July 31, 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. | ||
| 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. Bannon. | |
| Well, good morning, Americans. | ||
| Thanks for tuning in to War Room. | ||
| Again, I'm temporarily sitting in the chair that will be filled again by Steve Bannon after he's busy out there fighting for you and me by sitting in prison so that we can stand up for our freedoms. | ||
| And I'm delighted to do it. | ||
| I'm honored to do it. | ||
| I'm honored to have as our next guest a frequent visitor here at War Room. | ||
| My good friend Russ Vogt, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget for | ||
| President Donald Trump. | ||
| He's a good friend. | ||
| He's a warrior for freedom. | ||
| He's a good Christian. | ||
| And he's someone that we are frankly blessed to have had in public service and hopefully | ||
| will have again. | ||
| Look, Russ is uniquely situated to talk what I've been wanting to talk about in this show, | ||
| which is this continued war on the West, war on Western civilization, war on our way of | ||
| life, the extent to which people are trying to minimize what they want to just dismiss | ||
| as a radical new right or quote MAGA Republicans and all of these things, when what you have | ||
| are Americans who are tired of having their way of life destroyed. | ||
| And it's being destroyed on multiple fronts. | ||
| Open borders is being destroyed on multiple fronts in terms of endless wars and endless conflicts and turning over sovereignty to the United Nations and these international organizations like the World Health Organization. | ||
| And all of these ways in which we're tearing down our society with woke policies. | ||
| There are a lot of different topics you can cover about this attack on our way of life. | ||
| One of which, and I want Russ to respond to that generally, but one of which is also The extent to which weak Republicans, uniparty swamp dwellers, have been fueling this war on our way of life from right here in the nation's capital, from right here in the halls of Congress, from right there in the executive branch for years. | ||
| Republicans who campaign on fiscal responsibility and campaign on limited government and campaign on freedom and all these things and, you know, low taxes. | ||
| They campaign on all these things, but at the end of the day, they've been racking up debt To fund a radicalized and growing, tyrannical government that is now being used and fully weaponized against the American people. | ||
| It's why Steve's in jail. | ||
| It's why you have people that are in jail because they want to pray at an abortion clinic and all the things that I talked about earlier. | ||
| So, I know, Russ, you know, when I came here to Washington, I believe I recall the debt was, I think, $21 trillion when I ran for Congress in 2018. | ||
| Yesterday, it cracked $35 trillion. | ||
| Now, those are numbers that most Americans don't understand. | ||
| But I know you understand how this matters, and I wonder if you might be able to talk a little bit about that in that context, my friend. | ||
| Well, I mean, we are fueling the bureaucracy that is aimed at half the American people, at least. | ||
| The side of the American people That has great concerns with the regime in power that is fundamentally anti-democratic, that has constructed an administration that puts things on autopilot, like spending, so that for 10, 15, 20 years, you don't even have Republicans thinking about what we're spending on because they're all focused on something that they don't have a vote on, which is entitlement spending. | ||
| And so when you look at what they're spending, you then begin to be horrified because you think, you know, it's just big government. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Well, this is Jimmy Carter. | ||
| This is Bill Clinton, a department of education, but it's all teacher improvement, right? | ||
| It's putting money towards test scores. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| It's more better to call it a department of critical race theory. | ||
| It's funding. | ||
| the creation of a cultural revolution with our students and with our teachers. | ||
| And so then you have to step back and say, I'd rather this money be burned in a parking | ||
| lot than to go and have that occur. | ||
| Or look at foreign aid. | ||
| And Mike Benz has done incredible work in helping us understand when foreign aid is | ||
| in the national security establishment is talking about democracy promotion, they are | ||
| generally talking about regime change. | ||
| So when you have a country like Hungary, and they're like, why is your USAID funding NGOs that are making our life miserable because they don't like the nation in power? | ||
| Or why are we funding LGBT activists in Senegal? | ||
| Why are we funding gay pride events abroad? | ||
| And you're like, No wonder the rest of the world hates us because we're funding all of this. | ||
| It's agency by agency, Chip. | ||
| That's what people don't realize. | ||
| It's not just the Department of Justice. | ||
| It's the EPA. | ||
| It's the Department of Labor. | ||
| And it's why, over time, we developed the notion of it's woke and weaponized, because we wanted to provide a framework and a paradigm to help people understand it's not just big government anymore. | ||
| It is a government that's aimed at us and Western civilization. | ||
| That's really what it's trying to do. | ||
| It's trying to deconstruct the West. | ||
| And then you step back and you're like, when I think of the nations of the West, who does that include? | ||
| Does that include France? | ||
| You know, Emmanuel Macron? | ||
| No, the West is now increasingly just the United States and half the United States has bought into that and trying to preserve it. | ||
| And you and I both know Rafael Cruz, who came from Cuba and persecution there. | ||
| You know, he used to always, every time I see him, he says, look, if we lose this country, We're done because there's nowhere else to go. | ||
| And so this election, the fight on a host of issues this year and next is about preserving Western civilization. | ||
| And if we fail, the world fails. | ||
| Russ, you just referenced, you know, who is France? | ||
| Who are our allies in this deal right now, right? | ||
| Who is the United Kingdom? | ||
| I would note, you know, the Muslim population in France is now growing. | ||
| I don't know what the percentage is, but it is a massive number. | ||
| I mean, I think they are at like 25% or something like that. | ||
| There are now more mosques that have been built than Catholic churches. | ||
| I think the population in the United Kingdom is now pushing 6%. | ||
