May 13, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| Steve, your show. | ||
| Have a great show. | ||
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Good to have you back, my friend. | |
| Eric, great to see you again, sir. | ||
| We look forward to seeing you and doing the handoff tomorrow. | ||
| Great, me too. | ||
| The great Eric Bolling. | ||
| Getting a shout-out by the President of the United States. | ||
| Eric deserves it. | ||
| Doing a great job there at 4 o 'clock. | ||
| Great lead-in for us. | ||
| We've got a cold open. | ||
| We're going to go ahead and play it. | ||
| I got Mike Davis. | ||
| We're going to start on the floor of the House in Texas. | ||
| But Brian Harrison is going to join us about 5.30. | ||
| I'm going to start with Mike Davis. | ||
| There's a lot going on in Texas, and there's a lot that stinks to high heaven in Texas. | ||
| We're going to try to at least start to get to the bottom of it today in the first hour. | ||
| Let's do the cold open, and then we'll get the Viceroy. | ||
| Mike Davis will join us. | ||
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What do I think? | |
| What do you think of this? | ||
| Again, you know, we're not a market watch show. | ||
| It's not about whether the market goes up or down. | ||
| We are trying to keep our eye on what America is telling the world. | ||
| And chaos, no matter who's telling the story, is clearly the message Donald Trump is sending the world. | ||
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No doubt about it. | |
| What he's sending the business community is uncertainty. | ||
| And if there's one thing the business community can't deal with, it's uncertainty. | ||
| They won't invest. | ||
| They won't grow. | ||
| They've become paralyzed. | ||
| And you saw the picture of the ports. | ||
| The supply chain is going to end up having impacts on shelves. | ||
| There's no doubt about that. | ||
| What items aren't going to be on those shelves is going to be interesting to see. | ||
| Probably all the items that the gentleman talked about that's with the Port Authority. | ||
| But in the end, what this is going to do and what it's doing is it's going to have pretty negative impacts on our economy. | ||
| And nobody wants to see a recession. | ||
| Nobody wants to see a depression. | ||
| And you certainly don't want to see it if it's self-inflicted. | ||
| And I've seen a lot of self-inflicted problems that have arisen over the last four months. | ||
| Escape with some issues like the price of grain right now, soybeans. | ||
| It looks like a rollercoaster ride on those markets. | ||
| But we talk about imports. | ||
| What about the exports? | ||
| Because a lot of our export markets are being filled by other countries. | ||
| And that is not good for agriculture or processing or any of those kind of things. | ||
| The uncertainty that this has created in the marketplace is going to have long-term impacts. | ||
| And the fact that it was dropped from 100, the taxes were dropped from 145 to 30, sure, it's a good sign, like I say, a self-inflicted sign that was solved by the person who created it. | ||
| But in the end, there's got to be long-term certainty here or our economy is still going to be very, very fragile. | ||
| Let me put it this way. | ||
| Nations depend on rules, fair rules. | ||
| Sometimes they're written down. | ||
| Often, they're not. | ||
| But either way, they give shape to our values, guide us towards our rights, of course, but also our responsibilities, the obligations we owe to each other. | ||
| Now, in a diverse nation like ours, and I celebrate that, these rules become even more important. | ||
| Without them, we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together. | ||
| So when you have an immigration system that seems almost designed to permit abuse, that encourages some businesses to bring in lower-paid workers rather than invest in our young people, or simply one that is sold by politicians to the British people on an entirely false premise. | ||
| Then you're not championing growth. | ||
| You're not championing justice or however else people defend the status quo. | ||
| You're actually contributing to the forces that are slowly pulling our country apart. | ||
| So yes, I believe in this. | ||
| I believe we need to reduce immigration significantly. | ||
| Well, the Constitution is clear, and that of course is the supreme law of the land, that... | ||
| The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion. | ||
| So to say that's an option we're actively looking at. | ||
| Look, a lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not. | ||
| Wow, that was White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller suggesting that the administration would suspend habeas corpus if it disagrees with how the courts are ruling on immigration cases, arguing the president alone has the authority to revoke this country's bedrock legal right. | ||
| So can he? | ||
| Joining us now is NBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin and NBC News Justice and Intelligence correspondent Ken Delaney and also Eli Stokuls, who's still with us. | ||
| Lisa, first off, define habeas corpus. | ||
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Habeas corpus is a form of asking for relief from a court where you're essentially asking for a release of a body. | |
| Conventionally speaking, it just means that you're asking to be released from custody. | ||
| This is something that all sorts of people who've been caught up in immigration proceedings have been asking for lately. | ||
| Usually you see it in the context of a prisoner who believes that they've been wrongly convicted. | ||
| After their conviction, they can ask for habeas relief. | ||
| But lately, we've been seeing it in cases like the Alien Enemies Act cases. | ||
| President Donald Trump fired the director of the U.S. Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter. | ||
| Perlmutter was appointed by the former Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, in 2020. | ||
| Hayden was also fired just days prior. | ||
| Like Hayden, Perlmutter was also notified via email. | ||
| The director of the Copyright Office oversees six directories and 450 staff at the agency. | ||
| Representative Joe Morelli, the ranking member of the House Administration Committee, blamed Perlmutter's firing on her recent report on using copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence systems. | ||
| According to Perlmutter, such a practice, quote, would undermine, rather than further, the constitutional goals of copyright. | ||
