July 28, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| Monday, 28 July, Year of our Lord 2025. | ||
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Man, was that a quick first hour? | |
| This is so much, so much going on. | ||
| President Trump in Europe, in Scotland, at Turnbury, heading now up to northern Scotland. | ||
| We're going to get Josh petted, not this morning because they're too slam, but hopefully this afternoon or tomorrow morning to talk about President Trump's other developments. | ||
| His great love, not just for the game, but also for Scotland. | ||
| I do believe you're going to hear an announcement about Turnbury going back into open championship rodo, which is quite close to President Trump's heart. | ||
| Josh Pettit kind of broke that on Saturday on the show. | ||
| Saturday? | ||
| Yeah, Saturday. | ||
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| Ben Harnwell, thank you for hanging around. | ||
| And so the Breitbart interview, I think, will start to come up tonight. | ||
| Matt always does a great job of that. | ||
| President Trump, for two hours, took all comers from the press. | ||
| Starmer's sitting there going, because you just never see world figures do this. | ||
| Obviously, the EU deal. | ||
| And I think Lutnick was on TV. | ||
| The letters are going out. | ||
| They've got 60% of the GDP right now. | ||
| Besson's in Stockholm for two days, Monday, Tuesday. | ||
| He's coming back. | ||
| They're going to have the Breitbart event on Wednesday. | ||
| We're going to stream that. | ||
| That's a one-on-one with Matt and the Secretary of Treasury. | ||
| But that would be, I don't know, pretty near the rest of it. | ||
| You still got a couple of countries out there. | ||
| I don't think we've announced the India deal yet. | ||
| But President Trump is making far greater progress than anybody ever thought in reorganizing the world's commercial relationships, particularly with the United States. | ||
| And hey, as we said back at the beginning, he's charging a premium to get through the golden door. | ||
| You got two choices. | ||
| Either bring manufacturing here, or if you're going to ship it in here, you're going to pay a premium. | ||
| And so you got a choice. | ||
| And a lot of people are taking parts of both. | ||
| But he did drop a bomb today. | ||
| And this is about the Ukraine situation. | ||
| We have two things heating up that we've kind of warned about. | ||
| The Netanyahu situation in Gaza. | ||
| I think finally they've come to a conclusion because they've been doing these massive kind of, you know, they have a strategy, then they go to another strategy. | ||
| I think there's a consensus, at least with Netanyahu, they got to take care of the Muslim Brotherhood, and they have to do it now, regardless of the hostages. | ||
| And I think you're hearing that they're going to rev that up. | ||
| But over in the Ukraine, and this, for all these guys running around, oh, these panicans, they don't, you know, they keep warning about the third world. | ||
| Third world war is here. | ||
| The killing fields of the third world war are here and bloodier than they were at the beginning of the Second World War because that built her crescendo. | ||
| We're kind of starting with the crescendo. | ||
| Ben Harnwell, he basically told Putin, there was a strike last night by Ukraine deep into Russian territory, and Russia's been pounding Kiev every day. | ||
| Zelensky is under a ton of pressure as we have been doing everything we can to support those folks in Ukraine that want to have an accounting for the money and the corruption and the grift and all of it. | ||
| But President Trump dropped a bomb that Putin's got, I don't know, 10 or 12 days to make his mind up here, which is kind of scary, right? | ||
| But the EU deal really guts a lot of Russia's ability to sell cheap energy because the deal has almost a trillion dollars, I think, of energy purchases from the United States. | ||
| Your assessment from Rome, sir? | ||
| I think it's $750 billion over the course of the rest of this administration, which is a huge... | ||
| And it hasn't really cost the United States very much at all. | ||
| Macron has been hit hardest with regards to the French agricultural export industry. | ||
| But basically, the Europeans just wanted to fold and give in. | ||
| They didn't want a trade war. | ||
| And they haven't particularly been required to demand of America that much. | ||
| It is a pretty one-sided negotiation. | ||
| And I have to say, President Trump handled it absolutely amazingly. | ||
| I will just draw this point because Nigel Farage mentioned it at the beginning of the show that when Donald Trump went out, the protests were hardly negligent this time around in this administration compared to 10 years ago. | ||
| Nigel Farage also said that there's been a turnaround in how the Brits view Donald Trump. | ||
| I just want to point out these trade concessions, obviously the UK is no longer part of the EU, so we'll have a different, hopefully more beneficial arrangement. | ||
| But however that works out, it will hit us in continental Europe and the UK, what Donald Trump is doing. | ||
| And yet, people here like Donald Trump, even though he's objectively making our lives much more difficult. | ||
| And I'd like just to throw the reason out, is that they see in Donald Trump a leader that is putting the interests of his people first. | ||
| That's what they want to see from their own governments. | ||
| They're not really seeing it, but they respect that, even to their own detriment. | ||
| Just to close brackets on that, there is something coming out of Ukraine, and it is interesting. | ||
| Hang on, hang on, ho, ho, ho, slow down. | ||
| This is what I was talking about, Nigel. | ||
