Aug. 5, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| See it as bad as it is because I think it's a horrible thing. | ||
| Yeah, behind you, please. | ||
| Mr. President, this is the first thing. | ||
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unidentified
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Can you speak to just how this drop-off in foreign-born workers is going to benefit Americans? | |
| And will it force American companies to pay fairer wages to American workers? | ||
| Well, we want to take care of our American workers and first and foremost, and that's what we're doing. | ||
| We also want to help our farmers because our farmers are producing like never before. | ||
| We have to help them. | ||
| And we're working out some very complicated strategies and language. | ||
| But the main thing that I think I was elected to do is to get the illegals out of our country who are especially in particular criminals. | ||
| 11,888 murderers were allowed into our country with Biden's open border policy with our borders are who never spoke to the Border Patrol, never went to the border one time. | ||
| That's Kamala. | ||
| And think of it. | ||
| We have murderers. | ||
| We have people coming in from all countries all over the world, from prisons, from prisons in the Congo and Africa, from prisons all over South America, all over rough parts of Europe, all over Asia. | ||
| They're pouring into our country, not anymore. | ||
| So we just announced we had our third consecutive month where we rated zero people. | ||
| And these are, frankly, very liberal people that make up these charts. | ||
| So I don't know what's wrong with them. | ||
| They seem to not be doing their job for the Democrats. | ||
| But I'm honored by the fact that they say it. | ||
| We're very tough on the border. | ||
| And people can come into our country, but they have to come in legally. | ||
| So I think that we've done an amazing job, actually. | ||
| But we have to get the criminals out of our country, murderers, drug dealers, gang members. | ||
| They emptied prisons into our country. | ||
| It's one of the reasons I think even beyond the economy, it's one of the reasons I got elected. | ||
| It's really maybe the number one. | ||
| It was between the economy and that. | ||
| But, you know, as I said before, our nation is doing really well, but we have to get these really bad people. | ||
| They should have never been allowed in our country. | ||
| Open border policy is for fools. | ||
| We're the only country in the world with an open borders policy, but we don't have that anymore. | ||
| We had zero now for three months in a row, Peter. | ||
| Thank you very much, President Trump. | ||
| Nice to see you got off the roof, all right? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| You said this morning that you probably won't be running for a third term. | ||
| This weekend, Secretary of State Rubio said that he thought J.D. Vance would be a great nominee. | ||
| You could clear the entire Republican field right now. | ||
| Do you agree that the heir apparent to MAGA is J.D. Vance? | ||
| Well, I think most likely, in all fairness, he's the vice president. | ||
| I think Marco is also somebody that maybe would get together with J.D. in some form. | ||
| I also think we have incredible people, some of the people on the stage right here. | ||
| So it's too early, obviously, to talk about it, but certainly he's doing a great job, and he would be probably favored at this point. | ||
| And on Texas. | ||
| If Texas redrawing their congressional map would get you five safe red seats means that California, New York, Illinois, and Maryland are all going to redraw their maps to add safety. | ||
| Well, they'll do it anyway. | ||
| Is it worth it? | ||
| Yeah, they'll do it anyway. | ||
| Why, if we stop over there, they would have done it anyway. | ||
| Look, a lot of these states, and I watched this morning as Democrats are complaining, and they're complaining from states where they've done it, like in Illinois, like in Massachusetts. | ||
| I watched this lunatic, Pocahontas. | ||
| She's a total lunatic. | ||
| I don't know what she's on. | ||
| She's all jumping up and down like I've never seen anything like it, talking about supporting the communist mayor. | ||
| And he's not a socialist. | ||
| He's a communist. | ||
| Okay, this is not a socialist man. | ||
| This is a communist. | ||
| If you look at any of his policies and go back six months, you don't have to go back further than that. | ||
| So they want to put a communist in New York. | ||
| Now, the good news is we have a lot of power over that because we're the ones with the money. | ||
| We send the money. | ||
| We don't send the money. | ||
| It's up to the White House, a lot of power in the White House. | ||
| But when I watched her jumping up and down talking about that and supporting the communists, but if you look at what's going on with the redistricting or whatever you want to call it, the Democrats have done it long before we started. | ||
| They've done it all over the place. | ||
| They did it in New York. | ||
| They did it in a lot of different states. | ||
| But in Massachusetts, so somebody used this as an example today. | ||
| I was interviewed this morning and they said, you know, it's pretty unfair. | ||
| Trump got 40%. | ||
| I'm not proud of that, but I think I probably got more, but that's okay. | ||
| I got 40% in Massachusetts, and yet they have 100% of the vote in terms of Congress. | ||
| So there's no Republican. | ||
| There's no anything. | ||
| So we should have 40%. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| They redistricted. | ||
| And they've done it all over the place. | ||
| And they've done it in California, by the way. | ||
| Before this, they've done it in California. | ||
| So we'll see what happens. | ||
| We have a wonderful governor in Texas. | ||
| He feels strongly about it. | ||
| It's going to be up to him. | ||
| I think there's tremendous support for it. | ||
| And, you know, we've watched the Democrats destroy our country in four years. | ||
| They've destroyed between their open borders that we talked about, transgender for everybody, all of the horrible things that they've done, high taxes, horrible medical provision for people. | ||
| We've watched them destroy our country for four years, and people don't want that. | ||
| And people in Texas, as you saw, I got the highest vote in the history of Texas. | ||
| I love Texas. | ||
| Texas likes me, obviously. | ||
| But I got the highest vote, and that was checked out on the show. | ||
| Did you see that where they checked it out? | ||
| They said he actually did get the highest vote in the history of Texas, which disappointed them. | ||
| They were very disappointed to hear that. | ||
| But Texas is a place that's done very well with a free enterprise kind of an attitude, with the exact opposite of what's happening in New York with a communist mayor. | ||
