Episode 5129: MAGA Victory In Japan; Mainstream Says Evangelicals See Viciousness As a Virtue
Natasha Owens’ "Anthem of the Free" topped charts alongside J6’s "Somalia Waltz," signaling a shift toward patriotic music. Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) crushed rivals in elections, with Takaichi’s 70% approval and hints at military support for Taiwan sparking China’s pretextual backlash—$1T decoupling efforts and rare earth threats. Grant Newsham calls this a "tectonic" rejection of pacifism, while Dave Brett counters evangelical critiques, noting two-thirds back Trump amid surging Bible sales and church attendance. Bannon urges White House talking points linking Christian ethics to anti-China policies, framing Western values as the key to global freedom. Turning Point USA’s Super Bowl halftime show drew 25M+ YouTube viewers, exposing corporate America’s "woke" monopoly—brands like Cabelas and Chevy now catering to patriotic audiences. [Automatically generated summary]
Japanese Stand Firm: Military Reinforcement?00:14:28
Monday, 9 February, Your Verler, 2026, right there, Natasha Owens.
I think you can download that.
It was the, it's still, it was number one on Friday.
Natasha Owens put that song together in Sheetum, what, four or five days, six days, I think.
Incredible.
And I did that for the audience to make up for having to see Bad Bunny, clips from Bad Bunny and Joe Scarborough.
And then the double down, we played Bruce Springsteen's Streets of Minneapolis just to make sure the torture was appropriate.
Natasha Owens, incredible.
In fact, Real America's music, I think, Anthem of the Free of the J6 prison choir.
And of course, my favorite was at the Somalia Waltz, which we I don't think we've played on the show yet.
It was so over the top, but that's also climbing up the charts.
Part of the economy has got to be the situation with the Chinese Communist Party in China.
Huge article, I think, out in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday that talked about the $1 trillion.
Anytime anybody talks to you about China, I know China can be a strategic partner.
China is spending $1 trillion to decouple.
Remember, we've been the biggest advocates of decoupling from the Chinese Communist Party that until they're an existential threat to our country.
They're in unrestricted warfare.
You've seen this.
We're going to have some people on starting this afternoon throughout the week of this biolab out in Nevada, CCP-oriented, owned by, I guess, an Israeli citizen.
Very confusing what's happened out there, except for the fact that it's very dangerous and very deadly.
The Chinese Communist Party's objective is to take down the United States of America, and they're doing it.
They're a huge active participant, as Peter Navarro, as Peter Schweitzer has documented in the New York Times number one bestseller, Invisible Coup, The Invisible Coup.
He talks about the Chinese Communist Party's activity in unrestricted warfare to take down the nation.
Now, we've had some yesterday as reinforcing that our strategy in the Western Pacific and East Asia is correct.
An overwhelming victory yesterday for that firebrand female prime minister in Japan who's very close to President Trump and is reinforcing kind of a not just reindustrialization, but rearmament of Japan and taking a much more aggressive military stance against the Chinese Communist Party.
We have a small clip.
We have a clip.
Let's go play the clip.
We've got Colonel Newsham, Dr. Thay, and Clear Pascal going to join us.
Let's go and play the clip.
The Liberal Democratic Party won more than two-thirds of the seats in the lower parliament.
It is its best result ever.
President Trump has previously said that her decision to call the snap election was bold and wise.
It's about a 70% support rating versus her own Liberal Democratic Party, which has less than half than that.
And I think there are several factors that have boosted her popularity.
One, she's the first female prime minister in Japan.
And as you know, that it's a very patriarchal society in many ways, where women have difficulty in terms of advancing in politics or even in business circles.
And she's also very, I think, plain spoken.
And she also comes across as very humble in her interactions with the public as well as with other lawmakers.
You say she's plain spoken.
Certainly she's antagonized China, hasn't she?
Sort of hinting and talking about Japan possibly getting involved militarily if China ever were to attack Taiwan.
Yes, I think she probably misspoke, or maybe she said more than she should have.
But I mean, what she said was basically what I think most people who follow these policies in Japan believe would happen.
Because if there is an attack on Taiwan by China, that would greatly affect Japan.
