Aug. 2, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| Texas Republicans, following the demands of President Trump, unveiled a new congressional map this week that could hand the GOP five additional House seats, each drawn in areas Trump carried by double digits. | ||
| And the plan is moving quickly. | ||
| After a marathon hearing on Friday, the committee could vote to approve the maps today, setting up a full House vote as early as this Tuesday before it heads to the Texas state senate. | ||
| California Governor Gavin Newsom has already signaled he's prepared to respond, floating a congressional map that could pick up six Democratic House seats if Texas moves forward. | ||
| And Texas Democrats are not holding back, calling out the Republicans' blatantly political moves. | ||
| This is not a Texas map. | ||
| It is a Trump map. | ||
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It was not requested by any Republican or any Democrat in Texas. | |
| It was imposed by President Trump, who has a stranglehold on Congress. | ||
| And the only question here is whether he also has a stranglehold on this Texas legislature. | ||
| The only way that you get here is by making sure that you trample upon the rights and the liberties and the voices of minorities. | ||
| What are we doing? | ||
| How can we ignore what happened with the Guadalupe? | ||
| How can we put that off and decide that gerrymandering is more important than taking care of the lives of those people? | ||
| The people of Texas are not going to forget this. | ||
| They're not going to forget because I'm not going to let them. | ||
| The Republicans released their map, and Democrats in Texas are going to make sure that the whole country knows what's happening because this isn't just about Texas. | ||
| This is about the entire country and not only the rules of elections, but how Donald Trump wants to rule the rigview elections in Texas and is not going to stop there. | ||
| It's going to continue with other states so that he can hold on to power and he's going to do so by trampling on the rights of minorities. | ||
| Democrats in Texas have all options on the table. | ||
| We're going to use whatever tool we have in the toolbox to make sure that this doesn't happen and we're going to let everybody in the country know about it. | ||
| What are those actual tools that you guys are talking about? | ||
| Well, they're procedural tools in the House. | ||
| We can fight on the House floor. | ||
| We can make sure we fight in the courts. | ||
| And then we're going to fight in the court of popular opinion because this is not only a rigging of the rules by Donald Trump, but it's un-American. | ||
| We're going to make sure that we fight with everything. | ||
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So far-right activist Laura Loomer doesn't have a job in the Trump administration, which is kind of hard to believe given her influence. | |
| Politico reporting that more than a dozen high-ranking officials were either fired or had their nominations and promotions derailed after finding themselves in Loomer's crosshairs. | ||
| The reason for their ouster, insufficient loyalty to the president. | ||
| Who has been ousted here and why they caught Loomer's attention? | ||
| Yes, so we've seen a number of national security officials. | ||
| We've seen FDA appointees, all of them fired because essentially Laura Loomer has set up a tip line. | ||
| She considers herself to be the most influential journalist in the world right now and has been getting tips from people across the administration of Biden holdovers, of people who are not in step with the president or are not loyal enough. | ||
| And she's essentially raising that to administration allies and getting them fired. | ||
| And this is a sign of her strength and influence right now. | ||
| And it's unsettling. | ||
| Several people in the West Wing who we've talked to who don't like her think that she's quote a nut job and it's become a problematic thing for them. | ||
| She says there are hundreds of more people that didn't need to be purged from the administration. | ||
| So this is going to be a storyline playing out for a while. | ||
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She is loomering large here, Adam. | |
| So which offices have been most impacted and what should we make of all these firings? | ||
| Yeah, well, as I mentioned, you know, the FDA has been impacted, but it's really across every agency and significantly in the national security space. | ||
| When you look at some of the firings that happened earlier in President Trump's term here, she has a lot of influence. | ||
| People like Mike Waltz, this is a lot of her doing, although we've heard that there were some pre-existing issues with Waltz as well and him not working as well with Susie Wiles, the chief of staff. | ||
| And so this is just a significant development and it's more to come, according to Laura. | ||
| This is the primal screen of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. | ||
| Here's not got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you're going to like hearing that. | ||
| I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
| MAGA media. | ||
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
| 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. | ||
| One, two. | ||
| It's Saturday to August Year of Earl 2025. | ||
| Okay, because of the agency and the work of the Warren Posse and you guys putting your shoulder to the wheel over the last couple of weeks in Texas and a week or so here in the United States, the imperial capital, we're going to have a split screen here with two activities that are going on because of your work. | ||
| Number one, the United States Senate, they're trying to move a package of nominees before they split. | ||
| This is obviously not going to be enough, but it's an effort. | ||
| The Democrats are not really negotiating. | ||
| So on one hand, we have the Senate floor. | ||
| They started at 9:30 a.m. this morning. | ||
