July 22, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| Breaking news right now. | ||
| President Biden has decided to step out of the race for the White House. | ||
| I'm going to read you the statement that he released in full. | ||
| My fellow Americans, over the past three and a half years, we have made great progress as a nation. | ||
| Today, America has the strongest economy in the world. | ||
| We've made historic investments in rebuilding our nation, in lowering prescription drug costs for seniors, and in expanding affordable health care to a record number of Americans. | ||
| We've provided critically needed care to a million veterans exposed to toxic substances, passed the first gun safety law in 30 years, appointed the first African-American woman to the Supreme Court, and passed the most significant climate legislation in the history of the world. | ||
| America has never been better positioned to lead than we are today. | ||
| I know none of this could have been done without you, the American people. | ||
| Together, we overcame a once-in-a-century pandemic and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. | ||
| We've protected and preserved our democracy, and we've revitalized and strengthened our alliances around the world. | ||
| It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve you as your president. | ||
| And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term. | ||
| Joe Biden is grounded. | ||
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He's grounded in his faith, in his family and in our state. | |
| Excuse me. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| This was a very difficult decision. | ||
| Joe Biden is a patriot. | ||
| I love him. | ||
| I love his family. | ||
| And I love what he's done for the country. | ||
| He had authenticity and touch, whether you saw it or not. | ||
| But everything about him, even sometimes the stutter and the bumbling, was part of the touch, part of the sort of empathic, very loving, very clear-eyed touch that he had that allowed | ||
| him and enabled him to be an effective president. But all that turned against | ||
| him after the debate for all the reasons that we discussed and he would say no | ||
| time to complain about it. Let's move on. It's go time. I mean this is just | ||
| this is history writ We'll all remember where we were and what we're doing at this moment. | ||
| And just thinking about the president right now, what a man, what a patriot, what an act of selfless devotion to your country. | ||
| And he has been a phenomenal president. | ||
| He brought us back from COVID. | ||
| He, you know, gave us the best recovery from COVID of any major nation on Earth at a time when the world has economically been struggling in the wake of COVID. | ||
| The Biden economy is literally the envy of the world. | ||
| He ended the presidency of Donald Trump at one disastrous term. | ||
| And he did it while being decent and civil and honorable and normal and occasionally boring at a time when boring was absolutely what we needed. | ||
| And I just, you know, his career of decades in public service as a senator and as a very successful vice president and as a phenomenally successful president There is no single thing that he has done in that entire career that is a greater or more consequential act of service and sacrifice to this country than what he has done today. | ||
| And I cannot... I mean, knowing him a little bit, knowing his personality, having spoken to him, you know, a number of times in my life, both in sort of official and unofficial capacities, I cannot see anywhere in his personality where this decision today was possible. | ||
| This is the opposite of something that is natural or easy for him. | ||
| He is just not built to do something like this, because his superpower is being underestimated. | ||
| And that's why he's been so resolute in resisting all these calls for him to drop out. | ||
| But him making this decision today is to give the country a chance, a reasonable chance, at not putting Donald Trump back in the White House. | ||
| not putting a president back in the White House who refused to leave the last time | ||
| and summoned an angry mob to try to overthrow the government rather than go. | ||
| This is Joe Biden saying, apparently it's not me, | ||
| the one that gives us the best chance to do that. | ||
| It's gotta be somebody else. | ||
| And so I will step aside. | ||
| I'm just blown away by the sacrifice and the patriotism that this moment embodies. | ||
| Donald Trump is not easy to beat. | ||
| He is not easy to beat. | ||
| And anyone who thinks he is, is back at 2016 when they're laughing at the concept. | ||
| And you can see how quickly they tried to steal the unity narrative. | ||
| And I've heard from inside Republican circles and right-wing media that the hate campaign against Kamala Harris has begun. | ||
| You'll notice. | ||
| They purposefully pronounce her name wrong. | ||
| They say Kamala. | ||
| They do it all the time. | ||
| It is on purpose. | ||
| But the talk is to start that hate campaign and get it going and start it churning. | ||
| So my hope is that major Democrats and major Republicans from the Obamas to the Bush family to military leaders get behind the democracy ticket and we move on. | ||
| That same lens Whether it's opinion writers or thought leaders, that same lens, that focus needs to be put back on Donald Trump because he's the old one now and many would argue he has been unfit since day one of his first presidency. | ||
| And if you use that same lens You will find a man who is mentally unfit every day, who doesn't make sense every day. | ||
| When he does make sense, he sounds like a white nationalist. | ||
| When he does make sense, he seems to be in love with Vladimir Putin. | ||
| When he does make sense, he calls the convicted criminals who rioted at the Capitol, defecated all over the Capitol, tried to kill the Vice President and Nancy Pelosi, the people who were convicted and in prison, he calls them hostages and says he will pardon them. | ||
| And obviously he's a man who tried to steal a free and fair election. | ||
| So, Simone, how does the lens, the same lens, in all fairness, get put back on Donald Trump, the lens that was used on Joe Biden when he had moments where he seemed a little bit less than clear? | ||
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Look, I think, um, across the board, not obviously here at this proverbial table we are at, but across the board, people have to get serious about Donald Trump and J.D. | |
| Vance. | ||