| They're polling at 34%, which is really what the Tories, the two parties have been around for one for 200 years, the other for 100. | ||
| Combined barely with Nigel, because they look at his constancy and his strength of putting his country first. | ||
| This is what, I mean, Chris Matthews said the smartest thing over the weekend of everybody. | ||
| He said, hey, I don't care about some of these polling seeds, losing independence on some of these topics. | ||
| He said, people are attracted to strength, particularly today in a world in chaos, and Trump is a tower of strength. | ||
| He may not like everything you get, but you realize he's always putting the country's interests first. | ||
| Is that what Nigel's drafting off of? | ||
| Is that what people are looking for even in Europe, sir? | ||
| Yeah, it is. | ||
| It is. | ||
| It absolutely is that. | ||
| And just to give Chris Matthews credit for once on his analysis here, you can see the pivot that the mainstream media is belatedly making because this idea of a strong man was pejorative in the mouths of the liberal progressive elites for the last 20 years. | ||
| That is how they really wanted to signal, in addition to the descriptor far right, but if they really wanted to indicate to people that they're not allowed to like someone, they call them a strong man. | ||
| And here you have Chris Matthews coming out saying that they are attractive. | ||
| People are attracted to Donald Trump because he represents strength. | ||
| And what's not said, but of course you can back project, is the comparison with the guy that Donald Trump replaced, Joe Biden, who I don't think did, I mean, Donald Trump did two hours worth of interviews with Matt Boyle earlier. | ||
| I don't think Joe Biden did two hours worth of interviews added together over the whole four years. | ||
| And that's just like a just no, no. | ||
| He took two hours of questions in a press avail today with Starmer there. | ||
| He had another hour with Matt Boyle beforehand. | ||
| So three hours, an hour with Boyle. | ||
| Then he took two hours of just a press avail taking every question they can ask him, the cheap shot questions and the tough ones. | ||
| You don't see anybody. | ||
| I mean, forget Biden. | ||
| You don't see anybody in the world that can do that, Ben, and handle all the topics in fairly, you know, fairly, in depth and give a sophisticated and nuanced approach to it, sir. | ||
| Well, look, I tell you this. | ||
| When I come on this show and I'll speak for five or ten minutes, I spend all morning, and I'm obviously six hours ahead of you guys in America, I spend all morning preparing my notes just to be able to speak for five minutes. | ||
| It's an indication of Donald Trump's, the command that he has of the detail to be able to hold basically three hours worth back to back of in-depth questions so freely. | ||
| Folks, that's a very difficult thing to do. | ||
| And people say, his detractors say that Donald Trump doesn't read briefing notes, not interested in the detail. | ||
| Anyone who wants to make that argument, I defy you to go into a press pool and take three hours'worth of questions back-to-back, without notes, without sort of tip-offs of what the question is. | ||
| The Democrats, Biden was always tipped off what the questions were going to be. | ||
| Donald Trump sits there and he'll take all questions and he'll respond. | ||
| And I think that just shows an incredible command of the situation, command of detail. | ||
| And having that sense of command is why he's able, when he puts his mind to it, to determine and dictate the agenda. | ||
| Let's go to this quite controversial throwdown with Putin and say, hey, look, upon further review, it ain't 40 days left of the 50. | ||
| It's going to be 10 to 12. | ||
| Your thoughts? | ||
| Well, having spoken so generously 30 seconds ago, look, I'm against this. | ||
| And I have to say, and one of the reasons I'm against this, in addition to the motives I say every time I come on this show, Steve, is this. | ||
| You know, when I was reading this statement like 10, 20 minutes or so ago, because it's literally come out since we've been on air, Donald Trump is now more invested. | ||
| You know, we said for months he's got to be careful. | ||
| He's going to get dragged in. | ||
| He's going to become associated with this war in Ukraine. | ||
| He's going to take, it's going to be his war. | ||
| People are going to stop. | ||
| Even though he continues to say it's Biden's war, people are going to start considering it to be Trump's war. | ||
| It's gone beyond that now. | ||
| He is more invested personally with his name, his reputation in the outcome of this war than Joe Biden was at any point in the two years when he was still in the White House. | ||
| It's very dangerous what's taking place now. | ||
| And all the signals coming out of the Kremlin, when Donald Trump first came out with his 50-day throwdown, all the signals are that they basically just blew him off publicly. | ||
| Said, we don't care, you know, he can do what he wants. | ||
| We're not going to try and escalate the situation. | ||
| But obviously, America, President Trump can do what he wants. | ||
| He's continuing to escalate this. | ||
| I don't see, I could be wrong, I'm wrong all the time, but I don't see any indication from the Russians that they're going to crumple here in terms of threats of secondary tariffs, which are going to hit the very people that I think Donald Trump is Actually, trying to cultivate India, for example, and the European Union. | ||
| Who is the country that trades most with Russia? | ||
| It's Victor Orbans, Hungary. | ||
| These are guys that Donald Trump needs to continue to build a very strong relationship with, especially India with regards to the BRICS dynamic. | ||