| You know, I noticed, you know, Joel Berry, the editor of Babylon Bee, tweeted out earlier He threw out a picture of Politics UK as a new far-right protestors. | ||
| Again, quote, far-right protestors are now intimidating police officers at tonight's planned rally in Southport. | ||
| And Joel pointed out, these aren't far-right protestors. | ||
| They are grieving traumatized families in Southport after three of their little girls were stabbed to death by an Islamic extremist. | ||
| That's what's going on, right? | ||
| That's what we're seeing. | ||
| We just saw the Lord's Supper. | ||
| We saw it being mocked at the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. | ||
| Now, the Olympics used to be something you could bring your kids and you could sit down and watch. | ||
| You can't do that anymore. | ||
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Why? | |
| Because it's an attack on our values. | ||
| It's an attack on our way of life. | ||
| And they're not even apologizing for it. | ||
| They're briefly apologizing that some people got mad and it might hurt their revenue. | ||
| But it's purposeful. | ||
| Like, the artist was acknowledging that it was purposeful. | ||
| Now, that rant aside, to your point, And we get back to the spending front, you know, you put | ||
| together a budget, I think, with your Center for Renewing America, that you identify | ||
| billions in savings by cutting woke and weaponized programs. | ||
| So what I want to try to do is tie for the American people who are listening the ability | ||
| for us, if we lead and do the right thing, to constrain spending and not just say that | ||
| there's, oh, just go cut taxes and don't worry about it. | ||
| You don't have to cut spending. | ||
| You do! | ||
| Because right now what we're doing, too often as Republicans, for two decades, is we've been saying we're going to cut taxes. | ||
| We all want lower taxes. | ||
| We all want to free up the American people and create economic growth by leaving more money in their pocket. | ||
| But when you just blindly cut taxes, and you particularly blindly cut taxes for megacorporations at war with our way of life, And you do that without cutting spending, then aren't you just further taxing the American people with inflation? | ||
| Aren't you further making it harder for the average hard-working American family and small business to survive? | ||
| And then aren't you simultaneously funding by printing money and borrowing the very bureaucratic state and tyrannical government that's undermining our way of life? | ||
| So if you could talk about that a little bit, I think that would be useful. | ||
| No, I think you really get into it, Chip, in the sense that inflation is, in fact, the left's strategy. | ||
| They're happy to raise taxes. | ||
| They're fine to vote for it. | ||
| They don't actually think they're going to be successful, generally. | ||
| They think that they're going to be successful by having the Federal Reserve print money to continue to monetize the debt. | ||
| To buy the bonds of the Treasury Department, and over time, to do it at such a level that we see what occurred over the last several years. | ||
| It's why they were so resistant to doing anything, to call it anything but transitory, because they wanted the gravy train to go on as long as possible. | ||
| That is, in fact, their strategy. | ||
| And so, this is something that you've got to One of the ways I think you stay sane in this township, and you and I have known each other for a long time, is to look at what you've worked on over time and occasionally say, you know what? | ||
| We had a bad strategy. | ||
| We had a bad viewpoint. | ||
| And I think when we came to this town, there was a view in the conservative movement that you could just starve the beast. | ||
| That if you cut taxes, it would force, at the time we had surplus under Bush for a few years, it would force there to be a restraint on spending. | ||
| Categorically, that has been a failure. | ||
| I didn't necessarily come up with the strategy, but it was in the water when we got here. | ||
| Starving the beast didn't work. | ||
| It does not work. | ||
| And it has caused an entire Republican Party that doesn't like to cut spending, doesn't know how, and as a result hasn't done it. | ||
| And they've been forced to then become, I call them spreadsheet warriors, where they look at where the numbers are, and they say, if it's not at Social Security and Medicare as a reform, then we're not doing it. | ||
| And lo and behold, they've allowed 20 years of the bureaucracy to be funded, where they don't look at anything in terms of what it's going to actually fund and spend money on, and then we wake up and we're on the precipice of tyranny. | ||
| We have a situation where just because you're an effective general in the conservative movement like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, you're going to jail. | ||
| How is that possible? | ||
| How is, after 40 years of a conservative movement built up with all these institutions and many different Republican presidents and many different Republican Congresses, and we're on the verge of tyranny? | ||
| This stuff didn't work. | ||
| We need a different strategy, and that's what we've tried to reorient the country around, which is We have to unite the fiscal battle with the battle to save the country from this woke and weaponized administrative state. | ||
| It's the number one issue in terms of where we are in addition to getting control of the border and the inflation that we're seeing right now. | ||
| We've got to return self-government to the American people. | ||
| In your 2023 budget that you guys put out, you noted that the annual cost of interest payments will exceed the Pentagon's budget within the next 10 years. | ||
| Now, that's happened sooner than expected, because interest costs, $892 billion, are expected to pass the Pentagon's budget this year of $886 billion. | ||
| I point that out just so the American people can understand the context and how bad this is getting. | ||
| And I would note, and I want to see what your thoughts are on this, because I agree with you, this point about the starve the beast. | ||
| I was a product of the 80s. | ||
| I was in college in the 90s. | ||
| You know, I was watching that political theory get put out there. | ||
| Hey, let's starve the beast. | ||
| And it made sense to me, right? | ||
| Let's constrain the amount of taxes and let's stop the money flowing into Washington. | ||
| But the truth is all they did was go print money and borrow money. | ||
| and leverage our kids and grandkids future. | ||
| So if we were extending the current tax rates, right, and extend a lot of the great pro-growth tax cuts | ||
