Episode 5056: Keeping Texas Free For Americans; Ridding Minnesota Of Somali Fraud
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We're in Texas in the Metroplex area, Dallas-Fort Worth.
We're here at a huge event this evening about stopping Sharia law in Texas and reversing this Islamic invasion of the first among equals of our beloved states in the union.
That would be the great state of Texas, the mythical great state of Texas.
Chip Roy's going to join me here momentarily.
I want to finish with Wade Miller.
Wade, a president even said on Tannity, I think it was this exclusive interview, you know, talking about the midterm elections.
You've come up with a solution.
Look, when we did the 2020 census, Stephen Miller and I had worked on this in 2017 extensively.
We were very specific.
Miller and I, we had a thing that had no illegal aliens, none of these college kids running around.
I mean, this was going to be a real census of American citizens and where the hell they live, work, and vote.
And of course, Wilbur Ross and a bunch of these globalists that were in the Trump administration, Wilbur Ross over at Commerce, retorked it.
We won in courts about what we could do.
They retorked it.
That didn't happen.
That census data is still there.
CRA is calling for what, to have a truly fair election in these midterms.
We're doing these redistricting fights.
We won in Texas with five.
Brian Harrison is going to join us second.
DeSantis just said yesterday, we're rolling there.
There's other states where we had, you know, had a hit a speed bump with the Republican establishment, Mike Pence in this crowd.
So millions of people were counted that should not have been counted.
Illegals, Biden brought them in.
They affected apportionment, affected redistricting.
We can go in and republish that data.
You don't have to redo the census.
Just go in, get rid of differential privacy, which created tons of fake data and throughout all of the data.
Do data corrections.
The Census Bureau admitted that six seats went to Democrat states that should not have.
That itself should trigger a reapportionment process.
And then all of that data, if you account for how the college students were illegally counted, other data revisions, that would trigger all sorts of redistricting.
We know that the Supreme Court is probably going to come down and we're hoping that they'll get rid of the majority minority district criteria.
That's going to force redistricting.
So if Howard Luttnick, who's a very smart guy, I think he understands his problem, and Joyce Meyer, who's one of the deputies there at Commerce, if they don't start lighting a fire at census to get them to republish and do all of this data corrections, it's going to be too late to impact that window.
And there's a real chance, there's a possibility that the outcomes of the next election will not be fairly decided.
And that, you know, this time next year, Democrats could be impeaching Donald Trump on bogus grounds.
And part of that reason might be because census didn't do this.
It should have been done by now.
They need to light a fire under the operation there and get them to start moving forward on this.
It's really important and it could be the difference between doing saving America and not.
The Supreme Court has not come back with the DEI districts of the Black Caucus and all that, the Louisiana issue, I think, and they're still dealing with that.
Yeah, Steve, these are absolutely the right direction to be headed.
Wade is exactly right.
Wade, you may know, was my former chief of staff.
He's a good friend.
Obviously, Russ Vote, great friend who's over at OMB.
Wade and I worked together, and I don't know if you know this, we held a hearing in the subcommittee on the Constitution in which we had witnesses talking about this.
I think this was in November, where we raised this profile, trying to make sure that people are aware of this.
Now I've had conversations with Lutnick.
I think this is an important issue that a lot of people don't even understand.
And it goes right hand in hand with the president's correct instinct to pass the bill that I authored, the same act to guarantee that only citizens vote, American citizens vote in American elections.
We need to have voter ID.
We need to have other reforms.
But this is the one that I think gets to the heart of how they're abusing the process to make sure, you know, to guarantee that they're able to get the districts that they want to get, which, by the way, is at the root of all of this stuff.
All of the things you're talking about with this event you have in Dallas, Fort Worth tonight, what we're seeing in Minneapolis, the organized effort by the radical left, the Marxists, through all of the NGOs, through Arabella, through United Nations funding, through George Soros funding, through Bill Gates funding, our taxpayer dollars.
They're taking all of this to engage in massive, not just fraud, but an effort to pack America with non-citizens so they can take our country over.
That's what's happening.
You know it.
I know it.
And we've got to be militant about this.
And we've got to make sure that only American citizens are voting.
