Episode 5196: RINO Infiltration In Texas; Do Russia And China Get Involved In Iran
President Trump claims a historic 67% drop in fentanyl crossings and an 18-minute raid removing Maduro, launching the "Donroe Doctrine" to block foreign influence. Stephen K. Bannon and Raheem Kassam then dissect Texas politics, labeling Senator John Cornyn a "RINO" amidst Proposition 10's anti-Sharia efforts. The discussion escalates to fears of Russia, China, and Iran involvement in Gulf conflicts, suggesting that seizing Iranian assets in Dubai could trigger kinetic warfare while highlighting the alleged Islamization of Europe. Ultimately, the episode frames current geopolitical tensions as a direct result of perceived RINO infiltration and unchecked foreign ideological expansion. [Automatically generated summary]
They protect these criminals and animals at the expense of your people.
And for some reason, all over the world.
This is a region that has problems that other regions don't have.
They have different problems, but they don't have this problem.
The United States last year, we achieved the largest drop in murder rate in recorded history.
We have the lowest murder rate in 125 years.
Hard to believe, because, I don't know, it's, you know, we allowed, we've got a lot of them out, but we allowed through the Biden policies and Obama, who was another terrible president, by the way, was Barack Hussein Obama, terrible president.
He was a divider, great divider.
I call him the great divider.
But they allowed a lot of people into our country that shouldn't be here, but in particular, Biden, because Biden had no idea what he was doing, he had no clue.
It was being run by whoever got near the Autopen was running the country.
He was the Autopen president.
And frankly, they let at least 25 million people come into our country, some from prisons, some from mental institutions, gang members, the heads of gangs, the mentally insane.
I'll tell you.
People came in from mental institutions and insane asylums.
And we took them.
We had an open border policy.
It's a policy divided and devised by idiots.
But they poured into our country.
So we went from the worst border in history to by far the best border.
We have the best, strongest border we've ever had.
We have great people that did that job by securing our border and cracking down on traffickers and smugglers.
We've reduced the fentanyl pouring across our border by 67%.
This is in our first year.
You know, give me a little more time, we'll do better.
67%, which is a number that's unthinkable.
You know, they say if you could do 2%, 1%, but we've got it down 67%.
We got a lot of the murderers out.
We had 11,888 murderers allowed in our country with this ridiculous open border policy that these eggheads put in.
But we're also working closely with you on ending human smuggling and the implementing of the safe third country agreements, which are very important.
In January, America's armed forces also ended the reign of one of the biggest cartel kingpins of all with the Operation Absolute Resolve to bring outlaw dictator Nicholas Maduro to justice in a precision raid that nobody's ever seen anything like it.
This was in a very powerful military base, fort.
And they went in and they took him out and they got him out and the people couldn't believe it.
They couldn't believe it.
We were right into the heart and took him out.
And it was nasty.
It was about 18 minutes of pure violence.
And we took him out.
We lost nobody.
Not one person was lost.
Not one aircraft or no military equipment.
Zero.
People have never seen anything like it.
And you're talking about into a military base with a lot of soldiers, good soldiers.
Since that operation, we've been working closely with the new president of Venezuela, Del Codriguez, who's doing a great job working with us.
I mean, she's doing a great job because she's working with us.
If she wasn't working with us, I would not say she's doing a great job.
In fact, if she wasn't working with us, I'd say she's doing a very poor job.
Unacceptable.
No.
But she's doing a great job, Marco, right?
And gets along great with Marco.
We're taking out tremendous amounts of oil.
They're making more money now than they've ever made, ever made.
We have the big oil companies.
They are making more money.
We're getting some.
They're getting a lot.
They're making more money now than they've ever made in the history of their country.
Can you imagine?
And it's being spent properly, and they're watching it closely.
And I'm pleased to say that this week we have formally recognized the Venezuelan government.
We've actually legally recognized them.
We have also just reached a historic gold deal that's called the gold deal with Venezuela to allow our two countries to work together to facilitate the sale of Venezuelan gold and other minerals.
They have great amounts of gold.
They have good land.
Tell you.
It's very good land.
But they weren't able to take advantage.
The system didn't allow them to take advantage of the value of their land.
As we achieve a historic transformation in Venezuela, we're also looking forward to the great change that will soon be coming to Cuba.
Cuba's at the end of the line.
