Aug. 4, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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Nationwide consequences, and it's getting even more urgent as state Democratic lawmakers have now fled the state entirely. | |
| They bolted to Illinois, Boston, New York on Sunday. | ||
| It was a last-ditch effort to delay voting on a new congressional map ordered by President Trump in Texas. | ||
| And it would give Republicans another five seats in next year's midterm elections. | ||
| We did not make the decision to come here today. | ||
| We did not make a decision lightly. | ||
| But we come here today with absolute moral clarity that this is the absolutely the right thing to do to protect the people of the state of Texas. | ||
| The move denies the Texas legislature a quorum, blocking Republican efforts to pass the new gerrymandered map during a special session. | ||
| Now, Governor Greg Abbott is lashing out, accusing Democratic lawmakers of abandoning their offices. | ||
| He's threatening their removal. | ||
| State Attorney General Ken Paxton goes even further, suggesting the lawmakers should be arrested, adding, quote, we should use every tool at our disposal to hunt down those who think they're above the law. | ||
| Ramon Romero, your state representative, you know what's going on right now. | ||
| This is the fight that we're in. | ||
| This is the fight that you're in. | ||
| We didn't start this fight. | ||
| Donald Trump started it. | ||
| He asked the Texas legislature to get rid of your voice. | ||
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So for me, I'm not going to do that. | |
| I'm not going to go to work to silence you. | ||
| And there's going to be a lot of people, if that's what they're going to say, they ran away. | ||
| They don't want to go do their job. | ||
| If my job is taking away your right to have a vote that matters, I'm not going to do it. | ||
| There's going to be other people that are going to go to the floor. | ||
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It's not going to be me, and it's not going to be my colleagues, because we know what this means. | |
| This is the destruction of America and the destruction of value of our votes. | ||
| So you see me? | ||
| Look at here. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| I'm out. | ||
| But I'm here for you. | ||
| Some of these lawmakers are actually in Texas, or excuse me, in New York right now as well. | ||
| The governor there is supposed to meet with them today as part of all of this. | ||
| When it comes to the balance of power in the House, it comes down to just a fraction of a margin, essentially. | ||
| The margins are already razor-thin. | ||
| And so if you have five seats that could go then to the Republican column that might otherwise be in the Democratic column, that could be the entire ballgame. | ||
| We've seen this play out before in New York. | ||
| Congressman Hakeem Jeffries is very keen on becoming Speaker to King Jeffries. | ||
| And so he is eager to do anything he can to make sure that he holds on to that. | ||
| The thing is, there's actually a history of a quorum break-in in Texas, basically, where in the past, even the state rangers were called in to use force to make lawmakers come back. | ||
| You're nodding. | ||
| You remember this back in 2021? | ||
| And there is one person, a political science professor from the Tex, tells the Texas Tribune that there actually aren't that many options to force them to return. | ||
| But there are some things, like they could take a novel aggressive measure, trimming the $20,000 monthly operating budgets given to House members to run their office, declaring the seats vacant and triggering special elections. | ||
| That's never been used. | ||
| And of course, there's the $500 daily fines for every day that they're away. | ||
| But remember, when it comes to things like the $20,000 budget deficit or the $500 daily fines, this is what fundraising is for. | ||
| And it's not just going to attract the interest of people in Texas. | ||
| Nationally, I think you're going to have a lot of people who are interested in this who are worried about what redistricting is doing to politics who are going to come in and help to fund these through PACs. | ||
| So I don't think that's the real issue. | ||
| The seat vacancy thing, we've never seen that before. | ||
| I don't know actually how that would work. | ||
| The vote is supposed to happen today, so we'll get a little bit more information. | ||
| But I'm watching, you were mentioning New York. | ||
| Also, Illinois Governor Pritzker coming in and hosting a bunch of these Democrats. | ||
| *Piano music* | ||
| Because the Supreme Court has paved the way for half the stuff that we see that's going on. | ||
| Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of. | ||
| Okay, we know that. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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Yes. | |
| He is. | ||
| But in a functioning democracy, he still would not be able to get away with this. | ||
| But he's been able to get away with this because the House Republicans are complicit. | ||
| He's been able to get away with this because Senate Republicans are complicit. | ||
| But most importantly, the courts, especially the Supreme Court, is complicit. | ||
| And so I think one of the places that we have to start is we are absolutely, they are the highest court in the lands and they have no ethics guardrails. | ||
| Now you go down to the lower courts and they do. | ||
| How much sense does that make? | ||
| Well, we know that they're taking money. | ||
| We have the paper trail and they refuse to put guardrails on themselves. | ||
| So it's time for us to do it for them. | ||
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You have till 3 p.m., according to the state attorney general, to get back to the state. | |
| You're facing these fines every day after. | ||
| Are you worried that if at a certain point you're in some sort of violation of the law, right, because of these fines, that your seats could be declared vacant, that special elections could be called? | ||
| There is no violation of the law right now, and it's a huge violation of the separation of powers for the governor to think that he could remove members of the legislature because he doesn't agree with the way that they're conducting business in their position. | ||
| That's asinine. | ||