And more likely than not, there might be an intervention by the United States.
And as a treaty ally, Japan would be drawn into such a conflict.
And so China reacted very strongly, urging its tourists not to travel to Japan, Japan being one of the largest destinations.
One of the Chinese visitors are one of the largest numbers of visitors that come to Japan.
And also they talked about reducing rare earth exports to Japan.
And so Japan had similar issues about 15 years ago with the rare earths.
But these sort of spats between Japan and China, they sort of ebb and flow, and it just seems to be sort of a never-ending issue.
I disagree with that dramatically.
You see, the British broadcaster said, oh, she misspoke.
She's antagonizing China.
The people in Japan don't think so.
I want to bring a Colonel Grant Newsham.
This is the equivalent of giving permission structure.
This is what's happened in Texas.
The reason we moved the show down here for the run-up to the primary is the situation with Sharia law and Sharia law now being on the ballot on 3 March.
The grassroots 100% in Baccas.
The grassroots is fired up.
I have seen, if you watch local television here, it is bombarded with ads.
I've never seen anything like it.
I mean, Cornyn, you can tell where the Senate McConnell, these guys got back of him.
Number one, his ads are just nonstop.
Number two, you would think he is living at the White House, the way the ads show how close to President Trump he is, which is absolutely not a fact.
In addition, he has taken out ads now about Sharia law.
And this is because the permission structure to give people permission to talk about this.
This is why we had the conference with Gurt Vilders and Glenn Beck, myself, and Peter McAlvini and many others, Grant Stingcombe, that really gave people permission to talk about the situation of Sharia law in Texas.
And it has certainly fired up the grassroots.
And this is a grassroots game down here.
Colonel Nusham, right there, oh, she's antagonizing China and she's made a huge mistake by saying that Japan will actually step in and be part of the defense of Taiwan in case there's an attack.
This was, you know, Japan better than virtually anybody, having lived there so long.
How monumental was this yesterday, sir?
This was tectonic, and one doesn't use that expression loosely.
This was a blowout, and it showed that most Japanese want Japan to stand up for itself, to stop apologizing to everybody, but particularly to the Chinese.
That comment that you just had on the clip about Takaichi having provoked the Chinese by her comment over Taiwan, how wrong can you possibly be?
With the Chinese, everything is pretextual.
They were looking for an excuse to go after her.
They hate her.
They told the coalition partner for her party to drop out of that coalition and to go after her.
And that was the day after a meeting between the Komeito party and the Chinese ambassador to Japan.
The fellow who asked the question in the diet, Okadakatsuya, his family has very strong ties or business ties in China.
Now, he was probably told to ask the question as well.
But this was monumental.
What you saw yesterday, now the test is what do we do about it?
Well, but it is giving permission.
The Japanese people basically said, screw you to China.
They have been, because this has been the onslaught.
You can't say anything about China.
You can't take about the rearmament of Japan, of Japan standing up now like a great nation defending itself, and particularly the potential of even defending an ally.
So this is a game changer in East Asia in geostrategically, because the Japanese people overwhelmingly show that they have the back of those policies, correct?
That's right.
And even before the election, when about 85% of the seats went to conservative candidates, even before that, public opinion polls were about 90% negative on China, and they have been for years.
The Japanese really just about had enough.
And the one thing that really scares the Chinese is a solidly linked U.S. and Japan with two militaries that can operate together effectively.
They don't like that at all.
And that's why they're responding this way.
Cleo Pascal, you've been out in the Western Pacific warning us about this.
What's the message that people are going to hear about what happened in Japan over the weekend?
Japan is back as a serious regional player that it has to be factored into considerations when you're looking at if you're China doing your calculations over Taiwan, if you're in the Pacific Islands, that maybe you've got somebody who has your back when the Chinese come calling.
And Japan, it's very worth noting, has been playing a slow, quiet game across the Pacific Islands and in developing relations with India as well.
So now that it's kind of come out of the closet, so to speak, as a stronger nation, we might see some reinforcement and in the backbones of some of the others involved as well.
To Colonel Newsham's, what kind of shift in policy do you see happening?
I mean, Japan is rapidly rearming.