They're very much at the end of the line.
They have no money.
They have no oil.
They have a bad philosophy.
They have a bad regime that's been bad for a long time.
And they used to get the money from Venezuela.
They get the oil from Venezuela.
But they don't have any money from Venezuela.
They don't have any oil.
They don't have anything from people can't even they land in Cuba.
They can't get gasoline to fly out.
They have to leave their planes behind.
And they want to negotiate, and they are negotiating with Marco and myself and some others.
And I would think a deal would be made very easily with Cuba.
But for 50 years I've been hearing, as a little boy, I'd be hearing about Cuba.
You know, Cuba is a disaster, but I've been hearing so much about Cuba.
But Cuba is in its last moments of life, as it was.
It'll have a great new life, but it's in its last moments of life the way it is.
But our focus right now is on Iran.
And we'll do that.
I would say, what will you do?
Take about two days off, Marco?
No, he won't, maybe an hour.
He'll take one hour off and then he'll finish up a deal on Cuba.
That'll be an easy one.
But it will be the entire region that we're doing that.
Many of you have come today and they say, I hope you can take care of Cuba because you've had problems with Cuba, right?
You mentioned, I was surprised.
But four of you said, actually, could you do us a favor?
Take care of Cuba.
I'll take care of it.
OK.
So as these situations in Venezuela and Cuba should make clear under a new doctrine, and it is a doctrine, we will not allow hostile foreign influence to gain a foothold in this hemisphere.
That includes the Panama Canal, which we talked about.
We're not going to allow it.
And together we'll protect our sovereignty, our security, and our cherished freedom and independence.
And just in finishing up, the nations gathered here today are filled with unlimited potential.
You have tremendous potential.
It's a great part of the world.
But to fulfill that tremendous potential, we must smash the grip of the cartels and criminal gangs and horrible organizations run by, in some cases, absolute animals, and truly liberate our people.
And some people are afraid to do it because they've gotten such a foothold, but I think you can get out of that.
We'll work with you if you need.
With the courage and resolve of the leaders in this room, great leaders will make our nation safer, stronger, richer, and more successful than ever before.
So I want to thank you all very much for coming.
I look forward to the incredible progress that's soon to come.
You're going to see some incredible things.
And now I'd like to ask Secretary Rubio and Secretary Hegseth to say a few words, and then I'll sign a proclamation formally launching the America's Counter-Cartel Coalition, which is what it is.
It's a counter-cartel coalition.
And thank you all for being here very much.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
Well, thank you.
Thank you, Mr. President.
I want to thank all the leaders that are here today.
I'll be very brief.
First of all, Mr. President, thank you for making this region a priority.
We've had successive American presidents say that the Western Hemisphere is going to be a priority, and they never do it.
And the President has made it a personal priority.
He's also a President of Action.
It's why I believe he will go down as the most historic figure, one of the most historic figures in American history, and certainly of the last hundred years, because of what he has been able to do and is doing right now with the Western Hemisphere.
Thank you for your bold leadership.
It's an honor to be able to serve in your administration.
And, Mr. President, two points I want to make.
The first is: we have a lot of allies around the world, and we are grateful for our allies.
And the countries represented here today, all 12 of the leaders here, are allies, but they're more than allies.
They're friends.
At a time when we have learned that oftentimes an ally, when you need them, maybe may not be there for you.
These are countries that have been there for us, and these are leaders that are not just allies, they are friends.
And they are always willing to work and cooperate with the United States.
So we're grateful to you.
And as you said, Mr. President, these are also countries with extraordinary potential.
Some are fulfilling it, some are well on their way to fulfilling it.
And this is important.
We want to be a partner with you in that.
We want the world to see that when you are a friend and an ally of the United States, it is a good thing.
It's reciprocated.
It comes back the other way as well.
And so the fact the President is here today and making this a priority is so critical.
If I may, because some of these cameras are covering Spanish.
You're right.
Oh, good.
We don't need an interpreter for this one.
Quiero da la gracia.
I think I'm a good interpreter.
You'll find out in a second.
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A mucho presidente que andicho que lo vanga ser, pero el lo écho yo la gra de semo.
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estoson paíse que nosolamente son aliado son amigos.
Son countes que siempres responden cuéen con a una necesidadi y trabajen en conjunto conosotro y que da mucho pora ser.
