Aug. 13, 2024 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| President Trump got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
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The people have had a belly full of it. | |
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
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I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | |
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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MAGA Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
| War Room. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bound. | |
| Welcome to the War Room. | ||
| It's Natalie G. Winters hosting today, Tuesday, August 13th in the year of our Lord 2024. | ||
| Very excited and honored to be joined shortly by our first guest. | ||
| You guys know, War Room, I think, really has changed the tide. | ||
| The establishment, media, Fox News, controlled opposition, whatever you want to call them, for so long, I think, set the goalposts for the action that we saw coming out of Republicans in Congress. | ||
| So weak and so feckless. | ||
| Accountability meant basically nothing. | ||
| But this show, The War Room Posse, you guys have fundamentally changed that in demanding actual accountability, actual Results to come from Congress, not just mean, strongly worded letters and tweets, but actual accountability. | ||
| Like we say, it's not retribution. | ||
| It's justice, and it seems like the variable we've been focusing on for the last few years, at least on this show, have been these congressional committees, these investigations, of course, the weaponization one, oversight, the kind of botched impeachment inquiry. | ||
| But one hearing that we have also focused on is, of course, going into the debacle that was the Afghanistan withdrawal under the leadership of Chairman Mike McCaul over at the House Foreign Affairs Committee. | ||
| We're joined by someone who just two days ago announced, sort of in protest, their resignation from that committee for, I think, a lot of the problems that we've highlighted on this show, which is fundamentally taking it unseriously, staffing problems, and a lack of results. | ||
| So we are here to reinforce that messaging, and I'm honored to be joined by Jerry Dunleavy, who, like I said, was a senior investigator for that committee, specifically focusing on the Afghanistan withdrawal Jerry, why don't you tell the audience a little bit about what your role was and why you decided to step down? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So I was originally an investigative reporter, um, and I covered the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. | ||
| I also wrote a book on it. | ||
| And so I was asked to join the committee last year to help with their investigation into the withdrawal from Afghanistan. | ||
| And unfortunately, uh, It's not a serious investigation. | ||
| Witnesses that should have been called that weren't. | ||
| Witnesses that we did bring in being treated with kid gloves and being absolved of any real responsibility or accountability for the mistakes that they made. | ||
| Questions that we should have been asking that we didn't. | ||
| You know, there were promises made by Chairman McCaul related to Leaving no stone unturned to get answers about the Abbey Gate bombing. | ||
| And those promises just have not been kept. | ||
| The committee has not done what it needs to do to get real answers and real accountability. | ||
| I think that answers and accountability are important for the Gold Star families. | ||
| They're important for all of the U.S. | ||
| service members who fought and died in a 20-year war in Afghanistan. | ||
| It's also important for the future. | ||
| I legitimately fear that if we don't learn lessons from our retreat and defeat in Afghanistan in 2021, that there will be more unnecessary Gold Star families in the future, in the next war that we fight, probably against a major adversary. | ||
| I'm worried about that. | ||
| I don't think that the committee has done what it needs to do related to any of this. | ||
| And so I, you know, after a lot of soul searching, I did think that it was important to speak up, | ||
| share what I know and see if going public and public pressure might get them to do | ||
| what they thus far have failed to. | ||
| And you put out a long four page letter walking through in detail, | ||
| which I encourage the audience to read, but there was a line that stuck out to me. | ||
| Yet my efforts to fully pursue investigative leads have been repeatedly stymied by our chief investigator | ||
| and by senior staff. | ||
| And unfortunately, sometimes by indecision from you, Now, something we focus on a lot on this show is, you know, are these errors, these flaws that we're seeing, are they a result of incompetence, right? | ||
| People just not knowing what questions to ask, what witnesses to bring in, or is it something more, and I dare, you know, It hurts me to say the word nefarious, but is there something more nefarious going on? | ||
| In other words, is there a reason why they don't want to get to the bottom of this? | ||
| From your kind of inside baseball perspective, you know, why are these logical, obvious questions, these logical witnesses to call not being called? | ||
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Some of it is hard to understand. | |
| House Foreign Affairs Committee largely and usually has jurisdiction over State Department. | ||
| However, this investigation by Chairman McCaul was given broad latitude to also investigate the military side of things. | ||
| Now on the State Department side, some of the witnesses that we did bring in were treated far too gently. | ||
| Zalmay Khalilzad comes to mind. | ||
