Aug. 22, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| So, putting the pieces together, what are the implications for monetary policy? | ||
| In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside and risks to employment to the downside, a challenging situation. | ||
| When our goals are intentioned like this, our framework calls for us to balance both sides of our dual mandate. | ||
| Our policy rate is now 100 basis points closer to neutral than it was a year ago, and the stability of the unemployment rate and other labor market measures allows us to proceed carefully as we consider changes to our policy stance. | ||
| Nonetheless, with policy and restrictions.tive territory, the baseline outlook and the changing balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance. | ||
| Monetary policy is not on a preset course. | ||
| FOMC members will make these decisions based solely on their assessment of the data and its implications for the economic outlook and the balance of risks. | ||
| We will never deviate from that approach. | ||
| But I don't think he cared about the classification system. | ||
| I don't think he appreciated the sensitivity of this information and he didn't appreciate the sensitivity of how it was often pres acquired, the so-called sources and methods. | ||
| So this had been briefed to him before I arrived. | ||
| It was repeated frequently. | ||
| I think it simply had no impact on him whatever. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
| MAGA media. | ||
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
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| You're in the war room. | ||
| It's Friday, August 22nd in the year of our Lord, 2025. | ||
| Natalie Winters hosting and filling in for Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| We've got a packed show. | ||
| We are awaiting the one and only Peter Navarro at the White House. | ||
| We got Mike Benz, Sam Fattis, and an update from the West Coast, why they need what President Trump is doing here in DC. | ||
| While we wait for the one and only doctor Navarro, Mike Benz, I want to bring you on. | ||
| I wanted to get your sort of assessment and scoop of everything that happened this morning with John Bolton and why you think he is, you know, potentially of interest, shall we say, to law enforcement. | ||
| Well, we don't have any details about what the raid entailed, but given the dispute between John Bolton and the Trump administration around the potentially classified information in John Bolton's book that John Bolton put in there against the disputes of the Trump administration, it's quite possible. | ||
| I think signs are leading currently, the leading theory of the raid is that there may be classified information at his home, and that this was, in a way, kind of similar to the kind of raids that the Biden administration was doing on Trump officials for that sort of thing. | ||
| But John Bolton is quite an interesting character to be, if that is indeed what happened. | ||
| It's a bit ironic given that John Bolton had made those accusations against President Trump of mishandling classified documents. | ||
| And there is a question whether if that is indeed the case, if that is what the raid was about. | ||
| There is the question of potential prosecutions. | ||
| And I just want to make this point up front, which is that there is the same problem with prosecutions of blob officials who have committed criminal wrongdoing in DC, which is the DC jury pool. | ||
| And I believe that if Donald Trump, if President Trump and Vice President JD Vance put out a call for 100,000 people who are centrist or independent or conservative to move to Washington, DC in order to change the composition of DC jury pools, it would only take about 100,000 people to substantially change DC jury pools. | ||
| I'm living in Washington, D.C. now. | ||
| I've lived here several times. | ||
| It's always been a 95% Democrat city, which means it's always been very difficult to actually hold uniparty officials responsible for crimes. | ||
| We saw this in the classified documents case about Joe Biden himself. | ||
| If folks recall, while the Justice Department was doing the pre-dawn raid of Mar a Lago and indicting President Trump for mishandling classified documents, the Justice Department then suffered a very embarrassing quandary, which was that then sitting president Joe Biden was found to have had classified documents at his home and had mishandled them too. | ||
| And then special prosecutor Robert Hur argued in a memo that the Justice Department should not bring the case against President Biden, even though he had committed the same alleged underlying crime as President Trump because a DC jury would find that he would be senile and gentle and would not want him to send him away to spend his final days in a prison cell. | ||
| So it was the same crime, the same facts of the case, but one person got indicted and the other person didn't just because of the issue of the jury pool. | ||
| So I believe if the Trump administration can turn DC into Miami, so to speak. | ||