| We'll see how it rolls out. | ||
| But there is, you know, after the break, Steve, I do have something coming up here on Ukraine, which I will highlight because it is an indication of how Donald Trump is being, and America is being dragged further into this war in Ukraine. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| Stick around. | ||
| We got Ben Honrell. | ||
| Orin Cass. | ||
| We talk about the part of the world's economy that we still have to kind of wrangle. | ||
| That's the Chinese Communist Party, of course, our favorite. | ||
| Scott Besson, our former contributor here, is in Stockholm, even as we speak, trying to hammer out, move the ball downfield on that. | ||
| Oren Cass from Compass has put together a letter to let the president and people in Capitol Hill know that there's certain situations going on with these advanced chips that may not be to the advantage of the United States of America. | ||
| And it may be a good time to think about it as we negotiate this deal. | ||
| Oren Cass will join us. | ||
| We've got Ben Hongwell from Rome. | ||
| Brian Harrison is going to join us from Austin, Texas. | ||
| The redistricting, I think, has hit more than a speed bump. | ||
| And it's time now to sort this mess out down in Texas. | ||
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| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| I've got Oren Cass on from Compass, and Oren is this kind of rising generation of populist nationalist thinkers, public intellectuals, economists. | ||
| He runs Compass, the great magazine and website. | ||
| Everybody should go check it out. | ||
| So, Oren, this morning, there's a huge story in the Financial Times. | ||
| I don't think it's in my print edition. | ||
| I think it's only online from one of the smartest guys in D.C. that covers the White House for Financial Times headline, Donald Trump freezes export controls to secure a trade deal with China. | ||
| You've been kind of ahead of this because you've written this letter. | ||
| I want to get to the letter, get what those heavy weights you brought onto this are worried about. | ||
| And I want to put it in the context that Besson is in Stockholm right now. | ||
| Trump just announced the EU deal. | ||
| Matt Bull's on here saying, hey, right now he's got 60 percent of the world's economy under some sort of new – The two big pieces I think we got to go are China and India. | ||
| But you're saying, hey, we've got a big problem here. | ||
| It deals with artificial intelligence, the future of really the drivers of the world economy. | ||
| Walk us through both the article and this letter and what your concerns are and the concerns of people you've brought into this debate, sir. | ||
| Yeah, thanks for having me on to talk about this. | ||
| I think it's a super important issue. | ||
| I want to credit Americans for Responsible Innovation did a lot of the work on this, bringing the letter together. | ||
| We were very proud to partner with them from American Compass, and they got a lot of leading national security guys and gals, folks from the first Trump administration in a lot of cases, to call attention to this really important problem we're having with China in particular. | ||
| I think you just described things well. | ||
| Trump administration is making just huge progress on these trade deals with countries that should be our allies, with countries we do want to be trading with. | ||
| The question is what to do about China. | ||
| And I think the end game here is we don't need a deal with China. | ||
| China is our adversary. | ||
| China is not a country we want to be trading with and trying to support. | ||
| But what the Trump administration has done very recently is attempt to essentially give the green light to selling very advanced AI chips to China. | ||
| It's an interesting question why they're doing this. | ||
| I think it's because there are a lot of folks in the administration who do want to get a deal with China. | ||
| But as we lay out in this letter, it's a huge mistake. | ||
| It is a mistake to think that we can make a deal with China. | ||
| It is a mistake to think, hey, if we get our chips into China, then that's great. | ||
| They'll start using our technology. | ||
| That is the game China has played with America over and over again, and we always lose. | ||
| And the other reality is there's a shortage of AI chips. | ||
| Every AI chip we sell to China is one less AI chip that we have here in America. | ||
| So we're going to be simultaneously speeding up China's progress. | ||
| We're going to be slowing our progress. | ||
| And frankly, the winner here is NVIDIA. | ||
| You know, NVIDIA is a multinational corporation. | ||
| They make great chips, but they've made it very clear that they are much more interested in making profit in China than they are in the American national interest. | ||
| And so I think there's a perfect example where President Trump or the administration need to stand up and say, no, we aren't going to do this to send our technology to China thing anymore. | ||
| We're going to focus on America. | ||
| Just for full disclosure, of course, in the war room, myself personally in the war room, in American Compass and yourselves, and I think some of the other, there's two schools of thought, coupling and decoupling. | ||
| I would say charitably, we're in the decoupling school of thought here about the two economies. | ||
| Is that correct? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Decoupling is too friendly. | ||
| I've moved on to hard break, I think, is what we need. | ||
| So, how do you people in Wall Street, Silicon Valley, in the White House, and maybe even the President of the United States would say, guys, I love that in theory, but it's not practical. | ||
