be any different. | ||
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from the perspective of any American that defies a subpoena goes to jail. | |
| I don't think that the attorney general should be any different. | ||
| However, remember, we have to get as many votes as possible in order to pass | ||
| the resolution or to pass this bill, if you will. | ||
| And so what brought me to this fine was that people, especially those that are in some of these frontline districts, purple districts, if you will, I don't think that they were able to take that vote. | ||
| And so the votes were not there for confinement. | ||
| However, I do want to be clear that there's actually Supreme Court law that states that we can actually levy a fine. | ||
| And so this would be the first time in history and that if i would have been done but i think that we need | ||
| to have these conversations | ||
| and more importantly inherent contempt had been brought forward to the nineteen | ||
| twenty eight and so i think that people forget that you know deep cool there | ||
| for a reason i don't think that thomas jefferson of the founding fathers ever | ||
| anticipated that politics and department of justice for the legislative | ||
| branch would be cut activity judiciary branch would become so part of him but i | ||
| had and working that now and so this is something that in the | ||
| check and balance that we need to ensure | ||
| gets across the finish line. | ||
| And so I'm very happy to have. | ||
| You Matt and then also to my other colleagues that sponsored this resolution and have been backing us because every step of the way Democrats try to kill it multiple times and then also there's this deep state aspect in Washington that exists of the staff that work very closely with the White House in Garland that we're actually trying to Trying to blow this up, giving other members false information, and I think at a later time I'll get on with that. | ||
| House staff? | ||
| You think there was House staff misleading members about the impact of this? | ||
| And obviously House staff's either Republican or Democrat. | ||
| You think this was Republican staff? | ||
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Yes, there was Republican House staff that was intentionally lying to members about the legality of this, all the while knowing that there was legal foundation for this. | |
| I'm going as far as whispering it to some of our colleagues that give advice on the legislation. | ||
| And I caught them. | ||
| And it's good, right? | ||
| You have to make sure that you're able to drain the swamp if you go all the way up to the top. | ||
| But again, I think that that's going to have to be dealt with at a later time because right now we need to bring this home. | ||
| And we need to bring accountability. | ||
| People go to jail for ignoring subpoenas. | ||
| Garland is not only, I think, engaged in a massive cover-up, I would say worse than Watergate. | ||
| You guys saw at the press conference last night, you saw, like, weird whispers. | ||
| I mean, there was, like, what, vice president? | ||
| Kamala Harris's Vice President Trump, Zelensky with Putin, I mean, he's not there. | ||
| Well, who among us doesn't confuse Harris and Trump occasionally? | ||
| I mean, you know, they look so similar. | ||
| I mean, honest mistake, right? | ||
| So, I want to get to the substance of what you're searching for. | ||
| When you get these audio recordings, what do you expect to be able to glean from that and utilize for a legislative purpose? | ||
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Well, what I will say is that I have been in a situation before where we've asked for information to be produced and we found out that they gave us wrong information or redacted information. | |
| And so my first concern is, in listening to the audio tapes, what has been altered from the transcripts? | ||
| Because we know that they've been altered. | ||
| We know that they have taken things out. | ||
| So what specifically was taken out? | ||
| And I think the next thing is... But how do you know that? | ||
| I know that because... How do you know they've been altered? | ||
| Garland testified to that when he was actually in the House. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So we actually have the clip where he admitted, made an omission, that they were altered. | ||
| And so that's the first thing. | ||
| The second thing is, is I think it's incredibly important for it to be a bipartisan listening session because I actually talked, Matt, to two members that were part of the Never Biden caucus on the Democrat side that won a different nominee. | ||
| And even those members had stated, well, why do you need the audio tapes? | ||
| You can just look at the debate. | ||
| He's not there. | ||
| That was what they said. | ||
| But I think it's important for them all to know because, again, this is a national security aspect. | ||
| You have a man that's making decisions, or maybe he's not even making decisions, but who is? | ||
| Because whoever's making those decisions was not elected to be the President of the United States. | ||
| We have a massive cover-up. | ||
| And so when I say that this goes all the way from the House, all the way to the White House, this is a rot that exists that we have to clean. | ||
| And so being members of House Oversight and you being a member of House Judiciary, it is our constitutional obligation and authority to do so. | ||
| It is a good question. | ||