| And I mean, this whole, I don't understand how they sold this new tone mess. | ||
| post the assassination attempt because Donald Trump has been clear exactly | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| about who he is. He's never minced words about who he is, what he believes, and | ||
| how he rolls. And so the idea that, I mean, after you saw Ron Johnson on that | ||
| stage during the Republican National Convention and Carrie Lake literally | ||
| pointing up to the press saying, putting, targeting the press in her convention | ||
| I don't think that was in the prompter. | ||
| There was going to be some new tone I didn't understand. | ||
| And then we got to Donald Trump, who literally halfway through the speech, when he decided to go off the teleprompter, when he started shouting out people's names, that's what he does at a Trump rally. | ||
| We, America, witnessed a Trump rally in primetime last week and I'm so glad that they were able to see it. | ||
| But people have to vigorously cover the Trump Vance campaign because you have to take Donald Trump at his word, what he's saying he will do. | ||
| Sometimes his words are slurred, okay, and we need to ask why. | ||
| We're going to be speaking with Senator Elizabeth Warren in just a moment, as again, we are seeing just the floodgates open in terms of the Democratic Party throwing the full weight of its influence and its money behind the candidacy of Kamala Harris. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| You're not going to free shot 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. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
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It's going to happen. | |
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
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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. | |
| It's Monday, 22 July in the year of our Lord. | ||
| I am Mike Davis, the next man up, filling in for Steve Bannon, a political prisoner of Biden, in The Clink right now, co-hosting with me today for the first hour is Josh Hammer of Newsweek, my colleague at the Article 3 Project, and in the second hour, My co-host will be Monica Crowley. | ||
| It's going to be a great show, and I'd like to bring in Josh Hammer now. | ||
| It's epic news coming out this weekend. | ||
| I mean, look what Biden tried to do to Trump. | ||
| The Biden Democrats, they tried to bankrupt President Trump. | ||
| They tried to throw him in prison for the rest of his life. | ||
| They tried to take him off the ballots. | ||
| One of Trump's opponents tried to take off his head on national TV and it was by the grace of God, it was less than a centimeter and less than a millisecond that he was just in the right position at the right time and it saved his life. | ||
| This has been unbelievable and it's Donald Trump Who's still standing? | ||
| The Trump Republicans after the Republican National Convention are united and strong, and you have the Biden Democrats divided and weak and in chaos. | ||
| They just threw Joe Biden overboard, and now it is a A dogfight. | ||
| It was a bloodless coup by these Democrats to throw overboard Joe Biden. | ||
| He was the Democrats' useful idiot, and I guess he's no longer useful. | ||
| So I want to get your thoughts on this, Josh Hammer. | ||
| Well, Mike, look, I mean, you know, first of all, I mean, we think it's a bloodless coup. | ||
| I mean, we haven't even seen from the president in the past 24 hours. | ||
| I mean, so, you know, I don't necessarily want to jump right into that rabbit hole right off the bat now. | ||
| But it is more than a little weird that the president of the United States announced to the world that he is not running for reelection via tweet. | ||
| I think I saw someone on social media put it this way, it's basically the equivalent of breaking up | ||
| with your boyfriend or girlfriend of like five years via text message. | ||
| I mean, like you don't do that. | ||
| I mean, like go ahead and address the nation, be a man, have some dignity here. | ||
| So first of all, I mean, that element to me is just absolutely crazy, | ||
| but zooming out and kind of just focusing, I think on where the two parties currently are right now. | ||
| Mike, this is the starkest juxtaposition of where one party is versus where the other party is. | ||
| I think in my entire adult lifetime, you're looking now at a Republican party. | ||
| I mean, you were there in Milwaukee, I wasn't able to make it unfortunately. | ||
| This party is unified. | ||
| This party is unified and this party is ready to go. | ||
| You know, you had all the other various people who lost in the primary there, Haley DeSantis, they were all up there on stage. | ||
| This party is all in, especially in the aftermath, as you said, of the near assassination on national television of President Trump and after that remarkable speech he gave on Thursday evening. | ||
| The Republican Party is completely and wholly unified. | ||
| The Democratic Party, Mike, That is an epic and utter poop show right now. | ||
| I mean, I'm not sure that I have ever seen a political party as divided as this one currently is, let alone as divided just a couple of months, a few months now, three plus months to be exact, before the presidential election. | ||
| I mean, how is this going to end? | ||
| I don't pretend to know. | ||
| I don't pretend that anyone pretends to know. | ||
| How could they possibly know at this point? | ||
| I'm honestly somewhat shocked, Mike. | ||
| I mean, I contributed to this symposium that Politico magazine put up today. | ||
| They reached out to 15 so-called experts. | ||
| They got a quote from me. | ||
| And what I said was that I was shocked. | ||
| I was honestly shocked that this is how it ultimately went down. | ||
| I've been saying for over a year that I thought that Joe Biden would just power through. | ||
| He's wanted to be president of the United States since literally before I was born. | ||
| He first ran for president in 1988. | ||
| I was literally born in 1989. | ||
| He's got this Lady Macbeth wife. | ||
| He's got the drug-addled prodigal son, Hunter, who desperately needs a presidential pardon, which, you know, he's gonna get one way or the other, I suppose. | ||
| But I did not see it unfolding like this. | ||
| I really, really, really didn't. | ||
| And they've got their coup. | ||
| You know, Nancy Pelosi is the big winner yesterday. | ||
| She was the ringleader all along. | ||
| Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama definitely had, you know, their hands are definitely bloody here as well. | ||
