Aug. 7, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| is an affordability crisis. | ||
| We inherited a big affordability crisis. | ||
| And we've got, as I've said, President Trump's doing peace deals, tax deals, trade deals. | ||
| We've got the tax deal in place. | ||
| As you kicked off the top of this segment with, the trade deals are largely done. | ||
| And now we can really hone in on the affordability. | ||
| At Treasury, we're going to be looking at what we can do for housing, for student loans, for overall, because there is an affordability crisis. | ||
| The first step in easing the affordability crisis was to bring down inflation. | ||
| Inflation in May was down for the first time in four years. | ||
| So to address it, you've got to stop the increase first. | ||
| And there are two ways to address it, the affordability crisis. | ||
| You can stop the inflation and you can have very strong real wage gains, which is what I think this manufacturing renaissance is going to do. | ||
| It says Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump have agreed to meet in the coming days. | ||
| And a venue has even been selected. | ||
| The announcement comes just one day after Trump's envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, met with Putin in Moscow. | ||
| Trump called that meeting highly productive, adding that great progress was made. | ||
| Witkoff has visited Moscow a handful of times in the past few months as the Trump administration pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine. | ||
| Now, it's not known exactly when Trump and Putin will meet, but yesterday a White House official told NBC News that discussion could happen as soon as next week if Putin also agrees to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. | ||
| It's not clear if Putin has agreed to that yet, with the Kremlin aid saying their focus is on preparing for the bilateral meeting with Trump. | ||
| So still a few steps, Joe. | ||
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President Trump just posted on social media that he's basically ordering a mid-decade census, a new census. | |
| He says, I have instructed the Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate census based on modern day facts and figures. | ||
| And importantly, using the results and information gained from the presidential election of 2024, people who are in the country illegally will not be counted in the census. | ||
| Thank you for your attention to this matter. | ||
| And I'm going to pull up the section of the Constitution that deals with the census because it actually is in the Constitution of the United States, that Constitution. | ||
| It says the actual enumeration, meaning the census, shall be made within three years after the first meeting of Congress of the United States. | ||
| That's when the country was founded. | ||
| And within every subsequent term of 10 years in such manner as they shall by law direct. | ||
| So the Constitution says you have a census every 10 years, just like you redistrict every 10 years. | ||
| Now the president, four years, five years into the decade, he wants to do it all again, Doug. | ||
| What do you see here? | ||
| Well, look, clearly he's trying to make a play for it to be more palatable for what's happening in Texas and other states. | ||
| And I'll tell you, John, I've worked on redistricting my entire career, going back to 1992. | ||
| I helped file a Supreme Court case in North Carolina redistricting. | ||
| I know this issue very well. | ||
| I don't like what we're seeing in Texas, but this is nothing new. | ||
| We've seen this time after time. | ||
| Republicans do it. | ||
| Democrats do it. | ||
| Gerrymandering is named after a Democrat. | ||
| And I think of how many times on this network and on other networks, I heard my Democratic friends say, you know what we need? | ||
| We need more Republicans, more Republicans like Adam Kinzinger. | ||
| And what did Illinois Democrats do at that same time? | ||
| They drew Adam Kinzinger out of his district. | ||
| They drew other members out of their district. | ||
| And the reality is this is a bipartisan problem. | ||
| It's a bipartisan issue. | ||
| And as I watch Democrats in Illinois, now Texas Democrats in Illinois, I think of what Michael Corleone told us. | ||
| Senator, we're both part of the same hypocrisy. | ||
| In Health and Human Services, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that his department will be cutting nearly $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine development. | ||
| NBC News is reporting, quote, many scientists and infectious disease experts swiftly denounced the move as a broadside Attack on the area of research, particularly those who have seen this as promising after rapidly developing COVID vaccines. | ||
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Basically, the way we, for your audience, the way we've been designing vaccines prior to mRNA had serious cons. | |
| It took 10 to 15 years for Stephanie to develop. | ||
| It wasn't nimble in the setting of a crisis like a pandemic, and it came with significant side effects. | ||
| That approach actually caused more side effects than what we're seeing with mRNA vaccines, where the side effect profile is actually quite minimal, regardless of the misinformation environment. | ||
| So none of this makes sense. | ||
| We can look at the data as, you know, we did this for five years during the pandemic, but none of this makes sense and actually doesn't help his legacy whatsoever. | ||
| It's horrible. | ||
| I mean, this is horrible. | ||
| And it's incredibly sad. | ||
| Dr. Gupra outlined it, but I mean, to take one of the more promising advancements and just to say, you know what? | ||
| We're not going to do that anymore is an unbelievable dereliction of duty. | ||
| And yes, I'm deeply mad at RFK Jr. for doing this, but Donald Trump put this man in this position. | ||
| Donald Trump. | ||
| Knowing exactly who he was and what he was going to do. | ||
| Donald Trump made Donald Trump, who boasted repeatedly about the success of Operation Orb Speed. | ||
| And should and had to do that. | ||
| And rightfully so. | ||
| Rightfully so. | ||
| It was an incredible achievement. | ||
| Decided as a matter of political convenience that he was going to incorporate the RFK Jr. coalition into his own. | ||
| And the price he paid was by making RFK Jr. | ||
| HHS secretary. | ||
| And the repercussions for that we will live with not just today, not just next year, but for 10 years to come. | ||
| And I just feel years and years to come, I should say. | ||
| And I just, it is a, it's unbelievable to think what we could prevent, the diseases we could prevent, the suffering and deaths we could prevent, that will not be prevented because of this decision. | ||