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Vuy importante para tar region que vanga ser que en la generaciono futuro no vanga gragrader el law que ta mungacien el momento de OE.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Is he better in Spanish or in English?
I think he's better in Spanish.
It's great.
Pete, please.
Thank you, sir.
Mr. President, I only speak American.
I don't speak Cuban.
Well, Mr. President, it's an honor to be here and to establish in this hemisphere peace through strength.
For far too long, our country's gaze was only on borders in far-flung places.
Not our own border, not our own hemisphere, not the Western hemisphere.
President Trump has established the Trump corollary of the Monroe Doctrine, the Donroe Doctrine.
And the War Department is implementing it as fast as we can.
In fact, two days ago, Mr. President, we launched 18 countries, we're signatories to the Americas Counter-Cartel Coalition, ACCC, which is not just an organization that's going to hold conferences and release white papers.
That's not what we exist to do.
It's an action coalition of like-minded countries who are going to bring their capabilities to bear with American leadership at the forefront to ensure we attack and get after this cartel challenge, which for far too long we have accepted as some new normal in our own countries.
President Trump and the American people rejected that in our own.
We don't have to live with communities flooded with drugs or violence or cartels and gangs.
We can seal our border and we have to for our citizens.
We share a hemisphere and geography.
We share cultures, Western Christian civilization.
We share these things together.
We have to have the courage to defend it.
And we have a commander-in-chief in our country who's set that compass heading.
And at the War Department, we look forward to working with all of your countries and more that are not here to say, with our shared assets and our intelligence and our capabilities with American leadership, we will go on offense against the cartels.
They will know that we're just around the corner.
Whether it's drug boats or on land, the America's Counter Cartel Coalition, the ACCC, will be a force for good, for peace, through strength in this hemisphere.
And we look forward to working with your great countries.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mr. President.
The President, come up and surround us here.
Thank you.
Keep that music going.
Keep it going.
Nice kitchen.
Thank you.
You just heard the commander in chief speaking to the Shield of America conference in Doral at his resort in Doral, Miami, Florida.
Very close to his heart.
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Hemispheric defense, the Dunro Doctrine.
We're going to now continue on with the war room.
Remember, for planning purposes, the President of the United States, as Commander-in-Chief, will be at 1:30, approximately 1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time today at Dover Air Force Base for the dignified transfer of our honored dead.
Short break.
Back to the Wormin.
Stephen K. Van.
It's Saturday, 7 March in the year of our 2026.
Already started off.
This is going to be another big day.
Just logistics.
President Trump just spoke at the Shield of America.
This is his hemispheric defense strategy.
The entire weekend is going to be various speakers down there.
And Rav Espinol is going to cover it wall to wall.
Also, we have a dignified transfer of the remains of our honored dead that is supposed to take place at approximately 1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time at Dover Air Force Base.
The president is going to be in attendance and will, as Commander-in-Chief, oversee the ceremony.
and he will leave shortly from South Florida.
In addition, we are going to do a war room, our Sunday special.
We're going to continue on seven days a week until that time that the major combat operations slow down, cease, and off-ramp, or as President Trump's been talking about, an unconditional surrender.
And today is even going to be a little truncated given the timing that we've got and try to jam everything in.
So we're here today.
Raheem Kassam is going to join me.
We got Dr. Bradley Thayer.
Also, Philip Patrick going to go to a lot of geopolitics and strategy, update on the military operations.
And Philip Patrick is going to talk about capital markets.
In addition, the other thing to be watching is it is a long way from over from John Cornyn and Ken Paxton in Texas.
Over the last 24 to 48 hours, you see it Breitbart and Caroline Rent and many, many others going through John Cornyn's really not just lack of support for President Trump, but really against President Trump in so many major areas.
These clips are starting to surface and get traction.
And you have major voices on the right, including, I think Jesse Kelly was on Megan Kelly yesterday, another voice in there, just bringing up the concept that John Cornyn has not had President Trump's back.
Even more importantly, having spent, I don't know, the last five or so weeks in Texas and getting to know the grassroots.
And the grassroots in Texas is enormously powerful and really are the key and the cornerstone of the Trump movement here and having President Trump's back.
I just think given, and I think this can actually have an inflection point, hopefully in modern politics, the scale and the vitriol coming after Ken Paxton with $80 million essentially of negative ads was a big eye-opener to people in Texas, the grassroots.