| These two economies are inextricably linked with capital, technology. | ||
| And what you guys are calling for is a global depression that takes the economies down by 10 or 20 percent. | ||
| And so to be some bridging network, we're not going to let them do all the chips. | ||
| In fact, there's a huge article, I think, in the Saturday FT before this came out about the black market and even taking NVIDIA chips and trying to upscale them. | ||
| So Oren Cass and Steve Bannon and others are great guys in their patriots, but they're not practical. | ||
| You can't have a decoupling, much less Oren Cass's heartbreak or Bannon's, let's have Lao Beijing overthrow the CCP. | ||
| What is your response to that? | ||
| Well, I think it's entirely practical to disentangle our economies. | ||
| It's certainly practical to do it in these areas where we haven't even sold something before. | ||
| It's not like we've been selling advanced AI chips to China for the last 30 years. | ||
| This is something new. | ||
| And the question is, are we going to allow it or not? | ||
| And the answer should obviously be no. | ||
| And a good way to see this is just flip it around. | ||
| Let's imagine that China had some advanced technology that was giving it a huge leg up. | ||
| Do we think for a moment that companies in China controlled by the CCP would be saying, oh, but please let us sell these chips to the United States so we can make a little bit more profit? | ||
| Obviously not. | ||
| That's already not the relationship we have in one direction because the Chinese get it. | ||
| The question is, what is the relationship going to be in the other direction? | ||
| And, you know, look, it's not going to happen overnight. | ||
| We've spent a couple of decades now making the wrong choice, getting our economies entangled. | ||
| For goodness sake, let's not make it wrong. | ||
| Always giving them technology or letting them steal it. | ||
| Let me take this. | ||
| This also cuts to the heart of a bigger debate. | ||
| And that is this whole debate about we're now in an arms race, that AI can't have any regulation. | ||
| The four frontier labs and people like Elon Musk and the guys at OpenAI, these people can't have any controls on them because we're in an arms race for the most important technology mankind's ever seen. | ||
| And it's a national security issue. | ||
| My point is, if we didn't sell them the technology or let them know the processes or techniques or give them the capital, there wouldn't be a race. | ||
| Am I wrong in that? | ||
| And is this issue right here about these NVIDIA chips, which by the way has a market cap of $4 trillion in a guy that runs it, and I understand President Trump's quite enamored with him, but he has a history of having a relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| If we took your direction, Oren, there would be no race for artificial intelligence, would there? | ||
| Well, I think in the long run, there will be a race. | ||
| But to your point, we are ahead on these critical technologies. | ||
| And if we commit to staying ahead, if we commit to keeping these advanced chips for ourselves, that's a huge step along the way. | ||
| To say we have to win the race, and also we're selling a bunch of these advanced chips to China, it doesn't make any sense. | ||
| And by the way, if you're concerned about AI safety, if you're thinking, gosh, let's think about the ways that AI could be misused, I mean, guess who's not worried about that? | ||
| Guess who's not going to put on those controls? | ||
| The Chinese. | ||
| So it makes no sense from that angle either to be saying, well, let's get these chips in there again, unless your top priority is the profit of a couple of these companies. | ||
| And like you said, Jensen Wong, who's the head of NVIDIA, he has not been a good actor in this. | ||
| He has been, frankly, not telling the truth. | ||
| He's been claiming his chips aren't getting into China when he knows they are. | ||
| He just went and opened a research center in China. | ||
| This is the mistake we've been playing over and over again. | ||
| And this is where President Trump needs to be changing the game. | ||
| The idea that, well, we got to back off because this is what the corporations want. | ||
| That was never the right strategy. | ||
| And if there's ever going to be an administration that's going to fix this, it really has to be this one. | ||
| Talk to me about the letter. | ||
| The letter, it's a joint effort with you and another organization. | ||
| You've got some pretty important signatures. | ||
| What's the heart of what the letter says to President Trump? | ||
| And what do you hope to accomplish? | ||
| Well, the heart of the letter is to emphasize that this is fundamentally a national security issue. | ||
| That there are plenty of different views on trade policy and what deals we should make where. | ||
| But this is about more than trade. | ||
| This is a fundamental question of national security. | ||
| And it is doing two things at once if we license these chips. | ||
| It's not just a question of whether we want China to have the chips or not. | ||
| And obviously we should not want that. | ||
| It's also a question of whether we're going to have enough chips for us. | ||
| And so it's this double effect, both speeding China up and slowing us down. | ||
| And the last point I think that makes it, that's really important is, you know, we actually did restrict these chips just a few months ago. | ||
| And now it looks like, you know, Secretary Lutnik and the Commerce Department has said, no, we're changing our mind. | ||
| And that kind of changing our mind going back and forth, it makes it very hard to enforce any export controls. | ||