| Like, who is the president? | ||
| If an asteroid were spotted headed toward the planet Earth today, there's no way the people everybody would run to for vision and courage and guidance and leadership would be Joe Biden. | ||
| It's like, who is running the country? | ||
| Is it Dr. Jill? | ||
| She makes everybody call her doctor. | ||
| I don't think she's giving up the first lady title anytime soon. | ||
| Is it Hunter? | ||
| Joe Biden ran for president to restore the soul of the nation, and here during the death rattle of the Biden presidency, you have Hunter Biden in White House staff meetings. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, it's really a remarkable sign of a regime in great decline and a man in great decline. | ||
| Now, on the procedure on where all this stands with the inherent contempt, so you bring the resolution. | ||
| You're there to force a vote. | ||
| First, the Democrats try to table your resolution. | ||
| That fails. | ||
| Then they try a second delay tactic, and they try to send the resolution off to committee land. | ||
| That failed. | ||
| Now those are usually show votes. | ||
| Usually the coalition that will help you defeat those Democrat procedural moves will then hang with you on the substantive question. | ||
| In this case, they didn't. | ||
| You're a few votes short. | ||
| You're working those votes now. | ||
| One thing people should remember about Congresswoman Luna, She will keep going until the result is achieved. | ||
| When we first brought the Adam Schiff censure resolution, it did not pass. | ||
| It was subject to some of these procedural hurdles. | ||
| But Luna stayed on the case, she worked with members, she got a result and got Schiff censured. | ||
| I think this is following a similar path, but I want you to just dispassionately explain to the posse what are the arguments that some of the Republicans are making as to why they're not for inherent contempt And how are you addressing them? | ||
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Yes, I think one of the major concerns, and this is something that I actually had argued with, again, that staffer that I caught that was intentionally lying to members about the legality of this, was that it is somehow unconstitutional to levy a fine, but there's actually Supreme Court precedent in 1923, I believe the case is McGrane v. Daugherty, that actually allows Congress to levy a fine as a punitive action for those that defy subpoenas and so I think a lot of this is Explaining that because this is again a tool that hasn't been done in so long So that would be the first thing and the second thing is is look people a majority of the conference actually Didn't was unaware that inherent contempt existed because it's not something that we've done. | |
| In fact, it's been lost for generations and so I think Even just in having these discussions and letting people know, whether it's Democrat or Republican, that this is actually well within our authority and we should be doing this. | ||
| This is actually true legislating. | ||
| I think that that in itself, I mean, like, you can't buy that type of education. | ||
| I think when I first got elected, Matt, I told you that I was coming to Washington, and I remember thinking, okay, well, I'm going to Congress school. | ||
| They're going to teach me how to do everything. | ||
| They didn't teach me how to do anything. | ||
| In fact, I remember seeing a lot of parties with lobbyists, but I don't remember them ever sitting down and telling me how to write a piece of legislation or explaining to me what Jefferson's manual was or explaining to me... Well, that's what the lobbyists are for, Anna. | ||
| Well, exactly. | ||
| That's what the lobbyists are for. | ||
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I had to learn this on my own. | |
| I had to learn this by bouncing ideas off of people like you or asking people in the Rules Committee, but this is really a lot of self-taught, so I'm actually looking at this as a massive win regardless. | ||
| We're glad you did it. | ||
| No, we're glad you did it. | ||
| We're glad you're hot on the case of Merrick Garland. | ||
| You are showcasing the contempt double standard that exists. | ||
| You are bringing accountability. | ||
| You're working with members to do it. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| It might not be the exact punishment we want, but you seem to be one of the few people in this town actually fighting for consequences when there's something so egregious. | ||
| And so we appreciate your good work, Congresswoman Luna. | ||
| Thanks everyone for sticking with us in the War Room. | ||
| We'll be right back after this break. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm. | |
| ♪♪ ♪♪ | ||
| Welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz, here manning the watch for our good friend Steve Bannon, and we have been looking at the deterioration of the mental health of the Democratic Party, this big Pelosi-Obama meeting discussion that's occurred in order to shepherd Joe Biden ultimately out of the race, and trust me, that meeting is coming. | ||
| You saw Senator Joe Manchin in remarks yesterday saying that this is a critical weekend so we could be in the days in the moments right now where the party that told us that replacement theory was racist is now about to engage in a little replacement theory at the top of the presidential ticket and DEI hire Kamala Harris potentially assuming the role as the leading voice in her party with the assist of former president barack obama and a lot of the elite that don't want to give up power | ||