| Sometimes we failed to bring in basic witnesses on the State Department side. | ||
| Names that people probably know. | ||
| Wendy Sherman and Victoria Newland. | ||
| They have played, I think, often pretty negative roles in US foreign policy in the past. | ||
| They had their hands on the Afghanistan portfolio in 2021. | ||
| For reasons unknown to me, despite my urging, they were never brought in for questioning. | ||
| On the military side of things, where I think the problem is, when it comes to this committee, when it comes to Chairman McCaul, is there was a decision that was made to sort of let the military commanders off the hook for the mistakes that they made. | ||
| Now, in 2021, did military commanders and generals perform better than the State Department or the Biden White House? | ||
| I think the answer to that is probably yes, but that's about as low a bar to clear as possible. | ||
| That's a bar that's on the floor. | ||
| So the military commanders need real accountability as well. | ||
| I just want to emphasize I'm not talking about the Marines and soldiers, for instance, on the ground at Kabul Airport in the evacuation. | ||
| They performed heroically. | ||
| Part of why they were put in such a terrible situation was their military commanders and generals, such as Chairman Milley, And General McKenzie, they failed in their roles, those military commanders. | ||
| And there is a sense on the committee and from Chairman McCaul that the military leadership didn't really do very much wrong. | ||
| They're not the ones at fault. | ||
| They shouldn't be held accountable. | ||
| And I think that that has played a big role in why the hearing that we had with Millie and McKenzie was so ineffective. | ||
| And it's played a big role in why we've refused to bring in the other military witnesses that we need to and why we have failed to ask the Pentagon and CENTCOM the tough questions that they need to be asked. | ||
| And from your perspective, just having worked on this one committee, of course, under the auspices of Chairman Mike McCall, who leads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, I mean, that's no insignificant position. | ||
| In terms of the other committees that we've seen, the investigations, kind of extrapolating what you identified to be the major problem, do you think that it's a problem of leadership or do you think it is a problem of who is staffing these investigations? | ||
| Is it a mix of both? | ||
| What is the positive lesson that we can take from this with the few remaining months we have to sort of, if it's possible, reverse course and turn the ship around? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Well, look, the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Afghanistan investigation, it did unearth some interesting information, but for the most part, it did fail to do what it needed to do. | ||
| The House Armed Services Committee, which has within its remit the U.S. | ||
| military, has done Essentially nothing, and I might even say nothing, but as close to nothing as you can do related to the withdrawal in Afghanistan. | ||
| They have refused to do their part in any way whatsoever to investigate what went wrong from the military side. | ||
| So they share their side of the blame as well. | ||
| And what I would say, just from my experience, First, working as an investigator outside Capitol Hill and then being brought in to be one in Congress, is there does seem to be a culture, especially among, well, with the chairman that I worked for and perhaps with others, to not rock the boat too much, to not ask too many tough questions. | ||
| Um, to go after maybe the people that, you know, you would like to, but not to go after the people that you're friendly with or friends with. | ||
| And I do think that that is something that really harmed the investigation that I was on. | ||
| I know that Chairman McCaul of the House Foreign Affairs Committee was very friendly, for instance, with General Milley. | ||
| And I think that those friendships and relationships in DC, when the chairman of a committee wants to be friends with a general who really screwed things up, I think that that makes accountability tough. | ||
| It obviously limits what the chairman is going to do, and that trickles down Um, to the staff that are working on these committees, um, that, uh, goes across to other members, just rank and file guys that are on various committees. | ||
| A lot of the time, the tone is set by the chairman. | ||
| And if the chairman of a committee, uh, doesn't want to take action, then action doesn't really happen. | ||
| And I would just tell people, uh, don't let inaction, uh, don't let them come up with excuses for inaction. | ||
| As the chairman of a committee, you have tremendous power. | ||
| You can issue subpoenas. | ||
| You can compel the production of documents. | ||
| You can force people to appear in front of you. | ||
| And if they don't tell the truth, there can be consequences for that. | ||
| So the chairman of committees are powerful and inaction is really not an excuse, especially when you have a congressional majority. | ||
| You have the gavel and you have important issues that you need to be getting answers on. | ||
| And Jerry, just give me a minute. | ||
| It seems like McCall is more concerned with, you know, trashing you and trying to rebut your claims in the mainstream media. | ||
| An interesting alliance there. | ||
| Just walk us through real quick how he's been pushing back on what you've been saying. | ||
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Well, I have not spoken with him since, uh, since I resigned. | |
| Um, and since I made my letter public, so I have not heard directly from him. | ||
| I've seen the comments and statements that the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Chairman McCaul's behalf, the statements they've given to the press, where there's not really an effort to say that anything that I said was wrong. | ||
