Episode 5110: Powering The People Of Texas; Explosions In Iran
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This has been, you've been, they've poured millions of dollars of dark money, out of state money, into this race because they understand how important Texas is as the jewel in the crown.
This is a real dogfight right now.
I mean, we need every person in the Warroom posse, and particularly all the fans of War Room, Texas, up in Tarrant County, have got to just not turn themselves out, but they got to turn out everybody that's eligible to vote.
Am I correct?
Because the Democrats have a tendency to turn out eligible to vote and all others, right?
And we've had several situations where our registered voters have been told they're not in the district, turned away, and we only caught it because we were doing our get out the vote for people who hadn't voted yet.
And they said, well, I was told I wasn't in the district.
And so they came to me.
I pulled it up and I said, you are registered in the district.
Long story short, we've won and one person at a time gotten them proven that they are registered to vote.
So we're chasing that down.
We have people at the polls in the cold.
We have people in their homes calling hundreds of people.
We had a get out the vote effort last night where citizens came together and we called, personally called over 6,000 voters.
So we are working very hard.
It is a dogfight.
As you said, a lot of dark money is thrown against us.
The Democrats always like to say, oh, you know, I don't have any money.
And here are the elitist millionaires.
Well, let me tell you, that's just nothing could be further from the truth.
We have traced and it's public information.
You go to Texas Ethics Commission, Federal Elections Commission.
You can see that George Soros has given over $7 million to this Texas majority PAC who works with the Texas Democrat Party.
And they've funded over two-thirds of my candidates funding.
The other part is from the Beto organization powered by people.
That's the organization that A.G. Paxton sued for allegedly misappropriating funds when they were trying to pay off the Democrats for abandoning their posts during the redistricting effort in our state house.
So there are a lot of things against us.
And when they call this their pilot program, you know, in Texas, nobody votes in January.
Our big challenge is to get Republicans to know there is an election today in January.
You know, yesterday, in the midst of everything President Trump had going, he tweeted about this race and the importance of Republicans getting out to vote.
And that tells you that across the nation, Democrats and Republicans alike know how important today's race is to keeping Texas red.
When the grassroots gets together, Harrison was on yesterday.
Texas AM has totally gotten rid of its DEI program.
Remember that you guys got up on the ramparts.
That thing is gone now.
And that's not small, right?
That's going to lead to other, those dominoes are going to fall.
It's not DEI.
I think it's transgender.
Let me be specific.
I think it's the transgender ideology part of that.
We're going for all the DEI.
And Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has now basically said in the Texas Senate, they are going to have hearings on Sharia law, other aspects of this Islamic invasion, of course, other things, but they're going to call early hearings to tee up a special session of the Texas legislature to deal with this.
The whole reason we started War Room Texas.
So more on that later.
But I will tell you, the political establishment in Texas responds to grassroots pressure.
All we need to do is awaken the grassroots army there and unite.
And there's huge things can happen in Texas.
And as Tarran County goes, so goes Texas.
As Texas goes, so goes the nation.
As the nation goes, so goes the world.
So make sure that we're just very focused on where we can win and how we can win and how we do this.
I want to go back to Georgia.
So David, it's three things.
The FBI stepped in, and there's two things happening.
You have the director of national intelligence that is looking, and people should understand that I think that that means there might have been some national security, some intelligence efforts here.
Tulsi Gabbard is obviously very smart.
She's talked about this in the past, but President Trump has said she's kind of designated to look at the whole thing.
The FBI is looking at crimes.
They're not there just to talk about the 2020 election.
They're talking about crimes around the 2020 election.
And so Fannie Willis and the whole crowd in Fulton County and the gentleman was just up.
You guys got to, you ought to be very focused.
They're looking for crimes.
So you have the 2020 election about what actually happened and what really was the outcome.
You also have the accountability part of it.
And I got to tell you, I think the accountability part is going to roll through.
I think it's going to go through a Sith, like a Sith grass at certain senior Republicans.
You were very gentlemanly in saying that may not look too good on Kemp.
I think Kemp's got to be concerned.
I think the Lieutenant Governor, I think Raffensberger, that entire crowd that worked for Rafferensberger, you have to be held accountable.
We're just not going to go after radical Democrats.
The third aspect, though, is 26 and 28.
David, and looking forward to that, being that you were the head of the Republican Party.
How do you think, what should be done about 26 and 28 to make sure we can't have these, we can never have this happen again in the midterms and particularly the presidential elections coming up, because essentially, you look at a handful of states and a handful of counties in those states.
They stole the 2020 presidential election.
We've got this massive problem with debt, with deficits.
