Aug. 8, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| Consider a very powerful message from our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. | ||
| Our next guest, historian John Neachum, picked this quote for us from Lincoln's annual address to Congress back in 1862. | ||
| Quote, fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. | ||
| We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. | ||
| The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. | ||
| Lincoln gave that address one month before he signed the Emancipation Proclamation. | ||
| Operating more like the head of a banana republic than the leader of so-called big business party. | ||
| Earlier today, in an extraordinary intervention into a private sector company, Donald Trump demanded that the CEO of the company Intel resign over his personal investments in China, writing, quote, the CEO of Intel is highly conflicted and must resign immediately. | ||
| There is no other solution to this problem. | ||
| Thank you for your attention to this problem. | ||
| But I wanted you to join us tonight and think about President Trump's first 200 days, because that's where we are tonight. | ||
| And I want you to think about Abraham Lincoln, someone who I know you have studied, written about, and consider to be one of our greatest presidents. | ||
| What made you pick that particular quote, those words? | ||
| Because Lincoln puts us on the spot. | ||
| People like me spend a lot of time, understandably, describing, studying, articulating, trying to find something new to say about the great leaders of the past. | ||
| But what Lincoln understood, and what I think all of us have to understand anew, is that democracies are not just about the leaders, it's about the led. | ||
| And that's all of us. | ||
| Democracy is the fullest manifestation of all of us, of our hearts and minds, our habits, our appetites, our ambitions, our hopes and our fears. | ||
| And somehow, over the last 250 years, the American Republican lowercase R experiment has endured, but it has endured with our being out of compliance for more years with the Declaration of Independence than we have been in compliance with it. | ||
| Now, that is not to say that because we have made progress in the past, we have pursued a more perfect union. | ||
| That does not mean we will continue to do so simply because we've done it in the past. | ||
| But if we realize that we can't escape history, as Lincoln said, and that as he said later in that same paragraph, we're either going to meanly lose or nobly save the last best hope of Earth. | ||
| And he saw the civil war not only about the abolition of slavery and the durability of union, but also it was a test for democracy. | ||
| He said that at Gettysburg, right? | ||
| Can this form of government so conceived long endure? | ||
| And that's what we're facing. | ||
| So Israel's Security Cabinet held this marathon meeting last night. | ||
| They voted in the early hours of the morning, Israel time, to approve a plan to send the Israeli military in to seize control of Gaza City. | ||
| Now, that on its face is a little more limited than what Prime Minister Netanyahu said to Fox News yesterday, which is that Israel plans to militarily occupy the entire Gaza Strip. | ||
| It isn't clear at this point if taking Gaza City would be a first step towards eventually taking control of the entire strip. | ||
| There is deep opposition among Israel's military leadership nearly two years into this war. | ||
| There is a feeling that Israel has achieved militarily all it can, and yet the politicians are sending the generals in now to ramp up this military offensive. | ||
| There is deep concern, Willie, among the families of Israeli hostages. | ||
| We have seen in the past Hamas executing Israeli hostages when IDF troops draw near. | ||
| They are deeply, deeply frightened, the families of these roughly 20 or so surviving Israeli hostages that you could see something similar as Israeli forces sweep in again on the ground. | ||
| And then, as you say, there is this major Question about who controls Gaza on the other side of this war. | ||
| Netanyahu is saying there that he wants to see an Arab force governing it. | ||
| He is not saying who that is. | ||
| We heard a unanimous statement from the Arab League last week saying that they believe Hamas should give up control in Gaza, that they should lay down their weapons and that they should hand over control to the Palestinian Authority, the internationally recognized Palestinian semi-government. | ||
| But in that security cabinet vote overnight, the Israeli government explicitly saying they will not allow the Palestinian Authority to take control of Gaza. | ||
| So at this point, despite fighting for nearly two years, it remains deeply, deeply unclear whether Netanyahu has any kind of long-term plan for Gaza. | ||
| He does say Israel doesn't want to stay there long term. | ||
| It's worth saying that is not necessarily a consensus position inside the Israeli government. | ||
| Some of the far-right members of his cabinet would like to see Israeli settlements reestablished in Gaza on the other side of us. | ||
| In the first Trump administration, when the Muslim ban was put in place, think about all the leaders, right, in business and culture and society who stood up and said, this is not who we are. | ||
| After Charlottesville, they said, this is not who we are. | ||
| Fast forward to where we are right now, and you think about all the business leaders who say, man, I have a fiduciary responsibility. | ||
| I just have to play ball with this president no matter what. | ||
| I can't get in the way. | ||
| I can't be his adversary, even if it's the right thing to do, because I've got bills to pay. | ||
| What will that mean for us long-term? | ||
| Big picture. | ||
| Long-term, big picture, democratic institutions, lowercase D in this case, I'm doing a lot of alphabetizing here, is that we may or may not have the same institutional norms and customs that you and I grew up with and that we're accustomed to. | ||
| And when we say norms, I think people look at people who look like me and think, okay, old white man says norms, you know, that's sweet, that's the deep state, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Not really. | ||
| Because as a fundamental reality, no law can cover everything. | ||
| No statute can cover everything. | ||
| There's something about the spirit of the laws. | ||