| If people think, well, maybe they're not serious, you know, maybe we shake some hands, maybe we say some nice things, and it'll all change again. | ||
| It's really important to be consistent if we are going to be credible in ourselves and in asking our partners in other countries to all hold hands and stop selling this stuff to the Chinese. | ||
| So having a broad set of really senior national security folks, a lot of folks who have worked in the Trump administration the first time around, you know, this is not an anti-Trump letter. | ||
| These are people who very much believe in and support what the Trump administration is trying to do. | ||
| And the right way to do that is not to keep, is not to sell these chips. | ||
| It's to do what we have been doing and say, no, we need to prevent their sale to China. | ||
| Real quick, I only got a minute. | ||
| If we abide by your letter, if the president took it under advisement and said, yeah, we're going to do this, I'm going to go along with Orr and the guys. | ||
| Could that be possibly the same equivalent of in the summer of 1941 curtailing oil shipments to Japan that expedited Pearl Harbor, sir? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| I think decoupling is really the way to step things down with China here. | ||
| If you look, when we had world wars break out, it was between countries that were doing an enormous amount of trade. | ||
| When did we actually have a staples situation? | ||
| It was between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. | ||
| When we said we have two different systems, we're going to stay apart from each other. | ||
| We're going to respect each other's spheres. | ||
| And I think that is a much better model for us to be heading towards. | ||
| Orin, hang on for one second. | ||
| I just want to hold you through the break just for a couple of minutes. | ||
| Brian Harrison from Austin, Texas about this debacle in Texas. | ||
| Ben Harnwell still from Rome. | ||
| We're going to get it all done in the war room on a Monday morning in July. | ||
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| Orn, real quickly, do you think also that this situation that we're going to have to bleed some of these chips out is because the CCP has us over the barrel on the processing of rare earths? | ||
| We've started a plant, but it's going to be a couple of years to get up and running. | ||
| So the magnets, the ball bearings, is that the underlying tension in this deal that we've got to give them some chips? | ||
| Are they going to cut us off from rare earths? | ||
| And they cut us off from rare earths, the processed ones like the magnets, production lines and automotive and other will be shutting down in a couple of weeks, sir? | ||
| I definitely think that could be part of it. | ||
| I think the reality is we have other options if we need those rare earths sooner. | ||
| And if it is that critical, we should be doing a lot more than seeing what we can bring online in a couple of years. | ||
| But ultimately, we should be taking this as a lesson. | ||
| Everybody who said, oh, it doesn't matter if stuff goes to China, if we're dependent on China, to now turn around and say, oh, well, actually, we are dependent on China. | ||
| So now you have to also let us sell our advanced AI chips to China. | ||
| I'm not persuaded. | ||
| It sounds like making a bigger mess than before. | ||
| Oren, American Compass, where do people go to get your social media? | ||
| Where do they go to get the magazine, the website, all the this? | ||
| Because you guys are at the cutting edge of populist economic and cultural thinking, sir. | ||
| Well, thank you. | ||
| I'm at Oren underscore CAS on X. All of our policy work is AmericanCompass.org. | ||
| Our magazine is commonplace.org. | ||
| And our new book covering all of this is The New Conservatives. | ||
| Oren, thank you so much. | ||
| Great letter. | ||
| Great article in today's Financial Times and a huge issue. | ||
| Thank you, sir, for being a bold leader with some guts. | ||
| Well, thanks for helping us highlight it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Very easy to roll over on this. | ||
| This is everything, quite frankly, these chips. | ||
| Brian Harrison joins us from Texas. | ||
| Brian, this mess gets worse. | ||
| The redistricting is so big, President Trump's getting involved. | ||
| DeSantis steps up and says, We're going to do at least five in Florida. | ||
| Now, there's talk over the weekend, I spent a lot of time with people about actually doing a mid-decade census to get this mess sorted. | ||
| But in Texas, this thing is getting worse. | ||
| Are the Democrats running the entire process down there, sir, in this redistricting? | ||
| It certainly looks like that. | ||
| I mean, I'll tell you the quick update. | ||
| So the governor called us back for a special session. | ||
| Our special sessions in Texas last four weeks. | ||
| So we are over 25%, over a quarter of the way through, completely wasted, by the way. | ||
| The Texas House has been on the floor, I think, three or four times for a total of 20 minutes. | ||
| So I was able to do this from my office today because we gaveled in at 10 o'clock. | ||
| And at 10.04, our Rhino Speaker declared, quote, the Speaker's desk is clear. | ||
| We haven't referred a single bill to any committees. | ||
| We've had no bills come out of committee to the floor. | ||
| And on the redistricting front, total train wreck. | ||
| I mean, once our Democrats elected the Republican nominally Speaker of the Texas House, he rewarded them by rewriting the House rules to give them unprecedented power in the history of the Texas House to effectively control all of our committees. | ||
| That includes the redistricting committee. | ||