| Morelli said of Donald Trump's firing, quote, It is surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber stamp Elon Musk's efforts to mine trolls of copyrighted works to train AI models. | ||
| The union behind Canadian and American musicians also issued a statement lamenting Perlmutter's firing. | ||
| The union says, quote, She understood what we all know to be true. | ||
| Human creativity and authorship are the foundation of copyright law. | ||
| And for that, it appears she lost her job. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
| Because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people 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. | ||
| 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. Vance. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Vance. | ||
| It's Monday, 12 May in the year of alert, 2025. | ||
| Thank you for joining us for the late afternoon, early evening edition of the War Room on this very historic day, starting in Geneva, 3 in the morning, Eastern Daylight Time, with a press conference by the Secretary of Treasury and the Ambassador, our Trade Rep. | ||
| Jameson Greer, you should understand, was Lighthizer's wingman, his deputy. | ||
| In the first term and was there every day for the two-year negotiation with the Chinese Communist Party that ended up in that magnificent deal that President Trump, Peter Navarro, Lighthizer, Jameson, and others worked on that the Chinese Communist Party ripped up and spit in our face on just to make sure that we put a peg in that and let's remember who we're dealing with. | ||
| Historic in the Oval Office Day, I'm going to have a little package on that later, Bobby Kennedy speaking truth to power. | ||
| About who really owns this town and the courage of President Trump to do this. | ||
| Brian Harrison, a great warrior and I don't know if an acolyte of the Viceroy, but clearly a buddy of the Viceroy. | ||
| Two fighters. | ||
| Brian Harrison is going to join us at the bottom of the hour from the Texas Statehouse. | ||
| There's something down in Texas. | ||
| I was reading his Twitter feed today. | ||
| There's something definitely not right down in Texas. | ||
| And we're going to start trying to get to the bottom of it with a real warrior, Brian Harrison. | ||
| I want to start with the Viceroy. | ||
| Mike, of everything going on, and there's so much, right? | ||
| You know, we're hurtling towards a constitutional crisis. | ||
| He's cutting trade deals, peace deals, drug deals, everything. | ||
| And people also don't understand. | ||
| Maybe the Library of Congress, she looks a little woke. | ||
| She's gone. | ||
| Then you get the head of the copyright, and then you start hearing, hey, the tech bros have been all over this, and there's a reason. | ||
| Explain to me why that last clip on the... | ||
| By the way, we play the first part of those clips just to make sure everybody... | ||
| It's a wake-up call in the afternoon. | ||
| We want to get your blood pressure up. | ||
| We want to get you angry. | ||
| We're showing you what the Democrats are saying. | ||
| Just a complete, total nonsense. | ||
| But the last clip was actually very, very important. | ||
| What in the hell is going on with this copyright, copyright protection? | ||
| And the head of the copyright got turfed out, sir. | ||
| So we've been fighting these trillion dollar... | ||
| Big tech monopolist, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple for five years at the Article III Project and our sister organization, the Internet Accountability Project. | ||
| And we have been very successful in changing the politics, particularly on the right, on ending the big tech antitrust amnesty that they've enjoyed for too long. | ||
| And we have Andrew Ferguson as the FTC chairman. | ||
| We have Gail Slater. | ||
| We have two very good antitrust law enforcers in the Trump administration. | ||
| And now where big tech is pivoting is on artificial intelligence. | ||
| What they want to do is they want to take every copyrighted work in the world and put it into their AI. | ||
| They call it to teach the AI machines. | ||
| But let me just give you an example of what this means. | ||
| And they want to do this without compensation. | ||
| They just want to take all this copyrighted material, put it into the AI machines. | ||
| They want to call it fair use under... | ||
| The Copyright Act, which means theft essentially. | ||
| And they want to do this under the guise of trying to compete against China. | ||
| Apparently, they want to steal like China so they can compete against China. | ||
| They want to have slave labor like China so they can compete against China. | ||
| That's not how it works in America. | ||
| But let me give you an example. | ||
| If I went onto this AI machine and said, give me a summary of every... | ||
| Bannon war room hits by the Viceroy, Mike Davis, over the last six months. | ||
| What this AI machine would do is go take all this content from the war room. | ||
| It would summarize Steve and my discussions over the last six months. | ||
| And then you have a very good idea of what we discussed, and you don't have to go click on the link for the Bannon War Room. | ||
| That means that Bannon's War Room has all their content used by Meta or whoever the AI company is, Google, and then the War Room doesn't get paid for the clicks. | ||
| The War Room doesn't get paid for the advertisement. | ||
| So what it will do is this will destroy conservative media. | ||
| Liberal media will always be good because you're always going to have China, you're always going to have Soros propping up liberal media. | ||
| Conservative media has to make money the old-fashioned way. | ||
| They have to do it through people clicking on their content and advertising, right? | ||
| And if you don't have people clicking on conservative content... | ||
| And getting the advertising, it's going to destroy conservative media. | ||
| Big tech tried to do this. | ||
| They tried to go to the Justice Department and get the Justice Department to say that stealing content for these AI machines is fair use. | ||
| We shut that down. | ||
| They tried to take over. | ||
| The copyright office, right? | ||
| The copyright office at the Library of Congress has every copyrighted material in the world, right? | ||
| And so now they want to take over the copyright office and put in one of their big tech shills to run the copyright office, one of their big tech shills to be the librarian of Congress and then have the copyright director... | ||