| The reality is that these legislators are doing what it takes to make sure that the voters have an opportunity to hold Donald Trump accountable in the 2026 midterms. | ||
| Because when they push bills to make sure that the richest people in this country pay less in taxes than the poorest and that they're shutting down rural hospitals across this country, driving up your energy rates, then the Democrats have to step up to make sure that we're doing everything we can to make your life more affordable. | ||
| And that means having the opportunity to hold Republicans accountable in the 2026 midterm election. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on this people. | ||
| You're going to have 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 don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you're trying 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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Waroon, here's your host, Stephen K. Battle. | |
| It's Monday for August in the year of our Lord 2025. | ||
| There's a lesson there, War Room Posse, about how something that's so obscure and nobody's focused on and Abbott doesn't want to do and Patrick doesn't want to do another Texas establishment wants to do. | ||
| You give the War Room posse, I don't know, two weeks with a firebrand like Brian Harrison, and then it becomes the number one political story in the world. | ||
| On fire right now, we've got a bunch more we're going to get to. | ||
| Recess appointment fiasco. | ||
| I'll get to that. | ||
| BLS, this Fed governor opening, seditious conspiracy. | ||
| We are jammed on a Monday. | ||
| But first things first, what the Warren Posse. | ||
| And by the way, the Warren Posse has created the ability to make changes in all of these. | ||
| And we're going to get you tons of information so you can become a force multiplier. | ||
| First to Texas, Brian Harrison joins us. | ||
| Brian, the governor last night finally woke up. | ||
| He came out, I think, with a bombshell at 3 o'clock today, and it looks like Paxon's backing him up. | ||
| 3 o'clock today, when you call the Texas House in, the folks up there talking big smack talk last night in Illinois are going to have their seats vacated. | ||
| Is this what's going to happen? | ||
| Is Abbott finally going to throw down hard here, sir? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| We're going to see. | ||
| We're going to find out. | ||
| What I would say is prepare for a whole bunch of really bad kabuki theater and smoke and mirrors from a lot of elected Republicans in Texas who are going to want to sound tough and look like they're taking bold action to rein in these rogue Democrats. | ||
| Here's the reality. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| This is what it all boils down to. | ||
| This is another, it seems a limitless series of abject failures by the elected so-called Republican leadership in the Texas government. | ||
| Here are the facts. | ||
| If the elected Republicans in the state of Texas wanted to have done redistricting, redistricting would have been done by now. | ||
| We could have done this in the regular session. | ||
| We could have gotten this done in the first half of the regular session. | ||
| And here's the biggest point on the quorum break. | ||
| If the elected leadership of the state of Texas had wanted to stop the quorum break, they had every tool at their disposal to do it. | ||
| And just for example, Steve, I was on the war room. | ||
| I think Natalie was hosting on Wednesday, just a few days ago. | ||
| Well, guess what did we have here in the Capitol on Wednesday, just four short days ago? | ||
| We had the maps. | ||
| They had been filed. | ||
| We had the Democrats and we had a quorum. | ||
| Well, what did our so-called Republican speaker do after only seven minutes with those conditions? | ||
| The Democrats are here. | ||
| We've got a quorum. | ||
| We've got the maps. | ||
| What did he do? | ||
| He adjourned the whole body and released the Democrats. | ||
| And I'm not making this up so that they could go and huddle up and collude and scheme with Hakeem Jeffries just a few hours later, who had flown down from D.C. to meet with the Democrats to plan their exodus. | ||
| So here's the reality. | ||
| This is a failure of elected Republicans in the state of Texas. | ||
| If the state of Texas had bold Republicans, the type of bold Republicans that governed with the type of boldness you see out of President Trump's first and second administrations, this quorum break would never have happened. | ||
| So I predict on the floor today, you're going to see a lot of theatrics from the House leadership team. | ||
| There's going to be motions and resolutions to strip Democrats of their titles and take their parking spots away and maybe mess around with their seniority. | ||
| This is smoke and mirrors. | ||
| It's bad theater. | ||
| Don't let them get away with it. | ||
| Elected Republicans hold all the cards. | ||
| They held all the cards. | ||
| And this is another failure. | ||
| And the voters of Texas deserve better. | ||
| But quite frankly, the people, the Patriots across America, deserve better because the future of our country is on the line. | ||
| The Democrats in Texas are acting like it. | ||
| They always act like it. | ||
| It's pastime elected Republicans in Texas start acting like they know what time it is in America. | ||
| With all these theatrics today, those guys are in Illinois. | ||
| You know, nobody knows who's paying for them. | ||
| Pritzker's basing his presidential run on this. | ||
| The left has finally now woken up to the fact that the Big 12, when I say the Big 12, I mean five in Texas, five in Florida, one in Missouri, one in Indiana, and maybe more to come, will change the basic map of the United States and make the House impervious to takeover by these radical Democrats. | ||
| What do you recommend today? | ||
| 3 o'clock. | ||
| The governor's already laid out, and Paxton, I think, has said they're going to strip him. | ||
| With all the theatrics and kabuki theater, what's the reality of actually forcing some of these guys? | ||
| I think you need 12 of them back and probably a couple in the Senate, too. | ||
| What can we do? | ||
| And what can the Warren Posse do who's been, you know, folks are got, we're fixed bayonets right now, and we know people respond mainly at the tip of a bayonet to push them along. | ||
| What do you recommend? | ||
| Well, just don't let the pressure up. | ||