| But I don't think this is going to work out well for the Democrats, Mike. | ||
| I would love your take on that, but I mean, at the end of the day, the American people care about democracy, and this is a party that purports to care about democracy that first tried to do what you just said, Mike. | ||
| They tried to take Donald Trump off of the ballot, the most quintessentially undemocratic thing literally in the textbook. | ||
| Second, they tried to, as you and I discussed every single day, they're trying to incarcerate him, prosecute him across four different jurisdictions, trying to bankrupt the Trump Organization, the whole Arthur and Goran corporate fraud nonsense. | ||
| And this party, in their own primary, Mike, and I'll close with this, in their own primary, They closed down all of their rivals. | ||
| You know, Dean Phillips ran this token campaign with zero, zero, zero, zero support from anyone in power at the Democratic National Committee. | ||
| They ran the most undemocratic Democratic primary, you know, irony fully on display there. | ||
| And now we're going to hold you over. | ||
| We're going to hold you over through the break, Josh, and we're going to get your thoughts on the other side of the break. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. | |
| Welcome back to The War Room. | ||
| I'm Mike Davis with my co-host Josh Hammer from the Article 3 Project and Newsweek. | ||
| We also have Charlie Spearing from the Daily Mail. | ||
| He is the author of a book that's pretty relevant right now. | ||
| It's called Amateur Hour, Kamala Harris in the White House. | ||
| And let's just talk about that, Charlie, right off the bat. | ||
| Tell us about your thoughts on Kamala Harris. | ||
| Yeah, Mike, I first wrote this book. | ||
| People were asking me, why are you writing a book about the vice president? | ||
| That's not necessarily a big, important topic right now. | ||
| But my reply was she could very really be the 47th president of the United States in a position that no other vice president has been in a long time. | ||
| So it really focused on who is Kamala Harris? | ||
| What was her relationship with Willie Brown? | ||
| Like, and how did that catapult her to the upper echelons of power in California? | ||
| And how did she end up being Biden's running mate, even though she failed spectacularly during her 2020 campaign? | ||
| That's kind of what we cover in the book, and it's good material for anybody looking up for, you know, who is the candidate behind the word salads. | ||
| So Charlie, in your book Amateur Hour, let's talk about other than winning elections, what has Kamala Harris accomplished in her political career? | ||
| Well, it's a real difficulty, Mike. | ||
| She really has sort of stood up on social issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. | ||
| That's been sort of the highlight of her time in California. | ||
| But her biggest, of course, her biggest claim to fame is tormenting Trump officials while being in the Senate. | ||
| Asking them questions, making them uncomfortable. | ||
| The Democratic elites certainly liked that, certainly saw her as possibly presidential | ||
| material. | ||
| But as soon as she got to her campaign, it was very, very difficult for her to tout her | ||
| accomplishments because she didn't have any. | ||
| She was very good at positioning herself and changing her mind on several issues, but didn't | ||
| really come off as very authentic to Democratic voters who ultimately sort of turned aside | ||
| her campaign. | ||
| And that had to end before she even got to Iowa. | ||
| Josh Hemmer, jump in here. | ||
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| Hey, Charlie, you got Josh Hammer here. | ||
| So, Charlie, I mean, you wrote the literal book on this. | ||
| So is this thing a foregone conclusion? | ||
| I mean, put on your kind of crystal ball, so to speak. | ||
| I mean, how do you see this? | ||
| How do you see this playing out over the next few weeks in the lead up to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago? | ||
| Is this a done deal for Kamala? | ||
| Yeah, I think she certainly starts off strong. | ||
| You know, she made all the calls and got even potential challengers on board to back her claim to the throne, as it were. | ||
| Very interesting that Gretchen Whitmer has still not endorsed her. | ||
| interesting that Barack Obama has also not stepped in to sort of crown her. | ||
| It appears that Obama wants a sort of open process, whereas Biden and certainly the Clintons | ||
| have already gotten on board with the Kamala Harris claim to the throne. | ||
| So it'll be very interesting going forward. | ||
| I think she certainly has a strong lead here. | ||
| Not many Democrats, even with a possible political future, want to step in this mess. | ||
| It's one that not many people would want to take on, running a presidential campaign in | ||
| 100 days and hoping that you can compete with Trump, who's never looked stronger. | ||
| We have President Biden who has put his Vice President Kamala Harris in charge of the border. | ||
| She's the border czar. | ||
| And over the last three and a half years, we have had the biggest mass invasion in American history. | ||
| Over 10 million illegal immigrants, unvetted and unvettable fighting age men from some of the worst trouble spots around the world. | ||
| and that we've had this resulting migrant crime where people are getting raped and murdered | ||
| and robbed and kidnapped. | ||
| Talk about Kamala Harris and her competence. | ||
| Let's talk about what this means for America's national security if she's the president of the United States. | ||
| Absolutely, Mike. | ||
| It's a big issue because, and this is something the Trump campaign said during the Republican convention, Chris LaCivita, when talking to reporters, he said the number one issue they're going after Kamala on is that that sort of failed borders our position. | ||
| Harris famously wriggled out of that assignment, you know, claiming she was only in charge of the root causes. | ||
| But Republicans successfully painted her as responsible and incapable of handling a serious crisis. | ||
| And it's really one of her first tests of leadership that she obviously failed. | ||
| And Republicans feel like they have a really great position to go after her on that, because it's such a focal point of the election. | ||
| Charlie, one question that I've been talking and thinking about a lot for the past 24 hours or so. | ||
| I mean, if it actually is Kamala, I mean, who is the running mate going to be? | ||
| I mean, you said yourself a minute or so ago. | ||