Only American citizens are making the decisions about who their electorate is.
And they're only counted in the census.
So 100% agree with Wade and Russ and everybody that's trying to work on this.
I think Howard's on top of it, but we need to see fast action by the administration on this point.
Look, you and I have talked a lot over the years, but particularly here in the last couple of months, because you know, I was not an advocate.
You're such a critical voice in the House on the Freedom Caucus of what's happening.
But one of the reasons you wanted to go back to your home state and run for attorney general is the fact of this issue about this Islamic invasion and Sharia law, particularly as Attorney General.
What are your thoughts?
It's on the ballot in the primary on March 3rd.
What's your ballot?
What's your thoughts about this, about shutting down Sharia law?
I mean, the New York Post just has a report out this morning, an investigation that Soros, indivisible, but care is financing what's happening in New York City.
What's happening in Minneapolis is resistance.
And what's happening in Portland?
The resistance because they don't want to see mass deportations.
And CARE has been designated by the governor, Governor Abbott, as a terrorist organization.
The Santa said the same thing, quite frankly, more bravery than even the federal government right now, because they're just talking about Muslim Brotherhood.
These brothers said Muslim Brotherhood and CARE.
What is your position as running for Attorney General of this great state?
I hate leaving the House and my brothers and sisters in the Freedom Caucus where we've been trying to fight for change up here.
And we've been actually getting incremental change, but we see what happens in real time.
Just yesterday, the Freedom Caucus largely voted against the massive CJS appropriations bill that continues to fund the very sanctuary cities that are giving sanctuary to criminals and to the illegals that have come here, including Somalis that are attacking our law enforcement.
You can only do so much as one 435th of one half of one third up here.
As Attorney General, the reason I'm running is I want to save Texas.
Texas is under assault and it is directly in conflict with Western civilization, Sharia law, CARE, like you said.
The governor's absolute right to declare them a terrorist organization.
I introduced legislation to take their tax status away earlier this fall, before that designation, because I recognize what's going on.
People don't understand in Dallas-Fort Worth, right?
It's the epicenter of what the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to do to take over America and Texas.
That is ground zero, right where you are right now, Steve.
There are no go zones in parts of the area around the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex where American citizen women don't want to go because they're going to feel like they're going to be looked at, shamed.
They're going to be put in harm's way.
And that's because of what we've done with immigration, but also allowing all of this Sharia to get entrenched.
As Attorney General, you can use the existing statutes, the Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
You can go try to shut down things like that epic city that they're now calling the meadows.
But you also have to use the bully pulpit to stand up and call this out for what it is, a political assault on America, a political assault on Texas.
This is not just you can believe what you want to believe.
This is a coordinated political effort to Islamify Texas.
And you've got to say it.
You've got to mean it.
You've got to push the legislature to pass laws.
We've got to tweak the Texas Constitution, whatever's necessary to protect Texas from being Islamified by the radical Marxist, the red-green axis.
You've seen the disaster in what's happened in the imperial capital of Washington, D.C. to allow these types of things.
Like you said, you're voting yesterday.
The Freedom Cars are finally saying, guys, we can't pass these appropriations bills when President Trump's sitting there saying he doesn't want any more of this.
And we're actually funding more of it of what ICE is there in Minneapolis trying to reverse it and get it out of here.
Why is this happening in the Imperial Capitol?
It's not just Democrats because people look at point of the Freedom Cards and said, oh, you guys are obstructionists.
It's tons of establishment Republicans.
What don't they get about the destruction of this republic, sir?
They have not yet embraced that there is a war going on against our way of life and that if you don't act against that war, you're going to lose it.
They won't even recognize the war exists without ensuring that they're, sorry, someone's calling in my Zoom.
They've got to recognize that there's a war against our way of life.
They're trapped in the idea that they've got to pass appropriations to go buy votes.
Americans don't need their votes bought.
The American people want members of Congress who are fighting to save the country and they just don't get it.
And look, we've made progress, Steve.
We are now talking about spending levels that are still roughly flat.
We are holding everything in the right direction because of our work back during the speaker's fight three years ago, the changes we put in place with putting conservatives on appropriations and on the rules committee.