We have 15 to 20 million illegal alien invaders just on Biden's watch.
The entire country has been transformed.
And everything we're trying to do is sort that out and not even build for the future because they've got so many massive problems that all the railhead of it is the stealing of the 2020 election.
So as you look at this, do you think that we're getting the personnel in?
And particularly, do they have the resolve in the spine?
It's not just getting Republican in some billet, right?
We know it's about having a steely spine, having resolve, and being able to face down these radicals, sir.
I think I don't know all the reasons that Tulsi Gabbard was in Atlanta, but election infrastructure has been identified as critical infrastructure that falls under her purview as the director of national intelligence.
So it would make sense that she would be concerned if that infrastructure had been compromised.
You cannot, the FBI cannot execute a search warrant unless a federal judge has found probable cause that a crime was committed, you know, which is what happened when this search warrant was executed.
And there have been some improvements in Georgia's laws since 20 and in 2020 to improve, to address some of the issues that I've raised, but the system remains broken.
And we have got to continue to take steps to secure it.
The Fonnie Willis apparatus that tried to put you and other people and the president particularly in prison and anybody that was associated with this are really getting to a fair count in actually what happened.
They tried to put all these folks in Georgia in prison, right?
Bankrupt them first with the legal and then put them in for the rest of your lives to die in prison.
They wanted to put these, they want to put Trump in prison for 30 or 40 years.
They want to have him die in prison.
And don't think they don't want to do that today.
Just watch them.
Just listen to them.
They're talking about, oh, we got to have Nuremberg trials.
We have to have Moscow show trials.
Look at, you look at the streets of Minneapolis today.
You look at what happened in Los Angeles last night.
That's French Revolution stuff.
That's the Bolsheviks in 1917 and 1918.
It's the same thing.
It's exactly the same.
It's the red, it's atheistic, demonic.
Now it's got a jihadist part to it.
If you think that's gone away, you are dead wrong.
You are dead.
And we're not doing our job then exposing that because it hasn't gone away and it's getting more vicious because they understand we're breaking their business model by saying, hey, all these illegal alien invaders and all the scams and the samayans has all got to stop.
They all got to be held accountable.
They got to get out of here.
It's going to get 10 times tougher.
You ain't seen nothing yet.
So, David, in that regard, how do we make sure that we hold the, because Fonnie Willison's people, we got to turn the light on them because they tried to put the innocent and the people that were the good citizens and the people who are sitting there going, hey, we can't let this happen because it's a presidential election.
They try to put all you guys in prison and the president to die in prison.
Yeah, I was surprised when she said she was going to investigate the problems in 2020.
And then I quickly realized that what she was really investigating were the people who were pointing out the problems.
She gave us a deadline.
It was a public deadline in June.
I think it was in June of, by June of 2024, we had to either negotiate a plea and publicly apologize, or she would seek the maximum sentence on the charges that she brought us against us, which I think for me was 40 years in prison.
And so the choice that I had to face was either publicly apologize for things that I did not do wrong or face a nine-month trial and spend $2 million.
And the best outcome from that would be that I would be bankrupted.
And the worst outcome is that I'd be in prison for the rest of my life.
We're going to get you back on because I want to break down exactly what happened.
You brought up something that triggered.
I remember we did the broadcast that night with Richard Barris.
I think it was that night or the next day.
I remember playing that Raffensburger clip where he said, because we had each state laid out, and he says, hey, with the amount of votes outstanding, it's virtually impossible for President Trump to be overcome.
It just, you know, every day, every hour after that was a fiasco.
David, what's your social media?
Where do people go and become more familiar with you before we get you back up?
I post on X, and my handle is David Schaefer at X. Sir, I hope you realize this: that you're a patriot and a hero in the great line of American patriots and heroes all the way back to the revolutionary generation.
You stood in the breach, and like you said, they gave you a choice: either admit that you were guilty and all this is true, you tried to steal the election, apologize, or we're going to bankrupt you for millions of dollars to defend yourself, and we're going to put you in prison for 40 years.
You will die in prison.
Schaefer, you're a hero.
Look forward to having you back next week.
A short commercial break back in the warm in the moment.
Hey, I want to give a shout out to Paul Dans and the entire team.
He's fighting like hell in this race against Lindsey Graham for the Senate.
I mean, it almost makes my head blow up to know that Lindsey Graham's leading in this race.
There's unconfirmed reports of several explosions.
I shouldn't say unconfirmed.
There's news sites in the Middle East putting out about four explosions in various, I guess, petrochemical facilities in different towns in Iran, Persia.
We have not had verification of that.