| I mean, to me, this is kind of like hopping to be in the passenger seat of a kamikaze plane during the battle of Midway. | ||
| I mean, this is not exactly an enticing offer. | ||
| So, you know, there are a lot of rumors of like Josh Shapiro, who to me seems like he probably has better things to do. | ||
| But I'm just speculating here. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| I mean, if it is Kamala, Who are the two or three leading contenders to be her running mate? | ||
| Well, certainly Kamala would want a central figure in those Rust Belt states. | ||
| Trump picked J.D. | ||
| Vance for this issue, to tackle this issue of the Rust Belt states, to really bring home the message that Republicans represent you, not Democrats anymore. | ||
| So I think Kamala will sort of look for that kind of figure. | ||
| One interesting figure, not necessarily being named, but someone who very much wants the job, is Democratic Congressman Tim Ryan, who famously ran for Senate against J.D. | ||
| and was ultimately not picked by voters to serve in that seat. | ||
| Tim Ryan, I'm sure, would like a rematch with Vance. | ||
| And he is from Ohio and kind of has that rhetoric in his toolkit. | ||
| And it's also very interesting, he came out a couple days before | ||
| and said Kamala Harris should be the nominee and really did as much as he could to endorse her, | ||
| trying to convince Democrats that she was their best shot. | ||
| I mean, look at this. | ||
| Democrats have to win Pennsylvania. | ||
| So you would think it would make sense for Kamala Harris to pick Governor Shapiro, who is popular in Pennsylvania. | ||
| But the problem with picking Governor Shapiro is he's Jewish. | ||
| And so that turns off the Democrats' Hamas base and makes it very hard for Kamala Harris to win Michigan. | ||
| So the Democrats are in a real bind here with their VP pick. | ||
| Right now they have an incompetent, mentally incapacitated president of the United States, and some would argue that they have an incompetent, slightly less mentally incapacitated vice president of the United States. | ||
| So the VP pick for Kamala Harris might be a lot more important than VP picks in the past. | ||
| And I guess the question people should ask is, what state does Kamala Harris Yeah, I saw some Kamala Harris supporters talking over the weekend about how Harris might be stronger in states like Georgia or North Carolina. | ||
| So maybe the governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, could also be a potential VP pick. | ||
| Maybe you don't get all the Rust Belt states, but if you can pick off Georgia, that's a big win. | ||
| Um, it's certainly, I don't really see her picking a Josh Shapiro. | ||
| I don't, and I don't see Josh Shapiro, you know, the governor of Pennsylvania actually wanting to serve in this position because he has a bright political future on his own. | ||
| Yeah, so I agree with you about Josh Shapiro. | ||
| I mean, that is a name that's gotten floated a lot. | ||
| I think on the predicted betting market online, he probably is the leading contender right now. | ||
| But Charlie, I have the same instincts as you, which is I think he's a very viable 2028 contender. | ||
| So why would you try to go down with a sinking ship right now? | ||
| On the other hand, I mean, Democrats have a long habit of just falling in line. | ||
| And, you know, I think you'd be hard pressed to expect that if he's actually asked, that he would say no. | ||
| But I guess let's kind of zoom out for a little bit here. | ||
| So my own prediction is that I think that this bloodless coup is going to backfire tremendously on the Democrats. | ||
| I think that they're probably going to lose either way. | ||
| It's not looking good for them right now. | ||
| In my opinion, they probably would have been better off just trying to limp across the finish line with their shot dog rather than try to trade horses with like a hundred days to go. | ||
| I'm curious how you view that particular trade-off though, Charlie. | ||
| Yeah, what's very interesting about this trade-off is that there was no public passing of the torch from Biden to Harris. | ||
| There was no warm moment and exchange of friendly support and understanding from both Harris and Biden. | ||
| That's going to make it more difficult for Democrats to sort of process this sudden last-minute switch. | ||
| If Biden's not out there full-throatedly endorsing Harris, how are voters supposed to take it seriously? | ||
| If he's sort of disgruntled, bitter, and angry behind the scenes, which is what we've seen in reports, that makes it even more difficult for Harris to sort of pick up the torch and carry it past the finish line in November. | ||
| Charlie, let's come back to the national security issue. | ||
| We have a President of the United States who is stepping down as the Democrat presidential nominee. | ||
| Everyone knows he's not up to the job of running for the President of the United States, so how can he serve as the President of the United States? | ||
| Kamala Harris has known for years that Joe Biden is not mentally fit to serve as the president. | ||
| She has covered this up. | ||
| And how is this not a major national security threat to the United States that the president is not mentally fit and the vice president is not competent? | ||
| I mean, would this not be the perfect time for China to try to make a move on Taiwan, just like Russia made a move on Ukraine? | ||
| This is a national security problem for our country. | ||
| Yes, this kind of lingering transfer of power is going to be a big problem. | ||
| And maybe the Democrats are sort of keeping this card in their pocket. | ||
| If Kamala doesn't resonate as much as they hope, maybe Biden does step down eventually and pass the presidency to Kamala Harris. | ||
| That would significantly change things for Democrats and really make it clear that she is sort of the chosen successor. | ||
| So that's still a card that they're holding on to. | ||
| I don't know why they didn't just rip off the Band-Aid right away, but it'll be interesting to see if they try to use that in the future. | ||
| Yeah, Charlie, we're gonna hold you through the break that's coming up here, but Josh, go ahead. | ||
| No, Charlie, I just want to go back to Kamala briefly because, again, you literally wrote the book on this. | ||
| You're something of a subject matter expert. | ||
| Many of us don't fully understand Kamala Harris as an individual. | ||
| I mean, I don't claim to understand what exactly motivates Kamala Harris other than just power qua power. | ||