And I believe, and more analysis has to be done, I just don't think this whole, that John Cornyn is by nature the guy that could beat Terico.
I don't know if that's true at all.
Number one, I think Terico is a much, much weaker candidate than people, particularly the DC and the political media in DC.
If you saw him on the campaign trail here and you've seen his previous, what he's really stood for and what he's presented, he is a far left radical and kind of a weird guy.
That's all going to start coming out.
So I don't think he's, I said from the beginning, I didn't think he'd be as formidable as Jasmine Crockett.
Jasmine Crockett's a fire breather.
Now she had obviously major shortcomings.
Her campaign at the end didn't really have much of a ground game.
I think that's what the big thing is separated.
Plus the whole the Democratic establishment didn't want her.
We saw the whole Colbert, that whole situation was set up to thwart her.
But I don't think he's, they make him out like some incredibly powerful candidate.
I just don't see it.
I think Ken Paxon is the guy.
And I think the grassroots are really building momentum behind Ken Paxon.
That's all going to play out.
Raheem's going to be here in a moment to talk about it.
Also, in addition, I think one of the galvanizing things we've seen here in Texas over the last couple of weeks is this Proposition 10, which is about banning or prohibiting, I think the term is prohibiting Sharia law in the state of Texas.
And now you're seeing the second wave, as Brian Harrison and others talked about, trying to get public hearings in the Texas legislature, because Texas legislature, unless they call a special session, doesn't meet till next year.
I do believe they're going to call a special session.
Governor Abbott has designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CARE as terrorist organizations, already, I think, listed they can't own real property.
I mean, this is going to be a fight.
They're just not going to roll over, particularly CARE has fought everywhere, but it's very important in, especially as you see what's happening in this war, and particularly see what's happening with our allies in Great Britain,
the entire phoniness of the first couple of hours of the military operation when the United Kingdom would not let us use the airfield to do strikes out of because of the power of the Muslim members of the House of Commons in the Labor Party.
And now we find out they wanted to have Starmer and this crowd want to have some kind of phony, oh, just give us six hours.
So no, it doesn't work like that.
You're either an ally or not.
And this is all inextricably linked with what's happening in Europe, the migrant invasion in Europe, the Islamization of Europe and what's happening in the United States.
That's why Texas was so important to actually be the place where we stop it and reverse it.
And you can see right now overnight, one of the biggest developments is one of the things we've been most focused on here is the center of gravity of this, which I believe has been the center of gravity of really the context and strategic context of the war, maybe not the center of gravity in a Klaus Vitsian sense of battle, because that's clearly been around Tehran and command and control.
And as the military goes through a very set, CENCOM goes through a very set target list to degrade the Iranian military.
And President Trump says today, it would really be destruction.
He considers he's talking about unconditional surrender and unconditional surrender, as Caroline Levitt refined, was President Trump's thinking that it would be the inability of the Iranian military or the Revolutionary Guard to both do power projection on their own people or certainly power projection in the region.
And that's one of the things I find most fascinating.
And now overnight, we made a big deal about it yesterday, but overnight, the Iranian foreign minister has come out and said they will have, for right now, have no more strikes on their on their Gulf neighbors.
The biggest part of this story to me in the first couple of days is Shiite versus Sunni, Muslim versus Muslim, Persian versus Arab, the strikes on the strikes in the Persian Gulf.
I think one of the things that triggered the Iranians to say this is, as we talked about yesterday and we'll talk further today, is the seizing of financial assets, just like the West seized the financial assets of the Russians in the Ukraine-Russian war, and I think had a major impact on Russia.
It's one of the many reasons I think they haven't made a lot of progress.
There's still about 20, 25% of Ukraine.
They haven't made a lot of progress, I think, because of the financial restriction put on them when the Western banks seize their assets, something we hadn't done to the Nazis or to Imperial Japan in World War II or to the Bolsheviks or even to the Chinese Communist Party.
Dubai, which is, I call like, was it Tortuga for the Caribbean pirates, this center, a little known fact is that the Iranians, as much as the Gulf Arabs have always been at their throat and vice versa, the banking center, the financial center for them is not Switzerland, it's really Dubai.
And this is the way that they've gotten around sanctions.
Well, the UAE, because they took enough hits, said, hey, we are thinking of and contemplating seizing the Iranians' assets in our banks.