| There are certain norms. | ||
| There are certain expectations you raise. | ||
| You know, is this who we are? | ||
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Yeah, it is who a lot of us are. | |
| And I throw myself in the, you know, the top of the top of the guilty pile there. | ||
| However, the point of the United States of America is that because that's who we are on our less good days does not mean that's who we have to be all the time. | ||
| This is a democracy is aspirational. | ||
| It is about somehow calling on what Lincoln called in another context our better angels. | ||
| And look, if we do the right thing 51% of the time, that's going to be a hell of a good era and we'll be okay. | ||
| But right now, we're not exactly scraping, we're not exactly hitting that target. | ||
| Republicans, like you mentioned there, Senator Cornyn, Governor Abbott, are all trying to make this as painful as possible for Democrats. | ||
| Now, about five days into this quorum break, work here at the Texas Capitol is stalled as they wait for Democrats to return and give Republicans a quorum. | ||
| Republicans are pulling out all the stops to try and force them home, including arresting them outside of the states. | ||
| Up until this point, the narrative was: if you're outside of Texas, you're outside the jurisdiction of the Texas state troopers that could compel you to the Capitol. | ||
| Now they are trying to get an Illinois court to recognize the arrest warrant that is valid for them in Texas. | ||
| I spoke with Senator Cornyn yesterday as well. | ||
| He said that the FBI could investigate possible federal felony bribery charges to escalate this from not just a civil arrest warrant in Texas, but to real felony charges that could land some of these Democrats in jail. | ||
| I spoke to the governor yesterday at his residence about how all of this plays into the larger political picture, especially, Willie, the urgent need for flood relief in Texas that is a priority of this special session as well, but up until now has really taken the back seat to the legislative Progress on redistricting. | ||
| Take a listen to some of our interview. | ||
| When President Trump says, though, that he is entitled to five more Republican seats, that's been the stated goal of all of this, is to create five more red districts, right? | ||
| He feels entitled to that. | ||
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Should that not be a decision for the voters? | |
| Well, my job as governor is to be able to ensure that we have congressional lines that are aligned to ensure that voters are going to be able to vote for their candidate of choice. | ||
| And the way these lines are drawn ensures that voters who chose President Trump are not going to be trapped in a Democrat district, but instead, they're going to be able to vote in a congressional district that aligns with their philosophy. | ||
| I'm sure you expected redistricting would be an intense political fight. | ||
| Why not do flood relief first and get that urgent need out there and then have this political fight? | ||
| Let's be clear about something. | ||
| When I issued the special session agenda, which lasts only 30 days, the first items that I put on there were relief for all the victims of the deadly flaws that we've had in the state of Texas. | ||
| There's only one thing that's denying our ability to get legislation passed, and it's these Democrats who have fled the state turn their backs on their fellow constituents. | ||
| We appreciate the governor's time there. | ||
| Willie, I also asked him if he thinks it's appropriate for the FBI to get involved in this state political standoff. | ||
| He said he's not going to get into the specifics of who may or may not be involved in this from the federal level. | ||
| But he said that they are using every tool that they can to, quote, hold these Democrats accountable. | ||
| The Texas House convenes again today, and all eyes are on the House to see if there will be a quorum. | ||
| But Democrats are showing no signs of letting up. | ||
| They continue to be defiant today. | ||
| Some of them are heading to California to stand with Governor Newsom and former Speaker Pelosi as they continue this standoff. | ||
| Friday, 8 August, Your Valor 2025, welcome to the morning edition of the War Room. | ||
| We are packed today. | ||
| They were so packed we came into our long open because the cold open was so jammed with news of things that are happening and much, much, much more. | ||
| I have Dave Bratt and Alex deGrasse to kick things off. | ||
| Dave Bratt, you're the resident philosopher around here. | ||
| It's the 200th day of President Trump's administration. | ||
| I think that the greatest 200 days in modern American politics, and when I say modern, I go back to the beginning of the 20th century. | ||
| Just absolutely incredible of what this individual has done with his leadership and a great team around him. | ||
| Give me your perspective. | ||
| The left is in. | ||
| Now they're calling up Lincoln. | ||
| It's, you know, he's an authoritarian. | ||
| Trump's an authoritarian. | ||
| He's a fascist. | ||
| The country's going to hell in the handbasket. | ||
| Your perspective, please, sir. | ||
| Yeah, my perspective is he is the greatest president in modern history, and we'll go through the punch list of why that is. | ||
| But Meacham, you know, always has it exactly backwards when it comes to leadership. | ||
| He says what matters is not the leaders. | ||
| It matters what these little peons called followers do. | ||
| That tells you what he thinks of us, what he thinks of the American people, the American city. | ||
| And then he mentions Republic and all this stuff. | ||
| Meacham, you got all wrong. | ||
| Trump is a political genius and a great leader precisely because he listens to the heart and soul of the American people. | ||
| And he loves the American people and he trusts the American people. | ||
| And so, you know, that's what makes a great leader. | ||
| He listens. | ||
| And when he gets off course and once in a while he gets off course, the American people thump him, the base thumps him a little bit, and he is responsive. | ||
| He goes, what? | ||
| Sometimes he's getting bad counsel and he corrects it and does an executive order the next day. | ||
| But let's just go through a punch list briefly, right? | ||
| What does he come in with? | ||