| I mean, this, this insatiable desire to just climb the ladders of power. | ||
| But when you come back on the other side, Charlie, I'm going to want to get your thoughts on that. | ||
| I mean, like, what actually drives her? | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| I really don't. | ||
| Charlie Spearing will be up after the break. | ||
| I'm co-hosting here with Josh Hamrin, Mike Davis, the Viceroy, the next man up for Steve Bannon. | ||
| And so we'll see you after the break. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | |
| Welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| I'm Mike Davis with the Article 3 Project. | ||
| Guest hosting today, the next man up for Steve Bannon. | ||
| My co-host is Josh Hammer with Newsweek and Article 3 Project. | ||
| We have Charlie Spearing up with his book, a great new book that's very relevant right now. | ||
| It's called Kamala Harris Or excuse me, it's called Amateur Hour Kamala Harris in the White House. | ||
| And I'll tell you, Charlie, I had the honor of working with Kamala Harris on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and it was Amateur Hour in the Senate. | ||
| So it doesn't surprise me that it's Amateur Hour in the Biden White House. | ||
| But talk about where can the viewers get your book and what are your coordinates? | ||
| Yes, absolutely. | ||
| Check out the book anywhere books are sold. | ||
| Kamala Harris, Amateur Hour, Kamala Harris in the White House. | ||
| It's available on Amazon or wherever books are sold. | ||
| And check me out on at Charlie Spearing on Truth Social and on Twitter. | ||
| I'm happy to bring up any questions the viewers have about Kamala Harris and do check out the book to understand exactly who she is and how she got where she is now. | ||
| Thank you very much for joining us, Charlie. | ||
| And Josh, we're going to go to the House Oversight Committee where the Chairman, James Comer, is having a critically important hearing trying to figure out what the hell happened on Saturday when a sniper got on the roof and almost killed the former and future President of the United States on live TV. | ||
| But we're going to go to the hearing now. | ||
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time period where those discussions are had about what the perimeter is going to look like, | |
| what the size of the event is, what the venue is, and then from there, there is a request made | ||
| to mitigate potential risk and threat. And I'm saying that on that day, | ||
| the requests that were pushed forward were granted. | ||
| So the Secret Service did not know that the gunman actually had a weapon before President | ||
| Trump was allowed to get up on the stage? | ||
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To the best of our knowledge and the facts that we have at this point, that is correct. | |
| So can you answer this question, which I think is on the mind of most Americans thinking about this? | ||
| How can a 20-year-old with his father's AR-15 assault weapon climb onto a roof with a direct 150-yard line of sight to the speaker's podium without the Secret Service or local police stopping him? | ||
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So again, sir, I will say we are nine days out from this event, and I would like to know those answers as well, which is why we are going through these investigations to be able to determine that fully. | |
| Okay, it's been reported that the shooter was not carrying a driver's license or any form of identification. | ||
| They had no idea who he was, but then he was quickly identified, I think within 30 minutes, by using the serial number on the AR-15 under a tracing system. | ||
| that is now controversial. | ||
| Some people say we should get rid of it. | ||
| Some people want to keep it. | ||
| But is that right, that the serial number was the key information which led to the identification | ||
| of the shooter? | ||
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That is my understanding, sir, yes. | |
| OK. | ||
| If an American citizen were just to stop you and say, Director Cheadle, we support your work | ||
| to the tune of billions of dollars and thousands and thousands of employees, what went wrong? | ||
| What would you say? | ||
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Again, knowing that we're nine days out, I would say, as I have said from the very outset, I accept responsibility for this tragedy. | |
| We are going to look into how this happened, and we are going to take corrective action to ensure that it never happens again. | ||
| Well, I appreciate that. | ||
| And I hope you will act with vigor and focus and intensity. | ||
| And it seems you understand the gravity and solemnity of this to the American people. | ||
| This is unbelievable. | ||
| We'll pull a Josh Hammer here on this. | ||
| We have this Jill Biden hand-picked DEI Secret Service Director. | ||
| We're nine days out from a former and future president of the United States almost having his head blown off On national TV, it was just merely by the grace of God that that did not happen. | ||
| We're nine days out and this DEI Secret Service Director doesn't have any answers. | ||
| He doesn't know how this 20-year-old kid got onto a roof. | ||
| This is after this Secret Service director intentionally defunded President Trump, did | ||
| not provide him enough Secret Service protection. | ||
| President Trump's Secret Service detail asked for more resources, and this DEI Secret Service | ||
| director said, no, we're not going to provide him more resources, even though he is the | ||
| leading presidential candidate. | ||
| They wanted to provide him the Secret Service detail of a former president like Jimmy Carter | ||
| sitting in a room down in Georgia instead of the president of the United States who's | ||
| running for office and is going to win back the White House, and he's doing rallies with | ||
| tens of thousands of people. | ||
| This is, look, this is inexcusable what this Secret Service Director has done here. | ||
| This is so much bigger than this DEI Secret Service Director. | ||
| I blame this on Joe Biden himself, and let me tell you why. | ||
| Joe Biden put in this director, they underfunded President Trump's Secret Service protection, | ||
| right? | ||
| President Biden ran this unprecedented, republic-ending lawfare and election interference against | ||
| President Trump. | ||
| They tried to bankrupt him. | ||
| They tried to throw Trump in prison for the rest of his life. | ||
| They tried to take him off the ballots. | ||