| Miami recently turned red in the past four years. | ||
| It's Miami Dade County is now a red county. | ||
| If if there can be a call, an immigration to DC, if for nothing else to help the Justice Department be able to have a be able to actually bring justice to Washington, DC, I think that would move mountains. | ||
| And speaking of the DOJ, I know it's just sort of breaking, but that they released the transcript of Todd Blanche's interview with Ghislaine Maxwell. | ||
| Of course, the media focusing on that the DOJ did ask her about President Trump's potential connections to Epstein, which she repeatedly said there were none. | ||
| She never saw him receive a massage or do anything, shall we say, untoured. | ||
| But I'm curious, you've been sort of going through it. | ||
| I've been seeing your ex. | ||
| What's your sort of assessment of what's contained there? | ||
| Well, one thing that's fascinating is she point blank tells the Justice Department, I was part of the beginning process of the Clinton Global Initiative. | ||
| And then she goes on to say that she believes Jeffrey Epstein actually funded the Clinton Global Initiative and that they came up with the idea together while on a trip to Davos. | ||
| Now we know that this lines up with the exact start of the Clinton Foundation in 2002 was exactly when Jeffrey Epstein was flying President Clinton around personally as a kind of aerial chauffeur around Africa. | ||
| I think they went to five different countries in Africa together publicly. | ||
| And this was actually part of the process that I think brought Jeffrey Epstein a little bit too close to the sun was when he was personally flying President Clinton around while President Clinton was setting up the Clinton Foundation. | ||
| And we know that what the Clinton Foundation was doing was essentially pay to play while Hillary Clinton was making her rise in New York Senate politics and then into the Secretary of State and while they had all this clout and connections and pull within the Democratic Party that they could essentially sell US foreign policy to foreign donors and to big corporations so that they could essentially, | ||
| instead of doing things in the national interest, have the State Department, the Defense Department., the CIA, USAID essentially twist the governance and policies of foreign countries using the battering ram of the American diplomacy and war and trade machine in order to profit the people who personally paid the Clintons for those favors. | ||
| And so this is totally in line with what I think is the most persuasive theory of the case on Epstein, which is that he was a money bundler. | ||
| He helped in the structuring of these complex faux philanthropic influence machines. | ||
| He was a deal maker, and it looks like he was part. | ||
| of the deal, uh, the deal making that went into the origins of the Clinton Foundation, which we're now learning as well. | ||
| The Justice Department shut down the FBI investigation in two, three different FBI investigations and the Clinton Foundation were shut down and the IRS investigation was shut down. | ||
| Uh, we're told now because the IRS claimed they didn't have enough resources to investigate the Clinton Foundation. | ||
| Evidently, the fraud there was so massive. | ||
| The IRS' defense to get out of political cronyism is that I guess the fraud was too big to jail. | ||
| They simply couldn't take it on. | ||
| And Mike, I want to sort of bring this back to the broader discussion, I think, of how these foreign governments are sort of co-opting a lot of our domestic policy. | ||
| Obviously, on the censorship front, we've seen the UK do a lot there. | ||
| But yesterday we ran out of time. | ||
| But you had some updates on how foreign governments are sort of exploiting some censorship loopholes. | ||
| Or is there some movement on that front? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| This is this is now escalating dramatically. | ||
| See what happened was this started as a transatlantic censorship apparatus. | ||
| It grew out of NATO initially as a response to losing Crimea in eastern Ukraine. | ||
| And then it moved westward to, uh, to Western Europe after the Brexit referendum. | ||
| And then it moved finally to the United States in 2016 when Donald Trump won in that same DOD, CIA, USAID, State Department network brought that apparatus to the United States. | ||
| But as we've gotten more and more victories here in the United States against the censorship machine, as we have cracked down on the funding arms of from the funding spigots from the US government, hundreds of millions of dollars. | ||
| And I think the audience should be mindful of this. | ||
| We've achieved huge wins in just seven months in the Trump administration, cutting hundreds of millions of dollars out of the NGOs and pressure cookers in the private sector that were pushing the tech companies to censor people. | ||
| And so, if you've experienced a lot more freedom on the internet lately, it's not just because of Elon Musk, though he played the indispensable role in this, undoubtedly, but there's much less pressure on Facebook and on YouTube and on other organs from the US government. | ||