| They really can't because everything that I said was true. | ||
| But it's just sort of a repetition of what Chairman McCaul has said in the past, that According to the most recent statement from the committee that he pours his heart and soul into getting answers for the Abigaid families. | ||
| Look, he made specific promises to the Abigaid families that he would stop at nothing to get answers for them. | ||
| There are extremely basic things that were not done, despite months and months and months of my urging. | ||
| Basic things that we should have been doing to get those answers. | ||
| And Jerry, we're coming up against a break, so I've got to let you go. | ||
| But if the audience wants to read your letter, read the book, follow you, where can they go to keep up to date with everything that you're working on? | ||
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Check out the book, Kabul, on Amazon, and you can follow me at jerrydunlevy on X. | |
| That right there, Warren Posse, a signal, not noise. | ||
| Jerry, thank you so much for having the courage to speak out. | ||
| We know the system protects itself, and when you dare to stand up and criticize it, I think this show knows firsthand what the repercussions of that can be. | ||
| Warren Posse, in the meantime, you guys can go to birchgold.com slash Bannon to get the latest installment The End of the Dollar Empire written by Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
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| Imagine that. | ||
| We'll be back after the short break. | ||
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Welcome back to the War Room Live. | |
| Like I was saying in the opening of this show, you guys know we exist to move and frankly broaden the goalposts that all the lame, controlled opposition conservative news outlets like Fox News have set really woefully for so many congressional Republicans. | ||
| They give Mike McCaul every other night a round of applause on air for what he's been doing with his investigation, which frankly, I don't even know if it's better or worse than what Trey Gowdy did. | ||
| with Benghazi, but Americans are dead and Mike McCaul is worried about being friends | ||
| with Chairman Mark Milley. | ||
| That should show you the priorities up there on Capitol Hill. | ||
| The same man who's in charge of House Foreign Affairs Committee, always kind of taking charge | ||
| on Ukraine policy. | ||
| Used to chair, I think, Homeland Security, or was pretty high up in that. | ||
| No wonder why our border is wide open, because this is the issue, right? | ||
| This is, frankly, it's why I'm hosting this show right now, right? | ||
| The regime protects its own. | ||
| It's why they did not call Victoria Nuland. | ||
| It's why they didn't call Wendy Sherman a host of Biden regime apparatchiks. | ||
| They let them stonewall this investigation. | ||
| This stuff makes me so sick. | ||
| So sick. | ||
| The system will always protect its own. | ||
| Mike McCaul is a perfect example of that, and we need more people like Jerry to step up and stand in the breach and call out what we're seeing, not these horrible attempts. | ||
| You guys remember that Biden impeachment inquiry? | ||
| It barely had meaningful questions. | ||
| The very own witnesses that they called undermined their own case. | ||
| Like we always say, the evidence, the facts are there, but when you put people like Mike McCaul in charge of running the play, you're not going to get good results. | ||
| So I hope Jerry Dunleavy's crusade in the media, I hope Mike McCaul spends more time actually getting answers for the Gold Star families and not trashing him in mainstream media outlets. | ||
| So that seems to be a problem with a lot of Republicans these days. | ||
| I'm looking at you, New York Times and Trump campaign. | ||
| Speaking of that, you guys know we always focus on the Great Replacement here in the War Room. | ||
| It's not a theory. | ||
| It's not a conspiracy theory. | ||
| It's happening. | ||
| Media Matters can clip that if they want. | ||
| But there was just a striking piece in the New York Times yesterday. | ||
| We discussed it very briefly with Bob Goode, but I want to bring on Theo Wold, who really was part of the first Trump administration's brain trust in terms of immigration policy behind a lot of the legal work that you guys did to secure our borders, which the Biden regime has miraculously, but I think what we're going to get into now, intentionally undone, kind of unraveled for electoral gains, right? | ||
| The gray replacement theory also applies to your vote. | ||
| The article in the New York Times, immigrants are becoming US citizens at fastest clip in years. | ||
| The government has reduced a backlog of applications that built up during the Trump administrations. | ||
| New citizens say they are looking forward to voting in November. | ||
| Now, Warren Posse, I promise I'll stop talking and won't torture you with any more New York Times quotes, but this is so in your face saying the quiet part out loud that I just have to read the quote in theory once your thoughts kind of walk us through why we're seeing this change. | ||
| The surge in naturalization efficiency isn't just about clearing backlogs. | ||
| It's potentially reshaping the electorate merely months before a pivotal election, said Xiao Wang, chief executive of Boundless, a company that uses government data to analyze immigration trends. | ||
| Every citizenship application could be a vote that decides Senate seats or even the presidency. | ||
| Theo, your thoughts? | ||
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Yeah I think, thanks for having me on again Natalie, but to start here from I think a digestible thesis for the posse. | |