They're becoming a true military partner of the United States and East Asia.
What do you see about the policy shift?
I think you're going to see a faster push for the Japan Self-Defense Forces to really become a capable military.
They've got some fundamental problems, not least missing recruitment targets by 20 to 25% every year.
I think there's going to be an effort to change the constitution so it formally recognizes the self-defense force as it is now.
Technically, the Japanese military is illegal.
It's a huge morale blow to the force.
You change that, you spend more money, but also you give the military some respect.
And for the first time, we could have a Japanese military that actually gets taken seriously besides some niche capabilities.
Additionally, the Japanese are going to be far more active in the region, and they're going around trying to do exercises, but set up ties with just about anyone you can imagine, the Indonesians, the Australians, India, Malaysia, Philippines as well.
And you may see them actually finally start to give some direct support to Taiwan.
The Japanese are giving the Philippines the treatment that they would otherwise give to Taiwan, because they're still a little gun shy.
But Takaichi recognizes Taiwan's importance, and she likes Taiwan, and she's been there.
Dr. Thayer, we've got a minute before we break.
The Chinese Communist Party just had a loss of face on the global stage and particularly in East Asia.
What are they going to do in reaction to this?
They're just not going to sit there and go, oh, this is terrific.
The Japanese people are finally standing up themselves and want to basically be strong allies militarily with the Americans.
What are your thoughts?
Well, Xi Jinping drove this.
His relentless attacks on Japan and Takeichi personally were a massive gift to her and in this election.
The CCP consistently touted economic retaliation, discouraging tourism, restrictions on rare earth.
They had a diplomatic official say that Takeichi should be beheaded, actually.
So the mask was off with the CCP, and the Japanese people recognize that.
They recognize that they need power to deal with the CCP.
And that power is going to be conventional, as Grant said.
And we need to start talking about the possibility of a nuclear Japan II to balance the PRC.
Hang on one second.
We're taking a short commercial break.
Colonel Grant Newsham, Cleo Pascal, Dr. Thayer.
Got a whole list of people who want to get on here.
We've got a lot of news to cover.
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Okay, with all the focus on Tehran in the Middle East, as I've been saying, the Middle East is a sideshow in the Israel-Tehran situation as a sideshow to a sideshow.
The center of gravity where we should be found.
And by the way, the Ukraine situation, President Trump's working nonstop.
They're talking about June at the latest of getting some sort of deal done.
But the center of gravity of the existential threat we have is the Pacific, is Asia.
As President Trump goes along this brilliant Monroe Doctrine 2.0 with the Trump Corollary from the Arctic all the way down to Argentina and everything in between, the Gulf of America, the Caribbean, the Panama Canal, all of it, Greenland, Alaska, the Arctic Canada, quite brilliant.
But geopolitical turmoil, and that's what we have now.
It's a fourth turning.
It's not going to stop tomorrow.
This is why we started writing the end of the dollar empire, what, four or five years ago?
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U.S.-China Trade Tensions00:09:31
Dr. Thayer, in India, we signed the trade deal.
We're about to ink the trade deal.
I think we're in terms agreed.
That happening really almost on the same weekend as the Japanese people standing up and saying, hey, we're anti-CCP.
We're with the Americans.
How important is that, sir?
Well, it's huge.
I mean, we're in a new era in international politics.
Both sides, the PRC is trying to address their vulnerabilities through that over $1 trillion investment to decouple from the U.S. in ships in particular.
And then Japan and the U.S. are also addressing their vulnerabilities as they shore up their industrial base, as they shore up their ability to generate the weaponry they need and the industrial base to sustain that weaponry to deal with the PRC.
India is a part of that.
The interim agreement that was reached on Friday night or was released on Friday night talks, of course, about reducing tariffs, U.S. reducing tariffs, India reducing tariffs, India is promising not to buy any more Russian oil, but also securing supply chains and economic security is a key aspect of that agreement as well.
So we see in this new era, states doing what they can to maximize their power and to strengthen their ability to support the militaries that they're going to need to have to deal with security competition in this era.
Dr. Thayer, we got to bounce, but you're writing a book on the 100-year war of the United States versus communism.