| So we've had now between the House and Senate four redistricting hearings, hundreds of witnesses have testified. | ||
| Zero were brought in to support the redistricting. | ||
| This has been a full-on DNC scripted infomercial against the President Trump's request to redistrict down here, against the Texas legislature taking action that would be beneficial to not just the people of Texas, but the people of America. | ||
| And it's a complete outreach. | ||
| We've had, I think, three, four, five members of Congress come down here, of course, in coordination with the DNC, including people like Jasmine Crockett and Castro and others. | ||
| These are the people that the Texas legislature are bringing in to come down and testify. | ||
| So hundreds of witnesses against, full DNC scripting, infomercial against the redistricting effort, zero Republican witnesses testifying that we should do it. | ||
| And so what we've effectively allowed to have happen here is hours and hours and hours of testimony into the record with the Democrats pretending that this effort would be unconstitutional, illegal, that would be explicitly racist, all completely preposterous in their efforts coordinated at the highest levels of the DNC to undermine the redistricting effort. | ||
| And they've already succeeded in burning over a quarter of our special session. | ||
| So like who's in charge? | ||
| Is Lieutenant Governor Patrick going to get involved? | ||
| Is Abbott, are they hoping the Senate saves you guys? | ||
| You've had hundreds of witnesses against and smearing everybody with the worst charges possible and people like Jasmine Crockett, who's such a piece of work, right? | ||
| Kind of leading to the public. | ||
| This is the one who tried to take away President Trump's Secret Service protection a week before he was shot. | ||
| These are the people we're highlighting down here. | ||
| But is somebody, when is the adult supervision going to start? | ||
| I mean, you've only got three weeks left. | ||
| How are we going to turn this thing around? | ||
| This is a huge priority for everyone in the Republican Party and the conservative movement, and it's particularly a high priority for a guy named Donald J. Trump. | ||
| So when is it going to start getting turned around and how is it going to get turned around? | ||
| Well, I hope it. | ||
| I mean, it should have already been turned around. | ||
| I mean, there should have been a clear message that we're not going to tolerate the nonsense. | ||
| But the problem is for close to two decades, Democrats, even though they get routed at the ballot box by the voters of Texas who re-elected President Donald J. Trump in a 14-point landslide, there's almost two decades of precedence for turning around and giving the Democrats the power to control the legislative branch that they did not earn at the ballot box. | ||
| And we saw this just four years ago in 2021 when the Democrats broke quorum and ran off to Washington to hang out with Nancy Pelosi to keep the state of Texas from passing election integrity bills. | ||
| And we're already seeing this. | ||
| I think 15 Democrats fled the state. | ||
| Many went to California. | ||
| They were meeting with Gavin Newsom, holding press conferences with Gavin Newsom over the weekend. | ||
| Democrats in Texas, by the way, 11 of the 15 of these radical leftist Democrats are part of the coalition that elected our supposedly Republican speaker. | ||
| And they do it with complete impunity because they know that for years and years and years, they have been allowed to thwart President Trump, Texas conservatives, and Republican priorities without any fear of retribution. | ||
| So I'm sorry, if the state of Texas had the type of bold conservative leadership that people and voters demand that they deserve, they would never try such things because they know they wouldn't be allowed to get away with it. | ||
| No, there should be swift consequences for any Democrats thwarting this process. | ||
| But not only are there not consequences for that, they're basically being given the reins. | ||
| We're turning the Texas Capitol Channel into the DNC network programming almost wall to wall every minute of these hearings. | ||
| And I hate to say this, that goes for both chambers. | ||
| The Texas House nor the Texas Senate has brought in one single Republican to testify on the reasons that the state of Texas should undergo this redistricting initiative. | ||
| Something that I think we should do, something President Trump thinks we should do, and something that I believe millions and millions and millions of the voters of Texas believe and know that we should do. | ||
| Brian, where can people go on your social media to keep up with this? | ||
| We're going to have you back on tomorrow. | ||
| This is something that I can tell you from the absolute top, people want to be on top of. | ||
| So where do people go to keep in touch with you? | ||
| Yeah, if you want to see the only, I hate to say it, but it's the only medium providing other than shows like you, the real truth coming out of the swamp here in Austin, it's my social media at Brian E. Harrison on X. Brian E. Harrison on X. Please go like, follow, share, amplify because the Austin, the Texas, and of course the national media are not telling the truth of what's going on down here. | ||
| They're kind of sweeping this under the rug because everybody just assumes that Republicans control Texas. | ||
| But what they don't know is that it's just people with the word Republican by their name that are in control. | ||
| But they've handed the keys to the castle to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, and the party of Barack Obama. | ||