| It probably precludes us getting Senator Mike Leon here to give us an update, but we're going to certainly try. | ||
| But they're voting throughout the day, and I think throughout the weekend, we've advocated now if they're not going to stick around, they just got to go to a real recess. | ||
| Senator Thune has to show That he trusts President Trump and President Trump can then do recess appointments. | ||
| But we'll work through that today and through the weekend. | ||
| The other box is the Texas House Committee overseeing these maps. | ||
| And as you know, this audience has put tremendous pressure on folks down in Texas. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| They are going to vote here momentarily on voting out the maps. | ||
| The Democrats are there. | ||
| And actually, technically, by the rules, the Democrats can actually leave on these committee votes. | ||
| It's just a majority. | ||
| I believe this now means on Monday or Tuesday, probably Tuesday, they're going to go to the Texas floor and vote this map out. | ||
| So, anyway, real progress. | ||
| We will go to Texas as soon as they get kicked off there. | ||
| Maybe start. | ||
| Are they talking right now in Texas? | ||
| Can we? | ||
| Yeah, let's go ahead and get that. | ||
| We got Laura Loomer's going to join us here in a moment. | ||
| Let's just go to Texas to kick things off. | ||
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And it wasn't a predominantly all-black area. | |
| It was a true coalition working class district. | ||
| It was moms and dads who worked nine to five who were trying to make it work. | ||
| And I grew up seeing my city get to a point where it could have risen to something. | ||
| And now it's in decay. | ||
| And when you have people who come to a committee and say, because I'm a Democrat-run city in Beaumont, people are poor. | ||
| And that wasn't what happened. | ||
| We lost our representation and economic engines to larger parts of the district that had nothing in common. | ||
| The committee looks like they're going to go around and speak, and we want to get as much of that as possible. | ||
| But I got Laura Loomer by phone, and Laura Loomer's got a very important tweet she just put up on Twitter. | ||
| Your theory of the case now, Laura, as you look, you are now looked at as the avenging angel of MAGA to make sure that we don't have a bunch of deep staters and a bunch of rhinos, a bunch of Democrats infesting an infestation of President Trump's administration. | ||
| Yesterday on the show we interviewed, I said, hey, I look at all of your efforts and they haven't been close calls. | ||
| This is more of a feature than a bug. | ||
| You've put up a pretty explosive tweet saying you believe the CIA is in back of this. | ||
| Can you explain, folks, what your current thinking is, ma'am? | ||
| Yeah, thanks for having me on, Steve. | ||
| So my thinking is that because there hasn't been any real justice for the participants in the Russia collusion hoax and nobody part of this Obama-era machine of vengeful intel operatives, including James Clapper and John Brennan and James Comey and Christopher Wright, none of these people have been punished for their treasonous activities and their treasonous actions against President Trump. | ||
| And unfortunately, because there has not been a full-scale purge within the Trump administration of Obama and Biden-era holdovers, especially within our intelligence agencies, these individuals have now found ways to recruit their friends, right? | ||
| Recruit their friends from the Obama era to get jobs inside the Trump administration. | ||
| And so now what you're seeing, Steve, is you're seeing that all of these John Brennan associates, and of course, we know that John Brennan was Obama's CIA director, they're all finding themselves getting jobs and referrals for jobs within the Pentagon. | ||
| And so I truly do believe that there's another Obama-era Intel agency coup against the Trump administration taking place right now because you have these Obama-CIA officials who are trying to stage a coup of the Trump Pentagon. | ||
| But yes, I agree that this is very suspicious. | ||
| These people are coming in, but how are they coming in? | ||
| I mean, there's Trump officials that are Trump appointees and some that are Senate confirmed that at the top of this and also in the White House and they have a whole vetting operation. | ||
| I mean, how is this? | ||
| How is this happening? | ||
| I agree with you. | ||
| It looks like CIA, they're from the deep state of the Brennan coaching tree. | ||
| But how is this happening? | ||
| One of the ways that it's happening is through the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Steve Feinberg. | ||
| And Steve Feinberg has this guy working for him as a senior advisor named Tom Rakusen. | ||
| And he was the director of operations for John Brennan. | ||
| And so he's really honestly to blame for a lot of this. | ||
| I'm told by my sources that Tom Ratheusen is the guy who put forth John Edwards as a possible nominee for deputy NSA director. | ||
| And, you know, if you look at who Tom Rackheusen is, it's a little hard to hear you because your phone, the connection keeps popping on your end. | ||
| Every other word, it keeps popping out. | ||
| I don't know if your producer can fix that. | ||
| But Tom Rackhewson is the guy who's referring all of his Obama-era buddies to go work inside the Pentagon. | ||
| I've exposed Tom Ratheusen. | ||
| I've sent the information regarding Tom Rackheusen and how toxic he is to the Trump White House, to the Trump administration. | ||
| And yet, for some reason, this guy still remains within the Trump administration, despite the fact that he was one of the main organizers of the Russia collusion folks. | ||
| This is the guy who cited even in, there's actually a new book that recently came out, Steve. | ||
| It's called The Mission. | ||
| And it's written by a leftist who used to work at the New York Times. | ||
| And it documents the history of the CIA. | ||