| What's he faced with? | ||
| He's faced with, you know, $37 trillion in debt, an anemic economy, the border invasion, wars in the Middle East brewing, the Ukraine boondoggle where we're blowing massive cash and people are dying like Crazy. | ||
| And then what's he do? | ||
| He abandons free trade, upends relations with American allies, eviscerates his own government bureaucracy, and bombs Iran. | ||
| Not bad for starters, but it's more than that. | ||
| And just contrast that, right, with other executives, other presidents, or congressional leaders, speakers, the Senate. | ||
| They pick one issue per term or for a couple of years to run on. | ||
| And that's been good enough in the past, and then they don't execute. | ||
| What's striking about Trump is he executes. | ||
| So he's got the big, beautiful bill, tax cuts done by July 4th, reshape NATO. | ||
| Ukraine deal will put an end to that. | ||
| I think that's looking promising right now. | ||
| I'm reading the tea leaves too far out. | ||
| But if Putin ever says, hey, the terms of this deal are looking okay. | ||
| And that's going to end with a keyword that's never mentioned by the mainstream media, and that's NATO. | ||
| There will be no more NATO encroachment, right? | ||
| The deal we made in 91 and we lied. | ||
| We got to quit lying because we're setting up part of these tensions. | ||
| And Trump knows this. | ||
| He wants out of this. | ||
| He mentions death every five seconds. | ||
| And that's just a glimpse, right? | ||
| That's just a glimpse of greatness in 200 days. | ||
| Hang on one second. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| Alex deGrasse, Dave Bratt. | ||
| Deeds, not words. | ||
| He destroyed two political dynasties in 2016, the Bush and the Clinton, and became the greatest president in modern times. | ||
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| There's a pack day today. | ||
| There's going to be a peace conference at a signing this afternoon at the White House. | ||
| We're going to cover that nonstop. | ||
| I'll be doing the six o'clock show, the five, maybe a little truncate. | ||
| Natalie's going to do that. | ||
| She's got a lot to report, particularly on the, I think, some updates on sticking the landing on this situation with seditious conspiracy, the treasonous conspiracy. | ||
| So the afternoon show is going to be packed. | ||
| Although President Trump's going to be in the Oval, I think, starting at Ford, that may get obviously, it's quite a big event. | ||
| We're going to actually have some expert here later in the hour. | ||
| Also, we're going to talk about transgender later and the bio industry. | ||
| There's a huge movement to take ads off TV that we'll get into. | ||
| Alex deGrosse joins us. | ||
| Alex, of course, the most important story in the world politically right now is still this redistricting, which is really about a fundamental realignment of modern American politics. | ||
| And I think the audience knows since you've been laboring at this for years, that you're one of the leaders of this movement. | ||
| I want to pull the camera back just for a second, though, because you're one of the rising young leaders in the conservative movement, Republican Party, and particularly MAGA. | ||
| What's your perspective on President Trump, in particular this younger generation, the perspective on President Trump on the 200th day, sir? | ||
| Well, thanks, Steve. | ||
| Those are really kind words. | ||
| It's an honor to be hammering on the show and working with the posse on multiple fronts on all these important issues. | ||
| But I think it gives a lot of hope, I think, for young conservatives in their 30s, 20s. | ||
| And now we've got this growing population of really MAGA conservatives in their teens and in their early 20s in college. | ||
| And I think it's because the woke, I don't really want to use the word woke, but this just vicious, you know, Marxist, you know, that's just been pushed, pushed, pushed, pushed. | ||
| You know, President Trump is really the first leader to really stand in the breach, push back on an unprecedented level, and really, I think, change the calculus and outlook on the American culture and how we really had almost lost it, Steve. | ||
| I would argue. | ||
| I mean, we were really on the brink. | ||
| I think if Harris had won, I think with another four years, they would have really chased out American history and culture. | ||
| And I think how President Trump has stood in the breach and pushed back, whether it be on education and what we're seeing on these college campuses and schools, I think it's a huge thing. | ||
| And I think It's really just the beginning. | ||
| I see now he's subpoenaing or they're asking for admission information. | ||
| Obviously, the show has talked about how much foreign, Chinese, communist, I mean, they're gutting our schools and they're taking up all the slots. | ||
| And we really have a crisis in this country where the American dream has been slipping away. | ||
| We have the housing ownership crisis. | ||
| It's not something that people are going to fix overnight, but I think President Trump's policies are taking the steps to, you know, it's a long slog, you know, with the Fed and all these multi-front war he's fighting. | ||
| I mean, it gives hope to us younger conservatives that, hey, we have to stay in the fight. | ||
| It's going to be a long-term effort. | ||
| But, you know, this is just the beginning of sort of culling the curve, I think, of this sort of push towards obviously Marxism in this country. | ||
| I want to talk about, I want to talk about that because you have in New York City, you do have a young generation of these Marxist jihadists, and they've got a political movement. | ||
| They've got, and people better not deny it because it's going to come rolling through November in New York City. | ||
| You've got the Working People's Party and the DSA, and they have a ground game. | ||
| I keep telling folks, like the posse and the precinct strategy, and the Trump movement has a ground game, and activists, et cetera, that knock on doors and canvas to do all the unsung work out there. | ||
| But I would argue that the generation of young men 17 to 30 or 18 to 30 are the most based generation, I would argue, in American history. | ||
| Why is that because of Trump, or is that some cultural thing that's driving that's helping Trump go forward or is it some combination, sir? | ||