| The response to this from the censors in exile in the United States and their allies in ruling governments around the world has been to internationalize the issue, to take it upstream of the United States to the international community. | ||
| And what they're now plotting and which has just gone into effect and we're now seeing the beginning volleys of are you have foreign countries asserting global jurisdiction over websites on the internet in countries far, far away. | ||
| So right now the UK is actually finding the website 4chan $20,000 a day. | ||
| So you add that up over a year and this is going, this is very serious money. | ||
| 4chan is a US website. | ||
| It has nothing to do with the UK. | ||
| This might as well be on the moon. | ||
| If 4chan was operated on a military base on the surface of the moon, imagine the UK government fining it for allowing speech that Brits can access through a VPN. | ||
| This is a way of getting long-armed jurisdiction over American speech. | ||
| And make no mistake, this was the plan from the beginning. | ||
| The UK Digital Ministry and the UK Foreign Office, as well as their little honchos and MI six and the UK Ministry of of Defense sent over a delegation to the Biden administration and personally briefed them on how they can work together to censor their mutual opponents on both sides of the Atlantic. | ||
| The America First Legal Stephen Miller and Gene Hamilton's legal shop did an amazing job getting access to these documents. | ||
| They explicitly plotted to get to censor American speech with foreign censorship laws. | ||
| And the American censors in exile are champing at the bit as a way for them to get their old jobs back in the censorship industry and their old funding back from the government funding mechanisms that allowed them to do this all with our money. | ||
| So this is now happening in the UK. | ||
| It's happening in the EU through the EU Digital Services Act, and it's happening in Brazil. | ||
| And this is now... | ||
| This is now a job for the State Department and for our international influence branch in order to stop the enforcement of this through tariffs, sanctions, security policy renegotiations. | ||
| I believe we may need to threaten leaving NATO if this escalates. | ||
| Mike, if you can hang with us during the break, perfect pause, but I want to double down on that. | ||
| We'll be back. | ||
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| We still have Mike Benz with us. | ||
| We've also got Sam Fattis, and we're awaiting Dr. Navarro. | ||
| But Mike, just to sort of wrap up directionally where you think we're going on the Bolton front, what you think we need to really be paying attention to, and you can sort of wrap up your censorship thoughts. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So to me, what's happening on the John Bolton front, remember, he was the national security advisor as well. | ||
| He was also the head of policy and budget for USAID, fascinatingly. | ||
| John Bolton was also the person who almost single handedly, well, I guess he had a little help from his friends, but he played a major part in getting us involved in the Iraq war, reportedly threatened the head of the OPCW, | ||
| the chemical weapons folks who tried to bring Iraq into that in order to try to ousted them, ousted the head of that, threatened his family and children in order to ensure that the US had a war predicate to get the US into the Iraq war. | ||
| But a lot of this comes down to the restructuring and accountability of the intelligence community, which of course, as the National Security Advisor, John Bolton was the senior official over that whole portfolio. | ||
| And what we saw this week as well was the OD and I director, Tulsi Gabbard, announcing a massive restructuring of OD and I, laying off forty percent, I believe, of the staff within OD and I and dramatically downscaling and narrowing its role, citing bureaucratic bloating and a departure from its core mission. | ||
| I think a lot of folks when they initially saw that OD and I was going to have a massive staff reduction saw that as being a kind of reduction of her powers. | ||
| This, I believe, came from Senator Tom Cotton, who's the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee currently. | ||
| But this does appear to be the thing that Tulsi wanted. | ||
| And you can see how, to the extent that OD and I is obstructed from the inside by a vast bureaucratic class who is not carrying out orders, who is working across purposes, that this could be a way to really streamline the efficiency as they continue their dig transparency effort. | ||
| But at the end of the day, you basically have two methods of accountability, three methods of accountability. | ||
| You have mass terminations, you have defunding, you have declassifications, and then I guess the fourth would be the criminal arrests. | ||