| And it credits Tom Rackhusen as being one of the main players to push back on President Trump's election victory in 2016. | ||
| And it says that Tom Rackheusen, as the director of operations at the CIA for John Brennan, organized the first phone call after President Trump's victory in 2016 to make sure that, quote, the Russians stole our election, quote, we must make sure this never effing happens again. | ||
| Why does Steve Feinberg, who, you know, for some reason you have all these people going around lobbyists trying to pretend like Steve Feinberg is a MAGA guy? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| He's not a MA guy, trying to pretend like he has the president's best interests. | ||
| This is a guy who at his capital management firm hired All of the Obama-era spooks. | ||
| He hired Leon Panetta. | ||
| He hired Mike Morrell, both of whom were stripped of their security clearances by President Trump for being two of the individuals who were, you know, the 51 spies who lied. | ||
| Remember, Mike Morrell was the ringleader of the letter signed by CIA and other Intel officials to say that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. | ||
| And so what I want to know is why is a guy who really has no background whatsoever as it relates to our defense or issues of national security. | ||
| Of course, I'm talking about Steve Feinberg. | ||
| Why is he allowed to be given a pass for hiring all of these Obama-era spooks like Tom Rackhewson and even in his own firm, okay? | ||
| Leon Panetta, Mike Morell, people who literally were stripped of their security clearances for participating in acts of treason. | ||
| Why are we turning a blind eye to Steve Feinberg's efforts to have a CIA coup of an Obama-era CIA coup of the Pentagon? | ||
| I really honestly think that there needs to be more scrutiny put on Steve Feinberg, truly. | ||
| And I've gotten pushed back. | ||
| Like I get calls from their lobbyists and their consultants and they try to tell me that I'm wrong and that I don't know what I'm talking about. | ||
| But like you said, this is just very open and shut, Steve. | ||
| The receipts speak for themselves. | ||
| You just have to look at the statements that these people have made and the actions that they took to subvert the president. | ||
| And I just want to know why does Steve Feinberg, he's getting a pass. | ||
| Is it because he's a billionaire? | ||
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Right? | |
| Is it because he has money? | ||
| I mean, are we just going to turn a blind eye to people because they're billionaires? | ||
| Hang on one second. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| Laura Loomer on the other side. | ||
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| This action of this body. | ||
| If Grace and Mo can, I like to stream the Texas on our other alternative streams. | ||
| So let's go ahead and try to pick that up. | ||
| That's the committee down there, Brian Harrison, in a moment. | ||
| Laura Loomer. | ||
| So, Laura, when you mentioned that you believe it's a CIA coup and you see all these people being hired, it shouldn't be lost on you because you're our chief investigator that Steve Feinberg has very deep ties and openly brags about it, deep ties to the CIA. | ||
| In fact, as you said, makes a habit of hiring a lot of deep state operatives that have been very anti-Trump, ma'am. | ||
| Yeah, look, like I said, I think it's very concerning that there's people that he's been able to dupe and convince that he's somehow a MAGA guy. | ||
| And I think that a lot of people make excuses for individuals in Trump's circle who have these nefarious intentions and ties to the deep state simply because they have wealthy. | ||
| They have wealth and he's a wealthy individual and he's a billionaire. | ||
| And the fact of the matter is, is you can't convince me. | ||
| And I don't think that we're going to convince anybody here at the war room posse, Steve, that a guy who hires John Brennan's director of operations to be his senior advisor at the Department of Defense and a guy who hires Leon Panetta and Mike Morell, two of the signatories of the Hunter Biden letter that falsely accuse it of being a Russian disinformation op. | ||
| You can't convince me that that person is a good person or that that person is truly MAGA. | ||
| If you're truly MAGA, why would you want anybody tied to John Brennan near you, especially within the Pentagon? | ||
| So yes, I really do believe that we are witnessing a CIA coup of the Pentagon right now at the Pentagon. | ||
| And I'm not accusing, I'm not accusing John Ratcliffe of participating in this. | ||
| I mean, already right now, my phone is buzzing from consultants and people who, you know, work with John Ratcliffe, who are very triggered by what I'm saying right now. | ||
| But because there hasn't been a purge of these Biden and Obama era operatives, especially individuals who came from the CIA and the FBI and the NSC and also the NSA, who are now working within the Trump administration, you're setting the president up to have another coup, to have another deep state coup, which is what we saw derail the Trump administration in the first term. | ||
| And so this is why the media is losing their mind right now and they're hyperventilating nonstop over the comments that I've made and the vetting that I'm conducting, because they don't want to force the hand of the administration and the office of PPO to have the president sign an executive mandate forcing the firing of all Obama and Biden era officials. | ||
| I mean, why do we still have Biden holdovers and Obama holdovers? | ||
| Just yesterday, the president, President Trump, had to fire a Biden official for fabricating the job numbers. | ||
| And then his true social posts seem to convey a level of confusion over why there were still Biden-era officials working in his administration. | ||
| I just, I don't understand why there hasn't been more action taken to identify all these holdovers. | ||