| Take over that. | ||
| I think we're shutting that down now. | ||
| Their next move is they've gone to Congress and essentially they want to give these AI companies 10 years of amnesty from states where the states cannot regulate them. | ||
| The states can't bring any actions against them. | ||
| Similar to what Big Tech did on Section 230 immunity. | ||
| So you have Section 230 immunity where they... | ||
| They can't be sued for the content that they put online, but they can profit off of it. | ||
| And then they have antitrust amnesty. | ||
| These trillion-dollar big tech companies are going to do whatever they can to steal as much content as they can from creators. | ||
| And then they're going to try to get as much amnesty as they can out of the Justice Department, out of Congress, out of states, out of the Copyright Office. | ||
| Out of whatever. | ||
| And that's where this is so important that we're calling this out because obviously President Trump does not want to kill every conservative media outlet in America by having copyrights sold. | ||
| It's also the other copyright. | ||
| We're going to talk about this. | ||
| These guys are rapacious. | ||
| They're rapacious. | ||
| The people it really hurts too is those of us who have not put up paywalls that have everything out for free. | ||
| And we have sponsors. | ||
| We have advertisers. | ||
| But it's kind of on a click basis. | ||
| So we don't charge. | ||
| Nobody's charged. | ||
| You come to the worm or all the times it's put up. | ||
| And it's on a click. | ||
| And so it's many people like us that do it like that. | ||
| They have not put up paywalls. | ||
| But it's not just conservative media. | ||
| I mean, this is deeper and darker than that. | ||
| This is what they've been trying to do. | ||
| And this is why I called for a total audit of everything Doja's done. | ||
| I still haven't seen the numbers on the cost side. | ||
| I've seen some stuff kicking around, and there is a couple hundred million dollars here, and Johnson said he's not going to support it. | ||
| We're going to unpack this entire mess. | ||
| Also, we're going to go to the Lone Star State, the railhead of the MAGA movement. | ||
| Folks, think you've got a problem in Georgia? | ||
| Think you've got a problem in North Carolina? | ||
| Think you've got a problem in South Carolina or Colorado? | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
| Okay, market's up today. | ||
| You know, you had John Tester, the guy that was blown out in Montana, as a total complete goofball. | ||
| And they finally got somebody to run against him, blew him out. | ||
| And he's up there yammering. | ||
| Yeah, it's so unstable. | ||
| Market's back up. | ||
| I think we're back up to the mid-April high. | ||
| Remember, mid-April is going to be the worst. | ||
| It's the Great Depression. | ||
| Worst April. | ||
| You don't hear him yammer about that anymore. | ||
| They've got to come up with something to yammer about. | ||
| There's never a real program that comes forward and says, here's what we're going to do as an alternative. | ||
| They don't have any economic populism, no nationalist economics, nothing. | ||
| They got nothing. | ||
| I'm not saying that. | ||
| Robert Reich has got a great piece up in the Guardian, and maybe I'll have time to talk about it tomorrow. | ||
| He says, hey, they got to come up with the left-wing populism on the economic side or they got nothing. | ||
| It's a credential class. | ||
| This is part of what I was telling the Financial Times crowd on Saturday night. | ||
| They got nothing right now. | ||
| Here's what they got, the courts, and the vice force here to break it down. | ||
| I want to go back over this. | ||
| Because the big input for artificial intelligence, and this is how these guys operate, this is why he got the H-1B visa problem. | ||
| In the age of the algorithm, what they're trying to do is take the human cost out of everything. | ||
| They're trying to get slave labor from over in Asia to come here as indentured servants who work for 50% less, and that's why you have no Americans in these jobs. | ||
| I challenged the FT audience on Saturday at the Kennedy Center. | ||
| Show me, and I've challenged tech, show me one billet where there's one person that has a better education or experience than you could find an American. | ||
| They can't do it because it's not about that. | ||
| That's a lie, a bald-faced lie. | ||
| What it's about is hiring people at 50 cents on the dollar and then make them live, attend to a condo in Silicon Valley and work 20 hours a day, seven days a week. | ||
| Is that what America's about? | ||
| That's indentured servitude. | ||
| I thought we kind of worked through that in the 19th century. | ||
| Why is it back in the 21st? | ||
| Because these oligarchs are the worst people on earth and created by the Democratic Party, and that's why you never see any antitrust. | ||
| This is why they didn't have Lena Kahn's back. | ||
| They had some great people over there. | ||
| They were prepared to grow for these oligarchs, but the people who created them, the billionaires on Wall Street, all Democrats, or a lot of Democrats, wouldn't let it happen. | ||
| And you got Tester up there yammering on. | ||
| Birchgold.com. | ||
| Gold down today, but hey, it ain't the price, it's the process. | ||
| We're going to go through times of turbulence. | ||
| We're heading to Rio for the Rio Reset. | ||
| Make sure you understand it all. | ||
| Birchgold.com slash Bannon. | ||
| End of the dollar empire. | ||
| We worked on this for four years. | ||
| We ain't Johnny come lately to this, folks. | ||
| There's now taught in undergraduate level because it's accessible. | ||
| Quite complicated topics, but we make it accessible to folks. | ||
| Just like you. | ||
| Take the challenge today. | ||
| It's totally free. | ||
| And then to talk to Phillip Patrick and the team over there. | ||
| These guys always want a free ride. | ||
| They want a free ride on labor, but particularly in AI. | ||
| The two things that drive this, folks, and you're going to be on the hook for both of them, is information, intellectual property, information, and energy. | ||
| Have you noticed that you don't hear so much about the Green New Deal anymore? | ||
| The cult of climate change is not on the front every night on MSNBC. | ||
| That's because all Silicon Valley is all about AI. | ||
| You've got to power up. | ||
| And when you power up off of what they've left this grid on, it's going to be ugly unless you put a bunch of money into it. | ||