| And then when that didn't work, after President Biden ran this vicious campaign strategy that | ||
| President Trump is essentially a dictator who's going to destroy democracy and must | ||
| be stopped at any and all cost, and then talks about putting a bullseye on President Trump, | ||
| the assassination attempt on Saturday was a natural and probable result of this extreme | ||
| rhetoric, this campaign strategy, and this malicious denial of Secret Service protection. | ||
| Well, you know, first of all, Mike, you know, they've done a 180 on the denial of additional Secret Service detail. | ||
| I mean, this just broke over the weekend. | ||
| I mean, in the aftermath of the Butler, Pennsylvania tragedy, the Secret Service initially denied that they had in turn denied President Trump his request for additional Secret Service. | ||
| And then this weekend, you know, they kind of just dropped this footnote that you're going to have to scour to see. | ||
| And they were like, OK, you know what? | ||
| It's actually true. | ||
| We did deny. | ||
| Well, you know, shouldn't you have been forthright about that when people were asking those very questions in the first few hours, the first 12 to 24 hours in the aftermath of that horrific tragedy just nine days ago? | ||
| But, you know, my second point, Mike, you know, this DEI Secret Service Director, as you have very accurately and colorfully described her, Does she not have a morsel of pride or sense of shame or dignity or anything whatsoever in her body? | ||
| How did she not resign in disgrace within minutes, within minutes of what happened last Saturday? | ||
| If you are the head of the U.S. | ||
| Secret Service, you ultimately have one job, which is to keep the people safe, that your agency is tasked with keeping safe. | ||
| And as you said, We were literally within millimeters of a presidential assassination on national television in front of the world stage. | ||
| If she has any integrity in her body, this former Pepsi co-executive, the woman who came from packing Cheetos chips to now trying to protect presidents and comically failing at that, she would have been out of a job of her own volition prior to Congressman Comer having to drag her sorry butt before the House Oversight Committee today on Monday. | ||
| This thing is disgusting, Mike. | ||
| And the news cycle is just moving so quickly at this point. | ||
| We are currently in the midst of what I think has to be the craziest three to four week news cycle in a half century, maybe in American history, that I worry that people are going to forget about this. | ||
| The Biden news, Kamala Harris, this is dominating so much right now. | ||
| We almost had President Trump assassinated before the world to see nine days ago. | ||
| This is a scandal of the highest order. | ||
| The dude was there. | ||
| He had drone surveillance. | ||
| He literally flew a drone over the facility there. | ||
| Mike, look, I am increasingly of the opinion that there was just no way that he acted alone. | ||
| I'm not saying that there were additional bullets flying from other shooters, but surely he had outside help. | ||
| He had outside training. | ||
| He was able to case this entire field. | ||
| He had the drone surveillance there. | ||
| You're telling me this is just a 20-year-old community college kid with zero outside help? | ||
| I'm not buying it. | ||
| I don't claim to know who exactly was helping him, but this whole thing just stinks to high heaven to me, and I fear that this DEI Secret Service Director is frankly only the beginning of our worries and the beginning of our troubles. | ||
| I want people to remember this. | ||
| I tweeted this out this weekend and Elon Musk retweeted it and it blew up and it's had like over 20 million views. | ||
| Remember this. | ||
| President Biden and his secret service beefed up Secret Service protection for Ukraine President Zelensky, | ||
| and they denied the request to beef up protection for American President Donald Trump. | ||
| That tells you all you need to know about what happens on Saturday. | ||
| We're going to go back to this hearing room if we can. | ||
| I think Jim Jordan is up, or he was up. | ||
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We were all talking with him and his wife about the raw atmosphere in Jackson. | |
| Later that day, he took me to the bus station for my trip to my assignment. | ||
| That night, he was assassinated outside his home. | ||
| His name was Medgar Evers. | ||
| I condemn the political violence. | ||
| It is a threat to democracy. | ||
| I want to discuss one of the roots of political violence, guns. | ||
| For years, Republicans, including a member of this committee, have introduced legislation and amendments to repeal or block the District of Columbia gun violence protection laws. | ||
| My brain already hurts, so we're going to get off that hearing. | ||
| We're going to come back. | ||
| I want people to know this. | ||
| There are still nine House Democrats who are actively sponsoring legislation to take away President Donald Trump's Secret Service protection, and they are Still sponsoring this legislation after President Trump almost had his head blown off on national TV. | ||
| And this is an absolute disgrace. | ||
| And if you go to the Article 3 Projects website, article3projects.org, you can take action there. | ||
| There's a take action link. | ||
| on that website and on that if you go to that take action link there is a phone to action action link where you can light up your members of the house your member of the House of Representatives and tell them to condemn this to tell them to to condemn this Look, it's very obvious that these Biden Democrats and his allies in Congress, these nine House Democrats, want President Trump to be a sitting duck. | ||
| They want to have extreme rhetoric. | ||
| It's Biden's campaign strategy, or it was his campaign strategy, until that demented old loser dropped out. | ||
| He got forced out in a bloodless coup. | ||
| But his campaign strategy, entire campaign strategy, again, Trump is essentially a dictator, a threat to American democracy, who must be stopped at any cost. | ||
| And then Biden and his secret service director, his DEI incompetent secret service director, picked by Jill Biden, underfund it. | ||
| President Trump's Secret Service detail and then Biden's allies in the House of Representatives, | ||
| these nice nine House Democrats, are still trying to take away President Trump's Secret | ||
| Service detail. I can't think of any other conclusion other than these Biden Democrats | ||
| want President Trump killed. | ||
| Because guess what? | ||