| I mean, for crying out loud, Barack Obama's former White House lawyer is our House parliamentarian, making sure that conservative legislation dies here in the Texas legislature. | ||
| So at Brian E. Harrison on X, and I appreciate everything you, Steve, and the posse are doing to keep the people, not just of Texas, but America, updated on what's going on down here. | ||
| You know, Brian, if it was Biden, Kamala Harris, and Pelosi, as bad as that would be, it wouldn't be as bad as who they really turned it over to Crockett and Castro, and they've turned it over to the Mondami element of New York, right? | ||
| Really the Working People's Party, the DSA, et cetera. | ||
| This is as radical as you can get. | ||
| And it's running the tables down in Austin, Texas, sir. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
| No, why do we have socialist Marxists being given airtime courtesy of the Republican-controlled government of Texas? | ||
| It's lunacy. | ||
| Lunacy. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Great to do with you. | ||
| This Texas thing is out of control, folks. | ||
| We're going to spend some time this week on getting to the bottom of it. | ||
| More on reporting on that. | ||
| We'll report out on that in the next couple of days. | ||
| Ben Harnwell, back to Ukraine, because we quite quickly could slide into a bigger shooting war over there, sir. | ||
| Well, look, I think about six weeks ago when Ukraine launched its drone attack on Russia's Air Force, part of its nuclear triad. | ||
| It did so largely from drones which had been smuggled from Ukraine into Russia. | ||
| What happened over the last 24 hours is different. | ||
| It was an attack deep inside Russia, but from long-range drones launched from Ukraine itself. | ||
| Now, this is an attack on Stavropol, which is about 335 miles from the border, from the Ukraine-Russia border, deep into Russia. | ||
| Long-range drones. | ||
| So obviously the first thing I did when I read about this was I just wanted to check what the distance was between the border and Moscow itself. | ||
| And the distance there is, again, in miles, 280 miles. | ||
| Well within the range then. | ||
| That being the case, inquiring minds would ask, if Ukraine already has the capacity to strike with long-range drones deep inside Russia, why does it need American-produced long-range missiles? | ||
| And I don't mean to be cynical, but I would suggest that the answer is because Ukraine's only possibility of winning this war is by dragging the United States in to the interkinetic engagement against Russia, something we've warned about for three years. | ||
| And my query, my hesitation is that being the case, why are, again to ask a question that the whole warm posse will know the answer before I've even finished the question, why are elements inside the United States actively trying to pressure the administration successfully into providing these long-range missiles to Ukraine? | ||
| People like Lindsey Graham, right? | ||
| This is the reason. | ||
| It is because there is an attempt, no strategic necessity whatsoever from the Ukrainian point of view, but there's an attempt to get America into this war. | ||
| And that, Steve, is the backdrop between what we were saying earlier on the show, why everyone should be very concerned that President Trump has brought forward his deadline, his 50-day deadline, to 10 to 12 days. | ||
| I guess that was going to be made more precise in the United States. | ||
| We've got a minute left for you. | ||
| How do you think this thing plays out over the next 10 to 12 days? | ||
| Because this is an audible that's going to have some ramifications, sir. | ||
| Steve, I can only guess President Trump is doing this because he has intel that is not publicly available that suggests that Russia is going to climb down in a humiliating fashion. | ||
| I don't see any evidence of that, but he had 50 days to play with. | ||
| That was a bit ambiguous. | ||
| He could have just kicked it. | ||
| He had just kicked it somewhat into the long grass. | ||
| The fact that he's actively bringing this forward seems to me that he's playing a game of chicken with Russia that he thinks he can win. | ||
| But as I say, he must be acting on intel that he has and that I don't to have that conclusion because that's not what I'm reading on my analysis of the facts. | ||
| No, the deal with the EU is a big blow to them on energy, but I've got to tell you, maybe he's ready to put secondary sanctions on China. | ||
| I mean, you're negotiating right now in Sweden with China, and you may put secondary sanctions on them, which is about the oil that Russia sells to them. | ||
| Right now, all I know is I think Russia's got a 600,000-man army that's ready to roll for the summer, and I think their target may be Odessa. | ||
| Ben Harnwell, where do people keep up with you, sir, in your social media? | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| On geta, simply tap in my surname at Harnwell, where, as always, I have some pretty provocative posts at the top of my feed waiting your attention. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| God bless. | ||
| Catch you tomorrow. | ||
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| Ben Harnwell, thank you, brother. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
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| What a day. | ||
| Boyle from Scotland. | ||
| President Trump's there. | ||
| Two hours taking questions from the media. | ||
| Who can do that? | ||
| Nobody. | ||
| Only Trump. | ||
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| Day of all life. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | ||
| A couple of things. | ||
| Number one, and when the Senate leaves, and I think they're going to leave here momentarily, I believe Senator Lee's tells us we have 135 to 150 appointments ready to go for confirmations. | ||