| And guess who they're looking at with their hands out for the money? | ||
| That would be you, the taxpayer. | ||
| Mike, this is very sophisticated. | ||
| Here's the thing you should understand. | ||
| Just like Zuckerberg had a full-on assault with the lobbyists and lawyers and everybody bugging President Trump. | ||
| President Trump's trying to save the world. | ||
| He's got to take this pimp's calls and have him going in there and crawling around on his belly in the Oval Office, leaving a trail. | ||
| That he doesn't want to go to trial. | ||
| The pressure to keep Zuckerberg out of court was huge. | ||
| These guys put a full-on assault at Maine Justice. | ||
| They took their shot, right? | ||
| Their kind of legitimate shot. | ||
| And it got rejected, did it not? | ||
| Did it not, Mike Davis? | ||
| It did. | ||
| Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who is great on these tech issues, shut that down. | ||
| Fortunately... | ||
| President Trump made Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche the acting librarian of Congress, along with one of his deputies, Paul Perkins, as the acting head of the Copyright Office. | ||
| These are two of my friends, and these are two people who understand that we're not going to let every copyright at work in America, every creator's hard-earned... | ||
| Work gets stolen by the tech bros so they can make billions of dollars off of other people's work. | ||
| And this is just not the conservatives. | ||
| I mean, this is copyrighted material that creative people make, and it's their thing. | ||
| It's like when I talk about home title, it's equivalent to the title, the little thing you got, the title to your home, that shows that you own that real asset called your home. | ||
| The copyright is to show that, hey, this is their ownership. | ||
| Of something they created themselves. | ||
| And then you can take distribution rights and estimate for years. | ||
| I was in the movie business financing this stuff. | ||
| The copyright of a film. | ||
| This is why Turner Classic Movies has all the great, you know, old films. | ||
| They've bought these libraries. | ||
| They've partnered with people. | ||
| The copyright protection is what gives artists the ability actually to make a living and get cash. | ||
| The tech bros don't care about that. | ||
| They just want to go in there like barbarians and just get it for free. | ||
| Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. | ||
| All these guys are about gimme. | ||
| Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. | ||
| Right? | ||
| That's all they want. | ||
| They want it for free. | ||
| And thank God Todd Blanchard there. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| I would say this. | ||
| They say we need to let... | ||
| These AI companies steal everyone's copyright to compete against China. | ||
| Okay, let's talk about movies. | ||
| You brought that up, Steve. | ||
| How many people enjoy going to Chinese-produced movies? | ||
| Because they're so creative in China. | ||
| There's such a draw to go to Chinese movies. | ||
| Of course there's not. | ||
| They steal American movies. | ||
| They steal American content. | ||
| They steal... | ||
| American everything. | ||
| And if you make it easy for these AI companies to rip off everyone's copyrights, you're going to make it where we have no more creative content in America. | ||
| Why the hell would people put in their blood, sweat and tears to create creative content so Mark Zuckerberg can steal their content and make billions of more dollars? | ||
| By the way, as you can tell... | ||
| Because Mike Davis is from the great heartland of this country, an Iowa boy that now hangs out in Colorado most of the time. | ||
| Maybe not as the cutting edge of culture. | ||
| There are actually some magnificent Chinese movies, particularly the Chinese, some of the martial arts movies, but not the depth that America has. | ||
| The film libraries of Turner, of Warner Brothers, and Paramount, and all these is what they're trying to steal, plus all the TV, everything that's created, novels, all of it. | ||
| They want it for free. | ||
| That's the audacity. | ||
| Let's pull the camera back. | ||
| Mike, we got Google kind of where we want them in Northern Virginia Federal Court and D.C. Federal Court. | ||
| You got Apple getting fined. | ||
| You got Facebook. | ||
| We're trying to break up Facebook. | ||
| Gail Slater. | ||
| Omid over at Maine Justice, incredible. | ||
| Davis over at FCC. | ||
| The great Andrew Ferguson in the lineage of Lena Kahn at the FTC, which they tried to shut down, and because of Mike Davis in Article 3, we stopped that. | ||
| The big tech bros are taking it on the chin. | ||
| This is why I'm so proud of Trump. | ||
| The pressure he gets from that crowd and the pressure he gets from Big Pharma, and he kind of goes, I don't know, man. | ||
| The people that put me here... | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I can kind of hear them. | ||
| I don't think they want to do it. | ||
| What are we supposed to do, this audience, who gets revved up on this? | ||
| What do we need to do to kind of shut down the tech bros? | ||
| Well, I think that this American movie mogul, Steve Bannon, has them scared because, you know, we're up against Mark Zuckerberg and Google. | ||
| And it sounds like he's a Chinese movie baron as well, too, if he's criticizing me about culture. | ||
| But I would say this. | ||
| I'm just making an observation. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| The tech bros have the money. | ||
| They can pay the lobbyists. | ||
| They can pay the lawyers. | ||
| They can pay the campaign donations. | ||
| And they're going to get these politicians' attention every time. | ||
| The counterweight to that, the superpower that the War Room Posse has, is we have a massive amount of followers and viewers with the War Room Posse teaming up. | ||
| With the Article 3 project. | ||
| And Steve, you have the most engaged, smartest audience in the conservative ecosphere. | ||
| And so that's what these politicians fear. | ||
| They fear that crazy Mike Davis is going to go on your show and raise these issues and light up these politicians and these policymakers. | ||
| And so that is our superpower to keep big tech in check. | ||
| And this is why it was so important in the confirmations, guys like Todd Blanche, who's been spectacular. | ||
| I mean, this is the team Boris put together. | ||