| I mean, we got the map out of committee, which is quite frankly further than I thought we might have done. | ||
| And as you and I have discussed on the air, I credit the War Room posse and Patriots across the country for forcing action. | ||
| But the elected Republican leadership in the state of Texas, they need to be told, we're not going to stop watching you. | ||
| And here's the reality. | ||
| See, we are very, very far behind the hate ball. | ||
| The play on this, the way to get this done was to have done it by now, was to stop them from leaving because the speaker and the governor had all the power they needed to stop them from leaving. | ||
| But the fact that they're already gone, here's the reality. | ||
| We've got only two weeks left in the special session. | ||
| It might necessitate multiple special sessions. | ||
| But yeah, every tool, every legal mechanism needs to be on the table to get them arrested and to bring them back here. | ||
| You know, if the vacate idea coming out of the governor's office, this is more than we've seen from him in previous quorum breaks because the reality is we have a long, we have precedent in the state of Texas for Democrats being able to do whatever they want. | ||
| And here's one thing we haven't talked about. | ||
| These Democrats that fled, these radical leftist extremist Marxist Democrats, these are the people that elected the Republican leadership of the Texas House. | ||
| So the Republican leadership has lost control. | ||
| If we had bold, effective Republican leadership down here, this never would have happened. | ||
| And the governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Speaker, they need to know right now in no uncertain terms. | ||
| The eyes of America are on you. | ||
| We should have done this before now. | ||
| We should have done it in regular session. | ||
| We should have done it in the first half of the special session. | ||
| They never should have been allowed to leave. | ||
| This is on you to solve this problem, to get redistricting done so we can save our country. | ||
| Brian, can you hang on? | ||
| I'm going to bring Alex deGrasse on, who's the strategist who really was the driving force and the architect behind the last redistricting. | ||
| Alex deGrasse is going to join us. | ||
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| So much going on. | ||
| There's a Federal Reserve governorship seat available. | ||
| Of course, we think the great Judy Shelton, an audience favorite, should take that seat. | ||
| We've deconstructed. | ||
| We're in the process of deconstructing the administrative state. | ||
| Let's now deconstruct the Federal Reserve before we shut it down. | ||
| That's what Judy Olmina's Federal Reserve Governor. | ||
| E.J. Antonio as the new head of Bureau Label Statistics. | ||
| That's what we're pushing. | ||
| He's the guy that almost single-handedly took it down by going through their numbers. | ||
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| Short commercial break. | ||
| Brian Harrison, Alex deGrasse on the other side. | ||
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Hey. | |
| eyes up here Bye. | ||
| 921. | ||
| Oh, my God, girl. | ||
| You're thirsty. | ||
| That was really good. | ||
| You're going dog nuts. | ||
| I'm ready, girl. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Sidney Sweeney has great splits. | ||
| Okay, thank you. | ||
| I hit the mic. | ||
| Time to come in. | ||
| Right there. | ||
| Pretty impressive shooting, right? | ||
| Alex deGrasse joins us. | ||
| Brian Harrison sticking around. | ||
| Alex, as you know, you were out for a little while. | ||
| When you left, the thing in Texas was a nothing burger. | ||
| Now it's the biggest political story in the world. | ||
| Once again, hat tip to the warren posse. | ||
| You guys went to the ramparts, started lighting people up. | ||
| Brian Harrison every day was just giving tremendous guidance on this. | ||
| How important is this? | ||
| You were the architect kind of of the last time we went through this exercise when you started warning people early on about Tennessee and Missouri and particularly Florida that, hey, this was very important and wasn't getting done. | ||
| If we had not done that in 2022, I don't know, man. | ||
| I don't know where the thing would have turned out. | ||
| How important is these redistrictings because of the massive demographic shifts in the country? | ||
| Well, how important are these redistricting now throughout the nation? | ||
| Well, thanks, Steve. | ||
| And Brian is great, by the way. | ||
| I've known him for years and appreciate everything he's doing. | ||
| And he's got a lot of fans across the country. | ||
| And I think this could be the whole ballgame, Steve. | ||
| I mean, the last couple elections for the House have been, you decided, with very few margins and very few changes in the number of seats. | ||
| And so, you know, while we did great last time and ultimately the efforts that we and the posse took the lead on to deliver what we were able to deliver last cycle is obviously what has held the house majority for us no doubt but i will say many people thought hey we can go further we've got to go further and i think the reality is democrats you know they're flying to illinois which is the most gerrymandered state in the entire country so i'm not really sure from a pr or an optics point of view um you know they're going to | ||
| get out of that. | ||
| Obviously, they tried the gerrymander, New York and in California. | ||
| They would if they could. | ||
| And now they're going to try, of course. | ||
| But because they have put in all these sort of fake commissions and different things like that, that they use as sort of props to try to say they don't gerrymander, they're a little bit delayed on if they'll be able to respond, which is why, you know, the high up people in the party see an opportunity to try to jam 12 seats, obviously move our margin up to about 15 seats and provide a buffer all legally for what will be a tough midterm. | ||
| I mean, just historically now, I think we feel great on the issues we've spoken about on the show about, you know, how many seats that Trump won that are held by Democrats. | ||
| But regardless, we can't get anything for chance because the House majority is the entire ballgame. | ||
| And everyone understands that from President Trump's political team. | ||
| I think the posse understands that operatives everywhere that that that this cycle is the game. | ||