| Oh, there's bad news of fans of living because Health Secretary RFK Jr. just pulled $500 million in funding for vaccine development. | ||
| Now, we have 10 more months of this show, and I want to give a measured, non-partisan response here. | ||
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Thank you, you Royd Adolf Nepo Kahn. | |
| Now, specifically, Bobby Jr. is nixing 22 projects that use mRNA technology, but that's the latest vaccine technology. | ||
| That's like saying, kids, I'm turning off the GPS. | ||
| We're going to make our way to six flags by using the stars. | ||
| Hand Daddy the sextant. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Crank down windows in Daddy's car. | ||
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There you go. | |
| All right, there you go. | ||
| Colbert has no talent. | ||
| I mean, I could take anybody here. | ||
| I could go outside in the beautiful streets and pick up a couple of people that do just as well or better. | ||
| They get higher ratings than he did. | ||
| He's got no talent. | ||
| Yesterday, yesterday, RFK Jr. tried to defend the indefensible. | ||
| Most of these shots are for flu or COVID, but as the pandemic showed us, mRNA vaccines don't perform well against viruses that infect the upper respiratory tract. | ||
| Counterpoint. | ||
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You, you roadkill monkey, red-eyed cubic slim Jim. | |
| You're going to kill people. | ||
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Why? | |
| Why would you say that mRNA vaccines don't perform well against upper respiratory infections? | ||
| The National Institutes of Health said they prevented an estimated 14.4 million deaths. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why on earth is RFK Jr. so anxious to fill our streets with dead bodies? | ||
| 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're going to like hearing that. | ||
| I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big line? | ||
| MAGA Media. | ||
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
| Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | ||
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Band. | ||
| It's Thursday, 7 August, year of our Lord 2025. | ||
| You would think August would slow down with the House and Senate out, but it's an avalanche of news and important events and looking downrange. | ||
| Obviously, on the Ukraine war and the Russian rapprochement, President Trump, Witkoff has done his job. | ||
| Looks like teeing up a meeting. | ||
| The president of the United States has done something pretty extraordinary. | ||
| Tom Cotton sent a letter to the board of Intel and the President of the United States. | ||
| We'll get to this later. | ||
| Michael Pack will join us. | ||
| He's demanded that the CEO, the newly installed CEO of Intel, step down because of relationships with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Pretty extraordinary. | ||
| Tom Cotton, Senator Cotton, Mr. President, we can also give you a list. | ||
| I don't know, maybe 100 other individuals ought to be included in that, but it's a damn good start. | ||
| President Trump comes out with something we've been banging on the drum about a lot, and that is a mid-decade census. | ||
| President Trump now saying he's ordering the Department of Commerce to do it. | ||
| All of this is extraordinary. | ||
| Scott Besson today doing the rounds starting on Morning Joe doing the rounds today. | ||
| Today, the tariffs kick in. | ||
| Everybody mocked President Trump on Liberation Day 2 April, and he said, hey, I'll have it done in a couple of months. | ||
| Well, guess what? | ||
| It's early August, and effective today, I think the entire commercial relationships of the world are being reorganized. | ||
| There you saw Stephen Colbert with the, and quite frankly, the responsibility he has because he's one of these airheads that push the vax. | ||
| And you saw the dancing needles. | ||
| Remember how cute he thought he was at the time at Fauci? | ||
| You don't see Fauci making the rounds much anymore, do you? | ||
| No, because I think his lawyers have told him to shut up and just crawl under a rock. | ||
| Colbert will also do that. | ||
| I'm not so sure. | ||
| Colbert says, hey, we have another year on that show. | ||
| I'm not so sure that's going to happen. | ||
| The Paramount deal has closed. | ||
| CBS is under new management. | ||
| They already canceled his show. | ||
| I'm not so sure he makes it into the fall season, particularly doing routines like that. | ||
| Dr. Stephen Hatfield, as you remember, Dr. Hatfield was a war room regular for the first couple of weeks of war and pandemic when he then went to the White House and was one of the associates working with Dr. Peter Navarro through the entire pandemic situation. | ||
| He's going to be joining us over. | ||
| He's over at HHS now. | ||
| He's going to be joining us to talk about the mRNA vaccine and the reality behind it. | ||
| As we've kind of argued, you've got to come out with more of the data, the more of the receipts. | ||
| You've got all these studies. | ||
| Let's curate them and put them forward. | ||
| Dr. Hatfield will be talking about that today. | ||
| Alex deGrasse, of course, the business at hand is really the leading political story. | ||
| I guess maybe the Putin story may top this right now, but just barely, and that is this range war going throughout the United States on the redistricting. | ||
| The Hill newspaper, and I've got it up on Getter. | ||
| Remember, I put my stuff up exclusively on Getter, so go check it out. | ||
| The Hill had a really good story today about Ron DeSantis, governor to DeSantis, jumping into the game here. | ||
| Florida is going to be next. | ||
| Brian Harrison is going to join us. | ||
| We still have action items that have not been done yet, a punch list for the posse to make sure we're doing deeds down in Texas, not words. | ||
| Alex deGrasse joins us. | ||
| Alex, first off, you're going to hang through the next segment also, but tell me about the mid-decade census. | ||
| This is something we've needed to do for a long time. | ||
| And I'll admit, Stephen Miller and I had the census in 2017 teed up 2018 that would exclude illegal aliens. | ||
| At the time, the Commerce Department had a bunch of globalists in it. | ||
| We kind of blinked and it didn't happen. | ||
| President Trump's not making that mistake again. | ||
| He says, no way. | ||
| We're going to do it and do it right. | ||
| No illegal aliens. | ||
| How big a deal? | ||
| Got about a minute to grasp. | ||
| How big a deal is that for us? | ||
| If we zoom out, Steve, we've got three things here. | ||