| I would argue it's a combination. | ||
| And I agree. | ||
| I think the Mom Dami, I think the sort of they're kind of ripping the baynet off and now being open about I think they're they are in response to us, I would argue, right? | ||
| And the achievements that MAGA has done, I think they are the response to, you know, they're sort of now spiraling in that direction, where before it was sort of a hidden game, right? | ||
| I mean, they were kind of pushing that type of stuff to an extent quietly, maybe not as much, more corporatists, of course. | ||
| And now it's sort of out in the open, I think, and they're spiraling. | ||
| But no, I would agree. | ||
| I think it's a combination. | ||
| I think President Trump has inspired a lot of people I know, and they've sort of engaged in the political process. | ||
| And I think starting from 2016, and it's been a long road for people, I think, you know, geez, that was quite some time ago when he came down the escalator. | ||
| And I know a lot of young men at the time, and they sort of started asking questions, you know, the welfare state and about illegal immigration and job prospects. | ||
| And I would say, on top of that, you have just the external factors and how when I was in college, I mean, you're hammered, Steve. | ||
| I mean, just vicious left. | ||
| And a lot of the, you know, far left, women more so, right? | ||
| I mean, they're socially very natural. | ||
| You know, they exclude, and you're always under attack, under attack, under attack on all fronts, on your values. | ||
| And it makes you think, hey, you know, I don't want to say swear words on the show, but kind of F this, you know, we have to fight back. | ||
| And then here comes Trump, right? | ||
| He's out here holding the banner, sword in one hand, and he's out in the front. | ||
| And it gives people a lot of hope that, hey, we can push back. | ||
| We can get things done. | ||
| We can achieve things for the country. | ||
| We can achieve the American dream. | ||
| Like there's still hope to advance this republic further because, I mean, it really was on the brink. | ||
| You look at the weaponization. | ||
| I mean, if President Trump can get to the bottom of Russia Gate, which us as young conservatives, we dealt with, hey, I had people sit me down, say, hey, Trump's a Russian agent. | ||
| What do you do? | ||
| I mean, just crazy people I've grown up with that won't even talk to me. | ||
| So the societal pressures, I think, are breaking because they can't answer to the facts that Trump is putting forward on, you know, just the weaponization, just the corruption, the FBI, and everything that had gone on. | ||
| And now it's all getting exposed. | ||
| And that's why, obviously, they're panicking out of control. | ||
| But the Momdami stuff, the jihadist stuff, that is the new focal point. | ||
| And that will be the fight for us to handle the next generation. | ||
| And it's going to be a major throwdown. | ||
| This is just the beginning of that culmination, I would argue. | ||
| And it's not just in New York City. | ||
| It's all over the country, actually. | ||
| And I'll find some articles and send you. | ||
| They're picking off these mayor races. | ||
| You look at Minnesota now, they've got that crazy guy. | ||
| And then it's bigger than I think people realize. | ||
| I think the posse understands when I did that deep dive show, I think a month ago or so. | ||
| I still have people talking to me about that. | ||
| So people are very locked in on that. | ||
| No, it's the next generation. | ||
| That's what I'm saying on our side, the most based generation In history of these young men, you're going to have a fight for the direction of this country. | ||
| This fight's not going to be over with President Trump's even his next term. | ||
| Hang on for one second. | ||
| I'm going to get to registering the big picture and how important this is, why it's driving the global narrative right now. | ||
| But I want to get in Brian Harrison. | ||
| I think we've got him by phone. | ||
| Brian, going across Texas. | ||
| Brian, can you give us an update? | ||
| Are we getting any action? | ||
| The action items. | ||
| Have we taken parking spots? | ||
| Have we tucked away seniority? | ||
| We hear a lot of the rhetoric, but we're not seeing actions. | ||
| Where do we stand on this Friday morning? | ||
| Yeah, so I'm driving to the Capitol. | ||
| Sorry, I couldn't be on video. | ||
| I'm driving to the Capitol in Austin, Texas, for what will likely be, by the official count, day five of the quorum break. | ||
| Although, as the posse knows, because the posse is more educated than just about any other media consumer out there, the real quorum break started last Wednesday when our Rhino speaker released the Democrats to go huddle up with Hakeem Jeffries in the Capitol here in the state of Texas. | ||
| So on day five, my checklist for this morning, just to get everybody updated on the statistics, the number of seats that have been vacated, still zero. | ||
| Charges filed against these Democrats, zero. | ||
| Arrests, zero. | ||
| Chairmanships revoked, zero. | ||
| Committee assignment stripped, zero. | ||
| Budgets cut, zero. | ||
| Parking spots removed, zero. | ||
| Seniority stripped, zero. | ||
| Offices defunded, zero. | ||
| However, our speaker did put out another strongly worded memo late yesterday. | ||
| And in this strongly worded memo, he told these Democrats he's done messing around. | ||
| It's time to get tough. | ||
| And to you, Democrats, this is what the speaker said. | ||
| He said, we and you get back to Texas, we will pay you in full, but you're going to have to come to my office to pick up the check. | ||
| We're not going to direct deposits. | ||
| So we'll pay you in full, but you got to come to my office to get the check whenever you return. | ||
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So yeah, that is the extent of the action. | |
| But let me tell you something. | ||
| Let me give you a little bit of glimmer of hope, guys. | ||
| The pressure is working. | ||
| We're seeing online from the governor, Lieutenant Governor Speaker. | ||
| They are hearing from the posse, and oh boy, they don't like it. | ||
| But it's making a difference, at least in their rhetoric. | ||
| And just late last night, Steve, you and I and the posse have been talking for days about the Harrison proposal, which is my hardball plan to for every week the Democrats are gone, add one more Republican seat. | ||