| And they know what they're doing, and they're doing the right thing. | ||
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unidentified
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Yeah. | |
| Two questions for you. | ||
| Mr. President, thank you. | ||
| Texas Senator John Cornyn. | ||
| Texas Senator John Cornyn is asking for your help to force Democrats back to the state and hold them accountable. | ||
| Do you want the federal government and the FBI to help locate and arrest these Texas Democrats who have left the state? | ||
| Well, I think they've abandoned the state. | ||
| Nobody's seen anything like it, even though they've done it twice before. | ||
| And in a certain way, it almost looks like they've abandoned the state. | ||
| It looks very bad. | ||
| Yeah, go ahead, please. | ||
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unidentified
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FBI get involved. | |
| Should the FBI get involved? | ||
| Well, they may have to. | ||
| They may have to. | ||
| No, I know they want them back. | ||
| Not only the Attorney General, the governor wants them back. | ||
| If you look, I mean, the governor of Texas is demanding they come back. | ||
| So a lot of people are demanding they come back. | ||
| You can't just sit it out. | ||
| You have to go back. | ||
| You have to fight it out. | ||
| That's what elections are all about. | ||
| Yeah, please. | ||
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unidentified
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Thank you so much, President Trump. | |
| Two questions for you. | ||
| One, were you aware of, and did you personally approve the prison transfer for Ghelane Maxwell that your Justice Department? | ||
| I didn't know about it at all. | ||
| No, I read about it just like you did. | ||
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unidentified
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And do you believe that she is. | |
| It's not a very uncommon thing. | ||
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unidentified
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Do you believe that she's credible to be listening to? | |
| Your Deputy Attorney General sat down with her recently. | ||
| Well, he's, let me tell you, he's a very talented man. | ||
| His name is Todd Blanche. | ||
| He's a very legitimate person, very high, just a very highly thought of person, respected by everybody. | ||
| And I didn't talk to him about it, but I will tell you that whatever he asked would be totally appropriate, and it's not an uncommon thing to do that. | ||
| And I think he probably wants to make sure that people that should not be involved or aren't involved are not hurt by something that would be very, very unfortunate, very unfair to a lot of people. | ||
| But I will say this: Todd Blanch is one of the most highly respected people you'll ever meet. | ||
| So I know this. | ||
| I didn't discuss it with him, but anything he talked about with her or the fact that he did that, not unusual, number one. | ||
| And most importantly, is something that would be totally above board. | ||
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unidentified
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Please. | |
| Just all of us in the legal state. | ||
| Yeah, please go ahead. | ||
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unidentified
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Thanks, Mr. Wilson. | |
| Mr. President, how much more would you like Doge to cut from the federal government? | ||
| Well, it's not so much Doge anymore. | ||
| And by the way, I have to say that somebody from Doge was very badly hurt last night. | ||
| You saw that a young man who was beat up by a bunch of thugs in D.C. And either they're going to straighten their act out in terms of government and in terms of protection, or we're going to have to federalize and run it the way it's supposed to be run. | ||
| But it's not a question of Doge. | ||
| We have great people, secretaries and all, working with Doge and cutting with a, I said with a scalpel as opposed to an axe, cutting with a fine-tooth comb, and they're getting rid of people that aren't doing their job or bad people or bad things, bad policy, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| And I think we've been very successful in that. | ||
| And there's more cutting to do, but there's also more getting. | ||
| We want smart people in government. | ||
| Our country is doing great. | ||
| I think we are doing probably maybe in many ways better than we've ever done before. | ||
| You know, we're taking in trillions, not billions, trillions and trillions of dollars from other countries who for years took advantage of us. | ||
| They took advantage of the United States like we were children, and that's not happening anymore. | ||
| Now they're paying a lot of money and they're paying hundreds of billions of dollars. | ||
| Individual countries paying hundreds of billions of dollars. | ||
| You're seeing what everybody else is seeing. | ||
| And we have a lot of things we can do. | ||
| You know, one of the questions asked of me this morning is: are you going to make a dividend to the people? | ||
| And the purpose of what I'm doing is primarily to pay down debt, which will happen in very large quantity. | ||
| But I think there's also a possibility that we're taking in so much money that we may very well make a dividend to the people of America. | ||
| Thank you all very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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unidentified
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The National Weather Service, was that what was the last? | |
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| Okay, thank you. | ||
| Do I have my microphone? | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Stephen K. Bannon here at the war room. | ||
| I want to thank Eric Bowling, President of the United States. | ||
| I believe that is the new one of the new briefing rooms are setting up over in the EOB. | ||
| I really like it. | ||
| I like the camera angle. | ||
| I like the shot. | ||
| Particularly, I like the fact they've solved a problem that we've tried to solve for a while, and that is each reporter has a microphone so you can hear the full question to the president because they're always trying to trip him up. | ||
| We've got a cold up and we also have Ken Paxton and Brian Harrison about the situation in Texas as the redistricting. | ||
| We told you the redistricting was going to be a firestorm and it has engulfed the nation politically from California to Illinois to New York to up to Boston, also Florida. | ||
| And the railhead of that is in Texas, Ken Paxton. | ||
| People, he's been called to call out the FBI to request the FBI to round these guys up. | ||
| I think two of the actual Democrats, because I think you're seeing the dam break a little bit, but we've got to keep pressure on. | ||
| A couple of the Democrats showed up. | ||