| They were never all that into Joe Biden. | ||
| Joe Biden was just a vessel through which the real operators would manufacture their centers of influence in this town. | ||
| It's been talked about a lot, I think put out by the Biden camp to the talking heads in regime media, that Obama didn't pick Biden in 2016. | ||
| Could have. | ||
| Could have picked Biden to run against Trump, but really skipped over Biden and thought Hillary would be the stronger candidate. | ||
| So there's always been this tingling resentment in Biden world that the Obama people never really got them. | ||
| Never really understood their appeal. | ||
| And in some of the focus groups we saw after the president's remarks last evening, there was some Biden nostalgia, some desire to get back to the old Scranton Joe, middle class Joe, but indeed it's the middle class in this country right now that is being hammered. | ||
| We've got, I think, over LendingTree.com out a report, over half the country right now believes that going out to a fast food restaurant is a luxury experience. | ||
| Now, I got no problem with fast food, but I don't think we have to deem it a luxury experience. | ||
| Two-thirds of the American middle class, according to Bloomberg recently, saying that they would describe their current experiences as economic hardship. | ||
| Two-thirds of the middle class in hardship. | ||
| That is what is creating the shift, the realignment in our politics, where the MAGA America First movement is ascendant as a consequence of being the multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic, Assembly of individuals who love our country as we should and are indeed willing to fight for this country. | ||
| So, you know, right now, a lot of my friends, they're getting together their convention speeches, right? | ||
| We got the Republican National Convention coming up. | ||
| And just for a moment, consider the challenge of preparing a convention when you don't know who the person you're running against is going to be. | ||
| I mean, do you write the anti-Biden speech, the anti-Harris speech, or did you just indict the entire Democratic regime for having lied to us? | ||
| That was the argument Andy Biggs makes, is you have to broaden this beyond Joe Biden, and you've really got to lay the lumber on the Democrats who allowed this to happen. | ||
| Do we have Bonnie yet? | ||
| Alright, we are soon to call up Bonnie, Peter Navarro's fiancée, who's going to give us a report on Peter. | ||
| I had the chance to talk to Peter Navarro recently on the phone, and I can tell you he is raring to go to get back on the trail. | ||
| Peter Navarro's message was that he was willing to go to prison so the rest of us don't have to. | ||
| And now I think we've got Bonnie with us. | ||
| Are you there? | ||
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Yes, can you hear me? | |
| I can, I can. | ||
| So thanks for joining us. | ||
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You can. | |
| Give us the update on how things are going with Peter. | ||
| Oh, great to have you. | ||
| How's Peter doing? | ||
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Yes, yes. | |
| Oh, thank you. | ||
| Thank you for having me. | ||
| And thank you, War Room Posse. | ||
| You know, we're really excited to, you know, a few more days so we can hold each other and hug each other again. | ||
| You know, I felt like I've been in prison, you know, just as he is. | ||
| I can't call him. | ||
| I, you know, I can't be with him. | ||
| So it's really hard. | ||
| But we're very excited to have and see at the convention, Donald J. Trump sworn in and elected again. | ||
| So it's been really, really one of the most challenging times | ||
| in my life. | ||
| But we're really just really happy. | ||
| I couldn't smile, like, when I first came to the War Room with Steve Bannon some months ago. | ||
| You know, I was, you know, just really sad, and it's really been hard. | ||
| But thanks to the support of you, Matt, and War Room Posse and people. | ||
| And my family, mostly my sister Mary, I have to give a shout out to you. | ||
| I don't know how I would make this, get through this without you. | ||
| So we're really excited to, you know, go to the convention and win in November. | ||
| Peter, in his typical fashion, has not allowed the time to languish. | ||
| I've been reading the memos he's been writing about everything from trade to prison reform. | ||
| Peter has really used this time in order to analyze how we can make the correction system | ||
| better, how President Trump's First Step Act could be appropriately implemented. | ||
| Talk a little bit about how this time has really shaped Peter's advocacy for prison | ||
| reform and for that feature of the Trump agenda. | ||
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Yes, we knew he was in there to save us, save our country, and restore the basic principles | |
| of the Constitution. | ||
| But I never knew he would get so involved in... | ||
| you Tough on crime, smart on crime. | ||
| And he's interviewed, you know, inmates and talked to them, and they've opened up with him. | ||
| And I really never knew, Matt, it was going to go to this level and the passion that he has now. | ||
| And he is there, and he sees the reality and the research. | ||
| And I really never knew it was going to be to this level. | ||