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Okay. | |
| We've got obviously what we've been talking about on the show all week and prior, of course, the Texas redistricting you're looking at. | ||
| We talked about 12 seats, now it's 13. | ||
| Now they're talking about 15, 16. | ||
| You've got South Carolina, you've got other states looking at things. | ||
| That's one front, and we'll get more in the weeds on that. | ||
| Obviously, the census and not including illegal immigrants, which again, something the war room and you have been talking about for like since the start of the show, of course, Steve, would be systematically change modern American politics. | ||
| And the other third aspect that we're talking about here, Steve, is the voting rights is up in the Supreme Court. | ||
| They said, wait, hold on. | ||
| Do we need race-based seats? | ||
| You know, does this go against the 14th and 15th Amendment? | ||
| And does it, you know, does the Constitution supersede racial seat drawing, of course, now? | ||
| And if that happens, you've got these three vectors. | ||
| You know, back of the envelope, Matt, this morning when I woke up with this smile, was Democrats could lose 42 seats. | ||
| And that would change the whole ballgame here. | ||
| Modern American politics. | ||
| Alex deGrasse, you sit right there. | ||
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| Remember, in 2020, oh, by the way, so I'm going to get into it also this afternoon and this evening. | ||
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| Alex deGrasse, you started coming on here in late 21 and in 22, and we kind of changed the whole course of the 22 midterms, sir, with this whole fight for the redistricting. | ||
| Talk to me now. | ||
| I want to pull back because I want to go back to the big picture camera of the converging forces here and what the founders had in mind and how all that creates a unique with the demographic shifts in the country, some driven by politics, why this is a unique, this is an inflection point of modern American politics. | ||
| And it's people like the Warren Posse that know this years in advance and get to work years in advance. | ||
| And that's how we change things, sir. | ||
| Yeah, that's right, Steve. | ||
| I mean, this is really almost the whole ballgame when you look at it because there's so many complicating factors that come off of this. | ||
| So I think we've spoken a lot about the mid-cycle redistricting. | ||
| And I think the posse has a good handle on why that's important. | ||
| Of course, it's expanding into other states now talking about it, especially in the context of the Supreme Court case. | ||
| But let's talk about the census and get into the specifics. | ||
| Of course, the founders were very clear, Steve. | ||
| I mean, they wanted the spread out power. | ||
| And this is for all the reporters watching because every time I come on here recently, I'm getting hammered by all these people going crazy. | ||
| Look, they're very clear. | ||
| They want to spread out power. | ||
| They want, that's why we have electoral college. | ||
| We don't want mob, you know, mass rule. | ||
| There's a reason we have the checks and balances in the Republic. | ||
| And one of which is the congressional seats. | ||
| It's why they're up every two years and they're supposed to provide equal representation. | ||
| And that's the whole point, Steve, is it's not equal because you've got certain areas that are loaded up with illegal immigrants. | ||
| Then what happens is for the posse to get into the weeds, since of course we live in the weeds, when you count these illegal immigrants, then that affects the equation for funding for everything. | ||
| So you've got areas, New York, California, where they've got millions and millions of illegal immigrants, Steve, that are taking billions and billions and billions and billions of taxpayer dollars that we can't even account for. | ||
| We have no idea because it's just sort of in this sort of, I mean, we understand what they're putting to the shelters and that's billions and billions. | ||
| I'm talking about everyday sort of benefits that are unfairly calculated. | ||
| And then, of course, the congressional seats are counted. | ||
| For the guys that want to, and the ladies that want to get into the weeds, look at the votes. | ||
| Go look at how many people vote in certain districts and then go in these cities. | ||
| And you look at there's like half the amount of votes sometimes in some of these places. | ||
| And that's because the seats are filled with illegal immigrants that can't vote. | ||
| And so that's the heart of the argument. | ||
| Of course, the left says, hey, it doesn't explicitly say citizens when you talk about the census. | ||
| Well, it's about the equal representation and what forms the census and what the census forms, of course, is the house lines, is how things are dispersed with federal funding. | ||
| And so if you cut that, I mean, we don't even know, Steve, we can only imagine how many seats we will lose. | ||
| We will hollow out the cities where the Democrats now. | ||
| It's the Democrats' fault, Steve, that they're in a position and they are so politically toxic and unpopular where they need to rely on city votes. | ||
| It's their issue that they get 70, 80%, right? | ||
| That's their problem. | ||
| If they want to be competitive, they need to change their policies and become more, I guess, like populism and the war room and take their message to the suburbs, to the rural parts where they'll be able to compete once we redraw these lines. | ||
| So that's why I'm saying if we go through this and we're victorious, you will actually, we will stop the Marxist left, then the tracks. | ||
| This is the most important aspect of politics and government that are ongoing right now. | ||
| I could not be happier that President Trump is going forward with this. | ||
| I think it will be a tough fight. | ||
| And so that's the census front. | ||
| And then you've got in Louisiana, you know, we had sued. | ||
| Some voters had sued. | ||
| They said, hey, you know, it's not really fair if you're looking at, you know, of course, there's a reason. | ||
| I'm not here to dispute the segregation, all those things that happened, you know, 50, 60 years ago, even before in the Civil War, of course. | ||
| But, you know, now you're looking at, hey, it's not fair where you've got to put certain racials together, certain things, and then it affects representation in other states. | ||
| And of course, we have equal rights in this country. | ||
| I would love anyone to try to dispute that now that people don't all have equal rights. | ||