And lo and behold, 12 hours later, the Iranians say, well, upon further review, maybe we're going to have a timeout.
We're going to have a pause on any more strikes into the Gulf.
Now, Qatar said yesterday, it's reported in Reuters and in the Financial Times of London, that the Qatar oil minister said, hey, because I think they've shut down one of their big gas fields.
I think it's the gas field they're in joint operation with the Iranians, said oil could go to $150 a barrel.
Now, a lot of that is to, it's just propaganda, but there's clearly oil, I think, has gone up 35%.
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I think it's gone up almost 40 or 50% since Netanyahu went to Mar-a-Lago in December.
As we now know, it's one of the big kickoff meetings.
The oil market is an efficient market.
Tons of information out there.
A lot of traders that trade.
This is why I had Eric Bowling.
So let's get into the show.
We're going to take a short commercial break just to go back tomorrow at 10 a.m. If we can pull it off technically, which I'm sure we can with Real America's voice, our great team in Denver, and also our team here, the Warwarm team.
We're going to have another Sunday morning special at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, 2.12 noon.
Today is going to be a little bifurcated because there's so much going on.
Like I said, we've got Shield of Americas right now in Miami, and that's the hemispheric defense.
You're going to want to dip into that all day.
The Espanol guys revs a new channel are going to cover that wall to wall.
Quite fascinating.
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Okay, welcome back.
Raheem joys announce a couple of things I want to catch up with Raheem on pieces over the National Pulse, et cetera.
But Raheem, I do think that you've got one of the best overall strategic views of exactly what's happening here.
And one of the reasons for that is that you have dealt with this Islamic invasion of Europe, I don't know, for 10 years.
In fact, when we first started Breitbart London, one of the reasons that we came to you, you had your own site at the time to get you to be the editor.
We could tell that that was going to be a huge problem.
And eventually, that, you know, we never realized it would come to Brexit that quickly, but that'd be one of the big drivers that this mass migration was going to be huge.
You were also the very first person ever told me in 2014, he says, hey, I got to get over to Ukraine.
And I go, why are you going to Ukraine?
He goes, they're having a color revolution over there.
And I go, walk me through this.
Are you sure you're just not going to go over the party?
So, given all that, given we still have a war in Ukraine going on, given that we still have a massive issue with our supposed allies, the United Kingdom and France and Germany, this war, and I find the most intriguing part of this war, the war of the Muslims against themselves, the Persians versus the Gulf states, particularly when Israel is clearly,
the Greater Israel Project is alive and thriving as they now are going after all enemies, right?
Little and small.
So walk me through strategically, especially when President Trump has said we have to have unconditional surrender.
Now, he did walk that back and say, hey, unconditional surrender to me is when they have no more military ability to do power projection, both on their own people and outside the region.
But I do want a hand in shaping what this government is.
Give us the overview of the entire thing as you see it right now.
Yeah.
How long do you have?
Because it's been a good 15 odd years now that we've been concerning ourselves with all these things.
And there are people who have done it far longer than me, for sure, but I seem to have managed to find myself on the front lines of all of these fights somewhere along the way.
Call it journalistic intuition.
Yeah, but hold it.
But you say a lot of people have done it.
You came to me in those couple of years when I was leaving Breitbart and going to help the president.
The whole thing with the no-go zones.
You were able to identify in those periods of time exactly what were going to be the most important issues.
And that's why I think people look to you, right, as somebody that just is not some Johnny come lately, but somebody that's been dealing with this topic that President Trump is now deeply into.
And this is a kinetic part of it.
My concern is this thing could spread to the kinetic part of the Third World War quite quickly.
Look, I think if you do remember that sort of that far back, I used to call into the old Breitbart radio shows from on the road as I was writing this book.
So I called from Brussels, I called in from Paris, I called in from Molenbeek, I called in from Malmo.
And I have the, you know, I literally have copies on my desk because I have to thumb through it sometimes and remind myself, oh my gosh, we were talking about these things that are manifesting themselves now all those years ago.
And I almost kind of want to do a telethon sometimes, right?
A live telethon, because I know people have so many questions about it.
And whenever people approach me in the street or come to me at the restaurant or whatever it is, and they want to talk line by line about this stuff, Ukraine, these things.
And now you're seeing exactly kind of what you, I remember when you were making that movie, The Brink, not a great movie, by the way.