Is this now we should understand they're going to double and triple down on the color revolution that they're driving?
As Peter Schweitzer has shown, they're one of the key drivers, the Chinese Communist Party.
Don't forget, the Chinese Communist Party is trying to take us down internally because they understand they're going to have a very difficult time taking us down otherwise, particularly as countries like Japan and India and Taiwan pardon with us.
Are they going to double down on their efforts to destroy the United States internally?
Sure, they've never stopped, Steve.
But U.S. and our allies, they're Leninists and they're very good at political warfare.
And so we should never expect there's any lessening of that effort, whether they're supporting George Soros and billionaire donors or unrest in the streets of Minneapolis or elsewhere, or undermining our allies and partners like India and Taiwan.
The Navy says Russ never sleeps and the CCP's political warfare and targeting us never sleeps as well.
They're always at it.
Dr. Thayer, where do people go to get your writings now more than ever?
Yes, Steve, Brad Therodex and Bradley Thera Getter in Truth.
Thanks.
Thanks very much, Steve.
Look forward to the book coming out.
Cleo Pascal, is this a time that we should be giving, letting the Brits give Diego Garcia away to a country that is controlled by the Chinese Commerce Party, ma'am?
Can you believe it?
It's just insane.
And by the way, as you know, I prefer deparasite to decouple.
I think that it's a much more accurate way of describing how the Chinese get into your economy, suck out your capital, your intellectual property, your jobs, and then if you're the cash trader barnacle, which is the specific parasite I like to compare them to, control you from afar.
And that's, I think, largely what's happened, at least in part of the United Kingdom, and has contributed to this crazy decision of the Starmer government to give away the Chagos Archipelago, which includes this critical U.S. base on Diego Garcia, to Mauritius, and then pay billions and billions of pounds over the next 99 years, if the lease even lasts that long, to lease it back.
And the latest on this, if you can believe it, is the Maldives, known mostly as a tropical island paradise, has now moved in to part of the waters of Chagos and claimed that it has control over it because there is some illegal fishing going on.
So you've got even a new power.
This sort of weakness breeds this vacuum where everybody seems to be saying, okay, well, if this is up for grabs, we want a part of it.
And the thing that I'm particularly concerned about is the Mauritius government has cabinet notes, have said that there will be a delegation going from the U.S. to Mauritius to discuss security in the region.
I'm concerned that the U.S. negotiators may have still fallen for part of the UK line, which is that Mauritius should be involved in this at all.
They should not.
The Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, should stay British.
There should be, as was agreed in 1966, that it would stay British at least until another 10 years, until 1936.
And in the meantime, you do a referendum for the Chagosian people, and very likely they're going to vote to stay British.
And then that's it.
None of this negotiation should be going on.
The Maldivians shouldn't be sending drones and Coast Guards into Chagossian waters.
It's gone totally off the rails, as has the UK political establishment, which is why Starmer's chief of staff has just quit.
And now we'll see how long Starmer himself was.
With Starmer Kaltow to the Chinese Commerce Party, it's humiliating that a British prime minister would do that.
That's what he's coming up and trying to basically give them Diego Garcia.
There's nothing to discuss over there.
There's just nothing to discuss.
This is like with the Senate.
We have nothing to discuss on the ICE tactics and strategy, right?
Everything they want is just to basically destroy the ability to do mass deportations.
They know exactly what they're doing.
Same thing in Mauritius.
Cleo, where do people go?
You're putting stuff up all the time on this.
This all hangs in the balance.
Where do folks go?
Yep, just on X. My name, Cleo Pascal.
I'm on Getter, Real Cleo still.
And if you want, the Wooly Eye Runway, which some of the war room posse has been following me on, has just opened up.
There's been a handover ceremony from the Chinese to the president of Federation States of Micronesia, and I'm posting on that as well.
Terrible.
Terrible, terrible, terrible.
Thank you, ma'am.
Grant Newsram, what's going to be the next we should look forward in Japan?
Because this is, as you said, a tectonic earthquake, a plate shift in East Asia, sir.
For the first time in 25 years, you're going to have a Japan that can actually fight.