Rust vote now over at OMB.
We're making progress.
But what people don't understand is when you pass CJS appropriations, the Justice Department appropriations bill, and in it are burned jag grants that go to Minneapolis, New York, Dallas, and Houston, and have no constraints on that money from saying, hey, you can't be a sanctuary city.
You can't stand up and say ICE can't come in to enforce immigration laws.
When we have additional funding that are going through other grant programs that we know are getting abused, just like we're seeing in Minneapolis, we should shut that down.
And by the way, we should pause all immigration.
I introduced a bill to do that because we should just stop.
We did that in the 1920s.
We have 51 and a half million foreign-born people in the United States.
That is the biggest percentage in our history.
And now we are educating them with a corrupt education system that teaches our kids that America is the devil, that doesn't teach the Constitution, that doesn't teach our Christian and Judeo-Christian principles.
And we've got to stop it.
Stop importing people who want to kill us.
It's maddening.
And Congress hasn't caught up to the fact that they're at war with us.
You got to act like they're at war with us or you're going to lose it.
Chip, where do people go to find out more about what you're doing at the Freedom Caucus, this amazing plan you guys put together that wasn't discussed enough the other day over at the Kennedy Center?
Yeah, Chiproy, T-X-C-H-I-P-R-O-Y-T-X on X slash Twitter.
Chiproy.com is a website.
And yeah, and look, one last point on this.
The reason I'm running for Attorney General is because we got to have fighters to preserve and protect Texas.
I've got a proven track record.
I've got all the scores show me directly in line with President Trump's agenda.
Literally, I'm number one in Texas, number two in the House, number five out of the Senate in the House in terms of my voting record in line with President Trump and the MAGA agenda.
And we need someone who gets it, who will be willing to stand up and fight.
And by the way, who is a federal prosecutor and the former first assistant attorney general of Texas?
I'll miss the Freedom Caucus, but we got a new generation, people like Eli Crane and other great Americans that are here.
And we got to come together to fight to save this country.
Taj, your experience, how many deployments did you have for either as a Navy SEAL or as essentially a contractor kind of off the books of the government, but still doing the same work with the SEALs and others?
So you've had the pleasure of going over to Islamic countries in defense of your country 16 times.
You're here and you said, hey, I hear you're going to Texas.
This Texas thing's out of control.
I've got so many buddies here from Texas.
I think Texas provided the most troops in total.
If you looked at all the states, I think Texas, you know, with Florida and California, but I think Texas provided the most troops in these wars in the Middle East.
Your thoughts about what's happening here in Texas and what we need to do about it.
I think that there's no real way to overstate, as some of your previous guests have talked about, the staggering numbers of people affiliated with violent strains of Islam that are terror affiliated that do advocate for the violent overthrow of the governments of the United States of America.
And just a couple of statistics on that that I think people may find staggering.
We've got over 200 mosques currently operating in the north central Texas where I am, in the Dallas area.
We have over 100 down in Houston, and they're growing.
We're opening up approximately two new mosques every month here in the state of Texas.
And here's the biggest thing I want to leave folks with, because there's been a lot of gaslighting and misinformation about this issue in terms of the Texas government's response to this.
There are a lot of people in the Austin establishment that have been putting out public statements saying, you know, we're good down here.
We have banned Sharia law.
And I'll say this real quick about Sharia law.
Sharia law is not compatible with the founding precepts of our country, that all men are created equal.
Sharia law is not compatible with the Constitution of the state of Texas, not compatible with the Constitution of the United States.
Sharia law is not compatible with Western civilization.
But despite the rhetoric that folks may have heard coming out of the establishment and the Texas government, the Texas government, if you hear only one thing, Steve, I want to get across to people, the Texas government has not banned Sharia law in any meaningful way whatsoever.
I'm going to say that one more time.
The Texas government has not banned Sharia law.
We've got a lot of good rhetoric coming out of Austin.
But if that's the position of the Republican Texas government, supposedly Republican, let's make it not just rhetoric.
Let's make it a reality.
We can go back into special session.
We can hold hearings.
We can pass bills to do more to combat this rising threat.