| And so if you get rid of these, you know, minority and racial-based districts, you will lose quite a lot of Democrat seats because what you will allow to do is what they've done in New England, Steve, where you've got in Massachusetts and Connecticut, where President Trump gets 35, 38%, in New York, 40%, right? | ||
| Where you don't have a single Republican seat in some of these areas just because of how they've gerrymandered it. | ||
| And if you didn't have the protection. | ||
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Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. | |
| All the bellyaching they're doing and the governor of Massachusetts gets up there. | ||
| All of New England was the five or six states in New England, you know, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, there's not one member, not one Republican member in the entire New England. | ||
| It's completely gun-decked up there and gerrymandered, right? | ||
| We don't have one seat in the entire place. | ||
| And the Massachusetts governor getting up there saying, we're going to get, hey, lady, there's no Republicans in the Massachusetts congressional delegation. | ||
| Alex? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, she's one of the biggest fools in the country, to be honest with you. | ||
| And the mayor of Boston, too, is another disaster for the posse out there. | ||
| I mean, really, some of the dumbest people on the planet, frankly. | ||
| But I mean, that's exactly right, Steve. | ||
| And the reality is MA is not a protected race. | ||
| Of course, white people are not a protected race or conservatives or Catholics or however you want to dice it. | ||
| And so that's why in the New England states, of course, they're able to gerrymander. | ||
| And hey, that's the game, right? | ||
| We're talking about the same thing in many regards. | ||
| So they do it. | ||
| And then, of course, we can't necessarily optimize, you know, fair representation in the South, as we would say. | ||
| And we have to kind of create these seats based off race, which, of course, then lean politically to the left. | ||
| And so, you know, if we were able to split the cities like they do in the North, where they kind of force urban to kind of, you know, counter multiple seats, you look at some of these maps, you've got multiple seats that kind of stretch into the cities where they can. | ||
| And it's sort of a disaster. | ||
| And I think if we can break it, Steve, we will see literally the biggest shift in politics because the Democrats will have to abandon their far left policy positions because they will be absolutely not competitive. | ||
| They will not be able to retake the House. | ||
| They will have no path to victory, Steve. | ||
| Absolutely no path to victory if they were to lose 42 seats. | ||
| I mean, they just can't. | ||
| The fact is, of course, as we've talked about, they've already gerrymandered most of the seats. | ||
| They can maybe squeeze an additional 10 between California and New York, and most likely not this cycle, but half of that maybe in the next cycle. | ||
| And that's it, because they've kind of squeezed everything. | ||
| Of course, we're playing their game, Steve. | ||
| So that's why we can't back down. | ||
| We've got to hold the line. | ||
| This really is the fight, not just on the redistricting, but how it connects with the census as well as the voting rights case in front of the Supreme Court, which is huge. | ||
| You make a great point about the policies. | ||
| They got to change their policies. | ||
| Let's go back to what's in front of us today. | ||
| We're going to have Harrison on in a moment, and you got to get some, we got to get some action of real deeds there, not just performance art, which the Texas elite are perfect at. | ||
| You got to actually get down and grind these Democrats. | ||
| The Hill newspaper today about Florida. | ||
| Look, you sounded the alarm to us a couple of years ago about the Florida situation on the map that Tallahassee. | ||
| Because remember, Tallahassee may be the most corrupt state capital in the country next to Albany, right? | ||
| And it was Alex deGrasse that came forward. | ||
| That's where we got the map that we've got in Florida right now because Alex deGrasse's warning and the Warren posse getting on it. | ||
| With Texas going as it is, the next stop is Florida for a potential five seats. | ||
| Governor DeSantis now looks like he's not just warming to the idea, but it's going to happen. | ||
| How important is it in this cycle for us to get the flip to five seats in Florida, sir? | ||
| Well, I think, of course, if Texas goes through, which it should, and then I think you're going to see California. | ||
| I mean, this will be escalatory, right? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| And so we will take every state. | ||
| We'll take Indiana. | ||
| We'll take South Carolina. | ||
| We'll take Missouri. | ||
| It'll take Florida. | ||
| I mean, we were talking about 12. | ||
| Now people are talking about 15, 16, as more states started looking at what they can do. | ||
| And of course, if the Supreme Court rules in the direction to get rid of these seats, I think you could see more lawsuits and more states sort of redrawing another 10 there, of course, Steve, pretty quickly. | ||
| And then, of course, the census, which is a longer term thing, you know, you could, you could, I mean, we don't even know. | ||
| We would love to know. | ||
| It would be great to know how many, where the illegals are, because what's going to happen is they're not going to go, they're going to panic. | ||
| They're not going to get counted. | ||
| They're going to depreciate all the representation in the cities. | ||
| And that will really empower states like New York, where you have, in our opinion, of course, and I think we would all be on the same page, a lot more legal citizens in upstate. | ||
| And so therefore, representative-wide, based off the total population, there should be more waiting for upstate voters, of course, since that's how this goes down. | ||
| So this is the whole ballgame, Steve. | ||
| I mean, really, it is when you look at what we can accomplish for this generation. | ||
| We've always talked about ending the modern Democrat Party as we know it on this show, Steve. | ||
| And this is exactly how we would do it. | ||
| And of course, they're absolutely spiraling and melting down. | ||
| And I'm going to get blown up with people, but all this is legal. | ||
| It's going to get tested in the courts. | ||
| Maybe we don't win the Supreme Court. | ||
| Maybe we do. | ||
| But hey, it's our obligation as conservatives to push forward to protect this MAGA agenda, to provide this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape the country, Steve. | ||