It's going to take them a little while, but they're moving fast.
When they turn two on something, they do it quickly.
And so the U.S. will finally have a real ally that it can depend on and vice versa.
But so expect the Chinese to turn up the heat here.
You're going to see Chinese ships and aircraft all over the place leaning in on Japanese territory, particularly down in the south, and also where the Japanese just brought up some rare earth minerals from the bottom of the ocean south of Japan.
So the Chinese haters are going to try to destroy her.
And there's plenty of people in Japan who are on the Chinese payroll who will try.
So Takaichi needs a lot of support.
But the dynamic is very different now that America has potentially and most likely a force that can actually reach back and hurt the Chinese if they try something.
Colonel, where do people go to get you, particularly your book, When China Attacks?
It's a great, it's a, it's a, because you don't say if, it's basically when.
It's a great primer on what to expect.
Very strategically smart and tactically smart.
Where do they go get all your content?
Well, the book's on Amazon and the Chinese actually have started attacking.
There's two meetings to the title.
I'm on ex at Newsham Grant and Center for Security Policy.
If you go there, type my name and you'll find everything that I write.
Colonel, thank you for joining us today and thank you for being right, correct on the direction of Japan.
It caught a lot of people by surprise, but it did not catch Cleo Pascal, Dr. Bradley Thayer, and Colonel Grant Newsham.
Did not catch them by surprise.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate you.
Thank you.
This is a great thing about the war room's observers and analysts.
They're ahead of the program.
These guys were calling this.
But by the way, it was quite overwhelming.
Huge support yesterday.
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Why Love Your Neighbor?00:13:37
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Dave Brett, Andrew Colvet, Jack Masovic next.
Yes, it is odd to see the very same evangelicals who claim the Bible is inerrant and who criticize fellow Christians about matters such as ordaining women on the grounds that they are being unfaithful to what Paul wrote in one of his epistles, an interpretation that many biblical scholars dispute.
Dismiss Jesus' most famous sermon.
For these Christians, the teachings of the Son of God take a backseat to the pronouncements of the king of Mar-a-Lago.
Much of today's evangelical world sees Trump's viciousness not as a vice, but as a virtue.
So long as it is employed against those they perceive as their enemies, against those whom they resent, and for whom they have a seething hatred.
But the same people that would say, by your fruits you will be known, are the same ones that are just turning a blind eye to everything.
And you're talking about parables, and you're like, gosh, the Good Samaritan.
Yes.
You look at what's happening in Minneapolis.
Jesus is asked specifically when he says, love your neighbor as yourself, who's my neighbor?
Tells the story of the Good Samaritan, a foreigner that is hated and despised by his audience.
And he says, that's your neighbor.
That's your neighbor.
Not your neighbor, not the person you love, not the person that makes you feel best about yourself.
Not the person who shares your same belief system, but the despised, hated Samaritan that did what the priest didn't do, that did what the worker didn't do, took care of a person in distress.
It is so clear-cut.
Also, not to go into it too much, but Matthew 25, 31 through 46, the disciples, this isn't like an administrative wag in the gospel.
They say, what must we do to be next to you?
To sit at your right hand.
What must we do?
And Jesus says, many things.
You know, feed the hungry, give water to the thirsty, clothe the naked, visit people in jails.
Welcome the foreigner.
Welcome the foreigner, the stranger.
These are verses and parables that lie at the heart of the gospel.
And it's one of the few times where they say, what do we have to do to be with you, to have eternal life?
And Jesus always turns it back to them.
Take care of the least among these.
Because when you do that, you're taking care of me.
Bless Donald Trump and it's the followers of Donald Trump.
I agree with you, Beth Moore.
She was very influential in my daughter, Christine's life.
And she's a person of real courage because people turn on her, like you said, Russell Moore and others.
You know, what explains this?
I mean, it's a very complicated issue, and it doesn't have one answer.
But I do think that what we've discovered over the last 10 years is that for a lot of people who proclaim to be followers of Jesus and sincerely proclaim to be followers of Jesus, their core identity actually is not faith.
I think their core identity is in many cases political or cultural and that they tag faith on.