| Brian Harrison will be here. | ||
| Julie Kelly is going to be here to talk about subpoenas issued today in the House, actually put the dates of when people are supposed to show up. | ||
| So much going on on the seditious conspiracy against the president of the United States, both in the House and in the courts. | ||
| And also the situation in Texas. | ||
| We've got so much more. | ||
| We've got capital markets, national security, all of it. | ||
| Alex Marlowe, the editor-in-chief of Breitbart, is going to be here to talk about weaponization of the system against President Trump. | ||
| Also, news today, it looks like two banks, I think it was J.P. Morgan and one of the other big banks, J.P. Morgan, actually debanked President Trump at the request of the Biden administration. | ||
| President Trump's going to get all over that. | ||
| You just saw President Trump signing an executive order about security for the Olympics. | ||
| Let's go ahead and play the coal open. | ||
| And as soon as that's finished, I'll try to bring in Ken Pax. | ||
| If we have Attorney General Paxton, a setup, you're in the war room. | ||
| Let's let it rip. | ||
| It's all Jerry Mary. | ||
| And we have an opportunity in Texas to pick up five seats. | ||
| We have a really good governor and we have good people in Texas. | ||
| And I won Texas and we are entitled to five more seats. | ||
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unidentified
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This Texas standoff over redrawing election maps is having a domino effect across the nation. | |
| A handful of Republican-held states are considering similar moves to secure a more workable House majority for President Trump. | ||
| Now, the 1965 Voting Rights Act signed by President Johnson prohibits redistricting if it will have a racially discriminatory impact. | ||
| That's exactly what could happen in Austin, home of the LBJ Presidential Library, memorializing the act signing. | ||
| Downtown Austin could be redrawn into a rural GOP-leaning area stretching nearly four hours east, jeopardizing the impact of black and Latino voters in the surrounding communities. | ||
| Here in my home city of Austin, they are trying to chop up certain parts of our city to be out in West Texas or out on the coast, an eight-hour drive. | ||
| These maps are just nuts. | ||
| But what is worst about it is that the way they are trying to give Trump more protection and more seats is by diluting the votes of working class communities and communities of color. | ||
| And in my home city of Austin, if Donald Trump is able to suppress Latino voters here in Austin, pretty soon he'll take that ploy across America. | ||
| Trump has already said that he wants to go and gerrymander Ohio and then Missouri. | ||
| And we can't let that happen because voters should be able to hold Trump accountable for his corruption and crimes. | ||
| Trump is trying to make sure that he rigs the midterm election before we ever get to cast a vote. | ||
| Democrats who've left the state to block a vote on redistricting say they're prepared to stay out of Texas, quote, as long as it takes. | ||
| The state's Attorney General, Ken Paxton, today announced he would seek a court ruling to declare Democrats' seats vacant if they're not back by Friday. | ||
| In a statement, Paxton wrote this: quote: If you don't show up to work, you get fired. | ||
| Does the governor have a leg to stand on here? | ||
| Well, they're going to try the legal process here, which they hadn't done in the last time that this was happened. | ||
| So Democrats do not feel that the Republicans on this legal fight to remove them from office have a leg to stand on. | ||
| Many of them have told us that they believe these are simply hollow threats. | ||
| But come Friday, it sounds like the Attorney General is going to begin to attempt that process through the courts. | ||
| But we haven't heard, even since that statement, any kind of indication that that's going to change the dynamic here in what Democrats are going to do. | ||
| What we've kept hearing is that they're willing to stay as long as it takes. | ||
| And, you know, what exactly that means is still very much up in the air. | ||
| There's two weeks left in this special legislative session so they could stay through the end of that. | ||
| I think I heard one Democratic lawmaker saying they could plan on staying two weeks, get to the end of the session, kill this redistricting bill for this one particular session. | ||
| The governor would very likely call another one so that all of this would just continue going. | ||
| But it does seem to kind of indicate an escalation of the Republicans talking about punishing the Democrats for all of this. | ||
| And you also saw, and we've heard from Senator John Cornyn, who's released a letter that he sent to the FBI director urging federal authorities to get involved in the search for the Democrats, where we all know they're in, or most of them are in Chicago. | ||
| So again, you know, some more escalation in terms of the rhetoric that we continue to see around this issue. | ||
| This is the primal scream 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 don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
| 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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unidentified
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | ||
| Tuesday, 5 August, Year of our Lord 2025. | ||
| Welcome to the late afternoon, early evening edition of The War Room. | ||
| And yes, the country politically is on fire is about redistricting. | ||
| The railhead of that happens to be the great state of Texas. | ||
| The Attorney General Ken Paxon joins us. | ||
| So Attorney General Paxton, we had you on very early in this before it really got kicked off. | ||
| What's the state of play? | ||
| You've got these, you got these members of the House. | ||
| They're up in Illinois. | ||
| They're being funded by Soros and other people that have got them up there. | ||
| You're saying, I think putting a word out, hey, if you're not back here by Friday, I'm going to move. | ||
| I'm going to go to court to vacate. | ||
| The chair, you've also got other officials that are requesting you to go and talk to the FBI, getting the FBI. | ||
| Just give us a state of play of what's happening and particularly a solution from these cowardly radical House Democrats shirking their duty and hiding in Illinois while you have hard work to do down in Texas. | ||
| Yeah, let me first say this is a state issue. | ||
| I don't know what the FBI would have to do with this. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| This is a purely state issue. | ||
| So we are focused on alternatives that we can implement at the state level. | ||
| One of those is we can arrest these. | ||
| So you will see some action that we will attempt to make those arrests. | ||
| If that doesn't work, we're also going to give them till Friday because that's the next day that the legislature meets to show up on Friday. | ||