But when we were making that movie, The Brink, you were drawing on the front page of a newspaper the kind of the different axes going on in the world between China and Persia and Russia and all of this stuff.
And people forget how quickly people forget, by the way, especially, you know, when you bring in the Texas element to all of this now, right?
Because John Cornyn was up there in the Senate all those years ago talking about Russia collusion.
We need to get to the bottom of how Russia hacked our elections.
So the idea that Trump would be even entertaining the idea of endorsing him now is horrendous to me.
But you look, back then I was writing about we're going to have to think about Turkey's membership of NATO, right?
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Like the way it's trending, the Islamist regime there.
Now, of course, the Wall Street Journal jumps the gun, like goes way too, you know, the next war might have to be with Turkey.
Hold on, you're going to go to war with a NATO member now?
You could have resolved this when I wrote about it back then and said, actually, we have to remove the nuclear deterrent from Turkey, the American nukes that are there.
You know, remember after I wrote that piece, there was an attempted coup and they were desperately worried about where those materials would end up.
And now the Wall Street Journal wants to start a war with Turkey.
So there's all of this precipice.
Remember, last week we talked about the AI precipice, right?
There's all this precipice of a full-blown global conflict right now.
And you've got the CCP and Russia very clearly about to aid Iran in this whole process.
So where do we go from there?
Do we find ourselves in kinetic warfare with China by the end of the year?
Maybe.
I would hope not.
And I certainly believe that President Trump has the wherewithal to avoid that kind of thing.
But as I think we are on some really, really poor trajectories.
Is this a fight between the Persians and really the Shiites, which you can tell one of the things they're trying to do is to bring max unstability to the monarchies in the Gulf?
Do you think you're going to see that start to play out in the Muslim communities, particularly these volatile communities in London and Paris?
I mean, today they've been united against hating with, and even with the Marxist of this red-green alliance that hate the Judeo-Christian West and particularly hate the governments and especially governments that have white people in it and white people running it.
Do you see, because now this thing amazes me that Dor and Ramadan, they're at each other's throats.
And clearly, if the Persians, I think, are saying, hey, if we're going down under the boot of Israel and the United States and they're going to pound us into dust, we're going to take you guys down with it because we have as many Shiites in some of the Emiratis as laborers as you guys have as the monarchs.
You think that starts to break out in Europe also?
It's already there.
I mean, on Thursday, I kid you not, you had horse-mounted modern-day Saracens on the streets of Manchester chasing pro-Iran democracy protesters on horseback in the middle of Manchester City in England.
The Home Secretary of the United Kingdom is a practicing Muslim.
You know, this is the person, the Home Secretary is responsible for who comes in and who goes out of the country.
It is the equivalent of your interior secretary, your DHS secretary, all of this rolled into one.
This is already there.
It's already there in a massive way.
And by the way, what was the strapline of the book?
How Sharia law is coming to a neighborhood near you.
It's coming to you, ladies and gentlemen.
Whether you are in Texas, whether you are in New York, whether you are in Florida, it is already here.
We tried to tell people that a decade ago.
But I also want to make sure that I want to make sure people understand.
I think because of the explosive nature of that book, and Raheem took time and actually went into the, particularly in Brussels, I think some of the Midland cities, but Brussels, you went actually into the areas where you couldn't go, right?
That you went and gave an eyewitness account.
I think you were banned on Fox.
And then I think Frank Gaffney, who had been inspired by your book, started talking about it.
He was permanently banned on Fox.
The reaction to this by the Republican establishment at the time, and conservative inc media, was they didn't want to talk about this, that this crossed a line, that what Raheem had done, you know, what is the Sharia law?
And this is racist, this is nativist, this is xenophobic.
And they didn't want to talk about it.
And here we're in Texas, what, 10 years later, and we have Prop 10 on the ballot that gets almost 2 million votes, 95% approval by Republican voters, and it inspired people so much to come together.
It was the first question asked at the Attorney General's debate, at the agriculture debate.
And basically, everybody had to sign on for this, or you wouldn't be an elected official in the state of Texas, Raheem.
Listen, I'll quote from you from the back of the book, right?
From the jacket.
No-go zone should be required reading for conservatives, Republicans, liberals, teachers, students, reporters, editors, and activists all alike.
You know who gave me that quote?