It's not as if faith isn't important, but they have these certain pre-existing views, then they're amplified in the social media world.
And then Donald Trump, because of this constant inflaming of passions and grievances, just connected with them.
And so in the end, what they've done is they've taken teachings and verses and deformed them, but convinced themselves that they're acting with faithfulness.
So there's something particularly disturbing about this.
And the effect on the Christian witness, and I say this as a person of the Christian faith, is incalculably damaging.
And so few people are willing to stand up.
You named probably half of them in the show so far.
That's another thing that's troubling in these times.
If my people who are called by my name submit themselves before me and turn from there, I could go on and on.
He heard it over and over again.
But I guess the red letters, Jesus' teaching, the gospels, I guess they apply to Democrats, but they don't apply to Republicans.
Is that what we're learning here?
There's nothing better to fire up the war room posse than to have Joe Scarborough on a Monday lecture you on the New Testament.
It's unbelievable.
I can see Ari in the chat in the war room engine room make it stop.
Dave Bratt joins us.
Dave, this comes off a piece in the Atlantic, another super Christian magazine that's now, I think it's Steve Jobs' wife owns it, and they're bringing in every left-wing writer, kind of a talent grab.
But they have particularly focused on religion.
They do a lot of pieces on religion.
They've got one up, and that's what Morning Joe was going off on this morning.
Can you walk us through it?
Yeah, sure, boy.
That's a doozy.
Peter Weiner, whoever was the narrator, said, he opened up with, it is odd.
I'll tell you what is odd.
It is odd to have Joe Scarborough sitting with the pinnacle of Western ethics, Father Reverend Al Sharpton.
Go Google Al Sharpton, and it is a laundry list of crimes down the scene.
And to which Joe will say, oh, read the red letters.
Look the other way.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
No, if you love your neighbor as yourself, you want the rule of law in place, right?
And then you got Caddy K, the paragon of British virtues where the churches are empty.
These folks, it's very simple theologically, right?
You should love, as a person, you should love your neighbor as yourself.
But as yourself implies also you would want the rule of law for them, right?
Because that's what I would want from myself.
And they abstract from that.
But this is not, politics is Romans 13, right?
God institutes leaders to wield the sword and to bring justice to nations.
So when Joe invokes Minnesota, $20 billion crime and fraud and illegality all over the place, and then he uses the gospel to say, ignore that, you know, feed your brother, feed the least of these.
That is a grotesque version of Christian theology.
And he knows it, right?
And truly, if you look at the political level, they're taking it out on President Trump.
We had Biden chaos, right?
20 million illegal aliens.
And then when you try to restore the rule of law, guess what?
That's not easy.
But they brought the chaos.
And again, the law, nothing.
And then again, hang on one second.
I just want to make sure people, I want to make sure I understand it.
And then hopefully the audience.
The case they're making here, and we've had Bashram on and others that do this professionally and study this about they're trying to drive a wedge in the church.
They're trying to drive a wedge Between traditional Catholics and the standard stock Catholic Church, between mainline Protestantism, but particularly in the evangelical community, because they, as Bashram tells us, the evangelical community has oftentimes become the last line of defense we have against some of these more outrageous policies.
And correct me if I'm wrong, they're making the argument that any of the evangelical preachers and any of the evangelical pastors and people like the new turning point, or I shouldn't say the new turn, but the turning point faith, people bringing young people together, that what they're doing is they're actually throwing away the gospels of Jesus Christ and actually teaming up with an autocrat king, which they refer to Trump.
And for political power, they're drafting off what they call Trump's hate and Trump's viciousness against various communities.
Is that essentially what they're trying to do here?
Yeah, no, it's just clear.
And I think their anxiety is heightening because at the prayer breakfast, as President Trump said, you know, the young people are up a couple hundred percent.
The young men attending church up a couple hundred percent.
Bible sales are going up two, three hundred percent.
And so the left, of course, does not like this.
They're not interested.
Have you ever heard the left push Bible sales?
Have you ever heard NBC or MSNBC or CNN or anything bring up the or the Atlantic bring up the gospel?
They only do this to divide the Christian right, and they're not having any of it, right?