| If they don't, then we are going to file motions to try to take, remove some of these legislators from office. | ||
| So that's where we're at now. | ||
| We'll see what happens. | ||
| At the very least, I guarantee you this, we can outweight them if these other alternatives don't work. | ||
| And eventually we'll get the vote that we need. | ||
| So Attorney General Paxon, when you say arrest them, are you going to have like the Texas Rangers go to Illinois and arrest these Democrats and bring them back? | ||
| Or they actually have to be in the state for you to do that? | ||
| So Steve, I can tell you in a couple days exactly what that means. | ||
| I can't tell you right now. | ||
| It's part of what's going on. | ||
| So I would love to be able to tell you the answer to that question, but I have information that I can't share with you yet. | ||
| But when I can share that, I'd be happy to share it here first. | ||
| Perfect. | ||
| Attorney General Paxton, explain because there's people all over the world now coming into the story, watching the war room, particularly our evening edition. | ||
| In the country, just waking up, maybe some have been on August vacation, seeing this. | ||
| People are like, they don't quite get why elected officials, Democratic officials in Texas are hiding in Illinois. | ||
| What are they trying to prove? | ||
| And how does this even happen? | ||
| Because in any other state, it sounds so bizarre as to be kind of something that just normally wouldn't happen. | ||
| I don't know if I could explain it to a Martian or somebody from another country. | ||
| It doesn't make a lot of sense that you would leave Texas to go to Illinois because you're mad that supposedly we're gerrymandering lines when in reality you're going to Illinois, which has, what, 14 Democrat members of the House and only three Republicans, 82% Democrat when the states voted for Kamala 5248. | ||
| So it doesn't make a lot of sense, but here we are. | ||
| The Democrats choose one of the most gerrymandered states. | ||
| Of course, New York is also that way. | ||
| I don't know Massachusetts as well, but clearly a Democratic state. | ||
| They go there to escape being arrested is, I think, the goal. | ||
| Now, to vacate, to go to court and to vacate these. | ||
| First off, do you have to, is there any requirement in the Constitution or in the rules in Texas that you have to notify? | ||
| Have you actually gone out and individually notified these representatives if they don't show up on Friday, which is the next scheduled session, that you will go to court and move to vacate their seats? | ||
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unidentified
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Yes. | |
| A couple hours ago, we put out a press release notifying all of them that they are subject to this attempt to remove them if they do not show up on Friday. | ||
| So they have till Friday. | ||
| The next time that the House is meeting for, and they need a quorum on Friday, they didn't have it today, will be Friday. | ||
| And if they do not show up Friday, we will file something and attempt to remove some of these legislators from office. | ||
| Are you pretty confident that state law that you'll win in court? | ||
| Or do you think they got some pretty radical judges down in Texas? | ||
| Do you think that you'll win this in court as you look at it right now? | ||
| Steve, we're in uncharted territory. | ||
| This has never been tried. | ||
| It's an unusual situation where members of the House just disappear. | ||
| And it's only happened twice. | ||
| It's happened twice in my career. | ||
| This is the third time. | ||
| No one's ever attempted to try to really bring them back. | ||
| The only attempt made was just to keep calling sessions until they came back. | ||
| For instance, when I was in the Texas House, we started dealing with redistricting in the regular session, which started in January. | ||
| We had to go all the way to October before they showed up. | ||
| So we outlasted them, but that cost us all 10 and a half months of our lives to get them back into Texas. | ||
| So we don't want to have to wait that long. | ||
| That costs people a lot of time. | ||
| It costs taxpayers a lot of money. | ||
| There's no point in it. | ||
| These people need to show up and vote, and that's what we're trying to accomplish. | ||
| Is that what you mean by you'll be able to outweigh them, that eventually you'll keep calling special sessions and they'll have to come back. | ||
| Yes, I have no doubt that the governor will continue to call special sessions, just as the previous governor did. | ||
| He kept calling them when the special session, we can only call a 30-day special session. | ||
| When that session ends, governor calls it the next day, so there's no break. | ||
| If they want to come back, they're going to be arrested and brought back to vote. | ||
| That's literally how it's going to work. | ||
| This map really reflects the changing demographics of Texas. | ||
| I don't think that message is getting out clearly enough, particularly in the Rio Grande Valley, South Texas. | ||
| These Hispanic communities or Hispanic counties or congressional districts, which used to be overwhelmingly vote Democrat, have now their MAGA and they're America First, and they've been voting for Trump. | ||
| There's an internal logic about these maps that fits in with what the current demographic analysis of Texas is. | ||
| Number one, why are we not making that point more clearly? | ||
| And number two, they just asked the president, hey, is this worth it? | ||
| Because Democrats are going to be coming in from New York and California. | ||
| You've inspired Florida, Indiana, Missouri to also follow suit. | ||
| So first off, doesn't this just show the demographics of the moving, changing demographics of Texas? | ||
| And is this worth it, this fight worth it? | ||
| Unlike other states, we have a very different model going. | ||
| We have not only demographic changes because Joe Biden brought in all these illegals and actually changed the dynamics of our voting population. | ||
| But second, we've grown. | ||
| In the last five years, we've grown more than any other state. | ||
| We're at 31.34 million people now. | ||
| We've added several million people in five years because we are the fastest growing state. | ||
| So not only do we have a changing demographic voting differently, but we also have people moving to our state to different areas that now need representation that didn't need it five years ago. | ||
| Unlike other states that are not growing or are losing people, we actually have to address the fact that our population growth has changed the map for us. | ||
| And I might note that California, Illinois, and New York, I think all three of them are, particularly California and New York, are big net losers of people in Illinois' net loser people. | ||