That was none other than the next prime minister of the United Kingdom.
That would be one Nigel Farage.
And you think about how far we've come, you know, how much we've won about this stuff.
And look, you've seen on the streets of England, on the streets of Wales, in fact, you want to talk parochial, fights between Turks and Kurds going on, right?
Imported into Nissan tribal warfare that's been going on on Western streets.
And this stuff is spilling out all over the place.
10 years ago, it was just in these enclaves, as you mentioned, the ones I went to, Molenbeck, East London, Midlands, Malmo, you know, south of France, Bezier, all of these places.
Now you're seeing it, you started to see it two years ago, right?
All across college campuses, all across the United States.
Now it's coming to all these other neighborhoods too.
And thank God there are other people now who are out there with cameras.
But back in the day, I was the only one.
And credit to Nick Sawtor and Nick Shirley and all these guys who go out there and document this stuff because God knows I don't have the patience for it anymore.
And I kind of get recognized everywhere I go.
But I still remember there was a time I was out in London, Steve, with a camera.
And this guy with the kefir on his head, he was standing outside 10 Downing Street and they were having some like pro-Islamist protest.
And I went over to him and he thinks, oh, I kind of look like him.
And I was a bit discreet about what I was doing.
He goes, let me show you something.
And he lifts up his t-shirt and he's got another t-shirt under it.
And it's just a picture of Adolf Hitler.
And he starts going, haha, right?
Right.
I was like, what the heck is going on here?
It's one of those moments where you just realize, you know, you can't do anything but laugh in the moment.
But you realize just how mortifying it is that these people not just live amongst us, let's be very clear about it, get preferential treatment by the state from us.
You know, if I had stayed a Muslim and identified as a Muslim, I'd probably be the home secretary by now.
But I chose a moral path and a correct path and a patriotic path.
And I have a book to choose.
Or you would have hosting the 9 p.m. show on BBC as the number one political commentator.
I mean, it's true.
You'd be either the home secretary or you would be the number one guy on BBC presenting every night.
That's just the way the system is that you stepped out as a British subject and said, hey, we're going to destroy our country here unless we, and you've worked your tail off to save it.
Real quickly, I'm going to hold you through the break because I'm going to talk Texas politics.
But this, I remember listening to Pacifica Radio back in 2003 out in California, one of the left-wing radio stations, public radio stations.
But I remember they had some guests on as we were doing the march up to Baghdad.
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And one of the guests said, Hey, these guys have the best military in the world, but they don't understand the hornet's nest they're kicking over of ancient vendettas and this tribalism that's in Iraq with the Shiites and the Sunnis.
Do you think we've done that?
We got a minute here.
I'm going to hold you through the break.
Do you think we've done that here with all this amazing military might that we're dropping on the Persians that maybe we kicked over a hornet's nest that we don't, we haven't thought through all the hornets?
There will have been certainly calculations internally in the government about what it means to do this and how much blowback, right?
That's the phrase one can expect.
There won't be none.
President Trump said it himself last week.
He said there will be more people, Americans, who die as a result of this conflict.
They will have certainly thought about it.
They would have thought it's worth it in some way geopolitically.
And the only thing that occurs to me that that might be the case is to create the chaos, create the vacuum, keep these allies of China down.
This is the consideration that they've made.
It's a big, big gamble.
Raheem, hang on for a second.
We're going to go, Raheem's going to join us and talk about Ken Paxson and John Cornyn, an explosive race, this runoff in Texas.
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Here's what I understand.
The whole Cornyn, Cornyn, to the core of his being, he's been a Trump hater.
And this is why I told the Washington Post, it's not simply the policies, which are bad enough, that the grassroots of the MAGA movement out here are not fans.
They don't like him for that.
They don't like the policies.
But there is a hardcore, and I think it's 10 to 20% that will never vote for him because of his outright hatred for Trump that's just below the surface and particularly in every time that President Trump's been vulnerable.
People out here in Texas don't forget, and that's why I think he's by far the worst candidate, just mathematically, because you just got a central core base of Trump space, even with an endorsement, even as much as they love President Trump.
They're going to sit this one out.
Your thoughts, sir?
Well, I do think that I think, especially as this case gets litigated further in the runoff, a lot more is going to come out about the nexus around John Cornyn.
You know, for a long time, it's sort of been a policy thing, right?