| under President Trump, which we had R&D cuts and expensing, I mean, you know, R&Ds and expensing, | ||
| as well as a lower personal rates for hardworking families, all those are good things. | ||
| But there's a lot of other, yeah, the corporate rate reductions and other things. | ||
| All of this stuff, if we extend what we have in place, I'm told that over 10 years, | ||
| that's north of $4 trillion, upwards of $4.6 trillion, | ||
| that you've got to figure out where that's gonna come from. | ||
| Now, you either have to cut spending in order to offset that, | ||
| or you got to deal with the tax rates. | ||
| So, for me, I think we ought to be talking about, look, how are we gonna pay for this stuff? | ||
| One way to do that is to pay for it with all the corporate subsidies that went to the Green New Deal. | ||
| About a trillion, 1.2 trillion that Goldman had. | ||
| We could deal with the tariffs, right? | ||
| The President talks about tariffs, and you and I have talked about that. | ||
| That could bring in upwards of a couple of trillion dollars, depending on what model you look at. | ||
| And then we could cut the woke and weaponized bureaucracy that's attacking the American people. | ||
| I believe that would be a three-pronged approach to say, let's reduce the taxes, but let's recognize you've got to cut some spending and get rid of some subsidies, and make sure that if you're going to do that, well, let's go tariff some of the bad guys. | ||
| What are your thoughts on all of that? | ||
| Yeah, I think it's going to be really important to present a fiscal agenda to the American people and to the financial markets that are going to be looking at these deficits and wanting to know how you deal with the cost of a tax cut that occurs. | ||
| And so, I absolutely think that that fiscal agenda should include spending cuts and going after the Green New Deal and that trillion dollars. | ||
| So, I absolutely would be supportive of that. | ||
| Well, Russ, thanks as always. | ||
| Keep doing the great work over there at the Center for Newing America. | ||
| I'm deeply appreciative of your friendship and all the hard work you've done for the American people and your position in public service in the past. | ||
| And I look forward to keep working with you going forward, brother. | ||
| Take care. | ||
| Take care. God bless. | ||
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He's your host, Stephen K. Bamm. | |
| What is great to be here with you fine patriots listening to War Room Academy. | ||
| Again, I'm temporarily sitting in the chair that we know Steve Bannon will be sitting in soon enough. | ||
| He's out there fighting for you and me by sitting in a prison cell because you've got a woke and weaponized government that has been targeting American citizens from Peter Navarro to Steve Bannon to all of the people I articulated before being targeted by the FACE Act. | ||
| 75-year-old grandma who's sitting in prison or will be reporting to prison next week in Texas simply for praying at an abortion clinic. | ||
| One of my good friends, no stranger to this show, is my colleague from Florida, Matt Gaetz. | ||
| I'm delighted to have him join here in just a second. | ||
| Matt has been a warrior. | ||
| He's a warrior defending President Trump, a warrior defending freedom, a warrior to try to fight to dismantle the Uniparty and the massive swamp that we've got going on here in Washington that is frankly operating against you, the American people. | ||
| We've been talking about the war on Western Civilization. | ||
| We've had a good conversation about why we need to be, as the so-called New Right, the MAGA Republicans who want to push back, why we need to be steadfast and confident that we are doing the right thing by standing up to defend our Western Civilization, our values, our American freedoms, the Constitution, the Declaration, but importantly our way of life. | ||
| As Americans. | ||
| So Matt's been out there at the forefront of this and one of the issues he's been focusing on a lot is making sure that we root out all of the woke garbage that's infesting our military, our Secret Service, our FBI. | ||
| And so Matt's been going after just yesterday the Air Force over quote microaggressions document warning airmen not to tell someone to toughen up. | ||
| That's our military. | ||
| Matt, welcome to the show. | ||
| Thanks so much, Chip. | ||
| And I know you and I often hear directly from service members about these bizarre pronouncements that come down from the Pentagon that get in the way of building the capabilities for our military that matter so much. | ||
| And in this case, there's a memo circulating that if you tell someone in the Air Force to man up, Or that they are savage, or that they've gotta toughen up, that these are actually microaggressions that we need to stay away from. | ||
| Now, I don't think the Chinese and the Russians and the Iranians are worried about their microaggressions. | ||
| Frankly, we know the Israelis aren't worried about their microaggressions. | ||
| Possibly taking out the Hamas leader in Iran, which good for them for doing so. | ||
| But the fight that we see in the house is, I think, crystallized by these segments. | ||
| Yep, I know our buddy Eli Crane's coming up. | ||
| I was just watching the Wizard of Oz. | ||
| And I think the House of Representatives has been infected with a Wizard of Oz mentality in our leadership. | ||
| First, we had Paul Ryan, who had no heart. | ||
| Then we had Kevin McCarthy, who had no brain. | ||
| And now we have Mike Johnson, who has no courage. | ||
| And so I guess the converse of that is what we see with some of our friends in the Freedom Caucus, where Andy Biggs is the heart. | ||
| Eli Crane is the courage, and everybody in the posse needs to know that Chip Roy is the brain. | ||
| And that's kind of how we function against a system that lacks some of those core principles and values. | ||
| And I know you were pissed about this, Chip, when we left town. | ||
| And the posse might not really grasp what an abdication this is. | ||
| But between now and the November election, we have three voting session weeks in Washington, DC. | ||
| Now, if you and I were in charge, if we had committee gavels to be able to haul folks in on the border, on the censorship industrial complex, On what we see with these spending programs that go unauthorized, that have now driven us past $35 trillion in debt. | ||
| There is something to hammer every day. | ||
| There is a fight to be had. | ||
| The posse is ready to go. | ||
| And yet we have three weeks between now and the election. | ||
| It's almost as if The mentality right now in Washington is nobody else has to row. | ||