| While we've made so many strides in reforms to these government institutions, at the end of the day, the Justice Department, it does need to deal with that DC jury phenomenon. | ||
| And I just want to reiterate to any members of the administration who are, who are listening that I do believe a public call to get, to stack DC with conservatives so that the jury pool is even and you have a fair fight is really the only way to arm the Justice Department with the support that it needs within the community of peers of these national security officials who've gone rogue | ||
| so that they actually get a fair trial and not a rigged one where they will be declared innocent and even having committed crimes and the DOJ will be permanently hamstrung. | ||
| This is the problem when you have all these federal government offices headquartered in D.C. and D.C. is the home turf of blobsters. | ||
| I think if there was essentially a kind of jobs program or services, some something something to entice people to move to dc to change that phenomenon, you would have a completely different administration of justice in terms of our federal offices. | ||
| Mike Benz, as always, thank you for laying everything out for us. | ||
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| Thank you, sir, for joining us. | ||
| We are joined now, I guess kind of picking up where we left off by the one and only Sam Fattis who has a great new substack piece up. | ||
| Tearing apart the intelligence community is the easy part. | ||
| It's the reconstruction that will be the challenge. | ||
| Obviously, Director Gabbard announced that they are going to be reorganizing, significantly slimming down the ODNI. | ||
| Can you kind of walk us through what the announced changes are and just walk us through your piece? | ||
| Right, well, when the Director of National Intelligence was created, when the Office of Director of National Intelligence was created after 911, the idea was you were supposed to have this small staff that would theoretically help all these agencies to talk to each other and coordinate because supposedly 911 was a failure in communication. | ||
| There are a lot of other issues behind 911, but in any event, you were supposed to have a very small staff and a director and just coordinate things. | ||
| It, of course, in classic Washington fashion, ballooned into this monstrosity, just, you know, duplication of effort, layers upon layers of bureaucrats. | ||
| So the current DNI, Tulsa Gabbard, has been very clear since she got in that she's not letting that stand and she is making significant cuts and this is the biggest cut she has made so far and it's, you know, it's a good it's a good start. | ||
| I support it wholeheartedly. | ||
| The point of the article was to say, It is a good start, but that is all it is. | ||
| And that's not a knock on the DNI. | ||
| She knows that. | ||
| And I, you know, you have a bloated apparatus. | ||
| And again, as I often do to focus on CIA since I'm closest to that, it is bloated. | ||
| It has clearly involved itself, senior members, in all sorts of things now for many years. | ||
| that it should not have done. | ||
| And that's too mild. | ||
| Illegal actions and unconstitutional actions. | ||
| that is clear, but at the same time, the It doesn't do those things very well anymore. | ||
| John Brennan took point on this and effectively destroying its effectiveness. | ||
| And it is now run largely by guys and gals who were not operations officers like I was. | ||
| In other words, they're not spies in common parlance. | ||
| They didn't run ops. | ||
| They haven't spent their careers abroad. | ||
| They're government bureaucrats. | ||
| They've hardly ever left Northern Virginia. | ||
| And they have no idea what they're doing beyond, again, the political things they've been involved in that clearly they should not be involved in. | ||
| So it's not just cutting slots and getting rid of people. | ||
| We need to make sure, first of all, we cut the right people and retain the right people. | ||
| But then we have to understand that that whole apparatus, and it goes beyond CIA, it's true of all the other agencies, is broken in the broken in the sense that it cannot perform the mission that it's actually supposed to perform. | ||
| So it's it is not it's not like we're going to fire a x number of people and then everything will be good. | ||
| It has to be rebuilt. | ||
| And right now, unfortunately, a lot of the senior leadership there has no idea how to do that. | ||
| And Sam, if I can just hold you through the break, I want to keep drilling down on this. | ||
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| Welcome back to the War Room. | ||
| We are still joined by Sam Fattis. | ||
| Sam, I'm just curious. | ||
| I was kind of perusing the legacy media's reaction to the announced changes from Director Gabbard, and they, of course, are taking the playbook that it's going to leave America less safe, I guess presupposing that the people she's axing were doing anything meaningful, like you alluded to, sort of bureaucratic blob overreach. | ||
| I'm just curious what your pushback on that front would be. | ||