| Remember the dark days of 21 and 22 when no law firms, all those big shot law firms that are now bending the knee wouldn't work for President Trump and wouldn't defend him against these outrageous charges. | ||
| That's where the Emil Boves and the Todd Blanches and that great team, and it's a great team over at Maine Justice, has come up. | ||
| Mike, I know you've got a bolt, but I do want to hold you through the commercial break, and your buddy Brian Harrison, who is kind of an acolyte, those two know each other. | ||
| It's scary. | ||
| It's a scary thought. | ||
| Harrison's going to be on because of what's going on in Texas, but I do, when we come back, I want a quick update on what we're doing, because over the weekend... | ||
| After we had you on late in the week and talked to you on Saturday, I got tremendous from all over the world wanting to know about this constitutional crisis we're hurtling towards that's got to get somehow rectified by the end of June because it cannot just simmer over the summer. | ||
| Before the Supreme Court leaves, there's got to be some adjudication of this. | ||
| There has to be somebody to step up and say what's going on. | ||
| So Mike Davis is going to stick for a few more minutes. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to go down to Texas. | ||
| The great Brian Harrison is going to join us. | ||
| Also, we've got Terry Schilling. | ||
| I'm trying to get E.J. and Tony. | ||
| E.J. and Tony's on fire up on Twitter today about the debt numbers are out. | ||
| $101 billion, folks, of interest payments only of the federal government in the month of April. | ||
| Let me repeat that. | ||
| $101 billion. | ||
| Didn't go to schools. | ||
| Didn't go to education facilities. | ||
| Didn't go to hospitals. | ||
| Didn't go to fire stations. | ||
| Didn't go to roads. | ||
| Didn't go to help the community. | ||
| Didn't go to food programs. | ||
| It went to pay bondholders. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because we are drowning in federal debt, as we've talked to you about. | ||
| Hopefully E.J. and Tony in the second hour. | ||
| Birchgold.com. | ||
| One of the reasons is because we're the prime reserve currency. | ||
| We can do it. | ||
| Understand what that means. | ||
| Right now, take your phone out. | ||
| Text Bannon, B-A-N-N-O-N, that would be me, at 989898. | ||
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| Let's change that. | ||
| Let's make it the age of Trump. | ||
| That's what I told the FT crowd. | ||
| I had a couple hecklers in the back kind of laughing. | ||
| Oh, that's not true. | ||
| Not true. | ||
| Suck on this. | ||
| It is true. | ||
| Go to Birch Gold today for the age of Trump. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| The Viceroy on the other side. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | |
| The Vice Roy. | ||
| Mike, people really responded to your, hey, you know, about habeas corpus and something's going to happen before they leave for the summer. | ||
| Any update on that or what happened on the weekend? | ||
| Well, we left you the radical judge, Clinton appointee in San Francisco, nobody ever heard of, shutting down President Trump's, you know, Article 2. Powers on basically not funding things and letting people go. | ||
| So where do we stand, sir? | ||
| I would say this to the Chief Justice. | ||
| You have let these Democrat activist judges sabotage American voters. | ||
| They are election deniers by sabotaging the President of the United States, exercising his core Article II powers. | ||
| And if you refuse... | ||
| It's going to be through oversight. | ||
| It's going to be through funding cuts. | ||
| It's going to be through jurisdiction stripping. | ||
| It could be through impeachment. | ||
| But frankly, the simpler approach, as Speaker Newt Gingrich has been talking about, is just eliminating a judge's seat. | ||
| So if the Chief Justice is not going to step up and get his judicial house in order, we're not going to let, as American voters, we're not going to let these activist judges sabotage our will and sabotage the President of the United States. | ||
| And you still see, your date is still before they leave on the last day of June to go for their three-month summer break. | ||
| They don't come back, I think, to the first Monday in August. | ||
| Your belief is... | ||
| It will somehow we'll have some sort of least attempt at a rectification of this, sir? | ||
| Look, illegal aliens do not have constitutional due process rights related to remaining in this country. | ||
| And the only time they get due process rights is when Congress provides those due process rights as it relates to remaining in this country. | ||
| If these six, I guess, if these... | ||
| Seven generals on the Supreme Court, Commanding General John Roberts and his six lieutenant generals, think that they're just going to create constitutional due process rights for these illegal aliens, including Trendy Aragua terrorists, where the president can't get these people the hell out of our country. | ||
| The Supreme Court is going to lose its legitimacy with the American people, and when that happens, it loses everything. | ||
| So this is a dire warning to the Chief Justice. | ||
| Proceed with caution. | ||
| Mike, where did they go for Article 3, and particularly, what do you got for us on this copyright thing? | ||
| Have you guys figured something out? | ||
| Are you working on it? | ||
| I want everybody to go to Article 3, but what's the call to action today? | ||
| I think that the call to action, we've been pretty successful. | ||
| So it's article3project.org, Article 3 Project. | ||
| You can follow us on social media. | ||
| You can donate, but only what you can afford and take action. | ||
| Action, action, action. | ||
| The two biggest action items right now are to move forward with getting rid of Judge Boesberg, who sabotaged the president, and to cut $2 billion in the federal judiciary's funding. | ||
| And I'm very happy you're having my friend Brian Harrison up next. | ||
| This guy is a true warrior down in Texas who's fighting. | ||
| The uniparty establishments in Texas. | ||
| How do you know, by the way, the stamp of approval for fighting spirit, maybe not for cultural, as we just saw about Chinese movies, but for fighting spirit, the stamp of approval, there's no higher stamp than the Viceroy. | ||
| How do you happen to know? | ||
| Brian Harrison looks like the all-American boy, right? | ||
| It kind of looks like Spieth, the golfer, right? | ||
| How does a brawler like you know Brian Harrison? | ||