| Right now, I think Thune and Johnson are working it out that they do this novelty act where they keep in session by having somebody walk up and do it for like 30 seconds a day. | ||
| Bottom line, they wouldn't actually go into recess, so President Trump wouldn't get his recess appointments. | ||
| They're getting all this done, and he's got very few people confirmed yet. | ||
| Of that 1,000 confirmations means U.S. attorneys, the judge is getting done. | ||
| Emil Bovey should be done Tuesday or Wednesday. | ||
| Judge Janine is getting done. | ||
| But the Democrats, and this is what Democrats are doing. | ||
| They're essentially filibustering every one of his nominations. | ||
| You've got all these second and third level people under the cabinet heads and at these agencies. | ||
| And these are the folks that get the work done. | ||
| Not that the head guys don't, head men and women don't do work they do, but a lot of those is in meetings in the White House, cabinet meetings, coordinating and also media and explaining what the president and his administration is trying to do. | ||
| This is just not, this is much worse now than the first term, particularly on the confirmation. | ||
| It's got to end. | ||
| So you either do what Mike Lee does and you stick around and get him done and grind through it, or you just do recess appointments. | ||
| Number one, also just looking downrange, we're about to start all, we're at the end of July. | ||
| In 60 days, the appropriations bills are not going to get done. | ||
| The House is gone. | ||
| They're not coming back. | ||
| They only got a couple of days and they come back. | ||
| Same with the Senate. | ||
| I can tell you can see where the Senate, I can tell you right now, because they're using this word bipartisan appropriations. | ||
| We don't want bipartisan appropriations. | ||
| That's not what's set up to do. | ||
| When you win an election, we don't want bipartisan. | ||
| We want quite partisan appropriations. | ||
| We want to cut spending dramatically and realign others so it's going in the right place. | ||
| The Senate, I can tell you right now, is working on an omnibus bill. | ||
| What they're going to try to do is jam you. | ||
| President Trump doesn't want his administration shut down, obviously. | ||
| You have to have something done on the 30th. | ||
| Best case now, you're going to get a 90-day CR. | ||
| That's the best case. | ||
| But I can tell you, the Senate's going to come with an omnibus, a nasty old omnibus. | ||
| The rescissions, the pocket rescissions and the impoundments can go both for 2025, which ends on September 30th, and for 2026 if the appropriators don't get it done. | ||
| And now more than ever, we need Russ Vote and the guys over at OMB to come forward. | ||
| Let's see the pocket rescissions, hundreds of billions of dollars, and have them squeal and let's go to the courts. | ||
| Otherwise, I'm telling you, on September 30th, you're going to have a deficit that's going to be, I don't know, over $2 trillion. | ||
| And you're going to get hammered for that with a 26 deficit that's going to be $2 trillion. | ||
| The way to stop that, and Ron Johnson, everybody's talked about it. | ||
| The deal was, hey, we'd come in with rescissions. | ||
| Rescission, the $9.4 billion, which was symbolic, drew so much blood that people say, well, I don't want to go through that again. | ||
| Well, then, hey, you don't have to go through it again. | ||
| Pocket rescissions. | ||
| Do that or just impound the freaking money. | ||
| Look, we're winning now. | ||
| We're winning much more than we're losing as you go up the food chain in the courts. | ||
| Let's roll. | ||
| The Impoundment Control Act of what, 73, when Nixon had his back against the wall, is totally unconstitutional. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Let's hit it. | ||
| That's as bad as the 14th Amendment situation. | ||
| So let's just hit it. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| You got War Powers Act. | ||
| You got that. | ||
| You got a couple three. | ||
| Just let's go challenge them. | ||
| Otherwise, I'm telling you right now, you see what the deficits are. | ||
| The way to get the capital markets even more responsive. | ||
| They're liking what they see so far, but you've got to have some cuts. | ||
| So much going on. | ||
| In this Texas situation, I'm going to spend the rest of the afternoon on this. | ||
| I'll be back for the evening show. | ||
| Eric Prince is going to join us. | ||
| The national security situation. | ||
| There are some dark clouds forming on the horizon, both in Gaza and Ukraine, as we've warned you, and South China Sea, and also places around Venezuela, the Caribbean. | ||
| There's a lot of dark clouds forming. | ||
| And Eric Prince is going to help us make it all understandable. | ||
| So you are empowered and understand what's happening in this, kind of the geopolitics of it all. | ||
| Also, Eric's got a lot to say about the Tulsi Gabbard situation. | ||
| We've got to get on with it. | ||
| Let's stick the landing. | ||
| How about a couple of perp walks in the next couple of weeks? | ||
| I think people feel a lot better if they saw somebody cuffed and, you know, a grand jury, a grand jury indictment. | ||
| So a lot on that. | ||
| Charlie Kirk's going to follow us. | ||
| Poso after that. | ||
| Pesobic after that. | ||
| Steve Gruber, Eric Bowling. | ||
| I'm going to try to do, if I can get the show done early enough, I'm going to do a hard handover from Bowling. | ||
| I love doing that. | ||
| If we don't do it, it's all because we're trying to put the show together because of breaking news. | ||
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