| But he is working, and will work, as you know—worked, working, and will work—on You know, prison reform, as you know, you know, tough on crime, but smart on crime. | ||
| It will really make the difference. | ||
| And he's making a difference, you know, like you said, working every day for what I've mentioned before and prison reform. | ||
| I think in my first discussion I was able to have with him, he said, Matt, I know a way to find billions of dollars. | ||
| And he was analyzing the efficacies and the different ways that the correction system could work in compliance with the law. | ||
| So it may be the deep state's way. | ||
| worst nightmare that they sent Peter there because now he's been behind the wall and | ||
| Yes! | ||
| he's got all kinds of ideas. | ||
| But you know, maybe we don't know God's plan at all times. | ||
| Certainly I've been surprised by it in my own life. | ||
| But maybe part of God's plan was to see that all of these great talents that Peter has | ||
| for analysis and observation could be used in a way to have a cascading positive effect | ||
| on so many other people. | ||
| Do you draw some hope and inspiration from that? | ||
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Yes, yes, absolutely. | |
| And a lot of, you know, criminals, you know, they go back to jail afterwards because in the prisons often, you know, they, you know, if they're, you know, if they're given five years, you know, they should be given one year. | ||
| And it's just so much and so much burden on the families and the children. | ||
| Well, you've borne that burden here. | ||
| Do you ever, you know, this is a remarkable moment in the history of your family, of this program, Peter being such an essential part of the connection that the war room has to the posse. | ||
| Do you ever think about how history is going to reflect on this moment, like for America, where as a country, we came to the moment of using people Like Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon and Donald Trump as symbols of really the repression that the left has brought in this commingling of criminal justice and politics. | ||
| You think history will view it through the lens of hypocrisy? | ||
| Share that. | ||
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Yeah, it just breaks my heart, I mean, to have Peter behind bars, but what breaks my heart, and like with Ana Paulina, you know, all the work that she's done, and you know, tried to get, you know, the tapes, and you know, Garland, you know, he needs to step up. | |
| And Peter is an example. | ||
| Anyway, I've had so much heartache in the past month, but so much hope. | ||
| And, you know, to see the hypocrisy, it's hypocrisy that's just, you know, just breaks my heart even more, because we love this country so much. | ||
| And in a way, it's that hypocrisy that has strangled the nation. | ||
| I mean, for the last 30 or 40 years, because you get people here in Washington who become, like, slavishly loyal to that construct of hypocrisy. | ||
| This is, I think, the special power that we see in people like Peter, like Steve Bannon, like Donald Trump. | ||
| They have a special way to force their enemy and opposition to expose themselves. | ||
| And you see, I think at the end of all of this, It's going to be, it's going to be the act of revelation. | ||
| We are going to see the enemy revealed, and we've seen that at the Department of Justice, we've seen that with other institutions that were previously deeply admired in American life, and for good reason. | ||
| But we've suffered institutional capture in Washington, where the left has really rolled through a lot of these places and they've filled the billets, and that's why the work of the war impasse is so important because when we get | ||
| Donald Trump back in office it is not enough to just have the beach | ||
| head it is not enough just to have the masthead we've got to have talented people that we can slot into | ||
| thousands of positions in this government because if you just say that | ||
| that we're aloof to that that we're indifferent that we're above | ||
| it that we're not gonna gonna mire ourselves in the mud and the | ||
| swamp well then we leave those institutions vulnerable to the capture that has resulted in the unfair treatment of | ||
| Trump and Bannon Yes, absolutely. | ||
| I know, Bonnie, you've been through tough times. | ||
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And we have to be fearless. | |
| But I tell you, there's light at the end of the tunnel. | ||
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More people have to be fearless. | |
| You know, and stand up for the, for, for principles. | ||
| And it's about action, action, action. | ||
| And, you know, I know Peter's a warrior, you as well, Steve Bannon, many, you know, others. | ||
| But, you know, hopefully more people will be, will be, you know, you know, less afraid knowing that we can make, you know, standing up fearless can, you know, can make a difference, you know. | ||
| And his book, we're really excited about. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Go. | ||
| Plug the book real quick. | ||
| We've got just a few seconds, but go ahead and say how folks can pre-order. | ||
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That's what, you know, makes us so happy, too. | |
| The new MAGA deal. | ||
| It's coming out next week. | ||
| You can all go to newmagadeal.com and purchase a copy. | ||
| Warren Posse, tell your friends, family, you can buy it today. | ||