| Because it's not going to be able to happen all in one year. | ||
| I mean, we need as many as we can get. | ||
| Years, of course. | ||
| Yeah, it's legal and it's fair. | ||
| Alex, where do people go on social media to follow you? | ||
| Because the battle is engaged. | ||
| The opening salvo is in the great state of Texas. | ||
| But folks, this is going all over this great union of ours. | ||
| The great fight of modern politics. | ||
| Get a real fair count of where American citizens live and how they can get fairly represented in the House and in the Senate. | ||
| Sir, where do people get you on social media? | ||
| I'm at DeGrasse81. | ||
| I'm at DeGrasse8120 on Instagram. | ||
| I'm on Getter, Axe Everything. | ||
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Truth. | |
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| It's really important. | ||
| Let's keep the pressure on Texas because I'm not an expert there, but some of the Republicans are a disaster. | ||
| So we've got to keep that going, make sure we land the plane here. | ||
| Because if not there, then everything kind of stops, of course, in the short term at least. | ||
| It's terrible. | ||
| Weak Republicans. | ||
| Thank you, Alex deGrasse. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to the Lone Star State next. | ||
| And we're also going to stop by Georgia in the war room. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Matt. | |
| Okay, we're going to go to Georgia. | ||
| We're going to go to Texas in a moment. | ||
| Brian Harrison joins us. | ||
| I want to bring in the Christina Bob. | ||
| We had, and I don't even want to play the clip, but Cosmo Man, who the former lieutenant governor of Georgia that abandoned, abandoned MAGA, abandoned President Trump, tried to work overtime to steal the 2020 election. | ||
| He's now officially said what was quite evident for a long time, Christina. | ||
| He's joined the Democratic Party, right? | ||
| Yes, that's true. | ||
| It's an amazing story. | ||
| I'm so excited to see it. | ||
| Yes, he abandoned the Republican Party, the conservatives, the MAGA-based. | ||
| He abandoned all of his constituents long before Donald Trump was even on the picture, according to his latest article at the Atlanta Journal Constitution. | ||
| I mean, he was crying about policy. | ||
| But in reality, it's about power. | ||
| This is an old school rhino-Republican stronghold in Georgia that has been pushing out the American people. | ||
| And thank God to the War Room posse and folks that listen to this show and other MAGA folks that have been putting the pressure on them for years and years and years. | ||
| And they are finally, finally abandoning ship. | ||
| Keep the pressure up. | ||
| Let's get rid of the rest of them. | ||
| Yeah, but this is why you have a you have two, think about it for a second. | ||
| In Georgia, you have two Democrats in the Senate. | ||
| This is what I was just saying a second ago with the new census and not counting illegal aliens. | ||
| It's stunning that Georgia, because this is because the rhino established the rhino establishment in Georgia would rather have two Democrats, and I think both of them are pretty radical, two radical Democrats in the U.S. Senate than have MAGA U.S. Senators. | ||
| And Cosmo Man is the epitome of this, is he not? | ||
| 100%. | ||
| This is the worst of the worst. | ||
| There's no way that you have Republicans completely in control of the state and then Democrats, radical Democrats running the federal office. | ||
| And that's likely, and I don't know, my speculation about him switching parties is likely because he knows that he can't win in a state office. | ||
| And he doesn't want to go back down to account. | ||
| He doesn't want to go in the opposite direction. | ||
| And so in order to potentially run for senator, do something at the federal level, he has to be in the Democrat Party because he can't make it in the Republican Party anymore. | ||
| And you've got the Republicans that are currently in office. | ||
| For example, Chris Carr, the Attorney General, everybody forgets the Fannie Willis case in Atlanta is still open. | ||
| I know she's a hot mess of a train wreck that's falling apart, but they haven't closed it. | ||
| And Chris Carr, the Republican Attorney General, who could look at this and say, Yeah, it was not really right for you to hire your boyfriend to take kickbacks to prosecute your political opponents that you fundraised off of. | ||
| He could do something about that, and he's chosen not to. | ||
| And it's the same group of Republicans that have been in control of Georgia. | ||
| And this is a very good sign that they're looking for a place to go because they know it's not sustainable to continue to do what they're doing in Georgia. | ||
| Before I let you go, because you're very intimately involved in this, John Solomon is going to join us with an update about he thinks Obama may have inadvertently laid out a smoky gun here. | ||
| Are you still, and we've talked about this, we've got to stick the landing. | ||
| And Axios SE had a great story. | ||
| I've got it up in Getter. | ||
| It's a really good story, I think, yesterday that I finally got up this morning about how MAGA is really completely focused on sticking the landing here on these prosecutions for seditious conspiracy. | ||
| Are you still getting a sense that this is moving with the urgency that we need? | ||
| Yeah, I think it is. | ||
| You know, I'll never be satisfied that it's moving fast enough, but I do believe that they are moving it forward. | ||
| And I think this is probably one of the most, if not the most pivotal issues for President Trump in this term. | ||
| It will be what he's remembered by, and it's what we need him to handle, because if he doesn't complete this in his first term, nobody's going to come behind him and clean it up after him. | ||
| So I don't care. | ||
| Whoever you love in MAGA World to take his place, they just can't do it. | ||
| So this is a very important issue. | ||
| They can't move fast enough, but I do think they're on pace. | ||
| Take down the deep state. | ||
| Christina, you got a new book coming out in September. | ||
| It's got amazing cover. | ||
| I think shopper owned Dan Floyd, our film producer. | ||
| Did we get it? | ||
| Can we put the book cover up? | ||
| And Christina, what's your social media? | ||
| Where do they go to get your book and where they go to get you? | ||
| Yep, it's available for pre-sale on Amazon, Barnes Noble, wherever books are sold. | ||
| You can find me on social media at Christina underscore Bob. | ||
| It's a very important book. | ||