| One thing is very clear, naturalization trends have essentially plummeted over the last 30 to 40 years and why? | ||
| Well activist liberal judges and a lot of left-wing activists who got elected to Congress essentially gave the farm away to non-citizens over the course of decades. | ||
| So most of all the privileges we associate with citizenship are now available to permanent residents, green card holders. | ||
| What's the one thing that a green card holder can't have that only a citizen can have? | ||
| That's voting. | ||
| So these numbers that are coming out of USCIS and the Department of Homeland Security are really a testament to how the left is targeting this idea of ensuring that non-citizens get their green cards and then they very efficiently make that move from green card to hold status to citizenship so that they can actually participate in federal elections. | ||
| And walk us through some of the policy reversals that the Biden regime has engaged in to sort of facilitate What we kind of call legalized fraud here in the war room. | ||
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Yeah, I mean, I think here this is where one of the more interesting points for your viewers to kind of wrestle with is immigration is where you can see the work of the deep state or the administrative state most clearly, which is if it's a policy or an idea that they oppose, they'll drag their feet. | |
| They'll be reluctant to actually engage in the necessary legwork or the reforms to make it happen. | ||
| And if it's an idea that they like or that they agree with, you know, in general terms, they'll move expeditiously to see it prioritized or carried across the finish line. | ||
| So one of the examples that the New York Times cites is that under Trump and previous years, you know, the last Bush administration, naturalization timelines took for processing purposes about 11 and a half months. | ||
| And the Biden administration has cut that normal processing time down to just three months. | ||
| And that's a really good indication that the civil bureaucracy has something that they're aiming for here. | ||
| And what's the thing they're aiming for? | ||
| They want these non-citizens to get their green cards. | ||
| They want the green cards then processed into citizenship so that they can vote in the 2024 election. | ||
| That's one of the key ingredients in this whole idea. | ||
| So is it unlawful? | ||
| This is the worst part. | ||
| No, it's not unlawful. | ||
| It's just you have a pliant captured bureaucracy that's willing to work for one side, one objective and not the other political side. | ||
| Yeah, the administrative state certainly didn't seem to work with similar haste when it came to building the wall or deferring anything for dreamers. | ||
| Um, but in terms of counteracting this, obviously there's a lot of discussion of, you know, mass deportations and the feasibility of that. | ||
| But in terms of, I think it's fair to say we're at a point where you almost need denaturalizations too. | ||
| Is that something that is legally plausible? | ||
| Is that something that could be pursued in a second Trump administration? | ||
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Yeah, I mean, it all depends, right? | |
| It depends on the contours. | ||
| Denaturalization works on a case-by-case or individual basis. | ||
| So it just depends on whether or not there will be the resources or the focus to go back and review some of these naturalizations to see whether or not there was fraud, fraud in the inducement. | ||
| One of the things we worked on so targetedly in the Trump administration was to limit marriage fraud. | ||
| Our country has been replete with instances where people engage in falsified relationships in order to obtain green cards or eventually citizenship under false pretenses. | ||
| That was something we really tried to ferret out and end. | ||
| That work, like some of the other projects you've mentioned, has all essentially been undone by the Biden administration. | ||
| So if there are instances where there was fraud, fraud in the submission of necessary paperwork, or a criminal record that was obscured, then yeah, there would be a basis for either through civil proceedings or criminal proceedings to denaturalize these individuals. | ||
| But I think this is the part that needs to be most troubling for your viewers, which is most of everything that they're doing right now is totally lawful. | ||
| It's consistent with the laws on the books. | ||
| They could move to expedite naturalizations. | ||
| They just choose not to do the counter under, say, a Trump presidency, which is to expedite removals and deportations of criminal aliens. | ||
| So we're seeing the one-way ratchet work here in real time. | ||
| You obviously worked, you know, very close and we're sorry for that to a lot of these administrative state Holdover types who, of course, obstructed and interfered any time you guys tried to do anything resembling America First when it came to immigration policy. | ||
| You know, we focused yesterday with Jeff Clark on the show talking about how there's a bunch of activists within the EPA already kind of preforming these radical groups to object and kind of interfere with what would be President Trump's second term | ||
| agenda. | ||
| Do you kind of foresee similar, I think, efforts coming from within DHS and relevant organizations | ||
| that the Trump camp needs to be preparing for? | ||
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Oh, yeah, without a doubt. | |
| I mean, I think generally the challenge that the first Trump White House faced was how do you operationalize some of the president's instinctual ideas in immigration policy. | ||