| Well, this is probably going to be the kiss of death for Brian Harrison's political career, but I know Brian Harrison, going back to our George W. Bush White House days almost 20 years ago, he was a bit of a country club Republican back then, but now he's a full MAGA warrior. | ||
| He's a savage down in the Texas House. | ||
| He worked in the Trump Department of Health and Human Services as the chief of staff. | ||
| This guy is the real deal. | ||
| His days working for Dick Cheney are over, and he is a full MAGA warrior. | ||
| No, he's a fire-breathing agrarian populist down there in Texas. | ||
| Mike Davis, we love you, brother. | ||
| Look forward to seeing you in the next couple of days. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Not letting the tech bros steal the copyright of everybody. | ||
| Particularly the war room. | ||
| Not that we have a dog in this fight, but it just ticks us off, even the concept of it. | ||
| Brian Harrison, we met you when we were down with Glenn Story and the team. | ||
| You guys came on that day. | ||
| It was post-impeachment of General Paxton. | ||
| This audience has been very engaged with what's happening in Texas. | ||
| We have a massive audience in Texas. | ||
| And I've been hearing, I've been telling the audience every day, hey, we're going to get to the bottom of this. | ||
| There's something going in the house. | ||
| But your Twitter feed today, brother, blew my—and all the top news—people should know we wanted to start with Brian to kick the show off. | ||
| That's how big and important it was in the afternoon. | ||
| Your Twitter feed has my head imploding. | ||
| What is going on in Texas? | ||
| Have we turned over after—Texas is the railhead of MAGA. | ||
| Trump won by 14 points. | ||
| Ted Cruz won by 9. Right? | ||
| The people have put their shoulder to the wheel down. | ||
| These are the hardest working from Tarrant County to Denton, all over the state. | ||
| What has gone on in the last couple of days in the Texas legislature, sir? | ||
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Well, let me make this as painful as it is. | |
| Let me make this as simple as possible. | ||
| Texas voters support President Trump. | ||
| Texas voters are MAGA. | ||
| The Texas government... | ||
| Is not. | ||
| And while Trump, you know, won by 14 points here in the state of Texas, the Harris-Biden agenda, unfortunately, is alive and well in the Texas House because even though voters gave us an 88 seat, we had 88 Republicans in the Texas House, a massive majority, the radical Democrats were able to actually select our fake Republican sellout leadership team and pursue big government socialism. | ||
| So while President Trump's doge is cutting government, slashing DEI, reducing Post-cutting agencies, firing bureaucrats. | ||
| The Texas House is doing the exact opposite of all those. | ||
| We're increasing spending. | ||
| We're growing government. | ||
| We've created more agencies and bureaucracies just in the last week than I can even keep track of. | ||
| We're increasing funding for DEI. | ||
| We're increasing funding for transgender. | ||
| ...ideology in our public universities. | ||
| We're increasing funding for corporate welfare. | ||
| We've got a proposal on the table right now to spend $2.5 billion to liberal Hollywood. | ||
| And in the Texas House, just today, when we're four days away from the deadline to pass House bills for the entire session, what does our fake Republican speaker do? | ||
| He clogs up our whole calendar with 142 Democrat bills put on the floor just today and then put another 200 or 300 Republican bills and all the big Republicans' priorities are after that. | ||
| So Texans are being taxed out of their homes to pay for the Biden-Harris agenda down in the state of Texas. | ||
| It's an absolute outrage. | ||
| I would argue it's the biggest form. | ||
| Of voter fraud, because what's the point of election integrity? | ||
| And I'm so grateful President Trump got involved and Ted Cruz and Ken Paxton and you and the posse was involved to help us flip so many seats down here to Republicans in the House. | ||
| But what's the point of election integrity? | ||
| What's the point of voting for Republicans if elected Republicans, once they get in office, are just going to turn around and hand the progressive leftists? | ||
| All of the power. | ||
| So it's one of the biggest outrage. | ||
| I think it might be one of the most underrated political scandals in all of America. | ||
| Because people don't talk about Texas being a battleground state. | ||
| But Steve, I know you know this. | ||
| Texas is the crown jewel of the left's plan to take over America. | ||
| And I've had it, and I'm doing everything I can to fight back against this. | ||
| So, Brian, this is what stuns people. | ||
| They put $350-400 million in to do this to get it purple. | ||
| This is why the grassroots responded, went door-to-door, did precinct strategies. | ||
| They have responded to every call to action. | ||
| And they won. | ||
| Not big. | ||
| Blowout. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Even sources. | ||
| How did they... | ||
| It's almost inconceivable. | ||
| And as bad as it was when we were down there last time I heard about it, it's like building to a crescendo. | ||
| With every policy that we're killing in Congress, right? | ||
| That President Trump's doing executive orders, they're actually now doubling and tripling down on those policies in the state of Texas. | ||
| How is this happening? | ||
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It's like the anti-Trump agenda is what's happening in the Texas House down here. | |
| I mean, just a couple quick points on that. | ||
| I mean, we've got, as I said, the Democrat caucus elected our speaker, even though we've got a massive majority coming out of the last primaries. | ||
| Let me tell you who the most powerful person is in the Texas House. | ||
| He's our chief parliamentarian. | ||
| Well, who is that? | ||
| He's a Democrat Party activist, and get this, a former Barack Obama White House lawyer. | ||
| So we have an Obama staffer controlling the floor in the Texas House. | ||
| Democrats were made co-chairs of every single one of our committees. | ||
| We've got a BLM activist, anti-BTS. | ||
| I'm telling you, just in the last week or two, I bet we have passed over 200 bills. | ||
| And while Democrats are empowered, conservatives are silenced down here. | ||
| I am routinely, they will routinely Cut off my microphone when I go and speak against liberal bills that grow government or that challenge what President Trump is trying to do. | ||