But as you know, Lady Lindsay has been pushing that one nonstop.
Also, Lady Lindsay is in back of this kind of whole debate for the next couple of weeks with the Senate, a negotiation where they're prepared to give up all the key elements of ICE, including the mask on the ICE agents, suing ICE agents, having to get federal warrants to take every person out of the country.
You won't, the 15 million won't get that done in 150 years if you have to do that.
They're trying to slow down everything.
And DeWine in Ohio gave away the game.
We're talking about the Haitians with temporary protective status.
And he said, oh, no, no, they're adding to the community.
There's a Chamber of Commerce pitch.
Oh, well, they're adding, you know, they're renting apartments and working.
They're very good workers.
You know, their wages are undercut American wages, but hey, you know, it helps the Chamber of Commerce.
So how could we bad?
It's bad because it doesn't put American citizens first.
They all have to go.
They all have to go, all of them.
100% mass deportations.
We will not accept anything less.
You're not going to have a country.
It's very simple.
You're not going to have a country.
And you're not going to have a country for people called American citizens in 10 or 20 years.
So you got to nip it in the bud now.
It's the reason we're shifting the show down to Texas for the month of February.
If we can get all the logistics work out, which we're doing right now, to make sure that we drive this issue of the three March primary where Sharia law is on the ballot, the prohibit Sharia law, a proposition that would prohibit Sharia law in the great state of Texas and much, much, much more.
Sam Tannenhaus is here with the great biographer of Buckley.
You know, Pat Buchanan kind of laid out where the country was headed when he gave this speech.
I think it was at the Houston Convention and other places back in the, let's say, the early 90s, where he laid out where he thought if we continued down with the globalist, that the country was going.
At the time, it was a little early.
There were a lot of people that thought Pat Buchanan was a wingnut.
There were those of us who said, wow, what is this guy saying?
It was kind of the equivalent of Trump at the South Carolina election or primary debate where he called the Bushes out on stage for the Iraq war.
Boy, where to get those clips for the president this weekend.
President, we ought to go back and play those clips this weekend when guys are all Lady Lindsay's in your ear saying, let's go bomb Persia.
What was, how did Buckley, because Buckley was considered the father of this conservative movement, even though he had Barry Goldwater, he had Ronald Reagan's elective officials, he was kind of the Mac Daddy, at least as a public intellectual.
You know, I remember when I was getting to know Bill Buckley around the time I was writing about Whitaker Chambers and then moved over to Bill Buckley.
And I said, so how did you get involved with Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan?
And I'll never forget the way he said this because, you know, I have that patrician voice.
He said, they came to me.
They needed him.
These are two really talented politicians from the Southwest, Goldwater, Arizona, Reagan, Southern California.
And remember, Republican Party and all U.S. politics back then was situated in the East Coast.
It was dominated by the press and media and party leaders and the East Coast.
And here are these two guys coming out of what one of Buckley's disciples, Kevin Phillips, called the Sun Belt, invented that term.
And here are these guys coming along, and they know they have to present themselves as national figures.
And so Buckley would talk to them.
He never tried to tell them what to think or what to say.
He trusted them, but he was able to introduce them around.
When Reagan gave a talk at Yale after he was elected governor, Buckley led him through the campus.
You know, Buckley was famous at Yale.
Reagan was a little nervous.
He's not an Ivy League guy.
All that stuff Steve still held back then, even more so.
You know, universities with their private clubs and inner sanctums.
And Buckley belonged to them all, but he was able to bring the conservatives in.
He did the same thing with the movement.
And it's interesting what you say about Pat Buchanan, too, because I thought of you.
And I sent you that famous quote of Buchanan's speech in Houston.
And Pat, who's a friend of mine, had challenged George Bush, President George Bush, the first George Bush, for the nomination in 92 and had done very well in New Hampshire.
And Buchanan was a great phrase maker.
And he said, we'll fight him on the ice.
And then when the ice melts, we'll fight them in hell.
You know, we're not going to give it up.
And of course, he lost, but he was given an important keynote speech, or not keynote, but important late night speech, you know, midway through the convention in Houston.
And this is where he made his really famous statement.
Pat Buchanan did.
He said, and I'm paraphrasing all the text in front of me.
We're living in, we're going through a political and religious and cultural war.
And what everybody picked up on was the culture war, because they thought he was talking about gay rights, abortion, and he was, but he was also talking about a worldview, what we would think of as a secular liberalism that has completely taken over the culture, dominated.
And he said, the guy the Democrats have put up, Bill Clinton, he's the face of that.
And whatever you think of George Bush, he's not that.