| And again, you know, if we were in March or I don't know, maybe even April, perhaps I would say, all right, you know, I guess a couple of them snuck past the vetting process. | ||
| But now I'm starting to wonder if this is all deliberate. | ||
| It doesn't really seem like a bug. | ||
| It's more of a feature, as you said last night when I was on War Room. | ||
| And here We are almost eight months into the Trump administration, and it seems like this is becoming more sinister, more sinister. | ||
| And you have advisors and people who work for the president who are actually trying to run cover for these people. | ||
| Oh, you know, he's a good guy. | ||
| Oh, he, you know, he has the ability to raise a lot of money for the party. | ||
| Okay, I don't really care how much money Steve Feinberg has or how much money he's able to raise for the party or he's able to raise for 2028 or for the midterms. | ||
| I don't really care. | ||
| If he's running, if he's if he's running an Obama-era CIA coup against President Trump and the Pentagon, and we know that eventually he's going to try to snipe at Pete Hegseth, isn't that a bigger problem? | ||
| Are you currently working on additional names you're going to come forward with that you think ought to be removed immediately from the administration, both at the Pentagon and other intelligence services and other areas like DOJ, FBI, you know, DHS? | ||
| Are you currently working on a broader slate of names to come up with? | ||
| Yeah, every single day I'm working on another list of names. | ||
| And I mean, I have names in front of me now, and it's just a matter of pulling the receipts and making it irrefutable. | ||
| I mean, I could post the names right now. | ||
| I could just post a slate of names of all the individuals who I think should be fired and removed. | ||
| But I like going person by person and, you know, essentially, you know, making it very open and shut, right, with the receipts. | ||
| I like to make my case and then close the argument with the receipts. | ||
| And then the information gets delivered to the president of the United States and his staff. | ||
| And ultimately, they are the final decision makers on whether or not these people stay or whether or not they're fired. | ||
| And so I don't want to just give names and allow these people to come up with excuses or have their friends and all of their investor buddies make excuses for why they should remain in the Trump administration. | ||
| I have a record of providing receipts, and even the mainstream media is admitting that these are very well-researched reports. | ||
| They're now forced to admit. | ||
| Adam Ren from Politico, when he was interviewed by CNN and MSNBC, was forced to admit. | ||
| MSNBC was forced to admit that the New York Times is recognizing that these are very calculated and well-researched reports on vetting and that I'm doing a better job at vetting than the PPO office within the Trump administration, Steve. | ||
| And so I just want people to know that John Brennan is still getting everything that he wants. | ||
| And it'd be nice to see some actual prosecutions. | ||
| It'd be nice to see people actually go to jail and get charged for their crimes against crimes of political warfare against the American people and against President Trump, his campaign in 2016 and his presidency and then his campaign again in 2020 and his campaign again in 2024. | ||
| But I don't know if we're going to see any prosecutions. | ||
| I don't know if we're going to see anybody go to jail. | ||
| And it's at the expense of Donald Trump. | ||
| It's at the expense of Donald Trump and our national security. | ||
| And I just want to know if John Brennan is the criminal that Tulsi Gabbard has exposed him out as being and he's the criminal that President Trump says that he is, why does John Brennan keep getting everything that he wants as it relates to personnel? | ||
| Personnel is policy, Steve. | ||
| Personnel is policy. | ||
| Why does John Brennan still continue to get everything that he wants? | ||
| Why are John Brennan's closest advisors and his hand-picked staffers and advisors still getting hired at the highest levels within our government? | ||
| If John Brennan is a criminal and President Trump is going to post his image on True Social and say that he is guilty of committing treason, why is John Brennan still getting everything that he wants? | ||
| That's something that everybody needs to ask themselves this morning when you're sipping on your coffee. | ||
| Laura, your podcast, your social media, particularly your Twitter feed, how do people keep up with you, ma'am? | ||
| You can follow me on X at Laura Loomer and X on Loomer Unleashed. | ||
| You can also follow me on rumble rumble.com/slash Laura Loomer, rumble.com slash Laura Loomer. | ||
| You can subscribe to my podcast. | ||
| It's free to subscribe. | ||
| You can also go to my website, loomered.com, which is where I'm running my tip line, the Loomered loyalty tip line, where people can submit tips about their disloyal colleagues in the Trump administration. | ||
| And if you're watching and you have a tip about an Obama or Biden holdover, an individual who is somehow subverting the will of the American people and the agenda of the Trump administration, go to lumered.com and click the dropdown button and send me a tip. | ||
| Laura, as you know, the Warren Posse, putting the shoulder of the wheel, we've kind of helped Brian Harris and others force this vote in the Texas legislature on redistricting. | ||
| We've been a big effort to make sure that President Trump's nominees get confirmed before the Senate goes home or give him a recess appointment. | ||
| So if you could please just take, we got about a minute. | ||
| Just give us that question one more time that you want the Warren Posse to think about over their morning coffee. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Can you give it to me one more time? | ||
| If President Trump truly believes that John Brennan is guilty of treason and President Trump truly believes that John Brennan is a criminal, and if Tulsi Gabbard has truly exposed them for crimes of treason, why does John Brennan seem to have a veto power over who gets hired within our intel agencies and within our Defense Department? | ||