| The new MAGA deal. | ||
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Awesome. | |
| When he gets out next week, he's going to sign some book plates, so people can have signed copies. | ||
| We'll get those out. | ||
| We'll make sure folks can get it. | ||
| Peter Navarro, great American. | ||
| Bonnie, thanks for joining us. | ||
| We've got a big special guest coming next, John Rich. | ||
| Stay with the. | ||
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♪♪ ♪♪ | |
| ♪ Dancing in the flames, the people cursed his name. ♪ Bowed at the altar of the father of lies. | ||
| But there's a number to their days, and all their evil ways. | ||
| The Lord's gonna turn away from all their cries Oh, revelation | ||
| I can feel it coming like a dark train running Oh, get ready | ||
| Cause the King is coming The King is coming back again | ||
| Good friend John Rich, we'll be coming back Brimstone upon their heads | ||
| And uh, there is probably no man on the planet earth that has saved more horses and gotten more cowboys ridden than | ||
| my good friend John Rich He's written Revelation, you're hearing it there on The War Room, just released today. | ||
| JR, thanks for being with me, man. | ||
| Tell me what brought you to write this great song and the message you're trying to share with it. | ||
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Well, so it's been a long time since the Book of Revelation was written. | |
| The Apostle John wrote it a few decades after Jesus was crucified. | ||
| And throughout history, preachers and just regular folks couldn't make a lot of sense out of how some of those prophecies could ever possibly come true. | ||
| For instance, the Mark of the Beast is something nobody could really understand. | ||
| I don't know how you could track everybody on planet Earth and know how and when and where they spend their money, for instance. | ||
| And so now we all know, oh no, that's not only possible, they're doing that actively as we speak. | ||
| And so I was thinking about the era that we're currently in and that the book of Revelation is more immediate than it's ever been. | ||
| And so I sat down and wrote this song. | ||
| I'm not sure anybody in any genre that I can find has ever even approached this subject musically. | ||
| So the song came out today. | ||
| It depicts in the video the devil and Michael the Archangel coming through these portals out in the woods of Tennessee on either side of an old country church. | ||
| Michael pulls out a sword. | ||
| He starts coming towards the devil. | ||
| The devil's holding a ball of fire, his evil against that righteousness, and I'm standing right in the middle of it. | ||
| So it has absolutely gone nuts on Twitter and on Truth Social. | ||
| And other places people are finding it and going, wow, I've never seen anything like it. | ||
| And thank you to you, man, for inviting me on this morning and for re- | ||
| Dancing in the flames, the people cursed his name Bowed at the altar of the father of lies | ||
| There's a number to their days, and all their evil ways The Lord's gonna turn away from all their cries | ||
| Cold reversation I can feel it coming like a dark train running | ||
| Cold, get ready Cause the king is coming, the king is coming back again | ||
| Brimstone upon their heads, millstones around their necks They'll feel the shaking when the trumpet sounds | ||
| We're back live. | ||
| We had a few technical issues there, but we're here with John, and we only got you for a couple more minutes, John, but explain to us how, like, the conflict that we experience in the world today and in our lives served as an inspiration for, you know, lyrics like this that really showcase how conflict is necessary to get through what we're experiencing. | ||
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Well, in the Book of Ephesians, it says, We wrestle not with flesh and blood, but with principalities and powers and the rulers of the darkness of this earth. | |
| In places of spiritual wickedness. | ||
| And so as we're caught up in Trump and Biden and left and right and all the things going on, you got to remember the real war is going on behind the scenes. | ||
| And that's what this song is depicting. | ||
| When you see the devil come out of the woods and Michael, the archangel come out of the woods and I'm standing in between them as they intend to engage in battle. | ||
| That is what is really going on on this planet. | ||
| I don't think this song has ever been written before. | ||
| I don't think anybody's ever even tried to write this subject before until now. | ||
| So I hope everybody sees it. | ||
| Where can people get it? | ||
| Where can people go download the song and get it? | ||
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You can get it anywhere you get your music. | |
| iTunes is where I would send you Amazon Music. | ||
| The video is on YouTube and Rumble on both of my channels. | ||
| Forward it to all your people. | ||
| Make a statement. | ||
| Spread the word. | ||
| So you're in Ohio tonight. | ||
| Are you with the rest of my friends in the music mafia? | ||
| How are you going to be spending your evening? | ||
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Gretchen Wilson, Cowboy Troy, Big Kenny, the whole Hee Haw gang. | |
| We're doing a big show with Laney Wilson tonight, so it's going to be a lot of fun. | ||
| John Rich of Big & Rich. | ||
| He's got the hottest new song in the world right now, Revelation. | ||