| Please, I want everyone to know the inside story of everything that has happened and why this prosecution, potentially in Florida, of these deep state folks is so, so important. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
| Thank you, ma'am. | ||
| Thank you for joining us. | ||
| In Georgia, good Lord, how do we have two radical Democrat senators down there? | ||
| It's absolutely disgusting in a state that is one of the greatest mega states around. | ||
| The same problem, though, with the establishment we got in, do we have a callover for Harrison? | ||
| Can we go and play that? | ||
| Do we have it? | ||
| Let's play. | ||
| Let's get some clips of Brian Harrison and let's bring him on. | ||
| Let's play the clips. | ||
| Donald Trump ordered new congressional maps in Texas. | ||
| Democratic lawmakers said that that was an undemocratic move and they left the state so as to delay a vote. | ||
| And now they're threatened. | ||
| Redistricting is a normal course of events. | ||
| Partisan gerrymandering is not. | ||
| And this whole thing, the president telling members of the Texas legislature to take steps to preserve the Republican majority in the House of Representatives by adding more seats. | ||
| This is all part of the slow drip of creeping authoritarianism. | ||
| We saw another example of this with the firing on Friday of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner. | ||
| Most people did not know Erica, McEntarfer, the BLS commissioner who was, and even now, most people would be hard to remember her name or face, let alone any other former commissioners, or know what the BLS actually does. | ||
| But Donald Trump didn't like the numbers that her agency released. | ||
| And so he fired her because he should control that information. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So the concept here that I think is important is one that my colleague at the University of Toronto, Luke Wing Wei, devised called competitive authoritarianism. | ||
| You make it seem like there are still elections, but you cook the elections in advance. | ||
| We've seen this in Hungary, the intense gerrymandering. | ||
| That's what we now have here. | ||
| They're basically saying, you know, as the president himself said, you know, don't worry about the midterms. | ||
| We've got this covered. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And it's Explicit gerrymandering. | ||
| The problem is we've let this happen in state after state. | ||
| So now people will say, okay, you know, there's a partisan gerrymander over here, but what you need to look at is the percentage of people who vote Democratic and whether that vote Democrat and the percentage of people who vote Republican and see if that is reflected in the division in the state legislature, in the congressional body that the state sends to Congress. | ||
| So look at a state like North Carolina, which has split 50, 50 Democrats, Republicans among the voters. | ||
| And often will elect statewide a Republican governor, a Republican attorney, sorry, a Democratic attorney general, a Democratic governor, and yet they have a supermajority of Republicans in the legislature. | ||
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Exactly. | |
| This is gerrymandering. | ||
| By no sense of the imagination of democracy. | ||
| It is just like there's no way. | ||
| North Carolina should be a toss-up. | ||
| North Carolina should be a toss-up, not a supermajority Republican legislature. | ||
| They shouldn't have, I forget exactly the split of Congresspeople, but it's something like 11 to 3 or some extreme skew. | ||
| I'm not sure exactly about, but some extreme skew. | ||
| That's what we've seen. | ||
| That's what we now see. | ||
| What we're going to see is much worse than that sort of thing in Texas, a much more extreme version of the kind of partisan gerrymand we already have. | ||
| And none of this is a democracy. | ||
| Hey, howdy, neighbors, Brian Harrison here, walking out of the Capitol for a quick minute. | ||
| Just want to keep pushing an idea out there because we're day three of this quorum break. | ||
| And so far, all talk and no action out of the Texas government, unfortunately, no punishments of any kind. | ||
| Okay, no, no arrests. | ||
| No chairmanships have been lost. | ||
| Hell, they haven't even been. | ||
| The Democrats don't even have their parking spots taken away. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I'm sick of the talk. | ||
| I want action. | ||
| So here it is. | ||
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Let's fight fire with fire. | |
| Get this going. | ||
| For every one week the Democrats are gone. | ||
| One more Republican seat gets added to the map. | ||
| So they're gone one week. | ||
| Instead of our new maps having five more Republican seats, they're going to have six. | ||
| Democrats gone two weeks. | ||
| Well, we went from plus five to plus seven. | ||
| It's time to play hardball. | ||
| I'm sick of the Democrats fighting harder for the future of Texas than Texas Republicans are. | ||
| Let's change that. | ||
| Let's get this going. | ||
| For every week they're gone. | ||
| Let's amend the map. | ||
| One more Republican seat. | ||
| Let me know what you think. | ||
| Talk to y'all soon. | ||
| Okay, Brian Harrison joins us now. | ||
| It's been performance art by the senior members of the GOP in Texas. | ||
| So what's the action plan? | ||
| The Warren Posse is prepared to do whatever it's got to do to make sure we're taking action because as Alex deGrasse just laid out, we have a historic opportunity, an inflection point in modern America to actually potentially, with the Supreme Court, the Voting Rights Act, the new midterm census, we have fought for day one to do it right. | ||
| We blinked in 2017 and 2018 because of Wilbur Ross and the people over at the Commerce Department. | ||
| President Trump wants it with no illegal aliens in it. | ||
| We have, he thinks 40 to 45 seats potentially, but we've got to start in Texas, and you got to start with action. | ||
| Brian Harrison, your thoughts, sir. | ||
| Well, we need action, but I got to tell you, Steve, it's great to be with you, but I'm kind of upset at you. | ||
| I don't think I'm ever going to be able to get back the brain cells you made me lose by listening to that MSNBC panel right before I came on here. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And like, I got to say something about that. | ||
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Okay. | |
| I pulled some numbers here because they're talking about this extreme gerrymandering. | ||
| They're so mad in Texas. | ||
| And one of these, one of these morons on MSNBC actually said, well, the congressional map should be mirror sort of the voting percentages in the state. | ||