| They tried to bankrupt him. | ||
| They tried to have him die in prison. | ||
| They tried to throw him off the ballots. | ||
| They've used extreme rhetoric. | ||
| What the hell do they think would happen? | ||
| If they're gonna blame President Trump for January 6th, for telling his supporters to go peacefully to the Capitol, right, peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol, if they're gonna blame Trump for January 6th, how the hell do we not blame Biden for the attempted assassination of President Trump? | ||
| You know, Mike, unfortunately, there is a very long history of left-wing people being riled and ginned up into hysteria by MSNBC and various other far-left organs and then going to commit acts of violence or trying to commit acts of violence on their own. | ||
| So in 2012, someone showed up in Washington, D.C. at the FRC, the Family Research Council, | ||
| the Tony Perkins organization, with a gun, trying to kill people at the FRC. | ||
| Thankfully, he was taken out by security guard. | ||
| That guy back then was an MSNBC Rachel Maddow viewer. | ||
| Fast forward five years in 2017, you had someone who tried to shoot up half the Republican | ||
| Congressional Baseball team, grievously wounding Steve Scalise of Louisiana in the process. | ||
| Who was that? | ||
| Was it a far-right Republican? | ||
| No, it was another Rachel Maddow MSNBC viewer. | ||
| In 2022, someone flew cross-country, cross-country from California to Maryland with gear to try to get into the home of Brett Kavanaugh, the man who you helped put on the US Supreme Court, Mike, in the aftermath of the unconscionable leak of the Dobbs abortion decision. | ||
| That guy had a gun. | ||
| He had a rope to try to tie down someone, his suspects. | ||
| Who was he? | ||
| Was he a far-right mob Republican? | ||
| No, he was another Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, MSNBC viewer. | ||
| The left at this point, Mike, they have done so much, so much to poison the well, to try to turn their people, not merely into the kind of people who hate people like me and you, Mike, they have done so much to turn their people into the kind of folks who will go down And take out a knife or something much worse than a knife or their own two fists if necessary and if that's all they have on them and to try to commit violence against people with whom they don't agree. | ||
| I think back to that meme that went viral back in 2016 during the 2016 election where the left was talking about the obligation to to quote-unquote punch a Nazi. | ||
| And they were talking there about actual Nazis. | ||
| They were talking about anyone who was ready to vote for Donald Trump. | ||
| They have been normalizing and justifying retribution in the name of outright political violence for a very, very long time now. | ||
| And Mike, I'm not on pins and needles waiting for them to start to take responsibility for their actions, because I don't think these people have an iota of integrity to do so, to actually look in the mirror and to soberly conclude, you know what? | ||
| You know what? | ||
| Maybe my actions, maybe my rhetoric actually is contributing to the problem. | ||
| In fact, Joe Biden, before he had the bloodless coup on him, In the aftermath there of the near assassination just about a week ago, he had that sit down interview with Lester Holt on NBC, where Lester Holt simply said, are you done talking about him as a threat to democracy? | ||
| And Joe Biden said, you know, like, no, I'm not done. | ||
| I mean, what am I supposed to do? | ||
| I mean, like, he's a threat. | ||
| I mean, I don't care if I incite anyone. | ||
| So he literally doubled down within 48 hours of the near assassination. | ||
| These people are scum. | ||
| These people don't have any kind of a soul in their conscience whatsoever. | ||
| And the most charitable, best thing we can possibly say about them, Mike, is that even if they are not deliberately trying to incite violence against conservatives, against MAGA, against Republicans, the best case scenario is that they do not give a you-know-what at all. | ||
| That is the most charitable possible ruling I can think of. | ||
| Yeah, let's talk about the party of violence. | ||
| These Democrats claim that Trump Republicans are the party of violence. | ||
| Look what happened on Saturday when President Trump almost had his head blown off on national TV because of President Biden's recklessness, at best. | ||
| Did you see a stampede at that rally? | ||
| Did you see riots on the street? | ||
| Did you see the Trump supporters? | ||
| We have a hell of a lot more guns than Biden supporters do, I can assure the Biden supporters of that. | ||
| Did we go riots? | ||
| Did we go loot? | ||
| Did we go do our Christmas shopping early like the Biden Democrats do when they go riots? | ||
| I mean, they look for excuses to write so they can go get their Christmas presents. | ||
| That doesn't happen on the Trump Republican side. | ||
| We are a strong and united and peaceful party. | ||
| It's the Biden Democrats who are weak and divided and disarray and angry and violent. | ||
| Like you said, look what they did with Justice Kavanaugh, right? | ||
| This was after President Trump, his White House press secretary, and his attorney general, after these Supreme Court justices were doxed, their home addresses were doxed, Well, I think we lost Mike. | ||
| his press secretary, his attorney general, encouraged these illegal. | ||
| Well, I think we lost Mike. | ||
| Hopefully he'll be right back here momentarily. | ||
| But just to pick up where Mike left off there. | ||
| So in the aftermath of the Dobbs abortion leak, let's go back to and think back to what happened in May of 2022. | ||
| And by the way, here we are. | ||
| It's been over two years since the leak of the Dobbs abortion decision, the decision that overturned Roe versus Wade in 1973. | ||
| And we still don't know to this day. | ||
| Who actually leaked that? | ||
| Which, by the way, I feel like I'm the only crazy lunatic out there in the media space who continues to beat this drum on a fairly regular basis. | ||
| I mean, has the rest of the world just totally forgotten about the fact that we literally do not know who at the United States Supreme Court actually leaked this decision, clearly with the intention of trying to sick left-wing nut jobs? | ||
| Onto the conservative justice to try to change their mind. | ||