| People should understand that when those are the three that are blowing back on people, they're losing people like crazy. | ||
| Where do people go, General Paxton, on social media to keep up with this? | ||
| Because this is quite fast-moving, as I'm sure you appreciate, and people want to keep up this story moment by moment. | ||
| Where do they go? | ||
| At 10Paxton TX, at 10PaxonTX and kenpaxton.com. | ||
| Attorney General Paxton, thank you very much. | ||
| Look forward to checking back in with you. | ||
| Keep fighting. | ||
| And we're going to fight. | ||
| I promise we're going to win this. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| No doubt. | ||
| We told you this was going to be big, and it's getting to be. | ||
| It's engulfing the entire political process. | ||
| Brian Harrison, who kind of initiated all this, joins us. | ||
| Brian, you put up a tweet. | ||
| You put up a tweet later, a little earlier, excuse me. | ||
| No arrest, no convictions, no strip, no vacating seats. | ||
| Where do you think we stand on this on this Tuesday afternoon? | ||
| As now, everybody's in it. | ||
| You saw President Trump just gave a press avail. | ||
| He got asked, I don't know, four or five questions about this very topic. | ||
| Where do we stand, sir? | ||
| Well, we're not in much of a different position than we were five days ago when the Speaker of the Texas House assisted the Democrats with their quorum break by dismissing them voluntarily after being on the floor for seven minutes. | ||
| So the quorum break, what's being missed in the media, they're covering this as if we're in really day two. | ||
| But the actuality is the quorum break started last Wednesday when the Democrats were here. | ||
| The maps were filed and in the system. | ||
| And we had a quorum and the Democrat, sorry, it was the Democrat choice for Speaker, Dustin Burroughs, released the body, released the Democrats to go strategize and plan all this with Hakeem Jefferies last Wednesday night. | ||
| So the quorum break is really a Republican-assisted quorum break that started five days ago. | ||
| Where we are today to catch folks up, we officially had the non-quorum determined for the first time yesterday. | ||
| There were about 90 or 93. | ||
| We need 100 members to have a quorum. | ||
| We have 88 Republicans. | ||
| And today we had about 94. | ||
| So I think we picked up one or two and we lost about one. | ||
| So look, and those numbers will fluctuate a little bit, but the magic number is 100. | ||
| But the reality is the Democrats are under increasing pressure because they understand, Hakeem, from Hakeem Jeffries on down, they understand what's at stake. | ||
| It's no less than the future of this republic. | ||
| And our actions down here may quite literally determine whether the U.S. Congress falls into the hands of the radical extremist socialist Democrats. | ||
| So the state of Texas has got to do everything we can to make sure that doesn't happen. | ||
| And I think if we're not going to punish these Democrats, which the Speaker has, at least so far, made clear he's not going to punish them. | ||
| I mean, we have lots of strong rhetoric. | ||
| We have arrest, civil arrest warrants that are being signed. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| Arrest warrants are good. | ||
| You know what's better? | ||
| Arrests. | ||
| Okay, we've had no arrests. | ||
| There's lots of talk about vacating seats. | ||
| How many seats have been vacated? | ||
| Zero. | ||
| How many punishments of any kind have been meted out to these Democrats who flew the state? | ||
| None. | ||
| You know, we haven't even taken their chairmanships away. | ||
| We haven't stripped their titles or their privileges. | ||
| Hell, we haven't even taken their parking spots away from them. | ||
| So, you know, colour me a little bit skeptical of all the bold talk. | ||
| You know, bold talk is cheap. | ||
| Texans want results. | ||
| And so here's what I'm proposing as of today. | ||
| If the Democrats are going to play hardball, they shouldn't be the only party fighting this hard for the future. | ||
| For every week the Democrats aren't here, and we're already in week one. | ||
| I think we should redraw the maps and add one new Republican congressional seat to our map for every week that they're not here. | ||
| We need to hit the Democrats where it hurts. | ||
| And if they're going to play hardball, the Democrats should not be the only one fighting for the future of this country. | ||
| Texas Republicans need to step up and show America that they know what time it is, too. | ||
| Brian, can you hang on? | ||
| I will take a short commercial break. | ||
| We ran a little bit over with President Trump's press availability of which he addressed this very issue. | ||
| Brian Harrison, as usual, throwing down hard and saying, hey, look, guys, you want to play Smash Mouth? | ||
| You want to be cute? | ||
| You want to go to Illinois? | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| For every week you're out. | ||
| Next Friday, it's not five seats. | ||
| It's six seats. | ||
| You're out the week after that. | ||
| It's seven seats. | ||
| We're out at eight. | ||
| Hey, if we've got to take the whole delegation, we'll take the whole delegation. | ||
| If that's what you're going to do, that's what you're going to do. | ||
| We're going to return. | ||
| We've got Brian Harrison, Julie Kelly, Alex Marlowe, Matthew Palumbo for over Dan Vongino's site. | ||
| He's an expert on Soros. | ||
| Turns out, I know you're going to be surprised by this. | ||
| Soros looks like he's a big funder of these folks in up in Illinois from Texas. | ||
| Of course, a lot going on on the seditious conspiracy. | ||
| Julie Kelly's here to talk about that both in the House and the courts. | ||
| She was not a big fan of the Hatch Act. | ||
| She thought it was a little weak. | ||
| She's got some other ideas. | ||
| I think things are grinding through. | ||
| Alex Morrow is going to talk, give you the big picture on all this weaponization. | ||
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| Okay, Warren Posse, we're absolutely packed. | ||
| We've got town in Texas. | ||
| First off, Brian Harris. | ||
| We got Brian Harrison. | ||
| We got Alex Marlowe, the editor-in-chief of Breitbart's going to join us about weaponization. | ||
| We got the great Julie Kelly about what's happening on the seditious conspiracy charges, both in the House and in the courts of the grand jury. | ||
| Matthew Palumbo, Dan Bongino's right hand, is going to be with us about Source now. | ||
| It's been exposed to Source's financing a lot of this jailbreak up to Illinois. | ||
| So, Brian, I love that idea. | ||
| Every week they're out, but that does take a week. | ||
| What can happen? | ||
| You want action. | ||
| What can actually take place like tomorrow, the next day? | ||
| Because I think this audience is revved up now. | ||
| These are the guys who have been with you from the beginning. | ||
| We see this in the movement. | ||