He comes out of an older style, older idea of what America is.
And Buchanan saw this 92, right?
This is well over 30 years ago, 34 years ago.
He sees that some big thing is up for grabs in the country.
It's not about winning a war.
Vietnam War is over.
The Cold War is over.
You know, we ended it.
The Russians lost.
We won.
Cold War is over.
But he sees these other rising forces.
Now, he would be an early opponent of that first war in Iraq.
And, you know, some people who wondered about the later pages in my book, some kind of Republican establishment types were offended that he didn't say more about how Bill Buckley got involved on the side of the neocons when there were fights about Pat Buchanan.
But the reason I didn't make more of that was Buckley supported Buchanan when he challenged George Bush.
And George Bush was one of Buckley's friends.
They belonged to all the same clubs at Yale and then out in the Bohemian Grove in California.
But Buckley thought Buchanan was making a point.
So I saw him.
I was at his house.
My wife and I were there.
He invited us over to watch the Houston convention the next night.
Buchanan had spoken the night before.
And he made this speech that in our parlance, we'd say, gone viral.
Pat Buchanan said, you know, this is a war about who we are as Americans.
Nobody really talked that way back then.
Everybody does today, left and right, right?
Identity.
Who are we?
That's what Buchanan said, this election would be about.
And he really got hammered for that, including by people like David Gergen.
Remember him and go on the PBS news hour and say, well, you know, I think Pat Buchanan's going a little far here.
He's setting people against one another.
He's polarizing.
And I said to Bill Buckley, I kind of assumed Buckley would agree, friend of George Bush.
I said, what'd you think of Pat Buchanan's speech?
He said, he loved it.
I said, why?
He said, fire.
He brought some fire to it.
You know, he says these things and he means them.
Well, then I'm going through the correspondence, you know, the letters as you do when you write these books.
And I see that Buckley had an exchange with another one of his many protégés, brilliant writer, Michael Lind, who's still out there, pretty close to JD Vance, is my understanding, but out there in politics, a writer.
And Mike Lind said to Bill Buckley, you know, Buchanan's going to turn this into a real culture war.
And Buckley said, yeah, I know.
He said, that's what we want.
He said, if you believe the things Pat Buchanan does, and I, Bill Buckley, agree with them too, then you expect somebody to come out and make the case, to state it in an aggressive way and take the battle to the other side.
So here we are in Minneapolis, and I'm thinking, yeah, we're kind of seeing it.
At last, everybody on both sides is saying it.
We're going to have a fight about what the identity of this country is.
I say, even I see where my friend David Brooks leaving the New York Times.
He says, well, you know, I've got to help people figure out who we are as Americans.
And I'll add one more thing to let you get a word in Edgewise here, Steve.
I was surprised when I wrote a profile of Pat Buchanan a number of years ago, not long after the first Trump victory.
I went down to Langley, Virginia, and interviewed Pat Buchanan, did a long story on him for Esquire Magazine, which he loved, by the way.
And in that piece, I quote David Brooks saying, Pat Buchanan's the most influential conservative intellectual in America.
What's interesting is that Ben Berquam, our field reporter, didn't go to Yale, didn't go to Harvard.
But he laid it out, it's the fight for Western civilization in the streets of Los Angeles last night, in the streets of Minneapolis today.
You're either going to stand and deliver or you're going to flinch.
Just remember this.
If you flinch or take the knee now, we'll never save Western civilization.
This is the defining moment.
What plays out in the streets, what plays out in Congress, what plays out in the White House, what plays out in this country is the defining moment for us as a civilization.
He opposed the first Iraq invasion, the first war.
He said America had no interest there and it was being fought for oil and because what he called the Jewish lobby, the Israel lobby, which was an outrageous term back then, maybe not so much now.
There was a pro-Israel group that was pushing very hard for it.
The neocons who emerged in both Bush administrations were very much involved in that.
And Pat Buchanan said he didn't see why.
He didn't see why we need to fight a war, war there.
We're going to work to make sure they delay the paperback edition because they're still reprinting the hard copy for the fifth, sixth, seventh edition.
Oh, so this is, I am in the Federated States of Micronesia, which is just south of Guam.
So this is an independent country, but it is about 400 miles or so from Guam.
And it's freely associated with the U.S.
And there's about $2 billion worth of military or dual-use infrastructure that's scheduled to go into this island of Yap, which has a population of about 5,000 people.
The NDAA announced about almost $1.5 billion just for the runway alone.
But the Chinese are already on the ground.
And if you remember, we covered an island a few hundred miles down the chain called Woolleyai, where the Chinese are revamping an old Imperial Japanese runway.