| Yeah, well, that' look, it's predictable and that's what they're going to say about any change. | ||
| I mean, nobody in the real world wants to get lost in the intricacies of how CIA is structured. | ||
| But just to put some meat on the bones of what I just said, it used to be, I mean, CIA exists basically to recruit sources, to recruit spies inside target organizations like Al Qaeda and produce intelligence. | ||
| And then to conduct covert action when the president signs a finding and gives them the legal authority to do so. | ||
| Okay, all of that is run by Operations, the Directorate of Operations known as the DO. | ||
| So basically CIA used to be built around the DO. | ||
| And the guy who ran the Directorate of Operations, the DDO, was the heart and soul, the guy that fought the ship. | ||
| Okay, and obviously you have a director that sits at the top of this, but in terms of OPS, that's how this worked and everyone else was, to use a military term, a supporting arm. | ||
| In other words, they provided the money, they provided the logistics, whatever. | ||
| Okay, Brennan destroyed all that. | ||
| He mashed everyone together into these mission centers with analysts and operators and other people with no discernible skills, all in these. | ||
| So these people in these amorphous blobs, usually often run by people who are not operators. | ||
| So just some guy who left Northern Virginia is now in charge of running the OPS against a particular target. | ||
| And then those people don't report to the head of operations anymore. | ||
| They report directly like they're a shoe company to a guy called the Chief Operating Officer, the coup, straight out of corporate lexicon, right? | ||
| Who is never an operator. | ||
| In fact, the first coup was a guy they hired out of private business. | ||
| supposed to be running all the operations worldwide came from, I think, an investment firm and had no background. | ||
| So you have completely in addition to the issues, everyone is familiar with, you know, interfering in American domestic politics, you have deprofessionalized the whole organization. | ||
| It is a mess and it is incapable of doing what it's actually supposed to do. | ||
| So back to my point, just cutting numbers out of there and leaving it in this same completely combat ineffective status. | ||
| That is, makes no sense. | ||
| If you're going to do that, then just shut it down. | ||
| Because right now, it is literally incapable of doing its job. | ||
| And, you know, at this point, many Americans would be like, okay, just get rid of it. | ||
| Well, you know, unfortunately, there are still bad guys out there out there planning on trying to get nuclear weapons into New York City and detonate them in Manhattan. | ||
| That's for real. | ||
| So you kind of need someone who actually knows what they're doing. | ||
| And right now, we don't have that. | ||
| Before I let you go, I just want to get your thoughts on what happened earlier today. | ||
| I saw the clip of John Bolton returning home. | ||
| He didn't look too happy. | ||
| We played earlier in the show his commentary about how no one is above the law and when President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence was raided that it was, you know, a fitting carriage of justice. | ||
| I wonder how those words age, how he's feeling about them now. | ||
| But your thoughts generally on what transpired this morning, and I know we're still sort of unclear what exactly it was about. | ||
| Maybe we'll hear more tonight. | ||
| But what exactly you think is going on? | ||
| Well, you know, what I think is going on is this is not a revenge ride. | ||
| This is not the, you know, the MAGA movement now going out and doing the same thing to the other side that was done to them. | ||
| This is the FBI and DOJ picking up an investigation that was going on into Bolton when Biden came to power. | ||
| And as soon as he did, he directed that the investigation be shut down, and the investigation was into issues surrounding the use of and disclosure of classified information. | ||
| And as I understand it, the basic backstory is Biden went out when he left the Trump White House in the first term. | ||
| He was fired up, angry. | ||
| He decided to write a book saying all kinds of things, and he had to submit it for publication review, which everybody does if you've had access to classified information. | ||
| I've written six books. | ||
| I submitted them all and went through this process. | ||
| Biden decided, I mean Bolton decided at some point he didn't like the results of the process. | ||
| It was taking too long and he did not agree with the cuts they were saying he had to make. | ||
| So as I understand it, he basically blew off the process and went ahead and published a book with information in it that he had been told was classified and could not be disclosed. | ||
| So we are now picking up an investigation that, you know, should have been completed years ago and wasn't because of political influence, interference. | ||