| So I pulled the numbers while he was talking here. | ||
| Read this real quick. | ||
| California, Republicans make up 40% of the vote. | ||
| They get 17% of the seats because they never talk about it when the Democrats do this. | ||
| Never, never a word. | ||
| It's only Republicans. | ||
| Okay, Massachusetts, Republicans make up 35% of the vote. | ||
| They get zero congressional representation. | ||
| Connecticut, Republicans are 38%. | ||
| They get zero seats. | ||
| New York, 42% of the vote is Republican. | ||
| They get 26 seats percentage of the seats. | ||
| Maryland, Republicans are 38% of the vote. | ||
| Republicans get 12% of the seats. | ||
| New Mexico, 44% of the votes Republican, zero congressional seats. | ||
| I could go on for pages here. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So like America needs to be a little bit more. | ||
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Hang on. | |
| I just brought it. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I just brought up what DeGrasse, All of New England, all of New England. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| All the states. | ||
| I think the average is 40%, 38 to 40% of Republicans. | ||
| There's not one Republican in the entire congressional delegation of the entire New England. | ||
| Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut. | ||
| Well, they're trying to make this. | ||
| There's this whole national narrative that these Democrats, if Texas redraws our maps, okay, something we should have done before now. | ||
| If Texas redraws their maps, the Democrat states are going to fight fire with fire. | ||
| They're going to have to respond. | ||
| Well, not only are the Democrats hypocrites, not only are they dishonest, they're also stupid and they can't do math. | ||
| The Democrat governor of Massachusetts said that if Texas redraws their maps to maximize Republican advantage, she's going to take on redistricting in Massachusetts. | ||
| But I guess she doesn't know that she's already gerrymandered every single Republican seat out of the state. | ||
| So what is her position? | ||
| She wants negative Republican congressional representation. | ||
| This is insanity. | ||
| But no, here's actually the list. | ||
| Steve, to your point. | ||
| The following states have zero Republican seats in the U.S. Congress. | ||
| Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Hawaii, New Mexico, Connecticut, and Delaware. | ||
| Zero Republican seats because they've already gerrymandered the hell out of their state. | ||
| So here's the dirty little secret. | ||
| Democrats, including my hypocritical Democrat House colleagues that are hiding behind Governor Pritzker up in Illinois, they have no problem with states redrawing their maps to maximize partisan political advantage. | ||
| They're just mad that a Republican state is finally getting around to doing what their voters want as well. | ||
| So yeah, so that's the background. | ||
| Sorry, I just, you made me endure the MSNBC panel, Steve. | ||
| So I had to say something about that. | ||
| But in Texas, Brian, hang on. | ||
| Hang on one second. | ||
| Hang on one second. | ||
| Before I get to that, I'm going to take a break. | ||
| When we come back, you're still going to have to deal with the panel because I got to have you. | ||
| We're going to take a short break. | ||
| When we come back, the question I'm going to give you now to think about it: is it what Norm Ornstein gives us competitive authoritarianism? | ||
| Take your number two principle out and write it down. | ||
| We got a new concept. | ||
| Competitive authoritarianism. | ||
| That's what we're trying to do here. | ||
| These guys are beauties. | ||
| Like he said, they're radical, they're ridiculous, and they're dumb at the end of the day. | ||
| And that's one of the great strengths we've got. | ||
| The MAGA movement is not. | ||
| Short commercial break, Brian Harrison in Texas, where the fight is fully engaged. | ||
| I think we're kind of going to this fight with one boot off. | ||
| As they used to say. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because the rhinos don't have her back on this. | ||
| But they're going to. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Matt. | |
| Okay. | ||
| Brian Harrison joins me again. | ||
| Brian, Cornett has just, Senator Corner has just announced that the FBI will engage in getting these folks back, these recalcitrant, gutless Texas House Democrats from Illinois. | ||
| There's a clip, and we're going to, as soon as we get a boot up, we'll play it. | ||
| Competitive authoritarianism. | ||
| MSMBC, they've kind of become untethered to reality. | ||
| What are they doing? | ||
| What is going on here? | ||
| They're trying to frame it in what way. | ||
| I was upset at you at the start of the last segment, and you're going to make me start the second segment still talking about MSNBC. | ||
| Good grief, Steve. | ||
| But okay, let's do this. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| If that's the new term, competitive authoritarianism, let them run with it because what these morons don't understand, they accidentally did if they're going to take that term. | ||
| It's an admission that the Democrats have been practicing unilateral authoritarianism for the last 10 years because it's been blue state after blue state after blue state that has gerrymandered almost all Republican seats out of their congressional maps. | ||
| So if they're finally saying, okay, wait a second, well, if Texas is doing something like what we've been doing for 10 years, well, now it's competitive. | ||
| Cool. | ||
| Thank you for admitting for the first time, albeit inadvertently, to America that you guys have been unilaterally practicing your brute, thuggish authoritarianism for the last decade. | ||
| So bring it on. | ||
| I'm happy for this term to stick around. | ||
| Talk to us now about you did this walk-in talk because they still have their parking spaces, which is the lowest hanging fruit. | ||
| Guys, if we can't take the parking spaces away, what are we going to do? | ||
| But I want to go through the whole punchlist, including the governor and these guys have got, if they're going to screw around and take weeks after week after week and slow this process down and not get to things like property taxes and not get to the resources places like Kerrville need and all the kind of response. | ||
| If they're not going to do that, we got to start taking additional seats. | ||
| So walk through your punch list of what we have to do because the posse's up on the ramparts today and ready to roll. | ||
| So I just tweeted this out a few minutes ago, sort of my every morning. | ||