| And that's the game that the posse has been playing for years. | ||
| We've been talking about the House majority. | ||
| I mean, no one talks more about the House majority than than your show, Steve. | ||
| And so I think it's really important. | ||
| I think Texas is huge, Indiana, Missouri, obviously, Florida, the five there. | ||
| So 12 would be great, because I don't know that they'll be able to move the numbers in California, New York this cycle. | ||
| They will next cycle. | ||
| But we got to get through this one and hold the line. | ||
| Let's talk about I want to go back. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| First off, the Democratic polling is pretty anemic, right? | ||
| I think they're up to and a generic poll. | ||
| And remember, let's take particularly 18. | ||
| And I think that's a close analogy. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi, it was all about impeaching Trump. | ||
| They they they walked precincts. | ||
| They did the hard work. | ||
| I remember having a meeting one time at the at the War Room, the Breitbart embassy. | ||
| It was in the middle of July of of 18. | ||
| And I had some people there and I said, hey, right now is it like, I don't know, 90 degrees in Iowa. | ||
| And I said, those people are walking districts right now, knocking on doors, canvassing because they are so infuriated with President Trump. | ||
| They will do anything to give Nancy Pelosi a majority. | ||
| And the first thing you know, the first opportunity to compete, oh, no, they'll never mention that. | ||
| I said, you wait. | ||
| And of course, we saw I think they won 40 seats. | ||
| You don't see you see a lot of anger. | ||
| But because our policies are working, you don't see a lot of traction. | ||
| They're they're they're polling is anemic. | ||
| Therefore, two things. | ||
| One, they must blunt this. | ||
| If they don't blunt this, they're out of luck. | ||
| So they They must stop Texas. | ||
| They must stop Florida. | ||
| Obviously, Indiana, Missouri, what I call the Big 12. | ||
| In addition, in California, Illinois, and New York, they're a little jammed up. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I think Illinois is already 14 to 3. | ||
| It's the most germany. | ||
| In fact, when Pritzker has given his big speech last night, which is really his launch of his presidential campaign, some reporter who's – I don't think a conservative reporter goes, hey, how can you have these guys here? | ||
| You're the most gerrymandered state in the union. | ||
| He didn't even know how to answer it, right? | ||
| He just kind of flustered. | ||
| I take it the structural impediments to California, New York, and Illinois make it fairly remote. | ||
| They could get it done, although Gavin Newsom has talked about making a special election in November. | ||
| It would be pretty remote that they could do anything to do major redistrictings in those three states, sir? | ||
| Yeah, so New York is talking about 2028, and I think Kathy Hochul is hosting some of these Texas Democrats right now. | ||
| They're actually live right now. | ||
| I would ask if the control room later or camera – if they put up the map for the posse to see of the Illinois – I mean, any voter looking at that says, this is the craziest thing. | ||
| I mean, you've got a line, a seat all across the entire state. | ||
| It makes absolutely no sense at all. | ||
| It's totally gerrymandered. | ||
| So they're pretty much maxed out there because they did that. | ||
| And then with California, similar, they have to change the state constitution. | ||
| Newsom talking about some type of special election or referendum. | ||
| But I think he's got about 95 days, 100 days, you know, until November. | ||
| So it's sort of confusing how he gets that done. | ||
| But all these guys kind of one-up each other, Pritzker, Newsom. | ||
| I mean, it's kind of interesting. | ||
| And obviously, like you said earlier, the numbers are in the gutter. | ||
| The Democrat brand is a disaster. | ||
| I think operationally, they're sort of shattered. | ||
| You look at the cash-on-hand advantages that Republicans have when you include President Trump's committees. | ||
| NRCC, RNC, I mean, their fundraising is in the gutter. | ||
| You've got these scam packs on the Democrat side that are grifting, taking hundreds of millions of dollars. | ||
| There's a couple of reports out about that, which is kind of interesting, using ActBlue. | ||
| And only like 2% of the money actually goes into the fight. | ||
| it's very interesting they've got major major kind of structural problems on their side and so you know i feel optimistic about where we are as a party but you can't leave anything to chance you got to scoop what we can legally and get that firewall because again we could be talking about one or two seat majority again right and we just need one what would be jeffries they're gonna look they've blown the opportunity to do this the easy way so now they got to do it the hard way what is your recommendation to Because there's been some hesitancy, | ||
| as there always is in the establishment, to want to get down and dirty on these fights. | ||
| What is your recommendation to the leadership in Texas as these guys, as it reconvenes at three o'clock and the Democrats are in Illinois? | ||
| And I don't know why they would go to a Yankee state, but hey, I guess the Democrats know better than folks down at Texas. | ||
| What's your recommendation to Governor Abbott, to the Attorney General Paxson, Lefton Governor Patrick, and leadership in the House and Senate down there? | ||
| What's your recommendation? | ||
| So I would say that we either have two years to govern the country or we have four. | ||
| And this is the once-in-a-lifetime, you know, transformational period for the country. | ||
| Look at what President Trump has done in six months. | ||
| We need to do everything we can legally, nothing illegally, legally to ensure that we hold the House majority because that's it. | ||
| Because when we lose it, it's done. | ||
| Everything ends, Steve. | ||
| Impeachment, investigations, no more bills, no more cuts, no more anything. | ||
| So we either get two years or we get four, and we'll deal with everything in 2028 and we'll reset and get a handle on that. | ||
| But we have to be thinking 2026, midterm, margins in the House, and how we're going to be able to continue to pass bills. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's all that matters. | ||