| Trump's got this. | ||
| Trump will carry us over the finish line. | ||
| We don't have to have an agenda. | ||
| We don't need to have a work ethic. | ||
| We don't need to be passing bills. | ||
| We can just count on Trump to carry us all over. | ||
| And I think that is abandoning our post in a lot of ways. | ||
| So I'm glad you've got us on. | ||
| I gotta say, before I hand it back to you, What a night in Arizona last night. | ||
| It was a night for the fighters. | ||
| Abe Hamade won. | ||
| That was a big campaign the posse was involved in. | ||
| Carrie Lake winning her primary. | ||
| And by the way, Kim Jong-un just called and wants to know why Eli Crane is running up the margins so much that it's gaudy. | ||
| Eli Crane got 80% of the vote in a primary where Kevin McCarthy had gone and recruited an opponent against him. | ||
| I can't wait to hear from him in the upcoming segment, but I just have to lend my voice to the fact that, you know what? | ||
| Courage is popular. | ||
| When people go take on the system and fight these deficiencies in our government, they will be rewarded by the voters just as Eli Crane was yesterday. | ||
| Well, Matt, I do want to talk about that and I do want to give my congratulations to Eli and Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar and the great warriors and conservatives who just had a great victory in the night in Arizona. | ||
| As you said, Carrie Lake. | ||
| And that's a great day. | ||
| It's a great thing for America. | ||
| We've got these warriors out there, as you just said, and the posse. | ||
| But I don't want to leave totally. | ||
| I'll just take one more minute just to highlight what you're talking about here with this absurdity with the Air Force. | ||
| And what that means for the state of our military is so critically important. | ||
| That's on the heels of countless, dozens, hundreds of examples that we have in Congress. | ||
| You know, most recently in the Fort, I'm going to call it Fort Bragg, again speaking of woke, but the Fort Bragg briefing, Where, you know, they called pro-lifers terrorists and extremists. | ||
| I was just pulling up the article to remind myself. | ||
| Specifically identifying National Right to Life and others as extremist organizations. | ||
| This is all purposeful. | ||
| They're doing it on purpose to not just go target those individuals, but break the back of a military culture that served this country well for now almost 250 years. | ||
| But I think you hit on something. | ||
| We talk about fighters. | ||
| You hit on something that I think we need to focus on. | ||
| Which is, why did we leave town? | ||
| Now, I'm actually still in D.C. | ||
| I'm sitting here, obviously, in War Room, because I had meetings set up to work for the American people. | ||
| But we left a week early, and we didn't pass the 12 appropriations bills. | ||
| We only passed 5. | ||
| We didn't pass a continuing resolution into next year so that we can give the pen to Donald Trump instead of to the Democrats in December. | ||
| We didn't attach to that continual resolution the SAVE Act, which President Trump called for, so we can ensure that only citizens vote, and then club Democrats for the next seven weeks. | ||
| We adjourned. | ||
| We left town for seven weeks, and we're going to come back for three weeks in September, and you said it well. | ||
| You got a lot of people in this town who want to grab hold of Donald Trump's coattails and pray that they can ride him through November in order to get to some sort of victory so they can have power. | ||
| But we have an obligation to go fight for the people and give people a reason to show up. | ||
| That's precisely what Eli Crane and our friends in Arizona did. | ||
| It's precisely what you're doing. | ||
| I'll be delighted to come down to Florida to come help you and make sure you win. | ||
| I expect you to win by 80% at least, Matt. | ||
| And we will make sure that we keep the posse. | ||
| But can you talk about that a little bit further? | ||
| About what we would have done and what you think we ought to do when we come back in September to lay the groundwork for fighting. | ||
| What you're watching right now is just rhythmic Washington. | ||
| This is the rhythm that screws the American people and drives us into debt. | ||
| Get to September, go on August recess without conducting the appropriations work, do a short-term continuing resolution to December, back everybody up against Christmas holidays and the end of the year. | ||
| And then, lo and behold, you'll hear all the language of cleaning out the barn with another | ||
| big hairy omnibus bill that has a bunch of earmarks in it for Democrat senators, that | ||
| has a bunch of pork in it for people who are willing to just hold their nose and continue | ||
| to avoid the programmatic review that you and I have been calling for to drive down | ||
| spending. | ||
| And you're right, that does empower Democrats. | ||
| And if you don't think that these Biden administration officials are gonna take their last bite now that they know that Biden has rotted on the vine, they will absolutely do everything they can to empower the worst features of this government, going after people who were at the Capitol on January 6th. | ||
| They're still doing that, by the way. | ||
| We didn't defund any of that. | ||
| The special councils that have totally gone off the rails, that'll be funded. | ||
| And the one you and I spend a lot of our time on, the border invasion. | ||
| We were told in the last omnibus that it was a big win for the American people, that the NGOs that are funding the invasion got cut like 15%. | ||
| That's not good enough. | ||
| We have to end the invasion. | ||
| That means stop funding it. | ||
| That means securing the border. | ||
| And then that means internal enforcement of our immigration laws. | ||
| We could make these demands. | ||
| We could have demanded in a legislative funding package this past week, a requirement that | ||
| your bill protecting the vote from illegal aliens be included in anything that goes forward. | ||
| That would have empowered the supervisors of elections who actually wanna do the right | ||
| thing to be able to scrub out the illegal aliens voting, to check for citizenship status. | ||
| But we missed that opportunity, and it's because of the lack of courage. | ||
| And I don't know why people don't see the results from people like Eli Crane and say, | ||
| yes, I wanna be a fighter like Eli. | ||
| Give us 50 Eli Cranes in Congress, we could save the country. | ||
| But unfortunately, they were kicking the can down the road, and that has to be called out even within our own team. | ||
| Man, I'd love to have 50 Eli Cranes in Congress. | ||