| Why is John Brennan still influencing who gets hired in the Trump administration within the Pentagon and the NSC? | ||
| Laura Loomer, on a Saturday morning, thank you, ma'am. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| And I know the president appreciates you. | ||
| So thank you, ma'am. | ||
| Pretty cut and dry. | ||
| Like I said last night about this being a feature, not a bug, somebody's got to ask some serious questions here. | ||
| And we got to get to the bottom of this. | ||
| Think about it for a second. | ||
| You've got this confirmation problem that they know they can slow Trump down with the confirmations. | ||
| They pulled every trick in the book. | ||
| And right now, John Thune, let's be blunt, John Thune does not trust the President of the United States enough to go on a real recess, not some pro-former recess, and allow President Trump, as every other president has had, as the Constitution lays out, Recess appointments. | ||
| On the other hand, for the non-confirmed positions, some of these non-confirmed positions, you have an infestation of deep state operatives. | ||
| This is just teeing us up for another. | ||
| This is something we went to in 16 and 17 and 18. | ||
| And not taking care of it with McMasters and all these guys fighting it, not taking care of it, led to the impeachment in 2019. | ||
| This is a direct line. | ||
| Laura Loomer speaks the truth. | ||
| It's unpleasant for some people. | ||
| It's quite harsh. | ||
| It can be very hard. | ||
| Laura does not have the best bedside manner, but she's not supposed to have a good bedside manner. | ||
| She's on a mission. | ||
| And what her task and purpose is has been quite effective in ridding this administration of these deep state operatives. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| back in the warm in a moment. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Bass. | |
| Very explosive from Laura Loomer. | ||
| I want to make sure everybody embraces that over your morning coffee. | ||
| I'll have more to say about that in a little while. | ||
| I want to go to Breaking News Out of Texas. | ||
| Brian Harrison, a representative in the Texas House, joins us. | ||
| Brian, what just happened, sir? | ||
| Hey, it's actually big news here and a massive victory for grassroots patriots, activists, the war room posse. | ||
| The Texas House Redistricting Committee, just within the last two minutes, voted to pass the redistricting maps out of the redistricting committee. | ||
| It was a party line vote, unsurprising, 12-6. | ||
| So that means that it is a huge victory in the sense that the map is showing movement for the first time, even though it took half of special session and the entire regular session to get any movement on this. | ||
| This is the first real movement we've seen. | ||
| It will now advance to the full floor where the calendars committee and the house leadership team now need to step up, stop with their usual gamesmanships and delays and slow walking, and do something that they rarely ever do: show leadership, put it on the floor. | ||
| The House is already scheduled to convene Monday morning. | ||
| This map should be on the floor Monday morning. | ||
| There's no excuses. | ||
| I know that National Democrats are pressuring the local Democrats to break quorum, and many members of the Texas House Democrat caucus have publicly pledged to do everything they can. | ||
| Quote, every tool in the book is what they say to thwart the Republican agenda down here. | ||
| But the reality is they don't have the power to do that. | ||
| The governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker have all the tools they need to force this map, an up or down vote. | ||
| I do believe we have the votes to pass it, provided we get the Democrats to show up. | ||
| The House leadership team has the power, all the tools necessary to make sure that they show up and a vote is to be allowed. | ||
| But it's a huge victory. | ||
| And I want to, again, thank the posse for the progress so far. | ||
| I do not believe we would have had this vote today if it were not for the posse and activists across the country blowing up the phone lines and the emails of the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker and letting them know that the eyes of the nation are watching them. | ||
| So one step forward today. | ||
| The real battle will be next week. | ||
| Let's go ahead. | ||
| I think we have a clip. | ||
| Brian, hang over one second. | ||
| And Brian joins us by phone. | ||
| Let's play the clip and I'll bring Brian Harrison back into the conversation. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, members, any other comments? | |
| Chair has none. | ||
| The question occurs on the motion to report House vote for without amendments with the recommendation that it do pass and be printed. | ||
| The clerk will call the roll. | ||
| Chair Fasoot? | ||
| Aye. | ||
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Vice Chair Rosenthal. | |
| Nay. | ||
| Representative Garcia? | ||
| Representative Guerin? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Representative Gervin Hawkins? | ||
| Representative Guerra? | ||
| No. | ||
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Representative Guillain? | |
| Aye. | ||
| Representative Hefner. | ||
| Aye. | ||
| Representative Hickland. | ||
| Aye. | ||
| Representative Hunter. | ||
| Representative Manuel. | ||
| Representative McQueenie. | ||
| Representative Metcalf. | ||
| Representative Moody. | ||
| Representative Pearson. | ||
| Representative Spiller. | ||
| Aye. | ||
| Representative Tepper. | ||
| Aye. | ||
| Representative Thompson. | ||
| Representative Turner. | ||
| No. | ||
| Representative Wilson. | ||
| Aye. | ||
| Representative Wu. | ||
| Let me have it. | ||
| 12-6. | ||
| Party line. | ||
| Brian Harrison, thank you very much. | ||
| Great clip. | ||