As I said after the prayer breakfast when I came on, President Trump, at first, you know, 10 years ago, there may have been some wrinkles or whatever, but the evangelicals and the broader Catholic community and the rest of the world now is seeing what President Trump is doing to restore order, right?
The Biden chaos extended to collecting $30 million in checks for the Biden family, et cetera.
That corruption along with Minnesota, et cetera, that's visible for everybody to see.
And we were becoming weak.
Now, President Trump is pushing the order, not only on the U.S. evangelicals, but on the rest of the world.
And he's strengthening NATO.
He's strengthening the United Nations.
He's strengthening the institutions.
He's getting rid of the rot that has decayed our values and virtues abroad.
And he's restoring classical American virtues.
And Pete Hegseth is doing the same thing.
I could go right across the board.
So the left is trying.
They're trying to drive a wedge.
There's a few evangelicals who are just, you know, bitter at, you know, for some reason.
I hang on.
Hang on to go there.
Yeah, but hang on.
You made a statement the other day because the prayer breakfast is not just MAGA.
The prayer breakfast is a broad range.
You have Democrats there.
You have mainstream Protestants.
You have many very, very liberal Catholics.
You said the prayer breakers the other day.
One-third, particularly the evangelicals, are with President Trump.
One-third are kind of, they'll do it, but they don't want to be identified with it.
They're afraid that there will be like the guys in Minneapolis, the church will be attacked, et cetera.
And then the third are against us.
Going into politics in the future, particularly with all these issues we have with mass deportation, et cetera, what can we do?
We've got a couple of minutes here.
What can we do to assist the one-third, right?
Those are the ones that are being attacked in this Atlantic article.
What they're trying to do, they see the power of Don Lemon and these guys going into the church and intimidate people.
This is what they're going to start doing next.
They want to intimidate Christians to not have the back of President Trump and these MAGA policies.
It's quite evident, and they're going to do it in intellectual piece here.
So given that you were at the prayer breakfast, what can we do collectively to make sure that we have the back of that one-third and expand that so we can get the other third on board?
Yeah, well, that's right.
And just to be clear, we have two-thirds and maybe a little more of the evangelicals backing President Trump.
There's a third that are weak and, you know, they're relatively hopeless.
But what do we do?
The White House has several initiatives on religion.
And if they can help put together talking points to show how Trump's policies are actually serving in the interest of the poorest of the poor, right?
When you look at Africa and China going into Africa, China going into whatever, Africa is no longer in a love fest with China.
Let me tell you that.
I meet leaders from Africa over the past several years.
So they need to put out in simple bullet point form at the highest level at geopolitics.
What is President Trump doing to reunite the world around some principles?
Right.
We've had a 70-year run of relative peace and prosperity.
We're not angels at the state level, but there's no comparison morally between us and China, who doesn't believe in any sense of human rights.
We have a constitution on paper.
They do not in its simplest form.
Also, the Christians need to be proud of what we've accomplished.
Christians, uniquely and only in Western Europe, brought first of all human rights and then the rule of law and then private property rights and then market-based capitalism and modern economic growth.
All started only in Christian countries, and the Christian kids don't know this.
So if the White House Office of Communications on the Faith, Paula and them, put together some of those and then just basic Christian ethics, put it out there and explain to the American people the distinction between the gospel on the individual level and then the Romans 13 at the state level.
That is not turn the other cheek time when it comes to China.
They got it all wrong.
The left is so misguided.
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Andrew Corvette, not in a million years that I think when we had you on Friday and Saturday to talk about this and to launch it, given the couple of months that Real America's Voice Yourself, the turning point operation put together.
These numbers are numbers that are monumental.
And it shows you that the American people thirst for a patriotic alternative.
What say you, sir?
Yeah, we were pretty blown away, Steve, last night, especially as we saw those live stream concurrent numbers just keep climbing.
I mean, I think there was like a million people before the show even started.
And YouTube for just the Turning Point channel alone got as high as 6.17 million live concurrence.
If you add that up, we're actually working with a third-party firm right now this morning to find out what sort of a Nielsen equivalent would be for this.