| Well, guess who went on TV and acted like they came up with that idea yesterday? | ||
| None other than the governor of the state of Texas is now, at least with words, sort of endorsing the Harrison proposal, although he won't call it that. | ||
| So I just got to say, the posse's making a difference in terms of these guys are feeling the heat. | ||
| So their rhetoric is getting stronger. | ||
| But unfortunately, as we're into officially day five, really day nine or ten, it is nothing more than empty words, hot air, and rhetoric. | ||
| And Texans deserve better. | ||
| We need action. | ||
| We need results. | ||
| These Democrats need to feel the pain. | ||
| Is this going to be a two-minute session today? | ||
| Are you really going to try to have a session since you don't have a quorum? | ||
| I mean, are the Republicans at least going to conference and talk about this? | ||
| Well, here's the sad reality. | ||
| For the last, I mean, our Rhino speaker, keep in mind, our Rhino speaker that was elected by these very Democrats that fled the state, okay? | ||
| He gave the Democrats basically a three-day reprieve. | ||
| He didn't even try to gavel us in yesterday or the day before. | ||
| The last time we even made an attempt was Tuesday. | ||
| So, I mean, that's like the lowest hanging fruit. | ||
| Why the hell are we not forcing a roll call every day? | ||
| I mean, that's just not been happening for two days. | ||
| So today will be our first chance since Tuesday to even in theory require people to show up and register that they're here. | ||
| So most likely, again, anything's possible, okay? | ||
| Anything's possible. | ||
| But most likely, we will show up. | ||
| We will not have a quorum and then we will adjourn. | ||
| I'm unaware of any serious strategy sessions happening anywhere in electronic leadership in Peck. | ||
| Brian, Brian, Brian, hang on one second. | ||
| We're just going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| Brian Harrison, Alex deGrasse, Dave Bratt's my wingman for the entire show. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Back in a moment. | ||
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Here's Your host, Stephen K. Matt. | |
| Okay, I've got Brad deGrasse. | ||
| Brian Harrison joins us by phone. | ||
| By the way, Gold's been on a run, an incredible run, but the last couple days pop. | ||
| I'll discuss that more later. | ||
| And Philip Patrick cannot join us. | ||
| He's out on doing some personal stuff, as most people do in August. | ||
| But he's going to be with us on Monday for a complete breakdown. | ||
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| Empire, it's not the price of gold, although the price of gold today had a pop. | ||
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| It's a good homework assignment for you all over the weekend in a beautiful month of August. | ||
| Brian Harrison, so then, therefore, can we put up the numbers, the numbers we have for Texas? | ||
| And I get feedback from the audience all the time and from the engine room. | ||
| People are really feeling this. | ||
| They feel like they're driving something that's important throughout the whole country. | ||
| But as always, as goes Texas, so goes America. | ||
| Give us some guidance here, what we need to do, because I'm kind of shocked, particularly to see Abbott trying to draft off your idea and these guys. | ||
| You know, everybody there's talking big talk, but still there's no action when these actions are pretty definable. | ||
| You know, what is your recommended next step for the war room posse to make sure that we can continue to drive this narrative, sir? | ||
| Well, a couple things on that. | ||
| Number one, don't be discouraged. | ||
| You are making a difference. | ||
| If it were not for the war room posse, okay, being out ahead of this in front, it was the war room posse before this became the biggest story, not just in America, but the biggest story, one of the biggest stories on the planet right now. | ||
| You guys were ahead of the curve. | ||
| And if it weren't for the early pressure from the posse, I can guarantee you the liberal Austin Uniparty establishment would have 100% been able to get away with their usual, you know, song and dance games and theater where they'd be like, okay, President Trump, okay, Texas Republicans, well, we'll add redistricting to the agenda and we'll try. | ||
| And oh, it didn't work out, but you know what? | ||
| We try because that's their usual stunt. | ||
| You know, look like you're doing something while you're doing nothing and then blame the Democrats. | ||
| So I assure you, the posse is making a difference. | ||
| Number two, full spectrum. | ||
| Keep the pressure up. | ||
| The governor of Texas, I promise you, would never be out there, you know, as you say, drafting off my idea, you know, copy and pasting the Harrison proposal to add more Republican seats if we weren't out there demanding it. | ||
| If the posse wasn't calling his office and saying, hey, we know you can do this. | ||
| Why aren't you doing it? | ||
| And number three, full spectrum. | ||
| The governor's got the tools. | ||
| He needs to keep hearing it. | ||
| Here's something I just tweeted. | ||
| Okay, I haven't done much of this. | ||
| Here's a big new one for the posse, just a little more color when you're making your phone calls. | ||
| The lieutenant governor, the Texas Senate. | ||
| All the eyes have been in the Texas House with our rhino speaker who released the Democrats. | ||
| But why? | ||
| Here's the story no one's talking about. | ||
| Why the hell has the Texas Senate, which has not had a quorum break, not passed the redistricting map? | ||
| Okay, I mean, there's no excuse for this not to have already sailed through the Texas Senate. | ||
| I mean, I can tell you they've had enough time over the last three weeks to pass their ridiculous ban on hemp, you know, the stuff that President Trump legalized six years ago. | ||
| So they've been able to pass bills over there, but they have not passed the redistricting map. | ||
| So this is a full spectrum assault that the posse needs to keep up on the weak establishment leadership of the state of Texas that reminds them, we know you could have stopped it. | ||
| You didn't, but we know you have the power to stop it at any time. | ||
| Get it done now. | ||