| That vote right there to put the map forward to the Texas House. | ||
| This issue of quorum and having enough Democrats show up. | ||
| Are people proactively trying to think this thing through right now, sir? | ||
| Well, they better be. | ||
| And I believe so. | ||
| I'm telling you, it was probably, it started about yesterday morning. | ||
| Up until yesterday morning, the Rhino Uni Party leadership and the Texas government appeared to be up to all of its usual tricks. | ||
| They put the liberal Democrat Speaker Pro Tim on the committee, the ultra-liberal extremist Gene Wu, who's the head of the Democrat caucus. | ||
| They put him on the redistricting committee. | ||
| And it appeared that it was business as usual until, quite frankly, the posse was activated. | ||
| The eyes of the nation and grassroots activists across the country lit up the phone lines with the accurate message, which is we are on to you. | ||
| We're not going to let you do your usual tricks where you do what the Democrats want, you Republicans, but then blame the Democrats for your own failings. | ||
| It was yesterday morning, even the low IQ liberal Austin Swamp media started saying, okay, there's a shift in the air now. | ||
| This is actually starting to move. | ||
| And for the first time, the conventional wisdom became, you know what, they may not have a choice but to get this done. | ||
| But here's the real point, the real question. | ||
| I mean, people think that Texas government is ultra-red and we're so Republican, and as you call it, the railhead of the MAGA movement, Steve, and you're correct. | ||
| We elected Trump with a 14-point landslide in Texas. | ||
| But why did it have to come to this? | ||
| Why in the middle of summer? | ||
| Why July? | ||
| Why did it take the entire - why did the entire regular session come and go without us doing this? | ||
| Why did it take President Trump having to get activated? | ||
| Why did it take the posse and so many millions of activists across the country to force the Texas government to do things that it should have done a long time ago? | ||
| That's what real leadership would have looked like to save the future of our state in our country. | ||
| But the good news is something has changed in the last 36 hours. | ||
| And I do believe it's the pressure of the grassroots Across America. | ||
| So, onto the quorum, just so the posse understands, we have 150 members in the Texas House. | ||
| The Constitution requires 100 to show up. | ||
| We have 88 Republicans. | ||
| So, we need 10 to 15 Democrats to show, and the House leadership, Republicans, has all every single tool they need to force a minimum number of Democrats to get there on the floor Monday. | ||
| So, no delays, and the posse needs to keep it up. | ||
| Destroy the phone lines of the elected Republican leadership in Texas emails, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker. | ||
| Let them make sure they know. | ||
| Yes, we're happy the map got moved out of committee, but this thing needs to be voted on. | ||
| The Democrats need to be forced to show up. | ||
| It's time to play hardball. | ||
| It's time to show the nation that Texas knows what time it is in America. | ||
| And quite frankly, they all need to hear it. | ||
| Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Speaker, the Texas Senate hasn't taken a single vote in their committee on the redistricting map. | ||
| So, the Texas House is actually moving faster than the Texas Senate. | ||
| That's something that we rarely say down here. | ||
| So, all of the elected leadership of Texas needs to know every eye in America is watching them right now. | ||
| Let's keep moving. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| No delays, no excuses. | ||
| Vote the map. | ||
| The eyes of the nation are on Texas to vote the map. | ||
| Brian, your social media, Brian, because all weekend we're going to be up working on this. | ||
| Make sure we get this vote on Monday and people want to follow your information since you happen to be the best news service down there. | ||
| Where do people go? | ||
| Yeah, social media on X. I'd say there's nothing more hated in Austin than my X feed. | ||
| I can assure you that it's at Brian E. Harrison, Brian E. Harrison on X, Brian E. Harrison. | ||
| And just I just want to close out again by just expressing my profound appreciation for you and the posse for opening the eyes of everybody across America. | ||
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Well, you do the hard work. | |
| The posse does the hard work. | ||
| I get the easiest job in the world just providing a platform for you guys. | ||
| Thank you, Brian. | ||
| Look forward to working with you over the weekend. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| And for Glenn's story, too, and the Patriot Mobile team, everybody, just great work. | ||
| And for Warren Posse, we've still got a lot more to go to the Texas Senate. | ||
| Got to get the House vote. | ||
| But you can see, as they said, something's changed in the air down in Austin, and that is transparency and focus and lighting people up for not doing their job. | ||
| Is Cleo Pascal Pascal joins us now from the Northern Marianas Islands? | ||
| Cleo, very moving ceremonies yesterday. | ||
| We had the live streams going on War Room, and quite frankly, not just a very big audience, but a very engaged audience now that you've awakened people to the fact that this is all American territory. | ||
| I think a lot of our audience, as informed as the War Posse is, was, hey, a lot of these folks did know that this was U.S. territory and about the scandals and about the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Give us your assessment of what happened yesterday. | ||
| It was quite solemn and very moving. | ||
| Yes, it was. | ||
| And it was, it was, yesterday for you, I've since I saw you on the show last, I've only been at funeral events. | ||
| Haven't gone to bed here. | ||
| It was a Catholic funeral, so I think it goes on for 57 days or something. | ||