| And I think it's worth saying, I mean, like, immigration is one of those things that I think lots of Americans have different feelings about. | ||
| It's not necessarily bad or good just in itself, but one thing that we are learning more and more, especially when we look to other countries around the world, is immigration without any meaningful integration, either immigration of the legal or illegal variety, is a direct challenge to the nation. | ||
| And there are lots of people embedded in the Department of Homeland Security who see immigration, regardless of integration efforts, assimilation efforts, as a net good always. | ||
| And changing that attitude in a second Trump White House or second Trump administration is going to be incredibly difficult. | ||
| And in terms of, you know, these, I guess they're citizens, right? | ||
| So they're able to vote. | ||
| But in terms of non-citizens voting, which is, I think, similarly, A threat, probably on an even larger scale. | ||
| It depends. | ||
| The numbers are always kind of shady. | ||
| They love to play Russian nesting doll with the numbers and not really tell you what the actual figures are unless they're trying to brag to the New York Times about how quickly they're replacing Americans in the electorate. | ||
| But how does that process actually work? | ||
| How will non-citizens be eligible to vote ahead of November? | ||
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Yeah, I mean, I think that's a it's a pretty complicated topic unto itself. | |
| I mean, the way I think the way to sort of understand it, again, sort of bite by bite here is to really review the way that each state handles its own purposes of registration, and then voting and then tabulation in its elections. | ||
| And what I mean by that is, Lots of states have these sort of oddities that allow for non-citizens to participate, even without a non-citizen knowingly trying to register or cast a ballot. | ||
| So, for example, there are a number of states that have same-day registration. | ||
| without proof or documentation. | ||
| You can just show up and say, whoops, I forgot my ID. | ||
| And so you're given what's called a provisional ballot. | ||
| But a lot of poll workers don't know that you're supposed to cure a provisional ballot with an affidavit and then a visit to a registrar's office to prove that you have sufficient identification. | ||
| I mean, another way that this happens for non-citizens participating in our election. | ||
| I'm gonna jump to break, but I know the audience wants to drill down on this, because in order to combat that problem, we have to understand it, right? | ||
| We'll be joined after the break, Theo Gould, also Congressman Tim Burchett. | ||
| In the meantime, you can go to birchgold.com slash Bannon to get the latest installment of The End of the Dollar Empire, or give Philip Patrick, so busy, can only come on forums on Saturday, but in the meantime, you can always give him a call. | ||
| I will be right back. | ||
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Your host, Stephen K. Vance. | |
| Welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| You guys know on this show we've chronicled in great detail and frankly with great pain all of the policy reversals and even kind of just organic policies that the Biden regime has initiated | ||
| when it comes to immigration, whether reversing the DNA test requirements, not allowing | ||
| wire fencing, though of course, they recently kind of kowtowed to who was it? | ||
| Was it Ken Paxton? | ||
| Actually, there's Andrew Bailey up in Missouri who wrote that letter demanding that the remainder of the funds for the wall actually be used to, imagine that, build the wall. | ||
| But you sort of see all of these policy positions converging together into, frankly, I think, what is that New York Times article, right, which is the thing itself, the issue itself, which is that they're not Just content with having these people, you know, living in the shadows and having their green cards. | ||
| They want them to be able to vote. | ||
| And that is the fundamental dividing line. | ||
| And that is why you're seeing these naturalization rates skyrocket. | ||
| Thea, before we let you go, I just want you to sort of wrap up what you were saying about what non-citizen voting actually looks like. | ||
| And more importantly, you know, who needs to kind of step up to the plate and counteract. | ||
| We had Bob Good on the show yesterday talking about how You know, Republicans in the House are going to use that as their kind of bargaining chip when it comes to spending deals, but do you think that that's enough? | ||
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Yeah, I mean, I think the thing that we should make clear here is the Democrats in the far left have been at this game, the game being revising, amending and transforming our election laws for 40 years. | |
| I mean, motor voter registration, I know a lot of people are jazzed about that because Governor Shapiro in Pennsylvania made a big statement about it, you know, six months ago. | ||
| Motor voter registration has been on the books since the early 1990s. | ||
| Uh, most of the transformative laws were passed, you know, 10, 15 years ago, all mail ballots, no absentee voting or no, no fault absentee voting. | ||
| All of these things were done a long time ago. | ||
| Republicans are just now waking up to them. | ||
| And I think for someone like me, who's interested in immigration policy, what's interesting about these supposed reforms to election laws is they all allow vulnerabilities, permeability for non citizens, foreign nationals, to vote, in some instances, | ||
| unwittingly, but in many instances because they're put up to it by the consortium of far-left | ||
| activists, pro-immigration groups, to participate in our elections and actually affect the | ||