I mean, number one, I think the lowest of low-hanging fruit is, and again, people are going to be shocked to learn this is happening.
Stop funding these organizations that have ties to violence and militant Islam with tax dollars.
My office has confirmed that, yes, in fact, coming out of the government of the state of Texas, millions of dollars of tax money has gone to these organizations.
So that's number one.
Number two, stop creating carve-outs.
People say we've passed laws to ban Epic City.
Well, Epic City just re-banbranded.
It's called the Meadows, and it's proceeding on as fast as ever because of exceptions into laws we've passed that are supposed to deal with things like that.
And then number three, which again, I put these all in low-hanging fruit, should have been done by now, but it's far harder than people would imagine, even though we're a Republican government down here.
The parts of the law that we have touched regarding Sharia, it's only one little part of the family code.
At a bare minimum, we should expand that to all the other relevant parts of the statutes and the codes down here in Texas.
We should be holding hearings on this, by the way, right now, something that I don't think has ever happened here in the state of Texas, not in many years.
So we need to be holding hearings and then doing those three things.
And there's nothing stopping us from doing that right now, today, tomorrow, this week.
The only reason we're not taking action, quite frankly, is because what Austin lacks is courage.
I think minimum coming from the state of Texas was $90 million.
And I don't think that included these Harmony schools, which is a whole radical sect of Islam from Turkey, right?
That they're financing these schools.
They had another number, which I think was federal spending and state spending for over 10 years was something like $4 billion.
There's money going from taxpayers in Texas, citizens of Texas, and citizens of the United States that are funding radical Islam here in the state of Texas.
Well, I mean, just throw it on the laundry list of shocking, abhorrent, but true ways in which the Texas taxpayers, hardworking, overtaxed men and women of the state of Texas, have for far too long, we're talking decades here, had their money taken from them by the state government, the supposedly Republican Texas government here, and weaponized against them, their children, and their value.
And the list is long.
They've been funding the biggest DEI program maybe in the country, some of the biggest transgender indoctrination in the country.
And then you're exactly right, Steve.
We don't know the exact number.
I don't think anybody does.
My office, best we can determine, at least in the tens of millions of dollars that have been flowing through grant programs through the state government out of Austin to these organizations that almost certainly have nexuses and ties to violent strains of Islam or terror organizations that do have the intent of the violent overthrow of the government of Texas, the government of the United States.
And the reality is the Texas government has been asleep at the wheel on this for far too long and it's long past time to change.
And that's why I'm excited about the event we're doing down here tonight because until people's eyes are opened, because again, I'm at the risk of putting too fine a point on this.
Texans have been lulled into complacency because of the statements from the Austin Uniparty establishment, which has been telling them for years that the Texas government has handled this.
It's not a threat here, and that we have, quote, banned Sharia law that it's false.
And then the final point on that, the governor, to his credit, thank you, governor, he did designate Muslim Brotherhood.
I am here in greater Minneapolis-St. Paul, and I am optimistic that we are going to put an end to this waste, fraud, and abuse, that we are going to have recoveries for the American people, and that we are going to hold people accountable, set an example, and make sure that federal aid gets to the people it was intended for and not to these fraudsters.
Minneapolis and St. Paul, like many communities, has suffered for years from the egregious negligence of the radical left's rule.
President Trump is committed to restoring accountability to put Minnesota back on the right track.
Under President Trump's leadership, the entire administration is focused on delivering results for the American people.
Our citizens have a right to know that their tax dollars are not being diverted to fund acts of global terror or to fund luxury cars for fraudsters.
Democratic Governor Tim Waltz has allowed welfare programs and fraud to spiral out of control, out of control.
Billions of dollars intended for hungry children, housing for disabled seniors, and services for children with special needs were diverted to people who cheated the system, some of whom are not even American citizens.
At Treasury, we are thoroughly investigating the fraud, including funds sent to Somalia through money service businesses, which provide financial services outside of a formal bank.
These funds could have potentially been diverted to the terrorist organization Al-Shabaab.
We have traced where the money went and are examining it.