| And just for folks who are keeping score at home, the governor's threat to vacate Democrats that fled the state, that deadline was 3 p.m. on Monday. | ||
| So at 3 p.m. today, it will be the five-day anniversary of the empty threat to vacate House Democrats to those who celebrate. | ||
| So keep it up. | ||
| We need action because I'm becoming more convinced. | ||
| I've been down here four years since I finished working for President Trump in his first term. | ||
| I'm becoming convinced that there are no creatures on earth more feckless than Texas-elected Republicans. | ||
| And it's past time we changed that. | ||
| Texas must lead. | ||
| As goes Texas, so goes the nation. | ||
| As goes America, so goes the world. | ||
| Texas is the line in the sand for the future of our country. | ||
| The posse is playing a role. | ||
| They're making a difference. | ||
| Keep the pressure up. | ||
| Brian Harrison, where do we go? | ||
| Where do people go to get your social media, particular Twitter feed, sir? | ||
| Yeah, please go to the Twitter feed on X because I can tell you guys it is the most hated Twitter feed in the entire city of Austin, maybe the state of Texas for the rhinos and the liberal media. | ||
| Brian E. Harrison on X, Brian E. Harrison, Brian E. Harrison. | ||
| We post 10, 20, 30, 50 times live updates. | ||
| But Steve, you and the posse, man, thank you for spreading the word across the country. | ||
| Y'all been ahead of this the whole time. | ||
| We got to keep it up. | ||
| You're a warrior. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Appreciate the update. | ||
| If Grace, I think Mo's traveling today back from Poland with posts on that crowd, Grace, if you can please take those numbers, let's get them up on Getter. | ||
| Let's get them up on all the different sites right there. | ||
| And let's, particularly this morning, let's put a blast into Lieutenant Governor Patrick and say, where is the Senate? | ||
| Why has the Senate not passed this already? | ||
| You got a quorum. | ||
| So you got the numbers right there. | ||
| Let them have it, both barrels. | ||
| Alex deGrasse, I don't have time. | ||
| We're so packed today. | ||
| I don't have time because I had a cold open for you. | ||
| I've got Karl Rove. | ||
| I get the editor board, you know, Paul Gijot and the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| I've got Mitch Daniels and, you know, I've got all, you know, the Bush highlight reel, Mitch Daniels in Indiana. | ||
| Remember, Lil Mitch was going to be president of the United States. | ||
| That didn't work out too well. | ||
| You got Karl Rove. | ||
| I get everybody lecturing Alex deGrasse, all these Republicans on national television about how the plan that you and a handful of others have concocted to basically change modern American politics and diffuse power back to where the founders wanted it. | ||
| And now President Trump coming in and dropping the big hammer and say, you know what? | ||
| I'm seeing this redistricting. | ||
| I like it, but I want a mid-decade census to get all the illegal aliens out of here. | ||
| What's your response then? | ||
| What's your response to Karl Rove and Paul Gigot, the Wall Street Journal editor, saying, oh, no, this is terrible. | ||
| You shouldn't do this. | ||
| This is going to be awful. | ||
| The Democrats govern. | ||
| And it's un-American, Alex deGrasse. | ||
| So I would just say we really have one chance in front of us to save the country. | ||
| And, you know, many of these people you mentioned, they haven't been with us along the way for the fight, Steve. | ||
| So I would recommend people not pay attention to what they have to say, of course. | ||
| Of course, they're out there making a lot of noise. | ||
| But where were any of these people during the weaponization, this, that? | ||
| And they were obviously nowhere to be found because I believe many of them were probably supporting it. | ||
| Because I think what many Republicans in the establishment fear is the sort of magnification of the party down the road, right? | ||
| It's not that this will be, you know, past President Trump, right? | ||
| Which, of course, is what the Warburn posse is fighting for. | ||
| And if we get the things that we spoke about, right, on the redistricting, on the census, on Supreme Court cases, you will see certainly the national populace and sort of magnification of the Republican Party will be cemented, Steve. | ||
| It will be the dominant force, not just within the Republican Party and the conservative movement, but for the country in the foreseeable future. | ||
| And there's literally no spin about that. | ||
| And so a lot of people's power and money will be upset by this. | ||
| And so as I've spoken to people since the head, people are like, there's no way this can happen because there's so much at stake for so many people, Steve, that I think this will be, as I said, the fight of our lifetime politically, because if we can achieve this, which nothing is guaranteed, of course, on the Supreme Court, on the census, there's going to be all types of legal burdens and challenges throughout this process. | ||
| But if we can even get half of what we're talking about, it still would protect our Republic to continue to make the positive MAGA changes over the next 10 years. | ||
| But if our target and our target remains to get it all, and my thing is it's all enough. | ||
| We've got to get it all. | ||
| And here's why. | ||
| You've got a convergence of these forces that happen every now and again. | ||
| You've got the voting rights situation in Louisiana, which I think is, and people waited for a long time to bring these cases. | ||
| It's a quite brilliant case. | ||
| You've got the voting rights situation. | ||
| You have the demographic shifts in the country. | ||
| You got President Trump asking for a mid-decade, and he's going to get it. | ||
| He ain't asking for it, by the way. | ||
| He's telling Commerce, we're going to do this, okay? | ||
| You've got, then you've got these states who've had these demographic changes and coming into the states, and then where people are living in the states. | ||
| Jake Sherman, who's about as savvy as anybody on Capitol Hill, very conventional, savvy. | ||
| Today's punch bowl, and if Grace can cut this part out, and I think Jake would appreciate it because he'll get him more subscribers. | ||
| He goes through the whole thing. | ||