| Whether the guy will actually be charged, whether he will be prosecuted in prison, at this point, nobody knows because at this point they have not arrested him. | ||
| All they did was go through his house and take some things out of it. | ||
| Can you just walk us through one more time? | ||
| Because obviously we've seen the legacy media coverage making it seem like this is some witch hunt, some form of retribution to use a word that they certainly became apoplectic about over, but this is essentially just resuming something that Biden through political motives and means halted, if I'm not misunderstanding. | ||
| That is precisely the case. | ||
| And also, let's just underline this. | ||
| There is no ambiguity about classified information, right? | ||
| You know, when I was working at the CIA, I didn't just stuff some files in my suit jacket at the end of the day and accidentally bring them home, right? | ||
| I mean, classified information lives on classified electronic systems or if it's hard copy, it lives in safes and inside controls. | ||
| controlled alarmed spaces with guards. | ||
| So you can't just accidentally, John, have a bunch of stuff that's classified sitting around in your house. | ||
| That doesn't happen. | ||
| In fact, just taking it out of classified space, even if you don't, if you're not spying from it, just the fact that you did that is already a crime. | ||
| And people have been sent to prison for that. | ||
| Just that. | ||
| Sam Fattis, if people want to follow you, read the Substack, the magazine, where can they go to do all that? | ||
| And magazine at Substack. | ||
| So that's A and D magazine. | ||
| dot substack dot com. | ||
| Thank you, sir, for joining us. | ||
| We'll have you back soon. | ||
| Thank you, ma'am. | ||
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| I am honored to bring on our next guest, Matt Brown, of Yakima, Washington. | ||
| I was just out there, I guess maybe of good taste or bad taste, but for some reason you invited me to give one of the keynote speeches at Yakima County, your GOP Lincoln Day dinner, but you wear a lot of hats out there. | ||
| I think you're also, what is it, the deputy mayor, you're on city council, you're intimately involved with the kind of local life, certainly the crime scene. | ||
| You have an intimate understanding of all that from a government perspective. | ||
| I obviously am here in DC. | ||
| I guess we could maybe have a contest for who lives in a more dangerous city. | ||
| I think maybe someone who lived in Seattle might win that one. | ||
| But I just want to just kind of bring you all on to react to what you've seen President Trump do here in DC, and if you think that that's something that could be replicated in cities across the country, Seattle, et cetera. | ||
| Yeah, you know, it's it's very interesting to watch the crime, what is it now, eight days and not a murder that's happened in Washington, DC. | ||
| I'm not entirely sure that's ever happened in Seattle's history over the last probably ten years. | ||
| You know, between the crime that's running rampant in Seattle and in Washington State for that matter, we are at a kind of a rock in a hard place. | ||
| place because we have a governor right now that is defying Pam Bondi and President Trump at every turn. | ||
| Then we have an attorney general that is basically thumbing his nose and lining up lawsuits against the Trump administration literally every day, which just is on the taxpayer dime. | ||
| So the taxpayers of Washington State are paying for this to happen against our president. | ||
| So it's a fun time to live in Washington State. | ||
| We are one of the actual states in the out of all fifty that have actually gotten to experience the weaponization of government back through COVID. | ||
| We just had a business that was shut down during COVID for a million dollar fine. | ||
| And the courts here just ruled that it was okay for them to be fined a million dollars. | ||
| It's a little restaurant, a little mom and pop restaurant. | ||
| And not only that, we've had all sorts of others, we have a hate bias hotline. | ||
| So if you don't like Matt Brown, you can call this hate bias hotline and report all sorts of us in Washington State who are fighting against this crazy stuff. | ||
| And it has to stop. | ||
| And I'm excited that President Trump has been working to end the weaponization of government and fight back against these sanctuary policies that are really causing death and destruction in Washington State. | ||
| I mean, we've lost a Washington State trooper because of a illegal alien that was, you know, running amuk in our state. | ||
| And when that happened, I mean, he he was shot and killed. | ||
| And that, that, that is just one story of many that are happening right now in Washington State. | ||
| And I'm, and I want to just say thank you, Natalie, for having me on. | ||
| It's not often that Washington State gets to be in this national spotlight in this sense, but I was excited to have you to our Lincoln Day, but also excited to be able to come on here. | ||