And that runway will be opening on February 9th.
That runway is about 400 miles from Guam.
There will be a huge opening ceremony.
The president of the country is coming in.
Of course, the Chinese delegation, they've chartered flights.
They've redirected the national boat to go to it.
This is really the Chinese saying, we're here in Yap.
And so far, there isn't going to be a single representative from the United States of America attending.
Although the administration is clearly much more awakened and all over top of these issues now in the Western Pacific and particularly our territories and in Diego Garcia, can you give us an update?
Because I think GB News reported last night that the deal may be dead because of President Trump just saying we're not going to do this.
And we do have leverage here, which I think President Trump now fully appreciates the leverage he's got in this deal.
What's the latest?
Because there's all kind of conflicting reports coming out.
The U.S. and the U.K. have an existing agreement from 1966 that's due to run until 2036, which says that the Chagos Archipelago, including the critical Diego Garcia base, has to remain British.
And the fine folks at the British Foreign Office apparently didn't tell or properly brief the U.S. when the U.S. originally came out for the deal.
And so not only does it have leverage, it could kill the deal straight up.
And there are reports from the Brits that Chagosians who have been meeting with the State Department, that State Department intends to clarify the position and say they're against the deal.
But the cabinet of the government of Mauritius just released its notes from its cabinet meeting January 30th, where it says that there's been a proposal from the U.S. for a high-level delegation to go to Mauritius to discuss some sort of security partnership and Western Indian Ocean agreement,
which implies that if that's accurate, that there's still people within the State Department or the NSS that think Mauritius should be somehow involved in something.
I see no reason to see why.
They really shouldn't belong anywhere near the Chagos Archipelago anyway.
But perhaps this is some sort of conciliatory agreement to say, okay, forget Chagos, but we'll work with you in the Western Pacific.
I'm not quite sure how they're going to do it.
This is a country that's very close to China, drifting close to China, but maybe somebody's trying to square the circle.
I don't know.
It is not clear.
The only thing that we do know is if President Trump wants, and he's already stated he doesn't really like it, the deal could be dead.
I'm on my usual X thing, but I would implore people to instead go to Pacific Mission Aviation, PMAP.org, which is the missionary airline that flies in this area and that wants to take over that Chinese runway.
So in an ideal world, the Chinese would build the runway and the missionaries would operate off of it, helping the people of the region with free medevac flights like they've been doing in the area for over 50 years.
So Pacific Mission Aviation is the answer, I think, to a lot of the problems in this area in terms of the way the Chinese are putting in the infrastructure.
He and his wife and five kids have been living in Yap for years, serving the people of the region, keeping the flights open on runways that were built by hand by people on the outer islands who are incredibly grateful for the service that they're rendering.
And the Chinese hate them.
They gave the national government a plane to try to drive them out of business.
They're trying to lease the planes out from under them.
They are fighting hard on the front line of, it's not just Western civilization.
It's a real battle of good and evil all over the world.
Xi Jinping is concentrating his power more and more.
However, this is where the new federal state of China brings the value, which we give you an insider perspective.
What does this event actually mean inside the CCP?
This is like you throw a nuclear bomb and explosive.
It's going to come.
On January 24th, the CCP announced the detain, the detaining of the two top, I would say the most powerful general in the PLA, which is Zhang Yuxia.
And he is the right-hand man of Xi Jinping and was perceived as long being perceived as a key holder of Xi Jinping's control of the military.
And on top of it, the second person, a lot of people overlooked, and he's the chief joint political staff and Liu Jianli.
They are, this is not an individual coup.
This is a systematic and institutional coup.
The reason why, if you look at the second general, let's put the Zhang Yuxia, the most powerful general aside.
Just look at Liu Zhenli.
He's the one that in charge of intelligence of PLA.
He is the one that in charge of security of all the commanders, all the fighting generals in PLA.
So these two are working together against the Xi.
And on top of it, if you're looking at the personal relationship between Zhang Yuxia and Xi Jinping, it goes back to generational and family loyalty.
So she would not touch Zhang Yuxia if she had any other solution.
So that is why she is so scared.
She's trying to cover the information ram.
And this is what Miles will call poison pill.
If you look at the information, there's a lot of noise.
This is by design.
If you look at X, already the head of the product of X, Nikita Beer had said, you know, they have been experiencing unprecedented clogging using illicit ads and porn on X.
This is the CCP's plug, the public channel information, for fear of the Chinese people finding what's really going on and for fear the world understand the significance of this event.
This is a breaking point.
And Xi Jinping from now on cannot stop any insider attempts to taking down the regime.
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