| It's a national story. | ||
| President Trump's just got five questions as press available. | ||
| The whole world's watching here, and the Democrats are playing Smash Mouth. | ||
| So, how are we going to play Smash Mouth back? | ||
| Yeah, you know, there is one party in Austin, Texas that clearly knows what time it is in America. | ||
| And unfortunately, it's the Democrat Party. | ||
| So it's time the Republicans step up and say we're not going to be outplayed, outfoxed, outfought by the Democrats, which unfortunately does happen too often here in the cesspool of the Austin swamp. | ||
| But I got to real quick give a shout out to the posse because this is one of, if not the biggest stories in the world right now, not just America. | ||
| And the posse was ahead of the curve. | ||
| And one of the reasons for that, because the Rhino-infested Austin Uniparty swamp was up to their usual gamesmanship and tricks just two weeks ago, but I got to give the posse a lot of credit for alerting, you know, sounding the alarm and shooting at the flare ground. | ||
| And now media all across the globe is focused like a laser on Texas. | ||
| So yeah, we need to stand up. | ||
| We need to fight back. | ||
| And I'll set aside for a second the fact that the weak Republican leadership in the state of Texas allowed this to happen. | ||
| The fact that the Republican speaker of the Texas House dismissed the Democrats so that they could go and break quorum. | ||
| Okay, let's set that aside. | ||
| We are where we are. | ||
| I want action. | ||
| So, like you said, number one, every week they're gone, we redraw the maps and we add one more Republican congressional seat. | ||
| But number two, short of that, hit them where it hurts. | ||
| Every Democrat, reset your seniority. | ||
| We have Democrats that have been in the Texas House over 50 years. | ||
| You should see their offices. | ||
| They're like palatial castles around here. | ||
| Let me tell you what, these politicians care about their real estate and their square footage and the drapes and those windows. | ||
| Take their seniority away, drop them to the bottom of the line, get rid of their seniority, take their staffs away. | ||
| We can, I think, fire their staffs. | ||
| That might be a complicated question, but whether we could fire them or not, what I think we could be able to do is strip the money. | ||
| So even if they can't be fired, they can't be paid. | ||
| I'm not talking about just the members. | ||
| I'm talking about their staff. | ||
| So I want those things gone. | ||
| Also, Democrats, this is going to shock a lot of people. | ||
| 60% of the Democrat caucus in the Republican-dominated Texas House has been given leadership positions, vice chairmanships of committees in the Texas House. | ||
| 60% of these Democrats, because we have corrupt Rhino leadership, 60% of them, every single vice chair or co-chair of every committee, gone. | ||
| Immediately do it right now. | ||
| And then if I'm the governor or I'm the speaker, if there's any piece of legislation, they should be told right now, as long as I'm the governor or as long as I'm the speaker, if there's a bill that's got your name on it, it will never see the light of day. | ||
| Republicans need to understand that there is nothing less than the future of these United States of America. | ||
| The future of the United States Congress is on the line. | ||
| The future of freedom and liberty, not just in our state, but in our great republic. | ||
| That's what we're fighting for here. | ||
| The Democrats understand it. | ||
| They're acting like it. | ||
| Republicans in the state of Texas need to stand up and fight back. | ||
| Right before I leave you, I think you've said, and I just want to make sure it's reiterated, about who even the advisors are. | ||
| You talk about they've given Democrats all these senior leadership positions where they don't rate it. | ||
| Tell the audience about who some of the advisors that the Republican leadership are leaning on in this fight. | ||
| And this fight right here is a knife fight. | ||
| Who are they? | ||
| I take it they're leaning on the hardest core Texas folks that have been in these kind of fights before. | ||
| Is that who the advisors are? | ||
| Can you imagine if the governor of California hired somebody like our good friend, my good friend of a long time, Mike Davis, okay, to be the chief legal advisor to the California General Assembly? | ||
| Can you imagine if Gavin Newsom hired the Viceroy, okay, to be the general counsel of California and chief parliamentary officer? | ||
| That is exactly what has going on in the state of Texas. | ||
| Nothing after I stopped working for President Trump after the first term ended and came back to Texas and got elected, nothing could have prepared me for the shock of how much power the Democrats have in Texas. | ||
| So who is, and no one's going to know the answer to this, but also I'll just tell you, the most powerful person in the Texas House is not anybody who's elected. | ||
| It's the parliamentarian. | ||
| I know the Senate parliamentarian in D.C. gets a lot of headlines, but the most powerful person similarly in the Texas House is the Texas House parliamentarian. | ||
| With the stroke of a pin or with just a spoken word, the parliamentarian can help Democrat bills pass or single-handedly kill Republican bills or Republican amendments. | ||
| Well, who is the parliamentarian, the chief parliamentary officer of the Republican-dominated Texas House? | ||
| He's a guy named Hugh Brady. | ||
| Who the hell is Hugh Brady? | ||
| Hugh Brady is a Travis County, which is where Austin is Democrat Party official. | ||
| And get this, a former Barack Obama White House lawyer. | ||
| I'm going to say this one more time, just a little slower so people can grapple with this. | ||
| The chief, the most powerful person in the Texas House is a former Barack Obama White House official right now as we speak. | ||
| A Barack Obama staffer is advising the speaker on the issue of quorum breaks. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| Before I let you go, we're going to have you back. | ||
| We're going to track these about these action items that need to be taken. | ||
| Last question. | ||
| Particularly, people coming to the story late. | ||
| Now they see it blowing up on local news in New York with Hochul and local news in California with Newsom on local news in Illinois. | ||
| This is getting to be the biggest story in the nation. | ||
| Why do you say the entire future of the Republic rests on what's going to happen in Texas and these other states in the coming days and weeks ahead, sir? | ||
| Well, let me actually go one step further with you, Steve. | ||
| I can't even tell you. | ||
| I am being inundated with media requests from media outlets, not just across Texas, not just across America, but across the world. | ||
| I just got off with BBC and the Telegraph just called me. | ||
| Like it is nonstop. | ||