| So we have to go shoulder to the whatever we can do, whatever the envelope legally we're able to push could be make or break for the entire country. | ||
| This isn't just about Texas, obviously, or anything else. | ||
| This is about will we be able to, you know, ensure the golden age and enact the mandate of the American people over the next four years. | ||
| Because if we lose it in the House, it's it. | ||
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I mean, there's no more anything, of course, Steve. | |
| Alex deGrasse, you're back in the saddle. | ||
| Where do people go for your content, sir? | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| And thank you, Brian Harrison. | ||
| So I'm at the Grass81 on Axe Getter Truth. | ||
| Thank you guys. | ||
| We'll be in touch more about everything going on. | ||
| And I think this is really important that people call, provide positive reinforcement, I think, to folks that we're really counting on them. | ||
| And this is a nationwide thing. | ||
| It's not just Texas. | ||
| So thank you guys. | ||
| Thank you, Alex. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Brian Harrison, make us smart. | ||
| What we should be looking for today, and what do you need the Warren Posse to do on this Monday for August, Year of Our Lord 2025, to make sure this thing happens? | ||
| What we should be looking for today, again, we're so far behind the A-ball. | ||
| I mean, this isn't like we fumble, you know, the elected Republicans in Texas fumbled the football. | ||
| It's like the elected Republicans in Texas handed the ball to the other team and said, go run, and then we're going to pretend to catch you. | ||
| I mean, that's how bad this is. | ||
| So what we need right now are not tough words. | ||
| We don't need strongly written House resolutions. | ||
| We need action. | ||
| The Democrats have to know that something is different this time, unlike every other time they've done exactly the same thing and faced no consequences. | ||
| Because again, the Republican, nominally Republican Speaker of the Texas House, he owes all of these Democrats. | ||
| They're his power center because it's the Democrat caucus that elected him in the first place. | ||
| And that's why the elected Republicans in Texas need to know that they've already dropped the ball in the worst possible way. | ||
| And these Democrats, if you watched their press conference last night, these guys are acting like nothing that's coming out of the governor's mansion or the House leadership Twitter feed is surprising to them. | ||
| They're acting like they expected all of this. | ||
| And there's a good reason for it. | ||
| They've never been punished before when they have, you know, left their post and fled this state to try and stop us. | ||
| And last time they fled the state, it was something it was over something far less consequential. | ||
| It was an election integrity, one single election integrity bill down here. | ||
| They know that the future, as your last guest, you know, Alex, and you just got done talking about the future of the United States Congress hangs in the balance. | ||
| If we're talking about a one or two seat margin, this five seats could absolutely swing that. | ||
| So we need bold action, not what we usually see down here from the liberal Austin Unit Party, which is bold sounding words and strongly worded tweets and very firmly written press statements. | ||
| We need action. | ||
| They need to be arrested if they need to be brought back. | ||
| Brian, real quickly, your social media, your Twitter, people need to go to it. | ||
| Where is it? | ||
| At BrianE. | ||
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| I've heard surely this isn't true, but I've heard that one of the candidates running from us office wants to be different. | ||
| Now, I'm wondering how you'd want to be different from the longest serving Senate leader in American history. | ||
| I'm wondering how you'd want to be different in supporting President Trump. | ||
| Let me just tell you a little quiz. | ||
| Which of Kentucky's two Republican senators supports President Trump, the mothers? | ||
| It's actually made. | ||
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I am so glad to see that Mitch Mikado bothered to show up today. | |
| But you know, I'm really confused. | ||
| I thought this was Fancy Farm. | ||
| I didn't realize this was Bring Your Boys to Work Day. | ||
| Who here can honestly tell me that it's a good thing to have a senior citizen who freezes on national television during his press conferences as our U.S. Senator? | ||
| It seems to me, maybe, just maybe, Mitch's time to leave the Senate was a long time ago. | ||
| I mean, for goodness sakes, a lot of us here at this picnic talked a lot of smack about Joe Biden and how old he was and how out of touch he was with the American people. | ||
| So why is it that you all get so defensive when I talk about a man who's older than Biden, just as mentally compromised, and holds the same positions on Biden, on amnesty, Ukraine funding, and his hatred for Trump? | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Okay, let's talk reality. | ||
| There's a big article over the weekend. | ||
| I think it was in Summer Four. | ||
| I'll make sure I get up. | ||
| I haven't posted yet about how John Thune is running the apparatus of McConnell. | ||
| He's just McConnell's boy and just running the apparatus. | ||
| Let me be brutally frank. | ||
| We're not having recess appointments because of John Thune and Polly Pockets, Speaker Johnson. | ||
| Speaker Johnson obviously lied to the president over the weekend about the mechanics and the Constitution and all of it. | ||
| And here's the reason. | ||
| They don't want Thune and the McConnell apparatus do not want President Trump's folks in office. | ||
| Every day now, and you just heard Alex deGrasse right there. | ||
| You either get Two years of the golden age or you get four years. | ||
| If we lose the house, it's full stop. | ||
| Yeah, President Trump can still do some of the executive orders. | ||
| Obviously, the executive branch, particularly the Article II powers, are very powerful, but you're going to have investigations. | ||
| You're going to have impeachments. | ||
| You're going to have all of it. | ||
| This is why we have made it, as we did in 22, right? | ||
| The thing that has to be focused on in the summer of the summer of 2025. | ||
| And you've made history. | ||