| In Washington, D.C., and they get away with this with impunity because they believe, and it's been true for too long, people haven't known this is what's happening. | ||
| And I always say this, transparency is like kryptonite in the swamp, but we don't just have the swamp in D.C. We've got 50 state-level swamps, and the biggest state-level swamp in the country, unfortunately, is down here in Texas where the liberal uniparty controls the thing. | ||
| And it's past damn time that we start treating Texas taxpayers with the respect they deserve. | ||
| This whole session has been one giant middle finger. | ||
| To the taxpayers of the state of Texas who have been forced to be – they're being taxed out of their homes. | ||
| And to fund a radical leftist agenda, the exact same leftist agenda that President Trump is fighting in D.C., we are doubling down on here in Texas. | ||
| I think Texas right now, the projected, is going to be – it's something like the fifth or sixth. | ||
| I think California is fourth now, right in back of China, the United States, Germany. | ||
| I think Japan, California is right up there, fourth or fifth. | ||
| I think Texas is the sixth, seventh, eighth largest economy in the world. | ||
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Yeah, we're the seventh or the eighth, depending on how you can. | |
| So it's basically the economy of France or Germany. | ||
| And we have the Biden-Harris team in control of at least half of our legislature down here. | ||
| First off, what is your guy's strategy and how can the War Room Posse help here? | ||
| Because people's heads, I can tell in the chat room, they're blowing up, sir, as they should. | ||
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Yeah, well, the biggest thing that we can do right now is expose the corruption. | |
| And that's what I'm spinning on. | ||
| They've already told me they're going to kill all my bills because I've refused to bend the knee to the corrupt, failed RINO leadership. | ||
| It's America last. | ||
| It's Texas last. | ||
| And so every single day, multiple times a day, I do what none of the mainstream media in Texas will do. | ||
| And I go directly to the voters and I tell them the truth on my X feed, which is at Brian E. Harrison. | ||
| So if they just want to go at Brian E. Harrison, I will literally post from the floor. | ||
| Our speaker tried to gavel in just two days ago. | ||
| He declared there was a quorum when there weren't 30 people, or he was just about to, on the floor of the House. | ||
| You've got to have 100 to conduct business. | ||
| And after they screamed about that, said, oh, I was slowing things up. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| They brought in a mariachi band, and I am not making this up, Steve. | ||
| They put on the floor of the House a new bill to create a Mexican guest worker program. | ||
| That was put on the House floor in the last two days, just as President Trump is trying to undo the invasion, the 9, 10, 11 million illegal aliens that Joe Biden is. | ||
| Trump's trying to deport these illegal aliens. | ||
| The Texas House is trying to create a Mexican guest worker program as we speak. | ||
| Texans have been betrayed. | ||
| Texas voters deserve better. | ||
| And quite frankly, I firmly believe as goes Texas, so goes the nation. | ||
| So I don't care what state you live in. | ||
| You need to care about Texas staying. | ||
| We should be the number one state in America for liberty, for freedom, for private property rights, for secure borders, for limited. | ||
| Government. | ||
| And we have a reputation for that. | ||
| But Steve, here's the reality. | ||
| For far too long, the uniparty government in the state of Texas has been just coasting on that reputation. | ||
| And you mentioned a couple other states. | ||
| Steve, let me tell you something. | ||
| People think Texas is low tax, low regulations. | ||
| We've got one of the highest property tax burdens in all of the country. | ||
| We have the number one highest regulatory burden to work in the state of Texas. | ||
| We have more occupational licensing regulations than every state in America. | ||
| And yes, that includes California, and that includes New York. | ||
| Texas has been just coasting on our small government reputation, and it's past time we start living up to it. | ||
| I want Texas to be the number one state in America for freedom and liberty. | ||
| Brian, real quickly, the Twitter feed, where do people go? | ||
| Because they're going to pile people in there to start watching this. | ||
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At Brian E. Harrison, at Brian E. Harrison on X. Like it, share it, tell your friends, because I'm doing more on that X feed, at Brian E. Harrison, than the entire Texas media has done in the last decade. | |
| And Steve, I'm telling you, I can feel it out there. | ||
| Texas voters' eyes are being opened like never before. | ||
| Not to the Democrats. | ||
| And I'm so sick and tired of the uniparty establishment Republican blaming the Democrats for every- Big government socialist bill that passes. | ||
| Or blaming Democrats for killing conservative Republican legislations. | ||
| There's not enough Democrats in Austin to pass a birthday resolution unless Republicans help them. | ||
| Every conservative bill that dies dies because elected Republicans in the unipart... | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | ||
| I want to make sure before you take off, go back to this last point. | ||
| And thanks for hanging around. | ||
| I know you got to jump on the floor for a vote, Brian Harrison. | ||
| We can't blame this on Democrats. | ||
| This is about Republicans, and this is about a grassroots effort that stood up and put Trump on their shoulders and took Trump across the goal line at a 14-point win and won all these houses, won a majority. | ||
| They did what they were supposed to do. | ||
| Is this the Bush-Hunta? | ||
| Is this the Karl Rove crowd? | ||
| Is he the same people that impeached Paxton? | ||
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Well, yeah, let me tell you what I think something your viewers are going to know just instinctively, but you can't say it enough. | |
| As you mentioned, I worked, or actually it was my buddy Mike Davis that mentioned it, and I was the chief of staff for President Trump at the biggest cabinet agency during his first term, HHS. | ||
| And you know this, Steve, your viewers know this, there's this coalition in the swamp of D.C. that fought us tooth and nail in everything we were doing. | ||