| He's a little late to the party on this, but he walks through the whole thing, including Florida, Indiana, where else this is going. | ||
| DeSantis is on board here because DeSantis wants to run for DeSantis wants to run for president in 2028. | ||
| I understand he's not MAGA's favorite because of what happened, but he understands, just like Abbott, if you want to have a hand in this, if you want to have even an entry stake into that, you've got to get on this train right now. | ||
| If you're not in this fight, then that'll be remembered forever because this is the fight. | ||
| This is a realignment right now that will be, will echo. | ||
| They talked about the fiery trial of what Lincoln said at the beginning. | ||
| This will echo down through the ages right now because you will not reverse this for decades and decades and decades, Alex deGrasse. | ||
| Yeah, that's right. | ||
| I mean, this is it. | ||
| I mean, this really has. | ||
| I mean, Stephen Miller went on TV, I think about the same time we were talking about this on War Room, and he said on Fox, just the census is 20, 30 seats based off his numbers of illegal immigrants in the cities and whatnot that are counted in the census, which then apportions the congressional districts. | ||
| And so, I mean, this really is, I mean, this is the ball game, Steve, when you look at how we're able to put together, because I don't think anyone's going to say that, hey, we're going to be able to, I mean, President Trump has done so much in such a short time. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| But I think the bigger problems facing the country on affordability, on housing, and all that stuff is going to take a very sustained process. | ||
| And I think we need more time that we can to really change and alter the course of this country. | ||
| And I think we will do it, of course. | ||
| And we have to stand firm because, yeah, Punch Ball is great. | ||
| And they are the most plugged in reporters in the Hill, of course. | ||
| And they've got that rundown that shows, hey, we win in this fight. | ||
| And so that is why Democrats are spiraling and that is why Rhinos are on couple freaking out. | ||
| Jake Sherman is not MAGA. | ||
| And he said, hey, I'll be blunt. | ||
| They don't have a lot of defenses here. | ||
| And these guys have got weapons and they're coming. | ||
| I mean, it's an amazing piece. | ||
| That's why I want people to read it. | ||
| The target is about 40 to 42 seats, right? | ||
| This is a 40-seat thing. | ||
| And Texas is the lead. | ||
| This is why we got to deliver Texas. | ||
| When do you think it's going to heat up in Florida? | ||
| I understand they're talking about map, and people are going to love the map in Florida even more because it's going to take out, it's going to take out some of the most obnoxious people in the house. | ||
| I know that's random, but when do you think it's going to heat up in Florida? | ||
| Well, I think everything's looking at Texas, like Brian's saying. | ||
| I think it's a little bit of a logjam now. | ||
| So I think when that gets pushed through, I think things will start shifting. | ||
| I would assume DeSantis wouldn't wait. | ||
| I'm not, I'm going to check on that. | ||
| I'm assuming sooner than later, but I think everyone's kind of waiting on Texas because once that happens, then I think you'll see a chain reaction, obviously on both sides. | ||
| But the reality is that we have more firepower on this fight. | ||
| And, you know, they'll draw some seats and that will be tougher for some people, of course, but we will get more. | ||
| And so that's why they're freaking out. | ||
| That's the issue. | ||
| I want everybody to read this. | ||
| I want everybody to read Jake Sherman's dispassionate analysis of this because it's quite, folks, it'll give you, if you think you're jacked up now, you'll really get jacked up when you see the establishment, what they're saying about this. | ||
| DeGrasse, social media, people want to follow you because every moment of every day now, we're engaged in this combat on reshaping the infrastructure, the structure of modern American politics by a representation. | ||
| Where do people go, sir? | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| I'm at DeGrasse81 on X, at DeGrasse on Getter and Truth. | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| We got to keep pushing on Texas. | ||
| The rest will start coming online. | ||
| But good job, Brian and everyone. | ||
| But let's just keep pressure on that and work the phones. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| It's all up to the war and posse. | ||
| But look, when we get in fights where it's about the war and posse's muscle, I'll take that every day of the week. | ||
| It's positioning the troops where they can have the best and most effective impact. | ||
| Short break, Brad, next. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Max. | |
| I want to reiterate the importance of this audience. | ||
| I mean, you were there. | ||
| You've been there since the beginning. | ||
| Many of you have from war impeachment, warm pandemic, and the election, the election fraud, all of it. | ||
| President Trump being exiled to Mar-a-Lago in January of 2021. | ||
| Many of you veterans are combat hardened. | ||
| But every fight here, every day, is for the future, right? | ||
| For the present and for the future. | ||
| That's why we, in thinking through with Alex deGrasse and other people and meeting Brian Harrison, knowing Brian coming on the show a couple of times before, but understanding the importance of this and meeting with Texas grassroots and really walking through the fact that this is everything. | ||
| This is grass, because this is grassroots muscle versus the establishment. | ||
| Maybe I'll do it at six or maybe I'll do it tomorrow. | ||
| I'll show you the resistance. | ||
| Carl Rove. | ||
| Brad, I'll bring you in because you had to deal with this when you were in the House and when you ran because you were ultra conservative at the time and you're MAGA now. | ||
| You're a Tea Party. | ||
| That's what got you in. | ||
| And you saw this up there. | ||
| But when you have Carl Rove on Fox, Mitch Daniels meeting with the vice president and his team, right, Mitch Daniels, in the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, Paul Gijo, that's it. | ||
| I mean, that's the Republican Chamber of Commerce elitist business community mentality. | ||