| This story now in Texas is the biggest political story in the world. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Two weeks ago was dead. | ||
| Why? | ||
| The establishment doesn't want the redistricting. | ||
| You know this. | ||
| In the Senate, the same way. | ||
| Every day is like a month. | ||
| A month is like a year. | ||
| And right now, because we didn't really go into recess, and John Thune lied to the president and Polly Pockets Johnson lied to the president. | ||
| We don't have this. | ||
| And so you're not going to have it in September because September is another whole fight we're going to start tomorrow, folks. | ||
| They're working on right now John Thune with the McConnell apparatus. | ||
| Guess who he's working on? | ||
| A 9,000-page omnibus. | ||
| Now, they're going to say, what's a mini-bus omnibus? | ||
| And they want a CR for the whole year with a $2 trillion deficit in it. | ||
| The games don't stop. | ||
| And Mitch McConnell has the stones to sit there and say, who's the reason the country is in bad a shape as it is in is because Mitch McConnell and the globalists and the neoliberal neocons of Mitch McConnell, who made himself wealthy. | ||
| He came in, he had like 50 bucks in the bank, who made himself wealthy, Cowtown to the donors, Caltown to Wall Street and the corporatist, went along for the ride with the Radical Democrats. | ||
| They never fought him. | ||
| And no, I was there. | ||
| He does not support President Trump. | ||
| He hates President Trump and does everything he can do behind the scenes to make Storeen Thornton. | ||
| The reason we have pro forma right now recess, which is an embarrassment. | ||
| When you're out of power, I fully agree that the party out of power, like the Republicans did it with Obama, 100% agree. | ||
| You have to do it. | ||
| If a Democrats had the Senate and doing it, no problem. | ||
| That's part of the structural techniques that we have, some of these customs and traditions. | ||
| When the party in power, this is the Senate with the McConnell operation with Dune as the pretty boy up front, I call him the spokes model. | ||
| He's the spokes model, are showing they don't trust President Trump and they don't trust his nominees. | ||
| This situation with the recess is a humiliation. | ||
| They have lied to the president consistently. | ||
| This was so easy to do. | ||
| And you know what we have in the month of August? | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| And in September, you're not going to get one person passed. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because you're going to be in a firestorm about funding the government by midnight on the 30th of September. | ||
| They'll get to it in October. | ||
| And in October, I think in the first week of October, there's another recess, and they have to, at that time, do recess appointments because they're talking about on the margin. | ||
| We're going to go to the nuclear option, which is, you know, take a couple hours off here. | ||
| That John Thune lied to the president of the United States. | ||
| And if John Thune's got anything to say about it, call me. | ||
| You're a liar. | ||
| You lied to the president to his face. | ||
| Poly Pockets hid out in Israel, right? | ||
| Hid out in Israel and then lied to the president of the United States about the constitutionality of this. | ||
| Mike Lee was 100% correct the entire time. | ||
| What are we sitting here now? | ||
| Pro forma, the humiliation of pro-forma recess because they don't trust the president of the United States appointments. | ||
| Full stop. | ||
| Nate Morris joins us now. | ||
| Nate, I don't know to sit there and have McConnell bald face lie. | ||
| He's not a supporter of the president. | ||
| It's an open secret in Washington, D.C. And he sits there and the folks in Kentucky, no offense, that are applauding Mitch McConnell, you should be ashamed of yourself. | ||
| Mitch McConnell has brought shame on you. | ||
| I think his national polling is at 9%. | ||
| The Commonwealth of Kentucky has been humiliated by Mitch McConnell's acts. | ||
| The country's in the shape it's in, and President Trump's got to turn it around because Mitch McConnell, the longest serving leader in the thing, you had every opportunity to fight and he didn't. | ||
| He rolled over and he made a fortune, made a fortune. | ||
| One, with his connections with the Chinese Communist Party, and number two, all the backroom deals he did for himself to make himself wealthy for a guy that had 50 bucks, a country lawyer that had 50 bucks in his account when he came to office. | ||
| Nate, how are we going to take the trash out with this guy? | ||
| Because he is trash. | ||
| Steve, this is what this whole campaign for the U.S. Senate, you may remember, we launched about a month ago, and we are running in Kentucky to replace Mitch McConnell as an outsider, as someone who's not part of the political establishment. | ||
| Steve, you know, I'm a businessman. | ||
| I'm an entrepreneur. | ||
| I've done very, very well in the private sector. | ||
| I don't need a job like this. | ||
| But I felt like I had to get in this race, Steve, because I see the two guys that were in it, and they were nothing but puppets for Mitch McConnell. | ||
| This is Andy Barr and Daniel Cameron. | ||
| And I wanted to showcase that we can have another choice. | ||
| And Kentucky's long overdue, as President Trump says, to rid Kentucky of the stench of Mitch. | ||
| And that's what this campaign has been all about. | ||
| And over the weekend at Fancy Farm, Steve, you wouldn't believe it. | ||
| Mitch McConnell, as soon as he gets to the stage, what does he do? | ||
| He attacks us. | ||
| And his attack was, who doesn't want to be like me? | ||
| Who doesn't want to be like me? | ||
| That's his attack. | ||
| And I look at that in two things. | ||
| I look at that, number one, Mitch, I don't want to be like you. | ||
| I don't want to be the longest serving anything. | ||
| And that's the fundamental problem. | ||
| You're bragging about being the longest serving leader in history. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| And that's why Kentuckians are so angry. | ||
| That's why America's angry. | ||
| And that's why people hate politicians in this country is because of that kind of thinking. | ||
| And then I look at the arrogance, the arrogance of Mitch McConnell to say, how dare you? | ||
| You don't want to be like me. | ||
| Look how great I am as Mitch McConnell. | ||