| They're fighting President Trump again right now. | ||
| It's three parts of this coalition. | ||
| It's the Liberal Democrats, it's their mouthpieces in the mainstream media, and then the third, which is probably the most... | ||
| Most pernicious and the worst of them all. | ||
| Weak, feckless, spineless, liberal establishment. | ||
| Republicans. | ||
| And that is the exact same coalition that has taken over the uniparty swamp in the state of Texas. | ||
| And here's just the reality. | ||
| The voters of Texas, they did their job. | ||
| If you're in the state of Texas and you're a Republican voter, I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for re-electing President Trump and Ted Cruz and giving us big majorities in the legislature. | ||
| But let me also apologize to you, because here's the reality. | ||
| For too many years, these elected Republicans in the state legislature that... | ||
| They said they can't be an election. | ||
| They said, vote for me. | ||
| I'll stand up for the Democrats. | ||
| Vote for me. | ||
| I will push back against the liberals that want to bankrupt our state and our country. | ||
| But then the second they get elected to office, they vote to put those very Democrats in charge and they collude with them to destroy liberty for the next generation of Texans and the next generations of Americans. | ||
| So it is past time that the Texas government stopped putting the liberal special interests first. | ||
| Stop abusing the taxpayers of the state of Texas who they're taxing. | ||
| Literally out of their homes to fund a liberal Marxist big government agenda. | ||
| And we start putting the taxpayers of the state of Texas first. | ||
| We remember that the goal of government is to protect our God-given rights, our freedoms, and our liberties. | ||
| We should make Texas the number one state in America for liberty. | ||
| Texas should be the boldest state locking arms with President Trump and his agenda to protect the next generation, to shrink government, to maximize freedom. | ||
| Because as government grows, liberty... | ||
| And the voters of the state of Texas, the taxpayers of the state of Texas, they deserve better than the failed uniparty leadership that's coming out of the Austin swamp. | ||
| And I think voters are seeing this like never before. | ||
| And so, Steve, I'm so grateful to you, to the war room posse, for everybody else who is starting to shine a light on what I think is the biggest example of voter fraud in perhaps all of the country, which is Republicans were given massive majorities and a mandate to govern, not just with President Trump, but all at every level of the state of Texas. | ||
| But Republicans in Austin have handed the keys to the castle to Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden's team. | ||
| We're growing government. | ||
| And even when we do Republican things, like Steve Bannon, you know how important school choice is to President Trump, and he was so involved in our primaries for that reason. | ||
| Well, we finally passed school choice, but guess what? | ||
| Here's the reality of what they're not going to tell you. | ||
| The school choice program we just passed that everyone's calling universal, it's not going to apply to 99% of Texas families. | ||
| So even when we do big Republican bills, they're gutted. | ||
| They're watered down, and it's past time. | ||
| We start being bold. | ||
| We start leading again. | ||
| When was the last time you heard about Texas leading on just about anything? | ||
| I think Texas should be leading the nation in every dimension of freedom, in every dimension of liberty. | ||
| We haven't been doing that, and I'm grateful for you and the posse for joining us down here in the trenches, the small number of us that want to retake the state of Texas for bold, conservative Republican principles. | ||
| Just like the Alamo brother. | ||
| And we know how that changed the arc of history down in Texas. | ||
| Sir, one more time. | ||
| Social media, where do they go? | ||
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Brian E. Harrison. | |
| Go to x at Brian E. Harrison. | ||
| Brian E. Harrison. | ||
| Please go there. | ||
| Like it. | ||
| Retweet. | ||
| Spread the words. | ||
| Because I promise you, there is more transparency coming out of my x feed at Brian E. Harrison than all of the liberal Texas media put together. | ||
| And Steve, you and the posse have already been great allies in the fight, so I cannot thank you enough, my friend. | ||
| Thank you, my man. | ||
| Keep fighting. | ||
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Appreciate it. | |
| Good to see you. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| God bless Texas. | ||
| Brian Harrison. | ||
| Got the seal of approval from the Vice Lord and you see why. | ||
| The fighting spirit, that's one of the things that differentiates the MAGA movement. | ||
| Resilience, grit, determination, the fighting spirit, courage. | ||
| Folks in Texas got it. | ||
| I'm telling you, you don't have to dig in. | ||
| This situation in Texas has got to be stopped. | ||
| It's got to be stopped. | ||
| No way around it. | ||
| You can't look away from it. | ||
| Look, I see the polls with Paxton and Cornyn, all that. | ||
| I got it. | ||
| But there's something. | ||
| There's a cancer down there. | ||
| And if we don't cut that cancer out, it's going to spread to others. | ||
| If it can happen in Texas, it can happen anywhere. | ||
| And he's right. | ||
| When I was down in Denton County, talking to Denton, Texas, to talk to the folks there at the GOP and at Tarrant County, as goes Texas, so goes the nation. | ||
| That's how important this is. | ||
| And all you precinct strategy folks are fighting, I mean, at every level and getting hammered. | ||
| You're winning, getting hammered. | ||
| You win some more. | ||
| You know what I'm talking about. | ||
| Mike Lindell, talk to me, brother. | ||
| You've got the fighting spirit. | ||
| How are we doing at, have they put MyPillow out of business yet? | ||
| No, they're sure trying to, Steve, and they keep attacking the LindellRecoveryNetwork.org, everybody. | ||
| That's Keith Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota. | ||
| He's turned it up. | ||
| We actually have, I believe this week, we have to have a whole bunch more stuff they keep asking for. | ||
| And it's this law fair at its finest. | ||
| And we've got a big case coming up June 2nd. | ||
| We'll tell you all about that this week. | ||
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