| outcome. | ||
| And that quote you led with, Natalie, from the New York Times piece, which was from an | ||
| activist from a pro-immigrant group, is exactly right. | ||
| The goal is to change the outcome of either a Senate or gubernatorial elections, but definitely | ||
| the presidential contest. | ||
| And no matter how anyone feels about how the campaign is going, you know, in light of the switch to Kamala or the change of the media embargo on her record, what is very clear is this is going to be a close election no matter what. | ||
| And 50,000 votes could be made up of, you know, a good portion of non-citizens who are participating in our election and changing the outcome in Bellwether counties and Bellwether states. | ||
| Theo, you're all over this. | ||
| If people want to follow you, stay up to date with your work on this and so much more, where can they go to do that? | ||
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Yeah, check out the Claremont Institute's DC office, the Center for the American Way of Life, and also A Real Theo Wold on X or Instagram. | |
| Thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| We'll have you back on soon. | ||
| Orrin Posse, we're joined now by Congressman Tim Burchett, who's sort of on vacation. | ||
| I was giving him a hard time in the break. | ||
| I asked him, how's your Speaker Johnson-sanctioned vacation going while Rome burns? | ||
| No, but you've been working. | ||
| You've recently been trying to get answers as to why a good friend on this show, Tulsi Gabbard, looks like she was placed on some semblance of a no-fly list. | ||
| By DHS, people stalking her through airports. | ||
| Can you kind of walk us through that story and the action that you're taking to rectify it? | ||
| Yeah, apparently Tulsi was, and I hadn't actually talked to Tulsi in, I don't know, months, maybe a year. | ||
| And then she, after she saw what I did, she texted me the other night and was very kind about it. | ||
| But apparently she's going through airports now and she's on what's called a Quiet Skies watch list. | ||
| And apparently they've had agents have followed her, different agencies. | ||
| And, um, and you know, it's not just one, you know, as we like say, rogue agency or something. | ||
| And to me, that's, that is a very chilling effect. | ||
| Why are they doing this? | ||
| And I, that's why I want to know if they got to put me in a skiff to tell me why, um, they're following her and doing this thing. | ||
| But if they're doing, if they're doing that to her, they're doing it to others. | ||
| And it's a complete overreach again. | ||
| These are unelected bureaucrats that are given the green light by somebody. | ||
| And we've seen it time and time again, the failures. | ||
| I mean, from the Secret Service to President Trump almost getting shot, to our members of our Justice Department are labeling moms that go to school board meetings as domestic terrorists. | ||
| The same for Catholics who had the audacity to protest abortion clinics legally within their First Amendment right again. | ||
| Terrorist watch list. | ||
| And so we've got to I think we we need to bring these people in. | ||
| We need to reign them in and find out what the heck is going on because this is it's unconstitutional. | ||
| It's illegal and it's un-American frankly. | ||
| Seems like the failures always seem to go one way. | ||
| Same with I guess late night ballot drops coming in from from swing states. | ||
| But Congressman, in terms of the committees and investigations we had an individual on | ||
| earlier in the show who was kind of a whistleblower, he resigned in protest from House Foreign | ||
| Affairs Committee's investigation into Afghanistan, saying that, you know, Chairman McCaul just | ||
| isn't calling in the right witnesses. | ||
| There's just not an appetite to get actual accountability on a litany of issues, whether it's, you know, the assassination attempt, the Biden family, you know, crime enterprise, the racket that is the Biden crime family. | ||
| Where do we stand on those investigations right now, given that, you know, everyone is sort of dispersed across the country? | ||
| Well, we're not doing anything, obviously. | ||
| That's why the Secret Service, when, you know, they They obviously were made a almost fatal mistake with President Trump. | ||
| You know, I said, let's let's forget that, you know, forget to that gum convention. | ||
| Let's go in Monday morning. | ||
| Let's start subpoenaing these people. | ||
| Let's get them in. | ||
| And everybody's like, no, we got to get notice. | ||
| We got this. | ||
| We got that. | ||
| And, you know, and now it's off the front page and now it's not even news and nobody cares. | ||
| And I think they'll run it up against these elections and then they'll they'll they'll play it out. | ||
| Hopefully, hopefully. | ||
| That Trump will lose and Kamala Harris will win. | ||
| And then they know they won't have to come then, because the Democrats sure as hell won't bring them in. | ||
| So we've got to, I think we need to push it. | ||
| We need to full court press this whole thing. | ||
| It is, it's ridiculous. | ||
| It's out of control. | ||
| And, you know, here we are at the will of these staffers. | ||
| I've said this time and time again, you have a bill dealing with the Chinese developing a genome that For Americans through these DNA services, you know, you send your DNA in and you get, you find out that your, you know, your, your history, your family's history, what have you. | ||
| And I can't even get a hearing on that. | ||
| I couldn't get it under the Democrats. | ||
| I can't get it under the Republicans. | ||
| You've got staffers, you know, we talk about the K street lobbyists, but they've infected that whole Capitol. | ||
| And as I've stated many times, it's not a, you know, it's not a swamp. | ||