| And that's the hubris and arrogance that's gotten our country into so much trouble, Steve. | ||
| These career politicians, as you know, have driven our country off a cliff. | ||
| And I had the opportunity to make a couple speeches over the weekend. | ||
| And my two opponents, Andy Barr and Daniel Cameron, the first thing they do after I quit speaking is they go to the press and cry like babies and defending Mitch McConnell. | ||
| They defend him. | ||
| Oh, Nate's speech is so dark. | ||
| Nate's speech is so tough. | ||
| You know, Steve, sometimes the truth hurts. | ||
| The truth hurts. | ||
| And we've been truthful in this campaign. | ||
| And it's uncomfortable for a lot of the establishment, the people that were clapping in that room, because that was an establishment crowd. | ||
| Look, Steve, I was behind enemy lines at that speech, and I was willing to go there and have that conversation for the people of Kentucky because this is their seat. | ||
| It's not Mitch's seat. | ||
| This belongs to the people. | ||
| And these two weak men, these are two very, very weak men, Andy Barr and Daniel Cameron, they just continue to cry to the press and complain. | ||
| And not one of them, not one of them is willing to call out Mitch McConnell's record because they're owned by Mitch. | ||
| They owe everything to Mitch McConnell. | ||
| And Steve, you wouldn't believe it. | ||
| Over and over again at Every event during Fancy Farm leading up to Fancy Farm, the establishment was giving standing ovation after standing ovation. | ||
| They give this guy awards and just all this kudos. | ||
| You know, it's just this echo chamber of establishment people talking to each other. | ||
| And what do my opponents do? | ||
| They keep standing up over and over again for these standing ovations. | ||
| And Steve, I'm proud. | ||
| I was the only person, I believe, that was sitting down the entire time and saying, I'm not standing up for this. | ||
| This is exactly the reason I'm running in Kentucky is because this is about the people of Kentucky, that they need a leader that represents them and is not willing just to continue on. | ||
| Like we've had the last 40 years of building the establishment centered around the cult of Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. | ||
| And that's what's gotten this state and this country in so much trouble. | ||
| And you know that, Steve. | ||
| In the heat of battle over the weekend, he departed to go to Kentucky because he was afraid of you and your presentation at Fancy Farm. | ||
| Now, he said he was eligible to come back, but it's one of the reasons that his boy, his spokesmodel, because he's running the McConnell apparatus, his spokesmodel John Thune, said and did everything he possibly could to stumble around and eventually put up false deals and lied to the president of the United States about going into a true recess, not pro former recess, and getting recess appointments. | ||
| And Polly Pockets from Israel called in too and lied to the president. | ||
| They're consistent liars. | ||
| McConnell is a disgrace. | ||
| Don't take it from me. | ||
| Take it from his polling. | ||
| Lowest polling of any elected official in the country, a Republican official in the country. | ||
| Just a disgrace. | ||
| The country can't stand this guy. | ||
| They hate him for a reason. | ||
| The country's in as bad a shape because he had every opportunity to stand and fight. | ||
| And all he did was make money for himself, money for the donors, kowtow to the donor class and the globalists. | ||
| Nate, people want to know where they go to find all this footage from the weekend, where they go to find out more about your campaign. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| As you know, I need your help. | ||
| We are up against the McConnell machine here in Kentucky and nationally. | ||
| Please go to natemorris.com. | ||
| Become part of this campaign. | ||
| Donate to this campaign. | ||
| Come and follow us on X at Nate Morris. | ||
| We need your support. | ||
| We need your help. | ||
| We are going to do this. | ||
| We are going to take out the trash finally in Kentucky and in Washington, D.C. And I don't want to be anything like Mitch McConnell. | ||
| This is the guy who supported Amnesty, who sabotaged President Trump every chance he gets, who put lawfare on President Trump, and who blamed him for January 6th. | ||
| We cannot have a person that he picks to go to the United States Senate to fill the seat. | ||
| So I thank you very much, Steve, for letting me be on today. | ||
| Nate, great, great job in going into the lion's den at Fancy Farms. | ||
| Fantastic, great speeches. | ||
| You're a fire breather and a man of courage, encourageous, courageous, contagious. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| This was a tough one in Kentucky. | ||
| And this weekend, you saw the McConnell machine in all of its glory in Washington, D.C. It is a disgrace that we're not in real recess right now, not this pro forma recess. | ||
| And the President Trump's 100, I think, and 60, 160 nominees are left in hangfire until October. | ||
| Short break back in the moment. | ||
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| Let's take down the CCP. | ||
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| One of the engine room sends me something that's quite smart. | ||
| They say they actually do trust Trump. | ||
| They trust him to drain the swamp. | ||
| That's why they don't always appointees in. | ||
| I think it's a very smart way to say it. | ||
| This was a fiasco over the weekend on this recess appointments. | ||
| 100% of the blame goes to leadership in the Senate and the House. | ||
| This morning, we should be starting a real recess, and President Trump should have done a recess appointments as the Constitution allows for his 160. | ||
| You can't do judges. | ||
| You can do U.S. attorneys, I believe, to get around the blue slip problem, at least on an interim basis, and put the rest of the second and third tier folks you have to have in to run the government. | ||
| Days are like months, months or weeks are like years, right? | ||
| This is incredible. | ||
| President Trump is now going to be October, and they're all saying, oh, yeah, we'll handle this as soon as we get back. | ||
| No, you won't. | ||
| There's only 10 legislative days in September, I think, 10 or 12. | ||
| It's all going to be consumed about a firefight we're going to have, folks. | ||
| I've told you this. | ||