| I'm with you, brother. | ||
| Hey, let's set up Eli here. | ||
| What are your views and your feelings about the task force that has been created to go zero in on exposing and finding the truth with respect to the very clear assassination attempt that almost took the life of former President Trump, our Republican nominee? | ||
| And, you know, how do you see that playing out? | ||
| Obviously, Eli wasn't put on there. | ||
| We have a couple of good good friends that were, Clay Higgins and a couple folks. | ||
| But how do you feel about it in this last minute and a half? | ||
| There are good people on that committee. | ||
| But let's be honest, this was assembled like it was an energy and commerce subcommittee. | ||
| You had to have geographic balance, you had to have your DI picks or whatever. | ||
| And my concern on this committee is that you excluded the people with the most experience over politics. | ||
| Let's just be straight, the reason Eli Crane and Cory Mills, two actual snipers in the United States Congress, aren't on this committee is because they don't vote for the spending bills. | ||
| That's why. | ||
| And so the signal here for the posse is they're trying to say that if you vote against the bad spending bills, even when you're the most qualified, we're going to diminish your experience in the United States Congress. | ||
| That's absurd. | ||
| So I want to do everything we can to help the task force be successful. | ||
| But let's acknowledge what we're seeing. | ||
| Politics, not a real alignment of people's technical skills with the mission at hand. | ||
| That's why we can't have nice things. | ||
| Well, I agree with you, Matt. | ||
| Keep up the fight. | ||
| Keep up the Lord's work. | ||
| I look forward to seeing you in a couple weeks down in Florida. | ||
| We'll keep the fight going on in August. | ||
| Look, how can people follow you? | ||
| What's your social media, brother? | ||
| Well, you're going to follow him, follow me, too. | ||
| He's got more followers. | ||
| So anyway, good to see you, Matt. | ||
| MattGates.com if you want to help me fight Kevin McCarthy in Florida. | ||
| Well, you're going to follow him, follow me too. | ||
| He's got more followers. | ||
| So anyway, good to see you, Matt. | ||
| We'll talk to you soon, brother. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bamm. | |
| you Bye. | ||
| Great to be back. | ||
| This is Chip Roy, delighted and honored to fill in for Steve Bannon temporarily until he returns and gets back in this chair sometime soon. | ||
| I will continue to pray for him. | ||
| And we've had a great conversation talking about the war on Western civilization, the war on our way of life, how you and I and all of us are trying to band together to make sure we preserve and protect our freedoms and our great way of life as Americans and our duty to do so. | ||
| And speaking of duty, We've got one of the great patriots, one of my great friends in Congress, a veteran, a husband and father, someone who served as a Navy SEAL, I think for 12 or 13 years, he can fill that in, served as a sniper. | ||
| He signed up after, like many Americans, after September 11th. | ||
| But he's a great human being, a great guy, someone I'm proud to call a friend. | ||
| Eli Crane, fresh off of a victory in his primary, winning I think 80% plus of the votes. | ||
| Had a great night in Arizona, as Matt Gaetz and I were just talking about. | ||
| Eli won, and Andy Biggs, and Paul Gosar, and Kerry Lake. | ||
| Great night for freedom in Arizona. | ||
| So, great to have my friend Eli on the show. | ||
| Talk a little bit about your election night, buddy. | ||
| Glad to have such a great victory. | ||
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Hey Chip, thanks for having me on and it's great listening to you host the war room, man. | |
| Yeah, it was a, it was a fantastic night last night. | ||
| I obviously, I think, you know, we proved that you can actually, even as a freshman come to Washington DC and do what you tell the voters that you're going to do and not become a part of the swamp, not become something you hate. | ||
| And I know that I know that a lot of freshmen come into Washington believing, well, you know, if I just, you know, if I just fall in line and do what I'm told and climb the ranks and become a subcommittee chairman and then a chairman, and then I become part of leadership sooner or later, I'll, I'll get to the point where I have enough power and authority to actually, you know, do the right things, but I got to play the game a little bit first. | ||
| And I came in with the complete opposite. | ||
| Approach. | ||
| Um, and that was that I'm going to do. | ||
| I'm going to actually represent my voters on day one, which put me in a lot, a lot of hot water and opposition to leadership on day one. | ||
| But honestly, Chip, looking back on it, I wouldn't have it any other way. | ||
| And I'm just grateful last, last night. | ||
| And over the last couple of weeks that the voters of Arizona second congressional district showed me that if I had their back in Washington, they'd get my back at the ballot. | ||
| Well, there's no doubt it's well-deserved. | ||
| I mean, you and just for all the listeners out there, if you don't know Eli, you need to. | ||
| One of the few people you can count on to fully, and he said it, to do what you said you would do. | ||
| And we got a lot of people who use that phrase, a lot of people who say it, but they don't actually do it. | ||
| When push comes to shove, are you going to hold the line? | ||
| Are you going to take the tough votes? | ||
| Are you going to be willing to call it as you see it? | ||
| Happy to sit down and negotiate with anybody, but are you going to be willing to stand up for the people and put it all on the line and willing to risk so-called your election certificate. When you've got patriots and veterans | ||
| like Eli who put their life on the line for you and for me, and they know that putting an election | ||
| certificate on the line ain't that big of a deal. It's not even in the same zip code. So we're | ||
| happy about that Eli. | ||
| Talk a little bit about, I think, JD, Vance, our friend, obviously our colleague on the other side of the building in the Senate, and now the vice presidential nominee, taking a lot of heat, which means he must be over the target. | ||
| A bunch of radical progressive Democrats and a few weak-kneed Republicans are trying to take shots at J.D., but he's someone who understands what time it is in America, and I know he's out in Arizona. | ||
| Can you talk a little bit about that? | ||
| I think you're doing an event with him today. | ||
|