| Swamp is something cool that God created. | ||
| This is a sewer. | ||
| It is man-made, and it stinks. | ||
| And we have got to... That's why it's so important that these folks realize what the heck is going on in this country and get to the polls. | ||
| Our numbers are ridiculously low. | ||
| You know, in Knoxville, Tennessee, my hometown, we have a person that apparently identifies as a Marxist. | ||
| They're friendly, but they're a Marxist in Knoxville, Tennessee. | ||
| You know, and we just continue down this path. | ||
| We have preachers that won't preach the gospel. | ||
| Nobody's holding anybody accountable. | ||
| People are afraid to stand up in church, at their work, at the, you know, at the water cooler, at schools, at public squares, at county commission, at city councils, in the United States Congress, in the United States Senate. | ||
| They're afraid to stand up and we better wake up because we're going to lose it all. | ||
| This one is for all the marbles. | ||
| This is not some conspiracy theorist kind of thing. | ||
| I think they're showing exactly what they're doing. | ||
| They're pushing the envelope as far as they can get it because they know if Trump wins, their little charades over. | ||
| But if Trump loses, we lose everything. | ||
| All these things will be More or less codified. | ||
| Codified, as they say. | ||
| It will be in the law. | ||
| They'll be allowing people over our border more so than they are now. | ||
| They will be voting. | ||
| They will get your benefits. | ||
| These veterans will be shunned and pushed out of things that they're rightfully intended to get. | ||
| And so we better wake up. | ||
| And this deal with Tulsa is the very tip of the iceberg. | ||
| I can't imagine who else is on that list. | ||
| But my mind doesn't have to wander very far to figure it out. | ||
| To think that an American citizen is being spied on by an American agency for little or no proof. | ||
| This is very reckless behavior by this administration, which is really a rudderless ship. | ||
| Nobody's running this ship. | ||
| It's a bunch of Obama, leftover bureaucrats, hard leftist Marxists that are trying to destroy this country. | ||
| I won't go overkill on the city planning metaphors, but I do think you are very apt to say that it is a sewer and not a swamp because it is man-made, and I think a lot of these deadlines or government shutdown debates that you guys find yourselves in are sort of a function of the system, right? | ||
| The lobbyists love when you're kind of pressed up against a wall in the 11th hour and you don't pass your single-subject spending. | ||
| Spending bills, so obviously we're sort of barreling towards that already. | ||
| What is it, October 1st? | ||
| Can you kind of walk us through where you stand? | ||
| We have Congressman Braun on talking stopgap funding measures, all that. | ||
| What do you kind of see as the path ahead? | ||
| Well, that's exactly you couldn't have laid it out any better. | ||
| That's exactly what the bureaucrats and the lobbyists want, because it continues the poor spending policies that we've had in the past. | ||
| And you've got to realize some of these policies and programs that we're funding no longer even exist. | ||
| So that money just is unaccounted for. | ||
| It goes into a slush fund. | ||
| It's just like the Pentagon. | ||
| They can't account for a half a trillion dollars in assets. | ||
| I mean, what is that, a battleship? | ||
| I mean, that's pathetic. | ||
| And you multiply it over all over government and you just see it time and time again. | ||
| They want a continuation, a CR, continued resolution or whatever you want to call it, an omnibus. | ||
| I want single spending bills. | ||
| Let's stay there all night. | ||
| Let's make all these old fat cats in Washington justify their terrible spending programs. | ||
| And I'll guarantee you they can't do it and people won't vote for it. | ||
| And that's why they want it. | ||
| They were running this country into the ground, 35 trillion in debt, another 100 days. | ||
| We add another trillion dollars. | ||
| It's not real sexy and they don't want to talk about it. | ||
| That's exactly where we're at as a country. | ||
| And Congressman, in terms of, you know, the allies that you see kind of forming or, you know, taking kind of besides you, at least on this particular financial fiscal fight, You know, how many do you think are in line with you? | ||
| How many do you think are willing to just sort of, you know, use status quo tactics? | ||
| Yeah, I think we've probably got 20, 25 people that'll hold line. | ||
| And then you've got all the Democrats against us. | ||
| And then you have some middle of the road, moderate Republicans. | ||
| And that's part of the problem with their primaries being over, you know, it's them or some far left Democrat. | ||
| And so, Yeah, we're kind of in a spot and that's timing. | ||
| But I think that is if we can get Trump in there, I think that is when people start paying attention because he's going to start cutting these huge, huge departments that, you know, for instance, the Department of Education. | ||
| When I say this, everybody says, Birchett wants to cut education. | ||
| No, I just want to cut the Department of Education. | ||
| Send all that money to the states. | ||
| You show me one bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. | ||
| that's taught a kid how to read in Granger County, and I'll eat your hat. | ||
| You know, it just doesn't happen. | ||
| And they're worse than the mob. | ||
| They take their cut right off the, not off the top, but off the top to the middle. | ||
| And I've heard people say we need to cut about 75% of the bureaucrats in Washington. | ||
| Well, that's a start. | ||
| That is actually a start. | ||