| They are behind the scenes trying to come up with an omnibus. | ||
| And this one, we're going to have to go to the wall because it just, it's going to be too much. | ||
| It's going to be too much. | ||
| Everybody kind of sucked it in for the CR, which we never should have done because Polly Pockets couldn't get his act together. | ||
| We had horrible Biden Pelosi for all this fiscal year. | ||
| That's all their numbers. | ||
| That's why you're going to have a $2 trillion deficit, even with the great numbers coming in from the tariffs, President Trump's tariffs. | ||
| And what they want to do is another massive spending bill with no pocket rescuions, no rescissions, no impoundments. | ||
| They don't want any of that. | ||
| They want to just continue the orgy of spending. | ||
| And so all of September is going to be that. | ||
| And then they'll get to, and here's the solution. | ||
| Oh, we're going to go to a nuclear option. | ||
| It's carving a few moments of time off of this. | ||
| No. | ||
| If you had done the plan that we recommended in the next 48 hours, 72 hours, all of President Trump's appointments would have gone through and people would have gone to work by like Wednesday. | ||
| That's two months. | ||
| Two months are like years here. | ||
| They understand that and that's why they don't want them. | ||
| They can give you every excuse. | ||
| Call your senator and say, why are you not on a real recess? | ||
| Bombard Thun's office and say, why did you lie to the president? | ||
| Why did you not do Mike Lee's deal? | ||
| Why are we in a pro forma recess? | ||
| It is unheard of, except for McConnell's time in the first term. | ||
| This is why McConnell hated Trump. | ||
| He would never go on a real recess. | ||
| Why? | ||
| They didn't trust President Trump and his appointments. | ||
| This is obvious. | ||
| And this is why the folks in Kentucky, you got to understand reality. | ||
| McConnell hates Trump. | ||
| McConnell hates MAGA, and we hate him back. | ||
| He is a true scumbag. | ||
| And it's one of the reasons this town runs like it runs. | ||
| And has a country lawyer of no particular talent. | ||
| Look at Mitch McConnell, of no particular talent. | ||
| How does he, and by the way, the reason all the guys around him, all they love him, because he brought him all to power. | ||
| They've all made a fortune in not supporting the policies of the country. | ||
| They don't support MAGA. | ||
| They're not America first. | ||
| They're not nationalist. | ||
| They're globalists. | ||
| Look at the Ukraine. | ||
| Why has he been retired as Senate leader? | ||
| Remember this audience in the fight to get him removed on the Ukraine bill years ago. | ||
| When this audience stayed up all night and heard the speeches on the Senate floor of everybody opposed it, Mitch McConnell is still trying to jam it through and he lost. | ||
| He realized the game was over. | ||
| Right now, we're getting victory after victory, and the victories are coming because you're putting your shoulder to the wheel. | ||
| Once again, once again, you're human agency. | ||
| This Texas thing would have never happened. | ||
| The establishment in Austin and the Republican establishment in this great state of Texas is worse than the establishment in Washington, D.C. Worse. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because Texas is the railhead of the MAGA movement. | ||
| Trump won my 14 points after Vesaurus for years with Breitbart. | ||
| Remember, Andrew, all of us. | ||
| We set up Breitbart, Texas, the great Brandon Darby. | ||
| All of it. | ||
| Why? | ||
| To reveal to the nation this thing called immigration and open borders. | ||
| And the Republican established down there fought you every step of the way. | ||
| Like they thought they wanted this thing to go to bed on the redistricting. | ||
| Why? | ||
| They don't want Trump to have a five or 10 seat cushion. | ||
| It's uncomfortable for them. | ||
| MSMEC says bad things about them. | ||
| They don't like that. | ||
| They can't go to the club, right? | ||
| They can't go make money because they're making money with a bunch of progressive Democrats and folks from overseas. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Got to speak truth to power here. | ||
| But you've changed it. | ||
| You've forced them. | ||
| And that's why we're going to force them today to take action. | ||
| Not no strongly lettered, strongly worded letters or anything like that. | ||
| Take action. | ||
| Go arrest these Democrats. | ||
| Put them in jail or take their seats away. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| Put them in jail or take their seats away. | ||
| I'm indifferent. | ||
| But let's get it passed today and show people if you're going to play games like that. | ||
| There's consequences for playing games, just like there should be consequences for Polly Pockets. | ||
| You know, Polly Pockets all cafed. | ||
| You know why he did, oh, if we call the House back, they'll vacate the chair. | ||
| You didn't have to call the House back. | ||
| That was a bald-faced lie. | ||
| You should read the Constitution or talk to somebody about the Constitution. | ||
| It is a crime for President Trump and the Trump movement right now and saving this country. | ||
| We are not on a recess. | ||
| And his 160 appointees that are left in hangfire and these people's career, they can't do anything. | ||
| They're just sitting there in hangfire. | ||
| They should be in office tomorrow and Wednesday and at work. | ||
| But no, no, no, no, no, no. | ||
| Can't do that. | ||
| Can't do that. | ||
| Got to do it. | ||
| Think of the absurdity. | ||
| This is absurd. | ||
| We're in a pro forma. | ||
| This is absurd. | ||
| This is absurd and it's offensive. | ||
| And if they think they're going to do the smoke in Mirazon, nobody will pay attention. | ||
| Hey, the warriors pay attention, the warrant posse is paying attention. | ||
| Thune, you're nothing but a spokesman for the broken and corrupt and incompetent McConnell machine. | ||
| And this is why the Senate's dysfunctional. | ||
| This is why the Senate's dysfunctional. | ||
| And no, the big, beautiful bill, Senate bill doesn't show me anything more than your incompetence because there's so much in there that's worse than the House bill. | ||
| And we had to do it because we had to get it through to get those tax cuts, the supply-side tax cuts. | ||
| Disgrace. | ||
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