John Cornyn doesn't vote with the president as often as people would like.
You know, they put this figure out 97%, but that includes like procedural votes.
When you actually get down to like policy, policy, it's more like 60%.
But this is going further than that now.
People are starting to look at the people he actually has around him, who he's hired as staff over the years, who he still retains a staff over the years.
I'll tell you a funny story, a couple of nights ago, one of his guys was tweeting angrily at me, and I didn't think anything of it at first, but it was late at night.
I was in bed, and I thought to myself, I recognize this name from somewhere, way back when from somewhere.
And his name is Matt Makoviak.
And I went, I somewhat recall this guy reaching out to me at a certain point.
Let me go through my big honking oppo drive that I keep and see what I have on the guy.
And of course, the first thing that pops up was this tweet he had sent on January 6th, 2021, where he said, we are witnessing domestic terrorism.
That's a direct quote from John Cornyn's current communications director, calling J6 domestic terrorism.
And guess who had liked that tweet on X, by the way?
That would be Chris Lasavita.
That's Cornyn's current campaign chief, by the way.
And then I started to go through other things.
And we're going to release some of this stuff over the weekend, but we already did one on Friday on all of this where I sort of dug through Matt Makoviek's entire history.
And by the way, he's got some very choice things to say about you and has done since about 2011 or 12, I think.
It goes back that far.
To the Breitbart.
To the Breitbart days.
100%.
100%.
And I've got a whole story coming out on all the BS that he's talked about Breitbart over the years.
I have a whole story coming out about how he was pro-George Floyd when George Floyd was killed and actually tried to pitch me an op-ed, a pro-George Floyd op-ed for the National Pulse.
And I have the emails that prove it, that show I turned him down quite robustly.
But some of his tweets about the president are the most important here.
He went on long and lengthy tirades against the president, not just in 2016, not just in 2017, not just in 2018, not just in 2019, not just in 2020, in 2021 also, in 2022 also, in 2023 also.
And then if 2024 rolls around, he puts out a tweet where he says, look, I still back basically anybody but Trump.
But then when Trump is inevitably going to win, he tries to flip, right?
And he buys his way.
He spends an ordinary amount of time and other people's money buying his way into the election night party in Palm Beach.
I mean, this is the worst of the Rhino Brigade.
I was going to say here in Washington, D.C., but he's not here in Washington, D.C. He's in Austin, Texas.
And he's been in Austin, Texas politics for a very long time.
And he's had a fair share of run-ins with MAGA people in Texas.
So if you're John Cornyn, you know, this guy's actually relatively high-profile, never Trumper.
I mean, he had Bill Crystal on his podcast.
He had Chris Matthews on his podcast.
He had the guy, Mona Charon from the Bulwark, all these never Trump organizations on his podcast.
You'd think if you're Cornyn or your Cornyn's staffers, like, hey, maybe we don't have this guy being our front line of attack on social media and in the press every day.
But this is the kind of people that we're dealing with.
It's not the deep state.
It's the in-your-face state, if you remember.
He talked about Trump being given enough rope to hang himself at the debates.
He peddled the Russia hoax.
He said it is outrageous and dangerous and ridiculous for an American president to take Vladimir Putin's word over that of the U.S. intelligence community.
That was over the Russia hoax, remember?
He said every single person who said that Trump should have the G7 at Doral should be fired.
He referred to Trump as a drunk driver at the wheel, chugging vodka.
He's going to lose this election.
I mean, over and over and over again, he demanded a purge of MAGA from the GOP.
He called Trump's election an extinction-level event for the Republican Party.
Anyway, I could go on and on, but this is all at the nationalpulse.com.
And if you're pushing this, there's going to be a lot more.
All this weekend, so you're going to be putting stuff up.
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Raheem, how do people get to the National Pulse now more than ever?
You need to go.
It's on my media diet first thing in the morning.
Where do people go to get it?
Yeah, thenationalpulse.com, thenalpulse.com, or all over social media as well at the National Pulse.
You can follow me, Raheem Kassam.
And remember, we're 100% supported by ordinary people donating from their homes, $5, $10, whatever you can afford.
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Raheem Kassam.
Raheem, you're at your best when you're in a fight.
Raheem gets the, when the juices get rolling, Raheem is always the first on the rampart, like an old medieval knight.
Thank you so much, Raheem Kassam.
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