| And they hate this. | ||
| One of the reasons they hate this is they want Trump impeached. | ||
| They got their tax cuts. | ||
| They got their goodies. | ||
| They're all around there. | ||
| They got it. | ||
| They would love Trump to get crushed in the second part of this and to kill the MAGA movement. | ||
| They hate it. | ||
| Mitch Daniels and Carl Rove hate you, this audience. | ||
| They hate you more than they disagree with the Democrats. | ||
| Look down at Texas. | ||
| Look in Texas. | ||
| Folks, if you didn't go fix bayonets on this, nothing would have happened. | ||
| The grassroots in Texas have risen up and they've risen up in their righteous indignation and say, no way, we're getting this done. | ||
| And we don't care who's going to stand in our way here, particularly a bunch of do-nothing people like Abbott, right? | ||
| And now Abbott's sitting there taking the Harrison plan. | ||
| Yeah, I think for every week they're out there putting on the dude. | ||
| Don't worry about the other ones. | ||
| Get the five we got on the table. | ||
| Dave Bratt, thoughts, observations, sir. | ||
| Yeah, well, you've had it right. | ||
| I mean, the deep state is the key, right? | ||
| The deep state has to be taken down. | ||
| In the opening, you had reference to Charlottesville again. | ||
| But the Ukraine war and ending the war, Trump can do huge damage to that crowd if he shuts down. | ||
| You know, all of these things are just funding sources for the Democrat Party, Act Blue, and all these kind of things. | ||
| When I ran, the Dems were getting money just falling out of the heavens. | ||
| I mean, just constantly. | ||
| I was like, how does this happen? | ||
| And then Charlottesville comes, you know, officers died at Charlottesville, and they're still using that meme. | ||
| That is grotesque, morally, to be using that. | ||
| That's been debunked thoroughly, but you heard it just this morning from the top top shelf news folks. | ||
| The Washington Post, of course, nuked me for plagiarism. | ||
| They were in all the big tech just a couple years ago. | ||
| We're censoring all of us, and now we're supposed to believe they're our buddies. | ||
| And so you've had it right on the deep state and then on the ending the wars, which of course is a part of that. | ||
| But then the Republican Party, I got no money, right? | ||
| So Virginia politics, just the same as Texas. | ||
| Maybe not quite as bad, but the Speaker of the House of Virginia, I think I've been told, had the authority in my redistricting case. | ||
| That didn't have to happen, but somehow he didn't put in the lines and he let some independent party, and that's the unit party. | ||
| And then my leadership, Paul Ryan, sent me no money, no money. | ||
| So that's the way the call rose. | ||
| Now, they're very sophisticated. | ||
| And, you know, you said Jake Sherman is, you know, savvy. | ||
| He is savvy, but they just nick you with a thousand million wounds, right? | ||
| They just today, Politica, look at Politico today. | ||
| They're getting in the weeds on the size of our tax cuts. | ||
| They never get in the weeds on Democrat forgeries. | ||
| The Democrats are involved in so many obscenities. | ||
| You know, $30 million to the big guy, right? | ||
| And not a word, no interest. | ||
| The Hunter Biden laptop, that piece, that's a huge receipt that's never covered. | ||
| They never mentioned Tulsi's thousands of documents she's turned over as evidence. | ||
| They just say she's put forward a conspiracy. | ||
| Well, now Bondi's reference that to a grand jury. | ||
| That is all huge news. | ||
| So the deep state, they're getting nervous. | ||
| The Republicans are part of it. | ||
| They make deals, right? | ||
| It's very interesting how governors are chosen. | ||
| And you can almost see there's a trade-off from year to year. | ||
| We'll put a Republican in as long as they don't do anything. | ||
| And then the Democrats come in for a term or two. | ||
| And then the Republicans get the crumbs. | ||
| But we never move the football until Trump. | ||
| Now we're finally moving the football down the field full speed because he has the vision and he's a master CEO negotiator, right? | ||
| I was with some business friends the other day up in Michigan and the business guys were all just saying, I've never seen a negotiator like this. | ||
| I've never seen a deal maker like this. | ||
| And they're all just business guys. | ||
| And they just, I never thought of it that way, but they're just going, I never seen anybody make deals. | ||
| And now with India, I just want to bring that's in the news right now. | ||
| And, you know, it's a little curious. | ||
| I looked it up this morning. | ||
| India's only spending 1.9% of GDP on defense. | ||
| That's inexcusable. | ||
| India is successful. | ||
| They're huge. | ||
| We're doing more on the South China Sea, et cetera, than they are. | ||
| They need to step up to the plate and take on their share of global responsibilities, not to mention just the terms of the tariff deal. | ||
| And I think that's why Trump's ticked off. | ||
| It's like, why are we doing everything? | ||
| They need to take up their share of global financing, et cetera. | ||
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And that's why I think Trump is ticked off. | |
| And if he didn't have his leadership, and here's the thing, now that we've proven this reditioning fight is not just winnable, but must be won. | ||
| The president's come in with something so powerful to order the Commerce Department. | ||
| This is not like the first term. | ||
| He's playing, you know, these guys, he's telling the Congress party, hey, this is what you're going to do. | ||
| And Stephen Mill is absolutely correct. | ||
| It's 20, 30 additional seats than what we're getting because you're going to take all those illegal aliens out of there, which ought to be. | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| Dave, Brad, hang on. | ||
| You're riding shotgun here this morning. | ||
| Second hour, we're going to talk about this Armenia situation, this peace deal, also this corridor, what it all means. | ||
| Is it America first? | ||
| John Lott's going to join us. | ||
| What in the hell is going on in Washington, D.C.? | ||
| Looks like President Trump may federalize the police enforcement there because the city's out of control with crime. | ||
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