Treasury's financial crimes enforcement network, known as FinCEN, along with the IRS, are leading our investigation to examine whether financial institutions have complied with their legal obligations under the Bank Secrecy Act and Treasury's regulations.
These requirements are designed to detect money laundering and other illicit activity, counter the financing of terrorism, and safeguard the United States financial system from abuse.
Earlier this morning, I met with several financial institutions and made clear we must do more to safeguard our nation from waste, fraud, and abuse.
The time has come for accountability.
President Trump wants accountability.
I want accountability.
The American people want accountability, and they will get accountability.
That is why I am announcing several initiatives Treasury is taking to target fraud here in Minnesota.
And the Minnesota protocols will serve as a genesis and a launching pad for investigations into other states.
First, we have followed the money and identified the money service businesses that may have transferred taxpayer funds overseas.
Our team at FinCEN has just provided formal notification to these businesses that they are under investigation.
These businesses had an obligation to comply with anti-money laundering laws, and they will be held responsible for any crimes they committed.
FinCEN has also issued a geographic targeting order for Hennepin and Ramsey counties that require banks and money transmitters to report additional information about funds transferred outside of the United States.
This will put a microscope on these businesses, advance prosecutions, and assist in the recovery of funds laundered internationally.
Fraudsters in Minnesota stole at least $300 million meant for children in need, and we must prevent fraud of this scale from occurring in the future.
Accordingly, FinCEN today issued an alert to financial institutions that will help them identify and report specific warning signs of fraud and federal child nutrition programs.
Fraud must be stamped out early, and this alert will help law enforcement do just that.
Our investigators at IRSCI have played a critical role in uncovering fraud, and the role of the IRS in these investigations will continue.
I am pleased to announce that IRS Civil Enforcement is auditing financial institutions that facilitated the laundering of Minnesota funds in addition to helping support criminal and civil enforcement efforts.
The IRS will also soon announce the formation of a task force to investigate any fraud and abuse involving pandemic-era tax incentives and misuse of 501 tax-exempt status by entities implicated in the Minnesota-based social services fraud schemes.
We are committed to preventing fraud and non-fraudulent nonprofits from taking advantage of the American taxpayer.
Lastly, Treasury is providing training to Minnesota law enforcement on how to utilize financial data, such as suspicious activity reports, to better combat these fraud schemes.
We will not let the incompetence and recalcitrance of Governor Waltz stop law enforcement from holding these perpetrators accountable.
President Trump is dedicated to ensuring honest Minnesotans are not cheated and their hard-earned tax dollars are not being abused.
Treasury will deploy all tools, all tools, to bring an end to this egregious unchecked fraud and hold perpetrators to account.
We look forward to sharing our findings and keeping you all updated.
Now I will turn it back over to my team and I will take some questions from the press.
Thank you.
unidentified
Thank you so much, Mr. Secretary.
We have time for a few questions from reporters.
If you would like to ask a question, please use the raise your hand function on Zoom.
Thank you.
Question will go to Mary Margaret with the Daily Wire.
I wanted to ask if you can share what role Governor Tim Waltz has played in any of this, if any, and whether you have any indication that you won't seek re-election because of anything that you may have uncovered so far.
It's clear that Governor Waltz has been negligent in his fiduciary duties as a chief executive of the state of Minnesota, that this would happen on his watch, and we are actively pursuing all leads to see the level of involvement, whether it's limited to just negligence and incompetence, or is something more than that.
unidentified
Thank you.
I see Fatima with the Associated Press has a question.
Well, I think the better question is: how did these things slip through the safety protocols, the financial safety protocols that we had in place?
So, if for a while we have duplicative processes that stop this and bring this to heel, because and again, this is a larger scandal than Minnesota, then it is all hands on deck.
Once we get the huge amount of fraud under control, then we can worry about streamlining the procedures.
But as I said, President Trump has instructed several agencies in his administration, led by this new assistant attorney general, to end this fraud and recover funds for the American taxpayer.
unidentified
Thank you.
I see Claire Jones with the Financial Times has a question.
Well, again, because of the gross incompetence by the Waltz administration and the lack of leadership, we are just putting all that together now.
But as I just said to the previous question, all entities in the administration will be pursuing this so that we can get the biggest recoveries possible, and we will see.