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Yeah, no, we're honored to, uh, you know, go up and support JD Vance, uh, in Phoenix, uh, later this afternoon. | |
| And honestly, Chip, you know, he was my choice. | ||
| He was who I was hoping president Trump would pick. | ||
| Um, and I know not everybody felt the same way. | ||
| I think some people wanted him to pick somebody that might help him pull in a different demographic or a higher percentage somewhere in the country to help him win the election. | ||
| But I wanted to see President Trump pick the guy that I thought was best fit to actually | ||
| step up and lead the country, if anything happened to the president. | ||
| And I do believe that guy is J.D. Vance. | ||
| When I look at his background, when I look at the fact that he came from a community | ||
| that was destroyed because of very arrogant and foolish decisions made by lawmakers in | ||
| Washington, D.C., on both sides of the aisle, you know, America first, it's hardwired into | ||
| this guy's veins. | ||
| And that's one thing I love about him. | ||
| I also love the fact that whether JD, because of his background, whether he goes to a truck stop in Kentucky or, uh, you know, cocktail party in, you know, the Ritzius tech park in San Francisco, this guy can, you know, um, you know, he can, uh, You know, touch base and communicate to people and identify with, you know, Americans. | ||
| And I think that that's hard to do. | ||
| And I've known some, you know, really strong politicians that have a tough time identifying with people. | ||
| And I think J.D. | ||
| does a great job of that. | ||
| And so I'm excited that President Trump chose him. | ||
| And, you know, I'll do anything I can to help support him. | ||
| Yeah, I'm on the same page with you, Eli. | ||
| And look, I'm a pretty honest guy, but I call it like I see it. | ||
| I don't always just get in line because I'm being told to. | ||
| I'm proud of JD. | ||
| And look, you might be able to expand on this, too. | ||
| A lot of these attacks on him, it's like, oh, he's flip-flopping, he's changing his views, he's doing this, that, and the other. | ||
| I don't see that at all. | ||
| I see this as someone who saw the way of life that he obviously famously wrote about in his book and Hillbilly Elegy. | ||
| And, you know, that he's gone on and that he ran on and now has been carrying out in his term in Senate. | ||
| I mean, I don't always agree with him and I don't always agree with you, but we agree on most things about what the state of play is and what time it is in America. | ||
| And I think it's really important for people to understand that about where J.D.' 's coming from. | ||
| And I think that perspective that he's offering, I mean, you know, that for too long Republicans have just been in the tank for, you know, expanding government while they say they're for limited government, for corporate cronyism and doing deals with K Street. | ||
| And being happy to hop in bed because K Street tells them to. | ||
| And that all of that is undermining the American family and hard-working Americans who don't believe that they can achieve the American dream. | ||
| They don't believe they can afford a house. | ||
| They don't believe they can send their kids to school or have them get a trade and be able to get married and have the American dream laid out in front of them. | ||
| And I think JD gets that and I think it's really critically important. | ||
| And do you think that's resonating with the people out in Arizona? | ||
| And do you think that I'm right in that characterization? | ||
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I definitely do. | |
| And you know, I talk to people all the time out here, obviously, and I do sense an excitement about the VP pick, like I said, because I think he's one of the few guys that Americans actually believe is positioned and has the intelligence, the communication skills. | ||
| And the necessary background and experience to actually step up and lead and chip little inside baseball. | ||
| You and I meet with the freedom caucus all the time in Washington, DC. | ||
| And, you know, JD is one of the few senators that comes to break bread with us and, you know, to collectively look at how we're going to fight the swamp and the uniparty in DC. | ||
| You know, regularly. | ||
| And so that's another thing that I want the War Room Posse to know. | ||
| This guy, he's not just a, you know, he's not just a great talker. | ||
| He's one of the guys that actually is making plays, making things happen in Washington and working, you know, with the House of Representatives to, you know, make sure that we have a plan in place to get some of the things done that he's promised the American people. | ||
| Well, I know you've got stuff you've got to go do, so in the time we've got left in this segment, I want to get your thoughts on the task force that was created, and I asked Matt about this a little bit ago in preparation to you appearing on the show, because look, you know, you served as a sniper, one of the most elite snipers in the world, and You know, you've been up to Pennsylvania. | ||
| You've gone to the scene. | ||
| I know you've got thoughts. | ||
| You don't necessarily have to repeat the stuff that I know you've already put out there publicly. | ||
| But we've got this task force that was announced the last, you know, couple of days. | ||
| You and I have good friends on there. | ||
| You know, shout out to our good friend Clay Higgins, for example. | ||
| Uh, you know, Mark Green's a good friend. | ||
| I mean, we've got... I don't want to single anybody out, but I feel like it was still a little bit of a sort of check-the-box task force and not quite built around the idea of having everybody that could be on there. | ||
| There are people like you, people like Corey Mills with sniper experience, others that might have been central to it. | ||
| I mean, look, I... | ||
| I didn't ask to be on it. | ||
| I offered, you know, put myself out there. | ||
| I'm the former Assistant United States Attorney and First Assistant Attorney General of Texas. | ||
| I've dealt with things like this. | ||
| But, you know, look, bottom line is, how do you feel about it? | ||
| And importantly, what is your current view of kind of what happens and where the state of the investigation is? | ||
| Obviously, the Secret Service head has stepped down. | ||
| Chris Wray was making crap up about, oh, it's shrapnel and not a bullet that hit the president's ear. | ||
| Usual nonsense out of the FBI. | ||
| But they've since clarified that. | ||
| What are your thoughts on the investigation? | ||
| What are your thoughts on the state of play and how things are shaping up? | ||
|
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Yeah, thanks, Chip. | |