| People across the globe now understand what is at stake in this issue. | ||
| And the reason that I say that it's possibly the future of the country is because we are headed at the national level, notwithstanding all the great work of President Trump, but for the last many years, especially the four years off the Biden administration, we have been heading towards bigger government, more spending, more bureaucracy, more regulations, less freedom, higher taxes, all these bad things that President Trump is trying to fix with the America First agenda. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| If we lose this battle in Texas, and if because we lose the battle in Texas, the House of Representatives of the United States Congress falls into the hands of the radical leftist Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi and AOC, then the next two years of what short window we may have to save this republic, | ||
| where President Trump should have a full half of his last term agenda to continue making America great again and growing prosperity and increasing freedom and battling back the left and the deep state and the bureaucratic state. | ||
| Instead of having two more years to stand and lock arms with President Trump so he can pass and achieve the America First Agenda to make America great again, we risk two years of nonstop investigations and sham show trial impeachments that could derail not just things for President Trump personally, | ||
| but for the policy agenda that affects 300 million Americans and the freedoms and liberty of every single person that calls this country their home and that loves this country and that wants to do everything to defend these blessings of liberty, the generations who before us paid the ultimate price and made the ultimate sacrifices so that us and our kids and grandkids could enjoy the blessings of prosperity and liberty. | ||
| That is what is on the line and it runs through the state of Texas and we cannot lose here for the future of Texas and the future of America. | ||
| As goes Texas, so goes America. | ||
| As goes America, so goes the world. | ||
| The stakes could not be higher. | ||
| Brian Harrison, where do folks follow you on Twitter, sir? | ||
| I have the most hated Twitter feed in all of Austin. | ||
| I can assure you that. | ||
| It's at Brian E. Harrison, at Brian E. Harrison on X, at Brian E. Harrison. | ||
| I have never been yelled at or screamed at on any other topic more than for what I put up on my social media feed because I always say, and you know this, Steve, transparency is like kryptonite in the swamps. | ||
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| Brother Harrison, thank you so much. | ||
| Look forward to talking to you tomorrow. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Take care, buddy. | ||
| Julie Kelly, so the other massive story is a seditious conspiracy. | ||
| And we got two. | ||
| I'm going to bifurcate this. | ||
| We've got the grand jury and what's happening there. | ||
| And we've got then what's in the House. | ||
| Let's start the grand jury. | ||
| You were less than enthusiastic. | ||
| You put one of your acidic tweets out the other day about the hatch act. | ||
| Just give us an update of where you think this is on the kind of criminal front side and getting down to business and not dealing with things just like the Hatch Act. | ||
| Are you feeling better in the last 48 hours or where's your head right now? | ||
| Where is my head? | ||
| Give me a minute. | ||
| Let me figure that out. | ||
| No, I think that the Office of Special Counsel investigation into potential hatch act violations by Jack Smith is just a road to nowhere. | ||
| Doesn't matter. | ||
| We know that it was election interference. | ||
| We already know, as you and I have talked about, and I reported even as early as last year, collusion between the DOJ and the Biden White House in bringing those two unprecedented criminal indictments against President Trump. | ||
| So we know that. | ||
| What even happens if they confirm or believe that he should be charged with a hatch act violation? | ||
| Will anyone be going to prison? | ||
| No, that's not what I want Jack Smith and his team of thugs, who, Steve, as you know, I, more than anyone on this side, covered not just the court proceedings, but every motion, every back and forth, all the documents in both of those cases in Washington and Florida. | ||
| I saw Jay Bratt and David Harbock and J.P. Cooney and what they did in Florida. | ||
| I saw Tom Wyndham and Molly Gaston and what they did in Washington along with Judge Chutkin. | ||
| I don't want them charged with campaigning or interfering in an election. | ||
| I want them charged for the criminal conduct they engaged in for the better part of two years to deny the president his privacy, his due process rights, and his free speech rights, most importantly, as a political candidate in 2024. | ||
| That's what I want to see. | ||
| I don't care about a Hatch Act investigation. | ||
| Do you get, because we've got the, you know, you've got the whole thing with Russia Gate. | ||
| Yeah, Brennan, are you getting comfortable that those types of things are being presented as this grand jury is impaneled, that they're hiring the right team, the strike force has the right people, they're foyering the right, they're getting the right information. | ||
| Are you feeling more comfortable? | ||
| Give me a minute. | ||
| I'm going to hold you through the break. | ||
| Are you feeling better about that? | ||
| Short answer is yes. | ||
| And I can explain why on the other side. | ||
| Okay, Julie Kelly is with us. | ||
| Alex Marlow is going to join us. | ||
| Matthew Palumbo, Dan Borgino's right hand is going to be here. | ||
| The guy runs the site. | ||
| He's an expert on the sources, both the old man and the kid. | ||
| And they've got their long hand involved here underwriting a underwriting this fiasco in Illinois. | ||
| Breaking news out of HHS. | ||
| I think they have either banned mRNA vaccines or they've downsized them and said they're off. | ||
| We're going to have Dr. Cole that's going to join us with this massive announcement coming out of Bobby Kennedy's shop. | ||
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| Julie Kelly, Alex Marlowe next. | ||
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| Okay, Julie Kelly. | ||
| Welcome back. | ||
| Julie Kelly, you're leaving us on tenter hooks. | ||
| Your assessment, ma'am, people understand you've been on this for four years in detail. | ||
| Where do you think we stand? | ||
| I mean, I think that all of this is a very encouraging sign. | ||
| I don't think that you would have, for example, CIA Director John Ratcliffe out on the Sunday shows again this weekend talking about criminal referrals and the likelihood of criminal charges being brought against some of these perps including John Brennan Jim Comey perhaps Jim Clapper and others so I just can't see that sort of empty promise being left on the table and expecting Republicans and the Trump administration to get away with it so | ||