| I'm updating the statistics, okay, on what is actually going on in terms of punishment for the Democrats. | ||
| But before I get to this punchlist, there's two things that I think are the easiest, low-hanging fruit. | ||
| You don't need the courts for this. | ||
| Number one is the thing I mentioned in the video that you aired, which is like, if the Democrats are going to play hardball, I'm sick of it only being the Democrats, especially in Texas where establishment Republicans usually do the Democrats' bidding and then blame the Democrats. | ||
| Okay, let's let time for that crap is over. | ||
| Hardball. | ||
| Every week the Democrats are gone. | ||
| The governor, Speaker, Lieutenant Governor, we should announce we're amending the map one more Republican seat. | ||
| So they've gone one week, quite frankly, by tomorrow, we should add one more seat, which would give us a six-seat advantage instead of five. | ||
| The Democrat, that would hurt, that would terrify the Democrats, and we could do it. | ||
| We don't need the courts for that. | ||
| Number two, why has the governor, lieutenant governor, or speaker not come out and do something that is 100% within their power and just pledged to preemptively and automatically kill, veto, or stop any future bill by any one of these rogue Democrats who is abdicating their constitutional responsibility? | ||
| The governor could say, as long as I'm governor, any bill with your name on it, automatic veto. | ||
| Lieutenant governor and speaker can say any bill with your name on it will never see the light of the day in the Texas House or Texas Senate. | ||
| None of that's happened. | ||
| And then here's the tweet with the checklist every morning. | ||
| All right, the number of seats that have been ordered vacated vacated. | ||
| Because remember, there were these big threats days ago. | ||
| If 3 p.m. | ||
| Monday or Tuesday, deadline, vacated. | ||
| Well, how many seats have been ordered vacated? | ||
| Zero. | ||
| The governor has requested the courts think about vacating one, but like, okay, who knows what the courts are going to do? | ||
| Number of charges filed against any of these Democrats, zero. | ||
| The number of arrests, zero. | ||
| The number of budgets that have been cut. | ||
| We can slash the budgets to their office. | ||
| Easy. | ||
| Zero. | ||
| The number of parking spots. | ||
| If we can't even touch their damn parking spots, please stop with the pretense that you're serious. | ||
| Seniority. | ||
| Some of these Democrats have high seniority. | ||
| That lets them get big palatial offices, plush prime committee assignments. | ||
| We could strip that away. | ||
| No problem. | ||
| Speaker could do it by himself. | ||
| The number of offices that have been defunded, zero. | ||
| The number of Democrat staffers that have been asked, zero. | ||
| Punishments of any kind, zero. | ||
| But the number of sternly worded press statements, countless. | ||
| Okay, that's the update. | ||
| So we need action. | ||
| I'm sick of the talk. | ||
| If you can't do the basics, take their seniority, pull them off their plush committee assignment. | ||
| Steve, Gene Wu, the chairman of the House Democrat caucus, who, by the way, is the one person the governor has asked the courts to think about maybe vacating, he still holds a co-chairmanship of a Texas House committee and is still on the committee on redistricting. | ||
| Think about that. | ||
| The head of the Democrat caucus is still partially in charge of the redistricting process in the Texas House of Representatives. | ||
| You can't make this up. | ||
| Texas voters are sick of it. | ||
| They're sick of empty rhetoric. | ||
| They want bold action. | ||
| They voted for bold leadership when they re-elected Trump with 14 points here in Texas. | ||
| And here's my message, okay, to the leadership in Texas. | ||
| Number one, we know you could have stopped this if you'd wanted to. | ||
| The Speaker of the House could have locked the doors last Wednesday and enforced quorum. | ||
| So the elected Republican leadership, we know you could have stopped this if you wanted to. | ||
| Number two, we know you've got all the tools you need to end it whenever you want. | ||
| Why are you not using those tools? | ||
| Where do people go? | ||
| I want them to go to your social media to get up on all your Twitter. | ||
| Can you put the numbers up? | ||
| They should be calling. | ||
| The Warren posse got their finger on the trigger and wants to roll on this this morning. | ||
| So where do they go, Brian? | ||
| Yeah, you bet. | ||
| Oh, there we go. | ||
| And we'll shoot the numbers. | ||
| we'll shoot the numbers over to you guys too. | ||
| But my ex, if you go to X, my feed, if you want ground truth on what's going on here, Brian E. Harrison on X. Brian E. Harrison on X. Brian E. Harrison on X. And guys, please go there, like, follow, and share because I'm not kidding, guys. | ||
| There is nothing in the Austin swamp more hated than my Twitter feed or my X feed. | ||
| And I got to say, Steve, as always, I appreciate what you and the posse have done because you and the posse, and you know, because we met a couple weeks ago, y'all were ahead of the curve on this. | ||
| And whatever victories, if this thing ends tomorrow, if it ends in, whenever it ends, if there's anything good that's going to come out of this, it's only going to happen. | ||
| Not because the Austin establishment finally gets around to doing the right thing. | ||
| No way, they never do. | ||
| The only way the Austin establishment ever does anything bold, conservative, Republican is when they are forced to by the pressure of grassroots activists in Texas and across the country, letting them know that our eyes are on you and you have no excuses. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
| You and the posse are already making a difference. | ||
| I promise you. | ||
| So keep it up. | ||
| Do not let the pressure off. | ||
| Texas Republicans can end this whenever they want. | ||
| Keep the pressure on. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| If Benner can put back up on the screen the numbers right there. | ||
| Let's get the phone numbers up right there. | ||
| We'll leave it with that. | ||
| Amazing. | ||
| Grassroots. | ||
| The only time these rhinos that run the state respond is when you put the tip of the bayonet right in the back and nudge them along. | ||
| So let's nudge them today. | ||
| Let's make some phone calls. | ||
| Let's let them know it's August. | ||
| But people, the eyes of the nation are upon the great state of Texas. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break here of the right stuff, the magnificent book, the classic movie, the incredible score. | ||
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