| By the way, a tactic which actually worked out shockingly well when this guy did fly from California to Maryland with a burglary kit, with a rope, with hand ties, with a gun to try to invade the home of Brett Kavanaugh, seeing that he viewed Kavanaugh as a swing vote on the court to try to change his mind and ultimately then to preserve the abortion on demand regime of Roe versus Wade. | ||
| All of this happening in the context, as Mike was saying before he got cut off, of Merrick Garland, the disgraceful Attorney General of the | ||
| United States of Merrick Garland, refusing to prosecute, refusing to prosecute under black | ||
| letter U.S. code, right there in clear, unambiguous language, that protests immediately outside of | ||
| the home of a of a sitting Article III federal judge, | ||
| including obviously Supreme Court judges, for the effect with the intent to try to sway the outcome | ||
| of an active case or controversy before them, that is illegal. | ||
| That is illegal. | ||
| Okay, the First Amendment obviously exists. | ||
| That doesn't mean that you have the right to go to someone's home right there and try to sway the result of an election by chanting for them to be expelled or put in a gulag or God knows something even considerably worse than that. | ||
| You obviously do not have a right to do that. | ||
| That's why we criminalize it. | ||
| The Attorney General did no such thing. | ||
| But that was just, to me, one of the most glaring and shocking examples. | ||
| I mean, how far back do we actually want to go here? | ||
| The day after Donald Trump was inaugurated back in January of 2017, the very next day, the very next day, the Women's March is there in Washington, D.C. | ||
| Remember that? | ||
| The Women's March, you know, back when Linda Sarsour was still a thing? | ||
| I see we have our great Mike Davis back. | ||
| You know, there was the Women's March there in January 2017. | ||
| They burned down, they vandalized, they broke windows, they looted. | ||
| The George Floyd, St. | ||
| George Floyd martyr protest in 2020, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, $2 billion estimated in property damage claims through property insurance. | ||
| So, you know, you know, Mike, I'll turn it back to you, but, you know, the left just talks on and on about how January 6th was the worst day for quote-unquote our democracy since 9-11, Pearl Harbor, War of 1812, you know, insert your You're hyperbole of the day, I suppose. | ||
| But, you know, these are the people whose street thugs, and they are their street thugs. | ||
| We should not mince words there. | ||
| The Women's March 2017, Black Lives Matter Antifa, these are left-wing Soros-funded street thugs of the Democratic Party. | ||
| They are the ones, Mike, the last I checked, who are burning this country down. | ||
| And, you know, I have to say that I'm fearful of what they might try to do if, and perhaps even just slash when, Donald Trump wins the election this November. | ||
| January 6th was a lawful protest permitted by the National Park Service that devolved into a riot. | ||
| There were three categories of people who were there that day. | ||
| There were the people who were there peacefully, and even if you think they're crazy or wrong, they have an absolute First Amendment right to be there. | ||
| There are people who trespassed, or supposedly trespassed. | ||
| Maybe the police let them in. | ||
| If they trespass, they should be charged with trespass. | ||
| And then there were the people who were violent, and they should be treated more severely. | ||
| But guess what? | ||
| I'm not going to shed a tear about January 6th, after the Biden Justice Department politicized, weaponized, contorted a post-Enron obstruction of justice statute intended to go after corporate fraud to persecute, severely | ||
| persecute, President Trump's supporters on January 6th. | ||
| Real Americans in real America, while the same Biden Justice Department gives amnesty | ||
| to the much more deadly and destructive BLM and Antifa and Hamas and abortion industry | ||
| activists and trans terrorists. | ||
| I don't give a damn about January 6th anymore. | ||
| And apparently the Supreme Court of the United States is kind of going along with that sentiment | ||
| after the Fischer decision that reversed this political persecution by President Biden. | ||
| That is sick what President Biden has done to these January 6th families. | ||
| President Biden can go to hell, so can Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, special counsel Jack Smith, U.S. | ||
| Attorney in D.C., Matthew Graves, they have politicized and weaponized our justice system. | ||
| They have politicized and weaponized our intel agencies. | ||
| What happened on Saturday night to President Trump is the natural and probable result of Biden's Weaponization of his intel agencies, his law enforcement to go after Trump with these Biden Democrat prosecutors around the country. | ||
| Biden's extreme campaign strategy is extreme rhetoric. | ||
| They want it. | ||
| Trump defeat it at any and all costs. | ||
| They know Trump was going to beat Biden like a drum on November 5th, 2024. | ||
| So they created this environment that almost took off President Trump's head with the extreme rhetoric, the campaign strategy, and intentionally underfunding President Trump's security detail, denying the Secret Service request, Trump's Secret Service request for additional security measures, denying that while they beefed up security for President Zelensky. | ||
| President Joe Biden can go to hell. | ||
| He's an evil man. | ||
| He's not going to be in office after January 20th, 2025. | ||
| And he should thank his lucky stars that the Supreme Court of the United States says that a president is immune from criminal prosecution for his official acts. | ||
| Because guess what? | ||
| I guarantee you, if I had my way as the viceroy, I would open a criminal probe on Biden's ass on day one and make the His remaining days as miserable as possible. | ||
| And we have a few seconds left, Josh. | ||
| What are your closing thoughts? | ||
| Yeah, Mike, I mean, you said it very well. | ||
| I mean, if Joe Biden were an intellectually honest man, he would be very happy with the Trump versus United States immunity ruling. | ||
| He's not going to get there because he's an intellectually dishonest guy, but he really should be, Mike. | ||
| Very quickly, what are your coordinates? | ||
| Yeah, great to co-host with you, buddy. | ||
| So I'm on Twitter at Josh underscore Hammer. | ||
| Instagram is JoshBHammer. | ||
| I host the Josh Hammer Show and then also America on Trial with Josh Hammer. | ||
| Two shows for you to follow. | ||
| Thank you so much, Josh Hammer. |
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