| Yeah, I tend to agree with Matt on how that task force was formed. | ||
| Obviously, it was disappointing to me that I believe there's three snipers, actual snipers in Congress, myself, Cory Mills, and Morgan Luttrell as well, and not one of us was placed on uh... that task force i think that's a massive problem | ||
| obviously because the shooter himself you know was uh... you training in marksmanship | ||
| we know that and then obviously you had | ||
| you know several counter sniper teams that word you know design designated | ||
| document a came out and so you know a lot of a lot of this investigation is | ||
| going to be looking at those things those fields of expertise and not having one | ||
| of us on there I think even though knowing that the task force has to be varied and have different expertises on there, I think that was a huge failure. | ||
| But again, Chip, I think it's one of the reasons the American people don't trust the federal government to get to the bottom of this. | ||
| And even if we did get to the bottom of it, I don't think that they trust the federal government | ||
| to actually release the actual facts, but to put some political veneer over it | ||
| to gaslight the American people into whatever they want them to believe, | ||
| which is exactly, in my opinion, why we still haven't released the Kennedy assassination | ||
| files, some of those files are still obviously being kept with a close hold. | ||
| And so, yeah, I'm just disappointed with the entire thing. | ||
| I'll continue to do whatever I can to help get to the bottom of it, | ||
| but it is gonna be a lot more difficult for some of us that won't have the access that that task force does. | ||
| Well, let me ask you, I think, the hardest question, right? | ||
| I mean, there is very clear incompetence, very clear, uh, DEI type focus and so forth at the Secret Service, FBI and otherwise. | ||
| Uh, there was very clear, uh, balls dropped, communication problems, uh, look like they had, and now I want to get to the other part, right? | ||
| It looks like they were purposely purposely putting more assets and resources towards Jill | ||
| Biden and towards other places rather than the former President of the United States and | ||
| Republican nominee, that that was a strategic decision that they made. | ||
| So here's my question, and you don't have to answer it fully if you don't want to yet | ||
| as you're still looking at the facts as am I, but was this just incompetence? | ||
| It was clearly incompetence. | ||
| But was it just incompetence? | ||
| Just politically correct nonsense running amok that has damaged our institutions? | ||
| Or was there willful blindness here? | ||
| Was there, you know, it's a, you know, you don't have to make the leap fully that the, you know, federal officials were somehow involved or knew the kid, whatever. | ||
| That's all investigation stuff. | ||
| But willful blindness is a whole nother piece to this, where they're like, yeah, you know, so there's an Iran threat against former President Trump and whatever. | ||
| We're going to put all of our really good assets over here and we're going to, you know, not really focus on it over here. | ||
| And then you get this result. | ||
| What is your view on that in this little bit of time we got left? | ||
|
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Yeah, no, Chip, I'm definitely open to all of it. | |
| You know, I'm not going to detach what happened, the specifics that I've already seen on J-13 from the lead up to that. | ||
| You know, the countless times where Trump was called Hitler, you know, in the media and by Democrats and that dog whistle. | ||
| And I believe many of them, you know, wanted to drive, you know, that type of Um, very dangerous rhetoric to some, you know, wild and crazy individual that, you know, might follow through and do his duty to eliminate the next, you know, modern day Hitler. | ||
| So I can't detach myself from that. | ||
| You know, some of the articles comparing Trump to Caesar and how there was a just, there was a justification to take him out because he was going to be this next dictator. | ||
| I can't detach myself and what happened, you know, in the past from what happened on J13. | ||
| So I think it's absolutely possible that there's more to this story than just incompetence. | ||
| Eli Got Blush. | ||
| How can people see you on social media? | ||
| Real quick before we cut. | ||
|
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Eli Crane, CEO and rep Eli Crane. | |
| Thanks, Chip. | ||
| Appreciate it, man. | ||
| Got Blush. | ||
| Got Blush. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | |
| Well, again, it is Chip Roy from the 21st Congressional District of Texas, proud to represent my fellow Texans there, proud to be sitting in this chair in which Steve Bannon will be sitting sometime soon, Lord willing, after he is doing time in prison for you and me, for his country. | ||
| He's never shied away from wanting to serve his country, whether it was in the military Or now. | ||
| And that's, I think, the critical thing we need to all be focused on here as we have been talking these two hours about the assault and the war on Western civilization. | ||
| The amount of frustration that we just heard from my friend Eli Crane and Matt Gaetz, great warriors for freedom, that are frustrated that we left town. | ||
| Frustrated that Congress took off for seven weeks while the American people, American families are still hurting, while our borders are still open, while we still have the possibility of non-citizens voting, when we haven't done our job to fund government at the levels that should be funded, cutting spending and lowering the size and scope of government. | ||
| Um, and we love town and we shouldn't have done that. | ||
| And, you know, the, you were watching a, um, you know, embarrassment, but frankly, something worse than an embarrassment of our Republican form of government and the way our processes are supposed to work where, uh, the Democrat regime just ensconced Kamala Harris as their nominee. | ||
| And they did so after years of a cover-up. | ||
| Literally, years of a cover-up of the mental state of the president. | ||
| This is something we've talked about regularly, whether it's in the context of the 25th Amendment. | ||
| This is clearly someone who shouldn't have the nuclear codes. | ||
| This is clearly someone who should not be commander-in-chief right now with the full ability to carry us out to war when I'm not sure you can spell cat if you spot him the C and the T. | ||
| And the fact is, Kamala Harris was put in place for political reasons only. | ||