| But it was incredibly touching. | ||
| And I was asked by people close to the late governor to present you and the war room with this challenge coin. | ||
| This was his personal challenge coin. | ||
| They're all numbered because of their gratitude for just showing up and caring. | ||
| I was repeatedly stopped by people and sometimes in hushed tones, sometimes courageously in front of others to say thank you and to thank for being there. | ||
| But the live stream really made a difference for them to know that the rest of America cared and was watching. | ||
| And just a very moving experience, I think, to know that people cared. | ||
| Because, and this is the unfortunate thing, when you saw who the U.S. government sent to represent the government to the United States of America, that was somewhat shameful, frankly. | ||
| The highest-ranking U.S. military official was a rear admiral from Guam, 45-minute flight away. | ||
| So they didn't even send anybody from Indo-Paycom, from Hawaii, and certainly nobody from DC. | ||
| This is in spite of, as we know and have talked about repeatedly, this is America's front line. | ||
| This is where new installations are going in on Tinian, which is, you can, if it was light outside and I was standing on the roof, you could see Tinian from here. | ||
| And on August 6th, it will be the 80th anniversary of the Enola Gay taking off from Tinian and heading towards Hiroshima. | ||
| This was on the front line and it is on the front line again. | ||
| And what DOD could muster was a rear admiral from 45 minutes away. | ||
| It was similarly in terms of the administration. | ||
| It was represented by a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Insular Affairs at the Department of Interior. | ||
| He is a man who is from here, and we've spoken about him on the show before because when he was in the legislature here, he helped write the legislation that facilitated the setting up of a Chinese casino that was running billions of dollars into this economy in ways that perplexed casino experts. | ||
| In terms of Congress, there was, of course, Congresswoman Radwagon, who came from American Samoa, and she's highly revered and greatly respected. | ||
| And it was wonderful to see her here. | ||
| And the other member of Congress who is here was Congresswoman Kimberly King Hines, who we saw on the show the other day talking about how it's all about money and how she was convincing her colleagues to continue to permit Chinese to come into the Marianas without a visa. | ||
| And she was front and center there. | ||
| So that was who was represented officially by the U.S. And it certainly doesn't send a message that the administration Or the officials are taking this very seriously, and you can be sure that China noticed. | ||
| And that was why it was even more important just at a personal level for people that the war room showed up. | ||
| So I'd like to relay the gratitude of the family and of the many, many people who came up to me throughout the day and the evening today to say thank you for being there for them. | ||
| Cleo, can you hang on for a second? | ||
| I know it's late. | ||
| I just want to hold you through a short commercial break before we pivot to the Senate and into Ukraine. | ||
| We have a bunch of stuff to go through, but I want to just hear some ideas about an action plan because this is way too important to just let sit. | ||
| We've got to set things right there. | ||
| This Chinese casino is shut down, right? | ||
| Why is it shut down? | ||
| Why is a Chinese casino that's generating billions of dollars for the Chinese owners, but is suspect by everybody that's looked at casino operations as just an open money laundering operation? | ||
| Why is it shut down with no follow-up investigation? | ||
| The people that are associated with it should be held accountable for it. | ||
| This thing is a festering soar. | ||
| This is kind of a small, slightly, just slightly smaller equivalent of Uranium One with the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation and how they got involved with the Russians and how they got involved with uranium and how they made a lot of money. | ||
| And next thing you know, you've got the you've got Hillary Clinton trying to steal the presidency from Donald Trump. | ||
| Here you have the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| They've infested the Imperial Capitol and they've infiltrated everywhere. | ||
| And it's got to be stopped everywhere. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
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| Cleo, like I continue to say, and this is what was so moving last night for the thousands and thousands and thousands that watched the proceedings, was the importance of honoring the greatest generation on their sacrifice. | ||
| There was no battle in World War II, I don't think, as bloody as Saipan, and particularly taken on a per capita basis like the civilians that killed themselves, a very infamous but historic spot of Suicide Cliff, where not just Japanese Army person, Imperial Army, but also civilians threw themselves all the cliff instead of surrendering to the United States because of this, all the propaganda that was the narrative wars and the information war that were being fought. | ||
| This is why the CCP is an existential threat, just like back then Imperial Japan was an existential threat. | ||
| We have to face this. | ||
| We can't look away. | ||
| The natural defensive barrier of the United States is on the other side of the Pacific and the island chains. | ||
| And this is why Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur and FDR and General Marshall understood what we had to do in the Pacific in World War II. | ||
| And like you said, nothing could be more emblematic than in a couple of days from now, what by, I think, Tuesday, Wednesday, next week, the 80th anniversary of Enola Gay leaving Tinian to go drop the first atomic weapon on Hiroshima to try to end that war without another million U.S. casualties. | ||