| I don't view that as an empty promise and I hope that it's not I think the subpoenas issued so by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer. | ||
| Very interesting to the extent that during these depositions, if they do happen, some of the Russia Gate perps, Hillary Clinton, Robert Mueller, even Bill Barr, so we're finding out more and more about his silence and complicity in this whole operation, asking them direct questions about Russia Gate. | ||
| That could be very helpful. | ||
| If it's only within the confines of the Epstein scandal and three decades of Epstein issues, then we won't get much on Russia Gate. | ||
| However, it does signal, I think, a new aggressive approach by House Republicans to use their power, subpoena power, and other mechanisms to pursue these investigations, make more criminal referrals, work with the Department of Justice and the FBI to get some results. | ||
| Because look, we've been patient, right? | ||
| We've all been patient. | ||
| And we know that these things take time because they do. | ||
| However, time is ticking, and we are a year away from the official start of the 2026 full-swing campaign season. | ||
| And we don't have a moment to waste. | ||
| And I do sense that there is some urgency now at DOJ, CIA, DNI, et cetera, to get to try to secure some indictments with a few of these figures by the end of the year. | ||
| Given everything you're covering also with their constant attack on President Trump's Article II powers, I mean, the bandwidth over DOJ, because it's still relentless. | ||
| It's maybe, you know, there's still, I think, 175 suits. | ||
| Lawsuits were winning everywhere. | ||
| I mean, what is your recommendation to Pam Bondi and the senior team over there? | ||
| I mean, I think they're doing an excellent job as far as they can with this whack-a-mole lawsuit operation from coast to coast. | ||
| So, you know, they only have so many lawyers. | ||
| They only have so many prosecutors and time and resources. | ||
| And so, this was the idea, though. | ||
| The idea, the other agenda behind this new front of law affair against the president is to redirect resources to these silly lawsuits instead of focusing on, you know, rooting out corruption, getting rid of the bad apples, the DOJ, FBI, et cetera, and gratifying the MAGA base. | ||
| One reason the president won is that we want accountability and consequences for what was done to him, his advisors, people like you, and of course, you know, hundreds of Jay Sixers. | ||
| So, I think ultimately, and most of this, we already see that the law affair against the president and the administration will fail. | ||
| We are still waiting for that big decision out of the Ninth Circuit related to the Alien Enemies Act. | ||
| And my sense is that they are going to conclude that the president lawfully exercised his authority to issue that proclamation. | ||
| And that will end up at the Supreme Court. | ||
| And, you know, there's just one big thing that we're waiting on. | ||
| But I think these judges have really exposed themselves, Steve. | ||
| And I think that, you know, I was posting yesterday about Jeb Bosberg and a new piece up on him at my substack, how the D.C. appellate court last week kind of took a shot at him. | ||
| So, you know, I think even some of the more, shall we say, respectable judges who want to maintain the integrity and reputation of the federal bench have to do some policing of their own. | ||
| Julie, where do people go to get the substack? | ||
| This is the way we all keep up with all this breaking news. | ||
| Where do people go? | ||
| By the way, Steve, I am in the beautiful city of Chicago. | ||
| I will be looking for rogue Texas lawmakers. | ||
| I think they're about 60 miles west of here in St. Charles, but if they show up at Gibson's downtown, I might be right there just sending out that warning shot. | ||
| I'm in substance declassified by Julie with Julie Kelly, and then, of course, X, Julie underscore Kelly, too. | ||
| I'm going to talk to Ken Paxon right after the show and see if he can't deputize you, Julie, to make a citizen's arrest or make you an honorary member of the Texas Rangers and go down and make an arrest. | ||
| Julie Kelly. | ||
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| You're ready to roll. | ||
| My kind of gal. | ||
| Thank you, Julie Kelly. | ||
| Appreciate you, ma'am. | ||
| Talk to you soon. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| Bye. | ||
| Alex Marlow, we're going to get into the meat of it in the second hour, but I got to ask, when you started this book, did you ever think that the timing would be the absolute perfect timing to drop it, breaking the law, exposing the weaponization of America's legal system against Donald Trump? | ||
| Did you ever think that it would drop at the perfect time that people would need a primer in this? | ||
| Yeah, you always fantasize about this. | ||
| And Steve, thanks so much for doing this with me. | ||
| My last book was about Joe Biden, and I dropped it about 12 hours before the October 7th attack. | ||
| So I couldn't have timed anything any worse, possibly, for my last book. | ||
| So yeah, it does feel good to kind of have a call shot, but it's a cold shot because it's kind of an obvious shot. | ||
| This is the war of the moment. | ||
| You know this firsthand. | ||
| You've experienced this. | ||
| You've been politically persecuted for this on a personal level. | ||
| Your audience knows this better than any group on the planet. | ||
| And this is not going to stop. | ||
| This is their path to take back power. | ||
| They have no other path. | ||
| Their ideas stink. | ||
| Their leaders stink. | ||
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| It's the law fair. | ||
| That's what it's all about. | ||
| And it's not just here. | ||
| It's all over the world. | ||
| Alex Marlow, the editor-in-chief of Breitbart News, is going to also the host of Breitbart News Radio, the morning show, is going to stick around and Jerusalem get into detail. | ||
| Also, I wasn't here for the morning show this morning because I was at Dan Berry prison meeting one of the inmates that I'm very close to was being released after, I don't know, 18 or 20 years in prison. | ||
| So I was there to meet him today and make sure that he got on his way to his future life. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to leave you with the right stuff. | ||
| Alex Marlow's got it. | ||
| This book has it. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| Also, big announcement at HHS. | ||
| Dr. Cole is going to join us. | ||
| The great Matthew Palumbo, who is Dan Bongino, now deputy director of the FBI, the guy that runs his site was his wingman forever. | ||
| He knows the sources better than anybody. | ||
| And their evil head is surfacing and financing this jailbreak with these radical House Democrats. | ||
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