| You're going to want to see the video. | ||
| Download it on iTunes. | ||
| John, tell all of my good friends in the Mafia I send my love, especially Gretchen. | ||
| She's got a special spirit of that badass American woman that we love in Florida One and we love in the War Room. | ||
| Take care, my friend. | ||
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We'll do it. | |
| We'll do it, sir. | ||
| Take care. | ||
| That was John Rich and you know there is this uh... there's this feature of culture where oftentimes we surrender to the left the ability to make the art and make them music and make the movies and then that results in a real indoctrination in this country that shifts away from core principles and I mean we we see the way turning over some of these tools to our enemies and adversaries within our own country can lead to cultural decline and you look at at uh... japan this was a nation of samurai warriors and we've basically turn them into a country of hello kitty freaks at this point and that can seep in and when you got folks like john rich kid rock others out there creating making | ||
| It enlightens a lot of people, and it's inviting. | ||
| And that's what has to be enduring about this movement. | ||
| We spend a lot of time in the war room going over the tactics, the bills. | ||
| Grace sends out the bill blaster. | ||
| We bring pressure to bear. | ||
| But at the end of the day, for this to grow, It has to be an inviting thing. | ||
| People have to want to be a part of it. | ||
| And you look at the left today, and they are just so sour and angry and trans and miserable, and who would want to be a part of all of that? | ||
| Meanwhile, the America First movement, it is ascendant, it is a shining incandescent light, and it's really one of the reasons why we're seeing a lot of these shifts. | ||
| Richard Barris was talking about it earlier, the way men Of every background, of every race, of every ethnic group, of every income level coming to the Republican Party. | ||
| It is making us resilient. | ||
| And you know, there's a lot of work the Trump campaign is doing right now in these states that are going to decide the election. | ||
| And what we're starting to see is if they make this big switch to Kamala, Uh, they may, they may see like, you know, a slight improvement in national polls because they do a little better in California or New York or Connecticut. | ||
| But where this thing is going to be won or lost, where we are filling the billets, right? | ||
| Those folks are not going to have a favorable view of this. | ||
| And you also get to the bigger existential problem they have in in that democratic caucus where you see a real division between the front liners and those in really safe seats and it's no surprise that when joe biden found himself in this perilous position that he ran immediately to the congressional black caucus that's his core base of support and a lot not all so some members the black caucus are are frontline members in in competitive districts but by and large | ||
| The membership of the Congressional Black Caucus is made up of people in very safe Democrat districts. | ||
| And so they don't have to worry that Joe Biden falling 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 points is going to change their livelihood, their power center, their willing to sacrifice some of their own party members in service of this loyalty to Joe Biden. | ||
| And that doesn't seem to be sitting so well with the people that are up for sacrifice. | ||
| But then there's another echelon, right? | ||
| So you got the really safe folks, that includes a lot of Congressional Black Caucus. | ||
| You got the folks in, you know, maybe D plus one, R plus one, D plus three seats. | ||
| But the folks I'm watching are the group I'll call the new Biden frontliners. | ||
| These are people who, in a normal congressional contest, a normal presidential election cycle, might be D plus 8, D plus 12, or 15. | ||
| I have been privy to some of the conversations where people who never had to worry about campaigning in a general election before are now sweating bullets because their consultants their media buyers their pollsters are all coming back and saying well you know you you won your last race by double digits but now i mean joe biden's running even or down or within the margin of error and you know there's only so much you can outrun the top of the ticket so that is where there's real resentment not in the people who are always frontliners as much certainly not people in the safe districts but if you're a new biden frontliner because he has made you one | ||
| There is anxiety, there is panic, and there's a batch that that group has to deal with in the CBC, no doubt. | ||
| But, you know, Roy, Chip Roy, who was on the program earlier, he made the argument that rather than doing what what so often is the natural instinct of the republicans and surrender the battlefield and you know maybe it may be used maybe you give the other team the opportunity to formulate their own circular firing squad | ||
| But I actually think this is the moment to apply pressure. | ||
| I think when you see the opposition's cracks and their frailty and their weaknesses, that's when you attack. | ||
| And there are a few ways you can do that. | ||
| Of course, the SAVE Act to save the American vote, one important tool to do that. | ||
| I'm glad we forced Democrats to take a vote on that. | ||