But when you add up that live stream plus Rav's live stream plus on just YouTube, we're just talking YouTube.
We're not talking about other broadcast channels or anything like this.
And Charlie's Turning Points, Ravs.
If you put those three streams together, I think you already have the number one YouTube stream of all time.
We're going to confirm that.
I'm not here definitively saying that, but it was easily number two.
We'll see if we were the number one live stream in the history of YouTube.
That's not counting Rumble.
That's not counting broadcast.
That's not counting all of these other areas.
So we know for a fact that about 25 million streams last night, which is like amazing.
And the way Nielsen does their numbers is they'll usually put a 2.5 X on that because they're depending on groups watching it together.
And I had people texting me, parties of 50 watching the game saying, hey, we're tuned into the halftime show.
So it was, I mean, we really, it's going to be an estimate, but we're talking 40, 50 million people tuned in to Turning Point USA's The All-American halftime show.
So just an amazing, amazing success.
And I will tell you, this is a shot across the bow, Steve.
There are media executives, advertising executives all across the country that took note last night, and some of them are pretty nervous this morning.
And why are they nervous, Andrew?
You guys, this has been Charlie's dream for a long time.
And after his assassination, I know you and Tyler and the team, Erica, focus on, hey, we got to do this.
And you guys put it together.
Rav helped.
Other people helped.
Robin Parker Sig and so many other people had your guys back.
Why should they be nervous this morning?
Well, listen, I mean, if you assume about 125 million people tune in for the big game, well, if you are an alternative programming option that just took 40 or 50 million eyeballs away from that, the ad implications, the ad dollar implications are huge, Steve.
And this is so that's one win, just basically showing the world that you can do this.
The second win, though, is like, hey, next year, we want to invite some of these big boys to come alongside us and help underwrite this so we can make it even bigger and better.
I'm looking at you, Cabelas.
I'm looking at you, Chevy.
I'm looking at you.
What brands are selling to the American heartland?
They're selling to patriotic Americans.
Help us do this thing and keep the pressure on.
And listen, when you've got 40 to 50 million eyeballs on you, if you're a smart advertiser, you want to go where the eyeballs are.
And so, you know, sky's the limit.
And when you start breaking down, not just the numbers, Steve, but when you say, hey, institutional advertising, corporate America, when you break that stranglehold that the woke has had on the ad world, then you've done something really important.
You've actually showed that there is a whole swath of the country that is underserved, and you're going to be rewarded if you serve them.
And what happens then?
You break the dam.
You break the blockade and culture starts changing in some serious ways.
You're the co-host of the Charlie Kirk show.
You follow series you have for years on Real America's Voice.
You'll be up in a few minutes.
What's your social media?
Where are the coordinates so people can get to you?
And people, folks, take some time and understand what happened yesterday.
It was a tectonic earthquake in Japan and a tectonic earthquake here in the United States of America.
Where do people go, Andrew?
Yeah, just follow me on X at Andrew Colvet.
Watch the show here daily.
Me and Blake Neff holding it down.
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Obviously, the show bears his name and we miss him every day.
So check out the show right after the war room.
Support Rob and Parker Sig.
I just want to reiterate what you said, Steve.
They were with us from the jump.
This network was with us from the jump, backing our play here.
And, you know, I don't know if we would have had the courage to do this the way we did without guys like Rob and Parker Sig getting behind us and you, Steve, right from the jump.
I mean, and these artists, I want to Gabby Barrett, Bradley Gilbert, Kid Rock.
Who did I forget?
Gabby Barrett, Lee Bryce.
These are heroes.
They had courage, Steve.
They did the hard thing.
And I hope this audience will reward them by their music.
Follow them.
Check them out.
They stood in the breach.
Great job.
Bravo, Zulu, Andrew Colva, Charlie Kirk.
We very, very proud of you guys.
Very proud.
Those artists, unbelievable.
Mike Lindell.
You're on fire.
You had a huge weekend down in Mar-a-Lago.
But right now, you can give us a couple of seconds on that.
But people want to talk about a deal.
Right on, everybody.
Yeah, we had a great, great fundraiser down here.
You guys can check out my governor race at mikelindellgov.com.
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