And we are going to leave no stone unturned, whether it was fraudulent real estate, whether it is money that has been wired overseas.
We will be tracking it to the Middle East and East Africa.
This is why Treasury is involved.
This is what we do.
We track, we follow the money, and we intend to follow it as much as we can, prosecute the individuals, no matter where they are, whether they are in the Minnesota government or they are sitting in East Africa.
Thank you, Spencer, and thank you, Mr. Secretary, for doing this this morning.
I have two questions.
I'm wondering if you can explain or elaborate on whether or not you've found any evidence that indicates taxpayer dollars have flowed directly to terrorist organizations and then I do have a follow-up after that.
And then my second question is: you said on Fox last night that as a part of this geographical targeting order, the threshold for surveillance is being lowered to $3,000.
Do you anticipate that that will be lowered to, that will also be expanded into other states, that lower threshold?
And do you have any sense on what other states You anticipate having to do this in?
So we have lowered the, it's called a geographical targeting order, the GTOs.
We have used lower thresholds to get at the cartels along the U.S.-Mexico border.
And we view this crime as very similar to the cartel's money laundering, many of the same approaches, many of the same shell companies.
So we will see where it goes out from here.
That will be a starting point.
And as I said, Minnesota is going to be the protocols, the procedures, and the investigative techniques, as well as the collaboration with other agencies.
Minnesota is going to be the genesis for a national rollout.
Thank you so much, Secretary Bessant, for your time.
I was wondering if there are any specific financial institutions that you think had lax practices that you're willing to name at this time.
And also, I'm trying to understand if Somali government officials actually directed individuals from the country to come to Minnesota to exploit vulnerable systems, or whether you think that the bad actors were acting on their own.
So, with the first question, as I said, we have targeted enhanced investigations for four MSBs, money service businesses, in greater Minneapolis, St. Paul.
As they are under investigation, I cannot name those businesses.
We will make the details of the investigation available as they become as we gather further information.
And your last question is an excellent one: that we do not know the depth, breadth, and collusion in this financial calamity that Governor Waltz has allowed to have happen.
That was this directed from overseas.
Is it an endogenous flourishing of these fraudsters that Governor Waltz allowed to grow right here in the backyard and take advantage of hardworking people of Minnesota?
We'll see.
So, we are going to track this everywhere from top to bottom, and we will get to the bottom of it.
And as we have more details, we will make those available.
There was a previously scheduled talk he was going to have with the Economic Club of Minneapolis, I think it was, scheduled months ago, and he decided to stay overnight.
He's seeing factories.
I think our friend Marty Davies is going to go by Marty Davis's factories out there.
Jack Basobi is going to do an interview with him on Real America's Voice, all of it.
First off, I'm here with Glenn Story, the founder and CEO of Patriot Mobile.
Just Scott Besson is Secretary of Treasury.
Do you like to cut up his jib?
What he's doing, the President Trump's economy now for an entrepreneur, a company under a billion dollars of sales or a billion dollars of value, one of these emerging growth companies, your thoughts.
Gert Filders, who's one of the most famous guys in Europe for stopping this and for warning people about it 20 years ago, he and Peter McElvaney, who we broadcast his show, and he's London.
You know, Gert was available, I think, coming to the West Coast.
There was a slot on the 9th.
I think I called you guys Christmas Day or the day after.
I mean, it was the middle of holidays.
I said, look, I know this is going to be impossible, but there's a thing he's coming.
We can build an entire evening around it if you guys think you can do it.
And you got back to me in a couple hours, said, not only we can do it, we're going to do it because we've made a few phone calls and people are so excited about actually having something pull together.
And look, I can tell you, as you know, Texas politics, people are fighting all the time, the grassroots.
This brought everybody together.
One of the reasons it did, and the principal reason I think is people understand there's a problem down here.
And they have targeted this Islamic kind of takeover by not religion, right?
This is kind of political Islam, radical Islam.
They understand the importance of Texas in the calculation of what happens in the United States.
Remember, Soros targeted us forever, right?
And nothing.
We beat it back.
In fact, Trump won by, what, 14 points?