| Our Democratic colleagues, my Democratic colleagues, the radical progressive Democrat regime, they don't care that this country is endangered by having someone with the mental deficiencies that we currently see from the President of the United States. | ||
| They don't care about that. | ||
| What do they care about? | ||
| Political power. | ||
| They care about what can happen in November. | ||
| Can they win? | ||
| They were perfectly happy having Joe Biden there as long as he was the Manchurian president. | ||
| As long as they could pull the puppet strings. | ||
| As long as they could advance their radical progressive agenda to remake Western civilization, blow holes in our borders, allow criminals on our streets, Weaken our country. | ||
| Endless wars abroad. | ||
| Undermine our energy security and freedom. | ||
| Undermine our ability to live our life the way we want to. | ||
| Advance a woke agenda. | ||
| Destroying our military. | ||
| Destroying our Secret Service. | ||
| Destroying our FBI. | ||
| Turning it against us. | ||
| They were all happy to have a president they could use as a puppet to do that. | ||
| But when it became clear that he couldn't get the job done to win in November, then and only then were they willing to ensconce Kamala Harris as their hope to try to shake things up. | ||
| Then you end up with a vice president with people twerking on the stage, and with random transgenders coming to the White House and advancing this radical agenda, and then they have the audacity to call J.D. | ||
| Vance weird. | ||
| When J.D. | ||
| Vance is happily married, happily married and as a father, as someone who wants to stand up for hardworking people from Ohio, Hardworking people across this country who are being left behind. | ||
| So he's the weirdo in the eyes of this radical progressive left. | ||
| The fact is, we are at a new time for choosing. | ||
| A new time for Americans to figure out what we're going to do. | ||
| Whether we're going to stand up, as Steve often says when he's sitting behind this microphone, whether we're going to show up to the fight. | ||
| And 60 years ago, come October, President Reagan gave his famous time for choosing speech. | ||
| Now that was in the context of Barry Goldwater, another great patriot from Arizona. | ||
| Running against LBJ. | ||
| But that speech wasn't about choosing Goldwater over LBJ, per se. | ||
| It was about the choice we had as Americans at the time. | ||
| Would we choose freedom? | ||
| Would we choose limited government? | ||
| Would we choose to stand up for our beliefs? | ||
| Or would we be, in his words, on the ash heap of history? | ||
| And I regret to inform you that we, unfortunately, chose incorrectly. | ||
| We took the easy path. | ||
| We continued to tax and spend, and then ultimately not even tax and spend, borrow and spend, print and spend. | ||
| We increased the size and scope of the government, and we have been funding, with Republican support and help, we have been funding, with a uniparty swamp, we have been funding the very government that is at war with your way of life. | ||
| That's the truth. | ||
| Those of us sitting up here in the belly of the beast trying to fight it, we're the ones that are deemed the problem. | ||
| We're the ones who are criticized by our Republican colleagues in the House and the Senate who say, well, why can't you just get along? | ||
| Well, I didn't come here to be popular among members of Congress. | ||
| I came here to represent 750,000 Texans. | ||
| That's what I said I would do. | ||
| And that's what we have to keep in mind right now in front of us. | ||
| In our history as America, we don't have to choose this road. | ||
| We don't have to choose the path the radical progressive Democrats want to take us down. | ||
| Our founders didn't accept tyranny, they fought it. | ||
| Their sons didn't accept invasion in 1812. | ||
| We didn't back off when the very building I work in was burned, when the White House was burned. | ||
| We stood strong. | ||
| We stood up. | ||
| We didn't accept the march of the various tyrannies of the 20th century. | ||
| Our boys didn't jump out of those boats and then turn around and run away. | ||
| They didn't go up to the cliffs and say, nah, sorry. | ||
| They didn't go get over the cliffs and then go get to the foxholes in Bastogne and say, yeah, not worth it. | ||
| No, they finished the job and they did it for something bigger than themselves. | ||
| And that's the fight we have before us today. | ||
| Are we going to take the easy road or the hard road? | ||
| Are we going to keep walking around with our hand out? | ||
| Are we going to ask for more from the welfare state of a government? | ||
| That is saying that they can tell us how to live our lives, tell us that a gas can can't actually pour properly, tell us exactly how we should, you know, go about being a parent, put themselves in our schools, leave our borders wide open, allow criminals on our streets, spend money we don't have, $35 trillion of debt. | ||
| Are we going to continue to empower those people? | ||
| Are we going to stand up and fight? | ||
| Today, we've had people on here talking about how this war on Western civilization, it's real, it's in front of us. | ||
| We've got to recognize it and do something about it. | ||
| I'm honored to serve in Congress. | ||
| I'm honored to sit in this seat. | ||
| If you want to hear from me, you can go look at my Twitter account at ChipRoyTX, C-H-I-P-R-O-Y-T-X. | ||
| I'll be giving a speech down at Young Americans for Liberty down in Orlando later this week, I think on Friday. | ||
| I will be out and about throughout Texas all of August. | ||
| I'll be joining my colleagues on the campaign trail. | ||
| We have a job to do in front of us. | ||
| If it were up to me, our job would be back here in Washington. | ||
| Let the American voters decide. | ||
| Don't try to buy their votes with promises, but go earn their votes through work. | ||
| That's what we ought to be doing when we come back in September. | ||
| I hope sooner rather than later. | ||
| We need to do the hard job of making sure that we fund this government only at the level we should, and that we stand up and fight, pass the SAVE Act, make sure only citizens can vote. | ||
| Let's do the job we were sent here to do. | ||
| Really proud to be sitting in this chair. | ||
| Thanks to all the listeners out there. | ||
| Stay strong. | ||
| And this is the important part. | ||
| Pray and work. | ||
| That's our job. | ||
| That's all that's ever been required of us. | ||
| I know that Steve would agree. | ||
| Pray for Steve. | ||
| Pray for this country. | ||
| Pray for freedom. | ||
| Get out there and work for it. |
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