| We have about a minute before we have to go to break, but can you just walk us through on a positive note, some of the big wins that you guys have had in Yakima County, frankly, and under your leadership, but school board elections, local elections, how you flipped a lot of seats through action, action, action. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| We've, since I became chairman, we have been focused on local elections. | ||
| So we've been able to flip our city council from a 5-2 leftist control to a 5-2 MAGA control. | ||
| Then plus that, we flipped school boards all up and down our valley. | ||
| We've hit close to 80,000 doors and door knocking since I became chairman and we've raised over almost a million dollars in funds over the last three years to put donor money back to winning elections locally in Yakima. | ||
| But not only that, we are we are hyper focused on winning elections in Washington State. | ||
| A lot of folks don't realize this, but there are seats that are for the taking. | ||
| And because of my new role as Washington State political director for the Republican Party, we are laser focused on taking those seats back. | ||
| Matt, if you can just hang with us during the break, I want to, you know, they say correlation doesn't equal causality, but what is it? | ||
| Like all the top ten cities in terms of murder rates are all democratic. | ||
| Democrat run, there always seems to be a I'll just call it out, I think that's not just a correlation, that is direct causality, but there's something even more evil. | ||
| It's just, I think, disregard, if not outright rejection of humanity that plagues the sort of Pacific Northwest, West Coast version of liberalism. | ||
| That's too euphemistic a word, because I guess it's probably just a full-blown, full-throated Marxism or just a bunch of homeless people. | ||
| Take your pick. | ||
| We'll be right back after this short break. | ||
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| Let's take down the CCB. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. | ||
| Welcome back to the world. | ||
| We are still joined by Matt Brown. | ||
| I guess at Yakma, GOP, extraordinary, you wear a lot of hats, but just picking up where I left off. | ||
| That was the one thing that I noticed from being in Washington, spending extended time there, that there's something, you know, we talk a lot about the battle between good and evil, but and I'm from Los Angeles myself, so I'm no stranger to it, but there's something that it almost, it's a evil force. | ||
| It's like a possession of, I think, a lot of these people who push these policies that are just antihumanity and directly result in the either widespread death or deaths or just abysmal quality of life. | ||
| I think the mandate stuff you were talking about. | ||
| for their citizens. | ||
| It's a very weird version of the social contract that I don't think is anything rooted in what the founding of this country was about. | ||
| But I'm just curious, your sort of perspective, you know, from whether it's the AG, your governor, it just seems like every level there's just the stuff they say in public, it's so brazenly not just illegal, but directly harming their citizens. | ||
| Am I gaslighting myself? | ||
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| I mean, sometimes I wonder, like, am I losing my mind? | ||
| Are people actually saying these things as an elected official inside our state. | ||
| And then I'm going, maybe I'm the weirdo that maybe they're actually talking normal things, but it's not. | ||
| I mean, the, I mean, Washington State is ranked in the top three for homelessness. | ||
| We have 32,000 people currently experiencing homelessness in our state. | ||
| I mean, there are cities that are that size and we have them on the streets right now in Washington State. | ||
| I mean, some folks talk about, you know, the left coast, the Washington, Oregon and California as the kind of prime examples of what not to do. | ||
| I say, well, it's not even just what not to do. | ||
| It's, in my opinion, the woke ideology and what's getting spaawned throughout the rest of the country is originating from these three states. | ||
| And what that means is, in my opinion, is we have to really work. | ||
| We're on the front lines of working against darkness of what this is. | ||
| I mean, you have, I mean, I think Riley Gaines was here at one point because there was a male competing in sports. | ||
| And our OSPI director here said that doesn't happen at all in Washington State. | ||
| What are you guys talking about? | ||
| And it literally happened like a day after that, multiple times, all up and down in Washington State. | ||
| So it's almost like we're in the twilight. | ||
| It's almost like we're in the Twilight Zone every single day in Washington State, but it hasn't, it's not just recently either. | ||
| I mean, if you look at Oregon in 2016, there was the Obama Comey FBI that went and weaponized against the Lavoy Finnickum and the Bundies in Oregon. | ||
| That was a standoff that happened in that front. | ||