| We actually had a few join us, but most were exposed in their desire to Put the unconstitutional, illegal votes of non-citizens into the pool of legitimate ballots, thus diluting our republic. | ||
| That's what they exposed themselves as being okay with. | ||
| But I actually think there are some other votes that we should ripen and that we should put on the floor. | ||
| I think that we should have a vote on whether or not Joe Biden should take a cognitive test. | ||
| How would that go? | ||
| How many Democrats would vote against Joe Biden taking a cognitive test at this point? | ||
| So that does either one of two things. | ||
| That either showcases that they don't have confidence that this guy should be at the top of our government, or it drives Democrats into the arms of Joe Biden, which is like rats swimming toward a sinking ship. | ||
| You don't usually see it, but it can have its advantages. | ||
| What about the nuclear codes? | ||
| Does anyone really believe that guy should be in charge of the nuclear codes? | ||
| Let's have that debate. | ||
| Let's see what Democrats want to come to the floor of the House to take time in opposition to some check we have on Joe Biden's ability to, like, start a nuclear war because he's mad he's getting pushed out of power. | ||
| I don't know that he would do it, but I don't know that Joe Biden remembers what he had for breakfast this morning, much less the complex dynamics that are laid out. | ||
| And while there are probably some at the White House patting themselves on the back for the press conference and the teleprompter heavily practiced speech that we saw last night, but trust me, the worry in the Democratic Party is actually up. | ||
| I think there was a play. | ||
| For some of these trying to get Biden out of the way, you put him in the speech environment, you put him in the high-pressure environment, do it over and over, Lester Holt, Stephanopoulos, and then maybe he'll just decide he doesn't want to do this anymore. | ||
| But Grandpa is not giving his keys up that easily. | ||
| He is holding on to them. | ||
| Jill Biden is holding on to that First Lady title. | ||
| Hunter Biden is holding on to his White House credentials now. | ||
| This has become a family business. | ||
| And oftentimes is the case, if you ain't part of the family, you ain't part of the business. | ||
| And that's what Ron Klain and Steve Reschetti and a number of these aides are starting to experience. | ||
| They're starting to see The clash, the divide, and the meeting is coming with Obama and Pelosi and the other major players in the Democratic Party to drive Joe Biden out to have their own version of replacement theory. | ||
| We'll be here watching it, covering it. | ||
| Stay with The War Room. | ||
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We'll be right back. | |
| I have spoken with him extensively. | ||
| He made clear then, and he has made clear since, that he is in this race. | ||
| The matter is closed. | ||
| He had reiterated that this morning. | ||
| He has reiterated that to the public. | ||
| Joe Biden is our nominee. | ||
| He is not leaving. | ||
| That is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Congresswoman from New York. | ||
| Joe Biden is the nominee. | ||
| She considers the matter closed. | ||
| This is like when she canceled brunch and said, we're not going back to brunch. | ||
| It's closed. | ||
| It's Biden. | ||
| And I've got a little theory of the case here. | ||
| When you look at people like AOC, like Ro Khanna, people who want to run for president in 2028 on the Democratic side, they will ride the corpse of Joe Biden through this election. | ||
| Because any risk That Kamala Harris would be the president and then they wouldn't have their chance to run in 2028 is a risk that they are not willing to take. | ||
| Now, you know, we went over with Barris how it's incredibly unlikely that Harris would be a more likely candidate to win. | ||
| But they don't want to see it. | ||
| It's the biggest tell that a Washington Democrat wants to run for president, that they have bear-hugged Joe Biden and Kana and AOC. | ||
| Two very interesting people. | ||
| They seem to be with Biden. | ||
| But not all Democrats are sharing that perspective. | ||
| Joining me right now, Tennessee Congressman, Republican, good friend of mine, great firebrand, friend of the posse, Tim Burchett. | ||
| My main man from Rocky Top, Tim, you have been privy to some of the discussions that Democrats have been having about the reaction of their voters and the grassroots. | ||
| What are you able to share with the posse about the state of play in the presidential contest? | ||
| Well, it's a good thing that I don't drink because I can retain things when people maybe are. | ||
| I was with actually one Democrat and then another one walked up who was one of the early defectors of this and he's from a very liberal area. | ||
| And he said something to me about, he said, yeah, he said, I remember, you know, when you were in the doghouse with your party, when y'all dumped the speaker, you and Matt Gaetz and the other of us did. | ||
| And he said, and I said, yeah. | ||
| And I said, well, this too will pass. | ||
| And then I see him the next day and somebody says, how are the calls in your district? | ||
| And he said five to one in favor of dumping Biden. | ||
| Five. | ||
| And this is in a very liberal district and this is their grassroots. | ||
| So I think you really and you nailed it on those folks wanting to be president. | ||