| And it goes to the bureaucrats. | ||
| We're coming up against the break, so I've got to let you go. | ||
| But if people want to follow you, one of the few good ones who's still working, even while y'all are on vacation, where can people go to do that? | ||
| At Tim Burchett and I'm actually down here for an event for my buddy Matt Gates and make sure we reelect him in his primary because the sewer is completely after him. | ||
| They do not like the stance he takes on anything and they need to be ashamed of themselves and they need to be called into account. | ||
| Two of the good ones, though I would argue it's a it's a low bar among your colleagues, but nonetheless, you guys stand and rise above. | ||
| We love you here in the War Room. | ||
| We will be back after this short break. | ||
| Government gangsters are the group of individuals, career bureaucrats, who have been installed by what we call the Deep State into every agency and department in the United States government. | ||
| Had Donald Trump not won in 2016, he would not have exposed the flank of the Deep State and their weapon of choice, the two-tier system of justice. | ||
| From Russiagate, to Hunter Biden's laptop, to Joe Biden's classified documents case, to January 6th, to the 51 Intel letter, and everything in between. | ||
| We would never have learned that. | ||
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| I think we just have to say, I mean, what a show we've already had today. | ||
| I think springboarding off of the week we had last week, going through how they are trying to steal, not just trying, but I would argue successfully stealing this election. | ||
| But I think there's so much discussion, right? | ||
| You remember back in 2016, not normalizing President Trump. | ||
| And while they always like to kind of focus that rhetoric on Trump's tweets and his actions, not necessarily the policy that he's put forth. | ||
| But they don't want to normalize Republicans like President Trump. | ||
| In other words, Republicans like, I think, Stephen K. Bannon, who are willing to go after the system and say the quiet part out loud, which is deconstructing the administrative state. | ||
| The administrative state that will do nothing, protect its own, in the case of Michael McCaul, worry more about what his friend Mark Milley, who was openly admitted to having back-channeled dialogues with the Chinese Communist Party to subvert and obstruct, The elected desires of President Donald J. Trump, that is the administrative state in action, right? | ||
| The colleagues, the people who refuse to, I mean, how pathetic is that? | ||
| Of the Americans who died in Afghanistan, a place that, frankly, we spilled enough blood and treasure in to begin with, and that's frankly the real reason they don't want to get to the bottom of that investigation. | ||
| Blows up the whole thing on the scam that is, the racket that is the endless forever wars going on. | ||
| In this country, but they don't have the ability to give gold star families, the truth, the closure. | ||
| They're more, Mike McCall is more worried about what Mark Milley, Victoria Newland and Chinese communist party asset, Wendy Sherman from the Biden state department. | ||
| Think about him. | ||
| And by the way, these are the very same Republicans who are supposed to be protecting your vote ahead of this next election, protecting this country, protecting the sovereignty of the United States of America. | ||
| They're supposed to be laying down the law. | ||
| On the southern border, like they laid down the law on the debt ceiling back, what was it, about a year ago when they basically handed away, even frankly, more free votes to the Democratic Party, to Joe Biden, now Kamala Harris. | ||
| I'm sure they're getting ready to do that again. | ||
| And you guys are already seeing how the NGOs are lining up alongside our very own government to ensure it's not even that illegals can vote. | ||
| They want to make the illegal citizens so they can vote in addition to non-citizens voting. | ||
| Talk about compounding factors. | ||
| That's how much they think of you in this country. | ||
| They care more about non-citizens being able to vote than actual Americans and their families who have spilled their blood, given their lives for this country in countries that have, frankly, no meaningful, really, existence to the United States. | ||
| Looking at the Middle East there. | ||
| They will do more for non-citizens, give them citizenship, one of the most meaningful things. | ||
| In history, to the greatest country in the world, the United States of America, then they will get up and do anything for gold star families. | ||
| That right there, that is the signal, not noise. | ||
| That is the system that we are up against. | ||
| Oh, and meanwhile, they'll censor you the whole time while you're at it, outsourcing their lovely efforts to subvert the First Amendment to a bunch of NGOs backed by a bunch of backwards people who want to teach your kids Subversive and degenerate gender ideology in classrooms, and if you dare to speak out against it, you're the weird one. | ||
| Tim Walz, who's too busy for decades doing business deals with the Chinese Communist Party, I would say, overshadowed only by Hunter Biden. | ||
| But that is the system that we are up against, the system that protects its own, the system | ||
| that is the reason why I'm sitting here and Stephen K. Bannon isn't, because he dared | ||
| to speak out against it just like President Trump has. | ||
| And just like we will continue to do in the war room and just like our next guest, Mike | ||
| Lindell has always done, leading him to receive some nasty, nasty letters from, like I always | ||
| say, what is it? | ||
| Muslim Brotherhood linked Keith Ellison. | ||
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