| And that was the weaponization of government. | ||
| And that was, again, on the left coast. | ||
| So all these things have started and originated here. | ||
| And so when people are like, oh, there's no hope in Washington, I'm like, there is hope, but we are literally on the front lines of what is right and wrong and it's happening right here. | ||
| And just last question, just walk us through, I mean, the 70,000, the 80,000 doors that you guys have knocked. | ||
| I mean, that's truly remarkable. | ||
| You know, this audience is very geared towards activism and action, very grassroots, a lot of precinct committee members. | ||
| I met a lot of them in Yakima at the dinner, a lot of war room posse. | ||
| We always love to see it. | ||
| But just your sort of grassroots ground game and perhaps a positive, a shining light in an otherwise very, as you were saying, dark state, just what your sort of game plan and playbook is in there. | ||
| So for a long time, Democrats have used ballot harvesting to beat us over here in Washington State. | ||
| And with that, when I came on as chairman, I told our crew, I said, look, we're going to ballot harvest. | ||
| It's completely legal in Washington State, believe it or not. | ||
| There's no chain of custody is almost non existent in Washington State in regard to ballots. | ||
| And so I told my team, I said, we're going to do this. | ||
| And we did. | ||
| And that has been the reason why we've been winning elections. | ||
| I mean, just in last year's election alone, we. | ||
| We harvested nearly two thousand ballots from Yakima County with just our little team. | ||
| I have a team of about fifteen people that were really highly motivated to get those ballots in. | ||
| But in that same sense, there was one legislative district, which is the fourteenth here in our county, that is a plus seventeen Biden district. | ||
| It should not have been won by us, but we held it. | ||
| Not only did we hold it, we won it by like plus five and plus eight with some of our candidates. | ||
| And that just shows how much. | ||
| hard work hitting doors being on the ground and doing the work that is necessary means because if you're not doing that, we know we can complain about elections all day and complain about all those things, but if we're not willing to go toe to toe and compete head to head with Democrats on these issues at doors, you really can't complain. | ||
| And in Washington State, voters really do stay home a lot because we're a male and balloting state. | ||
| And so in Yakima County, for example, this last primary, we had. | ||
| We had less than 17% turnout. | ||
| So we're not talking like we have to get, you know, we don't have to do a whole lot of persuasion here. | ||
| We're just trying to get all of our Republicans to show up and vote. | ||
| And if we do that, we'll start flipping this state. | ||
| Last question. | ||
| Do you think that President Trump's effort to rid the election process of mail and ballots will also significantly transform Washington? | ||
| Oh, absolutely. | ||
| We actually have a voter ID initiative going right now in Washington State that is, you know, we're trying to return the aspect we've just found recently, seven hundred thousand voters in Washington State, registered voters in Washington State, don't have a driver's license or social security number tied to their voter registration, seven hundred thousand voters. | ||
| We've lost elections in Washington State less than, like, in 2022 with Tiffany Smiley running for Senate. | ||
| She lost 325,000 votes in that election. | ||
| You're talking twice that in people that we're not even sure are actual citizens to be able to vote in our state. | ||
| So yes, getting rid of mail and ballots and then also voter ID is would be instrumental in changing what's going on in Washington State, Oregon and to be honest, California as well. | ||
| Matt Brown, if people want to follow you or even if they live in Yakima or the surrounding areas of Washington and want to get involved knock doors, do all that kind of stuff, where can they go to do all that? | ||
| Yeah, it's real simple. | ||
| Our website is yakima.gop. | ||
| You can also find us on X, which is just Yakima underscore GOP. | ||
| Or if you'd like to get hold of me, my website is mat for yakima.com and then on X it's just mat for Yakima. | ||
| So real simple and we're we're hard working. | ||
| Thank you, sir, for joining us. | ||
| We'll have you back on. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Thanks, Natalie. | ||
| Like I said, I was very lucky to meet a lot of War Room posse. | ||
| Many of you are probably watching this show and it really was a wonderful night, not because I got to speak, but because I got to hear from you guys who are knocking eighty thousand doors. | ||
| It's wild and flipping elections, even in the state of Washington, all propelled by a man none other than Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| An honor as always to host, and I will see you guys soon. |
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