| But the interesting thing is none of them are jumping out right now because I think they'd have to say they embrace these crazy policies that have wrecked this country. | ||
| Well, in AOC's case, she wrote a few of them. | ||
| So I think she wouldn't have any problem embracing the disruption of our energy marketplace, the disruption of our monetary system, the inflation, the debt. | ||
| She actually doesn't think we've gone into enough debt on a lot of those fronts. | ||
| Tim, you and I have talked about the weaponization of this government a lot. | ||
| It was frustrating to me to see the Republicans moving spending bills that didn't seem to have sufficiently deep cuts and sufficiently appropriate restrictions on what we see the Bureau of Prisons doing or the Department of Justice doing. | ||
| You and I did not vote for The legislative branch funding bill that came to the floor increased spending even above Nancy Pelosi levels. | ||
| What can you tell the posse, and I ask this same question of Andy Biggs, about how hard it is to manifest any spending cut on anything in the United States Congress? | ||
| Well, it's ridiculous that we run as Republicans. | ||
| I think we ought to look at what happened in Europe. | ||
| You know, they kicked out all the conservatives over there, and the reason they kicked them out? | ||
| They didn't respect their border. | ||
| They didn't put in economic policies that they said to. | ||
| It's what I've said all along. | ||
| I was in a Little Marshall County last night, way over in Middle Tennessee. | ||
| And man, they love you, and they love the posse, and they love Steve Bannon. | ||
| But they talked about that type of thing. | ||
| They talked about, why can't you all cut some of this spending? | ||
| And I said, basically, it's the same thing. | ||
| These Republicans, and I want to blame our own party, man. | ||
| I know that's probably not the cool thing to do. | ||
| But our own party, we come home and we preach all this red meat, And, you know, and how we're going to get even with Nancy Pelosi and all this stuff. | ||
| And then what the hell do they do when they get back to D.C.? | ||
| They vote us down the river every dadgum time in these spending bills. | ||
| There was a simple amendment yesterday on the floor that Representative Jackson, he was a doctor. | ||
| He was Trump's doctor, actually, in the White House. | ||
| And it just said we're going to keep spending levels in our medical offices that we have control over to the 2020 level. | ||
| And the bill didn't pass. | ||
| You know, it's just, it's because we've got these little victims and we've got these chairmen who pay to play, they raise enough money, they're in the lobbyist's pocket, K Street, and they sell us down the river every dadgum time. | ||
| We've got to start holding these people accountable. | ||
| And I hope when Donald Trump is back in that we do some, we do some housecleaning. | ||
| Yeah, there was one of them we held accountable, and I don't think he's walking the streets of Bakersfield anymore. | ||
| But with Trump back, we hope that courage is contagious. | ||
| We've got the big Republican National Convention coming up this week. | ||
| You know, Tim, you're widely respected in the Congress as somebody who understands every man. | ||
| You know, the regular Joe, the lunch bucket guy out in this country. | ||
| What do you think is the most important message for Republicans to crystallize in this critically important coming week? | ||
| I think we better crystallize the fact that we've got to secure our dadgum border, Matt. | ||
| I think people are irate with the crime, the rape, the things that are going on, you know, out and everywhere I go. | ||
| And also they, I mean, honestly, I hear a lot about Steve Bannon and why are we not standing up for him? | ||
| Why isn't our leadership? | ||
| I know that's not a convention issue, that's more of a congressional issue, but I knock on doors and I'm at everything out here and In my counties and all over the state, actually. | ||
| But the border situation, to me, is probably the most infuriating. | ||
| When they see jobs being taken, they see crime happening, and they know. | ||
| It's our national chamber of commerce. | ||
| And again, our own party, we're in the majority. | ||
| We ought to be sticking it to them. | ||
| And they really aren't seeing that. | ||
| When Trump gets back in, I thought he made a good job in the debate. | ||
| Nothing's really been said about it. | ||
| They all just say, well, Trump lied. | ||
| They don't say how he lied. | ||
| He told the truth. | ||
| He said under his leadership of what happened, Americans are $600 more out of pocket every month just for groceries and working people They don't live in the beltway. | ||
| They're not making six or seven figures like a lot of these cats are in DC. | ||
| The working people are really sucking wind right now. | ||
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And then they want to say that we got more jobs to fill. | |
| We've got to cut you off there, Tim. | ||
| We've got to put those working people at the center of the convention. | ||
| I think the border is the critical issue we have to address. | ||
| It's going to bring people to the Republican side, and we have to have a fighting force. | ||
| We know the posse's a fighting force. | ||
| Trump is. | ||
| Bannon is. | ||
| Navarro is. | ||
| I'll fight for you every day. | ||
| Thanks for having my back. | ||
| Thanks for letting me come and steer the war room. |
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