| So what is your action plan? | ||
| We've got people very focused on this and very interested now. | ||
| And one of the great things that you've done over the last couple of months is actually put the information out to the American people. | ||
| Like, hey, this is not about being a neocon. | ||
| This is American territory. | ||
| We fought for this territory. | ||
| We paid in blood for this territory. | ||
| The people there have wanted to be part of the United States. | ||
| This is the United States of America. | ||
| And what we're doing in the United States of America is because of people making money, like you said, everybody from selling counterfeit driver's license to running a crooked casino has been infiltrated and influenced by the Chinese Communist Party because this is what they do. | ||
| This is what they've done in South Korea as we lost the election there. | ||
| This is what they're doing in Japan. | ||
| This is the fifth column they've built in Taiwan. | ||
| This is what they're trying to do in Australia. | ||
| Everywhere throughout East Asia and Southeast Asia and the Pacific, all these island nations, as you did such a great report going for a couple of weeks. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party are a worthy enemy. | ||
| They're very smart. | ||
| They're very cunning. | ||
| They're very lethal. | ||
| This is not a group of clowns. | ||
| These are very serious people, very evil people. | ||
| And they are constantly, constantly, constantly thinking through how they can take down the United States of America. | ||
| So what's your recommendation? | ||
| How do we go forward now? | ||
| So for looking at the Pacific Islands as a whole, I think there need to be three and a half different strategies because there are three different priorities and different toolkits for each of those clusters. | ||
| And the first cluster is places that are the United States of America, like where I am now in Saipan. | ||
| There's the territories here of CNMI, of American Samoa, of Guam. | ||
| These places are Americans on American soil. | ||
| And you have a whole set of toolkits that you don't have in other parts of the Pacific. | ||
| So for example, here, I think a priority would be to send in Treasury. | ||
| The books are all there. | ||
| All you have to do is follow the money and you can get pretty far. | ||
| There needs to, I think, also be a proper field office set up in Guam. | ||
| Currently, the biggest field office that I know of is an eight-hour flight away in Hawaii. | ||
| So that gives not a lot of oversight here. | ||
| The second priority, it would be the three compact states. | ||
| So Palau, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia. | ||
| that's the whole middle central Pacific. | ||
| That's the old Japanese mandate. | ||
| These are the battles of Pelelu and Truck Lagoon and Kwajalein. | ||
| This is how you get to the first and second island chain. | ||
| They're not the United States, but because of the compacts, they have very close ties to the United States. | ||
| So you have a different set of toolkits that you could use. | ||
| The third priority are the other Pacific Islands, like the Solomon Islands and things like that, which they're foreign countries that don't have those sorts of ties to the U.S. So there's a different set of toolkits. | ||
| And then the half are the three Pacific Island countries that recognize Taiwan: Palau, Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu, because they have they're being targeted in a way that's completely different because of that Taiwan threat to China. | ||
| But also, the Taiwanese can be very helpful for helping to push back that Chinese political warfare. | ||
| So I would say you can't just say the Pacific Islands. | ||
| You need to understand that from a U.S. strategic perspective, there are hierarchies and priorities, but there are also different toolkits, and some of them extremely effective, that can be employed in different locations and with different partners. | ||
| Japan would be very helpful in the compact states. | ||
| Taiwan would be helpful in the countries that recognize Taiwan. | ||
| Australia claims to be, although I'm not sure it is, helpful in some places like Solomon Islands. | ||
| So it needs a proper look, not just saying the Pacific Islands, but understanding that the center of the Pacific, in particular, is America's strategic heartland. | ||
| If a hostile foreign power controls it, the U.S. is not safe. | ||
| This was understood from the middle of the 19th century. | ||
| This was understood by McKinley and Roosevelt, and it resulted in having the U.S. on the other side of that in Guam and in the Marianas. | ||
| So getting a full picture of where the priorities should be and fully applying the strongest tools you have in each of those jurisdictions in order to be able to rip out root and branch the Chinese Communist Party infiltrations because they've been looking at it from the opposite direction. | ||
| They know what is a priority for the U.S., even if the U.S. hasn't realized it and has been working to undermine America's position in those places in that same hierarchy. | ||
| They targeted Guam, they've targeted CNMI, they've targeted the Compact states as priorities. | ||
| So it takes a little bit of focus, but it can definitely be done. | ||
| Well, we'll bring the focus. | ||
| Social media, ma'am, how do people keep up with you while you're there? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I'm now apparently on Getter at Rio Clio, and I'm on X at my name, Cleo Pascal, C-L-E-O-K-A-S-K-A-L. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Great, great coverage. | ||
| Tell everybody there, we love them, and we got their back. | ||
| The war room is at work. | ||
| So thank you, ma'am. | ||
| Pretty good morning so far. | ||
| Winning in Texas, setting things right, going to in the northern Marianas Islands to honor America's sacrifice in the Second World War. | ||
| Short commercial break. |
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