The New York Post this morning, exclusive investigative report about who are financing the ICE resistance in Minneapolis, in New York City, in the sanctuaries, in Portland.
CARE is one of the big issues that we've got tonight.
You've designated CARE as a terrorist organization.
The governor has.
That's one of their issues.
But those 25 groups come together.
I know some of these groups and they're great, but they have different aspects on different things.
They came together for the common purpose.
Everybody understands how important this is and how you have to rise above your sectarian differences and other politics to come together and get this done.
And I'm not, you know, but at the end of the day, you look at it, we all love our country and we're going to give everything we can to make sure that, you know, my dad was a World War II vet.
He fought for the freedoms that we have today along with the greatest generations.
And it's, I'm not going to pick up a bayonet or I'm not going to pick up a gun.
We're going to fight this squarely to save our country.
Because as Brian said it earlier, you lose Texas, you lose the nation.
I have come to appreciate, you know, since running Breitbart and we started Breitbart, Texas, and doing working for President Trump, the importance of Texas as a Virginian, right?
Because Virginia, we're raised and thinking that Virginia is the centerpiece of the revolution, the Civil War, all of it, you know, the mother presidents.
But to understand Texas, right, and how powerful Texas is.
I've got this story when I was in the Navy of coming out after OCS and got my commission.
I was driving across country to go to my ship in San Diego at 32nd Street.
And my dad, who worked all the time, so we didn't, we, you know, he would spend time with as a kid, but he was actually going to take a week off and drive across the country with me.
So we're so excited.
And one of the reasons we're excited, I was a John Ford fan.
He's a John Ford fan.
And we're going to go see Texas really for the first time.
And we're driving across Texas in the summer of halt.
I think it was 76, 77.
It's like 100 degrees every day.
And we leave Fort Worth and we're driving and we're like, you know, several hours.
And I would say, as much as people love Texas, that part of West Texas, we leave Fort Worth.
This is just a lot of Texas.
It looks the same.
And I'm expecting Monument Valley.
And I go, Dad, when do you think we're going to hit, you know, the John Ford?
And we didn't.
It was later that we found out that they shot that actually in Monument Valley.
So there was a whole lot of West Texas.
But no, the importance of this state, I can tell you, as Texas goes, so goes the nation.
As the nation goes, so goes the world.
I want to thank you for putting it on and doing everything.
I do want to talk about Patriot Mobile because you guys have, we're so glad you're a sponsor of Real America's Voice of the War Room.
We've spent so much time down here.
Your studio is amazing.
Talk to me about the company because your model is totally different.
You're a Christian company that supports the values and not just the values and talking about it.
You guys are actually out there in the field backing like we're doing tonight.
You're one of the principal sponsors of it.
Just talk to us about the company.
And I want to make sure everybody gives them a chance because you have an Oklahoma accent to go to the marketing team calls it the hillbilly East Texas accent of your customer service.
And you talk to our customer service rep. You're layered on top of all the big phone services.
We've had so many people we're going to have more on in the coming days and weeks ahead that's saying they're in Israel or they're overseas and the service is the best service they've ever had.
Glenn Story and the Patriot Mobile team, 972 Patriot.
Let's go light up those phones today.
Talk to one of these customer service reps.
They'll walk you through everything of one of the best companies in this country and the single best company for having our back, whether it's first responders, first or second amendment, all of it.
Glenn, thank you so much for tonight and for you guys putting this together.
We're going to leave you now with the right stuff.
Natalie Winters will be here for the five o'clock Ben Harnwell right after her.
We're going to stream tonight, the Real America Voice team.
We're going to put up everything.
In fact, Grant Stinchfield is going to do his show, I believe, live on the stage at the event.
Glenn Beck will speak.
He closes things out, Gert Fielders, and I will say a few appropriate remarks.
We'll see you back here this afternoon.
Charlie Kirk show is next.
Pozo is out in Minneapolis and he's going to be interviewing the Secretary of Treasury.
Don't miss it.
Action, action, action all day.
And tomorrow morning's show, we're going to have clips from the night and I'm going to interview some Texans about what's going to happen out Premier here in March 3th.